PHP - How Would You Make This In Php? (online Magic Trick) Is It Even Possible?
There's this really old website called http://ipolygraph.com/google/
Basically it mimics the Google homepage (as you can see it's been a while since they've updated) but the idea is really simple but clever. If you go to the search box and type cars (or whatever) and click search, it searches Google for "cars". However if you type something like /php manual/ you'll notice it changes what you're searching to "What is...etc etc". The idea is say you tell your friend you're on Google and you ask them to think of a card, if you type /4c/ is bob thinking of? it'll look as if you're typing "What is Bob thinking of?", when you hit search it'll be the 4 of clubs. Is there any way to make something similar to this? The idea came to me after I learned about the file_get_contents command in PHP. Similar TutorialsMaybe some experienced people could be letting me know when it comes this?
I thought of a "file storage" web app like "YouSendIt", I also thought of a "web host" web app as a "reseller".
With this I am getting caught up in thoughts, that the traffic could not happen.
Is there something, where one could be more "sure" that the traffic may happen, and with this the "clicks" too, even if it are a $100 or $200 per month?
I would appreciate the suggestions a lot.
Hey, guys. I'm a programmer and i've designed an application to assist in an online game. When users visit my website for whatever reason i want to display the amount of users currently using my application. As you may have guessed i'm not to crash hot at php or any web related languages at that . What i think will work, is when my application starts up, i can make it visit a webpage in the background and just idle there while they are using the program, when they close the program obviously it is no longer viewing that webpage. So if there some sort of php counter i can make for this? I was reading some sources to php counters and they count the amount of "sessions" and display that, i was just curious if my program navigates to a webpage upon opening and it doesn't do anything will this 'time it out'? Anyway, any help is appreciated. Thanks. So I'm trying to make an online quiz where the user can 'take the quiz' or go to 'module' where the user can edit the quiz. I've tried for days to search through the net for this particular one but I can't find any solutions. For the quiz I made a comma delimited text file and tried to use that file to make a multidimensional array. So far I only have the following: <h2>ONLINE QUIZ</h2> <ul> <li><a href='question.php'>Take quiz</a></li> <li><a href='module.php'>Admin Module</a></li> </ul> <?php $file = fopen ("data.txt","r"); $i=0; while (feof($file)==false) { $line = fgets($file); $array[$i]=$line; $i=$i + 1; } fclose($file); session_start(); $_SESSION["questions_array"]=$array; ?> My question is, how do I turn the text file from something that looks like this: HTML is...,Main markup language for web pages,Cross-site Security,Cleverly Structured Scripting,eXtremely Safe and Secure, PHP...,General-purpose server-side scripting language,Cross-site Security,Processing Hypertext Products,Process HTML Prettily To output something like this: Question #1 HTML is... [radio button] a.) Main markup language for web pages [radio button] b.) Cross-site Security etc, etc ll----I will type out the exact plan for this quiz----ll Main page: module and quiz link. For the quiz Question page: Questions only show up one by one. ex.) What is a dog? a.) a human b.) a pet c.) a job d.) a car (Submit button) Answer page: Once submit is hit, the page goes here, where the user can see whether they answered right or wrong. ex.) INCORRECT Your answer: a.) a human Correct answer: b.) a pet (continue link) Note that when 'continue' is hit, the page redirects back to the 'question page' but this time outputs the next question. When no more questions are available, the page automatically redirects to the 'results page'. Results page: Table of results For the module Main: A table of the available questions plus their choice answers ex.) Question l choice a l choice b l [] What? cat toy [] How? rat pop etc. Each row can be selected through a radio button. (so we know which question to edit) Select option: Drop down list whether to 'add', 'edit' or 'delete' a question. Each choice directs to a different page where you can perform the action. Also, if 'delete' is chosen, a confirmation page should show up. (i.e are you sure you want to delete this file?) I think that's detailed enough, I'm so sorry for the trouble;; but please if you don't have the time to help me throughout the whole thing, please help me figure out how to use the text file as a multi-dim array (aka the first thing I asked). I've been dying to know how to do it but I just can't get it to work so I'd really appreciate that! Thank you! Hi,
I would like to ask if someone knows a trick to know if the script is running on a shared hosting or a vps or a dedicated server.
