php-general Digest 16 Nov 2006 09:19:33 -0000 Issue 4462

2006-11-16 Thread php-general-digest-help

php-general Digest 16 Nov 2006 09:19:33 - Issue 4462

Topics (messages 244694 through 244708):

cURL uses
244694 by: Philip Thompson
244695 by: Dave Goodchild
244696 by: Jon Anderson
244697 by: Eric Butera
244698 by: cajbecu
244708 by: clive

Re: Splitting a string
244699 by: Børge Holen
244701 by: Chris
244702 by: Robert Cummings
244703 by: Chris
244704 by: Paul Novitski

Re: Highjack?
244700 by: Chris

Smart Quotes not so smart
244705 by: Larry Garfield
244706 by: Robert Cummings
244707 by: Travis Doherty

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Hi.

I've been doing some reading trying to figure out why I would want to  
use cURL. I have not found a solid reason yet. Does anyone have a  
useful example on why you would want to use cURL?


Thanks,
~Philip
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You would use cURL to achieve the things cURL is built to achieve?
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Philip Thompson wrote:
I've been doing some reading trying to figure out why I would want to 
use cURL. I have not found a solid reason yet. Does anyone have a 
useful example on why you would want to use cURL? 
It allows significant configurability and flexibility over PHP's more 
direct functions, for example, the ability to set a timeout, or get more 
direct control over output. You only have to read the curl documentation 
to see that it can do a lot of things that other PHP functions just 
can't do.


I would suggest that you probably shouldn't try to find a reason to use 
curl, rather a reason to use curl will find you.


jon
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On 11/15/06, Philip Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi.

I've been doing some reading trying to figure out why I would want to
use cURL. I have not found a solid reason yet. Does anyone have a
useful example on why you would want to use cURL?

Thanks,
~Philip

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Interfacing with payment/shipping gateway APIs.  For example, in my
store I must send post data to a payment gateway to tell them the
amount, cc#, etc. and they will return text telling me the transaction
passed/failed/etc.
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well, there are more reasons you should use cURL ..
- control and flexibility of the output,
- post variables,
- can interact with secure servers (ssl - supports certificates)
- can use with proxys (http/socks)
- set timeouts
- easily modify headers :)
- use different ip`s of the server when it`s used (if it is configured to do so)

please read documentation at php.net/curl before changing your mind to
not use it. it helps you a lot in your applications. an old frend told
me.. you`ll love this class - what to see.. it happend  :)


On 11/15/06, Philip Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi.

I've been doing some reading trying to figure out why I would want to
use cURL. I have not found a solid reason yet. Does anyone have a
useful example on why you would want to use cURL?

Thanks,
~Philip

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Dave Goodchild wrote:

You would use cURL to achieve the things cURL is built to achieve?

Wow that answer is not even worth the calories your burned type it.

Theres not such thing as stupid questions, only stupid answers

In your case this phrase holds some truth.
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Oh this was good.
I added a while loop to insert extra strings 0 in front of the number to add 
if the string is less than 5 chars short.

I forgot to mentinon that the string actually could be shorter (just found 
out) and the code didn't work with fewer than 5 char strings.  
But now is rocks.

Thanks again.

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 06:24, Paul Novitski wrote:
 At 11/14/2006 03:17 PM, Børge Holen wrote:
 $number = 123456789
 
 should print as following:
 var1: 12345   (and it is this lengt witch varies)
 var2: 67
 var3: 89.

 You can also do this with a regular expression:

 $iNumber = '123456789';
 $sPattern = '/(\d+)(\d{2})(\d{2})$/';
 preg_match($sPattern, $iNumber, $aMatches);

 Then $aMatches contains:

 Array
 (
  [0] = 123456789
  [1] = 12345
  [2] = 67
  [3] = 89
 )

 The regexp pattern /(\d+)(\d{2})(\d{2})$/ means:

  (one or more digits) (two digits) (two digits) [end of string]

 preg_match
 http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php

 Pattern Syntax
 http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php

 Regards,
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Re: [PHP] cURL uses

2006-11-16 Thread clive

Dave Goodchild wrote:

You would use cURL to achieve the things cURL is built to achieve?

Wow that answer is not even worth the calories your burned type it.

Theres not such thing as stupid questions, only stupid answers

In your case this phrase holds some truth.

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[PHP] file_get_contents

2006-11-16 Thread Tom Chubb

I am trying to read the contents of a PHP page for an audio player
and put it into a textarea to be copied and pasted into an HTML
page.
The trouble is the textarea shows unparsed PHP code and I just want the HTML.
The code is:

$player = file_get_contents('player.php');

//Strip out unnecessary HTML Code
if(preg_match('/!-- Start Player Code --(.*)!-- End Player Code
--/s', $player, $matches)) {
$code = $matches[1];
}
echo textarea name=\textarea\ cols=\70\ rows=\15\ . $code .
/textarea;
echo BR;
echo a href=\player.php\Click Here/a to view the player \n;

Looked at using eval() but found this:

Kepp the following Quote in mind:
If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the
wrong question. -- Rasmus Lerdorf, BDFL of PHP

(Hmmm...)

Any help much appreciated.

Tom

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Re: [PHP] Smart Quotes not so smart

2006-11-16 Thread clive

Larry Garfield wrote:



On our new devel setup (SQL Server 2k, OpenTDS ODBC driver, Apache, PHP 
5.1.6), it works fine.  On their new live setup, however, (same, but again 
not sure of the ODBC driver) they're getting the dreaded squares or question 
marks or accented characters that signify a garbled smart quote.  I know 
they're not unicode characters because Windows, the DB server, and the driver 
are all set to either UTF-8 or UTF-16.  


I had a similar probelm before, but in my case a had to commetn out this 
line: AddDefaultCharset  ISO-8859-1

in my httpd.conf file for apache

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Re: [PHP] file_get_contents

2006-11-16 Thread Jochem Maas
Tom Chubb wrote:
 I am trying to read the contents of a PHP page for an audio player
 and put it into a textarea to be copied and pasted into an HTML
 page.
 The trouble is the textarea shows unparsed PHP code and I just want the
 HTML.
 The code is:
 
 $player = file_get_contents('player.php');

file_get_content('http://blabla.com/player.php');
// requires allow_url_fopen to be set to On.

 
 //Strip out unnecessary HTML Code
 if(preg_match('/!-- Start Player Code --(.*)!-- End Player Code
 --/s', $player, $matches)) {
 $code = $matches[1];
 }
 echo textarea name=\textarea\ cols=\70\ rows=\15\ . $code .

htmlentities($code)

 /textarea;
 echo BR;
 echo a href=\player.php\Click Here/a to view the player \n;
 
 Looked at using eval() but found this:
 
 Kepp the following Quote in mind:
 If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the
 wrong question. -- Rasmus Lerdorf, BDFL of PHP

indeed eval is probably not the answer.

 
 (Hmmm...)
 
 Any help much appreciated.
 
 Tom
 

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[PHP] taking a one off payment

2006-11-16 Thread Ross
Hi,

What is the best way to take a one off payent (non-paypal).  I have used 
oscommece but never attempted a one payment like a subscription charge.


I would probalby be looking to use a trusted gateway like worldpay.


R. 

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Re: [PHP] taking a one off payment

2006-11-16 Thread Jochem Maas
Ross wrote:
 Hi,
 
 What is the best way to take a one off payent (non-paypal). 

cash in a stable currency ;-)

  I have used 
 oscommece but never attempted a one payment like a subscription charge.
 
 
 I would probalby be looking to use a trusted gateway like worldpay.
 
 
 R. 
 

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Re: [PHP] taking a one off payment

2006-11-16 Thread Google Kreme

On 16 Nov 2006, at 05:20 , Ross wrote:

What is the best way to take a one off payent


Paypal.


(non-paypal)


Well then, when you eliminate the obvious choice...


I have used oscommece


Speaking of oscommerce, has that package ever been fixed to run  
without register_globals?


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[PHP] ob_start() and a callback function within a class, not updating ob_get_level().

2006-11-16 Thread Mathijs

Hello there,

I have a question about ob_start() and ob_get_level().

When i use ob_start(), and then check ob_get_level(), it shows me 1.
This is a normal behavior.

Now when i do the following ob_start(array('ClassName', 'ClassMethod')).
It does execute the methode, but it doesn't update ob_get_level().

Is this a normal behavior?

Thx in advance.

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[PHP] printing page functionality

2006-11-16 Thread Ulf Hyltmark
Hi,

We are in need of a printing functionality for our webpage.
The problem is that some of our pages has a greater width than a A4 paper
so not all of the content will be printed when using the built in printer
functionality in the browser.

Is there any useful script out there that can take the necessary content of
the page and convert it to
simple text and columns that will fit the paper when printing?

or even better, a server application that can take the full content of the
page and convert it to
pdf or an image in a rescaled version that will fit the A4 paper?

I've had a look at these HTML to PDF conversion apps:
http://www.digitaljunkies.ca/dompdf/
http://www.rustyparts.com/pdf.php

But they don't really cut it as we are using relative and absolute
positioned divs and they don't
have support for this.

Thanks in advance
-Ulf

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Re: [PHP] CSS / PHP / Javascript

2006-11-16 Thread Myron Turner
You can use a browser sniffer, where they've done all the work for you, 
and then link in the appropriate stylesheet using document.write().  I 
don't have personal experience with the IE conditionals, but I would be 
concerned that they'd get you into a bit of a box when it comes to 
recognizing other browsers.


See:  http://www.webreference.com/tools/browser/javascript.html

Jochem Maas wrote:

hmmm, this reply turned into something that resembles a rant about halfway 
thru...
still ... maybe it's helpful in some way.

