Re: [PHP] Formatting -- defining sections of code
On Dec 14, 2012 9:49 AM, Andy McKenzie amckenz...@gmail.com wrote: Hey folks, kind of a strange question here. Basically, I've been trying to move my style from self taught to Oh yeah, there IS a standard for this. One of the things I frequently want to do is define sections of my code: to take a simplistic example, this outputs everything that needs to be in file A, this outputs what needs to be in file B, and so on. Up until now, I've used my own standards (generally SectionName, since it's easy to search for). But it occurs to me to wonder; IS there a standard for this? Most likely, the programming world being what it is, there either isn't one or there are lots of competing standards, but I'd be interested to know... Thanks, Andy -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Actually, yes. Write smaller functions that do only one thing. DRY. Refactor. Etc. Php include is cheap. Use the file system and names to organize things. And if you aren't using a decent IDE or CMS, start now.
Re: [PHP] Formatting -- defining sections of code
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:48:05AM -0500, Andy McKenzie wrote: Hey folks, kind of a strange question here. Basically, I've been trying to move my style from self taught to Oh yeah, there IS a standard for this. One of the things I frequently want to do is define sections of my code: to take a simplistic example, this outputs everything that needs to be in file A, this outputs what needs to be in file B, and so on. Up until now, I've used my own standards (generally SectionName, since it's easy to search for). But it occurs to me to wonder; IS there a standard for this? Most likely, the programming world being what it is, there either isn't one or there are lots of competing standards, but I'd be interested to know... A *standard* for something? ROTFL! Yeah, like there's a standard for herding cats! [guffaw] Seriously, no I know of no such standards. It sounds like you're thinking of the kind of thing that's more common in languages like COBOL than anything modern. Plus, it's near impossible on any significantly sized project to segregate code in such a way. That said, I would recommend PHPDoc or similar. It's a package for generating code documentation from the comments embedded in your code. You adhere to certain conventions in the format of your comments, and PHPDoc can scan your code and produce pretty docs. Plus, the comments themself serve as a sort of discipline in explaining what functions and sections of code do. If you keep your functions to singular, small tasks (as you should), the comments are invaluable when you come back later to try to figure out what you were thinking when you wrote this or that block of code. I don't know how extensive your experience is with coding or PHP. So in case you're a relative newbie, I'd also suggest that you keep classes in their own files (one file per class) in a libraries directory or somesuch. In fact, I'd suggest downloading something like CodeIgniter, and studying the way they structure their code physically. They may not be the optimum example, but for a well-known framework, their code base is relatively slim and well-organized. Also, obviously, study the MVC (model-view-controller) paradigm. It's a very useful way of dividing up your code's functionality. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting -- defining sections of code
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:48:05AM -0500, Andy McKenzie wrote: Hey folks, kind of a strange question here. Basically, I've been trying to move my style from self taught to Oh yeah, there IS a standard for this. One of the things I frequently want to do is define sections of my code: to take a simplistic example, this outputs everything that needs to be in file A, this outputs what needs to be in file B, and so on. Up until now, I've used my own standards (generally SectionName, since it's easy to search for). But it occurs to me to wonder; IS there a standard for this? Most likely, the programming world being what it is, there either isn't one or there are lots of competing standards, but I'd be interested to know... A *standard* for something? ROTFL! Yeah, like there's a standard for herding cats! [guffaw] The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -Andrew S. Tanenbaum -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Formatting
Dear list -
I have a program with the following statement: $out = system('ls
-l', $retval); The output is a string. How do I format the output
to be in the Linux format, that is in columns. I cannot think of a
way to use explode to do it.
Advice and comments, please.
Thanks
Ethan
MySQL 5.1 PHP 5.3.3-6 Linux [Debian (sid)]
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Re: [PHP] Formatting
Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
Dear list -
I have a program with the following statement: $out = system('ls -l',
$retval); The output is a string. How do I format the output to be in
the Linux format, that is in columns. I cannot think of a way to use
explode to do it.
Advice and comments, please.
Thanks
Ethan
MySQL 5.1 PHP 5.3.3-6 Linux [Debian (sid)]
Something like?:
print pre;
$out = system('ls -l', $retval);
print /pre;
Donovan
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Re: [PHP] Formatting
Hi You can try something like this:
?php
ob_start();
system('ls', $retval);
$raw = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$arr = explode(chr(10),$raw);
print_r($arr);
it gives you a array back whit the lines
2011/1/26 Donovan Brooke li...@euca.us
Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
Dear list -
I have a program with the following statement: $out = system('ls -l',
$retval); The output is a string. How do I format the output to be in
the Linux format, that is in columns. I cannot think of a way to use
explode to do it.
Advice and comments, please.
Thanks
Ethan
MySQL 5.1 PHP 5.3.3-6 Linux [Debian (sid)]
Something like?:
print pre;
$out = system('ls -l', $retval);
print /pre;
Donovan
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Re: [PHP] Formatting
On 1/25/2011 9:05 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
Dear list -
I have a program with the following statement: $out = system('ls -l',
$retval); The output is a string. How do I format the output to be in
the Linux format, that is in columns. I cannot think of a way to use
explode to do it.
Advice and comments, please.
Thanks
Ethan
MySQL 5.1 PHP 5.3.3-6 Linux [Debian (sid)]
Well, depends, are you running this in a browser or at the console?
If you are displaying this in a browser, you are probably seeing that
browsers do not like \n (newlines)
If in a browser, you could:
1) Wrap your output in a pre?php echo $out; ?/pre HTML tag
2) Use PHP's nl2br() to replace all newlines with br / tags
3) Use PHP's header() function to tell the browser to display the output
as plaintext. i.e. header('Content-Type: text/plain'); [1,2]
1 - Google php header plain text
2 - http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php#92620
If in cli... well, you wouldn't be having this problem... :)
Jim Lucas
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Re: [PHP] Formatting an ECHO statement.
Thanks for that detailed mail, Admin. The i was an example and I wanted to understand how does one go about the whole formatting. Nonetheless, I am pretty well informed after this thread. Thanks once again, everyone. Regards, Shreyas On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.comwrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46:41PM -0400, Cris S wrote: At 15:12 18 10 10, Shreyas Agasthya wrote: Thanks all for their input. Some of the learnings from the thread : 1. i tag is getting deprecated. Not in HTML5. 2. Use em and strong Both? Read that shit again, buckwheat. And by that shit I do mean the standards, not what Joe Bloe told you. 3. Have CSS used to do the kind of stuff I was trying. Uhm, yeah. @@ I must inform, this was already in place. Then why the fuck are we discussing this? 4. Keep an eye on the SE monster. and on the go fuck yourself monster too. Holy fuck, I've been lurking for months. I turn away for one day and this is the non-PHP crap that happens? Please go back to lurking. We'd all appreciate it, and you'll be happier. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Regards, Shreyas Agasthya
Re: [PHP] Formatting an ECHO statement.
Steady on now, this thread started as a php question, and has only deviated a little. Most people on the list don't work purely with php, and I for one dont mind the odd off-topic thread, especially when the majority of the list is made of good php threads. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk - Reply message - From: Cris S ssski...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Oct 19, 2010 03:46 Subject: [PHP] Formatting an ECHO statement. To: php-general@lists.php.net At 15:12 18 10 10, Shreyas Agasthya wrote: Thanks all for their input. Some of the learnings from the thread : 1. i tag is getting deprecated. Not in HTML5. 2. Use em and strong Both? Read that shit again, buckwheat. And by that shit I do mean the standards, not what Joe Bloe told you. 3. Have CSS used to do the kind of stuff I was trying. Uhm, yeah. @@ I must inform, this was already in place. Then why the fuck are we discussing this? 4. Keep an eye on the SE monster. and on the go fuck yourself monster too. Holy fuck, I've been lurking for months. I turn away for one day and this is the non-PHP crap that happens? Someone needs to hire me now, to keep me busy and stop me from taking this issue apart one piece at a time. Kee-rist. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting an ECHO statement.
At 12:39 AM -0400 10/19/10, Paul M Foster wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46:41PM -0400, Cris S wrote: -snip- (of no importance) Please go back to lurking. We'd all appreciate it, and you'll be happier. Paul -- Paul M. Foster I agree with Paul on this one. Chris S has no idea of what we are talking about or what he is saying. PHP does not encompass all of web programming and part of learning PHP programming is to know where the boundaries are. Intermixing style elements and PHP is the topic of this thread. Determining what is the best practice in this aspect is what we are addressing. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Formatting an ECHO statement.
From: Cris S Someone needs to hire me now, to keep me busy and stop me from taking this issue apart one piece at a time. Kee-rist. That's not likely to happen soon. You have demonstrated here that you are immature and have very little self-control or self-respect. There is no way you would be hired for any shop that I have ever worked in. Bob McConnell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Formatting an ECHO statement.
Team, A bit of silly one but like my book says, there are no dumb questions, I am asking it here. If I have : $other=Whatever; and I do: echo 'Other Comments:' .$other. 'br/ works perfectly well and prints the value. What if I want to, now, italicize the value of $other with the above syntax? How do I achieve it? I know we can do it this way : echo I am i$other/i; but I want to learn how to do it with the above syntax like I mentioned earlier. Regards, Shreyas Agasthya
RE: [PHP] Formatting an ECHO statement.
-Original Message- From: Shreyas Agasthya [mailto:shreya...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 October 2010 11:10 A bit of silly one but like my book says, there are no dumb questions, I am asking it here. If I have : $other=Whatever; and I do: echo 'Other Comments:' .$other. 'br/ works perfectly well and prints the value. What if I want to, now, italicize the value of $other with the above syntax? How do I achieve it? echo 'Other Comments:i' .$other. '/ibr/ Cheers! Mike -- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Developer, Libraries and Learning Innovation, Leeds Metropolitan University, C507 City Campus, Woodhouse Lane, LEEDS, LS1 3HE, United Kingdom Email: m.f...@leedsmet.ac.uk Tel: +44 113 812 4730 To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting an ECHO statement.
At 9:47 AM -0400 10/18/10, Steve Staples wrote: or create a style sheet, with a class definition for italic. Steve. +1 The best practices way to do it. Don't style output in an echo statement, but rather put styling in a css sheet, It's much cleaner there. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting an ECHO statement.
