PHP - Suggestions On How To Achieve My Goal.
Hello all,
I'm looking for some advice on a problem. I have a very basic web page containing three section, the header, the content and the footer in that order. What I would like is the header and footer always on the page and only the content section change by means of links in a navigation bar. I've looked into iframes, php include, javascript and something called Ajax and must say I'm all a bit confused by it all. Which would be most advisable and how would I excecute it. My pages are as follows. Home page is. index.php Pages I would like to show in the content Div. about.php contact.php home.php If you need any more information, please let me know. Thank you in advance for your help. Similar TutorialsI was thinking of ways I could use use PHP to make an iframe dissapear when the user has clicked the submit button in the iframe. I was thinking there is probably no way to tell if the user has submitted the form in the iframe? I tried using unset(), with the iframe code being a variable. I echoed the iframed form, and placed a submit button below the iframe. When the user is done with the iframe form, they click the submit button below it and it will dissapear. Ive done that, but I was wondering would it be possible at all to make the frame dissapear once the user has clicked the submit button IN the iframe? If not possible with PHP maybe javascript? IDK, suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks Hi, I have table called done in mysql and there is a row which is filled with the users id and another row with todays date. Now what I want to know which three users participated the most with filling out stuff on the website according to todays date. For instance First user filled out 5 2nd user filled out 3 3rd user filled out 2 You get the idea. I dont know what type of query should I write to extract the data based on the users id and how many times they participated on the particular day. Another example of the table is 1st column user id = 20 time= todays date 2nd column user id= 20 time = todays date Showing the user participated twice on the day. Thanks any help is appreciated. There are two effects that I have seen on website and keep wondering how they have been achieved. The first is when you go on Facebook and you type a link into your status bar. Then Facebook will automatically get some information about that article. The second effect is something I have seen on twitter and other websites. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page it will detect this and then load more content. If anyone could link me to any article or tutorials explain how these effects have been done that would be great. Thanks for any help. I have a form which has both radio buttons and textfields. Each individual radio button is associated with a form field. For this example, lets say the Radio button references a tool name and the form field represents a quantity, or number of tools needed for a certain job. So the form would look as follows: Quote o Some Tool Quantity ___ (<-- lets pretend thats a form field) The question is, how would I go about adding the tool and quantity to the same row in the database if I am creating a new row? The simple way would be have each radio button and quantity be its own entity in the HTML. For example: Code: [Select] <input name="tool1" type="radio" value="Hammer" /> <input name="tool_quantity1" type="text" /> <input name="tool2" type="radio" value="Wrench" /> <input name="tool_quantity2" type="text" /> However easy this method may be, and however functional it may work, it is not how I wish to achieve this because we are talking maybe 100 tools. I think it would be easier using some kind of loop function that goes through an array of anything that has some form of data stored in it. For example, instead of the code being the above, I would like to change it to the following: Code: [Select] <input name="tools[]" type="radio" value="Hammer" /> <input name="tools_quantity[]" type="text" /> I understand the basic foreach function Code: [Select] foreach ($_POST['tools'] as $someVariableName) { //do some stuff } But I don't understand how I can get the value of 2 different form fields and have them associated with one another. I want the tool and the quantity of tools to be stored in the same row. How is this done? Is this even possible using a loop function like foreach or while? Please help! As always, any help would be greatly appreciated!! Bl4ck Maj1k
