php-general Digest 15 Mar 2013 19:32:31 -0000 Issue 8164
Topics (messages 320557 through 320585):
Re: variable type - conversion/checking
320557 by: Peter Ford
320559 by: tamouse mailing lists
Type of a variable in PHP
320558 by: Kevin Peterson
320560 by: Karim Geiger
320563 by: Lester Caine
320565 by: Sebastian Krebs
rather a HTML Q; however 2-FRAME
320561 by: georg
320564 by: tamouse mailing lists
320567 by: Tim Streater
320575 by: georg
320576 by: georg
320577 by: Stuart Dallas
320578 by: georg
320581 by: tamouse mailing lists
320582 by: Jim Giner
Re: PHP context editor
320562 by: Karim Geiger
320566 by: Sebastian Krebs
Undefined index....
320568 by: Jay Blanchard
320570 by: Serge Fonville
320571 by: Jay Blanchard
320572 by: Serge Fonville
320573 by: Lester Caine
320579 by: Tim Streater
320580 by: Jay Blanchard
Re: Accessing Files Outside the Web Root
320569 by: Dale H. Cook
320574 by: Stuart Dallas
320583 by: Dale H. Cook
320584 by: Marc Guay
PDO Transaction
320585 by: Simon Dániel
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On 15/03/13 06:21, Jim Lucas wrote:
On 3/14/2013 4:05 PM, Matijn Woudt wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Jim Lucas <li...@cmsws.com> wrote:
On 03/14/2013 11:50 AM, Samuel Lopes Grigolato wrote:
Something like "if (is_numeric($var)&& $var == floor($var))" will do
the
trick. I don't know if there's a better (more elegant) way.
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Matijn Woudt<tijn...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:02 PM, georg<georg.chamb...@telia.com**>
wrote:
Hi,
I have tried to find a way to check if a character string is
possible to
test whether it is convertible to an intger !
any suggestion ?
BR georg
You could use is_numeric for that, though it also accepts floats.
- Matijn
for that type of test I have always used this:
if ( $val == (int)$val ) {
http://www.php.net/manual/en/**language.types.integer.php#**
language.types.integer.casting<http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.integer.php#language.types.integer.casting>
I hope you're not serious about this...
When comparing a string and an int, PHP will translate the string to int
too, and of course they will always be equal then.
So:
$a = "abc";
if($a == (int)$a) echo "YES";
else echo "NO";
Will always return YES.
- Matijn
Hmmmm... Interesting. Looking back at my code base where I thought I was
doing that, turns out the final results were not that, but this:
$value = "asdf1234";
if ( $value === (string)intval($value) ) {
Looking back at the OP's request and after a little further searching,
it seems that there might be a better possible solution for what the OP
is requesting.
<?php
$values = array("asdf1234", "123.123", "123");
foreach ( $values AS $value ) {
echo $value;
if ( ctype_digit($value) ) {
echo ' - is all digits';
} else {
echo ' - is NOT all digits';
}
echo '<br />'.PHP_EOL;
}
returns...
asdf1234 - is NOT all digits
123.123 - is NOT all digits
123 - is all digits
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ctype-digit.php
An important note:
This function expects a string to be useful, so for example passing in
an integer may not return the expected result. However, also note that
HTML forms will result in numeric strings and not integers. See also the
types section of the manual.
--
Jim
Integers can be negative too: I suspect your test would reject a leading '-'...
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Peter Ford <p...@justcroft.com> wrote:
> On 15/03/13 06:21, Jim Lucas wrote:
>>
>> On 3/14/2013 4:05 PM, Matijn Woudt wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Jim Lucas <li...@cmsws.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 03/14/2013 11:50 AM, Samuel Lopes Grigolato wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Something like "if (is_numeric($var)&& $var == floor($var))" will do
>>>>> the
>>>>>
>>>>> trick. I don't know if there's a better (more elegant) way.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Matijn Woudt<tijn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:02 PM, georg<georg.chamb...@telia.com**>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have tried to find a way to check if a character string is
>>>>>>> possible to
>>>>>>> test whether it is convertible to an intger !
