PHP - Recommended Application Structure

I look at my phpinfo() output, and it has ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15 all over it.  UTF is not listed once.   Furthermore, mb_internal_encoding() displays it as ISO-8859-1.   For the most part, I stick to the default settings unless I have a specific reason to change.   Should I be changing php.ini to use UTF-8?  If so, any specific advice how to do so?  This whole encoding issue has been causing me major grief today

For PHP 7.4, what is the recommended session length that I should be using to have the best security?

In DEV< in my php.ini file, session.sid_length = 26

According to the comments above that, it sounds like you can go up to 256.

Is it fair to assume that larger is more secure?

Also, if I set it to a larger size like 256, is tehre any risk of breaking things on my (VPS) web server running WHM/cPanel?

http://php.net/manua...ssword-hash.php shows a simple example to hash a password using BCRYPT.  I've read different posts recommending CHAR(60), BINARY(60), BINARY, and even BINARY(40).   What are the pros and cons of using one datatype over another?

<?php
/**
 * In this case, we want to increase the default cost for BCRYPT to 12.
 * Note that we also switched to BCRYPT, which will always be 60 characters.
 */
$options = [
    'cost' => 12,
];
echo password_hash("rasmuslerdorf", PASSWORD_BCRYPT, $options)."\n";
?>  

 

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I have multiple forms within one php file.

What is the best structure to use?

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if (isset($_POST["one"])) {
    include...
}
if (isset($_POST["two"])) {
    include...
}
if (isset($_POST["three"])) {
    include...
}
OR

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if (isset($_POST["one"])) {
    include...
}
else if (isset($_POST["two"])) {
    include...
}
else if (isset($_POST["three"])) {
    include...
}

thanks

Hi all, this is my first time on this forum!

I have a background with HTML and CSS but have recently started a Masters in Computer Science hoping to come out of it with the tools to get a job with PHP development.

Our first assignment has somewhat 'thrown me in the deep end' as we have to construct a search engine that indexes the words of a number of documents and rank them using the TF*IDF algorithm along with the log rule associated with Information retrieval.

I am completely new to PHP so the past week has been something of a crash course - This is the code I have so far:
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<?php 

$filename = 'airlines.txt';
$fp = fopen( $filename, 'r' ); 
    $file_contents = fread( $fp, filesize( $filename ) ); 
    fclose( $fp ); 

//$new_contents = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9]", "", $file_contents);

/*$file_contents = trim($file_contents); 
    $file_contents = preg_replace('/\h+/', ' ', $file_contents); 
    $file_contents = preg_replace('/\v{3,}/', PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL, $file_contents); */

$pat[0] = "/^\s+/";
$pat[1] = "/\s{2,}/";
$pat[2] = "/\s+\$/";
$rep[0] = "";
$rep[1] = " ";
$rep[2] = "";

$new_contents = preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9\s\s+]/","",$file_contents);
$new_contents = preg_replace($pat,$rep,$new_contents);
//preg_replace('~\s{2,}~', ' ', $text);

$commonWords = array('a','able','about','above'........and another few hundreds cut out of this not to hurt your eyes!);


$lines = explode ( "\n", $new_contents);
$lines2 = implode (" ", $lines);
$words = explode ( " ", $lines2 );

$useful_words = array_diff( $words, $commonWords );

/*for($i = 0; $i < count($lines); $i++) {
echo "Piece $i = $lines[$i] <br />";
}*/

for($i = 0; $i < count($useful_words); $i++) {
echo "Words $i = $useful_words[$i] <br />";
}

  
//$arr=array("blah1","blah2","blah3");
file_put_contents("demo2.txt",implode(" ",$useful_words));

//$file_c = file_get_contents("demo.txt");
//$colms = explode(",",trim($file_c));
//print_r($colms);

//echo $lines[2];
?>
I've got to the stage where that strips out most of the stop words when the final array is printed, but they have been replaced with spaces or something that I have not come acoss because as you may see I had a bit of trouble originally stripping the punctuation marks.

I'm hoping someone can point me in the direction as to how to organise the words I have left after the stripping of stop words which are of no use during the search.  I need to store those words into another array and index them which says how many times they appear in that document.

I've come across the function array array_count_values ( array $input ) on the manual but I'm not sure about the best way to use it.

I've attached the files I've used if that helps.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi,

I need to develop a module called chat with doctor. User can able to chat with the doctor for that he has to pay some amount to website. Say example user got purchase the Package worth : 2$ =>5min. After 5 min chat will be closed , timer should be shown while chatting. How can we do this?

Hey all I have an error in my Facebook application and I'm not sure what's wrong (New to PHP).

