[PHP] session variables and SVG documents
Hello,
I have the following problem with the Adobe SVG viewer:
I try to generate a SVG document using PHP. the following code is working
well under Firefox, as well as IE with ASV:
?php
header(Content-type: image/svg+xml);
$graph_title = 'title';
print('?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1 standalone=no?');
$svgwidth=500;
$svgheight=400;
?
!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/DTD/svg10.dtd;
svg width=?php echo $svgwidth; ?px height=?php echo $svgheight; ?px
xmlns=http://www.w3.org/2000/svg;
descThis is a php-random rectangle test/desc
?php
srand((double) microtime() * 100); //initalizing random generator
for ($i = 0; $i 20; $i+=1) {
$x = floor(rand(0,$svgwidth-1)); //avoid getting a range 0..0 for rand
function
$y = floor(rand(0,$svgheight-1));
$width = floor(rand(0,$svgwidth-$x)); //avoid getting rect outside of
viewbox
$height = floor(rand(0,$svgheight-$y));
$red = floor(rand(0,255));
$blue = floor(rand(0,255));
$green = floor(rand(0,255));
$color = rgb(.$red.,.$green.,.$
blue.);
print \trect x=\$x\ y=\$y\ width=\$width\ height=\$height\
style=\fill:$color;\/\n;
}
?
text x=?php echo $svgwidth/2;?px y=300 style=font-size:15;
text-anchor=middleThe servers Date and Time is: ?php print
(strftime(%Y-%m-%d, %H:%M:%S)); ?/text
text x=?php echo $svgwidth/2;?px y=340 style=font-size:15;
text-anchor=middleYou are running:/text
text x=?php echo $svgwidth/2;?px y=360 style=font-size:15;
text-anchor=middle?php print $HTTP_USER_AGENT; ?/text
/svg
If now I want to include the session_start() at the beginning of the code,
in IE I got a pop-up dialog called download file
What am I doing wrong ?
Regards,
Aurelie
Re: [PHP] session variables and SVG documents
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:37 +0100, Aurelie REYMUND wrote:
Hello,
I have the following problem with the Adobe SVG viewer:
I try to generate a SVG document using PHP. the following code is working
well under Firefox, as well as IE with ASV:
?php
header(Content-type: image/svg+xml);
$graph_title = 'title';
print('?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1 standalone=no?');
$svgwidth=500;
$svgheight=400;
?
!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/DTD/svg10.dtd;
svg width=?php echo $svgwidth; ?px height=?php echo $svgheight; ?px
xmlns=http://www.w3.org/2000/svg;
descThis is a php-random rectangle test/desc
?php
srand((double) microtime() * 100); //initalizing random generator
for ($i = 0; $i 20; $i+=1) {
$x = floor(rand(0,$svgwidth-1)); //avoid getting a range 0..0 for rand
function
$y = floor(rand(0,$svgheight-1));
$width = floor(rand(0,$svgwidth-$x)); //avoid getting rect outside of
viewbox
$height = floor(rand(0,$svgheight-$y));
$red = floor(rand(0,255));
$blue = floor(rand(0,255));
$green = floor(rand(0,255));
$color = rgb(.$red.,.$green.,.$
blue.);
print \trect x=\$x\ y=\$y\ width=\$width\ height=\$height\
style=\fill:$color;\/\n;
}
?
text x=?php echo $svgwidth/2;?px y=300 style=font-size:15;
text-anchor=middleThe servers Date and Time is: ?php print
(strftime(%Y-%m-%d, %H:%M:%S)); ?/text
text x=?php echo $svgwidth/2;?px y=340 style=font-size:15;
text-anchor=middleYou are running:/text
text x=?php echo $svgwidth/2;?px y=360 style=font-size:15;
text-anchor=middle?php print $HTTP_USER_AGENT; ?/text
/svg
If now I want to include the session_start() at the beginning of the code,
in IE I got a pop-up dialog called download file
What am I doing wrong ?
