I did a lot of searching and also read the PHP $_SERVER docs. Do I have this right regarding which to use for my PHP scripts for simple link definitions used throughout my site? $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] is based on your web server’s config file (Apache2 in my case), and varies depending on a few directives: (1) … Read more
In PDO, a connection can be made persistent using the PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT attribute. According to the php manual – Persistent connections are not closed at the end of the script, but are cached and re-used when another script requests a connection using the same credentials. The persistent connection cache allows you to avoid the overhead of … Read more
This question looks embarrassingly simple, but I haven’t been able to find an answer. What is the PHP equivalent to the following C# line of code? string str = “\u1000″; This sample creates a string with a single Unicode character whose “Unicode numeric value” is 1000 in hexadecimal (4096 in decimal). That is, in PHP, … Read more
I need to loop lot of arrays in different ways and display it in a page. The arrays are generated by a module class. I know that its better not to include functions on ‘views’ and I want to know where to insert the functions file. I know I can ‘extend’ the helpers, but I … Read more
I am installing a website in a droplet (Digital Ocean). I have a issue for install NGINX with PHP properly. I did a tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-on-ubuntu-14-04 but when I try to run some .php file it’s just downloading it… for example… http://5.101.99.123/info.php it’s working but… If I go to the main http://5.101.99.123 it’s downloading my index.php … Read more
I have code something like this: <? $a=”localhost”; function body(){ global $a; echo $a; } function head(){ global $a; echo $a; } function footer(){ global $a; echo $a; } ?> is there any way to define the global variable in one place and make the variable $a accessible in all the functions at once? without … Read more
Is there a way in PHP to include a constant in a string without concatenating? define(‘MY_CONSTANT’, 42); echo “This is my constant: MY_CONSTANT”; 14 Answers 14
What I want is get an object from an API with a HTTP (eg, jQuery’s AJAX) request to an external api. How do I start? I did research on Mr Google but I can’t find anything helping. Im starting to wonder is this is even possible? In this post Laravel 4 make post request from … Read more
I’d like (just to test some functions, after I’ll avoid this behaviour) to load the page called by submit on a new tab : is it possible? 8 Answers 8
