Re: [PHP] Code should be selv-maintaining!

2011-08-30 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Aug 29, 2011, at 4:32 PM, George Langley wrote: The One True Brace Style: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style Didn't know there was a name for the way I learned to indent! Make sense to me - looks so much cleaner and less scrolling/printing. And, I already add a comment

Re: [PHP] Code should be selv-maintaining!

2011-08-31 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Aug 30, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: On 11-08-30 11:36 AM, Richard Quadling wrote: On 30 August 2011 15:04, Tedd Sperlingtedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: To all: I prefer the Whitesmiths style: http://rebel.lcc.edu/sperlt/citw229/brace-styles.php But style is really up

Re: [PHP] Code should be selv-maintaining!

2011-09-01 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Sep 1, 2011, at 8:16 AM, Tim Streater wrote: On 01 Sep 2011 at 11:42, Richard Quadling rquadl...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 August 2011 23:25, Richard Quadling rquadl...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 August 2011 20:09, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: You're just saying that so Tedd

Re: [PHP] Repetitive answers . . .

2011-09-09 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Sep 9, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Shawn McKenzie wrote: On 09/09/2011 12:04 PM, Joshua Stoutenburg wrote: NOTE: There could be lag caused by network and server technologies. Perhaps answers arrive during the time it takes a person to prepare an answer. These are forgivable. This is the reason,

Re: [PHP] Repetitive answers . . .

2011-09-09 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Sep 9, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 14:30, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: Oblig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUntx0pe_qI I didn't know it was possible to fill almost four minutes with a single note, outside of a test pattern. That's

Re: [PHP] Round with money_format

2011-09-17 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Sep 17, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Bill Guion wrote: On Sep 17, 2011, at 3:46 AM, Cyril Lopez wrote: Can someone help me understand how money_format() rounds numbers ? As someone else pointed out, rounding rules vary by locale, but I was taught 40+ years ago in graduate school programming

[PHP] PHP installations, usage, and popularity

2011-09-19 Thread Tedd Sperling
Hi gang: I need information to convince administrators in management that PHP is a viable subject that should be taught in college with credits going toward a Degree or Certification. You see, I am pushing for a Web Development Certification program that would include PHP/MySQL as well as

Re: [PHP] Server Side Include translator as PHP functions

2011-10-09 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 8, 2011, at 8:48 PM, Tommy Pham wrote: On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Complex complex.confus...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the advice, I'm aware of all that, but I'm looking for a specific PHP solution at the moment. Unless you have advice on how I can update the SSI includes on the

Re: [PHP] Server Side Include translator as PHP functions

2011-10-09 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 9, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Complex wrote: Tedd, The crucial detail you're lookign for is my lack of choice or control in the matter, for all sorts of reasons that are actually quite stupid but not possible for *me* to change, and not possible for anyone else to change quickly. Thus I am

Re: [PHP] Server Side Include translator as PHP functions

2011-10-10 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 9, 2011, at 7:43 PM, Tommy Pham wrote: On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Complex complex.confus...@gmail.com wrote: Tedd, The crucial detail you're lookign for is my lack of choice or control in the matter, for all sorts of reasons that are actually quite stupid but not possible for

Re: [PHP] Local variable protection

2011-10-13 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 12, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Ken Robinson wrote: Yes, but scope does not necessarily protect a value. Within a function globals are out of scope, but their values can still be accessed through $GLOBALS. Tangental to the main point (and probably obvious to many) but I used to believe (until

Re: [PHP] Local variable protection

2011-10-14 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 13, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Tim Streater wrote: On 13 Oct 2011 at 16:25, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: So, if you want a main script variable (i.e., $myVar) to be accessed by a function, you can do it by stating: myFunction { global $myVar; // and then using $myVar

Re: [PHP] Seeking strategy/algorithm for maintaining order of records

2011-10-16 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 15, 2011, at 8:57 PM, Stephen wrote: I am building a site for my photography. The photographs are displayed by category. The category table has a field for order In my control panel I want to be able to change the order of the categories by changing the values in the category

Re: [PHP] Friday Distraction

2011-10-21 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 21, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: I'll get this week's Friday distraction kicked off here with something shared with me by a Facebook friend. If you're on Facebook, try this. It's pretty sweet (and safe for work and kids). http://www.takethislollipop.com/ --

