BandonRandon

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Hello, I'm trying to create a simple content formater. I would like to be able to paste content from and e-mail and have it format it in an easy printer friendly way. Right now I have the following php code: $text= $_POST['textinput']; $paragraphs= $_POST['keep_paragraphs']; $shift_left= $_POST['shift_left']; if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()){ $text = stripslashes($text); // strip off the slashes if they are magically added. } $text = htmlentities($text); //if we should keep formatting if($paragraphs=="true"){ $text =nl2br($text); } //if we want to shift all text left if no break is inbetween if($shift_left=="true"){ $text = preg_replace('/(?<!\r\n)\r\n(?=\w)/', ' ', trim($text)); } echo ($text); The part that isn't working is the preg_replace. I am trying to make it so Becomes Any Ideas would be great.

thanks for all the input and time helping me learn. I think even if I use echo i'll still be able to reuse the function with the same formatting. I guess what I'm trying to do is write a function that will echo out the news wherever the function is called. So I guess I don't see the point of using the second loop. Thank you very much though. I've learned a lot from this thread and will mark it as resolved so hopefully others will find it useful.

Just to clarify, it's the current standard to do it with the two loops instead of just writing a function that will echo out the data into a function?

Thanks, My code was more of just an example, I really want to be able to get all the news data (not just the text) into an array. I also will need to do stuff like grab the author id from another table then use that as a display name. In the past I've just echoed out the information onto the page using echo right into the file i wanted the news. I just thought it might look better and even work better to use a function.

Thanks, sorry I'm a slow learner. So i still want to use a while loop inside the function to add all the data to an array? Functions and arrays are both things I've stayed away from until now (three years down the road) when I'm finding out how useful they are.

That makes sense, I'm actually trying to write a function that will format my news from the database and spit it out onto the page. What's the "proper" way to format let's say a news div using a function. I thought return was the equivalent but i just learned it's not.

I could easily get it to work using "echo" but word on the street is this is bad form... is this true because while($news_row = mysql_fetch_array($get_news_query)) { $news = $news_row['text']; echo $news; } works well

Ok so this is a beginner stupid question but I'm new to functions. This is my first time to trying to get data from a database into a function. For some reason it's only getting the first result out of the database instead of looping though until the limit is reached. Any Ideas? function get_news_list($limit, $type, $author){ //get the limit of news if(empty($limit)){ $count_rows = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `news_data`") or die(mysql_error()); $limit = mysql_num_rows($count_rows); } //see if we should show news from all authors or just one if(!empty($author)){ $get_news_query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `news_data` WHERE `valid` = '1' AND author_id = '$author' ORDER BY `id` DESC LIMIT $limit") or die(mysql_error()); } else{ $get_news_query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `news_data` WHERE `valid` = '1' ORDER BY `id` DESC LIMIT $limit") or die(mysql_error()); } //loop though the news and get the news until the limit is reached while($news_row = mysql_fetch_array($get_news_query)) { $news = ($news_row['text']); return $news; } }

Thanks for your help. Someone on stacked overflow suggested a solution that works which is simply to use in_array then make sure it matches both parameters. if( !in_array( $_FILES['upload_project_thum']['type'] . ':' . $upload_project_thum_ext, $upload_permitted_types) ) { $errmsg_arr[] = 'Please select a jpg, jpeg, gif, or png image to use as the project thumbnail'; $errflag = true; } As always in programing there is more than one way to skin a cat. Thanks for your help!

sorry for being so nieve but are you suggesting this instead of the foreach() statement or inside of it? I played with it a bit but it seams that $i is not being set to 1 if the image type and extension is inside the array.

Hello, I would like to check a file upload image type and extension to make sure it's one that is in my array of "allowed types" Here is the code that I'm currently using which halfway works. Right now the problem is it's trying to make sure the file is ALL of the image types and extensions which isn't ever gonna be the case. I guess maybe I need to find a way to say if it's one of these then stop and return true else return false. Someone suggested "!in_array" but i think this will only check either the type or the extension not both. $upload_project_thum = strtolower($_FILES['upload_project_thum']['name']); $upload_project_thum_ext = substr($upload_project_thum, strrpos($upload_project_thum, '.') + 1); $upload_permitted_types= array('image/jpeg:jpg','image/pjpeg:jpg','image/gif:gif','image/png:png'); foreach ($upload_permitted_types as $image_type) { $type = explode(":", $image_type); if (($type[0] != $_FILES['upload_project_thum']['type']) && ($upload_project_thum_ext != $type[1]) ) { $errmsg_arr[] = 'Please select a jpg, jpeg, gif, or png image to use as the project thumbnail'; $errflag = true; } Any help would be great thanks!

Thanks for your reply MrAdam, however the issue wasn't with the PHP it was with the regex. You're php makes more sense and looks a bit cleaner though so I'm using it instead. The problem was I didn't put parenthisis around my regex to allow them to be backreferences the corrected rewrite rule for anyone wanting to know is this: RewriteRule ^email/([a-z0-9_]+)/([a-z0-9_]+)/([a-z0-9_]+)$ core/includes/mailto.php?u=$1&d=$2&s=$3 [L,NC] Thanks!

