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Using LAST_INSERT_ID() via PHP?

When I execute the following in the MySQL console, it works fine: INSERT INTO videos (embed_code) VALUES ('test code here'); SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID(); But, when I execute the above queries via PHP, the result is empty. Under the data abstraction, I am using a database access class named DB. This is how I have tried the above queries v...

PHP equivalent to jsp:include

PHP has include and require_once which are equivalent to JSP's include directive(<%@ include ..%>) JSP also has a jsp:include which only includes the output from the included file, keeping the included file in a servlet of its own. I am looking for something similar in PHP, so that the main page's variables and other content don't mess w...

Adjusted Cosine Similarity

Hello there. Can you help me, please. I was confused to make PHP code about adjusted cosine similarity. I have build data like this : $data[UserID][ItemID] = Rating data example : $data[1][1] = 5; $data[1][2] = 3; $data[1][3] = 4; $data[2][1] = 3; $data[2][2] = 2; $data[2][4] = 3; $data[2][5] = 3; $data[3][1] = 4; $data[3][3] = 3; $d...

How to pass parameters with hash in PHP

Hello, Recently when i saw google results page, the query and other parameters where passed with # (hash) instead of the usual "?" Also, in facebook i saw the same thing. This was quite interesting and after a simple search with google, i found the results related to perl and Ruby but no result with PHP. Is it possible to pass parame...

jQuery, need help with 'sortreceive' ajax call and POST vars.

Hi there, I have a dilemma that just seems beyond my abilities at the moment! I have a group of connected sortables using the class 'biglist'. What I want to do is bind #biglist 's sortreceive callback (which is made whenever a list receives an element from another) to take the 'boxnum' value of the element (which signifies which list...

PHP Converting errors to exceptions design flaw

I came across some code recently that used a custom error handler to turn any PHP errors into an generalized application exception. A custom exception handler was also defined that would log the exception if it was within a particular error code range. Example: class AppException extends Exception { } function error_handler($errno, $e...

Calling unset() in PHP script

Coming from a C/C++ background, I am used to doing my own garbage collection - i.e. freeing resources after using them (i.e. RAII in C++ land). I find myself unsetting (mostly ORM) variables after using them. Are there any benefits of this habit? I remeber reading somewhere a while back, that unsetting variables marks them for deletion...

PHP - Does try/catch have a higher overhead than if/then?

Working in some legacy code, I've run across a ton of Try/Catch statements. Try/Catch isn't something that they taught in my Zend certification classes, and in 10 years I've not worked with another PHP developer who's used it. Does Try/Catch have extra overhead compared to doing if statements? What would make it more or less desirable...

problem with elastic edior plugin

Hi guys, i have problem with the plugin elastic editor for wordpress themes the problem is when i try to save the theme, the plug not save it. and i cant't see it in themes folder. why is it happen ? Thanks. ...

Online Image Slideshow using PHP, GD, XML, and Javascript

Hi, I wrote some code to automatically track many objects through an 1000+ frame image sequence. The object boundaries and centers are outputted in xml by my algorithm. I am making a website to show off my results and I would like to have a navigable slideshow with the normal play, pause, forward, rewind features. I currently have a ...

How to calculate the max. number of combinations possible?

Possible Duplicates: Display possible combinations of string algorithm that will take numbers or words and find all possible combinations If I have 3 strings, such as: "abc def xyz" And I want to find the max number of combinations I can generate by rearranging these strings, e.g: abc xyz def def xyz abc xyz abc def e...

Zend Framework: Using Dashes in Controller Names/URLs

I have a URL I would like to look something like http://server/my/action-name Obviously, I can't have a - in the ControllerName function and an underscore doesn't work. Is this even possible? ...

[imagemagick/others] convert non-transparent pixels to black

Hi all, I'm looking for a way of converting an image so that all non-transparent pixels (those that have alpha != 1) into black and transparent pixels untouched (or converted to white). The closest I got was with the below imagemagick command: convert <img> -colorspace Gray <out> However this still gives me some gray colors instead o...

How do you make strings XML"safe"?

I am responding to an AJAX call by sending it an XML document through PHP echos. In order to form this XML document, I loop through the records of a database. The problem is that the database includes records that have '<' symbols in them. So naturally, the browser throws an error at that particular spot. How can this be fixed? ...

PHP Mail Don't Show "To" in "To" Header

I want to make an email forwarder similar to cPanel's, where I have a database of email addresses, and where they should forward to, and I set a catch-all to pipe to my script. I have completed this script, however, I would like to make the "To:" field in the header show the address it was sent to, rather than who is was being delivered...

PHP/MYSQL: Why is my database all of the sudden case-sensitive for table names on my Linux server (and not on my XP server)?

how can i make it so that the tables are case insensitive? ...

DNS_GET_RECORD Failing with Register.com Domains

I am using a PHP script using dns_get_record (with DNS_ANY) and it is working fine but, is throwing an error on any domain registered with Register.com. Warning: dns_get_record() [function.dns-get-record]: res_nsend() failed in... Any ideas on why this would be? Anyone else had this issue? EDIT: Been doing some research and it look...

Create random string, check if it exists, if it does create a new one.

I want to generate a random string of about 5 characters long. I can create it ok, but I'm having trouble checking if it exists in an array (or database in real situation) and creating a new one if it does. I use a function like this to generate the string: function rand_string(){ return substr(md5(microtime()), 0, 5); } But them...

PHP string replace match whole word

Hello, I would like to make a whole word replace using php Example : If I have $text = "Hello hellol hello, Helloz"; and I use $newtext = str_replace("Hello",'NEW',$text); The new text should look like NEW hello1 hello, Helloz PHP returns NEW hello1 hello, NEWz Thanks. ...

Turn X arrays into a single array

I want to change the format of this array to match another one. One was pulled from a database, and the other was made using space delimted user input and then explode(); So here are the arrays I want to change, this is from the database (mysql_fetch_array). It grabs the single field from all rows. Array ( [name] => daniel ) Arr...