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Over the past few days I’ve gathered some info on OOP and testing. Below are some video’s and slides about best practice in JAVA and PHP Read more »
PHP’s Pdo doesnt have a default columnname function. After searching Google I found that many people seem to be looking for this function. You can get the columnnames with an easy query to the schema:
$querystring = "SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns where TABLE_NAME = $table";
Been experimenting with php-gtk over the last few days. When I was trying to use a liststore, php threw a fatal error. “Undefined class constant ‘TYPE_STRING’”. Read more »
As a web master, I often send out mass mailings. After the mailing is done, the bounced emails are returned to my Outlook. I go through them manually. The real bouncers are put in a “Bounced” folder and, Out of office messages in the “Trash”. The rest of the emails are addresses I need to update in my database or people that wish to unsubscribe. Since sorting through 2000 bouncers can take up a lot of time, I did some research on how to automate this.
PHP offers a set of functions to connect to a mail server (IMAP/POP3). The plan was to let my web server connect to the mail server and sort out the bouncers for me. Below is a little script to give you some ideas of what I came up with.