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> any suggestion ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BR georg
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You could use is_numeric for that, though it also accepts floats.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Matijn
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> for that type of test I have always used this:
>>>>
>>>> if ( $val == (int)$val ) {
>>>>
>>>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/**language.types.integer.php#**
>>>>
>>>> language.types.integer.casting<http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.integer.php#language.types.integer.casting>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I hope you're not serious about this...
>>>
>>> When comparing a string and an int, PHP will translate the string to int
>>> too, and of course they will always be equal then.
>>> So:
>>> $a = "abc";
>>> if($a == (int)$a) echo "YES";
>>> else echo "NO";
>>> Will always return YES.
>>>
>>> - Matijn
>>>
>>
>> Hmmmm... Interesting. Looking back at my code base where I thought I was
>> doing that, turns out the final results were not that, but this:
>>
>> $value = "asdf1234";
>>
>> if ( $value === (string)intval($value) ) {
>>
>> Looking back at the OP's request and after a little further searching,
>> it seems that there might be a better possible solution for what the OP
>> is requesting.
>>
>> <?php
>>
>> $values = array("asdf1234", "123.123", "123");
>>
>> foreach ( $values AS $value ) {
>>
>> echo $value;
>>
>> if ( ctype_digit($value) ) {
>> echo ' - is all digits';
>> } else {
>> echo ' - is NOT all digits';
>> }
>> echo '<br />'.PHP_EOL;
>> }
>>
>> returns...
>>
>> asdf1234 - is NOT all digits
>> 123.123 - is NOT all digits
>> 123 - is all digits
>>
>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ctype-digit.php
>>
>> An important note:
>>
>> This function expects a string to be useful, so for example passing in
>> an integer may not return the expected result. However, also note that
>> HTML forms will result in numeric strings and not integers. See also the
>> types section of the manual.
>>
>> --
>> Jim
>>
>
> Integers can be negative too: I suspect your test would reject a leading
> '-'...
For my money, `is_numeric()` does just what I want.
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Have two questions -
1. How to find type of a variable in PHP.
2. How to find the type of an array in PHP.
Please help.
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Hi,
On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 09:55 +0000, Kevin Peterson wrote:
> Have two questions -
> 1. How to find type of a variable in PHP.
> 2. How to find the type of an array in PHP.
>
> Please help.
>
Use this:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.gettype.php
Regards
Karim
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Karim Geiger wrote:
Have two questions -
>1. How to find type of a variable in PHP.
>2. How to find the type of an array in PHP.
>
>Please help.
>
Use this:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.gettype.php
BUT - bear in mind that the nice thing about PHP 'arrays' is that they are a not
restricted to a single type. The elements of an array can be different types.
It's more a 'basket' than a traditional array.
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2013/3/15 Kevin Peterson <qh.res...@gmail.com>
> Have two questions -
> 1. How to find type of a variable in PHP.
>
gettype(), or one of the is_*()-functions. But for me more interesting for
me: Why do you _need_ this?
> 2. How to find the type of an array in PHP.
>
An array is of type array :) is_array() or again gettype().
Can you maybe describe what you want to achieve? In a dynamically typed
language it is rarely _required_, that you know the _concrete_ type.
>
> Please help.
>
>
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I have a need to make a pure "display" in a (HTML tagged area defined by) FRAME
now so far I have only succeeded in making output into a frame by landing
a clicked tag to open the new doc (href or src) in a specified frame.
Possibly its not solvable with framework of frames.
( I know, FRAMEs are a dying breed, depressed by HTML society, sorry
"deprecated"
possibly my issue is fixable by style-sheets but I havnt gotten that far yet,
too complex )
tnx for any input
georg
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:00 AM, georg <georg.chamb...@telia.com> wrote:
> I have a need to make a pure "display" in a (HTML tagged area defined by)
> FRAME
> now so far I have only succeeded in making output into a frame by landing
> a clicked tag to open the new doc (href or src) in a specified frame.
