Webmaster Forum / PHP / General PHP Topics / March 2007

I work for an animal hospital trying to use PHP to store an animal's
dental x-rays to a file server.
I can browse for the xray on the local desktop computer then click
"Upload  Image". This works fine. The doctors want fewer steps to

I got the following error while trying to compile php with mysql. I would be
glad if anyone can help me on this. Here is the error that i've got in
config.log
The command i used is:

I'm currently working on a website that can convert words from English to
French and vice versa.  My problem is this:  every time I try to output a
character like é, it comes out as either a box (in IE) or as a question-mark
in a diamond (in FF).  To get around this, I use the ...

I am currently working on a project which involves using a lot of code on
each page. I'm currently refactoring with a view to performance and have
discovered that when my app starts to include the class definitions it
needs, the memory gets eaten up *very* rapidly - indeed, ...

I am running my Apache2 server. But the problem is that PHP scripts
are not running. HTML is running. I have installed PHP5 module for
Apache. Can anybody help.
Dev Ranjan

General question for the group.  I have a friend who claims that PHP/Java
grids can't touch .NET with respect to dev time, reliability and speed.  I'm
not in a position to debate but would like to know the thoughts given the
following requirements:

one of my friends faced the following question at an interview:
Which method will you follow to search a record from a million records
in an array?
Please help

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Any recommendations for a free PHP code editor?

Hi there, I'm seeking best practice for an issue I've only just thought
about whilst learning the PHP basics, forgive me if the answer is very
obvious. :)
If I have a text field in a form that I want to apply a 512 max char count

I have the following script, which lists files within a specified web
directory (as long as they are valid extension types). It works, but I
would like the file names to be links (i.e. with hrefs) that allow you
to open that file directly from the page. Purpose of the script is

Hi group,
I could use a bit of guidance on the following matter.
I am starting a new project now and must make some decisions regarding
encoding.

This probably very basic, but my searches and attempts sofar have brought me
nowhere. This is the situation: I have a form with a city field which is
submitted for validation before data are entered into a db. When errors are
found, the user sees the form again with all posted ...

For loop and while loop. which one is faster?
I see many articles fighting over it and different people come up with
different results.

I currently use Eclipse for creating the PHP application, which is
great for editing but quite slow when using FTP. But when im testing i
like to use CuteFTP Pro for quicky editing and seeing the results. Im
getting fed up with CuteFTP as its really flakey.