PHP - Need To Return False With Specified Url

Hey all,

I'm trying to learn more about PHP but I keep having all these problems with Aptana Studio.

I'll write out a bunch of code and it will flag my code as having an error, normally one of the curly brackets, even though I can't see anything wrong with the code at all.

Sometimes if I delete it all and retype it in the error will go away even though I typed it out EXACTLY as I did the first time.

Here is some code that it's flagging as having an error:

Code: (php) [Select]

<?php
    //Classes//
    class Dog{
        public $hungry = 'Hell yeah!';
        
        public function($food){
            $this->hungry = 'not so much.';
        }
    }
    
    
    //Program Variables//
    $dog = new Dog;
    
    //Program Code//
    
    echo $dog->hungry;
  
  
?>


It is saying that the curly brace after "public function ($food)" is wrong as well as the closing curly brace on line 9 and the parentasis just before "$food".

I can't see an error, no matter how long I look at it.

What am I doing wrong?

Just a silly question.  I've been using 1 and 0 to tell if something is true or false, such as if a feature is enabled or not.  I see that some use the words true and false.  Is there a proper way or is either way correct?  Thanks!

   private function _authenticate()
   {
      // if there's already an auth error
      if ( $this->_checkForMessageType('auth') )
      {
         $this->_addMessage('auth', 3);
         self::__destruct();
         return false;
      }
      $stmt = $this->_dbh->prepare("SELECT shopID FROM api_users WHERE shopID = ? AND API_key = ? LIMIT 1");
      
      var_dump($stmt->execute(array($this->_shopID, $this->_key)));
      echo $stmt->rowCount();
      // authenticate key / shop id
      if ( !$stmt->rowCount() )
      {
         $this->_addMessage('auth', 3);
         self::__destruct();
         return false;
      }
      $this->_addMessage('auth', 4);
   }


I am using PDO with MySQL driver and ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES => true, however, when I run this code I get the output: Code: [Select]
bool(false) 0{"auth":{"3":""}}

Any ideas why PDOStatement::execute is returning false? I get no connection errors, no PDOExceptions, the db structure is correct, and there is valid data in the database.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

strange

i want to update ProductDescription
i get the parsed $pdescription it is echoed but it's regarded as empty by var_dump


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<?php
// example of how to use basic selector to retrieve HTML contents
include('../simple_html_dom.php');
$links=array("http://www.example.com/apartments/198.htm");



foreach($links as $page) {
   $phtml = file_get_html($page);

// find all td tags with attribite align=center
foreach($phtml->find('span[id=lblCodiceAppartamento]') as $name){
    echo $name->plaintext.'<br><br>';

}

foreach($phtml->find('span[id=lblDescrizione]') as $pdescription){
    echo $pdescription.'<br><br>';

}



$con = mysql_connect("localhost","root","root");
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db("international", $con);

$query=mysql_query("UPDATE products_NEW SET ProductDescription='$pdescription'
WHERE ProductName = '$name->plaintext' AND SupplierID = '38'");

var_dump($query);
//mysql_query("INSERT INTO apartments (name)
//VALUES ('$name->plaintext')");



mysql_close($con);






}

Hi,


I am trying to verify if the given url exists or not, by using file_exists() function.

It always returns 'FALSE' , according to my understanding it happening because the file to be checked on the given url is located in safe mode.

Could anyone please suggest as to how this could be overcome, by similar function or by using alternative method.

Regards
Abhishek Madhani

I am trying to unserialize this string:

a:3:{s:3:\"zip\";s:5:\"55068\";s:4:\"city\";s:9:\"Rosemount\";s:5:\"state\";s:2:\"MN\";}

but I unserialize is returning false.

Why is it doing that?

$info = unserialize($_COOKIE['zipcode']);
var_dump($info);

I'm having trouble with a script and I just can't figure out what's wrong with it. The script is located at http://www.qlhosting.com/ham/check.php

Here's the code for it
<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$domain = $_POST['domain'];
$password = md5($_POST['password']);
include 'db.php';
mysql_query("SELECT * FROM apps WHERE domain='$domain' AND WHERE cpassmd5='$password' LIMIT 1");
$stat = $row['status'];
}
else {
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Quotaless Web Hosting | Check Status</title>
<style type="text/css">
body,td,th {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<h1>Check  Application/Account Status</h1>
<?php
if ($stat="PENDING") {
echo "<hr />";
echo "Your application is currently listed as PENDING. Our staff have not viewed your application yet. Please be patient, and watch your email for a response. Thank you!";
}
elseif ($stat="NMI") {
echo "<hr />";
echo "We need more information from you in order to take action on your application. Please check your e-mail inbox for a message from our staff specifically stating what we need. If you did not get this message, please post a message on our support forum. Thank you!";
}
else {
}
?>
<hr />
<h2>To check the status of your application or account, login using the form below.</h2>
<form id="check" name="check" method="post" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF;?>">
<p>Domain: 
  <input type="text" name="domain" id="domain" />
  <br />
Password: 
  <input type="password" name="password" id="password" />
  <br />
  <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Check" />
</p>
</form>
<hr />
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</body>
</html>
The part under if ($stat="PENDING") is performed upon page load, even when the if condition relating to it is false.

I can't seem to figure out what exactly is wrong here. Please help me out. I would really appreciate the help.

Thanks!

