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How to pass an array of objects trough a jquery $.post?

Hi, I want to pass the result of a query trough a $.post. function GetAllTasks() { $sql = "select t.id as task_id, description, createdat, createdby, max_requests, max_duration, j.name as job_name from darkfuture.tasks t...

I’m screwing up this LEFT JOIN

I'm doing a left join on several tables. What I want to happen is that it list all the businesses. Then, it looks through the photos, videos, specials and categories. IF there are photos, then the tables shows yes, if there are videos, it shows yes in the table. It does all that without any problems. Except for one thing. For every phot...

using jquery growl with php/mysql

on my database i am planning to create a table storing messages to alert users of anything they need to do. i am looking at using a jQuery growl like notification method but im confused at how i would begin building it. the data would be added into the database using the standard MYSQL insert method from a form but how would i select...

php recursive list help

Hi all, I am trying to display a recursive list in PHP for a site I am working on. I am really having trouble trying to get the second level to display. I have a function that displays the contents to the page as follows. function get_menu_entries($content,$which=0) { global $tbl_prefix, $sys_explorer_vars, $sys_config_vars; ...

Passing Results from SQL to Google Maps API in CodeIgniter

I'm hoping to use Google Maps on my site. My addresses are stored in a DB. I’m pulling up a page where the information is all dynamic. For example: mysite.com/site/business/5 (where 5 is the id of the business). Let’s say I do a query like this: function addressForMap($id) { $this->db->select('b.id, b.busaddress, b.buscity, b.buszip')...

extensible database design: automatic ALTER TABLE or serialize() field BLOB ?

I want an adaptable database scheme. But still use a simple table data gateway in my application, where I just pass an $data[] array for storing. The basic columns are settled in the initial table scheme. There will however arise a couple of meta fields later (ca 10-20). I want some flexibility there and not adapt the database manually e...

Methods for accessing PHP global variables

$GLOBALS['current_view'] and global $current_view, which do you prefer and why? ...

Any disadvantages to this tagging approach

I have a table of tags ID tag --- ------ 1 tagt 2 tagb 3 tagz 4 tagn In my items table, I'm using those tags in serialized format, comma delimited ID field1 tags ---- ------ ----- 1 value1 tagt,tagb 2 value2 tagb 3 value3 tagb,tagn 4 ...

JSON Search and remove in php?

Hello! I have a session variable $_SESSION["animals"] containing a deep json object with values: $_SESSION["animals"]='{ "0":{"kind":"mammal","name":"Pussy the Cat","weight":"12kg","age":"5"}, "1":{"kind":"mammal","name":"Roxy the Dog","weight":"25kg","age":"8"}, "2":{"kind":"fish","name":"Piranha the Fish","weight":"1kg","age":"1"}, "...

php random array

I am trying to get a random array like this srand((float) microtime() * 10000000); $input = array("Neo", "Morpheus", "Trinity", "Cypher", "Tank"); $rand_keys = array_rand($input, 2); echo $input[$rand_keys[0]] . "\n"; echo $input[$rand_keys[1]] . "\n"; it shows 2 numbers randomly if I have $rand_keys = array_rand($input, 2);$rand_keys...

Creating a Comment Anchor

Hello, The function below allows a user to insert a comment into a MySQL table called "comment." Then, the file "comments2.php" displays all comments for a given submission. Right after a user submits a comment, I would like the top of the user's browser to be anchored by the comment the user just submitted. How can I do this? Tha...

What are some methods to prevent double posting in a form? (PHP)

I want to prevent users from accidentally posting a comment twice. I use the PRG (post redirect get) method, so that I insert the data on another page then redirect the user back to the page which shows the comment. This allows users to refresh as many times as they want. However this doesn't work when the user goes back and clicks subm...

Can I get the matched DOM string with PHP and DOMDocument?

I've got my HTML inside of $html. dom = new DOMDocument(); $dom->loadHTML($html); $xpath = new DOMXPath($dom); $tags = $xpath->query('//div[@id="header"]'); foreach($tags as $tag) { var_dump($tag->nodeValue); // the innerHTML of that element var_dump($tag); // object(DOMElement)#3 (0) { } } Is there a way to get that no...

Should every code for the Wordpress plgins be included in the functions and hooked with the Wordpress ?

I just started the Plugin development for the Wordpress, but finding it little difficult to understand. Looks like everything should be hooked with the wordpess to get it run and moreover are there all the global variables that i need to use. I am making a video plugin and designed some of the forms and display page, but didn't went th...

How to handle dynamic site localizations?

I've got a website that is currently all in English. It is an online game, so it has a bunch of different pages with static text, as well as a lot of content in a database. I am trying to expand more globally and am gearing up to release some localizations of the site. However, I'm not sure about the best way to go about setting thi...

PHP session values lost after redirect on one script but preserved after redirection on another.

On my registration script i have: // Save registration information into the database // Set sessions $_SESSION['var1'] = 'somevalue'; $_SESSION['var2'] = 'anothervalue'; header('Location: /somewhere'); exit(); Then on my login script i have: // Check if user provided correct login credentials if (correct) { $_SESSION['var1'] = ...

website session not set

Hello, I'm kind of a website development nub so bear with me. My problem is that the website php session doesn't seem to be set when I log in to my website. After ensuring that the username and password are correct, I have the following simple code: session_start(); $_SESSION['username'] = $myusername; $_SESSION['password'] = $mypassw...

Making CSV from PHP - Carriage return won't work

Seems like a fairly simple issue but can't get it to work. I am getting the user to download a csv file(which works fine). Basically I can't get the carriage return to work. header("Content-type: text/x-csv"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=search_results.csv"); echo '"Name","Age"\n"Chuck Norris","70"'; exit; Res...

PHP mod rewrite .htaccess file godaddy.com question

I'm new to PHP and i was trying to learn mod rewrite to rewrite my URLs i use godaddy as my hosting company and they say to add the desired code to the body of your .htaccess file how do I mod rewrite my URLs and add it to my .htaccess file? Can some one give me an example of how to do this as well as point me to a good tutorial and or ...

How can I overlay a watermark on an already resampled image in PHP (using GD) ?

Here's my current code: define('IMG_WIDTH', (isset ($_GET['width'])) ? (int) $_GET['width'] : 99); define('IMG_HEIGHT', (isset ($_GET['height'])) ? (int) $_GET['height'] : 75); $image = imagecreatefromjpeg($_GET['image']); $origWidth = imagesx($image); $origHeight = imagesy($image); $croppedThumb = imagecreatetruecolor(IMG_WI...