from:"\"Midhun Girish\""

Re: [PHP] hello everybody

2012-03-21 Thread Midhun Girish

I think this would be an ideal resource for beginners
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_forms.asp. I used it when i began php. I
would suggest doing the entire course in there. Really helpful.

Regards
Midhun Girish



On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Jeremy Wei wrote:

> you can read the content about form dealing in php manual:
> http://us.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.forms.php
>
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 7:34 PM, saeed ahmed 
> wrote:
> > i am a full time warehouse worker and do not have time.i hardly can spend
> > 2/3 hours a week on internet(at work we do not use internet but only
> > computer)i am learning php and have xampp installed on my computer and i
> > think i am learning slowly slowly.i want ot ask one favor to someone,who
> is
> > capable of doing this small work.i have learned that when visitor fill a
> > form after visitor get message with his name.how this function is added
> and
> > where?
> >
> > can anyon give me a example like giving a example to a child of 10
> years.i
> > would like if someone explain me.
>
>
>
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Re: [PHP] Newbie security database connection question

2011-08-19 Thread Midhun Girish

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:22 AM, DealTek  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> NEWBIE: I have a security question:
>
> When working with PHP and MySQL, it seems that a one method is to create a
> connection.php page to the database that will store the connection
> parameters such as username, password and URL ip in clear text and include
> this on various pages.
>
> Since hackers seem to be getting better and better every day:
>
> -  Is this common practice to store this security data in the clear on the
> PHP webpage?
>
> - Wouldn't it be possible for a hacker to SNIFF around and pick up this
> sensitive "clear text" security data?
>
> - Is there some better, more secure way to communicate from the website to
> the MySQL data source that is somehow sending encrypted information rather
> than clear text back and forth?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>
You can encrypt the access credentails using some public key encryption
technique like RSA and then decode it inside php before connecting to db...
But still you have to store the private key in plain text somewere...

OR may be you can use 'hard to guess substitution ciphers' [i dunno if tht
exists] or create an encryption logic of your own and then use it to encrypt
the  dataabse uname and pass.

Regards
Midhun Girish

Re: [PHP] saving sessions

2011-08-04 Thread Midhun Girish

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 7:56 AM, wil prim  wrote:

> Hello, im new to the whole storing sessions thing and I really dont know
> how to ask this question, but here it goes.  So on my site when someone logs
> in the login.php file checks for a the username and password in the table i
> created, then if it finds a match it will store a $_SESSION [] variable. To
> be exact the code is as follows:
> if ($count=='1')
> {
> session_start();
> $_SESSION['user']=$user;   // $user is the $_POST['user'] from the login
> form
> header('location: login_success.php');
> }
>
> Now what i would like to know is how do i make my website save new changes
> the user made while in their account?
>
> thanks!
>
>

You will have to store the user account related data in the database for
persistence Or if the site not having a 'user account system'  you may
use cookies to store the settings...



Midhun Girish

Re: [PHP] Fwd: ezmlm warning

2011-07-20 Thread Midhun Girish

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Lester Caine  wrote:

> Tamara Temple wrote:
>
>> Um... what's going on here? Why would google mail be bouncing??
>>
> Happens quite often ... just means that an email server has hickupped
> somewhere so an email addressed to you has not got through '76.75.200.58'
> which I think is the same machine address on the message a deleted this
> morning for my email address
>
> --
>

I too got this message once today. Is it a problem with the list?


Midhun Girish

Re: [PHP] Report generation as pdf and csv in php application for huge record set

2011-07-13 Thread Midhun Girish

Hi,


> - Browsers generally have a 5 minute time-out. If you send the PDF directly
> to the browser and reach the limit, it will be lost. It is therefore advised
> for very big documents to generate them in a file, and to send some data to
> the browser from time to time (with a call to flush() to force the output).
> When the document is finished, you can send a redirection to it or create a
> link.
> Remark: even if the browser times out, the script may continue to run on
> the server.
>  
>

When it comes to the user end, they wont wait for more than 1 min. So
redirection after generating the report is not possible. But creating link
may be a good idea. How can it be done? I mean shouldn't there be a service
running in the server to process these request after the execution of the
php script is completed? Also shouldn't we post all the report generation
request to a database so that serial processing can be done?

