PHP - True And False Or 1 And 0?

Hey Everyone, I want to start out by saying thanks in advance for reading this. Since I started working with the XAMPP package this community has been a great resource, though this is my first post.  most of my work has been modifying existing stuff in our network, this is my first project from scratch.

I am working on an access control project where I am storing site names and RFID tags in a table, and using PHP to check for existing records. Basically, I want to submit 2 credentials from a host (site and RFID), check if they exist together in the table, if so return TRUE or 1, if not return FALSE or 0. I am new to both PHP and MySQL (although I took a course years ago) so I am looking here for help.

On this server I have XAMPP installed and everything I need running. I have a table and created a few records for testing. My current trouble is getting PHP to return the proper values for the SQL query. The SQL query works fine, I think - it returns the number of rows that match and that record.  I'm not sure this is the result I need to be able to deal with the way I want.  Using other resources my current PHP statement looks like this:
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if(mysql_num_rows(mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE 'site_name' LIKE 'berland' AND 'card_id' LIKE '290093C84E' LIMIT 0 , 30"))>0){echo '1';}
   else
   {echo '0';} So, my table has the entry as noted in this query above. Final one will be dynamic where the host will be sending those values - I will likely need help with that as well, but small steps first.;-) Anyway, I was playing around with the end statement >0{echo '1';} but wasn't able to make it do what I want.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Aaron

hi there,

is there a difference between if($var == false) and if(false == $var)

thankyou!

$looponce = 1;
foreach ($this->info as $k => $v) {
if ( (($k == 'subject') && ($v['required'])) && (!$this->settings['customSubject'])) {
for ($i = 0; $i <= 0; $i++) {
$output[] = $this->display_errors('error_system_subject');
}
}
if ( (($k == 'name') && (!$v['required'])) || ((!array_key_exists("name", $this->info)) && ($looponce == 1)) ) {
$output[] = $this->display_errors('error_system_name');
$looponce++;
}
}

That is my loop that i check things in. What i'm more interested in is the name if statement.

If currently checks for a name key in an array(below) and makes sure that it is set to required. If it's not set to required, print out a system error and die()'s.

I'm looking for ways to remove the need for program errors and just change them to what is needed to run.

What i know how to do is, get into the inner array, what i don't know is how to edit the data and put it back exactly as it was given to me. The inner array data can be put back in any order, but the outer array must be in exact order as it was given.


above code $this->info = $formdata;

$formdata = array(
'name' => array('name'=>"Full Name", 'required'=>false, 'type'=>'text'), # This needs to be required=>true, but i can't trust the user, which is why i have the error.
'telephone' => array('name'=>"Telephone", 'required'=>false, 'type'=>'phone'),
);


Any help is greatly appreciated, also am i doing the foreach loop in the code above in an efficient manner or is there another way?

Apart from the fact this can cause an infinite loop is it OK to use?

$user->reset_token = $user->generate_password(32);

// Make sure the token is unique
while(TRUE)
{
$count = ORM::factory('manager')->where('reset_token', '=', $user->reset_token)->count_all();
if($count < 1) break;

$user->reset_token = $user->generate_password(32);
}

Or would you approach the logic for this differently?

Thoughts appreciated. Cheers

I am wondering if these "true" values are the same to PHP...
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<a href="' . BASE_URL . 'members/log_in.php?addComment=true">Log In</a>


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if (isset($_GET['addComment']) && ($_GET['addComment']==TRUE)){


Debbie

Is there any reason why I would want to use this...

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$_SESSION['loggedIn'] = TRUE;
versus this...

Code: [Select]
$_SESSION['loggedIn'] = 1;
(The first one is easier to read...)


