Sailesh's Journal
PHP to Leadership: Since 2008

It can be a situation where you got a array of data that should be sent in the JSON format to server via ajax, then you can do the following <script type="text/javascript" > groups = ['A', 'B', 'C']; users  = ['user1', 'user2', 'user3']; //required format is  [{"group_name" : "A", "leader" : "user1"}, {"group_name" : "B", "leader" : "user2"}, {"group_name" : "C", "leader" : "user3"}] group_leaders = new Array(); len = groups.length; for(var i = 0; i < len; i++ ){     group_leaders.push({"group_name" : groups[i], "leader" : users[i]}); } alert(JSON.stringify(group_leaders)); </script> Here you can test here http://jsfiddle.net/sailesh/6wXdY/

I faced a problem while trying to connect Windows Azure SQL Database from local system using PDO. Here I'm using PHP 5.4+ and Apache 2.4 on Windows 8. I didn't find better tutorial for trouble shooting. Following are the steps that explains you what to do.. Download php_pdo_sqlsrv_54_ts.dll and placed it in php/ext directory. Here you can find it http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20098 Download SQLSRV30.EXE and extracted to php/ext directory Open the php/php.ini file and added the following line extension=php_pdo_sqlsrv_54_ts.dll It needs Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client, to go further. So download it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=29065 for 32bits(x86) http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=239647&clcid=0x409 for 64bits(x64) http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=239648&clcid=0x409 Restart the Apache server. Write the following code in php file to connect. $server_url = "xxxxxx...

Downloading a file can be done in two ways: Direct download Indirect download Direct Download: Assumptions: File location: c:/xampp/htdocs/project/docs/test.doc URL: http://localhost/project/docs/test.doc Code:   <a href='http://localhost/project/docs/test.doc'>click here</a> Indirect Download: (recommended) Assumptions: File location: c:/xampp/htdocs/project/docs/test.doc PHP file for the download code: location: c:/xampp/htdocs/project/download.php <?php   $file_name = $_GET['file'];   $file_path = "docs/".$file_name;  //setting the content type   header('content-type: application/octet-stream');   //downloads file as attachment   header("content-disposition: attachment; filename='$file_name'");   //actual file path   readfile($file_path); ?> Note: content-type application/octet-stream can be used for any type of file. To use the above file for download. Create link like as be...