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Hello.  I would like to build a survey that I can use on an iPad so that I can go out in the field and gather data from people.

What would be the best way to accomplish this?

I'm not sure what limitations even exist on an iPad - like can you have a webserver like MAMP?

It seems to me that using something like Angular or whatever might make sense since you can build a working app all in one, but then I don't even know traditional Javascript.

Just looking for a quick way to build something to allow me to survey people without making this a major project.\

Thanks.

HI,

coming from a .net background and picking up php as I go along, I was wondering what the best way
of designing the following task is in php.

It's part of an appointmnet reminder app and the admin can amend the message that is sent out.

The default message is currently stored in a db table and displayed in a multi line box on the admin web page.

for example,

"This is a an appointment reminder for *patient name*. You have an appointment on *date* with *customer name*."

There's two parts relating to the message process.

1. Allowing the admin to amend the message (but ensuring the *variable markers* are left in tact, so I know
where to stick the variables for part 2)

2. When the messages are being sent out (for each loop), inserting the *variables* into the message.

I have no problem getting hold of the *name*, *date*, *customer* for each iteration in the for each loop.

I'm sure people have done stuff like this before and in .net I would use a stringbuilder object but like i say,
I'm not all that groovy on php at the mo.

I was thinking of maybe a function that accepts thats passed the message, name, date, customer or something..

thanks

Hey PF. I'm trying to build some better coding habits, so what tips do you guys have? Of course there are obvious things such as well-commented code, neat structure, etc...

But I'm looking for some more "TECHNICAL" tips that might be unspoken. For example, when is a good time to use a variable, opposed to a constant? I notice that a lot of programmers define their database settings with define(), while others just use a $variable. Is this personal preference or maybe its something I'm missing?

I'm looking for ALL tips. Any information that you have, please share it. It will help make me (And anyone else reading this), a better coder.
Thanks in advance.

and if this is not the proper forum, please move it! =]

OK here is what I have going on right now. Currently I'm trying to build a excel spread sheet into a dynamic form via php. The results are basically questions and are stored each week so for one section they may be asking how many visitors, employee's , etc.. now some of these values that are being entered are going to be used in another question per-say but the result may come from other values that were already submitted so these questions would not be shown in the form that needs to be made later on. The form I'm having trouble with is the initial form to help generate the formula's for these different questions. So what I was going to start doing was have it list all the questions with a check box next to the question if the formula for said question was something like add these two questions and the divide by this set of questions or a whole number then it would display a list of questions for adding together and the get the total from that set and then do a expression afterwards like adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing. So I was thinking I should list like a set of buttons I think in the beginning. What is the first task at hand Totaling, Adding, Subtracting, Dividing, Multiplying and then when they click on this it would refresh the page and bring up a box that lists all the different questions for them. Then saving the values as which ever button they clicked and once they do this. Then they could either click on say a more button which would pass the values as a array back to the page and continue on or they could click submit and pass the values into a db field as a formula but this is my first concept and would like to know if there may be a better way of doing it.

Hiya peeps!

I can't seem to build a preg_match pattern that works.

This is what I need to do.

"[" . $errorID . "]='HERE IS WHAT I NEED TO DISPLAY';"

Does anyone have any ideas on how I would build this regex string?

Many thanks,

James.

So, I need to build a table based on this table:
Code: [Select]
create temporary table downline (
depth int,
member_id int,
full_name varchar(50),
level int,
referrer_id int,
country char(2)
);
I need to make a table to show each members downline (the people they referred to the site), it needs to be unlimited levels deep, and we have some members that have 25+ levels in their downline, where level 20 has 15,000+ people.

Level 1 = your downline
Level 2 = your donwline's downline
Level 3 = your downline's downline's downline
ect.

I have this loop (after the temp table is built) which needs to build a table on the page.


So, I can not get this table display right for the members downline, any suggestions?

// Build the current users downline and add it to the temporary table
$downline = mysql_query("select * from downline order by depth");
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($downline)){

if($row['depth'] != $depth){

$depth_id = $row['depth'];

$content .= "<tr id='main_lvl_$depth_id' class='hiddenInfo' onclick='showHide(this);'><td style='text-align: center;color:#4d53c1;font-weight: bold;' class='w_border'><span class='signs_s'>".$this->dict['mLevels_Level']." $depth_id : </span><span class='signs'>".count($down)." ".$this->dict['mLevels_Members']." </span></td></tr><tr id='lvl_$depth_id' style='display:none;'><td class='w_border' style='text-align: center;'><table style='width:100%;'>";

$i = 0;

$content .= "<tr>

<th>Member ID (Sponsor ID)</th>

<th>Member Name</th>

<th>Country</th>

<th>Member Level</th>

</tr>";

}

$class = ($i%2) ? 'color1NL' : 'color2NL';

$content .= "<tr id='_{$key}_' class='$class'><td class='width33'><a name='_".$row['member_id']."'></a><a href='?mid={$row['member_id']}'>#{$row['member_id']}</a> (<a href='?mid=".$row['referrer_id']."'>#".$row['referrer_id']."</a>)</td><td class='width33'>".$row['full_name']."</td><td>".$row['country']."</td><td class='width33'>".$row['level']."</td></tr>";

$i++;

if($row['depth'] != $depth){

$content .= "</table></td></tr>";

}

$depth = $row['depth'];
}

The following attachment has a working copy. The reason we don't stay with this is because it doesn't work with members who have large downlines, we run out of memory in php, and this hopefully will solve this problem.

