Re: [WSG] PHP Standards

2008-05-19 Thread Ray Cauchi

Hi Ian

You may want to check out some pre-existing PHP coding standards:

http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php and the incomplete 
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/pear2cs.php


http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/coding-standard.html

Both PEAR and Zend Framework are Open source repositories of PHP 
code, written to their respective standards, and well documented. For 
less organised code, try http://www.phpclasses.org


Ray

At 01:32 AM 17/05/2008, Ian Chamberlain wrote:

Fingers crossed this is not too far off topic; being a newby to PHP; any
clues where I can find how-to's, snippets, libraries or even application
suites built from PHP that are built to a good minimum standard please.

I am guessing that PHP is much like JavaScript in that a lot of what is
floating about is either poor or pooh the result of all the good programmes
stending their time on ASP or J2EE.

Thanks

Ian



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Re: [WSG] Chinese translations and PHP includes

2006-03-20 Thread Ray Cauchi

Is your include file written in the correct charset?


At 10:50 AM 21/03/2006, Adrian O'Hagan wrote:

Hello list,

I am embarking on my first multi-lingual site (English, Simplified 
Chinese and Traditional Chinese).


It is to be a static site (no databases) and I have used PHP to take 
advantage of the server-side includes.


The doctype for my Simplified Chinese PHP pages is:

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtdhttp://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd;

html
head
meta http-equiv=Content-Language content=zh /
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=GB18030 /

I do not place any header in my includes, simply the raw HTML I 
think I will need.  (In the example file it is nothing more than the 
Chinese text wrapped in a paragraph tag.)


My major problem is this:  when I save the include, all Chinese 
characters are rendered as a series of question marks.


You can see my example file here: 
http://www.digitaldogma.com.au/clients/helprequest/http://www.digitaldogma.com.au/clients/helprequest/


Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks,

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Re: [WSG] Certified Usable

2006-03-19 Thread Ray Cauchi

Reminds me of McDonalds trademarking the '100% Australian Beef' thing...

did you trust them?


At 02:06 PM 20/03/2006, you wrote:

Sydney-based Usability company PTG has made the claim that they can certify
the usability of their websites:

http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article3005.asp

In an article on the AIMIA website, Craig Errey, manager of PTG, says we're
apparently the first group, worldwide, who can confidently state whether a
product is usable or not, and stand by that claim.
http://www.aimia.com.au/i-cms?page=1755

To me that all sounds very dodgy. Nobody can guarantee the usability of
their website.

I mean, alright, let's define Usability. If PTG are talking about the
ability of a user to open the homepage of the website, read the content and
click onto one of the sub-sections, fair enough, it's probably safe to say
that their sites are usable. But then again, even my mum would be able to
create a website that is usable with the help of Microsoft Frontpage.

User-friendly, that's something different. And in my opinion nobody can
guarantee the user-friendlyness of a website to all users in the world.

Any thoughts?


Andreas Boehmer
User Experience Consultant

Addictive Media
Phone: (03) 9386 8907
Mobile: (0411) 097 038
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Re: [WSG] page break when printing

2006-03-09 Thread Ray Cauchi

I would think this is legitimate and semantic use of multiple div's

anyone for bending the page-break-X rules a little??

At 01:57 PM 10/03/2006, Jack Pivac wrote:

on 10/03/06 13:56 Lachlan Hunt said the following:

I have a page with about 20-30 div's each about 200-300px height.


With that many, you may be overusing/abusing the div element.  It's 
a common mistake, often referred to as div-mania (or something 
along those lines).  You should probably try and find more semantic elements.


So in this case
http://temp.delphinus.co.nz/tab/test.html

What would you recommend instead?
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Re: [WSG] HELP

2006-03-01 Thread Ray Cauchi




http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_TreeMenu
At 07:17 PM 1/03/2006, Al Kendall wrote:
Can anyone point me in the right
direction  not out the door please :)  to finding a good PHP Menu
/ Navigation script?
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Re: [WSG] HELP

2006-03-01 Thread Ray Cauchi




http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_TreeMenu
At 07:17 PM 1/03/2006, Al Kendall wrote:
Can anyone point me in the right
direction  not out the door please :)  to finding a good PHP Menu
/ Navigation script?
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Re: [WSG] Converting the heathen: never again

