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ive been looking around and every tutorial information i get is to show  data in two fields linked now my problem is i have a table with multiple fields adnd need to show it  in one list   to give you an idea of what im talking about   Table is like this Winner       2nd   place    3rd place     3rd place2 player a       player b         player c      player d player h       player f          player e       player g   now what i need to know what  to look for is to get it so that  the list would be like this   Player a player b player c player d player e player f player g player h   looking for something to work from any help on what in php i should look for to accomplish this i would be greatly appreciated

Hello everyone,

I have started PHP not so long ago and I must admit that this whole world is quite confusing. On the internet, we can find everything... A link saying that we should press A and not B, another saying that A must not be pressed and B shoud etc. When looking on the web to learn about PHP, I often find myself more confused at the end of the day than at the beginning of the day.

So I would like to know, with all you've learned in the past years, what would be the best advice you could give to a newbie who's been assigned on a big project and who wants to learn PHP properly ?

Would you tell him to use a templating system ?
Would you tell him to use a PHP framework ?
Would you tell him to use a caching system to store some data ?
What else should be taken in consideration ?

PS: Flexibility is a must for this project

Thanks !

From where I will get Good Notes ?? which site to refer for cake PHP?

Hi,

I'm developing an iPhone app that's going to need data from a MySQL database, it's just a simple list of my bands upcoming gigs.

So I understand that I need to build an API - I've found some scripts here and there, I just need some advice as to 'what' I should build...JSON? XML? something else?

I don't know anything about it and cant really find anything that will tell me.

Hopefully, If I can get a good method going I will be able to use it for various other app ideas.


Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Hi All.

I am new to PHP, but am learning. I have set myself a mini project to learn some new php and to have some fun!

I was hoping that someone would be kind enough to tell me how difficult this would be to achieve, and how they would best suggest to approach it.

I want to create a 'availability checker'. I want to create a field where I can input a date. If the date exists in my mysql database then it returns NO, if the date isn't in the database it returns YES. For a admin area I want to have a place to add dates, and maybe some details about these dates.

I don't think its overly complicated, but it should still be quite a challenge for me.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

I have been having a coding problem. Went back to the books and came across this bit of information. Can anyone tell me if I should be updating my C drive

Enabling file uploads and sessions. the windows installer designates two folders in your user area as the values for upload_tmp_dir and session.save_path. However, file uploads and sessions won't work unles you create the folders yourself.

In Windows XP go to C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp.

Create a new folder called php, and inside that folder, create two subfolders called upload and session.


Is this information true as it is not set in my computer. Just need to know if this will help my session 

Hello all,
I have tried to fix this many a time before but never managed it. However now it is really annoying me as it clogs up my error file.
<?phpsession_start();session_register('sid');if (isset($_SESSION['sid'])) {} else {   $tmp = md5(microtime());   $_SESSION['sid']=$tmp; } $db_server = "server";$db_name = "name";$db_user = "user";$db_passwort = "pw";$db = @MYSQL_CONNECT($db_server,$db_user,$db_passwort) or die ("no connection please contact me");$db_check = @MYSQL_SELECT_DB($db_name);?>()
This little file is called from every page on my website and is causing this line to appear lots
Quote

[11/Mar/2012:21:00:18 +0100] PHP Notice:  A session had already been started - ignoring session_start() in /home/www/EN/config/config.php on line 2


What is the correct way of setting the session i.e. how do I correctly start it at a given point and then keep it throughout?
From my understandin in the older php versions I could have just used session_register('sid'); and didn't need the start (but if I did that then had error) while now I have just read that the session_register('sid') has been removed as of 5.4.0.

Help would be muchly appreciated, I don't use php that often, just made my site work in the beginning and ignored this but it annoyed me the other day when I saw the size of the error file.

thank you
Waliser

Hi. I'm trying to make a open source kiosk like system. When the web browser starts all programs, it will run in the browser using PHP. I've found this link: Program execution Functions. It's using:

<?php
  $WshShell = new COM("WScript.Shell");
  $oExec = $WshShell->Run("WINWORD.exe", 7, false);
?>

I was able to start Microsoft Word on Windows, but I need to be able to do this on Linux. This is what I've tried on my Linux server:

<?php
  exec("/var/www/test.sh");
?>

But nothing happens. I know that test.sh works because I ran if from the terminal. I use test.sh to start a Python script. The Python script starts a text editor. I've tested the Python script and it works. All I need know is how to start the script from PHP on Linux.

I need a way to start a program and store the PID, then manage to stop it at the users request later.

Im not sure how i would go about this. It has to work on Windows,

Any help?
Thanks.

Hello there,

I am working on a pagination script and have hit a bit of a wall. Here is the script:
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<?php include("header.php"); ?>
<?php


$host = "localhost"; //

$user = ""; //username to connect to database

$pass = ""; //password to connect to database

$db = ""; //the name of the database



mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass) or die("ERROR:".mysql_error());

mysql_select_db($db) or die("ERROR DB:".mysql_error()); 





$max = 25; //amount of articles per page.

