Hi everyone, I am working in a tool in PHP that processes a lot of data and takes a while to finish. I would like to keep the user updated with what is going on and the current task processed. What is in your opinion the best way to do it? I've got some ideas but can't decide for the most effective one: The old way: execute a small p...
Hi, i'm making a questionnaire about a service quality, its contains the options (poor, regular, good, very good). It's contains 6 questions (radio button) and a suggestion box (textbox). In the table of the database i created 6 rows for questions, 1 for suggestion and 1 for date (a friend of mine tole me to use this but i didn't get why...
Hi, In .net, there are the static properties DateTime.MinDate, and DateTime.MaxDate that conveniently return the minimum and maximum valid dates for a DateTime object. I'm dabbling in web programming right now, using php + mysql + javascript. There doesn't seem to be the same convenient min/max date values in that programming environme...
there's a site: http://joopz.com you can use a browser to send a receive text messages do you think it is possible for me to programmatically control and gather data from the browser? this would mean i can make a database of incoming text messages to the browser and i could also programmatically send text messages from the browser>? ...
Alright, I'm trying to write a piece of code (PHP and SQL), or rather a search query to display all the tables that contain a certain prefix. Something like what is displayed below (but is obviously incorrect) SELECT TABLES LIKE chat_ So any table that has the chat prefix, would be displayed. I plan on formatting the output, so it's n...
I need a php lib that can auth using OpenID against sites offering this service, like Google, Yahoo, Wordpress, etc... Anyone used any lib that actuallly works? I've tryied a few but couldn't get any to auth against Google, Yahoo, or Wordpress. ...
Hey guys I am pretty new to pdo so I basically just put together a simple connection class using information out of the introductory book I was reading but is this connection efficient? If anyone has any informative suggestions, I would really appreciate it. class PDOConnectionFactory{ public $con = null; // swich database? ...
I'm trying to take a query: SHOW TABLES; which will display a bunch of tables with the chat_ prefix. I want to remove the chat_ prefix from the string, format the variable (with a link), and display it. How is this accomplished? ...
A user sent me a PDF that contains javascript. I would like to remove the Javascript to prevent possible attacks. Can I remove the Javascript using PHP or by another method? Any suggestion is appreciated. ...
I have regex as /^[a-zA-Z ]+$/ now I need to add support for unicode characters and so am using \p{L} like '/^[a-zA-Z ]+$\p{L}/'. This is not working for me and I am not sure that this is correct way of using it. I am new to regex and would appreciate any guidance. Thanks. ...
so i have a bunch of files, some can be up to 30-40mb and i want to use php to handle security of the files, so i can control who has access to them that means i have a script sort of like this rough example $has_permission = check_database_for_permission($user, filename); if ($has_permission) { header('Content-Type: image/jpeg'); ...
Hello, I'm trying to use the code below to make the <a href='http://www...com/.../footervote.php'>Vote</a> link appear if a user logs in and a user shows up in the function getEditorsList(). The vote link only appears if the browser is refreshed. Any idea how I could make the vote link appear without having to refresh the b...
Hi folks, I'm looking for some method of converting a PHP Docblock (as used for generating documentation by tools like Doxygen) into a structure I can inspect in PHP. For example, I want to parse the following lines: /** * Multiply two values * @CHECKME * * @author someone * @created eons ago * ...
Hi! I have a 1.2GB file that contains a one line string. What I need is to search the entire file to find the position of an another string (currently I have a list of strings to search). The way what I'm doing it now is opening the big file and move a pointer throught 4Kb blocks, then moving the pointer X positions back in the file and...
I want to store dates in mysql so I set the table to be of type 'Date', which is fine but mysql requires that the full date is provided YYYY-MM-DD. However some of my data does not include day and some is missing the month. Now I could just use a varchar(10) field, but then its difficult to run date based queries on the data. Is there ...
I have a php file that acts as a gatekeeper for all the files I want people to download, who ahve sufficient privilages. The code I use throw the file to the user is header('Content-Description: File Transfer'); header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream'); header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$public_filename."\"...
I would like to know what is the best way to pass a large amount of XML data from one PHP script to another. I have a script that reads in an XML feed of jobs. I would like to have the script display a list of the job titles as links. When the user clicks a link they would be taken to another page displaying the details for that job. T...
I'm new at php and mysql stuff and i'm trying to use an avg function but i don't know how to. I'm trying to do something like this: mysql_connect(localhost,$username,$password); @mysql_select_db($database) or die ("Did not connect to $database"); mysql_query("AVG(column1) FROM table1 ") or die(mysql_error()); mysql_close(); echo AV...
Am I doing this right? I went to look at some old PHP code w/ MySQL and I've managed to get it to work, however I'm wondering if there's a much "cleaner" and "faster" way of accomplishing this. First I would need to get the total number of "documents" $total_documents = $collection->find(array("tags" => $tag, "seeking" => $thi...
I created this account registration activation script of my own, I have checked it over again and again to find errors, I don't see a particular error... The domain would be like this: http://domain.com/include/register.php?key=true&p=AfRWDCOWF0BO6KSb6UmNMf7d333gaBOB Which comes from an email, when a user clicks it, they get r...