Re: [PHP] Credit Card encryption
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:50 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: At 12:43 PM +0200 5/30/10, Peter Lind wrote: On 30 May 2010 07:49, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: -snip- Does anyone have a better solution? I'm sorry if the following sounds a bit harsh, but in matters like these I prefer blunt directness. A few notes. 1) one-way encryption means no decrypting - that's what one-way is (like a one-way street, there's no driving the other direction). You're looking for encryption that can be decrypted, not one-way encryption which is otherwise known as hashing. 2) do not store credit card information. Just don't. It's downright stupid to do so, because it's a huge risk for very little gain. 3) farm out risks like these to companies that specialize in dealing with them - you will with 100% certainty not be able to do as good a job as these. The question to ask is not: how to store credit card information securely? The question to ask is: do I really want to be the next person in the internet spotlight because my setup turned out to have a security hole I overlooked? Paul: Let me be equally blunt. Petter is absolutely right! Do NOT have your client store customer credit card information on a server -- period! That's the stuff people go to jail over. Instead, use a credit card clearing house to do the heavy work, that's what they get paid for. Besides, most credit card processing agencies even require that you use the customer's data (cc number, expiry date and CCS) to make the sale and then immediately dispose of it afterwards, usually within 24 hours under a signed agreement. Holding that information for more than 24 hours can be a criminal offense regardless of what type of hashing you use. While many of my customers have made the argument that they keep hard-copy records of their customer's credit-card information in-house and they don't understand why they can't do the same online -- I reply that hard-copy kept in a safe behind brick and mortar in far more secure that digital data behind any security code open to the world. There isn't a security system out there that can't be hacked. If the client insists on keeping this information online, then find another client because at some time, someone is going to jail and it's not going to be me. So, let the people who can keep up with technology (a continued effort and expense) worry about hackers -- just use their services and sleep at night. Cheers, tedd To add my two cents - if you plan to store card information, in the eyes of the Payment Card Industry you will have to be Tier One compliant. How high are the standards? Visit hackerguardian.com and take the free test. We *thought* it might be cool to store the CC info for a new enterprise, provide convenient one-click shopping, etc, so we ran through the questionnaire at that level. It would take more time to design, implement and test the security and audit systems than to write the app. Furthermore, since we were doing the new project in the cloud we could not meet the requirements for physical security. So we settled for Tier4 - we take the information as part of the transaction, https to CC processor, get an OK or Not OK back, and no cardholder info stored on our server at all, apart from the transaction number. Cheers - Miles Thompson ~~ The piano keys are black and white, But they sound like a million colours in your mind Spider's Web - Katie Melua
Re: [PHP] Ubuntu and Apache
Brian, You're not doing anything wrong. Apache runs as www-data in Ubuntu, so any file created by Apache will belong to that owner:group. Add yourself to the www-data group and life will become easier. Cheers - Miles On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Brian Hazelton bdh_2...@comcast.netwrote: I know this is not quite on topic but I do not know where else to turn. I needed to reinstall ubuntu and now I cannot change myself to be the owner of var www. I had been able to change myself to the owner of it and create, delete and modify any files I wanted before I had to reinstall. Now it seems the change is not taking effect. What happens is I use the sudo chown command and it shows that I am the owner. I have a script that creates a file when I go to the page and it creates a file and has www-data as the owner, not me. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Brian -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Miles Thompson ~~ The piano keys are black and white, But they sound like a million colours in your mind Spider's Web - Katie Melua
Re: [PHP] Language translation
gettext -not PHP, but a GNU project. PHP hooks: http://ca.php.net/manual/en/book.gettext.php, which contains a link to the project. In the past I've coded arrays of prompts, this is a more native solution. Cheers - Miles On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Skip Evanss...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Hey all, We got a new project and language translation of content is a major priority. I've googled around and seen lots of options, but I'd like to hear from the list about more real world experiences about what some of you found and what both you as a coder and the client were most satisfied with. Big Hugs, Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] CMS
We have used both Joomla! and Drupal for clients and for our own use - and they're OK. We have probably standardized on Drupal. The big advantage is that they manage all the CRUD, and you spend 80% of your time bending either one to do the non-standard 20% which you absolutely *must* have. Typo3 we flirted with but never took to the dance. Ate a bit of CAKE as well, and again the 80:20 rule applies. Cheers - Miles On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:31 PM, madunixmadu...@gmail.com wrote: Dear ALL, What are the experiences you have with various open source CMS products (Comparison of PHP-based CMS) such as (Drupal, Joomla, OpenCMS, Typo3, eZ publish ..etc.) Security, Bugs, Performance, Support, Developer Community, learning curve, appearance..etc Thanks -mu -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Search functionality in website.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Tiji varghese tij...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Hi all,I would like to set up search functionality on my website. I'm using PHP and Mysql. Most of the pages contain static text in the html and is not database driven. I need some idea on how should I go about it without moving everything to database driven functionality. Please help.Thanks in advance! Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ ht-dig (or digg)
Re: [PHP] Credit Card processing: Chase PaymenTech
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Chris dmag...@gmail.com wrote: phphelp -- kbk wrote: Hello - - --- -- - -- I need to develop Credit Card processing for my current application. We have our own shopping cart. We have been trying in vain to get technical information from PaymenTech for *months* -- but it seems that Chase sold part of it, or split it off into a separate company -- or something. in any case, they seem extremely distracted and unresponsive. By doing some heavy googling, I was able to find some code from a PHP developer's web site, mostly for the format of the xml strings to pass to them. I can't believe that they don't have a processing object for PHP already available, but it seems not. I see in the archives a couple of requests to the group for code, but the most recent was a couple of years old. So, I'll ask again: Anybody have modules, code, tips, land mines, or any other information for doing credit card processing with PaymenTech that you would be willing to share? I don't have anything for you but if they're that bad with responses can you switch to another payment provider? Might save you a lot of headaches, especially if something goes wrong (or they change something). -- Postgresql php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ http://www.php.net/unsub.php We have experience with two: Beanstream (also known as Online Mart) which is a branch fo toronto-Dominion Bank. Their system is cURL based. fabulously reliable, and we would have used it for our own company except that it supports only CAN and USD. The second is WorldPay, a subsidiary of The Royal Bank of Scotland. Supports a raft of credit cards and just about any currency you care for. Downside? Your customers are taken to a WorldPay site - which you can sort of decorate like your own - and then are sent back to your site. They also rely on *timing* for completion of transactions. Sort of lousy. Nevertheless, we will see. General reflection? All these companies seem to want your business, but then are hellaciously slow in providing basic information, responding to questions, etc. Good luck - you will need it in some measure. Cheers - Miles
Re: [PHP] Output to matrix printer
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Dušan Novaković [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some request to sent text to matrix printer to print ticket for theater. Is it possible to do that whit some php functions? Main point is how to control length of paper that will be drawn inside and to print text on a specific place. It would be nice if somebody can write the code about this as example. Thnx, Dusan -- made by Dusan Decide on the font you will use - either 10 or 12 characters per inch. A line is usually 1/8 high. So you essentially have a matrix running at n characters per inch horizontally, and m fractions of an inch vertically. Fit your print into this matrix - some people do it with an array, others just work the spaces. Provide a test ticket so the operator can get the printer lined up. With a tractor feed, after that you are good for a whole box of tickets. Oh - one more thing - you may have to advance a number of lines so the ticket can be torn off after printing, then reverse feed the same number. Another tip - set your page length just to the height of the ticket. You really want to exploit the basic native font built into the printer. Hope this helps - Miles
[PHP] Randomly missing a function
An online signup script is randomly missing part of the task. These scripts
are involved:
sub_signup.php
include/cc_proc.php - does the CC (credit card) processing
include/user_maint.php - inserts the new subscriber into the database
When the CC processing finishes, with the success flag, user_maint.php is
included, and a few lines later the createUser($params) function therein is
called to create the user. Every mysql_ function in user_maint.php is
backstopped with a die() if it fails. But sometimes it appears that the call
to this script, or the createUser() function just isn't made.
What seems to happen, randomly, is that the script charges on so to speak,
sending an advisory email to the office manager that there is a new
subscriber, and calling sub_signup_thanks.php, which displays a completion
message, etc.
In all of these cases the credit card processing has succeeded. Sometimes
people have tried to sign up two or three times, the card processes, but no
addition is made to the database. It's driving us nuts! Any thoughts?
Regards - Miles
Infrastructure: Apache 2.2, PHP 5.x, MySQL 5
Code:
switch ($ret) {
case CC_SUCCESS:
require 'include/user_maint.php';
$cctype = cc_getCardType($cc);
if ($cctype == 'Visa') $cctype = 'VISA';
elseif ($cctype == 'MasterCard') $cctype = 'M-C';
//Shouldn't happen in case CC_SUCCESS, but better safe than sorry
else die('We don\'t support this credit card');
$params = array(
'firstname' = $first,
// various fields
'postal_code' = $postal_code,
'pay_method' = $cctype
);
// createUser is a function in user_maint
createUser($params);
// sendEmail is func in user_maint, advises office manager
sendEmail('New subscriber!!!', Already paid $amount by credit
card, $fields);
require 'sub_signup_thanks.php';//Grabs authCode from $result
return;
} //other situations dealt with, and properly closed
Re: [PHP] Randomly missing a function
MIcah,
Duh!! So damned obvious.
We'll try that.
Thanks - Miles
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Micah Gersten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try returning a value from CreateUser and checking it before sending the
E-Mail.
Thank you,
Micah Gersten
onShore Networks
Internal Developer
http://www.onshore.com
Miles Thompson wrote:
An online signup script is randomly missing part of the task. These
scripts
are involved:
sub_signup.php
include/cc_proc.php - does the CC (credit card) processing
include/user_maint.php - inserts the new subscriber into the database
When the CC processing finishes, with the success flag, user_maint.php is
included, and a few lines later the createUser($params) function therein
is
called to create the user. Every mysql_ function in user_maint.php is
backstopped with a die() if it fails. But sometimes it appears that the
call
to this script, or the createUser() function just isn't made.
What seems to happen, randomly, is that the script charges on so to
speak,
sending an advisory email to the office manager that there is a new
subscriber, and calling sub_signup_thanks.php, which displays a
completion
message, etc.
In all of these cases the credit card processing has succeeded. Sometimes
people have tried to sign up two or three times, the card processes, but
no
addition is made to the database. It's driving us nuts! Any thoughts?
Regards - Miles
Infrastructure: Apache 2.2, PHP 5.x, MySQL 5
Code:
switch ($ret) {
case CC_SUCCESS:
require 'include/user_maint.php';
$cctype = cc_getCardType($cc);
if ($cctype == 'Visa') $cctype = 'VISA';
elseif ($cctype == 'MasterCard') $cctype = 'M-C';
//Shouldn't happen in case CC_SUCCESS, but better safe than sorry
else die('We don\'t support this credit card');
$params = array(
'firstname' = $first,
// various fields
'postal_code' = $postal_code,
'pay_method' = $cctype
);
// createUser is a function in user_maint
createUser($params);
// sendEmail is func in user_maint, advises office manager
sendEmail('New subscriber!!!', Already paid $amount by credit
card, $fields);
require 'sub_signup_thanks.php';//Grabs authCode from $result
return;
} //other situations dealt with, and properly closed
Re: [PHP] How to secure Flash Video? [Solved?]
