PHP - Php Requests Through Proxies? Help Appreciated!

Hi,

I am trying to make a web interface for a robot, I have written php to send/recieve values via a serial port to my robot. They work.

I am now tring to develop my web interface.

I'm using java to generate http requests client side in the form of;
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/request?command=Forward&param1=254
I was wondering how I can parse the command and param1 in php sereverside?

Or is there a better alternative?

I created an app for my website, set action (read) and object (article), and placed the objects code (META tags in the head) at the article page on my website.

Now, I want to know how to send a cUrl request whenever a user reads an article on my website, so it'll feature on his wall.

When I press the "get code" link near the action, that's what I get:

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curl -F 'access_token=***' \
 -F 'article=http://example.com' \
    'https://graph.facebook.com/me/yellowheart:read'

(There's an actual access token of course).

Now, how do I make it happen?

Daniel

I have script on my web hosts server built into pages that will be offered to the public, eg: index.php will have some script amongst the html, this script calls other webpages on the net eg: wiki.org

Now my question is, when that script runs when somebody accesses that page, will the website eg: wiki.org record the users browser info and ip who called my index page or will it record the webhosts server details as the one making the requests?

Purpose: Building a search function for a site, that's supposed to be fast, give results as a user types.

Queries would be something like: "brand1 brand2 brand3" .

My idea is , instead of querying the database on each ajax request. A keyed array is created once. Like: ['brand1' => id , 'brand2 => id2 ]. This array is stored in memory. The next time a query is sent, the array which is instantly available in memory, and can be simply queried $storedArray['brand1']to fetch any existing ids instantly. The array size would be about 750 Kb. 60000 rows.

I don't have much experience with caching , so looking for advise whether what I am trying to do even makes any sense or necessary. I know there are solutions like memcache. But not sure if my tiny project requires them. Also does opcache help here ? Would serializing the array be too slow ? 

Please ask if any questions.

Thanks

I have an object which is very expensive to create, and is fairly large but by no means enormous.  The object has two tasks:

Display to the user what can be changed in a database. Make some or all of those changes based on user input.

Instead of creating it first to perform the first task, I would like to serialize it and store it somewhere and then restore it to perform the second task to reduce user wait time.  Communication of both tasks is as follows where the web client first makes a XMLHttpRequest and then cURL is used for the remaining:

Web Client -> Web Server -> REST API Server -> Time Historian Application (and then back in the same order)

In addition, both of these tasks take significantly longer than 30 seconds resulting in cURL error 28.  I certainly can investigate to determine which of the requests are causing this error, however, feel that the solution to persisting the object might solve this issue as well.

I am thinking of making the REST API server responsible for temporarily storing the object, and am considering the following:

Web client makes XMLHttpRequest to web server and passes session cookie. Web server makes cURL request to REST API server and passes that same cookie (maybe a bad idea?). REST API server initiates the time historian application, spawns some new process, and replies to the web server maybe with some expected wait time duration, and web server in turn responds to web client. Spanned process when object is complete serializes the object's content and saves it as JSON using the session cookie as the filename. Web client periodically makes requests to web server which in turn make requests to REST API server and when the JSON file is available, recreates the object, executes the applicable method, and replies with the applicable content. Web client sends user data to the web server and in turn to the REST server to initiate the second task. Web client similarly periodically makes requests to web server which in turn make requests to REST API server to check if complete and if so the JSON object file is deleted. If request has not been fulfilled within 24 hours or so, JSON object file is deleted.

I would appreciate any general feedback or recommendations how best to accomplish this, and whether using some 3rd party framework such as Gearman, ReactPHP, redis, etc might simplify matters.

Thank you

Hi all,

Something i forget to ask all the time, but now i don't.
While reading again about image sprites, it tells that it's nice because it decreases the amount of http requests.
Now I thought what about all those requires and includes of php aren't they doing the same thing? Not to mention OOP which would not exist without the 2(4).

