PHP is a free server-side, general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development. Originally PHP stood for Personal Home Page, now it stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
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best way to import 500MB csv file into mysql database?
I have a 500MB csv file that needs to be imported into my mysql database.
I've made a php file where i can upload the csv file and it analyses the fields n stuff and does the actual importing. but it ...
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Apache create index for directories without one specified.
Currently, I use a PHP script to list the contents of a directory that does not have an index file, but I don't want to have to copy it to every directory without an index.
Can Apache do it ...
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Prevent script execution as TimThumb exploit workaround
It's been a long time since I've done any web-development, and I never needed to administer a server myself. However, I can read manuals with the best of them, and when someone needed advice regarding ...
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Redirect page to symlink
So I have 2 URLs that basically link to the main url using a symlink
maindomain.com
englishdomain.com -> symlink to maindomain.com
frenchdomain.com - > symlink to maindomain.com/fr
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Looking for a good server side shopping cart solution [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use?
I'm working on a website that will be selling tickets and they will go fast. I need a server side solutions, in php if possible, ...
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how to keep a visitor 100% anonymous
Maybe a broad question, but how can you keep a visitor to your site 100% anonymous on your server. The site is written in PHP.
No trace of what he or she has visited on your site. Any suggestions?
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Any free/affordable alternatives to Polldaddy?
I'm looking for a free/cheap embeddable poll that I can just stuff in an iframe - the page I've been tasked to maintain has been created in iWeb, which does not generate anything but the final markup ...
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How To Get Alexa Sites Linking Using PHP
I am planning to get the Alexa sites linking of a given website.
I am looking to do this in PHP. Please suggest me is Alexa providing any API. Is there any tool? Is it free? Is there any API that I ...
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Requesting advice for accepting large file uploads
I asked this question over at StackExchange but was advised to try here...
I'm looking at building a web app that includes a file upload element. I'd like users to be able to upload files of any type ...
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PHP framework suggestions [closed]
I'm going to be creating a site for a business with the following:
Single Item purchases with Paypal, Google Checkout and Amazon Checkout
Digital Downloads for members from a CDN
Forum
Voting on ...
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How to promote the quality/security of your a website to your its customers?
Our organization is building a Drupal web platform that we aim at reselling as a cloud service. In order to provide our customers with maximum confidence in our solution, we're looking at ways of ...
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Has anyone used WebFaction hosting for large traffic websites? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I'm a point where I'm needing to move a large traffic website off of MediaTemple Grid Server (it's maxing out the ...
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Per-Thread Visibility PHPBB
I'm trying to implement a registration system for a board I'm running, and I want a forum where every thread is invisible to everyone but the person who started it and the moderator staff.
I want ...
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portfolio blog hosting
We currently have a photo storage website. A user can store his photos on our site. We want to give a facility to each user to create his photo portfolio and customize its look and feel, and contents ...
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Free/cheap Whois Api
Is there a free API where I can pull whois data and server location data?
(similar to who.is)
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PHP remote development workflow: git, symfony and hudson
I'm looking to develop a website and all the work will be done remotely (no local dev server). The reason for this is that my shared hosting company a2hosting has a specific configuration ...
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Looking for quick and simple blogging solution [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?
I'm looking for a really quick "plug in and play" style blogging software for php. It's to be used on a website that ...
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What is SSL Hosting and what are the requirements for making secure transaction
I am here in order to collect the information for making secure online transaction. My client has got a online shopping site. We are now having cart in our own site and transfering the cart detail to ...
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What file manager/uploader do you use with your embeded wysiwyg editor?
I am looking for a wysiwyg editor to allow user to edit part of their website. I already worked with TinyMCE, and heard about CKEditor, which both look great. However, they both lack a free (PHP) file ...
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How to tell Google that I have changed my website URLs?
I have done major updates to my website, and renamed all my URLs.
How can I tell Google that I have renamed these URLs and let Google refresh its index?
My website URL: http://www.pndmasr.com/
My ...
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Use JPEG for transparency instead of PNGs
JPEGs are smaller in size then PNGs. So. I thought that if I can make the "background" in a jpegfile transparent with some code maybe I save some kilobytes.
So does anyone now for example how to make ...
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SEO - which URL's are the best?
I'm using .htaccess with RewriteRule to create SEO-friendly URL's. However, I have a few questions about this:
First of all, I noticed many websites end their URL's with .html (or another ...
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Disallow robots.txt from being accessed in a browser but still accessible by spiders?
We make use of the robots.txt file to prevent Google (and other search spiders) from crawling certain pages/directories in our domain. Some of these directories/files are secret, meaning they aren't ...
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Can the .htaccess file slow down a website to a crawl? If so, are there better ways to solve these problems with different rewrite rules and such?
here is my htaccess file......
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/billing/FAQ_billing\.html$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/billing/getintouch\.html$
RewriteRule ...
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Installing a PHP framework to a host without public_html or www folders (ftp is DocumentRoot)
I've developed a PHP framework that operates with the directory structure of
/
/classes/
/templates/
/.../
/www/ (public_html)
But I've come across a host that only allows ftp to the ...
