php-general Digest 27 Feb 2007 17:18:51 -0000 Issue 4649

2007-02-27 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 27 Feb 2007 17:18:51 - Issue 4649 Topics (messages 249476 through 249506): Re: Array question 249476 by: Hap-Hang Yu 249483 by: Ford, Mike 249500 by: Gerry D Array question - maybe UTF? 249477 by: Gerry D $_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT] IIS6

[PHP] $_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT] IIS6 windows2003

2007-02-27 Thread Marco Sottana
i have installed php in a IIS6 into a windows2003 i lost $_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT] why ??

Re: [PHP] audio CAPTCHA - was Combining sound files

2007-02-27 Thread Németh Zoltán
2007. 02. 26, hétfő keltezéssel 12.06-kor tedd ezt írta: Hi: Dumb error, please try again: http://www.sperling.com/a/c Plus, the point is to click the Speak CAPTCHA button and see if it speaks. XP/IE7: the error message is gone, but button does nothing Linux/Firefox: speak button

Re: [PHP] get wikipedia content

2007-02-27 Thread Stut
Marco Sottana wrote: anyone knows a script that can get wikipedia content in .php ? The easiest way would be to download the DB and then build some PHP to access it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download Make sure you read everything on that page, and make sure you

RE: [PHP] Array question

2007-02-27 Thread Ford, Mike
On 27 February 2007 04:23, Gerry D wrote: I have a question on how to retrieve the value that corresponds to a key in an array. $fruit = array('a' = 'apple', 'b' = 'banana', 'c' = 'cranberry'); $key = array_search($c, $fruit); if ( $key === FALSE )

Re: [PHP] Populating array with function

2007-02-27 Thread Brad Bonkoski
Dotan Cohen wrote: I need to populate an array with the contents of a directory. The following code does not populate the $thumbnailFiles array like I expect that it would: ?php function listFiles ($directory) { $files=array(); $dir = dir($directory); while ($entry = $dir-read()) {

Re: [PHP] Populating array with function

2007-02-27 Thread Arpad Ray
Brad Bonkoski wrote: $files[] = $entry; perhaps look into the array_push() function http://www.php.net/array_push $files[] = $entry; is perfectly fine. $thumbnailFiles=listFiles($thumbnailsDirectory); printpre; print_r($thumbnailsFiles); print/pre; The code is fine, spot the

Re: [PHP] Populating array with function

2007-02-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 27/02/07, Brad Bonkoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perhaps look into the array_push() function http://www.php.net/array_push Thanks, but I cannot use array_push() as I don't know the name of the array that I'll be pushing to. There are four calls to the listFiles function, and each will

Re: [PHP] Populating array with function

2007-02-27 Thread Dave Goodchild
You have a typo in your code...

Re: [PHP] Populating array with function

2007-02-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 27/02/07, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: On 27/02/07, Brad Bonkoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perhaps look into the array_push() function http://www.php.net/array_push Thanks, but I cannot use array_push() as I don't know the name of the array that I'll be

Re: [PHP] Cast to unset

2007-02-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 11:36 +0200, Robert Enyedi wrote: In the PHP grammar I encountered the feature of casting to unset, e.g. (unset)$a. I did not manage to find any specific documentation on this, only people wandering what it might do

[PHP] PHP shell_exec

2007-02-27 Thread h
Hi I have been using the shell_exec command to perform several server queries quite succesfully i.e. analysing files systems by gettin ginformation returned by df -kP (shell_exec('df -kP')). do any of you guts know if it is possible to target a command like this on another server? So

Re: [PHP] PHP shell_exec

2007-02-27 Thread Németh Zoltán
2007. 02. 27, kedd keltezéssel 13.17-kor h ezt írta: Hi I have been using the shell_exec command to perform several server queries quite succesfully i.e. analysing files systems by gettin ginformation returned by df -kP (shell_exec('df -kP')). do any of you guts know if it is possible

Re: [PHP] PHP shell_exec

2007-02-27 Thread Andrei
Hi Ade, Sure you can. You must develop 2 scripts. One that will act as server and one as client. So if you want to get details of server B from server A you should have the server into B and client into A. Be sure the communication between these 2 servers is securised (using a

