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php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known

Here is a snippet of my code $fp = fsockopen($s['url'], 80, $errno, $errstr, 5); if($fp){ fwrite($fp, $out); fclose($fp); When I run it, it outputs: unable to connect to www.mydomain.net/1/file.php:80 (php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known I can't figu...

PHP syntax error “unexpected $end”

I have 3 files 1) show_createtable.html 2) do_showfielddef.php 3) do_showtble.php 1) First file is for creating a new table for a data base, it is a fom with 2 inputs, Table Name and Number of Fields. THIS WORKS FINE! <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8...

auto submit form from command line

I have a form page in PHP that reads a DBF, and conditionally converts it into a MySQL - extracting the data from an old, but still production accounting app. The conversion should be able to be actioned without user intervention, ie scripted from the web-host's command line on a cron job. How can I get PHP to submit the form automatica...

Find Rows in Vertical Line-separated values in MySQl?

Let say i have a field 'category' with the value '1|2|3'. I want to search in mysql such that it will return all rows matching my search parameter into the values of the category. for example: $cat_id = 1; SELECT * FROM `myTable` WHERE cat_id is equal or found in category with values '1|2|3'... something like that..i do not know how ...

Prevent users from being able to access a webpage via web browser?

My friend and I are working on a program. This program is going to submit GET data to our webpage. However, we don't want users accessing the webpage any other way than the program. We can prevent users from sharing the program using HWID authentication, but nothing prevents them from using a packet scanner to get the URL of the webpage....

Unique, short filenames for pictures

What would be the best way to rename my user uploaded images to fairly short, yet unique names? uniqid() ? ...

When is a cookie available?

Hi i have a web application where i plant a cookie on my page. Then the user goes to another page, and from that page calls my page from a script, like this: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://domain.com/page.aspx?id=6" ></script> But i cant access the cookie when it calls my page, why not? and how to work around it? Please ...

sometime SetCookie() not working

Hi I created two file to switch my forum (Language Chinese and English) enForum.php <?php function foo() { global $_COOKIES; setcookie('ForumLangCookie', 'en', time()+3600, '/', '.mysite.com'); echo 'running<br>'; $_COOKIES['ForumLangCookie'] = 'en'; bar(); } // foo() funct...

Graph spacing algorithm

Hi, I am looking for an algorithm that would be useful for determining x y coordinates for a number objects to display on screen. Each object can be related to another object and there can be any number of relationships and there can be any number of these objects. There is no restriction on the overall size of area on which to display...

Removing X-Powered-By

How can I remove X-Powered-By header in PHP? I am on an Apache Server and I use php 5.21. I can't use the header_remove function in php as it's not supported by 5.21. I used Header unset X-Powered-By, it worked on my local machine, but not on my production server. If php doesn't support header_remove() for ver < 5.3, is there an alterna...

php calculate float HELP!!

help!! i have weird math calculation here. hope someone will explain. $a = 1.85/100; $b = 1.5/100; $c = 1.1/100; $d = 0.4/100; $e = 0.4/100; $f = 0.4/100; $g = 0.4/100; $h = $a + $b + $c + $d + $e + $f + $g; echo $h*100 ."<br>"; $i = $h-$a; $i = $i-$b; $i = $i-$c; $i = $i-$d; $i = $i-$e; $i = $i-$f; $i = $i-$g; echo $i; last $i val...

Action -methods vs public methods in PHP frameworks

There are plenty of PHP frameworks out there as many of you know, and I am interested in your thoughts on this: Zend Framework has so-called action controllers that must contain at least one action method, a method whose name ends in "Action". For example: public function indexAction() {} The word "Action" is important, without it you...

Getting page by GET, then submiting form

Hi there. I need to get one page (can be cURL, or filegetcontent), get some info from it, then submit form on same page. I don't want to reload page, becouse some things will change. How to do it? Thanks ...

learning OO with PHP

Hi there I've started to learn OO programming, but using the PHP language with the help of the "PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice" book. The thing is that I wish to learn to use into same time the CakePHP framework which make use a lot of the MVC pattern. Because I don't know much about OO and less about MVC I wish to understand the...

Get node content from xml file and transform it into php array?

Hello, I'm looking for solution to extract some node from large xml file (using xmlstarlet http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/) and then parse this node to php array. elements.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <elements> <element id="1" par1="val1_1" par2="val1_2" par3="val1_3"> <title>element 1 title</title> <description>element 1 des...

Passing along variable inside link works only on first word in multiple-word-variables, why?

I have this code below. As you can see I am passing two variables along with the link. The second variabye (category) works whenever it consists of one word, but some categories are two words or more, and then on the receiving php page where I fetch the variable only the first word is fetched. Any ideas? Example: I pass along this: Rim...

Why file upload error codes in php miss number '5'?

I am writing a custom error handling/reporting function for php file upload and I noticed that the error codes returned is one of numbers 0 to 8 except 5. Is this a typo in the source I am using or is it really this way? And if it is so, I am curious why they have skipped number '5'. Thanks. Edit In response to Pekka here are the erro...

php: how do i store an array in a file to access as an array later with php?

I just want to quickly store an array which i get from a remote API, so that i can mess around with it on a local host. So: i currently have an array i want to people to use the array without having to get it from the API There are no needs for efficiency etc here, this isnt for an actual site just for getting some sanitizing/format...

What time corresponds to : time()-24*60*60 ? (PHP)

Hello, just a quick question, What time corresponds to : time()-24*60*60 ? (PHP) 7 days ? is that right ? Thanks ! ...

Mysql Query - Order By Not Working

I'm running Mysql 5.0.77 and I'm pretty sure this query should work? SELECT * FROM purchases WHERE time_purchased BETWEEN '2010-04-15 00:00:00' AND '2010-04-18 23:59:59' ORDER BY time_purchased ASC, order_total DESC time_purchased is DATETIME, and an index. order_total is DECIMAL(10,2), and not an index. I want to order all purchases...