Re: [PHP] Replacing accented characters?
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 02:38:52PM -0500, tedd wrote: snip My point was more to the theme that we are an eclectic group of people with a wide range of knowledge and skills. Individually we may have trouble finding our ass, but together we can find the answer to many things. I just got this image of all of us at a table at the local Chili's twirling around in place like dogs, trying to find our asses. giggle Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Creating an Entire .html page with PHP
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 08:17:34AM +1100, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:10:42 +0100, rene7...@gmail.com (Rene Veerman) wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:31 AM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:21:00 -0800, deal...@gmail.com (dealtek) wrote: Opening tables, etc, wrongly generally messes the page up completely, but forgetting to close them again often has no affect no visible effect at all -- until you make some innocent change and everything goes haywire! whenever i write an opening tag, i immediately write the closing tag next, then cursor back to fill it in. Not so easy when you are using PHP to generate a complex layout! Use heredocs to do it. Then you can generate the layout in PHP and still do what deal...@gmail.com said. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Pointers For Newbies, Reminders For Oldies
... should be obvious - but are often overlooked - points within coding practice that can cause the programmer to develop bad habits and bad code. - Dan Brown Tip #1: Don't use count() in loops unless there are very few items to count and performance doesn't matter, or the number will vary over the loop. That is, don't do this: for ($i = 0; $i count($items); $i++) Instead, do this: $number = count($items); for ($i = 0; $i $number; $i++) Reason: when you use the count() call at the top of the loop, it will re-evaluate the number of items each time it's called, which usually isn't necessary and adds time. Instead, work out the number of items before going into the loop and simply refer to that for the number of items in controlling the loop. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] DirectoryIterator
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:01:12PM +0100, Kim Madsen wrote: Christoph Boget wrote on 26/01/2010 21:17: I've looked through the docs but was unable to find out if this is possible; I hope it is. Is there a way that you get the size/length of the collection to be iterated (e.g. the total number of files) without having to iterate through at least once? On Linux with safe mode off you can call system(du -hcs THE_DIR) to get the size of all files, no iterations needed. This assumes the du command is available on the host system. Check first to make sure. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Speed of sending email .. can I put them in a queue rather than wait?
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:07:13AM +0800, Eric Lee wrote: Hi, all I'am doubted about installing a local mail server for just low volume mailing. May I ask all yours professional what do you think about it ? Every place I've ever hosted (all Linux servers) include a local MTA which is up and running. In a large hosting operation, this local MTA probably passes the mail for relay to a central MTA somewhere else in the host's network. There are a variety of reasons for this. Among others, it allows the hosting company to meter email and present a single set of credentials to foreign (offsite) mail servers. And in general, most hosting companies provide you with the location of the local MTA, in case you need it for Perl, Python, cron or other scripts. And PHP's mail() function will, by default, pass email to that local MTA. And moreover, most (all?) Linux MTAs on boxes like this don't block while they make connections. From the OP's description, it sounded like his phpmailer() process was blocking while it made foreign connections. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Do you use a public framework or roll your own?
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 04:17:26PM -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: snip And for those interested, here are the results of the last poll: To add the final ? in PHP or not... http://www.rapidpoll.net/show.aspx?id=arc1opy I'm relieved to know I'm in the majority (almost 2:1) who close their opening PHP tags. :) Gosh, I can't believe so many people could be so *wrong*. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Do you use a public framework or roll your own?
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 04:17:26PM -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: I'm not looking to start a holy war here or re-hash the tired debate. I just want some hard cold numbers to look at. Do you use a public framework or roll your own? http://www.rapidpoll.net/8opnt1e I voted, but like others, my framework is more a collection of home grown tools which seem to have generic applicability. Some of this may be because I worked for many years in construction. You get used to certain tools and the way they operate, and you prefer them. For example, I won't use screwdrivers whose handles aren't covered with rubber over the plastic of the handles (Stanley and Klein brands). What I like about programming is that you get to build your own tools, just the way you like them. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Magic Methods not working
I have a class which instantiates other classes, and has a magic method
like this:
function _get($classname)
{
return $this-instantiate($classname);
}
Obviously, the class also has an instantiate method which does what it
says.
Here's the problem: When I call the instantiate method, it works fine,
like this:
$db = $sc-instantiate('database');
But when I do the following, it *doesn't* work:
$db = $sc-database;
In fact it does not call the instantiate() method; I've placed a print
statement in the instantiate() method which fires at then end of the
routine. That statement doesn't fire with the above code.
The docs on magic methods are pretty slim, so I'm not sure what it is
I'm missing. Can someone enlighten me?
Paul
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Re: [PHP] Magic Methods not working
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:19:34AM +0800, Eric Lee wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com
wrote:
I have a class which instantiates other classes, and has a magic method
like this:
function _get($classname)
{
return $this-instantiate($classname);
}
Obviously, the class also has an instantiate method which does what it
says.
Here's the problem: When I call the instantiate method, it works fine,
like this:
$db = $sc-instantiate('database');
But when I do the following, it *doesn't* work:
$db = $sc-database;
In fact it does not call the instantiate() method; I've placed a print
statement in the instantiate() method which fires at then end of the
routine. That statement doesn't fire with the above code.
The docs on magic methods are pretty slim, so I'm not sure what it is
I'm missing. Can someone enlighten me?
Paul
Paul,
I seem that you should missed the required underscore _
It should the __get() but not _get().
Shall this help ?
Great Caesar's Ghost! You're right! Thanks.
Paul
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Re: [PHP] Reliable way to identify Ogg types?
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:23:24PM -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: When I use fileinfo on an uploaded Ogg file, the mime it returns is Application/Ogg which is almost useless. Is there a reliable php way, preferably without needing to execute shell commands, to positively identify a file as Ogg Theora or Ogg Vorbis? Judging by the return, the OS is looking at the mime.types file, which (on my box at least) doesn't know anything more than this. In order to get what you want, I'm afraid you might have to open the file and examine its first few bytes using the data from /usr/share/file/magic, which has a more thoroughgoing understanding of ogg files. Unless someone's built a class which does this for you. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Magic Methods not working
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:21:34PM -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote:
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From: Paul M Foster [mailto:pa...@quillandmouse.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 7:05 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] Magic Methods not working
I have a class which instantiates other classes, and has a
magic method
like this:
function _get($classname)
{
return $this-instantiate($classname);
}
Obviously, the class also has an instantiate method which does what it
says.
Here's the problem: When I call the instantiate method, it works fine,
like this:
$db = $sc-instantiate('database');
But when I do the following, it *doesn't* work:
$db = $sc-database;
In fact it does not call the instantiate() method; I've placed a print
statement in the instantiate() method which fires at then end of the
routine. That statement doesn't fire with the above code.
The docs on magic methods are pretty slim, so I'm not sure what it is
I'm missing. Can someone enlighten me?
Paul
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.magic.php
There are TWO underscores needed, not one.
__get()
Also, just to save you some time/grief, you might consider using my awesome
routines:
Put these in your base.class.php and extend it for all other classes.
Magic.
Oh no. I can't use those. The braces are in all the wrong places! (All
praise be to KR...) ;-}
Paul
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Re: [PHP] If the first four characters are 0000, then do {}
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:36:50PM -0500, John Taylor-Johnston wrote:
I am reading the manual: http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php
$mydata-restored = -00-00;
How do I express this? If the first four characters are , then do {}
What I am looking for is in strpos(), no?
if ()
{
}
From what I understand, strpos() faster than a lot of other similar
string functions and much faster than regexps. You could do:
if (strpos($mydata-restored, '') === 0) {
do_stuff();
}
Paul
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Re: [PHP] In need of better __FILE__, __LINE__ and __FUNCTION__ magic variables
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:59:43PM -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: Daevid Vincent wrote: Like you, I have many little functions that are useful for debugging in a page. The problem is that when you start to pepper them around, whilst debugging, you can often times forget where you left them. A search isn't always helpful since I sometimes leave them in the code, but commented out, so I end up finding dozens of matches. What I need are some variables that tell me the current calling file, line and function I'm in. Then when I see some debug info on the screen, I know exactly where it came from. Use debug_backtrace() to capture the information from within the print_debug() or other deeper function. Just grab the second (or further) stack item that corresponds to the location where print_debug() was called. +1 Or you can use debug_print_backtrace(), which directly outputs the backtrace. I do this when my error handler encounters E_USER_ERROR and the like. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Speed of sending email .. can I put them in a queue rather than wait?
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 02:02:18PM +1000, Angus Mann wrote: Hi all. I'm currently using the phpmailer class from phpmailer.worxware.com to send datatbase -populated emails to clients. At the moment I'm runninng PHP on Windows and using the built-in sendmail equivalent packaged with XAMPP. It uses a remote SMTP that authenticates by prior logging into a POP account. The number of emails sent is very small. Each one is only sent after a user fills out a form and presses send. But there is a noticable lag of about 5 or sometimes 10 seconds after pressing send before the user sees the Mail sent page. I presume the reason for the lag is the time spent logging on and off a remote POP, then SMTP server, transferring the data etc. It would be better if this happened in the background - that is, the user could get on with doing his next task while the emails sat in a queue in the backgorund, being lined up and sent without PHP waiting for the process to finish. Can anybody recommend a good way of doing this? Is Mercury Mail going to help me here? If this were me, I'd set up a mailserver on the web machine and send mail to it instead of using phpmailer to connect directly to a distant mailserver. The authentication between phpmailer and the local mailserver should be near instantaneous, and you can let the local mailserver deal with transferring mails in its own sweet time. I don't know if there's a mailserver included in XAMPP installations, but if so, I'd do that. In fact, if you're just sending simple emails, you could use PHP's built-in mail() function, which will connect directly to the local mailserver without further configuration. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] SQL question
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:54:40PM -0600, Skip Evans wrote: Hey all, I have an SQL query that's stumping me. I have two date variables, $start and $end that are in mm/dd/ format and two database fields, start_date and no_donations. The start date is mm/dd/ format and no_donations is an integer that represents the number of months from start_date that donations will be made. So if start date is say 02/01/2010 and no_dations is 4 then donations will be made four times from the start date for four months. What I need to do is come up with a query that will determine if the start_date + no_donations falls within $start and $end. But I'm pretty stumped. How can I convert start_date + no_donations in the database to the date when the last donation will take place so I'll now if the donations fall between $start and $end? Any suggestions would be very help and appreciated, If there's a way to do this in SQL itself, I don't know what it is. But in my opinion, you need a date class which can do date comparisons. (If you end up programming one yourself, save yourself some time and convert all dates to Julian day numbers internally. This saves massive amounts of computation in determining intervals and durations. Typically, coders try to store dates in unix timestamps internally, and then add 86400 seconds for every day to calculate intervals and such. This is often inaccurate. Julian days are far more accurate.) Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] If the first four characters are 0000, then do {}
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 08:12:43PM -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Paul M Foster [mailto:pa...@quillandmouse.com]
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 8:05 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] If the first four characters are , then do {}
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:36:50PM -0500, John Taylor-Johnston wrote:
I am reading the manual: http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php
$mydata-restored = -00-00;
How do I express this? If the first four characters are
, then do {}
What I am looking for is in strpos(), no?
if ()
{
}
From what I understand, strpos() faster than a lot of other similar
string functions and much faster than regexps. You could do:
if (strpos($mydata-restored, '') === 0) {
do_stuff();
}
Ah. Clever use of the == 0 (tripple equals not necessary).
