PHP - Simple Session Question

Hi all a small question. I was wondering if someone knows what would be the approach to achieve the following.
 on a page I show a random number. If the page refreshes (selfreferencing) It shows a new random number but also a the previous number, and this must be able to repeat itself : )
So to make it more visible:

New Random number = 98765
Previous Number = 56412

This is what I have but it's ofc not working because ones the session var has been set it will not show the previous variable but the very first one.

<?php
session_start();
$random_number .= mt_rand(1,100000);
if(!isset($_SESSION['number'])){
   $_SESSION['number']=$random_number;
}
// echo all out:
echo 'New random number is: '.$random_number;
echo 'Previous number is: '.$_SESSION['number'];  
?>


I bet i need another variable to store the previous one in but for some reasons my brains don't work at the moment

Hi guys,

I was wondering if we have table of seats in a cinema (which makes the quantity to 1) and two users are booking the same seat at the same time on our application. How can we prevent that?

I though if we create a session or even update that seat row and then if user doesn't finish the booking/or leave the browser on fora while in 10-15 minutes, that session still remains on. I'm sure we can expire that session how can we prevent both users have the same session and if one doesn't complete the purchase for any reason then how session can automatically update the database after that 15 minutes?

Thanks in advance.

What is the best practice to use cookies and sessions? Should i create a cookie and keep inside the cookie the name of the username the user has logged in or a session? How am i supposed to compine theese two? Is there any example or a tutorial on this? For example how does php freaks sessions and cookies work.

is it necessary to store users session on db? if so please explain someone why?

and block multiple session login. say if im logged in and someone else tries to log into my id from some other place how would i stop that to happen? any idea and example would be  appreciated. 

hi guys.
i am trying to set a variable to the session global variable. I've initialized the session with session_start();  at the very beginning of my website, and then i try finding if a session variable has been set like so if(isset($_SESSION['user'])) { print 'user is logged in'; } but this works in reverse.  i have not set any session variables, but asking if it is set, results in an affirmative answer.

so i am thinking this is because of register_globals. because i went to read about register_globals, and it says that if register_globals is turned off, i cannot use any other varibale except members of the session array. i dont know what that is yet, but a question befo in the php manual it says register_globals is deprecated, and it appears i need to enable it to set other variables as session variables besides it's associative array. if this is true, how to enable register_globals and allow other variables to be used as session variables?

I've seen this,
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<?php } ?>
in a lot of scripts at the very end of the script. What does this piece of code do?

what does the # symbol do in php(e.x index.php?cat=1#privacy)? How can i use it? From what i 've seen you use it for changing a whole div without reloading the page like tabs..

hello all I'm VERY new to php and I just have a simple question

how do I bold the output text of this string

echo $row['name']."<BR>";

Hello there fellow programmers,

I was just wondering if there was any difference between doing this:

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echo "Say Something Here";
and this

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echo "Say ";
echo "Something ";
echo "Here";
Thank you in advance.

Notice: I am aware of the fact that they will output the same thing, my question is regarding resources.

if someone can help me out with this, its quite simple but I can't seem to get it to work..

Basically, this is the code I have for now, the issue is if I have 0 product or items, I don't want the sorting option to show up on the page,    from the code below, what line can I add tosay that if there is no products in a category, not to show the SORT feature.

thanks in advance if anyone can help.


{if isset($orderby) AND isset($orderway)}
<!-- Sort products -->
{if isset($smarty.get.id_category) && $smarty.get.id_category}
   {assign var='request' value=$link->getPaginationLink('category', $category, false, true)}
{elseif isset($smarty.get.id_manufacturer) && $smarty.get.id_manufacturer}
   {assign var='request' value=$link->getPaginationLink('manufacturer', $manufacturer, false, true)}
{elseif isset($smarty.get.id_supplier) && $smarty.get.id_supplier}
   {assign var='request' value=$link->getPaginationLink('supplier', $supplier, false, true)}
{else}
   {assign var='request' value=$link->getPaginationLink(false, false, false, true)}
{/if}
<form id="productsSortForm" action="{$request|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}">
   <select id="selectPrductSort" onchange="document.location.href = $(this).val();">
      <option value="{$link->addSortDetails($request, $orderbydefault, $orderwaydefault)|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" {if $orderby eq $orderbydefault}selected="selected"{/if}>{l s='--'}</option>
      {if !$PS_CATALOG_MODE}
      <option value="{$link->addSortDetails($request, 'price', 'asc')|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" {if $orderby eq 'price' AND $orderway eq 'asc'}selected="selected"{/if}>{l s='Price: lowest first'}</option>
      <option value="{$link->addSortDetails($request, 'price', 'desc')|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" {if $orderby eq 'price' AND $orderway eq 'desc'}selected="selected"{/if}>{l s='Price: highest first'}</option>
      {/if}
      <option value="{$link->addSortDetails($request, 'name', 'asc')|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" {if $orderby eq 'name' AND $orderway eq 'asc'}selected="selected"{/if}>{l s='Product Name: A to Z'}</option>
      <option value="{$link->addSortDetails($request, 'name', 'desc')|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" {if $orderby eq 'name' AND $orderway eq 'desc'}selected="selected"{/if}>{l s='Product Name: Z to A'}</option>
      {if !$PS_CATALOG_MODE}
      <option value="{$link->addSortDetails($request, 'quantity', 'desc')|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" {if $orderby eq 'quantity' AND $orderway eq 'desc'}selected="selected"{/if}>{l s='In-stock first'}</option>
      {/if}
   </select>
   <label for="selectPrductSort">{l s='Sort by'}</label>
</form>
<!-- /Sort products -->
{/if}

