Constructing arrays in Smarty PHP
Hi, Is it possible to construct an array in Smarty, for example I have tried {def $totalitems[0]=3} But that doesn't seem to work. Is it possible in Smarty? Thanks. ...
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Regex Expert - PHP Lookaround
Hi all, I am absolutely useless at regular expressions, so i'd appreciate your help. I have a string, such as this: $foo = 'Hello __("How are you") I am __("very good thank you")' I know it's a strange string, but stay with me please :P I need a regex expression that will look for the content between __("Look for content here") and...
Handling checkout flow data
I am currently developing a little ecommerce application to help me get to grips with CodeIgniter and programming in general. I have a 4 step checkout process. Customer name, email, shipping country Shipping option, shipping address Billing option, billing address Review and submit Currently I am storing all this data in the session...
What is a good, free, AJAX PHP solution for creating a grid with right-click functionality?
I'd like to construct a grid, preferably with pagination built in, and do GETs POSTs etc from a right click submenu and have the grid update. We were using Ext but we found it do be too bulky for our uses. Can anyone recommend another library that is easy to use? Thank you in advance. ...
want to change display format of date and time field in mysql php
my select statement in php is "select * from table"; i use following php statement to display date & time of mysql field <?php echo $row['mdate']; ?> the result come like this 2010-03-09 16:59:18 i want to view the result i following format 09-03-2010 16:59:18 and i want to view the result i f...
PHP exec() Not Working With ffmpeg
Hello all, I'm attempting to run the following command in PHP (on Ubuntu): <?php if (exec("/home/johnboy/ffmpeg/ffmpeg -i test1.mp4 -acodec aac -ab 128kb -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1220kb -mbd 1 -s 320x180 final_video.mov")) { echo "Success"; } else { echo "No good"; } And I always get "No good" echoed back, and no file created. ...
Variable in function from included file - php
Hi. I haven't found a very good answer to my problem so I'm starting a new topic. I have the file english.php which has variables like $lang['fname'] = "First name";. Also I have header.php which includes english.php : include('english.php');. Now, header.php is included in another php page, let say addInfo.php. If I write in addInfo.php...
Parsing javascript date string to timestamp. the tz info is in the date!
I have to parse a javascript date string to a timestamp. If the date string has the TZ info, why do I have to supply a TZ object in the DateTime constructor and again with setTimezone()? Is there an easier way to do this that is aware of the TZ info in the date? $s = 'Thu Mar 11 2010 13:00:00 GMT-0500 (EST)'; $dt_obj = new DateTime($s, ...
strtolower inside preg_replace - possible?
Is it possible to use strtolower in the substitution part of preg_replace? This isn’t working: preg_replace('/(http:\/\/)?(www\.)?([a-zA-Z0-9\-_\.]+\.(com|co\.uk|org|tv|biz)(\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\._\?&=#\+;]+)*)/i', '<a href="http://www.'.strtolower('$3').'" target="_blank">'.strtolower('$3').'</a>', $d); ...
JQUERY Autocomplete using PHP and cross-site problem
Hi, I am trying to load a series of cities/countries in a textbox to display using jquery autocomplete. To do this, I attach the autocomplete to the textbox and call a PHP routine called SEARCH.php. This works fine if SEARCH is on the same server. When I try to call search from a different server (in this case, an ASP server), I get a ...
How do you use anonymous functions in PHP?
Hello, Anonymous functions are available from PHP 5.3. Should I use them or avoid them? If so, how? Thank you Edited; just found some nice trick with php anonymous functions... $container = new DependencyInjectionContainer(); $container->mail = function($container) {}; $conteiner->db = function($container) {}; $co...
Writing to static classes in PHP
Assuming I have a Config class that I use to access the config vars from everywhere (Config::X). Is it possible to implement a function that can be called from outside the class that adds and/or modifies properties? Something like this is what I'm thinking of: class Config { const myVar = 'blah'; public static function write( ...
install PARADOX extension for PHP
I have an ApacheFriends XAMPP running on my windows machine and i am trying to access some Paradox database files directly from PHP. I see that there is an extension for this but how can i install it for my windows system ? Mike ...
Convert date/time (PHP)
Is there an easy way to convert date and time like this: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:00:00 GMT To this format: 20100306T153626 in PHP ...
PHP: best security practices for displayed information?
In PHP, I know that using parameterized queries is the best way to prevent SQL injection. But what about sanitizing user input that will be used for other purposes, such as: Displaying back to a user (potential cross-site scripting vector) Addressing an email or filling in the message body Is htmlentities() the best way to sanitize ...
Get Last Monday - Sunday's dates: Is there a better way?
Hi, I'm preparing a query for mySQL to grab record from the previous week, but I have to treat weeks as Monday - Sunday. I had originally done this: WHERE YEARWEEK(contactDate) = YEARWEEK(DATE_SUB(CURDATE(),INTERVAL 7 DAY)) to discover that mySQL treats weeks as Sunday - Monday. So instead I'm parsing getting the begin & end dates in...
Getting PHP to read the clean URL created by .htacces
I'm trying to create clean URLs and so far I've managed to use .htaccess to convert the following URL: www.example.com/index.php?catagory=Section1&page=Page1 into: www.example.com/Section1/Page1/ The problem is then getting PHP to interpret the URL and extract the variables. Here's the code I'm using: .htaccess code: Options +Follo...
php-cli outputs instead of executing.
Im using Debian testing, i have installed php-cli and when i try to execute a php script it output the source instead of executing it. Example: php test.php <? phpinfo(); ?> any ideas how to fix this behavior, i tried reinstalling and purging no results. ...
Is there any free, open source php CMS\framework for described case?
I want that cms\framework to create me tables like "Users" "Cameras" and so on and declare classes and simple default methods for them (like paged sql relults and so on). I mean I say to it: I want Users to have ID, SpecialNumber and Name Flilds. and I want to get from it class for table generation (to call it once) and class containing...
display array of dates as 12 month view
i work with php/Mysql i have table with two cols (date , cash) with values like {7/2001:100$, 12/2001:50$ , 1/2002:30$ , 5/2002:90$ , 6/2003:80$,9/2003:20$ } i would like to make cash flow table that have cols (Jan,Feb,Mar,............Dec) and row for every year in the date array and the value of cash in the table cells like blow . Ho...