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Creating an XML sitemap with PHP

I'm trying to create a sitemap that will automatically update. I've done something similiar with my RSS feed, but this sitemap refuses to work. You can view it live at http://designdeluge.com/sitemap.xml I think the main problem is that its not recognizing the PHP code. Here's the full source: <?php include 'includes/connection.php'...

How can I implement a jquery ajax form which requests information from a web api via a php request?

I'm trying to implement a simple api request to the SEOmoz linkscape api. It works if I only use the php file but I want to do an ajax request using jquery to make it faster and more user friendly. Here is the javascript code I'm trying to use: $(document).ready(function(){ $('#submit').click(function() { var url=$('#url').va...

How to Improve my php image resizer to support alpha png and transparent GIFs

Hi, I use this function to resize images but i end up with ugly creepy image with a black background if it's a transparent GIF or PNG with alpha, however it works perfectly for jpg and normal png. function cropImage($nw, $nh, $source, $stype, $dest) { $size = getimagesize($source); $w = $size[0]; $h = $size[1]; sw...

php not showing all images

I a writing a gallery app in php. The images are dynamically displayed through php. On each load of the page, not all images are showing. it does this randomly, on each load. I have not had this problem before, as I am new to php. My previous apps where all in perl, and I had no dynamic image display problems when using that language. ...

Detailed book on how wordpress is build

Just a simple question... Is there a book that describes how wordpress works in detail. So what I mean is e.g. Where this variable is declared, where used and so on.. With best regards ...

Implementing a scalable and high-performing web app

I have asked a few questions on here before about various things relating to this but this is more of a consolidation question as I would like to check I have got the gist of everything. I am in the middle of developing a social media web app and although I have a lot of experience coding in Java and in PHP I am trying things a bit diff...

Ampersand in GET, PHP

I have a simple form that generates a new photo gallery, sending the title and a description to MySQL and redirecting the user to a page where they can upload photos. Everything worked fine until the ampersand entered the equation. The information is sent from a jQuery modal dialog to a PHP page which then submits the entry to the datab...

Someone please can see why the following prepared statment returns nothing?

$stmt = mysqli_prepare($link," SELECT * FROM ads INNER JOIN dept ON dept.id_dept = ads.in_dpt INNER JOIN members ON members.idMem = ads.from_Mem INNER JOIN sub_cat_ad ON id_sub_cat = ads.ads_in_Cat INNER JOIN cat_ad ON idCat_ad = sub_cat_ad.from_cat_ad WHERE ads_in_Cat = ? "); if(isset($_GET['fromSCat'...

Adding Facebook Log in button to PHP code

I am trying to add the new Facebook log in button to my registration page on my Drupal site. I know the following code is wrong, but I don't know the right syntax to implement it: function facebook_user($op, &$edit, &$user, $category = NULL) { switch($op) { // User is registering. case 'register': // Add a Facebook login button. ech...

Can anyone explain this impossible bit of PHP logic?

I'm attempting to debug a simple PHP script. Essentially, there's a variable which is defined with: $variable = ($_GET['variable'] == 'true') ? TRUE : FALSE; Then, in the view file, the following code is meant to display a box if $variable == TRUE: <? if ($variable == true) { ?> <p class="box">You have imported a new plan.</p> <? } ...

Does the combo of PHP5, MySQL, and a Macbook Pro constitute a LAMP stack? If not, what does?

Hello - I mostly code in Visual Studio, I like it, but lately it's making me feel a little claustrophobic. On my MacBook Pro, I've set up PHP5 and MySQL (natively). With the built-in server on the mac, does this constitute a LAMP stack? Is Mac OSX considered a Linux Environment? I have VMWare Fusion 3, should I set up a Linux OS virtua...

Regex gurus! here's a teaser: mixed thousands separators and csv's

I've got a string like... "labour 18909, liberals 12,365,conservatives 14,720" ...and i'd like a regex which can get rid of any thousands separators so i can pull out the numbers easily. Or even a regex which could give me a tidy array like: (labour => 18909, liberals => 12365, conservatives => 14720) Oh i wish i had the time to f...

How do you print raw UTF-8 characters from their numbers? [PHP]

Say I wanted to print a ÿ (latin small y with diaeresis) from its Unicode/UTF-8 number of U+00FF or hex of c3 bf. How can I do that in PHP? The reason is that I need to be able to create certain UTF-8 Characters is for testing in my regex and string functions. However, since I have less than 200 keys on my keyboard I can't type them - a...

Moving to OOP hopefully!

So I am trying to understand OOP more and use it. The following code was written before i started using OOP. //loop through all the users $game = "$_POST[Game]_teams"; $result = mysql_query("SELECT username FROM `users`") or die(mysql_error()); while( $row=mysql_fetch_assoc($result) ) { $u[] = $row['username']; } I have put the ...

Example: Objective C method alongside a php method

I am very used to javascript and php programing, and I just jumped into programing Objective C. After working with it for a few weeks, the methods still confused me, as to how it is passing params, and how the methods are named. Since I am used to php, I am used to seeing: function myFunc($param1, $param2, $param3, $param4) { retur...

Bash commands not executed when through cron job - PHP

Hi there! I have a cron job running a PHP script every five minutes; the PHP script executes two bash commands at the end of the script. I know the script is running due to a log file it appends to. When I run the PHP script manually via the Ubuntu Gnome Terminal both bash commands execute flawlessly; however when the PHP script is tr...

if statement OOP

I have the following code /* Errors exist, have user correct them */ if($form->num_errors > 0) { return 1; //Errors with form } /* No errors, add the new account to the */ else if($database->addLeagueInformation($subname, $subformat, $subgame, $subseason, $subwindow, $subadmin, $subchampion, $subtype)) { re...

Recovering From An SQL Injection

Let's not go so far as to say that I'm paranoid, but I've been spending hour after hour learning how to prevent SQL injections (and XSS for what it's worth). What I'm wondering is that a SQL injection doesn't seem like it would do permanent harm to my database if I've made daily backups. Doesn't importing yesterday's copy of my tables ...

Simple PHP Server info request - not working at all

Going off of my other question and its pair. I'm looking to grab the Hostname:Port value as found in the phpinfo() function. I can't seem to find it anywhere and it's not in $_SERVER. ...

dynamically load PHP code from external file

code is in a static class in an external file eg. /home/test/public_html/fg2/templatecode/RecordMOD/photoslide.mod how do I load this into my script on demand, and be able to call its functions ? I am a novice at php , so please explain your code. help is appreciated. Jer ...