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 | Hiya, I program on PC laptop mostly throughout the year. And in winter, program on my mobile phone. Nokia 2 (old timer). I got now Samsungs which are better. So thinking of programming on them too, just for fun (so to speak). I am curious to see my Samsungs Desktops … |
| | Good Evening Folks, I got some basic questions on Tablets. Which Tablet do you recommend I buy to use for php programming ? I never bought a Tablet before. Now taken an interrst to buy one but need to buy one suitable for programming. I Always program using pc or … |
| | Gents & Gentle Women, What features would you like in a searchengine as a: Searcher (buyer/shopper/consumer). Website (vendor/seller).fed-up of the searchengines. They have not changed since 1998. Let's brainstorm a new way of searching websites via searchengines. Meaning, we used to find links via link directories first whewre we had …  |
| | Dear Forum Fellows, I do not like paypal. Thinking of adding BitCoin instead. Do you know of any BitCoin wallet/service where the transactions are free ? I do not like the middleman services as they hold onto your BitCoins in their servers and if they get hacked then you have … |
| | Hello, I do not understand why the simplehtmldom is failing. This is the code: <?php ini_set('display_errors',1); ini_set('display_startup_errors',1); error_reporting(E_ALL); //--- include_once('simplehtmldom_1_9_1/simple_html_dom.php'); //--- $url = "https://victoriousseo.com/sitemap_index.xml"; $html = new simple_html_dom(); $html->load_file($url); //-- foreach($html->find("a") as $link) { echo $link->href."< br />"; } ?> I got the simplehtmldom.php on the same directory as the … |
| | @dani I got ChatGpt to fix my Crawler that was showing error. This code that was showing error: My Buggy Code ```` <?php //START OF SCRIPT FLOW. //Preparing Crawler & Session: Initialising Variables. //Preparing $ARRAYS For Step 1: To Deal with Xml Links meant for Crawlers only. //SiteMaps Details Scraped … |
 | @Reverend Jim Thanks for opening this thread. I have found these Religions speak about the Final Age. As far as I know, they came in this order: Hinduism Judaism Buddism Christianity Islam The more modern a Religion is the more it will have more details about the End Times as … |
| | Experienced Fellow Programmers, I asking questions to those who have experiences with web crawlers. I do not want my web crawler getting trapped onto some domain, while crawling it. Trapped and going in a loop for some reason. And so, what to look-out for to prevent loops ? 1.I know … |
| | @dani Checking these 2 working codes of your's out. I got some basic questions. 1 ```` <?php ini_set('display_errors',1); ini_set('display_startup_errors',1); error_reporting(E_ALL); //Dan's Code. //Code from: https://www.daniweb.com/programming/web-development/threads/538868/simplehtmldom-failing#post2291972 //Sitemap Protocol: https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html // Initiate ability to manipulate the DOM and load that baby up $doc = new DOMDocument(); $message = file_get_contents('https://www.daniweb.com/programming/web-development/threads/538868/simplehtmldom-failing#post2288453'); // https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.libxml-use-internal-errors.php libxml_use_internal_errors(true); … |
| | @dani I got ChatGpt to fix my Crawler that was showing error. This code that was showing error: My Buggy Code ```` <?php //START OF SCRIPT FLOW. //Preparing Crawler & Session: Initialising Variables. //Preparing $ARRAYS For Step 1: To Deal with Xml Links meant for Crawlers only. //SiteMaps Details Scraped …  |
| | Tech Gurus, I am interested top learn more about these AIs. ChatGPT and the like. I have been seeing youtube videos about ChatGPT3 but the link was not working few weeks ago and so I quit it. Now checking them out again. I am only interested in those that have … |
| | Folks, This is absurd! As you know, some crawler codes on the internet exist where you get it to navigate to a page and it extracts all html links. hrefs. Code such as this one: ```` //Sitemap Protocol: https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html include_once('simplehtmldom_1_9_1/simple_html_dom.php'); //WORKS. //$sitemap = 'https://www.rocktherankings.com/post-sitemap.xml'; //$sitemap = "https://www.rocktherankings.com/sitemap_index.xml"; //Has more xml … |
