RE: [PHP] Basic PHP knowledge test
My advice, give the candidates problems and see how they solve them. Even if they don't finish, you get an idea of how they think. tedd I like this idea! Do you expect them to be able to work with code written by others? If so, hand them some of your existing code (good examples and not so good) and ask them to figure out what it does and recommend changes. I really really like the 'give them a problem and have them solve it' idea... Doug ___ This e-mail message has been sent by Kollsman, Inc. and is for the use of the intended recipients only. The message may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any use, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited, and you are requested to delete the e-mail and any attachments and notify the sender immediately. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: When is z != z ?
I love this thread. Who'da thunk alphabets could be so much fun? FWIW: Different language, different rules - to do 'letter math', letters must be converted to their ASCII number value, add one, convert back to a letter. The set of allowed ASCII numbers is limited to (I think) 256 and 'real' letters are a subset of that collection. Going from a-z was easy. Once you hit z, you reverted character 1 to a, then looped a-z for character 2, repeat as required. There were only a couple of ways to evaluate a string's 'size'; alphabetical and length. Each comparison generated different results and one had to choose the comparison method based on the particular requirements. In order to convert a string to some numeric value, I believe I had to do it letter-by-letter and derive my own 'value' for the string which would be mostly useless. While the specific language methods differ from PHP (the language did not allow anything like 'a'++ so this particular discussion couldn't happen), it doesn't seem to me that the philosophical underpinnings are all that different - letters are special. They look and behave differently depending on the particular microscope you happen to be using. Anybody want to talk about rounding? ;-) Doug ___ This e-mail message has been sent by Kollsman, Inc. and is for the use of the intended recipients only. The message may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any use, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited, and you are requested to delete the e-mail and any attachments and notify the sender immediately. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] RE: Can php convert doc to HTML?
On 5/23/06, Martin Alterisio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that's the case, why don't you just use the export as web page or save as web page tools of MS Word (if you don't have it anymore you can as someone who still has it, or I think OpenOffice also has a similar tool). Because there are 200 of them. Dotan Cohen Unless you want to do them one at a time, you'll need to write code. Unless this is something that you need to do a lot, why not write the code using OOo's programming language? Seems like all the appropriate hooks should be there to pull in each Word doc, push it off as HTML, and repeat for all the docs. I haven't worked with OOo for programming, but it might be worth a look. Hit the OOo site and see what their forums have to offer. Doug ___ This e-mail message has been sent by Kollsman, Inc. and is for the use of the intended recipients only. The message may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any use, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited, and you are requested to delete the e-mail and any attachments and notify the sender immediately. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor
In the end it is not worth worrying about. If someone asks you what PHP stands for tell them it stands for the best darned programming language you ever saw. Not disagreeing, just wondering if people here see PHP as a programming language, or a scripting language? Just curious what the general consensus is, as someone decided to challenge me over it recently and I was left in two minds over it. Cheers, Rich How 'bout this - 'PHP is an application development framework'. I come from a Lotus Notes background and get into the same kind of inane religious discussions about 'you are/are not a programmer because fill in deeply felt belief/reason here' in much of the same way I see for other 'scripting/programming' languages. I don't program, I create applications and try and use the right tool for the right function. ___ This e-mail message has been sent by Kollsman, Inc. and is for the use of the intended recipients only. The message may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any use, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited, and you are requested to delete the e-mail and any attachments and notify the sender immediately. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Reverse Engineering of Smarty
-Original Message- From: Robert Cummings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 2:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: PHP-General Subject: Re: [PHP] Reverse Engineering of Smarty On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 01:12, Sumeet wrote: Rory Browne wrote: If you don't have backups, then: 1: Why do you not have backups? 2: Are you insane? hmm. totally uncalled for I don't know that it's uncalled for. I think Rory was drawing to attention that not having some kind of backup of important code is tantamount to incompetence. I would have to agree with Rory that if the code was important enough to seek a method of reverse engineering to retrieve the original, then some kind of system should have been in place long ago. Might I suggest CVS? I would have to say that are you insane is a bit softer on the ego than are you a complete moron. Cheers, Rob. -- = Interesting thread. I'd suggest that what this thread really gets to an important issue - how to _ask_ a question. The orignal poster asked a question but didn't provide enough information for the list to really respond properly. If you have backups and know you can restore from backup and want to learn if you can reverse engineer something for grins, well then say so and help the group provide you useful information rather than whack you about the head and shoulders for failing to properly backup your system. Great resource here -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html OK, I'm off to tilt at other windmills. Doug Quixote... ___ This e-mail message has been sent by Kollsman, Inc. and is for the use of the intended recipients only. The message may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any use, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited, and you are requested to delete the e-mail and any attachments and notify the sender immediately. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: No forums?
