Re: [nyphp-talk] drupal?

On 7/18/13 12:40 PM, Edgar Reyes wrote: > That's one of the reasons why I used MODX for those projects, after the > implementation was done, it was a simple interface for end users to edit / > maintain their information. Once you get familiar with Drupal's templating system, CCK, Views, third par

Re: [nyphp-talk] drupal?

On 7/18/13 10:21 AM, Charlie Derr wrote: > Anyone have anything pro or con to say about drupal? > > We're considering migrating our college website (currently plone) to drupal > (another option is OU Campus from > Omni-Update, but I don't expect that product is particularly relevant (though > I

Re: [nyphp-talk] CentOS v Ubuntu

On 6/19/13 1:15 PM, leam hall wrote: > Easier to find stuff that works on RH/CentOS than Ubuntu. 95% of US > Linux deployments, give or take, are Red Hat. > > Ubuntu has a place, just not in the data center. Yet, anyway. They seem > to be working on that. That's strange because of the three compa

Re: [nyphp-talk] Drupal Performance

Another pertinent question is how many concurrent logged-in users do you average? Drupal is actually pretty good about caching pages for anonymous users because they all see essentially the same output. But lots of login accounts creates lots of dynamic overhead, particular with the database. Wh

Re: [nyphp-talk] Free vs Pay

Gary Mort wrote: I am however fixated on must run on Mac and Windows and preferably Linux. Me as well. I'm a fan of UltraEdit, which released a Linux version in December. The native Mac Ultraedit is due out RSN. ___ New York PHP Users Group Commun

[nyphp-talk] HipHop C++ "transformer" for PHP

I just ran across this announcement on Facebook: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=358 ___ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation

Re: [nyphp-talk] Database vs. Code

Daniel Convissor wrote: Whether it's in the database or in PHP, changing DBMS'es requires recoding some aspects of the project. So put things where they best belong. In the case you're proposing, a stored procedure is the right way to go. I would add that stored procedures also allow you su

Re: [nyphp-talk] Weird forum feature I'd like

Gary Mort wrote: I had considered that, but I couldn't think of a way that site owners could maintain absolute control over the propogation of their lists. NNTP is a push protocol so you can tell the server which groups to propagate. It's been years but I think this is done in the 'newsfeeds'

Re: [nyphp-talk] Weird forum feature I'd like

Gary Mort wrote: The specific usage scenario I envision is to allow schools that follow similiar philosophies[basically following an open source model to organizing and running the school, where students are part of the process not passive receivers of the process. Two example of this would b

Re: [nyphp-talk] developer's machine specs -- recomendations?

Allen Shaw wrote: What a cool pile of information -- the whole thread. Honestly I should have upgraded long ago. Thanks for a ton of useful input. Bless the IRS, I've got my dream dev box on order: an 8-core Mac Pro w/16GB + cinema display. Running VMWare, it will replace three Dell boxes an

Re: [nyphp-talk] Drupal Framework / CMS Question

webmas...@vbplusme.com wrote: I noticed a few days ago that someone did a Twitter post and said that DRUPAL is what you use when you are a "failed" programmer. Let him take a shot at learning the D6 API and building a Drupal module if he thinks it's only for "failed" programmers.

Re: [nyphp-talk] Drupal Digging Deep

Peter Sawczynec wrote: The Drupal site is very informative. But turning to the Drupal user/developer/administrators out there, is there some alternative website(s), book(s) or blog(s) where you have turned and have found invaluable Drupal info over time? For me, Pro Drupal Development was ev

Re: [nyphp-talk] .... speaking of Drupal

Daniel Horning wrote: I say go for it - just one thing - there are quite a few active lists on Drupal.org ... and I can't say I've seen anything go unanswered. But it might be a good idea for us here - to be able to ask more detailed questions. (maybe put a link at the bottom to Drupal.org's page

Re: [nyphp-talk] .... speaking of Drupal

Hans Zaunere wrote: Maybe we ought to have a NYPHP Drupal SIG/email llist. Doncha think? I think this is a good idea, so long as there is interest. Any other yays? I can have it setup today. Yay. ___ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing

Re: [nyphp-talk] APC for a custom PHP session handler

John Campbell wrote: Assuming a single server solution, you are trading persistence for performance. IMO, the performance gain is trivial unless you are constantly modifying your sessions. I use a trick that eliminates 95% of session related disk I/O, and relies on two principles: 1) Only write

Re: [nyphp-talk] APC for a custom PHP session handler

John Campbell wrote: Don't do it. It is either a solution to a problem you don't have, or the wrong solution. APC has one datastore per server, which will be a disaster once you have more than 1 front end machine, or if you have to restart the webserver then all your users will get logged out.

