Re: [nyphp-talk] advice on scaling up

2007-07-11 Thread Anirudh Zala
On Tuesday 10 Jul 2007 23:17:13 Marc Antony Vose wrote: > Hi all: > > I'm a developer who has concentrated more on smaller-scale projects, > but as it turns out one of my projects is beginning to stress the > limits of a single server, and so I'm about to begin venturing into > the unknown. > > The

Re: [nyphp-talk] TRUE/FALSE and $_SESSION variables

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Shiflett
Try this example. (It works for me.) TRUE'; } else { echo 'Not TRUE'; } print_r($_SESSION); ?> Chris Michael Southwell wrote: > $_SESSION['ineligibleFlag'] = TRUE; > if ( $_SESSION['ineligibleFlag'] === TRUE ) echo 'not'; > > 'not' is not echoed. Why not? -- Chris Shiflett http://shifle

Re: [nyphp-talk] TRUE/FALSE and $_SESSION variables

2007-07-11 Thread Flavio daCosta
On 07/11/2007 11:14 PM, Michael Southwell wrote: > $_SESSION['ineligibleFlag'] = TRUE; > if ( $_SESSION['ineligibleFlag'] === TRUE ) echo 'not'; > > 'not' is not echoed. Why not? Works for me. (5.0.5 and 5.2.1) ___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing

Re: [nyphp-talk] TRUE/FALSE and $_SESSION variables

2007-07-11 Thread Michael Southwell
At 10:50 PM 7/11/2007, you wrote: This tiny script: Well, that was a perfect example of bad question asking, which solicited answers to things I wasn't trying to ask ;-( -- sorry, guys, but thanks anyway. So let me try again: $_SESSION['ineligibleFlag'] = TRUE; if ( $_SESSION['ineligibleFla

Re: [nyphp-talk] TRUE/FALSE and $_SESSION variables

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Shiflett
Michael Southwell wrote: > This tiny script: > session_start(); > $ineligibleFlag = FALSE; > if ( $ineligibleFlag === FALSE ) echo 'it is false'; > $_SESSION['ineligibleFlag'] = FALSE; > print_r( $_SESSION ); > > produces this output: > it is false > Array ( [ineligibleFlag] => ) When cast to a

Re: [nyphp-talk] TRUE/FALSE and $_SESSION variables

2007-07-11 Thread Flavio daCosta
Use var_dump( $_SESSION ); for the result you are searching for. ___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP

Re: [nyphp-talk] TRUE/FALSE and $_SESSION variables

2007-07-11 Thread Kenneth Downs
"false" is a keyword, same as "true" and "null". This tiny script: This assigns $ineligibleFlag the boolean value of 0 or "false" if ( $ineligibleFlag === FALSE ) echo 'it is false'; This tests to see if $inelegibleFlag is boolean and false (triple equals requires type and value to match

[nyphp-talk] TRUE/FALSE and $_SESSION variables

2007-07-11 Thread Michael Southwell
This tiny script: '; $_SESSION['ineligibleFlag'] = FALSE; print_r( $_SESSION ); produces this output: it is false Array ( [ineligibleFlag] => ) The docs tell me that sessions can handle everything that can be serialized, and that serialize can handle everything but resources, and that I should

[nyphp-talk] Re: Resize pictures before uploading (Jeffrey Li)

2007-07-11 Thread Jeffrey Li
ImageMagick is a great command line tool that can modify images but the processing will happen on the server side after image has already been uploaded. You can use exec() within your script to execute the ImageMagick commands http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php > > At 10:01 AM -0400 7/1

Re: [nyphp-talk] Resize pictures before uploading

2007-07-11 Thread Steve Francia
Javascript doesn't have access to the client-side files.. But Java and Flash do. You could do this in Flash pretty easily. Agreed as a general rule you would want to store the full size images server side, but I can think of many exceptions to that rule, a common one is, using it for an icon/avata

Re: [nyphp-talk] Please wait, processing, message technique

2007-07-11 Thread Thomas O'Neill
I did something like what you see on orbitz. Check it out.. http://tconeill.com/examples/pixelcrunch/ On 7/10/07, Tim Lieberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Never really thought about it. If your backend processes is asynchronous (or if you make it so) you could have your "progress" script j

Re: [nyphp-talk] Creating a MySQL DataBase using/through php script.Can anybody help??

2007-07-11 Thread PaulCheung
Thanks everybody it is all working now. Paul - Original Message - From: Jon Baer To: NYPHP Talk Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Creating a MySQL DataBase using/through php script.Can anybody help?? You would also need to set special GRANT p

Re: [nyphp-talk] Resize pictures before uploading

2007-07-11 Thread tedd
At 10:01 AM -0400 7/11/07, Dell Sala wrote: On Jul 11, 2007, at 7:51 AM, tedd wrote: On Wednesday 20 Jun 2007 21:42:13 Nelly Yusupova wrote: Is there a script or any way I can resize the pictures before uploading? Nelly: Sure, you'll have to write something client-side, namely javascript

Re: [nyphp-talk] Creating a MySQL DataBase using/through php script. Can anybody help??

2007-07-11 Thread Allen Shaw
Hi Paul, You've gotten some good answers on your actual question, so I won't repeat them. But as an important side note, watch out what you copy from the books. This line is terribly risky: $rs1 = @mysql_query( $_REQUEST['db'] ); If, for example, I requested http://example.com/create_db

Re: [nyphp-talk] Creating a MySQL DataBase using/through php script. Can anybody help??

2007-07-11 Thread Jon Baer
You would also need to set special GRANT privileges for user "paul". http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/create-database.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/grant.html Also of note ... -snip- If you manually create a directory under the data directory (for example, with mkdir), the

Re: [nyphp-talk] Resize pictures before uploading

2007-07-11 Thread Dell Sala
On Jul 11, 2007, at 7:51 AM, tedd wrote: On Wednesday 20 Jun 2007 21:42:13 Nelly Yusupova wrote: Is there a script or any way I can resize the pictures before uploading? Nelly: Sure, you'll have to write something client-side, namely javascript to do it. But, there's all sorts of javas

Re: [nyphp-talk] Creating a MySQL DataBase using/through php script. Can anybody help??

2007-07-11 Thread Jake McGraw
Ah, you may need to modify the @mysql_query() command like so: @mysql_query('CREATE DATABASE '.$_REQUEST['db']); So that the final submitted query looks like (for $_REQUEST['db'] = 'myDatabase'): CREATE DATABASE myDatabase Whereas before you were issuing the query: myDatabase Which makes no

[nyphp-talk] Creating a MySQL DataBase using/through php script. Can anybody help??

2007-07-11 Thread PaulCheung
Can anybody see what I am doing wrong? Using Mike McGrath's book "PHP 5 in easy steps" I have been trying to get both his textbook example on page 144 "Creating a database" and the example from the www.ineasysteps.com website to work. Not being able to get either the textbook example or "creat

Re: [nyphp-talk] Resize pictures before uploading

2007-07-11 Thread tedd
On Wednesday 20 Jun 2007 21:42:13 Nelly Yusupova wrote: Hello Everyone, I wrote a script that allows users to upload up to 10 photo files to the server. The script automatically resizes the photos to the appropriate size. The upload and resizing scripts are working perfectly. The problem

Re: [nyphp-talk] Resize pictures before uploading

2007-07-11 Thread David Krings
Anirudh Zala wrote: Hence when user moved to last box or finally to upload button, 70% of images would have transferred in background. This saves lot of uploading time and user thinks that transfer of images went faster however in reality it is same. And what would one do if the user changes