how to get the last char of a string in PHP?
I need to get the last character of a string. Say I have "testers" as input string and I want the result to be "s". how can I do that in PHP? ...
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XML RSS Feed Parse PHP
With an XML feed like so: <w:current temperature="22.2" dewPoint="12.9" humidity="56" windSpeed="5.6" windGusts="9.3" windDirection="ESE" pressure="1017.8" rain="0.0" /> and <w:forecast day="Thursday" description="Mostly Sunny. Warm." min="17" max="29" icon="2" iconUri="http://www.weather.com.au/images/icons/2.gif" iconAlt="Mostly Sun...
sfGuardDoctrine plugin and form messages
I'm using the sfGuardDoctrine plugin, and I would like to customize the form validation messages. How could I acomplish this? I can't find anything in the documentation. The only way I have found is to copy sfGuardValidatorUser.class into /apps/frontend/lib/validator, but I would like to know if there is some way to just override the e...
Netcat / Apache solution to send data to PHP
Hi, I have this device that sends XML data to a webserver in format as follows POST HTTP/1.1 Content-Type:text/xml Content-Length:369 Followed by XML The problem here is that apache simply sends 400 error for this and does not work. Is there anyway to create netcat to read xml and send to php? Any other solution welcome! Is it better...
Is it possible to disable Symfony framework support in NetBeans 6.8?
Put simply: it causes a massive memory leak within an hour if I work on a Symfony project, and I don't use any of the features that it provides. I've looked through all of the menus and can't seem to see an option to disable support for it. Has anyone attempted or managed to remove this module from the IDE? I quite like NetBeans, but on...
Client-Server Networking Between PHP Client and Java Server
Hi there, I have a university project which is already 99% completed. It consists of two parts-website (PHP) and desktop (Java). People have their accounts on the website and they wish to query different information regarding their accounts. They send an SMS which is received by desktop application which queries database of website (MyS...
Loading form values from one IFrame to another
What I want to achieve is the following. A search is made from one IFrame "the form is loaded into this frame via the src atribute of iframe" the search query is then passed to another IFrame that redirects to a url with the query eg. www.test.com/index.php?query=test Is this possible? Currently my code looks as such <iframe src="abc....
Ajax toolkit for manipulating tables
(dismay response to previous question) I'm building a website in php and I have tables presented that i need to allow the user to: 1. add new entry (only one at a time, which should appear as a new modal overlay) 2. delete multiple selected entries from 3. edit an existing entry (only one at one time, in a view similar to 1.) 4. re-arra...
preg_replace only part of match
Hi, I'm using preg_replace to create urls for modrewrite based paging links. I use: $nextURL = preg_replace('%/([\d]+)/%','/'.($pageNumber+1).'/',$currentURL); which works fine, however I was wondering if there is a better way without having to include the '/' in the replacement parameter. I need to match the number as being between t...
Complex Query on cassandra
I have heard on cassandra database engine few days ago and searching for a good documentation on it. after studying on cassandra I got cassandra is more scalable than other data engine. I also read on Amazon SimpleDB but as SimpleDB has a limitation 10GB/table and Google Datastore is slower than Amazon SimpleDB, I prefer not to use them ...
How to prefix a positive number with plus sign in PHP
I need to design a function to return negative numbers unchanged but should add a + sign at the start of the number if its already no present. Example: Input Output ---------------- +1 +1 1 +1 -1 -1 It will get only numeric input. function formatNum($num) { # something here..perhaps a regex? } This f...
A bit confused about OOP and PHP.
Hello I have programmed with procedural style a lot before and in these few months I have decided to go OOP. Im a bit confused about OOP and PHP. Lets say I have Categories table and Pages table in my database. I would like to do a page-class and a category-class. Lets say I would have a page that showed information about the categor...
imagettfbbox & imagettftext - resize,position,rotate...
Ok, now it's officialy 10 hours that I'm trying to make this work, but by every minute I'm farther and farther from the final goal... The thing is, I need to create a function, class or whatever that by the selected TTF or truetype font create, properly resize, and fill the image with a text given by the url. The image shouldn't be long...
Best way to list online users with PHP but without MySQL?
Hi, I want to make a script that will list online users when they enter a page. Simple way is record newly entered users into MySQL and list them for example every second. But I don't think it's a good idea with tons of users like in a facebook app come in and out of the page. There would be a way with Flash and PHP sockets but I really ...
What would be a better way of doing the following
if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { $location_name = trim(mysql_real_escape_string(trim(stripslashes($_GET['location_name'])))); } else { $location_name = trim(mysql_real_escape_string(trim($_GET['location_name']))); } That's the code I have so far. seems to me this code is fundamentally ... OK. Do you think I can safely remove the inner ...
Paths when both including and requesting AJAX
I was wondering if there is a way of making a relative path to the main folder (where the index.php lies) from every file that needs to be included or requested by AJAX. I want to combine both AJAX and PHP include so first time the page loads with PHP, and then to be able to refresh parts of the page with AJAX, but the files are the sa...
php regex expression to get title
I'm trying to strip content titles out of the middle of text strings. Could I use regex to strip everything out of this string except for the title (in italics) in these strings? Or is there a better way? Joe User wrote a blog post called The 10 Best Regex Expressions in the category Regex. Jane User wrote a blog post called ...
Alternatives to var_export
var_export function causes an exception while argument has circular references. Are there any alternatives (except serialize) which handle it correctly? ...
Merging two Regular Expressions to Truncate Words in Strings
I'm trying to come up with the following function that truncates string to whole words (if possible, otherwise it should truncate to chars): function Text_Truncate($string, $limit, $more = '...') { $string = trim(html_entity_decode($string, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')); if (strlen(utf8_decode($string)) > $limit) { $string ...
How to read date from the form and calculate a timestamp
I would like to calculate a timestamp based on the input date. I would like to calculate it from the user input (something like 12/12/2011) I guess I need a function that changes the format to something readable for php and then calculate timestamp for this date. Maybe I should use strtotime() function? Any ideas will be appreciated. ...