| | Folks, I have never programmed any API stuff. Let us change this tonight. I want to allow people to pay me with BitCoin on my website. This you see below is API vofr of the Official BitCoin Payment Gateway. Now, show me how to integrate this on my website. Meaning, … |
| | Folks, Using DomDocument, I am trying to build a crawler that, when I feed it a starting point url (initial url to start the crawling & link extracting from), it should navigate to the starting url and extract all the links found on the page. ```` <?php $xml = file_get_contents($sitemapUrl); … |
| | Hello, Got questions on Sql and Php Prepared Statements. How would you check whether the SQL managed to update a row or not ? Which one of the following lines would you add the IF condition to ? 1). mysqli_stmt_execute() 2). mysqli_stmt_affected_rows() Which of the following examples A-D are a …  |
| | Hello There, Look at this PAGINATION I built. This script I built from scratch and is working fine to query my Mysql DB and show results. But I need your feed-back to know if I managed to use the functions in the correct order or not. //FUNCTIONS IN USE TO … |
| | Programmers, I need you to recommend me a vps host that provides unlimited & unmetered bandwidths. Which vps host and their pack do you recommend ? Gonna run my own searchengine. Building one with php. Gonna start small and so do not want to rent a dedicated server just yet … |
| | Hello There, I am searching for a vps host that will give me unlimited bandwidth as I want to run a searchengine from scratch after I build it and I do not want to get any monthly limits and find I have gone over the limit and my website has … |
| | Hiya, I know it is possible to auto generate prepared statements based on table column names and numbers. But how to achieve it ? I have many tables and I want to allow visitors to be able to search these tables. Now, if I have 20 different tables, I do … |
| | Hiya, I need to learn the SQL query that counts all the points from more than one column and orders the matching rows based on most points in descending order. EXAMPLE 1: I do a keyword search for "mobile phone tutorial apps". Note 4 words. Sql should find all the … |
| | Ladies & Gentlemen, I got this array: ```` $test = array('id','date_and_time','kw_1','kw_1_point','kw_2','kw_2_point','kw_3','kw_3_point','kw_4','kw_4_point'); ```` Now I want to echo all the values that does not conatin '_point'. So, how to do that ? |
| | Hiya, I do not understand why this crawler fails to echo found links on a page. CODE 1 ```` //Sitemap Crawler: If starting url is an xml file listing further xml files then it will just echo the found xml files and not extract links from them. //Sitemap Protocol: https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html … |
| | Hiya, It seems to me that if I put a condition on ```` mysqli_stmt_fetch($stmt); ```` to check if user credentials was ok enough for the data to be fetched, then the whole purpose of using the following function is defeated. ```` password_verify() ```` This is what I mean .. ```` …  |
| | Hello Folks, How to rid GET METHOD from echoing the submitted webform's search button name in the destination url ? My site search page's url looks like this: http://localhost/Work/buzz/Templates/pagination_GET_METHOD_TEMPLATE.php When I click the search button, I am taken to same page ````$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];````. Taken to: http://localhost/Work/buzz/Templates/pagination_GET_METHOD_TEMPLATE.php?search=&match=fuzzy&index=crawled_links_index&limit=1&web_search_button= NOTE the last part of … |
| | This fails: ```` $password_hashed = password_hash(trim($_POST['password'],PASSWORD_DEFAULT); ```` This also fails: ```` $password_hashed = password_hash(trim($_POST['password'],PASSWORD_DEFAULT)); ```` This works: ```` $password_hashed = password_hash(trim($_POST['password']),PASSWORD_DEFAULT); ```` But I thought trim( did not have the closing bracket. Manual shows it does. So this is why above 3rd sample working ? |