Re: [PHP] Friday Distraction

2011-10-22 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 21, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Christopher Lee wrote: [1] Your naturalness is always endearing, even when you play grumpy. ;-) -snip- [2] What does truly uplifting/evolutionary code look like anyway? Christopher: [1] Thanks (I think). Perceptions are just that -- I could be wrong or looking

Re: [PHP] Friday Distraction

2011-10-25 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 23, 2011, at 9:38 PM, tamouse mailing lists wrote: http://reflectionbeads.com/i/design-your-own That's a very interesting site. Surprising that it doesn't use a lick of PHP to do what it's doing, given what you wrote below. How do you know that? Just to be argumentative, the entire

[PHP] Question reading a file

2011-10-27 Thread Tedd Sperling
Hi gang: I have a few questions -- this is my first one. Please review this link: http://webbytedd.com//perms/ This page simply reads the contents of a file of the user's choice and displays the file's data. My first question is with regard to reading a file ( fread() ): If the user

[PHP] Execute permission question

2011-10-27 Thread Tedd Sperling
Hi gang: Another question -- in the context of file permissions (rwx) is the execute permission limited to shell commands -- Or -- is there more? Cheers, tedd _ t...@sperling.com http://sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe,

Re: [PHP] Question reading a file

2011-10-27 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 27, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 15:25, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: -snip my confusion - No need to review the code. The first hunch I had proved correct. PHP opens with a less-than (left carat, or 'less-than') symbol, as do HTML

Re: [PHP] Execute permission question

2011-10-27 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 27, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Yes, I just ran a quick test PHP script without any execute permissions set at all, only rw-rw-r-- and it ran just fine, suggesting it is just an argument as Larry said. I don't think Apache needs execute permissions set on PHP files or

Re: [PHP] Execute permission question

2011-10-27 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 27, 2011, at 6:27 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 18:15, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: Ash: You answered a question I wasn't prepared to ask, which was How can php scripts be executed when their execute permissions aren't set? That question begged

Re: [PHP] Execute permission question

2011-10-27 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 27, 2011, at 6:27 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 18:15, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: That question begged the question of What does execute mean? It means execute. Not to be confused with what others are mentioning here, which is read and interpret

Re: [PHP] Execute permission question

2011-10-28 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 28, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Geoff Shang wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Tedd Sperling wrote: You answered a question I wasn't prepared to ask, which was How can php scripts be executed when their execute permissions aren't set? Because as far as the system is concerned, the thing which

Re: [PHP] Execute permission question

2011-10-28 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 27, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 19:44, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: One of the things I'm trying to understand is a php script can execute a shell command, right? Is there a way via permissions to prevent that -- or -- does

Re: [PHP] Friday Distraction

2011-10-28 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 28, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Stuart Dallas wrote On 28 Oct 2011, at 12:54, Daniel Brown wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 05:03, Adam Richardson simples...@gmail.com wrote: Well, Daniel, I'll bet you never thought that your Friday Distraction would elicit such a broad range of responses AND keep

Re: [PHP] Execute permission question

2011-10-28 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 28, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:01, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: But does having execute permissions set on a script affect the scripts ability to run shell commands? Negative. It won't inherit permissions, though one might

Re: [PHP] create file after form completion

2011-10-29 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Oct 29, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Pau wrote: -snip- I am a newbie to php and I have been trying to get that information somewhere, but I was not successful. A little help would be appreciated. In particular an example would be wonderful. Thanks. Pau:

Re: [PHP] Sniping on the List

2011-11-15 Thread Tedd Sperling
something that I'm struggling with, then please share it. But if you just want to take pot shots at us, then please keep your comments to yourself. To that end, I wish to thank Ashley Sheridan, Daniel P. Brown, Tedd Sperling and Tommy Pham, to name but just a few of those who have

Re: [PHP] Sniping on the List

2011-11-17 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Nov 15, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Steven Staples wrote: tamouse.li...@gmail.com sent: tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: PS: I know it's not Friday, but this question came up in class yesterday and I thought maybe all of you might like to guess why null is Wednesday? Wait.. What?? $ php -r 'echo

Re: [PHP] Sniping on the List

2011-11-17 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Nov 17, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Stuart Dallas wrote: On 17 Nov 2011, at 16:01, Tedd Sperling wrote: To all: Okay, so now that we have had people reply, here's my take. The Unix timestamp started on 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 + -- and that was a Thursday. The second before (i.e., 31

