[AOL IP address solution]

I think I would ban people who use AOL just on principle....

[Best Way To Implement PHP Template?]

An example:

 

http://www.codewalkers.com/c/a/Display-Tutorials/Writing-a-Template-System-in-PHP/

 

If you are really looking at a large scale site, I would use a framework of some sort...makes life somewhat easier.  I like zend framework personnally.

 

http://framework.zend.com

[Loop Not Working?]

You can't use a time in a for loop...it just gets cast as an int, which loses meaning for time related functionality...

[Getting the Highest number from a large array..]

Similar to the above, though I kind of think it will be a faster query:

 

"SELECT viewed_count FROM table ORDER BY viewed_count DESC LIMIT 1"

 

Depends on how the values are stored in the database.  If every page view == an insert to the table, then your query won't work.  If every page view increments a "views" counter in the database (i.e. each page has a single row in the database which has a counter), then my query won't work.

[HTML in EMAIL]

http://www.php.net/function.mail, example 4 shows how to send html email.

 

phpMailer is an excellent mailing class, with the ability to send html email:

http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com/

[Getting the Highest number from a large array..]

SELECT article_name, COUNT(*) 
FROM article_referred_table 
GROUP BY article_name
ORDER  BY COUNT(*) DESC
LIMIT 1

 

Change the limit clause to see the top X referred articles

[Read Images from Select Web Folders]

http://www.php.net/class.dir

[Zend configuration problem]

So, you didn't set the include path using the code I provided?  And it's still not working.....

[Date Format Trouble]

$dg1 is a resource, so it being equal to "Resource id #4" is normal.

 

$dg12 is the number of rows returned..."1" means one row was returned.

 

You didn't get a value returned back for $dtime because mysql is returning the column name back with the name "DATE_FORMAT....".  Either use a numeric index on your result...

 

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($dg1)) {
  $dtime = $row[0];
}

 

Or, since you have one row, with one column, use mysql_result:

 

$dtime = mysql_result($result, 0);

 

Or assign the result column to a different name in the SQL query:

 

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(dtime, '%m/%d/%y') AS dtime FROM dlg WHERE lname = '$lname'

[Date Format Trouble]

First, by "it returned zero" do you mean it returned zero rows, or it failed?

 

Second, your query is probably wrong...you have it enclosed in single quotes, which means it will not do variable substitution...

 

change

 

$dql = mysql_query('SELECT DATE_FORMAT(dtime, "%m/%d/%y") FROM dlg WHERE lname = "$lname"');

 

to

 

$dql = mysql_query("SELECT DATE_FORMAT(dtime, '%m/%d/%y') FROM dlg WHERE lname = '$lname'");

 

Notice I changed double quotes to single, and single to double.

[Date Format Trouble]

what is the data type of the field?

[problem with if (isset($_POST[]

What is the name of the "submit" button on the form?  For example:

 

<input type="submit" name="this_is_what_I_want" value="Submit" />

 

That value is what shoule be in your if statement...in this example:

 

if (isset($_POST['this_is_what_I_want'])) { ... }

[PHP FORM 5th PARAMETER? -F? HELP!]

Reference this post:  http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,193668.msg871472.html#msg871472

[[SOLVED] Error Reporting Off -> On]

cURL

[Date Format Trouble]

Use MySQL's DATE_FORMAT function.

 

The php date function expects a unix timestamp (seconds since epoc).  However, MySQL is outputting a string representation of the date.  You can either change the format in MySQL (using the DATE_FORMAT function), or you can use MySQL's UNIX_TIMESTAMP function to convert it to that format and then format the final in php.

 

I recommend the former:

 

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(dtime, "%m/%d/%y %g:%i %A") FROM table_name

 

I'm not 100% sure that the format string is correct however (I didn't look up the format).

 

http://www.mysql.com/date_format

[While loop echoing data twice??]

