PHP - Help Understanding Why We Minus From The The Argument Being Passed In

Hi all

I'm building a script which reads a XML document, and so far so good... until now!

the document uses '-' extensively all the way through it (not something that I would have chosen) so to combat this I've used {}.

The part of the document I am working on now, this simply does not work, and I really cannot see why...

XML
Code: [Select]
        <plot>
          <name-number>87</name-number>
          <price>183000</price>
          <bedrooms>4</bedrooms>
          <status>available</status>
          <summary>With three double bedrooms, including one en suite and a further bedroom plus family bathroom to the first floor,&amp;nbsp;separate lounge and&amp;nbsp;dining room with kitchen&amp;nbsp;and utility to the ground floor, the Otter is a modern home with a great deal to offer growing families.</summary>
          <feature>Separate lounge and dining room</feature>
          <feature>Kitchen with utility room</feature>
          <feature>Integral garage</feature>
          <feature>En suite to master bedroom</feature>
          <property-type>detached-house</property-type>
          <media>
            <caption>
            </caption>
            <type>image</type>
            <filename>1855_Otter-WhitehirstGrange.jpg</filename>
            <indexno>1</indexno>
          </media>
          <media>
            <caption>
            </caption>
            <type>floorplan</type>
            <filename>1386_Otter-WhitehirstGrange.pdf</filename>
            <indexno>2</indexno>
          </media>
          <media>
            <caption>
            </caption>
            <type>brochure</type>
            <filename>284_brochure.pdf</filename>
            <indexno>3</indexno>
          </media>
          <style-name>Otter</style-name>
        </plot>

PHP
Code: [Select]
echo $plot->{name-number}; // echoes nothing, should echo 87
echo $plot->price; // echoes 183000
echo $plot->bedrooms // echoes 4
echo $plot->{style-name} // echoes nothing, should echo Otter

This is frustrating the hell out of me, and I cannot see why this would work everywhere else in the XML document but not here.

Any ideas or help would be received with gratitude!

Hello,
I've been struggling for days on this problem now. And I'm getting frustrated!  I know that the answer is simple, and I've done it before but I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong.
What do I want?
Well, I get a date from the database in this format: YYYY-MM-DD. I first want to distract one month from that and then set in into this form: YYYY, MM, DD. I've got this but it's not working (I've tried a lot different values).

$transformdate = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("-1 month", $d_datevalue)); 
$startpoint = str_replace("-", ", ", $transformdate);


Thanks,
NLCJ

Hi, I'm having trouble with this:

Code: [Select]
$date = date('d/m/y') ;
echo $date;
echo "<br/>";
$date1 = strtotime('date -1 month');
echo date('Y-m-d', $date1);
My result looks like this:
Current Date:  19/05/11
Date minus 1 month:  1970-01-01

I want it to look like this:
Current Date:  19/05/11
Date minus 1 month:  2011-04-19

Hello

$row[longdescription] contains a description of a product (complete with HTML mark-up).

I would like to display the first 250 characters in the results of a search. I would also like to remove any images that may crop up.

This is what I have so far...
Code: [Select]
echo strip_tags(html_entity_decode(substr(preg_replace('/<img[^>]*>/Ui', '', $row[longdescription]), 0, 250)));
The thing is (as you guys can probably already see), it also counts the HTML mark-up as characters and I get very different outputs (especially if an image occurs).

I'd appreciate if you could advise me as to the correct way of doing this.

Thank you

I insert a time value using the following code     $ti= ( !empty($_POST['time']) ) ? "'{$_POST['time']}'" : 'NULL';    I want to insert a second time value into a differen column which would be the same time minus 1 hour   something along the lines of :   $ti2= ( !empty($_POST['time']) ) ? "'{$_POST['time'] -1 hour}'" : 'NULL';    What would be the correct way to do it

Hello! I want to be able to make a code that tells me how many saturdays have passed till today. I've tried a couple of things but nothing. Any help?! Thanks!

Hi

I am trying to get all variables passed in a url string and wondered how would i do it?
I dont know what they are yet and i need to set key as value.
Any help?

Hi,

I want to update a row when 30sec are passed on a page. If not nothing happens(not updating row).

Example:
You go to example.php>> 30sec pass, update row>> 30sec not over, no update.

it does not necessarily have to be second it can be minutes or hours.
Who can help me?

