PHP - Import .txt Directly To <textarea>

I am making a pos(point of sale) application using object oriented php.

I have found thermal receipt printers support ESC/POS .

i want that when i will press button to print directly , it will do automatically. 

anyone can help me please.

Thanks in advance. 

Hi all,

 i want to download a file from the server but instead of storing it in the downloads i want it to store it directly in the folder i want and i also dont want to show any download window that appears while we download any file. Friend please help.....

Hello,

I have found the following code which creates a sitemap from the home directory of files. Please could you point me in the right direction for changing this so that it looks up from my sql database and for each name within the database creates an entry in the sitemap (e.g. www.mysite.com/[NAME]).

Thanks for your help,

Stu


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<?php
/******************************************************************************\
 * Author : Binny V Abraham                                                   *
 * Website: http://www.bin-co.com/                                            *
 * E-Mail : binnyva at gmail                                                  *
 * Get more PHP scripts from http://www.bin-co.com/php/                       *
 ******************************************************************************
 * Name    : PHP Google Search Sitemap Generator                              *
 * Version : 1.00.A                                                           *
 * Date    : Friday 17 November 2006                                          *
 * Page    : http://www.bin-co.com/php/programs/sitemap_generator/   *
 *                                                                            *
 * You can use this script to create the sitemap for your site automatically. *
 *  The script will recursively visit all files on your site and create a *
 *  sitemap XML file in the format needed by Google.   *
 *                                                                            *
 * Get more PHP scripts from http://www.bin-co.com/php/                       *
\******************************************************************************/

// Please edit these values before running your script.
//////////////////////////////////// Options ////////////////////////////////////
$url = "http://www.WEBSITE_NAME.com/"; //The Url of the site - the last '/' is needed

$root_dir = ''; //Where the root of the site is with relation to this file.

$file_mask = '*.php'; //Or *.html or whatever - Any pattern that can be used in the glob() php function can be used here.

//The file to which the result is written to - must be writable. The file name is relative from root.
$sitemap_file = 'sitemap.xml'; 

// Stuff to be ignored...
//Ignore the file/folder if these words appear in the name
$always_ignore = array(
'local_common.php','images'
);

//These files will not be linked in the sitemap.
$ignore_files = array(
'404.php','error.php','configuration.php','include.inc'
);

//The script will not enter these folders
$ignore_folders = array(
'Waste','php_uploads','images','includes','lib','js','css','styles','system','stats','CVS','.svn'
);

//The default priority for all pages - the priority of all pages will increase/decrease with respect to this.
$starting_priority = ($_REQUEST['starting_priority']) ? $_REQUEST['starting_priority'] : 70;

/////////////////////////// Stop editing now - Configurations are over ////////////////////////////


///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
function generateSiteMap() {
global $url, $file_mask, $root_dir, $sitemap_file, $starting_priority;
global $always_ignore, $ignore_files, $ignore_folders;
global $total_file_count,$average, $lowest_priority_page, $lowest_priority;

/////////////////////////////////////// Code ////////////////////////////////////
chdir($root_dir);
$all_pages = getFiles('');

$xml_string = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
  xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84
                      http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/sitemap.xsd">

<?php
# ';


$modified_priority = array();
for ($i=30;$i>0;$i--) array_push($modified_priority,$i);

$lowest_priority = 100;
$lowest_priority_page = "";
//Process the files
foreach ($all_pages as $link) {
//Find the modified time.
$handle = fopen($link,'r');
$info = fstat($handle);
fclose($handle);
$modified_at = date('Y-m-d\Th:i:s\Z',$info['mtime']);
$modified_before = ceil((time() - $info['mtime']) / (60 * 60 * 24));

$priority = $starting_priority; //Starting priority

//If the file was modified recently, increase the importance
if($modified_before < 30) {
$priority += $modified_priority[$modified_before];
}

if(preg_match('/index\.\w{3,4}$/',$link)) {
$link = preg_replace('/index\.\w{3,4}$/',"",$link);
$priority += 20;
}

//These priority detectors should be different for different sites :TODO:
if(strpos($link,'example')) $priority -= 30; //If the page is an example page
elseif(strpos($link,'demo')) $priority -= 30;
if(strpos($link,'tuorial')) $priority += 10;
if(strpos($link,'script')) $priority += 5;
if(strpos($link,'other') !== false) $priority -= 20;

//Priority based on depth
$depth = substr_count($link,'/');
if($depth < 2) $priority += 10; // Yes, I know this is flawed.
if($depth > 2) $priority += $depth * 5; // But the results are better.

if($priority > 100) $priority = 100;
$loc = $url . $link;
if(substr($loc,-1,1) == '/') $loc = substr($loc,0,-1);//Remove the last '/' char.