I am following the below module, Hi, what i am after is for instance, the user is viewing my website. He is in a different section on my website and there is a sign in button. The user goes to the sign in page, now what i want is when the user logs in, the user to be redirected back to the section which he was viewing before signing in. Basically in more clear words, I want the user to return to the content he was viewing after logging in. what i want is to upload my informations to database when i press the submit button. but if any field is empty it should show a text that all fields are required but in the same page(up or down to the form). However with this code my database is not working>informations are not send to the database. why?Any sggesstions? Code: [Select] <?php // Start a session for error reporting session_start(); //Connect to database require("includes/connect_to_mysql.php"); //check if the button is pressed if(isset($_POST['submit'])){ // Check to see if the type of file uploaded is a valid image type function is_valid_type($file) { // This is an array that holds all the valid image MIME types $valid_types = array("image/jpg", "image/jpeg", "image/bmp", "image/gif", "image/png"); if (in_array($file['type'], $valid_types)) return 1; return 0; } // This variable is the path to the image folder where all the images are going to be stored // Note that there is a trailing forward slash $TARGET_PATH = "upload_form_images/"; // Get our POSTed variables $name = $_POST['name']; $surname = $_POST['surname']; $email = $_POST['email']; $city = $_POST['city']; $details = $_POST['details']; $price = $_POST['price']; $image = $_FILES['image']; // Sanitize our inputs $name = mysql_real_escape_string($name); $surname = mysql_real_escape_string($surname); $email = mysql_real_escape_string($email); $city = mysql_real_escape_string($city); $details = mysql_real_escape_string($details); $price = mysql_real_escape_string($price); $image['name'] = mysql_real_escape_string($image['name']); // Build our target path full string. This is where the file will be moved do // i.e. images/picture.jpg $TARGET_PATH .= $image['name']; // Make sure all the fields from the form have inputs if ( $name == "" || $surname == "" || $email == "" || $city == "" || $details == "" || $price == ""|| $image['name'] == "" ) { $_SESSION['error'] = "Te gjithe fushat duhet plotesuar"; echo "Te gjithe fushat duhet plotesuar"; header("Location: upload_form.php"); exit; } // Check to make sure that our file is actually an image // You check the file type instead of the extension because the extension can easily be faked if (!is_valid_type($image)) { $_SESSION['error'] = "Fotografite duhet te jene te formateve jpg, jpeg, bmp, gif, ose png"; header("Location: upload_form.php"); exit; } // Here we check to see if a file with that name already exists // You could get past filename problems by appending a timestamp to the filename and then continuing if (file_exists($TARGET_PATH)) { $_SESSION['error'] = "Ju lutem nderroni emrin e fotos."; header("Location: upload_form.php"); exit; } /* // See if that product name is an identical match to another product in the system $sql = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM upload_form WHERE name='$name' LIMIT 1"); $productMatch = mysql_num_rows($sql); // count the output amount if ($productMatch > 0) { $_SESSION['error'] = 'Ju lutem nderroni emrin sepse egziston ne databaze'; header("Location: upload_form.php"); exit(); } */ // Lets attempt to move the file from its temporary directory to its new home if (move_uploaded_file($image['tmp_name'], $TARGET_PATH)) { // NOTE: This is where a lot of people make mistakes. // We are *not* putting the image into the database; we are putting a reference to the file's location on the server $sql = "insert into people (name, surname, email, city, details, price, filename) values ('$name', '$surname', '$email', '$city', '$details', '$price', '" . $image['name'] . "')"; $result = mysql_query($sql) or die ("Futja e te dhenave ne databaze DESHTOI: " . mysql_error()); echo "Shtimi i te dhenave u krye me SUKSES"; exit; } else { // A common cause of file moving failures is because of bad permissions on the directory attempting to be written to // Make sure you chmod the directory to be writeable $_SESSION['error'] = "Shtimi i te dhenave NUK u krye me Sukses. Ju lutem provoni perseri"; header("Location: upload_form.php"); exit; } } ?> <!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>Qiraja.com</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" media="all" /> <!--[if lte IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" href="css/ie6.css" type="text/css" media="all" /><![endif]--> <!--[if IE]><style type="text/css" media="screen"> #navigation ul li a em { top:32px; } </style><![endif]--> </head> <body> <!-- Header --> <div id="header"> <div class="shell"> <!-- Logo --> <h1 id="logo"><a href="#">Company Name</a></h1> <!-- End Logo --> <!-- Navigation --> <div id="navigation"> <ul> <li><a href="#">Prishtine<span><em></em></span></a></li> <li><a href="#">Prizren<span><em></em></span></a></li> <li><a href="#">Ferizaj<span><em></em></span></a></li> <li><a href="#">Peje<span><em></em></span></a></li> <li><a href="#">Mitrovice<span><em></em></span></a></li> <li><a href="#">Gjilan<span><em></em></span></a></li> <li class="last"><a href="#">Gjakove<span><em></em></span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div id="slider"> <div class="shell"> <!-- Slides --> <div class="slides"> <ul> <!