The error output is:

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Warning: array_rand() [function.array-rand]: Second argument has to be between 1 and the number of elements in the array in /home/app/view.php on line 15
And the PHP lines are as follows:

$friends = $facebook->api('/me/friends');
                print_r(array_rand($friends, 3)); 

I am building program to manage payment/monthly payments. I've ran into an issue that I haven't been able to overcome and need some help. I've been lurking for a while and decided it was time to ask you guys...Here's the issue:

I have a table 'payments' that contains scheduled payments that looks like:

id clientid paymentduedate balance expected pending 367 112233 4/16/2011
1030.00 257.50
Y
368 112233 5/16/2011
1030.00 257.50
Y
369 112233 6/16/2011
1030.00 257.50
Y
370 112233 7/16/2011
1030.00 257.50
Y


What I need to do that I haven't figured out is to adjust the expected amount according to the payment, update the status to N (not pending) without affecting the later expected payments.

For example:
they make a payment of $257.50, applies that to row 367, sets the status to N, but leaves the other status' to Y (for obvious reasons). the make a payment of $250.00, leaving the balance at $7.50, so lets add $7.50 to row 368, mark 367 status to N the make a payment of $300.00, leaving the expected balance at $0.00 for row 367, but adjust the balance for row 368 to $215.00
Any ideas?

Thanks

There are ten list or bookmarks from Prof. Horner's Bible-Reading System found (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=46416541831) each having set number of books from the Bible. One is to read ten chapters a day, one chapter from each of the bookmarks.

Type in what day you are on and the program will show you on each of the lists as to what chapter you are suppose to be on.

Also want to show statistics that will display how many times the Bible has been read with a break down of all 66 books of the Bible.

Started a git respo http://github.com/Kutakizukari/Prof-Horners-Bible-Reading-System

Bookmark list as follows:

//List 1
$Matthew = 28;
$Mark = 16;
$Luke = 24;
$John = 21;

//List 2
$Genesis = 50;
$Exodus = 40;
$Levitieus = 27;
$Numbers = 36;
$Deuteronomy = 34;

//List 3
$Romans = 16;
$I_Corinthians = 16;
$II_Corinthians = 13;
$Galatians = 6;
$Ephesians = 6;
$Philipians = 4;
$Colossians = 4;
$Hebrews = 13;

//List 4
$I_Thessalonians = 5;
$II_Thessalonians = 3;
$I_Timothy = 6;
$II_Timothy = 4;
$Titus = 3;
$Philemon = 1;
$James = 5;
$I_Peter = 5 ;
$II_Peter = 3 ;
$I_John = 5;
$II_John = 1;
$III_John = 1;
$Jude = 1;
$Revelation = 22;

//List 5
$Job = 42;
$Ecclesiastes = 12;
$Songs_of_Solomon = 8;

//List 6
$Psalms = 150;

//List 7
$Proverbs = 31;

//List 8
$Joshua = 24;
$Judges = 21;
$Ruth = 4;
$I_Samuel = 31;
$II_Samuel = 24;
$I_Kings = 22;
$II_Kings = 25;
$I_Chronicles = 29;
$II_Chronicles = 36;
$Ezra = 10;
$Nehemiah = 13;
$Esther = 10;

//List 9
$Isaiah = 66;
$Jeremiah = 52;
$Lamentations = 5;
$Ezekiel = 48;
$Daniel = 12;
$Hosea = 14;
$Joel = 3;
$Amos = 9;
$Obadiah = 1;
$Jonah = 4;
$Micah = 7;
$Nahum = 3;
$Habakkuk = 3;
$Zephaniah = 3;
$Haggai = 2;
$Zechariah = 14;
$Malachi = 4;

so on day 1 it should readout

Matthew Chapter 1
Genesis Chapter 1
Romans Chapter 1
I Thessalonians Chapter 1
Job Chapter 1
Psalms Chapter 1
Proverbs Chapter 1
Joshua Chapter 1
Isaiah Chapter 1
Acts Chapter 1

on the second day it should all say Chapter two but Matthew reaches day 28 it should move on to Mark Chapter 1 and so on and so on and with each bookmark list.

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!!

i got this application more then 10 years, all this years nothing happend, untill prev week, someone to lazzy to filled all the info required, but after submitting the form, their uncomplete info just being printed on the database. Which mean the required field code didnt work 2 all, all this year,.. what a dissapointment.

Can someone take a look at my scripts and fixed please

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Alright guys.. I need some advice, some recommendations and definitely some help.

I've got a submission form for users to upload an image and some basic personal information. The client wanted the information to be divided by the North America (specifically N.A. and not U.S.) and Europe.. so I created a database table with the typical structu a row for the user's name, email, etc. I also added a row labeled "regionid" in which "1" would equal North America and "2" would equal Europe. This "regionid" row would obviously organize the submission by their country.

The client specifically wanted to label North America but mentioned only users from the States would probably only submit images, etc.
 
Users could choose if they were submitting a form for US or Europe and "regionid" would be filled by which form was chosen.


Recently, the client threw a curveball and now wants Canada as part of the North America submission form. Now, I don't want to add Canada as another option for my "regionid" row because it does belong under North America. However, I need to alter the structure of the database I currently have so that it can now organize if under North America or Europe, and if under North America, if the submission falls under the United States or Canada.

I was thinking of adding a drop down menu under the North America form with the options US or Canada.

Do you guys have any advice or other directions you would take to solve this problem.. that is, if my situation is even understandable? I found it pretty difficult to explain! Apologies!