Hi, I'm getting a "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in line 2". And I don't see the problem. <?php class pointLocation { var $pointOnVertex = true; // Check if the point sits exactly on one of the vertices function pointLocation() { } function pointInPolygon($point, $polygon, $pointOnVertex = tru...
I try to call a php file that starts like <?php //Connection function connection () { ... I call from a php like: <?php exec ('/ /opt/lampp/htdocs/.../name.php)') ?> I get: line1-> cannot open ?: No such file line 3 //Connection: not found line 4 Syntax errror: "(" What happens? Why I can't execute it? ...
I not sure what's going on..maybe I missed something simple. In my connectvars.php file, I connect to the database using the variables in my config.php folder. Here's the hierarchy: admin(folder) config.php includes(folder) connectvars.php index.php I want to get information from config.php to use in connectvars.php, so I use...
example: 1.123 =>1 1.999 => 1 thanks. ...
hey Guys, I need to run a string of html through a regex function that checks to see if the attributes are closed in quotes, and if they aren't then close them. for example i want <img src=http://www.domain.com/image.gif border=0> to turn into <img src='http://www.domain.com/image.gif' border='0'> Can anyone help me? ...
Hello I have implemented the following $fql = "SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1=" . $uid; $param = array( 'method' => 'fql.query', 'query' => $fql, 'callback' => '' ); $fqlResult = $facebook->api($param); Now I need to fetch elements from $fqlResult. How should I do this? ...
I have a UTF-8 encoded xml file, which was exported from a Wordpress MySQL database. While the file is saved as UTF-8, and the encoding is UTF-8, I get gibberish instead of the Hebrew text that is supposed to be in there, which looks like this: ™×•×˜×•×ª How can I find the original encoding or charset and convert the text into pro...
The user can enter a math problem (expression) like 5 + 654, 6 ^ 24, 2!, sqrt(543), log(54), sin 5, sin(50). After some reformatting (e.g. change sin 5 into sin(5)), and doing an eval, PHP gives me the right result: $problem = "5 + 5324"; eval("$result = " . $problem); echo $problem . " = " . $result; However, this is quite unsafe: /...
I need to find the main function in MediaWiki where wiki text is converted to html. Does someone know where that is? ...
I'm putting together a site that will make itself available for user input. I was wondering if writing a function like: if(getenv("HTTP_REFERER") != 'http://www.myURL.com/submitArea'){ die('don\'t be an jerk, ruin your own site'); }else{ // continue with form processing } is enough to prevent cross site...
I have the following model associations: Response->Survey Response->Question Response->Choice Survey->Question Question->Choice I want to create a form where I could answer all the questions for one survey. So I used the following to return the needed data: $questions = $this->Response->Question->find('all', array( 'conditions' =...
Ok, so title says it all. Of course, I store all players' ip addresses in mysql and I can check if there is a person with the same ip address before he registers, but then, he can register to my page at school or wherever he wants. So, any suggestions? ...
I'm new to regular expressions and came accros the following \d+ . I do not exactly know what this means, please point me in the right direction. ...
Hey guys I have recently decided to switch all my current plain mysql queries performed with php mysql_query to PDO style queries to improve performance, portability and security. I just have some quick questions for any experts in this database interaction tool Will it prevent injection if all statements are prepared? (I noticed on ph...
If you could remove one feature from PHP so as to discourage, prevent or otherwise help stop newer programmers develop bad habits or practices, or, to stop them falling into traps that might hinder their development skills what would it be and why? Now, before the votes to close it's not as open-ended as you might think. I'm not askin...
Hello! This question may have been asked already - but unfortunately, I could not find any satisfactory answers. I will just ask it for my concrete case and ask the admins not to delete the question for at least a few days so I can try it out... I have a page. It uses a captcha. Like so: <?php session_start(); // the captcha saves the...
Error I'm receiving Invalid argument supplied for foreach() The offending portions is this: foreach($subs[$id] as $id2 => $data2) Strange cause I'm using the same construct elsewhere and it works fine.. I'm using it to generate sub-categories and it works but I want to get rid of the error This is more context foreach($parents as $...
being new to php and coming from asp.net, i would like to know if there is an equivalent of IsPostBack, which calls a function or a method only once, once the user is logged in. i have a facebook application, in which once the user authorizes the application it should enter his details in the database. this basic stuff should have been...
i've a search form in which a user enters the keyword and the results are displayed with pagination. everything works fine except for the fact that when the user clicks on the 'Next' button, the pagination panel disappears as well when the page loads to retrieve the data through ajax. how do i make the pagination panel static, while th...
Hello all, I have a function which takes in a font (ttf or otf file) and generates an image of text in different fonts. The problem I have is trying to work out how I can make the text fit in the image regardless of the font-size, type of font, and amount of text. I have tried to make the image rectangle variable so that it contains t...