Re: [PHP] Re: hello
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 01:57, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: Grumble, grumble... did I mention freshwater falls from the sky and forms vertical piles outside my home? You have a camera for a reason, Rob. Snap a few shots and we'll help pick out the next Interjinn logo. ;-P -- /Daniel P. Brown daniel.br...@parasane.net || danbr...@php.net http://www.parasane.net/ || http://www.pilotpig.net/ Unadvertised dedicated server deals, too low to print - email me to find out! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 01:57:09AM -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 05:20 +0200, Paul Scott wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 18:15 -0500, Phpster wrote: -12C in Toronto Meh! 30C - 35C in Cape Town, South Africa almost every day for the last month. It has been a scorcher this year! Grumble, grumble... did I mention freshwater falls from the sky and forms vertical piles outside my home? High of 72 degrees in central Florida. Now, where did I put my swimsuit? ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 02:59 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 01:57, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: Grumble, grumble... did I mention freshwater falls from the sky and forms vertical piles outside my home? You have a camera for a reason, Rob. Snap a few shots and we'll help pick out the next Interjinn logo. ;-P How do YOU know I have a camera... is that why I feel like I'm being watched? ;) Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 03:10 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 01:57:09AM -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 05:20 +0200, Paul Scott wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 18:15 -0500, Phpster wrote: -12C in Toronto Meh! 30C - 35C in Cape Town, South Africa almost every day for the last month. It has been a scorcher this year! Grumble, grumble... did I mention freshwater falls from the sky and forms vertical piles outside my home? High of 72 degrees in central Florida. Now, where did I put my swimsuit? ;-} *throws snowball at you* :) -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] com_event_sink question
Hello all, Can i just create a function for the particular event i want to respond to? Or do all possible events have to be dealt with in your class? If I just make the function for the one event I want to respond to, will the COM's other events stay intact? Thank you, Jason
Re: [PHP] Using MDB2 outside the PEAR framework?
Just for the record, it appears (so far) that the fix for my problem was REMOVING the path to the normal PEAR directory from my 'include_path' string. I guess a conflict was taking place where files were being loaded both from the included subdirectories in my application and the PEAR directories themselves. M is for Murray On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Murray planetthought...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Richard, Where would I find that article, if you think it might help me get MDB2 working properly? Many thanks in advance, M is for Murray On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Richard Heyes rich...@php.net wrote: ... FWIW, for anyone considering the same, it can be done easily by not using the PEAR installer, and copy/pasting the code from the PEAR website. I wrote an article on appliction structure which illustrates this, having a PEAR installation directory alongside your htdocs directory. -- Richard Heyes HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari: http://www.rgraph.org (Updated January 4th)
Re: [PHP] Apache File Quesiton
Ok, not yet... If the file I want to test resides in My Documents\Sites\nameofsite, I set my Test server folder in DW to map to here...correct? Now down to URL prefix, I have tried http://localhost http://localhost/sitename C:/xampp/apache,( which btw is the Site Root as described in httpd.conf ) C:/localhost/ and a few other variations that are escaping me at this moment, but keep getting an error. Some other BG info Server Model : PHP Mysql Access : Local/Network Testing server folder: C:\Documents and Settings\myname\My Documents\sites\barrister\ (barrister is the name of the file and site) URL Prefix http://localhost/barrister/ (currently) What am I missing (besides a fundemental understanding of it). Murray planetthought...@gmail.com wrote in message news:6481f4d0901092018g31d9a08fkd0321e1532c85...@mail.gmail.com... In general, as Phpster points out, your development will take place in directories underneath your htdocs directory, which, if you installed XAMPP into the root directory on C:, would be something like C:\xampp\htdocs\yourdevdirectory. Depending on how XAMPP is configured (you can make many changes, for example, to the Apache conf files to determine Apache's behaviour), you would probably use a URL of http://localhost/yourdevdirectory/index.php etc to access your actual application. This is not to mention that you can go on to setup virtual sites, so that you could access your site as http://yourapplicationname/index.php. M is for Murray On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Gary gwp...@ptd.net wrote: Not sure how to word this, but I have just installed the XAMMP package with Apache, PHP for the purpose of having a testing server. My confusion is the location of the files. I am using Dreamweaver CS3, and all of my sites were in My Douments\Sites. When I was trying to set up the testing server in DW, I directed it to http://localhost. I was pretty sure it was not going to work, and I was right. I then created a folder in C:\xammp\htdocs\ and directed it to there...again no go. Part of my confusion is that if I create a page as I normally do, and it is stored in My documents\Sites\sitename, then there is no file that is then created in the C:\xammp\htdocs\. So, does it make sense for me to simply put all of my local files in the tester server root folder? Or am I going about it wrong? Thanks Gary -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Been staring at the code for too long...
At 1:38 PM -0500 1/9/09, Jason Pruim wrote:
mysqli_stmt_prepare($stmt, UPDATE database.table (
Jason:
Here's the problem, your code should read:
mysqli_stmt_prepare($stmt, UPDATE database.table SET (
You forgot the SET.
As a point of practice, I always use:
$query = UPDATE $db_table SET first = '$first', second = '$second'
WHERE id = '$id' ;
and then use the $query, such as:
mysqli_stmt_prepare($stmt, $query);
I know every one has their own way, but also consider the following code:
--- code ---
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(report($query,__LINE__ ,__FILE__));
// with an accompanying function of:
// show dB errors ==
function report($query, $line, $file)
{
echo($query . 'br' .$line . 'br/' . $file . 'br/' . mysql_error());
}
--- end of code ---
This will:
1. Allow you to see your errors in more detail during development;
2. After the development, you have only to comment out one line of
code (the echo) to stop reporting dB errors project-wide.
It works for me.
