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Use .htaccess to change the url PHP sees

I want to use htaccess to not only choose the script that processes the request, but also to change the request uri as php sees it. Can this be done? For example: RewriteRule /funstuff/ funstuff.php ...How can I change that RewriteRule or otherwise change my .htaccess file to get funstuff.php to think that the original request url wa...

Folders-like URL with PHP?

Hi, ever since I added this htaccess to my website, I noticed a HUGE slowdown, and my error logs are filled with errors such as PHP Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in page.php on line 79 I've got up to four of these per second. Most of the time it works though. The htaccess co...

Forcing user to new page in php. (PHP newbie)

Hello I'm a newbie web programmer. My background is writing Windows applications with sql. I'm putting together my 1st data entry screens in Php. I have a search form that links to a form that displays records in a grid. On each row of the grid I have a delete url to allow the user to remove a record. This links to a form delete.php (...

Getting Popular Topics on a Custom Made Forum

For this website we're working on, we're trying to get the most popular topics (based on how many posts have been made in them within the last 24 hours). We have a medium to large based forum, and the current MySQL query looks like this: SELECT `forums_topics`.`id`,`forums_topics`.`name`, ( SELECT COUNT(`id`) FROM `...

Clean URLs for images

I'm unable to get a working .htaccess that should accept clean URLs to load images. I mean, for example, if a user type this: http://mysite.com/image/example It works perfectly, as my PHP process and parse it. However, if the user type: .../image/example.jpg It doesn't work. I mean, if a user writes that, I want to load the module wi...

Installing Wordpress on a windows server = omg.

Hello, It's not the first time that i install wordpress on a linux hosting BUT this is the first time i have to do that on a windows server. I upload the latest version on the FTP : go to my www.mydomain.com error 500. okay.... maybe one file is corrupted, i re-upload them... go to my www.mydomain.com : error 500. If I do : www.mydo...

How to get the ID of the last insert.

I have an application and around 20 accounts are created per minute (on average). I need to implement a new feature which requires the ID of the last insert. I am using PDO. The question is, lets say 5 users create accounts at exactly the same time. Will it return the ID from the database for that users profile that was just created, o...

Upload & Link an Image with php

I know this should be really simple, but im having trouble getting this to work right, basically i want to have an image upload box that uploads an image and then puts the new url into a mysql database. Anyone have any advice on how to do this, as i may be having developer block but im over complicating it in my head :P Thanks ...

PHP, Ajax, and the lifespan of the request

I was wondering about the lifespan of a PHP script when called via Ajax. Assume that there is a long-running (i.e. 30 seconds) PHP script on a server and that page is loaded via Ajax. Before the script completes, the user closes the browser. Does the script continue running to completion, is it terminated, or is this a function of the...

Echo an $_POST in PHP

Hi! How can I print an $_POST ? Example: echo $_POST['data']; This returns nothing... ...

Zend Framework-does every webpage have it's own controller and indexAction and view?

I'm wanting to be sure that I am setting things up correctly. On a typical website with 10 pages, would each page have it's own controller with it's own IndexAction and it's own View folder with it's own index.phtml as a view? Or do you have one controller with multiple Page1Action, Page2Action, etc and have multiple differently named...

How to add dynamic profile fields in Invision Power Board?

I run a game server and want to link the persons in game character name and stats to Invision Power Board. I've setup IPB so players currently login with their game login. That means their user name on the forum is the same as their user name for the game. They can have multiple characters on 1 account so ideally I'd like to allow them...

split currency and amount from a string

I am importing a file which has amount with different currency signs £12.10 $26.13 €12.50 I need to import and convert this into single currency. I am splitting the string as follows $parts = split(' ', preg_replace("/([0-9])/", ' ${1}', $amount, 1)); Couldn't make preg_split work with PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE $parts = preg_split(...

Search SQL Question Between Related Two Tables

Hi, I am writing some kind of search engine for my web application and i have a problem. I have 2 tables first of is projects table: PROJECTS TABLE id int(11) NO PRI NULL auto_increment employer_id int(11) NO MUL NULL project_title varchar(100) NO MUL ...

How to combine query strings in PHP

Given a url, and a query string, how can I get the url resulting from the combination of the query string with the url? I'm looking for functionality similar to .htaccess's qsa. I realize this would be fairly trivial to implement completely by hand, however are there built-in functions that deal with query strings which could either sim...

How can I query Google Spreadsheets API with a string value?

I am using Zend_Gdata_SpreadsheetsListQuery. In PHP my query is: "confirmation=$confirmation" The problem is that $confirmation = 'AB-CD-EFG-012345'; Apparently the hyphens are causing problems with the query and the exception thrown is: Uncaught exception 'Zend_Gdata_App_HttpException' with message 'Expected response code 200, go...

PHP auto refresh page without losing user input

I'm working on a PHP collaboration software project. I have a page that shows the latest updates from other users who are adding content to the database, but also has a form input to allow the user to enter text. I am currently using this code to refresh the page automatically every 30 seconds: header('Refresh: 30'); The problem is ...

PHP 'instanceof' failing with class constant

I'm working on a framework that I'm trying to type as strongly as I possibly can. (I'm working within PHP and taking some of the ideas that I like from C# and trying to utilize them within this framework.) I'm creating a Collection class that is a collection of domain entities/objects. It's kinda modeled after the List<T> object in .N...

PHP database class pattern questions/suggestions

I am developing my own class model for my database and I would like to know what you guys think of it. For each table in my database I have 2 classes. The first one, is a fetching class (I don't know how to call it..), this class has some static methods interacting with the database (fetchAll, fetchById etc..). The second class is the m...

Uncompres a gzip file from CURL, on php

Does anyone know how to uncompress the contents of a gzip file that i got with curl? for example: http://torcache.com/torrent/63ABC1435AA5CD48DCD866C6F7D5E80766034391.torrent responded HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:11:26 GMT Content-Type: application/x-bittorrent Content-Length: 52712 Last-Modified: Tue, 08 ...