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Advice for a novice PHP enthusiast

I am totally new to PHP, I want to know whats the difference between PHP,CakePHP and Joomla. Which IDE is most commonly used for developing PHP based web applications. How Ajax is implemented in PHP, is it through JQuery only or there's something more to it. Which will be the ideal book that covers most of the basic and advance concepts...

PHP image grab when allow_url_fopen=off

I am using thesis theme on my wordpress blog. I am hosting my blog at byethost which has allow_url_fopen=Off and allow_url_include=Off In one of the function, code is trying to read an image url path. From what I understand, if fopen is ON, it will execute "if" case otherwise "else" case if ($thesis_design->image['fopen']) $imag...

Prefix of my domain is messing things up... How do I resolve this?

I am writing a Facebook app and for it to work properly, I need to set the Site URL inside the Application settings. The problem is that if I set my Site URL to be domain.com it works on my system and a bunch of systems that I tested it on. Some of my friends complain that it is not working on their system. When I looked at what the er...

I need an efficient PHP array lookup

Let's say that I have some widgets, and each widget has events. Each event has a unique timestamp and a non-unique value. Since the timestamp is rather large to use as an index (hashing?) I am adding events like this: $_SESSION['widgets']['datasets'][$i][] = array('timestamp' => $ts, 'value' => $val...

Symfony multiple filter handlers

I want to know if it is possible to add multiple handlers for the same filter. For my case I use sfGuardPlugins remember me filter, but I would like to use the remember me filter from sfFacebooConnectPlugin. Can I make both these filters to work on the remember_me filter, or should I create my own filter handler which would treat both c...

How to alter PHP replace function?

add_filter('wp_list_categories', 'myCatNoBrk', 10, 1); function myCatNoBrk($OrgCat) { $CatNoBrk = preg_replace('/<br \/>/',',',$OrgCat); return $CatNoBrk; } Hello, this is part of a wordpress function that would replace html breaks with commas. How could I alter this to also remove and add 'x' around each element? ...

Is it good practice to use SMTP (with phpmailer) to send emails with PHP.?

I've just started using PhpMailer, so I've had to decide if I was going to use SMTP, sendmail, qmail... I've always used the simple mail() function in PHP, and never really thought about it. Is one method better, more reliable, simpler, or more appropriate for a specific task.? (massmail, attachment, etc...) I'm developping on my PC (w...

dealing with random numbers in php?

i want a little php function to choose a number between 0 to 5, with 50% percent chance that it will be zero, and also choose between two strings at the same time randomly: the algorithm: choose number between 0,1,2,3,4,5 randomly (50% chance for zero, 50% chance for 1,2,3,4,5) and choose string blue, yellow randomly return(number, ...

Displaying an image in php from a file in a directory

I have several images in a directory which is located outside of the public facing portion of the server (outside of the public_html directory). I want to be able to read the image contents with a php file, then output the result to html. For example, I have a php file called getimg.php with the following source code: header('Content-...

How to do assignment in smarty?

I tried this way,but seems not working: {if $i == 1} $value = $recommend[3]; {/if} Does smarty support assignment operation? ...

PHP Communication with C++ Application

I have been searching Google for a while, but the problem I am running into is I am not exactly sure what it is I need to be searching for. (Searching for PHP C++ communication doesn't seem to be what I need) I am basically developing a c++ plugin for a game server, and I would like to create a web interface that can pass/pull data to an...

How to make smarty output error info?

Seems by default smarty eats up all errors(even nothing in php's log): {$value|nosuchapi} How to make it output error info when it calls an function that doesn't exist? ...

How do i log inside database with separate passwords?

Hello, How do i log inside database with separate passwords? We can configure only one user in database.php. I want that the login process should happen with different mysql username and password because that table is protected. Thanks in advance:) ...

Need Help in Creating PHP/MySql API for my Application

Hi Friends, I have developed an Application in PHP/MySql Technology Now I want to develop an API for that Application I have Created the first step Request XML and i send that XML via cURL but now what i have to do after that the server Setup and response XML both of them i wont able to create. So kindly help me to build my API. Th...

Getting FLV duration with php.

Hello, I have an flv file uploaded to a server. I would like to display its duration in the following format "minutes:seconds". Can anybody help me with this ? Thank you ...

Twitter retweet but not mention

I created a bot to retweet one of my status in twitter... i used the api @ http://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth $connection->post('statuses/retweet/'. $result->id); i can retweet my tweet successfully but when i check tweet mentioning me, it doesn't list the tweet by that bot ...

Break the string on Full Stop for (Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Dutch, Hindi, Greek, Urdu) using javascript.

I am working on languge segmentation project. I applied language segmentation for English by using regular expression breaking the string at . ("Full Stop"). Now i want to provide the support for following languages (Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Dutch, Hindi, Greek, Urdu). I want to break the above mentioned language strin...

How can I retrieve address book contacts using the Zend Framework?

Hi, I want to add contact fetch (gmail,AOL,hotmail,yahoo) script in my social networking site using zend-framework. Any one can tell me how to do this ? ...

php script to load contents of a file into mysql database

hello, i have written a php script to insert the contents of a text file into mysql database and the content of my file a.txt is \n is used for a new line i want it to be loaded into the database including the special character \n as it is... But it is loading only " is used for a new line" kindly help me out... than...

Php session problem

I m working on site which does not allow me to initialize session i-e whenever i write session_start(); the page does not load ????? ...