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PHP - Ethics Question Pertaining To Work Related Text Messages To Non Work Related Devices.
Some of you may have seen one of my many posts about email issues. Some users don't get them, and I have determined it is probably because we are marked as spam.
We are a service that grades sales team members on their phone skills. Listening to pre-recorded calls, grading and uploading them to our site, and then another part of our business looks them over and sometimes leaves a message that then get's forwarded to this persons work email.
I have determined there is ways to get marked as spam as default by not having an opt out link. This is not an option, these sales members employer has opted in, and the emails are going to work related accounts hosted at that employer. Also, if one of these staff members is not so bright, or disgruntled they may mark us as spam anyways. The bottom line is that we have very little control over whether we are or are not marked as spam.
So we want to start looking into sending text messages and this is where I start to question how good of an idea this is.
First off, if it was me, and the messages where being sent to a device that my employer did not provide, I would in no way want work related text messages coming to me. Unless there is a vested interest in getting them. IE, I'm the boss at this place and am always on the clock. What if you are on the bottom? It's just a job for you.
What if it is a pre-paid device, text messages cost money. What then? What if they don't even have, or want a cell phone?
The short of it is this. If I'm at a job that is just another job, and this employer tells me that I have to get these messages. I'm going to look for another job. I see the organizations having continuous issues and complaints from their employees. Thus us as a business having issues keeping clients.
What am I getting into here? What are your opinions on this matter? What are your recommendations as to alerting users of something on our site that we can rest assured are being received 100% of the time?
Thanks!
Nick
Similar TutorialsThis topic has been moved to Miscellaneous. http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=310658.0 This topic has been moved to Miscellaneous. http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=356626.0 This topic has been moved to Ajax Help. http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=325435.0 I'm looking for (1) a code to analyze the current page and show main words of the text, and (2) capturing similar words from the internet. I wrote this basic script yesterday to process and generate a Google Site Map. And it works! BUT I want to advance this script to accommodate for something else and I don't know the correct path to take from here, but I will tell you what I've found out so far.. Current Situation: 1 - Currently my below script generates urls in the site map like: http://abcdefg.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=29826 2 - I have .htaccess configured to rewrite the urls to the products name data like: http://abcdefg.com/pennies/wheat-pennies/lincoln-wheat-penny-cent.html (just an example) and these urls are ONLY active if clicking on the site links themselves - meaning if I enter: http://abcdefg.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=29826 directly into the url, the url does not resolve to this natural friendly url name. What Id like to achieve (which I don't know what direction I should be looking!): - I'd like my xml output urls (as current) to be written in the natural format (as in #2 above). FYI here is a current example output item in my sitemap: Code: [Select] <url> <loc>http://abcdefg.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=29803</loc> <changefreq>weekly</changefreq> <lastmod>2010-09-24T08:00:00+04:00</lastmod> </url> Can anyone give me some guidance on what method might work for this? Do you think it's more a mod_rewrite issue? Or can this be handled easier with straight up modifications to my below? I'm just a bit confused on what direction I should be looking.. Thanks for any input. <?php header("Content-Type: text/xml;charset=iso-8859-1"); echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">'; //include('config.local.php'); $cxn = mysqli_connect($config['db_host'], $config['db_user'], $config['db_password'], $config['db_name']); $query = "SELECT cscart_product_descriptions.product_id, cscart_products.product_id, cscart_products.timestamp FROM cscart_product_descriptions JOIN cscart_products ON cscart_product_descriptions.product_id = cscart_products.product_id WHERE cscart_products.status='A' LIMIT 10000"; $result = mysqli_query($cxn, $query); $row = mysqli_fetch_array($result); while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) { $formatedTime = $row['timestamp']; echo '<url> <loc>http://abcdefg.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=' . $row['product_id'] . '</loc> <changefreq>weekly</changefreq> <lastmod>'. date('c',$formatedTime) .'</lastmod> </url>'; } //while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) echo '</urlset>'; ?> As the title says, on any mobile device, display: none; does not work. It will work when the CSS file is cached, however, when you refresh the URL (in any browser this will request a new version of the file) it appears that it will ignore display: none; calls. I tested this on several emulators.
I read somewhere that using both display: none; and visibility: hidden; worked, but I have not seen results for this.