At 13:03 18 10 10, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: There's nothing wrong with using em as it indicates emphasised text, which is semantic. Use span tags with classes only when the content you're styling has no semantic alternative. strongimportant message/strong is much better for machines (including search engines, screen readers, etc) to infer a meaning for than span class=bold_textimportant message/span Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk - Reply message - From: tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Oct 18, 2010 17:51 Subject: [PHP] Formatting an ECHO statement. To: php-general@lists.php.net At 9:47 AM -0400 10/18/10, Steve Staples wrote: or create a style sheet, with a class definition for italic. Steve. +1 The best practices way to do it. Don't style output in an echo statement, but rather put styling in a css sheet, It's much cleaner there. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Jesus H. Christ. I'm on this list because I want to learn PHP, not how to parse HTML mail or how to add italics to doltstupid text/dolt. You add styles to text as a presentation effect. This list is not supposed to be about the effing presentation. Must I say it again, more rudely even? I know you guys like to go on and on, but give it a rest on this one. Get your asses back on topic - and on topical jokes. This topic is neither. Move on already. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting an ECHO statement.
At 15:12 18 10 10, Shreyas Agasthya wrote: Thanks all for their input. Some of the learnings from the thread : 1. i tag is getting deprecated. Not in HTML5. 2. Use em and strong Both? Read that shit again, buckwheat. And by that shit I do mean the standards, not what Joe Bloe told you. 3. Have CSS used to do the kind of stuff I was trying. Uhm, yeah. @@ I must inform, this was already in place. Then why the fuck are we discussing this? 4. Keep an eye on the SE monster. and on the go fuck yourself monster too. Holy fuck, I've been lurking for months. I turn away for one day and this is the non-PHP crap that happens? Someone needs to hire me now, to keep me busy and stop me from taking this issue apart one piece at a time. Kee-rist. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting an ECHO statement.
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46:41PM -0400, Cris S wrote: At 15:12 18 10 10, Shreyas Agasthya wrote: Thanks all for their input. Some of the learnings from the thread : 1. i tag is getting deprecated. Not in HTML5. 2. Use em and strong Both? Read that shit again, buckwheat. And by that shit I do mean the standards, not what Joe Bloe told you. 3. Have CSS used to do the kind of stuff I was trying. Uhm, yeah. @@ I must inform, this was already in place. Then why the fuck are we discussing this? 4. Keep an eye on the SE monster. and on the go fuck yourself monster too. Holy fuck, I've been lurking for months. I turn away for one day and this is the non-PHP crap that happens? Please go back to lurking. We'd all appreciate it, and you'll be happier. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals Further Help
Hello List.
In an earlier post, I received help with a custom function to round
decimals off (the custom function provided by Adam Richardson is below).
However in my MySQL db, when I have values with only 1 decimal point,
I need the value PHP returns to display as 2. For example, 3.8 needs
to display as 3.80.
My line of code that calls the custom function looks like this:
$my_price = round_to_half_cent(number_format($my_price, 3, '.', ','));
When the value of $my_price is 3.81, it returns 3.81. However, when
the value of $my_price is 3.8 that is what it returns.
How can I force the formatting of my_price to always contain either 2
or 3 decimal points (3 if the original number contains 3 or more
decimal points to begin with)
Thanks,
--Rick
On Jan 11, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Adam Richardson wrote:
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Mattias Thorslund matt...@thorslund.us
wrote:
tedd wrote:
At 2:55 PM -0500 1/11/10, Rick Dwyer wrote:
I have been asked to further modify the value to the nearest half
cent.
So if the 3rd decimal spot ends in 1 or 2, it gets rounded down
to 0
If it ends in 3, 4, 5, 6 it gets rounded to 5. And if it 7, 8 or
9 it
gets rounded up to full cents.
Can this be done fairly easily? Not knowing PHP well, I am not
aware of
the logic to configure this accordingly.
Thanks,
--Rick
--Rick:
The above described rounding algorithm introduces more bias than
simply
using PHP's round() function, which always rounds down. IMO,
modifying
rounding is not worth the effort.
The best rounding algorithm is to look at the last digit and do
this:
0 -- no rounding needed.
1-4 round down.
6-9 round up.
In the case of 5, then look to the number that precedes it -- if
it is
even, then round up and if it is odd, then round down -- or vise
versa, it
doesn't make any difference as long as you are consistent.
Here are some examples:
122.4 -- round down (122)
122.6 -- round up (123)
122.5 -- round up (123)
123.4 -- round down (123)
123.6 -- round up (124)
123.5 -- round down (123)
There are people who claim that there's no difference, or are at
odds with
this method, but they simply have not investigated the problem
sufficiently
to see the bias that rounding up/down causes. However, that
difference is
very insignificant and can only be seen after tens of thousands
iterations.
PHP's rounding function is quite sufficient.
Cheers,
tedd
However that's not what Rick is asking for. He needs a function
that rounds
to the half penny with a bias to rounding up (greedy bosses):
Actual Rounded Diff
.011 .010-.001
.012 .010-.002
.013 .015+.002
.014 .015+.001
.015 .015 .000
.016 .015-.001
.017 .020+.003
.018 .020+.002
.019 .020+.001
.020 .020 .000
Bias +.005
This could easily be implemented by getting the 3rd decimal and
using it in
a switch() statement.
An unbiased system could look like:
Actual Rounded Diff
.011 .010-.001
.012 .010-.002
.013 .015+.002
.014 .015+.001
.015 .015 .000
.016 .015-.001
.017 .020-.002
.018 .020+.002
.019 .020+.001
.020 .020 .000
Bias.000
The only difference is the case where the third decimal is 7.
Cheers,
Mattias
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Here you go, Rick. Just send the check in the mail ;)
function round_to_half_cent($amount)
{
if (!is_numeric($amount)) throw new Exception('The amount received
by the
round_to_half_cent function was not numeric');
$parts = explode('.', str_replace(',', '', (string)$amount));
if (count($parts) = 3) throw new Exception('The amount received by
the
round_to_half_cent function had too many decimals.');
if (count($parts) == 1)
{
return $amount;
}
$digit = substr($parts[1], 2, 1);
if ($digit == 0 || $digit == 1 || $digit == 2)
{
$digit = 0;
}
elseif ($digit == 3 || $digit == 4 || $digit == 5 || $digit == 6)
{
$digit = .005;
}
elseif ($digit == 7 || $digit == 8 || $digit == 9)
{
$digit = .01;
}
else
{
throw new Exception('OK, perhaps we are talking about different
types of
numbers :( Check the input to the round_to_half_cent function.');
}
return (double)($parts[0].'.'.substr($parts[1], 0, 2)) + $digit;
}
echo 5.002 = .round_to_half_cent(5.002);
echo br /70,000.126 = .round_to_half_cent(7.126);
echo br /55.897 = .round_to_half_cent(55.897);
// should cause exception
echo br /One hundred = .round_to_half_cent(One hundred);
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Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals Further Help
Hello List. In an earlier post, I received help with a custom function to round decimals off (the custom function provided by Adam Richardson is below). However in my MySQL db, when I have values with only 1 decimal point, I need the value PHP returns to display as 2. For example, 3.8 needs to display as 3.80. My line of code that calls the custom function looks like this: $my_price = round_to_half_cent(number_format($my_price, 3, '.', ',')); When the value of $my_price is 3.81, it returns 3.81. However, when the value of $my_price is 3.8 that is what it returns. How can I force the formatting of my_price to always contain either 2 or 3 decimal points (3 if the original number contains 3 or more decimal points to begin with) Thanks, --Rick Rick: Okay so 3.8 is stored in the database and not as 3.80 -- but that's not a problem. What you have is a display problem so use one of the many PHP functions to display numbers and don't worry about how it's stored. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals Further Help
On Jan 22, 2010, at 4:24 PM, tedd wrote: Hello List. In an earlier post, I received help with a custom function to round decimals off (the custom function provided by Adam Richardson is below). However in my MySQL db, when I have values with only 1 decimal point, I need the value PHP returns to display as 2. For example, 3.8 needs to display as 3.80. My line of code that calls the custom function looks like this: $my_price = round_to_half_cent(number_format($my_price, 3, '.', ',')); When the value of $my_price is 3.81, it returns 3.81. However, when the value of $my_price is 3.8 that is what it returns. How can I force the formatting of my_price to always contain either 2 or 3 decimal points (3 if the original number contains 3 or more decimal points to begin with) Thanks, --Rick Rick: Okay so 3.8 is stored in the database and not as 3.80 -- but that's not a problem. What you have is a display problem so use one of the many PHP functions to display numbers and don't worry about how it's stored. Hi Ted. This is exactly what I am trying to do, some of the values in the DB are going to have 3 decimals, some 2 and some 1. On my page I pull the value from the db with: $my_price = $row['my_price']; This returns 3.80... even though my db has it as 3.8. No problem. But once I run the variable $my_price through the following line of code, it is truncating the 0: $my_price = round_to_half_cent(number_format($my_price, 3, '.', ',')); Again, the above call to the custom function works fine for 2 and 3 decimal points just not 1 decimal point. Because I call this function over many pages, I would prefer if possible to fix it at the custom function level rather than recode each page. But I will do whatever is necessary. I afraid with my current understanding of PHP I am not able to successfully modify the custom function to tack on a 0 when the decimal place is empty. Will keep trying and post if I am successful Thanks, --Rick I'm afraid with my current understanding of PHP, I am not able to come up with the logic to --Rick -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals
Paul M Foster wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:56:03PM -0500, tedd wrote: --Rick: The above described rounding algorithm introduces more bias than simply using PHP's round() function, which always rounds down. IMO, modifying rounding is not worth the effort. The best rounding algorithm is to look at the last digit and do this: 0 -- no rounding needed. 1-4 round down. 6-9 round up. In the case of 5, then look to the number that precedes it -- if it is even, then round up and if it is odd, then round down -- or vise versa, it doesn't make any difference as long as you are consistent. Here are some examples: 122.4 -- round down (122) 122.6 -- round up (123) 122.5 -- round up (123) 123.4 -- round down (123) 123.6 -- round up (124) 123.5 -- round down (123) There are people who claim that there's no difference, or are at odds with this method, but they simply have not investigated the problem sufficiently to see the bias that rounding up/down causes. However, that difference is very insignificant and can only be seen after tens of thousands iterations. PHP's rounding function is quite sufficient. This is called (among other things) banker's rounding. But PHP's round() function won't do banker's rounding, as far as I know. Paul floor( $val + 0.5 ); -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals Further Help
Rick Dwyer wrote:
On Jan 22, 2010, at 4:24 PM, tedd wrote:
Hello List.
In an earlier post, I received help with a custom function to round
decimals off (the custom function provided by Adam Richardson is below).
However in my MySQL db, when I have values with only 1 decimal point,
I need the value PHP returns to display as 2. For example, 3.8 needs
to display as 3.80.
