Script Library
In order to help pay for the site I have thrown togather a great starter library for the noobie php programmer:

PHP Programmer Scripts

Includes:

arrays - An array is a data structure that stores single or multiple values in a single value
dbconnect - Shows how to connect to a MySQL Database
functions - Teaches how to create a function and call it out in a script
for each/while/for loops - how to effectively use loops
forms - How to use a form to send information to the script
helloworld - The basic hey Im here, Im new and I am proud script
if/else/elseif statements - How to selectively choose what the script executes
switches - If you would like to create a simple oop website this is a good thing to know
includes - This will help in organizing all your external files
variables - How to properly use a variable
comments - How to comment out your code

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Search Engine Optimization is important if you want to show high in the search engine results pages. Many webmasters pay big money to have a SEO company optimize their websites. I am the lead programmer for such a company and found JobberBase while searching for a job search website that I could utilize for personal use. I fell in love with it right away, but noticed that it did not have SEO tags that were easily editable by the user/webmaster. So I started adding code and came up with the following tutorial, this tutorial will show you how to add SEO capabilities to your JobberBase website.  I tried to make this as simple as possible, so enjoy:

Backup your database and your files before attempting this install

1. Alter db table:

ALTER TABLE `categories` ADD `title` TEXT NOT NULL AFTER `var_name` ,
ADD `description` TEXT NOT NULL AFTER `title` ,
ADD `keywords` TEXT NOT NULL AFTER `description` ;

2. In “admin/_templates/categories.tpl”:

Find:

<a href=”#” title=”Save” class=”saveCategory”><img src=”{$BASE_URL}img/disk.png” alt=”Save” /> Save</a>

Add After:

<label><span>Title:</span><input type=”text” size=”60″ name=”title[{$category.id}]” value=”{$category.title}” /></label>
<label><span>Description:</span><input type=”text” size=”60″ name=”desc[{$category.id}]” value=”{$category.description}”/></label>
<label><span>Keywords:</span><input type=”text” size=”60″ name=”keys[{$category.id}]” value=”{$category.keywords}” /></label>

3. In “_includes/functions.php”:

Find:

function get_categories()
{
global $db;
$categories = array();
$sql = ‘SELECT id, name, var_name
FROM categories
ORDER BY `category_order` ASC’;
$result = $db->query($sql);
while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc())
{
$categories[] = array(’id’ => $row['id'], ‘name’ => $row['name'], ‘var_name’ => $row['var_name']);
}
return $categories;
}

Change to:

function get_categories()
{
global $db;
$categories = array();
$sql = ‘SELECT *
FROM categories
ORDER BY `category_order` ASC’;
$result = $db->query($sql);
while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc())
{
$categories[] = array(’id’ => $row['id'], ‘name’ => $row['name'], ‘var_name’ => $row['var_name'], ‘title’ => $row['title'], ‘description’ => $row['description'], ‘keywords’ => $row['keywords']);
}
return $categories;
}

4. In “admin/page_categories.php”:

Find:

case ’saveCategory’:
$result = $db -> query(’
UPDATE
`categories`
SET
`var_name` = \” . $_POST['url'] . ‘\’,
`name` = \” . $_POST['name'] . ‘\’
WHERE
`id` = ‘ . intval($_POST['category']) . ‘
‘);

break;

Change to:

case ’saveCategory’:
$result = $db -> query(’
UPDATE
`categories`
SET
`var_name` = \” . $_POST['url'] . ‘\’,
`name` = \” . $_POST['name'] . ‘\’,
`title` = \” . $_POST['title'] . ‘\’,
`description` = \” . $_POST['description'] . ‘\’,
`keywords` = \” . $_POST['keywords'] . ‘\’
WHERE
`id` = ‘ . intval($_POST['category']) . ‘
‘);
break;

Then Find:

