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$dates = range(1,31);  // create an array of numbers 1-31
$match = 3 ;

echo "<select id=day name=day >" . PHP_EOL ;

foreach ($dates as $date){  // iterate (loop) through the array
   
  $selected = ($date === $match) ? "selected=selected" : "" ;
   // same as writing : if this date matches the chosen date, make it selected else echo empty string

  echo "<option = $date $selected>$date</option>" . PHP_EOL ;
}

echo "</select>" . PHP_EOL ;  
--------------------

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$purchaseDate = convertDateToMySQL($_POST['month'], $_POST['day'], $_POST['year']);

// $purchaseDate is now an array

// temp line of debug
var_dump($purchaseDate) ; // inspect it

if($purchaseDate[0] === true){
// go ahead and try and insert it into the db


// etc

$st->bindParam( ":purchaseDate", $purchaseDate[1]); 

// etc

}else{

echo "Warning: $purchaseDate[1]" ;

}  
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<?php
/**
 * Paginator
 * @desc Ajax pagination class
 * @author Omar Abdallah
 * @license GPL
 * @version 1.5
 * @todo add SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS
 */

class AjaxPaginator{
	
	/**
	 * total pages found for this query
	 * @var integer
	 */
	public $totalPages;
	
	/**
	 * 
	 * @var integer
	 */
	public $recordsPerPage ='10';
	
	/**
	 * Total records found from the query (without LIMIT)
	 * @var integer
	 */
	public $affected_rows;
	
	/**
	 * current page id
	 * @var integer
	 */
	public $pageId;
	
	/**
	 * the offset or the record to start from (used in the LIMIT clause)
	 * @var integer
	 */
	public $offset;
	
	/**
	 * The raw query submitted by the user
	 * @var string
	 */
	private $query;
	
	/**
	 * MySQLi connection Object
	 * @var object
	 */
	private $conn;
	
	/**
	 * mysqli_result object made for more flexibility
	 * for more info: http://us.php.net/manual/en/class.mysqli-result.php
	 * @var object
	 */
	public $result;
	
	/**
	 * the search query used in the like clause if it was specified
	 * @var string
	 */
	public $searchQuery='';
	
	/**
	 * fields to search in
	 * @var string | array
	 */
	public $fields='';
	
	/**
	 * How many links for the next and the previous
	 * @var integer
	 */
	public $linksCountLimit = 4;
	
	/**
	 * Debug variable
	 * @var bool
	 */
	public $debug=false;
	
	/**
	 * Group By clause
	 * @var string
	 */
	private $groupBy = '';
	
	/**
	 * Order By clause
	 * @var string
	 */
	private $orderBy = '';
	
	
	/**
	 * 
	 * @param $in_pageID id of the current page
	 * @param $in_recordsPerPage number of records per page
	 * @param $in_query SQL query
	 * @param $in_conn database connection object(mysqli)
	 * @return
	 */
	function __construct($in_pageID=1,$in_recordsPerPage,$in_query,$in_conn){
		$this->pageId = intval($in_pageID);
		$this->recordsPerPage = $in_recordsPerPage;
		$this->query = $in_query;		
		$this->conn = $in_conn;
		
		// order by position
		$orderbyPos = stripos($this->query,'ORDER BY');
		if($orderbyPos !== FALSE){
			$this->orderBy = " ". substr($this->query, $orderbyPos);
			$this->query = substr($this->query, 0, $orderbyPos);
		}
		// group by position
		$groupbyPos = stripos($this->query,'GROUP BY');
		if($groupbyPos !== FALSE){
			$this->groupBy = " ". substr($this->query,$groupbyPos);
			$this->query = substr($this->query,0,$groupbyPos);
		}
	}
	
	private function getAffectedRows(){
		if (! empty ( $this->searchQuery )) {
			$this->addSearch();
		}
		$result = $this->conn->query($this->query. $this->groupBy . $this->orderBy);
		
		if($result== FALSE){
			$err = 'Error: Cannot get affected rows';
			if($this->debug){
				$err .="<br /><b>Query: </b>". $this->query. $this->groupBy . $this->orderBy;
				$err .="<br /><b>Error: </b>". $this->conn->error;
			}
			throw new Exception($err);
		}
		
		$affected_rows = $this->conn->affected_rows;
		return $affected_rows;
	}
	
	/**
	 * The Core function which does the actual pagination
	 * 
	 * @return array Associative array of rows returned
	 */
	public function paginate(){
		
		$this->offset = $this->getOffest();
		
		$this->affected_rows = $this->getAffectedRows();
		$this->totalPages = $this->getTotalPages();
        
        if($this->totalPages==0)$this->totalPages =1;
        		
        // construct the pagination query: in_query + groupby clause + order by clause + limit clause
		$pageQ = $this->query . $this->groupBy . $this->orderBy. " LIMIT " . $this->offset . " , " . $this->recordsPerPage . ";";
		if ($this->debug){
			echo $pageQ;
		}
		
