[PHP-DB] php5 coding class objects best practices
hi people, i havent used thi slist for quite a while. anyway. Im trying to write an application which relies heavily on mysql. so i have made a class object which has all the functions to make using mysql very easy for me. but the problem im faced with now is, i have a bunch of other classes, which have a dependency to be able to read or write to mysql at some point. i dont want to have to write and maintain seperate mysql classes to extend other other classes. is it alright to, for example, point to one class from within another? e.g. $user = new User(); $user-mysql = new MySql(); and then call functions in MySql() from within User() by; $this-mysql-fetch_result_into_array(); im new to PHP5 so im not aware of all its new and awesome OO features. does anyone have any advise?
[PHP-DB] Special Character
Hi , We have a problem with storing data into our oracle database that is copied from Microsoft word. A typical example would be a hyphen, if entered directly in an input box this is stored fine. However if copied from Microsoft word it is displayed as a question mark. Has anyone else experienced this and are there any resolutions? Thanks David
Re: [PHP-DB] Special Character
Hi Is it really a hyphen, or is it an en- or em-dash. The latter two could mess up in in some character sets. Niel -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DB] Special Character
Hi Niel That's the problem I don't know what it is, but I do know that I press the hyphen/minus key on my keyborad. If I type in 'The -' then press enter and copy and paste this from word, it then gets displayed as question mark in Oracle. David -Original Message- From: Niel Archer [mailto:Niel Archer] On Behalf Of Niel Archer Sent: 16 November 2006 13:26 To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Special Character Hi Is it really a hyphen, or is it an en- or em-dash. The latter two could mess up in in some character sets. Niel -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] Special Character
Hi David What you describe sounds like Word is auto replacing hyphens with either en- or em-dashes. This is a configurable option in Word that often defaults to on. Try using double quotes, If they get switched to 66's and 99's style quotes, then that is likely the problem. I no longer use MS Office for these and other reasons, so cannot tell you how to switch off this formatting. But it can be switched off, somewhere within it. The only other option I can think of would be to change your Db character set to one that can accept these extended characters. That might also mean changing some of Window's/Word's behaviour (to be using UTF-8 for example). Niel -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] Special Character
To turn off the auto formatting of hyphens: In Microsoft Word 2003: Open a new document. Go to ToolsAuto Correct Options Select the Auto Format As You Type tab Deselect the Hyphens (--) with Dash (-) option. Even though it says it will replace a double hyphen (--) with a Dash (This is an em dash) it also does the same thing for a single hyphen depending on the sentance structure. Hope this helps! Dan On 11/16/06, Niel Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David What you describe sounds like Word is auto replacing hyphens with either en- or em-dashes. This is a configurable option in Word that often defaults to on. Try using double quotes, If they get switched to 66's and 99's style quotes, then that is likely the problem. I no longer use MS Office for these and other reasons, so cannot tell you how to switch off this formatting. But it can be switched off, somewhere within it. The only other option I can think of would be to change your Db character set to one that can accept these extended characters. That might also mean changing some of Window's/Word's behaviour (to be using UTF-8 for example). Niel -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DB] Special Character
Thanks, The problem is, we will have hundreds of users using Microsoft Word and we cannot switch it off for all of them. Ideally I need some type of string replace function, so no matter what they enter it gets trapped an replaced. It's not the normal hyphens that cause a problem but the long hyphens. Regards David -Original Message- From: Dan Shirah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 November 2006 15:13 To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Special Character To turn off the auto formatting of hyphens: In Microsoft Word 2003: Open a new document. Go to ToolsAuto Correct Options Select the Auto Format As You Type tab Deselect the Hyphens (--) with Dash (-) option. Even though it says it will replace a double hyphen (--) with a Dash (This is an em dash) it also does the same thing for a single hyphen depending on the sentance structure. Hope this helps! Dan On 11/16/06, Niel Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David What you describe sounds like Word is auto replacing hyphens with either en- or em-dashes. This is a configurable option in Word that often defaults to on. Try using double quotes, If they get switched to 66's and 99's style quotes, then that is likely the problem. I no longer use MS Office for these and other reasons, so cannot tell you how to switch off this formatting. But it can be switched off, somewhere within it. The only other option I can think of would be to change your Db character set to one that can accept these extended characters. That might also mean changing some of Window's/Word's behaviour (to be using UTF-8 for example). Niel -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] Special Character
Hi David off the top of my head, the best I can suggest is using PHP's MB functions (lookup mb_string) to allow recognition and then convert them to hyphens. Niel -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] Special Character
Hi Doh... that's 'mbstring' Niel -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] Special Character
A solution I use is to do apply this function to all POST data
collected. The key here for your problem is the chr(150) and chr(151)
that are replaced with a normal hyphen. This also takes care of MS
Words Smart Quotes. If there are other MS Characters you need to
convert, just add them to the pattern field as the numeric version,
and then add one to the array what the replacement is.
function sanitize($data)
{
$pattern = array(chr(145),chr(146),chr(147),chr(148),chr(150),chr
(151));
$replacements = array(',','','','-','--');
$data = str_replace($pattern,$replacements,$data);
$data = trim($data);
$data = preg_replace(/ +/, , $data);
$data = addslashes($data);
return $data;
}
--
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Western Nevada Community College
www.wncc.edu
775-445-3326
On Nov 16, 2006, at 7:32 AM, David Skyers wrote:
Thanks,
The problem is, we will have hundreds of users using Microsoft Word
and
we cannot switch it off for all of them. Ideally I need some type of
string replace function, so no matter what they enter it gets
trapped an
replaced.
It's not the normal hyphens that cause a problem but the long hyphens.
Regards
David
-Original Message-
From: Dan Shirah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 16 November 2006 15:13
To: php-db@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Special Character
To turn off the auto formatting of hyphens:
In Microsoft Word 2003:
Open a new document.
Go to ToolsAuto Correct Options
Select the Auto Format As You Type tab Deselect the Hyphens (--)
with
Dash (-) option.
Even though it says it will replace a double hyphen (--) with a Dash
(This is an em dash) it also does the same thing for a single hyphen
depending on the sentance structure.
Hope this helps!
Dan
On 11/16/06, Niel Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi David
What you describe sounds like Word is auto replacing hyphens with
either
en- or em-dashes. This is a configurable option in Word that often
defaults to on. Try using double quotes, If they get switched to
66's
and 99's style quotes, then that is likely the problem. I no longer
use MS Office for these and other reasons, so cannot tell you how to
switch off this formatting. But it can be switched off, somewhere
within it.
The only other option I can think of would be to change your Db
character set to one that can accept these extended characters. That
might also mean changing some of Window's/Word's behaviour (to be
using
UTF-8 for example).
Niel
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Re: [PHP-DB] php5 coding class objects best practices
Chris Barnes wrote: hi people, i havent used thi slist for quite a while. anyway. Im trying to write an application which relies heavily on mysql. so i have made a class object which has all the functions to make using mysql very easy for me. but the problem im faced with now is, i have a bunch of other classes, which have a dependency to be able to read or write to mysql at some point. i dont want to have to write and maintain seperate mysql classes to extend other other classes. is it alright to, for example, point to one class from within another? e.g. $user = new User(); $user-mysql = new MySql(); and then call functions in MySql() from within User() by; $this-mysql-fetch_result_into_array(); im new to PHP5 so im not aware of all its new and awesome OO features. Yes, that will work fine. It also works in php4, it's not a php5 specific feature. -- Postgresql php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] berkeley db + php + locking
Chris, I've emebedded inline an answer from George Feinberg from the Sleepycat team. Chris Chris Peiffer wrote: I'm having trouble getting php working with db4 so that it does correct write-locking in an apache webserver environment (where there are potentially many applications writing at once.) The first thing I did: I compiled the db4 package from sleepycat/oracle and configured it into php. (Using the --with-db4=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.4 directive to php's configure.) With this the php binary is linked to the Berkeley libs, and one can use those libs through the standard php dba_* API, by opening db resources with the db4 handler, like this: $dbres = dba_open($filename, 'wd', 'db4'); This works for accessing, creating and writing files. However, it doesn't handle write locking properly. If two procs both call dba_open with a write lock, they both get the lock. Whover closes the resource first gets its values written to the file. This is not the correct behavior... you can't have a true mutex unless one of them blocks on the open when the write lock is taken up by the other. I found this page, which (poorly) documents the native php API for Berkeley db: http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/ref/ext/php.html From within the db distribution tree I installed their php extension, db4.so (by running phpize, configure, make, make install within the php_db4 directory under the db src.) I can get their samples to run, but the samples don't deal with write locking at all. The documentation is maddening, because most of it has to be inferred from the C API documentation. I'm finding it very hard to get any kind of error reports or logs out of the thing. This page suggests a scenario that I want: simple multiple reader / single writer access to a suite of db4 files: http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/ref/cam/intro.html However, it says You must specify DB_INIT_CDB and DB_INIT_MPOOL to DB_ENV-open. When I try to do this in php I get failure where the standard db-open succeeds. However, I can't figure out why. Similarly, cursor operations fail. Does anybody know of any good examples of using db4 and php? If you want to use DB_INIT_CDB, the syntax for the open call is: $env-open(path_to_environment, DB_INIT_CDB|DB_INIT_MPOOL|DB_CREATE); One note on the Berkeley DB PHP API -- it is not a wrapper of the complete API. It only implements a subset of the methods for any of the classes. If any are missing, and there is no work around, they can be requested. The Berkeley DB OTN Forum is the best place to talk about these issues, as it's monitored by the team. It's here: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=271 The Db4Env class is particularly sparse, but that is because nearly all of its configuration can be emulated using a configuration file, rather than API. See the documentation on the DB_CONFIG configuration file here: http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/ref/env/db_config.html George Specifically, with locking? Is there any way to get db_strerror working? Is there at least a better documented API than the Oracle one? (As an example of how crappy it is, it omits the put method from class Db4 but that method does in fact exist within the library.) Thank you for any help you can offer. I have searched the web and the archives of this list but I couldn't find much. -- Christopher Jones, Oracle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Tel: +1 650 506 8630 Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP-DB] Help on query report...
dear all, i have this table id | contract No | site id | handover date |status| finishing date | contract value|actual value 1 | T0001 | LOS01 | 12-Apr-06| Done | 11-Apr-06 | 12,000 | 12,000 2 | T0002 | LOS02 | 12-Apr-06| Done | 11 Apr-06 | 11,000 | 11,000 3 | T0001 | LOS02 | | Done | 13-Apr-06 | 13,000 | 13,000 4 | T0003 | LOS01 | | Cancel | | 11,000 | now my manager asked me to produce summary report like : Contract No | TOTAL site | Total Cancelled | Total Active | Handovered | Contract Value | T0001 | 2 | 0| 2 |1 | 25,000| T0002 | 1 | 0| 1 | 1 | 11,000| T0003 | 1 | 1| 0 | 0 | 11,000 | is there some way to do it in mySQL? i'm using php 5 and mysql 5.1 right now i'm doing it manually, but i thinks it was really complex...Could somebody help me with the query ? many thanks, br -- Jangan tanyakan apa yang Indonesia telah berikan pada mu tapi bertanyalah apa yang telah engkau berikan kepada Indonesia -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GU/IT d- s: a-- C++ UL P L++ E W++ N* o-- K- w PS Y-- PGP- t++ 5 X R++ tv b+ DI D+ G e+ h* r- z? --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] Help on query report...
Suprie wrote: dear all, i have this table id | contract No | site id | handover date |status| finishing date | contract value|actual value 1 | T0001 | LOS01 | 12-Apr-06| Done | 11-Apr-06 | 12,000 | 12,000 2 | T0002 | LOS02 | 12-Apr-06| Done | 11 Apr-06 | 11,000 | 11,000 3 | T0001 | LOS02 | | Done | 13-Apr-06 | 13,000 | 13,000 4 | T0003 | LOS01 | | Cancel | | 11,000 | now my manager asked me to produce summary report like : Contract No | TOTAL site | Total Cancelled | Total Active | Handovered | Contract Value | T0001 | 2 | 0| 2 |1 | 25,000| T0002 | 1 | 0| 1 | 1 | 11,000| T0003 | 1 | 1| 0 | 0 | 11,000 | is there some way to do it in mySQL? i'm using php 5 and mysql 5.1 right now i'm doing it manually, but i thinks it was really complex...Could somebody help me with the query ? many thanks, Show us the query you already have rather than us just guessing the tables etc. -- Postgresql php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
