Webmaster Forum / PHP / General PHP Topics / July 2008

I have some custom tags I'm parsing, they look like this:
<edit name="some_value" name2="some_value" name3="value with spaces">
I had just been splitting on whitespace, until I though of the value
with  whitespace already in it:

I'm trying to install eAccelerator (http://eaccelerator.net/).  In the
installation instructions, I need to run the command "phpize".  Where
do I download this?  It didn't seem to come with my default PHP 5
installation.

       I used simplexml_load_file function to parse all my xml feeds,
and found it to be the easiest option available. But, i recently
signed up for a feed which sends the xml file without the first
mandatory line, i.e, <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>....

Hello ppl,
i have system date that is all the software installed on machine like
Ms office ,other software what ever installed in the system it stored
in Ms access database.

I'm working on a bookmarklet that grabs information from a page and
submits it to a server. Yet another social bookmarking application.
I'm having trouble with page titles that include an apostrophe.
I'm using encodeURIComponent() around the page title, and again around

Can someone help me with this code - I'm trying to retrieve updated
product information by pulling 3 fields and inserting values into my
MYSQL db. In my code below I'm getting the page but I can't get the
date inserted into the DB what am I doing wrong.

I'm suppose to track FTP uploads to the server. I've got a cron script,
written in PHP, that runs every 5 minutes and which does the command
lsof | grep vsftpd
This gives me a big file that has data like this in it:

Just out of interest, how many hours on average do you work each week
as a coder/programmer/developer etc?

Is there a way to pass the page id to the css?
My css is a .php i.e. "css.php"
i need to pick up the page id xxx.php?pgID=2 so that i can display
multiple images based the page id.

Our technical guy says that our linux server is running PHP 4. I
thought we were running 5 already.
He says he wants to charge us £500 a year to install and support it
because it is a lot of work, and the problems it will create on our

Can someone explain why this line
$bool = isset($_POST['email']) && !empty(trim($_POST['email']));
causes the error message "Can't use function return value in write
context". trim() returns a string. I test if it is empty. So what is

I was wondering if someone might be able to help me with this issue.
I have a feeling this has something to do with my host's server
settings as I used to be able to get CURL to follow redirects by
setting CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION set to true.  I had a problem with my

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I'm looking for PHP library (not necessery free) that implements RSA
encryption. I've found http://pear.php.net/package/Crypt_RSA but it
seems that it is no longer supported (average age of open bug is 700
days !!). Can you suggest something?

Hello, Can anyone suggest me solution?
I Need to manage different types of documents (doc,xls,ppt etc) in
server. I have folder structure to maintain these documents in server.
Say folder1 is having all doc files; folder2 is having all xls files