[PHP] Re: Chat with PHP and MySQL - come and chat about Linux problems...
Marian Vasile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: //snipped! This list is long enough! The main problem I have with my chat is that after some use of it, the server is going very very slowly. Someone with (256Mb, 800Mhz and just my chat running (Linux also)) told me that the chat is still doing this stuff. The problem he told me about it, it's that the httpd (apache) connections don't close. //end snip It could be that (although I'd expect them to close unless your code or your Apache settings explicitly keep them open) or it could be the forking (careful how you pronounce that!) of Apache. What kernel are you using? Going to 2.4 should show an improvement in Apache performance if the forking is the problem. I'll try a look at the code, but there are far better code readers out there than me! -- ** Marx: "Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea?" Proudhon: "Because all proper tea is theft." ** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re:Fw: can't start apache
Scott Wagner wrote: To: php Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 11:55 PM Subject: can't start apache Hi I just installed mysql, apache and php4 on Linux Mandrake 7.0 from a cd I got with the book "PHP Fast and Easy" After installing apache it seemed ok and started normally. But after installing PHP4 I get the following error message when I try to start apache: Syntax error on line 207 of httpd. config: cannot load /usr/apache_1.3.12/libexec/libphp4.so into server: /usr/loca/apache_1.3.12/libexec/libphp4.so: undefined symbol: mysql_init I used the following command to build php4: /configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql-3.22.32-pc-linux-gnu-i686/ --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache_1.3.12/bin/apxs Including ./configure --activate-module=src/modules/modules/p in installation fails, saying directories do not exist. Looking at previous output it appears that the modules have already been activated. Any hints in a newbie-friendly format would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, SW I tried installing the files of the CD too, and tied myself up in knots, although I like the general style of the book. In the end, I adopted the path of least resistance and simply installed the SuSE rpms (although I wouldn't recommend this on RedHat or Mandy!) and everything worked out of the crate. I'd advise you delete what you've installed and just grab the relevant rpms from Mandrake or RedHat's site (or off the CD). The important thing is not that they match the version numbers in the book correctly, but that they are appropriate to your version of Mandrake. Be aware that the RedHat rpm for MySQL was faulty (maybe they've fixed it now): you need to either compile that with no dependencies (see man rpm for details) or grab the rpm from the MySQL site. Let us know how you get on. -- ** Marx: "Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea?" Proudhon: "Because all proper tea is theft." ** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] PHP Editors
You could try Xemacs, which has colour syntax highlighting and a built in psychoanalist! (No, really!) But I prefer Gvim. You need (say) gvim 5.7 and the vim 5.7rt. If you're running a *nix, build it against Gtk. It's charityware, and looks and works the same on any platform. Menu driven and Grep style search and replace, unlimited undoos, colour sytax hightlighting, lots of ready made macros and so on. Get it from http://www.vim.org -- ** Marx: "Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea?" Proudhon: "Because all proper tea is theft." ** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re:Apache and PHP
"Patrick L. Olson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if I call it like http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/one.php with the shebang line #!php.exe I get the following error No input file specified if I call it without the shebang I get the Internal Server Error Error logs indicate the the #! is needed if I call it in the web root as http://127.0.0.1/one.php4 it prints the code to the screen any insight welcome Well, I know nothing about Windows, or SSI, but if I were trying to run a php script from Apache_as_localhost I'd do: http://localhost/php_script_thingy.php Unless you're doing something a bit wierd and wonderful the script must be in your htdocs (or whatever else you've called doc root) and should be called (according to what you've told Apache) by .php. Initially I ran into a lot of problems (self-created) by putting php stuff into the cgi bin and, after upgrading to php4, by trying to call stuff as php4 (as I used to call stuff by php3). Hope this helps. -- ** Marx: "Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea?" Proudhon: "Because all proper tea is theft." ** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Re:What version of Linux?