[nyphp-talk] APC for a custom PHP session handler

Has anyone done this? I know that memcached can be used as an alternative data store for PHP sessions but I don't recall anyone trying this with APC. ___ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [nyphp-talk] PHP Blogs, Multiple Blogs

Peter Sawczynec wrote: I'm looking for the names of some great PHP/MySQL blogging application(s) that allow multiple blogs and allow the developer to have plenty of CSS interface customization. I'd really appreciate hearing the ones you suggest. My preference is Drupal. Not only can you r

Re: [nyphp-talk] Corp. and Non-Profit PHP Users for Web

Steve Manes wrote: Peter Sawczynec wrote: If you still know additional high-profile corp. or non-profit PHP users that can be added to this list below, please reply with your additions. The Childrens Health Fund http://childrenshealthfund.org/ I don't know if you're just lookin

Re: [nyphp-talk] Corp. and Non-Profit PHP Users for Web

Peter Sawczynec wrote: If you still know additional high-profile corp. or non-profit PHP users that can be added to this list below, please reply with your additions. The Childrens Health Fund http://childrenshealthfund.org/ ___ New York PHP User G

Re: [nyphp-talk] Ajax UI, where to display a detailed view of a record

David Mintz wrote: Just wondering how you folks approach this not-uncommon problem in the age of Web 2.0 A client had a similar requirement so so I built him something like this: https://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/listing/dodMovies.jsp?category=All My stuff runs on a protected server but you get

Re: [nyphp-talk] [OT] - Politics.com

Joseph Crawford wrote: There would be no copyright issues if we linked to the source on the details page. Fair Use only permits limited quotation of a copyrighted work. This summer AP went nuts when it floated a new policy requiring a license to republish even five words from one of its news

Re: [nyphp-talk] [OT] - Politics.com

Petros Ziogas wrote: You have to click on the "x comments" in order to stay in politics.com , every other link send to the actual story. I presume there are copyright issues here? ___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http:

Re: [nyphp-talk] [OT] - Politics.com

Joseph Crawford wrote: There is one minor annoyance for me and I have spoken up about it. While you are on the site in order to get to the detail page you have to click on the part of the article where it says '0 comments' you cannot click on the title or body of the article as it will just ta

Re: [nyphp-talk] Dealing with forum spammers

sbeam wrote: Akismet should be mentioned here, a popular spam detection ASP, free for non-commercial use http://akismet.com/ Another new entry is Mollum (www.mollum.com). It was created by the lead developer of Drupal, Dries Buytaert. It bundles up concepts from Akismet, Captcha, Razor and

Re: [nyphp-talk] Search function

(Margaret) Michele Waldman wrote: Does anyone know of a function or code I could use to quickly search my site for a document? If you want something permanent for your web site, this is the GNU successor to ht://Dig. http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/ Otherwise, for shell searches I use

Re: [nyphp-talk] [OT] Voting

sbeam wrote: basically, without it no candidate would ever visit any state except NY, FL and CA. It ensures small rural areas have a meaningful role. It helps save us from "tyranny of the majority" which is where "2 wolves and a sheep vote on what to have for dinner" Except that in the revers

Re: [nyphp-talk] [OT] Voting

Ajai Khattri wrote: I think a lot of prominent geeks already said the machines were not secure without some kind of hardcopy audit trail. But this government has a habit of ignoring experts in anything (e.g. can you say "DMCA"? ). I'm on a political list with a bunch of technogeeks. After the

Re: [nyphp-talk] Compress interface pages using gzip compression

pyurt wrote: Is there a simple way to compress my interface pages using gzip compression. This is what I use: AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript text/css application/xhtml+xml application/xml application/ x-javascript DeflateFilterNote Input input_in

Re: [nyphp-talk] PHP Bcc Headers

(Margaret) Michele Waldman wrote: The identical code send out a bcc on my development server. It's definitely the production server issue. Sometimes this works: set an explicit "Return-Path" header to your email address to catch any bounce mail. _

