Re: [PHP] Need quick got written up yesterday!! OUCH (RESOLVED)

2009-08-05 Thread Michael A. Peters
Miller, Terion wrote: Shawn you know repeatedly have been nothing but an asshole to me on this list, I have said before I'm not a php programmer, I was a front end designer, need graphics , need a css layout...see meneed backend programming..I'm trying... Stop being such a egomaniacal dickh

Re: [PHP] navigation include not functioning (RESOLVED)

2009-08-05 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 02:55:07PM -0700, Ben Dunlap wrote: > > In my navigation.php include file, I had if ($page = about) echo href > > I changed it to if ($page == about) echo and it suddenly > worked! Imagine > > that... > > Another good case for putting the variable on the right side

[PHP] Displaying user data and picture

2009-08-05 Thread nashrul
I am new to php... I try to make a php page that displays form submitted data and image. There are 3 php files, tampil_tamu_admin.php, edit_tamu.php and display_img.php. The user lists are displayed in the tampil_tamu_admin.php, and when the user clicks one record, it shows edit page (edit_tamu.p

[PHP] Re: "PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites" Book

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Deffke
why do u stick to php 6? i would recommend www.scribd.com and have a search on PHP. there are books on beginners for php5 and articles of the difference to php 6. a very usefull site by the way, made me stopping buying books. loads of material on IT stuff. ralph ralph_def...@yahoo.de wrote in

[PHP] "PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites" Book

2009-08-05 Thread sono-io
Has anyone read this book by Larry Ullman yet? If so, what do you think about it? I'm looking for a well-rounded book that covers PHP for e-commerce websites and from what little I've been able to find online, it looks pretty good. Or would you recommend another book? I know that no bo

[PHP] Re: Time keeping in DB

2009-08-05 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Ben Dunlap wrote: >> OK, I think I understand most points except the start and stop time. >> Every time sheet I have used, SAP and several other smaller ones, I >> enter a weeks worth of time data like: >> >> Project Sun Mon TuesWed ThurFri Sat >> --

[PHP] Re: Time keeping in DB

2009-08-05 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Ralph Deffke wrote: > as I said, the job is to store a time sheet. > u came up with: > > 1. One record for each 7 day week (year, week_num, d1, d2, d3, d4, d5, > d6, d7) where the dX field holds the hours worked > 2. One record for each day (date, hours) > > it seems that just the first record is

Re: [PHP] dynamically naming PHP vars on the fly?

2009-08-05 Thread Govinda
You can use variable variables ... You can make more complicated statements with this technique. $var1 = 'apple'; ${ 'Fruit_' . $var1 } = 'organic'; echo $Fruit_apple; // here you are thank you all 3, for your help! That was just what I wanted! -Govinda -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP programming strategy

2009-08-05 Thread Clancy
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:25:20 -0400, phps...@gmail.com (Bastien Koert) wrote: >On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Ashley Sheridan >wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 21:49 +1000, Clancy wrote: >>> Thank you to all of you who have commented on this query. >>> >>> On the subject of comments, I feel that La

[PHP] Re: Time keeping in DB

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Deffke
as I said, the job is to store a time sheet. u came up with: 1. One record for each 7 day week (year, week_num, d1, d2, d3, d4, d5, d6, d7) where the dX field holds the hours worked 2. One record for each day (date, hours) it seems that just the first record is fine. in a data design u dont hold

[PHP] Re: Time keeping in DB

2009-08-05 Thread Ben Dunlap
> OK, I think I understand most points except the start and stop time. > Every time sheet I have used, SAP and several other smaller ones, I > enter a weeks worth of time data like: > > Project Sun Mon TuesWed ThurFri Sat >

[PHP] Re: Time keeping in DB

2009-08-05 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Ben Dunlap wrote: >> sorry man, but a good data design keeps only data in a table u can not >> calculate. in ur case that would be only and time. >> refernces to user and project/tasks in other tables. >> >> ur time sheet is definately a job for a report. that type of design limits u >> to nothi

[PHP] Re: dynamically naming PHP vars on the fly?

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Deffke
u can "dynamical" chosse a variable name with a variable using a "douple" $ charachter eg. $a = "this is a": $b = "a"; echo $$b; outputs "this is a" this is an all open feature to u have fun ralph "Govinda" wrote in message news:a215e849-2602-4cb3-9da7-718ff047a...@gmail.com... > HI all > > O

Re: [PHP] dynamically naming PHP vars on the fly?

