[PHP] Is there any way to get all the function name being called in a process?
Hi, I am working on reverse engineering for a web project. I was trying to know that, is there any way(function by PHP, Zend, extension etc) to find out how many function has been called to perform a task. If no, can you suggest is it possible/feasible or not? Thanks in advance -- Satya Bangalore.
Re: [PHP] php mail() function
i faced the same problem quite a few times. the general email route is php script -> sender smtp server -> receiving mail server in your case path 2 is broken. meaning port 25 is blocked by your ISP the work around is: 1. see if your ISP provides you with an SMTP account that is not blocked (OR) 2. try using a socks -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php mail() function
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:40:34PM -0500, Shawn McKenzie wrote: > This is fairly accurate in premise but just to clarify. Mailservers > don't operate like this by default and there is really no "trust". > There are public blacklists that a mailserver can be configured to use > that tell the mailserver not to accept mail from servers on the > blacklist. The blacklists may contain servers that allow anyone to > relay email, compromised servers, servers known for spam, ip ranges > known to be held by spammers and *ranges that ISPs designate as dynamic > or used for subscribers (DSL, cable, dial-up customers, etc. because > they shouldn't be relaying email). Regarding the rejection of dynamic IPs by smarthosts, are you saying that it's a "blacklist" of sorts that lets them know an IP is dynamic? (Serious question. I don't know the mechanism by which they determine what is and isn't a dynamic IP.) Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php mail() function
Paul M Foster wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:24:14PM -0700, James Prentice wrote: > > One other note. People look at me like I'm crazy when I mention this, > but I've seen it quite a bit at various internet mail servers. > Sometimes, in order to accept email from you, the internet mail server > must see you *receive* mail within a certain time period prior. That is, > you have to go fetch your mail at the ISP, which opens a "window" into > the SMTP server for a limited time. Then you can tender mail to the > internet mail server. I don't know that your internet mail server > operates this way, but it's something to consider. I've had to deal with > this before myself. This is commonly known as POP lock and is one of the two main ways that a mail server allows you to relay a message. If you have authenticated via POP3 (i.e. checked your mail) in a certain period of time then the SMTP server will let you send. The other main one is by authentication (username/password) with the SMTP server when you attempt to send mail. > In any case, linuxmanmikec's comment about the internet mail server not > trusting you on a dynamic IP is spot on. The web of email trust is such > that internet mail servers only trust other internet mail servers. And > *your* internet mail server will trust *you*. So to get mail to that > other internet mail server over there, you'll have to give it to *your* > internet mail server, which is the only one that internet mail server > over there will trust. The "bounce" message you got indicates that > relaying from you is forbidden at the destination mail server. > This is fairly accurate in premise but just to clarify. Mailservers don't operate like this by default and there is really no "trust". There are public blacklists that a mailserver can be configured to use that tell the mailserver not to accept mail from servers on the blacklist. The blacklists may contain servers that allow anyone to relay email, compromised servers, servers known for spam, ip ranges known to be held by spammers and *ranges that ISPs designate as dynamic or used for subscribers (DSL, cable, dial-up customers, etc. because they shouldn't be relaying email). -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php mail() function
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:24:14PM -0700, James Prentice wrote: > How would I determine my ISP's SMPT server ID? And do I need to edit > main.cf in order to use that server? What ID? There's no ID needed. You just configure postfix to relay any non-local mail sent to it to the SMTP server at your ISP. Check the headers in incoming mail sent to you for the name of that server. It's likely the same for both incoming and outgoing mail. Something like mail.myisp.com. One other note. People look at me like I'm crazy when I mention this, but I've seen it quite a bit at various internet mail servers. Sometimes, in order to accept email from you, the internet mail server must see you *receive* mail within a certain time period prior. That is, you have to go fetch your mail at the ISP, which opens a "window" into the SMTP server for a limited time. Then you can tender mail to the internet mail server. I don't know that your internet mail server operates this way, but it's something to consider. I've had to deal with this before myself. Configuring local SMTP servers, like postfix. Check and see if Ubuntu has some sort of setup utility for this. Or try dpkg-reconfigure postfix Setting up mail servers is tedious and error prone, unless you've done it a lot. Read The Fine Manual on postfix. > > Also, is there a way to test the script just sending an email locally? > I tried sending the email to use...@localhost, but the email was still > not received. > It will work, assuming three things: 1. You have an actual user set up on the system to receive mail. That is, an actual user on the system, with an entry in the passwd file and a home directory, etc. 2. Postfix is configured to deliver truly local mail to local addresses. More postfix configuration fun. 3. Postfix is actually running and properly configured. If not configured properly, it may refuse to run. In any case, linuxmanmikec's comment about the internet mail server not trusting you on a dynamic IP is spot on. The web of email trust is such that internet mail servers only trust other internet mail servers. And *your* internet mail server will trust *you*. So to get mail to that other internet mail server over there, you'll have to give it to *your* internet mail server, which is the only one that internet mail server over there will trust. The "bounce" message you got indicates that relaying from you is forbidden at the destination mail server. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] input form save and display conflict
I have several input fields to update a book database. There seems to be a conflict in the way tags and text are input through php/mysql and phpMyAdmin. If I enter the data with phpMyAdmin the input fields in the php page see quotation marks differently than what is input in phpMyAdmin. example: if the data is input through the update form, single quotes cause an error. Double quotes update the db but when the edit(update) form displays the text for modification outside the input field except for the first part, precisely where the first quotation mark appears in the text - as below: *Reviewed by mailto:recipi...@somewhere.com";>Recipient: blah, blah, blah...religion." _size="50" />_ The text in square brackets is displayed outside the input field and includes part of the code at the end. bold is within the field, the rest is outside and the underlined is part of code. If the same text is entered with phpMyAdmin using single quotes and the " characters, the display in the editing field shows correctly... but it will not update, that is, the update query generates errors and only accepts the double quotes within the tags. So, the question is, are there some kind of metacharacters to be used to have mysql accept the " ? I have triee backslashing, forward slashing and they don't do it. Or is there an encoding conflict here? It looks like a display and save mismatch somewhere... below is another example: The single quotes for the href seem to work. But the " does not work; and using " or ’ also also do not display correctly; again, from "Order... the image is not displayed but only the image blank with "Order.. " in it. I'm rather puzzled. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php mail() function
How would I determine my ISP's SMPT server ID? And do I need to edit main.cf in order to use that server? Also, is there a way to test the script just sending an email locally? I tried sending the email to use...@localhost, but the email was still not received. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:15 PM, LinuxManMikeC wrote: > The problem is you won't be trusted to deliver mail directly to most > mail servers unless you have a static IP. Even then thats no > guarantee. What you have to do is relay through your ISP's SMTP > server where you're "trusted". You should also be able to setup PHP > to use your ISP's SMTP server and never touch the SMTP service on your > local machine (if you don't feel like playing with Postfix). > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:56 PM, James Prentice > wrote: >> I'm trying to use the php mail() function to send a mail within a php >> script. This is using PHP 5.2.4 and Ubuntu Hardy Heron linux. The >> script runs fine and the return value of the mail function is TRUE, >> but the mail is never received. I'm trying to send an email to my >> gmail account via the local server on my machine, just to test if this >> script works. >> >> I installed postfix because I read in several places that people have >> had good luck with that mail program. From what I can tell, postfix is >> working. I can do: >> >> telnet localhost 25 >> Trying 127.0.0.1... >> Connected to localhost. >> Escape character is '^]'. >> 220 homemade ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu) >> ehlo localhost >> 250-homemade >> 250-PIPELINING >> 250-SIZE 1024 >> 250-VRFY >> 250-ETRN >> 250-STARTTLS >> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES >> 250-8BITMIME >> 250 DSN >> >> After the php script runs, I type 'mailq' and get the result 'mail >> queue is empty.' If I check /var/log/mail.log, this is what I see: >> >> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/pickup[5735]: 2A31EA70109: uid=33 >> from= >> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/cleanup[7997]: 2A31EA70109: >> message-id=<20091022065435.2a31ea70...@homemade> >> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 2A31EA70109: >> from=, size=499, nrcpt=1 (queue active) >> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/error[7999]: 2A31EA70109: >> to=, relay=none, delay=0.04, delays=0.03/0/0/0.01, >> dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (gmail.com) >> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/cleanup[7997]: 3217DA7010A: >> message-id=<20091022065435.3217da70...@homemade> >> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 3217DA7010A: from=<>, >> size=2095, nrcpt=1 (queue active) >> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/bounce[8000]: 2A31EA70109: sender >> non-delivery notification: 3217DA7010A >> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 2A31EA70109: removed >> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/local[8001]: 3217DA7010A: >> to=, relay=local, delay=0.03, delays=0/0.02/0/0.01, >> dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: procmail -a >> "$EXTENSION") >> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 3217DA7010A: removed >> >> Any ideas? I am new both to php and postfix. Thanks for any help. >> >> -- >> 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] Spam opinions please
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 19:39 -0400, Gary wrote:
> I have always thought that by putting some simple, readable ttext into a
> graphic (eg.apple) and asking people to type it in a space, that would work,
> but that does not stop the humans..
