For the past few months, I’ve been working on a project called SimpleCollab which has now been renamed to ProjectPress. Well, in actuality, I’ve been working on this project for more than a year. Due to my busy schedule, development was very slow. Read more →
Sometimes when writing a PHP application, you may need to retrieve the same database information from time to time throughout your PHP application. But how does one do so while staying true to the DRY concept? One answer is classes, but what if you don’t want to write a class just for one database table. Well, you can accomplish this with just one function:
function get_project_meta($id,$field) { global $pmdb; $result = $pmdb->query("SELECT " . $field . " FROM " . DB . "projects WHERE p_id = '" . $id . "'"); while($r = $result->fetch_object()) { $info = $r->$field; return $info; } }
It’s hard trying to figure out a convenient way to show an update message to those who download and install your PHP applications. It’s even harder trying to do it without bringing down your site or theirs. One way of accomplishing this is by using Curl. You can use the functions below to help get you started:
// Define the current version of your PHP Application. define("CUR_VERSION",'2.1'); // Where the latest version of your PHP application is defined. define('PHP_APP_URL', 'http://mydomain.com/latestversion.txt'); // Checks the remote server for the current version of your PHP application. function get_latest_version($file) { $ch = curl_init(); $timeout = 5; curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$file); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout); $data = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); return $data; } // Prints an update message if the installed version is less than the current version. function show_update_message() { if($_SESSION['level'] == 1) { if(CUR_VERSION < get_latest_version(PHP_APP_URL)) { echo '
Now all you need to do is figure out where you want the update message to appear and add the following line to your PHP application:
< ?php show_update_message(); ?>
