php-general Digest 27 Jan 2002 15:12:56 -0000 Issue 1136
Topics (messages 82263 through 82287):
Re: Get FILE NAME and EXTENSION??
82263 by: Jason Wong
Re: Control Panel
82264 by: Miles Thompson
82281 by: Chris Kay
Re: PHP and XHTML
82265 by: Tom Rogers
Re: Any Ideas
82266 by: Alok K. Dhir
Arrrr The Space is gone.
82267 by: Philip J. Newman
82269 by: CC Zona
82270 by: Philip J. Newman
82271 by: CC Zona
Re: getting a LAMP job in this economy
82268 by: michael kimsal
82275 by: Chris Lott
82276 by: michael kimsal
82277 by: John Lewis
what's equivalent of DBI quote
82272 by: Peter J. Schoenster
On the fly unzipping
82273 by: sean.interconnect.is.it
PHP in the University and Corporation [was RE: [PHP] Computer Sci ence and PHP]
82274 by: Chris Lott
82286 by: Mike Frazer
Re: Correct URL's
82278 by: David Robley
82282 by: Dave Brotherstone
82285 by: Alan McFarlane
Re: date and time triggerring
82279 by: David Robley
Re: eval()
82280 by: Jason Wong
CGI vs. ISAPI
82283 by: Benjamin deRuyter
82284 by: David
Re: php login scripts
82287 by: John Cuthbert
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On Sunday 27 January 2002 11:10, Dani wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm trying to put file names into variables which later I put into my
> DB (MySQL) as text (only the filename and the extension).
>
> I tried to use the upload format form before:
> <form ENCTYPE=\"multipart/form-data\" ...>
>
> ....
>
> <input type = FILE name =\"file_name\"....>
>
> .....
>
> When I retrived the value of the variables, I did not get the FILE NAME
> and the file extension.
> What I got is all the path of the file and the file name changed into
> .TMP or some sort.
>
> How do I retrived file names and it's extension in this situation?
Please read the manual chapter "Handling file uploads"
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Spare us!!!!1
Miles Thompson
On Saturday 26 January 2002 09:39 pm, karthikeyan wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I want a affordable and the best control panel for my website. Though i
> can make it myself but it make some time to do that. Do any of you guys
> and gals know about this do let me know.
>
> Looking forward for yours earliest reponse.
>
> karthikeyan.
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Love the rsponce Miles....
If you could make it then make it....
I mean what use would a control panel be on a website, why on earth
Would you want suck features as "Add / Remove Programes" and "Internet
Options"
On a website :)...
If you want it to be the best then a pre built script(s) is not going to
be good for you,
Because the best would have all features you need and more and something
out there is not made for you alone.
Building it would be your best choice...
Regards
Chris Kay
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From: Miles Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, 27 January 2002 1:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [PHP] Control Panel
Spare us!!!!1
Miles Thompson
On Saturday 26 January 2002 09:39 pm, karthikeyan wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I want a affordable and the best control panel for my website.
> Though i can make it myself but it make some time to do that. Do any
> of you guys and gals know about this do let me know.
>
> Looking forward for yours earliest reponse.
>
> karthikeyan.
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Hi
use single quotes and it is simpler
echo '<?xml version="1.0"?>';
Tom
At 09:40 27/01/02, Frans Englich wrote:
>This works just perfectly:
>
> <?echo("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>"); ?>
>
>
> regards,
> Cyth
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> > Hi. Have you tried something like:
> >
> > <? echo("<? xml version=\"1.0\" ?>\n"); ?>
>
>*Good* idea, tell us if it works!
>
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Regula
$string=preg_replace("/\W/","",$string);
\W = "non-word" characters in perl regular expressions. Word characters
are 0-9, a-z, A-Z, and "_". To kill _ as well, do:
$string=preg_replace("/[_\W]/","",$string);
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> Subject: [PHP] Re: Any Ideas
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>
> I'm guessing something along the lines of:
>
> --
> $string=str_replace("!","",$string);
> $string=str_replace("@","",$string);
> $string=str_replace("#","",$string);
> $string=str_replace("$","",$string);
> $string=str_replace("%","",$string);
> $string=str_replace("^","",$string);
> --
>
> etc.