RE: [PHP] PHP shell_exec

2007-02-27 Thread Peter Lauri
ssh2_exec would do it for you... Best regards, Peter Lauri www.dwsasia.com - company web site www.lauri.se - personal web site www.carbonfree.org.uk - become Carbon Free -Original Message- From: h [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 3:18 PM To:

[PHP] PHP Clustering System, beta testers

2007-02-27 Thread Mark
I have a PHP clustering back end server, MCache. It is available in source form at http://www.mohawksoft.org It allows multiple PHP web servers to share session information without any changes to PHP code and without NFS or a database. It is based on a backend server mcached and a PHP extension.

Re: [PHP] Populating array with function

2007-02-27 Thread Al
A good php editor, with code completion, will help prevent this. I like phpEdit. It even has a built-in syntax checker, which would have caught your error immediately. Dotan Cohen wrote: On 27/02/07, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: On 27/02/07, Brad Bonkoski [EMAIL

Re: [PHP] Populating array with function

2007-02-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 09:05 -0500, Al wrote: A good php editor, with code completion, will help prevent this. A decent brain with ample memory will suffice also. Upgrade packages not available (yet) :) Cheers, Rob. I like phpEdit. It even has a built-in syntax checker, which would have

Re: [PHP] Array question

2007-02-27 Thread Gerry D
Mike, See entire function under topic Array question - maybe UTF?... I am trying to change accented characters to their equivalent without accents. And yes, the arrays look fine after var_dump()... Gerry On 2/27/07, Ford, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27 February 2007 04:23, Gerry D

[PHP] USPS DPV AMS Postal w/ PHP

2007-02-27 Thread Chris Ditty
Has anyone ever used php to access the DPV and AMS Postal cds from the USPS? If so, can you share any basic examples on how to get started with it? thanks -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] USPS DPV AMS Postal w/ PHP

2007-02-27 Thread Chris Ditty
I'll check into them frowning on that. Currently, I just want to see if I can do it. Trust me, I am in NO way a competitor to you. :) I'm just a bored geek. :D On 2/27/07, Jason Pruim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris, From my understanding wouldn't the postal service frown upon that?

[PHP] Re: PHP shell_exec

2007-02-27 Thread Colin Guthrie
h wrote: I have been using the shell_exec command to perform several server queries quite succesfully i.e. analysing files systems by gettin ginformation returned by df -kP (shell_exec('df -kP')). do any of you guts know if it is possible to target a command like this on another server?

Re: [PHP] USPS DPV AMS Postal w/ PHP

2007-02-27 Thread Chris Shiflett
Chris Ditty wrote: Has anyone ever used php to access the DPV and AMS Postal cds from the USPS? If so, can you share any basic examples on how to get started with it? Andrew and Randy (two previous AME leads) started a project a while ago called phpZ4: http://sf.net/projects/phpz4/ I'd

Re: [PHP] USPS DPV AMS Postal w/ PHP

2007-02-27 Thread Chris Ditty
Thanks Chris. I was thinking that Randy did something like that. I was planning on calling him for the project name. On 2/27/07, Chris Shiflett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Ditty wrote: Has anyone ever used php to access the DPV and AMS Postal cds from the USPS? If so, can you share any

[PHP] Re: Extract printable text from web page using preg_match

2007-02-27 Thread Colin Guthrie
M5 wrote: I am trying to write a regex function to extract the readable (visible, screen-rendered) portion of any web page. Specifically, I only want the text between the body tags, excluding any script or style tags within the document, also excluding comments. Has anyone here seen such a

Re: [PHP] Extract printable text from web page using preg_match

2007-02-27 Thread Martin Zvarík
I believe it is better to use strpos() in this case because it's faster. ?php $start = strpos(strtolower($website_code), 'body'); // not necessary $end = strpos(strtolower($website_code), '/body'); $code = substr($website_code, $start, $end-$start); echo strip_tags($code); // clean text ?