2006-02-26 Thread Ray Cauchi


Hi there

http://www.ilisys.com.au/
Get a new ISP dudedon't just stand there and break
Ray
At 02:16 PM 27/02/2006, you wrote:
Hi folks,
I hereby publicly declare that my days of complaining to website
authors that I cannot view their site at 800x600, and then opening
my
big mouth about other dubious issues I notice on their site, are now
over.
I dropped a line to my ISP (ostensibly to enquire about my account)
and mentioned I could not find certain information on their website
(and suggested it might be a usability issue), that the horizontal
scrolling was giving me RSI (joke), commented on their massive use
of
_javascript_ in the head, and their use of CSS in the head,
and for
good measure commented on some validation issues (missing alt text,
no
closing tds etc). I have been soundly trounced and put back in
my
box.
When I could not find what I was looking for I was told:
I recommend that this issue in this case has not been a
usability
issue but instead
has been a logic issue on the clients side, and I would recommend
that
you re-attend
year 10-12 english classes in order to know this in future
cases.
When I complained about horizontal scrolling I was told:
I would recommend that you take a look around the real world,
not
just your own room and classroom, and see that these days even
seniors
are using the resolution of 1024x768. And from a design standpoint,
fixed width is definitely a good idea, due to the complexities that
arise from fluid layouts. And you do have a choice, you have the
choice of increasing your resolution, or alternatively to scrolls
when
you want to see anything to the left or down on the website. To the
best of my abililty that looks like a choice, albiet one that you
may
not enjoy. But then again, I am sure the world does not revolve
around
you.
When I commented on the huge amount of _javascript_ in the head I
was told:
unobtrussive _javascript_ does not work on a number of browsers
short
of the newest, and as such, since [our] site was designed to cater
to
the widest audience possible, inline _javascript_ was deemed necessary
to perform the tasks that were required in these cases.
_javascript_ pulled from linked files doesn't work in some
browsers?
As for the CSS that was in the head (body
{margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px):
CSS was actually designed to be part of the header. It is only
since
that point that separate CSS files have been designed to store this
layout information. While myself, I prefer to have the CSS file
seperated out from the rest of the code, as this makes for a more
efficient and clean source code file, it is by no means required,
and
it is definitely not the whole point of CSS, but simply a very
useful
side-effect.
and..
.. could not be solved with a simple margin:0 as you have
stated,
which is only the newest standard in relation to this issue, but
which
does not resolve the issue in the browsers that this code is
targetted
at. It also does not render correctly in most older browsers due to
the fact that it is a newer standard.
CSS was designed to be part of the head?
margin:0; is new and won't work for some browsers?
As to validation:
the W3C are self-appointed, and the standards they impose are
self-regulated and are only recommended standards. Additionally, our
developers are well acquiantted with the W3C, however, they are also
well aware of when it is necessary to break these standards in order
to create efficient, less bandwidth code.
My own fault, I asked for it, obviously.
I will now be a good little backyard hobbyist web-designer as
they
called me (actually, it's my day job too), and never mention
standards
again.
Just thought I'd share. Sorry if this is list clutter.
(not so) sunny
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Re: [WSG] A hand with text wrapping around images in CSS?

2006-02-06 Thread Ray Cauchi


Nice site John...
At 06:30 PM 6/02/2006, you wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like to ask here, if there is a possibility making my texts wrap
around the bottom of my images
here

http://www.webnauts.net/redesign/test.html, without becoming rubbish
when resizing the page.
Thanks in advance for your kind help.
Best wishes and regards,
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Re: [WSG] Most semantic XHTML markup possible - your thoughts

2006-02-06 Thread Ray Cauchi


Nathan
I have considered this myself. Its almost tabular data really - th and td
- in some respects more so than a definition list.
I have built my own cms over the years which outputs similar data - these
days i just use :
pstrongTitle/strong data/p
I do not think a standard ordered, or unordered, list qualifies, and I do
not think a definition list qualifies either, but I am loathe to use a
table for 4 lines of user related login data
ray

At 09:46 PM 6/02/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Ian,
Thanks for your reply!
I just felt that a definition list was intended to define terms. For
example:
h2JAWS (X)HTML interpretationsh2
dl
 dt em (Emphasis) /dt
 ddJAWS will use pitch and tone to emphasise the
words contained within the em element/dd
 dl strong (Strong Emphasis) /dt
 ddJAWS will use pitch and tone to STRONGLY emphasise
the words contained within the strong element/dd
/dl
However, in my case, I just felt that 100 223 578 does not
define Customer Identification Number (CID). When I see
Customer Identification Number (CID), I would expect to see
the dd to be something like The unique identification
number assigned to a every customer to ensure the system only accesses
the appropriate users data.
So am I wrong in my thinking about definitions lists?? Can a random bunch
of digits such as 100 223 578 really be a definition that
means Customer Identification Number?? If someone can qualify these
questions, then I guess I will be convinced that this is the most
semantic way to solve my problem.
Regards,
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Re: [WSG] PDF files on web site

2006-02-03 Thread Ray Cauchi


At 10:47 PM 3/02/2006, Stephen Stagg wrote:
PDF content rarely has the
_behaviour_ of a web page
(rich hyperlink structures/inbound/outbound links,
etc)
PDF's can and do contain hyperlinks and bookmarks, whether made in
Acrobat or dynamically generated via PHP et al...


