PHP - Running Php Script Within Html Div

So I have a php script in public_html on my apache server, and it runs a global economy code for my browser game.
If I open firefox and go to:
http://localhost/Economy.php
it runs the code, and it changes all the values in the database properly.
How do I get that to run automatically, say every 6 minutes?

I have windows so no cron jobs.
I went to task scheduler and created a task which I thought would work, and it lists the task as running.
But it gives me an error.

Event Views:
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Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler
Date:          9/28/2011 5:02:37 PM
Event ID:      101
Task Category: Task Start Failed
Level:         Error
Keywords:      (1)
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      Matt-PC
Description:
Task Scheduler failed to start "\Economy" task for user "Matt-PC\Matt". Additional Data: Error Value: 2147750687.Event Xml:
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<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler" Guid="{DE7B24EA-73C8-4A09-985D-5BDADCFA9017}" />
    <EventID>101</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>101</Task>
    <Opcode>101</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000001</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-09-28T22:02:37.967669800Z" />
    <EventRecordID>18</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="1012" ThreadID="1484" />
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational</Channel>
    <Computer>Matt-PC</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <EventData Name="TaskStartFailedEvent">
    <Data Name="TaskName">\Economy</Data>
    <Data Name="UserContext">Matt-PC\Matt</Data>
    <Data Name="ResultCode">2147750687</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>
EDITed for code tags

I've written a script thats going to take a really long time to execute... Whats the best way to do this as far as the server not timing out?

My script is calculating some statistics based on other tables in the database and then storing them in another table. The results are going to be hundreds of thousands or maybe even millions of rows.

My website is being overrun with spam and I am trying to install a php captcha script. I have installed php 5 on my website askthephysicist.com which is hosted on a 1&1 Windows server, but I think the problem is that I do not know where to point my script to find the lib. I have very little fluency with any scripting languages. Anyhow, the beginning of the script reads:

<?php

require 'CaptchasDotNet.php';

// Required Parameters
// Replace the values you receive upon registration at http://captchas.net.
//
// client: 'demo'
//
// secret: 'secret'
//

and when I run it I get the message:


Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required 'CaptchasDotNet.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php5.5') in /homepages/29/d191906528/htdocs/askthephysicist/query.php on line 4


The whole code may be found at http://captchas.net/sample/php/ if that is helpful, but the error occurs with the first statement require 'CaptchasDotNet.php';

I have a script there download a lot of images from a website it crawls, but when ever i started a crawler, it will keep downloading images.
Even if i close firefox, it will continue to download images from the site.

How can i stop it?.

I am writing a script which will be dependent on the client's public ip address. e.g.   if the client is using ip address 203.122.55.124 script A should run and if else then script B should run. Now I know that the If and else will be used but cant guess how will the public ip be captured.   Please help  

Hey y'all.

Probably a dumb question here but I'm at a loss. I've got a PHP service script that has an include, written as so:

$config = new Config('config/config.json');

The config directory is next to the PHP script and does contain the config.json file, so when I run this from the CLI everything works great. However, I've got about 17 PHP services I need to start and really don't feel like typing them all out, so I've written a shell script that does this:

#!bin/bash


cd /path/to/my/script

/usr/local/bin/php ./my-script.php

This does start the service, but it bombs out because it can't find the config.json file.

If I change the PHP to 

$config = new Config('./config/config.json');

it works as expected from the shell script. Updating the files is technically possible, but fraught right now for reasons I can't really get into (sorry). Anybody know what the difference is, or have any ideas on how to get around this?

Edited September 5, 2020 by maxxd

Hello !   How I can make a script of my PHP code to work even if my website is not running   Can I make this with php ? 

im testing the following script and it wont send 1 2 3 until the script has finished executing.

What can i do to flush the buffer after every echo statement??

<?php 

echo "1";
ob_flush();flush();
sleep(5);
echo "2";
ob_flush();flush();
sleep(5);
echo "3";
ob_flush();flush();

?>

I have a php script that I've been running that seems to have been working but now I'm wondering if some of my logic is potentially off.

