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Need complete example of authentication / authorization / access control in Zend Framework 1.9

I have some Zend Framework apps running and it's time to add user access restrictions. I am a firm believer that you should try to avoid rolling your own security infrastructure whenever possible and so I have been trying to figure out how to use Zend_Auth and Zend_Acl to implement it, so far without success. I have searched all over th...

Thoughts on Abandoning Proprietary Framework for A Larger Open Source Project

We have been going back and forth a lot around our office lately about abandoning a proprietary framework that was developed here a couple of years ago and move to something that is larger and community supported. Our current solution was built to include only the things we need and is very flexible, by flexible i mean that it is loose...

CodeIgniter configuration with mod_rewrite, xampp and windows.

I'm a noob to CodeIgniter and am trying to figure out the configuration for an app I'm building. Something is wrong with my setup. I'm running XAMPP on Windows and am using an alias directory to point to the applications directory. In other words: "http://localhost/app_name/ " points to the root directory of the application. It all s...

Strategy for developing namespaced and non-namespaced versions of same PHP code

I'm maintaining library written for PHP 5.2 and I'd like to create PHP 5.3-namespaced version of it. However, I'd also keep non-namespaced version up to date until PHP 5.3 becomes so old, that even Debian stable ships it ;) I've got rather clean code, about 80 classes following Project_Directory_Filename naming scheme (I'd change them t...

Study Roadmap for PHP?

I need to know what are the right order of the PHP learning steps, I have learnt PHP basics, OOP basics too, and I made some small projects using them, however, there are a lot of subjects and techniques in PHP and I'm confused with what to begin first and then what etc? Following a methodical way when learning anything can save a lot o...

php won't include an existing file: permission denied

You will laugh if you read to the end of this :) This is now driving me nuts - can't get php to include an existing file with proper permissions set etc. I have test.php file and "lib/tools.php" file. I run the following code: $fn = 'C:\Sasha\ThreeDiamonds\www\lib\tools.php'; if(file_exists($fn)){ echo "Trying to INCLUDE THE BLood...

Phing, call a command get its output into a property

I have a script that can lookup and output or write my current release # to a text file. Now the only problem is how do I get this version number into a PHING property. Right now my PHING target builds build.zip and built.tar, I would like it to build build-1.0.0.zip or whatever the version script decides the current version is. How can...

php preg_match_all html dates with slashes error

I've trying to preg_match_all a date with slashes in it sitting between 2 html tags; however its returning null. here is the html: > <td width='40%' align='right'class='SmallDimmedText'>Last Login: 11/14/2009</td> Here is my preg_match_all() code preg_match_all('/<td width=\'40%\' align=\'right\' class=\'SmallDimmedText\'>Last(...

Why is my text changing size randomly

A little disclaimer before I get ridiculed for not putting up code examples: I would have to put my whole site on here so there is nothing really specific except a combination of PHP,CSS,JAVESCRIPT,and XHTML that creates 70 plus pages Basically I am just looking for a guess on what it could be making my text change sizes randomly. I can...

I need help parsing a PHP array for an embedded Google Calendar

I'm not sure I'm headed on the right path but what I want to do is have an embedded Google Calendar with multiple calendars encoded in the iframe source. Example: <iframe src="https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=cjvssf4vj98hoa4os5hr26fmcg%40group.calendar.google.com&amp;amp;src=cjvssf4vj98hoa4os5hr26fmcg%40group.calendar.google.co...

A function to determine whether one type extends or inherits another in PHP?

Is there a way in PHP to know if one class inherits another? class Controller { } class HomeController extends Controller { } class Dummy { } // What I would like to do $result = class_extends('HomeController', 'Controller'); /// true $result = class_extends('Dummy', 'Controller'); /// false ...

many people remove the copyright from my script , what i can do ?

many people remove the copyright from my script , what i can do ? best wishes it is a php script and open source :D ...

Select duplicates with PHP & MySql for merging process

I wrote some code to select duplicates and group them using first and last names. I gather them into a multidimensional array and dedupe/merge them using jQuery/Ajax on the resulting page. I would like to ask if there is a better method of creating the array than how I'm doing it. Here is my code. Thank you. $dataArr=fetchDups($conn, 13...

How to use a foreach loop, but do something different on the last iteration?

This is probably a simple question, but how do you iterate through an array, doing something to each one, until the last one and do something different? I have an array of names. I want to output the list of names separated by commas. Joe, Bob, Foobar I don't want a comma at the end of the last name in the array, nor if there is o...

Howto Prevent IFraming w/ Whitelist

I'm creating some IFrameable content. We want the user to be able to IFrame this page, but only from a set list of domains. Is there anything that we can check to see what the domain name of the parent page is? if (top != self) { top.location.replace(self.location.href); } ...

PCI Compliance + Magento + PHP version

I'm trying to get PCI Compliance for my dedicated server (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), which is running Magento. When I first installed Magento on the server, I realized that RHEL comes with a PHP version which is too old for Magento (5.1.6). So, I found a separate repo with PHP version 5.2.11, which got everything running fine, but now I'...

Is it possible to replace a function in php (such as mail) and make it do something else?

I want to rewrite a function in PHP (let's say the mail() function), and want to make it so when I call mail() from now on, it will load my version of mail() and not the default php version. Is this possible in php? The reason I want to do this is because I have thousands of lines of code which call mail() and I don't want to rewrite al...

How to redirect in PHP

I wrote <? header("Location:http://example.com"); ?> but Redirect is not occured. How to redirect? But I do not have authority to edit php.ini So safe_mode is on in php.ini ...

if uses haven't accept payment, unset session after 5-10 min. PHP

Hey I', working with a small webshop, (includes a simpel online store - no users requires). I need to find out if an session user haven't "accepted" the payment after.. 5-10 min. If not, I have to "roll-back" the store and set the current shop sessions to null. Any helps how to do it? Or examples would be great.. thx for now ...

Sporadic/random page display problems

This is for a website written in PHP (with very minimal JS, only used for a drop-down menu), using CSS, and a mySQL DB. 95 percent of the time my pages display fine. But occasionally as I click back and forth between pages, the page I've just clicked to does not display properly. It's always the same pattern of non-display when it happe...