Regards
Hi all i was wondering if someone knows a way to make sure an image which is uploaded isn't infected by a virus. I have read about avclam, but if your on a shared host your mostly not allowed to add own software. Isn't there maybe a php trick to resize the image which would magically remove a virus? If anyone knows a nice way or tricks to limit the virus breating space to a certain folder please let me know. My old server had magic_quotes_gpc turned on. My new one does not. Will mysql_real_escape_string solve all the issues that magic_quotes was used for? My site runs a blogging application and it seems some of the templates which contain a lot of html and css do not insert into the database properly even when using mysql_real_escape_string. Thanks, Brian hey guys im wdondering if there's a magic method which works like
__GET()but allows you to put a parameter in...thank you <?php class test { public function run() { $this->object->('string'); // __get with parameter? } public function __get($value) { return $this->{$value} } } ?> i have some code which checks to see if a username and an email is in use. from what i can understand, it uses magic quotes to prevent sql injection. i've heard that magic quotes are not going to be in use in php6, so how can i change it so that it uses real escape string instead? if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { $_POST['username'] = addslashes($_POST['username']); } $usercheck = $_POST['username']; $check = mysql_query("SELECT username FROM users WHERE username = '$usercheck'") or die(mysql_error()); $check2 = mysql_num_rows($check); if ($check2 != 0) { die('Sorry, the username '.$_POST['username'].' is already in use.'); } if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { $_POST['email'] = addslashes($_POST['email']); } $emailcheck = $_POST['email']; $check = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM users WHERE email = '$emailcheck'") or die(mysql_error()); $check2 = mysql_num_rows($check); if ($check2 != 0) { die('Sorry, the email '.$_POST['email'].' is already registered to another account.'); } Thanks what are magic methods? when do we need to use magic methods? what are the advantages of using magic methods? thanks in advanced. So, I think you have all heard the news. THEY ARE GONE! Unfortunately, I do have some old code that I do not feel like going line by line and updating. I was wounding if you guys could help me out. I was hoping that there would be a way to set a define of some sort then when I grab something out of an SQL table it will automatically takeout the "\" (Slashes) and when I insert something into the database it will add the slashes... YES I know and have read the statement written by the php group [http://www.php.net/manual/en/securit...uotes.why.php] But i do not particularly want to go through my code and change everything by hand. If you have any idea, or would like me to explain it another way, please post. Any help will be greatly appreciated. --redcrusher Is there any way to produce a custom magic method? Let's say when I try to get an attribute that doesn't have any value, a method gets called that gives that attribute a value. So I want a method to be triggered when I try to get a value from an attribute that doesn't have any value. Hi ! I was seeing the Exception class defined in basic.php and I found that all the methods are final and without body: Code: [Select] final public function getMessage () {}But if I call MyCustomException->getMessage() I get the message. How does it works?? I have two classes were one extends the other but they both have magic methods __get __call and __set but when trying to call a magic method it conflicts one with the other as you can imagaine...is there a way of getting around this ie. name spaces
or do I simply have to rewrite my classes
thank you
hey guys i have a __call method in my class...the probelm im having is how to get the arguments into this line Code: [Select] return $this->_db->$method($arguments); if arguments where "test1" and "test2" i want the call to do Code: [Select] return $this->_db->$method("test1", "test2"); the code below will put all arguments into one if anyone can help me on how i can seperate please Code: [Select] public function __call($method, $arguments) { if (method_exists($this->_db, $method)) { $arguments = implode(', ', $arguments); return $this->_db->$method($arguments); } } I have a class that has the __get and __set magic methods defined. The idea is to use those to communicate with the __get and __set methods in a database table object which is a protected attribute of this class. Then I can quickly build out models without having to bother with method definitions aside from those that need modifications made to the data before saving. The problem is, they don't seem to be doing anything. I get an undefined function error the first time I call getVarx(). I don't actually have any of the attributes I'm trying to get and set defined in the object, but I thought that was the point of these magic methods. Am I missing something here? Thanks, Brandon Hi there every one, i'm writing a class that create instances of other classes and I want to use the __call() magic method to make it more compact and dynamic. here is a basic example of what I'm trying to achieve. The code bellow is the working code. Code: [Select] <?php class creator{ private $objects = array(); public function createObj1($param1, $param2, $param3){ $this->objects[]=new Obj1($param1, $param2, $param3); } public function createObj2($param1, $param2){ $this->objects[]=new Obj2($param1, $param2); } } ?