PHP - Bug In Php? Pretty Certain It Is.

I would like to take the following xml file, and convert it to a nice array. Is there any functions to do this or any suggestions how to do this?

xml file:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<users>
<instructions>
<phpfile>users.php</phpfile>
</instructions>
<users action="multiple">
<user>
<name>root</name>
<password>5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99</password>
<permissions>
<access>CREATE_USR</access>
</permissions>
</user>
<users>
</users>
Desired array:
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Array (
[instructions] => Array (
[phpfile] => users.php
)
[users] => Array (
[0] => Array (
[name] => root
[password] => 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99
[permissions] => Array(
[access] => CREATE_USR
)
)
)
)

I'm in the process of building a network for investors and entrepreneurs. When a user logs in, they are directed to profile.php where they can have access to their profile information. If you go into the address bar and type in network.jasonbiondo.com/jasonbiondo you will not be able to view my profile, but if you type in http://network.jasonbiondo.com/profile. ... asonbiondo , you will be able to see my profile. I want to make it cleaner so that you can access profiles by going directly to network.jasonbiondo.com/jasonbiondo . I think my .htaccess file is causing the problem.

I have listed my code below.

.htaccess

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  Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./profile.php?u=$1 [NC]

you can see it at the link below on my site. The generated thumbnails look terrible but I don't know why.  Any help greatly appreciated. thank you . (code below of upload script and viewgallery script)

http://ealike.com/gallery/viewgallery.php?cid=1


upload script

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<?php
include("config.inc.php");

// initialization
$result_final = "";
$counter = 0;

// List of our known photo types
$known_photo_types = array( 
'image/pjpeg' => 'jpg',
'image/jpeg' => 'jpg',
'image/gif' => 'gif',
'image/bmp' => 'bmp',
'image/x-png' => 'png'
);

// GD Function List
$gd_function_suffix = array( 
'image/pjpeg' => 'JPEG',
'image/jpeg' => 'JPEG',
'image/gif' => 'GIF',
'image/bmp' => 'WBMP',
'image/x-png' => 'PNG'
);

// Fetch the photo array sent by preupload.php
$photos_uploaded = $_FILES['photo_filename'];

// Fetch the photo caption array
$photo_caption = $_POST['photo_caption'];

while( $counter <= count($photos_uploaded) )
{
if($photos_uploaded['size'][$counter] > 0)
{
if(!array_key_exists($photos_uploaded['type'][$counter], $known_photo_types))
{
$result_final .= "File ".($counter+1)." is not a photo<br />";
}
else
{
mysql_query( "INSERT INTO gallery_photos(`photo_filename`, `photo_caption`, `photo_category`) VALUES('0', '".addslashes($photo_caption[$counter])."', '".addslashes($_POST['category'])."')" );
$new_id = mysql_insert_id();
$filetype = $photos_uploaded['type'][$counter];
$extention = $known_photo_types[$filetype];
$filename = $new_id.".".$extention;

mysql_query( "UPDATE gallery_photos SET photo_filename='".addslashes($filename)."' WHERE photo_id='".addslashes($new_id)."'" );

// Store the orignal file
copy($photos_uploaded['tmp_name'][$counter], $images_dir."/".$filename);

// Let's get the Thumbnail size
$size = GetImageSize( $images_dir."/".$filename );
if($size[0] > $size[1])
{
$thumbnail_width = 100;
$thumbnail_height = (int)(100 * $size[1] / $size[0]);
}
else
{
$thumbnail_width = (int)(100 * $size[0] / $size[1]);
$thumbnail_height = 100;
}

// Build Thumbnail with GD 1.x.x, you can use the other described methods too
$function_suffix = $gd_function_suffix[$filetype];
$function_to_read = "ImageCreateFrom".$function_suffix;
$function_to_write = "Image".$function_suffix;

// Read the source file
$source_handle = $function_to_read ( $images_dir."/".$filename ); 

if($source_handle)
{
// Let's create an blank image for the thumbnail
      $destination_handle = ImageCreate ( $thumbnail_width, $thumbnail_height );

// Now we resize it
       ImageCopyResized( $destination_handle, $source_handle, 0, 0, 0, 0, $thumbnail_width, $thumbnail_height, $size[0], $size[1] );
}

// Let's save the thumbnail
$function_to_write( $destination_handle, $images_dir."/tb_".$filename );
ImageDestroy($destination_handle );
//

$result_final .= "<img src='".$images_dir. "/tb_".$filename."' /> File ".($counter+1)." Added<br />";
}
}
$counter++;
}

// Print Result
echo <<<__HTML_END

<html>
<head>
<title>Photos uploaded</title>
</head>
<body>
$result_final
</body>
</html>

__HTML_END;
?>

DISPLAY THUMBNAILS AND IMAGES SCRIPT

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<?php
include("config.inc.php");

// initialization
$result_array = array();
$counter = 0;

$cid = (int)($_GET['cid']);
$pid = (int)($_GET['pid']);

// Category Listing

if( empty($cid) && empty($pid) )
{
$number_of_categories_in_row = 4;

