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PHP - Best Way To Handle Unique Meta Descriptions When Using Includes
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I've been using includes for a while now but I'm just starting to do more with them. I'm currently working on a site where my header include brings in code from the doctype, includes my nav and then to the start of my opening wrapper div. I'm generating the page titles from the file names and I'm also using these to create my menu downstates. All is well but I was just wondering what the best practice was for creating unique meta data for each or at least some of the pages? Would I be best just creating a variable in each page and then echo out the meta data or is there a slicker way? Thanks in advance. Similar TutorialsHi all Recently designed a site using includes, but only realised when I'd almost finished the project that because the (e.g.) include("includes/header.html"); had the <head> information (titles, meta description, etc) every single page included the same information (by the way hope this makes sense) A way I thought of getting around this was to store each pages title and meta description in a database or in for example or maybe in a variables.php file. But I'm not sure whether this is the best way. I'm not a PHP expert so simple explainations would be very much appriciated. Look forward to hearing from you all. Adi how to get the domain name of a website which includes my includes file. The code would need to be put within my includes file so when any site includes it the file will get the sites domain. to $currentDomain i have tried using: echo file_get_contents() instead of includes but i get the same issue I get back the includes domain. then code i have tried (in the includes file): Code: [Select] $curdomain1= $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; $pageUR1 = ereg_replace("/(.+)", "", $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]); $curdomain2 = str_replace("www.", "", $pageUR1); echo "<br> 1# Current Domain: ".$curdomain1; echo "<br> 2# Current Domain: ".$curdomain2; This is what I am trying to accomplish. I have a site that users can upload images to and they go into a "to be checked" directory. In my website admin panel, the contents of this directory are gathered and the images are displayed for either acceptance or rejection. I am able to get this part coded. However, I would also like a way for me to add descriptions to the photos on this same page. However, I can't seem to figure out how to associate a specific text field for each of these images so that after the form is POSTed I can recall which description went with what image. Here is part of the code: manage_photos.php Code: [Select] <?php include "PhotoManager.php"; $photo_manager = new PhotoManager(); $photo_process_dir = "uploads/photos/"; $accepted_photos_dir = "../photos/"; $rejected_photos_dir = "uploads/photos/rejected/"; // are we processing photos or just viewing the list? if (isset($_POST["accept"])) { foreach($_POST["decision"] as $var) { **** THIS IS WHERE I NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THE DESC **** $photo_manager->addPhoto($var, $desc); } } else if (isset($_POST["reject"])) { foreach($_POST["decision"] as $var) { $photo_manager->rejfectPhoto($var); } } $photo_dir_handle = opendir($photo_process_dir); while ($current_file = readdir($photo_dir_handle)) $file_list[] = $current_file; closedir($photo_dir_handle); sort($file_list); echo "<form id=\"decisionForm\" action=\"manage_photos.php\" method=\"POST\">\n"; echo "<table border=1 cellpadding=1 cellspacing=1>\n"; echo "<tr><th>Filename</th><th>Thumbnail</th><th>Decision?</th><th>Description</th></tr>\n"; foreach ($file_list as $photo) { echo "<tr>\n"; echo "<td>" . $photo . "</td>\n"; echo "<td><img src=\"" . $photo_process_dir . $photo . "\" width=" . $thumb_width . " height=" . $thumb_height . "></img></td>\n"; echo "<td><input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"decision[]\" value=\"" . $photo_process_dir . $photo . "\"></td>\n"; echo "<td><input type=\"text\" name=\"desc[]\" value=\"\"></td>\n"; echo "</tr>\n"; } echo "</table>\n"; echo "<br />"; echo "<input type=\"submit\" name=\"accept\" value=\"Accept Checked\">\n"; echo "<input type=\"submit\" name=\"reject\" value=\"Reject Checked\">\n"; echo "</form>\n"; ?> The way it's set up, each row of the table has a checkbox at the end. Depending on which submit button is clicked, all the selected images are either accepted or rejected. Again, that all works fine. I just don't know how to get anything typed in the "desc[]" text boxes to associate with its given image. I tried naming the text boxes based on the image, such as: Code: [Select] <input type=\"text\" name=\" . $photo_process_dir . $photo . "\" value=\"\"> Since whatever check boxes are selected will carry their value into the $_POST["decision"] array, I thought I could match up that value to the name of the textbox, but I've had no success. I have a mysql table which will store users email addresses (each is unique and is the primary field) and a timestamp. I have added another column called `'unique_code' (varchar(64), utf8_unicode_ci)`. What I would very much appreciate assistance with is; a) Generating a 5 digit alphanumeric code, ie: 5ABH6 b) Check all rows the 'unique_code' column to ensure it is unique, otherwise re-generate and check again c) Insert the uniquely generated 5 digit alphanumeric code into `'unique_code'` column, corresponding to the email address just entered. d) display the code on screen. What code must I put and where? **My current php is as follows:** Code: [Select] require "includes/connect.php"; $msg = ''; if($_POST['email']){ // Requested with AJAX: $ajax = ($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH'] == 'XMLHttpRequest'); try{ if(!filter_input(INPUT_POST,'email',FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)){ throw new Exception('Invalid Email!'); } $mysqli->query("INSERT INTO coming_soon_emails SET email='".