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Fixing set_magic_quotes_runtime deprecated in PHP

pbu — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:58:45 +0000

To fix the deprecated warning causing by PHP 5.3, all you have to do is replace the

set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);

with


//set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);
if(version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3.0', '<'))
{
set_magic_quotes_runtime(0); //18th line
}

I have seen this error in wordpress and vbulletin.

Fix – Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in PHP5.3

pbu — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:04:24 +0000

i recently updated to latest PHP 5 from PHP 4 and my wordpress blog was littered with these errors. I have seen these warnings before with PHP 5. Dont worry! The fix is very easy.

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/topbest/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 472

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/topbe/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 487

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/topbe/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 494

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/topbe/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 530

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/topbe/public_html/wp-includes/cache.php on line 103

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/topbe/public_html/wp-includes/query.php on line 21

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/topbe/public_html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 623

The fix is very easy. The only way you can fix this is update your wordpress to latest version or if you can manually edit the above files on lines, remove “&” fix this.

For Example:

$wp_locale = & new WP_Locale();

Remove the & and these warnings will be fixed.

Auto generate invoices from csv files with PHP

pbu — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:04:56 +0000

Tax season again, and i had to submit all invoices to file taxes. I always wanted a way to automatically generate invoices from the CSV file, i had which details like sales and billing activity from 2checkout.

I never liked buying accounting software specifically for this and i believe anything can be done with PHP magic code, which is why i coded myself to accomplish whatever i wanted..

All i had to do is just parse the CSV file using fgetcsv() and echo the data on the format of the invoice. It was pretty easy and i was accomplish this within 2 hrs. You just need to put this php file and the xls file on same folder in xampp or wamp and this script will neatly print invoices for all sales activity.

If you are using 2CO, just download the sales and billing activity, separated by semicolon (;). Note that this script can only parse xls file, separated by semi-colon. if you want to work for comma (,) just tweak the below code. Within this code you can uncomment lines, which is not needed. I have left as it as just to play around.

Here is the code…


 Sale [1] => Total [2] => Date Placed
[3] => Date Shipped [4] => Name [5] => Address
[6] => City [7] => State [8] => Postal Code
[9] => Country [10] => Phone [11] => Email [12] => Ship To
[13] => Ship Address [14] => Ship City [15] => Ship State
[16] => Ship Postal Code [17] => Ship Country [18] => Date Paid
[19] => Refund [20] => Refund Date [21] => Chargeback
[22] => Chargeback Date [23] => Vendor Product ID [24] => Product Name

*/

if (($handle = fopen("test.csv", "r")) !== FALSE) {
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000,'\r\n')) !== FALSE) {
$num = count($data);
//echo " $num fields in line $row: 
\n";
$row++;
for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) {
echo $data[$c] . "
\n";
// use comma if you have data separated by commas in explode
$data = explode(';',$data[$c]);
//echo $data[5];

?>


I N V O I C E


 


ABC LLC

West End Blvd #2999

Chicago, IL 98829

United States


Company Registration No: 29204929423 

VAT: EX239402349
Website: http://www.example.com

Email: email@example.com



 


 
 


Client / Customer: 
   



 





Tel: 



Invoice no:  
Date:  


 




Item
Description
Qty
Price


 
 
 
 


#

1



 
 
 
 




Thank you for the payment.
Total Amount Paid: USD

PHP – check ssl and redirect to https secure page

pbu — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:03:16 +0000

If you have a non https form and you if you want to force to use SSL (https), it can be done with 4 lines of code with php. Remember that you need to buy ssl and have https working in your website. The key here is use of $_SERVER['https'] variable, which is set to a value when https is enabled in your server.

if(empty($_SERVER["HTTPS"])) {
header("Location: https://example.com/application.htm");
exit;
}

Interview with Balakrishnan who blogs at corpocrat.com

pbu — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:52:47 +0000

As a owner of Corpocrat.com, I was recently interviewed by SelfBlogger.com and i was really proud to share my struggles and experiences and i came a long long way to acheive my goals. I answered on various topics including blogging, making money and career goals. You can read my interview here: http://www.selfblogger.com/2011/07/in-this-post-i-had-come-with-interview.html

Mysql Query – Use brackets for multiple conditions!

pbu — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:49:58 +0000

Often you might be in situations where you want to query your mysql database with multiple AND and OR statements in the WHERE clause., which is why i use brackets to nest either OR and AND statments. Those conditions within the brackets will be executed first in the mysql query.