Does anyone know if this indeed increases the amount of http requests. And if so, if there is a certain good practise to lower the amount, by just combining functions in 1 file.

I would love to hear from some guru's 

It's been a while since I've needed to whip anything substantial up from scratch, so my scripting is a little (lot) fast and loose (weird/inefficient) here.

I'm trying to mock up a script that's essentially a quiz/survey. There are a handful of topics, each with a few screens of yes/no questions. At the end, it returns a list of recommendations based on the answers gathered.

The script is posting back to itself. Using print_r ($_SESSION), it seems like all of the post values for the first screen of questions are being assigned to the session array as expected. When the second screen of questions is answered, their values are assigned as well, but the values for the first set go away completely. This continues through subsequent screens, with the values from the previous screen present and all others before missing.

I'd really appreciate a look at my code to see if you tell me the cause or error(s).

Thanks!


<?php
session_start;
include('_config.php');

// database connect
$dbc = mysqli_connect($CFG->dbhost, $CFG->dbuser, $CFG->dbpass, $CFG->dbname);

// set to section 1, page 1 if no values are in _POST array
  if (($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] ==  'GET') || (!isset($_POST['section']))) {
   $section = 1;
   $page  = 1;
  }
  else {
// something was posted, so...set those values in session variable
foreach($_POST as $key => $data) { 
$_SESSION[$key] = $data; 
}
// debug: display contents of the session array
print_r ($_SESSION);

// which section and page?
   $section = (int) $_POST['section'];
   $page  = (int) $_POST['next'];
  }

// check if last topic
$query = "SELECT * FROM hw_topics";
$data = mysqli_query($dbc, $query);
  if ($section == mysqli_num_rows($data)) {
    $last_section = true; 
  }
  else {
    $last_section = false;
  }

// get current topic name and info
$query = "SELECT topic, display_name, pages_in_topic FROM hw_topics WHERE topic_id = '$section'";
$data = mysqli_query($dbc, $query);
if (mysqli_num_rows($data) == 1) {
  $row = mysqli_fetch_array($data);
  $topic_display_name = $row['display_name'];
  $pages_in_topic = $row['pages_in_topic'];
  }

// test if last page in topic
$topic_pages = $row['pages_in_topic'];
if ($page == $topic_pages) {
    $last_page_in_section = true;
  }
  else {
    $last_page_in_section = false;
  }

// set form action (set to this script or to recommendations when last section is complete 
if (($last_section == true) && ($last_page_in_section == true)) {
    $form_action = $CFG->reccomend;
  }
  else {
    $form_action = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
  }

// get current page headline
$query = "SELECT page_headline FROM hw_pages WHERE topic_id = '$section' AND page_number = '$page'";
$data = mysqli_query($dbc, $query);

if (mysqli_num_rows($data) == 1) {
  // The headline row was found so display the headline
  $row = mysqli_fetch_array($data);
  $page_headline = '<h2>' . $row['page_headline'] . '</h2>';
  }


// Grab the question data from the database to generate the list and form fields
$query = "SELECT question_id, question_number, question_text FROM hw_questions WHERE topic_id = '$section' AND page_id = '$page' ORDER BY question_number";
$data = mysqli_query($dbc, $query);
$questions = array();
  while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($data)) {
    array_push($questions, $row);
  }

include($CFG->includesdir.'/header.php');
?>
<div id="head">
<h1>Assessment<?php if (isset($topic_display_name)) { echo ': <em>' . $topic_display_name  . '</em>'; } ?></h1>
<p class="paging">Page <?php echo $page; ?> of <?php echo $pages_in_topic; ?></p>
</div><!-- #head -->
<div id="content">
<p class="instr">Please complete this survey. We'll generate a list of recommendations and resources for your organization.</p>

<div id="questions">
<?php echo $page_headline; ?>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $form_action; ?>">