| | Hi, I got this long version code: ```` if(ISSET($_GET['limit'])) { $limit = intval($_GET['limit']); } else { $limit = intval(1); } ```` I can shorten it, like this and it works: ```` $limit = ISSET($_GET['limit'])?intval($_GET['limit']):1; ```` Now add an echo and try shortening it. And I get error. I got this … |
| | I need to check db for matching user credential on login script. There must be atleast one matching row. Else, script should alert user not registered. Need to check the db using the function ````mysqli_stmt_num_rows()````. Assignment is to list all the various valid ways this function can be used to … |
| | Helle Fellow Programmers! Unlike last time where I was checking for matching rows count using mysqli_stmt_rows_count(): https://www.daniweb.com/programming/web-development/threads/539306/login-with-prepared-statements-mysqli-stmt-num-rows-function On this thread, I am checking for matching rows count using Sql's COUNT function. This means, both threads are not same so mods do not close them. Issue is, on both threads, no … |
| | Hiya, Which of these IF CONDITION codes are valid ? And can you rank the valid ones according to your choice by giving reasons to your choices ? Thanks! 1. ```` $conn = mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","buzz"); $sql = "INSERT into users (username,email) VALUES (?,?)"; if($stmt = mysqli_prepare($conn,$sql)) { mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt,"ss",$_POST[username'],$_POST['email']); if(!mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt)) //FIRST CHOICE … |
| | Hiya, Is this: ```` function unset_sessions() { //All Sessions on the script .... UNSET($_SESSION['registration_form_display']); UNSET($_SESSION['registration_form_button_clicked']); UNSET($_SESSION['domain']); //Form Input UNSET($_SESSION['domain_email_account']); //Form Input UNSET($_SESSION['domain_email']); //Form Input UNSET($_SESSION['password']); //Form Input UNSET($_SESSION['errors']); Displays errors underneath the form. echo __LINE__; echo '<br>';//DELETE } unset_sessions(); ```` the exact same as this: ```` session_destroy(); ```` I ask, … |
| | Hello, I do not see $data defined, so what is it ? ```` function prepared_insert($conn, $table, $data) { $keys = array_keys($data); $keys = array_map('escape_mysql_identifier', $keys); $fields = implode(",", $keys); $table = escape_mysql_identifier($table); $placeholders = str_repeat('?,', count($keys) - 1) . '?'; $sql = "INSERT INTO $table ($fields) VALUES ($placeholders)"; prepared_query($conn, $sql, … |
| | Howdy once more, Just got another question on Sql and Php Prepared Statement. How would you confirm a successful row insertion to a mysql table ? Which one of the following lines would you add the IF condition to in order to check insertion successful or not ? 1). mysqli_stmt_execute() … |
| | Hello There, Do you have any experience how to run a dns cache ? I want to learn how to run a dns cache and log what my users are browsing onto a webpage. In other words, the Log File should turn into a webpage be it with .html or … |
| | Hi, Seem to be having problem with the password_hash() as it keeps changing the hash value of the same password. Why ? When each time I refresh the page, the $password_hashed value changes! Why ? The $password is still the same who's value is: '123'. And password_verify($password,$db_password) always echoes '1' …  |
| | Hello there, How to destroy session data when the browser closes ? Note, not dealing with $_COOKIES here. Thanks! |
| | Hello Programmers, We use the fragment in urls for the browser to hone in on a particular secion on our page. http://www.yoursite.com/#heading_number~1 http://www.yoursite.com/#heading_number~2 And so on. Now, we can easily open those particular sections in iFrames of your's or third party site's) that does not have a fragment {#) in … |
| | Hello People, I am not much oif a techie guy. I got fed-up of using laptops for about a dacade now and so reverted back to pc. PCs in Europe last 5 years with no hardware issues but here in Asia you are lucky if a part does not fail … |
| | Hello Php Programmers, I want to open iframes, more than one, to some of my webpages from other webpages. What do I need to be careful off so no crook injects anything malicious on my site or on my visitors' clientsides ? Q1. Which of these attributes, mentioned in the … |
