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PHP getimagesize with ampersand in string creates errors

I'm using the getimagesize function in PHP, and the path string contains an ampersand, which otherwise is fine. The page gives me errors where getimagesize() is called. Looking at the source code, though, I see the ampersand is being passed through as & rather than just & I presume this is causing errors because PHP doesn't need to conv...

php custom forum error

i have a form, and i want to have it be limited at 10 characters minimum. that is no problem, but what i want to do is echo the error at the top of the page, which is being included, so i cant just do: echo '<div class="error">Error</div>'; i want to have a designated div that is empty (will be on the included header page), but when t...

help with validate field

hello, how do i check a field contain number and alphabet. something like $str = 3ab, ab3, a3 ...

PHP problem with getimagesize()

I'm using the getimagesize() function in PHP and it keeps returning an error: getimagesize(image.php?name=username&pic=picture) [function.getimagesize]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory I'm not doing anything strange with it. The only problem I can imagine is that the path URL is another PHP script that returns a pa...

PHP loop hanging/interspersed/threaded through HTML

I can't figure out how to say what I'm talking about which is a big part of why I'm stuck. In PHP I often see code like this html <?php language construct that uses brackets { some code; ?> more html <?php some more code; } ?> rest of html Is there any name for this? Having seen this lead me to try it out so here ...

getting 502 proxy error while parsing

Iam parsing a page and im getting response from that but after some time i.e. after some of the parsing gets done i get this error from the server - Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request GET /file.php. Reason: Error reading from remote server ...

PHP - get MySQL query results as their native data type?

I've tried fetching MySQL query results using mysql_fetch_row() mysql_result() and numeric values are being returned as strings. Is there any way to fetch the data as its datatype stored in the table? The application will be querying many different queries so I will be unable to cast the values as the intended datatype on a 1 by 1 basi...

RegEx - How to Extract Price?

How would I extract the dollar amount from the following string "some text will go here and more and more and then there will be some price $34.03 but that doesn't mean the string will end" I want to extract $34.03...also want to extract if there is no cents "some text will go here and more and more and then there will be some price $...

Display Contents of a doc file in a textarea in php.

I want display the content of doc file in a textarea for my project using PHP as it is means line break, font size etc. Any code or how to do it. And i will be fetching that doc file from database. ...

php custom post variables

is there a way to create custom post variables when a user presses submit, like this: $_POST['var'] = 'hi'; ...

Drupal incorrectly escapes tags in javascript

I installed drupal-6.16. I applied the patch from the post http://drupal.org/node/222926#comment-930745. It works correctly in simple cases. But following code of counter is handled incorrectly and counter is now displayed on the page after drupal. Drupal modifies the string "alt='1Gb.ua counter'><\/a>")</script> to "alt='1Gb.ua co...

Easiest PHP Shopping Cart to Skin

After frustration with installing custom designed skins for ZenCart, I was wondering which, if any, of the PHP shopping carts out there have a good templating system that makes it easy (or easier) to install custom designs? ...

Filter some words

I want to filter some reserved word on my title form. $adtitle = sanitize($_POST['title']); $ignore = array('sale','buy','rent'); if(in_array($adtitle, $ignore)) { $_SESSION['ignore_error'] = '<strong>'.$adtitle.'</strong> cannot be use as your title'; header('Location:/submit/'); exit; How to make something like this. If user type C...

Preventing entire JOINed MYSQL query from failing when one field is missing within a WHERE clause

I am doing a couple of joins with a variable in the WHERE clause. I'm not sure if I am doing everything as efficiently as I could, or even using the best practices but my issue is that half my tables have data for when tableC.type=500, and the other half don't resulting in the entire query failing. SELECT tableA.value1 , tableB.value2, ...

Regexp for handling recursive arguments

Hi all, I'm a regexp novice, so I'm wondering what the regexp for the following: function {function arg1, arg2}, arg3 I'm looking to be able to just select the top-level arguments: {function arg1, arg2} & arg3 Ideally the response would be using preg_match in PHP, but almost any regexp would work fine. Thanks! Matt ...

How do I uncompress data in PHP which was originally compressed using zlib?

Hello Everyone, I am quite new to Iphone development , so please bear me if I ask some some common questions. In my application I have to transfer data from my Iphone app to a PHP server and for this I have to compress the NSdata in my Iphone app and then pass it on to the PHP server and then Uncompress it in PHP and process the data se...

How to make __set also work for static operation in PHP?

When I call self::$parameter = 1; the __set is not called. Is there a way to workaround? ...

Strip anchors down to their contents, only if the anchor's URL contains...

Does anyone know a regex function in PHP to strip an anchor of its contents, only if the anchor's href attribute contains specific text? For example, I have an HTML page and there are links throughout. But I want to strip only the anchors that contain "yahoo" in the URL. So <a href="http://pages.yahoo.com/page1"&gt;Example page</a> woul...

PHP: Count-IF for Arrays

Hi All, What would be the most efficient way of counting the number of times a value appears inside an array? Example Array ('apple','apple','banana','banana','kiwi') Ultimately I want a function to spit out the percentages for charting purposes (e.g. apple = 40%, banana = 40%, kiwi = 20%) ...

Regular Expression - Block Spam

Could someone lead me on finding a regular expression that blocks a comma separated list of Spam words I already have? The regular expression needs to match a string with the spam word list I already have. Not that it matters, but I am using PHP. ...