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Add wordwrap to decoded json text

Hi, I am using a simple script on my PHP webpage to decode and output JSON as text. However, what ever I try I can't get it to wordwrap the output. $file = file_get_contents('sample.txt'); $out = (json_decode($file)); echo $out->mainText; How can I get this script to wordwrap at 600 characters without chopping words in half? If possi...

Multiple Scripts With the Same MySQL Query Running At Once => Will There Be Interference?

I want to have multiple scripts running from cron at the same time. They will all update, say, 500 rows with a unique status ID for that particular script to use. If each script grabs the same type of rows to update, and the scripts run at once, will there be interference between the queries run at the same time? For example, using this...

Automated testing for Facebook SDK wrapper

Hi there! In my Facebook application, I have one Facebook wrapper class to encapsulates some call to Facebook API. I want to to write a unit test for this wrapper class, but since it depends on a so called "access token", which we should get from Facebook dynamically, I'm not sure if it's possible to write one. But apparently the Faceb...

Apache 2.2 / Win7 - slow or not responsive

My configuration - Windows 7 x64, Php 5.3, Apache 2.2.15, latest Mysql. When loading pages from localhost, the response time shown by firebug is more 530ms for the main 'index.php' file, sometimes the connection is reset. It's painfully slow. I googled the problem and found a workaround - switch off and on again a win service called BF...

Cookie Value not available, why?

I have tested this on my development computer, but now I have uploaded everything to the production server and I cant read out the value of the cookie. I think the problem lies in the Serialization and Unserialization. if (isset($_COOKIE['watched_ads'])){ $expir = time()+1728000; //20 days $ad_arr = unserialize($_COOKIE['watche...

Is this safe on a production server?

I have a database application (or search engine) which is called Solr. I connect to it via port 8983. I do this from php code, so I add and remove records from it via php. On my server I have a firewall. I have set this firewall to only allow connections to and from this port (8983) from the ip adress of my own server. In other words...

ImageMagick - what do i need to be aware of?

Even on max quality GD just wasn't good enough quality, so i'm pretty sure i'm going to have to go down the ImageMagick route... I've heard stories....! What kind of things no i need to be careful about/aware of when using/installing ImageMagick? ...

Are these two functions overkill for sanitization?

function sanitizeString($var) { $var = stripslashes($var); $var = htmlentities($var); $var = strip_tags($var); return $var; } function sanitizeMySQL($var) { $var = mysql_real_escape_string($var); $var = sanitizeString($var); return $var; } I got these two functions from a book and the author says that by us...

Handling of 'or' condidions in Ruby vs PHP

I'm not sure what to call this, so I'll give an example. In PHP 1==2 || 2 returns 1 or true In Ruby 1==2 || 2 returns 2 (The second statement if the first evaluates to false). Is there any short way to implement similar thing in PHP? ...

How is $sys_root bieng assigned a value?

I have been learning php for sometime now. Besides reading books and doing tutorials i also like to sometimes read other programmers code. I have came across this: <?php // authentication. include_once($sys_root."/inc/authenticate_check.php"); I understand the use for $sys_root, but what i dont understand is, how is $sys_r...

On-the-fly thumbnails PHP

I came up with this: <?php $dir = $_GET['dir']; header('Content-type: image/jpeg'); $create = imagecreatetruecolor(150, 150); $img = imagecreatefromjpeg($dir); imagecopyresampled($create, $img, 0, 0, 0, 0, 150, 150, 150, 150); imagejpeg($create, null, 100); ?> It works by accessing: http://domain.com/image.php?dir=thisi...

where is wrong in my php code ????

hi all, <td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><?php echo '<label onclick="window.open('profilephp.php?member=$row['MemberID']','mywindow')">'.{$row['MemberName']}.'</label>';?><br /> <?php echo "<p align='center'><img width='100' height='100' src={$row['MemberImg']} alt='' /></p>";?></td></tr> Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_S...

What's the difference between Smarty and Zend?

I came upon Smarty which is a template engine. But there are also the Zend, CakePHP frameworks. Is Smarty like Zend, or are they completely different? Smarty just separates logic from display - is this similar to a framework like Zend? ...

How can I add a simple counter function in javascript jquery?

I'm using Shadowbox a jquery overlay and I wanted to count how many people are actually using the overlay. Thus, I would need a function that would write a counter to a file or sending a query through a php api... has to be a a php url api because I cant use php on the server where the overlay is. So I need help with executing a javasc...

display image and run script for fifteen seconds

This is very similar to a question I asked the other day but my page code has become significantly more complicated and I need to revisit it. I've been using the following code: $('#myLink').click(function() { $('#myImg').attr('src', 'newImg.jpg'); setTimeout(function() { $('#myImg').attr('src', 'oldImg.jpg'); }, 15000); }); To re...

All function's vars are global

Is it possible to make all function's vars global without typing all of them like global $a, $b, $c...? ...

Huge mysql table with Zend Framework

I have a mysql table with over 4 million of data; well the problem is that SOME queries WORK and SOME DON'T it depends on the search term, if the search term has a big volume of data in the table than I get the following error: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1048576000 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 75 bytes) in /home/****/pu...

Problem with thumbnails after newly added - PHP on-the-fly method

Hey again... to those that may have read my previous question that got solved a couple minutes ago >.< The on-the-fly php script works perfectly, but when I went to upload new images into a gallery which I made myself, the images are resized to 150 x 150 for what I wanted... however, when it comes to new images being added it is all bla...

how can i verify phone number with php

i have a phone number in following format +923334173333 and now i want to validate this number exactly in the given format and length with php ...

Regex to get value of URL parameter?

In a url like the one below, I'd like to get the value of ProdId. The URL format will always be consistent, as will the parameter name, but the length of the value may change. It will always be numeric. http://www.example.com/page.php?ProdId=2683322&amp;xpage=2 Using PHP what's the fastest way to get it (I'll be processing 10,000's so...