php-general Digest 24 Dec 2007 17:13:17 -0000 Issue 5198
php-general Digest 24 Dec 2007 17:13:17 - Issue 5198 Topics (messages 266253 through 266257): Re: Sending SMS via PHP 266253 by: VamVan Terrible performance Apache 2.2.6, PHP 5.2, apache module mode 266254 by: wmac 266255 by: wmac Re: Asynchronous socket connection timing issue. 266256 by: Nicolas Le Gland Re: Opinion about the using $GLOBALS directly 266257 by: tedd Administrivia: To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To post to the list, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---BeginMessage--- Hi Bastien, I have actually implemented sending SMS using PHP by installing NOW SMS gateway. You can find all the information regarding it on www.nowsms.com. They have a software that you can buy and configure on your server. I wrote scripts that can help sending single SMS, BULK SMS, User Defined SMS etc. I also configured using PHP in a way to receive SMS to the web server and store it in the database. Its really exciting when you start working on this because you will be basically using SOAP and SMPP protocol to achieve this. Once you install trial Version mail me back so that I can help you with PHP Scripts that can actually allow you to SEND SMS. 160 characters are allowed per SMS and you also need connection to the SMS gateway in your country. Thanks, Vamsee On Dec 23, 2007 6:59 AM, Bastien Koert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sending proper SMS messges requires that you use an SMS gateway or buy a cellular modem. SMS is essentially XML will the message body limited to 160 characters. do some googling to get more information bastien Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:30:29 +0330 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Sending SMS via PHP Hi, How can i send SMS messages via PHP? How can i set SMS-headers (UDH)? Does anyone know some article/class/package about this issue? Thank you in advance, -b _ Discover new ways to stay in touch with Windows Live! Visit the City @ Live today! http://getyourliveid.ca/?icid=LIVEIDENCA006 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- Hello, I have a very terrible performance after changing to last versions of Apache and PHP on windows XP (and mysql 4.1). I did a search on the internet and it seems many people have this problem. Changing to Apache 2.0 and PHP 5.1 seems to solves the performance problem. for example this one: http://ez.no/developer/forum/setup_design/poor_ez_publish_4_0_performance Anyone has heard of a workaround? Thank you -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Terrible-performance-Apache-2.2.6%2C-PHP-5.2%2C-apache-module-mode-tp14486734p14486734.html Sent from the PHP - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- Hello, I have a very terrible performance after changing to last versions of Apache and PHP on windows XP (and mysql 4.1). I did a search on the internet and it seems many people have this problem. Changing to Apache 2.0 and PHP 5.1 seems to solves the performance problem. Anyone has heard of a workaround? Thank you ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- My code is at http://rafb.net/p/DEwN8J71.html with results at http://rafb.net/p/cnB4dC80.html As this temporary hosting expired after 24h, here are both code and log : http://nicolas.legland.free.fr/attachment/2007/12/24/stream.zip ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- At 4:18 PM +0200 12/19/07, Sancar Saran wrote: that said, avoid globals like the plague - sometimes you may come up with a situation where using a global is really necessary - such situations should be the exception rather than the rule, often if your thinking of using a global there is another way of doing it. jmho And this is why I'm asking here, WHY I should avoid globals like plague ? Every one says bad. Alright, but no one says WHY ? Hi: I'm a little late to this thread (been busy), but this is why I rarely use globals and have not used them in php. One of the fundamentals of programming I've learned is to reduce problem/solution to their most basic form. Simply, you see a problem and you solve it by dividing the problem it into smaller parts and then writing code to solve the small parts. Eventually, all the small solutions come together to solve the larger problem. Certainly, and it seems even logical, that you can use a global variable to communicate between the different parts and everything should work -- IF -- that's all there was to it. But, if you have to debug the code OR if you want to use a portion of that solution to solve a different problem, then you can
[PHP] Terrible performance Apache 2.2.6, PHP 5.2, apache module mode
Hello, I have a very terrible performance after changing to last versions of Apache and PHP on windows XP (and mysql 4.1). I did a search on the internet and it seems many people have this problem. Changing to Apache 2.0 and PHP 5.1 seems to solves the performance problem. for example this one: http://ez.no/developer/forum/setup_design/poor_ez_publish_4_0_performance Anyone has heard of a workaround? Thank you -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Terrible-performance-Apache-2.2.6%2C-PHP-5.2%2C-apache-module-mode-tp14486734p14486734.html Sent from the PHP - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Terrible performance Apache 2.2.6, PHP 5.2, apache module mode
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[PHP] Re: Asynchronous socket connection timing issue.