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<thead>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td class="qtext"></td>
<td class="qanswer">yes</td>
<td class="qanswer">no</td>
<td class="pad"></td>
</tr>
</thead>

<?php 
if ($questions) { 
    // display question rows
    foreach ($questions as $question) {
      echo '<tr>';
      echo '<td class="qnumber">' . $question['question_number'] . '.</td>';
      echo '<td class="qtext"><p>...' . $question['question_text'] . '</p></td>';
      echo '<td class="qanswer"><div class="radio" id="box-yes"><input type="radio" value="yes" name="qid_' . $question['question_id'] . '" id="qid_' . $question['question_id'] . '" class="radio" /></div></td>';
      echo '<td class="qanswer"><div class="radio" id="box-no"><input type="radio" value="no" name="qid_' . $question['question_id'] . '" id="qid_' . $question['question_id'] . '" class="radio"';
      $field_name = 'qid_' . $question['question_id'];
      if (isset($_SESSION[$field_name])) {
        echo ' checked="checked"';
      }
      echo ' /></div></td>';
      echo '<td class="pad"></td>';
      echo '</tr>';
    }
  }
  else {
    echo '<tr>';
    echo '<td colspan="3" class="qtext"><p>No questions found in the database for this page.</p></td>';
    echo '<td class="pad"></td>';
    echo '</tr>';
  }
?>
</table>

<ul id="controls">
<?php 
if ($last_page_in_section == true) 
  { 
  $section++; 
  $page = 1; 
  } 
  else {
  $page++;
  }
  echo '<input type="hidden" value="' . $section . '" name="section" />';
  echo '<input type="hidden" value="' . ($page) . '" name="next" />';
  if (($last_section == true) &&  ($last_page_in_section == true)) {
    echo '<li><input type="submit" value="Submit Answers and Get Recommendations" name="submit" id="submit" /></li>';
  }
  else {
    echo '<li><input type="submit" value="Next Page" name="submit" id="next" /></li>'; 
  }
?>
</ul><!-- #controls -->
</form>
</div><!-- #questions -->

<?php
mysqli_close($dbc);
include($CFG->includesdir.'/footer.php');
?>

Hi we had some software develops that needs to bulk upload from a mailbox. When we are setting up a Cron job within the Plesk control panel on the dedicated server our developer is getting the follow error and not sure of a solution? - Can anyone advise please - Thank you!   Getting the following message when I run the cron:
PHP Warning:  imap_open(): Couldn't open stream {localhost} in /var/www/vhosts/cvdatabase.management/httpdocs/send_email.php on line 116
PHP Warning:  imap_num_msg() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /var/www/vhosts/cvdatabase.management/httpdocs/send_email.php on line 151
PHP Notice:  Unknown: Certificate failure for localhost: self signed certificate: /C=US/ST=Virginia/L=Herndon/O=Parallels/OU=Parallels Panel/CN=Parallels Panel/emailAddress=info@parallels.com (errflg=2) in Unknown on line 0

i've searched and searched on this and can find the answer that almost works every time but my situation is slightly different:

all php register member login script advice on the web is set up with a join page, index, login page and a few scripts holding it all together.

I need an index page that firstly checks to see if a member is logged on, and then either displays information for the member, or if not logged on, information for a non-member.

all has to be on the same index page.

i'm aware that using IF else statement I can achieve this, and i can get the form to log in to appear if non-member is detected, but i can't get anything to appear if a member logs in

driving me a bit mad and any help would be greatly appreciated.

 
Hi all, I hope I am in the right place. I'm new to php/mysql so please be patient with me. I am trying to create a login script to validate username and password against a database I have created. I am not getting an error message but even when I enter correct username/password details from the database to test the code I am getting the message at the bottom of the script. I can't figure out why as I thought I had all bases covered, but obviously not. Here is my code. Thanks for any help in advance.
P.S. I have checked the names against my form and they are correct.