[PHP] Report generation as pdf and csv in php application for huge record set

2011-07-13 Thread Midhun Girish

Hi all,

I have an erp application developed in php (zend framework actually). There
are many reports which the admin level users can take from the application.
Some reports have more than 600,000 records. The viewing of reports in the
browser is fine as i have paginated the result. But when it comes to
exporting the entire report as pdf and in excel format, im in trouble. I use
fpdf for pdf generation and  a custom class for converting result to excel.
Both these fails when the number of records exceeds 500. Now i have
pagianted the report generation and users can download the pdf page wise.
But that is not the exact requirement. Im in need of a tool to generate pdf
and excel(or csv) for large data set. I came across
http://www.htmldoc.org/when i googled for one. Has anyone in the list
has faced a similar problem.
How exactly is report generation possible when the number of records is
extremely huge? Is there a good solution which can be implemented in php?
Please help.


Midhun Girish

Re: [PHP] Zend Framework - getParam() Question

2011-03-11 Thread Midhun Girish

You can also try routing in zend..
http://codeutopia.net/blog/2007/11/16/routing-and-complex-urls-in-zend-framework/

Midhun Girish



On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:16 AM, NetEmp  wrote:

> Hi Dan
>
> One method for this is to use URL Rewriting (which can be implemented on
> Apache using htaccess).
>
> Through URL Rewriting you can first make the following URL:
>
> http://www.website.com/article-clean-url
>
> <http://www.website.com/article-clean-url>to internally behave as the
> following:
>
> http://www.website.com/index/user/ <http://www.website.com/index/user/1>1
>
> <http://www.website.com/index/user/1>and then you can use the same
> getParam
> method to grab the value and carry out further processing.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers
>
> NetEmp
>
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Dan Joseph  wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > Zend Framework getParam question
> >
> > I'm trying to get a value from the url...
> >
> > I know how to grab:
> >
> > http;//www.website.com/index/user/1
> >
> > that's the index controller, $this->_getParam('user'); (value = 1)..
> >
> > What I'd like to be able to grab is just off one thing from the url...
> > example..  I want to give an article a unique/clean url... so, when I go
> > to:
> >
> > http://www.website.com/article-clean-url
> >
> > I can somehow grab that 'article-clean-url' as a value and use it for a
> > lookup in the database.
> >
> > I've tried everything and search all over the place.  I can't find the
> > answer.  Can someone tell me how this is done?  Thanks...
> >
> > --
> > -Dan Joseph
> >
>

[PHP] A mysql question...

2010-10-21 Thread Midhun Girish

hai all,

I have two tables a and b as follows to implement a simple block list where
users can block other users.
Table A

++--+--+

| Name | phone |userid|

++--+--+

| Mr Sasi | 01225 708225 | 1 |

| Miss Brown | 01225 899360 | 2 |

| Mr Black | 01380 724040 | 3 |

++--+--+
Table B

++--+

| blockedbyid| blockedid |

++--+

| 1  | 2 |

| 2 | 3 |

| 1 | 3 |

++--+

"blockedbyid" is id of user who has blocked the user in "blockedid".

I need to join the two tables and fetch all records from table A such that
the result has all users who are not blocked by a particular user [ie
blockedbyid='XXX'].. Can you guys give the SQL query so that i can fetch the
records as a recordset??? I dont want to fetch two different rowsets and
compare it in php Correct me if my db structure is wrong.
regards,
Midhun Girish

Re: [PHP] "My truth comes out" [1]

2010-10-21 Thread Midhun Girish

Really interesting thread :D . Why go for other methods when you can
do it easily using if Is this an exercise or something?


Midhun Girish
Development Lead
MobAlive Technologies
Trivandrum

php-general@lists.php.net

2010-06-04 Thread Midhun Girish

Depends on the server side language u intend to use...
In php u can get those data via the super global array $_GET.. And u can
use it anyway u want...


