php

Latest 5 posts from each category

Hello, What is the php code that I need to write to display the last 5 blog posts from each category on my wordpress blog? I only want to include the title of the blog post, date and name of author (no image from blog post). An example of exactly what I want to do is in this theme, under the name 'LATEST POSTS IN XXXXX CATEGORY' http...

Update data into mysql database by clicking on a link

I there a way to update data into mysql database when click on a link? I want create a comment voting system on my site so when user clicks on a "Vote for this comment" link, +1 should be sent into database... How is that possible? ...

PHP - monster avatar generator

I have seen a avatar generator which makes monster creators, but I saw this a few years ago and now can't remember the name or find it with Google. Does anyone have a url? ...

Is there a faster way to retrieve a message using zend framework libraries?

Hi guys I'm building a simple mail interface for my application but I've noticed that its really slow especially when the user has to list out a number of emails. I've traced the time taken for code to execute and found that just the $mail->getMessage function takes around 0.6 seconds to execute. My code is as below: $mail = new Zend_M...

Zend Framework plugins?

Hi, Is there somewhere a repository/list of third party ZF plugins? I mean plugins like this one: http://code.google.com/p/zfdebug/ Thank you. :) ...

read contents of .pst file with php

Is it possible to somehow use PHP to read the contents of a .pst file? ...

+1234567 ends up being 1234567... where is the plus?

Hi guys, Well through jquery i am doing an ajax request to send through a cell number in the format of +1234567 but if i access it on the other end using $_POST['cell']; the plus is gone, where could it be? ...

Check that your page is not requested via ajax?

Hi guys, I have some pages set up so that they respond only to ajax requests. The thing is that how can I set it up so that if someone tries to send the requests via a browser window i.e by typing them out - they don't run and that they run only when an ajax call is made. The pages are in php here ...

Getting mod_rewrite to pass $_GET params?

There's a couple other questions on this same topic on here that I've read, but mine is slightly different. I'm trying to do a very basic mod_rewrite: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^go/([^/\.]+)/?$ /go.php?page=$1 go.php looks like this: <?php ini_set('display_errors',1); if(isset($_GET['page'])){ echo 'page='.$_GET['page']; }els...

preg_match: nothing to repeat / no match

hi there, I am using this: if(!preg_match('/^+[0-9]$/', '+1234567')) and am getting: Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 any ideas why? update: Now using this: if(!preg_match('/^\+[0-9]$/', '+1234567')) and am getting no match. any ideas why? ...

How can I extend this function to check if the current custom post type is in descendent category

I use the following function to check whether the viewed post is in a descendant category of the given ID. How can i extend the function to also check if the current viewed "custom post type" is in a descendant category of the given ID? I use this function to set a menu item to "active". The function is: /** * Tests if any of a pos...

Is that possible to display image thumbnail without uploading it to the server ?

I want let user to upload images to server add some info (like description, tags) about each image.I use Uploadify to upload multiple images. I wonder if it is possible to show thumbnails of the images (while the user enters the additional info about each image) before the images are actually uploaded to the server. I want user to have...

Apache doesn't execute my copied PHP files, but testing.php works

Hi all, I've just installed LAMP on my Ubuntu 9.10 machine, and everything works fine except when I copy my PHP files from another computer. The LAMP guides I've followed also made me create a phpinfo() test file, which works, but when I try to type in e.g. index.php absolutely nothing happens - just a blank page in FireFox. :( The fi...

CakePHP: is it possible to use model data in layouts?

I would like to display a ticker on each page what scrolls some of the latest datas in it. I think to put in the layout file would be more simply if I can read the model data from the layout. Is it possible? Or does layout code has access to the variables generated by a controller and passed to a view? Or is it the only way to make an ...

Auto login & logoff with facebook php

Hello, I'm looking on how to implement auto login with my website using facebook connect, currently its working fine, but user have to click connect every time they come to my site. and is it possible to make it they logout in facebook too if they log out from my website, vice versa? Thank you for any advice and help. ...

can you access $_SESSION[] values in an ajax'd page?

Hi there, if on a page i have echo $_SESSION['user_id']; and it echo's 1 can i access that value on a page called using ajax (on the same server & domain) or do i need to pass that value through with the ajax request? ...

Replace href in PHP

Hello! I'm trying to transform this: http://link_brochure/1/2 OR link_brochure/1/2 into this: class="show-brochure" href="http://localhost/main/brochure/1/2" But I'm a rookie when it comes about regular expressions... Any ideas? Thanks! ...

best way to store options in a db

Hi there, i have a table and one of the columns is co_com this is communication preferences there are three options (and only ever will be) i dont want to have a seperate column for these values so i was thinking of storing them as sms/email/fax sms = yes email = no fax = yes which would be stored as: 101 but, im thinking thats no...

Problem with $_FILES and cURL

I'm having some trouble sending $_FILES by cURL - the files get transferred alright using the following code, however it is impossible for me to get the name, and type of the file, in fact once the $_FILES reach their destination their type is stored as "application/octet-stream" - what am I doing wrong!? $count=count($_FILES['thefile...

CodeIgniter creating thumbnails with one black pixel in the top left corner

Warning: I don't have much experience with CodeIgniter and I am updating a site originally create by another developer. For some reason the CodeIgniter image class is creating thumbnails with a black pixel in the top left corner. Here is an example: This only seems to happen in production (this site is being hosted on a super lame s...