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Regex match HTML tag NOT containing another tag.

I am writing a regex find/replace that will insert a <span> into every <a href> in a file where a <span> does not already exist. It will allow other tags to be in the <a href> like <img>, <b>, etc. Currently I have this regex: Find: (<a[^>]+?style=".*?color:#(\w{6}).*?".*?>)(.+?)(<\/a>) Replace: '$1<span style="color:#$2;">$3</span>$4' ...

phing + sftp to upload site as part of automated build

Hello, Does anybody know of an easy way to upload files to a remote server using SFTP from within a Phing build? I cant seem to find a custom or native Phing task to do this. The other problem is the interactivity of the SFTP unix command (requiring a password after reaching host, etc.) Any ideas? ...

Help with a URL Shortening Algorithm

Could anyone recommend a preferred algorithm to use for URL shortening? I'm coding using PHP. Initially I thought about writing something that would start at a character such as "a" and iterate through requests, creating records in a database and therefore having to increment the character to b, c, d ... A, B and so on as appropriate. H...

YouTube PHP Wrapper

Is there any YouTube php wrapper that I can use to retrieve video's rating by their id? ...

Special Characters in FPDF with PHP

I have a web form that users can fill out and that content fills up a PDF with FPDF and PHP. When a user enters a word with an apostrophe, a slash appears before it on the PDF. Similarly, special characters like trademark symbols are encoded wrong. The FPDF FAQs say to use: $str = utf8_decode($str); But I'm just not sure how to appl...

How should boolean expressions be written in PHP?

How should the following boolean expression be written in PHP: $foo = ""; if($var==TRUE){ $foo = "bar"; } or if($var==TRUE){ $foo = "bar"; }else{ $foo = ""; } or $foo = ($var==TRUE) ? "bar": ""; ...

How to parse unicode format (e.g. \u201c, \u2014) using PHP

I am pulling data from the Facebook graph which has characters encoded like so: \u2014 and \u2014 Is there a function to convert those characters into HTML? i.e \u2014 -> &mdash; If you have some further reading on these character codes), or suggested reading about unicode in general I would appreciate it. This is so confusing to me. I...

Basic jQuery with JSON Parsing

Hello, I am trying to parse some very basic JSON, but I don't know where I'm going wrong when trying to display it to the screen. Am I not GRABBING the data correctly, such as, "data.re1Code"? I hope someone can shed some light onto my basic question sorry. JSON Data [ { "rep1FullName": "Justin Giesbrecht", "rep1C...

Post JSON using Curl

Hi Everyone! I am receiving a JSON which I can receive using php://input and I need to post it back to a different URL, but I'm not sure how to format it. Here's how I receive it: $updates = file_get_contents("php://input"); I could json_decode it and then parse out the array so that it would fit a normal POST-like request such ...

PHP + Curl, get remote file and serve with same headers

I need a php script that accepts a URL via a get request and I want it to send a request for the URL sending the same headers the visitor used, then return the file using the same headers the server sent. eg. requested is http://Google.com/ The PHP script sues curl to request http://Google.com/ sending the same headers as the user's bro...

MS Access: How can one find "qualifier" and "owner"

This may seem like a stupid question, but rest assured that I don't need general database help, but MS Access help specifically. This would not be a problem if I were working with any other database. I need to fish out the primary key(s) form an MS Access table using PHP with an ODBC connection. I have found two PHP functions that suppo...

Rounding elements for IE

on my wordpress site http://www.101river.com the edges of elements are rounded but only in firefox, safari and Chrome because Ie does not support css3 the elements are not rounded in IE. I know there are many tricks to make this make corners rounded in IE just don't know the easiest. Can some one please give some example code to make thi...

Apache PHP MSSQL sloooooooooow, win7 x64

Hello I had an php apliccation with mssql2000 (sql server 2000) , I'm using appserv 2.5.9 with apache2 and php5. I've upgraded my computer to Windows 7 Ultimate x64, and tryied to run the application, but it goes to sloooooooooooooooooooow Since like 2 years, works perfectly fine (not application problem, and no db problem, works fine...

how to install php-qt

Hi can anybody tell me how to install PHP-qt on my system local server. my configuration is -- OS - Widows XP-SP2 server - easyPHP also is this project php-qt is still "ON" for future , Please send a demo link for it any alternative for it is most welcome , if there is alternative Please send a demo link and a bit of information. ...

Use PHP alternate syntax with WAMP

Is it possible to use PHP alternate syntax (as described in the CodeIgniter user guide), on WAMP? ...

Search block of text, return MP3 links using PHP

Hi guys, I've just run into a little bit of trouble with some PHP on my latest project. Basically I have a block of text ($text) and I would like to search through that text and return all of the MP3 links. I know it has something to do with regular expressions but I just cannot get it working. Here's my current code: if(preg_match...

Variables losing scope/value within IF statement?

Hi, I have the weirdest problem I cannot figure out, see the following code: $frmUsername = $_POST['frmUsername']; $frmPassword = $_POST['frmPassword']; if($frmUsername == "" || $frmPassword == "") { print "frmUsername: " . $frmUsername; print "frmPassword: " . $frmPassword; } exit(); The result will be: frmUsername: fr...

PHP - Function to Calculate Grade

Hey guys, I have been working on a solution/algorithm for a function to calculate a grade based on the grade type (Homework, Exam, Project, etc.). I've successfully implemented the function that gets the information I need to make the calculation, but I'm having trouble constructing the grade calculation function that takes all the grade...

Error with Amazon S3 for WordPress

I am using a great Wordpress to store files on Amazon S3 called "Amazon S3 for WordPress" it seems to have a bug with version 3.0+ of Wordpress. The error I am getting is: Warning: strpos() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /home/dir/public_html/www.site.com/wp-admin/includes/media.php on line 310 Here is the ...

How to highlight an HTML content and save it to the database for future loads

Hi all, I'm trying to highlight the selected text contents by the user inside the HTML page I loaded using PHP + XSL transformation. I have seen some solutions related with highlighting current selected text, but I need to save some information to the database that makes me able to highlight the same contents for future loads of the sam...