PHP - How To Link Php To Second Program

For example with an IDE to run a program is there a way to put some code in the path and let it tell me where it came from like a referral?
For example lets say I am at pgm1.php and at the top of that program i put something like.

$ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
echo("$ref<br>";

Result: https://www.mydomain.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=lambo

As you can clearly see the page that we have entered the code in is referred by the URL here.

It tells me that it was last at a word press page /wp-admin/admin-php and I can go to that page and it will be the last page it was at..

So bottom line then if i add this code to the admin page and click the same button i had before.. it will tell me the file that called out the admin page.

Baslcaly I am looking for ideas on how to track the page i am now all the way back to the page with the button on it and all intermediate pages that it passes thru to get to the final destination.  It seems that to succesfully troubleshoot a fault is to follow the path of the entire job and see if any breaks...

Any thoughts or suggestions on how to best do this would greatly be appreciated.

 

Hi

I need to include a exe program in a website. The only file of this program is the .exe file. It has a couple of textboxes, and when you insert values in these boxes and submit it gives an text output in the same window.

Is there a way in php that I can take in values from an html form and insert it into this programs form?
And then how can I read its output using php? Or is there another web-based language that I should rather use?

Your help would be appretiated!

C

HI,   I am a beginner at programing and I have to do this project where it is asking me to valid ISBN 10 and 13 using MySQL database to store the information. I checked my php code to validate ISBN 10 and 13 and it works, but when I try to store the data to MySQL it is not working. What  I mean is that when I click ShowISBN link it doesn't show this information: ISBN Number ISBN Type Date Entered using timestamp Valid or Invalid This is the codes I have for input page of ISBN page:

<?php
//this is the isset function which allows us to submit back
//to the same form.  If there isn't anything in the ISBN, it will
//show the bottom part of the form
if(isset($_POST["ISBN"])|| empty($_POST['isbn_type']) 
	|| empty($_POST['Valid_Invalid']))
{
	$ISBN = $_POST["ISBN"];;
	$IsbnType = $_POST["isbn_type"];;
	$VaorIn = $_POST["Valid_Invalid"];;

	$ISBN_Arr = str_split($ISBN);
	$not10 =0;
	$notNum=0;
	$notX=0;
	//entering error checking for the code
	//check for 10 first, if clear do additional checking
	if(strlen($ISBN) == 10)
		{//start further error checking	
		//check to make sure first 9 are numeric
		for($i=0;$i<=8;$i++)
			{
			if(!is_numeric($ISBN_Arr[$i]))
				$notNum = 1;
			}//end for loop check
		//check to see if there is a X or a x
		if($ISBN_Arr[9]=='x' || $ISBN_Arr[9]=='X')
			{
				$ISBN_Arr[9] = 10;
			}
			//if not an x, is it at least numeric?
			else if (!is_numeric($ISBN_Arr[9]) )
			{
				$notX=1;
			}
		}//end additional error checking 
		else {
			$not10=1;	
			}//end not 10 check
	//start of error messages if prereqs are not met			
	if($notNum ==1 || $notX ==1 || $not10)
		{
		Print "<h2>Input error</h2><br/>";
		Print "Here is the error(s) discovered:<br/>";
		if($notNum ==1)
			print"Your ISBN contains non-numeric data.<br/>";
		if($notX ==1)
			print"The last digit is not a number or a X.<br/>";
		if($not10 ==1)
			print"ISBN 10 number should contain 10 characters.<br/>";
				