Regards,
Aurelie
It sounds like it's the SVG plugin you're using on IE that's badly
misbehaving. That said, I've not seen any plugins that correctly pass
across the full headers that the browser would. I tried using sessions
once to secure media files by checking for a valid login against the
session id, but the plugins requesting the video clips didn't send any
cookie data in the header request. As such, it might be better to not
rely on it in this case.
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
[PHP] magic_quotes_gpc on by default??
I've just wasted a few hours by trying to find a bug in my code that messed up my JSON-passed-on-$_GET. I'm using fopen() so please no nagging about putting JSON in $_POST.. I finally found the answer; in my distro's /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini, magic_quotes_gpc is ON. I'd like to know why, since it's being depracted anyway: http://nl.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc I'm on PHP 5.2.10-2ubuntu6.4 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli) (built: Jan 6 2010 22:41:56) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] magic_quotes_gpc on by default??
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 19:44 +0100, Rene Veerman wrote: I've just wasted a few hours by trying to find a bug in my code that messed up my JSON-passed-on-$_GET. I'm using fopen() so please no nagging about putting JSON in $_POST.. I finally found the answer; in my distro's /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini, magic_quotes_gpc is ON. I'd like to know why, since it's being depracted anyway: http://nl.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc I'm on PHP 5.2.10-2ubuntu6.4 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli) (built: Jan 6 2010 22:41:56) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies Either Ubuntu is turning it on by default, your ISP has turned it on (assuming it's not your own server), or someone else has turned it on at some point. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] magic_quotes_gpc on by default??
itsa homeserver, so i recon it was ubuntu.. buncha lamers :) On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.ukwrote: On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 19:44 +0100, Rene Veerman wrote: I've just wasted a few hours by trying to find a bug in my code that messed up my JSON-passed-on-$_GET. I'm using fopen() so please no nagging about putting JSON in $_POST.. I finally found the answer; in my distro's /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini, magic_quotes_gpc is ON. I'd like to know why, since it's being depracted anyway: http://nl.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc I'm on PHP 5.2.10-2ubuntu6.4 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli) (built: Jan 6 2010 22:41:56) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies Either Ubuntu is turning it on by default, your ISP has turned it on (assuming it's not your own server), or someone else has turned it on at some point. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
[PHP] OpenID
This is a bit off subject, but What is your opinion on OpenID? Are you using it? Is it worth the trouble? What php code applic, or did you code your own? Pear has an alpha release OpenID, anyone try or using it? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes
i have write a script which search few element from a database. I use a text
file as input.
input file contains these kind of data
clubhouseforkids.com
cairouniversity.com
501c3nonprofit.com
mrbling.com
cellsocket.com
this is the scripts for read the file data
/**/
$file = fopen(files.txt, r) or exit(Unable to open file!);
while(!feof($file))
{
$data[] = stream_get_line($file, 100, \n);
}
fclose($file);
//
this script worked fine for small size of file. but if i use a large size
like 900KB then its show Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet'
bytes .
where I'm doing wrong? please help me out there...
