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Let's say I have two programs: 'foo' and 'bar'. 'foo' always returns an
exit code of 10. 'bar' always exits normally (i.e. returns 0).
If I do: `foo | bar` in my shell, the shell will return 10.
If I do: exec('foo | bar', $ignoreMe, $returnCode) in PHP, $returnCode

Probably another question I could answer myself if I only found the
right search term, but ...
I have in some code I'm studying/trying to learn:
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Can anyone recommend me a good book on PHP.
Thanks...

can anyone help me out with a bit handler?
it seems as if php's decbin() removes leading zeroes when converting
from hex....so for example decbin(hexdec()); basically removes any
leading zeroes.

I've a problem (which I believe is a character encoding problem) where I
retrieve data from a MSSQL database and euro and pound sign symbols appear as
? when a do a print_r of the rows immediately after retrieving them from the
database. The data can be seen correctly in the SQL ...

I am creating a simple web site which will display user ads, so I have some
forms they submit, here is a snippet of the code:
     <div class="createlisting">
       <div class="clinput">

can nay body tell me how upload works?
"well the code that i m using works fine with me i mean that the file
uploadin is working but i m unable to find how it internal it works"?
when the form posted from the html page it goes to some php file that

I need to rewrite some image resizing code from perl to php.
  Although I'm currently using Image Magick in perl, the function
reference is so different, that I'll completely need to rewrite it. That
gives me the option of using GD.

Are they pretty much the same as the hardcopy versions of the same
books?
Anything different about pdf ones vs. hardcopy ones? Thanks.

After failing to find this in my searches, I thought I'd ask
here: Is there a php function that can tell me if an IP address
falls within a range?
Something like this:

i am writing a small application where a user enters a phrase in the
textfield and i would like to display all the files present in the
root directory which consists of the keyword or keywords entered by
the user.

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      I started writing this blog some time back and it would be

I have a file that returns JSON data:
<?php
$q = strtolower($_GET["q"]);
if (!$q) return;

Which is the better approach in working with Javascript?
1. Server side processing:  Web server gets form input, runs it into the
Javascript module, and PHP collects the output for document prep.
2. Client side processing:  Web server gets form input and passes it to PHP

I've built a MySQL database for a client and a web interface to be able to
add/edit/delete records in it.  When he's adding stuff to the database he's
copying text from MS Word.  I've tried various substitutions that I've found
hanging around the internet, but nothing's working ...