php-general Digest 19 Oct 2008 14:31:01 -0000 Issue 5744
Topics (messages 282091 through 282104):
logic for grabbing what we need from user-input addresses for AVS?
282091 by: Govinda
282092 by: Waynn Lue
282093 by: Robert Cummings
282096 by: Ashley Sheridan
Re: Form Loop
282094 by: Sudheer
282095 by: Ashley Sheridan
282103 by: Bastien Koert
282104 by: Shawn McKenzie
Re: paging at which level
282097 by: Richard Heyes
282098 by: Ashley Sheridan
282099 by: Richard Heyes
how to start using a version control system (subversion)?
282100 by: Rene Veerman
282102 by: Richard Heyes
Re: Convert video to FLV like youtube
282101 by: Rene Veerman
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Hi all
This is not exactly PHP, but an issue that we have to work out in code
(whatever we use) -
I am working on a shopping cart site which will have orders from any
country.
To cut down on fraudulent orders, our cc processor (whatever we call
them), to enable "Address Verification System (AVS)", accepts a var/
value which is "The numeric portion of the street address". It is
"Required for AVS". Now to get this from what the user input, I can:
- just read the *numeric* characters off the front of the first (of 2)
address text inputs, stopping grabbing them once I reach any non-
numeric char., or I could
- get *any* numeric chars input in that text area and concatenate
them all together (if there is more than one continuous run of them), or
- get *any* numeric chars input in *either* of the address text areas
and concatenate that all together (if there is more than one
continuous run of them), or
- (what are the other possibilities?)
I am asking you guys/gals using AVS: what are they looking for? The
docs make this clear that they want: "The numeric portion of the
street address", but just because I can't think of addresses that
don't match a pattern I am thinking of does not mean they don't exist
or are not valid. And how should the logic of my algorithm be written
if it was just for USA addresses? ... and more importantly - if I am
writing it to handle addresses from any country?
Thanks for any insight/logic based on experience, ;-)
-Govinda
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AVS generally only exists for us and canada and parts of the uk, if I
remember correctly. Usually they're just looking for the beginning
part of the street address, not the concatenation or anything else
like that. No need for apartment numbers, for example if you're just
looking at avs.
If you're doing a full credit card auth, though, that's a different matter.
Waynn
On 10/18/08, Govinda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> This is not exactly PHP, but an issue that we have to work out in code
> (whatever we use) -
> I am working on a shopping cart site which will have orders from any
> country.
>
> To cut down on fraudulent orders, our cc processor (whatever we call
> them), to enable "Address Verification System (AVS)", accepts a var/
> value which is "The numeric portion of the street address". It is
> "Required for AVS". Now to get this from what the user input, I can:
>
> - just read the *numeric* characters off the front of the first (of 2)
> address text inputs, stopping grabbing them once I reach any non-
> numeric char., or I could
> - get *any* numeric chars input in that text area and concatenate
> them all together (if there is more than one continuous run of them), or
> - get *any* numeric chars input in *either* of the address text areas
> and concatenate that all together (if there is more than one
> continuous run of them), or
> - (what are the other possibilities?)
>
> I am asking you guys/gals using AVS: what are they looking for? The
> docs make this clear that they want: "The numeric portion of the
> street address", but just because I can't think of addresses that
> don't match a pattern I am thinking of does not mean they don't exist
> or are not valid. And how should the logic of my algorithm be written
> if it was just for USA addresses? ... and more importantly - if I am
> writing it to handle addresses from any country?
>
> Thanks for any insight/logic based on experience, ;-)
>
> -Govinda
>
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On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 22:56 -0600, Govinda wrote:
> Hi all
>
> This is not exactly PHP, but an issue that we have to work out in code
> (whatever we use) -
> I am working on a shopping cart site which will have orders from any
> country.
