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GD! Converting a png image to jpeg and making the alpha by default white and not black.

I tried something like this but it just makes the background of the image white, not necessarily the alpha of the image. I wanted to just upload everything as jpg's so if i could somehow "flatten" a png image with some transparently to default it to just be white so i can use it as a jpg instead. Appreciate any help. Thanks. $old = imag...

Assistance with building an inverted-index

It's part of an information retrieval thing I'm doing for school. The plan is to create a hashmap of words using the the first two letters of the word as a key and any words with the two letters saved as a string value. So, hashmap["ba"] = "bad barley base" Once I'm done tokenizing a line I take that hashmap, serialize it, and append i...

Query Not Working

Hello, The simple query below is not working. Any idea why? When I echo the three variables, the correct values are returned, so I know I have variables. Thanks in advance, John $comment = $_POST['comment']; $uid = $_POST['uid']; $subid = $_POST['submissionid']; echo $comment; echo $uid; echo $subid; mysql_connect("mysqlv12", ...

Calculating future date with strtotime doesn't work properly.

If I run "next saturday" into strtotime function it shows 4/3/2010 as the date. Why does it not show 4/10? ...

BreezingForms Integrator Finalize Code and $this->execPieceByName('ff_InitLib');

I've started working on a Joomla! project (I'm mainly a C#/ASP.NET kind a guy). I'm using BreezingForms and have created forms, got them working, but now I need to do some additional code in the "Finalize Code" section. I need to access form elements via BreezingForms(FacileForms) API. Here's what I'm doing, but it chokes: // load the ...

OpenSSL not listed under PHP modules but shows up in the configure command

PHP 5.2.12 OS X 10.5.8 If I compile PHP from source with the following configure command ./configure --disable-all --with-openssl=shared,/opt/local it succeeds. However, after a make and make install, php -m does not list the openssl module. Based on what I've read, I think it may be due to multiple installs of the openssl librar...

How to float a <div> echoed in the footer over a <div> located elsewhere (PHP/jQuery/HTML/CSS)

Hello All! I'm embarking on a major project, but am stuck on a tiny issue at the very start. I'll try to be as concise as possible. I have a PHP script that will be echoing into the footer of the page (the last stuff before </body></html> a bunch of <div>s containing visible buttons and <div>s containing hidden dialog boxes. The plan ...

Best solution to anti-spam in PHP?

How to distinguish robots from normal user? How does SO do this job? Currently I'm met with a robot which post once every 1 hour... ...

Change values in first key from 0 to count(array) - 1

Ok, I have an array like so: $myArray[32]['value'] = 'value1'; $myArray[32]['type'] = 'type1'; $myArray[33]['value'] = 'value2'; $myArray[33]['type'] = 'type2'; $myArray[35]['value'] = 'value3'; $myArray[42]['value'] = 'value4'; $myArray[42]['type'] = 'type4'; Ok, looking for a quick way to change all numbers in the first key 32, 33, ...

how to know whether file is downloaded by user or not?

hi all, I have a functionality where a user is given file to download. It works fine. BUT - 1. How to know whether user has downloaded a file or cancelled it? 2. After downloading I wat to redirect current page to another one that is also not happening. Please let me know if any one of you have any idea about it. (I am doing it in Joom...

Multithreaded FTP upload. Is it possible?

I need to upload multiple files from directory to the server via FTP and SFTP. I've solved this task for SFTP with python, paramiko and threading. But I have problem with doing it for FTP. I tried to use ftplib for python, but it seems that it doesn't support threading and I upload all files one by one, which is very slow. I'm wonderin...

XDebug, how to disable remote debugging for single .php file?

Hello, I'm using Eclipse IDE + remote Xdebug. EclipseIDE is listening 9000 port for some kind of Xdebug information. There are some php scripts running by cron on server. So, every cron execution xdebug is sending information to my workstation and EclipseIDE is trying to find this file in my project. But file couldn't be find because c...

Minimalistic PHP template engine with caching but not Smarty?

There are loads of questions for "the right" PHP template engine, but none of them is focused on caching. Does anybody know a lightweight, high-quality, PHP 5 based template engine that does the following out of the box: Low-level templating functions (Replacements, loops, and filtering, maybe conditionals) Caching of the parsed resul...

How to set alternate row color for an iterated table in php?

I am using php and i am iterating a table with a result array ... I want to add row color and alternate row color to it.... How to do so? Any suggestion... <table id="chkbox" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="100%" class="table_Style_Border"> <tr> <td style="width:150px" class="grid_header" align="center">RackName<...

MySQL - Selecting rows with a minimum number of occurences

Hi all, I have this query: SELECT DISTINCT brand_name FROM masterdata WHERE in_stock = '1' ORDER BY brand_name It works well, except that I get far too many results. How do I limit this such that rather than just looking for distinct entries, it will only give me distinct entries that exist a minimum of 3 times (for example)? Basica...

how to split a data from database based on character

Hi I have a data april/2010 to jan/2011 Is there any way to split the data with character to and select the date as The value before "to" as FROM and The Value after "to" as TO how to selet the splited value......... while i am selecting the data as it is as select date from mytbl how to select the date as two values ...

Any good Work Flow diagram for Joomla 1.5?

Though I don't tolerate joomla for it's buggy 3rd party components , decided to look at it's core architecture, and any diagram would make my investigation efficient, thanks ...

PHP Included files writing their own content from Importer values ...

Hello, I have a index.php file that will include several external files: "content/templates/id1/template.php" "content/templates/id2/template.php" "content/templates/id3/template.php" etc. All these files are loaded dynamically into index.php (it reads all folders inside "templates" directory and then includes every "template.php" fil...

Problem with selected subcategory when editing Category items

I want to item's subcatory selected when editing category: <?php function categoryFormEdit() { $ID = $_GET['id']; $query = "SELECT * FROM category WHERE id= $ID"; $result = mysql_query($query); $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); $subcat = $row['subcat']; $text = '<div class="form"> <h2>Add new category</h2> ...

PHP Error handling in WordPress plugin

I am a newbie to both PHP and Wordpress (but do ok in C#), and am struggling to understand the error handling in a custom plugin I am attempting to write. The basics of the plugin is to query an exsiting MSSQL database (note its not the standard MYSQL db...) and return the rows back to the screen. This was working well, but the hosting p...