PHP - Moved: I Want To Add Sort Codes Here

hello freinds, iam new to this forum and new to php.

i have just finished a course on html and css.

but now i have realised that its become comulsory for me to learn php.

but iam confused as to what ellements of php i should learn.

since this is a programming language i find its gonna be real tuff for me, can u please advise as to which parts i should learn first to get going.

i wont be developing custom websites for customers, just for my own hobbies.

my main ambition is to utilise API's in my websites.

Thanx

Well my forum code is almost complete and one feature it is lacking is BB Codes.

How would I go about making BB Codes for the following:

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[URL=Url]Title[/URL]
[IMG]Img Url[/IMG]
[b]bold[/b]
[i]Italics[/i]
[u]Underline[/u]
[s]Strike-through[/s]

These are the only ones I want atm so any help would be appreciated.

Hellow every one; i need little help to change code in my script version as i have older version codes and em using new version script so i need to change codes on my version script.

iam using latest script which codes are these

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if ($CURUSER['control_panel'] == 'yes' && $privacylevel == 'strong')
            print('<td class="f-border comment-details" align="left" width="15%"><center><strong>'.$postername.'</strong><br /><i>'.$title.'</i><br /><img width="80" height="80" src="'.$avatar.'"><br /><br />Uploaded: ---<br />Downloaded: ---<br />Ratio: ---<br /><br /><a href="account-details.php?id='.$row["user"].'"><img src="themes/'.$THEME.'/forums/icon_profile.gif"></a> <a href="mailbox.php?compose&id='.$row["user"].'"><img src="themes/'.$THEME.'/forums/icon_pm.gif" ></a></center></td>');


and

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else
            print('<td class="f-border comment-details" align="left" width="15%"><center><strong>'.$postername.'</strong><br /><i>'.$title.'</i><br /><img width="80" height="80" src="'.$avatar.'"><br /><br />Uploaded: '.$useruploaded.'<br />Downloaded: '.$userdownloaded.'<br />Ratio: '.$userratio.'<br /><br /><a href="account-details.php?id='.$row["user"].'"><img src="themes/'.$THEME.'/forums/icon_profile.gif"></a> <a href="mailbox.php?compose&id='.$row["user"].'"><img src="themes/'.$THEME.'/forums/icon_pm.gif" ></a></center></td>');


and i want to change them under

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if ($row["class"] == 3 || $row["donated"] > 0) { 
                if ($site_config["donatedstar"] || $site_config["vipstar"]) { 
                $star = "<img src=images/star.gif border=0>";
                } else {             
                $star = ""; 
                }
                }
if ($privacylevel != "strong" || ($CURUSER["control_panel"] == "yes")) {
                        print("<tr><td valign=top width=150 align=left class=table_col2><center><b>$postername $star</b><br><i>$title</i></center><br>Uploaded: $useruploaded<br>Downloaded: $userdownloaded<br>Ratio: $userratio<br><br><center><img width=80 height=80 src=$avatar></center><br></td>");


and

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}else{
                        print("<tr><td valign=top width=150 align=left
class=table_col2><center><b>$postername $star</b><br><i>$title</i></center><br>Uploaded: ---<br>Downloaded: ---<br>Ratio: ---<br><br><center><img width=80 height=80 src=$avatar></center><br></td>");
                }


and one more thing i have two different images for both classes as in older codes version only one image specify for both class but em using two images for "Donated" = start.gif and for "VIP" = vip.gif so i want both images for both class so pls help me how to do them.
Thanks,
Regards.