Christian Reiniger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my home server is a wimpy P90 with 48MB RAM. It serves as web server (all my technical docs, php website testing, more), web cache (WWWoffle), web filter (junkbuster), file server (nfs and samba), masquerading internet gateway, firewall, mail server (also processing my pretty big .procmailrc), print server and propably also something else :) Ah, yes. MySQL for my php stuff also runs on it. That's pretty impressive! The only problem I have with its performance is that it's only connected to my other machines via 10 MBit ethernet (well, and the ram is a bit on the low side). The processor's limits aren't reached by a long shot. It'd be interesting to do some benchmarking on it. My guess (nothing more) is that the limitations are RAM, disk read/write speed and network speed in that order. The 486 could be used as a Windows box connected to the server and/or as an X client (in which case 32Mb of RAM would be just fine). I'd say a combination of good text editor + browser requires more resources than a apache+PHP+mysql in such a scenario. And don't forget that you have to sit in front of the development (client) box all day and getting a decent graphics card for a 486 is *hard* Yes, I must admit that while I find an VGA display on Windows just about acceptable, it's not something I would like to live with permanently. But I think that Win 98 + 32Mb + Xclient (maybe with the Windows version of Gvim as editor) should be workable. Of course, the reason that 486s are being abandoned (apart from hype) are mainly down to the lack of decent video cards and the price/compatability issues surrounding memory. (Which gives Penguin heads the chance to snap them up for next to nothing and turn them into print servers, firewalls, and routers!) -- ** Marx: "Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea?" Proudhon: "Because all proper tea is theft." ** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Re:What version of Linux?
Christian Reiniger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 February 2001 05:32, John Hinsley wrote: I want to install my personal server on a old Intel 486 machine, 36 Mb RAM, 2 Gb HardDisk, VGA, to develop in PHP. What version of Linux do I need to install? But I'm unsure of what you "really" intend using this machine for. Do you really want a home network (in which case conventional wisdom suggests that the server should be the most powerful box on site) or Well, you'll have great trouble getting several 100k hits per day on a home server, so a small machine completely suffices :) Yes, yes. But you assume that our friend wants to use the 486 box as an Intranet server, to run cgi and php scripts on, and punt out HTML documents to the rest of his network, and pretty much that alone. I simply was _not_ prepared to make that assumption, which is why I asked for more detail :-0 Let me elaborate a little: Unless you have existing Win or Mac boxes (I omit Sun workstations and Ataris only because not many folk have them at home) that you want to pick up all this HTML stuff which Apache or whatever_your_choice_of_web_server is dishes out, it probably makes sense not to build a little 486 server, but to use the hard drive to put into a (more powerful) dual boot box: you can then run all your HTML stuff as localhost (and use a gui too!). You could then use your 486 as a firewall. If you're going to the hastle of building a home network, you might consider using the more powerful machine as an all singing, all dancing fileserver, application server and intranet server (pick your choice)! The 486 could be used as a Windows box connected to the server and/or as an X client (in which case 32Mb of RAM would be just fine). None of these solutions is "right" per se, but they do bear thinking about! Hence, again, the call for more detail. -- ** Marx: "Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea?" Proudhon: "Because all proper tea is theft." ** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re:What version of Linux?
"Andrs de la Varga" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to install my personal server on a old Intel 486 machine, 36 Mb RAM, 2 Gb HardDisk, VGA, to develop in PHP. What version of Linux do I need to install? Stay clear of any version built specifically for 586 machines. This certainly means Mandrake, but may include late versions of other distributions, so check with their home site. But I'm unsure of what you "really" intend using this machine for. Do you really want a home network (in which case conventional wisdom suggests that the server should be the most powerful box on site) or just something to run php or CGI scripts on with Apache or whatever? If you can get back with details of what you want to do with that little old box (and what other machines and Operating Systems you have) I can maybe be of more help. Personally, I like SuSE. -- ** Marx: "Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea?" Proudhon: "Because all proper tea is theft." ** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re: PHP a lightweight language?
