php-general Digest 25 Apr 2006 05:14:18 -0000 Issue 4091
Topics (messages 234624 through 234650):
list noise [WAS: How to find <img> tag and get src of image]
234624 by: Paul Novitski
234625 by: Jay Blanchard
234626 by: John Nichel
Re: shopping carts
234627 by: tedd
234628 by: Ryan A
234629 by: Jay Blanchard
234632 by: Ryan A
234633 by: Tom Cruickshank
234637 by: Ryan A
234639 by: Lisa A
Reusable Singleton pattern using PHP5
234630 by: Simas Toleikis
234631 by: Jochem Maas
234634 by: Simas Toleikis
234644 by: Jochem Maas
Session Array Disappears
234635 by: Webmaster
234636 by: Brady Mitchell
234647 by: Webmaster
234648 by: Al
234649 by: Webmaster
how to keep spaces in parameters in URL?
234638 by: Bing Du
234640 by: Chrome
234641 by: Jeremy Schreckhise
Booleans in lowercase or uppercase
234642 by: Jesper Forsberg
234643 by: M. Sokolewicz
234645 by: Jochem Maas
234646 by: Jesper Forsberg
234650 by: Richard Lynch
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At 06:29 AM 4/24/2006, Philip Thompson wrote:
I think you are too kind. I think my response would have been likes
Jay's... RTFM. However, you went above and beyond. Isn't this
listserv great!! =D
Thanks, Philip. There may or may not be such a thing as stupid
questions but there sure as hell are a lot of stupid answers. We all
started out from places of ignorance, and there's TONS that each of
us still doesn't know in a thousand fields. If I walk up to a group
of geneticists and ask, "What's the difference between a chromosome
and a ribosome?" I might get a laugh but I'd hope also to get pointed
in the right direction. I figure all any of us need is a helpful
nudge toward the documentation. "RTFM" isn't very helpful when the
documentation of web design is so many millions of pages. It only
takes a minute to look up the right link, especially with php.net's
incredible /search engine.
If you see someone struggling up a rocky face, do you kick them or
give them a boost? We know nothing about the people who post
here. What kind of educational resources have we each had? And what
an amazing effort to post to a technical listserve in a foreign
language. I'd like to see the haughty, scornful posters on this list
try their hand at asking intelligent questions in Vietnamese or Ewe.
Although I enjoy the humanistic aspect of listserves, I'm irritated
when someone takes up bandwidth on the whole list just to tell
someone to read the friggin manual. The folks who feel compelled to
scorn others in front of the whole group are just trying to look kewl
at someone else's expense. That's so high school.
I'm here for PHP. I love the wit, humor, intelligence, and passion
of the list debates, but I'm working my butt off earning my living
writing software and simply don't have time to scroll down through
some enormous unsnipped quote simply to find "thanks!" or "you
weenie!" at the bottom.
This rant is off-topic (call it "admin" if you're feeling generous)
but I'm posting it to the whole list just because I think noise is a
chronic problem on this listserve in particular. Please, if you just
want to thank someone or tell them they're a donkey, do so
privately. Serve us up the PHP!
Rushed, grumpy defender of the underdog,
Paul
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[snip]
I'm here for PHP. I love the wit, humor, intelligence, and passion
of the list debates, but I'm working my butt off earning my living
writing software and simply don't have time to scroll down through
some enormous unsnipped quote simply to find "thanks!" or "you
weenie!" at the bottom.
[/snip]
Whew! I snipped, bottom-posted, and included a link to a spot in the
manual where the OP could learn. I'm golden!
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Jay Blanchard wrote:
<snip>
I'm golden!
I don't remember asking for a list of your sexual perversions.
:-p
--
John C. Nichel IV
Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek)
Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo
716.856.9675
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Another aspect is this:
Why do we call it a shopping cart?
Look, a shopping cart is a goddam big basket on wheels.
What we call a "shopping cart" on-line is actually, your entire stock
catalog, fulfillment, cash register, check-out, delivery, stock
management, and internal accounting system, with credit card POS
widgets. And baggers.
