Hello I am developing a SMS application for updating facebook status in PHP. I can collect username and password of user. I know it can be done by Status.set ,but how can I use the username and password and get the necessary session key and as such. Please help. ...
I am "playing" with an idea, but it might use curl which I am not too sure about, but can fathom my way round most. I can curl a page and get the contents - that's OK, but can you curl a page and get "specific" contents say a variable string or array? Reason for asking is I do a lot of updating to a few sites but most of that is "commo...
What is the correct way to convert from mysql timestamp (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) to my own chosen format, something like "August 5, 2010"? iow how can I make the mysql timestamp php date() compatible? ...
Hello! I have an object which gets a String. I want to compare it with a String and I don't know how to do it. My source is something like it: $field = $this->form->getFieldset('profile'); $website = "Web site"; if ($field->label == $website){ echo "good"; }else{ echo "bad"; } ...
I have an object: stdClass Object ( [Color] => Red [Shape] => Round [Taste] => Sweet ) I want to trim each of the elements in the object and if that element is empty, set it to 'N/A' So this object: stdClass Object ( [Color] => Red [Shape] => [Taste] => Sweet ) Would become this: stdClass Object ( [Co...
please help me find out the fileSize of youtube video for example $feedURL = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/' . $videoId; // read feed into SimpleXML object //load the video file details into xmlObject $xmlObject = simplexml_load_file($feedURL); // $media = $xmlObject->children('http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/'); ...
Hey everyone, I am using simplexml to pull data from an external xml source. I have got values even for limiting the number of results to display. I thought I could paginate with a simple query within the URL, something like "&page=2" but it is not possible as far as documentation shows. I downloaded a pagination class intended to use w...
Hi, I want to write some plugin which adds forms in administration panel and in blog posts. I'm struggling now with magic_quotes. First I've tried to use magic_quotes_gpc as in clear PHP. But it looks like WordPress ignores this flag and always quotes submitted form contents (at least forms in posts, forms in administration panel are no...
This is driving me crazy. I'm trying to figure out how to upload a file. I've got two very simple files, yet it doesn't seem to work. This first is the file that allows the user to choose the file: <html> <head> <title>File Upload Form</title> </head> <body> This form allows you to upload a file to the server.<br> <form action="getf...
I'm doing a little home computing project in PHP and am creating references like this... <a href=\"list_beer.php?order_by=name\">Beer</a> This seems to pick up the right file. When I do includes, I seem to need a pathname. include_once ("/var/www/common.php"); I'm sure this can't be right. Perhaps you could tell me what is the best...
fileA.php: requires function.inc.php and uses x() from that include file fileB.php: requires fileA.php User invokes fileB.php to get fileA.php function.inc.php: function x() - returns filename that invoked it What is the PHP server variable or whatever that gets the name of fileA.php from within function.inc.php? Usecase - function ...
I am looking to use a URL shortening scheme where I would like the variable to be in the first segment of the URL, www.example.com/0jf08h204. My default controller is "home.php" and I have .htaccess mod-rewrites in place, so what is the best way to manage this? I suppose my smarts have been blocked by the standard /controller/method/vari...
I have a form in CodeIgniter, and I need to change the Action of the form based on what is in the actual form. ie: if <select name="type"> == business then I need action="business/submit" Is there a simple way to do this? Right now my attempted workaround is to use Javascript to grab the data from the inputs, then send it to a dynamic...
What is the difference between var_dump() and print_r() in terms of spitting out an array as string? ...
I have two strings: $string = shell_exec('reg.bat '.$arg); //returns word\0word\0word $stringA = "$string"; $stringB = "word,other,word2,other2"; $array1 = explode('\0', $stringA); $array2 = explode(',', $stringB); $result = array_diff($array1, $array2); I can use array_diff to find the differences, but the last word shows up as not i...
I wanna catch Php classes from a file: class a { function test() { } } class b extends a { function test() { } } and the result matches must be class a { function test() { } } and class b extends a { function test() { } } ...
Hi, I want to manage a username session for lifetime. means for example if u look a website http://www.kongregate.com/ in this website i have registered and i haven't logged out but whenever i open up this website my username appears there. No need to login again. so i want to do the same for my one of the games website. i have develope...
Guys, This is a quick but simple question. I am having a bad day and don't know how to do this: What I need to do is this... I am checking for PMD in the url if so echo this: <?php if ( isset($_GET['pmd']) ) { echo"<div class=\"response\"><p style=\"width:350px; height:200px; vertical-align:middle;\"><strong>Thank...
hi all, how to redirect a url in php? if i use htaccess to redirect, then its asking me a authentication (username & pwd). i want to redirect to url without any authentication. is it possible in php. i dont want to use headers or meta tags or window.location to relocate i.e redirect. any other way is possible? thanks in advance. ...
I was just setting up the validation for a form in which I decided to try using the filter_var function to check the validity of my email address. I can not find out what filter_var actually allows anywhere though (since the documentation is very simple), and I found out that it is allowing an email address like test@test. Doesn't there ...