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Re: [PHP] Opinion about the using $GLOBALS directly
At 4:18 PM +0200 12/19/07, Sancar Saran wrote: that said, avoid globals like the plague - sometimes you may come up with a situation where using a global is really necessary - such situations should be the exception rather than the rule, often if your thinking of using a global there is another way of doing it. jmho And this is why I'm asking here, WHY I should avoid globals like plague ? Every one says bad. Alright, but no one says WHY ? Hi: I'm a little late to this thread (been busy), but this is why I rarely use globals and have not used them in php. One of the fundamentals of programming I've learned is to reduce problem/solution to their most basic form. Simply, you see a problem and you solve it by dividing the problem it into smaller parts and then writing code to solve the small parts. Eventually, all the small solutions come together to solve the larger problem. Certainly, and it seems even logical, that you can use a global variable to communicate between the different parts and everything should work -- IF -- that's all there was to it. But, if you have to debug the code OR if you want to use a portion of that solution to solve a different problem, then you can have difficulties. For example: [1] If you have to debug the code, there's not a really good way to look at a function and see if a variable in it is a global or not -- therein lies a problem, you don't readily know. In other languages I adopted a naming convention that used g as the first letter of a Global variable, like gThisIsMyGolbalVariable -- that way at least I knew the variable was global. But, even then I didn't know where the global was defined or where it might be changed -- it was just an unknown in my function that I had to consider. [2] If you want to reused a portion of the code, then you have to also accommodate the global. This makes transporting your code from one application to another problematic because you never know IF your function replies on a global or not. If you never use globals, then that's never a problem. So, my advice is to not use globals, but rather make the functions independent from globals. That way you troubleshoot them easier and can cut/paste them into other solutions without having to worry if some part of that function relies on something who knows where. That's my reasons why I avoid globals. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Opinion about the using $GLOBALS directly
Hello Tedd,
Here my opinoins
First of all, I ask this question to is there any technical dead end for using
$GLOBALS directly.
It seems not.
And I believe other arguments was closely connected to coding style.
I'm self learner, I learn evrything about computers, programming (that means
PHP) and English by myself. Because of this time to time I found my self into
very alien position for others.
On Monday 24 December 2007 19:13:07 tedd wrote:
At 4:18 PM +0200 12/19/07, Sancar Saran wrote:
that said, avoid globals like the plague - sometimes you may come up
with
a situation where using a global is really necessary - such situations
should be the exception rather than the rule, often if your thinking of
using a global there is another way of doing it. jmho
And this is why I'm asking here, WHY I should avoid globals like plague ?
Every one says bad. Alright, but no one says WHY ?
Hi:
I'm a little late to this thread (been busy), but this is why I
rarely use globals and have not used them in php.
One of the fundamentals of programming I've learned is to reduce
problem/solution to their most basic form. Simply, you see a problem
and you solve it by dividing the problem it into smaller parts and
then writing code to solve the small parts. Eventually, all the small
solutions come together to solve the larger problem.
Absolutely. I learn this from very hard way. (rewriting the code :))
Certainly, and it seems even logical, that you can use a global
variable to communicate between the different parts and everything
should work -- IF -- that's all there was to it. But, if you have to
debug the code OR if you want to use a portion of that solution to
solve a different problem, then you can have difficulties. For
example:
[1] If you have to debug the code, there's not a really good way to
look at a function and see if a variable in it is a global or not --
therein lies a problem, you don't readily know.
In other languages I adopted a naming convention that used g as the
first letter of a Global variable, like gThisIsMyGolbalVariable --
that way at least I knew the variable was global. But, even then I
didn't know where the global was defined or where it might be changed
-- it was just an unknown in my function that I had to consider.
