PHP - Insert Random Pic Into This Script

I'm new to PHP/MySQL and have been searching high and low for a solution to this...

When using my PHP script to insert a row into the database it errors out but does not give me a specific error. When I use the MySQL command line client I can insert the first, second, third, or any number of rows without a problem.

What I don't understand is, once I have inserted a row using the command line client, my PHP script will insert rows without issue.

So my question is, what is it about the first row being inserted that makes it so special? One of the columns in the table is an AUTO_INCREMENT field, so i'm guessing that has something to do with it?

I've used this on like three other scripts I don't know why it won't insert now 

<?php
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
$timestamp = date('H:m:s m.d');  
$admin = '24.68.214.97';
$visitor_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$host="mysql"; // Host name
$username="15557_test"; // Mysql username
$password="**********"; // Mysql password
$db_name="15557_test"; // Database name
$tbl="announce"; // Table name
mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect to server");
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB"); 
$body = $_POST["body"];

if ($visitor_ip == $admin) {
mysql_query("INSERT INTO $tbl (body, date) VALUES ('$body', '$timestamp')"); //right here, i can echo $body and see what I wrote, but I can't insert into $tbl
}
else {
die("no");
}
?>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://testchan.dcfilms.org/board-b.php">

 Hello,

I'm trying to write my first database using SQL and PHP, without much luck, I'm afraid.  After inserting a new record (for which I didn't have a problem), I wanted to automatically generate a username which is the person's first name (they'll then be able to change it later).  Trying to use Dreamweaver as a model, I've come up with this:

 $updateSQL = sprintf("UPDATE users SET username=%s",
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['first_name'], "text"))

Well...it does update the username, but it does so on ALL of the records as opposed to the one that was just inserted.  Any help would be appreciated...

Thank you.

Well the subject line is pretty explicit.  I found this script that uploads a picture onto a folder on the server called images, then inserts the the path of the image on the images folder onto a VACHAR field in a database table. 
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<?php

//This file inserts the main image into the images table.

//address error handling

ini_set ('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting (E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);





//authenticate user
//Start session
session_start();

       
        //Connect to database
require ('config.php');

//Check whether the session variable id is present or not. If not, deny access.
if(!isset($_SESSION['id']) || (trim($_SESSION['id']) == '')) {
header("location: access_denied.php");
exit();
}

        else{ 







// 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");

 

     if (in_array($file['type'], $valid_types))

         return 1;

     return 0;

}

 

// Just a short function that prints out the contents of an array in a manner that's easy to read

// I used this function during debugging but it serves no purpose at run time for this example

function showContents($array)

{

     echo "<pre>";

     print_r($array);

     echo "</pre>";

}

 

// Set some constants

 

// 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 = "images/";

 

// Get our POSTed variable

$image = $_FILES['image'];

 

// Sanitize our input

$image['name'] = mysql_real_escape_string($image['name']);

 

// Build our target path full string.  This is where the file will be moved to

// i.e.  images/picture.jpg

$TARGET_PATH .= $image['name'];

 

// Make sure all the fields from the form have inputs

if ( $image['name'] == "" )

{

     $_SESSION['error'] = "All fields are required";

     header("Location: member.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'] = "You must upload a jpeg, gif, or bmp";

     header("Location: member.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'] = "A file with that name already exists";

     header("Location: member.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

     $sql = "insert into images (member_id, image_cartegory, image_date, image) values ('{$_SESSION['id']}', 'main', NOW(), '" . $image['name'] . "')";

     $result = mysql_query($sql) or die ("Could not insert data into DB: " . mysql_error());

     header("Location: images.php");

echo "File uploaded";

     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'] = "Could not upload file.  Check read/write persmissions on the directory";

     header("Location: member.php");

     exit;

}







        } //End of if session variable id is not present.
 


?> 


The script seems to work fine because I managed to upload a picture which was successfully inserted into my images folder and into the database.
Now the problem is, I can't figure out exactly how to write the script that displays the image on an html page. I used the following script which didn't work.


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//authenticate user
//Start session
session_start();

       
        //Connect to database
require ('config.php');

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT* FROM images WHERE member_id = '".$_SESSION['id']."' AND image_cartegory = 'main' ");
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql);
$imagebytes = $row['image'];
header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
print $imagebytes;







Seems to me like I need to alter some variables to match the variables used in the insert script, just can't figure out which.  Can anyone help??

Hi Guys, having one of them "why wont it work" nightmares whilst doing some updates on a web page someone else has coded, its a simple php and mysql insert string that has some validation on but no matter what I do it wont add a new property, it updates fine, i have only added three new fields to the original source files, property_county, property_size, property_status, it should have been a simple job but has got me stumped, anyone got any suggestions?

