from:"nick"

Hi

We have a program that manages users, throughout all database calls

created as:
$connect = mysql_connect($db_host--other variables);
mysql_query(Delete from clients where id=$User);

All this works good, but, we need, in the delete function to delete
from another database

$connmy=mysql_connect(host,user,pass);
mysql_select_db(vsq,$connmy);
mysql_query(DELETE from userprefs where clientr='$User');
$mysql_close($connmy);
this fails, unless we use a mysql_close prior to it, and then
reconnect to original database after we run this delete, how can we
get around this without closing and reopening?
We have a  perl script doing similar for manual runs, and it works
well knowing that $connmy is not $connect, I'm sure there is a simple
way to tell php but  I'm darned if I can see it.

Thanks
Niki

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Re: [PHP] database hell

On 7/12/12, Gibbs li...@danielgibbs.net wrote:
 On 12/07/12 12:29, Nick Edwards wrote:
 Hi

 We have a program that manages users, throughout all database calls

 created as:
 $connect = mysql_connect($db_host--other variables);
 mysql_query(Delete from clients where id=$User);

 All this works good, but, we need, in the delete function to delete
 from another database

 $connmy=mysql_connect(host,user,pass);
  mysql_select_db(vsq,$connmy);
  mysql_query(DELETE from userprefs where
 clientr='$User');
 $mysql_close($connmy);
 this fails, unless we use a mysql_close prior to it, and then
 reconnect to original database after we run this delete, how can we
 get around this without closing and reopening?
 We have a  perl script doing similar for manual runs, and it works
 well knowing that $connmy is not $connect, I'm sure there is a simple
 way to tell php but  I'm darned if I can see it.

 Thanks
 Niki

 You need to make a new link. So you would add TRUE to the end of the
 second connection.

 $connmy=mysql_connect(host,user,pass, TRUE);

 http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php



Thanks, will give that a shot

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Re: [PHP] database hell

On 7/12/12, Adam Nicholls adam.nicho...@hl.co.uk wrote:

 -Original Message-
 From: Nick Edwards [mailto:nick.z.edwa...@gmail.com]
 Sent: 12 July 2012 12:30
 To: php-general@lists.php.net
 Subject: [PHP] database hell

 Hi

 We have a program that manages users, throughout all database calls

 created as:
 $connect = mysql_connect($db_host--other variables);
 mysql_query(Delete from clients where id=$User);

 All this works good, but, we need, in the delete function to delete from
 another database

 $connmy=mysql_connect(host,user,pass);
 mysql_select_db(vsq,$connmy);
 mysql_query(DELETE from userprefs where
 clientr='$User');
 $mysql_close($connmy); this fails, unless we use a mysql_close prior to
 it,
 and then reconnect to original database after we run this delete, how can
 we
 get around this without closing and reopening?
 We have a  perl script doing similar for manual runs, and it works well
 knowing that $connmy is not $connect, I'm sure there is a simple way to
 tell
 php but  I'm darned if I can see it.

 Thanks
 Niki

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 Just create a new resource/connection to MySQL and pass the identifier into
 mysql_query().
 You'll also want to use mysql_real_escape_string() by the looks of it to
 attempt to stop SQL injection.

 Something like this will do it:

 $db1 = mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass);
 $db2 = mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass);

 mysql_select_db('db1',$db1);
 mysql_select_db('db2',$db2);

 // do your queries with $DB1

 $result = mysql_query(delete from userprefs where
 clientr=.mysql_real_escape_string($user,$db1)., $db1);

 // do your queries again with $DB1

 mysql_close($db1);//close db1
 mysql_close($db2);//close db2

We can not immediately close db2?  if we do it seems to close all connections?

Thanks

 Cheers
 Adam.

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Re: [PHP] database hell

On 7/12/12, Gibbs li...@danielgibbs.net wrote:

 $connmy=mysql_connect(host,user,pass, TRUE);

 http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php


 Thanks, will give that a shot

 I forgot to add your queries will need the new link too. So

 mysql_query(DELETE from userprefs where clientr='$User', $connmy);


Got that, ta  :)

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Re: [PHP] Destructor not called when extending SimpleXMLElement

2012-07-03 Thread Nick Chalk

Thanks Erwin and Matijn.

On 2 July 2012 17:32, Matijn Woudt tijn...@gmail.com wrote:
 This is most likely a bug in PHP. A deconstructor is called when there
 are no references left to the object. Since this class uses the libXML
 library, it is likely that there are still references from the libXML
 open on the object, which is why it will never be destroyed.
 Anyway, you should report this bug to the PHP devs (at bugs.php.net).

Yes, that sounds plausible. As a quick hack, I tried adding a
destructor to the SimpleXMLElement extension, but that wasn't called
either.

I'll submit a bug report.

 If you really need this, it's probably best to create a class that
 does not really extend SimpleXMLElement, but you create one inside the
 constructor, and just forward all function calls to the
 SimpleXMLElement object you've created in the constructor.

I've been playing with that today, and it looks like a workable solution.

Thanks for your help!

Nick.

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[PHP] Destructor not called when extending SimpleXMLElement

2012-07-02 Thread Nick Chalk

Afternoon all.

I seem to be having a little trouble with extending the
SimpleXMLElement class. I would like to add a destructor to the
subclass, but am finding that it is not called.

Attached is a minimal demonstration of the problem. The XMLConfig
class extends SimpleXMLElement, and its destructor is not called. The
XMLConfig2 class, which does not use inheritance, does have its
destructor called.

The test platform is CentOS 6.2, with PHP version 5.3.3.

What am I missing?

Thanks for your help.
Nick.

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[PHP] Compile PHP with MySQL support

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to compile php from source using the following config:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php
--with-mcrypt=/usr/local/bin/mcrypt --with-mysqli
--with-gettext=./ext/gettext --with-pear
--with-libxml-dir=/usr/include/libxml2 --with-zlib --with-gd
--enable-pcntl

Note the mysqli without pointing to /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config.
The problem is MySQL is not installed on the machine, it is actually
installed on another server.

MySQLi Suport:

mysqli
MysqlI Support  enabled
Client API library version  5.1.49
Active Persistent Links 0
Inactive Persistent Links   0
Active Links0
Client API header version   5.1.49
MYSQLI_SOCKET   /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

Directive   Local Value Master Value
mysqli.allow_local_infile   On  On
mysqli.allow_persistent On  On
mysqli.default_host no valueno value
mysqli.default_port 33063306
mysqli.default_pw   no valueno value
mysqli.default_socket   no valueno value
mysqli.default_user no valueno value
mysqli.max_linksUnlimited   Unlimited
mysqli.max_persistent   Unlimited   Unlimited
mysqli.reconnectOff Off

The machine I compiled PHP on does not have mysqli.so, and so I am
recieving the fatal call to undefined function mysql_connect()
error. Can someone tell me how to compile php from source with mysql
support, but actually mysql is installed on a different server?

Can I download a precompile mysqli anywhere? The PHP version is 5.1.49
as noted earlier.

Thanks in Advance,

Nick

[PHP] Compile PHP with MySQLi (With MySQL on a remote server)

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to compile php from source using the following config:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/
apache/bin/apxs
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php
--with-mcrypt=/usr/local/bin/mcrypt --with-mysqli
--with-gettext=./ext/gettext --with-pear
--with-libxml-dir=/usr/include/libxml2 --with-zlib --with-gd
--enable-pcntl

Note the mysqli without pointing to /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config.
The problem is MySQL is not installed on the machine, it is actually
installed on another server.

MySQLi Suport:

mysqli
MysqlI Support  enabled
Client API library version  5.1.49
Active Persistent Links 0
Inactive Persistent Links   0
Active Links0
Client API header version   5.1.49
MYSQLI_SOCKET   /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

Directive   Local Value Master Value
mysqli.allow_local_infile   On  On
mysqli.allow_persistent On  On
mysqli.default_host no valueno value
mysqli.default_port 33063306
mysqli.default_pw   no valueno value
mysqli.default_socket   no valueno value
mysqli.default_user no valueno value
mysqli.max_linksUnlimited   Unlimited
mysqli.max_persistent   Unlimited   Unlimited
mysqli.reconnectOff Off

The machine I compiled PHP on does not have mysqli.so, and so I am
recieving the fatal call to undefined function mysql_connect()
error. Can someone tell me how to compile php from source with mysql
support, but actually mysql is installed on a different server?

Can I download a precompile mysqli anywhere? The PHP version is 5.1.49
as noted earlier.

Thanks in Advance,

Nick

[PHP] Stuck on undefined function mysql_connect()

I have been stuck on this, and have no idea what is causing it. I have
compiled PHP with mysqli support:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php --with-mcrypt=/usr/local/bin/mcrypt
--with-mysqli --with-gettext=./ext/gettext --with-pear
--with-libxml-dir=/usr/include/libxml2 --with-zlib --with-gd --enable-pcntl

mysqli MysqlI Supportenabled Client API library version 5.1.49 Active
Persistent Links 0 Inactive Persistent Links 0 Active Links 0 Client API
header version 5.1.49 MYSQLI_SOCKET /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
DirectiveLocal ValueMaster Value mysqli.allow_local_infileOnOn
mysqli.allow_persistentOnOn mysqli.default_host*no value**no value*
mysqli.default_port33063306 mysqli.default_pw*no value**no value*
mysqli.default_socket*no value**no value* mysqli.default_user*no value**no
value* mysqli.max_linksUnlimitedUnlimited mysqli.max_persistentUnlimited
Unlimited mysqli.reconnectOffOff

However, there is no mysqli.so or mysql.so found anywhere? Please help, I
have fallen behind because of this.

Nick.

Re: [PHP] Stuck on undefined function mysql_connect()

I was just going to try recompilign with mysql instead of mysqli... I hope
this fixes it.
In terms of mysql being compiled into the core, does this mean I do not have
to add

extension=mysqli.so
extension_dir=/usr/local/php/
include/php/ext/

Thanks in Advance,

Re: [PHP] Stuck on undefined function mysql_connect()

Correct.  Extensions, such as those found in the PECL repository,
are added in that manner.  Things compiled into the core, such as what
you're doing with MySQLi, are automatically loaded regardless, because
they're statically-built into the PHP binary itself.

Re: [PHP] PHP session replication

2011-03-17 Thread Nick Williams

I have successfully and efficiently used MySQL-based database session storage 
for years, even on a website with 5,000 (very) active simultaneous users. I 
would highly recommend it.

N

On Mar 17, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Dan Joseph wrote:

 On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Alessandro Ferrucci 
 alessandroferru...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 I'm curious, what are the most popular methods to perform session
 replication across http servers in PHP?
 
 
 I personally just use MySQL and the session_set_save_handler() stuff
 attached to a class.  Many of the frameworks, such as Zend, also support
 Database Sessions.
 
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Re: [PHP] PHP session replication

2011-03-17 Thread Nick Williams

Interesting. When I went to it I got no such 404 error. Came right up. 
Thought-provoking article, too.

N

On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Richard Quadling wrote:

 On 17 March 2011 15:18, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote:
 On Thursday, 17 March 2011 at 15:15, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
 On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Alessandro Ferrucci 
 alessandroferru...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hello,
 I'm curious, what are the most popular methods to perform session
 replication across http servers in PHP?
 I've read about repcache(memcached module) and Mysql.
 anything else? is there some mod_php_session_replication httpd module?
 thanks
 
 I recently posted a question to the memcached mailing list about this. I
 would suggest looking at membase if you're interested in that route.
 
 Pragmatically speaking though, I'd say go for database backed sessions until
 they actually become a performance bottleneck.
 
 Here's the post from google groups if you're interested:
 
 http://groups.google.com/group/memcached/browse_thread/thread/7ed750db888e6b1b?pli=1
 
 This may also be of interest: 
 http://stut.net/2008/07/26/sessionless-sessions-2/
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 Stuart, that's just cruel.
 
 Stut.net
 Ramblings of a random software engineer
 Error 404 - Not Found
 Apologies, but we were unable to find what you were looking for.
 Perhaps searching will help.
 
 Very much a Friday comment though. Along the lines of LMGTFY.
 
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[PHP] Joomla FrameWork ::

2010-05-02 Thread Nick Balestra

I am trying to understand how the joomla framework works, i see an heavy usage 
of::   in its code, here an example:

function edit ()
{
JRequest::setVar('view, 'single');
$this -display();
}


from my really basic php understanding in the function edit i call a function 
setVar() and i pass the paramter 'view' and 'single' in it then the output 
($this) is passed to the display() function.

My question is what does :: means? an more precisely referring to the example: 
JRequest::setVar('view, 'single');   how do you read it and how do you manage 
it?