<html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>USER LOGIN</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
if(empty($_POST['name'])){
   $name=NULL;
   echo "Sorry, you forgot to enter your username.</br>";
}else{
   $name=$_POST['name'];
}   
if(empty($_POST['password'])){
   $password=NULL;
   echo "Sorry, you forgot to enter a password.</br>";
}else{
   $password=$_POST['password'];
}
   $connection = @mysqli_connect('localhost','root','','BLOG_PROJECT')
OR die("Could not connect to server");
   
   $username = stripslashes($name);
   $password = stripslashes($password);
   $username = mysql_real_escape_string($name);
   $password = mysql_real_escape_string($password);
   
   $info = "SELECT 'username', 'password' FROM USERS WHERE 'username'='$username' and 'password'='$password'";
   $return=@mysql_query($info);
   $rows=@mysql_num_rows($return);
   
if($rows==1){
   session_register("username");
   session_register("password");
   header("location:admin.php");
   echo "Hi $username. You are now logged in.";
}else{
   echo "You have entered incorrect details. Please check your login details and try again.";
}
?>
</body>
</html>

I'm having trouble with my code, any help would be appreciated. I'm trying to add an if statement that checks if $new =1, if it does it echos "new" else it echos "old". What is happening is if $new ="0 or 1 " it echos the same answer.
Here is partial code:


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$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $dbname WHERE  new = '1'") or die(mysql_error());
// store the record of the "" table into $row
$current = '';

// keeps getting the next row until there are no more to get
while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
$id = $row['id'];
if (!$current) {
echo "<center><div><table border='0' width='520'>";
$current = $id;
echo "<img src='images/jewelry.png' alt='toveco'/><br/>";
echo "<div>";
  echo "Questions about store items use link in menu.<br/>";
  echo "Latest (".$rows5.") ";
  echo "Beads (".$rows4.") ";
  echo "Cabochons (".$rows3.") ";
echo "Earrings (".$rows1.") ";
echo "Pendants (".$rows2.") ";
echo "Rings (".$rows0.") ";
    echo "</div>";
    echo "<p><b>Click picture to enlarge.</b></p>";
echo "<hr width='520'>";
} elseif ($current != $id){
echo "</table></div><br><div><table border='0' width='520'>";
$current = $id;
echo "<hr width='520'>";
}
?>
<tr><td rowspan="9" width="110"><div class="image"><a href="<?= $row['image']; ?>" rel="lightbox" title="<?= $row['material']; ?>"><img src="<?= $row['image_th']; ?>" align="center" border="0"></a></div></td>
<td rowspan="9" width="110"><div class="image"><a href="<?= $row['image2']; ?>" rel="lightbox" title="<?= $row['material']; ?>"><img src="<?= $row['image2_th']; ?>" width="75" border="0"></a></div></td>
<tr><td>
<?php
if ($new=="0") echo "new";
else echo "old ";
?>
</td></tr>
<tr><th align="left">Item No.</th><td><?= $row['itemno']; ?></td></tr>
<tr><th align="left">Description</th><td><?= $row['description']; ?></td></tr>
<tr><th align="left">Cut</th><td><?= $row['cut']; ?></td></tr>
<tr><th align="left">Carat</th><td><?= $row['carat']; ?></td></tr>
<tr><th align="left">Material</th><td><?= $row['material']; ?></td></tr>
<tr><th align="left">Price</th><td><?= $row['price']; ?></td></tr>
<tr><th align="left">Availability</th><td><?= $row['availability']; ?></td></tr>
<tr><th></th>
<td></td>

Hi all,


I've been trying to improve the speed of my file download script and was wondering if anyone could advise me which of the following is more efficient (Don't worry its not the whole script, just one segment), in terms of speed and server load?

