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I must confess, I've not really done much unit testing at all in the last 3 years. Can anyone give me an idea of what they would test and why that would be faster or more efficient than running the code as a user?

One area I can see it having huge benefits is when I'm testing methods which interact with a database, like user registration, which I would probably test by registering several times - fixing any bugs, making amendments and repeating. Ok, so I kinda sold the idea to myself there

But, what about for small applications? I've seen people testing whether a variable is countable...why would I not just check the output immediately?

Appreciate any advice.

Hello all. I'm looking to build a website in php that will be large in scope and I'm looking for some direction as to how to go about coding it. What I'm referring to exactly is the programming model. I'm new to the language, but not to programming, and I've read up on it and familiarized myself with the syntax over the past few days. Normally when I go about building a project I like to plan ahead how I'm going to build It so I don't run into tedious issues later on and this is what I need help with.   My concerns:  I am looking to use the alternative syntax for control structures as to make the php code inside my html readable and easier to manage but in terms of OOP when is it best for me to use classes vs functions?  I am leaning towards using both classes and functions. Classes to handle polling data, sanitizing it and storing it while the functions will be used , with the alternative syntax, to display the data. How should I go about properly setting my project assuming I will have many concurrent users using the website at once? Is using xml / INI files as a directory to look up information a good practice? Is it better to declare constant variables instead? When working with multiple includes is there an easier way to include a file than having to explicity write "dirname( dirname(__FILE__) )" everytime?   I'm essentially looking for guidance / tips as to good programming practices with this language Advanced practices are welcomed as well.     Development Tools: XAMPP ( Windows 7 Pro ) PHPStorm    Current directory structure plan:   Here is what I currently have:     The API class is a collection of functions that returns an object to be used at a later data.

<?php

/*
 * Development API Key
 * @since 1.0
 *
 * Rate Limit(s):
 * 10 request(s) every 10 second(s)
 * 500 request(s) every 10 minute(s)
 */
define( "__API_KEY__" , "---------------------------------" );

require_once dirname( dirname(__FILE__) ) . "\\settings.php";

class API
{

    // If successfull it returns an object from the url that's passed to this function.	
    private function api_call($url)
    {
	$result = null; // end result

        // Create a new curl handle.
        $ch = curl_init();

        curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_URL, "https://" . $url . "?api_key=" . __RIOT_API_KEY__); // set the URL
        curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER , true  ); // return the transfer as a string of the return value
        curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER , false ); // turn off ssl certificate verification

        // Execute the api call
        $response = curl_exec($ch);
        // Get info to analyze the result
        $ci = curl_getinfo($ch);

        $httpcode = $ci["http_code"];

        // If a curl error occured
        if(curl_errno($ch) || ($httpcode != "200"))
        {
            $die  = "Curl Error Code: "    . $httpcode       . "<br/>";
            $die .= "Curl Error Message: " . curl_errno($ch) . "<br/>";
            $die .= "Curl URL: "           . $ci["url"]      . "<br/>";
            die($die);
        } else {

            // Check if the api call we made was valid

            $response = json_decode($response, true);

            // If our response is an array check if it's an error response
            if(is_array($response))
            {
                $error_key = "status";
                if(array_key_exists($error_key, $response))
                {
                    $er = $response[$error_key];
                    $die  = "API Error Message: " . $er["message"]     . "<br/>";
                    $die .= "API Error Code: "    . $er["status_code"] . "<br/>";
                    die($die);
                }
            }

            // Our response is a valid object
            $result = $response;
    }

    private function sanitize_url($url)
    {
        // removes all whitespaces
        return trim(preg_replace( '/\s+/','',$url));
    }

    private function regional_endpoints()
    {
        static $regionini;

        if(is_null($regionini))
            $regionini = parse_ini_file(INI_REGIONAL_ENDPOINTS, true);

        return $regionini;
    }

    private function region_host($shortcode)
    {
        /*
         * regionalendpoints.ini
         * @since 1.0
         *
         * [SHORTCODE]
         * Description=<region_description>
         * Host=<host_url>
         */
        return $this->regional_endpoints()[strtoupper($shortcode)]["Host"];
    }

    public  function region_description($shortcode)
    {
        /*
        * regionalendpoints.ini
        * @since 1.0
        *
        * [SHORTCODE]
        * Description=<region_description>
        * Host=<host_url>
        */
        return $this->regional_endpoints()[strtoupper($shortcode)]["Description"];
    }

    public function api_object_by_name($name, $region)
    {
        /*
         * @Description: Get summoner objects mapped by standardized summoner name for a given list of summoner names.
         *
         *
         * @Returns: Map[string, SummonerDto]
         *
         * Object
         * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         * Name             Data Type          Description
         * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         * id	            long	           ID.
         * name	            string	           Name.
         * profileIconId    int                    ID of the summoner icon associated with the summoner.
         * revisionDate	    long	           Date summoner was last modified specified as epoch milliseconds.
         * Level            long	           Level associated with the summoner.
         */