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[PHP] Re: Joomla FrameWork ::

2010-05-02 Thread Nick Balestra

I think si related to class and methods,

JRequest Class have a method called setVar, right? if this is correct sorry for 
posting the question, i just haven't started yet classes and methods...;-)
On May 2, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Nick Balestra wrote:

 I am trying to understand how the joomla framework works, i see an heavy 
 usage of::   in its code, here an example:
 
 function edit ()
   {
   JRequest::setVar('view, 'single');
   $this -display();
   }
 
 
 from my really basic php understanding in the function edit i call a function 
 setVar() and i pass the paramter 'view' and 'single' in it then the output 
 ($this) is passed to the display() function.
 
 My question is what does :: means? an more precisely referring to the 
 example: JRequest::setVar('view, 'single');   how do you read it and how do 
 you manage it?
 
 Cheers, Nick


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Re: [PHP] Joomla FrameWork ::

2010-05-02 Thread Nick Balestra

Thank a lot for pointing me to this, as you wrote u are right, haven't started 
yet with oo so of course i wasn't able to understand what was this all about.  
thanks again

Nick
On May 2, 2010, at 4:52 PM, viraj wrote:

 hi nick,
 :: is what we call 'scope resolution operator', $this is your 'current scope'.
 
 i guess you better read
 http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.php.. all sections :))
 
 
 ~viraj
 
 
 
 On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Nick Balestra n...@beyounic.com wrote:
 I am trying to understand how the joomla framework works, i see an heavy 
 usage of::   in its code, here an example:
 
 function edit ()
{
JRequest::setVar('view, 'single');
$this -display();
}
 
 
 from my really basic php understanding in the function edit i call a 
 function setVar() and i pass the paramter 'view' and 'single' in it then the 
 output ($this) is passed to the display() function.
 
 My question is what does :: means? an more precisely referring to the 
 example: JRequest::setVar('view, 'single');   how do you read it and how do 
 you manage it?
 
 Cheers, Nick
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Re: [PHP] multi dimensional array question

2010-05-01 Thread Nick Balestra

Thanks! I'll agree with you abotu ur points, i just started php few days 
ago..so i am in the first phase of learnign it...and this list is so gr8! 
thanks evrybody 

cheers, Nick
On May 1, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Programming Guides wrote:

 On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Nick Balestra n...@beyounic.com wrote:
 thanks Piero!
 
 i was trying to solve an excercise on learning php5 (O'reilyl) book.
 
 I am happy abotut his solution with the array_sum funtion you suggested, and 
 my multidimensional array make much more sense to mee then they suggested 
 solution that also much more line of code comapred...
 
 look: my solution (with Piero suggeston): and ont he bottom the book 
 solution. what do u say is the best one? why? i am learning so i am 
 interested in understanding why a solution can be better then an other...
 
 $us_census = array('NY' = array('New York' = 8008278),
   'CA' = array('Los Angeles' = 3694820,
 'San Diego' 
 = 1223400),
   'IL' = array('Chicago' = 2896016),
   'TX' = array('Houston' = 1953631,
 'Dallas' = 
 1188580,
 'San Antonio' 
 = 1144646),
   'PA' = array('Philadelphia' = 1517550),
   'AZ' = array('Phoenix' = 1321045),
   'MI' = array('Detroit' = 951270));
 
 
 
 print 
 tabletrthState/ththCity/ththPopulation/ththTotal/th/tr;
 
 
 foreach ($us_census as $state = $cities) {
 
foreach ($cities as $city = $habitants){
 
$tothabitants += $habitants;
 
print 
 trtd$state/tdtd$city/tdtd$habitants/tdtd/td/tr;
}
}
 
 print trtd/tdtd/tdtd/tdtd$tothabitants/td/tr/table;
 
 
 foreach ($us_census as $state = $cities) {
$population_per_state = array_sum($cities);
print $state $population_per_statebr;
 }
 
 --
 the book solution:
 
 
 $population = array('New York' = array('state' = 'NY', 'pop' = 8008278),
 'Los Angeles' = array('state' = 'CA', 'pop' = 3694820),
 'Chicago' = array('state' = 'IL', 'pop' = 2896016),
 'Houston' = array('state' = 'TX', 'pop' = 1953631),
 'Philadelphia' = array('state' = 'PA', 'pop' = 1517550),
 'Phoenix' = array('state' = 'AZ', 'pop' = 1321045),
 'San Diego' = array('state' = 'CA', 'pop' = 1223400),
 'Dallas' = array('state' = 'TX', 'pop' = 1188580),
 'San Antonio' = array('state' = 'TX', 'pop' = 1144646),
 'Detroit' = array('state' = 'MI', 'pop' = 951270));
 
 $state_totals = array( );
 $total_population = 0;
 print tabletrthCity/ththPopulation/th/tr\n;
 foreach ($population as $city = $info) {
 
 
 $total_population += $info['pop'];
 
 $state_totals[$info['state']] += $info['pop'];
 print trtd$city, {$info['state']}/tdtd{$info['pop']}/td/tr\n;
 }
 
 foreach ($state_totals as $state = $pop) {
 print trtd$state/tdtd$pop/td\n;
 }
 print trtdTotal/tdtd$total_population/td/tr\n;
 print /table\n;
 
 
 
 
 
 I actually prefer your solution - it's easier to read and understand. On the 
 other hand the solution the book offers has the advantage of being more 
 extensible in that more pieces of information can be added per city.
 
 One thing I dont like about both solutions is that they both intertwine 
 computation logic with presentation. A *much* better approach in this case is 
 to first calculate all population data you need and put together one data 
 structure that has all of that. Only after you have that ready do you begin 
 to output HTML. And while outputting HTML the only PHP you should need is to 
 iterate over your data structure and output.
 
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[PHP] multi dimensional array question

2010-04-30 Thread Nick Balestra

hello everybody here is my array(s)


$us_census = array('NY' = array('New York' = 8008278),
   'CA' = array('Los Angeles' = 3694820,
 'San Diego' = 
1223400),
   'IL' = array('Chicago' = 2896016),
   'TX' = array('Houston' = 1953631,
 'Dallas' = 
1188580,
 'San Antonio' 
= 1144646),
   'PA' = array('Philadelphia' = 1517550),
   'AZ' = array('Phoenix' = 1321045),
   'MI' = array('Detroit' = 951270)); 



print 
tabletrthState/ththCity/ththPopulation/ththTotal/th/tr;

   
// $state is the key and $states is the value 
foreach ($us_census as $state = $cities) {

// $state is the key and $habitant is the value
foreach ($cities as $city = $habitants){



print 
trtd$state/tdtd$city/tdtd$habitants/tdtd/td/tr;


}
}


Now i also want to be able to count the total population per state, i am 
stucked...
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Re: [PHP] multi dimensional array question

2010-04-30 Thread Nick Balestra

thanks Piero!

i was trying to solve an excercise on learning php5 (O'reilyl) book.

I am happy abotut his solution with the array_sum funtion you suggested, and my 
multidimensional array make much more sense to mee then they suggested solution 
that also much more line of code comapred... 

look: my solution (with Piero suggeston): and ont he bottom the book solution. 
what do u say is the best one? why? i am learning so i am interested in 
understanding why a solution can be better then an other...

$us_census = array('NY' = array('New York' = 8008278),
   'CA' = array('Los Angeles' = 3694820,
 'San Diego' = 
1223400),
   'IL' = array('Chicago' = 2896016),
   'TX' = array('Houston' = 1953631,
 'Dallas' = 
1188580,
 'San Antonio' 
= 1144646),
   'PA' = array('Philadelphia' = 1517550),
   'AZ' = array('Phoenix' = 1321045),
   'MI' = array('Detroit' = 951270)); 
   


print 
tabletrthState/ththCity/ththPopulation/ththTotal/th/tr;


foreach ($us_census as $state = $cities) {

foreach ($cities as $city = $habitants){

$tothabitants += $habitants;

print 
trtd$state/tdtd$city/tdtd$habitants/tdtd/td/tr;
}
}

print trtd/tdtd/tdtd/tdtd$tothabitants/td/tr/table;


foreach ($us_census as $state = $cities) {
$population_per_state = array_sum($cities);
print $state $population_per_statebr;
}

--
the book solution:


$population = array('New York' = array('state' = 'NY', 'pop' = 8008278),
'Los Angeles' = array('state' = 'CA', 'pop' = 3694820),
'Chicago' = array('state' = 'IL', 'pop' = 2896016),
'Houston' = array('state' = 'TX', 'pop' = 1953631),
'Philadelphia' = array('state' = 'PA', 'pop' = 1517550),
'Phoenix' = array('state' = 'AZ', 'pop' = 1321045),
'San Diego' = array('state' = 'CA', 'pop' = 1223400),
'Dallas' = array('state' = 'TX', 'pop' = 1188580),
'San Antonio' = array('state' = 'TX', 'pop' = 1144646),
'Detroit' = array('state' = 'MI', 'pop' = 951270));

$state_totals = array( );
$total_population = 0;
print tabletrthCity/ththPopulation/th/tr\n;
foreach ($population as $city = $info) {


$total_population += $info['pop'];

$state_totals[$info['state']] += $info['pop'];
print trtd$city, {$info['state']}/tdtd{$info['pop']}/td/tr\n;
}

foreach ($state_totals as $state = $pop) {
print trtd$state/tdtd$pop/td\n;
}
print trtdTotal/tdtd$total_population/td/tr\n;
print /table\n;

[PHP] escape \n

2010-04-23 Thread Nick Balestra

Hello guys i am trying to figure out what is worng with thoose special escaped 
character, like \n \t \r ...

As i cannot make them working. The browser doesn't display them, but doesn't 
eithr crate a new line, or else.
I am using them fro example like this:

print: this shoudl be on a line \nwhile this on a new line;

I've searched google and saw man people struggling with this, but apparently 
not a clear answer to whymaybe is a stupid beginner question, but i would 
just like to know.  (Personally i solved for the moment by printing out br or 
pre, but i would like to understand this.

Cheers, Nick

Re: [PHP] escape \n

2010-04-23 Thread Nick Balestra

Thanks everybody!

On Apr 23, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:

 On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 09:51 +0200, Nick Balestra wrote:
 
 Hello guys i am trying to figure out what is worng with thoose special 
 escaped character, like \n \t \r ...
 
 As i cannot make them working. The browser doesn't display them, but doesn't 
 eithr crate a new line, or else.
 I am using them fro example like this:
 
 print: this shoudl be on a line \nwhile this on a new line;
 
 I've searched google and saw man people struggling with this, but apparently 
 not a clear answer to whymaybe is a stupid beginner question, but i 
 would just like to know.  (Personally i solved for the moment by printing 
 out br or pre, but i would like to understand this.
 
 Cheers, Nick
 
 By default, PHP sends out HTML headers. Browsers ignore extraneous 
 white-space characters, and also new lines, carriage returns and tabs, 
 converting them all to a single space character.
 
 If you view the source in your browser, you'll see the newlines, but in 
 regular display, your text is treated as HTML.
 
 There is a function in PHP called nl2br, which accepts a string and returns 
 the same one with all the newlines replaced with br automatically, which 
 might be easier to use if your content is in a string. Otherwise, the only 
 way to get new lines on your actual page is to either manually use br tags, 
 put the text inside a pre block, or use CSS to preserve the white-space.
 
 Thanks,
 Ash
 http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

Re: [PHP] replying to list

2010-04-21 Thread Nick Balestra

Not really i think, because by replying it just direct reply to the OP, while 
other systems like google groups for example by replying you just post to the 
list, and actually make more sense.

the easy way is to hit reply and change the to into php-general@lists.php.net 
or reply to all and replace to with the cc. I think the best practice is to 
take this 5 second to take care of this in order to avoid duplicate message to 
others.

cheers

Nick

On Apr 21, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:

 Exactly.
 :)
 
 Karl
 
 On Apr 21, 2010, at 5:38 AM, David McGlone wrote:
 
 Maybe it's not how the list is set up, but instead how people are
 replying to the list.
 
 Karl DeSaulniers
 Design Drumm
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[PHP] Hello everybody - php newbie from switzerland

2010-04-20 Thread Nick Balestra

Hello everybody,

I am NIck, from Locarno (southern switzerland) i am getting into php 
development for my own start-up company, maybe there are other people near me 
that would be nice to know for networking and alike. I will post here all my 
questions if i don't find any answer already on this list.