Hey. That ain't a "shopping cart" That's a friggin' store.
LOL
You're absolutely right -- tho, it sounds like good stuff for a comedy routine.
tedd
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--- tedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey,
> >Hey. That ain't a "shopping cart" That's a
> friggin' store.
>
> LOL
>
> You're absolutely right -- tho, it sounds like good
> stuff for a comedy routine.
Pity it would fly over the heads of most people
though, only us "geeks" (term used loosely) would get
it, maybe at the next PHP/programming con?
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[snip]
>Another aspect is this:
>Why do we call it a shopping cart?
[/snip]
We discarded this terminology in favor of 'order fulfillment system' or
OFS
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--- Jay Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]
> >Another aspect is this:
> >Why do we call it a shopping cart?
> [/snip]
>
> We discarded this terminology in favor of 'order
> fulfillment system' or
> OFS
Man, I knew this girl some time back, she had a really
good OFS...
Oops, this might be a little off topic...hope nobody
minds ;-)
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Waaait a second. You actually knew a girl who took orders?
On 4/24/06, Ryan A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- Jay Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > [snip]
> > >Another aspect is this:
> > >Why do we call it a shopping cart?
> > [/snip]
> >
> > We discarded this terminology in favor of 'order
> > fulfillment system' or
> > OFS
>
> Man, I knew this girl some time back, she had a really
> good OFS...
> Oops, this might be a little off topic...hope nobody
> minds ;-)
>
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> - Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster!
> - Smile, everyone loves a moron. :-)
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--- Tom Cruickshank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Waaait a second. You actually knew a girl who took
> orders?
What do you tell a girl with two black eyes?
Nothing, coz told the b***h.... twice!
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For those of you who are making a joke out of my question, glad to have
given you all a laugh. I want to thank everyone else for being so nice and
helpful to beginners.
Everyone has to start somewhere and can't afford a $1000 to spend and sorry
I'm not the "geek" you are and can write and manipulate the script. I've
learned so much from these newsgroups, but for some reason, a few of you
shouldn't be so opinionated. Don't bother to respond if you don't like the
question.
Again, thanks to everyone else!
Lisa
""Tom Cruickshank"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have you checked out oscommerce? www.oscommerce.com?
It does what I think you need. And I think it might even be free, that is,
if your time
doesn't cost anything. As for it being simple....you'll need to define that
term.
Simple for me could be rather complicated for you or vice versa.
Tom
On 4/22/06, Lisa A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Can anyone suggest someone to write a simple client side shopping cart I
> can
> use? I need to install something that my client can update the
> merchandise
> themselves. Something inxepensive please.
> thanks,
>
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Hello,
As the %subj% says.. can't get it to work with PHP5. I mean, you could
do this kind of stuff with templates/generics on other languages and
then make a class singleton by just inheriting from base Singleton
class. No need to redefine GetInstance() (which usually contains the
same redundant kind of code). It should look something like this in
PHP5:
class Test extends Singleton
{
// no singleton-specific code here
}
abstract class Singleton
{
private static $instance = null;
private function __construct() {}
private function __clone() {}
public static function GetInstance()
{
if (!isset(self::$instance))
self::$instance = new self; // <-- doesnt really work
return self::$instance;
}
}
The problem is that self refers to Singleton class. I have also been
playing with __CLASS__ magic constant but it does the same thing.
Someone got it working the right way?
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[top posting to just to spite the anti-top-posting crowd :-P]
php6 will include static late binding - until then you have 2 choices,
create a hack (see below) or stick redundant code into each class you
want to be a singleton.
