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After spending some time on JSP section of this forum as many before me, I come to the conclusion that we are in need of "proper" tutorial on this topic. This tutorial is not intended to teach you everything from top to bottom, it is just a starting point to …

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It has been [officially confirmed](http://php.net/archive/2013.php#id2013-10-24-2) that the php.net website of the open-source PHP programming language has been hacked and infected with malware. The successful breach of the site came to light yesterday morning when the Google Safe Browsing service started flagging php.net as serving up malicious scripts. This was, at …

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## Introduction ## In this introduction I will try to explain basic object orientation (focused on PHP). It is by no means meant to be a complete guide. There are a lot of concepts I am avoiding for simplicity’s sake. I will try to give a theoretical explanation first, and …

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Can anyone suggest me which one is a better platform for e commerce website development?

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Hi I still learning how Smarty templates works. I can't seem to make the image appear on the Smarty Template. I try to used this `{html_image}` it doesn't work. I used `<img>` instead. <img src="images/{$book->image[tbl]}" width="115"> These are my files. This is my **index.php** <?php require("libs/Smarty.class.php"); require_once("get_data.php"); require_once("books.php"); $book = …

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Hi All, thought I'd pass on a (very) simple password class which is built on the new `password_hash()` and `password_verify()` functions. You will need php 5.5.0+ in order to get this to work. If you're thinking of modifying this and using it in a production site, please check that your …

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I just racked my brain for the past hour trying to fix a bug, and learned something new in the process. I always thought that the jQuery function `.data('key')` was a wrapper for `.attr('data-key')`. It turns out that's not the case! Take the example: `<div data-key="foo">`: I can use `data('key', …

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I have spent a lot of time on this question, namely, how to programatically use a PHP script to send a PDF document to the printer without launching the Adobe print dialog that results from using arcord32.exe (the adobe reader). PHP has some useful classes for creating PDF's, i.e., the …

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Hi guys, It gives me great pleasure to announce that I will be collaborating with fellow Daniwebber Veedeo in creating a fully baked, no nonsense CMS in Codeigniter. I will be overseeing the overall look and feel, PHP and jquery. I will need to discuss how the CMS is licensed …

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Recently I've stumbled on a nice tool that I really quite like, so I thought I'd share it: Personally, I love the power behind PHP. I find it a very simple to use yet possesses the techniques seen in the more complex desktop applications such as Perl/Python/C/C++/C# etc. PHP has …

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I have an enquiry form where once the user click the submit button the form mailhandler.php and sends the email to myself. I have tried doing this through php but its not fully working as I do not recieve any emails. Here is my mail handler.php <?php if(isset($_POST['buttonSubmit'])){ $to = …

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I have a php/mysql project. When the admin deletes a customer from the database on the form I need the confirm box to display the customer row that they want to delete as well as the message. Here is current confirm box with a message <script type = text/javascript> function …

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Hey guys, I just wanted to let everyone know that functions can be used very constructively and there are more to them then most think. Okay this example function is actually pulled from a class of mine so it would probably make more sense in my class but it should …

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Hi, I'm trying to preventing consecutive duplicate pages. For example when I refreshed a page it show a word from each page and when I refresh again it should show a different word from a different page not staying on one page. This is my pages: Page1 = Mozart Page2 …

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## Contents ## Overview 1. Alternatives to Deprecated mysql_* Functions 2. SQL Injection: What to do with $_POST and $_GET variables 3. How to Insert Tablenames and Fieldnames Properly 4. What to do With Dynamic Values? 5. How to Use Aggregate Functions (COUNT, SUM, MIN etc) 6. How to Paginate …

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This tutorial is intended for people who are looking for alternative to PHP template engines like smarty, twig, dwoo, TBS, and others. Not all developers are willing to take the extra efforts needed to learn the template engine syntax. Some are just left behind thinking that PHP is a template …

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I know that libraries contain functions for certian fields of work but what is a framework? Is it simply just a collection of libraries?

