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What's the PHP equivalent of ASP.NET ashx handlers ?

I need to return a JSON encoded response to a flash http get request. In ASP.NET, I do this with a ASHX handler. What's the PHP equivalent ? I mean in order that I only get JSON back, and not the <html> etc. ...

How can i check to see if a specific integer is within array?

Is there a specific way to check for a specific integer within a switch statment. For example. $user = $ads[$i]->from_user; To check for the number 2 as $i in the above expression. ...

Quickest way to run a linux dev-environment inside windows

Hi everyone, I get more and more trouble from running WAMP on my XP computer to solve my local development needs. It feels like as more and more things just go wrong or could not be installed at all to a Windows version of PHP. I have been looking for an alternative and found AndLinux plus this link. Would it be a good idea to get an...

anybody working or heard of qcubed/qcodo mvc frameworks ?

Hi, I have been using qcodo/qcubed for developing CMS based sites. I had been successful in developing and maintaining fairly complex sites using these frameworks. Things get done so quick and easy using qcubed that i never felt the need to look for another framework like zend, symfony .... I am wondering if you guys have tried or hav...

Something is making my page perform an Ajax call multiple times... [read: I've never been more frustrated with something so 'simple' in my life]

NOTE: This is a long question. I've explained all the 'basics' at the top and then there's some further (optional) information for if you need it. Hi folks Basically last night this started happening at about 9PM whilst I was trying to restructure my code to make it a bit nicer for the designer to add a few bits to. I tried to fix it u...

php quick form creation

Hi, I have been using php from some time and I have noticed that it takes a long time to create a form with validation using php. Are there any scripts or IDE wizards which can assist a programmer to create php forms quickly and also give the programmer flexibility to customize the form easily? I found some webservices which provide suc...

What does the $1$2$4 mean in this preg_replace?

Got this function for ammending the query string and was wondering what the replacement part of the pre_replace meant (ie- $1$2$4). function add_querystring_var($url, $key, $value) { $url = preg_replace('/(.*)(\?|&)' . $key . '=[^&]+?(&)(.*)/i', '$1$2$4', $url . '&'); $url = substr($url, 0, -1); if (strpos($url, '?') === false) { ...

unserialize problem in php

hi i'm using serialize/unserialize functions in php 5.2. the text to be stored is POSTed via a form. btw, no white-space before or after. if text contains " or ' it serializes successfully. the problem is it does not unserialize back. what i'm doing wrong? ...

send xml data from j2me app to remote server

Hi, I have a J2ME application - which generates XML data (from an object) and needs to get it sent across to a remote server/machine. How do I get this xml or the object through to the remote server please? Thanks. Just in case it might help, the receiving application on the remote server is PHP powered. Thanks again. ...

Exceptions confusion

Hi there. I'm trying to build site using OOP in PHP. Everyone is talking about Singleton, hermetization, MVC, and using exceptions. So I've tried to do it like this: Class building whole site: class Core { public $is_core; public $theme; private $db; public $language; private $info; static private $instance; ...

PHP RegExpr error Unkown modifier '('

I have this regular expression: ([http://some.url.com/index.php?showtopic=\"]*)([0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]*)?) its for extracting links to topics from forum Now when i use it in my script $url = "([http://some.url.com/index.php?showtopic=\"]*)([0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]*)?)"; preg_match_all spits: "Unknown modifier '('" This is also the call to preg...

How do I change a date's format in PHP?

I get data from a database in YYYY-mm-dd format, but I want to show just dd.mm (example - I get 2010-05-28; I want to show 28.05) Could you help me? Thanks ...

Problem fetching contacts from Yahoo! Address Book using PHP's CURL.

Hi I had to get the user's yahoo address book using PHP's CURL when user gave login name and password. It was working fine. Address book has been got as CSV format. But now suddenly things are stop working. I am just getting some yahoo's html code instead of CSV format. I am guessing that yahoo is somehow restricted fetching address bo...

Troubles displaying an associative array with PHP and HTML

Hello, I have the following HTML code: <div id="newsTicker"> <span class="icon news"></span> <ul> [repeating structure] <li> <ul> <li><a href="#">News 1</a></li> <li><a href="#">News 2</a></li> <li><a href="#">Ne...

PHP self form validation

<?php function VerifyForm(&$values, &$errors) { if (strlen($values['fname']) == 0) $errors['fname'] = 'Enter First Name'; if (strlen($values['lname']) == 0) $errors['lname'] = 'Enter Last Name'; if (strlen($values['mname']) == 0) $errors['mname'] = 'Enter Middle Name'; if (strlen($values['address']) == 0) ...

SQL Query to select upcoming events with a start and end date

I need to display upcoming events from a database. The problem is when I use the query I'm currently using any events with a start day that has passed will show up lower on the list of upcoming events regardless of the fact that they are current My table (yaml): columns: title: type: string(255) notnull: true de...

text fields and PHP

Does anyone know if it's possible to have several text fields that place the data into different spots in the same web page. If needed I could just use two pages, it doesn't really matter. I've heard this requires a PHP script, but I'm not sure how to set this up. ...

Using virtual fields in Doctrine_Query

Is there a way to insert logic based on virtual fields into a Doctrine_Query? I have defined a virtual field in my model, "getStatus()" which I would ultimately like to utilize in a Where clause in my Doctrine_Query. ... ->AndWhere('x.status = ?',$status); "status", however, is not a column in the table it is instead computed by bus...

Which code snipplets in PHP can create a input form, which creates a new set of data in my mysql database?

I am using the Google Maps API with parts in javascript and others in PHP. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <title>Google Map...

What PHP Netbeans IDE configuration results in more productive development?

For example I use Netbeans for PHP and have started to integrate PHPUnit & XDebug as part of my normal setup. What other plugins/modifications to Netbeans default setup can be more productive and useful. Thank You ...