PHP :: Cookies And "include" Or "require"

How To Do PHP "require()" Or TCL "source" In Bash Script
I can't figure out how to explain this any better than
this.

In PHP we have a command "require()" that obtains a file and logically
places it into another file.

I cannot figure out how to do this in bash script as the requirement
is necessary for a migration script to obtain the code from a .cfg
file and then be able for the "parent" script to run the code it
"imported" from the .cfg file, much like PHP's require() or TCL's
"source".

This is what I have so far and it fails:

if [ -f ivc.cfg ]; then
cat ivc.cfg
fi

Anyone really know bash script well please help, it's a barrier for me
not to be able to get just this one piece working.

'echo "": No Such File Or Directory" Error Using "exec" To Pipe In PHP Script
[TCL]
set php {<? print_r("Hello World"); ?>}
puts $php; # PRINTS OUT <? print_r("Hello World"); ?>
puts [exec "echo '$php' | php -q"]
[/TCL]

When I try this within TCL I get the following error:

Echo "";
I have a search script which returns a page of results, however I'd like the returned page to be in the same format as the rest of my site.
To do this I've tried adding the HTML for my site to my PHP page with echo" " commands. This works for the plain HTML, but my regular pages also use SSI to do other stuff (some of them even execute other PHP scripts to generate tables of data etc). I've tried

echo "";
but it doesn't work as I get a parse error. My question is, how do I go about doing this properly? Is this possible at all? And if not have you guys got any suggestions to get around this?

How Do I Do Something Like $color = ("red", "yellow", "blue")[$colornum]?
How do I take an index of a literal array, instead of a variable?

That is, say I want to get the short name of a month. Can I do
something like:

$monthname = ("Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug",
"Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec")[$month];

or do I always have to do:

$blah = array("Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug",
"Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec");
$monthname = $blah[$month];

It seems a shame to have to create a variable specifically for this
one-shot purpose.

Preventing Visitors Ability To "re-visit" A Page Via The "back Button"..
I have a rather complex registration/member sign up form.. which gets a little confused, when a visitor "backs" completely out of the form, then for whatever reason returns to the form. The form contains 'cancel' buttons, which naturally cancel the reg process and redirects them to the document just before they started.

JS provides us with the "location.replace()" method, but I can't seem to find a way to coordinate the use of location.replace() with the posting of the form values. In short, I want to "replace" the first step of the form with the "second step".

I think what's making this tricky, is that each step of the form are located within the "same" page (register.php). The document works like so: The first step is the "Member Agreement" when they click "agree" (submit) the system creates a new row in the temporary register table of the db.

It then issues a registration cookie, which carries the row id, and session value. in addition (for those cookie impared users) we carry the row id and session value in hidden elements. So far, as long as the user continues through the process all is fine, but if they (for whatever reason) back all the way out, and click 'agree' again, the process fails.

I guess I have to find a way to force a reload of the 1st step "if they've gone back" OR "replace()" the first step with the second, so as to prevent the user from going "back" to the 1st step of the register page.

Errors Won't Show Up Even With Error_reporting(E_ALL) And Ini_set("display_errors","1")
Here's my code:

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_startup_errors","1");
ini_set("display_errors","1");

wefw
wefwef=wefwe
2349023909()
;wrgwrg ====232

phpinfo(); ?>

I get a blank page.

If I take out the crap, it prints phpinfo() just fine.

PHP 4.3.something...

Pagnation - Limit Number Of Pages Between "Previous" & "Next" Hyperlinks
Was hoping for some advice with a part of page navigation....

It works at the moment so there is a "Previous" & "Next" Hyperlink underneath the records. In between the Previous & Next links are the number of pages that there is of these records. e.g:

Previous 1234 Next

This is fine if there are only a few pages of records, but when there are hundreds of pages the numbers are listed and they take up half the web page with them.

How can i make it so only limited 10 numbers of pages say appear between the "Previous" & "Next" Hyperlink and as you progress through the pages they are as do the next 10 numbers of pages? Code:

[regex] Stripping Out "name" And "value" Values Out Of Tags, Aaargh
Searched through the site, but couldn't find the right regex syntax I was looking for.

the thing i want is, to extract with preg_match_all the given values in a tag...

ex.