>
>
> "Philip J. Newman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> message 003d01c1a6a5$fa7d60e0$0401a8c0@philip">news:003d01c1a6a5$fa7d60e0$0401a8c0@philip...
> Any Ideas how I can remove !@#$%^&*()_+=-';:"/.,<>?
> charactors from a
> string?
>
> Philip J. Newman
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$q=preg_replace("/[_\W]/","",$q);
I have this to remove all the bad things, but it takes out the space to ... )o; why?
Philip J. Newman
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In article <002801c1a6ed$1a9c10a0$0401a8c0@philip>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip J. Newman) wrote:
> $q=preg replace("/[ \W]/","",$q);
>
> I have this to remove all the bad things, but it takes out the space to ...
> )o; why?
There's a space in your character class, so of course it will be among the
characters matched/replaced. But merely deleting it from the character
class doesn't solve the problem either, since a space character also meets
the criteria for "not a word character" (\W). If the objective is to strip
all characters that are neither a space nor a "word" (a-zA-Z0-9_), then try:
$q=preg replace("/[^ \w]/","",$q);
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This returns an error
$q=preg replace("/[^ \w]/","",$q);
Parse error: parse error in d:\hosting\http\philipsdomain\config.php on line
41
Suggestions?
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From: "CC Zona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 6:15 PM
Subject: [PHP] Re: Arrrr The Space is gone.
> In article <002801c1a6ed$1a9c10a0$0401a8c0@philip>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip J. Newman) wrote:
>
> > $q=preg replace("/[ \W]/","",$q);
> >
> > I have this to remove all the bad things, but it takes out the space to
...
> > )o; why?
>
> There's a space in your character class, so of course it will be among the
> characters matched/replaced. But merely deleting it from the character
> class doesn't solve the problem either, since a space character also meets
> the criteria for "not a word character" (\W). If the objective is to
strip
> all characters that are neither a space nor a "word" (a-zA-Z0-9_), then
try:
>
> $q=preg replace("/[^ \w]/","",$q);
>
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In article <004d01c1a6f2$cb909070$0401a8c0@philip>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip J. Newman) wrote:
> This returns an error
>
> $q=preg replace("/[^ \w]/","",$q);
>
> Parse error: parse error in d:\hosting\http\philipsdomain\config.php on line
> 41
>
> Suggestions?
I think ezmlm must strip underscores from messages, 'cuz a lot of posts
(though, oddly, not all...) seem to be missing them from otherwise
valid/functioning code. The function is named "preg_replace" (an
underscore between the words), not "preg replace" (with a space).
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Manuel Lemos wrote:
You seem to be just a bit 'doom and gloom'. Perhaps you're just in
'realist' mode, but I don't think it's a 'fait accomplit' just yet.
>
> Since the massive bankrupcy of many Internet companies, LAMP is no
> longer so much on demand. What happened is that most of those companies
> were technologically aware of the choices and were choosing LAMP
> products because they have proven suitability for Internet development
> and besides that they are inexpensive.
>
> Many of the technology dependent companies that survived do not depend
> on the Internet. Often Web development is for internal consumption. Many
> of those companies used Microsoft products. People in charge of those
> companies often only know about Microsoft's and other comercial products
> that are well marketed. So, it is very hard to penetrate in those
> companies with LAMP products.
>
> There are certainly a reasonable number of companies that use LAMP
> products, but they do it mostly for economical reasons. Therefore they
> don't have a great budget to pay good salaries either.
True to some extent, but its not always purely economic. There are real
security threats in MS stuff (previous at least). Even if W2k and XP
are 100% safe, their reputation preceeds them and it'll be a long time
before MS overcomes that reputation.
>
> For bigger companies, one of the main limitations of PHP and other Open
> Source products is that, unlike commercial competitor products, they do
> not add as much business value to somebody selling PHP solutions because
> PHP costs nothing so there is no profit margin to earn by the people
> that want to sell it even as a part of something else.
>
I somewhat need to take exception to this - I think. Perhaps this is
just semantics, but people selling products are doing just that -
selling products. Whatever they are based on is somewhat immaterial. I
can't 'markup' PHP (a language) NOR can I 'mark up' Java (another
language). People are building packages on top of Java and selling the
packages. I'm not saying the underlying language is completely
immaterial - there are pros and cons to Java, PHP, Perl and other
languages. But simply because it's 'open source' doesn't mean you can't
add business value in PHP solutions.
