Webmaster Forum / PHP / General PHP Topics / July 2008

I'm hoping someone can recommend a free to low-cost content management
system that's easy for non-pros to use and is not too constrained by
web design.  I have a content site and I would like my editors to post
stories, update blogs, etc.  Thanks for the help.

This a modified part of a larger script I made. I couldn't get it
working so I made a smaller part of it - hoping to get it working.
Well it still doesn't work :(
The following code creates the new file, but does not write the

Does anyone know any scripts (paid or free) which have facilitties like
www.gumtree.com or www.craiglist.org (i.e. users can post their adverts, but
they do not need to become members, just agree to terms and conditions)?
Many thanks

I'd like to open a directory and spider all the subdirectories and files.
  What is the php term for doing this?
  Seems like it should be here:
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php

  im new to javascript ,here im trying to select an category from
select option ,and that category must display on other select option
2. remove is working fine
pls assist

Hi is there any way i can get who is online on my website with php?
dolin,
http://www.youngindonesiangirls.com

when someone enters chinese or japanese characters on this web app I got
they get stored in the database in this format:
记得联系哦
Now this is fine when its outputted in the browser, the browser knows to

I haven't used php to send mail yet and have some questions.
I see that you can add headers, and these days it is essential to have a
real "from".
 But I see you can also do this:

I hope someone can help....
I'm new at all this, so please bear with me.  I created a website and did
this all in php using dreamweaver.  I later hired a programmer to connect
some forms and reports to an sql database.  I later had him upload all the

How could I count the number of newlines in a heredoc variable? This
outputs 0, but I thought heredoc preserved newlines?
<?
$test = <<<END

Much to my surprise PDO does not come with php 5.2.6 on windows.
I can't seem to find out much about how to install PDO and the mysql
driver for IIS and windows.  I haven't given up googling, but...
  Any resources on this? I have a client that I'll need to talk through

Undefined index:  HTTP_HOST
This occurs sometimes, is there a reliable method for determining
the HTTP_HOST. Not sure if this is something related to Apache or
if it's a problem with the version of PHP.

For some reason, my brain has gone to mush on a couple of things. Any help would be appreciated.
I have an array and a field passed into a function (call it $v) which is a string composed of comma sep values.
foo = array("one"=>1, "two", "three", "four", "five");
$ex = explode("," ...

Hi everyone. I'm just wondering if it's considered bad practice to
have a class read from and write to the $_SESSION super global. I was
just learning a little about object serialization, and I've come to
the conclusion that storing potentially large serialized objects in a

We have X number of data sets, of Y length each.
For example...
Small, Medium, Large
and