Ed Lazor wrote:

I'm reading a book on CSS and how you can define different style sheets
for different visitors.  I'm wondering how you guys do it.  The book
recommends using Javascript functions for identifying the user's browser
and matching them with the corresponding style sheets.  Anyone using PHP
for this instead - specifically with defining style sheets for different
target browsers and platforms?


having to define CSS files for particular browsers and/or platforms is 
indicative
of the crap we have to deal with - in theory you should NOT be targeting 
browser/platform
specificallt AT ALL. you should be writing stylesheets for different types
of user-agents (as defined by the W3C media types) - but who is really doing 
that.

I recommend trying to build your sites using CSS that all browsers understand
- i.e. avoid software/platform/version specific hacks whenever possible - when 
you
have to add such a hack try to use a technique that you can unobtrusively 
incorporate
into an existing CSS file.

the man named tantek has lots of techniques you can abuses ;-) :

e.g. http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/midpass.html

also consider that maybe you shouldn't try and tackle every visual discrepency
between 2 different browsers/platforms! - you may have clients who bully you
into 'fixing' layout in WeirdBrowser1.4 for instance - you need to develop a
means to explain the problem to clients in such a way that they understand that
not everything is under your control, and that they can't make you endlessly
chase moving targets (i.e. make the client understand that web != print).

if a client is willing to pay for every mindnumbing hour spent fixing arcane
browser specific display 'bugs' then everything is okay - but don't get stuck
working for weeks for no pay because some marketing manager has 'decided' he/she
knows better what a website is and to what extent you must comply to his 
implicit
wishes [i.e. you can break every 'rule' of website building and ignore/rape 
any/every
relevant specification/standard so long as everything ispixel perfect in every 
browser according
to the original mockup supplied by a graphic designer who can't even grasp the 
concept
of screen resolution (I know plenty of print-based designers that fall into 
this category)]


-Ed

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[PHP] Sorting multidimensional arrays

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Goodchild

Hi all. I have a multidimensional array here:

array(6) { [0]= array(25) { [0]= string(1) 7 [eventid]= string(1) 7
[1]= string(2) 17 [cat_id]= string(2) 17 [2]= string(13) Tits And
Bums [name]= string(13) Tits And Bums [3]= string(19) The Pleasure
Centre [venue]= string(19) The Pleasure Centre [4]= string(17) �8.00
per session [fee]= string(17) �8.00 per session [5]= string(12)
01297 453555 [c_phone]= string(12) 01297 453555 [6]= string(0) 
[c_site]= string(0)  [7]= string(4) RG29 [postcode]= string(4)
RG29 [8]= string(10) 2006-12-17 [start_date]= string(10)
2006-12-17 [9]= string(10) 2007-08-18 [end_date]= string(10)
2007-08-18 [10]= string(5) 16.00 [start_time]= string(5) 16.00
[11]= string(6) weekly [frequency]= string(6) weekly [date]=
int(1171753200) } [1]= array(25) { [0]= string(1) 7 [eventid]=
string(1) 7 [1]= string(2) 17 [cat_id]= string(2) 17 [2]=
string(13) Tits And Bums [name]= string(13) Tits And Bums [3]=
string(19) The Pleasure Centre [venue]= string(19) The Pleasure
Centre [4]= string(17) �8.00 per session [fee]= string(17) �8.00 per
session [5]= string(12) 01297 453555 [c_phone]= string(12) 01297
453555 [6]= string(0)  [c_site]= string(0)  [7]= string(4) RG29
[postcode]= string(4) RG29 [8]= string(10) 2006-12-17
[start_date]= string(10) 2006-12-17 [9]= string(10) 2007-08-18
[end_date]= string(10) 2007-08-18 [10]= string(5) 16.00
[start_time]= string(5) 16.00 [11]= string(6) weekly [frequency]=
string(6) weekly [date]= int(1172358000) } [2]= array(25) { [0]=
string(2) 10 [eventid]= string(2) 10 [1]= string(2) 17
[cat_id]= string(2) 17 [2]= string(16) Fitness For Life [name]=
string(16) Fitness For Life [3]= string(19) The Pleasure Centre
[venue]= string(19) The Pleasure Centre [4]= string(17) �8.00 per
session [fee]= string(17) �8.00 per session [5]= string(12) 01297
453555 [c_phone]= string(12) 01297 453555 [6]= string(0) 
[c_site]= string(0)  [7]= string(4) RG29 [postcode]= string(4)
RG29 [8]= string(10) 2006-12-17 [start_date]= string(10)
2006-12-17 [9]= string(10) 2007-12-23 [end_date]= string(10)
2007-12-23 [10]= string(5) 16.00 [start_time]= string(5) 16.00
[11]= string(6) weekly [frequency]= string(6) weekly [date]=
int(1171753200) } [3]= array(25) { [0]= string(2) 10 [eventid]=
string(2) 10 [1]= string(2) 17 [cat_id]= string(2) 17 [2]=
string(16) Fitness For Life [name]= string(16) Fitness For Life [3]=
string(19) The Pleasure Centre [venue]= string(19) The Pleasure
Centre [4]= string(17) �8.00 per session [fee]= string(17) �8.00 per
session [5]= string(12) 01297 453555 [c_phone]= string(12) 01297
453555 [6]= string(0)  [c_site]= string(0)  [7]= string(4) RG29
[postcode]= string(4) RG29 [8]= string(10) 2006-12-17
[start_date]= string(10) 2006-12-17 [9]= string(10) 2007-12-23
[end_date]= string(10) 2007-12-23 [10]= string(5) 16.00
[start_time]= string(5) 16.00 [11]= string(6) weekly [frequency]=
string(6) weekly [date]= int(1172358000) } [4]= array(25) { [0]=
string(2) 11 [eventid]= string(2) 11 [1]= string(2) 30
[cat_id]= string(2) 30 [2]= string(15) The Flea Market [name]=
string(15) The Flea Market [3]= string(18) The Covered Market
[venue]= string(18) The Covered Market [4]= string(1) 0 [fee]=
string(1) 0 [5]= string(12) 0186 577 [c_phone]= string(12) 0186
577 [6]= string(0)  [c_site]= string(0)  [7]= string(4) SW20
[postcode]= string(4) SW20 [8]= string(10) 2006-12-17
[start_date]= string(10) 2006-12-17 [9]= string(10) 2007-12-17
[end_date]= string(10) 2007-12-17 [10]= string(5) 16.00
[start_time]= string(5) 16.00 [11]= string(8) biweekly
[frequency]= string(8) biweekly [date]= int(1172358000) } [5]=
array(25) { [0]= string(1) 4 [eventid]= string(1) 4 [1]= string(2)
21 [cat_id]= string(2) 21 [2]= string(16) The Kickabout II
[name]= string(16) The Kickabout II [3]= string(18) The Football
Pitch [venue]= string(18) The Football Pitch [4]= string(1) 0
[fee]= string(1) 0 [5]= string(12) 01737 453666 [c_phone]=
string(12) 01737 453666 [6]= string(0)  [c_site]= string(0)  [7]=
string(3) RH1 [postcode]= string(3) RH1 [8]= string(10) 2007-02-19
[start_date]= string(10) 2007-02-19 [9]= string(10) -00-00
[end_date]= string(10) -00-00 [10]= string(4) 3.00
[start_time]= string(4) 3.00 [11]= string(6) single [frequency]=
string(6) single [date]= int(1171839600) } }

...which comprises a set of returned results for an events search - with the
date computed dynamically and added to the end of the array in each case.
What I want to do with this data is display the array in an html table,
sorted by the date. At the moment the display shows each event from earliest
to last date, then the next event from earliest to last etc. What I want to
do is display all the data from earliest to last date - my question is, how
do I sort the entire array based on the date value in the second level
array?

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Re: [PHP] Sorting multidimensional arrays

2006-11-16 Thread Robert Cummings
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 15:28 +, Dave Goodchild wrote:
 Hi all. I have a multidimensional array here:
 
 Bums [name]= string(13) Tits And Bums [3]= string(19) The Pleasure

 [--SNIP--]

 ...which comprises a set of returned results for an events search - with the
 date computed dynamically and added to the end of the array in each case.
 What I want to do with this data is display the array in an html table,
 sorted by the date. At the moment the display shows each event from earliest
 to last date, then the next event from earliest to last etc. What I want to
 do is display all the data from earliest to last date - my question is, how
 do I sort the entire array based on the date value in the second level
 array?

usort()

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Re: [PHP] file_get_contents

2006-11-16 Thread Tom Chubb

Thanks Jochem,
Tried that, but it's still showing php code in the text area!
Any other ideas?

The url is http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/updateplaylist.php
and you see it on submission. Feel free to post. It's a testing
server.



On 16/11/06, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Tom Chubb wrote:
 I am trying to read the contents of a PHP page for an audio player
 and put it into a textarea to be copied and pasted into an HTML
 page.
 The trouble is the textarea shows unparsed PHP code and I just want the
 HTML.
 The code is:

 $player = file_get_contents('player.php');

file_get_content('http://blabla.com/player.php');
// requires allow_url_fopen to be set to On.


 //Strip out unnecessary HTML Code
 if(preg_match('/!-- Start Player Code --(.*)!-- End Player Code
 --/s', $player, $matches)) {
 $code = $matches[1];
 }
 echo textarea name=\textarea\ cols=\70\ rows=\15\ . $code .

htmlentities($code)

 /textarea;
 echo BR;
 echo a href=\player.php\Click Here/a to view the player \n;

 Looked at using eval() but found this:

 Kepp the following Quote in mind:
 If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the
 wrong question. -- Rasmus Lerdorf, BDFL of PHP

indeed eval is probably not the answer.