Cheers from Switzerland

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RE: [PHP] Header function

2010-02-27 Thread Nick allan

Interesting the following works
Changing the  to '. If I leave the ' around the filename, the ' becomes part 
of the filename. But it seemed to be more about changing the surrounding ' to  
that fixed it. Not sure why this is, but its working now.


header('Content-Type: application/msword');
 header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=PurchaseReq.doc);
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Sent: Saturday, 27 February 2010 8:45 PM
To: Nick allan
Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] Header function

On 27 February 2010 04:32, Nick allan nal...@wdev.net wrote:
 Hi all

 Has anyone got any ideas why the following isn't giving me correct filename
 in the ie save dialogue

 header('Content-Type: application/msword');

  header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=PurchaseReq.doc');



 I get the save dialogue, but with preq.doc instead of PurchaseReq.doc

 Preq.php is the calling php file. It has worked before so I'm not sure what
 I've changed to have it stop working.





 Thanks in advance for any suggestions.



 Regards Nick





What happens if you drop the quotes around the filename?

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[PHP] Header function

2010-02-26 Thread Nick allan

Hi all

Has anyone got any ideas why the following isn't giving me correct filename
in the ie save dialogue

header('Content-Type: application/msword');

 header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=PurchaseReq.doc');

 

I get the save dialogue, but with preq.doc instead of PurchaseReq.doc

Preq.php is the calling php file. It has worked before so I'm not sure what
I've changed to have it stop working.

 

 

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

Regards Nick

[PHP] header function query

2010-02-25 Thread Nick allan

Hi all

The situation is as follows

I've read some data in from a couple of files into a string variable, made
some changes to it and want to send the contents of the string out to the
browser as a word document.

My code currently looks like the following

header('Content-Type: application/msword');

header('Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=preq.doc');

ob_clean();

echo $allText;

 

 

The above code works fine, the client gets a file download dialogue and can
save or open the file.

How can I indicate end of file, then continue writing html to display a new
page. I want to be able to ask the user some additional questions after they
have downloaded the file.  My problem is that if I add any html code after
the above echo statement, it is included in the downloaded file.

There's probably a simple answer to this, but I haven't been able to find
anything using google.

 

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

Regards Nick

[PHP] PHP String convention

2009-10-28 Thread Nick Cooper

Hi,

I was just wondering what the difference/advantage of these two
methods of writing a string are:

1) $string = foo{$bar};

2) $string = 'foo'.$bar;

I always use method 2 but have been noticing method 1 more and more in
source code. Is this just user preference?

I would use a generic search engine but not sure what the first method
is called so don't know where to begin my search.

Thanks for any help.

Nick

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Re: [PHP] PHP String convention

2009-10-28 Thread Nick Cooper

2009/10/28 Jim Lucas:
 Nick Cooper wrote:
 Hi,

 I was just wondering what the difference/advantage of these two
 methods of writing a string are:

 1) $string = foo{$bar};

 2) $string = 'foo'.$bar;

 I always use method 2 but have been noticing method 1 more and more in
 source code. Is this just user preference?

 I would use a generic search engine but not sure what the first method
 is called so don't know where to begin my search.

 Thanks for any help.

 Nick


 I think it is a matter of personal preference.  I prefer method 1 myself.




Thank you for the quick replies. I thought method 2 must be faster
because it doesn't have to search for variables in the string.

So what is the advantages then of method 1 over 3, do the curly braces
mean anything?

1) $string = foo{$bar};

2) $string = 'foo'.$bar;

3) $string = foo$bar;

I must admit reading method 1 is easier, but writing method 2 is
quicker, is that the only purpose the curly braces serve?

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Re: [PHP] Re: PHP 5.3.0 Released!

2009-07-02 Thread Nick Cooper

Does anyone have any further information on the PECL Binaries for 5.3, will
they be released?

2009/6/30 pan p...@syix.com

 Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
  Hello!
 
  The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate release
  of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series,
  which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.
 
  Release Announcement: http://www.php.net/release/5_3_0.php
  Downloads:http://php.net/downloads.php#v5.3.0
  Changelog:http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.0
 
  regards,
  Johannes and Lukas

 Great !

 The downloads page is devoid of any note in re pRCL binaries
 for Windows.
 windows.php.net doesn't say anything either of which pre-existing
 PECL binaries will work with 5_3.

 Is the 5_2_6 set of PECL binaries compatible with 5_3 ?



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Re: [PHP] $_GET verses $_POST

2009-04-14 Thread Nick Cooper

$_REQUEST is not any less secure then $_POST/$_GET/$_COOKIE, they all
contain raw user data.
The way $_REQUEST is being used in this example is not less secure then
using $_GET. It does open up an exploit but this is not because $_REQUEST is
less secure.

The same exploit exists with $_GET, I could place an image on the page with
src=?act=logout.

$_REQUEST has a place but it should not be used as a direct substitute for
$_GET/POST etc, unless you want the user to be able to have all the options
of posting data to the server.

2009/4/14 דניאל דנון danondan...@gmail.com

 $_REQUEST is less secure because it also contains cookie data.
 If you manage just to set  a cookie, with the name act and value
 logout,
 the user will infinitely log out - You get the point.

 On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Jason Pruim ja...@jasonpruim.com
 wrote:

 
  On Apr 12, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Ron Piggott wrote:
 
 
  Thanks.  I got my script updated.  Ron
 
 
  There are a few other thing's that I didn't see mentioned...
 
  The best description of when to use what, is this.. Use POST when you are
  submitting a form for storing info, using GET when you are retrieving
 from
  the server...
 
  GET can also be bookmarked and shared between computers without a
  problem... So depending on what your app is for that might be a
  consideration.
 
  POST does not display anything in the browser, so as others have said
 it's
  perfect for login's since that info will never be visible to the user.
 
  as far as REQUEST goes... I personally don't think it's any less secure
  then POST or GET... As long as you do sanitization on the info that is
  appropriate for your app, REQUEST is fine..
 
  Some people prefer to use GET and POST though because then they know
 where
  the info is coming from...
 
  I think that's everything I wanted to add :)
  Just stuff to think about.
 
 
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Re: [PHP] PHP bandwidth control

2009-04-07 Thread Nick Cooper

Sorry to side track the issue, but when did this happen to you on GoDaddy?
I have never experienced this problem. I have been using them for two years
and I often leave domains in the checkout and come back sometimes days later
and they're still $7.95.

2009/4/7 Michael Kubler mdk...@gmail.com

DO NOT USE GO-DADDY.
Sorry, just had to say that Go-Daddy will cause all sorts of issues when
your domain expires, or if you check for a domain but don't purchase it
straight away. When you come back a little bit later you'll have to pay
hundreds of dollars for the domain (as they registered it while you were
gone), instead of the usual $20/yr type thing.

Try Planetdomain (although their website is being re-designed at the
moment), MelbourneIT (expensive), or even Google (surprisingly cheap).
Actually if you search, there's a website that has a list of the different
domain registrars and their costs that you could look at.

As for quota control you can pipe everything through PHP which is more CPU
intensive but will be more accurate in terms of which user was accessing the
account. You could also parse the Apache log files (or whatever the web
server is), which is more accurate but also slower.

For bandwidth you can use something like the bandwidth mod for Apache which
will allow you to prevent your webserver from completely saturating your
Internet connection, allowing you to still surf the net or play games while
people are accessing your site.

Michael Kubler
*G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz

JD wrote:

Excellent, thanks both for the suggestions. I'd like to continue hosting
it myself if for no other reason than I want to learn how to manage some of
the hardware, software and operating systems that I otherwise don't get much
exposure to. I'm treating this as a learning experience.

I like the idea of the file_get_contents() as it sounds easier to
implement, but, again, I'm using this as a learning experience so maybe I'll
try and parse out the log files as you suggest.

Again, many thanks!
Dave

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Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP bandwidth control
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:03:12 -0700

Yannick Mortier wrote:

2009/4/6 JD danceintherai...@netzero.com:

Hello,

I am relatively new to PHP and am trying to make a video/image sharing
site for my family to upload and share family videos and pictures. My
concern is that because I'm hosting this site at my house, I will quickly
exceed my bandwidth limitations each month if all the family members I
think
will use the site do actually end up using it. What I'd like to do is set
up
each family member with their own login and track how much bandwidth they
use and cap it after a certain amount. The login stuff is easy and I have
that figured out, but I haven't been able to figure out a good way to track
the bandwidth used by each user that logs in. Is there a good way to do
this
with PHP?

Thanks,
Dave

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I guess there are multiple ways to engage this problem. It depends how
deep you want to log the traffic. If you just want to count the
traffic of each image, video etc you could just wrap up each image and
video to go through php first with file_get_contents() (look in the
php manual there are some examples how to work with this), count how
many bytes of data will be sent out and log this in a database or
however you want to do this.
If the bandwith limit is exceeded you don't deliver the image anymore
and display an error message instead.

If you want to catch all traffic you must parse the log files from you
webserver. To do this you could save the IP with which the login of
the user was performed and connect all traffic that was done by that
IP to the User. If the traffic limit is exceeded you display an error
message.

I guess for some family-internal sharing the first approach should be
good enough. Just make sure you take some bandwith for the html pages
into your calculations.

My suggestion would be to do it on a real server and avoid any and all ISP
restrictions, present and future.

Don't register your domain with your host though, I found it to be a real
PITA to switch hosts when you use them as your registrar, getting them to
relinquish control of the domain can be a PITA.

Instead register with someone like godaddy that lets you specify the
nameservers and host elsewhere. Then if you feel like you need to move it

Re: [PHP] Tripple The Fun

2009-03-24 Thread Nick Cooper

?php
echo 'won\'t it just end up as lots of echos and prints?';

?

2009/3/24 abdulazeez alugo defati...@hotmail.com


 Hello guys,

 The list seems boring to me today so I've come up with an idea (you can
 call it a challenge). What if we all wrote to this thread in PHP codes. on't
 get the gist yet? well all it means is that, on this thread, all that we
 should see must be written in PHP codes and it must be meaningful and
 relevant to any discussion on ground. The challenge starts. Now!



 ?php

 $alugo=Hello guys, anyone up for the challenge?;

 print $alugo;

 ?

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Re: [PHP] Tripple The Fun

2009-03-24 Thread Nick Cooper

?php $var1 =
'defghi/ghijkl/qurstu/efghij/opqurs/stuvwx/defghi/tuvwxy/abcd/opqurs/abcde/stuvwx';$e
= explode('/',$var1);for($i=0;$icount($e);$i++) {if ($i%2) {echo
$e[$i]{0};} else {echo $e[$i]{(strlen($e[$i])-1)};}if
(in_array($i,array(0,5,7))) {echo ' ';}} ?

2009/3/24 Marc li...@bithub.net

 ?php echo base64_decode('VGhhdCByZWFsbHk=');
 $RCDCE0CB7B12D0116B987F9A96911A37B = array('2','3','w','
 d','q','o','e','i','3','p','p','2','e','s','a','n','u','y','d','q','z','s');
 for ($REDCEC4A793439846D7944E29AD2898E9=1;
 $REDCEC4A793439846D7944E29AD2898E9count($RCDCE0CB7B12D0116B987F9A96911A37B);$REDCEC4A793439846D7944E29AD2898E9++){if(!($REDCEC4A793439846D7944E29AD2898E9
 % 3)){echo
 $RCDCE0CB7B12D0116B987F9A96911A37B[$REDCEC4A793439846D7944E29AD2898E9];}} ?

 And yeah, I really got too much spare time

 ?php
 echo 'won\'t it just end up as lots of echos and prints?';
 
 ?
 
 2009/3/24 abdulazeez alugo defati...@hotmail.com
 
 Hello guys,
 
  The list seems boring to me today so I've come up with an idea (you can
  call it a challenge). What if we all wrote to this thread in PHP codes.
 on't
  get the gist yet? well all it means is that, on this thread, all that we
  should see must be written in PHP codes and it must be meaningful and
  relevant to any discussion on ground. The challenge starts. Now!
 
 
 
  ?php
 
  $alugo=Hello guys, anyone up for the challenge?;
 
  print $alugo;
 
  ?
 
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Re: [PHP] A couple of questions

2009-03-16 Thread Nick Cooper

2009/3/16 Stuart stut...@gmail.com

 2009/3/16 Payne pa...@magidesign.com

  I had a page working on my opensuse 11.0 32bit, had to upgrade to 11.1
  64bit. I have two strange issues.
 
  The first my code is being display when I call the page, I looked at the
  logs and I don't see any errors that explain why this happen. I looked at
 my
  php.ini and I don't see anything different or any outstanding.
 
  In fact I put in place my old php.ini to see if I got the same issue and
 I
  didn't. What that one I am getting
 
  include(): Failed opening 'template/header.inc'
 
  Is there a way I can do like sh -x on a php page to see what is broke?


 Check your include_path setting - my guess is that it doesn't include the
 current directory (.).

