Consider the following 3 standard statements $queryString = "SOME SQL SELECT QUERY"; $queryResult = mysql_query($queryString); $queryArray = mysql_fetch_array($queryResult); Question is : If the result set of the query is empty, what will be the resultant datatype and value of $queryArray after all three statements are executed ? ...
Hi all, I'm having some trouble parsing malformed XML in PHP. In particular I'm querying a third party webservice that returns data in an XML format without encoding the XML entities in actual data. For example one of the the elements contains an ASCII heart, '<3', without the quotes, which the XML parser sees as an opening tag. It s...
Hello How to call a JavaScript function from PHP? <?php jsfunction(); // or echo(jsfunction()); // or Anything else? ?> Please let me know. the follow of my program is, from xyz.html (on a button click) it call a wait() in an external xyz.js. This wait() call a wait.php function wait() { xmlhttp=GetXmlHttpObject(); var url="...
How would I go about implementing an inventory system for a game in PHP? I've been trying to figure out a way so that items can be dynamically used instead of just sitting in your inventory, e.g. equipping weapons, using potions, teleporting, etc. The only solution I can come up with is to store PHP code in the database, and fetch it wh...
What type of hash does Wordpress use? Here is an example of a Wordpress hash: $P$Bp.ZDNMM98mGNxCtHSkc1DqdRPXeoR. ...
Hello all, I have asked this question before (didn't get a definite answer) and have read a lot of similar questions to this and I apologize to those getting tired of these sort of questions. :) I have a fully working PHP web project using my half pint PHP skills in a procedural way. But its not up to scratch at all. It can break at an...
Hey guys! Let's imagine something like this: class MyTable extends Doctrine_Table { public function construct() { $q = Doctrine_Query::create()->from('MyTable t') ->orderBy('t.creationDate DESC') ->limit(5); $this->addNamedQuery('top5', $q...
What i am really looking for is a maths equation function that takes in a string representing and equation and calculates the answer as a return type For Example "(((4 * 5) + 6) * 2) / 8" OutPut: 6.5 So in coding tearms something like print calc("(((4 * 5) + 6) * 2) / 8"); Is there already a class or a function that some angel has...
Hi somebody please help me out, I’m trying to setup a cakephp environment on a Centos server running Nginx with Fact CGI. I already have a wordpress site running on the server and a phpmyadmin site so I have PHP configured correctly. My problem is that I cannot get the rewrite rules setup correct in my vhost so that cake renders pages ...
If you have a suspicion that a website is running on a certain framework or using a certain CMS is there a way to tell for certain? I have found methods for drupal using the Live HTTP headers plugin (http://www.lullabot.com/articles/is-site-running-drupal) but I am currently looking for a way to figure out if a site is using the Zend fra...
In one php file (file1.php), I execute another through <form action="file2.php" method="POST"> yet within file2, I want to access html elements from file1.php, via document.getElementById(). Yet, the document object is different for file1 and file2. How can I access file1's elements from within file2? ...
Hello, I'm currently writing a PHP application and drivers (classes) for the database engines. I was wondering if I need to write a replication support (master-slave)? I'm a bit new to this, so, what kind of things should my project or classes worry about if I want to support load balancing/replication? Oh and this is about MySQL. ...
I need a simple proxy PHP function/script that can download a file from a foreign domain, and also allow me to modify the data (as strings) before retransmit. Any ideas better than "readfile($url)" ?? ...
When I open a MySQL connection in PHP with just PHP's built-in MySQL functions, I do the following: $link = mysql_connect($servername,$username,$password); mysql_select_db($dbname); //queries etc. mysql_close($link); When I open a connection with PDO, it looks like this: $link = new PDO("mysql:dbname=$dbname;host=$servername",$userna...
I am trying to get the offset hours from UTC, given a summer date. My system time is set to America/Los_Angeles. I have the following: require_once("Date.php"); $dateTZ = new Date_TimeZone('America/Los_Angeles'); echo $dateTZ->getOffset(new Date('2009-07-01 12:00:00'))/1000/60/60; This prints '-8'; shouldn't it show '-7'? echo $da...
Hi all, I need to sanitize some data which will be used in file names. Some of the data contains spaces and ampersand characters. Is there a function which will escape or sanitize data suitable for using in a file name (or path)? I couldn't find one in the 'Filesystem Function' section of the PHP manual. So, assuming I have to write my...
I realize that this question has been asked 100times but none that I have found really answers my questions. We have multiple developers in multiple locations working on the same project. Some use Windows, some use Mac, our server is Linux, and each developer uses a different development application (Dreamweaver, Eclipse, etc). Each dev...
Hello, My site allows users to enter URLs into a database. I am using the code "$site = strtolower($site);" to make all of these URLs lower-case. However, I just realized that Wikipedia URLs are case sensitive, so I would like to avoid using "$site = strtolower($site);" on Wikipedia URLs, all of which contain "wikipedia.org". How co...
I'm storing a value in memcached using PHP's Memcache extension and trying to retrieve it in a daemon written in Python sitting behind my webapp. But, it keeps returning None or throwing "local variable 'val' referenced before assignment". I'm sure I'm looking for the same key, and there's only one mc server available to either app (lo...
SELECT webcal_entry.cal_id, webcal_entry.cal_name , webcal_entry.cal_priority, webcal_entry.cal_date , webcal_entry.cal_time , webcal_entry_user.cal_status, webcal_entry.cal_create_by , webcal_entry.cal_access, webcal_entry.cal_duration , webcal_entry.cal_description , webcal_entry_user.cal_category FROM webcal_entry, webcal_entry_user ...