php-general Digest 5 Dec 2005 14:14:44 -0000 Issue 3833
Topics (messages 226851 through 226869):
Re: PDF Generator
226851 by: jud.bizville.com
226855 by: Anas Mughal
226865 by: Norbert Wenzel
Could you help me to solve this problem?
226852 by: CHEN RAN
226853 by: Stephen Johnson
Re: Exception
226854 by: Anas Mughal
using curl to peform post
226856 by: Brent Clark
Performance question
226857 by: Anders Norrbring
226868 by: James Benson
OpenDocument .odt to .xhtml Parser
226858 by: Sadda Teh
R: [PHP] Performance question
226859 by: Sebastian \"En3pY\" Zdrojewski
226862 by: Anders Norrbring
Multiple callback_outputs for ob_start
226860 by: Mathijs
template systems
226861 by: Eternity Records Webmaster
226864 by: Thomas
Re: [PHP-DEV] Zend Sudio's Optimizer / PHP 5.1.1
226863 by: Mike Bretz
functions that take variable arguments?
226866 by: Eternity Records Webmaster
226867 by: Richard Heyes
Re: Count and Preg_Replace Using Version 4.4.1
226869 by: Al
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Why not use JavaScript? It's supported well in Acrobat Professional.
Jud.
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From: Dan Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 09:12:51 -0700
To: [email protected]
Subject: [PHP] Re: PDF Generator
I have a TON of forms that I have to populate, can I make a PDF file using
Acrobat Professional, and then use PHP to populate those forms and have text
inserted into the pre-made text fields that I made using Acrobat? And if
so, what is the best tool for that? I'd prefer to do it for free, but
spending $$ is fine too.
Thanks
Dan
Rick Lim wrote:
> What is the best FREE pdf generator for PHP?
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I used this in the past:
http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/
Fully self-contained.
My only frustration was that didn't support multiple tables on one row.
Maybe I was asking too much... ;)
On 12/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Why not use JavaScript? It's supported well in Acrobat Professional.
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> Jud.
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> Original Message:
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> From: Dan Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 09:12:51 -0700
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [PHP] Re: PDF Generator
>
>
>
> I have a TON of forms that I have to populate, can I make a PDF file using
> Acrobat Professional, and then use PHP to populate those forms and have
> text
> inserted into the pre-made text fields that I made using Acrobat? And if
> so, what is the best tool for that? I'd prefer to do it for free, but
> spending $$ is fine too.
>
> Thanks
> Dan
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> Rick Lim wrote:
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> > What is the best FREE pdf generator for PHP?
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Dan Harrington wrote:
I have a TON of forms that I have to populate, can I make a PDF file using
Acrobat Professional, and then use PHP to populate those forms and have text
inserted into the pre-made text fields that I made using Acrobat? And if
so, what is the best tool for that? I'd prefer to do it for free, but
spending $$ is fine too.
Thanks
Dan
Rick Lim wrote:
What is the best FREE pdf generator for PHP?
fpdf will only draw your documents, there is no way to use it with
forms. and i don't know any way to process pdf forms in php, but i
didn't really need it yet.
if you find any solutions, please post them.
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hi,
After uploading file to web server with php upload script in
http://us3.php.net/features.file-upload, I can't access the file with web
browser. I get error message as "403 Forbidden" or "You are not authorized
to view this page".
However, there is no such problem when i using FTP to upload files.
Please help,
Thanks a lot.
Ran
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When you upload you also need to change the permissions on the file that you
uploaded.
chmod("/somedir/somefile", 0755)
More info : http://us3.php.net/chmod
On 12/4/05 6:35 PM, "CHEN RAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi,
>
> After uploading file to web server with php upload script in
> http://us3.php.net/features.file-upload, I can't access the file with web
> browser. I get error message as "403 Forbidden" or "You are not authorized
> to view this page".
> However, there is no such problem when i using FTP to upload files.