No, the === was purposeful, since strpos can return false if there's no
match. If you simply use == 0, it will trigger on both false, and the
0 index. If you use !== false, you're only testing for no match.
Paul
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Re: [PHP] Object Oriented Programming question
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 typed language like PHP that advantages of polymorphism far outweigh any potential disadvantages, especially where virtual functions are concerned. My viewpoint may be jaundiced from having programmed in C++, but the polymorphism of PHP seems a little crippled by comparison. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Object Oriented Programming question
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 agile programmer and that doesn't lend itself well to OOP, IMO. This is a fascinating viewpoint. It's almost a sideways condemnation of OOP: It takes too long to write OOP for customers. (I know that's not how you meant it.) But I have to agree, with one proviso. I tend to write mostly procedural for clients because of time constraints. But I believe part of the reason I do this is because I haven't built generic OO components ahead of time which lend themselves to being used on client sites. If I had spent the considerable time to build OO components which were usable in this context, I'd be happy to use them. OTOH, MVC (OOP on steroids) is just beyond reasonable in most cases for client sites. I will also echo that it takes a lot of time/work to correctly build OO components, compared to straight functions or function libraries. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Open Source CMS
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 - Tomato CMS - modx - xoops - Symphony Add CodeIgniter to your list. Relatively easy to understand and extend. Though I'm not sure I'd classify it as a content management system. (Same for Symfony.) Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Open Source CMS
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 name, and the 'footer_navigation' are also a
different category. All links on this page are generated from the Links
table, and each row has 90% of the properties the HTML 'a' tag can have (eg.
fields: id, link_text, href, target, onmouseover, onmouseout, onclick, name,
class, etc.). The class is the same as the category.
The content is pulled from an include file with the same ID number as this
page (home page), which is 1, and the scripts.
There are additional features, like a theme class which pulls a theme ID
from the DB (a `site_settings` table).
Here is an example of the source code for the above link:
You're free to do this as you like, and I've done it in the past just as
you did. But I think the general concensus is that you want to
intersperse as little complicated PHP inside your HTML as possible. For
example, you're doing a database call inside your HTML and then
displaying the results. The more acceptable practice is to make these
calls before you start outputting HTML, shove the values into variables
or an array, and then just loop through the *values* inside your HTML.
There are a couple of reasons for doing it this way. First, anyone
looking at the HTML later who isn't a programmer will have an easier
time of it if there aren't lines and lines of PHP code inside the HTML.
Second, it makes your code more modular. That is, it puts your main
body of PHP code all together. That aids in debugging, testing and the
like later. This approach means your code is dispersed among several
files instead of just one. But it aids in debugging. I find it painful
to have to scan through HTML for PHP code, so I can fix a problem.
You'll also find that if you have a variety of pages which are all laid
out the same way, it's better to put that HTML in a separate template
file. Insert some code in it to display values as needed. Then when you
want to paint a page, simply define the values you want to display, and
include('template.php');
This way, if you make a change to the design or look of the site, you
can make that change to one (template) file and it will echo all over
the site. This is particularly important if you're working with
designers who don't know HTML but do the work of designing pages.
This is just simple advice based on my experience. Feel free to ignore
it completely if you work better a different way.
Paul
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Re: [PHP] header(Location:...) fails
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:39:18AM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
Here is a snippet of code that is going to be the death of me:
// Create a new project
$projectcode = strtoupper(addslashes($_POST['projectcode'])); // project
code
// Make sure the project code is unique
if (!$existingproject = mysql_query(select * from pb_versions where
projectcode like '.strtoupper($projectcode).')) {
die (Could not check for existing project code!br /.mysql_error());
}
$numprojects = mysql_num_rows($existingproject);
if ($numprojects 0) {
$pid = mysql_result($existingproject,0,versionID);
header(Location:managebudget.php?e=1pid=$pid);
}
Now, even if $numprojects is 1, 2, 3, etc., the header() command is not
executed. Strangely, a header(Location) command later on in the script
*is* executed. I've output the value of $numprojects, so I know that it's
greater than 0, so the command
header(Location:managebudget.php?e=1pid=$pid); *should* be executed...
but it isn't. (Weirdly, if I put a die() command *after* this header()
command, it works... but it seems pathologically inelegant to do so.)
Obviously, I'm missing something incredibly basic. Can anyone help me figure
this out?
For one thing, I'd put a space after Location: in the header() call.
But I've found that this call will sometimes fail (or *look* like it
fails) unless you put something like exit(); after it. This terminates
execution and forces the script to transfer control as it should. Just
make it a habit to always include and exit(); call after your final
header() call.
Paul
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Re: [PHP] php and XML BibTeX
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:45:53PM -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: Hi - Currently on my web site, book and article references are just stored in the database. While it works, I actually would like to move that out of the database and to an XML file, the reason being is that if/when I need to add fields etc. to the referenced sources, it's a lot easier to just edit a text file than modify database and recode my form interface for modifying the database. Also, there's an existing XML format for bibTeX and there already are tools to go from that to real bibTex, which I may need to do at some point. What I'm hoping is that already exists some php classes / functions for dealing with the XML bibTeX but I haven't found them. Anyone know of any? I don't know, but the first place I look for things like that is phpclasses.org. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] POLL: To add the final ? or not...
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:24:06PM +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 12:22 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: LinuxManMikeC wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Daevid Vincent dae...@daevid.com wrote: I'm having a debate with a co-worker about adding the final ? on a PHP page... So everybody, when do we get to the real discussion? Which end of an egg do we break? Depends upon how far away the Perl developer is when we throw it, and how much spin we put on it. You'll want to know initial release speed and drag on the egg while in flight to calculate time so you can correctly determine how many spins occur over the throw distance. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP There's always a chance that if thrown, the egg won't contact end-on. Has anyone thought to factor this in? Is that an African or European egg? Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] POLL: To add the final ? or not...
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 06:08:59PM +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 13:10 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:24:06PM +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: snip There's always a chance that if thrown, the egg won't contact end-on. Has anyone thought to factor this in? Is that an African or European egg? Paul -- Paul M. Foster Hehe, a fan of Monty Python I see! Heck yeah. I can even program in their language a little bit! Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 02:55:33PM -0500, Rick Dwyer wrote: I have been asked to further modify the value to the nearest half cent. So if the 3rd decimal spot ends in 1 or 2, it gets rounded down to 0 If it ends in 3, 4, 5, 6 it gets rounded to 5. And if it 7, 8 or 9 it gets rounded up to full cents. Can this be done fairly easily? Not knowing PHP well, I am not aware of the logic to configure this accordingly. Yes, this can be done, but you'll need to write a function to do it yourself. I'd also suggest you look into the BCMath functions, at: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/book.bc.php Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:56:03PM -0500, tedd wrote: --Rick: The above described rounding algorithm introduces more bias than simply using PHP's round() function, which always rounds down. IMO, modifying rounding is not worth the effort. The best rounding algorithm is to look at the last digit and do this: 0 -- no rounding needed. 1-4 round down. 6-9 round up. In the case of 5, then look to the number that precedes it -- if it is even, then round up and if it is odd, then round down -- or vise versa, it doesn't make any difference as long as you are consistent. Here are some examples: 122.4 -- round down (122) 122.6 -- round up (123) 122.5 -- round up (123) 123.4 -- round down (123) 123.6 -- round up (124) 123.5 -- round down (123) There are people who claim that there's no difference, or are at odds with this method, but they simply have not investigated the problem sufficiently to see the bias that rounding up/down causes. However, that difference is very insignificant and can only be seen after tens of thousands iterations. PHP's rounding function is quite sufficient. This is called (among other things) banker's rounding. But PHP's round() function won't do banker's rounding, as far as I know. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] corect way to use mail() function
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:17:30PM -0600, LAMP wrote: Hi, The company I work for, hosts online events registration applications. After a registered registered himself for an event he will get a confirmation email saying he registered successfully. Currently, in the header part of the mail(), in From it says e.g. ord...@computility.com - because the email comes from us not from our client (e.g. ABC Assoc.). Reply-to goes to us too. Now one of our clients (e.g. ABC Assoc.) asks us to put in the from field their email, to looks like the email comes from them. something like: From: ABC Assoc. eve...@abcaccos.org; I refused to do that concerned we are going to be blacklisted for sending spam. Because header shows one place and From field says other email address - spam way of sending emails. Am I right or it really doesn't matter who sent the email? Since the mail() function doesn't have a parameter for the From:, how do you force it to be a certain thing in the first place? Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] POLL: To add the final ? or not...
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 06:41:19AM -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: Daevid Vincent wrote: What do you guys all do? I leave it off. I don't want to have to worry about which editor I'm using or whether I accidentally left some whitespace where it shouldn't be. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Form validation and save the form
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:37:06PM -0600, aditya shukla wrote:
Hello Guys,
I am trying to validate a form for user input , such that when something is
missing load the form again by focusing on the wrong field.Say i don not
enter my address so when the form loads everything else is saved and the
form points to address field.
Typically, you would direct the form back to itself. Then at the top of
the form, you'd put a test to determine if the form has been processed
before or if this is the first time through. Then you make your decision
about missed fields, etc. Like this:
== someform.php ==
?php
if (empty($_POST)) {
load_some_values_or_not();
}
else { // form has entered data
$okay = process_for_errors();
if ($okay) {
store_the_data();
header(Location: success.php);
exit();
}
}
?
HTML crap goes here...
== end of someform.php ==
You'll notice that if there are entry errors, execution falls through.
In that case, you'll need to do something like this for fields:
input type=text name=pizza value=?php echo $_POST['pizza']; ?/
so that the entered data shows up in the fields. First time through, the
value attribute will yield nothing.
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Re: [PHP] Happy New Year All!
Bipper Goes! wrote:
return ThankYou;
Oh god I think I blowed it up.
I prefer:
?php
while(date('Y') 2010) ;
exit (' Happy New Year');
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Re: [PHP] Happy New Year All!
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Re: [PHP] If design patterns are not supposed to produce reusable code then why use them?
