I have the following code in index.php (simplified):
<?php
print_r($_GET);
if ($_GET['f'] == "activate") {
//do stuff
}
if ($_GET['f'] == "disable") {
//do stuff
}
?>
and further down the page, some HTML:
<tr>
<td style='font-size: 0.9em;'>email#address.ac.uk</td>
<td style='font-size: 0.75em;'><span style="color: #00AF28;">Active</span></td><td style='font-size: 0.75em;'>Disable</td>
</tr>
The two hyperlinks will point the browser to the URL index.php?f=disable&id=email#address.ac.uk and index.php?f=disable&id=email#address.ac.uk, respectively.
Upon clicking the hyperlink (and directing the browser to index.php?f=disable&id=email#address.ac.uk), the result of print_r($_GET) is:
Array ( [f] => disable [id] => email#address.ac.uk )
However, the 'if' statement:
if ($_GET['f'] == "disable") {
//do stuff
}
Does not execute until I refresh the page, or press the enter key on the address bar.
I'm using Chrome 16 on OSX for this, with PHP5.
Many thanks
Try to disable the cache. You can do this by sending some http headers to the browser. Here are an example from php.net
<?php
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); // HTTP/1.1
header("Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // Date in the past
?>
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I have problem fetching my result from db and convert to json. In my API call, It gives me empty content(total blank) of returned body with status 200.
This is my code:
$weekAndYear = $year."/".$week; // incoming params as e.g "2016/19"
$stmt = $this->db->prepare("SELECT r.*, p.code FROM report r, product p WHERE "
. "r.pid=p.pid AND r.product=:productCode "
. "AND r.status='Published' AND r.pid=25 AND r.week=:weekAndYear");
$stmt->bindparam(":productCode", $productCode);
$stmt->bindparam(":weekAndYear", $weekAndYear);
$stmt->execute();
while($price=$stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
//echo $price;
$arr_price[] = $price;
}
$data['priceReport'] = $arr_price;
//echo $weekAndYear;
$data['status'] = "OK";
return json_encode($data);
When I tested the query in my phpmyadmin mysql server and it works fine.
On my php side, different $weekAndYear params will have some working well and some are not. Anything wrong on array part?
My API response headers:
Cache-Control →no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-
check=0
Connection →Keep-Alive
Content-Length →0
Content-Type →application/json
Date →Thu, 05 May 2016 06:49:28 GMT
Expires →Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Keep-Alive →timeout=5, max=100
Pragma →no-cache
Server →Apache/2.4.18 (Unix) LibreSSL/2.2.6 PHP/5.5.31
X-Powered-By →PHP/5.5.31
I've been scratching my head for few days and now I just have few hairs left.
Please help. Thank you.
I'm assuming (maybe wrongly) that your code snippet isn't a function.
Change the last line from return to echo as follows:
echo json_encode($data);
Unless the first code snippet is a function, you need to use json_encode not a return statement.
What happens is that Fetch can fetch any type of content, even HTML. What PHP does is it generates content writes it to a file and sends it to the browser. When you generate HTML with PHP you do not return it, you echo it to the page.
The same thing happens with AJAX. You use PHP to write data to a file and serve it.
So replace this:
return json_encode($data);
with this:
echo json_encode($data);
I need to create and delete cookies.
The issue is that I can create, then delete cookie, but after previously deleted cookie I am not able to create a new one. Why?
It works once more after I clear the cache of the browser.
Creating cookie and redirecting to test page:
<?php
$cookie_name = 'name';
$cookie_time = 2000000000;
$cookie_path = '/';
$cookie_value = uniqid();
setcookie($cookie_name, $cookie_value, $cookie_time, $cookie_path);
echo '<script> window.location.assign("test.php"); </script>';
?>
Deleting a cookie and redirecting to test page:
<?php
$cookie_name = 'name';
$cookie_path = '/';
setcookie($cookie_name, '', time() - 3600, $cookie_path);
echo '<script> window.location.assign("test.php"); </script>';
?>
The test page just has print_r($_COOKIE); in it.
What am I doing wrong here? Is the name of the cookie an issue? Is it browsers limitation?
I need to be able to create and delete the cookie whenever I need to.
I tried to avoid the cache by using this code:
<?php
header("Expires: Tue, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT");
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Pragma: no-cache");
?>
The problem may be the browser is caching the page request independently of what the server is telling it to do.
There is a simple trick to get around this. Adding a changing variable to the query string will make the page request unique each time. This will also force the browser to re-load the page even when cached.
