php-general Digest 30 Dec 2009 10:08:09 -0000 Issue 6513
php-general Digest 30 Dec 2009 10:08:09 - Issue 6513
Topics (messages 300731 through 300744):
Re: ip-to-country
300731 by: George Langley
300732 by: Nitsan Bin-Nun
Re: output buffer
300733 by: Bastien Koert
300736 by: Marc Fromm
300740 by: kranthi
Re: sending email with php
300734 by: George Langley
Re: Unable to get output from exec ssh remote-server 'ping -c4 ip'
300735 by: Adam Randall
300741 by: kranthi
Re: Multiple Inheritance Needed in OOP?
300737 by: Daniel Kolbo
300738 by: Daniel Egeberg
300739 by: Daniel Kolbo
not able to use mysql server
300742 by: Sudhakar
300743 by: Jignesh Thummar
Help with security configuration for a shared hosting environment
300744 by: robert mena
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From my experience, I have had reported one incorrect country-level
IP from Maxmind's paid service (returned US vrs Canada for a Canadian
IP). But their free version is based on the commercial lists, just not
updated as often, or automatically (you download and store locally on
your server). So should be nearly as accurate as long as you maintain
the lists (ie. think is weekly, being 2-weeks behind).
That said, someone on another list is running a geo-location service
comparison test, where you click links to the various services, then
enter the location they returned. He was compiling the results, and so
far has reported the following:
-QUOTE---
So far some crazy numbers and realities. Of these numbers, all of the
vendors missed 25 exact city locations equally. So our continued plan
is to measure how far off the approx. 25% are so we can then say, OK,
x vendor is 100% accurate up to x% and then x% accurate within say x-y
miles. The shocking thing to us is still how some of the more
expensive providers will say their definition of accuracy on a city
level can be within 25 miles. Thus you would receive statistical
confidence of a 90-100 for an IP that shows Pasadena, Calif. and yet
in reality be located in Long Beach, Calif., or the same for San Jose,
Ca. and yet be further up the peninsula in San Carlos, Ca.
total: 103
ip2: 55
quova: 46
ipiligence: 32
whatis: 62
maxmind: 63
By the way, we are obviously way short still on queries so if you
haven't clicked on the link, please do so and follow some ez pz
instructions:
http://www.stratosanalytics.com/iplookup.html
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So help him out by clicking the link (although not sure what he means
by e-zed-p-zed instructions ;-{)] )
George
On 14-Dec-09, at 5:07 AM, Angelo Zanetti wrote:
-Original Message-
From: George Langley [mailto:george.lang...@shaw.ca]
Sent: 19 October 2009 01:38 AM
To: php-gene...@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] ip-to-country
On 18-Oct-09, at 1:03 PM, SED wrote:
How can I access an index for IP to a country (or a more detailed
location)?
http://www.maxmind.com/app/ip-location
has both free and various paid services.
George
Hi George,
How accurate are the free ones compared to the paid ones?
Regards
Angelo
http://www.elemental.co.za
http://www.wapit.co.za
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easy-peasy :)
I have nothing to add to the discussion, my experience is only with
Maxmind's free database, and it is definitely not accurate at Israel.
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:14 PM, George Langley george.lang...@shaw.cawrote:
From my experience, I have had reported one incorrect country-level
IP from Maxmind's paid service (returned US vrs Canada for a Canadian IP).
But their free version is based on the commercial lists, just not updated as
often, or automatically (you download and store locally on your server). So
should be nearly as accurate as long as you maintain the lists (ie. think is
weekly, being 2-weeks behind).
That said, someone on another list is running a geo-location service
comparison test, where you click links to the various services, then enter
the location they returned. He was compiling the results, and so far has
reported the following:
-QUOTE---
So far some crazy numbers and realities. Of these numbers, all of the
vendors missed 25 exact city locations equally. So our continued plan is to
measure how far off the approx. 25% are so we can then say, OK, x vendor is
100% accurate up to x% and then x% accurate within say x-y miles. The
shocking thing to us is still how some of the more expensive providers will
say their definition of accuracy on a city level can be within 25 miles.