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 The first my code is being display when I call the page

It sounds like you may have been using short tags.

Check for short_open_tag and turn it On:
 short_open_tag = On

Or go through your code and replace ? with ?php

The second option is best.

Nick

[PHP] spl_object_hash not hashing unqiue objects BUG

2009-02-12 Thread Nick Cooper

I am having a problem with spl_object_hash() creating non unique hashes.

I understand with MD5 it is possible to have the same hash for
different strings but this doesn't seem like that problem.

I have created a simple test below, should I report this as a bug or
am I doing something wrong.

PHP 5.2.8 (extensions all disabled)
Win XP SP3
Apache 2.2.11

?php
class a1 {}
$obi = new a1();
echo get_class($obi).': '.spl_object_hash($obi).'br/';
class a2 {}
$obi = new a2();
echo get_class($obi).': '.spl_object_hash($obi).'br/';
class a3 {}
$obi = new a3();
echo get_class($obi).': '.spl_object_hash($obi).'br/';
unset($obi);
class a4 {}
$obi = new a4();
echo get_class($obi).': '.spl_object_hash($obi).'br/';
?

Outputs:

a1: 09d264fcececf51c822c9382b40e3edf
a2: 45701af64172cbc2a33069dfed73fd07
a3: 09d264fcececf51c822c9382b40e3edf
a4: 09d264fcececf51c822c9382b40e3edf

Thanks let me know how I should proceed with this.

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Re: [PHP] Re: spl_object_hash not hashing unqiue objects BUG

2009-02-12 Thread Nick Cooper

Thank you, I am now understanding this much better.

Could you explain this though, if my understanding is correct the same
hash is used if the object no longer exists in memory.

In that case the following should all have the same hash, but they
don't see output.

class a1 {}
$obi = new a1();
echo get_class($obi).': '.spl_object_hash($obi).'br/';
class a2 {}
$obi = new a2();
echo get_class($obi).': '.spl_object_hash($obi).'br/';
class a3 {}
$obi = new a3();
echo get_class($obi).': '.spl_object_hash($obi).'br/';
class a4 {}
$obi = new a4();
echo get_class($obi).': '.spl_object_hash($obi).'br/';
class a5 {}
$obi = new a5();
echo get_class($obi).': '.spl_object_hash($obi).'br/';

Outputs:
a1: 09d264fcececf51c822c9382b40e3edf
a2: 45701af64172cbc2a33069dfed73fd07
a3: 09d264fcececf51c822c9382b40e3edf
a4: 45701af64172cbc2a33069dfed73fd07
a5: 09d264fcececf51c822c9382b40e3edf

2009/2/12 Jochem Maas joc...@iamjochem.com:
 Colin Guthrie schreef:
 'Twas brillig, and Jochem Maas at 12/02/09 12:47 did gyre and gimble:
 Colin Guthrie schreef:
 'Twas brillig, and Nick Cooper at 12/02/09 11:38 did gyre and gimble:
 Outputs:

 a1: 09d264fcececf51c822c9382b40e3edf
 a2: 45701af64172cbc2a33069dfed73fd07
 a3: 09d264fcececf51c822c9382b40e3edf
 a4: 09d264fcececf51c822c9382b40e3edf

 Thanks let me know how I should proceed with this.
 Confirmed here. I get different hashes, but the same pattern:

 a1: 79eff28a9757f1a526882d82fe01d0f3
 a2: 4cec55f17563fe4436164f438de7a88c
 a3: 79eff28a9757f1a526882d82fe01d0f3
 a4: 79eff28a9757f1a526882d82fe01d0f3

 PHP 5.2.9RC1 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.3 (cli) (built: Feb  9 2009
 16:00:42)
 Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
 Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies

 You should report the bug:
 http://bugs.php.net/

 it's not a bug. RTFM

 Yup I meant to retract my statement after reading your reply but my
 message hadn't come through yet to the list and I then got distracted by
 something or other.

 ah. that could have been me :-)


 In fairness tho' I did RTFM for the function itself and the stuff you
 quoted wasn't listed there, so the docu could do with a little
 clarification on that point.

 granted. the user notes contain the relevant info, the actual docs do indeed 
 lack
 detail. Quite a bit of detail regarding this issue actually cropped up on
 the internals mailinglist which is where I picked up on it.

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[PHP] Senior Software Engineer / PHP Developer Job opportunity in Boulder, CO

2009-01-14 Thread Nick Gasparro

Hi,

I am Looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic and growing
Internet-based company. The qualified candidate will expand our web-based
platform, building new features and products. You will effectively design,
develop, and deploy applications based on open-source technologies such as
Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl and PHP. You will use outside of the box thinking to
solve challenging problems as part of creating a novel Web 2.0 application
platform.

Requirements:
* 4-6 years of commercial application development experience with open source
technologies
* Expert knowledge of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Perl/Python a bonus.
* BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
* Previous experience in object oriented analysis and design for large-scale
data driven web applications.
* Must be able to reference previous production website development experience
in which you used object oriented design, flexible presentation layers, and
collaborative development practices as core elements of the
software lifecycle.
* Must be able to work both independently and as part of a team.
* Should be able to manage projects, communicate readily and clearly and stay
on top of deadlines to ensure product release and delivery.

Software Development Experience with the Following:
* Linux, Apache, PHP 4, PHP 5, MySQL
* Object-oriented design and distributed systems
* Open source development tools, languages and application servers.
* Competent with JavaScript, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Moo
* Previous experience with version control systems, esp. SVN
* Building distributed systems and/or large scale database applications.

If you are interested please send resume to: n...@remycorp.com

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[PHP] Job opportunity in Denver, CO - Jr. PHP developer needed

2008-12-05 Thread Nick Gasparro

Hello Group  Seasons Greetings,

I have an immediate opportunity available for a Jr. PHP developer with the 
following skill set.  Please contact me directly if you are interested.

The perfect candidate will possess the following skills:
* Serious OO design background
* PHP5 (this will be your primary language, though you can learn it on the 
job )
* Strong database design skills (MySql experience preferred)
* Love of open source development and standards-based development
* Expert understanding of JavaScript, XHTML, and the DOM
* Strong communication skills and able to multi-task and project manage 
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Re: [PHP] Launching multiple PHP threads via Scheduled Tasks

2008-10-27 Thread Nick Stinemates

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:44:50AM -0700, Brian Dunning wrote:
 I've got a script that downloads files queued from a server, and it's  
 launched by a Windows Scheduled Task that launches every minute. My  
 understanding of the default behavior is that if the task is still  
 running a minute later when it's time to launch again, a duplicate  
 thread will not be launched.

 The remote server administrator wants me to launch multiple threads all 
 day - in my mind the wrong choice, since multiple download threads slow 
 everyone one, but that's what he wants.

 Anyone know if there's a way to make Windows Scheduled Task launch a new 
 thread of the PHP script, regardless of whether it's already running?


Your assumption is semi-correct, mostly because of your choice of language. If 
you would have asked about launvhing another download process, then you would 
be wrong.

A new _process_ *is* spawned by the Windows Scheduled Task launcher.

Here's a proof.

test.bat

 start c:\php\php.exe test.php
 start c:\php\php.exe test.php

test.php:

?php
 sleep(20)
 print slept 20 seconds;
?


Double click on test.bat, you should see 'slept 20 seconds' printed
twice.

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Re: [PHP] Interactive canvas example

2008-10-26 Thread Nick Stinemates

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:57:19AM +, Richard Heyes wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Had to show this off - I'm so proud. READ: full of myself... I've
 tried it in Firefox 3, Opera 9.6, Chrome and Safari, all on Windows.
 
 http://dev.rgraph.org/examples/interactive.html
 
 -- 
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 HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari:

Clicked a bar, nothing happened.

Google Chrome, Windows XP

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[PHP] Job Opportunity - User Experience Designer / Boulder, CO

2008-08-05 Thread Nick Gasparro

Hello Group,

We are looking for a User Experience Designer to join our dynamic and growing 
Internet-based company. The User Experience Designer will iteratively specify, 
prototype, design and implement UI Skins, Interaction Flows, and Information 
Architecture for new product features. Here are some additional skills we are 
looking for:

* Passion for User Experience Design and solving large community design problems
* Advanced to Expert level CSS2 - hand coding with strong knowledge of browser 
compatibility issues
* Ability to read and code XHTML to standards without WYSIWYG editing tool
* Advanced to Expert Photoshop / Illustrator CS3 skills
* Extremely comfortable in a mixed computing environments (Mac, Windows, Linux)

Please reply back with your resume and contact information if you are 
interested in the opportunity.

Best,

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[PHP] Sr. PHP Engineer job opportunity / Denver

2008-06-05 Thread Nick Gasparro

Hello Group,

 

I have an immediate opportunity available for a Senior Software Engineer in
Denver, CO (relocation assistance is available). This is a great opportunity
to join a dynamic and growing Internet-based company.  The individual will
be responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of our
scalable, reusable, web/software based user interfaces. You must be familiar
with design patterns and be able to write abstract classes that adhere to
standard OOP methodologies. The qualified candidate will expand our
web-based platform, building new features and products.  

 

Software Development Experience with the Following: 

* Linux, Apache, PHP 4, PHP 5, MySQL 

* Object-oriented design and distributed systems 

* Open source development tools, languages and application servers. 


* Competent with JavaScript, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Moo 

 

Best,

 

Nick Gasparro

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Denver, CO 80202

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Re: [PHP] Re: php framework vs just php?

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 01:46:14PM +0200, Aschwin Wesselius wrote:
 Lester Caine wrote:
 'If it isn't broken don't fix it' causes a problem when YOU know that the 
 step change will make future development easier, but the customers keep 
 asking - 'Can you just add XXX' :(

 So they actually ask for a porn site?

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Re: [PHP] the most amazing php code i have ever seen so far

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:41:05AM -0400, Eric Butera wrote:
 I can't show you the code because I wrote it on company time therefore
 I don't own it.
 
 A very generalized example.
 
 Register events:
 $events = array(
   array('event'='onSave', 'class'='localEvents', 
 'method'='handleOnSave')
 );
 $dispatcher = namespace_registry::get('dispatcher');
 $dispatcher-lazyRegister($events);
 
 
 Sample save page:
 $record   = new record;
 $record-name = 'Eric Butera'
 $isSuccess= $record-save();
 $dispatcher-trigger('onSave', $record, array('isSuccess'=$isSuccess));
 
 
 Upon firing, the dispatcher would check to see if any lazy registrants
 exist for the onSave event.  If some exist, then it will then use the
 configured settings to somehow load  call the defined class/method
 and inject it with an event notification object.
 
 Sample event handler:
 class localEvents {
 public function handleOnSave(namespace_Event $event) {
 echo An onsave event is being handled, triggered in subject
 class . get_class($event-getSubject()) .\n;
 $info = $event-getInfo();
 if ($info['isSuccess'] === true) {
 // do something else!
 }
 }
 }
 
 
 Why is this useful?  Because you can add functionality to your save
 page without touching it.  This is very powerful when you have a
 shared code base and need to add some parts to it without breaking
 other sites.  Since it is expected that events will be registered it
 is okay to rely on this functionality always being there rather than
 the internals of your app changing and creating nightmares.

That is a beatiful example of the observer pattern.

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Re: [PHP] Class Static variables in double quoted string or heredoc

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 01:19:58PM -0400, Robert Cummings wrote:
 
 I don't see how the throwing everything and the kitchen sink into double
 quotes support caters to either of these groups. It strikes me, and of
 course that's who matters here :), that it caters to the messy, I wish
 I REALLY knew what I was doing, slovenly crowd.
 
 Just because a feature exists, doesn't mean you should use it!
 
 Cheers,
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Agree, and couldn't imagine working with someones code where they
liberally use these types of lazy things. I like structured, ordered
code, and, somehow, using something like this technique doesn't seem
structured or ordered.

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Re: [PHP] Class Static variables in double quoted string or heredoc

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:29:05AM -0600, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
 here we are back at the classic syntactic sugar argument.  at least weve
 moved past abstract classes and interfaces !

for now :)

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[PHP] Denver PHP opportunity - Senior Software Engineers

2008-04-21 Thread Nick Gasparro

Hello Group,

 

I have an immediate need for a Sr. Developer; with one of Denver's Best
employers (relocation assistance available).  They are a Web 2.0 company,
rapidly growing and very profitable.

 

4-Senior Software Engineers

Denver Metro Area

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic and
growing Internet-based company.  The individual will be responsible for the
development, implementation, and maintenance of our scalable, reusable,
web/software based user interfaces. You must be familiar with design
patterns and be able to write abstract classes that adhere to standard OOP
methodologies. The qualified candidate will expand our web-based platform,
building new features and products.  You will work with the leaders in
online media and advertising.