 (Hmmm...)

 Any help much appreciated.

 Tom






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RE: [PHP] file_get_contents

2006-11-16 Thread Brad Fuller

Use curl or fopen() to make a request to that PHP page, instead of reading
in the actual contents of the file.

Example:

?php

$url = 'http://blabla.com/player.php';

$ch=curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 120); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;
Windows NT 5.0)); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$buffer = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch); 

echo TEXTAREA ... . $buffer . /TEXTAREA;

?

 -Original Message-
 From: Tom Chubb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:49 AM
 To: [php] PHP General List
 Subject: Re: [PHP] file_get_contents
 
 Thanks Jochem,
 Tried that, but it's still showing php code in the text area!
 Any other ideas?
 
 The url is http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/updateplaylist.php
 and you see it on submission. Feel free to post. It's a testing
 server.
 
 
 
 On 16/11/06, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Tom Chubb wrote:
   I am trying to read the contents of a PHP page for an audio player
   and put it into a textarea to be copied and pasted into an HTML
   page.
   The trouble is the textarea shows unparsed PHP code and I just want
 the
   HTML.
   The code is:
  
   $player = file_get_contents('player.php');
 
  file_get_content('http://blabla.com/player.php');
  // requires allow_url_fopen to be set to On.
 
  
   //Strip out unnecessary HTML Code
   if(preg_match('/!-- Start Player Code --(.*)!-- End Player Code
   --/s', $player, $matches)) {
   $code = $matches[1];
   }
   echo textarea name=\textarea\ cols=\70\ rows=\15\ . $code .
 
  htmlentities($code)
 
   /textarea;
   echo BR;
   echo a href=\player.php\Click Here/a to view the player \n;
  
   Looked at using eval() but found this:
  
   Kepp the following Quote in mind:
   If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the
   wrong question. -- Rasmus Lerdorf, BDFL of PHP
 
  indeed eval is probably not the answer.
 
  
   (Hmmm...)
  
   Any help much appreciated.
  
   Tom
  
 
 
 
 
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Re: [PHP] file_get_contents

2006-11-16 Thread Jochem Maas
Tom Chubb wrote:
 Thanks Jochem,
 Tried that, but it's still showing php code in the text area!
 Any other ideas?

vanilla sky (go search for the tagline) ...

if I request the following I get a page with a player into:

http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/player.php

if you do the following you will get the same html source as my browser
does - if it doesn't then you are doing something wrong - quite simply
php is transparently making a http request to the webserver there is no
way the webserver will differentiate between your script and every other request
and give your the scrip the source code while everyone else is recieving
the result of running the script:


file_get_contents(http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/player.php;);





below is the oneliner I used to prove this:

php -r 'echo 
file_get_contents(http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/player.php;);'

OUTPUT: (oh look no php)
==
html
head
titleTest Audio Player/title
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
meta http-equiv=Expires content=Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT/
meta http-equiv=Pragma content=no-cache /
/head
body

!-- Start Player Code --
!-- Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any problems --
object classid=clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-44455354
codebase=http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0;
 width=400 height=15
  param name=allowScriptAccess value=sameDomain/
  param name=movie 
value=http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=
  http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/audio/faith.mp3song_title=Another 
Stomping Funker!autoplay=true /
  param name=quality value=high/
  param name=bgcolor value=#E6E6E6/
  embed 
src=http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=
  http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/audio/faith.mp3song_title=Another 
Stomping Funker!autoplay=true 
width=400 height=15 align=center quality=high bgcolor=#E6E6E6 
allowscriptaccess=sameDomain
type=application/x-shockwave-flash 
pluginspage=http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer; /embed
/object
!-- End Player Code --

/body
/html

 
 The url is http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/updateplaylist.php
 and you see it on submission. Feel free to post. It's a testing
 server.
 
 
 
 On 16/11/06, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Tom Chubb wrote:
  I am trying to read the contents of a PHP page for an audio player
  and put it into a textarea to be copied and pasted into an HTML
  page.
  The trouble is the textarea shows unparsed PHP code and I just want the
  HTML.
  The code is:
 
  $player = file_get_contents('player.php');

 file_get_content('http://blabla.com/player.php');
 // requires allow_url_fopen to be set to On.

 
  //Strip out unnecessary HTML Code
  if(preg_match('/!-- Start Player Code --(.*)!-- End Player Code
  --/s', $player, $matches)) {
  $code = $matches[1];
  }
  echo textarea name=\textarea\ cols=\70\ rows=\15\ . $code .

 htmlentities($code)

  /textarea;
  echo BR;
  echo a href=\player.php\Click Here/a to view the player \n;
 
  Looked at using eval() but found this:
 
  Kepp the following Quote in mind:
  If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the
  wrong question. -- Rasmus Lerdorf, BDFL of PHP

 indeed eval is probably not the answer.

 
  (Hmmm...)
 
  Any help much appreciated.
 
  Tom
 


 
 

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Re: [PHP] file_get_contents

2006-11-16 Thread Jochem Maas
Brad Fuller wrote:
 Use curl or fopen() to make a request to that PHP page, instead of reading
 in the actual contents of the file.

heh Brad  wtf do you think thw following line does??:

$html = 
file_get_contents(http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/player.php;);

 
 Example:
 
 ?php
 
 $url = 'http://blabla.com/player.php';
 
 $ch=curl_init(); 
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0); 
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 120); 
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;
 Windows NT 5.0)); 
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 $buffer = curl_exec($ch);
 curl_close($ch); 
   
 echo TEXTAREA ... . $buffer . /TEXTAREA;
 
 ?
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Tom Chubb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:49 AM
 To: [php] PHP General List
 Subject: Re: [PHP] file_get_contents

 Thanks Jochem,
 Tried that, but it's still showing php code in the text area!
 Any other ideas?

 The url is http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/updateplaylist.php
 and you see it on submission. Feel free to post. It's a testing
 server.



 On 16/11/06, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Tom Chubb wrote:
 I am trying to read the contents of a PHP page for an audio player
 and put it into a textarea to be copied and pasted into an HTML
 page.
 The trouble is the textarea shows unparsed PHP code and I just want
 the
 HTML.
 The code is:

 $player = file_get_contents('player.php');
 file_get_content('http://blabla.com/player.php');
 // requires allow_url_fopen to be set to On.

 //Strip out unnecessary HTML Code
 if(preg_match('/!-- Start Player Code --(.*)!-- End Player Code
 --/s', $player, $matches)) {
 $code = $matches[1];
 }
 echo textarea name=\textarea\ cols=\70\ rows=\15\ . $code .
 htmlentities($code)

 /textarea;
 echo BR;
 echo a href=\player.php\Click Here/a to view the player \n;

 Looked at using eval() but found this:

 Kepp the following Quote in mind:
 If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the
 wrong question. -- Rasmus Lerdorf, BDFL of PHP
 indeed eval is probably not the answer.

 (Hmmm...)

 Any help much appreciated.

 Tom



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RE: [PHP] file_get_contents

2006-11-16 Thread Brad Fuller

Yes, I realize that now ;)

I didn't read it thoroughly enough before I posted :P

I think what Tom is referring to as PHP code is just the extra HTML tags
around the object tag that he is trying to strip out.

Tom -

Try this:

?php

$code =
file_get_contents(http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/player.php;);

$nstart = strpos($code, '!-- Start Player Code --');
$nstop  = strpos($code, '!-- End Player Code --');

echo TEXTAREA . substr($code, $nstart, $nstop-$nstart) . /TEXTAREA;

?

 -Original Message-
 From: Jochem Maas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 11:12 AM
 To: Brad Fuller
 Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
 Subject: Re: [PHP] file_get_contents
 
 Brad Fuller wrote:
  Use curl or fopen() to make a request to that PHP page, instead of
 reading
  in the actual contents of the file.
 
 heh Brad  wtf do you think thw following line does??:
 
 $html =
 file_get_contents(http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/player.php;);
 
 
  Example:
 
  ?php
 
  $url = 'http://blabla.com/player.php';
 
  $ch=curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 120);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;
  Windows NT 5.0));
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  $buffer = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
 
  echo TEXTAREA ... . $buffer . /TEXTAREA;
 
  ?
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Tom Chubb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:49 AM
  To: [php] PHP General List
  Subject: Re: [PHP] file_get_contents
 
  Thanks Jochem,
  Tried that, but it's still showing php code in the text area!
  Any other ideas?
 
  The url is http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/updateplaylist.php
  and you see it on submission. Feel free to post. It's a testing
  server.
 
 
 
  On 16/11/06, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Tom Chubb wrote:
  I am trying to read the contents of a PHP page for an audio player
  and put it into a textarea to be copied and pasted into an HTML
  page.
  The trouble is the textarea shows unparsed PHP code and I just want
  the
  HTML.
  The code is:
 
  $player = file_get_contents('player.php');
  file_get_content('http://blabla.com/player.php');
  // requires allow_url_fopen to be set to On.
 
  //Strip out unnecessary HTML Code
  if(preg_match('/!-- Start Player Code --(.*)!-- End Player Code
  --/s', $player, $matches)) {
  $code = $matches[1];
  }
  echo textarea name=\textarea\ cols=\70\ rows=\15\ . $code .
  htmlentities($code)
 
  /textarea;
  echo BR;
  echo a href=\player.php\Click Here/a to view the player \n;
 
  Looked at using eval() but found this:
 
  Kepp the following Quote in mind:
  If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the
  wrong question. -- Rasmus Lerdorf, BDFL of PHP
  indeed eval is probably not the answer.
 