Wow, go away for a few days and holy war breaks out...cool! Why not one system that supports both without extra work? The model I'm thinking of is Google or Yahoo groups(*). You can access any 'forum' via a web browser, search, post, reply, etc AND/OR you can subscribe to any forum and get messages sent to you via email (individual or digest format). At work, I sit behind a firewall and web access involves a multi-stop PITA process so listerservers work well for me there. At home, forum access is easier since I can go to the forum site, decide what I want to read and/or respond to without cluttering up my email client. Doug (*) - I am NOT suggesting this forum be configured like Yahoo, the search function absolutely sucks and I'm not a real fan of the layout, but the concept of a forum that's a list that's a forum...is what I like. For what it's worth, Yahoo has not PHP groups I can find but there are 33 over at Google with 100 - 1000 members. ___ This e-mail message has been sent by Kollsman, Inc. and is for the use of the intended recipients only. The message may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any use, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited, and you are requested to delete the e-mail and any attachments and notify the sender immediately. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] PDF printing under windows.
Not sure how this might work in PHP, but there is something called WSH (go to MS and poke around) that gives you access to a ton of really interesting Windows bits and pieces. The following is a script I run in Lotus Notes (LotusScript is rather like VBA) and it allows you to set the default printer to something which you then just print to and reset the default to whatever it was. PDFCreator is a 'printer' that generates PDF files (you probably don't want this since use of PDFCreator includes it's own set of user interactions but the WSH concept may still work). Warning - I'm not a WSH expert and I never figured out how to properly reset the printer to the user's default so I don't actually use this script. Still, someone smarter than me may have the magic touch - give it a whirl. Sub Initialize Dim net pName$ = PDFCreator Set net = CreateObject(WScript.Network) net.SetDefaultPrinter pName$ End Sub Doug -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:50 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net; php-windows@lists.php.net Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PDF printing under windows. Two (and a half) things: 1. Even though DOS/Windows machines don't have, specifically, /dev/printer or /dev/lpr or whatever the *nix specific is, it does have a LPTx: device According to the page listed below, it may be possible to do: copy /b filename LPTx The /b indicates it's a binary file. How it'd handle PDF fonts and such, I'm not sure, but I know that some printers can decode PDF's internally so that'd work out great. 2. Second point... If all you need is a simple print function and you have exec() privs, why not try to find a DOS based printing solution. The copy command above was mentioned on this page: http://www.lerup.com/printfile/ It says it works with Windows 3.1 to XP. And it even works with command line options: PrintFile also works well with command line (DOS) programs. It has several command line options and can read data from command line standard input, e.g. a command line pipe. A command like: dir | prfile32 So I guess it sets up it's own print device that you can pipe to. And finally... the half a point. All of this may not be necessary because you can configure Windows printers to support DOS (although I havn't done this in ages, I assume you still can in XP) so in theory the normal DOS print command would pipe through Windows drivers and print handling to the printer of choice. So in general, there's probably zero need to use COM to print. One of these options should pipe the file through Windows which in turn, could possibly send it through the proper printing method. If not, you might be able to look in your registry and find the right-click Print... option and see if it's something you can execute from command line. Ok, I know this email's too long already, but I know someone's going to say How do you do that? So here's the 50 cent tour: 1. Pull up regedit 2. Search for the file extension .pdf 3. Make note of the (Default) value, in this case AcroExch.Document (I think this is specific to having the full Acrobat installed) 3. Below the area where all the file extensions are in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT there are the actual named app section (that way, .gif and .jpg can both point to Photoshop.document