>
> To cut down on fraudulent orders, our cc processor (whatever we call
> them), to enable "Address Verification System (AVS)", accepts a var/
> value which is "The numeric portion of the street address". It is
> "Required for AVS". Now to get this from what the user input, I can:
>
> - just read the *numeric* characters off the front of the first (of 2)
> address text inputs, stopping grabbing them once I reach any non-
> numeric char., or I could
> - get *any* numeric chars input in that text area and concatenate
> them all together (if there is more than one continuous run of them), or
> - get *any* numeric chars input in *either* of the address text areas
> and concatenate that all together (if there is more than one
> continuous run of them), or
> - (what are the other possibilities?)
>
> I am asking you guys/gals using AVS: what are they looking for? The
> docs make this clear that they want: "The numeric portion of the
> street address", but just because I can't think of addresses that
> don't match a pattern I am thinking of does not mean they don't exist
> or are not valid. And how should the logic of my algorithm be written
> if it was just for USA addresses? ... and more importantly - if I am
> writing it to handle addresses from any country?
>
> Thanks for any insight/logic based on experience, ;-)
AVS systems I've used don't ask for the street number. They ask for the
entire address and they do the matching for me and return a code
indicating what portions matched. For one client in particular an AVS
fail allows the order to go through, but it is flagged as peculiar and
requires someone to manually reject or allow the order to be fulfilled.
This was necessary since a lot of AVS failures were encountered for
regular clients.
If I had to make a choice given your system, I think I would just grab
the integer value of the first address line. No concatenation, and no
fussing with a second line...
$number = (int)$input;
Cheers,
Rob.
--
http://www.interjinn.com
Application and Templating Framework for PHP
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On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 01:10 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 22:56 -0600, Govinda wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > This is not exactly PHP, but an issue that we have to work out in code
> > (whatever we use) -
> > I am working on a shopping cart site which will have orders from any
> > country.
> >
> > To cut down on fraudulent orders, our cc processor (whatever we call
> > them), to enable "Address Verification System (AVS)", accepts a var/
> > value which is "The numeric portion of the street address". It is
> > "Required for AVS". Now to get this from what the user input, I can:
> >
> > - just read the *numeric* characters off the front of the first (of 2)
> > address text inputs, stopping grabbing them once I reach any non-
> > numeric char., or I could
> > - get *any* numeric chars input in that text area and concatenate
> > them all together (if there is more than one continuous run of them), or
> > - get *any* numeric chars input in *either* of the address text areas
> > and concatenate that all together (if there is more than one
> > continuous run of them), or
> > - (what are the other possibilities?)
> >
> > I am asking you guys/gals using AVS: what are they looking for? The
> > docs make this clear that they want: "The numeric portion of the
> > street address", but just because I can't think of addresses that
> > don't match a pattern I am thinking of does not mean they don't exist
> > or are not valid. And how should the logic of my algorithm be written
> > if it was just for USA addresses? ... and more importantly - if I am
> > writing it to handle addresses from any country?
> >
> > Thanks for any insight/logic based on experience, ;-)
>
> AVS systems I've used don't ask for the street number. They ask for the
> entire address and they do the matching for me and return a code
> indicating what portions matched. For one client in particular an AVS
> fail allows the order to go through, but it is flagged as peculiar and
> requires someone to manually reject or allow the order to be fulfilled.
> This was necessary since a lot of AVS failures were encountered for
> regular clients.
>
> If I had to make a choice given your system, I think I would just grab
> the integer value of the first address line. No concatenation, and no
> fussing with a second line...
>
> $number = (int)$input;
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
> --
> http://www.interjinn.com
> Application and Templating Framework for PHP
>
>
It does sound like a bit of a flawed system you are using though, I
mean, some addresses have only house names, not numbers, so there would
be no number, and what about business addresses in business centres?
"Unit 3 of Suchandsuch Business Centre, 20-30 Somesuch Road..." How
would you go about getting the numerical part from that?
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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I'm trying to create a form with a loop. I need to append a value to a
field name each time through the loop. For Instance:
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
$x=1;
echo "<tr>"; echo "<td><input type='text' id='qty'
name='quantity_' size='2' value='$row[qty]' /></td>";
?>
<td><input type="text" id="qty[<?php echo $x; ?>]" name="quantity[<?php
echo $x; ?>]" size="2" value="$row[qty]"/></td>
<?php
echo "</tr>";
$x++;
}
the name value quantity needs the value of x appended to it.
quantity_1, quantity_2 etc.
