DanC

Hi, Thanks for the quick reply. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again!

Hi, Simple question. I have a column called "array" in my database, and inserted into each field is the following imploded array: mctriangle,570.65,355.1,1,1,0 It is an instance of an object. Each field in each row contains this information as an imploded array. [0] = Name [1] = X Axis [2] = Y Axis [3] = ScaleX [4] = ScaleY [5] = Rotation When extracted from the database, it is exploded back into the array above. As you can see, I would need to store a lot of rows for each object. Say we use 200 objects, thats 200 rows, which would be hard to search through. My question is: Could I store multiple imploded arrays inside 1 row only. E.g: mctriangle,570.65,355.1,1,1,0&&mctriangle,570.65,355.1,1,1,0&&mctriangle,570.65,355.1,1,1,0&&mctriangle,570.65,355.1,1,1,0&&mctriangle,570.65,355.1,1,1,0 The above would be 5 objects in one row of data, each imploded array separated by &&. How would I go about doing such a thing? Thanks!

Hi, I have an AS3 login script, but I want to work with PHP sessions. In AS3, how would I go about remotely executing a PHP script to create a session? I know about URLLoader but I've heard this only reads the text and doesn't execute it or something? Perhaps I am mistaken. Can someone guide me to creating a PHP session from clicking a button in AS3? Thanks, Dan.

Hi, I have created a system where a user has to login to view a swf file embedded on a php page. This php page cannot be accessed unless a session is registered. However, I want to stop them just going to: www.example.com/dir/flash.swf I want to prevent direct access to this file and only allow it to be seen when inside a php script. I guess I have to use .htaccess with some combined PHP'ing but i'm not sure how. Thanks.

Hi, I have this code in my script: $genno=rand(1,50000000000000); // Run some security checks for duplicate ids $genids=mysql_query("SELECT gen FROM info WHERE gen='$genno' "); $checkgenids=mysql_num_rows($genids); while ($checkgenids > 0) { $genno=rand(1,50000000000000); } // End the check $nameids=mysql_query("SELECT name FROM info WHERE name='$name' "); $checknameids=mysql_num_rows($nameids); if ($checknameids > 0) { die('<p><b><center><font color=red>Product name "'.$name.'" already exists!<hr></font></center></b></p>'); } mysql_query("INSERT INTO $maintab ($nametab, $linktab, $comptab) VALUES('$name', '$link', '$comp')") or die(mysql_error()); mysql_query("INSERT into $gcodetab ($codetab) VALUES ('$finalshuffle')") or die(mysql_error()); mysql_query("UPDATE $gcodetab SET gen='$genno' WHERE gen='0'") or die(mysql_error()); mysql_query("INSERT into download (id, gen) VALUES ('$genno', '$genno')") or die(mysql_error()); mysql_query("UPDATE $maintab SET gen='$genno' WHERE gen='fill'") or die(mysql_error()); mysql_free_result(); mysql_close; However, no matter how many times I run this code, it ALWAYS inserts the SAME number into the database. It works perfectly on localhost, but not when I upload it to my online host. I've asked them to check for any restrictions, but they showed me a test with rand function and it was working fine. Is it something in my code that is wrong? It inserts the random code into two tables in a database so I can match them up later, but one table always has the same code and the other table has a different code. Help! Thanks, Dan.

Hi, I have made a script that does something similar to this. http://www.example.com/download.php?fileid=3945 And then it finds the file and lets the user download it. However, I want to store the file outside of public_html folder so it can only be reached by that script, and not directly downloaded. Would I need some special PHP fetch function or can I just use a normal '/home/user' path? Thanks, Dan.

Hi, thanks for your reply, i'll be sure to use that. However, I have one more question. How would I go about selecting and printing all of the 'gcode' codes with the 'gen' of '23361207'. As you can see, some of the 'gcode' codes have the same 'gen' number. I want to print all of the codes with the gen number of '23361207'. Thanks.

I'm new to MySQL coding, and I was wondering how to do this. How would I go about calling the NAME, and then getting the contents of the "GEN" column from the row of the "NAME". I was thinking maybe this: ("SELECT gen FROM info WHERE name='new1' "); Is this correct?

Ok that works now, thanks, however, how would I go about matching the two ID's and displaying the codes? Here is what I did: mysql_query("INSERT INTO $maintab ($nametab, $linktab, $comptab) VALUES('$name', '$link', '$comp')") or die(mysql_error()); mysql_query("INSERT into $gcodetab ($codetab) VALUES ('$finalshuffle')") or die(mysql_error()); $codegen = mysql_insert_id(); mysql_query("UPDATE $maintab SET gen=$codegen WHERE gen='fill'") or die(mysql_error()); Thanks.

I have a script that creates a 'product' in a database and then shows it on a PHP page. When a new product is added, a 'generated code' is added to that product, using a few rand functions. A generated code is assigned to each product made. However, as you can see above, I have a 'generate new code' button. Here is what the phpmyadmin view looks like: I want to make it so that when you press the 'generate new code' button, it goes to that product in the database and ADDS another code. So I can have multiple generated codes attached to a single product. Is this possible? I have created the generating file & the adding products file, I just need help with the SQL PHP commands to get this 'multiple value add' to work. Thanks! Dan.

You could try putting it in a session variable. if(isset($_POST['arrayresult'])) { $_SESSION['carryover'] = $alert[$arrayresult]; } Then call it on the other page. echo $_SESSION['carryover']; EDIT: I see what you are trying to do, and realised it is a lot more tricky than I thought. Sessions would be one way of carrying over the result, as well as $_POST, but i'm not too sure how to get it to select between the arrays and send it.

Hi, No worries, thanks for the extra info! I'll be careful.

Thanks so much!

Hi, I'm still quite new to PHP. I really can't figure this out. I have a file called chmod.php which only admins can use. This file chmods a few other files that need to be written to on the server. However, chmod.php will ONLY chmod files if they aren't already writeable (is_writeable)... I want to add a link to the bottom of chmod.php that says "Force CHMOD" and I want it to go into a different mode, e.g: www.example.com/chmod.php will execute a normal chmod. www.example.com/chmod.php&mode=force will execute a force. How would I go about doing this in my script? Thanks!

How would I go about making double paragraph spacing between each piece of code written to config.php?

Thanks very much, both of you. I'll try that when I get home.

Hi, I have a file "install.php" which contains basic input data, ready to write to a "config.php" file. However, the install.php has a lot of data to write to config.php, not just the user input $_POST details, but a lot of pre-defined functions too. I can't put these all in a $ variable because it contains many " and '. How would I go about writing a large amount of data? Thanks.

Thanks, but weirdly enough, this is STILL showing it all at once. Do I need to set something in my php settings?

Hi, I am quite new to PHP and I am trying to use a sleep() function to delay the response of sending text. E.g: "Hello world 1" // Wait 3 seconds "Hello world 2" // Wait 3 seconds "Hello world 3" // etc... I have tried to use sleep(3) but it just ends up either slowing down the whole script or showing all echo's after 3 seconds. Here is what I am doing. <?php echo "Hello world 1"; sleep(3); echo "Hello world 2"; sleep(3); echo "Hello world 3"; ?> Any advice? Thanks.

Thanks!

Hi everyone, I am new to PHP and couldn't find a solution to this problem. I am trying to add strip_tags and a ucwords to a variable. So I have : $name = strip_tags($_POST['name']) ...and I want to apply both a strip_tags AND a ucwords to it. How would I do this? Thanks.