Thus you would
php-general Digest 31 Dec 2009 03:45:54 -0000 Issue 6514
php-general Digest 31 Dec 2009 03:45:54 - Issue 6514 Topics (messages 300745 through 300750): Re: not able to use mysql server 300745 by: Eric Lee If design patterns are not supposed to produce reusable code then why use them? 300746 by: Tony Marston 300747 by: Ashley Sheridan 300748 by: tedd 300749 by: Paul M Foster Survey+Report in PHP 300750 by: aditya shukla Administrivia: To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: php-general-digest-subscr...@lists.php.net To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: php-general-digest-unsubscr...@lists.php.net To post to the list, e-mail: php-gene...@lists.php.net -- ---BeginMessage--- On 12/30/09, Jignesh Thummar jignesh.thum...@gmail.com wrote: It is problem with mysql client, it's not able to connect with mysql server. Either mysql server is not running or windows firewall is blocking to the access of port 3306. Try to disable firewall. -Jignesh On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Sudhakar sudhakarar...@gmail.com wrote: hi i am using windows vista and installed wamp server, initially i installed wamp and accessed phpmyadmin and while setting a password for the root i did a mistake and could not access phpmyadmin and also renamed some php files so i uninstalled wamp server and re installed now the problem i am facing is when i click on mysql.exe located at D:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.1.36\bin i am getting the following error error 2003 cant connect to Mysql server on localhost 10061 in config.inc.php located at d:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin3.2.0.1 i have the following $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3306'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'root'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true; along with others. when i type http://localhost i am able to see the welcome screen of wamp and can click on phpinfo but when i click on phpmyadmin it takes a while to load and a blank screen appears also i have stopped all services and restarted all services from the wampserver icon in the system tray, normally the colors change from red to yellow to white, the color is at yellow and does not change to white how do i solve the error error 2003 cant connect to Mysql server on localhost 10061 so that i can use phpmyadmin please advice. thanks. Are there any error entries of mysql server on the event viewer ? Also, what is the starting state of mysql server on the services console ? You can found all tool on administrative folder on the start menu. ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- I have recently been engaged in an argument via email with someone who criticises my low opinion of design patterns (refer to http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/design-patterns.html ). He says that design patterns are merely a convention and not a reusable component. My argument is that something called a pattern is supposed to have a recurring theme, some element of reusability, so that all subsequent implementations of a pattern should require less effort than the first implementation. If design patterns do not provide any reusable code then what is the point of using them? I do not use design patterns as I consider them to be the wrong level of abstraction. I am in the business of designing and developing entire applications which comprise of numerous application transactions, so I much prefer to use transaction patterns (refer to http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/design-patterns-are-dead.html and http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/transaction-patterns.html ) as these provide large amounts of reusable code and are therefore a significant aid to programmer productivity. What is your opinion? Are design patterns supposed to provide reusable code or not? If not, and each implementation of a pattern takes just as much time as the first, then where are the productivity gains from using design patterns? -- Tony Marston http://www.tonymarston.net http://www.radicore.org ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 16:50 +, Tony Marston wrote: I have recently been engaged in an argument via email with someone who criticises my low opinion of design patterns (refer to http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/design-patterns.html ). He says that design patterns are merely a convention and not a reusable component. My argument is that something called a pattern is supposed to have a recurring theme, some element of reusability, so that all subsequent implementations of a pattern should require less effort than the first implementation. If design patterns do not provide any reusable code then what is the point of using them? I do not use design patterns as I consider them to be the
[PHP] Help with security configuration for a shared hosting environment
Hi, I am setting a shared hosting server and I'd like to gather some advices regarding the security. Since the code will not be produced by me I'd like to focus on environment strategies. For now I've added a noexec in the mount options of the /tmp and the homedir of the web server, disabled the devel tools (such as gcc). In terms of the PHP I am inclined to use mod_suPHP to avoid having the problem with the script generated files (such as uploads) being owned by the webserver itself and I'd like to use the available php.ini options to try to make it harder for an attacker to cause problems. I will disable the register_globals and the allow url fopen. But what else can I do (open_basedir/doc_root/safe_mode etc)? I need to allow the user to access the pear classes. Using linux/php 5.2.x Regards.
Re: [PHP] not able to use mysql server
On 12/30/09, Jignesh Thummar jignesh.thum...@gmail.com wrote: It is problem with mysql client, it's not able to connect with mysql server. Either mysql server is not running or windows firewall is blocking to the access of port 3306. Try to disable firewall. -Jignesh On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Sudhakar sudhakarar...@gmail.com wrote: hi i am using windows vista and installed wamp server, initially i installed wamp and accessed phpmyadmin and while setting a password for the root i did a mistake and could not access phpmyadmin and also renamed some php files so i uninstalled wamp server and re installed now the problem i am facing is when i click on mysql.exe located at D:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.1.36\bin i am getting the following error error 2003 cant connect to Mysql server on localhost 10061 in config.inc.php located at d:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin3.2.0.1 i have the following $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3306'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'root'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true; along with others. when i type http://localhost i am able to see the welcome screen of wamp and can click on phpinfo but when i click on phpmyadmin it takes a while to load and a blank screen appears also i have stopped all services and restarted all services from the wampserver icon in the system tray, normally the colors change from red to yellow to white, the color is at yellow and does not change to white how do i solve the error error 2003 cant connect to Mysql server on localhost 10061 so that i can use phpmyadmin please advice. thanks. Are there any error entries of mysql server on the event viewer ? Also, what is the starting state of mysql server on the services console ? You can found all tool on administrative folder on the start menu.