The script uses three files,
properties.php - which is the page which holds the form
class.properties.php - which contains the functions - this is where i think the problem is....
and
property_form.php - which is just the form, this is fine, just the above two that seem to be causing the problem!!

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Matt

Hello, I am very new to both PHP and MYSQL but I am eager to learn.

What I want to do is write a PHP script that will parse an XML file and insert the results into a MYSQL database. I've read a bunch of guides online and I think I have the parser structure down. I created a parser using xml_parser_create(). As I understand it, I need to create functions to handle each of the three events, startTag, endTag, and contents. This is where I am not sure what to do. What do I need to tell these functions to do when these events are triggered? I know I need to connect to the MYSQL database at some point but I do not know when.

If anyone could point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.

Hi all,

I am managing a social network and am creating a script to allow the admin to private message all users on the site. Even setting the max execution time to unlimited within the file does not allow us to insert all 40,000 rows into the 'message' table, it stops after several thousand rows. Our hosts tell us setting this globally is a bad idea/unstable.

Does anyone have some advice on the best to do this? No email notifications need to be sent so it is purely allowing the script to run it's full course without stopping. I did consider a cron job but without emails doing in 'batches' seems a bit unecessary so I'm clearly missing something. ANy and all advice would be most welcome!

Richard

The code.... very simple:

$punc_body = explode(". ", $body);
foreach ($punc_body as $k => $v) {
$v = ucfirst($v);
echo $v . "<br>"; // this is only here for testing purposes.
}
$body = implode(". ", $punc_body);



Why doesn't this work?  I threw in the echo $v in which it shows that it is doing everything properly, however when I implode the array everything that was capitalized is reverted back to lower-case.

Can someone tell me whats wrong or what I'm missing here please.

I have a php script that I've been running that seems to have been working but now I'm wondering if some of my logic is potentially off.

I select records from a db table within a date range which I put into an array called ```$validCount```

If that array is not empty, that means I have valid records to update with my values, and if it's empty I just insert. The trick with the insert is that if the ```STORES```  is less than the ```Quantity``` then it only inserts as many as the ```STORES``` otherwise it inserts as many as ```Quantity```.

So if a record being inserted with had 

    Stores: 14 Quantity:12

Then it would only insert 12 records but if it had
  
    Stores:1  Quantity:20

It would only insert 1 record.

In short, for each customer I should only ever have as many valid records (within a valid date range) as they have stores. If they have 20 stores, I can have 1 or 2 records but should never have 30.

It seems like updating works fine but I'm not sure if it's updating the proper records, though it seems like in some instances it's just inserting too many and not accounting for past updated records.

This is the logic I have been working with:

 

  if(!empty($validCount)){
            for($i=0; $i<$row2['QUANTITY']; $i++){
                try{
                    $updateRslt = $update->execute($updateParams);
                }catch(PDOException $ex){
                    $out[] = $failedUpdate;
                }
            }
    }else{    
        if($row2["QUANTITY"] >= $row2["STORES"]){
            for($i=0; $i<$row2["STORES"]; $i++){     
                try{
                    $insertRslt = $insert->execute($insertParams);
                }catch(PDOException $ex){
                    $out[] = $failedInsertStore;
                }
            }
        }elseif($row2["QUANTITY"] < $row2["STORES"]){
            for($i=0; $i<$row2["QUANTITY"]; $i++){     
                try{
                    $insertRslt = $insert->execute($insertParams);
                }catch(PDOException $ex){
                    $out[] = $failedInsertQuantity;
                }
            }
        }
    }

 

Let's say customer 123 bought 4 of product A and they have 10 locations

    customerNumber  |  product  |  category  |  startDate  |  expireDate  | stores
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-01      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-01      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-01      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-01      10

Because they purchased less than their store count, I insert 4 records. Now if my ```$validCheck``` query selects all 4 of those records (since they fall in a valid date range) and my loop sees that the array isn't empty, it knows it needs to update those or insert. Let's say they bought 15 this time. Then I would need to insert 6 records, and then update the expiration date of the other 9 records. 

    customerNumber  |  product  |  category  |  startDate  |  expireDate  | stores
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10

There can only ever be a maximum of 10 (store count) records for that customer and product within the valid date range. As soon as the row count for that customer/product reaches the equivalent of stores, it needs to now go through and update equal to the quantity

so now I'm running this but it's not running and no errors, but it just returns back to the command line   

