PHP - Quotes, ' Vs "

I don't think I've asked this before have I??  can someone give me an internet KB that gives me all scenarios that warrant using singles or doubles?  as in, wrapping values, variables, and why I need to do either, and when, etc, etc....?

thanks

Edited March 29 by ajetrumpet

Can someone please help me with an array problem i can not figure out.

I need the array to be numbered from 1 to how ever many fields that are needed in the form and have a mysql field name and the title of the field also in the array.

1, "mysql_field_name", "Title of form field"
2, "", ""

and so on

then the form will be shown based on the array.

I have the following draft code which I am working with.

any suggestions on how i may do this array ?

Code: [Select]
<?php
$options = array(
'1'=> array('fieldtext'=>'option1', 'mysqlfield'=>'option1'),
'2'=> array('fieldtext'=>'option2', 'mysqlfield'=>'option2'),
'3'=> array('fieldtext'=>'option3', 'mysqlfield'=>'option3'),
'4'=> array('fieldtext'=>'option4', 'mysqlfield'=>'option4'),
);


// $options = array(1 => "option1", "option2", "option3", "option4");

// the line above works but i want to include the name of the mysql field as well.

$userid = 1;

?>
<div style="align: center; margin: 12px; font-family:Tahoma;">
<br><br><?php
if ($_POST['Update'] != "Update") { // check if form submitted yet, if not get data from mysql.
$res = db_query("SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `userid` = '" . $userid . "'");
foreach($options as $key => $value) { $_POST[$key] = mysql_result($res, 0, $value); }
$ok_to_update = "no";
} elseif ($_POST['Update'] == "Update") { // check if form submitted yet, if so get POST data.
// error checking
// foreach($options as $key => $value) {
// $_POST[$i] = "";
// }
$ok_to_update = "yes";
}

if ($_POST['Update'] == "Update" && $ok_to_update == "yes") {
// $res = db_query("INSERT INTO `users` () VALUES ()"); // add user details to database.
?><p><br><br><br>Thank you for updating</p><?php
} else {
?><form name="form1" method="post" action="">
<?php foreach($options as $key => $value) {
?><p><?php echo($value); ?>:&nbsp;<input type="text" name="<?php echo($key); ?>" value="<?php echo($_POST[$key]);?>"></p>
<?php } ?>
<input name="Update" type="submit" value="Update">
</form>
<?php } ?>
</div>

A problem has arisen which puzzles me. I have forms which save data to MySql and retrieve it, showing it as the default data in the form. Naturally I escape any quotes before sending it to the database and remove the slashes when I retrieve it. But the form HTML code shows the data like this value="$variable" which is fine when only single quotes are used in the data but causes a problem when the user uses double quotes. So data of John \"Jack\" Smith would be output as value="John "Jack" Smith" with obvious problems. If I use value='...' then that would cause problems with single quotes.

I haven't seen the answer in any of my books. The only things I can think of is changing all double quotes to single before saving to DB or converting them with htmlspecialcharacters so they are no longer actual quotes.

Hi,

bit stuck on how to find and replace "<" and ">" with "&lt;" and  "&gt;". I basically have a database record that outputs to screen and I need the code in the <code> tags to be rendered to the screen. I therefore need it to go through the whole array variable from the db and change the symbols just inside the code tags. Please be aware that the code tags might happen more than once

here's an example below

Code: [Select]
<p>blah blah blah</p>
<p>blah blah blah</p>
<p>blah blah blah</p>
<code>
<h1>hello</h1>
</code>
<p>blah blah blah</p>
<p>blah blah blah</p>
<p>blah blah blah</p>
<code>
<h1>hello</h1>
</code>

the desired output would be:

<p>blah blah blah</p>
<p>blah blah blah</p>
<p>blah blah blah</p>
<code>
&lt;h1&gt;hello&lt;/h1
</code>
<p>blah blah blah</p>
<p>blah blah blah</p>
<p>blah blah blah</p>
<code>
&lt;h1&gt;hello&lt;/h1
</code>

help on this would be great

Cheers

Rob

Hi guys

I am a newbie with PHP and I have been trying to solve this problem for 3 days..

Ive set up a booking form on my website to be sent directly to my email once the client clicked on the send button..
The problem I am having while checking these pages on wamp is that the booking form is ok but when I click on the send button the following message error appears
"Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\wamp\www\fluffy_paws\booking_form2.php on line 27"

When I check online I have this message "500 - Internal server error.
There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed."

Are my codes wrong???

My webhosting is Blacknight.com , Im on Windows Vista, my internet is a dongle with O2 ireland

Thanks for your help!

Hi guys

I'm struggling a bit, I need to replace a word that occurs multiple times in text with an array("up","down","forward","backwards") of words.