$GLOBALS['myVariable'] directly solves the problem.
[2] If you want to reused a portion of the code, then you have to
also accommodate the global. This makes transporting your code from
one application to another problematic because you never know IF your
function replies on a global or not. If you never use globals, then
that's never a problem.
If is there any possibility to use the function with some other variables I
use it to.
So, my advice is to not use globals, but rather make the functions
independent from globals. That way you troubleshoot them easier and
can cut/paste them into other solutions without having to worry if
some part of that function relies on something who knows where.
That's my reasons why I avoid globals.
Cheers,
tedd
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Here Some basic list for my $GLOBALS usage.
$GLOBALS['db'] = my Adodb object
$GLOBALS['mc'] = my Memcached object
$GLOBALS['l'] = my Language keys
$GLOBALS['d'] = my debug pool.
$GLOBALS['c'] = my config array.
And someting like that.
A very basic function for pooling debugs.
function addDebug($_sDebugVal) {
$GLOBALS['d']['_DMSG'][] = $_sDebugVal;
}
usage addDebug($MyVar); or addDebug(print_r($arrayFoo,true));
end of page
getDebug() {
return $GLOBALS['l']['_debug_messages_'].br/pre.implode(\n.
$GLOBALS['d']['_DMSG'])./pre;
}
Regards
Sancar
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Re: [PHP] Opinion about the using $GLOBALS directly
On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 12:13 -0500, tedd wrote: At 4:18 PM +0200 12/19/07, Sancar Saran wrote: that said, avoid globals like the plague - sometimes you may come up with a situation where using a global is really necessary - such situations should be the exception rather than the rule, often if your thinking of using a global there is another way of doing it. jmho And this is why I'm asking here, WHY I should avoid globals like plague ? Every one says bad. Alright, but no one says WHY ? Hi: I'm a little late to this thread (been busy), but this is why I rarely use globals and have not used them in php. One of the fundamentals of programming I've learned is to reduce problem/solution to their most basic form. Simply, you see a problem and you solve it by dividing the problem it into smaller parts and then writing code to solve the small parts. Eventually, all the small solutions come together to solve the larger problem. Certainly, and it seems even logical, that you can use a global variable to communicate between the different parts and everything should work -- IF -- that's all there was to it. But, if you have to debug the code OR if you want to use a portion of that solution to solve a different problem, then you can have difficulties. For example: [1] If you have to debug the code, there's not a really good way to look at a function and see if a variable in it is a global or not -- therein lies a problem, you don't readily know. In other languages I adopted a naming convention that used g as the first letter of a Global variable, like gThisIsMyGolbalVariable -- that way at least I knew the variable was global. But, even then I didn't know where the global was defined or where it might be changed -- it was just an unknown in my function that I had to consider. [2] If you want to reused a portion of the code, then you have to also accommodate the global. This makes transporting your code from one application to another problematic because you never know IF your function replies on a global or not. If you never use globals, then that's never a problem. So, my advice is to not use globals, but rather make the functions independent from globals. That way you troubleshoot them easier and can cut/paste them into other solutions without having to worry if some part of that function relies on something who knows where. That's my reasons why I avoid globals. You're advice isn't very applicable in some cases. I absoltely agree it is very bad coding style to use globals to communicate information from one function to another etc. For instance, using globals to facilitate a database connection is very bad IMHO, the DB connection should be retrieved from a function or singleton... I've seen this be a very real problem when I've been asked to merge code from separate projects into a unified system. Additionally, I generally agree that using the global keyword and then stealthily using a global variable reduces clarity of where the variable came from. However, this is mitigated by using the $GLOBALS struct explicitly. Also, by using the $GLOBALS struct explicitly there's no need to prefix your variable names with 'g' :) Although, in JavaScript and in C on the occasion where I've used globals, I also use a 'g' prefix for clarity. Continuing on though, as I said in a previous message, using the $GLOBALS array for project configuration is very convenient and IMHO clean provided that you use a double level methodology where the first level is the name of your project or some other unlikely to be clobbered name. For instance, InterJinn has most of it's framework settings declared via: $GLOBALS['interJinn']['someConfigProperty'] = 'someValue'; I find this clean, readable, maintainable, and without the need for a superfluous solution to handle framework configuration. One could use the fairly standard .ini convention with key/value pairs, but this is a pain for arrays, generally requires a caching system once parsed, and can't even nearly compete with compile cached PHP code :) Cheers, Rob. -- ... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] building PHP5.2.5 on Mac OS X Leopard (anyone know how to build a just an extension)
the following url explains how to build a single extension for an existing php installation .. it's not really Mac specific and may help someone on another system stuck with the same problem: http://lists.apple.com/archives/macos-x-server/2007/Nov/msg00315.html Jochem Maas schreef: hi guys, well having tried for countless hours to build php on leopard I pretty much gave up. apparently it's pretty much impossible unless your name is Marc Liyanage (entropy.ch) ... the problem lies with the fact that you need 64bit libs and the some (most notably iconv) of the libs included with Leopard are borked in respect to the 'universal build' stuff (which I gather means you actually have a number of different [architecture related] executables bundled into a single file ... I probably have that all wrong, to be honest it's a little over my head. Marc L. offers a tarball with a working php5.2.5 (just untar and move the php5 dir to /usr/local): http://www2.entropy.ch/download/php5-5.2.5.leopard.release1.tar.gz his build does work but it doesn't include one extension that I rely on for some of my projects, namely interbase. I figured I'd try using Marc' configure line (as given by /usr/local/php5/bin/php-config against the source of php5.2.5 that I downloaded and add the relevant configure option (--with-interbase[=DIR]) ... in the hope I at least get a couple of usable extensions so that I could copy the ibase extension over into the working php5.2.5 installation ... no joy. I figure I'm screwed - I have a painfully expensive dev machine I can't blooming use. oh well, at least it is the nicest looking paper weight I've got. I'm still wondering whether it's possible to build just the interbase extension ... anyone know how to do that? or have any tips? rgds, Jochem -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] loadHTML()
Just getting into DOMDocument()... I'm loading an HTML page and trying to extract certain bits of text. Just one problem: loadHTML() seems to ignore orphan tags like 'br'. For example, in the following HTML: div class=textSome text is here. br New line. br Another new line. /div div class=textSome text is here. br New line. br Another new line. /div div class=textSome text is here. br New line. br Another new line. /div If I run the above HTML through: $nodes = $table-getElementsByTagName(*); I only get three nodes that I can iterate through (div). What I want to do is split/explode the three lines within each div, but when I look at the nodeValue of each node, it only shows something like Some text is here. New line. Another new line. Any ideas? ...Rene -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] loadHTML()
That's because it's not proper XHTML: br should be br /. On Dec 24, 2007, at 6:03 PM, M5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just getting into DOMDocument()... I'm loading an HTML page and trying to extract certain bits of text. Just one problem: loadHTML() seems to ignore orphan tags like 'br'. For example, in the following HTML: div class=textSome text is here. br New line. br Another new line. /div div class=textSome text is here. br New line. br Another new line. /div div class=textSome text is here. br New line. br Another new line. /div If I run the above HTML through: $nodes = $table-getElementsByTagName(*); I only get three nodes that I can iterate through (div). What I want to do is split/explode the three lines within each div, but when I look at the nodeValue of each node, it only shows something like Some text is here. New line. Another new line. Any ideas? ...Rene -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] loadHTML()
