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MySQL Query Help

I need to find the category id in the products table below. However the cms_ecom_categories.id is wrapped with the & character like &12&. Is there some kind of wild card i could use to wrap around? like %cms_ecom_categories.id% ? $sql = "SELECT * FROM cms_ecom_products, cms_ecom_categories WHERE cms_ecom_products.pCategories...

Best practice accessing an array set within a class

I have created a basic class for a customer. I haven't done this before and want to know the best way to access the data. Should I have a get() method for every field in the customer array or should I simply pass the customer array back and access with the page. i.e. Just return the array class Customer { protected $id; protecte...

how to send multiple commands to a file in cron??

I have a file that is having some multiple dynamic parameters.I want to send these parameters at the time of writing a file in main cron file. Something like this -> */15 * * * * /usr/bin/php /a/b/c.php parameter1 parameter2 parameter3 parameter4 Now i tried working this up but my file is not executing. What im concerned about is that...

MySQL and INT auto_increment fields

Hello folks, I'm developing in LAMP (Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP) since I remember myself. But one question was bugging me for years now. I hope you can help me to find an answer and point me into the right direction. Here is my challenge: Say, we are creating a community website, where we allow our users to register. The MySQL table where ...

What does $shipping_modules = new shipping($shipping); mean?

What does $shipping_modules = new shipping($shipping); mean? I know its silly but pls help... ...

Simple PHP upload form not working

Hi all, I seem to run into so many issues when dealing with writing to directories. If someone could please look over this script, and tell me why it's not working, I'd be so appreciative. Upon uploading the file from the form, I don't get anything.. It doesnt output any errors, it simply just refreshes. Thanks, Lea <?php include ('c...

PHP ZF: I can't debug my IndexController.php actions code

Hi I'm new to php and I'm using xampp, eclipse pdt, xdebug. I've set xdebug so that I can debug my site on apache but when I click 'debug as web page' in the eclipse ide only the breakpoint in the public/index.php and in the views get hit. If I put a breakpoin here public function indexAction() { // action body $this->view->s ...

how to display like google

if i search the word in google is "twitter". google display the first result like the below... Twitter Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now. twitter.com/ - Cached - Similar Search How To Contest Account Suspension Blog An API Twitter_logo_header ...

ODBC: when is the best time to create my database?

I have a windows program which generates PGP forms which will be filled in later. Those PHP forms will populate a database. It looks very much like MySql, but I can't be certain, so let's call it ODBC. And, yes, it does have to be a windows program. There will also be PHP forms which query the database - examine which tables and field...

Problem in getting multidimensional array from simple xml object

Hi there, As a newbie I need your help in getting multidimensional array from simplexml object. suppose my array is like: just for getting idea: Here $data is a simplexml object contains below xml: <users> <user> <id></id> <nm></nm> <gender> <male></male> <female></female> </gender> </user> </users> ...

Tree data structure in php

in my application user starts a new tree or get added under a child-user and keep on adding users in branches in such a way- >there are 10 level of tree type structure. >root node contain 1 user and each node(user) can have max 5 child-user in this way tree will be like level 0 = 1 user , level 1 = 5 user, level 2 = 25 user , level 3 =...

video uploading in php

Hi I have to create a video uploaing and displaying functionality in my site. How can I do that by using php and mysql. ...

PHP - how do you sanitize your contact forms?

Has anyone come across a bulletproof function/class (homemade or native) for securing contact forms? ...

Logging in MVC (Zend Framework)

Is there a best-practice when it comes to where to put the logging functionality in an MVC application, for example a Zend Framework application (Zend_Log)? Should I put the logging in the controller or in the model? Or in both? If in both, should they have the same logger or a separate one? ...

php won't detect all spaces in a string...

Hi guys, I've got a string that comes from a POST form where I want to replace all spaced with some other character. Here's that I did: $cdata = str_replace(" ","#",$cdata); And I got this. --- Contact-ID#=#148 [10274da8]#Sinhronizācija#=#private [1000137d]#Uzvārds#=#Zom [1000137c]#Vārds#=#Tana [1000130e]#Tālrunis#=#3333 [1000130e]#...

PHP urlize function

Hello guys, I'm using this function on my website to transform user input into acceptable URL: function urlize($url) { $search = array('/[^a-z0-9]/', '/--+/', '/^-+/', '/-+$/' ); $replace = array( '-', '-', '', ''); return preg_replace($search, $replace, utf2ascii($url)); } function utf2ascii($string) { $iso88591 = "\\xE0\\x...

Cakephp, an elegant solution to quantities?

Hi, I have a shopping cart system in Cakephp, this table has all your usual maguffins: user_ids, product_ids, option_lists ect. It also has quantity. I currently have some awful nested loops to check if the record is the same as any in there, if so add one to the quantity. If not add a new cart item. This loop has to check associated ...

Outputting all PHP errors to database not error_log

Is it possible to make all PHP errors be written to MySQL instead of to the standard error_log file. I guess this would be possible if i wrote my own error handler from scratch but i have a lot of legacy code in place and ideally i would just make 1 global change and that would be it. Can this be done? ...

Dynamically Splitting Images

Does anyone know of a PHP routine where I can take an original image and split it in half to create two new images A and B? See below: Thanks ...

PHP MVC correct usage

What is the correct (recommended method) for passing information to a view in a MVC environment. Currently we use Zend Framework, where we write classes to handle specific things EG a Book class with a save and load method to retrieve info from the DB, which is called from a particular nameAction(). What I would like to know is w...