Hello all. I am new to the PHP Builder forums and I just started coding PHP about 6months ago so I apologize if some of my questions seem like "duh" kinds of questions but I have an error I just cant seem to get around: "Parse error: syntax error, unexpecte

Hi All, Just looking for some advice on a problem Im having please. The scenario is that I have a database with a list of blog postings. I want to extract that list using PHP and transfer it to an iPhone app using JSON (I think). So Im trying to encode something like t

HI. i am having problem with extracting link from empty element tag in xml by using php. i am writing my xml code and pho code. please someone helps me. just put me in th right direction. php code <topic id="1HLCM7CDQ-21WQN9G-66"> <instance

I am trying to use SimpleXML to parse Yahoo weather data. I have everything working until the forecast. I am trying to take the three character day of the week and increase it so that I can pull data from the array. Code: $yw_forecast[forecast][date(D)+1][day][0]

Im working on what I think is a fairly complex set of queries and then sorting of data. I can get everything to work but only if I nest two queries in a while loop. I know this is bad, but this is the only way Im able to get it to work. Is this ok to do on a limited basis, o

Hi How do I validate multiple forms in an array? I know the first step is to store forms in an array. PHP Code: $array = array($_POST[name], $_POST[age], $_POST[date],$_POST[number]); Next step is to l

Hi, I have been working on this for over 2 hours now and its driving me nuts! I am trying to create a page that will allow my client to add products to their database. I have one set of prepared statments on line 94 - 97 that work fine, however, further down the pa

Im having a similar problem to the one in resolved thread 10628305, but have found it doesnt resolve it for me. The problem occurs in IE8 for a csv file generated on the fly and for pdf, xls and other types of files retrieved from a database blob, but Opera and Safari bot

Howdy! Im having some troubles, I have a login system, index.php holds the form for the user to log in. When user logs in successfully, theres a script that executes echos and displays whats in the echo on the same file (index.php) PHP Code: <?

Hello (: Im having trouble trying to say submitting information on a website, submitting, and then executing it into the mysql database. My example is, I have a country field in my MYSQL varchar(50). I want to type in the <input type="text" blah> s

I currently have 2 tables that work together. When a row is put into "sites", a column is created in "vehicles". Then, on the php page the form dynamically changes to request the user what they want in the new column: PHP Code: $sites

Hi, How would you use the Amazon API to display recently read books, etc? I thought maybe all Id need is the isbn to grab an image, text, link, etc through the API? Is this possible with the Amazon API? Im new to APIs in general & have been searching around for a c

I have some data in the database that represents the schedule for some workers at my company. It looks something like this: Code: Name In Out Williams 00:00 8:00 Flores 8:00 15:00 Chernova 16:00 22:00 ...

Hello, Im trying to develop my project so that layers can be separated. One thing Im trying to do is to populate Unordered Lists. For example: Code: <ul>Fruit</ul> <li>Apples</li> <li>Oranges</li> </ul> <ul&g

Ive never had to use a variable in this position, but I am obviously misunderstanding something, as this is the code... PHP Code: $row = mysql_fetch_object( mysql_query(SELECT * FROM book_bundle WHERE bundle_id=$bundleID) ); This selects a

Im working on a PHP Extension which is supposed to serialize PHP data into AMF3 format. The spec on page 2 describes a few data types that it deals with: U16 - An unsigned 16-bit integer in big endian (network) byte order U32 - An unsigned 32-bit integer in big endian (n

So, just for fun, Im making a forum software that hopefully will help me learn more about PHP. Its not going to be huge or anything, just something for me to mess around with when Im bored. Im having some troubles though. First off, Ill start by telling you the URL of my

Hi Im getting a Parse error: parse error, unexpected < in C:wampwwwhpsidebar.php on line 2 But theres nothing wrong in line 2. The code below is just the sidebar for my webpage. I saved those codes in sidebar.php and called it in my main page by <?php include(&q

Im literally stumped. I need to decode something, but Im totally stuck. Im trying to decode this php file, but I cant seem to figure it out. There is a lot of code within a php tag, but then AFTER the tag, there is MORE random txt that looks like base64 encoding, but it isnt

I am new to PHP and trying to learn enough to help me with my web site. I have several pages on my site defined as follows: These were written using HTML: Home page = WoodArt.shtml OrderForm page = Form.html PHP code page = Test.php This is whats happening: On the ORD

Im having some difficulty with ZipArchive functions in PHP. In this code, I am getting an error value of 1 which is, for some reason not found in the zipFileErrMsg function. The file DOES exist in the path passed to the ZipArchive->open() function. Im not sure what

I found this handy little script that out puts the days and dates of the current week like this 16/08/2010 Monday 17/08/2010 Tuesday 18/08/2010 Wednesday 19/08/2010 Thursday 20/08/2010 Friday 21/08/2010 Saturday 22/08/2010 Sunday PHP Code: // set c

I have a PHP-based shopping cart, and an auto-feed generator that allows me to insert PHP code to solve for custom fields that it uses in generating feeds for comparison shopping sites. I am not a PHP programmer, and so Im having trouble with what is a very simple piece o

Hello all.. Id like to learn how does the php plugins system works.. So can anyone explain the idea of it for me in detail, I saw many posts and explanations but I didnt learn and understand any of it. I mean if I want to make a plugins system for my php script, how ??

