Re: [PHP] Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.5.0 final has been released!
Awesome! On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Marco Pivetta ocram...@gmail.com wrote: Well done! Congratulations! On 20 Jun 2013 23:23, Julien Pauli jpa...@php.net wrote: Hello! The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.5.0. This release includes a large number of new features and bug fixes. A separate release announcement is also available. For changes in PHP 5.5.0 since PHP 5.4, please consult the PHP 5 ChangeLog. Release Announcement: http://www.php.net/release_5_5_0.php Downloads:http://www.php.net/downloads.php#v5.5 Changelog:http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.5.0 Thanks to all contributors that made this new version available. regards, David Soria Parra Julien Pauli
Re: [PHP] Accessing Files Outside the Web Root
Hello Dale, The spiders are not the only problem. The issue here is that anyone can download your files from your website and then make them available elsewhere. In order to address the problem, you should create a Members Restricted Area where members only could download your files. You can then make your PDF directory only visible through your Members Restricted Area. That directory would be invisible to the web. In some Linux distros, if the file/directory is not a member of www-data, it is not visible online. But you can still link the files to your PHP page. Ravi. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Dale H. Cook radiot...@plymouthcolony.netwrote: Let me preface my question by noting that I am virtually a PHP novice. Although I am a long-time webmaster, and have used PHP for some years to give visitors access to information in my SQL database, this is my first attempt to use it for another purpose. I have browsed the mailing list archives and have searched online but have not yet succeeded in teaching myself how to do what I want to do. This need not provoke a lengthy discussion or involve extensive hand-holding - if someone can point to an appropriate code sample or online tutorial that might do the trick. I am the author of a number of PDF files that serve as genealogical reference works. My problem is that there are a number of sites which are posing as search engines and which display my PDF files in their entirety on their own sites. These pirate sites are not simply opening a window that displays my files as they appear on my site. They are using Google Docs to display copies of my files that are cached or stored elsewhere online. The proof of that is that I can modify one of my files and upload it to my site. The file, as seen on my site, immediately displays the modification. The same file, as displayed on the pirate sites, is unmodified and may remain unmodified for weeks. It is obvious that my files, which are stored under public_html, are being spidered and then stored or cached. This displeases me greatly. I want my files, some of which have cost an enormous amount of work over many years, to be available only on my site. Legitimate search engines, such as Google, may display a snippet, but they do not display the entire file - they link to my site so the visitor can get the file from me. A little study has indicated to me that if I store those files in a folder outside the web root and use PHP to provide access they will not be spidered. Writing a PHP script to provide access to the files in that folder is what I need help with. I have experimented with a number of code samples but have not been able to make things work. Could any of you point to code samples or tutorials that might help me? Remember that, aside from the code I have written to handle my SQL database I am a PHP novice. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] [ad] [free+opensource] htmlMicroscope (nested array viewer/dumper) upgraded - now allows for even larger arrays
I like PHPUnit for that matter. It does a good job of debugging. Ravi. On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 8:41 AM, rene7705 rene7...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Folks. URL: http://fancywebapps.com/products/htmlMicroscope Just wanted to let you all know that I've completed a long overdue upgrade to my free htmlMicroscope web component. It is basically a fancy replacement for var_dump() which can show you the full depth of an array regardless of how large or deep your PHP array or javascript object is. I won't repeat the entire homepage content here, but I think this version could be useful for at least some of the programmers on this list. I'll only repeat this message for significant updates. This is a significant update because I've finally cracked the barrier of displaying an object with more than a few hundred key-value pairs on a single level. That used to crash all browsers, not anymore. i'll continue work on this, want to build in (in order of priority): - auto navigation options (auto smooth scroll to links within the data) - middle mouse button click - smooth offset scrolling - html source view - auto indented and colorcoded syntax-checked view for html + json Merry Christmas and a productive New Year to ya'll :D -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] static Logging class?
Hello Lars, I would apply the Singleton Pattern where you would have 1 instance for you entire application. As far as whether or not to use a static method, I would weigh the options. If you just want to call a method that you know will not have to be changed in the future and that method will not be using any pre-defined properties, then it makes sense to call a static method. Bear in mind that static methods can not be overridden. Best of luck, - [image: logo] *Ravi Gehlot * Mobile: 407-283-5282 Orlando, FL 32765-8085 http://www.RaviGehlot.Net/ https://github.com/ravigehlot *First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.* [image: Twitter] http://www.twitter.com/ravigehlot [image: LinkedIn]http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravigehlot [image: Amazon]https://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A35NGY72YZSFR7?ie=UTF8ref_=ya_56 [image: Meetup] http://www.meetup.com/members/12029903/ [image: pinterest]http://pinterest.com/ravigehlot/ [image: reddit] http://www.reddit.com/user/ravigehlot/ Contact me: [image: Google Talk] ravigehlot [image: Skype] ravigehlot [image: Y! Messenger] ravigehlot On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Lars Nielsen l...@lfweb.dk wrote: Hi, I work on a little hobby-project, and i want to make a oo logging facility. (php5.3 oop) Is it best to make a class with static functions that i can call from my other classes? Or is it more appropriate to make a real logging-class i should instantiate every time i need to log something? (I just want to log to a file) Best regards Lars Nielsen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] static Logging class?
Hello Larry, Thanks for sharing! - [image: logo] *Ravi Gehlot * Mobile: 407-283-5282 Orlando, FL 32765-8085 http://www.RaviGehlot.Net/ https://github.com/ravigehlot *First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.* [image: Twitter] http://www.twitter.com/ravigehlot [image: LinkedIn]http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravigehlot [image: Amazon]https://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A35NGY72YZSFR7?ie=UTF8ref_=ya_56 [image: Meetup] http://www.meetup.com/members/12029903/ [image: pinterest]http://pinterest.com/ravigehlot/ [image: reddit] http://www.reddit.com/user/ravigehlot/ Contact me: [image: Google Talk] ravigehlot [image: Skype] ravigehlot [image: Y! Messenger] ravigehlot On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Larry Garfield la...@garfieldtech.comwrote: Make a real classed object that you pass to various objects that need it. Otherwise you make your life way harder for unit testing. Don't have a class that self-enforces that it's a singleton. That way lies pain. In particular, I recommend using or writing a class based on the PSR-3 recommendation: https://github.com/php-fig/**fig-standards/blob/master/** accepted/PSR-3-logger-**interface.mdhttps://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-3-logger-interface.md There's even stock code for the interface and some useful base classes available: https://packagist.org/**packages/psr/loghttps://packagist.org/packages/psr/log And for added fun, there are already publicly available open source libraries that implement PSR-3 that you can just drop in and use, such as: https://packagist.org/**packages/monolog/monologhttps://packagist.org/packages/monolog/monolog (If that's too heavy for you, writing your own PSR-3 compatible logger is dead-simple.) I'm sure you're about to say zOMG this is just a hobby project, I don't need something that fancy and all injected and shit! If it's a simple project, use a simple container to do all the hard work for you: https://packagist.org/**packages/pimple/pimplehttps://packagist.org/packages/pimple/pimple (That's 100 lines of executable code. Quite powerful, dead simple to use.) Cheers. --Larry Garfield, FIG member On 03/03/2013 07:26 AM, Lars Nielsen wrote: Hi, I work on a little hobby-project, and i want to make a oo logging facility. (php5.3 oop) Is it best to make a class with static functions that i can call from my other classes? Or is it more appropriate to make a real logging-class i should instantiate every time i need to log something? (I just want to log to a file) Best regards Lars Nielsen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Introduction ... !
