How to share a session with a Erlang application
I need to create a chat in Erlang. Is there a way to share the session between PHP and Erlang applications ? ...
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Twitter RSS pubDate format
In a twitter RSS feed the pubDate is published as Sat, Jun 5, 2010 19:20 Using PHP, whats the best way to convert this into the time lasped since published. For eaxmple, posted 4 minutes ago posted 1 hour ago posted 4 hours ago posted 1 day ago posted 2 days ago posted 1 month ago posted 2 months ago You help much appreciated ...
Checking method visibility in PHP
Is there any way of checking if a class method has been declared as private or public? I'm working on a controller where the url is mapped to methods in the class, and I only want to trigger the methods if they are defined as public. ...
PHP Extension using libtidy compiles, but does not load
I wrote an extension in C++ that uses libtidy, and it runs perfectly under PHP when I compile PHP --with-tidy. However, it would be nice to have the extension run on a vanilla PHP. When I try to use the extension, I get something like: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'extension.so': undefined ...
PHP email form multiple select
I'm trying to set up a simple PHP contact form for a website and I need some help modifying the PHP to list multiple items from a select menu and would appreciate the help. I'm a graphic designer, not a developer, so a lot of this is way over my head. This is the problem area here: <label for="Events[]">Which Event(s) Will You Be At...
preg_match , pattern, php
I'm trying to extract some specific pictures from html content . Currently I have the following array [1] => Array ( [0] => BuEZm5g!Wk~$(KGrHqQH-DgEvrb2CLuOBL-vbkHlKw~~_14.JPG#!BuEZm5g!Wk~$(KGrHqQH-DgEvrb2CLuOBL-vbkHlKw~~_12.JPG|1#http://i.ebayimg.com/08#!BuEZqMQBGk~$(KGrHqQH-DoEvrKYSoPiBL-vb)WgLw~~_14.JPG#!BuEZ...
Fighing system in Php & MYSQL
I am working on a game like Mafia Wars and i am trying to get the fighting system working but i keep getting lose trying to work out who is going to win the fight and it still needs to know if the stats are close then there is a random chace of them winning. $strength = $my_strength; $otherplayerinfo = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM accou...
Drupal - How to display N nodes of a type X?
How to display N nodes of a type X? ...
Objective PHP and key value coding
Hi Guys. In some part of my code I need something like this: $product_type = $product->type; $price_field = 'field_'.$product_type.'_price'; $price = $product->$$price_field; In other words I need kind of KVC - means get object field by field name produced at the runtime. I simply need to extend some existing system and keep field nam...
How to pass multiple parameters to cron job with curl?
I'm running two cron jobs: This one executes without a problem: curl -sS http://example.com/cronjob.php?days=1 But this doesn't run at all: curl -sS http://example.com/cronjob.php?days=1&month=1 Is this because of the ampersand (&)? If yes, how to pass multiple parameters? Using argv is not an option. ...
Retrieve array key passed on value PHP
I have the following array $group= array( [0] => 'apple', [1] => 'orange', [2] => 'gorilla' ); I run the array group through an for each function and when the loop hits values of gorilla I want it to spit out the index of gorilla foreach ($group as $key) { if ($key == gorilla){ echo //<------ the index of g...
Why is casting and comparing in PHP faster than is_*?
While optimizing a function in PHP, I changed if(is_array($obj)) foreach($obj as $key=>$value { [snip] } else if(is_object($obj)) foreach($obj as $key=>$value { [snip] } to if($obj == (array) $obj) foreach($obj as $key=>$value { [snip] } else if($obj == (obj) $obj) foreach($obj as $key=>$value { [snip] } After learning about ==...
Testing if string is sha1 in PHP
I'm planning on storing the passwords as a sha1, so I need a way to validate that it is a sha1 at another point in my website. I was planning on using preg_match, but I do not know how to make regex patterns. Could someone help me out with one? Thanks Edit: I am not trying to see if two hashes match. ...
Interesting bug in PHP
Here in the following block of program it prints 2 instead of 1. <?php f(0, $$var); $x = 1; $y = 2; echo $x; function f($a, $b) {} ?> Any suggestions? UPDATE 1 This information has been get from http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/php/95595 UPDATE 2 By posting this question mainly I just wanted to 1) inform others about this bug, 2) get ...
Encoding arbitrary data into numbers?
Is there a common method to encode and decode arbitrary data so the encoded end result consists of numbers only - like base64_encode but without the letters? Fictitious example: $encoded = numbers_encode("Mary had a little lamb"); echo $encoded; // outputs e.g. 12238433742239423742322 (fictitious result) $decoded = numbers_decode("12...
PHP XML Parsing
Hi I am making get request in PHP but the parser is having issues. I am looking for a way to retreive the value of URL in the following example. The response xml looks like this. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" standalone="no"?> <testtemplate JobName="test1"> <Sources> <Source xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/test/schema/api"...
PHP Speed - Many Echos vs Building a String
Wondering if anyone knows if either of these methods would produce an output faster: Method 1 for ($i=1;$i<99999;$i++) { echo $i, '<br>'; } or Method 2 for ($i=1;$i<99999;$i++) { $string .= $i . '<br>'; } echo $string; Thanks for any input you have. ...
help with php/cake error
I tried to clone beta.neighborrow.com - i copied the directory file for file but im getting this error on the new url instillbliss.neighborrow.com Warning: require(cake/basics.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/neighborrow/instillbliss.neighborrow.com/index.php on line 53 Fatal error: req...
temp. download links (with codeigniter)
Hi everyone I was wondering how I could start generating temporarily download links based on files from a protected directory (e.g. /downloads/). These links need to be valid until someone used it 5 times or so or after a week or so, after that the link shouldn't be accessible anymore. Any help would be appreciated. ...
How to find problem with PHP XSLTProcessor when return from transformToXML is false and libxml_get_errors returns nothing
I'm working on the code below to allow HTTP user agents that cannot perform XSL transformations to view the resources on my server. I'm mystified because the result of transformToXML is false, but the result of libxml_get_errors() is an empty array. As you can see, the code outputs the LibXSLT version ID and I'm getting the problem on W...