Debbie

<?php
$id1 = '5' ;
$id = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7);

    foreach($id as $value){
if($id1==$value){
    echo 'One of them matches, ' ;
    echo 'Do not execute command <BR>' ;
} ////// if ends here
} ////// loop ends here

?>   How to do something if all statements are false ? like when id $id1 = '10' , ?

hi i have set 2 varibles, and want to echo them out if they are true,  i have this script but doesnt work, please help.
<?php
$month=$_GET['month'];
$year=$_GET['year'];

If($year!=0 && $month!=0)
{
echo $month;
echo $year;

}
?>

cheers matt

Hey here is my code im trying to redirect  the index.php to index.php?id=1
the way i have done it doesn't look really good is there a better way to do it please?

im trying to redirect to id=1 because otherwise i wont be able to echo out anything...

id 1 is default category so is there a way to tell it if  $id is empty echo from id 1?

<?php   

        $id = $_GET['id']; 
if($id == ''){
echo "<meta http-equiv=Refresh content=0;url=index.php?id=1>";

}
        $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM pages WHERE id='$id' ",$connect);
        while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
             {
        echo $row['anything1']; 
        echo $row['anything2']; 
} 
?>

Hi,

Apologies if this is rather easy but wondered how you would get around the following problem.

I have a post being sent on a checked form that has the name set to a value used in my DB, for example:

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<input type="checkbox" name="<?PHP echo $rows ["catID"] ?>">
Where name would equal something like 11. I'm trying to right some code that inserts data from the rows that have been checked, bit like the below:

Code: [Select]
while($rows = $database->fetch_array($result)){
    $strSQL='INSERT INTO affiliate_join_cat (ajcCatID, ajcAffID) VALUES ('.$rows["catID"].', '.$_POST["affID"].')';
if ($_POST($rows["catID"])=="on"){
$database->query($strSQL);

so my post will look something like 11 = on, dependent on the row checked. But there is something wrong with this part of the code:

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$_POST($rows["catID"])=="on"

my thoughts are that until catID actually equals 11 this does not evaluate to anything? So have tried using empty and isset to handle it without any success.

Not sure what to do next?

Thanks in advance

<?php
if('00' == '000')
echo 'weired';
?>


Please consider the code above. Strangely it echoes the word "weired".

Also if('00' == '000000000000000') returns true and so forth.

What is really going on?

Thanks in advance

By the way the php version is 5.3.9 on wampserver 2.2

I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out a simple problem.  I've got the following PHP code in an HTML page: 


$shutoff_date = strtotime($wkend_start_date) - 259200; 
if ($shutoff_date > $todays_date) 
{ 
$current_month = date("m");
$current_year = date("y");

$freshman_eligible = 0;
if ($current_month >= 2 && $current_month <=7) {
$freshman_eligible = 1;
}
if ($current_month <= 7) {
$seniors = $current_year ;
}
else {$seniors = $current_year + 1;
}

$juniors = $seniors + 1;
$sophomores = $seniors + 2;
$freshman = $seniors + 3;

echo "HTML Stuff blah, blah, blah";

if ($freshman_eligible = 1) {
echo "<option value=\"$freshman\">$freshman</option>";}
}




The last test to see if $freshman_eligible is equal to 1 is always testing true, and it's actually resetting $freshman_eligible to whatever I put inside the IF statement.  No matter what the variable is set to previously, it will reset to whatever I test for in the last section, and hence always tests true.

I thought maybe it was an issue with scope, but I'm not sure what the issue would be or how to resolve it.


What am I missing???

Hi

Not that often I play with these (and normally just a single font I use).

However I am trying to generate an image with a ttf bit of text on it. No problem using Tuffy.ttf (the normal one I use), but I want to use some arrow characters which it doesn't support.

I have tried using Wingding and Webdings but neither work with GD.

Am I missing something (hopefully something obvious)?

All the best

Keith

I have a statement

$account = $_SESSION['account_id'];
$postedby = $account_id;

/*both echo out to the same number*/

if($account == $postedby){
 echo "DELETE BUTTON";
}

i echo'ed out both $account and $postedby and both return 1 but the if statement fails to read as true.

HELP!!!

thanks in advance!