[nyphp-talk] Strange ! and line break coming through via msyql/php/mail()

2011-11-17 Thread Aaron Fischer
Greetings, I have a script that gets some text out of a MySQL table and sends it in the message body via the mail function. Some of the emails are coming through with an exclamation point followed by the text being moved to a new line. I'm not sure where this ! and \n are coming from. When

Re: [nyphp-talk] Book recommendation for JS/AJAX?

2011-07-11 Thread Aaron Fischer
mming. -Anthony On 07/07/2011 10:39 AM, Aaron Fischer wrote: Hey guys, I'd like to spruce up my html/php pages with more dynamic elements and JS/AJAX/JQUERY/JSON type stuff. My stuff has been mostly html and php to date, only played with javascript a little. However, I see value in a

[nyphp-talk] Book recommendation for JS/AJAX?

2011-07-07 Thread Aaron Fischer
Hey guys, I'd like to spruce up my html/php pages with more dynamic elements and JS/AJAX/JQUERY/JSON type stuff. My stuff has been mostly html and php to date, only played with javascript a little. However, I see value in adding more dynamic elements to my pages (showing/hiding div content,

Re: [nyphp-talk] PHP and SOAP

2009-12-03 Thread Aaron Fischer
l the eclipse project/ workspace workflow. However, even if you are not a fan of eclipse in general (I am not) this is the best soap tool I know of. If yu are on windows, also look at storm http://www.codeplex.com/storm On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Aaron Fischer wrote: Justin, OK, I&#x

Re: [nyphp-talk] PHP and SOAP

2009-12-03 Thread Aaron Fischer
> > pear channel-discover pear.zfcampus.org > pear install zfcampus/zf > > - jake > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Aaron Fischer wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >> I'm working on a project that will require the use of SOAP. From what I >> g

[nyphp-talk] PHP and SOAP

2009-12-03 Thread Aaron Fischer
Greetings all, I'm working on a project that will require the use of SOAP. From what I gather there are three main packages I can use: 1) PHP built-in SOAP extension - http://php.net/manual/en/book.soap.php 2) PEAR SOAP package - http://pear.php.net/package/SOAP 3) NuSOAP package - http:/

Re: [nyphp-talk] Zip code radius

2009-06-30 Thread Aaron Fischer
A gold star! I always wanted one of those. Thanks. =) -Aaron On Jun 30, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Allen Shaw wrote: Very cool, Aaron. Also very cool that you've actually updated the thread with your notes. Gold star for you, man. ___ New York PHP Us

[nyphp-talk] Adding spell check to a form field

2009-06-30 Thread Aaron Fischer
I would like to add spell check to a field in one of my forms. I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations for a php class and/or javascript/ajax function that they liked? I did some quick searching for php and/or javascript spell checkers and found a bunch of results but would like to he

Re: [nyphp-talk] Zip code radius

2009-06-30 Thread Aaron Fischer
Wanted to post my results. I have successfully created a zip code radius function on my site, similar to a store locator. Here's a brief recap: 1) Geocoded around 31,000 addresses sitting in my database, using Google Maps API (http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=80200&top

Re: [nyphp-talk] Zip code radius

2009-05-22 Thread Aaron Fischer
That sounds good, thanks for the link Paul. -Aaron On May 22, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Paul Guba wrote: Here is what I used: http://www.micahcarrick.com/04-19-2005/php-zip-code-range-and-distance-calculation.html Paul Guba p...@gubavision.com On May 22, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Aaron Fischer wrote

Re: [nyphp-talk] Zip code radius

2009-05-22 Thread Aaron Fischer
.org/wiki/Haversine_formula Once you have these three pieces, you will be able to calculate the distance between contacts and any zip code. Regards, John Campbell On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Aaron Fischer wrote: I'd like to build a feature that will allow someone to enter a zip

