PHP - Can Php Web Requests Support Proxies As Well??

Hello!

I'm trying to understand exactly how http requests relate to a php script. 

1)  What would be considered a large amount?
2)  How can I see how many I have for a given page?

Thank you,

Eric

I created an app for my website, set action (read) and object (article), and placed the objects code (META tags in the head) at the article page on my website.

Now, I want to know how to send a cUrl request whenever a user reads an article on my website, so it'll feature on his wall.

When I press the "get code" link near the action, that's what I get:

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curl -F 'access_token=***' \
 -F 'article=http://example.com' \
    'https://graph.facebook.com/me/yellowheart:read'

(There's an actual access token of course).

Now, how do I make it happen?

Daniel

Purpose: Building a search function for a site, that's supposed to be fast, give results as a user types.

Queries would be something like: "brand1 brand2 brand3" .

My idea is , instead of querying the database on each ajax request. A keyed array is created once. Like: ['brand1' => id , 'brand2 => id2 ]. This array is stored in memory. The next time a query is sent, the array which is instantly available in memory, and can be simply queried $storedArray['brand1']to fetch any existing ids instantly. The array size would be about 750 Kb. 60000 rows.

I don't have much experience with caching , so looking for advise whether what I am trying to do even makes any sense or necessary. I know there are solutions like memcache. But not sure if my tiny project requires them. Also does opcache help here ? Would serializing the array be too slow ? 

Please ask if any questions.

Thanks

I have script on my web hosts server built into pages that will be offered to the public, eg: index.php will have some script amongst the html, this script calls other webpages on the net eg: wiki.org

Now my question is, when that script runs when somebody accesses that page, will the website eg: wiki.org record the users browser info and ip who called my index page or will it record the webhosts server details as the one making the requests?

I have an object which is very expensive to create, and is fairly large but by no means enormous.  The object has two tasks:

Display to the user what can be changed in a database. Make some or all of those changes based on user input.

Instead of creating it first to perform the first task, I would like to serialize it and store it somewhere and then restore it to perform the second task to reduce user wait time.  Communication of both tasks is as follows where the web client first makes a XMLHttpRequest and then cURL is used for the remaining:

Web Client -> Web Server -> REST API Server -> Time Historian Application (and then back in the same order)

In addition, both of these tasks take significantly longer than 30 seconds resulting in cURL error 28.  I certainly can investigate to determine which of the requests are causing this error, however, feel that the solution to persisting the object might solve this issue as well.

I am thinking of making the REST API server responsible for temporarily storing the object, and am considering the following:

Web client makes XMLHttpRequest to web server and passes session cookie. Web server makes cURL request to REST API server and passes that same cookie (maybe a bad idea?). REST API server initiates the time historian application, spawns some new process, and replies to the web server maybe with some expected wait time duration, and web server in turn responds to web client. Spanned process when object is complete serializes the object's content and saves it as JSON using the session cookie as the filename. Web client periodically makes requests to web server which in turn make requests to REST API server and when the JSON file is available, recreates the object, executes the applicable method, and replies with the applicable content. Web client sends user data to the web server and in turn to the REST server to initiate the second task. Web client similarly periodically makes requests to web server which in turn make requests to REST API server to check if complete and if so the JSON object file is deleted. If request has not been fulfilled within 24 hours or so, JSON object file is deleted.

I would appreciate any general feedback or recommendations how best to accomplish this, and whether using some 3rd party framework such as Gearman, ReactPHP, redis, etc might simplify matters.

Thank you

Hi all,

Something i forget to ask all the time, but now i don't.
While reading again about image sprites, it tells that it's nice because it decreases the amount of http requests.
Now I thought what about all those requires and includes of php aren't they doing the same thing? Not to mention OOP which would not exist without the 2(4).

Does anyone know if this indeed increases the amount of http requests. And if so, if there is a certain good practise to lower the amount, by just combining functions in 1 file.

I would love to hear from some guru's 

It's been a while since I've needed to whip anything substantial up from scratch, so my scripting is a little (lot) fast and loose (weird/inefficient) here.

I'm trying to mock up a script that's essentially a quiz/survey. There are a handful of topics, each with a few screens of yes/no questions. At the end, it returns a list of recommendations based on the answers gathered.

