Re: [PHP] the best 1 book for php
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 00:15 -0400, Kirk Bailey wrote: If I only had 1 book on php, what would it be? -- end Very Truly yours, - Kirk Bailey, Largo Florida kniht +-+ | BOX | +-+ think The best answer I can think to your question is: It depends. That said, can I suggest PHP in Action by Reiersol, Baker and Shiflett I believe it covers a good variety of topics. http://books.google.com/books?id=8TnUOQAACAAJdq=PHP+in +actionhl=ensrc=bmrrei=6cmdTY7eD8Gk8QOyufm2BAsa=Xoi=book_resultct=resultresnum=1ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] 1984 (Big Brother)
On 12/09/10 17:32, tedd wrote: Hi gang: I have a client who wants his employees' access to their online business database restricted to only times when he is logged on. (Don't ask why) In other words, when the boss is not logged on, then his employees cannot access the business database in any fashion whatsoever including checking to see if the boss is logged on, or not. No access whatsoever! Normally, I would just set up a field in the database and have that set to yes or no as to if the employees could access the database, or not. But in this case, the boss does not want even that type of access to the database permitted. Repeat -- No access whatsoever! I was thinking of the boss' script writing to a file that accomplished the yes or no thing, but if the boss did not log off properly then the file would remain in the yes state allowing employees undesired access. That would not be acceptable. So, what methods would you suggest? Cheers, tedd Hi Tedd, One aspect of software design to keep in mind is change. Today the customer wants everyone to have access when they are logged in. They may want that rule relaxed a little. Perhaps, employees can login when members of a certain group are logged in. I recommend using some form of external device that instructs the system to enable/disable access to the database. Depending on the sensitivity of the data, the solution can utilize a card reader (once the boss takes the card out of the reader, database access is terminated for the company) and either a fingerprint or retinal scanner [for extra security]. If it is really sensitive data, then a retinal scanner and some form of code generator that generates one-time eight digit (at least) code to enable access to the database. The algorithm that generates the codes would be a deeply guarded secret (that would mostly be their problem -- you will need to ensure that once you sign off the project, there is no way it can be retrieved from you). No need to shut down the database server, just instruct the firewall to block the MySQL port and/or Web server port. Might be a good idea to choose a different port than 3306 for MySQL. What would happen if, for some reason the boss couldn't make it in or is on Holiday? Good luck, Yousif PS. It might be a good idea to introduce them to the concept of RBAC and see what they think. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Still searching for a bugtracking system
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Andre Polykanine an...@oire.org wrote: Hello everyone, The best of all suggested bugtrackers is JotBug, on my opinion. But it works only with SQLite databases, and I have no access to such one (only MySql). Any solutions? [...] I use Eventum. So far, so good. http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/other/eventum/ Works fine with Maria DB too.
Re: [PHP] Server-side postscript-to-PDF on-the-fly conversion
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Rob Gould gould...@me.com wrote: Is there a free solution out there that will enable me to take a PHP-generated postscript output file, and dynamically, on-the-fly convert it to a PDF document and send to the user as a download when the user clients on a link? [...] 3) I've got a PHP file that takes that input and generates a custom Postscript file from it, which I presently serve back to the user. On a Mac, Safari and Firefox automatically take the .ps output and render it in Preview. [...] I think you're looking for a PHP library that can take the output from the function that produces the PS file and generates a PDF file which you then send back to the user. I haven't come across such a utility. I recommend generating a PDF file directly using PDFLib or FPDF ( http://www.fpdf.org/) if possible. An alternative strategy (if you cannot create a PDF directly) could be: 1. Validate input and Generate PS file then go to 2 otherwise raise input exception and exit 2. Write (1) to a temporary location then go to 3 otherwise raise file generation exception and exit 3, Use a utility like ps2pdf (or ghostscript) to convert file to pdf then go to 4 otherwise raise file conversion exception and exit 4. Serve (3) then go to 5 otherwise raise file transfer exception and exit 5. Delete files and exit normally Tutorial on ps2pdf: http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/35022
Re: [PHP] Adding Time
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Gary gwp...@ptd.net wrote:
[...]
?php
$pay_date=($_SESSION['pay_date']);
$loan_length=($_SESSION['loan_length']);
$orgDate=($_SESSION['pay_date']);
$mth=($_SESSION['loan_length']);
function add_date($orgDate,$mth){
$cd = strtotime($orgDate);
$end_date = date('Y-m-d',
mktime(0,0,0,date('m',$cd)+$mth,date('d',$cd),date('Y',$cd)));
return $end_date;
}
echo $orgDate .br /;
echo $end_date .br /;
echo $pay_date .br /;
echo $loan_length;
?
You access form element values via the $_POST superglobal, why are you using
$_SESSION?
http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.post.php
Re: [PHP] Adding Time
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Gary gwp...@ptd.net wrote:
[...]
