PHP - Insert Into - A Few Questions

Hi. I'll like to ask few questions about PHP, as I think they are related to it.   I've came across some webpages, what I've spotted is that a webpage displays content but each "page" has different argument and there is no filename. For example: "http://www.website.com/?home" is home-like webpage, by changing "/?home" to "/?anotherpage" land me on some other webpage on their website and so on. My question is how is it done? Is it done from PHP? Another question I wanted to ask is.. I went on InvisionPower.Board forum (such as this PHP Freaks  ). How to force "folders" to be displayed as "files"? For example: "http://forums.phpfre...ks-on-facebook/" which links to a thread.   Thanks in advance 

Howdy,

I am new to SEO. Could you please help me? 

1. I like to post programming tutorials to both my website & various programming forums. Is that going to screw up my website's ranking in Google?

2. My editor of my history website who sometimes posts essays there also posts them in some history forums. Is that bad for SEO?

3. I made a Facebook page for my history website. It says there "Promote your page" basically you pay $5 for around 100 likes. Has anyone tried that? Does it work? Because $5 seems like little money for additional 100 likes which will increase the traffic considerably.

Thank you so much for the help!

1. If I start a new project, should I use Laravel 5.0(dev) or 4.2? 2. How easy is it to upgrade from between major version like that? 3. Any design recommendations for daily with authentication and accounts?

What I want is to let visitors select a county they want to search in.
And when the choice is made - all ads, news, info that is shown is from the chosen county.

What I'm trying to say here, is that when a location is set, visitors don't need to set the location again. But they can change it all the time.

I belive this is done by setting a cookie with PHP. But don't know how.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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

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.

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    

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

Hello everyone,
I am a hobbyist with programming. I have been playing with Php, sql, html for several years. I am building a program to organize my club. I am starting out fairly simple and hope in a year for it to be powerful. If anyone can point in the right direction to find out how I can do several things I can get my first version done this week maybe. Here are the things I am trying to accomplish.

1.) a page that I can view records with a First record, previous Record, next Record, last record buttons. The page will pull the information from a table or tables out of my mysql database. I would like to have an update button so I can update records as I go through them and to be able to search buy typing in first name or last name. I know there are functions that will help me and I have been trying to figure out what classes on php.net

2.) Last question for now. All my pages that deal with mysql I have included all the connection information. I was thinking about making a class and add using a class on the pages to open the connection. Not sure if this would be easy, or the best way.


Thanks in advance. I am new and I am not looking for the exact code just place to start. I really want to learn php and sql to be able to build my own applications and fix them.

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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!

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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

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!!