PHP - Database Checking
php5.2, mysql server5.02: if record exists,append random digit to end of information in rows column then add to database
If user mike already exists and another mike is trying to create a user id I would like to keep the old mike record like it is, then add a new mike record, but add a unique digit to the end of the name mike before the record gets added to the database as a new row. Thank you kindly! Similar TutorialsHello! I need to loop through a list of numbers and check if they are present in a column in a database or not. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to check the column value by value and compare to a incrementing $i value. here is my query... Code: [Select] $query2 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM video"); $column = mysql_fetch_array($query2); echo $column2['cable_number']; this only echoes me the first ['cable_number'] in the database. i need to get every single one, and perform actions on each one as they come through. and here is my for() statement Code: [Select] for($i=100;$i<=$highest;$i++){ check if $i is in the database. if it is(do something) if it isn't(do something) } i need to use that $i each iteration and see if it's present in the 'cable_number' column in the database. then i do something and continue on with the next i$ value. The Script:
pdo_connect.php:
<?php $dsn = "mysql:host=localhost;dbname=2354"; $db = new PDO($dsn, "root", ""); ?>pdo_test.php: <?php try{ require_once("pdo_connect.php"); }catch(Exception $e){ $error = $e->getMessage(); } ?> <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Database Connection with PDO</title> </head> <body> <h1>Connection with PDO</h1> <?php if($db){ echo "<p>Connection successful.</p>"; }elseif(isset($error)){ echo "<p>$error</p>"; } ?> </body> </html>I have just watched a tutorial and tried out this script. The issue is that I am getting the following notice alongside with the error message: Notice: Undefined variable: db in C:\xampp\htdocs\oophp\pdo_test.php on line 18 SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database '2354'By the way this notice does happen in the tutorial as well. My question is: How to have this in ways, where the notice does not occur? Ok guys, I am working on my code as I am checking the row in a database that if i have got a same row that I insert the functions in the URL then throw the error that says "you can't store". When I am checking as the rows have already exist, i keep getting "you can now store". Do you know how i can check in a database to see if the rows is exist? here's the code: Code: [Select] <?php session_start(); define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); define('DB_USER', 'mydbuser'); define('DB_PASSWORD', 'mydbpass'); define('DB_DATABASE', 'mydbname'); $errmsg_arr = array(); $errflag = false; $link = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD); if(!$link) { die('Failed to connect to server: ' . mysql_error()); } $db = mysql_select_db(DB_DATABASE); if(!$db) { die("Unable to select database"); } function clean($var){ return mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($var)); } $image = clean($_GET['image']); $strings = clean($_GET['strings']); $username = clean($_GET['user']); $password = clean($_GET['pass']); if (isset($_GET['user']) && (isset($_GET['pass']))) { if($username == '' || $password == '') { $errmsg_arr[] = 'username or password are missing'; $errflag = true; } } if (isset($_GET['image']) || (isset($_GET['strings'])) || (isset($_GET['user']))) { if($image == '' || $strings == '' || $username == '') { $errmsg_arr[] = 'image, strings or username are missing'; $errflag = true; } } if($errflag) { $_SESSION['ERRMSG_ARR'] = $errmsg_arr; echo implode('<br />',$errmsg_arr); } else { $insert = array(); if(isset($_GET['image'])) { $insert[] = 'image = \'' . clean($_GET['image']) . '\''; } if(isset($_GET['user'])) { $insert[] = 'user = \'' . clean($_GET['user']) .'\''; } if(isset($_GET['pass'])) { $insert[] = 'pass = \'' . clean($_GET['pass']) . '\''; if (count($insert)>0) { $names = implode(',',$insert); if($image && $strings && $from && $username) { $qry="SELECT * FROM members WHERE username='$username'"; $result=mysql_query($qry) or die('Error:<br />' . $qry . '<br />' . mysql_error()); $row=mysql_fetch_assoc($result); if ($row >= 1) { echo 'you cant store.'; } else { echo 'you can now store'; } } elseif($username && $pass) { echo "working 2"; } } } ?> Probably a silly question, but say you have a value in a mysql database that (naturally) can be either be blank or have characters in it. If in my PHP I am doing a check to see if that returned field from the database HAS or DOES NOT HAVE a value entered in it, what is the proper way to do it? For example, you could do either of the following below (and I'm sure there are probably 10 other ways to do it as well). Is one of these quicker/more efficient than the other? I know it probably does not matter in the grand scheme of things because it's such a quick check either way, but if one way is more "proper" than the other, please let me know... Code: [Select] if ($mysqlvalue!