$find = "left";
$replace = array("up","down","forward","backwards");
$text = "left left left left";

echo str_replace($find,$replace,$text);


The Output is: array array array array

Did try this with a foreach statement as well, but no luck. Is there a better way of doing this? 

Thanks

cant work out this mysql syntax error
"operation":"medupdate","medid":"","name":"ibo","medyear":"5","medmonth":"21","medday":"1","recuser":1,"SuccFail":"fail","SuccFailMessage":"error occured 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 '''WHERE med_id=' at line 2","ResultData":""}

Code: [Select]
$sql="update metodology set med_description='".$req['name']."',
  med_year='".$req['medyear']."', med_month='".$req['medmonth']."', med_day='".$req['medday']."', med_recorddate= now(), med_recorduserid= 1'";
  $sql.= " WHERE med_id=".$req['medid'];

I am getting the following error when using composer: "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"?

Just started.  I am pretty sure composer.json wasn't changed.  journalctl doesn't show anything.  Maybe Doctrine related, however, nothing seems to help.

Any ideas?
 

[michael@devserver www]$ php -v
PHP 7.3.4 (cli) (built: Apr  2 2019 13:48:50) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.3.4, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
    with DBG v9.1.9, (C) 2000,2018, by Dmitri Dmitrienko
[michael@devserver www]$ composer -V
Composer version 1.4.2 2017-05-17 08:17:52
[michael@devserver www]$ yum info composer
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.us.oneandone.net
 * epel: mirror.rnet.missouri.edu
 * extras: mirror.us.oneandone.net
 * remi-php73: mirror.bebout.net
 * remi-safe: mirror.bebout.net
 * updates: mirror.us.oneandone.net
Installed Packages
Name        : composer
Arch        : noarch
Version     : 1.8.4
Release     : 1.el7
Size        : 1.8 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : epel
Summary     : Dependency Manager for PHP
URL         : https://getcomposer.org/
License     : MIT
Description : Composer helps you declare, manage and install dependencies of PHP projects,
            : ensuring you have the right stack everywhere.
            :
            : Documentation: https://getcomposer.org/doc/

[michael@devserver www]$ composer update
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)


  [ErrorException]
  "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"?


update [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--dry-run] [--dev] [--no-dev] [--lock] [--no-custom-installers] [--no-autoloader] [--no-scripts] [--no-progress] [--no-suggest] [--with-dependencies] [-v|vv|vvv|--verbose] [-o|--optimize-autoloader] [-a|--classmap-authoritative] [--apcu-autoloader] [--ignore-platform-reqs] [--prefer-stable] [--prefer-lowest] [-i|--interactive] [--root-reqs] [--] [<packages>]...

[michael@devserver www]$

 

This topic has been moved to Linux.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=318175.0

I have a registration form on my website and after Registration I want the user to activate first his account. I don't have problem on sending this email to the user. What I want to appear is like this..

GoodDay "username",

Blah Blah!

how can you actually do that? I know that you can do that through session variables but the thing is email's can't accept scripts on sending emails. how can I get the value from a session variable for example and convert it to plain html text so that i can OUTPUT it to the email.. HELP PLEASE!

Hi, I currently have an if, elseif, else program that starts off with

Code: [Select]
if( $v_name == "" || $v_msg == "" )
echo "something"
how do I turn this into a switch?

but the very next elseif I have

Code: [Select]
elseif( strcspn( $_REQUEST['msg'], '0123456789' ) == strlen( $_REQUEST['msg'] ) )
echo "something"

is it possible to turn this into a switch with 2 different strings like that to evaluate?

This topic has been moved to PHP Installation & Configuration.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=347922.0

Hey guys!
I have the following doubt:

I have a php file that does the following alongside with other code not displayed he

$fp = fopen("emails.txt", "w");

It opens a txt file called emails.txt that is in the same folder where the php is saved but how do I tell $fp = fopen("/folderbefore/emails.txt", "w"); ??

In other words, how do I write the path on the script that the emails.txt is located in a previous folder where the php file is located??

Thanks in advance for your help
Cheers!

Hi all,

Using a form with check boxes divided into different categories, I collect data selected by the user.

I now want to combine each choice in each category with each choice in the other categories and list the combinations to the user.

If the user chooses one or more options in each category, it is relatively easy to nest foreach loops, since the number of categories will always be the same. For example, if the form contains three categories of options, the code will be:

Code: [Select]
foreach ($form['cat_1'] as $k1 => $val1)
{
foreach ($form['cat_2'] as $k2 => $val2)
{
foreach ($form['cat_3'] as $k3 => $val3)
{
echo  $val1.' _ '.$val2.' _ '.$val3.'<br/>';
}
}
}

Things get complicated if the user does not select options within a given category. More generally, I want to be able to generate the list regardless of the number of categories in which the user selects options.

Thank you in advance for your advice.