Lets say for example,

SELECT * from `pricelist` where cost > 10 and color=’red’ or weight > 100

The best way to write above query is

SELECT * from `pricelist` where cost > 10 and (color=’red’ or weight > 100)

Notice from above sql statement we have used 3 conditions in the WHERE clause. Notice that our main criteria is to pick up results having cost greater than $10. This is because the condition statement within brackets get precedence and executed first.

It is always

Note: Often NOT using brackets will lead to mystery results produced by mysql.

10+ Best Social Network Scripts in PHP

pbu — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:31:14 +0000

i have been searching for a while for instant turnkey php scripts to start my own social network site. I must say that i am totally impressed with the scripts and these are the best ones i have seen to start a social network. I have listed both open source free ones and commercial ones are listed below:

PHP Fox

http://www.phpfox.com

phpFox is the most popular social network script written in PHP. It is a instant turnkey social network solution and is commercial.

Social Engine

http://www.socialengine.net

Social Engine is a feature rich, social network and community software for websites. It is commercial and comes with 100% unencrypted code.

Elgg

http://www.elgg.org/

Most powerful social networking engine written in PHP. It is available free to download.

Boonex Dolphin

http://boonex.com/dolphin

Buddy Press

http://buddypress.org/

Social networking platform based on WordPress MU. It is FREE to download.

DZOIC

http://dzoic.com/

Dzoic Handshakes professional is a very advanced, comprehensive social network script written in PHP. It is a commercial software.

Pligg

http://www.pligg.com

Pligg is a open source social publishing and bookmarking CMS for your website. It is free script.

Pointter

http://www.pointter.com

Microblogging and social network solution for Websites. It is a free software.

PG Social Networking

http://www.datingpro.com

Open source social network software for community websites. It is an instant turnkey social network solution and packed with advanced features. It is commercial script.

WebNetwork

http://www.webscribble.com/products/webnetwork

Webnetwork is a social networking php script. It is commercial.

MyOwnSpace

http://myownspace.sourceforge.net/

MyOwnSpace is a free open source social network software written in PHP.

25+ Very Useful PHP Class libraries for Developers

pbu — Sat, 07 May 2011 11:11:57 +0000

I am gonna post here some the very useful php libraries and classes which will come so handy during coding. You might run into various requirements which is why i compiled these php components. All the php libraries listed below is free software and can be downloaded in the original authors website.

FPDF

http://www.fpdf.org/

FDPF is a free PHP library create PDF files with pure PHP.

PHP Mailer

http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com/

PHP Mailer is a free class to send emails using PHP. It supports html and plain text email formats, including mail() and SMTP functions.

Autosuggest Search

http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/03/php-components-autosuggest.html

PHP component to implement auto suggest feature in your textbox using MySQL.

ADODB Database Abstraction Library

http://adodb.sourceforge.net/

ADOdb is a database abstraction library for PHP designed for speed and portability. It supports number of databases including mssql, mysql, oracle, postgresql, and much more ..

reCaptcha

http://recaptcha.net/php/

Free PHP library to implement antibot captcha in your website for registrations. It is free service and works well with php.

phpThumb

http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/

Very useful and light weight image manipulation library in PHP for generating thumbs in your website.

pChart

http://pchart.sourceforge.net/

A free php chart library to create numerous varieties of charts. Charts can be constructed from sql, csv, and from database datasets

Magpie RSS Parser

http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/

A PHP parser to extract fields from your RSS feed. It is easy to use without any difficulties.

PHP Text to Image

http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/str2img/

A useful class which writes a text or string to an image. Useful for hiding emails and for simple captchas. It can also output text inside an image at different angles.

Smarty

http://www.smarty.net/

A very popular templating engine for PHP. It is fast, lightweight and optimized for speed.

OpenID Login Authentication

http://www.openid.net

OpenID is a fastest and easiest code to implement login in your website. This zend tutorial might help for implementing openID

HTML Purifier

http://htmlpurifier.org/

HTML purifier is an open source class for filtering mailicious and harmful XSS scripts. It is free library

jQuery

http://jquery.com

jQuery is a widely popular javascript library for event handling, animated transitions and interactions. It can be easily used with php for complex interactive web applications. Please see jquery PHP library to connect php to jquery

SAJAX

http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/

Ajax framework for creating rich web applications. It easy to call PHP, Perl or Python functions from your webpages via JavaScriptYou. Alternatively, xajax which is as good as sajax.

UPU File Uploader

http://sourceforge.net/projects/upu/

UPU is a multiple file uploader class with progress bar. It is free software.

Univeral Feed Creator

http://www.ajaxray.com/blog/

Free PHP class which generates RSS and Atom feeds. Another useful class is Feed Creator where you can quickly create RSS feed from MySQL database.

phpLib

http://phplib.sourceforge.net/

object-oriented application development toolkit for PHP. It is a free software for php programmers and developers.

