ATLChris

Not sure what problems you are having with gmail, but I got it setup very easily using PHP oAuth (Truck) and Google's API. I have searched Google for days looking for a solution, but none of the search results I came across still worked with the exception of OpenInviter.

I have always been a fan of Coda for small projects or Textmate for more complex projects. Both are for Mac.

I am trying to write a script that will allow people to invite friends from their address book to my site. I already have Gmail and Yahoo working through their respective API's, but I am having major issues with Hotmail (Live). I tried using their Live API but it only outputs email hashes to match emails, it doesn't actually allow you to access your contacts. Does anyone know of a script or a way of accessing Hotmail contacts? Hotmail use to have a Contacts API, but that has been depreciated. Maybe connect through an Exchange server and scrape the contacts? Curl/scrape the website? I can't figure anything out and it has been 5 days. I am about to rip my hair out. Why doesn't dumbass Microsoft have API access to contacts anymore????

The only problem with that is I need to get 3 different variables for each array option. i.e. $label_one, $type_one, $validation_one, ...

I am not sure I follow. Can you give me an example of what you mean?

OK, what I am trying to do is generate a dynamic variable name. I want to setup a foreach statement that will generate variable names based on an array of data. $numbers = array('one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five', 'six', 'seven'); foreach ($numbers as $number) { } What I need, is for a bunch of variables to be generated and filled with content. $variable_one_label = "Blah"; $variable_two_label = "Blah Again"; How can I generate the dynamic variable based on the array value?

Awesome, thanks! I would have never guessed it was that easy.

I wanted to know how I could check to see if a date actually appears in future years. For instance, I have a script that emails people in 1, 2, 3 years. If the script is set to email them on February, 29th 2009. How could I have php check and see if there is a Feb 29th in 2009, and if not then change it to the next available date? Thanks in advanced. I am a moderate to advanced user so feel free to be technical.

What would be the best way to store a date in a MySQL database? i.e. 20090209? 02092009? Unix Timestamp?

I figured it out, the problem was the result of a: , "" In a image preload script. haha it was trying to preload a image but the image was not linked so it was preloading the page. 8 hour and it was 3 character haha

I am using the latest build of jQuery. I am not a JavaScript guy, and don't plan to be, because I HATE JAVASCRIPT with a passion.

Ok, well I didn't solve this problem, but I was able to narrow it do enough to create a work around. The problem was, that some how JavaScript was looping the page 2 times. The first time it was updating the SQL with the values like it was suppose to, then it reloaded the page with no POST variables to everything got updated again with blank values. What I did is create a function that allow me to determine if I want javascript on certain pages or not. It was a very strange problem that had me stumped for over 8 hours. The JavaScript problem was in the jquery code to which is strange because that is a well known developer app..

OK, I have done some more debugging, and have come to the result that it is javascript that is causing the problem, but I still have not figured it out. If I comment out the links to my javascript files in my header it works, but if I goto the actual javascript file, and comment all the data out, it doesn't work. Any ideas? I am using jquery on this site.

Well at least you tried debugging it yourself, we rarely see that here lol. I am not sure what could be happening...So the query echos out with the location being shown etc? Let me ask this, register_globals is not turned on is it? I doubt it would be, but if it is maybe that is causing some issues? Post the form code for us to look at, maybe something is going askew in there? Haha yes, I have been debugging this issue myself for hours. Here is the form data: <form name="capsule" id="capsule" action="handle.php" method="POST"> <div class="form_field_capsule"> <label for="location">Where Are You Right Now?</label> <input type="text" id="location" name="location" size="25" tabindex="1" value="<?PHP echo $location; ?>" /> <div class="hint">Try to be specific. i.e. I am sitting at my desk in my bedroom at my house at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500.</div> </div> <div id="capsule_submit"> <input type="hidden" id="capsule" name="page" value="capsule" /> <input type="submit" id="next" value="Next: The Pictures >>" name="submit" /> </div> </form>

I have done the echo. I echo out the entire query and it echos fine with all the variables defined. I can take that echo and put it manually through MySQL Admin and it will update fine. I is something weird that has me floored, and I am pretty advanced PHP user.

$location = $_POST['location']; $query = "UPDATE temp SET location='$location' WHERE sid='$session_id'"; $result = mysql_query("$query") or die(mysql_error()); OK, this code has me stumped, if I echo location as is, it shows the contents from the form as expected, but when I process the form, the field updates in the SQL database, but with a blank instead of the varible. Now, if I change it to this: $location = $_POST['location']; $query = "UPDATE temp SET location='My Office' WHERE sid='$session_id'"; $result = mysql_query("$query") or die(mysql_error()); It submits updates fine, so I know it is not the SQL Q, I have also run it through the database manually and it goes fine. It also works if I define location on this page: $location = 'My Office'; $query = "UPDATE temp SET location='$location' WHERE sid='$session_id'"; $result = mysql_query("$query") or die(mysql_error()); It has something todo with the $_POST in the MySQL statement. Please help everyone, this has me totally floored.