  (Hmmm...)
 
  Any help much appreciated.
 
  Tom
 
 
 
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Re: [PHP] Sorting multidimensional arrays

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Goodchild

Result. Cheers!

On 11/16/06, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 15:28 +, Dave Goodchild wrote:
 Hi all. I have a multidimensional array here:

 Bums [name]= string(13) Tits And Bums [3]= string(19) The
Pleasure

 [--SNIP--]

 ...which comprises a set of returned results for an events search - with
the
 date computed dynamically and added to the end of the array in each
case.
 What I want to do with this data is display the array in an html table,
 sorted by the date. At the moment the display shows each event from
earliest
 to last date, then the next event from earliest to last etc. What I want
to
 do is display all the data from earliest to last date - my question is,
how
 do I sort the entire array based on the date value in the second level
 array?

usort()

Cheers,
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[PHP] Re: PHP 5.2.0 Session Handling Bug? Can someone test this please?

2006-11-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
Colin Guthrie wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I've noticed a bug with PHP 5.2.0 when dealing with sessions and posting
 quite large forms.
 
 I've attached a file that highlights the bug.
 
 Can people test this please and if it is confirmed i'll post upsteam.
 Just want to rule out my distro's packaging being at fault
 
 I am using the suochsim, soouishm, soushim ach the security patch
 thing, so that may be what is at fault here.
 
 Anyway, I don't think the data itself is to blame but I didn't fiddle
 too much with it as I didn't see the point.
 
 I've tested this on PHP 5.1.6 and it is not affected.

I should also say that I'm 64-bit everything if that makes a difference.
If other people do NOT get this bug, I'd appreciate it if they could say
their arch too (also if it's windoze/osx etc.).

I'm using Mandriva Cooker FWIW (and no this is not a production box...
wouldn't run Cooker on that!!)

Col.

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Re: [PHP] file_get_contents

2006-11-16 Thread Tom Chubb

Confused!
I'm now getting:
file_get_contents(http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/player.php)
[function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Connection
refused in 
/home/sites/tnhosting.co.uk/public_html/scripts/gclub/updateplaylist.php
on line 75
How come you can access it and I can't?!?
Permissions are 755.
Obviously I was getting it when using file_get_contents('player.php')
but when using the URL I get connection refused.

(Don't think that it makes any difference, but allow_url_fopen is on)

BTW, Brad, I was stripping the HTML tags around the object ok, but I'm
echoing variables in player.php.
$song_url  $song_title, are read from a seperate file after upload
and that is what's being updated by this script, but the textarea was
showing the php code.

Thanks for your patience, guys.

T



On 16/11/06, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Tom Chubb wrote:
 Thanks Jochem,
 Tried that, but it's still showing php code in the text area!
 Any other ideas?

vanilla sky (go search for the tagline) ...

if I request the following I get a page with a player into:

   http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/player.php

if you do the following you will get the same html source as my browser
does - if it doesn't then you are doing something wrong - quite simply
php is transparently making a http request to the webserver there is no
way the webserver will differentiate between your script and every other request
and give your the scrip the source code while everyone else is recieving
the result of running the script:

   file_get_contents(http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/player.php;);





below is the oneliner I used to prove this:

php -r 'echo 
file_get_contents(http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/player.php;);'

OUTPUT: (oh look no php)
==
html
head
titleTest Audio Player/title
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
meta http-equiv=Expires content=Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT/
meta http-equiv=Pragma content=no-cache /
/head
body

!-- Start Player Code --
!-- Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any problems --
object classid=clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-44455354
codebase=http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0; 
width=400 height=15
 param name=allowScriptAccess value=sameDomain/
 param name=movie 
value=http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=
 http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/audio/faith.mp3song_title=Another Stomping 
Funker!autoplay=true /
 param name=quality value=high/
 param name=bgcolor value=#E6E6E6/
 embed 
src=http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=
 http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/audio/faith.mp3song_title=Another Stomping 
Funker!autoplay=true 
width=400 height=15 align=center quality=high bgcolor=#E6E6E6 
allowscriptaccess=sameDomain
   type=application/x-shockwave-flash 
pluginspage=http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer; /embed
/object
!-- End Player Code --

/body
/html


 The url is http://www.tnhosting.co.uk/scripts/gclub/updateplaylist.php
 and you see it on submission. Feel free to post. It's a testing
 server.



 On 16/11/06, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Tom Chubb wrote:
  I am trying to read the contents of a PHP page for an audio player
  and put it into a textarea to be copied and pasted into an HTML
  page.
  The trouble is the textarea shows unparsed PHP code and I just want the
  HTML.
  The code is:
 
  $player = file_get_contents('player.php');

 file_get_content('http://blabla.com/player.php');
 // requires allow_url_fopen to be set to On.

 
  //Strip out unnecessary HTML Code
  if(preg_match('/!-- Start Player Code --(.*)!-- End Player Code
  --/s', $player, $matches)) {
  $code = $matches[1];
  }
  echo textarea name=\textarea\ cols=\70\ rows=\15\ . $code .

 htmlentities($code)

  /textarea;
  echo BR;
  echo a href=\player.php\Click Here/a to view the player \n;
 
  Looked at using eval() but found this:
 
  Kepp the following Quote in mind:
  If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the
  wrong question. -- Rasmus Lerdorf, BDFL of PHP

 indeed eval is probably not the answer.

 
  (Hmmm...)
 
  Any help much appreciated.
 
  Tom
 








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Re: [PHP] PHP 5.2.0 Session Handling Bug? Can someone test this please?

2006-11-16 Thread Frank J. Schima

The ID never changed for me.

PHP 5.2.0
Apache 1.3.33
Mac OS X 10.4.8


On Nov 16, 2006, at 9:28 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:

I've noticed a bug with PHP 5.2.0 when dealing with sessions and  
posting

quite large forms.

I've attached a file that highlights the bug.

Can people test this please and if it is confirmed i'll post upsteam.
Just want to rule out my distro's packaging being at fault

I am using the suochsim, soouishm, soushim ach the security patch
thing, so that may be what is at fault here.

Anyway, I don't think the data itself is to blame but I didn't fiddle
too much with it as I didn't see the point.

I've tested this on PHP 5.1.6 and it is not affected.

Thanks.

Col.

bug.php


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RE: [PHP] Re: PHP 5.2.0 Session Handling Bug? Can someone test this please?

2006-11-16 Thread Edward Kay
Have you checked your error_log? I've had this problem when the wrong
permissions were set on /var/lib/php/session which meant PHP couldn't write
it's session files and hence generated a new ID each time. The error_log
will tell you if this is the case.

Edward

 Colin Guthrie wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I've noticed a bug with PHP 5.2.0 when dealing with sessions and posting
  quite large forms.
 
  I've attached a file that highlights the bug.
 
  Can people test this please and if it is confirmed i'll post upsteam.
  Just want to rule out my distro's packaging being at fault
 
  I am using the suochsim, soouishm, soushim ach the security patch
  thing, so that may be what is at fault here.
 
  Anyway, I don't think the data itself is to blame but I didn't fiddle
  too much with it as I didn't see the point.
 
  I've tested this on PHP 5.1.6 and it is not affected.

 I should also say that I'm 64-bit everything if that makes a difference.
 If other people do NOT get this bug, I'd appreciate it if they could say
 their arch too (also if it's windoze/osx etc.).

 I'm using Mandriva Cooker FWIW (and no this is not a production box...
 wouldn't run Cooker on that!!)

 Col.

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[PHP] Re: PHP 5.2.0 Session Handling Bug? Can someone test this please?

2006-11-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
Frank J. Schima wrote:
 The ID never changed for me.
 
 PHP 5.2.0
 Apache 1.3.33
 Mac OS X 10.4.8

Cheers mate.

I guess that could mean its:

 * Apache 2 thing
 * x86_64 thing
 * suhosin thing
 * mandriva thing

More tests to narrow those down would be appreciated if anyone has
appropriate installs to hand.

Col.

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[PHP] Re: PHP 5.2.0 Session Handling Bug? Can someone test this please?

2006-11-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
Edward Kay wrote:
 Have you checked your error_log? I've had this problem when the wrong
 permissions were set on /var/lib/php/session which meant PHP couldn't write
 it's session files and hence generated a new ID each time. The error_log
 will tell you if this is the case.

No, but the problem doesn't exhibit those characteristics. Sessions work
generally, and I can log in to my application and do certain things that
require a working session etc. It's only when I used a page that posts a
large amount of data that the problem is apparent.

I've tried it with overridden session handling functions that store
session in a db too with the same results.

In my test here, you can do a GET request several times and get the same
id, it's only when you do the POST request that the bug is presented (at
least for me).

Cheers for the suggestion tho'.

Col.

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Re: [PHP] PHP 5.2.0 Session Handling Bug? Can someone test this please?

2006-11-16 Thread Jürgen Wind



Colin Guthrie-6 wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 I've noticed a bug with PHP 5.2.0 when dealing with sessions and posting
 quite large forms.
 
 I've attached a file that highlights the bug.
 
 Can people test this please and if it is confirmed i'll post upsteam.
 Just want to rule out my distro's packaging being at fault
 
 I am using the suochsim, soouishm, soushim ach the security patch
 thing, so that may be what is at fault here.
 
 Anyway, I don't think the data itself is to blame but I didn't fiddle
 too much with it as I didn't see the point.
 
 I've tested this on PHP 5.1.6 and it is not affected.
 
 Thanks.
 
 Col.
 
