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PHP - Social Network Help!
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I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to PHP. I'm a thirs year music/music tech student and for my disseration I took a very ambitious task. I want to create a sort of social networking site for musicians. But I wanted to create it dynamically using PHP and MySQL. I want to basically allow users to register and sign up with their details basically. But the first problem I came across was actually making a custom registration page, I wanted things such as post codes (zip codes) so that I would then have a Google Maps overlay showing where users were. So that you could 'see' you local music 'scene'. So far I've been playing around with Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. I tried writing the PHP from scratch but after following various tutorials, but I had no luck what-so-ever with that approach. So I started using content management systems, which got me a lot closer, but I found I couldn't really edit custom registration pages etc. And the I would have no idea how to get the Google maps idea working. If anyone could nudge me in the right direction and give me a few tips and ideas as to how I'm most likely to achieve this then please reply, I would be highly grateful for you responses. Thanks, Ewan Valentine. Similar TutorialsI'm writing a mini social network and I'm having trouble figuring out how to deal with privacy settings. I have established a range of privacy options (level 1-4): 1. Only Facebook friends can see profile (users connect via FB) 2. Only current classmates 3. Past + current classmates 4. All users in given group I am writing a function to return a list of available users based on a given parameter (eg. Find all classmates of a user). Obviously I have to respect users privacy settings, so I thought to query against all users with level 2 permissions, however I realise that I may miss out some classmates who are FB friends but have permission levels set to 1. Secondly, I'm looking to find out the relationship between two users (a function that I can plug in 2 user IDs and return their relationship...classmates, FB friends, past classmates, no relationship) which I can then use to determine whether a user has permission to view another users profile. I don't have much code as of yet, because I spent a long time exploring one avenue which I now realise to be the wrong one! Any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated! Hi phpfreaks members, I got a little social network website, http://www.tranceprofile.com I got a php script for members to log in to my website. When they are logged in they can view there own profile and edit it. I got my login script on two places, http:www.tranceprofile.com/login.php and my index.php page. Well here is my problem: When they log in they are send to my index.php page as a logged in user. I want them to be redirected to the http://www.tranceprofile.com/profile.php page. I hope you guys can help me out! Best regards, Mitch Oosterhuis. Login script: <table width="400" align="center" cellpadding="6" style="background-color:#FFF; border:#666 1px solid;"> <form action="login.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="signinform" id="signinform"> <tr> <td width="23%"><font size="+2">Log In</font></td> <td width="77%"><font color="#FF0000"><?php print "$errorMsg"; ?></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Email:</strong></td> <td><input name="email" type="text" id="email" style="width:60%;" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Password:</strong></td> <td><input name="pass" type="password" id="pass" maxlength="24" style="width:60%;"/></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"> </td> <td><input name="remember" type="checkbox" id="remember" value="yes" checked="checked" /> Remember Me</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td><input name="myButton" type="submit" id="myButton" value="Sign In" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">Forgot your password? <a href="forgot_pass.php">Click Here</a> <br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">Need an Account? <a href="register.php">Click Here</a><br /> <br /></td> </tr> </form> </table> So I would like it as a custom script or as a wordpress plugin. The features a I would like to build a social network. The main to features I’m interested in: 1. Member can join only by invitation. The person that invites another person must write a review about the invited person, add a photo, what he does, share the name and contact: email, phone, city, connected to ( until here all these is mandatory in order for the person to join the network ) and website link ( optional ). Only then the person that is invited will receive an email with a link from where to register his account. ( this only for members that will have the right to invite others. For the other type only the admin has the right to make it from just a member, a member with invitation rights. In this case the member will receive an email with a link registration ). The review of a member can be edited only the member who introduced that person in the network ( and the admin ). In case of any edit there will be a notification for the admin with the original version and the new version. The admin of the site has to allow the modification in order for the review to change. 