The script is posting back to itself. Using print_r ($_SESSION), it seems like all of the post values for the first screen of questions are being assigned to the session array as expected. When the second screen of questions is answered, their values are assigned as well, but the values for the first set go away completely. This continues through subsequent screens, with the values from the previous screen present and all others before missing.

I'd really appreciate a look at my code to see if you tell me the cause or error(s).

Thanks!


<?php
session_start;
include('_config.php');

// database connect
$dbc = mysqli_connect($CFG->dbhost, $CFG->dbuser, $CFG->dbpass, $CFG->dbname);

// set to section 1, page 1 if no values are in _POST array
  if (($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] ==  'GET') || (!isset($_POST['section']))) {
   $section = 1;
   $page  = 1;
  }
  else {
// something was posted, so...set those values in session variable
foreach($_POST as $key => $data) { 
$_SESSION[$key] = $data; 
}
// debug: display contents of the session array
print_r ($_SESSION);

// which section and page?
   $section = (int) $_POST['section'];
   $page  = (int) $_POST['next'];
  }

// check if last topic
$query = "SELECT * FROM hw_topics";
$data = mysqli_query($dbc, $query);
  if ($section == mysqli_num_rows($data)) {
    $last_section = true; 
  }
  else {
    $last_section = false;
  }

// get current topic name and info
$query = "SELECT topic, display_name, pages_in_topic FROM hw_topics WHERE topic_id = '$section'";
$data = mysqli_query($dbc, $query);
if (mysqli_num_rows($data) == 1) {
  $row = mysqli_fetch_array($data);
  $topic_display_name = $row['display_name'];
  $pages_in_topic = $row['pages_in_topic'];
  }

// test if last page in topic
$topic_pages = $row['pages_in_topic'];
if ($page == $topic_pages) {
    $last_page_in_section = true;
  }
  else {
    $last_page_in_section = false;
  }

// set form action (set to this script or to recommendations when last section is complete 
if (($last_section == true) && ($last_page_in_section == true)) {
    $form_action = $CFG->reccomend;
  }
  else {
    $form_action = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
  }

// get current page headline
$query = "SELECT page_headline FROM hw_pages WHERE topic_id = '$section' AND page_number = '$page'";
$data = mysqli_query($dbc, $query);

if (mysqli_num_rows($data) == 1) {
  // The headline row was found so display the headline
  $row = mysqli_fetch_array($data);
  $page_headline = '<h2>' . $row['page_headline'] . '</h2>';
  }


// Grab the question data from the database to generate the list and form fields
$query = "SELECT question_id, question_number, question_text FROM hw_questions WHERE topic_id = '$section' AND page_id = '$page' ORDER BY question_number";
$data = mysqli_query($dbc, $query);
$questions = array();
  while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($data)) {
    array_push($questions, $row);
  }

include($CFG->includesdir.'/header.php');
?>
<div id="head">
<h1>Assessment<?php if (isset($topic_display_name)) { echo ': <em>' . $topic_display_name  . '</em>'; } ?></h1>
<p class="paging">Page <?php echo $page; ?> of <?php echo $pages_in_topic; ?></p>
</div><!-- #head -->
<div id="content">
<p class="instr">Please complete this survey. We'll generate a list of recommendations and resources for your organization.</p>

<div id="questions">
<?php echo $page_headline; ?>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $form_action; ?>">

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<thead>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td class="qtext"></td>
<td class="qanswer">yes</td>
<td class="qanswer">no</td>
<td class="pad"></td>
</tr>
</thead>

<?php 
if ($questions) { 
    // display question rows
    foreach ($questions as $question) {
      echo '<tr>';
      echo '<td class="qnumber">' . $question['question_number'] . '.</td>';
      echo '<td class="qtext"><p>...' . $question['question_text'] . '</p></td>';
      echo '<td class="qanswer"><div class="radio" id="box-yes"><input type="radio" value="yes" name="qid_' . $question['question_id'] . '" id="qid_' . $question['question_id'] . '" class="radio" /></div></td>';
      echo '<td class="qanswer"><div class="radio" id="box-no"><input type="radio" value="no" name="qid_' . $question['question_id'] . '" id="qid_' . $question['question_id'] . '" class="radio"';
      $field_name = 'qid_' . $question['question_id'];
      if (isset($_SESSION[$field_name])) {
        echo ' checked="checked"';
      }
      echo ' /></div></td>';
      echo '<td class="pad"></td>';
      echo '</tr>';
    }
  }
  else {
    echo '<tr>';
    echo '<td colspan="3" class="qtext"><p>No questions found in the database for this page.</p></td>';
    echo '<td class="pad"></td>';
    echo '</tr>';
  }
?>
</table>

