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I know how to make static arrays and multi-dimensional arrays. I don't know exactly how I can grab data from a database to generate the array to make a list. then toss it from php to javascript. because I need to use javascript to generate more then 1 select tag. based from a button click. so when you click this button it will make more select tags. Yet, have the same list. like my example is a list of fruits... each select tag that been created will have these fruit names so the customer can select more then 1 fruit and can be different fruits as well. I would say both. like I never made an array using variables inside the array. I only made a static array before where you do things by hand. but I want to populate the array with what is stored in the database. I hope this makes any sense.

Hi, I want to know how to make multidimensional arrays and toss it to javascript. here is my example. Lets say our website sells fruit. I store fruit names and prices in a database. I then have html code and javascript code to make a select html tag. I need to take the names from the database and prices from the database. I then need to populate the select tag. yet with javascript I need to generate more then 1 select tags with a use of a button. that way the customer at check out can buy more then 1 fruit. So they are not limited to just 1 fruit to be bought at a time. how can one do this?

The code for passing should be like this: <?php echo $page."?aid=".$aid."&uid=".$urbid;?> you need an & after the first variable inbetween the 1st variable value and the 2nd variable name. and you just needed to add another period before the uid variable name being passed.

Hi, I got the thing to work but notice some things about my website that no dosen't work. I notice some scripts are outside the web server access folder... so I use a direct data path to the file. This no no longer works. I used in php the include function to include this file. Yet, now it's failing saying that the file is missing. do you think in my php file I am not using the code proper or is this something I have to fix on the apache side? I think I should be using include_path instead of include. Not too sure. I willl play around and see what happens but in the meantime would like some response on what you guys may thing could cause the problem.

Hi, I need some website that got some good tutorials about paypal. I have the PayPal Standard business merchant account. I would like to know how I can use my own buttons. Plus I am going into the web hosting business and do need to know how I can generate the button code to work with my clients accounts. I was told there are ways for this. Since I see many programmers make a shopping cart that would work for their clients. I am totally new to this and would like to learn more. I e-mailed paypal but their support people can't really help me out. So I turn to here. I ask here since I know for sure somone is bound to have used paypal to be intergrated with their website. I have the standard edition. I was told that the only api I have access too is the html button api managment. Which is nothing but html variables that I toss to a url. I would like to know how can I do this? plus is there a way to do some autofil when the client gets redirected to paypals website?

ok thanks, I will read up more on preg_replace. I didn't know you can select inbetween the { }. but then how can I select code? what I am not understanding is the concept to making a gui where it will select the code. lets say we created the function tom() and saved it in website.php but now the user was like uhhh... don't want this function anymore. I don't want to manually do the code above to replace it with blank. but need some way where I can grab the function name and with my code can generate the code example you gave. so I don't want to do things manually but want the stuff automated.

no, I am not allowing anyone to write code to my server. that's be very stupid to allow clients to do that. It allows hackers to have fun with your system. I am having a GUI that I create myself. This GUI will have images and buttons that when clicked it will send veriables with phrases like words. These words will get toss into a function in edit.php that word will let my server php script edit to know exactly what the user wants to do. inside the function I will want to write code where it will generate php code or whatever code it needs to do what the user asks. so php will be for server sided things, javascript will be the one that does effects on the webpage and html and css be the webpage layout which can be colorized and other stuff. the client won't write any code, won't pass any code to my scripts at all. no one will touch any level of code. I will send variables that has only valid word phases and these phrases my php edit script will know exactly what kind of code. like it will know if we need a condition for the code being generate which means to create an if statement. I want my php code to be able to generate a if statement or other php code and javascript and html if needed and also be able to edit them and delete them. after it writes all the code needed it will dump the code to website.php which is the clients webpage so they won't be touching any code at all. it be just images and buttons where they get to click it and it will end variables to my edit.php file which would generate the proper code that is requested and then save it in the website.php file. which is the users webpage... which is a php file that echos javascript and html and css to create a wepage. I know how to program in PHP. I don't know expert, advance things in it... what I mean like I can open files and close them.... I know how to edit each line of a file and even delete any line in a file. I know how to add text to a file at the first line or the last line. I know how to search for specific texts in side a text file. I know all about the php language even the object oriented part where it talks about classes etc. what I don't know is how can I open a program file like .php and read and edit it where I can go and tell the computer to grab this code and that code and delete them or modify them. I know I can search for the code but I would need to give the whole code in question. For instance... lets say we want to delete this: function tom(){code here } if I use the string searches functions in a file and search for tom() it will find tom() in the file and lets say I replace it with " " which is a blank then the file will have this function {code here } now if I left this in the file.. you will see those php errors flare up because the function is still delcared but no function name is delcared etc. I want to know if there is a way to search for just tom() and it will delete the whole function so if it's function tom(){code here} then I should be able to delete all of it so just searching for tom() is should tell php that this is a function and we want to delete everything the function has and it's name completely. without deleting the whole line. also if I wanted to edit code that is inside that function I should be able to edit such code. how can one do this?

