PHP - Questions About Oop...

I basically have a picture uploading system for users. I have two questions:

1) What CHMOD should I use for the folders that are there for uploading files to? Currently it is 755, but I want it to be accessible and safe.

2) When I use the standard mkdir() function to create folders in my main parent folder, the folders don't get created. Is this because my parent folder is CHMOD 755?

Thanks

Hey again,

I hope you guys don't get annoyed with my noob questions.

I was reading the guide here on the site about OOP, and on the section related to inheritance it makes a "Dog" class, after giving it an attribute and a method it then creates the "Animal" class using "extends" and expands on the methods.

Then after that here is the paragraph I'm looking at now.

"Class Animal is unaware of the fact that it is being extended; there are no references to Dog whatsoever. Say Animal extended another class called LifeForm, and I instantiated Animal, only methods and properties of Animal and LifeForm would be included in the object."

To me, this sounds like if I were to create this "LifeForm" class by further extending the "Animal" class, I would not be able to access any of the attributes and methods that were in "Dog," only the ones that were in Animal and any that I put in LifeForm itself.

But, I was playing with the code and I can call an attribute from Dog in LifeForm. So, am I reading the post wrong or am I coding wrong?

Code: (php) [Select]

<?php
    //Class Dog//
    class Dog{
        public $hungry = 'Hell yeah!';
        public $test = 'Affirmative!';
        
        function eat($food){
            $this->hungry = 'not so much.';
        }
                
    }
    
    //Class Animal//
    class Animal extends Dog{
        function eat($food){
            if($food === 'cookie'){
                $this->hungry = 'not so much';
            }else{
                echo 'Barf! I only like cookies!';
            }
        }
    }
    
    //Class LifeForm//
    class LifeForm extends Animal{
        function eat($food){
            
        }
    }
      
    //Program Variables//
    $dog = new Dog;
    $LifeForm = new LifeForm;
    
    //Program Code//
    echo $LifeForm->test;
?>


My assumption was that I am able to call that attribute because of the 'public' in front of it, but all the attributes in the examples are also public.

Thanks guys!

Good day, I have 2 questions about that. Here is the context. I have a list of items that i query from a database and insert in a table. The last field of the table is a input box to typpe in the quantity ("qty"). My first question, how can I associate the inputbox to product_id from the database for that item.

Code: [Select]
//database connecting is working

<? while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr><td>" . $row['product_code'] . "</td><td>" . $row['product_name'] .  "</td><td><input type='text' maxlength = '3' value='0'></td></tr>";
}


And my second question (any tutorial reference) about how to select only the items that the qty is not = 0 and pass it to another page either by sessions or other means.

Thank you

A few questions about mod_rewrites...

1.) If I want to determine if the URL ends with either "list" or "gallery", and then take appropriate action, does the code below look correct?

	RewriteRule shop/(.+)/([list|gallery])$  shop/catalog.php?category=$1&view=2 [L]
	

 

2.) Is it bad to use mod_rewrites to determine how your website branches?

For example...

	RewriteRule shop/music/(.*)$  go somewhere [L]
	RewriteRule shop/movies/(.*)$  go somewhere else [L]
	RewriteRule shop/books/(.*)$  go yet somewhere else [L]
	

 

 

Hi all, I my hunt for better coding i thought i look at some opensource CMS systems and one thing I saw in the index.php of the joomla cms was this.


define('JPATH_BASE', dirname(__FILE__) );
define( 'DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR );

require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php' );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php' );


Are they using DS to make it work on any platform instead of using a /  or a \   ?

Also they define JPATH_BASE,  now they use  dirname(__FILE__) for this. I read that __FILE__ tells from where the script is running. But in that same guide they gave as example dirname(dirname((__FILE__)) instead of only 1 time dirname() That was this website btw: http://www.phpguru.org/php-application-structure
can anyone tell why i would use dirname 2 times and not 1 or 3 or 4?

-edit: OK that last question don't needs an answer, i just put loads of dirname() around it and it seems it's moving up in the file system. Leaves my first still open

Hello,  I'm fairly new to PHP, and I'm looking to create an online catalog for a furniture/appliance store.  I'm wondering the best way to go about this.  I'm looking at SQLMaestro's "PHP Generator for MySQL" http://www.sqlmaestro.com/products/mysql/phpgenerator/ ... But, I'm curious if you guys can point me in the right direction.  I've never created a database before, and I want to do it the way that makes the most sense...  Any advice would be appreciated!!

First what are the possible $_FILES['file']['type'] s of .zip. I know one is "application/x-zip-compressed" but are there any others (basically I need to check if the uploaded file is a .zip?
Second question; how could I extract the contents of .zip to a directory on the server without the use of FTP?

Thanks

Some questions about PHP Constants...

1.) What make a Constant "come to life"?

2.) What is the life of a Constant?

3.) Can you define a Constant in "file_1.php" and use the Constant in "file_2.php" and "file_3.php"??


Debbie

I've been looking for Curl tutorials and haven't really found any good ones. Can Curl take text from a website and store it in a variable? If so, can I get an example? If not, could someone please redirect me towards something it can?

Example:
A site has a list of items you've earned on a game, you want to store them and output them on your site.

If this isn't clear enough please let me know.

I am trying to create a simple form for inserting to a database table.

It seems the data from the form are passed through the "insert" script, but nothing is added to the table.

My question is: what is required to insert new data to a table? must all fields have a value for the new data to be added?

Hey guys! im currently learning javascript, PHP and SQL. I have a pretty solid understanding of HTML and CSS. I want to make a site similar to facebook (a good facebook). this is going to be a big project and i plan on moving to a bigger server system in a year or so to keep up with demands.    Heres how the site will function:    1. Basic registration/splash page. I understand that the finished form is sent to a php file on the server side, correct?  (ill change my server name files of course)   2. after the registration page, while the user is logged in with their new account, there are 3 pages after that that explain what the website is all about and how to use it. the last page allows the user to setup their profile information, ask friends to join, and asks what type of things they like. After the last page, it sends the user to their main control panel, where social media feed can be seen, friends and online chats, news, advertisements, links, pages and groups (think facebook and linkedin)   3. the user will have the ability to look at their profile (not the control panel), and of course switch back to their control panel. social media, friends, groups and ads will also be on their individual profile page as well.   4. i want the site to have two views: a standard view and an enhanced view. the enhanced view will reposition divs and all that stuff so they can see a background image (either stock or one they uploaded) this image will eventually change to an animated image of a 3d environment.   5. the site is going to be heavily social media based. This means social media feeds, image uploading, a structured comment system, a friend system, search functions and targeted advertising.   This is obviously a lot to ask, but since their is so much to learn related to PHP and SQL, can someone point me to the right tutorials on how to get these things done? I am currently learning javascript, PHP and SQL on lynda.com. Expect me to be on this forum a lot and asking a lot of questions. Thanks for any help. 
Edited by PHPlearner32, 10 January 2015 - 11:19 PM.

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So I have been slowly working on a custom forum. I have recently been trying to implement an achievement system.   For the most part achievements would work based on the users   amount of posts amount of characters in a post amount of replies on a post time past from the users join date.   I was hoping to find out how I could put an entry into a database field based on the above.   Any help would be greatly appreciated