My line of code that calls the custom function looks like this:
$my_price = round_to_half_cent(number_format($my_price, 3, '.', ','));
your doing the number format before the rounding.. here's a version of
the function that should fit the bill:
function round_to_half_cent( $value )
{
$value *= 100;
if( $value == (int)$value || $value ((int)$value)+0.3 ) {
return number_format( (int)$value/100 , 2);
} else if($value ((int)$value)+0.6) {
return number_format( (int)++$value/100 , 2);
}
return number_format( 0.005+(int)$value/100 , 3);
}
echo round_to_half_cent( 12.1 ); // 12.10
echo round_to_half_cent( 12.103 ); // 12.105
echo round_to_half_cent( 12.107 ); // 12.11
echo round_to_half_cent( 123456.789 ); // 123,456.79
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Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals Further Help
On Jan 22, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Nathan Rixham wrote:
Thanks Nathan I'll give it a shot.
--Rick
your doing the number format before the rounding.. here's a version of
the function that should fit the bill:
function round_to_half_cent( $value )
{
$value *= 100;
if( $value == (int)$value || $value ((int)$value)+0.3 ) {
return number_format( (int)$value/100 , 2);
} else if($value ((int)$value)+0.6) {
return number_format( (int)++$value/100 , 2);
}
return number_format( 0.005+(int)$value/100 , 3);
}
echo round_to_half_cent( 12.1 ); // 12.10
echo round_to_half_cent( 12.103 ); // 12.105
echo round_to_half_cent( 12.107 ); // 12.11
echo round_to_half_cent( 123456.789 ); // 123,456.79
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Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals Further Help
Rick Dwyer wrote:
On Jan 22, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Nathan Rixham wrote:
Thanks Nathan I'll give it a shot.
np - here's a more condensed version:
function round_to_half_cent( $value )
{
$value = ($value*100) + 0.3;
$out = number_format( floor($value)/100 , 2 );
return $out . ($value .5+(int)$value ? '5' : '');
}
echo round_to_half_cent( 12.1 ); // 12.10
echo round_to_half_cent( 12.103 ); // 12.105
echo round_to_half_cent( 12.107 ); // 12.11
echo round_to_half_cent( 123456.789 ); // 123,456.79
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Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals Further Help
Thank you Nathan,
This worked quite well.
--Rick
On Jan 22, 2010, at 8:10 PM, Nathan Rixham wrote:
Rick Dwyer wrote:
On Jan 22, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Nathan Rixham wrote:
Thanks Nathan I'll give it a shot.
np - here's a more condensed version:
function round_to_half_cent( $value )
{
$value = ($value*100) + 0.3;
$out = number_format( floor($value)/100 , 2 );
return $out . ($value .5+(int)$value ? '5' : '');
}
echo round_to_half_cent( 12.1 ); // 12.10
echo round_to_half_cent( 12.103 ); // 12.105
echo round_to_half_cent( 12.107 ); // 12.11
echo round_to_half_cent( 123456.789 ); // 123,456.79
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Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals
$newprice = sprintf($%.2f, 15.109); On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Rick Dwyer rpdw...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello List. Probably an easy question, but I am not able to format a number to round up from 3 numbers after the decimal to just 2. My code looks like this: $newprice = $.number_format($old_price, 2, ., ,); and this returns $0.109 when I am looking for $0.11. I tried: $newprice = $.round(number_format($old_price, 2, ., ,),2); But no luck. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, --Rick -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals
I have been asked to further modify the value to the nearest half cent. So if the 3rd decimal spot ends in 1 or 2, it gets rounded down to 0 If it ends in 3, 4, 5, 6 it gets rounded to 5. And if it 7, 8 or 9 it gets rounded up to full cents. Can this be done fairly easily? Not knowing PHP well, I am not aware of the logic to configure this accordingly. Thanks, --Rick On Jan 11, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Ryan Sun wrote: $newprice = sprintf($%.2f, 15.109); On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Rick Dwyer rpdw...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello List. Probably an easy question, but I am not able to format a number to round up from 3 numbers after the decimal to just 2. My code looks like this: $newprice = $.number_format($old_price, 2, ., ,); and this returns $0.109 when I am looking for $0.11. I tried: $newprice = $.round(number_format($old_price, 2, ., ,),2); But no luck. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, --Rick -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php --Rick -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 02:55:33PM -0500, Rick Dwyer wrote: I have been asked to further modify the value to the nearest half cent. So if the 3rd decimal spot ends in 1 or 2, it gets rounded down to 0 If it ends in 3, 4, 5, 6 it gets rounded to 5. And if it 7, 8 or 9 it gets rounded up to full cents. Can this be done fairly easily? Not knowing PHP well, I am not aware of the logic to configure this accordingly. Yes, this can be done, but you'll need to write a function to do it yourself. I'd also suggest you look into the BCMath functions, at: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/book.bc.php Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals
At 2:55 PM -0500 1/11/10, Rick Dwyer wrote: I have been asked to further modify the value to the nearest half cent. So if the 3rd decimal spot ends in 1 or 2, it gets rounded down to 0 If it ends in 3, 4, 5, 6 it gets rounded to 5. And if it 7, 8 or 9 it gets rounded up to full cents. Can this be done fairly easily? Not knowing PHP well, I am not aware of the logic to configure this accordingly. Thanks, --Rick --Rick: The above described rounding algorithm introduces more bias than simply using PHP's round() function, which always rounds down. IMO, modifying rounding is not worth the effort. The best rounding algorithm is to look at the last digit and do this: 0 -- no rounding needed. 1-4 round down. 6-9 round up. In the case of 5, then look to the number that precedes it -- if it is even, then round up and if it is odd, then round down -- or vise versa, it doesn't make any difference as long as you are consistent. Here are some examples: 122.4 -- round down (122) 122.6 -- round up (123) 122.5 -- round up (123) 123.4 -- round down (123) 123.6 -- round up (124) 123.5 -- round down (123) There are people who claim that there's no difference, or are at odds with this method, but they simply have not investigated the problem sufficiently to see the bias that rounding up/down causes. However, that difference is very insignificant and can only be seen after tens of thousands iterations. PHP's rounding function is quite sufficient. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals
On Jan 11, 2010, at 4:56 PM, tedd wrote: At 2:55 PM -0500 1/11/10, Rick Dwyer wrote: I have been asked to further modify the value to the nearest half cent. So if the 3rd decimal spot ends in 1 or 2, it gets rounded down to 0 If it ends in 3, 4, 5, 6 it gets rounded to 5. And if it 7, 8 or 9 it gets rounded up to full cents. Can this be done fairly easily? Not knowing PHP well, I am not aware of the logic to configure this accordingly. Thanks, --Rick --Rick: The above described rounding algorithm introduces more bias than simply using PHP's round() function, which always rounds down. IMO, modifying rounding is not worth the effort. I understand what you are saying and I agree. But the decision to round to half cents as outlined above is a client requirement, not mine (I did try to talk them out of it but no luck). I come from an LDML environment, not a PHP one so I don't know the actual code to make this happen. But the logic would be something like: If 3 decimal than look at decimal in position 3. If value = 1 or 2 set it to 0 If value = 3,4,5,6 round it to 5 If value = 7,8,9 round it to a full cent Anybody have specific code examples to make this happen? Thanks, --Rick The best rounding algorithm is to look at the last digit and do this: 0 -- no rounding needed. 1-4 round down. 6-9 round up. In the case of 5, then look to the number that precedes it -- if it is even, then round up and if it is odd, then round down -- or vise versa, it doesn't make any difference as long as you are consistent. Here are some examples: 122.4 -- round down (122) 122.6 -- round up (123) 122.5 -- round up (123) 123.4 -- round down (123) 123.6 -- round up (124) 123.5 -- round down (123) There are people who claim that there's no difference, or are at odds with this method, but they simply have not investigated the problem sufficiently to see the bias that rounding up/down causes. However, that difference is very insignificant and can only be seen after tens of thousands iterations. PHP's rounding function is quite sufficient. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php --Rick -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals
tedd wrote: At 2:55 PM -0500 1/11/10, Rick Dwyer wrote: I have been asked to further modify the value to the nearest half cent. So if the 3rd decimal spot ends in 1 or 2, it gets rounded down to 0 If it ends in 3, 4, 5, 6 it gets rounded to 5. And if it 7, 8 or 9 it gets rounded up to full cents. Can this be done fairly easily? Not knowing PHP well, I am not aware of the logic to configure this accordingly. Thanks, --Rick --Rick: The above described rounding algorithm introduces more bias than simply using PHP's round() function, which always rounds down. IMO, modifying rounding is not worth the effort. The best rounding algorithm is to look at the last digit and do this: 0 -- no rounding needed. 1-4 round down. 6-9 round up. In the case of 5, then look to the number that precedes it -- if it is even, then round up and if it is odd, then round down -- or vise versa, it doesn't make any difference as long as you are consistent. Here are some examples: 122.4 -- round down (122) 122.6 -- round up (123) 122.5 -- round up (123) 123.4 -- round down (123) 123.6 -- round up (124) 123.5 -- round down (123) There are people who claim that there's no difference, or are at odds with this method, but they simply have not investigated the problem sufficiently to see the bias that rounding up/down causes. However, that difference is very insignificant and can only be seen after tens of thousands iterations. PHP's rounding function is quite sufficient. Cheers, tedd However that's not what Rick is asking for. He needs a function that rounds to the half penny with a bias to rounding up (greedy bosses): Actual Rounded Diff .011 .010-.001 .012 .010-.002 .013 .015+.002 .014 .015+.001 .015 .015 .000 .016 .015-.001 .017 .020+.003 .018 .020+.002 .019 .020+.001 .020 .020 .000 Bias +.005 This could easily be implemented by getting the 3rd decimal and using it in a switch() statement. An unbiased system could look like: Actual Rounded Diff .011 .010-.001 .012 .010-.002 .013 .015+.002 .014 .015+.001 .015 .015 .000 .016 .015-.001 .017 .020-.002 .018 .020+.002 .019 .020+.001 .020 .020 .000 Bias.000 The only difference is the case where the third decimal is 7. Cheers, Mattias -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Mattias Thorslund matt...@thorslund.uswrote:
tedd wrote:
At 2:55 PM -0500 1/11/10, Rick Dwyer wrote:
I have been asked to further modify the value to the nearest half cent.
So if the 3rd decimal spot ends in 1 or 2, it gets rounded down to 0
If it ends in 3, 4, 5, 6 it gets rounded to 5. And if it 7, 8 or 9 it
gets rounded up to full cents.
Can this be done fairly easily? Not knowing PHP well, I am not aware of
the logic to configure this accordingly.
Thanks,
--Rick
--Rick:
The above described rounding algorithm introduces more bias than simply
using PHP's round() function, which always rounds down. IMO, modifying
rounding is not worth the effort.
The best rounding algorithm is to look at the last digit and do this:
0 -- no rounding needed.
1-4 round down.
6-9 round up.
In the case of 5, then look to the number that precedes it -- if it is
even, then round up and if it is odd, then round down -- or vise versa, it
doesn't make any difference as long as you are consistent.