Cheers,
tedd
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Re: [PHP] Couple of beginner questions
At 12:18 PM -0500 1/9/09, Gary wrote: I've done a number of sites in html and am now venturing into php. Can I create a page in html and insert php code that will work? (for example, take an existing page and insert a date command) Can I create a page with the php extension that contains only contains html and no php? If so are there advantages/disadvantages? Can I mix and match file formats (php/html) in a single site? Thanks for any input. Gary Gary: Welcome to the wonderful world of php. As for your date question, try this: http://sperling.com/examples/time/ As for mixing html and php, the following was the most important thing I learned about doing what you're trying to do: http://sperling.com/examples/include-demo/ I think the demo is well worth your time to go through. Hope this helps. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Couple of beginner questions
Looks like a great link, thank you. But am I to understand that all I need to do is change the extention on a file to php from html for all to be right with the world? Gary tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote in message news:p06240803c58e55325...@[192.168.1.101]... At 12:18 PM -0500 1/9/09, Gary wrote: I've done a number of sites in html and am now venturing into php. Can I create a page in html and insert php code that will work? (for example, take an existing page and insert a date command) Can I create a page with the php extension that contains only contains html and no php? If so are there advantages/disadvantages? Can I mix and match file formats (php/html) in a single site? Thanks for any input. Gary Gary: Welcome to the wonderful world of php. As for your date question, try this: http://sperling.com/examples/time/ As for mixing html and php, the following was the most important thing I learned about doing what you're trying to do: http://sperling.com/examples/include-demo/ I think the demo is well worth your time to go through. Hope this helps. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Couple of beginner questions
At 5:39 PM + 1/9/09, Nathan Rixham wrote: if it has the file extension .php then it will be passed through php and compiled; otherwise the php source code you insert will just show up in the html source. Gary: That is true, but with the following code in a .htaccess file you can force the interpreter to consider other files with other suffixes. For example: # handler for phpsuexec.. FilesMatch \.(htm|html|css|tpl)$ SetHandler application/x-httpd-php /FilesMatch This allows me to use php in css files and such. Cheers, tedd PS: Nathan -- I know you know this, but this post was for the benefit of the OP. -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Apache File Quesiton
The fundamental thing you're missing, as I understand it (I'm sure someone will speak up if I'm wrong), is that you shouldn't be storing your site outside the htdocs directory. This is where Apache looks for files it can display in your browser. So, you need to move all of the files you have in My Documents\Sites\nameofsite to \xampp\htdocs\nameofsite in your xampp installation location. I presume you can point Dreamweaver at this directory as the root of your project once you've copied / moved the files across. It sounds like My Documents\Sites\etc is simply Dreamweaver's default preference. Once you've moved your files into \xampp\htdocs\nameofsite, try going to the following in your browser: http://localhost/nameofsite (or, as you pointed out, your files will be in \xampp\htdocs\barrister and you would then go to http://localhost/barristerin your browser). M is for Murray On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Gary gwp...@ptd.net wrote: Ok, not yet... If the file I want to test resides in My Documents\Sites\nameofsite, I set my Test server folder in DW to map to here...correct? Now down to URL prefix, I have tried http://localhost http://localhost/sitename C:/xampp/apache,( which btw is the Site Root as described in httpd.conf ) C:/localhost/ and a few other variations that are escaping me at this moment, but keep getting an error. Some other BG info Server Model : PHP Mysql Access : Local/Network Testing server folder: C:\Documents and Settings\myname\My Documents\sites\barrister\ (barrister is the name of the file and site) URL Prefix http://localhost/barrister/ (currently) What am I missing (besides a fundemental understanding of it). Murray planetthought...@gmail.com wrote in message news:6481f4d0901092018g31d9a08fkd0321e1532c85...@mail.gmail.com... In general, as Phpster points out, your development will take place in directories underneath your htdocs directory, which, if you installed XAMPP into the root directory on C:, would be something like C:\xampp\htdocs\yourdevdirectory. Depending on how XAMPP is configured (you can make many changes, for example, to the Apache conf files to determine Apache's behaviour), you would probably use a URL of http://localhost/yourdevdirectory/index.php etc to access your actual application. This is not to mention that you can go on to setup virtual sites, so that you could access your site as http://yourapplicationname/index.php. M is for Murray On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Gary gwp...@ptd.net wrote: Not sure how to word this, but I have just installed the XAMMP package with Apache, PHP for the purpose of having a testing server. My confusion is the location of the files. I am using Dreamweaver CS3, and all of my sites were in My Douments\Sites. When I was trying to set up the testing server in DW, I directed it to http://localhost. I was pretty sure it was not going to work, and I was right. I then created a folder in C:\xammp\htdocs\ and directed it to there...again no go. Part of my confusion is that if I create a page as I normally do, and it is stored in My documents\Sites\sitename, then there is no file that is then created in the C:\xammp\htdocs\. So, does it make sense for me to simply put all of my local files in the tester server root folder? Or am I going about it wrong? Thanks Gary -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Couple of beginner questions
At 11:35 AM -0800 1/9/09, VamVan wrote: -- Remember as you re still a beginner try to avoid using ? at the end of complete PHP code page. or else if you have empty lines at the end of the file then you wont see blank page of death in PHP. I'm not a beginner, but this is a practice that many other programmers advise, but I never follow. In my defense, I have never had the problem surface. For me, I like closure and symmetry. If I *had* to not close a php segment, then I would find another way to do it so that I could. But then again, I also never use else if statements either for the lack of symmetry they show to me (YMMV). Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Apache File Quesiton
Gary wrote: Ok, not yet... If the file I want to test resides in My Documents\Sites\nameofsite, I set my Test server folder in DW to map to here...correct? Now down to URL prefix, I have tried http://localhost http://localhost/sitename C:/xampp/apache,( which btw is the Site Root as described in httpd.conf ) C:/localhost/ and a few other variations that are escaping me at this moment, but keep getting an error. Some other BG info Server Model : PHP Mysql Access : Local/Network Testing server folder: C:\Documents and Settings\myname\My Documents\sites\barrister\ (barrister is the name of the file and site) URL Prefix http://localhost/barrister/ (currently) What am I missing (besides a fundemental understanding of it). think of it as having a local and a remote server on one machine; first you have your source files in your /My Documents/sites/ then you have a directory where your web server (the apache part of xampp) looks for files to server (currently C:/xampp/apache/htdocs) now becuase everything is on the one machine you can take 3 different approaches Approach 1: Keep your site files in there current place (my documents) change testing server folder to a folder your web server can see (like c:/xampp/apache/htdocs/barrister now when you test your files will be copied to htdocs/barrister and made available to see by http://localhost/barrister Approach 2: Change the site root in httpd.conf to match your source folder (so change it to C:\Documents and Settings\myname\My Documents\sites) and change the Directory block in httpd.conf to match now you can forget the testing server bit in dreamweaver and simply load up a browser to http://localhost and all you're sites will be displayed there (http://localhost/barrister for the one in question) Approach 3: Use vhosts, but I won't mention until later on, best to get up and running the simple way first :) ps: if you want to do a quick test, simply copy your barrister folder from my documents/sites in to your htdocs folder and open up http://localhost/barrister regards -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Couple of beginner questions
At 2:04 PM + 1/10/09, Nathan Rixham wrote: tedd wrote: At 5:39 PM + 1/9/09, Nathan Rixham wrote: if it has the file extension .php then it will be passed through php and compiled; otherwise the php source code you insert will just show up in the html source. Gary: That is true, but with the following code in a .htaccess file you can force the interpreter to consider other files with other suffixes. For example: # handler for phpsuexec.. FilesMatch \.(htm|html|css|tpl)$ SetHandler application/x-httpd-php /FilesMatch This allows me to use php in css files and such. Cheers, tedd PS: Nathan -- I know you know this, but this post was for the benefit of the OP. lol and I knew *somebody* would say that :p np; you may get some comments about being able to configure you're server so that php parses files with different extensions (such as .html); but this would require some customisation of the web server config files and probably best avoided for now. Gary: I agree with Nathan here. If you have problems with using the php suffix or don't want to change from html, then what I presented is an option, but it's debatable as being good practice. I think that using php suffixes tells you (as the developer) that some portion of the file has php code in it somewhere and that's usually good to know, thus good practice. As you learn and grow you'll see the differences between and advantages for the separation of data, presentation, behavior, and function -- the four horseman of web development (much more than a single language). I could write a whole treaties on these differences and how different languages treat these different constructs. As they say in Perl There's always more than one way to do something. In any event, it's probably good to use the php suffix if that doesn't brother you much. But it's also good to know that you have the option. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Couple of beginner questions
At 8:48 AM -0500 1/10/09, Gary wrote:
Looks like a great link, thank you.
But am I to understand that all I need to do is change the extention on a
file to php from html for all to be right with the world?
Yup.
By changing the suffix (extension), you are telling the server that
this file is to be treated differently than a html file. As such, the
php interpreter will process the file before it is sent to the
browser.
A statement like:
?php echo('Hello'); ?
Will print Hello to the browser. In fact, the browser will never
see your php code unless you make a mistake. The file will be
processed and delivered to the browser as html.