 
  
 
as you mentioned using hardened php:
maybe you have to adjust  hphp.post.max_value_length = 
and/or some other settings

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[PHP] Re: [RESOLVED] PHP 5.2.0 Session Handling Bug? Can someone test this please?

2006-11-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
Jürgen Wind wrote:
 as you mentioned using hardened php:
 maybe you have to adjust  hphp.post.max_value_length = 
 and/or some other settings

Thanks to Mr Oden Eriksson @ Mandriva, he pointed out that I needed to
up the value for suhosin.request.max_vars from the default of 200.

So you were very much on the right track.

Thanks for everyone's testing and sorry for the nonsense!

Col.

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[PHP] Excel problem

2006-11-16 Thread amit hetawal

Hello all,
Am pretty new to the world of PHP. And am now stuck.
Its like i am displayin the data from a database on to my webpage in
the form of tables.
but now i also want an option for the user to download the above data
into an excel format for the offline use. I dont want to create the
excel file for each of the webpage i am displaying as they are all
dynamic so there can be many.
is there a way so that only if user click the given link at the bottm
of the page then only the data is transferred to excel.
i.e how to i write the displayed data dynamically to the excel without
storing anything on the server.
I am able to config the pear:excelwriter but dont know hwo to get it
working according to my requirements.

please advice.

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RE: [PHP] Excel problem

2006-11-16 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip]
please advice.
[/snip]

Have you read the documentation? 

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RE: [PHP] Excel problem

2006-11-16 Thread Brad Fuller

?php

$query = SELECT ;
$result = mysql_query($query);

header (Content-Type: application/octet-stream);
header (Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=whatever.xls);

echo Field1\tField2\r\n; // Column names

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo $row['field1'] . \t . $row['field2']. \r\n; // Data
}   

?

You could also name the file *.csv and use a comma as a delimiter instead.

Don't forget to put quotes around any data that may have tab characters in
it. (Or commas if you're using csv)

Hope that helps

-B


 -Original Message-
 From: amit hetawal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 2:26 PM
 To: php-general@lists.php.net
 Subject: [PHP] Excel problem
 
 Hello all,
 Am pretty new to the world of PHP. And am now stuck.
 Its like i am displayin the data from a database on to my webpage in
 the form of tables.
 but now i also want an option for the user to download the above data
 into an excel format for the offline use. I dont want to create the
 excel file for each of the webpage i am displaying as they are all
 dynamic so there can be many.
 is there a way so that only if user click the given link at the bottm
 of the page then only the data is transferred to excel.
 i.e how to i write the displayed data dynamically to the excel without
 storing anything on the server.
 I am able to config the pear:excelwriter but dont know hwo to get it
 working according to my requirements.
 
 please advice.
 
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Re: [PHP] Excel problem

2006-11-16 Thread amit hetawal

hello,
Yes i have gone through the documentation. bu ti can find a way to
link the download excel thing with the link which says donwload  in
excel. Is it that i have to fetch the data 2 times , one for displayin
it in table and the other time downloadin in excel

Any suggestions
Thanks

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[snip]
please advice.
[/snip]

Have you read the documentation?



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Re: [PHP] Smart Quotes not so smart

2006-11-16 Thread Chris Shiflett
Larry Garfield wrote:
 I've run into this sort of issue a few times before, and never
 found a good solution.

Not sure if this is the solution you're looking for, but you can convert
them to regular quotes:

http://shiflett.org/archive/165

Hope that helps.

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[PHP] Looping through array

2006-11-16 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner


   Say I have an array containing ten items, and I want to display them 
in a table as follows:


5 4 3 2 1
   10 9 8 7 6

   What's the best way to loop through that array to do that?  My 
thinking gets me to create a loop for 5 through 1, repeated twice, and 
the second time I add '5' to the index value.  There's got to be a saner 
way...


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Re: [PHP] Looping through array

2006-11-16 Thread Brad Bonkoski

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:


   Say I have an array containing ten items, and I want to display 
them in a table as follows:


5 4 3 2 1
   10 9 8 7 6

   What's the best way to loop through that array to do that?  My 
thinking gets me to create a loop for 5 through 1, repeated twice, and 
the second time I add '5' to the index value.  There's got to be a 
saner way...



Something like this perhaps...

$arr = array(...);
$per_row = 5;
$elem = count($arr);
for($i=0; $i$elem; $i++) {
   if( $i == 0 )
  echo tr;
   if( $i % $per_row == 0 )
  echo /trtr;
   echo td$arr[$i]/td;
}

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Re: [PHP] Looping through array

2006-11-16 Thread Brad Bonkoski

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:


   Say I have an array containing ten items, and I want to display 
them in a table as follows:


5 4 3 2 1
   10 9 8 7 6

   What's the best way to loop through that array to do that?  My 
thinking gets me to create a loop for 5 through 1, repeated twice, and 
the second time I add '5' to the index value.  There's got to be a 
saner way...



Something like this perhaps...

$arr = array(...);
$per_row = 5;
$elem = count($arr);
for($i=0; $i$elem; $i++) {
   if( $i == 0 )
  echo tr;
   else if( $i % $per_row == 0 )
  echo /trtr;
   echo td$arr[$i]/td;
}

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Re: [PHP] Looping through array

2006-11-16 Thread Darrell Brogdon

?php
$arr = array(5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6,);

echo 'table border=1';
echo 'tr';

for ($x=0,$y=sizeof($arr); $x$y; ++$x) {
echo td{$arr[$x]}/td;

if ($x == 4) {
echo '/trtr';
}
}

echo '/tr';
echo '/table';
?

On Nov 16, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:



   Say I have an array containing ten items, and I want to display  
them in a table as follows:


5 4 3 2 1
   10 9 8 7 6

   What's the best way to loop through that array to do that?  My  
thinking gets me to create a loop for 5 through 1, repeated twice,  
and the second time I add '5' to the index value.  There's got to  
be a saner way...


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Re: [PHP] Looping through array

2006-11-16 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner

Brad Bonkoski wrote:

Something like this perhaps...

$arr = array(...);
$per_row = 5;
$elem = count($arr);
for($i=0; $i$elem; $i++) {
   if( $i == 0 )
  echo tr;
   else if( $i % $per_row == 0 )
  echo /trtr;
   echo td$arr[$i]/td;
}

   That simply displays things in order, 1 through 5, then 6 through 10.

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Re: [PHP] Looping through array

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Goodchild

If you know the array elements, you may not need to loop. Why not just echo
the particular array elements i.e. td?php echo $array[2]; ?/td for
example?


Re: [PHP] Looping through array

2006-11-16 Thread James Tu

$arr = array(...);

$first_row = '';
$second_row = '';
for ($i=4; $i=0; $i--){
$first_row = $first_row . td{$arr[$x]}/td;
$second_row = $second_row . td{$arr[$x + 5]}/td;
}
print 'tr' . $first_row . '/tr';
print 'tr' . $second_row . '/tr';


On Nov 16, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:



   Say I have an array containing ten items, and I want to display  
them in a table as follows:


5 4 3 2 1
   10 9 8 7 6

   What's the best way to loop through that array to do that?  My  
thinking gets me to create a loop for 5 through 1, repeated twice,  
and the second time I add '5' to the index value.  There's got to  
be a saner way...


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Re: [PHP] Looping through array

2006-11-16 Thread Darrell Brogdon
So in other words, you have an array like $arr = array 
(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) but you want it to render on the page as:


  5 4 3 2 1
10 9 8 7 6

right?

-D


On Nov 16, 2006, at 1:35 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:


Darrell Brogdon wrote:

$arr = array(5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6,);

   The array is in order, from 1 to 10.  It was populated that way.

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[PHP] Space in regex

2006-11-16 Thread Dotan Cohen

I'm trying to match alphanumeric characters, some common symbols, and
spaces. Why does this NOT match strings containing spaces?:
[A-Za-z0-9\'.-:underscore::space:]

I've also tried these, that also fail to match strings containing spaces:
[A-Za-z0-9\'.- :underscore:]
[A-Z a-z0-9\'.-:underscore:]
[:space:A-Za-z0-9\'.-:underscore:]

All these regexes match strings containing the specified characters,
but none of them match strings with spaces.

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Re: [PHP] Looping through array

2006-11-16 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner

Darrell Brogdon wrote:
So in other words, you have an array like $arr = 
array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) but you want it to render on the page as:


  5 4 3 2 1
10 9 8 7 6

right?
   That would be correct.  James Tu provided a solution that I think 
will work.  I'm always open to other suggestions of course.


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Re: [PHP] Looping through array

2006-11-16 Thread tedd

At 1:19 PM -0700 11/16/06, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
   Say I have an array containing ten items, and I want to display 
them in a table as follows:


5 4 3 2 1
   10 9 8 7 6

   What's the best way to loop through that array to do that?  My 
thinking gets me to create a loop for 5 through 1, repeated twice, 
and the second time I add '5' to the index value.  There's got to be 
a saner way...


Ashley:

Look into array_chunk() and array_flip(). The first can break your 
main array into two and the second can reverse the results.


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[PHP] Re: Space in regex

2006-11-16 Thread Dotan Cohen

On 16/11/06, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I'm trying to match alphanumeric characters, some common symbols, and
spaces. Why does this NOT match strings containing spaces?:
[A-Za-z0-9\'.-:underscore::space:]

I've also tried these, that also fail to match strings containing spaces:
[A-Za-z0-9\'.- :underscore:]
[A-Z a-z0-9\'.-:underscore:]
[:space:A-Za-z0-9\'.-:underscore:]

All these regexes match strings containing the specified characters,
but none of them match strings with spaces.