<ul id="controls">
<?php 
if ($last_page_in_section == true) 
  { 
  $section++; 
  $page = 1; 
  } 
  else {
  $page++;
  }
  echo '<input type="hidden" value="' . $section . '" name="section" />';
  echo '<input type="hidden" value="' . ($page) . '" name="next" />';
  if (($last_section == true) &&  ($last_page_in_section == true)) {
    echo '<li><input type="submit" value="Submit Answers and Get Recommendations" name="submit" id="submit" /></li>';
  }
  else {
    echo '<li><input type="submit" value="Next Page" name="submit" id="next" /></li>'; 
  }
?>
</ul><!-- #controls -->
</form>
</div><!-- #questions -->

<?php
mysqli_close($dbc);
include($CFG->includesdir.'/footer.php');
?>

Hello. I'm working on a site which I'd prefer to use SVG for some of the images. However, since not all browsers support SVG, I'm going to set a global variable to true if I detect the browser supports SVG. Using this, I can check to see if SVG is supported and show PNG/gif/jpg images in the place of the SVG in older browsers (and add a small banner at the top prompting them to upgrade to a modern browser). I can already do this using javascript. But seeing as javascript can be disabled, newer browsers that can support SVG might not be fed those images (which are much smaller files).

The javascript I'm using to test SVG support is as follows

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document.implementation.hasFeature("http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/feature#Shape", "1.1")
the php code I tried, seeing as how it would make sense, is the following

DOMImplementation::hasFeature("http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/feature#Shape", "1.1")

(both of those were used in conditional branches)

Is there any way to get php to test for SVG support? Or do I need to stick with javascript?

Thanks for reading!

Hey there,

I'm having a issue when I edit the XML file from a string here. Now the SimpleXML functions edit the nodes of the XML file perfectly and everything is done the way I want but upon returning the file to a string it keeps putting a XML content type at the top of the file, E.G:

Before XML File Is Edited:

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<settings>
<!-- Port the server will listen on -->
<port>7781</port>

<!-- Maximum number of players the server will support (Max 32) -->
<maxplayers>10</maxplayers>

<!-- Maximum number of vehicles the server will support (Max 140) -->
<maxvehicles>100</maxvehicles>

<!-- Password clients will have to enter to connect -->
<!-- password>None</password -->

<!-- Add the server to the master list -->
<listed>true</listed>

<!-- The hostname players will see -->
<hostname>IV:MP Server</hostname>

<!-- The address the server will bind to -->
<!-- hostaddress>127.0.0.1</hostaddress -->

<!-- Toggles frequently called events which has impact on CPU usage  -->
<frequentevents>false</frequentevents>

<!-- The scripts the server will load and run -->
<script>cp.nut</script>
<script>whisper.nut</script>
<script>namecheck.nut</script>
<script>runcode.nut</script>

<!-- The modules the server will load and run -->
<!-- For windows: -->
<!-- module>Sample.dll</module -->
<!-- For linux: -->
<!-- module>Sample.so</module -->
</settings>

After XML File Is Edited

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<?xml version=1.0?>
<settings>
<!-- Port the server will listen on -->
<port>7781</port>

<!-- Maximum number of players the server will support (Max 32) -->
<maxplayers>10</maxplayers>

<!-- Maximum number of vehicles the server will support (Max 140) -->
<maxvehicles>100</maxvehicles>

<!-- Password clients will have to enter to connect -->
<!-- password>None</password -->

<!-- Add the server to the master list -->
<listed>true</listed>

<!-- The hostname players will see -->
<hostname>IV:MP Server</hostname>

<!-- The address the server will bind to -->
<!-- hostaddress>127.0.0.1</hostaddress -->

<!-- Toggles frequently called events which has impact on CPU usage  -->
<frequentevents>false</frequentevents>

<!-- The scripts the server will load and run -->
<script>cp.nut</script>
<script>whisper.nut</script>
<script>namecheck.nut</script>
<script>runcode.nut</script>

<!-- The modules the server will load and run -->
<!-- For windows: -->
<!-- module>Sample.dll</module -->
<!-- For linux: -->
<!-- module>Sample.so</module -->
</settings>

Notice the addition to the header of the file "<?xml version=1.0?>". This is causing issues when the XML file is read by the server. Could anybody help me stop the SimpleXML editor from placing this in the header of the file? Thanks.

