Tagged Questions
Questions about PHP, a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development.
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loop through multiple arrays incrementing length of string [migrated]
I have
$char=array("1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","0","a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","w","x","y","z","-");
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PHP web application architecture/design
I've been thrown head-first into a new job developing web applications in PHP. I'm by no means new to PHP, but I haven't developed large-scale applications before. I'm wondering how to structure my ...
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Help me understand how to stream video
I'm an experienced PHP web developer that is looking to understand the options involved in streaming video.
What I have: a video processing system (this one) that can provide output to various ...
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How can I parse XML data using PHP? [closed]
I want to know how I can parse XML data using PHP. Here is an example of the kind of XML data I want to parse:
<ipinfo xmlns="http://data.quova.com/1" ...
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Adding ordered nodes to tree in arbitrary order
I have a database of nodes. Each node can have exactly one parent, but any number of children. Some nodes may be stored with no parent, but at run time, I can create a default "root" node to be the ...
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PHP Caching, Storing cache in multiple directories
We have a number of client sites still at GoDaddy, and they're complicated sites, so it will take some time for us to get around to migrating them. Ultimately, they'll end up in a dedicated ...
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How to do a space whitespace character in php [migrated]
Currently I'm using below snippet, which uses for indentation several space characters
add_filter('get_search_form', 'filter_search_form');
function filter_search_form($form) {
$form = ' ...
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Using Microsoft Word/Outlook for content publishing to Wordpress [closed]
I am tasked with building an tool to allow users to publish to Wordpress from their PC using MS Word and Outlook. I know, completely defeat the purpose of having Wordpress, but the basic requirement ...
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What programming language should I use with php? [closed]
I want to create a database/provisioning system for the company I work for. I am considering using PHP/MySQL for the back-end, but I am torn as to what tool I should use to create the user interface. ...
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Is DreamWeaver a good tool to write PHP code? [closed]
I have started learning PHP. I have Windows XP installed. I use DreamWeaver to write PHP code and XAMP to run it. I love using DreamWeaver as I can handle, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript using ...
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What is the best programming language for TCP sockets on Linux? Perl, Python or PHP? [closed]
I am totally new to socket programming. Currently, I am working on a socket server-client TCP connection. My mentor introduced me to sockets in Perl. However, I am a PHP web developer, but know ...
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Designing web-based plugin systems correctly so they don't waste as many resources?
Many CMS systems which rely on third parties for much of their code often build "plugin" or "hooks" systems to make it easy for developers to modify the codebase's actions without editing the core ...
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Handling invoices with timestamps
I'm currently going to write something to automatically create invoices with cronjobs by using PHP and timestamps.
I have a, for me, well-considered idea of how to solve it, but I want to ask the ...
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How can I use file_put_contents() with FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX safety? [migrated]
I'm using:
file_put_contents("peopleList.txt", $person, FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);
to write to the end of a file and to make sure no one else (or script) is also writing to the same file at the same ...
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What are the specific parts of a social networking website that would be better implemented in python? [closed]
I am trying to make a small social network like Facebook. I was suggested to use PHP for my front end i.e generating HTML pages.
For the backend I am really confused, here are my options
Use ...
