Hi :) I have multiple switch statements in on one of the pages in order to pass different vsriables to the URL, as well as different case. I need these different switch statements because I need the different variables. However, when I put a "default" in one of the switch statements, that default applies to every other switch statement...
Hello, I need a PHP library/script that can retreive data from feeds, no matter if they are RSS or ATOM, because I want users to insert random feeds which will then be stored in a database. It would also be great if it could check whether a given URL is a feed or not. If anything exists that could help me out, could anyone tell me? Tha...
Hello all, Objective: Make a progress bar where users can check how much of a file has been downloaded by my server. Scenario:I have a PHP script that executes a python script via popen. I have done this like so: $handle = popen('python last', 'r'); $read = fread($handle, 4096); pclose($handle); This python script outputs to the s...
Question: I recall reviewing someone else's PHP code once and he had a function or class method that rolled all GET and POST variables into a single plain old object that could then be passed around. If the same name-value pair appeared in both GET and POST, POST would win. Is there a well-coded PHP add-on out there of any sort that doe...
Hi, I have a website which consists of a bunch of static HTML pages. Obviously there's a lot of duplication among these (header, menu, etc). The hosting company I plan to use supports PHP, which I know nothing about. Presumably PHP provides some sort of #include mechanism, but what changes to I need to make to my HTML pages to use it? ...
Hi all, i want to know how can we select more than one option from a select box like given below: Colors Black White Tan Navy Royal Blue Red Yellow Hunter(Dark Green) Kelly(Green) Burgundy Thanks ...
I started off by drafting a question: "What is the best way to perform unit testing on a constructor (e.g., __construct() in PHP5)", but when reading through the related questions, I saw several comments that seemed to suggest that setting member variables or performing any complicated operations in the constructor are no-nos. The const...
I trying to code a login script for phpmyadmin <?php $user = "Domain"; $passwords = file("passwords.txt"); foreach ( $passwords as $pass){ $source = file_get_contents("http://dbadmin.one.com/index.php?lang=en&server=1&pma_username=$user&pma_password=$pass"); if(preg_match("/Database/", $source)): echo "Login Worked wit...
In PHP I can do the following: $myVar = 'name'; print $myClass->$myVar; // Identical to $myClass->name I wish to do this in Python but can't find out how ...
Is there any way to safely include pages without putting them all in an array? if (preg_match('/^[a-z0-9]+/', $_GET['page'])) { $page = $_GET['page'].".php"; $tpl = $_GET['page'].".html"; if (file_exists($page)) include($page); if (file_exists($tpl)) include($tpl); } What should I add to make this pretty safe? I'm doing it this wa...
Good old Fusebox was my first framework and I still really like it. Started with PHP version, currently using latest CFML version. But time goes by and I'm wondering: maybe I should switch to another framework? Well, I don't want to start holy war here. I just want to know the pros and cons of continuing using FB. Say, I think that n...
I need advice on this snippet $text = preg_replace('|(A.*)?A(.*)C|', '$1foo$2bar', $text); This will match ABC in "AB ABC D", and replace it with "AB fooBbar D"; as you can see this matches the "AB " part at the beginning as well, which I have to repeat in the replacement string with $1, in order not to lose it. Is this the best way ...
Hi all, I am opening my blog page in my website, problem is i can give width to iframe but height should be dynamic so that there is no scroll bar in iframe and it looks like a single page... i have tried various javascripts to calculate height of content but all of them gives access denied permission and of no use. my question is c...
I'm looking for a simple PHP framework for a beginner :) Any recommendations? Not Codeigniter. That's too much for me. Thanks in advance. ...
On a project I'm working on, I am using HTTP headers to redirect the user to the frontpage after a successful login; header("Location: http://example.com/index.php?"); exit(0); EDIT: Added questionmark to url to show the problem This works fine in all browsers tested - however, in Firefox 3.0.6, both on windows, mac and debian, it fa...
I've got a problem that keeps coming up with normalized databases and was looking for the best solution. Suppose I've got an album information database. I want to setup the schema in a normalized fashion, so I setup two tables - albums, which has one listing for each album, and songs, which lists all songs contained by albums. albums ...
Is there any particular reason I should declare a class or a method final in day-to-day programming (web or otherwise)? Please provide a real-world example where it should be used. BTW, I'm asking because I'm trying to pick an 'obscure' keyword and master it. ...
I am writing a php script and somewhere before my header() function i have printed text to the browser hereby causing my header() function give me a well known error: Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent. Now my question is, I have the intentions of using ob_start() and ob_flush() before and after the he...
When outputting user input, do you only use htmlspecialchars() or are there are functions/actions/methods you also run? I'm looking for something that will also deal with XSS. I'm wondering if I should write a function that escapes user input on output or just use htmlspecialchars(). I'm looking for the generic cases, not the specific c...
Hi Guys, I want to purchase a regular expressions book centered around PHP. I found this one that looks ok: Friedl - Mastering Regular Expressions but it looks like general information about regular expressions and not PHP. My question is: Does the syntax for regular expressions translate exactly from one language to another, ie-> PHP...