PHP - Is It Possible To Shorten This?....

Hi,

When a user POSTS 10 maps (dropdown), I don't want any two or more being the same.
From my knowledge, only way I know of doing this, is this very long messy way:

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if($_POST['map1']==$_POST['map2'] || $_POST['map1']==$_POST['map3'] || $_POST['map1']==$_POST['map4'] || $_POST['map1']==$_POST['map5']) etc...
then I need to type if $_POST['map2']==$_POST['map1'] etc...

How can I put this in its simplest form so that there are no POST duplicates?

Thanks for any help.

The $a variable contains the news text. The $link variable contains a link to the page with the full text of this news.
Need to write the abbreviated text of the news in the $b variable according to the rules:
- crop up to 180 characters
- assign an ellipsis
- make the last 2 words and ellipsis a link to the full text of the news.

Edited February 27 by ElijahLoop
change text

I need help to shorten the following url in apache .htaccess example.com/index.php?q=1&w=2   if possible, the url that i would like is... example.com/index.php/1/2   or better yet... example.com/index/1/2

Hey all,

I really like programming in PHP, but I'm still in the learning process.
And mostly, I'm not that good in making my code short.
This is now the case again.

I have this code which gets a lot of checkboxes, only checkboxes, out of a mysql database, for a planning project.
Now the code I have so far, retrieves the checkboxes, which are booleans in the database, and checks if they are True or False and sets the checkboxes respectively to checked="yes" or not.
This code works.
But I'm here to get tips on how to shorten my code, since it's very repetitive and thus long, which isn't quite efficient.

As I said, I'm still in learning process, so I hope you guys understand that I'm looking for help with this.
Thanks.

EDIT: Okay, I now suddenly see, that I can use elsif for True and False. This would be logical to do, and I can accomplish this easily. But it would be still very repetitive.

Here's the code:

Code: (php) [Select]
<?php
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){

// UNCHECKED

if ($row['fact-sent'] == false){
$fact_sent = '<input type="checkbox" />';
}

if ($row['fact-payed'] == false){
$fact_payed = '<input type="checkbox" />';
}

if ($row['domain'] == false){
$domain = '<input type="checkbox" />';
}

if ($row['content'] == false){
$content = '<input type="checkbox" />';
}

if ($row['design-sent'] == false){
$design_sent = '<input type="checkbox" />';
}

if ($row['design-approved'] == false){
$design_approved = '<input type="checkbox" />';
}

if ($row['design-sliced'] == false){
$design_sliced = '<input type="checkbox" />';
}

if ($row['temp-website'] == false){
$temp_website = '<input type="checkbox" />';
}

if ($row['temp-website-sent'] == false){
$temp_website_sent = '<input type="checkbox" />';
}

if ($row['temp-website-approved'] == false){
$temp_website_approved = '<input type="checkbox" />';
}

if ($row['cms'] == false){
$cms = '<input type="checkbox" />';
}

if ($row['seo'] == false){
$seo = '<input type="checkbox" />';
}

if ($row['analytics'] == false){
$analytics = '<input type="checkbox" />';
}

if ($row['webmaster-tools'] == false){
$webmaster_tools = '<input type="checkbox" />';
}

if ($row['website'] == false){
$website = '<input type="checkbox" />';
}

if ($row['website-online'] == false){
$website_online = '<input type="checkbox" />';
}


// CHECKED

if ($row['fact-sent'] == true){
$fact_sent = '<input type="checkbox" checked="yes" />';
}

if ($row['fact-payed'] == true){
$fact_payed = '<input type="checkbox" checked="yes" />';
}

if ($row['domain'] == true){
$domain = '<input type="checkbox" checked="yes" />';
}

if ($row['content'] == true){
$content = '<input type="checkbox" checked="yes" />';
}

if ($row['design-sent'] == true){
$design_sent = '<input type="checkbox" checked="yes" />';
}

if ($row['design-approved'] == true){
$design_approved = '<input type="checkbox" checked="yes" />';
}

if ($row['design-sliced'] == true){
$design_sliced = '<input type="checkbox" checked="yes" />';
}

if ($row['temp-website'] == true){
$temp_website = '<input type="checkbox" checked="yes" />';
}

if ($row['temp-website-sent'] == true){
$temp_website_sent = '<input type="checkbox" checked="yes" />';
}

if ($row['temp-website-approved'] == true){
$temp_website_approved = '<input type="checkbox" checked="yes" />';
}

if ($row['cms'] == true){
$cms = '<input type="checkbox" checked="yes" />';
}

if ($row['seo'] == true){
$seo = '<input type="checkbox" checked="yes" />';
}

if ($row['analytics'] == true){
$analytics = '<input type="checkbox" checked="yes" />';
}

if ($row['webmaster-tools'] == true){
$webmaster_tools = '<input type="checkbox" checked="yes" />';
}

if ($row['website'] == true){
$website = '<input type="checkbox" checked="yes" />';
}

if ($row['website-online'] == true){
$website_online = '<input type="checkbox" checked="yes" />';
}


// OUTPUT

echo '<tr><td class="customer">'.$row['project'].'</td><td class="customer">'.$row['customer'].'</td><td class="data">'.$fact_sent.'</td><td class="data">'.$fact_payed.'</td><td class="data">'.$domain.'</td><td class="data">'.$content.'</td><td class="data">'.$design_sent.'</td><td class="data">'.$design_approved.'</td><td class="data">'.$design_sliced.'</td><td class="data">'.$temp_website.'</td><td class="data">'.$temp_website_sent.'</td><td class="data">'.$temp_website_approved.'</td><td class="data">'.$cms.'</td><td class="data">'.$seo.'</td><td class="data">'.$analytics.'</td><td class="data">'.$webmaster_tools.'</td><td class="data">'.$website.'</td><td class="data">'.$website_online.'</td></tr>';
}
?>

hello,  is it possible to get the 1274 out of the following?

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$jobnumber='1009-1274R';

$shortnumber= (this is where i need it to be 1274);