I recommend using array notation instead of appending $x to the element
name. If you are using POST, when the form is submitted the values are
available in the $_POST['quantity'] array. You can use foreach to
iterate through it.
Example:
<?php
$values = $_POST['quantity'];
foreach ($values as $value) {
echo $value;
}
?>
Regards,
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With warm regards,
Sudheer. S
Business: http://binaryvibes.co.in, Community: http://lampcomputing.com,
Personal: http://sudheer.net
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On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 14:10 +0530, Sudheer wrote:
> > I'm trying to create a form with a loop. I need to append a value to a
> > field name each time through the loop. For Instance:
> >
> > while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
> > $x=1;
> > echo "<tr>"; echo "<td><input type='text' id='qty'
> > name='quantity_' size='2' value='$row[qty]' /></td>";
> ?>
> <td><input type="text" id="qty[<?php echo $x; ?>]" name="quantity[<?php
> echo $x; ?>]" size="2" value="$row[qty]"/></td>
> <?php
>
> > echo "</tr>";
> > $x++;
> > }
> >
> > the name value quantity needs the value of x appended to it.
> > quantity_1, quantity_2 etc.
> I recommend using array notation instead of appending $x to the element
> name. If you are using POST, when the form is submitted the values are
> available in the $_POST['quantity'] array. You can use foreach to
> iterate through it.
>
> Example:
> <?php
> $values = $_POST['quantity'];
> foreach ($values as $value) {
> echo $value;
> }
> ?>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>
> With warm regards,
> Sudheer. S
> Business: http://binaryvibes.co.in, Community: http://lampcomputing.com,
> Personal: http://sudheer.net
>
>
There is no real need to use IDs for form elements unless you are
attaching labels to them. If you're using JavaScript to check for
certain values, then you can iterate the elements of the form in array
notation also. One more thing, you don't need to put explicit values
into form elements that use array notation, it's enough to put
<input type="text" name="quantity[]" size="2" value="{$row['qty']}"/>
Note the curly braces, you must use these if the HTML is being output by
PHP, or it will not know that the variable you are trying to use is an
array element.
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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>
>>
>> the name value quantity needs the value of x appended to it. quantity_1,
>> quantity_2 etc.
>>
> I recommend using array notation instead of appending $x to the element
> name. If you are using POST, when the form is submitted the values are
> available in the $_POST['quantity'] array. You can use foreach to iterate
> through it.
>
> Example:
> <?php
> $values = $_POST['quantity'];
> foreach ($values as $value) {
> echo $value;
> }
> ?>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>
> With warm regards,
> Sudheer. S
> Business: http://binaryvibes.co.in, Community: http://lampcomputing.com,
> Personal: http://sudheer.net
Arrays are definitely the way to go, not only is it easier to process,
adding new rows on the form can be done with simple javascript then if
needed
--
Bastien
Cat, the other other white meat
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Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 08:07:26PM -0500, Shawn McKenzie wrote:
>> Terry J Daichendt wrote:
>>> I'm trying to create a form with a loop. I need to append a value to a
>>> field name each time through the loop. For Instance:
>>>
>>> while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
>>> $x=1;
>>> echo "<tr>"; echo "<td><input type='text' id='qty'
>>> name='quantity_' size='2' value='$row[qty]' /></td>";
>>> echo "</tr>";
>>> $x++;
>>> }
>>>
>>> the name value quantity needs the value of x appended to it. quantity_1,
>>> quantity_2 etc. What is the correct syntax to achieve this, especially
>>> the parsing to get it to work. I suspect the dot operator to append it
>>> but I can't get the parsing down.
>>>
>>> Terry Daichendt
>> echo '<td><input type="text" id="qty" name="quantity_' . $x . '"
>> size="2" value="' . $row['qty']. '" /></td>';
>>
>> However, I would use an array:
>>
>> echo '<td><input type="text" id="qty" name="quantity[' . $x . ']"
>> size="2" value="' . $row['qty']. '" /></td>';
>>
>> Depending upon your use, you can even leave out the index and let it
>> increment.
