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I'm new to website development and want to build a quiz functionality. The basic idea would be for the website to generate a random quiz from a bank of true/false questions. These would then be displayed one at a time, after the user has answered the previous. I would eventually like to add a functionality to track user stats. I'm planning on learning PHP and mySQL to achieve this. Without knowing a huge amount of website development am I setting off in the wrong direction?

Hi there everyone, I am a new web developer in making. Hopefully one day i can do this for living but right now i am still learning. I am taking this web developement course in udemy wich goes trough everything from HTML to Ruby. That brings me to my question. The course deals with Ruby and Ruby on rails. But searching online i have realized there is much more jobs for people knowing PHP. What do you people think? Should i just skip Ruby parts and learn PHP instead. Or just go with Ruby? I am in very big state of confusion at the moment. Thank you!

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Hi, I want to be able to show only 9 out of my 45 tags in my tag cloud. I also what them to randomise each time the page is loaded. What I have working at the moment is 9 tags showing but only the same 9 randomising on page load instead of the complete 45 I have. Is there a way to do this? My functions php code thus far: ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // THE TAG CLOUD ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// function custom_tag_cloud_widget() { $args = array( 'number' => 9, 'order' => 'RAND' ); return $args; } add_filter( 'widget_tag_cloud_args', 'custom_tag_cloud_widget' );

Fixing, or even understanding, MySQL Database Issues are still something that eludes me the majority of the time... I recently migrated a large database across from EKM Powershop in to WooCommerce. All works fine, except the site (dev url at present) is very slow, especially in the backend. I have been in contact with the hosting companies support team and they are saying the database is under load due to errors, the details are below. Can anybody make any sense of this/convert to plain English and give me a heads up as to whats going on? rootdev16.co.uk [Thu May 21 15:44:29 2015] [error] [client 2.103.21.0:43198] AH01215: WordPress database error Table 'cl54-gy9-2…

I am copying code from a site that generates it for me to use as an affiliate to selling items. Sometimes the code gets changed and what I see in the end result isn't what I started with. I'm using php and mysql.

I created a Rule in my HTACCESS file, to hide a sub-folder. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/?([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^.]+)\.php [NC] RewriteRule ^ /%1/%3 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ $1/Project/$2.php [NC,L] The first rule removes all file-extensions : php The second rule will hide the folder "Project" from the URL Both these rules are working perfectly. However, when I tried to add a third rule, to hide another folder, it failed. This second folder (Rolan) is in the same location as the "Project" folder, so I assumed that it should work simply by co…

Hello. I'm trying to include a small PHP code at the beginning of a certain file (which is a "new window"), which would prevent the user from directly accessing the file, if he inputs the URL directly into his browser. In other words : my website functions in such a way that, first the user has to make a radio-selection on the parent window, and click "submit", which opens a new "child" window. But, first the user has to be logged in! In order to prevent the window from opening, I wrote this code at the very beginning of the PHP file (for both parent and child windows) : <?php session_start(); if (!(isset($_SESSION['login']) && $_SESS…

Hi there, I’ve posted this question on the Sublime Text forum, but unfortunately nowadays that forum doesn’t seem to get a lot of traffic. And as this question is also specific to PHP and MAMP Pro, I thought I’d ask here. I’m using MAMP Pro to locally host my PHP files and I’m using Firefox Developer Edition to view them. If I type the URL of the root directory e.g : http://localhost4:8888/ … Then it will display the index in the browser and I can open the PHP files just fine. However, when I go to the side bar, right-click on a PHP file and use Open With or Open In Browser, it totally bypasses MAMP and tries to open it as if it was a normal HTML file: file:///U…

Hello all, I'm designing a web page using CodeIgniter that allows the user to update their personal details. The form consists of three textfileds, this includes 'Password' 'Re-Type password' and an 'Upload new image'. I've designed these forms in the past, just not using an MVC. I'm using this line of code; $this->form_validation->set_rules('password', 'Password', 'required|callback_compare_password'); As you can see I'm calling a function called 'compare_password' that checks if the field matches the retype field'. This works fine. However, I want the user to be allowed to either just change their password and/or change the image. If I change …

Hello Friend, I tried sending mail to the 30 email addresses in mysql table with the below code. But the problem am having is that, the code is sending the same mail to all the emails 30 times. $get_emails = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM customers"); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($get_emails)){ $email = $row[email]; mail($email, $sub, nl2br($message), $headers); } I also tried something like this but still gave the same result. $get_emails = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM customers"); $all_emails = array(); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($get_emails)){ $all_emails[] = $row[email]; } foreach($all_emails as $to_email){ mail($to_email, $sub, nl2br($m…

