PHP - $##! Error Handling - Newbie Needs Help

Hello everyone,

quick description of 'error handling' so that everyone understands the solution i am seeking. let php and the database handle the error is not an appropriate answer here.

find out what i mean: using xampp, go to a login screen of your website, then turn off the database before submitting the login data. the connection will be attempted then fail. the browser will display its own error page which is white bg with a message. this is ridiculous. i made a custom handler that allows me to ignore this failure and show my own website with an error message.

now how can i detect an error with a select or update statement? i am not a db designer, so i really don't know how to do it. what say i fetch filed['testmyerror'] and it doesn't exist or there is a problem. how do i write php code that is used to ignore this problem and display my own message. naturally i will log the error and/or log and send email to myself.

anyone able to help? just a tip in the right direction?

Thank you very much, i appreciate this forum and its members always.

Hopefully there is a simple solution to this.

I have a form that when submitted sends a message to an email address from the form.  A customer fills it out, so there is no single one email address.  However, half of the time, the retards that use this form dont know their own email address and dont bother to put the .net at the end of it.  or they misspell it.  The other half of the time they dont even bother to put the @ and the domain.  They still think this is AOL for some god unknown reason.  And I cant account for all the ways that they can not figure out how to fuck up their email address, so an email-validator doesnt work because they can even beat that and still manage to break it.  For example, one guy named Mike continues to put the first half of his email in as Miek or Mik or just spelled completely wrong, and the 550 error that comes up when he puts that garbage in, which is most of the time (I think the guy is blind or something) is because his email address doesnt exist on the mail server because he cant spell it right, when on the off chance he actually does get the @domain.com in the end.  I really hate my retard customers.

So my simple little form blows up on them.

But what I am trying to do is to have something like this

if(@mail(args))
  {
  //success, I'll call them back shortly
  }
else
  {
  //youre a retard, please put in your email address correctly
  }

However, the error handling isnt working.  mail() is supposed to return FALSE if it encounters an error, an error that I'd rather put in an error log and not display to the customer, however, the error suppressor doesnt work.

Any Suggestions?

Hi.

I'm trying to display all the missing fields (errors) when the user hits SUBMIT.

My logic:

IF there is NO EMAIL THAN add $errortrack array = $errormsg[EMAIL]

IF there is NO OLDPASSWORD THAN add $errortrack array = $errormsg[OLDPASS]

and so on.

At the end, Print ALL the Error messages on the form using <?php foreach ( $errortrack as $key => $value) { 
                echo "<dt>$key:</dt>"; } ?>

The only thing it prints out is "0:" ever though there should be other errors.

What am I missing? 

Site Link http://www.fusionfashionhair.com/newpassform.php
My PHP Code:

<?php
session_start();
?>
<?php
$submit = $_POST['submit'];
// Form Data
$email = $_POST['email'];
$password_old = $_POST['password_old'];
$password_new = $_POST['password_new'];
$password_new_con = $_POST['password_new_con'];
$errorcount = 0;

$errormsg['Email'] = "Email Entered is Invalid";
$errormsg['OldPass'] = "Old Password Entered is Incorrect";
$errormsg['NewPass'] = "New Password Entered is Incorrect";
$errormsg['NewPassCon'] = "New Confirmed Password Entered is Incorrect";
$errormsg['SecCode'] = "Security Code is Incorrect";
$errormsg['NoErr'] = "No Errors, Continue";

$errortrack = array ($errormsg['NoErr']);

if ($_POST[submit]){
    if ($errorstop = "go") {
    $errorstop="go";
    while ($errorstop<>"stop") {
        // check for existance
      if ($email) {
            echo "True - Continue 1";
            echo "<p>----------</p>";
        } else {
            $errortrack = array ($errormsg['Email']);
            $errorcount++;
            $errorstop="stop";
        }
            
        // check for existance
      if ($password_old) {
            echo "True - Continue 2";
            echo "<p>----------</p>";
        } else {
            $errortrack = array ($errormsg['OldPass']);
            $errorcount++;
            $errorstop="stop";
        }        

        // check for existance
      if ($password_new) {
            echo "True - Continue 3";
            echo "<p>----------</p>";
        } else {
            $errortrack = array ($errormsg['NewPass']);
            $errorcount++;
            $errorstop="stop";
        }        

        // check for existance
      if ($password_new_con) {
            echo "True - Continue 4";
            echo "<p>----------</p>";
        } else {
            $errortrack = array ($errormsg['NewPassCon']);
            $errorcount++;
            $errorstop="stop";
        }            
        $errortrack = array ($errormsg="EVERYTHING IS OK");
        $errorstop="stop";
    }//End While Loop

