PHP :: Dynamic Directory Structures

Dynamic Pages Without With Directory Structure Instead Of Parameters
Sorry for the confusing thread title, I wasn't sure how to call this.

This is my issue:

I design most of my sites with a single index.php file that takes
parameters to decide which pages to include: something like
www.blabla.com/index.php?dir=a&page=b which will include some file in
say ./a/b.html, but will have all the headers and footers that are
defined in index.php.

It could also work that way to have a b.php file in the ./a directory
that would include headers and footers but then I'd have to include
those headers in every single page I write which seems like too much
overhead.

I was fine with the way I did it but then I read that this is not good
practice, search engines don't like sites with parameters they rather
want the www.blabla.com/a/b.php form.

Is there a way to get this done nicely? How do professional sites solve
this?

Structures In Php ?
How do you create data structures in php ?

i.e. how would I create the following two vb structures in php ?

Structure SYSTEMTIME
Dim wYear As Short
Dim wMonth As Short
Dim wDayOfWeek As Short
Dim wDay As Short
Dim wHour As Short
Dim wMinute As Short
Dim wSecond As Short
Dim wMilliseconds As Short
End Structure

Private Structure TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION
Dim Bias As Integer
Dim StandardBias As Integer
Dim DaylightBias As Integer
Dim StandardDate As SYSTEMTIME
Dim DaylightDate As SYSTEMTIME
End Structure

Also, if I read a binary value from the registry, how would I then convert it to a variable of type TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION

Data Structures
Is it possible to create data structures in PHP and if so, would someone
provide a bried example?

Example:

I would like to create a Data Structure JRec which has the following fields

lID (Long)
dtDate (Date)
sName (10 Character String)

Data Structures
what data structures can be used in PHP?

Control Structures
I was just wondering. Im submitting a form, using this code:

if ((!empty($_POST['Name']) || !empty($_POST['E-Mail']) ||
!empty($_POST['Question'])) {

code...

}

What im testing for is

if name, email or question is set, do the following. But it is not working,
do I have the syntax right?

Conditional Structures
I am wondering about conditional structures and the depth of nesting allowed, if at all. For example I know I can do this: Code:

Reading C Data Structures
I have a file duplication progam I wrote years ago in C on a Unix system. I open up zip files and store CRC info in my own database. It's a great application for php/mysql and I would like to learn php/mysql in the process of moving it over.

Can someone tell me how you would read the header (data structure information with all the fields) on a zip file (in this case its the localheader right after the signature), so that all the fields of the structure land nicely in an array in php? I'm attempting to use freads/fseek to each field and this just can't be right.

Doesn't matter what data structure I just need to know the most common method you use to open a file in read blocks of data and unpack them back into a data structure.

Select Count Query, 2 Tables With Identical Structures
I have 2 Tables that have the exact same structures, One is for Inventory, the other is for Relief Inventory (ie. when an item is sold it is moved to relief).

What i want to be able to do is to run a query that will count the number of items tested by one person and display that sorted and grouped by the date cleared. I can get this to work when working with just the Inventory table, but the problem is that as items are moved out to relief the counts will change.

$query = "SELECT COUNT( * ) AS `Count` , `Date Cleared` , `Tested By` FROM `Inventory` WHERE `Tested By` = ".'"'.$tester.'"'." GROUP BY `Date Cleared` ORDER BY `Date Cleared` DESC ";

My question is, how do i run a similar query that will search both tables and combine the results. I have tried adding the other database to the FROM statement, and have been tring to figure out if i can use a join statement but that hasn't yielded any favorable results.

Active Directory / Exchange / Active Directory.
I'm creating an Intranet module for a client (Forum, files upload...etc...etc). This client already has a huge server running on WIN2000 + IIS 4 + Exchange + Microsoft Active directory + proxy and finally PHP 4.03 + MySql.

Problem #1 :
All passwords are changed every weeks, so I want to be able to import users/pass from Microsoft exchange .... Does anyone have an idea to do such thing with PHP ?

Problem #2:
I would like that the user logged from the firm's network do not have to log. again when connecting the module. So, is it possible to do such thing ?

Dynamic Nav Bar
I am trying to implement a dynamic navigation bar. My problem is as follows -

All of my scripts are located in various folders, and as you move to different areas of the site, the links to the other areas of the site will change. For example, I am currently at home.php and the nav bar has references to admin/manage_users.php and companies/view_employees.php, etc etc. If I go to manage_users.php, I am now executing a script in the admin folder. The nav bar still has a reference to companies/view_employees.php, which would make this a dead link.

