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PHP Localization Best Practices? gettext?

We are in the process of making our website international, allowing multiple languages. I've looked into php's "gettext" however, if I understand it right, I see a big flaw: If my webpage has let's say "Hello World" as a static text. I can put the string as <?php echo gettext("Hello World"); ?>, generate the po/mo files using a tool. T...

PHP/MySQL Problem

Why does this only print the sites specific content under the first site, and doesn't do it for the other 2? <?php echo 'NPSIN Data will be here soon!'; // connect to DB $dbhost = 'localhost'; $dbuser = 'root'; $dbpass = 'root'; $conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die ('E...

slot booking problem

Hi, I am making a doctor appointment slot booking mechanism,where in doctor appointment slots will be divided into 30 mins slot each...i have achieved all the working code.. 1 problem i am facing is that..this booking is made at 2 places i.e 2 receptions..so when 1 selects a slot(radio button) not yet confirmed and saved in DB.other...

Trouble with arrays

Hi guys, I have such string in PHP: $data = '1;3;5;7;9'; And cycle: for ($i=0; $i < count($someArray); $i++) { // If $i == any number in $data } What is the faster way to compare $i from cycle with numbers in string. I have to check that cycle-counter is in string. ...

What can cause a double page request?

I am currently investigating a double request problem on my site. Not all the time, but sometimes, a requested page will in fact load twice...which is not a problem really until it is on a page with PHP that inserts stuff into my db on request (my tracking script). I have read that an empty src in an image tag, and an empty url() in a c...

PHP number range menu from array

Hello people! I'm a bit confused here. I have a php array like this Array(2010,2009,2008 ...1992) and i want to create a loop to print a menu with a four year range counting down like this 2010-2006 2005-2001 2000-1996 etc.. How can i do this> Everything i tried end up in an endless loop. THnx in advance. J. ...

I have 2 MySql tables. How to get not all data from them in 1 sql query?

I have 2 MySql tables. users with id's and username's ; streams with userId's and streamId's How to get them as / join them into one table containing only username | streamId as SQL response? With one SQL query. ...

construct test environment for web application on PC - directory issues

I have a site that physically has this directory structure. -public_html --conf > contains file conf.php -SiteFiles -LiveSite > contains file ConfLive.php Directory public_html/conf/ contains a file called conf.php this file contains the following include include_once('/home/mydir/SiteFiles/LiveSite/conf/ConfLive.iphp'); I wan...

html-embedded php code not executing when hosted on iis

<HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1"> <TITLE></TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>'; ?> </BODY> </HTML> When I run the above code in a browser, firefox renders it like this: Hello World '; ?> I am doing my coding in Windows XP/IIS 5.1. I have PHP set up cor...

Loading an NSArray on iPhone from a dynamic data base url in PHP or ASP

I have a database online that I would like to be able to load into an NSArray in my app. I can use arrayWithContentsOfURL with a static file, but I really need to go to a url that generates a plist file from the database and loading it into the array. I can use ASP or PHP. I tried setting the response type to "text/xml", but that doesn'...

mktime and date questions..

Hello SO! I am working on a small project and am playing with date() and mktime() in PHP. Compare the two code blocks and their output, notice the second sample adds one to the month in it's first mktime. $monthis = 5; echo date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$monthis,0,0)) . " 1, 2010 is on a " . date("l F", mktime(0, 0, 0, $monthis, 1, 2010)); p...

OOP PHP simple question

Hello, I'm new to OOP in PHP, is that to seems correct ? class whatever { Function Maths() { $this->sql->query($requete); $i = 0; while($val = mysql_fetch_array($this)) { $tab[i][average] = $val['average']; $tab[i][randomData] = $val['sum']; $i=$i+1; } return $tab; } I want to access the data ...

how to extract a column from mysql result set?

What would be the best way to extract a column out of mysql results set? My result set is like: [0] = ('id'=>1, 'name'=>a), [1] = ('id'=>2, 'name'=>b), [2] = ('id'=>3, 'name'=>c) How can I extract 'name' column as an array from this? I can do it using for loop. But wondering if there are any better reusable solution? ...

tcpdf - HTML table showing up way too small

Hi folks. I'm using tcpdf (http://www.tcpdf.org/) to generate PDFs of some tables and images. The images are loaded without an issue, but I'm having issues with the writeHTML() function. I can't seem to control the font sizes or table width/height through the HTML, so I end up with a tiny, tiny, tiny table that you have to print of an...

Return a result in the original page.

When the user submit his data, I take him to a different page where plenty of calculations are made, then I redirect him to the original page with a simple : <?php header("Location:http://mysite.com/index.php"); The problem is I need all the variables and results to be show in this page, but they are obviously stored in the other one,...

Looping class, for template engine kind of thing

Hey, I am updating my class Nesty so it's infinite but I'm having a little trouble.... Here is the class: <?php Class Nesty { // Class Variables private $text; private $data = array(); private $loops = 0; private $maxLoops = 0; public function __construct($text,$data = array(),$maxLoops = 5) { // S...

php email html link, but just showing up as html code

Hi everyone, I'm trying to e-mail a html table, that has links within it. But when I receive the e-mail, it just shows me the html code itself. I'm using PHP pear to send the email. I try constructing a string like so $body = "<table>"; $body = $body . "<tr><td><a href='http://google.ca'&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;"; ...

How to extract link when given partial link value

hi, I am using PHP 4, that is what the host has at the moment. How can I extract link from a string when given part of the link to find. Example $find_string = 'http://www.mysite.com/apple'; $string = 'Something and something else <a href="http://www.mysite.com/apple_banana"&gt;testlink&lt;/a&gt; something els...

Most efficient way to extract bit flags

I have these possible bit flags. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 64, 128, 256, 512, 2048, 4096, 16384, 32768, 65536 So each number is like a true/false statement on the server side. So if the first 3 items, and only the first 3 items are marked "true" on the server side, the web service will return a 7. Or if all 14 items above are true, I would stil...

Secure Webservice?

I'm trying to create a secure webservice (that provides simple database data) with PHP that can be connected to through my Silverlight application. I don't know enough about PHP to be able to see another way to do this. The webservice should only be accessible through the client, and only with the proper username/password. The only two...