or something.. get it?) So search for AcroExch.Document in this case 4. Expand that tree and look for shell. These are all the things that show up on your right-click menu. In this case, we have a print section. Under each of these entries, there should be (but sometimes not) a command branch. This is what's run when you select that option from the right-click menu. And voila! We find that the command to use Acrobat to print (which can be executed from command line on a Windows machine) is: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe /p /h %1 Substituting the %1 for the filename. Using that command line in a php exec() call should exactly simulate selecting right-click PRINT on a PDF file. Crossposting this to PHP-Win for their benefit too since this is more Windows related than PHP General. I see lots of ways to potentially solve this problem without using COM. I loved messing with COM (with or without PHP) for a while, but it's not a great general solution to things unless you absolutely HAVE to control the app (which is very cool and slick sometimes, but not for something as simple as printing). Hope this gives you some new avenues to persue. Best of luck! -TG = = = Original message = = = Richard Lynch wrote: On Mon, October 24, 2005 1:48 pm, Dave Lists wrote: I'm generating PDFs under windows using PDFlib and all is easy. What I am wondering though, and google reveals nothing usefull, can I print the PDF to a network printer from windows? I'm presuming to print the file I would ahve to use COM and open it under Acrobat? Anyone done this before and have
[PHP] RE: PHP wiki recommendations
I'm not a Wiki expert, but have been using TikiWiki for a while and very much like it. It does everything you say with the possible exception of CSS. It may very well support CSS, I just don't need it so haven't investigated. It also allows for the use of templates that can be applied globally or by each user (these may be the CSS bit, again, I just haven't played). User logins can be pre-assigned or user driven so you can control who does what. I think you can turn on/off the CamelCase feature. Doug -Original Message- From: Murray @ PlanetThoughtful [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 2:03 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: PHP wiki recommendations Hi All, I want to add a wiki to my blog site to help create a knowledgebase of the characters, localities, stories I write to make it easier for new visitors to delve into the areas that interest them. I've been experimenting with a couple of different wiki packages, but am always interested in others' thoughts and recommendations. In particular, I've looked at MediaWiki and PmWiki. Of the two, I like MediaWiki's 'completeness', but it's also quite slow and doesn't strike me as being particularly (or easily?) customizable. PmWiki is probably my current candidate, but again I'd like to make sure I'm not missing a more obvious choice. My shopping list for the ideal wiki application is: - wiki entries preferably stored in MySQL tables. I'm not adamant about this (eg PmWiki uses files rather than a db backend), but it would suit my purposes better to be able to draw from the wiki tables from the front page of my blog to show lists of recently added and recently updated wiki entries - non-reliance on CamelCase wiki links. Many of my characters etc use joined CamelCase names (eg KillFork and DangerSpoon), and to avoid confusion I'd rather explicitly define links to wiki content - ability to categorize wiki entries - ability to compare history of wiki edits and easily reinstate older edits if wiki pages get 'graffiti'd' - ability to allow others to edit / create wiki entries, thru a user id / password system, so that regulars who would like to participate can do so - ability to customize presentation of wiki pages, presumably through CSS etc, so that I can maintain the 'look and feel' of my blog thru the wiki content - PHP based, though my host does run Perl, so if the killer wiki app is a Perl-based one, I'm sure I can muddle thru implementing it If anyone has any recommendations for other wiki applications I should look at before making a decision, I'd love to hear from you! Much warmth, Murray --- Lost in thought... http://www.planetthoughtful.org ___ This e-mail message has been sent by Kollsman, Inc. and is for the use of the intended recipients only. The message may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any use, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited, and you are requested to delete the e-mail and any attachments and notify the sender immediately. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