Midhun Girish
Development Lead
MobAlive Technologies


On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Michael Calkins wrote:

>
> How is it used for a website then?
>
> From,Michael Calkins
>
>
>
> > From: a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk
> > To: michaelcalk...@live.com
> > CC: php-general@lists.php.net
> > Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 14:59:15 +0100
> > Subject: Re: [PHP] What is "app.php?ph=cus&id=4"?
> >
> > On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 06:54 -0700, Michael Calkins wrote:
> >
> > > I would google this but I have no idea what this method is or how it
> works.
> > > app.php?ph=cus&id=4
> > > Can some tell me what this either called or how it works?Can I get a
> tutorial for it please?
> > > Thank you!
> > >
> > > From,Michael Calkins
> > >
> > >
> elementFontfont-familyfont-sizefont-stylefont-variantfont-weightletter-spacingline-heighttext-decorationtext-aligntext-indenttext-transformwhite-spaceword-spacingcolorBackgroundbg-attachmentbg-colorbg-imagebg-positionbg-repeatBoxwidthheightborder-topborder-rightborder-bottomborder-leftmarginpaddingmax-heightmin-heightmax-widthmin-widthoutline-coloroutline-styleoutline-widthPositioningpositiontopbottomrightleftfloatdisplayclearz-indexListlist-style-imagelist-style-typelist-style-positionTablevertical-alignborder-collapseborder-spacingcaption-sideempty-cellstable-layoutEffectstext-shadow-webkit-box-shadowborder-radiusOtheroverflowcursorvisibility
> > > _
> > > The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars
> with Hotmail.
> > >
> http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5
> >
> >
> > That's a URL with GET data. It's not anything special to PHP, it's just
> > the way data can be passed around in the URL.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ash
> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> >
> >
>
> elementFontfont-familyfont-sizefont-stylefont-variantfont-weightletter-spacingline-heighttext-decorationtext-aligntext-indenttext-transformwhite-spaceword-spacingcolorBackgroundbg-attachmentbg-colorbg-imagebg-positionbg-repeatBoxwidthheightborder-topborder-rightborder-bottomborder-leftmarginpaddingmax-heightmin-heightmax-widthmin-widthoutline-coloroutline-styleoutline-widthPositioningpositiontopbottomrightleftfloatdisplayclearz-indexListlist-style-imagelist-style-typelist-style-positionTablevertical-alignborder-collapseborder-spacingcaption-sideempty-cellstable-layoutEffectstext-shadow-webkit-box-shadowborder-radiusOtheroverflowcursorvisibility
> _
> Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your
> inbox.
>
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Re: [PHP] Beginner's question: How to run a PHP web application locally?

2010-04-08 Thread Midhun Girish

The best option in windows would be xampp or wamp same goes true
with linux.


Midhun Girish



On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Bastien Helders  wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> The other day, I read an article that mentioned about a tool that would
> permit to simulate a web environment for PHP, so that testing could be made
> before uploading the page on the server. Unfortunately, I don't seem to find
> the article again.
>
> So here am I with this question: What should I need to set my test
> environment? I'm working on Windows, but I'm all ears for solution on Linux
> systems.
>
> Best Regards,
> Bastien
>

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Re: [PHP] str_replace help

2010-04-02 Thread Midhun Girish

well david actually $var = str_replace(chr(13),"\n",$value) will replace
char(13) with \n... but \n wont come up in html unless u give a  tag..
u need to put

$var = str_replace(chr(13),"",$value) in order to got the required
output


Midhun Girish


On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Ashley Sheridan 
wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 09:28 -0400, David Stoltz wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > In ASP, I would commonly replace string line feeds for HTML output like
> > this:
> >
> > Var = replace(value,vbcrlf,"")
> >
> > In PHP, the following doesn't seem to work:
> > $var = str_replace(chr(13),"\n",$value)
> >
> > Neither does:
> > $var = str_replace(chr(10),"\n",$value)
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks!
>
>
> I see no reason why it shouldn't work other than maybe the string
> doesn't contain what you think it does.
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>

Re: [PHP] image upload keeps file name ?

