The PHP XML parser:

   1  class XML
   2  {
   3  	static function parse($data, $handler, $encoding = "UTF-8")
   4  	{
   5  		$parser = xml_parser_create($encoding);
   6  
   7  		xml_set_object($parser, $handler);
   8  		
   9  		xml_set_element_handler($parser,
  10  			array(&$handler, 'start'),
  11  			array(&$handler, 'end')
  12  		);
  13  			
  14  		xml_set_character_data_handler(
  15  			$parser,
  16  			array($handler, 'content')
  17  		);
  18  			
  19  		$result = xml_parse($parser, $data);
  20  
  21  		if(!$result)
  22  		{
  23  			$error_string = xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($parser));
  24  			$error_line	  = xml_get_current_line_number($parser);
  25  			$error_column = xml_get_current_column_number($parser);
  26  			
  27  			$message = sprintf("XML error '%s' at line %d column %d", $error_string, $error_line, $error_column);
  28  			
  29  			throw new Exception($message);
  30  		}
  31  
  32  		xml_parser_free($parser);
  33  	}
  34  }

A result handler:

   1  class ResultHandler
   2  {
   3  	var $tag;
   4  
   5  	function start ($parser, $tagName, $attributes = null)
   6  	{
   7  		echo "start";
   8  		$this->tag .= $tagName; # Use .= to work around bug...
   9  	}
  10  
  11  	function end ($parser, $tagName)
  12  	{
  13  		echo "end";
  14  		$this->tag = null;
  15  
  16  	}
  17  
  18  	function content ($parser, $content)
  19  	{
  20  		echo "$this->tag: $content" ;
  21  	}
  22  }

Then in your code:

   1  $xml = "<a>bah</a>";
   2  XML::parse($xml, new ResultHandler());

Note that HTML /XML entities are considered to be tags by PHP ’s XML parser, so your start tag handler will be called three times for this tag, once for “really”, once for “&” and once for ” bad parser”:

   1  <data>really &amp;  bad parser</data>

I guess this is a bug… You can

PHP file upload works in mysterious ways:

   1  http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.post-max-size
   2  http://fi.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php#73762
   3  http://de3.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.errors.php

First copy webroot/index.php to webroot/cron_scheduler.php. Replace everything below require CORE _PATH . ‘cake’ . DS . ‘bootstrap.php’; with the following code:

   1  #
   2  # BEGIN
   3  #
   4  # This was added to webroot/cron_scheduler.php
   5  #
   6  
   7  # Check that URI was specified and that we're called from the command line (not the web)
   8  if($argc == 2 && php_sapi_name() === "cli") 
   9  {
  10  	# Set request URI
  11  	$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $argv[1];
  12  	# Set user-agent, so we can do custom processing
  13  	$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] = 'cron';
  14  	
  15  	$Dispatcher= new Dispatcher();
  16  	$Dispatcher->dispatch($argv[1]);
  17  } 
  18  
  19  #
  20  # END
  21  #
  22  # 
  23  #

Now you can execute CakePHP from the command line with the following command:

   1  $ php cron_scheduler.php /controller/action

If you get the following error, remove the lines containing line feeds in bootstrap.php:

   1  Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at .../app/config/b
   2  ootstrap.php:48) in .../app/app_controller.php on line 46

This is a slight modification of a script I found at PHPFAQ :

   1  class Password
   2  {
   3  	static function generate($length)
   4  	{
   5  		srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
   6  
   7  		$vowels = array("a", "e", "i", "o", "u");
   8  		$cons = array("b", "c", "d", "g", "h", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "p", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "tr",
   9  	    "cr", "br", "fr", "th", "dr", "ch", "ph", "wr", "st", "sp", "sw", "pr", "sl", "cl"); 
  10  
  11  		$num_vowels = count($vowels);
  12  		$num_cons = count($cons);
  13  
  14  		$password = '';
  15  		
  16  		for($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++)
  17  		{
  18  			$password .= $cons[rand(0, $num_cons - 1)] . $vowels[rand(0, $num_vowels - 1)];
  19  		}
  20  
  21  		return substr($password, 0, $length);
  22  	}
  23  }

To use it try this code:

   1  require 'password.php'
   2  
   3  echo Password.generate(10);

It will spit out passwords that are semi-pronouncable.

This is an example on how to use PHPMailer to send an HTML email. It also shows how to include a text only version of the same email for clients, such as mutt, that don’t support HTML emails.

   1  $mail = new PHPMailer();
   2  
   3  $mail->IsHTML(true);
   4  $mail->CharSet = "text/html; charset=UTF-8;";
   5  $mail->IsSMTP();
   6  
   7  $mail->WordWrap = 80;
   8  $mail->Host = "smtp.thehost.com"; 
   9  $mail->SMTPAuth = false;
  10  
  11  $mail->From = $from;
  12  $mail->FromName = $from; // First name, last name
  13  $mail->AddAddress($to, "First name last name");
  14  #$mail->AddReplyTo("reply@thehost.com", "Reply to address");
  15  
  16  $mail->Subject =  $subject;
  17  $mail->Body =  $htmlMessage; 
  18  $mail->AltBody  =  $textMessage;    # This automatically sets the email to multipart/alternative. This body can be read by mail clients that do not have HTML email capability such as mutt.
  19  
  20  if(!$mail->Send())
  21  {
  22    throw new Exception("Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo);
  23  }