Hello Friends, I have a products table with several columns. On my Home page I want to display 30 items at random but all new Items to come first. Below are the codes I tried. $sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM products WHERE status='Online' && nature='Yes' ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 5"); //FOR ONLY NEW ITEMS $sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM products WHERE status='Online' && nature!='Yes' ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 35"); //FOR OTHER ITEMS How do I make them into one line. Thanks

Has anyone ever used Gmail with a 1and1 hosted domain before? I have a client with a GoDaddy account for his domain but his website is hosted on my 1and1 server (let's not get into how sh** these 2 are - I'm all too aware!!) I have pointed his domain nameservers to the site on my server and it's all working fine. He is also using Gmail for his emails so I have updated the MX records in my cPanel to those from Google (see attached). Problem is, the emails are still not coming through. Can anyone shed any light on why this is? Have you come across this before? I've run an MX test and these are the results: http://mxtoolbox.com/domain/dogtourlondon.co.uk/…

Hi All, I'm a little stumped so thought I would reach out! I've created a class to validate my session... now it works absolutely fine bar 1 thing! at the top of my file I have the following: if(isset($_SESSION['status'])){ $session->validateSession(); } This works absolutely fine, except for on the first instance of the session... I get the following error Fatal error: Call to a member function validateSession() on string in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/project/htdocs/index.php on line 18 Would greatly appreciate any help, I've not found anything with this specific error on the almighty Google, many posts on "non-object" related errors but not this …

Hello I hope someone can help. I have noticed when you put my company name into google my home page is no longer listed but there is a https link with my web developers company name which takes you to my site. I have spoken to my web developers and they say it's because of some bad links that my websites homepage isn't being indexed but I'm confused as I don't do any link building. I can send you a screen shot if it explains my problem in a better way. I look forward to your response Kind regards

Hello, I'm thinking of buying a domain from GoDaddy.com and then purchasing a script to add to the domain just to sort of experiment and look into how sites run etc and i'm extremely new to this so this is a new venture for me. The script i'm looking to purchase has a list of requirements and offers an installation service but am unsure if i meet those requirements for them to install the script to my domain. The Script Requirements state that "Shared hosting plans from hosts such as HostGator, GoDaddy, 1and1, BlueHost or DreamHost will not work as they do not have the requirements." but if i were to purchase a VPS Virtual Server Product from GoDaddy, would i then be able…

So for those who didn't make the meeting last night we discussed a great many things including curry, poo, contracts, and mountain climbing. We also mentioned JavaScript once or twice. @@citypaul gave us some homework which can be found on the slack channel. You will need the link there to do it and it involves watching videos. Some of us were were making our own forEach functions to better understand callbacks. https://gist.github.com/mantismamita/1b092e5427a1d8e66abc

Hi again, @@Milli05 very kindly helped me resolve this PHP problem, however I’ve just realised that I have another associated problem, and I wonder it anyone can give me some advise. I’m working with a Genesis theme which uses Action Hooks to add and remove widget areas. My site divides posts into two main categories. The two blogs are completely separate from each other and are accessed by separate main menu items. Clicking on “Blog” takes you to a normal blog, and clicking on “Tutorials” takes you to a portfolio template page which leads through to completely separate tutorial posts. So far I have registered two widget areas to the ‘genesis_after_header' ho…

First thread in our new node.js forum I think it will be great to have an initial chat and go through everything, decide what we're going to do and how we'll do it See when everyone can attend.

Hi. I have created a password reset function in PHP. It's working just fine...........except that, for some reason, I'm unable to set the recipient's email address : "TO" The code works this way : (a) the user is asked to provide his login/username ( php sends an sql query to the database; © if the username is found, php takes the email-address, and sends a Reset Link via email (d) this reset-link has a unique "token" attached to it (e) the user clicks on the link in his email, and is re-directed to a new page where he resets his password Everything is working fine...........except for the email structure itself. The email comprises : TO, …

Hi everyone, I’m pretty new to WordPress, StudioPress and PHP so I hope someone can help me. My site has two blog pages. One is a standard blog, and the other is for tutorials. I’ve written the PHP below to add a widget area to the standard blog page, and also to its three category pages. I’ve added a custom menu to this area so that the viewer can switch between blog categories and also go back to the standard/all category page. Here’s the thing - It works just fine. But the PHP just doesn’t look quite right to me. Shouldn’t there be an “else” statement at the end rather than an “elseif” ? When I add it, everything breaks. And do I really have to repeat all this …

Hi, Wonder if someone could help me out with a question about 301 redirection. I have sucessfully done 301 redirections from one site to another in the past by using a simple web.conf and this has worked well. This time I have 3 domains that need to 301 to a site but rather than 301 to its home page they need to 301 a specific page in the website i.e. oldcontact.html All the websites including the one we are trying to 301 to are hosted on a MS server with 1and1. I am struggling to get this to work. Any advice would be most welcome. Thanks for your time.