I select records from a db table within a date range which I put into an array called ```$validCount```

If that array is not empty, that means I have valid records to update with my values, and if it's empty I just insert. The trick with the insert is that if the ```STORES```  is less than the ```Quantity``` then it only inserts as many as the ```STORES``` otherwise it inserts as many as ```Quantity```.

So if a record being inserted with had 

    Stores: 14 Quantity:12

Then it would only insert 12 records but if it had
  
    Stores:1  Quantity:20

It would only insert 1 record.

In short, for each customer I should only ever have as many valid records (within a valid date range) as they have stores. If they have 20 stores, I can have 1 or 2 records but should never have 30.

It seems like updating works fine but I'm not sure if it's updating the proper records, though it seems like in some instances it's just inserting too many and not accounting for past updated records.

This is the logic I have been working with:

 

  if(!empty($validCount)){
            for($i=0; $i<$row2['QUANTITY']; $i++){
                try{
                    $updateRslt = $update->execute($updateParams);
                }catch(PDOException $ex){
                    $out[] = $failedUpdate;
                }
            }
    }else{    
        if($row2["QUANTITY"] >= $row2["STORES"]){
            for($i=0; $i<$row2["STORES"]; $i++){     
                try{
                    $insertRslt = $insert->execute($insertParams);
                }catch(PDOException $ex){
                    $out[] = $failedInsertStore;
                }
            }
        }elseif($row2["QUANTITY"] < $row2["STORES"]){
            for($i=0; $i<$row2["QUANTITY"]; $i++){     
                try{
                    $insertRslt = $insert->execute($insertParams);
                }catch(PDOException $ex){
                    $out[] = $failedInsertQuantity;
                }
            }
        }
    }

 

Let's say customer 123 bought 4 of product A and they have 10 locations

    customerNumber  |  product  |  category  |  startDate  |  expireDate  | stores
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-01      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-01      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-01      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-01      10

Because they purchased less than their store count, I insert 4 records. Now if my ```$validCheck``` query selects all 4 of those records (since they fall in a valid date range) and my loop sees that the array isn't empty, it knows it needs to update those or insert. Let's say they bought 15 this time. Then I would need to insert 6 records, and then update the expiration date of the other 9 records. 

    customerNumber  |  product  |  category  |  startDate  |  expireDate  | stores
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10
    123                 1           A           2018-08-01    2019-03-11      10

There can only ever be a maximum of 10 (store count) records for that customer and product within the valid date range. As soon as the row count for that customer/product reaches the equivalent of stores, it needs to now go through and update equal to the quantity

so now I'm running this but it's not running and no errors, but it just returns back to the command line   

$total = $row2['QUANTITY'] + $validCheck;
    if ($total < $row2['STORES']) {
        $insert_count = $row2['QUANTITY'];
        $update_count = 0;
    } else {
        $insert_count = $row2['STORES'] - $validCheck; // insert enough to fill all stores
        $update_count = ($total - $insert_count); // update remainder
    }

        
    for($i=0; $i<$row2['QUANTITY']; $i++){
        try{
            $updateRslt = $update->execute($updateParams);
        }catch(PDOException $ex){
            $failedUpdate = "UPDATE_FAILED";
            print_r($failedUpdate);
            $out[] = $failedUpdate;
        }
    }
    
        
    for($i=0; $i<$insert_count; $i++){
        try{
            $insertRslt = $insert->execute($insertParams);
        }catch(PDOException $ex){
            $failedInsertStore = "INSERT_STORE_FAILED!!!: " . $ex->getMessage();
            print_r($failedInsertStore);
            $out[] = $failedInsertStore;
        }
    }```

    

I have a page which reads content from a database and display its result.

<?php

include ("databaseconnections/conx_stampsforsale.php");
  
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT country, description, price FROM stampsforsale");

if (!$sql)
  die ("Error Displaying Data. " . mysql_error());
else
{
  echo ("<table><tr>");  
  $count = 0;
  while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql))
  {
  $target_path = "stampsforsale/" . basename($row['country'] . ".jpg");
  echo ("<td><a href='" . $target_path . "' target='_blank'><img src='" . $target_path . "'width=150 height=100></a><br />" . $row['country'] . "<br />" . $row['description'] . "</br>" . $row['price'] . "<br /><br /></td>");
  $count++;
  if ($count % 3 == 0)
  {
    echo ("<tr>");
  }
  }
  echo ("</tr></table>");
 }
 // end of displaying data
  
?>

The above code works fine and it loads inside a the main section on my web page as follows: index.php?mC=stampsforexchange.php.     In order not to get a huge number of results I am planning to put the above code inside a function and then set the stampforexchange.php page with flags for each country so that when a particular country is clicked only stamps from that country are shown.  The following is the above code revised into a function.

