Hello Folks. I'm new to PHP and web scripting in general so this a newb question. Currently i'm a creating an instance to an object, yet when I call the constructor the script slienty shuts down... it doesn't call the next function and I don't know why. Any help would be welcome. Here is the code. <?php class product { var $ssPro...
With twitter being down today I was thinking about how to best handle calls to an API when it is down. If I am using CURL to call their api how do I cause the script to fail quickly and handle the errors so as not to slow down the application? ...
I want to pass a file path as a parameter to an executable from PHP, and the file path may contain spaces. The executable doesn't seem to handle quotes around the parameter, so I thought maybe I could pass the short DOS name instead of the long name. Does PHP know anything about the old-style DOS 8.3 file names? ...
Often, when I am developing in PHP, I want to see minor changes instantaneously. This requires me to either FTP to a web server and then refresh, or use a localhost server, both of which(as I understand) are essentially the same thing. What I would like to know is, is there an IDE or other way to parse PHP output in a dynamic fashion? ...
Hi all I want to write a function that parses a (theoretically) unknown XML data structure into an equivalent PHP array. Here is my sample XML: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <content> <title>Sample Text</title> <introduction> <paragraph>This is some rudimentary text</paragraph> </introduction> <description> <paragra...
I have a large PDF file that is a floor map for a building. It has layers for all the office furniture including text boxes of seat location. My goal is to read this file with PHP, search the document for text layers, get their contents and coordinates in the file. This way I can map out seat locations -> x/y coordinates. Is there any ...
Hello, The code below echoes the following: Table Name 1 Table Name 2 Table Name 3 Table Name 4 "$entry": "votes_up for $entry in Table Name 4" I want it to echo this: Table Name 1: "votes_up for $entry in Table Name 1" Table Name 2: "votes_up for $entry in Table Name 2" Table Name 3: "votes_up...
Kohana automatically sets up URLs like so http://www.example.com/controller/method/argument1/argument2/etc Now I like to use the dash to separate my words in the URL, and I have an address like so http://www.example.com/business-hub My controller is titled BusinessHub_Controller. What is annoying me, is for /business-hub/ to match th...
I'm just trying to figure that out... $mystring = "/abc/def/hij"; $find = "/abc"; echo(strpos($mystring, $find) . "<br>"); if (strpos($mystring, $find) >= 0) { echo("found"); } else { echo("not found"); } this will give : 0 found $mystring = "/abc/def/hij"; $find = "/fffff"; echo(strpos($mystring, $find) . "<br>"); if (str...
if the title seems too vague.. uhm i wanted to display every variable that i used to generate a page along with their variable names and values, is it possible and how? foreach($_SESSION as $varname => $value) { print "<b>".$varname."</b> = $value <br/>"; } ^the above sample is what i use to display all session variabl...
We're using Drupal on a number of sites. On all but one server, the data in the sessions table appears as a serialised string. This is normal behaviour AFAIK. On the exception server, the session data is stored looking like, _C0c5x_xpVKkya5nD68ChpaKaHYNzWTlEN52gOCkH1fIAvj3ziCydGnNbLXTO75q_pYLhumOYHzxD1D _ue5tRgeeQR4YUIDWtAZ2hxlJ7QUHS-K...
How i change the position of module of magento cart??? ...
I'm sure you're all familiar with the voting systems that use AJAX (Um... look right over there <----) I have something similar and when you vote up or down it uses AJAX to request the new value from votes.php. The problem is that I am using a session to get the userid so a person can only vote once. What happens if they sit on the page...
Possible Duplicate: What is the best way to programatically detect porn images? Im currently working on a site were i would like to offer the users to freedom to upload images to be displayed on said site. The problem is i dont want pornographic images to be displayed. i know google and other sites are already using some sort of...
I need to find a way to show the value of a custom attribute in place of the "Product Name" shown in the image below. I'm working with /app/design/frontend/default/defaultx/template/catalog/product/view/type/grouped.php The code below doesn't work(the custom attribute is yearmade): <?php if (count($_associatedProducts)): ?> <?p...
Im running a file host thats grown beyond the capacity of a single server, and I need to implement multiple server storage of files. I'd like to do this as cheap as possible, so those fancy mass storage methods are out of the question. I simply want to move a file thats uploaded by the user to the "gateway" server, which hosts all the ht...
Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (11) in /home/aa/public_html/bb/db.php on line 2 Could not connect: iam getting this error but the problem is that this error comes irregularly,sometimes it didnt come all the day and sometimes it comes countless times. what could b...
In the past I've done the coding-part of my web-projects mostly by myself. Now, as we are a team working on some project, be it phython or php or ..., is there some simple versioning system to use? My hoster doesn't seem to support any kind of this sort. On the other hand, I feel it is too early to start renting a whole server in this p...
Hi guys, I'm finally parsing through wikipedias wiki text. I have the following type of text here: {{Airport-list|the Solomon Islands}} * '''AGAF''' (AFT) – [[Afutara Airport]] – [[Afutara]] * '''AGAR''' (RNA) – [[Ulawa Airport]] – [[Arona]], [[Ulawa Island]] * '''AGAT''' (ATD) – [[Uru Harbour]] – [[...
Hi everyone, recently I was needed to enhance Magento (1.3.1) user interface. Particularly add a product image switcher (following http://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/create-a-color-switcher-in-magento/). The results: - image switcher works as expected, which is fine. The problem: - The product itself could hold as much as 15 or 20 col...