Webmaster Forum / PHP / General PHP Topics / October 2008

i need an algorithm for comparing two strings for equivalence, but
levenshtein is just working for strings up to 255 characters, i have to
process longer strings (lets say, about 10kB).
does anybody know a *simple* algorithm, which brings me the distance like

Guys, first, which is way is, I already saw source code that works
with Java and C # with the class of httpclient apache, now how do I
get in php captcha bring the image on the screen and then send the
form with the captcha image that the person typed?

hi. php has error handling and that's great. but it can't handle
serious errors like E_PARSE. set_error_handler nor
register_shutdown_function can't handle this. is there any other way
to do this with php? or maybe that may be done somehow with apache?

Hi, everyone.
 I need your help!
 I created a UDP server by using  $socket =
stream_socket_server($udpAddr, $errno, $errstr, STREAM_SERVER_BIND);

I send a mail by using the PHP functions.
I want to find whether the message is send by the original user or
some one send the message in another name.
For example:

I'm developing a php website that I have under subversion version
control. I'm working on an image upload functionality, and in the
middle of it I realized that any files that a user uploads will not be
under version control, and if I checkout or export the site from

Hello, I'm working on a MySQL database query with PHP where I'm trying
to patch in
an ability to select a distinct 'name' from the query where the
current 'All' queries all

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When I run this query from PHPMyAdmin, it works:
DELETE FROM `tbl_user_link` WHERE ((`ulUserID`!=3 AND `ulConnectID`!
=1) AND (`ulUserID`!=18 AND `ulConnectID`!=23)) AND `ulTypeID`=10 AND
`ulOtherID`=160

http://www.frostjedi.com/terra/scripts/demo/download2.php
Whenever I get that page, I get the following error:
---------------------
Internet Explorer cannot download download2.php from www.frostjedi.com.

i use a small PHP script to grab DNS infos at http://80.247.230.136/bug/php/
(php and txt available)
the trouble is the last line of every output given by "system"
function is always displayed twice, is it really a bug ?

Hi devs,
in my application I need to update a simple text file every time the
user checks an item of a radio group.
I use AJAX method to do this stuff.

I need to know if a service is running on my server. Is there any PHP
instruction that I can use to do this?

I'm writing a little Drupal module that implements a couple forms,
relaying the submitted values to a third-party site. I know the target
URL and I have all of the values that I want to submit with the POST
request, so how can I invoke this request directly from a PHP script?