Hello Nick, Welcome to the list. I joined the list awhile back then unsubscribed for no apparent reason. This list was very active years ago. I came back about a few months ago just as a watcher. I didn't really post or participate at all. I guess, there are a lot of watchers only people here. They receive digest e-mails; they just don't participate in any way. Then, there are those who lost their jobs due to the recession and so they dropped off the list as well. There are a lot of developers unemployed. I would imagine that other developers didn't keep up with the changes. PHP has come a long way as far as Object Oriented Programming is concerned. There have been many discussions about Design Patterns and extending existing classes. So a lot has changed in the last 5 years. I do believe that the list will pick up again. Welcome back, Ravi. On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Nick Whiting prg...@gmail.com wrote: Hello PHP'ers! Just thought I would introduce myself to the mailing list since I've worked with PHP for almost 10 years now and yet haven't really been community active ... I've developed quite a few open-source projects over the years that I hope someone here will find as useful as I have ... they are all hosted on Github @prggmr. XPSPL - Signal Processor in PHP docpx - PHP Documentation Generator for Sphinx Again Hello Everyone! Cheers! -- Nickolas Whiting - prggmr.org - Remember to write less code that does more faster -
Re: [PHP] Re: Warning when calling session_start()
session_start (); should be before everything...first thing in the page. Ravi. On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:51 AM, web...@blaettner.com wrote: Hi, folks, On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:35:17 -0800 [06:35:17 AM CET], Michael Shadle mike...@gmail.com wrote: first - this is probably your culprit: don't output empty lines before you do anything (just a general good practice) Whow! This did the trick ! Warning vanished when I changed beginning of script to: 1 ?php session_start (); 2 I wasn't aware that the HTML comment and the following empty line are in fact written to output. But that's clear now :-) So I suppose my local PHP setup supressed this warning or is more compliant ... also i'd turn on output buffering. Since it worked without warning at 1st try, I haven't changed output buffering (yet). Mike, many thanks for Your PROMPT and HELPFUL answer! Have a nice day! Rolf -- Dipl.phys. Rudolf Otto Blättner, D 91074 Herzogenaurach, Germany. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] empty() in email message
Hello Gary,
Please research the difference between a single quote and a double quote.
Also, you can use the operator .=(dot + equal) in this manner:
if(!empty($_POST['fname'])) {
$msg .= $lname\n;
} else if(!empty($_POST['lname'])) {
$msg .= $lname\n;
}
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Gary gp...@paulgdesigns.com wrote:
Daevid Vincent dae...@daevid.com wrote in message
news:7d7c84d94dd24035a620e68b5b937...@mascorp.com...
- Original message -
From: Gary gp...@paulgdesigns.com
To: php-general@lists.php.net php-general@lists.php.net
Date: Monday, December 13, 2010, 7:47:49 PM
Subject: [PHP] empty() in email message
I have an email message
$msg = 'Name: $fname ' . ' $lname\n'
. Phone: $phone\n
. Email: $email\n
and it works fine, however in this message there are about 30
variables that
are being called...as such
. Order: beefschnitzel $beefschnitzel\n
. Order: beefstrips $beefstrips\n
. Order: cheesesausage $cheesesausage\n
. Order: crumbedsausage $crumbedsausage\n
. Order: chucksteak $chucksteak\n
. Order: cornedbeef $cornedbeef\n
. Order: dicedsteak $dicedsteak\n
. Order: filletmignon $filletmignon\n
I want to only send the message if the submitter enters an
amount in the
form for the corresponding variable, instead of having a
bunch of empty
messages. So I have been trying to use the empty() function as such:
. if empty($beefolives){''} elseif (isset($beefolives)) {
'Order: beefolives
$beefolives\n'}
You are setting this up fundamentally wrong.
You should be using an array and looping through it.
Something like:
$myorder['cowface'] = 1;
$myorder['beefenweiner'] = 2;
$myorder['chucksteak'] = 1;
foreach ($myorder as $item = $quantity)
{
echo Order: $item x $quantity\n;
}
Then your array only contains the items someone actually puchased and how
many.
d
Daevid
I knew someone was going to point out this was a convoluted method, and I
agree. This was sent to me by someone that needed to make the mail form
work. My suggestion was to look into a pre-made shopping cart, however
that
was not going to work for them, so I made the mail() work for them.
I had thought about putting it into an array, but had not gotten that far
into it. I will look over the code to see how it works.
Thank you for your help.
gary
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Re: [PHP] accessing magic parent set
Hello,
$this only calls variables inside of a method. In your function, you are
calling a variable that was defined inside of your function called
$columnName. You should past the whole class. Not just the methods.
The pseudo-variable $this is available when a method is called from within
an object context. $this is a reference to the calling object (usually the
object to which the method belongs, but possibly another object, if the
method is called statically from the context of a secondary object). taken
from http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.basic.php
The parent keyword indicates that this is an extended class. You are
referring back to the master class.
Ravi.
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Alexandru Patranescu dreal...@gmail.comwrote:
Is this the only way to access the magic __set from the parent class:
public function __set($columnName, $value)
{
if ($value !== $this-$columnName) {
parent::__set($columnName, $value);
}
}
I would have liked to work this way:
public function __set($columnName, $value)
{
if ($value !== $this-$columnName) {
parent::$columnName = $value;
}
}
And another question.
There is a self, a static and a parent
Why is it only $this and not a $parent too?
Re: [PHP] Stripslashes
What are these magic quotes anyways?. What are they used for? escaping? Regards, Ravi. On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Adam Richardson simples...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Gary gp...@paulgdesigns.com wrote: I was doing a test of stripslashes on a $_POST, when I recieved the email, all of the slashes were still in the data posted. I used : $fname = stripslashes($_POST['fname']); I input G\\a//r\y\\, and was expecting, according to the manuel G\a//r*y\, but got the original spelling. In this case, you should get the original, if I'm understanding correctly. Think of it like a basic math problem: Step 1: Happens automatically when you submit the form and PHP receives the form variables input + slashes = slashed_input Step 2: This happens when you call stripslashes. slashed_input - slashes = input The goal of stripslashes is that it will undo what happened automatically using magic_quotes_gpc (which essentially calls addslashes on the GPC vars behind the scenes) so you'll end up with the original input. So, working through your example: 1. You inputted into a form G\\a//r\y\\ and submitted the form. 2. PHP received G\\a//r\y\\ and added slashes (Ga//r\\y). 3. You called stripslashes (G\\a//r\y\\). I added: echo stripslashes($fname); and did get the expected result on the page, but not in the email from the $_POST. Here, you called stripslashes on something already stripped once, so you now have a new value (G\a//ry\). I also tried $fname = (stripslashes($_POST['fname'])); This would be no different than your attempt without enclosing parentheses. Now, let me just say that I detest magic_quotes, and it's best to run with them disabled so you don't even have to worry about this kind of issue (they've been deprecated.) But, perhaps you were just trying to learn about some piece of legacy code. Hope the explanation helps, Gary. Adam -- Nephtali: PHP web framework that functions beautifully http://nephtaliproject.com
Re: [PHP] [SOLVED] Re: Upgraded system and now $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] is not more working
You probably have error_reporting turned on and that caught on errors. There are new tougher rules/requirements with newer PHP versions. Ravi.
