Writing a program to scrape forums
Hi, I need to write a program to scrape forums. Should I write the program in Python using the Scrapy framework or should I use Php cURL? Also is there a Php equivalent to Scrapy? Thanks ...
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How to find the duplicate and highest value in an array
Hello guys I have an array like this array={'a'=>'2','b'=>'5', 'c'=>'6', 'd'=>'6', 'e'=>'2'}; The array value might be different depending on the $_POST variables. My question is how to find the highest value in my array and return the index key. In my case, I need to get 'c' and 'd' and the value of 6. Not sure how to do this. Any ...
about mb string and normal string in PHP
How do I know the string is mb string? so we use mb_strlen instead of strlen ? ...
Is it possible to create a service like Feed My Inbox on my own server?
I was just wondering if it's at all possible to create a service like Feed My Inbox on my own server using PHP? Basically I have a site which has RSS feeds which are dynamic in nature and can search from thousands of posts based on many different criteria. I have the RSS feed working fine and bringing back data dynamically for whatever ...
What is the most widely used IDE for PHP?
Note I am not asking for which is the "best" IDE for PHP or anything subjective like that. I want to know which is the most widely used backed by some sort of statistic (something like the W3's stats for browser usage) but for IDE usage amongst PHP developers. ...
I need to run a PHP script via command line but this happens.
I need to run a scrip via command line but the files necessary for me to run it require me to be in the directory of the script. But I cannot do it for every command line i need to run. Their are over five thousand. Could someone tell me how to either format the list easily or add something to the format that would make it run. I have so...
PHP OOP problem
Hello <?php class Templater { var $params = array(); public static function assign($name, $value) { $this->params[] = array($name => $value); } public static dunction draw() { return $this->params; } } <?php $test = Templater::assign('key', 'value')->draw(); print_r($test); I nee...
Using the ZF autoloader to load models
I have a simple ZF application (no modules) which works fine when I require classes before I use them. However, I'd like to use the ZF autoloader to load them automatically (which I assumed was default behaviour). How would I go about doing this? I'm a bit confused by the new(ish) Zend_Application way of doing things. My directory struc...
jquery $.post returned data from php is empty
hi, i'm using this code to post to a php page: var qreq = ".....myurl.php"; $.post(qreq, function(data){alert(data);}); in my PHP file i have this: ...... $prevtopic = $row["topic_id"]; echo $prevtopic; the alert comes up, but is blank. for some reason data is empty even though i'm echoing from the PHP file. i also tried just echo...
Where can an absolute beginner of Kohana PHP go to learn how to use it from the ground up?
Hi guys! I have a month of free time and I've decided to launch my own website. It's going to be big and have dymanic content where different users with different roles can perform modifications to the site. Place comments, rate stores, list items, etc. This sound like a perfect opportunity for me to expand my horizons and learn a PHP ...
What is an efficient way to serve images (PHP)?
Hey guys currently I am thinking of serving images using an image handler script. I have two sources of images. One is from my web images folder where images that are used to construct my site interface are served. The other is in each users images folder where they can store their own images. I was thinking of giving each user image a u...
MySQL table with similar column info - HELP!!!
I have a DB with a table that is named "victim". The form that dumps the info into the table has room for two victims and therefore there is vic1_fname, vic1_lname, vic2_fname, vic2_lname, etc.. (business name, person first, person last, address, city, state, zip) a "1" and "2" of each. Now I want to search the DB and locate listed vic...
uploading image & getting back from database
Initially i added full source code for viewer. but it has some format problem and all the code was messed with HTML format. So now i am asking step by step. 1) I uploaded an image file to my MySQL database. (it has no error, i.e. loaded successfully) 2) Fetching it back to the browser from MySQL Database. It has also no problem(in some c...
Bringing specific results to the front using one MySQL query.
I'm setting up my geolocation feature which lists out all the countries in order of name. However, most websites have it set up where the popular countries (such as United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia) are at the front of the list (are shown first rather than in their assigned places). Is it possible to achieve this using th...
PHP - How do you secure a unique variable name?
This function cropit, which I shamelessly stole off the internet, crops a 90x60 area from an existing image. In this code, when I use the function for more than one item (image) the one will display on top of the other (they come to occupy the same output space). I think this is because the function has the same (static) name ($dest) ...
A problem of a repeated parameter in the pagination links?
The problem is that when I load page 2 for example the URL becomes: http://domain.com/index.php?restaurant-id=45&currentpage=2 And that's fine but when I get to page 3 it becomes: http://domain.com/index.php?restaurant-id=45&currentpage=2&currentpage=3 And so on, it adds one more currentpage parameter everytime a new page...
[PHP] How do I convert a string "nine" to 9 ?
I know I can do that using switch(), but still I wanted to know if there's any PHP function for that. ...
PHP, MySQL: mysql substitute for php in_array function
Hi all, Say if I have an array and I want to check if an element is a part of that array, I can go ahead and use in_array( needle, haystack ) to determine the results. I am trying to see the PHP equivalent of this for my purpose. Now you might have an instant answer for me and you might be tempted to say "Use IN". Yes, I can use IN, but...
Converting keys of an array/object-tree to lowercase
Im currently optimizing a PHP application and found one function being called around 10-20k times, so I'd thought I'd start optimization there. function keysToLower($obj) { if(!is_object($obj) && !is_array($obj)) return $obj; foreach($obj as $key=>$element) { $element=keysToLower($element); ...
How to find crc32 of big files ?
The PHP's crc32 support string as input.And For a file , below code will work OFC. crc32(file_get_contents("myfile.CSV")); But if file goes huge (2 GB) it might raise out of memory Fatal error. So any way around to find checksum of huge files ? ...