It's hard, I think in part, because of the reputation PHP is getting in
some circles. Many of the people evangelizing it don't know anything
else, and simply extoll all the 'wonderful' virtues of it. No sarcasm
meant - it's a great platform. But it has its limitations. When people
with more experience come across PHP proponents, more often than not
they get bombarded with half-truths and anti-MS stuff. There's always
at least a grain of truth, but it's often not enough, or not presented
properly.
The fact is, most languages have these enthusiasts - it's a good thing
to have them. However, other languages usually also have big marketing
dollars behind them. Notice I said 'big. Other competing 'platforms'
such as ihtml and htmlos are hardly even on anyone's radar because (1)
they cost money and (2) they don't have enough marketing muscle to go up
against MS, Allaire, Sun, etc. PHP AT LEAST has 'free' on its side.
> PHP needs to be better marketed or else it will fade from the well paid
> job world. As I said, Java jobs are much more well paid, not only
> because Java is harder to program and requires better prepared
> developers, but also because Sun marketed Java so well that it was
> created a demand for Java projects that nobody from the PHP world is
> doing anything like that.
>
It's not that no one is doing anything like Java projects. We've done
some immensely large projects in PHP (migrated from ASP no less)
handling commerce transactions in excess of 7 figures per month.
Needless to say, the client is happy, and they actually had a similar
sized project done in Java with a large team of developers which
completely and utterly flopped (only after the 30+ consultants had been
paid for months of work which was simply shut down).
People don't KNOW about what projects are going on, large OR small.
I've asked repeatedly in the past for success stories (large and small)
to register at phpshowcase.com, but I get barely one reply whenever I
ask. Perhaps NO ONE is actually using it? I know that's not true, even
though the successes are probably more often than not small ones.
Someone able to get up a dynamic page in a few hours of poking around
rather than shelling out for Access and slogging through ASP, for
example. Not a big success, but the company gets to continue on with
its plans - probably oblivious to the fact that PHP is being used. It
just gets in and works (similar to the 'stealth' success of Linux in
many organizations, I'd think).
> Despite PHP can be used for more than just Web applications, many PHP
> developers are not making an effort to advertise it for more than just
> Web development. This needs to be changed, because the world has changed
> and those that don't adapt will not survive.
>
> Java was also advertised initially for browser applets but Sun had to
> adapt the strategy to the needs of the real world, they advertised and
> made it suitable for mobile computing, server side Web scripting and Web
> services. Mobile computing is a closed market. Server side scripting is
> the only thing that PHP is advertised for but its position is seriously
> threatned. Web services, PHP is not yet quite there nor there is a
> perspective if and when it will ever be.
>
I think part of the reason that the shift with Java occurred is because,
frankly, Java applets basically sucked in browsers. Slow, not very
useful (sandboxes, so I couldn't access files, etc). Writing Java
'applications' is even harder, because you don't know what JVM people
have (or if they have) and need to tell them to download it, how to
install the application, set JAVAPATH, etc. It's a pain. I've OFTEN
said if Sun REALLY was serious (and I don't think they really are - I
think they're still primarily a hardware oriented company) they'd carpet
bomb the US ala AOL with CDs of the latest JVM, an autorun installer for
Windows, and some useful Java applications that truly demonstrate to the
average Joe sixpack WHY Java is useful to them - break the 'windows is
everything' mentality. They won't do that, however.
> I don't want to be pessimistic, but in a couple of weeks .NET will be
> officially released as the big thing that Microsoft will make it echo
> everywhere with their raw marketing power. ASP.NET is catching up on the
> huge delay that it used to had compared to PHP and other alternatives.
> Web Services will be even more hyped than today.
In a worst case scenario, PHP will most likely adapt to the SOAP stuff
and cling to a percentage of the "non-MS" market with Java and others.
>
> Microsoft will try to make it evident that .NET is the most profitable
> way to make money from Web development but only using .NET. It does not
> matter how much of that will be effectively true. What matters is many
> people that today still fall for LAMP/WAMP will reconsider and move to
> .NET world because they will be convinced that is where they can make
> money unlike with LAMP.