Hi,
 I'm migrating a site from PHP4 (4.4.6) to PHP5 (5.3.5), am replacing all short open tags, and have many '<?=' opening tags to migrate as well.
 I saw a reference in the online docs about an equivalent '<?php=' tag, but it doesn't appear to work.
 What is the best way to 'find and replace' a PHP4 snippet like '<?= $var ?>' into a PHP5, non-short-open-tag equivalent?
 thanks,
  Barry

Hi everyone,   I'm hoping the someone can guide me in the right direction for what I need to do. Does anyone know of a really good tutorial and/or information about a plugin product that is available to do what I need? For example, what I need is to create a website that has the ability to allow video conferencing between a teacher and students. This what I envision - a college professor can log on to his website and display a live video feed of him. Also, as each of his students log on, their live video feed is then also supplied. Would prefer a already made plugin product but would also like to look at raw code in PHP to see how something like this could be accomplished. Thank you in advance.   Charles  

This topic has been moved to HTML Help.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=311943.0

Hey Everyone, I was hoping someone out there could help me figure something out. I am trying to create a ticket database, when I create a ticket, I give the option to upload a file, which works ok. But I am stumped at trying to display mulitply files to one ticket. If I have a ticket no 0001 and two files associted to 0001, i end up printing two 0001 tickets each with a single file. I want to print one 0001 with both files listed under it. I'm not sure if it's possible to do a while within a while so I hoping someone can help me figure that out.

Thanks for your help
PHP Code:

<HTML><BODY><table align="center" width="600"><tr><td>

<?php

include 'connect.php';

// how many rows to show per page
$rowsPerPage = 3;

// by default we show first page
$pageNum = 1;

// if $_GET['page'] defined, use it as page number
if(isset($_GET['page']))
{
    $pageNum = $_GET['page'];
}

// counting the offset
$offset = ($pageNum - 1) * $rowsPerPage;

$query = " SELECT tickets.ticketno, tickets.tickettitle, tickets.customer, tickets.status, tickets.dateresolved, tickets.datecreated, tickets.description, files.name, files.content FROM tickets LEFT JOIN files ON tickets.ticketno=files.ticketno ORDER BY ticketno LIMIT $offset, $rowsPerPage";


$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Error, query failed');

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
     echo "<table align='center'><tr><td colspan='2'><img src='images\line_v9.gif'></td></tr>";
  echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Ticket No -- " . $row['ticketno'] . "</b></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ticket Title -- " . $row['tickettitle'] . "</td></tr>";
  echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Customer -- " . $row['customer'] . "</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Description -- " . $row['status'] . "</td></tr>";
  echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Date Resolved -- " . $row['dateresolved'] . "</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Date Created -- ". $row['datecreated'] ."</td></tr>";
  echo "<tr><td colspan='2'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Description -- " . $row['description'] . "</td></tr>";
  echo "<tr><td colspan='2'>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td colspan='2'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Reference Documents</b> </td></tr>";
  echo "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;File -- " . $row['name'] . "</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href='http://www.dbitpro.com/csp/files/" . $row['name'] . "'>Download Here</a></td></tr></table>";
}



$query = " SELECT files.*, tickets.* FROM files,tickets WHERE tickets.ticketno=files.ticketno";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Error, query failed');

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
  echo "<table><tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;File -- " . $row['name'] . "</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ticketno" . $row['ticketno'] . "</td></tr></table>";
}


// how many rows we have in database
$query   = "SELECT COUNT(ticketno) AS numrows FROM tickets";
$result  = mysql_query($query) or die('Error, query failed');
$row     = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC);
$numrows = $row['numrows'];

// how many pages we have when using paging?
$maxPage = ceil($numrows/$rowsPerPage);

// print the link to access each page
$self = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

// creating previous and next link
// plus the link to go straight to
// the first and last page

if ($pageNum > 1)
{
   $page  = $pageNum - 1;
   $prev  = " <a href=\"$self?page=$page\">[Prev]</a> ";

