Just a Question Regarding unix and PHP today. What I am doing on my PHP is using the Unix system to untar a tarred file. exec("tar -xzf foo.tar.gz"); Generally everything works fine until I run into this particular foo.tar.gz, which has a file system as follows: Applications/ Library/ Systems/ After running the tar command, it seem...
I really like the strtotime() function, but the user manual doesn't give a complete description of the supported date formats. strtotime('dd/mm/YYYY') doesn't work, it works only with mm/dd/YYYY format. if i have date in dd/mm/YYYY format, ho can i convert it to YYYY-mm-dd? i can do it by using explode() function, but i think tere are...
I am building a website. I have created the database in MySQL. I need to build the web pages really fast! Is there a PHP CMS with which I can easily create the webpages with forms that can modify my database tables? The point is that I don't want to code it using plain PHP or MVC frameworks either. I looked at other CMSs' like Drupal and...
I am trying to get a variable on my page to equal the result of a switch I have. This is the code: $payment_method = switch ($cardtype) { case "visa" : echo "VSA"; break; case "mastercard" : echo "MSC"; break; case "maestro" : echo "MAE"; break; case "amex" : echo "AMX" ; break; default : echo "Please specify a payment method!"; break;...
Hi all, I just started with the version 3 of the Kohana Framework. I have worked a little with the $_has_many etc. Now I have the table pages. The primary key is pageID. The table has a column called parentPageID. Now I want to make a ORM model who, when accesed like this $page->parent->find() returns the page identified by parentPageI...
What are the currently used Column Based Databases that work with PHP? and are any of them free? ...
Thank you for looking at my question, as I appreciate your time. Okay, so I'm trying to use jQuery's get function to call my php script which ultimately returns a variable which is a built template of the main content of my page minus my static header/footer, for which I would like to replace the "old" page content without the page rel...
I have a mysql database of users that can login to my site and view content. I would like to block a couple of directories from certain users. What is the best way to do this. Currently when a user logs in a cookie is created with their customer id and the customer is is used to display their content. How would I block entire directori...
I have an array with the ids of x cakes and another associative array with the ids of y people. I want to ensure that each cake is enjoyed by exactly 2 people and that each person gets a fair share of cake overall. However, cakes must be kept whole (i.e. if the average cake per person is a fraction, this fraction will be rounded up for s...
Hello everyone. I'm trying to redirect an easy to remember url to a php file but I'm having some trouble with the regex. Here's what I have at the moment: RewriteRule ^tcb/([a-zA-Z0-9]{1,})/([a-zA-Z0-9]{1,})/([a-zA-Z0-9]{1,}) /tcb/lerbd.php?autocarro=$1&tipo=$2&dsd=$3 It is working but only if I supply all 3 arguments. I want the la...
Hi. I'm doing some kind of own templates system. I want to change <title>{site('title')}</title> Into function "site" execution with parameter "title". Here's private function replaceFunc($subject) { foreach($this->func as $t) { $args = explode(", ", preg_replace('/\{'.$t.'\(\'([a-zA-Z,]+)\'\)\}/', '$1', $subject)); ...
Hi, i just want to know if there are any alternatives to simpleXML for parsing XML Data with PHP. For example if simpleXML module is not loaded or even if there is a lib/class out there that has a better performance then SimpleXML. ...
I'm trying to create a loop that will output multiple where statements for a MySQL query. Ultimately, my goal is to end up with these four separate Where statements: `fruit` = '1' AND `vegetables` = '1' `fruit` = '1' AND `vegetables` = '2' `fruit` = '2' AND `vegetables` = '1' `fruit` = '2' AND `vegetables` = '2' My theoretical code i...
Zend Lucene and Java Lucene are built in PHP and java repectively, and PHP language has a higher level than java. Just wondering How big the performance difference among these two, regarding to index building and data searching? Is it much more effective to let java create and rebuild index, and let php use the index? ...
Possible Duplicate: Can I send a variable to paypal, and have it post it back to me when payment completes? I want to automate a process after user have made a payment. 1) User enter details on forms and submit, the session will pass unique ID to paypal 2) After user complete the paypal payment, unique ID is then pass back to...
Hi everybody, We have a web server that we're about to launch a number of applications onto. They will all share database and memcached servers, but each application has it's own mySQL database and all memcached keys per application, is prefixed. Possible scenario: If a memcached server in our cluster goes boom, we want someone (opera...
Is it possible in PHP to edit another users session other than the current user? If so how? ...
With the introduction of Object-Oriented and Namespacing capabilities in PHP, I am loving the new found cleanliness of PHP code that can be produced. The annoying thing though is that the core of PHP is still cluttered, unorganized mess of functions. Are there any initiatives to organize the PHP core and "common" libraries into namespac...
Nah, looks like it was hosting fault. Who can make this code shorter? private function replaceFunc($subject) { foreach($this->func as $t) { preg_match_all('/\{'.$t.'\([a-zA-Z,\']+\)\}/i', $subject, $res); for($j = 0; $j < sizeof($res[0]); $j++) { preg_match('/\([a-...
When retrieving a hierarchical structure from MySQL (table with one ID column and one PARENT column signifying the hierarchical relationships), I map the result into an enumerated array as follows (for this example the numbers are arbitrary): Array ( [3] => Array ( [7] => Array () ), [7] => Array ( [8] => Array () ) ) Notice 3 is the ...