2010-04-01 Thread Midhun Girish

  I use the follwing function for moving files:


public function moveFile($file,$targetdir="../uploads/images/")
  {
$fileName = $file['name'];
$ext = substr($fileName, strrpos($fileName, '.') + 1);
do
{

$targetfilename=md5(date("m.d.y.h.i.s").basename($fileName)).'.'.$ext;
  $fullname=$targetdir.$targetfilename;
}while(file_exists($fullname));
move_uploaded_file($file["tmp_name"],$fullname);
return $fullname;
  }


Call the fn as :

foreach($_FILES as $file_name => $filearray)
{
if( $filearray['error']=='')
{
   $filenametobestored=moveFile($filearray);
   /*Enter name into db here*/
}
}


this will make sure you never over write anyfiles..


Midhun Girish

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Ashley Sheridan 
wrote:

> of the web
> root, which will prevent people from maliciously uploadi
>

Re: [PHP] MySQL query not working!

2010-03-31 Thread Midhun Girish

hey Andrew ,
you are correct thanks for pointing tht.. i should have checked it
before so @ just prevents the warnings and errors from showing up

Midhun Girish


On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Andrew Ballard  wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Ashley Sheridan
>  wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 16:50 +0430, Parham Doustdar wrote:
> >
> >> Andre,
> >> The @ operator is used for error catching statements. When you put:
> >>
> >> @mysql_connect('localhost', 'username', 'password') or die('Could not
> >> connect.');
> >>
> >> If PHP fails to make a connection, the script execution is stopped, and
> the
> >> error message between the apostrophes is given.
> >>
> >> And, I found out what the problem was; I should have put:
> >>
> >> if (mysql_num_rows($result))
> >>
> >> rather than just
> >>
> >> if ($result)
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> - Original Message -
> >> From: "Andre Polykanine" 
> >> To: "Parham Doustdar" 
> >> Cc: 
> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 4:41 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [PHP] MySQL query not working!
> >>
> >>
> >> > Hello Parham,
> >> >
> >> > Adding to Ash's question, why to use the @ operator before
> >> > mysql_query?
> >> > --
> >> > With best regards from Ukraine,
> >> > Andre
> >> > Skype: Francophile; Wlm&MSN: arthaelon @ yandex.ru; Jabber: arthaelon
> @
> >> > jabber.org
> >> > Yahoo! messenger: andre.polykanine; ICQ: 191749952
> >> > Twitter: m_elensule
> >> >
> >> > - Original message -
> >> > From: Parham Doustdar 
> >> > To: php-general@lists.php.net 
> >> > Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 2:50:07 PM
> >> > Subject: [PHP] MySQL query not working!
> >> >
> >> > Hi there,
> >> > Here is a snippet of code... that doesn't work for some reason. Please
> >> > note
> >> > that I have put some
> >> >
> >> > @mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
> >> >
> >> > statements, to see if MySQL gives an error. I receive nothing other
> than
> >> > the
> >> > file starting to download. This is supposed to be a file download
> counter:
> >> >
> >> > [code]
> >> >  >> > //connect to the DB
> >> > mysql_connect() //There is no problem with the connection so I didn't
> >> > include the complete code.
> >> >
> >> > //The table where the hits are stored.
> >> > $table = "files";
> >> >
> >> > $query = "select * from " . $table . " where filename = '" .
> $_GET['file']
> >> > .
> >> > "'";
> >> > $result = mysql_query($query);
> >> >
> >> > if ($result) //Has the file previously been added?
> >> > {
> >> > $query = "update " . $table . " set hits = hits + 1 where filename =
> '" .
> >> > $_GET['file'] . "'";
> >> > @mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
> >> > header('location:http://www.qwitter-client.net/' . $_GET['file']);
> >> > }
> >> > else //it's the first time we're adding this file to the DB.
> >> > {
> >> > $query = "insert into " . $table . " (filename, hits) values ('" .
> >> > $_GET['file'] . "', 1)";
> >> > @mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
> >> > header('location:http://www.qwitter-client.net/' . $_GET['file']);
> >> > }
> >> > ?>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
> >> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > My understanding of the @ here would be that PHP won't register the
> > error, so it won't ever die()
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ash
> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
>
> Nope. All it does is suppress the error message. Just try it:
>
> 
> @mysql_connect('localhost', 'baduser', 'badpassword') or die('Could
> not connect');
>
> ?>
>
> Output:
> Could not connect
> 
> @mysql_connect('localhost', 'baduser', 'badpassword') or die('Could
> not connect');
>
> ?>
>
> Output:
> 
> Warning:  mysql_connect() [ href='function.mysql-connect'>function.mysql-connect]: Can't
> connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061) in PHPDocument1
> on line 3
> Could not connect
>
> Andrew
>
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>
>

Re: [PHP] MySQL query not working!