Please note that my use of echo above does not require the (), that's
a habit I practice for no good reason whatsoever other than I like
it. I think it's because I'm dyslectic and it makes sense to me.
In any event, I would consider the followingbad practice:
?php echo('h1Hello/h1'); ?
Whereas, the following I would consider good practice.
h1?php echo('Hello'); ?/h1
As best as you can, try to keep php and html separate.
I know that some have different ideas on good/bad practices, but
you'll develop your own views/habits as you grow and learn.
Cheers,
tedd
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Re: [PHP] Apache File Quesiton
Ok, I believe I have it workingmeaning when I click on Live Data View, I see the date appear in my datetest.php page But Im still confused... The succesful configuration (providing I am not suffering from premature exhuberation) is Testing server folder: c:\xampp\htdocs\barrister (the local settings remained My Documents\Sites\barrister) URL prefix : http://localhost/barrister/ How does that reconcile that in the httpd.conf, the server root is C:/xampp/apache? Gary Nathan Rixham nrix...@gmail.com wrote in message news:4968af26.4050...@gmail.com... Gary wrote: Ok, not yet... If the file I want to test resides in My Documents\Sites\nameofsite, I set my Test server folder in DW to map to here...correct? Now down to URL prefix, I have tried http://localhost http://localhost/sitename C:/xampp/apache,( which btw is the Site Root as described in httpd.conf ) C:/localhost/ and a few other variations that are escaping me at this moment, but keep getting an error. Some other BG info Server Model : PHP Mysql Access : Local/Network Testing server folder: C:\Documents and Settings\myname\My Documents\sites\barrister\ (barrister is the name of the file and site) URL Prefix http://localhost/barrister/ (currently) What am I missing (besides a fundemental understanding of it). think of it as having a local and a remote server on one machine; first you have your source files in your /My Documents/sites/ then you have a directory where your web server (the apache part of xampp) looks for files to server (currently C:/xampp/apache/htdocs) now becuase everything is on the one machine you can take 3 different approaches Approach 1: Keep your site files in there current place (my documents) change testing server folder to a folder your web server can see (like c:/xampp/apache/htdocs/barrister now when you test your files will be copied to htdocs/barrister and made available to see by http://localhost/barrister Approach 2: Change the site root in httpd.conf to match your source folder (so change it to C:\Documents and Settings\myname\My Documents\sites) and change the Directory block in httpd.conf to match now you can forget the testing server bit in dreamweaver and simply load up a browser to http://localhost and all you're sites will be displayed there (http://localhost/barrister for the one in question) Approach 3: Use vhosts, but I won't mention until later on, best to get up and running the simple way first :) ps: if you want to do a quick test, simply copy your barrister folder from my documents/sites in to your htdocs folder and open up http://localhost/barrister regards -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Create image from HTML
At 11:29 AM -0500 1/9/09, Christoph Boget wrote: Does anyone know if it's possible, using PHP, to take HTML (either as an input or from a URL) and generate an image (essentially, create a screenshot) of that HTML/page? I've looked around but was unable to find anything and I'm just not sure if it's that there really is nothing like this out there or if I'm just looking in the wrong places. Any advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated! thnx, Christoph Christoph: A screenshot would most definitely be a client-side process. The server (thus php) has no way of knowing how the data that was presented to your browser is being, or has been, viewed. Your browser simply asked for data and the server delivered it -- end of story. Now, if you investigate client-side languages, like javascript, the you'll have a better chance of solving your problem. Hope this helps. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
At 7:38 PM + 1/9/09, c...@l-i-e.com wrote: Rule #1. Never, ever, ever, alter the user's input, EXCEPT for sanitizing/filtering. Specifically, do NOT add br / tags in place of newlines. Store the newlines. Upon OUTPUT, you can use nl2br() to get br / tags. Or str_replace if you want /p instead. This is crucial as a habit, down the road, when you later want to put their stuff out as non-HTML such as RSS or PDF or other output mechanisms. Consider their input as sacrosanct (except for dangerous/evil input). I second this strong recommendation. Never store any html whatsoever in a database. HTML is presentation and is NOT data. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
At 11:43 AM -0800 1/9/09, VamVan wrote: Rule #1. Never, ever, ever, alter the user's input, EXCEPT for sanitizing/filtering. Specifically, do NOT add br / tags in place of newlines. Store the newlines. 100% I agree. Thats called the act of defensive programming. We have no right over altering user input but yes we have right to display what we want user see on the site. Thanks, V While one can look at it as defensive programming, it has a larger scope than that. Certainly you want to sanitize all input from users to prohibit injections, but more than that you want to keep data separate from presentation. I always cringe when I see clients entering html into their CMS because they want to make some line of text bold, but then forget to close the tag and find that the entire dynamic page is now broken as the malformed html content is pulled from a database. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Apache File Quesiton
Gary wrote: Ok, I believe I have it workingmeaning when I click on Live Data View, I see the date appear in my datetest.php page But Im still confused... The succesful configuration (providing I am not suffering from premature exhuberation) is Testing server folder: c:\xampp\htdocs\barrister (the local settings remained My Documents\Sites\barrister) URL prefix : http://localhost/barrister/ How does that reconcile that in the httpd.conf, the server root is C:/xampp/apache? That's server root; what you want is DocumentRoot :) here's a bit of an httpd.conf; these are the two bits of concern to you: # # DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your # documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but # symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations. # DocumentRoot C:/xampp/apache/htdocs ---AND--- # # Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow # particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as # you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it # below. # # # This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to. # Directory G:/Apache/httpd/htdocs # # Possible values for the Options directive are None, All, # or any combination of: #Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews # # Note that MultiViews must be named *explicitly* --- Options All # doesn't give it to you. # # The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options # for more information. # Options Indexes FollowSymLinks # #AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files # It can be All, None, or any combination of the keywords: # Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit # AllowOverride All # # Controls who can get stuff from this server. #. Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory --- if you read the comments aswell all should be explained :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Apache File Quesiton
Ok...now that makes sense, I was looking for the documentroot, not the server root... Thanks to everyone ... Im sure I will be back for more... Gary Nathan Rixham nrix...@gmail.com wrote in message news:4968ba7d.5000...@gmail.com... Gary wrote: Ok, I believe I have it workingmeaning when I click on Live Data View, I see the date appear in my datetest.php page But Im still confused... The succesful configuration (providing I am not suffering from premature exhuberation) is Testing server folder: c:\xampp\htdocs\barrister (the local settings remained My Documents\Sites\barrister) URL prefix : http://localhost/barrister/ How does that reconcile that in the httpd.conf, the server root is C:/xampp/apache? That's server root; what you want is DocumentRoot :) here's a bit of an httpd.conf; these are the two bits of concern to you: # # DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your # documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but # symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations. # DocumentRoot C:/xampp/apache/htdocs ---AND--- # # Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow # particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as # you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it # below. # # # This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to. # Directory G:/Apache/httpd/htdocs # # Possible values for the Options directive are None, All, # or any combination of: #Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews # # Note that MultiViews must be named *explicitly* --- Options All # doesn't give it to you. # # The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options # for more information. # Options Indexes FollowSymLinks # #AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files # It can be All, None, or any combination of the keywords: # Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit # AllowOverride All # # Controls who can get stuff from this server. #. Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory --- if you read the comments aswell all should be explained :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] imagejpeg, imagecreatefromjpeg both choke
At 7:23 AM -0800 1/9/09, Brian Dunning wrote: I'm trying a stripped down test just to try to get this work. I have a valid jpeg on disk: -snip- Try this: http://webbytedd.com/b/thumb/index.php All the code is there -- and it works. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:58:24 -0500, tedd.sperling wrote: Never store any html whatsoever in a database. HTML is presentation and is NOT data. Except when HTML is data, e.g. CMS. And it's better to let people input that using something like TinyMCE than to let them put in b tags themselves and forget to close them. -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia Nobody ever rioted for austerity - George Monbiot -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Create image from HTML
Daniel Brown wrote: You can use xvfb (X Virtual Frame Buffer) on *NIX systems without running X itself, a stripped down Mozilla navigate to and display the page, and then snap a screen shot of the buffer. Not very economical, but it would work. I did just that a while ago, it worked pretty well AFAIR. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
tedd wrote: At 11:43 AM -0800 1/9/09, VamVan wrote: Rule #1. Never, ever, ever, alter the user's input, EXCEPT for sanitizing/filtering. Specifically, do NOT add br / tags in place of newlines. Store the newlines. 100% I agree. Thats called the act of defensive programming. We have no right over altering user input but yes we have right to display what we want user see on the site. Thanks, V While one can look at it as defensive programming, it has a larger scope than that. Certainly you want to sanitize all input from users to prohibit injections, but more than that you want to keep data separate from presentation. exactly: you want to keep data separate from presentation. only scope for this is that sometimes you want to store html / presentation data (seeing as it is data) my personal preference is to always store a plain text version as well as a sanitized html version. creating the plain text is simple; strip_tags then a simple preg_replace to remove extra horizontal whitespace, and another to make sure you're newlines are all in the correct place -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Been staring at the code for too long...