$last = $result->fetch_assoc();
$db->query(’
INSERT INTO
`categories`
VALUES (
NULL,
\’enter a name\’,
\’custom url\’,
‘ . (intval($last['category_order']) + 1) . ‘
)
‘);

Change to:

$last = $result->fetch_assoc();
$db->query(’
INSERT INTO
`categories`
VALUES (
NULL,
\’enter a name\’,
\’custom url\’,
\’SEO Title\’,
\’SEO Description\’,
\’SEO Keywords\’,
‘ . (intval($last['category_order']) + 1) . ‘
)
‘);

5. In “admin/js/categories.js”:

Find:

‘img/disk.png” alt=”Save” /> Save</a>’,

Add After:

‘<label><span>Title:</span><input type=”text” size=”60″ name=”title[]” value=”newcategory” /></label>’,
‘<label><span>Description:</span><input type=”text” size=”60″ name=”description[]” value=”newcategory” /></label>’,
‘<label><span>Keywords:</span><input type=”text” size=”60″ name=”keywords[]” value=”newcategory” /></label>’,

KEEP FILE OPEN

6. In the same file, “categories.js”:

Find:

name: $(el).parent().find(’input:first’).val(),

Add after:

title: $(el).parent().find(’input:eq(1)’).val(),
description: $(el).parent().find(’input:eq(2)’).val(),
keywords: $(el).parent().find(’input:eq(3)’).val(),

KEEP FILE OPEN

7. In the same file, “categories.js”

Find:

.find(’input:first’)
.attr(’name’, ‘name[' + id + ']‘)
.end()

Add after:

.find(’input:text.eq(1)’)
.attr(’name’, ‘title[' + id + ']‘)
.end()
.find(’input:text.eq(2)’)
.attr(’name’, ‘description[' + id + ']‘)
.end()
.find(’input:text.eq(3)’)
.attr(’name’, ‘keywords[' + id + ']‘)
.end()

8. In the file, “/page_category.php”

[b]NOTE:[/b] [u]Not[/u] the “/admin/page_category.php”

Find:

$html_title = ‘Are you looking for ‘ . $extra . ‘ ‘ . $id . ‘ jobs?’;
$meta_description = ”;

Replace with:

$smarty->assign(’seo_title’, get_seo_title($id));
$smarty->assign(’seo_desc’, get_seo_desc($id));
$smarty->assign(’seo_keys’, get_seo_keys($id));

9. In the file, “/_includes/functions.php”

Find:

function get_categories()
{
*** Removed to save space ***
}

Add After:

function get_seo_title($id)
{
global $db;
$sql = ‘SELECT *
FROM categories
WHERE var_name = “‘.$id.’”‘;
$result = $db->query($sql);
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
return $row['title'];
}
function get_seo_desc($id)
{
global $db;
$sql = ‘SELECT *
FROM categories
WHERE var_name = “‘.$id.’”‘;
$result = $db->query($sql);
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
return $row['description'];
}
function get_seo_keys($id)
{
global $db;
$sql = ‘SELECT *
FROM categories
WHERE var_name = “‘.$id.’”‘;
$result = $db->query($sql);
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
return $row['keywords'];
}

10. In “/_templates/header.tpl”

Find:

<title>{$html_title}</title>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8″ />
<meta name=”description” content=”{$meta_description}” />
<meta name=”keywords” content=”{$meta_keywords}” />

Replace with:

<title>{$seo.title}</title>
<meta name=”description” content=”{$seo_desc}” />
<meta name=”keywords” content=”{$seo_keys}” />
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8″ />

11. In “/page_home.php”

Find:

$html_title = $translations['homepage']['title'] . SITE_NAME;

Replace with:

$smarty->assign(’seo_title’, “This is the homepage title”);
$smarty->assign(’seo_desc’, “This is the homepage Description”);
$smarty->assign(’seo_keys’, “This is the homepage keyword”);

Change that last set of information to set you homepage SEO values.