-
Regards
Saeed Ahmed
http://saeed05.wordpress.com
-
[PHP] Magento shopping cart
Hey all, Anyone ever use the Magento shopping cart? Pluses, minuses, opinions? I have a client that is pretty adamant about using it, but I've found over just about any I've used I can do a better service to the client by writing them from scratch. It's easy and they always get exactly what they want. I see they seem to have a lot of plug ins, but I think someone just told him it is the best cart to use so he's sort of fixated on it. Like I said, I typically find I can custom write one with better results. I found xCart, for example, to contain some of the worst code I had ever seen and it turned me off to third party carts. Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Magento shopping cart
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 15:02 -0600, Skip Evans wrote: Hey all, Anyone ever use the Magento shopping cart? Pluses, minuses, opinions? I have a client that is pretty adamant about using it, but I've found over just about any I've used I can do a better service to the client by writing them from scratch. It's easy and they always get exactly what they want. I see they seem to have a lot of plug ins, but I think someone just told him it is the best cart to use so he's sort of fixated on it. Like I said, I typically find I can custom write one with better results. I found xCart, for example, to contain some of the worst code I had ever seen and it turned me off to third party carts. Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut I've not used it myself, but I know people who have. The main problems you'll face if you write it from scratch is that of going up against tried and tested code. Magento has a large user base behind it, with feedback that improves it's feature list and security features. Why spend ages reinventing the wheel? As far as I'm aware as well, Magento is still in active development, so you know you will be safe using it for quite a while. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] Magento shopping cart
Ashley Sheridan wrote: Why spend ages reinventing the wheel? I've come across so many clients using third party carts who have been unhappy with the final results. I hear so often It does eighty percent of what we need, but we do things like this [insert idiosyncratic business practice here]. And then getting a third party cart to do what they wanted was often either incredibly frustrating/time consuming, or often just not doable. Yes, writing a cart takes time, but I've found I can whip them out pretty easily, and I have a lot of code I reuse all the time. I pretty much have a complete basic cart stored away, but I intentionally keep its functionality to a minimum so that I can expand on it to their specifications. To date the results have been pretty good. Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Magento shopping cart
Is the client not receptive to that explanation? On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Ashley Sheridan wrote: Why spend ages reinventing the wheel? I've come across so many clients using third party carts who have been unhappy with the final results. I hear so often It does eighty percent of what we need, but we do things like this [insert idiosyncratic business practice here]. And then getting a third party cart to do what they wanted was often either incredibly frustrating/time consuming, or often just not doable. Yes, writing a cart takes time, but I've found I can whip them out pretty easily, and I have a lot of code I reuse all the time. I pretty much have a complete basic cart stored away, but I intentionally keep its functionality to a minimum so that I can expand on it to their specifications. To date the results have been pretty good. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes
yea, try executing the sql statement set global max_allowed_packet = 500 * 1024 * 1024; from php?? (note; it sets it to 500mb) not sure if your mysql server will allow this. on shared hosting, you can expect they disabled the ability to change it from php.. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:27 PM, saeed ahmed saeed@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, I also think so its a mysql problem. anyway do you have any method for increase the max_allowed_packet from a php script? - Regards Saeed Ahmed http://saeed05.wordpress.com - -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] session variables and SVG documents
From: Aurelie REYMUND aurely...@gmail.com
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 3:37 AM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] session variables and SVG documents
Hello,
I have the following problem with the Adobe SVG viewer:
I try to generate a SVG document using PHP. the following code is working
well under Firefox, as well as IE with ASV:
?php
header(Content-type: image/svg+xml);
$graph_title = 'title';
print('?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1 standalone=no?');
$svgwidth=500;
$svgheight=400;
?
!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/DTD/svg10.dtd;
svg width=?php echo $svgwidth; ?px height=?php echo $svgheight;
?px
xmlns=http://www.w3.org/2000/svg;
descThis is a php-random rectangle test/desc
?php
srand((double) microtime() * 100); //initalizing random generator
for ($i = 0; $i 20; $i+=1) {
$x = floor(rand(0,$svgwidth-1)); //avoid getting a range 0..0 for rand
function
$y = floor(rand(0,$svgheight-1));
$width = floor(rand(0,$svgwidth-$x)); //avoid getting rect outside of
viewbox
$height = floor(rand(0,$svgheight-$y));
$red = floor(rand(0,255));
$blue = floor(rand(0,255));
$green = floor(rand(0,255));
$color = rgb(.$red.,.$green.,.$
blue.);
print \trect x=\$x\ y=\$y\ width=\$width\ height=\$height\
style=\fill:$color;\/\n;
}
?
text x=?php echo $svgwidth/2;?px y=300 style=font-size:15;
text-anchor=middleThe servers Date and Time is: ?php print
(strftime(%Y-%m-%d, %H:%M:%S)); ?/text
text x=?php echo $svgwidth/2;?px y=340 style=font-size:15;
text-anchor=middleYou are running:/text
text x=?php echo $svgwidth/2;?px y=360 style=font-size:15;
text-anchor=middle?php print $HTTP_USER_AGENT; ?/text
/svg
If now I want to include the session_start() at the beginning of the code,
in IE I got a pop-up dialog called download file
What am I doing wrong ?