The way I have the segment currently:

//if file exists need to check authorision levels

//set access to no

$access = NULL;

//retrieve current user levels

$cpm = $_SESSION['MM_CPMGroup'];

$cpmh = $_SESSION['MM_CPMHGroup'];

$cm = $_SESSION['MM_CMGroup'];

$cj200 = $_SESSION['MM_CJ200Group'];

$cj = $_SESSION['MM_CJGroup'];

//set file category type & set access if allowed

if ($category == 'cpm') {

if ($cpm == '1') {

$access = 1;

if ($subcategory == 'techdata') {

$path = "files/techdata/cpm/";

}

elseif ($subcategory == 'msds') {

$path = "files/techdata/cpm/msds/";

}

elseif ($subcategory == 'symbols') {

$path = "files/symbols/cpm/";

}

else {

$path = "files/cpm/";

}

}

}

elseif ($category == 'cpmh') {

if ($cpmh == '1') {

$access = 1;

if ($subcategory == 'techdata') {

$path = "files/techdata/cpmh/";

}

elseif ($subcategory == 'msds') {

$path = "files/techdata/cpmh/msds/";

}

elseif ($subcategory == 'symbols') {

$path = "files/symbols/cpmh/";

}

else {

$path = "files/cpmh/";

}

}

}

elseif ($category == 'cm') {

if ($cm == '1') {

$access = 1;

if ($subcategory == 'techdata') {

$path = "files/techdata/cm/";

}

elseif ($subcategory == 'msds') {

$path = "files/techdata/cm/msds/";

}

elseif ($subcategory == 'symbols') {

$path = "files/symbols/cm/";

}

else {

$path = "files/cm/";

}

}

}

elseif ($category == 'cj200') {

if ($cj200 == '1') {

$access = 1;

if ($subcategory == 'techdata') {

$path = "files/techdata/cj200/";

}

elseif ($subcategory == 'msds') {

$path = "files/techdata/cj200/msds/";

}

elseif ($subcategory == 'symbols') {

$path = "files/symbols/cj200/";

}

else {

$path = "files/cj200/";

}

}

}

elseif ($category == 'cj') {

if ($cj == '1') {

$access = 1;

if ($subcategory == 'techdata') {

$path = "files/techdata/cj/";

}

elseif ($subcategory == 'msds') {

$path = "files/techdata/cj/msds/";

}

elseif ($subcategory == 'symbols') {

$path = "files/symbols/cj/";

}

else {

$path = "files/cj/";

}

}

}

if ($access < 1) {

// if user access not granted to file category return message

if($logging > 0){

$status = "Wrong Permissions";

include('logit.php');

}

if (! $_SESSION['PrevUrl']) {

//header("Location: ". $loginpage );

exit;

}

$redirect = $_SESSION['PrevUrl'];

header("Location: ". $redirect );

exit;

}

// if file exists and user access granted continue


Obviously the above is a lot of lines of code... So I have rewritten the above to look like:


//if file exists need to check authorision levels & retrieve current user levels

if ($category == 'cpm' && $_SESSION['MM_CPMGroup'] == '1') {

$access = 1;

} elseif ($category == 'cpmh' && $cpmh = $_SESSION['MM_CPMHGroup'] == '1') {

$access = 1;

} elseif ($category == 'cm' && $cm = $_SESSION['MM_CMGroup'] == '1') {

$access = 1;

} elseif ($category == 'cj200' && $_SESSION['MM_CJ200Group'] == '1') {

$access = 1;

} elseif ($category == 'cj' && $_SESSION['MM_CJGroup'] == '1') {

$access = 1;

} else {

$access = NULL;

}

if ($access == NULL) {

// if user access not granted to file category return message

$status = "Unauthorised";

include('logit.php');

header("Location: ".$_SESSION['PrevUrl']);

exit;

}

// if file exists and user access granted continue

switch($subcategory) {

case "techdata":$path="files/techdata/".$category."/".$filename; break;

case "msds":

$path="files/techdata/".$category."/msds/".$filename; break;

case "symbols":

$path="files/symbols/".$category."/".$filename; break;

default:

$path="files/".$category."/".$filename;