2009-08-05 Thread Jerry Wilborn
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php Jerry Wilborn jerrywilb...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Govinda wrote: > HI all > > One thing I have been working around but now would love to just do it > finally (and save workaround/longer code hassle) is when: > > I ne

Re: [PHP] dynamically naming PHP vars on the fly?

2009-08-05 Thread Martin Scotta
You can use variable variables } syntax. I often use this for hidden global variables. ${ 'try to use this variable directly' } = 'something'; print_r( get_defined_vars() ); # [try to use this variable directly] => something On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Govinda wrote: > HI all > > One thin

[PHP] Re: Time keeping in DB

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Deffke
off course, but this is a different subject, means a finished, not changing time sheet is to store. in that case I would prefere to use a single record for each sheet holding an id, possibly a date and then a medium text holding a simple xml notation of the sheet. the benetit of that concept is aga

[PHP] dynamically naming PHP vars on the fly?

2009-08-05 Thread Govinda
HI all One thing I have been working around but now would love to just do it finally (and save workaround/longer code hassle) is when: I need to be able to create a variable (name it, and assign it a value) whose name is built up from a fixed string concatenated with another string which

Re: [PHP] navigation include not functioning (RESOLVED)

2009-08-05 Thread Martin Scotta
Yes, that's a golden rule for a bug free code. The rule shoudl be something like this... Whenever you have a constant value evaluated to a non-constant value put them in the left side of the expression. if( 'constant' == $non_constant ) echo ' variables has that name for anything '; if( fals

Re: [PHP] navigation include not functioning (RESOLVED)

2009-08-05 Thread Ben Dunlap
> In my navigation.php include file, I had if ($page = about) echo href > I changed it to if ($page == about) echo and it suddenly worked! Imagine > that... Another good case for putting the variable on the right side of "==": if ("about" == $page) Then if you mis-type "==" as "=", PH

[PHP] Re: Time keeping in DB

2009-08-05 Thread Ben Dunlap
> sorry man, but a good data design keeps only data in a table u can not > calculate. in ur case that would be only and time. > refernces to user and project/tasks in other tables. > > ur time sheet is definately a job for a report. that type of design limits u > to nothing. a user can start an

Re: [PHP] navigation include not functioning (RESOLVED)

2009-08-05 Thread Allen McCabe
I just wanted to let know I figured out my last issue (last as in, for now). In my navigation.php include file, I had if ($page = about) echo href I changed it to if ($page == about) echo and it suddenly worked! Imagine that... Thanks all for you help, you are celebrities in my book now.

Re: [PHP] navigation include not functioning

2009-08-05 Thread Martin Scotta
You are using a value-filled array as a key-filled. Try this snippet and look the results... $pages = array('about' , 'services', 'portfolio', 'contact'); $page = array_key_exists( 'page', $_GET ) ? $_GET[ 'page' ] : 'about'; /*if*/ false === array_search( $page, $pages, true ) && ( $page

Re: [PHP] navigation include not functioning

2009-08-05 Thread Allen McCabe
Okay, I see how href="?page=contact" would work, and I do indeed have only one file (which loads includes), but it still is not working. Clicking a link, be href=?page=contact, href=?page=services, whatever, it still loads the page with the ?page=whatever attached to the URL, but it is not subsitut

[PHP] Re: Time keeping in DB

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Deffke
sorry man, but a good data design keeps only data in a table u can not calculate. in ur case that would be only and time. refernces to user and project/tasks in other tables. ur time sheet is definately a job for a report. that type of design limits u to nothing. a user can start ans stop as ma

[PHP] Re: Time keeping in DB

2009-08-05 Thread Ollisso
On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:18:31 +0300, Shawn McKenzie wrote: So, obviously not PHP related, but I'm looking for thoughts on the best way to record time sheets in a DB. A time sheet for hours worked per day, not like a time clock where you start and stop. The two possibilities that I have thoug

Re: [PHP] Time keeping in DB

2009-08-05 Thread Wolf
Shawn McKenzie wrote: > So, obviously not PHP related, but I'm looking for thoughts on the best > way to record time sheets in a DB. A time sheet for hours worked per > day, not like a time clock where you start and stop. > > The two possibilities that I have thought of are (these are sim

Re: [PHP] Time keeping in DB

2009-08-05 Thread Jerry Wilborn
You don't mention what DB you're using, but mySQL can be quite a pain when dealing with multiple time zones. Not impossible, but a hassle none the less. Be sure to set aside a place to store this (and another spot for user preferences to keep track of their TZ). Jerry Wilborn jerrywilb...@gmail.com

