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Lite version of PHP?

Hey all, I was just wondering if anyone knows if there is a smaller version of php. I don't need any full-blown apache support I just need to be able to execute "php" to run a script in the terminal. I already have PHP installed on the server, but I do not have access to running "php" in the terminal. I'd just like to run my script tha...

How digg (or other high load category websites) are storing user sessions?

Hi. How does digg or any other high-traffic website store user sessions? What do they use for storing the user sessions? File system, DB (which one?), memcache or both? Let's imagine a simple situation. Logged user has set the flag "Remember me" during login. We've set a session cookie with expiration date 1 year. For example, we are ke...

How to track a download page with google-analytics and php?

Hi, I have a download page in php that after performing some checks returns a file, without displaying any html: header('Content-Description: File Transfer'); header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=xyz.exe'); header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); header('Expires: 0'); ...

What PHP "Online Project Management Software" would be the best for me?

I have a small project that only employs 2 developers right now (Maybe there will be more developers later, but i wanna keep it small). Maybe it can be non-php software, but i should work fine online at Sourceforge.net. So, can anyone tell me which would be the best free (OpenSouce preferred) software for project management, the feature...

In Kohana 3, how can I tell the form helper to stop inserting 'index.php'

When I use the form::open in Kohana 3, I get this <form action="/my-site/index.php/bla" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8"> Nowhere on my site do I rely on the index.php being there. I think it looks ugly. Is there an easy way to remove the index.php from it. Obviously I know I could do a str_replace(), but I thought there may be...

What is a Factory Design Pattern in PHP?

This confuses me, in the most simplest terms what does it do? Pretend you are explaining to your mother or someone almost please. ...

Wordpress Error - Needs a fix

I am moving a Wordpress blog to a new server and have the database in place and the files in place but I am getting an error: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/nasepa/public_html/2009/blog/wp-config.php:1) in /home/nasepa/public_html/2009/blog/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 850 W...

Missing required extension: XMLRPC

I'm trying to install KnowledgeTree Community Edition on my CentOS VPS. One of the requirements for this was ZendServer - Which I had to install via their universal installer as installing via YUM was just straight out failing. I assume due to CPanel... Anyway, I got ZendServer installed and then downloaded the source of KnowledgeTree a...

How to deal with multilingual web content?

Situation is simple. I'm starting to develop a website that should be localized based on visitor's origin IP address. It's a PHP-MySQL stack. How do I go about the multilingual text content? I am thinking of having a language table in the database with the primary key as content identifier, another column for page identifier and separat...

Help with a form being submitted and .htaccess rule

I use this rule so all URLs have a trailing slash rewriteRule ^(([a-z0-9\-]+/)*[a-z0-9\-]+)$ $1/ [NC,R=301,L] it will convert /about to /about/ The problem is, however, if I submit a form (POST) to /about, when it rewrites to /about/, it loses all the POST info ($_POST in PHP is blank) is there a way to rewrite it for everything exc...

How does this PHP know which array key/values to use?

Below is part of a PHP database class someone else wrote, I have removed about 80% of it's code, all the un-related code to my question has been removed and just the amount remains that allows me to test this class without actually hitting a real database. This class has a couple methods that let you set a key and value it then turns ...

How to only show the first x characters of a post as a preview (PHP)?

I was wondering how you would show only the first "x" characters of a post, as a preview. Sort of like what StackOverflow does when they show there list of questions. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog goes to The quick brown fox jumps... I dont want to split up a word in the middle. I was thinking the explode function sp...

Magento Complex Attribute: Value(s) = (Drop-Down item + Text Field input), and need an "Add Another" button.

Hello all! I'm in the early stages of planning and developing a Magento-based site. My company carries around 20,000 items. One of the most valuable features on our current site is the ability to cross-reference our items based on our competitor's item number. Any one item of ours can have between 0 and 30+ Competitor Cross-References....

Jquery not responding for external loaded page

Hello, I've been lookings days for solving a problem, but i can not find the trick.. When i load an external php page into a div and click afterward on a link come with the external php code, this link does nothing. Please take a look at this code. index.php Test <script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <...

CodeIgniter form submit redirects to localhost

I have a CodeIgniter project with a very simple test application. Controller opens a view (PHP page) which has a text box and a submit button. When I press the submit button, instead of redirecting to the appropriate function call in the controller, I get redirected to localhost/xampp. here's the code on my view, which SHOULD be redire...

PHP variable as part of a jQuery function doesn't work, but plain text does

I have the following jQuery code in my PHP file (edited Jan 19 2010 @ 10:40 MST): <?php $count = 0; foreach($attachments as $attachment) : echo '<script type="text/javascript"> $(\'#a_'.$count.'\').click(function() { $(\'#d_'.$count.'\').show(200); }); // if "no...

trying to show a total from mysql in php

I am trying to get the qunt with are int and add them all up and show a total $qunt = 0; $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM properties_items WHERE user_propid='$view' ORDER BY id DESC") or die (mysql_error()); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $ite...

Jquery .post used to store php session variable. How to avoid refresh to call session value.

I am using jquery's .post ajax call to pull an form input value and pass it to a php file that starts a session and stores the value in it. The session value is then called on a different page. The problem is, this all takes place without a page refresh, so the session value is always one page refresh behind. I.E. the first time the ses...

mod_rewrite Probs

Hi Guys, I am quite new to PHP and just getting started with mod_rewrite. I know the basic lingo but come stuck when I want to simply refer to the route directory i.e. this is not probs RewriteRule ^settings/$ settings.php [QSA,L] But how to for example make: RewriteRule ^page/(.*)$ index.php?Page=$1 [QSA,L] which gener...

How to fix this PHP error?

I have a header method that shows in the top of a page, it is inside a class, inside my header() method I run this code here to start a new Profiler object... //start new page timer object $profiler = new Profiler; $profiler->start(); After a bunch of other files are compiled, I then include a file into the footer section, in this f...