Re: [PHP] Sniping on the List

2011-11-17 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Nov 17, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Stuart Dallas wrote: The epoch specifies the exact time that 0 represents. It makes no claims as far as that being the start of anything... defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of Thursday, January 1, 1970

Re: [PHP] Sniping on the List

2011-11-19 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Nov 17, 2011, at 7:59 PM, Stuart Dallas wrote: On 17 Nov 2011, at 20:17, Tedd Sperling wrote: On Nov 17, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Stuart Dallas wrote: defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of Thursday, January 1, 1970 (Unix times are defined

Re: [PHP] Sniping on the List

2011-11-19 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Nov 18, 2011, at 12:40 AM, Robert Cummings wrote: By you're reasoning since I did not exist before 1974 then time itself could not possibly have existed before then either since I was not in existence to perceive it. That's as ludicrous as suggesting time did not exist before the big

Re: [PHP] Sniping on the List

2011-11-19 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Nov 19, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Stuart Dallas wrote: On 19 Nov 2011, at 16:48, Tedd Sperling wrote: For example, if you push '-1' though strtotime(-1), you'll get Wednesday only one day a week -- whereas 'null' works every time. Technically I see that as a bug. I believe strtotime(null) should

Re: [PHP] Sniping on the List

2011-11-20 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Nov 20, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Geoff Shang wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, Tedd Sperling wrote: Now, where are my observations wrong? The code is shown in the demo. To summarise, your observations are wrong because they do not take timezone into account and do not show the time, only the date

Re: [PHP] Sniping on the List

2011-11-21 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Nov 20, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Geoff Shang wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, Tedd Sperling wrote: I appreciate your time and comments. However, you missed the point I was trying to make, which does not have anything to do with timezones. If you copy my code and place it on any server in the world

Re: [PHP] Preferred Syntax

2011-12-14 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Dec 14, 2011, at 7:59 AM, Rick Dwyer wrote: Hello all. Can someone tell me which of the following is preferred and why? echo a style='text-align:left;size:14;font-weight:bold' href='/mypage.php/$page_id'$page_name/abr; echo a style='text-align:left;size:14;font-weight:bold'

Re: [PHP] Preferred Syntax

2011-12-15 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Dec 14, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Peter Ford wrote: With respect to tedd and Al, you've misread the question: the important PHP-related bit is about whether to embed variables in double-quoted strings or to concatenate them. These are only two of the options, and each has it's pros and cons.

Re: [PHP] Online Form Creation

2011-12-21 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Dec 21, 2011, at 2:14 AM, Christopher Lee wrote: Hello All, I have two forms (see attached) that I would like to recreate and enable the user to complete the form online. The data would be collected in a MySQL DB. http://ucensys.com/activities.pdf http://ucensys.com/guidelines.pdf

Re: [PHP] Online Form Creation

2011-12-22 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Dec 22, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Christopher Lee wrote: Tedd, I appreciate your reply to my post. In no way do I expect anyone to code for me. If that were the case I would hire someone. I have posted to this list numerous times and, if I am not mistaken, the list is designed to ask for

Re: [PHP] count clicks to count most important news

2012-01-01 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Jan 1, 2012, at 11:26 AM, muad shibani wrote: I have a website that posts the most important news according to the number of clicks to that news the question is : what is the best way to prevent multiple clicks from the same visitor? Not a fool-proof method, but use Javascript on the

Re: [PHP] PDF Printing instead?

2012-01-10 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Jan 5, 2012, at 3:14 PM, Jim Giner wrote: ok - somebody has advised that I should not be trying to print to a printer from my website php script. The suggestion of creating a pdf and sending to the client was made. How do I install the pdf functions? I've never had to install a

Re: [PHP] differences in between these env. variables

2012-01-27 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Jan 11, 2012, at 9:24 PM, tamouse mailing lists wrote: Is there ever a case where SCRIPT_NAME does not equal PHP_SELF? Was this every answered? I would like to know. Cheers, tedd _ t...@sperling.com http://sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] differences in between these env. variables

2012-01-29 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Jan 27, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Adam Richardson wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 11, 2012, at 9:24 PM, tamouse mailing lists wrote: Is there ever a case where SCRIPT_NAME does not equal PHP_SELF? Was this every answered? I would