Hello to everyone

I would like to ask for this simple question.. Im trying to put if and else condition on my php code. However this condition is not working..

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if($file == #3#){
echo "No results found";
}else{ echo "results has been found"; }
This variable $file is the result after i used an API.. If the API does not see any results they would return #3# as the result. This means they returned a transaction code of 3 which you can see here http://developer.textapp.net/WebService/TransactionCodes.aspx means that there was nothing to return.

The condition does not function well even if i make 3 or #3# as part of the condition. Can you help me guys?

thanks

Hi guys, this function below is for card validation, however anycard i enter i get the invalid card number, this is not connected to any gateways, this is just an Luhn card validation demonstration.

can you tell me please why i get that?

<?php
  if ($_POST['pay'])
    {

$cardNo = addslashes(strip_tags($_POST['cardNo']));









function luhnCheck($cardNo) {
    $cardNo = str_replace(" ", "", trim($cardNo));
    if(!is_numeric($cardNo) or strlen($cardNo)>19) return false;
    $skip = $newNum = $total = 0;
    for($i=0;$i<=(strlen($cardNo)-1);$i++) {
        if($skip ==0) {
            $tmpNum = ($cardNo[$i]*2);
            $total += (strlen($tmpNum)==2 ? (substr($tmpNum, 0, 1)+substr($tmpNum, 1)) : $tmpNum);
            $skip = 1;
        }else{
            $total += $cardNo[$i];
            $skip = 0;
        }
    }
    return (($total % 10) == 0);
}

/* Example Usage */
if(luhnCheck($_GET['cc'])) {
    echo("Valid Number.");
}else{
    echo("Invalid Number.");
}





}





?>


<form name="confirm" method="post" action="">

<input type="text" name="cardNo">
 
                <input type="submit" name="pay" value="Pay Now">
                
  </form>

I know it could be a issue with this line if(luhnCheck($_GET['cc'])) { but im wondering where should and how put this cc in my form?

regards

I'm teaching myself php and mysql -- and my coding is a little rough.   But what i'm trying to do is display information from a mysql table in another table on a website.  I can do this just fine simply displaying the table, but i want a little something different.  I am only displaying one column of the table, instead of displaying it all in one column, i want to display the information in 5 columns.  for example.....  the table from mysql has names scott, john, james, mary, simon.  with the code I have i can make it display like this:
                                                                                         scott scott scott scott scott
                                                                                         john john john john john
                                                                                         james james james james james
                                                                                         mary mary mary mary mary
                                                                                         simon simon simon simon simon
i want it to diplay like this:
                                                                                          scott john james mary simon
                                                                                          new names will continue down

here is my code:

<?php

require ("connectigb.php");


$result = mysql_query ("SELECT pledgeName FROM pledgewall");

$fields_num = mysql_num_fields($result);


echo "<center> <h1>TSA It Gets Better Pledge Wall</h1>";
echo "<table border='1' align='center' style='width:960px;'><tr>";


while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
    echo "<tr>";

    // $row is array... foreach( .. ) puts every element
    // of $row to $cell variable
    foreach($row as $cell)
      if ($cell != "") {
for ($j=0; $j<5; $j++) {
        echo "<td>$cell</td>";
   }
   }

    echo "</tr>\n";

}
mysql_free_result($result);
echo "</table></center>";
?>

any ideas on what i can do here, i'm sure this is a simply fix.  i just haven't come across it yet.  thanks for the help in advance.

Hello everyone! I am a new user and I have a simple question. How do I set a password for a user to log in to my site with PHP? I have no MySQL database just a iOS code/host app. I know this isn’t secure but only me and my friends are on the site. Any help is appreciated. 

I can't figure out why im getting an error with this code.

if ($notif = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM notifications_1 WHERE recieverid='". $_SESSION['id']."' ORDER BY read ASC, id DESC") or die (mysql_error())); {

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You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'read ASC, id DESC' at line 1