$str = '<input type="text" name="name" value="value">'
$pattern = some magic stuff I need to know
preg_match_all($pattern, $str, $result);

And in result I want to have the values text, name and value AND it's important that the order doesn't matter
so structure of tags can be <input type =name= value=> or <input name= class= value= type=> etc, etc...

Group Mailing, Want To Suppress All The "to" Addresses In The "to:" Field
I want to do a mass emailing for a club.
I don't want all the clubs members to see all the addresses of the
other club members for privacy reasons.

How do I set up the php mail function to not display the recipients
email addresses, just to display something like, "U7 Soccer Club
Team"?

'Parse Error' Problem In "isset" And "empty"
I've been having some problems with a parse error that I can't figure
out (PHP 4.3.11 on Solaris9). Sample code:

<?php
// getting strange parse errors on this
class A {
var $value;
function A() {
$this->value = 1;
}

function getValue() {
return $this->value;
}
}

$a = new A();
if (!empty($a->getValue())) {
echo "success";
}
else {
echo "failure";
}
?>

The result of this is:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '(', expecting ')' in
/foo/public_html/parse_errors.php on line 15

I also get the same effect with "isset", however, testing with "is_null"
or "is_int" produces the correct ("success"/"failure") result. Any ideas?

Any File Size Limit In <PARAM Name="***" Value="***"> ?
I embed an applet in my php script which has a parameter providing an
input file for the jar. Does this file has size limit?

The code is as follows:
<APPLET ARCHIVE="myapplet.jar" WIDTH=372 HEIGHT=360 VSPACE=0 HSPACE=0
ALIGN=middle>

<?php echo "<PARAM NAME="data" VALUE="myfile.">";?>

when "myfile" is beyond 15M, my applet cannot load sucessfully, but
while this file is limited like 5M or 7M, it works well.

Does anybody know is the reason caused by php script limit, applet
mechanism, or by different browser?

Problems Getting "require" To Work In PHP5 Under Apache2
The require() I'm using in a PHP script has stopped working after I
moved from PHP4 and Apache 1.3.x to PHP5 and Apache 2.x. Now I get
messages like this:

Warning: main(/includes/ReloadScript.html) [function.main]: failed to
open stream: No such file or directory in
/usr/local/www/htdocs/main/AOLCompression.php on line 14

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required
'/includes/ReloadScript.html' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in
/usr/local/www/htdocs/main/AOLCompression.php on line 14

I've seen references to the problems, but no workarounds or solutions.
What's the status? Is there a way around it?

Error In Page When Checking Http_get_vars("myvar") And "myvar" Was Not Passed In URL String
PHP, coming from ASP coding

if (HTTP_GET_VARS['b']==1){
print "Yes";
}else{
print "No";
}

when "b" is not passed via
(http://www.mydomain.com?b=1

an error occurs and the "NO" is printed but an error is printed too.

How can I check for the value of "b" so that no error occurs if b is
not passed??

example

http=www.mydomain.com

$myvar=HTTP_GET_VARS['b']

causes an error because
"b" does not exist (ie. its not passed in the URL string.

$myvar maybe evaluated as NULL or Empty but the error is printed in
the page, anyway.

Coding "NEXT" And "PREVOIUS" Buttons
Hi

I am stuck here. I am doing a form which dispalys details of client companies. My query includes this statement:

.... WHERE CompanyName LIKE %$name% ....

What I need is following: if a query returns more then one result I what to "flip" through result with NEXT and PREVIOUS buttons.

Mysql/php - "LIMIT" And "ORDER"
In the following fragment of code, I am querying a database that in order to display a list of films. The list is very long and I would like to offer the possbility to restrain the range of results showned by page keeping in mind that the user should be able to browse forward or backward data if applicable. I know that I have to add the LIMIT method in the MySQL query but I have a hard time figuring how not to get lost in setting it dynamically in the PHP script.

