PHP - How To Create Twitter Chat Feature?

I had a question and couldn't really pin-point a forum to put this post in, so I hope this suits my topic.

You always hear "Facebook is rolling out a new feature"; most recently "Twitter is rolling out the New Twitter.com" but it only releases to so many people at time. Or friends will get features on Facebook before I do (like I couldn't like threaded comments until about a month after all my other friends could).

I was just wondering if anyone knows the actual method or how large sites go about releasing new features to users?

I have made a script to upload a few files from the pc to my server.. like i upload big files which are generally above 50mb of size.. but most of the times as there is some problem with the internet the hours of wait is just ruined.. is there a better way to upload files.. i use the normal function

move_uploaded_file($_FILES['song1_upload']['tmp_name']

can anyone give a better idea than this?

I have made a script to upload a few files from the pc to my server.. like i upload big files which are generally above 50mb of size.. but most of the times as there is some problem with the internet the hours of wait is just ruined.. is there a better way to upload files.. or anything that if the internet connection is interupted the downloading starts from wer it stopped cuz of the problem.. please help.. i use the normal function for uploading a file

move_uploaded_file($_FILES['song1_upload']['tmp_name']

can anyone give a better idea than this?

I would like to have the option of thanking people by the press of a button.   Currently there is a like button but that's entirely different than a thank you button.

Is PHP used to create this type is feature? I already have a MYSQL table set up, how difficult is it to create this sort of feature?

On this image, where it says 'filter your results' if a user clicks 'Detached Houses' then only detached houses will be displayed. if a user clicks 'Semi-detached' then only semi detached houses will be shown.

Whats the technical term for this type of feature, and can you point me towards any tutorials etc, would really appreciate it. thank you!

I just came up with this idea I got for my registration script, where when the user has complete all steps in the registration process, he/she comes to a page that displays this:
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<h1>Step 3: Activate your account</h1>
<h2>Congratulations, <strong><?php echo $_SESSION["user"]["username"]; ?></strong>!</h2>
<p>An email has been sent to <strong><?php echo $_SESSION["user"]["email"]; ?></strong> with an activation key, and important information regarding your account. Please check your email to complete registration.</p>

Then this:

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$email_client = preg_match ("/[@][a-zA-z0-9]{10}\.com$/", $_SESSION["user"]["email"]);
$email_link = "<a href='http://www." . $email_client . ".com'>Go to " . $email_client . " mail now!</a>";
echo "<p class='center_align'>" . $email_link . "</p>";

Basically, what it does, is it figures out what email provider the user supplied as their email, and generates a link that allows them to go to that website, without having to type it in the address bar (I think I got that idea from facebook lol; only they probably do it differently).

So anyway, It's not complete, and this is where I need someone's help...

I assign a preg_match function to $email_client, so if it finds a string like "@yahoo.com", $email_client will be true, but that's not what I want. I want $email_client to equal a string, such as "yahoo" or "aol" based off of what the preg_match function finds, WITHOUT using if/else statements.

Before I did an if/else statement for every email provider I could think of, but I think it better if I do it this way, as some people have crazy a** email names lol.

So, basically what I want to do is this:
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<?php
//Step 1: Check email
preg_match("/[@][a-zA-z0-9]{10}\.com$/", $_SESSION["user"]["email"]);
//Step 2: Somehow assign the "a-zA-z0-9{10}" part to a variable
//Step 3: Generate link with that variable used in the "href" attribute and the label
?>

But I have no idea how to go about this...Help?

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Hello!

I have a twitter button. But I would like to have a form button's action to activate the "tweet/share" link. Why? Because I want to record in mySQL database the fact that someone has in fact clicked the link to tweet. How I was thinking about doing... But really have no idea is like so.

<form action="tweet.php" method="POST">
<input type="button" name="tweet" value="ip address" />
</form>

then in the tweet.php

I would have php insert the gathered IP address (ive got this part working with a geocoder class) into the database as confirmation. Then the php code would execute the hyperlink / java which is this:

<a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="http://mycontent.com" data-count="horizontal" data-via="person-to-tweet-at">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>

Activating the link as if someone where to click the link, but automatically.

Basically I am looking for a way to record who clicks the Twitter button. Any guidance on this topic would be much appreciated.

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I need help adding a feature to the following php script that goes through folders and reads from txt files.
 
Right now it is just grabbing the sub folder name, title and body and exporting it to a csv in columns A B and C respectively.

What I need it to do is grab a summary from each txt file as well and added to the 4th column in the csv.

I think the best way to do this would be to grab from the beginning of the body, to pre-defined closing }. So If I set it at 25 it will end the summary on the 25th } found in the txt file from the beginning of the body.