-- Slide --> <li> <form action="upload_form.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="myForm" id="myform" method="post"> <table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr> <td width="20%" align="center">Name</td> <td width="80%"><label> <input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="25" /> </label></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">Surname</td> <td><label> <input name="surname" type="text" id="surname" size="25" /> </label></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">Email</td> <td><label> <input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="25" /> </label></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">City</td> <td><select name="city" id="city"> <option value=""></option> <option value="Prishtine">Prishtine</option> <option value="Prizren">Prizren</option> <option value="Ferizaj">Ferizaj</option> <option value="Peje">Peje</option> <option value="Mitrovice">Mitrovice</option> <option value="Gjilan">Gjilan</option> <option value="Gjakove">Gjakove</option> </select></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">Cmimi</td> <td><label> <input name="price" type="text" id="price" size="10" /> € </label></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">Fotografite</td> <td><label> <input type="file" name="image" id="image" /> </label></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td align="right"><label> <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="100000" /> <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Shto te dhenat" /> </label></td> </tr> </table> </form> </li> <!-- End Slide --> <!-- Slide --> <li> <div class="slide-info"> <h2><span>Reklamo</span> Shtepine</h2> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. 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Thanks your the best guys! <?php include('config.php'); $name = strip_tags($_POST['name']); $email = $_POST['email']; $qst_id=strip_tags($_POST['qst_id']); //if no ajax $opt = strip_tags($_POST['opt']); $s_id = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; //validate email if (!preg_match('/^.+@.+\..{2,3}$/',$email)); { $email = 'email was blocked'; } if (strlen($name) >= 50) { $name = 'name was blocked'; } if ($opt == '') { $vote ="no"; } elseif (($opt=='Yes') || ($opt=='No')) { $qt=mysql_query("insert into plus_poll_ans(s_id,qst_id,opt) values('".$s_id."','".$qst_id."','".$opt."')"); } else { $vote = "no"; } echo "<font size='2' face='Verdana' color='#000000' style='font-size:1.2em;'> Declaration of Faith</font>"; $qst_id=1; // change this to change the poll /* Find out the question first */ $fg=mysql_query("select qst from plus_poll where qst_id='".$qst_id."'"); $row=mysql_fetch_object($fg); echo "<br><b><br>$row->qst</b><br>"; // display the question /* for percentage calculation we will find out the total number of answers ( options submitted ) given by the visitors */ $rt=mysql_num_rows(mysql_query("select ans_id from plus_poll_ans where qst_id='".$qst_id."'")); /* Find out the answers and display the graph */ $query="select count(*) as no,qst,plus_poll_ans.opt from plus_poll,plus_poll_ans where plus_poll.qst_id=plus_poll_ans.qst_id and plus_poll.qst_id='".$qst_id."' group by opt desc "; $rs=mysql_query($query); //count the answers by yes or no $count= "SELECT opt, count(opt) FROM plus_poll_ans GROUP BY opt desc"; $result = mysql_query($count) or die(mysql_error()); //separate the results while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ $total_opt[] = $row['count(opt)']; } // Print out result echo "<table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' width='100%' >"; $i = 0; while($noticia = mysql_fetch_array($rs)){ echo "<tr> <td width='5%' bgcolor='#F1F1F1'> <font size='1' face='Verdana' color='#000000'>$noticia[opt]</font></td>"; $width2=$noticia['no'] *10 ; /// change here the multiplicaiton factor ////////// $ct=($noticia[no]/$rt)*100; $ct=sprintf ("%01.2f", $ct); // number formating echo " <td width='20%' bgcolor='#F1F1F1'> <font size='1' face='Verdana' color='#000000'>($ct %)</font></td><td width='60%' align='left' bgcolor='#F1F1F1'> <img src='graph.jpg' height=10 width=$width2>"; echo "</td><td width='15%' align='right'>"; echo "<font size='1' face='Verdana' color='#000000'>".$total_opt[$i]; echo " votes"; echo "</font></td>"; echo "</tr>"; echo "<tr> <td bgcolor='#ffffff' colspan=2>"; echo "</td>"; echo "</tr>"; $i=$i+1; } echo "<tr><td></td><td></td><td><font size='1' face='Verdana' color='#000000'>Total Votes:</font></td><td align='right'>"; //count the total votes $count = 'select count(ans_id) from plus_poll_ans'; $count = mysql_query($count); $count = mysql_fetch_array($count); $total_count = $count['count(ans_id)']; echo "<font size='1' face='Verdana' color='#000000'>".$total_count." votes</font>"; echo "</td></tr>"; echo "</table>"; echo "</font>"; if ($vote!='no') { $to = 'person1@example.com, person2@example.com'; $subject = 'Someone just made a declaration of faith'; $message = "Someone from the ip address ".