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What would you think needs to be added to improve this site (design wise).
There has been a lot of work put into it and now im really wanting it to be semi perfect.
Any recommendations for a nice simple php forum seeing as i already have a users database.
Are you looking for ready made php forum? I may suggest MyBB which is really simple to manage and edit and it's quite extensible. Or you could try phpBB, which is tougher in personalization but very solid and powerful. If I dint' get the 'question' wrong..
I think you may have forgotten to post the link?
Regarding the forums, what format is your users database already in. For example, do you have some sort of CMS functionality where you have captured user's data, do you have an Excel spreadsheet, Facebook fan page etc.? In other words, how is your user data currently stored?
EDIT - sorry, this was too long to go in the comment field
Data is stored in a mysql database when a user register
So it's some sort of custom form which captures the user info into a database? If you have less than a couple of thousand users and you only need to do this once, probably the easiest thing to do would be to export your users out from the database into a CSV file - see How to output MySQL query results in CSV format? or just use PHPMyAdmin depending on your level of file access.
Many open-source forum softwares (e.g. PHPBB and Phorum) have the ability to import a CSV file, so all you'd have to do then is get a template for your import CSV file, and copy your user data with the correct formatting into this. MyBB (mentioned by Damien) seems fine, and already has some merge functionality - see http://www.mybb.com/downloads/merge-system - I'm not sure if this would suit you though since you haven't identified an existing software (i.e. you might need to write a custom importer).
One trick I have learned is to create a user in any given database driven software (e.g. PHPBB), and export the appropriate user table to CSV using the technique I just mentioned (or using the built in functions in PHPMyAdmin). You can then use this as the template, and then read the data back ito the database, see Import CSV to MySQL . This can be a hit-and-miss technique depending on how many dependant tables there are for the user table.
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First i'll say that I have only a minor knowledge about programming in PHP, MySql, Html and js.
Until now I have made some programs with Ms-Access and vba, and some projects on Google App Script with google script...
Now, I have some simple programs I have made with MsAccess but i want to transform them to be Web Based.
I want to build them again from zero, but, like I said before, I dont know really where to start.
I have tried to search on the web, a various of programs or software to help be to build it easily, but i got completely confused.
I have found beautiful responsive Bootstrap themes with the look i'm searching for, but nothing really programmed with I need (connecting to MySql, add rows, pulling data, etc.).
Here are my needs, except the looking:
Customers management - Add / update / delete / show / search customers
Tickets management - related to customers and again - Add / update / delete / show / search Tickets
Web forms
Printing or sending by mail pre-filled forms / invoices (like reports in access)
An easy Dashboard for all users
Users management - Add / update / delete / show / search / configure privileges for Users
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Do anyone know of any kind of a full example in php or js where I can copy such code blocks as described above ?
I can mange the rest, I want to start from somewhere...
Thank you for you time.
If you are wanting customization to this level you will need to invest copious amounts of time and labor into learning PHP and subsequent libraries, such as utilizing PDO for ODBC work. Do note that the details your provided suggest the scope of this project to be quite large.
However, if you're looking for an out-of-the-box solution you may be better suited asking the Software Recommendations community at https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/.
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I have a client that has a list of several thousand email addresses (and their personal info). If they are holding an event in a particular city, they want to send an email to "everyone in these cities with these parameters". They would like to keep track of who attends each event, let people unsubscribe, but not loose their data, track other attributes about each person over time, etc.
The main company site is in Drupal, but this project can use any platform. Any suggestions about php software that can be customized to do this?
There is heaps of software to do this. You will have to get the data into a form that can be imported into a database though like mysql.
Wordpress has lots of plugins that can import mailing lists and news letters.
Once the data is in a database table then you could also write your own quite easily. If you aren't a coder though wordpress plugins or something similar might be the way to go.
Also, checkout mailchimp and services like that.
p.s. if you send several thousands emails you will probably get black listed :P
Obviously there is lots of software to do this, but I was looking for any advice someone might have to help me narrow down the search because there are so many scripts to test.
In this case, I settled on CiviCRM, which has both a drupal and a wordpress integration and does everything that I needed, specifically the ability to record lots of meta data about the individuals in the database and then to segment that data to use for sending email.
https://civicrm.org/
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Here's what I need: I have a table in a SQLite file, that contains items - descriptions, dimensions, image and thumbnail.
I need to allow someone from outside the company to edit this table through an "admin interface". I need a simple login mechanism to authenticate said user, and I need a form that shows all available rows in the table applicable to him/her, and allow editing the values. That may include uploading images.
Now, I've developed tons of these interfaces before, in several languages. What I'd like to ask is: is there a shortcut? Since this needs to be quick and dirty (i.e., this wasn't in the original plan, I'm not being paid for this, but I may lose a client if I don't have it in place) and be up as soon as possible, is there some open source solution, or any previous PHP code, that I can customize and use in this and future cases?
Any solution that will save me time is welcome.
Thanks for YOUR time :)
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Well if you can use a framework you could use an auto generated admin interface or scaffolding from a framework. Symfony and Cake both have this. Of course thats a lot of dead weight to have if the whole app/site isnt using the framework. But it would make it relatively painless to create. IF you can run this interface on a subdomain that would make it even esier since you dont have to worry about integrating it with anything existing except the DB and shared folder for the uploaded files.
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Does anybody know of any open source project that deals with creating forms or surveys?
The engine needs to function something similar to Survey Monkey (surveys; each containing survey pages; each containing a survey element - radio boxes/check boxes/text areas or other components) - except that we have requirements to brand it with custom look and feel and we have our own custom form interactions. I believe that some of these custom interactions might be worth contributing back to the OSS community as well, but we would rather plug it into an existing project that creating one from scratch.
It would be preferable if such a project used PHP and MySQL but I am fine with any other combination. Any inputs on this would be very useful.
Yes, there are. The following may suit you best:
LimeSurvey
LimeSurvey basically contains everything you need for doing nearly every survey with grace.
ActiveCampaign
Conduct surveys with ease by creating your survey using our proprietary WYSIWYG survey design tool, deploying your survey to your respondents, and fully analyzing the results.
PHPESP
PHP scripts to let non-technical users create surveys, administer surveys, gather results, view statistics. All managed online after database initialization.
I can recommend JForm (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jformphp/). It enables you to create easily customizable forms from a php settings array.
I had built one custom survey as per my requirements over here. May be you can customize it and make it as per your needs and you can host it on your server too. It uses PHP / MySQL. Its not a complete solution though.
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Does anyone know of an online CSV editor written in PHP that will allow a user to open, edit, and save a given CSV file?
All I can find are CSV classes and nothing that can handle dynamic files, just predefined lengths etc.
Parse the CSV file into array. Then, use an array of arrays to populate a matrix of text boxes in your web page. When you submit the form, read the data from $_POST and use fputcsv() to save it.
Think about validation, if relevant.
So you want to be able to open a file, edit it using a web based UI and save it?
Why not use Google Docs?
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fgetcsv would solve your issue. Basically it takes in CSV file and parses it out into an array.
http://www.phpclasses.org/package/2124-PHP-Retrieve-or-change-information-stored-in-CSV-files.html
Point it at a csv, tell it the delimiter, unique field and tell it to edit. Very simple to use. I've had an issue with the delete button but I only just tried it for the first time, I'm sure I can work that out.
Saved me some hours trying to build and test my own.
Edit: Worked out the issue with the unique column (or KeyFieldName as he calls it) don't have spaces in the name of that column (the first row of the csv)