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a good resource or book for architecting object-oriented software

I have looked at a couple of books and all I have looked at were just discussing the technicalities of OOP. By technicalities I mean, here's a concept, here's some code, now get working. I have yet to see a book that discusses the architectural process, what are the ways of doing this, why doing this is bad, how to actually incorporate d...

How to delete a folder in which was started ap a script? (php)

so I have a delete.php in folder abc so i call localhost/abc/delete.php . I want to be able to delete abc folder and all its contents from server when I call localhost/abc/delete.php How to do such thing? ...

Exclude a file in a filematch

Hey folks I'm trying to prepend a gzip script at the beginning of every file using php_value auto_prepend_file gzip_start.php in my .htaccess. The problem is that I've already got a document called combine.php that gzips it contents. What I need to know is, how I can exclude combine.php from the files who get the gzip prepended. I ...

keyword position in google search using php and json

hi how can i find a word position in google search in my site (e.g there are several tool available which input as keyword and siteurl and display the keyword position in google) is there any api to fetch the position ? Thanks ...

Points (PTS) in flash game

Hi, A friend to me made a flash game for my website. The game makes a request to /game/p00ints.php with the points in $_POST['points']. But, a hacker can easy find out how to get more points I guess, so, how can my friend or I fix this security hole? Best regards, Erik Persson ...

PayPal IPN - having trouble accessing session data?

Hello, all. I'm having issues with PayPal IPN integration where it seems I cannot get my solution to read session variables. Basically, in my shop module script, I store the customer's details as provided by PayPal to an orders table. However, I also wish to save products ordered in a transaction to a separate table linked by the order ...

foreach() error handling - how do make it do nothing?

Hey all, This should be very basic, but I am a little stumped! Here is my array: $menu = array( 'Home', 'Stuff'=>array( 'Losta Stuff', 'Less Stuff', 'Ur moms stuff', 'FAQ' ), 'Public Works' ); Here is my logic: echo "<ol>\n"; foreach( (array)$menu as $header ) { echo ' <li><b>'.$header."</b><br />\n"; e...

sql statement question. Need to query 3 tables in one go!

Hey there, I have an sql database. In this database is 3 tables I need to query. The first table has all the item info called item and the other two tables has data for votes and comments called userComment and the third for votes called userItem I currently have a function which uses this sql query to get the latest more popular (in te...

Get from associative array only that elements which keys are specified

Hello ! It's late and I know it is a very simple question but right now I do not have an idea and deadline is near.. I've got two arrays: $array1 = array( 'a' => 'asdasd', 'b' => 'gtrgrtg', 'c' => 'fwefwefw', 'd' => 'trhrtgr', ); $array2 = array( 'b', 'c' ); What was the name of function to get a part of assoc array by key...

How to find if string contains letters and spaces (php)?

So I need to get value false or true if string contains not only letters of all european and east alphabets and " "(space) and "-" minus. How to do such thing with some $a string? ...

formatting mysql data for ouptut into a table

Following on from a question earlier today this answer was given to read the data into an array and separate it to print vehicle type and then some data for each vehicle. <?php $sql = "SELECT * FROM apparatus ORDER BY vehicleType"; $getSQL = mysql_query($sql); // transform the result set: $data = array(); while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc...

Order mysql results without identifier

Usually I would have a table field called ID on auto increment. That way I could order using this field etc. However I have no control over the structure of a table, and wondered how to get the results in reverse order to default. I'm currently using $q = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ServerChat LIMIT 15"); However like I said there i...

php require class call from inside method

from my understanding, require pastes code into the calling php file. what if you were requiring from inside a method...it would paste the entire code/class inside the method, blocking the next statement in the method. eg. function test() { require 'pathtosomeclasscode'; somestatement; // any code after the require is block...

PHP string to object name.

Ok I have a string... $a_string = "Product"; and I want to use this string in a call to a object like this: $this->$a_string->some_function(); How the dickens do I dynamically call that object? (don't think Im on php 5 mind) ...

display image and script for a set period of time

This is very similar to a question I asked the other day but my page code has become significantly more complicated and I need to revisit it. I've been using the following code: $('#myLink').click(function() { $('#myImg').attr('src', 'newImg.jpg'); setTimeout(function() { $('#myImg').attr('src', 'oldImg.jpg'); }, 15000); }); To r...

Facebook connect PHP API - friends_get() returns empty array

Couple of hours ago I succeed to get friends_get() to return an array of friends, but, now I don't know if it is my fault or something is wrong in facebooks' end (API problems?). Anyway I used a code from their documentation: <?php require_once 'facebook-platform/php/facebook.php'; $appapikey = ''; //CHANGE THIS $appsecr...

PHP Form POST to external URL with Redirect to another URL

So, what I am trying to accomplish is have a self-posting PHP form, POST to an external page (using CURL) which in turn redirects to another page. Currently, what is happening is that once I click "Submit" on the form (in contact.php) it will POST to itself (as it is a self-posting form). The script then prepares the POST using CURL an...

storing crontab php outputs in a log file

* * * * * php /home/admin/public_html/domain.com/public/cron/route.php &>> /home/admin/public_html/domain.com/log/cron.log I have that cron running every minute. I want to store the errors that occur in route.php in cron.log This works wonderfully when I run : php /home/admin/public_html/domain.com/public/cron/route.php &>> /home/ad...

Ignore SSL errors in Zend_Http_Client

In PHP curl there are two functions used to ignore all SSL errors (invalid cert, self signed, expired, so on): curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); I am switching over to use Zend_Http_Client, but I can't seem to find a way to force it to ignore errors. (I don't have a way t...

Adjusting sql statement in a function based upon input

Hey there, This is a bit urgent! I'm trying to make a simple filter search where-by you can choose from a series of 3 drop downs and then based upon this the results are then displayed, How would I go about adjusting the sql query for each and if you were to only choose to search from aone of the 3 rather than all 3 etc... example ther...