Tedd, As Casey noted, there's no totally secure methodolgy, but your's is close enough - everything is wrapped in the Flash movie, so even if the movie is sent on to someone else, that someone has to be approved. We've been doing something similar for several years now, validating against a database and when validation succeeds, issuing a key stored in the database and as a Flash (ach, can't remember the name, but Flash's equivalent of a cookie.) As for people wanting total security - unplug everything and go split wood. Most security breaches are internal, and usually all that's necessary is to keep honest people from straying down the wrong path. Cheers - Miles On Jan 5, 2008 1:16 AM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gang: Here's my logic, so what's wrong with it? My sole concern here is to protect a Video from being stolen and/or being viewed remotely while allowing approved users to view it. It is a fact that anything you present to a user is theirs. There's no stopping them from downloading a Video if they have permission to do so. In fact, that's exactly what they do when they view a Video -- they can't view it in their browser unless their browser has it. Now, I have investigated several ways to protect videos and prevent caching. Some methods are very complex -- but complexity does not always guarantee security. Complexity is more likely to present problems in its application. Sometimes the simplest method is best. The simplest protection method I can think of can be done by using Flash Video Actionscript in concert with php/mysql. It's a simple matter to have the Video run the following prior to displaying: theXML.load(http://example.com/security.php) That's similar to a javascript onload function. Upon loading the Video, the Video will run the script security.php which in-turn will check to see if an approved user is attempting to view the Video. This done by simply checking a user-id session variable in the script that delivers the Video. If that session variable (user-id ) is empty, then the security.php returns nothing. If that session session is not empty, then the script will check the user-id against the database to see if the user has permission to view the Video. If the user does not have permission, then the security.php script returns nothing. If everything checks, then the security.php script will return a key and the Video will check that key against an internal key -- if a match is made, then the video plays. Now, please note that this will also prohibit the user, even after paying for the Video, from downloading the Video for future plays because the Video will always check for a key. Even if the user downloads the Video and takes the Video to a remote player, the Video will still try to run the security script seeking a key. If the security script is not there, then it fails. Even if the user figures out that the Video requires a key, the still user has no way to determine what that internal key is. So, I think this will work. What say all of you? Where have I screwed up? And, please no one liners that solve the entire mess and make me look like a fool. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Emailing dilemma
On Nov 26, 2007 3:21 PM, George Pitcher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have almost 30 websites that use PEAR::Mail to send emails on
behalf of
users at universities (one site for each) to lecturers at the same
university.
The problem I have is that if a lecturer sets an 'Out of Office'
status,
it
gets bounced back to my server instead of to the user at the
university.
I did have the 'From' set to the user's email address, but that wasn't
very
successful ats it caused problems with the universities' anti-spam
systems.
I've tried using ini_set('sendmail_from',$useremail); but that doesn't
seem
to work either.
Can anyone point me in the right direction, please?
Cheers
George in Edinburgh
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-Original Message-
From: Miles Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 November 2007 8:44 pm
To: PHP List
Subject: Re: [PHP] Emailing dilemma
George,
Had this problem a year ago, although I'm not using PEAR. Have a look at
http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
and this down in the additional_parameters(optional) section:
For example, this can be used to set the envelope sender address
when using
sendmail with the *-f* sendmail option.
It is not well documented, don't know if this helps, but it may get you
started.
Cheers - Miles
On Nov 27, 2007 10:13 AM, George Pitcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Miles,
I see that tha manual talks about a trusted sender list
(/etc/mail/trusted-users). Do you know if there is something similar for a
Windows NT server?
Cheers
George
Sorry George, can't help you as my experience with Windows mail servers is
zero.
Miles
Re: [PHP] Emailing dilemma
George,
Had this problem a year ago, although I'm not using PEAR. Have a look at
http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
and this down in the additional_parameters(optional) section:
For example, this can be used to set the envelope sender address when using
sendmail with the *-f* sendmail option.
It is not well documented, don't know if this helps, but it may get you
started.
Cheers - Miles
On Nov 26, 2007 3:21 PM, George Pitcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have almost 30 websites that use PEAR::Mail to send emails on behalf of
users at universities (one site for each) to lecturers at the same
university.
The problem I have is that if a lecturer sets an 'Out of Office' status,
it
gets bounced back to my server instead of to the user at the university.
I did have the 'From' set to the user's email address, but that wasn't
very
successful ats it caused problems with the universities' anti-spam
systems.
I've tried using ini_set('sendmail_from',$useremail); but that doesn't
seem
to work either.
Can anyone point me in the right direction, please?
Cheers
George in Edinburgh
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Re: [PHP] MPEG Properties
Check out ffmpeg-php http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg-php/ Miles On 10/25/07, Bill Medley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all. Thanks for your help in advance. I'm trying to figure out how to get PHP to retrieve MPEG File Properties, specifically the length of the video file in seconds. Thanks, -B -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] combining 2 arrays
array_merge() function?
If your db is MySQL, look at this thread, Google being your friend:
http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/204616
Cheers - Milesx
On 10/16/07, Ladislav Andel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list!
I read data from 2 databases and for the purpose of displaying the
information at my web interface as one piece
I need to combine the data into one array first.. Here is my problem:
Firstly, it reads from first DB and get this array: (it's a sum of
server names in table)
arrayDB1 = array(array('8', 'SER'), array('5','Asterisk'))
When finished then it starts reading from second DB
where I would get
arrayDB2 = array(array('6', 'XIP'), array('4','Asterisk'))
Is there any function where I would get
result = array(array('8', 'SER'), array('9','Asterisk'),
array('6','XIP'))
Probably, it would be best to add number of Asterisk while cycling
through data of second DB.
The problem could be when databases have thousands of rows in each DB.
I'm just asking in case you know a better approach.
Thank you,
Lada
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Re: [PHP] amfphp
Nathan, The web server, MySQL and PHP are all running on the web server. Localhost is a default address for the MySQL host; to use another you will have to set it up. There's nothing wrong with localhost - fits right in with the web server / PHP environment. They are all running locally. Not a v. good explanation I'm afraid, but hope it helps. Miles Thompson On 9/3/07, Nathan Wallis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there, I am running amfphp on my webserver locally and it works well when I use localhost, so I change localhost to my computers local IP address which is 192.168.1.2 and then test it from another machine. Nothing happens, the remote procedure does not get called. Any ideas on this? Thanks, Nathan
Re: [PHP] Display paragraphs from a mysql db
On 6/24/07, nitrox . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi all,
I have a news section on a website that im coding that isnt displaying
properly. Every paragraph in each news post is being displayed as one big
paragraph. how can i display my paragraphs in proper form? The field the
news story is stored in is set as longtext.
here is a link to view.
http://area51.chalkthree.com/index.php?pg=3
the first update shows what im having an issue with. each item in the
numbered list should be on a seperate line. there are some line breaks as
well for new paragraphs that arent displaying properly.
here is the code i have:
while($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($newsresults))
{
print br;
print $myrow['news_topic'];
print ;
print $myrow['news_author'];
print;
print $myrow['topic_date'];
print br;
print $myrow['news_message'];
print br\n;
}
nl2br() as found at http://php.ca/nl2br, as well as the other functions on
that page.
Works well - although you may to futz a little bit with the variations on
break tags.
Cheers - Miles Thompson
Re: [PHP] taking a single payment online
Googling for: online payment services returns a slew of hits, among them www.auctionbytes.com/cab/pages/payment* *based in the UK. I don't believe you are going to find a fully automatic PHP connection for most of these services. HTH - Miles * * On 6/8/07, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a clinet with a small hotel. I want to send a link to customers requesting cash similar to paypal. If there total booking is £320 I want to send them a link to pay £32 online. Is there an alternative non-paypal way to do this? Other gateways with good PHP based API. thanks, R. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] TableName with space
On 6/5/07, karthi keyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How can I create a table with spaces Order details in MSSQL using PHP? I am able to create manually the table name with space by providing the name in Double Quotes. Is there a way out to do this using PHP? Thanks Karthik. Why would you want to? Apart from not having to change / search through lines of legacy code. Use order_details or orderDetails or OrderDetails or orderdetails but DON'T curse yourself with a space in a table which you will have to quote every time it's used. Cheers - Miles
Re: [PHP] PHP debugger
On 5/25/07, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miles Thompson wrote: Suggestions will be most welcome. Also, I'm not married to this, so if anyone thinks there is a better debugger, please jump in. I'm not going to jump in there ... I almost drown in that quagmire everytime I have to get a debugger setup working ... but ... Regards - Miles Thompson PS Why are we doing this? Because we are getting tired of debugging with Javascript alert() boxes. /mt PPS And we are using those because of Joomla! Some things are buried so deeply we cannot use print() or echo(). /mt 2 things: 1. when you have no hair left whatsoever: var_dump($foo); exit; 2. error_log() is your friend tail the log and run the code. just a thought. Hey Jochem, It's been a long slog, and I'm still playing with test programs to figure out how things work. It sure isn't like using a desktop debugger, especially as we are doing it all remotely. Thanks for your comments - Miles -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: [PHP-INSTALL] Mailparse extension
On 5/21/07, Tim Donnelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should preface this by saying, I am not a PHP person. I have been able to install php in the past and get things to work, but this time I am having fits. I am running php 5.2.1, apache 1.3.34, OpenSuSE 10.0 on a 64bit AMD platform. I have compiled php with the following statement: './configure' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-pspell' '--enable-mbstring' '--with-mysql' '--with-libdir=/lib64' '--enable-mailparse' and installed mailparse 2.1.1 via PECL. Running pecl list confirms that mailparse 2.1.1 stable is installed. I have added the line: extension=mailparse.so to my php.ini file. However, my email server software (@Mail v5.04) says mailparse is not installed. I attempted to run the code posted by wberrier at yahoo dot com found here http://us2.php.net/mailparse and all I got was a blank screen. As I said, I'm not a php person do I don't know if this is conclusive proof of a problem or not. Can anybody help me? I can provide additional information if needed. Thanks Tim Donnelly Systems/Network Administrator Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (303)759-3399 x106 To start, run a phpinfo.php script which contains phpinfo(). That will reliably tell you if mailparse is installed. Did you restart your web server after adding the module and editing php.ini? Does mailparse, by any chance, need a [mailparse] section in php.ini to set its parameters? Are you certain there is not an old instance of Apache running? Hope this helps - Miles -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP debugger