Has anyone come across this before, or know a fix/work-around?
All other pages on my browser (Google Chrome) work, but whenever I open up register.php, I get this: Code: [Select] Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): Unknown error. My register.php code: <?php include_once('includes/config.php'); include_once('functions.php'); $return_content = AccountRelated(null, null, 3); ?> <html> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style/style.css" /> <title><?php echo $title; ?></title> </head> <body> <div class="logo"><a href="index.php"><img src="style/images/logo.png"></a></div> <center> <div class="background"> <div class="container"> <?php echo $return_content; ?> </div> </div> </center> </body> </html> functions.php <?php function AccountRelated($username, $password, $query_type) { if($query_type == 1) { $set_query = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(d.username), u.date, u.username FROM uploads d, users u WHERE d.username = '$username' AND u.username = '$username' LIMIT 1") or die(mysql_error()); if(mysql_num_rows($set_query) == 0) { $content_return = 'Sorry, no information was found'; } else { $grab = mysql_fetch_assoc($set_query); //login information if($grab['COUNT(d.username)'] > 0) { $welcome_return = "You have uploaded ". $grab['COUNT(d.username)'] ." files. You've registered on ". $grab['u.date'] ."!"; } else { $welcome_return = "You have uploaded 0 files. You've registered on ".$grab['date'] . "!"; } } } elseif($query_type == 2) { $set_query = mysql_query("SELECT title,views,downloads,description,username,date FROM uploads LIMIT 20"); if(mysql_num_rows($set_query) == 0) { $content_return = "Sorry, there are currently no files uploaded to view."; } else { while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($set_query) == 0) { echo $row['title']."<br/>"; } } } elseif($query_type == 3) { $username = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['username']); $password = md5($_POST['password']); if(!$username || !$password) { $return_content = "All fields are required! <table><form action='register.php' method='POST'> <tr><td>Username</td><td><input type='text' name='username' maxlength='20'></td></tr> <tr><td>Password</td><td><input type='text' name='password' maxlength='30'</td></tr> <tr><td><input type='submit' value='Register'></td></tr> </form></table>"; AccountRelated($_POST['username'], $_POST['password'], 3); } else { $set_query = mysql_query("SELECT username FROM users WHERE username = '$username' LIMIT 1"); if(mysql_num_rows($set_query) == 0) { $return_content = "You have successfully registered the account ". $username ." with the password ". $password ."!"; } else { $return_content = "An account with this username already exists."; } } return $return_content; } else { //nothing to process } } ?> i hav this url n whenever i click on this url i get som mssg send on my mobile i hav a form whose code is Code: [Select] <form action="formprocess.php method="post"> telephone<input type="text name="telephone> <input type="submit" name="submit"> </form> i want to send telephone as parameter to this url so whenever user enters his telephone he gets d mssg after clicking on submit.....but i hav no idea how to do tht...help me somone plssssssss http://www.abc.in/smsapi/sendsms.php?sendto=9987234123&msg=your Hello again! I've been trying out new things (well, new for me) in php again. This time I decided to try a real challenge and make a forum system. A friend suggested I use a class for all database functionalities. i was reluctant at first, but decided if I was going to try using classes for the first time, it might as well be with this. With some guiding help, I set up the files and gave it a visual once over to check for errors. Nothing seemed out of place, but when I loaded the page to try it out, I got this error: Quote Fatal error: Call to a member function query() on a non-object in /home/ck9/public_html/planning/forumbuild/list.php on line 20 I didn't see anything out of line, so I consulted my friend about it. He made a few small adjustment suggestions, but nothing fixed the issue. I then bugged my host about it, and he couldn't find anything wrong either. Both people are highly experienced in php, so when they say it SHOULD be working I am left rather confused. Here is list.php: Code: [Select] <?php include("db.class.php"); include("db.config.php"); $db = new databaseConnection($config['user'],$config['pass'],$config['database']); $g = $_GET['g']; $s = $_GET['s']; $t = $_GET['t']; function tablestart($a = '1') { global $db; echo "<table border='" . $a . "' cellpadding='10' cellspacing='0' align='center' width='80%' style='color: #C0C0C0'>\n"; } function contents($table, $a, $b = '1', $c = '1') { global $db; $db->query("SELECT * FROM $table"); while($row = $db->fetch_array()) { if($row['level'] <= $_SESSION['ulevel']) { echo "<tr><td width='5%'><!