}


The second version is a lot shorter, but is it better? And could I shorten the if statement further so its more like:


//if file exists need to check authorision levels & retrieve current user levels

if (($category == 'cpm' && $_SESSION['MM_CPMGroup'] == '1') || ($category == 'cpmh' && $cpmh = $_SESSION['MM_CPMHGroup'] == '1') || ($category == 'cm' && $cm = $_SESSION['MM_CMGroup'] == '1') || ($category == 'cj200' && $_SESSION['MM_CJ200Group'] == '1') || ($category == 'cj' && $_SESSION['MM_CJGroup'] == '1') {

$access = 1;

} else {

$access = NULL;

}

if ($access == NULL) {

// if user access not granted to file category return message

$status = "Unauthorised";

include('logit.php');

header("Location: ".$_SESSION['PrevUrl']);

exit;

}

// if file exists and user access granted continue

switch($subcategory) {

case "techdata":$path="files/techdata/".$category."/".$filename; break;

case "msds":

$path="files/techdata/".$category."/msds/".$filename; break;

case "symbols":

$path="files/symbols/".$category."/".$filename; break;

default:

$path="files/".$category."/".$filename;

}


Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks!!

Hi,

I recently attempted to install a refer-a-friend script into my website but I really don't use PHP at all and even my html is very sloppy so it didn't get installed as planned.
It currently cuts out the bottom half of my website like so: http://www.returntherake.com/refer.php
Basically everything before the script is called is fine but everything after doesn't work. Heres the code from the point its installed till the end of my website.

Any help would be great. Thank you so much.

Quote

<script language="php">

// Number of friend feilds to put on the page
$tellnumber = "3";

// Subject of email
$subject = "Great Poker Rakeback Site";

// Message sent in the email
$message = "Look at this great site I found. I think you'll like it. It will boost your profits while playing online poker
by getting you some of your rake back.
http://www.ReturnTheRake.com/
When signing up with a website remember to say $_POST[name] referred you in the proper section. As you will recieve a 25% bonus on your first $20 rakeback recieved.";

// Url to redirect user to once they click submit
$thankyouurl = "http://www.returntherake.com/thankyou_refer.html";




//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// DO NOT EDIT ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE                                         //
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


if($_POST[submitform] == "Submit") {

$error = "";
$num=0;

while($num < $tellnumber) {
$num++;
$temail = "femail"."$num";
$tname = "fname"."$num";

if($_POST[$tname] OR $_POST[$temail]) {
if(!$_POST[$tname]) {
$error .= "Missing Friends Name,  Friend $num<BR>";
}
if(!$_POST[$temail]) {
$error .= "Missing Friends Email,  Friend $num<BR>";
}
}

if($_POST[$temail]) {
if(!ereg("@",$_POST[$temail])) { $error .= "Invalid Email Address, Friend $num<BR>"; }
if(!ereg("\.",$_POST[$temail])) { $error .= "Invalid Email Address, Friend $num<BR>"; }
}

}

if(!$_POST["name"]) {
$error .= "Missing your name<BR>";
}
if(!ereg("@",$_POST[email])) { $error .= "Invalid Email Address<BR>"; }
if(!ereg("\.",$_POST[email])) { $error .= "Invalid Email Address<BR>"; }

if($error) {
?>

<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
<P><CENTER><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0">
  <TR>
    <TD WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#01864E">
    <TABLE WIDTH="340" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="1" CELLPADDING="2">
      <TR>
        <TD WIDTH="26%" BGCOLOR="#01864E">
        <B><FONT COLOR="#ffffff" SIZE="-3" FACE="Verdana">Error</FONT></B></TD>
      </TR>
      <TR>
        <TD WIDTH="26%" BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
        <FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="-3" FACE="Verdana"><? echo $error; ?></FONT></TD>
      </TR>
    </TABLE></TD>
  </TR>
</TABLE></CENTER>