?php
$pay_date=($_SESSION['pay_date']);
$loan_length=($_SESSION['loan_length']);
$orgDate=($_SESSION['pay_date']);
$mth=($_SESSION['loan_length']);
function add_date($orgDate,$mth){
$cd = strtotime($orgDate);
$end_date = date('Y-m-d',
mktime(0,0,0,date('m',$cd)+$mth,date('d',$cd),date('Y',$cd)));
return $end_date;
}
echo $orgDate .br /;
echo $end_date .br /;
echo $pay_date .br /;
echo $loan_length;
?
Can you echo $pay_date and show us how the input date is formatted? eg.
2010-03-27
Can you also show us the output of the last four echo statements?
This works for me:
function addMonthsToDate($start,$month)
{
return strtotime($start + $month months);
}
$test = addMonthsToDate(2010-03-26,3);
echo date('Y-m-d',$test); // gives 2010-06-26
Re: [PHP] Adding Time
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Gary gwp...@ptd.net wrote:
[...]
strtotime('$pay_date'));
[...]
If you want the value of $pay_date to be the argument of strtotime, you need
to enclose it in double quotes (do the same for all other occurrences).
Try:
strtotime($pay_date);
[...]
When a string http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php is
specified in double quotes or with heredoc,
variableshttp://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.phpare
parsed within it.
[...]
from: http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php
Beginning of Variable Parsing Section
Re: [PHP] Adding Time
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Gary gwp...@ptd.net wrote:
[...]
$end_date=date('m-d-Y',strtotime('$mth')) + date('m-d-Y',
strtotime('$pay_date'));
[...]
Try changing above to:
$end_date = date('m-d-Y',strtotime($pay_date + $mth months));
I think your mail client took it out of the add_date function.
Re: [PHP] MySQL: Return Number of Matched Rows
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:19 PM, James Colannino ja...@colannino.orgwrote: Yeah, the extra select is what I was hoping to avoid :-P The MySQL client will return both the number of rows matched and the number of rows affected by the query; I was hoping perhaps the PHP API offered a way for me to do the same. Ah well... Thanks! You can access data about the latest query via mysql_info() http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-info.php You can parse the string for the values you need. There may be a more elegant solution.
Re: [PHP] how to do cloud computing with php
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Rene Veerman rene7...@gmail.com wrote: Hi.. As a way to take a few steps back from the kinda heated when will php grow up and support threading thread, i'm requesting you people list how you scale from 1 server to many servers; what's called cloud computing. Interesting definition of cloud computing. There is a book called Building Scalable Web Sites by Cal Henderson. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wIWU94zKEtYCdq=Building+Scalable+Web+Sitesprintsec=frontcoversource=bnhl=enei=zg2qS7m1G9WO_AbL7_x1sa=Xoi=book_resultct=resultresnum=4ved=0CBcQ6AEwAw#v=onepageq=f=false I recommend you take a look at Chapter 9: Scaling Web Applications, particularly the following sections: The Scaling Myth (particularly the subsection What is Scalability?) Scaling PHP I quote As PHP has gained more acceptance as a serious language, there's still been a significant camp of people claiming that it can't scale. Clearly, this isn't the case. page 212. It would be very helpful if you tell us what you've read, tried or considered?
Re: [PHP] Recommended Books on Object Oriented Programming
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Ben Stones stones...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi, I want to properly learn object oriented programming as I've been coding in procedural style since I started with PHP a few years ago, and want to give OOP a shot. The web isn't really a good resource to learn OOP in PHP to be honest, as a lot is outdated for PHP4's style of OOP. I've looked into OOP quite a bit and understand the concept of it, and want to take it further. Any recommendations appreciated :). I think the Head First Object Oriented Analysis and Design book is a good place to start. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-QpmamSKl_ECdq=Head+First+Object+Oriented+Analaysis+and+Designprintsec=frontcoversource=bnhl=enei=9hKqS6LUKNP__AbXl8CAAQsa=Xoi=book_resultct=resultresnum=4ved=0CBoQ6AEwAw#v=onepageq=f=false For PHP, a book I really liked was: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LWkGyWErOq0Cprintsec=frontcoverdq=Web+applications+PHP+And+MySQLhl=enei=KROqS9jWAtCM_Ab5isC1AQsa=Xoi=book_resultct=resultresnum=1ved=0CDoQ6AEwAA#v=onepageq=f=false A very clear route to developing OO PHP applications. There is a sample winestore application in the last section of the book. You will still need to use the Web as these books become out of date as soon as they're published. I recommend to focus more on the thought process rather than the actual code in the books. To really grasp OO in PHP, I recommend checking out a popular open source PHP Application and go through the code. A CMS or a framework should suffice.