		$this->result = $this->conn->query ( $pageQ );
		if ($this->result == false) {
			$err = 'Error: Cannot Execute Pagination Query';
			if($this->debug){
				$err .="<br /><b>Query</b>". $pageQ;
			}
			throw new Exception ( $err );
		}
		$rows  = array();
		while ( $row = $this->result->fetch_assoc () ) {
			$rows[] = $row;
		}
		
		return $rows;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Add search capability by manipulating the SQL query to handle the like clause
	 * 
	 * @return 
	 */
	private function addSearch(){
		$this->searchQuery = $this->conn->real_escape_string ( $this->searchQuery );
			if (is_array ( $this->fields )) {
				$count = count ( $this->fields );
				for($i = 0; $i < $count; $i ++) {
					// its the first field we have to check for WHERE clause
					if ($i == 0) {
						if (stripos ( $this->query, 'WHERE' )) {
							$this->query .= " AND ({$this->fields[0]} like '$this->searchQuery%'";
						} else {
							$this->query .= " WHERE ({$this->fields[0]} like '$this->searchQuery%'";
						}
					}else{
						$this->query .= " OR {$this->fields[$i]} like '$this->searchQuery%'";
					}
				}
				$this->query .= ") ";
			} else {
				// if only single field to search in
				if (stripos ( $this->query, 'where' )) {
					$this->query .= " AND name like '$this->searchQuery%'";
				} else {
					$this->query .= " WHERE name like '$this->searchQuery%'";
				}
			}
	}
	
	/**
	 * Gets the offset(start number of the LIMIT clause)
	 *
	 * @return string $offset 
	 */
	private function getOffest(){
		// multiply id with no_items_per_page
		$offset = ($this->pageId - 1) * $this->recordsPerPage;
		return $offset;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Get's the number of pages required to display the result
	 *
	 * @return string $totalPages
	 */
	public function getTotalPages(){
		// return the float to higher integer ex:4.5 to 5,3.2 to 4
		$totalPages= ceil($this->affected_rows/$this->recordsPerPage);
		
		return $totalPages;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Generates the pagination links at the bottom of the page
	 * @param $class css class that will be added to the <a> tag
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function getLinks($class = "") {
		
		$output = '';
		// if the current page is not the first
		if ($this->pageId > 1) {
			
			
			$count = 1;
			for($i = $this->pageId; $i >= 1; $i --) {
				if ($count > $this->linksCountLimit)
					break;
				
				if ($i == $this->pageId)
					continue;
				
				$output = "<a href='?page={$i}' id='{$i}' class='{$class}'>{$i}</a>\r\n" . $output;
				
				$count ++;
			}
			
			//previous page link
			$prevPage = $this->pageId - 1;
			$output = "<a href='?page={$prevPage}' id='{$prevPage}' class='" 
			. $class . "'>Previous</a>\r\n" . $output;
			
			if ($prevPage > 1){
				// first page link
				$output = "<a href='?page=1' id='1' class='" . $class 
				. "'>First</a>\r\n" . $output;
			}
			
			
			
		}
		
		$output .= "<span class='thispage'>{$this->pageId}</span>\r\n";
		
		// next pages
		$count = 1;
		for($i = $this->pageId; $i < $this->totalPages; $i ++) {
			if ($count > $this->linksCountLimit)
				break;
			
			if ($i == $this->pageId)
				continue;
			
			$output .= "<a href='?page={$i}' id='{$i}' 
				 class='{$class}'>{$i}</a>\r\n";
			
			$count ++;
		}
		// next and last links
		if ($this->pageId < $this->totalPages) {
			// next link
			$next = $this->pageId + 1;
			$output .= "<a href='?page={$next}' id='{$next}' class='{$class}'>Next</a>\r\n";
			
			if ($this->totalPages != $next){
				// last page link
				$output .= "<a href='?page={$this->totalPages}' id='{$this->totalPages}' class='{$class}'>Last</a>\r\n";
			}
			
		}
		
		return $output;
	}
}

?>--------------------

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<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
include('ajaxpaginator.class.php');
// instantiate mysqli connection
$conn = new mysqli('localhost', 'root', '','test2') ;

$query = "SELECT * FROM customers";

$recordsPerPage = 5;//number of records per page
// page number, records per page, sql query, and the mysqli connection object
$paginator = new AjaxPaginator('1',$recordsPerPage,$query,$conn);
$paginator->debug = true;
try{
	$rows = $paginator->paginate();
}catch (Exception $e){
	echo $e->getMessage();
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>

<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.paginate.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready (function () {
	$('#srch_btn').click(function () {
		$('#listing_container').Paginate();
		return false;	
	});
	
	$('.paginator a').click(function () {
		$('#listing_container').Paginate(this.id);
		return false;	
	});


});
</script>

</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id='search-box' class="search-box">
<form action="" method="get">
<input id="search" type="text" class="search" />
<?php 
$getArray = array();
parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'],$getArray);

foreach($getArray as $key=>$value){

	echo "<input type='hidden' name='{$key}' id='{$key}' value='{$value}' />";
}
?>
<input id="srch_btn" type="submit" value="search" class="button" />
</form>
</div>
<br class="clear" />
<div id="listing_container">