(welcome to the club that thinks this should have been possible
right from the beginning - I'm a member since 2003 - it doesn't get any
less annoying ;-)
one way to hack it:
class Test extends Singleton
{
protected static $class = self; // if self doesn't work use 'Test'
}
abstract class Singleton
{
private static $instance;
protected static $class;
private function __construct() {}
private function __clone() {}
public static function GetInstance()
{
if (!isset(self::$instance)) {
if (!isset(self::$class)) {
throw new Exception('ya need to define self::$class in
your subclass');
}
self::$instance = new self::$class;
}
return self::$instance;
}
}
ps - search the web for 'late static binding + php' and the like and
you'll [hopefully] find plenty in the internals mailing list archives
about this (for instance)
Simas Toleikis wrote:
Hello,
As the %subj% says.. can't get it to work with PHP5. I mean, you could
do this kind of stuff with templates/generics on other languages and
then make a class singleton by just inheriting from base Singleton
class. No need to redefine GetInstance() (which usually contains the
same redundant kind of code). It should look something like this in
PHP5:
class Test extends Singleton
{
// no singleton-specific code here
}
abstract class Singleton
{
private static $instance = null;
private function __construct() {}
private function __clone() {}
public static function GetInstance()
{
if (!isset(self::$instance))
self::$instance = new self; // <-- doesnt really work
return self::$instance;
}
}
The problem is that self refers to Singleton class. I have also been
playing with __CLASS__ magic constant but it does the same thing.
Someone got it working the right way?
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> php6 will include static late binding
Great. Love the other new features, especially namespaces.
> - until then you have 2 choices,
> create a hack (see below) or stick redundant code into each class you
> want to be a singleton.
The hack doesn't work (See below). Guess we are left with copy-paste
thing :-/ Though i wonder if there are any other hacks using some sort
of classkit/other class manipulation functions?
> public static function GetInstance()
> {
> if (!isset(self::$instance)) {
> if (!isset(self::$class)) {
Isn't that self::$class the same "late static binding" thing? :-) As i
get it, at this point from Singleton::GetInstance() you can't get the
static $class member of Test class.
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Simas Toleikis wrote:
php6 will include static late binding
Great. Love the other new features, especially namespaces.
not sure namespaces will make it ... I believe the decision on that
is still out.
- until then you have 2 choices,
create a hack (see below) or stick redundant code into each class you
want to be a singleton.
The hack doesn't work (See below). Guess we are left with copy-paste
my bad - I was thinking out loud and didn't check. here is a less elegant
hack that does get some of the way to where you want to be (take
a look at what happens if you set Singleton::__construct() as private -
you get a weird error, which to me smell like a bug - but then again there
is some logic to it, although I wonder if it's intended)
:
<?php
class Test extends Singleton
{
static public function getInstance()
{
return self::_getInstance(__CLASS__);
}
}
abstract class Singleton
{
private static $instance;
protected function __construct() {}
private function __clone() {}
abstract static public function getInstance();
protected static function _getInstance($c)
{
if (!isset(self::$instance)) {
self::$instance = new $c;
}
return self::$instance;
}
}
var_dump( Test::getInstance() );
?>
thing :-/ Though i wonder if there are any other hacks using some sort
of classkit/other class manipulation functions?
probably runkit (or is it classkit - can't remember which of those
is more actively developed) might give a way out - but I would recommend
it for production code.
public static function GetInstance()
{
if (!isset(self::$instance)) {
if (!isset(self::$class)) {
Isn't that self::$class the same "late static binding" thing? :-) As i
yeah - put it down to a thinko.
get it, at this point from Singleton::GetInstance() you can't get the
static $class member of Test class.
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Hello,
The site I'm working on works like this...
Requires a login that uses sessions to remember username and email
address. Upon being verified, the user is presented with a page that
displays several questions regarding their background. Upon submitting
the background page, a script checks to make sure all background
questions were answered. If not, the page is redisplayed with a warning
to answer all questions. If they are all present, a second page is
displayed asking about a specific topic. Submitting the second page
calls up the code provided below.
In reading the www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php page, I'd like to
point out we do not use cookies. The session id is propagated in the
URL (although it's not visible in the URL bar). Also,
session.gc_maxlifetime is set to 5400. We are using PHP 4.3.4.
