PHP - Mysql Geoip

Hello everyone,

Sorry if this has been answered but if it has I can't find it anywhere. So, from the begining then.  Lets say I had a member table and in it I wanted to store what their top 3 interests are.  Their$ row has all the usual things to identify them userID and password etc.. and I had a further 3 columns which were labled top3_1 top3_2 & top3_3 to put each of their interests in from a post form.

If instead I wanted to store this data as a PHP Array instead (using 1 column instead of 3) is there a way to store it as readable data when you open the PHPmyadmin?

At the moment all it says is array and when I call it back to the browser (say on a page where they could review and update their interests) it displays 'a' as top3_01 'r' as top3_02 and 'r' as top3_03 (in each putting what would be 'array' as it appears in the table if there were 5 results. Does anyone know what I mean?

For example -

If we had a form which collected the top 3 interests to put in a table called users,

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<form action="back_to_same_page_for_processing.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
   
    <input name="top3_01" type="text" value="enter interest number 1 here" />
    <input name="top3_02" type="text" value="enter interest number 2 here" />
    <input name="top3_03" type="text" value="enter interest number 3 here" />
    <input type="submit" name="update_button" value=" Save and Update! " />

   
    </form> // If my quick code example for this form is not correct dont worry its not the point im getting at :)
And they put 'bowling' in top3_01, 'running' in top3_02 and 'diving' in top3_03 and we catch that on the same page with some PHP at the top -->

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        if (isset($_POST)['update_button']) {
   
    $top3_01 = $_POST['top3_01']; // i.e, 'bowling' changing POST vars to local vars
    $top3_02 = $_POST['top3_02']; // i.e, 'running'
    $top3_03 = $_POST['top3_03']; // i.e, 'diving'

With me so far? If I had a table which had 3 columns (1 for each interest) I could put something like -

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   include('connect_msql.php');
   
    mysql_query("Select * FROM users WHERE id='$id' AND blah blah blah");
   
    mysql_query("UPDATE users SET top3_01='$top3_01', top3_02='$top3_02', top3_03='$top3_03' WHERE id='$id'");


And hopefully if ive got it right, it will put them each in their own little column. Easy enough huh? But heres the thing, I want to put all these into an array to be stored in the 1 column (say called 'top3') and whats more have them clearly readable in PHPmyadmin and editable from there yet still be able to be called back an rendered on page when requested.

Continuing the example then, assuming ive changed the table for the 'top3' column instead of individual colums,  I could put something like this -


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            if (isset($_POST)['update_button']) {
       
        $top3_01 = $_POST['top3_01']; // i.e, 'bowling' changing POST vars to local vars
        $top3_02 = $_POST['top3_02']; // i.e, 'running'
        $top3_03 = $_POST['top3_03']; // i.e, 'diving'
   
    $top3_array = array($top3_01,$top3_02,$top3_03);
   
    include('connect_msql.php');
   
    mysql_query("UPDATE members SET top3='$top3_array' WHERE id='$id' AND blah blah blah");
But it will appear in the column as 'Array' and when its called for using a query it will render the literal string. a r r in each field instead.  Now I know you can use the 'serialize()' & 'unserialize()' funtcions but it makes the entry in the database practically unreadable. Is there a way to make it readable and editable without having to create a content management system?

If so please let me know and I'll be your friend forever, lol, ok maybe not but I'd really appreciate the help anyways.  The other thing is, If you can do this or something like it, how am I to add entries to that array to go back into the data base?

I hope ive explained myself enough here, but if not say so and I'll have another go.  Thanks very much people,  L-PLate (P.s if I sort this out on my own ill post it all here)

I have following piece of code below, and I would like to be able to express it pure SQL, something that could go into a .sql file :

$request_string='SELECT topic_forum_id FROM topic_table WHERE topic_id= 2014';
$query=database->prepare($request_string);
$query->execute();
$data=$query->fetch();
$query->closeCursor();
$forum=$data['topic_forum_id'];

$request_string='INSERT INTO post_table
(post_topic,post_forum) VALUES (2014,:forum)';
$query=database->prepare($request_string);
$query->bindValue(':forum',$forum,PDO::PARAM_INT);
$query->execute();
$data=$query->fetch();
$query->closeCursor();

  Is it possible ?

So i have this php as shown below. It should make a list of comments with comment replies below their comment respectively.

The problem is that it only goes through and shows 1 comment and all the comment replies for that one comment. It should be showing all comments i have in the db for that article.

