Re: [PHP-DEV] php.exe - php-cgi.exe

2002-12-07 Thread Alexander Wagner
On Sunday 08 December 2002 01:02, John Coggeshall wrote: > I think a big ole' message at the end of ./configure will drastically > reduce the number of problems. With php.exe? *g* > Also, perhaps a check could be put in the > CLI version of PHP that would throw an error message if it is being use

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] Redirect on Error

2002-11-25 Thread Alexander Wagner
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 00:07, Jani Taskinen wrote: > >Remember. I'm talking about the people that have to be spoon-fed. > > Well..to be quite honest: I don't care about such people. To be honest, they tend to piss me off a little (at least some do). Getting rid of these stupid questions.

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] Redirect on Error

2002-11-25 Thread Alexander Wagner
On Monday 25 November 2002 23:49, Jani Taskinen wrote: > >If you want these people to find this translation, you'd have to put the > > url into every error-message. > >And provide a way to change the root-url, so it can be downloaded > > I thought we already have these both..? By default? Does

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] Redirect on Error

2002-11-25 Thread Alexander Wagner
On Monday 25 November 2002 23:29, Daniel Lorch wrote: > You're right. We should think about writing a colorful GUI for PHP, so > scripts just can be clicked together. Oh, and it definitively should > support skins.. I don't think this would work. But if it did, it's place wouldn't be inside the la

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] Redirect on Error

2002-11-25 Thread Alexander Wagner
On Monday 25 November 2002 22:43, Daniel Lorch wrote: > Developers don't have to be spoon-fed. Really. Some do. Especially among PHP-developers. Imagine your neighbour to be a PHP-developer. Maybe he has a hobby, like fishing. Maybe he has a website about this. With PHP, he might even make that

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] Redirect on Error

2002-11-25 Thread Alexander Wagner
On Monday 25 November 2002 23:08, Daniel Lorch wrote: > I would prefer to have the developers getting used (yes, meaning > "educate them") to english being a universal language, for both the > language constructs, error messages, documentation. Don't. You shouldn't think of PHP-users as "developer

Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] Redirect on Error

2002-11-25 Thread Alexander Wagner
On Monday 25 November 2002 21:55, Sascha Schumann wrote: > > Whereas assuming that PHP users are too stupid to understand english is > > not at all arrogant? :) > > Wrong, Sterling. Beginning PHP users might neither have > formal education in computer science _nor_ foreign languages. Perf

Re: [PHP-DEV] 4.2.3 mbstring patch?

2002-11-13 Thread Alexander Wagner
On Thursday 14 November 2002 07:10, lowbwtom wrote: > Will there be a patch to fix the mbstring bug in 4.2.3? Any idea when? > (specifically to fix the missing 4 characters in array posts) This bug is definitely a show-stopper. There are _many_ PHP-applications out there that use arrays in forms,

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Patch-tastic!

2002-06-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Not very useful. But certainly very cool. Somehow. Where are the people begging for complexity in the language? ;-) regards Wagner -- When did ignorance become a point of view? -- PHP Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.ph

Re: [PHP-DEV] Patch-tastic!

2002-06-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
Sebastian Bergmann wre: > Andrei Zmievski wrote: > > The latest one changes some operators. > > Nice, but why not overload + for strings to do the concatenation? No way. Many people don't know (think newbies here) what types their variables have, and don't care. This feature would quickly int

Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 / bundling locations

2002-05-29 Thread Alexander Wagner
brad lafountain wrote: > Ok, > > But take ext/domxml it requires a newerversion of libxml2. I didn't > have it installed on my machine when i installed php. If we bundle > say a specfic version of libxml2 that domxml depends on, then it > won't matter how fast pased the development is, ext/domxml

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Computer Science and PHP

2002-01-19 Thread Alexander Wagner
Manuel Lemos wrote: > There is no doubt about that, but the original poster was asking why > PHP is not part of college curriculum and I was explaining that > unlike other languages that are marketed by companies with big > brands, there is no big brand behind PHP to push it at any comparable > le

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Moving extensions to PECL

2001-12-31 Thread Alexander Wagner
Jim Winstead wrote: > no objections, but one thing that should be considered is what > happens to the documentation for these extensions when they are no > longer a part of the core distribution. QA too. "I suppose removing some of these less frequently used extensions will also help make the Q