There are lots and lots of directories and subdirectories that one can navigate to, so I don't want to have to write code for a nav bar every time. Is there something like $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] that I can use that will help?

Dynamic Variables In Php?
Hi,
I have a mySQL table that contains two columns
column one is 'feature' and column two is 'feature_value' - some of the data is for example

'hair_color' - 'blue'
'hair_color' - 'blonde'
'hair_color' - 'black'
'hair_color' - 'gray'

'eye_color' - 'blue'
'eye_color' - 'hazel'
'eye_color' - 'brown'

Yeah I know... definitely NOT third normal form. OK here's where it gets even better

On one web page, I build select controls from this data. The name of the control would be the value of the feature column. So from the data above I would have a select control whose name would be name="hair_color" and another select name="eye_color"

NO problems so far.... ok.
Now after the user selects from the selects (get it, sorry).... i am processing the data.

Although I use javascript for some client side validation... I also want to validate in php. (ok, just because I want to ok)

NOW.. the web page form will post these two variables $hair_color' and '$eye_color' as described above. But I don't know ahead of time what these variables are because they're based on data from a table.......

I go the table described above and select distinct on the feature column - I will return two rows.... see below

while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result_set)) {
$feature =trim($row[0]);
}

the value of feature in the first row is 'hair_color' and in the second row 'eye_color'--

What I'd like to do.... is to take the values in the $feature variable and create a literal variable that I can test for that was posted from the form........

so for example in the first row where $feature = 'hair_color' - I want to create a $hair_color variable...... because this is a variable of the select control from the form. Then for the second row where $feature = 'eye_color' - I want to create an $eye_color variable because again... this is the variable of a select control on the form.

Dynamic Links???
I’ve looked at several tutorials and searched the archives of this site. I found a few pointers, but I feel entirely daft and can’t seem to quite get it.

The “ultimate” goal is to display members profiles, and not have to hard code all the bl**dy records, as I’ve done so far. (Current version http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/c...y/profiles.html)

So, now I have the records in one table in my database. The profiles.php3 page takes all the records in that table, and displays the names in alphabetical order. So far, so good.

Now, I have viewprofile.php3, which should display only one record at a time, based on which name the visitor clicked on.

Dynamic Menus
how to have dynamic menu, say one option is selected from the first menu, and that option changes the 2nd menu options. ?

yeah i have seen it work in JavaScript, (onchange)
but what would the syntax be in php ?

Dynamic Communication
I am wondering if there is any way to use maybe XML to mimic another sites form on my site. For example, to use maybe Expedia's flight search form on my site and then post the request to expedia and have the results format back into my site. It is sort of the same concept as xml-rpc accept I am wondering if it can be done without setting up an xml-rpc server for the response. Essentially the script would allow you to take the user through the entire search process all the while making it formatted to the layout of your site, but using Expedia's engine.

Dynamic Notification
Is there a way for me to have an email sent to me anytime one of my users creates/uploads a new file in a specific directory on my website? Sorry if this is really basic.... I'm not sure where to start. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dynamic Content In A <div>, Using Php
i have a <DIV> block, and I want the innerHTML to change at the click of a button. for those who don't know some javascript, if you have a dive with an id, <DIV id="myDiv"></DIV> you can change the content inside with a function call

myDiv.innerHTML = "some stuff";

however, i need my data to come from a mySQL database and thus needs to be outputted via php. so ideally i want something like

myDiv.innerHTML = "<?php echo "some stuff"; ?>";

of course that does not work because php is not client side, this is just to illustrate what i want. any ideas on how to do this without iframes?

Dynamic Data
I have included a php script into my page
as <img src="plot.php">. That script just plot some time changing data. Now I have two questions that I cannot solve myself:

(1) When I press the reload button I expected
the plot reflected the changed data.
Instead of that plot remains unchanged
until I directly invoke the php script
from the browser...
Is there any method to avoid this
unwanted caching?

(2) That is a bit off topic but is there
any easy way to get a web page updating
after a certain period of time?
Once solve my first question I'd like
to offer mi visitors a automatically
changing graphic.

Dynamic Php Tables
As you'll notice, each new result appears in a new table, which is very annoying. I am trying to make it so that all ther results appear in 1 table.

This is what I have so far;

<?
//error message (not found message)
$XX = "No Record Found";
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $usertable WHERE $metode LIKE '%$search%' LIMIT 0, 30 ");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query))
{
$variable1=$row["Model"];
$variable2=$row["Creator"];
$variable3=$row["Title"];
print ("$variable1, $variable2 ,$variable3");
}

//below this is the function for no record!!
if (!$variable1)
{
print ("$XX");
}
//end
?>

Can anyone help please?