If i remove the second while then it shows all the comments correctly but no comment replies then...

How do i get this script to loop through the db for every comment but also loop through every comment reply for that $row[id]?

If anyone has a better / more efficient way of what I am trying to do, please explain or show example (i am open to anything)...

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// what article are we showing?
$article_to_show_id = $_GET['article_id'];


$active_is_set_text = "1"; // Active Column text that makes it okay to show

// Finding the article
$search_for_article = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM articles WHERE id = '$article_to_show_id' AND active = '$active_is_set_text'");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($search_for_article))
{
// format the last updated date right
$update_date_edit = $row[update_date];

$update_date_edit = date('F j, Y \a\t h:ia', $update_date_edit);

$row[update_date] = $update_date_edit;



// format the submit updat date right
$submit_date_edit = $row[submit_date];

$submit_date_edit = date('F j, Y \a\t h:ia', $submit_date_edit);

$row[submit_date] = $submit_date_edit;


echo '
<div>
', $row[title] ,'
</div>


<div>
by: ', $row[author] ,' on ', $row[submit_date] ,'
</div>



<div>
', $row[content] ,'
</div>


<div>
Last Updated: ', $row[update_date] ,'
</div>

<form action="article_reply.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="article_id" value="', $row[id] ,'" />
<button name="article_reply" type="submit" value="submit">Reply</button>
</form>

';

}

$comment_count = 0;
$comment_reply_count = 0;

// Finding all of the comments
$search_for_article = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM article_comments WHERE article_id = '$article_to_show_id' AND reply_id = '0'");

while($row_comment = mysql_fetch_array($search_for_article))
{
// format the submit updat date right
$comment_date_edit = $row_comment[comment_date];

$comment_date_edit = date('F j, Y \a\t h:ia', $comment_date_edit);

$row_comment[comment_date] = $comment_date_edit;

echo '
<br>
<br>
COMMENT:<br>

<div>
By: ', $row_comment[username] ,' on ', $row_comment[comment_date] ,'
</div>

<div>
', $row_comment[comment] ,'
</div>
';
$comment_count++;

// Finding all of the comment replies if any
$search_for_article = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM article_comments WHERE article_id = '$article_to_show_id' AND reply_id = '$row_comment[id]'");

while($row_two = mysql_fetch_array($search_for_article))
{
// format the submit updat date right
$comment_date_edit = $row_two[comment_date];

$comment_date_edit = date('F j, Y \a\t h:ia', $comment_date_edit);

$row_two[comment_date] = $comment_date_edit;

echo '
<br>
<br>
COMMENT REPLY:<br>

<div>
By: ', $row_two[username] ,' on ', $row_two[comment_date] ,'
</div>

<div>
', $row_two[comment] ,'
</div>
';
$comment_reply_count++;
}
}

Need some help I have 2 tables in a database and I need to search the first table and use the results from that search, to search another table, can this be done? and if it can how would you recommend that I go about it?

Thanks For Your Help Guys! 

I have the code snippet below trying to check my database if a variable exists, it seems to work for the username but not for the email.
The database name is "communitycouch_users" table is "reg_vars" to check the row: email. the variable $email is coming from my form.

Upon form submission it will submit the data into the database regardless it exists.

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  $email= $_POST['email'];
  $username= $_POST['username'];
 // Check if the email and username exist already
      if(MysqlVarExists("communitycouch_users", "reg_vars", "email", $email) == true) {
        $errors_code["existing_email"] = "That email is already being used.";
      }
      if(MysqlVarExists("communitycouch_users", "reg_vars", "username", $username) == true) {
        $error_code["existing_username"] = "That username is already in use.";
      }

Hey, I was wondering.. Is there any php functions or any way I can get some information from MySQL?
I want to be able to echo out the uptime for MySQL, and some other things.. I've seen it done before so I know its possible lol.

Im trying to compare two different server table and compare match email output. please tell me whats wrong in my code.

I have been trying very hard to get this script to work but I am no good at arrays...

Anyhow, the basic idea is that the script will read an RSS feed and post all that content to the database which will be used to display content on the site.

<?php

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/football/rss.xml');
$arrFeeds = array();
foreach ($doc->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {
$itemRSS = array ( 
'title' => $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue,
'desc' => $node->getElementsByTagName('description')->item(0)->nodeValue,
'link' => $node->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue,
'date' => $node->getElementsByTagName('pubDate')->item(0)->nodeValue
);
array_push($arrFeeds, $itemRSS);
}

include 'dbconnect.php';

foreach ($arrFeeds as $item) {
$sql="INSERT INTO tb_rss (title, desc, link, date) VALUES ($item => title), $item => desc, $item => link, $item => date)";
if (!mysql_query($sql)){ 
die('Error: ' . mysql_error()); 
}
}
?>

Current error messege is:
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Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'desc, link, date) VALUES (Array => title), Array => desc, Array => link, Array =' at line 1
Help please?

