Does EOF actually exist?
Hi, When I use file functions in PHP, I check for EOF. I wonder if EOF actually exist in a file. When I create an empty text file, it displays 0KB. How does EOF exist in a file with 0KB? ...
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Do you have health checks in your web app or web site?
I have built PHP based "health check" scripts for several projects in the past, but they were always custom-made for the occasion and not written for abstraction as an independent product. I would like to know whether such a solution exists. What I meam by "health check" is a protected web page that functions much like a suite of unit t...
Redirect folder to different server
I know you can redirect subdomains to a different server, but can you do the same with folders? Say I have example.com. I can redirect mysubdomain.example.com to a different server, but can I redirect example.com/mysubdomain to a different server? I'd like to host a rails app in that folder on a site that runs php while still maintainin...
Is there any legitimate use for bare strings in PHP?
This question got me thinking about bare strings. When PHP sees a string that's not enclosed in quotes, it first checks to see if it's a constant. If not, it just assumes it's a string and goes on anyway. So for example if I have echo $foo[bar]; If there's a constant called bar it uses that for the array key, but if not then it treat...
Safety using $_SERVER variables
Hi all, I'm working on a system that relies in $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] to get the user address and check it against a white list of addresses. Is this approach safe? Or is there a way of forcing values in superglobal variables? Thank you, Diogo ...
simple web based document management app - with workflow
hi.. conducting a broad search for an "open source" php web based app that allows for a basic workflow process for moving docs from one user to the next, based on the role/access control of the user. the idea, is that a doc can be submitted to the site. a user who's assigned a roleA for the doc is notified that the doc is ready.. the u...
Why do I get "mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid"
Why do I get a "mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid" for the first... $r = mysql_query($q, $connection); In the following code... $bId = trim($_POST['bId']); $title = trim($_POST['title']); $story = trim($_POST['story']); $q = "SELECT * "; $q .= "FROM " . DB_NAME . ".`blog` "; $q .= "WHERE `blog`.`id` = {$bId}"; $r...
Java or php tree structure problem
Hi All, I have all my data in my database. It has following 4 columns id source_clust target_clust result_clust 1 7 72 649 2 9 572 650 3 649 454 651 4 32 650 435 This data is like tree structure. source_clust and target_clust generate target_clust. target_clust can be source_cl...
Wordpress auto excerpts from post content?
I'm trying to create an auto generated post excerpt from the current page's post content using a function in my theme's header file. The post excerpt will be used as the page's meta description. Can someone give me an idea of how you might go about this once you've got the post content into a string variable? The somewhat tricky part is...
School Project for final year
I'm in final year of my degree and it is required that i do a final year project. I have decided to do something on adaptive websites that implements customisation, personalisation and basically adaptation via heat maps and weblogs. So for a prototype i would be designing a website for tertairy level students and see if these technologie...
Formatting text received via api
I get text via api and sometimes the text can be like so: hello world! How are you? But I do need the text to be like this: hello world! How are you? How to do that? ...
Why is it not good to use $_SESSION in Restful Implementations?
Original Question: i read that for RESTful websites. it is not good to use $_SESSION. Why is it not good? how then do i properly authenticate users without looking up database all the time to check for the user's roles? I read that it is not good to use $_SESSION. http://www.recessframework.org/page/towards-restful-php-5-basic...
Weird error using preg_match and unicode
if (preg_match('(\p{Nd}{4}/\p{Nd}{2}/\p{Nd}{2}/\p{L}+)', '2010/02/14/this-is-something')) { // do stuff } The above code works. However this one doesn't. if (preg_match('/\p{Nd}{4}/\p{Nd}{2}/\p{Nd}{2}/\p{L}+/u', '2010/02/14/this-is-something')) { // do stuff } Maybe someone could shed some light as to why the one below doesn't...
Notification Email Best Practices--From Server Setup to Programming
All, I'm in the process now of building a SaaS tool that allows network admins to (among many many other things) generate notification emails to their membership (the end-users of our platform). I'm running into a bit of an "out of my expertise" wall, as I know there are a lot of variables involved with configuring an application that ...
Replace use of explode() with str_split()
$transData = fgets($fp); while (!feof ($fp)) { $transArry = explode(" ", $transData); $first = $transArry[0]; $last = $transArry[1]; $Sub = $transArry[2]; $Grade= $transArry[3]; echo "<table width='400' ><colgroup span='1' width='35%' /><colgroup span='2' width='20%' /> <tr><td> ".$first." ".$last." </td><td> ...
Why am I returning empty records when querying in mysql with php?
I created the following script to query a table and return the first 30 results. The query returns 30 results, but they do not have any text or information. Why would this be? The table stores Vietnamese characters. The database is mysql4. Here's the page: http://saomaidanang.com/recentposts.php Here's the code: <?php header( 'Co...
How to setup Eclipse PDT on a bare Windows box?
I have installed Eclipse PDT All-In-One and nothing works (I can edit PHP source but cannot execute any PHP Scripts). Do I also need to install my own PHP interpreter? Do I need XAMPP? WAMP? Cygwin? XDebug? Zend? I'm looking for the smallest amount of stuff that I need to install to get a working PHP IDE, starting with an empty install...
Pagination with multiple searcing criteria in codeigniter
By default the pagination links will be <a href="http://mysite/index.php/student/page/0">1</a> and <a href="http://mysite/index.php/student/page/1">2</a> If i use the search criteria, (id name), all the 2 are optional. $config['base_url'] = base_url()."index.php/searchStudent/".$id."/'".$name."'/"; $config['tota...
Pulling name value pair from a structured adsense code block contained in a txt file
I have a txt file which contains a google adsense code block and I'm trying to pull in the file via file_get_contents to extract the values of the google_ad_client and google_ad_slot variables. In the examples below, I want to return to my calling function: $google_ad_client = 'pub-1234567890987654'; $google_ad_slot = '1234567890' T...
Application development using google applications? Need a Jump start!
Hi guys I'm developing a collaboration system and our team has been at it for the past couple of years. However the boss suggested that we try and redevelop it using something robust. Basically our collaboration system incorporates a webmail client and a custom built contacts management system plus project management system. My boss like...