[PHP] If design patterns are not supposed to produce reusable code then why use them?
I have recently been engaged in an argument via email with someone who criticises my low opinion of design patterns (refer to http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/design-patterns.html ). He says that design patterns are merely a convention and not a reusable component. My argument is that something called a pattern is supposed to have a recurring theme, some element of reusability, so that all subsequent implementations of a pattern should require less effort than the first implementation. If design patterns do not provide any reusable code then what is the point of using them? I do not use design patterns as I consider them to be the wrong level of abstraction. I am in the business of designing and developing entire applications which comprise of numerous application transactions, so I much prefer to use transaction patterns (refer to http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/design-patterns-are-dead.html and http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/transaction-patterns.html ) as these provide large amounts of reusable code and are therefore a significant aid to programmer productivity. What is your opinion? Are design patterns supposed to provide reusable code or not? If not, and each implementation of a pattern takes just as much time as the first, then where are the productivity gains from using design patterns? -- Tony Marston http://www.tonymarston.net http://www.radicore.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] If design patterns are not supposed to produce reusable code then why use them?
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 16:50 +, Tony Marston wrote: I have recently been engaged in an argument via email with someone who criticises my low opinion of design patterns (refer to http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/design-patterns.html ). He says that design patterns are merely a convention and not a reusable component. My argument is that something called a pattern is supposed to have a recurring theme, some element of reusability, so that all subsequent implementations of a pattern should require less effort than the first implementation. If design patterns do not provide any reusable code then what is the point of using them? I do not use design patterns as I consider them to be the wrong level of abstraction. I am in the business of designing and developing entire applications which comprise of numerous application transactions, so I much prefer to use transaction patterns (refer to http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/design-patterns-are-dead.html and http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/transaction-patterns.html ) as these provide large amounts of reusable code and are therefore a significant aid to programmer productivity. What is your opinion? Are design patterns supposed to provide reusable code or not? If not, and each implementation of a pattern takes just as much time as the first, then where are the productivity gains from using design patterns? -- Tony Marston http://www.tonymarston.net http://www.radicore.org In my opinion, patterns primarily aid development of systems where more than one person will be working on it, or where more people may need to refer to the code in the future as a basis for something else. Programming essentially is about not reinventing the wheel all the time, by reusing ideas either as they stand, or as a base for improving upon. To an extent, I think every programmer uses design patterns, it's just a matter of how complex a pattern one uses, and how closely one stays to the original pattern. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] If design patterns are not supposed to produce reusable code then why use them?
At 4:50 PM + 12/30/09, Tony Marston wrote: What is your opinion? Are design patterns supposed to provide reusable code or not? If not, and each implementation of a pattern takes just as much time as the first, then where are the productivity gains from using design patterns? -- Tony Marston Tony: I don't think reusable code is the main point of Design Patterns. From what I've read, Design Patterns are more of a If you are faced with this problem, here's a solution kind of thing. Reusable code is more a by-product of the process. Instead Design Patterns are more about identifying and classifying common problems than reusable code. The point is if you can define your problem as a category referenced by Design Patterns, then you are closer to solving it. With that said, I find Design Patterns frustrating because of the level of abstraction most authors use to identify the problem/solution pair. Instead of showing a real world example, their solution are so broad, so encompassing, so abstract, that they lose me. However, I must admit that the newer ways of doing things are bringing to the table ways to do things that were not possible before. So, in the end we all have to keep learning just to keep up. As I've said many times before I've learned something new every day of my life -- and I'm getting damned tried of it. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] If design patterns are not supposed to produce reusable code then why use them?
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 04:50:40PM -, Tony Marston wrote: I have recently been engaged in an argument via email with someone who criticises my low opinion of design patterns (refer to http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/design-patterns.html ). He says that design patterns are merely a convention and not a reusable component. My argument is that something called a pattern is supposed to have a recurring theme, some element of reusability, so that all subsequent implementations of a pattern should require less effort than the first implementation. If design patterns do not provide any reusable code then what is the point of using them? There's a weird terminology problem here. A design pattern is just an idea. Once you implement it, it can become a source of reusable code. I do not use design patterns as I consider them to be the wrong level of abstraction. I am in the business of designing and developing entire applications which comprise of numerous application transactions, so I much prefer to use transaction patterns (refer to http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/design-patterns-are-dead.html and http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/transaction-patterns.html ) as these provide large amounts of reusable code and are therefore a significant aid to programmer productivity. What is your opinion? Are design patterns supposed to provide reusable code or not? If not, and each implementation of a pattern takes just as much time as the first, then where are the productivity gains from using design patterns? It depends on how you implement it. You can prevent it from being reusable by implementing it in such a way that there's just no way to adapt it to different circumstances. But for the most part, it's like any other code you expect to reuse, whether it's just a function, a plain class or whatever. If you implement it properly, it will be reusable elsewhere. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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