PHP - Changing Related Post Selection From Tags To Categories

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

I have been going in circles about how to handle the issue that I have come up with and was hoping that someone could provide a different method. Basically I want to be able to create an infinite number of categories and allow them to be assigned to other categories then making them subcategories/sub sub categories if you will. My initial plan was to use a method I have used before by just saving the parent id of the subcategories and recursively going through the data. However, I am not to fond of this because of the inefficiency that it provides. I did some research and found that method is called the "Adjacency List". I also found another way to do it called "Nested Sets" which seems to be much more efficient but its a little harder to understand / maintain. I was hoping that someone here could offer alternatives to both of these methods that will allow me to keep the efficiency of "Nested Sets" but providing the ease of use / maintenance of the "Adjacency List".

Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi,

Please help

I need to make categories with su-categories
I made in my database tables like this

table = categories

cid      |     cat_id    |   parent_list    | categ_name                 | type
1               0                   1                  General category            c
2               1                   1,2               sub category                   s
3               1                   1,3               sub category                   s
4               1                   1,2               sub category                   s
5               1                   1,5               sub category                   s
6               5                   1,5,6            sub sub category            s
7               0                   7                  General category2          c
8               7                   7,8               sub category                   s

I need to view this in dropdown menu using parent_list column

hi everyone,

did not know what to make the subject, but here is what I want to do:

I have a string, which gets returned to me from a linux app on my server, it looks something like this:
Code: [Select]
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<TITLE> </TITLE>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 3.2  (Linux)">
<META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="Administrator">
<META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20110106;14170000">
<META NAME="CHANGEDBY" CONTENT="HOD">
<META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20110522;16540000">
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
<!--
@page { margin: 0.26in }
P { margin-bottom: 0.15in; direction: ltr; color: #000000; line-height: 0.15in; text-align: justify; widows: 2; orphans: 2 }
P.western { font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; so-language: en-US }
P.cjk { font-family: "Batang", "바탕", serif; font-size: 10pt }
P.ctl { font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; so-language: ar-SA }
A:link { color: #0000ff }
-->
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY LANG="en-US" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ff" DIR="LTR" STYLE="border: 5.05pt double #000000; padding: 0.67in 0.92in">

<P>I want this and the tags around it, just not the html, head, body and their closing tags.</P>

</BODY>
</HTML>

within the body, the tags are each styled for example: <p style="color: red"></p> so I cannot just get rid of all html, I want to get only all the content within the body tags, but without the body tags obviously
strip_tags does not work as i need, I only want to strip certain tags.

If someone can help me with this i will much appreciate it.

I am asking out of curiosity, how does this problem usually get solved, when using a tag system to sort content, and users enter similar tags.

For example:

flower and flowers...

which means the difference between singular and plural. Judging by other sites which are around, this problem is not solved at all, they simply let you add as many tags as you want and then rank the most used tags, it indeed is a solution, but seems more like a walk-around solution to me.

Any ideas how somebody could approach to solve this one?

EDIT:

My suggestion would be an analysis function, which analyzes the entered tag and then suggests the user that similar tags have been already entered and perhaps he wants to choose one of those which have been already entered. This does work though with a high traffic websites what can happen is the following:

php and php5

You can end up with two similar tags which are both widely used though have different meanings to the user base.

This one could be solved by simply prohibiting similar tags with little additions or changes, and so to speak "forcing" the user to choose something which is already there. May be a way, though it can turn out as a bad solution as well.

I have two tables, one called Categories and one called SubCategories. Each subcategory needs to be displayed under its parent category in a HTML table.

So I have this code, but I don't know how to list each Sub-Category under each Category in a HTML table.

<?php

require ('includes/initialize.php');

require 'classes/database.class.php';


$sql = "SELECT * FROM Categories, SubCategories WHERE Categories.ID = SubCategories.CatID";

$Result = $database->Query($sql);
 
$Data = $database->Fetch($Result);

?>

How can i make unlimited sub categories when i have this mysql fields: id, name, parent


Code: [Select]
$query = "SELECT * FROM cats";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($var = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
  echo $var['name'];
  // now i need here some code for sub cats, but sub cat in subcat :(
}
Can someone help me?

Hi guys

I need help writing a php script

I have a table 'categories'

with fields
'id' 'cat_name' 'parent_id'

the 'parent_id' is just an the id field..

