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Ive got a mysql table with a load of clients listed. The below script echos out each of them perfectly except I would like them to be sorted alphabetically. How can I do this with what I already have? [syntax=php] $client_list = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM clients"); while($row = mysql_fetc...

I have an array with several entries.

A common key inside is "date_timestamp"

Lets pretend this array is called $items

How do i organise the elements inside $items by the common key "date_timestamp" which is a unix time stamp?

i was just using xammp on my pc for now, how do i enable this on there?

I stumbled across this code and tried running it but it always seems to return "down" or "off" - Can anyone see whats wrong? [syntax=php] <?php function ping($host) { exec(sprintf('ping -c 1 -W 5 %s', escapeshellarg($host)), $res, $rval); return $rval === 0; } $hosts_to_ping = ar...

Hi, I've just gone through the php tutorial on the above stated but keep getting this error: "Strict Standards: Only variables should be passed by reference" this then points to the line on the init.inc.php which reads: [syntax=php] $page = substr(end(explode('/', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']))...

My bad...
I had placed " " around the variables within the $user_selection array

Solved!

I need the output of this to be: This is another This is awesome [syntax=php]<?php $variable_one = array ("one"=>"This is one", "two"=>"This is another"); $variable_two = array ("one"=>"This is two", "two"=>"This is working l...

Okay, I had a read over what you sent when I had some time, but don't really get it. Let me try and explain what i need it to do. So you've got these arrays predefined at the top of the document. There could be loads of them but they all contain the same 3 keys but the data attached to all these key...

Cheers Jacek! I'll give this ago! =]

I've got what I want to achieve in my head, but I don't yet think in the way of PHP so I'm having trouble getting it to work in practise. So I've got (for examples sake) 2 predefined arrays, something like this. [syntax=php] $arrayone = array("pizza" => "random unique stuff", &qu...

Ah cheers! I was able to work out a sorting method using the link you provided, took me a while to get it tho! I've just got one last question which I'm struggling with. ATM, I've got this: [syntax=php] $num_items = 8; $urls = array( "http://www.url1.com", "http://www.url2.com", ...

I'm trying to create a php rss parser that takes on multiple feeds, takes 10 entries from each, these all then get mixed together in an array and displayed in date order. Atm i've got this: [syntax=php] <?php require_once 'magpierss/rss_fetch.inc'; $num_items = 10; $urls = array( "http://url1.c...