=="") OR if (strlen($mysqlvalue>0)) OR Hey I'm trying to check a row in my database to see if its empty but this isnt working $usercheck = mysql_query("SELECT pet FROM users where name='$user'"); $returned_rows = mysql_num_rows($usercheck); if ($returned_rows == 0){ // do stuff if no pet }else{ echo 'There was ' . $returned_rows . ' records found.'; } The problem is its not checking the row pet its just checking to see if anything exists my database has id name pet 1 joe <empty> its just seeing joe and echoing "there was 1 record found" instead of seeing that the row pet is empty. thanks for the help Hello, I am trying to get this backlink checker that checks to make sure another website has my link on their website, so far I can check to make sure the "href" link is there and is correct, but I cant get the textContent to prove valid or not it seems to always be proving true even when the textConent is not in the mysql database. The other persons website will have this: <a href="http://businessinvestingsorce.com">Business Investing Source</a> I need to make sure Business Investing Source (the textContent) matches the anchor in the database. Here is my code: Code: [Select] <?php function CheckForAnchorMatch($anchortext) { $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM allowed_anchor WHERE anchor='$anchortext'"); if(mysql_num_rows($query) != 0) { return true; } return false; } function CheckForTargetUrl($links, $target) { foreach ($links as $link) { if (strpos($link, $target) !== false) { return true; } } return false; } function ExtractHrefLinks($html) { $dom = new DOMDocument; $linkUrls = array(); @$dom->loadHTML($html); $links = $dom->getElementsByTagName('a'); foreach ($links as $link){ $linkUrls[] = $link->getAttribute('href'); } return $linkUrls; } function ExtractAnchorText($html) { $dom = new DOMDocument; $AnchorTexts = array(); @$dom->loadHTML($html); $links = $dom->getElementsByTagName('a'); foreach ($links as $link){ $AnchorTexts[] = $link->textContent; } return $AnchorTexts; } function backlink_check($contenturl){ $url = 'businessinvestingsource.com'; $source = $contenturl; $falseFound = false; $html = file_get_contents ( $source ); $links = ExtractHrefLinks($html); if (CheckForTargetUrl($links, $url) === false) { $falseFound = "true"; $reportArray[$source] = 0; } else { $falseFound = "false"; } $html = file_get_contents ( $source ); $anchortext = ExtractAnchorText($html); if (CheckForAnchorMatch($anchortext) === false) { $falseFound = true; } else { $falseFound = false; } return $falseFound; } ?> Help greatly appreciated Is there an alert method for the MySQL database or something similar?
What is the proper way to check if the MySQL database connection is working?
I mean other than "creating" and "retrieving" with "insert" and "select".
I need to query a database for a starting time for a meeting, and if the start time is at 7pm, I need to allow access to a page from 6pm til 11pm. Not a problem. The problem lies when the ending time (4 hours after the start time) crosses over to a new day. Here's what I have: Code: [Select] <?php elseif ($row['meeting'] == "7:00pm") { $starthour = 18; $endhour = 23; } elseif ($row['meeting'] == "8:00pm") { $starthour = 19; $endhour = 0; } if ($thishour <= $endhour && $thishour >= $starthour) { include "meeting_ok.php"; } else { echo "Meeting room is unavailable at this time...."; } ?> The "0" for endhour is throwing things off. How should I best account for a new day? Thanks! Scenario: each row contains an ID, title, description, price, and up to 5 images. There are not always 5 images stored in each row. The images are stored as a file path which is then pulled out of the DB and used to display an image via HTML. I need to do some sort of loop/check that looks at the contents of a particular row (actually all rows in this particular table) and then decide how many times to loop through the images to display them all correctly on the webpage. I could statically set a variable for each column but then it would have a space for an image but nothing would show. I really want this to be able to only load the images that are stored in the DB. Any help on how I can go about this? thanks -beemer Hey In my spare time, I am working on my PHP framework. Now, to help with development and quickly discover where I miss a type cast, I have adopted to check all parameters that are passed to a method using a function. For instance: public function __construct(&$target = null, $depth = 1){ $this->validateArguments( array(1 => 'int'), array(1 => $depth) ); And the code that triggers the exception: public function testPhpFreakType(){ $obj = 1; $p = new Xcms_DataStructures_Pointer($obj, "1"); } Code: [Select] 0: |--------------------------------------------------| 1: |--Exception: 4cfe2e86ca5970.22624423 - Full Trace | 2: | Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:54:30 +0100 3: |-Class: 4: | Xcms_Exceptions_InvalidArgument 5: |-Message: 6: | Argument #1 of Xcms_DataStructures_Pointer:__construct() is no _null:int 7: | Stack offset: 3 8: | 9: |-Trace 10: | #0 D:\www\xcms_rev\core\exceptions\invalid.argument.helper.class.php(133): Xcms_Exceptions_InvalidArgumentHelper::factory(1, '_null:int', NULL, 2) 11: | #1 D:\www\xcms_rev\core\basic.class.php(80): Xcms_Exceptions_InvalidArgumentHelper::validateArguments(Array, Array, Array, 1) 12: | #2 D:\www\xcms_rev\core\data.structures\pointer.class.php(49): Xcms_Basic->validateArguments(Array, Array) 13: | #3 D:\www\xcms_rev\core\data.structures\pointer.test.php(73): Xcms_DataStructures_Pointer->__construct(1, '1') 14: | #4 [internal function]: Xcms_DataStructures_PointerTest->testPhpFreakType() 15: | #5 C:\xampp\php\PEAR\PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase.php(737): ReflectionMethod->invokeArgs(Object(Xcms_DataStructures_PointerTest), Array) 16: | #6 C:\xampp\php\PEAR\PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase.php(627): PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase->runTest() 17: | #7 C:\xampp\php\PEAR\PHPUnit\Framework\TestResult.php(629): PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase->runBare() 18: | #8 C:\xampp\php\PEAR\PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase.php(575): PHPUnit_Framework_TestResult->run(Object(Xcms_DataStructures_PointerTest)) 19: | #9 C:\xampp\php\PEAR\PHPUnit\Framework\TestSuite.php(766): PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase->run(Object(PHPUnit_Framework_TestResult)) 20: | #10 C:\xampp\php\PEAR\PHPUnit\Framework\TestSuite.php(742): PHPUnit_Framework_TestSuite->runTest(Object(Xcms_DataStructures_PointerTest), Object(PHPUnit_Framework_TestResult)) 21: | #11 D:\www\xcms_rev\core\testing\manager.class.php(83): PHPUnit_Framework_TestSuite->run() 22: | #12 D:\www\xcms_rev\core\testing\manager.class.php(56): Xcms_Testing_Manager->testClass(Object(ReflectionClass)) 23: | #13 D:\www\xcms_rev\cache\pkg\scripting\script_1.php(3): Xcms_Testing_Manager->run(Object(Xcms_Url_DefaultRequest)) 24: | #14 D:\www\xcms_rev\core\util.lib.php(340): include('D:\www\xcms_rev...') 25: | #15 D:\www\xcms_rev\core\packages\scripting\controllers\scripting.controller.php(66): Xcms_Util::sandboxedInclude('cache/pkg/scrip...', Array) 26: | #16 D:\www\xcms_rev\core\mvc\controllers\default.controller.php(210): Xcms_Packages_Scripting_Controllers_ScriptingController->execute(Object(Xcms_Packages_Scripting_Models_ScriptModel), Object(Xcms_Templating_Context)) 27: | #17 D:\www\xcms_rev\core\mvc\controllers\default.controller.php(170): Xcms_Mvc_Controllers_DefaultController->runScript(1, 0, Object(Xcms_Templating_Context)) 28: | #18 D:\www\xcms_rev\core\mvc\controllers\default.controller.php(132): Xcms_Mvc_Controllers_DefaultController->runScripts(0, 0, Array, Array, 1, 0) 29: | #19 D:\www\xcms_rev\index.php(15): Xcms_Mvc_Controllers_DefaultController->run() 30: | #20 {main} 31: |--------------------------------------------------| I think this speeds up my development quite a bit, because I can catch errors very early in the development process. I can give multipe possibilities of what is allowed for each parameter, not just a single possibility. Also, it is possible to register custom type/validity-checks on both global and local scope. One thing I do worry about, however, is the the performance. Of course, I could just make the funciton do nothing in production code, if it takes too much time, or I could write a script to remove all calls to that function. When I started learning python a while back, the concept to just code to interfaces instead of types seemed very intuitive and made my code much more flexible. Of course that is what I do with PHP as well, but I it's not entirely the same. So now, coming back at my PHP code and having introduced features of static languages such as type checking, I worry about whether that is the right approach. What are your thoughts on the matter? I have written the code for email check, but how and where can I put the code to check if a username has been used twice? Thanks in advance. Code: [Select] <?php $servername = "localhost"; $username = ""; $password = ""; //validate fields if(!$_POST["username"] || !$_POST["email"] || !$_POST["password1"] || !$_POST["password2"]){ echo "<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><br />Please fill the required fields, <p> </p><p> </p><a href='register.php'>Go to register page</a>"; //validate password }else if($_POST["password1"] != $_POST["password2"]){ echo "<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><br />Please go back, PASSWORDS do not match! <p> </p><p> </p><a href='register.php'>Go to register page</a>"; //validate email }else if(!(eregi("^.+@.+\\..