>
> Please help,
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Ran
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I don't know about PHP, however, in other languages, exception throwing and
catching is expensive.
As Curt put it, exception handling should be reserved for truly exceptional
cases:
- DB connection failure
- SOA connectivity failure
General errors like the user not completing a form, should be handled as
regular error conditions.
Hope this helps.
On 12/4/05, Christian Herrnbock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> mr php wrote:
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> > Hello
> > Is it good to use exception handling for error handling or I should use
> > only for exceptions?
> > For example:
> > Is it good to throwing user input errors with throw new Exception().
> > Thanks
>
> Hello,
>
> I would also go by keeping them separate; it helps both in logic-flow, and
> maintenence. Not to mention, exception handlers are design to do just that
> - handle exceptions.
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> Christian
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Hi all
I have need to simulate the role of a web browser by submitting the following
code.
<form name="form1" action="propsearch.pl" method="post">
<textarea rows="12" cols="70" name="msg">GREENc</textarea>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
Heres my PHP code that got from the curl function.
<?php
$url = "www.example.com";
$page = "/cgi-bin/ecco/scripts/h2h/glo/propsearch.pl";
$post_string = "msg=GREE01";
$header = "POST ".$page." HTTP/1.0 ";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 ";
$header .= "Content-type: application/PTI26 ";
$header .= "Content-length: ".strlen($post_string)." ";
$header .= "Content-transfer-encoding: text ";
$header .= "Request-number: 1 ";
$header .= "Document-type: Request ";
$header .= "Interface-Version: Test 1.4 ";
$header .= "Connection: close ";
$header .= $post_string;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $header);
$data = curl_exec($ch); if (curl_errno($ch)) {
print curl_error($ch);
} else {
curl_close($ch);
}
print $data;
?>
Any assistant would gratefully be appreciated.
Kind Regards
Brent Clark
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I've been spending some time to find performance pros and cons, but so
far haven't had any real luck.
Can someone on this list say which is better than the other, and also
why, when it comes to these kinds of syntax:
1.
php code
?>
<html statements><?= $variable ?></end tag>
<tag><?= $var2 ?></end tag>
<?
more php code
2.
php code
echo "<tag>$variable</end tag>";
echo "<tag>$var2</end tag>";
more php code
In both cases, some processing is done, not that 'echo' uses a lot of
cpu time, but still...
On the other hand, there are more jumps in and out for the interpreter
in the first example...
I'd love some thoughts on this.
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I dont think either will give a performance decrease any less than the
other will do.
Anders Norrbring wrote:
I've been spending some time to find performance pros and cons, but so
far haven't had any real luck.
Can someone on this list say which is better than the other, and also
why, when it comes to these kinds of syntax:
1.
php code
?>
<html statements><?= $variable ?></end tag>
<tag><?= $var2 ?></end tag>
<?
more php code
2.
php code
echo "<tag>$variable</end tag>";
echo "<tag>$var2</end tag>";
more php code
In both cases, some processing is done, not that 'echo' uses a lot of
cpu time, but still...
On the other hand, there are more jumps in and out for the interpreter
in the first example...
I'd love some thoughts on this.
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With the release of OpenOffice.org 2 came the ability to export .odt to
.xhtml. As most probably know, the OOo .odt native file format is basically
gzipped XML. Also OOo comes with .xsl files which are used to transform the
.odt file to .xhtml files when they are exported.
Does anyone know of any projects being worked on which use the OOo .xsl XSLT
files to transform .odt files to .xhtml files? The type of code I'm
specifically looking for would be an API written in PHP 5 that can basically
take any .odt file and spit out a .xhtml file using the .xsl files that ship
with OOo (can be found in share\xslt\export\xhtml in the root install dir on
a Windows install, not sure about Linux).