		include"ISBN_not_val_include.html";
		}
	//end error checking
	else{
		$chk_sum_num=10;
		$chk_sum =0;
		for($i=0;$i<=9;$i++)
		{
			$chk_sum +=$ISBN_Arr[$i] *$chk_sum_num;
				//print"$ISBN_Arr[$i] | $chk_sum_num<br/>";
			$chk_sum_num--;
		}//end for loop
		$is_valid_ISBN= $chk_sum%11;
		//print"chk_sum: $chk_sum </br> is_valid_ISBN: $is_valid_ISBN</br>";
		if($is_valid_ISBN==0)
			{
			print"<h3>VALID</h3><br/>";
			print"$ISBN is a VALID 10 digit ISBN number.<br/>";
			include"ISBN_val_include.html";
			}
			else{
			print"<h3>INVALID</h3><br/>";
			print"$ISBN is an INVALID 10 number ISBN.<br/>";
			include"ISBN_not_val_include.html";
			}//end is_valid if
		}//end
	}//end is set if
	else{
	include"ISBN_val_include.html";
}//end isset else
?>


</form>
<p><a href="_ShowISBN10and13DBProject.php">Show ISBN 
</a></p> 


</body>
</html>

This is the second part of the code that incorporates php and MySQL:

<?php

if (empty($_POST['ISBN'])|| empty($_POST['isbn_type']) 
	|| empty($_POST['Valid_Invalid']))
	
	echo "<p>You must enter a Valid ISBN 10 to Continue! 
		 Please Click your browser's Back Button to return 
		 to the input page of ISBN 10 with Database.</p>\n";
		 
else {
	$DBConnect = @mysql_connect("xxx.xxx.xx.xxx", "xxxxxxxx", "xxxxxxxx");
	if($DBConnect === false)
		echo"<p>Unable to conenct to the database server.</p>"
		. "<p>Error code " . mysql_errno()
		. ": " . mysql_error() . "</p>";
	else{
	$DBName = "xxxxxxxx";
	if (!@mysql_select_db($DBName, $DBConnect)) {
		$SQLstring = "CREATE DATABASE $DBName";
		$QueryResult = @mysql_query($SQLstring,
		$DBConnect);
		
		if ($QueryResult === FALSE)
		echo "<p>Unable to execute the query.</p>"
		. "<p>Error code " . mysql_errno($DBConnect)
		. ": " . mysql_error($DBConnect) . "</p>";
	else 
		echo "<p>You are the first visitor!</p>";
	}
	mysql_select_db($DBName, $DBConnect);
	
	$TableName = "isbn";
	$SQLstring = "SHOW TABLES LIKE '$TableName'";
	$QueryResult = @mysql_query($SQLstring, $DBConnect);
	
	
	
	if ($QueryResult === FALSE) 
		echo "<p>Unable to create the table.</p>"
		. "<p>Error code " . mysql_errno($DBConnect)
		. ": " . mysql_error($DBConnect) . "</p>";
		
	$ISBNum = stripslashes($_POST['ISBN']);
	$ISBNType = stripslashes($_POST['isbn_type']);
	$VaORIn = stripslashes($_POST['Valid_Invalid']);
	$SQLstring = "INSERT INTO $TableName 
	VALUES(NULL, '$ISBNum', '$ISBNType', 
	'$VaORIn')";
	$QueryResult = @mysql_query($SQLstring, $DBConnect);
		
		if($QueryResult === false)
			echo"<p>Unable to execute the query.</p>"
			. "<p>Error code " . mysql_errno($DBConnect)
			. ": " . mysql_error($DBConnect) . "</p>";
		else
			echo"<h1>Thank you for trying our ISBN 10 program!</h1>";	
	
	
	mysql_close($DBConnect);
	}
}
	
	


?><!--End PHP Script-->

This is the page where it is not working!