Dotan Cohen

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I should add more information. This is the entire regex:
$text=preg_replace_callback('/\[([A-Za-z0-9\'.-:underscore:]+)\|([A-Za-z0-9\'.
-:underscore:]+)\]/i' , findLinks, $text);

This regex should match any pair of square brackets, with two bits of
text between them seperated by a pipe, like these:
[Ety|wife]
[Jarred|brother]
[Ahmed|neighbor]
[Gili and Gush|pets]
[Bill Clinton|horny]

I would expect that the . would match spaces, but it doesn't. So the
first three examples that I've shown are matched, but the last two are
not. I've even added \w, \s,  , and :space: to the regex, but
of course that's not matching, either. What am I doing wrong? Note
that I've been honing my regex skills for the past few days, but I've
not so much experience with them. Thanks in advance to whoever can
help me understand this.

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Re: [PHP] Looping through array

2006-11-16 Thread Paul Novitski

At 11/16/2006 12:19 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

   Say I have an array containing ten items, and I want to display 
them in a table as follows:


5 4 3 2 1
   10 9 8 7 6

   What's the best way to loop through that array to do that?  My 
thinking gets me to create a loop for 5 through 1, repeated twice, 
and the second time I add '5' to the index value.  There's got to 
be a saner way...



In order to figure out the best PHP logic to generate the series, I'd 
first make sure the markup is solid.  I realize that you've already 
indicated a table markup in two rows, but I'd like to examine 
that.  Can you tell us why the numbers are in this particular sequence?


Do the numbers represent items that are conceptually in ascending 
order but are presented in reverse order on the screen?  If so, I'd 
wonder whether someone reading the page with assistive technology 
might be confused by the reverse order, and I'd try to find a way to 
mark them up ascending and then change the sequence stylistically.


Are they split into two rows because they represent two discrete 
groups in the data set or because of display considerations?  If the 
latter, I'd argue that they don't really belong in two table rows; 
that using tables to force presentation is misapplying the tool.


Have you considered an unordered list, floated right, wrapped in a 
container whose width naturally forces a wrap after the fifth 
item?  I like that solution because it allows you to mark up the 
numbers in sequence and in future change the number of items in the 
sequence and/or change the way the series is presented visually 
without having to mess with the logic generating the markup.


Regards,
Paul  


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Re: [PHP] Re: Space in regex

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Goodchild

I ran this expression through Regex Coach:

\[([A-Za-z0-9\'.-:underscore:\s]+)\|([A-Za-z0-9\'.
-:underscore:]+)\]

...and it matched the patterns your describe.


Re: [PHP] Re: Space in regex

2006-11-16 Thread Jon Anderson

Dotan Cohen wrote:

I should add more information. This is the entire regex:
$text=preg_replace_callback('/\[([A-Za-z0-9\'.-:underscore:]+)\|([A-Za-z0-9\'. 


-:underscore:]+)\]/i' , findLinks, $text);

This regex should match any pair of square brackets, with two bits of
text between them seperated by a pipe, like these:
[Ety|wife]
[Jarred|brother]
[Ahmed|neighbor]
[Gili and Gush|pets]
[Bill Clinton|horny]

I would expect that the . would match spaces, but it doesn't. So the
first three examples that I've shown are matched, but the last two are
not. I've even added \w, \s,  , and :space: to the regex, but
of course that's not matching, either. What am I doing wrong? Note
that I've been honing my regex skills for the past few days, but I've
not so much experience with them. Thanks in advance to whoever can
help me understand this. 

This appears to work for me:

preg_match('/\[([A-Za-z0-9\s\'.-:underscore:]+)\|([A-Za-z0-9\s\'.-:underscore:]+)\]/i','[Test 
1|Test 2]',$matches);

print_r($matches);

produces:
Array
(
   [0] = [Test 1|Test 2]
   [1] = Test1
   [2] = Test2
)

Alternately, I would use the following regex: /\[([^\|]+)\|([^\|]+)\]/ 
which is a little cryptic, but very flexible for what you mention above. 
It works for me as well...


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Re: [PHP] Re: Space in regex

2006-11-16 Thread Paul Novitski

At 11/16/2006 01:56 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:

$text=preg_replace_callback('/\[([A-Za-z0-9\'.-:underscore:]+)\|([A-Za-z0-9\'.
-:underscore:]+)\]/i' , findLinks, $text);

This regex should match any pair of square brackets, with two bits of
text between them seperated by a pipe, like these:
[Ety|wife]
[Jarred|brother]
[Ahmed|neighbor]
[Gili and Gush|pets]
[Bill Clinton|horny]

I would expect that the . would match spaces, but it doesn't. So the
first three examples that I've shown are matched, but the last two are
not. I've even added \w, \s,  , and :space: to the regex, but
of course that's not matching, either. What am I doing wrong? Note
that I've been honing my regex skills for the past few days, but I've
not so much experience with them. Thanks in advance to whoever can
help me understand this.



Dotan,

I'm surmising what you really want to do is grab all the characters 
between [ and | for the first field, and everything from | to ] as 
the second field.  I would therefore identify the first field with:


[^\]|]
anything except the close-bracket and the vertical pipe

and the second field with:

[^\]]
anything except the close-bracket

Therefore:

/\[([^\]|]+)\|([^\]]+)\]/

Regards,
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Re: [PHP] Excel problem

2006-11-16 Thread Sancar Saran
On Thursday 16 November 2006 21:25, amit hetawal wrote:
 Hello all,
 Am pretty new to the world of PHP. And am now stuck.
 Its like i am displayin the data from a database on to my webpage in
 the form of tables.
 but now i also want an option for the user to download the above data
 into an excel format for the offline use. I dont want to create the
 excel file for each of the webpage i am displaying as they are all
 dynamic so there can be many.
 is there a way so that only if user click the given link at the bottm
 of the page then only the data is transferred to excel.
 i.e how to i write the displayed data dynamically to the excel without
 storing anything on the server.
 I am able to config the pear:excelwriter but dont know hwo to get it
 working according to my requirements.

 please advice.

 thanks

Hi maybe 5 years ago I had same kind of problem.

I solve this way..

Excel 2000 has able to save excel document as web page. 

I generate a excell page and format it.  Then I save it html. It was MS xml 
format. 

After  then that. I use my excel xml file as template for my datas. When user 
click the link php connects to mysql then create ms xml formatted values then 
combine with excell xml file. 

If correct dll's are loaded, an excell sheet will show in IE. It behaves like 
excel. Also you can easly save it excel file.

Regards 

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Re: [PHP] Re: Space in regex

2006-11-16 Thread Dotan Cohen

On 17/11/06, Paul Novitski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Dotan,

I'm surmising what you really want to do is grab all the characters
between [ and | for the first field, and everything from | to ] as
the second field.  I would therefore identify the first field with:

 [^\]|]
 anything except the close-bracket and the vertical pipe

and the second field with:

 [^\]]
 anything except the close-bracket

Therefore:

 /\[([^\]|]+)\|([^\]]+)\]/

Regards,
Paul



Thanks, Paul. I've been refining my methods, and I think it's better
(for me) to just match everything between [ and ], including spaces,
underscores, apostrophies, and pipes. I'll explode on the pipe inside
the function.

So I thought that a simple /\[([.]+)\]/i should do it. This is the line:
$text=preg_replace_callback('/\[([.]+)\]/i' , findLinks, $text);
This is what it is doing:
1) on [~~] where ~~ does not include spaces nor pipes: The function
replaces [~~] with .
2) on [~~] where ~~ includes a pipe, but no space: The function does
not replace anything.
3) on [~~] where ~~ includes a space, but no pipe: The function does
not do what I intend it to do, and I am unable to figure out exactly
what it is doing.
3) on [~~] where ~~ includes a space and a pipe: The function does
not replace anything.

However, this function:
$text=preg_replace_callback('/\[([A-Za-z0-9\|\'.-:underscore:]+)\]/i'
, findLinks, $text);
Does what I want it to when there is no space, regardless of whether
or not there is a pipe. It does not replace anything if there is a
space.

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Re: [PHP] Splitting a string

2006-11-16 Thread Børge Holen
On Thursday 16 November 2006 01:12, Robert Cummings wrote:
 On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 10:47 +1100, Chris wrote:
  Børge Holen wrote:
   Oh this was good.
   I added a while loop to insert extra strings 0 in front of the number
   to add if the string is less than 5 chars short.
 
  sprintf is your friend here, no need to use a loop.
 
  sprintf('%05d', '1234');

 No need to use a sledgehammer when a screwdriver will suffice:

 ?php

 echo str_pad( '1234', 5, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT )

Yes this is perfect. Thanks...
I repeat this step for about a few hundred values.
So this speedup is greatly appreciated.


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Re: [PHP] Splitting a string

2006-11-16 Thread Børge Holen
On Thursday 16 November 2006 01:38, Paul Novitski wrote:
 At 11/15/2006 02:06 PM, Børge Holen wrote:
 Oh this was good.
 I added a while loop to insert extra strings 0
 in front of the number to add
 if the string is less than 5 chars short.
 
 I forgot to mentinon that the string actually could be shorter (just found
 out) and the code didn't work with fewer than 5 char strings.
 But now is rocks.

 Hey Børge,

 If you need to left-pad with zeroes, PHP comes to the rescue:
 http://php.net/str_pad

 However, if you're using the regular expression
 method then you might not need to pad the
 number.  You can change the pattern from this:

  /(\d+)(\d{2})(\d{2})$/'
 to this:
  /(\d*)(\d{2})(\d{2})$/'

 so it won't require any digits before the final two pairs.

