PHP - Handling The Gmt Time Offset (for Site Visitors From Different Regions)

i want to make virtual money (credits, tokens) whatever you want to call it but make no mistake this is not for profit at this point but i like the concept of visitors having something to do with other members of site for example to kill bordom and create a reason to play games, compete in competetions, it will have to conversion to real money at this point but i wish to do this script using php and mysql and have very basic coding skills in these areas anyone please help me make this script...


reply and let me know if you like this idea


please help me as this is achievable as fb has it and more sites are moving toward these same ideas, even tho fb is real money it is more to do with fun at this point until we do this stage another stage canot proceed it.

Nothing fancy, I am just looking for a simple php script that would check a text file on my server that has a bunch of domains in it. I want the script to ping a random 5 or 10 sites in the list, and then redirects the visitor to the fastest one, or at least one that responds, and is not down. If all that are checked are down, then it would need to recheck the list.

I want it to pick random domains out of the list, as I don't want users directed to the same site(s) all the time, just because it pings the best.

When I say ping, I am talking about making sure the user isn't directed to a website that is down, or a slow loading website. I am not sure if "ping" is the correct word for that tho?

Can anybody offer me code like this for free, or is this type of request getting into something that would need to be paid code? (and if so, any idea how much? I didn't post this in the freelancing forum, because it sounds like it might be something simple to code.

I am not a coder, so I am looking for something complete that I can add to a php file and it works.

Thanks for any code, pointers/problems with this idea, or price quotes (if necessary) on this little script I am looking for.

I am working on a site, on a shipping profile module that requires users to group the countries into regions to ship the items to. That is:

Region 1 - Japan, USA, Spain, Italy.
Region 2 - Belgium, France, Germany.

I have a table that has all the Country names which will be populated in a Listbox control for users to select.

Once the supplier has selected a group of countries from the Listbox, how can I properly save it into the database with its region name. Do I save multiple county IDs with comma or whats the right way.

Please advise. The question maybe basic but I need your feedback.

Thank you!

Hello I am only new to this site (my first post) and I am also only new to PHP. I have a site designed call http://www.mediareviewzone.com and I am trying to modify it using PHP. What I am trying to do is when a option is selected in the navigation menu then it will get a variable which will be referenced with a SQL database and then repeated regions will be populated with the table data. For example if you select horror genre in the movies menu, horror will be saved into the url and then the repeated regions will only show the horror movies. The code I have so far is shown below. The repeat region works fine, the only problem I am having is the first if else statement. gen is the variable that would contain horror for the example described above. Thanks for your help and time, as I stated I am only a new to PHP and this is probably an easy question.

Code: [Select]
<?php 
if (isset($gen)){
        $subject_set = mysql_query("Select * FROM movies WHERE genre ={$_GET['gen']}", $connection);}
else{
                      $subject_set = mysql_query("Select * FROM movies", $connection);
}
if (!$subject_set){
       die("Database connection failed: " . mysql_error());
}
                             while ($subject = mysql_fetch_array($subject_set)){?>
                                   <div class="par_element">           
                                   <div class="par_element2">
                                   <h2> <a href=" <?=$subject['link']?>"><?=$subject['title']?> Review</a></h2>
                                   <?= $subject['description']?>
                                   <a href=" <?=$subject['link']?>"> read more on <?= $subject['title']?>.</a></div>
                                   <a href="<?=$subject['link']?>"> <img src=" <?=$subject['picture']?>"
                                    alt="<?=$subject['title']?>" name="<?= $subject['title']?>"
                     width="65" height="100" border="0" id="<?= $subject['title']?>" /></a>
             </div>
        <?php } ?>

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