Re: [nyphp-talk] PHP Bcc Headers

(Margaret) Michele Waldman wrote: I'm using "\r\n" at the end of each line. The headers are being completely ignored. I'll try switching. The did cross my mind before, but I wasn't sure what to test other than "\r\n". Just to rule it out, have you successfully sent Bcc mail to this address

Re: [nyphp-talk] Returning users from whiniest they came

Daniel Convissor wrote: You misunderstand what http referer does. In addition, be careful of what some other folks have posted in this thread, they're misunderstanding your situation, so may confuse you further. Here are several key points: * it is set by the browser * it gets sent in the HT

Re: [nyphp-talk] Returning users from whiniest they came

PaulCheung wrote: Could somebody point me in the right direction or make any suggestion?? On Exiting the "my" application, I want to return the user back to the original "jump-off point" just before they entered the application, wherever that may have been. I believe I can capture the URL save

Re: [nyphp-talk] Setting up outgoing mail using Linux

csnyder wrote: Most mail-related problems have nothing to do with the sendmail line used by PHP. They are typically problems further downstream in the mail system. A common one is assuming that the localhost mail server is working because it accepts the mail from the application. I see a lot

Re: [nyphp-talk] need help about cms design

birgunj birgunj wrote: i am trying to design and build the cms(content management system) from scratch.how to design the database for cms and how to start coding for this. i need help about this.if anbody has any idea,supporting material ,please share with us. I think your first step is to d

Re: [nyphp-talk] MySQL Syntax questions

Kristina Anderson wrote: Tim, with regard to the second query, I wanted the entire row not just the ID...do I need to do two queries to get that? Or a subquery: SELECT * FROM table_foo WHERE id = (SELECT MAX(id) FROM table_foo); ___ New Yor

Re: [nyphp-talk] protecting download directory in PHP app on Unix box?

John Campbell wrote: What is the point of this? It offers no security -- if one knows the id, then then they know $p1 and $p2. Why not just put it in a folder of the id? Because stashing potentially tens of thousands of files into a single directory is an SA nightmare even if you have a fil

Re: [nyphp-talk] protecting download directory in PHP app on Unix box?

Ajai Khattri wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2008, Steve Manes wrote: MD5. Here's a function I use in a file_store class to generate a munged directory file path given (for instance) a user's unique ID. SHA1 is better. For this purpose, the level of encryption security i

Re: [nyphp-talk] protecting download directory in PHP app on Unix box?

Kristina Anderson wrote: Hmm...seems quick and easy. I'm not sure how to do that in PHP though, any links to sample code? I could use the transaction ID for that, which is what I really want to use somehow, as they are guaranteed unique. MD5. Here's a function I use in a file_store class

Re: [nyphp-talk] Why IT Sucks

Mark Armendariz wrote: As for large projects. While I agree that you won't easily find a big gig when solo - it is very possible. Every large gig I get usually involves being invited to a team put together by one of my clients. So, sure big gigs can be difficult, but they are absolutely poss

Re: [nyphp-talk] Passing JAVASCRIPT variables to PHP

Joseph Crawford wrote: XAJAX is also something worth looking into. "Me Too" for Xajax. ___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Par

Re: [nyphp-talk] Bizarro Bug -- AHA!!!!!!!

Daniel Convissor wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 12:14:08PM -0400, Steve Manes wrote: I generally wrap all database calls in API functions specific to the task being performed, i.e. get_patient_referrals_list(), put_private_transport_segment(), update_clinic_demographic(). That way the

Re: [nyphp-talk] Bizarro Bug -- AHA!!!!!!!

Daniel Convissor wrote: Glad you figured it out. Let me emphasize what was said in my prior email: You need to use your own function for running the SQL rather than calling mysql_query() directly throughout the code. Then your central function can have a logging/debugging option. I general

Re: [nyphp-talk] What does this code do?

Dan Cech wrote: While this is indeed faster than using preg, it suffers from a slightly different version of the same bug in the original version. On Mac, a newline is \r, so this will remove all newlines from a mac-formatted string...not what you want. The original version is only marginally

Re: [nyphp-talk] What does this code do?