Dynamic Playlist In XML Using PHP
I want to build a dynamic playlist in XML using PHP.
can any body please help me by giving code,ideas and links?

Dynamic Variables
I am NEWBIE & trying to develop internal control system with PHP-MySql & have one problem.

I want to enter dynamic variable into MySql like :

"I have checked report of Mr. $userName from $previousDate to $currentDate…..”

Wherein - $username, $previousDate, $currentDate will be called from other table.

My codes :

PHP Code:

INSERT INTO `checkReport ` (`schID`, `schNo`, `noteNo`, `subschName`, `content`) VALUES (1, 1, 'a', '', ' I have checked report of Mr. ‘.$username.’ from ‘.$previousDate.’ to ‘.$currentDate.’ ….)

which is not working… Please guide me through.

Dynamic Table
I'm working on creating a dynamic table generator. The data is read from a database via mySQL. The table sample is: Code:

Dynamic Thumbnails
ImageCopyResampleBicubic()

here is a modified version of the above code that will properly handle copying only portions of images (i.e. creating a square thumbnail from a rectangular image by cropping out the square rather than smashing to fit). Also a few breaks were added to avoid some unnecessary calculations that took place under some conditions: PHP Code:

Dynamic Playlist, From URL
I have many complex ASX playlist files and would like to cut my work down managing them by having one line in them dynamicly created on the fly depending on a link the visitor clicks.

Is there a pre made processor that will look in the URL for a variable, insert that variable into a pre made ASX script and return that modified ASX script back to the client?

Dynamic Form
I have one user table in my MySQL database and this is linked to a user type table containing 3 types of user. Each type of user will be required to give a different amount of data when registering.

Basically I want to create one registration form for all types of users but only show the form fields that are relevant to the individual user type. The user type will be selected from a pervious page containing a list menu with the 3 user types that is sent via GET to the registration page.

Dynamic FAQ Software
Can anyone suggest some PHP software for maintaining a FAQs page?

I want to include moderate user contributions, but I don't mind modifying something to get what I want.

(I have tried searching for this but can't seem to come up with a search string that weeds out are the FAQs pages out there)

Dynamic Maps With Php?
I have a little php application to store day hiking trips and to keep a
running total of their yearly trips for a few users. Currently they
select their hiking routes using drop lists or checkboxes containing the
names and numbers of the trails. If the route is simple the form takes
1-2 minutes to fill in, if it involves lots of tiny sections it can
become tedious to search for every trailname and may take 20 minutes.
Because of this they have asked for a map, rather than lists, and want
to open the application to the public. Hmmm..

So I'm looking to create an application where users can select their
routes, by somehow selecting lines on a map, then somehow pass this to a
php script to process.

Dynamic Grid
I'm attempting to make a dynamic grid (3 x 3, so 9 squares total) I'm currently using a table because I don't feel like dealing with some css issues i was having in IE.

Anyway what i have is a 3 x 3 square
(periods used for spacing) ....

Dynamic Array
Say I have a function that is used to open different flat-file databases and read them into arrays. The databases have a different number of field indexes, with different names.

Is there a way of creating an array within a generic function, but with the field indexes as keys instead of just numbers?

Dynamic Arrays
People come to my site, they choose the name of a car from a database. I want the name of the car to go into an array. I want to put it in an array and not just as a single variable because i want them to have the option of coming back to the page and choose the name of another car. They can have as many names of cars as they like. To make sure i retain the values of the array, i will put them in a session variable.

My question is how do i generate the dynamic array? When people come back to the page with the values of the array in the session variable will that cause a problem?

Dynamic Zipping
I'm working on a downloads site at the moment and need to have a sort of dynamic zipping system, i'll explain:

1. A user visits the site, they are given an individual ID

2. They browse through the files and can click on the 'Add to Download' button if they wish.

3. If they click on the 'Get Download' button, then they are sent to a page, which offers them all the files they selected in a .zip or .tar file for downloading.

Dynamic Table
I am trying to create a table dynamically- meaning that a user will be able to add or delete rows via an admin tool. For now, the number of columns will be a fixed number. I figure I can store each row of information in a database and then keep some type of index to keep track of column inserts, deletions, etc. Does this make sense? Does any one have any ideas on how to accomplish this?