Regards,
Aurelie
It appears IE does not support svg yet and you need a plugin for it.
However, you could also design your code differently by using Imagemagick to
convert the svg to png.
If that suits your needs, then use the modified code below:
?php
header(Content-type: image/png);
$graph_title = 'title';
$svgwidth=500;
$svgheight=400;
$svg = '?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1 standalone=no?
svg width='.$svgwidth.'px height='.$svgheight.'px
xmlns=http://www.w3.org/2000/svg;
descThis is a php-random rectangle test/desc';
for ($i = 0; $i 20; $i++) {
$x = floor(rand(0,$svgwidth-1));
$y = floor(rand(0,$svgheight-1));
$width = floor(rand(0,$svgwidth-$x));
$height = floor(rand(0,$svgheight-$y));
$red = floor(rand(0,255));
$blue = floor(rand(0,255));
$green = floor(rand(0,255));
$color = rgb(.$red.,.$green.,.$blue.);
$svg .= \trect x=\$x\ y=\$y\ width=\$width\ height=\$height\
style=\fill:$color;\/\n;
}
$svg .= 'text x='.($svgwidth/2).'px y=300 style=font-size:15;
text-anchor=middleThe servers Date and Time is: '.date(Y-m-d,
H:m:s).'/text
text x='.($svgwidth/2).'px y=340 style=font-size:15;
text-anchor=middleYou are running:/text
text x='.($svgwidth/2).'px y=360 style=font-size:15;
text-anchor=middle'.$HTTP_USER_AGENT.'/text
/svg';
file_put_contents('/tmp/image.svg', $svg);
exec(/usr/bin/rsvg /tmp/image.svg /tmp/image.png);
echo file_get_contents('/tmp/image.png');
?
-Ray Solomon
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Re: [PHP] Magento shopping cart
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Ashley Sheridan wrote: Why spend ages reinventing the wheel? i whole heartedly agree. I've come across so many clients using third party carts who have been unhappy with the final results. I hear so often It does eighty percent of what we need, but we do things like this [insert idiosyncratic business practice here]. thats why a lot of the modern incarnations have embraced the concept of modularization, eg. plugins / skins etc. etc. just look back a os-commerce / zen-cart; the notion of skins they had was horrific, basically since the ui was intertwined w/ logic, skins were tied to revs of the application - ouch! the community has matured a lot since then from what i gather. And then getting a third party cart to do what they wanted was often either incredibly frustrating/time consuming, or often just not doable. i think in most cases, anymore, youre mainly looking at ramp-up time on how to use / customize / extend an existing third party system. while that can be sucky, you should really weigh the trade-off between that and getting beaten over the head w/ requests to develop the most common place look-and-feel customization crap / features. ive started to lean towards the former in my personal career, having come from zealous devotion to the later in my initial years in the industry. Yes, writing a cart takes time, but I've found I can whip them out pretty easily, and I have a lot of code I reuse all the time. I pretty much have a complete basic cart stored away, but I intentionally keep its functionality to a minimum so that I can expand on it to their specifications. ok, well, when your custom cart has all the features of magento / [your fav e-commerce platform here] let me know. ill have finished up the proprietary plugins that make my site unique and have forgotten pretty much everything about silly crap id never want to write - like custom look at feel, crm, reports etc etc. o and also, when you have as many users / devs hitting your codebase as some of the popular platforms, im interested in hearing about that as well, lol. -nathan
Re: [PHP] Magento shopping cart
I'm not totally opposed to using Magento, though I can see my comments, especially if it's what the client wants. I have been looking over the site and it does have a lot of features so I can see it saving some serious time, especially given the extras he wants. So Nathan, having used it, do you have any tips for a Magento newbie when it comes to integrating it with a custom site? I haven't found any integration documentation for programmers yet. Skip Nathan Nobbe wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com mailto:s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Ashley Sheridan wrote: Why spend ages reinventing the wheel? i whole heartedly agree. I've come across so many clients using third party carts who have been unhappy with the final results. I hear so often It does eighty percent of what we need, but we do things like this [insert idiosyncratic business practice here]. thats why a lot of the modern incarnations have embraced the concept of modularization, eg. plugins / skins etc. etc. just look back a os-commerce / zen-cart; the notion of skins they had was horrific, basically since the ui was intertwined w/ logic, skins were tied to revs of the application - ouch! the community has matured a lot since then from what i gather. And then getting a third party cart to do what they wanted was often either incredibly frustrating/time consuming, or often just not doable. i think in most