Re: [PHP] Time keeping in DB

2009-08-05 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:18 -0500, Shawn McKenzie wrote: > So, obviously not PHP related, but I'm looking for thoughts on the best > way to record time sheets in a DB. A time sheet for hours worked per > day, not like a time clock where you start and stop. > > The two possibilities that I have th

[PHP] Time keeping in DB

2009-08-05 Thread Shawn McKenzie
So, obviously not PHP related, but I'm looking for thoughts on the best way to record time sheets in a DB. A time sheet for hours worked per day, not like a time clock where you start and stop. The two possibilities that I have thought of are (these are simplistic, of course I'll be storing refer

Re: [PHP] navigation include not functioning

2009-08-05 Thread ollisso
On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:19:00 +0300, Allen McCabe wrote: Sure. When I load my site, default.php loads ( displaying: http://uplinkdesign.hostzi.com/ in the browser as expected). $thisPage is set to "about" via: in the tags. I am seeing this: The first 2 includes work just fine, loading

Re: [PHP] navigation include not functioning

2009-08-05 Thread Martin Scotta
I think you are looking for something like this: $page = array_key_exists( 'page', $_GET ) ? GET['page'] : 'index'; Then you MUST sanitize the $page variable. I often use the querystring to wrapp the module you are requesting: www.example.org/?path/to/molude (note that .htaccess is required) #

Re: [PHP] navigation include not functioning

2009-08-05 Thread Allen McCabe
Sure. When I load my site, default.php loads ( displaying: http://uplinkdesign.hostzi.com/ in the browser as expected). $thisPage is set to "about" via: in the tags. I am seeing this: The first 2 includes work just fine, loading to proper middle section and proper right-hand-side page conte

Re: [PHP] navigation include not functioning

2009-08-05 Thread Jerry Wilborn
I'm having trouble understanding your description of the problem. Can you tell us what you're seeing and what you expect to see? Jerry Wilborn jerrywilb...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Allen McCabe wrote: > I am trying to generate pages by importing content in includes, and using

[PHP] navigation include not functioning

2009-08-05 Thread Allen McCabe
I am trying to generate pages by importing content in includes, and using my navigation include to tell PHP to replace a $thisPage variable which all the includes use The idea behind it (I know tons of people do it, but I'm new to this concept), is to have a 'layout' page where only a variable ch

[PHP] Re: Character encoding

2009-08-05 Thread Nisse Engström
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 18:11:44 +0200, "Ralph Deffke" wrote: > I assume that the comments are collected by a browser form provided by you ! > do u use the form attribute "accept-charset" ? I always do and I always use > UTF-8 homogeniously throughout my application I never had that problem. Don't for

[PHP] Re: Character encoding

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Deffke
I assume that the comments are collected by a browser form provided by you ! do u use the form attribute "accept-charset" ? I always do and I always use UTF-8 homogeniously throughout my application I never had that problem. "Sándor Tamás (HostWare Kft . )" wrote in message news:9ac01674e03a4

Re: [PHP] Character encoding

2009-08-05 Thread Igor Escobar
Build some script to convert to these comments. Check this out: Regards, Igor Escobar Systems Analyst & Interface Designer + http://blog.igorescobar.com + http://www.igorescobar.com + @igorescobar (twitter) 2009/8/5 b > On 08/05/2009 07:05 AM, Sándor Tamás (HostWare Kft.) wrote: > >>

Re: [PHP] Character encoding

2009-08-05 Thread b
On 08/05/2009 07:05 AM, Sándor Tamás (HostWare Kft.) wrote: Hi, I have a mysql database, which the users can insert comments. As the users can be from different countries, with different character encoding, the mysql table can contain various special characters. How can I be sure to display t

Re: [PHP] Script to Compare Database Structures

2009-08-05 Thread Matt Neimeyer
I finally got a chance to play with this and it looks like it is exactly what I need. Thanks! On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:50 PM, German Geek wrote: > have you tried mysqldiff? >> I want to be able to compare the structure of two different clients >> databases that might be on different servers tha

Re: [PHP] OUCH (RESOLVED)

2009-08-05 Thread Floyd Resler
Terion, I've been sitting in the background watching all this unfold and thought I would chime in. I passed along your "all caps" email to a co-worker of mine (she programs in FoxPro) and she said she could definitely relate to what you were going through! As for people being honest (es

