php-general Digest 30 Nov 2005 01:53:23 -0000 Issue 3823
Topics (messages 226583 through 226611):
preg_slipt
226583 by: Sichta Daniel
226584 by: David Grant
226585 by: David Precious
226586 by: David Grant
226587 by: David Precious
exclude part of text
226588 by: 021
226589 by: David Grant
226590 by: 021
226591 by: David Grant
when to enter submitted in mysql?
226592 by: afan.afan.net
226594 by: Jim Moseby
226595 by: David Grant
226597 by: Todd Cary
226598 by: afan.afan.net
Re: Two version of PHP in single server
226593 by: Ben Litton
Re: Problem with Frames and Sessions
226596 by: Brent Baisley
Howto search in SQL for a specific character?
226599 by: Gustav Wiberg
226600 by: Jay Blanchard
226601 by: Gustav Wiberg
226602 by: Gustav Wiberg
226603 by: Jay Blanchard
226604 by: tg-php.gryffyndevelopment.com
226605 by: Stephen Johnson
Re: Howto search in SQL for a specific character? SOLVED
226606 by: Jay Blanchard
migrating from http to https...
226607 by: ganu
Schroedinger's Bug - may require exorcism...
226608 by: Adam Atlas
226609 by: Robert Cummings
226611 by: Robert Cummings
Re: PhpMailer vs Pear:Mail
226610 by: Max Schwanekamp
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Hi all !!!
I have string like this "1234567890"
I need to split this into array like this
a[0] = "12"
a[1] = "34"
a[2] = "56"
a[3] = "78"
a[4] = "90"
I know that for this is preg_split, but I don't know the string patern
for split.
Thank you in advance !!
Dan
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Hi Dan,
Try:
$a = split("\n", chunk_split('1234567890', 2), 5);
php.net/chunk_split
php.net/split
Cheers,
David Grant
Sichta Daniel wrote:
> Hi all !!!
>
> I have string like this "1234567890"
>
> I need to split this into array like this
> a[0] = "12"
> a[1] = "34"
> a[2] = "56"
> a[3] = "78"
> a[4] = "90"
>
> I know that for this is preg_split, but I don't know the string patern
> for split.
> Thank you in advance !!
>
>
> Dan
>
>
>
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On 29/11/05, Sichta Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all !!!
>
> I have string like this "1234567890"
>
> I need to split this into array like this
> a[0] = "12"
> a[1] = "34"
> a[2] = "56"
> a[3] = "78"
> a[4] = "90"
>
> I know that for this is preg_split, but I don't know the string patern
> for split.
> Thank you in advance !!
No, preg_split would be overkill here, you want to take a look at str_split:
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.str-split.php
To achieve what you described above:
<?php
$str = '1234567890';
$a = str_split($str, 2);
?>
Simple eh? Does exactly what it says on the tin.
:-)
Cheers
David Precious
http://www.preshweb.co.uk/
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There is an error in this code. It should in fact read:
$a = split("\r\n", chunk_split('1234567890', 2), 5);
OR
$a = split("\n", chunk_split('1234567890', 2, "\n"), 5);
David Grant wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Try:
>
> $a = split("\n", chunk_split('1234567890', 2), 5);
>
> php.net/chunk_split
> php.net/split
>
> Cheers,
>
> David Grant
>
> Sichta Daniel wrote:
>> Hi all !!!
>>
>> I have string like this "1234567890"
>>
>> I need to split this into array like this
>> a[0] = "12"
>> a[1] = "34"
>> a[2] = "56"
>> a[3] = "78"
>> a[4] = "90"
>>
>> I know that for this is preg_split, but I don't know the string patern
>> for split.
>> Thank you in advance !!
>>
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>>
>
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> > No, preg_split would be overkill here, you want to take a look at
> > str_split:
> Sorry I forgott to tell that I'm not using PHP 5.x :-)
Ahhh, right - my answer won't be of much use to you then :-)
In that case, David Grant's suggestion of using chunk_split() in
combination with split() is probably your best option then!