2010-03-31 Thread Midhun Girish

Yes ash.. me too think the same... @ will supress any error which would have
lead to die()... so die() wont come ever

Midhun Girish



On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Ashley Sheridan
wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 16:50 +0430, Parham Doustdar wrote:
>
> > Andre,
> > The @ operator is used for error catching statements. When you put:
> >
> > @mysql_connect('localhost', 'username', 'password') or die('Could not
> > connect.');
> >
> > If PHP fails to make a connection, the script execution is stopped, and
> the
> > error message between the apostrophes is given.
> >
> > And, I found out what the problem was; I should have put:
> >
> > if (mysql_num_rows($result))
> >
> > rather than just
> >
> > if ($result)
> >
> > Thanks!
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Andre Polykanine" 
> > To: "Parham Doustdar" 
> > Cc: 
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 4:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: [PHP] MySQL query not working!
> >
> >
> > > Hello Parham,
> > >
> > > Adding to Ash's question, why to use the @ operator before
> > > mysql_query?
> > > --
> > > With best regards from Ukraine,
> > > Andre
> > > Skype: Francophile; Wlm&MSN: arthaelon @ yandex.ru; Jabber: arthaelon
> @
> > > jabber.org
> > > Yahoo! messenger: andre.polykanine; ICQ: 191749952
> > > Twitter: m_elensule
> > >
> > > - Original message -
> > > From: Parham Doustdar 
> > > To: php-general@lists.php.net 
> > > Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 2:50:07 PM
> > > Subject: [PHP] MySQL query not working!
> > >
> > > Hi there,
> > > Here is a snippet of code... that doesn't work for some reason. Please
> > > note
> > > that I have put some
> > >
> > > @mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
> > >
> > > statements, to see if MySQL gives an error. I receive nothing other
> than
> > > the
> > > file starting to download. This is supposed to be a file download
> counter:
> > >
> > > [code]
> > >  > > //connect to the DB
> > > mysql_connect() //There is no problem with the connection so I didn't
> > > include the complete code.
> > >
> > > //The table where the hits are stored.
> > > $table = "files";
> > >
> > > $query = "select * from " . $table . " where filename = '" .
> $_GET['file']
> > > .
> > > "'";
> > > $result = mysql_query($query);
> > >
> > > if ($result) //Has the file previously been added?
> > > {
> > > $query = "update " . $table . " set hits = hits + 1 where filename = '"
> .
> > > $_GET['file'] . "'";
> > > @mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
> > > header('location:http://www.qwitter-client.net/' . $_GET['file']);
> > > }
> > > else //it's the first time we're adding this file to the DB.
> > > {
> > > $query = "insert into " . $table . " (filename, hits) values ('" .
> > > $_GET['file'] . "', 1)";
> > > @mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
> > > header('location:http://www.qwitter-client.net/' . $_GET['file']);
> > > }
> > > ?>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
> > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
> My understanding of the @ here would be that PHP won't register the
> error, so it won't ever die()
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>

Re: [PHP] Event Handling

2010-03-15 Thread Midhun Girish

rene "a page with an ajax script that kicks off the check-for-recent-events
script on the server".. but that method is highly non reliable i dont
think anyone will take that risk especially for an important web app
cron or any equivalent which runs on the server must be used instead of
that..