<?php

include ("databaseconnections/conx_stampsforsale.php");

function getCountryStamps($country)
{
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT country, description, price FROM stampsforsale WHERE country = $country");

if (!$sql)
  die ("Error Displaying Data. " . mysql_error());
else
{
  echo ("<table><tr>");  
  $count = 0;
  while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql))
  {
  $target_path = "stampsforsale/" . basename($row['country'] . ".jpg");
  echo ("<td><a href='" . $target_path . "' target='_blank'><img src='" . $target_path . "'width=150 height=100></a><br />" . $row['country'] . "<br />" . $row['description'] . "</br>" . $row['price'] . "<br /><br /></td>");
  $count++;
  if ($count % 3 == 0)
  {
    echo ("<tr>");
  }
  }
  echo ("</tr></table>");
 }
 // end of displaying data    
}

  
?>

And this is the html part where I am trying to call the function:     <td><a href="index.php?mC=getCountryStamps(Malta)"><img src="flags/malta.gif" width=100px height="67px" /><br />Malta</td></a>   However I am getting the following warning message:   Warning: include(getCountryStamps(Malta)): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\stamps\index.php on line 21

Warning: include(): Failed opening 'getCountryStamps(Malta)' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\xampp\htdocs\stamps\index.php on line 21   Can someone please point in the right direction as I am stuck with this one?   Thank you in advance.

Hi Guys,

I'm having some trouble running PHP scripts. I have two forms, each of which redirects to a PHP script (each PHP script is different, but essentially both have the same problem) as an action. The code is below. I'm hosted at Bluehost, which runs PHP on their servers so I know the tech is compatible.  Thanks! Cheers!


<html>
   
   <script type="text/php">include('newform.php');</script>
   <head>
      
      <title>TradeSquared></title>
       <p align="center">Trade Squared</p>
   </head>


<body>
   <br>
   <br>
   
   
   <div align="center">
   
   
      
      Create a new Listing:
      
      <form action="newform.php" method="get" name="newform">
   
      Type:<select name="type">
            <option value="book">Book</option>
            <option value="apt">Apartment</option>
            <option value="item">Class Items</option>
          </select>
      
          <input type="submit" value="Submit"/>
      
      </form>
   
   
   
   
      <br>
   
   
   

   
   
      Search current Listings:

      <form action="searchform.php" method="get" name="searchform">
   
      Type:<select name="type">
            <option value="book">Book</option>
            <option value="apt">Apartment</option>
            <option value="item">Class Items</option>
          </select>
      
          <input type="submit" value="Submit"/>
      
      </form>
   
   
   
   
   </div>
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
</body>



</html>



This is the PHP code on which action redirects to


<?php

$type = $_GET=["type"];

if($type=="book") header("location:addbooklisting.html");
   else if($type == "apt") header("location:aptform");
   else header("location:itemform");

?>



Second page


<html>
   
   <head>
       <title>Create New Book Listing</title>
      <p align="center"> <b>Create a New Book Listing</b>
      </p>
      
   </head>
   
   <body>
      
      <div align="center">
      
      <br><br>
      
      
      <form name="addlisting" method="get" action="bookvalidation.php">
         
         
         <table width="100" border="0" align="center">
          
         
         
         
         
         <tr>
            <td align="center">Title
            </td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td align="center"><input type="text" name="title"/>
            </td>
         </tr>
         
         
         
         
         
         <tr><td><p/></td></tr>
         
         
         
         
         
         <tr>
              <td align="center">Price
            </td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
              <td align="center">$<input type="text" name="dollars" size="3"/>.<input type="text" name="cents" size="2"/>
            </td>
            </tr>
   