| | Good Evening People, No matter what I do in mysql, why I get this following error where the rows do not get deleted ? **Error SQL query: Copy Edit Edit DELETE FROM `phpmyadmin`.`pma__column_info` WHERE db_name = 'buzz' AND table_name = 'submitted_links_index2' AND column_name = 'title' MySQL said: Documentation #1142 - … |
| | Hi, Are these MySql queries (with Php) correct ? Wild Card match. Fuzzy Match query. Imagine there are 7 columns in the Mysql table. $sql = "SELECT * from $tbl WHERE $col_1 LIKE ? OR $col_2 LIKE ? OR $col_3 LIKE ? OR $col_4 LIKE ? OR $col_5 LIKE ? … |
| | Hi, I am trying to create a login page using the sql's mysqli_stmt_num_rows() function. Issue is, no matter if I give correct password or incorrect, I always get message 'Incorrect user Credentials'. Why is that ? The details on Mysql Looks like this: id|domain|password 0|gmail.com|373b29d2837e83b9ca5cec712a5985843df271cc Obviously, password is hashed using … |
| | Php Programmers, Getting to build a login page using the php's password_verify_() function. Issue is, no matter if I give correct password or incorrect, I always get message 'Incorrect user Credentials'. Why is that ? The details on Mysql Looks like this: id | domain | password 0 | gmail.com … |
| | Hi, I get the feeling from this forum that simplehtmldom is old stuff. Nevertheless, experimenting with it since a simple tutorial code depends on it. Check this Xml SItemap Link Extractor include_once('simplehtmldom_1_9_1/simple_html_dom.php'); //Works. //$sitemap = 'https://www.rocktherankings.com/post-sitemap.xml'; //$sitemap = "https://www.rocktherankings.com/sitemap_index.xml"; //Has more xml files. //Does not work. Shows blank page. $sitemap … |
| | Hiya, I need to know something. First I thought Sitemap Xml files will list all .html and .hml and .shtm and .shtml files. All pages of the website. But now I see, Sitemap xml files also list other xml files. Check this one out for what I mean: https://www.rocktherankings.com/sitemap_index.xml So … |
| | Hello, I am building a searchengine with php. Nearly finished. Now, I need to build the web crawler. Since most websites have xml sitemap for web crawlers to use to find their site links, I prefer to build an xml site map crawler than a general http crawler. I am … |
| | I am still at procedural style programming. And so, oop code samples confuse me. I found this oop style. Any chance you can show me how to convert this to procedural style ? Test the code. It woks fine! https://bytenota.com/parsing-an-xml-sitemap-in-php/ // sitemap url or sitemap file $sitemap = 'https://bytenota.com/sitemap.xml'; // … |
| | Hi, I used to know how to do this but forgotten. How can I check the extension of a url ? You see, sometimes sitemap xml files do not list site urls (.html) for my crawler to extract all the urls. Instead, they list further xml files and so my … |
| | Hi, Can you remember once upon a time Yahoo and Open Directory or Dmoz were directories with categories and subcategories and sub-sub categories etc. ? I need to have a list of such categories. Link listing categories. Trying to build a link directory. Where can I get the lists of … |
| | Hi, $page = 10; echo 'page ' .$page; //echoes: 10 echo 'backward ' .$backward = $page--; //echoes: 10 echo "<br>"; echo "<br>"; echo 'forward ' .$forward = $page++; //echoes: 9 echo "<br>"; echo "<br>"; Strange! Why is the decrement failing ? Since $page = 10, then decrementing that ($backward) should … |
| | Hello, I know the safest way to write a pagination section with php is to use the http_build_query(). Like so: $i = 0; while($i<$total_pages) { $i++; if($_GET['bool']=='null') { //Page Format: $_GET List. $array = array("tbl"=>"$tbl","col_1"=>"$col_1","bool"=>"$bool","input_1"=>"$input_1","lmt"=>"$limit","pg"=>"$i"); } else { //Page Format: $_GET List. $array = array("tbl"=>"$tbl","col_1"=>"$col_1","col_2"=>"$col_2","bool"=>"$bool","input_1"=>"$input_1","input_2"=>"$input_2","lmt"=>"$limit","pg"=>"$i"); } $serps_url = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?'.http_build_query($array); if($i==$page) … |
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