Midhun Girish
Development Lead
MobAlive Technologies



On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Jochem Maas  wrote:

> Op 3/15/10 12:00 PM, David Hutto schreef:
> > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Jochem Maas 
> wrote:
> >
> >> Op 3/15/10 8:24 AM, Midhun Girish schreef:
> >>> Hi ,
> >>> Just as David Hutto has said,What you need is the cronjob... Make a
> >> script
> >>> say "check.php" which checks the db to see if any new entries are
> made...
> >>> and if yes send the mail ...
> >>>
> >>> now using the cronjob feature in linux os(which will be provided as a
> >>> service in your linux hosting cpanel), set a cronjob which calls the "
> >>> http://www.yoursite.com/check.php"; URL every minute now a trigger
> >> will
> >>> be there every minute to the script and the emails will be send
> >> irrespective
> >>> of whether anyone is browsing the site or not hope it is clear...
> >>>
> >>
> >> use cron - yes
> >> have cron call a web URL - no, instead just call the script via the php
> CLI
> >> sapi,
> >> e.g. a cmdline as follows in cron:
> >>
> >> /usr/env php /path/to/your/check.php &> /dev/null
> >>
> >
> >
> > I do believe removing the /dev/null will send error messages during the
> > building of the script, correct?
> >
>
> the '&> /dev/null' redirects all output - I kind of make the assumption
> that the
> script would be logging stuff to a file or something when in production.
>
> so, yes, remove the redirection when your developing/testing the script.
>
>
>

Re: [PHP] Re: Event Handling

2010-03-15 Thread Midhun Girish

ok so we have a script which checks if any cars have arrived within last 10
minutes... if yes, a mail will be send. suppose the server fails for 30
minutes so when the cron comes next time, we will have to check for cars
which arrived within last 40 minutes and not 10.. right...  so how will we
set a time limit in the script? its variable na.. but the flag is ok.. you
can send a mail to all db entries which have flag 0 and then update the flag
to 1.


Midhun Girish
Development Lead
MobAlive Technologies


On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Ashley Sheridan
wrote:

>  On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 14:28 +0530, Midhun Girish wrote:
>
> hey ash,
>
> do we need both of those checks ? ie the time and the flag? i think they
> both do the same thing ie prevent duplicates.. am i right? and i think flag
> would be a more reliable method coz it will ensure that the email will be
> send even if the cron fails to execute for some time,
>
> Midhun Girish
> Development Lead
> MobAlive Technologies
> Trivandrum
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Ashley Sheridan
> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:07 +1030, David Robley wrote:
> >
> > > Alex Major wrote:
> > >
> > > > Greetings all,
> > > >
> > > > I'm currently looking at building a web application, however I've run
> > into
> > > > an area of development I've not come across before. The web site in its
> > > > basic form allows users to send cars from a point and then the car will
> > > > arrive at another point. When the car is set on its way, the start
> > time,
> > > > travel duration and end time are all known and stored in a MySQL
> > database,
> > > > what I would like to happen is that an event is triggered on the server
> > at
> > > > the end time and then an e-mail is sent to the user. This should happen
> > > > regardless of whether someone is browsing the website or not.
> > > >
> > > > I don't believe that I'll be able to solely use PHP, I have spent the
> > > > afternoon trying to look at potential solutions but I have to admit
> > I've
> > > > drawn a blank. Google hasn't been helpful (64 pages so far), as any
> > > > searches related to "event handling" bring up a load of JavaScript
> > > > tutorials/help for 'onclick' events etc. I have searched through the
> > PHP
> > > > documentation and found "libevent"
> > > > (http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.libevent.php ), I don't believe
> > that is
> > > > what I require (although in all honesty the lack of documentation on it
> > > > means I'm quite in the dark as to its purpose). Another potential
> > > > candidate I came across was a PHP/Java bridge
> > > > (http://php-java-bridge.sourceforge.net/pjb/ ), whereby I could use
> > the
> > > > java virtual machine, register events with it and then callback PHP
> > > > scripts, although this seems extremely long winded.
> > > >
> > > > I was hoping that someone might have some experience with this kind of
> > > > issue and could point me in the right direction. I'm sure I've missed
> > > > something right in front of me.
> > > >
> > > > Alex.
> > >
> > > I think what you want is something to trigger a php script every
> > > $period-of-time; if your host supports it, cron is the means of executing
> > > an application at regular intervals down to a minute granularity. There
> > are
> > > some web-based cron services also, but they may not have the same
> > > granularity as a locally based cron.
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > --
> > > David Robley
> > >
> > > "Wow!" barked Tom, with a bow.
> > > Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 1st day of Discord in the YOLD 3176.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > You could store the end times in the database, and cron can run a script
> > that will check each of these times to find any that are within x
> > minutes that an email hasn't been sent out for. You'll need an extra
> > field to indicate whether an email has been sent or not.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ash
> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> Consider a cron script that runs every 10 minutes. You'll want to check the
> db for cars that are due to arrive within just over 10 minutes. The flag is
> there more for you own clarification that the email has been sent. What if
> the cron fails, or you restart your server, or the script your cron calls is
> just running a little slowly?
>
>
>   Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>

