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Searching within an array of strings...

Ok, I'm feeling retarded here, I have a string like so: $string = 'function module_testing() {'; or it could be like this: $string = 'function module_testing()'; or it could be like this: $string = 'function module_testing($params) {'; or this: $string = 'function module_testing($params, $another = array())'; and many more w...

Variables versus constants versus associative arrays in PHP

I'm working on a small project, and need to implement internationalization support somehow. I am thinking along the lines of using constants to define a lot of symbols for text in one file, which could be included subsequently. However, I'm not sure if using variables is faster, or if I can get away with using associative arrays without ...

Version control for PHP Developement

Hello, I have been hearing a lot about the advantages of using a version control system and would like to try one. I was doing freelance web development in PHP for the past 2 years, two months back I hired two more programmer to help me. I will be hiring one more person soon. We maintain 4 websites, all of which are my own, which are co...

How to detect language of text?

I have a form which lets users input text snippets. So how can figure out the language of the entered text? Specifically these languages for now: Arabic: هذه هي بعض النصوص العربية Chinese: 这是一些阿拉伯文字 Japanese: これは、いくつかのアラビア語のテキストです [Edit] The detection has work on text which is retrieved via an API too (no browser involved) ...

php with oracle 9i

Hi everyone, I am new in php with oracle. Trying to connect with oracle by php. But have no success. I have installed xammp since i had to work with mysql. And now i have to use oracle 9i (9.2.0.6). Now if i use --> oci_connect(username, password, servicename) -- It says undefined function oci_connect(); Can any one tell how to configur...

Obtain distances to nearest landmarks (Mall, Hospital, and Airport etc.) using google map

I am working on a project in which I have around 100000 addreses in major cities in India(it is a table in a database). I want to know if it is possible to obtain the distances to to nearest landmarks (Mall, Hospital, and Airport etc.). Ideally I want these distances to be mergeed to the parent table. We have Java and Php coders to get ...

php code for inserting text file into the database

hey i have form which has a file field. After selecting a file,i want to insert the selected file into the database column. how do i do it? ...

including php file from another server with php

hi I have 2 php files each file on different server. lets say the first file called includeThis.php and the second called main.php the first file is located in (http://)www.sample.com/includeThis.php and the second located in (http://)www.mysite.com/main.php so now what I want is to include the first file into my second file. the con...

exec() function doesn't rule svn checkout

Hi, I'm writing some functions in php using exec() to interrogate a svn. The commands exec("svn list ".$myurl) works. Now, I try to get a path on a svn repository with the checkout command. When I put the command "svn checkout http://core.wordress.org/tags/2.9.2/ last-version" directly in the console, it works. But when I do this fr...

PHP Stop Word List

I'm playing about with a stop words within my code I have an array full of words that I'd like to check, and an array of words I want to check against. At the moment I'm looping through the array one at at a time and removing the word if its in_array vs the stop word list but I wonder if there's a better way of doing it, I've looked at ...

PHP & MySQL username validation and storage problem.

For some reason when a user enters a brand new username the error message <p>Username unavailable</p> is displayed and the name is not stored. I was wondering if some can help find the flaw in my code so I can fix this error? Thanks Here is the PHP code. if($_POST['username'] && trim($_POST['username'])!=='') { $u = "SELECT * ...

filter some data(row) in zend view

I have 1.Table:user(userId,userName,userGroup) 2.Model:userModel 3.usercontroller there i a simple code: Controller: class UserController extends Zend_Controller_Action { public function getuser() { $userModel = new userModel(); $this->view->usergroup = $userModel; } } Model: class Model_UserGroup...

JQuery .get() only passing first two data parameters in url

I have a $.get() call to a PHP page that takes 4 GET parameters. For some reason, despite giving the $.get() call all 4, it only passes the first two. When I look at the dev console in chrome, it shows the URL that gets called, and it only passes action and dbname. Heres the code: $.get('util/util.php', { action: 'start', dbname: db, ur...

Disabling WSDL file validation in Zend Studio

Hello, How can I disable WSDL file validation in Zend Studio? I have many WSDL files in a project and it takes much much time to validate all of them. Thank you in advance. ...

htaccess/htpasswd in hierarchical folder structure

I have a folder (folder_1) that is protected by htaccess/htpasswd files. Inside that folder is another folder (folder_2) that is protected by another couple of htaccess/htpasswd files. When a php-script in folder_1 or folder_2 is called, the user has to authenticate herself using the correct username and password as specified in the res...

How do I display exception errors thrown by Zend framework

Hi guys I'm working with Zend framework and just hate the fact that I seem to encounter hundreds of exception errors like if I try to reference a non existant property of an object my application just dies and crashes. However I have no idea where to see these errors or how to be able to display them on screen. I've set display errors to...

cURL Affects Cookie Retrieval in PHP?

I'm not sure if I'm asking this properly. I have two PHP pages located on the same server. The first PHP page sets a cookie with an expiration and the second one checks to see if that cookie was set. if it is set, it returns "on". If it isn't set, it returns "off". If I just run the pages like "www.example.com/set_cooki...

selected item in a select tag

hi everybody i have a problem please help me i have 4 select tag in my php page and when i post my parameters to my page all of select tags clear and i want my selected item dont change - excuse me for my bad english ...

What is the fastest way to trim blank lines from beginning and end of array?

This script: <?php $lines[] = ''; $lines[] = 'first line '; $lines[] = 'second line '; $lines[] = ''; $lines[] = 'fourth line'; $lines[] = ''; $lines[] = ''; $lineCount = 1; foreach($lines as $line) { echo $lineCount . ': [' . trim($line) . ']<br/>'; $lineCount++; } ?> produces this output: 1: [] 2: [first line] 3: [sec...

Saving images in database mysql

My client have created a script in php+mysql that saves images directly in the database and every images has url like this: www.example.com/image.php?id=421 In your opinion this is a very wrong solution ? Should I rebuild all the site ? There are about 1000 visits per day and about 600 images in the database. This is the site: http://...