-Original Message- From: Miles Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 May 2007 08:21 To: PHP List Subject: [PHP] PHP debugger I am trying to load a PHP debugger in our most recent build of PHP 5.2.1. The debugger which I am trying to set up is the free, pre-compiled Linux version of dbg ( DBG 2.15.5 dbg modules), from http://dd.cron.ru/dbg/, and all of the instructions have been followed as posted on the NuSphere site. Yes, Apache has been stopped and restarted!! There is no difference in the output from phpinfo(). The line with DBG v2.11.30, (C) 2000,2004 by Dmitri Dmitrienko, http://dd.cron.ru; does not appear. PHP is compiled without debugging, but I did consider that was for the purpose of debugging PHP itself, not scripts. Suggestions will be most welcome. Also, I'm not married to this, so if anyone thinks there is a better debugger, please jump in. Regards - Miles Thompson snipped some trivial comments On 5/16/07, Arno Kuhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't see any change in phpinfo then maybe it's not picking up the dbg extension in your php.ini. Presumably you've also put the other debugger directives in your ini? You can also try download the trial version of PHPEd from Nusphere, install that, and check how it configures the debugger. The trial lasts a month I think, so maybe you'll sort out your problems in that time anyway. Just be sure to completely uninstall it afterwards because I think the free dbg version is not the same as the version integrated in PHPEd. Any version differences cause the extension to not load, though in that case it should report an error. You can't use the dbg integrated in PHPEd after uninstall because it doesn't work without PHPEd. Arno From my php.ini ; added debug extension dbg.so-5.2.x and ; see [debugger] section of this file - 20050515 - mthompson ; extension=dbg.so ;dbg.so-5.2.x and the [debugger] section ... ; Added [debugger] section 20050515 - mthompson ; Note: DBG versions 2.15 (free) does not support debugger.hosts_allow, ; debugger.hosts_deny or debugger.ports settings. ; [debugger] debugger.enabled=on debugger.profiler_enabled=on debugger.hosts_allow= inserted domain and IP number here debugger.hosts_deny=ALL debugger.ports=7869, 1/16 ; end [debugger] section Couple of notes: 1. Tried this with extension pointing to both dbg.so and dbg.so-5.2.x. (The latter is what the instructions specified, but that did not seem correct.) 2. Also tried it, in combination with above, with debugger.hosts_allow, debugger.hosts_deny and debugger.ports all commented out. 3. PHP version is 5.2.1, compiled from source on a Ubuntu Edgy Eft server. I'm wondering it I should download the source and compile it. That might be a better way home than assuming the binary is correct. Arno, your suggestion to install the NuSphere editor is a good one. I'm just reluctant to add more junk to my Windows box and to allow something other than atp-get / dselect to mess with server configuration. (Although it is a development box, so errors are not terminal!) Thanks to everyone for suggestions. Regards - Miles -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP debugger
On 5/16/07, Arno Kuhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Miles Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 May 2007 02:15 To: PHP List Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP debugger -Original Message- From: Miles Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 May 2007 08:21 To: PHP List Subject: [PHP] PHP debugger I am trying to load a PHP debugger in our most recent build of PHP 5.2.1. The debugger which I am trying to set up is the free, pre-compiled Linux version of dbg ( DBG 2.15.5 dbg modules), from http://dd.cron.ru/dbg/, and all of the instructions have been followed as posted on the NuSphere site. Yes, Apache has been stopped and restarted!! There is no difference in the output from phpinfo(). The line with DBG v2.11.30, (C) 2000,2004 by Dmitri Dmitrienko, http://dd.cron.ru; does not appear. PHP is compiled without debugging, but I did consider that was for the purpose of debugging PHP itself, not scripts. Suggestions will be most welcome. Also, I'm not married to this, so if anyone thinks there is a better debugger, please jump in. Regards - Miles Thompson snipped some trivial comments On 5/16/07, Arno Kuhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't see any change in phpinfo then maybe it's not picking up the dbg extension in your php.ini. Presumably you've also put the other debugger directives in your ini? You can also try download the trial version of PHPEd from Nusphere, install that, and check how it configures the debugger. The trial lasts a month I think, so maybe you'll sort out your problems in that time anyway. Just be sure to completely uninstall it afterwards because I think the free dbg version is not the same as the version integrated in PHPEd. Any version differences cause the extension to not load, though in that case it should report an error. You can't use the dbg integrated in PHPEd after uninstall because it doesn't work without PHPEd. Arno From my php.ini ; added debug extension dbg.so-5.2.x and ; see [debugger] section of this file - 20050515 - mthompson ; extension=dbg.so ;dbg.so-5.2.x and the [debugger] section ... ; Added [debugger] section 20050515 - mthompson ; Note: DBG versions 2.15 (free) does not support debugger.hosts_allow, ; debugger.hosts_deny or debugger.ports settings. ; [debugger] debugger.enabled=on debugger.profiler_enabled=on debugger.hosts_allow= inserted domain and IP number here debugger.hosts_deny=ALL debugger.ports=7869, 1/16 ; end [debugger] section Couple of notes: 1. Tried this with extension pointing to both dbg.so and dbg.so-5.2.x. (The latter is what the instructions specified, but that did not seem correct.) 2. Also tried it, in combination with above, with debugger.hosts_allow, debugger.hosts_deny and debugger.ports all commented out. 3. PHP version is 5.2.1, compiled from source on a Ubuntu Edgy Eft server. I'm wondering it I should download the source and compile it. That might be a better way home than assuming the binary is correct. Arno, your suggestion to install the NuSphere editor is a good one. I'm just reluctant to add more junk to my Windows box and to allow something other than atp-get / dselect to mess with server configuration. (Although it is a development box, so errors are not terminal!) Thanks to everyone for suggestions. Regards - Miles -- Hi Miles I'm not sure I follow your configuration - are you running on Windows or Linux? You shouldn't need to compile anything as far as I'm aware, just use the binaries. I'm using PHPEd 5.0 for Windows, so my config won't be the same as yours. My ini setup is: extension=php_dbg.dll-4.4.x [debugger] debugger.enabled=On debugger.profiler_enabled=On I've been using PHPEd for about 3 years so there are several dbg files in my extensions dir, but the latest is php_dbg.dll-4.4.x (that is the actual file name in extensions directory) which coincides with the name in the ini file, and the timestamp coincides with the ver 5.0 release date. According to your description for your Linux box I reckon you should be using dbg.so-5.2.x in your ini file and in your extensions dir. From previous experience I know the dbg extension is very fussy. You can't specify more than one dbg in your ini, and the dbg must be the correct one for your platform and your version of php. You can't change the name of the file, and if the binary is for one specific ver of php then you must have that ver of php running. Any error here and it just doesn't work. Hope that helps Cheers Arno Arno, Arno, Thanks for providing the relevant bits of your php.ini. You just reinforced all of the docs in a very positive way. So in php.ini the lines in the [debugger] section which are not supported by the free version are now commented out, the extension is back to its original name and that's the name pointed to in php.ini. Apache has been stopped and restarted. Our version
[PHP] PHP debugger
I am trying to load a PHP debugger in our most recent build of PHP 5.2.1. The debugger which I am trying to set up is the free, pre-compiled Linux version of dbg ( DBG 2.15.5 dbg modules), from http://dd.cron.ru/dbg/, and all of the instructions have been followed as posted on the NuSphere site. Yes, Apache has been stopped and restarted!! There is no difference in the output from phpinfo(). The line with DBG v2.11.30, (C) 2000,2004 by Dmitri Dmitrienko, http://dd.cron.ru; does not appear. PHP is compiled without debugging, but I did consider that was for the purpose of debugging PHP itself, not scripts. Suggestions will be most welcome. Also, I'm not married to this, so if anyone thinks there is a better debugger, please jump in. Regards - Miles Thompson PS Why are we doing this? Because we are getting tired of debugging with Javascript alert() boxes. /mt PPS And we are using those because of Joomla! Some things are buried so deeply we cannot use print() or echo(). /mt -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Make eclipse-php recognise custom extension as php ?
On 4/27/07, Don Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i've changed my server's apache config to recognize my custom extension for php files. And all my development filenames now come with this new extension. However my IDE (Php Eclipse) will not recognise this new extension as a php file, even though it opens it up but it looses all the php features ( e.g. syntax highlighting, flags, errors, warnning, intellisence etc) How can i make php-eclipse recognise my new custom extension as a php file ? Cheers Use .php extension? Or rewrite PHPEclipse or its configuration file? There is such a thing as being too clever. M.
[PHP] No mail() function
Does anyone have any ideas? PHP 5.2 was compiled from source, the mail path is set to /usr/sbin/postfix in php.ini, and Apache has been restarted. The mail path shows up in phpinfo(). A trivial PHP script, written to see if mail could be sent from PHP, returns this error: *Fatal error*: Call to undefined function mail() in * /var/www/junk/testmail.php* on line *9 *The docs say that mail is a core function, like so: There is no installation needed to use these functions; they are part of the PHP core It's a UBUNTU server, so when compiling I sudo'ed and configure / make / checkinstall (instead of make install) worked fine. However, in phpinfo() under the standard heading there is no : Path to sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i like there is on our production server. Suggestions and advice will be welcomed. Regards - Miles Thompson
Re: [PHP] Dreamhost! PHP as CGI!???
On 4/13/07, Richard Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micky Hulse wrote: Lol, funny you should mention that... Within a few days of getting an account, my server went down with a bunch of other folks... I guess it was a DOS attack or something. It will be the first of many :) Oh and hey... you'll soon experience the sporadic will it or won't it nature of their Control Panel loading too. I always loved that one. Oooh, excellent. Actually, I had other folks suggest Pair too. Only reason why my client and I picked DH was the price. I guess I get what I pay for. Abso-frigging-lutely. Hmm, pair may be worth the extra $$. Do you think the Webmaster plan is decent for a small but soon-to-be growing site? It will cope with your needs *easily* and the best thing about them - they can scale-up your account at any time, to whatever you need, as you grow. Some HUGE sites are hosted comfortably on Pair. Even php.net ;) Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.corephp.co.uk Have a look at www.hub.org. They host PostgreSQL world wide, you get a virtual machine, not a virtual host, and they are v. helpful in setting up software. Miles
[PHP] Location of .so files on Linux box
This probably belongs in php-install, but here goes. Where should extension files be located? In php.ini the default entry for extension_dir is: extension_dir= ./ That's fine, but relative to which directory (locations in parentheses)? Where php.ini is located? (/usr/share/lib) Where apache2 loads it modules? (/usr/lib/apache2/modules) I'm puzzled and could not find any clues in the documents. Apache2 is not complaining on a restart. If I run PHP from the command line, it complains that it cannot find the extensions, but I understand that. Regards - Miles Thompson
Re: [PHP] Cannot remove PHP Version 5.2.1-0.dotdeb.1
On 4/4/07, Mario Guenterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:56:12PM -0300, Miles Thompson wrote: Mario, Boy it's been a long day - it seems that every item I had in by configure batch had to be installed; then at the very end of the day it finally got to the --with-mysql. Had quite a scramble tryingto find the correct dev environment, then finally I was down to to two warning errors, one of which was for sqlite. Tried a make, but it wouldn't go, so I ran configure again, explicitly stating with no sqlite. Tried make again and it completed. Ran checkinstall and it packaged the puppy, installed it and signed off with a pleasant note on how to uninstall if necessary. Tomorrow we'll see how it works, and I hope I did not clobber mysql as part of this. There's an incompatibility between bzip2 and prefork-apache2-dev (or something like that). Running one clobbers the other, so since I needed apxs2 more than bzip2, that was dropped from the configuration. If you're interested I'll post another update tomorrow. Hi Miles, can you post your ./configure options. apache2-prefork-dev is the right devel package and in my environment that works fine with bzip2 and sqlite. Have you installed the libsqlite0-dev and libsqlite3-dev packages and the libbz2-dev package? I've written a little install shellscript for my own use. Greetings Mario -- sig snipped Mario, The contents of my configuration file are included below. I''m checking for the packages you mentioned and will add them. I'm feeling a lot more confident, having achieved a successful make and install - this is not something I do every day. Appreciate your advice - Miles #! /bin/sh ./configure --prefix=/usr/share --datadir=/usr/share/php \ --bindir=/usr/bin \ --with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2 \ --with-mysql=/usr/include/mysql \ --with-mysqli \ --without-sqlite \ --without-pdo-sqlite \ --with-gd --enable-gd-imgstrttf --enable-gd-native-ttf \ --with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib \ --with-png-dir=/usr/lib --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib \ --with-tiff-dir=/usr/lib --with-ttf-dir=/usr/lib \ --with-freetype-dir=/usr/lib \ --enable-ftp \ --enable-memory-limit \ --enable-safe-mode \ --enable-bcmath \ --enable-calendar \ --enable-ctype --with-ftp \
Re: [PHP] Cannot remove PHP Version 5.2.1-0.dotdeb.1