  *   0 or more quantifier
  +   1 or more quantifier

 http://ca.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php

 Paul

Cool solution, and it works.  =D
I do however need some chars to fill in on the finished product for the look 
of it all, so the 0 is needed... Witch is a bit of a shame with this cool 
string.

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Re: [PHP] Splitting a string

2006-11-16 Thread Paul Novitski



On Thursday 16 November 2006 01:38, Paul Novitski wrote:
 If you need to left-pad with zeroes, PHP comes to the rescue:
 http://php.net/str_pad

 However, if you're using the regular expression
 method then you might not need to pad the
 number.  You can change the pattern from this:

  /(\d+)(\d{2})(\d{2})$/'
 to this:
  /(\d*)(\d{2})(\d{2})$/'


At 11/16/2006 03:23 PM, Børge Holen wrote:

Cool solution, and it works.  =D
I do however need some chars to fill in on the finished product for the look
of it all, so the 0 is needed... Witch is a bit of a shame with this cool
string.



Well, just to make sure you don't discard regexp unnecessarily...

// the pattern guarantees five digits, then two, then two:
$sPattern = '/(\d{5})(\d{2})(\d{2})$/';

// prepend 9 zeroes to the number to enforce the minimum requirements:
preg_match($sPattern, '0' . $iNumber, $aMatches);

Results:

$iNumber = '';
$aMatches:
(
[0] = 0
[1] = 0
[2] = 00
[3] = 00
)

$iNumber = '123';
$aMatches:
(
[0] = 00123
[1] = 0
[2] = 01
[3] = 23
)

$iNumber = '12345';
$aMatches:
(
[0] = 12345
[1] = 1
[2] = 23
[3] = 45
)

$iNumber = '123456789';
$aMatches:
(
[0] = 123456789
[1] = 12345
[2] = 67
[3] = 89
)


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[PHP] Re: Space in regex

2006-11-16 Thread Myron Turner
The underscore plus alphanumeric are included in \w, so to get a regex 
such as you want:

[\w\s\.\-\']+
You should escape the dot because the unescaped dot stands for any 
single character, which is why .* stands for any and all characters.


Dotan Cohen wrote:

I'm trying to match alphanumeric characters, some common symbols, and
spaces. Why does this NOT match strings containing spaces?:
[A-Za-z0-9\'.-:underscore::space:]

I've also tried these, that also fail to match strings containing spaces:
[A-Za-z0-9\'.- :underscore:]
[A-Z a-z0-9\'.-:underscore:]
[:space:A-Za-z0-9\'.-:underscore:]

All these regexes match strings containing the specified characters,
but none of them match strings with spaces.

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[PHP] Re: Space in regex

2006-11-16 Thread Myron Turner
The \w regex includes all alphanumeric characters plus the underscore,
i.e. all valid characters that make up a C  identifier.  So what you
want can be expressed as follows:
[\w\s\.\-]+
You have to escape the dot because in a regular espression it
represents any single character, which is why .* represents all
characters.


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On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:08:34 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dotan
Cohen) wrote:

I'm trying to match alphanumeric characters, some common symbols, and
spaces. Why does this NOT match strings containing spaces?:
[A-Za-z0-9\'.-:underscore::space:]

I've also tried these, that also fail to match strings containing spaces:
[A-Za-z0-9\'.- :underscore:]
[A-Z a-z0-9\'.-:underscore:]
[:space:A-Za-z0-9\'.-:underscore:]

All these regexes match strings containing the specified characters,
but none of them match strings with spaces.

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Re: [PHP] Re: Space in regex

2006-11-16 Thread Paul Novitski

At 11/16/2006 08:46 PM, Myron Turner wrote:
The underscore plus alphanumeric are included in \w, so to get a 
regex such as you want:

[\w\s\.\-\']+
You should escape the dot because the unescaped dot stands for any 
single character, which is why .* stands for any and all characters.



Not actually.  Inside a character class, a dot is just a period.  You 
may escape it (or any other character) but you don't need to.  To 
quote the manual:

__

Meta-characters
...
In a character class the only meta-characters are:

\
general escape character

^
negate the class, but only if the first character

-
indicates character range

]
terminates the character class

...

Square brackets
...
A closing square bracket on its own is not special. If a closing 
square bracket is required as a member of the class, it should be the 
first data character in the class (after an initial circumflex, if 
present) or escaped with a backslash.

...
All non-alphanumeric characters other than \, -, ^ (at the start) and 
the terminating ] are non-special in character classes, but it does 
no harm if they are escaped.

__

http://ca.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php


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[PHP] Dynamic Year Drop Down

2006-11-16 Thread Albert Padley
I want to build a select drop down that includes last year, the  
current year and 3 years into the future. Obviously, I could easily  
hard code this or use a combination of the date and mktime functions  
to populate the select. However, I'm looking for a more elegant way  
of doing this.


Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

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Re: [PHP] Dynamic Year Drop Down

2006-11-16 Thread Larry Garfield
Quite simple:

$this_year = date('Y');
for ($i= $this_year-1; $i  $this_year+3; ++$i) {
  print option value='$i' . 
($i==$this_year ? selected='selected' : '') . $i/option\n;
}

Obviously modify for however you're doing output.  (Note that you DO want to 
have the redundant value attribute in there, otherwise some Javascript things 
don't work right in IE.  Good habit to get into.)  I don't think it can 
really get more simple and elegant.

On Thursday 16 November 2006 23:26, Albert Padley wrote:
 I want to build a select drop down that includes last year, the
 current year and 3 years into the future. Obviously, I could easily
 hard code this or use a combination of the date and mktime functions
 to populate the select. However, I'm looking for a more elegant way
 of doing this.

 Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

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Re: [PHP] Dynamic Year Drop Down

2006-11-16 Thread Albert Padley


On Nov 16, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote:




Albert Padley wrote:
I want to build a select drop down that includes last year, the  
current year and 3 years into the future. Obviously, I could  
easily hard code this or use a combination of the date and mktime  
functions to populate the select. However, I'm looking for a more  
elegant way of doing this.


Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.


This works for me, simple and easy.

// Grabs current Year
$year=date(Y);

// Number of years you want total
$yearEnd=$year+10;

// Generate Drop Down
for($year=$year; $year = $yearEnd; $year++) {
   print option value=\$year\$year/option;
}


Thanks. This was close, but it didn't account for the first option  
being last year. I edited and ended up with this which works.


// Grabs current Year
$year=date(Y);
$yearFirst = $year-1;
// Number of years you want total
$yearEnd=$year+2;

// Generate Drop Down
echo select\n;
for($year=$yearFirst; $year = $yearEnd; $year++) {
   print option value=\$year\$year/option;
}
echo /select\n;

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Re: [PHP] Dynamic Year Drop Down

2006-11-16 Thread Albert Padley
Thanks, Larry. This was close, but didn't quite work. I played around  
with the syntax and the following worked great.


$this_year = date('Y');
echo select\n;
for ($i= $this_year-1; $i  $this_year+3; ++$i) {
echo option value='$i';
if($i == $this_year)
echo selected = 'selected';
echo  . $i . /option\n;
}   
echo /select\n;

Al Padley

On Nov 16, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Larry Garfield wrote:


Quite simple:

$this_year = date('Y');
for ($i= $this_year-1; $i  $this_year+3; ++$i) {
  print option value='$i' .
($i==$this_year ? selected='selected' : '') . $i/option\n;
}

Obviously modify for however you're doing output.  (Note that you  
DO want to
have the redundant value attribute in there, otherwise some  
Javascript things
don't work right in IE.  Good habit to get into.)  I don't think it  
can

really get more simple and elegant.

On Thursday 16 November 2006 23:26, Albert Padley wrote:

I want to build a select drop down that includes last year, the
current year and 3 years into the future. Obviously, I could easily
hard code this or use a combination of the date and mktime functions
to populate the select. However, I'm looking for a more elegant way
of doing this.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

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Re: [PHP] Re: Space in regex

2006-11-16 Thread Dotan Cohen

On 17/11/06, Paul Novitski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

At 11/16/2006 08:46 PM, Myron Turner wrote:
The underscore plus alphanumeric are included in \w, so to get a
regex such as you want:
 [\w\s\.\-\']+
You should escape the dot because the unescaped dot stands for any
single character, which is why .* stands for any and all characters.


Not actually.  Inside a character class, a dot is just a period.  You
may escape it (or any other character) but you don't need to.  To
quote the manual:
__

Meta-characters
...
In a character class the only meta-characters are:

\
 general escape character

^
 negate the class, but only if the first character

-
 indicates character range

]
 terminates the character class

...

Square brackets
...
A closing square bracket on its own is not special. If a closing
square bracket is required as a member of the class, it should be the
first data character in the class (after an initial circumflex, if
present) or escaped with a backslash.
...
All non-alphanumeric characters other than \, -, ^ (at the start) and
the terminating ] are non-special in character classes, but it does
no harm if they are escaped.
__

http://ca.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php



In any case, none of those solutions work. Try code:

?php

$makeLinkPlaceHolder=0;

function findLinks ($matches) {
   global $linkTextArrayPlaceHolder;
   ++$linkTextArrayPlaceHolder;

   // Make two peices and fill them with what they should be
   $matches[0]=str_replace([, , $matches[0] );
   $matches[0]=str_replace(], , $matches[0] );
   $parts=explode(|, $matches[0]);

   print br /br /$parts[0] | $parts[1];

   $returnString=[.$linkTextArrayPlaceHolder.];
   return $returnString;
}

$text=This is some text.
This tag has no spaces and no pipes [TestTag]
This tag has no spaces and a pipe [TestTag|AfterPipe]
This tag has a space and no pipes [Test Tag]
This tag has a space and a pipe [Test Tag|AfterPipe];

// Clean up the text
$text=str_replace(\r\n, \n, $text);
$text=str_replace(\r, \n, $text);
$text=str_replace(\n, br /, $text);

print $text;

// THIS IS THE PROBLEMATIC CODE
$text=preg_replace_callback('/\[([A-Za-z0-9\¦\'.-]+)\]/i' ,
findLinks, $text);

print br /br /.$text;
?

