Getting contents of square brackets with regex, including nested ones
Is there any way to have this: [one[two]][three] And extract this with a regex? Array ( [0] => one[two] [1] => two [2] => three ...
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Is there any harm in running session_start() multiple times as the page request is being built (in php)?
Presumably there's some tiny performance hit, but beyond that? ...
PHP equivalent to Perl format function
Is there an equivalent to Perl's format function in PHP? I have a client that has an old-ass okidata dotmatrix printer, and need a good way to format receipts and bills with this arcane beast. I remember easily doing this in perl with something like: format BILLFORMAT = Name: @>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Age: @### $name, ...
Query to look up comment in one table, username in another table
Hello, I am using a MySQL table called "login" with the following structure: loginid, username, password, email, actcode, disabled, activated, created, points I am using another MySQL table called "comment" with the following structure: commentid, loginid, submissionid, comment, datecommented For a given "submisssionid", I would l...
Easy way to check that something is a number w/ max 2 decimal places of accuracy?
I want to make sure the input is A)a number and B)has at most 2 decimals. $number[$i]=int(100*$number[$i])/100; I imagine there is a more efficient way to do this... any suggestions? (using PHP). ...
XML and HTML = need help using HTML code
I'm converting my static HTML site to a dynamic PHP/XML-driven one. This is my current code: <div class="divider"></div> <div class="main" style="width: 552px;"> <div class="time">00:00</div> <div class="show"><h3><b>Radio Show</b></h3> <p>Description</p></div> <div class="footer"></div> </div> and my XML file: <?x...
how to group MySql rows based on month?
I've a table with a datetime (format: 'Y-m-d H:i:s') 'created' field and 'amount' (integer) field in each row. Now I want to find out month wise total 'amount' in last year. How can I do this? EDIT I made an edit to clarify the actual problem. so basically I want to know total 'amount' in each month, but only for the last year. EDIT2 ...
best way to escape and create a slug
hey guys im somehow confused in using proper functions to escape and create a slug i used this : $slug_title = mysql_real_escape_string()($mtitle); but someone told me not to use it and use urlencode() which one is better for slugs and security as i can see in SO , it inserts - between words : http://stackoverflow.com/question...
radio button value in php
I'm trying to make a simple survey in php I have a set of radio buttons on a page called sja.php that sends its to sjamail.php page the problem is that when I go to get $answer = $_POST['ans']; I can't seen to do anything like echo "$answer"; but if I were to throw some logic at it like if ($answer == "ans1") { ec...
Difference between normal and magic setters and getters
I am using a magic getter/setter class for my session variables, but I don't see any difference between normal setters and getters. The code: class session { public function __set($name, $value) { $_SESSION[$name] = $value; } public function __unset($name) { unset($_SESSION[$name]); } publi...
PHP: What's the best way to check equality of $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] ?
I have a PHP script that checks the HTTP Referer. if ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == 'http://www.example.com/') {...} However, this seems inherintly unsafe ... because what happens if the user goes to 'http://example.com/' or 'http://www.ExaMple.com' (both of which don't match the equality test). Question: what's a better equality test ...
Enhancing an 'ORDER BY' clause to judge condition by more than 1 integer
Hi folks, I have some PHP code which allows me to sort a column into ascending and descending order (upon click of a table row title), which is good. It works perfectly for my D.O.B colum (with date/time field type), but not for a quantity column. For example, I have quantites of 10, 50, 100, 30 and another 100. The order seems to be...
Merging MP3 files in Linux Debian using PHP
What's the easiest way to merge the contents of several MP3 files into one using PHP 5.2 on Linux Debian system? I found some scripts that are supposed to do in PHP only, but they seem to be buggy. Perhaps there is a way to accomplish this task using command line programs, that I could install on my Linux Debian machine? ...
PHP & MySQL - Undefined variable problem?
I keep getting the following error Undefined variable: password on line 33 how do I correct this problem? So this error will stop showing. Here is the php code. $first_name = mysqli_real_escape_string($mysqli, $purifier->purify(htmlentities(strip_tags($_POST['first_name'])))); $password1 = mysqli_real_escape_string($mysqli, $purifier->...
Graceful DOS Command Error-Handling
PHP 5.2.13 on Windows 2003 I am using the DOS Start /B command to launch a background application using the PHP popen() function: popen("start /B {$_SERVER['HOMEPATH']}/{$app}.exe > {$_SERVER['HOMEPATH']}/bg_output.log 2>&1 & echo $!", 'r'); The popen() function launches a cmd.exe process that runs the specified command; however, if...
[Oracle/PHP]Is it possible to pass an array to a PL/SQL procedure?
If it is possible, how does the parameter need to look like in the procedure? And how do you pass an array to a procedure? ...
jquery pagination
We are using jquery for pagination. We are pulling millions of records from the database and then th jquery does the pagination on the front end. that is a very slow process. Can someone advice us of a solution in php and jquery where we pull 50 records at a time? Thanks ...
Add page item to either Joomla, Drupal or Wordpress
I just want to design this very simple website. Basically there are multiple pages A, B, C... and each page has item A1, A2.. or B1, B2... These items follow fixed HTML template (table,image) and only specific content fields (name, body text..) can be change in the back-end. Backend users can add new pages or new items each page. Does a...
validation in php
i have a submit page in html. when i submit the form data, it goes to a php page, which inserts the data in the database. my question is how would i ensure that the data on the html page is not null or empty without using javascript? is there anyway this could be done in php? thanks! ...
Can I import sql with php?
Please bear with me(beginner). I am planning to set up an application where visitors can login and play/mess around with my application. So I want to refresh my php application once a day with a cron job. But I never wrote a cron job script before. I understand that I have to truncate all the tables/data and add the initial data. W...