<?php

	$DBConnect = @mysql_connect("xxx.xxx.xx.xxx", "xxxxxxx", "xxxxx");
	if($DBConnect === false)
		echo"<p>Unable to conenct to the database server.</p>"
		. "<p>Error code " . mysql_errno()
		. ": " . mysql_error() . "</p>";
	else{
		$DBName = "xxxxxx";
	if (!@mysql_select_db($DBName, $DBConnect))
		echo"<p>There are no entries in the guest book!</p>";
	else {
	$TableName = "isbn";
	$SQLstring = "SELECT * FROM $TableName";
	$QueryResult = @mysql_query($SQLstring, $DBConnect);
	
	if (mysql_num_rows($QueryResult) == 0) 
		echo"<p>There are no entries in the ISBN 10 Database!</p>";
	else{
		echo"<p>The following ISBN have 
		been recorded:</p>";
		echo"<table width='100%' border='1'>";
		echo"<tr><th>ISBN Number</th><th>ISBN Type</th><th>
			Date Entred</th><th>
			Valid OR Invalid</th></tr>";
		while (($Row = mysql_fetch_assoc($QueryResult)) !==FALSE) {
			echo "<tr><td>{$Row['ISBN']}</td>";
			echo "<tr><td>{$Row['isbn_type']}</td>";
			echo "<tr><td>{$Row['TIMESTAMP']}</td>";
			echo "<td>{$Row['Valid_Invalid']}</td></tr>";
			
			}
			
		}
		mysql_free_result($QueryResult);
	}
	mysql_close($DBConnect);
}
	
		

When I click show ISBN nothing happens and I am not shore why!   This is how  I have my table setup in MySQL Manually by clicking table and create table:   Columns: count                 int(11) Al PK ISBN                   varchar(45) isbn_type            varchar(45) TIMESTMP         datetime PK Valid_Invalid       varchar(45)       Can someone please tell me why when I click Show ISBN in the input page the first code pasted  I get nothing! How do  I fix the issue because my validation works, but it's not storing it or showing up when  click Show ISBN!   Any help will be appreciate it!

I stumbled across this site after being slammed hard elsewhere for being a novice and really not knowing what I am doing.  What I have read so far is more encouraging.  I just wrote my first program in php and it is not working at all right now.  All it keeps doing is opening window after window until I force the browser to close.  I am using a Mac running Yosemite and using MAMP.  Hopefully that is enough background.    I know this is an introduction area, so I will also post this in another forum in case this is closed for being off topic.   This is a login file to connect to the server:

<?php // login.php
// Get connection information

echo <<<_END
    <form method = "post" action = "login.php">
    <pre>
    <input type = "text" name = "localhost" />host server<br />
    <input type = "text" name = "username" />Username<br />
    <input type = "text" name = "password" /><br />
    <br />
    <input type = "submit" value = "submit" />
    </form>
_END

$db_server = sanitize_string($localhost);
$db_username = sanitize_string($username);
$db_password = sanitize_string($password);

/*
$user = 'root';
$password = 'root';
$db = 'rpsls';
$host = 'localhost';
$port = 3306;

$link = mysql_connect(
"$host:$port",
$user,
$password
);
$db_selected = mysql_select_db(
$db,
$link
);
*/

mysql_connect($db_server, $db_username, $db_password) or die(mysql_error());

// Create rpsls table if it does not exist

$tbl = "rpsls";
$query = "CREATE TABLE rpsls(human VARCHAR(10), computer VARCHAR(10), outcome VARCHAR(5),
    action VARCHAR(15));

INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Rock", "Paper", "Lose", "Covers");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Rock", "Scissors", "Win", "Crushes");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Rock", "Lizard", "Win", "Crushes");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Rock", "Spock", "Lose", "Vaporizes");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Paper", "Rock", "Win", "Covers");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Paper", "Scissors", "Lose", "Cuts");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Paper", "Lizard", "Lose", "Eats");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Paper", "Spock", "Win", "Disproves");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Scissors", "Lizard", "Win", "Decapitates");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Scissors", "Spock", "Lose", "Smashes");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Scissors", "Rock", "Lose", "Crushes");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Scissors", "Paper", "Win", "Cuts");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Lizard", "Spock", "Win", "Poisons");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Lizard", "Rock", "Lose", "Crushes");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Lizard", "Paper", "Win", "Eats");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Lizard", "Scissors", "Lose", "Decapitates");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Spock", "Rock", "Win", "Vaporizes");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Spock", "Paper", "Lose", "Disproves");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Spock", "Scissors", "Win", "Smashes");
INSERT INTO rpsls (human, computer, outcome, action) VALUES ("Spock", "Lizard", "Lose", "Poisons");";

check_table($tbl, $query);