I am not sure what is going wrong but I have not changed any of my codes and now I am getting this error message on a simple form that I am testing. Any idea what has happened. I have had several successful tries that have updated to the db.
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Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: Access denied for user 'ebermy5'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /home/ebermy5/public_html/form.php on line 20

Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/ebermy5/public_html/form.php on line 20

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/ebermy5/public_html/form.php on line 21

Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: Access denied for user 'ebermy5'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /home/ebermy5/public_html/form.php on line 29

Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/ebermy5/public_html/form.php on line 29



This is the form

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<?php
@include_once ("Connections/connect_to_mysql.php")
 or die('could not connect to database');

  $err='';

  if($_POST["submit"]){
  
    // Validate form data

    if($_POST["firstname"]=='') $err.='Please enter First Name<br>';
    if($_POST["email"]=='') $err.='Please enter Email<br>';



    if($err==''){ 

      // Check if there are duplicate entries in the 'contacts' table

      $results = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM `Members` WHERE firstname='".addslashes($_POST["firstname"])."' and Email='".addslashes($_POST["email"])."'");
      if($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)){
        $err.='Can not add duplicate entry<br>';
      }
      else{

        // adding new record to 'contacts' table

        mysql_query("INSERT INTO Members (firstname,lastname,country,Email) 
                    values ('".addslashes($_POST["firstname"])."','".addslashes($_POST["lastname"])."','".addslashes($_POST["country"])."','".addslashes($_POST["email"])."')");

       // redirecting to success screen
    exit;
      }
    }
  }

?>The HTML below..
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<html>
<head>
<title>Add New Contact</title>
</head>

<body>

<h2>Register with us</h2>

<?php echo $err==''?'':('<p style="color:red;">'.$err.'</p>') ?>

<form method="post" action="form.php">

<table border="0">
<tr>
<td valign="middle">First Name:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="firstname" size="30" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($firstname) ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="middle">Last Name:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="lastname" size="30" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($lastname) ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="middle">Country:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="country" size="30" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($country) ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="middle">Email:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="email" size="30" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($email) ?>"></td>
</tr>
</table><br>

<input type="submit" name="submit" value=" Submit! ">

</form>

</body>
</html>

Hey eveyone,

I have this great idea I would love to do but I have some questions and whenever I have questions I come here and they always get answered :-)

Anyway what do you guys know about SMS short codes (you know those commercials on TV that are like text ringtone1 to 555)? I did some quick reading and it seems they are super expensive?!? Is there anyway to get them free or cheaper if you can write your own code?

Has anyone had any experience with sms short codes?

Also is there anyway for a site to receive a SMS and then charge that persons service provider with php?

Thanks

Hi,

below is the output from FMS streams in XML format. and there is no way i can change the format of XML file,  how do it just get just codes( like 20p5tc0bqm25an2, 42fem6h84kq3nmb, etc)

Thank you


  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <result>
  <level>status</level>
  <code>NetConnection.Call.Success</code>
  <timestamp>8/25/2010 2:51:34 AM</timestamp>
  <name>_defaultRoot_:_defaultVHost_:::_1</name>
- <data>
  <_0>20p5tc0bqm25an2</_0>
  <_1>42fem6h84kq3nmb</_1>
  <_2>b2zudqmrfqa05a6</_2>
  <_3>bsbzrnde1z4qmdv</_3>
  <_4>cgpm8wlvzyrp6b7</_4>
  <_5>hqy95ympgq1t5ui</_5>
  <_6>qa8ultkr5pv2vas</_6>
  <_7>qr94iqvdqag26ee</_7>
  <_8>wjesw80adgv4usu</_8>
  <_9>zcdua1yok7kw5l4</_9>
  </data>
  </result>

Hello everyone,

Can somebody help me? I am a novice in PHP programming.
I do not understand a line of code below:

$action = isset($_GET['action']) ? $_GET['action'] : '';

The variables $action saves the values obtained by the GET method, but what does this piece of code

? $_GET['action'] : '';

Thanks in advance!

I have this part of the code:

        for($number_words_loop = 0; $number_words_loop < $number_words; $number_words_loop++) 
       { 
        $value1 .= 'AND a.adtitle RLIKE \'[[:<:]]' . $words[$number_words_loop] . '[[:>:]]\''; 
        $value2 .= 'AND a.addesc RLIKE \'[[:<:]]' . $words[$number_words_loop] . '[[:>:]]\''; 
       } 

And I want to combine $value1 and $value2, so the code should look something like this:

        for($number_words_loop = 0; $number_words_loop < $number_words; $number_words_loop++) 
       { 
        $value .= 'AND a.adtitle RLIKE \'[[:<:]]' . $words[$number_words_loop] . '[[:>:]]\' OR AND a.addesc RLIKE \'[[:<:]]' . $words[$number_words_loop] . '[[:>:]]\''; 
       } 

In the first code, first it checks $value1 and then $value2 one by one, and that way it checks if both of them contain all the words that are put in the search field. What I need is to check if all the words that are put in the search field are contained in the one OR in the another. I want to make it search through both of them at the same time, but I don't know how to put correctly that OR I put in the second example. So any professional help will be appreciated.