Here are some examples:
122.4 -- round down (122)
122.6 -- round up (123)
122.5 -- round up (123)
123.4 -- round down (123)
123.6 -- round up (124)
123.5 -- round down (123)
There are people who claim that there's no difference, or are at odds with
this method, but they simply have not investigated the problem sufficiently
to see the bias that rounding up/down causes. However, that difference is
very insignificant and can only be seen after tens of thousands iterations.
PHP's rounding function is quite sufficient.
Cheers,
tedd
However that's not what Rick is asking for. He needs a function that rounds
to the half penny with a bias to rounding up (greedy bosses):
Actual Rounded Diff
.011 .010-.001
.012 .010-.002
.013 .015+.002
.014 .015+.001
.015 .015 .000
.016 .015-.001
.017 .020+.003
.018 .020+.002
.019 .020+.001
.020 .020 .000
Bias +.005
This could easily be implemented by getting the 3rd decimal and using it in
a switch() statement.
An unbiased system could look like:
Actual Rounded Diff
.011 .010-.001
.012 .010-.002
.013 .015+.002
.014 .015+.001
.015 .015 .000
.016 .015-.001
.017 .020-.002
.018 .020+.002
.019 .020+.001
.020 .020 .000
Bias.000
The only difference is the case where the third decimal is 7.
Cheers,
Mattias
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Here you go, Rick. Just send the check in the mail ;)
function round_to_half_cent($amount)
{
if (!is_numeric($amount)) throw new Exception('The amount received by the
round_to_half_cent function was not numeric');
$parts = explode('.', str_replace(',', '', (string)$amount));
if (count($parts) = 3) throw new Exception('The amount received by the
round_to_half_cent function had too many decimals.');
if (count($parts) == 1)
{
return $amount;
}
$digit = substr($parts[1], 2, 1);
if ($digit == 0 || $digit == 1 || $digit == 2)
{
$digit = 0;
}
elseif ($digit == 3 || $digit == 4 || $digit == 5 || $digit == 6)
{
$digit = .005;
}
elseif ($digit == 7 || $digit == 8 || $digit == 9)
{
$digit = .01;
}
else
{
throw new Exception('OK, perhaps we are talking about different types of
numbers :( Check the input to the round_to_half_cent function.');
}
return (double)($parts[0].'.'.substr($parts[1], 0, 2)) + $digit;
}
echo 5.002 = .round_to_half_cent(5.002);
echo br /70,000.126 = .round_to_half_cent(7.126);
echo br /55.897 = .round_to_half_cent(55.897);
// should cause exception
echo br /One hundred = .round_to_half_cent(One hundred);
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Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:56:03PM -0500, tedd wrote: --Rick: The above described rounding algorithm introduces more bias than simply using PHP's round() function, which always rounds down. IMO, modifying rounding is not worth the effort. The best rounding algorithm is to look at the last digit and do this: 0 -- no rounding needed. 1-4 round down. 6-9 round up. In the case of 5, then look to the number that precedes it -- if it is even, then round up and if it is odd, then round down -- or vise versa, it doesn't make any difference as long as you are consistent. Here are some examples: 122.4 -- round down (122) 122.6 -- round up (123) 122.5 -- round up (123) 123.4 -- round down (123) 123.6 -- round up (124) 123.5 -- round down (123) There are people who claim that there's no difference, or are at odds with this method, but they simply have not investigated the problem sufficiently to see the bias that rounding up/down causes. However, that difference is very insignificant and can only be seen after tens of thousands iterations. PHP's rounding function is quite sufficient. This is called (among other things) banker's rounding. But PHP's round() function won't do banker's rounding, as far as I know. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Formatting Decimals
Hello List. Probably an easy question, but I am not able to format a number to round up from 3 numbers after the decimal to just 2. My code looks like this: $newprice = $.number_format($old_price, 2, ., ,); and this returns $0.109 when I am looking for $0.11. I tried: $newprice = $.round(number_format($old_price, 2, ., ,),2); But no luck. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, --Rick -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Decimals
Testing this out a little: matt...@mumin:~$ php -r 'echo \$.number_format(0.109, 2, ., ,).\n;' $0.11 matt...@mumin:~$ php -r 'echo $.number_format(0.109, 2, ., ,).\n;' $0.11 matt...@mumin:~$ php -r 'echo $.number_format(0.109, 2, ., ,).\n;' $0.11 I think the $ should be escaped with a backslash when enclosed within double quotes, but even the second and third tries return the correct result for me. Using PHP 5.2.10. Cheers, Mattias Rick Dwyer wrote: Hello List. Probably an easy question, but I am not able to format a number to round up from 3 numbers after the decimal to just 2. My code looks like this: $newprice = $.number_format($old_price, 2, ., ,); and this returns $0.109 when I am looking for $0.11. I tried: $newprice = $.round(number_format($old_price, 2, ., ,),2); But no luck. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, --Rick -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Formatting plain text file
Hey all, Am I brain fading or what? I'm so used to formatting text in tables for HTML display I can't think of how to do it for a plain text file. I just need to create a columned table of names and addresses type stuff... sprintf? -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting plain text file
Skip Evans wrote: Hey all, Am I brain fading or what? I'm so used to formatting text in tables for HTML display I can't think of how to do it for a plain text file. I just need to create a columned table of names and addresses type stuff... sprintf? or a little str_pad on each variable... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting plain text file
Jim Lucas wrote: Skip Evans wrote: Hey all, Am I brain fading or what? I'm so used to formatting text in tables for HTML display I can't think of how to do it for a plain text file. I just need to create a columned table of names and addresses type stuff... sprintf? or a little str_pad on each variable... Sure, that will do it. But isn't there some way to construct formatted tables similar to HTML? -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting plain text file
Skip Evans wrote: Jim Lucas wrote: Skip Evans wrote: Hey all, Am I brain fading or what? I'm so used to formatting text in tables for HTML display I can't think of how to do it for a plain text file. I just need to create a columned table of names and addresses type stuff... sprintf? or a little str_pad on each variable... Sure, that will do it. But isn't there some way to construct formatted tables similar to HTML? You can use a combination of wordwrap(), str_pad(), and swathe of judicious (but simplistic) math :) Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting plain text file
On 07/30/2009 06:29 PM, Skip Evans wrote: Jim Lucas wrote: Skip Evans wrote: Hey all, Am I brain fading or what? I'm so used to formatting text in tables for HTML display I can't think of how to do it for a plain text file. I just need to create a columned table of names and addresses type stuff... sprintf? or a little str_pad on each variable... Sure, that will do it. But isn't there some way to construct formatted tables similar to HTML? Are you thinking of a CSV file that you can open in a spreadsheet prog? Or, do you literally mean a plaintext file with columns? For the latter, you'd need to measure the max char length of each column for every line in the file, then go back and print each line using str_pad(). -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting plain text file
?php
//assuming you have a 2d matrix $table
$table = array(
array(c11, c12, c13),
array(c21, c22, c23)
);
foreach($table as $rows) {
$row = vsprintf(str_repeat(%-10s, count($rows)), $rows);
echo {$row}br /\n;
}
wont this do ?
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Re: [PHP] formatting - design question
Ford, Mike wrote:
On 04 June 2009 19:09, PJ advised:
Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote:
From my experience I tend to use a difference ID for the
body tag, for
instance body id='homepage' and then format it in my CSS using ID
reference: #homepage .classname {
color: blue;
}
This way you can use a default format for all the pages and create
minor
(or major) changes in the theme in no time :)
I would also suggest to attach the CSS filename reference at the
head
tag the update time of the file, so that the browser will
automatically
update the cache of the CSS whenever you decide to edit it.
Just my 2 cents ;)
Oh, I think it's worth a lot more than that.
I just installed IE 8 just to have it for verification. It's no better
than IE 6. I never use them personally.
But how do you produce interesting web pages to look well on both
without making stupid compromises. What looks well on Firefox, looks
like
MSshit on IE.
This may be a silly question, but reading this just makes me wonder --
you do have an appropriate !DOCTYPE as the very first line of your HTML
to prevent IE going into Quirks Mode?
I do, thanks. PJ
I don't usually have *that* much trouble getting IE to render very
similarly to Firefox (and IE8 is reportedly much better), but if IE is
in Quirks Mode it makes a huge difference and presents all sorts of
rendering problems. (The Firefox Web Developer plugin will tell you if a
page is rendering in Quirks Mode or Standards Compliance Mode.)
Cheers!
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Re: [PHP] formatting - design question
At 4:54 PM -0400 6/4/09, PJ wrote: tedd wrote: That's simply an example of not thinking things out before you write the code. First you figure out a layout, then you populate it. You don't pick a layout, populate it and then change the layout. If only it were that simple. When one is developing, one is always changing. And even when you're finally live and on the air, you will still be changing or else your site will die before your client gets a chance to see all you can offer. It's a matter of evolution and adaptation, Darwin. ;-) I understand clients changing their minds in mid-stream and wanting things to be different. That's Okay, because they pay for it -- PROVIDED -- that a meeting of the minds was made with the last layout. So, before any change is made to the current layout, an agreement must be made as to what that change is going to be. Anything else (i.e., let's see if I like it) is going to be very time consuming on your part. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] formatting - design question
At 10:23 AM +0100 6/5/09, Peter Ford wrote: PJ wrote: tedd wrote: First you figure out a layout, then you populate it. You don't pick a layout, populate it and then change the layout. If only it were that simple. When one is developing, one is always changing. And even when you're finally live and on the air, you will still be changing or else your site will die before your client gets a chance to see all you can offer. It's a matter of evolution and adaptation, Darwin. ;-) Agree with PJ here: More likely, you go live and the boss says Can you make that look more like ...? Er, yes, but it totally stuffs the whole design... If your Boss wants you to test out designs for his approval, that's one thing. I see no problem with a Let's see what this might look like? initial design decisions -- after all, he's paying for your time. However, IMO his buck would be better spent if he hired a designer to design something around the needs of the project. I understand that sometimes Bosses aren't the brightest lot when it comes to things outside of their job description. But it is also your charge to explain the change asked for totally stuffs the whole design... If your Boss doesn't care about cost overruns in development, then start studying for his position because his boss does. I am addressing what to do with clients who change their minds on agreed layouts. My practice is the client decides on a layout that fits their needs before any development is done. If the client wants to change their mind in the middle of the development stage, that's fine -- but they will also pay for that change. In my book, the best way to design a site is to: 1) decide what functionality is needed; 2) and then design a layout that presents the functionality in an attractive and accessible manner. Creating a site is a lot like programming. The time spent identifying the problem will: a) shorten the overall time required to create a solution; b) and will also provide a more stable solution. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] formatting - design question
On 04 June 2009 19:09, PJ advised:
Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote:
From my experience I tend to use a difference ID for the
body tag, for
instance body id='homepage' and then format it in my CSS using ID
reference: #homepage .classname {
color: blue;
}
This way you can use a default format for all the pages and create
minor
(or major) changes in the theme in no time :)
I would also suggest to attach the CSS filename reference at the
head
tag the update time of the file, so that the browser will
automatically
update the cache of the CSS whenever you decide to edit it.
