PHP - Searching For A String Inside A String Using Regex?

I have a form that people can fill out, and then it echos the string, however right now they can't use single quotes. Below is how I have it settup.
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$side = '<p>About Me:</p>
<ul>
    <li>Birth Date: October, 23rd, 2010</li>
    <li>Hometown: Rapid City, SD</li>
    <li>Height: 4\'</li>
    <li>Weight: 50lbs</li>
    <li>Foot Size: 4</li>
    <li>Favorite Movie: All of the Shrek Movies!</li>
    <li>Favorite Book: Winnie the Pooh Series</li>
    <li>Favorite Cartoon Character: Eeyore or Donkey from Shrek!</li>
    <li>Favorite TV Show: Anything on Animal Planet!</li>
    <li>Favorite Food: Hay</li>
    <li>Favorite Pro Sports Team: Rapid City Rush</li>
    <li>Favorite Mascot:  Nugget, of course!</li>
    <li>Favorite Game: Donkey Kong!<br />
    &nbsp;</li>
</ul>';
      if ($side != NULL){
         echo "<div class=\"grid_6\" id=\"tertiary\">
         $side
      </div>";
      }else{
 
  }
And I would be able to use $side = "whatever I want to write"; because then they would still need to escape the double quotes with \" if they wanted to put in a link or anything. How do I do this with allowing them to just use single quotes when they enter their data so they don't have to \' (escape the single quote)?

Thanks

Hi there!
I am wondering if anyone knows how to handle strings that contain form fields, so when the form is submitted the fields inside the string are updated.

For example say i have the following $string:
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please enter your username: <input type=text size=50 name=username value=" ">
When I display it on the browser, inside of a form, it displays the blank text field.
Say the user enters a value in the text field, "John", and hits submit.

I need the $string to be updated to the following:
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please enter your user name: <input type=text size=50 value="John">
I know it sounds wierd but I need the form to be inside of the string!

Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi Everyone,

I have built a website utilizing a PHP abstract Webpage class to create the pages. When creating another class that inherits from Webpage class I rewrite abstract functions, etc. where needed. When instantiating an object of the extended classes I pass the constructor the $page_title, $css_file, $meta_data, $keywords, etc., etc.. I am able to pass html markup in a string variable to a class level "Setter" function  to populate a "main area" of the website and all works perfectly.

However, I have a contact form which I send the "Submit Message" button click to a PHP function that takes care of making sure the form fields are not empty, then sends email and returns a success message back to the calling page, if they are empty, the function returns what fields are empty(required). If the page includes empty and populated fields I want to put the populated fields into session variables so that I may populate the fields when the user is taken back to the page and display to the user the required fields that were empty(this functionality is already within the function).

This brings me to my question(see code below for reference):

Seeing that I am populating a variable with a string it seems I cannot use an if statement, echo or the like, my IDE gives me errors. How may I insert an if statement where needed to populate the empty form fields?
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include('../php_functions/functions.php');//for the chechData() function

$error_message = NULL;

if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
    $error_message = checkData($_POST, 'Renovation & Consulting');
}
$main_content =
'<form method="post" action="">
    <fieldset id="contactform">
        <legend>Renovations &amp; Consultations</legend>'.

        [color=red]//placing a variable here works fine![/color]
            $error_message
       
            .'<div class="row_div">
                <div class="label_div">
                    <label>First Name:</label>
                </div>
                <div class="input_div">
                    <input name="First Name" type="text" maxlength="50" size="50" value="'.[color=red]if(session variable not empty) echo it here;.'"[/color] />
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="row_div">
                <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Send Message" />
            </div>
      </fieldset>
</form>';

Thanks for any and all responses.