Re: [3]: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

2001-12-29 Thread Alexander Wagner
Daniel Lorch wrote: > just wanted to add something: > > java is quite successful in commercial applications. not because it's > fast, but because you have an excellent ability for code reusage. you > can compile java beans into both applets and servlets. people are > ready to pay the loss of perfo

Re: [2]: [PHP-DEV] Re: Shootout

2001-12-29 Thread Alexander Wagner
Daniel Lorch wrote: > it would be nice to see PHP w and w/o ZEND competing against each > other. Zend what? I'd like to see it with/without ZendAccelerator. > absolutely *no* reasonable > programmer will ever use PHP to calculate prime numbers or fractals > (maybe with mathematical extensions, b

Re: [PHP-DEV] unsubscibe

2001-12-28 Thread Alexander Wagner
Oleg Nazarevych wrote: > unsubscibe try unsubscribe with r regards Wagner -- Cynic, n.: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" -- PHP Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, e-m

Re: [PHP-DEV] exit()

2001-12-25 Thread Alexander Wagner
Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > > exit("",0) wouldn't print anything. > > It works, but question is > > "Is this really good fix? or good change to have?" > > I don't expect 100% compatibility for any language > if there is major version up. I suppose many people > want/keep clean syntax, instead of keeping

Re: [PHP-DEV] exit()

2001-12-25 Thread Alexander Wagner
Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > > exit("",0) wouldn't print anything. > > > > Wouldn't break BC either, would it? > > No, I don't think it prints any of course. > It just seems strange to me ;) Sure, it looks arkward, but it should be fine for 4.x. IMHO it should be nuked for PHP 5, though. Sometimes BC ha

Re: [PHP-DEV] exit()

2001-12-25 Thread Alexander Wagner
Andi Gutmans wrote: > >As Derick pointed out, it still prints... > > Huh? What do you mean? exit("",0) wouldn't print anything. Wouldn't break BC either, would it? regards Wagner -- Cynic, n.: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. -- Ambrose Bi

Re: Re[2]: [PHP-DEV] sendmail_from in linux installation

2001-12-14 Thread Alexander Wagner
Javier Crespo wrote: > > if you omit the 4th argument, it's your MAIL TRANSFER AGENT (i.e. > > qmail, sendmail, exim, ...) which puts in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > > not PHP. have a look at your MTA's manual for this problem. > > I know, And that's my problem. All mail is sent by nobody (this is

Re: [PHP-DEV] Bug #14381: xlst_error causes error with valid XSLT processor instance

2001-12-07 Thread Alexander Wagner
Am Freitag 07 Dezember 2001 18:33 schrieb Rasmus Lerdorf: > > AFAIK (and according to the manual) the first argument to xslt_process() > > should be a string containing the XSL data ($xslData) and not the XSLT > > processor handle. Please advise. > > Then the manual is wrong. The code is clearly

Re: [PHP-DEV] Feature Request: add HTML 4.01 support into DOMXML extension?

2001-12-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
Andrei Zmievski wrote: > > there's no point in using a home-brewn scripting language > > to do those tasks, is there? all the constructs are already part > > of the php language... Are you aware of the concept of "domain-specific languages"? There is a point. > Are you done? I'm definately with

Re: [PHP-DEV] [NEW EXTENSTION]: templates

2001-12-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
Björn Schotte wrote: > * Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > > I don't see the need for the 23042th template solution in or > > for PHP, the future belongs to XML and XSL(T) anyhow. > > Web designers and pixel movers are yet too dumb to > check how XSL(T) works. Ack. > So they prefer template > so

Re: [PHP-DEV] [NEW EXTENSTION]: templates

2001-12-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
Björn Schotte wrote: > Political reasons[2]. "Template engine? No problem, it > is integrated into PHP" - cravatti[1]: "Oh, that's nice, > let's choose PHP" > > [1]: anyone has a nice English expression for the german > "Schlipsträger"? Pointy haired boss? regards Wagner -- "Never attribute to

Re: [PHP-DEV] [NEW EXTENSTION]: templates

2001-12-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
Björn Schotte wrote: > > - anything else? you tell me > > Feature set from PHPLIB's Template class. IT[X]-Style interface for blocks. regards Wagner -- "Never attribute to malice what can as easily be the result of incompetence." -- PHP Development Mailing List To