Mario, That did it - when I tried to reload the phpinof.php script Apache did not know what to do with the file. Now I'll drag the compiler from it's dusty corner and start from scratch. Thanks a million - Miles On 4/2/07, Mario Guenterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 04:52:02PM -0300, Miles Thompson wrote: This probably belongs under php-install, but thought I would try here first, and it comes under the general header of Be careful what you wish for. On a new Ubuntu (Debian) server I installed this version of PHP because I wanted some 5.2 features. It's the hardened version, and not the one we want. I have done the conventional aptitude remove php5, and then went to all of the directories returned by whereis php5 and manually removed them. I've rebooted both the server and my own computer, and still a http://localhost/phpinfo.php returns the phpinfo() data AND shows configuration file paths: etc/php5/apache2 and /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d which have been deleted. Try dpkg --purge php-5.2.1 or so. You may have only the php binaries (CLI) removed. This removes the config-scripts at all. Apt-get remove libapache2-mod-php5 removes your apache2 modules and the dpkt --purge libapache2-mod-php5 removes all the config scripts of them. I have build php 5.2.1 from source on Ubuntu 6.10 and it works fine. Installad in /usr/local for some system reasons and of course a easy way to upgrade. Greetings Mario -- - | havelsoft.com - Ihr Service Partner für Open Source | | Tel: 033876-21 966 | | Notruf: 0173-277 33 60 | | http://www.havelsoft.com| | | | Inhaber: Mario Günterberg | | Mützlitzer Strasse 19 | | 14715 Märkisch Luch | -
Re: [PHP] Cannot remove PHP Version 5.2.1-0.dotdeb.1
Mario, Boy it's been a long day - it seems that every item I had in by configure batch had to be installed; then at the very end of the day it finally got to the --with-mysql. Had quite a scramble tryingto find the correct dev environment, then finally I was down to to two warning errors, one of which was for sqlite. Tried a make, but it wouldn't go, so I ran configure again, explicitly stating with no sqlite. Tried make again and it completed. Ran checkinstall and it packaged the puppy, installed it and signed off with a pleasant note on how to uninstall if necessary. Tomorrow we'll see how it works, and I hope I did not clobber mysql as part of this. There's an incompatibility between bzip2 and prefork-apache2-dev (or something like that). Running one clobbers the other, so since I needed apxs2 more than bzip2, that was dropped from the configuration. If you're interested I'll post another update tomorrow. Regards - Miles Thompson On 4/3/07, Mario Guenterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:50:31AM -0300, Miles Thompson wrote: Mario, That did it - when I tried to reload the phpinof.php script Apache did not know what to do with the file. Now I'll drag the compiler from it's dusty corner and start from scratch. Not the debian/ubuntu way but sometimes the best solution ;-) Thanks a million - Miles :-) Greetings Mario -- - | havelsoft.com - Ihr Service Partner für Open Source | | Tel: 033876-21 966 | | Notruf: 0173-277 33 60 | | http://www.havelsoft.com| | | | Inhaber: Mario Günterberg | | Mützlitzer Strasse 19 | | 14715 Märkisch Luch | -
[PHP] Cannot remove PHP Version 5.2.1-0.dotdeb.1
This probably belongs under php-install, but thought I would try here first, and it comes under the general header of Be careful what you wish for. On a new Ubuntu (Debian) server I installed this version of PHP because I wanted some 5.2 features. It's the hardened version, and not the one we want. I have done the conventional aptitude remove php5, and then went to all of the directories returned by whereis php5 and manually removed them. I've rebooted both the server and my own computer, and still a http://localhost/phpinfo.php returns the phpinfo() data AND shows configuration file paths: etc/php5/apache2 and /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d which have been deleted. Does anyone have experience with this beastie? A steer in the right direction would be appreciated, especially as I set up a new server about once every decade or so. Cheers - Miles
Re: [PHP] Cannot remove PHP Version 5.2.1-0.dotdeb.1
Thanks Mario, I'll try that tomorrow morning. Much appreciated - Miles On 4/2/07, Mario Guenterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 04:52:02PM -0300, Miles Thompson wrote: This probably belongs under php-install, but thought I would try here first, and it comes under the general header of Be careful what you wish for. On a new Ubuntu (Debian) server I installed this version of PHP because I wanted some 5.2 features. It's the hardened version, and not the one we want. I have done the conventional aptitude remove php5, and then went to all of the directories returned by whereis php5 and manually removed them. I've rebooted both the server and my own computer, and still a http://localhost/phpinfo.php returns the phpinfo() data AND shows configuration file paths: etc/php5/apache2 and /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d which have been deleted. Try dpkg --purge php-5.2.1 or so. You may have only the php binaries (CLI) removed. This removes the config-scripts at all. Apt-get remove libapache2-mod-php5 removes your apache2 modules and the dpkt --purge libapache2-mod-php5 removes all the config scripts of them. I have build php 5.2.1 from source on Ubuntu 6.10 and it works fine. Installad in /usr/local for some system reasons and of course a easy way to upgrade. Greetings Mario -- - | havelsoft.com - Ihr Service Partner für Open Source | | Tel: 033876-21 966 | | Notruf: 0173-277 33 60 | | http://www.havelsoft.com| | | | Inhaber: Mario Günterberg | | Mützlitzer Strasse 19 | | 14715 Märkisch Luch | - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBRhFizDUZahlMISn3AQIJaBAAkb0tlZFXTO/6yRgZGf0tP4+U1eiTGnMR r+jqzCiYD3EA6vg7Qlf7K97nn+Jo9CwuYLC2WXRIWGoHK8Mor5UqWPLX6mRFut2w d19ksKv605Dq1FuweNzTAZo9SiJwG8DsZ9Kj0Xboysu5098g/mV+mTvcnyONDmDU 6XiLqHkfITkUES/Hn3Nb0mOSNI7K41lipm/3TrWqPep1Fs/QUyDb/wtLRzfrcScm CmdDCE+nBsKtCdtcZD3VDNN4F3O4x2ZbM1yAp9+S5yQn0b1kK4HoAJ99dpCR+Q4V C+O5VFDr515dujlMo4+CcGPe63xLvU8wn2f5P1vcXcQFPEBj5zJYZGQSPWfrVeBa H0R7sNraBOL+JJD1c5eSYIbZBCjFnaKyMzlQCJ/qgmG/t1akzNJdNlBJ15lMn8dd d8nsa5Za/19ULJR0cPq0CyjAgd1+S0/ykUOGDa2S0uIhURB3AJ/xf2ffH23XbI6m So5maXF2I9hsOwYkZgxv4Kv+HhgJAQesFj7FwBjljXcPXYlXX3DWzC1VwzTKik3F kHviM3PH9XSoGlizwIAwBKlq3sY/CnUo7xoWvmapVvpJDEumi2AvgpDkBl27ogEV Rh7wx0twS8WCSytNSz3XeFJIwmdtrQudXBbNGBSOU6NOk3NwbMhKt5JX2RL7omwE D0lQzqENPDY= =cWaV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [PHP] best framework (pear vs zend framework)
Yay!! Someone else working with qcodo. If I was starting afresh, that's what I would use. Current project is based on Joomla! - there is a lot to assimilate and much of it is old-style coding. Cheers - Miles
Re: [PHP] Classified Ads Script
On 2/19/07, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I'm planning to put up a local classified ads website and I'm looking for an open-source script for this. I've already had some links from Google and Sourceforge but I'd like to get some opinions on people who've already run a classifieds website as to what they're using and what they think of it. Best Regards, Matt -- Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay with the ancient Tao, Move with the present. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php We use GeoClassifieds by GeoDesic Solutions. With a little bit of effort I was able to tie it in with our subscriber database. There is a free version, and if I remember correctly the basic version is what we use. Far cheaper to even buy the basic than to write your own, although our situation is simplified because classifieds are offered free to subscribers. Therefore I have no experience of how well anything associated with the payment side, incentives, etc. works. Regards - Miles
Re: [PHP] Redisplay file name on failed upload
Thanks guys - I guess the staging area is the way we'll go. (This is from gmail, I'm not used to it, so if I included all of the prev msgs, please forgive me.) Thanks - Miles
[PHP] Redisplay file name on failed upload
When a file upload fails, not because of a problem with the upload itself, is there anyway of assigning the value captured by input name=upldFile type=file when the form is redisplayed? The failure may not be due to a problem with the file being uploaded, but because the user failed to complete a keywords field or some other bit of wanted information. Is it possible to assign form[ upldFile ] = C:\somepath\somefile or form[ upldFile ] = $_FILES['userfile']['name'] The script which does the validation is the same one which contains the upload form. I suspect we're completely out of luck - apart from validating with JavaScript. Regards - Miles
Re: [PHP] Recommend a PHP Framework
Most frameworks rely on a dtabase, but have a look at this: http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/38-The-no-framework-PHP-MVC-framework.html
Re: [PHP] most powerful php editor
At 09:41 AM 1/24/2007, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2007-01-24 13:57:03 +0200: and also in these days I'm looking for 19 inch (or more) wide LCD sceerns to able to fit longer lines in my screen... Number of reading errors people make grows with line length, this has been known for as long as I remember. You're increasing the probability of bugs in the code, and get tired sooner because following long lines requires more energy. Good point Roman. Just think how that would cut down traffic on the list! The most powerful editor should have a setting MAX_WORDS_PER_LINE = 11. g More seriously, many times I've taken a It's right, but not working, dammit! SQL statement, broken it up so it's listed vertically and discovered the error. Rather than a wide monitor, I'd like to have a tall one - say 21 square. How did we ever live with 12 terminal windows - huge to KayPro folk. Cheers - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.17.8/649 - Release Date: 1/23/2007 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] most powerful php editor
At 08:21 AM 1/21/2007, Robert Cummings wrote: On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 22:54 -0200, Vinicius C Silva wrote: hi everyone! i'd like to ask something maybe commonly asked here. what is the most powerful php editor? EditPlus or UltraEdit - particularly like the former because I can edit files on the server with its very transparent FTP functions. On top of that they do v. nice syntax highlighting in other languages, even Actionscript. If I could figure out a way to do the same (remote editing) with Eclipse I'd probably invest the time in it; code hinting / completion would be nice, particularly with frameworks like Qcodo. Which then leads me towards ZEND, although I've never used it. These observations have probably not been at all helpful. g Regards - Miles PS You're not forgetting source code control, are you? /mt -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.17.3/642 - Release Date: 1/20/2007 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] What makes a PHP expert
At 09:55 AM 1/18/2007, Jay Blanchard wrote: snip First I would consider number of years of programming experience including how many years a programmer had been using PHP. I would examine some code and look for organization, documentation, and consistency. Is the programmer published (articles, books, etc) which may not count against expertise? An expert encompasses so much more than skills. For instance, I could be an expert on football because I understand history of the game, have been published, understand game planning and execution, and have played at the wide receiver position. Only the last 2 items really require skills. -- Good answer Jay. Whenever someone refers to me as an expert I raise the shields. I've been humbled too many times, and a remark like that is usually a precursor to getting bitten by. A harbour pilot received a fawningl ompliment, from a quite gorgeous tourist, that he must know where all the deep water channels were. No ma'm he replied, but I know where the rocks are. Yep. Cheers - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.16.14/636 - Release Date: 1/18/2007 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Please Help with simple Noob problem
At 11:39 AM 1/11/2007, Scott Bounds wrote: Hello all. I seem to be having a terrible tim ewith something that is so simple it makes me sick. I have a server running FC2. it has Apache 2.x.x on it and it came installed with php-4.x.x. Sorry I don't have the exact versions but fatigue and frustration has taken over. I can get them if you really need them. Here's the major problem. When I try and view a simple php page in the browser, it doesn't display anything that has to do with the php tags. By that I mean it won't recognize the php directives (I guess). I made a simple page (the infamous phpinfo () page) right out of the books. Saved it as test.php just like it said. Made sure that apache is running and browsed to the page. Nothing, no errors, no nothing. I have made up some other pages (mostly from some php books - real simple ones) to view and they all display the same action. Now when these machines (I actually have a couple of these servers and they all act the same) were installed, it was from FC2 CD's with the webserver full package. There were all kinds of php files installed, etc. In my httpd.conf file it calls the php.ini file, etc. So it seems to be all there. Can anyone out there help me figure out how to make this work? I would be truly indebted to you, put you on my Christmas card list, etc. Thanks in advance to all of you kind and wonderful people. Scott Scott, Have a look at the instructions for setting up PHP. (It's been such a long time I do not remember where the different bits are.) I do remember, however, that the php.ini file has to be in the right place, and that in httpd.conf you have to recognize the .php extension along with .htm, and .html. Finally, you have to stop and rstart Apache so httpd.conf will be read again. This is v. sketchy, but hope it helps. Cheers - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.16.9/622 - Release Date: 1/10/2007 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] reading MS Excel?
At 09:49 AM 12/28/2006, William Stokes wrote: Is it possible to read Excel files and store the info to DB? If so how? Thanks -Will Yes - but rather than re-invent the wheel, google for php read excel. Your solution may be there. Once you have read the information, then the rest is just an INSERT into the database. Cheers - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.28/606 - Release Date: 12/28/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Merry Christmas!