   
   
   
         
         <tr><td><br></td></tr>
         
         
         
         
         
         
         <tr>
            
            <td align="center">ISBN</td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td align="center"><input type="text" name="isbn"/></td>
         
         </tr>
         
         
         
         
         
         <tr><td><br></td></tr>
         
         
         
         
         <tr>
            
            <td align="center">Condition   
            </td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td align="center"><select name="cond">
               <option name="used">Used</option>
               <option name="new">New</option>
            </select>
            </td>
         
         </tr>
         
         
         
         
         
         
         <tr><td><br></td></tr>






         <tr>
            
            <td align="center">Commentaries
            </td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <td align="center"><textarea rows="5" cols="30" name="comm"></textarea></td>
         
         </tr>
         
         
         
         
         
         <tr><td><br></td></tr>
         
         
         
         
         
         
         <tr>
            <td align="center"><input type="submit" value="Add Listing"/></td>
         </tr>
         
         
         
         </table>

         

         
      </form>
      
         
      
      </div>
      
      

      
   </body>
   
</html>


PHP code for second page


<html>

<head>Results</head>

<body>

The Following Occurred:

<?php

$title = $_GET["title"];

$dollar = $_GET["dollars"];
$cents = $_GET["cents"];
$price = $dollar.".".$cents

$isbn = $_GET["isbn"];

$cond = $_GET["cond"];

$decide;

$comments = $_GET["comm"];

for($i=0; $i<=12; i++) {
   
      if(ctype_digit($isbn)) $decide = true;
      else $decide = false;
   }


if( !(($dollar && $cents)==int)  ) echo "Price must be in numbers.";

else if($decide == false || strlen($isbn)!=13)  echo "ISBN contains 13 characters and must be numbers only"

else {
$db=mysql_connect("localhost","username","pass!");

mysql_select_db("db_dataabse",$db);

$dbsucces=mysql_query("INSERT INTO BookListings (Title, ISBN, Price, Condition, Comments)
VALUES ('$title', '$isbn', '$price', '$cond', '$comments')");

if($dbsuccess==true) echo "Posting was succesful";
else echo"Unsuccesful log.";
}


?>

</body>


</html>

Visitors to my website will upload file to a simple upload.html:

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<form action="execute.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<label for="file">Filename:</label>
<input type="file" name="file" id="file" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"" />
</form>

As you can see, the arguments are posted to execute.php. In this, I have lines that look like this:

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$ob_file = fopen("../../log.txt",'w') or die ("cannot create log.txt");

function ob_file_callback($buffer)
{
global $ob_file;
fwrite($ob_file,$buffer);
}


ob_start('ob_file_callback');
system ("../../sourceShell") or die ("sourceShell fail") ;
 
ob_end_flush();
execute.php runs a shell script called 'sourceShell', which runs a fortran program on the server. execute.php outputs the 'log' of this program (that typically would appear on the terminal) on log.txt. I use the ob_file_callback function to do this.

When a visitor clicks 'submit' (or upon the completion of uploading), I need execute.php to echo "Your job is running..please wait". And then I want to refresh the page every 5 mins until the job finishes and the result will be shown. My problem is that, when a visitor clicks 'submit', it waits until the fortran program completely finishes (which takes a long time) before it outputs the "Your job is running..please wait". I suspect this is because of the ob_file_callback function. If I don't use that function, it seems like the log prints in real time to my browser as the program runs.

I do hope this make sense... and I've spent days on this wanting to tear off my hair, so it's not like I haven't googled hard. I'm completely new to web programming, so I hope you guys understand and can be patient if I don't understand.

This topic has been moved to JavaScript Help.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=316454.0

I have an index HTML form that has a JavaScript link and action = 'xyz.php' 

Everything works fine. 

I've seen PHP scripts with HTML form after the closing tag ?> and they work.

Yet when I included my HTML g form after my PHP code, some of my JS stopped working.

What are the protocols to combining PHP and HTML?

Which should run first?

When is the action run?

 

Hiya!

I need to create a simple PDF script that will always create A4 documents. I need the content to be controlled using HTML and CSS.

Where do you start in creating such a script?

Any help is greatly received.