         $api_url = "%s/api/col/%s/v1.4/obj/by-name/%s";

        return $this->api_call(sprintf($api_url,
            $this->region_host($region),
            strtolower($region),
            $this->sanitize_url($name)));
    }

}

Class that acts as the middle man between the api and the front end. Currently how it is set up it handles an internal queue.

<?php

include dirname(__FILE__) . "\\class-riotapi.php";

define( "SUMMONER_NAME" , 0 );
define( "SUMMONER_ID"   , 1 );

class Summoner
{

    private $riotapi        = null;

    private $summoner       = null;
    private $arr_summoners  = null;
    private $region         = null;


    public function __construct()
    {
        // Create our riot api object
        $this->riotapi = new RiotAPI();
    }


    public function summoner_exists($summoners, $region, $type = SUMMONER_NAME)
    {
        static $eoa; // end of array

        // If our array of summoners is empty or we have reached the end of the array.
        if( empty($this->arr_summoners) || $eoa )
        {
            // Get an array of summoner information from the riot api based on the type of information
            // supplied.
            switch($type)
            {
                case SUMMONER_NAME :
                    $this->arr_summoners = $this->riotapi->api_summoner_by_name($summoners, $this->region = $region);
                    break;

                case SUMMONER_ID :
                    $this->arr_summoners = $this->riotapi->api_summoner_by_id($summoners, $this->region = $region);
                    break;
            }

            // If our array of summoners isn't empty.
            if( !empty($this->arr_summoners) )
            {
                // Set our current summoner the first element in the array.
                $this->summoner = reset($this->arr_summoners);
            } else {
                // We failed to acquire any summoner information so return false.
                return false;
            }

            $eoa = false;

        } else {

            // If we have not reached the end of the summoners array set our current
            // summoner to the next element.
            $next = next($this->arr_summoners);

            // Have we reached the end of the array?
            if( $next ) {
                // No. Set our current summoner to the next element.
                $this->summoner = $next;
            } else {
                // Yes. Set our end of array variable to true.
                $eoa = true;
                // End the loop
                return false;
            }

        }

        return true;
    }


    public function summoner_id()
    {
        return $this->summoner["id"];
    }


    public function summoner_name()
    {
        return $this->summoner["name"];
    }


    public function summoner_profile_icon_id()
    {
        return $this->summoner["profileIconId"];
    }


    public function summoner_last_updated()
    {
        return $this->summoner["revisionDate"];
    }


    public function summoner_level()
    {
        return $this->summoner["summonerLevel"];
    }


    public function summoner_mastery_pages()
    {
        return $this->riotapi->api_summoner_masteries($this->summoner_id(),
            $this->region)[$this->summoner_id()]["pages"];
    }

}

Functions.php file that is a collection of functions that echo out information. 

<?php

require_once "settings.php";
include DIR_INCLUDE . "class-summoner.php";

function summoner_exists($summoners, $region = "NA", $type = SUMMONER_NAME)
{
    global $cs;
    if(!isset($cs)){
        $cs = new Summoner();
    }
    return $cs->summoner_exists($summoners, $region, $type);
}

function summoner_name()
{
    global $cs;
    if(isset($cs)){
        echo $cs->summoner_name();
    }
}

?>

index.php - Example of how I'm currently using the functions.php file.

<?php include "functions.php"; ?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<body>

<?php while(summoner_exists("cyllo")) : ?>

    <div>Summoner Name: <?php summoner_name(); ?></div>
    <div>Summoner ID: <?php summoner_id(); ?></div>
    <div>Summoner Profile icon ID: <?php summoner_profile_icon_id(); ?></div>
    <div>Last Updated: <?php summoner_last_updated(); ?></div>
    <div>Summoner Level: <?php summoner_level(); ?></div>

    <div>
        <?php mastery_pages(); ?>
    </div>

<?php endwhile; ?>
</body>
</html>

Hello:

I am very new to PHP. I have done a few basic feedback forms, but that's it.

