PHP - Storing And Retv Ipaddress?

Let's see if I can explain this ok.. Basically I have a site and the page product categories use dynamically created URL's. I want to use these URL's to put on my products so I can list all the categories each product is in. But, as these URL's are not stored anywhere I'm not sure how to go about calling them. Is the best way going to be to modify the site to store the page URL's in MySQL? Or could they be stored within variables in PHP? A little guidance would be great! Thanks in advance 

Hi,
I am struggling with a form in php. I am trying to add a form by using the include function. I want to include thsi form on all pages so it would be very useful if I can save the current page name somewhere so that I can use to validate the form.

For example, this is the form I am trying to include.

<?php
if(!empty($errors))
{
if(isset($errors['sendError']))
{
echo '<p><strong class="error">There was a problem with our system please contact us directly.</strong></p>';
}
else
{
echo '<p><strong class="error">Please check the form below for errors.</strong></p>';
}
}
?>
<form action="index.php" method="post" id="form1">
<p>
<label><?php if(isset($errors['name'])) { echo '<span class="error">'; } ?>Name<font color="red">*</font>: <?php if(isset($errors['name'])) { echo '</span>'; } ?></label>
<input id="search1" id="complete" type="text" value="<?php echo $form['name']; ?>" name="name" size="60" align="right" style="background:#EEF5A4" />

<label><?php if(isset($errors['company'])) { echo '<span class="error">'; } ?>Company: <?php if(isset($errors['company'])) { echo '</span>'; } ?></label>
<input id="search1" id="complete" type="text" value="<?php echo $form['company']; ?>" name="company" size="60" align="right" />

<label><?php if(isset($errors['phone'])) { echo '<span class="error">'; } ?>Phone Number: <?php if(isset($errors['phone'])) { echo '</span>'; } ?></label>
<input id="search1" id="complete" type="text" value="<?php echo $form['phone']; ?>" name="phone" size="60" align="right" />

<label><?php if(isset($errors['email'])) { echo '<span class="error">'; } ?>Email<font color="red">*</font>: <?php if(isset($errors['email'])) { echo '</span>'; } ?></label>
<input id="search1" id="complete" type="text" value="<?php echo $form['email']; ?>" name="email" size="60" align="right" style="background:#EEF5A4" />

<label><?php if(isset($errors['enquiry'])) { echo '<span class="error">'; } ?>Enquiry: <?php if(isset($errors['enquiry'])) { echo '</span>'; } ?></label>
<textarea id="search1" id="complete" textarea name="enquiry" rows=4 cols=40 value="<?php echo $form['enquiry']; ?>" name="enquiry" size="60" align="right"></textarea>
</p>
<p>
<input type="submit" class="formbutton" value="Submit" />&nbsp;<input type="reset" class="formbutton" value="Reset" />
</p>
<p><font color="red">*</font> Denotes a required field</p>
</form>

Because I am going to use this form on all pages, I would like it to include whatever the filename is rather than index.php in the first line of the form so that when the user clicks submit, it will stay on the same page but validate the form based on the mandatory fields.

I don't know if the question is clear. I would very much appreciate any help at all.

Thank you very much.

Alright, the register/login system is fully working with sql injection, BUUUT now I want to store their IP Address. WHOLE new function that I've never dealt with before. So I need some help. Am I doing something wrong?

I have the IPadd in the database as INT(10) and then I went down to another drop down list and hit unsigned.
I feel like I'm doing something wrong with the field in the database..

{
$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] = $IPadd;
$sql = "INSERT INTO Member (username,createDate,password,firstName,email,IPadd) VALUES ('$username',NOW(),md5('$password'),'$firstName','$email',inet_aton('$IPadd'))";
mysqli_query($cxn,$sql);
$_SESSION['auth']="yes";
$_SESSION['username'] = $username;
header("Location: testing.php");
}

So, on my website, i have added a "last active" feature, so if someone is surfing the site, they can view when another users last page visit was.

so, every second, +1 is added to the $ts variable

what i have now, working and all, shows ONLY "NOW!", or ONLY "1 second", ONLY "___ seconds ago"... and so on

I have tred over, and over, and over to fix this to my liking, with more instances available, as an example, my current script will show somebody who is 13 months and 26 days inactive, just as "1 year", i want to see the "1 year, 1 month, and 26 days inactive"... or even simpler, just so it displays days/minutes/seconds/NOW!