$mysqli->real_escape_string($_POST['email'])."'"); if($mysqli->affected_rows != 1){ throw new Exception('You are already on the notification list.'); } if($ajax){ die('{"status":1}'); } $msg = "Thank you!"; } catch (Exception $e){ if($ajax){ die(json_encode(array('error'=>$e->getMessage()))); } $msg = $e->getMessage(); } } So i got a table that looks somthing like this: File Name | Download | Suggested Catagory | Select Catagory | Approve -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- test | Download | blah blah blah | Option menu | yes or no option menu test | Download | blah blah blah | Option menu | yes or no option menu test | Download | blah blah blah | Option menu | yes or no option menu what I want to do is in the file that processes this it only looks at the ones that have had the "approve column" submitted as a yes. Next it will to a mysql entry into verrified notes. Problem is with X amount of entries in that form I dont know how to look at only the ones that have said yes. Do I create a new form for each entry or put them all as one entry and after this what do I do next? So I'm sitting at my desk scratching my head on how to do a task where I pull information form a database (that i know how to do) but then i need to see if two variables equal a string and if they do count out how many times that two variables equal there two string checks and out put the counted number ? this is what I have thought of but dose not to work because I cant figure out a way to code it? $dbPull = mysql_fetch_array($result) if( $dbPull['Foo'] == 'string1' && $bdPull['Bar'] == 'string2') this is were I get lost I'm looking for (how many times in the DB dose String2 show up in the array were the above, IF statement is true ) any ideas would be most appreciated Okay, so now I need help evolving my Log-In system... Up until now, the only place a user could log-in was on a given Article page if they wanted to add a comment to the Article. To accommodate that feature, I was setting the "Return To Page" only in my "article.php" script like this... Code: [Select] $_SESSION['returnToPage'] = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] . '?title=' . $articleTitle; However, now I want to expand things. I'm growing increasingly confused about how to manage where to route people when they long-in?! 1.) Sometimes a user will Log-In and want to return where they were at (e.g. index.php, article1234.php) 2.) Sometimes a user might want to continue down a path (e.g. Checking Out, Registering for a Workshop, Sending a Message) Is there some kind of strategy to handle this? (nothing over complex, but there must be some Best Practices that work?! Debbie Is there a "PREFERRED METHOD" to handling telephone numbers gathered by a form? I'm torn between ideas. I need to collect the numbers, and want to be able to view them as (123)555-1212. Should I collect them as a 10 digit ONLY string, and strip them into area code, parenthesis, and hyphenated LATER? Or gather them as 3 seperated input boxes posted to the DB accordingly? Obviously, entries will have REQUIREMENTS and error messages, so I am focused on the methodology here. Thanks. Dusting off my PHP skills after some time! How would I do this... Code: [Select] IF form was submitted THEN do some PHP stuff and do not show the form again ELSE display the form for the first time Is it as simple as wrapping my HTML inside an If-Then-Else? Debbie I have just completed a modest way for Users to post Comments on Articles my website. However, the thought occurred to me today, that I haven't given Users the ability to Preview or Edit their comments after submittal. What is the best way to store info on a Comments Form so you can re-display it for Preview/Editing?? (I'm not really sure how the workflow would work for this?!) Do I capture the Comments Form Data and store it in a Session? Or in my Database? Or do something else? Security is always a concern of mine too!! Thanks, Debbie Hi, New to coding so pls bear with me.... I am running into a continual issue that wonder if there is a better way to handle it. When writing code that handles GET variables that have not been set I use the isset function with if statements to handle it, but my code looks like it is getting sloppy and I am having to repeat it a lot - for example: Every time I simply want to call a class / function that I want to pass avGET i have to do the following: Code: [Select] if (isset($_GET["filter"])){$theFilter = $pageination->filter($_GET["filter"]);} else {$theFilter = $pageination->filter();} Here is a copy of the class I have created (note sure if it works yet as not fully tested it) Code: [Select] class pageination { private $recordLimit=100; public function filter ($filter="") { if ($filter!