Tutorial Send Email

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1) HTML Form with Inputs

<form action="" method="post">
  <label for="name">Name:</label>
  <input type="text" name="name" id="name" />

  <label for="Email">Email:</label>
  <input type="text" name="email" id="email" />

  <label for="Message">Message:</label><br />
  <textarea name="message" rows="20" cols="20" id="message"></textarea>

  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

2) Process with PHP

This could be in a seperate file (e.g. sendemail.php) in which you'd set the action URL of the form to go there. Or, have the form submit to itself (leave action URL blank) and test for one of the values of the form being POSTed and process there.

<?php
       // from the form
       $name = trim(strip_tags($_POST['name']));
       $email = trim(strip_tags($_POST['email']));
       $message = htmlentities($_POST['message']);

       // set here
       $subject = "Contact form submitted!";
       $to = 'your@email.com';

       $body = <<<HTML
$message
HTML;

       $headers = "From: $email\r\n";
       $headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";

       // send the email
       mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

       // redirect afterwords, if needed
       header('Location: thanks.html');
?>

3) Test it

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Tutorial Send a Text Message

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You'll need a TextMagic account and to download their PHP helper which they provide after signing up.

// Include the TextMagic PHP lib
require('textmagic-sms-api-php/TextMagicAPI.php');

// Set the username and password information
$username = 'myusername';
$password = 'mypassword';

// Create a new instance of TM
$router = new TextMagicAPI(array(
	'username' => $username,
	'password' => $password
));

// Send a text message to '999-123-4567'
$result = $router->send('Wake up!', array(9991234567), true);

// result:  Result is: Array ( [messages] => Array ( [19896128] => 9991234567 ) [sent_text] => Wake up! [parts_count] => 1 )

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Tutorial Sanitize Database Inputs

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1) Function for stripping out malicious bits

<?php
function cleanInput($input) {
 
  $search = array(
    '@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si',   // Strip out javascript
    '@<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>@si',            // Strip out HTML tags
    '@<style[^>]*?>.*?</style>@siU',    // Strip style tags properly
    '@<![\s\S]*?--[ \t\n\r]*>@'         // Strip multi-line comments
  );
 
    $output = preg_replace($search, '', $input);
    return $output;
  }
?>

2) Sanitization function

Uses the function above, as well as adds slashes as to not screw up database functions.

<?php
function sanitize($input) {
    if (is_array($input)) {
        foreach($input as $var=>$val) {
            $output[$var] = sanitize($val);
        }
    }
    else {
        if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
            $input = stripslashes($input);
        }
        $input  = cleanInput($input);
        $output = mysql_real_escape_string($input);
    }
    return $output;
}
?>

Usage

<?php
  $bad_string = "Hi! <script src='http://www.evilsite.com/bad_script.js'></script> It's a good day!";
  $good_string = sanitize($bad_string);
  // $good_string returns "Hi! It\'s a good day!"

  // Also use for getting POST/GET variables
  $_POST = sanitize($_POST);
  $_GET  = sanitize($_GET);
?>

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Tutorial Return Only One Variable from MySQL Query

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Function

function mysql_get_var($query,$y=0){
       $res = mysql_query($query);
       $row = mysql_fetch_array($res);
       mysql_free_result($res);
       $rec = $row[$y];
       return $rec;
}

Usage

$name = mysql_get_var("SELECT name from people where email = 'roger@freekrai.net'");

Will return the name field, so what gets returned will be "Roger" (if that was my name in the database).

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Tutorial Read/Write Files

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Append to a file

function fileWrite($file, $message) {
  fwrite(fopen($file, 'a'), $message . "\n");
}

Read and display entire file

function fileRead($file){
   $lines = file($file);
   foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
      echo  $line,  '</br>';
   }
}

Tutorial Randomize File Name

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function randomizeFileName( $real_file_name ) {
               $name_parts = @explode( ".", $real_file_name );
               $ext = "";
               if ( count( $name_parts ) > 0 ) {
                       $ext = $name_parts[count( $name_parts ) - 1];
               }
               return substr(md5(uniqid(rand(),1)), -16) . "." . $ext;
}

Tutorial Randomize Background Image

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1. Above the DOCTYPE

Set up and array of filenames, which correspond to the file names of the images you are trying to randomize.

<?php
  $bg = array('bg-01.jpg', 'bg-02.jpg', 'bg-03.jpg', 'bg-04.jpg', 'bg-05.jpg', 'bg-06.jpg', 'bg-07.jpg' ); // array of filenames

  $i = rand(0, count($bg)-1); // generate random number size of the array
  $selectedBg = "$bg[$i]"; // set variable equal to which random filename was chosen
?>

1. CSS in the <head>

Normally you'd want to keep CSS out of the HTML, but we'll just use it here to echo out the random file name we selected above.

<style type="text/css">
<!--
body{
background: url(images/<?php echo $selectedBg; ?>) no-repeat;
}
-->
</style>