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Super simple XML and PHP

This is a super simple implementation of a concept found here:
http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/paper/19

This xml class provides a very simple way to open an XML file, get information from the XML file, modify information from the XML file and save the XML file. It also supports automatic creation of new XML files based on an automatically incrementing ID senerio (similar to auto incrementing primary keys in databases).

The creation of new XML files is done by looking for a "template" xml file named 0.xml in the directory passed to the create function. If the template file is found, then it is loaded into the xml class and saved to a new file whose name is one more than the highest filename (of course the xml extension is added on). Eventually, I will try and add some validation code and whatever else, but for now I'm trying to keep things simple.

This requires the DOM module to be built into PHP.
I am using PHP 5.

If anyone has any ideas on how to improve this, feel free to post comments.

<?php

class xml
{
	var $dom;
	var $uri;

	function xml($uri)
	{
		$this->dom = new DOMDocument();

		if(preg_match('/\.xml$/', $uri))
		{
			$this->uri = $uri;
		}
		else
		{
			$this->uri = $this->create($uri);
		}
		$this->dom->load($this->uri);
	}

	function set($query, $value)
	{
		$path = new DOMXPath($this->dom);
		$nodes = $path->query($query);
		$nodes->item(0)->nodeValue = $value;
	}

	function get($query)
	{
		$path = new DOMXPath($this->dom);
		$nodes = $path->query($query);
		return $nodes->item(0)->nodeValue;
	}

	function save()
	{
		$this->dom->save($this->uri);
	}

	function create($uri)
	{
		// Build the URI of the template file.
		$template = sprintf('%s/0.xml', $uri);

		// If the directory doesn't exist, we can't really
		// do anything.
		if(!is_dir($uri))
		{
			exit('No directory');
		}

		// If the template file doesn't exist, we cannot
		// create a new file automatically.
		if(!file_exists($template))
		{
			exit('No template');
		}

		// Load the template XML into our DOMDocument.
		$this->dom->load($template);

		// Scan the directory into an array.
		$dir = scandir($uri);

		// Pull out the highest ID
		$id = str_replace('.xml', '', array_pop($dir));

		// Add one to it
		$id++;

		// Construct the new path with the new ID
		$uri = sprintf('%s/%s.xml', $uri, $id);

		// Save the new file
		$this->dom->save($uri);

		// Return the URI of the new XML file.
		return $uri;
	}
}

// The following code will create a new XML file
// under the directory /var/www/data/users.
$x = new xml('/var/www/data/users');
$x->set('//user/name', 'John Doe');
$x->save();

?>

move column in mysql

// description of your code here

ALTER TABLE TableName MODIFY ColumnName ColumnType NULL/NOT NULL AFTER OtherColumnName;

Convert MySQL tables to InnoDB

// Slower than MyISAM, but row locking is clutch if you're doing a lot of writes amirite?

for t in $(mysql --batch --column-names=false -e "show tables" mydbname |grep -v "exclude_this");
do
mysql -e "alter table $t type=InnoDB" mydbname;
done


From:
http://ludo.qix.it/archive/2005/04/convert-a-bunch-of-tables-to-innodb.html

Delete duplicate rows from a table

// Whoops, didja forgot to add a unique index to that column? No problem

CREATE TABLE new_table AS
SELECT * FROM old_table WHERE 1 GROUP BY [COLUMN TO remove duplicates BY];
DROP TABLE old_table;
RENAME TABLE new_table TO old_table;

VB.net Modified Preorder Tree Traversal

In order to utilize this, I would recommend reading the article located at sitepoint.com (Search google for modified preorder tree traversal). It took me quite some time and some help from a coworker to port this from PHP to VB.net. :D

Replace the application("sql").query("*") with your SQL code, I was inclined to write my own SQL class to make querying DB's easier, but you can do whatever you want.
record = application("sql").query("select * from categories order by lft asc")
dim output as new arraylist()
dim right as new arraylist()
do while not record.eof
  if right.count > 0
    do while right(right.count - 1) < record("rgt").value
      right.removeAt(right.count - 1)
      if right.count = 0 then exit do
    loop
  end if
  response.write(record("name").value & " is " & right.count & " levels deep in the tree..." & controlchars.cr)
  right.add(record("rgt").value)
  record.movenext
loop

Scripting schema updates in MSSQL #1

This SQL statement will alter a table only if a column in the table to be altered does NOT contain a column named 'FavoriteColorId'.

From: http://haacked.com/

IF NOT EXISTS
(
    SELECT * FROM [information_schema].[columns]
    WHERE    table_name   = 'Customer'
    AND      table_schema = 'dbo'
    AND      column_name  = 'FavoriteColorId'
)
BEGIN
    ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Customer]
    ADD FavoriteColorId int

Web and database backup


mysqldump -u root -p —all-databases > /path/to/backups/YYYY-MM-DD-alldbs.sql
scp /path/to/backups/YYYY-MM-DD-alldbs.sql.gz user@remotehost.com:/path/to/backups
tar czvf /path/to/backups/YYYY-MM-DD-production.tgz /path/to/production
scp /path/to/backups/YYYY-MM-DD-production.tgz user@remotehost.com:/path/to/backups

Upload Image To Database

// Code To Upload an image to a database and then update its contents.

# Create an ew classified and attach an image with it.
def create
  image_types = ["image/jpeg", "image/pjpeg", "image/gif","image/png", "image/x-png"]
  @categories = Category.find(:all)
  @classified = Classified.new(params[:classified])
  @classified.user = session[:user]
  unless params[:classified][:picture].blank?
    if (image_types.include?params[:classified][:picture].content_type.chomp)
      @classified.picture = params[:classified][:picture].read
    else
      @classified.errors.add(:picture,  "Photo doesn't seem to be JPG, GIF, or PNG. please ensure it is a valid image file.")
      render :action => 'new'
      return
    end
  end

  if @classified.save
    redirect_to :action => 'list'
  else 
    render :action => 'new'
  end
end


# Update Method So user can change the image associated with their classified
def update
  image_types = ["image/jpeg", "image/pjpeg", "image/gif", "image/png", "image/x-png"]
  @classified = Classified.find(params[:id])
  @categories = Category.find(:all)
  
  if @classified.update_attributes(params[:classified])
    unless params[:classified][:picture].blank?
      if (image_types.include?params[:classified][:picture].content_type.chomp)
        @classified.picture = params[:classified][:picture].read
      else
        @classified.errors.add(:picture, " doesn't seem to be JPG, GIF, or PNG. please ensure it is a valid image file.")
        render :action => 'edit'
        return
      end
    end
    
    flash[:notice] = 'Classified was successfully updated.'
    redirect_to :action => 'show', :id => @classified
  else
    render :action => 'edit'
  end
end

Change password in Sybase

// description of your code here

#check last pwd change

1> use master
2> go
1> select name, pwdate from syslogins where name = 'wat'
2> go
 name                           pwdate                     
 ------------------------------ -------------------------- 
 wat                              Jul  3 2006 12:54PM 

(1 row affected)

#change pwd

sp_password   caller_passwd, new_passwd   [,   login_name  ] 
 - caller_passwd: old pwd
 - new_passwd
 - login_name: use only if you want to change other users pwd

Creating a table with migrations when using has_and_belongs_to_many

You can find the information at http://api.rubyonrails.org under the "create_table" method. The short answer is this though,

create_table :table_name, :id => false do |t|

end


:id is the part you're looking for, it defaults to true, which creates the :id as an autoincrementing primary key, if you use migrations and want to create the join table, you don't want an "id" column, so use :id => false to override the create_table method and tell it you don't want that primary key.