Chuck

how do i get the image to show as the code i have is echoing what i have been told is binary, not confirmed.  and not the images.

all images are .jpg

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$allowed_types = array('png','jpg','jpeg','gif');
$imgdir = '/home/mysite/ftpfolder';
$imgFilesArray = scandir($imgdir);
foreach ($imgFilesArray as $imgkey => $imgvalue)
{
$imgInfo =  pathinfo($imgdir . '/' . $imgvalue);
$imgExtension = $imgInfo['extension'];
if(in_array($imgExtension, $allowed_types))
{
readfile($imgdir . '/' . $imgvalue);
//echo '<img src = "'. $imgdir  .'/'. $imgInfo['basename'].'" alt="" />';
}
}

images are FTP'd to the ftpfolder and can not be placed anywhere else but this folder due to security reasons.

Hi,

I am trying to make some adjustments to uploadify.php which comes with the latest version of uploadify (3.0 beta), so that it works with a session variable that stores the login username and adds it to the path for uploads.  Here is uploadify.php as it currently looks:

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<?php
session_name("MyLogin");
session_start();

$targetFolder = '/songs/' . $_SESSION['name']; // Relative to the root

if (!empty($_FILES)) {
$tempFile = $_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'];
$targetPath = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $targetFolder;
$targetFile = rtrim($targetPath,'/') .'/'. $_FILES['Filedata']['name'];

// Validate the file type
$fileTypes = array('m4a','mp3','flac','ogg'); // File extensions
$fileParts = pathinfo($_FILES['Filedata']['name']);

if (in_array($fileParts['extension'],$fileTypes)) {
move_uploaded_file($tempFile,$targetFile);
echo '1';
} else {
echo 'Invalid file type.';
}
}

echo $targetFolder;

?>
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echo $targetFolder; at the bottom so that I could make sure that the string returned was correct, and it is, i.e. '/songs/nick'.  For some reason though, uploads are not going to the correct folder, i.e. the username folder, but instead are going to the parent folder 'songs'.  The folder for username exists, with correct permissions, and when I manually enter Code: [Select]
$targetFolder = '/songs/nick';all works fine.  Which strikes me as rather strange.  I have limited experience of using php, but wonder how if the correct string is returned by the session variable, the upload works differently than with the manually entered string.

Any help would be much appreciated.  It's the last issue with a website that was due to go live 2 days ago!

Thanks,

Nick

Hey there,

Thanks for taking the time to read my thread. My issue is that I can't think of a way to edit a XML file using PHP's XML functionality and then assign the edited contents to a string instead of saving the file. Because my issue is that I have to edit the XML file based upon a string brought from a remote location then give it back to that remote location using a string again, to be exact I am doing it via Linux command line utilizing SSH2.

This is what I managed to complete on my own.


function CheckIVMPConfig($ServerID)
{
global $Panel;

if(is_numeric($ServerID) && $this->IsValidServer($ServerID))
{
// We select the game server that the FTP account was created for.
$Servers = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM control_servers WHERE server_id = '".mysql_real_escape_string($FTPAccount['ftp_server'])."'");
$Server = mysql_fetch_array($Servers);

// Here we select the Box ID that the game server is on.
$Boxs = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM control_machines WHERE machine_id = '".$Server['server_machine']."'");
$Box = mysql_fetch_array($Boxs);

// Now we select the required package for the box.
$Packages = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM control_packages WHERE package_id = '".$Server['server_package']."'");
$Package = mysql_fetch_array($Packages);

// Retrive the file.
$Config = $CProtocol->exec("cat /home/{$Server['server_id']}/{$Package['package_config']}");

$Parse = SimpleXMLElement($Config);

foreach($Parse as $Entry) // loop through our books
{
if($Entry->port != $Server['server_port'])
{
// edit the value
}
else if($Entry->maxplayers > $Server['server_slots'])
{
// edit the value
}
}
}
}

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http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=326004.0

Hello all,

I'm trying to change the end of a javascript call based on the end of the url string. The common part of all the url strings is sobi2Id=, I'm trying to do this with strstr but am having no luck. I'm new to php so my syntax knowledge is terrible!

at the moment i've got

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<?php

       $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

     $tag = strstr ($url, 'sobi2Id=');

       echo $tag; 
?>
but this returns an unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'

Can anyone debug this? I may well be being really silly!