On Jan 10, 2009, at 8:35 AM, tedd wrote:
At 1:38 PM -0500 1/9/09, Jason Pruim wrote:
mysqli_stmt_prepare($stmt, UPDATE database.table (
Jason:
Here's the problem, your code should read:
mysqli_stmt_prepare($stmt, UPDATE database.table SET (
You forgot the SET.
As a point of practice, I always use:
$query = UPDATE $db_table SET first = '$first', second = '$second'
WHERE id = '$id' ;
and then use the $query, such as:
mysqli_stmt_prepare($stmt, $query);
Hey tedd,
I hadn't done a update in a prepared statement before... and it was
something I set up quite awhile ago... I ended up rewriting it just to
refresh my mind on how it was working :)
I know every one has their own way, but also consider the following
code:
--- code ---
$result = mysql_query($query) or
die(report($query,__LINE__ ,__FILE__));
// with an accompanying function of:
// show dB errors ==
function report($query, $line, $file)
{
echo($query . 'br' .$line . 'br/' . $file . 'br/' .
mysql_error());
}
--- end of code ---
This will:
1. Allow you to see your errors in more detail during development;
2. After the development, you have only to comment out one line of
code (the echo) to stop reporting dB errors project-wide.
I really need to start doing that... Then I can track down the issues
easier hopefully... :)
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Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
At 11:58 AM -0500 1/9/09, Daniel Brown wrote: // Convert HTML linebreak tags to paragraph tags. Daniel: -snip code- Nice function. Thanks, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
At 3:19 PM + 1/10/09, Nathan Rixham wrote: tedd wrote: While one can look at it as defensive programming, it has a larger scope than that. Certainly you want to sanitize all input from users to prohibit injections, but more than that you want to keep data separate from presentation. exactly: you want to keep data separate from presentation. only scope for this is that sometimes you want to store html / presentation data (seeing as it is data) I understand that one might want to consider storing presentation elements as data in a database, but the alternative would be to simply keep html as html and control the styling via css. One might want to design a CMS for a client (I've done it) such that you limit the client's ability to inject presentation choices, such as using bold/italic tags. But that also requires more programming effort to determine if the client has entered well-formed html, which is not easy to do. Lot's of effort for little return. When confronted with the choice, I try to guide clients into CMS's where I use constructs like 'Please enter the headline here: and Please enter the body of the text here: and then provide the h1 and p tags in the html that delivers the content. That way I control both the data and presentation. I could imagine a database containing what h1 means (i.e., font-size, margins, color), but that would not be any different than a simple css file, would it not? And be much simpler. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
At 2:19 AM +1100 1/11/09, Ross McKay wrote: On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:58:24 -0500, tedd.sperling wrote: Never store any html whatsoever in a database. HTML is presentation and is NOT data. Except when HTML is data, e.g. CMS. And it's better to let people input that using something like TinyMCE than to let them put in b tags themselves and forget to close them. -- The argument over what HTML is, will never be resolved. I say it's a delivery mechanism and tags such as b and i are unwanted elements. They simply confuse/blur the purpose of the language. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
tedd wrote: At 2:19 AM +1100 1/11/09, Ross McKay wrote: On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:58:24 -0500, tedd.sperling wrote: Never store any html whatsoever in a database. HTML is presentation and is NOT data. Except when HTML is data, e.g. CMS. And it's better to let people input that using something like TinyMCE than to let them put in b tags themselves and forget to close them. -- The argument over what HTML is, will never be resolved. I say it's a delivery mechanism and tags such as b and i are unwanted elements. They simply confuse/blur the purpose of the language. Cheers, tedd HTML is a markup language used to describe the structure of a document; presentation of HTML is controlled by either a client, with optional instructions via attributes (bad) or css (good) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Problem with sybase_get_last_message
I'm running into PHP Bug #11262: It would be wonderful if PHP could discard error #3621 (Command has been aborted.) This message is a pain, because when something goes wrong, sybase gives the real error, and then also gives this second useless message. This means that if a query fails, sybase_get_last_message will return Command has been aborted rather than the real error message. -- This bug is from 2001 and still occurs in PHP 4.4.9. Does anyone know how to get the real message out of sybase? Thanks, Steve -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Using MDB2 outside the PEAR framework?
Where would I find that article, if you think it might help me get MDB2 working properly? It won't help you get MDB2 working - it's a general thing I wrote on structuring your applications and websites. I have used for quite a while though, and it's served me well. -- Richard Heyes HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari: http://www.rgraph.org (Updated January 4th) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Using MDB2 outside the PEAR framework?
Where would I find that article, if you think it might help me get MDB2 working properly? It won't help you get MDB2 working - it's a general thing I wrote on structuring your applications and websites. I have used for quite a while though, and it's served me well. Sorry, forgot the URL: http://www.phpguru.org/static/ApplicationStructure.html -- Richard Heyes HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari: http://www.rgraph.org (Updated January 4th) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] pecl4win - any updates?