--indicator--></td><td width='80%'><a href='index.php?pg=h&g='" . $row['g']; if(($a > '1') && ($row['g'] == $b)) { echo "&s=" . $row['s']; if(($a > '2') && ($row['s'] == $c)) { echo "&t=" . $row['t']; } } } echo "' style='color: #C0C0C0 ; text-decoration: none'><font size='4'>" . $row['name'] . "</font><br /><fpnt size='3'>" . $row['desc'] . "</td><td width='15%'><!--last update--></td></tr>\n"; } } if(empty($_SESSION['ulevel'])) { $_SESSION['ulevel'] = '0'; echo "<font color='#CC0000'><center>You need to register to post in these forums.</center></font><br />\n"; } if(empty($g)) { tablestart(); contents('group', '1'); echo "</table>\n"; } elseif(empty($s)) { tablestart(); contents('section', '2', $g); echo "</table>\n"; } elseif(empty($t)) { tablestart('0'); echo "<tr><td width='80%'></td><td><!--new topic--></td></tr>\n</table>\n"; tablestart(); contents('topic', '3', $g, $s); echo "</table>\n"; } elseif(!empty($t)) { tablestart('0'); echo "<tr><td width='80%'></td><td><!--new topic and reply--></td></tr>\n</table>\n"; $data = file_get_contents('topics/g' . $g . 's' . $s . 't' . $t . '.txt'); $post = explode("<!--p-->", $data); $length = count($post); tablestart('1'); for($z = '0'; $z < $length; $z ++) { $i = '0'; $cont = explode("<!--e-->", $post[$pos]); echo "<tr><td><b>" . $cont[$i] . "</b><br /><!--future additions--></td><td>\n<table width='100%' style='font-size: xx-small'>\n<tr><td height='3' width='75%'>"; $i ++; echo "Posted on" . $cont[$i] . "</td><td height='3' width='25%'><!--future additions--></td></tr><tr><td width='100%'>"; $i ++; echo $cont[$i] . "</td></tr></table></td></tr>\n"; } echo "</table>\n"; } ?> My aim here was to have a single page to display the groups, sections, topics, and posts in order to keep database calls where I could find them easily. and here is the class file: Code: [Select] <?php class databaseConnection { protected $link; protected $lastResult; function databaseConnection($user,$pass,$database) { $this->link = mysql_connect("localhost",$user,$pass); if( !$this->link ) { die('Vital information missing.'); } else { mysql_select_db($database,$this->link) or die('could not find database: ' . mysql_error()); } } function query($query) { $this->lastresult = mysql_query($query) or die('MySQL error: ' . mysql_error()); return $this->lastresult; } function fetch_array($result = false) { if(!$result) { return mysql_fetch_array($this->lastresult); } else { return mysql_fetch_array($result); } } } ?> I have tried everything from adjusting the php tags to putting the class directly in the page. The config file just provides the user, pass, and which database to connect to. I've checked it's formatting a few times just in case. i have shopping cart i need to make the related product section in which i can show the related product when user view the product details. do i need to create any table for it ? please guide me about it. thanks I have two related websites which utilize the same database: Main website for public use. Admin website for administration purposes.Currently, I have both located in /var/www/combined-app which is a single git repository and contains the following: /var/www/combined-app/ public/ public-admin/ src/ main/ admin/ vendor/ composer.json bootstrap.php Alternatively, I could have done the following: /var/www/combined-app/ main/ public/ src/ vendor/ composer.json bootstrap.php admin/ public/ src/ vendor/ composer.json bootstrap.php Or maybe something else all together? Is one approach typically better than the other? If so, please provide reasons why. If my second example, would you recommend separate git repositories for main and admin? Thanks I am trying to store website address in a variable but when I do so the dots in the address are missing. I guess it takes it as string concatenation, for example: $address='www.lottocomplete.com'; will actually give me: wwwlottocompletecom How can I make sure these dots will be preserved? I am also trying to store email address in a variable but I get error, something about @ symbol being in wrong spot, wonder how this can be resolved as well. One more questions relates to the new line issue that I have when I concatenate string, for example if I do the following: $string = "1\n"; $string .= "2\n"; $string .= "3\n"; I would think that each number would be printed on new line but instead it shows up as: 123 What am I doing wrong? not for certain this is a PHP issue, but on every page of my site, at the bottom, this error displays. Doesn't affect any of the code execution as far as I can tell, but it's annoying. Anyone else seen this? Code: [Select] Error in my_thread_global_end(): 1 threads didn't exit Im running a website about health and foods. I would like that at the end of each article, it shows other related articles that I have on my website.