cases, anymore, youre mainly looking at ramp-up time on how to use / customize / extend an existing third party system. while that can be sucky, you should really weigh the trade-off between that and getting beaten over the head w/ requests to develop the most common place look-and-feel customization crap / features. ive started to lean towards the former in my personal career, having come from zealous devotion to the later in my initial years in the industry. Yes, writing a cart takes time, but I've found I can whip them out pretty easily, and I have a lot of code I reuse all the time. I pretty much have a complete basic cart stored away, but I intentionally keep its functionality to a minimum so that I can expand on it to their specifications. ok, well, when your custom cart has all the features of magento / [your fav e-commerce platform here] let me know. ill have finished up the proprietary plugins that make my site unique and have forgotten pretty much everything about silly crap id never want to write - like custom look at feel, crm, reports etc etc. o and also, when you have as many users / devs hitting your codebase as some of the popular platforms, im interested in hearing about that as well, lol. -nathan -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Appalling Dreamweaver performance
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:51:39 +, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk (Ashley Sheridan) wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:28 +1100, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: . Don't use Dreamweaver then :p Joking aside (Dreamweaver is a very capable editor, although it is quite large for simple find and replace tasks) how were you performing the find and replace? Regular expression replacements will be much slower, although it shouldn't account for quite the speed hit you saw. For simple tasks like that, I'd recommend Notepad++. It has code highlighting and folding, regex find/replace features, and a slew of other bits that make it a very good editor, and it's very speedy to boot. I was doing a simple replace: , with ; As I mentioned, I use Dreamweaver both its editing and its file managing capabilities, and as I spend a lot of time programming it is nearly always open, so it gets used for odd jobs like this (which it usually does very well). However there is definitely something seriously wrong with its implementation of this feature. After reading some of the other comments I thought I should try the same thing again this morning, while the computer was fresh. I did the same job on the same file. The screen was refreshed after each line was completely processed, and for the first few lines the cursor ran quite quickly down the screen. But by line 130 it had slowed to about 1line per second, and last time by the end it was taking more than five seconds to do each line. I didn't bother to let it run to completion, but I did look at the results log. This had a new line for every replacement-- 10 lines of log for each line of the original file. I expect this is the explanation for the initial slow performance but I can't understand what they have done to make it slow down as it progresses -- unless they start searching again at the beginning of the file after each replacement? Given the cumbersome error logging this is just conceivable. I have had it crash once or twice after I have opened a lot of files (usually after I have searched the whole folder for every reference to a variable a number of times), but generally I have found quite reliable. One feature which I find really annoying is that if you tell it to search a folder for a particular variable name, it doesn't seem to be possible to tell it to only search certain directories, and certain file extensions. If Notepad++ offered this feature I would certainly be tempted to try it. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: OpenID
Al wrote: This is a bit off subject, but What is your opinion on OpenID? openID foaf+ssl are the future without a doubt, openid is a step in the right direction; most important factor is giving every person a http identifier (URI); because then you can start linking data together. article - dc:creator - al; -- means nothing so we give you a unique identifier which can be looked up to authenticate you, get more info about you etc. article - dc:creator - http://ridersite.org/al; -- means everything Are you using it? yes Is it worth the trouble? the trouble is not using it; so yes more than worth it What php code applic, or did you code your own? various, rolled my own + recently used zend_openid which is v good; here's a list: http://openid.net/developers/libraries/#php Pear has an alpha release OpenID, anyone try or using it? would stick to the ones on the page above ^^ also many plugins for drupal, wordpress, various cms's etc which work out of the box. would completely reverse this back to you; can you think of one good reason *not* to use openid? regards! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Good source for sample data?
