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What would people consider to be the difference between being a decent PHP programmer and being an excellent/advanced developer? Would you look at someones knowledge of the PHP language and how it works? What they know about planning large projects? Experience? What sort of things would YOU be looking at if you were recruiting someone...

Can anyone point me to a guide or something for conversion? I tryed http://alexandre.alapetite.net/doc-alex/domxml-php4-php5/index.en.html but it doesn't work (not all parts anyway) - and as I can't find a working IDE/debugger combination I can't currently figure out why. I need to translate following code:

Hi, i´m new in php. This is for newsletter subscription How can I add the following: 1.- email already in database 2.- subscribe/remove (from two radio buttons) Like www.siteinteractive.com/subscribe/ "Join Our Mailing List"] To this code (or change it):

hi, Here is the message I'm gettting : b>Fatal error</b>: Call to undefined function: pg_connect().......... I'm using zend studio. Any help would be great,thks

hi, i m using webmin to create a cron job of a php script. While i click on 'run it now', it works, generate the output. However, the php script doesnt execute for every minutes which i've set to. besides the php scripts, i have other scripts run under cron jobs, such as perl scripts and log files. I couldnt understand why my php scripts...

Hi, I am currently writing a simple PHP program that uses an XML file to output rows for a 'Whats New' page. Once written, I will only require updating the XML file and any pages that use the XML file will get their row content from there. The rows may look some thing similar to this: - Added <a>mailing list</a> functionality to...

Hi, I'm trying to use pcntl_fork to speedup some checks I do on remote servers. The problem is the 2nd child is created only when the 1st has finished the execution of the whole inner for block. here's the code: $childs=0; //contatore childs for ($childs=0; $childs<MAX_THREADS;$childs++) { //MAX_THREADS is the maximum

I'm writing a service which accepts a POST call, updates a database and returns raw HTTP headers as specified below: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-type:text/plain Content-length:3 OK The code runs, and returns my headers, but only after its own:

How do I make an xml file with this in it, using the xml api's in php 5.04? <!DOCTYPE abcdef >

On Linux, I need to ask what your favorite installation options are for a PHP app as a kind of poll. In this first part, I discuss the Install Wizard choices. In Part 2, I discuss the database configuration choices. Consider SugarCRM. It's really an SDK that you customize. Knowing that, you might want to download about 4 to 30 different...

Hello, I've been running php/apache/etc locally on my powerbook for a long time, but am having problems activating freetype with a new version of php. I'm using: php 4.4.0 freetype 2.1.10 (compiled from source) gd 2.0.28 (came with php)

Is it possible to get the expiration date/time of a cookie? I need to limit someone to visiting a couple of pages for 45 minutes max and would like to show them how much time they have left. I dont think a javascript timer will work, because the timer should continue where it left off at on the previous page. Any suggestions?

In PHP, Is there a way to end a windows process not started by php? Thanks Oak

Ok ... I want to Create a Content Management System that I will add pages and then it will automatically create a menu system and add each page in it.... Also if I have a page with products... it should also add the products and create the Menu system for them... I know it is possible... I am just too busy to start all over and I was...

Hello, This is my first post to this list, so forgive me if this is very basic. I have a file: overview.php that is including another file dolan_header.php I have tested it on three servers...on two of them it works perfectly, and on the third (the client's server) the header file fails to load the first ~12 lines of code. A...

Greetings. I'm somewhat new to this whole MySQL/PHP thing and need a little help. My web hosting service uses phpMyAdmin and at the bottom of the screen iis an area where I can upload a text file to populate a table. I have a table named groups with two fields: groups_id auto-increment primary groups_name

I've the following code: mainpage.php ---------------------------- <FRAME name="framesuperior" src="framesuperior.php?a_caller=inicio"> <FRAME name="framecatalogo" src="frameinferior.php?a_caller=inicio"> ----------------------------

Is it best to use double quotes and let PHP expand variables inside strings, or is it faster to do the string manipulation yourself manually? Which is quicker? 1) $insert = 'To Be'; $sentence = "$insert or not $insert. That is the question."; or

Hello! I have developing a PHP/MySql web application with a team. We are all located in different locations, so we cannot have anything running on one local server. We have a CVS setup on a virtual host for the php files, and that has been working out great. Everyone has a local copy of the site, that they can work on without being...

For being a good web programmer, is a course on data structures important? It seems php already has built-in functions for what they teach in a data structures course. On the other hand all universities seem to teach this class. I tried taking one but just found it too boring and irrelevant for what I was doing. What are your thoughts?

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I know its some extra coding up-front, but everything is modularized; You should be able to use Templates, minimize interactions and bugs. So, are their any typical guidelines. (no evangelists, please - I go to church)

hi group, i want to visualize a tree structure using php. an output png would be best, i think so i was trying to find a library that does that for me. any ideas? thanks, chris

I have the following HTML code, which executes a PHP script. ============================================================================= <!--HTML CODE--> <html><head><title>Vulneraility Scan</title></head> <body><form method="POST" action="n2.php"> Host<input name="address" type="text" value="IP Address"> <input type="submit"...

I'm experiencing an interesting problem with carrying a php session over from http to https. Much googling later, I'm still stuck. The application is an online shop, where some user data is stored in the session. As the user proceeds to checkout, we switch over to https. This is all done on the same physical server, under the same domain...