[PHP] Re: PHP Framework
Yonatan, And since I'm the Lampshade guy, I'll throw Lampshade out there, as well: http://www.thinkcomputer.com/software/lampshade/index.html Unlike a lot of frameworks, Lampshade is entirely procedural, and it's designed specifically for use with MySQL. I suppose that makes it less flexible than some people would want, but if it fits your application specs, then it's very fast and straightforward. In general, it's been around since 2002 (no plans to go away next year), it's in use at Harvard and at very large companies, and at very small ones, too, and there's a whole lot of documentation, in both HTML and PDF format. I also happen to think that as far as programming frameworks go, it's pretty easy to learn. The Lampshade Starter Kit, which you can download alongside the core files, gives you an example application that you can work with and modify. Good luck with your search! Aaron Aaron Greenspan President CEO Think Computer Corporation http://www.thinkcomputer.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Open Lampshade
Hi everyone, Just thought you might like to know that Lampshade, our previously closed PHP framework, is now open-source: http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/news/pressreleases.html?id=24 Aaron Aaron Greenspan President CEO Think Computer Corporation http://www.thinkcomputer.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: security/sql issues with php
Bruce, If you're looking for commercial-grade open-source packages, I think you're going to have a pretty hard time finding much. Most commercial-grade software is...commercial. The truly robust open-source packages, i.e. Mozilla, MySQL, JBoss, BerkeleyDB, etc., are backed by some sort of commercial, or at the very least, corporate, entity. The rest, more often than not, are not commercial-grade; the support structures that companies require just don't exist for those packages. I've offered to help you before via our commercial framework, Lampshade, which handles I'd say 98% of everything you want, and can be easily customized or added to in order to handle the remaining 2%. It's not open-source, but it also doesn't need to be since the documentation is so extensive. It's used in applications for all sorts of organizations from Harvard University to companies traded on the NYSE. There may be other open frameworks that are used just as widely--I would venture to guess phpNuke and the-CMS-formerly-known-as-Mambo--but as you've discovered, they don't do half of the things you'd like to see all in one place. Also, Mambo's political machinations are a good example of what you don't want to see in a commercial-grade product. If you want to keep searching, I suppose no one's going to stop you. I'm just afraid it's not out there. Anyone, correct me if I'm wrong. Best of luck, Aaron Aaron Greenspan President CEO Think Computer Corporation http://www.thinkcomputer.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Modifying data in forms with values
Robert,
The Lampshade framework (and I'm sure others, too) handles pretty much
all of the form controls for you. There' also a specific country()
function used to make a drop-down of countries. Using Lampshade, you
would only need one line of code in your form:
dropdownBox('country', country(), $myrow['country'], 'Country');
The first parameter is the name of the field in the form. The second
provides the list of items to display in the drop-down box. The third is
the present value of the box (so it handles the if statements you were
talking about), and the fourth is the label that shows up on the form on
the user's screen.
You should try it out, and I'd be happy to help you get set up.
http://www.thinkcomputer.com/software/lampshade/index.html
Aaron
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Re: [PHP] Deny access from certain hosts
Jordan, I have a similar problem where someone is using copyrighted images on my site in a bulletin board. It's not that one specific host is requesting the files--it's people from all over--but rather that I want to block one referring URL using Apache, rather than PHP, since the images are GIF files. Can you do that with .htaccess? Thanks, Aaron Aaron Greenspan President CEO Think Computer Corporation http://www.thinkcomputer.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: user registration/login - admin functions...
Bruce, If your project isn't commercial in nature, you can use Lampshade for free... http://www.thinkcomputer.com/software/lampshade/index.html The Lampshade Starter Kit should already have a schema outlined for user and security management that you can integrate into your own application. Aaron Aaron Greenspan President CEO Think Computer Corporation http://www.thinkcomputer.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Sort table by column and pagination
Daevid, Lampshade, an API we've put together (as a commercially-backed alternative to PEAR) does table pagination and column sorting for you. It's free for non-commercial use, there's a lot of documentation, and I'm always around to answer questions: http://www.thinkcomputer.com/software/lampshade/index.html All you have to do is include the Lampshade files, set up a $table array in your page, and then call the table() function. You can integrate it with your current stylesheets, too. Let me know if you have any other questions. Aaron Aaron Greenspan President CEO Think Computer Corporation http://www.thinkcomputer.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Form Processor?
Hi, Another shameless plug... Lampshade makes form processing really easy. You define a $form array in your PHP file, you lay out the form in your form file, and go. It error-checks and submits for you. Non-commercial use is free, and there's an example application in the starter kit so you can see how it works. http://www.thinkcomputer.com/software/lampshade Or more specifically for forms... http://www.thinkcomputer.com/software/lampshade/documentation.html?function=form Aaron Aaron Greenspan President CEO Think Computer Corporation http://www.thinkcomputer.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Help Building Dynamic Checkboxes
Hi,
There are a couple of problems with your code. The first is that you
have global variables enabled, which makes things easier, but also makes
things less secure. You should definitely disable them in your php.ini
file if possible.
