Re: [PHP] Alternative to HTTP_REFERER?

2008-10-13 Thread Per Jessen
Yeti wrote: By definition: The referer, or HTTP referer, identifies, from the point of view of an internet webpage or resource, the address of the webpage (commonly the URL, the more generic URI or the i18n updated IRI) of the resource which links to it. More detail at:

Re: [PHP] Alternative to HTTP_REFERER?

2008-10-13 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 08:37 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Yeti wrote: By definition: The referer, or HTTP referer, identifies, from the point of view of an internet webpage or resource, the address of the webpage (commonly the URL, the more generic URI or the i18n updated IRI) of the

Re: [PHP] RewriteRule

2008-10-13 Thread Per Jessen
Yeti wrote: RewriteRule ^blog[/]{0,}([^/]{0,})[/]{0,}([^/]{0,})[/]{0,}.*$ blog.php?getparam1=$1getparam2=$2 [NC,QSA,L] What's the point of using '{0,}' instead '*' ? I think I would have written something like this: # http://www.domain.com/blog/1/2/ RewriteRule ^blog/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/

Re: [PHP] Alternative to HTTP_REFERER?

2008-10-13 Thread Per Jessen
Ashley Sheridan wrote: You should look at developing the app so that it doesn't rely on referrer information, as this is unpredictable as you've seen. Yep, that's what I did too. Can't remember exactly what I did, but I suspect it involved setting info in the session, Not just with IE as

Re: [PHP] Re: HTML5 canvas tag

2008-10-13 Thread Richard Heyes
very fine work mr heyes, I've been most impressed by you're RGraph - a great use for the canvas! Thank you! -- Richard Heyes HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari: http://www.rgraph.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] HTML5 canvas tag

2008-10-13 Thread Richard Heyes
Check your addons and such, Ashley. Gecko itself (the HTML rendering engine used in Firefox) has supported canvas since 1.8 I believe, which equated to Firefox 1.5. Older versions may well have issues though. An example of inconsistencies would that FF3 doesn't seem to have a problem with

Re: [PHP] Re: HTML5 canvas tag

2008-10-13 Thread Richard Heyes
Probably not Firefox 1.5. I have FF 1.5 without _any_ add-ons here and all I got were the same 5 horizontal bands of grey and blue. So it does support it, bit not very well... :-) -- Richard Heyes HTML5 Graphing for FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari: http://www.rgraph.org -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] HTML5 canvas tag

2008-10-13 Thread Per Jessen
Ashley Sheridan wrote: Hmm, it doesn't mention which versions of the browsers it lists are capable of displaying the canvas tag. I'm still using Firefox 2 on this computer, and all I got was 5 horizontal bands of grey and blue. Same here. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Re: HTML5 canvas tag

2008-10-13 Thread Richard Heyes
Hi, I'm not very familiar with the whole thing yet I think that's a common position. but after looking at your site I find it quite interesting. So is it possible to render 3d vector based objects in the canvas and if so an entire 3d based website? Well before you start calling the

Re: [PHP] Setcookie()

2008-10-13 Thread Stut
On 12 Oct 2008, at 23:51, Micah Gersten wrote: The question is, why aren't you using a session variable instead of cookies? That's one of the greatest features of PHP. If you're able to use cookies instead of sessions, and the size of the data you're storing is fairly small, it's always

[PHP] Re: [Semi-OT] Tonns of jobs available

2008-10-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-10-10 11:13:11, schrieb tedd: I just landed a client who had a very bad experience with rentacoder. So, it appears that the 2nd-world nation programming experience is providing some kick-back work for honest programmers. At least I receive more business from people who have had

Re: [PHP] RewriteRule

2008-10-13 Thread Yeti
What's the point of using '{0,}' instead '*' ? Well the thing is that with the {0,} more REQUEST_URIs are valid: eg. /blog /blog/ /blog/17 /blog/17/ /blog/17/0 /blog/17/0/ AND additional characters get ignored (like when it is necessary to reload content with javascript, due to caching issues)

Re: [PHP] RewriteRule

2008-10-13 Thread Yeti
Jessen wrote: RewriteRule ^blog/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/ blog.php?getparam1=$1getparam2=$2 [NC,QSA,L] Of course, your truely does what the OP asked for + it cuts of all strings after the last / /A yeti -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] RewriteRule

2008-10-13 Thread Per Jessen
Yeti wrote: What's the point of using '{0,}' instead '*' ? Well the thing is that with the {0,} more REQUEST_URIs are valid: eg. /blog /blog/ /blog/17 /blog/17/ /blog/17/0 /blog/17/0/ Yeti, I must be slow today - I still can't see the difference between '{0,}' (= 0 or more