I have done Classic ASP for years, and am trying to switch over to PHP.

I wanted to see what it would take to make a basic CMS that would allow users to update page content from an admin panel.

Very much like the attached .JPG demo.

Is there existing code available like what I'm trying to do?

I can post the ASP version code if it will help.

I assume it would need a database, but I have only used DNS-less connections with Access - not anything PHP related.

I know the site is hosted on justhost.com, and justhost.com uses unix servers.

Any assistance would be appreciated!

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It appears that I have PHP 5.1.6 on my VPS and it is unstable when using filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL).

Can someone recommend a reasonable Regular Expression to replace this faulty function?

(Not looking for overly complicated, just something that will block out outrageous e-mails.)

Thanks,


Debbie

In <div id="chart_rt">%3$s</div> below, it is populated with a string that always begins with a number followed by a colon (from 1: to 25:). I see that ltrim removes characters from the beginning of a string but I don't see how to compensate for the extra character in 10: through 25:


function wp_rss( $url, $num_items = -1 ) {
    if ( $rss = fetch_rss( $url ) ) {
        echo '<div id="charts">';

        if ( $num_items !== -1 ) {
            $rss->items = array_slice( $rss->items, 0, $num_items );
        }
//start count
$i = 1;
        foreach ( (array) $rss->items as $item ) {
            printf(
                '<div id="chart_lt">'.$i.'</div><div id="chart_rt">%3$s</div>',
                esc_url( $item['link'] ),
                esc_attr( strip_tags( $item['description'] ) ),
                htmlentities( $item['title'] )
            );
//increment
$i++;
        }

        echo '</div>';
    } else {
        _e( 'An error has occurred, which probably means the feed is down. Try again later.' );
    }
}

Hello:

I would like to know how I can add the option to upload JPGs and/or PDFs to the form I have.

I believe I will need to allow 3 uploads once the whole form is done, but I'm trying to keep it small as I learn this.

Currently, the form saves the data to the database, and emails the results to a contact. This is fine - just what I need to do most of the time.

However, what I'm interesting in doing for this form is to allow the end user to upload/attached JPGs and/or PDFs and save then to the database (and I believe I will need to save the files in a folder on the server, I have one called "EmailedImages"),
and then email the results to the contact, including links that will allow the contact to click and download the attached JPGs and/or PDFs.

I haven't done this before, so can someone point me in the direction of how to do this, or should an example with the code I use:
Code: [Select]
<?php

$error = NULL;
$myDate = NULL;
$FullName = NULL;
$Email = NULL;

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

 $myDate = $_POST['myDate'];
 $FullName = $_POST['FullName'];
 $Email = $_POST['Email'];

 
 if(empty($FullName)) {
   $error .= '-- Enter your Full Name. <br />';
 }
 
 if(empty($Email)) {
   $error .= '-- Enter your Email. <br />';
 }

if($error == NULL) {

$sql = sprintf("INSERT INTO myContactData(myDate,FullName,Email) VALUES ('%s','%s','%s')",

                        mysql_real_escape_string($myDate),
                        mysql_real_escape_string($FullName),
                        mysql_real_escape_string($Email);

                        
  if(mysql_query($sql)) {
  
    $error .= 'Thank you for contacting us.';
    
mail( "email@mywebsite.com", "Contact Request",

"Date Sent: $myDate\n Full Name: $FullName\n Email: $Email\n",
"From: $Email" );
  }
  else {
    $error .= 'There was an error in our Database, please Try again!';
  }
}
}
echo '<span class="textError">' . $error . '</span>';

?>



<form name="myform" action="" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="myDate" size="45" maxlength="50" value="<?php echo date("F j, Y"); ?>" />


Full Name: <input type="text" name="FullName" size="45" maxlength="50" value="<?php echo $FullName; ?>" />
Email: <input type="text" name="Email" size="45" maxlength="50" value="<?php echo $Email; ?>" />


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

</form>

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Okay so I'm trying to come up with as many alternative methods to accomplish something. So I'm just seeking input from anyone who is willing to supply some.

After the user clicks on a match type it'll know HOW MANY sides to the match there are so say for a singles match it'd have 2 sides (1 vs. 1) for a Triple Threat Match it'd have 3 sides (1 vs. 1 vs. 1) and so on. All matches have a stored field in the database of how many sides they have.