Also, when you put the square brackets after gmev (gmev[]), you turn
$_POST['gmev'] into an array. Yet your code just checks to see if the
$_POST['gmev'] variable has any value at all, which of course, it does.
if ($gmev) {
$checked = ' checked=checked';
} else {
$checked = '';
}
Therefore, when you go to present the form, $checked always has the
string from the first case in the if statement, since you're not
specifying which part of the $gmev array you really care about.
My suggestion to everyone dealing with these form problems, which are a
general pain... Use Lampshade. It's so much easier! You can do this all
in three lines of code: two to set up your choices for the form element,
and one to draw the element itself.
http://www.thinkcomputer.com/software/lampshade
I'd be glad to help you with it if you have any questions.
Best of luck,
Aaron
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Re: [PHP] Dropdown Building Function
Jay,
This is why I think frameworks are helpful Here's how I'd do it with
Lampshade in one line of code with my own hypothetical field names:
dropdownBox('answerid', SELECT answerid, CONCAT(questions.description,'
- ',answers.description) AS display FROM questions LEFT JOIN answers ON
questions.questionid=answers.questionid ORDER BY questions.description,
answers.description, $myrow['answerid'], 'Question and Answer', 'Choose
an Answer');
For more information on this function:
http://www.thinkcomputer.com/software/lampshade/documentation.html?function=dropdownBox
I'd be happy to help you get it set up if you have any questions.
Aaron
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[PHP] Re: application-wide shared data/object
Hi, Not sure if everyone would agree, but I think the best way to go about doing this is just to make a table in a relational database. You can restrict access permissions using MySQL if that's something you're really concerned about, but there's basically no disadvantage to just storing your data in a MyISAM table instead of a shared object. You can index, sort, etc. very quickly that way. You can even load the result of the query into your $_SESSION variable after the first time so that you essentially have the result set cached. If indexing isn't a big deal, I'd just say store the data in a flat file. You can always move it outside of the web-accessible directory if you're worried about people accessing it directly. Alternately, you could just store the data in a PHP file and include it in your scripts. Either way works, I think. Aaron Aaron Greenspan President CEO Think Computer Corporation http://www.thinkcomputer.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] open_basedir Question
Hi, Has anyone else had a problem with the open_basedir restriction completely ignoring what you tell it? I've added several directories to my allowed path (separated by colons) in my Apache configuration file, and then when I go to run my scripts, I'm told that /home/sites/site1/web/ and so on is not in my allowed path of /home/sites/site1. Trailing slashes don't change anything. A little weird... This is on Linux with PHP 4.3.11. Several bugs on bugs.php.net from 2002 reported similar behavior, but I don't think it's really been corrected. If this is a bug, it's a serious one from my perspective, because it means I turn off those restrictions entirely, which makes my entire server less secure. Thanks, Aaron Aaron Greenspan President CEO Think Computer Corporation http://www.thinkcomputer.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: cannot connect to MySQL server and not sure why
Bruce, Do you mean to have a space before the word password? Aaron Aaron Greenspan President CEO Think Computer Corporation http://www.thinkcomputer.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Blocking login on the same username from diffrent computers
Yaron, The Lampshade framework handles this for you. Any given user for an application can only log in from one place at a time; otherwise they'll be signed out from all of their other sessions. If you're interested, take a look: http://www.thinkcomputer.com/software/lampshade/free.html Aaron Aaron Greenspan President CEO Think Computer Corporation http://www.thinkcomputer.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Lampshade Download Site
Hello again, Before I say anything else, Jaap and Casey, thanks for your feedback on our site design. I was laughing while I read it because I tend to agree with pretty much everything you mentioned. I don't know if I will sack the design staff, but I'll see what I can do. Meanwhile, site design notwithstanding, you can visit: http://www.thinkcomputer.com/software/lampshade/free.html to download the free version of the Lampshade framework, version 1.0.2. We require you to tell us something about yourself, but that's basically it. Not a bad deal for normally expensive stuff that's being used all the way up to the Fortune 500. (Note: there's a catch--the e-commerce libraries aren't included in the free version, since profit automatically means commercial use, which you have to pay for.) Aside from the obvious marketing value of doing this, my hope is that Lampshade will help prove that PHP is just as able as Java (and other languages) in a commercial environment, if not more so. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to e-mail. Thanks, Aaron Aaron Greenspan President CEO Think Computer Corporation http://www.thinkcomputer.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] New Free PHP Framework: Lampshade
Hi everyone, We've been charging for our PHP framework, Lampshade, for a long time, but we just decided to make it free for personal and academic use: http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/news/pressreleases.html?id=22 If you have any questions or would like a copy for yourself, let me know. Thanks, Aaron Aaron Greenspan President CEO Think Computer Corporation http://www.thinkcomputer.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