>
You can make money in either camp - it's probably easier in the
Windows/ASP world in some cases because you've got the marketing muscle
of $x billions on your side. MS is *creating* the demand for web
services, not because they have the technology, but the marketing. Many
of the issues the .net and passport platform is addressing were things I
and others were thinking of years ago - 97-98 at least. In the MS shop
I was in at the time, the reaction was "well, MS will be addressing that
in the next version of <whatever> so we'll just wait for that". They
KNEW we had issues we could AT THAT TIME but chose to wait for MS to
come and do it for them.
Unfortunately, I see that more and more people may be turning that way
because for the short term it can be good money. I don't know too many
smaller companies which have been successful over the long haul dealing
with MS in a 'web' sense. The companies I know overpromise ASP stuff,
deliver half-assed 'solutions', deal with the client for some months or
a year 'fixing' things, then the client leaves for something else (often
another MS shop but not always) and the original shop starts afresh.
Whether it's simply their own incompetence or a fundamental mindset in
all MS shops, I can't say.
> So, what do you do? For now, I just advise you to stay where you are if
> you can live from what you are doing because we have to see how much of
> this will become true. Anyway, I am afraid that part of it will become
> true as advertised. If you want to stick with LAMP/WAMP, you'd better
> check it out to see if you can developed what will be in demand. Here
> some buzzwords to pay more attention: Web services, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI.
They've been buzzwords for awhile tho. So has XML, which still doesn't
seem to be making a huge impact on its own. As the foundation for
SOAP/XMLRPC, etc yes. But I'm not sure most developers will HAVE to
know SOAP anymore than they know HTTP - there will be libraries which
accomplish much of the menial stuff for them. For the dedicated few who
learn the ins and outs, there may be stronger demand for 'under the hood
' work - is that what you meant?
Michael Kimsal
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> It's hard, I think in part, because of the reputation PHP is
> getting in
> some circles. Many of the people evangelizing it don't know anything
> else, and simply extoll all the 'wonderful' virtues of it.
YES! This "poisoning of the well" has happened and continues to happen. The
problem is that being an evangelist is a wonderful thing-- but you have to
be quite skilled at communication to be a successful one :) Otherwise the
person attempting to spread the gospel simply becomes looked at as an
annoyance or, worse, becomes marginalized.
I have dealt with a lot of folks in companies who have a negative view of
PHP, MySQL, Linux, BSD, etc. simply because they have had their intelligence
insulted, or been irritated, or been completely confused, or been preached
to one too many times by well-meaning proponents of Open Source solutions
who are either unable to communicate or simply victim to their own
enthusiasm.
There is probably nothing that doesn't have an Open Source solution in the
abstract sense-- but in the real world of existing systems, personnel, and
politics, the best solution may not be technically the fastest or even the
most stable. The right tool for the job is my motto, and that might mean SQL
Server, it might mean MySQL. It might mean a Linux server, it might mean
Win2K. There is no single panacea.
c
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Chris Lott wrote:
>>It's hard, I think in part, because of the reputation PHP is
>>getting in
>>some circles. Many of the people evangelizing it don't know anything
>>else, and simply extoll all the 'wonderful' virtues of it.
>>
>
> YES! This "poisoning of the well" has happened and continues to happen. The
> problem is that being an evangelist is a wonderful thing-- but you have to
> be quite skilled at communication to be a successful one :) Otherwise the
> person attempting to spread the gospel simply becomes looked at as an
> annoyance or, worse, becomes marginalized.
>
> I have dealt with a lot of folks in companies who have a negative view of
> PHP, MySQL, Linux, BSD, etc. simply because they have had their intelligence
> insulted, or been irritated, or been completely confused, or been preached
> to one too many times by well-meaning proponents of Open Source solutions
> who are either unable to communicate or simply victim to their own
> enthusiasm.
Right on. It's doing far more damage than all the stuff MS, Sun,
Allaire and others can conspire to throw at our community, imo.