$total = $row2['QUANTITY'] + $validCheck;
    if ($total < $row2['STORES']) {
        $insert_count = $row2['QUANTITY'];
        $update_count = 0;
    } else {
        $insert_count = $row2['STORES'] - $validCheck; // insert enough to fill all stores
        $update_count = ($total - $insert_count); // update remainder
    }

        
    for($i=0; $i<$row2['QUANTITY']; $i++){
        try{
            $updateRslt = $update->execute($updateParams);
        }catch(PDOException $ex){
            $failedUpdate = "UPDATE_FAILED";
            print_r($failedUpdate);
            $out[] = $failedUpdate;
        }
    }
    
        
    for($i=0; $i<$insert_count; $i++){
        try{
            $insertRslt = $insert->execute($insertParams);
        }catch(PDOException $ex){
            $failedInsertStore = "INSERT_STORE_FAILED!!!: " . $ex->getMessage();
            print_r($failedInsertStore);
            $out[] = $failedInsertStore;
        }
    }```

    

As above,

I have a lottery style site that picks a random number between 1-8 but my users complain for some reason that this is not enough.

So i was told to look into using fopen and random.org to generate a random number.

Anyone have experience of this and perhaps a code snippet for me to look at and possibly use?

help will be appreciated.

Hello. I am working on a php script for searching a database table. I am really new to this, so I used the this tutorial http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial/simple-sql-search

I managed to get all the things working the way I wanted, except one important and crucial thing.
Let me explain.
My table consist of three columns, like this:

ID(bigint20)    title(text)        link (varchar255)
=============================
ID1                title1                link-1
ID2                title2                link-2
etc...

Like I said, I managed to make the script display results for a search query based on the title. Want I want it to do more, but I can't seem to find the right resource to learn how, is to place a "Download" button under each search result with its corresponding link from the table.

Here is the code I used.

<?php

$dbHost = 'localhost'; // localhost will be used in most cases
// set these to your mysql database username and password.
$dbUser = 'user'; 
$dbPass = 'pass';
$dbDatabase = 'db'; // the database you put the table into.
$con = mysql_connect($dbHost, $dbUser, $dbPass) or trigger_error("Failed to connect to MySQL Server. Error: " . mysql_error());

mysql_select_db($dbDatabase) or trigger_error("Failed to connect to database {$dbDatabase}. Error: " . mysql_error());
// Set up our error check and result check array
$error = array();
$results = array();
// First check if a form was submitted. 
// Since this is a search we will use $_GET
if (isset($_GET['search'])) {
   $searchTerms = trim($_GET['search']);
   $searchTerms = strip_tags($searchTerms); // remove any html/javascript.
   
   if (strlen($searchTerms) < 3) {
      $error[] = "Search terms must be longer than 3 characters.";
   }else {
      $searchTermDB = mysql_real_escape_string($searchTerms); // prevent sql injection.
   }
   
   // If there are no errors, lets get the search going.
   if (count($error) < 1) {
      $searchSQL = "SELECT title, link FROM db WHERE title LIKE '%{$searchTermDB}%'";

      $searchResult = mysql_query($searchSQL) or trigger_error("There was an error.<br/>" . mysql_error() . "<br />SQL Was: {$searchSQL}");
      
      if (mysql_num_rows($searchResult) < 1) {
         $error[] = "The search term provided {$searchTerms} yielded no results.";
      }else {
         $results = array(); // the result array
         $i = 1;
         while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($searchResult)) {
            $results[] = "{$row['title']}<br /> Download - this is the button I want to link to the title results - and maybe other links too - <br /> ";

    $i++;

       

   
         }
      
      }
   }
}

function removeEmpty($var) {
   return (!empty($var)); 


}
?>

      <?php echo (count($error) > 0)?"The following had errors:<br /><span id=\"error\">" . implode("<br />", $error) . "</span><br /><br />":""; ?>
      <form method="GET" action="search?" name="searchForm">
         Search for title: <input type="text" name="search" value="<?php echo isset($searchTerms)?htmlspecialchars($searchTerms):''; ?>" />
        
         <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search" />
      </form>

    <?php echo (count($results) > 0)?"Rezultate lucrari de licenta sau disertatie pentru {$searchTerms} :<br /><br />" . implode("", $results):""; ?>




 $results = array(); // the result array
         $i = 1;
         while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($searchResult)) {
            $results[] = "{$row['title']}<br /> Download - this is the button I want to link to the title results - and maybe other links too - <br /> ";

    $i++;

 
I would like the results to be displayed like this

Results for SearchItem:

Result 1
Download | Other link
Result 2
Download | Other link
etc.... or something like this.