>
> Gary
>
>
> "Philip Thompson" wrote in message
> news:9bf33458-4a91-4a23-bcb8-ebe13269f...@gmail.com...
> > On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Gary wrote:
> >
> >> NO I have not, I think my issue is I hate when I run across one, it
> >> usually
> >> takes me more than one try to actually figure out what the charactor is,
> >> so
> >> hence my disdain.
> >>
> >>
> >> GAry
> >
> > Here are some captchas:
> >
> > "What's three minus two?"
> > "Which word is listed first in the dictionary: apple, banana, pizza?"
> > "Add 4 plus 5"
> >
> > Create a list of simple questions that only humans can answer. I find
> > these to be less annoying.
> >
> > ~Philip
> >
> >
> >> "Paul M Foster" wrote in message
> >> news:20091020184001.gi3...@quillandmouse.com...
> >>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 02:31:53PM -0400, Gary wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I have several sites that are getting hit with form spam. I have the
> >>>> script
> >>>> set up to capture the IP address so I know from where they come. I
> >>>> found
> >>>> a
> >>>> short script that is supposed to stop these IP addresses from
> >>>> accessing
> >>>> the
> >>>> form page, it redirects the spammer to another page (I was going to
> >>>> redirect
> >>>> to a page that has lots of pop-ups, scantily clad men and offers of
> >>>> joy
> >>>> beyond imagination), but someone suggested I redirect to the Federal
> >>>> Trade
> >>>> Commission or perhpas the FBI.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any thoughts on the script and its effectivness?
> >>>>
> >>>> >>>> $deny = array("111.111.111", "222.222.222", "333.333.333");
> >>>> if (in_array ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $deny)) {
> >>>> header("location: http://www.google.com/";);
> >>>> exit();
> >>>> } ?>Gary
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Have you tried CAPTCHA?
> >>>
> >>> Paul
> >
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Won't stop a bot worth it's salt either, hence the need for more complex
and confusing captchas. The best way to stop spam, is to use linguistic
testing on the content being offered, which protects against bot and
human spammer alike.
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
RE: [PHP] Trapping failure of file_get_contents()
> If you need more control then I suggest you switch from
> file_get_contents() to using curl to retrieve the page. You can then set
> your timeout criteria.
Bingo! That appears to have done it. In fact, not only did it solve the
timeout problem raised in
http://marc.info/?l=php-general&m=125622597723923&w=2
but it also seems to have accidentally solved the separate problem of
mysterious access violation errors raised in
http://marc.info/?l=php-general&m=125601395731668&w=2
Apparently, not only does curl give me control over execution time of the
function, but it seems to do its file access in a cleaner way somehow. I say
this not only because the access violation errors have gone away, but also
because the frequency of failed access attempts is much lower now than when
I was using file-get-contents().
Thank you big time, Robert.
If anyone would like to see, the function that I wrote to replace both
file-get-contents() and simplexml_load_file() is below. For
file-get-contents(), it can optionally do the job of an additional
file-put-contents(). In the case of simplexml_load_file(), it works by
passing the downloaded file as a string to simplexml_load_string().
If anyone sees any problems or weaknesses with how this is written, please
do let me know. (Please be sure to include me in the recipients because I'm
going to unsubscribe from the list now.)
Thanks all for your help.
function GetFile($sURLin, $sFileOut)
{// Get an online file and either return it as a string or write it to a
file and return the file size.
$oChandle = curl_init($sURLin);
if($sFileOut == '')
{$bWriteFile = false;
curl_setopt($oChandle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($oChandle, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);}
else
{$bWriteFile = true;
$oFilePtr = fopen($sFileOut, 'w');
curl_setopt($oChandle, CURLOPT_FILE, $oFilePtr);}
curl_setopt($oChandle, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($oChandle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
$bGetIt = true;
while($bGetIt)
{$sRetVal = curl_exec($oChandle);
if($sRetVal === false)
{sWarning('DL error on ' . $sURLin);
set_time_limit(30);
sleep(1);}
else
{if($bWriteFile)
$sRetVal =
curl_getinfo($oChandle,
CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD);
$bGetIt = false;}
}
curl_close($oChandle);
if($bWriteFile) fclose($oFilePtr);
return($sRetVal);
}
-Original Message-
From: Robert Cummings [mailto:rob...@interjinn.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:21
To: Marshall Burns
Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] Trapping failure of file_get_contents()
Marshall Burns wrote:
> Robert and others,
>
> I made that change in the code. It still does not trap the failure. I
> believe the reason is that the script is timing out while
> file_get_contents() is sitting there waiting for input. The problem is
that
> the function never returns, so there is no return value to check. What I
> need is to get file_get_contents() to quit trying before the script
timeout
> limit is reached, so I can catch the failure and try again. If that cannot
> be done, then I need to get the shutdown function to work.
>
> For reference, my original question is at
> http://marc.info/?l=php-general&m=125622597723923&w=2 .
If you need more control then I suggest you switch from
file_get_contents() to using curl to retrieve the page. You can then set
your timeout criteria.
Cheers,
Rob.
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Re: [PHP] Spam opinions please
I have always thought that by putting some simple, readable ttext into a
graphic (eg.apple) and asking people to type it in a space, that would work,
but that does not stop the humans..
Gary
"Philip Thompson" wrote in message
news:9bf33458-4a91-4a23-bcb8-ebe13269f...@gmail.com...
> On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Gary wrote:
>
>> NO I have not, I think my issue is I hate when I run across one, it
>> usually
>> takes me more than one try to actually figure out what the charactor is,
>> so
>> hence my disdain.
>>
>>
>> GAry
>
> Here are some captchas:
>
> "What's three minus two?"
> "Which word is listed first in the dictionary: apple, banana, pizza?"
> "Add 4 plus 5"
>
> Create a list of simple questions that only humans can answer. I find
> these to be less annoying.
>
> ~Philip
>
>
>> "Paul M Foster" wrote in message
>> news:20091020184001.gi3...@quillandmouse.com...