Hello, I'm trying a new method to prevent spam bots which is to use a link like "mailto.php?u=user&d=example&s=com" the idea is that this gets passed to the php script "mailto.php" which has the following code <?php // pull values from query string and // redirect to a mailto link header("Location: mailto:$_GET[u]@$_GET[d].$_GET[s]"); ?> This worked fine but I thought the url looked to messy so i was able to clean it up by writing the following rewrite rule RewriteRule ^email/[a-z0-9_]+/[a-z0-9_]+/[a-z0-9_]+$ core/includes/mailto.php?u=$1&d=$2&s=$3 [L,NC] This also works when the url is something like "email/user/exampe/com" The problem is that i'm not sure how to get the pieces to the mailto.php so they can be called into the e-mail client right now my email client will open with " @ . " which means that the script is working but because there is nothing in the $_GET variables it's returning null. Any help on this would be great. Brooke

Sorry to bump this but does anyone have any ideas? I have been trying a variety of things but none of them are working if someone even wants to point me to an article i would be willing to read it.

My Shipper, First can I ask of you to wrap all your code in

I'm still not fully sure what you want to do but I think what you want to do is have the admin receive an e-mail when public function MailApplyOnline($data) is used. If this is correct you can modify this line. $mail->AddAddress($data['company_email'], $data['company_name']); I'm not sure where $data is coming from I can only assume it's a array with the key's of company_email and company_name. If this is so one way to modify it may be to. change public function MailApplyOnline($data) to public function MailApplyOnline($data,$admin_email,$admin_name) then $mail->AddAddress($data['company_email'], $data['company_name']); to: $mail->AddAddress($admin_email'], $data['admin_name']); then when you call the function use MailApplyOnline(array,'[email protected]','admin name' I hope this helps. I hope you don't find this rude but did you cut and paste snippes of code from various places the format and variables of all three functions seem to be different.

ok so this apparently will upload one file to the correct location but not all of them.

First thing I would say is watch your quotes you have <a href=images/Photo 101.jpg class=lightwindow title=ADD author=Kaon caption=asdfsdafsdafesd><img src= images/thumbs/Photo 101.jpg border =0></a> which should be <a href="images/Photo 101.jpg" class="lightwindow" title="ADD" author="Kaon" caption="asdfsdafsdafesd"><img src= "images/thumbs/Photo 101.jpg" border ="0"></a> this should clean up quite a few of the errors. Next you are outputting a table and you are making new <tr> instead of <td> for example you should have <tr><td>img</td></tr> to create a new row right now you are just echoing images out in <tr>img</tr> which doesn't really do anything. I ran the site tough w3c validation you have 74 of them most of them can be corrected fairly easily. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.schoolworkanswers.com%2Fpictures.php%3Fp%3D1 brooke

using the code above how can i loop through and move each of the files? I tried running another foreach loop inside of the original loop. I'm so lost on this and i know it should be easy. foreach($_FILES['upload_project_images']['tmp_name'] as $upload_project_temp_name) { move_uploaded_file ($upload_project_temp_name, "$upload_project_images_path"."$upload_project_images_name"); }

thanks maq! I love this forum always knowledgeable people who are fairly quick to respond! I'm a little disappointed that i forgot a stupid quote. I was closer than i thought! Thanks again for your help!

thanks the unfortunately didn't work $project_id comes from the previous query and is used to store the id of the project that the image is associated with. $project_id_row = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("SELECT p_id FROM ".PROJECT_TABLE ." ORDER BY p_id DESC LIMIT 1")); $project_id = $project_id_row['p_id']; here are the errors I get looks like $upload_project_images_name isn't being sent.

what are you trying to do? I think the issue may be with the session I belive it should be in the format of $_SESSION['example']="yes"; Also why use meta refresh instead of <?php header:location ?> ? see: http://us3.php.net/session http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_sessions.asp

Hello, This code worked a few revisions ago and I don't know what I did. What I'm trying to do is pull the value from <input name="upload_project_images[]" type="file" /><br/> and loop though changing the filename to something like "originalfilename_pimg_rand3425" Ideally it would be nice to change "pimg" to "pimg1, pimg2 ext" I believe I can use an $i++ and possibly a for loop may be a better option than a for each loop. To recap, trying to get the MYSQL to loop though and add the variables into the DB once this is done then I'll be able to "move" the uploaded files. foreach($_FILES['upload_project_images']['name'] as $upload_project_images) { $upload_project_images_pathinfo = pathinfo($upload_project_images); $upload_project_images_name = $upload_project_images_pathinfo['filename'] . "_" . $rand . '.' . $upload_project_images_pathinfo['extension']; $p_image_query = "INSERT INTO " . IMAGE_TABLE . "(i_name,i_type,i_project_id) VALUES ($upload_project_images_name','3','$project_id')"; $result=mysql_query($p_image_query); }

Thanks again thepip3r! Sometimes it's the simple things we over look and just need reassurance that they'll work. It now seems to be working fine. I have marked this resolved!