=""){ $theFilter=" AND ".$filter; return $theFilter; } else { return $theFilter=""; } } private function pageCnt ($pageCntRst) { $pageCnt=intval($results[$pageCntRst]); return $pageCnt; } public function pageNmLnk () { echo 'Page: <a href="?pageStartListings=0&filter='. $_GET['filter'].'">1</a>'; } //This loops through every 100 pages public function pageNmLoop ($pageCnt) { for ($n=1; $n<=$pageCnt; $n++){ if ($n > $recordLimit) { break; } if ($n*$recordLimit==intval($_GET["pageStartListings"])){ $stylePg = 'style="border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; background-color: #CCCCCC; padding:3px; "> ' . $n+1 . '</a>'; } else{ $stylePg = ''; } echo '| <a href="?pageStartListings=' . $n*$recordLimit . '&filter=' . rawurlencode($_GET["filter"]) . ' " ' . $stylePg; } } } $pageination = new pageination (); ?> I use the GET a few times in the code and I have to write a lot of code around the isset and if statements to handle it all the time - thinking there must be a better way to do this or a function that can be built to test it? Any help is grateful in advance. Hi guys On the edit profile page on my website, im trying to get is so that when the user first opens the page, if the database field reads "1" the checkbox is checked. However if the user unchecks it and makes a mistake on the form which returns an error, the checkbox remains unchecked. Also if the user unchecks the text box, the 1 in the database is changed to a 0. And vise versa. The only way i have got it to work succesfully is by using the following: <?php $test = $_POST['test']; $submit = $_POST['submit']; if (!isset($test)) { $test="0"; } else { $test="1"; } if ($submit) { mysql_query("UPDATE profiles SET test='$test' WHERE username='user'"); echo "ok"; } ?> <html> <form action="test.php" method="POST"> <input type="checkbox" name="test" <?php if ($submit) { if ($test=="1") { echo "checked='checked'";}} else { if ($row['test'] == "1") {echo "checked='checked'";}} ?> /> <input type="submit" name="submit" /> </form> </html> My problem is, i have about 60 check boxes on the page, and i dont really want to write the code below for all of them: if (!isset($test)) { $test="0"; } else { $test="1"; } Does anybody know a better way to do this so i dont end up with 420 lines of extra code? Many thanks. May you help me with how to get a file handle for a checkbox. I mean something that will output a 1 or 0... thank you I was wondering if there's any common method for user management. I'm not talking about basic stuff like DB management stuff I'm talking about registering new users with captcha, validating email addresses, password resets, etc. I can work all this stuff out by hand but it seems rather large and very repetitious so I was wondering if there's guides out there to develop this or a common script? I have an application where things are requested/computed/shown using either Metric or English systems.
I am thinking that the best way to handle this is to store units in one system, i.e English (as I am in United States), and to only convert them to Metric for the View, when it is being requested.
And if Metric parameters are being inputted through a form, then convert them to English on input.
So in a word
* store, compute, anything back-end, do it in English system.
When anything Metric shows up, then
* convert-on-output to Metric
* convert-on-input from Metric
Does that sound like a good plan?
Are there any other equally or better-than plans to deal with systems?
How do I make my constructor work when I don't pass in an argument. That is, it should efault to null. Code: [Select] class Something{ private $type=null; public function __construct($t){ $this->type = $t; } public function setSomething($t){ $this->type = $t; } public function getSomething(){ if (is_null($this->type)) { return "None for you!"; } else { return "Something is " . $this->type . "."; } } } TomTees I have 2 PHP scripts : opendb.php and closedb.php In opendb.php I have this code :
<?php
In closedb.php I have this code :
<?php When I run opendb.php I get the expexted message "DB Open." But when running the closedb.php , I get an error 500. I was hoping to be able to pass the Handle, needed to operate in my database, between PHP scripts, by pushing it into $_SESSION['dbhandler'] , and retreiving it in other scripts. Is this possible ? Regards,
Martin Hi All. New at this, form is working perfect, then added recapthca, now it only handles recaptcha and not the form. not sure where the error is
Hi all. I'm new to PHP language and I'd like to know which is the best way to handle the user login. With cookies or with sessions? Do you know some example on the web that I could inspire on? I just know how to do it in both way, I just wanna know which is the best way and like to read some code written by a pro. Sorry for the long message but I need HELP!!! I'm somewhat familiar with HTML but very little in PHP, and even less in CSS. My eCommerce program is PHP based so I've had to learn to work with it. I did have someone else initially setup and create my website but over the past few years have taken it further myself. I've fiddled with some of it and looked up how to do certain things, such as have only one header and/or sidebar I can use for all pages. I use Dreamweaver CS4 and FTP with FileZilla. But I'm still new at this and have run into a couple of issues.