Here is an example of what I mean:

If the Ad has this:

Ad Title: nokia phone on sale
Ad Description: brand new, unpacked, with 16gb memory card included.

and if someone searches for nokia sale it will show the ad, because all the search words are contained in the Ad Title. Also, if the search is brand unpacked it will also show the ad, because all the search words are contained in the Ad Description. But, the problem is if someone searches for nokia brand This way, the word nokia is not contained in the Ad Description, and the word brand is not contained in the Ad Title, so the ad will not be shown.

So, I only need a way to put that OR correctly to connect those two values, just like the second code, but in the right way.

Thanks in advance.

I am using a sloppy 3rd party API  that doesn't return error codes, just error messages. See below
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$err = $object->getErrorMessage();

if( strlen($err) > 0 ) {
header("Location: step1.php?err=$err");
}
As you can see this is sloppy because anyone can just modify the address bar of step1.php and inject their own error message, or javascript or their own HTML buttons, etc.

As a work around, I thought maybe I could use POST instead of GET... At least then the "err" variable would be hidden for the most part

Any ideas how I can work around this?

Thanks!

Hello.
i have created a template in dreamweaver, however when i added php code to a page the position of my bottom div got messed up...
it works 100% with just text.

I have a container div with other divs in it. inside the container div i have a div named content, and this div is the only div which is editable.
in the bottom (outside of the container div) i have a bottom div which is centered with margin:0 auto; this divs position gets totally messed up once i add php code in the content div.


http://elevweb.skit.no/0111nema/action_adventure.php
here is the link to the page with php with it, as u can see the div with facebook etc in it got a messed up position.

Hi everyone,I want to learn PHP hook and I try hook examples.I tired this example but I saw only white page.It has a problem but I can't understand it

Codes;
hook.php
<?php
    class Hooks {
        public function add($hook,$class=null,$method=null,$args=null) {
            if (empty($method)) error("You must include a method (function) when defining add_hook.");
            $this->hooks[$hook][]=array((!empty($class)?array($class,$method):$method),$args);
            return $this;
        }
        public function clear($hook=null) { if (!empty($hook)) unset($this->hooks[$hook]); else $this->hooks=null; }
        public function run($hook) {
            if (empty($this->hooks[$hook])) return $this;
            foreach ($this->hooks[$hook] as $hkey=>$hvalue) {
                if (is_array($hvalue[0])) $hvalue[0]=array($hvalue[0][0],$hvalue[0][1]);
                if (!empty($hvalue[1])) if (!is_array($hvalue[1])) call_user_func($hvalue[0],$hvalue[1]); else call_user_func_array($hvalue[0],$hvalue[1]);
                else call_user_func($hvalue[0]);
            }
            return $this;
        }

    }
?>


script.php
<?php
    // For a function:
    function doTitle() { echo $current->title; }
    $hooks->add('head_title',null,'doTitle');

    // For a class:
    class Output {
        function body_final() { echo implode("\n",$this->body); }
    }
    $hooks->add('page_body','Output','body_final');

    // To pass multiple arguments into a function, you must use:
    function test($arg1,$arg2) { echo "Arg1: {$arg1}, Arg2: {$arg2}"; }
    $hooks->add('page_body',null,'test',array('test','ing'));
?>

index.php
<?php
    // You must include the hook file here, or you can make an includes file to do all of your startup (as is normally done).
    include 'hook.php';
    include 'script.php';
?><!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <?php run('head_meta'); ?>
        <title><?php $hooks->run('head_title'); ?></title>
        <?php
            $hooks->run('head_links');
            $hooks->run('head_scripts');
        ?>
    </head>
    <body>
        <?php $hooks->run('page_body'); ?>
    </body>
</html>

Thank you

Hi,

I have a question. Currently, when I retrieve the records in my zone 'North', there is no misalignment.