Just my 2 cents ;)
Oh, I think it's worth a lot more than that.
I just installed IE 8 just to have it for verification. It's no better
than IE 6. I never use them personally.
But how do you produce interesting web pages to look well on both
without making stupid compromises. What looks well on Firefox, looks
like
MSshit on IE.
This may be a silly question, but reading this just makes me wonder --
you do have an appropriate !DOCTYPE as the very first line of your HTML
to prevent IE going into Quirks Mode?
I don't usually have *that* much trouble getting IE to render very
similarly to Firefox (and IE8 is reportedly much better), but if IE is
in Quirks Mode it makes a huge difference and presents all sorts of
rendering problems. (The Firefox Web Developer plugin will tell you if a
page is rendering in Quirks Mode or Standards Compliance Mode.)
Cheers!
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Re: [PHP] formatting - design question
Peter Ford wrote: PJ wrote: tedd wrote: At 3:58 PM -0400 6/4/09, PJ wrote: tedd wrote: Style sheets are meant simplify things so decide on how you want things to look uniformly throughout your site and then stick with it. There's really no good reason to keep changing things throughout a site. Cheers, tedd Maybe I'm just too complicated. ;-) I do try to keep it simple. But then, little things creep in, like a login box on the index page which mucks up all the other pages. Then there is a recipe page which is totally different, yet to keep is stylistically continuous it uses a similar layout to the other pages but different. The same for the main recipe page, and the same for the portraits of producers - all the pages are different yet remain within a cohesive style. CSS gets super bloated and almost unamageable. Most sites are very repetitive; mine tend to be provocative or semthing like that. I really don't see an ooption. Although, Nitsan's body tags sound promising. I'll have to try that; maybe the solution is to do a series of definitions unique just fo certain pages. :-) That's simply an example of not thinking things out before you write the code. First you figure out a layout, then you populate it. You don't pick a layout, populate it and then change the layout. That leads to a lackluster and lack of thought site. Cheers, tedd If only it were that simple. When one is developing, one is always changing. And even when you're finally live and on the air, you will still be changing or else your site will die before your client gets a chance to see all you can offer. It's a matter of evolution and adaptation, Darwin. ;-) Agree with PJ here: More likely, you go live and the boss says Can you make that look more like ...? Er, yes, but it totally stuffs the whole design... Evolution was *not* carefully thought out - that would be Intelligent Design spit/ Chuckle, chuckle. ;-) -- Hervé Kempf: Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme. - Phil Jourdan --- p...@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] formatting - design question
This may not be strictly php but I think is may be relevant. Were I to use a different css file for every page (that is slightly different), would that affect performance? It seems to me that might be a way of simplifying and certainly speeding up development (design-wise, anyway) when using css. A different css file for different pages would certainly make it a breeze to design a page; otherwise it is hell to try to put all formatting in one file - it even tends to get fairly bloated and difficult to follow your own shadow. -- Hervé Kempf: Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme. - Phil Jourdan --- p...@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] formatting - design question
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:54 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: This may not be strictly php but I think is may be relevant. Were I to use a different css file for every page (that is slightly different), would that affect performance? It seems to me that might be a way of simplifying and certainly speeding up development (design-wise, anyway) when using css. A different css file for different pages would certainly make it a breeze to design a page; otherwise it is hell to try to put all formatting in one file - it even tends to get fairly bloated and difficult to follow your own shadow. -- Hervé Kempf: Pour sauver la plančte, sortez du capitalisme. - Phil Jourdan --- p...@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php It might be simpler during development, but YSlow! recommends putting them in as few pages as is practical so the browser has fewer resources to fetch and can make better use of caching. It won't affect the speed of your PHP pages, but it should speed up the overall download time of your pages from the end-user's perspective. Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] formatting - design question
Andrew Ballard wrote:
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:54 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
This may not be strictly php but I think is may be relevant.
Were I to use a different css file for every page (that is slightly
different), would that affect performance?
It seems to me that might be a way of simplifying and certainly speeding
up development (design-wise, anyway) when using css. A different css
file for different pages would certainly make it a breeze to design a
page; otherwise it is hell to try to put all formatting in one file - it
even tends to get fairly bloated and difficult to follow your own shadow.
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It might be simpler during development, but YSlow! recommends putting
them in as few pages as is practical so the browser has fewer
resources to fetch and can make better use of caching. It won't affect
the speed of your PHP pages, but it should speed up the overall
download time of your pages from the end-user's perspective.
Andrew
I would have one main file that holds common styles and then if you need
one, a page specific style sheet. You can even add all styles to the
first and then override them in the second. This is how they were
intended to be used. Also, most times the style sheets will be cached
by the browser so only the first page load should matter.
/* style sheet 1 */
.someclass { color: red; }
/* style sheet 2 */
.someclass { color: blue }
someclass will be blue.
/* style sheet 1 */
.someclass { color: red; }
/* style sheet 2 */
.someclass { color: blue; background-color: yellow; }
/* style sheet 1 */
.someclass { color: red; }
/* style sheet 3 */
.someclass { color: blue; background-color: white; }
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Re: [PHP] formatting - design question
From my experience I tend to use a difference ID for the body tag, for
instance body id='homepage' and then format it in my CSS using ID
reference:
#homepage .classname {
color: blue;
}
This way you can use a default format for all the pages and create minor (or
major) changes in the theme in no time :)
I would also suggest to attach the CSS filename reference at the head tag
the update time of the file, so that the browser will automatically update
the cache of the CSS whenever you decide to edit it.
Just my 2 cents ;)
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote:
Andrew Ballard wrote:
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:54 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
This may not be strictly php but I think is may be relevant.
Were I to use a different css file for every page (that is slightly
different), would that affect performance?
It seems to me that might be a way of simplifying and certainly speeding
up development (design-wise, anyway) when using css. A different css
file for different pages would certainly make it a breeze to design a
page; otherwise it is hell to try to put all formatting in one file - it
even tends to get fairly bloated and difficult to follow your own
shadow.
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It might be simpler during development, but YSlow! recommends putting
them in as few pages as is practical so the browser has fewer
resources to fetch and can make better use of caching. It won't affect
the speed of your PHP pages, but it should speed up the overall
download time of your pages from the end-user's perspective.
Andrew
I would have one main file that holds common styles and then if you need
one, a page specific style sheet. You can even add all styles to the
first and then override them in the second. This is how they were
intended to be used. Also, most times the style sheets will be cached
by the browser so only the first page load should matter.
/* style sheet 1 */
.someclass { color: red; }
/* style sheet 2 */
.someclass { color: blue }
someclass will be blue.
/* style sheet 1 */
.someclass { color: red; }
/* style sheet 2 */
.someclass { color: blue; background-color: yellow; }
/* style sheet 1 */
.someclass { color: red; }
/* style sheet 3 */
.someclass { color: blue; background-color: white; }
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Re: [PHP] formatting - design question
Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote:
From my experience I tend to use a difference ID for the body tag, for
instance body id='homepage' and then format it in my CSS using ID
reference:
#homepage .classname {
color: blue;
}
This way you can use a default format for all the pages and create minor (or
major) changes in the theme in no time :)
I would also suggest to attach the CSS filename reference at the head tag
the update time of the file, so that the browser will automatically update
the cache of the CSS whenever you decide to edit it.
Just my 2 cents ;)
Oh, I think it's worth a lot more than that.
I just installed IE 8 just to have it for verification. It's no better
than IE 6. I never use them personally.
But how do you produce interesting web pages to look well on both
without making stupid compromises. What looks well on Firefox, looks
like MSshit on IE.
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Re: [PHP] formatting - design question
At 2:08 PM -0400 6/4/09, PJ wrote:
Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote:
From my experience I tend to use a difference ID for the body tag, for
instance body id='homepage' and then format it in my CSS using ID
reference:
#homepage .classname {
color: blue;
}
This way you can use a default format for all the pages and create minor (or
major) changes in the theme in no time :)
I would also suggest to attach the CSS filename reference at the head tag
the update time of the file, so that the browser will automatically update
the cache of the CSS whenever you decide to edit it.
Just my 2 cents ;)
Oh, I think it's worth a lot more than that.
I just installed IE 8 just to have it for verification. It's no better
than IE 6. I never use them personally.
But how do you produce interesting web pages to look well on both
without making stupid compromises. What looks well on Firefox, looks
like MSshit on IE.
The way you do it is to keep it simple.
If you use a different style sheet for every page, then not only does
that cause more load times, but it confuses the Hell out of things,
in my opinion.
Style sheets are meant simplify things so decide on how you want
things to look uniformly throughout your site and then stick with it.
There's really no good reason to keep changing things throughout a
site.
Cheers,
tedd
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Re: [PHP] formatting - design question
At 3:58 PM -0400 6/4/09, PJ wrote: tedd wrote: Style sheets are meant simplify things so decide on how you want things to look uniformly throughout your site and then stick with it. There's really no good reason to keep changing things throughout a site. Cheers, tedd Maybe I'm just too complicated. ;-) I do try to keep it simple. But then, little things creep in, like a login box on the index page which mucks up all the other pages. Then there is a recipe page which is totally different, yet to keep is stylistically continuous it uses a similar layout to the other pages but different. The same for the main recipe page, and the same for the portraits of producers - all the pages are different yet remain within a cohesive style. CSS gets super bloated and almost unamageable. Most sites are very repetitive; mine tend to be provocative or semthing like that. I really don't see an ooption. Although, Nitsan's body tags sound promising. I'll have to try that; maybe the solution is to do a series of definitions unique just fo certain pages. :-) That's simply an example of not thinking things out before you write the code. First you figure out a layout, then you populate it. You don't pick a layout, populate it and then change the layout. That leads to a lackluster and lack of thought site. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Formatting output
Hello,
I would like to format the output of a PHP page into a single line and use
gzip compression too.
I know that i can use something like this to get in a single line ( will
workout on this function later to remove spaces ).
?php
function my_function( $buffer )
{
$str = str_replace( \n , , $buffer );
return $str;
}
ob_start(my_function);
echo 'hello';
ob_end_flush();
?
And gzip compression is used with
?php
ob_start(ob_gzhandler);
echo 'hello';
ob_end_flush();
?
Is there a way to mix those codes?
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Re: [PHP] Formatting output
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to format the output of a PHP page into a single line and use
gzip compression too.
I know that i can use something like this to get in a single line ( will
workout on this function later to remove spaces ).