Re: [PHP] Re: Event Handling

2010-03-15 Thread Midhun Girish

hey ash,

do we need both of those checks ? ie the time and the flag? i think they
both do the same thing ie prevent duplicates.. am i right? and i think flag
would be a more reliable method coz it will ensure that the email will be
send even if the cron fails to execute for some time,

Midhun Girish
Development Lead
MobAlive Technologies
Trivandrum


On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Ashley Sheridan
wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:07 +1030, David Robley wrote:
>
> > Alex Major wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings all,
> > >
> > > I'm currently looking at building a web application, however I've run
> into
> > > an area of development I've not come across before. The web site in its
> > > basic form allows users to send cars from a point and then the car will
> > > arrive at another point. When the car is set on its way, the start
> time,
> > > travel duration and end time are all known and stored in a MySQL
> database,
> > > what I would like to happen is that an event is triggered on the server
> at
> > > the end time and then an e-mail is sent to the user. This should happen
> > > regardless of whether someone is browsing the website or not.
> > >
> > > I don't believe that I'll be able to solely use PHP, I have spent the
> > > afternoon trying to look at potential solutions but I have to admit
> I've
> > > drawn a blank. Google hasn't been helpful (64 pages so far), as any
> > > searches related to "event handling" bring up a load of JavaScript
> > > tutorials/help for 'onclick' events etc. I have searched through the
> PHP
> > > documentation and found "libevent"
> > > (http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.libevent.php ), I don't believe
> that is
> > > what I require (although in all honesty the lack of documentation on it
> > > means I'm quite in the dark as to its purpose). Another potential
> > > candidate I came across was a PHP/Java bridge
> > > (http://php-java-bridge.sourceforge.net/pjb/ ), whereby I could use
> the
> > > java virtual machine, register events with it and then callback PHP
> > > scripts, although this seems extremely long winded.
> > >
> > > I was hoping that someone might have some experience with this kind of
> > > issue and could point me in the right direction. I'm sure I've missed
> > > something right in front of me.
> > >
> > > Alex.
> >
> > I think what you want is something to trigger a php script every
> > $period-of-time; if your host supports it, cron is the means of executing
> > an application at regular intervals down to a minute granularity. There
> are
> > some web-based cron services also, but they may not have the same
> > granularity as a locally based cron.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > --
> > David Robley
> >
> > "Wow!" barked Tom, with a bow.
> > Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 1st day of Discord in the YOLD 3176.
> >
> >
>
>
> You could store the end times in the database, and cron can run a script
> that will check each of these times to find any that are within x
> minutes that an email hasn't been sent out for. You'll need an extra
> field to indicate whether an email has been sent or not.
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>

Re: [PHP] Event Handling

2010-03-15 Thread Midhun Girish

Hi ,
Just as David Hutto has said,What you need is the cronjob... Make a script
say "check.php" which checks the db to see if any new entries are made...
and if yes send the mail ...

now using the cronjob feature in linux os(which will be provided as a
service in your linux hosting cpanel), set a cronjob which calls the "
http://www.yoursite.com/check.php"; URL every minute now a trigger will
be there every minute to the script and the emails will be send irrespective
of whether anyone is browsing the site or not hope it is clear...