Re: [PHP] RewriteRule

2008-10-13 Thread Yeti
You are absoloodle right about that. Although I'm not sure about their greediness, which might be different. I prefer the '{0,}' in my rewrite rules because I usually define the max-length to prevent code injection. eg. # to make sure only the first 8 chars get passed on to PHP RewriteRule

Re: [PHP] PHP and SQL Server

2008-10-13 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 15:05 23/09/2008, you wrote: [snip] So, I'm left wondering what that leaves. Is there anything currently available that could be considered stable for a production environment, supports parameterized queries and is not

RE: [PHP] Re: Remove index.php from url

2008-10-13 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
-Original Message- From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 11:44 AM To: Shawn McKenzie Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Remove index.php from url On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 11:02 -0500, Shawn McKenzie wrote: Shawn McKenzie

Re: [PHP] Alternative to HTTP_REFERER?

2008-10-13 Thread Eric Butera
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:09 AM, Per Jessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ashley Sheridan wrote: You should look at developing the app so that it doesn't rely on referrer information, as this is unpredictable as you've seen. Yep, that's what I did too. Can't remember exactly what I did, but I

[PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread Gary
I am just starting to learn php, and typically I use newsgroups to suppliment the learning process. Does anyone have any sources that you would reccommend to me and is this the best NG for me to monitor?...or is there another you might suggest? Thanks Gary -- PHP General Mailing List

[PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread Gary
Sorry if this is a dup, but I posted and it seemed to get lost I am just learning php, and I like to use newsgroups to suppliment the learning process. Can anyone reccomend a good source for information to a newbie and is this a good forum for my level? or is there another one you

Re: [PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread Jason Pruim
On Oct 13, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Gary wrote: Sorry if this is a dup, but I posted and it seemed to get lost I am just learning php, and I like to use newsgroups to suppliment the learning process. Can anyone reccomend a good source for information to a newbie and is this a good forum for

Re: [PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread Daniel Brown
Welcome to the list, Gary. On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this is a dup, but I posted and it seemed to get lost Both came through. Sometimes it just takes a minute or two, and you shouldn't get a copy of your own message. I am just

RE: [PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread Juan Jose Rosales Rodriguez
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Re: [PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread Gary
Well...thank you all for the warm and friendly welcome, I will probably try to steer one of my projects to php (or at least a portion of) in a short while. One of the things a client wants is a landing page, so I am assuming that php might come in handy for that... Thank you all and once I

Re: [PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread Wolf
Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well...thank you all for the warm and friendly welcome, I will probably try to steer one of my projects to php (or at least a portion of) in a short while. !-- SNIP -- Gary, one thing to keep in mind is to BOTTOM POST and TRIM your posts. By Bottom

Re: [PHP] Setcookie()

2008-10-13 Thread Ben Stones
Hi, My problem was a headers already sent error, which I fixed by redirecting the form POST to a seperate file instead of the same login.php. Thanks for all your help! 2008/10/13 Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12 Oct 2008, at 23:51, Micah Gersten wrote: The question is, why aren't you using a

Re: [PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread TG
I don't want to get into a bottom vs top posting debate. Just know that some of us prefer top posting. There's no right/wrong answer to this. Trimming is always good, though. I second the recommendations for this mailing list as a good source (as well as reading what's posted and seeing if

Re: [PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread Micah Gersten
The problem with bottom posting is that if you follow the conversation, you have to scroll to find the new content. I guess if you trim and bottom post it's not so bad. Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com Wolf wrote: By Bottom Posting (common

Re: [PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread Wolf
Micah Gersten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with bottom posting is that if you follow the conversation, you have to scroll to find the new content. I guess if you trim and bottom post it's not so bad. Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer

RE: [PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread Juan Jose Rosales Rodriguez
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RE: [PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I don't want to get into a bottom vs top posting debate. Just know that some of us prefer top posting. There's no right/wrong answer to this. [/snip] Consider how this would read if I posted above your entry. But I have trimmed quite nicely thank you! :) -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread Stut
On 13 Oct 2008, at 16:48, Micah Gersten wrote: Wolf wrote: By Bottom Posting (common when on a mailing list or NG) it gives greater context as you read through the previous posts and by the time of getting to where the new response is, it is in sync. No skipping back and forth to read to

Re: [PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread Daniel Brown
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:45 AM, TG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't want to get into a bottom vs top posting debate. Just know that some of us prefer top posting. There's no right/wrong answer to this. There is no debate. There is a right and wrong answer. Sometimes people just need

Re: [PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread Wolf
Daniel Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:45 AM, TG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't want to get into a bottom vs top posting debate. Just know that some of us prefer top posting. There's no right/wrong answer to this. There is no debate. There is a

RE: [PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
-Original Message- From: Micah Gersten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 10:49 AM To: PHP General Subject: Re: [PHP] New to PHP The problem with bottom posting is that if you follow the conversation, you have to scroll to find the new content. I guess if

[PHP] Little regex help please...