Not very often, but once in a while, I'll get an email warning me that a
submission was denied because $_SESSION['Q'] is empty. I'm wondering,
hoping and/or praying that someone out there can look at this small
script and let me know if I'm doing something wrong with the built in
function array_pop, perhaps I don't understand sessions at all or
perhaps it is a server issue. It's very confusing because other session
variables (name and email from the login page) are not emptied, just
$_SESSION['Q'].
Here's my code with some documentation:
<?php
/*
$_SESSION['startQA'] contains 11 elements and is generated by a previous
page in the site.
Once the visitor clicks the page two submit button, the above SESSION
variable comes into play again.
This script takes that array of elements and does the following:
1. Assign session array to local array
2. Removes the last elemental value using array_pop
3. Removes the last elemental value using array_pop
4. Assign local variable the value of the a POST element
4a. Create a new session array and populates the first element equal to
POST element
5. Runs through and populates the remaining 9 elements
5a. Total of 10 elements are now populated, 0 thru 9
6. Double checks the existence of each element
6a. if an element is missing, email me a warning and end program
*/
//Assign Session array to local variable
// Step 1
$thisQarray = $_SESSION['startQA'];
//Remove the last element of the original array
// Step 2
$area = array_pop($thisQarray);
//Remove last element of bgq array and assign to taking_test_at
// Step 3
$from_location = array_pop($thisQarray);
//Assign test version to variable
// Step 4
$testVersion = $_POST['version'];
//Start building the final Session Array
// Step 4a
$_SESSION['Q'] = array($testVersion);
//Populate rest of Session Array
// Step 5
for ($newBGQCounter=0; $newBGQCounter<count($thisQarray); $newBGQCounter++)
{
$_SESSION['Q'][$newBGQCounter+1] = $thisQarray[$newBGQCounter];
}
//test for existense of session array elements
if ( ($_SESSION['Q'][0] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][1] == "") OR
($_SESSION['Q'][2] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][3] == "") OR
($_SESSION['Q'][4] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][5] == "") OR
($_SESSION['Q'][6] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][7] == "") OR
($_SESSION['Q'][8] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][9] == "") )
{
SEND ME AN ERROR EMAIL
END PROGRAM
}
?>
Thank you all very much,
R
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You're missing the session_start() call at the beginning of your code.
I'm surprised it works at all without that..
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php
Brady
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Webmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 1:49 PM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP] Session Array Disappears
>
> Hello,
>
> The site I'm working on works like this...
> Requires a login that uses sessions to remember username and email
> address. Upon being verified, the user is presented with a page that
> displays several questions regarding their background. Upon
> submitting
> the background page, a script checks to make sure all background
> questions were answered. If not, the page is redisplayed
> with a warning
> to answer all questions. If they are all present, a second page is
> displayed asking about a specific topic. Submitting the second page
> calls up the code provided below.
>
> In reading the www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php page,
> I'd like to
> point out we do not use cookies. The session id is propagated in the
> URL (although it's not visible in the URL bar). Also,
> session.gc_maxlifetime is set to 5400. We are using PHP 4.3.4.
>
> Not very often, but once in a while, I'll get an email
> warning me that a
> submission was denied because $_SESSION['Q'] is empty. I'm
> wondering,
> hoping and/or praying that someone out there can look at this small
> script and let me know if I'm doing something wrong with the built in
> function array_pop, perhaps I don't understand sessions at all or
> perhaps it is a server issue. It's very confusing because
> other session
> variables (name and email from the login page) are not emptied, just
> $_SESSION['Q'].
>
> Here's my code with some documentation:
> <?php
> /*
> $_SESSION['startQA'] contains 11 elements and is generated by
> a previous
> page in the site.
> Once the visitor clicks the page two submit button, the above SESSION
> variable comes into play again.
