php-general Digest 20 Jan 2010 15:22:20 -0000 Issue 6548

2010-01-20 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 20 Jan 2010 15:22:20 - Issue 6548 Topics (messages 301235 through 301261): Re: Cookies sessions 301235 by: Phpster 301236 by: clancy_1.cybec.com.au 301238 by: clancy_1.cybec.com.au 301251 by: Ashley Sheridan how to retrieve a dom from

[PHP] Re: how to retrieve a dom from innerHTML......

2010-01-20 Thread Pete Ford
I am on the top of the world! Borlange University wrote: hello, i can obnot retrieve a select ject from div innerHTML. what i want to do is that when a page is loaded, first selector,say #1, would be shown in the first div by sending a request.then i choose one option from #1, fire change event

Re: [PHP] How do I remove unused GET parameters from the URL?

2010-01-20 Thread Rene Veerman
Michael, while i respect your choices, i think you should know that jquery.com is pretty good at minimizing browser-incompatibility headaches (and keeping js apps small), and the quircks that are left are easy enough to learn about. for things whereby - the server needs to generate tons of HTML

[PHP] could use some suggestions to speed this short piece of code up

2010-01-20 Thread Rene Veerman
Hi, for http://mediabeez.ws/htmlMicroscope/ (lgpl) i need to make large complex but _randomly filled_ test-arrays. The code i wrote (hastily) for this is taking over 2 hours to generate 65k array values. I wonder if any of you see a way to improve it's speed. global $hmGenKeys; $hmGenKeys = 0;

RE: [PHP] Object Oriented Programming question

2010-01-20 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Another advantage of OOP that is difficult to provide via the procedural paradigm is polymorphism. Agreed. Though the advantages of polymorphism are questionable, depending on your viewpoint. [/snip] In a loosely typed language like PHP that advantages of polymorphism far outweigh any

Re: [PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 15:45 +1100, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:45:14 -0500, phps...@gmail.com (Phpster) wrote: The first setcookie call is empty which produces the errors that cause the second cookie to fail. I'm afraid not. I modified the program started to

Re: [PHP] How do I remove unused GET parameters from the URL?

2010-01-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 20:55 -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: I have an HTML form with a hundred or so elements on it, used for searching a database. When the user submits the form (via GET) the URL is loaded with ALL of these fields, and many of them are not even actually used in the search

Re: [PHP] could use some suggestions to speed this short piece of code up

2010-01-20 Thread tedd
At 12:42 PM +0100 1/20/10, Rene Veerman wrote: Hi, for http://mediabeez.ws/htmlMicroscope/ (lgpl) i need to make large complex but _randomly filled_ test-arrays. Sometimes it's good to look at some of php's built in functions, like shuffle() and array_rand(). Cheers, tedd -- ---

Re: [PHP] 64 Bit IIS 6 ( 32 Bit mode ) + 32Bit php connect with MS-SQL Server

2010-01-20 Thread Edward S.P. Leong
Richard Quadling wrote: 2010/1/19 Edward S.P. Leong edward...@ita.org.mo: Richard Quadling wrote: But having said all of that, the php_mssql.dll uses a very old library which may give you issues. For the time being, using ODBC (php_odbc is built in for PHP on Windows) is a much safer

Re: [PHP] 64 Bit IIS 6 ( 32 Bit mode ) + 32Bit php connect with MS-SQL Server

2010-01-20 Thread Richard Quadling
2010/1/20 Edward S.P. Leong edward...@ita.org.mo: Richard Quadling wrote: 2010/1/19 Edward S.P. Leong edward...@ita.org.mo: Richard Quadling wrote: But having said all of that, the php_mssql.dll uses a very old library which may give you issues. For the time being, using ODBC

Re: [PHP] 64 Bit IIS 6 ( 32 Bit mode ) + 32Bit php connect with MS-SQL Server

2010-01-20 Thread Richard Quadling
2010/1/20 Richard Quadling rquadl...@googlemail.com: 2010/1/20 Edward S.P. Leong edward...@ita.org.mo: Richard Quadling wrote: 2010/1/19 Edward S.P. Leong edward...@ita.org.mo: Richard Quadling wrote: But having said all of that, the php_mssql.dll uses a very old library which may give

Re: [PHP] 64 Bit IIS 6 ( 32 Bit mode ) + 32Bit php connect with MS-SQL Server

2010-01-20 Thread Edward S.P. Leong
Richard Quadling wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6C3E9EF-BA29-4A43-8D69-A2BED18FE73Cdisplaylang=en Sorry, Would you mind to tell me which for connecting MS-SQL 2000 and PHP ? Thanks ! Edward. Either ODBC or the MS SQL driver for PHP. Which ever suits

