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What would be the most likely impact of HTML5 on platforms such as Java, PHP, and ASP.NET?

I understand you still need to drive a lot of server-client communications, saving data in central repositories etc etc. But what is the primal impact of HTML5 on these platforms when building web applications? Major changes that developers should be vary about? ...

How to group data in PHP inside the while loop

I query in a database and loop the result using while and heres the sample data retrieve: echo $db->f("FirstName")."===".$db->f("Question")."=".$db->f("Answer")."<br>"; Michael===Q2=allergy Michael===Q2=Hives Michael===Q6=A lot Michael===Q8_A=Daktacort Michael===Q1=Itch Michael===Q5=Smoke Michael===Q8_A=Diprogenta Christian===Q1=Stuffy...

MySQL locking question

I have something similar to an online chat client. When one user sends a message it will be stored in a MySQL database table with id=currentID+1. I have another client long polling and waiting for message 'id=currentID+1'. After this exchange, that row is never used again. Do I need a lock in this case? The thing I'm worried about is t...

Posting within PHP and receiving only cookie

Hello I have a question. It might be sound ridiculous, but let me explain what I want to accomplish. Right now I try to embed open source forum to by site and I want to leave forum and my site databases split. When my site users are logging in I want them also automatically be logged in to the forum system. For that I want to login wit...

PHP 5.2 Function needed for GENERIC sorting of a recordset array

Somebody must have come up with a solution for this by now. We are using PHP 5.2. (Don't ask me why.) I wrote a PHP class to display a recordset as an HTML table/datagrid, and I wish to expand it so that we can sort the datagrid by whichever column the user selects. In the below example data, we may need to sort the recordset array by Na...

Does PHP's APC reclaim memory after apc_delete() is called?

More generally, does anyone know where the way APC works internally is documented? ...

What's the best way to POST to a web API with PHP?

I've seen curl() used as a way to POST - are there other ways that are more widely used, or better? ...

Given a PHP class would be the best and simplest way to override one or two of its methods with one of your own?

Here's the objective. I have a PHP class and there are one or two of its methods that I would like to override with my own. As I understand OOP (in PHP and in general) I could write a child class that extends it and overrides the functionality of the methods in question. However, I was wondering if this is the best way of achieving this...

Can php listen for a mysql database change or update? ...thinking real-time, live search here

Im trying to think of the best way to handle real time search for a website. The only solution I can come up with is to keep checking the server every few seconds for something new in the database, but that does not seem very practical to me. ...

Where to put the application ID in YQL

I'm trying to read an xml response from YQL: $url = 'http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20geo.places%20where%20woeid%3D%22'.$woeid.'%22'; if (!$xml=simplexml_load_file($url) ) { //DO STUFF } This code works. Now i'm trying to put my application ID in the url string but I don't know how it should be done. ...

Conditional operator in Mako using Pylons

In PHP, I often use the conditional operator to add an attribute to an html element if it applies to the element in question. For example: <select name="blah"> <option value="1"<?= $blah == 1 ? ' selected="selected"' : '' ?>> One </option> <option value="2"<?= $blah == 2 ? ' selected="selected"' : '' ?>> Two ...

Linking CSS Navbar WIth Wordpress Pages

I am using wordpress as a full on CMS on a site I am building. One thing I cant seem to figure out is how to link up my navigation bar to the pages I am creating in wordpress. I am using a sprite image hover navbar that is defined in the header.php file. Does anyone have any idea how I can take a typical CSS sprite navbar and link it up...

Recommended approach for error handling with PHP and MYSQL

I am trying to capture database (MYSQL) errors in my PHP web application. Currently, I see that there are functions like mysqli_error(), mysqli_errno() for capturing the last occurred error. However, this still requires me to check for error occurrence using repeated if/else statements in my php code. You may check my code below to see w...

Problem creating a database with PHP PDO

Hello guys, I'm having a problem with a SQL query in my PHP Application. When the user access it for the first time, the app executes this query to create all the database: CREATE TABLE `databases` ( `id` bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, `driver` varchar(45) NOT NULL, `server` text NOT NULL, `user` text NOT NULL, `password...

Improper SOAP Request

Hey, The PHP SOAP client is constructing a soap request that uses "href" to reference other parts of the message. The web service i'm trying to consume does not like this. Is there a way to force it to construct the soap envelope without references? Thanks in advance ...

POST data disapearing on large file upload

I'm having issues with a file uploading utility in my PHP application. When sending large files (9MB+) over the form, I get a very odd behaviour: the POST data I've included in the form dissapears, including the file information. I've already increased all PHP limits I could (time limit, max input time, post max size, memory limit and u...

Delete text in text box using PHP

Hello, is there a way to remove text from a text box using a submit button? I don't want to delete text from all boxes on the form. And I don't want to delete text 'onclick', for the element. I need the code to clear the text box, to initiate from within a block. For example <input name="text" value="submit" /> <input type="sumbi...

PHP problem with die()

So, I have this code: } else { $photograph_moderation = new PhotographModeration($this->photograph_id); $photograph_moderation->purgePhotograph(); //eventually take to an error page die('image is not big enough to upload'); } the purgePhotograph() function gets called ...

What is the 'noreq' Filter Type an Alias for?

I'm looking in to Magento's filtering options (Ecommerce System and PHP Framekwork with an expansive ORM system). Specifically the addFieldToFilter method. In this method, you specify a SQLish filter by passing in a single element array, with the key indicating the type of filter. For example, array('eq'=>'bar') //eq means equal arra...

jQuery and MySQL

I have taken a jQuery script which would remove divs on a click, but I want to implement deleting records of a MySQL database. In the delete.php: <?php $photo_id = $_POST['id']; $sql = "DELETE FROM photos WHERE id = '" . $photo_id . "'"; $result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error()); ?> The jQuery script: $(document).ready...