$s_id; // Always set content-type when sending HTML email $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n"; $headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'From: Vote Detector <website@example.com>'. "\r\n"; if ($name!='') { $message = $message." with the name ".$name; } if ($email!='') { $message = $message." with email ".$email; } $message = $message." voted "."yes<br/>"; $message = $message."total number of people who declared their faith: ".$total_count." people<br/>"; $message = $message."with a total of ".$total_opt[0]." people saying yes"; $message = $message." and a total of ".$total_opt[1]." people saying no<br/>"; mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); } ?> I'm getting a '500 Internal Server' and 'Premature end of script headers..' errors in the process of uploading a file. This occurs consistently with files > 2MB but also (very occasionally) w/ smaller files. The target directories are beneath the web root folder, so I don't think it's a permissions issue. I've set the following in my php5.ini: post_max_size = 8M, upload_max_filesize = 8M max_input_time = 360 max_execution_time = 360 Trace code/logging reveals that the error occurs even before my upload code is entered (which uses (move_uploaded_file()). So what would cause that? Any suggestions on how to debug this are very much appreciated! Hello there, Thank you for taking the time to visit my thread. I've been brainstorming for the past few days trying to establish the best method of a content management system. I'm curious since you are all highly advanced PHP coders what you think the best method of content management is I would like it to be presented in the URL in the following method: file.php?v=example So please share your ideas remember there is never a stupid suggestion I want to hear all your possibilities please! i have made my own website suggestion box but when i start typing in on my websites search box google chrome automatically suggests other words and you can't see underneath. I don't want this to happen to other people viewing my website. Is there any sort of code i an put on my website to stop this? This is what I am using and it returns the entire schedule for the whole league... if ($display == "schedule") { $schedule = $ffn->getSchedule(); echo '<h4>Season Schedule</h4>'; echo '<p>Season: ', $schedule->Season, '</p>'; foreach($schedule->Games AS $game) { echo '<p>'; echo 'Week: ', $game->Week, ' ', $game->AwayTeam, ' at ', $game->HomeTeam, ' on ', date("M j, Y", strtotime($game->GameDate)), ' at ', $game->GameTime, ' ', $schedule->Timezone; echo '</p>'; } } BUT what I would like to do is search the info and only post info for one team... I have tried this... if ($display == "schedule") { $schedule = $ffn->getSchedule(); echo '<h4>Season Schedule</h4>'; echo '<p>Season: ', $schedule->Season, '</p>'; foreach($schedule->Games AS $game) if (AwayTeam == 'DAL") { echo '<p>'; echo 'Week: ', $game->Week, ' ', $game->AwayTeam, ' at ', $game->HomeTeam, ' on ', date("M j, Y", strtotime($game->GameDate)), ' at ', $game->GameTime, ' ', $schedule->Timezone; echo '</p>'; } } ELSE IF (HomeTeam == 'DAL') if ($display == "schedule") { $schedule = $ffn->getSchedule(); echo '<h4>Season Schedule</h4>'; echo '<p>Season: ', $schedule->Season, '</p>'; foreach($schedule->Games AS $game) { echo '<p>'; echo 'Week: ', $game->Week, ' ', $game->AwayTeam, ' at ', $game->HomeTeam, ' on ', date("M j, Y", strtotime($game->GameDate)), ' at ', $game->GameTime, ' ', $schedule->Timezone; echo '</p>'; } } Else echo "No Games Scheduled" Problem is it's not working... how can I just pull the info for DAL and only display that info. The info is coming from an XML file... Thanks in Advance! How to do #3 by a PHP page instead? mainly so that there wouldn't be a need to export the sql after doing #2 then import it into the online phpmyadmin(#3) #1. Convert database from foxpro to sql #2. Change some fields in the sql table #3. Upload to phpmyadmin Is it possible to create a code to export from the server and then import the sql online? like by making use of mysql_fetch_array() and insert into hi Guys..............i am final year student and i need to submit a project that should me medium to large size and i want to build it on PHP so it would be very kind if you can kindly suggest me topics for the same however there is just one restriction the process that i cannot build anything like management systems or social networking websites the idea should be new and catchy and ya one more thing no e-com websites as well.....................looking ahead for your advice..................thank you. This topic has been moved to Miscellaneous. http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=308872.0 Hello,
I went through the forum, its geat but I think missing one feature,
There should be a forum about having general conversations and if someone wanted to talk about taking suggestions to help him/her across the world of programming, that would be very great.