Cheers
Dave P
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Hi,
need some help with this one
i made a page which is reading the last line from a log file. the log is
formatted like this:
text1 > MAIN TEXT *text2
i need to get only the MAIN TEXT part, i don't need the text1 > and *text2
i'm using this code
<?php
$lines = file('sometext.txt');
for ($i = 0, $j = count($lines); $i <=1; $i++) {
print $lines[$j - $i];
}
?>
thanx
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Hi,
021 wrote:
> <?php
> $lines = file('sometext.txt');
> for ($i = 0, $j = count($lines); $i <=1; $i++) {
> print $lines[$j - $i];
> }
> ?>
For a start, try this instead:
$lines = file('sometext.ext');
$last = end($lines);
Secondly, do you have an example of the real log file?
Cheers,
David Grant
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the log file is from a radio playlist:
TIME > ARTIST - TITLE *SONG_CATEGORY
for example
17:12:26 > THE CURE - ALT.END *NEW
the values before > and after * are changing, hope there's a simple
solution for this
thanx
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Please try:
preg_match('/^[^\>]*\>(.*)\*.*$/', $line, $matches);
021 wrote:
> the log file is from a radio playlist:
>
> TIME > ARTIST - TITLE *SONG_CATEGORY
>
> for example
>
> 17:12:26 > THE CURE - ALT.END *NEW
>
> the values before > and after * are changing, hope there's a simple
> solution for this
>
> thanx
>
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Hi to all!
I have form made on 4 pages (by groups of questions). Right now my code
works this way: once somebody submit the first page of the form his/her
submitted info is entered in database with status=temp. I store the ID
(insert_id()) in session and then every time visitor submit the next
page I do update of the current record using ID.
But, I heard once that "the best" solution is store all entered info in
session (array) and insert all info at once.
Or, instead in sessions, move submitted info with serialized array.
Opinions?
Thanks for help.
-afan
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> Hi to all!
> I have form made on 4 pages (by groups of questions). Right
> now my code
> works this way: once somebody submit the first page of the
> form his/her
> submitted info is entered in database with status=temp. I
> store the ID
> (insert_id()) in session and then every time visitor submit the next
> page I do update of the current record using ID.
> But, I heard once that "the best" solution is store all
> entered info in
> session (array) and insert all info at once.
> Or, instead in sessions, move submitted info with serialized array.
>
> Opinions?
>
The upside to storing the data in session variables is that you make only ne
DB call at the end, saving processor, bandwidth, etc. The downside is, that
if your user cannot complete the form, his data is lost and he has to start
all over again.
Which one is best depends greatly on your environment and situation. For
instance, if you have 1000 users onlin simultaneously filling out forms, and
the forms are simple, you would probably opt to use session variables and
make one DB call. If you only have one or two online and the forms are 1000
questions long, your would want to write each page as it is completed.
JM
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Personally, I'd keep it all in the session and write at the end, but
this approach has at least two drawbacks:
1. The user cannot complete the process at a later point.
2. You cannot conduct analysis of part-completed data.
Cheers,
David Grant
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi to all!
> I have form made on 4 pages (by groups of questions). Right now my code
> works this way: once somebody submit the first page of the form his/her
> submitted info is entered in database with status=temp. I store the ID
> (insert_id()) in session and then every time visitor submit the next
> page I do update of the current record using ID.
> But, I heard once that "the best" solution is store all entered info in
> session (array) and insert all info at once.
> Or, instead in sessions, move submitted info with serialized array.
>
> Opinions?
>
> Thanks for help.
>
> -afan
>
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http://www.grant.org.uk/
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I track my sessions in the MySQL database in the session table. There
is a field, ExpireTime, so the table is self purging.
For the pages, I place them into a table, tmp_data, that has a sessionID
field and ExpireTime. When all pages are completed, the data is
inserted into the data table.
If the user has cookies turned off, s/he cannot pickup where s/he left
off since the sessionID was not stored. Other than that it works well
where my client is processing many thousands of Class Action lawsuit claims.
Actually, I use Interbase (Firebird) for this type of application.
Todd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi to all!
I have form made on 4 pages (by groups of questions). Right now my code
works this way: once somebody submit the first page of the form his/her
submitted info is entered in database with status=temp. I store the ID
(insert_id()) in session and then every time visitor submit the next
page I do update of the current record using ID.
But, I heard once that "the best" solution is store all entered info in
session (array) and insert all info at once.
Or, instead in sessions, move submitted info with serialized array.
Opinions?
Thanks for help.
-afan
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Ok. I got a picture. :)
Thanks to everybody!
-afan
Todd Cary wrote:
I track my sessions in the MySQL database in the session table. There
is a field, ExpireTime, so the table is self purging.