   $first = " <a href=\"$self?page=1\">[First Page]</a> ";
} 
else
{
   $prev  = '&nbsp;'; // we're on page one, don't print previous link
   $first = '&nbsp;'; // nor the first page link
}

if ($pageNum < $maxPage)
{
   $page = $pageNum + 1;
   $next = " <a href=\"$self?page=$page\">[Next]</a> ";


   $last = " <a href=\"$self?page=$maxPage\">[Last Page]</a> ";
} 
else
{
   $next = '&nbsp;'; // we're on the last page, don't print next link
   $last = '&nbsp;'; // nor the last page link
}

// print the navigation link
echo $first . $prev . 
" Showing page $pageNum of $maxPage pages " . $next . $last;


// and close the database connection
mysql_close($con)


?>
</td></tr></table>
</BODY></HTML>

I'm pretty new to PHP, and by new, I mean I have never done it or any other form of coding before starting my job a month or so ago. I've basically been manually trying to pick up PHP as I go. The website that I am working on had its core built, but I am trying to add functionality to it.

The website already had the contact for that you can see he http://www.janova.us/index.php/contact
The form would submit an email to an email address based on which subject was picked.


I have since added a simple file upload field. My problem, however, is tying in the form to the email. I need to upload it and then send it as an attachment with the email.

Here is what I am working with currently:
<div id="breadCrumbs">
  <a href="index.php">MAIN</a>
    &gt;
  <a href="index.php/contact">CONTACT</a>
</div>
<?

$user =& JFactory::getUser();
$user_id = $user -> get('id');
$user_name = $user -> get('name');

$db = JFactory::getDBO();
$query = "SELECT jos_content.introtext, jos_content.fulltext FROM jos_content WHERE catid = 68 AND sectionid = 5 LIMIT 0,3";
$db->setQuery($query);
$rows = $db->loadRowList();


?>
<div id="contactTop">
<div id="contactBanner"></div>
<div id="contactInfo">
<?
echo $rows[0][0];
echo $rows[0][1];
?>
</div>
</div>
<div id="contactGreeting">
<?
echo $rows[1][0];
echo $rows[1][1];
?>
</div>
<?
if($user_id > 0)
{
$query = "SELECT jos_users.name, jos_users.email FROM jos_users WHERE id = ".$user_id;
$db->setQuery($query);
$user_data = $db->loadRow();
}


if(isset($_POST["submit"]))
{
$error = false;
$subjectError = false;
$messageError = false;
$nameError = false;
$emailError = false;

if(!isset($_POST["subject"]) || empty($_POST["subject"]))
{
$error = true;
$subjectError = true;
}
if(!isset($_POST["message"]) || empty($_POST["message"]))
{
$error = true;
$messageError = true;
}
if(!isset($_POST["name"]) || empty($_POST["name"]))
{
$error = true;
$nameError = true;
}
if(!isset($_POST["email"]) || empty($_POST["email"]))
{
$error = true;
$emailError = true;
}
else if(!ereg("^[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$",$_POST["email"]))
{
$error = true;
$emailError = true;
echo $_POST["email"];
}
if(!$error)
{
$to = $_POST["subject"]."@janova.us";
$from = $_POST["email"];
$subject = $_POST["subject"]." by: ".$_POST["name"];
$message = $_POST["subject"]."\n\r\n\r".$_POST["message"]."\n\r\n\r-".$_POST["name"];
$headers = "From: $from";

<!----------BEGIN ADDED CODE------------------------->          
                // Obtain file upload vars
                $fileatt      = $_FILES['fileatt']['tmp_name'];
                $fileatt_type = $_FILES['fileatt']['type'];
                $fileatt_name = $_FILES['fileatt']['name'];

 

                         if (is_uploaded_file($fileatt)) {
                         // Read the file to be attached ('rb' = read binary)
                         $file = fopen($fileatt,'rb');
                         $data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt));
                         fclose($file);

                         // Generate a boundary string
                         $semi_rand = md5(time());
                         $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

                         // Add the headers for a file attachment
                            $headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
                            "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" .
                            " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

                         // Add a multipart boundary above the plain message
                         $message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
                            "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
                            "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
                            "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .
                             $message . "\n\n";

                         // Base64 encode the file data
                         $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