2. The person that is already in the network can invite a number of … ( this will be fixed and determined by the admin. However the admin can raise the number of invitation for a particular member at his will ). This applies for the 2 types of invitations. There will be 2 types of invitations: to join the network and have the right to invite others OR only member ( no right to invite others ). When a person registers to the network, the one who invited him will have one less invitation for the type of member he introduced ( member with invitation rights or member ). If a member wants to invite more people than his invitation are, then it can purchase invitations ( both types ) for different prices ( example: 1 invitations 10$, 2 invitations – 40$ - value determined by the admin ). So a payment integration is needed ( Paypal ). The exception for all this: if a visitor wants to join the network without any invitation he can only pay his way in. However this option will be displayed on the public pages. After payment confirmation the visitor can be redirected to the register page. Admin will make the account active. A sign “paying member” will be shown on this member profile page. After a member is registered and logs in to his account will have the right to: - Add more photos - Add more website links - Add more details at his contact information - Change his unique number. - Have the option to add members ( both types ) - Add updates to his wall. - Search and contact other members via email. So once you log in to the account there is no restriction ( within the network ) or no difference from what you can do on other social sites. Search: First the search will be done in the reviews and after that on the post that members made. The search results will be displayed in the same order ( the words from the reviews will have priority and after that will be displayed the content from posts – that will be arranged in chronologic order – last one will be the first ). But a member can filter those results – review only or posts only. Sponsored bids will be displayed first. The handshake section: Here you will be notified if one of your “looking for” or “offering” announces has expired. When expired the announcement can’t be find on searches or on your profile page. The notification will be active for 7 days. By active I mean: if you click the notification it will take you to the announcement and there you will have an option – make active ( so that other can find the announcement in their searches or in your profile ) another 30 days. The Admin section: The site will be default “no robots” ( not indexed by search engines ). However an option should be in the admin to switch from off “no robots”. This option will apply only for the internal part – profile pages. The pages and link on the first page ( what is public ) can be indexed by search engines. A simple editor from where you can create pages ( something like the section pages in Wordpress ). Any page you create will appear on the first page. After a period of time a member with invitation rights will receive invitation. Example: after one year you will have an extra one invitation for both types of member. What is needed in the admin: a section from where you can modify this time ( time should be in months and the admin will enter the number – example if he puts 1 – that means after 1 month will receive invitation. There should be 2 sections: one time for members that can invite, and one for members only ). A section where you can limit the number of entries for “looking for” and “offering” The section from where you can edit the html code. An option to send newsletters. You will receive and email if another person contacted you via internal email section. Option to delete members. I am creating a simple social network, and i want the post visible only on its circle of friends but the problem is... let say user_a, user_b, user_c already registered and user_a and user_c connected/friends already and all their posts and comments are visible on their circle but when user_b write a post oh his wall, it's also visible to user_a and user_c which i dont want to happen. I dont know what was wrong on codes below. CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `user`( `uid` INT(11) AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, `uname` VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL, `pword` CHAR(60) NOT NULL, `fullname` VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL, INDEX(`uname`) ) Engine = InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `friend`( `fid` INT(11) AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, `friend_id` INT(11) NOT NULL, `my_id` INT(11) NOT NULL, `stat` ENUM('0','1') NOT NULL, INDEX(`friend_id`, `my_id`), FOREIGN KEY(`friend_id`) REFERENCES `user`(`uid`) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE ) Engine = InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; public function viewFriendIfExistOnTbl($uid) { $query = $this->mysqli->query("SELECT `friend_id` FROM `friend` WHERE `my_id` = '$uid' LIMIT 1"); if ($query->num_rows > 0) { return true; } } Hey, everyone. My name is Matthew and I have a new project I would like developing. It is a social network site based on Twitter where you can upload content and follow other users. I am looking for someone experienced in developing who will be able to start this from the beginning. The project should take around 1-2 months to be up and running fully. If you are interested please send me a) Your Portfolio b) Your Location c) Your Price per hour ($) to boyle.matthew(@)gmail.com and hopefully we can talk further. Thanks, Matthew I'm attempting to implement a simple social networking system but at the moment am confused about how to create a multiple query which will display a certain user's friends list. The database contains four tables, the two tables that I'm using at the moment at 'usersTable' and 'friendshipsTable' are detailed below. usersTable | Table that stores all the user data UserID | Default primary key Forename | Surname | Username | Password | Email Address | friendshipTable | Table that stores information about friendships between users FriendshipID | Default primary key userID_1 | UserID userID_2 | UserID Status | Either Pending or Confirmed. The user's id is parsed into the url, and then saved into a variable. blah.com/userprofile.php?id=6 $id = $_GET['id']; I am familiar with creating simple queries, but can't quite work out how to set up multiple table queries. What the query needs to do is to check the userID that is parsed with the url, and then check the friendshipsTable by checking if either the userID_1 or userID_2 field matches the userID to grab the records from the table where there is a match. The next step is to check to see if the friendship is 'Confirmed' or 'Pending' and if it is 'Pending' to ignore it. Once the records have then been chosen I need the query to then check the value in either userID_1 or userID_2 that doesn't match userID and then pull the user's username and name from the usersTable so it can be displayed on a webpage. I've no idea hoe much I may or may not be overcomplicating this, an example of the code that I've got so far for this query can be found below, but that's as far as I've got at the moment. $displayFriends = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM friendshipTable, usersTable WHERE friendshipTable.userID_1='$id' OR friendshipTable.userID_2='$id' "); Cheers for any help. Not sure where to start, and it may not be entirely PHP. I am helping a friend with a small social network (5,000 users). They want to add a feature where each user gets given their own email account in the format username@domain.com with domain.com being the domain of the social network. Is this too much? I've never thought of anything like this before. How would we create the email accounts? Can PHP do it? Would it be an API through the web host / email space provider? Hi everone i am currently building a social network website, i have it mostly finished but one thing i am trying to do is instead of my members having the profile name of www.domain.com/ members.php?username=04836flfgkfifg84 for example, i want it to be like twitter or facebook where it is like www.facebook.com/Brendan Can someone help me out on doing this? Hi i have a facebook login social plugin made but my ? is why do i get symbols in my url link ?. I login with the plugin to facebook but when page returns me back to my site i have symbols at the end of url. Like this http://www.games-flash.co.uk/#_=_ Ps sry if i have made this post in wrong section. I want a php mysql script that works like a facebook social networking . A user can add,update and delete other users to their circle in 3 privacy categories (e.g. Private, Limited, Public). So that a user can define what level of detail is visible based on the privacy categories, to other users. Hi all, I am trying to create a socket that can read from and write to a client. This is my first attempt at it and the code in question is based more or less on a python script a friend sent me as well as some php tutorials google supplied. The problem is (and this seems to be a reoccurring one) when I run it from the command line Code: [Select] php -q server.php nothing visibly happens. Can anyone see what the problem might be? Code: [Select] <?php $host = "localhost"; $port = 50007; set_time_limit(0); // no timeout $socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0) or die("Could not create socket\n"); // create $result = socket_bind($socket, $host, $port) or die("Could not bind to socket\n"); // bind $result = socket_listen($socket, 3) or die("Could not set up socket listener\n"); // listen echo "Waiting for connections...\n"; $contact = socket_accept($socket) or die("Could not accept incoming connection\n"); // accept $input = socket_read($contact, 1024) or die("Could not read input\n"); // read $input = trim($input); // clean $output = "Greetings, you have connected to a socket.\n"; socket_write($contact, $output, strlen ($output)) or die("Could not write output\n"); // return socket_close($contact); // close socket socket_close($socket); // close socket ?> I have a PHP app that I wrote that requires a new IP address each time that it is run. Currently I use Tor on my desktop and the Vidalia app to change the Tor identity each time I run the script but I want to automate this. Can anyone help with switching Tor identities with PHP? Essentially after my script runs I need to call a function that switches to a new Tor identity. I have the following code but it doesn't seem to work, and I am not sure why. I am running this from XAMPP on OSX, Tor is running locally (client not server)... in my Tor settings I have 127.0.0.1 and port 9051, set to "no password"... Code: [Select] <?php function tor_new_identity($tor_ip='127.0.0.1', $control_port='9051', $auth_code='') { $fp = fsockopen($tor_ip, $control_port, $errno, $errstr, 30); if (!$fp) { return false; //can't connect to the control port } fputs($fp, "AUTHENTICATE $auth_code\r\n"); $response = fread($fp, 1024); list($code, $text) = explode(' ', $response, 2); if ($code != '250') { return false; //authentication failed } //send the request to for new identity fputs($fp, "signal NEWNYM\r\n"); $response = fread($fp, 1024); list($code, $text) = explode(' ', $response, 2); if ($code != '250') { return false; //signal failed } fclose($fp); return true; } tor_new_identity(); ?