All the txt is in spintax format like "The {Fox|Bird|Cat} {Stole|Took} The {Food|Water}"

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<?php 
set_time_limit(0); // set unlimited execution time 


$base_folder = $_POST['base_folder'];
$article_to_capture = (int)$_POST['article_to_capture'];

$words = explode(',', $_POST['words']);


// print_r($words); die(''); 


if(!is_dir($base_folder))
die('Invalid base folder. Please go <a href="step1.php"><strong>back</strong></a> and enter correct folder.');

?><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Artcle Scraper Step 2</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #333333;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<h2>Step 2 : Processing the content of the folder. </h2>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
  <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <th width="10%">&nbsp;</td>
    <th width="30%">BASE FOLDER NAME</td>
    <th width="50%">&nbsp;<?php echo $base_folder;?></td>
    <th width="10%">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
<?php 

$subfolder_arr = scandir($base_folder);

//print_r($arr1);

$total_subfolders = sizeof($subfolder_arr);
$subfolder_count = 0;
$file_count = 0;
$report = "";

$fp = fopen('articles.csv', 'w+');

for($i=0; $i< $total_subfolders; $i++){
  $file_name = $subfolder_arr[$i];

  if($file_name=='.'||$file_name=='..')
    continue;

  $sub_folder_name = $base_folder ."\\". $file_name;
  $file_type = is_dir($sub_folder_name) ? 'dir' : 'file';
  if($file_type=='dir'){
$sub_folder_count++;
$rpeort .= "Processing folder $sub_folder_count $sub_folder_name \r\n";
$msg = "Processing folder $sub_folder_count $sub_folder_name \r\n";
?> 
  <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td>&nbsp;</td><td colspan="2">
<?php echo $msg;?>
</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td>&nbsp;</td><td colspan="2">
<table width="90%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="1" bordercolorlight="#0000FF">
<?php
// process sub folder
$column1 = $file_name;
$column2 = '{';
$column3 = '{';
$first = true;
$files_arr = scandir($sub_folder_name);
$article_processed =0;  // article_processed in current sub folder

foreach($files_arr as $key=>$val){ 
    
  if(is_file($sub_folder_name.'\\'.$val) )
  { if( substr($val,-4)=='.txt'  && (filesize($sub_folder_name.'\\'.$val) <= 35000) && (filesize($sub_folder_name.'\\'.$val) >= 4000)) //file is  > 1kb
    { 
$size = filesize($sub_folder_name.'\\'.$val);
  $article_processed++;
  
  if($article_to_capture==0 || $article_processed <= $article_to_capture ){
  
  if($first==true)  $first=false;
  else
  { $column2 .= '|'; $column3 .= '|'; }

  // read file get title and body
  $file_content  = file($sub_folder_name.'\\'.$val);
  
  $file_title = rtrim($file_content[0]);

  $file_content[0] = '';
  
  $file_arr_size = sizeof($file_content);
  $words_arr_size = sizeof($words);
  $t=1;
  
  while($t < $file_arr_size){
   $file_content[$t] = rtrim($file_content[$t]);
//echo $file_content[$t];
//die('inside');
if( $words_arr_size>0 ){
//die('inside');
$temp = str_replace($words, "", $file_content[$t]);
$file_content[$t] = $temp;
}
$t++;
//if($t>=3) die('aa');
  }
  $file_body = implode('',$file_content);
  
  $column2 .= $file_title; 
  $column3 .= $file_body; 
  
?>
<tr><td> 
<?php  //print_r($files_arr); 
echo $val ."\r\n";
echo round(($size / 1024), 2).' KB';
?> 
</td></tr>
<?php
} //end if .txt
} // article processed 
  } // end if is_file
    } // end foreach
?>
</table>
</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
<?php   $column2 .= '}';
  $column3 .= '}';
  
  // write to csv / excel file
  $erro = fputcsv ($fp, array($column1,$column2,$column3) );
  
  } //end if filetype
  else{
  
  }
}  // end for

fclose($fp);

?>  <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td colspan="">&nbsp;File Generated.
Download it <a href="articles.csv" target="_blank">HERE</a></td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Alright, so i got this site, and what i'm trying to do is to allow a user to search for another user using their zip code. However i also want them to be able to select the radius...so say for example someone selects to find a user with in 5 miles of their zip code i want them to get all the people from their zip code as well as the ones that are 5 miles away in radius from their zip code.

Does anyone have any examples or pages were i can find tutorials.

Any help would be gladly appreciated

Hi all,

Thanks for reading. I have this code:

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$message = strip_tags($_POST['message'], '<p><strong><em>');

My question is however, is there a way that I could disable the onmouseover features in those tags?

Thank you.

Hi,

 I wanted to know is there any class or functions which will parse the mail body and find all the features like how many sentences, how many stop words, how many paragraphs, how many punctuation chars, etc. I haven't find anything good in my searching so far. I have parsed the whole body of email and separated the headers and body in variables. Now I want to perform these operations in only in the body.

 Thank you in advance.

Hi all

im trying to build a chat like chathotel.http://chathotel.nl  can someone help me out what the best way is to start ? I know php just trying to get it like this doesn’t get me on a start thanks would be great

Edited May 29, 2019 by requinix
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Hi All...

I am facing some problem while coding chat system.....my problem is that whenever i refresh the chat page the last message stored in the url by the current user displays again....its showing messages from the other users also but its keep on repeating the messages of the current user logged in,in the browser.....i am using post for all....do i need to try something else or any new way etc....if anybody have suggestions and solutions for the above mentioned problem then please do help me out...thank you...