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:08:49 -0800, br...@briandunning.com (Brian Dunning) wrote: Thanks for the suggestions but I couldn't find any that suited my needs, so I made my own. Feel free to download if you can use them, I made files with up to a million unique records. Name, Company, Address, Phone, Email, etc., all are fake but are real addresses with correct area codes, zips, exchange, so will work for mapping, phone or address validation, whatever your needs are. Hope someone find it useful. http://www.briandunning.com/sample-data/ Thank you for this. I was just wondering where I could get a reasonably large set of sample data to demonstrate my mailmerge type program, and this will serve the purpose nicely. It will also enable me to test it on a much larger set of data than my laboriously assembled private address book (which has 666 entries). (My program worked well with the 500 entry file, but had serious problems with the 5000 entry file. However when I cut this back to 1700 entries it again worked correctly, though it was a bit slow.) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Magento shopping cart
Skip Evans wrote on 01/02/2010 22:02: Hey all, Anyone ever use the Magento shopping cart? Pluses, minuses, opinions? I have a client that is pretty adamant about using it, but I've found over just about any I've used I can do a better service to the client by writing them from scratch. It's easy and they always get exactly what they want. I just installed it a couple of days ago, took me an hour and 5 minutes incl. installing danish and make different kind of troubleshooting during the installation. Make sure your database user has at least (haven't had the time to investigave yet) ALTER privileges otherwise the install fails and it's rather wierd to continue the installation after giving the DB user the righs privileges. I see they seem to have a lot of plug ins, but I think someone just told him it is the best cart to use so he's sort of fixated on it. It sure looks cool, that I must say. Like I said, I typically find I can custom write one with better results. I found xCart, for example, to contain some of the worst code I had ever seen and it turned me off to third party carts. I sort of have the same opinion, but this was a fast install and there's lots of admin features. However as you write elsewhere in this thread, knowing your own code makes it easy to make changes. This is definetly going to take longer with Magento since you don't know the code. Make sure you customer understands this. A good example: the search button is an image, so this is not translated into danish, that could be a potential design problem, if in thai search it translated to rapapupapikiwikital :-) -- Kind regards Kim Emax - masterminds.dk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Magento shopping cart
I hear good things about magento, neve used it though. Xcart stinks. I've had to hack that before. It was painful. Bastien Sent from my iPod On Feb 1, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Hey all, Anyone ever use the Magento shopping cart? Pluses, minuses, opinions? I have a client that is pretty adamant about using it, but I've found over just about any I've used I can do a better service to the client by writing them from scratch. It's easy and they always get exactly what they want. I see they seem to have a lot of plug ins, but I think someone just told him it is the best cart to use so he's sort of fixated on it. Like I said, I typically find I can custom write one with better results. I found xCart, for example, to contain some of the worst code I had ever seen and it turned me off to third party carts. Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- 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] Magento shopping cart
Op 2/1/10 10:02 PM, Skip Evans schreef: Hey all, Anyone ever use the Magento shopping cart? Pluses, minuses, opinions? I have a client that is pretty adamant about using it, but I've found over just about any I've used I can do a better service to the client by writing them from scratch. It's easy and they always get exactly what they want. I see they seem to have a lot of plug ins, but I think someone just told him it is the best cart to use so he's sort of fixated on it. Like I said, I typically find I can custom write one with better results. I found xCart, for example, to contain some of the worst code I had ever seen and it turned me off to third party carts. I find the only time a custom solution is suitable is when there is a large budget and very specific requirements, which usually translates into atleast: 1. specialized discounting mechanisms 2. tight integration with a 'big' backend system (e.g. SAP, Siebel, etc) 3. custom data-related workflows I just spent some time looking at XCart for someone - seeing the frontend I figured the requested changes would be a piece fo cake, the reality is that making those changes was practically impossible and definitely not ecomonically viable. the XCart code is complete pants. I also took a dive into the Magento codebase, a quick perusal shows a well defined structure, tidy code, well commented, modular. looks very good really - learning curve is a bit steep but that's down to the fact that it's a very complete and sophicated package ... additionally there is a big, well organized community behind it ... I would hazard a guess and say that it's a very good bet. Skip -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Magento shopping cart
