I've been a PHP Dev for many years now, and it just dawned on me that maybe I could be using better development tools. For example, my typical setup for development is Notepad ++ Dev WAMP Server (local machine usually) CodeIgniter framework (lately I've fallen in love with it, as it speeds up deployment for me, big time.) PHPMYADMIN ...
I need to find the best way (in terms of performance) to find if a given string is a URL. REGEXP won't help, as www.eeeeeeeeeeeeeee.bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb.com is a valid url name but not in any network known to man. I am thinking using CURL and see if I get status 200 back or just file_get_contents and analyze the result. Is there a better way...
If anyone has any experience with the USPS delivery confirmation API, I'd really appreciate any insight I can get... I am using PHP and cURL to send an XML request to the D.C. API. When I send the response through cURL, I get nothing. No error response, no XML, or anything. When I send the XML through a browser, I get an error respon...
Hi all! Say, I have var1 and var2 both with a string value. Var2 is a revision of var1 with minor changes: var1: Hello, world1 var2: Bye bye, world! Now I want this output: <span class="removed">Hello</span> <span class="new">Bye bye</span>, world<span class="removed">1</span><span class="new">!</span> much like SO's way. How c...
I have a script to be run by a job I set up in Zend Platform, and that script needs to make use of the Zend Framework. I can run the script from a browser or command line with no problem, but when I set a job to run it in ZP, the script errors out because none of the required Zend library files can be found. Echo tests using get_includ...
This code works, and I can see the request go out to my php script through charles with my custom header GUID attached. NSMutableURLRequest *loginRequest = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:feedURLString]]; NSData *myRequestData = [NSData dataWithBytes:[myRequestString UTF8String]length:[myRequestString lengt...
I'm currently working on an Equipment Reservation System for my school. Here's basically what my tables look like: tblEquipment: id name description 1 Camera Takes pictures 2 Projector Projects images 3 Stereo Plays music tblEvents: id equipmentID start...
Hello guys, I'm studying high-performance coding for websites in PHP, and this idea popped into my mind: We know that accessing a database uses a significant amount of CPU usage, so we cache such data, saving it to the HDD. But I was wondering, can't it rest in the RAM of the server, so I can access it even more faster? ...
I just discovered the get_defined_functions() function in PHP, I was checking it out, it list all the functions. It in addition to php's built in functions, it list 176 function I have made for my site. I have a question about it, are all the listed functions from this being loaded, like taking up resources or is it just showing they...
I have a search class that I am using to fetch results from two different sources and combine them together. The Search class is the parent and has two children A and B which extend Search. In the Search class, I have a method called fetch() which instantiates the two child objects to get their results. It looks something like this: ...
Hey guys, i have a problem and don't really know, what to search for to find a solution. Description: I have a mysql table with the following colums "id", "name", "value", "parent" with "id" as primary key. "id" is a autincreament number, "name" is the name of the category, "value" is the value of the category and "parent" is the pare...
Hello all, I currently have 3 tables, which I'm using for people to make reservations for certain pieces of equipment. Here are my tables: tblEquipment: id name description 1 Camera Takes pictures 2 Projector Projects pictures 3 Laptop Portable Computer tblEven...
I know "something must have been changed" but my code seems to have broken over night for no reason. My server directory structure is something like this: / /scripts /audit /other_things I have a script (let's say it's called "/scripts/MyScript.php") in the "scripts" folder which gathers data from a webpage using curl, an...
I am looking to possibly add in some sort of spellchecking/correction in PHP, is there anything that is recommended? Is this a slow process? It would be for user submitted blog posts and forum post, possibly even just be used in an admin area if performance is not good. ...
So I have: class foo { public $variable_one; public $variable_two; function_A(){ // Do something $variable_one; $variable_two; // If I define variable_3 here! $variable_3 // Would I be able to access it in function_B? } function_B(){ // Do something $variable_4 = $variable_3 } } $myObj = ...
I'm about to begin my next web development project and wanted to hear about the merits of Lua within the web-development space. How does Lua compare to PHP/Python/JSP/etc.. for web development? Any reason why Lua would be a poor choice for a web application language vs the others? ...
I'm using Dokuwiki to populate a site with a known set of pages. Say, foo_1 through foo_9. The content of those pages will change, but the names and locations never will. I want to provide a full-content RSS feed in a particular order of just those pages: foo_1 foo_2 foo_3 ... foo_9 Using the default syndication items it's not possi...
Hi guys, I have a field on my table which is called X, and I store unixtime(php -> time()). My question is: How can I list all the months from my DB, something like: 6.2009 8.2009 etc.. And my second question is: How can I make a query to list all the informations based on a month and year on the same field X(i store unixtime),...
I am looking for a PHP based open source full featured shopping cart application which is easiest to learn and to theme.... I don't want to write my own because I'm concerned about the security and I don't really make very handy admins. Plus I have no experience with online selling and this is my first shot. I'm thinking between Magent...
here's my getter: public function __get($field) { if ($field == 'userId'): return $this->uid; else: return $this->fields[$field]; endif; } here's my constructor public function __construct() { $this->uid = null; $this->fields = array( 'username' => '', 'password' => '', ...