For example, add the following to the address bar / page request:
?abc=123
And change the number value each time. Alternatively you can even use a timestamp like so:
?<timestamp>
This will force a standards compliant browser to fetch the page each time.
I have a strange situation here.
I had coded a webpage in php. It works fine throughout the day however if I close it down and try to access it again the following day it doesn't quite work as needed.
For example:
I have a main login page. When the user logs in the URL changes to the following page but it still shows the login input.
if i manually enter the URL again and press CTRL+F5 I get the original page. If I then press on the logout page which calls the logout.php the URL does change but it still shows me the index page until I manually entere the URL and press CTRL+F5 to force refresh.
once all the pages have been accessed this way the website they starts working fine again.
I have put headers to not cache the webpages but that is not helping here.
It happens with all browsers.
Any advice or am I sounding a bit stupid here?
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
session_start();
if(isset ($_SESSION['user']))
{
echo "Logged in as:".$_SESSION['user'];
echo "Home";
echo "Logout";
exit;
}
else
{
echo "<FORM name=\"login\" action=\"index.php\" method=\"POST\" onsubmit=\"return validatelogin(this);\">";
echo "<input type=\"text\" placeholder=\"Username\" name=\"username\">";
echo "<input type=\"password\" placeholder=\"Password\" name=\"password\"> ";
echo "Forgot my password";
echo "<input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\"> ";
echo "</FORM>";
I'm setting a cookie on one page and trying to unset on the next page, which I reach via a link. However, the cookie only gets unset when I refresh the second page, F5.
For testing, I have the link and some cookie setting on the first page like this:
<?php
include("connect-db.php");
$id = "newuser";
setcookie("user_id", $id, time() + 31536000);
if (isset($_COOKIE["user_id"]))
echo "Welcome " . $_COOKIE["user_id"] . "!<br>";
else
echo "Welcome guest!<br>";
?>
<br>
<a href='next.php'>Next</a>
On the next page I have this php code:
<?php
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0"); // HTTP/1.1
header("Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // Date in the past
header('Pragma: no-cache');
setcookie("user_id", "", time()-(60*60*24), "/");
echo "<br /> Welcome " . $_COOKIE["user_id"] . "!<br>";
?>
How can I make sure the cookie is unset on the second page, or the page is fetched anew?
This depends on what you are trying to do. If you have a dependency on the cookie on the client, then you may want to unset it using the client (JavaScript). If the dependency is on the server, then it'd be tough to know what your problem is since you can just write the second part of the code to not depend on the cookie after you "unset" it.
I don't fully recommend this as it's an extra page load that's probably not necessary, but you could also force the sending of headers.
if (isset($_COOKIE['user_id'])) {
setcookie(/* your params */);
header('Refresh: ' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
exit;
}
you can try using the following code in second page
setcookie("user_id", "");
I hope you can solve your problem.
As part of this php login and redirect software I have a piece of code I need to add to the beginning of every page to be secured.
It lets a user on perfectly if they have valid user login information, but if they go to another 'secured' page and attempt to revisit the original page (or just copy and paste its address in a new tab to visit) it goes to a denied access screen.
Does this error occur because theres something wrong with the session cache headers or is it some deeper problem?
It currently looks like this:
<?php
session_start();
session_cache_limiter();
header("Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT");
header("Last-Modified: ".gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s")." GMT");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0",false);
require('config.php');
require('functions.php');
//this is group name or username of the group or person that you wish to allow access to
// - please be advise that the Administrators Groups has access to all pages.
if (allow_access(Users) != "yes")
{
include ('/home/folder/public_html/members/no_access.php');
exit;
}
?>
I've tried changing the headers from other people's questions etc but it doesnt change the problem. I've also looked at any relevant links and made sure they are not broken etc.
The allow access function seems to be this:
function allow_access($group)
{
if ($_SESSION[group1] == "$group" || $_SESSION[group2] == "$group" || $_SESSION[group3] == "$group" ||
$_SESSION[group1] == "Administrators" || $_SESSION[group2] == "Administrators" || $_SESSION[group3] == "Administrators" ||
$_SESSION[user_name] == "$group")
{
$allowed = "yes";
}else{
$allowed = "no";
}
return $allowed;
}
You don't need:
session_cache_limiter();
header("Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT");
header("Last-Modified: ".gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s")." GMT");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0",false);
And might be the stuff that's actually causing the problems.
You can improve this answer by telling us what:
allow_access
Is. And of course use booleans instead of textual yes or no.
Also what is Users ? Is it not a constant from what I see and it is not an object from what I see and it is not a variable...So what is that?