Re: [PHP] 64 Bit IIS 6 ( 32 Bit mode ) + 32Bit php connect with MS-SQL Server

2010-01-20 Thread Richard Quadling
2010/1/20 Edward S.P. Leong edward...@ita.org.mo: Richard Quadling wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6C3E9EF-BA29-4A43-8D69-A2BED18FE73Cdisplaylang=en Sorry, Would you mind to tell me which for connecting MS-SQL 2000 and PHP ? Thanks ! Edward. Either

RE: [PHP] Object Oriented Programming question

2010-01-20 Thread tedd
At 10:26 AM -0500 1/19/10, Bob McConnell wrote: Some problems will fit into it, some don't. I teach OOP thinking at the local college and haven't run into a problem that doesn't fit. For example, in my last class I had a woman who wanted to pick out a blue dress for her upcoming wedding

Re: [PHP] 64 Bit IIS 6 ( 32 Bit mode ) + 32Bit php connect with MS-SQL Server

2010-01-20 Thread Edward S.P. Leong
Richard Quadling wrote: 2010/1/20 Edward S.P. Leong edward...@ita.org.mo: Richard Quadling wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6C3E9EF-BA29-4A43-8D69-A2BED18FE73Cdisplaylang=en Sorry, Would you mind to tell me which for connecting MS-SQL 2000 and PHP ? Thanks

Re: [PHP] Object Oriented Programming question

2010-01-20 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:47:04AM -0600, Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Another advantage of OOP that is difficult to provide via the procedural paradigm is polymorphism. Agreed. Though the advantages of polymorphism are questionable, depending on your viewpoint. [/snip] In a loosely

RE: [PHP] integrating shipping with shopping cart site - OT

2010-01-20 Thread Angelo Zanetti
Thanks guys, yes in general we will go with a lookup for each country, it wont be accurate but in future we can build rates for each province / state for each country which an admin would have to complete for each product (time consuming) but for now the solution will work. Thanks for the

RE: [PHP] Object Oriented Programming question

2010-01-20 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] My viewpoint may be jaundiced from having programmed in C++, but the polymorphism of PHP seems a little crippled by comparison. [/snip] I wholeheartedly agree, but I figured out how to work with it in PHP to my advantage and the advantage of my team. It'll get better... -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] 64 Bit IIS 6 ( 32 Bit mode ) + 32Bit php connect with MS-SQL Server

2010-01-20 Thread Richard Quadling
2010/1/20 Edward S.P. Leong edward...@ita.org.mo: Richard Quadling wrote: 2010/1/20 Edward S.P. Leong edward...@ita.org.mo: Richard Quadling wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6C3E9EF-BA29-4A43-8D69-A2BED18FE73Cdisplaylang=en Sorry, Would you mind to tell

Re: [PHP] Object Oriented Programming question

2010-01-20 Thread Robert Cummings
Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] My viewpoint may be jaundiced from having programmed in C++, but the polymorphism of PHP seems a little crippled by comparison. [/snip] I wholeheartedly agree, but I figured out how to work with it in PHP to my advantage and the advantage of my team. It'll get

Re: [PHP] Object Oriented Programming question

2010-01-20 Thread Richard Quadling
2010/1/20 tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com: Also IMO, one can argue the advantages that OOP and Design Patterns bring to the table over procedural, but after all is said and done, if you know your stuff in procedural, OOP is not going to provide you with much that you don't already have. You also

Re: [PHP] Object Oriented Programming question

2010-01-20 Thread Kim Madsen
tedd wrote on 20/01/2010 16:11: At 10:26 AM -0500 1/19/10, Bob McConnell wrote: Some problems will fit into it, some don't. I teach OOP thinking at the local college and haven't run into a problem that doesn't fit. For example, in my last class I had a woman who wanted to pick out a blue

Re: [PHP] Object Oriented Programming question

2010-01-20 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:11:18AM -0500, tedd wrote: snip While I teach OOP, I don't write any OOP for clients. My charge is to do things quickly and OOP requires a considerable amount of analysis before creating a solution. In most cases, I don't have the time. Besides, I'm more of an

RE: [PHP] Object Oriented Programming question

2010-01-20 Thread Bob McConnell
From: tedd At 10:26 AM -0500 1/19/10, Bob McConnell wrote: Some problems will fit into it, some don't. I teach OOP thinking at the local college and haven't run into a problem that doesn't fit. For example, in my last class I had a woman who wanted to pick out a blue dress for her

