Re: [PHP] Tip For The Day
At 1:40 PM -0500 1/27/04, Robert Cummings wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 09:19, Jay Blanchard wrote: When constructing arrays where you are meddling with fixed width substrings in a larger file make sure that the array item does not contain a tab or you will certainly get unexpected results; $arrBadInfo ( 'AMARILLOHOUSE ', 'KJONES HOUSE ', --- 16 characters wide, or is it? 'DCOLLINSCUSTSVC ', 'LAWTON JCOLEMAN', }; Both above appear to be 16 characters wide in the editor of your choice (I am using Zend at the moment). However, if there is a tab between KJONES and HOUSE, the HOUSE is moved to the right the appropriate number of characters (or inappropriate as it were) and produce undesired results. I have been working on this issue since 5 am this morning when I finally decided to print_r() the array (consisting of 192 elements). Lo and behold (and slapping my forehead thusly) we saw that there were tabs in the result. Replacing the tabs with the proper number of spaces fixed the result. Actually this tip applies to all strings in which you expect there to be a fixed width. Beware the tab, especially if you are bring in the data from a source (cuttin' n' pastin') outside of your editor. Event better... turn your editor's tab character to 4 spaces, then your code never contains those despicable tab characters and you won't accidentally insert tabs into strings :) Couldn't you trim the items before placing into an array? -- --- Alex Pilson FlagShip Interactive, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] PHP FuseBox
I am migrating my development from Lasso 6 to PHP, and I have used the FuseBox methodology pretty extensively on some sites. It works very well. I was wondering, how prevalent is the FuesBox methodology in the PHP developer community? If not, is there a common coding practice (structure) that most use? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. -- --- Alex Pilson FlagShip Interactive, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: PHP FuseBox
At 3:01 PM -0500 1/21/04, Ben Ramsey wrote: As far as I can tell, there isn't a common coding practice among PHP developers. What I mean is: there is no standard as in ANSI Standard C++. However, I believe that there beginning to be a move toward a more standardized way of coding, and I would greatly support and like to be involved in helping create this standard. Nonetheless, some good coding practices for PHP are in the PEAR manual (as this is the standard way that PEAR developers request that you code PEAR packages). These standards may be found at: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php Thanks, that was my next question...I was told to look at PEAR from the beginning. All I can say is PEAR looks very exciting for me. Some good coding structure ideas that have been brought into the Lasso developer circles over the years: 1) FrameWork...(incredible piece of work) I have friend that is working on porting it to PHP. http://www.fwpro.com/ 2) Corral (basically a cascading includes system) Appear to be offline at the moment: http://www.corralmethodology.com/ 3) One-File (basically similar to FuseBox, but without the black box) Stems from corral. I know I have seen a lot of PHP developers develop with this style, such as ?page=1, etc... -- --- Alex Pilson FlagShip Interactive, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Schedule an Event with PHP
Say I want a MySQL database to have a table that holds certain events, the Event table. And in the event table, one of the records is an event that has a startdate of today, I want to check against that date, if it equals now, then do this Besides using CRON to hit that particular event table, is there any other method I am not thinking of that can be used with PHP? I want to check that event table every 5 minutes. Thanks! -- --- Alex Pilson FlagShip Interactive, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Schedule an Event with PHP
At 9:44 AM -0500 1/16/04, John W. Holmes wrote: Alex Pilson wrote: Say I want a MySQL database to have a table that holds certain events, the Event table. And in the event table, one of the records is an event that has a startdate of today, I want to check against that date, if it equals now, then do this Besides using CRON to hit that particular event table, is there any other method I am not thinking of that can be used with PHP? I want to check that event table every 5 minutes. I guess you could write a PHP script that'll run continuously and check the database every 5 minutes, but you'd be better off (and probably use less resources) if you just used Cron/Task Scheduler. Awesome feedback guys. And quick too. No I am not opposed to using cron, just was curious if there was anything else to use. With regards to ISPs that host PHP clients, what is the common practice to allow users to run cron scripts? BTW. I didn't get what Stuart said about replying to an existing thread, did something screw up when I sent to the list? Thanks for the help. -- --- Alex Pilson FlagShip Interactive, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
