I have a few sites built with Cakephp. If any of these sites lose their connection to the database for whatever reason it does not handle it well. Basically it renders itself inside itself trying to display an error over and over until the browser crashes. The rendering itself inside itself is caused by the use of requestAction from elem...
I start to learn class in PHP. According to my experience with other language, i can tell class is different then function. So, how we spot if our class start to be too much and too important and how we minimize its impact ? EDIT : The question is more able how to spot pattern of the writing class problem. Personally. I expect an answer...
how to connect more then one DB in php... but the DB servers are same . but the DB is different. same single page i need to fetch the result from all the 3 db to display. Thank you ...
Hi, I have defined a function in which i want to open a page on a new window. The function has following code: echo"<script>window.location.href='http://localhost/paymentsystem/views/payment.php?id=".$id."'</script>" ; Right now its opening the page on the same window. I want to know how can i open this page on a new tab? R...
Hi, I want to be able to switch from the current db to multiple dbs though a loop: $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `linkedin` ORDER BY id", $CON ) or die( mysql_error() ); if( mysql_num_rows( $query ) != 0 ) { $last_update = time() / 60; while( $rows = mysql_fetch_array( $query ) ) { $contacts_db = "NNJN_" . $rows['e...
Hello, I just found out that I loose any reference to the session array if I create a new view and try to set a session variable in the controller. The array just comes out as empty. I actually try to use the session array to store the post vars from a multistep registration form. This was actually working when the php was spachetticode,...
I have a form that validates the email address and I want to be able to place echo '<p class="error">Please enter a valid email address!</p>'; anywhere on the web page without having to put the validation process within the html? Or should I include the validation process in the HTML form? Here is the php code. if (preg_match ('/^[\w...
I want to store a $ character in a PHP variable. $var = "pas$wd"; I get the following error Notice: Undefined variable: wd in C:\xxxxx on line x Help. ...
Currently I'm using: PrintHeader(); /* Page code... */ PrintBottom(); Is there a better way? ...
<?php function updateTwitter($status) { // Twitter login information $username = 'xxxxx'; $password = 'xxxxxx'; // The url of the update function $url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml'; // Arguments we are posting to Twitter $postargs = 'status='.urlencode($status); // Will store the respo...
When I do PHP, I use XAMPP to set up a development environment on Windows, then upload to Linux servers, works very well. I'm now passing on a PHP project to a person who has a Mac so he needs a local PHP dev environment. I noticed XAMPP has a version for Mac which I will recommend. But knowing that Mac is always a bit different, has a...
Hi frns, Am using the strip_tags() to remove the HTML tags from one content . but i wants to remove the html (<DIV></DIV>,<P></P>,<SPAN></SPAN>) tags apart from the <img> tag and <a> , i don't want to remove the <img ><a> tag from that . but need to remove other all html tags from that content how can i do help me. thanks ...
Hi Iam running WAMP server and just enabled php_memcache extension and have tried the code <?php $memcache = new Memcache; $memcache->connect('localhost', 11211) or die ("Could not connect"); $version = $memcache->getVersion(); echo "Server's version: ".$version."<br/>\n"; $tmp_object = new stdClass; $tmp_object->str_attr = 'test'; ...
What's the best way to generate a cryptographically secure 32 bytes salt in PHP, without depending on libraries seldom included in typical PHP installations? After some googling I discovered that mt_rand is not considered secure enough, but I haven't found a suggestion for a replacement. One article suggested reading from /dev/random bu...
As the title said: Is it possible to send an email (using php mail()) and after sending the email, auto redirect to another page. All the codes will be in single php file? Code-wise, should be something like this: if(mail(argument...)){ header("Location: www.google.com"); } I think I would get a: "Error: header information alrea...
Hallo, I have a very long XSD scheme. And the validation process (via PHP) is taking 10 seconds. Do you have some ideas how I can improve performance? The XSD file is not changes often, but I can not change it, it is external. the XML validated is about 500 lines. Any ideas on XSD validation performance? Thanks. ...
Hi. Im trying the following code: <?php $workbook = "D:\b2\\test.XLS"; $sheet = "Sheet1"; #Instantiate the spreadsheet component. $ex = new COM("Excel.sheet") or Die ("Did not connect"); #Get the application name and version print "Application name:{$ex->Application->value}<BR>" ; print "L...
Is it necessary to validate a name or street address? when I have it coded in the following format. And if so why? $address = mysqli_real_escape_string($mysqli, htmlentities($_POST['address'])); $name = mysqli_real_escape_string($mysqli, htmlentities($_POST['name'])); ...
I want to replace with the 4~8 characters of a string with *,how to do it? HelloWorld => Hell****ld ...
Hello, I'm a noob but trying vigorously to simply validate email addresses that only end in ".edu" or ".ac" is there a simple function/script/solution to this seemingly simple problem? able to use php,javascript or jquery. Any help would be great thanks in advance! ...