2008-10-13 Thread Ryan S
Hello! Here's a regex that I got off the web that I am trying to modify for my needs, I suck at regex so desperately need some help. Basically, am trying to get a remote webpage and get the value between the title tags, note that it should get the values regardless if title is upper or lower

RE: [PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread Juan Jose Rosales Rodriguez
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Re: [PHP] New to PHP

2008-10-13 Thread TG
The problem with pointing out the pros and cons is that it will lead to another holy war. :) - Original Message - From: Micah Gersten [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PHP General php-general@lists.php.net Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:48:34 -0500 Subject: Re: [PHP] New to PHP The problem with bottom

Re: [PHP] Top/bottom posting holy war *cringe* (was: New to PHP)

2008-10-13 Thread TG
I concede only that the PHP list has a requested style (bottom posting). I disagree on it's usefulness OVER top posting. I'm perfectly able to read top or bottom posted messages with nearly equal fluidity. I find top posting to be more fluid and useful. I've never quite sure why this

RE: [PHP] Little regex help please...

2008-10-13 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
-Original Message- From: Ryan S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 11:33 AM To: php php Subject: [PHP] Little regex help please... Hello! Here's a regex that I got off the web that I am trying to modify for my needs, I suck at regex so desperately need

Re: [PHP] Top/bottom posting holy war *cringe* (was: New to PHP)

2008-10-13 Thread Davi Vidal
On Monday 13 October 2008 13:44:27 TG wrote: I concede only that the PHP list has a requested style (bottom posting). I disagree on it's usefulness OVER top posting. So, this is the only list that you read. -- Davi Vidal -- E-mail: davividal at siscompar dot com dot br MSN :

[PHP] New to this group....a continuation

2008-10-13 Thread Gary
I posted that I was new to php and had a nice warm responce, however I am now getting these responses in my email box. Is this something that I am doing? I read and contribute to other news groups on a daily basis and this is a first Can I change this? Thanks Gary -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] Little regex help please...

2008-10-13 Thread Eric Butera
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Boyd, Todd M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Ryan S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 11:33 AM To: php php Subject: [PHP] Little regex help please... Hello! Here's a regex that I got off the web that I am

RE: [PHP] Top/bottom posting holy war *cringe* (was: New to PHP)

2008-10-13 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
-Original Message- From: TG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 11:44 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Top/bottom posting holy war *cringe* (was: New to PHP) I concede only that the PHP list has a requested style (bottom posting). I

RE: [PHP] New to this group....a continuation

2008-10-13 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
-Original Message- From: Gary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 11:58 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] New to this groupa continuation I posted that I was new to php and had a nice warm responce, however I am now getting these responses

Re: [PHP] New to this group....a continuation

2008-10-13 Thread Wolf
Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted that I was new to php and had a nice warm responce, however I am now getting these responses in my email box. Is this something that I am doing? I read and contribute to other news groups on a daily basis and this is a first Can I change

Re: [PHP] New to this group....a continuation

2008-10-13 Thread Daniel Brown
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted that I was new to php and had a nice warm responce, however I am now getting these responses in my email box. Is this something that I am doing? I read and contribute to other news groups on a daily basis and this is a

RE: [PHP] Little regex help please...

2008-10-13 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
-Original Message- From: Eric Butera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 12:00 PM To: Boyd, Todd M. Cc: Ryan S; php php Subject: Re: [PHP] Little regex help please... On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Boyd, Todd M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't believe

Re: [PHP] Little regex help please...

2008-10-13 Thread Ryan S
Hey Todd, Eric, Thanks for replying. I don't believe you need both the / and the # for delimiters in your RegEx. Try using just # (since / is actually going to be in the text you're searching for) like this: ?php $data = file_get_contents(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ2dKXGAjNg;);

Re: [PHP] New to this group....a continuation

2008-10-13 Thread Gary
You must be a ptd customer...actually I am in SEPA, but howdy neighbor all the same. Gary Daniel Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted that I was new to php and had a nice warm responce,

Re: [PHP] Little regex help please...

2008-10-13 Thread Jim Lucas
Ryan S wrote: Hey Todd, Eric, Thanks for replying. I don't believe you need both the / and the # for delimiters in your RegEx. Try using just # (since / is actually going to be in the text you're searching for) like this: ?php $data =

Re: [PHP] Little regex help please...

