I'm trying to display records from a database and then when a new one is added automatically update the displayed records from the database with the new one I am doing this using php and javascript. I want to load a page and display tags under a video and then when a user adds a new tag by entering it into text box to add it to the data...
I would like to only work with UTF8. The problem is I don't know the charset of every webpage. How can I detect it and convert to UTF8? <?php $url = "http://vkontakte.ru"; $ch = curl_init($url); $options = array( CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, ); curl_setopt_array($ch, $options); $data = curl_exec($ch); // $data = magic($data); p...
Hi everyone. I'm using some PHP scripts from FeedForAll to join together RSS feeds (RSSmesh) and display them as HTML (RSS2HTML). Because I intend to run these scripts fairly intensively and don't want the resulting HTTP requests and bandwidth to count towards my hosting quota, I am in the process of moving to running them on the web ho...
Hello, The past few days I've been trying to find out how I can save emails as drafts using php. I've created an emailaddress that uses imap (and resides on the same server). What I would like to do is to use php to create an email and store it in the drafts folder. These emails would then be recognized by the email client (ms office o...
public function getHelperInstance() { $user = new Helper(); $user->set($result['data']); return $user; } I am calling getHelper() class multiple times and if $user is not empty than am calling getHelperInstance(), now in my case getHelperInstance() always creates a new instance of Helper() class and so every time I call get...
Hi friends, This is one of the most bizarre errors I've come across. So I've written a little file upload web app for my friend and it works fine for any file less than or equal to 742kB in size. Needless to say, I arrived at this precise number based on relentless testing. Weird part is that if the file size is just a few KB more, fo...
For hadoop application development, are PHP frameworks less popular ?If so, why? Else,please do point literature/documentation/tutorials for a specific framework? (stuff for Symfony would be awesome!) ...
hey all, I have the following snippet of php code if($fp = fopen($url, 'r')) { stream_set_timeout($fp, 1); stream_set_blocking($fp, 0); } $info = stream_get_meta_data($fp); I'd like the request to timeout after 1 second... if I put a sleep(20) in my $url that I'm reading it just waits the whole 20 seconds and never times out...
Just a curious question but is there any programs that can help/aid you when you write PHP codes? Say there is an error in your code and using this program it would help you locate it, etc. I might be thinking too much... ...
Hi Guys, How would I go about displaying all of a site’s categories in checkboxes in my options panel? I can get a dropdown select menu to work, I just have no idea how to implement checkboxes. Code Here from Net Tuts: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/how-to-create-a-better-wordpress-options-panel/ http://pastie.org/885320...
Do you know any script to detect broken links in a site developed in codeigniter (with url rewriting)? Thank you ...
I'm familiar with the Front Controller pattern, in which all events/requests are processed through a single centralized controller. But what would you call it when you wish to keep the various parts of an application separate at the presentation layer as well? My first thought was "Facade" but it turns out that's something entirely diff...
Hi, I got this error message: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in. safe_mode is turned off on my web hosting. open_basedir is "". How do I resolve this? Thanks ...
We are looking at Magento as a possible commerce solution, but we are reading more bad than good on the free product. However Magento sells itself as the best thing ever, so I am confused on its actual value. Thought I'd ask the pros here. Can any seasoned developer here explain the difficulties in using Magento not only as a commerce s...
I have a JSON data like this: { "hello": { "first":"firstvalue", "second":"secondvalue" }, "hello2": { "first2":"firstvalue2", "second2":"secondvalue2" } } I know how to retrieve data from object "first" (firstvalue) and second (secondvalue) but I would like to loop trough this object and as a result get values:...
I want to delete a range of data from a text file using PHP. Let's assume the file contains the following: Hello, World! I want to delete everything from character 2 to character 7. The actual file I need to do this with is very large, so I don't want to have to read the large file in order to delete just a small, given range of data....
I used to have database entries separated by ampersands (&), but this was causing certain search issues so I decided to encapsulate my entries on both sides by $ and & symbols like: $this& But I am having trouble displaying all the entries of a cell as individual records. Before I used: $unsplitItems = $row['files']; $files = exp...
Can you run some script before the uploading of a file starts in php? Example, I'm POSTing to upload.php, and in that file I want to check their $_SESSION first before I start wasting bandwidth on them and the file stats uploading to my server. I'm using php 5.2.11 on nginx. <?php if ($_SESSION['admin'] == 'YES') { // do upload ...
requests -----> should be written to new url /institute/dps -----> /institute.php?slug=dps /institute/abc -----> /institute.php?slug=abc /institute/123 -----> /institute.php?slug=123 I am using following rule in .htaccess RewriteRule ^institute/(.*)$ /institute.php?slug=$1 However, it's not working. the page insitute.php g...
I would like to implement operations that is undoable in a short time after the user have done them. I.e. if a user upvotes a photo in a photo-site, he/she can undo the vote within 30 seconds. This is similar to how the voting on StackOverflow is working, you can undo your votes for a short time. How should I implement it? I guess that ...