Hello, I am new to this site and hope I am posting this in the right section...   The thing is.....   I would like some help with php and mysql..   What I want to create is a page where users can create an account by entering their name, email and password, and if the username is taken they will have to try again otherwise their details will be registered to the mysql table and have an account to login.   Also I would like a redirect so if the user is a standard user it goes to say “home”, but if the user is an admin it will go to another page ie “home2”, and how would I create the admin in the same table on mysql  or seperate? Right the last thing is once the user can register and login, so can the admin, for instance if there are 10 users, when logged in I want each of those users to see different information can this be done and how could I do this ? I thought maybe have the table and the id would be from 1-10 so if user is 1 being dan show his column, and if user logged 2 being steve show column id 2.   Can somebody help me implement this please ?   I am currently learning php and mysql, im in university I managed to learn how to create the table, connect login, search, add to the database when logged in and edit etc.. but for what I want to achieve now I cannot find any tutorials or help, could somebody please help me with the coding for this and what pages are what and how to create the table in mysql being either 1 table for both user and admin, or 2 tables for separate users and admin.   Thanks for your help in advance guys    

Hi in new to php with a work colleague we have been designing a php/mysql reporting system for the school i work at but need a help with a bug
teachers can update reports when they do the code pouplates the textareas with what is in the DB
they can then make changes no problem but if two do it at the same time or one opens a reports goes makes a tea another opens the same report makes a changes updates report lets say Science then  and then the other teacher comes bak makes a change to Maths it rewights the old science over the top of the new one the othe teacher did a little while ago

In short can you make a php statment that onchange of textarea then include into the mysql update query if no change the dont include that in the mysql update query

Hi to all,

        Here is my code to out put the and saved in xml file...

<?php
ob_start();

$conn=mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
$mysql_select_db("test",$conn);

$selqry=mysql_query("select * from table_name");

$doc = new DomDocument('1.0');

$root = $doc->createElement('userlist');
$root = $doc->appendChild($root);

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($selqry))
{
    $users= $doc->createElement('users');
    $users= $root->appendChild($users);
   
   foreach($row as $fieldname => $fieldvalue)
   {
      $child = $doc->createElement($fieldname);
      $child = $calls->appendChild($child);
   
      $value = $doc->createTextNode($fieldvalue);
      $value = $child->appendChild($value);
   }
}
echo 'Wrote: ' . $doc->save("userslist.xml") . '  bytes';
?>

the values are stored in xml format as
<userlist>
       <users>
              <date>2011-09-27 22:47:55</date>
              <channel>abc/3024-b5f96be8</channel>
              <name>Test</name>
              <email>test@test.com</email>
     </users>
</userlist>

But i wanted to store blow mentioned as it is...
<userlist>
       <users>
              <date>2011-09-27 22:47:55</date>
              <channel>3024</channel>
              <name>Test</name>
              <email>test@test.com</email>
     </users>
</userlist>

Please help me out....!

Thanks and Regards....

I have a CVS file with about 1000 entries which I need to input into a MySQL database. Each line in the file has 5 fields but I am only interested in the first two. These are the description and name.

I'm sure I can do this directly with MySQL but I need to use PHP anyway because there is actually other things I need to do with the data. I don't need to go into details because I already have that sorted.

I just need to know how to open the CVS file and make a mysql insert loop with the data.

Thanks

Hey Guys

I need some help, I have these two tables:

(vouchers)


(login)


I also, have this page. (redeem.php)


What i need, is when a user types in a voucher code, i adds 100 credits to there user account.

My Logged in Session is currently: Quote

$username = $_SESSION['loggedinsuccesfully'];


Also, when the voucher has been used, the status of the voucher needs to change to 1 (means it cant be used again)

If anyone can offer me this code, i will appreciate it.

Thanks again

fCooper94

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Hey guys, I've heard about MySQL being replaced with PDO some time in the future, but as a simple question, I'm coding a personal website for my use only, would I still be able to use MySQL rather than changing it to PDO and learning that?    Its not going to be anything big or nothing just to keep me active in my spare time.   Thanks for you help.