[nyphp-talk] Zip code radius

2009-05-22 Thread Aaron Fischer
I'd like to build a feature that will allow someone to enter a zip and a radius and have the page display all the contacts that are within the specified radius of that location. (I have a db table to query that has contacts and their address information, including zips.) Has anyone found a

[nyphp-talk] Chat software

2009-03-25 Thread Aaron Fischer
Heya, does anyone have any experience or recommendations for chat software? I'm looking for something to host a group of chatters in a room, probably around 20-40 chatters at a time. I had something a year or so ago, I think it was called FlashChat, and it was a php/flash combination. It

[nyphp-talk] Session timing out too soon

2008-12-04 Thread Aaron Fischer
Greetings, I have an application built for internal use that has a user login and then uses sessions to track their state. I am running into a problem in that their session seems to expire if they are on one page for somewhere between 15-25 minutes. This creates a big problem because th

Re: [nyphp-talk] Editing a PDF

2008-01-03 Thread Aaron Fischer
I use FPDF and FPDI to import existing PDFs and modify them. However, I agree it's probably not in the sense that you are referring to them Tedd. Basically it brings the PDF in as a template and then you can write to it, images or text for example. Everything I have done has involved writ

Re: [nyphp-talk] Editing a PDF

2008-01-03 Thread Aaron Fischer
I've had great success with this one: http://www.fpdf.org/ On Jan 3, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Jeff Loiselle wrote: Hello, Can anyone recommend a package they've used (written in PHP, no extensions) to open a PDF, add a simple text header line, and save it? Regards, jeff ___

Re: [nyphp-talk] Reading an excel file with PHP

2007-08-20 Thread Aaron Fischer
Hi Ben, I've been looking into working with csv. That seems like a nice way to go. Do you use PHP to convert the .xls files to .csv? Yes, I'd be interested in source. Thanks Ben. -Aaron On Aug 20, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Ben Sgro ((ProjectSkyLine)) wrote: Hello Aaron, I convert .xls fil

[nyphp-talk] Reading an excel file with PHP

2007-08-20 Thread Aaron Fischer
I've been googling around this morning looking for a good way to read in an excel file with PHP. I found PHP-Excel Reader and MS-Excel Stream Handler but haven't had success getting either one running. =( Any recommendations on an available class to use or PHP functions to go about this?

Re: [nyphp-talk] Search of directories and files on my web server

2007-08-16 Thread Aaron Fischer
Dan, thanks that did the trick. I had various echo statements in my original script but took them out for purposes of posting succinct code to the list. I didn't use grep because I don't have any exposure or experience with it. It was mentioned as an option during my original post but I

[nyphp-talk] Search of directories and files on my web server

2007-08-16 Thread Aaron Fischer
Greetings, I am working on a little script that will start at a specified directory on my web server and then proceed to look through all files and sub-folders for an instance of text located in a file. (This is a follow-up of sorts to a previous post of mine from a week or two ago.) I g

Re: [nyphp-talk] Finding instances of include file

2007-07-26 Thread Aaron Fischer
I'm using a text editor, BBEdit on Mac OS X. It has a nice find feature but as far as I can tell it's only applicable for local searches on my hard drive. It doesn't look like you can use the find feature on a remote ftp/sftp site. -Aaron On Jul 26, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Darryle steplight wr

[nyphp-talk] Finding instances of include file

2007-07-26 Thread Aaron Fischer
I have an include file that I do not want to use anymore. I want to go through all the files on my site and find every instance of the code that calls that include file. Any suggestions on how to do that? Thanks, -Aaron ___ New York PHP Community

Re: [nyphp-talk] SQL question

2007-07-20 Thread Aaron Fischer
Here? http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/mysql Hi! What is the best place to bug someone about a pure SQL question? I need to join multiple tables and no matter what I do, it just doesn't get me the wanted results. So, any pointers are welcome. David ___

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT - good source of parts?