?php
function my_function( $buffer )
{
$str = str_replace( \n , , $buffer );
return $str;
}
ob_start(my_function);
echo 'hello';
ob_end_flush();
?
And gzip compression is used with
?php
ob_start(ob_gzhandler);
echo 'hello';
ob_end_flush();
?
Is there a way to mix those codes?
Output buffers can be stacked. So simply start the gzip bugger with
ob_start, then call it again with your handler. The handlers will be
called in reverse order when the buffers get flushed.
BTW, you don't need to ob_end_flush at the end of a script - this gets
done automagically when the script ends.
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[PHP] Formatting time :/
Hi all, I am unable to find out how to do this ... or what the format is called bar zulu format I have standard 00:00:00 time stored ... and wish to display it as 00h00 ... has anyone done this with php ... can you point me to right page etc ... What is that format called? Kind Regards, Steven Macintyre http://steven.macintyre.name -- http://www.friends4friends.co.za -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting time :/
Steven Macintyre wrote:
I am unable to find out how to do this ... or what the format is called
bar zulu format
I have standard 00:00:00 time stored ... and wish to display it as 00h00 ...
has anyone done this with php ... can you point me to right page etc ...
What is that format called?
http://php.net/date
$time = date('H\hi', strtotime('00:00:00'));
Or, if the input format is always the same, you could do it like so...
$time = str_replace(':', 'h', substr('00:00:00', 0, 5));
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RE: [PHP] Formatting time :/
Thanks Stut,
Perfect!
Kind Regards,
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To: Steven Macintyre
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Subject: Re: [PHP] Formatting time :/
Steven Macintyre wrote:
I am unable to find out how to do this ... or what the format is
called
bar zulu format
I have standard 00:00:00 time stored ... and wish to display it
as 00h00 ...
has anyone done this with php ... can you point me to right page
etc ...
What is that format called?
http://php.net/date
$time = date('H\hi', strtotime('00:00:00'));
Or, if the input format is always the same, you could do it like
so...
$time = str_replace(':', 'h', substr('00:00:00', 0, 5));
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Re: [PHP] Formatting time :/
If it is stored in a database, you may want to convert within your query: MySQL: date_format Postgresql: to_char If it's just in a text file, PHP's date() function should do it: http://php.net/date I dunno if there's a nifty constant for the format you want, but you could always mess with mktime and date to get what you want. http://php.net/mktime On Tue, January 2, 2007 6:39 am, Steven Macintyre wrote: Hi all, I am unable to find out how to do this ... or what the format is called bar zulu format I have standard 00:00:00 time stored ... and wish to display it as 00h00 ... has anyone done this with php ... can you point me to right page etc ... What is that format called? Kind Regards, Steven Macintyre http://steven.macintyre.name -- http://www.friends4friends.co.za -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Question
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions, I used the nl2br function in the end, and it works perfectly. On 02/10/06, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, October 2, 2006 4:13 pm, tedd wrote: Why not use nl2br() to show the data in the browser and leave the data as-is in the dB? Apparently I typed too much, cuz that's exactly what I said, or meant to say... -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- http://www.borninblood.co.uk
[PHP] Formatting Question
Sorry to plague you with a question that should have a simple answer, but I can't find said answer anywhere (probably looking for the wrong things in the wrong places!) Basically I want to allow a user to input a string via a form into a database, I have the code to do that and it works almost 100% - I have made it so that any html tags are stripping off the string before saving it, but I do want to allow some basic formatting - namely when a user takes a new line in the textbox, I want the new line to carry over to the database. At the moment the user could type in something like this... wibble wobble But after it has been submitted and then retrieved from the database it will return wibblewobble. Any ideas? Regards Toby -- http://www.borninblood.co.uk
Re: [PHP] Formatting Question
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Re: [PHP] Formatting Question
At 6:08 PM +0100 10/2/06, Toby Osbourn wrote: Sorry to plague you with a question that should have a simple answer, but I can't find said answer anywhere (probably looking for the wrong things in the wrong places!) Basically I want to allow a user to input a string via a form into a database, I have the code to do that and it works almost 100% - I have made it so that any html tags are stripping off the string before saving it, but I do want to allow some basic formatting - namely when a user takes a new line in the textbox, I want the new line to carry over to the database. At the moment the user could type in something like this... wibble wobble But after it has been submitted and then retrieved from the database it will return wibblewobble. Any ideas? Regards Toby Toby: Ideas? After stripping html, $txt = str_replace(\n,br/,$txt); $txt = str_replace(\r,br/,$txt); tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Question
On Mon, October 2, 2006 12:08 pm, Toby Osbourn wrote: Sorry to plague you with a question that should have a simple answer, but I can't find said answer anywhere (probably looking for the wrong things in the wrong places!) Basically I want to allow a user to input a string via a form into a database, I have the code to do that and it works almost 100% - I have made it so that any html tags are stripping off the string before saving it, but I do want to allow some basic formatting - namely when a user takes a new line in the textbox, I want the new line to carry over to the database. At the moment the user could type in something like this... wibble wobble But after it has been submitted and then retrieved from the database it will return wibblewobble. You may THINK you are seeing wibble wobble in your browser, but that's because a browser smushes all whitespace into just one whitespace -- that's why you need nbsp; all over the place in the Bad Old Days... :-) Anyway, you could be managing to strip out the newlines, I suppose, in which case you have to figure out where you are doing that. Echo out the data as it travels into/through/out-of your system. echo pre; htmlentities($whatever); /pre; For removing the HTML, use http://php.net/striptags For ancient browsers that give non-standard newlines do like this with the input: $text = str_replace(\r\n, \n, $text); //non-standard Windows browsers $text = str_replace(\r, \n, $text); //non-standard Mac browsers Then, on *OUTPUT* to a browser, only on output to a browser, you can use http://php.net/nl2br to format the newlines for HTML. The reason for doing this only on output is this: Some day, even if you don't think you will, you *might* need to output this to someting other than a browser. RSS, CSV dump, or some new fancy format we haven't even invented yet. Don't pollute your raw data (the newlines) with a very media-specific formatting code (br /) -- Keep your raw data pure and clean, and format for the destination when you send it there, not when you store it. There *might* be some egregious examples of over-loaded high-volume servers where adding the br / at run-time is too much work -- At that point, it's probably still not the Right Answer to pollute the raw data. It might be expensive, but adding a cache of the output data, or even a second field for data_as_html to the database should be considered. Anything other than polluting your raw data. This may seem high-falutin' purism, but it will make your life so much more pleasant some day down the road. -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Question
At 3:51 PM -0500 10/2/06, Richard Lynch wrote: Don't pollute your raw data (the newlines) with a very media-specific formatting code (br /) -- Keep your raw data pure and clean, and format for the destination when you send it there, not when you store it. There *might* be some egregious examples of over-loaded high-volume servers where adding the br / at run-time is too much work -- At that point, it's probably still not the Right Answer to pollute the raw data. It might be expensive, but adding a cache of the output data, or even a second field for data_as_html to the database should be considered. Anything other than polluting your raw data. This may seem high-falutin' purism, but it will make your life so much more pleasant some day down the road. Richard: You are absolutely right of course -- don't pollute your raw data. Why not use nl2br() to show the data in the browser and leave the data as-is in the dB? tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting Question
On Mon, October 2, 2006 4:13 pm, tedd wrote: Why not use nl2br() to show the data in the browser and leave the data as-is in the dB? Apparently I typed too much, cuz that's exactly what I said, or meant to say... -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Formatting of a.m. and p.m.
date(a); output = AM
Is there any easy way to change the formatting of the output of above
from am to a.m. in order to conform to AP style?
Something like this below would work, but I'm wondering if there is
something I could do differently in the date() fuction to make it work:
$date = date(a);
if ($date == am)
{ echo a.m. }
elseif ($date == pm)
{ echo p.m. }
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[PHP] Formatting a Time field
I have a field, Start_Time, in a MySQL DB. Since it is not a TimeStamp, I believe I cannot use date(), correct? I would like to format 09:00:00 to 9:00 AM. If I convert the 09:00:00 with the strtotime(), I get a couple of extra minutes added. Suggestions are welcomed Todd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting a Time field
Hi,
Friday, March 24, 2006, 9:51:48 AM, you wrote:
TC I have a field, Start_Time, in a MySQL DB. Since it is not a
TC TimeStamp, I believe I cannot use date(), correct?
TC I would like to format 09:00:00 to 9:00 AM.
TC If I convert the 09:00:00 with the strtotime(), I get a couple of
TC extra minutes added.
TC Suggestions are welcomed
TC Todd
use gmdate() to do the formatting. in strtotime you should give a date something
like
$ftime = gmdate('h:i A',strtotime(2000-01-01 $Start_Time));
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On Thu, March 23, 2006 5:51 pm, Todd Cary wrote: I have a field, Start_Time, in a MySQL DB. Since it is not a TimeStamp, I believe I cannot use date(), correct? I would like to format 09:00:00 to 9:00 AM. If I convert the 09:00:00 with the strtotime(), I get a couple of extra minutes added. You may be able to convince MySQL to convert it with a function from http://mysql.com (hint: search for convert) and that might give much more satisfactory results. You should also consider biting the bullet and converting the field to a real 'Time' type. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Formatting of a number
Hi- I have a number that I am trying to format. It is data coming from a main frame and has 8 characters assigned to it (6 and two decimal places). I have zerofill set up in MySQL on this field and am working on the best way to display the number. Currently I have this: $sOutput = number_format(rtrim($sValue,'0') /100,2); What I am running into is this, I have a number in this field as: 3145900, using the above I will get: 314.59, which is wrong, it needs to be 3,145.90. Yet, if I have a number of: 749450, I get the result I am looking for of 749.45. I did not see a way to tell trim I only want one 0 cut? Any thoughts? Thank you! -Scott -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting of a number
Hi Scott, How do you distinguish between a value filled with zeroes and a value with 0 in both decimal positions? For example, why is 3145900 expressed as 3,145.90, and not 31,459.00? Cheers, David Grant Scott Parks wrote: Hi- I have a number that I am trying to format. It is data coming from a main frame and has 8 characters assigned to it (6 and two decimal places). I have zerofill set up in MySQL on this field and am working on the best way to display the number. Currently I have this: $sOutput = number_format(rtrim($sValue,'0') /100,2); What I am running into is this, I have a number in this field as: 3145900, using the above I will get: 314.59, which is wrong, it needs to be 3,145.90. Yet, if I have a number of: 749450, I get the result I am looking for of 749.45. I did not see a way to tell trim I only want one 0 cut? Any thoughts? Thank you! -Scott --PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] formatting problems:
Hi,
My database has a table called movies which has data like this:
flick_name ,flick_cover, part_url
flick_name is the name of the movie, the movie is cut into several pieces
for faster downloads
part_url is the full path to each of the pieces
eg:
home movie 1 ,a.gif, http://movieserver.com/scene1_1.wmv
home movie 1 ,a.gif, http://movieserver.com/scene1_2.wmv
home movie 1 ,a.gif, http://movieserver.com/scene1_3.wmv
home movie 1 ,a.gif, http://movieserver.com/scene2_1.wmv
home movie 1 ,a.gif, http://movieserver.com/scene2_2.wmv
home movie 1 ,a.gif, http://movieserver.com/scene2_3.wmv
etc
I am trying to get it into this format:
http://www.ezee.se/format.jpg
The main problem I am having is that I cannot seem to get the part files to
properly repeat inside the
table
one idea I came up with is to have a nested table for the part filesbut
even that is not working...I am getting
all screwed up tables...
