[Editing Existing Records]

$dbValue = the value stored in the database.

<select name="colours">
  <option value="blue" <?php if(isset($dbValue) && $dbValue == "blue") echo "selected"; ?>>blue</option>
</select>

You can use the same principle to pre-populate radio buttons.

[Editing Existing Records]

For select (drop-down list) you can preset a selection using "selected":

<select name="colours">

  <option value="blue" selected>blue</option>

</select>

For radio buttons you can preset a value using "checked":

<input type="radio" name="status" value="on" checked>On

So you need to compare the value you have stored, against the value of each option and then include selected or checked in the html for that element.

[Web Services]

The first thing you need to do is place the instantiation of the SoapClient object within a try catch block. This will help you problem solve the issue you’re having with your script.

 

There is a lot of information online about writing services using PHP. I have no idea where you are in terms of you level of PHP knowledge/learning and I could be doing you a huge disservice by stating get good at searching for information/tutorials online.

 

I had a quick search on google and I got a huge number of useful resources for tutorials; sitepoint seems to have a pretty good 2 part series: creating web services using SOAP and PHP.

 

However, services using SOAP kind of went out of favour back in the day and most developers use REST these days.

 

Personally, I think it’s always good to work through Larry’s books, but after you’ve finished with SOAP I would recommend having a look at creating REST APIs using PHP. There is a tonne of information online.

[A Number Over 1,000 Is Being Added As 1]

I think your issue is that you're trying to type hint float on a number that isn't a float: $curtain_price_total.

 

(float)1,234.45

 

Floats don't have commas.

 

Personally, I would store price as integers in the DB and then format as and when required in your scripts.

[Environments For Development On Macs]

One of the concerns for me was how could you ensure the stability of your DB. I did like that in XAMPP you could turn it on or off so it didn't use a load of resources. If I destroyed the vagrant environment, I would lose the data, tables and everything in there. 

 

Yeah, this was tedious when I first started using vagrant, until I found that you could suspend a guest machine:

 

https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/cli/suspend.html

 

vagrant global-status is also really handy to manage/see all the guest machines.

 

https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/cli/global-status.html

[$Token Doesn't Seem To Be Getting Picked Up]

I'm Just curious, but is there a reason you've decided not to offer subscription billing. Getting users to log in monthly and make a payment is tedious for them. Why not automatically charge each month and give them the option to cancel at any time?

[$Token Doesn't Seem To Be Getting Picked Up]

You’re looking at the wrong script. The issue is with the form script/page where your javascript makes a request to Stripe for a token which it then appends to the form before a post request is made to your payment processor script.

[Git Security Vulnerability]

Just in case anyone missed it:

 

https://github.com/blog/1938-git-client-vulnerability-announced

[Your Thoughts On Using One Line If Statements]

Every coder should be striving to write the most legible code they can, for both themselves and others. Ask yourself how easily and quickly could you read and understand what the code does if you came back to it in 6 months. My view is, always use curly braces.

 

Also, understand that projects often have their own code style rules. I have my own preferences but I’ve found myself having to write code differently because I wanted to contribute to certain open-source projects.

 

I’d recommend having a look at PSR http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-1/

 

 

“Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.”

— Martin Golding

[Environments For Development On Macs]

I'd recommend having a look at https://www.vagrantup.com

[The Factory Pattern]

Larry, I think it was more me than the book; not helped by the fact I was reading the kindle version, which isn't always the best for layout.

[The Factory Pattern]

I'm having trouble understanding/linking the code example to the diagram and definition for the Factory Pattern.

 

abstract class Shape { ... }
class Rectangle extends Shape { ... }
class Triangle extends Shape { ... }


abstract class ShapeFactory {


    static function Create($type, array $sizes) {


        switch ($type) {
            case 'rectangle':
                return new Rectangle($sizes[0], $sizes[1]);
                break;
            case 'triangle':
                return new Triangle($sizes[0], $sizes[1], $sizes[2]);
                break;
        }
    }
}


$obj = ShapeFactory::Create($_GET['shape'], $_GET['dimensions']);

Must be having an off day because I'm not seeing how the abstract factory class is being extended in the code example.

 

I was unable to find any information in the book explaining the solid arrows or the term concrete, can anyone point me to the right pages, I must be going blind :/

 

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

 

edit: ok I think I understand why there was confusion. The UML diagram used in the book is representative of the second reason/example given for using the factory pattern (where a base factory class is extended) but the code example references the first reason given for using a factory class and there is no UML diagram for this. 

[Menu Bar Like The One At The Top Of This Page!]

 

It's pretty straight forward to achieve. They're simply links with images instead of text.

 

<a href="url_to_somewhere"><img src="icon.png"></a>

 

There are lots of free social media icons available online, so unless you make your own it's just a matter of finding a free style that you like or fits with your overall design.

[Activation]

I've used Twilio with both php and ruby - the api is insanely easy to use. There's some good info in the docs as well as many free tutorials on blogs etc.

[Http Request]

Or Curl, not sure it matters which method you use.

 

This looks promising: https://github.com/KnpLabs/php-github-api

 

The docs directory seems to have a pretty good list of examples

 

 

If you share what you're trying to achieve I/we might be able to be a bit more helpful.

[How To Use A Number Sent In Url From Previous Page.]

The id you want to store in the db is not being submitted with your form. You need to include a hidden form field within your form, with the id value:

 

<form ... >


<input type="hidden" name="id" value="<? echo $id; ?>">


</form>

 

You'll then need to assign the $_POST['id'] value to $id within your if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') { ... } conditional and before the db insert query.

 

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')

{

  $id = $_POST['id'];

  # db query

}

 

Plus, what margaux said

[Unable To Complete Checkout Process- Errors In Second Example-Ecommerce]

You need to set the default timezone, the error message explains what you need to do:

 

An error occurred in script 'D:\xampp\htdocs\includes\form_functions.inc.php' on line 64:

date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'UTC' for '5.5/no DST' instead

[New Forum Look]

Cheers, Larry; that's really useful at the top of the page, thanks!

[Displaying Records In A Table (Three Records Per Row)]

This is really basic HTML CSS, wildman. If you're not comfortable with it I would recommend you pick up a good book or follow an online tutorial to learn the basics.

 

As for your question, one div element should go around <a href="... > <img src="... > </a>, but you're not even doing inline css styling correctly:

 

<div style="width: 33%; float: left;">

[Ch10- Retrieve The First 30 Characters From Mysql?]

Ghamdan, you don't say which method you're using to select part of the string, also did you look at the link I provided?

[Want To Learn Mysql?]

Have you bought Larry's book? I'd say that's a pretty good place to start.

[Displaying Records In A Table (Three Records Per Row)]

You need to put the <div> tags around each of the links with images, not one around all three.

[Ch10- Retrieve The First 30 Characters From Mysql?]

Check you're using the same character sets, also have a look at the following if you're still having issues:

 

http://php.net/manua...n.mb-substr.php

[New Forum Look]

Yeah, the removal of latest topics/comments on the main forum page for non-logged-in members or visitors now forces users to sign up and log in to get that functionality.

Personally, I don't want to have to log in unless I'm actually starting a topic or posting a comment; I doubt I'm unique in this.

[Paypal Integration Confusion]

Have a read through chapter 7:

 

https://cms.paypal.c...rationGuide.pdf