Hope its clear enough, Thanks.

 

Hi All,

I've been trying to access xml data from an API feed, but it needs a Variable to be passed to an include file without a form. the include is at the header of the page.

in the code below, i'm trying to retrieve the variable $project_add from the $xml_2 feed. $proj_add_ID comes from another feed and is being passed ok. 

foreach ($projects_1 as $proj_1) {

                        $job_no =$proj_1['job_no'];
                        $job_name =$proj_1['job_name'];
                        $job_status =$proj_1['job_status'];
                        $job_staff =$proj_1['job_staff'];
                        $job_due =$proj_1['job_due'];
                        $clr_1 = $colors_1[$job_status];
                        
                        if ($err_2) {
                        echo "cURL Error #:" . $err_2;
                         } else {
                        $_POST['job_id']= $job_no;
                        $xml_2=simplexml_load_string($response_2) or die("Error: Cannot create object");
                        $proj_add = $xml_2->xpath("CustomFields/CustomField[ID ='$proj_add_ID']");                         
                            foreach($proj_add as $item_2) {
                            $project_add = "$item_2->Text";
                        }            
                        echo "<div class='row no-gutters'>";
                        echo "<div class='col-sm bg-white border rounded'><a href='managejob.php?job_id=$job_no' class='text-left ml-1'><strong>$job_no</strong></a></div>";
                        echo "<div class='col-sm-2 bg-white border rounded'><p class='text-left ml-1'>$job_name</p></div>";                         
                        echo "<div class='col-sm-2 bg-white border rounded'><p class='text-left ml-1'></p>$project_add</div>";                        
                        echo "<div class='col-sm-2 bg-white border rounded'>" . state_dropdown_1($job_no, $job_status, $clr_1) . "</div>";                        
                        echo "<div class='col-sm-2 bg-white border rounded'><p class='text-left ml-1'>$job_staff</p></div>"; 
                        echo "<div class='col-sm-2 bg-white border rounded'><form action='CALL_API_PUTTaskDate.php' method='POST'>"
                                . "<input type='hidden' name='task_ID' value ='". $jdata['task_ID'] ."'>"
                                . "<input type='hidden' name='est_min' value ='". $jdata['est_min'] ."'>"
                                . "<input class ='form-control bg-white text-dark font-weight-bold' type='date' name='start_date' value='" . date('Y-m-d', strtotime( $jdata['display_date_1'] )) . "' onchange='this.form.submit()'>"
                                . "</form></div>";
                        echo "<div class='col-sm bg-white border rounded'><p class='text-left ml-1 mt-1'><strong>" . date('d/m/Y', strtotime( $jdata['display_date'])) . "</strong></p></div></div>";
                        
                       }

The include file is like this

/ collect Custom Felds
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
    // collect value of status input field
    $job_no = $_REQUEST['job_id'];
      } 

if (isset($_POST['job_id'])) {
$job_no = $_POST['job_id'];
}

if (isset($_GET['job_id'])) {
$job_no = $_GET['job_id'];
}

$curl_2 = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl_2, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.xxx.com/job.api/get/$job_no/customfield?apiKey=xxx&accountKey=xxx",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "Accept: */*",
    "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate",
    "Cache-Control: no-cache",
    "Connection: keep-alive",
    "Host: api.xxx.com",
    "Postman-Token: xxx",
    "User-Agent: PostmanRuntime/7.17.1",
    "cache-control: no-cache"
  ),
));

$response_2 = curl_exec($curl_2);
$err_2 = curl_error($curl_2);

curl_close($curl_2);

The problem is the variable $job_no isn't getting passed to CURLOPT_URL so it's not retrieving the data required. i need to be able to retrieve this data without submitting a form as it's in a foreach loop and the Id is specific to each iteration. is there a way to do this? I have been able to achieve this by putting the include within the div tags that it will be displayed but it just slows down everything too much and hangs. 

Any help will be much appreciated. 

Kind regards,

Michael Bennington.

Hi

I use Dreamweaver to do a lot of my work on a php/mysql database. I have two tables - applications and contacts and they are linked by the id appid. When I view a page with all of the application and contact details the url contains the appid as a number at the end (eg .../Summary.php?appid=639)
When I want to edit one of the contacts I go to the edit page but this is identified by a contact id so that url looks like:
../EditContact.php?contactid=32
When I update the contact's details I would like to return to the summary page but can't as the url gets muddled between the two different ids so I end up at a page with no info on it.