>
> This script takes that array of elements and does the following:
> 1. Assign session array to local array
> 2. Removes the last elemental value using array_pop
> 3. Removes the last elemental value using array_pop
> 4. Assign local variable the value of the a POST element
> 4a. Create a new session array and populates the first
> element equal to
> POST element
> 5. Runs through and populates the remaining 9 elements
> 5a. Total of 10 elements are now populated, 0 thru 9
> 6. Double checks the existence of each element
> 6a. if an element is missing, email me a warning and end program
> */
>
> //Assign Session array to local variable
> // Step 1
> $thisQarray = $_SESSION['startQA'];
>
> //Remove the last element of the original array
> // Step 2
> $area = array_pop($thisQarray);
>
> //Remove last element of bgq array and assign to taking_test_at
> // Step 3
> $from_location = array_pop($thisQarray);
>
> //Assign test version to variable
> // Step 4
> $testVersion = $_POST['version'];
>
> //Start building the final Session Array
> // Step 4a
> $_SESSION['Q'] = array($testVersion);
>
> //Populate rest of Session Array
> // Step 5
> for ($newBGQCounter=0; $newBGQCounter<count($thisQarray);
> $newBGQCounter++)
> {
> $_SESSION['Q'][$newBGQCounter+1] = $thisQarray[$newBGQCounter];
> }
>
> //test for existense of session array elements
> if ( ($_SESSION['Q'][0] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][1] == "") OR
> ($_SESSION['Q'][2] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][3] == "") OR
> ($_SESSION['Q'][4] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][5] == "") OR
> ($_SESSION['Q'][6] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][7] == "") OR
> ($_SESSION['Q'][8] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][9] == "") )
> {
> SEND ME AN ERROR EMAIL
> END PROGRAM
> }
> ?>
>
> Thank you all very much,
> R
>
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Thanks for the reply.
Sorry, that was a typo in the email. I actually do have
session_start(); at the beginning of the scripts. My bad.
Thanks,
R
Brady Mitchell wrote:
You're missing the session_start() call at the beginning of your code.
I'm surprised it works at all without that..
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php
Brady
-----Original Message-----
From: Webmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 1:49 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] Session Array Disappears
Hello,
The site I'm working on works like this...
Requires a login that uses sessions to remember username and email
address. Upon being verified, the user is presented with a page that
displays several questions regarding their background. Upon
submitting
the background page, a script checks to make sure all background
questions were answered. If not, the page is redisplayed
with a warning
to answer all questions. If they are all present, a second page is
displayed asking about a specific topic. Submitting the second page
calls up the code provided below.
In reading the www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php page,
I'd like to
point out we do not use cookies. The session id is propagated in the
URL (although it's not visible in the URL bar). Also,
session.gc_maxlifetime is set to 5400. We are using PHP 4.3.4.
Not very often, but once in a while, I'll get an email
warning me that a
submission was denied because $_SESSION['Q'] is empty. I'm
wondering,
hoping and/or praying that someone out there can look at this small
script and let me know if I'm doing something wrong with the built in
function array_pop, perhaps I don't understand sessions at all or
perhaps it is a server issue. It's very confusing because
other session
variables (name and email from the login page) are not emptied, just
$_SESSION['Q'].
Here's my code with some documentation:
<?php
/*
$_SESSION['startQA'] contains 11 elements and is generated by
a previous
page in the site.
Once the visitor clicks the page two submit button, the above SESSION
variable comes into play again.
This script takes that array of elements and does the following:
1. Assign session array to local array
2. Removes the last elemental value using array_pop
3. Removes the last elemental value using array_pop
4. Assign local variable the value of the a POST element
4a. Create a new session array and populates the first
element equal to
POST element
5. Runs through and populates the remaining 9 elements
5a. Total of 10 elements are now populated, 0 thru 9
6. Double checks the existence of each element
6a. if an element is missing, email me a warning and end program
*/
//Assign Session array to local variable
// Step 1
$thisQarray = $_SESSION['startQA'];
//Remove the last element of the original array
// Step 2
$area = array_pop($thisQarray);
//Remove last element of bgq array and assign to taking_test_at
// Step 3
$from_location = array_pop($thisQarray);
//Assign test version to variable
// Step 4
$testVersion = $_POST['version'];
//Start building the final Session Array
// Step 4a
$_SESSION['Q'] = array($testVersion);
//Populate rest of Session Array
// Step 5
for ($newBGQCounter=0; $newBGQCounter<count($thisQarray);
$newBGQCounter++)
{
$_SESSION['Q'][$newBGQCounter+1] = $thisQarray[$newBGQCounter];
}
//test for existense of session array elements
if ( ($_SESSION['Q'][0] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][1] == "") OR
($_SESSION['Q'][2] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][3] == "") OR
($_SESSION['Q'][4] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][5] == "") OR
($_SESSION['Q'][6] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][7] == "") OR
($_SESSION['Q'][8] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][9] == "") )
{
SEND ME AN ERROR EMAIL
END PROGRAM
}
?>
Thank you all very much,
R
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add a ignore_user_abort(TRUE) first thing in your code.