    <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="listing">
	<tr>
		<th nowrap="nowrap" width="40"> ID</th>
		<th nowrap="nowrap" width="450" align='left'>Name</th>
	</tr>
<?php

foreach($rows as $row){
	echo "<tr>";
	echo "<td nowrap='nowrap' align='center'>{$row['id']}</td>";
	echo "<td nowrap='nowrap' align='left'>{$row['name']}</td>";
	echo "</tr>";
}

echo "</table><br />";
$links = $paginator->getLinks ();
echo "<div class='paginator'> " . $links ;

echo "<p>Page " . $paginator->pageId . " of " . $paginator->totalPages . "</p>";

?>
</div> 
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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-- phpMyAdmin SQL Dump
-- version 3.1.3.1
-- http://www.phpmyadmin.net
--
-- Host: localhost
-- Generation Time: Aug 09, 2009 at 08:54 AM
-- Server version: 5.1.33
-- PHP Version: 5.2.9

SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;

SET SQL_MODE="NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO";


/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;

--
-- Database: `test2`
--

-- --------------------------------------------------------

--
-- Table structure for table `customers`
--
-- Creation: Aug 08, 2009 at 11:33 PM
-- Last update: Aug 08, 2009 at 11:34 PM
--

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `customers` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin5 AUTO_INCREMENT=61 ;

--
-- Dumping data for table `customers`
--

INSERT INTO `customers` (`id`, `name`) VALUES
(1, 'alicia Chaffin'),
(2, 'norman Whitten'),
(3, 'howard Cottrell'),
(4, 'natalie Mccollum'),
(5, 'jesse Polanco'),
(6, 'carl Santiago'),
(7, 'craig Chapman'),
(8, 'helen Raab'),
(9, 'carl Lavin'),
(10, 'vanessa Rankins'),
(11, 'douglas Pedigo'),
(12, 'steve Hartfield'),
(13, 'Wegner Pedigo'),
(14, 'christy Sinclair'),
(15, 'jack Kovacs'),
(16, 'bonnie Ivory'),
(17, 'william Allen'),
(18, 'juan Pino'),
(19, 'megan Godin'),
(20, 'bernice Mackie'),
(21, 'douglas Watters'),
(22, 'genevieve Slater'),
(23, 'ralph Aucoin'),
(24, 'virginia Kwon'),
(25, 'Godoy Larson'),
(26, 'frank Villatoro'),
(27, 'anthony Hintz'),
(28, 'johnny Manzo'),
(29, 'joe Dix'),
(30, 'michael Litchfield'),
(31, 'priscilla Weimer'),
(32, 'charles Godwin'),
(33, 'victoria Doney'),
(34, 'irene Petry'),
(35, 'william Byler'),
(36, 'ronald Auger'),
(37, 'steve Tedder'),
(38, 'theresa Goodale'),
(39, 'adam Verdugo'),
(40, 'glenn Simard'),
(41, 'louis Woodring'),
(42, 'phyllis Arbogast'),
(43, 'janice Ripley'),
(44, 'amy Mcginnis'),
(45, 'phillip Wiser'),
(46, 'patrick Perrotta'),
(47, 'crystal Ridenhour'),
(48, 'nathan Ober'),
(49, 'molly Pitzer'),
(50, 'jonathan Tubbs'),
(51, 'Leary Levin'),
(52, 'cathy Pierre'),
(53, 'victoria Searle'),
(54, 'adam Gaskin'),
(55, 'debra Centeno'),
(56, 'kristi Hassan'),
(57, 'marsha Schaffer'),
(58, 'gerald Wrenn'),
(59, 'howard Levin'),
(60, 'ana Larson');

SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;

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<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
var radius = 200; // radius of the circle
var fields = $('.field'),
    container = $('#container'),
    width = container.width(),
    height = container.height(),
    angle = 0,
    step = (2*Math.PI) / fields.length;
fields.each(function() {
    var x = Math.round(width/2 + radius * Math.cos(angle) - $(this).width()/2),
        y = Math.round(height/2 + radius * Math.sin(angle) - $(this).height()/2);
    $(this).css({
        left: x + 'px',
        top: y + 'px'
    });
    angle += step;
});
});
</script>

</head>

<body>
<div id="container">
<!--    <div id="center"></div>
    <div id="crosshair-x"></div>
    <div id="crosshair-y"></div>-->
    <div class="field">1</div>
    <div class="field">2</div>
    <div class="field">3</div>
    <div class="field">4</div>
    <div class="field">5</div>
    <div class="field">6</div>
    <div class="field">7</div>
    <div class="field">8</div>
    <div class="field">9</div>
</div>
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<?php>
if($A < $B) {
      return -1;
} else {
      return 1;
}
?>
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<?php
/* post.php : this page shows what insert.php has sent */
echo(stripslashes($_POST['articleContent']));
?>	
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/[^\.\-\' a-zA-Z0-9]/
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/^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+)*)|(\".+\"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/
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