 

Requirements:
* 4-6 years of commercial application development experience with open
source technologies
* Expert knowledge of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP 4, PHP 5, Perl/Python a
bonus.
* BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
* Object-oriented design and distributed systems
* Open source development tools, languages and application servers.
* Competent with JavaScript, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Moo
* OOP, SQL, Linux, HTML 

 

 

Nick Gasparro

Managing Partner, REMY Corp.

1637 Wazee Street

Denver, CO 80202

303-539-0448 Direct

303-547-7469 Cell

[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

www.remycorp.com http://www.remycorp.com/ 

 

 

Nick Gasparro

Managing Partner, REMY Corp.

Denver, CO 80202

303-539-0448 Direct

303-547-7469 Cell

 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

 http://www.remycorp.com/ www.remycorp.com

 

Come visit our booth!!!

Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008  http://www.web2expo.com/sf
http://www.web2expo.com/sf 

San Francisco, CA April 22 - April 25, 2008 

 

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RE: [PHP] Denver PHP opportunity - Senior Software Engineers

2008-04-21 Thread Nick Gasparro

Hey Richard,

Not sure how to respond to your question other than to say yes they are
profitable.  They are an established organization that has been around since
2003, they have upwards of 60 million users and tons of traffic.  They are
the market leader in their space.  Please let me know if you have some
interest and I would be happy to set up a time to talk.

Best,

Nick Gasparro
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Come visit our booth!!!
Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 http://www.web2expo.com/sf 
San Francisco, CA April 22 - April 25, 2008 

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Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:22 AM
To: Nick Gasparro
Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] Denver PHP opportunity - Senior Software Engineers

Web 2.0 *and* profitable? Surprising.

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Re: [PHP] PHP console script vs C/C++/C#

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 04:30:00PM -0500, Daniel Kolbo wrote:
 Hello,

 I am writing a PHP script for a local application (not web/html based).  My 
 script is taking a longer time to execute than I want.  The source code is 
 a few thousand lines, so I will spare you all this level of detail.

 I prefer to write in PHP because that is what I know best.  However, I do 
 not think there is anything inherent with my script that requires PHP over 
 C/C++/C#.

What makes you feel this way?


 If I wrote the console application in a c language (and compiled) would one 
 expect to see any improvements in performance?  If so, how much improvement 
 could one expect (in general)?

Depends. Shitty algorithms are shitty, regardless of language
implementation.


 I assume because php is not compiled that this real time interpretation of 
 the script by the zend engine must take some time.  This is why I am 
 thinking about rewriting my whole script in a C language.  But before I 
 begin that ordeal, i wanted to ask the community for their opinions.  If 
 you think using a c language would suit me well, what language would you 
 recommend?

Depends on the task, but based on this e-mail I have a feeling you'll
encounter the same problem.


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Re: [PHP] PHP5 and the DOM model

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:05:11AM +0200, Michael Preminger wrote:
 Hello!

 Seems that PHP gets more and more object oriented, which is good.

 I am now running a course in PHP, using PHP 5, where we are going to
 use the *DOM* interface. I am trying to teach them good OO practices,
 meaning that we insistently hide properties and expose them as get or
 set methods.

Get/set methods are more often than not breaking encapsulation and
should be avoided (unless purposefully designing Model object or
something similar.)



 Looking at the PHPs *DOM* implementation, I see that many of the
 properties are exposed directly, without even offering get methods.

Can you please provide an example of where this is happening?


 1. Is there something I am misunderstanding orotherwise missing? (I
 havenot used *DOM* in PHP before).

 2.This poses a pedagogical problem for me as a teacher. How do I
 explain this contradiction to my students?

Explain that the DOM API and PHP's binding to the DOM API are 2
different things with 2 different goals.


 Thanks

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Re: [PHP] PHP console script vs C/C++/C#

 some moderate gains going to C, I think the basework
could still use some optimization.


 Thanks,
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Re: [PHP] need pop-up in progress alert

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:54:36AM -0400, Jason Pruim wrote:

 So if someone could point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate
 it.

 Hi Steve,

 From my understanding of how PHP works and from reading the archives of 
 this list, and asking quite a few questions my self.. You can't do a 
 progress bar in PHP since by the time it gets to the browser, PHP is done 
 doing what it does. 

This is actually false, at least on my system(s).

Try this out:

?php

while (true) {
print x;
}

?


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Re: [PHP] PHP5 and the DOM model

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:25:29AM -0600, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
 On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Nick Stinemates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
  On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:05:11AM +0200, Michael Preminger wrote:
   Hello!
  
   Seems that PHP gets more and more object oriented, which is good.
  
   I am now running a course in PHP, using PHP 5, where we are going to
   use the *DOM* interface. I am trying to teach them good OO practices,
   meaning that we insistently hide properties and expose them as get or
   set methods.
 
  Get/set methods are more often than not breaking encapsulation and
  should be avoided (unless purposefully designing Model object or
  something similar.)
 
 
 egh?  we had a massive argument about this last year, but if u ask me data
 hiding is an integral part of encapsulation; therefore i agree w/ Michael.
 

Data Hiding IS Encapsulation.

But, you have to agree,

?php

class Lol {
 private $bar;

 public function getBar() { return $bar }
 public function setBar($bar) { $this-bar = $bar}

}
?

Is no different than:

?php
class Lol {
 public $bar;
}
?


Here's a more thought out argument from 
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2003/jw-0905-toolbox.html :

 A fundamental precept of OO systems is that an object should not expose any 
 of its implementation details. This way, you can change the implementation 
 without changing the code that uses the object. It follows then that in OO 
 systems you should avoid getter and setter functions since they mostly 
 provide access to implementation details.

 To see why, consider that there might be 1,000 calls to a getX() method in 
 your program, and each call assumes that the return value is of a particular 
 type. You might store getX()'s return value in a local variable, for example, 
 and that variable type must match the return-value type. If you need to 
 change the way the object is implemented in such a way that the type of X 
 changes, you're in deep trouble. 

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Re: [PHP] PHP console script vs C/C++/C#

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 09:58:14AM -0600, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
 On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Nick Stinemates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
   If I wrote the console application in a c language (and compiled) would
  one
   expect to see any improvements in performance?  If so, how much
  improvement
   could one expect (in general)?
 
  Depends. Shitty algorithms are shitty, regardless of language
  implementation.
 
 
 
 right, but there shitiness is relative to the performance of the underlying
 language.  according to the great computer language shootout, if OP
 implemented in C / C++ he could expect something along the lines an increase
 in performace ~ 23x greater than the current php implementation.  obviously
 there are many factors here; and well i dont think weve even found out what
 the script is doing :O.  if its having to deal w/ lots of external calls for
 example to a database or remote system, those will still be major
 bottlenecks.  but as far as processing the data and running though logic,
 yes there is much performance to be had by compiling.
 
 -nathan

I don't think there was a single place where I said PHP was faster than
C, nor did I imply it.

The point I was making is simple, if you have a shitty algorithm (which
is the case for our op) expect shitty performance.

There's no doubt you will gain performance moving to C, but, if properly
designed, you have a performance that is acceptable, then why go to that
level?

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Re: [PHP] need pop-up in progress alert

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 09:43:07AM -0700, bruce wrote:
 hi..
 
 if you have an action that the server is performing, and the action is going
 to take some amount of time, then you're going to need to provide some form
 of progress bar, that's a function of jscript/ajax on the client side...
 
 you can't use just php, as php runs on the server, which is where your
 action is also running. the unfortunate situation is that a php 'progress
 bar' wouldn't be invoked until after the action has completed... unless you
 had a periodic timer within the action that periodically displayed
 something to the page (which could be possible)
 
 
 action
 {
   loop through the action/task
 do some events
 display x //for progress bar
 continue with the event processing
   end loop
 }
 
 the other, probably better option would be to have a progress area, that
 was/is a jscript/ajax based, that talked/polled the server to determine the
 overall status of the action as it's being performed.
 
 what did a google search on php/ajax progress bar return?
 
 peace
 

Or the name of the file, kind of like a log.


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Re: [PHP] PHP5 and the DOM model

 Data Hiding IS Encapsulation.
 But, you have to agree,
 ?php
 class Lol {
  private $bar;
  public function getBar() { return $bar }
  public function setBar($bar) { $this-bar = $bar}
 }
 ?
 Is no different than:
 ?php
 class Lol {
  public $bar;
 }
 ?
 Here's a more thought out argument from 
 http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2003/jw-0905-toolbox.html :
 A fundamental precept of OO systems is that an object should not expose 
 any of its implementation details. This way, you can change the 
 implementation without changing the code that uses the object. It follows 
 then that in OO systems you should avoid getter and setter functions 
 since they mostly provide access to implementation details.

 To see why, consider that there might be 1,000 calls to a getX() method 
 in your program, and each call assumes that the return value is of a 
 particular type. You might store getX()'s return value in a local 
 variable, for example, and that variable type must match the return-value 
 type. If you need to change the way the object is implemented in such a 
 way that the type of X changes, you're in deep trouble. 

 No,but in the first one, you can control, from within the class/method, 
 what data is actually allowed to be injected into that variable.  Whereas 
 the second example would allow you to stuff any type of data into that 
 class variable. That might not be a good thing.


That's a relatively narrow minded response to my point, since I gave
a pretty concrete example of exactly what I meant, followed by a great
article which furthered my point.

The general rule of encapsulation is: Don't ask an object for data, ask
the object to work with the data.

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[PHP] Hot job opportunity - Sr. Software Developer/Architect

2008-02-28 Thread Nick Gasparro

Hello Group!

 

I have an immediate need for a Sr. Developer/Architect; with one of Denver's
Best employers.  They are a Web 2.0 company, rapidly growing and very
profitable.  They will pay top compensation and provide relocation
assistance for the right person.  

 

Here is what they are looking for:

 

The individual will lead the architecture and implementation for our web
delivered applications. Implementing industry best practices, leading a team
of developers and mentoring other developers will also be important aspects
of this role. You must be familiar with design patterns and be able to write
classes that adhere to standard OOP methodologies. Some experience with
Agile software development practices is a must.

Required Experience:

*   OOP Development and Architecture
*   Test Driven Development and Unit Testing
*   Java, C++, PHP or other Object Oriented languages
*   Experience in the Web Development industry
*   Experience in Telecom, Desktop Software, or other development
industries other than Web
*   Understanding of Design Patterns, especially MVC
*   Agile software development practices
*   SQL
*   Linux
*   HTML
*   Version Control

Desirable Skills:

*   PHP
*   CSS
*   Javascript
*   XML
*   UML
*   MySQL
*   Apache
*   Web Services (XML-RPC, SOAP, etc...)
*   AJAX
*   Actionscript
*   Flash
*   Flex

 

Please send me a copy of your resume in MS word format if you are
interested.

 

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Re: [PHP] More than one values returned?

2008-02-21 Thread Nick Stinemates

Greg Donald wrote:
 On 2/19/08, Nick Stinemates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
  I said, simply, returning an array of objects was usually an indication
  of poor design.
 

 No it's not.  Nearly every MVC framework in existence implements some
 sort of ActiveRecord finder that does exactly that.

 Rails:
 @foo = Foo.find( :all )

 Django:
 foo = Foo.objects.all()

 ZF:
 $foo = new Foo();
 $foo-fetchRow( $foo-select() );

 All return arrays of objects.


   
I'm glad you're literate enough to understand what *indication* and
*usually* mean.

Oh wait..

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Re: [PHP] More than one values returned?

2008-02-20 Thread Nick Stinemates

Jim Lucas wrote:
 Nick Stinemates wrote:
 Nathan Rixham wrote:
 Robert Cummings wrote:
 On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 21:09 -0600, Larry Garfield wrote:
 On Monday 18 February 2008, Nick Stinemates wrote:

 I have found, however, that if I ever need to return /multiple/
 values,
 it's usually because of bad design and/or the lack of proper
 encapsulation.
 You mean you've never had a function like getCoordinates()? Or
 getUsers(), or any other of a zillion perfectly valid and
 reasonable
 functions that return multiple values as an array? Wow, how odd!

 Cheers,
 Rob.
 getCoordinates() would return a Point object
 getUsers() would return a Group  object...

 Not rocket science ;)
 I wouldn't consider an array of user objects to be multiple
 things.  I consider it a single aggregate thing, and return arrays
 all the time.  That's conceptually different from wanting two
 separate return values from a function, which is indeed conceptually
 icky.
 Yes, an aggregate is comprised of multiple things usually. Hence when
 decomposing the concept you are indeed returning multiple values--
 both
 points of view are valid. If you receive a parcel of 100 pens. I can
 say, has the parcel arrived yet (one entity) or have the pens
 arrived
 yet (multiple entities).