However when I tried to copy the same coding to make up zone 'West', the alignment went off? May I know what is the reason? Any advice to align it properly.

Attached is the picture of my example



<div id ="location">
<input name="zone[]" type="checkbox" id="1" value="1">
    <label for="1">North</label><br />
   
   <?php
      $dbc = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'aliendatabase', '1234567', 'aliendatabase')
      or die(mysqli_error());
      $query = ("SELECT * FROM tutor_preferred_district ORDER BY district_id ASC");
      $sql = mysqli_query($dbc, $query)
      or die(mysqli_error());
      echo'<table><tr>'; // Start your table outside the loop... and your first row
      $count = 0; // Start your counter
         while($data = mysqli_fetch_array($sql)) {
            /*    Check to see whether or not this is a *new* row
               If it is, then end the previous and start the next and restart the counter.
            */
            if ($count % 3 == 0) {
            echo "</tr><tr>"; $count = 0;
         }
            echo '<td><input name="district[]" type="checkbox" id="'.$data['district_id'].'" value="'.$data['district_id'].'">';
            echo '<label for="'.$data['district_id'].'">'.$data['district_name'].'</label></td>';
            $count++; //Increment the count
      }
     echo '</tr></table><br />'; //Close your last row and your table, outside the loop
   ?>
   

   <input name="zone[]" type="checkbox" id="2" value="2">
    <label for="2">West</label><br />
   <?php
      $dbc = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'aliendatabase', '1234567', 'aliendatabase')
      or die(mysqli_error());
      $query = ("SELECT * FROM tutor_preferred_district ORDER BY district_id ASC");
      $sql = mysqli_query($dbc, $query)
      or die(mysqli_error());
      echo'<table><tr>'; // Start your table outside the loop... and your first row
      $count = 0; // Start your counter
         while($data = mysqli_fetch_array($sql)) {
            /*    Check to see whether or not this is a *new* row
               If it is, then end the previous and start the next and restart the counter.
            */
            if ($count % 3 == 0) {
            echo "</tr><tr>"; $count = 0;
         }
            echo '<td><input name="district[]" type="checkbox" id="'.$data['district_id'].'" value="'.$data['district_id'].'">';
            echo '<label for="'.$data['district_id'].'">'.$data['district_name'].'</label></td>';
            $count++; //Increment the count
      }
     echo '</tr></table>'; //Close your last row and your table, outside the loop
   ?>
</div>

I am letting users select there color code option for text-shadow for there username
I am storing them into a field called "color"

HEX exaMPLE:

FF6633,AA3633

First is the background color, 2nd is the foreground. (then i'll explode them)

Is there a PHP function that let's me validate the input so it's HEX ONLY?

I will be db escaping it and intval it too.

I've never really made my own bbcode parser function before, but I'm going off of different tutorials to help me create my own style of parsing.  I've actually never really used preg_replace much, either.  My code is returning an odd error and I have no idea how to fix it.  I'm using codeigniter and the error it returns is below:

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preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 6


This is the code for my function:
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function bbParse($string){

$codes = array(
'/\[b\](*?)\[\/b\]/' => '<b>\\1</b>', //bold tags
'/\[h2\](*?)\[/h2\]/' => '<h2>\\1</h2>', //h2 tags
'/\[h3\](*?)[\/h3\]/' => '<h3>\\1</h3>', //h3 tags
'/\[quote\](*?)\[\/quote\]/' => '<blockquote>\\1</blockquote>', //quote tags using the template's blockquote tag
'/\[img\](*?)\[/img\]/' => '<img src=\'\\1\' alt=\'Image Not Available\'>', //image tags
'/\[url\=(*?)\](*?)\[/url\]/' => '<a href=\'\\1\' title=\'\\2\'>\\2</a>', //anchor tags
'/\[p\](*?)\[/p\]/' => '<p>\\1</p>' //paragraph tags
);



$string = preg_replace(array_keys($codes), array_values($codes), $string);

return $string;


}