Is there a way in PHP given a video file (.mov, .mp4) to generate a thumbnail image preview?

I have a script on a server that had php version 4. Now it is changed to php5 and the script does not function any more. I get this error: Fatal error: Cannot re-assign $this in URL database.php l...

Could someone tell me how the "old-style" object constructor is different from the "new-style" constructor? I'm learning PHP OOP, and I want to know when I'm reading old syntax vs new syntax, and b...

Is there a way to define a function in PHP that lets you define a variable amount of parameters? in the language I am more familiar with it is like so: function myFunction(...rest){ /* rest...

I have a system that compares fiscal year up to the current date to the same date range of the year before. You can adjust the year and month to look at and it always compares the same date range t...

I need to find the date of Monday in the current week. How can I do this in PHP 4?

We have a very old PHP application that needs PHP 4 to run. We're decommissioning the old server and so I've built PHP 4 on the new server (Ubuntu 13.04 32 bit). When I did ./configure I made sure ...

To make life difficult, the client I'm working for is using a really large yet old system which runs on PHP4.0 and they're not wanting any additional libraries added. I'm trying to send out an ema...

I wrote a class/function to send xml over https via PHP4/cURL, just wondering if this is the correct approach, or if there's a better one. Note that PHP5 is not an option at present. /** * Send ...

I'm currently programming a website (in PHP4). I plan to save values, which do not change during runtime, in constants. Those are for example the version number of login-data for the database. Que...

I have a table in my ticketing system with 15,000 records, each containing an email which has been converted into a message to be added to a ticket. Our current problem is with collation - when I ...

I want to check that an array has no values or that the values in the array are empty. Can someone explain how to do this?

We have to move around 50+ Applications (small / large) to PHP 5.3 (from PHP 4.1). Does some has any experience with such an task? Time needed Tools Best setup for environment (Servers/Test...

I'm trying to access a WebService using nuSOAP (because I'm bound to PHP4 here) that uses more than 1 namespace in a message. Is that possible? An example request message would look like this: &l...

I'm trying to run a loop every second for 25 seconds basically. for($i = 0; $i <= 25; $i += 1){ echo $i; sleep(1) } The thing is it doesn't output until it's fully done, so after the loop...

I just realized the professor Google is unable to present a specific page where I can find out, when static keyword added to PHP 4. Though following the change log for php 4 I can see that it...

How can I create a class with a given array of arguments to be sent to the constructor? Something along the lines of: class a { var $args = false; function a() {$this->args = func_get_args();...

Is there an official date for when support for PHP4 will end? I keep reading this date and that on various sites and blogs, but can't find anything on the PHP website. Am I overlooking something...

I am generating an HTML table full of data. They need it to be an editable spreadsheet though that they can save and edit. I currently have it exactly as they want but as an HTML table, is there a...