 At any rate, the O.P. wanted to return multiple values called $x
 and $y.
 It seems quite reasonable to assume he was returning something akin to
 coordinates but didn't know how to do so by binding them in an
 aggregating structure such as an array, or if you wish, an object.

 Cheers,
 Rob.
 seriously, whats wrong with returning an array? half the standard php
 functions return array's, therefore at least half of php has been
 designed badly..?

 ps: when working with co-ordinates / GIS data you should really be
 using  wkb data instead, it's much faster. [unpack]

 What's wrong with it? Hmm..

 Half of PHP functions DO return arrays, I'll grant you that. The reason?
 It's untyped. If PHP were a typed language, and it still returned arrays
 for a lot, I definitely think it would be designed poorly.

 At any rate, returning an array from your Objects increases the burden
 and shifts it to the client of your API. For instance, if we take an
 example mentioned above *getUsers()* which returned an arbitrary number
 of User objects you could potentially use it like this.

 userupdater.php

 ?php
 $x = Users::getUsers($somefilter)
 foreach ($x as $user) {
   $user-update();
 }
 ?

 Keep in mind. You'll have to rewrite that functionality in multiple
 areas. As opposed to:

 ?php

$x = Users::getGroup($somegroup); // returns a group of users
$x-update(); // can be reused wherever instead of having to loop
 through every user on the client side.
 ?

 I hope you can see past my (basic) example to understand where I am
 headed with this.


 I would, and do, use this magic :)

 Users::GetGroup($somegroup)-update();

 Simple, Even less typing then yours :p

:P. I use that method, too.

It really sucks for debugging though, because what if
GetGroup($somegroup) returns a null or unexpected value?

Yeah, it sucks. But, doesn't occur enough to be too annoying ;)

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Re: [PHP] More than one values returned?

2008-02-20 Thread Nick Stinemates

Nathan Nobbe wrote:
 On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Nick Stinemates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Thats a good example, and a good reason for passing values by
 Reference
 instead of by Value.

 I have found, however, that if I ever need to return /multiple/
 values,
 it's usually because of bad design and/or the lack of proper
 encapsulation.


 and this is what i was responding to earlier, nick, although you didnt
 criticize
 pass-by-reference directly you essentially said use of it indicates
 bad design,
 which i disagree with.
 check my post where i show a method with a boolean return value that has a
 pass-by-reference parameter to return data; that is a perfectly
 reasonable use
 case for pass-by-reference and it does not indicate bad design.  nor
 would it, if
 there were more pass-by-reference parameters in that method.
If I said passing by reference was a bad design, C/C++ programmers all
over the world would call me an idiot. Coming from a C background, I
would definitely agree with them.
Passing by reference and returning an array of objects out of
convenience, I think, are completely separate.

As for that specific quote, I don't see how it criticizes by reference
arguments. If you took it that way, I can only assure you I will (try
to) speak more coherently ;)

 and here is another reason you might have to return more than on value
 from a
 method; a function needs to return data of different types.  now php
 is loosely
 typed, so packaging these into an array is a joke, but in other
 languages, that
 are strongly typed, its not quite that simple.  any way, when i think
 about a method
 returning  a class, what if for whatever reason, a method were to
 return objects of
 2 classes ?  do you then create another class just for the purpose of
 packaging those
 2 objects for this method to return a single value?
Of course, it _always_ depends. This is why in all of this argument i
said it was an *indication* not 100% of the time.

My only argument is, if you need 2 classes, or 2 sets of data, and
you'll need it in more than 1 place (ever) then it would be in your
interest to group them.

Let's take, for example, the getGroup method I've been using. If I make
a change to the update() method (in an extreme example, adding a
parameter to it that wasn't there before,) I am going to have to go back
through all of my code, and ensure it's being used properly. Instead, if
I had a Group object that managed bulk operations on Users, I would only
need to update 1 area, and the maintenance on the client code decreases
drastically.


 well ill let you be the judge of that, but i would probly toss them in
 a small array, or,
 depending on the scenario, use pass-by-reference, especially if i
 wanted to return
 a boolean value from the method ;)

 -nathan
If it calls for passing and object or 2 by reference, I think that's great.

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Re: [PHP] Sending SMS via PHP

2008-02-20 Thread Nick Stinemates

johnlin wrote:
 Let me try and answer your questions.

 Do you need to receive SMS? If you need to receive SMS, you will need to
 host your own GSM device or modem so that people can send you SMS.

 If not, you can just use internet SMS gateways like clickatell to do the
 work, and post to them by HTTP, XML or email. The cost is about 6-8 cents
 per SMS. There are cheaper services, but not always reliable. If you need to
 host your own GSM device, you can use software like http://www.kannel.org
 (GPL Open Source) or http://www.visualgsm.com.

 Regards,
 SMS Gateway Expert
 http://www.visualtron.com


 AmirBehzad Eslami-3 wrote:
   
 Hi,

 How can i send SMS messages via PHP? How can i set SMS-headers (UDH)?
 Does anyone know some article/class/package about this issue?

 Thank you in advance,
 -b


 

   
I know of an open source package which uses services hosted by VeriSign
and MBlox. These cost a pretty penny, though, and may not be what you're
after.
The services give you a private channel for your users to interact with
you, and for you to (potentially) respond to them.

You're looking for SMPP packages.

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Re: [PHP] System errno in PHP

Michal Maras wrote:
 I am now using filesystem functions fopen, fread, fclose, ...

 On 19/02/2008, Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
 Michal Maras wrote:
 
  Coud somebody tell me if it is possible to get integer value of
   
 variable
 
 which name in C is errno end in perl $!.
  I am PHP beginner so I am sorry if question is 'stupid'.
   
 What function are you calling where you expect to get a system error?
 Check the manual page for that function - it will tell you how to detect
 errors.

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Re: [PHP] More than one values returned?

Nathan Rixham wrote:
 Robert Cummings wrote:
 On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 21:09 -0600, Larry Garfield wrote:
 On Monday 18 February 2008, Nick Stinemates wrote:

 I have found, however, that if I ever need to return /multiple/
 values,
 it's usually because of bad design and/or the lack of proper
 encapsulation.
 You mean you've never had a function like getCoordinates()? Or
 getUsers(), or any other of a zillion perfectly valid and reasonable
 functions that return multiple values as an array? Wow, how odd!

 Cheers,
 Rob.
 getCoordinates() would return a Point object
 getUsers() would return a Group  object...

 Not rocket science ;)
 I wouldn't consider an array of user objects to be multiple
 things.  I consider it a single aggregate thing, and return arrays
 all the time.  That's conceptually different from wanting two
 separate return values from a function, which is indeed conceptually
 icky.

 Yes, an aggregate is comprised of multiple things usually. Hence when
 decomposing the concept you are indeed returning multiple values-- both
 points of view are valid. If you receive a parcel of 100 pens. I can
 say, has the parcel arrived yet (one entity) or have the pens arrived
 yet (multiple entities).

 At any rate, the O.P. wanted to return multiple values called $x and $y.
 It seems quite reasonable to assume he was returning something akin to
 coordinates but didn't know how to do so by binding them in an
 aggregating structure such as an array, or if you wish, an object.

 Cheers,
 Rob.

 seriously, whats wrong with returning an array? half the standard php
 functions return array's, therefore at least half of php has been
 designed badly..?

 ps: when working with co-ordinates / GIS data you should really be
 using  wkb data instead, it's much faster. [unpack]

What's wrong with it? Hmm..

Half of PHP functions DO return arrays, I'll grant you that. The reason?
It's untyped. If PHP were a typed language, and it still returned arrays
for a lot, I definitely think it would be designed poorly.

At any rate, returning an array from your Objects increases the burden
and shifts it to the client of your API. For instance, if we take an
example mentioned above *getUsers()* which returned an arbitrary number
of User objects you could potentially use it like this.

userupdater.php

?php
$x = Users::getUsers($somefilter)
foreach ($x as $user) {
  $user-update();
}
?

Keep in mind. You'll have to rewrite that functionality in multiple
areas. As opposed to:

?php

   $x = Users::getGroup($somegroup); // returns a group of users
   $x-update(); // can be reused wherever instead of having to loop
through every user on the client side.
?

I hope you can see past my (basic) example to understand where I am
headed with this.

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Re: [PHP] More than one values returned?

Greg Donald wrote:
 On 2/18/08, Nick Stinemates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
 I have found, however, that if I ever need to return /multiple/ values,
 it's usually because of bad design and/or the lack of proper encapsulation.
 

 Yeah, that's probably why most popular scripting languages support it.

 In Ruby:

 def foo
   1, 2
 end

 a, b = foo


 In Python:

 def foo
   return 1, 2

 a, b = foo


 In Perl:

 sub foo
 {
   return (1, 2);
 }

 (my $a, my $b) = foo;



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Support != good design habits. Please read my other post which explains
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Re: [PHP] More than one values returned?

Nathan Nobbe wrote:
 On Feb 19, 2008 11:52 PM, Greg Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   
 On Feb 19, 2008 9:27 PM, Nick Stinemates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Support != good design habits.
   
 So you presume to have better design habits than the many language
 designers who implemented parallel assignment in their respective
 language?  Right.


 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_%28computer_science%29#Parallel_assignment

 
 Please read my other post which explains
 the reasoning.
   
 Your reasoning is shit.
 


 dAAmn dude :D  i agree though, being able to return multiple values from
 a function has nothing to do with good or bad design of a language.  in fact
 if a language doesnt have support for it, likely it would not be in
 widespread
 use as is php.
 and also, nick, for the record, it has nothing to do with being strongly or
 weakly typed.  take a look at c++, java, and .net; all strongly typed and
 all
 have pass-by-reference; thats what its for ;)  and i dont want to act like
 the
 first person who said it because, C.R. Vegelin, said it first in this
 thread.
 (sorry ive been way busy lately :))
 but to op, yes, you can of course return an aggregate structure, but there
 are many times where it is appropriate to use pass-by-reference instead,
 because,
 read:
 thats what the mechanism is designed for :)

 let me furnish you with the most common example i can think of.
 suppose you have a method that is returning a boolean status, but you want
 to get some data back out of it as well.  then you have it return a boolean
 value, and toss a pass-by-reference parameter in there,
 eg.

 /**
  * do some crazy crap to some dudes account
  */
 function doCrazyCrapToAccount($accountId, $someCrazyNewCrapOnTheAccount) {
$wasSuccess = false;
/// potentially alter $wasSuccess ...
/// drop something meaningful in $someCrazyNewCrapOnTheAccount ...
return $wasSuccess;
 }

 // then
 $accountId = 5;
 $crazyNewCrapOnAccount = null;
 if(doCrazyCrapToAccount($accountId, $crazyNewCrapOnAccount)) {
echo $crazyNewCrapOnAccount;
 }

 and i was doing that in c++ back in o, 99' so yeah; nothing to do w/
 loose typing, totally relevant; and thats technically how you return
 multiple
 values from a function, because lets face it; an aggregate is well, one
 thing,
 that just so happens to contain things, but again; its just one thing ;)

 -nathan

   
Not once did I knock By Reference value passing or pointers.

I said, simply, returning an array of objects was usually an indication
of poor design.

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Re: [PHP] unsure how to do this any help appreciated

Michael Seton wrote:
 To Whom this may Concern,

 Basically what im try to do is this (please bear with me im a php
 noob)
 require a remote file, if its blank then instead display a comment or
 another file (which ever is easier)

Example:
*_if http://launcher.worldofwarcraft.com/alert; contains
nothing or contains Not Found or 404 error, display  Sorry
no updates at this time or No server notices at this time or
include blah.php, otherwise display
_**_http://launcher.worldofwarcraft.com/alert._*


 Because the source is remotely updated, the information contained at
 this address is beyond my control, so i need this to control what is
 said on my end
 I'm not sure how to get this one to work

 Any help would be appreciated or a direction to where to find
 something that will help me,

 Pixmyster

 Guild Master
 Synergy Of Triumphalism
 Horde - Spinebreaker - US Realm
 World Of Warcraft Guild
 Website: www.synergyoftriumphalism.com
 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

?php
$fp = fsockopen(launcher.worldofwarcraft.com, 80, $errno, $errstr,
30); //open the socket
if (!$fp) // if the socket doesnt open, die
die($errstr ($errno)br /\n);


//construct http specific headers
$out = GET /alert HTTP/1.1\r\n;
$out .= Host: launcher.worldofwarcraft.com\r\n;
$out .= Connection: Close\r\n\r\n;

$buff = ; //generate a buffer to fille
fwrite($fp, $out); //send the headers
while (!feof($fp)) {
$buff .= fgets($fp, 128); //read the response
}

fclose($fp); //close the socket

if (strstr($buff, 404)) { //analyze.
echo no alerts;
} else {
echo alerts;
}
?