Re: [PHP] Stripslashes
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Bob McConnell r...@cbord.com wrote:
From: Ravi Gehlot
What are these magic quotes anyways?. What are they used for?
escaping?
I wasn't there at the time, but I gather that the general idea was to
automagically insert escape characters into data submitted from a form.
However, they used a backslash as the escape character, which is not
universally recognized across database engines. Even the SQL standard
defines an escape as a single quote character.
We used to have magic quotes enabled, and came up with the following
code to clean up the mess it caused.
// If magic quotes is on, we want to remove slashes
if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
// Magic quotes is on
$response = stripslashes($_POST[$key]);
} else {
$response = $_POST[$key];
}
For future releases of PHP, this will also need a check to see if
get_magic_quotes_gpc() exists first.
Bob McConnell
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Bob,
Thank you very much. This is good information. What I found out from
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php was the following:
An example use of *stripslashes()* is when the PHP directive
magic_quotes_gpchttp://us2.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpcis
*on* (it's on by default), and you aren't inserting this data into a place
(such as a database) that requires escaping. For example, if you're simply
outputting data straight from an HTML form.
So that means that stripslashes() isn't intended for DB insertions but only
straight output. So I will remove it from my code.
Thanks,
Ravi.
Re: [PHP] Stripslashes
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Russell Dias rus...@gmail.com wrote:
stripslashes() is rife with gaping security holes. For mysql
insertion rely on mysql_real_escape_string() or alternatively, you can
use prepared statements.
For outputting data on the page you should ideally be using
htmlspecialchars($var, ENT_QUOTES);
cheers,
Russ
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Ravi Gehlot r...@ravigehlot.net wrote:
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Bob McConnell r...@cbord.com wrote:
From: Ravi Gehlot
What are these magic quotes anyways?. What are they used for?
escaping?
I wasn't there at the time, but I gather that the general idea was to
automagically insert escape characters into data submitted from a form.
However, they used a backslash as the escape character, which is not
universally recognized across database engines. Even the SQL standard
defines an escape as a single quote character.
We used to have magic quotes enabled, and came up with the following
code to clean up the mess it caused.
// If magic quotes is on, we want to remove slashes
if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
// Magic quotes is on
$response = stripslashes($_POST[$key]);
} else {
$response = $_POST[$key];
}
For future releases of PHP, this will also need a check to see if
get_magic_quotes_gpc() exists first.
Bob McConnell
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Bob,
Thank you very much. This is good information. What I found out from
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php was the
following:
An example use of *stripslashes()* is when the PHP directive
magic_quotes_gpc
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc
is
*on* (it's on by default), and you aren't inserting this data into a
place
(such as a database) that requires escaping. For example, if you're
simply
outputting data straight from an HTML form.
So that means that stripslashes() isn't intended for DB insertions but
only
straight output. So I will remove it from my code.
Thanks,
Ravi.
Hello Russell,
When you use htmlspecialchars() it tries to escape single/double quotes with
a bunch of backslashes. I had stripslashes() in an attempt to try to get the
backslashes away but it didn't. So the solution was to disable magic quotes
in php.ini. With GoDaddy shared hosting, I had to rename php.ini over to
php5.ini in order to have this to work. Also had to include the command like
responsible for disabling magic quotes. Everything is good and clean now.
Now you type for example Hunter's Reserve Circle and it keeps it as it is.
Before it would print something like Hunter'///s Reserve Circle.
With double quote, the situation would be even worse.
mysql_real_escape_string() is a must in order to avoid SQL injections.
Regards,
Ravi.
Re: [PHP] Problem with Include
If something is working and you don't know exactly whats under the hood then you are wasting your time in trying to re-invent your own wheel and waste your time and resources to modify something that isn't needed to be touched. Good programmers make good use of their time as well. We need to keep in check with new technology, learn new trends and also master our weakness. If we keep changing this or that or moving that or this then oh well...there goes 1 day worth of work to figure stuff out. Just my take on this. If you think different, then no problems. Regards, Ravi. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.comwrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 02:35:33AM -0500, David Hutto wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Ravi Gehlot r...@ravigehlot.net wrote: Why mess with something that is already working? If you are trying to make it pretty then you are not solving a problem. You are creating one. Define working. I've had programs 'work', but more experienced would say it's flawed in some respect. Does it perform the immediate task? Now define pretty. Is it aesthetically pleasing to you, or to someone else with less, or maybe more experience. By defining the two above, you then define whether it's a problem. To you, or to them, or to the original designer? Beware of more experienced programmers. I recently talked to an ex-boss of mine who had a programmer flake out on him. One of his customers threatened to take this flaky code to another company and get their opinion about whether it was good code or not. My ex-boss explained that, of course, they'd shoot it down. Because that's what programmers do-- they complain about other programmers' code. I'd never heard that idea expressed aloud. But when I thought about it, I realized it was true. Hell, look at the content of this list. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Common session for all subdomains?
Daniel, Good info. Ravi. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 02:27, Ravi Gehlot r...@ravigehlot.net wrote: That's a good question. There should be a setting on php.ini to allow cross session. Right. Because who needs to teach folks about computer security when we can just disable it for them anyway? Like Jonathan pointed out, it's a matter of adjusting the cookie parameters to match wildcard subdomains by preceding the part of the domain (usually the SLD, but some ccTLD or FQDN situations can be different) with a dot, like so:.example.com -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager Documentation, Webmaster Teams http://www.php.net/
Re: [PHP] Re: Session problem
Walter, Session variables may be using cookies which in turn create temp files for storing such cookies. Ravi. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Walter Caielli walter.caie...@ars21.netwrote: I've fixed the problem. I don't know why, but suddenly windows prevents PHP from writing into C:\windows\temp directory. Moving the session and log files to another directory solved the problem. Until few days ago it worked. I've now to discovered what was changed in windows configuration. Walter Caielli walter.caie...@ars21.net ha scritto nel messaggio news:bd.40.31041.b7a60...@pb1.pair.com... I'm facing the following basic problem: I have made two simple sample files to explain it: 1st file: ?php session_start(); $_SESSION['SS_user'] = user000; echo $_SESSION['SS_user']; echo SID; echo br.session_id(); echo 'br /a href=home.phppage 1/a'; ? 2nd file ?php session_start(); echo file Homebr; echo session_name().'+'.session_id(); echo $_SESSION['SS_user']; ? $_SESSION seems to be empty. Nothing is print. Session Name and session ID are the same but it seems that $_SESSION is not shared across the two files. No HTML is made before sessioni_start(). Why? I'm using PHP 5.3.4 on IIS, windows XP SP3. Tested as localhost or from another PC inside a LAN. Many thanks Walter -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Problem with Include