-- rada -- wrote: supposedly converts Windows CRLF to Unix LF: $str =~ s/\r\n/\n/g; Perl sed function. There's no need to use a regex function unless you have a regex pattern to match. If you just need to remove the carriage returns, this will be two or three times faster: $str = str_re

Re: [nyphp-talk] javascript calling php function -- now question on Ajax

Ken Robinson wrote: But, Austin, is correct, you don't need AJAX here. That's true. There are probably a dozen ways to handle this without Ajax. One lightweight solution would be to have that onclick handler make a 1x1 image request (with query args) to a hidden DIV. __

Re: [nyphp-talk] javascript calling php function -- now question on Ajax

Susan Shemin wrote: Anyway, Ajax is usually used to open an external file into a div, and it uses a form to send the request. What I want to do is trigger a php script to run when someone clicks a certain anchor URL. I guess you would call it my own stats attempt. So I have no form, and noth

Re: [nyphp-talk] javascript calling php function

Susan Shemin wrote: I want to use javascript onclick to call a php function. This code works, but puts a "done, with errors" in the status line in the file when loaded, which I do not want. (I've done some error testing and isolation, and found the onclick is what is causing the "errors" mes

Re: [nyphp-talk] Thank you NYPhP -- Kerbeaz launches!

Cliff Hirsch wrote: On 2/15/08 11:05 AM, "Steve Manes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Under "A message from our founder" in Help: "He still has a draw full of them" s/b "drawer". Thanks -- appreciated. Did ya catch the part about Jolly Rogers?! Y

Re: [nyphp-talk] Thank you NYPhP -- Kerbeaz launches!

Cliff Hirsch wrote: Kerbeaz went live on Monday. I thought the hard part was behind me, but now the true adventure begins ‹ building traffic. Looks real nice. Under "A message from our founder" in Help: "He still has a draw full of them" s/b "drawer". ___

Re: [nyphp-talk] heredoc help please?

Urb LeJeune wrote: BTW there is no after "lines." The fact that there is no nl following the last line of the document has always been a mystery to me. PHP supposedly allows white spaces in most places. I could also never understand why spaces are not allowed after the opening or closi

Re: [nyphp-talk] heredoc help please?

Urb LeJeune wrote: print nl2br( << Doesn't the closing EOD need a trailing ";"? The closing parenthesis apparently takes care of the statement closure. Actually, I believe adding one will throw an error. ___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing L

Re: [nyphp-talk] heredoc help please?

-- rada -- wrote: Hello all, Can anyone help me with heredoc? I have this code: print nl2br( <

Re: [nyphp-talk] Anyone using Amazon S3 for backup?

Cliff Hirsch wrote: Is anyone using Amazon S3 for backup? Instead of getting another independent server, setting up rsync, etc. this seems like a good solution for backing up a server or sql database. Sure, my ISP does daily backups, but having more control by backing up the database off-site

Re: [nyphp-talk] Er, Dutch?

selyah wrote: *//* works fine for me I can get English but only if I select "Brazilian Portuguese". "English" doesn't even appear in the pulldown. Weird. Maybe my browser is sending a funky language request header. ___ New York PHP Community

[nyphp-talk] Er, Dutch?

Is www.php.net defaulting to Dutch for anybody else this morning? When I search on functions I get redirected to us2.php.net and get the text in Dutch. Did Drupal buy out php.net? dirname (PHP 4, PHP 5) dirname — Geeft de foldernaam van het pad terug Beschrijving string dirname ( string $p

Re: [nyphp-talk] GoogleMapAPI

Rolan Yang wrote: You might want to let your client know that there is a maximum limit to the number of google requests that can be made per developer key per time period. If the app is going to be hit hard and exceeds the limit, they may have to resort to buying a license* from Google. I beli

Re: [nyphp-talk] GoogleMapAPI

Gary Mort wrote: Steve Manes wrote: I could as well but I don't like mucking with third-party libraries or APIs. Murphy's Law says that after I turn this software over to the client someone will download an updated API six months from now and lose the fixes. Why not extend it

Re: [nyphp-talk] GoogleMapAPI

John Campbell wrote: Yeah, I know. Even though it says it supports V2, it doesn't appear to support the GDirections class. I was hoping that someone who's used this PHP class might know if there was an extended class that did. If all it is missing for your needs is directions, I'll fix it. Sho

[nyphp-talk] GoogleMapAPI

Is anyone using this API? I'm testing this PHP class for possible use on a project. I've the basic functionality working but, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to get it to display driving directions or overlay a visual route. Any tips or pointers to sample code would be very helpfu

Re: [nyphp-talk] GoogleMapAPI

John Campbell wrote: Sorry, I should have been clearer. I meant the PHP GoogleMapAPI class (GoogleMapAPI.class.php) here: http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/GoogleMapAPI/ The driving directions they have in their example is an external link to maps.google.com. I assume that is not what you wa