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Re: [PHP] xpath question

RJO wrote:
 Hey guys,

 I have a form accepting a KML file from users and from there I want to
 draw polylines based on a KML file's
 PlacemarkerLineStringcoordinates element.


 The problem I am having is that sometimes the KML file can have a
 documentfolder or folderdocument or none of the above, or any
 number of random scenarios in the KML file making it hard to parse.


 To deal with this randomness I'm using an xpath and I think I have it
 right but it just wont work... the code:
 $result = $xml-xpath('Placemark/LineString/coordinates');


 An the particular XML file I am trying to pull from looks like:
 ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
 kml xmlns=http://earth.google.com/kml/2.1;
 Document
 namecoehilltotweed.kml/name
 Style id=lineStyle
 LineStyle
 color6417/color
 width6/width
 /LineStyle
 /Style
 Folder
 name23-SEP-06/name
 Snippet maxLines=2
 /Snippet
 description![CDATA[table
 trtdbDistance/b 139.0 mi /td/tr
 trtdbMin Alt/b 451.4 ft /td/tr
 trtdbMax Alt/b 1168.9 ft /td/tr
   /table]]/description
 Placemark
 namePath/name
 styleUrl#lineStyle/styleUrl
 LineString
 tessellate1/tessellate
 coordinates
 -77.827985,44.851878,311.109985
 -77.827021,44.852114,313.993896
 -77.827213,44.8506760001,313.513306
 -77.827792,44.850955,313.513306
 -77.830389,44.8533370001,315.916504
 -77.833114,44.858379,317.358643
 -77.8319330001,44.858508,313.993896 /coordinates
 /LineString
 /Placemark
 /Folder
 /Document
 /kml

 Any ideas why this won't work?

 Thanks!

   
If you're just trying to get the coordinates, you can use:

$result = $xml-xpath('//coordinates');

I have a feeling you'll want to do more parsing than that, thought.

In the case of your example, I believe it should be the following:

$result = $xml-xpath('Folder/Placemark/LineString/coordinates'); _or_

$result = $xml-xpath('Document/Folder/Placemark/LineString/coordinates'); 

I can never remember. One of those 2 will work.

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Re: [PHP] More than one values returned?

Robert Cummings wrote:
 On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 21:24 -0800, Nick Stinemates wrote:
   
 I said, simply, returning an array of objects was usually an indication
 of poor design.
 

 Please elaborate as to the why of it being an indication of poor
 design.

 Cheers,
 Rob.
   
I already did...

I can condense it, since apparently I wasn't diligent enough in my
explanation the first time. I have a feeling that this will probably
evolve in to Procedural vs. OO design flame war, which was not the
intent nor desire.

Please also consider that I am talking about modular/extensible design
philosophies (Gang of Four) strongly used in languages like C++/Java.

Normally, if you're going to be returning a group of objects from a
method you're going to want to do something with them. In this case, why
should I expect the client of my library to have to do bulk operations?
The less trivial the example the more important it becomes, _especially_
if your method is used more than once! That's twice the amount of code.

If that doesn't make sense then my reasoning must be shit.

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Re: [PHP] More than one values returned?

Robert Cummings wrote:
 On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 21:51 -0800, Nick Stinemates wrote:
   
 Robert Cummings wrote:
 
 On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 21:24 -0800, Nick Stinemates wrote:
   
   
 I said, simply, returning an array of objects was usually an indication
 of poor design.
 
 
 Please elaborate as to the why of it being an indication of poor
 design.

 Cheers,
 Rob.
   
   
 I already did...

 I can condense it, since apparently I wasn't diligent enough in my
 explanation the first time. I have a feeling that this will probably
 evolve in to Procedural vs. OO design flame war, which was not the
 intent nor desire.

 Please also consider that I am talking about modular/extensible design
 philosophies (Gang of Four) strongly used in languages like C++/Java.

 Normally, if you're going to be returning a group of objects from a
 method you're going to want to do something with them. In this case, why
 should I expect the client of my library to have to do bulk operations?
 The less trivial the example the more important it becomes, _especially_
 if your method is used more than once! That's twice the amount of code.

 If that doesn't make sense then my reasoning must be shit.
 

 It makes sense in the sense that you anticipate certain bulk operations
 being performed. But as soon as you don't, they must resort to bulk
 operations again. Also, your assuming I want your group object to apply
 these bulk operations. Why can't I just request the result set, create
 an operations object, and pass the operations object your group object?
   

I'm not against implementing an iterator... this is much different than
returning an array of multiple objects, with a lot less overhead.
 Why must the action be on the group object. Going a step further, if
 I've moved the action to an action object, why do I need a grouping
 object? It can work as well on arrays or objects. As such I'll skip the
 overhead of a group object since an array is perfectly sufficient and
 Ill pass it to my operations class.
   
So you're going to rewrite implementation specific details every time
you use this bulk method? What about if one of the objects changes? Are
you going to limit yourself on maintenance because of poor design, or
are you going to refactor your code and search for every use and make
sure it's being used 'properly?' Sounds like a huge waste of time to me.
 More than one way to skin a cat. My operations class knows how to deal
 with lists, binary trees, vectors, arrays, CSVs, Xcel files. These are
 just extended classes on top of the operations object. And unlike your
 group object, my operations object can deal with any datatype, not just
 objects.
   
Hopefully you would be programming to an interface and not to an
implementation so that these types and functionality are interchangeable.
 No, I don't really have this class, but I could.
   
Keep it.
 Cheers,
 Rob.
   
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Re: [PHP] Protected ZIP file with password

Richard Lynch wrote:
 On Sun, February 17, 2008 1:57 pm, Nick Stinemates wrote:
   
 Petrus Bastos wrote:
 
 Hi Nick,

 Sorry, but I forgot to tell you that I can't use this exec
 neither
 system commands because they are disabled for security precautions.
 So, Do
 you have any other ideas on how can I do that?
   

 Sometimes, you can write a cron job that does what you want from the
 shell, and that has less restrictions, since the php.ini file can be
 specified/modified on the command line on the fly...

 Perhaps that would help you here...


 And a potentially truly UGLY hack...

 I'm betting that the password protection of the zip file is just a
 few different bytes in the header portion of a zip...

 So take an un-protected zip, and password-protect it, and then do a
 diff and see what changed.

 Then take that diff output, and just paste it in as the front of the
 other zip files...

 Might work.

 Might make hash of the zip files.

 Won't know til you try.

   
Richard

Unfortunately,y our hypothesis is incorrect. ZIP files are 'encrypted'
using the password you provide. I was thinking along those lines as well.

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Re: [PHP] Protected ZIP file with password

Petrus Bastos wrote:
 Richard,

  Unfortunately, I can't get out of the zip password rut because the
 destination system read only this file format. I can't change the
 destination system.

 Thanks,
 Petrus.

 On Feb 18, 2008 2:11 PM, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   
 On Mon, February 18, 2008 5:59 am, Petrus Bastos wrote:
 
 Thanks again for your worry. So, let's go, here goes my situation.
 I'm
 exporting data to another system. That system have an option to be
 feed by a
 password protected zip file. The export activity will be occur in this
 way:
 the user will generate the file on my application and will put this
 file
 into that another system. So, I need generate that file. Maybe one
 solution
 is to generate the file unzipped and determine that user should zip
 the file
 with password on his Windows or Linux operating system. But, I can't
 let
 that responsibility on user hands. So, because that I need to generate
 the
 file already protected.
   
 Perhaps you could use SCP (or SSH tunneling) to transfer the file from
 system to system, so that it need not ever be visible to the outside
 world, and thus not need the rather lame zip password.

 Another option would be to take the whole file and 2-way encrypt it
 with a public/private key pair, and install the private key on the
 receiving server.

 In other words, get out of the zip password rut, and protect the file
 some other way.

 --
 Some people have a gift link here.
 Know what I want?
 I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist.
 http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch
 Yeah, I get a buck. So?


 

   
Sounds like a creative challenge... this is what makes programmers
problem solvers. You can write the code, you have the knowledge.. and
then you get requirements like this one. How annoying!

I found out some interesting information researching your issue. It
seems that encryption by password is actually not built in to ZIP
itself, but was an implementation detail apps like WinZip added to the
mix. Because of that, the original ZIP libs don't have any notions of
password protection.

It seems like this isn't a language specific issue, either.

I think it's time to get creative, Petros. You're in a bind, and I
assume you need to get this done, so you have the following options (in
the order I would do it in..)
 - Turn on exec()
 - You can use/modify an app I wrote (in python) which accepts UDP
packets and executed commands based off of it. You can strip out the
really insecure things and just accept 'zip' commands. The lib/app is
really small and lightweight. There are no dependencies outside of I
think 3 python modules. If I couldn't turn on exec(), this is the route
I would go.
 - Use some form of file/directory montoring + zip.
 - Pass the request on to an environment that has zip()

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Re: [PHP] Check time in between times

Richard Lynch wrote:
 On Sat, February 16, 2008 11:53 pm, Johny Burns wrote:
   
 I am having fields in my table where I put times like 4:30pm in string
 format
 

 This is your first mistake...

 Use time fields for time, so you can do time operations on time fields.

 Otherwise, you are just re-inventing the wheel and re-writing a
 billion lines of code that the database geeks already wrote, tested,
 and QA-ed.

 Once you fix this, your question becomes a non-question...

   
I am going to reinvent the wheel to a square, just in case they got it
wrong. [=

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Re: [PHP] separating strings from extensions

Richard Lynch wrote:
 On Sun, February 17, 2008 4:37 pm, nihilism machine wrote:
   
 i am using this code to get the extension of a filename:

 $extension = strtolower(strrchr($fileName,.));

 how can i get the text BEFORE the . (period)
 

 http://php.net/basename

   
Funny enough, even in the comments someone states 'this breaks for
complex file-ending like .tar.gz'

Considering file names don't mean much, it would be OK (imo) to use
basename for standard operations. If you're working/looking for the
exact type, it's time to use MIME as it is more reliable than something
like a filename.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.mime-magic.php

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Re: [PHP] Protected ZIP file with password

Petrus Bastos wrote:
 Hey folks,

I got access to exec method for test! But, it's not working... :( 
 the function returns 127 and don't create the zip file, I've tested on
 Linux command tool and works! Do you have any idea why didn't work?

 Thanks again and sorry for the inconvenience,
 Petrus Bastos.

 On Feb 18, 2008 2:37 PM, Nick Stinemates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Petrus Bastos wrote:
  Richard,
 
   Unfortunately, I can't get out of the zip password rut
 because the
  destination system read only this file format. I can't change the
  destination system.
 
  Thanks,
  Petrus.
 
  On Feb 18, 2008 2:11 PM, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
  On Mon, February 18, 2008 5:59 am, Petrus Bastos wrote:
 
  Thanks again for your worry. So, let's go, here goes my
 situation.
  I'm
  exporting data to another system. That system have an option to be
  feed by a
  password protected zip file. The export activity will be occur
 in this
  way:
  the user will generate the file on my application and will put
 this
  file
  into that another system. So, I need generate that file. Maybe one
  solution
  is to generate the file unzipped and determine that user
 should zip
  the file
  with password on his Windows or Linux operating system. But, I
 can't
  let
  that responsibility on user hands. So, because that I need to
 generate
  the
  file already protected.
 
  Perhaps you could use SCP (or SSH tunneling) to transfer the
 file from
  system to system, so that it need not ever be visible to the
 outside
  world, and thus not need the rather lame zip password.
 
  Another option would be to take the whole file and 2-way encrypt it
  with a public/private key pair, and install the private key on the
  receiving server.
 
  In other words, get out of the zip password rut, and protect
 the file
  some other way.
 
  --
  Some people have a gift link here.
  Know what I want?
  I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist.
  http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch
  Yeah, I get a buck. So?
 
 
 
 
 
 Sounds like a creative challenge... this is what makes programmers
 problem solvers. You can write the code, you have the knowledge.. and
 then you get requirements like this one. How annoying!

 I found out some interesting information researching your issue. It
 seems that encryption by password is actually not built in to ZIP
 itself, but was an implementation detail apps like WinZip added to the
 mix. Because of that, the original ZIP libs don't have any notions of
 password protection.

 It seems like this isn't a language specific issue, either.

