PHP {Programs}

[Techno Child]

I need help coding a few php programs... I am a visual person to where I have to have examples to understand what i'm doing :squareeye

First, I am trying to create a php script that will process html forms such as this,

<form action="process.php" method="post">
<input type=text name=textbox>
</form>

,to post whatever is submitted in the textbox onto the same php page...

{this is where i thought i could use agneta's donation recording script - mainframeguy so maybe the best way to go around this is to start with what you had?}

i just started learning php yesterday so this is all new to me


Thanx

 

[Mainframeguy]

attached the phps... lemme know if any probs

 

[Techno Child]

hmm.. is there a reason why apache would make these files forbidden? i cannot access them at all ... let me try to reunzip them


btw.. thanks for uploading them

 

[Techno Child]

is there any way i can check to see if i have mysql configured properly? the installer just left me hanging with no further documents or actions to take

 

[Mainframeguy]

mebbe time for a new thread again! Xistence is, I think, something of a MySQL guru... no doubt he'll tell me if I am wrong....

 

[Geffy]

does apache have read access to the the files and the directory they are in?

if php cant connect to the database it should complain about it.

try this though

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
mysql_connect('host', 'user', 'password');
mysql_select_db('database name');

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM {$table_name}");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    echo "Printing Row data\n";
    print_r($row);
    echo "Finished Printing Row data\n";
}
?>

 

[Techno Child]

thanks guys.. i got it worked out last night... i setup everything in php using flat files so i don't really need mysql for a while... (going on 38 hrs. :dead: ) This will also help keep this thread on focus of PHP


My next issue is login. I want to have certain parts of my site only availible to those that i give a key to (such as file upload page for people to send me files) i know htaccess is probably the best way to do this in apache, however I would like to add it to the sidemenu and make it match the site.

On my last site i had the form for this all setup, however it was very unsecure (using javascript - and the password was actually IN the code!?!)

Is there a php script that retrieves data from a secure field

<form action="passcheck.php" method="post">
<input type=text name=username><br>
<input type=password name=password>
</form>

such as the one above?

 

[LordOfLA]

just use something like

<?
$password = $_POST['password'];
echo $password;
?>

 

[Techno Child]

how would i put mulitple passwords on that? would i just repeat the whole code minus the <?/?>'s? and which password would be replaced with the pages password? ( i really am a php newb as i just started learning it this week )

also, it would have to have different redirection pages... is there a way to replace the echo with a page redir?

 

[Techno Child]

ok.... so far i have everything worked out except this.... i can't get this to send an email... i know my server is setup for email because a code worked before i just forgot how i did it...
maybe this is just messed up---

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$to = $_POST['email'];
$subject = "New Account";
$email_field = $_POST['email'];
$message = "here is the contents of the message";
 
$body = "$message";
 
echo "";
mail($to, $subject, $body);
} else {
echo "An error has occured.  Contact the server admin.";
}
?>

 

[Techno Child]

please help someone... this one i have no idea about what's wrong... it doesn't echo "an error has occured~~~" it just loads the rest of the page like normal and it doesn't send out the email...

 

[Khayman]

you need to put an "if" in

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$to = $_POST['email'];
$subject = "New Account";
$email_field = $_POST['email'];
$message = "here is the contents of the message";
 
$body = "$message";
 
echo "";
  if(!mail($to, $subject, $body))
  {
  echo "An error has occured.  Contact the server admin.";
  }
}
?>

 

[Techno Child]

it still doesn't work... however now it does give me the error message

what else could it be? if you need more info about the pages i could upload them for you

 

[Khayman]

try adding a "from" field, i know some won't send without it

$to = $_POST['email'];
$subject = "New Account";
$message = 'TESTING';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
 
if(!mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
{
echo "An error has occured. Contact the server admin.";
}

if the "mail" function is still not working its probably something todo with you host, perhaps they've broken it recently. The script is working

 

[Techno Child]

still no go... it doesn't send it to me.... i'm going to check and make sure everythings ok with php's config... will let u know



yep... it's something wrong with the server.... sorry for bugging you guys...i'm going to have fun troubleshooting-the joys of having your own dedicated server :dead:

 

[Techno Child]

ok.... found the problem... it looks like i caused it from the beginning (don't know how it worked even then?!) i was lazy and i just cp/pasted my php.ini file from my ibook onto the g3 since the g3 was a fresh instal and my book was already configured....


theproblem:= ibook-php5.1; g3-php4.3.4 :dead: now i have to reinstall php on the crapmacg3 so it will work... i hope that was the problem




EDIT: ok.... i got a php.ini from php4 however it still won't send it... i know the code's good because it works on my ibook, it just won't send on the other comp. i'm going to re-research how to setup php.ini to send mail... it has something to do with unix's sendmail function i think.... idk

 

[Khayman]

let us know when you get it figured.

 

[X-Istence]

Your Crapmac as you call it is not running a mail server and thus can't send you any email.

 

[Techno Child]

y? it has a sendmail file in /sbin ... what do I need to do? I thought that was installed with osx - my Ibook sends out emails when I have webserver enabled.

Is there something extra I need to install for 10.2?

 

[X-Istence]

I have no clue in that case. Hope you find the answer.