Re: [PHP] differences in between these env. variables

2012-01-31 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Jan 29, 2012, at 7:01 PM, Adam Richardson wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 27, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Adam Richardson wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 11, 2012

Re: [PHP] Headers on smart phone browsers

2012-02-07 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Feb 6, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Stuart Dallas wrote: Generally speaking you're better off with a design that automatically adapts to the viewport on which it's being displayed. While there's more than one reason for this, the overriding reason is that the same software (i.e. the same user

Re: [PHP] Long Live GOTO

2012-02-07 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Feb 6, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Larry Martell wrote: Just for another data point, the FAA does not allow gotos in any code that goes into an airplane. That settles it -- the government knows best. Cheers, tedd _ t...@sperling.com http://sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing

Re: [PHP] questions about $_SERVER

2012-02-13 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Feb 13, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Stuart Dallas wrote: On 13 Feb 2012, at 06:28, Rui Hu wrote: How PHP sets variables in $_SERVER, say, $DOCUMENT_ROOT? What should I know if I want to modify $_SERVER myself? Once your script starts the superglobals are no different to any other variables,

Re: [PHP] Form Post to different domain

2012-02-16 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Feb 14, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 13:36, Rick Dwyer rpdw...@earthlink.net wrote: I only have access to domain B... the one receiving the Form POST. Then all you should need to do is: a.) Verify that Domain A is indeed pointing to Domain

Re: [PHP] Test

2012-02-21 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Feb 20, 2012, at 2:49 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 14:40, Bastien phps...@gmail.com wrote: Definitely doesn't work The list works just fine, it's you goofs who need to work now! ;-P It still doesn't work and I didn't get this. :-) Cheers, tedd

Re: [PHP] Test

2012-02-21 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Feb 21, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Jay Blanchard wrote: It's like coming home, I knew I could count on certain of you to make light of this and that makes me strangely happy. Seek professional help now. :-) Cheers, tedd _ tedd.sperl...@gmail.com http://sperling.com -- PHP

[PHP] Function mktime() documentation question

2012-03-07 Thread Tedd Sperling
Hi gang: I am using the getdate(mktime()) functions to get month data (i.e., name of month, first weekday, last day, number of days). To get the number of days for a specific month, I use: // $current_month is the month under question $next_month = $current_month + 1; $what_date =

Re: [PHP] Function mktime() documentation question

2012-03-08 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 7, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 15:03, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi gang: I am using the getdate(mktime()) functions to get month data (i.e., name of month, first weekday, last day, number of days). To get the number of days

Re: [PHP] Function mktime() documentation question

2012-03-08 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 8, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Ford, Mike wrote: -Original Message- From: Tedd Sperling [mailto:tedd.sperl...@gmail.com] From my code, the number of days in a month can be found by using 0 as the first index of the next month -- not the last day of the previous month. Huh? The 0th

Re: [PHP] Function mktime() documentation question

2012-03-08 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 8, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Mar 8, 2012 6:14 PM, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: Side-point: I find it interesting that getdate() has all sorts of neat descriptions for the current month (such as, what weekday a numbered day is), but lacks how many

Re: [PHP] Function mktime() documentation question

2012-03-09 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 9, 2012, at 5:37 AM, Ford, Mike wrote: From: Tedd Sperling [mailto:tedd.sperl...@gmail.com] But why does anyone have to use the next month to figure out how many days there are are in this month? Do you see my point? Actually, no. To figure this out, somewhere along the line you've

Re: [PHP] Function mktime() documentation question

2012-03-09 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 9, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Charles wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 9, 2012, at 5:37 AM, Ford, Mike wrote: From: Tedd Sperling [mailto:tedd.sperl...@gmail.com] But why does anyone have to use the next month to figure out how many

Re: [PHP] Function mktime() documentation question

2012-03-09 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Charles wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: Well no, I don't need to know the first day of next month to know the last day of this month. That's like saying I need to know who is going to stand at the 'end

Re: [PHP] questions about $_SERVER

2012-03-10 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 9, 2012, at 10:20 PM, Jim Giner wrote: tamouse mailing lists tamouse.li...@gmail.com wrote in message news:CAHUC_t8g43GE3xqvSU5SwFePGS1XG=tk1mhrbem9gjaarve...@mail.gmail.com... On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 13, 2012, at 4:10 AM