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Re: [WSG] PDF files on web site

2006-02-03 Thread Ray Cauchi


At 10:47 PM 3/02/2006, Stephen Stagg wrote:
PDF content rarely has the
_behaviour_ of a web page
(rich hyperlink structures/inbound/outbound links,
etc)
PDF's can and do contain hyperlinks and bookmarks, whether made in
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Re: [WSG] Standards Savvy Shopping Cart

2006-02-03 Thread Ray Cauchi


Hey Ed
You could do

http://www.oscommerce.com with the STS Template contribution (see the
Contributions page, search for STS)
It allows you to completely reskin the tag casserole it ships with...so
the Standards savvy bit falls onto your plate - but I haven't seen a
shopping cart out there thats standards savvy out of the box...
The next release of OSCommerce will have a CSS based layout as standard,
apparently, but it may be a wee way off yet...
ray


At 07:27 AM 3/02/2006, you wrote:

Hello 
I am looking for a web standards
friendly shopping cart for an upcoming project. I have had a look
but not had much luck, previously used CactusASP but the amount of
spurious and unnecessary HTML will not have me calling again.

Would appreciate any links and/or
recommendations. Thank you. 
Regards 
Ed Henderson

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Re: [WSG] Holy Grail - with padding!

2006-02-01 Thread Ray Cauchi


Just a note that this 'holy grail' needs to be revisited for
IE 7...
At 06:52 AM 2/02/2006, you wrote:
Hi All,
I have just read Matthew Levine's interesting piece,

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail and I wondered if anyone
has ever seen a similar thing done with padding as well (i.e., same
effect as with a padding : 25px all around)? I've searched and not found
anything . . .
I hate pages with no breathing-space (just my personal quirk).
Anyone?
Thanks,
Bob McClelland
Cornwall (U.K.)

www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk

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Re: [WSG] Holy Grail - with padding!

2006-02-01 Thread Ray Cauchi


Al
That was my point - when a structure such as Thierry's works in the
current Beta of IE7, I would prefer to use it over a 'holy grail' that
breaks (ref:

http://www.alistapart.com/d/holygrail/example_3.html)
Sure its a Beta, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will all change for
the final product...though I guess it is MS???
Love your work Thierry!
ray
At 08:01 AM 2/02/2006, Thierry Koblentz wrote:


http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/3cols/ ?


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Re: [WSG] Holy Grail - with padding!

2006-02-01 Thread Ray Cauchi


Al
That was my point - when a structure such as Thierry's works in the
current Beta of IE7, I would prefer to use it over a 'holy grail' that
breaks (ref:

http://www.alistapart.com/d/holygrail/example_3.html)
Sure its a Beta, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will all change for
the final product...though I guess it is MS???
Love your work Thierry!
ray
At 08:01 AM 2/02/2006, Thierry Koblentz wrote:


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Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread Ray Cauchi


Hi folks
Can someone pleeese just put this thread to its death?
There are much more important things going on in this list...this is a
waste of space...
I agree with Lisa, keep it positive folks...
ray
At 05:21 PM 1/02/2006, you wrote:
On 1/31/06, Lachlan Hardy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I also appreciate that changing 6 or 8 or 10 years of coding
practice
 and philosophy of web development is incredibly difficult
Just wanted to come back to this...
Let's not defend the hermit. If your practice has not changed in 6
years, that's not good. Sure, it's hard to change something that
hasn't changed in 6 years, but nothing should be so solid in the
first
place.
And if your habits haven't changed in 10 years, then would you even
be
making any money? Isn't the web only 12 years old?
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[WSG] Positioning issues

2004-06-25 Thread Ray Cauchi
Hi all
I am putting together a Banner for a site, and attempting to do it using 
CSS pos. I had a hybrid table/css layout working nicely, but decided to 
try and do it using a more pure methodology (that was a few hours ago 
now...lol)

http://www.tweek.com.au/pte/
I have been doing my dev in Firefox 0.9 and testing also in IE 6. I 
havent really begun testing in other browsers as yet. But, I am already 
having an issue with IE6's psotioning of the navbar. Firefox deals with 
it nicely, IE does something kinda dumb

Can anyone assist with this?
Thanks
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[WSG] Positioning issues

2004-06-25 Thread Ray Cauchi
Hi all
I am putting together a Banner for a site, and attempting to do it using 
CSS pos. I had a hybrid table/css layout working nicely, but decided to 
try and do it using a more pure methodology (that was a few hours ago 
now...lol)

http://www.tweek.com.au/pte/
I have been doing my dev in Firefox 0.9 and testing also in IE 6. I 
havent really begun testing in other browsers as yet. But, I am already 
having an issue with IE6's psotioning of the navbar. Firefox deals with 
it nicely, IE does something kinda dumb