2008-10-13 Thread Jim Lucas
Ryan S wrote: Hey Todd, Eric, Thanks for replying. I don't believe you need both the / and the # for delimiters in your RegEx. Try using just # (since / is actually going to be in the text you're searching for) like this: ?php $data =

Re: [PHP] New to this group....a continuation

2008-10-13 Thread Gary
I'm sure I will be able to filter, its just that I belong to a number of other NGs and this is the first time I have seen this... Thanks gary Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted that I was new to php and had a nice warm

Re: [PHP] Little regex help please...

2008-10-13 Thread Eric Butera
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Boyd, Todd M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Eric Butera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 12:00 PM To: Boyd, Todd M. Cc: Ryan S; php php Subject: Re: [PHP] Little regex help please... On Mon, Oct 13, 2008

RE: [PHP] Little regex help please...

2008-10-13 Thread Leon du Plessis
-Original Message- From: Ryan S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 October 2008 07:09 PM To: Eric Butera; Boyd, Todd M. Cc: php php Subject: Re: [PHP] Little regex help please... Hey Todd, Eric, Thanks for replying. I don't believe you need both the / and the # for delimiters in your

Re: [PHP] New to this group....a continuation

2008-10-13 Thread Stut
On 13 Oct 2008, at 18:12, Gary wrote: I'm sure I will be able to filter, its just that I belong to a number of other NGs and this is the first time I have seen this... Didn't read the advice about top-posting did ya? Anyhoo, this is primarily a mailing list with a newsgroup gateway.

RE: [PHP] Little regex help please...

2008-10-13 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
-Original Message- From: Jim Lucas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 12:13 PM To: Ryan S Cc: Eric Butera; Boyd, Todd M.; php php Subject: Re: [PHP] Little regex help please... Too quick on the reply forgot not to escape the forward slash on the

Re: [PHP] Little regex help please...

2008-10-13 Thread Ryan S
Thanks guys, I appreciate the help. Cheers! R -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] New to this group....a continuation

2008-10-13 Thread Jochem Maas
Gary schreef: I posted that I was new to php and had a nice warm responce, however I am now getting these responses in my email box. Is this something that I am doing? I read and contribute to other news groups on a daily basis and this is a first Can I change this? this list is as

[PHP] How to know what current system is?

2008-10-13 Thread Jiang Miao
Is there any function do that? when php in Linux it returns linux in windows it returns windows I found phpinfo(INFO_GENERAL); output the string System = Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-19-server. but I have no idea to get that info. Thanks Jiang Miao -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)

[PHP] Pure PHP Templating Class/AJAX Problem

2008-10-13 Thread Tom Shaw
I use a pure templating class similar to something that I found here http://www.talkphp.com/advanced-php-programming/2568-pure-php-template-class .html. My question is how do you handle AJAX requests from XMLHttpRequest (); My class pumps out the entire page over again after the AJAX request is

[PHP] Re: How to know what current system is?

2008-10-13 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Jiang Miao wrote: Is there any function do that? when php in Linux it returns linux in windows it returns windows I found phpinfo(INFO_GENERAL); output the string System = Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-19-server. but I have no idea to get that info. Thanks Jiang Miao PHP_OS constant. -Shawn

RE: [PHP] How to know what current system is?

2008-10-13 Thread Tom Shaw
You can try, $_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'] -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jiang Miao Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 3:44 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] How to know what current system is? Is there any function do that? when php in

[PHP] Csv issue

2008-10-13 Thread admin
I am using a form to select a csv file and then import it into mysql and maybe im just drawling a blank here. But why is it blowing up. This thing loads like 14 million records into the database and I am clue less how it can do that with a 2 record csv file. form enctype='multipart/form-data'

RE: [PHP] Csv issue

2008-10-13 Thread bruce
hi... as a test... using the cli php... try to write a short app to read a file that simulates your input csv file, and then writes it out as well... once you do this, you'll know you have the logic to read/write/manipulate the csv file. after you can do this, go ahead and then create/work

RE: [PHP] Csv issue

2008-10-13 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 15:02 -0700, bruce wrote: hi... as a test... using the cli php... try to write a short app to read a file that simulates your input csv file, and then writes it out as well... once you do this, you'll know you have the logic to read/write/manipulate the csv file.

[PHP] Re: Csv issue

2008-10-13 Thread Shawn McKenzie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using a form to select a csv file and then import it into mysql and maybe im just drawling a blank here. But why is it blowing up. This thing loads like 14 million records into the database and I am clue less how it can do that with a 2 record csv file. form