$p = $_GET['p'];

if(empty($p))

{

$p = 1;

}

$limits = ($p - 1) * $max; 

//view the article!

if(isset($_GET['act']) && $_GET['act'] == "view")

{

$id = $_GET['id'];

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM 3dpics WHERE id = '$id'");

while($r = mysql_fetch_array($sql))

{

$title = $r['title'];

$url = $r['url'];


echo "<div align='center'><img src='$url' width='500' height='500'><br />$title<br /><br /><a href='test.php'>Back</a></div>";

}



}else{



//view all the articles in rows

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM 3dpics LIMIT ".$limits.",$max") or die(mysql_error());

//the total rows in the table

$totalres = mysql_result(mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(id) AS tot FROM 3dpics"),0);


$totalpages = ceil($totalres / $max);
    
echo "<table name='myTable' cellpadding='5' cellspacing='5'>";
echo "<tr>";
//the table


while($r = mysql_fetch_array($sql))

{

$id = $r['id'];

$title = $r['title'];

$url = $r['url'];
echo "<div id='piccontentalign' align='center'>";
echo "<td><img src='$url' width='225' height='225'><br /><div align='center'><a href='test.php?act=view&id=$id'>$title</a></div></td>";
}
echo "</tr></table></div>";
//close up the table


for($i = 1; $i <= $totalpages; $i++){ 

//this is the pagination link

echo "<a href='test.php?p=$i'>$i</a>|";

}

}



?>

All this does is pull the url's of the images out of the database. But, it all shows up on 1 line across the screen! I tried echoing the rows instead, but then it just shows up as 1 line going horizontal. So i'm trying to figure out a way to get 5 pictures per row.
This is the code that displays them on the main page:
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echo "<table name='myTable' cellpadding='5' cellspacing='5'>";
echo "<tr>";
//the table


while($r = mysql_fetch_array($sql))

{

$id = $r['id'];

$title = $r['title'];

$url = $r['url'];
echo "<div id='piccontentalign' align='center'>";
echo "<td><img src='$url' width='225' height='225'><br /><div align='center'><a href='test.php?act=view&id=$id'>$title</a></div></td>";
}
echo "</tr></table></div>";
//close up the table
Thanks for all your help!

Hi,

I'm trying to alter the code below. It cuurently finds the start and end date of this week, no matter what day you're on.

What I now need is to find the start & end date of next week, again, no matter what day you're on of this week

Thanks to aleX_hill for the following code:

<?php
#THIS WEEK
$dayOfWeek = date("w"); #The number of the day of the week. Sun = 0, Sat = 1
$todayDayOfMonth = date("d"); #The day of the month
$thisMonth = date("m"); #The number of this month. Jan = 1, Dec = 12

$firstDayOfWeek = $todayDayOfMonth - $dayOfWeek; #The day of the month for the beginning of the week (Sun)
if($firstDayOfWeek < 1) #The beginning of the week was in the previous month
{
$monthBeginWeek = $thisMonth - 1;
$firstDayOfWeek = $firstDayOfWeek + date("t",mktime(0,0,0,$monthBeginWeek,1,date("Y")));
} else {
$monthBeginWeek = $thisMonth;
}
$lastDayOfWeek = $todayDayOfMonth + (6 - $dayOfWeek); #Get the day of the month of the end of the week (sat)
if($lastDayOfWeek > date("t")) #if the day of the month is larger then the number of days in the month
{
$monthEndWeek = $thisMonth + 1;
$lastDayOfWeek = $lastDayOfWeek - date("t"); #Then take the number of days in the week to get the day number of the next week
} else {
$monthEndWeek = $thisMonth;
}
$start_of_week = date("Y-m-d",mktime(0,0,0,$monthBeginWeek,$firstDayOfWeek,date("Y")));
#echo $start_of_week;
$end_of_week = date("Y-m-d",mktime(0,0,0,$monthEndWeek,$lastDayOfWeek,date("Y")));
#echo $end_of_week;
?>



Any help is much appreciated!

TIA

Ok i have just installed anope irc services on my irc network and they use MySQL databases.

Through this, I can use the same info/passwords to link user/website accs.

However it stores passwords as md5:someHashHere

How would i get a php script to remove the md5: from the start, or would it just be easier checking against md5:$md5(enteredpassword)?

Right now I have a link list a-z and 0-9.
you click one of those links and your taken to page listing all items that start with that character.
currently I'm using:
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SELECT * FROM my_table where LEFT(`my_item`,1)='$show' ORDER BY my_title ASCall I do right now is just add a link like ?show=a and everything that starts with a is listed.

Now here is my problem. I want to listen all items that start with a numeric value listed all on one page instead of being spread across 0-9.

If another solution becomes available I'd be more then happy to hear you out. But does anyone know how I can change my query to only list items that start with numbers?

Hi everyone (sorry for my bad english),