PHP - How Do I Import All Images Beginning With The Same Characters?

I'm hoping to get a little feedback on what you all believe is the best way to handle this efficiently in PHP. I am working on a script that imports a large amount of data from remote feeds; this facilitates the quick deployment of real estate web sites, but has to download a large number of images to each new site.

Assuming for right now that the bottleneck isn't in the method (fsock vs curl vs...) and that for each imported listing we're spending between .89439 and 17.0601 seconds on the image import process alone... what would you suggest for handling this over the space of 100-1000 occurrences?

As of right now I have two ideas in mind, both fairly rudimentary in nature. The first idea is to shut the script down every 30-45 seconds, sleep for a second and fire off another asynchronous request to start the script again. The second idea is to fire off a new asynchronous to run the image imports separate from the main script. This would let the efficient ones clear out rather quickly while the slower imports would have their own process to run in. The only thing that worries me about this is the fact that 100 of these could be fired off every second. Even assuming half of them complete before the next round are fired off, they would still pile up.

Hi

I am trying to replace characters in a string with images so character 'a' will be replaced with a.jpg etc  I have tried the following code but that doesn't result in the desired effect as the updated string gets it's characters replaced as the script works through it so the 'img' in the first updated string gets replaced with with images and it all ends up quite a mess.  Is there a simpler way to do this?

$content = "abc" ;
$content = str_replace("a", "<img src=images/a.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("b", "<img src=images/b.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("c", "<img src=images/c.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("d", "<img src=images/d.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("e", "<img src=images/e.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("f", "<img src=images/f.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("g", "<img src=images/g.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("h", "<img src=images/h.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("i", "<img src=images/i.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("j", "<img src=images/j.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("k", "<img src=images/k.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("l", "<img src=images/l.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("m", "<img src=images/m.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("n", "<img src=images/n.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("o", "<img src=images/o.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("p", "<img src=images/p.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("q", "<img src=images/q.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("r", "<img src=images/r.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("s", "<img src=images/s.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("t", "<img src=images/t.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("u", "<img src=images/u.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("v", "<img src=images/v.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("w", "<img src=images/w.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("x", "<img src=images/x.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("y", "<img src=images/y.jpg >", $content);
$content = str_replace("z", "<img src=images/z.jpg >", $content);


echo $content ;

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks
Megalos (paul)

I'm reading through this book which is actually not bad but, on page 286 there's a shopping_cart.php code (which I downloaded from the web site). The code that seems relevant to me is this:


<?php
$totalPrice = 0;
 
foreach ( $_SESSION["cart"] as $product) {
   
  $totalPrice += $product->getPrice(); //<<<LINE 94
?>

The error I get is

Fatal error: Call to a member function getPrice() on a non-object in C:\usr\web\shopping_cart.php on line 94

Should $product be a cast to the Product object?

class Product {
  private $productId;
  private $productName;
  private $price;

  public function __construct( $productId, $productName, $price ) {
    $this->productId = $productId;
    $this->productName = $productName;
    $this->price = $price;
  }

  public function getPrice() {
    return $this->price;
  }
 //etc.

}

The below code returns a radio list after an input box in a profile edit section.
All I want to do is add a space at the beginning of the radio list so to separate the input box and the radio list.
Where the magic happens here is on this line:

return $selhtml . '&nbsp;' . getFieldIcons( $_CB_framework->getUi(), $required, null, $fieldHandler->getFieldDescription( $field, $user, $output, $reason ), $fieldHandler->getFieldTitle( $field, $user, $output, $reason ) );


I've tried several variations of trying to use &nspb; both in the return string directly as well as creating a var for it. I've tried various ways of wrapping it in a div to simply add a margin, I've tried kicking my dog, I've tried banging my head against the wall, nothing seems to work. I either get a t var error, an unexpected something or other like . or & error depending on what I'm doing, or it tries to divide by zero using /'s.

