Make your own PHP adoptables system

[Lady]

I don't know if this has been explained/asked/whatever yet, but if it has please ignore/point me there.

How do you disable older adopts from being adopted? You can always type in the adoption code in the address bar and find older pets, but I'd like to "close" those old adopts. Is that possible?

[Nick]

Hm, that's interesting, Lady! Actually, it doesn't support that right now. Fortunately, adding it is easy. In your XML file where you have something like:

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<adoptable id="1">

Just edit it like:

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<adoptable id="1" closed="1">

Then in adopt.php, after this line:

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$adoptable=find_adoptable($_REQUEST['id']);

You can add:

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if (isset($adoptable['closed'])) exit();

Now if people try to guess the older ID numbers, they just get an empty page and no adoption.

[Lady]

Hm, that's interesting, Lady! Actually, it doesn't support that right now. Fortunately, adding it is easy. In your XML file where you have something like:

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<adoptable id="1">

Just edit it like:

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<adoptable id="1" closed="1">

Then in adopt.php, after this line:

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$adoptable=find_adoptable($_REQUEST['id']);

You can add:

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if (isset($adoptable->closed)) exit();

Now if people try to guess the older ID numbers, they just get an empty page and no adoption.

Awesomeness. You should probably add another little bit on the coding about that, or just post a link to your post to point it out.

[SilverFlame]

Okay well there aren't any useful files uploaded there. Tell me when you've uploaded the files from the tutorial.

I have "Simple" and "default" uploaded, I'm not going to go any farther than that if they don't even work...

[Nick]

Default.php isn't a tutorial file, it's a file that 000webhost uploaded to introduce your site.

Your simple.php seems to be working fine:

http://silverflame.comoj.com/simple.php?id=1



http://silverflame.comoj.com/simple.php?id=2




~Meg~, can you post the URL to your site so I can try to fix that one for you.

[SilverFlame]

Sorry, must've gotten Default confused with an earlier file I deleted.

Really? All I'm getting is just the website URL. No image, just plain text of the URL.

[Nick]

You mean, you don't see those images in my post? Try pressing refresh in your browser.

[SilverFlame]

No, I see them in the post, just not on my site.

[Nick]

What addresses are you trying to go to to view them? The correct addresses to view those pics were in the post I made. As is demonstrated in the tutorial, you need to include the ?id=1 or ?id=2 part to tell simple.php WHICH pet it is supposed to display. If you just go to simple.php on its own, it doesn't know which picture to show so it just shows nothing.

[SilverFlame]

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<?php

//Tell the browser that we are sending it a PNG image to display
header("Content-Type: image/gif");

if ($_REQUEST['id']==1) {
    //Echo the contents of the image file called "dogbaby.png" to send it to the browser
    readfile("1gold.gif");
} else if ($_REQUEST['id']==2) {
    //Echo the contents of the image file called "ratbaby.png" to send it to the browser
    readfile("1silver.gif");
}
exit();
?>


That's the code. It shows both IDs.