Thanks.
suggestions on how to write this code better I have a form that has 2 textboxes in it. The php listed below...confirms that the passwords match, confirms that there are at least 6 characters in in, confirms that there is at least 1 number. I am doing mostly if statements with it, but I was wondering if there was a better way to write. Code: [Select] <!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=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <form name="form1" method="post" action="<?PHP $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>"> <table width="100%" border="1"> <tr> <th scope="row"> <strong>New password: </strong> <input type="password" maxlength="15" name="password"></th> <th scope="row"> <strong>New password confirmed: </strong> <input type="password" maxlength="15" name="confirm_password"></th> <th scope="row"><input type="submit" name="update" value="Update Password" /></th> </tr> </table> </form> <?PHP //verify that the update button is pressed if (isset($_POST['update'])) { //verify that the passwords match if($_POST['password'] == $_POST['confirm_password']) { echo "passwords match"; echo "<br>"; } //verify that the password and password confirmation was entered elseif ((isset($_POST['password'])) && ($_POST['confirm_password'])) { echo "Password and confirm password set"; echo "<br>"; } //verify that the # of characters was entered elseif (strlen($_POST['password'])<6) { $num_char=strlen($_POST['password']); echo "Please enter more characters"; echo "<br>"; } //find out if number exsist if (strlen($_POST['password'])>5) { $subject = $_POST['password']; preg_match_all('/[0-9]/', $subject, $matches); $count = count($matches[0]); //echo $count; if ($count <=1) echo "Please enter in at least 1 number you currently have: " .$count; }//close of verification of both boxes entered }//close of $_POST ?> </body> </html> I'm in the process of making a PHP/MYSQL game and I'm trying to figure out the best way to set the database up specifically to deal with items. All day I have been wrestling with how to do this. How do I link items to players? How do I keep track of who has what items? I know this question isn't at all specific sorry for that, it's hard to explain exactly what I mean thought text. Thanks Hello, This whole time working online and what not, I always end up using PayPal as a payment method. How to I use credit cards as a payment method ... for free? Can someone please explain the process of payment via credit cards Thanks Hi guys. I haven't been for a while in this great community. I'm starting to develop a PHP-based forum software that I'm planning to release as Open Source locally (in my country, Albania). I've got a few developers in the team to help me on the core and features. But I wanted to ask for a few suggestions on some specific features. I have a few ideas on them, but you may have better options. 1. Forums and topics marked as "read" or "unread" are a nice feature that gives you in a glimpse what has happened. The problem is that I have no good idea on how to implement it. My first thought was to store an array in a cookie with the threads read in the last 10 days (so it doesn't become overloaded) and check those dates with the updated posts. Any idea that could work better? 2. I've never handled an "update feature". The idea is to offer an update installation when I will release the software and maintain it. Any idea how to design such a feature? 3. Any suggestion on searching (FULL TEXT SEARCH) and caching (DB and Template)? Hope it's not too much a request and you guys can give a few suggestions. |