At 07:20 AM 12/25/2006, Robert Cummings wrote: WhoooOO! Hope you all have a great Christmas day. If you don't celebrate Christmas, then I hope you have a great Christmas day anyways *lol*. If this post offends you due to it's promotion of Christmas then I apologize and hope you have a great anal retentive Christmas day!!! :B Merry Christmas, Rob. Hey Rob, It's now Christmas night here in Nova Scotia. We had a great day. The weather was mild, so we had apcnic lunch on the way to visit my sister and her family; then had the big family get-together there. We missed our oldest, he's in Ottawa visiting his girlfriend, but then our job is to raise them to leave the nest. Besides, she's a lovely girl. Merry Christmas to everyone - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.26/601 - Release Date: 12/24/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Problem with manual running PHP script
At 08:22 AM 10/27/2006, Rosen wrote: Hi, I have scheduled php script, which runs with c:\php\php.exe php test.php, i.e. without browser. I give working dir the directory of the script. When I start it from the browser all is ok. But when I start manualy sctipt with c:\php\php.exe text.php ll.txt the script gives me an error( in ll.txt): Call to undefined function: ocilogon() in This is function for connect to Oracle database. When I try to connect to MySQL database with the same script ( just for test) , there in no problem. Can someone help me ? Thanks in advance, Rosen Run a phpinfo.php, with one function in it: phpinfo(). Do this from the command line to check that PHP, from the command line, has the module necessary to connect to Oracle. Sounds like it doesn't. I've not worked much with PHP on Windows, so I guess you would make certain you have the .dll for Oracle and enabled it in PHP. The browser and the command line are two completely different environments. Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.14/501 - Release Date: 10/26/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] [funny] The state of Java Development
At 06:04 PM 10/27/2006, you wrote: UGH This stupid list server stripped out the inline image. WTF!? Here, I put it on my site http://daevid.com/junk/Java_Dev.jpg DÆVID They have the same staff trainer as Chapters / Indigo has in Canada. Chapters also threw out 1/4 of the books and replaced them with seasonal items - candles, scents, notepaper - you know, that ssort of stuff. Cheers - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.14/501 - Release Date: 10/26/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: postback for php
At 11:48 AM 10/18/2006, M.Sokolewicz wrote: Ross wrote: Looked on google and not found a satisfactory answer. Doies anyone have a funtion to do this? R. please explain, in details, what it is you're looking for. postback for php - a function to do this doesn't mean squat to most people. Please EXPLAIN. - tul Yes, not a helpful description. Maybe he means a callback function which would do something like echo 'a href='. $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] .'Please try again/a'; and he may have to pass a variable string. M. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.4/480 - Release Date: 10/17/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Best open source project/framework to support a php training course?
At 07:02 AM 9/27/2006, Tony Marston wrote: If you want a web application framework that your students can play with may I suggest http://www.radicore.org This is already being used as a training aid by a university in the far east, so it must have some merit. -- Tony Marston http://www.tonymarston.net http://www.radicore.org Pinocchio007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am in charge of outlining a PHP/mySQL course (intro and advanced) for an education institute. I would like to include in the course program an in-depth study of an existing open-source project, allowing the students to be confronted, from an early stage, to a real-world environment. My problem is simple: which project/framework to choose in order to bring the current best practice to our students, and prepare them for the future. Not being a professional PHP developer myself, I would appreciate any recommendation. Which OS project would you include? Which framework? And why? My first idea was osCommerce, then somebody recommended Typo3, followed by a go for Joomla. Well, I am hesitating. Anybody can recommend an article/paper comparing the different PHP frameworks/application architectures? Is there a list where such topics are discussed? Thanks for your help and recommendations. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php For a start, there are a lot of frameworks, with passionate adherents and users, so there is no one best. I wouldn't suggest a framework - how about a component that works with something else. The AMFPHP project which provides a data link to Flash, or PDO (Persistent Data Objects)? If you really think a framework is the way to go, contact Michael Ho, whose QCODO framework is somewhat different than many others as it has evolved from VB roots and is a code-generation framework. It works v. cleverly with the database, is highly modular, has a reasonably active group of developers working on custom controls, etc. PHP5 and MySQL 5 - definitely current. You might also have a look at Seagull or Cake, the latter being a PHP-like adaptation of Ruby on Rails. The thing to remember is that PHP is a templating language and doesn't necessarily need another structure built atop it. If you take students down the framework path watch that they do not stop learning PHP but start learning the templating language instead. PHP Architect has run some interesting articles on frameworks, and Chris Shifflet has a regular security column - always worth reading. Hope this has been helpful - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/457 - Release Date: 9/26/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Download files outside DocumentRoot Dir
At 01:44 AM 9/25/2006, Ramiro wrote:
Hi,
i'm trying to find a good solution to this problem. I want download files
from a directory outside DocumentRoot.
This files cannot be downloaded through direct url like
http://site/test.zip. It must be downloaded after user login.
I know i can do that using some functions like fread() + fopen() or
readfile(), than i would echo file buffer to browser with correct headers.
But, reading then dumping file to browser is a big problem to server.
I've made one test that shows me i will eat 1.8% of RAM (i've used ps
aux at Linux, in a server with 2Gb of RAM) to download a 30Mb file at
60kb/s speed. So, imagine what a dump-php-script can do with 50 to 100
concurrently downloads. Probably i will need 1 TeraByte of RAM to provide
downloads ;)
Theres my question now. Is there other way to protect files against direct
downloading? (Obligating users to login and denying direct-url's).
I also know i can check referer by using Mod_Rewrite at Apache. But it isn't
secure, since referer cannot be sent or be fake.
Please, help me ;)
Thank you !
Script i used to test:
?
$url = test.tar.gz;
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/force-download');
header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\.basename($url).\;);
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($url));
@readfile($url) OR die();
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This is the contents of a script used to fetch .swf's. The script is called
from a Flash movie.
$filenam = $_REQUEST[filenam];
if ($filenam){
$contents = file_get_contents( ../above_root/ . $filenam );
echo $contents;
}else{
echo Not found;
}
HTH - Miles
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Re: [PHP] +AFs-OT+AF0- Working with version control
At 06:21 PM 9/21/2006, Chris W. Parker wrote: Hello, This is off topic but I wanted to get the list member's opinions on the subject as it will probably benefit someone else. Currently I don't use version control at all. What I do instead is have one directory that contains my development website and one directory that contains the live website which I do not directly modify. When I need to fix something or add a new feature I edit the development site and copy the files that I've changed. Sometimes I will start on a new feature before I am able to finish a previous one. This is a major problem when the features overlap and I have to edit the same file for both features. Even if I finish one of the features I cannot publish the files because the other feature is not ready yet. What I'm looking to the list for is how I can overcome this through version control. What I'm thinking I'd do is create a base level (say v1.0) that I then create a branch for every new feature and then merge those things together. The issue I see in this case is the merging. Is this a sound strategy or should I just realize that I can't publish until all current features enhancements are completed? Thanks, Chris. Not OT at all. Use Subversion. For a nice Windows interface - Tortoise. Sorry, I can't rememberthe name ofthe Linux interface. Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.7/454 - Release Date: 9/21/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Excessive Php scripting?
At 02:02 AM 9/6/2006, Justin Madru wrote:
I'm creating a simple personal web server. On a few of the pages is a html
table. I was thinking of making it a php script, and the script would just
output the html code for _one_ row. I would be calling the same very small
php script maybe _30+_ times in the same page.
My server is only 500MHz and 160MB ram, so I want to know if I should make
it a php script or just html? Would calling the same function 30+ times
_bog_down_ my server or would it actually _improve_performance_ (because
of caching)?
an example script:
function print_table_row($name, $address, $os, $wiki)
{
echo 'tr
td class=t_program
a href=', $address, '', $name, '/a
/td
td class=t_program', $os, '/td
td class=t_program
a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/', $wiki, '(more
info)/a /td
/tr';
}
Well, I'm a programmer, so even if the info was fairly static I'd stick it
in an array and the then loop through the array, calling your function. to
me, that's simpler.
OTH - just build am HTML table.
Either way, no big deal. I doubt you'll see much of a speed difference
Cheers - Miles
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[PHP] OT - PHP Hosting Service in UK?
I have a Canadian client, presently living in England, who is setting up a vary basic web site. The business is located in the UK, it makes sense to have the web hosting service in the UK as well. Would anyone who is happy with a UK hosting service offering PHP (preferably 5) and MySQL please make a suggestion. (I'm willing to accept one or two outages a years, more importantly, if there is a problem with email, etc., are they responsive?) Regards - Miles Thompson (902) 440-2010 Ask the fruitful question. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/437 - Release Date: 9/4/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Dynamically assigning var namesi
At 02:49 PM 8/1/2006, bob pilly wrote: Hi all Does anyone know if you can assign a new variable name based on the contents of another variable in PHP? If so whats the syntax to do this? I am parsing a text file that has tens of preset attributes and some of these have hundreds of sub attributes. For example the text file contains flight details, on every flight there can be up to 500 passengers but there are generally only 50 so i dont want to have declare 500 vars when i hardly ever use them. What i am trying to do is count the amount of pasengers present and dynamically create the variables based on this.$surname1,$surname2 etc... Im not sure whether this is a sane way to approach this problem or not. Any advice or pointing to relevant documentation about either syntax for this or ways of tackling this sort of problem (im sure it must be a regular occurance in the coding world??) would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks in advance for any help or advice. Cheers Bob Use arrays - check the array_push() function. Or - and I'm winging it here - an array of objects, assuming PHP will let you do so. Then with all of the other wonderful functions PHP has for managing arrays you're away to the races. Alternately, if PHP will not allow arrays of objects, use parallel arrays. Either method will be much easier than trying to create $var1, $var2, ... $var Regards - Miles Thompson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.5/404 - Release Date: 7/31/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] card scanners and PHP
At 04:31 PM 7/26/2006, Jay Blanchard wrote: For our retail application (written in PHP) we are looking for a class that will work with a scanner to scan a driver's license or business card and populate the forms properly with that data. I have found a product (IDScan) that may work with PHP, but I was hoping to find others to compare it to. Anyone have or know of anything like this? Thanks! Jay, Do you mean a magnetic stripe reader? Information is scattered all over business cards. Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/399 - Release Date: 7/25/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Sort Array
At 10:51 AM 7/18/2006, weetat wrote: Hi I have the array below : How to sort the array by Model and Country? Thanks array( TBA0123456 = array(Country=Singapore,Model=WS8234), TBA0123458 = array(Country=Indonesia,Model=WS2234), TBA0123459 = array(Country=Vietnam,Model=WS7234), TBA0123452 = array(Country=England,Model=WS1234), TBA0123451 = array(Country=Germany,Model=WS6234), ) You do not way how the array is created. If from a database, add SORT by Model, Country to your query and let the database do the work. Otherwise, read up on ar_multisort(), but I do not think you are going to find a built-in way of sorting one array on two indexes or key values. Regards - Miles Thompson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.1/390 - Release Date: 7/17/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP
George, You always have the interesting challenges served to you. Is this at the client or the server end? Controlled through the browser? Only at the browser on the server? I think there's a discussion about .com objects in the manual. Have fun - Miles At 09:16 AM 6/27/2006, George Pitcher wrote: Hi, I have been asked to look at extending one of my CMS systems to incorporate integration to a library management system, as well as LDAP and Active Directory. The requirement also asks for scanning and OCR of documents to be controlled by the CMS. Does anyone have any experience of implementing the scanning into a PHP application? MTIA George -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.5/376 - Release Date: 6/26/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP
At 11:33 AM 6/27/2006, Arno Kuhl wrote: -Original Message- From: Stut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 June 2006 03:11 To: Peter Lauri Cc: 'George Pitcher'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP Peter Lauri wrote: Probably nobody, as PHP is a Server Side Scripting Language. If there's one thing I hate it's needless pigeonholing. PHP is not a Server Side Scripting Language. It is a scripting language for sure, but is by no means limited to being used on a server never mind on a web server. -Stut - Stut, that's an interesting point you raised. I know it's moving off the original topic, but when you say by no means limited to being used on a server never mind on a web server, what is it that interprets the code and where does the output go to, or the input come from? I also thought it always had to be run under a web server, and would be interested to know what the other options/opportunities are. Cheers Arno Arno, You can do the cron job thing and call it from the command line. You can also write GUI apps using PHP-GTK+. It's sort of in transition now between version 1 and version 2. Did this for a client as there was some database work we wanted to do on the local machine, fetching information from time to time from the database on the web. Works quite well and is saving them a lot of time. By now we're way OT on the scanner question. g Cheers - Miles Thompson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.5/376 - Release Date: 6/26/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] templating
At 08:10 AM 6/22/2006, Ryan A wrote:
Hi,
A pal of mine needed some help on his project, he is
using a header and footer file to template his
project... but its gotten a bit complicated as he has
a few dynamic parts in the header and footer files, so
I told him to go with a proper templating method of
templating the whole page rather than includ()ing the
top and bottom.
After having a better look at his scripts, I am just
not sure if something big (like SMARTY for instance)
would be good for him. He just needs maybe 5 template
pages, same pages, different color.
Searching google I see literally hundreds of
templating solutions can anyone recommend a simple
one or should I tell him to just use str_replace() for
tags like: {{menu_here}} {{header_here} etc?
Something like SMARTY would be like using a nuke to
kill a fly (IMHO) esp since this project will not
expand to anything much bigger or complicated.
Thanks!
Ryan
Ryan,
Don't forget, PHP itself is a templating language. Just do a standard page,
with includes for headers and footers, menus, and content.