Dynamic Pages
I am trying to create a page which will automaticlly change the size of
tables/graphics etc based on the screen resolution. Eg, if someone is using
a 800x600 the page layout will utilise this. If the same webpage is
diaplayed on a 1024x768 or 1280X1024 the cells are adjusted according. By
doing something like this could you make the logo change size by using a
percent size in a table cell or is there a better method than tables? If
anyone is able to help with tips or any examples (code or url reference) it
would be appreciated.

Also, what page layout is better to use.. eg.. html, php,asp, etc. The
site will be hosted on apache on a Linux Server.

Dynamic Menus
<?php
include('./common_db.inc');
$link_id = db_connect();
mysql_select_db("test_db");

?>

<form name=carform action=
<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
?> method=post>
<?php

$query =mysql_query("select DISTINCT CQ_PROD_PLATFORM AS make_id from
CQ_data ORDER BY make_id");
echo '<select name=make
onchange="document.carform.submit()"'.">"."
";
if (!isset($make))
{
echo '<option value=null selected>Choose a Make</option>'."
";
}
while(list($make_id) = mysql_fetch_row($query))
{
echo '<option value='.$make_id;
if (isset($make)&& $make_id == $make)
{
echo " selected";
}
echo '>'."$make_id".'</option>'."
";
}
echo '</select>'."
";
echo '<select name=model
onchange="document.carform.submit()"'.">"."
";
if (!isset($make))
{
echo '<option value=null selected>Choose a Make First</option>'."
";
}
else
{
$result = mysql_query("select DISTINCT CQ_SUBSYSTEM AS name from
CQ_data where make_id='$make' ORDER BY NAME");
echo '<option value=null selected>Choose a Model</option>'."
";
while(list($model_id) = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
echo '<option value=' . $model_id;
if ($model_id == $model)
{
echo " selected";
}
echo '>$model_id</option>'."
";
}
} echo '</select>'."
";
?>

Dynamic Links
I would like to create dynamic return paths as links on site pages. For example, there might be a link to the whet stone page on both the chisel and plane pages. If my viewer came from the plane page, I'd like the return path to indicate "home->planes->whet-stones", appropriately linked. Likewise if from the chisel page, "home->chisels->whet-stones".

Above the immediate back link, normal site layout logic would apply. Should the referer page be off site, site layout would rule. This doesn't appear to be particularly difficult.

Dynamic Forms
I would like to know if it is possible to make a dynamic form. I've got to do some reservation forms for car rental agencies. There are about thirty different input possibilities on these forms. eg. some want to have a form that asks for the pickup time, and some want radio buttons that say pickup time is AM or PM. Each company would like about 10 of these to be on their form. If I have a database (MySQL) and can keep each customer preference in there, could I dynamically make a form?

Dynamic Dropdowns
I got a script a while back that populates dropdowns from a database, Im using PHP with this, WHat I want to do with the dropdowns is populate the list boxes depending on a variable that is passed through the URL, I can do it for the countries ok, but it wont load the citys I hope some one can help me out.

Its the javascript Im having the problem with. Heres the script, you will need to run this on a PHP enabl server with a mysql DB. PHP Code:

Dynamic Dropdown?
I am posting a code for dynamic dropdown by Leon Atkinson, it works fine but i have a doubt: I tried to add another functionality to it where i got stuck! Once the city also gets selected from the second drop down i wanted that on clicking the submit button it should go to some html page wrt to the city choice. Code:

Dynamic Charts
Is it possible to create dynamic charts or dynamic excel sheets to show charts and graphs based on values from database and display it on the web using php?

Dynamic Variable
i was wondering how to call a dynamic variable on php Code:

Dynamic Form
I need to create a form that takes a number that the user enters, and
duplicates a question the number of times the user entered. For
instance, if the customer enters 5 on the first page, when they press
next the form generates "How old are you?" 5 times on the page. The
customer will answer all 5 questions then press next. Finally, all the
local variables get dynamically created and written to a database.

I have already taken care of dynamically creating the question five
times. Using a simple WHILE clause, this generates the correct number
of questions. What I am having an issue with at this point, is how to
dynamically create the local variables.For instance, for the question
"How old are you?" I would need a unique variable for each instance;
using something like $Age(n). So that for five times, it would
automatically created variables $Age1 through $Age5. I have carried
over the number to the submit page by creating the variable $Number
and passing it along as hidden button on the form. $Age'$Number'
seemed to work for creating the variable, but $_post["Age'$Number'"]
doesn't work for referencing the global variable. I would need some
way of looping through and dynamically creating the variables.

