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**Eddie12390** · 02-25-2008, 06:16 PM

Well I followed an online tut and the person didn't help me with my errors at all.

Heres my code:

[PHP]
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="common.css" type="text/css">
<base target="_self">
<title>Chat</title>
</head>
<body class="shoutboxbody" style="overflow-x: hidden;">
<?
$filename = "./shoutdb.txt";
$usemask = "yes";
$link_mask = "[link]";
$email_mask = "[email]";
/*
Smileys
*/
$smileydir = './images/';
/*
Define Smileys
*/
$smileys = array (
"[

]" => "smile.gif",
"[

)]" => "lol.gif",
"[

]" => "sad.gif",
);
/*
Prepare Smileys
*/
function alter_smiley(&$item1, $key, $prefix) {
$item1 = " <img alt=\"\" src=\"$prefix$item1\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" />";
}
/*
Bad Words Filter
*/
function removeBadWords(&$text) {
$badwords = array(
"/fu.ck/",
"/sh.it/"
);
for ($i=0;$i<count($badwords);$i++)
$text = preg_replace($badwords[$i], "[

]", $text);
}
/*
Save posts to database
*/
extract($_POST);
/*
Display Errors
*/
$errorMsg = "";
/*
Excutes script once submit is clicked
*/
if($submit) {
if(!$name) $errorMsg.="You need to enter a name!<br>";
elseif(!$shout) $errorMsg.="You need to enter text to send!<br>";
elseif(($name=="Name") || ($shout=="Message")) $errorMsg.="Say something!<br>";
else {
if($site) $author = "<a href='$site'>$name</a>";
else $author = $name;
$handle = fopen($filename,"a");
$date = strftime("%D");
$time = strftime("%T");
$ipaddr = $REMOTE_ADDR;
removeBadWords($shout);
/*
Write the code to txt file
*/
$data = "$date | $time | $author | $ipaddr | $shout\,";
fwrite($handle, "$data");
fclose($handle);
}
}
echo $errorMsg;
echo "<table class=\"SB_formarea\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\">\n";
echo "<tr><td>\n";
echo "<form method=\"post\" action=\"shout.php\">\n";
echo "<div align=\"center\"><input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" size=\"16\" value=\"Name\" maxlength=\"14\" title=\"Name\" class=\"SB_input\"><br>\n";
echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"shout\" size=\"16\" value=\"Message\" maxlength=\"1024\" title=\"Message\" class=\"SB_input\"><br>\n";
echo "<input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" value=\":: send ::\" class=\"SB_button\">\n";
echo "<input type=\"button\" name=\"refresh_it\" value=\"::\" class='SB_button' onclick=\"window.open('shout.php','_self');\">\n";
echo "</div></td></tr></form></table>\n";
$shouts = file($filename);
$rowColor = 0;
$count = 0;
array_walk ($smileys, 'alter_smiley', $smileydir);
krsort($shouts);

$link_search = array("/\</",
"/\>/",
"/\]/",
"/\[/",
"#([\n ])([a-z0-9\-_.]+?)@([^, \n\r]+)#i",
"#([\n ])www\.([a-z0-9\-]+)\.([a-z0-9\-.\~]+)((?:/[^, \n\r]*)?)#i",
"/(?<!<a href=\")((http|ftp)+(s)?:\/\/[^<>\s]+)/i");
if ($usemask=='yes')
$link_replace = array("<",
">",
">",
"<",
"\\1<a href=\"<A href="mailto:\\2@\\3\">".$email_mask."</a">mailto:\\2@\\3\">".$email_mask."</a>",
"\\1<a href=\"

**Arenlor** · 02-25-2008, 06:30 PM

A that's not the complete code, please post the complete code. B What errors are you having?

**Eddie12390** · 02-25-2008, 07:17 PM

Thats all the code I got from the tutorial, and the shoutbox doesnt show up

**Arenlor** · 02-25-2008, 07:19 PM

Can you link to this tutorial?