>>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 02:31:53PM -0400, Gary wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have several sites that are getting hit with form spam. I have the
>>>> script
>>>> set up to capture the IP address so I know from where they come. I
>>>> found
>>>> a
>>>> short script that is supposed to stop these IP addresses from
>>>> accessing
>>>> the
>>>> form page, it redirects the spammer to another page (I was going to
>>>> redirect
>>>> to a page that has lots of pop-ups, scantily clad men and offers of
>>>> joy
>>>> beyond imagination), but someone suggested I redirect to the Federal
>>>> Trade
>>>> Commission or perhpas the FBI.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts on the script and its effectivness?
>>>>
>>>> >>> $deny = array("111.111.111", "222.222.222", "333.333.333");
>>>> if (in_array ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $deny)) {
>>>> header("location: http://www.google.com/";);
>>>> exit();
>>>> } ?>Gary
>>>>
>>>
>>> Have you tried CAPTCHA?
>>>
>>> Paul
>
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Re: [PHP] php mail() function
The problem is you won't be trusted to deliver mail directly to most mail servers unless you have a static IP. Even then thats no guarantee. What you have to do is relay through your ISP's SMTP server where you're "trusted". You should also be able to setup PHP to use your ISP's SMTP server and never touch the SMTP service on your local machine (if you don't feel like playing with Postfix). On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:56 PM, James Prentice wrote: > I'm trying to use the php mail() function to send a mail within a php > script. This is using PHP 5.2.4 and Ubuntu Hardy Heron linux. The > script runs fine and the return value of the mail function is TRUE, > but the mail is never received. I'm trying to send an email to my > gmail account via the local server on my machine, just to test if this > script works. > > I installed postfix because I read in several places that people have > had good luck with that mail program. From what I can tell, postfix is > working. I can do: > > telnet localhost 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 homemade ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu) > ehlo localhost > 250-homemade > 250-PIPELINING > 250-SIZE 1024 > 250-VRFY > 250-ETRN > 250-STARTTLS > 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES > 250-8BITMIME > 250 DSN > > After the php script runs, I type 'mailq' and get the result 'mail > queue is empty.' If I check /var/log/mail.log, this is what I see: > > Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/pickup[5735]: 2A31EA70109: uid=33 > from= > Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/cleanup[7997]: 2A31EA70109: > message-id=<20091022065435.2a31ea70...@homemade> > Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 2A31EA70109: > from=, size=499, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/error[7999]: 2A31EA70109: > to=, relay=none, delay=0.04, delays=0.03/0/0/0.01, > dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (gmail.com) > Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/cleanup[7997]: 3217DA7010A: > message-id=<20091022065435.3217da70...@homemade> > Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 3217DA7010A: from=<>, > size=2095, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/bounce[8000]: 2A31EA70109: sender > non-delivery notification: 3217DA7010A > Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 2A31EA70109: removed > Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/local[8001]: 3217DA7010A: > to=, relay=local, delay=0.03, delays=0/0.02/0/0.01, > dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: procmail -a > "$EXTENSION") > Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 3217DA7010A: removed > > Any ideas? I am new both to php and postfix. Thanks for any help. > > -- > 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] php mail() function
I'm trying to use the php mail() function to send a mail within a php script. This is using PHP 5.2.4 and Ubuntu Hardy Heron linux. The script runs fine and the return value of the mail function is TRUE, but the mail is never received. I'm trying to send an email to my gmail account via the local server on my machine, just to test if this script works. I installed postfix because I read in several places that people have had good luck with that mail program. From what I can tell, postfix is working. I can do: telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 homemade ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu) ehlo localhost 250-homemade 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 1024 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-STARTTLS 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN After the php script runs, I type 'mailq' and get the result 'mail queue is empty.' If I check /var/log/mail.log, this is what I see: Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/pickup[5735]: 2A31EA70109: uid=33 from= Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/cleanup[7997]: 2A31EA70109: message-id=<20091022065435.2a31ea70...@homemade> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 2A31EA70109: from=, size=499, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/error[7999]: 2A31EA70109: to=, relay=none, delay=0.04, delays=0.03/0/0/0.01, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (gmail.com) Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/cleanup[7997]: 3217DA7010A: message-id=<20091022065435.3217da70...@homemade> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 3217DA7010A: from=<>, size=2095, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/bounce[8000]: 2A31EA70109: sender non-delivery notification: 3217DA7010A Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 2A31EA70109: removed Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/local[8001]: 3217DA7010A: to=, relay=local, delay=0.03, delays=0/0.02/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: procmail -a "$EXTENSION") Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 3217DA7010A: removed Any ideas? I am new both to php and postfix. Thanks for any help. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Limit query/function time
On Oct 22, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Phpster wrote: Have you run an explain plan on the query? Bastien Sent from my iPod Yes, I have. For giggles, I wanted to run it again. Here it is (slightly stripped down) and it looks good to me. mysql> EXPLAIN SELECT -> `p`.`patient_id`, -> `p`.`address_id`, -> `p`.`patient_sub_id`, -> AES_DECRYPT(`p`.`patient_first_name`, 'hidden_key') AS `patient_first_name`, -> AES_DECRYPT(`p`.`patient_last_name`, 'hidden_key') AS `patient_last_name`, -> AES_DECRYPT(`p`.`patient_middle_name`, 'hidden_key') AS `patient_middle_name`, -> AES_DECRYPT(`p`.`patient_dob`, 'hidden_key') AS `patient_dob` -> FROM `patient` `p` -> INNER JOIN `center_patient` `cp` ON `p`.`patient_id` = `cp`.`patient_id` -> WHERE ((`p`.`patient_id` = '256783' OR `p`.`patient_sub_id` = '256783') AND `cp`.`center_id` = '109') -> ORDER BY `patient_id` DESC; ++-++-- +--+ | id | key_len | ref| rows | Extra| ++-++-- +--+ | 1 | 4,4 | NULL |2 | Using union (PRIMARY,patient_sub_id); Using where; Using filesort | | 1 | 8 | p.patient_id,const |1 | Using index | ++-++-- +--+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) There are about 350,000 records in `patient` and `center_patient` tables. The average number of rows returned from this query is less than 5. ~Philip On Oct 22, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Philip Thompson wrote: Hi all. I'm running into a random issue where sometimes it take several minutes (up to 10 or 15) to complete a query. According to 1 or 2 references, this may be a mysql bug. These links explain the similar problem I'm experiencing: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?24,57257 http://forum.percona.com/s/m/790/ I did some testing yesterday and this 1 sql statement successfully queried (in milliseconds) approximately 50,000 times before it took several minutes to query, which hung all the other processes on the database. Because it occurs successfully so many times, I know the query is good. Is it possible to set a time limit on a single function in PHP? E.g., when I call mysql_query() and it takes 30 seconds, then quit processing that function and continue on. I know I could set_time_limit() to a specific time, but that would cause a fatal error... and I want to be able to catch it. Any thoughts on what direction I should go? Also, I'm going to do some research to see if a newer version of mysql has fixed this bug. We're running 5.0.45. Thanks, ~Philip -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Limit query/function time
