Php gzdecode function

PHP file_get_contents giving garbled output

http://digitalpbk.com/php/file_get_contents-garbled-gzip-encoding-website-scraping . ) ); $context = stream_context_create($opts); // Open the file using the HTTP headers set above echo file_get_contents("http://www.example.com", false, $context); This should force the server to send a plain response to your client. Method 2 : Unzipping the contents locally This method is slower but useful if the server forces gzip output. We can use the gzdecode function avaliable from PHP 6.0 or the gzdecode function definition given in gzdecode man page on PHP.net. The code to deflate ...

cURL PHP Error on Windows

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/05/curl-php-windows-unable-load-libcurlphp.html cURL PHP Error on Windows Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in D:/webs/php.php on line 284This problem arises because of not including the lib_curl.dll to PHP. To solve this uncomment the line as shown below;extension=php_bz2.dllextension=php_curl.dll;extension=php_dba.dllNow restart apache server. If you get an error "Unable to Load X:/path/php/ext/php_curl.dll", copy SSLEAY32.PHPlibEAY32.dll (OpenSSL) Libraries to the System32 folder.Now restart apache server ...

Solve "Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by *.php"

http://digitalpbk.com/php/warning-cannot-modify-header-information-headers-already-sent Solve "Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by *.php" Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by somefile.php (output started at somefile.php:###) in somefile.php on line ### This Warning is shown by PHP when you use the header function to output headers or use the setcookie function to set cookies after any echo or content which is not inside PHP tag. Hello World !!! Both should throw this warning. You can disable ...

Fix for Facebook authentication on IE

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/08/facebook-auth-next-parameter-ie.html Fix for Facebook authentication on IE What?This is for Facebook developers who have faced this problem. If you are using an Facebook application to authenticate a user on a PHP website, the Facebook redirection on Internet Explorer specifically fails the login of the user. This is because the return URL returned by facebook specifically for IE is the appending of the CallBack URL specified in the Application +the Next parameter + a "?" + the auth_token parameter.This results ...

Sprintf Function in Python

http://digitalpbk.com/python/php-sprintf-function-in-python Sprintf Function in Python The printf or sprintf function is used to format strings in PHP and C programming constructs. sprintf in php returns the formatted string whereas printf just prints the output. $variable = sprintf("%d %s %d = %d",4,"+",5,9); print $variable; //OR printf("%d %s %d = %d",4,"+",5,9); //Both lines are identical. //Prints 4 + 5 = 9 On python, sprintf is handled using an operator instead of function. The % operator on a string ...

Timezone: PHP, Shell and Crontab

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/05/crontab-server-timezone-php-date.html to set the Timezone in the code written.date_default_timezone_set(Timezone)is the PHP function to set the Timezone in PHP. This can take care of most of the timezone anomalies that can occur in your script when using PHP's Date Function.Timezone is a string, for example for Indian Standard Time it is "Asia/Calcutta", for LA it is "America/Los_Angeles" etc. Checkout PHP Timezone list for a complete list of timezones.ShellIn a shell the date command gives you the localtime ...

An Introduction to PHP

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/04/introduction-to-php-part1.html that follows it until the ;. date is a function that returns the formatted date and time according to the argument passed to it.The code segment is broken up into statements. Each statement ends with a ; as in C / C++. Variables in PHPAll variables in PHP start with $. eg: $variable = 10;Unlike C/C++ no data type needs to be mentioned in PHP. $variable = 10;$var2 = "arun";$var3 = array("asd","gfh");$var4 = false;To read more about the language, built-in functions and syntax ...

Showing similar content nodes on Drupal

http://digitalpbk.com/2009/12/showing-similar-content-nodes-drupal Showing similar content nodes on Drupal To show similar content nodes on drupal you have to install the similar module. After installing the similar module goto admin/build/block Drag the Similar Entries module OR If you want to integrate the similar content to the node body, call the similar_content theme function. print theme('similar_content', $node); on node.tpl.php Using the variables available withing node.tpl.php you can choose whether to display the similar content ...

XSS on Yaari.com

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/04/xss-on-yaaricom.html XSS on Yaari.com Lots of friendship network sites are coming up these days following the success of orkut. Another one supposedly originating from the same stanford university is yaari.com targeted at mainly Indian users. The site looks and functionality seems fine but is full of XSS holes (Cross Site Scripting). Almost all the fields can be bugged. Only thing that amazes me is that the site has used PHP. PHP has such a wonderful list of functions that can take care of the XSS problem. I wonder ...

Removing index.php From URL in CodeIgniter

http://digitalpbk.com/code-ignitor/removing-indexphp-url Removing index.php From URL in CodeIgniter In Code Ignitor by default all URLs except the default home contains "index.php" by default in the URL, For example http://localhost/index.php/class/function. In order to make the URLs "cleaner", we have to remove "index.php" from the URL. This is done using the mod_rewrite module in apache to redirect all traffic to index.php/. The following code inside .htaccess does the redirection. Code Igniter .htaccess Rules ...