Hello, Good points. If you are getting paid to do that then fine. There is a difference between enhancing code and wasting time. I do my best to come up with the best I can. I always take notes to perform better in upcoming projects. It is imperative to make good use of time. Unless it is a security issue, no need to waste time. Again, if you are getting paid for it then fine. People tune cars for a reason, they want the attention or the thrill. If you want to tune your code for fun then nobody is against that either :) Ravi. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:28 PM, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: (Apologies for top posting; on my mobile just now.) Not true. Refactoring code is one of the main tasks of a developer. None of us produce perfect code, and some code is less perfect than other code. It's instinct to want to fix bad code when we're maintaining it or having to add new features to it. For the same reason car enthusiasts tinker with and tune their cars, good developers will do the same with code, be it in the form of consolidating common code to include files or other ways. To not do so seems to me to avoid ones nature really! Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk - Reply message - From: Ravi Gehlot r...@ravigehlot.net Date: Tue, Dec 21, 2010 18:12 Subject: [PHP] Problem with Include To: Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com Cc: php-general@lists.php.net If something is working and you don't know exactly whats under the hood then you are wasting your time in trying to re-invent your own wheel and waste your time and resources to modify something that isn't needed to be touched. Good programmers make good use of their time as well. We need to keep in check with new technology, learn new trends and also master our weakness. If we keep changing this or that or moving that or this then oh well...there goes 1 day worth of work to figure stuff out. Just my take on this. If you think different, then no problems. Regards, Ravi. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 02:35:33AM -0500, David Hutto wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Ravi Gehlot r...@ravigehlot.net wrote: Why mess with something that is already working? If you are trying to make it pretty then you are not solving a problem. You are creating one. Define working. I've had programs 'work', but more experienced would say it's flawed in some respect. Does it perform the immediate task? Now define pretty. Is it aesthetically pleasing to you, or to someone else with less, or maybe more experience. By defining the two above, you then define whether it's a problem. To you, or to them, or to the original designer? Beware of more experienced programmers. I recently talked to an ex-boss of mine who had a programmer flake out on him. One of his customers threatened to take this flaky code to another company and get their opinion about whether it was good code or not. My ex-boss explained that, of course, they'd shoot it down. Because that's what programmers do-- they complain about other programmers' code. I'd never heard that idea expressed aloud. But when I thought about it, I realized it was true. Hell, look at the content of this list. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PDO Prepared Statements and stripslashes
Hello, The plug-in PDO has nothing to do with the backslashes being inserted into the database. The backslashes are used to escape characters like in D's...it would show D's. That's the safe behavior of it. You can change your programming code to fix that. Ravi. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Rico Secada coolz...@it.dk wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:32:19 -0500 Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:31:15AM +0100, Rico Secada wrote: Hi. In an article about SQL Injection by Chris Shiflett he mentions the following in a comment: The process of escaping should preserve data, so it should never be necessary to reverse it. When I'm auditing an application, things like stripslashes() alert me to design problems. Now, I'm always using PHP PDO with prepared statements and as such data with quotes gets slashed automatically by PDO when inserted into the database. Just out of idle curiosity, are you using MySQL? PDO shouldn't be backslashing quotes for PostgreSQL, as the PostgreSQL convention for values containing single quotes is to double the quotes, as: ''. Currently I'm working with MySQL, but I have just tested PDO with PostgreSQL 8.3 and in this case PDO backslashes PostgreSQL as well. When I need to pull out the data something might be slashed and I need to use stripslashes() or some str_replace() to make sure that the slashes are removed. So what's the mistake here and what's the correct way to do it? I don't see a mistake. If the values come out of the database backslashed, then you need to remove them to work with the data. My only question would be whether you're sure the data is backslashed before PDO ever sees it. In which case, yes, you have a problem. No, the data is not slashed before PDO sees them. I didn't see a mistake either, but then what does Chris mean? Stripping slashes from output from the DB alerts him to a design problem, and I'm just wondering if there another way of doing things I just haven't heard of then. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- 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] Common session for all subdomains?
That's a good question. There should be a setting on php.ini to allow cross session. Ravi. On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Jonathan Tapicer tapi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! You should use the function session_set_cookie_params to set the session cookie domain to .oire.org like this comment explains: php.net/manual/en/function.session-set-cookie-params.php#94961 Regards, Jonathan On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Andre Polykanine an...@oire.org wrote: Hello php-general, I've got a question: I have a site http://oire.org/. Then we started developing some applications at http://apps.oire.org/. How can I manage it in the way so the session valid at http://oire.org/ would be also valid at http://apps.oire.org/? Thanks! -- With best regards from Ukraine, Andre Skype: Francophile Twitter: http://twitter.com/m_elensule Facebook: http://facebook.com/menelion -- 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] Problem with Include
Why mess with something that is already working? If you are trying to make it pretty then you are not solving a problem. You are creating one. Ravi. On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Daniel P. Brown daniel.br...@parasane.netwrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 02:49, Simcha Younger sim...@syounger.com wrote: Since it is being included by PHP, and not served by Apache, the extension is not important. Correct, but keep in mind that it will likely be served as plain text if accessed directly, if the web server is not properly configured (which, by default, it isn't). -- /Daniel P. Brown Dedicated Servers, Cloud and Cloud Hybrid Solutions, VPS, Hosting (866-) 725-4321 http://www.parasane.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] All records not displaying...
I would say enabled error_reporting(E_ALL); error_reporting(-1);
Then use die(mysql_error()); with your mysql function to get some debugging
data.
Also use var_dump($query_name) to find out what is spits out.
Debugging is your best friend here. If you don't use die() or
error_reporting() then you will see a blank screen.
Ravi.
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Gary gp...@paulgdesigns.com wrote:
Tamara Temple tamouse.li...@gmail.com wrote in message
news:c6993909-dd90-4f52-bf6b-ab888c281...@gmail.com...
On Dec 19, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Gary wrote:
I have an issue that the first record in a query is not being
displayed.
It
seems that the first row in alphabetical order is not being brought to
the
screen.
I have run the query in the DB and it displays the correct result, so
it
has
to be in the php.
I have a MySQL DB that lists beers. I have a column for 'type' of beer
(imported, domestic, craft, light). The queries:
$result = MySQL_query(SELECT * FROM beer WHERE type = 'imported' AND
stock
= 'YES' ORDER by beername );
When I run the query
if (mysql_num_rows($result) == !'0') {
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
echo 'h3Imported Beers/h3';
echo 'table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=1 cellpadding=1
id=tableone summary=
thBeer/th
thMaker/th
thType/th
thSingles/th
th6-Packs/th
thCans/th
thBottles/th
thDraft/th
thSize/th
thDescription/th';
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo 'tr td' . $row['beername'].'/td';
echo 'td' . $row['manu'] . '/td';
echo 'td' . $row['type'] . '/td';
echo 'td width=40' . $row['singles'] . '/td';
echo 'td width=20' . $row['six'] . '/td';
echo 'td width=40' . $row['can'] . '/td';
echo 'td width=20' . $row['bottles'] . '/td';
echo 'td width=40' . $row['tap'] . '/td';
echo 'td' . $row['size'] . '/td';
echo 'td' . $row['descrip'] . '/td';
'/tr';
}
echo '/tablebr /';
}
All but the first row in alphabetical order are displayed properly.
Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong?
--
Gary
BTW, I do have a bonus question that is about javascript in this same
file,
so if anyone want to take a stab at that, I'll be happy to post it.
This code will totally eliminate the first row of data.
if (mysql_num_rows($result) == !'0') {
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
Fetches the first row, but is not output. Because:
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
Fetches the second row before you do any output of the data.
Eliminate the first fetch_array and you're code should work fine.
BTW, if you put the td attributes 'width=n' in the preceding th
tags, you won't have to output them for each row. You should also put
the
units those numbers are associated with.
Tamara
Thank you for your help and thank you for the explaination. I removed the
line and it works fine. I dont remember where or why I had that line in
there, it is code that I have recycled for a while now.
