webmaster1

Should I be using Fantastico Deluxe for this?

I'm looking for a spell-checker mod for smf forum everywhere but all I can find are articles telling me I either have it or do not by default depending on my host. How do I check if I have it in the first place without having to contact my host? I'm using mySQL, myPHPAdmin and cPANEL. If I do have it what do I need to do? If I don't have it what do I need to do? Any help would be greatly apreciated!

Hi All, Does anyone know what my permissions should be for my files for SMF Forum? They are currently 7 7 7.

Thanks!

Nope. Just a reserved area for a few freinds discussing a mutual topic. So from what you're saying I should be configuring the privacy from within SMF?

I've come across various scripts to password protect a page using sessions. Can this be done to the folder that contains the forum on my directory? The folder in question has 777 permissions.

Hi All, I've just installed SMF Forum on a site of mine. It's working fine. Does anyone know how I should go about making the forum section of the site private? I don't want it to be publically accessable i.e. blocked access from all forum pages. Is this something I can configure from withing SMF or can do I need to apply some of my own PHP scripting?

Oh jaysus. It works fine now. My default dropdown options had a blank value so when I used them to test whether the variables were writing back or not they simply posted a blank which is exactly what was supposed to happen. Thanks for the explanation in any case Axeia.

Does anyone know if client side variables block server side variables?

Hi All, I'm calling on two dropdowns and writing their values back to a database: <?php //DROP DOWNS $callresult1 = $_POST['optone']; $callresult2 = $_POST['opttwo']; ?> For some reason the variables come back as blank. I'm using the following client side script: HEAD: <script type="text/javascript"> function setOptions(chosen) { var selbox = document.myform.opttwo; selbox.options.length = 0; if (chosen == " ") { selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('Secondary Result',' '); } if (chosen == "1") { selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('No Answer','oneone'); selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('Engaged Tone','onetwo'); } if (chosen == "2") { selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('No Decision Maker Available','twoone'); selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('Follow Up: Sending Email','twotwo'); selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('Follow Up: Decision Later','twothree'); } if (chosen == "3") { selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('Obsolete Number','threeone'); selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('Not Correct Contact','threetwo'); selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('Outdated Prefix','threethree'); } if (chosen == "4") { PRIVATE } if (chosen == "5") { selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('Overheads Too Expensive','fiveone'); selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('Already Taken Course','fivetwo'); selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('Not Applicable to Vocation','fivethree'); selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('Weak Belief in Market Viability','fivefour'); selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('Not Computer Literate','fivefive'); selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('Out of Business','fivesix'); } if (chosen == "6") { selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('Reviewing Record','sixone'); selbox.options[selbox.options.length] = new Option('Editing Record','sixtwo'); } } </script> <script language="javascript"> function enableField() { if (document.myform.optone.value=="2") { document.myform.date.disabled=false; document.myform.month.disabled=false; document.myform.year.disabled=false; document.myform.hour.disabled=false; document.myform.minute.disabled=false; } else { document.myform.date.disabled=true; document.myform.month.disabled=true; document.myform.year.disabled=true; document.myform.hour.disabled=true; document.myform.minute.disabled=true; } } </script> BODY: <p align="center"> <select style="width: 150px;" name="optone" id="optone" size="1" onchange="setOptions(document.myform.optone.options[document.myform.optone.selectedIndex].value); enableField();"> <option value=" " selected="selected"> Primary Result </option> <option value="1">Non-Connect</option> <option value="2">Schedule Call-Back</option> <option value="3">Wrong Number</option> <option value="4">Course Sale</option> <option value="5">Refusal</option> <option value="6">No Call Placed</option> </select> <select style="width: 250px;" name="opttwo" id="opttwo" size="1"> <option value=" " selected="selected" > Secondary Result </option> </select> <input style="width: 35px;" name="date" id="date" type="text" disabled="true" >/ <input style="width: 35px;" name="month" id="month" type="text" disabled="true" >/ <input style="width: 45px;" name="year" id="year" type="text" disabled="true" > <input style="width: 35px;" name="hour" id="hour" type="text" disabled="true" >: <input style="width: 35px;" name="minute" id="minute" type="text" disabled="true" > </p>

