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Which is more efficient/faster when calling a cached image?

Hi, i made an image resizer in php. When an image is resized, it caches a new jpg file with the new dimensions. Next time you call the exact img.php?file=hello.jpg&size=400 it checks if the new jpg has already been created. If it has NOT been created yet, it creates the file and then prints the output (cool). If it ALREADY exists, no n...

Apache Rewrite rule confusion

I'm trying to convert a simple url (below) in to a blog-style url, but not quite sure how to do it, all of my other rules are working fine, but I can't seem to figure this one out. URL I want to convert: http://www.website.com/myblog.php?id=1&title=My+blog+title URL I want it to create: http://www.website.com/1/my-blog-title What ...

Downloading multimedia content in java from php pages

The url: http://www.teamliquid.net/replay/download.php?replay=1830 is a download link to a .rep file. My question is: how to download this content in java knowing the name of the original rep file in order to save it with a defined prefix, like path/_.rep //I was trying to run wget from java but I don't see how to get the original fil...

Turn RSS into array, explode the 'description' and insert words into MySQL table one per row

I have only recently gotten into php and MySQL and I want to take an RSS feed, turn it into an array, take only the description part of the XML, explode it and insert it into a table on a MySQL base. I feel like this should be possible, but is a little over my head right now. I tried using magpie as a parser, but if possible I want to ...

Accessing SAP trough PHP, how is it ?

Q: I've been asked to work with SAP. I never used it, I've read a few lines and I'm still going to read more about it. But from what I've seen, in code, its basicly Webservice access ?! Is this truth ? If so, I supose its easy, to just Read. Will I need any specifc training to accept this type of job ? If so, I would like to know wha...

How can I figure out why cURL is hanging and unresponsive?

I am trying to track down an issue with a cURL call in PHP. It works fine in our test environment, but not in our production environment. When I try to execute the cURL function, it just hangs and never ever responds. I have tried making a cURL connection from the command line and the same thing happens. I'm wondering if cURL logs ...

CodeIgniter: json_decode array issues

On my client side I'm sending an ajax request with jQuery in the following matter: $.post(script.php, { "var1":"something", "var2":"[1,2,3]" }, function(data) { }, "json"); On the server side, in the CodeIgniter's controller I'm receiving the values like so: $var1 = trim($this->input->post('var1')); $var2 = trim($this->input->post('v...

Best way and problems when using ajax tabs with an MVC PHP project

Hi, I'm building an IMDB.com like website using PHP/jQuery and a MVC approach (no OOP). I have an index.php base controller to 'rule them all' :), a controllers folder with all the controllers, a models folder and a view folder. In some pages of the website I have tabbed navigation, when the visitor clicks on one of those tabs to get m...

I need a very simple PHP database front-end admin panel; a simple records editor for a specified table

Hi there, I am looking to add some dynamics to our corporate website. This is a secondary role so I'd rather not be spending a ton of time on it. At this point, all I need is a simple PHP script where a non-technical user can pull up and manage the records in a MySQL table. There's only one table of data to be managed; it's just that i...

Basic PHP question for Drupal Views theming

My PHP and programming knowledge is extremely basic, so this is probably a dumb question: I am theming a View in Drupal 6, and I want to add an id with a consecutive number to each item in the view (first item would have the id #item1, the second #item2, etc). I am customizing the style output (views-view-unformatted--MYVIEWNAME.tpl.ph...

PHP Regex Question

Hi, I am developing an application using PHP but I am new to regular expressions, I could not find a solution to my problem. I want to replace all occurences of #word with a link, i have written a preg_match for this: $text=preg_replace('~#([\p{L}|\p{N}]+)~u', '<a href="/?aranan=$1">#$1</a>', $text); The problem is, this regular expr...

how do I display list of URLS say maximum 50 per web page from MySQL database??

I do have thousands of urls in my database. what I want to do is display all urls in multiple pages say number of URLS per page is 100 and alphabetically then when ever a user search for a URL info it should get updated on relevant page. for example if it is google.com then it should get updated on "G" page and no duplicate entry. how ca...

MKTIME, PHP date/timestamp YYYY-MM-DD

I need to query MySQL for the current date (from PHP) in YYYY-MM-DD format... anyone? ...

Help using preg_match for phone numbers

how would i write an if statement that would find phone numbers and store them to a variable. Here is what i have so far but its not working. if (preg_match('/^(?:(?:\+?1\s*(?:[.-]\s*)?)?(?:\(\s*([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-8]1|[2-9][02-8][02-9])\s*\)|([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-8]1|[2-9][02-8][02-9]))\s*(?:[.-]\s*)?)?([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-9]1|[...

How to get Custom Options Programmatically in Magento

Hello, I have a couple products at checkout that I need to be able to get all of the custom options that are selected for them through code. Any help is much appreciated! ...

Include WordPress Content Outside of WordPress

I'm looking to build a mobile version of a WordPress site and have most of it built in static files, but am trying to get access to the WordPress content from inside an external PHP file that the mobile site will run from. How can I get access to the loop or database without manually writing SQL queries? Edit: Just to clarify, I'm using...

Are there any libraries for showing diffs between two web pages?

I am looking for a library in any language--preferably PHP though--that will display the difference between two web pages. The differences can be displayed side-by-side, all in one document, or in any other creative way. Examples of what this would look like: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pLC3YDiv_I4/SBZPYQMDsPI/AAAAAAAAADk/wUMxK307jXw/s1...

How to pass UTF8 string into your PHP HTML API?

so I have my php API (html Get api for Flash builder and C# apps). So if you want to submit data to it you use string like http://localhost/cms/api.php?method=someMethod&amp;string=Your_String If there are english letters in it its ok. But what if I need to pass UTF-8 string like this &#1056;&#1091;&#1089;&#1089;&#1082;&#1086;&#1077; &...

PHP/Javascript: Restart Form Button Isn't Working, Code Insde

Basically I want a confirmation box to pop up when they click the button asking if they sure they want to restart, if yes, then it destroys session and takes them to the first page. Heres what i got... echo "<form id=\"form\" name=\"form\" method=\"post\" action=\"nextpage.php\">\n"; echo " <input type=\"button\" name='restart' value='...

Creating tables and inserting data (MySQL Dump) using PHP Doctrine 1.2

Hello. I got a script that create a new database, now I need to fill that database with tables and values (from a MySQL dump file). I'm using PHP - Doctrine 1.2. Here is how I create the database: $manager = Doctrine_Manager::getInstance(); $newConn = $manager->openConnection($customer->Config->db_connection_string); $newConn->c...