PHP - Having Trouble Concatenating

Hi,

I have two variables: $latest_note and $notes. Whenever I update $latest_note, I also want this (and today's date) to be added to $notes, such that $notes becomes a sort of archive of all of the latest notes, listed by date.

I tried creating a third variable called $full_notes and saying
$full_notes = $latest_note.$notes; ... then when I run my mysql update, I set notes='$full_notes' but it's not working properly.

Is there a way to simply add one variable to the beginning of another in the db directly, concatenating the two?

Thanks!

I have a series of echo statements containing html and php elements. Is it possible to somehow store the following statements in one variable by concatenating and later print that variable.
The variable should print out the statements as it is printing now.


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<?  echo "USER banned:<b>";
 echo '<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="'.$forumurl.'1acpanel/user.php?do=edit&u='.$banuserid.'"<fontcolor="#4822aa" face="verdana" size="2">'.$banusername.'</font></a><br>';

echo "</b>USER Banned By:<b>";

 echo '<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="'.$forumurl.'1acpanel/user.php?do=edit&u='.$banneruserid.'"><font color="#4822aa" face="verdana" size="2">'.$bannerusername.'</font></a><br>';
 echo "</b>Banned on:<b>".$bandate."</b><br>";
echo "Reason:<b>".$reason."</b><br><br>";
?>

The below might be a noob question but,

I concatenate two spaces in the below string

$new_hebrew_date_string = $hebrewMonthName . '  ' . $hebrewDay . "%";

yet when I execute

   echo "<br />new_hebrew_date_string is $new_hebrew_date_string<br />";
   printf("hebrew_date_string is: %s <br />", $new_hebrew_date_string);

Only one space is output in between $hebrewMonthName and $hebrewDay regardless
of how many spaces I pad the string with.

Strangely enough, the string $new_hebrew_date_string is correctly padded w/spaces when I pass it as a
parameter to a mySQL stored procedure.

Any ideas anyone?

Thank you.

Hello everyone,

I am new to this forum and PHP world. Doing my first project, a pretty complicated one to start with. I will be needing your help a lot to accomplish it.
Here is the first one.

1. I have a certain field called 'country'
2. I have small flag icons for every country.

WHAT DO I WANT TO DO?

Example - If the country is U.S.A., the U.S. flag shows up and is a link to www.domain.com/usa
If the country is Germany, the German flags shows up and is a link to www.domain.com/germany
If the country is not set, no flag shows up. END.

How do I execute this?

This is what I am doing to get the image
<img src="images/flags/<?php echo $row_rsPilots['country']; ?>.gif" alt="" name="Flag" width="20" height="20" id="Flag" />

How do make it a link to www.domain.com/'country'

Thanks in advance

Building a website for work. I am struggling with the login for some reason. I`m using a lot of the same code as I did for my personal site and a few other websites I`ve programmed which has always worked. But for some reason, it isn`t working now. I`ve already told it to display to me the information that`s being processed and that is all correct (it even updates the database like it`s supposed to). It just won`t show the person being logged in, which defeats the purpose of logging in, yanno?

Here are all the files in question.

login.php
<?php
include "file_calls.php";
$title = "Business Name (Beta): Log In";
include "functions.php";
session_start();
echo "$title";
echo "<p>";
echo "Log into the Business Name website. Only authorized members of the Business Name Staff can log into the website.";
echo "<p>";
include "login_form.php";
?>

login_form.php
<?php
echo "<form action='logging.php' method='post'>";
echo "E-Mail Address:";
echo "<br><input type='text' name='email' size=60 maxlength=100>";
echo "<p>";
echo "Password:";
echo "<br><input type='password' name='pass' size=60 maxlength=25>";
echo "<p>";
$buttonlabel = "Log In";
include "formbutton_format.php";
echo "</form>";
?>


logging.php
<?php
include "file_calls.php";
$title = "Business Name (Beta): Logging In";
include "functions.php";
session_start();
echo "$title";
echo "<p>";
echo "Logging into the Business Name website. Only authorized members of the Business Name Staff can log into the website.";
echo "<p>";
$email = $_POST['email'];
$pass = $_POST['pass'];
$entry_date = strftime("%B\ %e\,\ %Y %I:%M:%S %p", time());

$res = mysql_query("SELECT id, memlev, pwd1, pwd2, email, name FROM user_data WHERE email='$email'");
$by = mysql_fetch_row($res);
mysql_free_result($res);

$log = $by[4];
$pas = $by[2];
$pas2 = $by[3];

if ($email && $pass) {
if ($by[0]) {
if ($by[1] == 2) {
$passwd = crypt($_REQUEST['pass'],$by[5]);
if ($pass == $pas2) {
mysql_query("UPDATE user_data SET lastlogin='$entry_date' WHERE email='$email'");
mysql_close($con);
header("Location: index.php");
}
elseif ($passwd != $pas) {
header("Location: nolog.php?logout=1&m=4");
}
}
elseif ($by[1] == 1) {
header("Location: nolog.php?logout=1&m=2");
}
elseif ($by[1] == 0) {
header("Location: nolog.php?logout=1&m=3");
}
}
elseif (!$by[0]) {
header("Location: nolog.php?logout=1&m=1");
}
}
elseif (!$email || !$pass) {
echo "<b>Error:</b> Both username and password must be entered in order to log in.";
echo "<p>";
include "login_form.php";
}
?>[/php

index.php
[php]<?php
include "file_calls.php";
$title = "Business Name (Beta)";
include "functions.php";
session_start();
echo "$title";
echo "<p>";
echo "This website is currently under construction. Thank you for your patience.";
echo "<p>";
if ($lev > 1) {
echo "Hello, $loggeduser !";
}
elseif ($lev < 2) {
echo "Not logged in.";
}
echo "<p>";
echo "$lev";
echo "<br>$loggeduser<br>$email";
?>

auth.php

<?php
  // Defines
 
  DEFINE('SESSION_MAGIC','sadhjasklsad2342');