$total_priority += $priority;
if($lowest_priority > $priority) {
$lowest_priority = $priority;//Find the file with the lowest priority.
$lowest_priority_page = $loc;
}

$priority = $priority / 100; //The priority is given in decimals

$xml_string .= " <url>
  <loc>$loc</loc>
  <lastmod>$modified_at</lastmod>
  <priority>$priority</priority>
 </url>\n";
}

$xml_string .= "</urlset>";
if(!$hndl = fopen($sitemap_file,'w')) {
//header("Content-type:text/plain");
print "Can't open sitemap file - '$sitemap_file'.\nDumping result to screen...\n<br /><br /><br />\n\n\n";
print '<textarea rows="25" cols="70" style="width:100%">'.$xml_string.'</textarea>';
} else {
print '<p>Sitemap was written to <a href="' . $url.$sitemap_file .'">'. $url.$sitemap_file .'></a></p>';

fputs($hndl,$xml_string);
fclose($hndl);
}

$total_file_count = count($all_pages);
$average = round(($total_priority/$total_file_count),2);
}

///////////////////////////////////////// Functions /////////////////////////////////
// File finding function.
function getFiles($cd) {
$links = array();
$directory = ($cd) ? $cd . '/' : '';//Add the slash only if we are in a valid folder

$files = glob($directory . $GLOBALS['file_mask']);
foreach($files as $link) {
//Use this only if it is NOT on our ignore lists
if(in_array($link,$GLOBALS['ignore_files'])) continue; 
if(in_array(basename($link),$GLOBALS['always_ignore'])) continue;
array_push($links, $link);
}
//asort($links);//Sort 'em - to get the index at top.

//Get All folders.
$folders = glob($directory . '*',GLOB_ONLYDIR);//GLOB_ONLYDIR not avalilabe on windows.
foreach($folders as $dir) {
//Use this only if it is NOT on our ignore lists
$name = basename($dir);
if(in_array($name,$GLOBALS['always_ignore'])) continue;
if(in_array($dir,$GLOBALS['ignore_folders'])) continue; 

$more_pages = getFiles($dir); // :RECURSION: 
if(count($more_pages)) $links = array_merge($links,$more_pages);//We need all thing in 1 single dimentional array.
}

return $links;
}

//////////////////////////////// Display /////////////////////////////


?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.1 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Sitemap Generation Using PHP</title>
<style type="text/css">
a {color:blue;text-decoration:none;}
a:hover {color:red;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>PHP Google Search Sitemap Generator Script</h1>

<?php
if($_POST['action'] == 'Create Sitemap') {
generateSiteMap();
?>
<h2>Sitemap Created...</h2>

<h2>Statastics</h2>

<p><strong><?php echo $total_file_count; ?></strong> files were found and indexed.<br />
Lowest priority of <strong><?php echo $lowest_priority; ?></strong> was
given to <a href='<?php echo $lowest_priority_page; ?>'><?php echo $lowest_priority_page; ?></a></p>

Average Priority : <strong><?php echo $average; ?></strong><br />

<h2>Redo</h2>
<?php } else { ?>

<p>You can use this script to create the sitemap for your site automatically. The script will recursively visit all files on your site and create a sitemap XML file in the format needed by Google. </p>

<p>You can customize the result by changing the starting priorities.</p>
 
<h2>Set Starting Priority</h2>
<?php } ?>

<form action="create_sitemap.php" method="post">
Starting Priority : <input type="text" name="starting_priority" size="3" value="<?php echo $starting_priority; ?>" />
<input type="submit" name="action" value="Create Sitemap" />
</form>

</body>
</html>

I'm getting the err msg

Error . "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '$sqry' at line 1 "

while executing query from php5.3.5
but its working directly in mysql5.5.8

Help?

Hi there

I've recently been working on a Laravel project.  It's a project I've been drafted in to work on and I've not used Laravel before.

My question is one of what is considered good practice.  In this project the controllers pass whole models back to the view.  For instance, its the norm on the project to pass back a whole booking model just to get at a couple of attributes like booking->id and booking->name.  As these attributes represent database columns it feels a bit wrong to pass these around because you're effectively coupling the view to the structure of the database. I know behind the scenes Laravel is using a magic method to access the properties so you could argue they are wrapped in a method and therefore don't expose the direct database structure to views. 

So the question is, would you pass database models directly to views in this way? Or is it 'better' to map those models to an intermediary model that is dedicated to the view (a sort of dto)?