function howlongtil($ts) {
   $ts=$ts - time();
   if ($ts<1)
       // <1 second
       return " NOW";
   elseif ($ts==1)
       // <1 second
       return $ts." second";
   elseif ($ts<60)
       // <1 minute
       return $ts." seconds";
    elseif ($ts<120)
       // 1 minute
      return "1 minute";
   
    elseif ($ts<60*60)
       // <1 hour
       return floor($ts/60)." minutes";
   elseif ($ts<60*60*2)
       // <2 hour
       return "1 hour";
     elseif ($ts<60*60*24)
       // <24 hours = 1 day
       return floor($ts/(60*60))." hours";
     elseif ($ts<60*60*24*2)
       // <2 days
       return "1 day";
     elseif ($ts<(60*60*24*7))
       // <7 days = 1 week
         return floor($ts/(60*60*24))." days";
   elseif ($ts<60*60*24*30.5)
       // <30.5 days ~  1 month
       return floor($ts/(60*60*24*7))." weeks";
     elseif ($ts<60*60*24*365)
       // <365 days = 1 year
       return floor($ts/(60*60*24*30.5))." months";
   else
       // more than 1 year
       return floor($ts/(60*60*24*365))." years";
};


anyone know how?

Hello all, I'm having some problems with a script ive written which is designed to allow me to send a message to all the users of my site.

the form works fine, the SQL works fine but im having a problem with storing php variables and outputting them in the message.

The form has a field named "allmessage" which is where i'll type my message, I'll type something like

"Hello $Name" and store the text as

$allmessage = $_POST['allmessage'];

example script


//loops through each member
    while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($sql)) 
    {
    
    //sets variables
    $ID=$row['ID'];
    $Name=$row['MemberName'];
    $Email=$row['Email'];
 
    $content_type = 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"' ;

    mail($Email, $allsubject, $allmessage, $content_type);
    }
//loop ends send us a copy of the mail
mail("me@me.com", $allsubject, $allmessage, $headers );


Now what I want to be outputted in the email is "Hello John" or "Hello Paul"

but what I get is "Hello $Name".

Any ideas?!

Hey guys,
What would you recommend to store db values for later?

the only thing I can come up with is doing it this way:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE name='$user'");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
}
  {
and then using the $row['dbvariable'] later

is that the best way?

Hi Guys.

I need your help. Is it possible to store results from sql query as a variable. I am basically doing a few joins to get this result and I wanted to know if this was possible.

Hey,

I am a bit of a noob at php/mysql and trying to be clever(emphasis on trying).

I want to pull some php/html code from a database in mysql, whilst it does display the html, the php does not.
Can this even be done? Is it going to cause me issues later on?

Code: [Select]
[php]
<?php
    $query = "SELECT * FROM pages";
    $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$body = $row["body"];
echo $body;
    }?>
[/php]
Any help would really be appreciated.

Ell

Hi,

I have a XHTML/PHP page that loads a PHP file each couple of seconds for building up the page. The PHP file should retreive data that keeps changing.

What would be the best way to store and retreive the data? Obviously i can do this with a database but that will put a lot of stress on the server as each user keeps polling the database. So i was looking into other methods of doing this.

I have tried doing this with a plain text file and CSV files using fwrite to put the initial data into a file with separators. Then retrieving that file and explode it into a multidimensional array again. I am unsuccessful here to assign the key values to the new array. I have also tried many snippets for this but these where also not working properly for me.

Maybe XML is the key, i didn't really delve into it yet but it seems i have to get extra programs or parser to actually write and change files? But then again i can't find any working tutorials on how to put multi dimensional strings back and forth between PHP and XML.

So what needs exactly to be done. Well i'm creating a game where you can fight each other with 4 units on a turn base. The units have a speed stat that determines when it's there turn to act. Like if (unit 1) has 3 speed and (unit 2) 5 speed they will move like this on the time line (unit 1) -> (unit 2) -> (unit 1) -> (unit 1) -> (unit 2). So the plan is each time the user acts with a unit to increment it's speed by the base value. A script will run each time picking up the next unit in line.