    } else {
        while($errorcount>=0) {
            // Test display all error messages
            echo "<p>----------</p>";
            echo "<p>Error Count = '$errorcount'</p>";


        }
        die ("PLEASE FILL IN ALL FIELDS");
        
    }
}
?>


My Form Code with the PRINT ERROR:
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    <form action='newpassform.php' method='post' id="regform">
      <fieldset>
        <legend>Change Password</legend>
        <p><?php foreach ( $errortrack as $key => $value) { 
                echo "<dt>$key:</dt>"; } ?></p>
        <p>
          <label for='email'>Email:</label>
          <input name='email' type='text' maxlength="25" value='<?php echo $email; ?>'/>
        </p>
        <p>
          <label for='password_old'>Old Password:</label>
          <input name='password_old' type='password' maxlength="32" />
        </p>
        <p>
          <label for='password_new'>New Password:</label>
          <input name='password_new' type='password' maxlength="32"/>
        </p>
        <p>
          <label for='password_new_con'>Confirm Password:</label>
          <input name='password_new_con' type='password' maxlength="32"/>
        </p>
        <p><span class="required">*</span> Note, username and password are case sensitive</p>
        <p>Forgot your password? <a href="forgot_password.php">Click Here</a></p>
        <p>Login <a href="login.php">Here</a></p>
       <h2>Security Check</h2>
      <p>Enter letters below exactly how they are displayed.  Letter are case sensitive. </p>
      <br />
      <img src="captcha.class.php?usefile=1" />
      <!--OR-->
      <!--<img src="image.php" />-->
     
      <input id='user_code' name='user_code' type='text' size='10' >
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <input class="reset" type='reset' value='Cancel' name='reset'>
                <input class="submit" type='submit' value='Continue' name='submit'>
      </fieldset>
    </form>
    <!--End of Form-->

Hey guys i was wondering if someone could help or guide me. I have been messing around with php for quite some months now to the stage where i can code pretty much what i need to. but recently i started using paypals IPN and during testing i realised some problems arise for example when testing and people buying things say the payment failed due to a line not executing in your script for what ever reason, the person has lost their money yet you have gained it and they are lost. Take this code below for example:


public function insertIntoDatabase($firstName,$lastName,$emailAddress,$merchant,$code,$database,$gameNumber)
{
$year = date("Y");
// Check what database we need to submit too::
$sql = "INSERT INTO playerGame (playerFirstName,
playerLastName,
playerEmailAddress,
playerAccountType,
playerCode,
playerGameDate,
playerGameNumber) VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?)";

$stmt = $this->conn->prepare($sql);
$stmt->bind_param('ssssssi',$firstName,$lastName,$emailAddress,$merchant,$code,$year,$gameNumber);
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->close();

return true;
}


this is called on success the paypal IPN script. But what happens if this fails to execute? I suppose i could wrap it in a variable on the other side and test it

if($task)
{
    echo "code executed";
}

but what happens if this fails ? of am i just being paranoid ? hope someone can help dont want to be ripping people off =] Thanks!

Has anyone seen a decent database class for nicely wrapping up all the PDO functions? Ideally I'm after an example to handle database errors properly, insert/update/select queries, prepared statements and transactions. I've had a crack at writing my own and it's a bit messy with error handling everywhere. Maybe I need to put that in a separate class or something.

E.g. here's how I'd do a database update:
$db = new Database();    // In page controller
$params['type'] = $type;
$params['details'] = $details;
$query = 'insert into site_logs (type, details) values (:type, :details)';
$result = $db->preparedUpdate($query, $params);   // returns false if error or # of rows if successful

Just some examples would be great and I'll re-factor my one to make it better. Thanks!

Hello,

If I have an index file with:

date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT); 

abstract class A {
    abstract public static function YesIReallyMeanAbstractStatic();
}

class B extends A {
    public static function YesIReallyMeanAbstractStatic() {
    }
}


This will not error.

However if I have:


date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT); 

require('class_a_in_a_different_file.php'); // Or use __autoload() to do the same.

class B extends A {
    public static function YesIReallyMeanAbstractStatic() {
    }
}


This will throw the error:
"Static function A::YesIReallyMeanAbstractStatic() should not be abstract"

I know abstract statics are debatable...
but it makes no sense to me for it to be allowed in the first example but disallowed in other.

So I was wondering if this is a bug? Or is there something else going on here?

I assume the parser is evaluating the included file and then throwing the error which doesn't happen if both classes are in the same file as they can then be evaluated altogether.

Hi guys, I'm reviewing a piece of small web application and the current application does not have any error / exception handling capability. If there is any error, it would simply show an error message followed by die;.

I'm planning to implement a simple exception handling class to handle the errors. What I'm thinking is a simple redirect when an error is being caught together with an error code that correspond to an error message in a simple flat text file. The error page will then show an error message that corresponds to the code.