Below is the exact code I have screwed around with, its a bit different coz
i tried to simplify my problem when
writing to the list...dont know if it helps but have a look at my code if
you need to...
Thanks in advance,
Ryan
?php
$hostt=localhost;
$userr=;
$passs=;
$db=movies;
$connected=mysql_connect($hostt, $userr, $passs) or die ('I cannot
connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ($db);
$q=mysql_query(select * from csv_28814);
$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($q);
$flick_name2=;
$once=0;
for($i=0; $i $num_rows; $i++)
{
$row = mysql_fetch_row($q);
$flick_name = $row[0];
$part_url = $row[1];
$part_size = $row[2];
$time_length = $row[3];
$part_format = $row[4];
if($flick_name != $flick_name2)
{
echo table width='80%' bgcolor=gray border='0' cellspacing='0'
cellpadding='0'
tr
td colspan='2'strongfont size='+1'Title/font/strong/td
td width='40%'nbsp;/td
/tr
tr
td width='22%' align='center' valign='middle'cover pic /td
td colspan='2' nowraptable width='100%' border='0' cellspacing='0'
cellpadding='0'
tr
td width='81%'strongScenes/strong/td
td width='10%'strongLength/strong/td
td width='9%'strongFormat/strong/td
/tr
tr
tdnbsp;/td
tdnbsp;/td
tdnbsp;/td
/tr
/table/td
/tr
/tablebr\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n;
}
$flick_name2 = $flick_name;
}
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Re: [PHP] formatting problems:
It's not clear to me how strict you want to be regarding the formatting. Are you trying to keep scenes together on each line, or just dump everything and let it wrap where it needs to? Perhaps you could handcode a sample and post a link. I'd also guess that you could make good use of CSS, specifically the float: left and clear=all attributes. My database has a table called movies which has data like this: flick_name ,flick_cover, part_url flick_name is the name of the movie, the movie is cut into several pieces for faster downloads part_url is the full path to each of the pieces eg: home movie 1 ,a.gif, http://movieserver.com/scene1_1.wmv home movie 1 ,a.gif, http://movieserver.com/scene1_2.wmv home movie 1 ,a.gif, http://movieserver.com/scene1_3.wmv home movie 1 ,a.gif, http://movieserver.com/scene2_1.wmv home movie 1 ,a.gif, http://movieserver.com/scene2_2.wmv home movie 1 ,a.gif, http://movieserver.com/scene2_3.wmv etc I am trying to get it into this format: http://www.ezee.se/format.jpg -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] formatting problems:
On 8/16/2005 9:59:30 PM, Scott Noyes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
It's not clear to me how strict you want to be regarding the
formatting. Are you trying to keep scenes together on each line, or
just dump everything and let it wrap where it needs to? Perhaps you
could handcode a sample and post a link. I'd
also guess that you
could make good use of CSS, specifically the float: left and
clear=all attributes.
Hey,
Thanks for replying.
basically I want this part to keep looping:
tr
tdnbsp;/td
tdnbsp;/td
tdnbsp;/td
/tr
(Below I am attaching the whole code again so you can see)
To see the format I am after click here:
www.ezee.se/format.htm
Thanks,
Ryan
?php
$hostt=localhost;
$userr=;
$passs=;
$db=movies;
$connected=mysql_connect($hostt, $userr, $passs) or die ('I cannot
connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ($db);
$q=mysql_query(select * from csv_28814);
$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($q);
$flick_name2=;
$once=0;
for($i=0; $i $num_rows; $i++)
{
$row = mysql_fetch_row($q);
$flick_name = $row[0];
$part_url = $row[1];
$part_size = $row[2];
$time_length = $row[3];
$part_format = $row[4];
if($flick_name != $flick_name2)
{
echo table width='80%' bgcolor=gray border='0' cellspacing='0'
cellpadding='0'
tr
td colspan='2'strongfont size='+1'Title/font/strong/td
td width='40%'nbsp;/td
/tr
tr
td width='22%' align='center' valign='middle'cover pic /td
td colspan='2' nowraptable width='100%' border='0' cellspacing='0'
cellpadding='0'
tr
td width='81%'strongScenes/strong/td
td width='10%'strongLength/strong/td
td width='9%'strongFormat/strong/td
/tr
tr
tdnbsp;/td
tdnbsp;/td
tdnbsp;/td
/tr
/table/td
/tr
/tablebr\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n;
}
$flick_name2 = $flick_name;
}
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[PHP] formatting paragraphs in to strings
Hi, I'm having a perplexing problem. I'm gather data through a textarea html from field and dumping it to MySQL. I want to display the data as a long string with no carriage returns or line breaks in a dhtml div window. The problem I'm have is that the form data is remembering the carriage returns. I tried using trim() and rtrim() with no luck. The data is still formatted exactly like it was inputed. Any ideas why this is happening and how I can format the text properly?? TIA! -- Paul Nowosielski Webmaster CelebrityAccess.com 303.440.0666 ext:219 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] formatting paragraphs in to strings
Use the PHP str_replace function before writing it to the DB. Replace all \n characters with an empty string . http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php On 6/13/05, Paul Nowosielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm having a perplexing problem. I'm gather data through a textarea html from field and dumping it to MySQL. I want to display the data as a long string with no carriage returns or line breaks in a dhtml div window. The problem I'm have is that the form data is remembering the carriage returns. I tried using trim() and rtrim() with no luck. The data is still formatted exactly like it was inputed. Any ideas why this is happening and how I can format the text properly?? TIA! -- Paul Nowosielski Webmaster CelebrityAccess.com 303.440.0666 ext:219 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] formatting paragraphs in to strings
Use the PHP str_replace function before writing it to the DB. Replace all \n characters with an empty string . http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php I think it might be better to replace all \n characters with spaces , otherwise you will end up with sentences that have no space break between them. Ie: original text This is the first sentence. This is the second sentence. /original text ...would become: replaced text This is the first sentence.This is the second sentence. /replaced text Regards, Murray -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] formatting paragraphs in to strings
Good point. Only problem is, if someone hit enter a-million times,
you would end up with a-million spaces where the \n characters were.
To take care of that repetition, maybe something like:
while (strpos($textarea_text, \n\n)) {
.
}
would be one way you could do it.
On 6/13/05, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use the PHP str_replace function before writing it to the DB. Replace
all \n characters with an empty string .
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php
I think it might be better to replace all \n characters with spaces ,
otherwise you will end up with sentences that have no space break between
them.
Ie:
original text
This is the first sentence.
This is the second sentence.
/original text
...would become:
replaced text
This is the first sentence.This is the second sentence.
/replaced text
Regards,
Murray
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RE: [PHP] formatting paragraphs in to strings
Good point. Only problem is, if someone hit enter a-million times,
you would end up with a-million spaces where the \n characters were.
To take care of that repetition, maybe something like:
while (strpos($textarea_text, \n\n)) {
.
}
would be one way you could do it.
Ordinarily most browsers render multiple consecutive spaces as a single
space. This doesn't mean that it's not a good idea to remove them, just that
not doing so shouldn't effect the way the text is displayed in the div tag,
as the original poster mentioned was his intention.
Regards,
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Re: [PHP] formatting paragraphs in to strings
Right.. But the browser also should be ignoring the carriage returns
as well, which makes me think the div is set to white-space: pre; or
something. He said the text is being formatted in a div exactly how
it is entered into the system. By default, a div does not render any
carriage returns.
On 6/13/05, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good point. Only problem is, if someone hit enter a-million times,
you would end up with a-million spaces where the \n characters were.
To take care of that repetition, maybe something like:
while (strpos($textarea_text, \n\n)) {
.
}
would be one way you could do it.
Ordinarily most browsers render multiple consecutive spaces as a single
space. This doesn't mean that it's not a good idea to remove them, just that
not doing so shouldn't effect the way the text is displayed in the div tag,
as the original poster mentioned was his intention.
Regards,
Murray
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Re: [PHP] formatting paragraphs in to strings
On Mon, June 13, 2005 12:06 pm, Paul Nowosielski said: I'm having a perplexing problem. I'm gather data through a textarea html from field and dumping it to MySQL. I want to display the data as a long string with no carriage returns or line breaks in a dhtml div window. What styles have you applied to the div and surrounding elements? The problem I'm have is that the form data is remembering the carriage returns. I tried using trim() and rtrim() with no luck. The data is still formatted exactly like it was inputed. That sounds like PRE tag (or 'pre' style) or perhaps http://php.net/nl2br is being used when you don't really want that. Any ideas why this is happening and how I can format the text properly?? Show us actual output, like a URL for better guesses. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] formatting paragraphs in to strings
Good point. Only problem is, if someone hit enter a-million times,
you would end up with a-million spaces where the \n characters were.
To take care of that repetition, maybe something like:
while (strpos($textarea_text, \n\n)) {
.
}
would be one way you could do it.
$new_str = ereg_replace([\n\r]+, , $textarea_text);
would be another and avoid the loop as well at the expense of adding some
regexps :)
On 6/13/05, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use the PHP str_replace function before writing it to the DB. Replace
all \n characters with an empty string .
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php
I think it might be better to replace all \n characters with spaces ,
otherwise you will end up with sentences that have no space break between
them.
Ie:
original text
This is the first sentence.
This is the second sentence.
/original text
...would become:
replaced text
This is the first sentence.This is the second sentence.
/replaced text
Regards,
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[PHP] formatting logic
Hi, Am having a bit of logic problem figuring this outI just think the easy solution would cost me in having too many sql queries from my script so there has to be a easier way. I am allowing our members to upload pictures and they can choose which category the pictures go under, the first category public is made for them. When I sql the DB I call it like this: select picture_names,more fields from table where member_id=x order by category. which i display something like this: __ | pic-here | some text here | category here| | pic-here | some text here | category here| | pic-here | some text here | category here| | pic-here | some text here | category here| - how can i display it like this: __ category here| - | pic-here | some text here | | pic-here | some text here | | pic-here | some text here | __ category here| - | pic-here | some text here | | pic-here | some text here | - I thought of just getting the categories into an array and then sqling on each category but if there are 30 user defined categories that would mean 30 queries Another more complicated way would be to get all the records and sort them into arrays via categories and child arrays...I just feel this is too complicated for the above job. What am I missing? Thanks, Ryan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.1 - Release Date: 4/20/2005 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] formatting logic
I am allowing our members to upload pictures and they can choose which
category the pictures go under, the first category public is made for
them.