I am making a GUI for my clients where they will pass variables to a php file called edit. there be 2 php files one called edit and one call webpage. the GUI will send veriables to the edit php file. this file will generate code if the user requires it too. all depends on what the user wants... they can even want to delete existing code. so lets say the user wants to make a div fade in and out. They will click a button... that basically if 2 things are selected... for instance conditions and effects. well the edit.php will grab these variables that would have no code but a word or phrase.. it will describe the operation the client requests to be done. so he wants to make a div fade in and fade out when it's the guys birthday.. it will have a exit button in the div. so my edit.php will create a if statement and then condition would be when it's the guys birthday. inside the if statement would be the javascript code that will fade in a div. by default the div will be added to the clients webpage but will be hidden. well our javascript code will fade it in. that be it... after all that code is generated ... we will take this code and toss it to the clients webpage which is a php file called webpage.php we will toss it to there and save it. what I mean use open file function to open the php file and then add the code and then save. this is what I want to do. If the client later on wants to delete the div ... we will then go back in the php file find the code we added and then delete it. How can you do this without me having to manully do this. I want my php script to do all this. plus what is this? http://php.net/manual/en/function.create-function.php would that function create a function?

no, I don't mean using a editor. I mean coding in php fopen type stuff. I want to open a php file and be able to select certain code inside it... or add code to it and then save it. doing all this via http://php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php (fopen function) that is inside php.

I know how I can open up a file and that also includes opening up a php file. yet, how can I search for specific code. Like can I search for function tim() and it will select the function tim(){code} and it's code... so that I can delete just that code if I need to or want too. What if I just want to make modifications inside the code of that function... how would one do this?

one, last question about this... if I am using this can I still use the rewrite mod? or will there be a conflict if I use the rewrite mod.

ok, got it to work. Thanks. I just had to make an error blank file. all is good right now. Thanks for the help.

ok, so just add that and then restart apache? also can you explain to me what exactly the custom log path is? the config is: LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon CustomLog logs/access_log vcommon I am looking at the apache manual part of custom logging. located here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_log_config.html they focus more on explaining the format. however I don't understand where the default custom log will be via root server path. like I don't know what this path means logs/access_log don't know if it's like www.mydomain.com/logs/access_log or does it mean /home/logs/access_log or is it referring with the default root of where the apache files been stored. the documentation dosen't explain this. It just explains how to format the custom log.

ya, I read that but I am totally confused. it shows this: # get the server name from the Host: header UseCanonicalName Off # this log format can be split per-virtual-host based on the first field LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon CustomLog logs/access_log vcommon # include the server name in the filenames used to satisfy requests VirtualDocumentRoot /www/hosts/%0/docs VirtualScriptAlias /www/hosts/%0/cgi-bin I understand what they do just don't know exactly where to put it in that new extra file? that documentation dosen't exactly explain how you would add such code in the file. Just explains what it does which I understand what it does.