Then I have a second question. Is there a more elegant / straightforward way to deal with the display order of the data (cf. $ot, $od and $oy)? Code:

Sticking "if" Or Changes Within A MySQL "where" Array?
I'm not exactly sure how to even ask the question, and I know my terminology
is not good as I'm a SQL beginner, but, here goes.

I need to find a way to make an if statement within an array...or, the
"while" portion of a recordset.

The best way I can ask is show what I mean.
http://oscarguy.mechphisto.net/awardbrowse.php
If you go there and select an award (like Best Picture), leave the year
field alone, and select YES and submit, you'll see a lot of results. And I
have HR's dividing each entry.

What I need to do is group all the entries of the same year, or at least
only put HR's between the blocks of years.
So, I'd have all the entries for 2002, an HR, then all for 2001, an HR, etc.

Here at the bottom I'll include my PHP code I'm using so far.
But I have no idea where to even start looking for an answer...if it's even
possible.
If someone can just give me the name of the function or process or
technique, then I can go Web/book searching myself...I just need a direction
of where to go.

PHP:------------------------------------------------------------------------
------
$query_RS_award = "SELECT * FROM $award WHERE id != Ƈ' ORDER BY year DESC,
w DESC";
//$query_RS_award = "SELECT * FROM $award WHERE year =
"$year"";
$RS_award = @mysql_query($query_RS_award, $connection) or
die("Couldn't query: " . mysql_error());
$totalRows_RS1 = mysql_num_rows($RS_award);
while ($row_RS_award = mysql_fetch_assoc($RS_award)) {
$award_id = $row_RS_award['id'];
$award_tblid = $row_RS_award['tblid'];
$award_award = $row_RS_award['award'];
$award_year = $row_RS_award['year'];
$award_category = $row_RS_award['category'];
$award_won = $row_RS_award['w'];
$award_film = $row_RS_award['film'];
$award_nominee = $row_RS_award['nominee'];
$award_note = $row_RS_award['note'];
if (!($award_category)) {
$award_category = "n/a";
} else {
$award_category = $award_category;
}
if ($award_won == "1") {
$award_won = " - Award Winner";
} else {
$award_won = "";
}
$display_block_Award .= "YEAR: <span
class='normalText12White'>$award_year</span><br>FILM: <span
class='normalText12White'>$award_film</span><br>CATEGORY: <span
class='normalText12White'>$award_category</span><br>NOMINEE: <span
class='normalText12White'>$award_nominee</span><span
class='normalText12BoldWhite'>$award_won</span><br><blockquote><span
class='normalText12White'>$award_note</span></blockquote><hr>";
}

FTP_login + $pass="" And $user=""
I use the following scrit in an Intranet with the user name = "" and
the password = "" :

<?php
$ftp_server = "192.168.25.25";
$ftp_user = "";
$ftp_pass = "";

$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Couldn't connect to
$ftp_server");

if (@ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user, $ftp_pass)) {
echo "Connected at $ftp_user@$ftp_server
";
} else {
echo "Can't connect with $ftp_user
";
}
?>

I have the following message :

Connected to 192.168.25.25
Warning: ftp_login(): 'USER': Invalid number of parameters in
E:www est_ftp.php on line 26

I tried to : ftp_login($conn_id, "", "") but i have the same result...

Alphabetize Results Ignoring "and" And "the"
is there a good way to alphabetize results and ignore articles like "the", "and", "a", and "an" so that it will alphabetize by the next word? just wondering...

Why Use "Stripslashes" And "Addslashes" Function
Can someone let me know why one would use strip slashes or add slashes functions. I know what they do but cannot see the exact use for them e.g. if i have a textfield and encase it in an stripslashes function, it will escape any back slashes etc...

Get Dialog Box Stating "Cookies Must Be Enabled" On Login
My site is powered by Joomla but no one can help on the Joomla forum, I did manage to work out that it may be a permissions or none Joomla issue that is causing my problem though.

I recently moved my site from one server to another and now I get a dialog box pop up when I try to log into my site.

I run a Warhammer hobby site Astronomican.