If he wants to change colour, then load a different stylesheet for a given
page or content section.
This way he can use the tool that's right in front of him, he's not adding
another layer, he does not have to learn another language - the template
system written in PHP, and he hones his PHP skills.
Whew! Hope this is helpful.
Regards - Miles
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Re: [PHP] getting subdirectory
At 02:29 PM 5/23/2006, Dallas Cahker wrote: how do I get the subdirectory that a page is being pulled from. say I have three sites running the same script and I need to determine which site is which. http://www.domain.com/subdir1 http://www.domain.com/subdir2 http://www.domain.com/subdir3 and subdir1, subdir2 and subdir3 all need different header and different db and so on. how would i get that I am in site subdir3 and not in subdir1? Check phpinfo(), particularly SCRIPT_FILENAME or REQUEST_URI or SCRIPT_FILENAME in the Apache Environment section, and everything following _SERVER[REQUEST_URI] in the PHP Variables section. But why not just put the appropriate header in the subdirectory you are using? Cheers - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.7.0/345 - Release Date: 5/22/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Development Environments/Automation
At 02:01 PM 5/15/2006, Brian Anderson wrote: Hello, I am being asked to find some sort of development environment for PHP/MySQL, if is exists, in which it has some sort of automation/wizzardry. What is being done is a mass of MSAccess interfaces, forms, reports, etc. are needing to be re-written in php and connected to a MySQL database instead of the Access. What is being asked for is something that although being able to build some interfaces through wizzards/gui's, that is be somewhat logical, and streamlined in its management of code and html. Something that implements some kind of smarty tag or similar woould be good instead of say... Macromedia which can do some fairly bloated and cumbersome things with logic and markup. Also, It would need to be flexible enough to manage projects back and forth between wizzards, and hand coding so that one wasn't limited to the narrow applications of the wizzard. Does something like this exist? I have played around with Macromedia, and another app called CodeCharge Studio. I hope that I am asking the right or at least an intelligent question. -Brian Do you mean a framework? Have a look at Qcodo, Cake, etc. Qcodo allows you to preserve your interface while making logic / database changes. Regards - Miles Thompson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/339 - Release Date: 5/14/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Rhumb Lines
At 11:01 AM 5/5/2006, Leonard Burton wrote: HI All, I need to calculate Rhumb Lines in an application and have not found a good formula for doing such. Does anyone know of an existing Class/Function that will calculate Rhumb Lines? Thanks and Be Well, -- Leonard Burton, N9URK [EMAIL PROTECTED] The prolonged evacuation would have dramatically affected the survivability of the occupants. Leonard, What an interesting problem. You might have better luck on a GIS or ocean racing list. But a quick look revealed this link: http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/2265/msail.htm and the JavaScript can be picked off with reveal source. Let us know how it works out. Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.4/332 - Release Date: 5/4/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] What editor do you use?
At 03:35 PM 5/4/2006, John Nichel wrote: Nicolas Verhaeghe wrote: I am currently looking for a good PHP editor for Windows. I know, the question must have been asked so many times, but I thought I could ask it again now that a few editors have evolved, others have appeared. It has been asked, and usually starts a flame war. STFA And after scratching the bald spot a bit, enlightenment. No, that's not the name of an editor, but Search The Fine Archives - because yes, this has been done to death. Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.3/331 - Release Date: 5/3/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Paged Results Set in MySQL DB with one result
At 03:51 PM 5/3/2006, Phillip S. Baker wrote: Greetings Gents, I have an interesting problem I would like some ideas on for a solution. I cannot seem to find any code examples on the net, though I might not be looking in the right place really. I have some articles stored in a MySQL DB. What I want is if the article is above a certain length in characters, to page article through a few pages for site readability. So I would want to print X number of words/characters. Save the where the pointer is, move on to the next page, and display the same amount and so on for as many pages as needed. I know about pulling paged results using the limit function but that would not seem to apply as really I would want to page the results within one record (one field really). Does anyone have any ideas?? Thanks Phillip Ideas mentioned thus far are all good. At the end of 2005 we changed allnovascotia.com, a daily business digest, from continuous strip, to separate articles. Each article is stored in a database; the retrieved text is delivered via Flash. Presentation consists of headlines on left, story on the right in an htmlText control; clicking a headline loads the story into the htmlText control. Subscribers like the new format because the whole issue was getting rather long, and now they can gun down the headlines and quickly read the lead paras and decide whether or not they want more of that story. However - why do you think paging an article improves readability? What it does do is control the amount of text you display on a page so you can profitably surround it with advertising. It has no effect on readabilty -- that depends on the quality of the writing, clarity and size of font, and line length. So, give them good dynamic design, a legible font, the ability to resize the type and ensure that the pieces are well-edited and written for easy reading in a browser. Guess I'm an iconoclast, but when I see an artificially paged article I look for the Print View link so I can read it all at once. Heresy! Maybe that's another reason for paging -- you get more hits on the site. Guess this has been more like a semi-rant, and probably not helpful. g Cheers - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.2/329 - Release Date: 5/2/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP Standard style of writing your code
At 03:19 AM 4/29/2006, Robert Cummings wrote:
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 02:08, Paul Novitski wrote:
IMHO, vertical aligned brackets can be messy when nesting
relatively-small blocks (and seems to me like a lot of wasted space)
nsip
like a use, not a waste.
OK, OK, I'll stop. Think I'll go out and get wasted~
Drink with friends... that way you have someone to brace you when you're
fall down drunk.
Cheers,
Rob.
Poorstyle:
drunken(){
echo Lopsided me;
}
Goodstyle:
drunken()
{
echo Supported me;
}
But the question arises, in goodstyle - should one indent the braces?
I used to code goodstyle, more and more it's poorstyle - nad the
computer doesn't care, and Ultraedit can match braces, which helps when I
get lost. I wish UE would also fold code.
With tongue firmly in cheek - cheers - Miles
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Re: [PHP] PHP and CakePHP: How to use the $html-selectTag()
At 11:54 PM 4/10/2006, Pham Huu Le Quoc Phuc wrote: Hi everybody! I'm a newbie. My question maybe very funny. But please answer to me if you have any ideas. I use $html-selectTag(), I don't know how to use OnChange. When User choose a item on SelectTag, I want Browser to redirect another page and get current value. Thank so much! Cake is written in PHP, but your question concerns Cake, not PHP. Have you asked in the Cake-PHP Google group? http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php or checked the wiki at the main Cake site? Please understand, there are so many frameworks and CMS's that those questions specific to them would choke the list. Regards - Miles Thompson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.1/307 - Release Date: 4/10/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Completing forms offline with PHP/MySQL
At 01:06 PM 4/7/2006, Kevin Davies - Bonhurst Consulting wrote: Hi, Apologies if this is the wrong place for this question, but I'm sure there are some experts out there who might be able to point me in the right direction... :) I'm doing some work at the moment where remote teams can submit reports through to our database when connected over the internet to our server. However, I've been asked to look in the possibility of the teams completing the form offline, and uploading when they have access to a connection. It looks like I might be able offer something like Microsoft InfoPath forms (better recommendations?) to generate an XML file, and then use a PHP file to upload the file into the database. Additionally, I could also do with this process uploading a number of other files (e.g. images, text files) to the server. Does anyone have any experience in this area, and would be able to recommend a solution? Thanks in advance for your help... Kevin PHP-GTK+ GTK+ front end, laid out using wGlade (which creates an XML-like file with a .glade extension), and of course, PHP for all of your logic. Works Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.5/303 - Release Date: 4/6/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] code obfuscating
At 04:05 PM 4/7/2006, you wrote: [snip] Am seeking for a solution to obfuscate php code on the server side, so if i decide to sell php closed source applications, i can encode the source code. Thanks for your help [/snip] No problem, we are always glad to answer questions. You're welcome. and the truly useful suggestion issnipped Hey Jay, Better add to that. Bring the light down slowly as the pouring rain ascends - critical. Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.5/303 - Release Date: 4/6/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] IF or SWITCH
At 05:56 PM 4/6/2006, John Nichel wrote: snip I remember IF constructs from BASIC and PASCAL, but no switch statements (somebody correct me if I'm wrong). But what I'm wondering is how in the world did you do conditional checking if there were no switches, and you don't use IF's? Did you not code error handling, different cases based on user input, status of a data stream, etc in all the years prior to something like switch being introduced??? -- John C. Nichel IV Ye gods -- I'm getting old. I had to look this up. Yup - Pascal has case operator of .. statements ... otherwise .. statement end; And you can group cases. Forgotten all that - had to look it up. What I think happens is that we are merrily noodling along in our code, and a condition rears its head. Simple - if .. else. Then things get a bit more complicated, and so we end up with nested if .. elseif .. else constructs. Personally I like the clarity of switch, but don't use it often because I generally try to avoid messy nests of conditions. Cheers - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.5/302 - Release Date: 4/5/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] IF or SWITCH
At 11:40 PM 4/6/2006, Kevin Waterson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say WRONG! Run yourself a benchmark. benchmarks can be hazardous, but lets look at them at their most basic level. By this I mean how folks use them every day... http://www.phpro.org/benchmarks/if-switch-benchmark.html Kind regards Kevin -- Actually, a minimal victory. If it can be used, I'd go for the clarity of switch. M. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.5/302 - Release Date: 4/5/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: PHP AJAX Framework - Suggestions Please
At 06:25 PM 4/3/2006, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote: Hi, Many thanks for everyone who have replied. Its seems Manuel's suggestion regarding iFrame sounds really good. BTW, I am using Savant as template engine, and integrate it with Manuel Forms Generation and Validation would be a good idea (there is a Smarty plugin for this class, but I am using Savant). Basically, I have a problem porting my own FileMaker database with many multi-page forms (plus large tables and big drop-down lists, displaying thousands of items). Things made quickly with native GUI tools often very difficult to port to Web-based GUI. snip Andrei, Had to do the same thing a couple of years ago, one of the fields involved European phone numbers. No matter what native export method I tried, the phone numbers ended up getting converted to exponential notation. IIRC when dumping the data FileMaker saw that field as numbers and treated it accordingly. So I dumped it, sucked it into FoxPro, opened up the .dbf header and changed the field to character, and saved it. Then it could be imported into Access ( which was what the customer wanted.) Hope this is helpful - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.4/299 - Release Date: 3/31/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] microsoft PHP ?
