Although calling this a PHP issue is kinda moot. I was hired to do up a quick import script to pull third party information into a database. I was given some test data, access to the server I'm importing to, and a good luck message. In short order, I managed to figure out the schema, and get a PHP...

After making some php program, or script for that matter i'm trying to fork a process so the script continues, on a win32 platform: <?php servername(); function servername() { $servername = "EMPTY"; while ($servername != "") { fwrite(STDOUT, "Server: "); $servername...

I'm currently in the process of customizing the firmware for a RAID controller used in some of my company's products. The LCD Controller Module (LCM) is written in PHP, a task for which PHP was NOT designed for. In addition to abusing exec all over the place, they poorly re-implement functions...

[quote user="huseyint"]Let's say there are 100 incoming links to MSDN Magazine Homepage with anchor texts "msdn magazine" and let 10 of these come from those crappy forum software with PHPSESSID appended to them. If Google is so intelligent, it will not promote those 10 links...

[quote user="russ0519"]I would love to see code that's written in another language, that uses DAL (with a separate one for each type of DB, of course)[/quote] Funny as I recall M2DB supports most of the SQL Servers out there, so I wouldn't need to have one for each DB. Honestly though...

There's clever metaphors for the act of programming, and then there's... this: http://orchid.phpxperts.net/2008/03/18/creating-a-basic-app-with-orchid/ The boundary between witty and creepy is a thin, gray line.

http://www.dev102.com/2008/03/18/how-to-convert-minutes-to-hours-with-php/

[quote user="tster"]Avoid VB because the syntax is god awful, and if you are going to learn a Windows only language there are so many better choices (try C# instead). [/quote] To be fair, neither VB nor C# are Windows-only. And 'awful' is subjective. Besides, the fact that you don't...

[quote user="tster"]also you should avoid learning VB like the plague.[/quote] [quote user="tster"]never learn PHP either[/quote] And I hate people who make such statements. It's not even funny anymore. And C is simple, why not?

Mal1024: It might have something to do with the UCS2 encoding, perhaps? Ah, good catch :) :D