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Hi. This is what I am trying to do, I have an array: $cars = array("honda" => "blue", "ford" => "blue", "toyota" => "red"); How can I get the numbers of the "blue" cars? I don't want to get the names, like "Honda" and "Ford", I want it to return $cars[0] and $cars[1]. Can someone explain to...

Say I have a variable: $phrase = "The 16th president was Abraham Lincoln". And I have two sentences: $sentences[0] = "The 16th president of the US was Abraham Lincoln"; $sentences[1] = "The 1st president was George Washington". Using PHP, what would be the best way to pick the $sentences...

I am working on a log in system for my website. Can someone tell me if this is safe PHP? I am creating a salt with md5 and sha1. Then I am combining the salt with my password and then hashing it again. Is this safe? Also, is this the proper way to read session variables? if($password !=...

I am working on a simple calendar for my website wriiten in PHP. It works fine except I can't figure out how to switch between months. This is what I currently have to move to the previous month, but the problem is it only works once. It'll go back one month but wont work any more. Can anyone...

I have been trying for HOURS to create a login page that asks you to answer a security question. Everything seems right but it won't work and I have no clue what to do! I can't figure this out and I really need help! PLEASE HELP! <?php $qry4 = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM...

This is my code. I am working on an image uploader. JPG and GIF files are uploaded fine. But when it comes to PNG, I get the error that the file type is not supported and it won't upload it? Why? <?php if (isset($_FILES["file"])){ if ((($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/jpeg") ||...

I am creating an installer with PHP and MySQL. The user enters a prefix for the database tables. How do I create a table with the prefix in front of it? I have tried this but it does not work: $prefix = $_POST['prefix']; $qry = "CREATE TABLE $prefix.Users id INT NOT NULL AUTO INCREMENT, email...

I have this code I wrote in PHP which allows a user to upload an image. It then scales it so it is 250px wide. It for the most part works fine. It uploads the picture and if you use imagejpeg() it will show it at reduced size on the screen. BUT, it saves it at its normal size. I want it to be...

I am creating a web application using PHP and MySQL. The webmaster must be able to install this application using an installer I built with PHP. They enter their MySQL database name, username, and password, and it creates tables. That is nice, but how do I make it remember the MySQL db name...

How can you #1 detect if MySQL is installed and #2 detect the MySQL version with a PHP script?

This is my code, I am creating a forum for my website. I only have one table so far, with the block bad words feature. My database login is correct and it selects the database correctly but it just won't create the table. <?php function setup_db() { $hostname = $_POST['hostname']; $db_name...

A while back I set up phpBB and in the setup, it detected the version of PHP the server was running and printed it to the screen. Now I am in need of this but can't find it anywhere. Does anyone know the script that does this, or where I can find a tutorial?