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: I'm not totally opposed to using Magento, though I can see my comments, especially if it's what the client wants. I have been looking over the site and it does have a lot of features so I can see it saving some serious time, especially given the extras he wants. So Nathan, having used it, do you have any tips for a Magento newbie when it comes to integrating it with a custom site? I havent used it yet, but we are considering using it as a second-gen platform at my new place of biz. initial glimpses are promising, but it appears to be a somewhat complex offering compared to say wordpress w/ an e-commerce plugin. i imagine there may be other tradeoffs as well, like a number of general purpose plugins and probly more look feel options in wordpress than magento. I haven't found any integration documentation for programmers yet. google for magento extension and it looks like you may have to hit the appropriate mailing list for more details. fwiw, afaik, x-cart is one of those older e-commerce platforms circa os-commerce / zencart days. the code is ass, but frankly that damn thing has installations up all over the net (or did once upon a time, lol). -nathan
RE: [PHP] OpenID
-Original Message- From: Al [mailto:n...@ridersite.org] Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:09 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] OpenID This is a bit off subject, but What is your opinion on OpenID? Failed gimick. Tried to resurface again about a year ago. Still seems like failure. http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2008/07/16/openid-fail/ http://thenextweb.com/2008/10/30/google-openid-fail/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID#Adoption Are you using it? Uhm, no. I've got more important things to worry about and implement. Is it worth the trouble? I hear it's relatively simple to implement, but even then it's just another hassle you have to test and work with forever (or eventually drop it as some sites have). What php code applic, or did you code your own? Pear has an alpha release OpenID, anyone try or using it? N/A It sounds great in theory, but I see it as a solution in search of a problem. Sure everyone has a bajillion logins, but you know what, the browser has solved that long ago by remembering my user/pass for each and every site. Most sites also conveniently store a cookie hash so you don't even have to login -- it just knows you if you use the same computer to connect. There is an inherent distrust when you are re-directed somewhere -- I don't even like to get redirected to PayPal from eBay, and they're the same company! :) It's too techy for Jane Average and too cumbersome for Joe Savvy. YMMV. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] OpenID
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 18:38 -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: -Original Message- From: Al [mailto:n...@ridersite.org] Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:09 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] OpenID This is a bit off subject, but What is your opinion on OpenID? Failed gimick. Tried to resurface again about a year ago. Still seems like failure. http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/2008/07/16/openid-fail/ http://thenextweb.com/2008/10/30/google-openid-fail/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID#Adoption Are you using it? Uhm, no. I've got more important things to worry about and implement. Is it worth the trouble? I hear it's relatively simple to implement, but even then it's just another hassle you have to test and work with forever (or eventually drop it as some sites have). What php code applic, or did you code your own? Pear has an alpha release OpenID, anyone try or using it? N/A It sounds great in theory, but I see it as a solution in search of a problem. Sure everyone has a bajillion logins, but you know what, the browser has solved that long ago by remembering my user/pass for each and every site. Most sites also conveniently store a cookie hash so you don't even have to login -- it just knows you if you use the same computer to connect. There is an inherent distrust when you are re-directed somewhere -- I don't even like to get redirected to PayPal from eBay, and they're the same company! :) It's too techy for Jane Average and too cumbersome for Joe Savvy. YMMV. I see some popular sites are starting to use it as a login method. Sourceforge for example allows OpenID logins. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] OpenID
Daevid Vincent wrote: -Original Message- From: Al [mailto:n...@ridersite.org] Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:09 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] OpenID This is a bit off subject, but What is your opinion on OpenID? Failed gimick. Tried to resurface again about a year ago. Still seems like failure. ++ Session ID hijacking is bad enough, it gives the malicious user access to one resource. OpenID hijacking gives the malicious user access to a ton of resources. And what does a user do when their OpenID provider disappears? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