So, how do I add the data from the link row into a text(Dowload), within an <a href> tag (well, at least I guess it would go this way) ?
My first tries (fueled by my lack of knowledge) where things like

$results[] = "{$row['title']}<br /> <a href="{$row['link']}">Download</a> <br /> ";

but I keep getting lots of errors, and then I don't know much about arrays and stuff (except basic notions);
So there it is. I am really stuck and can't seem to find any workaround for this.
Any suggestions? (examples, documentation, anything would do, really)
Thanks,
Radu

Can anyone tell me why this is not INSERTing? My array data is coming out just fine.. I've tried everything I can think of and cannot get anything to insert.. Ahhhh!

<?php
  $query = "SELECT RegionID, City FROM geo_cities WHERE RegionID='135'";
  $results = mysqli_query($cxn, $query);
  $row_cnt = mysqli_num_rows($results);
  echo $row_cnt . " Total Records in Query.<br /><br />";
  if (mysqli_num_rows($results)) {
      while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($results)) {
          $insert_city_query = "INSERT INTO all_illinois SET state_id=$row[RegionID], city_name=$row[City] WHERE id = null" or mysqli_error();
          $insert = mysqli_query($cxn, $insert_city_query);
          if (!$insert) {
              echo "INSERT is NOT working!";
              exit();
          }
          
          echo $row['City'] . "<br />";
          
          echo "<pre>";
          echo print_r($row);
          echo "</pre>";
      }
      //while ($rows = mysqli_fetch_array($results))
      
      } //if (mysqli_num_rows($results))
      
      else {
          echo "No results to get!";
      }
?>

Here is my all_illinois INSERT table structu

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `all_illinois` (
  `state_id` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `city_name` varchar(255) NOT NULL
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

Here is my source table geo_cities structu

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `1` (
  `CityId` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `CountryID` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `RegionID` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `City` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `Latitude` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `Longitude` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `TimeZone` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `DmaId` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `Code` varchar(255) NOT NULL
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

I'm missing something here. I have a form, and when the submit is pressed, the relevant post data inserts into table one, then I want the last insert id to insert along with other form data into a second table. The first table's still inserting fine, but I can't get that second one to do anything. It leapfrogs over the query and doesn't give an error. EDIT: I forgot to add an error: I get: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'usage, why VALUES ('14', '', '123', '','1234', '', '')' at line 1

query:INSERT INTO tbl_donar (donar_fname, donar_name, donar_address, donar_address2, donar_city, donar_state, donar_zip, donar_email, donar_phone, donar_fax, donar_company) VALUES ('test 14', 'asdfa', 'asdf', 'adf','asdf', '', '', '', '123', '', '')


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if (empty($errors)) {

require_once ('dbconnectionfile.php');

$query = "INSERT INTO tbl_donar (donar_fname, donar_name, donar_address, donar_address2, donar_city, donar_state, donar_zip, donar_email, donar_phone, donar_fax, donar_company)
 VALUES ('$description12', '$sn', '$description4', '$cne','$description5', '$description6', '$description7', '$description8',
'$description9', '$description10', '$description11')";

$result = @mysql_query ($query);


if ($result) {

$who_donated=mysql_insert_id();

$query2 = "INSERT INTO tbl_donation (donor_id, donor_expyear, donor_cvv, donor_cardtype, donor_authorization, amount, usage, why)
 VALUES ('$who_donated', '$donate2', '$donate3', '$donate4','$donate5', '$donate6', '$donate7')";
$result2 = @mysql_query ($query2);

if ($result2) {echo "Info was added to both tables! yay!";}

echo "table one filled. Table two was not.";
echo $who_donated;

//header ("Location: http://www.twigzy.com/add_plant.php?var1=$plant_id");

exit();
} else {
echo 'system error. No donation added';

Hello, I'm having a bit of a problem here, all help to this issues would be much appreciated

I am trying to use text boxes to insert numbers into the database based on what is inputed.
If I have a string, like this for example:
$variable = 09385493;

And I want to insert it into the database like this:
mysql_query("INSERT INTO integers(number)
VALUES ('$variable')");

When checking the integers table in my database, looking at the number field, the $variable that was inserted is outputted as
9385493

Notice the number zero was taken out of the front of the number. If the number is double 0's (009385493), both of those zero's would disappear, too.

Thanks

I know this is not coding.. However...
How tolerant is PHP from generating a random output from 1000s of entry columns in a mysql database.
I would like to make a script that would potentially pick one of a 1000 results at random.
is this a problem with being ran multiple times?