My webhost is GoDaddy, my website is MikiCat Designs and after fiddling for months, in March finally got my site to where I liked it. Unfortunately, I haven't kept it up. Anyway, I went there a couple of weeks ago and found that the PHP includes I'd had in the HTML files were no longer working. I get the error [an error occurred while processing this directive]. Weird. Worked fine before, now it doesn't. Called GoDaddy who says they didn't do anything . Uh huh. Now I know I didn't do anything since I haven't updated the site in 4 months! So, what could have caused this problem? I've had no idea how to fix it other than to change the index.html to index.php and, of course, do a minor repair on the include. Works fine and my header.php and leftsidebar.php show up again. Yay! Herein lies another problem. My header and sidebar link to other files some of which were HTML files. But those HTML files had the same header and sidebar issues as my INDEX file. This had to be fixed so I changed them to PHP. Still working on the changes. I deleted most of the HTML files from the server. So the links in my header and lefsidebar files now point to PHP files. e.g., gallery.html to gallery.php. When called on it's own, gallery.php shows up perfectly. But, no matter what I do, the header file still tries to load the HTML file!!! It's driving me crazy. What have I done wrong? I've deleted them both, refreshed, cleared cache and uploaded them again but I still get the same error. If you click on Gallery in the header, it tries to link gallery.html not gallery.php! Funny thing is, the leftsidebar now works perfectly and points to the proper PHP files. I'm completely confused now. I don't know why my header is insisting on trying to load the HTML page instead of the PHP. But here's my header code. Lines 41 and 42 work, lines 43, 44 and 45 do not. * Quietly banging head against wall while awaiting help.
<html>
<body>
<!-- begin #header -->
<!-- begin Facebook script -->
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1";
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>
<!-- end Facebook script -->
<div id="container">
<div id="headerright">
<form method="post" action="search.php">
<input type="hidden" name="posted" value="1"/>
<input type="text" name="stext" size="16"/>
<input type="submit" name="Search" value="Search"/> </form>
</div>
<div id="headerright1">
<form method="post" action="cart.php">
<input type="hidden" name="posted" value="1"/>
<input type="image" name="Submit" src="images/cartgrn.gif" />
</form></div>
<div id="headerright2">
<form method="post" action="clientlogin.php">
<input type="hidden" name="posted" value="2"/>
<input type="image" name="Submit" src="images/login2.gif" />
</form>
</div>
<div id="header">
<div id="PLHIMYFUFUJCDiv" style="position:absolute; left:567px; top:82px; width:490px; z-index:50; white-space:nowrap; direction:ltr;">
<div id="PLHIMYFUFUJCMain" style="width:490px;height:40px">
<ul style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font:italic normal bold 14px Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">
<li style="float:left;list-style:none;text-align:center;width:98px;height:40px;background-image:url(images/homenav.gif);"><a href="http://www.mikicatdesigns.com" target="_self" title="MikiCat Designs" style="display:block;height:28px;padding:12px 0px 0px 0px;color:#00008b;text-decoration:none;">Home</a></li>
<li style="float:left;list-style:none;text-align:center;width:98px;height:40px;background-image:url(images/homenav.gif);"><a href="http://www.mikicatdesigns.com/categories.php" target="_parent" title="Handmade jewelry and accessories " style="display:block;height:28px;padding:12px 0px 0px 0px;color:#00008b;text-decoration:none;">Products</a></li>
<li style="float:left;list-style:none;text-align:center;width:98px;height:40px;background-image:url(images/homenav.gif);"><a href="http://www.mikicatdesigns.com/gallery.php" target="_parent" title="Handmade jewelry gallery of past lives" style="display:block;height:28px;padding:12px 0px 0px 0px;color:#00008b;text-decoration:none;">Gallery</a></li>
<li style="float:left;list-style:none;text-align:center;width:98px;height:40px;background-image:url(images/homenav.gif);"><a href="http://www.mikicatdesigns.com/aboutmikicatdesigns.php" target="_parent" title="Learn about MikiCat Designs" style="display:block;height:28px;padding:12px 0px 0px 0px;color:#00008b;text-decoration:none;">About Us</a></li>
<li style="float:left;list-style:none;text-align:center;width:98px;height:40px;background-image:url(images/homenav.gif);"><a href="http://www.mikicatdesigns.com/contactmikicatdesigns.php" target="_parent" title="Contact MikiCat Designs" style="display:block;height:28px;padding:12px 0px 0px 0px;color:#00008b;text-decoration:none;">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul></div><div id="PLHIMYFUFUJCLevel2" style="float:left;width:490px;height:40px;"></div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="Pluginlab/Scripts/PLHIM.js">/* PLHIMMenu script ID:PLHIMYFUFUJC */</script>
</div>
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