 I think it's time to get creative, Petros. You're in a bind, and I
 assume you need to get this done, so you have the following
 options (in
 the order I would do it in..)
  - Turn on exec()
  - You can use/modify an app I wrote (in python) which accepts UDP
 packets and executed commands based off of it. You can strip out the
 really insecure things and just accept 'zip' commands. The lib/app is
 really small and lightweight. There are no dependencies outside of I
 think 3 python modules. If I couldn't turn on exec(), this is the
 route
 I would go.
  - Use some form of file/directory montoring + zip.
  - Pass the request on to an environment that has zip()

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What platform are you testing on?

You got it to work under Linux but not on Windows? Am I understanding
that properly?

For windows, I read you should be using a tool called PkZIP.

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Re: [PHP] classes

Jay Blanchard wrote:
 [snip]
 if i declare an instance of a class in the top of my php file, then  
 have html, then later on user $myClassInstance-myMethod(); --  
 myMethod() does not execute, only when i have the instantiation of the  
 class right before the call to the method does it work. any ideas?
 [/snip]

 You are no longer running the script once the output has been sent to
 the screen. You need to flush output to the screen or re-order your
 code.

 http://www.php.net/flush

   
Can't be true

?php

class a {
public function test() {
echo hello;
}
}
$a = new a();
?
html
body
testing... br
?php

$a-test();

?
/body
/html


Definitely works.

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Re: [PHP] Protected ZIP file with password

Petrus Bastos wrote:
 I'm testing on FreeBSD. I can use any command through system(), but the zip
 command doesn't works! I don't know why.


 On Feb 18, 2008 4:06 PM, Nick Stinemates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   
 Petrus Bastos wrote:
 
 Hey folks,

I got access to exec method for test! But, it's not working... :(
 the function returns 127 and don't create the zip file, I've tested on
 Linux command tool and works! Do you have any idea why didn't work?

 Thanks again and sorry for the inconvenience,
 Petrus Bastos.

 On Feb 18, 2008 2:37 PM, Nick Stinemates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Petrus Bastos wrote:
  Richard,
 
   Unfortunately, I can't get out of the zip password rut
 because the
  destination system read only this file format. I can't change the
  destination system.
 
  Thanks,
  Petrus.
 
  On Feb 18, 2008 2:11 PM, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
  On Mon, February 18, 2008 5:59 am, Petrus Bastos wrote:
 
  Thanks again for your worry. So, let's go, here goes my
 situation.
  I'm
  exporting data to another system. That system have an option to
   
 be
 
  feed by a
  password protected zip file. The export activity will be occur
 in this
  way:
  the user will generate the file on my application and will put
 this
  file
  into that another system. So, I need generate that file. Maybe
   
 one
 
  solution
  is to generate the file unzipped and determine that user
 should zip
  the file
  with password on his Windows or Linux operating system. But, I
 can't
  let
  that responsibility on user hands. So, because that I need to
 generate
  the
  file already protected.
 
  Perhaps you could use SCP (or SSH tunneling) to transfer the
 file from
  system to system, so that it need not ever be visible to the
 outside
  world, and thus not need the rather lame zip password.
 
  Another option would be to take the whole file and 2-way encrypt
   
 it
 
  with a public/private key pair, and install the private key on
   
 the
 
  receiving server.
 
  In other words, get out of the zip password rut, and protect
 the file
  some other way.
 
  --
  Some people have a gift link here.
  Know what I want?
  I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist.
  http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch
  Yeah, I get a buck. So?
 
 
 
 
 
 Sounds like a creative challenge... this is what makes programmers
 problem solvers. You can write the code, you have the knowledge..
   
 and
 
 then you get requirements like this one. How annoying!

 I found out some interesting information researching your issue. It
 seems that encryption by password is actually not built in to ZIP
 itself, but was an implementation detail apps like WinZip added to
   
 the
 
 mix. Because of that, the original ZIP libs don't have any notions
   
 of
 
 password protection.

 It seems like this isn't a language specific issue, either.

 I think it's time to get creative, Petros. You're in a bind, and I
 assume you need to get this done, so you have the following
 options (in
 the order I would do it in..)
  - Turn on exec()
  - You can use/modify an app I wrote (in python) which accepts UDP
 packets and executed commands based off of it. You can strip out the
 really insecure things and just accept 'zip' commands. The lib/app
   
 is
 
 really small and lightweight. There are no dependencies outside of I
 think 3 python modules. If I couldn't turn on exec(), this is the
 route
 I would go.
  - Use some form of file/directory montoring + zip.
  - Pass the request on to an environment that has zip()

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 What platform are you testing on?

 You got it to work under Linux but not on Windows? Am I understanding
 that properly?

 For windows, I read you should be using a tool called PkZIP.

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Do you have SSH access to the system?

If so, 'man zip' and look at the params.

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Re: [PHP] classes

Shawn McKenzie wrote:
 Jay Blanchard wrote:
   
 [snip]
 if i declare an instance of a class in the top of my php file, then  
 have html, then later on user $myClassInstance-myMethod(); --  
 myMethod() does not execute, only when i have the instantiation of the  
 class right before the call to the method does it work. any ideas?
 [/snip]

 You are no longer running the script once the output has been sent to
 the screen. You need to flush output to the screen or re-order your
 code.

 http://www.php.net/flush
 

 Huh, what?!?! to both of you:

 ?php
 $myClassInstance = new myClass();
 ?
 Hello
 ?php

 $myClassInstance-myMethod();

 class myClass
 {
 function myMethod()
 {
 echo  world!;
 }
 }
 ?

 Outputs the expected.  Must be an error, maybe fatal or parse before the
 method call or maybe your method does execute you just are expecting
 something different?

 -Shawn

   
What part of my example was unclear?

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Re: [PHP] classes

Shawn McKenzie wrote:
 What part of my example was unclear?

 
 All of it, since I posted just a couple minutes after you and I hadn't
 seen your post yet.

   
I'm sorry, I thought were were responding WHAT?!? to me.

I'm going to blame thunderbird for looking like you responded to me.

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Re: [PHP] More than one values returned?

C.R.Vegelin wrote:
 ?php
 $in = 4;
 calcpows($in, $pow2, $pow4);
 echo in = $in pow2=$pow2 pow4=$pow4;

 // define return fields as $...
 function calcpows($in, $pow2, $pow4)
 {
   $pow2 = $in * $in;
   $pow4 = $pow2 * $pow2;
 }
 ?

 HTH

Thats a good example, and a good reason for passing values by Reference
instead of by Value.

I have found, however, that if I ever need to return /multiple/ values,
it's usually because of bad design and/or the lack of proper encapsulation.


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Re: [PHP] More than one values returned?

Robert Cummings wrote:
 On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 18:06 -0800, Nick Stinemates wrote:
   
 C.R.Vegelin wrote:
 
 ?php
 $in = 4;
 calcpows($in, $pow2, $pow4);
 echo in = $in pow2=$pow2 pow4=$pow4;

 // define return fields as $...
 function calcpows($in, $pow2, $pow4)
 {
   $pow2 = $in * $in;
   $pow4 = $pow2 * $pow2;
 }
 ?

 HTH

   
 Thats a good example, and a good reason for passing values by Reference
 instead of by Value.

 I have found, however, that if I ever need to return /multiple/ values,
 it's usually because of bad design and/or the lack of proper encapsulation.
 

 You mean you've never had a function like getCoordinates()? Or
 getUsers(), or any other of a zillion perfectly valid and reasonable
 functions that return multiple values as an array? Wow, how odd!

 Cheers,
 Rob.
   
getCoordinates() would return a Point object
getUsers() would return a Group  object...

Not rocket science ;)

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Re: [PHP] Session destruction problem

Adil Drissi wrote:
 Hi everybody,

 I need help with sessions.
 I have a simple authentification relying only on
 sessions (i don't use cookies). After the user submits
 his username and password, the script checks if that
 corresponds to a record in a mysql table. If this is
 the case $_SESSION['sessioname'] = $_POST['login'];.
 the $_SESSION['sessioname'] is checked in subsequent
 pages to see if the user is connected or not.
 The problem is after the user logs out, and after that
 uses the previous button of the browser he becomes
 connected. How can i prevent this please.

 Here is my logout.php:

 ?php
 session_start();
 unset($_SESSION[sessioname]);
 session_destroy();
 header(location: index.php);
 ?

 Thank you for advance


   
 
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 Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.  
 http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

   
Is your session being set in any other place but your login page?

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Re: [PHP] Protected ZIP file with password

Petrus Bastos wrote:
 Hey folks,

 Do you know how can I create a protected zip file with password? Is
 there anyway? I've search on the internet, but without success.

 Thank's in advance,
 Petrus Bastos.

   
The easiest way to accomplish this would be to write a wrapper function
using the zip tool provided by (almost every) Linux distribution.

?php

function zip($directory, $password, $saveAs) {
return exec(zip -r $saveAs -P $password $directory;
}

print zip(/home/nick, mypass, /tmp/homebackup.zip);

?

Please note: the -P flag can be monitored on the local system so it is
considered insecure.
If you're going to be accepting input, you should also wrap your
variables in escapeshellarg()

http://us3.php.net/zip
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php

from the zip manual entry

THIS IS INSECURE!  Many multi-user operating  sys-tems
provide ways for any user to see the current command line of any other
user; even on stand-alone
systems there is always the threat of over-the-shoulder peeking. 
Storing the plaintext  password  as
part of a command line in an automated script is even worse.  Whenever
possible, use the non-echoing,
interactive prompt to enter passwords.  (And where security is truly
important, use strong encryption
such  as  Pretty  Good Privacy instead of the relatively weak encryption
provided by standard zipfile
utilities.)

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Re: [PHP] Protected ZIP file with password

Petrus Bastos wrote:
 Hi Nick,

 Sorry, but I forgot to tell you that I can't use this exec neither
 system commands because they are disabled for security precautions. So, Do
 you have any other ideas on how can I do that?

 Thanks for your help,
 Petrus Bastos.

 On Feb 17, 2008 5:15 AM, Nick Stinemates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   
 Petrus Bastos wrote:
 
 Hey folks,

 Do you know how can I create a protected zip file with password? Is
 there anyway? I've search on the internet, but without success.

 Thank's in advance,
 Petrus Bastos.


   
 The easiest way to accomplish this would be to write a wrapper function
 using the zip tool provided by (almost every) Linux distribution.

 ?php

 function zip($directory, $password, $saveAs) {
return exec(zip -r $saveAs -P $password $directory;
 }

 print zip(/home/nick, mypass, /tmp/homebackup.zip);

 ?

 Please note: the -P flag can be monitored on the local system so it is
 considered insecure.
 If you're going to be accepting input, you should also wrap your
 variables in escapeshellarg()

 http://us3.php.net/zip
 http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php

 from the zip manual entry

 THIS IS INSECURE!  Many multi-user operating  sys-tems
 provide ways for any user to see the current command line of any other
 user; even on stand-alone
 systems there is always the threat of over-the-shoulder peeking.
 Storing the plaintext  password  as
 part of a command line in an automated script is even worse.  Whenever
 possible, use the non-echoing,
 interactive prompt to enter passwords.  (And where security is truly
 important, use strong encryption
 such  as  Pretty  Good Privacy instead of the relatively weak encryption
 provided by standard zipfile
 utilities.)

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Unfortunately I don't have any other ideas. Since PHP's implementation
of ZIP does not have password features you're left with the following
options:

* Write your own implementation based on RFC
* Write an interface to another app which can zip the file for you
* Something else I can't think of ;x

Sorry I don't have any other ideas.

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Re: [PHP] separating strings from extensions

John Meyer wrote:
 Børge Holen wrote:
 On Monday 18 February 2008 00:10:30 John Meyer wrote:
  
 Daniel Brown wrote:

 On Feb 17, 2008 5:37 PM, nihilism machine
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]   
 wrote:
  
 i am using this code to get the extension of a filename:

 $extension = strtolower(strrchr($fileName,.));

 how can i get the text BEFORE the . (period)
 
 You can STFW and RTFM.  This list should never be your first place
 to ask simple questions.

 In any case

 ?
 $split = explode('.',strtolower($fileName));
 $name = $split[0];
 $ext = $split[1];
 ?
   
 Flame job aside, that's going to fail on a compound extension such as
 .tar.gz by just returning .tar
 

 so.

 it.will.fail.this.one.to.txt
 and a fix would also fail because you would have to hardcord
 everygoddamn ending if thats what youre after. How many do you care
 to count for?
 I would say stick with the last dot, if its not particulary often you
 stumble over those .tar.bz2 endings.
   


 You could also stick with the first, i.e.:

 ?
 $split = explode('.',strtolower($fileName),1);
 $name = $split[0];
 $ext = $split[1];
 ?

Or you can stop spreading bad advice and listen to Brady Mitchell

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Re: [PHP] Protected ZIP file with password