Perhaps we should get together on a 'PHP advocacy HOWTO' ? :)
>
> There is probably nothing that doesn't have an Open Source solution in the
> abstract sense-- but in the real world of existing systems, personnel, and
> politics, the best solution may not be technically the fastest or even the
> most stable. The right tool for the job is my motto, and that might mean SQL
> Server, it might mean MySQL. It might mean a Linux server, it might mean
> Win2K. There is no single panacea.
>
Amen - except that you need to be able to discern WHY something is
'right'. If a consultant tells one of my clients that SQL Server is the
way to go, I have to explain to my client (1) the benefits/drawbacks of
SQL Server and (2) whatever other agenda that consultant may have.
What's the 'best tool' for HIM/HER may not be for us. I've come across
this more times than I care to recall.
And yes, our recommendations are loaded towards what's best for us, no
doubt, but we generally have price on our side to start with (lower or
no licensing fees) and a satisfied clients who've 'taken the PHP plunge'
before them, so they don't feel like they're the first ones trying this
'new fangled PHP stuff'.
Michael Kimsal
http://www.tapinternet.com/php
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I like this view. It's not so much a technology we're all speaking as much
as a language. Computers are computers and while linux is fun and kick's ass
sometimes you just need to get a job done.
tools are tools and php rules until php rules!
john l
>> It's hard, I think in part, because of the reputation PHP is
>> getting in
>> some circles. Many of the people evangelizing it don't know anything
>> else, and simply extoll all the 'wonderful' virtues of it.
>
> YES! This "poisoning of the well" has happened and continues to happen.
> The problem is that being an evangelist is a wonderful thing-- but you
> have to be quite skilled at communication to be a successful one :)
> Otherwise the person attempting to spread the gospel simply becomes
> looked at as an annoyance or, worse, becomes marginalized.
>
> I have dealt with a lot of folks in companies who have a negative view
> of PHP, MySQL, Linux, BSD, etc. simply because they have had their
> intelligence insulted, or been irritated, or been completely confused,
> or been preached to one too many times by well-meaning proponents of
> Open Source solutions who are either unable to communicate or simply
> victim to their own enthusiasm.
>
> There is probably nothing that doesn't have an Open Source solution in
> the abstract sense-- but in the real world of existing systems,
> personnel, and politics, the best solution may not be technically the
> fastest or even the most stable. The right tool for the job is my
> motto, and that might mean SQL Server, it might mean MySQL. It might
> mean a Linux server, it might mean Win2K. There is no single panacea.
>
> c
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Hi,
Seems mysql_escape_string will just escape, seems like
addslashes and quotemeta.
quote in DBI will escape and quote if passed value is not an
integer (don't know about float).
Peter
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Hello,
I was hopping that one of you would know how to setup a self-extracting php program.
This is the story:
I'd like to offer a zipped file for download. Someone unzips it on their PC and there
find two files, "extractor.php" and some other file that php can unzip. They upload
these two files to their server, direct their browser to extractor.php, enter some
information, and extractor.php unzips the other file into multiple directories/files,
each adjusted to the specifications set in extractor.php.
I know there is a way for php to unzip files such as .elg, but how to do it, and if
the server needs to be set up in some special format... I don't know. I've looked
around on-line, but so far haven't found anything.
Thanks for any input,
Sean
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Computer science is considered an engineering discipline in most
institutions. And I think that's good... we need people out there to develop
OS's, create database servers, etc. PHP can be effectively used in this
curriculum, but C seems a lot more to the point.
The place where PHP could (and should) make inroads is in the web
development curriculum that is generally split off from the formal computer
science programs. I think that split is a good thing even if it is made for
the wrong reasons... and while one can quibble about "real programmers" and
such, these programs that encompass web design, web mastering, systems admin
and networking are the real ground for advancing PHP.
Many institutions, like the one I teach for, are entrenched in ASP and Java
because that is understood by administrators as "a good thing to do" and
because it is often easier to find instructors with these skills (or at
least the certifications). But there are inroads being made. I have
typically taught web design, internet and networking. Now I finally am
getting a chance to teach a PHP/MySQL class as part of the web development
curriculum (finally as in we finally found good instructors to take the
other courses so that I would have time).
Also, these programs are typically staffed by a cadre of aduncts. If you
have PHP skills and teaching skills and you can basically donate your time
for the peanuts that are offered (and the fun of it), there is a place for
YOU to help promote PHP.