I have the following function, which takes a string with commas in it and attempts remove those commas. The way I have it here is that I use explode to take out the commas, which makes an array, and then iterate through that array to put a string back together without the commas.

function tags_to_sort_by( $sortMeta ) {      
   $sortByArray = explode(",", $sortMeta);
   $sortByCount = count($sortByArray);
   for ($i = 0; $i < $sortByCount; $i++) {
      $sortByString += $sortByArray[$i];
   }
   return $sortByString;
}

What does not work is the following line:
$sortByString += $sortByArray[$i];
Somehow that outputs a 0, which I don't understand. It should output something like: arrayItem1 arrayItem2 array3 etc.

My question is if there either is an easier way to remove the commas from the original string or what I am doing wrong in this line:
$sortByString += $sortByArray[$i];  // I am trying to concatenate each part of the array back into the string.

Thanks a lot for help with this!

In PHP Version 8.0 shows error as :
PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught TypeError: Unsupported operand types: string * string 
String is as under :
$TAXVALUE= round($QNTY*($PRICE- ($PRICE*$DISC/100)),2);

In previous versions of PHP it does not show any error.

Please resolve the issue.

I need to know if a string exists within a string.

I've tried using STRIPOS() but it returns zero or false if what I'm looking for is the first part of the string.

I don't care what function I use, but I need to get a "true" when the needle string is present anywhere in the haystack string, even at location zero.

Is there some way to set up the STRIPOS() statement?

I've tried:


if ((stripos($title, 'needle') > 0 )
if ((stripos($title, 'needle') = true )
and even
if ((stripos($title, 'needle') >= 0 )
which returns true for everything, even when the needle string is NOT present.

Any help appreciated.

thanks,
Tom

I am looking for a date within larger string, lets say the date is December 4, 2010.
To find it I use pattern and function below:

$Pattern='/[(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December)] \d, \d\d\d\d/i';
preg_match_all($Pattern, $String, $Matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE, $NumberPosition);

The function finds the dates within the string but to my supprise the result I get in $Matches is: r 4, 2010
What I would like to get is: December 4, 2010 but don't know how it should be fixed. I thought that with the pattern I am using but obviously that is not the case.

Hello guys i am trying to figure out how to fwrite a string for example "Recommended Settings for Service Pack" under "Current Settings for Service Pack: 5.1.2600ServicePack3Build2600". I figure i cant use line number as an argument because the file report may be dynamic so i will need to use Current Settings as an argument. Please guide me if you have any ideas..thanks:) !

auditreport 
table
ServicePackSetting
Service Pack Requirement: Fail
Current Settings for Service Pack: 5.1.2600ServicePack3Build2600   
MajorAuditandAccountPolicies   
Maximum Password Age Requirement: Fail
Current Settings for Maximum Password Age Requirement: 42   
Minimum Password Length: Fail
Current Settings for Minimum Password Length Requirement: 0

Ok... I had typed this post out ONCE already and when I clicked REFRESH IMAGE to get a diff captcha it ERASED MY POST

LMAO this is not my night....


What I need help with is probably more simple then I can even think right now - ive been digging at this for 3 hrs now and im out of time for the night

I have a DB Record storing ID's between PIPES |

when the initial entry is made in DB it stores it like so
|47|      NOTE: the number could be different these are ID's number doesnt matter its just between Pipes

When the second entry is added its added like so

|47||67|

say we have a total of 5 Entries

|47||67||82||55||69|

I need to find ID 82 in that string and it has to be between Pipes
Find 82 in data between | and return that ID 82

I am putting between pipes because the ID's can be duplicate digits in different lengths
so say I have 8 as my ID and down the string i have another id as 88  -- I cant possibly find the correct ID without some sort of seperation character so i used Pipes

soo my end goal is the ability to search and if true or false do action

if ($result == $find_id){
echo "ID is there";
}else{
echo "NOT THERE -- Adding it";
}
Any help is appreciated guys
Thanks
SangrelX