For the pages, I place them into a table, tmp_data, that has a
sessionID field and ExpireTime. When all pages are completed, the
data is inserted into the data table.
If the user has cookies turned off, s/he cannot pickup where s/he left
off since the sessionID was not stored. Other than that it works well
where my client is processing many thousands of Class Action lawsuit
claims.
Actually, I use Interbase (Firebird) for this type of application.
Todd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi to all!
I have form made on 4 pages (by groups of questions). Right now my
code works this way: once somebody submit the first page of the form
his/her submitted info is entered in database with status=temp. I
store the ID (insert_id()) in session and then every time visitor
submit the next page I do update of the current record using ID.
But, I heard once that "the best" solution is store all entered info
in session (array) and insert all info at once.
Or, instead in sessions, move submitted info with serialized array.
Opinions?
Thanks for help.
-afan
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You can do this if you register a different add-type. Say php5 for the php
5.1 pages and just php for the regular ones. You may (I can't recall) have
to install one as mod_php and the other as a cgi. There are surely guides
on the internet to help you get both running simultaneously.
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:37:02 -0500, "J.F.Kishor"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I have a query, can we run two versions of PHP in linux 7.2
server.
I want to use PHP 4.x for one application and PHP 5.1.0 for
another application in the same server.
Do I need to do some configuration changes to set the php
path. To look up different versions based on the request of
the application.
Regards,
- JFK
kishor
Nilgiri Networks
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Frames are just nested windows, the server can't tell the difference
between a page requested from a frame or a separate window and you
should treat them as such. So if your frame was created before a
session was created, it's not part of the session.
On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:52 PM, Shaun wrote:
Hi,
I have a frameset with a left column and a main column. I have a login
script with a form in the left column. When I log in I get a menu
in the
left column which targets to the main column. My problem is that
when I
click on links in the left column nothing appears in the main
frame, however
if I refresh the browser then the links work. I am sure this must
be a PHP
session problem but I don't have any experience using frames, does
anyone
have suggestions as to what the problem might be?
Thanks for your advice.
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Hi there!
in PHP i Write..
$v1 = chr(39); //39 is apostrofe
$sql = "SELECT nameOfPedigree FROM tbpedigrees WHERE
SUBSTR(nameOfPedigree,0,1) = $v1";
Why doesn't this work?
I want the sql to select all nameOfPedigree - fields where the first
character is apostrofe (')
/G
http://www.varupiraten.se/
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[snip]
$v1 = chr(39); //39 is apostrofe
$sql = "SELECT nameOfPedigree FROM tbpedigrees WHERE
SUBSTR(nameOfPedigree,0,1) = $v1";
Why doesn't this work?
[/snip]
Probably because the character set is misinterpreted. What happens when you
echo $v1? Try
$sql = "SELECT nameOfPedigree FROM tbpedigrees WHERE
SUBSTR(nameOfPedigree,0,1) = ''' ";
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Hi
I'm sorry but this didn't work either? If I replaced the ' with for example
an a it worked
/G
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From: "Stephen Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gustav Wiberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP General"
<php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Howto search in SQL for a specific character?
Try this :
$sql = "SELECT nameOfPedigree FROM tbpedigrees WHERE nameOfPedigree like
"'%";
The % is a wildcard and will give you the results you want.
<?php
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From: Gustav Wiberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Gustav Wiberg
Reply-To: Gustav Wiberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:55:27 +0100
To: PHP General <php-general@lists.php.net>
Subject: [PHP] Howto search in SQL for a specific character?
Hi there!
in PHP i Write..
$v1 = chr(39); //39 is apostrofe
$sql = "SELECT nameOfPedigree FROM tbpedigrees WHERE
SUBSTR(nameOfPedigree,0,1) = $v1";
Why doesn't this work?
I want the sql to select all nameOfPedigree - fields where the first
character is apostrofe (')
/G
http://www.varupiraten.se/
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Hi there!
This didn't work. Ok, mysql 4.x don't have support for the command. Exuse
my.. didn't realize that before... I have to do this another way around...
:-)
/G
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From: "Jay Blanchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Gustav Wiberg'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP General"
<php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 9:59 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP] Howto search in SQL for a specific character?
[snip]
$v1 = chr(39); //39 is apostrofe
$sql = "SELECT nameOfPedigree FROM tbpedigrees WHERE
SUBSTR(nameOfPedigree,0,1) = $v1";
Why doesn't this work?