Michael Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I'm interested in the proposition made recently on this list that PHP is somehow a 'lightweight' language that some people don't take seriously. I am relatively new to Linux and open source programming and only really know PHP and some shell scripting, though I am now starting to explore Python. Seems to me that most languages can be considered "lightweight" in some respects. After all, couldn't C be considered lightweight compared with machine code? And then, most languages are written in something else (something heavier?): if I remember correctly, Squeak is about the only thing that really eats its own dog food. And, from what I remember, such recursion wasn't straightforward! It's really a silly discussion. PHP does what it does exceptionally well. You'd be barking mad to write an operating system in it, but you'd be equally crazy to write a C application to do what a shell script does or to use Java to run a regex on a text file. The reason, I think, that there are so many languages out there is that each has its advantages when used in a particular context. It may be able to work out of context, but the overheads in development and/or compilation or run time build up. -- ** Marx: "Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea?" Proudhon: "Because all proper tea is theft." ** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re: Editor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I know this has been asked before but I can`t seem to get the archive email thingy to work, basically I`m looking for a free or cheap editor that has the lines numbered so that it`s a bit easier for me to debug my scripts. You don't mention what platform you're working on, but who cares? The only editor you'll ever need is gvim. Available for just about any platform and looks and works the same on *nix and Windows (never tried the Mac version). It has: line counts, colour syntax highlighting for everything from Ada to zsh (via php and MySQL), and auto-indentation for many languages. It's either easy to use out of the crate or massively configurable (can run its own scripts and macros). Most of the "for sale but cheap" editors are attempts to emulate gvim which is Gpled charityware (Help Uganda!). Magic. I could live without it, but I probably wouldn't write any code. You need to download (I'm guessing you're using Windows?) (say) gvim 5.7 and the vim 5.7 rt (run time libraries) from the pc directory of ftp.vim.org. Happy coding and help Uganda. -- ** Marx: "Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea?" Proudhon: "Because all proper tea is theft." ** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re: HTTP_USER_AGENT and preg_match
Got it in the end. It should be:
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if ((preg_match("/Mozilla/i", "$agent")) (preg_match("/Gecko/i",
"$agent"))) {
$result = "You are using Netscape 6 or a later version of Mozilla.";
snip
But the thought occurs that there must be a site out there somewhere
which lists the HTTP_USER_AGENT tags for *all* browsers?
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Re: [PHP] Spell checker?
Nik Gare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Does anyone know where I could find a text list of every word in the English language ;-) You could try (also) getting hold of ispell a search on www.google.com/linux or sunsite should get it. You'll need something capable of uncompressing tar archives to peek at it. -- ** Marx: "Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea?" Proudhon: "Because all proper tea is theft." ** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] RE: Ethics question...
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: I think the single most importand piece of software that saves us the most money is thttpd. That all runs in a single thread and uses select to pump out content. Since it is a single thread, it never chews up tons of memory forking children. By the way, there is a PHP module for thttpd. -Rasmus Interesting. But (and I'm unsure of *exactly* what thttpd does) 2.4 also has a httpd built into the kernel, capable of rendering static content at "blistering" speed. So you could use Apache for dynamic, the kernel daemon for static. Without any benchmarks (or even a hardware profile!) I can't really add much more. But it's worth looking into. Incidentally, the must 2.4 gung ho distro seems to be SuSE, which I rate well above RedHat in terms of value, support and stability. -- ** Marx: "Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea?" Proudhon: "Because all proper tea is theft." ** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Ethics question...
Frank Joerdens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (the context is Microsoft using other OSs) Do you know for a fact that they do? If so, how? That'd be a very cool tidbit of information to share . . . See also: http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/ A good document to hit clients/funders/bosses over the head with if they insist you use NT/IIS (yuk!) [makes sign of the cross and exits, stage left] -- ** Marx: "Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea?" Proudhon: "Because all proper tea is theft." ** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] I love/hate FrontPage - need another HTML editor.
Coming in on this late and from another platform: I use Bluefish and Gvim under Unix. Of the two, Gvim is probably the most configurable editor out there (macros, syntax highlighting, runs its own scripts, uses a variety of scripting languages) and is available for Windows. It's free (well, it's really charity ware) and Open Source. While Bluefish is a nice non-gui HTML editor, Gvim is what I use for "serious" coding in C, C++, Perl, Python, PHP and so on and on. It has "unlimited" undoos and built in syntax highlighting for languages I've never encountered in the "real world" (and a few I've never heard of). Highly recommended. Incidentally, could'nt you use PHP to manage the "look" at a CSS level? Should this be the job of the editor? -- ** Marx: "Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea?" Proudhon: "Because all proper tea is theft." ** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
