Thanks to all for replying, I set the variables to private and although I can debug them i.e. print_r, and see them, I cannot change them, which I guess is the meaning of them being private!
...

Hi all, hopefully my question is simple as I'm fairly new to OOP coding. I've found an RSS Parser on the internet (which is open source and I can adapt it to however I please yada yada). I want to...

Not a problem pal, everyone's here to help! Mark this thread as solved, and happy PHP coding!

Until next time,

Anthony

Hi Andrew, if you wanted them all into one string variable, you could do this:


// Bind the posted array of checkbox elements to a variable.
$service_needed = $_POST['service_needed'];

// We...

Hi guys, this is a brainteaser for me and I'm wondering if you could help. Lets say I'm looping through these results from MySQL, and the result set is as follows:

ID------Name
4------ Anthony...

Hi Andymut, do you have any sample code for the community to look at? I'm still trying to grasp exactly what you're trying to do.

Anthony

Hi there,

I think the problem is the syntax in those conditional statements. In PHP, one equals sign sets a variable, but in this case you're wanting to compare two variables. This is done by two...

Sorry, I half read this post but is this what you're looking for?


// Creating the array.
$selected = array(4, 3, 9);

// Join the array elements into a string, seperated by commas.
$result =...

Thanks for all the help. Case solved!

So just to clarify, it's not the login process that it is protecting, it's the database side of things i.e. if the cracker was able to get access to the database, right?

Hi everyone and thanks for reading.

Up until yesterday I was unaware of this technique, and have always just ran a user's password through md5 and stored the result to the database. From what I've...

Don't worry about it. In university it took me about 6 months to drill which one is which into my head!



The way you've described is perfect. Only process it if the validation on all the fields...

Understanding the concept is half the battle, the other half is getting the code to work!



Yep, that's right. It holds the checkbox array elements all processed into a single string, so that's...

Hi kanaku,

It's not bad practice, in fact, in some cases it's better and more efficient to keep seperate SQL tables. That method is one way of doing it, and the method I described is another. I...

Hi Smurf_UK,

The first thing I should note is that when you post an array of html checkboxes, they'll appear as an array of checkboxes when PHP gets a hold of them. So the first thing you could do...

Correctly posted above!

Another way would be to do the following:


// Sets $stringData to contain $myname.
$stringData = $myname;
// Takes whatever is in $stringData and adds a semi-colon...

Hopefully this should get you started. I've commented the code to make understanding easier, let me know if you've any questions; I'm here to help!


<?php
session_start();

if...

Time:

$time = "0900 - 1730";

// If there is one occurence of the needle in the value, then explode the array.
// If there is not, set it to an empty array.
if (substr_count($time, " - ") ==...

Something like this perhaps?


preg_match("/^[0-9]{4} - [0-9]{4}$/", $time)

Perhaps I've misunderstood the question, and the two previous posters used regular expressions but I would normally test a date with something like the following:


function is_date($value) {
...

Generally when you want to automate a PHP script, be it big or small you run it in a CRON job, so that's what I'd recommend but I'm curious to see what any other peoples input will be!

Hi humbug,

Thank you for going to so much effort to help me with my problem. My work schedule's pretty packed for the next few days but hopefully I'll get round to looking at this over the...

Hi everyone and thanks for reading.

I started a project a while ago and am stuck on how to proceed processing this form. It's a very simple form but I'm still at a mental roadblock regarding how...

Thanks very much for clearing that up!


Anthony

Hi scru,

Thanks for replying! I understand how the overall function operates but I'm unsure about how the two callback functions work.



Can you explain a bit more indepth to what this...

Hey everyone. I was reading the documentation for this function and I can't understand what the example is doing, and how it's working. Can someone explain to me what these functions are doing?

...

Hi guys, Sorry for the time it took me to get started on this again, I've just started a new job and had to get my affairs in order!

R0bb0b, that worked great by declaring it as global!

I've...

I've figured out that addslashes() is a PHP command to escape slashes altogether, and that is why the slashes remain in the database. The mysql_real_escape_string() command is a MySQL command to...

Guys I just have one more question. I made the following script (this is a watered down version just to show you generally what's happening):


if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
$name =...

Thanks to the both of you for your tips and advice. I've now concluded that sanitizing the data with real_escape_string on the way in is essential, and stripping the slashes is needed on the way out....

Hi everyone and thanks for reading,

Now that I've been getting my hands dirty with PHP a lot more, I've been starting to freelance and I'm wanting to make sure I have the right systematic approach...

Well to be honest it's not the end of the world because I can just include the code from the function inside the foreach loop and it works fine. How odd though!

My next task is... now that I've an...

It's the lines about the array, it doesn't like the line where I'm updating the array, how odd that it works on page but not from an include!! Do I need to pass the array also or something?

Ok I took the script apart and passed the key and value variables, and simple echo'ed them out, which works. I'm going to add an if statement at a time and see where it breaks!

It's like playing...

Just tried to comment the require_once, and then put the function onto the page. Still doesn't work. Is it because the $key => $value variables are only accessible from inside the foreach loop, and...

Hey Xan, proud of me for that big function?! haha.

Yeah I looked at your advice there, I'm getting no response into this array, it remains blank. I've attached my code so you can see if it's...

Hey! I've been hard at work and I've definitely made progress! This is what I came up with:


foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
$$key = addslashes(trim($value));

if...

Hey R0bb0b,

Thats a really clever idea but I don't think it'd work for me. The counter is counting rows rather than individual text boxes. It's for a purchase order form you see, so one row...

Hi Xan,

Firstly let me thank you for all the help so far, you're a real inspiration to the other posters!

I'll tell you where I'm tripping up, I did as you said about the foreach loop including...

Yep your right, thats returning false for me. The function is working perfectly now, thanks very much for all your help. I've added to your rep and this is marked as solved!

Anthony