Webmaster wrote:
Thanks for the reply.
Sorry, that was a typo in the email. I actually do have
session_start(); at the beginning of the scripts. My bad.
Thanks,
R
Brady Mitchell wrote:
You're missing the session_start() call at the beginning of your code.
I'm surprised it works at all without that..
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php
Brady
-----Original Message-----
From: Webmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April
24, 2006 1:49 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] Session Array Disappears
Hello,
The site I'm working on works like this...
Requires a login that uses sessions to remember username and email
address. Upon being verified, the user is presented with a page that
displays several questions regarding their background. Upon
submitting the background page, a script checks to make sure all
background questions were answered. If not, the page is redisplayed
with a warning to answer all questions. If they are all present, a
second page is displayed asking about a specific topic. Submitting
the second page calls up the code provided below.
In reading the www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php page, I'd like
to point out we do not use cookies. The session id is propagated in
the URL (although it's not visible in the URL bar). Also,
session.gc_maxlifetime is set to 5400. We are using PHP 4.3.4.
Not very often, but once in a while, I'll get an email warning me
that a submission was denied because $_SESSION['Q'] is empty. I'm
wondering, hoping and/or praying that someone out there can look at
this small script and let me know if I'm doing something wrong with
the built in function array_pop, perhaps I don't understand sessions
at all or perhaps it is a server issue. It's very confusing because
other session variables (name and email from the login page) are not
emptied, just $_SESSION['Q'].
Here's my code with some documentation:
<?php
/*
$_SESSION['startQA'] contains 11 elements and is generated by a
previous page in the site.
Once the visitor clicks the page two submit button, the above SESSION
variable comes into play again.
This script takes that array of elements and does the following:
1. Assign session array to local array
2. Removes the last elemental value using array_pop
3. Removes the last elemental value using array_pop
4. Assign local variable the value of the a POST element
4a. Create a new session array and populates the first element equal
to POST element
5. Runs through and populates the remaining 9 elements
5a. Total of 10 elements are now populated, 0 thru 9
6. Double checks the existence of each element
6a. if an element is missing, email me a warning and end program
*/
//Assign Session array to local variable
// Step 1
$thisQarray = $_SESSION['startQA'];
//Remove the last element of the original array
// Step 2
$area = array_pop($thisQarray);
//Remove last element of bgq array and assign to taking_test_at
// Step 3
$from_location = array_pop($thisQarray);
//Assign test version to variable
// Step 4
$testVersion = $_POST['version'];
//Start building the final Session Array
// Step 4a
$_SESSION['Q'] = array($testVersion);
//Populate rest of Session Array
// Step 5
for ($newBGQCounter=0; $newBGQCounter<count($thisQarray);
$newBGQCounter++)
{
$_SESSION['Q'][$newBGQCounter+1] = $thisQarray[$newBGQCounter];
}
//test for existense of session array elements
if ( ($_SESSION['Q'][0] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][1] == "") OR
($_SESSION['Q'][2] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][3] == "") OR
($_SESSION['Q'][4] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][5] == "") OR
($_SESSION['Q'][6] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][7] == "") OR
($_SESSION['Q'][8] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][9] == "") )
{
SEND ME AN ERROR EMAIL
END PROGRAM
}
?>
Thank you all very much,
R
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Hello,
Thank you for the reply.