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 04:50:40PM -, Tony Marston wrote: I have recently been engaged in an argument via email with someone who criticises my low opinion of design patterns (refer to http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/design-patterns.html ). He says that design patterns are merely a convention and not a reusable component. My argument is that something called a pattern is supposed to have a recurring theme, some element of reusability, so that all subsequent implementations of a pattern should require less effort than the first implementation. If design patterns do not provide any reusable code then what is the point of using them? There's a weird terminology problem here. A design pattern is just an idea. Once you implement it, it can become a source of reusable code. I do not use design patterns as I consider them to be the wrong level of abstraction. I am in the business of designing and developing entire applications which comprise of numerous application transactions, so I much prefer to use transaction patterns (refer to http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/design-patterns-are-dead.html and http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/transaction-patterns.html ) as these provide large amounts of reusable code and are therefore a significant aid to programmer productivity. What is your opinion? Are design patterns supposed to provide reusable code or not? If not, and each implementation of a pattern takes just as much time as the first, then where are the productivity gains from using design patterns? It depends on how you implement it. You can prevent it from being reusable by implementing it in such a way that there's just no way to adapt it to different circumstances. But for the most part, it's like any other code you expect to reuse, whether it's just a function, a plain class or whatever. If you implement it properly, it will be reusable elsewhere. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] MySQL Appeal from Monty
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:03:23PM +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: snip I've always been led to believe that you go with MySQL if you want speed, Oracle if you want data integrity. I know they both handle each one admirably, but Oracle is known more for guarding the data against mishaps and MySQL is known more for performance. PostgreSQL generally matches MySQL in performance, and maintains referential integrity (foreign keys and such) without the need for multiple backend storage engines. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] I have not seen any messages for a couple of days...
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 08:01:51PM +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: Ashley Sheridan schreef: On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:26 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: snip Telepathic email servers? I've heard they're becoming more popular these days. no, your confused with that other list php-psychics. :-) (STA) I thought that list was swallowed by a .Net black hole? ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] can't retrieve more than 1 record at the time
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:39:55AM -0800, Catherine Madsen wrote:
Hi,
I'm really in need of help. I'm not a PHP programmer, but I've been
given the privilege of customizing a script written by somebody else and
can't get it to work right. I have to query 2 different tables in 2
different Oracle 10G DBs, one's mine (my_schema.my_table), the other
(otherdb.other_table) belongs to another department. In my_table, I
have the doc_id and the app_id for a record. In other_table there's the
doc_id and pdf to retrieve. The goal is to make a PDF file from each
BLOB in other_table and store them in the right directory under
hash(app_id). PDO has been installed and working, and I can connect to
both DBs without a problem. If my query limits the retrieval to one
record, the script works, but if I try to run it for all records, one
pdf file is correctly created in the right directory then I get the
following error: PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch() on
a non-object in /my_location/my_script.php on line 154. It the while
($stmt-fetch(PDO::FETCH_BOUND)) line. I've pasted my script below. I
thought my problem was that maybe I was in the wrong directory after
creation of the first pdf, but several tries changing the directory
didn't make a difference. Right now, I'm running the script at the
command line. Soon I'm going to have a few hundred records to deal with
and cannot do it one by one! Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thank you!
snip
if (!(chdir($curdir)))
{
$_SESSION['msgs'][] = 'Could not change to '.$curdir;
continue;
}
$cnt = 0;
while ($stmt-fetch(PDO::FETCH_BOUND))
{
$filename = 'phs-'.$cnt.'.pdf';
if (!file_exists($filename))
{ /* if file not already there, write file with BLOB contents */
$fh = fopen($filename, 'w');
fwrite($fh, stream_get_contents($PDF));
fclose($fh);
/* add to $_SESSION['PHPulled'] for each new file saved */
$_SESSION['PHPulled'] = $_SESSION['PHPulled'] + 1;
}
Judging by your indentation you probably want a closing brace here. As
it is, your while statement won't end until the final closing brace,
which includes the $stmt = NULL; statement. Nulling this variable in
the middle of the while loop will cause it to execute once only and
cause the error message you're seeing.
/* increment stack counter */
$_SESSION['numberCand'] = $_SESSION['numberCand'] + 1;
$stmt = NULL; /* release the connection */
/*if not done with stack, redirect to self to get next*/
if (!empty($_SESSION['DOCIDs']) and
$_SESSION['numberCand'] count($_SESSION['DOCIDs']))
{
exit;
}
}
}
/* once done, go back to display search page after clearing stack
if(isset($_SESSION['DOCIDs']))
unset($_SESSION['DOCIDs'] );*/
$res = null;
$dbh1 = null;
Paul
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Re: [PHP] cookies and carts
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:39:28PM -0800, Allen McCabe wrote: I have a shopping cart type system set up which keeps track of the cart contents using a SESSION variable, where $_SESSION['cart'][$item_id'] is equal to the quantity, so the name/value pair is all the information I need. But sessions are unreliable on the free server I am currently using for this website (not my choice), so I had start using cookies because users were being sporadically logged out, sometimes just on a page refresh. I want to find a way to set a cookie to remember the cart items as well, and I thought setting a cookie for each item/quantity pair was the way to go until I started trying to figure out how to unset all those cookies if the user empties their cart. Is there any way to set cookies with an array for the name? Intead of $_COOKIE['item_number'] have $_COOKIE['cart']['item_number'] like I have the SESSION? First, don't use multiple cookies; already covered elsewhere. Second, you can serialize/unserialize array data and store it compactly in a cookie. See the serialize() and unserialize() functions on php.net. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] dbase_get_record_with_names; Very slow search!!!
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:40:09AM -0500, Rahul S. Johari wrote:
Ave,
I'm connecting to a foxpro database (dbase) and simply running a
search to retrieve a record. It's a very simple code.
The problem is, as the database is growing, the search is becoming
ridiculously slow ... and I mean it's taking minutes. When the dbase
had 10,000 records ... search was fast efficient ... as if you were
connecting to a mySQL Database. Now that the database has over 75,000
records and still growing ... it's taking minutes to search.
The database has about 35 fields; Search is based on a phone number.
This is the code ...
?php
#Open DBF
$db = dbase_open(dbase.dbf, 0);
#PULL UP RECORD
if ($db) {
$record_numbers = dbase_numrecords($db);
for ($i = 1; $i = $record_numbers; $i++) {
$row = dbase_get_record_with_names($db, $i);
if ($row['PHONE'] == $_POST['PHONE']) {
#Retrieve row display fields
echo $row['STUFF'];
}
}
}
?
It works ... but it's getting way too slow.
One thing with FoxPro DBF's is that they use an Index file for
searches within FoxPro. These are .CDX files which contain the Index.
You can create an Index on, for example, PHONE field. However I don't
think there's any way in PHP to reference this Index file for faster
searches.
Is there any possibility to improve search response time?
Check the PHP routines you use to access your xBase files. If none of
them mention indexes, I think you'll find that the PHP xBase drivers do
not *use* them. One problem is that dBase uses .ndx indexes, FoxPro uses
.cdx indexes, and others use .ntx files. xBase drivers are written for
the file format itself, not for the multiple kinds of indexes. Moreover,
without selecting the specific index tag, your search won't go any
faster as a result of the index.
I suspect the bottleneck is in the way the drivers access the file.
xBase is a fixed length record format with a variable length header, so
it's pretty simple and fast to pull up successive records.
I wrote a C program many years ago to access xBase files:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbfsak
Unfortunately, it's not possible with this program to access individual
fields by name.
Paul
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Re: [PHP] processing html forms and keeping the values
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 06:14:01PM +0100, Merlin Morgenstern wrote:
Hi there,
I am trying to redirect a user back to a html form if a validation
failes. The form shoult then hold all entered values. So far I did this
over $_GET, but there is a 100 Character limitation. How could I do this
while keeping all characters?
Thank you for any hint,
*Don't* use GET for this.
Here's the typical way this is done:
If the name of the file is myfile.php, then in the file do this:
form action=myfile.php action=post
This makes the form return to itself when the user hits the Submit
button. Above the actual HTML part of the form, put a check to determine
if the form has been filled in, like this:
if (!empty($_POST)) {
// Form was filled in
do_validation();
if (! $valid) {
$_SESSION['myform'] = $_POST;
}
}
else {
show_the_file_for_the_first_time();
}
In the do_validation() step, you validate the form. If there is a
problem and you want to re-show the form, you would typically do this
for each field:
input type=text name=first_field value=?php echo
$_SESSION['myform']['first_field']; ? ?
In other words, you store the form values in the $_SESSION array.
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Re: [PHP] dbase_get_record_with_names; Very slow search!!!
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:59:35PM -0500, Rahul S. Johari wrote: Well I use mySQL on my Mac for all my other database work. This particular database is natively produced in FoxPro as that is what our Company uses. My website offers some of our clients this data (stored in FoxPro DBF's) using PHP which is running on an Apache Web Server on Mac OS X. I am looking into the option of importing the DBF records in my mySQL Server on my Mac. The one issue that's coming to my mind is ... the DBF is updated daily. An End-Of-Day program run at night updates the FoxPro DBF. I can write a program in PHP to import the DBF Records -- mySQL ... however, I'm going to need to somehow Automate this procedure so that it runs automatically every nigh (or early morning) ... and also such that only NEWER records are imported from the DBF -- mySQL. Sounds a bit rough ... but seems to be a plausible solution. The program I mentioned earlier: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbfsak is designed to dump out the contents of a DBF into a form that can be imported into MySQL or PostgreSQL. That's part of what I use it for. (No, I don't make any money off the program. I wrote it for my own use and put it up on sourceforge years ago in case someone could use it.) Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Noob question: Making search results clickable.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:53:55PM +0100, Nisse Engström wrote:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:31:59 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote:
Replace your query with:
SELECT title, id FROM videos WHERE topid1 = '$topic'
or whatever index you have to select a particular video from your table.
Replace your echo statement above with:
echo a href=video_display.php?video_id=$row[id]$row[title]/a;
Without actually checking, I don't think $row[...]
is going to work in double quoted strings. I'm pretty
sure it needs to be in braces. You also need to escape
the double quotes and put the array indexes in single
quotes:
echo a
href=\video_display.php?video_id={$row['id']}\{$row['title']}/a;
Ahem. You are correct. I should have escaped the double quotes. I've
*never* made this kind of mistake before. ;-}
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Re: [PHP] Noob question: Making search results clickable.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:07:42PM +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 10:09 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: snip Ahem. You are correct. I should have escaped the double quotes. I've *never* made this kind of mistake before. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster Gonna go to PHP hell for that faux pas! PHP Hell Characteristics: Endless pages of code *you* have to make work. Tons of PHP code embedded in HTML. Not an MVC in sight. Everything is full of misquoted variables. All variables are *slightly* misspelled. Every PHP page terminated with ? and then a couple more CRLF combinations, just to make sure you can't figure out why your pages won't display. No security checking of any POST or GET variables. In fact, all input is guaranteed to contain javascript fragments. Parameters in all PHP function calls are out of order. No access to php.net. And no XKCD.com. No caffeine. No nicotine. No pizza. The phone won't quit ringing, and you can't disconnect it. It's always customers asking for senseless and nonsensical modifications. If you're a vim user, you're forced to use emacs. If you're an emacs user, you have to use vim. And if you use an IDE, you're stuck with Microsoft Word. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] dynamic meta tag and title app?