It only happens on the first attempt and when I click login again it always works fine. Feel free to register on my site to test this out for me, let me know your username and I'll delete your user afterwards. Any ideas?

Include("....file.php") Doesn't Work (error 2039)
I have a problem with include. I am develloping a site www.mobiclips.net.
I have placed the php files dealing with the gui, getting the pictures and the
download all in seperate folders in the root. Now I want to include the header an db.php,which are in the root. I have to use something like this <?php
include("....dbconnect.php")since I grouped all php related to each other in one map which itsel is in the map called PHP.

It works fine on XP amd windows 2003, but it does not work on the webserver on
linux. Notthing shows up. A few test showed that .. go up a level doesn't work.
When I put Echo ERROR_ALL I get error 2039 ...

Include("/main.php") Won't Work On A Hosting Machine
if you are just a users among the 100s of users on a hosting machines,
then if you do a include("/main.php"); it won't include the file
but will say

Failed opening required '/main.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/nf/
lib/php')

it seems ok to include("../main.php"); except the file will not work
if moved from www.abc.com/movies to a new location of
www.abc.com/movies/little-mermaid is there a better solution for
this?

Require ("filename");
When I put the header file in each and every directory and use

<?php require ("header.php"); ?>
It works great. Can I refer to this file with an absolute path from a
subdirectory like this?
<?php require ("http://localhost/site_directory/header.php"); ?>

When I do that, it doesn't work and I get the following message.
Fatal error: Failed opening required
'http://localhost/site_directory/header.php' (include_path='') in
c:program files usphereapachehtdocssite_directory opnavinfoiz_hours.php
on line 4

The site has many pages and subdirectories.

Can I "include" A Perl Script With In Php Page?
I was trying to use "include" to execute a perl script in my pHP page. Instead, it just printed out the contents of the Perl script and didn't execute thes cript.

Is there any kind of function which executes a script.. i know SSI has this.. does php?

something like >> execute("cgi-bin/script.cgi"}

"include Path" Doesn't Function The Way I Thought It Would
I have a PHP script that resides in a public directory. The real directory is something like this (directory names changed but nesting level holds true):

/usr/top/public/the-script.php

This is the path that is shown if I print __FILE__. I have an include directory that lives here:

/usr/top/hidden

I do the following with ini_set:

ini_set("include_path", ".;/usr/top/hidden");

However if I try to include a file that resides in /usr/top/hidden using just the file name:

require_once("file-in-hidden-dir.php");

I get a fatal error saying the file could not be found, with the include path I set showing in the error dump as the correct include_path.

If I try opening up the file using an explicit full path declaration:

require_once("/usr/top/hidden/file-in-hidden-dir.php");

It opens without error. What could I be doing wrong to have this problem?

Mod_php And Reuse Of "include()"-d Files
while using mod_php in apache:

If I am including one .inc file in one page, does it get compiled and
kept in memory so when I include the same file in another page on the
same server, the server won't have to search for it and recompile it ?

does mod_php provide other advantages besides preloading the php
interpretor/compiler in memory ?

Parse Errors With "case "action":
I want to call an action that is in a file called "configm.php" but I get a parse error on line 8. (the bit that goes 'case "add":') Code:

Curl "remembering Cookies"?
In which the following is said:
----
> curl_close ($ch);
> $ch = curl_init();
If you don't close and re-init, you may not even have to save the cookies to a file, and just let curl keep them in memory.
----

Now l'm pretty new to curl, and was wondering how l is it possible to "let curl" keep cookies in memory without creating or writing to a file (ie COOKIEJAR)?

Using "include()" Inside A Class
I am attempting to include a page inside a class:

"PHP Users" Include Issue
Good afternoon PHPers,

This morning I downloaded "PHP Users" from sourceforge to implement a
user registration system. I followed the instructions in INSTALL.txt,
and successfully configured MySQL and set up an Apache Alias. Eclipse
reported several errors and warnings for scripts inside the "PHP
Users" directory.

These errors were caused by incorrect paths inside the include,
require-once and require statements. I changed all of these paths
until Eclipse reported no errors. Then I created a simple script
called register.php which includes loginbox.php to display the login
page.