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As I spend time in the Daniweb forums, I see some questions that ultimately come down to the issue of manipulating JavaScript data and a user interface on a website. When you build a GUI that lets your user view, add, edit, and delete data, a common approach is to …

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**Clearing up php retrieval of form variables** the basics on how to best submit and retrieve form values in php focusing on checkboxes because they seem to be the most diffucult to understand. When posting form data to another page your naming convention makes all the difference in the world …

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Hi, - Why use paging? It's not really cool to print out all 2000 rows you have in a table to the page, so it'd be nice to page them. Special cases? Yeah, if you have 1000 rows.. and you've set the maximum row per page to 20, well.. you're …

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[ATTACH=RIGHT]19350[/ATTACH]In the past, the word "JavaScript" usually triggered notions of buttons changing when you float your mouse over them, and images flashing, and silly animations happening in the web browser. Today, however, most programmers recognize that JavaScript is actually much more than that; it's a powerful language that runs in …

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If you've gotten the error "Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL resource" you're in luck because so has everyone else that has ever used PHP... ever. The error is caused by a number of things including: Your query is wrong, you failed to connect to the database or you …

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I was consistently receiving MySQL "Packets out of order" error messages when attempting to connect to MySQL, mostly on my AJAX pages, but I couldn't attribute it to anything or reproduce it in any way. I did notice, however, that when switching MySQL persistent connections from on to off, the …

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**Introduction** Today we are going to go over the very basics of web design and getting it right. I see a lot of web developers who say they are programmers but not designers (although sometimes I wonder even this.) However, this shouldn't mean you can't get the very basics of …

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Making sites is nice and fun but what if you don't want everybody too see something like an admin panel or maybe a special button. Well this tutorial helps you understand how to add a password to a php site in a simple manner. There are two techniques you can …

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I have seen several posts through the years with questions about navigation menus. Menus can be built using different approaches. This example is easy to build and simple to integrate with your site. The menu is built only using HTML and CSS so you don't have to have a lot …

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Hello All. Been playing around with some linked dropdowns. It seems to be a recurring theme here on DW, so I thought I'd offer this up as a possible solution or for discussion, to see how it could be improved. The premise for this set of linked dropdowns is that …

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## Background ## Hi All, I 've been playing around with colour (color!) formats and needed to create a class for converting different formats, so I thought I'd share it. It seems to work quite well and accepts a number of different convenient formats. The class allows the conversion between …

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I googled and googled to try and find a comprehensive wiki/tut on how to share htdocs across a dual platform. My base install is Windows 7 64bit, and recently (6wks ago) set up a dual boot. One thing pained me for a while of not being able to use the …

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Here is my first attempt at creating a simple slideshow. Contributions to making this more efficient are welcomed! #jsFiddle --> [Demo](http://jsfiddle.net/wGnEm/1/)

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Hello Everyone, Please accept my simple and humble contribution. This script will validate if the user or visitor is a suspected spammer, by utilizing the stopforumspam API. Example implementation ## example usage. These items can be from database or from form input. The choice of implementation is all up to …

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Below is a documented code example showing how to use the [MySQLi](http://php.net/manual/en/book.mysqli.php) (MySQL improved) classes/objects to connect and query your database (and check for errors). If there are any questions, or you want to see different features, let me know.