Has there been any progress reinstating pecl packages for windows? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] is_readable() returns 1 if file is still uploading
Hi there, I am importing data out of xml files on a linux server. Now I am running into problems if the file is currently beeing uploaded and the upload has not finished to the server. Is there a function which returns true if the file is complete and not in upload status? I tried is_readable(), but this only returns false if the file is missing. This is the error msg from php: parser error : Premature end of data thank you for any help. regards, merlin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] is_readable() returns 1 if file is still uploading
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 19:22 +0100, Merlin Morgenstern wrote: Hi there, I am importing data out of xml files on a linux server. Now I am running into problems if the file is currently beeing uploaded and the upload has not finished to the server. Is there a function which returns true if the file is complete and not in upload status? I tried is_readable(), but this only returns false if the file is missing. This is the error msg from php: parser error : Premature end of data thank you for any help. You could skip any file that's been updated within the last 10 seconds. See the filemtime() function. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] is_readable() returns 1 if file is still uploading
Merlin Morgenstern wrote: Hi there, I am importing data out of xml files on a linux server. Now I am running into problems if the file is currently beeing uploaded and the upload has not finished to the server. Is there a function which returns true if the file is complete and not in upload status? I tried is_readable(), but this only returns false if the file is missing. It will also return false if your user doesn't have permission to read the file. This is the error msg from php: parser error : Premature end of data thank you for any help. regards, merlin -- Jim Lucas Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:16:34AM -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 03:10 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 01:57:09AM -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 05:20 +0200, Paul Scott wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 18:15 -0500, Phpster wrote: -12C in Toronto Meh! 30C - 35C in Cape Town, South Africa almost every day for the last month. It has been a scorcher this year! Grumble, grumble... did I mention freshwater falls from the sky and forms vertical piles outside my home? High of 72 degrees in central Florida. Now, where did I put my swimsuit? ;-} *throws snowball at you* *ducks behind sand castle* ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 16:00 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:16:34AM -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 03:10 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 01:57:09AM -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 05:20 +0200, Paul Scott wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 18:15 -0500, Phpster wrote: -12C in Toronto Meh! 30C - 35C in Cape Town, South Africa almost every day for the last month. It has been a scorcher this year! Grumble, grumble... did I mention freshwater falls from the sky and forms vertical piles outside my home? High of 72 degrees in central Florida. Now, where did I put my swimsuit? ;-} *throws snowball at you* *ducks behind sand castle* ;-} Snowball hits sandcastle... promptly melts... washes sandcastle away. *throws another snowball at you* I've got LOTS more where they came from. :D Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 16:06, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: Snowball hits sandcastle... promptly melts... washes sandcastle away. *throws another snowball at you* I've got LOTS more where they came from. *danbrown casts Spell of Awe and attains Level 63 Wizard. *danbrown turns you into a frog. -- /Daniel P. Brown daniel.br...@parasane.net || danbr...@php.net http://www.parasane.net/ || http://www.pilotpig.net/ Unadvertised dedicated server deals, too low to print - email me to find out! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Couple of beginner questions
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:46:14AM -0500, tedd wrote:
At 8:48 AM -0500 1/10/09, Gary wrote:
Looks like a great link, thank you.
But am I to understand that all I need to do is change the extention on a
file to php from html for all to be right with the world?
Yup.
By changing the suffix (extension), you are telling the server that
this file is to be treated differently than a html file. As such, the
php interpreter will process the file before it is sent to the
browser.
A statement like:
?php echo('Hello'); ?
Will print Hello to the browser. In fact, the browser will never
see your php code unless you make a mistake. The file will be
processed and delivered to the browser as html.
Please note that my use of echo above does not require the (), that's
a habit I practice for no good reason whatsoever other than I like
it. I think it's because I'm dyslectic and it makes sense to me.
In any event, I would consider the followingbad practice:
?php echo('h1Hello/h1'); ?
Whereas, the following I would consider good practice.
h1?php echo('Hello'); ?/h1
As best as you can, try to keep php and html separate.
I know that some have different ideas on good/bad practices, but
you'll develop your own views/habits as you grow and learn.
And let me present an alternative perspective. Never do something like:
?php echo 'Hellow world'; ?
Let Apache (or whatever) interpret HTML as HTML, and don't make it
interpret PHP code as HTML.
Instead, do:
h1Hello world/h1
If you're going to use PHP in the middle of a bunch of HTML, then only
use it where it's needed:
h1Hello ?php echo $name; ?/h1
The contents of the PHP $name variable can't be seen by the HTML, which
is why you need to enclose it in a little PHP island. Naturally, if
you're going to put PHP code in the middle of a HTML page, make the
extension PHP. Otherwise, Apache will not interpret the PHP code as PHP
(unless you do some messing with .htaccess or whatever). It's just
simplest to call a file something.php if it has PHP in it.
Paul
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Re: [PHP] Re: hello
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 16:14 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 16:06, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: Snowball hits sandcastle... promptly melts... washes sandcastle away. *throws another snowball at you* I've got LOTS more where they came from. *danbrown casts Spell of Awe and attains Level 63 Wizard. *danbrown turns you into a frog. *quickly edits the PHP code controlling reality* Babalicious princess walks up and kisses me reversing the spell. *throws a snowman at you* Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
Robert Cummings wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 16:14 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 16:06, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: Snowball hits sandcastle... promptly melts... washes sandcastle away. *throws another snowball at you* I've got LOTS more where they came from. *danbrown casts Spell of Awe and attains Level 63 Wizard. *danbrown turns you into a frog. *quickly edits the PHP code controlling reality* Babalicious princess walks up and kisses me reversing the spell. *throws a snowman at you* Cheers, Rob. are you three flirting? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 16:21, Nathan Rixham nrix...@gmail.com wrote: are you three flirting? Are you jealous? -- /Daniel P. Brown daniel.br...@parasane.net || danbr...@php.net http://www.parasane.net/ || http://www.pilotpig.net/ Unadvertised dedicated server deals, too low to print - email me to find out! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 21:21 +, Nathan Rixham wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 16:14 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 16:06, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: Snowball hits sandcastle... promptly melts... washes sandcastle away. *throws another snowball at you* I've got LOTS more where they came from. *danbrown casts Spell of Awe and attains Level 63 Wizard. *danbrown turns you into a frog. *quickly edits the PHP code controlling reality* Babalicious princess walks up and kisses me reversing the spell. *throws a snowman at you* Cheers, Rob. are you three flirting? Feeling left out? -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
Daniel Brown wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 16:21, Nathan Rixham nrix...@gmail.com wrote: are you three flirting? Are you jealous? *throws snowball too* shut p when in rome.. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
c...@l-i-e.com wrote: Rule #1. Never, ever, ever, alter the user's input, EXCEPT for sanitizing/filtering. Specifically, do NOT add br / tags in place of newlines. Store the newlines. Upon OUTPUT, you can use nl2br() to get br / tags. Or str_replace if you want /p instead. This is crucial as a habit, down the road, when you later want to put their stuff out as non-HTML such as RSS or PDF or other output mechanisms. Consider their input as sacrosanct (except for dangerous/evil input) How do you suggest dealing with a need to allow italics, bold, underlines, etc? I see forum web sites that allow the user to enter [b]bold text[/b] for example. I would like to do this. Anyone have a function to convert this kind of thing to HTML? Stephen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
*rofl* damn... i love this list... so much for on- ehmmm off-list posts :p ... Am 10.01.2009 um 22:24 schrieb Nathan Rixham: Daniel Brown wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 16:21, Nathan Rixham nrix...@gmail.com wrote: are you three flirting? Are you jealous? *throws snowball too* shut p yeah... wonderful (genesis) concert ;) when in rome.. YT BB [Björn Bartels ] [email : bart...@dragon-projects.de ] [home : http://dragon-projects.de ] [skype : bb-drummer ] [icq : 283827160 ] [--- ] Diese E-Mail könnte vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen enthalten. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail sind nicht gestattet. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. [--- ] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Unique Object Instance ID..?