[/snip]
Probably because the character set is misinterpreted. What happens when
you
echo $v1? Try
$sql = "SELECT nameOfPedigree FROM tbpedigrees WHERE
SUBSTR(nameOfPedigree,0,1) = ''' ";
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[snip]
This didn't work. Ok, mysql 4.x don't have support for the command. Exuse
my.. didn't realize that before... I have to do this another way around...
[/snip]
Doesn;t have support for what command?
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Probably because the apostrophe aka single quote is used the same way it and
the double quotes (") are used in PHP, as a string delimiter.
What you're ending up with is:
SELECT nameOfPedigree FROM tbpedigrees WHERE SUBSTR(nameOfPedigree,0,1) = '
What you'd want is something more like:
SELECT nameOfPedigree FROM tbpedigrees WHERE SUBSTR(nameOfPedigree,0,1) = "'"
So maybe try this:
$sql = "SELECT nameOfPedigree FROM tbpedigrees WHERE SUBSTR(nameOfPedigree,0,1)
= \"$v1\"";
See if that works any better.
-TG
= = = Original message = = =
Hi there!
in PHP i Write..
$v1 = chr(39); //39 is apostrofe
$sql = "SELECT nameOfPedigree FROM tbpedigrees WHERE
SUBSTR(nameOfPedigree,0,1) = $v1";
Why doesn't this work?
I want the sql to select all nameOfPedigree - fields where the first
character is apostrofe (')
/G
http://www.varupiraten.se/
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Try this :
$sql = "SELECT nameOfPedigree FROM tbpedigrees WHERE nameOfPedigree like
"'%";
The % is a wildcard and will give you the results you want.
<?php
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> From: Gustav Wiberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: Gustav Wiberg
> Reply-To: Gustav Wiberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:55:27 +0100
> To: PHP General <php-general@lists.php.net>
> Subject: [PHP] Howto search in SQL for a specific character?
>
> Hi there!
>
> in PHP i Write..
>
>
> $v1 = chr(39); //39 is apostrofe
>
>
> $sql = "SELECT nameOfPedigree FROM tbpedigrees WHERE
> SUBSTR(nameOfPedigree,0,1) = $v1";
>
> Why doesn't this work?
>
> I want the sql to select all nameOfPedigree - fields where the first
> character is apostrofe (')
>
> /G
> http://www.varupiraten.se/
>
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FW to the list....even if it is top posting
-----Original Message-----
From: Gustav Wiberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 3:49 PM
To: Jay Blanchard
Subject: Re: [PHP] Howto search in SQL for a specific character?
aha... ok.. that was the fault! Thanx! :-)
/G
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From: "Jay Blanchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Gustav Wiberg'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jay Blanchard"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 10:24 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP] Howto search in SQL for a specific character?
> substring is the function in MySQL
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gustav Wiberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 3:19 PM
> To: Jay Blanchard
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Howto search in SQL for a specific character?
>
>
> substr() ?
>
> /G
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jay Blanchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'Gustav Wiberg'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jay Blanchard"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP General" <php-general@lists.php.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 10:13 PM
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Howto search in SQL for a specific character?
>
>
>> [snip]
>> This didn't work. Ok, mysql 4.x don't have support for the command. Exuse
>> my.. didn't realize that before... I have to do this another way
>> around...
>> [/snip]
>>
>> Doesn;t have support for what command?
>>
>
>
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Hi all ,
I have a problem , when I am migrating my data from http://www.abc.com
<http://www.abc.com/> to https://www.abc.com <https://www.abc.com/> for
secure login purpose. I will loose all my data which I store in my session.
if suppose I am able to do it from http to https then from https to http
I am getting the problem.
any idea to do this . Else i have the option that after http to
https I will close the connection and the user will again start a new
session with the login/password.
any ideas please...
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So... I have this script (being called in a perfectly typical way by
PHP 4.4.1 through mod_php in Apache 2.0.55) which sometimes runs
perfectly, and sometimes chooses, totally haphazardly, to seemingly
run itself twice, which of course causes it to die with a fatal error
after it tries to redefine some functions.
As mysterious as that is, it turns out it must be something
altogether more sinister. I tried putting die() at the end of the
script, on the assumption that it was for some reason executing
twice, yet behold: the problem is still present, and the PHP error
log still complains about constants and functions being redefined!