CakePHP

http://cakephp.org/

Rapid PHP development framework for web applications.

PHP Excel

http://phpexcel.codeplex.com/

Free spreadsheet engine library to read and write excel, pdf, csv and html formats.

GeSHi Syntax Highlighter

http://qbnz.com/highlighter/

Geshi is a generic syntax code highlighter library supporting over 100 languages including PHP. Another alternative tool to highlight PHP code is phpCodeBeautifier

phpUserClass

http://phpuserclass.com/

Useful php library for user authentication and login management. It is a free open source project.

PHP Math Publisher

http://www.xm1math.net/phpmathpublisher/

PHP publishing system for publishing mathematical formulas. Each formulas are transformed into a image and it can be dynamically created. It works well in blogs, forums and with other content management applications.

PHP Image Upload & Crop

http://www.webmotionuk.co.uk/php-jquery-image-upload-and-crop/

PHP/JQuery image upload and cropping library. It needs GD library to be installed.

Smart Image Resizer

http://shiftingpixel.com/2008/03/03/smart-image-resizer/

Easy to use php class to crop and resize images on the fly.

GoogleMap API

http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/GoogleMapAPI/

A library used for creating google maps using the Google Map public API. Features include multiple map markers, customizable icons, map directions built into info window, and sidebar generation.

IP to Country Lookup

http://www.eyesis.ca/projects/iplookup.html

Free php class to lookup ip address to country.

PHP Code Sniffer

http://matrix.squiz.net/developer/tools/php_cs

Useful library checks PHP code for programming violations and often used for testing PHP code practises.

How to import text data in mysql with spaces?

pbu — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:26:23 +0000

Lets say you have to import a large text file to mysql and fields are totally irregular but only separated by spaces. For example. Since it is only text file and highly irregular data you have to use other methods to import data to database.

17876 BILL hc-device 4.76 FC900888 0.88776 USD

There are 3 ways to import text data into mysql

1. Use a fixed width data import method

Try to analyse and measure the data in text file and you will have a brief idea on length of fields.

LOAD DATA LOCAL
INFILE '' INTO TABLE 
(@var1)
SET
 `name`=SUBSTR(@var1,1,25),
 `address`=SUBSTR(@var1,26,25),
 `zip`=SUBSTR(@var1,51,10),
 `phone`=SUBSTR(@var1,61,10)
IGNORE 35 LINES2.  MySQL Load Data INFILE method
Usually mysql does not interpret multiple spaces as one, you have to group all spaces first using sed command line, then you can import using load data infile.

sed 's/ \+/ /g' thefile > thefile.new


The above command groups all spaces into one and (the regular expression does it) and the resulting data is output written into new file. Once done we can feed  the new file to load data infile.

LOAD DATA INFILE '' INTO TABLE 






FIELDS TERMINATED BY ' '
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n';
3. Parsing a text file using PHP
You can parse the text file using preg_split and matching regular expressions using php. The code below will separate columns separated by spaces.

 '. $columns[1] . ' = '. $columns[2] . $columns[3] . $columns[4] .'
';
 // Once columns isolated, you can insert into mysql

mysql_query("INSERT into 





 (col1,col2,col3) VALUES (columns[0], columns[1]. columns[2])") or die(mysql_error());
}

}
 fclose($fileHandle);
}

?>

How to use LOAD DATA INFILE to import fixed width data in MySQL
pbu — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 11:49:35 +0000
It is very easy to import fixed width CSV data into your mysql database and LOAD DATA INFILE is the fastest method i have seen. If you are on shared hosting be sure you first upload the csv file to your hosting server and specify LOCAL if not you will get permission denied error.

LOAD DATA LOCAL
INFILE '' INTO TABLE 




(@var1)
SET
 `name`=SUBSTR(@var1,1,25),
 `address`=SUBSTR(@var1,26,25),
 `zip`=SUBSTR(@var1,51,10),
 `phone`=SUBSTR(@var1,61,10)
IGNORE 35 LINES
If you want to just update the database using latest CSV data, specify REPLACE.  The SUBSTR() function extracts the data and it accepts first variable, then position starting from and then no of characters to extract. If you want to skip useless data in first 35 lines, you can specify IGNORE 35 lines at the bottom.

LOAD DATA LOCAL
INFILE ''
REPLACE INTO TABLE 




(@var1)
SET `name`=SUBSTR(@var1,1,25), `address`=SUBSTR(@var1,26,25),
`zip`=SUBSTR(@var1,51,10), `phone`=SUBSTR(@var1,61,10)
IGNORE 35 LINES