                         // Add file attachment to the message
                         $message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
                            "Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};\n" .
                            " name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
                         //"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .
                         //" filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
                           "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .
                            $data . "\n\n" .
                            "--{$mime_boundary}--\n";
                         }

<!-----------END ADDED CODE---------------->

                mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Your request has been submitted.";



}
else
{
?>
<form action="#" id="contactForm" method="post">
  <div id="contactFormLeft">
<?
if($user_id > 0)
{
?>
<label>
Your name<?
if($nameError)
{
?><span class="formError">*</span><?
}?>
</label><br/>
<input type="text" name="name" value="<?=$user_data[0];?>"/><br/>
<label>
Your email<?
if($emailError)
{
?><span class="formError">*</span><?
}?>
</label><br/>
<input type="text" name="email" value="<?=$user_data[1];?>"/><br/>
<?
}
else
{
?>
<label>
Your name<?
if($nameError)
{
?><span class="formError">*</span><?
}?>
</label><br/>
<input type="text" name="name" value="<?=$_POST["name"];?>"/><br/>
<label>
Your email<?
if($emailError)
{
?><span class="formError">*</span><?
}?>
</label><br/>
<input type="text" name="email" value="<?=$_POST["email"];?>"/><br/>
<?
}
?>

<label>
Subject<?
if($subjectError)
{
?><span class="formError">*</span><?
}?>
</label><br/>
<select name="subject">
<option value="support" <? if($_POST["subject"]=="support") { echo "selected ";}?>>Support</option>
<option value="training" <? if($_POST["subject"]=="training") { echo "selected ";}?>>Training</option>
<option value="hr" <? if($_POST["subject"]=="hr") { echo "selected ";}?>>HR</option>
                                        <option value="sales" <? if($_POST["subject"]=="sales") { echo "selected ";}?>>Consultation</option>
</select>
<br/>
<input type="submit" id="submit"  name="submit" value=""/><br/>
</div>
<div id="contactFormRight">
<label>
Message<?
if($messageError)
{
?><span class="formError">*</span><?
}?>
</label><br/>
<textarea name="message"><?=$_POST["message"];?></textarea><br/>
</div>
</form>
<?
}
}
else
{
?>
<!--Request More Info AKA Contact Page-->

<!--Intro Text from Article-->

<form action="#" id="contactForm" method="post">
<div id="contactFormLeft">
<?
if($user_id > 0)
{
?>
<label>
Your name
</label><br/>
<input type="text" name="name" value="<?=$user_data[0];?>"/><br/>
<label>
Your email
</label><br/>
<input type="text" name="email" value="<?=$user_data[1];?>"/><br/>
<?
}
else
{
?>
<label>
Your name
</label><br/>
<input type="text" name="name" value="<?=$_POST["name"];?>"/><br/>
<label>
Your email
</label><br/>
<input type="text" name="email" value="<?=$_POST["email"];?>"/><br/>
<?
}
?>
<label>
Subject
</label><br/>
<select name="subject">
<option value="support" <? if($_POST["subject"]=="support") { echo "selected ";}?>>Support</option>
                                <option value="sales" <? if($_POST["subject"]=="sales") { echo "selected ";}?>>Consultation</option>
<option value="training" <? if($_POST["subject"]=="training") { echo "selected ";}?>>Training</option>
<option value="hr" <? if($_POST["subject"]=="hr") { echo "selected ";}?>>HR</option>
</select>
<br/>
<input type="submit" id="submit" name="submit" value=""/>
</div>
<div id="contactFormRight">
<label>
Message
</label><br/>
<textarea name="message"><?=$_POST["message"];?></textarea><br/>
<!-----------ADDED FILE UPLOAD BOX ------------------>
      <label>
         Attach File: 
         </label>
         <br/>
         <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="100000" />
         <input type="file"   name="fileatt"  />
         <br/>
<!------------END FILE UPLOAD BOX--------------------->
</div>
</form>
<?
}
?>

I have commented the changes I have added to the original code so that you can see what I have done. Any input on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I am creating a system for my students. I teach Photography and I want to do more online integration for my class. As of right now I have a whole system in which the students have their on accounts on my site. Now the challenging part for me.

I need students to upload photos to me, and I will critique them. My questions for this forum a

1. Should I have a line of code that creates a folder per user to upload photos to?
2. Should I have the photos stored in the SQL database?
3. Are there any scripts out there that can be easily adapted for this idea?

Adam