If you have any questions I will be more than happy to discuss them here. If there are any errors I apologize ahead of time as this was done late last night. My time is tight but figured this one to be useful to people.

Thank you JobberBase for your hard work and efforts. Great App!!

When a PHP Programmer starts to write a PHP snippet, the basic php syntax always starts with <?php and ends with ?>. You can place this snippet anywhere in the *.php document.

Some servers do support shorthand, in which case you can start with<? and end with ?> .

But for maximum portablitlity, I do recommend that you stick with the standard <?php rather than shorthand <? .

Heres an example:

<?php

echo “Hello, World”;

?>

Today’s market is getting inundated new PHP websites each day. This means that there is a flux of new PHP Programmers joining the developers in creating and editing these new sites. What we will do is help these new developers gain an understanding of what the basics of PHP Programming are.

Here are a few of the materials covered in the Lessons:

• PHP Basics - Complete
  • How PHP Works - Complete
  • The php.ini File - Complete
  • Basic PHP Syntax
    • PHP Tags - In Progress
    • PHP Statements and Whitespace - In Progress
    • Comments - In Progress
    • PHP Functions - In Progress
    • Hello World! - In Progress
  • Variables - In Progress
    • Variable Types - In Progress
    • Variable Names - In Progress (Identifiers)
    • Type Strength - In Progress
    • Variable Scope - In Progress
    • Superglobals - In Progress
    • Constants - In Progress
    • Variable-Testing and Manipulation Functions - In Progress
  • PHP Operators - In Progress
  • Creating Dynamic Pages - In Progress
    • Single vs. Double Quotes - In Progress
    • Hello World! - In Progress
  • Conclusion - In Progress

For the PHP Basics we are going to assume that your server has basic PHP support and that .php extensions are handled by PHP. If this is the case you’re ready to start as a PHP Programmer. One of the things I love about PHP is that I don’t have to compile anything. I don’t need any extra tools if I don’t want. Just a text editor and ftp program.

I like to think of PHP files as simple HTML documents that allow us to create tags to make the content come to life, dynamically. All you have to do is write the code and save the file to your server. That simple.

As you become more proficient and leave the PHP Basics, you will learn other tools and techniques to write your own code. For now we will just show you what it is to be new to the language.

Our next section covers How PHP Works. Thank you for taking time to read our PHP Basics section.

When you browse to a website such as http://ctcoder.com/index.php, your ISP directs you to the server that holds the website information/files for CTCoder. The server will then read that index.php file and process the information contained within. PHP then tells the Client browser in the form of html. What this means is that PHP will create an HTML page dynamically based on what instructions the PHP Programmer wrote in the file.

This data is in the form of HTML that the browser can display as it would a standard HTML page. In short, PHP creates an HTML page on the fly based on parameters of my choosing; the server contains no static HTML pages.

In our next section we will cover what the php.ini file is used for: 3. The php.ini File

This will show you how to customize the php.ini configuration file. This will control some settings of the PHP interpreter. This file enables you to such as global variables, register_globals.

How a php.ini File is Read

When PHP starts, it follows and behaves according to the specified settings of the available php.ini file. The server will look for this file in these locations in this order:

1. Within the directory that the page was loaded
2. The root directory (public_html or www folder)
3. The server’s default php.ini

Your server’s php.ini file will be used if you dont have a custom one created. You can find the default one in /usr/local/lib/php/php.ini. Check out these settings in the file as it may help you find the solution to problems you may be having on your server.

register_globals = On

The register_globals setting controls how users access your forms, server, and other variables. This variable is set to ‘off’. This means that you will have to use special arrays in order to access these variables.
NOTE: The reason for this is because when register_globals is set to On, your PHP scripts will become more vulnerable to attacks.

To retrieve the value of [input name="formVar"] from a form submitted with the POST method:

When register_globals = On

$theVariable = $formVar;

When register_globals = Off

$theVariable = $_POST['formVar'];

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