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PHP by example, Part I

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Listing 1. Getting user preferences from the database



user_funcs.php (get_user_data)

function get_user_data($user_id) {

        global $s_first_name, $s_last_name, $s_preferences, $s_color;
        
        $query = "SELECT * FROM user WHERE user_id='$user_id' AND active='Y'";
        $result = mysql_query($query) or die ("Query failed");
        
        if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
        
                session_register('s_first_name');
                session_register('s_last_name');
                session_register('s_preferences');
                session_register('s_color');
                
                $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
                $s_first_name = $row['first_name'];
                $s_last_name = $row['last_name'];
                $length = strlen($row['preferences']);
                for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) { $s_preferences[$i] = $row['preferences'][$i]; }
                $s_color = $row['color'];
        }
}

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Listing 2. Defining the page header

site.php (site_header function)

function site_header($params) {

        global $s_first_name;
        
        print '<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>My Site Inc.';
        
        if ($params['title']) { print " - " . $params['title']; }
        
        print '</TITLE><LINK rel="stylesheet" href="example.css" type="text/css"></HEAD>
                <BODY topmargin="0" bottommargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">

                <TABLE cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" bgcolor="'.color().'">
                <TR><TD class="page_title" width="50%">';
                        
        if (logged_in()) {
        
                print "Welcome back";
                if ($s_first_name != "") { print ", ".$s_first_name; }
        }
        else { print "Welcome to My Site Inc."; }
        
        print '</TD><TD class="page_title" width="50%" align="right">';

        if (logged_in()) {
        
                print '<a href="example.php" class="page_title">Home</a> | '
                        . '<a href="edit_user.php" class="page_title">Preferences</a> | '
                        . '<a href="example.php?action=logout" class="page_title">Logout</a>  ';
         
        }
        else { 
         
                 print '<a href="example.php" class="page_title">Home</a> | '
                         . '<a href="login.php" class="page_title">Login</a>';
        }
         
        print '</TD></TR></TABLE><BR>';
 

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Listing 3. Displaying news items from a single news source

example.php (show_news function)

function show_news ($news_source) {

        $data_query = "SELECT headline, link FROM news WHERE news_source='$news_source' ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 5";
        $data_result = mysql_query($data_query) or die ("Could not get news data");
                        
        if (mysql_num_rows($data_result) > 0) {
                                
                while ($data_row = mysql_fetch_array($data_result)) {
                        
                        print '<LI><SMALL><A href="'.$data_row['link'].'" class="news">'.$data_row['headline']
                                . '</A></SMALL></LI>';
                }
        }
}

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Listing 4. Defining the main site

example.php

<?php

if ($action == 'logout') { logout(); }

site_header(array('title'=>'Home'));

?>

<TABLE cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
<TR valign="top">
<TD width="180">
                        
<?php

if (logged_in()) {

        foreach ($s_preferences as $index => $pref) {
        
                if ($pref == "1") {
        
                        $query = "SELECT * FROM news_sources WHERE source_id='".($index+1)."'";
                        $result = mysql_query($query) or die ("Could not select news sources");
                        
                        if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
                        
                                $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);

                                box_top($row['source_name'], $row['source_home']);
                                show_news($index+1);
                                box_bottom();
                        }
                }
        }
}
else {

        $query = "SELECT * FROM news_sources";
        $result = mysql_query($query) or die ("Could not select news sources");

        $i = 1;
        
        while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

                box_top($row['source_name'], $row['source_home']);
                show_news($i);
                box_bottom();
                ++$i;
        }
}

?>

</TD>
<TD width="100%">
        <TABLE cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
        <TR>
        <TD>
        <DL>
        <DT><SPAN class="heading">Latest News</SPAN></DT>
        <DD><BR>You can now register for an account on our site! With an account you will be able to select
                which news items you would like to see and hide those you don't. You also get the nifty feature of being
                personally greated every time you visit our site. How much would you expect to pay for this? Nothing!
                <a href="http://www.php.net">PHP</a> and <a href="http://www.mysql.net">MySQL</a>
                make this so easy anyone can do it.</DD>
        </DL>
        </TD>
        </TR>
        </TABLE>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

</BODY>
</HTML>

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