> Possibly its not solvable with framework of frames.
Not 100% sure of what you want, but can't you just populate the frames directly?
<frameset rows="10%,*">
<frame name="upper" src="upperframe.php">
<frame name="lower" src="lowerframe.php">
</frameset>
the link in the src attribute populates it initially.
You already know how to populate them with links.
> ( I know, FRAMEs are a dying breed, depressed by HTML society, sorry
> "deprecated"
> possibly my issue is fixable by style-sheets but I havnt gotten that far
> yet, too complex )
Frames are not only deprecated, they are unsupported entirely in HTML5
(not that browsers won't continue to display them; just that they
won't validate).
Leap the hurdle and start to look at Web 3.0 stuff with backbone.js,
twitter's bootstrap, etc.
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On 15 Mar 2013 at 11:00, tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Frames are not only deprecated, they are unsupported entirely in HTML5
> (not that browsers won't continue to display them; just that they
> won't validate).
Meaning, in other words, that they *are* supported. It's unlikely in any case
that any feature will ever be removed from a browser.
--
Cheers -- Tim
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Hi, yepp & thnx, so far I have got,
but now im in a situation where I have made 2nice frames one contining the
picture
(noscroll) and i want to have a quite narrow frame at the side displaying a
text,
however I want to fill both frames at one mouseclick....... here Im utterly
failing :(
for some time now
BR georg
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From: "tamouse mailing lists" <tamouse.li...@gmail.com>
To: <php-gene...@lists.php.net>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] rather a HTML Q; however 2-FRAME
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:00 AM, georg <georg.chamb...@telia.com> wrote:
I have a need to make a pure "display" in a (HTML tagged area defined by)
FRAME
now so far I have only succeeded in making output into a frame by landing
a clicked tag to open the new doc (href or src) in a specified frame.
Possibly its not solvable with framework of frames.
Not 100% sure of what you want, but can't you just populate the frames
directly?
<frameset rows="10%,*">
<frame name="upper" src="upperframe.php">
<frame name="lower" src="lowerframe.php">
</frameset>
the link in the src attribute populates it initially.
You already know how to populate them with links.
( I know, FRAMEs are a dying breed, depressed by HTML society, sorry
"deprecated"
possibly my issue is fixable by style-sheets but I havnt gotten that
far yet, too complex )
Frames are not only deprecated, they are unsupported entirely in HTML5
(not that browsers won't continue to display them; just that they
won't validate).
Leap the hurdle and start to look at Web 3.0 stuff with backbone.js,
twitter's bootstrap, etc.
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To make things clearer. I already have the frames since earlier and
want to fill then again, so it is not at the "initial filling" of the frames
at "creation".
BR georg
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From: "georg" <georg.chamb...@telia.com>
To: "tamouse mailing lists" <tamouse.li...@gmail.com>
Cc: <php-gene...@lists.php.net>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] rather a HTML Q; however 2-FRAME
Hi, yepp & thnx, so far I have got,
but now im in a situation where I have made 2nice frames one contining the
picture
(noscroll) and i want to have a quite narrow frame at the side displaying
a text,
however I want to fill both frames at one mouseclick....... here Im
utterly failing :(
for some time now
BR georg
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From: "tamouse mailing lists" <tamouse.li...@gmail.com>
To: <php-gene...@lists.php.net>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] rather a HTML Q; however 2-FRAME
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:00 AM, georg <georg.chamb...@telia.com> wrote:
I have a need to make a pure "display" in a (HTML tagged area defined
by) FRAME
now so far I have only succeeded in making output into a frame by
landing
a clicked tag to open the new doc (href or src) in a specified frame.
Possibly its not solvable with framework of frames.