The problem, I therefore thought, cannot be that the script is being
run twice. (In retrospect, this was the most likely possibility,
because the page doesn't actually output anything if it dies with
this error.) So for debugging, I added a bit that logs one message to
a file immediately before the die() at the end of the file, and a
different message after the die(). The die() seems to be working
normally, in that it only logs the first message...
But wait a second! WTF? If the PHP error log is to be believed, then
the script should be dying with a fatal error before it even *gets*
to that point in the script, isn't it?
And the greater WTF is the fact that, as I mentioned above, every
time the page is requested, it unpredictably either does this or
works flawlessly. Oh my. How do I even *begin* to debug something
like this?
Thanks for any help.
-- Adam Atlas
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On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 19:22, Adam Atlas wrote:
> So... I have this script (being called in a perfectly typical way by
> PHP 4.4.1 through mod_php in Apache 2.0.55) which sometimes runs
> perfectly, and sometimes chooses, totally haphazardly, to seemingly
> run itself twice, which of course causes it to die with a fatal error
> after it tries to redefine some functions.
>
> As mysterious as that is, it turns out it must be something
> altogether more sinister. I tried putting die() at the end of the
> script, on the assumption that it was for some reason executing
> twice, yet behold: the problem is still present, and the PHP error
> log still complains about constants and functions being redefined!
> The problem, I therefore thought, cannot be that the script is being
> run twice. (In retrospect, this was the most likely possibility,
> because the page doesn't actually output anything if it dies with
> this error.) So for debugging, I added a bit that logs one message to
> a file immediately before the die() at the end of the file, and a
> different message after the die(). The die() seems to be working
> normally, in that it only logs the first message...
>
> But wait a second! WTF? If the PHP error log is to be believed, then
> the script should be dying with a fatal error before it even *gets*
> to that point in the script, isn't it?
>
> And the greater WTF is the fact that, as I mentioned above, every
> time the page is requested, it unpredictably either does this or
> works flawlessly. Oh my. How do I even *begin* to debug something
> like this?
I think you mean heisenbug...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
Do a grep for dynamic includes of the file script in question.
Alternatively do a grep for files that dynamically include the script in
question. Work your way to the root.
Cheers,
Rob.
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On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 19:42, Robert Cummings wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 19:22, Adam Atlas wrote:
> > So... I have this script (being called in a perfectly typical way by
> > PHP 4.4.1 through mod_php in Apache 2.0.55) which sometimes runs
> > perfectly, and sometimes chooses, totally haphazardly, to seemingly
> > run itself twice, which of course causes it to die with a fatal error
> > after it tries to redefine some functions.
> >
> > As mysterious as that is, it turns out it must be something
> > altogether more sinister. I tried putting die() at the end of the
> > script, on the assumption that it was for some reason executing
> > twice, yet behold: the problem is still present, and the PHP error
> > log still complains about constants and functions being redefined!
> > The problem, I therefore thought, cannot be that the script is being
> > run twice. (In retrospect, this was the most likely possibility,
> > because the page doesn't actually output anything if it dies with
> > this error.) So for debugging, I added a bit that logs one message to
> > a file immediately before the die() at the end of the file, and a
> > different message after the die(). The die() seems to be working
> > normally, in that it only logs the first message...
> >
> > But wait a second! WTF? If the PHP error log is to be believed, then
> > the script should be dying with a fatal error before it even *gets*
> > to that point in the script, isn't it?
> >
> > And the greater WTF is the fact that, as I mentioned above, every
> > time the page is requested, it unpredictably either does this or
> > works flawlessly. Oh my. How do I even *begin* to debug something
> > like this?
>
> I think you mean heisenbug...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
Hmmm, you learn something new every day:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schroedinbug
But the problem you're having seems better represented as a heisenbug :)
Cheers,
Rob.
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Richard Heyes wrote:
Petr Smith wrote:
I tried all and ended with
http://www.phpguru.org/static/htmlMimeMail5.html
fast, stable, usable.
A very good choice. ;-)
But but but, what *is* the advantage of one over the other? I've been a
PhpMailer devotee for some time. PEAR::Mail is too spare, PhpMailer is
reasonably quick and has proven quite stable (I've built a couple
newsletter apps using it). What's the advantage of Richard's package
vs. the Pear one (on which he is a lead dev) vs. PhpMailer?
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