I tried something like this but it just makes the background of the image white, not necessarily the alpha of the image. I wanted to just upload everything as jpg’s so if i could somehow “flatten” a png image with some transparently to default it to just be white so i can use it as a jpg ins…
Newbie – eclipse workflow (PHP development)
this is a bit of a newbie question but hoping I can get some guidance. I’ve been playing around with Eclipse for a couple months yet I’m still not completely comfortable with my setup and it seems like every time I install it to a new system I end up with different results. What I’m hoping t…
ucfirst() function for multibyte character encodings
I’ve asked about strtolower function. But when using foreign characters it doesn’t convert them into uppercase, so I must use: mb_strtolower($a,”utf8″); But what can I do, if I want to use ucfirst()…
php fputcsv and enclosing fields
I was just about to ask the same questions as the question aksed here…. Forcing fputcsv to Use Enclosure For *all* Fields The question was When I use fputcsv to write out a line to an open …
PHPMailer character encoding issues
I try to use PHPMailer to send registration, activation. etc mail to users: require(“class.phpmailer.php”); $mail -> charSet = “UTF-8”; $mail = new PHPMailer(); $mail->IsSMTP(); $mail->…
How to select rows where column value IS NOT NULL using CodeIgniter’s ActiveRecord?
I’m using CodeIgniter’s Active Record class to query the MySQL database. I need to select the rows in a table where a field is not set to NULL: That only returns this query: The archived field is a DATE field. Is there a better way to solve this? I know I can just write the query myself, but I wan…
mysql get last auto increment value
Hi I have a field in mySql table called jobnumber which auto increments with each new entry. What I want to do is when a user views my form, get the value of the next ‘jobnumber’ . But I want to do …
Round minute down to nearest quarter hour
I need to round times down to the nearest quarter hour in PHP. The times are being pulled from a MySQL database from a datetime column and formatted like 2010-03-18 10:50:00. Example: 10:50 needs …
PHP Sort Array By SubArray Value
I have the following array structure: What is the best way to order the array in an incremental way, based on the optionNumber? So the results look like: Answer Use usort. In PHP ≥5.3, you should use an anonymous function instead: Note that both code above assume $a[‘optionNumber’] is an integer. …
How to get the first word of a sentence in PHP?
I want to extract the first word of a variable from a string. For example, take this input: The resultant output should be Test, which is the first word of the input. How can I do this? Answer You can use the explode function as follows: Another example: