Re: [PHP] PHP and Ajax?
Try SAJAX at http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax Hidayet Dogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pleksus Bilisim Teknolojileri D.T.O. A.S. -- caldiran sok. 14/6 06420 kolej ankara * www.pleksus.com.tr tel : +90 312 4355343 * faks: +90 312 4354006 On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Jeremiah Johnson wrote: Does anyone have any references on using PHP and Ajax? I caught the news on PHP Architect about the webcast they are doing in May and it sounds like an interesting technology, but I can't wait, of course :)... and I wanted to learn as much as I could before their presentation. Any pointers? Thanks! -- 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] passing a variable through 2 required files embedded in Javascript
On Friday 29 April 2005 07:08, Mark Cain wrote: What a mess this has turned out to be -- But perhaps you can help me. I have a dynamic site that pulls headers, navigation, and footers from text files. The content for the pages is pulled from mySQL. On each page I have a JavaScript rotating banner that displays Upcoming Events. The banners rotate about every 4 seconds without the need for a page refresh. The names of the individual banners themselves are fed into JavaScript from a PHP script that reads a folder of JPG files and makes a decision as to which ones to show (i.e. pass to the JavaScript). This all works and it's slick seeing that I have the difficulty of dealing with a server side script and a client script. The browser calls a JavaScript file which has a php extension. When the server sees the php extension the file is executed before it is delivered to the browser. Since JavaScript complains about PHP functions in that file that file merely echo back standard JavaScript and calls another php file via require() that does the low level work of reading the folder and reporting back the JavaScript arrays. Graphically it looks like this: 1) the Page calls the header 2) the header calls 3) a php generated JavaScript file which calls 4) a php file that reads the folder on the server and builds the JavaScript arrays Now I need to add a feature and I am bumping my head on this one. How do I report the file name of the file that called the header in # 4 ? In other words, I want the name of #1 to be reported in #4. If I use $_SERVER[PHP_SELF], that variable reports the name of #4. It gets a little tricky because #3 is called from within a JavaScript tag. Got any suggestions? Pass the JavaScript to the client using a new header: Content-Type: application/x-javascript Mark Cain -- Cyberly yours, Petar Nedyalkov Devoted Orbitel Fan :-) PGP ID: 7AE45436 PGP Public Key: http://bu.orbitel.bg/pgp/bu.asc PGP Fingerprint: 7923 8D52 B145 02E8 6F63 8BDA 2D3F 7C0B 7AE4 5436 pgpZ4iSMVJTIh.pgp Description: PGP signature
[PHP] mail problem
I get the following mail problem when trying to send from localhost. Any ideas? Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for [EMAIL PROTECTED] in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\ssn\adv_mail.php on line 179 R. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
Wait - doesn't smarty 'compile' the php file and the tpl file into another php file. If you look into templates_c directory you find some 'compiled' templates. clive Robert Cummings wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 13:20, Ryan A wrote: On 4/28/2005 7:08:00 PM, Evert | Rooftop Solutions ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ryan A wrote: So just because you use smarty you think you are smart and have the right to be smart..who the hell do you think you are?? Sorry, just giving an example of how a jackass with extreme opinions would write on this holy war's volatile topic. no offense meant :-) I would go for a xml-style template engine (start flaming right below this thread) Flaming??? who has time to start flaming after reading what you wrote? am busying banging my head against the wall. To state the obvious... the above is in actuality a flame disguised as an excuse. I use InterJinn, smarty, and PHP as template engines depending on what the client wants and how much work they want done, and how much elegance, modularity, and maintainability they want. Of the three I like smarty the least which is probably why I wrote my own engine :) Oh wait, I've also used eztemplate which by far takes the cake of horrible horrible templating. While PHP is itself usable as a templating engine, it's not what I would call clear and concise when used that way (but maybe that's because I've come across too many instances where the previous developer mixed business logic with display logic and then I had to rework the functionality which was a nightmare :). When using InterJinn I save the overhead of run-time includes incurred by using PHP as a templating engine, and I save the overhead of cache checks incurred by systems like smarty since InterJinn compiles to PHP source code and does not use a cache (although it can be set to automatically recompile pages when dependencies change). At any rate I don't generally post about InterJinn here anymore since some of the regulars tend to get annoyed ;) Mind you I don't post much at all anymore since I became a father a year and a half ago... priorities you know :) Cheers, Rob. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Regular expressions problem
Hello I have a question: What is in the role of space in the regular expressions (POSIX)? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] php Full Page Calendar not date picker
Hi all. Im looking for a PHP/Javascript calender that is a full page calender. IE: for each day there is quite a big block. Therefore it will be a bigger form of a date picker. What I want to do is to be able to assign notes for each day. I've seen the smarty calender which is exactly what I need but Im not using smarty for this particular project. thanks in advance. -- Angelo Zanetti Z Logic www.zlogic.co.za [c] +27 72 441 3355 [t] +27 21 469 1052 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP and Ajax?
its using the standard toolkit available in most browsers, what i find a pain in the ass is having to build the post data into a string before it can be sent, it should do it for u On 29/04/2005, at 4:40 PM, Hidayet Dogan wrote: Try SAJAX at http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax Hidayet Dogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pleksus Bilisim Teknolojileri D.T.O. A.S. -- caldiran sok. 14/6 06420 kolej ankara * www.pleksus.com.tr tel : +90 312 4355343 * faks: +90 312 4354006 On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Jeremiah Johnson wrote: Does anyone have any references on using PHP and Ajax? I caught the news on PHP Architect about the webcast they are doing in May and it sounds like an interesting technology, but I can't wait, of course :)... and I wanted to learn as much as I could before their presentation. Any pointers? Thanks! -- 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] PHP and Ajax?
You should also look at JSON (JavaScript Object Notation - is a lightweight data-interchange format) http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=198 http://mike.teczno.com/json.html Zac -Original Message- From: Hidayet Dogan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 April 2005 07:41 To: Jeremiah Johnson Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP and Ajax? Try SAJAX at http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax Hidayet Dogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pleksus Bilisim Teknolojileri D.T.O. A.S. -- caldiran sok. 14/6 06420 kolej ankara * www.pleksus.com.tr tel : +90 312 4355343 * faks: +90 312 4354006 On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Jeremiah Johnson wrote: Does anyone have any references on using PHP and Ajax? I caught the news on PHP Architect about the webcast they are doing in May and it sounds like an interesting technology, but I can't wait, of course :)... and I wanted to learn as much as I could before their presentation. Any pointers? Thanks! -- 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] SOLVEDphp Full Page Calendar not date picker
Dont worry guys i solved it. Angelo Zanetti wrote: Hi all. Im looking for a PHP/Javascript calender that is a full page calender. IE: for each day there is quite a big block. Therefore it will be a bigger form of a date picker. What I want to do is to be able to assign notes for each day. I've seen the smarty calender which is exactly what I need but Im not using smarty for this particular project. thanks in advance. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] SOLVEDphp Full Page Calendar not date picker
On Friday 29 April 2005 11:43, Angelo Zanetti wrote: Dont worry guys i solved it. And if you name the solution, it'll be a perfect finish for this thread. Remember, this mailing-list is used as a knowledge base from a lot of people. Angelo Zanetti wrote: Hi all. Im looking for a PHP/Javascript calender that is a full page calender. IE: for each day there is quite a big block. Therefore it will be a bigger form of a date picker. What I want to do is to be able to assign notes for each day. I've seen the smarty calender which is exactly what I need but Im not using smarty for this particular project. thanks in advance. -- Cyberly yours, Petar Nedyalkov Devoted Orbitel Fan :-) PGP ID: 7AE45436 PGP Public Key: http://bu.orbitel.bg/pgp/bu.asc PGP Fingerprint: 7923 8D52 B145 02E8 6F63 8BDA 2D3F 7C0B 7AE4 5436 pgppjeQBrd2Dd.pgp Description: PGP signature
[PHP] Your Opinion
Hi everybody, I'm planning to buy PHP5 MySQL Bible, the book written by Tim Converse, Joyce Park Clark Morgan. Give me your opinion on this book, if anyone has gone thru it. Thanx. Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] How to know if php CAN write files on server and WHERE it can?
I know, uploading files and handling them is an issue covered again and again, but there are still some answers I can'tfind on archives. Having to read some uploaded files, perform operations on them ( basically attach them on a single file ), and then save the resulting file using ftp, and trying to have the php page as general as possible ( I mean have it work on the larger number of server possible and without configuration settings ): 1) Could it be possible to have a php or server config that doesn't allow at all to write and read files on the server( I'm afraid yes) and how can I detect this situation from code, at least to show a this script can't run here message? 2) All the upload_and_copy_files_somewhere_else examples relay on a destination directory explicitly set in the script. How can i have my php discover on its own where it can write and read, no matter the position since it is a kind of temporary and working folder, and I'll delete all files used when finished? 3) Which security settings ( safe_mode and so on ) should I be aware of? Some good tutorial somewhere? Thank you so much, Giulio Cantoberon Multimedia srl http://www.cantoberon.it Tel. 06 39737052 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] SOLVEDphp Full Page Calendar not date picker
I got a script from a friend of mine. Otherwise I would have definitely given the URL... Petar Nedyalkov wrote: On Friday 29 April 2005 11:43, Angelo Zanetti wrote: Dont worry guys i solved it. And if you name the solution, it'll be a perfect finish for this thread. Remember, this mailing-list is used as a knowledge base from a lot of people. Angelo Zanetti wrote: Hi all. Im looking for a PHP/Javascript calender that is a full page calender. IE: for each day there is quite a big block. Therefore it will be a bigger form of a date picker. What I want to do is to be able to assign notes for each day. I've seen the smarty calender which is exactly what I need but Im not using smarty for this particular project. thanks in advance.
Re: [PHP] PHP and Ajax?
hmm isnt the intention of httprequest is that u can send post data without leaving the page ? It has worked for me, except u have to build the post data yourself to send. On other similar circumstances i've had to post certain data from a post to the current database but also executr a script and insert data into another system, i used nusoap for this as i wanted the logic to be in the same system not duplicate it. The issue is I wouldnt know if posting the form building post array on the other reuqest , sending to the other system via httprequest returning the insert id, insert post data into current database would work. It looks like u are trying to build the serializes array in the current request, i'll do some tests though. On 29/04/2005, at 6:25 PM, Zac Barton wrote: You should also look at JSON (JavaScript Object Notation - is a lightweight data-interchange format) http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=198 http://mike.teczno.com/json.html Zac -Original Message- From: Hidayet Dogan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 April 2005 07:41 To: Jeremiah Johnson Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP and Ajax? Try SAJAX at http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax Hidayet Dogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pleksus Bilisim Teknolojileri D.T.O. A.S. -- caldiran sok. 14/6 06420 kolej ankara * www.pleksus.com.tr tel : +90 312 4355343 * faks: +90 312 4354006 On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Jeremiah Johnson wrote: Does anyone have any references on using PHP and Ajax? I caught the news on PHP Architect about the webcast they are doing in May and it sounds like an interesting technology, but I can't wait, of course :)... and I wanted to learn as much as I could before their presentation. Any pointers? Thanks! -- 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 -- 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
[PHP] Re: Can this code go faster?
Just a couple of comments about those 0x.. and 11
in my post.
(By the way, i haven't looked to closely on speed even if the OP asked
for that, i was unsure on how he was coding his numbers).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rolf Østvik) wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (René Fournier) wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I need to convert a binary number of arbitrary length to a signed
integer.
If you on the other hand know that the string should represent an 8
bit in two's complement then this could work:
function bin2int ($bin) {
$a = bindec($bin);
$val = ($a | 0x80) ? (0xff00 | $a) : $a;
if the input is a 8 bit signed binary string then bit 7 determine the
sign. 0xff00 will then make this to an 32 signed integer
return $val;
}
function bin2int ($bin) {
if (substr($bin,0,1) == 1) {
// NEGATIVE
$val = bindec(substr(
.$bin,-32));
bindec returns a 32 bit signed integer, i just make sure that the
leftmost bits in the 32 character long string are 1 if the leftmost bit
in the original string is 1.
} else {
// POSITIVE
$val = bindec($bin);
}
return $val;
}
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[PHP] Re: Templating engines
Hi clive I tried all of them and I must admit smarty comes out on top by a mile I use it on a very busy virtual host and have had NO problems with slow script etc, highly recommended http://smarty.php.net pete Clive Zagno wrote: Hi all, What templating engines do you use with php and why? Ive been using smarty (http://smarty.php.net) Clive. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Regular expressions problem
* Khorosh Irani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello I have a question: What is in the role of space in the regular expressions (POSIX)? To match a space. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney | WEBSITES: Webmaster and IT Specialist | http://www.garden.org National Gardening Association| http://www.kidsgardening.com 802-863-5251 x156 | http://nationalgardenmonth.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://vermontbotanical.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
* Clive Zagno [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wait - doesn't smarty 'compile' the php file and the tpl file into another php file. If you look into templates_c directory you find some 'compiled' templates. Yes, it does. And your question is...? If it's about performance, the compilation is not an issue. Compilation of templates into PHP code happens only when the template file changes; subsequent requests for the template then use the compiled version. This actually speeds things up tremendously. This could be interpreted as, Well, if Smarty just compiles the templates into PHP anyways, why not use PHP? And the answer is that Smarty uses a language subset -- it doesn't try to implement all of PHP, just a number of functions that are useful to template designers (like some basic logic, some loops, some data formatting for dates, truncation, etc.); this subset is easier to pick up for many HTML designers than learning PHP would be. Additionally, the way Smarty does tagging means that templates can often be tossed to an X/HTML validator without the tagging causing breakage. I'm not going to say Smarty is the best template engine out there for PHP -- I simply haven't tried enough of them. But I made a decision to use it and stick with it when I made the decision to start using templates, and I haven't regretted it. Robert Cummings wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 13:20, Ryan A wrote: On 4/28/2005 7:08:00 PM, Evert | Rooftop Solutions ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ryan A wrote: So just because you use smarty you think you are smart and have the right to be smart..who the hell do you think you are?? Sorry, just giving an example of how a jackass with extreme opinions would write on this holy war's volatile topic. no offense meant :-) I would go for a xml-style template engine (start flaming right below this thread) Flaming??? who has time to start flaming after reading what you wrote? am busying banging my head against the wall. To state the obvious... the above is in actuality a flame disguised as an excuse. I use InterJinn, smarty, and PHP as template engines depending on what the client wants and how much work they want done, and how much elegance, modularity, and maintainability they want. Of the three I like smarty the least which is probably why I wrote my own engine :) Oh wait, I've also used eztemplate which by far takes the cake of horrible horrible templating. While PHP is itself usable as a templating engine, it's not what I would call clear and concise when used that way (but maybe that's because I've come across too many instances where the previous developer mixed business logic with display logic and then I had to rework the functionality which was a nightmare :). When using InterJinn I save the overhead of run-time includes incurred by using PHP as a templating engine, and I save the overhead of cache checks incurred by systems like smarty since InterJinn compiles to PHP source code and does not use a cache (although it can be set to automatically recompile pages when dependencies change). At any rate I don't generally post about InterJinn here anymore since some of the regulars tend to get annoyed ;) Mind you I don't post much at all anymore since I became a father a year and a half ago... priorities you know :) Cheers, Rob. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney | WEBSITES: Webmaster and IT Specialist | http://www.garden.org National Gardening Association| http://www.kidsgardening.com 802-863-5251 x156 | http://nationalgardenmonth.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://vermontbotanical.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: __autoLoad php5 callback is being triggered for every class ?
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm experiencing some issues with autoLoad with pear packages. DB_Error is
contained within the DB.php, but my autoload method is trying to split the
underscores with forward slashes and then load. Supressing errors with @
still doesnt work, its triggering a php error. Any ideas ?
Sounds to me like you may need to do a quick call to file_exists()
before trying to load it up. This may involve looping through the
elements in your include_path to build the paths:
// assuming $class = class requested
$file = str_replace('_', '/', $class) . '.php';
$include_path = ini_get('include_path');
$paths = explode(':', $include_path);
$final = '';
foreach ($paths as $path) {
if (file_exists($path/$file)) {
$final = $path/$file;
break;
}
}
if (!empty($final)) {
include_once $final;
}
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Re: [PHP] __autoLoad php5 callback is being triggered for every class ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm experiencing some issues with autoLoad with pear packages. DB_Error is contained within the DB.php, but my autoload method is trying to split the underscores with forward slashes and then load. Supressing errors with @ still doesnt work, its triggering a php error. Any ideas ? __autoload() gets called whenever you reference a class that has not been defined. additionally its called if you call class_exists() and the class doesn't ... unless you call class_exists() with the second parameter to false. if your __autoload() is being called then the class is not loaded and from what you say its seems your autoload function can't find the relevant file - whats the function look like? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] __autoLoad php5 callback is being triggered for every class ?
Its DB_Error which is the error callback for the PEAR DB. I dont know where its being references but its triggering my php error handler and i cant supress the errors for require. There is no such file DB/Error.php however i may have to create one just to make it go away :) On 29/04/2005, at 9:32 PM, Jochem Maas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm experiencing some issues with autoLoad with pear packages. DB_Error is contained within the DB.php, but my autoload method is trying to split the underscores with forward slashes and then load. Supressing errors with @ still doesnt work, its triggering a php error. Any ideas ? __autoload() gets called whenever you reference a class that has not been defined. additionally its called if you call class_exists() and the class doesn't ... unless you call class_exists() with the second parameter to false. if your __autoload() is being called then the class is not loaded and from what you say its seems your autoload function can't find the relevant file - whats the function look like? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] mail problem
It probably means your email server is not setup for open relaying (aka spam server). Mail servers should require a login in order to send email through them. The mail() function itself doesn't support names and passwords, but other php functions do. You might want to look into phpmailer to handle you email needs. Alternatively, you could setup your email server to allow open relaying from the localhost. But that's not really recommended even if you know exactly what you are doing with the mail server configuration. On Apr 29, 2005, at 3:27 AM, Ross wrote: I get the following mail problem when trying to send from localhost. Any ideas? Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for [EMAIL PROTECTED] in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\ssn\adv_mail.php on line 179 R. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Brent Baisley Systems Architect Landover Associates, Inc. Search Advisory Services for Advanced Technology Environments p: 212.759.6400/800.759.0577 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Round to the nearest X - SOLVED
Thank you for everyone's suggestions. Using them
(and a few other things I've found elsewhere), I've
come up with the following function:
function roundToNearest( $number, $toNearest = 5 ) {
$retval = 0;
$mod = $number % $toNearest;
if( $mod = 0 ) {
$retval = ( $mod ( $toNearest / 2 )) ? $number + ( $toNearest - $mod )
: $number - $mod;
} else {
$retval = ( $mod ( -$toNearest / 2 )) ? $number - $mod : $number +
( -$toNearest - $mod );
}
return $retval;
} // end function round();
that works with positive and negative numbers and seems
to work with every test I threw at it.
Thanks again for everyone's help!
thnx,
Chris
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[PHP] Re: __autoLoad php5 callback is being triggered for every class ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm experiencing some issues with autoLoad with pear packages. DB_Error is contained within the DB.php, but my autoload method is trying to split the underscores with forward slashes and then load. Supressing errors with @ still doesnt work, its triggering a php error. Any ideas ? Try loading DB before DB_Error because __autoload() only gets called if a class is not already loaded. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] POP access to gmail
Does anyone know of a PHP script to access gmail's POP services? Thanks, Malcolm. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] POP access to gmail
On 4/29/05, Malcolm Mill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a PHP script to access gmail's POP services? Check PEAR. There is a POP communication script that you may like there. http://pear.php.net/package/Net_POP3 HTH, -- The Disguised Jedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now you have my $0.02. Or .01 Pounds, .014 Euros, or $0.025 CAN. I'm world-wide BABY! PHP rocks! Knowledge is Power. Power Corrupts. Go to school, become evil Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. However, I must say that the ENTIRE contents of this message are subject to other's criticism, corrections, and speculations. This message is Certified Virus Free
[PHP] Re: POP access to gmail
http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/ excellent and easy to use class Malcolm Mill wrote: Does anyone know of a PHP script to access gmail's POP services? Thanks, Malcolm. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] help formatting a mysql datetime variable
I'm trying to get a mysql datetime variable called $cdate formatted so
it will print:
Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 8:00:00 PM Eastern Time
I tried the following but it's not perfect.
--
$newDate = date('I, F d, Y at g:i:s A T', $cdate);
echo $newDate;
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[PHP] check for alphanumeric characters
what kind of a function can I use that will tell me whether a variable is alphanumeric (that is has only characters A-Z or 1-9 )? -- Diana Castillo Global Reservas, S.L. C/Granvia 22 dcdo 4-dcha 28013 Madrid-Spain Tel : 00-34-913604039 Ext 216 Fax : 00-34-915228673 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.hotelkey.com http://www.destinia.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] check for alphanumeric characters
[snip] what kind of a function can I use that will tell me whether a variable is alphanumeric (that is has only characters A-Z or 1-9 )? [/snip] You can use a regular expression, start here http://us3.php.net/regex -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] check for alphanumeric characters
Diana Castillo wrote: what kind of a function can I use that will tell me whether a variable is alphanumeric (that is has only characters A-Z or 1-9 )? Something like this should work. (untested) preg_match ( /^([a-z]||[A-Z]||[0-9])+$/, $string ) -- John C. Nichel ÜberGeek KegWorks.com 716.856.9675 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] only allowing php_flag register_globals off
Hi, I am on a quest for a new good webhost and I am currently using a trail account at a host that seems pretty good, but has one problem. I cannot turn register_globals off. They don't allow php_flag/php_value in .htaccess for security reasons but in this case it's causing insecurity It's not that I can't code secure enough code to deal with this, but I'm also running other (public) php applications, and I just want register_globals off, period. I have tried to convince the sysadmin to find a way to turn it off just for my account but I think they don't want to set up individual configs or something. One final way I want to try to convince him is to allow the register_globals php_flag only in the general configuration, so that you can only use this flag and no others. That way, the only thing allowed is actually closing a security risk. B But I can't find any info on this, is there a way to configure apache and/or PHP so that you allow only one type of php_flag? Please help me, I've been looking for a host for ages and I'm really getting tired of this :-( Thanks a million! Karin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 13:27, Clive Zagno wrote: Wait - doesn't smarty 'compile' the php file and the tpl file into another php file. If you look into templates_c directory you find some 'compiled' templates. I didn't say smarty wasn't compiled, only that InterJinn avoids the cache overhead incurred by smarty since InterJinn compiles to the actual page loaded by the browser, and not as smarty does... into a cache file which then needs to be loaded by the smarty engine, subsequently requiring smarty to be loaded beforehand incurring yet another overhead. Cheers, Rob. I use InterJinn, smarty, and PHP as template engines depending on what the client wants and how much work they want done, and how much elegance, modularity, and maintainability they want. Of the three I like smarty the least which is probably why I wrote my own engine :) Oh wait, I've also used eztemplate which by far takes the cake of horrible horrible templating. While PHP is itself usable as a templating engine, it's not what I would call clear and concise when used that way (but maybe that's because I've come across too many instances where the previous developer mixed business logic with display logic and then I had to rework the functionality which was a nightmare :). When using InterJinn I save the overhead of run-time includes incurred by using PHP as a templating engine, and I save the overhead of cache checks incurred by systems like smarty since InterJinn compiles to PHP source code and does not use a cache (although it can be set to automatically recompile pages when dependencies change). At any rate I don't generally post about InterJinn here anymore since some of the regulars tend to get annoyed ;) Mind you I don't post much at all anymore since I became a father a year and a half ago... priorities you know :) Cheers, Rob. -- .. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] authentication problem
Hi all
I'm trying to do authentication with database. I
created the database and I inserted some usernames and
passwords into my database. By using the below file,
I'm trying to give access to the main page for the
accounts that matches the username and password. The
problem is that it do not recognize the usernames and
password that i already inserted and it dont let me
in.
Do you see an problem with the code ort any idea?
When I modifiy that line to 0, it lets me in
if (mysql_num_rows($result) ==0) //---like
that
Thanks in advance :)
This is my form and php file--
?php
session_start();
$errorMessage = '';
if (isset($_POST['txtUserId'])
isset($_POST['txtPassword'])) {
include 'library/config.php';
include 'library/opendb.php';
$userId = $_POST['txtUserId'];
$password = $_POST['txtPassword'];
// check if the user id and password combination
exist in database
$sql = SELECT user_id
FROM tbl_auth_user
WHERE user_id = '$userId' AND
user_password = PASSWORD('$password');
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die('Query failed.
' . mysql_error());
if (mysql_num_rows($result) ==1) {
// the user id and password match,
// set the session
$_SESSION['db_is_logged_in'] = true;
// after login we move to the main page
header('Location: main.php');
exit;
} else {
$errorMessage = 'Sorry, wrong user id /
password';
}
include 'library/closedb.php';
}
?
html
head
titleBasic Login/title
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1
/head
body
?php
if ($errorMessage != '') {
?
p align=centerstrongfont color=#99?php
echo $errorMessage; ?/font/strong/p
?php
}
?
form action= method=post name=frmLogin
id=frmLogin
table width=400 border=1 align=center
cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2
tr
td width=150User Id/td
tdinput name=txtUserId type=text
id=txtUserId/td
/tr
tr
td width=150Password/td
tdinput name=txtPassword type=password
id=txtPassword/td
/tr
tr
td width=150nbsp;/td
tdinput name=btnLogin type=submit
id=btnLogin value=Login/td
/tr
/table
/form
/body
/html
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Re: [PHP] check for alphanumeric characters
what kind of a function can I use that will tell me whether a variable is
alphanumeric (that is has only characters A-Z or 1-9 )?
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.ctype-alnum.php
bool ctype_alnum ( string text )
Checks if all of the characters in the provided string, text, are
alphanumeric. In the standard C locale letters are just [A-Za-z] and the
function is equivalent to preg_match('/^[a-z0-9]*$/i', $text).
Returns TRUE if every character in text is either a letter or a digit,
FALSE otherwise.
Note that if you pass in an empty string you'll also get TRUE...
-philip
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Re: [PHP] check for alphanumeric characters
Philip Hallstrom wrote:
what kind of a function can I use that will tell me whether a variable is
alphanumeric (that is has only characters A-Z or 1-9 )?
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.ctype-alnum.php
bool ctype_alnum ( string text )
Checks if all of the characters in the provided string, text, are
alphanumeric. In the standard C locale letters are just [A-Za-z] and the
function is equivalent to preg_match('/^[a-z0-9]*$/i', $text).
Returns TRUE if every character in text is either a letter or a digit,
FALSE otherwise.
Note that if you pass in an empty string you'll also get TRUE...
I always forget about the c_type functions. Good call.
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Re: [PHP] check for alphanumeric characters
* John Nichel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Diana Castillo wrote:
what kind of a function can I use that will tell me whether a variable is
alphanumeric (that is has only characters A-Z or 1-9 )?
Something like this should work. (untested)
preg_match ( /^([a-z]||[A-Z]||[0-9])+$/, $string )
It can be simpler than that, actually:
preg_match('/^[a-z0-9]+$/i', $string)
(tested and works)
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Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
Clive Zagno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I dont mind seeing php and html together, but designer generally hate it, so I would want to seperate php code from html as much as possible. if this is your objective than it could be worthwile for you to look at TemplateTamer, since it has very clean separation between those two, the designers get their html template file, and you get your .logic.php file, and it would rarely if ever happen that you edit each others file, or stomp over each oders code. In addition to that, not only that TT would separate php from html, it will also not introduce new progaming constructs in template, as many fat template systems do. rush -- http://www.templatetamer.com/ http://www.folderscavenger.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Session Expiring
Hi list, I want to have the page expire after ten minutes of inactivity. For example, if you goto Travelocity.com and do a search then sit idle for awhile it refreshes the page with a notice that you've been idle etc. I want to dupe this but I only know the cheeseball way of using the meta tag http-equiv-refresh. What's a good alternative to using http-eqiuv-refresh? John -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Session Expiring
On Fri, April 29, 2005 10:28 am, John Martinez said: I want to have the page expire after ten minutes of inactivity. For example, if you goto Travelocity.com and do a search then sit idle for awhile it refreshes the page with a notice that you've been idle etc. I want to dupe this but I only know the cheeseball way of using the meta tag http-equiv-refresh. What's a good alternative to using http-eqiuv-refresh? As far as PHP goes, you can expire the session *OR* force them to re-login after time X with the same session easily enough when they hit a new page. But as far as having the browser doing something when it's idle, it's *NOT* going to be PHP! PHP lives on the server. It knows *nothing* about an idle browser. As far as I know, though, the only alternative to the HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH would be some kind of JavaScript timer, which, to me, would be even more cheeseball than HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH... But that's just me. Why don't you just look at Travelocity.com HTML source. Whatever they are doing, it has to be in there, and it *CANNOT* be in anything server-side. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Templating engines
Mattias Thorslund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (On the subject of templating engines, again.) I wonder what you folks think of the following: http://www.massassi.com/php/articles/template_engines/ hi! It is nicely written, but actually, I think completely oposite from you. The way I see it, the statement that template system purpose is to separate bussines logic from presentation, is the biggest missconception about templates :) Not that I think that bussines logic should not be separated from presentation logic, it is only that I think that it shold be separated in your php code design, l, not by the template system. And html, and code should be separated, one is used to model static and visual concepts, and another to model dynamic concepts. And they usually get defined by people with completely different skills and even mindsets. Anyway, I do not think there is One Right Way, of looking at templates. I for one would never be satsfied with fat temlates like they are in Smarty for example. But on the other hand I understand that there are people that would never trade their Smarty templates. So as we do not get to exclusive about how thing must be done, we could get along nicely :) rush -- http://www.templatetamer.com/ http://www.folderscavenger.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] authentication problem
On Fri, April 29, 2005 8:50 am, Yavuz S. Atmaca said:
$sql = SELECT user_id
FROM tbl_auth_user
WHERE user_id = '$userId' AND
user_password = PASSWORD('$password');
Did you use the PASSWORD function when you inserted your passwords, or are
they just plain-text?
SELECT * FROM tbl_auth_user;
If you see 'secret' in the user_password field, you need to do:
UPDATE tbl_auth_user SET user_password = PASSWORD(user_password) WHERE
user_id = 1;
Or whatever user_id has a clear-text user_password.
That's about the only thing I can see that could be messing you up...
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Re: [PHP] only allowing php_flag register_globals off
On Fri, April 29, 2005 7:51 am, Karin van den Berg said: I am on a quest for a new good webhost and I am currently using a trail account at a host that seems pretty good, but has one problem. I cannot turn register_globals off. They don't allow php_flag/php_value in .htaccess for security reasons but in this case it's causing insecurity Are they unwilling to change it for a paying account, or just the trial one? Big difference. :-) Though they may not be willing to do it for paid account either, depending on how they maintain their httpd.conf file, and what changes on a per-VirtualHost basis they can cope with. But I can't find any info on this, is there a way to configure apache and/or PHP so that you allow only one type of php_flag? I don't think anybody can do that... They could certainly, in theory, add a flag in httpd.conf for your VirtualHost, but not make .htaccess work just for one php_flag and no others. .htaccess off also gives a performance boost they might not be willing to forego, even if it were possible. Please help me, I've been looking for a host for ages and I'm really getting tired of this :-( I always recommend http://hostbaby.com, personally. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Is there any way to show the error file without showing the dir information?
In many case, if there is an error happen in a php script, it may return an error message something like Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /home/content/usr/html/test.php on line 6 Is there any way to not show the dir information, but only as test.php on line 6 instead? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] help formatting a mysql datetime variable
On Fri, April 29, 2005 7:38 am, Bosky, Dave said:
I'm trying to get a mysql datetime variable called $cdate formatted so
it will print:
Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 8:00:00 PM Eastern Time
I tried the following but it's not perfect.
--
$newDate = date('I, F d, Y at g:i:s A T', $cdate);
echo $newDate;
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http://php.net/date may help you.
You should also consider using MySQL's date_format function.
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Re: [PHP] SOLVEDphp Full Page Calendar not date picker
Well you could have shared that script with us. I am actually looking for the same thing. Thanks, Wil - Original Message - From: Angelo Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: PHP List php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 5:25 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] SOLVEDphp Full Page Calendar not date picker I got a script from a friend of mine. Otherwise I would have definitely given the URL... Petar Nedyalkov wrote: On Friday 29 April 2005 11:43, Angelo Zanetti wrote: Dont worry guys i solved it. And if you name the solution, it'll be a perfect finish for this thread. Remember, this mailing-list is used as a knowledge base from a lot of people. Angelo Zanetti wrote: Hi all. Im looking for a PHP/Javascript calender that is a full page calender. IE: for each day there is quite a big block. Therefore it will be a bigger form of a date picker. What I want to do is to be able to assign notes for each day. I've seen the smarty calender which is exactly what I need but Im not using smarty for this particular project. thanks in advance. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Templating engines
rush wrote:
Mattias Thorslund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(On the subject of templating engines, again.)
I wonder what you folks think of the following:
http://www.massassi.com/php/articles/template_engines/
hi!
It is nicely written, but actually, I think completely oposite from you. The
way I see it, the statement that template system purpose is to separate
bussines logic from presentation, is the biggest missconception about
templates :)
Nice turn of phrase. It took me a while to see that you didn't misread
the article. :-P
Not that I think that bussines logic should not be separated from
presentation logic, it is only that I think that it shold be separated in
your php code design, l, not by the template system. And html, and code
should be separated, one is used to model static and visual concepts, and
another to model dynamic concepts. And they usually get defined by people
with completely different skills and even mindsets.
I suppose this depends on the situation. If the graphic designers are
allergic to seeing ?=$var;? instead of {$var}, I suppose a
templating engine like Smarty or TemplateTamer is the way to go. Or, if
you wanted to prevent the graphic designer from adding some complicated
PHP code in the code , say because they don't understand how to
structure the code. Or, because the templates will be created and
uploaded by people who shouldn't have access to upload PHP code to the
server.
As for the article, I know the author describes putting even pretty
complicated presentation logic in the template. I agree that that's
probably not such a good idea. But I don't see where the
PHP-as-templating engine concept implies that you couldn't also separate
the business logic from the (dynamic) presentation logic in the php
code, before calling the template. The static layout in the PHP
'template' file is basically HTML only, with placeholders for the
dynamic data - only that the placeholders are also valid PHP, not
yet-another language.
Anyway, I do not think there is One Right Way, of looking at templates. I
for one would never be satsfied with fat temlates like they are in Smarty
for example. But on the other hand I understand that there are people that
would never trade their Smarty templates. So as we do not get to exclusive
about how thing must be done, we could get along nicely :)
Agreed. I don't lose sleep over it :-)
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[PHP] Having problems connecting to MS SQL2000 server on PHP5
Hi, Follwoing is a problem I'm having following some advice in a book called PHP5 in easy steps written by Mike McGrath: This is a connection that seems not to work according to the writer of PHP 5 in easy steps : html head titleMS SQL2000 Connection Test/title /head body h2 ?php $connection = mssql_connect ( MS_SQL2000 ) or die ( Sorry - unable to connect to MS SQL2000 ); echo (Congratulations, Vernon, - you connected to MS SQL2000) ; ? /h2 /body /html He originally wrote (for line 6) $connection = mysql_connect ( localhost, root, ) or die (Sorry - unable to connect to connect to MySQL); All I am doing is trying to use MS SQL2000 which I have running on my comptuer, along with Apache Server (1.3.33)and PHP5 (5.0.4) And get a result that does not connect. Give it a try and you will see. I created a file in the htdocs folder of Apache and it is named mssqltest.php and has the above scripts. Rather than using the MySQL that the author has suggested to use, I'm using my exisiting MS SQL2000 that is up and running. Also I have not had much success with Apache Server 2.0.54 as yet.. any one else? Would be nice if authors would not assume that you ALWAYS want to use MySQL or any other database manager, and just put in a few examples from different angles. thanks in advance if you have some ideas for me. CHEERS!! Vernon Flintknapper Forums at: http://scottieluvr.com/v-web/bulletin/bb/index.php Vernon Jenewein 6658 116th Ave. Fennville, MI 49408 269-227-8748 You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (Jn 8:23) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (secondary) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] SOLVEDphp Full Page Calendar not date picker
Here's source code to one I wrote ages and ages ago... http://chatmusic.com/calendar.phps http://chatmusic.com/calendar.php Here's a similar one with PDF output: http://uncommonground.com/events.phps http://uncommonground.com/events.pdf Help yourself to whatever bits and pieces you want. YMMV On Fri, April 29, 2005 2:25 am, Angelo Zanetti said: I got a script from a friend of mine. Otherwise I would have definitely given the URL... Petar Nedyalkov wrote: On Friday 29 April 2005 11:43, Angelo Zanetti wrote: Dont worry guys i solved it. And if you name the solution, it'll be a perfect finish for this thread. Remember, this mailing-list is used as a knowledge base from a lot of people. Angelo Zanetti wrote: Hi all. Im looking for a PHP/Javascript calender that is a full page calender. IE: for each day there is quite a big block. Therefore it will be a bigger form of a date picker. What I want to do is to be able to assign notes for each day. I've seen the smarty calender which is exactly what I need but Im not using smarty for this particular project. thanks in advance. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Having problems connecting to MS SQL2000 server on PHP5
Check your php.ini. It seems you are running this on Windows w/Apache. Make sure php_mssql.dll (or php_mssql.so if you are on Linux) is NOT commented out. Also, I think you'll need a SQL account. Is the SQL Server in mixed mode or Windows authentication? Look in Enterprise MAnager or the registry (HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MSSqlserver\MSSqlServer\LoginMode) 1 is Windows authentication, 2 is mixed (SQL/Windows). Have a look here for others experiences: http://us4.php.net/function.mssql-connect -- Mike -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] How to know if php CAN write files on server and WHERE it can?
On Fri, April 29, 2005 1:51 am, Giulio said: Having to read some uploaded files, perform operations on them ( basically attach them on a single file ), and then save the resulting file using ftp, and trying to have the php page as general as possible ( I mean have it work on the larger number of server possible and without configuration settings ): 1) Could it be possible to have a php or server config that doesn't allow at all to write and read files on the server( I'm afraid yes) and how can I detect this situation from code, at least to show a this script can't run here message? It's certainly possible for a server to not allow any write access to anywhere for PHP, and probably even for there to be no possible way for the end user to alter the permissions of directories/files so they can't over-ride that... There is *NO* way for you to detect that from PHP, however, since in many cases the user/pass that can alter the file permissions is not accessible to PHP in any way, shape, or form, nor should it be. I guess you *could* attempt to write in every possible directory on the server, walking down from / to all the directories you can find, and eventually maybe find one, god knows where, that is writable... But that would probably get your script banned on every server :-) 2) All the upload_and_copy_files_somewhere_else examples relay on a destination directory explicitly set in the script. How can i have my php discover on its own where it can write and read, no matter the position since it is a kind of temporary and working folder, and I'll delete all files used when finished? If you're just going to delete the files after your script is done, why copy them somewhere else at all? Your best bet is to try and use the /tmp dir, or, more properly, what PHP thinks is a good place for tmp files. For that matter, using http://php.net/tmpfile may take care of all your worries on this one. If tmpfile doesn't work, then you might as well just give up. 3) Which security settings ( safe_mode and so on ) should I be aware of? All of them? [shrug] You're going to have to read the manual on this one. Some good tutorial somewhere? Thank you so much, There are a zillion, but I doubt that any of them address a generalized file upload script... Maybe check out how applications like squirrelmail handle file uploads before they send them off to email them out. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] SOLVEDphp Full Page Calendar not date picker
Here is cal from a scheduling app i have working on. http://www.imotes.com/cal2.php http://www.imotes.com/cal2.phps Richard Lynch wrote: Here's source code to one I wrote ages and ages ago... http://chatmusic.com/calendar.phps http://chatmusic.com/calendar.php Here's a similar one with PDF output: http://uncommonground.com/events.phps http://uncommonground.com/events.pdf Help yourself to whatever bits and pieces you want. YMMV On Fri, April 29, 2005 2:25 am, Angelo Zanetti said: -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Your Opinion
On Fri, April 29, 2005 1:51 am, Sudeep Sarath said: I'm planning to buy PHP5 MySQL Bible, the book written by Tim Converse, Joyce Park Clark Morgan. Give me your opinion on this book, if anyone has gone thru it. I tech-edited the first two editions, before a change in personnel at the Publisher. They were good, solid introduction/journeyman texts with enough meat to last you for awhile. They were geared toward somebody who had a LITTLE programming experience, and some HTML experience, rather than a complete beginner. I haven't read the latest edition, though. The addition of MySQL is a change -- possibly making it much larger, or possibly chopping out a fair amount of the content to make room for the MySQL stuff... Hope that is at least a little helpful. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] User Logout system advice needed...
On Thu, April 28, 2005 10:51 pm, William Stokes said: How about preventing access by hitting the browsers back button after the user has logged out? Try sending an md5 or uniqid out as TYPE=HIDDEN with your login, and marking it used after the first login. Also educate the users to CLOSE THEIR BROWSER to clear out all credentials. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] passing a variable through 2 required files embedded in Javascript
On Thu, April 28, 2005 9:08 pm, Mark Cain said: What a mess this has turned out to be -- But perhaps you can help me. I have a dynamic site that pulls headers, navigation, and footers from text files. The content for the pages is pulled from mySQL. On each page I have a JavaScript rotating banner that displays Upcoming Events. The banners rotate about every 4 seconds without the need for a page refresh. The names of the individual banners themselves are fed into JavaScript from a PHP script that reads a folder of JPG files and makes a decision as to which ones to show (i.e. pass to the JavaScript). This all works and it's slick seeing that I have the difficulty of dealing with a server side script and a client script. The browser calls a JavaScript file which has a php extension. When the server sees the php extension the file is executed before it is delivered to the browser. Since JavaScript complains about PHP functions in that file that file merely echo back standard JavaScript and calls another php file via require() that does the low level work of reading the folder and reporting back the JavaScript arrays. Graphically it looks like this: It sounds to me like you really should just cut this in HALF with: PHP script outputs header with JavaScript and then body with JavaScript. As you have it now, every page hits the web server *TWICE* causing twice the overhead of resources used by HTTP. That's not real efficient. But that's just me. 1) the Page calls the header 2) the header calls 3) a php generated JavaScript file which calls 4) a php file that reads the folder on the server and builds the JavaScript arrays I mean to say: ?php /* Choose your JavaScript banner ads here. */ require 'header.inc'; //This outputs JavaScript to rotate selected banners /* rest of page here */ ? Now I need to add a feature and I am bumping my head on this one. How do I report the file name of the file that called the header in # 4 ? In other words, I want the name of #1 to be reported in #4. If I use $_SERVER[PHP_SELF], that variable reports the name of #4. It gets a little tricky because #3 is called from within a JavaScript tag. Have you looked at $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']? You may need to pass it around in a new variable ?php $source_page = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']? from PHP to JavaScript and back again, but it's there for you to use it. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Templating engines
What templating engines do you use with php and why? Ive been using smarty (http://smarty.php.net) Clive. I just can't work with PHP the usual way. Mixing business source and interface source is something too bastard for me. Now that I know templates systems I totaly disagree to say that PHP is a Template Engine. Ok, it has some basic template features, but they are too poor to use it this way seriously. It would be like calling Notepad / VI / TextEdit Html Editors. I made and use TinyButStrong, because all other seems too complicated and had too much programming at the design side for me. It's mature now. It's also the only Template Engine that's really works with WYSIWYG templates. --- Skrol29 www.tinybutstrong.com --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] inserting an auto incemented column in table already created
Hi, I have a table with 15 columns or so that has been inherited from an older db and am trying to insert an auto increment column (in mysql) without having to number it manually. This is fine when I add new colums via a form but the old entries have a null value Alternatively It has been converted from Excel soif anyone knows how to do it that way that would help.I never use Excel so have no clue about it. R. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Is there any way to show the error file without showing the dir information?
cchereTieShou wrote: In many case, if there is an error happen in a php script, it may return an error message something like Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /home/content/usr/html/test.php on line 6 Is there any way to not show the dir information, but only as test.php on line 6 instead? If this is really important for you then you should check out this link: http://php.net/manual/en/function.set-error-handler.php Although personally I like detailed info going into my error log. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] inserting an auto incemented column in table already created
[snip] I have a table with 15 columns or so that has been inherited from an older db and am trying to insert an auto increment column (in mysql) without having to number it manually. This is fine when I add new colums via a form but the old entries have a null value Alternatively It has been converted from Excel soif anyone knows how to do it that way that would help.I never use Excel so have no clue about it. [/snip] Just out of curiosity, wouldn't this be better on a MySQL list? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
On 4/29/05, Skrol 29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be like calling Notepad / VI / TextEdit Html Editors. HTML is text.. so any text editor is an HTML editor by default, including vi. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] inserting an auto incemented column in table already created
On Fri, April 29, 2005 2:14 pm, Ross Hulford said:
I have a table with 15 columns or so that has been inherited from an older
db and am trying to insert an auto increment column (in mysql) without
having to number it manually. This is fine when I add new colums via a
form
but the old entries have a null value
$new_id = 1;
do {
$query = select SOMETHING_UNIQUE from whatever where NEW_ID is NULL
LIMIT 1;
$results = mysql_query($query);
$something_unique = mysql_result($results, 0, 0);
$query = update whatever set NEW_ID = $new_id where SOMETHING_UNIQUE =
$something_unique;
mysql_query($query);
} while (mysql_num_rows($results));
Alternatively It has been converted from Excel soif anyone knows how to do
it that way that would help.I never use Excel so have no clue about it.
In excel, you can just put '1' in the first row, and then move down a row,
and type the following sequence:
=[up_arrow]+1
and hit enter
At that point, you should be seeing a '2' in the second row.
You can copy that cell, highlight rows 3 through N, and use Paste
All your rows are now numbered, 1 to N.
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Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
Skrol 29 wrote: What templating engines do you use with php and why? Ive been using smarty (http://smarty.php.net) Clive. I just can't work with PHP the usual way. Mixing business source and interface source is something too bastard for me. Now that I know templates systems I totaly disagree to say that PHP is a Template Engine. Ok, it has some basic template features, but they are too poor to use it this way seriously. Who says PHP itself is a template engine? I think nobody. What are the basic template features? However, there is a school of thought regarding templates that advocates template engines (written in, for instance, PHP) which use PHP as their template syntax, so that there is no need to invent new tags or placeholders. You could read the article I linked to before, it has examples. Actually, here's the link again: http://www.massassi.com/php/articles/template_engines/ Best regards, Mattias -- More views at http://www.thorslund.us -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
Who says PHP itself is a template engine? I do. More importantly, Rasmus does. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Splitting Vars from MySQL in PHP
I remember in Perl I used to extract vars from a single fetchrow by adding each var name to the beginning (like this). Only this ain'ta workin :)... Anyone know the right syntax to do this? ($var1, $var2, $var3)= mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
Mattias Thorslund wrote: ... Who says PHP itself is a template engine? I think nobody. What are the basic template features? Variables / placeholders Looping construct(s) Conditionals A way to apply styles to text / markup However, there is a school of thought regarding templates that advocates template engines (written in, for instance, PHP) which use PHP as their template syntax, so that there is no need to invent new tags or placeholders. You could read the article I linked to before, it has examples. Actually, here's the link again: http://www.massassi.com/php/articles/template_engines/ The point of this article is that PHP is a good template engine ;) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Splitting Vars from MySQL in PHP
On 4/29/05, jlfx mailgroups [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember in Perl I used to extract vars from a single fetchrow by adding each var name to the beginning (like this). Only this ain'ta workin :)... Anyone know the right syntax to do this? ($var1, $var2, $var3)= mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php list($var1, $var2, $var3) = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC); http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.list.php -Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
Richard Lynch wrote: Who says PHP itself is a template engine? I do. More importantly, Rasmus does. What? My li'l brother does PHP? Or you mean him Lerdorf? Sorry... /Mattias -- More views at http://www.thorslund.us
Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
Jason Barnett wrote: Mattias Thorslund wrote: ... Who says PHP itself is a template engine? I think nobody. What are the basic template features? Variables / placeholders Looping construct(s) Conditionals A way to apply styles to text / markup So I suppose I'm just confused over what constitutes a templating engine? I was thinking that the class/tool/program/whatever that handles the templates would be the template engine. I'm aware that a PHP-as-template-template would use PHP's native syntax for variables/loops/conditionals. Then I wonder what makes skol29 think PHP's basic template features are too poor to be used seriously? I think PHP's basic template features are phenomenal. However, there is a school of thought regarding templates that advocates template engines (written in, for instance, PHP) which use PHP as their template syntax, so that there is no need to invent new tags or placeholders. You could read the article I linked to before, it has examples. Actually, here's the link again: http://www.massassi.com/php/articles/template_engines/ The point of this article is that PHP is a good template engine ;) As I saw it, the PHP class described in the article would be the template, but that's obviously a misconception on my part. What's the generic term for the template handling class, then? Cheers, Mattias -- More views at http://www.thorslund.us -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
Mattias Thorslund wrote:
Skrol 29 wrote:
What templating engines do you use with php and why?
Ive been using smarty (http://smarty.php.net)
Clive.
I just can't work with PHP the usual way.
Mixing business source and interface source is something too bastard
for me.
Now that I know templates systems I totaly disagree to say that PHP is a
Template Engine. Ok, it has some basic template features, but they are
too
poor to use it this way seriously.
Who says PHP itself is a template engine? I think nobody.
I do.
It comes down to whether you want the delineation between the template
and the business logic enforced by the system or not. PHP is a
general-purpose templating system that does not enforce this
delineation. It lets you choose exactly how much logic you are going to
allow in your templates. If you have no control over the people
creating your templates, that may not be appropriate, but in many cases
it is perfectly fine. It just takes a bit of discipline to use it
correctly.
You also need to recognize that you are going to need presentation-layer
logic. You simply can't get around that and you shouldn't confuse
presentation-level logic, which can be quite complex, with the business
logic behind your application. I often see people make the mistake of
trying to separate their PHP code from their HTML which the article you
referenced hinted at as well.
The approach I tend to point people at is something I have been calling
a Template API. That is, when you build your application, you create a
template api to go along with it. In essence you are creating a
templating system for each application you write.
For example, I describe a simple such system here:
http://talks.php.net/show/mtladv05/20
To me, this is a perfectly good template (from the slide):
?php
start_poll(1);
$os = array(FreeBSD,Linux,OSX,Windows,Other);
?
p class=purpose
Please answer a couple of questions for us.
/p
p class=question
1. What is your name?
/p
?php text_answer('name',64)?
p class=question
2. Which operating systems do you use on a daily basis?
/p
?php select_any_of($os)?
p class=question
3. Which operating system do you prefer?
/p
?php select_one_of($os)?
?php end_poll(); ?
The end_poll() call could be eliminated as well to make it slightly
cleaner, but otherwise this is straight-forward with no mixing of
business-logic and content.
My main issue with general-purpose templating systems is that they
always end up inventing a new language. It may start off as a subset of
some other language, but eventually it turns into a new language. In
Smarty, for example, you now have stuff like:
{object-method p1=arg1 p2=$arg2 assign=output}
Result was {$output}
I fail to see how this is in any way better/easier/superior to:
?$output = $object-method(arg1,$arg2)?
Result was ?=$output?
As far as I am concerned you shouldn't be dealing with any sort of
objects from a template to begin with. There should be nothing but
simple variables and straight function calls from a template, but this
is a religious issue that people will never agree on. Hence PHP's
neutral approach where the exact templating delienation is left up to
the users.
-Rasmus
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Re: [PHP] Splitting Vars from MySQL in PHP
I remember in Perl I used to extract vars from a single fetchrow by adding each var name to the beginning (like this). Only this ain'ta workin :)... Anyone know the right syntax to do this? ($var1, $var2, $var3)= mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC) list($var1, $var2, $var3) = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC); http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.list.php But remember that list() only works with numerical arrays so use MYSQL_NUM (or array_values()) in the above. For associative, extract() can be useful. Regards, Philip -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
Mattias Thorslund wrote:
Who says PHP itself is a template engine? I think nobody.
I do.
It comes down to whether you want the delineation between the template
and the business logic enforced by the system or not. PHP is a
general-purpose templating system that does not enforce this
delineation.
That explanation is sensible enough.
[skipping ahead a little]
The approach I tend to point people at is something I have been
calling a Template API. That is, when you build your application, you
create a template api to go along with it. In essence you are
creating a templating system for each application you write.
For many projects, I think the approach you describe in the example
(below) is appropriate. One nice thing is that output can begin before
the whole page has been nearly processed. I don't know if many other
templating solutions can do that.
To me, it looks like it would be hard to keep the functions that are
called by the template to a reasonable format or number, at least in a
larger project. If it's a template that is to be used by many kinds of
pages, there would be either a large number of functions, or there would
be generic functions that need to do different things based on the
situation.
Of course, the functions could become methods of a page object. Then,
it gets easy to create specialized subclasses of page objects which can
respond differently to the same generic method call. Sounds more
attractive the more I think about it :-)
Then again, if I need a big object to handle the business logic (and
dynamic presentation logic) because my template approach is sequential,
it might be a toss-up compared to using sequential business logic and a
small template object.
For example, I describe a simple such system here:
http://talks.php.net/show/mtladv05/20
To me, this is a perfectly good template (from the slide):
?php
start_poll(1);
$os = array(FreeBSD,Linux,OSX,Windows,Other);
?
p class=purpose
Please answer a couple of questions for us.
/p
p class=question
1. What is your name?
/p
?php text_answer('name',64)?
p class=question
2. Which operating systems do you use on a daily basis?
/p
?php select_any_of($os)?
p class=question
3. Which operating system do you prefer?
/p
?php select_one_of($os)?
?php end_poll(); ?
The end_poll() call could be eliminated as well to make it slightly
cleaner, but otherwise this is straight-forward with no mixing of
business-logic and content.
My main issue with general-purpose templating systems is that they
always end up inventing a new language.
Except the class described in the article I was talking about. It uses
PHP as the template language. It's a big reason why I find it attractive.
[skipping discussion on Smarty]
As far as I am concerned you shouldn't be dealing with any sort of
objects from a template to begin with.
This does place some demands on the business logic.
There should be nothing but simple variables and straight function
calls from a template, but this is a religious issue that people will
never agree on. Hence PHP's neutral approach where the exact
templating delienation is left up to the users.
No doubt, people will continue to argue over it for a long time to
come. I try not to be religious about it, I simply want to know as many
sides of the issue as possible.
Best,
Mattias
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Re: [PHP] Is it possible to save a file with UTF-8 encoding and noBOM using PHP?
Jon M. wrote: No matter what I do to the strings to encode them in whatever format before using fwrite, it ALWAYS seems to end up writing the actual file in iso-8859-1. Isn't the encoding of the characters in PHP's strings, and the encoding of the actual binary file on your hard drive, two totally different things? Or am I just misinformed? A file is completely defined by its contents. If you fwrite UTF-8 data to the file, then it is a UTF-8 file. Whether your editor, or whatever it is you are using to determine the file is being written as iso-8859-1 is smart enough to pick this up is a completely different question. Why don't you try creating the same contents with PHP and with your preferred text editor and then compare the contents. Perhaps your editor is dropping a hint somewhere in it that you are not writing to the file from PHP. -Rasmus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
* Rasmus Lerdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
My main issue with general-purpose templating systems is that they
always end up inventing a new language. It may start off as a subset of
some other language, but eventually it turns into a new language. In
Smarty, for example, you now have stuff like:
{object- method p1=arg1 p2=$arg2 assign=output}
Result was {$output}
I fail to see how this is in any way better/easier/superior to:
?$output = $object- method(arg1,$arg2)?
Result was ?=$output?
As far as I am concerned you shouldn't be dealing with any sort of
objects from a template to begin with. There should be nothing but
simple variables and straight function calls from a template, but this
is a religious issue that people will never agree on. Hence PHP's
neutral approach where the exact templating delienation is left up to
the users.
I thoroughly agree with you on this point. I think in some areas of
Smarty development, they've gotten a little too complex, likely as a
result of people getting lazy in what they send to the template and
requesting new features. That said, I still use Smarty -- but I try to
send it straight scalars or arrays, as you suggest above, leaving my
heavy lifting in my application logic, and keep the presentation logic
more lightweight.
In reading The Pragmatic Programmer, I think that templating languages
are an application of using metadata or a domain language. The principle
here is a subset of the language -- or another language entirely that
can be interpreted by the original language -- helps to contain and
solve the problem. Sometimes it's easier to use the subset to describe
the process than the full language.
Let's face it, there's over 1000 functions in PHP; most of the time, I
only need a few of those for my display logic. Using a template engine
and its language helps me switch gears in my brain to thinking in terms
of display instead of my application logic.
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Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 21:09, Mattias Thorslund wrote:
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
Mattias Thorslund wrote:
Who says PHP itself is a template engine? I think nobody.
I do.
It comes down to whether you want the delineation between the template
and the business logic enforced by the system or not. PHP is a
general-purpose templating system that does not enforce this
delineation.
That explanation is sensible enough.
[skipping ahead a little]
The approach I tend to point people at is something I have been
calling a Template API. That is, when you build your application, you
create a template api to go along with it. In essence you are
creating a templating system for each application you write.
I think a problem here is when you decide to blend two projects that
started out separately. With a templating system (some anyways :) you
can just redefine the main layout for each page being merged into the
larger project in a single centralized location. The approach described
above would appear to require in depth modification of the application's
template API.
For many projects, I think the approach you describe in the example
(below) is appropriate. One nice thing is that output can begin before
the whole page has been nearly processed. I don't know if many other
templating solutions can do that.
Personally I find having the output ALWAYS begin after all business
logic has completed to be a better choice, that way upon error (a
catchable error) you can redirect the user to an info page that might
state the page is temporarily unaccessible.
To me, it looks like it would be hard to keep the functions that are
called by the template to a reasonable format or number, at least in a
larger project. If it's a template that is to be used by many kinds of
pages, there would be either a large number of functions, or there would
be generic functions that need to do different things based on the
situation.
I don't think that templates have a dependency between the number of
pages using the template and an increase in the number of functions. In
fact depending on the template, and the template engine, you can have
500 pages using the template and not a single function call. Including
the elimination of include() and include_once() calls since if the
template engine compiles to PHP it can do the includes at compile time
rather than punting to PHP to do at run-time.
Of course, the functions could become methods of a page object. Then,
it gets easy to create specialized subclasses of page objects which can
respond differently to the same generic method call. Sounds more
attractive the more I think about it :-)
So every time you want a small difference you subclass the main page
object. Seems a lot of work and overhead for something small. What
happens when you want to share functionality from one project in another
without recoding or copying it?
I personally prefer the modularization of custom functionality into
loadable compiler modules. I find this especially convenient when an XML
or XML-like template system is used that allows namespaces. Then you can
just include already created functionality via module includes at
compile time, and incur no overhead at run-time. Not to mention you get
to skip past the whole sub-classing nightmare, although there's nothing
to stop you from sub-classing a compiler module :) But at least it's
more portable and re-usable. Overhead is still incurred for
transformation on dynamic content, but even still if you are
transforming dynamic content via the template engine you at least
minimize the amount of work needing to be done at run-time.
Then again, if I need a big object to handle the business logic (and
dynamic presentation logic) because my template approach is sequential,
it might be a toss-up compared to using sequential business logic and a
small template object.
For example, I describe a simple such system here:
http://talks.php.net/show/mtladv05/20
To me, this is a perfectly good template (from the slide):
?php
start_poll(1);
$os = array(FreeBSD,Linux,OSX,Windows,Other);
?
p class=purpose
Please answer a couple of questions for us.
/p
p class=question
1. What is your name?
/p
?php text_answer('name',64)?
p class=question
2. Which operating systems do you use on a daily basis?
/p
?php select_any_of($os)?
p class=question
3. Which operating system do you prefer?
/p
?php select_one_of($os)?
?php end_poll(); ?
The end_poll() call could be eliminated as well to make it slightly
cleaner, but otherwise this is straight-forward with no mixing of
business-logic and content.
This works, but now what happens when your client/boss requests that the
operating system choice not be a multi-select list but rather checkboxes
and those check boxes should be 3 columns wide. The convenient
Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
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[PHP] About the mail().
Hi lists:
I am new here. And i know little about php. Sorry ask so stupid
question.
I want to use my local /usr/sbin/sendmail to send mail to a certain
address. I have checked the function_list in http://www,php.net.
And i found the mail(). It enough to my requirement.
And i have written a php file like below:
?php
if($_POST['send']) {
$message = $_POST['message'];
$body = . $message['username'] . \n .
. $message['usermail'] . \n .
. $message['compname'] . \n .
. $message['telephone'] . \n\n .
. $message['subject'] . \n .
. $message['content'] . \n;
$headers .= Content-Transfer-Encoding: UTF-8\n;
$headers .= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n;
$headers .= MIME-Version: 1.0\n;
$headers .= From: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
$headers .= X-Mailer: Online Help!(http://www.example.com)\n;
mail('[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '! ', $body, $headers);
header(Location: http://www.example.com;);
}
if($_POST['cancel']) {
header(Location: http://www.example.com;);
}
?
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd;
html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; xml:lang=zh
head
title/title
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=UTF-8 /
/head
body
h1 style=text-align:center;color: red/h1
div style=margin: auto; width: 65%;
p./p
form method=post
fieldset
legend/legend
input type=text name=message[username]
input type=text name=message[usermail] br
input type=text name=message[compname]
input type=text name=message[telephone]
/fieldset
fieldset
legend/legend
input name=message[subject] type=text size=30 value=
maxLength=100br
textarea name=message[content]rows=10 cols=70/textarea
div style=text-align:center
input type=submit name=send value=
input type=submit name=cancel value=
/div
/fieldset
/form
/div
/body
/html
But all the chinese words could change to . The charset of this
file is UTF-8.
I wonder know how to deal with it. And i am blind with it now. Because
the lack of experience with php.
Best regards
Wang Penghui
Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
Robert Cummings wrote: I think a problem here is when you decide to blend two projects that started out separately. With a templating system (some anyways :) you can just redefine the main layout for each page being merged into the larger project in a single centralized location. The approach described above would appear to require in depth modification of the application's template API. The template api is a functional description of the backend capabilities you are exposing to the templates. They shouldn't have to change unless you are making changes to those backend capabilities. The templates themselves provide the markup and location of these various components of the application. The stack looks like this: http://talks.php.net/show/lca05/58 So if you are blending things together you will at most need to change the top two layers. I don't think that templates have a dependency between the number of pages using the template and an increase in the number of functions. In fact depending on the template, and the template engine, you can have 500 pages using the template and not a single function call. Including the elimination of include() and include_once() calls since if the template engine compiles to PHP it can do the includes at compile time rather than punting to PHP to do at run-time. While compiling to PHP is by far superior to the various terrible eval() and regex-based templating layers out there, it is still dog-slow compared to tight specialized PHP code. Just instantiating the base Smarty class, for example, takes a very long time. I optimized a Smarty site a while back where I got a 50% speedup by migrating the base Smarty class to C in an extension. So while how you want to separate your business logic from your layout and content, which to me are actually 3 levels of separation, is a religious thing, performance is not. Even though most sites don't get anywhere near the traffic of the stuff I deal with at Yahoo!, it still makes a difference whether your pages get served up in 80ns vs. 500ns. The 80ns page starts rendering right away with no latency and the whole thing has a perceptible crispness to it. This works, but now what happens when your client/boss requests that the operating system choice not be a multi-select list but rather checkboxes and those check boxes should be 3 columns wide. The convenient select_any_of() function is no longer usable and while I know you can still use PHP as the template language, it surely doesn't look as neat as the above. Now add validation error messages, javascript events, and other stuff that is usually required in a real life situation. The source starts to get difficult to read and maintain as you switch in and out of PHP, HTML, and Javascript :) You simply change the select_any_of() API function, or make another one. There are 3 levels of separation here. For large projects you have people who provide content. In this example, these are the people writing the actual polls. They are not web designers, they don't know any Javascript and next to no HTML. They simply provide the content for the application. Much like a journalist would provide content to a news site. The next layer down is the HTML/Javascript and whatever presentation layer magic you need. And finally, the 3rd layer is the business logic which is where your database calls and real meat of your application resides. In this 3rd layer there is absolutely no HTML nor Javascript. -Rasmus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Templating engines
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 23:55, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: I don't think that templates have a dependency between the number of pages using the template and an increase in the number of functions. In fact depending on the template, and the template engine, you can have 500 pages using the template and not a single function call. Including the elimination of include() and include_once() calls since if the template engine compiles to PHP it can do the includes at compile time rather than punting to PHP to do at run-time. While compiling to PHP is by far superior to the various terrible eval() and regex-based templating layers out there, it is still dog-slow compared to tight specialized PHP code. Just instantiating the base Smarty class, for example, takes a very long time. I optimized a Smarty site a while back where I got a 50% speedup by migrating the base Smarty class to C in an extension. This isn't a problem for engines that compile to PHP source that has direct hooks into the necessary data structures that will contain the data at run time. Smarty isn't one of them though :) Cheers, Rob. -- .. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
