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what is the best PHP search engine-friendly method?

What method can you recommended for creating search engine-friendly URLs? When coding in PHP that is. Ideally I would like something like: http://www.example.com/article/523544 So it doesn't display the file it's opening (eg article.php) ...

How would you call a method from all instances of a class?

I am writing a basic game engine and have an abstract class that represents any object that can be drawn in the 3D world, however inside this class is an abstract method Render() which I would like called automatically by the engine on each draw phase. How could I implement this so that every class extending from my abstract class will a...

3d engine for iPhone

Hi, all ! Which engine is best ? I've finded some engines : Ogre, Irrlicht and direct rendering from opengles (convert .obj files into buffer and rendering it). I've compiled Ogre - CeGUI works very ugly on iPhone... And Ogre has many-many files :) I need just rotate, zoom and object picking for static objects. Which method/engine is...

what are MathJax opensource analogs for ActionScript\MXML developers?

what are MathJax opensource analogs for ActionScript\MXML developers? so to be cqapable to render strings like this J_\alpha(x) = \sum_{m=0}^\infty \frac{(-1)^m}{m! \, \Gamma(m + \alpha + 1)}{\left({\frac{x}{2}}\right)}^{2 m + \alpha} into stuff like this ...

Scalable application with ASP.NET or Google AppEngine

I got experience in ASP.NET application development. Now I want to develop my own application that should support huge traffic and it should be scalable. My site publishes news, videos and images. Having already experienced in ASP.NET, whether it is fine to go with ASP.NET or Google AppEngine is good for building scalable application? T...

CAD like 3D geometry C/C++ library

Dear all, I am looking for a good 3D CAD like library. I need basic geometry shapes (cube, sphere, torus etc.) and the library should make the surface mesh - based on the shapes and some boolean operations. I like VTK. It has great source objects, but unfortunatelly it has no intersection and union filters/commands. I have found many ...

Backup/Restore MySQL ARCHIVE engine table - Can't find file

Hi, I recently did a backup of an MySQL ARCHIVE (engine) table and I am trying to restore this table on another server. Basically, the backup process was to copy the .ARZ and .frm and move the files on the new server. Then I chmoded the files (mysql:mysql) and set the permissions (now it appears 777 since I wanted to make sure it was no...

Intercepting DOM and JS engine calls

Hi All, I want to intercept DOM object read and write queries fired by JS while getting loaded by the browser. After intercepting these calls, i wish to screen them. I have written the logic for screening but am not able to block the calls. Is there any way other than modifying source code of the browser to achieve this? If so pls help...

Is Fisual FoxPro/FoxWeb Compatible with Ajax Push Engine (APE) ?

I'm researching how to setup an Ajax Push Engine (APE) but my first question is if Visual FoxPro9/FoxWeb Server environment will work with an APE. Does anyone know? ...

Custom Search Engine

How would you implement a custom search engine? What do you think about something like this: SELECT * FROM jobs WHERE job_id IN ( SELECT job_id FROM job_words WHERE word_id IN (SELECT word_id FROM words w WHERE text = 'carpenter')) AND job_id IN ( SELECT job_id FROM job_words ...

What CodeIgniter template library is best?

Hello, As I see, there's a few Codeigniter template engines scattered all over the web, but unfortunately I can't recognize which is better in regard to: performance, features, maintenance ..etc Some of those I've reached and seems to be mature: Ocular-Template-Library http://github.com/lonnieezell/Ocular-Template-Library Template Lib...

Expression Engine CMS

I’m looking at using Expression Engine for a new site I’m developing does anyone have any experience of using EE, good or bad? I’ve looked at some other CMS but found they are quite big and although you get everything, I like EE as it looks like you can streamline it to exactly what you want your users to use? The main feature I need i...

How to solve problems with deadlocks in InnoDB engine?

I have heard about this problem and now I am looking for more specific information? How does it happens, what are the reasons for that, detailed explanation of the mechanism of the deadlock to try to avoid it. How to detect the deadlock, solve it and protect the data from being corrupted because of it. The case is when using MySQL with ...

MySQL: InnoDB |OR| MyISAM ?

I have two tables: Users and Friendships. The actions I have in the website are: Register Log in Select friends/people from users table Add people as friends There are a little more actions but in general i wanted to know : The Question: Should I use InnoDB or MyISAM for the tables ? ( Or InnoDB for one and MyISAM for the other ? ...

Any Smarty Users out there? Here's a domPDF challenge.

I have a working dynamic content query/echo file that I need to convert to template for use with domPDF. Would someone look at my code that's not executing to see where I'm going wrong? (Btw, the sendPDF.tpl file is in path: /Smarty/mg/templates/ -- sendPDF.php is in /Smarty/mg/ and smartyTEST.php is in my root path) thanks much Allen ...

Saving map data in a 2d ORPG

I'm trying to figure out how I can best save the map data for a 2d ORPG engine I am developing, the file would contain tile data (Is it blocked, what actual graphics would it use, and various other properties). I am currently using a binary format but I think this might be a bit too limited and hard to debug, what alternatives are there...

Rails 3 Engine - Provide Config For Users

I can't seem to find any documentation on how to do the following: I need to provide a config variable for any applications using my engine so that they can easily pass settings to my engine. Does anyone have any links to a proper or accepted way to do this? EDIT: As an update, I figured out a decent way to do this. Code is below. # f...