<?
exit();
}


    $extra ="\r\n";
          $headers = "";
          $headers .= "From: $_POST[name] <$_POST[email]>".$extra;
          $headers .= "Reply-To: $_POST[name] <$_POST[email]>".$extra;
          $headers .= "Return-Path: $_POST[name] <$_POST[email]>".$extra;
          $headers .= "Message-ID: <".time()." - $_POST[email]>".$extra;
          $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion().$extra;
          $headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0'.$extra.$extra;

$num=0;

while($num < $tellnumber) {
$num++;
$temail = "femail".$num;
$tname = "fname".$num;
$print_f_name = $_POST[$tname];
$print_f_email = $_POST[$temail];

if($_POST[$temail] AND $_POST[$tname]) {


mail($print_f_email,"$subject","
Hi, $print_f_name

$message

From
$_POST[name]


",$headers);


}

}

header("Location: $thankyouurl");
exit();


} else {

$num=0;
while($num < $tellnumber) {
$num++;
$theboxes .= " <TR>
        <TD WIDTH=\"49%\" BGCOLOR=\"#ffffff\">
        <CENTER><B><FONT COLOR=\"#000000\" SIZE=\"-3\" FACE=\"Verdana\">$num</FONT></B></CENTER></TD>
        <TD WIDTH=\"26%\" BGCOLOR=\"#ffffff\">
        <CENTER><INPUT NAME=\"fname$num\" TYPE=\"text\" SIZE=\"-3\"></CENTER></TD>
        <TD WIDTH=\"25%\" BGCOLOR=\"#ffffff\">
        <INPUT NAME=\"femail$num\" TYPE=\"text\" SIZE=\"-3\">
</TD>
      </TR>";
}


?>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
<P><CENTER><FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>Tell your friend about our site</B></FONT></CENTER></P>
<FORM ACTION="tellfriend.php" METHOD="POST"><P><CENTER><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0"
CELLPADDING="0">
  <TR>
    <TD WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#01864E">
    <TABLE WIDTH="340" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="1" CELLPADDING="2">
      <TR>
        <TD WIDTH="26%" BGCOLOR="#01864E">
        <CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#ffffff" SIZE="-3" FACE="Verdana">Your Poker Account</FONT></B></CENTER></TD>
        <TD WIDTH="25%">
        <CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#ffffff" SIZE="-3" FACE="Verdana">Your Email</FONT></B></CENTER></TD>
      </TR>
      <TR>
        <TD WIDTH="150" BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
        <CENTER><INPUT NAME="name" TYPE="text" SIZE="12px"></CENTER></TD>
        <TD WIDTH="200" BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
        <INPUT NAME="email" TYPE="text" SIZE="-3">
</TD>
      </TR>
    </TABLE></TD>
  </TR>
</TABLE></CENTER></P><P><CENTER><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0">
  <TR>
    <TD WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#01864E">
    <TABLE WIDTH="340" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="1" CELLPADDING="2">
      <TR>
        <TD WIDTH="49%" BGCOLOR="#01864E"></TD>
        <TD WIDTH="26%" BGCOLOR="#01864E">
        <CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#ffffff" SIZE="-3" FACE="Verdana">Friends name</FONT></B></CENTER></TD>
        <TD WIDTH="25%">
        <CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#ffffff" SIZE="-3" FACE="Verdana">Friends email</FONT></B></CENTER></TD>
      </TR><? echo $theboxes; ?></TABLE></TD>
  </TR>
</TABLE></CENTER></P>
<P><CENTER><INPUT NAME="submitform" TYPE="submit" VALUE="Submit"></CENTER></FORM>
<?
exit();