Interesting function. I have not heard of that one previously. I've
read the manual pages for it.....If I understand
ignore_user_abort(TRUE)...you are thinking that maybe the user is being
disconnected (using stop button or having ISP issues) prior to the
script finishing and therefore the script does not have a chance to
create the array? I'm wondering if that would be true, since later in
the same script, it generates an email to inform me someone's submission
was lost because the array did not exist. I'm confused how it could
stop executing the middle of the script (step 4a and 5 below) but yet
execute the end of the script (the final step in the code below)? I was
first made aware of this issue because of the email, so I think the end
of the script is executing.
Thanks,
R
Al wrote:
add a ignore_user_abort(TRUE) first thing in your code.
Hello,
The site I'm working on works like this...
Requires a login that uses sessions to remember username and email
address. Upon being verified, the user is presented with a page
that displays several questions regarding their background. Upon
submitting the background page, a script checks to make sure all
background questions were answered. If not, the page is
redisplayed with a warning to answer all questions. If they are
all present, a second page is displayed asking about a specific
topic. Submitting the second page calls up the code provided below.
In reading the www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php page, I'd like
to point out we do not use cookies. The session id is propagated
in the URL (although it's not visible in the URL bar). Also,
session.gc_maxlifetime is set to 5400. We are using PHP 4.3.4.
Not very often, but once in a while, I'll get an email warning me
that a submission was denied because $_SESSION['Q'] is empty. I'm
wondering, hoping and/or praying that someone out there can look at
this small script and let me know if I'm doing something wrong with
the built in function array_pop, perhaps I don't understand
sessions at all or perhaps it is a server issue. It's very
confusing because other session variables (name and email from the
login page) are not emptied, just $_SESSION['Q'].
Here's my code with some documentation:
<?php
/*
$_SESSION['startQA'] contains 11 elements and is generated by a
previous page in the site.
Once the visitor clicks the page two submit button, the above
SESSION variable comes into play again.
This script takes that array of elements and does the following:
1. Assign session array to local array
2. Removes the last elemental value using array_pop
3. Removes the last elemental value using array_pop
4. Assign local variable the value of the a POST element
4a. Create a new session array and populates the first element
equal to POST element
5. Runs through and populates the remaining 9 elements
5a. Total of 10 elements are now populated, 0 thru 9
6. Double checks the existence of each element
6a. if an element is missing, email me a warning and end program
*/
//Assign Session array to local variable
// Step 1
$thisQarray = $_SESSION['startQA'];
//Remove the last element of the original array
// Step 2
$area = array_pop($thisQarray);
//Remove last element of bgq array and assign to taking_test_at
// Step 3
$from_location = array_pop($thisQarray);
//Assign test version to variable
// Step 4
$testVersion = $_POST['version'];
//Start building the final Session Array
// Step 4a
$_SESSION['Q'] = array($testVersion);
//Populate rest of Session Array
// Step 5
for ($newBGQCounter=0; $newBGQCounter<count($thisQarray);
$newBGQCounter++)
{
$_SESSION['Q'][$newBGQCounter+1] = $thisQarray[$newBGQCounter];
}
//test for existense of session array elements
if ( ($_SESSION['Q'][0] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][1] == "") OR
($_SESSION['Q'][2] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][3] == "") OR
($_SESSION['Q'][4] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][5] == "") OR
($_SESSION['Q'][6] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][7] == "") OR
($_SESSION['Q'][8] == "") OR ($_SESSION['Q'][9] == "") )
{
SEND ME AN ERROR EMAIL
END PROGRAM
}
?>
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Hello,
==
<?php
$name = 'foo bar';
echo "<a href=/index.php?name=". $name .">Foo Bar</a>";
?>
==
Then the URL showed up at the bottom border of the browser has 'name=foo'.
What should I do to have 'name=foo bar' in the URL? I tried
htmlspecialchars but did not see any difference.