2007-07-20 Thread Aaron Fischer
+4 newegg. I ordered a hard drive enclosure from them. It was defective. They shipped another one out right away and took back the one I received. No problems. On Jul 20, 2007, at 10:39 AM, Jerry B. Altzman wrote: on 2007-07-20 10:36 Andy Dirnberger said the following: +2 newegg.com

Re: [nyphp-talk] [OT] FORMS

2007-07-19 Thread Aaron Fischer
I've had great results with FPDF. http://www.fpdf.org/ 1) Create the HTML web form. 2) Use PHP to store the data in your DB and then use FPDF to output a PDF to the web browser for the user to print. -Aaron On Jul 19, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Nicholas Hart wrote: I am looking for the easiest way t

Re: [nyphp-talk] Sorry

2007-06-15 Thread Aaron Fischer
+1. All of the lists that I am on (except one) have the reply set to go to the list. The one list that sends replies to the person who posts is annoying and (to me) does not seem to be a logical process. -Aaron On Jun 15, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Allen Shaw wrote: Actually, I like the fact that

Re: [nyphp-talk] IDE recommendations

2007-05-25 Thread Aaron Fischer
+1 That would be a great resource. Probably be good to standardize to require version numbers, date of user post, etc. since features vary from version to version. -Aaron On May 25, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Mark Armendariz wrote: It would be nice to see a "How I Work" section on nyphp.org f

Re: [nyphp-talk] April Meeting - Security 2.0

2007-04-24 Thread Aaron Fischer
I already have a copy of Essential PHP Security. So I guess my bribe is that you have to sign it. =) -Aaron On Apr 23, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Chris Shiflett wrote: As just announced today, I'm giving tomorrow's talk, and the topic is Security 2.0. Yeah, I'm poking fun at Web 2.0 with the title,

[nyphp-talk] NYC spot where I can work today?

2007-04-24 Thread Aaron Fischer
Hi all, Looks like I'll be driving in to the city for the meeting tonight. I'm planning on coming in early and am looking for a place where I can sit down and get some work done with my laptop. Any suggestions, like an internet cafe or something? Necessary - being able to plug in to a powe

[nyphp-talk] RSVP for tonight

2007-04-24 Thread Aaron Fischer
Hmmm, I RSVP'd last night just after midnight. Am I on the list or was that too late? Just want to make sure as I would be driving from a distance. Thanks, -Aaron ___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [nyphp-talk] April Meeting - Security 2.0

2007-04-23 Thread Aaron Fischer
Oh darn, I'm not going to be able to make it. (I would be driving from a bit of a distance). However, I'm very interested in the presentation. I hope it will be recorded? -Aaron On Apr 23, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Chris Shiflett wrote: As just announced today, I'm giving tomorrow's talk, and

Re: [nyphp-talk] [OT] Next meeting

2007-04-12 Thread Aaron Fischer
Security, sessions and testing all sound great. Specifically, I would be very interested in discussions about practices that can be done to write secure code/apps, and things that can be done to test it, attempt to find vulnerabilities, etc. -Aaron On Apr 12, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Chris Shifl

Re: [nyphp-talk] Prevent (IE) browser cache of image

2007-04-06 Thread Aaron Fischer
Using time() to add a unique string to the img src seems to work quite well, thanks! I think I prefer this to the nocache solution which gets applied to all page elements. This example will only prevent caching of the one image, so all other items on the page can be cached, which I don't

[nyphp-talk] Prevent (IE) browser cache of image

2007-04-06 Thread Aaron Fischer
Hi there, I have a little app that is a pseudo-day-planner. Users can enter appointments via a form and then I use PHP and GD to write the appointment blocks onto a calendar image. It works great in Safari on Mac and Firefox on PC. However, it doesn't work with Internet Explorer on PC.