Hi All, I want to output from a database (that I've inputted to) without backslashes appearing. I was told in a recent thread to change the encoding of the page or to use html_entities. Outputting using stripslashes does the exact same thing. Lets say I'm outputting to a series of texboxes that I'm also using to re-input (insert) the data should the end-user need to make ammendments: <input type="text" name="landline" id="landline" value="<?php echo $landline; ?>"/> If I apply striplashes to the above value for outputting and then pick the variable back up with mysql_real_escape_string for inputting will I experience any sort of conflicts in terms of the special characters?

Brilliant! The 'AS' works much better. Thanks Scott.

Hi All, I need to pull one variable and it's count into a php page from its database. I can't get the count to work: <?php //CONNECT TO ADD TO EXPORT THE CATEGORY FIELD include("dbinfo.php"); mysql_connect(localhost,$username,$password); @mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database"); //BUILD QUERY $query="SELECT DISTINCT category, count( category ) FROM `masterdata` GROUP BY category"; $result=mysql_query($query); $num=mysql_numrows($result); mysql_close(); //DISPLAY THE CATEGORY FIELD $i=0; while ($i < $num) { $category=mysql_result($result,$i,"category"); $categorycount=mysql_result($result,$i,"count(category)"); echo "<a href='recordlist.php?category=$category'>$category</a></br>"; echo "<a href='recordlist.php?category=$categorycount'>$categorycount</a></br>"; $i++; } ?> Can anyone spot where I've gone wrong?

@9three: Done. Thanks for the info...

So you're saying the below code (its functional) would not time out until the browser is closed? <?php session_start(); $valid_username = "user"; $valid_password = "pass"; $username = isset($_POST['username'])?$_POST['username']:""; $password = isset($_POST['password'])?$_POST['password']:""; if ($username == $valid_username && $password == $valid_password) { $_SESSION['logged'] = true; header("Location: admin.php"); }else { $_SESSION['logged'] = false; header("Location: loginfl.php"); }?>

I want them logged in until they close the browser window. Can i avoid the use of cookies for this and is sessions the correct way to go?

Hi All, I'm building a basic CRM for work where I want users to: be directed to a specific page based on their log in details. remain logged in (no timing out of session). Should I be using sessions for this or do I use something simpler such as the username and password in a php page? Any reccomended tutorials would be apreciated too (yes, I do know how to google, just wondering if there is any specific tutorial some of you would reccomend ).

Alritey then, false alarm! Apparently there was a space after <<<html. For any newbs like me: Click right after the l of <<<html, press your right arrow key once and then press backspace.

Other forums suggest thats its to do with a white space.