On Oct 22, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Philip Thompson > wrote: Hi all. I'm running into a random issue where sometimes it take several minutes (up to 10 or 15) to complete a query. According to 1 or 2 references, this may be a mysql bug. These links explain the similar problem I'm experiencing: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?24,57257 http://forum.percona.com/s/m/790/ I did some testing yesterday and this 1 sql statement successfully queried (in milliseconds) approximately 50,000 times before it took several minutes to query, which hung all the other processes on the database. Because it occurs successfully so many times, I know the query is good. Is it possible to set a time limit on a single function in PHP? E.g., when I call mysql_query() and it takes 30 seconds, then quit processing that function and continue on. I know I could set_time_limit() to a specific time, but that would cause a fatal error... and I want to be able to catch it. Any thoughts on what direction I should go? Also, I'm going to do some research to see if a newer version of mysql has fixed this bug. We're running 5.0.45. Thanks, ~Philip You could use ErrorException and catch that: http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.errorexception.php Or you could just set your own error handler: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.set-error-handler.php Something I don't know if you've thought of that came to mind, though, is the MySQL query cache. It's entirely likely that you have a query that takes several minutes to run, then is stored in query cache for the next 50,000 iterations of the query. Have you observed this same behavior without the query cache enabled (it also looks like the bug mentioned in the second link - the one that pertains to the 5.0.x branch of mysql - has to do with an overly large query cache)? Based on that post, I'd guess that your next action would be to disable the query cache and determine from there if it's a slow query or actually the bug in MySQL. I didn't think you could catch fatal errors - isn't that why they're fatal? I will check into the query cache thing. However, the query that I'm running isn't exactly the same each time. Each iteration has a different ID value in the WHERE clause. Thank you, ~Philip
Re: [PHP] Limit query/function time
Have you run an explain plan on the query? Bastien Sent from my iPod On Oct 22, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Philip Thompson wrote: Hi all. I'm running into a random issue where sometimes it take several minutes (up to 10 or 15) to complete a query. According to 1 or 2 references, this may be a mysql bug. These links explain the similar problem I'm experiencing: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?24,57257 http://forum.percona.com/s/m/790/ I did some testing yesterday and this 1 sql statement successfully queried (in milliseconds) approximately 50,000 times before it took several minutes to query, which hung all the other processes on the database. Because it occurs successfully so many times, I know the query is good. Is it possible to set a time limit on a single function in PHP? E.g., when I call mysql_query() and it takes 30 seconds, then quit processing that function and continue on. I know I could set_time_limit() to a specific time, but that would cause a fatal error... and I want to be able to catch it. Any thoughts on what direction I should go? Also, I'm going to do some research to see if a newer version of mysql has fixed this bug. We're running 5.0.45. Thanks, ~Philip -- 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] Limit query/function time
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Philip Thompson wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm running into a random issue where sometimes it take several minutes (up > to 10 or 15) to complete a query. According to 1 or 2 references, this may > be a mysql bug. These links explain the similar problem I'm experiencing: > > http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?24,57257 > http://forum.percona.com/s/m/790/ > > I did some testing yesterday and this 1 sql statement successfully queried > (in milliseconds) approximately 50,000 times before it took several minutes > to query, which hung all the other processes on the database. Because it > occurs successfully so many times, I know the query is good. > > Is it possible to set a time limit on a single function in PHP? E.g., when I > call mysql_query() and it takes 30 seconds, then quit processing that > function and continue on. I know I could set_time_limit() to a specific > time, but that would cause a fatal error... and I want to be able to catch > it. > > Any thoughts on what direction I should go? Also, I'm going to do some > research to see if a newer version of mysql has fixed this bug. We're > running 5.0.45. > > Thanks, > ~Philip > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > You could use ErrorException and catch that: http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.errorexception.php Or you could just set your own error handler: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.set-error-handler.php Something I don't know if you've thought of that came to mind, though, is the MySQL query cache. It's entirely likely that you have a query that takes several minutes to run, then is stored in query cache for the next 50,000 iterations of the query. Have you observed this same behavior without the query cache enabled (it also looks like the bug mentioned in the second link - the one that pertains to the 5.0.x branch of mysql - has to do with an overly large query cache)? Based on that post, I'd guess that your next action would be to disable the query cache and determine from there if it's a slow query or actually the bug in MySQL. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Limit query/function time
Hi all. I'm running into a random issue where sometimes it take several minutes (up to 10 or 15) to complete a query. According to 1 or 2 references, this may be a mysql bug. These links explain the similar problem I'm experiencing: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?24,57257 http://forum.percona.com/s/m/790/ I did some testing yesterday and this 1 sql statement successfully queried (in milliseconds) approximately 50,000 times before it took several minutes to query, which hung all the other processes on the database. Because it occurs successfully so many times, I know the query is good. Is it possible to set a time limit on a single function in PHP? E.g., when I call mysql_query() and it takes 30 seconds, then quit processing that function and continue on. I know I could set_time_limit () to a specific time, but that would cause a fatal error... and I want to be able to catch it. Any thoughts on what direction I should go? Also, I'm going to do some research to see if a newer version of mysql has fixed this bug. We're running 5.0.45. Thanks, ~Philip -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Spam opinions please
On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Gary wrote: NO I have not, I think my issue is I hate when I run across one, it usually takes me more than one try to actually figure out what the charactor is, so hence my disdain. GAry Here are some captchas: "What's three minus two?" "Which word is listed first in the dictionary: apple, banana, pizza?" "Add 4 plus 5" Create a list of simple questions that only humans can answer. I find these to be less annoying. ~Philip "Paul M Foster" wrote in message news:20091020184001.gi3...@quillandmouse.com... On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 02:31:53PM -0400, Gary wrote: I have several sites that are getting hit with form spam. I have the script set up to capture the IP address so I know from where they come. I found a short script that is supposed to stop these IP addresses from accessing the form page, it redirects the spammer to another page (I was going to redirect to a page that has lots of pop-ups, scantily clad men and offers of joy beyond imagination), but someone suggested I redirect to the Federal Trade Commission or perhpas the FBI. Any thoughts on the script and its effectivness? http://www.google.com/";); exit(); } ?>Gary Have you tried CAPTCHA? Paul -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Trapping failure of file_get_contents()
Hi Marshall,
the function file_get_contents may have problem with large files.
You could try get the file using "fread" and feof.
Here i put a example
$contents = '';
while(!feof($stream)){
$contents .= fread($stream, 8192);
}
Gerardo Benitez.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Marshall Burns wrote:
> I have a script that downloads a sequence of files online. Every hundred
> files or so, it fails with:
>
>
>
> ==
>
> Warning: file_get_contents() []: failed to open stream: A connection
> attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a
> period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has
> failed to respond. in
Re: [PHP] Trapping failure of file_get_contents()
Marshall Burns wrote: Robert and others, I made that change in the code. It still does not trap the failure. I believe the reason is that the script is timing out while file_get_contents() is sitting there waiting for input. The problem is that the function never returns, so there is no return value to check. What I need is to get file_get_contents() to quit trying before the script timeout limit is reached, so I can catch the failure and try again. If that cannot be done, then I need to get the shutdown function to work. For reference, my original question is at http://marc.info/?l=php-general&m=125622597723923&w=2 . If you need more control then I suggest you switch from file_get_contents() to using curl to retrieve the page. You can then set your timeout criteria. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Please don't kick me!