// Create choices table if it does not exist

$tbl = "choices";

$query = "CREATE TABLE choices(id SMALLINT, choice VARCHAR(10));

INSERT INTO choices (id, choice) VALUES (1, "Rock");
INSERT INTO choices (id, choice) VALUES (2, "Paper");
INSERT INTO choices (id, choice) VALUES (3, "Scissors");
INSERT INTO choices (id, choice) VALUES (4, "Lizard");
INSERT INTO choices (id, choice) VALUES (5, "Spock");";

check_table($tbl, $query);

// Sanitize user input

function sanitize_string($var)
{
$var = stripslashes($var);
$var = htmlentities($var);
$var = strip_tags($var);
return $var;
}

function check_table($tbl, $query){

$db = new mysqli(...);
$result = $db->query("SHOW TABLES LIKE "$tbl);
if ($result->num_rows == 0){
    mysql_query($query);
    }
}

?>

and this is the program:

<?php

// log into server and database

require_once 'login.php';
$db_server = mysql_connect($db_hostname, $db_username, $db_password);
if (!$db_server) die("Unable to connect to MySQL: " . mysql_error());
$conn = mysql_connect($db_server, $db_username, $db_password) or die(mysql_error());
$db_database = 'rpsls';
mysql_select_db($db_database) or die("Unable to select database: " . mysql_error());

// Start Game

ready_to_play();


// Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock game
function rock_paper_scissors_lizard_spock()
{
$human = human_play();
$computer = computer_play();
game_outcome($human, $computer);
play_again();


// Start Game Function

function ready_to_play(){
echo <<<_END
    <form method = "post" action = "rpsls.php">
    <h2>Ready to play Rock, Paper, Lizard, Spock?</h2>
    <hr>
    <table>
    <tr>
        <td><input type = "radio" name = "ready" value = "Yes" />Yes</td>
        <td><input type = "radio" name = "ready" value = "No" />No</td>
    </tr>
        <tr>
        <td colspan = "2"><input type = "submit" value = "Play!" /></td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </form>
_END
    
    if ($ready == "Yes"){
        $query = "CREATE TABLE gameResults (
            games SMALLINT NOT NULL,
            win SMALLINT NULL,
            loss SMALLINT NULL,
            draw SMALLINT NULL,
            PRIMARY KEY (games))";
            
        mysql_query($query);    
        
        rock_paper_scissors_lizard_spock();
    }else{
        close_rpsls();
    }
}

// Play Again

// Start Game Function

function play_again()
{
echo <<<_END
    <form method = "post" action = "rpsls.php">
    <h2>Play Again?</h2>
    <hr>
    <table>
    <tr>
        <td><input type = "radio" name = "ready" value = "Yes" />Yes</td>
        <td><input type = "radio" name = "ready" value = "No" />No</td>
    </tr>
        <tr>
        <td colspan = "2"><input type = "submit" value = "Play!" /></td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </form>
_END
    
    if ($ready == "Yes"){
        rock_paper_scissors_lizard_spock();
    }else{
        close_rpsls();
    }
}

// Human Play Selection

function human_play()
{
echo <<<_END
    <form method = "post" action = "rpsls.php">
    <h2>Let's Play Rock, Paper, Lizard, Spock</h2>
    <hr>
    <table>
    <tr>
        <td><input type = "radio" name = "human" value = "Rock" />Rock</td>
        <td><input type = "radio" name = "human" value = "Paper" />Paper</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td><input type = "radio" name = "human" value = "Scissors" />Scissors</td>
        <td><input type = "radio" name = "human" value = "Lizard" />Lizard</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td colspan = "2"><input type = "radio" name = "human" value = "Spock" />Spock</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td colspan = "2"><hr></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td colspan = "2"><input type = "submit" value = "Play!" /></td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </form>
    