Im having trouble with the textbook examples where everything that is a Class has to be a physical object and/or a Noun. It is obvious that "Customer", "Product" and "Order" are good candidate classes, however, life isnt that contrived?!

Hi All, I am working on a project that out puts data to a table from an SQL database. I need to output 15 records at a time and display them for a set period, and then automatically rollover to the next page. I know how to set the code up to create x number of page

Hello everyone i want to go ahead and thank the people that do this for a living i myself im having to learn php my self i have a good base under standing .. i want to ask how can i pass my variables to a script say go.php from a form that just has three variables this is wh

hey guys, I am trying to submit a form with curl but it doesnt work. i dont even get the source code. i am using these curl opts: PHP Code: curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,count($fields)); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIEL

I read this in a book on security and was wondering if its still true http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php if so its worthless Read more...

I have been looking for the answer to this for about 2 days and its becoming a nightmare. I need to let people enter an embed code from a specific website - Soundcloud. These look like this Code: <object height="81" width="100%"> <param

Hi I have a form with 6 textfields that will be used to edit data in the database. When a value is entered in one of the text field I want that value to be only updated in the database. Ex. []id []name []age []address []number []gender if name was edited

I have been a date formatted as datetime in my mysql table and I would like to out put the day of the week that this date falls on so that I can convert my dates to something like Monday 12th August. The DATENAME just isnt working for me. Is there a simple way to associat

Hi everyone. First off, Im really new to PHP and (serious) programming in general. I know HTML and a little C++, and Im just getting started on PHP, but Ive been working with websites for a long time. I bought a script to use on a new website Im starting - iAuctionSites.c

I need to call a script called build_report.php, pass in a URL variable named partno and wait until it is finished before continuing. This script builds a report and then an email is sent out to our customer so I dont want the email sent until the report is generated.

Hello I have yet another delima i need to figure out why the email is sending but the values are not showing up in the data base. this is my table structure CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `fname` ( `fname` text NOT NULL, `lname` text NOT NULL, `email` text NOT NUL

I need some expert help here. Im creating a website that allows images to be uploaded and displayed. However, if a user uploads a huge image, the website will display it big. I cant figure out how am i suppose to resize the image using the syntax below. Maybe im doing

Hi Guys, I`m trying to implement oAuth into my website and i`m in the process of implementing the server. Im using symfony framework for the implementation but i dont think that is important but just mention to give the whole overview of the system I have found a great ar

Hello, I am having issues creating a search module to get records from a database, by having a module that you choose the first date and the last date and it should generate all results between that date. Please assist me. My Table is as below: http://i36.tinypic

Ive got an image verification code that doesnt seem to be working. It is returning a broken image so therefore isnt working . If I go directly to the script page i.e veryimage.php it gives me this error. Undefined variable: sessioncode in /www/verifyimage.php on line 8

Preferably using PHP, Id like to create X number of colors based on X number of items and using a predefined color range. For example: ITEM -- VALUE 1 -- 1,234,567,890 2 -- 234,567,890 3 -- 34,567,890 4 -- 4,567,890 5 -- 567,890 Color Range red = largest val

Hi guys, I need your help in creating a video with thumbnails. What I want is that, if I upload a video it will create automatically a thumbnail picture for it. Im just new to php and I dont have any idea of this. I really need your help about this. Thank you in advanc

Hi all, This is something related with php as well as java script. If anyone can help me regarding this issue i would be very pleased. In a particular form, i have 2 fields namely customer id and Account type. Since there are many account types it is stored as a jump m

Hello All, I have have been using a a basic skicky php form at my site for a few months. You can view it here. I want to update the form with sticky drop down date selectors to make it more user friendly. I created a test version and uploaded it here. The test version wo

I am trying to make a function that would return all given days of a given month or a year. For instance I wanted to get all Mondays in a given month/year OR I wanted to get all Saturdays for a given month / year... Function would be something like: PHP Code:

Has anyone seen a really awesome PHP project that can make a searchable archive of a mailing list? Ill be googling myself but was kind of hoping for an experienced opinion on the matter. Ideally, the system would be a subscriber to the mailing list and when a new message

I dont know if Im wording this right. I have a textarea that is entered into a database. When this is edited, I want to store and display a list of all the changes that have been made to it. Like a conversation in a forum. The reason for this is that I want past changes to

One of my companys software vendors convinced me to let them develop a web service that would allow me to create records in our financial database. Their web service/commercial software is running on Server 2008. My web service client is running on Server 2008/XAMPP. At f

Hi, Im currently using this code as a Upload / Rename / Preview Thumbnail script. Could anyone help or tell me how to modify it so the output of the Thumbnail is linked to a larger image. Or is there any other script that can do this?. This is my Upload.php The