How can I get round this?

I'm sorry my explanation isn't very clear but any help is much appreciated.

Hi all,

How can I check in PHP if this date has already passed in the following format:

2012-12-12

In my main script I set $errorArray with values when required survey questions go unanswered.

The ne code that checks for missing required values is working perfectly, and right before I pass $errorArray to a function which rebuilds the survey questions - this time with the error messages - I do a var_dump($errorArray) and that array has errors in it as expected.

But while my function that re-builds the survey questions gets called and does indeed re-build the survey questions, the $errorArray isn't getting pased for some strange reason?

(I'm not sure if i have ever passed an array to a function before.)

In my function I have...

	function generateSurveyItem($dbc, $questionNo, $questionID, $surveyResponseArray=NULL, $errorArray=NULL){
	 
	}
	

 

When I var_dump($errorArray) at the top of the function, and submit a blank form, I end up with a blank page and a file path to my PHP script ending with...

	/public_html/utilities/function.php:3010:null
	

 

Questions:

1.) What is happening?

 

2.) I thought =NULL in the parameter list just meant that the argument is "optional"?

 

3.) I am able to successfully pass $surveyResponseArray to this function, so what is up with $errorArray?

 

P.S.  When I run things, and submit an empty form - thus no "required" fields get completed - the survey gets re-displays, and any values chosen are "sticky", but my error messages should also be displayed to let the user know what is mising, and that is the part that isn't working?

This has to be something silly stupid to fix...

 

Edited February 16 by SaranacLake

I am trying to pass a php variable to javascript but it's not working. This is the "sketch" of my code.

<?php
$url="asset/go/";
?>

 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Page Title</title>
        <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>

    </head>
    <body>
        <script>
            var user="mayor";
            var url ='<?php echo json_encode($url); ?>';
       if(user=="mayor"){
           alert(url);
       }
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

As it is now, it comes with the output below:

<?php echo json_encode($url); ?>

If I remove the quotation around the php in d jQuery, it throws an error in syntax.

Also both codes are located in the same file named test.php

Thanks in advance.

Edited April 18 by Abel1416

Good day freaks.  I am pulling my hair out trying to figure this out.  I am trying to pass patterns for preg_replace through $_GET and then apply them.  The object is to highlight certain words in a chunk of text. 

Say I want to highlight bounded cases of 'foo' in the text.  So here's what I'm doing: Code: [Select]
$string = urldecode($_GET['highlight1']);       //  $string contains \\bfoo\\b
$search = preg_replace('/\\\\b/','b',$string);   // $search contains \bfoo\b  as I want it to
$replace = preg_replace('/\\\\b/','',$string);    // $replace contains \foo\  >:-(
$pattern = '/'.$search.'/i';
$text = preg_replace($pattern,'<span style="background-color:yellow;">'.$replace.'</span>',$text);

The problem is that no matter what I try for the pattern for $replace, it winds up with backslashes around foo.  How do I get rid of these?

(I should say that I discovered the pattern/replace for the $search string by experimentation and I don't understand why the pattern doesn't pick off all the backslashes in that case--but at least it does what I want).

TIA

Steve

Hey all,

I'm very new to php and am having an issue writing to my database with a passed value and info taking from a form and am lost as to what to do.
The $comm_id is the value I am getting from another php page that I am passing in the link from the other page. I need to insert that value, the session variable, and the $cmt value, which is taken from the user input from the form. As it stands now, when I run this, the $comm_id and $u_id insert and the $cmt is blank, BUT $cmt is echoing on the screen with the proper value.

Any tips or direction would be great as i've been trying to sort this out for days now and i'm stumped.


<?php 

$host='localhost';
$user='username';
$password='password';
$dbname='db_a';
session_start();
$id_link=mysql_connect($host,$user,$password);
mysql_select_db($dbname, $id_link);

$comm_id = $_GET['commId'];
$u_id = $_SESSION['userId']; 
echo $comm_id;
echo $u_id;
    

$cmt = $_POST["comm"];
mysql_query("insert into Comments values($u_id, $comm_id,'$cmt');");
echo $cmt;

?>
   
<FORM ACTION="test.php" METHOD="POST">
<input type="text" name="comm">
<input type="SUBMIT">
</FORM>