}

?>
</h3>
                                    </td>
                                    </tr>
                                    </table></td>
                                <td width="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"></td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td height="1" colspan="3" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"></td>
                              </tr>
                            </table></td>
                          </tr>
                        </table></td>
                      </tr>
                      <tr>
                        <td height="10" align="center" valign="top"></td>
                      </tr>
                                         </table>
</td>
               </tr>
               </table>
               </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td align="left" height="17" valign="top" class="style19">
                  &nbsp;</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td align="left" height="17" valign="top" class="style19">
                  &nbsp;</td>
                </tr>
              </tbody>
            </table>
            </td>
          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td align="left" valign="top">
      <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
        <tbody>
          <tr>
            <td align="left" valign="top" width="11"><img
 src="images/footer_bg_left.gif" alt="" height="120" width="11" /></td>
            <td class="footer" align="left" valign="middle">
            <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
 width="100%">
              <tbody>
                <tr>
                  <td style="padding-left: 12px;" align="left"
 valign="top" width="260"><img src="images/footer_img.gif" alt=""
 height="110" width="249" /></td>
                  <td align="left" valign="middle">
                  <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
 width="100%">
                    <tbody>
                      <tr>
                        <td class="footer_border" align="left"
 valign="top"> <a href="index.php">Homea> | <a href="#">Terms
&amp; Conditions</a> | <a href="#"> Privacy Policy</a> | <a href="#">Site
Map</a> | <a href="#">Contact Us</a></td>
                      </tr>
                      <tr>
                        <td class="footer_border"
 style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 22px;" align="left" valign="top">ReturnTheRake.com
Copyright &copy; 2010, All Rights Reserved.</td>
                      </tr>
                    </tbody>
                  </table>
                  </td>
                </tr>
              </tbody>
            </table>
            </td>
            <td align="left" valign="top" width="11"><img
 src="images/footer_bg_right.gif" alt="" height="120" width="11" /></td>
          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
<br />
</body>
</html>

Hey guy's, I wanted to create a website - I got the domain and I can design it but I really have no clue with making it function properly. Basically the website is a little bit like craigslist but MUCH MUCH simpler. It's basically a Buy/Sell website for online currency to a certain game.
1 = Main page, the main page will have two large buttons on it One directs you to >Sell Gold, the other to >Buy Gold.
2. Whatever options you choose you will be prompted to Create an account
3. If you clicked on Buy, after you create an account you will be able to view the seller listings
4. If you clicked on Sell, you will be prompted to create an ad.



That's just the basic skeleton of it, I would love to add more later but I want to know how difficult it would be to make something like that.
Any help appreciated

I am 72 and just learning HTML and PHP.

I was forced to take over control of my wife's website:  www.janlieberman.com

There is a photo gallery with thumbnails that expand to full size when you click them.

These photos are linked to a php file and I cannot get it to function.

I found a way to make the thumbnails work using direct html but that created another problem.

There is a slide show that runs too slow using the html rather than the php code.

This is the code that needs examining:

<?php

// id is defined in the other files

include "photos_db.php";

if ($Photos[$id]['title'] == '') {
   $PageTitle = "Jan Lieberman - Photo";
} else {
   $PageTitle = $Photos[$id]['title'] . " - Jan Lieberman Photo";
}

$FileName = $Photos[$id]['filename'];

include "header.php";

echo <<< EOF

<h1>Jan Lieberman - <font size="3"><a href="photos.html">Photo Gallery</a></font></h1>

<table class="list">
<tr><td align="center">
EOF;

if ($id != 1) {
   echo '<a href="photo_' . $Photos[$id-1]['filename'] . '.html">< Previous</a>';
}
echo "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;";
if ($id != sizeof($Photos)) {
   echo '<a href="photo_' . $Photos[$id+1]['filename'] . '.html">Next ></a>';
}
echo '</td></tr>';
echo '<tr><td align="center"><img src="/images/' . $FileName . '.jpg" border="0" alt="' . $PageTitle . '">';

if ($Photos[$id]['title'] != '') {
   echo "<br>" . $Photos[$id]['title'];
}

echo '</td></tr>' . "\n";
echo "</table><br>\n";

include "footer.php";

?>