[PHP] Extract printable text from web page using preg_match

2007-02-27 Thread M5
I am trying to write a regex function to extract the readable (visible, screen-rendered) portion of any web page. Specifically, I only want the text between the body tags, excluding any script or style tags within the document, also excluding comments. Has anyone here seen such a regex? Is

Re: [PHP] Extract printable text from web page using preg_match

2007-02-27 Thread Satyam
- Original Message - From: M5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:47 PM Subject: [PHP] Extract printable text from web page using preg_match I am trying to write a regex function to extract the readable (visible, screen-rendered) portion

Re: [PHP] Populating array with function

2007-02-27 Thread Al
I always wondered if anyone had a perfect brain. Us ordinary mortals require help. Robert Cummings wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 09:05 -0500, Al wrote: A good php editor, with code completion, will help prevent this. A decent brain with ample memory will suffice also. Upgrade packages not

[PHP] Does PHP require patch for Daylight Savings Time 2007 change

2007-02-27 Thread Causevic, Dzenan
I am running Apache HTTP 1.3 with PHP 4.2.2 and MySQL 3.23. Do I need to apply any kind of patches to my PHP related to Daylight Savings Time 2007 change? ___ Dzenan Causevic Web Applications Developer NaviSite, Inc. 315-453-2912 x5346 (Office)

Re: [PHP] Extract printable text from web page using preg_match

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, February 27, 2007 11:47 am, M5 wrote: I am trying to write a regex function to extract the readable (visible, screen-rendered) portion of any web page. Specifically, I only want the text between the body tags, excluding any script or style tags within the document, also excluding

[PHP] shell_exec, batch files, and IIS on Windows

2007-02-27 Thread Shu Chow
The manual entry for shell_exec has a comment that notes to execute .bat files with shell_exec, you need to pass the command through cmd.exe with the /c argument. I was wondering if anyone could share some insight on why that is. I've pretty much verified that this is the case. I can't

Re: [PHP] PHP shell_exec

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, February 27, 2007 7:17 am, h wrote: I have been using the shell_exec command to perform several server queries quite succesfully i.e. analysing files systems by gettin ginformation returned by df -kP (shell_exec('df -kP')). do any of you guts know if it is possible to target a command

Re: [PHP] Cast to unset

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, February 27, 2007 3:36 am, Robert Enyedi wrote: In the PHP grammar I encountered the feature of casting to unset, e.g. (unset)$a. I did not manage to find any specific documentation on this, only people wandering what it might do (http://blog.thinkphp.de/archives/33-Casted-fun..html).

Re: [PHP] Populating array with function

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
Or just turning on E_NOTICE, which you should do anyway. On Tue, February 27, 2007 8:05 am, Al wrote: A good php editor, with code completion, will help prevent this. I like phpEdit. It even has a built-in syntax checker, which would have caught your error immediately. Dotan Cohen wrote:

Re: [PHP] get wikipedia content

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, February 27, 2007 2:12 am, Marco Sottana wrote: anyone knows a script that can get wikipedia content in .php ? ?php file_get_contents(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$foo;); ? -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist.

Re: [PHP] shell_exec, batch files, and IIS on Windows

2007-02-27 Thread Frank M. Kromann
The user that runs the php script under iis (IUSER_maschine name) should have permissions to execute the cmd.exe file, the .bat file and all the commands included in the .bat file. - Frank The manual entry for shell_exec has a comment that notes to execute .bat files with shell_exec, you

[PHP] gettext online editor?

2007-02-27 Thread Vincent DUPONT
hello, for translating our web applications, we use to create an XML file with the labels; one label for each entry; one file for each language. This let us: 1. create one file (in french) and let someone do the translations 2. provide the 'key users' (admins) of the application a php page

Re: [PHP] gettext online editor?

