php

Having session_id, can I bypass login form on remote server?

Third party zend encrypted system has Web API, that let's you login through it and acquire session_id (for later calls?). Then there's a task, how to bypass login form having that session_id. Is something like this possible at all? ...

PHP: Do we have any command via which we can delete the contents of an file without opening it.

Is there any way to remove the contents of an file in php, do we have any php command that does that, I know unlink but I do not want to delete the file instead I just want to remove the contents of that file. I have an file which I pass while called a getCurrentDBSnap function, it takes in the file from /home/test/incoming folder and ...

keep HTMLformat after replace some text (using PHP and JS)

I would like modify HTML like I am <b>Sadi, novice</b> programmer. to I am <b>Sadi, learner</b> programmer. To do it I will search using a string "novice programmer". How can I do it please? Any idea? It search using more than one word "novice programmer". It could be a whole sentence. The extra white space (e.g. new line, tab) sh...

PDO/Oracle vs OCI

The company I work for currently uses some basic functions to abstract the OCI libraries as a means for DB connectivity. We're considering switching to PHP's PDO object, but from some quick searches, it looks like the Oracle driver is a bit less mature than the other PDO drivers. I would appreciate some pro/cons for PDO/Oracle from any...

Why did I get a 400 Bad Request when getting a page with PHP Curl?

Hi, I was trying to access a page using curl. I could access it perfectly using the browser and using "static" strings as the URL, like: $url = "http://www.example.com/?q=1234" But when I tried to access the page using a variable in the URL string like: $url = "http://www.example.com/?q=$param" I got a 400 error code. I checked out...

Caching page by parts; how to pass variables calculated in cached parts into never-cached parts?

Hello, Let's imagine that I have a code like this... if (!$data = $cache->load("part1_cache_id")) { $item_id = $model->getItemId(); ob_start(); echo 'Here is the cached item id: '.$item_id; $data = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); $cache->save($data, "part1_cache_id"); } echo $data; echo never_cache_function($item_id); ...

Nested hyperlinks in XHTML 1.1 document

Hi, I'm doing a simple widget for WordPress that fetches the most recent tweets from the RSS feed provided by Twitter. This widget parses any link posted on a tweet, it also parses mentions (ie: @username) and trending topics (ie: #nowplaying). For these 3 situations, it creates links pointing to some Twitter feature. For instance: "...

Add a new member to a Twitter List

I'm trying to add a user (by variable $id) to a Twitter List using PHP CURL, and I can't get it to work. $curl_handle = curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "http://twitter.com/username/list/members.xml"); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "id=$id")...

Comparing fields of one table to other fields of another table

Hello! I have a function called add_item() which actually inserts values in a field item_name of temporary table called temp having fields temp_id and item_name. I have another table calleed item which consists of fields item_id, item_name, price. I have another table called quotation which consists of fields q_id, item_id,item_name,pric...

Finding the most common values from given data

I have some data that looks something like this... +----------+----------+----------+ | Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | +----------+----------+----------+ | Red | Blue | Green | | Yellow | Blue | Pink | | Black | Grey | Blue | +--------------------------------+ I need to go through this data and find ...

Is is possible to call a variable that has been assigned after the call (PHP)?

The title is in the question (EDIT: :P I mean the question is in the title), basically can I call variable $x before defining it further down the page? ...

WordPress: Problem with the shortcode regex

This is the regular expression used for "shortcodes" in WordPress (one for the whole tag, other for the attributes). return '(.?)\[('.$tagregexp.')\b(.*?)(?:(\/))?\](?:(.+?)\[\/\2\])?(.?)'; $pattern = '/(\w+)\s*=\s*"([^"]*)"(?:\s|$)|(\w+)\s*=\s*\'([^\']*)\'(?:\s|$)|(\w+)\s*=\s*([^\s\'"]+)(?:\s|$)|"([^"]*)"(?:\s|$)|(\S+)(?:\s|$)/'; It ...

PHP - Is possible to find if user is browsing from beind a Router and get Router Info

Hello guys. I think it isn't possible just using PHP, but just to be sure. Is it possible for PHP to know if the user is accessing the web from behind a Router? And if yes, how can i get some information about that router, like: Router Name, Brand, Serial Number, ... Users connected in the same network. Can PHP also find the Local I...

how to update mysql with inputs and checkboxes

hi. with this code: <? if (isset($_POST['onay'])) { foreach ($_POST['secilen'] as $zuha) { $olay = mysql_query("update mp3 SET aktif = '1' WHERE id = '$zuha'"); } if ($olay) { echo "islem tamam"; exit; } } ?> and with this form: (select * from mp3 aktif = '0') <form name="form" method="post"> <input readonly type="text" ...

What's the best, Escape then store Or store then escape the output?

Hi, After doing a long search on stackoverflow i didn't find any one talked about this even if it's a big choice, the Question is what's the best in order to prevent both of XSS and SQL injection, Escaping the data then store it in the DB or Store it as it is and escape when output it? Note: it is better if you give some examples of pra...

PHP template class with variables?

I want to make developing on my new projects easier, and I wanted a bare bones very simple template engine solution. I looked around on the net and everything is either too bloated, or makes me cringe. My HTML files will be like so: <html> <head> <title>{PAGE_TITLE}</title> </head> <body> <h1>{PAGE_HEADER}</...

PHP str_replace and preg_replace work on one server but not another

UPDATE: As it turns out, the below is caused by a caching issue on my production server. Thanks to everybody who contributed thoughtful answers. I have a simple function on a php page that takes a url such as: http://myurl.com/mypage.html?param1=value1 and converts it to: http://myurl.com/searchpage.html?param1=value1 All it does it...

Loop XML including all its children using xpath and SimpleXMLElement

Im having a big xml tree with a simple structure. All I want to do is get a node by its attribute using xpath and loop the children. param1 - correct language param1 & param3 - correct node by its id and the parents id. (Need to use parent id when multiplie id appears. The id is not declared as id in DTD) public function getSubme...

How to perform a 301 redirect of all .php URLs to clean URLs?

My htaccess isn't quite working the way I want it to. I've seen some similar threads on here but they aren't quite what I need and I don't know enough yet about htaccess to modify the code to suit my needs. This is what I have working so far: I've got all non-www URLs redirecting to www URLs and I'm doing an internal rewrite of all URLs...

Changing the Access Denied Message in Magento

How can I change the "Access Denied" page/copy that is displayed in the magento admin when you try to do things outside of your reach? I'd like to change the copy a bit. Any ideas? ...