On Oct 20, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Kim Madsen wrote: Philip Thompson wrote on 2009-10-20 21:58: I got it to draw the different background colors successfully. However, drawing borders is not as straight forward. I'm sure I could get it working as well... but I'd rather it work *out of the box*. Thanks for the suggestion. ;) Well, you're always welcome to contribute to an open source project you take advantage of ;o) Tis true. However, my passion does not include creating a better PDF generator. After doing a lil bit more research, I came across this one and I really like it so far. http://realobjects.com/PDFreactor.939.0.html It's definitely not free, but it seems to do what I need... so far. Thanks, ~Philip -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Trapping failure of file_get_contents()
Robert and others, I made that change in the code. It still does not trap the failure. I believe the reason is that the script is timing out while file_get_contents() is sitting there waiting for input. The problem is that the function never returns, so there is no return value to check. What I need is to get file_get_contents() to quit trying before the script timeout limit is reached, so I can catch the failure and try again. If that cannot be done, then I need to get the shutdown function to work. For reference, my original question is at http://marc.info/?l=php-general&m=125622597723923&w=2 . Thanks. -Original Message- From: Robert Cummings [mailto:rob...@interjinn.com] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 08:44 To: Marshall Burns Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Trapping failure of file_get_contents() Marshall Burns wrote: > I have a script that downloads a sequence of files online. Every hundred > files or so, it fails with: Check for the return value being equal to false: Make sure you use the triple '=' comparison operator since you need to check against the type being boolean also. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
resea soul wrote on 2009-10-22 15:28: Hi, I want to be able to get a screenshot of a given website on the fly. Can you give me any suggestions. Do you mean "I wanna make a screendump of _my_ website"? Then this is for you: http://dk2.php.net/manual/en/function.imagegrabscreen.php - It works with the COM interface on windows and therefore is a windows-only function. If you mean create a screendump of another website you don't have control over i think that would require som GD coding, not sure if that's possible with PHP only, most likely I would say no. If you mean you wanna rip a website and use it in your own then there's two functions to check: readfile() which reads the whole site and outputs this again. fopen() where you can read an URL line by line and easy do some alterations to the line if you like. I hope this will help you on the way. -- Kind regards Kim Emax - masterminds.dk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Fun with XSLT
On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:39, Peter Ford wrote:
Matthew Croud wrote:
Hi Guys,
Well i;ve been slaving on with my PHP XML endeavors and i'm loving
it,
just finishing the meaty parts of my XSLT for dummies book too.
I have a question which asks "is it possible?".
Using XSLT I can collect specific parts of my XML using something
sexy
like . Lets say however, that I need
to
use XSLT, but I would want the user to select which element they
request. In other words, they are given a form with options and that
form can manipulate the .XSL file.
Now I know it could be done in a lengthly manner by just opening
the XSL
file and manipulating it like fopen or something like that, but is
there
a way to somehow embed the contents of the xml into the php code
(like
using <<< EOF for html), and being able to substitute the template
match
string for a variable ?
Any ideas ?
Thanks Gamesmaster,
Matt
A bit off-topic (since XSLT is not PHP...) but here goes.
First I need to clarify what you are doing -
...
defines the template portion, and that is pretty immutable.
At some point you must have in your XSLT something like
This is the bit you can play with:
so:
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform
">
xsl:template>
Essentially you need to apply the template of any element, but only
those whose
name matches your request.
Note that
doesn't work... :(
So now if your PHP does something like
$xslDom = new DOMDocument();
$xslDom->load('matchMe.xsl');
$xslt = new XSLTProcessor();
$xslt->importStylesheet($xslDom);
$xslt->setParameter('','matchMe','umbongo');
$xmlDom = new DOMDocument();
$xmlDom->load('some_document_that_has_an_umbongo_tag.xml');
echo $xslt->transformToXML($xmlDom);
you should get the results of the 'umbongo' template (only)
'f course, this is not tested, but I have used this idea in working
code
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Utter brilliance, this is superb, I might drop you a mail to clarify a
few things later Peter,
but your reply was superb and has given me many options to try out.
Thanks again!
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Re: [PHP] Trapping failure of file_get_contents()
Robert Cummings wrote:
>
> Marshall Burns wrote:
>> I have a script that downloads a sequence of files online. Every hundred
>> files or so, it fails with:
>
> Check for the return value being equal to false:
>
>
> if( ($sFil = file_get_contents( $sURL )) === false )
> {
> // FAIL
> }
> else
> {
> // SUCCESS
> }
>
> ?>
>
> Make sure you use the triple '=' comparison operator since you need to
> check against the type being boolean also.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
To squelch the warning notice that is generated, you might want to put an @ in
front of the file_get_contents() call.
Jim
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[PHP] Sessions seems to kill db connection
Hi PHPeople
I have an odd problem at my new work and wonder if it's some sort of odd
setup that is causing this problem when using sessions:
if($test) {
$query = "SELECT count(*) FROM articles WHERE group1 = 'fp'";# AND
group2 = 'login'";
$r = mysql_query($query) or die('Db error: ' . mysql_error() .
''.$SQL);
print "There´s " . mysql_num_rows($r) . " rows"; // 3 rows
print "session: " . $_SESSION['login']['uid']; // 1234
exit;
}
else {
if($_SESSION['login']['uid']) {
$query = "SELECT count(*) FROM articles WHERE group1 = 'fp'";# AND
group2 = 'login'";
$r = mysql_query($query) or die('Db error: ' . mysql_error() .
''.$SQL);
print "There´s " . mysql_num_rows($r) . " rows";
}
}
if $test is true it´s okay, if it´s false, this error occurs:
Db error: Access denied for user 'www-data'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
WTF? I´m not using a user called www-data for MySQL connections, but
apache runs as this user.
I've outcommented and login = to exclude a collision in variables (if
register globals is on, haven't checked that yet)
Anyone seen this wierd behaviour and know a solution or someway to
test/debug this?
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Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
Jason wrote: -Original Message- From: Andrea Giammarchi [mailto:an_...@hotmail.com] Sent: 22 October 2009 16:34 To: networkad...@emarket2.com; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website Hi, If a windows web server is being used, we've had very good results with the activex control (use via COM within PHP5) from http://www.acasystems.com/en/web-thumb-activex/ The developer is very responsive to bug reports / feature suggestions. Full PHP example code is given for all functions as well. Now this is truly interesting, is there any particular reason it works only with windows web server? Any chance it could be somehow integrated via VM Virtual Images if the reason is driven Internet Explorer? Regards That is a question you'd have to ask the developer I'm afraid. The only PHP compatible interface is COM (which I'm pretty sure is windows only), so you'd need to be running PHP on windows (IIRC). It would be possible to have a linux webserver that uses a windows VM proxy webserver to facilitate the COM request. This is not entire absurd since generation of website screenshots can be quite processor intensive so it might work well split it off to it's own machine (virtual or physical). Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Fun with XSLT
Matthew Croud wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Well i;ve been slaving on with my PHP XML endeavors and i'm loving it, > just finishing the meaty parts of my XSLT for dummies book too. > > I have a question which asks "is it possible?". > > Using XSLT I can collect specific parts of my XML using something sexy > like . Lets say however, that I need to > use XSLT, but I would want the user to select which element they > request. In other words, they are given a form with options and that > form can manipulate the .XSL file. > > Now I know it could be done in a lengthly manner by just opening the XSL > file and manipulating it like fopen or something like that, but is there > a way to somehow embed the contents of the xml into the php code (like > using <<< EOF for html), and being able to substitute the template match > string for a variable ? > > Any ideas ? > > Thanks Gamesmaster, > Matt > Despite my other post, of course you can generate the XSL on the fly: http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> EoXSL $xslt = new DOMDocument(); $xslt->loadXML($xslScript); // ... etc... ?> -- Peter Ford phone: 01580 89 Developer fax: 01580 893399 Justcroft International Ltd., Staplehurst, Kent -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Trapping failure of file_get_contents()
Marshall Burns wrote: I have a script that downloads a sequence of files online. Every hundred files or so, it fails with: Check for the return value being equal to false: Make sure you use the triple '=' comparison operator since you need to check against the type being boolean also. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Fun with XSLT
Matthew Croud wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Well i;ve been slaving on with my PHP XML endeavors and i'm loving it,
> just finishing the meaty parts of my XSLT for dummies book too.