Actually, never mind. It does not have to be valid to work. On Dec 24, 2007, at 6:15 PM, Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's because it's not proper XHTML: br should be br /. On Dec 24, 2007, at 6:03 PM, M5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just getting into DOMDocument()... I'm loading an HTML page and trying to extract certain bits of text. Just one problem: loadHTML () seems to ignore orphan tags like 'br'. For example, in the following HTML: div class=textSome text is here. br New line. br Another new line. /div div class=textSome text is here. br New line. br Another new line. /div div class=textSome text is here. br New line. br Another new line. /div If I run the above HTML through: $nodes = $table-getElementsByTagName(*); I only get three nodes that I can iterate through (div). What I want to do is split/explode the three lines within each div, but when I look at the nodeValue of each node, it only shows something like Some text is here. New line. Another new line. Any ideas? ...Rene -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] loadHTML()
OK, I already knew that making it valid doesn't change the result. But the question remains, how to parse the HTML as it arrives (which I have no control over anyway), besides doing a str_replace on br and inserting a token, which I later replace (which I shouldn't have to, right?) ...Rene On 24-Dec-07, at 7:19 PM, Casey wrote: Actually, never mind. It does not have to be valid to work. On Dec 24, 2007, at 6:15 PM, Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's because it's not proper XHTML: br should be br /. On Dec 24, 2007, at 6:03 PM, M5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just getting into DOMDocument()... I'm loading an HTML page and trying to extract certain bits of text. Just one problem: loadHTML () seems to ignore orphan tags like 'br'. For example, in the following HTML: div class=textSome text is here. br New line. br Another new line. /div div class=textSome text is here. br New line. br Another new line. /div div class=textSome text is here. br New line. br Another new line. /div If I run the above HTML through: $nodes = $table-getElementsByTagName(*); I only get three nodes that I can iterate through (div). What I want to do is split/explode the three lines within each div, but when I look at the nodeValue of each node, it only shows something like Some text is here. New line. Another new line. Any ideas? ...Rene -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Simple RegEx question
I'm learning regular expressions, and trying to figure out what's possible and what's not. Any ideas of how to create a preg_match expression to parse following three lines: Calgary, AB T2A6C1 Toronto, ON T4M 0B0 Saint John, NBE2L 4L1 ...such that it splits each line into City, Province and Postalcode (irrespective of occasional white space), e.g.: Array ( [city] = Calgary, [prov] = AB, [postal]= T2A 6C1 ) Array ( [city] = Toronto, [prov] = ON, [postal]= T4M 0B0 ) Array ( [city] = Saint John, [prov] = NB, [postal]= E2L 4L1 ) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Simple RegEx question
On Dec 24, 2007, at 7:34 PM, M5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm learning regular expressions, and trying to figure out what's
possible and what's not. Any ideas of how to create a preg_match
expression to parse following three lines:
Calgary, AB T2A6C1
Toronto, ON T4M 0B0
Saint John, NBE2L 4L1
...such that it splits each line into City, Province and Postalcode
(irrespective of occasional white space), e.g.:
Array
(
[city]= Calgary,
[prov]= AB,
[postal]= T2A 6C1
)
Array
(
[city]= Toronto,
[prov]= ON,
[postal]= T4M 0B0
)
Array
(
[city]= Saint John,
[prov]= NB,
[postal]= E2L 4L1
)
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Try this:
$places = array();
$lines = explode(\n, $toparse);
foreach ($lines as $i = $line)
list($places[$i]['city'], $places[$i]['prov'], $places[$i]
['postal']) = explode(' ', $line, 3);'
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Re: [PHP] Simple RegEx question
On Dec 24, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 24, 2007, at 7:34 PM, M5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm learning regular expressions, and trying to figure out what's
possible and what's not. Any ideas of how to create a preg_match
expression to parse following three lines:
Calgary, AB T2A6C1
Toronto, ON T4M 0B0
Saint John, NBE2L 4L1
...such that it splits each line into City, Province and Postalcode
(irrespective of occasional white space), e.g.:
Array
(
[city]= Calgary,
[prov]= AB,
[postal]= T2A 6C1
)
Array
(
[city]= Toronto,
[prov]= ON,
[postal]= T4M 0B0
)
Array
(
[city]= Saint John,
[prov]= NB,
[postal]= E2L 4L1
)
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Try this:
$places = array();
$lines = explode(\n, $toparse);
foreach ($lines as $i = $line)
list($places[$i]['city'], $places[$i]['prov'], $places[$i]
['postal']) = explode(' ', $line, 3);'
I'm very sorry about that, Ive been wrong all week!
It doesn't parse Saint John correctly :(
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