PHP's pcntl_fork funcion is supposed to fork a process just as the standard fork function in C. But I was wondering if this function really forks the process or if it emulates that behavior in a different way. If it really forks the process then it's clear which process that is: one of Apache's child processes. That's OK as long as Apach...
I had multiple checkbox which is generated using loop. After submitting the form I want to get the names of the selected individual checkbox to store it in database as id. Please help me.. Thanks in advance Code i used for generating checkbox in loop: while($arrayRow = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsrcResult)) { $strA = $arrayRow["area_...
Hi, i own a site with a high load cpu httpd request per minute. I've noticed i use "file_exists" on each httpd request. Is that function to much heavy? ...
So I have a module that displays articles. And I tried to make an action that displayed all article of a certain publication when that publication was clicked. I tried following the way to do this on the symfony jobeet tutorials but I ran into some new headaches. Since publications and authors can sometime be url unfriendly, I want to us...
Example: <?php $formElement->display()?> Is this fine, or should I provide a ; ? Well I guess that the PHP interpreter is clever enough to see that the line is finished and the expression done because of the ?> at the end. Right? ...
Hi, do you know how can i put a dot (.) after 3 digits of a number(starting from the end) in php? example: the number 1254631 to be shown as 1.254.631?? ...
Ok I have a cookie set, and I can clearly see it if I go to private data in Firefox... ok so when I echo it on one page in a certain directory it works, (www.example.com/dir), but on the index page of the site (www.example.com), it wont echo, it says the cookie is not set. Yes I have cookies enabled, yes I tried clearing cache and all th...
I have an iframe on my main page, and this iframe uses php code mostly (src is php file). At the bottom of this iframe I have this: window.parent.document.getElementById("qry_str").value='hey'; And in the main (parent) file, I have this hidden input which I am trying to set from the iframe with js: <input type="hidden" i...
I have a form with many inputs, but not all inputs must be filled in. Form action is set to a php file, which checks which inputs are set and builds a query to query MySQL. Then I display the results on the main page, and the users may click on an ad to show. When clicked an ad, a new page opens with several options for the user (chang...
I'm looking for a function to dump a multi-dimension array so that the output is valid php code. Suppose I have the following array: $person = array(); $person['first'] = 'Joe'; $person['last'] = 'Smith'; $person['siblings'] = array('Jane' => 'sister', 'Dan' => 'brother', 'Paul' => 'brother'); Now I want to dump the $person variable ...
PDO and prepared statements are still kind of confusing to me, no matter how much I read about them so far. So I know they are more "secure" but is it really that important? I mean I can get the same end result using basic mysql with mysql_real_escape_string() and htmlspecialchars() right? ...
Hi, I was wondering if there is a shorter way of writing the following code: <input type="text" name="username" value="<?if(isset($_POST['username'])){ echo $_POST['username']; }?>" /> I hate having to do this will all my forms as the isset() check really messes up my HTML and scares away the frontenders. ...
I'd like to use an exception for error handling in a part of my code but if the code should fail, I would like the script to continue. I want to log the error though. Can someone please help me figure this out? try{ if($id == 4) { echo'test'; } } catch(Exception $e){ echo $e->getMessage(); } echo'Hello, you shou...
I have a root XML node called and I am trying to add a new child called to this but I am getting errors. Inside there is also children. Here is my code: $xml = new DomDocument(); $xml->load(X_ASSETS); $xml->formatOutput = true; $new_id = $this->getNewAssetId(); // Root $xpath = new DOMXPath($xml); $asset...
Hello guys, I have two associative arrays in PHP that are defined as following: $this_week[] = array( "top_song_id" => $row["view_song_id"], "top_place" => $i, "top_move" => "0", "top_last" => $i, "top_peak" => $i, "top_rating" => get_song_rating_by_id($row["view_song_id"]), "top...
I need to build a PHP photo processing class, I know there are MANY that already exist to the public but I need to build one to do just what I need done and nothing extra and nothing less. I need my class to do this... 1) I create a new instance of my class and I pass in either a URL of a photo, or the path to a local photo being up...
I am able to retrieve information from a SQLite database in PHP, but not write to it. For example, this code works perfectly fine: $db = new PDO("sqlite:foo.db"); $rowCount = $db->query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tblname;")->fetchColumn(0); echo $rowCount; // works as it should However, the following snippet results in an, 'unable to open ...
I am looking to implement a 'youtube related videos' style related content system. I have 5 tags/keywords for each of my pages, a title and a description. I would like to display links to the two most similar pages. I am guessing a mysql query based around order by relevance. many thanks. ...
Hello all, I am making use of JQuery to fire off an AJAX request. As soon as that PHP script is initiated I want to redirect my browser to a different page. But the AJAX request must have been fired off successfully, it doesn't matter what that scripts returns. Currently I do the following, but it redirects instantly whilst the script w...
Hello all, I would like to run a PHP script from another PHP script so that the parent comes back with a success when it initiates the child script. The parent will be initiated from the browser where I am using sessions. Will the child script be able to make use of the same session and session variables if run via exec? Thanks all fo...