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 01:09:48PM -0500, tedd wrote: At 10:48 AM -0500 11/19/09, Jack S wrote: Hi Todd, This looks like a good starting point for me. I was going to use $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; but I think ($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']); in your example will always return just the script info and not additionally passed information, which will save me trouble shooting later! Thanks!!! No problem -- and I can see that you might have problems keypunching considering that my name is tedd and not todd. :-) I think the real question is what did you do with todd? Are those his feet sticking out from behind that cabinet over there? Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Noob question: Making search results clickable.
Hi all
I'm building a fairly basic php/mySql site but I'm running into
problems due to my total lack of experience. I have a database of
videos - each has a title, transcript, description and one or more
topics. So far I can search the database by topic (using a drop-down
menu), like this:
?php
$result = mysql_query(SELECT title FROM videos WHERE topic1= '$topic');
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo $row['title'];
echo br /;
}
?
Basic, but it works. What I'd like now is to make the search results
clickable so clicking them leads to a page showing all the details of
that video. I have a page video_display.php set up, ready to display
the details from the database, but how do I connect the two?
Thanks in advance
Paul
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Re: [PHP] Noob question: Making search results clickable.
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 03:04:13PM +, Paul Jinks wrote:
Hi all
I'm building a fairly basic php/mySql site but I'm running into
problems due to my total lack of experience. I have a database of
videos - each has a title, transcript, description and one or more
topics. So far I can search the database by topic (using a drop-down
menu), like this:
?php
$result = mysql_query(SELECT title FROM videos WHERE topic1= '$topic');
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo $row['title'];
echo br /;
}
?
Basic, but it works. What I'd like now is to make the search results
clickable so clicking them leads to a page showing all the details of
that video. I have a page video_display.php set up, ready to display
the details from the database, but how do I connect the two?
Replace your query with:
SELECT title, id FROM videos WHERE topid1 = '$topic'
or whatever index you have to select a particular video from your table.
Replace your echo statement above with:
echo a href=video_display.php?video_id=$row[id]$row[title]/a;
Then ensure that video_display.php is set up to fetch the video whose ID
is passed to it via the GET parameter.
All this assumes I understood what you're getting at. Which is
questionable. ;-}
Paul
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Re: [PHP] Shoutbox suggestion needed
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 02:46:45PM +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: I don't know of anything you can use like this, especially that runs purely on Ajax. Just take a look at Facebook chat. That's Ajax, and fails and falls over on a constant basis to the point where it is almost useless. Imho, Java seems to be pretty good at this sort of thing, and there are plenty of free options out there that you could use. It's often been argued back and forth whether people have Javascript turned off. I suspect the vast majority of people have Javascript turned on. However, Java is another story. You may find that many more have it turned off. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Convert deprecated POSIX functions into wrappers for equivalent PCRE functions
On 11/9/09 8:56 AM, Tony Marston t...@marston-home.demon.co.uk wrote: I have tried subscribing to the internals list, but none of my postings ever appears. That's unfortunate as you missed this thread: http://marc.info/?t=12553625831r=1w=2 Paul -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Convert deprecated POSIX functions into wrappers for equivalent PCRE functions
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 06:30:37PM -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: Also, why support two libraries for which one is obviously inferior in speed and functionality? Because Tony's Radicore framework has a bunch of ereg* calls in it. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: UrlRewrite htaccess confusion
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:26:10PM -0500, Shawn McKenzie wrote: Rob Gould wrote: You are indeed correct! Absolute URLs for everything, images, css, javascript, and links fixed the issue. Took me forever to change every link in the whole site, but it's happy now. Seems like there ought to be an easier way. There is an easier way. The logic depends upon your app, but create a function that builds and optionally echos URLs for you. It can work out the base url or you can do that when you initialize your app and define it as a constant. It can be as simple or as complex as you need. a href=?php makelink($file, $arrayOfVars); ?Something/a -- or -- echo 'a href=' . makelink($file, $arrayOfVars) . 'Something/a'; +1 I initialize a links class from the config, and then use it to serve up link text and URLs depending on the parameters I give it. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Create a screenshot of a website
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 05:49:43PM -0200, Manuel Lemos wrote: Hello, on 10/28/2009 05:24 PM Robert Cummings said the following: I want to be able to get a screenshot of a given website on the fly. Can you give me any suggestions. If you are still looking at solutions for this problem, here you can find a solution that works on Windows: http://www.phpclasses.org/win-screenshot Here is another that works on Linux and any platform that supports PHP-Gtk: http://www.phpclasses.org/gtkmozembed-shot It hurts my eyes to go on the phpclasses website. It's like someone vomited tabs and links :| I have no clue why you felt the need to be so aggressive. Anyway, if you are that sensitive to design issues, why don't you participate in the contest to propose a better design instead of just complaining against the work that others do to help the PHP community? You can earn prizes and start helping instead of just putting down what others do. http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/104-Submit-your-site-redesign-proposal-for-the-contest.html Here's a free suggestion. You don't even have to give me a prize. You know those random words which are underlined on that page, and when you mouse over them, you get the random advertisement on a completely unrelated subject, which also emits a *sound* on my computer? Get rid of them completely. They are beyond annoying. I get that you need to make money with this site, but those obnoxious ads are the exact opposite wrong way to do it. Also, while I wouldn't have expressed it quite as crassly as Robert, I have to agree on his evaluation of the site's look. I have a logon on your site and have been to it many times. I just figured you liked it like that. But in truth, it needs a serious and complete makeover. But like Robert, I have no end of things to take care of, quite outside of redisigning phpclasses.net. I'd suggest you scrap the contest and go find a good free CSS template. But that's just me. And just for the record, I'm really not ragging on you. PHPClasses.net is the only site of its kind I know of. There is an endless variety of code for almost anything you could want to do in PHP. That's why I maintain a login there. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] What is the best practice for adding persistence to an MVC model?
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:27:07PM +1100, Eric Bauman wrote: I'm in the process of implementing an ultra-light MVC framework in PHP. It seems to be a common opinion that the loading of data from a database, file etc. should be independent of the Model, and I agree. What I'm unsure of is the best way to link this data layer into MVC. I disagree. There should be database class(es) which know how to deal with the datastore(s). This may be as simple as a thin layer over the PDO classes. The model talks to and uses the database class, and is the only component which deals with the database class. The model serves up whatever data the controller needs to feed to the view. All are welcome to disagree. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] What is the best practice for adding persistence to an MVC model?
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 04:11:32PM +, David Otton wrote: 2009/10/27 Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:27:07PM +1100, Eric Bauman wrote: I'm in the process of implementing an ultra-light MVC framework in PHP. It seems to be a common opinion that the loading of data from a database, file etc. should be independent of the Model, and I agree. What I'm unsure of is the best way to link this data layer into MVC. I disagree. There should be database class(es) which know how to deal Paul, you already did this in one of Eric's threads a couple of weeks back, and the best you could come up with when pressed was Probably not a great example, but Is it really necessary to rehash this? I don't track threads closely enough to know if it's the same OP on this thread. Apologies if I'm repeating myself. I don't recall anyone disputing my example, nor any effective rebuttal at all. And by the time I finished writing that email, I thought it was a better example than I originally believed. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] regex pattern for extracting URLs
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 01:54:40PM -0400, Brad Fuller wrote: Thanks Ash you are awesome! Brad, you're violating list rules. We never say that kind of thing to Ash *where he can hear it*. Only behind his back. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php mail() function
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 09:11:25PM -0700, James Prentice wrote: I found the mail server for my ISP (shawmail.vc.shawcable.net) and edited main.cf in the following manner: myhostname = shawcable.net relayhost = [shawmail.vc.shawcable.net] I still don't receive the mail from the PHP script though. The error log from /var/log/mail.log is this: Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/pickup[7044]: 6CA44A70109: uid=33 from=www-data Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/cleanup[7107]: 6CA44A70109: message-id=20091024040031.6ca44a70...@shawcable.net Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/qmgr[7045]: 6CA44A70109: from=www-d...@shawcable.net, size=527, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/error[7109]: 6CA44A70109: to=x...@gmail.com, relay=none, delay=0.04, delays=0.03/0/0/0.01, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced ([shawmail.vc.shawcable.net]) Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/cleanup[7107]: 75517A7010A: message-id=20091024040031.75517a70...@shawcable.net Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/bounce[7110]: 6CA44A70109: sender non-delivery notification: 75517A7010A Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/qmgr[7045]: 75517A7010A: from=, size=2219, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/qmgr[7045]: 6CA44A70109: removed Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/error[7109]: 75517A7010A: to=www-d...@shawcable.net, relay=none, delay=0.03, delays=0.02/0/0/0.01, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced ([shawmail.vc.shawcable.net]) Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/qmgr[7045]: 75517A7010A: removed Have I edited main.cf incorrectly, or are there other values that need to be edited? 1. Not sure why you have square brackets around the relayhost value. 2. You're getting a bounce from the ISP's mail server, one indicating it still won't allow relay. 3. I suspect the relayhost name is wrong. This may be the name you find in the mail headers on messages relayed to you, but I doubt it's the one you should use to post to. I could be wrong, though. 4. All due respect to Kranthi, but I believe he's wrong about relaying mail from your webserver to the ISP's mailserver. I believe the ISP's mailserver doesn't care, as long as the mail comes from your pipe. You could probably call yourself pi...@pepperoni.com and your ISP would accept it. It's just the From:. Again, I could be wrong. 5. This would be a lot simpler if you just call Shaw and ask them for the name of the mailserver, and ask them if it's a problem for you to post mail from your internal webserver to their mailserver. Then ask them why such posts might bounce with a 5XX error. Paul Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php mail() function
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:24:14PM -0700, James Prentice wrote: How would I determine my ISP's SMPT server ID? And do I need to edit main.cf in order to use that server? What ID? There's no ID needed. You just configure postfix to relay any non-local mail sent to it to the SMTP server at your ISP. Check the headers in incoming mail sent to you for the name of that server. It's likely the same for both incoming and outgoing mail. Something like mail.myisp.com. One other note. People look at me like I'm crazy when I mention this, but I've seen it quite a bit at various internet mail servers. Sometimes, in order to accept email from you, the internet mail server must see you *receive* mail within a certain time period prior. That is, you have to go fetch your mail at the ISP, which opens a window into the SMTP server for a limited time. Then you can tender mail to the internet mail server. I don't know that your internet mail server operates this way, but it's something to consider. I've had to deal with this before myself. Configuring local SMTP servers, like postfix. Check and see if Ubuntu has some sort of setup utility for this. Or try dpkg-reconfigure postfix Setting up mail servers is tedious and error prone, unless you've done it a lot. Read The Fine Manual on postfix. Also, is there a way to test the script just sending an email locally? I tried sending the email to use...@localhost, but the email was still not received. It will work, assuming three things: 1. You have an actual user set up on the system to receive mail. That is, an actual user on the system, with an entry in the passwd file and a home directory, etc. 2. Postfix is configured to deliver truly local mail to local addresses. More postfix configuration fun. 3. Postfix is actually running and properly configured. If not configured properly, it may refuse to run. In any case, linuxmanmikec's comment about the internet mail server not trusting you on a dynamic IP is spot on. The web of email trust is such that internet mail servers only trust other internet mail servers. And *your* internet mail server will trust *you*. So to get mail to that other internet mail server over there, you'll have to give it to *your* internet mail server, which is the only one that internet mail server over there will trust. The bounce message you got indicates that relaying from you is forbidden at the destination mail server. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php mail() function
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:40:34PM -0500, Shawn McKenzie wrote: snip This is fairly accurate in premise but just to clarify. Mailservers don't operate like this by default and there is really no trust. There are public blacklists that a mailserver can be configured to use that tell the mailserver not to accept mail from servers on the blacklist. The blacklists may contain servers that allow anyone to relay email, compromised servers, servers known for spam, ip ranges known to be held by spammers and *ranges that ISPs designate as dynamic or used for subscribers (DSL, cable, dial-up customers, etc. because they shouldn't be relaying email). Regarding the rejection of dynamic IPs by smarthosts, are you saying that it's a blacklist of sorts that lets them know an IP is dynamic? (Serious question. I don't know the mechanism by which they determine what is and isn't a dynamic IP.) Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Spam opinions please
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 02:31:53PM -0400, Gary wrote:
I have several sites that are getting hit with form spam. I have the script
set up to capture the IP address so I know from where they come. I found a
short script that is supposed to stop these IP addresses from accessing the
form page, it redirects the spammer to another page (I was going to redirect
to a page that has lots of pop-ups, scantily clad men and offers of joy
beyond imagination), but someone suggested I redirect to the Federal Trade
Commission or perhpas the FBI.
