PHP - Question About Query Software.

Ok, I know this is a really simple one, but I haven't done any coding for a couple of month and i'm a bit rusty.

I'm trying to add a field from a MySQL query to a Google calendar add button link so I can create a dynamic 'add to calendar' button from my gig list.

So on the gig list page that echo's all the dates from the database, I want to add the venue name to the 'text' section of the google URL -

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<a href=\"http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&text=VENUE HERE&dates=20060101T000000Z/20060101T000000Z&details=gig%20text&location=gig%20town&trp=false&sprop=www.the-guards.co.uk&sprop=name:The%20Guards\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://www.google.com/calendar/images/ext/gc_button6.gif\" border=0></a>
if I echo the field like so -

Code: [Select]
echo"{$row['gl_venue']}";
I get the correct result - I just can remember how to embed the php within the html, everything i've tried has failed so far.

Once i've got this sorted i can go ahead and add the date, location fields etc.

Anyone have any experience with something called Moodle at all?  I have just been handed it to 'check out', I told them to 'get out'.

Rw

I'd like to make myself a poker software that plays itself on all sites.
What I don't know is how to get the variables names that I need. I need the cards variables name and  the buttons name.
Any suggestion how I do it?
Or if I could read the from the screen somehow.
Thanks
 

Hey guys,

glad I found this forum!

I have written a SMS gateway software using VB6 and would like to port to PHP.

Is there a way to write it under windows OS? I m using the dio_* commands in PHP and it works, but I dont want to do infinite loop to read incoming sms... right now I do infinite loop until I received +CMTI and the while loop breaks. This is very redundant and costly, is there any way that PHP has a "timer" feature-like in VB6 to check on incoming sms, like say, every second?

Thanks guys!

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This will be somewhat of a brain dump with somewhat vague questions.  To summarize it right now, something about "refactoring software" has been bugging me.  The length of the process, the work it takes, and the time, and the "no immediately visible results" that it produces.   There have been numerous questions on "do I refactor or rewrite".  Depending on circumstances, one choice may work better than another, although historically for working projects (projects people are using continuously), refactoring seemed to do better, since it does not break things as much as rewriting does.  And when things break all at once, such as when introducing a rewrite (which most likely has different behavior, UI, feel, workflow, etc. etc.), people tend to get upset.

Well, refactoring seems to smooth out the 'upsetness' over a much longer period of time.  People change as software changes, and each change is not as abrupt as with a rewrite.

There are books written about refactoring software.  That process takes time and work, `while not changing the functionality of the software`.  Little improvements can be done here and there, but the main point becomes improving the internals of the software without affecting the outside behavior, the user experience.

From the business end, *there are no changes!*.  We have developers *doing busy work* without showing anything to the business, until perhaps much later.  Is that bad?  Where I work, I have business people scoff at "what have we been doing" quite regularly, and saying things like "add convertion from one unit system to another?  Just put it in!"  Which ends up me staring into vastness of legacy code and taking 2-3 weeks to "put it in", what in someone's mind takes a day at the most.  But that's cuz maybe I'm slow, but I chose to refactor relevant code first, at least moving View items into respective view containers as a first step.

What is the purpose of refactoring software?  What, per se does it make better?  What expectations can be set?  What do I do next time someone says "it is taking too long", other than saying ... cuz I am refactoring!

Hello,   I'm looking for server management software, preferably free or low cost. I did some googling but could not come up with a good solution for what I need. I manage a small data center and currently keep all server information (IPs, Rack ID, Client ID, etc) in an excel sheet. Does anyone know of something that I can manage the server information more efficiently?   Thanks

I previously used https://www.phpdoc.org/ (not sure about the part 2 part) but got out of the habit.  Wish to change, but had more installation problems than expected.  Is it still considered a good solution?  If so, any recommendations whether I should install using pear, phar, or other?  Thanks

I am working on an application and part of the requirements is to restrict the number of users that can log in based on a license. So on install, I will provide a license that allows for 10 user accounts to be created.

If the client requires 50, a different license will be provided that allows 50. 
I am asking, does anyone know of such a third party software that can accomplish such a task that would invalidate the need of me writing one from scratch.

 

Regards

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I Need help Integrating An Video Upload System Into The Mybb Forum Software. I understand You Need ffmeg +jwplayer ive already installed that on my server.But Now I Need A Little Help Integrating And Uploader Into The Software, So It Can Post The Video Into An Thred When My Users Upload.

Hello I am a total beginner and don't know first thing about php, but still trying to figure this out. 

So what I am trying to achieve is, send a http request from a software to my website with a ticket number, is it possible in php to receive that request and show it on a different webpage of the same site? 

It would be helpful if you can point me to some related articles.