Re: [PHP] Function mktime() documentation question

2012-03-10 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 10, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Maciek Sokolewicz wrote: function getAmountOfDaysInAMonth($month, $year) { $days = array(31, (($year%4==0 and ($year%100 0 or $year%400==0)) ? 29 : 28), 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31); return $days[$month+1]; } I like that -- here's a small

Re: [PHP] questions about $_SERVER

2012-03-10 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 10, 2012, at 3:53 PM, tamouse mailing lists wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: That's correct, but to access those variables outside of their scope (such as a function) you do via a SuperGlobal, namely $GLOBAL['whatever

Re: [PHP] questions about $_SERVER

2012-03-11 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 11, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:37, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: As such, there are no globals in PHP other than SuperGlobals. As I said, if I'm wrong, please show me otherwise. A superglobal is predefined at run-time

Re: [PHP] Function mktime() documentation question

2012-03-11 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 11, 2012, at 6:12 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: I still don't see what's wrong with date(t); -- Thanks, Ash Ash: It's just too damn simple -- we need to make things complicated. :-) Actually, this works for me: $days_in_month = date('t', mktime(0, 0, 0, $next_month, 0, $year));

Re: [PHP] Function mktime() documentation question

2012-03-12 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 11, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Matijn Woudt wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, this works for me: $days_in_month = date('t', mktime(0, 0, 0, $next_month, 0, $year)); But again, I don't see why I have to use next month to find

Re: [PHP] questions about $_SERVER

2012-03-12 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 11, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Tim Streater wrote: In the following, $x is a global but not a super-global (AFAIK). ?php function echox () { global $x; echo $x; } $x = Hello world\n; echox (); ? -- Cheers -- Tim Tim: I read somewhere that using:

Re: [PHP] questions about $_SERVER

2012-03-13 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 12, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Tim Streater wrote: ?php function yes ($a) { global $x; if ($a) $x = yes\n; } first (true); echo $x; ? but I haven't looked into $GLOBALS enough to know whether using them instead would have saved my bacon. I'm not sure what

Re: [PHP] questions about $_SERVER

2012-03-13 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 12, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 14:16, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: This document clearly states that $GLOBALS is a SuperGlobal -- what am I not understanding here? You are understanding it correctly, the only thing that's missing

Re: [PHP] questions about $_SERVER

2012-03-13 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 13, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Stuart Dallas wrote: On 13 Mar 2012, at 15:59, Tedd Sperling wrote: In any event, I seldom use globals anyway. This was more an academic discussion. -snip- It ultimately also means that only the superglobals are true globals. That was my initial statement

[PHP] $POST and $_SESSION

2012-03-15 Thread Tedd Sperling
Hi gang: What's a better/shorter way to write this? $first_name = $_SESSION['first_name'] ? $_SESSION['first_name'] : null; $first_name = isset($_POST['first_name']) ? $_POST['first_name'] : $first_name; $_SESSION['first_name'] = $first_name; Cheers, tedd _

[PHP] Sunset/Sunrise

2012-03-20 Thread Tedd Sperling
Hi gang: What's wrong with this? echo date(D M d Y). ', sunrise time : ' .date_sunrise(time(), SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING, 42.57, 84.3320, 90, -5); echo('br'); echo date(D M d Y). ', sunset time : ' .date_sunset(time(), SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING, 42.57, 84.3320, 90, -5); It gives exactly the wrong time --

Re: [PHP] Sunset/Sunrise

2012-03-20 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 20, 2012, at 9:50 AM, Andrew Ballard wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi gang: What's wrong with this? echo date(D M d Y). ', sunrise time : ' .date_sunrise(time(), SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING, 42.57, 84.3320, 90, -5); echo('br

Re: [PHP] Thinking out loud - a continuation...

2012-03-22 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 21, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: I would, yes, but that's not the point. Is Anna single? I'm ready to trade Debs in for a newer model. -- /Daniel P. Brown Ah... to be young again. But, on the other hand, they have so much to learn. :-) Cheers, tedd

[PHP] To ? or not to ?