Gary
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Re: [PHP] array question
Jim Lucas has it. You can use the preg_match function to find it. I would
use regexp for that reason. regexp is good for making sure things are typed
the way they need to (mostly used for).
Ravi.
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Jim Lucas li...@cmsws.com wrote:
On 12/17/2010 12:52 PM, Sorin Buturugeanu wrote:
Hello all!
I have a question regarding arrays and the way I can use a value.
Let's say I have this string:
$s = 'banana,apple,mellon,grape,nut,orange'
I want to explode it, and get the third value. For this I would normally
do:
$a = explode(',', $s);
echo $s[2];
That's all fine, but is there a way to get the value directly, without
having to write another line in my script. I mean something like this:
echo explode(',', $s)[2];
or
echo {explode(',', $s)}[2];
I couldn't find out this answer anywhere, that's why I posted here.
Cheers and thanks!
Sure it CAN be done. Nobody laugh too loud here... But...
?php
$s = 'banana,apple,mellon,grape,nut,orange';
echo preg_replace('/([^,]+,){3}([^,]+).*/', '$2', $s);
?
Outputs: grape
The {3} part is equivalent to the array position. Change that number, and
you change which word will get displayed.
Jim Lucas
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Re: [PHP] PHPInfo disabled due to security
Hello there, If you have a small to medium size web site then go to GoDaddy. Do not believe all that you see from php_info(). I will give you an example. The memory_limit it gives on shared hosting does not reflect the one intended for your shared account. It shows what was set for overall use. But blocking php_info() isn't right (at least I don't think so). Ravi. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 23:39, Paul S pau...@roadrunner.com wrote: Well, I was hoping for stronger arguments to get that DONE. I would think there be something in the PHP license that would FORBID disabling functionality. Really? You would really think that? Because we wouldn't. After all, 'phpinfo' is essential, really, to achieving secure applications, isn't it? No. Writing good code is essential. -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager Documentation, Webmaster Teams http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Error Querying Database
Trying to connect to the database can involve setting up your database. Make
sure that you have a valid login/password that is recognized by MySQL.
Please keep in mind that MySQL works on permission by hosts. So your host IP
must be matched with the username/password on the database for a successful
authentication. One way to know that you can connect successfully to your
remote database is to actually test it. Download MySQL Workbench from
Mysql.com and then try to connect to remote from the same host that your php
application is sitting at. If it works, thumbs up. If it does not then you
have a permission issue there. Add your username/host appropriately.
If you can connect without a hitch then you are doing something wrong on
your code. Use mysql_connect(), mysql_select_db() and then send an statement
and use the resource to see if it returns TRUE or FALSE. At this point, on
FALSE it means that you have a bad written statement.
There is so much that can go wrong. Debug step by step.
Ravi.
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Phred White phpl...@planetphred.comwrote:
It seems like there are several questions emerging, but ...
Try echoing your query to the page by putting echo $query in your code
before you call mysql, then copy it and run it in phpmyadmin. If it runs
then you know your problem is somewhere else like the connection. This can
really help you find typos that can cause mysterious results.
If you want to use the same page to process the form (my preference) then
put a hidden field in your form like:
input type=hidden name=phpaction id=phpaction value=process /
and wrap the form processing code like so:
if (isset($_POST['phpaction'])) {
//process submitted form data
} else {
//processing for initial form entry
}
When the form is initially loaded it will ignore the first part
There are a 1000 ways to do this, but this is pretty straightforward.
On Dec 15, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Gary wrote:
Steve Staples sstap...@mnsi.net wrote in message
news:1292440837.5460.8.ca...@webdev01...
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 13:42 -0500, Gary wrote:
I cant seem to get this to connect. This is to my local testing
server,
which is on, so we need not worry that I have posted the UN/PW.
This is a duplicate of a script I have used countless times and it
worked.
The error message is 'Error querying database.'
Some one point out the error of my ways?
Gary
form action=?php echo $_SERVER[PHP_SELF]; ? method=post
tr
td
labelName of Beer/label/tdtdinput name=beername type=text
/
/td
/tr
tr
td
labelMaker of Beer/label/tdtdinput name=manu type=text /
/td
/tr
tr
td
labelType of Beer/label/td
tdselect name=type size=1 id=type
optionImported/option
optionDomestic/option
optionCraft/option
optionLight/option
/select
!--select name=avail size=1 id=avail
optionAvailable/option
optionSold/option
/select--
/td
/tr
tr
tdlabelSold in/label
/tdtdinput type=checkbox name=singles value=Yes /
Singlesbr
/
input type=checkbox name=six value=Yes / Six Packs br /
input type=checkbox name=can value=Yes / Cansbr /
input type=checkbox name=bottles value=Yes / Bottles br /
input type=checkbox name=tap value=Yes / Draft br /
tr
td
labelSize/label/tdtdinput name=size type=text /
/td/tr
trtd
labelDescription/label/tdtdtextarea name=desc cols=40
rows=5/textarea
/td/tr
trtd
input name=submit type=submit value=Submit //td/tr
/form
/table
/div
div id=list
?php
$beername = $_POST['beername'];
$manu = $_POST['manu'];
$type = $_POST['type'];
$singles = $_POST['singles'];
$six = $_POST['six'];
$can = $_POST['can'];
$bottles = $_POST['bottles'];
$tap = $_POST['tap'];
$size = $_POST['size'];
$desc = $_POST['desc'];
$ip= $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$dbc = mysqli_connect('localhost','root','','rr')or die('Error
connecting
with MySQL Database');
$query = INSERT INTO beer (beername, manu, type, singles, six, can,
bottles, tap, size, desc, ip ). VALUES ('$beername', '$manu',
'$type',
'$singles', '$six', '$can', '$bottles', '$tap', '$size', '$desc',
'$ip' );
$result = mysqli_query($dbc, $query)
or die('Error querying database.');
mysqli_close($dbc);
--
Gary
Read Ash's reply... but basically, you're running the query with POST
variables, and inserting them on page display as well as on form submit.
can you ensure that you can connect from the command line?
if you may take some criticism, you should rethink your database design,
as well as the page flow/design... you should either post the form to a
new page, or if it is back to itself, you should check to see that you
have in fact posted it before just blindly inserting into the database
(as currently, every time you view the page, you will insert into the
database, even if completely empty values).
Steve
Thank you for your reply.
I did not see
Re: [PHP] Problem with Include
My point is that you tried to take code from one page and put it all organized in another page and the include that page of includes back into the pages that you want it to feed off from. If stuff works the way that it does then there a reason for it to have been done that way. That's why documenting code is so important. 99% doesn't do it (including me). Ravi. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:35 AM, David Hutto smokefl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Ravi Gehlot r...@ravigehlot.net wrote: Why mess with something that is already working? If you are trying to make it pretty then you are not solving a problem. You are creating one. Define working. I've had programs 'work', but more experienced would say it's flawed in some respect. Does it perform the immediate task? Now define pretty. Is it aesthetically pleasing to you, or to someone else with less, or maybe more experience. By defining the two above, you then define whether it's a problem. To you, or to them, or to the original designer? Ravi. On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Daniel P. Brown daniel.br...@parasane.netwrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 02:49, Simcha Younger sim...@syounger.com wrote: Since it is being included by PHP, and not served by Apache, the extension is not important. Correct, but keep in mind that it will likely be served as plain text if accessed directly, if the web server is not properly configured (which, by default, it isn't). -- /Daniel P. Brown Dedicated Servers, Cloud and Cloud Hybrid Solutions, VPS, Hosting (866-) 725-4321 http://www.parasane.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- They're installing the breathalyzer on my email account next week.