_END
    
    return $human;
}

// Computer Play Selection

function computer_play()
{
    $play = rand(1,5);
    $query = "SELECT choice FROM choices WHERE number = $play";
    $computer = mysql_query($query);
    
    return $computer;
}

// Game Outcome Function

function game_outcome($human, $computer)
{
    $win = $loss = $draw = 0
    
    if ($human == $computer){
        echo "Draw<br />";
        echo "We both played ".$human;
        $draw = 1;
    }else{
        $query = "SELECT outcome, action FROM rpsls WHERE human = $human AND computer = $computer";
        $results = mysql_query($query);
        $results2 = mysql_fetch_array($results);
        $outcome = $results2[0];
        $action = $results2[1];
        
        if ($outcome == "Win"{
            echo "You Win!!!<br />"
            echo "Your ".$human. " ".$action." my ".$computer."<br />";
            $win = 1;
        }else{
            echo "You Lose/.<br />
            echo "My ".$computer." ".$action." your ".$human."<br />";
            $loss = 1;
            }
        }
        $query = "INSERT INTO gameResults VALUES".(NULL, '$win', '$loss', '$draw')";
        mysql_query($query);
}

// Game Statistics Function

function game_statistics ()
{
    $query = "SELECT * FROM gameResults";
    $result = mysql_query($query);
    $rows = mysql_num_rows($result);
    $games = $rows;
    $win = $loss = $draw = 0;
    
    for ($index = 0; $index < $rows; ++$index){
        $row = mysql_fetch_row($result);
        $win = $win + $row[1];
        $loss = $loss + $row[2];
        $draw = $draw + $row[3];
    }
    
echo <<<_END
    <table>
    <tr>
        <td>Games</td>
        <td>Win</td>
        <td>Loss</td>
        <td>Draw</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>$games</td>
        <td>$win</td>
        <td>$loss</td>
        <td>$draw</td>
    </tr>
    </table>
_END
}

// Print Statistics and close the game

function close_rpsls(){
echo <<<_END
    <form method = "post" action = "rpsls.php">
    <h3>Are you sure you want to quit?</h3>
    <hr>
    <table>
    <tr>
        <td><input type = "radio" name = "ready" value = "Yes" />Yes</td>
        <td><input type = "radio" name = "ready" value = "No" />No</td>
    </tr>
        <tr>
        <td colspan = "2"><input type = "submit" value = "Play!" /></td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </form>
_END
    
    if ($ready == "No"){
        rock_paper_scissors_lizard_spock();
    }else{
        $query = "DROP TABLE gameResults";
        mysql_query($query);
    }    
}

// close connection
mysql_close($conn);
?>

Please forgive my novice errors and help me figure out what is wrong with this program.   Thank you. Here is the contents of the error log:   141104 18:36:26 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /Applications/MAMP/db/mysql
141104 18:36:28 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /Applications/MAMP/db/mysql/ is case insensitive
141104 18:36:28 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
141104 18:36:28 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
141104 18:36:28 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
141104 18:36:28 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
141104 18:36:28 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
141104 18:36:28 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
141104 18:36:28 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
141104 18:36:32  InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
141104 18:36:33 InnoDB: 5.5.38 started; log sequence number 1711074
141104 18:36:33 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): '0.0.0.0'; port: 8889
141104 18:36:33 [Note]   - '0.0.0.0' resolves to '0.0.0.0';
141104 18:36:33 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '0.0.0.0'.
141104 18:36:35 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
141104 18:36:35 [Note] /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.5.38'  socket: '/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock'  port: 8889  Source distribution

Hello phpFreaks!

I want to ask you if there are some ways to make your php program works with serial number (that you give in people that bought it). So the one that buy it can't copy and give it to his friend..Or something...

Is there any way to make this with php ?

Thanks alot!