Comment by andrewsi on Should I end my PHP script with exit or exit;?
Exit isn't a function. It's a language construct.
View ArticleComment by andrewsi on Should I end my PHP script with exit or exit;?
Could you explain why it's bad practice?
View ArticleComment by andrewsi on Upload CSV file into MySql
I might be missing something, but where are you setting $row?
View ArticleComment by andrewsi on PHP Mysql New Row Inserted into database table every...
This question is four years old. Your "answer" is little more than a cut and paste of a paragraph from GGio's answer.
View ArticleComment by andrewsi on sql query not executing on local host
Also. Does it matter that your <a> tag has no content? And that your <table> is missing the closing </tr> tags?
View ArticleComment by andrewsi on MYSQLI Statement error showing incorrect but its correct
@JohnWilliams - you're looking to see if the query is returning a literal TRUE in your first if statement; that won't happen with a SELECT statement. Instead, you should be getting a result object,...
View ArticleComment by andrewsi on PDO query inside a PHP function
With a 500 error, you should find a message inside your server error logs. That would help narrow the issue down. But I suspect what might be happening is the call to Test inside the definition of your...
View ArticleComment by andrewsi on PHP MySQL row editor showing in wrong order
You're using SELECT * in your query. If you want the fields in a specific order, have you tried SELECT rank, text, name instead?
View ArticleComment by andrewsi on Issue with Auto-Responder
Are you certain it's not being sent? If it works without URLs and fails with them, it would suggest you're running into a spam filtering issue rather than having an issue with your code.
View ArticleComment by andrewsi on Why do i get a SQL error only when page reloads?
You're closing the connection with mysqli_close($link); - it's called if the form has been submitted, but it's outside the check to see if the submit was successful. You just need to put it immediately...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Adding comma between array items except for last...
Try this: $nameArray = array(); foreach (array_slice($author_array, 0, 10) as $author): $name = get_userdata($author)->display_name; $link = get_userdata($author)->user_login; $nameArray[] =...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for updating database from session array data
foreach($_SESSION["basket_array"] as $each_item){ (mysql_query("UPDATE book SET copies=copies-1 WHERE bookid='$bookid'"); } You're not setting $bookid inside your query, so every time the query runs,...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Why Output of PHP script and MySQL database data are...
There's a slight flaw in your logic. The first time that your loop runs, you're updating one row - you're updating the row with position 2 to be position 3. This is fine. But the second time the loop...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for I want to be able to insert data from forms in two tables
From the error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'update (... it looks like your table is called...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for PHP If Else shows always ELSE and prints the variable
You're using the wrong function. the_field will echo out the content of that field, without returning anything. If you want it to return a value, you need to use get_field instead. Try: $twit =...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Wordpress Double Title In header - No seo plugins
You've got two calls that look like they're duplicated. Inside the PHP block in the <title> tag, you're calling: wp_title( '|', true, 'right' ); Accord to the documentation, this will return the...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Wordpress: Unlimitet Posts on specific Page
You can over-ride the settings from the admin page programmatically. You're going to need to tweak your query, though, and over-ride the loop. I think something like this will work: global $wp_query;...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Wordpress wp_query taking a long time
One thing you can do is tweak the tax_query parameter; you're joining the same table six times, and each one has an IN statement - that's producing some very inefficient SQL, as you've noticed. The...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Wordpress category query not working
You're almost there. Have a look at the manual page for single_cat_title(), you'll see that it takes two parameters. The first is a prefix to use in the return; the second is the important one here -...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for populate html table with php from mySQL based on user...
$sql = "SELECT test1,'$montreal' AS testX FROM test WHERE test1='$zurich'"; Mark's answer is correct, but not for the reason he gives. He says that the above will treat '$montreal' as a string literal....
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for php/ mysql - Sending multiple data to MySQL
There are a couple of linked issues here. Your cart function is effectively: function cart() { //print some stuff foreach($_SESSION as $name => $value) { if (empty($total)) { if (empty($sub)) { //do...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for How to validate if it's an authorised user sending a...