  // Initialization
  @session_start();
  @ob_start();
  
 
    /*
      Redirects to another page
    */
    function Redirect($to) {

   @session_write_close();
   @ob_end_clean();
   @header("Location: $to");
    } 
 
     /*
        Deletes existing session
    */
function RemoveSession() {
$_SESSION = array();
if (isset($_COOKIE[session_name()])) {
   @setcookie(session_name(), '', time()+(60*60*24*365), '/');
}
}
    
/*
  Checks if user is logged in
*/ 
function isLoggedIn() {

return(isset($_SESSION['magic']) && ($_SESSION['magic']==SESSION_MAGIC));
}


 
    /* 
      read message count
    */
    function CountMessages($id) {
    
   if ($res=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM user_data WHERE email='$email'"))
   {
   $count=mysql_num_rows($res);
   mysql_free_result($res);    
   return($count);
   }
   return 0; 
    }
    
    /*
      Go login go!
    */
    function Login($email,$pass) {
   
    global $nmsg, $rows;
   
   $ok=false;
   if ($res=mysql_query("SELECT id, email, name, pwd1, pwd2, memlev FROM user_data WHERE email='$email' AND pwd2='$pass'"))
   {
   if ($rows=mysql_fetch_row($res)) {
    $_SESSION['sess_name'] = $rows[2];
$_SESSION['pass'] = $pass;
$_SESSION['gal'] = $rows[0];
$_SESSION['level2'] = $rows[5];
$_SESSION['email'] = $rows[1];
    $_SESSION['magic'] = SESSION_MAGIC;
    $nmsg = CountMessages($rows[0]);
    $ok=true;
   } else {
   include('login_failed.php');
   }
   mysql_free_result($res);
   }
   return($ok);
   }
   
       /*
      Terminates an existing session
    */
    function Logout() {
    @RemoveSession();
    @session_destroy();
    }

    /*
      Escape array using mysql
    */   
function Escape(&$arr)
{
 if (Count($arr)>0) {
    foreach($arr as $k => $v) {
        if (is_array($v)) {
            Escape($arr[$k]);
        }
        else {
            if (function_exists('get_magic_quotes')) {
                if(!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
                    $arr[$k] = stripslashes($v);
                }
            }
            $arr[$k] = mysql_real_escape_string($v);
        }
   }
      }
}

// -----------------------------------------------    
// Main
// -----------------------------------------------    

   Escape($_POST);
   Escape($_GET);
   Escape($_COOKIE);
   Escape($_REQUEST);
   Escape($_GLOBALS);
   Escape($_SERVER);
   
?>


file_calls.php
<?php
include "info_con.php";
include "auth.php";
?>


functions.php

<?php
echo "<title>$title</title>";




$lev=isset($_SESSION['level2'])?$_SESSION['level2']:0;
$logged=isset($_SESSION['gal'])?$_SESSION['gal']:0;
$loggeduser=$_SESSION['sess_name'];
$nmsg = 0;
$rows = isset($_SESSION['rows'])?$_SESSION['rows']:array();
$email = isset($_SESSION['email'])?$_SESSION['email']:'';
$pass = isset($_SESSION['pass'])?$_SESSION['pass']:'';






function rand_chars($c, $l, $u = FALSE) {
  if (!$u) for ($s = '', $i = 0, $z = strlen($c)-1; $i < $l; $x = rand(0,$z), $s .= $c{$x}, $i++);
  else for ($i = 0, $z = strlen($c)-1, $s = $c{rand(0,$z)}, $i = 1; $i != $l; $x = rand(0,$z), $s .= $c{$x}, $s = ($s{$i} == $s{$i-1} ? substr($s,0,-1) : $s), $i=strlen($s));
  return $s;
}






function ShowLoggedInBar() {
global $email,$pass,$rows,$logid;

   $nmes="";
   if($nmsg){
 $nmes="($nmsg New)";
   }
   echo "Hello, $loggeduser !";
}








/* check if we are logging out */
if (isset($_REQUEST['logout'])) {
Logout();
}

/* check if already logged in */
if (isset($_SESSION['magic']) && ($_SESSION['magic']==SESSION_MAGIC)) {   
   ShowLoggedInBar();
}
else {

/* not logged in, is it a form post? */
if (isset($_REQUEST['email']) && isset($_REQUEST['pass'])) {
$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
$pass = crypt($_REQUEST['pass'],$email);
Login($email,$pass);
} else {

}
}
?>


Can anyone see why it works on everything but getting the person logged in?