Hi All, I'm using a basic script for a few RSS feeds but I keep on getting the following error: The code is below. Can someone please help? This is really bugging me. <?php // // ScarySoftware RSS parser // Copyright (c) 2006 Scary Software // ( Generates HTML from a RSS feeds ) // // Licensed Under the Gnu Public License // // Here are the feeds - you can add to them or change them $RSSFEEDS = array( 0 => "http://www.site-reference.com/xml.php?c=all", 1 => "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss", 2 => "http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot", ); // // Makes a pretty HTML page bit from the title, // description and link // function FormatRow($title, $description, $link) { return <<<HTML <!-- RSS FEED ENTRY --> <p class="feed_title">$title</p> <p class="feed_description">$description</p> <a class="feed_link" href="$link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more...</a> <p> </p> <hr size=1> <!-- END OF RSS FEED ENTRY --> HTML; } // we'll buffer the output ob_start(); // Now we make sure that we have a feed selected to work with if (!isset($feedid)) $feedid = 0; $rss_url = $RSSFEEDS[$feedid]; // Server friendly page cache $ttl = 60*60;// 60 secs/min for 60 minutes = 1 hour(360 secs) $cachefilename = md5($rss_url); if (file_exists($cachefilename) && (time() - $ttl < filemtime($cachefilename))) { // We recently did the work, so we'll save bandwidth by not doing it again include($cachefilename); exit(); } // Now we read the feed $rss_feed = file_get_contents($rss_url); // Now we replace a few things that may cause problems later $rss_feed = str_replace("<![CDATA[", "", $rss_feed); $rss_feed = str_replace("]]>", "", $rss_feed); $rss_feed = str_replace("\n", "", $rss_feed); // If there is an image node remove it, we aren't going to use // it anyway and it often contains a <title> and <link> // that we don't want to match on later. $rss_feed = preg_replace('#<image>(.*?)</image>#', '', $rss_feed, 1 ); // Now we get the nodes that we're interested in preg_match_all('#<title>(.*?)</title>#', $rss_feed, $title, PREG_SET_ORDER); preg_match_all('#<link>(.*?)</link>#', $rss_feed, $link, PREG_SET_ORDER); preg_match_all('#<description>(.*?)</description>#', $rss_feed, $description, PREG_SET_ORDER); // // Now that the RSS/XML is parsed.. Lets Make HTML ! // // If there is not at least one title, then the feed was empty // it happens sometimes, so lets be prepared and do something // reasonable if(count($title) <= 1) { echo "No news at present, please check back later.<br><br>"; } else { // OK Here we go, this is the fun part // Well do up the top 3 entries from the feed for ($counter = 1; $counter <= 3; $counter++ ) { // We do a reality check to make sure there is something we can show if(!empty($title[$counter][1])) { // Then we'll make a good faith effort to make the title // valid HTML $title[$counter][1] = str_replace("&", "&", $title[$counter][1]); $title[$counter][1] = str_replace("'", "'", $title[$counter][1]); // The description often has encoded HTML entities in it, and // we probably don't want these, so we'll decode them $description[$counter][1] = html_entity_decode( $description[$counter][1]); // Now we make a pretty page bit from the data we retrieved from // the RSS feed. Remember the function FormatRow from the // beginning of the program ? Here we put it to use. $row = FormatRow($title[$counter][1],$description[$counter][1],$link[$counter][1]); // And now we'll output the new page bit! echo $row; } } } // Finally we'll save a copy of the pretty HTML we just created // so that we can skip most of the work next time $fp = fopen($cachefilename, 'w'); fwrite($fp, ob_get_contents()); fclose($fp); // All Finished! ob_end_flush(); // Send the output to the browser ?>

So just the one is enough to indicate. Thanks again.

I added _x to the to isset condition and everything is hunky dory. Could someone finally explain why the x is required only and not the y too? (Thanks for the help PFMaBismAd!!!)

I really don't know what you mean by or The theory makes sense but I don't know where to start in terms of implementation. Am I editing the name of the image or how I call it in the isset condition?

Righto. So far I've found out its an IE 6+ issue. Apparently server side gets the following info from input type="image': i've been told to test for existence of x or y by doing the following: <?php if (isset($_POST["control_name_x"])) { // form submitted } ?> i'm not very certain of what it is I'm supposed to be doing here. http://www.aaronreynolds.co.uk/using-an-image-submit-button-in-php/

Hi All, I'm using an image as submit that has a mouseover effect but it doesn't trigger my php code when clicked; <input name="submit" id="submit" type="image" alt="Send Message" src="images/general_sendmessage1.jpg" srcover="images/general_sendmessage2.jpg" srcdown="images/general_sendmessage1.jpg" border="0"> It works fine when I use this: <input name="submit" id="submit" type="submit"/> Any ideas why its not working? i'm more interested in understanding whats going wrong rather than its fix.