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Safari will not redirect to querystring URL

I have a site built with PHP that does a redirect after certain actions are performed. header("Location: http://example.com/accountArea/?v=updated"); I then show a message based on the value of the query string value. In safari (and only in Safari) after the redirect, you will only see a blank page. I have tried using absolute URL and...

Best emailing approach with template emails

Hi all, We are creating a project with lots of different mail templates in it. There are different messages for different purposes and we are trying to make the coding easy and understandable for the future. By the way we have different transport classes like e-mail, sms, twitter vs... Now we are doing this but I dont know if there is...

Is the salt contained in a phpass hash or do you need to salt its input?

phpass is a widely used hashing 'framework'. Is it good practice to salt the plain password before giving it to PasswordHash (v0.2), like so?: $dynamicSalt = $record['salt']; $staticSalt = 'i5ininsfj5lt4hbfduk54fjbhoxc80sdf'; $plainPassword = $_POST['password']; $password = $plainPassword . $dynamicSalt . $staticSalt; $passwo...

How can * be a safe hashed password?

phpass is a widely used hashing 'framework'. While evaluating phpass' HashPassword I came across this odd method fragment. function HashPassword($password) { // <snip> trying to generate a hash… # Returning '*' on error is safe here, but would _not_ be safe # in a crypt(3)-like function used _both_ for gen...

create image from divs composite

I'd like to have a div as a canvas, where users would choose images to show, out of a list. They will choose what background it would have, icons, and they will upload an image which will appear in this canvas too. I'm looking for solutions in PHP or ASP.NET. thansk ...

Cannot get new product attribute in grid display

I added a new attribute to my products(a boolean "yes/no" field). It is a variable to enable/disable the price from displaying on the product detail page, and grid view. I managed to get it work on the product info page. But on product grid page I cant seem to access that variable. Specifically, the template i am working with is cata...

How to validate a single checkbox using PHP & MySQL

I was wondering how can I validate a single checkbox using PHP and MySQL. Here is the HTML. <input type="checkbox" name="privacy_policy" id="privacy_policy" value="yes" /> ...

Why FILTER_VALIDATE_URL return FALSE for only this url?

Hi, i have the following code: <?php $pictureurl="http://icons3.iconfinder.netdna-cdn.com/data/icons/pool/poolbird.png"; if(filter_var($pictureurl, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) === FALSE){ echo "Invalid Url"; exit; }else{ echo "Works!"; } ?> This display "invalid url" (FALSE) for the above url, but not for other simpler urls. Is this a bug? y...

URL routing in an MVC framework - PHP

I'm developing an MVC framework in PHP from scratch; mostly for the learning experience but this could easily end up in a live project. I went through this tutorial as a base and I've expanded from there. Requests are made like this: examplesite.com/controller/action/param1/param2/ and so on... And this is my .htaccess file: RewriteE...

PHP & MySQL checked checkbox problem

I'm trying to check if the checkbox has been checked and display the check mark for the user to see when they check there account settings. I want to know how can I fix this problem using PHP so that the check mark is displayed every time the user views their account settings? Here is the HTML. <input type="checkbox" name="privacy_poli...

Acting on items in an array 1/3 at a time

I have an array that has 22 items in it (it may also have 7, 10 or 11 items in it) Old, crappy example: $anArray = array(1=>'A',2=>'B',3=>'C',4=>'D',5=>'E',6=>'F',7=>'G',8=>'H',9=>'I'); Better example: Array( [25] => # [50] => # [53] => # [55] => # [56] => # [57] => # [58] => # [59] => # [60] => # [61] => # [62] => # [63] => # [64] =...

Curl automatically display the result?

I'm using php 5.3.2 and when i execute a curl it display the result directly without adding a print or echo function. Here is my code: <?php $pvars = array('query' => 'ice age', 'orderby' => 'popularity'); $timeout = 30; $myurl = "http://www.website.com"; $curl = curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $myurl); curl_setopt($curl, ...

PHP intersection between array and object

I have an object, let's say it's like this: class Foo { var $b, $a, $r; function __construct($B, $A, $R) { $this->b = $B; $this->a = $A; $this->r = $R; } } $f = new Foo(1, 2, 3); I want to get an arbitrary slice of this object's properties as an array. $desiredProperties = array('b', 'r'); $outp...

PHP readfile for force downloading files and images

I want to send files through php using readfile() What i've noticed is that readfile forces a download, but what if i want to show an image in the browser and not force a download? Would readfile still force download even if the file is an image? If it does, is there a solution so i can use tags with it when the file is an image? Th...

curly braces in string

can anyone let me know the meaning of { } [curly braces] in outputting a string ? ...

how can i say `from beginning to $string` and `from $string to the end` in regexish for php

Hi, I want to remove a part from a text till the given string, and remove another part starting from another string in php. /.+string/i and /anotherstring.+/i didn't work. ...

php adding images to another image, exact positioning

I have a cool snippet of code that works well, except one thing. The code will take an icon I want to add to an existing picture. I can position it where I want too! Which is exactly what I need to do. However, I'm stuck on one thing, concerning the placement. The code "starting position" (on the main image: navIcons.png) is from t...

Wordpress databse insert() and update() - using NULL values

Wordpress ships with the wpdb class which handles CRUD operations. The two methods of this class that I'm interested in are the insert() (the C in CRUD) and update() (the U in CRUD). A problem arises when I want to insert a NULL into a mysql database column - the wpdb class escapes PHP null variables to empty strings. How can I tell Wor...

Help with mysql sum and group query and managing results for jquery graph.

I have a system I am trying to design that will retrieve information from a database, so that it can be plotted in a jquery graph. I need to retrieve the information and somehow put it in the necessary coordinates format (for example two coordinates var d = [[1269417600000, 10],[1269504000000, 15]];). My table that I am selecting from i...

SimpleXml class not found

After initiating a new SimpleXml object: $xml = new SimpleXML($xmlStr); PHP errors out: Fatal error: Class 'SimpleXML' not found PHP info reads: Simplexml support enabled Revision $Revision: 1.151.2.22.2.35.2.32 $ Schema support enabled What could possibly be going wrong? ...