+$", $_POST['email']))){ echo "<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><br />Please enter a valid EMAIL! <a href='register.php'><p> </p><p> </p>Go to register page</a>"; //validate captcha }else if(($_SESSION['security_code'] != $_POST['security_code']) || (empty($_SESSION['security_code'])) ){ echo "<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><br />CAPTCHA CODE does not match! <p> </p><p> </p><a href='register.php'>Go to register page</a>"; }else{ $conn= mysql_connect($servername,$username,$password)or die(mysql_error()); mysql_select_db("genesis_members",$conn); // check if already registered $sql_check = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = '".$_POST[email]."'"; $result_check = mysql_query($sql_check,$conn) or die(mysql_error()); $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result_check); if($row['id']){ echo "<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><br />EMAIL already registered! <p> </p><p> </p><a href='register.php'>Go to register page</a>"; }else{ // insert in db $sql = "INSERT INTO users (username, email, password, company, phone, services) VALUES ('".$_POST[username]."', '".$_POST[email]."', '".$_POST[password1]."', '".$_POST[company]."', '".$_POST[phone]."', '".$_POST[services]."')"; $result = mysql_query($sql,$conn) or die(mysql_error()); echo "<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><br /><h1>You Have Successfully Registered</h1>"; echo "<p> </p><p> </p><br /><a href='main_login.php'>go to login page</a>"; } } ?> Hello all, it's been a while! Good to be back. I am having trouble with a script I'm trying to modify to seach for domains with specific extensions. Now, I have never done any domain checking before and I'm a little bewildered. The script uses an array and checks the input against each extension using the array. Each line looks similar to: Code: [Select] '.com' => array('whois.crsnic.net','No match for'), What does the whois.crsnic.net mean? I assume it's a register/database of domains? $characterIDs = explode(',', $_POST['characterIDList']); After the explode I want to take all those values and do a select statement in a database table for any of the values that match any of the values inside that variable variable. Not sure how to do this since there is no limit to how may there could be. Hello! Does anyone know an effective way to track inactive idlers in daily basis? So that it will count the amount of days no data has been posted to the table. E.g. User posts latest data and inserts timestamp 1282228120 which reads Thursday, August 19th 2010, 14:28:40 (GMT) The days for inactivity should output as 8 days because no data has been posted from 20th August to today - 28th August. Anyway I can achieve this? Any information is appreciated, thanks. so here's the thing, ive downloaded mysql front and easy php , the HTML code ive written till now is <html> <head> </head> <body> <h1>Registration Page</h1> <form name="form" method="post" action="final-SignUp1.php"> <p>UserName <input type="text" name="username" /></p> <p>Password <input type="password" name="password" /></p> <p>Confirm Password<input type="password" name="confirm_password" /></p> <p>Firstname <input type="text" name="firstname" /></p> <p>Middlename <input type="text" name="middlename" /></p> <p>Lastname <input type="text" name="lastname" /></p> <p>address <input type="text" name="address" /></p> <p>city <input type="text" name="city" /></p> <p>Zipcode <input type="text" name="zip_code" /></p> <p>Phone number <input type="text" name="telephone_number" /></p> <p>Email address <input type="text" name="email" /></p> <p>Confirm Email <input type="text" name="confirm_email" /></p> <input type="submit" value="Register"> <input type="reset" value="Clear" /></p> </form> </body> </html> which i would like to link to this php code <?php $usr=$_POST["username"]; $pass=$_POST["password"]; $confirm=$_POST["confirm_password"]; $firstname=$_POST["firstname"]; $middlename=$_POST["middlename"]; $lastname=$_POST["lastname"]; $address=$_POST["address"]; $city=$_POST["city"]; $zipcode=$_POST["zip_code"]; $phonenumber=$_POST["`telephone_number`"]; $emailaddress=$_POST["email"]; $confirmemailaddress=$_POST["confirm_email"]; $db=mysql_connect("localhost","root",""); mysql_select_db("final-signup1",$db); $q="INSERT INTO final-signup1 VALUES ('$usr','$pass','$confirm','$firstname','$middlename','$lastname','$address','$city','$zipcode', '$phonenumber','$emailaddress','$cofirmemailaddress')"; mysql_query($q); mysql_close(); ?> now on mysql-front the database ive set till now is as follows i know something is wrong with my code, because the data i enter in the register page isnt going to the database. any help is greatly appreciated thank you Can someone help me to get this code working... Code: [Select] public function getBowlContents(){ if is_null($this->contents) { return "The bowl is empty!"; } else { return "The bowl contains " . $this->contents . " soup!"; } TomTees So basically I have a site, and on that site, I have a page that submits a form and updates a database. I have it set up so that someone can enter in Multiple values into a textarea, one on each line, and it will submit each of those values as a new row in the database, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to check those values against the actual users. It is basically a point system, where the staff can award points users of the site. But at the moment, a Staff member could enter in Jibberish, and it would insert that into the database, but I want it to check my users table to make sure the user exists before it inserts it into the database. here is my code: <?php include 'global.php'; echo $headersidebar; if ($_COOKIE['access'] == $accessstaff) { if(count($_POST)) { $array = preg_split('/(\r?