$result = mysql_query( "SELECT c.category_id,c.category_name,COUNT(photo_id)
FROM gallery_category as c
LEFT JOIN gallery_photos as p ON p.photo_category = c.category_id
GROUP BY c.category_id" );
while( $row = mysql_fetch_array( $result ) )
{
$result_array[] = "<a href='viewgallery.php?cid=".$row[0]."'>".$row[1]."</a> "."(".$row[2].")";
}
mysql_free_result( $result );

$result_final = "<tr>\n";

foreach($result_array as $category_link)
{
if($counter == $number_of_categories_in_row)
{
$counter = 1;
$result_final .= "\n</tr>\n<tr>\n";
}
else
$counter++;

$result_final .= "\t<td>".$category_link."</td>\n";
}

if($counter)
{
if($number_of_categories_in_row-$counter)
$result_final .= "\t<td colspan='".($number_of_categories_in_row-$counter)."'>&nbsp;</td>\n";

$result_final .= "</tr>";
}
}


// Thumbnail Listing

else if( $cid && empty( $pid ) )
{
$number_of_thumbs_in_row = 5;

$result = mysql_query( "SELECT photo_id,photo_caption,photo_filename FROM gallery_photos WHERE photo_category='".addslashes($cid)."'" );
$nr = mysql_num_rows( $result );

if( empty( $nr ) )
{
$result_final = "\t<tr><td>No Category found</td></tr>\n";
}
else
{
while( $row = mysql_fetch_array( $result ) )
{
$result_array[] = "<a href='viewgallery.php?cid=$cid&pid=".$row[0]."'><img src='".$images_dir."/tb_".$row[2]."' border='0' alt='".$row[1]."' /></a>";
}
mysql_free_result( $result );

$result_final = "<tr>\n";

foreach($result_array as $thumbnail_link)
{
if($counter == $number_of_thumbs_in_row)
{
$counter = 1;
$result_final .= "\n</tr>\n<tr>\n";
}
else
$counter++;

$result_final .= "\t<td>".$thumbnail_link."</td>\n";
}

if($counter)
{
if($number_of_photos_in_row-$counter)
$result_final .= "\t<td colspan='".($number_of_photos_in_row-$counter)."'>&nbsp;</td>\n";

$result_final .= "</tr>";
}
}
}

// Full Size View of Photo
else if( $pid )
{
$result = mysql_query( "SELECT photo_caption,photo_filename FROM gallery_photos WHERE photo_id='".addslashes($pid)."'" );
list($photo_caption, $photo_filename) = mysql_fetch_array( $result );
$nr = mysql_num_rows( $result );
mysql_free_result( $result );

if( empty( $nr ) )
{
$result_final = "\t<tr><td>No Photo found</td></tr>\n";
}
else
{
$result = mysql_query( "SELECT category_name FROM gallery_category WHERE category_id='".addslashes($cid)."'" );
list($category_name) = mysql_fetch_array( $result );
mysql_free_result( $result );

$result_final .= "<tr>\n\t<td>
<a href='viewgallery.php'>Categories</a> &gt; 
<a href='viewgallery.php?cid=$cid'>$category_name</a></td>\n</tr>\n";

$result_final .= "<tr>\n\t<td align='center'>
<br />
<img src='".$images_dir."/".$photo_filename."' border='0' alt='".$photo_caption."' />
<br />
$photo_caption
</td>
</tr>";
}
}

// Final Output
echo <<<__HTML_END

<html>
<head>
<title>Gallery View</title>
</head>
<body>
<table width='100%' border='0' align='center' style='width: 100%;'>
$result_final
</table>
</body>
</html>

__HTML_END;
?>

http://i.imgur.com/6olCy.png
The picture (in the imgur link) pretty much describes what I'm trying to do. As it stands, it would take too long to simply do everything manually with html and css (both of which I'm pretty good at I think), moving all img src and dates from one div tag to another whenever I wanna add something. So yeah, what's the most efficient way to simply submit a picture, and all my other pictures will move?

I know some of you guys will say to just learn php, but quite frankly, I don't have the time... and all the php books are ~1000pgs long which seems really daunting. I know, my problem's pretty basic and it'll probably be covered in the first 100pages or so, but still, like I said I don't have that much time for the moment.

When I do, however, can you guys recommend me the quickest guide/video series/book to learn practical php? Not the most comprehensive, as the stuff I'm going to be doing's not that complex.

One last thing, I've been hearing about CakePHP; what is it? I read that it's an "open source web application framework", but I still have little clue. I'm currently using dreamweaver for all my web stuff (no I do not use the WYSIWYG feature, I just grown accustom to using it). Should I "learn cakephp"?


Please answer any one of those questions (particularly the first one). Many thanks and I'll be sure to reply!

<?php
if (!isset($_GET['register'])) {
echo "register stuff here"; 
}
elseif (!isset($_GET['login'])) {
echo "login stuff here";
}
elseif (!isset($_GET['forgotpassword'])) {
echo "password recovery stuff here"; 
}
else {
echo "default page stuff here"; 
}
?>

you get what i'm going for, but it kinda messes up this way with different contents on different places? help