Does anyone know if any code is out there to do this, or if any projects
exist to address this need. I've done a little Google research on this
topic, but haven't found much, so I figured someone on this list might know
where to point me for more info, or can point me to people who are working
on this. If no one is doing something like this is anyone interested in
working on the with me? Thanks for any replies.
I'm not an XML whiz, and frankly don't want to be one, so I'm hoping there
is some code out there that already addresses this.
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Hi,
I do prefer the first style programming after longer time in programming
PHP. I like the idea of keeping HTML and PHP code separate for cosmetic
purpose as well as mantainance. Actually a code with PHP only, I mean really
with NO HTML code in it, is more portable and easy to mantain. As for
performance I don't know, but a difference is present for sure. Actually I
never benchmarked the performance of the two styles, but wanted to give my
10 cents for the coding style :)
Cheers
En3pY
Sebastian Konstanty Zdrojewski
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Da: Anders Norrbring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Inviato: lunedì 5 dicembre 2005 8.27
A: PHP General
Oggetto: [PHP] Performance question
I've been spending some time to find performance pros and cons, but so far
haven't had any real luck.
Can someone on this list say which is better than the other, and also why,
when it comes to these kinds of syntax:
1.
php code
?>
<html statements><?= $variable ?></end tag> <tag><?= $var2 ?></end tag> <?
more php code
2.
php code
echo "<tag>$variable</end tag>";
echo "<tag>$var2</end tag>";
more php code
In both cases, some processing is done, not that 'echo' uses a lot of cpu
time, but still...
On the other hand, there are more jumps in and out for the interpreter in
the first example...
I'd love some thoughts on this.
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Norrbring Consulting
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On 2005-12-05 09:05 Sebastian "En3pY" Zdrojewski wrote:
Hi,
I do prefer the first style programming after longer time in programming
PHP. I like the idea of keeping HTML and PHP code separate for cosmetic
purpose as well as mantainance. Actually a code with PHP only, I mean really
with NO HTML code in it, is more portable and easy to mantain. As for
performance I don't know, but a difference is present for sure. Actually I
never benchmarked the performance of the two styles, but wanted to give my
10 cents for the coding style :)
Cheers
En3pY
Yep, I like it too, for the same "cosmetic" reasons.. But now I've
become involved in a project where extreme performance is a key issue,
so of course I'd like to have some input on the situation...
Anders.
Sebastian Konstanty Zdrojewski
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Da: Anders Norrbring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Inviato: lunedì 5 dicembre 2005 8.27
A: PHP General
Oggetto: [PHP] Performance question
I've been spending some time to find performance pros and cons, but so far
haven't had any real luck.
Can someone on this list say which is better than the other, and also why,
when it comes to these kinds of syntax:
1.
php code
?>
<html statements><?= $variable ?></end tag> <tag><?= $var2 ?></end tag> <?
more php code
2.
php code
echo "<tag>$variable</end tag>";
echo "<tag>$var2</end tag>";
more php code
In both cases, some processing is done, not that 'echo' uses a lot of cpu
time, but still...
On the other hand, there are more jumps in and out for the interpreter in
the first example...
I'd love some thoughts on this.
--
Anders Norrbring
Norrbring Consulting
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Hello ppl,
I Have a question about ob_start().
How can i add more callback_outputs to ob_start?
I want to have both: ob_start('switchContent');
and: ob_start('ob_gzhandler');
How can i do that?
Thx in advanced.
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Hi...
I was wondering if there are any template systems out there that are fairly
easy to use (that don't require hours and hours reading books) and that are
fairly good as well? I need one also that works with pear packages since I
use html_quickform a lot. I considered checking out smarty but wasnt for
sure if that one would be the best.
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Hi,
Templating systems are really a matter of taste. You have a few options,
depending also on the paradigm you want to use (Model2, MVC ... maybe read
up on that as that is good general knowledge).