Re: [PHP-DEV] Current CVS + Apache2 on Linux

2001-10-25 Thread Alexander Wagner
Andrei Zmievski wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: > > diff -u2 -b -w -B > > Uh, what do these options do? They aren't documented in my version of > CVS (1.11). man diff -b Ignore changes in amount of white space. -B Ignore changes that just ins

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Security e-mail address

2001-10-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
Jani Taskinen wrote: > So what's wrong in keeping them public? > If they are false alarms, why not keep > them public and show all other people who think they found > serious security related bugs that they are wrong? > If it's opensource KEEP it open. There can't be any closed > 'groups' which ge

Re: [PHP-DEV] A php's patch for support xhtml

2001-10-04 Thread Alexander Wagner
Stig Sæther Bakken wrote: > Will newbies really use XHTML? Right now? Probably not. Or at least it's rare. But I hope this will change, and IMHO PHP shouldn't be standing in XHMTL's way. > Anyway, people have been embedding > PHP in WML and other XML formats without visible problems for a whil

Re: [PHP-DEV] A php's patch for support xhtml

2001-10-03 Thread Alexander Wagner
Stig Sæther Bakken wrote: > > 1.Add a mime/type application/x-httpd-php-xhtml to mark xhtml > > mode. > > 2.disable short-tags and asp-tags in xhtml mode. > > 3.add ... instead > > and instead > > 4.ignore '' in script block. > > Since XHTML is XML, is the proper way of embedding PHP > i

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: Bug #13388 Updated: Could not connect to server

2001-09-21 Thread Alexander Wagner
Gossi, Dean wrote: > What information are you looking for..I just told you how to > reproduce it. What me to fix it for you... The information you provided boils down to that on Win2k SP2, IIS, mail() works for you when PHP runs as CGI, but not as a module. Since only mail() doesn't

Re: [PHP-DEV] Simple wildcard matching

2001-09-13 Thread Alexander Wagner
Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: > First i wondered why there is no [p|e]reg function for encoding all > the special chars available in regular expressions (which i still do) RTM ;-) http://php.net/preg_quote regards Wagner -- Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. -- PHP Development M

Re: [PHP-DEV] Syntax error

2001-09-10 Thread Alexander Wagner
Zeev Suraski wrote: > >for ($sz=1; $sz < 6; sz++) { > > You're missing a $ on the last sz in this line He knows that. He want a better error-message. regards Wagner -- "Never attribute to malice what can as easily be the result of incompetence." -- PHP Development Mailing List

Re: [PHP-DEV] big memory problem with 4.0.6

2001-09-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
fx wrote: > with version < 4.0.6 I had no problem with my sites > > moreover I had memory_limit = 8M with php <= 4.0.5 with no problem > and now I have memory_limit = 16M with 4.0.6 and that even doesn't > solve the problem Wasn't there a patch for 4.06's memory limit on http://php.net/downloa

Re: [PHP-DEV] Satellite (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0.7)

2001-08-09 Thread Alexander Wagner
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > demo server at http://satellite.2good.nu > > I get a no data from that URL. Works fine for me. regards Wagner -- Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. -- PHP Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For add

Re: [PHP-DEV] Security Issues

2001-07-27 Thread Alexander Wagner
Peter Petermann wrote: > i dont think it is easier to write more secure applications > with turning a feature of. In this particular case, it would. There are several reported cases of security-holes caused by this feature. Without it, there would be fewer insecure PHP-applications out there.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Security Issues

2001-07-27 Thread Alexander Wagner
Peter Petermann wrote: > > I fully agree here with Rasmus and I also think this will > > be the workaround for most people -- if one _does_ care > > about security, he even knows what and how to do nowadays. > > I don't think turning register_globals to off will evangelize > > people to develop mo

Re: [PHP-DEV] trans-sid and Location: Header

2001-07-04 Thread Alexander Wagner
Björn Schotte wrote: > * Björn Schotte wrote: > > http://$HTTP_HOST/foo isn't a "relative" link because > > ^^ > Erm, I mean "external". Sure it isn't. but I fear trans-sid doesn't see it that way. AFAIK it distinguishes between relative and external links b

Re: [PHP-DEV] trans-sid and Location: Header

2001-07-04 Thread Alexander Wagner
Björn Schotte wrote: > I had a talk with somebody whom I said that > --enable-trans-sid would save time in his project. > He implemented it but dropped me a note that he > had to manually rewrite Header("Location: > http://$HTTP_HOST/foobar.php";); URIs with the SID. So would it be > able to imple