>
> I have a question which asks "is it possible?".
>
> Using XSLT I can collect specific parts of my XML using something sexy
> like . Lets say however, that I need to
> use XSLT, but I would want the user to select which element they
> request. In other words, they are given a form with options and that
> form can manipulate the .XSL file.
>
> Now I know it could be done in a lengthly manner by just opening the XSL
> file and manipulating it like fopen or something like that, but is there
> a way to somehow embed the contents of the xml into the php code (like
> using <<< EOF for html), and being able to substitute the template match
> string for a variable ?
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks Gamesmaster,
> Matt
>
A bit off-topic (since XSLT is not PHP...) but here goes.
First I need to clarify what you are doing -
...
defines the template portion, and that is pretty immutable.
At some point you must have in your XSLT something like
This is the bit you can play with:
so:
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
Essentially you need to apply the template of any element, but only those whose
name matches your request.
Note that
doesn't work... :(
So now if your PHP does something like
$xslDom = new DOMDocument();
$xslDom->load('matchMe.xsl');
$xslt = new XSLTProcessor();
$xslt->importStylesheet($xslDom);
$xslt->setParameter('','matchMe','umbongo');
$xmlDom = new DOMDocument();
$xmlDom->load('some_document_that_has_an_umbongo_tag.xml');
echo $xslt->transformToXML($xmlDom);
you should get the results of the 'umbongo' template (only)
'f course, this is not tested, but I have used this idea in working code
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RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
-Original Message- From: Andrea Giammarchi [mailto:an_...@hotmail.com] Sent: 22 October 2009 16:34 To: networkad...@emarket2.com; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website > Hi, > > If a windows web server is being used, we've had very good results with the > activex control (use via COM within PHP5) from > http://www.acasystems.com/en/web-thumb-activex/ > > The developer is very responsive to bug reports / feature suggestions. Full > PHP example code is given for all functions as well. Now this is truly interesting, is there any particular reason it works only with windows web server? Any chance it could be somehow integrated via VM Virtual Images if the reason is driven Internet Explorer? Regards That is a question you'd have to ask the developer I'm afraid. The only PHP compatible interface is COM (which I'm pretty sure is windows only), so you'd need to be running PHP on windows (IIRC). J -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
Andrea Giammarchi wrote: Hi, If a windows web server is being used, we've had very good results with the activex control (use via COM within PHP5) from http://www.acasystems.com/en/web-thumb-activex/ The developer is very responsive to bug reports / feature suggestions. Full PHP example code is given for all functions as well. Now this is truly interesting, is there any particular reason it works only with windows web server? Any chance it could be somehow integrated via VM Virtual Images if the reason is driven Internet Explorer? Of course it can work with a virtual machine... but the OP already indicated they want something that works with cpanel so to smack you with your own childish arguments... this is not applicable... something that is known at this stage of the thread. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Trapping failure of file_get_contents()
I have a script that downloads a sequence of files online. Every hundred files or so, it fails with: == Warning: file_get_contents() []: failed to open stream: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. in
Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
Andrea Giammarchi wrote: Given the knowledge (or extremely likely probability) of the non-existence of a PHP only solution for generating website thumbnails it follows that my suggestion was absolutely applicable. I have never said the opposite ... I have just said: pure PHP with standard core functions/libraries? No way so far Yes you did, and I quote: "Good suggestion, not applicable since the question was different" You said "not applicable" which is exactly the opposite of "applicable". The right question would have been: do you know any third parts library/webservice able to get a snapshot? In this case your suggestion would have been perfect :-) The OP's original question was: "I want to be able to get a screenshot of a given website on the fly. Can you give me any suggestions." He wanted a route to get a screenshot. he didn't say PHP only, he didn't say third party, he just said "any suggestions"-- take careful note of the word "ANY". Now, if you don't mind, please stop spamming the poster's thread with puerile argument. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 17:33 +0200, Andrea Giammarchi wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > If a windows web server is being used, we've had very good results with the > > activex control (use via COM within PHP5) from > > http://www.acasystems.com/en/web-thumb-activex/ > > > > The developer is very responsive to bug reports / feature suggestions. Full > > PHP example code is given for all functions as well. > > Now this is truly interesting, is there any particular reason it works only > with windows web server? Any chance it could be somehow integrated via VM > Virtual Images if the reason is driven Internet Explorer? > > Regards > > _ > Windows Live Hotmail: Your friends can get your Facebook updates, right from > Hotmail®. > http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_4:092009 Surely the clue to that question would be in the activex part?... Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
> Hi, > > If a windows web server is being used, we've had very good results with the > activex control (use via COM within PHP5) from > http://www.acasystems.com/en/web-thumb-activex/ > > The developer is very responsive to bug reports / feature suggestions. Full > PHP example code is given for all functions as well. Now this is truly interesting, is there any particular reason it works only with windows web server? Any chance it could be somehow integrated via VM Virtual Images if the reason is driven Internet Explorer? Regards _ Windows Live Hotmail: Your friends can get your Facebook updates, right from Hotmail®. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_4:092009
RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
> Given the knowledge (or extremely likely probability) of the > non-existence of a PHP only solution for generating website thumbnails > it follows that my suggestion was absolutely applicable. I have never said the opposite ... I have just said: pure PHP with standard core functions/libraries? No way so far The right question would have been: do you know any third parts library/webservice able to get a snapshot? In this case your suggestion would have been perfect :-) Regards _ Windows Live: Friends get your Flickr, Yelp, and Digg updates when they e-mail you. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_3:092010
RE: [PHP] Fun with XSLT
> is > there a way to somehow embed the contents of the xml into the php code > (like using <<< EOF for html), and being able to substitute the > template match string for a variable ? > > Any ideas ? XSLT should be used via modules, as is with match and templates indeed. The only idea is to save single modules in order to be able to create run-time the proper transformer for the specific case. Then you can save these grouped modules into other modules ... I know it's more easy to say than do it. Regards _ Windows Live: Friends get your Flickr, Yelp, and Digg updates when they e-mail you. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_3:092010
Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
Andrea Giammarchi wrote: > I see you are being rather obtuse :| I use system/shell calls without problems if there is the lib I need. The problem here is that the question was, in my opinion, the classic: how to assign javascript var to php (directly) Indeed he is trying to find a PHP solution, of course with third parts libraries you can do whatever you want, but this is not the case. Good suggestion, not applicable since the question was different, so maybe I've been obtuse reading the question ... still good suggestion. Given the knowledge (or extremely likely probability) of the non-existence of a PHP only solution for generating website thumbnails it follows that my suggestion was absolutely applicable. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
> I see you are being rather obtuse :| I use system/shell calls without problems if there is the lib I need. The problem here is that the question was, in my opinion, the classic: how to assign javascript var to php (directly) Indeed he is trying to find a PHP solution, of course with third parts libraries you can do whatever you want, but this is not the case. Good suggestion, not applicable since the question was different, so maybe I've been obtuse reading the question ... still good suggestion. Regards _ Windows Live Hotmail: Your friends can get your Facebook updates, right from Hotmail®. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_4:092009
[PHP] Fun with XSLT
Hi Guys, Well i;ve been slaving on with my PHP XML endeavors and i'm loving it, just finishing the meaty parts of my XSLT for dummies book too. I have a question which asks "is it possible?". Using XSLT I can collect specific parts of my XML using something sexy like . Lets say however, that I need to use XSLT, but I would want the user to select which element they request. In other words, they are given a form with options and that form can manipulate the .XSL file. Now I know it could be done in a lengthly manner by just opening the XSL file and manipulating it like fopen or something like that, but is there a way to somehow embed the contents of the xml into the php code (like using <<< EOF for html), and being able to substitute the template match string for a variable ? Any ideas ? Thanks Gamesmaster, Matt
RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