Re: [PHP] Application settings, configuration, and preferences.
I am partial to the filesystem but I can see scenarios where the db approach might be useful (single point of control) with good caching strategy using apc or other mechanisms. One approach I have followed is that if the config. field and values are simple key-value pairs, you could store them in a dedicated conf file and have it included in the main apache conf file (Include directive). This way, all the configs are accessible via $_SERVER. The separate conf file can be checked in svn, pushed separately as part of release process etc... The same approach also works in standalone php cli scripts via a shell wrapper - e.g.: #!/bin/bash . # list fields directly here or load them separately - e.g: # . /path/to/some_file.conf export FIELD1=foo export FIELD2 =bar # Note: values can have some structure too export FIELD3=abc,cde,fgh . . /usr/bin/php some_script.php You could also use the php ini style confs: http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-ini-file.php In the $_SERVER approach above, the parsing is done at start-up, so there is no setup cost at every request. For the ini or xml parsing approach, you may need to cache the result if this parsing cost needs to be avoided on every request. Ravi On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Michael Shadle mike...@gmail.com wrote: I find json to be the most ideal data exchange format but using it for configuration files one may edit by hand is horrible. XML, ini or yaml would be better. I still prefer XML. Albeit verbose it is the easiest to read and easy to validate against. On Oct 27, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Bob McConnell r...@cbord.com wrote: From: Ken Guest On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:27 PM, mmest...@nagios.com wrote: Recently we had a discussion about weather our code should be configured using files or a DB back-end. As this topic effects nearly every development team I was wondering if there shouldn't be a common library that deals with all of these issues. We came to the conclusion that either should work, but our project must work on systems that would not have an SQLDB installed. There fore it must be configured using files as supporting both would be a waste of our development time. Looking around for a solution I came across an extension to getopt that read command line parameters from a file, essentially emulating exec $(cat);. As this did allow configuration from either the command line or a file it's a good start. However we are specificually looking for something that would accept configuration from a file or a DB, command line options are not important. Though a great solution would take configuration from anywhere. A full featured solution would also support containing user preferences and administrative settings. Allowing any of these to come from almost anywhere. Here is how an example deployment might work. As this would be a programming tool the user would be an administrator installing and configuring the software. Some configuration information contained in php should be extensible so that all the configuration could be done there. In this case settings and user preferences would be read-only, configuration information is always read-only. This would usually specify a config file to be located in the same folder or a subfolder. This configuration file would have a default format that is configurable in the php. Would be one of PHP, XML, bind, apache, and several other config file formats. This file would contain information on where settings and preferences could be written to, either another configuration file some where in /var or connection information for a DB. From an application developers stand point this should all be as difficult as getopt to setup, design decisions like what format the config file is in should be left up to the admin installing the software. The developer need only be concerned with defining the values stored, there type, and other properties. Does anything like this exist? This seams like an essential piece of code that is re-invented for every project. PEAR's Config package sounds like a good match for what you are looking for. It parses and outputs various formats and edits existing config files http://pear.php.net/package/Config There's a brief intro to what it can do at http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.configuration.config.intro.php I have to admit I am somewhat biased as I'm currently on the PEAR Group (read 'committee') - but I'd be surprised if there's not a Zend or ezComponents/zetaComponents equivalent. I also have to admit there are some outstanding issues that need to be addressed for PEAR's Config package - the good news is someone has volunteered to resolve these today. There are nearly as many ways to do this as there are languages to implement them in. I have been using YAML files for a while now, not only for configuration and parameter storage, but also input for data driven testing
Re: [PHP] Application settings, configuration, and preferences.
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:39 AM, J Ravi Menon jravime...@gmail.com wrote: I am partial to the filesystem but I can see scenarios where the db approach might be useful (single point of control) with good caching strategy using apc or other mechanisms. One approach I have followed is that if the config. field and values are simple key-value pairs, you could store them in a dedicated conf file and have it included in the main apache conf file (Include directive). This way, all the configs are accessible via $_SERVER. The separate conf file can be checked in svn, pushed separately as part of release process etc... The same approach also works in standalone php cli scripts via a shell wrapper - e.g.: #!/bin/bash . # list fields directly here or load them separately - e.g: # . /path/to/some_file.conf export FIELD1=foo export FIELD2 =bar # Note: values can have some structure too export FIELD3=abc,cde,fgh . . /usr/bin/php some_script.php You could also use the php ini style confs: http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-ini-file.php In the $_SERVER approach above, the parsing is done at start-up, so there is no setup cost at every request. For the ini or xml parsing approach, you may need to cache the result if this parsing cost needs to be avoided on every request. Ravi On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Michael Shadle mike...@gmail.com wrote: I find json to be the most ideal data exchange format but using it for configuration files one may edit by hand is horrible. XML, ini or yaml would be better. I still prefer XML. Albeit verbose it is the easiest to read and easy to validate against. On Oct 27, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Bob McConnell r...@cbord.com wrote: From: Ken Guest On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:27 PM, mmest...@nagios.com wrote: Recently we had a discussion about weather our code should be configured using files or a DB back-end. As this topic effects nearly every development team I was wondering if there shouldn't be a common library that deals with all of these issues. We came to the conclusion that either should work, but our project must work on systems that would not have an SQLDB installed. There fore it must be configured using files as supporting both would be a waste of our development time. Looking around for a solution I came across an extension to getopt that read command line parameters from a file, essentially emulating exec $(cat);. As this did allow configuration from either the command line or a file it's a good start. However we are specificually looking for something that would accept configuration from a file or a DB, command line options are not important. Though a great solution would take configuration from anywhere. A full featured solution would also support containing user preferences and administrative settings. Allowing any of these to come from almost anywhere. Here is how an example deployment might work. As this would be a programming tool the user would be an administrator installing and configuring the software. Some configuration information contained in php should be extensible so that all the configuration could be done there. In this case settings and user preferences would be read-only, configuration information is always read-only. This would usually specify a config file to be located in the same folder or a subfolder. This configuration file would have a default format that is configurable in the php. Would be one of PHP, XML, bind, apache, and several other config file formats. This file would contain information on where settings and preferences could be written to, either another configuration file some where in /var or connection information for a DB. From an application developers stand point this should all be as difficult as getopt to setup, design decisions like what format the config file is in should be left up to the admin installing the software. The developer need only be concerned with defining the values stored, there type, and other properties. Does anything like this exist? This seams like an essential piece of code that is re-invented for every project. PEAR's Config package sounds like a good match for what you are looking for. It parses and outputs various formats and edits existing config files http://pear.php.net/package/Config There's a brief intro to what it can do at http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.configuration.config.intro.php I have to admit I am somewhat biased as I'm currently on the PEAR Group (read 'committee') - but I'd be surprised if there's not a Zend or ezComponents/zetaComponents equivalent. I also have to admit there are some outstanding issues that need to be addressed for PEAR's Config package - the good news is someone has volunteered to resolve these today. There are nearly as many ways to do this as there are languages to implement them in. I have been using YAML files
Re: [PHP] PHP Email Question
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Joe Jackson priory...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi
I am trying the following snippet as Bostjan suggested, and an email is
getting sent when I submit the form however in the body of the email I am
getting none of the form data in the body of the email. All I am getting is
the letter 'z' ? Also in the from field of the email this is showing as my
email address and not the email address of the user who has sent the form
Any ideas on where I am going wrong with this snippet? Any advice would be
much appreciated
$msgContent = Name: . $values['name'] .\n;
$msgContent .= Address: . $values['address'] .\n;
$msgContent .= Telephone: . $values['telephone'] .\n;
$msgContent .= Email Address: . $values['emailaddress'] .\n;
$msgContent .= Message: . $values['message'] .\n;
function ProcessForm($values)
{
mail('myemail:domain.com', 'Website Enquiry', $msgContent, From:
\{$values['name']}\ {$values['emailaddress']});
// Replace with actual page or redirect :P
echo htmlheadtitleThank you!/title/headbodyThank
you!/body/html;
Not sure if it it is a typo above, are you actually passing
$msgContent in the function above? If it is a global variable, you
would need to add a 'global' declaration:
function ProcessForm($values)
{
global $msgContent;
mail('myemail:domain.com', 'Website Enquiry', $msgContent, From:
\{$values['name']}\ {$values['emailaddress']}\r\n);
.
