Gif based counter

[Allan Drake]

I am having trouble using a very simple, modifed script from this
address:

http://www.weberdev.com/ViewArticle/Counting---Creating-a-GIF-based-counter-using-PHP-and-MySQL

The script outputs an image with an incorrect file name. For example.
"http://www.debatron.co m/numbers/.gif" Notice the file name is
only partially there. It should be pulling out something like
"1.gif" for a picture of the number 1 etc.

Below is the code I am using. The segment that prints the gif sequence
is at the end. I took alot out, but we are in a large while loop that
is grabbing alot of stuff from mysql. You might have to ignore some of
the code, but I put some in, just in case thats whats screwing it up.


//Grabs $noyes string from mysql data base? (there is more mysql/php
code above this that my progammer was doing in a while loop. Only
$noyes variable is important)

$sqlyes = "Select * from db_debaterespon se where db_debate_iddeb ate =
". MYSQL_RESULT($r esult,$i,"iddeb ate") . " and responsetype=0" ;

$resyes = MYSQL_QUERY($sq lyes);
$noyes = MYSQL_NUMROWS($ resyes);

$sqlno = "Select * from db_debaterespon se where db_debate_iddeb ate =
". MYSQL_RESULT($r esult,$i,"iddeb ate") . " and responsetype=1" ;

$resno= MYSQL_QUERY($sq lno);
$noNo = MYSQL_NUMROWS($ resno);


//configuring variables for the gif counter

$numurl = 'http://www.debatron.co m/numbers/';
$fileending = '.gif';


//Prints the number from $noyes back out as gif image sequence

for ($l = 0; $l < strlen($noyes); $l++) {
echo "<img src=\"$numurl$n oyes[$l]$fileending\">" ;
}

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: Gif based counter

Message-ID: <1185341750.123 569.30840@19g20 00hsx.googlegro ups.comfrom
Allan Drake contained the following:

>echo "<img src=\"$numurl$n oyes[$l]$fileending\">" ;

$noyes probably contains a number, not a string.

Try adding

settype($noyes, "string");


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[Allan Drake]

Re: Gif based counter

$noyes probably contains a number, not a string.
>
Try adding
>
settype($noyes, "string");

Thanks you were right. I found strval($noyes) to work great for my
puproses :) Its always the little things that catch me up.

[Webrickco]

Re: Gif based counter

On Jul 25, 2:34 pm, Allan Drake <superc...@char termi.netwrote:

$noyes probably contains a number, not a string.

>

Try adding

>

settype($noyes, "string");

>
Thanks you were right. I found strval($noyes) to work great for my
puproses :) Its always the little things that catch me up.

Take a look to http://www.webrickco.com. i have a file based counter
with images there. You can access the code and see.