The PHP page does a check on which player the unit belongs to and if that matches the players ID it will sent the necessary information. The other player will get something like "not your turn".

Tx,

Hello all,

I'm currently working on a project and it is the first time I have had to store/retrieve an array with PHP and MySQL. Basically its a website that has a list of discounts/coupons on it. People can register and submit their discounts and such. I am storing an array for who is eligible for the discount, as well as which categories the discount falls under.

I did some googling and there seems to be tons of thoughts on the best way to do this. Some say to use implode/explode, some say to serialize/unserialize, I was just wondering if there is a common, concrete way to do this?

I will need to be able to search the array for its contents. So if children are eligible for the discount, I need to be able to store that in a database, retrieve it later, and search it for only "Children" so I can display the discounts available only to children.

If someone could please advise the best way to do this and post some examples, it would be greatly appreciated. I learn best with examples that are explained properly.

This seems really straight forward but I can't figure out why it's happening.  As a part of an account registration script, I'm randomly generating a password using a function called, generatePassword($length,$strength);
I hash the password (md5) before putting it in the database but I also email the non-hashed version to the user.  My problem is that each time I call the variable, it generates a new password so the one in the database does not match the one received by the user, $user_password_plain = generatePassword($length,$strength);
$user_password = md5($user_password_plain);
Is there a different way to store the variable so that I can access it later in the script and it will be the same?  I tried using a session variable but that didn't seem to work either.  Thanks!

Quote

i want to store a value from a database
and use it as variable in php code

can anyone help me out
in this code i want to store value of copies
in a php variable

and want that it should be more than 0 (zero)

for furthur calculations




$update_book="update book set copies=copies-1 where bookid='$bookid'";
        $result=mysql_query($update_book,$linkID1);
            if($result)
            {
            print "<html><body background=\"header.jpg\">
            <p>book successfully subtracted from database</p></body></html>";
            }
            else {
            print "<html><body background=\"header.jpg\">
            <p>problem occured</p></body></html>";
            }

Okay, so I have a form and now I am trying to write the post data to a db. The thing is, the way the HTML was designed, I had to adopt a poor naming convention in order to satisfy some other requirements. I'm just getting into PHP.. Is it possible to assign PHP variables and then store these variables to my database instead? Right now, I have an e-mail sent to myself but it looks like gibberish.. So I started doing this

Quote

$CostReadiness= $_POST['tfa_ReadinessCostEst'];
$BudgetReadiness= $_POST['ReadinessBudgetc'];
$Recommendations= $_POST['tfa_ReadinessITAsses'];


and such for all of my entries..

Could I set up a table using these variables?

Hello PHPFreaks,
I have emerged yet again with another question.

I currently have a fully operational Minecraft Voting for Diamonds script (Don't turn away because you saw Minecraft, this has nothing to do with it), and want to enhance it; though a 'Top Voters' list.

Now, basically the script goes like this
Login Page > Main Page with links > Rewarding Script > thank you message.

On the main page with links, once all links are clicked on, you click a 'Get Rewarded' button. I want to track who clicks this, and how many times a month it is clicked by them. Only 1 click on the button is allowed per day, with the use of cookies. This means the maximum amount of clicks on it per month, per user would be something around 30. I store the players usernane in the cookies, and if they have voted today, but that is all.

The Top Voters list would look something like this:

Userwhatever - 6 Votes
Blarg - 4 votes
Someone - 2 votes
And so on...

I want an ordered list of users which have voted that month. 'Votes', would be the amount of times that 'Get Rewarded' had been clicked.

How can I make this? I will also require it to reset all votes of the first of every month, how do I do this?

Many thanks!

Hey

I am having a small problem with setting and storing data using $_SESSION for a login script to validate that a user is logged in.
The outputted error message I'm getting is;
Notice: Undefined index: userid ...\...\
Notice: Undefined variable: userid in ...\...\

The PHP code I'm using for the validation

Code: [Select]
<?php
session_start(); //must call session_start before using any $_SESSION variables

$username = $_POST['username'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
$userid = $_POST['userid'];

//validating a user
function validateUser()
{
    session_regenerate_id (); //this is a security measure
    $_SESSION['valid'] = 1;
    $_SESSION['userid'] = $userid;
}

Let me know if you need any other bits of code to establish what is happening I really need help with this.
Thanks.