Here's a larger view of the code:

function onFieldIcons( &$fieldHandler, &$field, &$user, $output, $reason, $tag, $type, $value, $additional, $allValues, $displayFieldIcons, $required ) {
global $_CB_framework, $ueConfig, $_CB_fieldIconDisplayed;

if ( is_object( $field->params ) ) {
$privacyLevel = $field->params->get( 'plug_cbprivacy_level' );
} else {
$privacyLevel = 0;
}

if ( $displayFieldIcons && ( $reason != 'search' ) ) {
if ( ( $privacyLevel == 1 ) && ( $field->profile != 0 ) ) {

$privacy =& moscomprofilerPrivacy::getInstance( $user, 'field', $field->fieldid );
$selected = ( $privacy ? $privacy->rule : '' );

$selectorName = $field->name . '___cbprivacy';

$connTypes = array();
if ( $this->params->get( 'conns_by_type', 0 ) ) {
if ( $ueConfig['connection_categories'] ) {
$connTypes = explode( "\n", $ueConfig['connection_categories'] );
foreach ( array_keys( $connTypes ) as $k) {
$connTypes[$k] = trim( $connTypes[$k] );
}
}
if ( $selected == 2 ) {
$type = $privacy->getParam( 'conn_cat' );
if ( $type ) {
$selected = $selected . '|*|' . $type;
}
}
}
$options = array();
$options[] = moscomprofilerHTML::makeOption( '', '' . CBTxt::T('&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;') );
if ( ( $ueConfig['allow_profileviewbyGID'] == -2 ) && $this->params->get( 'prop_registered', 1 ) ) {
$options[] = moscomprofilerHTML::makeOption( '1', '' . CBTxt::T('&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;' ) );
}
if ( $ueConfig['allowConnections'] ) {
$prop_connections = $this->params->get( 'prop_connections', 1 );
if ( $prop_connections ) {
$options[] = moscomprofilerHTML::makeOption( '2', '' . CBTxt::T( '&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;' ) );
}
if ( count( $connTypes ) > 1 ) {
foreach ($connTypes as $type ) {
$options[] = moscomprofilerHTML::makeOption( '2|*|' . htmlspecialchars( $type ), ( $prop_connections ? '&nbsp;&nbsp;&lfloor;&nbsp;' : '' ) . '' . sprintf( CBTxt::T( 'Only for %s' ), $type ) );
}
}
if ( $this->params->get( 'prop_fofs', 1 ) ) {
$options[] = moscomprofilerHTML::makeOption( '3', '' . CBTxt::T( 'Also for friends of friends' ) );
}
}
if ( $this->params->get( 'prop_invisible', 1 ) ) {
$options[] = moscomprofilerHTML::makeOption( '99', '' . CBTxt::T( '&nbsp;' ) );
}
$selHtml = moscomprofilerHTML::radioList( $options, $selectorName, '', 'value', 'text', $selected, 2, false );
if ( isset( $_CB_fieldIconDisplayed[$field->fieldid] ) ) {
return $selHtml;
} else {
$_CB_fieldIconDisplayed[$field->fieldid] = true;
return $selHtml . '&nbsp;' . getFieldIcons( $_CB_framework->getUi(), $required, null, $fieldHandler->getFieldDescription( $field, $user, $output, $reason ), $fieldHandler->getFieldTitle( $field, $user, $output, $reason ) );
}
} else {
if ( isset( $_CB_fieldIconDisplayed[$field->fieldid] ) ) {
return null;
} else {
$_CB_fieldIconDisplayed[$field->fieldid] = true;
return getFieldIcons( $_CB_framework->getUi(), $required, $field->profile, $fieldHandler->getFieldDescription( $field, $user, $output, $reason ), $fieldHandler->getFieldTitle( $field, $user, $output, $reason ) );
}

}

} else {
return null;
} 
}


The basic layout here is this:
|inputbox||radio list|
But I want:
|inputbox|  |radio list|