Thanks,

 

Drongo

Hi,   I need to create a landing page with a form. That form needs to be recorded somewhere instead of sent to email. I know I can write it to a SQL database, and then to an excel file. But I only need a temporary solution so I figured I'd just go straight to CSV.    Is this bad practice? What potential problems might I encounter other than security issues?

I'm working with a lightbox plugin to show images when thumbnails are clicked on. The plugin works by wrapping the thumbnail in an anchor tag that has the href as the direct path to the full-size image. This acts as a non-js fallback, so that if JS isn't present for whatever reason, the user still sees the image. When JS is enabled, the image is shown in the lighbox, resized to fit in the lightbox, which is a variable size depending on the browser.   I need to keep a record of the number of times that the image has been clicked on, as thumbnails will be ordered by the number of views. The problem of course is that I'm directly linking to the image, so I can't put a script on this page.   I've tried two things instead, neither of which worked:   1) Instead setting the target as the path to the image, I set it to a PHP script, then outputted the image in an <img/> tag. The problem was that the image is then not resized according to the size of the lighbox. So this is no good. 2) I set the target of the lightbox as a PHP script which recorded the viewing of the image, and redirected to the image page. This didn't work either, as the lightbox showed the data for the image (text) instead of the image itself.   So, I've hit a bit of a barrier. I'm wondering if I can set something up in my PHP settings that will automatically call a script when hitting images, or maybe something in an .htaccess file that will do the same, but I'm not aware of if this can be done, nor how to do it, and I haven't found anything yet with my googling. Does anyone have any thoughts?   Thanks.
Edited by haku, 26 August 2014 - 07:00 PM.

Hi there,

Can anybody help me to write php/javascript code which will allow users to open files directly from web browser into desktop application? Here is the specification:

I have a photo editing business with many people working in Photoshop. I am currently developing a web based application (joblist) using Javascript and PHP which should allow the photoshop designers to browse and open files/images directly from joblist/web browser into photoshop. The reason I want this instead of browsing folder is that I have a database where I store who worked on which file, when and how long it took.

The concept is that, designers will select a file and click on start, as soon as they click on start the original file will open in Photoshop and there will be an entry into database (using PHP). Once they finish the task they will close the file and click on Finish button.

My joblist application will be published in a local server and the file will be open on a local network, so when they save the file it will be saved where the source file is located in (local server). The application should work in both PC and Mac.

I have already done all other part of the application except file opening directly from browser to desktop application functionality.

Anybody can help me to write the code (PHP or Javascript) which can open the file from browser (local server) directly into desktop application e.g. PHotoshop or Illustrator?

Thank you very much I look forward to someone's real help!

Best regards
Mr. Sumon

example: pulling a 5x5 array of data from a database   time differences: components (unbuilt):13400101661682 elements (built):13817119598389   How I'm stealing the elements from the PHP code: ob_start(); ... ob_end_clean();

Hello,

I'm having trouble with the following code 

$file = file_get_contents("database.sql");

$queries = explode(";",$file);

for ($i=0,$c=count($queries);$i<$c;$i++){
mysql_query($queries[$i],$mlink);
}

the problem is the sql file I'm trying to import has ; alllll over the place, not just at the end of the queries, so the queries are not getting inputted correctly. I could see a way to fix this if each query was on a single line, but some of them are over 100 lines each.


How do I make sure it only explodes using the ; at the end of query? and not the ; that are actually in the tables etc.




thanks

Having a find and replace nightmare and dumbfounded by a way to correct this.

I am exporting a large inner join SQL statement in CSV format. I then want to be able to edit and replace values as needed from the other tables.

ex:
Orlando = 1
Miami = 2
Jacksonville = 3

Well if I want to go through and replace everything 'Orlando' with the id 1, so my inner joins dont break.
I am doing this in the following method.


// read the file
$file = file_get_contents('data.csv');
// replace the data

$result = $db->query('SELECT id_baseprices, baseprices FROM baseprices');
while ($line = $db->fetchNextObject($result)) {
$file = str_replace(',"'.$line->baseprices.'",', ',"'.$line->id_baseprices.'",', $file);
}

$result = $db->query('SELECT id_cities, cities FROM cities');
while ($line = $db->fetchNextObject($result)) {
$file = str_replace(',"'.$line->cities.'",', ',"'.$line->id_cities.'",', $file);
}

// write the file
file_put_contents('revamped.csv', $file);


Problem with the above is it replaces "Orlando" everywhere with 1. I really only want this to happen inside column 8.

I am lost and google must hate me tonight, so thank you for any thoughts or comments.

I have a table I am trying to import to mySQL
I am having trouble assigning the right variable which represents a column  header to the correct column header in the mySQL table.