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[PHP] odd behavior of stripos() with === operator

2006-11-16 Thread Michael
HEllo all,

After pulling my hair out for several hours trying to figure out why my code
wasn't working I built this little test and ran it, the results are interesting
in the least, and to me, surprising. It is possible that I have done something
wrong, but I checked and rechecked this in the documentation.

It appears there is either a problem with the === operator (or my brain...)
If you don't mind, I'd like to see what you all think.

I am running php 5.2.0 on a linux redhat 9 box with Apache 2.2 (the php 5.2.0
install is brand new, perhaps I set it up wrong?)

anyway here is the code I wrote, and the output from it...

 $found = stripos(abcdefg, abcdefg);
echo found = stripos(\abcdefg\, \abcdefg\);\n
echo The value of found is = : $found\n

// 1a) --- needle was found in haystack THIS SHOULD BE 
 if ( $found !== FALSE ) {
  echo found does not equal FALSE\n
 }
// 1b) --- needle was found in haystack THIS SHOULD ALSO BE
 if ($found === TRUE )  {
  echo found is equal to TRUE\n
 }

//1c) --- needle was NOT found in haystack THIS SHOULD NOT BE
 if ( $found === FALSE )  {
  echo found is equal to FALSE\n
 }
//1d) --- needle was NOT found in haystack THIS ALSO SHOULD NOT BE
 if ($found !== TRUE )  {
  echo found does not equal TRUE\n
 }

 $found = stripos(abcdefg, tuvwxyz);

echo \$found = stripos(\abcdefg\, \tuvwxyz\);br\n
echo The value of found is = : $found\n

//2a) --- needle was found in haystack  THIS SHOULD NOT BE
 if ( $found !== FALSE ) {
  echo found does not equal FALSE\n
 }
//2b) --- needle was found in haystack THIS ALSO SHOULD NOT BE
 if ($found === TRUE )  {
  echo found is equal to TRUE\n
 }

//2c) --- needle was NOT found in haystack THIS SHOULD BE
 if ( $found === FALSE )  {
  echo found is equal to FALSE\n
 }
//2d) --- needle was NOT found in haystack THIS SHOULD ALSO BE
 if ($found !== TRUE )  {
  echo found does not equal TRUE\n
 }

the output:

$found = stripos(abcdefg, abcdefg);
The value of found is = : 0 

found does not equal FALSE   //this is from section 1a) of the code

found does not equal TRUE//this is from section 1d) of the code
 // I expected the code from 1b) to be executed

$found = stripos(abcdefg, tuvwxyz);
The value of found is = : 

found is equal to FALSE  //this is from section 2c) of the code

found does not equal TRUE//this is from section 2d) of the code

I have underlined the output I am interested in... How can the variable $found
be both TRUE and FALSE at the same time?

Anyone who can provide me some insight on this, please enlighten me.

If my code is correct, then this behavior of the === operator is
counter-intuitive, it was my understanding that the === and !== operators were
supposed to be used with the output of stripos() for just this situation, but
=== does not appear to recognize that the returned 0 (because the string was
found at index 0) ; whereas the !== does recognize this...

is === buggy? or am I? heh

thoughts? comments?

Thanks all,
Michael 

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Re: [PHP] Re: Space in regex

2006-11-16 Thread Paul Novitski

At 11/16/2006 03:19 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:

However, this function:
$text=preg_replace_callback('/\[([A-Za-z0-9\|\'.-:underscore:]+)\]/i'
, findLinks, $text);
Does what I want it to when there is no space, regardless of whether
or not there is a pipe. It does not replace anything if there is a
space.



I see your problem -- you're omitting the brackets around your 
metacharacters.  I believe you should be using [:underscore:] not 
:underscore: -- therefore,


/\[([A-Za-z0-9\|\'.-[:underscore:]]+)\]/i

I'm not sure why you need those metacharacters, however; I've never 
had trouble matching literal space and underscore characters, e.g. [ _]


Also:
- You don't need to escape the vertical pipe.
- You don't need to escape the apostrophe.
- You do need to escape the hyphen unless you mean it to indicate a 
range, which I'm sure you don't here.



On other regexp points:


Thanks, Paul. I've been refining my methods, and I think it's better
(for me) to just match everything between [ and ], including spaces,
underscores, apostrophies, and pipes. I'll explode on the pipe inside
the function.

So I thought that a simple /\[([.]+)\]/i should do it.


Oops:  [.]+ will look for one or more periods.  .+ means one or 
more character of any kind.  So you'd want:


/\[(.+)\]/i

In a case like this where you're not using any alphabetic letters in 
the pattern, the -i pattern modifier is irrelevant, so I'd drop it:


/\[(.+)\]/

Then your problem is that regexp is 'greedy' and will grab as long a 
matching string as it can.  If there's more than one of your link 
structures in your text, the regexp above will grab everything from 
the beginning of the first link to the end of the last.  That's why I 
excluded the close-bracket in my pattern:


/\[([^]]+)]/

I know [^]] looks funny but the close-bracket doesn't need to be 
escaped if it's in the first position, which includes the first 
position after the negating circumflex.  I've also omitted the 
backslash before the final literal close-bracket which doesn't need 
one because there's no open bracket context for it to be confused with.


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Re: [PHP] odd behavior of stripos() with === operator

2006-11-16 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 00:24 -0700, Michael wrote:
 HEllo all,
 
 After pulling my hair out for several hours trying to figure out why my code
 wasn't working I built this little test and ran it, the results are 
 interesting
 in the least, and to me, surprising. It is possible that I have done something
 wrong, but I checked and rechecked this in the documentation.
 
 It appears there is either a problem with the === operator (or my brain...)
 If you don't mind, I'd like to see what you all think.
 
 I am running php 5.2.0 on a linux redhat 9 box with Apache 2.2 (the php 5.2.0
 install is brand new, perhaps I set it up wrong?)
 
 anyway here is the code I wrote, and the output from it...
 
  $found = stripos(abcdefg, abcdefg);
 echo found = stripos(\abcdefg\, \abcdefg\);\n
 echo The value of found is = : $found\n
 
 // 1a) --- needle was found in haystack THIS SHOULD BE 
  if ( $found !== FALSE ) {
   echo found does not equal FALSE\n
  }
 // 1b) --- needle was found in haystack THIS SHOULD ALSO BE
  if ($found === TRUE )  {
   echo found is equal to TRUE\n
  }
 
 //1c) --- needle was NOT found in haystack THIS SHOULD NOT BE
  if ( $found === FALSE )  {
   echo found is equal to FALSE\n
  }
 //1d) --- needle was NOT found in haystack THIS ALSO SHOULD NOT BE
  if ($found !== TRUE )  {
   echo found does not equal TRUE\n
  }
 
  $found = stripos(abcdefg, tuvwxyz);
 
 echo \$found = stripos(\abcdefg\, \tuvwxyz\);br\n
 echo The value of found is = : $found\n
 
 //2a) --- needle was found in haystack  THIS SHOULD NOT BE
  if ( $found !== FALSE ) {
   echo found does not equal FALSE\n
  }
 //2b) --- needle was found in haystack THIS ALSO SHOULD NOT BE
  if ($found === TRUE )  {
   echo found is equal to TRUE\n
  }
 
 //2c) --- needle was NOT found in haystack THIS SHOULD BE
  if ( $found === FALSE )  {
   echo found is equal to FALSE\n
  }
 //2d) --- needle was NOT found in haystack THIS SHOULD ALSO BE
  if ($found !== TRUE )  {
   echo found does not equal TRUE\n
  }
 
 the output:
 
 $found = stripos(abcdefg, abcdefg);
 The value of found is = : 0 
 
 found does not equal FALSE   //this is from section 1a) of the code
 
 found does not equal TRUE//this is from section 1d) of the code
  // I expected the code from 1b) to be executed
 
 $found = stripos(abcdefg, tuvwxyz);
 The value of found is = : 
 
 found is equal to FALSE  //this is from section 2c) of the code
 
 found does not equal TRUE//this is from section 2d) of the code
 
 I have underlined the output I am interested in...

You did??? Where?

 How can the variable $found be both TRUE and FALSE at the same time?

None of your output above indicates that it is both equal to TRUE and
FALSE at the same time. It does indicate that $found does NOT equal TRUE
and does NOT equal FALSE at the same time and that is because it
returned the integer value 0 which is the location of the string in the
haystack.

Cheers,
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Re: [PHP] odd behavior of stripos() with === operator

2006-11-16 Thread Michael
At 12:29 AM 11/17/2006 , you wrote:

 I have underlined the output I am interested in...

You did??? Where?

Ok, my bad, I sent the mail as plain text instead of styled :P
oops

 How can the variable $found be both TRUE and FALSE at the same time?

None of your output above indicates that it is both equal to TRUE and
FALSE at the same time. It does indicate that $found does NOT equal TRUE
and does NOT equal FALSE at the same time and that is because it
returned the integer value 0 which is the location of the string in the
haystack.

Ok, picking gnits...
I should have said NOT true and NOT false at the same time.
As for the return of the integer 0..
The documentation indicates that the === and !== operators take this into 
account in fact there is a specific example in the manual.

My point here is that if !== works , why does === not?

thanks for responding.

Cheers,
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