-Original Message- From: resea soul [mailto:reseas...@gmail.com] Sent: 22 October 2009 14:28 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website Hi, I want to be able to get a screenshot of a given website on the fly. Can you give me any suggestions. Thank you Hi, If a windows web server is being used, we've had very good results with the activex control (use via COM within PHP5) from http://www.acasystems.com/en/web-thumb-activex/ The developer is very responsive to bug reports / feature suggestions. Full PHP example code is given for all functions as well. HTH J -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
Andrea Giammarchi wrote: Thanks, I checked the faq of their website. They say that I must have an an X session. I don't host myself my website. I want something that I can use only by using cpanel. What i want basically is allow the user to enter the url of a website. And the script must give him the image as output. Here we are ... you see Rob? :-) What about an iframe if this is a user website preview? I see you are being rather obtuse :| Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
Andrea Giammarchi wrote: Thanks, I checked the faq of their website. They say that I must have an an X session. I don't host myself my website. I want something that I can use only by using cpanel. What i want basically is allow the user to enter the url of a website. And the script must give him the image as output. Here we are ... you see Rob? :-) What about an iframe if this is a user website preview? If you have khtml2png2 on your system then using PHP you can do the following: http://www.interjinn.com";' .' interjinn.png'; exec( $command ); ?> I fail to see how this is not a PHP solution. This should have been obvious when I said PHP makes an excellent glue/wrapper language. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
> GD is just a library that PHP uses, in a similar way that you'd be > utilising what khtml2png can do through PHP. What you just said doesn't > make much sense. except I cannot find anything in both php.net and pecl websites Regards _ Windows Live Hotmail: Your friends can get your Facebook updates, right from Hotmail®. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_4:092009
Re: [PHP] how call a variable in a text
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Thodoris wrote:
>
>
>>
>>> I don't think it is about readability:
>>>
>>> $arr[3] = 'test';
>>> $test = 3;
>>>
>>> //This prints "$test"
>>> echo "This doesn't work: $$arr[3]";
>>>
>>> //This prints 3
>>> echo "This works: ${$arr[3]}";
>>>
>>> Using the same type way as before in this thread.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Above example is a classic one where readability and maintainability deal
>> well together.
>>
>> First of all everything works as expected but obviously you need to know
>> what you need.
>>
>> It is ambiguous to write $$arr[3] ... what do you expect?]
>>
>>
>
> No I don't think it is. It produces "$test" and if this is what you need
> echo it works nice :-) .
>
> Did you mean the variable derived by $arr[3]?
>> echo "This works: {$$arr[3]}";
>> since curly brackets make the meaning of the expression explicit, it will
>> be 3 indeed.
>>
>> What is the less ambiguous, readable, easy to maintain, way to obtain that
>> result?
>>
>> echo "This works: {${$arr[3]}}";
>>
>> If our aim is to get the variable with name equal to the value of $arr[3]
>>
>> Can you see now why I am talking about good practice? Zero ambiguity, and
>> that's how I like to code
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>
> Although I totally agree with the way of thinking and it is my style as
> well.
>
> But I though that the point of the thread was to present ways of putting
> vars inside strings...
>
> --
> Thodoris
>
>
PHP knows that before $ and {} there is a variable name so, this is
completely correct for PHP
RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 16:17 +0200, Andrea Giammarchi wrote: > Rob, I agree, but you are suggesting is khtml2png which is cool, perfect, > fantastic, but it's not PHP, isn't it? > > You ask me: I want a snap via PHP > I reply: well, I don't think such thing exists: a render engine entirely > written in PHP and GD2 > > Maybe we should create one ... > > Regards > > > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:40:47 -0400 > > From: rob...@interjinn.com > > To: an_...@hotmail.com > > CC: reseas...@gmail.com; php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website > > > > Andrea Giammarchi wrote: > > > What you see is what a browser engine renders for your eyes while what > > > you can do with PHP is a snapshot of the source code. > > > > One should remember that PHP serves quite well both as a glue language > > and as a wrapper language. There is no reason why you can't use PHP to > > create a simple lib around something like khtml2png so that the > > screenshot can be gathered on demand using simple PHP style function calls. > > > > Cheers, > > Rob. > > -- > > http://www.interjinn.com > > Application and Templating Framework for PHP > > _ > Windows Live: Friends get your Flickr, Yelp, and Digg updates when they > e-mail you. > http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_3:092010 GD is just a library that PHP uses, in a similar way that you'd be utilising what khtml2png can do through PHP. What you just said doesn't make much sense. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
> > Thanks, > > > > I checked the faq of their website. They say that I must have an an X > > session. I don't host myself my website. > > I want something that I can use only by using cpanel. What i want > > basically is allow the user to enter the url of a website. And the > > script must give him the image as output. Here we are ... you see Rob? :-) What about an iframe if this is a user website preview? Regards _ Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_1:092010
RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
Rob, I agree, but you are suggesting is khtml2png which is cool, perfect, fantastic, but it's not PHP, isn't it? You ask me: I want a snap via PHP I reply: well, I don't think such thing exists: a render engine entirely written in PHP and GD2 Maybe we should create one ... Regards > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:40:47 -0400 > From: rob...@interjinn.com > To: an_...@hotmail.com > CC: reseas...@gmail.com; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website > > Andrea Giammarchi wrote: > > What you see is what a browser engine renders for your eyes while what you > > can do with PHP is a snapshot of the source code. > > One should remember that PHP serves quite well both as a glue language > and as a wrapper language. There is no reason why you can't use PHP to > create a simple lib around something like khtml2png so that the > screenshot can be gathered on demand using simple PHP style function calls. > > Cheers, > Rob. > -- > http://www.interjinn.com > Application and Templating Framework for PHP _ Windows Live: Friends get your Flickr, Yelp, and Digg updates when they e-mail you. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_3:092010
Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
resea soul wrote: Thanks, I checked the faq of their website. They say that I must have an an X session. I don't host myself my website. I want something that I can use only by using cpanel. What i want basically is allow the user to enter the url of a website. And the script must give him the image as output. Maybe the hosting company will agree to install something for me but i'm not sure that this tool can be integrated in php scripts. I don't see anything about how to do that in their website. You will almost certainly have to use a third party service if you are in such a limited environment. Most website screenshot engines hook into an existing browser engine to produce the image. Rendering HTML is not a trivial task, especially if it is to take into consideration the numerous plugins that are fairly common on the internet (flash, java, javascript, canvas, etc, etc). Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
Andrea Giammarchi wrote: What you see is what a browser engine renders for your eyes while what you can do with PHP is a snapshot of the source code. One should remember that PHP serves quite well both as a glue language and as a wrapper language. There is no reason why you can't use PHP to create a simple lib around something like khtml2png so that the screenshot can be gathered on demand using simple PHP style function calls. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Text File Busy
It happens on any file I try so there must be something else going on. Thanks! Floyd On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Shawn McKenzie wrote: Floyd Resler wrote: For some reason I'm getting a Text file busy error when I try to execute PHP scripts from the command line now. It used to work, but now it doesn't. I do have #!/usr/bin/php at the top of my script. If I feed the file to php (i.e. /usr/bin/php -f filename.php) it works. Of course, I can use this method but I was curious if anyone else has had similar problems and what the solution was. I'm guessing that something I installed is messing it up. Thanks! Floyd The file is open somewhere most likely. Try: lsof | grep filename.php -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
What you see is what a browser engine renders for your eyes while what you can do with PHP is a snapshot of the source code. Regards > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:28:15 -0400 > From: reseas...@gmail.com > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website > > Hi, > > I want to be able to get a screenshot of a given website on the fly. > Can you give me any suggestions. > > Thank you _ Keep your friends updated—even when you’re not signed in. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_5:092010
Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
resea soul wrote: Hi, I want to be able to get a screenshot of a given website on the fly. Can you give me any suggestions. http://sourceforge.net/projects/khtml2png/ It might already be in your favourite Linux distro's repositories also. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Create a screenshot of a website
Hi, I want to be able to get a screenshot of a given website on the fly. Can you give me any suggestions. Thank you
RE: [PHP] XML parsing with PHP
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Re: [PHP] how call a variable in a text
I don't think it is about readability:
$arr[3] = 'test';
$test = 3;
//This prints "$test"
echo "This doesn't work: $$arr[3]";
//This prints 3
echo "This works: ${$arr[3]}";
Using the same type way as before in this thread.
Above example is a classic one where readability and maintainability deal well
together.
First of all everything works as expected but obviously you need to know what
you need.
It is ambiguous to write $$arr[3] ... what do you expect?]
No I don't think it is. It produces "$test" and if this is what you need
echo it works nice :-) .
Did you mean the variable derived by $arr[3]?
echo "This works: {$$arr[3]}";
since curly brackets make the meaning of the expression explicit, it will be 3
indeed.
What is the less ambiguous, readable, easy to maintain, way to obtain that
result?
echo "This works: {${$arr[3]}}";
If our aim is to get the variable with name equal to the value of $arr[3]
Can you see now why I am talking about good practice? Zero ambiguity, and
that's how I like to code
Regards
Although I totally agree with the way of thinking and it is my style as
well.
But I though that the point of the thread was to present ways of putting
vars inside strings...
--
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RE: [PHP] how call a variable in a text
> I don't think it is about readability:
>
> $arr[3] = 'test';
> $test = 3;
>
> //This prints "$test"
> echo "This doesn't work: $$arr[3]";
>
> //This prints 3
> echo "This works: ${$arr[3]}";
>
> Using the same type way as before in this thread.
Above example is a classic one where readability and maintainability deal well
together.
First of all everything works as expected but obviously you need to know what
you need.
It is ambiguous to write $$arr[3] ... what do you expect?
Did you mean the variable derived by $arr[3]?
echo "This works: {$$arr[3]}";
since curly brackets make the meaning of the expression explicit, it will be 3
indeed.
What is the less ambiguous, readable, easy to maintain, way to obtain that
result?
echo "This works: {${$arr[3]}}";
If our aim is to get the variable with name equal to the value of $arr[3]
Can you see now why I am talking about good practice? Zero ambiguity, and
that's how I like to code
Regards
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Re: [PHP] how call a variable in a text
Using the same type way as before in this thread. This was supposed to come out as "using the same way of thinking". But the English->Nerdish dictionary came out... -- Thodoris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] how call a variable in a text
> So no they are not meant to go around. You can use them this way as
well.
that has almost the same meaning of
$_ = '_POST';
echo count($$_);
which again, for readability brackets are suggested to improve
maintainability
$_ = '_POST';
echo count(${$_});
Regards
I don't think it is about readability:
$arr[3] = 'test';
$test = 3;
//This prints "$test"
echo "This doesn't work: $$arr[3]";
//This prints 3
echo "This works: ${$arr[3]}";
Using the same type way as before in this thread.
My point is that in the curly braces you protect the way the evaluation
is going to be made into the string. So you can put them anywhere as
long as it is meaningful.
See some examples:
http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php
in the complex (curly) syntax section.
--
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RE: [PHP] how call a variable in a text
> So no they are not meant to go around. You can use them this way as well.
that has almost the same meaning of
$_ = '_POST';
echo count($$_);
which again, for readability brackets are suggested to improve maintainability
$_ = '_POST';
echo count(${$_});
Regards
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RE: [PHP] how call a variable in a text
> Erm, the braces are meant to go *around* the variable, not around a bit
> of it:
>
> print "Test: {$var[0][0]}";
unrelated, just another usage of curly brackets
$_ = 'abc';
$i = 0;
echo $_{++$i}; // b
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Re: [PHP] how call a variable in a text
Erm, the braces are meant to go *around* the variable, not around a
bit of it:
print "Test: {$var[0][0]}";
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
In many cases braces can go around the variable name not the necessarily
around the whole variable (like the bash scripts). Those are coming from
the manual:
function test() {
// NULL -- not what initially expected
$string = '_POST';
var_dump(${$string});
// Works as expected
var_dump(${'_POST'});
// Works as expected
global ${$string};
var_dump(${$string});
}
So no they are not meant to go around. You can use them this way as well.
--
Thodoris
RE: [PHP] how call a variable in a text
Curly brackets are usually highlighted as well so it is a good practice,
generally speaking, to use them for double quoted strings and maintainability
increase automatically.
Regards
> From: esam...@barc.gov.in
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:31:53 +0530
> Subject: RE: [PHP] how call a variable in a text
>
> This is always safe to use variables like this...
>
> $text = "This is " . $variable;
>
> Or
>
> $text = "This is " . $variable[0];
>
> Regards,
>
> Samrat Kar
> FRD, BARC
>
> Tel: 022-25597295
> Alternate Email: esam...@yahoo.com
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Kim Madsen [mailto:php@emax.dk]
> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:25 AM
> To: a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk
> Cc: David Murphy; php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] how call a variable in a text
>
> Ashley Sheridan wrote on 2009-10-21 22:43:
>
> > The {} only become really useful when you're trying to reference arrays
> > within a string:
> >
> > $var = array('great', 'boring');
> >
> > $text = "this is {$var[0]}.";
> >
> > Without the curly braces, PHP wouldn't be able to figure out whether you
> > wanted the end string to be 'This is great.' or 'This is [0].' despite
> > the variable itself clearly being an array.
>
> Ehh what? This has never been a problem for me:
>
> $text = "this is $var[0].";
>
> However this does give an error (or notice, don't recall, haven't seen
> the error in quite a while):
>
> $text = "this is $var['0'].";
>
> In that case the solution is the curly brackets:
>
> $text = "this is {$var['0']}.";
>
> --
> Kind regards
> Kim Emax - masterminds.dk
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Re: [PHP] how call a variable in a text
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 09:53 +0300, Thodoris wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 23:11 +0200, Kim Madsen wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Ashley Sheridan wrote on 2009-10-21 22:56:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Try this though:
> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> $var = array(array('great','alright'), 'boring');
> >>>
> >>> print "This is $var[0][0].";
> >>>
> >> Print "This is different from your previous example :-)";
> >>
> >> --
> >> Kind regards
> >> Kim Emax - masterminds.dk
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > Yeah, I just forgot that PHP will correctly work with an array to a
> > depth of 1 inside of a string. Much like the above advice, I'd taken to
> > always using {} for arrays inside of strings, although not for strings
> > inside of strings unless I needed non-white-space text to immediately
> > follow said string. Would make more sense if I used the braces for
> > everything, but nobody has ever accused me of making too much sense
> > before!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ash
> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> This will also work (shell like style):
>
> print "Test: ${var[0]}";
>
> but this won't based on the same principle you mention above:
>
> print "Test: ${var[0][0]}";
>
Erm, the braces are meant to go *around* the variable, not around a bit
of it:
print "Test: {$var[0][0]}";
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