2007-02-27 Thread Satyam
- Original Message - From: Vincent DUPONT [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:33 PM Subject: [PHP] gettext online editor? hello, for translating our web applications, we use to create an XML file with the labels; one label for each

RE: [PHP] shell_exec, batch files, and IIS on Windows

2007-02-27 Thread Vincent DUPONT
hi, maybe you can try this: in the IIS properties, you can define the user running your IIS service. Ususally this is IUSR_xxx, but you can set a administrator user (see directory Security/ anonymous user) try to put your win login (prefixed with your domain\ and give your password. If you

Re: [PHP] Populating array with function

2007-02-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 27/02/07, Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A good php editor, with code completion, will help prevent this. I like phpEdit. It even has a built-in syntax checker, which would have caught your error immediately. As soon as the Linux version comes out I'll be sure to give it a whirl. Thanks.

Re: [PHP] Multiple Submit

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
Once you submit the form, it's a done deal, and you're going to get a response back... Maybe you want some kind of AJAX-y thing somewhere? On Mon, February 26, 2007 10:23 am, Dan Shirah wrote: Hello all, I have a page that has multiple submits on it. One submit is within my javascriptfor

Re: [PHP] Multiple Submit

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, February 26, 2007 1:14 pm, David Giragosian wrote: However, since I have a form within a form, it is giving me problems. You simply cannot nest one form inside another, if that's what you are doing... Don't do that. -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you

Re: [PHP] PHP4 and PHP5

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, February 26, 2007 7:49 am, Martin Marques wrote: Is it posible to run apache with PHP4 and PHP5 on different virtual domains? Search the list archives for Rasmus Lerdorf and ProxyPass and I think you'll find a fairly easy way to do it. -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I

Re: [PHP] $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] in a included file

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
I don't think it does know, nor care, nor should it... Why would it need to know that?... You may find the info you want in a backtrace function at http://php.net/ On Mon, February 26, 2007 8:15 am, clive wrote: Thanks Vincent,Stut and Olaf. Thats __file___ is exactly what I needed :) now

Re: [PHP] array issues

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
Just add another array for each with $artist as the key. while ($artist, $vote, $email) = mysql_fetch_row($results)){ $votes[$artist] = $vote; $emails[$artist] = $email; } Although, actually, there is probably some better ways to do what you are doing, but with only the query to look at,

Re: [PHP] array issues

2007-02-27 Thread Jim Lucas
Richard Lynch wrote: Just add another array for each with $artist as the key. while ($artist, $vote, $email) = mysql_fetch_row($results)){ I think you ment while ( list($artist, $vote, $email) = mysql_fetch_row($results) ){ $votes[$artist] = $vote; $emails[$artist] = $email; } Although,

Re: [PHP] Populating array with function

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, February 27, 2007 3:47 pm, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 27/02/07, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 09:05 -0500, Al wrote: A good php editor, with code completion, will help prevent this. A decent brain with ample memory will suffice also. Upgrade packages not

Re: [PHP] shell_exec, batch files, and IIS on Windows

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, February 27, 2007 2:59 pm, Shu Chow wrote: The manual entry for shell_exec has a comment that notes to execute .bat files with shell_exec, you need to pass the command through cmd.exe with the /c argument. I was wondering if anyone could share some insight on why that is. I've

Re: [PHP] Error handling for Memcached PHP Extension

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
Didja see this one: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.memcache-debug.php Not, perhaps, the best answer, and maybe even not possible in your environment, but it may be useful for development, if not production. You could also check the getServerStats functions to see if their stats provide

Re: [PHP] how to retrieve pictures from postgreSQL DB

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
As another option, you could, in theory, use mime_magic or the new fileinfo or I think there's a GD function to guess at the type... Personally, I think your first mistake was putting the image into the DB at all. Unless you're the CIA doing pixel comparisons actually in SQL stored procedures or

Re: [PHP] indexing with fopen

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
You are essentially re-inventing ht://dig which is probably a Bad Idea. But if you want to fopen() a URL, you have to have 'http://' on the front of it, so PHP knows it's a URL, and not a very oddly-named file. On Sun, February 25, 2007 12:43 pm, Miguel Vaz wrote: Hi, I am

Re: [PHP] Re: how to display images stored in DB

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Sun, February 25, 2007 8:27 pm, Kevin Waterson wrote: This one time, at band camp, zerof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not a good practice to store pictures in DataBases, use links, instead of. Rubbish, where are your benchmarks? In the archives. Unless your images are teeny-tiny and

