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INCOMPLETE – Parsing XML with SimpleXML and PHP

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More reference: http://www.sitepoint.com/parsing-xml-with-simplexml/ Given the XML: <Calendar> <Account> <Name>Sample Account Name</Name> <Client>Test User</Client> </Account> <CalendarDates> <CalendarDate> <Date>2014-03-01</Date> <Events> <Event> <Name>Event Number One</Name> <StartingAt>2014-03-01T09:30:00</StartingAt> <Categories>General</Categories> </Event> <Event> <Name>Another Event</Name> <StartingAt>2014-03-01T09:30:00</StartingAt> <Categories>Meeting</Categories> </Event> <Event> <Name>Hockey Game</Name> <StartingAt>2014-03-01T10:00:00</StartingAt> <Categories>Sports</Categories> </Event> </Events> </CalendarDate> </CalendarDates> </Calendar> Perhaps this was entered into a textarea on a form and we have read […]

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Nice Simple Lightbox

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Too often jquery plugins suffer from the Windows mentality of “do everything for everyone” which leaves them bloated and confusing. Sometimes you just wanted something nice and simple to perform a task quickly out of the box. I was looking for a lightbox like that when I came across Lightbox_me by Buck Wilson. Quick and

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Loop Through PHP Request Values – GET and POST

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Loop through PHP Request Values In order to Loop through PHP Request Values – GET and POST without knowing what they all might be, you can simply use the following code: foreach ($_REQUEST as $key => $value) { $value = mysql_real_escape_string( $value ); $value = addslashes($value); $value = strip_tags($value); if($value != “”){$requestnumber ++;} echo $key.

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