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Php application url

Hi guys, I've a doubt. How can I configure my application to use www.mysite.com/myfolder instead of www.mysite.com/myfile.php? I need to a create a profile page for every user registered to my PHP application but it's not so clear how can I do that. I've seen it's possibile with page frame, but, if possible, I prefrer don't use it. Th...

Uploading files wont work on production server

I have a php script which uploads images to a temporary folder on the server. This works on my local computer with the local (virtual) server. (wampserver). However, on the production server (linux) I cant get it working. Everything is loading as it should, except for that the file doesn't show up on the server. My Q is, is there any...

Debugging php-cli scripts with xdebug and netbeans?

I have managed to initiate php-cli script debug session from the IDE itself, but I need to start the debugging session from the shell / command line. These are rather complex maintenance PHP scripts which take a lot of input parameters, so entering arguments from within Netbeans is a bit cumbersome. I have done it before with Zend studi...

I need help with adding condition to php live search

Hi Guys I am just learning php and ended up at this tutorial http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ajax_livesearch.asp Till now my PHP search file looks the same as in example but i changed the if (strlen($q) > 0) to if (strlen($q) > 3) to display results after typing minimum 3 words. I am wondering how can i make the results paginate if th...

Error logging/handling on application basis?

Hi everybody, We have a web server that we're about to launch a number of applications on. On the server-level we have managed to work out the error handling with the help of Hyperic to notify the person who is in charge in the event of a database/memcached server is going down. However, we are still in the need of handling those event...

PHP package manager

Hey, does anyone know a package manager library for PHP (as e.g. apt or yum for linux distros) apart from PEAR? I'm working on a system which should include a package management system for module management. I managed to get a working solution using PEAR, but using the PEAR client for anything else than managing a PEAR installation is n...

regular expression remove comment tag

I want remove html commnent tag <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--hide me-->Abc<!--hide me--> after remove </div> Abc ...

File based caching under PHP

I've been using http://code.google.com/p/phpbrowscap/ for a project, and it usually works nice. But a few times it's cache, which is plain php-files (see http://code.google.com/p/phpbrowscap/source/browse/trunk/browscap/Browscap.php#372 et. al.), has been "zeroed", i.e. the whole cache file has become large blob of NULLs. Instead of tr...

deploying WAMP -> live site - any random tips?

In the next few weeks I'll be taking my site from the localhost (WAMP) and puting it on a new server. This will be the first site, on my first server, so basically...i'm a noob! This must be an important moment for any independent web developer / small business so i'd love to hear about some experiences, mistakes and system default sec...

built in function to combine overlapping string sequences in php?

Is there a built in function in PHP that would combine 2 strings into 1? Example: $string1 = 'abcde'; $string2 = 'cdefg'; Combine to get: abcdefg. If the exact overlapping sequence and the position are known, then it is possible to write a code to merge them. TIA ...

Zend Framework table Relationships

I have a table with over 4 million rows, I want to split this table in more tables, i.e one table with 50k rows. I also need to perform a search on these tables, whats the best way to do it? with JOIN, or? do you have some better ideas? Best Regards, QUERY $do = $this->select() ->where('branche LIKE ?',''.mys...

PHP: Problem with reading Files

hello guys, i wonder what i'm doing wrong! i want to read a folder and run through the existing files, checking if they are either images or textfiles. if there are textfiles they should be put into a div, if there are images the should be output as an image. <?php $path = 'thumbs'; if ($handle = opendir($path)) { while (false !=...

How do I transform "é" to &#233; in php?

I have an XML ISO-8859-1 page, in which I have to output symbols like é. If I output &eacute; it errors out. &#233; works just fine. So, what PHP function should I use to transform é to &#233; I can't move to utf-8 (as I assume some will suggest and rightfully so) This is a huge, legacy code. ...

CakePHP ROOT constant

The CakePHP ROOT constant, where should it point to? ...

Make browser to go back by reloading page 1st and then scrolling it back again too

EXPLAINING WHAT I'M TRYING TO SOLVE: I have a webpage (file_list.php) showing a list of files, and next to each file there is a button to delete it. When user press the DELETE button close to a certain file name, the browser goes to a script called delete_file.php that deletes the file and then it tells browser to go back to the file_li...

File permissions question

If I need a php-page to have access to upload images and move images from a folder on the server, what permissions would I set on the folder then? I know we have "Owner", "Group", and "Others". But what does the server (or the php-code itself) count as? Owner? Also, would I need to set the php-page with the upload script with some spec...

Update Mysql Data Question!

Hellow guys. I am trying to update mysql data by letting users submit a form. The user could update the result of the game and the winning team get +1 win in mysql. The user can always see the game form and update/change the game. My question is how to prevent second or third time +1 win to the existing winning team when the users...

uploading different types of files mostly pdfs

I would like to upload different types of files pressumably pdfs to a certain directory I am currently trying to get this one script working that I found on snipplr but it is not working as I assumed it would, here is my code. Never mind I had an extra comma in my code UPDATE: I added some more code in comments below, I want to also ad...

can I make this select follower/following script more organized? (PHP/Mysql)

In this script, it gets the followers of a user and the people the user is following. Is there a better relationship/database structure to get a user's followers and who they are following? All I have right now is 2 columns to determine their relationship. I feel this is "too simple"? (MYSQL) USER | FRIEND avian gary cend...

Call to a member function get_segment() error

I'm having this problem with this piece of PHP code: class Core { public function start() { require("funk/funks/libraries/uri.php"); $this->uri = new uri(); require("funk/core/loader.php"); $this->load = new loader(); if($this->uri->get_segment(1) != "" and file_exists("funk/pages/".$uri->get_segment(1).".php")){ Only a snippet of th...