Here's what I have so far. Would appreciate if the PHP experts here would give simple pointers to enhance it.

<?php
class MyException extends Exception {}

try {
throw new MyException("error.php");
}

catch (MyException $e) {
$file = $e->getMessage();
header("Location: $file?e=1");
}

?>

This is what I have on my error.php page

<?php
$errorcode = $_GET['e'];

function getErrorMessage($errorcode) {
$errors = file("english.txt");
foreach ($errors as $error) {
list ($key,$value) = explode(",",$error,2);
$errorArray[$key] = $value;
}
return $errorArray[$errorcode];
}
echo "Test <br />";
echo getMessageMap($errorcode);
?>

As you can see here, exception class would redirect user to error.php if an error is caught together with a GET variable on the URL. On error.php page, it would GET the error code and then run it through a function to get the error message of the corresponding error code and then echos it out.

Was wondering if this is a good practice? My ultimate goal here is to avoid displaying the error message itself on private includes file.

Thank you in advance for your suggestions.

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http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=351056.0

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Hi I am in process of doing a PHP script, my other one works fine, I put them both in below, however i get this error

[code]Error: 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 'order (Firstname, surname, telephone, email, title, description) VALUES ('Stef' at line 1
The code I am using for this section is


 <?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","root","rhysrhys");
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db("hagidolls", $con);

$sql="INSERT INTO order (Firstname, surname, telephone, email, title, description)
VALUES
('$_POST[name]','$_POST[lname]','$_POST[tele]','$_POST[mail]','$_POST[title]','$_POST[descriptions]')";



if (!mysql_query($sql,$con))
  {
  die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
  }
echo "Order Has been Submitted, Being Redirected in 5 Seconds";

mysql_close($con);
?>
[/code]

The database tables I am using are idorder, Firstname, surname, telephone, email, title, description

Ok I am using a book called The Joy of Php, but it the sample code is missing from its website, so I am rewriting it.   Anyway I have run into a parsing error, but my code is a spot match for the book code. Can someone help me?   the error is : Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'Error' (T_STRING), expecting ',' or ';' in C:\wamp\www\submitcar.php on line 46     The code snippet is:

/*try to insert the new car into the db */
if ($result=$mysqli->query($query)) {
echo "<p> you have successfully entered $Make $model into the db.</P>
}
else
{
echo "Error entering $VIN into db:" . mysql_error()."<br>";
}
$mysqli->close();

Please help...I have no idea where my error is. I have the gosh darn semicolon after <br>!  

<?php

Hello Team,

My job changed a few years back but I'm once again trying to learn to become better with php. I wanted to catch up to where I was around this time a few years back and honestly the language is coming back quickly but the quirky bottle-neck errors are still lingering. Hoping someone can take a look at the simple page I created below - post/get/session globals do not seem to be working, additionally, the semicolon after echo command does not seem to end the php command on the semicolon(displays everything). It may be a browser or something more simple but am hoping someone can at least look at my code below to see if there are any red flags.

<?php
print_r($_GET);
echo '<p>Hello World</p>';
?>
<html>
<body>

<h2>Campus Information</h2>

<form action="campus_test_form.php" method="get">
  Campus Name:<br>
  <input type="text" name="campus_name" required>
  <br>
  Campus Abbreviation:<br>
  <input type="text" name="campus_abbreviation" maxlength="8" required>
  <br>
  <input type="submit" value="Submit">
  <input type="reset">
</form>

</body>
</html>

Edited December 11, 2018 by foundherent

A form needs to get answers of math quiz, returning numbers, up to 2 digits after the point.
In all form examples I noticed the usage of:  Code: [Select]
...<input type="text" name="name" /...
Cant it be a number? floating or integer? why "text" ?

Also, can I limit the form to accept numerical input only or would I need to learn Ajax for that?

Once I have the answer, I need to compare it to the correct answer. The method I have in mind is to multiply the answer and the correct one by 100 and compare the integer part. Is there a pre-made function that can do the same?

Hi,

I have an HTML form created using Dreamweaver and now I need a script to handle the form processing. Basically what I need is for the form data received from the webpage to be organized in an email and then sent to me. I would also like to display a thank you message in the browser so the user knows it was received. I was planning to do this using CGI but a colleague suggested that CGI is old school and nowadays a developer would use PHP for this task. Is PHP the right solution for this project?

The examples I have found so far always include the HTML for the form and the script needed to handle it in one file. In my case, I have an HTML form already in place and need it to work with a script to perform the email function. I know I need to set "Action=" on my webpage to point to the PHP script but what would the code look like if no HTML is needed? I hope this makes sense...

Thanks for your help!
Rob