Someone else remarked that certifications would advance PHP. There is
something to that, particularly in the corporate marketplace to USE it. More
often, in my experience, PHP is slow to be adopted in the corporate
environment because MS is so entrenched, and because MS' firm establishment
on the desktop means hiring MS people, who naturally promote and hire other
MS people, and administrators often equate using other technologies with
abandoning their desktops.
Certification has an equally negative aspect, though, unless stringently and
particularly administered and granted, which would defeat the marketing
ends.
c
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Chris Lott
http://www.chrislott.org/
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In order to make a living as a programmer, unless you can seriously wow your
potential employers with raw ability, it's difficult to make any real money
unless you have a little piece of paper that says "Look what I can do!"
I've been programming in PHP, Perl, ASP, Java, Visual Basic, C and C++ to
some extent for the last seven years, but aside from a 1-year certification
in VB that has since expired I simply haven't been able to afford a
certification course. The also only offer your standard Computer and
Information Science degree here at the University of Delaware, nothing in
Web.
Here's something to do, though: most of the major universities I've looked
into do *not* offer a Web Development degree. Lobby to have it added, but
in the meantime look to your local community college or technical college.
They more often than not WILL offer courses and ultimately an associate's or
bachelor's degree in Web Development. More and more are offering courses in
open source solutions because the world appears to be getting over it's fear
of free products ("if they aren't charging for it, it can't be that good"
mentality). Certifications/degrees are not only just the difference between
getting and not getting certain jobs, but for the ones you can get it's also
the difference between $25,000/yr and $75,000/yr unless you really *are*
God's gift to programming.
Take care,
Mike Frazer
"Chris Lott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Computer science is considered an engineering discipline in most
> institutions. And I think that's good... we need people out there to
develop
> OS's, create database servers, etc. PHP can be effectively used in this
> curriculum, but C seems a lot more to the point.
>
> The place where PHP could (and should) make inroads is in the web
> development curriculum that is generally split off from the formal
computer
> science programs. I think that split is a good thing even if it is made
for
> the wrong reasons... and while one can quibble about "real programmers"
and
> such, these programs that encompass web design, web mastering, systems
admin
> and networking are the real ground for advancing PHP.
>
> Many institutions, like the one I teach for, are entrenched in ASP and
Java
> because that is understood by administrators as "a good thing to do" and
> because it is often easier to find instructors with these skills (or at
> least the certifications). But there are inroads being made. I have
> typically taught web design, internet and networking. Now I finally am
> getting a chance to teach a PHP/MySQL class as part of the web development
> curriculum (finally as in we finally found good instructors to take the
> other courses so that I would have time).
>
> Also, these programs are typically staffed by a cadre of aduncts. If you
> have PHP skills and teaching skills and you can basically donate your
time
> for the peanuts that are offered (and the fun of it), there is a place for
> YOU to help promote PHP.
>
> Someone else remarked that certifications would advance PHP. There is
> something to that, particularly in the corporate marketplace to USE it.
More
> often, in my experience, PHP is slow to be adopted in the corporate
> environment because MS is so entrenched, and because MS' firm
establishment
> on the desktop means hiring MS people, who naturally promote and hire
other
> MS people, and administrators often equate using other technologies with
> abandoning their desktops.
>
> Certification has an equally negative aspect, though, unless stringently
and
> particularly administered and granted, which would defeat the marketing
> ends.
>
> c
> --
> Chris Lott
> http://www.chrislott.org/
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In article <007901c1a588$120a6150$3c01a8c0@quasimodo>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexander Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Correct URL's
>
>
> > Stefan Rusterholz wrote
<SNIP>
> > Please do not send HTML messages.
> Sorry, Outlook is crap and I'm just too lazy to buy (on Win you have to buy
> almost everything) another e-mail client for my working machine.
http://www.pegasus.org/
It's free and a bit more virus resistant than a certain M$ product (well,
any M$ product)
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David Robley
Temporary Kiwi!
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> >
> > > Stefan Rusterholz wrote
> <SNIP>
> > > Please do not send HTML messages.
> > Sorry, Outlook is crap and I'm just too lazy to buy (on Win you
> have to buy
> > almost everything) another e-mail client for my working machine.