> Now I want the same functionality but using just the __call(), something like this Code: [Select] <?php class creator{ private $objects = array(); public function __call($name, $args){ $this->objects[]=new $name($param1, $param2); } } ?> So, the main problem is, in the $args variable i get an array with all the args passed, How can I make the call to create a new object when in the object constructor are individual parameters needed and not an array of parameters. Thank you in advance. After getting valuable help from DavidAm and wildteen88 I am left with this last piece to the puzzle: I have created a function which identifies the names of multi-value checkbox fields used on a Post page where a form just filled out has been saved in a serialized array which will contain associative arrays wherever the checkboxes have been selected. Now I need for the checkbox associative arrays returned on this Review before-final-saving-page to be detected or identified and then Changed to a comma-delimited array, or maybe it just gets converted to one string with commas separating what were parts of the array--I am not sure about that. At any rate, here are the functions that WORK to do this---but they depend on knowing the specific checkboxes that will show up ahead of time: $postvals['cp_checkbox_amenities']= implode(',', $_POST['cp_checkbox_amenities']); $postvals['cp_checkbox_days']= implode(',', $_POST['cp_checkbox_days']); $postvals['cp_checkbox_3']= implode(',', $_POST['cp_checkbox_3']); So I created a function which polls the form and finds the specific names of the checkboxes used on this page--the function ends like this: $results = $wpdb->get_results($sql); if($results) { foreach ($results as $result): // now grab all ad fields and print out the field label and value echo '<li><span>' . $result->field_name . '</li>'; endforeach; } else { echo __('No checkbox details found.', 'cp'); } } } This returns the following: <li><span>cp_checkbox_help</span></li><li><span>cp_checkbox_charley</span></li><li><span>cp_checkbox_hello</span></li> </li> So, I then tried to REPLACE the hard-code functions I show above that take the checkbox arrays and implode them for saving when this form is updated as comma limited values. I tried various versions of this using the same loop that produced the <li> list with $result->field_name : foreach ($results as $result): // now grab all ad fields and print out the field label and value $postvals['. $result->field_name .']= implode(',', $_POST[ '. $result->field_name .']); endforeach; } else { echo __('No checkbox details found.', 'cp'); } } } Every different way I try to get something either errors out or does not perform the Implode, or notifies me that the Implode is creating problems. SOMEHOW, dynamically for each loop I need for a ' single quote mark to appear on each side of $result->field_name so that I have dynamically written in the php code the equivalent to $postvals['cp_checkbox_amenities']= implode(',', $_POST['cp_checkbox_amenities']); $postvals['cp_checkbox_days']= implode(',', $_POST['cp_checkbox_days']); $postvals['cp_checkbox_3']= implode(',', $_POST['cp_checkbox_3']); the $result->field_name gives me a cp_checkbox_3 or a cp_checkbox_amenities, etc,, but I cannot break it down so that $postvals['$result->field_name']= implode(',', $_POST['$result->field_name']); WORKS and I have tried with [PHP? echo ''' .$result->field_name . ''' ?>] and other ways. Incidentally, ", double quotes don't play nice on this server with PHP 5. And I have tried combinations of " ' double quote then single quote and on the other side ' " inside the associative array brackets.. nothing works--either I get errors, implode warnings, or the arrays of these checkboxes do not get changed to comma delimited arrays if the page loads and saves without errors. I'd appreciate receiving what must be an elegantly simple solution! I know that magic __get and __set are invoked automatically when an object is instantiated, but what about stuff like getName() and setName() Code: [Select] class NameClass { private $_name; public function getName() { return $this->_name; } public function setName($value) { $this->_name = $value; } } $someName = new NameClass(); $someName->setName('Bob'); echo $someName->getName(); 1. Could the setName() and getName() just as easily be named something generic like: hotName() coldName() Code: [Select] class NameClass { private $_name; public function hotName() { return $this->_name; } public function coldName($value) { $this->_name = $value; } } $someName = new NameClass(); $someName->coldName('Bob'); echo $someName->hotName(); 2. Also, the setName() and getName() methods must be called manually, right? Unless they are manually called, they just sit there, do nothing, am I correct? Thanks I stumbled upon this book where i first met __set(). When I research it, I met __get(). So there, I don't know who they are. And what they exactly do. If I may ask, is there any tutorial which can give me proper introduction with __set() and __get()? I have read for beginners, but I dont know, maybe I'm too dummy to understand. please bare with me i am just beginner. Thanks in advance. im creating a members website and i want to show how many people are logging, in my database i have a col named online every time somone logs in there online goes from 0 to 1 and when thay log out it goes back to 0. i need to know how to show the total people that have 1 in there online part of the data base iv tryed this code and its not working <?php $result = mysql_query("SELECT online FROM `members` WHERE online='1'"); $row = mysql_fetch_row($result); echo $row; ?> this works in the sql console in phpmyadmin |