Re: [PHP] Uploading into website directory for Php files

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Sun, February 25, 2007 11:30 am, StainOnRug wrote: Hello again.. I recently posted a question about include files.. I appreciate the responses I received but my question wasn’t answered.. its my fault I didn’t explain myself 100%.. I know how to use the include files.. What I am

Re: [PHP] Combining sound files

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Sun, February 25, 2007 9:22 am, tedd wrote: Hi gang: I can combine two mp3 sound files together by simply: // load first $file = a.mp3; $handle = fopen($file, rb); $size = filesize($file); $load = fread($handle, $size); fclose($handle); // load second $file = b.mp3; $handle =

Re: [PHP] Does PHP require patch for Daylight Savings Time 2007 change

2007-02-27 Thread Chris
Causevic, Dzenan wrote: I am running Apache HTTP 1.3 with PHP 4.2.2 and MySQL 3.23. Do I need to apply any kind of patches to my PHP related to Daylight Savings Time 2007 change? The -internals list might be a better place to search / ask. -- Postgresql php tutorials

Re: [PHP] Re: audio CAPTCHA - was Combining sound files

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, February 26, 2007 11:16 am, Colin Guthrie wrote: tedd wrote: PS: What does this have to do with php? Well... a good deal of the code is php and a mix of a bunch of other stuff (we don't live in a vacuum) -- so please permit me this indulgence. Personally, I think this would be

Re: [PHP] OCI8 under WINDOWS

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
Restart Apache and see what it spits into the log when it tries to load it. Post that message here for interpretation, if it's not clear. A message not unlike: OCI: dll could not be loaded often means that OCI was trying to load ANOTHER DLL that it couldn't find, not that OCI itself was not

Re: [PHP] PHP+MySQL website cache ? Yes/No

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
Are you making a single eshop for just one store, or are you planning on your eshop being distributed to a zillion users?... Cuz unless your store gets a MILLION hits, the generation of static HTML instead of just using PHP will probably not save you very much at all. Write the application the

Re: [PHP] PHP+MySQL website cache ? Yes/No

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
Your cart and all that has to open a DB connection anyway. Unless you do something horribly wrong in DB design, running one more simple query is CHEAP once you pay the price of making a connection. Benchmark it on your hardware and find out. On Sun, February 25, 2007 5:06 am, Martin Zvarík

Re: [PHP] input on sessions vs cookies

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
Save us a lot of grief and just use PHP built-in sessions until you can prove them to not meet your needs. On Sat, February 24, 2007 7:48 pm, benifactor wrote: i would like your input on session vs cookies regarding login data like usernames/passwords ect... -- Some people have a gift link

Re: [PHP] OT - FC6 as Web Server

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Sat, February 24, 2007 8:44 pm, Chris wrote: I haven't done it with FC6 but have with previous versions of redhat as far back as 6.2 (I'm sure someone else will say they've done it for longer :P). I still have my RedHat 4 CDs from cheapbytes in their original cardboard shipping envelope,

Re: [PHP] IE6 session issues

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
I recall having a problem with PHP on Windows and IE where however long the session timeout was, that's how long the session lasted, as either the server or the browser was never sending/getting the new cookies. Well, actually, there was an additional 10-minute offset, as the web server clock was

Re: [PHP] GET doesn't work as POST

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Sat, February 24, 2007 1:50 pm, Larry Garfield wrote: Yes, you can end up with both a GET and a POST. (I'm not sure if it's technically legal in the HTTP standard, but it can happen in practice, IIRC.) Having GET data included with a POST request, where the GET is just part of the URL, is

Re: [PHP] getting authentication information from apache

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
Use ?php phpinfo();? and see what *IS* there. If what you want isn't there, then the web server didn't provide it. If the web server didn't provide it, PHP can't be blamed for not passing it on to you, which is *ALL* PHP does here. So what you have is a web-server configuration issue in that