Im relatively new with php and mysql so I figure I have to put every page onto a database table.
I looked already everywhere but all I found is how to do with wordpress. But i'm not using anything like that.
I made the website myself with css and html and php.
Can somebody help me with a website where they explain how to do?
Also I would like that automatically it shows my latest articles in a sidebar. Without anytime adding myself manually.
Can anybody help me?
This topic has been moved to PHP Applications. http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=343992.0 Hey guys for some reason my script is being strange. <? if(!empty($_POST['why'])) { $why = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['why']); $answer = $_POST['answer']; $id = $_POST['cid']; if($answer == "Accept") { $query1 = mysql_query("UPDATE characters SET accepted = '1' WHERE id = '".$id."'"); $aquery = mysql_query("UPDATE applications SET tester = '".$_COOKIE['Username']."', accepted = '1', answered = '1' WHERE cid = '".$id."'") or die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); echo"Successfully accepted"; } } If you notice the echo it outputs the successfully executed, tho the mysql query doesn't go through for some strange issue even through it says it does since I got the or die(mysql_error) thing and it still doesn't output a error. So I got a hard time finding the problem. Hi guys, I know this is a bit of a messy question, but i have a problem with some code that my friend wrote, and now i don't know how to fix it. Basically there is a line of code on my site, and what my friend told me was that this specific line of code has to do with the server and is similar to a ticking clock. What he told me is that it is a "counted related value" which needs to been changed every now and then when it hits the servers limit. This actually means nothing to me, but i'm hoping some one out there knows what my friend means. Anyway this is the line of code i need to change, or in fact the number i need to change. The problem is that as i dont really know what i'm doing i have no idea as to what to change the number to. Please help guys, I really need to fix this asap. Anyways this is the code: // unique references define ('NID', floor(hexdec(substr(uniqid(''),0,11))/100)-52330000000); // table id define ('SID', strtoupper(uniqid(''))); // short unique id define ('UID', strtoupper(md5(uniqid('')))); // 32char id Its the number 52330000000 that i had to change the last time i had this problem. Many thanks in advance. Hi, I'm trying to set up a page which first queries for mySQL record results matching a country that the user selects. This works fine, but in the event of there being no records for that country, I want it to look at another field, "Region" and pick the records matching that Region instead. For example, a user searches for "Australia" but there are no matching records. So, I want it to pick all the records for the region of Australasia, and display records for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and so on. I had created the following: $query = "SELECT * FROM specialists WHERE Country LIKE '$country' ORDER BY SpecialistName"; // specify the table and field names for the SQL query //$query .= " limit $s,$limit"; $numresults=mysql_query($query); $numrows=mysql_num_rows($numresults); if ( $numrows == 0 ) { echo '<p>We don\'t have any results for specialists in countries near to yours at the moment. Please try <a href="specialists.php" style="text-decoration:underline;">searching a different country</a></p>'; } // get results $result = mysql_query($query) or die("Couldn't execute query"); // display the results returned while ($row= mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $region = $row["Region"]; $count++ ; } // next determine if s has been passed to script, if not use 0 if (empty($s)) { $s=0; } echo '<table width="600" class="cardisplay"><tr>'; $count = 1 + $s ; echo $region; // Build SQL Query $query2 = "SELECT * FROM specialists WHERE Region LIKE '$region' ORDER BY SpecialistName"; // specify the table and field names for the SQL query //$query .= " limit $s,$limit"; $numresults=mysql_query($query2); $numrows=mysql_num_rows($numresults); // get results $result = mysql_query($query2) or die("Couldn't execute query"); // display the results returned while ($row= mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $title1 = $row["ID"]; $specialistname = $row["SpecialistName"]; $address1 = $row["Address1"]; $address2 = $row["Address2"]; $address3 = $row["Address3"]; $address4 = $row["Address4"]; $address5 = $row["Address5"]; $postcode = $row["Postcode"]; $country = $row["Country"]; $region = $row["Region"]; $website = $row["Website"]; $email = $row["Email"]; $telephone = $row["Telephone"]; $businesstype = $row["BusinessType"]; //followed by echoing out the various data