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How can I make my web application faster in Australia when it is hosted in USA
I have www.localo.org hosted on a BlueHost server in USA but I am in Australia and it is INCREDIBLY SLOW!
I uploaded it to a Crazy Domains server in Australia and it ran flawlessly.
I don't want to ...
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PHP Include meta tags
A website I'm currently working on is http://www.troubi.com . Please don't care to look at the
source code.
If I validate the website through the w3cValidator a lot of errors occur all due to ...
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Is there a way to scan websites externally for the recent PHP CGI flaw?
The recent PHP CGI flaw exposed (CVE-2012-1823) has me wondering if some of the legacy sites that I've inherited might be vulnerable. (see Physorg article)
Does anybody know of a means to externally ...
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How to create separate users in phpmyadmin, each one can't see others databases?
I am using phpmyadmin to control mysql on my server, now i want to create some users to access this admin tool, what i want is to make each user can create databases but can't see others databases.
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How to add lock symbol to my website using private SSL in https pages
I just purchased SSL for my website from hostgator, so that I can add lock symbol in my website, when users visit https://www.mysite.com
For example:
Now they have installed the certificate, but ...
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Search Engine Indexing of a Database-Driven Website
Suppose I have a MySQL whose rows are dog breeds and whose columns are properties of the breeds (e.g. coat color). The purpose of the site is to allow users to query the database with questions like ...
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File upload on shared hosting
Is it possible to upload a file of size 300+ MB on shared hosting such as host gator ?
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Is it (still) advisable to use the PHP extension html tidy?
Currently i'm using latest stable version of PHP, webmastering a online shop with Doctype XHTML.
Most of our customers use "old" browsers, 25% use IE8, 10% use IE7, 3% IE6 (however, IE6 never ...
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GPL 3 and “webapps”
I am working on a "webapp" (no content by me, all user driven) and want to license it with the GPL 3. I do plan on having a tarball with the php, html, css, javascript, etc as well as an installer to ...
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Is Movable Type among the most secure PHP blogs? How secure are the various PHP blog applications?
Basically I'm trying to find a blog for a website, and security is the highest priority in our case. We don't need any features that I would imagine are special. Wordpress was our first idea, but its ...
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Simple CMS for clients?
I'm looking for something fairly simple for clients to use and very easy for me to skin (somewhat complicated themes). something like Perch or Couchcms, but has to be open source to satisfy some ...
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How do you get Drupal to go to a page other than the User Profile on login?
ISSUE: Please help, I've tried a few things to get Drupal to STOP going to the User Prolfile page on login, even installed a module called LoginToboggan; which has nice features, just doesn't stop ...
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Hotel Reservation Request Booking Paypal PHP
I'm making a website for a small hotel in php. The hotel owners want a reservation system that uses paypal. They want people to see a calendar and choose a date to make a reservation. If the day has ...
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Google Analytics API - Super simple? [closed]
Google Analytics API - Too complicated?
I've read about Google Analytics API but heard of others that it is a bit complicated to make it work. I use PHP.
Copy / paste example
My question is if ...
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How to implement user-friendly paths in PHP without creating a file or directory for each page?
NOTE: My terminology may not be entirely correct. I believe StackExchange does something like what I am asking, in case this can make things clearer.
Using PHP on Apache, I would like to handle URLs ...
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How to check all installed in magento extensions?
Where can I check all the installed magento extensions in the admin panel?
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PHP framework to use on GoDaddy host with no shell access
I'm a Ruby-on-Rails developer but am trying to develop a site to run on a GoDaddy Economy hosting account. This means I don't have Ruby and Rails available so I've decided to go with PHP 5 since the ...
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How does duplicate file and directory names affects SEO
I have some 40 crawl errors in my website, those are pointing to files which are not existing. and I want to resolve all 404 errors
I dont have acccess to .htaccess file. Because i am on shared ...
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How to do a cacheable redirection?
When users enter my website example.com, their "preferred" language is detected and they are redirected (using a 301 Moved Permanently redirection) to example.com/en/ (for English), example.com/it/ ...
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Looking for full web based booking system
I've searched around here but could not find any booking system that would suit my need. I hope maybe you can help me out.
I've already seen question #11379. Solutions provided there are not helping ...
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Attaining credit card data
I've read the many posts on this site that say we are not allowed to store cc numbers if we are not pci-compliant. But, I'm wondering if it is possible to send a CC number through a form to an email ...
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Remote database connections in mysql and php is it possible?
I need to know whether remote database connections are possible in every server? does every host provides the option for remote DB connection? and further this connection will be the second connection ...
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How to set up a 403 forbidden
I've recently set up my first commercial website for someone, with godaddy hosting.
I want to set up a 403 forbidden on several directories (and their contents) that are referenced to through php ...
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Two websites (and domains) on one hosting
So I am a poor college student, thus I can't afford dedicated hosting, cloud or anything fancy of the like...
However I managed to purchase myself two domain names say http://abc.com and ...
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Enable gzip compression on Bluehost?
My website is loading large (~3mb) SVG file with jQuery. It takes quite a while therefore I decided to enable gzip compression.
I have a hosting account with Bluehost which supports custom .htaccess ...
