PHP - How To Design An Application When It Comes To Unit Of Measurement Conversions

I need to create the unique SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) name for each products mixed with
product.id,product.name,product.category and product.brand. There is no problem to do it,

i.e.: SKU for a product with

id=13,
name=Bio Clean green and
category=INSECTS KILLERS
brand=HARPIC

becomes : BI-IKHA0013

This is how I tried:

$inm = "Bio Clean green500ml";
$cnm = "INSECTS KILLERS";
$bnm = "HARPIC ";

echo SKU_gen($inm, $cnm,$bnm,20).'<br>';


function SKU_gen($pname, $cat=null, $brand=null, $id = null, $l = 2){
    $results = ''; // empty string

    $str1 = array_shift(explode(' ',$pname));
    $str1 = strtoupper(substr($str1, 0, $l));

    $str2 = array_shift(explode(' ',$cat));
    $str2 = strtoupper(substr($str2, 0, $l));

    $str3 = array_shift(explode(' ',$brand));
    $str3 = strtoupper(substr($str3, 0, $l));

    $id = str_pad($id , 4, 0, STR_PAD_LEFT);

    $results .= "{$str1}-{$str2}{$str3}{$id}";
    return $results;
}

But this function is not working as expected when category of brand values become NULL.

I’ve got a colleague who was brought in as a testing specialist to help improve code quality and reduce bugs. I’ve done a little testing before, but am no means an expert.

When they joined I was really excited to learn from them as testing is definitely an area I lack experience.

He’s got good coverage and he writes tests for literally everything he does, but it’s something like 95% mocks as opposed to what I would call “black box” testing; testing the input and output. Does that sound reasonable?

As I say, I’m not an expert, but his testing strategy doesn’t seem particularly effective and it puts constraints over exactly how code is implemented rather than testing that things behave correctly.

I must confess, I've not really done much unit testing at all in the last 3 years. Can anyone give me an idea of what they would test and why that would be faster or more efficient than running the code as a user?

One area I can see it having huge benefits is when I'm testing methods which interact with a database, like user registration, which I would probably test by registering several times - fixing any bugs, making amendments and repeating. Ok, so I kinda sold the idea to myself there

But, what about for small applications? I've seen people testing whether a variable is countable...why would I not just check the output immediately?

Appreciate any advice.

pls help me..
i am new to PHP unit testing concept. i just wrote a PHP unit test case for a login module in ZEND frame work. for that we have to see the result via command promt. but in some places of zend frame work we are using '$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']' to get server host name but it can get only by hitting via browser so while am hitting via command promt it will give error message lik this(given below)

Generating code coverage report, this may take a moment.PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  HTTP_HOST in /opt/coolstack/apache2/htdocs/LPS/application/bootstrap/Bootstrap.php on line 147

Notice: Undefined index:  HTTP_HOST in /opt/coolstack/apache2/htdocs/LPS/application/bootstrap/Bootstrap.php on line 147
PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  HTTP_HOST in /opt/coolstack/apache2/htdocs/LPS/application/bootstrap/Bootstrap.php on line 197

Notice: Undefined index:  HTTP_HOST in /opt/coolstack/apache2/htdocs/LPS/application/bootstrap/Bootstrap.php on line 197
PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  HTTP_HOST in /opt/coolstack/apache2/htdocs/LPS/library/Zaah/Controller/Plugin/Ssl.php on line 79

Notice: Undefined index:  HTTP_HOST in /opt/coolstack/apache2/htdocs/LPS/library/Zaah/Controller/Plugin/Ssl.php on line 79

i cant give server host name at all the places. so please help me how to solve this problem....

thanks
Yogesh

Hi,

I need to develop a module called chat with doctor. User can able to chat with the doctor for that he has to pay some amount to website. Say example user got purchase the Package worth : 2$ =>5min. After 5 min chat will be closed , timer should be shown while chatting. How can we do this?

