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Unidirectional OneToMany in Doctrine 2

I have two Doctrine entities looking like that: /** * @Entity * @Table(name = "Locales") */ class Locale { /** * @Id @Column(type="integer") * @GeneratedValue(strategy="IDENTITY") */ private $id; /** @Column(length=2, name="Name", type="string") */ private $code; } /** * @Entity * @Table(name = "loc...

What does RETURN TRUE do in a php function?

I was just looking at this code and i don't understand what RETURN TRUE does or what the point of it is? Can someone please explain? class Elephpant { public $colour; public function dance() { echo "elephpant dances!\n"; return true; } } Thankyou in advance ;-) ...

MySQL Select statement Where table1.id != table2.id

I have a table of data which has posts, then I have a separate table of data which has deleted posts. What happens when a post is deleted is that it's ID get's added to the deleted table rather than removing the post entry. What is a clean efficient way of selecting all the posts from the posts table without selecting the ones that have...

Remove all before certain delimiter starting at end of string PHP

Hey, I need help isolating part of a url in PHP. say I have http://www.test.com/something/something/important/ How could I isolate the "important" Thanks! ...

need some tips on Drupal $form value

I got dpm($form) working. Nice! This is much better way to view data. I am still trying to figure out where stuff is coming from eg: location longitude & latitude. The word 'longitude' is referenced in 20 different places. I thought this was a likely place to isolate text box for this input field. dpm($form['#field_info']['field_store_l...

PHP is not called properly in IE using set interval function in Javascript

Hi all, I am trying to show the message updated in DB using the following code var showtime = setInterval('redirect()',5000); ////Redirecting to DB Status ///// function redirect() { xmlhttp = GetXmlHttpObject(); if (xmlhttp==null) { alert ("Browser does not support HTTP Request"); return; } var url="isResult...

creating email forwarding accounts on the fly using PHP

Hi, i was wondering if it was possible to create email forwading accounts on the fly as I have created subdomains for uses profiles i.e. user.profile.com and was wondering if I could create [email protected] to forward to their email account? Regards, Phil ...

How to setup HTTP proxy settings in PHP?

I am trying to write a program in PHP which I had already written in Java. I had used the following statements to setup proxy in Java System.setProperty("http.proxyHost",proxyhost); System.setProperty("http.proxyPort",proxyport); How do I do the same for PHP? ...

ORM or SQL in large, scalable and MAINTAINABLE web application?

I know there already are a lot of posts floating on the web regarding this topic. However, many people tend to focus on different things when talking about it. My main goal is to create a scalable web application that is easy to maintain. Speed to develop and maintain is far more appreciated BY ME than raw performance (or i could have u...

A PHP script to stream internet radio?

I've been searching and searching and I haven't yet come up with a solution to host my own streaming audio player. I'm looking for a way to host an internet radio player that connects to whatever streams I enter in and plays them. I'm not looking to play my MP3s or anything like that. I'm looking to play content from 181.fm or 1Club.fm,...

How to close an oracle db connection from php on an apache server? I mean close instantly.

Usually closing a connection is simply done by oci_close($connection); or in a worse case when the php script ends the connection pass away. In my case however, I face a different behavior. If I access my application which uses PHP 5.2.8, Apache 2.2.11 and oci8 1.2.5, the connection is kept during several minutes. Actually it seems ...

Preview result of update/insert query without comitting changes to database in MySQL?

I am writing a script to import CSV files into existing tables within my database. I decided to do the insert/update operations myself using PHP and INSERT/UPDATE statements, and not use MySQL's LOAD INFILE command, I have good reasons for this. What I would like to do is emulate the insert/update operations and display the results to t...

Using php to create a password system with chinese characters

Hi guys, I'm having an issue with validating chinese characters against other chinese characters, for example I'm creating a simple password script which gets data from a database, and gets the user input through get. The issue I'm having is for some reason, even though the characters look exactly the same when you echo them out, my if...

Need help with PHP URL encoding/decoding

On one page I'm "masking"/encoding URL which is passed to another page, there I decode URL and start file delivering to user. I found some function for encoding/decoding URL's, but sometime encoded URL contains "+" or "/" and decoded link is broken. I must use "folder structure" for link, can not use QueryString! Here is encoding func...

Is it possible to execute the two update queries in phpmyadmin together?

Is it possible to execute the two update queries in phpmyadmin together? Like wise UPDATE jos_menu SET home = 0 WHERE 1; UPDATE jos_menu SET home = 1 WHERE id = 9; Now can we copy both these queries together and Run it on phpmyadmin sql query panel? will it be executed? ...

How to make a php function contain mysql commands

I want to create a simple menu function which can call it example get_menu() Here is my current code. <?php $select = 'SELECT * FROM pages'; $query = $db->rq($select); while ($page = $db->fetch($query)) { $id = $page['id']; $title = $page['title']; ?> <a href="page.php?id=<?php echo $id; ?>" title="<?php echo $title; ?>"><?php echo ...

php mysql query strings array

i am building a string that i check in mysql db. eg: formFields[] is an array - input1 is: string1 array_push(strings, formFields) 1st string and mysql query looks like this: "select * from my table where id in (strings)" formFields[] is an array - input2 is: string1, string2 array_push(strings, formFields) 2nd string and mysql query l...

Can I use ALTER DATABASE to rename a mysql database?

I am using PDO with PHP to create a new database and then a new user with privileges on that database. In case one of them fails, I want to rename the database and user so that they can be deleted later and the names are available. Is it possible to rename a mysql database using the ALTER DATABASE? ...

Form submit capture into database not working

Hi guys, I have a form that has two buttons on it, one yes, one no, and at the moment I capture the clicked button into a database, but for some reason, it doesn't always capture the clicked button, I have gone through all my code and everything seems fine, here is the form <div id="mid_prompt"> <form action="re...

Drupal Multisite - Subdirectory, Shared Hosting

I'm trying to set up Drupal 6 multisite in a shared hosting environment. The main site's location looks like http://www.mysite.com/foo/bar/ and my goal is to create another site using the same database at http://www.mysite.com/foo/bar/drupal2. I've created a new folder in the sites directory called www.mysite.com.foo.bar.drupal2 and ad...