Also, please check the archives as this question has already been discussed
at length ;-)
Anyway, I will give my 5c worth, when I say that I have gotten to like
HTML_Template_Flexy (a pear package) quite a lot. This paradigm forces you
to do almost all of your logic stuff on the php side, whilst nicely
separating html and php code (you can really end up with some pretty
straight forward html pages, with a little Flexy code - cool things is also
that you can use Flexy code inline (as in <p flexy:if=""></p>) makes for
neat code!)
Another plus for Flexy is that it is not bloated like Smarty. Fair enough,
Smarty is pretty cool, but it just gives you too many ropes to hang yourself
with.
Not sure how easy integration with Quickform is ... should not be a problem
as most things happen on the code side anyway.
Hope that helps.
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From: Eternity Records Webmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 05 December 2005 11:00 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [PHP] template systems
Hi...
I was wondering if there are any template systems out there that are fairly
easy to use (that don't require hours and hours reading books) and that are
fairly good as well? I need one also that works with pear packages since I
use html_quickform a lot. I considered checking out smarty but wasnt for
sure if that one would be the best.
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ZendOptimizer will be available for PHP5.1 within "a few weeks" - that's
what you get from zend support.
mike
Joseph Crawford wrote:
i keep getting an error that zend optimizer doesnt work with this version of
PHP, can anyone explain why that would be?
i have gone into zend studio and went to /lib/Optimizer-2.5.13/ created the
php-5.1.x dir and copied the ZendOptimizer.dll from the php-5.0.x directory
but it still complains ;( is there something else i need to change in zend
studio server?
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how do you create/use a function that takes an undefined amount of
arguments? I looked at the manual but its a little confusing. for example, i
want to make a function called Update inside a DB class:
class DB {
//vars here
var $host;
var $DbUser;
//functions
function Update(...) {
//this function can take as few as 1 argument or as many as php will allow
//its supposed to update a database with the new values of the arguments.
//any help getting started on creating a function like this would be
apreciated
}
//end class
}
thanks
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Eternity Records Webmaster wrote:
how do you create/use a function that takes an undefined amount of
arguments? I looked at the manual but its a little confusing. for example, i
want to make a function called Update inside a DB class:
class DB {
//vars here
var $host;
var $DbUser;
//functions
function Update(...) {
//this function can take as few as 1 argument or as many as php will allow
//its supposed to update a database with the new values of the arguments.
//any help getting started on creating a function like this would be
apreciated
}
//end class
}
class DB
{
function Update()
{
$args = func_get_args();
}
}
$args will then be a regular array of any/all the arguments passed to
the function.
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Shaun wrote:
Hi,
The following code matches all occurences of <p> tags within an html page
and wraps form tags around it:
echo preg_replace(
'/<p[^>]*>(.*?)<\/p>/ms',
'<form name="form" target="_parent"
action="'.$CFG->edit_pages_adm.'/index.php?action=edit_paragraph"
method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="text" value="$1">
<p><a href="javascript:;" onclick="document.form.submit();">$1</a></p>
</form>',
file_get_contents($CFG->frontenddir_editable.'/'.$file) );
Unfortunately if there is more than one match the form won't submit because
the forms have the same name. Does anyone know how can I modify this so that
each occurence is numbered sequentially i.e.
form'.$count.'...
As I am using version 4.4.1 I don't have access to the count paramter in
version 5.1.
Thanks for your advice
Each of your html input elements must have a different name, otherwise the php
code will only see the last one.
Consider a simple foreach loop to generate your html input elements, e.g.,
$report= ""; $i= 0;
foreach($array as $key=> $value){
$report .= "<p><input type=\"text\" name=\"input$i\"
value=\"\"></P>";
other stuff as needed
$i++;
}//end
echo $report;
I'm not sure I see why you need the JAVA script. Seems like you can let the user poke in everything and then provide a
submit button to post everything.
Your $_POST will contain all the results. e.g.,
$value1= $_POST['input1'];
$value2= $_POST['input2'];
etc.
Another simple foreach loop can be used to extract the input values.
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