**Eddie12390** · 02-25-2008, 09:09 PM

Well I decided to follow another tutorial, and yet again, problems

Heres the 3 files the tutorial had me make:

Shoutbox.php:

PHP Code:


			
<?php 
include(“connect.php”) 
If(isset($_POST[‘posted’])) 
{ 
$name = $_POST[‘name’]; 
$message = $_POST[‘message’]; 
$time = time(); 
$ip = $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR‘] 
$check_name_length = strlen($name); // checks length 
$check_message_length = strlen($message); // checks length 
If($check_name_length => 30) || if($check_message_length => 250) // if statements for 
length 
{ 
echo “Please fill in the textboxes properly.”; 
** else { 
mysql_query(“INSERT INTO shoutbox( id, ip, name, time, message) VALUES (“NULL”,”$ip”, 
“$name”, “$time”, “$message”)”) or die (“Failed to add shout”); 
** 
**
<form method="POST" act'ion="shoutbox.php"> 
Name: <input type="text name="name"><br>  
Message: <input type="text" name="message"><br><br> 
<input type="hidden" name="posted" value="true"> 
<input type="submit" value="Shout!">

Show_Shouts.php

PHP Code:


			
<?php 
include(“connect.php”); 
$query = Mysql_query(“SELECT * FROM shoutbox DESC id LIMIT 5”); 
while($r = Mysql_fetch_array($query) 
{ 
$time = $r[‘time’]; 
$name = $r[‘name’]; 
$message = $r[‘message’]; 
** 
echo “Shout by $name at $time:”; 
echo $message; 
?>

And Connect.php: (I got rid of my user and assword etc. on purpose)

PHP Code:


			
<?php 
$connect = mysql_connect(“host”,”username”,”password”) or die(“Failed to connect to host”) 
$db = mysql_select_db(“database”) or die(“Failed to connect to database“); 
?>

**Arenlor** · 09:28 PM

First make sure you have a database created and setup and in the connect.php file. Second you have a few errors that need fixed. Mainly you forgot to close things. Third, don't use Word or anything like that, please just use notepad, you had curly quotes, which could cause an issue. Also you had a few functions in upper case and that could cause an issue too.

PHP Code:


			
<?php include("connect.php") 

If(isset($_POST['posted'])){

    $name = $_POST['name']; 

    $message = $_POST['message']; 

    $time = time(); 

    $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] 

    $check_name_length = strlen($name); // checks length 

    $check_message_length = strlen($message); // checks length 

    If($check_name_length => 30) || if($check_message_length => 250){ 

        echo "Please fill in the textboxes properly.";}

    else{ 

        mysql_query("INSERT INTO shoutbox( id, ip, name, time, message) VALUES (NULL,'$ip','$name','$time','$message')") or die ("Failed to add shout");}

else{ echo '<form method="POST" action="shoutbox.php"> 

Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>  

Message: <input type="text" name="message"><br><br> 

<input type="hidden" name="posted" value="true"> 

<input type="submit" value="Shout!">';?>

PHP Code:


			
<?php include("connect.php"); 

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM shoutbox DESC id LIMIT 5"); 

while($r = mysql_fetch_array($query){

    $time = $r['time']; 

    $name = $r['name']; 

    $message = $r['message']; 

    echo "Shout by ".$name." at ".$time.":"; 

    echo $message;

}?>

Notice how colorful mine is compared to yours?

PHP Code:


			
<?php $connect = mysql_connect("localhost","username","password") or die("Failed to connect to host");

$db = mysql_select_db("database") or die("Failed to connect to database");?>

Try that and see how it goes, if it doesn't work link to the tutorial so we can see what it is that's going wrong.

**Sydpix** · 02-25-2008, 11:06 PM

Just download this http://www.sydpixel.com/Downloads/floodbox.zip

See it in action http://www.davelefebre.com/

**Eddie12390** · 02-26-2008, 05:53 PM

Sydpix: I wanted to learn something from it, otherwise I would have already downloaded 1 :P

Arenlor: I had the database set up a while ago because i have a forum with phpBB3, I ran the SQL query so thats already setup. Thx for the code help

**Sydpix** · 02-26-2008, 08:19 PM

I find it quite interesting, only one referrer from this site and someone leaves a dirty message in the shoutbox....

Interesting....