I want to develop a website web chat application like yahoo. Only difference is that I want to make it web based not desktop. I will be implementing it in jsp/php with ajax. I want to know whether jsp or php will be better for this. What will be advantages or disadvantages of both. Which one of the two would you prefer and why? Will js...
I find it amazing how difficult it is to find a decent refactoring tool for PHP. What do you guys use (and how can I get it)? Thanks!! Edit: I'm on Linux but Windows suggestions would help the Googlers ...
Hello All, I'm currently working on creating a private messaging system, (PHP/MySQL) in which users can send message to multiple recipients at one time, and those users can then decide to reply. Here's what I'm currently working with: tbl_pm tbl: id date_sent title content status ENUM ('unread', 'read') DEFAULT 'unread' tblpm_info t...
I've been a PHP developer for quite awhile, and I've heard good things about using Python for web scripting. After a bit of research, I found mod_python, which integrates with Apache to allow Python Server Pages, which seem very similar to the PHP pages I'm used to. I also found a mod_wsgi which looks similar. I was wondering which impl...
Is there a plugin for Symfony which works like phpMyAdmin? ...
I understand the basics of pixel tracking, I'm able to insert a pixel that references an image on my tracking domain to other websites. However, how do I increment that actual pixel count on my tracking domain? Is there some kind of log that tells me every time that pixel image was served up? Am i able to do something like: <img src...
So here's the deal, I am building out a site right now and want to plan for the future, in terms of performance and such. One performance trick that I've been reading about lately talks about placing images, javascript, and css (all static) files on a separate subdomain/s so that the client will experience a faster download experience w...
I am wondering if it is viable to store cached items in Session variables, rather than creating a file-based caching solution? Because it is once per user, it could reduce some extra calls to the database if a user visits more than one page. But is it worth the effort? ...
Hello. I'm using PHP5 here. I have made a login system that check's the username and password against the records in the database. I want to use sessions to store the logged value. For example, when I reach the zone where I "log in" the user succesfully: if($errors = 0) { $_SESSION['logged'] = "1"; } The problem is that I want the...
When you need to check/have combinations of array elements, how can you avoid nesting foreach? Example code: $as = array($optionA1, $optionA2) $bs = array($optionB1, $optionB2) $cs = array($optionC1, $optionC2) foreach ($as as $a) { foreach ($bs as $b) { foreach ($cs as $c) { $result = $this->method($a, $b, $c); ...
Hi guys, I need to get the company name and it's ticker symbol in different arrays. Here is my data which is stored in a txt file: 3M Company MMM 99 Cents Only Stores NDN AO Smith Corporation AOS Aaron's, Inc. AAN and so on How would I do this using regex or some other techniques? Thanks ...
When performing UPDATE and INSERT queries using Zend_Db, I frequently need to set values equal to NULL (not ''). However, the default behavior of Zend_Db::insert() and Zend_Db::update() seems to be that values that are empty are translated into empty strings ('') and put into the database as such. Does anyone know of way to actually fo...
Hello, I am trying to find out how this would work For testing purposes, I have made two websites. One is calling a REST service from the other I pull the xml data with file_get_contents if I echo it, I can see a string off data. But how can I use simpelxml on it, extract data from the nodes themselves? If I use simplexml_load_fil...
I've got a table with a BLOB collum. What I want to do is get it to be able to pick out words and list them in order. For example if it contained: Bob Smith likes cheese but loves reading Charlie likes chocolate milk Charl loves manga but also likes cookies Then I would get likes loves as a result... is this possible and if so h...
Seems like the problem with this is the PHP syntax, but no luck in Wordpress forums. This first code block generates a link to the newest post in category "posts." <?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=posts&showposts=1'); ?> <?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" r...
Hello everyone, There are a ton of PHP frameworks out there (i.e. Zend, Seagull, Symfony, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Yii, Prado) that do a great job of implementing important pieces of a scalable/maintainable website, and I almost always pick one to start building client websites. As of recently, I've started getting tired of providing cons...
Hello, I work since 2 days on WMD & Markdown and i don't find THE solution for stock data with security. I would like users can post html/xml (with WMD) on my site. For the moment, I stock data in Markdown format but If I disabled JavaScript the user can push easy XSS. If I strip_tags or html_entities all data i loose the user html/xml...
Hi. I have a problem. I would like file_get_contents to get a url that looks like this: http://wapedia.mobi/sv/Gröt The problem is that it requests (can't post entire link, sorry): ...wapedia.mobi/sv/Gr%C3%B6t which you can see has been urlencoded, that page does not give me any results. How can I do this? ...
Here's the current code I am using. <? header("Content-type: image/png"); // example: <img src="gradient.php?height=600&width=100&start=00FF00&end=ff0000" /> $height=100; $width=1; $start='000000'; $end='FFFFFF'; extract($_REQUEST); // overwrite using vars from url $start_r = hexdec(substr($start,0,2)); $start_g = hexdec(substr($start,2...
Hello, I insert questions(which might be a few paragraphs) in a sql table using php and than i diplay them on a webpage. but when i display the question it loses its formatting. I mean it will just show the whole question in one paragraph, even thou there were many paragraphs before. <td width=\"700px\" bgcolor=\"#EAD57F\"><font co...