At 11:38 AM 4/2/2006, tedd wrote: At 4:20 PM -0500 4/1/06, Joe Wollard wrote: Leave poor Zouari alone! I for one think that Microsoft buying Zend would be the best thing to happen to PHP, EVAR! You might not think that way if you had been developing in M$ QuickBASIC for the Mac. One day M$ just said Nope, the line isn't making the money we want, so we're dropping it. There were a lot of developers who were left hanging -- I wouldn't want to be there again. If at all possible, I choose any alternative over what M$ provides. tedd -- Ditto to what Tedd just wrote - a major client has a project stranded forever in VB6 because MSFT broke the model with VB.NET. There are constructs and structures which were perfectly legitimate when it was first conceived, when VB4 was the current version. So - when I was asked to write a little app to maintain some subscriber billing info and create some reports on the desktop side, which could have been done in Excel, I opted for PHP, PHP-GTK and MySQL. There was a learning curve with PHP-GTK's layout (Glade helped a lot!!) but this will continue to work, Windows or Linux, and should run on later Macs. Great feeling! Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.4/299 - Release Date: 3/31/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php 5 installation problem
At 01:39 AM 3/17/2006, - Edwin - wrote: Hi! On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:45:29 -0400 Miles Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:23 PM 3/16/2006, Anthony Ettinger wrote: [...] Is there a drawback to running php5 as CGI? Anthony, I really don't know, because computers are much faster, so there may not be the time lags there were 10 years ago. As I understand CGI, the web server sees that the page is of type .php, starts up PHP, PHP processes the page, the web server shuts down PHP and sends out the results. The overhead of starting and stopping PHP (or Perl, etc.) was the complaint. When PHP is loaded as an Apache module there is not startup / shutdown overhead. If I have this wrong, or if PHP5 as a CGI stays resident and there is no penalty, will someone please correct me. No, nothing wrong there, I think. But there are other differences. (Like some functions not working, etc.) Pros and cons, one might say. Anyway, here are some results of a quick google search: http://www.google.com/search?q=php+CGI+module+difference Hmm.. I just couldn't find it but there should be a page about it on www.php.net ... (^_-) Regards - Miles HTH, - Edwin - Thanks Edwin. I guess it was too late and I couldn't formulate a proper search expression. I'd like to hear Chris Shiflet's opinion on the security advantages of running PHP5 as CGI. Why, after years of running PHP as an Apache module, the sudden conversion to CGI operation? I've noticed occasional references of PHP5 having issues with CPanel. Is it simply easier for ISPs, given the intense competitive cost pressures they are under, to not wrestle with these issues, but to say Here it is as a CGI if you want it. Regards - Miles Thompson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 3/10/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] print page from php
At 09:57 AM 3/17/2006, Reinhart Viane wrote: All, I have a web page with the results from several database queries. Now this page has an undefined horizontal and vertical size. Does anyone know if there is a php script available that will automatically split the webpage into parts that can fit on an A4 page? Or do I have to set boundaries on the size of the tables the queried data will be shown in. Hope this makes any sense, Thanks in advance, Reinhart Viane -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php CSS is probably the best solution http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/page.html#q16 found whle googling http://www.google.ca/search?hl=enq=printing+CSS+mediabtnG=Google+Search This is a good article: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=PrintStylesheets and as always, A List Apart has CSS Design: going to Print at http://www.alistapart.com/stories/goingtoprint/ I have seen examples of two-column pages, but do not know if the pages broke correctly when the matter was longer than one page. Alternately, display in tables and make certain you have a TH so your header can repeat. Hope this steers you in the right direction - Miles. -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 3/10/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Problem
At 07:47 AM 3/16/2006, Bikram Suri wrote: I changed that it was windows but still did not change anything. I even reinstalled wamp but still the include_path variable in phpinfo(); shows c:\php5\pear Please help as this putting a stop on my work regards and thank you for all the help -- Bikram Suri Have you done a search across all drives and directories for all instances of php.ini? Is there one somewhere on the path shown under Apache Environment in phpinfo()? Have you checked the setup instructions for non-WAMP installation of PHP5? They may tell where php.ini is located. There's obviously one lying around somewhere that's getting read. Not much help, I'm afraid, but in these situations one tends to flail or repeatedly try the same solution. Good luck - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 3/10/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php 5 installation problem
At 05:40 PM 3/16/2006, Anthony Ettinger wrote: dreamhost let's you choose php4 or 5, as I'm sure others do as well. snipped all 'dat stuff A little more on dreamhost. PHP5 is installed as CGI, not Apache module. Does anyone have any experience with Nexcess.net -- advertisers on back page of PHP | Architect? At hub.org you can install anything - virtual server. Cheers - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 3/10/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php 5 installation problem
At 06:23 PM 3/16/2006, Anthony Ettinger wrote: On 3/16/06, Miles Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:40 PM 3/16/2006, Anthony Ettinger wrote: dreamhost let's you choose php4 or 5, as I'm sure others do as well. snipped all 'dat stuff A little more on dreamhost. PHP5 is installed as CGI, not Apache module. Is there a drawback to running php5 as CGI? -- Anthony Ettinger Signature: http://chovy.dyndns.org/hcard.html Anthony, I really don't know, because computers are much faster, so there may not be the time lags there were 10 years ago. As I understand CGI, the web server sees that the page is of type .php, starts up PHP, PHP processes the page, the web server shuts down PHP and sends out the results. The overhead of starting and stopping PHP (or Perl, etc.) was the complaint. When PHP is loaded as an Apache module there is not startup / shutdown overhead. If I have this wrong, or if PHP5 as a CGI stays resident and there is no penalty, will someone please correct me. Regards - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 3/10/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] MySQL NOT IN Query not working
At 08:41 PM 3/16/2006, Kevin Murphy wrote: Anyone want to point me to why this isn't working: $hr_query = select dp_lname,dp_fname,dp_id FROM dir_all WHERE dp_id NOT IN (SELECT sup_id FROM dir_title2) ORDER BY dp_lname; There are two tables, dir_all (the main list of everyone) and dir_title2 (supplemental). If someone is in dir_title2 then the sup_id is the same as their dp_id. What I am trying to do is get a list of every person in dir_all that is NOT in dir_title2. Any thoughts as to what am doing wrong? -- Kevin Murphy Webmaster - Information and Marketing Services Western Nevada Community College www.wncc.edu (775) 445-3326 Kevin, Looks like an older version of MySQL. Check your version: subqueries were not supported until ver 4.1. The older docs at MySQL give a work around. Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 3/10/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] to check idle time of users
At 09:32 AM 3/15/2006, suresh kumar wrote: in windows,if user idle for 1 minute,his desktop screen is changed to screen saver.i like to implement the same logic in my project if user is idle for 3 minutes its session will have to automatically destroy.i am waiting for or response. Fergawdsake - read the bloody manual!! Hint anything associated with session is a good place to start looking. You ask question after question that can be solved by checking the docs. Further hint - you're earning a rep for asking questions easily resolved from the docs. Two things can now happen: people will filter you out, or when you have a real problem it will not be looked at. And don't be so damned arrogant you end with i am waiting for or (sic) reponse. No one on this list is another's servant. Regards - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 3/10/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] determining client's external IP
At 02:39 PM 3/13/2006, tedd wrote: Jochem wrote: life is not that simple here are some functions I wrote as an attempt to to better than 'REMOTE_ADDR' - interested if these allow you to retrieve the same IP as whatismyip.com: -snip- A most impressive piece of code -- thank you, it works great! While you appear to get down to the person's IP, where would one get the assorted associated details, such as the IP location text, Reverse IP (if any) and Reverse DNS? For example, such as that provided by: http://whois.sc Do these people have access to dB's that civilians don't? tedd -- http://sperling.com Tedd, Try this link. http://www.ip2location.com/articles/article2.htm ip2location.com also have a free database of IP's. Google turns up others, they are all roughly similar. HTH - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 3/10/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] database connection pool
At 06:17 AM 3/11/2006, Khai wrote: Hello, My name is Khai. I am new to PHP. I am well versed with mod_perl and apache. With mod_perl, I can use Apache::DBI to cache database connections. Is there a module for PHP that does the same thing ? Thank you, Khai -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Do you mean persistent connections? That depends on the database and the functions provided for it in PHP. Check the connection function(s) in the manual for the database you use. Regards - Miles Thompson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 3/10/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] equivalent of perl's ithread
At 06:33 AM 3/11/2006, Khai wrote: As of perl 5.6, perl has a concept of interpreter thread (called ithread). Basically, any variable that you want to be shared across threads, you have to explicitly shared it. This apply not only to regular variables, but also apply to super global variables such as $_, making it easy to write threadsafe modules in perl. Does PHP has an equivalent concept? If I am developing php pages that are to be run under apache2 threaded worker mpm, can I use $_SERVER variable ? Thanks Khai Check the archives for thread safety and running PHP under Apache 2. The URL is: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-generalr=1w=2 My information may be out of date, but the last I read was that PHP itself was OK, but some modules were not thread-safe. Regards - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 3/10/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Poker stats GET/POST page devleopment
At 12:26 PM 3/7/2006, The Doctor wrote: Someone wishes to develop a site using PHP/SQL . Here are the specs: The site the client is looking for is not a gaming site. It is a site where players register to keep track of their winnings on GAMING sites. It will have a freeroll side(where players get points not money) and a Money tour side where players will win money and points. This site will request (GET) data from the gaming sites for the registered members and compile(POST) the info into the db. A number of queries will need to be set up ie. top 10 - 20 - 50 for free roll top 10 - 20 - 50 for money tour List of registered members by date registered List of registered members by points earned List of registered members by money won List of registered members by last name alphabetacally We should also have a db of all the poker sites which we could concatenate with other queries. ie. registered members placements in xxxpokerroom.com etc. I hope all this makes sense to you. Let me know if any of this is not doable. P.S. They want to able to administer to the site themselves... We could set up a secure sign in and allow them access to the CGI bin through html pages or shtml pages. Not too familiar with the CMS side of things for something like this. end of client request. How doable is this and what Can I use in the process? SQL options are MySQL and PostGresQL. Member - Liberal International This is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ici [EMAIL PROTECTED] God Queen and country! Beware Anti-Christ rising! Canada's New CONservatives - Same old Tory. Yes, this is doable, but do you have permission to query the results on the gaming sites? I should think they would be very reluctant to release that information. PostGreSQL would let you do subqueries, so some operations will be a little simpler. So -- yes you can do it, using PHP - Ruby - Python - Perl or ??? What's the real question? Cheers - Miles in Nova Scotia. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.0/275 - Release Date: 3/6/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Incremental Date Based ID
At 08:46 PM 3/7/2006, Kevin Murphy wrote: I'm trying to set up an ID field that works like this for news articles that are posted to a website. 2006-03-05a 2006-03-05b I know how to generate the date, and I am pretty sure I can generate the letter code based on counting the number of rows and then assigning the next letter (we will never have more than 26 in a day... usually its closer to 1 or 2 per day). The problem is if there has been something deleted. 2006-03-05a 2006-03-05c If I then Count the rows with this date I get an answer of 2, and so the next letter should be c but there already is a c because b got deleted. So, is there any way of generating this style ID number automatically? -- Kevin Murphy Webmaster - Information and Marketing Services Western Nevada Community College www.wncc.edu (775) 445-3326 Why make it so HARD?? Having gone that far, just timestamp your id. Not a timestamp in the sense of it being triggered whenever a record was changed, but the time it was created. Better yet - use your publish date and assign a sequence number to the article. Doesn't matter what the number is, but you can then use it to roughly - or accurately - sequence articles for publication. If articles have same sequence number they'll appear in whatever order they were added to the database. For a count of the articles, just count(pub_date). And yes, if you insist, you can generate the number automatically. Just establish a table for id values. It has two fields, table_name and id_value. Write a function to grab the current id_value, then increment and store it. Note grab first, then increment and store. I still think this is much more work than you need. Regards - Miles Thompson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.0/275 - Release Date: 3/6/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Incremental Date Based ID
At 09:05 PM 3/7/2006, Kevin Murphy wrote: Well, part of the issue is that I want to be able to use this as part of the link: /news.php?article=2006-03-05a /news.php?article=2006-03-05b which i will eventually do a htacess rewrite to make it look like /news/2006-03-05a.php /news/2006-03-05a.php I don't think I can do that with just the Unix timestamp. snip Why not - treat the number as a string and assign that to the file. I was under the impression you were storing the articles in a database. Alternately, create a directory for each year, one for each month within the year, one for each day within the month, then sequence alphabetically within the day. Does this resemble the structure of the MS knowledgebase? Yep! The first year Allnovascotia.com was published we did something like that, although the articles just had regular titles. In any event - have fun. Cheers - Miles PS Convention in this group is to bottom post. /mt -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.0/275 - Release Date: 3/6/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Mysql Rows
At 10:56 AM 3/6/2006, tedd wrote: As such, if you don't renumber, then the only thing left is to use a timestamp, I guess. [/snip] No, if you have gaps you can still step through sequentially, like 14, 15, 18, 19, 20... It's the gaps that are the problem. I have no problem understanding why there are gaps in a dB and dealing with them. After all I've been juggling memory and bit-twiddling longer than I want to admit, so I understand holes in stuff. But what I am trying to solve is the simple thing of presenting records to a civilian such that there are no gaps in his record keeping. I don't want to have to explain to my client why his dB has gaps in it. I don't want to listen to him asking why those gaps aren't filled. In fact, I don't want to raise the issue at all if I can get around it. One way I found to get around this problem was to simply renumber the id filed in the table -- but, I received considerable advice against that from this list. I'm still not certain as to why that shouldn't be considered a good solution, but the feelings of the group are don't do it. So, I'm still trying to find a simple way around this problem. Either I renumber the id field OR provide an external counter to present to the user. I don't see any other solutions, does anyone? Thanks. tedd Tedd, Why does he even have to see gaps? Just present the info, unless he wants to see the ID. If wonders why there are gaps, then just tell him that happens when someone is deleted. If he wants the gaps filled - then keep a table of the holes and recycle those numbers when new members are added. But there will still be occasional gaps. But if you renumber the ID field, you have seamless crap, because the number is absolutely meaningless. Today I'm 2345, tomorrow 2344 because one member's been deleted, next day I'm 2322 because a lot of people were deleted but the day after that 2367 because a lot of people signed up. If the client wants the number of current people, then SELECT Count(*) ... gets it for you. Why are we still chasing this thread? Regards - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.2/274 - Release Date: 3/3/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mysql Rows
I hope the following will be helpful, and it is a bit of a rant ..
rant
The row number DOES NOT MATTER and is absolutely irrelevant. MySQL is a
relational database from which information is gathered by means of
comparing fields to key values. Even if you are using an auto-incremented
primary key it serves ONLY AS A LABEL to UNIQUELY identify each row.