Hi, I am building a small website, using basic PHP and HTML. I coded and developed the website on a local WAMP server, on my laptop. Just recently, I purchased a domain, and deployed my website there. Everything works fine...........except for the .htaccess file. I want to remove file extensions from my file names, so that they don't display in the web browser. There are sooooo many online tutorials which address this issue. So, I assumed that it would be an easy thing to solve. However, I seem to be doing something wrong, because my .htaccess file is not working. (Maybe, my code structure in the file is wrong? But, I wrote the file base…

Hello. I have such links in a web site /post.php?id=14 /cat.php?t=y&cid=6666 and i create an .htaccess file with that content inside. Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /post.php?id=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /cat.php?t=$1&cid=$2 [L] but on refresh, apache returns 500 Internal server error. I looked on logs and found that : Why that happens ? Mod_rewrite is enabled in httpd.conf.

It will be helpful to have a list of resources and learning materials to refer to at any stage. As @@rbrtsmith pointed out, it's good to refresh / improve you Javascript knowledge and skills before digging deeper into Node.js. I find the "You don't know JS" series by Kyle Simpson a great read, easy to understand and suitable for any level, beginner or advanced. https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS Introduction to node.js - The Art of Node - https://t.co/fceY7dFBxb Digging deeper - Practical Node.js - http://www.apress.com/9781430265955 Feel free to post resources here and I'll make a list we can refer to later on.

Thanks again to everyone who attended our first node meeting! It was a great fun For those who couldn't make it, here's a summary of what we've been doing. We have installed a node tutorials https://github.com/workshopper/learnyounode and have gone through most of the exercises. We established some of us (mainly me! ) needed time to get their head around the questions. Those who couldn't make it to the meeting, can also have a go. Hence this thread, we can post our answers here, when we're ready and discuss. To keep the thread organised, maybe we could post our complete answers when we finish all of them What do you think?

As per our meeting last Thursday here is my idea for an app we can all work on. My original idea for a star reward chart (presumably for children and parents) isn't terribly exciting and could perhaps be better adapted to something we can all use. Star reward chart (for personal projects?) it should allow for multiple users. it should save user data (I think we discussed localStorage?) it should save a point value for each user it should play a little tune with a small animation each time a user reaches a milestone it should play a longer tune with a better animation when a user reaches a predefined goal it should list all users and the number or stars they…

Why not have a thread where we can post what we're doing with node? It will be interesting to see what others are working on

Hi, I am really clueless about anything XML. I am trying to understand it but please excuse me if I post a silly question. I enabled a Sitemap.xml file through Google Webmaster Tool. Because it seems handy. And later on I deleted it. Because I didn't understand it. But now a Sitemap1.xml keeps showing up in Google searchresults when I search for my website. I have read on other forums how to exclude the xml page of Google results but I don't understand how to that in my website coding. It's about the code X-Robots-Tag: noindex If I am right, this should be preventing Google crawlers to include the XML page into searchresults, right? My website is based …

Im practicing my function paramter arguments input for example <?php function expire($day = 0) { if (!is_int($day)) { throw new Exeption('Error here.'); } return (60 * 60 * 24 * $day); } Or should i use <?php function expire($day = 0) { if (!isset($day) || empty($day) || is_null($day) || is_array($day) || is_bool($day)) { throw new Exception('Error here.'); } return (60 * 60 * 24 * $day); } Which is better?