>
> http://www.pegasus.org/
>
> It's free and a bit more virus resistant than a certain M$ product (well,
> any M$ product)
>
> --
www.pmail.com ? pegasus.org is *definately* virus free, (it's a yachting
team!!!)
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> > > Please do not send HTML messages.
> > Sorry, Outlook is crap and I'm just too lazy to buy (on Win you have to
??? Outlook does not ~need~ to send HTML messages, it can be configured to
send text-only messages
Sheesh, It's about time you guys started looking properly at your
environments and learning how to use properly instead of just slanging MS
David Robley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <007901c1a588$120a6150$3c01a8c0@quasimodo>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alexander Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:34 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PHP] Correct URL's
> >
> >
> > > Stefan Rusterholz wrote
> <SNIP>
> > > Please do not send HTML messages.
> > Sorry, Outlook is crap and I'm just too lazy to buy (on Win you have to
buy
> > almost everything) another e-mail client for my working machine.
>
> http://www.pegasus.org/
>
> It's free and a bit more virus resistant than a certain M$ product (well,
> any M$ product)
>
> --
>
> --
> David Robley
> Temporary Kiwi!
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In article <007b01c1a582$f9d67ec0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Hi there,
>
> Is there any one who could give me an idea regarding the date and time
> triggering PHP script. This date and time script whould gives an output if
> ever it hit "Jan 1" and print's it's year.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks in advance, and also to all who keeps on helping a newbie like me.
This can be done under *nix using cron, or Windows using Task Scheduler.
You'll need a cgi version of PHP to run scripts this way.
--
David Robley
Temporary Kiwi!
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On Monday 21 January 2002 12:17, Alex Dowgailenko wrote:
> After getting very frustrated with arrays, I ended up using eval() in the
> following way:
>
> function top10() {
> $i = 0;
> $res = mysql_query("SELECT orders.pid, products.pid, orders.amount,
> products.pname FROM orders, products WHERE orders.uid!='' AND
> orders.pid=products.pid") or die(mysql_error());
> while (list($opid, $ppid, $amount, $pname) = mysql_fetch_row($res)) {
> $eval = '$temp["'.$pname.'"] = $temp["'.$pname.'"] + '.$amount.';';
> eval($eval);
> $i++;
> }
> arsort($temp);
> return $temp;
> }
If you're using php4.03+ you could try:
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res) {
$temp[$row['pname']] = $row['pname'] + $row['amount'];
$i++;
}
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Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk
/*
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I'm fairly new to PHP, having worked with ColdFusion in the past. Can
somebody shed some light on to the key differences between the CGI
installation and the ISAPI installation. I working with IIS on Win2k and
using MySQL for a db server. Thanks.
- Ben
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use the ISAPI module since you are using with IIS
>'m fairly new to PHP, having worked with ColdFusion in the >past. Can somebody shed
>some light on to the key >differences between the CGI installation and the ISAPI
>>installation. I working with IIS on Win2k and using MySQL >for a db server. Thanks.
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$user = $HTTP_GET_VARS["user"];
$pass = $HTTP_GET_VARS["pass"];
$real = "superduperunlieklytobeguesedpass";
if($user == $validuser && $pass == $real)
{
echo "thank you for logging in here is the page";
?>
<HTML>
etc
<?php } else {
die("You supid idiot thats not a valid login");
?>
and call the page as
http://superdomain.com/login.php?user=Imasuperduperuser&pass=superduperunlie
klytobeguesedpass
You'd need to alter it obviously. Its good for secureing one page if you
want multi page you ... need to work on Sessions :S Im working on em now :S
scarry stuff :S
"Laserjetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Depending on how secure the login information needs to be, you could just
> store it in a text file, maybe using password() to encrypt passwords. You
> could then access it using fopen() and save the contents of the file in an
> array.
>
> I'm not too hot on login and authentication though myself! I did get it
> working, there was a useful example in the PHP manual.
>
> LJ
>
> "XX XX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > hi. im new. i installed a login script on my site and after a few days,
it
> > stopped working. i reinstalled it and it still refused to work after a
dew
> > days. can anyone send me a good login script preferably with no MySql?
im
> > very busy atm with all my school stuff.
> >
> > Thanks
> > aron
> >
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