Your PHP questions answered

[sevent]

To celebrate my 2nd post (whoooo wooo!) I'll be answering any PHP question you have for the next hour.

[NiggaRiche]

write me a big cms management script.

i mean

can you write me a big cms management script?

[CaptainHowdy]

Why the hell PHP stands for "Personal Home Page"??

[sevent]

Why the hell PHP stands for "Personal Home Page"??

I doesn't. It stands for PHP Hypertext Processor.

Next.

[2HousePlague]

2hp

[donross]

what do you need to build PHP SMS script??

[xxxice]

can php make it so the text that is printed on a page can all be a certain length: like 20 characters or something? what is the code?

[sevent]

Sure.

To find out the length of a string use the strlen() function.

To pad on extra characters or remove some use substr

Info about each of these at php.net. You can also treat a string like an array of characters using []. ie. $string[23] = "d";

can php make it so the text that is printed on a page can all be a certain length: like 20 characters or something? what is the code?

[sevent]

Search Google for php esendex

what do you need to build PHP SMS script??

[mfps]

You can also treat a string like an array of characters using []. ie. $string[23] = "d";

i did not know that.

nice tip

[sevent]

i did not know that.

nice tip

Yup. Just another reason why PHP kick way more ass than that overhyped new mother fucking Samual L Jackson film.

[mfps]

Yup. Just another reason why PHP kick way more ass than that overhyped new mother fucking Samual L Jackson film.

[r-c-e]

How does Ruby on Rails compare wth PHP?

[sevent]

How does Ruby on Rails compare wth PHP?

Ruby on rails is the programming language Ruby plus the framework "rails". Ruby is one of the more recent programming languages of the moment with no where near the support or base of available scripts as PHP.

[sevent]

Any more questions? Final call. Anyone...? Anyone...?

[xxxice]

Sure.

To find out the length of a string use the strlen() function.

To pad on extra characters or remove some use substr

Info about each of these at php.net. You can also treat a string like an array of characters using []. ie. $string[23] = "d";

thank u

what do the 23 and the d stand for in this example? do i put this on any line of the code or does it need it's own line

[sevent]

thank u

what do the 23 and the d stand for in this example? do i put this on any line of the code or does it need it's own line

That was just an example. It shows how you *could* put the character "d" at the 24th place in a string*. If you wanted to pad a sting with extra characters you could do a loop which inserted a certain character at each place up to whatever.

* Remember arrays start with zero

[footmonkey]

Here, use this...

function truncate_string($string, $max_length){

    if (strlen($string) > $max_length) {

         $string = substr($string,0,$max_length);

         $string .= '..';

    }

return $string;

} 

Looks good to me. I like seeing other people's code.

[madawgz]

Yup. Just another reason why PHP kick way more ass than that overhyped new mother fucking Samual L Jackson film.

damn straight

[xxxice]

Hmm I still can't get it to work

[Jamie]

Hmm I still can't get it to work

That's not a question, next.

[Naja-ram]

in what ways is php better than java?
in what ways is java better then php?

[teksonline]

For the bloggers, Whats the code for getting a current date/time in a rfc 822 format?

[LazyD]

For the bloggers, Whats the code for getting a current date/time in a rfc 822 format?

date('r');
but that doesn't always work properly (especialy when using feed validator)... so if it doesn't work use the long way : date('D, d M Y H:i:s T');

[teksonline]

ooh fire yourself T is not the answer