Re: [PHP] Recommended Books on Object Oriented Programming
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Yousif Masoud yousif.mas...@gmail.comwrote: For PHP, a book I really liked was: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LWkGyWErOq0Cprintsec=frontcoverdq=Web+applications+PHP+And+MySQLhl=enei=KROqS9jWAtCM_Ab5isC1AQsa=Xoi=book_resultct=resultresnum=1ved=0CDoQ6AEwAA#v=onepageq=f=false Apologies, I gave the wrong link to the PHP book, it should be: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ttlrWxAUX0gCprintsec=frontcoverdq=Web+Database+Applications+with+PHP+and+MySQLhl=enei=ExaqS4fAD5T__Aavgam5AQsa=Xoi=book_resultct=resultresnum=1ved=0CDwQ6AEwAA#v=onepageq=f=false
Re: [PHP] Will PHP ever grow up and have threading?
P.S. I HATE bottom posting. WTF do I have to scroll all the way down past hundreds of useless lines just to read a me too or some other comment. If it's at the top, I can simply just keep moving from header to header in Outlook (or your email GUI of choice). DELETE as I go. Easy. Simple. Efficient. http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
Re: [PHP] MySQL Appeal from Monty
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Philip Thompson philthath...@gmail.comwrote: On Dec 15, 2009, at 6:03 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 02:53 +, Joseph Masoud wrote: On 14 Dec 2009, at 22:01, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 15:59 -0600, Philip Thompson wrote: On Dec 14, 2009, at 12:51 AM, Lester Caine wrote: Lenin wrote: You might also like this: Come on Monty - Lukas Smith http://bit.ly/5lmwwD I've been watching some of this debate with interest, but I'll stay with a database that has none of the baggage that MySQL has always had, and IS currently replacing Oracle in many large sites :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL Do share your db of interest... (and please don't say MSSQL). ~Philip MSSQL has nearly brought me to tears and could have easily made me bald through hair pulling! I have to say, I do like MySQL, it's very flexible and fast, and being able to choose different storage engines for different tables in the same DB is brilliant! I really don't think there's anything to overly worry about from Oracle, as the two DB's have different audiences. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Unfortunately, I do not share your optimism. I believe that Oracle taking over MySQL would be a disaster of epic proportions. The different audiences theory has been bought up several times but I haven't [to date] seen a sound justification for it. Oracle wants everyone to use ... Oracle, I can't see how this different audiences theory is going to make Oracle promote MySQL, perhaps someone can tell me? I don't think the EU would be able to do anything about it. The powerful companies almost always get what they want. I don't think Monty wouldn't be doing this unless he felt that something [put mildly] bad is coming. What has happened, has happened. Trying to figure out who is to blame for this mess is pointless. Ideally, It would be nice if Oracle took its claws off MySQL and found another project to ruin. Note: I am *not* trying to spread FUD I've always been led to believe that you go with MySQL if you want speed, Oracle if you want data integrity. I know they both handle each one admirably, but Oracle is known more for guarding the data against mishaps and MySQL is known more for performance. I just think it may be a little early to be condemning Oracle yet, we should wait a little to at least see what stance they have on the whole thing. And before you ask, no I have no connection to Oracle, I'm an avid MySQL fan! Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Let's not forget one of the biggest decisions on why people choose MySQL over Oracle/MSSQL it's way cheap. So cheap they're nearly giving it away. Oh wait! They ARE giving it away. You start to piss people off whenever you take away their working, free option. Also by being open source, you have plenty of people that have the opportunity to work with it. The biggest reason I haven't messed with Oracle (except in college for my db class) is that it's expensive. Don't underestimate how cheap people are. There's your different audience. ~Philip Your rant has been repeated so many times that it is becoming like a corporate mantra. Some of the biggest software companies in the world use open source software (which is free as in free beer). Are companies that use Linux or FreeBSD as their server software cheap? For the remainder of my argument, I will assume that your assertions only apply to database servers (I'm not sure why you've chosen to single them out). It is disheartening that developers who decide to use open source software are castigated as cheap. Well in my case, I like to know what's under the bonnet. That's just me, not a generalization and I emphasize that I am not speaking on behalf of anyone. The tenets of a successful argument include a viable theory substantiated by reliable and independently verifiable facts (none of which exist in your rant). I will, nevertheless, try to make sense of your logic [in my own mind[. I think you are making 2 assertions and then clumsily using them to prove your claim. Assertion 1: It is inconvenient when a successful, widely adopted and very convenient open source solution is taken away from the community (I am aware that there are no explicit plans to kill the project, but this is my perception based on how Oracle treated InnoDB). True. This is not only inconvenient, it is rude, immoral and very selfish. Now, you tell me who's being cheap? Developers who implement MySQL (for whatever reason) or Oracle by viciously going after businesses that are happily using MySQL? Assertion 2: People who implement Open Source Software are tawdry. This is absurd. Period. Cost is one of the more important factors when choosing a software solution to implement,