Any thoughts on the script and its effectivness?
?php
$deny = array(111.111.111, 222.222.222, 333.333.333);
if (in_array ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $deny)) {
header(location: http://www.google.com/;);
exit();
} ?Gary
Have you tried CAPTCHA?
Paul
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Re: [PHP] ip-to-country
You might find this useful: http://sites.google.com/site/interrupt0x13h/code/ip2c On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:03 PM, SED s...@sed.is wrote: Hi, How can I access an index for IP to a country (or a more detailed location)? I have not yet found a function for that in PHP nor a free to use website that offers a remote search. Perhaps, there is another solution - any ideas? Regards, Summi -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP broadcast mailer
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 01:41:03AM -0400, Brian Hazelton wrote: I am in charge of an email newsletter list and making sure it gets sent out in time. My problem is I have never done broadcast emailing and right now we have 400 subscribers but want to build a system that can scale well regardless of the number of subscribers. Right now I use mysql to store the email and use phpmailer in a loop to send an email to each of the emails in the db, it is already slow with just 400(takes around 10 min (i think that's slow isnt it?). Has anyone built a broadcast email script and willing to help me? Use PHPList. It's free. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Native support to MS SQL Server
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:06:53AM -0400, Bastien Koert wrote: Would this be a good time to troll about the virtues of MySQL over MSSQL? :p Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk It has virtues? Of course not. He actually meant PostgreSQL, which *does* have virtues. (No flames. I'm teasing.) Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] what is php4 popularity?
Hey guys, does anyone have a good link for an article where php4 popularity trends are examined? The best way for me to know php4 % and php5 %. I appreciate any good suggestions. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: what is php4 popularity?
Eric Bauman wrote: On 8/10/2009 4:28 PM, Paul M. wrote: Hey guys, does anyone have a good link for an article where php4 popularity trends are examined? The best way for me to know php4 % and php5 %. I appreciate any good suggestions. Here's a pretty graph comparing PHP version usage and time: http://www.nexen.net/images/stories/phpversion/200810/evolution.milieu.png Source (French): http://www.nexen.net/chiffres_cles/phpversion/ This research is done on October 2008. Does anyone has newer research? And thanks Eric! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Newb question about getting keys/values from a single array element
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 06:08:48PM -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:
I feel like a total newb asking this, but I'm just having a brain fart or
something...
I'm writing a page where I can either get back a list of items:
Array {
[1233] = apple,
[6342] = apricot,
[2345] = banana,
...
}
where the user then refines it by choosing one single item and a single
element array is returned like this:
Array {
[8575] = peach,
}
How can I get this $item so I can print it like so:
echo The ID is $id and the name is $name;
Normally with an array of items, I do a:
foreach ($item as $id = $name) echo...
But that seems overkill for this scenario.
The rub is that I don't know the id, so I can't use $item[0], and I also
don't have something like $item['name'] to use either.
There's got to be an easy way to extract those.
list($id, $name) = $operator;
Felt like it would work for a minute (wishful thinking).
If you don't know the index, then you really have no choice but to
iterate through the POST array (if I understand you correctly). One
problem I see is that you're using an integer for your index. The way I
normally do things like this is to provide a prefix for the index. Like
this:
$items = array('fruit_1233' = 'apple',
'fruit_6342' = 'apricot',
'fruit_2345' = 'banana',
'fruit_8575' = 'peach');
Then, out of all the POST members returned, I can pick out the ones
pertaining to fruit by simply looking for ones which have the 'fruit_'
prefix as their index. It tends to be clunky, but it's the only way I've
found to make it work:
$fruits = get_fruits_from_table();
foreach ($fruits as $key = $value) {
$index = 'fruit_' . $key;
if (isset($_POST[$index])) {
echo The user wants fruit #$key, $value.;
}
}
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Re: [PHP] Insult my code!
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 05:34:35PM +1100, Eric Bauman wrote: Hi there, I'm in the process of trying to wrap my head around MVC, and as part of that, I'm attempting to implement a super-tiny MVC framework. I've created some mockups of how the framework might be used based around a very simple 'bank', but I'm trying to get some feedback before I go and implement it, to make sure I'm actually on the right track. Any thoughts would be much appreciated! Model - http://www.pastebin.cz/23595 Controller - http://www.pastebin.cz/23597 View - http://www.pastebin.cz/23598 Template - http://www.pastebin.cz/23599 Your code (what there is of it) is fine. Beware of people who criticize your code on purely academic criteria. There are a lot of differing opinions about MVC, much of it driven by people making academic points versus people who actually code for a living. Even some people who actually code for a living fall under the spell of academic rules about this or that. The real key is, does it work, and can it be maintained. If so, don't worry about people who argue esoteric points about what should or shouldn't be in models and controllers, etc. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Apache Rewrite Issues
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:52:00AM +0100, Russell Seymour wrote: Morning, I am trying to make my URLs more search engine friendly and I have come up against a problem. I want the following URL: mysite.example.com/articles/Test Story to be proxied to mysite.example.com/index.php?m=articlest=Test%20Story Aside from the solution to your problem (which I don't have), you might want to double-check on the search engine friendliness of URLs which contain query strings. I know at one time this was the case, but the latest I've heard is that URLs like your second one above are completely okay with search engines. If someone else knows different, please speak up. And oh by the way, don't *ever* store a filename with a space in it on your computer. It's Evil(tm). I curse the idiot who first came up with allowing this in filenames. I have a special voodoo doll just for that person, when I find them. As you can see, it causes all manner of odd problems, no matter what OS it's on. (My local LUG list is periodically hit with messages from people trying to overcome the problems attendant to this habit.) Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Insult my code!
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 09:09:29PM +0100, David Otton wrote: 2009/10/7 Eric Bauman baum...@livejournal.dk: On 7/10/2009 7:25 PM, David Otton wrote: 2009/10/7 Eric Baumanbaum...@livejournal.dk: Any thoughts would be much appreciated! One observation. Model isn't a synonym for Database Table - models can be anything that encapsulates business logic. Requiring all your models to inherit from Model is probably a bad idea. Thank-you for responding. Out of curiosity, why is this a bad idea? Is it also bad for views controllers? Well, the way MVC has traditionally been approached is that the VC bit is a thin interface skin, concerned with I/O, while the M is the bulk of the program - the bit that does the heavy lifting. (You'll often hear this called Fat Model, Skinny Controller). So you could have a lot of models, that do a lot of disparate stuff - not just database tables. To give you an example, imagine an application that texts people when a new book by their favourite author is coming out. It's going to have models to represent database tables, the Amazon API and an SMS API. If all your controllers assume that all your models inherit from Model, then your code is monolithic and none of it can be reused. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?InheritanceBreaksEncapsulation I think this is a bit extreme. It really depends on what's in your parent model class. It could be something really simple, but something you don't want to have to rewrite in every model you code. Thinking that a model must stand on its own without inheriting from a parent model class because of some ideal notion of encapsulation is silly. Actually, in all deference to the eggheads of OOP, I believe there are really only four reasons to use classes: 1. It keeps me from having to rewrite the same code over and over (inheritance). 2. It keeps the namespace cleaner, since methods are unknown outside the context of their containing class. 3. It allows me to change details of function implementation without breaking things. This is a weak claim, though, because I can do the same thing with straight functions; just change the guts of the function, while still providing the same inputs and outputs. 4. It keeps the stack cleaner. I don't have to pass the same crap to every related function. I can keep the data inside my class and have all the methods share it. The notion that OOP was going to save the world billions of hours of programming time because of re-use is bunk. It hasn't, doesn't and won't. /rant Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Insult my code!
