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TFS, MSBuild, and VS.PHP

So I am using Visual Studio 2008 and VS.PHP 2.9 with Team Foundation Server to develop my PHP application. Unfortunately, I have to use TFS and Visual Studio - no switching to Subversion or Git. I am in the process of writing an MSBuild script to, whenever files are checked into a certain directory in the tree, get the latest version o...

Fetch HTML page and store it in MYSQL- How to

Hi, What's the best way to store a formatted html page with CSS on to MYSQL database? Is it possible? What the column type should be? How to retrieve the stored formatted HTML and display it correctly using PHP? What if the page I would like to fetch has pics and videos, show I store the page as blob What's the best way to fetch a pa...

How to parse a string of boolean logic in PHP

I'm building a PHP class with a private member function that returns a string value such as: 'true && true || false' to a public member function. (This string is the result of some regex matching and property lookups.) What I'd like to do is have PHP parse the returned logic and have the aforementioned public function return whether...

Is it possible to register a user and submit a comment with one form with Wordpress?

Is it possible to do both registering for an account and submit a comment at the same time? I want the user to be able to do this all on one page to ecourage the registration rather than be discouraged about typing something, not realizing they had to be registered and thus having to leave the page. I think that this could be done by a...

PHP Classes: parent/child communication

Hi all, I'm having some trouble extending Classes in PHP. Have been Googling for a while. $a = new A(); $a->one(); $a->two(); // something like this, or... class A { public $test1; public function one() { echo "this is A-one"; $this->two(); $parent->two(); $parent->B->two(); // ...how do i do something...

Making form submissions unique using PHP and HTML

Hello all I'm currently developing a page where the user fills out a form, and when submitted they are taken to the next page. When on the next page, I want to have it so that if the user went back to the previous page using the back button, or hit refresh, the submission will not be saved into the DB. Now I recall reading somewhere t...

Execute a Application On The Server Using PHP(With safe_mode enabled)

I have an application on my server that is called leaf.exe, that haves two arguments needed to run, they are: inputfile and outputfile, that will be like this example: pnote.exe input.pnt output.txt The executable is at exec/, inputfile is at upload/ and outputfile is on compiled/. But I need that a PHP could run the application like ...

How to print a specific value in array in PHP?

array(2) { [0]=> object(stdClass)#144 (7) { ["id"]=> string(1) "2" ["name"]=> string(8) "name1" ["value"]=> string(22) "Lorem Ipsum Dolar Amet" ["type"]=> string(8) "textarea" ["group"]=> string(1) "1" ["published"]=> string(1) "1" ["ordering"]=> string(1) "1" } [1]=> obje...

php array count

I have a var dump of my sql query which return the following I wanna to count in the array below that how many rows of myID = 5 are there. How would I do that. I am using php. Thanks in advance array 0 => object(stdClass)[17] public 'myID' => string '5' (length=1) public 'data' => string '123' (length=3) 1 => ...

authorizet.net local testing and ssl certificate

hi i am integrating authorize.net AIM api into my shopping cart. i have a developer account from auth.net and i am working locally. when i do auth.net api call, i get SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed i assume it's because i...

MySQL: Use CASE/ELSE value as join parameter

I'm trying to join the NAME and PHOTO from USERS table to the TRANSACTIONS table based on who is the payer or payee. It keeps telling me can't find the table this -- What am I doing wrong? SELECT `name`,`photo`,`amount`,`comment`, ( CASE `payer_id` WHEN 72823 THEN `payee_id` ELSE `payer_id` END ) AS `this` FROM `transact...

How to clean and simplify this code?

After thinking about This Question and giving an answer to it I wanted to do more about that to train myself. So I wrote a function which will calc the length of an given function. Th given php-file has to start at the beginning of the needed function. Example: If the function is in a big phpfile with lots of functions, like /* lots o...

customize Help Center Live HLC

Hi, I just installed Help Center Live which works fine, but I would like to make just one minor adjustment and after looking almost everywhere I couldn't find the file where the text was listen in. At the end of each chat the user can request a copy of the transcript. I tested it and it got into the spam folder of my email client. Why, I...

Is it possible to resolve domain names to an IP address with PHP?

Well, very simple question. So that's good news for you, I guess. More thorough explanation: I have a PHP script allowing me to add urls to a database. I want the script to resolve the url to an IP address as well, to store that, too. However, some of the URLs are like this: http://111.111.111.111/~example/index.php So it also needs ...

Display all images from outside web root folder using PHP

Hello, I want to display all images that are stored outside my web root folder. Please help me. I am only able to display one image repeatedly. For example, if I have 5 images in my folder, only one image is displayed on my browser 5 times. Please help me on this. I've been working on this problem for over a month now. I'm a newbie. Hel...

Designing a different kind of tag cloud.

Rather than having a bunch of links that are all different sizes, I want all of my tags to be the same size. However, my goal is to minimize the amount of space required to make the cloud, aka minimizing the number of lines used. Take this example: Looks like any normal tag cloud. However, look at all that extra space around the 'rou...

Drupal - no self-linking

I'm using the built-in Path module to change Drupal Page links from a format like "/node/1234" to "/about-us". The latter link format is easier to read and is SEO friendly. At the top of every page is the primary navigation. Currently when viewing the /about-us page the primary navigation links are displayed as follows: Home | About...

Drupal theme preprocess function - primary links and suckerfish menus

I have a preprocess function that works fine when the menu is single level list. However I would like it to work w/ suckerfish menus. I want to add a class to the top level menu item so that I can style it. This is the code I used for the single level menu: function cti_flex_preprocess_page(&$vars, $hook) { // Make a shortcut for th...

PHP: detecting IP's entry to a specific IP range

I have the PHP function that determines whether one IP goes to a specific IP range, but I don't know how to find out the IP's network and mask. Can anyone help with this? <? // Example of calling and checking IP-address 192.168.0.4 // belonging to a network 192.168.0.0 with mask 255.255.255.248 if(ip_vs_net("192.168.0.4","192.168.0.0",...

PHP array include performance

What type of performance hit can I expect if I include a huge PHP array? For example, lets say I have a 1GB PHP array in "data.php" that looks like $data = array( //1GB worth of data ) If I include that huge "data.php" file on "header.php", how will it affect the performance of "header.php" when it executes? Thanks! ...