Not 100% sure of what you want, but can't you just populate the frames
directly?
<frameset rows="10%,*">
<frame name="upper" src="upperframe.php">
<frame name="lower" src="lowerframe.php">
</frameset>
the link in the src attribute populates it initially.
You already know how to populate them with links.
( I know, FRAMEs are a dying breed, depressed by HTML society, sorry
"deprecated"
possibly my issue is fixable by style-sheets but I havnt gotten that
far yet, too complex )
Frames are not only deprecated, they are unsupported entirely in HTML5
(not that browsers won't continue to display them; just that they
won't validate).
Leap the hurdle and start to look at Web 3.0 stuff with backbone.js,
twitter's bootstrap, etc.
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On 15 Mar 2013, at 13:34, "georg" <georg.chamb...@telia.com> wrote:
> To make things clearer. I already have the frames since earlier and
> want to fill then again, so it is not at the "initial filling" of the frames
> at "creation".
You want one action to change the content in two frames? For that you'll need
to use Javascript, or reload the parent frame, neither of which involve PHP.
-Stuart
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http://3ft9.com/
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Actually I think you are right;
what I would have liked (as a natural extension of the depression....:)
is actually a <FRAME> tag that stands without the <FRAMESET>
and which as target="framename" instead of the frame defining
name="framename"
and which just displayed the src in that frame (immediatly as it does today)
Im fairly new to PHP so Im bound to bounce into some walls, tnx.
BR georg
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From: "Stuart Dallas" <stu...@3ft9.com>
To: "georg" <georg.chamb...@telia.com>
Cc: "PHP General" <>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] rather a HTML Q; however 2-FRAME
On 15 Mar 2013, at 13:34, "georg" <georg.chamb...@telia.com> wrote:
To make things clearer. I already have the frames since earlier and
want to fill then again, so it is not at the "initial filling" of the
frames
at "creation".
You want one action to change the content in two frames? For that you'll
need to use Javascript, or reload the parent frame, neither of which involve
PHP.
-Stuart
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3ft9 Ltd
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:11 AM, georg <georg.chamb...@telia.com> wrote:
> Actually I think you are right;
>
> what I would have liked (as a natural extension of the depression....:)
> is actually a <FRAME> tag that stands without the <FRAMESET>
> and which as target="framename" instead of the frame defining
> name="framename"
> and which just displayed the src in that frame (immediatly as it does today)
Maybe you want an IFRAME (Inline Frame) instead of FRAMESET/FRAME?
>
> Im fairly new to PHP so Im bound to bounce into some walls, tnx.
>
> BR georg
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Dallas" <stu...@3ft9.com>
> To: "georg" <georg.chamb...@telia.com>
> Cc: "PHP General" <>
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 2:38 PM
>
> Subject: Re: [PHP] rather a HTML Q; however 2-FRAME
>
>
> On 15 Mar 2013, at 13:34, "georg" <georg.chamb...@telia.com> wrote:
>
>> To make things clearer. I already have the frames since earlier and
>> want to fill then again, so it is not at the "initial filling" of the
>> frames
>> at "creation".
>
>
> You want one action to change the content in two frames? For that you'll
> need to use Javascript, or reload the parent frame, neither of which involve
> PHP.
>
> -Stuart
>
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> http://3ft9.com/=
>
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On 3/15/2013 10:11 AM, georg wrote:
Actually I think you are right;
what I would have liked (as a natural extension of the depression....:)
is actually a <FRAME> tag that stands without the <FRAMESET>
and which as target="framename" instead of the frame defining
name="framename"
and which just displayed the src in that frame (immediatly as it does
today)
Im fairly new to PHP so Im bound to bounce into some walls, tnx.
BR georg
And apparently new to html as well if you want to use frames still :)
Why not learn "just a little" css and html and develop something more
current that you won't be re-visiting down the road some time and changing?
