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"No database selected" even when db clearly selected

One of my webpages gets a recurring error: "No database selected", even though the DB is selected. Right about now it's a 50-50 chance whether the page will load just fine, or whether I receive this error. After one or two reloads, the page works again. I am including the exact same connection file on my other pages, and I don't have...

Function name inside a variable

Hello. I have a simple question (i guess). I'm getting the name of the function inside a variable from database. After that, i want to run the specific function. How can i echo the function's name inside the php file? The code is something like this: $variable= get_specific_option; //execute function $variable_somesuffix(); The "somes...

How to add http:// if it's not exists in the URL?

Hi, How to add http:// to the url if there isn't a http:// or https:// or ftp:// ? Example: addhttp("google.com"); // http://google.com addhttp("www.google.com"); // http://www.google.com addhttp("google.com"); // http://google.com addhttp("ftp://google.com"); // ftp://google.com addhttp("https://google.com"); // https://google.com ad...

Deleting a user > need to also delete their project, and then activities for that project? (PHP, MySQL)

Hi guys, Really stuck with this... basically my system has 4 tables; users, projects, user_projects and activities. The user table has a usertype field which defines whether or not they are admin or user (by an integer)... An admin can create a project, create an acitivity for the project and assign a user (limited access user) an acti...

How many developers does it take to build a site like eBay today from scratch?

And how long would it take to complete (minus the graphics polishing)? Please assume it's being built in PHP. (Any compelling reason not to go with PHP?) Many thanks, in advance! ...

Passing Variables Along in a Function

Hello, In the function show_commentbox() below, I would like to pass along the variables $_SESSION['loginid'], $submissionid, $submission, $url, $submittor, $submissiondate, $countcomments, $dispurl. With the setup below, it's not working. How could I change it to make show_commentbox() pass the variables along? Thanks in advance, J...

How to avoid crashing your web app during replacing a file?

Hi, Let's say you have a big web app with large visits, but you don't want your app to crash & you don't want people to see the php or mysql errors that happens during replacing files using FTP, How to avoid that? How to just execute the old version of file until the replacing is done? Thanks ...

Detecting a url using preg_match? without http:// in the string

Hey there, I was wondering how I could check a string broken into an array against a preg_match to see if it started with www. I already have one that check for http://www. function isValidURL($url) { return preg_match('|^http(s)?://[a-z0-9-]+(.[a-z0-9-]+)*(:[0-9]+)?(/.*)?$|i', $url); } $stringToArray = explode(" ",$_POST['text']); ...

Why is this MySQL Join Statement not Working?

Here is my code: $query2 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM categories WHERE parent = $id JOIN SELECT * FROM posts WHERE main_nav_page = '$idTwo'"); while ($row2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($query2)) { $id = $row2['id']; $name = $row2['name']; $slug = $row2...

How would I find all sets of N single-digit, non-repeating numbers that add up to a given sum in PHP?

Let's say I want to find all sets of 5 single-digit, non-repeating numbers that add up to 30... I'd end up with [9,8,7,5,1], [9,8,7,4,2], [9,8,6,4,3], [9,8,6,5,2], [9,7,6,5,3], and [8,7,6,5,4]. Each of those sets contains 5 non-repeating digits that add up to 30, the given sum. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Even just a starting...

Unit Testing-- fundamental goal?

Me and my co-workers had a bit of a disagreement last night about unit testing in our PHP/MySQL application. Half of us argued that when unit testing a function within a class, you should mock everything outside of that class and its parents. The other half of us argued that you SHOULDN'T mock anything that is a direct dependancy of the ...

Mobile Video Detection

Hi, I'm using DeviceAtlas to detect mobile phones, I was wondering if anyone had some good resources in terms of standard codecs, video dimensions that are used and how you go about serving video to mobile devices. Thanks! -Aaron ...

how to display a dialog if user can't download file

hi. dealing with php/html/javascript. i'm trying to figure out a good/best approach to allowing a user to download a file. i can have the traditional href link, that interfaces with the back end php app to download the file. however, i want to have the app display some sort of dialog/alert if the user isn't able (basedon acl/permissio...

When I use facebook connect how much access do I have to the user's friends?

So, if you sign in using facebook on my website, how much access do I have to your friends? I am asking this question because I want for example to know if a user asks me a question about his/her friend, I can go through their Facebook status messages for example and tell them the answer depending on parsing information but do I have acc...

Browser Incompatible Please Use Mozilla Firefox 3.2 above OR IE 8.0 above

Hi, chrome browser showing this: Browser Incompatible Please Use Mozilla Firefox 3.2 above OR IE 8.0 above for website http://test.theartness.com/... I didn't understand what causing this error. i checked char encoding etc etc. everything.. I have seen in http://web-sniffer.net/ , it seems server sending that response for netscap...

linux (centos) privilege to copy file

I need some help with priviligies in centos I have a file in home/admin/public_html/generate.php that I want to do some file copy with using php copy function When I set the file to chown admin:admin generate.php I can access the file but I cannot execute the php copy command because I don't have the proper rights. When I set the fi...

Grab remaining text after last "/" in a php string.

So, lets say I have a $somestring thats holds the value "main/physician/physician_view". I want to grab just "physician_view". I want it to also work if the passed string was "main/physician_view" or "site/main/physician/physician_view". Hopefully my question makes sense. Any help would be appreciated! ...

php mail - special character

hai I have a Spanish site in php. In this a mail body contain a subject "Solicitud de cotización" but the subject appears in hot mailbox like Solicitud de cotización‏. But it's appear correct in mail section. How I avoid this problem. Does any one know this? ...

How to make Php application running on Xampp to connect to a remote mysql db?

I have a php application running on XAMPP but I want to connect to a mysql db running on a remote machine(which is also using XAMPP). The application works fine when I connect to the mysqldb instance on my machine. I have changed the configuration files to point to the remote db and have given the correct credentials as well. But I get a...

How do I use a custom #theme function to a fieldset in a drupal module?

I have a module that builds a form that includes a fieldset. Instead of using the <legend> element to render the fieldset title, I want to place this content in a <div> element instead. But I want to change the behavior only for the form returned by my module, so I don't want to place any new functionality into my theme's template.php ...