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Is there a way to find the weeknumber within the year using PHP?

Is there a way to find the weeknumber within the year using PHP? ...

PHPUnit doesn't recognize file_exists()

I've set up a project with unit test files in NetBeans. I set bootstrap to C:\www\foo\_tests\TestAutoload.php and put simple autoload method to this file: function __autoload( $class_name ) { // series of ifs if ( ... ) { $file_name = ... } if ( file_exists ( $file_name ) ) { require_once( $file_name ); ...

Read HTML file into email

Ive written a script to send html emails and all works well. I have the email stored in a separate HTML file which is then read in usin a while loop and fgets(). However, i want to be able to pass variables into the html. For example, in a html file i may have something like.. <body> Dear Name <br/> Thank you for your recent pur...

Easiest way to remove Keys from a 2D Array?

Hi, I have an Array that looks like this: array( 0 => array( 'key1' => 'a', 'key2' => 'b', 'key3' => 'c' ), 1 => array( 'key1' => 'c', 'key2' => 'b', 'key3' => 'a' ), ... ) I need a function to get an array containing just a (variable) number of keys, i.e. reduce_array(array('key1', 'key3')); should r...

Extending a singleton class

i used to create an instance of a singleton class like this: $Singleton = SingletonClassName::GetInstance(); and for non singleton class: $NonSingleton = new NonSingletonClassName; i think we should not differentiate how we create an instance of a class whether this is a singleton or not. if i look in perception of other class, i d...

PHPExcel how to set cell value dynamically

Hi All, How to set cell/column value dynamically using PHPExcel library? I am fetching result set from MySQL database and I want to write data in excel format using PHPExcel library. Looking at example $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('A1', 'cell value here'); indicates that we have to hard code cell/column reference As...

Rearrange array

Array starts like this: Array ( [SMART Board] => Array ( [0] => sb1 [1] => sb2 [2] => sb3 ) [Projector] => Array ( [0] => pr1 [1] => pr2 [2] => pr3 ) [Speakers] => Array ( [0] => sp1 [1] => sp2 [2] => sp3 ) [Splitter] => Array ( [0] => spl1 [1] => spl2 [2] => spl3 ) [Wireless Slate] => Array ( [0] => ws1 [1] => ws2 [2] =>...

Php wrapper class for XML

I'm working on a new class to wrap XML handling. I want my class to use simplexml if it's installed, and the built in XML functions if it's not. Can anyone give me some suggestions on a skeleton class to do this? It seems "wrong" to litter each method with a bunch of if statements, and that also seems like it would make it nearly imposs...

Regex Help with manipulating string

Hi, i am seriously struggling to get my head around regex. I have a sring with "iPhone: 52.973053,-0.021447" i want to extract the two numbers after the colon into two seperate strings so delimited by the comma. Can anyone help me? Cheers ...

Session security: Zend_Session_Validator_HttpUserAgent

There is a nice article on denzone about avoiding identity theft. However it was written before Zend_Session_Validator_HttpUserAgent came in. How do I use Zend_Session_Validator_HttpUserAgent? Zend_Sesion::registerValidator(new Zend_Session_Validator_HttpUserAgent()); Zend_Session::rememberMe(); Is that all? ...

php memory how much is too much

I'm currently re-writing my site using my own framework (it's very simple and does exactly what I need, i've no need for something like Zend or Cake PHP). I've done alot of work in making sure everything is cached properly, caching pages in files so avoid sql queries and generally limiting the number of sql queries. Overall it looks lik...

Searching with MATCH(), AGAINST() and AS score with mysqli and php

Below is the code I am using to search my table. I have made the relevant columns FULLTEXT in the table. This doesn't return me anything. Can someone tell me what it is that i'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance. $sql = 'SELECT id, person_name, classroom, school, MATCH (person_name, classroom, school) AGAINST (?) AS score FROM images WHERE...

Creating a numerical order index on a MySQL table

I have a table with (essentially) 3 columns - name, votes and rank. I want to order the table by votes and then update 'rank' to reflect this order, so that the one with the most votes will have rank set to 1, the second most votes to 2 etc. I can do this in PHP but it seems pretty wasteful - is there a way to do this with one SQL quer...

Threads in PHP.

Hello.. I am creating a web application using zend, here i create an interface from where user-A can send email to more than one user(s) & it works excellent but it slow the execution time because of which user-A wait too much for the "acknowledged response" ( which will show after the emails have sent. ) In Java there are "Threads" by...

validating a string in php if only substring is true

How to validate a substring is true in PHP for example if user1 is in the string it should be true? textfile: user1 : pass1 user2 : pass2 user3 : pass3 if(in_array($_SERVER['user1'] . "\r\n", $textfile)){ //not the way want this to be true printf("Ok user1 is in this row somewhere"); } ...

In Zend studio, how to tell the ide the type of a variable, so I have auto completion?

In php we use includes. So variables defined in one file and then their scope spans included files too. Zend studio has no idea how to get the type of the variable I am using inside an included file, this is very annoying when the variable type is a big class. Is there a way to hint the ide about variable types? in included files? ...

PHP5 : Applying a method from an extended class on an object from the original (parent) class.

Hello, I'm trying to extend two native PHP5 classes (DOMDocument and DOMNode) to implement 2 methods (selectNodes and selectSingleNode) in order to make XPath queries easier. I thought it would be rather straighforward, but I'm stuck in a problem which I think is an OOP beginner's issue. class nDOMDocument extends DOMDocument { pub...

how to use htaccess redirectmatch with query_string?

hello... im trying to redirect "search.php?q=somethinghere" to "search/somethinghere/" but I can't do it! I'm trying to send form "<form action="search/" method="get" name="search">" like this but url goes to "search/?q=somethinghere" RedirectMatch 301 ^/search.php?q=(.*)$ http://domain.com/search/$1/ this is also not working. whats th...

How to retrieve parent container ID after sorting using Jquery sortable??

Hello I have following markup and javascript to sort some items. Items can be sorted within a block or across other blocks. It works but I have a problem in retrieving correct block ID after an item is moved from one block to another. For example, if I move item 1 within "Block 1", I get "I am in Block= block_1" but if I move Item 1 t...

Default Contoller in CodeIgniter

I am wondering if there is any other configuration options for a default controller. For example - if I have a controller called "site" and I set the default controller in the following file: application/config/routes.php to: $route['default_controller'] = "site"; I should be able to go to http://localhost and that brings up the ind...