.
.
}
Also try adding CRLF sequence at the end of the header line as shown above.
Ravi
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Re: [PHP] PHP Email Question
Just on this topic, I found swiftmailer library to be really useful
esp. in dealing with 'template' emails with custom variables per
recipient:
http://swiftmailer.org/
The e.g. on email template processing:
http://swiftmailer.org/docs/decorator-plugin-howto
There are batchSend() functionalities, ability to compose various mime
type emails etc...
Ravi
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:20 AM, chris h chris...@gmail.com wrote:
Ignore the other parameters unless you are very familiar with RFCs 2821,
2822 and their associated RFCs
I would advise against ignoring the other parameters. Doing so will pretty
much guarantee having your email end up in SPAM. Instead look up the
examples in the docs, or better yet use something like phpmailer as Tom
suggested.
Chris.
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:37 PM, TR Shaw ts...@oitc.com wrote:
On Sep 19, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Joe Jackson wrote:
Hi
Sorry for the simple question but I am trying to get my head around PHP.
I
have a sample PHP script that I am trying to use to send a php powered
email
message. The snippet of code is shown below
mail('em...@address.com', 'Subject', $values['message'], From:
\{$values['name']}\ {$values['emailaddress']});
This works fine, but how can I add in other fields to the email that is
recieved?
For example in the form there are fields called, 'emailaddress',
'telephone', 'address' and 'name' which I need to add into the form along
with the message field
Also with the formatting how can I change the format of the email to
Name: $values['name'],
Address: etc
Message:
Joe
The mail command lets you send mail (an RFC2821 envelop). The function is:
bool mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message [, string
$additional_headers [, string$additional_parameters ]] )
$to is where you want it to go
$subject is whatever you want the subject to be
$message is the information you want to send
Ignore the other parameters unless you are very familiar with RFCs 2821,
2822 and their associated RFCs
So if you want to send info from a form you might want to roll it up in xml
and send it via the message part. when you receive it you can easily decode
it. If you don't want to do that put it in a format that you can easily
decode on the receiving end.
Basically mail is a way to deliver information in the $message body. How
you format the information there is up to you. However, depending on your
system's config you are probably constrained to placing only 7bit ascii in
the $message body.
You might also move away from the mail function and look at phpmailer at
sf.net if you need more complex capabilities.
Tom
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Re: [PHP] php cli question
Thanks Bostjan for the suggestion. I did raise the issue and here is the reply: http://news.php.net/php.internals/49672 Thx, Ravi On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Bostjan Skufca bost...@a2o.si wrote: Here are the results I got when question of migration from apache to nginx was brought up: http://blog.a2o.si/2009/06/24/apache-mod_php-compared-to-nginx-php-fpm/ (BTW there is some FPM in main PHP distribution now) As for resource management, I recommend looking at php sources (Zend/zend_alloca.c:zend_mm_shutdown() specifically) and building a custom extension that frees discarded memory resources on your request or timer or sth else. Not sure if it is possible like that but this is just a suggestion, don't quote me on that :) Also, for such questions I recommend you to join php-internals mailing list, it seems more appropriate. b. On 15 September 2010 04:19, J Ravi Menon jravime...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: J Ravi Menon wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: J Ravi Menon wrote: Few questions: 1) Does opcode cache really matter in such cli-based daemons? As 'SomeClass' is instantiated at every loop, I am assuming it is only compiled once as it has already been 'seen'. Yup. Just to clarify, you mean we don't need the op-code cache here right? That is correct. 2) What about garbage collection? In a standard apache-mod-php setup, we rely on the end of a request-cycle to free up resources - close file descriptiors, free up memory etc.. I am assuming in the aforesaid standalone daemon case, we would have to do this manually? Yes. So 'unset($some_big_array)' or 'unset($some_big_object)' etc.. is the right way to go for non-resource based items? i.e. it needs to be explicitly done? It's not quite like C - if you reassign something, the previous contents are automagically freed. I use unset() if I know it could be a while (hours) before it'll likely be reassigned, but it won't be used in the meantime. Thanks Per for clarifying this for me. Now on my follow up question: [Note: I think it is related to the issues discussed above hence keeping it on this thread but if I am violating any guidelines here, do let me know] One reason the aforesaid questions got triggered was that in our company right now, there is a big discussion on moving away from apache+mod_php solution to nginx+fast-cgi based model for handling all php-based services. The move seems to be more based some anecdotal observations and possibly not based on a typical php-based app (i.e. the php script involved was trivial one acting as some proxy to another backend service). I have written fast-cgi servers in the past in C++, and I am aware how the apahcefast-cgi-servers work (in unix socket setups). All our php apps are written with apache+mod_php in mind (no explicit resource mgmt ), so this was a concern to me. If the same scripts now need to run 'forever' as a fastcgi server, are we forced to do such manual resource mgmt? Or are there solutions here that work just as in mod_php? This reminded me of the cli daemons that I had written earlier where such manual cleanups were done, and hence my doubts on this nginx+fast-cgi approach. thx, Ravi -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.6°C) -- 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
Re: [PHP] php cli question
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: J Ravi Menon wrote: Few questions: 1) Does opcode cache really matter in such cli-based daemons? As 'SomeClass' is instantiated at every loop, I am assuming it is only compiled once as it has already been 'seen'. Yup. Just to clarify, you mean we don't need the op-code cache here right? 2) What about garbage collection? In a standard apache-mod-php setup, we rely on the end of a request-cycle to free up resources - close file descriptiors, free up memory etc.. I am assuming in the aforesaid standalone daemon case, we would have to do this manually? Yes. So 'unset($some_big_array)' or 'unset($some_big_object)' etc.. is the right way to go for non-resource based items? i.e. it needs to be explicitly done? thx, Ravi Note: I have written pre-forker deamons in php directly and successfully deployed them in the past, but never looked at in depth to understand all the nuances. Anecdotally, I have done 'unset()' at some critical places were large arrays were used, and I think it helped. AFAIK, unlike Java, there is no 'garbage collector' thread that does all the magic? Correct. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (12.9°C) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php cli question
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: J Ravi Menon wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: J Ravi Menon wrote: Few questions: 1) Does opcode cache really matter in such cli-based daemons? As 'SomeClass' is instantiated at every loop, I am assuming it is only compiled once as it has already been 'seen'. Yup. Just to clarify, you mean we don't need the op-code cache here right? That is correct. 2) What about garbage collection? In a standard apache-mod-php setup, we rely on the end of a request-cycle to free up resources - close file descriptiors, free up memory etc.. I am assuming in the aforesaid standalone daemon case, we would have to do this manually? Yes. So 'unset($some_big_array)' or 'unset($some_big_object)' etc.. is the right way to go for non-resource based items? i.e. it needs to be explicitly done? It's not quite like C - if you reassign something, the previous contents are automagically freed. I use unset() if I know it could be a while (hours) before it'll likely be reassigned, but it won't be used in the meantime. Thanks Per for clarifying this for me. Now on my follow up question: [Note: I think it is related to the issues discussed above hence keeping it on this thread but if I am violating any guidelines here, do let me know] One reason the aforesaid questions got triggered was that in our company right now, there is a big discussion on moving away from apache+mod_php solution to nginx+fast-cgi based model for handling all php-based services. The move seems to be more based some anecdotal observations and possibly not based on a typical php-based app (i.e. the php script involved was trivial one acting as some proxy to another backend service). I have written fast-cgi servers in the past in C++, and I am aware how the apahcefast-cgi-servers work (in unix socket setups). All our php apps are written with apache+mod_php in mind (no explicit resource mgmt ), so this was a concern to me. If the same scripts now need to run 'forever' as a fastcgi server, are we forced to do such manual resource mgmt? Or are there solutions here that work just as in mod_php? This reminded me of the cli daemons that I had written earlier where such manual cleanups were done, and hence my doubts on this nginx+fast-cgi approach. thx, Ravi -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.6°C) -- 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] Re: php cli question
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote:
On 09/10/2010 11:13 AM, J Ravi Menon wrote:
Hi,
I have some basic questions on running php (5.2.x series on Linux
2.6) as a standalone daemon using posix methods (fork() etc..):
#!/usr/bin/php
?php
require_once ('someclass.php');
// do some initializations
.