I'd appreciate any help.
Bing
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http://php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php
Should get you what you need :)
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From: Bing Du [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 April 2006 22:42
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] how to keep spaces in parameters in URL?
Hello,
==
<?php
$name = 'foo bar';
echo "<a href=/index.php?name=". $name .">Foo Bar</a>";
?>
==
Then the URL showed up at the bottom border of the browser has 'name=foo'.
What should I do to have 'name=foo bar' in the URL? I tried
htmlspecialchars but did not see any difference.
I'd appreciate any help.
Bing
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Try
print("<a href='/index.php?name=$name'>Foo Bar</a>");
Jeremy Schreckhise, M.B.A.
Hello,
==
<?php
$name = 'foo bar';
echo "<a href=/index.php?name=". $name .">Foo Bar</a>"; ?> ==
Then the URL showed up at the bottom border of the browser has 'name=foo'.
What should I do to have 'name=foo bar' in the URL? I tried
htmlspecialchars but did not see any difference.
I'd appreciate any help.
Bing
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Hello,
I've seen the usage of both TRUE, true, FALSE and false all over the
php.net site. Yet, there does not seem to be a clear distinction
between the uppercase and lowercase variants.
Will it make any difference if i use lowercase or uppercase?
I would be thankful if someone could shed some light on this.
Kindest regards,
Jesper
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Jesper Forsberg wrote:
Hello,
I've seen the usage of both TRUE, true, FALSE and false all over the
php.net site. Yet, there does not seem to be a clear distinction
between the uppercase and lowercase variants.
Will it make any difference if i use lowercase or uppercase?
I would be thankful if someone could shed some light on this.
Kindest regards,
Jesper
PHP keywords are case-insensitive. Since true and false fall under this
category, so are they. Don't worry, it won't make any difference (unless
you have strict coding guidelines, which restrict you to a single type
of use...)
- tul
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M. Sokolewicz wrote:
Jesper Forsberg wrote:
Hello,
I've seen the usage of both TRUE, true, FALSE and false all over the
php.net site. Yet, there does not seem to be a clear distinction
between the uppercase and lowercase variants.
Will it make any difference if i use lowercase or uppercase?
I would be thankful if someone could shed some light on this.
Kindest regards,
Jesper
PHP keywords are case-insensitive. Since true and false fall under this
category, so are they. Don't worry, it won't make any difference (unless
you have strict coding guidelines, which restrict you to a single type
of use...)
actually even then it doesn't make a difference to the php engine - granted
your company's CS gestapo might pay you a visit if you don't comply ;-)
- tul
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Thank you very much. You've been most helpful :)
On 4/25/06, Jochem Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> M. Sokolewicz wrote:
> > Jesper Forsberg wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I've seen the usage of both TRUE, true, FALSE and false all over the
> >> php.net site. Yet, there does not seem to be a clear distinction
> >> between the uppercase and lowercase variants.
> >>
> >> Will it make any difference if i use lowercase or uppercase?
> >> I would be thankful if someone could shed some light on this.
> >>
> >> Kindest regards,
> >> Jesper
> >
> >
> > PHP keywords are case-insensitive. Since true and false fall under this
> > category, so are they. Don't worry, it won't make any difference (unless
> > you have strict coding guidelines, which restrict you to a single type
> > of use...)
>
> actually even then it doesn't make a difference to the php engine - granted
> your company's CS gestapo might pay you a visit if you don't comply ;-)
>
> >
> > - tul
> >
>
>
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On Mon, April 24, 2006 5:12 pm, Jesper Forsberg wrote:
> I've seen the usage of both TRUE, true, FALSE and false all over the
> php.net site. Yet, there does not seem to be a clear distinction
> between the uppercase and lowercase variants.
>
> Will it make any difference if i use lowercase or uppercase?
> I would be thankful if someone could shed some light on this.
You *do* want to stay consistent with whatever you choose -- or with
whatever was chosen by the developer of the code you inherited.
Unless they were totally wacko and used TrUe and fAlSe :-)
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