etc. etc. But the problem is that $region is always blank / empty in the cases where $query is empty, so I can't pull the value out and therefore $query2 is also empty... Any ideas? Here's a neat little script that you simply use by calling yourscript.php?microsoft (where microsoft is any keyword you want) and it returns 100 related keywords. It's pretty raw in it's form. I didn't write it. Purely for learning, I'm trying to figure out how to 1) issue a line break between each item in the elements of the arry? 2) return only the keywords and not the associated array info. Currently, it returns results like: Array ( => microsoft [1] => microsoft security essentials [2] => microsoft office [3] => microsoft templates [4] => microsoft updates [5] => microsoft silverlight [6] => microsoft word [7] => microsoft money [8] => microsoft office 2010 [9] => microsoft clip art [10] => microsoft [11] => microsoft security essentials [12] => microsoft office [13] => microsoft templates [14] => microsoft updates [15] => microsoft silverlight [16] => microsoft word [17] => microsoft money [18] => microsoft office 2010 [19] => microsoft clip art [20] => microsoft security essentials [21] => microsoft security essentials review [22] => microsoft security essentials alert [23] => microsoft security essentials update [24] => microsoft security essentials 2.0 I'm wanting to know how to make it return results like... microsoft microsoft security essential microsoft office microsoft templates etc.... Code: [Select] <?php function text_between($start,$end,$string) { if ($start != '') {$temp = explode($start,$string,2);} else {$temp = array('',$string);} $temp = explode($end,$temp[1],2); return $temp[0]; } function gsscrape($keyword) { $keyword=str_replace(" ","+",$keyword); global $kw; $data=file_get_contents('http://clients1.google.com/complete/search?hl=en&q='.$keyword); $data=explode('[',$data,3); $data=explode('],[',$data[2]); foreach($data as $temp) { $kw[]= text_between('"','"',$temp); } } #simple to use, just use yourscriptname.php?keywords if ($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']!='') { gsscrape($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']); foreach ($kw as $keyword) { gsscrape($keyword); } #all results are in array $kw... print_r($kw); } ?> Hey people, First post but i have visited for a while. I have the following HTML form which basically submits the $_session stored variables to PayPal. Advantage being that the user then doesn't need to re-enter their personal info at paypal. Code: [Select] <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_ext-enter"> <input type="hidden" name="redirect_cmd" value="_xclick"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="myemailaddress@business.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="myitem"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="GBP"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="<? echo $_SESSION['price']; ?>"> <input type="hidden" name="email" value="<? echo $_SESSION['email']; ?>"> <input type="hidden" name="first_name" value="<? echo $_SESSION['fname']; ?>"> <!--the rest of my fields --> <input type="hidden" name="currency_ code" value="GBP"> <input type="hidden" name="country" value="GB"> <input type="submit" class="buybtn" value=""> </form> Problem is i need to also submit some data to a database when the buy button is clicked and i cant have a form with two actions - therefore i need to change from what i have above to the form action being "paypal.php". That paypal.php script needs to do 2 things: 1) submit some data to my mysql database (that part i can do) and 2) submitting some &_session data to the paypal url (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr) just the same as the HTML form does...and take the user to that url...how do i do this? lol. I have no idea where to start in converting the below portion of the above form into a php code that a) submits to a url and (rather than a database) and b) redirects the user to that same url: Code: [Select] <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_ext-enter"> <input type="hidden" name="redirect_cmd" value="_xclick"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="myemailaddress@business.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="myitem"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="GBP"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="<? echo $_SESSION['price']; ?>"> <input type="hidden" name="email" value="<? echo $_SESSION['email']; ?>"> <input type="hidden" name="first_name" value="<? echo $_SESSION['fname']; ?>"> <!--the rest of my fields --> <input type="hidden" name="currency_ code" value="GBP"> <input type="hidden" name="country" value="GB"> Any help anyone can give me will be massively appreciated! Thanks everyone, Bill. |
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