2012-04-03 Thread Tedd Sperling
Hi gang: Let me start a religious war -- should one end their scripts with ? or not? After years of never having a problem with ending any of my scripts with ?, I found that several students in my class had scripts that did not produce the desired result even after they were given the scripts

Re: [PHP] image inventoryer

2012-04-06 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Apr 5, 2012, at 10:26 PM, Kirk Bailey wrote: I need a page that will live in a directory and list all image files in there. That is, the page has img src=./foo.typeP tags emitted in it's structure, one per file in the directory with a saught file type- .png, .gif, .jpg, you get the

Re: [PHP] image inventoryer

2012-04-08 Thread Tedd Sperling
Kirk: Okay, you took the first step. Now please review this: ?php foreach (glob(images/*.jpg) as $filename) { echo(img src=\$filename\br$filename brbr); } ? Note: 1. This example does not put in all the embedded formatting shown in your example. What you did was simply bad form -- you

[PHP] Function size

2012-05-23 Thread Tedd Sperling
Hi gang: On May 21, 2012, at 8:32 PM, tamouse mailing lists wrote: A rule of thumb is no more than 50 lines per function, most much less. Back in the day when we didn't have nifty gui screens and an 24 line terminals (yay green on black!), if a function exceeded one printed page, it was

Re: [PHP] Function size

2012-05-23 Thread Tedd Sperling
On May 23, 2012, at 11:49 AM, shiplu wrote: On May 21, 2012, at 8:32 PM, tamouse mailing lists wrote: When number of lines becomes the criteria of function size? Wouldn't it depends on the task the function is doing? You missed the point. Of course, the difficulty of the task of a specific

Re: [PHP] Function size

2012-05-23 Thread Tedd Sperling
On May 23, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: On 12-05-23 12:15 PM, Tedd Sperling wrote: What I was talking about was that what we can grasp in one view, we can understand better. If the code lies outside of our view, then we understand it less. I can support this claim with numerous

Re: [PHP] Function size

2012-05-24 Thread Tedd Sperling
On May 23, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: I'm of the same mind. Generally I'll split a function if I'm reusing more than a couple of lines of code. I only split a large function if it's actually doing several things, if it happens to need 200 lines to perform one 'step' then

Re: [PHP] Function size

2012-05-24 Thread Tedd Sperling
On May 24, 2012, at 8:37 AM, Steven Staples wrote: Tedd, I think the length of code depends on a few different factors, what if you have your docblocks, and comment lines, as well as your bracing style? Where do you consider your function to start? It starts where it starts. It doesn't make

[PHP] Re: Function size

2012-05-25 Thread Tedd Sperling
On May 24, 2012, at 4:48 PM, tamouse mailing lists wrote: Yes, I think that is *exactly* the criterion-- not a mystery or an emergent thing, really, was a pretty expicit reasoning--being able to see/scan the entire function on one page (or now in one screenful) makes it much easier to see

Re: [PHP] Function size

2012-05-25 Thread Tedd Sperling
On May 24, 2012, at 5:01 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 15:48 -0500, tamouse mailing lists wrote: On May 23, 2012 9:14 AM, Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com wrote: H Yes, I think that is *exactly* the criterion-- not a mystery or an emergent thing, really, was a pretty

Re: [PHP] Too many arrays! My head is exploding!

2012-05-29 Thread Tedd Sperling
On 29 May 2012 18:15, Gary listgj-phpgene...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Okay, let's assume I have three things, A, B, and C. I need to produce an array with a list of all possible combinations of them, however many there might be in those combinations: e.g. A, B, C, D, AB, AC, AD, BC, ABC (not sure

Re: [PHP] Function size

2012-05-29 Thread Tedd Sperling
On May 29, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Stuart Dallas wrote: -snip- Besides, truth is subjective, but then so is everything, including that assertion. -Stuart You reply was longer than my monitor was high so I can't give an immediate reply -- I have to scroll. :-) However, with that said, you

Re: [PHP] Too many arrays! My head is exploding!

2012-05-29 Thread Tedd Sperling
On May 29, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Adam Richardson wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com wrote: On 29 May 2012 18:15, Gary listgj-phpgene...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Okay, let's assume I have three things, A, B, and C. I need to produce an array with a list of all

Re: [PHP] Function size

2012-05-29 Thread Tedd Sperling
On May 29, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Paul M Foster wrote: I think a lot of coders try to be kewler than the next 18 guys who are gonna have to look at the code, so they use a lot of compression techniques to reduce LOC. That's not kewl to me. Plus, they're lazy. I'd rather see everything with

Re: [PHP] [foreach] - is it proper to...