How could I build an interactive text system?
 It should work like this:
 Text is displayed.
 1-3 options (a situational amount of them) to answer displayed.
 Example:
 Are you male?
 Yes
 No

 You choose yes or no and it leads you to another questions based from your previous answer.
 Example: (a follow up to the 1st one)
 So you're male. Do you like cars then?
 Answers.
 And it goes on and on.

 The thing I need help with is the answers. I need to show them based by the previous answer but don't know how, any help?

Ok so I'll try to explain what I'm trying to do the best I can. I want to build an array that allows me to add/remove/modify the variables used at any point in time without having to rebuild or rewrite a ton of new code.

For example, below is an example list of variables I'd like to use in the array, followed by the code I would like to be automatically repeated.

Example Variables: $materialName1, $materialName2, $materialName3, $materialName4, $materialName5, $materialName6 etc etc etc
Example Code to repeat:
Code: [Select]
echo "<tr><td>Material: $materialName1</td><td>Rate: $materialName1Rate</td><td>Weight: $materialName1Weight</td></tr>";

Hopefully that makes sense. As always, very appreciated.

Hi,

I am trying to recursively build another array based on the one I get back from our CRM api.  The array I get back looks like this:

Code: [Select]
[1] => stdClass Object
        (
            [description] => Description Text
            [label] => Product
            [name] => Product
            [sobject] => KnowledgeArticleVersion
            [topCategories] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [childCategories] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => stdClass Object
                                (
                                    [childCategories] => Array
                                        (
                                            [0] => stdClass Object
                                                (
                                                    [childCategories] => Array
                                                        (
                                                            [0] => stdClass Object
                                                                (
                                                                    [label] => Apple
                                                                    [name] => Apple
                                                                )

                                                            [1] => stdClass Object
                                                                (
                                                                    [label] => Orange
                                                                    [name] => Orange
                                                                )

                                                            [2] => stdClass Object
                                                                (
                                                                    [label] => lemon
                                                                    [name] => lemon
                                                                )

                                                        )

                                                    [label] => Templates
                                                    [name] => Templates
                                                )

                                            [1] => stdClass Object
                                                (
                                                    [label] => Connector
                                                    [name] => Connector
                                                )

                                            [2] => stdClass Object
                                                (
                                                    [label] => AeroView
                                                    [name] => AeroView
                                                )

                                        )

                                    [label] => AeroWare
                                    [name] => AeroWare
                                )

                            [1] => stdClass Object
                                (
                                    [label] => BackOffice
                                    [name] => BackOffice
                                )

                            [2] => stdClass Object
                                (
                                    [label] => OutWare
                                    [name] => OutWare
                                )

                            [3] => stdClass Object
                                (
                                    [childCategories] => Array
                                        (
                                            [0] => stdClass Object
                                                (
                                                    [label] => ERA
                                                    [name] => ERA
                                                )

                                            [1] => stdClass Object
                                                (
                                                    [label] => Kairos
                                                    [name] => Kairos
                                                )

                                        )

                                    [label] => InWare
                                    [name] => InWare
                                )

                        )

                    [label] => All
                    [name] => All
                )

        )

The child categories could be any level deep.  I would like put it in an array something like this:
Code: [Select]
Array
(
    [label] => Cat 1
    [level] => 0
    [children] => Array
        (
            [label] => Sub Cat 1
            [level] => 1
            [children] => Array
                (
                    [label] => Sub Sub Cat 1
                    [level] => 2
                )

        )

)

I have tried so many things but I just can't get it right.  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Peter

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I've made a site for a client and they like it.  They asked me who does the updates me or them?  So I know they want to make the updates themselves.  Do anyone know the best place I can learn how to create a CMS? I would prefer video tutorials.  Thanks.

I'm having an issue with building a multidimensional array via a for (....)
the array should look like the example
any help would be much, much appreciated
thanks siouxx
   
array   
["username"] = "steve"
   array
      ["item"] = "12345"
      array
         "model" = "some model"
         "quantity" = "36.2"
         "details"
         array
            0 = "detail 1"
            1 = "detail 2"
            2 = "detail 3"

["username"] = "steve"
   array
      ["item"] = "000257"
      array
         "model" = "some other model"
         "quantity" = "77.8"
         "details"
         array
            0 = "detail 1"
            1 = "detail 2"

["username"] = "bob"
   array
      ["item"] = "45678"
      array
         "model" = "other model"
         "quantity" = "99.5"
         "details"
         array
            0 = "detail 1"
            1 = "detail 2"
            2 = "detail 3"
            3 = "detail 3"

the array return by sql looks like this
Array
(
    => Array
        (
            [id_prod] => 6
            [id_tipo] => CPT
            [marca] => HP
            [modello] => Pavilion p6-200
            [prezzo] => 599.00
            [desc] => Computer da Tavolo
            [chiave] => 32
            [utente] => steve
            [qta] => 1
            [indata] => 2011-10-10 16:32:20
            [dettaglio] => HD 320GB - RAM 4GB - Scheda audio 5.1
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [id_prod] => 6
            [id_tipo] => CPT
            [marca] => HP
            [modello] => Pavilion p6-200
            [prezzo] => 599.00
            [desc] => Computer da Tavolo
            [chiave] => 31
            [utente] => steve
            [qta] => 1
            [indata] => 2011-10-10 16:32:20
            [dettaglio] => Intel Core i3-550 (3.20GHz, 4MB L3)

Ok I basically want to build a simple php shopping cart. I already have a database with products and product IDs, and each product page has their product ID associated with it by asking the database for it's ID.

Now how would I go about building a shopping cart? I already researched sessions and cookies and came to the conclusion that a session would be best since not all browsers use cookies or have them turned on.

I how ever don't understand how to use sessions for a shopping cart.

I know the first line the code in my php document has to have session_start();

How do I go about adding values to the session?