When I access the script there is 1 warning and 1 fatal error
returned:

Warning: main(../users.inc) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No
such file or directory in C:xamppeclipseworkspaceMySitephp_users
fragmentsloginbox.php on line 2

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '../
users.inc' (include_path='.;xamppphppear') in C:xamppeclipse
workspaceMySitephp_usersfragmentsloginbox.php on line 2

I also tried undoing all the URL changes, and refreshing the page to
no avail. I have spent most of today trying to solve this issue, and
it is turning out to be incredibly demoralising, as I cannot figure
out where the problem lies.

Maybe this is caused by a conflict with the include_path, as the error
references "xampppphppear"? Like I said, I created an Apache Alias
as instructed:

Alias /phpusers "c:/xampp/eclipse/workspace/MySite/php_users/htdocs/"
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
php_value include_path ".:c:/xampp/eclipse/workspace/MySite/
php_users/"
</IfModule>

How To Count "Hit" And "View"
I would like to know when a user logs in, he clicks Mike's E-mail. It will count one which mean "Hit". So that I will be able to know how many times users click Mike's E-mail.

Like Sitepoint. When other users read other problems. Views will count 1. I would like to know how to do it. Could you explain with script?

"echo" Or "print" ?
Can tell me someone is some big different between "echo" and "print". What You prefer to use?

Cookies With "PHP3"
I need to get a cookie value that I set before. How can I do this with php3?

Include("test.inc"); ?
Do include files need to contain PHP code. What I'm trying to do is include some html code and I would rather not have to use a bunch of echo or print statements.

Using The "include" Function
I can use
<?
@Include'http://somedomain.com/test.htm'
?>
and include the entire contents of a page in the middle of the page carrying the this code but I can't figure out how to specify only copy part of the page contents from "widget" to "arbuckle" (for instance).

Make "blabla" Into Keywords As In "php.net/blabla"
I know this must be documented, but I cant seem to find it.

How would you transform the URL into values? Like how php.net does;

www.php.net/date
does a search for "date" in their database...

I have built a simple search function on my site, and I would like to do the same.. anyone who knows how? Or who has seen an article in the subject? Or has any other tips?

If("0X0"=="000"){echo "boo";}
Everything is in the title. the prob is "boo" is displayed ! Can you
believe it ?

Include("URL");
I was wondering if there is a way to include a URL into a php4 page. Kind of like using html frames where one of the frame is linked to a different URL. Does anybody know if this is a posibility with php? include("http://www.somewhere.com");//Something like this?

"include"
"Include"s sometimes work and sometimes do not. The main problem is that, in a php file, "../file.js" never works, even when it is in the HTTP Javascript section following a php section. A Forum I took from a book would only work in it's own folder, not mixed in with other htm files in the web's main folder.

Include("....");
Everytime I use include("..."); I am forced to put the include file into the directory usr/share/php.. any idea on how to fix this... I want the include to include any files I tell it to in the current directory.

"include" From Db
I need to do conditional script "include", but like to pull the code
from db instead of a file. How do I do that?

Reason: I like to implement some complex regex logic, and make it
table driven. The regex would include if/then/else type logic, and
would like my script to conditionally execute the logic.

Error Using Header("", FALSE) To Show Multiple Images From MySQL Db
Many people seems to have problems when displaying multiple images from their database (mySQL db). Often you can read error statements like "Header already sent out ...". To solve this, people often propose to use include files.

To keep the scipt it would be nice not having this problem, being able to sent out multiple headers to a browser without getting these error messages. In the PHP4 manual, we can read an option that can be added to the header statement, Header("xxx",FALSE). It would enable multiple headers to be sent out.

For instance the following statement:

while ($product = db_fetch_object($result)) {
header("Content-type: pv($product->filetype)",false);
echo pv($product->image)"
}

However, it doesn't work. Anybody has any idea why? Does anybody use this option FALSE with success?