2012-05-31 Thread Tedd Sperling
On May 31, 2012, at 12:48 PM, Tristan wrote: I'm using Zend Studio and it had a suggestion that I do a foreach as such foreach($entry as $entry){ } instead of foreach($entries as $entry){ } they both seem to work but, from a readability standpoint and just makes more sense to

[PHP] cyberweaponry

2012-05-31 Thread Tedd Sperling
Hi gang: This is a little early for Friday's Open Comment day, but my memory is increasingly more short term and by tomorrow I might forget -- so, here goes. I watched a interview today where an security expert claimed that the Flame Virus was written in a scripted language named lua

Re: [PHP] cyberweaponry

2012-06-03 Thread Tedd Sperling
On May 31, 2012, at 7:45 PM, Ross McKay wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2012 13:21:07 -0400, Tedd Sperling wrote: [...] I watched a interview today where an security expert claimed that the Flame Virus was written in a scripted language named lua (http://www.lua.org/). That's surprising... I'm

Re: [PHP] disabled cookies

2012-06-05 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Jun 3, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: There is a new law been passed in the UK that makes non-essential cookies opt-in only, so you must get permission in order to use them. What's a non-essential cookie? Cheers, tedd _ tedd.sperl...@gmail.com

Re: [PHP] disabled cookies

2012-06-05 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Jun 4, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Yeah, it's been such a pain, as nobody over here is quite sure how the hell it'll be enforced either, or if it even will be. It's also pretty vague as to just where the line gets drawn. The official government sites on this are pretty black

Re: [PHP] Happy Diamond Jubilee everyone!

2012-06-05 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Jun 1, 2012, at 1:44 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: This is a bit of a shameless plug, but it is a Friday and a pretty special weekend over here. I recently got to work on something a bit fun at work in my spare time and they liked it so much that it got used internally to celebrate the

[PHP] A Question of SESSION

2012-06-07 Thread Tedd Sperling
Hi Daniel and gang: Considering I'm never afraid to show my ignorance, please review the following example. Because of the way I normally use sessions and considering this way works for me, I thought I knew what sessions were about -- but my faith is eroding. Cases in point 1. The following

Re: [PHP] If PHP Were British

2012-06-22 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Jun 22, 2012, at 5:07 PM, Daevid Vincent dae...@daevid.com wrote: http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ Oh, that is too funny! I'll counter with my Hill-Billy version: --- echo(); yell('revenewers commin'); --- var_dump(); take_a_dump(); preferred: leave_one();

Re: [PHP] What's happened to our newsgroup?

2012-06-27 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Jun 26, 2012, at 3:21 PM, Al n...@ridersite.org wrote: No postings for days. Maybe everyone learned it -- no new questions. Cheers, tedd _ t...@sperling.com http://sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] Session Checking

2012-07-10 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Jul 9, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Floyd Resler fres...@adex-intl.com wrote: I want to have an alert pop up to let the user know their session is about to expire. Would the best approach be to do a timer in Javascript or check it in PHP. I'm storing session data in a MySQL database so I can know

[PHP] Seeking a scheduling algorithm

2012-07-14 Thread Tedd Sperling
Hi gang: Does anyone have a resource, or better yet code, to solve the scheduling problem described below? Let's say you have a week calendar that has openings between 8:00am to 5:00pm for Monday through Friday (40 hours). Then you have an assortment of appointments that must be scheduled

Re: [PHP] Seeking a scheduling algorithm

2012-07-15 Thread Tedd Sperling
_ t...@sperling.com http://sperling.com On Jul 14, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Bill Guion bgu...@comcast.net wrote: On Jul 14, 2012, at 4:53 PM, php-general-digest-h...@lists.php.net wrote: From: Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com Does anyone have a resource, or better yet code

Re: [PHP] Creating drop-down menus

2012-07-19 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Jul 16, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Ramiro Barrantes ram...@precisionbioassay.com wrote: Hello, I am making an application using PHP/Javascript/mysql and had a question. Sometimes I need to use javascript to fill a drop down box based on the value of a previous drop down box. However, the

[PHP] What do you call the end-user?

2012-07-19 Thread Tedd Sperling
Hi gang: I can't wait for tomorrow -- so here's my off-topic post today. First question: What do you call the people who ultimately use your code? I call them the end-user, but others have stated other terms, such as customer or user. Second question: Are you concerned with their (whomever)

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