Evening All,
Not too often I ask a question here, but here goes;
I'm making an Object class which all of my other classes extend, and I
need each instance to have it's own unique id, seemed simple but it's
harder than I thought (the difficulty is when it comes to deciding the
syntax).
so far each object has an OBJECT_ID which is a simple static incremented
integer representing the instance of the object, here's a simplified
example:
abstract class Object {
private static $INSTANCES = 0;
private $OBJECT_ID = 0;
public function __construct()
{
$this-OBJECT_ID = ++self::$INSTANCES;
}
}
Now back to the problem, I also need the object to have
private $UNIQUE_ID;
this unique_id needs to have:
timestamp
classname
object_id
combining the three makes a unique id; but it's only unique to that
session, no good for a real world application as there could be 50
sessions all running at the same time on the server; and odds are rather
high that two instances of the object could have the same id. Thus an
extra completely unique identified needs added to the three values above.
I'd thought a simple random integer would possibly be enough (combined
with the timestamp), but there could still be collission.
so the best I've got so far is:
[OBJECT_ID:private] = 3
[UNIQUE_ID:private] = instance://1231629...@testobject.3:97739
timestamp @ class . instance : randomInteger
all I need is a completely unique id for each object instance that can
never be repeated at any time, even in a multiserver environment (and
without using any kind of incremented value from a db table or third
party app)
thoughts, ideas, recommendations?
regards!
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[PHP] Re: Unique Object Instance ID..?
'Twas brillig, and Nathan Rixham at 10/01/09 23:31 did gyre and gimble: all I need is a completely unique id for each object instance that can never be repeated at any time, even in a multiserver environment (and without using any kind of incremented value from a db table or third party app) thoughts, ideas, recommendations? While it's not guaranteed to be unique the general technique used in these situations is to use a UUID. The chances of a clash are slim (2x10^38 ish combinations). You can generate a uuid via mysql SELECT UUID() or via the PHP Pecl extension php-uuid. The other way of doing it would be to insert a row into a database row with an auto-increment field and use the value of that auto-incrment field as your identifier (SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID() in mysql or via the db layers API). HTHs Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Unique Object Instance ID..?
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Nathan Rixham nrix...@gmail.com wrote:
Evening All,
Not too often I ask a question here, but here goes;
I'm making an Object class which all of my other classes extend, and I
need each instance to have it's own unique id, seemed simple but it's harder
than I thought (the difficulty is when it comes to deciding the syntax).
so far each object has an OBJECT_ID which is a simple static incremented
integer representing the instance of the object, here's a simplified
example:
abstract class Object {
private static $INSTANCES = 0;
private $OBJECT_ID = 0;
public function __construct()
{
$this-OBJECT_ID = ++self::$INSTANCES;
}
}
Now back to the problem, I also need the object to have
private $UNIQUE_ID;
this unique_id needs to have:
timestamp
classname
object_id
combining the three makes a unique id; but it's only unique to that session,
no good for a real world application as there could be 50 sessions all
running at the same time on the server; and odds are rather high that two
instances of the object could have the same id. Thus an extra completely
unique identified needs added to the three values above.
I'd thought a simple random integer would possibly be enough (combined with
the timestamp), but there could still be collission.
so the best I've got so far is:
[OBJECT_ID:private] = 3
[UNIQUE_ID:private] = instance://1231629...@testobject.3:97739
timestamp @ class . instance : randomInteger
all I need is a completely unique id for each object instance that can never
be repeated at any time, even in a multiserver environment (and without
using any kind of incremented value from a db table or third party app)
thoughts, ideas, recommendations?
regards!
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I was going to say uuid, but maybe SplObjectStorage might be of some help.
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Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
That can and should be done with a simple str_replace() on the display portion of the code. Bastien Sent from my iPod On Jan 10, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Stephen stephe...@rogers.com wrote: c...@l-i-e.com wrote: Rule #1. Never, ever, ever, alter the user's input, EXCEPT for sanitizing/ filtering. Specifically, do NOT add br / tags in place of newlines. Store the newlines. Upon OUTPUT, you can use nl2br() to get br / tags. Or str_replace if you want /p instead. This is crucial as a habit, down the road, when you later want to put their stuff out as non-HTML such as RSS or PDF or other output mechanisms. Consider their input as sacrosanct (except for dangerous/evil input) How do you suggest dealing with a need to allow italics, bold, underlines, etc? I see forum web sites that allow the user to enter [b]bold text[/b] for example. I would like to do this. Anyone have a function to convert this kind of thing to HTML? Stephen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Unique Object Instance ID..?
Unique()?
Bastien
Sent from my iPod
On Jan 10, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Nathan Rixham nrix...@gmail.com wrote:
Evening All,
Not too often I ask a question here, but here goes;
I'm making an Object class which all of my other classes extend,
and I need each instance to have it's own unique id, seemed simple
but it's harder than I thought (the difficulty is when it comes to
deciding the syntax).
so far each object has an OBJECT_ID which is a simple static
incremented integer representing the instance of the object, here's
a simplified example:
abstract class Object {
private static $INSTANCES = 0;
private $OBJECT_ID = 0;
public function __construct()
{
$this-OBJECT_ID = ++self::$INSTANCES;
}
}
Now back to the problem, I also need the object to have
private $UNIQUE_ID;
this unique_id needs to have:
timestamp
classname
object_id
combining the three makes a unique id; but it's only unique to that
session, no good for a real world application as there could be 50
sessions all running at the same time on the server; and odds are
rather high that two instances of the object could have the same id.
Thus an extra completely unique identified needs added to the three
values above.
I'd thought a simple random integer would possibly be enough
(combined with the timestamp), but there could still be collission.
so the best I've got so far is:
[OBJECT_ID:private] = 3
[UNIQUE_ID:private] = instance://1231629...@testobject.3:97739
timestamp @ class . instance : randomInteger
all I need is a completely unique id for each object instance that
can never be repeated at any time, even in a multiserver environment
(and without using any kind of incremented value from a db table or
third party app)
thoughts, ideas, recommendations?
regards!
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[PHP] Re: Unique Object Instance ID..?
Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Nathan Rixham at 10/01/09 23:31 did gyre and gimble: all I need is a completely unique id for each object instance that can never be repeated at any time, even in a multiserver environment (and without using any kind of incremented value from a db table or third party app) thoughts, ideas, recommendations? While it's not guaranteed to be unique the general technique used in these situations is to use a UUID. The chances of a clash are slim (2x10^38 ish combinations). You can generate a uuid via mysql SELECT UUID() or via the PHP Pecl extension php-uuid. The other way of doing it would be to insert a row into a database row with an auto-increment field and use the value of that auto-incrment field as your identifier (SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID() in mysql or via the db layers API). HTHs Col cheers for the input; uuid it has to be I guess; don't want it reliant on any third party software or db so pecl is out, as is mysql - looks like I'm going to have to (and probably enjoy) making a uuid function to generate type 4 random uuids. only other thought is to combine all the instance variables, hash the combination of them and save that together with a timestamp.. considering -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:40:43 -0500, tedd.sperling wrote: [...] One might want to design a CMS for a client (I've done it) such that you limit the client's ability to inject presentation choices, such as using bold/italic tags. But that also requires more programming effort to determine if the client has entered well-formed html, which is not easy to do. Lot's of effort for little return. With a little cooperation from the client, and a properly configured TinyMCE, you can fairly easily limit what HTML tags they use. You can then provide a set of CSS classes for specific styles used within the site, and tell TinyMCE about those classes so that the user can make use of them (via the Styles drop-down). The biggest problem is when they copy/paste content from a MS Word document, but again, with cooperation from the client this can be cleaned up a bit with the Paste from Word and Paste as Text buttons. If you really want to limit their ability to mess things up with pasting from word, specify restrictive limits on the HTML tags and make them pick CSS classes (styles). When confronted with the choice, I try to guide clients into CMS's where I use constructs like 'Please enter the headline here: and Please enter the body of the text here: and then provide the h1 and p tags in the html that delivers the content. That way I control both the data and presentation. That's my preference too. Unfortunately, it doesn't always meet the client's requirements. They want to enter rich text, so rich text they get. Where all they want to do is highlight some things bold or italics, I only let them have p, br/, a, strong, and em. Something else? Let them use the class attribute on anything, or perhaps give them access to h1, h2, h3. Sometimes, they want complete freedom, so they get it. They're paying. I could imagine a database containing what h1 means (i.e., font-size, margins, color), but that would not be any different than a simple css file, would it not? And be much simpler. If you set up whichever rich text editor you use correctly, the user should be able to see h1 as defined in your CSS - using CSS! There is no need for a database to know anything about what h1 tags mean. With TinyMCE, it means having a subset of the website's stylesheet duplicated for the editor (and perhaps modified a little too), but that's no drama once the site design has settled down. -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia It doesn't matter if the Rock wants to go get diamond rings or not! - The Rock -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
tedd wrote: The argument over what HTML is, will never be resolved. I say it's a delivery mechanism and tags such as b and i are unwanted elements. They simply confuse/blur the purpose of the language. I should have said strong and em, I guess. Of course, copypasta from another rich text editor can put in b and i but you should be able to handle that as strong and em, and then define what you want that to look like in CSS. HTML is a markup language. The actual appearance should be left to stylesheets, but HTML is how users specify which bits of text get which appearance. Sometimes, the only way to meet a client's requirements is to allow content stored as HTML. IMHO, the worst thing you can do there is let them type in the HTML tags themselves; as you have noted, they forget to close tags, then complain when the website breaks. That's where the many browser-based (mostly JavaScript) rich text editors come in to their own. -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia Nobody ever rioted for austerity - George Monbiot -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
Nathan Rixham wrote: HTML is a markup language used to describe the structure of a document; presentation of HTML is controlled by either a client, with optional instructions via attributes (bad) or css (good) I almost agree, except that there are attributes that define the behaviour of HTML elements that cannot be defined by css; such trivial things as href, name, class, id, tabindex, maxlength, value, etc. I know, I'm nit picking a bit... -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia Words can only hurt if you try to read them. Don't play their game - Zoolander -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
Ross McKay wrote: Nathan Rixham wrote: HTML is a markup language used to describe the structure of a document; presentation of HTML is controlled by either a client, with optional instructions via attributes (bad) or css (good) I almost agree, except that there are attributes that define the behaviour of HTML elements that cannot be defined by css; such trivial things as href, name, class, id, tabindex, maxlength, value, etc. I know, I'm nit picking a bit... completely agreed.. missed out a word: with optional |display| instructions via attributes (bad) or css (good) makes more sence -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:01:28 -0500, Stephen wrote: How do you suggest dealing with a need to allow italics, bold, underlines, etc? Give them a rich text editor, IMHO. That way, you get close tags! Some examples: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ http://www.fckeditor.net/ http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ http://geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/WebEditors I see forum web sites that allow the user to enter [b]bold text[/b] for example. I would like to do this. Anyone have a function to convert this kind of thing to HTML? http://au2.php.net/manual/en/book.bbcode.php -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia The chief cause of problems is solutions -Eric Sevareid -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Referencing variable in calling class?
Hi All, I'd like to reference the value of a variable in a class that called the current piece of code via a require_once. In essence, I have a 'front controller' class that builds the page to be displayed depending on several criteria. One issue I'm having is that when a user logs out of my application, I destroy the cookie that indicated the user was logged in during my preRender process, and then go onto display the 'logged out' page. Unfortunately, I have a page element that indicates whether the user is logged in or not, and I assume because the cookie destruction is being sent down in that page request, when that page renders it still appears as if the user is logged in, because the cookie still exists until after that page is rendered. So, I thought perhaps as part of my logout routine, I could set a variable that my 'are you logged in or out' code could check and use to override whether or not it displays the 'login' url or the 'logout' url. I thought that in that code I should be able to check the value of a public variable that is in my front controller class, but it appears I can't? So, pseudo chain of processing would be something like this: - call index.php - instantiate front loader class - perform pre-render processing, if logging out, set public variable in class to true - call actual page to be rendered via require_once - in page being rendered, call function from separate file that displays 'login / logout' url - in that function test public variable in front controller class to see if true - if true, regardless of whether or not the cookie still 'appears' to exist, display 'login' url because user has logged out However, am I right in thinking that the function that displays the login / logout url is actually unaware of the existence of the front controller class at the point at which it is being called? M is for Murray
[PHP] Re: Unique Object Instance ID..?
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:31:29 +, Nathan Rixham wrote:
[...]
all I need is a completely unique id for each object instance that can
never be repeated at any time, even in a multiserver environment (and
without using any kind of incremented value from a db table or third
party app)
Have you looked at uniqid() ?
http://au2.php.net/manual/en/function.uniqid.php
I use it in a couple of places, converted to a more compressed format:
$id = explode('.', uniqid(rand(), TRUE), 2);
$id = base_convert($id[0], 16, 36) . '.' . base_convert($id[1], 16, 36);
Returns stuff like this:
9xm1k6oodk8o00s4wc.50nplu
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Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 11:19 +1100, Ross McKay wrote: tedd wrote: The argument over what HTML is, will never be resolved. I say it's a delivery mechanism and tags such as b and i are unwanted elements. They simply confuse/blur the purpose of the language. I should have said strong and em, I guess. Of course, copypasta from another rich text editor can put in b and i but you should be able to handle that as strong and em, and then define what you want that to look like in CSS. HTML is a markup language. The actual appearance should be left to stylesheets, but HTML is how users specify which bits of text get which appearance. Sometimes, the only way to meet a client's requirements is to allow content stored as HTML. IMHO, the worst thing you can do there is let them type in the HTML tags themselves; as you have noted, they forget to close tags, then complain when the website breaks. That's where the many browser-based (mostly JavaScript) rich text editors come in to their own. -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia Nobody ever rioted for austerity - George Monbiot FCKEditor is a good editor (although poorly named!) that allows you to set it not to use b and i tags and force it to convert them to strong and em instead. Couple this with a decent regex and you can strip out the extra style tags which result from a pasted MSWord selection. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Unique Object Instance ID..?