Re: [PHP] integrating shipping with shopping cart site - OT

2010-01-20 Thread Ryan Sun
Just use the shipping rate web service of your client's shipping carrier why border building a custom shipping rate calculator On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Angelo Zanetti ang...@zlogic.co.zawrote: Thanks guys, yes in general we will go with a lookup for each country, it wont be accurate

Re: [PHP] could use some suggestions to speed this short piece of code up

2010-01-20 Thread Rene Veerman
this is at least 1000% faster the crux is that array()+=array() is way faster than any array_merge() operations. global $hmGenKeys; $hmGenKeys = 0; function htmlMicroscope_generateRandomArray ($maxKeys, $maxDepth, $maxDuration=-1) { global $hmGenKeys; if ($maxKeys!==null) { $hmGenKeys =

Re: [PHP] How do I remove unused GET parameters from the URL?

2010-01-20 Thread Michael A. Peters
Rene Veerman wrote: Michael, while i respect your choices, i think you should know that jquery.com is pretty good at minimizing browser-incompatibility headaches (and keeping js apps small), and the quircks that are left are easy enough to learn about. for things whereby - the server needs to

Re: [PHP] How do I remove unused GET parameters from the URL?

2010-01-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 10:30 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: Rene Veerman wrote: Michael, while i respect your choices, i think you should know that jquery.com is pretty good at minimizing browser-incompatibility headaches (and keeping js apps small), and the quircks that are left are

Re: [PHP] Object Oriented Programming question

2010-01-20 Thread J Ravi Menon
Hi Bob, [Couldn't resist jumping into this topic :)] Even if you look at traditional unix (or similar) kernel internals, although they tend to use functional paradigms, they do have a OOP-like flavor. Example: Everything in a unix system is a 'file' (well not really with networking logic, but

RE: [PHP] Object Oriented Programming question

2010-01-20 Thread tedd
At 11:31 AM -0500 1/20/10, Bob McConnell wrote: From: tedd At 10:26 AM -0500 1/19/10, Bob McConnell wrote: Some problems will fit into it, some don't. I teach OOP thinking at the local college and haven't run into a problem that doesn't fit. For example, in my last class I had a woman

Re: [PHP] Object Oriented Programming question

2010-01-20 Thread tedd
At 11:18 AM -0500 1/20/10, Paul M Foster wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:11:18AM -0500, tedd wrote: snip While I teach OOP, I don't write any OOP for clients. My charge is to do things quickly and OOP requires a considerable amount of analysis before creating a solution. In most cases,

[PHP] Re: How do I remove unused GET parameters from the URL?

2010-01-20 Thread Nathan Rixham
Daevid Vincent wrote: BTW, I want to use GET so that the page can be bookmarked for future searches of the same data (or modified easily with different dates, etc.), so that's why I don't use POST. to do as you say on the clientside you'd probably be best to write a short js script to build

RE: [PHP] How do I remove unused GET parameters from the URL?

2010-01-20 Thread Daevid Vincent
Comments inline below... -Original Message- From: Ashley Sheridan GET has a limit on the amount of data it may carry, which is reduced the longer the base URL is. True, but for search parameters, it's IMHO best to use GET rather than POST so the page can be bookmarked. This used

[PHP] Close MySQL Result

2010-01-20 Thread Slack-Moehrle
I think I am a dork. How do I close a MySQL result set to free memory? Given something like this: $gsql = Select * from resources where queryName = 'Production';; $myresult = mysql_query($gsql) or die('Cannot execute Query: ' . mysql_error()); $Row = mysql_fetch_assoc($myresult); if

RE: [PHP] Close MySQL Result

2010-01-20 Thread Daevid Vincent
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-free-result.php mysql_free_result($myresult); NOTE: mysql_free_result() only needs to be called if you are concerned about how much memory is being used for queries that return large result sets. All associated result memory is automatically freed at

Re: [PHP] Close MySQL Result

2010-01-20 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Daevid, Thanks for the links so I can read up! -ML - Original Message - From: Daevid Vincent dae...@daevid.com To: php-general@lists.php.net Cc: Slack-Moehrle mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 1:24:16 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Close MySQL Result

Re: [PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-20 Thread clancy_1
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:19:03 +, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk (Ashley Sheridan) wrote: On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 15:45 +1100, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:45:14 -0500, phps...@gmail.com (Phpster) wrote: The first setcookie call is empty which produces the errors that

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RE: [PHP] How do I remove unused GET parameters from the URL?