Re: [PHP] Re: input on sessions vs cookies

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
Re-authenticate and make them login again when they do something particularly dangerous/serious/big-time. Nothing you've listed matches the above, except maybe changing their current password to a new one. I suppose you could do it just to change any profile setting, but some goofball out there

Re: [PHP] OT - FC6 as Web Server

2007-02-27 Thread Tom Cruickshank
While it might not be specific to php, there are some people out there who are both systems admins and web developers. I do agree however that this is not the most appropriate list. Peter: If you want to take this offline, send me a private email. I've configured what you are looking for and

[PHP] destructor sequence explained

2007-02-27 Thread james james
Hello Can someone please help explain how the order of object destructors called at shutdown is determined, especially with regards to objects composed of other objects? For example in the code below, the first example calls the destructors exactly in the order I would expect. Since object B is

Re: [PHP] Populating array with function

2007-02-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 28/02/07, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, February 27, 2007 3:47 pm, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 27/02/07, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 09:05 -0500, Al wrote: A good php editor, with code completion, will help prevent this. A decent brain with

Re: [PHP] destructor sequence explained

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, February 27, 2007 6:11 pm, james james wrote: Can someone please help explain how the order of object destructors called at shutdown is determined, especially with regards to objects composed of other objects? I think that changed from version to version, so unless you are on a

Re: [PHP] Who in this list would you...

2007-02-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 00:08 +0200, Peter Lauri wrote: . ask to join a project you are working on? I am working on a larger and longer project and we are looking for one more developer. He should be strong in object oriented programming. A general problem solver would be beneficial as there

RE: [PHP] Who in this list would you...

2007-02-27 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] He would need to work in-house. And the location is somewhere in Scandinavia. He could work as sub contractor or employed for my company. [/snip] I don't know too many list denizens who live in Scandinavia, so that severely limits your choices. -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] getting authentication information from apache

2007-02-27 Thread Ryan
Richard et al., You are right, the variable was not being provided for the apache server. Essentially I found the answer here http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/FAQ-F.html#remote-user-var The document has to be protected in order for apache create the REMOTE_USER variable. This was an

Re: [PHP] operational musings

2007-02-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 18:59 -0600, Jay Blanchard wrote: Howdy cats and kittens! I had an interesting thought after watching a demo of a POS system and wondered if the same type of methodology could be applied in a PHP application. I haven't thought this all the way through, but a

Re: [PHP] operational musings

2007-02-27 Thread Jon Anderson
Without any more than a few minutes worth of work, you can make MySQL do that with replication. Your in-store system could act as a slave to for the central system databases (any central updates trickle down to the slave automatically) and your in-store machine could be the master for the

Re: [PHP] Re: how to display images stored in DB

2007-02-27 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *ALL* of the arguments on this topic, and benchmarks, are in the PHP General archives. I am not concerned with past benchmarks done by others, I am asking what current benchmarks this user has made to make his claim. Kevin --

RE: [PHP] operational musings

2007-02-27 Thread Bob Dusek
The company I work for is currently doing this... using PHP in a retail environment, with a Linux server in every store, talking to the POS controller via a socket, storing data in a database (postgres), and processing retail transactions in real-time. And, sending results of those transactions

RE: [PHP] operational musings

2007-02-27 Thread Bob Dusek
From my experience, database replication from the central server to each of the stores won't scale... We use a timed (every X minutes), home-brewed protocol that does something similar to a synchronization. And, we don't synchronize the entire database at central server (as there are parts of

Re: [PHP] shell_exec, batch files, and IIS on Windows

2007-02-27 Thread Shu Chow
Thanks, guys, for the responses. I'll check the events and IIS logs tomorrow. This afternoon, I put the IIS user into the Administrators group, but no luck - the same exact thing, or lack of thing, happened. I told this to the IT head and he agrees that it's probably not a permissions issue.