Re: [nyphp-talk] GoogleMapAPI

Steve Manes wrote: Is anyone using this API? I'm testing this PHP class for possible use on a project. I've the basic functionality working but, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to get it to display driving directions or overlay a visual route. Any tips or pointers

Re: [nyphp-talk] AJAX and State

tedd wrote: Now, what I am asking is not how ajax communication with the server can be used, but rather is there anything beyond that which ajax can provide? Another way of asking this question is, "Besides not triggering a refresh, what can ajax do that php can not?" You're right: nothing.

Re: [nyphp-talk] Why can't I create a second directory?

Gary Mort wrote: I have a complex little install script that creates directories and subdirectories and copies files. It keeps failing on one providers server. I boiled down the install script problems to the fact that it cannot create a subdirectory after creating a directory. If you're no

Re: [nyphp-talk] how did you learn php?

Mitch Pirtle wrote: Just like all other languages, there are nuances of performance, security and such that can only be learned by doing. So rolling up your sleeves and diving in might be the fastest way to get you on the road, so to speak. That's the best way to learn: by throwing yourself int

Re: [nyphp-talk] Ideas on how to speed up search process

Nelly Yusupova wrote: I have a table that contains about 40,000 rows of job posting data. There is a script that allows users to search for jobs using numerous search criteria. Because of all the criteria, the search process is very slow...an average query takes about 10 seconds to display

Re: [nyphp-talk] XML Manipulation

Kenneth Downs wrote: The bit of SQL you need to make it child's play is the "WITH RECURSE" feature, which is sadly not widely supported: SELECT record_id, text_of_message FROM messages chd JOIN messages par ON chd.record_id_par = par.record_id WITH RECURSE WHERE chd.record_id = $x T

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

Aaron Fischer wrote: if (is_dir($item) && $item !='.' && $item!='..') { search($path . '/' . $item); } if (is_file($item)) { $file=file($item); ... Don't forget that since you're not doing a chdir() before recursing that you're still looking at f

Re: XML vs. rel DBs [was: Re: [nyphp-talk] Many pages: one script]

Daniel Krook wrote: Here's a press release put out today on a healthcare provider that appears to be using XML in DB9 v9 for that sort of thing. Express-C is free (not open source though) and comes with the pureXML feature. http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22131.wss The health car

Re: XML vs. rel DBs [was: Re: [nyphp-talk] Many pages: one script]

Elliotte Harold wrote: Closer to home, think about a blogging system or a content management system. Now imagine what you could do if the page structure were actually queryable, and not just an opaque blob in MySQL somewhere. This is a fascinating discussion. I can see how an NXD might be a

Re: [nyphp-talk] Oh... Interviewing

tedd wrote: I think your method is excellent, more hr people should practice it. The only problem is that the interviewer has to know what they are talking about, in many of the interviews I have taken, that's sadly not true. And there's the potential problem. The people doing the tech hiri

Re: [nyphp-talk] Determining if cmd line script is running as root?

Michael B Allen wrote: How does one determine if a command line PHP script is being executed as root? If there's no posix extension there's no posix_getuid and if the user did 'su' and not 'su -' then the USER environment variable may not be root. If you don't have PHP's POSIX extensions you

Re: [nyphp-talk] SQL question

David Krings wrote: I'm getting back the rows that I want, but not in the correct order and only by using DISTINCT, which I once was told is a nono and not needed if I'd just do it right. My attempt to output the columns that contain the values the reocrds are to get sorted on ends up in being

Re: [nyphp-talk] Questions to ask at a job interview?

A ! B ! B @ A @ Nobody said you couldn't use Forth... ($a, $b) = ($b, $a); ... or Perl ___ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your P

Re: [nyphp-talk] Questions to ask at a job interview?

Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyline) wrote: Now, the position being filled is that of an entry level programmer. I do not expect this person to be well trained in PHP/MySQL, but they must have a pretty strong understanding of programming methodologies in general (they are a college grad - CIS). So, again,

Re: [nyphp-talk] capricious submission of forms

Urb LeJeune wrote: I've done a few things, like disqualifying the submission of a guest book entry containg "http:// " that have been fairly effective. This doesn't work for subscription type forms. These are especially annoying because they eventually require the time to manually unsubscribe t