Dynamic Image?
Who knows how this is done:

As you can see the signature is dynamical, it uses gdlib I assume and php.
But does anybody have any code for this? Please help me find this, I
allready searched alot, but can't seem to find anything yet...

Dynamic Checkboxes
I am doing a structure of booking on line, and now I Have to make this: when anybody books a place (checkbox) it is inserted in the database (column posti) and it must change from a check box to an image PHP Code:

Dynamic Form
I had to make a form for someone, with 42 questions each question had different form-elements. I was typing and coding for almost 3 hours..!! lets say we would make a form (formmaker.php) to dynamicly create a form with multiple questions: on the formmaker :

-first we have to enter the number of questions (max 100)
-then we have to type the question(s) in (an) input field(s)
-then we would have to select a type of answering field (textbox, checkbox, radiobuttons, file, dropdown etc. )

-it would be nice if we could select to make the question mandatory or not.
-if we choose for checkboxes or radiobuttons , it would be nice to know how much of them (no limits here !) ok..limit it to 30

-when we have selected...for example..15 checkboxes, they have to dynamicly appear on the formmaker.
-for each checkbox or radiobutton, we have to enter a value.
-finaly we have to add an email adres to each question !!! (and a BCC field) (this way, we can use one form and split and send the data to multiple recipients..!!)

-also we have to be able to dissable or enable a question. (if dissabled, it wont show on the created form..

A nice template to show a filled in form is preferable.. It would be nice to store everything in a database tabel. (for each new form a new tabel in the database) question1 id active(yes/no) questiontext fieldtype mandatory(yes/no) radio_or_checkboxvalue1(rocv1) rocv2 rocv3 rocv4 rocv5 etc.... sendto_email bcc_email
I started with the code already...here it is: Code:

Dynamic Button
what i have:
a dynamically generated table from a mysql database
a hidden field in each row that is = to the current rows key field

what i need:
since the field NAME is the same with each row it seems that the next page always pulls the last row instead of the one i select, i think i need a way to make each hidden field name to be unique and a way to get that on the next page??

Dynamic Header
i wanna provide information by taking another website active links to my page and each time visitor click the pages they go different pages, but how to insert static header (in the top of new pages of active links) but the active links always change like yahoo did?

Dynamic Tables
I am creating a dymanic website generator in php/mysql and I have a particular question. I have the following sql statement:

$sql = "CREATE TABLE one (
Email CHAR(50) NOT NULL,
First_Name CHAR(25) )";

and it works just fine. I need it to act dynamically and vary with different contents that are being submitted by a form. In short, I need the name of the table that is being created to be a variable and not a static name. Here is an example:

$sql = "CREATE TABLE $wstitle (
Email CHAR(50) NOT NULL,
First_Name CHAR(25) )";

Can this be done in any other way that the above example because it does not work.

Dynamic Menu CSS
I am trying for a long time now, to find a way of creating a dynamic drop
down menu. I have the CSS part ready and working and also I have the first
level of the menu working.
the problem I have is how can I submit the id from the first level menu in
order to make the query and create the second level and so on menu.

I am trying to avoid Javascript but I can't see another way at the moment...
What I want to achieve is to produce the menu on HOVER if that is not
possible on click will be ok as well.
Do any of you have an idea ?

This is the code I have :
**********************************************
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li><h2>Products</h2>
<ul>
<?php do { ?>
<li><a href="?cat_id=<?php echo
($row_product_categories['prod_category_id']); ?>"title="<?php echo
strtoupper($row_product_categories['prod_category_name']); ?>"><?php echo
ucfirst($row_product_categories['prod_category_name']); ?></a></li>
<?php }
while ($row_product_categories =
mysql_fetch_assoc($rs_product_categories)); ?>
<ul>

<?php do { ?>
<li><a href="index.php?id=<?php echo ($row_products['prod_id']);
?>"title="<?php echo strtoupper($row_products['prod_name']); ?>"><?php echo
ucfirst($row_products['prod_name']); ?></a></li>
<?php }
while ($row_products = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs_products)); ?>

</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
**************************************************

Dynamic $_POST -
I am tryin to use a $_POST variable but the name of the form element
is dynamic. Below is the code I am tryin but is obviously wrong as it
isnt working:

$abc = $_POST['abc_' . $value]; //isnt working as is

If $value had a value of 44, the above code would be represented as:

$abc = $_POST['abc_44'];

As I require that the line be quite generic to whatever the value of
$value is, I need to do it like the first snippet. What is the correct
way of writting this?