Re: [PHP] OUCH (RESOLVED)

2009-08-05 Thread Govinda
... Peace and Happy Wednesday Terion :-) nice! In the end, I imagine that if it was all taken away suddenly and for good, that we'd all miss the real people here more than any of the rules, logics, and practicalities of getting paid work done.. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php

[PHP] OUCH (RESOLVED)

2009-08-05 Thread Miller, Terion
Thank you all for being so brutally honest, I am doing my best, and yes I do get hung up on syntax errors, I mean who doesn't stare at code looking for a misplaced or missing ; or . For what seems like hours with a boss asking repeatedly "is it done, is it done" before freaking out and asking f

Re: [PHP] Warning: OutsourcingRoom.com

2009-08-05 Thread Martin Scotta
What we can do is make a "Report Web Forgery" for this site. If you use Firefox there is an option in the "help" menu. Also you can report to search engines like Google or Yahoo (that's what I did) well... in this thread we are doing something On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Ashley Sheridan wro

Re: [PHP] Warning: OutsourcingRoom.com

2009-08-05 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 15:14 +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 11:10 -0300, Martin Scotta wrote: > > Nobody can actually do anything. This happen all the time. > > > > Sites like facebook or myspace send invitations to all your mail's > > contacts, but that's not the problem. Wh

Re: [PHP] Warning: OutsourcingRoom.com

2009-08-05 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 11:10 -0300, Martin Scotta wrote: > Nobody can actually do anything. This happen all the time. > > Sites like facebook or myspace send invitations to all your mail's > contacts, but that's not the problem. What I can't understand is why > do they do pre-signup just you for th

Re: [PHP] Warning: OutsourcingRoom.com

2009-08-05 Thread Martin Scotta
Nobody can actually do anything. This happen all the time. Sites like facebook or myspace send invitations to all your mail's contacts, but that's not the problem. What I can't understand is why do they do pre-signup just you for the "easy" of you. I have _created_ an account just to edit my perso

Re: [PHP] Warning: OutsourcingRoom.com

2009-08-05 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 09:54 -0400, Eric Butera wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Ashley Sheridan > wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 20:49 -0700, Steve wrote: > >> Daniel Brown wrote: > >> > Just as a heads-up, in case you guys weren't yet aware > >> > (cross-posting): > >> > > >> >

Re: [PHP] Warning: OutsourcingRoom.com

2009-08-05 Thread Eric Butera
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 20:49 -0700, Steve wrote: >> Daniel Brown wrote: >> >     Just as a heads-up, in case you guys weren't yet aware (cross-posting): >> > >> >     Elance.com was the victim of an SQL injection attack earlier this >> > summ

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP programming strategy

2009-08-05 Thread Bastien Koert
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 21:49 +1000, Clancy wrote: >> Thank you to all of you who have commented on this query. >> >> On the subject of comments, I feel that Larry Garfield settled this query by >> pointing out >> that halving the size of a p

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP programming strategy

2009-08-05 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 21:49 +1000, Clancy wrote: > Thank you to all of you who have commented on this query. > > On the subject of comments, I feel that Larry Garfield settled this query by > pointing out > that halving the size of a particular document gave a barely noticeable > increase in sp

[PHP] Re: PHP programming strategy

2009-08-05 Thread Clancy
Thank you to all of you who have commented on this query. On the subject of comments, I feel that Larry Garfield settled this query by pointing out that halving the size of a particular document gave a barely noticeable increase in speed. Paul Foster pointed out the problem of maintenance, but

[PHP] Character encoding

2009-08-05 Thread HostWare Kft.
Hi, I have a mysql database, which the users can insert comments. As the users can be from different countries, with different character encoding, the mysql table can contain various special characters. How can I be sure to display these comments properly? I've found the mb_convert_encoding, a

Re: [PHP] Compare PHP settings of two different servers

2009-08-05 Thread Robert Cummings
Dave M G wrote: Bob, Ben, David, Robert, Thank you all for responding. Just to recap, I'm trying to find out why I can write text into a PNG image on one server, but not on another. After much playing around, I have a list of the different configuration modules installed on the two servers.

Re: [PHP] Warning: OutsourcingRoom.com

2009-08-05 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 20:49 -0700, Steve wrote: > Daniel Brown wrote: > > Just as a heads-up, in case you guys weren't yet aware (cross-posting): > > > > Elance.com was the victim of an SQL injection attack earlier this > > summer (they apparently missed our billions of threads on sanity).