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PHP: Count values of array

I know the function count() of php, but what's the function for counting how often a value appear in an array? Example: $array = array( [0] => 'Test', [1] => 'Tutorial', [2] => 'Video', [3] => 'Test', [4] => 'Test' ); Now I want to count how often "Test" appears. ...

What should a PHP generate to give back to a jQuery AJAX request?

Perhaps it's a syntax error, but I never assume that. I have a -dead- simple AJAX test set up: http://www.mcphersonindustries.com/bucket/api.php is a file with simply: <?php echo "test"; ?> And I have Apache as localhost with this jQuery bit running: $(document).ready(function() { function doAjaxPost() { $.ajax({ ty...

php fails to store any _SESSION or _GLOBALS variable

Hi All, I am storing a session and a global variable in file1.php. However, when I try to access those from file2.php I get nothing. I am using php 5.1.6. $_SESSION['abc'] = $a; $GLOBALS['def'] = $b; Any idea? Thanks in advance. ...

how to make a queue in php with mysql

hy, in my script i run a exec() function to make a movie file with ffmpeg. the problem is ffmpeg can run only 1 time on the server, if 2 people are online on server and first one already run ffmpeg i want the second to wait until the first end the process how to code this? thank you ...

Using Yii framework, what would be a right way to process an attribute before displaying it using CHtml::activeTextField()

Say I have this line of code in the view. <?php echo CHtml::activeTextField($model,'start_time'); ?> start_time is a UNIX timestamp. When just displaying it in a view I can apply functions like date() on it. Where should I apply the formatting when I'm displaying it in a form, by using the above line of code? (This case of timestamps/...

PHP: Opening/closing tags & performance?

Hi, This may be a silly question, but as someone relatively new to PHP, I'm wondering if there are any performance-related issues to frequently opening and closing PHP tags in HTML template code, and if so, what might be best practices in terms of working with php tags? My question is not about the importance/correctness of closing tag...

Using PHP's IMAP library triggers Kaspersky's Antivirus

Hello, I just started today working with PHP's IMAP library, and while imap_fetchbody or imap_body are called, it is triggering my Kaspersky antivirus. The viruses are Trojan.Win32.Agent.dmyq and Trojan.Win32.FraudPack.aoda. I am running this off a local development machine with XAMPP and Kaspersky AV. Now, I am sure there are viruse...

PHP: Format a numeric string by inserting comma

I need a way to convert a number into formatted way by inserting comma at suitable places. Can it be done using regex? Example: 12345 => 12,345 1234567 =>1,234,567 ...

What is array portability?

From this page: http://www.doctrine-project.org/documentation/manual/1_2/en/working-with-models#dealing-with-relations:creating-related-records You can see that it says $obj['property']; is the recommended way of referring to an object's property in Doctrine for array portability purposes. I never heard about this term before and goog...

Capitalize Words in PHP with custom delimitor

Hey guys, i need a method to capitalize every first letter of a word. This is what i got so far and it is working for almost every string...but it fails on this one "WELLNESS & RENOMME". // method in stringModify Class function capitalizeWords($words, $charList) { $capitalizeNext = true; for ($i = 0, $max = strlen($wo...

encoding problem

In my web page a hyphen symbol shows up as \–. I don't know how to resolve this problem, can you help me? ...

select top 50 records from sql

i have following database table name tbl_rec recno uid uname points ============================ 1 a abc 10 2 b bac 8 3 c cvb 12 4 d aty 13 5 f cyu 9 ...

Install APC on Windows

How can I install APC on Windows? I am using PHP 5.3, Windows 7 x64. I used pecl install apc I got C:\PHP>pecl install apc downloading APC-3.0.19.tgz ... Starting to download APC-3.0.19.tgz (115,735 bytes) ............ done: 115,735 bytes 47 source files, building WARNING: php_bin c:\php\php.exe appears to have a suffix \php.exe, ...

Form loop db insertion + javascript altering

I basically need to check if there is an easier way to do this before I rewrite all the code. I have a fairly large form that I have each input named with []'s on the end so I can loop through via php for easy insertion. <input type="hidden" name="currentdate[]" value="<?php echo date('mdY'); ?>"> <td><input...

How to get user os name in php?

If user logged onto machine with his domain name and password, how to get his user name on the server side? ...

best way to prgram php and mysql query

most of times in our pages we need to print only 1 field value of table in loop. for example <?php for($i=1;$i<=mysql_num_rows($result);$i++) { echo $row['name']; $sql1="select industry from table_industry where profid='".$row['prof']."'"; $result1=mysql_query($sql1); $row1=mysql_fetch_array($result1); echo $row1['industry']; ?...

table problem in loop

i have one table in loop which come under li> <?php for($i=1;$i<=$tc;$i++) { $row=mysql_fetch_array($result); ?> <li style="list-style:none; margin-left:-20px"> <table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td class="hline" style="width:267px"><?php echo $row['tit'] .",". $row['name'] ?></td> <td ...

Problems installing PHP's PECL sphinx module

I've installed the sphinx binaries and libraries and am now trying to install the PECL sphinx module. My system is running OS X 10.6 with MAMP 1.8.2 installed. I try to install sphinx using the following command: sudo pecl install sphinx The PECL command outputs the following: running: phpize Configuring for: PHP Api Version: ...

My delete function does not delete the targeted file

Basically I could upload files based on a project. Whenever I create a project, a new directory is created with the directory name as the project_name e.g. this is a test -> this-is-a-test. But my problem is I couldn't delete a file in a directory. function delete_image($id) { $this->load->model(array('work_model', 'project_model')...

Making a site WITHOUT frames..

Hello. I want to make my homepage, without frames, should i just split up my design on index.php so it is header.php/footer.php, and then just include them on every page? ...