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:31:58PM +0100, David Otton wrote: 2009/10/7 Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com: I think this is a bit extreme. It really depends on what's in your parent model class. It could be something really simple, but something you don't want to have to rewrite in every model you code. Thinking that Have you got an example of something that is needed by every model that interacts with a general-purpose framework? Probably not a great example, but how about this: *Assuming* that the models need variables held in the config (which database, if any, for example), we put code in the constructor of the parent model which picks up these variables and stores references to them, for use in inherited models. The config could be a singleton class which holds a single instance of all the config variables. I *could* include a call like $this-config = get_config(); in each model's constructor. Or I could just do it once in the parent model. Of course, if this is all the parent model provides, then $this-config = get_config(); in each model would be roughly equivalent to parent::Model(); in each model. But if the parent provided more than that, then I would be writing less code to simply build it into the parent. And of course, if I ever wanted to *add* more to all the models, then having a parent model would allow me to do so without having to rejigger the code in each model. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] foreach insert error
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:31:14PM -0700, Haig Davis wrote: Hello All, I have spent the entire day trying to get my calendar app to function correctly --- I have no problem with the actual functioning of the calendar. What is giving me trouble is for each calendar day the user has the option to check a checkbox requesting the day off and additionally the user must select a weighting for the request i.e. 1-31 with 1 being 1st choice and 31 being their least desirable request. The request is then insered into a mysql database. I am relativly new to PHP so I may well be on the complete wrong track here. so far I have tried imploding the array posting an associative array. You don't actually saw what your real problem is, and I'm too lazy (and tired) to try to figure it out from your code. Can you elaborate? Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Whacky increment/assignment logic with $foo++ vs ++$foo
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:51:17AM -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: From: Joost [mailto:joost.t.h...@planet.nl] Daevid Vincent wrote: From: Ben Dunlap [mailto:bdun...@agentintellect.com] $a = $a++; I just think this is an ambiguous line of code that wasn't thought through. The presence of the postfix operator makes the result undefined, no matter what language you are using. It will be an accident if you get the results you are expecting. The behavior of the ++ operator is the invention of Kernighan and Ritchie. I don't imagine they ever foresaw anyone doing something as silly as a = a++; except under the rarest of circumstances. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] POST without POSTing
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:36:55PM -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 23:29, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: I'm not sure how to do this. Please no exotic external libraries my shared hosting provider doesn't include. RTFM will be fine; just tell me which Fine Manual to Read. Nothing too exotic at all, Paul. Check out cURL: http://php.net/curl Okay, I've figured out how to shove the data through cURL to the receiving URL, but then it occurred to me that the client browser must go there *as well*. Will curl_exec() do that on its own, or is there a parameter I need to feed it? Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] POST without POSTing
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 04:23:46PM -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 16:14, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Okay, I've figured out how to shove the data through cURL to the receiving URL, but then it occurred to me that the client browser must go there *as well*. Will curl_exec() do that on its own, or is there a parameter I need to feed it? So you need to have the *client* post the information? You may want to look into a JavaScript solution, like an onload/document.form.post action. Javascript would be a bad solution. If the user has this turned off, they can't use the site. Let me be less opaque. This is a page where a user will fill in some personal information, and then select an amount to donate to this cause. The intent is to pass some information that the merchant service company needs (like merchant number and item selected) to their secure URL. The problem is that, before I just pass the information off to them, I want to make sure the user has properly filled out this form. So I have to validate it. That's done in the background on the server, naturally. But once the validating is done, it's time to send the user off to the secure site with a payload of POST variables. At that point, the user will enter credit card info and such, and continue the transaction. So I need to find a way to direct the user's browser to the secure site with their payload of POST variables. The more I look at this, the more it looks like cURL won't do it, and Javascript has the obvious down side. I'm afraid the only way to do this may be to validate everything, pass the values off to a confirmation page, where the user has to hit Proceed, and *that* page goes directly to the secure server with its POST payload. If anyone has a better idea, let me know. Hopefully I've explained it adequately to make the problem clear. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Curl output
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 04:37:14PM -0700, gbhumphrey wrote: Hi, I am doing a basical curl call and can get the webpage I want. However when it prints to the screen, it only prints the text, not css or any javascript calls that run on page load. Is there a way to make it do that? thanks using a basic curl call $curl_handle=curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,'http://example.com'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,0); // return into a variable curl_exec($curl_handle); I don't know about the javascript, but if the CSS is an external file, then it wouldn't get dragged along with the original file, and thus wouldn't be there to style anything on the HTML page. Just a guess. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] POST without POSTing
I'm sure this has been covered before, but I'm not even sure how to search in the archives for it. I have a form that collects certain info via POST. It is re-entrant, so when the user hits the submit button, it checks the input and does whatever sanity checks it needs to. If all is okay, it must now pass some of that info to another URL (offsite) via POST. Normally, the information would be passed via a series of GET variables or SESSION variables. But in this case the site the user is being directed to must receive the information via POST. I'm not sure how to do this. Please no exotic external libraries my shared hosting provider doesn't include. RTFM will be fine; just tell me which Fine Manual to Read. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] POST without POSTing
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:36:55PM -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 23:29, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: I'm not sure how to do this. Please no exotic external libraries my shared hosting provider doesn't include. RTFM will be fine; just tell me which Fine Manual to Read. Nothing too exotic at all, Paul. Check out cURL: http://php.net/curl I was afraid you were going to say that, and I wasn't sure cURL was supported on that server. But I just loaded phpinfo on that server, and it is supported. However, assuming it *wasn't*, I've found the following example from a google search (thank goodness for google's hinting or I couldn't have found it): $fp = fsockopen(www.site.com, 80); fputs($fp, POST /script.php HTTP/1.0 Host: www.site.com Content-Length: 7 q=proxy); I don't know much about doing things this way. It appears that when done this way, the body must be separated by a newline, just like email. And it appears that the content-length of 7 indicates the length of the q=proxy string. Assuming I piled on a few other passed variables the same way as q, separated by newlines (and adjusted the Content-Length accordingly), would the above work? Are there liabilities to doing it this way? Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] POST without POSTing
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 12:24:41AM -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 00:16, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: However, assuming it *wasn't*, I've found the following example from a google search (thank goodness for google's hinting or I couldn't have found it): $fp = fsockopen(www.site.com, 80); fputs($fp, POST /script.php HTTP/1.0 Host: www.site.com Content-Length: 7 q=proxy); I don't know much about doing things this way. It appears that when done this way, the body must be separated by a newline, just like email. And it appears that the content-length of 7 indicates the length of the q=proxy string. Assuming I piled on a few other passed variables the same way as q, separated by newlines (and adjusted the Content-Length accordingly), would the above work? Are there liabilities to doing it this way? Yes. Hosts are more likely to have cURL installed and available than fsockopen() or URL-based fopen() calls, so portability is greater with cURL. It's also a bit faster. Still, as you know, there's always more than one way to skin a cute, furry, delicious little kitten. fsockopen() appears to be part of the standard network functions in PHP, like the header() function. Do you mean that many hosts support the function (as part of PHP) but don't support its use with external hosts? Is there a way to determine this support from looking at phpinfo()? Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Extract links from strings
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:52:12PM -0300, Jônatas Zechim wrote: Hi there, i've the following strings: $string1 = 'Lorem ipsum dolor http://site.com sit amet'; $string2 = 'Lorem ipsum dolor http://www.site.com/ sit amet'; $string3 = 'Lorem ipsum dolor http://www.site.net sit amet'; How can I extract the URL from these strings? They can be [http:// + url] or [www. + url]. Use the preg_match() function (see http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php ) and a good regular expression from a place like http://www.regexlib.com/ . Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Question: Correcting MySQL's ID colomn when removing an entry
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:07:39PM +0430, Parham Doustdar wrote: Hello there, I'm guessing that when a row in a MySQL table is removed, the ID colomns of the rows which come after that row are not changed. For example: 1 2 3 4 Now, if I want to remove the third rows, the ID colomn would be something like: 1 2 4 I was wondering if there was a way to fix it through a query, so I wouldn't have to use a for statement in PHP to fix it? There's nothing to fix here. I assume you're talking about an ID column which is serialized or autoincrement. Such columns are not designed to necessarily be continuously numbered. If you remove a row, there is simply a gap in the sequence. Your application shouldn't care whether the numbers are continuous or not, though it may care that they are in order. To process such a table, you'd do your query like: SELECT * FROM mytable ORDER BY id And then process the results with a foreach or for loop. I will say, though, that if your application cares about the ordering of the records, I'd use a different field to implement that, such as date_added or last_name or something similar. It's best to assume, when dealing with autoincrement fields, that the numbers placed in them are random. They are only designed to be unique within that table, to allow for easy fetching of a single unique record within the table. Autoincrement fields are not designed to be used to order the records in a table. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Ckeckbox list populated from database
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 09:06:14PM -0700, Haig Davis wrote: Hello List, I'm relatively new to PHP although I do feel I've got a grasp of the basics. I have used php to draw up numerous selection lists populated from a mysql database and have had no trouble at all. However when it comes to the same concept yet using HTML check boxes I aM complety stumped. It seems easy but I've been staring at the same problem for hours. Any hints are greatly appreciated. I don't know what type of field you're trying to use to populate the checkbox, but it basically comes down to this: input type=checkbox name=pizza ?php if ($fieldval == 'something') echo 'checked=checked'; ?/ or input type=checkbox name=pizza ?php echo ($fieldval == 'something) ? 'check=checked' : ''; ?/ You've got to decide what is checked and unchecked for your checkbox, and then make that a condition which triggers a checked or unchecked state for the box. If you like, you can also put a value=something attribute in the input tag as well. When your user is finished inputting the form and you go to process the results, you can check for the existence of the checkbox name in the $_POST variable, or check that the $_POST variable contains the value you set in the value=something attribute. Checkboxes and radio buttons are tricky in this way, because they don't normally return values in the same way an input type=text ... field does. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Does anyone here use TCPDF?
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:58:52AM +0900, Dave M G wrote: PHP List, I posted this question on the TCPDF forum on SourceForge, but it's getting no response. I'm not even sure how active their list is. http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/forums/forum/435311/topic/3400663 So I'm hoping someone here might be able to help if they are using TCPDF. I just need to get the key details to get started, and then I can probably start to roll on my own. This is the question: Forgive me for what I would assume is a very obvious question, but I can not locate any clear instructions on what I want to do. Simply, I want to take an existing PDF and write text on top of it. The PDF is a single page, and it is a form that people fill out. What I need to do is fill out some of the fields in the form before sending it to the recipient. So I need to do two simple tasks. One is to load an existing PDF file. The second is to place short lines of text into specific locations on the page (A4 size). I know these two functions must be dead simple, and yet I am lost in the documentation. If someone could tell me the right function calls or point me to the right place so that I can RTFM on my own, I would be very grateful. Thank you for any advice. I don't use TCPDF; I use FPDF, but I imagine the drill is about the same. When I have to do what you're doing, I first write the code (using the FPDF API/methods) to build the form fresh. I test this to ensure everything is where it needs to be. Then I add code to that form which fills in whatever fields need filling in. Then I output that. What you're asking sounds like you want to *edit* an existing PDF via a PHP class, and I don't know of a tool that does this except for Adobe Acrobat and a few other non-PHP tools. It's something that's very difficult to get right. Therefore, I'd suggest instead using your existing TCPDF methods to actually *build* the PDF from scratch, with additional method calls to put in your content. That is, build and populate each time you need the form. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] ie6 memory could not be read help!