I have a client who broadcast live radio not internet based, they require a live player on their site. We have found Shoutcast (www.shoutcast.com), their website has a player that plays across the site, even when you change pages, short of using an iframe does anyone know how we can achieve this function. Also I would like to ask if there is an alternative to target_blank should we wish to have a player open in a new window that does not use javascript or jquery as we do not want to exclude those who turn javascript off in their browsers. Thanks

My new client wants me to build the html site. I told him that there is lot's of good CMS (Wordpress etc) but he doesn't want CMS at all. He said that google and yandex like html sites. But i don't know how will be better to put header, footer and sidebar (its the same in every page) in my html page. Should i use shtml or php include()? What is the better? And there i should put all js scripts? In header.php? And then include it in html page? I will be very happy to hear your advice. I never used php include or something and afraid to make mistake, cause it will be a big site. And i need to understand how to make it better in auto way. Thank you!

Hello, I'm new to this site and to Wordpress. I have a client with a Wordpress site that I am going to redesign in Adobe Muse. However the hosting has expired and I need the site live until the new one is finished. The old web designer hosted the site himself, he has sent me 3 main files- htdocs, cgi bin and logs with more content in them. I had access to Wordpress but he says that is not available any more. I'm trying to upload these files through 123 reg and i'm getting 403 errors. I feel like a total idiot and have googled but I'm not sure what to do to get this sorted. Any input greatly appreciated. Thanks, Louise

I have been working on a site for some time now. Everything has been going good until I ran into an issue. I would like to display certain YouTube channel stats, being total viewer count and subscribers. I would also like to do the same for Twitch.tv but have the follower count and view count. I have enough knowledge in html, css... so on and so forth.... but I don't have much in php. I have read over all the documentation on Google's dev site as well as Twitch's and cant figure out how to get it to work. Below is the layout in html on how I want it, but have no idea how to implament the actual numbers. Any help would be greatly appricated! Thanks! <…

Can anyone tell me why my ELSE statement is showing if my IF statement is true? <?php if ( !empty(the_post_thumbnail()) ) { the_post_thumbnail( 'full', array( 'class' => 'img-responsive' ) ); } else { echo "<div class='page-header'><h1>" . the_title() . "</h1></div>"; } ?>

Hi guys! I ran into a problem and thought I might post here and see what you guys thought of my solution. I created a login and registration form for my website(just the form with nothing behind it). I then bought this system: http://codecanyon.ne...-system/5282621 Upon installing it on my server, I realised I probably don't have the technical skills to make it accept the data from my form rather than its form. I'm very new at this. Maybe it's easier than I think. Anyway, instead of messing up the code trying to integrate it, I wonder if it's better to just feed the data that's input into the form I already have to the one I wanted to integrate. That would allow users t…

Hi all, First of all, apologies if this is the wrong area to be posting about this but I am having a problem where my 'I'm not a robot' checkbox is not working. Although it appears as it should on the page, I can submit the form regardless of whether it is checked or unchecked. Where am I going wrong? <div class="form"> <form id="myform" class="cssform contact_form" action="contactus.php" method="post" > <ul class="field"> <li> <label id="name">Name*</label> <input name="Name" style="border: solid thin #c61819;" type="text" data-bvalidator="required,alphanum" /> </li> </ul&…

I've created a database search function an have encountered a problem I don't know how to fix. The problem is that the database content contains html formatted word breaks in long words. The database entries are in Danish (a language where we don't split connected words). Example: The english word(s) "Multimedia project" would be just one word in danish ("Multimedieprojekt") so in the database the word is stored as "multimedie­projekt". The ­ allows the word to be divided at line breaks with CSS hyphens. As a result the word "Multimedieprojekt" will not show up in search results because the word technically doesn't exist in the db. So the question is: Is th…

mailer.php not working on my web site hosted by GoDaddy. Tech support at Godaddy is a joke. I am using a cpanel hosted site. I just started building my first site 3 weeks ago. No experience with php however I would like to see what I need to do for a fix on this issue. I do not have a copy of the file mailer.php I could provide my html code if needed. Thanks for anyones help.

Hi i want to send xml request to product online site ... i'm showing there products from xml feed on my site so now i want to send xml request that someone purchased this product from my website ..... i made full website and show every products in my website now when user add any product in cart its show paypal checkout button i want when he pay the money successfully via paypal it redirects to thank u page or send page where via php i can send xml request to product online site in background and on output i show thank u so basically i want two things only if its possible to fetch product name and product quantity on thank u page after paypal thing .... hope u will…

I have a list of data stored in a database that I want to come up on a page randomly. I have some that I want to come up more often than others. I have them rated on a scale of 1 to 10. I want the 10's to show up most often and the 1's less often. How do I get this to happen? The rating won't be in whole numbers. may be 3.2 or 7.333333..... etc.