I am building program to manage payment/monthly payments. I've ran into an issue that I haven't been able to overcome and need some help. I've been lurking for a while and decided it was time to ask you guys...Here's the issue:

I have a table 'payments' that contains scheduled payments that looks like:

id clientid paymentduedate balance expected pending 367 112233 4/16/2011
1030.00 257.50
Y
368 112233 5/16/2011
1030.00 257.50
Y
369 112233 6/16/2011
1030.00 257.50
Y
370 112233 7/16/2011
1030.00 257.50
Y


What I need to do that I haven't figured out is to adjust the expected amount according to the payment, update the status to N (not pending) without affecting the later expected payments.

For example:
they make a payment of $257.50, applies that to row 367, sets the status to N, but leaves the other status' to Y (for obvious reasons). the make a payment of $250.00, leaving the balance at $7.50, so lets add $7.50 to row 368, mark 367 status to N the make a payment of $300.00, leaving the expected balance at $0.00 for row 367, but adjust the balance for row 368 to $215.00
Any ideas?

Thanks

There are ten list or bookmarks from Prof. Horner's Bible-Reading System found (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=46416541831) each having set number of books from the Bible. One is to read ten chapters a day, one chapter from each of the bookmarks.

Type in what day you are on and the program will show you on each of the lists as to what chapter you are suppose to be on.

Also want to show statistics that will display how many times the Bible has been read with a break down of all 66 books of the Bible.

Started a git respo http://github.com/Kutakizukari/Prof-Horners-Bible-Reading-System

Bookmark list as follows:

//List 1
$Matthew = 28;
$Mark = 16;
$Luke = 24;
$John = 21;

//List 2
$Genesis = 50;
$Exodus = 40;
$Levitieus = 27;
$Numbers = 36;
$Deuteronomy = 34;

//List 3
$Romans = 16;
$I_Corinthians = 16;
$II_Corinthians = 13;
$Galatians = 6;
$Ephesians = 6;
$Philipians = 4;
$Colossians = 4;
$Hebrews = 13;

//List 4
$I_Thessalonians = 5;
$II_Thessalonians = 3;
$I_Timothy = 6;
$II_Timothy = 4;
$Titus = 3;
$Philemon = 1;
$James = 5;
$I_Peter = 5 ;
$II_Peter = 3 ;
$I_John = 5;
$II_John = 1;
$III_John = 1;
$Jude = 1;
$Revelation = 22;

//List 5
$Job = 42;
$Ecclesiastes = 12;
$Songs_of_Solomon = 8;

//List 6
$Psalms = 150;

//List 7
$Proverbs = 31;

//List 8
$Joshua = 24;
$Judges = 21;
$Ruth = 4;
$I_Samuel = 31;
$II_Samuel = 24;
$I_Kings = 22;
$II_Kings = 25;
$I_Chronicles = 29;
$II_Chronicles = 36;
$Ezra = 10;
$Nehemiah = 13;
$Esther = 10;

//List 9
$Isaiah = 66;
$Jeremiah = 52;
$Lamentations = 5;
$Ezekiel = 48;
$Daniel = 12;
$Hosea = 14;
$Joel = 3;
$Amos = 9;
$Obadiah = 1;
$Jonah = 4;
$Micah = 7;
$Nahum = 3;
$Habakkuk = 3;
$Zephaniah = 3;
$Haggai = 2;
$Zechariah = 14;
$Malachi = 4;

so on day 1 it should readout

Matthew Chapter 1
Genesis Chapter 1
Romans Chapter 1
I Thessalonians Chapter 1
Job Chapter 1
Psalms Chapter 1
Proverbs Chapter 1
Joshua Chapter 1
Isaiah Chapter 1
Acts Chapter 1

on the second day it should all say Chapter two but Matthew reaches day 28 it should move on to Mark Chapter 1 and so on and so on and with each bookmark list.

i got this application more then 10 years, all this years nothing happend, untill prev week, someone to lazzy to filled all the info required, but after submitting the form, their uncomplete info just being printed on the database. Which mean the required field code didnt work 2 all, all this year,.. what a dissapointment.

Can someone take a look at my scripts and fixed please

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Hey all I have an error in my Facebook application and I'm not sure what's wrong (New to PHP).