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Nathan Rixham nrix...@gmail.com wrote: Evening All, Not too often I ask a question here, but here goes; I'm making an Object class which all of my other classes extend, and I need each instance to have it's own unique id, seemed simple but it's harder than I thought (the difficulty is when it comes to deciding the syntax). checkout spl_object_hash() http://php.net/function.spl_object_hash -nathan
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
I don't know why, but I always baulk when I see HTML and, for example, XML etc described as a 'language'. I may well be wrong, but these always seem to be more appropriately described as a 'syntax' rather than a 'language', at least in the computer science sense. Of course, maybe these are essentially synonymous, but 'language' has always implied to me a more active role, so that PHP would be a language, while HTML would be a syntax. Just thinking out loud. M is for Murray On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Nathan Rixham nrix...@gmail.com wrote: HTML is a markup language used to describe the structure of a document; presentation of HTML is controlled by either a client, with optional instructions via attributes (bad) or css (good)
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 11:44 +1000, Murray wrote: I don't know why, but I always baulk when I see HTML and, for example, XML etc described as a 'language'. I may well be wrong, but these always seem to be more appropriately described as a 'syntax' rather than a 'language', at least in the computer science sense. Of course, maybe these are essentially synonymous, but 'language' has always implied to me a more active role, so that PHP would be a language, while HTML would be a syntax. Just thinking out loud. M is for Murray On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Nathan Rixham nrix...@gmail.com wrote: HTML is a markup language used to describe the structure of a document; presentation of HTML is controlled by either a client, with optional instructions via attributes (bad) or css (good) I think you are thinking of language being synonymous with programming language, which HTML isn't really. What it is, is a computer language. Subtle difference, but difference, I believe, there is. Also, the name kind of gives it away ;) Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
Interesting, I've never seen this presented as an issue of ethics before. I think I can see your point, but I'd suggest that there's an interplay of ethical obligations between a user and the host / creator of an application in which perhaps the user should or in many cases has to accept a de-prioritised ethical consideration. For example, I would guess that a user doesn't have the right to expect an application to perform exactly to his or her expectations, regardless of what they might be. So, I wouldn't consider myself ethically obligated to work out how to accept 3gb of text from a POSTed form without truncating / modifying that text due to practical limitations of my application. (not suggesting this is a possible real-world example). But still, an interesting observation! M is for Murray On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: Well, of course you have the _right_ to do it --- as long as it's legal, and it's not something that *requires* the data to remain unaltered, you have the right to do manipulate it however you want. The question comes down to ethics and in predicting the preferences of the user.
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Murray planetthought...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting, I've never seen this presented as an issue of ethics before. I think I can see your point, but I'd suggest that there's an interplay of ethical obligations between a user and the host / creator of an application in which perhaps the user should or in many cases has to accept a de-prioritised ethical consideration. For example, I would guess that a user doesn't have the right to expect an application to perform exactly to his or her expectations, regardless of what they might be. So, I wouldn't consider myself ethically obligated to work out how to accept 3gb of text from a POSTed form without truncating / modifying that text due to practical limitations of my application. (not suggesting this is a possible real-world example). But still, an interesting observation! M is for Murray On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: Well, of course you have the _right_ to do it --- as long as it's legal, and it's not something that *requires* the data to remain unaltered, you have the right to do manipulate it however you want. The question comes down to ethics and in predicting the preferences of the user. I don't see any problem with accepting html/xhtml/xml in an input area. I do it all the time with FCKEditor. You can argue that it is nice because you can use things like htmlpurifier to keep it sane while also not having to invent weird things to give the input structure/looks. Also being able to parse it with simplexml/domdocument is useful too in a lot of cases. One easy way to get around the problem with modifying the user input, just give the user a preview of what you've done. They can then decide whether or not it is acceptable. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
I agree with others that in most cases you should be storing input as it is presented to you once POSTed (with the usual caveats of escaping etc to make INSERTing / UPDATEing possible). This is exactly what you are doing when accepting input from FCKEditor etc. Your input contains markup, and that's what you store. My issue with modifying content after being POSTed, prior to storing in my db is that for all of the careful considerations that I might put into making only 'good' modifications, I might inadvertently make 'bad' modifications instead or as well. The same is true if I store the text and modify on the fly on the way to presentation, but the important difference is that my stored version has remained true to input, and if I correct whatever I might have done wrong during display processing, I have not permanently changed or damaged my stored data. M is for Murray On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Eric Butera eric.but...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see any problem with accepting html/xhtml/xml in an input area. I do it all the time with FCKEditor.
Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
Ashley Sheridan wrote: FCKEditor is a good editor (although poorly named!) that allows you to set it not to use b and i tags and force it to convert them to strong and em instead. Couple this with a decent regex and you can strip out the extra style tags which result from a pasted MSWord selection. Likewise with TinyMCE (and I suspect many of the others). Given the abundance of good rich text editors, I don't see any good reason for making clients enter HTML tags directly - it only confuses them. -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia The lawn could stand another mowing; funny, I don't even care - Elvis Costello -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Unique Object Instance ID..?
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:42:01 -0700, Nathan Nobbe wrote: checkout spl_object_hash() http://php.net/function.spl_object_hash NB: only guarantees uniqueness for objects instantiated and in memory at the same time. See the comments on that page for an example of creating identical object hashes for two separate and distinct instances. -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia Let the laddie play wi the knife - he'll learn - The Wee Book of Calvin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Referencing variable in calling class?
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:33:30AM +1000, Murray wrote: Hi All, I'd like to reference the value of a variable in a class that called the current piece of code via a require_once. In essence, I have a 'front controller' class that builds the page to be displayed depending on several criteria. One issue I'm having is that when a user logs out of my application, I destroy the cookie that indicated the user was logged in during my preRender process, and then go onto display the 'logged out' page. Unfortunately, I have a page element that indicates whether the user is logged in or not, and I assume because the cookie destruction is being sent down in that page request, when that page renders it still appears as if the user is logged in, because the cookie still exists until after that page is rendered. So, I thought perhaps as part of my logout routine, I could set a variable that my 'are you logged in or out' code could check and use to override whether or not it displays the 'login' url or the 'logout' url. I thought that in that code I should be able to check the value of a public variable that is in my front controller class, but it appears I can't? So, pseudo chain of processing would be something like this: - call index.php - instantiate front loader class - perform pre-render processing, if logging out, set public variable in class to true - call actual page to be rendered via require_once - in page being rendered, call function from separate file that displays 'login / logout' url - in that function test public variable in front controller class to see if true - if true, regardless of whether or not the cookie still 'appears' to exist, display 'login' url because user has logged out However, am I right in thinking that the function that displays the login / logout url is actually unaware of the existence of the front controller class at the point at which it is being called? M is for Murray I'm not quite sure why you don't force the login/logout page to use the front controller. Here's how I do it: I set various variables, and check the login status (I use $_SESSION variables to hold user ID and encrypted password). If the user is not logged in, I force the controller to be the login controller, regardless of whatever page the user *wants* to display. Then I go ahead with instantiating the controller, in this case, the login controller. So essentially, if the user is logged in, I go ahead and instantiate whatever controller they specify. But if they're not logged in, I force the login controller to be the one which is instantiated. (In my case, the front controller isn't really a class as other controllers are. It's just a bunch of routines and function calls in index.php.) Does that make sense? Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Unique Object Instance ID..?
Can you use something like APC to cache the instance variable so that it's persistent across different sessions? Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com Nathan Rixham wrote: Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Nathan Rixham at 10/01/09 23:31 did gyre and gimble: all I need is a completely unique id for each object instance that can never be repeated at any time, even in a multiserver environment (and without using any kind of incremented value from a db table or third party app) thoughts, ideas, recommendations? While it's not guaranteed to be unique the general technique used in these situations is to use a UUID. The chances of a clash are slim (2x10^38 ish combinations). You can generate a uuid via mysql SELECT UUID() or via the PHP Pecl extension php-uuid. The other way of doing it would be to insert a row into a database row with an auto-increment field and use the value of that auto-incrment field as your identifier (SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID() in mysql or via the db layers API). HTHs Col cheers for the input; uuid it has to be I guess; don't want it reliant on any third party software or db so pecl is out, as is mysql - looks like I'm going to have to (and probably enjoy) making a uuid function to generate type 4 random uuids. only other thought is to combine all the instance variables, hash the combination of them and save that together with a timestamp.. considering -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