Anthony

i keep seeing people use this kind of code but i cant find any document or help web pages on it. im sure there is but i done know what to call it.

i would really like to learn more about it

for example
Code: [Select]
$lang  = isset($_GET['lang']) ? (int)$_GET['lang'] : 1;

or
Code: [Select]
return !empty($result_array) ? array_shift($result_array) : false;

Hi, I'm pretty new to PHP and I am working on a form that sends and email. I want to display a message if the mail can't be sent (i.e. if mail() returns false) and a different message if mail() returns true, except it is returning false even though the emails are sending.


Basically I have used:

$to = 'myemail@email.com';
$subject = "Subject Line Goes here";
$headers = "From: $email";
$message = 'My message';

$mailSent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

In testing it I have used the following to determine what is going on:

   if (isset($mailSent)) { echo '$mailSent ='.$mailSent; } - echo's nothing
   if ($mailSent == FALSE) { echo '$mailSent = FALSE'; } - echo's '$mailSent = FALSE'
   if ($mailSent == TRUE) { echo '$mailSent = TRUE'; } - echo's nothing
   if (is_null($mailSent)) { echo '$mailSent = NULL'; } - echo's '$mailSent = NULL'
   echo '$mailSent ='.$mailSent; - echo's '$mailSent ='

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

I am trying to take all the information from $results and input it into a text file, sometimes we get duplicates in $results so I want to check the text file for the entry before writing it in so we don't get duplicates in the text file. However inarray keeps returning false, even when I echo out the two arrays and they match?

Code: [Select]
$myfile = "complete.txt";

foreach ($results['info'] as $data)
{

  $output=$fields['firstname']."|".$record['lastname']."|".$record['address']."|".$record['number']."\n";
   
   
$handle = fopen($myfile, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($myfile));
fclose($handle);

$list = array();

$list = explode("\n",$contents);
$list = array_map("trim", $list);

$current = $output;


echo in_array($current,$list) ? $current.' exists' : $current.' does not exist';

if (in_array($current,$list))
{
print "duplicate";
}
else
{

                        if($file=fopen($myfile, "a")) {  //open file for writing
                    fwrite($file, $output);      //write to file
}
                       
}
     
}

How can I check if a function has returned false.. I know theirs the following way:

if (!checkdate($month, $day, $year)) {
//the function has returned false
}

But is their another way (beside using the ! operator) perhaps === FALSE (not sure if that'd work so asking)?

Code: [Select]
<?php
# This script does get included into the document create_new_tag_from.php




    if(isset($_POST['tag_name_submit'])){
    $tag_name_submit = $_POST['tag_name_submit'];
    }
    
    if(!empty($_POST['tag_name'])){
    $tag_name = strip_tags($_POST['tag_name']);
    }
    
    if(!empty($_POST['tag_description'])){
    $tag_description = strip_tags($_POST['tag_description']);
    }


if(isset($tag_name_submit)){

    
    
    # The Validation of User Entered Data
    # Do validate for solely alphabetic characters with ctype_alpha

    # ctype_alpha($tag_name) && 
    if(ctype_alpha($tag_description)){
        $tag_name = strtolower($tag_name);
        $tag_description = strtolower($tag_description);

        
    # The Insertion Into the Database
    $db_connect = mysqli_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME);
    
    # Do research if SQL query has to be modified into a PHP comform query
    
    $sql_query = sprintf(
            
            "set @newid = convert(
                
              ( select 
               max(convert( (substring(tag_id, 2)) , unsigned integer))+1
               from tags), char(10) );

                set @newid = if(length(@newid) = 1, concat('0', @newid), @newid);
                set @newid = concat('c', @newid);

                INSERT INTO tags (tag_id, tag_name, tag_description, added_by_user_id,
                                creation_date, last_edited)
                VALUES (@newid, '%s', '%s', 7, now(), '0')",
            
                mysqli_real_escape_string($db_connect, $tag_name),
                mysqli_real_escape_string($db_connect, $tag_description)
            
            
            );
    
    $sql_query_run = mysqli_multi_query($db_connect, $sql_query);
   
    # Print Test to See If It Works
    echo "works_ ";
    echo $tag_name . "_ ";
    echo $tag_description . "_ ";
                     
    
        } else { # End of the Validation
            echo "The entered data must be in alphabetic characters.";
        }
    
}



?>


Here is the form:

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<?php
include_once('../../header.php');
include_once('../../model/contribution/create_new_tag_script.php');
?>

<form action="" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="tag_name" value="" />
    <textarea maxlength="60" type="text"  name="tag_description" value=""></textarea>
    <input type="submit" name="tag_name_submit" value="Submit the New Tag" />
</form>


<?php
include_once('../../footer.php');
?>
By the script as given above the conditional check will skip to the error message.

Though I have to say that ctype_alpha does return TRUE when I do try it with "tag_name" which is entered data from the input field, while the other is from the textarea.

I simply cannot see the reason for the returned FALSE.

I find it a bit buggy that strpos returns false instead of -1.   The equivalent C implementation returns -1:

int strpos(char s[], char t[])
{
    int i, j, k;

    for (i = 0; s[i] != '\0'; i++) {
        for (j=i, k=0; t[k]!='\0' && s[j]==t[k]; j++, k++)
            ;

        if (k > 0 && t[k] == '\0')
            return i;
    }

    return -1;
}

The problem with returning false is that false can also evaluate to 0 which can also happen to be the first index of a match. Therefore, you have a hard to find bug. I know that you can use the identity operator to check for falseness: ===. But wouldn't it be a better design for the function to just return -1?