I want to create a way to have unlimited sub categories

so I can have

categorie -> sub-categories
categories  -> sub-categories  -> sub-categories
categories -> products

Hello dear friends,

If i've the following ( categories - gifts )

<?PHP
$sql ="select *  from  categories";
$result= mysql_query($sql);
while($line= mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$qryrow="select * from gifts where gifts='$line[1]'";
}
?>

it means select category and its gifts

now my question how to view it all in table for example if i add

Code: [Select]
<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 width="100%">
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD>
<?php echo "". $line[1].""; ?>
</TD>
</TR>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>
it will show me like this
 

How can i make it like this



my problem how to make table like this and where to put the php variable  .. 

thanks

Hi there, I have a piece of code that takes all posts with the category of 'model' and puts it on the models page. It then displays the post as a gallery using fancy box. The problem is I want all posts with the category of 'faces' to go on the faces page, but at the moment they are appearing on both pages. Here is the code I have. Any help will guarantee a donation as I am at my wits end trying to figure this out.

Code: [Select]
<?php
  global $post;

  $args = array(
    'numberposts'     => 8,
    'offset'          => 0,
    'category'        => 'models',
    'orderby'         => 'post_date',
    'order'           => 'DESC',
    'post_type'       => 'post',
    'post_status'     => 'publish' );

  $posts_array = get_posts( $args );
  $x = 1; // track model
  foreach( $posts_array as $post ) {
    setup_postdata($post); ?>
    <div id="model-thumb">
<?php
    $arg2 = array( 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'numberposts' => -1, 'order' => 'ASC', 'post_status' => null, 'post_parent' => $post->ID );
    $attachments = get_posts($arg2);
    if ($attachments) {
        $i = 1; // track images
        foreach ( $attachments as $attachment ) {
            $image_attributes = wp_get_attachment_image_src( $attachment->ID, 'full' );
            if ($i == 1) { // Get thumbnail info to display with second image
                $img1src = $image_attributes[0];
                $img1w = $image_attributes[1];
                $img1h = $image_attributes[2];
            } elseif ($i == 2) { // Display thumbnail with link to second image
?>
           <a class="allModels" rel="gallery<?php echo $x; ?>" href="<?php echo $image_attributes[0]; ?>" 
?><img src="<?php echo $img1src; ?>" width="<?php echo $img1w; ?>" height="<?php echo $img1h; ?>"/></a><br /><p><?php the_content();?></p></div>

<?php
            } else { // Other images
?>
                <div style="display:none;"><a class="allModels" rel="gallery<?php echo $x; ?>" href="<?php echo $image_attributes[0]; ?>"><img src="<?php echo $image_attributes[0]; ?>" width="<?php echo $image_attributes[1]; ?>" height="<?php echo $image_attributes[2]; ?>"/></a></div>

<?php
            }
            $i++; // Increase image count
        }
    }

    $x++; // Increase model count
  }

?>

Do anyone know how i can put the html tags in the same line as the other html tags?

Here's an example:

Code: [Select]
Images | Link | Delete | Enabled

On my code, it break the tags to the new line without put on the same line as the other tags.


Here's the code:

Code: [Select]
[code]<?php
session_start();
    define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
    define('DB_USER', 'myusername');
    define('DB_PASSWORD', 'mypass');
    define('DB_DATABASE', 'mydbtable');

    $errmsg_arr = array();
    $errflag = false;

    $link = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD);
    if(!$link) {
  die('Failed to connect to server: ' . mysql_error());
    }

    $db = mysql_select_db(DB_DATABASE);
    if(!$db) {
  die("Unable to select database");
    }

   function clean($var){

return mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($var));
    }

    $username = clean($_GET['user']);
    $password = clean($_GET['pass']);
    if($username == '') {
  $errmsg_arr[] = 'username ID missing';
  $errflag = true;
    }
    if($password == '') {
  $errmsg_arr[] = 'PASSWORD ID missing';
  $errflag = true;
    }

    if($errflag) {
  $_SESSION['ERRMSG_ARR'] = $errmsg_arr;
  echo implode('<br />',$errmsg_arr);
   }
   else {
  $qry="SELECT * FROM members WHERE username='$username' AND passwd='$password'";
  $result=mysql_query($qry) or die('Error:<br />' . $qry . '<br />' . mysql_error());

if(mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
  $qrytable1="SELECT images, id, public FROM members WHERE username='$username'";
  $result1=mysql_query($qrytable1) or die('Error:<br />' . $qry . '<br />' . mysql_error());

  while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result1)) {  
  echo '<p id="images"> <a href="images.php?id='.$row['id'].'">Images</a></td> | <a href="http://' .  $row["links"] . '">Link</a> </td> | <a href="delete.php?id='.$row['id'].'">Delete</a> </td> |  <p> <p id="test">'.$row['Public'].'</td>'';
  }
}
}
?>[/code]

Hi,

I have been working on an eCommerce platform for the last few months. Its almost complete but I need to do one thing and thats to only display sub categories if products exist in them.

