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How to name uploaded files in php to prevent them from being overwritten?

I'm trying to add user submitted articles to my website, (only for admins). With each article comes an option to upload up to 3 images. My database is set up like this Articles id user_id title body date_added last_edited Photos id (auto_increment) article_id First I save the article in the database, then I upload the photo (tempo...

Why is my PHP string being converted to 1?

Ok, so here's the quick rundown. I have a function to generate the page numbers. This: <?php die($ani->e->tmpl->pages("/archive", 1, 15, 1, true)); ?> will output Single Page like expected. But this: <?php $page_numbers = $ani->e->tmpl->pages("/archive", 1, 15, 1, true); ?> <?= $page_numbers ?> will output a simple 1 to the page....

php MySQL snytax error

my scrip is supposed to look up contacts in a table and present thm on the screen to then be edited. however this is not this case. I am getting the error Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/admin/domains/domain.com.au/public_html/pick_modcontact.php on line 50 NOTE: this is the last line in this script. <? session_star...

function.array-diff problems!

Hi, im currently getting these error on my site: Warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array on line 43 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() on line 44 Warning: array_diff() [function.array-diff]: Argument #1 is not an array on line 47 Warning: array_diff() [function.array-diff]: Arg...

Can I use OAuth for a SOAP web service?

The standard HTTP Authentication for SOAP passed the password etc in cleartext,and I'm looking for an alternative, possibly a key based mechanism to authenticate web services in lieu of the password. OAuth is gaining a lot of popularity; would it be appropriate, and how would I implement it? Or perhaps there are other methods I should u...

Pass variable number of variables to a class in PHP

I need to pass a variable number of strings to instantiate different classes. I can always do a switch on the size of the array: switch(count($a)) { case 1: new Class(${$a[0]}); break; case 2: new Class(${$a[0]}, ${$a[1]}); break; etc... There has to be a better way to do this. If I have an array of strings ("variabl...

How to html report to any printable file

How to html report to any printable file.Is there any solution. ...

Twitter-OAuth update_profile_*_image methods problem [EpiTwitter]

People, I have been struggling over the two methods - Update Profile Image and Update Background Image I am using EpiTwitter library. I am uploading GIFs, Twitter returns the expected result for update_profile_background_image but returns 401 for update_profile_image , but the image is not changed. Here are the headers catched from $...

possible to show composition relationship in a diagram generated from PHP source code?

i have tested several UML applications for whether they could show composition relationships in the UML diagrams generated form the PHP source code or not, and the result is they can't. i know that this is a typical problem for PHP cause we don't declare a data type when we code, so it's difficult for the UML applications to know if an ...

Online Sports betting website using Drupal

I wanted to know how suitable is Drupal for making a sports betting website similar to http://www.sportsinteraction.com/ . I am aware that there are modules like Bookmaker in Drupal which could help . However, I am puzzled about how to handle the user accounts can be extended to keep a track of the money in each individual account. Also...

Calling a Web Service from PHP

How can i call a web service from php ...

A way to share the return value of fsockopen() between multiple pages?

Hey, im using a connection to a server in my php script, opened with fsockopen() and i want it to share between different pages so i serialized it and saved it in a session variable but it seems that that ia a bad idea because when i do this nothing happens... Not even an error. The problem is that this connection requires a handshake so...

Ajax security problem

I want to create a browser based game and I have a huge problem, the game can be easily hacked. The problem is at a page where you can go to "work", I store in a file the work ending date and the amount of money what you will receive after finishing the work. There are 4 type of works. The problem is that I use ajax to send to a php file...

spaces or %20 in links turn into + signs when page is sent as an email

I am creating a web app that accepts input of news items (title, article, url). It has a page news.php which creates a summary of all news items inputted for specified dates, like so: News 4/25/2010 Title 1 [URL 1] Article 1 Title 2 [URL 2] Article 2 and so on... I have two other pages, namely preview.php and send.php , both of whi...

PHP: How can I generate a HmacSHA256 signature of a string

Is there any way to create a HmacSHA256 signature of a string in php? ...

Sending email to multiple recipients but only one will appear in the TO field

Is it possible to send an email to multiple recipients, but on the receiving end, the recipient will only see his/her email address? If so how do I do this and could you point me to some references? I know this can be done via a loop that sends to each recipient separately. But then I'll have to consider other things as well, such as 1)...

session variable values are not being passed between pages

hi, i am a little new to php and although i have managed to pass values of session variables before this piece of code is leaving me puzzled <form action="team_reg2.php" method="post" name="form1" class="cent" id="form1"> <p><strong>Team Registration</strong></p> <?php $con=mysql_connect("localhost","root",""); mysql_select_db("...

ACL suggestions needed for a small light framework developed

Hello all, I've developed a small framework that was needed for the firm that I work. The problem is I've not made a full level framework, as developers are finding tough time to understand what is what, So I made a simple structure with app/controllers, app/models, app/views so that they can clearly separate the code and can get us...

Setting amount of time to pass when sending emails in a loop

Forgive me for this noob question, but is there such a setting that sets a certain amount of time (e.g. milli/seconds) that has to pass in between sending emails through a script? How is that setting called and where do I change that setting? I'll give an example: I used to have a PHP script that sends emails like so: for ($i=0; $i<co...

Complicated idea - how to create car racing for my RPG game's players

So, I want to create car racing for my RPG game's players. Player can create race and choose how many participants can participate in race. After race is being created, other people can join it. When the maximum participants are collected, race begins. My idea, when the last participant joins, then instantly choose the winner (who's ca...