hey there is a file config that I can uncomment: it's: # Virtual hosts #Include etc/apache22/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf do I make the changes and setup via that file? I notice it has some example code. but the examples lack what I want to do. I want to make just one virtual host config and have it where the path to the file the folder name itself will have to match the same as the website name request first. are there any good examples that show how to make one config setup where the document root changes based on what website domain name it needs to respond too??? that way I can just add new folders on my server and it would automatically be config and all set to go.

ya, but I think it's already installed. If I use that php info function. It shows in the apache section that it has that as modules loaded. I can see it in the list. So I assume it's installed. I did ask at the freebsd website forum. Yet, I haven't got a solid answer. Just had a reply to look at the freebsd documentation of apache... which wasn't any help. Since they only show how to load a modular and only should how to load the php module in apache. it won't help since I won't know what name this mod would be named. I do know the file name but don't know the name of it's loading name. For example this was how php5 is loaded in apache: LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache/libphp5.so you can see it says php5_module I am not sure if I should do this LoadModule modulename_module path to module file. That's just my guess but don't know if that is what I need to do.

Hi, I want to setup and use mod_vhost_alias to be able to make folders in a www folder so that those folder inside that www folder would create websites or auto config. the folder name would be the name of the domain name. I have no clue where to start and how to do this. I have a main config file where the main server config is at. Then I got a offline config file and a online website config file these files have the virtual host code / config and currently has configs in them for my 2 website. I am planning to start a hosting company. So need to setup apache in a way that I can host many websites. I plan to use php to automate things as I can. So I be making the websites folder once I get paid from the client. So I would like to know how to set this up. I am using freebsd 8.1 and apache 2.2. Is there any good tutorials. I have looked at the apache docs. which is located here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_vhost_alias.html but it's not specific only talks about what line of code you need to add to config it. Dosen't talk about how to install it or enable it on apache and the dosen't tell exactly where to make the changes... well says to make the changes to httpd.conf but I don't have that file. I think mines is something like apache2.conf and I have offline and online site.conf . So I need to know if the code or the changes to the config would be inside the main config file or would it be where the websites config file is at.

Hi, is it possible for apache to limit resources for certain websites. I be hosting 2 websites that is mine. I will be starting a web hosting service provider services. So I may host addition 5 to 100,000 websites. I would like to know how I can limit the bandwidth and make this applied to selected websites. I would like to use php to be able to control which websites have the limitations. Is this possible and I did looked at a few mods for apache that does bandwidth limitations... but from what I seen they claim it will do the limitations to all websites on the server. I can't like specify which ones to do it on.

ya, I know about the security issues. I don't plan on giving root access to my clients or to any request from the outside onto my web server. I have seen programs like webmin and others that is made with php. Those programs allows you to access your server from the internet and you can modify Apache config files and many other stuff. This is why I assumed you can do this task with php. I won't be making linux users for each client. I plan that my website in php will be the main interface for their websites. I am not doing a traditional web hosting where they can just ftp their files over. I will have them use my php editor to create website pages. They can then later on download the files if they want to in case they want to switch hosting providers but don't want to lose their website work. Security is my top priority for my clients. Only my computer or server or my own user can only make changes to the Apache files etc. Thanks for the replies and suggestions. I will take a look at the Apache manual.

Hi, I am trying to figure out how I can add more domain names to apache via the use of php. I am trying to start into the web hosting business. I want to design my interface for my clients to create their websites. First thing I need is to after they place an order to update my apache config to host their new domain name. how can I add and delete such additions with php without currpting the apache config file. I know I can find some way to access the apache config file with the file write functions of php. Just don't know how I can just add the config settings and delete them later on. Like what if I have 5,000 domain names to cofig setup on apache and later on like about 10 needs to be deleted. those 10 can be anywhere in the file and won't alwasy be in order meaning from 10 to 1 it won't be like were they all will be after each other. It can be scattered on different lines of the file. I want to just delete the proper text and not delete stuff by lines because there can be times where the config of another website might start on the same line I needed to delete so if I delete by lines... I would delete the first line of that website config causing the website to not work properly. any ideas how to tackle this problem?