This is the site craftgo.me (development site),

and this is how the categories are produced for a category page. ie. http://www.craftgo.me/category.php?cat_id=96

Code: [Select]
if($_GET['cat_id']) {
$parents_id = $_GET['cat_id'];
$cat_num_rows_sql = "SELECT category_id, parent_id FROM mccategories WHERE parent_id = '$parents_id'";
$cat_num_rows_result = mysql_query($cat_num_rows_sql);
$cat_row_count = mysql_num_rows($cat_num_rows_result);

if($cat_row_count == '0'){
$current_cat_parent_sql = "SELECT parent_id FROM mccategories WHERE category_id = '$cat_id'";
$current_cat_parent_result = mysql_query($current_cat_parent_sql);
$cat_parent_row = mysql_fetch_array($current_cat_parent_result);
$parent_id = $cat_parent_row['parent_id'];
} else {
$parent_id = $_GET['cat_id'];
}
}



$catsql = "SELECT category_id, category_name FROM mccategories WHERE cat_showing = '0' AND parent_id = '$parent_id' ORDER BY category_name";
$catresult = mysql_query($catsql);
while($catrow = mysql_fetch_array($catresult)) {

$category_id = $catrow['category_id'];
$cat_name = $catrow['category_name'];

echo '<li><a href="category.php?cat_id=' . $category_id . '">' . $cat_name . '</a></li>';
}

In the mcproducts table the category id for each product is under 'product_category'


Im not even sure where to start to make this work, but if anyone could give me a pointer, that would be super.

Many thanks
Eoin

I have made a custom post type for products, and am using a custom taxonomy for the product categories. The thing that I am wondering about is that sometimes a product category is a parent, and sometimes a child, but sometimes both. For instance, if you have a top level category named shoes, then you might have a sub category named Nike. However, Nike also has shirts, so you could say that shoes and shirts were both subcategories of Nike. Do you know what I'm saying? It's like there is no real parent to child relationship, but they are both parents and both children of each other. How do you handle this type of situation?

Hello! I've got exactly what I've wanted in my previous topic so I have decided to make a new topic for some help.

Quote

General
General Discussion
Description here

Entertainment Discussion
Description here

Gaming
Console Discussion
Description here

Handheld Discussion
Description here


And a database like this;
id title description parent 1 General description here 0 2 Gaming description here 0 3 General Discussion description here 1 4 Entertainment Discussion description here 1 5 Console Discussion description here 2 6 Handheld Discussion description here 2

Code: [Select]
<?php
function generate_forums($parent)
{
$has_childs = false;

global $forums_array;        

foreach($forums_array as $key => $value)        
{
if ($value['parent'] == $parent)
{
if ($has_childs === true)
{
$has_childs = false;
}
echo '<a href="/category/' . $value['title'] . '/">' . $value['title'] . '</a><br>' . $value['description'] . '';        
generate_forums($key);        
echo '<br>';
}
} 
}
generate_forums(0);
?>
The code works wonders. But it is hard to customize template wise.

$ID#1 $title = General
I would start off with <table>
I need to have the Categories that Parent = ( 0 ) to have a HTML <tr>
I also need the Categories with Parent = ( Value ) to have a HTML <td>
Then the tags would be closed off before $ID#2 $title = Gaming's template would start again.

I keep trying to scramble the coding around and can't seem to find that probably "simple" touch.
Thanks in Advanced.

Hey all,

I have a relationship where a zone has many posts and a category has many zones but a zone can also have many categories. The zones are basically parts of a page, such as the main area and sidepanel stored in database as records with name fields such as 'panel' and 'main'. There's a serious flaw right now and I would like to know the best solution to address it. Right now I access the posts of a zone of a category like this:

Code: [Select]
$category->zone->get()->post->get();

The above ends up displaying all the posts in the database for any given category because when category is selected, it searches for the associating zones, and then selects all posts related to those zones, which is wrong. i want to select all posts of the zones associated with that particular category.

Current database:

Code: [Select]
posts
id zone_id

zones
id name

categories_zones
id zone_id category_id

categories
id

What should I do? Add a category_id column to the posts table and relate the post directly to the category as well as directly to the zones table so the post table would have two foreign keys: category_id and zone_id

Would this be the most effective thing to do given my requirements?

Thanks for response.