<?php

/********************************/
/* Code at http://legend.ws/blog/tips-tricks/csv-php-mysql-import/
/* Edit the entries below to reflect the appropriate values
/********************************/
$databasehost = "xxx";
$databasename = "xxx";
$databasetable = "names";
$databaseusername ="xxx";
$databasepassword = "xxx";
$fieldseparator = "\t";
$lineseparator = "\n";
$csvfile = "AddEnt2.txt";

$con = @mysql_connect($databasehost,$databaseusername,$databasepassword) or die(mysql_error());
@mysql_select_db($databasename) or die(mysql_error());

$fcontents = file ('AddEnt2.txt');

# expects the csv file to be in the same dir as this script

for($i=0; $i<sizeof($fcontents); $i++) {

$line = trim($fcontents[$i],'\t'); // '\t' for tab delimeted
$arr = explode('\t', $line); // '\t' for tab delimeted
$name=implode("','",$arr);
$PA=implode("','",$line);
# if your data is comma separated
# instead of tab separated
# change the '\t' above to ','

$sql = "insert into $databasetable values ('$PA','$name')";

$sql = str_replace("''", mysql_escape_string("NULL"), $sql);

$sql = str_replace("' '", mysql_escape_string("NULL"), $sql);

mysql_query($sql); echo $sql ."<br>\n";

if(mysql_error()) {
echo mysql_error() ."<br><b><font color=red>\n</b>";
}
}
?>

Hi,

i have a script to import a csv into a database but some of my product descriptions have ' in the names, this causes mysql to error, how can i get around this?

here is my code.

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if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{ $i=0;
     $fname = $_FILES['sel_file']['name'];
     
     $chk_ext = explode(".",$fname);
     
     if(strtolower($chk_ext[1]) == "csv")
     {
      mysql_query("truncate table products") ;
         $filename = $_FILES['sel_file']['tmp_name'];
         $handle = fopen($filename, "r");
   


         while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE)
         {
if($i > 0)
{
            $sql = "INSERT into products(prod_id,prod_name,prod_description,prod_cat,prod_sub_cat,tax,prod_price,active) values('$data[0]','$data[1]','$data[9]','$data[14]','$data[15]','$data[19]','$data[35]','$data[65]')";
            mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
}
$i++;
         }
   
         fclose($handle);
         echo "Successfully Imported<br>";


     }
     else
     {
         echo "Invalid File";

     }   
}

Hi all

So... I am creating an import script for putting contacts into a database. The script we had worked ok for 500kb / 20k row CSV files, but anything much bigger than that and it started to run into the max execution limit. Rather than alter this I wish to create something that will run in the background and work as efficiently as possible.

So basically the CSV file is uploaded, then you choose if the duplicates should be ignored / overwritten, and you match up the fields in the CSV (by the first line being a field title row), to the fields in the database.

The field for the email address is singled out as this is to be checked for duplicates that already exist in the system.

It then saves these values, along with the filename, and puts it all into an import queue table, which is processed by a CRON job. Each batch of the CRON job will look in the queue, find the first import that is incomplete, then start work on that file from where it left off last. When the batch is complete it will update the row to give a pointer in the file for the next batch, and update how many contacts were imported / how many duplicates there were

So far so good, but when checking for duplicity it is massively slowing down the script. I can run 1000 lines of the file in 0.04 seconds without checking, but with checking that increases to 14-15 seconds, and gets longer the more contacts are in the db.

For every line it tries to import its doing a SELECT query on the contact table, and although I am not doing SELECT * its still adding up to a lot of DB activity. One thought was to load every email address in the contacts table into an array before hand, but this table could be massive so thats likely to be just as inefficient.

Any ideas on optimising this process?

Hi,

I have two xml files, one has 750 products, and the other one has 900 products (including product informations, stock information, sizes and photos)

so shortly one product in xml file is like this;

product_name: x t-shirt
product_code: x-t-shirt-101 (Alphanumerical)
Stocks(loop):
+Small: 50
+Large:200
Photo1 : http://....../main.jpg
Photo2: http://....../2.jpg

And my tables are like this:

Product (product_id (numerical), product_code (alphanumerical), name)
Photos (product_id, id.. )
Stocks (product_id, id..)

(So that I need to insert one product in my db, and take the id, and insert the xml-photos-data with the correct product_id to photos table, same goes with the stocks table)

So I m thinking about the easiest and most healthy way to import this amount of data, and I need to update it daily or weekly (planning to do it by cron jobs for now).  I have found some solutions but since I have not done this before could not decide which is the most secure way. Need to add that I can have other xml files from different companies to import later on, so I think I should code for long term.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Edited December 17, 2018 by Rommeo