Re: [nyphp-talk] [OT] Yet another CSS Question

2007-03-02 Thread Aaron Fischer
Kenneth, good timing, following up on the recent discussion about CSS. NYPHP front end list is the spot to ask this question: http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/front-end -Aaron -- resisting the urge to make a front-end, back-end reference. On Mar 2, 2007, at 3:57 PM, Kenneth Downs wrote:

Re: [nyphp-talk] RegExp Assistance

2007-03-02 Thread Aaron Fischer
egEx Buddy looks nice. Hopefully their software is better than their web design. =) On Mar 1, 2007, at 5:58 PM, inforequest wrote: Aaron Fischer agfische-at-email.smith.edu |nyphp dev/internal group use| wrote: Looks interesting but it's only offered for Windows. http://www

Re: [nyphp-talk] RegExp Assistance

2007-03-01 Thread Aaron Fischer
Looks interesting but it's only offered for Windows. http://www.regexbuddy.com/index.html Any good OS X equivalents out there? -Aaron On Mar 1, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Cliff Hirsch wrote: It's so simple! Seriously, I've said it before -- Regex Buddy is awesome.

Re: [nyphp-talk] RegExp Assistance

2007-03-01 Thread Aaron Fischer
Gotcha. Thanks Chris, I'll take a look at Cal's pattern. =) BTW, big props for your book. It's been extremely helpful. -Aaron On Mar 1, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Chris Shiflett wrote: Hi Aaron, I use the regexp from Chris's Essential PHP Security book: http://phpsecurity.org/ Cool. :-) I act

Re: [nyphp-talk] Off topic - CSS support list

2007-03-01 Thread Aaron Fischer
CSS resource page with links to a few lists: http://www.dezwozhere.com/links.html While not a list, I've heard good things about A List Apart: http://alistapart.com/topics/code/css/ Also CSS Zen Garden: http://www.csszengarden.com/ -Aaron On Mar 1, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Urb LeJeune wrote: Could

Re: [nyphp-talk] RegExp Assistance

2007-03-01 Thread Aaron Fischer
I use the regexp from Chris's Essential PHP Security book: http://phpsecurity.org/ $email_pattern = '/[EMAIL PROTECTED]<&>]+@([ -a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,}$/i'; if (preg_match($email_pattern, $yourEmailVar)) { echo 'It's good'; } else { echo 'There's a problem'; } Note, the echo's are

Re: [nyphp-talk] Best way to copy array by value

2007-02-26 Thread Aaron Fischer
oductId(); Your output will be '12'. If you want to copy an object in PHP 5 you'll need to use 'clone.' Aaron Fischer wrote: Indeed it does. Sorry! I was led to believe (by my cs professor) that the default behavior when copying an array is that the copied array

Re: [nyphp-talk] Best way to copy array by value

2007-02-26 Thread Aaron Fischer
wrote: Aaron: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 03:47:45PM -0500, Aaron Fischer wrote: I need to copy an array by value, not by reference. Is there a best way to do this? Right now I found serialize/unserialize which seems to do the trick. What ARE you talking about? Copying by value is the default

[nyphp-talk] Best way to copy array by value

2007-02-25 Thread Aaron Fischer
I need to copy an array by value, not by reference. Is there a best way to do this? Right now I found serialize/unserialize which seems to do the trick. Python has a function called deepcopy: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-copy.html For Java, it appears you can use a handmade function o

Re: OT: Re: [nyphp-talk] Fon Project

2007-02-20 Thread Aaron Fischer
So when you are working on a PHP project and you are away from your office or home, you can still be productive (for free). =) On Feb 20, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Donald J Organ IV wrote: But what it does allow for is for setting up public ally accessible wi-fi that you can share with other FON

[nyphp-talk] Strange chars coming from forms

2007-02-12 Thread Aaron Fischer
I notice some funny characters occasionally when some of my web forms are submitted. Examples include stuff like: Somebody submitted "word" and I get ?word? Somebody submitted time and I get t! me Not sure what would cause this? The form submissions are mostly from within the U.S., so I do