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Hi Georg,
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 23:10 +0100, georg wrote:
> hello,
> annyone knows of some good PHP context editor freeware ?
> (tired of missing out on trivials like ; )
I don't know exactly what you mean by a context editor but if you want
an editor with syntax highlighting try eclipse for an complete IDE
(Multiplatform), notepad++ on Windows, textwrangler on Mac or vim on
Linux
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2013/3/15 Karim Geiger <gei...@b1-systems.de>
> Hi Georg,
>
> On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 23:10 +0100, georg wrote:
> > hello,
> > annyone knows of some good PHP context editor freeware ?
> > (tired of missing out on trivials like ; )
>
> I don't know exactly what you mean by a context editor but if you want
> an editor with syntax highlighting try eclipse for an complete IDE
> (Multiplatform), notepad++ on Windows, textwrangler on Mac or vim on
> Linux
>
Or PhpStorm on Linux (multiplatform) :) Or Netbeans on Linux
(multiplatform too). Or gedit on Gnome/Linux, or or or ...
"vim" is not the end of what can a linux desktop can provide :D
>
> Regards
>
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>
> B1 Systems GmbH
> Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / http://www.b1-systems.de
> GF: Ralph Dehner / Unternehmenssitz: Vohburg / AG: Ingolstadt,HRB 3537
>
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I have inherited a mess of a home-grown PHP framework that literally
fills the error_log with 100's of thousands of messages each day. First
order of business was rotating the logs, now we are working through each
error to solve them. This is a fairly basic error, but I for the life of
me cannot remember what the solution is.
I have a recursive function that reads from XML files and replaces xi:
include directives. It looks like this -
function includeXML($file, $locale, $url, $level = 1) {
// stuff
while(($line = fgets($fp)) !== false) {
if($pos === false) {
$xml .= $line;
} else {
includeXML('repository/' . $included, $locale, (int)$level
+ $pos - 1);
}
}
}
Why do I get the notice that $xml is an undefined index? I do not want
to suppress the notice, I just want to take care of it properly. I
attempted setting $xml within the function but then the whole function
fails for some reason in the depths of this hideous framework. Can
anyone provide any insight? TVMIA!
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Hi,
Two questions:
Where is $xml defined and where is $pos defined?
HTH
Kind regards/met vriendelijke groet,
Serge Fonville
http://www.sergefonville.nl
Convince Microsoft!
They need to add TRUNCATE PARTITION in SQL Server
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/417926/truncate-partition-of-partitioned-table
2013/3/15 Jay Blanchard <jay.blanch...@sigmaphinothing.org>
> I have inherited a mess of a home-grown PHP framework that literally fills
> the error_log with 100's of thousands of messages each day. First order of
> business was rotating the logs, now we are working through each error to
> solve them. This is a fairly basic error, but I for the life of me cannot
> remember what the solution is.
>
> I have a recursive function that reads from XML files and replaces xi:
> include directives. It looks like this -
>
> function includeXML($file, $locale, $url, $level = 1) {
> // stuff
> while(($line = fgets($fp)) !== false) {
> if($pos === false) {
> $xml .= $line;
> } else {
> includeXML('repository/' . $included, $locale, (int)$level +
> $pos - 1);
> }
> }
> }
>
> Why do I get the notice that $xml is an undefined index? I do not want to
> suppress the notice, I just want to take care of it properly. I attempted
> setting $xml within the function but then the whole function fails for some
> reason in the depths of this hideous framework. Can anyone provide any
> insight? TVMIA!
>
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>
>
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[snip]
Two questions:
Where is $xml defined and where is $pos defined?
[/snip]
$xml is defined in other functions, just not in this function. $pos is
irrelevant to the question - it is just the string position within the
file.
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So basically, $xml is out of scope for this function and you are appending
to a nonexisting variable?
Kind regards/met vriendelijke groet,
Serge Fonville
http://www.sergefonville.nl
Convince Microsoft!