Re: [PHP] echo text - anti-spam-spider measure

2007-02-27 Thread John Taylor-Johnston
How do I encode it? And would the href tag work? Casey Chu wrote: ^ So put that into a a href tag. On 2/27/07, Casey Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try using Javascript? Or use all entities? For example: mailto:php-general@lists.php.net would turn into

Re: [PHP] echo text - anti-spam-spider measure

2007-02-27 Thread Casey Chu
I'm not sure with both of your questions. I'm too lazy to try. Untested: But to encode it, you would use preg_replace_callback('~([\d\w])~', create_function('$a', 'return #.ord($a[0]).;;'), $theEmail); Hopefully that works? On 2/27/07, John Taylor-Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I

RE: [PHP] Who in this list would you...

2007-02-27 Thread Peter Lauri
[snap] [snip] He would need to work in-house. And the location is somewhere in Scandinavia. He could work as sub contractor or employed for my company. [/snip] I don't know too many list denizens who live in Scandinavia, so that severely limits your choices. [/snap] I live in Thailand but that

Re: [PHP] echo text - anti-spam-spider measure

2007-02-27 Thread Casey Chu
It works. =P I tested it. Try it here! =P http://themfund.com/snippets/test.php On 2/27/07, Casey Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure with both of your questions. I'm too lazy to try. Untested: But to encode it, you would use preg_replace_callback('~([\d\w])~', create_function('$a',

[PHP] echo text - anti-spam-spider measure

2007-02-27 Thread John Taylor-Johnston
I need an anti-spam-spider measure for my site. Too many addresses are getting raked. In once instance, I created a flash page: http://erasethis.glquebec.org/English/contact.htm But I just don't have the time to create a flash image for every single instance, most of which come from dynamically

Re: [PHP] echo text - anti-spam-spider measure

2007-02-27 Thread Casey Chu
^ So put that into a a href tag. On 2/27/07, Casey Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try using Javascript? Or use all entities? For example: mailto:php-general@lists.php.net would turn into

Re: [PHP] echo text - anti-spam-spider measure

2007-02-27 Thread Casey Chu
Try using Javascript? Or use all entities? For example: mailto:php-general@lists.php.net would turn into #109;#97;#105;#108;#116;#111;#58;#112;#104;#112;#45;#103;#101;#110;#101;#114;#97;#108;#64;#108;#105;#115;#116;#115;#46;#112;#104;#112;#46;#110;#101;#116; On 2/27/07, John Taylor-Johnston

[PHP] PHP Documentation in XML

2007-02-27 Thread Matt Carlson
Does anyone know where I could find PHP Documentation in XML or in an SQL dump? I'm trying to write an IRC bot that can retrieve information on php functions, and am realizing this would be the easiest way. Thanks in advance. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] echo text - anti-spam-spider measure

2007-02-27 Thread John Taylor-Johnston
Neat, and thnaks. How spam-spider-proof is it? I will try this though. But I will also try it with mailto:; in entities as well. Thanks! John !-- HERE ARE THE ENTITIES -- a

Re: [PHP] Extract printable text from web page using preg_match

2007-02-27 Thread M5
On 27-Feb-07, at 1:44 PM, Richard Lynch wrote: On Tue, February 27, 2007 11:47 am, M5 wrote: I am trying to write a regex function to extract the readable (visible, screen-rendered) portion of any web page. Specifically, I only want the text between the body tags, excluding any script or

Re: [PHP] echo text - anti-spam-spider measure

2007-02-27 Thread Stut
John Taylor-Johnston wrote: Neat, and thnaks. How spam-spider-proof is it? I will try this though. But I will also try it with mailto:; in entities as well. Thanks! John !-- HERE ARE THE ENTITIES -- a

Re: [PHP] Who in this list would you...

2007-02-27 Thread Chris
Peter Lauri wrote: [snap] [snip] He would need to work in-house. And the location is somewhere in Scandinavia. He could work as sub contractor or employed for my company. [/snip] I don't know too many list denizens who live in Scandinavia, so that severely limits your choices. [/snap] I live

[PHP] Your input would be appreciated.

2007-02-27 Thread lmth
Hello My name is Lara Thynne and I am a PhD candidate at Deakin University Australia. I am currently running a survey at the following address. https://dcarf.deakin.edu.au/surveys/oss/ The survey is completely confidential and looks at your views and motivations to use Open Source software