Gonna have to agree with dptr...check the number of results returned:

 

//START PAGE HTML HEADERS
echo "<html><head>";

echo mysql_num_results($results);

//STAR WHILE LOOP TO CYCLE THROUGH ALL THE RESULTS FROM THE QUERY.

[Zend configuration problem]

your include path isn't set correctly...where is the zend library installed at?

 

set_include_path("/full/path/to/zend/directory" . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path());

[[SOLVED] Error Reporting Off -> On]

alternatively you can just put

 

ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);

 

at the start of your script...

 

that still spits a blank page with no errors..

 

Use the display_startup_errors from my post above

[[SOLVED] Error Reporting Off -> On]

// show normal errors
ini_set("display_errors", 1);

// show syntax errors
ini_set("display_startup_errors", 1);

// show all errors
error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);

[Not receiving email from php form]

Just as your provider states, you need to provide the additional parameter to the mail function:

 

 @mail ( $cgi->getValue ( "adminemailaddress" ), $yoursubject, $emailtext, "From: " . $cgi->getValue ( "email" ), "-fyourmail@yourdomain.whatever" ); 

 

If the author hasn't heard of it before tell him/her to go read the manual:  http://www.php.net/function.mail, example 3.

 

The options that can be provided in this manner are found in the sendmail man page:

 

http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/man/sendmail.html (or "man sendmail" from the command line)

 

In particular, the "-f" states:

 

    -fname      Sets the name of the ``from'' person (i.e., the sender of the

                mail).  -f can only be used by ``trusted'' users (normally

                root, daemon, and network) or if the person you are trying to

                become is the same as the person you are.

[form processing loop]

A for loop is easier:

 

for ($i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++) {
  echo $_POST['name' . $i];
}

 

However, it is probably even easier to use a different method of gathering the data:

 

<INPUT type=checkbox value=Yes name="userdata[1][checkbox]">
<INPUT  size=42 name="userdata[1][name]">
<INPUT  size=42 name="userdata[1][phone]">
<INPUT  size=42 name="userdata[1][address]">

<INPUT type=checkbox value=Yes name="userdata[2][checkbox]">
<INPUT  size=42 name="userdata[2][name]">
<INPUT  size=42 name="userdata[2][phone]">
<INPUT  size=42 name="userdata[2][address]">

<INPUT type=checkbox value=Yes name="userdata[3][checkbox]">
<INPUT  size=42 name="userdata[3][name]">
<INPUT  size=42 name="userdata[3][phone]">
<INPUT  size=42 name="userdata[3][address]">

 

You would end up with a multidimenstional array in post:

 

foreach ($_POST['userdata'] as $number => $data) {
  echo $data['name'];
}

[[SOLVED] Session variables not carrying over]

Does it have a different domain name?  For instance, the main site is "mainsite.com" and the sub site is "subsite.mainsite.com". 

 

If so, php, and apache, treat them as totally different sites.  Each one will have a different session id for the same user.

[[SOLVED] Login Security]

The thing that worries me is insecure passwords. Dictionary-based tables are publicly available

 

Exactly...it doesn't matter (for the most part) the hash or encryption if the password is weak to begin with.

 

On a side note, md5 is a 128 bit hash, which means there is 2^128 number of values.  According to the calculator on my Fedora 8 laptop, that comes to ~ 3.4*10^38 combinations.

 

MySQL's largest integer data type is BIGINT, which according to their documentation, and unsigned BIGINT has a max value of 18446744073709551615. 

 

If you divide the first number (2^128) by the second, you get 18446744073709551617.  This means it would take 18,446,744,073,709,551,617 mysql tables, all with a BIGINT primary key, to find every hash possible.

 

Terabytes is still a very small percentage.

[sql error...]

$parents_str is probably empty, which means your query has "WHERE forum_id IN ()", which will generate an SQL error.

 

Echo out the query to check.

[[SOLVED] Login Security]

Since md5 is so easily challenged, what strings generated these hashes?

 

1f9788313e0a9e5180a2705dda8e27e2

cd8dd7ce5892f48289825ee3db970c49