When I sql the DB I call it like this: select picture_names,more
fields from table where member_id=x order by category.
which i display something like this:
__
| pic-here | some text here | category here|
| pic-here | some text here | category here|
-
how can i display it like this:
__
category here|
-
| pic-here | some text here |
| pic-here | some text here |
__
category here|
-
| pic-here | some text here |
| pic-here | some text here |
-
I thought of just getting the categories into an array and then sqling
on each category but if there are 30 user defined categories that would
mean 30 queries Another more complicated way would be to get all the
records and sort them into arrays via categories and child arrays...I
just feel this is too complicated for the above job.
Keep your query like it is... and do something like this:
$current_category = ;
while ( $row = db_get_object_function($db_result) ) {
if ($current_category != $row-category) {
print($row-category header goes here);
$current_category = $row-category;
}
print(pic-here stuff goes here);
}
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Re: [PHP] formatting logic
Hi
First, execute your query
unset($fail);
$res=mysql_query($sql,$dbhandle) or $fail=true;
if( (isset($fail)) || (!(is_resource($res)) )
echo There was a problem with the execution of the query;
if(mysql_num_rows($res)==0)
echo The query resulted in ZERO records;
#now that's out of the way, start processing the records. Since you ordered
them by category already, just do like this
$oldcat='';
while($rec=mysql_fetch_assoc($res)
{if(!($oldcat==$rec['category']))
{echo Your category header here;
$oldcat=$rec['category'];}
echo picture data here;}
if(is_resource($res))
mysql_free_result($res);
What am I missing?
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Re: [PHP] Formatting e-mail using mail()
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[PHP] formatting a string
hi... i have a string i want to pull out of a database (mysql). the column name is Phone1 and it is a 10 digit phone number. the raw string coming out of the table column would look like this: 1234567890 what i want to do is format the string on display like this: (123)456-7890 but dont quite know how to start with that. what function(s) would i use for that? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] formatting a string
Hi,
Sunday, April 25, 2004, 11:17:16 AM, you wrote:
AB hi...
AB i have a string i want to pull out of a database (mysql). the column name is
AB Phone1 and it is a 10 digit phone number. the raw string coming out of the
AB table column would look like this: 1234567890
AB what i want to do is format the string on display like this: (123)456-7890
AB but dont quite know how to start with that. what function(s) would i use for
AB that?
Try this:
$phone = '1234567890';
$newphone = preg_replace('/(\d{3})(\d{3})(\d)/','(\1)\2-\3',$phone);
echo $newphone.'br';
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[snip]
$phone = '1234567890';
$newphone = preg_replace('/(\d{3})(\d{3})(\d)/','(\1)\2-\3',$phone);
echo $newphone.'br';
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Tom
[/snip]
ok sorry but since i never used preg_* before i dont quite get what some of
this stuff means. i looked at the doc page for it but it doesnt make mention
at all of what \d, \w, \s or any of those things mean... i only assume that
\d means digit and \w or \s means blank space??
anyways to go through the whole example above part by part:
$phone = '1234567890';//understand that
$newphone = preg_replace(//ok now what does this stuff
//mean??
'/(\d{3})(\d{3})(\d)/'
im gathering the line above is the search string (what to look for)? if so i
get from it that it is supposed to look for the first block of 3 digits then
the second block of 3 digits and the other 4 numbers by themself in a sense
seperating the string into 3 different parts: 123 456 7890 and then asigning
like id numbers to the blocks
'(\1)\2-\3'
and this one above says put block 1 between (). take block 2 and put a -
after it and leave the other 4 numbers alone to come up with: (123)456-7890
$phone);
the original number to do the replace on of course
let me know if i got that set right
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Hi,
Sunday, April 25, 2004, 3:15:25 PM, you wrote:
AB ok sorry but since i never used preg_* before i dont quite get what some of
AB this stuff means. i looked at the doc page for it but it doesnt make mention
AB at all of what \d, \w, \s or any of those things mean... i only assume that
AB \d means digit and \w or \s means blank space??
AB anyways to go through the whole example above part by part:
AB $phone = '1234567890';//understand that
AB $newphone = preg_replace(//ok now what does this stuff
AB //mean??
AB '/(\d{3})(\d{3})(\d)/'
AB im gathering the line above is the search string (what to look for)? if so i
AB get from it that it is supposed to look for the first block of 3 digits then
AB the second block of 3 digits and the other 4 numbers by themself in a sense
AB seperating the string into 3 different parts: 123 456 7890 and then asigning
AB like id numbers to the blocks
AB '(\1)\2-\3'
AB and this one above says put block 1 between (). take block 2 and put a -
AB after it and leave the other 4 numbers alone to come up with: (123)456-7890
AB $phone);
AB the original number to do the replace on of course
AB let me know if i got that set right
Yes that is exactly what it does .. sorry probably should have
explained it... but at least you read up the function :-)
the () tells preg to store the contents and they get numbered 1 2 3 ..
the \1 with a number below 10 tells it to use what it captured at that
point.
\D btw captures everything that is not a digit so you can use
that to cleanup the user input with $input = preg_replace('/\D/','',$input);
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RE: [PHP] Formatting phone numbers?
Jay, Here is a little more of the larger function with comments (more comments than code, which is never a Bad Thing [tm]). I am only showing the handling for two basic types of telephone numbers with explanation for additional verification which we would typically use, since we have those resources available. Great. Thanks very much. Andy -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Formatting phone numbers?
[snip]
Thanks for any help, even if you just suggest built in functions to look
at.
I'm looking for a way to take a 7 digit number and put it into xxx-
format.
So basically the logic is to count 3 characters into $number and insert
a
- there.
[/snip]
As a telecom we use several methods, but here is a small function which
allows us to keep both formats where needed
function addTNDashes ($oldNumber){
$newNumber = substr($oldNumber, 0, 3) . - . substr($oldNumber, 3,
4);
return $newNumber;
}
$telephone = 8654321;
$newTele = addTNDashes($telephone);
echo $newTele;
output is 865-4321 and we can still use $telephone if we need to.
[stuff you may not need]
This is a boiled down version of a longer function that counts string
lengths to determine how many dashes might need to be added. Let's say
you have the area code in the number, like 2108765432. Being a ten digit
number with a recognizable area code we can then add a portion to the
function to add the two needed dashes, making the number more readable.
[/stuff]
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Re: [PHP] Formatting phone numbers?
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 06:11:57PM -0400, John W. Holmes wrote: Rob Ellis wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 04:31:09PM -0500, BOOT wrote: I'm looking for a way to take a 7 digit number and put it into xxx- format. So basically the logic is to count 3 characters into $number and insert a - there. substr_replace($string, '-', 3, 0); Won't that replace the number, though, not insert the dash? No, it does the right thing. The last 0 is the number of characters to replace. - Rob -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Formatting phone numbers?
Thanks!
-Original Message-
From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: April 16, 2004 7:33 AM
To: BOOT; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Formatting phone numbers?
[snip]
Thanks for any help, even if you just suggest built in functions to look
at.
I'm looking for a way to take a 7 digit number and put it into xxx-
format.
So basically the logic is to count 3 characters into $number and insert
a
- there.
[/snip]
As a telecom we use several methods, but here is a small function which
allows us to keep both formats where needed
function addTNDashes ($oldNumber){
$newNumber = substr($oldNumber, 0, 3) . - . substr($oldNumber, 3,
4);
return $newNumber;
}
$telephone = 8654321;
$newTele = addTNDashes($telephone);
echo $newTele;
output is 865-4321 and we can still use $telephone if we need to.
[stuff you may not need]
This is a boiled down version of a longer function that counts string
lengths to determine how many dashes might need to be added. Let's say
you have the area code in the number, like 2108765432. Being a ten digit
number with a recognizable area code we can then add a portion to the
function to add the two needed dashes, making the number more readable.
[/stuff]
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RE: [PHP] Formatting phone numbers?
Good stuff. [stuff you may not need] This is a boiled down version of a longer function that counts string lengths to determine how many dashes might need to be added. Let's say you have the area code in the number, like 2108765432. Being a ten digit number with a recognizable area code we can then add a portion to the function to add the two needed dashes, making the number more readable. [/stuff] I'd love to see that larger function, if you care to share. Andy -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Formatting phone numbers?
[snip]
[stuff you may not need]
This is a boiled down version of a longer function that counts string
lengths to determine how many dashes might need to be added. Let's say
you have the area code in the number, like 2108765432. Being a ten
digit
number with a recognizable area code we can then add a portion to the
function to add the two needed dashes, making the number more
readable.
[/stuff]
I'd love to see that larger function, if you care to share.
[/snip]
Here is a little more of the larger function with comments (more
comments than code, which is never a Bad Thing [tm]). I am only showing
the handling for two basic types of telephone numbers with explanation
for additional verification which we would typically use, since we have
those resources available.
?php
/*
** Dashing Through The TN's
** addTNDashes.func
**
*/
function addTNDashes($originalTN){
/*
** get the length of the number passed
** you could also make sure that the string is numeric here
** and throw an appropriate error if not
*/
$lengthTN = strlen($originalTN);
/*
** in this example we are going to examine two basic types of
** phone numbers, the seven digit and the ten digit
** you can add other conditions for other standard formats of
** world wide TNs
*/
if(7 == $lengthTN){
/*
** here we dash our seven digit number
** we could also validate the first three numbers as
** a valid NXX (exchange) if we had a list or DB of NXXs
*/
$newTN = substr($originalTN, 0, 3) . - .
substr($originalTN, 3, 4);
} elseif(10 == $lengthTN){
/*
** here we dash our ten digit number
** we could also validate the first three numbers as
** a valid NPA (area code) if we had a list or DB of
NPAs
*/
$newTN = substr($originalTN, 0, 3) . - .
substr($originalTN, 3, 3) . - . substr($originalTN, 6, 4);
} elseif(7 $lengthTN){
/*
** the number is way too short to be a phone number
** let's throw an error and exit
** don't forget to set up some sort of error-logging for
this kind
** of thing for all of your errors
*/
echo The number you have supplied to the application
does not appear to be\n;
echo the correct format for any known telephone number.
Please correct this\n;
echo and restart application.\n;
$appLog = fopen(application_error.log, a);
/* do error logging as you wish, dates, times, user ids,
etc */
fclose($appLog);
exit();
}
return $newTN;
}
?
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