2010-01-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 13:06 -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: Comments inline below... -Original Message- From: Ashley Sheridan GET has a limit on the amount of data it may carry, which is reduced the longer the base URL is. True, but for search parameters, it's IMHO best to

RE: [PHP] Close MySQL Result

2010-01-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 13:24 -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-free-result.php mysql_free_result($myresult); NOTE: mysql_free_result() only needs to be called if you are concerned about how much memory is being used for queries that return large

Re: [PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 08:43 +1100, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:19:03 +, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk (Ashley Sheridan) wrote: On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 15:45 +1100, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:45:14 -0500, phps...@gmail.com (Phpster) wrote:

Re: [PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-20 Thread Bruno Fajardo
2010/1/20 clanc...@cybec.com.au: When you are working with sessions, provided you start your program with session_id(), you can then do anything you like with session variables at any point in your program. Hi, You meant session_start() instead of session_id(), right? But yes, once you

Re: [PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-20 Thread Joseph Thayne
Bruno Fajardo wrote: You don't need to use output buffering at all. You only need this mechanism if your script needs to output stuff before the session_start() or setcookie() functions get executed. Output buffering is also used if you need to output something before the headers are sent

Re: [PHP] 304 Not Modified header not working within a class

2010-01-20 Thread Camilo Sperberg
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:34, richard gray r...@richgray.com wrote: Camilo Sperberg wrote: Hi list, my first message here :) To the point: I'm programming a class that takes several CSS files, parses, compresses and saves into a cache file. However, I would like to go a step further and

Re: [PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-20 Thread clancy_1
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:05:42 -0200, bsfaja...@gmail.com (Bruno Fajardo) wrote: 2010/1/20 clanc...@cybec.com.au: When you are working with sessions, provided you start your program with session_id(), you can then do anything you like with session variables at any point in your program. Hi,

[PHP] Open Source CMS

2010-01-20 Thread Hendry
Hi, Anyone can share your favorite PHP open source CMS to work with and what's the reason? I'm looking for something that easily extensible. I've googled and found severals but I'm still confused, some from the lists: - Drupal - Tomato CMS - modx - xoops - Symphony Thanks # Hendry -- PHP

Re: [PHP] Open Source CMS

2010-01-20 Thread Allen McCabe
I've not had much experience with CMS's, however Drupal seems pretty featured, with the steep-learning curve; it's not very user friendly. I'm working on my own CMS which is more generic, so that it can be used with any kind of website (basically). I suggest you do the same; have a page class

Re: [PHP] Open Source CMS

2010-01-20 Thread Robert Cummings
Allen McCabe wrote: I've not had much experience with CMS's, however Drupal seems pretty featured, with the steep-learning curve; it's not very user friendly. Not to disregard your own experience, but I've found Drupal surprisingly easy to get running with. In fact it's pretty much my first

Re: [PHP] Open Source CMS

2010-01-20 Thread Allen McCabe
For a work in progress, view http://www.mwclans.com/new_index.php The login fields are a 'component' I include in the header. The links are generated from the 'links' table; the primary_navigation links are a class by the same name, and the 'footer_navigation' are also a different category. All

Re: [PHP] Open Source CMS

2010-01-20 Thread Allen McCabe
I suppose I am opposed to 'custom systems' with PHP. I feel that you shouldn't have to learn new-stuff that is specific to a certain system if it is so extensive. I know, I'm lazy, but I've been trying to learn PHP (as well as needing to learn JavaScript, SQL, and CSS 2.0 lately) and not stuff

Re: [PHP] Open Source CMS

2010-01-20 Thread Hendry
Hi, Thanks for both Robert and Allen for sharing, I agree, Drupal is very easy to start with, and it is also very powerful, but somehow, I find it very hard to extend which is might be due to my lack of experience. # Hendry On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Allen McCabe allenmcc...@gmail.com

Re: [PHP] PHP 5.3 shared hosting

2010-01-20 Thread Adam Richardson
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Michael A. Peters mpet...@mac.com wrote: Adam Richardson wrote: Hi, I've developed a framework that requires PHP 5.3 (it takes a more functional approach.) I'm hosting my own apps on a dedicated server running cpanel (thanks to their recent upgrade.)

Re: [PHP] Open Source CMS

2010-01-20 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:29:54AM +0800, Hendry wrote: Hi, Anyone can share your favorite PHP open source CMS to work with and what's the reason? I'm looking for something that easily extensible. I've googled and found severals but I'm still confused, some from the lists: - Drupal -

Re: [PHP] Open Source CMS

2010-01-20 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:15:55PM -0800, Allen McCabe wrote: For a work in progress, view http://www.mwclans.com/new_index.php The login fields are a 'component' I include in the header. The links are generated from the 'links' table; the primary_navigation links are a class by the same

[PHP] PHPCoder Help

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