Reading An Array Of Records From MYSQL Then "Save As" Them Back As Copy
Hi all,

Ok here is what I want to do then I will show you what I have. I have some records in a MySQL DB that I want to store in an array and then immediately copy them back where the only thing that would change would be one field - the date. So here is my table:
-------------------------------------
|userName | date | value |
--------------------------------------
| theDano | 200005 | 123 |
--------------------------------------
| theDano | 200005 | 345 |
--------------------------------------
| theDano | 200004 | 678 |
--------------------------------------
| joeUser | 199908 | 897 |
---------------------------------------

So if I am querying for the user "theDano" on a specific date (format yyyymm) in this case 200005 (year 2000 month of May)

Here is my array to query all records to fullfill this request:

if ($update=="future")
{
if ($month!="01")
{
$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "dbuser");
if($db)
{
mysql_select_db("dbName",$db);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tableName WHERE userName = '$userName' AND date = '$date' ORDER BY value DESC ",$db);
if ($result)
{
$num=mysql_numrows($result);
$i=0;
while($i < $num)
{
$userName = mysql_result($result,$i,"userName");
$value = mysql_result($result,$i,"value");
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td width=Ê×'>" . $userName . "</td>";
echo "<td width=ï`'><div align='right'>" . $value . "</div></td>";
echo "</tr>";
++$i;
}
}
}
}
}

Now I want to take the array of records queried which was:

| theDano | 200005 | 123 |
--------------------------------------
| theDano | 200005 | 345 |

and copy them to look like this back into the database:

| theDano | 200006 | 123 |
--------------------------------------
| theDano | 200006 | 345 |

so you can see that the only thing changed was increasing the month by one. Would seem simple to most but I am having a tough time wirting the code to read the array and increase each date value by "1".

Thank you in advance for anyone that replies. )

Dano

Force Reload Of Page When User Press "Back" Button
Is there a way to force a page to reload if a user har pressed the "Back" button in the browser.

Bizarre Phantom Bug (Calling A PHP Script From An Apache "Action" Directive)
I am using an "Action" directive in my Apache configuration to map a
certain file type (by means of AddType and AddHandler) to a PHP script.
I wasn't sure if this would work, since the Apache docs say the Action
directive is for mapping a handler name to a CGI script in particular.
But it seemed to work at first.

Then a mysterious bug arose: Sometimes it works perfectly, and other
times the output is a totally blank page. It seems that if I haven't
viewed a page for a while, it chooses to do one of these at random
(though it is blank more often than not), and then it persists in the
same behaviour until I reload it many times. (That is, usually a page
appearing blank will eventually display if I reload it many times;
however, only rarely will a correctly-displayed page regress to
appearing blank after reloads.) Checking with `curl -i', it would
appear to a client program that the request was perfectly successful:
all the headers are there (with the correct content-type), it has an
HTTP/1.1 200 OK line, and so on (and there's nothing unusual in the
server's access or error logs), except Content-length is 0, and there
is indeed no content at all after the two newlines.

WTF?? Since when do computers behave non-deterministically? I should
hope, if a program is not going to behave correctly, that it at least
do so predictably and consistently. That would make debugging it much
easier. But what am I to make of this Schrodinger's Bug? How do I even
approach the debugging process?

(Also, if anyone could suggest a workaround, an alternate method of
having a PHP script handle files with a certain extension, then that
would be just as welcome. Though I'd like to stay within mod_php,
avoiding a CGI-based technique, because I'd prefer to not start a
process every time these pages are requested.)

Another "Fatal Error: Call To Undefined Function: Mysql_connect()"Question
I am getting the following error when I try to view a test page in my
browser. This test page just reads a table in mysql and outputs the
results.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in
/var/web/public/test.php on line 2

I'm using:
Apache 2
MySQL 4.1.12
PHP 4.4.0

I have tried upgrading PHP to PHP5. I went back down to PHP4. I
verified that mysql.so was being loaded. I tried using the OLD_PASSWORD
feature in mysql. Verified that the PHP module is loaded in apache.

What is weird however (at least I think) is when I run the following via
telnet:

php ./test.php

It pulls up the page, connects successfully to the database and displays
the records. No error message.