>>
>> echo '<td><input type="text" id="qty" name="quantity[]" size="2"
>> value="' . $row['qty']. '" /></td>';
>
> Ids must be unique within a document.
>
Yeah, I just copied and pasted and was concentrating on the name.
echo '<td><input type="text" id="qty' . $x . '" name="quantity[]"
size="2" value="' . $row['qty']. '" /></td>';
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Thanks!
-Shawn
http://www.spidean.com
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> I've not used a library to achieve paging
NIH syndrome? ;-)
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HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari:
http://www.rgraph.org
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On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 10:23 +0100, Richard Heyes wrote:
> > I've not used a library to achieve paging
>
> NIH syndrome? ;-)
>
I'm still a little wet behind the ears, nih?!
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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> I'm still a little wet behind the ears, nih?!
"Not Invented Here"
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Richard Heyes
HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari:
http://www.rgraph.org
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Apologies for posting a monthly/yearly recurring theme here..
If someone can add links to previous discussions relating to the same,
that could help too.
I'd like to use subversion on a home unix server of mine to keep track
of my projects.
I dont even know what i need for a good intergration of subversion when
i run my software on shared hosted unix and develop on windows.
I've got windows shellintergration (a virtual drive) for all my remote
storage, and atm use aptana studio as my editor.
My home unix server is accessible (http & ftp atm) from the outside world..
My question is how to intergrate a subversion repository so that i can
easilly checkout files on my windows development box (pref even from the
editor; must support syntax highlighting too), and then update my
sourcetree on the shared hosting (or another temp test server).
If possible, i'd like to avoid using subversion commandline instructions
and use a web-interface.
Ofcourse, i can do some things with subversion cmdline instr and put
that in a php file.
I want to avoid as much (typing) overhead as possible for each operation
i need to do.
And i'd also like to know what visual interface to subversion most
easilly manages the repository, creating/deleting branches from the main
development line, etc.
Please reply-to-all.
Background: my motivation for using a version control system in the
first place;
The software i develop (http://mediabeez.ws) runs on multiple servers,
mostly unix.
On each of these servers, i use symlinks to point from sites
.../www/site-name.com/mediaBeez to a common .../mediaBeez-1.x directory
that contains the code.. The code itself uses the http hostname to
determine which config-file (containing db and theme settings) to use.
Up until now i havent used any version-control besides properly naming
code directories and copying them with windows explorer after each
significant change.
This has worked fine up until recently.
My software runs on shared hosting and not everything (like video
conversions to flash video) can be done there on that shared server. So
now my software runs on 2 servers at the same time, calling functions in
the same php library file (lib_import.php). I had to keep both files
open in my editor, and after each saveable change manually copy them to
the other copy of the same file.
That's no problem if its just 1 file, but i had 6 of them.
Needless to say, it takes too much concentration if there are more files
involved. Up to 5 files on 2 servers simultaniously is doable, but more
than that is a real attention-drain and nuisance.
My main development box runs windows vista.
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> ...
The subversion manual is the best place to learn about it. Section 2
tells you about setting up a repository.
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
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HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari:
http://www.rgraph.org
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I use ffmpeg (unix commandline) to do the video converting..
ffmpeg needs to be properly re-compiled with mp3 support (for audio in
the flv files); theres tutorials on google on how to do that.
Are you on shared hosting? Most wont allow any kind of video conversion
on shared hosting.
I had to recruit my unix homeserver to do the video-converting for me.
Took quite some code to get it to run correctly spread between the
shared hosting main server and the video-conversion server...
I'm willing to sell that piece of code at a reasonable price ;)
Ryan S wrote:
Hey!
Been googleing for a way to convert video to flv just like youtube and came
accross the flv SDK kit, unfortunately it seems to only support C++, Delphi and
C#
Have any of you guys come accross a php script that does this? any links, pointers and code would be appreciated.
TIA,
R
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