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:56:09PM -0500, Philip Thompson wrote: On Sep 17, 2009, at 4:04 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 16:41 +0800, Shelley wrote: Hi all, With IE6, After the pages i developed was loaded, there seems to be no problem, but when you then click a link, refresh the page, etc. it shows memory could not be 'read' error message. However, when you load other sites, google.com, for example, there is no such problem. Anybody knows how to fix this problem? Any help is appreciated thanks in advance. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899811 first result from a Google search Thanks, Ash Since this post is not PHP-related, I'll continue the trend. Are people still using IE6? In sites I design, I prevent the user from viewing it. If they're still on IE6, I don't want them to use my sites. I bought a Windows XP PC about three years ago with IE6 on it (I normally do all my work in Linux). I haven't upgraded it, and I can't imagine why the average user would. If it ain't broke (and most users wouldn't consider IE6 broken), don't fix it. I will say this, though. Since I normally browse with Firefox on Linux, if a site gets pissy with me and insists I use IE or Mozilla on Windows, I typically don't go there anymore. So if you're interested in driving off people who are less technologically advanced than you'd like, I think you'll probably succeed. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP GURU NEEDED
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 08:56:59PM +0200, Andrea Giammarchi wrote: You are looking for me than, cool! I can vouch for the fact that Andrea believes he's all that. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] RE: [Formaldehyde] The Most Basic Ajax - PHP Error Debugger
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 01:33:49PM +0200, Andrea Giammarchi wrote: snip This ML is a bit different from what I was expecting, snip P.S. I am certified Zend Engineer with 10 years of experience with PHP and dunno how many innovation awards in phpclasses.org ... so it was not just to waste my time guys, and it is open source, maybe next time I'll keep for me Yeah, we people on this list just don't get it. So, you're gonna leave the list now, right? Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Reading files in PHP 5.3.0
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:22:10AM -0400, tedd wrote: At 6:02 PM -0400 9/11/09, Paul M Foster wrote: I typically use us2.php.net, which is hosted by Hurricane Electric. Paul Paul: I wouldn't use Hurricane Electric if their accounts were provided for free! The following is an experience I had with Hurricane Electric and support for my opinion as to their service. You see, many years ago Hurricane Electric hosted (IMO with complicity) a porn site that sent out over 2000 porn spams to AOL using MY email address as the person to contact. That incident caused me a great deal of trouble. In an attempt to understand and resolve the problem, I sent several emails to Hurricane Electric; I called them numerous times via telephone; and I even sent them letters via the US mail. But unfortunately they refused to answer ANY of my correspondence. Their lack of communication provided support for my opinion of their complicity with what had happened. A few years back they contacted me (again more spam) soliciting my interest in hosting with them. Normally, I would have just reported such spam to spamcop, but because of the incident I replied and told them what had happened. Later I was contacted by one of their technicians who looked thorough their records and confirmed/admitted the incident. However, he told me that they could not be held responsible for they clients they host. Furthermore, they have no intention of screening their clients. He said that they will provide hosting to whomever they want, including porn and spam sites. If their clients do anything wrong per their standards, then they will deal with it internally. Otherwise they don't care about any harm done to anyone by them hosting such sites. In short, they want the money but not the responsibility. Now, maybe Hurricane Electric has changed its ways, but they can't change their past. In my opinion, there are more than enough hosting companies who care about the damage they might cause and take steps to reduce the about spam and porn on the net. My advice, seek hosts other than Hurricane Electric. I don't know much about HE, other than the fact that they run ads in Linux Journal. But they're a real hosting company, like Rackspace or 1and1. Yahoo (who hosts www.php.net) isn't a company I think of as a hosting company. And they're an internet behemoth, like Godaddy or Microsoft. So I'd personally steer away from them. Just my bias. It sounds like HE's real problem is their TOS. I've hosted with a lot of companies who will drop accounts where they find porn, spam and warez; it's part of their TOS. The other problem I can see is that they are apparently unwilling to even mediate a problem between two of their accounts. We just host 'em. Other than that, we don't care. Typical. I expect the porn company paid them a *lot* more money than you did, so they simply looked the other way. A shame. The lesson, I suppose, is to look at the terms of service before you sign up with a hosting company. You may still end up being a victim, but at least you know what you're getting yourself into. If they don't specifically disavow porn, spam and warez, then they allow (and in effect, condone) it. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Reading files in PHP 5.3.0
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:48:42AM -0700, Tommy Pham wrote: I just checked my 'Mail Options' again. It's always been 'compose as text'. But I can't guaranteed that Yahoo actually does it. Been having problems with Yahoo lately (both mail and Yahoo hosting of www.php.net). Maybe I should switch to gmail... I think I'm reading this wrong. Are you saying that php.net is hosted with *Yahoo*? WTF? Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Reading files in PHP 5.3.0
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 08:38:13AM -0700, Tommy Pham wrote: --- On Fri, 9/11/09, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: From: Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com Subject: Re: [PHP] Reading files in PHP 5.3.0 To: php-general@lists.php.net Date: Friday, September 11, 2009, 8:57 AM On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:48:42AM -0700, Tommy Pham wrote: I just checked my 'Mail Options' again. It's always been 'compose as text'. But I can't guaranteed that Yahoo actually does it. Been having problems with Yahoo lately (both mail and Yahoo hosting of www.php.net). Maybe I should switch to gmail... I think I'm reading this wrong. Are you saying that php.net is hosted with *Yahoo*? WTF? Paul go to www.php.net. scroll all way down to the bottom. This mirror generously provided by: Yahoo! Inc. Last updated: Fri Sep 11 14:51:27 2009 UTC I typically use us2.php.net, which is hosted by Hurricane Electric. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] User Account Management
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:43:15PM -0700, Waynn Lue wrote: Hello all, We're building out a system that allows for user account creation/password management, and we're hoping to use existing open source software so we don't have to reinvent the wheel. I know of Drupal, and Zend Framework (and maybe CodeIgniter?), but do people have specific preferences for either, and recommendations for other products that I haven't heard of? It should just support basic account creation, being able to login/authenticate, change your password, storing user information like names and email addresses, etc. I tried searching for account management php but ended up getting a lot of CMS suites. It depends on how you want your security to be built. At phpclasses.org, there are a bunch of classes which handle user verification and such. (Of course, you have to build your own screens; these are just classes, after all.) My problem with these classes is that they typically assign users a number to indicate the user level, and then you decide what level is necessary to access a given page. Now, most of what I do is programming for internal use. And my philosophy is that a user has no business accessing *any* page they haven't been trained on. So my access scheme is based on a system where there is a record in a table which has the user ID and the page they're allowed to access. With a couple of hundred pages, that's potentially a couple of hundred records per user. It could be a pain to maintain, but provides the finest grained authorization I can come up with. If you don't need something that complex or solid, then some of the classes at phpclasses.org may suffice. CodeIgniter (as mentioned earlier this week) has no provision for user login or security. The others probably do, but they're a bit like using a steamroller to pound in a nail. Moreover, any framework like these (even the very simple CodeIgniter) requires significant investment in learning how to do things under that framework. Honestly, whipping up a security scheme the way I have done it is a couple of days' work (including login and management screens). I'm not sure why people seem to be averse to it. You just work up your screens, create your tables, populate the tables, and you're away. The user's ID and whatever other pertinent information rides along with them in the session variables. Each page checks to see if the user ID in the session variable is allowed to access this page, etc. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] RE: [Formaldehyde] The Most Basic Ajax - PHP Error Debugger
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:23:44AM +0200, Andrea Giammarchi wrote: Exactly Ben, except when PHP fails, even with a Fatal Error, the page has status 200, we need to understand which call failed between hundreds of potential calls in the debugger, and errors could pass silently. With Formaldehyde, accordingly with your predefined error_reporting level, above situation will never happen, and the entire process, without changing anything, will be much simpler, as Ben already described. So yes Tedd, you did not even read what is Formaldehyde about ... please try to understand it before other comments, maybe you'll discover it's extremely simple, and hopefully useful. I suspect your English is getting in the way. You're calling this an AJAX debugger. Debugging in PHP is relatively straightforward, if you set the error level properly and build your own error handler, etc. So people on this list would probably think of a PHP debugger as an unimportant piece of software. Debugging in Javascript is more complex and difficult, and the responses you're getting on the list sound like people think Formaldehyde is for debugging Javascript (which PHP programmers often aren't very interested in). On the Google code page for Formaldehyde, you only emphasize PHP debugging, as that's the only type of error example you give. If the point of Formaldehyde is to debug PHP code, then you should call it a PHP code debugger, not an AJAX code debugger. Tedd's right-- basic AJAX transactions are incredibly simple, and once the code is written (it can be copied from any number of books), it needs no further work. General Javascript is a different matter-- it can be quite complex and quite hard to debug. But AJAX is a very narrow application of Javascript. If Formaldehyde is really a debugger for AJAX code, then you should change the examples and text of your Google code page. If Formaldehyde is really a debugger for Javascript code, then you should change the examples on your Google code page to show Javascript errors, and call it a Javascript debugger. If Formaldehyde is really a debugger for PHP code, then call it a PHP code debugger. The examples on your Google code page fit this. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] get an object property
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 07:31:01PM -0400, Tom Worster wrote:
if i have an expression that evaluates to an object, the return value from a
function, say, and i only want the value of one of the objects properties,
is there a tidy way to get it without setting another variable?
to illustrate, here's something that doesn't work, but it would be
convenient if it did:
$o = array( (object) array('a'=1), (object) array('a'=2) );
if ( end($o)-a 1 ) { // can't use - like this!
...
}
You should use print_r() or var_dump() to investigate what happens when
you try to cast an array into an object. I myself don't know what would
happen. Also, what's allowed and what effects are produced could depend
heavily on the version of PHP you're running. Version 4 != 5 != 5.3 in
this respect.
Paul
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Re: [PHP] Fixing the path
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 06:18:50AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: Hi. Some time ago I developed a small web application that a bunch of users has installed. I have always used the DOCUMENT_ROOT for my includes, but the other day I installed the application in a subdirectory, and as you've guessed a lot of the includes didn't work. I have been reading up on the subject of absolute vs. relative paths etc. And on the subject of defining your own document root. I need the application to be as user friendly as possible, and I would like to avoid having users enter path details in the configuration. What is the best way to solve this problem? Don't move your files to a subdirectory if they're written to be in the document root (and vice versa). ;-} Seriously. There really isn't a way around this. All your files need to be in the same places at all times relative to each other. You can use absolute paths or relative paths; it doesn't matter. But the files themselves can't be moved. The only alternative to this is to write a search function which searches in fixed locations for files until it finds them. And that's kind of silly. Look at it this way: Major frameworks all specify their subsidiary files to be in certain fixed locations. They'll have directories for javascript files, directories for internal classes, directories for configuration files, etc. They may or may not use relative pathing to refer to those files, but the files themselves must be in a certain location with respect to each other, always. My convention is to set up fixed directories for each type of file (as mentioned above) and then always put files of that type in those directories. Then use relative or fixed pathing as desired from other files that include() those files. If you're using a front controller, then you can use PHP server variables to get the path to that file, and use that as the reference for the location of the other files. (Or maybe I've completely misread what you're trying to do.) Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Hoping for a hand with a login script
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 01:00:19PM -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: From: Ben Dunlap snip http://codeigniter.com/ http://framework.zend.com/ http://www.solarphp.com/ While I have not looked at the last two, there is one thing that bothers me about your recommendation of codeigniter. Authentication is a basic function that should be used for any web site with interactive features. There is such a universal need for this function that there should be several packages available to provide it. But I believe that telling someone to adopt a complete portal system like CI just to get basic authentication is gross overkill. There has to be a better way to provide this core functionality without installing a monster package that will be 95% superfluous to their needs. Yes, I have installed codeigniter. I am still trying to figure out why I would want to use it. Moreover, I'm using CI right now, and as far as I know, it does *no* user authentication. I had to write my own routines, using their session class to save the user data. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Renaming a Directory
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 12:11:14AM -0400, Eddie Drapkin wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Paul M Fosterpa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 05:39:43PM -0400, Floyd Resler wrote: How can I rename a directory with files in it? The rename function gives me a directory not empty error. I know I could do it be creating the directory, moving the files, and then deleting the old one. Is there an easier way? It sounds like, underneath, rename() is creating a new directory and then attempting to delete the old one, ignoring the files in the original directory. In which case, you'll have to do it the long way-- create a new directory, move the files, then delete the old directory. Oddly enough, I can't find a *nix command which will actually rename a directory. The man pages for mv, rename and such all refer only to files, not directories. mv renames directories fine: $ mkdir bar $ touch bar/randomfile $ mv bar foo $ ls foo randomfile :) I would have thought so, but the man pages didn't mention it. I haven't use mv in ages. Makes sense that it would work, though. Moving/renaming a file would just change the name, not the inode number, which is the real key to *nix file systems. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] new php script and sqlite
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:20:01AM +0800, Eric Boo wrote: Hi, I'm currently using a text file to store data which the php script will read and write back to. I've a few questions: 1) I'm thinking of using sqlite, but not sure whether this will be widely available on most hosts, as I intend for the php script to be deployed without needing to much with much configuration. Is sqlite included with most php setups? As I understand it, sqlite support is by default built into PHP. If so, then it should be supported anywhere. 2) Should I be using sqlite 2 or 3? Don't use version 2. It's deprecated. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Renaming a Directory
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 05:39:43PM -0400, Floyd Resler wrote: How can I rename a directory with files in it? The rename function gives me a directory not empty error. I know I could do it be creating the directory, moving the files, and then deleting the old one. Is there an easier way? It sounds like, underneath, rename() is creating a new directory and then attempting to delete the old one, ignoring the files in the original directory. In which case, you'll have to do it the long way-- create a new directory, move the files, then delete the old directory. Oddly enough, I can't find a *nix command which will actually rename a directory. The man pages for mv, rename and such all refer only to files, not directories. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Converting URL's to hyperlinks.