So I'm thinking that I could have it create 3 divs (or something) down in the competitors area of how many sides there are in the match (separated by a VS. text block) and when the user selects a character from the dropdown and adds a character the user can maybe drag and drop the character's name to whatever side they choose.

Its one idea. If you think of an EASIER more EFFICIENT way to do something like this and have an idea say something please or even if you can't let me know that you think it's a worth while idea.

Code: [Select]
<label for="matchtypedrop<?php echo $i+1 ?>">Match Type:</label>
            <select class="dropdown" name="matchtypedrop<?php echo $i+1 ?>" id="matchtypedrop<?php echo $i+1 ?>" title="Match Type <?php echo $i+1 ?>">
                <option value="0">- Select -</option>
               <?php
                $query = 'SELECT id, matchtype FROM matchtypes';
                $result = mysqli_query ( $dbc, $query ); // Run The Query
                while ( $row = mysqli_fetch_array ( $result, MYSQL_ASSOC ) ) { 
                    print "<option value=\"".$row['id']."\">".$row['matchtype']."</option>\r";
                }
                ?>
            </select>

<label for="competitors<?php echo $i+1 ?>">Competitors:</label><ul id="competitors<?php echo $i+1 ?>" style="list-style: none; margin-left: 195px;"></ul>
            <select class="dropdown" name="charactersdrop<?php echo $i+1 ?>" id="charactersdrop<?php echo $i+1 ?>" title="Characters Dropdown <?php echo $i+1 ?>" style="margin-left: 195px;">
                <option value="0">- Select -</option>
               <?php
                $query = 'SELECT id, `character` FROM characters ORDER BY `character`';
                $result = mysqli_query ( $dbc, $query ); // Run The Query
                while ( $row = mysqli_fetch_array ( $result, MYSQL_ASSOC ) ) { 
                    print "<option value=\"".$row['id']."\">".$row['character']."</option>\r";
                }
                ?>
            </select>
            <input type="button" value="Add Character" class="" onclick="Competitors(<?php echo $i+1 ?>)"/>

This has probably been asked a bunch of times , but :

I only recently started to self learn PHP , and this small project i am making is quite a challange for me.
The scripts below are not realy writen by me , but i wished to tie them together to get a fully working code.

What is suppose to happen is :

In the form i wish to put a special button that puts extra input fields in the form.

After the form is submited ,with whatever amount of feilds in it, the data goes to a processing.php file that sorts all the info gathered and finaly sends all this data formated in to the last file that will be inluded in the index.php.

i already have the code for increcing the amount of inputs but the problem is , all inputs have the same names. Coz of that i get a mess.

What i need is each input to have a unique name or id , that way the processing file would receive different names(id's) with different values(what ever is writen in the inputs by users).

for example:

I have 2 enitial fields displayed on  form.html , i click the button "add new" 5 times and add 5 more input fields.
All this data must be sent to a process.php and on the output write all of this information formated in the last file in a row that will be displayed in the index by useing
<?include("blablabla.php");?>

The input increment is done by a java script. the problem is sending data with unique id(name) and receiving it.

The form file :

<?include("header.php");?>





 <?$i = 1; ?>

   <script type="text/javascript">

   function validate(frm)
   {
        var ele = frm.elements['feedurl[]'];

       if (! ele.length)
        {
            alert(ele.value);
        }

       for(var i=0; i<ele.length; i++)
       {
          alert(ele[i].value);
       }

      return true;
 }

  function add_feed()
 {
      var div1 = document.createElement('div');

     // Get template data
     div1.innerHTML = document.getElementById('newlinktpl').innerHTML;

     // append to our form, so that template data
     //become part of form
     document.getElementById('newlink').appendChild(div1);

 }


   var ct = 1;

   function new_link()
   {
   ct++;
  var div1 = document.createElement('div');
  div1.id = ct;

  // link to delete extended form elements
 var delLink = '<div style="text-align:right;margin-right:65px"><a href="javascript:delIt('+ ct +')">Del</a></div>';

 div1.innerHTML = document.getElementById('newlinktpl').innerHTML + delLink;

document.getElementById('newlink').appendChild(div1);

}
 // function to delete the newly added set of elements
 function delIt(eleId)
 {
d = document;

var ele = d.getElementById(eleId);

var parentEle = d.getElementById('newlink');

parentEle.removeChild(ele);