\n)+/', $_POST['studentname']); foreach($array as $students) { $statusmsg = '<center><span style="background: #A6FF9E;">You have successfully submitted points to the database.</span></center>'; mysql_query("INSERT INTO points (giver, receiver, points, category, reason, date, status) VALUES ('{$_COOKIE['username']}', '{$students}', '{$_POST['pointamt']}', '{$_POST['pointcat']}', '{$_POST['pointreason']}', '{$date}', 'Validating')"); } } $addpointspage = $statusmsg . ' <form action="submit_points.php" method="post"> <table class="table" > <tr> <td colspan="10"> <h1><strong><center>Submit Points</center></strong></h1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="10" rowspan="100"> <center>Please remember to follow the house point limits when submitting house points.</center> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="table"> <tr> <td style="width: 15%;" valign="top"> Student Name:<br> <span style="font-size: 60%;">(List as many as you want; One per Line)</span> </td> <td colspan="10"> <center><textarea name="studentname" cols="60" rows="10"></textarea></center> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 15%;" valign="top"> Amount of Points: </td> <td> <input style="position: relative; left: 16px;" type="text" size="15" name="pointamt" /> </td> <td> Do not put anything that is not a number into this box. </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 15%;" valign="top"> Point Category: </td> <td colspan="10"> <select name="pointcat" style="position: relative; left: 16px;"> <option SELECTED value="">-------</option> <option>Class Work</option> <option>Class Exam</option> <option>Extra Work</option> <option>Contests</option> <option>Teacher\'s Assistant</option> <option>Negative Points</option> </select> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 15%;" valign="top"> Reason: </td> <td colspan="10"> <input style="position: relative; left: 16px;" name="pointreason" type="text" size="80" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td colspan="10"> <input style="position: relative; left: 16px;" type="submit" value="Submit Points" /> </td> </tr> </table </form> '; } elseif (1==1) { $addpointspage = $accessdenied; } echo ' <!-- start content --> <div id="content"> <div class="post"> <div class="entry"> <p><strong>' . $addpointspage . '</p> <p class="links">' . $addpointslink . '</p> </div> </div> </div> <!-- end content --> <div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div> <!-- end page --> </div>'; echo $footer; ?> I am fairly new to PHP, so I would appreciate any help someone could give me; I am not too good with arrays and such, so this one has got me stumped. I don't know precisely how to put it so i will give an example: suppose you have a search form with input fields for: -an age range, -a data range, -for the sex, -postal code as soon as the user would fill in one of these input fields, a query should be generated including a condition doing something with the inputted value. For example, the user fills in maxAge, the the query should say: SELECT * FROM table WHERE age >= maxAge; Filling more than one criterion then would do .= " AND criteria (condition) inputvalue " etc... My question comes to the part about: how to check if there is already a WHERE in the clause and how to put WHERE or AND for every criterion. Since doing like above, i won't be able to search for another criterion if i don't select maxAge first because then there would be no WHERE in the sql clause. Hopefully i've put it clear thanks in advance I have textfield for signature in my form, I m checking if the signature was sent ( if(!empty($_POST['signature'])) and if it's not empty I m putting it into the db. The problem is that, I have noticed a greek user has entered something in greek letters, and function could not deal with it and saved it as it is.( DB field supports greek charset ) I just want to allow english and german chars with special chars ( ",',< etc. ) , no other charset like greek. How can I do that? any function for this purpose ? Hi friends I have following code Code: [Select] function UseOfSSL($domain_name) { $site = ($domain_name); $port = 443; $fp = fsockopen($site,$port,$errno,$errstr,10); if(!$fp) { echo "Not Installed"; } else{ echo "Yes, it is installed"; fclose($fp); } } If domain name from $domain_name has installed SSL, it will show it is installed else not installed. Problem is that I tried this with both types of sites, those who are using SSL and those who are not and always, it says Yes, it is installed. 443 is used because https uses port 443 What is the cause ? |