PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development. The current stable version is 5.3.8, released on August 23, 2011. The online manual is an excellent resource for the language syntax and has an extensive list of the built-in and extension ...
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No framework PHP in modern days
Being a PHP web application developer from several years now, I've had my shares of MVC and frameworks. At first, I thought they're the best thing ever since sliced bread, making everything seems to ...
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Why is it discouraged to create variables on the fly? PHP gives you a Notice Error
Are you guys familiar with those pesky PHP notice errors? You know, the ones that will appear when you do something like this:
if($some_variable == 45)
But if $some_variable wasn't created already, ...
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Is there somewhere I can post code used to hack my site? [closed]
I left a bit of a door open recently on my site. Someone tried to post PHP code to a CMS page editing module, but it wasn't executed.
I have this code and was wondering if there is somewhere I should ...
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distributed DB in PHP [closed]
I'll be grateful if someone can help me.
I need to know how I can make distributed DB for 2 table if the first one contains 100 records and the second one is empty .
Second one takes 10 records ...
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Technologies used to create an electronic stock market. [closed]
I would like to create a stock market. That is I want to give users the ability to buy and sell shares on a platform. This is not an application that would plug into real stock markets such as the ...
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Are Java web developers a dying species? Seems like everyone is going PHP nowadays [closed]
It seems like everywhere I look nowadays, new start-ups uses and wants PHP web developers.
Are Java web developers a dying species?
How does our future look like?
And should I start to learn PHP to ...
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6answers
168 views
What is the recommended learning path for PHP and Javascript? [closed]
For a couple of months now I have been wanting to learn Javascript and PHP but the lack of time didn't give me that opportunity. I'm in a position that have enough time to learn only one language and ...
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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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3answers
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PHP web application architecture/design [closed]
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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1answer
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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 available for 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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2answers
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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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0answers
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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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1answer
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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 ...