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 03:22:25AM +0200, Lupus Michaelis wrote:
Sorry for the lag.
Daevid Vincent a écrit :
OP ?
Original Poster
Thanks :)
Blah blah blah.
I've used this code for about 6 years now and have yet to find emails that
it didn't work for. If someone has some funky (whacky) RFC extremity, then
so be it. That's their problem. Most people have NORMAL emails that follow
the above.
I faced a professionnal issue because of a lazy programmer (a Delphi
component that was not aware about Toto man@example.com). What you
consider normal e'mail is a subset that is not interoperable. And I hate
that.
But you are correct, I have revised it to be a little more forgiving
of some
allowed characters...
preg_replace(/([\w\.\-...@[\w\.\-_]+\.\w{2,6})/i,
You can revised your regex to fit to the new kind of email. But it is
smarter to use the right tool (like filter_vars).
Yeah, I know, I feel like some spanish windmill hunter.
I'm not sure it's well known on this list, but one resource I use for
regexps is:
http://www.regexlib.com/
Paul
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Re: [PHP] Taking body of an email and storing it in MySQL database
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 07:47:00PM +0900, Dave M G wrote: PHP List, I am working on a project now where I need to check a POP3 mail account, download any mails there, and store the body and headers of each individual mail as plain text in a MySQL database. I have downloaded the POP3 class which seems to be the standard class everyone uses for POP3 mail checking: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2.html I think I understand how to create an instance of the class and use it to check the email. The part where you log into the account isn't that complicated. But after that it becomes a little strange. It seems that emails are not mere text files, but have to be assembled line by line? I thought each email, and their headers, would be something I could just access, download, and pass along to MySQL. But it seems more complicated than that. Has anyone done something like this before? If someone could let me know how it is that I can create a body of text for each email (including the headers) so that I can then store it in the database, that would be awesome. I don't know what your class is doing, but yes, emails are very simple in structure. Everything above the first bare newline (nothing else on that line) is header, and everything below it is body. Even mime-encoded attachments are just part of the body and can be stored as plain text. Your class may be parsing the emails and assigning various parts of them to various class members. But emails are downloaded as a stream of bits, sequentially, top to bottom. Somewhere in the class is a routine which is sucking up that bit stream. At that point, you can capture it without other parsing. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Taking body of an email and storing it in MySQL database
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 03:27:05AM +0900, Dave M G wrote:
Paul,
Is there a decent tutorial anywhere on the net for the pop3.class.inc
available on phpclasses.org?
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1120.html
Maybe I'm blind, but I just can't find anywhere a decent description or
tutorial of what calls you can make to its functions. The documentation
file has two sections in German and a terse section in English.
I'm trying to figure out how to get each message and get their subject
line, from address, and then based on those two pieces of information,
I'll take the whole body and store them in the right place in a MySQL
database.
Just for reference, this is what I've built so far (I renamed
pop3.class.inc to POP3.php):
include('POP3.php');
$pop3 = new POP3();
// Connect to mail server
$do = $pop3-connect ('xxx.x.com');
if ($do == false)
{
$message = $pop3-error;
}
$do = $pop3-login ('uuu', 'ppp');
if ($do == false)
{
$message = $pop3-error;
}
$status = $pop3-get_office_status();
if ($status == false)
{
die($pop3-error);
}
$count = $status['count_mails'];
for ($i = 1; $i = $count; $i++)
{
// Here's where I hit a wall.
// 1. Get the from address
// 2. Get the subject line
// 3. Get the header+body as one text file
// 4. Store it in the database.
I'm not sure why you're attempting to do the above. According to the
documentation, you should simply be able to do:
for ($i = 1; $i = $count; $i++) {
$msg = $pop3-get_mail($i);
// parse the message as you like
$pop3-save2file($msg, 'myfilename.txt');
// or
$pop3-save2mysql(a bunch of parameters);
}
The $msg is returned as an array of strings. You could use the PHP
implode() function to reconstruct the array as a single string. But the
POP3::save2file() function will do this and save it to a text file if
you like.
It appears the class doesn't provide any support for parsing the message
internally. So that part is up to you. However, you could set up a loop
like this:
for ($j = 0; $j count($msg); $j++) {
if (strpos($msg[$i], 'Subject: ') == 0)
// got the subject line
if (strpos($msg[$i], 'From: ') == 0)
// got the From: address line
}
Parsing the subject line and From: address is up to you. But there are
plenty of PHP functions to search and parse strings.
Paul
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Re: [PHP] mail attachment
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 06:52:53PM +0200, Grega Leskov??ek wrote: How do I attach a file in mail function or do I have to use PEAR (and if how ...). What are the advantages of PEAR? When do You suggest to use PEAR? You *can* attach something to an email using the mail() function, but the process is complicated, and the mail() function isn't really set up to do this. I believe the usual suggestion for users who ask this question is to use the phpmailer package. It does this more easily. Google for phpmailer. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP inserting carriage returns into POST values?
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:16:47PM -0700, James Colannino wrote: Hey everyone. I ran into a really weird issue that I was hoping I could find some clarification on. In short, I have javascript functions that operate on hidden text values. Those values may be posted, in which case PHP then prints them back to the page via what comes in on $_POST. The weird thing is, I was no longer able to match substrings inside those hidden text values after posting via Javascript. I banged my head over this for a couple hours, until I realized that the string's length was being increased by one after posting (I found this out in javascript). Upon further investigation, I found that all instances of substring\n were being replaced by substring(carriage return)\n after post. For now, I'm simply doing str_replace(chr(13), , $_POST['value']) before re-inserting it into the HTML, but I was wondering why PHP is inserting those extra characters. I don't know that this will help, but maybe it will provide a clue. A textarea field will insert CRLF in its posted contents. You might expect this to be governed by the platform the browser is running on, but no. It inserts CRLF anyway. Like I said, just a clue. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Searching on AlphaNumeric Content Only
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 04:22:18PM -0400, Eddie Drapkin wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Lupus Michaelismickael+...@lupusmic.org wrote: if you're on shared hosting (but then again I am of the opinion that those who choose to run with shared hosting dig their own graves in more ways than one). Any time you or someone else would like to backstop me in setting up a dedicated server on rackspace or somewhere else, for free or really cheap, you let me know! Otherwise, those of us with less than complete expertise in server setup are stuck with shared hosting. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Searching on AlphaNumeric Content Only
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:15:41PM -0400, Robert Cummings wrote: Paul M Foster wrote: On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 04:22:18PM -0400, Eddie Drapkin wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Lupus Michaelismickael+...@lupusmic.org wrote: if you're on shared hosting (but then again I am of the opinion that those who choose to run with shared hosting dig their own graves in more ways than one). Any time you or someone else would like to backstop me in setting up a dedicated server on rackspace or somewhere else, for free or really cheap, you let me know! Otherwise, those of us with less than complete expertise in server setup are stuck with shared hosting. ;-} For a few hundred bucks a year you can get a VPS (Virtual Private Server), which gives you root access. once you get a couple of clients on it, it will pay for itself year after year. If you have clients that don't use much resources, you can put a few on and even make a profit on the hosting alone. Oh sure. Well aware of it. The problem is not finding a VPS or working with root access or anything like that. The problem is expertise. POP3, SMTP, SSH, HTTP, DNS, firewall security while still allowing access to outward facing servers, etc. It's more expertise than most people have, including me. The servers I run are internal and don't have to deal with the rigors of the internet, and only serve a couple of people. Setting up multiple domains under an Apache server is black magic to me, for instance. And then there's backups, and what-do-I-do-if-the-server-fails, etc. Sheesh. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Date Comparison
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:20:49AM +0100, Stuart wrote: 2009/9/3 J DeBord jasdeb...@gmail.com: Telling someone RTFM is just rude and mean. Manipulating dates and times can be confusing for beginners and experienced people alike. I would suggest that when a question asked here causes you to respond with RTFM, don't respond at all. Save yourself the time and trouble and save the person asking the question the grief of being insulted. And Tedd your condescending response caused me to lose respect for you. I'm sure the OP would have been more than thankful to receive the same response without the RTFM. I'll read any response to this, but I won't have anything more to say. This list has been polluted enough lately with nonsense. Incredible. You're entitled to your opinion as much as I am, and my opinion is that not making it clear to people that the answer to their question is plainly obvious in the manual is just as rude if not more so than suggesting they RTFM. I make a point to never just say RTFM but to also answer the question at the same time, but IMHO not telling people how fundamental their question was does not help them in the long run. At the end of the day it just encourages them to continue to rely on this list rather than learning how to find the answer themselves and to only use this list as a last resort. I make no apology for my attitude towards this type of question, and if you don't like it you can stick it where the sun don't shine. +1 I can't argue with this approach. If you're going to point the poster to the manual and *then* explain, that's the ideal way to do this. Now it could be argued that you could say, Please refer to http://php.net/manual/en/whatever.php for more info. Or you could say, RTFM. The former is more polite, but the latter will suffice. Both mean the same thing; one is simply more terse. Also stipulated that one should research a question as much as possible before posting to this list. We're not tutors; more like professional side-checkers. (Please don't take this the wrong way, newbies. You're welcome to ask questions here. Just do whatever research you can first, and follow our advice afterward, to RTFM.) Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
