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MODX parse error function implode (is it me or modx?)

Update 4-June-2010: This appears to be a bug in MODx v 1.0.3, nothing to do with the implode function but rather a problem with mis-matched datatypes in the resulting filter clause. Bug has been filed with JIRA: MODX-2035. Hi, I cannot for the life of me figure this out, maybe someone can help. Using MODX a form takes user criteria to ...

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execute php via mysql ?

Is it possible to execute a php file using mysql stored procedure or event scheduler? ...

Showing latex commands in text string using mathjax

I have a text string, for ex. 'A vehicle travels from A to B, distance {$d} km at constant speed. While returning back to A on same path it {$variation} its speed by {$v} km/hr. The total time of journey is {$t} hours. Find the original speed of vehicle.' The variables in the curly brackets are to be replaced by appropriate latex equat...

Convert month number to month short name

I have a variable with the following value $month = 201002; the first 4 numbers represent the year, and the last 2 numbers represent the month. I need to get the last 2 numbers in the month string name eg. Feb My code looks like this <?php echo date('M',substr($month,4,6)); ?> I can I go about to obtain the month name ...

how send message facebook friend through graph api using Accessstoken

Can anyone help me to send message to facebook friends using graph api. I tried $response = $facebook->call_api("/me/feed", "post", "to=john","message=You have a Test message"); It's not working. I have the accesstoken of the user in my hand.only I am confused on sending process. kindly reply ...

Jquery and PHP rating function problem

I know that I was already posted similar question but I just can't find the answer and figure it out how to solve this problem. I'm trying to customize Jquery Star Rating plugin (link text) but I do not know what to do to show the message based on response of PHP script. Jquery script successfully send rating data to PHP scripts that ...

Whats wrong with DateTime object

Hi, Can anyone tell what is wrong with the code. $timezone = "Asia/Karachi"; $date = new DateTime($when_to_send, new DateTimeZone($timezone)); $date = $date->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('GMT')); $when_to_send = $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'); error is: Call to a member function format() on a non-object ...

PHP, MySQL: Security concern; Page loads in a weird way

Hi all, I am testing the security of my website. I am using the following URL to load a PHP page in my website, on localhost: http://localhost/domain/user/index.php/apple.php When I do this, the page is not loading normally; Instead the images, icons used in the page simply vanish/disappear from the page. Only text appears. And also ...

Join Query Not Working

Hello, I am using three MySQl tables: comment commentid loginid submissionid comment datecommented login loginid username password email actcode disabled activated created points submission submissionid loginid title url displayurl datesubmitted In these three tables, the "loginid" correspond. I would like to pull the top ...

How to show / debug PEAR::DB errors in webpage?

I am connecting to MySQL database on my webpage and have this copy-pasted code for errors: if(DB::isError($db)) die($db->getMessage()); I have the connection code in an outside file called connection.inc that I include at the beginning of my page before the DOCTYPE and html tags. For debugging purposes, how can I print the database e...

Can I create my own database from PHP?

I have a working PHP server. Now I want to use databases (MySQL or something similar). Is it possible to create a database from PHP? I would like to emphasize that in my case I do not have any user-name and password which I can use to connect to MySQL server. I also do not have a control-panel where I could create a database or a table ...

fwrite() not writing. Error with my code, or the remote client?

Trying to set up a script to send commands to a remote client on a Win32 system. Here is the code: $command = $_POST['command']; $host = $_POST['host']; $port = $_POST['port']; $fp = @fsockopen($host, $port, $e, $s, 15); if (!$fp) { echo 'Error! Here\'s your problem: ' . $e . ': ' . $s; }else{ $fw = fwrite($fp, $command); ...

find and replace values in a flat-file using PHP

I'd think there was a question on this already, but I can't find one. Maybe the solution is too easy... Anyway, I have a flat-file and want to let the user change the values based on a name. I've already sorted out creating new name+value-pairs using the fopen('a') mode, using jQuery to send the AJAX call with newValue and newName. But s...

Wordpress Admin Panel Code Input

I've got a wordpress admin panel for one of my themes and one of the boxes has an input for some code to drive google adsense. when I put the code into the box and call it with my php tags the code comes out like this: <script type="\&quot;text/javascript\&quot;"><!-- google_ad_client = \"pub-9295546347478163\"; /* Leaderboard 5...

How can I add one line into all php files' beginning?

So, ok. I have many php files and one index.php file. All files can't work without index.php file, because I include them in index.php. For example. if somebody click Contact us the URL will become smth like index.php?id=contact and I use $_GET['id'] to include contacts.php file. But, if somebody find the file's path, for example /system...

preg_replace on xss code

Can this code help to sanitize malicious code in user submit form? function rex($string) { $patterns = array(); $patterns[0] = '/=/i'; $patterns[1] = '/javascript:/i'; $replacements = array(); $replacements[0] = ''; $replacements[1] = ''; return preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $string); I have included htmlentities() to prevent...

Creating a Variable From Two Others

Hello, In the HTML table below, I would like to add a third column that equals $row["countSubmissions"] times 10 plus $row["countComments"]. How could I do this? Thanks in advance, John $sqlStr = "SELECT l.loginid, l.username, COALESCE(s.total, 0) AS countSubmissions, COALESCE(c.total, 0) AS countComments FROM lo...

Do you need a good background in OOP before moving to frameworks?

Frameworks being all OOP, would it not be wise to go into frameworks without having a solid background in OOP? I can write basic classes but nothing too fancy or abstract. How much should I know of OOP before moving to frameworks? Right now I am PHP Object-Oriented Programming to learn OOP. EDIT: Once you start programming in OOP, i...

PHP Arrays: Pop an array of single-element arrays into one array.

Using a proprietary framework, I am frequently finding myself in the situation where I get a resultset from the database in the following format: array(5) { [0] => array(1) { ["id"] => int(241) } [1] => array(1) { ["id"] => int(2) } [2] => array(1) { ["id"] => int(81) } [3] => array(1) { ["id"] => int(560)...