The error output is:

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Warning: array_rand() [function.array-rand]: Second argument has to be between 1 and the number of elements in the array in /home/app/view.php on line 15
And the PHP lines are as follows:

$friends = $facebook->api('/me/friends');
                print_r(array_rand($friends, 3)); 

I am urgently looking for a junior PHP web application developer with a portfolio of your code experience, no commercial experience will be considered to.   Please contact me to find out more!   Exciting opportunity for someone wanting to get a foot in the door in the world of IT!!

Hi all, this is my first time on this forum!

I have a background with HTML and CSS but have recently started a Masters in Computer Science hoping to come out of it with the tools to get a job with PHP development.

Our first assignment has somewhat 'thrown me in the deep end' as we have to construct a search engine that indexes the words of a number of documents and rank them using the TF*IDF algorithm along with the log rule associated with Information retrieval.

I am completely new to PHP so the past week has been something of a crash course - This is the code I have so far:
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<?php 

$filename = 'airlines.txt';
$fp = fopen( $filename, 'r' ); 
    $file_contents = fread( $fp, filesize( $filename ) ); 
    fclose( $fp ); 

//$new_contents = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9]", "", $file_contents);

/*$file_contents = trim($file_contents); 
    $file_contents = preg_replace('/\h+/', ' ', $file_contents); 
    $file_contents = preg_replace('/\v{3,}/', PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL, $file_contents); */

$pat[0] = "/^\s+/";
$pat[1] = "/\s{2,}/";
$pat[2] = "/\s+\$/";
$rep[0] = "";
$rep[1] = " ";
$rep[2] = "";

$new_contents = preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9\s\s+]/","",$file_contents);
$new_contents = preg_replace($pat,$rep,$new_contents);
//preg_replace('~\s{2,}~', ' ', $text);

$commonWords = array('a','able','about','above'........and another few hundreds cut out of this not to hurt your eyes!);


$lines = explode ( "\n", $new_contents);
$lines2 = implode (" ", $lines);
$words = explode ( " ", $lines2 );

$useful_words = array_diff( $words, $commonWords );

/*for($i = 0; $i < count($lines); $i++) {
echo "Piece $i = $lines[$i] <br />";
}*/

for($i = 0; $i < count($useful_words); $i++) {
echo "Words $i = $useful_words[$i] <br />";
}

  
//$arr=array("blah1","blah2","blah3");
file_put_contents("demo2.txt",implode(" ",$useful_words));

//$file_c = file_get_contents("demo.txt");
//$colms = explode(",",trim($file_c));
//print_r($colms);

//echo $lines[2];
?>
I've got to the stage where that strips out most of the stop words when the final array is printed, but they have been replaced with spaces or something that I have not come acoss because as you may see I had a bit of trouble originally stripping the punctuation marks.

I'm hoping someone can point me in the direction as to how to organise the words I have left after the stripping of stop words which are of no use during the search.  I need to store those words into another array and index them which says how many times they appear in that document.

I've come across the function array array_count_values ( array $input ) on the manual but I'm not sure about the best way to use it.

I've attached the files I've used if that helps.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi,

I'm working on a project which was going pretty well until I discovered the application doesn't actually know where it is installed.

So far when I want to include the config file I just use

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/config.php';()

Which works fine if the application is installed in the root directory. But how do I get the folder the application is installed in? e.g.

Document Root Folder: C:\Web\
Actually Application Folder: C:\Web\MyApp\


How do I get the \MyApp dynamically? I can't just use './' all the time because I have files accessed by AJAX stored in other folders.

Thanks in advance.

Would it be possible to create a passive socket server using php, for a client-server php app, that runs as some sort of daemon?

I understand that you probably can't understand much of what I mean, but I hope you understand enough to help me in some way.

PHP APPLICATION - > APPLICATION SERVER - > DATABASE(S)



Explanation:

Each instance of the PHP application would connect to the "Application Server" and use it to fetch information and perform some commands.

Could this be done using sockets ?
Simple examples would help

Thank You!