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Here is the function that I use here at DaniWeb to manage flood control. It keeps track of how often a specific user or IP address is making a request, and increments a counter. If there have been no requests after 5 minutes, the counter resets to 0. It returns …

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I’m looking for practical advice and best practices that can help improve a site's speed, considering factors like image optimization, code minification, and server response times. How do you balance performance improvements with maintaining a rich user experience? What tools or techniques have you found most useful in diagnosing and …

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Suppose you have a php script where a user is prompted to enter a number. You then do something with that number ... you increment it, perform some other math calculation on it, search the database for records with the ID # the user passed in as a query string, …

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Hello Daniweb Community, I have been talking on a couple [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com) groups such as sale pages where you post your own stuff for people to buy. Most groups like this have rules about bumping like once per day, every 12 hours etc... So it got to the point where it …

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I want to order a website for my online shop, but I have a question: who is better to hire, a freelancer or a company? I can't make the site I want alone because I don't have much experience in creating sites. I think hiring companies is expensive. I don't …

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Hello, This tutorial is the next of “[A simple Data Layer for OOP PHP Applications](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/web-development/tutorials/500118/a-simple-data-layer-for-oop-php-applications)” so having read it and made your own tests is needed to understanding what we are doing. So far we have a Db object (child of PDO that standardize and simplifies its use) , a …

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A simple Data Layer for OOP PHP Applications Hello, first of all to understand this tutorial would be best if you have some knowledges about OOP ( https://www.daniweb.com/programming/web-development/tutorials/437592/introduction-to-phps-object-orientation by priteas ) and DB usage (MySQL in this case) with PHP https://www.daniweb.com/programming/web-development/threads/499320/common-issues-with-mysql-and-php by diafol ). What we will try to achieve …

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I've been playing with PDO and got quite a shock, so I thought I'd run this past you all. I love PDO, and I thought that the "prepare once, execute many" idea behind prepared statements was beautiful. Now previous to using prepared statements, I used to build up a long …

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and the new home for codeIgniter is (drumbeat please... and another drumbeat) ...The [British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)](http://www.bcit.ca/) in Vancouver, Canada. Please read the official announcement from ellislab [here](https://ellislab.com/blog/entry/your-favorite-php-framework-codeigniter-has-a-new-home). IMHO, the decision made by the EllisLab is in the best interest of CodeIgniter. Although, I am not sure how …

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Here is a simple way to insert into a database that isn't much harder than using string concatenation - which we all know is very dangerous due to SQL injection attacks. Put the code snippet into `database.php`. Now, in a script handling a form post, such as `post_reply.php`: <?php require_once("database.php"); …

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Hi All, Been a bit bored, so went at it to create a class from some long procedural stuff I found littered in various guises all over the web. The code I used as a base for the class came from [here](http://www.codediesel.com/php/downloading-gmail-attachments-using-php/). As this uses IMAP functions and many of …

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As well as being CEO of penetration testing specialists High-Tech Bridge, Ilia Kolochenko is also perhaps unsurprisingly a white hat hacker of some repute. Equally unsurprising is the fact that he has [warned](https://www.htbridge.com/blog/plugins_and_extensions_the_achilles_heel_of_popular_cmss.html) that security vulnerabilities in leading CMS platforms such as Drupal, Joomla and WordPress are effectively leaving the …

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**Introduction** Lets say you have a website with a mobile version and a desktop version. Pictures can be resized proportinally using css on either version. But not all html tags resize proportionally, for instance: iframes. **Javascript Function** includes: the *id* of the iframe, the *original width* and *original height* See …

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What is the difference between GET and POST methods of submitting a form?

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# What is OAuth and why do I want to use it? If you want to write an application that caters to existing members of a service, and you want your application to be able to access private areas of your end-users' profiles, or modify their accounts on their behalf, …

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PHP is a nice language with features a wide range of automated features for memory but when it comes to mass processing for things like calculating pi or processing a database that's a couple dozen Gigabytes then you may run into a few troubles if things aren't done correctly. This …

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In the newly published Imperva 'Hacker Intelligence Initiative Report' the in-the-wild modification and exploitation of PHP SuperGlobal variables has been investigated. This particular external variable modification weakness has been described as being where a PHP application does "not properly protect against the modification of variables from external sources, such as …

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We are working on magento. but here we have to get product prices from another website using xml feed. actually we are working on jewellery website using magento. we are adding products from backend. but gold prices are ups and down its depends upon market value. so how can i …

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