}
 </script>


<TABLE>
<style>
#newlink {width:600px}
 </style>
    <form action='sendorder.php' method='post'>
        <div id="newlink">
 <div>
<table align="center" border=0>
   <TR><TD><B>Product:</B> </TD><TD><input type=text name=prodname1 value="<?=$_GET['prodname1'];?>">&nbsp;</TD>
        <TD><B>Price:</B> </TD><TD><input type=text name=price1 value="<?=$_GET['price1'].$curency;?>"><b>%</b></TD></TR>
 </table>
 </div>

  </div>


     <p>
        <br>
         <input type="submit" name="submit1">
        <input type="reset" name="reset1">
    </p>

         <p id="addnew"></p>
     <FORM>
<INPUT type="button" value="Add New" name="button2" onClick="javascript:new_link()">
</FORM>

</form>

 <!-- Template -->
 <div id="newlinktpl" style="display:none">
 <div>
 <table border=0>
     <TR><TD><B>Product:</B> </TD><TD><input type=text name=<?$_POST[++$i];?> value="<?$_GET[$i];?>">&nbsp;</TD>
        <TD><B>Price:</B> </TD><TD><input type=text name=<?$_POST [++$i];?> value="<?$_GET[$i].$curency;?>">&nbsp;</TD></TR>

    </form>
</TABLE>

<?include("footer.php");?>



in the code above i tryed to make the programm POST the numbers in the name increcing it by 1. But when i click submit i get offset error.

The processing file :

<?
$timestamp     =     strftime("%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S %Y");   // for later use (ignore it)
$i =1;
####################################################################################

if(($_POST['prodname']!="")&&($_POST['price']!="")){

    ############################################################
    $writetocsv = $_POST['prodname1'] . "," . $_POST['price1']"%" <BR> . $_POST[$i] . $_POST[$i];
             $fp = fopen("data/data.csv", "a");
             fwrite ($fp,$writetocsv);
             fclose ($fp);
                            echo "<script>alert('Data sent.')</script>";
}
else{
    echo "<script>alert('Error! Please fill the form!')</script>";
}
echo "<script>location.replace('index.php')</script>";
?>

Perhaps someone knows a easyer way , since i am not sure how to make stuff due to the lack of knowlage in php. I also tryed arrays but , as said before , too tough when you are a noob

Please help.

Looking for someone to create a client side script to meet the following requirements:   Client side Login to multiple affiliate accounts of mine (around 30) Gather information required log out Display results client side in a nice and organized fashion   Please PM me or e-mail me with approximate price given the requirements above along with your experience.   Payment will be through paypal.     e-mail a3lankee@gmail.com   

I have this Shopping cart that allows for the creation of products with product sizes and so if a customer purchases a shirt which regular price is $10 but he/she chooses a large size which is marked @ $12 then of course the shopping cart then charges $12 - then the customer receives a purchase notification email defining the purchase of the $12 size large shirt, and thats all fine except that currently the notification email defines the shirt with $0.00 price in a row and in another row it defines the shirt size with the $12.00 price. So it basically defines the product twice, and i don't want it to do that. I want the product price and size to all be included in the same row. Attached is the .php file that needs the modification. I had a developer tell me that it could not be done. Can someone please have a look at this file and tell me if its true that what I want cannot be done! - all i want to do is merge those two rows together.  I've attached the php that is responsible for writing the tables containing the purchased items. Attached Files  orderSaveAjax.php   25.56KB   7 downloads

Hey guys so I am making an App website and somehow need to make a developer section. So like developers can come and setup their app name,description etc. Then be able to program there own app and use like an API service to get the user username etc. So what would I need to let developers do a such thing like let them make an API key and all that is there some tutorial to make such service. (This will be an important feature to my website so please help, thanks)

Hi the   My name is Tyler and I'm no longer actively working with PHP (other than the maintenance of some existing projects).  It's time for me to hang up my PHP hat; but before I do I want to help out a fellow PHP developer.  I have a bunch of projects I need to find a new home for so please excuse the following solicitation.  But I figure if I can help out a fellow PHP developer by giving them work, then doing it on this forum isn't ill intentioned.     I want to help a new or intermediate PHP web designer/developer by giving them my client portfolio of hosted websites. If you're interested please read the full details he  http://www.onixwebde...er-of-ownership    

I am urgently looking for a junior PHP web application developer with a portfolio of your code experience, no commercial experience will be considered to.   Please contact me to find out more!   Exciting opportunity for someone wanting to get a foot in the door in the world of IT!!