php

Easy mod_rewrite - So I'll never have to think about it again

Not sure how you'll take this question but... Whenever I try to make my URLs look pretty I always end up messing around for too long and it's simply not worth the trouble. But the end effect is good if it were a simple task. So what I want to do is create a method which in the end would achive something like... index.php?do=user&usern...

Update doesn't work as should be in MySQL

echo $totalprice; echo "<br/>"; echo $shortfall; echo "<br/>"; echo $unitprice; echo "<br/>"; I got 24 80 0.3 Then the following command was executed. // update query However, only total_price was changed(became 0.00) while other values like unit_price stay unchanged. But other values like unit_price sh...

Parsing XML using SimpleXML in PHP

Hello, i have a xml structure of the following form to be parsed using PHP simplexml. <books> <book> <title>XYZ</title> <author> someone </author> <images> <image type="poster" url="<url>" size="cover" id="12345"/> <image type="poster" url="<url>" size="thumb" id="12345"/> </images> </book> <book> <title>PQR</title> <author> someonee...

Disappearing MySQL connections in PHP

I'm writing a script in php which updates my database with certain xml information every 30 seconds. (I'm not allowed any other scripting language, and I find php an easy language to work with anyway) However, because this php script can run for several minutes my mysql database tends to fall away. A lot. So I started to use link ident...

php move_uploaded_file not working on Windows 7 only

I've got a project that I am setting up file uploads for. The project is in Zend, but I am using PHP's $_FILES array and move_uploaded_file to save the files. This was working perfectly on my Windows Vista computer but won't save the file on Windows 7. It creates a new folder for every upload no problem, but won't save the file and ...

Problem with element attribute in php simplexml

Hello, i have a xml structure of the following form to be parsed using PHP simplexml. <books> <book> <title>XYZ</title> <author> someone </author> <images> <image type="poster" url="<url>" size="cover" id="12345"/> <image type="poster" url="<url>" size="thumb" id="12345"/> </images> </book> <book> <title>PQR</title> <author> someonee...

What happens when crontabs overlap?

I'm coding in PHP and threads are a bit out of my league. I'd like to run the same script in parallel. Say my script runs for 2 minutes, and I run it every minute during a cronjob. What happens? Does the first one fall over when the second one runs, or do they just both hum along? ...

how do I force users to download image (like downloading pdf)?

So I wrote an image gallery with an option to download the original image (by default, it displays a resized version of the image). I would love to know how to I The following code will force users to save pdf rather than viewing it with browser, I would love to achieve the same effect for the images (jpg, gif, png) by binding the clic...

Is it correct to say that virtually all CMS' have database abstraction

As a php learner, I have been experimenting with some of the smaller PHP CMS'. All CMS' that I have used employ a database abstraction layer. Am I correct in assuming that this would be a characteristic of just about all PHP CMS'? Thanks! ...

how do I get all checkbox variables even if not checked from HTML to PHP?

I noticed that PHP seems to return only values of checked checkboxes. I would like to see a list of checkboxes, not just values of checked checkboxes. Is there a way to detect variables of unchecked boxes? I asked because I want to be able to update settings. For example, I have a few options that are already checked but if an user dec...

PHP produces a completly white page, no errors, logs, or headers.

While running some PHP code on my private WAMP PC I'm suddenly getting a blank response from the server - no response actually. No headers, no data, nothing in the PHP error logs, nada. I restarted APACHE and PHP but still nothing. I know php is working because I can access other PHP scripts just fine. Firebug reports no headers, ? byte...

MLS Integration (RETSBond RI or?)

I'm looking Specifically for some detailed information on RETSBond Integrator (RI) or something similar. Has anyone used it? Drawbacks? benefits? What I need is something that provides a PHP API out of the box or some kind of RPC exposure. This thing seems to provide an API for batching the MLS server and putting in my own DB which is a...

how do php's declare(ticks) really work?

i created a signal handling class using pcntl_signal which now i want to use for sigalrm the problem i have is that my phpunit test for testing the signalclass works (where im only using declare ticks in the signalclass), but the testclass for testing the alarm class, which in turn using the signalclass doesnt if i add declare(ticks=1) ...

How to retrieve number of results of MySQL result in PHP?

$sql = 'select ...'; $result = mysql_query($sql,$con); Is there a function for this? ...

remove quotes from variable in javascript?

i really dont understand javascript. in php i can do like this: $tags_array = preg_replace('/"/', '', $tags_array); to remove quotes. how do i write it in javscript? ...

Could not instantiate mail function. Why this error occuring

When Im trying to send mail through PHPMailer, im getting this error message. My code is below. Help CODE : <? require("phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php"); // First we require the PHPMailer libary in our script $mail = new PHPMailer(); // Next we create a new object of the PHPMailer called $mail $mail->From = "[email protected]"; $...

session expiry between browser and after browser or system shutdown ?

Hello Sir/Madam , I am in need of session variable must be exist even after browser closed or system shutdown. But in my page it will not support session scope between browsers that is at first i signin with firefox while i login with chrome browser it comes to login page . Why these happen . Please any body help me to solve this pro...

cURL,WireShark. Setting headers to post data and get xml.

Here is the dump from WireShark: POST /drm/drm_production_v2.php HTTP/1.1 content-length: 278 content-type: text/xml User-Agent: UserAgent 1.0 Connection: Keep-Alive Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ= host: www.example.com <methodCall> <methodName>aMethod</methodName> <params> <param> <value> <b...

Theme chooser and theme preview for my website

Hello everyone, I am trying to find out a solution for implementing themes selector on my website build using PHP. After logging in a user is presented with the available themes, and the one that is selected get stored in his profile. But if a user is willing to change the colour of his current theme with his own customized colour, th...

CodeIgniter URLs

Hi, Any one of you who has worked on CI knows that it uses a segmental approach for the urls, eg.: index.php/controller/function/params Let's suppose I have put in place the following URL to submit the contact us form info: index.php/contact/submit_contact Now there is one thing that seems wrong. What if a bad guy sees the source ...