They need to add TRUNCATE PARTITION in SQL Server
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/417926/truncate-partition-of-partitioned-table
2013/3/15 Jay Blanchard <jay.blanch...@sigmaphinothing.org>
> [snip]
>
> Two questions:
>> Where is $xml defined and where is $pos defined?
>>
>> [/snip]
>
> $xml is defined in other functions, just not in this function. $pos is
> irrelevant to the question - it is just the string position within the file.
>
>
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>
>
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Jay Blanchard wrote:
I have inherited a mess of a home-grown PHP framework that literally fills the
error_log with 100's of thousands of messages each day. First order of business
was rotating the logs, now we are working through each error to solve them. This
is a fairly basic error, but I for the life of me cannot remember what the
solution is.
I have a recursive function that reads from XML files and replaces xi: include
directives. It looks like this -
function includeXML($file, $locale, $url, $level = 1) {
// stuff
$xml = '';
Should work here ...
Since the call below is ADDING to $xml you do need something existing to add to
so what does that give?
while(($line = fgets($fp)) !== false) {
if($pos === false) {
$xml .= $line;
} else {
includeXML('repository/' . $included, $locale, (int)$level + $pos -
1);
}
}
}
Why do I get the notice that $xml is an undefined index? I do not want to
suppress the notice, I just want to take care of it properly. I attempted
setting $xml within the function but then the whole function fails for some
reason in the depths of this hideous framework. Can anyone provide any insight?
TVMIA!
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On 15 Mar 2013 at 13:10, Jay Blanchard <jay.blanch...@sigmaphinothing.org>
wrote:
> I have inherited a mess of a home-grown PHP framework that literally
> fills the error_log with 100's of thousands of messages each day. First
> order of business was rotating the logs, now we are working through each
> error to solve them. This is a fairly basic error, but I for the life of
> me cannot remember what the solution is.
>
> I have a recursive function that reads from XML files and replaces xi:
> include directives. It looks like this -
>
> function includeXML($file, $locale, $url, $level = 1) {
> // stuff
> while(($line = fgets($fp)) !== false) {
> if($pos === false) {
> $xml .= $line;
> } else {
> includeXML('repository/' . $included, $locale, (int)$level
> + $pos - 1);
> }
> }
> }
>
> Why do I get the notice that $xml is an undefined index?
Because it's undefined. So is $pos. From what you've written above, both are
local to includeXML. But neither is passed in as a parameter, nor is global.
You can't initialise it within the function, it seems to me.
If $xml is supposed to be appended to and grown as you recurse up and down,
then you have two choices:
1) Make them global
2) Pass both as extra parameters to includeXML
In both cases, each needs to be initialised before the first call to the
recursive function
Solution (1)
============
$xml = '';
$pos = 0; // Presumably.
includeXML ($file, $locale, $url, 1);
...
function includeXML ($file, $locale, $url, $level = 1) {
global $xml, $pos;
// stuff
while(($line = fgets($fp)) !== false) {
if($pos === false) {
$xml .= $line;
} else {
includeXML ('repository/' . $included, $locale, (int)$level
+ $pos - 1);
}
}
}
Solution (2)
============
$xml = '';
$pos = 0; // Presumably.
includeXML ($xml, $pos, $file, $locale, $url, 1);
...
function includeXML (&$xml, $pos, $file, $locale, $url, $level = 1) { //
Note the & on the first parameter
// stuff
while(($line = fgets($fp)) !== false) {
if($pos === false) {
$xml .= $line;
} else {
includeXML ($xml, $pos, 'repository/' . $included, $locale,
(int)$level
+ $pos - 1);
}
}
}
BTW it seems to me that you'll have the same problem with $included unless
there's other code in includeXML that you've omitted.
--
Cheers -- Tim
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[snip]
function includeXML($file, $locale, $url, $level = 1) {
// stuff
$xml = '';
Should work here ...