Re: [nyphp-talk] testing a theory

2007-02-07 Thread Aaron Fischer
o the same with option 2 and compare the results. - Brian Aaron Fischer wrote: How would one test something like this? Testing for performance is something I would like to start doing but I don't know where/ how to start. -Aaron On Feb 7, 2007, at 11:05 AM, tedd wrote: No offense meant,

Re: [nyphp-talk] testing a theory

2007-02-07 Thread Aaron Fischer
How would one test something like this? Testing for performance is something I would like to start doing but I don't know where/how to start. -Aaron On Feb 7, 2007, at 11:05 AM, tedd wrote: No offense meant, but when I have a question like that, I test it and find out. Why ask the list f

Re: [nyphp-talk] GD and image resizing

2007-01-31 Thread Aaron Fischer
Thanks Tedd and Dan. This code and the archives link helped me understand what I needed to do. I'm off and running and everything is working great. Much appreciated!! -Aaron On Jan 31, 2007, at 12:24 PM, tedd wrote: At 9:37 AM -0500 1/31/07, Aaron Fischer wrote: I'm un

Re: [nyphp-talk] [OT] "Appropriate use of list" - link broken

2007-01-31 Thread Aaron Fischer
Thanks for the thoughtful intro Rob, welcome to the list. -Aaron On Jan 31, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Rob Wilkens wrote: Hi . I'm new here (though I recognize one or two familiar names from another list i'm on - LIPHP) -- A little about me as long as i'm writing (relating to PHP): I learned PHP be

Re: [nyphp-talk] GD and image resizing

2007-01-31 Thread Aaron Fischer
I think the stress of my scary supervisor is clouding my thinking. =) Thanks Dan. -Aaron On Jan 31, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Dan Cech wrote: Aaron Fischer wrote: What I meant to say is that I've been searching the archives but haven't had success in finding the scripts that wer

Re: [nyphp-talk] GD and image resizing

2007-01-31 Thread Aaron Fischer
What I meant to say is that I've been searching the archives but haven't had success in finding the scripts that were posted a while ago. On Jan 31, 2007, at 9:37 AM, Aaron Fischer wrote: I'm working with GD for the first time and need to receive uploaded images (th

[nyphp-talk] GD and image resizing

2007-01-31 Thread Aaron Fischer
I'm working with GD for the first time and need to receive uploaded images (that part is done), determine if they are vertical or horizontal orientation and then resize them appropriately given a max length or width. I'm listening to Jeff's GD presentation now and searching the archives.

Re: [nyphp-talk] PHP addition and leading zeros

2007-01-31 Thread Aaron Fischer
sprintf() did the trick nicely, thanks Ken. -Aaron On Jan 30, 2007, at 11:32 PM, Ken Robinson wrote: At 11:23 PM 1/30/2007, Aaron Fischer wrote: I am retrieving a four digit value from a mysql db. It is an unsigned zerofill field so there are leading zeros. I add 0001 to the value

[nyphp-talk] PHP addition and leading zeros

2007-01-30 Thread Aaron Fischer
I am retrieving a four digit value from a mysql db. It is an unsigned zerofill field so there are leading zeros. I add 0001 to the value. However, I find that I lose my leading zeros, which I want to keep. I also tried incrementing the value but that produces the same result. Any sugge

Re: [nyphp-talk] unbelievable

2007-01-30 Thread Aaron Fischer
0, 2007, at 10:03 PM, edward potter wrote: Python rocks, but for sure get some Java experience under your belt too. Good luck! :-) ed On 1/30/07, Aaron Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm taking an artificial intelligence class and we can do the assignments in Python, Java, or C++.