Midhun Girish
Development Lead
MobAlive Technologies



On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:10 PM, David Hutto  wrote:
>
> --- On *Mon, 3/15/10, David Hutto * wrote:
>
> From: David Hutto 
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Event Handling
> To: php-general@lists.php.net, "Alex Major" 
> Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 3:34 AM
>
>
>
> --- On Mon, 3/15/10, Alex Major
> http://us.mc453.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=...@allydm.co.uk>>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Alex Major http://us.mc453.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=...@allydm.co.uk>
> >
> > Subject: [PHP] Event Handling
> > To: php-general@lists.php.net<
http://us.mc453.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=php-gene...@lists.php.net>
> > Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 2:59 AM
> > Greetings all,
> >
> > I'm currently looking at building a web application,
> > however I've run into
> > an area of development I've not come across before. The web
> > site in its
> > basic form allows users to send cars from a point and then
> > the car will
> > arrive at another point. When the car is set on its way,
> > the start time,
> > travel duration and end time are all known and stored in a
> > MySQL database,
> > what I would like to happen is that an event is triggered
> > on the server at
> > the end time and then an e-mail is sent to the user. This
> > should happen
> > regardless of whether someone is browsing the website or
> > not.
> >
> > I don't believe that I'll be able to solely use PHP, I have
> > spent the
> > afternoon trying to look at potential solutions but I have
> > to admit I've
> > drawn a blank. Google hasn't been helpful (64 pages so
> > far), as any searches
> > related to "event handling" bring up a load of JavaScript
> > tutorials/help for
> > 'onclick' events etc. I have searched through the PHP
> > documentation and
> > found "libevent" (http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.libevent.php ), I
> > don't
> > believe that is what I require (although in all honesty the
> > lack of
> > documentation on it means I'm quite in the dark as to its
> > purpose). Another
> > potential candidate I came across was a PHP/Java bridge
> > (http://php-java-bridge.sourceforge.net/pjb/ ), whereby
> > I could use the java
> > virtual machine, register events with it and then callback
> > PHP scripts,
> > although this seems extremely long winded.
> >
> > I was hoping that someone might have some experience with
> > this kind of issue
> > and could point me in the right direction. I'm sure I've
> > missed something
> > right in front of me.
> >
> > Alex.
> >
> >
>
> I'm a noob at php myself, but what you might want to look at is cron jobs
> and autoresponders. Here's an address to one I've messed with before:
> infinite.ibasics.biz/ I believe it uses cron jobs, I've messed with a lot
so
> it's hard to recall.
>
> You might want to have the web app insert the new info in the tables, and
> have the cron job and script do the rest.
>
> David

Re: [PHP] Form validation issue

2009-12-20 Thread Midhun Girish

"then the page gets reloaded and clears all the javascript error messages
and does the PHP validation."
That is because the form is getting submitted... make sure you js code
prevents form submit if errors are found



Midhun Girish


On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Ernie Kemp  wrote:

>   Good Day,
>
>
>
> I need help in in validating a form.
>
> The for is valdated be a javascript frist then if all the
> fields are filled in its valaded be PHP.
>
>
>
> The Form starts with:
>
> 
>
>
>
> The “formValidator()” goes to a javascript and does display the missing
> information in this case BUT then the page gets reloaded and clears all the
> javascript error messages and does the PHP validation.
>
>
>
> The PHP only runs if the fields are set by testing using ‘isset”.
>
>
>
> Without puting on numeric lines of go can you suggest things I must have
> overlooked. Silly request but there must be something I’m overlooking.I
> have simular code on other programs but this one is casuing me trouble.
>
>
>
> Thanks every so much..
>
>
>
> ../Ernie
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Re: [PHP] includes linking to other files, help with relatives

2009-12-06 Thread Midhun Girish

Hello Allen McCabe,

it doesnt matter from which folder you call the database.php file. only
thing u must take care is to use correct path in the database.php file so
that key.txt is accurately referenced. if you are still having problems,
use absolute paths instead of relative path...hers a reference
http://www.ibdhost.com/help/path/ GL...

Midhun Girish

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Allen McCabe  wrote:

> I am creating a database connection path that check for a session variable
> to get the username, password, dbname, etc., but if the session has not
> been
> set yet, I need my script to get those values from another file
> (KEY.txt) where they are saved. I want to access this class from two
> directories, and this text file (KEY.txt) is in a directory above both.
> Like
> this:
>
> root: folder1 - folder2
>
> folder1: KEY.txt
>
> folder2: index.php - database.php - folder3
>
> folder3: index.php
>
> I need to use database.php in both index files, but database.php references
> KEY.txt. So my question is, do I have to check which directory the calling
> script is in (ie. which index.php file is using database.php) and add the
> according up directory references, or do I need to use some kind of
> $_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]
> thing?
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>

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