Without knowing how your authentication works, it's a little difficult to say. When I've had to do this in the past, I've used a combination of server-side authentication to identify the user sending...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Deleting a selected record in an HTML form with a...
$st=$object->prepare("delete * from banners where bannerid IN (?)"); $st->bindParam(1, $ids); You're trying to bind a single parameter to an array of values. You need to pass in each value as a...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for loop failing to break out upon validation
break will break out of the loop that you're currently in; a simplified version of your code is: for ($x = 0; $x <= 5; $x++){ foreach($decoded as $value) { if(!empty($ipdv6)){ break; } } } So your...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Wordpress: wpdb prepare with conditional variable
It looks like you can pass an array to prepare, as well as a list of variables, according to the WordPress documentation That means that you could do something like this: $where = ""; $parameters =...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Unsure what PHP array is doing upon assigning
Your two assignments are doing two subtly different things. while ($stmt->fetch()) { $data[$ddp][0] = $row[0]; $data[$ddp][1] = $row[1]; $ddp++; } This creates two entries in the array - the first...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for How to get last inserted inserted row id from PDO
You're almost there. If you look at the manual page for lastInsertId, it's called on the database handle - you're currently calling it on the statement. You just need to call:...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Anagram Algorithm in PHP
(I'm adding this as a separate answer, as it's a different way of dealing with the issue than I mentioned in my first issue) This is a more complex way of working out which words in the dictionary are...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for User Active Check
The issue is here: $userRow=$stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); if($userRow == '0'){ You're getting an associative array back from fetch, and comparing it with 0 on the next line. Instead, you want to...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Displaying multiple rows in PhP
There are a few things wrong with your code: $query = "SELECT * FROM hotel"; $results = $conn->query($query); $hotel = $results->fetch(); At this point, you've loaded the first record into...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Why do Wordpress code consistently have the uncommon...
There's an explanation on the WordPress site: https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/best-practices/coding-standards/php/#yoda-conditions It's called Yoda conditions; in short, it's because it's very...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Extended class instance cannot access the injected...
I think you're misunderstanding how objects work. class dog { public $id = 0; public function __construct($attributes = array()) { foreach($attributes as $field=>$value){ $this->$field = $value;...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for php - xml parser Notice: Trying to get property of...
If it works with integers, but not with strings, you probably just need to quote your variable in your query: $result2= $xpath2->query('/root[@name="gf"]/node1[@id="'. $id2.'"]');
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Display different content depending on Referrer
Your logic is slightly skewed; you're checking to see if the URL from parse_url matches the domains in your array; but you're running through the whole array each time. So you get both a match and a...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Foreach PHP PDO query
I think this should do what you're asking - you're generating $color as a variable in the foreach, but you were accessing it as an array. $colors = explode(' ', $_GET['color']); foreach ($colors as...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Odd and confusing PHP syntax
It's using the operator precedence rules of PHP in an unusual way. If you have an and statement, PHP will stop processing it if the left side is false - there's no need to check the right hand side,...
View ArticleComment by andrewsi on How to increment a datetime by one day?
if you set d to 8/31/18 then this returns 8/32/18. If you change the year from 18, it just breaks.
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for SELECT id FROM table_name WHERE column = $variable
SELECT id FROM order WHERE orderNumber = '$orderNumber'ORDER is a reserver word in SQL; I'd recommend you change the name of the table to something else.If you really can't, then you can escape column...
View ArticleComment by andrewsi on Moving through Detail Pages of Recordset
You're not saving the query per se; you're saving the WHERE clause. When the user clicks to pull up an individual record, say id=3, you need to re-run that search query again, and go through the...
View ArticleTransformer stage and dynamic files structure
I'm reading a datafile that's being generated from a data source that's denormalizing data into a flat file. As an...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for MySql Bulk(ish) Insert
When you use INSERT INTO `order_status_histories` VALUES (....)you need to pass each value that the table structure requires, in the correct order. You can omit fields from the values if they have a...
View ArticleAnswer by andrewsi for Error when tried to allocate bytes
The issue is with these lines:$result = $sth->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);while ($row = $result) { $data[] = $row;}You're assigning $result, and then using that value in your while loop. What is...
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