If you need sequential numbers, as for membership, devise a script to
manage them and recycle them, if that's what you want.
For the number of returned rows, check mysql_row_count (or similar function).
Recognize that an ORDER BY condition will change the apparent row number.
/rant
I am v. curious as to why you need to know which row is used for jimmy.
Regards - Miles
At 07:51 PM 3/3/2006, benifactor wrote:
i need to find a way to find out what number of a row is in a database...
for example:
//this is the database
Username: Chuck Password: adsasa
Username: jimmy Password: adsf
Username: stewart Password: dfds
the information i need is what row jimmy resides on..
this is what i tried:
function i_gun ($user) {
global $username;
$gun = mysql_query(select * from users);
while ($d = mysql_fetch_array($gun)) {
while($d[username] != $user) {
$i = $i + 1;
}
}
}
but it always returns 1. can sombody tell me what i am doing wrong or
point me in the right direction in the manual? plase and thank you
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Re: [PHP] SQL request on DBase file...
At 07:27 PM 2/10/2006, David BERCOT wrote: Hi, I have to rewrite an application from ASP. In this application, I receive DBase files which may be saved into Oracle. In ASP, I used a generic driver and I made SQL requests on these files. It is possible with PHP on Linux ? Do you have some examples ? Thank you very much. David. Come on -- read the manual. There's a section .dbf files. Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.4/255 - Release Date: 2/9/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] global variable declaration
At 10:46 AM 2/8/2006, suresh kumar wrote: hai, this is my sample code: i am having user table with SponsorID as one field in mysql database,this is my query; for($j=0;$j5;$j++): $result=mysql_query(select * from user where SponsorID='$id[$j]' ); endfor; in above code when i print mysql_num_rows($result) inside for loop its output is 5.when i print outside the for loop its o/p is 0.I searched weberdev.com website and declared $result as global.but same output 0.i want $result variable to be available outsibe the forloop and all other part of my code.i am looking forward suggestions from ur side. A.suresh Did you read up on global vars and use of the global key word in functions? Also check mysql_query() in the docs and what it returns. It's more of a handle than anything else. Finally, given you example you will have to use $result inside your loop. Regards - Miles Thompson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.2/253 - Release Date: 2/7/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Window close.
At 03:42 AM 2/7/2006, Labunski wrote:
It can'tbe done with PHP, cause it must be client side script, aka
Javascript:
javascript: window.close();
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Actually, expand it a little bit, and you avoid the JS Alert.
function close_opener(){
parentwin = window.self; // Make handle for current
window named parentwin
parentwin.opener = window.self;// Tell current window that it
opened itself
parentwin.close(); // Close window's parent (e.g.
the current window)
}
Can't take credit for it, had a similar problem years ago when I had to pop
a window up to establish a session and immediately destroy it. And that was
because I could not set a session from within Flash, nor access a session
from Flash.
Regards - Miles Thompson
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Re: [PHP] Sound
At 12:17 PM 2/6/2006, Paul Novitski wrote: At 07:15 AM 2/5/2006, tedd wrote: Does anyone know a way to generate a sound (bell, click, tone, peep, buzz, word) from php? Hi Tedd, I was about to tell you that ringing a bell from PHP wasn't possible, since PHP is executed on the server, but I searched for http://php.net/bell and found this: http://php.net/manual/en/function.newt-bell.php Unless the Newt functions are an extension you're looking for, I suspect you're off-track. A bell or other terminal sound is a time-specific event. PHP generally executes in background, generating data to be downloaded to the client and rendered there in real time. When exactly would you have a bell rung? I believe you need to look to a client-side script for this type of functionality. Unless you want a bell to ring on the server while it's executing a script for the client? Making wings for angels. M. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.2/251 - Release Date: 2/4/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Unique Names for Variable in Loop
No need to subscript them, my_name_array[] will work just fine.
Miles
At 03:49 PM 2/2/2006, Programmer wrote:
$x = 0;
my_name_array = array();
While($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
my_name_array[$x] = $row[last_name];
}
Jeremy Schreckhise
-Original Message-
From: Albert Padley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 1:15 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] Unique Names for Variable in Loop
I must be brain dead today since I can't get my syntax correct.
Simple MySQL query to return a list of last_name. No problem. Each
last name returned needs to be assigned to a unique variable like
name1, name2, name3, etc.
Somebody just kick me in the right direction.
Thanks.
Al Padley
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Re: [PHP] Re: How to get a network drive name
At 09:30 AM 2/2/2006, Barry wrote: Ibrahima TALL wrote: Hi barry and thanks for your response ! Your solution seems to be restrictive for me and for my application clients because in such situation, they will be obligated to have a config file in which they must define all the network drive names and to update it whenever a new drive is mapped. i prefer to wait to be sure that there is no php/javascript solution before considering another solution. So to understand it correctly. You want to get the Network name from the User which is surfing the Site? If you want the Network names in your local Network, i think over shell this is possible. But getting the Network name from the User browsing a webseite, i don't think something like that exists in PHP. Barry WHOA!! Who's drive /network names are we getting? Mine are mine are mine, and *NOT* the business of any Internet script. Period. Having said that, remember, PHP is a server-side language, so trot off to a Java list and investigate the Windows API. Shudder!!! Cheers - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.0/248 - Release Date: 2/1/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Performance question
At 12:02 PM 2/1/2006, Mathieu Dumoulin wrote: This is more a How would you do it than a How can i do it question. Didn't have time to try it, but i want to know how mysql_seek_row acts with large result sets. For example im thinking of building a node tree application that can have dual direction links to nodes attached to different places. I was wondering if i could actually have two result sets that query everything sorted by ID (Links and Nodes) then just seek the rows i need instead of dumping everything in php memory. When i mean large i mean really large, more than the standard possible 2 mbs of data allowed by most php servers. That's where the how you'd do it comes into play. I think i'd just query my tables, loop them but keep only the line (to do a data_seek later on) and ID in some kind of an hash table or simply an array. This would make it relatively fast without taking too much memory. This is my solution, how do you people see it without dumping everything to memory or by making recursive SQL calls (which will obviously slow everything down i'm pretty sure) Mathieu Dumoulin Programmer analyst in web solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't get it - what are you trying to do? Why? What is being visualized in the tree structure? Building trees is expensive, you're essentially duplicating the index of the database, and if you fetch the data it's in memory regardless of how you present it. The mysql_data_seek needs the row number - but by then you're on the client side, if this is to respond to a link. Maybe I just don't see it - or maybe you're confusing server side and client side. Regards - Miles Thompson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.25/247 - Release Date: 1/31/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] SQL in XML [was PHP and DBase...]
At 03:08 PM 1/31/2006, David BERCOT wrote: Hi, I'd like to connect to DBase files (.dbf) in order to do SQL requests. Do you know if it is possible ? If yes, do you have an example ? I'm working on Debian with PHP5. Thank you very much. David. Blind? http://de.php.net/dbase OK. I should have made such a search ;-) So, it is possible... I'll try... But, finally, I wonder if I shouldn't use XML files instead ? Is it possible, directly, to make a SQL request on a XML file ? In fact, I was looking for a file format which would be modifing on Windows and on Linux. So, I thought about dbf. But now... Thank you very much. David. David, If I remember correctly, there are a lot of caveats surrounding .dbf files. If it is data you have to manage, why not use MySQL / PostgresSQl / Firebird? Cheers - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.25/246 - Release Date: 1/30/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Collecting info about columns in a table
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Re: [PHP] PHP hosting with multiple domains?
http://www.hub.org All the flexibility you need, as well as being fast, courteous and responsive. Miles At 01:34 PM 1/30/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know every month or so someone asks What's a good web hosting company to use for my PHP projects?.. I have most of the responses archived and have searched online a bit, but I have a specific wish and was hoping someone else had already found a good hosting company that'd let me do what I want. I want PHP (either 4 or 5, I'm not too picky) and MySQL. The thing I'm having trouble nailing down is one that might let me host multiple domains under a single hosting account and share bandwidth and HD space. I have a couple of domains that aren't really doing anything right now (none of my domains really generate any traffic right now but could in the future). But instead of paying to upgrade the storage of one domain then paying again to upgrade the storage of another one... I'd like them to share harddrive space and bandwidth. Failing that, Doster (the registrar I use) can let me point a domain to a subdirectory on another domain (ie. http://www.altdomain.com actually lives at http://www.maindomain.com/altdomain). The hosting company I'm with right now is great for the fact that I locked my domains in at $20/year before they upped their prices (yeah... twenty per year) but they're kind of mom pop and I'd like some place a little bigger and more professional even if it means paying more per month. I'm more interested in storage space than bandwidth right now, but that may change later (as the stuff being stored is accessed of course). I don't need many email addresses or databases. Don't need a shell account. Cron jobs/scheduled tasks (of PHP scripts) would be really nice. hah.. I'll stop now. Think you get the idea. The convenient management of multiple domains with a hosting provider is my ultimate goal. Thanks. -TG ___ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.23/243 - Release Date: 1/27/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Embedding HTML in PHP
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[PHP] Test message - is there content?
I've noticed the past couple of posts to the list do not show any content. So this is a test. If you see content, please reply to me directly, not on the list. Thanks and regards - Miles Thompson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.23/243 - Release Date: 1/27/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] query regarding forms
At 11:20 AM 1/28/2006, suresh kumar wrote: hi, i am having 3 files Login.php,home.php and home1.php when i entered username and passwd in my first login page i want want i entered as username and passwd in my third page ie home1.php. A.suresh That's nice. Now go check out the basic tutorials on the main PHP page. Click Getting help, then the links under the heading Sample Code. When the PHP Links page loads, scroll down to Tutorials. http://ca3.php.net/links.php Work through a couple, then check out how PHP does sessions so you do not have to pass stuff through the URL. Cheers - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.23/243 - Release Date: 1/27/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] questions regarding PHP and Forms
At 05:39 PM 1/28/2006, Paul Goepfert wrote:
Thanks for the help everyone. I have decided to use javascript to
deal with my second problem. I understand that this is not a
JavaScript fourm but I am having some trouble getting my JS function
to work correctly.
Here is my JS code.
function getEquipment ()
{
var mylist = document.getElementById(equip);
if (mylist.options[mylist.selectedIndex].value==other)
{
document.writeln(tr);
document.writeln( td align=leftOther/td);
document.writeln( tdinput type=text
name=other size=20/td);
document.writeln(/tr);
}
}
This is my code for where the function is called
select name=equipment size=1 id=equip onChange=getEquipment()
option value=treadmillTreadmil/option
option value=exercise bikeExercise
Bike/option
option value=otherOther/option
option value=rowing machine
selectedRowing Machine/option
/select
My problem is when the page loads in a web browser the Option Other
is selected every time. From what you can see from my code Rowing
machine is the one that I want to be shown when the page loads.
Anyway can anyonne tell me why my code is not executing correctly. I
am not too familiar with java script. What I am trying to accomplish
is if Other is selected then add a new table row below the drop down
menu with the content that I have in the function.
If no one can help with this would someone please direct me to a Java
Script Forum.
Thanks
Paul
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Re: [PHP] PHP Job Opening in UAE
UAE = United Arab Emirates? Do you want people on-site, or to work remotely? Miles At 02:05 PM 1/27/2006, M Saleh EG wrote: Login Innovations, a new media internet solutions studio in UAE is looking for a resident-in-house PHP developer with at least 2 years experience. Skills required: OO knowledge and PHP5 PEAR aware Framework and code libraries integration CMS integration SQL and PL-SQL (MySQL 4.x, MySQL 5) XML and AJaX is plus Send your resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.23/242 - Release Date: 1/26/2006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