Can anyone assist with this?
Thanks
Ray
---BeginMessage---
Hi all
I am putting together a Banner for a site, and attempting to do it using 
CSS pos. I had a hybrid table/css layout working nicely, but decided to 
try and do it using a more pure methodology (that was a few hours ago 
now...lol)

http://www.tweek.com.au/pte/
I have been doing my dev in Firefox 0.9 and testing also in IE 6. I 
havent really begun testing in other browsers as yet. But, I am already 
having an issue with IE6's psotioning of the navbar. Firefox deals with 
it nicely, IE does something kinda dumb

Can anyone assist with this?
Thanks
Ray
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Re: [WSG] Is a degree necessary?

2004-05-13 Thread Ray Cauchi


Hi there
At the end of the day its your decision!
I did 2 years B.Architecture, then abandoned the whole thing. 4 years
later, I started my own business, which I have now been running for 5
years. Actually, I have dropped out of Uni twice.
You don't need a Degree. There have been positive arguments made
for finishing your course (such as displaying ability to finish something
you started), but from my experience, its more what you do now that
matters. A degree would be nice to have as a fallback, but as long as I
stay in IT, my portfolio speaks for itself. If I get out of IT, then I
will create a new portfolio in something else (maybe woodwork??) for
which a Degree in IT would most likely have no relevance. Its more your
attitude and approach to your work/life that matters.
Do you intend to stay in IT until you die? 
I think trust your instincts, and run with them - best of luck whichever
path you chose to follow!
Ray
At 04:38 PM 13/05/2004, Gabriel Vasquez wrote:
Hi Everyone, I apologize if this
is off topic but this is one of the few
places that I would be able to talk to web designers and get their
opinions
on this.
I've been attending school to get an Associates degree in Digital Media.
The
program is 18 months and ranges from html to 3d graphics. I'm already
more
than halfway through my courses, but I find that I hit a road block; I'm
not
really learning anything. We are just now getting into *basic* css,
and
_javascript_ in dreamweaver (which I already know how to do, even though
I
prefer to hand-code). The program is now focusing on 3D animation but
that's
really not what I'm into at all. I just want to do web design: xhtml,
css,
ECMAScript/DOM, etc. -- no more, no less. I don't feel I should spend
the
money for something I'm not getting anything out of.
My question to you is this: Do you think it would be wise for me to
finish
the program and get the degree even though I'm not learning what I want
to
be learning, or should I just call it off and focus on web
design?
TIA in advanced for your feedback!
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Re: [WSG] Is a degree necessary?

2004-05-13 Thread Ray Cauchi


Hi there
At the end of the day its your decision!
I did 2 years B.Architecture, then abandoned the whole thing. 4 years
later, I started my own business, which I have now been running for 5
years. Actually, I have dropped out of Uni twice.
You don't need a Degree. There have been positive arguments made
for finishing your course (such as displaying ability to finish something
you started), but from my experience, its more what you do now that
matters. A degree would be nice to have as a fallback, but as long as I
stay in IT, my portfolio speaks for itself. If I get out of IT, then I
will create a new portfolio in something else (maybe woodwork??) for
which a Degree in IT would most likely have no relevance. Its more your
attitude and approach to your work/life that matters.
Do you intend to stay in IT until you die? 
I think trust your instincts, and run with them - best of luck whichever
path you chose to follow!
Ray
At 04:38 PM 13/05/2004, Gabriel Vasquez wrote:
Hi Everyone, I apologize if this
is off topic but this is one of the few
places that I would be able to talk to web designers and get their
opinions
on this.
I've been attending school to get an Associates degree in Digital Media.
The
program is 18 months and ranges from html to 3d graphics. I'm already
more
than halfway through my courses, but I find that I hit a road block; I'm
not
really learning anything. We are just now getting into *basic* css,
and
_javascript_ in dreamweaver (which I already know how to do, even though
I
prefer to hand-code). The program is now focusing on 3D animation but
that's
really not what I'm into at all. I just want to do web design: xhtml,
css,
ECMAScript/DOM, etc. -- no more, no less. I don't feel I should spend
the
money for something I'm not getting anything out of.
My question to you is this: Do you think it would be wise for me to
finish
the program and get the degree even though I'm not learning what I want
to
be learning, or should I just call it off and focus on web
design?
TIA in advanced for your feedback!
Gabriel
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Re: [WSG] WYSIWYG editor

2004-05-06 Thread Ray Cauchi


www.ektron.com
EwebEditPro (esp. the XML version). Rocks hard.
Ray
At 08:26 PM 6/05/2004, you wrote:
Anybody know a WYSIWYG editor
but that generate XHTML with CSS?
Thk
David Gironella Casademont
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