Webmaster Forum / PHP / General PHP Topics / January 2008

In C you can make debug statments that announce the current
line number in the source, with something like:
printf("%d\n",__LINE__);
php (if php.ini is setup that way) often announces

Hello comunity,
is there any way in order to convert or to have a date from 1.the day
of the year (the consecutive) and 2.the year
i need to get the whole date having theses data... and i haven't found

I am generating an RSS feed for a wiki and a blog.  The blog feed
works fine, but the wiki feed has an issue with the print function
(note that I have tested with echo, printf, print_r, with the same
results).

I'm trying to adapt a PHP script that was written to use MySQL, so
that it will work with an MSAccess MDB file.
An important part of the script makes use of the SQL "LIMIT" keyword
available in MySQL. eg: "SELECT MyField FROM MyTable LIMIT 40,10" to

I want to fetch the data from google spreadsheet any one can help.....

My need:
1. Log into PHPbb from a remote server.
2. View topics and forums via the remote server.
3. Post back to a specific topic or forum.

I'm using php 4.4.4.  What I want to do is hopefully simple.  If I
type this URL into my browser:
http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=980+PEMART+AVE+PEEKSKILL,+NY+10566&output=csv&
key=ABQIAAAAuHEWowxYzDRtZwy5bJee6RRepaxJ09NBCcZ4ddHPnTvG1CBwlxTqGOXX0DHtp5WHcsP7
cJ-K0vvurg
I get a simple ...

Can you write me some code which let me sleep calm during the night
and what should I do to prevent some attackers from using curl function?
In Poland there is a big portal which become famous and some attackers
attacked it by using curl function and get all data about users.

My hosting company didn't compile their PHP with the tidy extension
enabled.  Is there a way to include it locally on my site and append
to my php settings to use it?

Does anyone know of where I can get a free (or reasonably priced)
database of US zip codes and the latitude/longitude coordinates that
correspond to them?  I'm using PHP 4.4.4 and MySQL 5.0.
Thanks for any advice, - Dave

The following does not create a directory neither does it give any error
message.  Any ideas?
$umask=umask(0);
$where="/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/friday/";

Where would I find a website hit counter written preferably in PHP? I
do not have shell access to the web provider so installation would
have to be via FTP only (no make or compilation).

I am not sure if I should post this here or in a potgre group, but I
will start here.  I recently got a new server and thus when I copied
all the files to the new machine, I logically decided to upgrade
everything to the newest versions.  So my postgre got upgraded from

I use something like this:
RewriteRule    ^(.*).png$       ../../templates/png_help/$1.png
The links to png in my pages exist to this subdir, but in fact the png are
located somewhere else in a templates directory.

I have php-cgi (compiled with --enable-fastcgi --enable-force-cgi-
redirect --enable-discard-path --with-mysql --with-mysqli --enable-
embedded-mysqli --with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib) being used by FastCGI
(FCGIWrapper) to load scripts. Even with a php accelerator (see