$_POST can't be seen in the second part of login (after the registration part) in one-page authorization. index.php <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <h1>Register</h1> <form method="POST"> <input type="text" name="user"><br /><br /> <input type="pass" name="pass"><br /><br /> <input type="submit" name="ok1"><br /> </form> <?php session_start(); if(isset($_POST['user'], $_POST['pass'])){ require 'connection.php'; $zr++; $query = d()->prepare("INSERT INTO u (user, pass, loc) VALUES (:user, :pass, :loc)"); $query->bindParam(':user', $_POST['user']); $query->bindParam(':pass', $_POST['…

Hey guys, Seriously hope someone can help me out here. I'm tearing my hair out! So I'm trying to create a dynamic page which creates "squares" and applies a CSS class to them based on what is in a stylesheet. Sounds simple... however the page needs to auto update when it's loaded and finds a new CSS class within the said stylesheet. Said example can be found here: http://staff.djep.co/styleguide.php In essense, I need to find a way to use PHP to read through a CSS file and create the boxes in a "for each" loop. I'm able to write the for each loop...blah blah blah... but I'm stuck when I get to this sort of CSS in the stylesheet: .metro-block-plum-…

Heloo Guyz need little help from you i am making product display website from xml its basically get product data from online xml file and show it in our website ... i do everything fetching data ETc.. now i need shoping cart thing in my site please any one suggest me any script or tell me how to do this ... because every shoping cart i found on google its based on database system but my files coming from xml file feed so please help me in this thank you in advanced waiting for your reply

My UK host 34sp (very good btw) My webdesigner is not so proficient shall we say. I have uploaded my old website by myself with my 34sp hoster. Why is my webdesigner having problems uploading the new website? Webdesigner: I don’t see any way to unzip our files which we uploaded (me: I would have thought for threats that zipped files are a no no) We can’t send individual files. There are hundreds of files including all code and contents. Even the size of zip was around 500 MB. Hence we had to break it into 2 zips to upload them. (my site is simple, why this large a size?) UK host reply: Sorry our current control panel does not allow the user to unzip files, yo…

I want to scrape some content from a website, this is entirely legitimate and not theft, I heard that the way to do this is using curl so, as I know very little about php I create this $CurlStart = curl_init(); curl_setopt ($CurlStart, CURLOPT_URL, "www.thesite.com"); $source = curl_exec ($CurlStart); curl_close ($CurlStart); It works but my problem now is that I need to remove a lot of the information that its grabbing, I dont need the header or certain page features, all I really need is a section of text on the page (with paragraph tags would be preferred unless there is a better way) and the images, which there are usually several on one page. I want to be able…

Hello Coders i need some help for sorting this thing out .... i want to paginate my products i mean i want to show 20 or 40 products each page.... all of these products coming from xml file from online server i'm getting echo like this [ IMAGE ] - Name - Price - Details and i'm good with that So I've done all of things fetching data from xml and show it on there every thing but now i want to paginate please any one who can help me or refer me something ( Note if you just write code here that would be great ) Thanks in advanced waiting for your replies

Hi Guys I am a complete newby to html & php and I am a bit lost. I have a form on my website but everytime that someone completes it I receive an email and all it shows is the following Name: Subject: Email: Message no other data is shown even when the form is completed. I have tried for two days now trying to get this resolved and I am getting nowhere fast. Can someone who knows what they are doing have a look at this for me and tell me how to fix it. (in easy terms please) My HTML for the page containing the form is: <!-- Author: W3layouts Author URL: http://w3layouts.com License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License URL: h…

i'm display product information from file by there name So in some products name included with special characters specially ' & 'etc.. so for example : here is the url mysite.com/index.php?s=html & php so its showing html only in echo i'm using $_REQUEST['s']; for getting url here is the code for encode i used <?php $text = $_REQUEST['s']; echo rawurlencode($text); ?> but its not working with $_request its displaying only Html but when i used simple text its work eg.. <?php $text = ('html & php'); echo rawurlencode($text); ?> so now its work and echo came html%20%26%20php and…

Hello Coders need little help in code i'm showing products from xml to website through PHP I fetch everything cleanly but now the time is i got three xml file's 1 is for categories.xml ( in there every categories name and id is listed) <?xml version="1.0"?> <categories> <category> <categories_name>Name 1</categories_name> <categories_id>1</categories_id> <parent_id>0</parent_id> </category> <category> <categories_name>Name2</categories_name> <categories_id>2</categories_id> <parent_id>0</parent_id> </category> </categori…