Since the call below is ADDING to $xml you do need something existing
to add to so what does that give?
[/snip]
Thanks Lester, that worked. I had just put that in the wrong place.
*slaps forehead*
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At 09:44 PM 3/14/2013, tamouse mailing lists wrote:
>If you are delivering files to a (human) user via their browser, by whatever
>mechanism, that means someone can write a script to scrape them.
That script, however, would have to be running on my host system in order to
access the script which actually delivers the file, as the latter script is
located outside of the web root.
Dale H. Cook, Market Chief Engineer, Centennial Broadcasting,
Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
http://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html
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On 15 Mar 2013, at 13:11, "Dale H. Cook" <webmas...@plymouthcolony.net> wrote:
> At 09:44 PM 3/14/2013, tamouse mailing lists wrote:
>
>> If you are delivering files to a (human) user via their browser, by whatever
>> mechanism, that means someone can write a script to scrape them.
>
> That script, however, would have to be running on my host system in order to
> access the script which actually delivers the file, as the latter script is
> located outside of the web root.
If a browser can get at it then a spider can get at it. All this talk of the
web root is daft. Unless your site is being specifically targeted (highly
unlikely) then it automated systems that are downloading your content and
offering it on other websites. The only way such a system can discover content
is if it's linked from somewhere. Whether that link uses a script that inside
or outside the web root is completely irrelevant.
Since copies of the content is now out there, anything you add now to protect
your content is not going to get it back. You'll have to pursue legal avenues
to prevent it being made available, and that's usually prohibitively expensive.
Based on your description of your users, you have the age-old dilemma of
balancing ease of use and security. The more you try to protect the content
from these spiders the harder you'll make it for users.
Here's what I'd do: make sure your details and your website info are plastered
across every page of the PDF files. Make sure that where copies exist it's
going to be obvious where the content came from. It sounds like you don't
charge for the content (this problem wouldn't exist if you did), so you have
nothing financial to gain from controlling these external copies, other than
wanting it to be clear from whence it came and where to find more.
At the end of the day the question is this: would you rather control access to
your creation (in which case charge a nominal fee for it), or would you prefer
that it (and your name/cause) gets in to as many hands as possible. As a
professional photographer I made the latter choice a long time ago and haven't
looked back since.
-Stuart
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Stuart Dallas
3ft9 Ltd
http://3ft9.com/
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At 09:27 AM 3/15/2013, Stuart Dallas wrote:
>You'll have to pursue legal avenues to prevent it being made available, and
>that's usually prohibitively expensive.
Not necessarily. Most of the host systems for the scraper sites are responsive
to my complaints. Even if a site owner will not respond to a DMCA takedown
notice the host system will often honor that notice, and other site owners and
hosts will back down when notified of my royalty rates for the use of my files
by a commercial site.
>At the end of the day the question is this: would you rather control access to
>your creation (in which case charge a nominal fee for it), or would you prefer
>that it (and your name/cause) gets in to as many hands as possible.
I merely wish to try to prevent commercial sites from profiting from my work
without my permission. I am in the process of registering the copyright for my
files with LOC, as my attorneys have advised. That will give my attorneys
ammunition.
Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants;
Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project
Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net
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In case you haven't read this already... http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk
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Hi,
I have a trouble with PDO transactions.
I would like to start using transactions, but I am not familiar with it. I
have got a 'There is no active transaction' exception, however, I am using
beginTransaction method, and also I have set PDO::ATTR_AUTOCOMMIT to false
right after connecting to the database.
In my whole code I have used the commit method only once.
Between beginTransaction and commit methods, as far as I know, I did not
use anything that could activate auto-commit. In my test code, there is
only an exec method of PDO, and an execute of PDOStatement. Maybe one of
these activated auto-commit?
And what are the possible commands which are able to activate auto-commit?
I know that the commit method can do that, but - as I already wrote - I
have issued it only once, and it is in the destructor of a singleton class.
So what could be the problem?
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