Re: [nyphp-talk] unbelievable

2007-01-30 Thread Aaron Fischer
I'm taking an artificial intelligence class and we can do the assignments in Python, Java, or C++. I was leaning toward Java but your post makes me want to lean toward Python. Hmmm... -Aaron On Jan 30, 2007, at 9:45 PM, edward potter wrote: So what am I doing? I am diving FULL blast int

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT - MySQL select question

2006-12-07 Thread Aaron Fischer
I'll check that out too, thanks David! -A David Mintz wrote: The MySQL Cookbook (O'Reilly) is also loads of fun. --- David Mintz http://davidmintz.org/ En Nueva York el tránsito de la belleza a la desolación sucede siempre expeditivamente, como si el principio universal de máxima eficiencia

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT - MySQL select question

2006-12-07 Thread Aaron Fischer
Thanks Timothy, I'll check out that book. The next thing(s) to add to my library is one or two good books on SQL/MySQL. Sounds like a good holiday present to myself! Cheers, -Aaron Timothy Boyden wrote: I don't have a code solution for you, but Google the CHECK and UNIQUE predicates for th

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT - MySQL select question

2006-12-07 Thread Aaron Fischer
e the "GROUP BY field_name" when * is used for the field list? I've read that MySQL allows you to GROUP BY fields not listed in the field list, but other DBs give errors. -Rob Aaron Fischer wrote: That did it, thanks Rob and Andy. Rob's query did the trick. I was ge

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT - MySQL select question

2006-12-07 Thread Aaron Fischer
That did it, thanks Rob and Andy. Rob's query did the trick. I was getting a MySQL error with Andy's that I hadn't been able to figure out. Cheers, -Aaron Rob Marscher wrote: I'm pretty sure the subquery is redundant... I think this will work... SELECT * FROM table_name GROUP BY field_na

[nyphp-talk] OT - MySQL select question

2006-12-07 Thread Aaron Fischer
Greetings, I'm not sure how to do the following, any tips? I have a column in a MySQL table that contains varchars. I would like to select all records where there are instances of more than one record for any given varchar. So in plain language, the SQL statement would look something like:

Re: [nyphp-talk] Alternating records to select in MySQL

2006-12-05 Thread Aaron Fischer
Thanks Allen. That sounds very much like what I was thinking. I was getting hung up on some of the logic but I think it's more because I have been given a way-too-short deadline to get this done. =| Deep breaths... Cheers, thanks! -Aaron Allen Shaw wrote: Aaron Fischer wrote:

[nyphp-talk] Alternating records to select in MySQL

2006-12-05 Thread Aaron Fischer
Howdy, Running into a wall trying to figure out the best way to accomplish the following: I have a web form that allows the user to ask a question about a certain topic. On the backend I have, say, five people available to answer questions for each topic. They are stored in a MySQL table.

[nyphp-talk] Issue with session_destroy()

2006-12-02 Thread Aaron Fischer
Howdy, I have a logout page where I destroy the session. However, if I click one of the application links it lets me back in. I believe the browser is loading the application page from history. If I refresh the page it kicks me out to the login page, which is the desired behavior but I wou

Re: [nyphp-talk] Unsetting array elements

2006-10-20 Thread Aaron Fischer
Thanks Ken. Unfortunately I figured that out AFTER I sent the original question. =) -Aaron Ken Robinson wrote: > At 03:17 PM 10/20/2006, Aaron Fischer wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I'd like to cycle through an array and destroy some elements (and leave >>some in

Re: [nyphp-talk] Unsetting array elements

2006-10-20 Thread Aaron Fischer
I fixed that line and it's working now: else { unset($test[$k]); } However I would be interested to hear if anyone thinks there is a better or more efficient approach to how I am doing it. Cheers, -Aaron Aaron Fischer wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to cycle through an arr

[nyphp-talk] Unsetting array elements

2006-10-20 Thread Aaron Fischer
Hi, I'd like to cycle through an array and destroy some elements (and leave some intact). What's the "best" way to do that? Here's what I put together so far (which shows my array ignorance) =) "yes" , "name" => "joe" , "sort" => "ascending") while (list ($k, $v) = each ($test)) {