> I'm learning to develop social media buttons, and I'm trying to figure out, how to find out the correct submit links to the social media sites? For example: Digg has their submit link like this: return "<a href='http://digg.com/submit?url=$link& title=$title&bodytext=$text'>Digg This</a>"; Digg also requires to use urlencode for the variables inside the URL. But delicious has their submit link like this: return "<a href='http://del.icio.us/post?url= $link&description=$text&replace=no'>Add to Delicious</a>"; When I go on delicious.com (under this URL: http://www.delicious.com/help/api#posts_add) I will find the link: Code: [Select] https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/add? Which is stated on the API page, but that link won't work. I rather have to use the link I showed earlier. So my question is, what is the proper way in figuring the correct submit links for each website and how to format them properly to their requirements, I can not find any information on the websites? So I can build social media buttons to the other sites as well. Hi Guys http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/Smileys/nrg_alpha/cool.gif Cool I have social networking application. I am trying to query a database to get the ids of all the users friends. With the ids of all the users friends I am then trying to query a second database with the status feed that contains all users status data. I would like to echo the users friends status data only from the second database code is below hope you can help. Thank you. <?Php session_start(); ?> <?Php //connect. include("connect.php"); //Time ago coverting code. include_once("classes/develop_php_library.php"); // Include the class library $id=$_SESSION['id']; /*find-out users friends*/ $findperson=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM friends WHERE sessid='$id'"); $timeAgoObject = new convertToAgo; // Create an object for the time conversion functions $findfriend=mysql_num_rows($findperson); //Count if the person has any friends. If they have friends get the ids of all their friends if($findfriend>0) { while($rati=mysql_fetch_assoc($findperson)) { $fried=$rati['friendid']; //query the status table to give the users friends status. $mediafeeds=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM status WHERE userid='$fried' LIMIT 0,8"); $media_num=mysql_num_rows($mediafeeds); } //count to see if their any status updates from users friends. if($media_num>0) { //display all the users friends status data. $datamedia="<TABLE BORDER='0' CELLPADDING=8 bgcolor='#FFFFFF' align='center' width='350px' height='30px'>"; while($mini=mysql_fetch_assoc($mediafeeds)) { $user_id=$mini['userid']; $viewer_nme=$mini['username']; $viewer_picture=$mini['viewerpics']; $media_pic=$mini['contentpic']; $desc_ption=$mini['description']; $date_time=$mini['date']; $convertedTime = ($timeAgoObject -> convert_datetime($datetime)); // Convert Date Time $datetime = ($timeAgoObject -> makeAgo($convertedTime)); // Then convert to ago time .. //This is just a table with the data of all the users friends data. $datamedia.="<tr><td valign='top' cellpadding='5' width='10%' bgcolor='#FFFFFF' align='center' >$viewer_nme<br/><a href='friendsprofile.php?uid=$uidd&&viewer=$id'><img src='".$mediapic."' width='80' height='80' align=left></td> <td valign='top' align='left' cellpadding='5' width='60%' bgcolor='#D3D3D3' cellpadding='0'>$introduction<br/>$titlenamed$titled<br/>$descd$desc_ ption<br/><br/>$datetime</td></tr>"; } $datamedia.="</TABLE>"; echo $datamedia; } else { echo "<font color='#333333' size='2' face='sans-serif' align=left><div align='center'> Your friends have not current activities.</div></font>"; } } else { } We are building a site for users to post articles on certain topics and we want to show their number of followers on various social media platforms. Apart from them having the means to add it manually, there must be a method of syncing with their account, that they punch in, so that it dynamically updates our database with their number of followers. How is it done? Hi,
I'm not sure if this is possible, however I'm sure somebody will be able to point me in the right direction. Relativley new to php here.
I would like to write a small app that will change my IP/Subnet Mask/Gateway depending on a selection made from a dropdown list. I will have a tota; of 50 different IP settings & drop downs (each drop down will represent a different location)
I have yet to start writing the app, just on paper so far - can this be done?
I have seen examples of batch scripts like the one below that work, would I need to incorporate something like this into my php?
netsh int ipv4 set address name="Local Area Connection" source=static address=10.127.86.25 mask=255.255.255.240 gateway=10.127.86.30This is just a personal project, I'm trying to further my knowledge! Thanks J This topic has been moved to Other. http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=327407.0 My employer asked if I could change an existing contact form on their website to allow clients to enter their Social Security Number along with the normal contact information if the client decide to do so, instead of going through the motion of physically send in the form via snail mail, fax, or in person (like it is currently handled). But since this piece of information is of such delicate nature, I wonder how I should approach this from both a legal standpoint and from a programming standpoint. The form currently sends the information entered by the user to an inbox with mail(), so my initial thought was to somehow encrypt the information, limiting the risk of someone getting a hold of this information once the use user clicks "Send". But is full blown SSL really necessary for this? Are there easier options? And what should I think about before enabling this? This topic has been moved to PHP Freelancing. http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=331047.0 This topic has been moved to Other Web Server Software. http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=318962.0 |
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