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Having a single entry point to a website. Bad? Good? Non-issue?

This question stems from watching Rasmus Lerdorf's talk from Drupalcon. This question and his talk have nothing specifically to do with Drupal, by the way... it was just given at their con. My own question also has nothing specific to do with PHP. It is the single entry point in general that I am curious about. These days it seems that ...

Saving raw html of a dynamically created page

I'm writing an application that would allow users to edit a calendar, its description and a few other things. I'm using jquery, php and mysql. Each time the user makes a change it asynchronously updates the database. I'd like to give them the option of turning what they make into a pdf. Is there a way that I can post to my server the ra...

PHP Console that doesn't require heavy installation or a desktop app?

I'm looking for clean way to break my current habit of using print commands in PHP when I want to see what's happening. I am aware of options such as Zend Debugger but I use Coda for development and I'm not interested in mixing other software or having to do server commands. I just need a console that can be added to my codebase and th...

How to get a category listing from Magento?

I want to create a page in Magento that shows a visual representation of the categories.. example CATEGORY product 1 product 2 ANOTHER CATEGORY product 3 My problem is, their database is organised very differently to what I've seen in the past. They have tables dedicated to data types like varchar, int, etc. I assume this is for p...

Select from MySQL records that sums

Hello. I know there are a few post out here about selecting records until a certain number is met from the sum of one field but there isn't any that suits me. I'm using PHP and MySQL. I have a table named quantity. Inside there are records of product name, product price and product quantity. Besides these, there are a few others that he...

Does PHP's Oracle PDO hang on DELETE?

This hangs in Php (5.2.6-Win32 + Oracle10g) is it a bug, or I'm doing something fundamentally wrong? try { $conn = new PDO($DB,$USER,$PASSWORD); $conn->setAttribute( PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION ); //connected try { $conn->exec("DELETE FROM MY_TABLE"); echo "done"; ... Note: I don't know if this ...

Is storing config variables in an XML file on a PHP site under the site root too risky?

I've noticed that Magento stores MySQL connection details in an XML file which isn't secured above the docroot. This seems.... well dangerous. XML seems like a handy way to store config data, except for one thing, typing in http://www.domain.com.au/library/config.xml will show the world your private details! I went ahead and used an XM...

How can I offer a gzipped xml file for download using PHP

I have a PHP script that creates an xml file from the db. I would like to have the script create the xml data and immediately make a .gzip file available for download. Can you please give me some ideas? Thanks! ...

problem with xdebug vim plugin

Hi, I am using xdebug plugin for vim. After making few changes i was able to run debugger but not able to set breakpoints. So, I enabled xdebug.remote_log and below is the log statements corresponding to setting breakpoint. <- breakpoint_set -i 5 -t line -f file:///C:\htdocs\testLocal.php -n 36 -> Its issuing request to debugger in...

PHP Parse error

<?php $this_is_my_array = array("John","Johan"); for(int i = 5; i < 5; i++){ echo "$this_is_my_array[i] "; } //Adding name Markus array_push($this_is_my_array,"Markus"); for(int i = 5; i < 5; i++){ echo "$this_is_my_array[i] "; } //Removing name from array $this_is_my_array2= array_pop($this_is_my_array); for(int i = 5; i < 5; i++) { ech...

hi i need to erase a certain session variable from javascript

hi i need to erase a certain session variable from a javascript function how can i do this can anybody help me? ...

RichTextEditor that is PHP/code friendly to snippets of php

I can't seem to find a js RTE that will play friendly with snippets of php intertwined in it. I want a mini CMS for the backend of a number of sites. The views have some snippets of php here and there Are there any RTE's that will leave the php alone, and even show it mixed with the nice formatting? TinyMCE kills the tags even when...

HTML+CSS to RTF (in PHP)?

I am desperately seeking a solution to converting HTML + CSS (2.1) to RTF in PHP. While I have found a superb solution for HTML to PDF in Prince XML, I've yet to find anything that: can convert HTML to RTF (or DOC); runs on a Linux server; is callable from PHP; handles paged media and the ability to add page headers and footers; and h...

javascript not being called

Hello, I have the following javascript functions, which when in a standalone file, will be called correctly from a page. function deleteItem(layer, url) { var xmlHttp=GetXmlHttpObject(); if(xmlHttp==null) { alert("Your browser is not supported?"); } xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function() { if(xmlHttp.readyStat...

Expand a link to show image without using javascript

Hi. I have a page with some text and links. I want to display image there itself on clicking those links. However, I am bound of not using javascript at all. All I can use is some server side component like PHP. Thanks ...

Does mysqli class in PHP protect 100% against sql injections?

I've seen lots of articles and questions about mysqli, and all of them claim that it protects against sql injections. But is it fool proof, or is there still some way to get around it. I'm not interested in cross site scripting or phishing attacks, only sql injections. What I should have said to begin with is that I am using prepared st...

element not being removed from DOM

I have code to delete a record from mysql, displayed in a table via php, and subsequently delete the table row from the page. The record is deleted, however nothing changes in the page or the DOM, and it should change instantly. Here is the javascript code to delete from the DOM function deleteItem(layer, url) { var xmlHttp=GetXmlH...

What encryption algorithm is best for encrypting cookies?

I'm looking for information about 'the best' encryption algorithm for encrypting cookies. I hava the following requirements: It must be fast encrypting and decrypting the data will be done for (nearly) every request It will operate on small data sets, typically strings of around 100 character or less It must be secure, but it's not li...

php/html - http_referer

Hi I am creating a website and on one particular page, am wanting to send the user back to the previous page. I am fairly new to PHP/HTML and have been using some existing code for ideas and help. The existing code uses the following method: if (! empty($HTTP_REFERER)) { header("Location: $HTTP_REFERER"); } else { header("Lo...

Escaping -> and => when parsing HTML using regular expression

Hi All, I need to parse and return the tagname and the attributes in our PHP code files: <ct:tagname attr="attr1" attr="attr2"> For this purpose the following regular expression has been constructed: (\<ct:([^\s\>]*)([^\>]*)\>) This expression works as expected but it breaks when the following code is parsed <ct:form/input ty...