// main 'forever' loop - the '$shutdown' will
// be set to true via a signal handler
while(!$shutdown)
{
$a = new SomeClass();
$a-doSomething()
}
// shutdown logic.
The 'someclass.php' in turn will include other files (via require_once).
The above file will be executed directly from the shell. The main loop
could be listening to new requests via sockets etc..
Few questions:
1) Does opcode cache really matter in such cli-based daemons? As
'SomeClass' is instantiated at every loop, I am assuming it is only
compiled once as it has already been 'seen'.
I am not very clear on how apc (or eaccelerator) works in such cases.
2) What about garbage collection? In a standard apache-mod-php setup,
we rely on the end of a request-cycle to free up resources - close
file descriptiors, free up memory etc..
I am assuming in the aforesaid standalone daemon case, we would
have to do this manually? In the loop above, would it be better to
'unset($a)' explicitly at the end of it before
it goes to the next iteration?
Note: I have written pre-forker deamons in php directly and
successfully deployed them in the past, but never looked at in depth
to understand all the nuances. Anecdotally, I have
done 'unset()' at some critical places were large arrays were used,
and I think it helped. AFAIK, unlike Java, there is no 'garbage
collector' thread that does all the magic?
Thanks,
Ravi
If I have time when you reply I'll answer the questions, but I must ask:
Is this purely academic? Why is this a concern? Have you encountered
issues? If so, what?
@Tom: I have compiled php with pcntl on and this has never been an
issue. It works well (on a linux setup), and I have deployed
standalone daemons with out any major problems. I have a home-grown
'preforker' framework (which I hope to share soon) which can be used
to exploit multi-core boxes.
@Shawn: It is not academic. There is a follow-up I am planning based
on the doubts above. I have deployed such daemons in the past with
some assumptions on (2) by doing manual cleanups - e.g. closing curl
connections, closing up db handles etc... Really want to understand
how php works in such setups outside of apache+mod_php.
thanks,
Ravi
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Re: [PHP] Re: Best Practices Book, Document, Web Site?
Other than coding standards, the other good read is:
(it seems to cover most topics I have ran into while maintaining a
high traffic site implemented in php 5):
http://phplens.com/lens/php-book/optimizing-debugging-php.php
It is 'best practices' from another angle - use of opcode cache (apc
etc..), output buffering and so on.
Coding standards vary a lot, so I would recommend sticking to one
style once a consensus is reached among the team and preferably
enforce it in automated fashion (e.g.
http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer/ as a svn pre-commit
hook).
The other easily over-looked part I have seen in many php projects is
the code layout and directory structure, including dependency
management (library code vs business logic etc..), and more
importantly only exposing the main 'entry point' scripts (index.php or
controller.php in a MVC model) in a apache doc root. Many times I have
seen poorly laid out code that ends up getting deployed with the
entire code bases exposed in a apache doc root. If care is not taken
(e.g. naming some files .inc and no special apache rules to interpret
them as a php handler), it is a security nightmare with critical files
getting exposed.
I have my own layout suggestion which has worked well for us, and once
mastered, it makes everyone in the team very productive. Maybe this
can be a separate topic in its own right.
Ravi
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Hansen, Mike mike.han...@atmel.com wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Bob McConnell [mailto:r...@cbord.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 7:52 AM
To: pan; php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: Best Practices Book, Document, Web Site?
From: pan
Hansen, Mike mike.han...@atmel.com wrote in message
news:7941b2693f32294aaf16c26b679a258d0efdc...@csomb01.corp.atm
el.com...
Is there a PHP Best Practices Book, Document, or web site that has
information similar to Perl Best Practices but for PHP?
Yeah, it's hard to find this stuff.
A google search on {+Best Practices +PHP} returned only
4,340,000 hits.
Maybe, some day, someone will think to write something up.
The problem with this method is that scanning these results reveals
conflicting and contradictory recommendations that are all over the
place. Some are so old they may not even be valid PHP any
more. Reading
even a small subset of these pages is an exercise in frustration. But
that makes sense as there doesn't appear to be any consistency nor
consensus within the community, or even within some of the larger
projects.
Speaking of consensus, based on a recent discussion on the Perl
Beginners mailing list, the Perl Best Practices book is now considered
to be deprecated among the active Perl community. Many of its
recommendations are obsolete and no longer used. It is long
past due for
a major rewrite.
Bob McConnell
Yep. Perl Best Practices is due for a rewrite/update. I came across this page
that attempts to update it:
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?pbp_module_recommendation_commentary
For PHP, I'll stick with the PEAR recommendations and do the best I can with
whatever is missing.
Thanks.
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Re: [PHP] memory efficient hash table extension? like lchash ...
PHP does expose sys V shared-memory apis (shm_* functions): http://us2.php.net/manual/en/book.sem.php If you already have apc installed, you could also try: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/book.apc.php APC also allows you to store user specific data too (it will be in a shared memory). Haven't tried these myself, so I would do some quick tests to ensure if they meet your performance requirements. In theory, it should be faster than berkeley-db like solutions (which is also another option but it seems something similar like MongoDB was not good enough?). I am curious to know if someone here has run these tests. Note that with memcached installed locally (on the same box running php), it can be surprisingly efficient - using pconnect(), caching the handler in a static var for a given request cycle etc... Ravi On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:39 AM, D. Dante Lorenso da...@lorenso.com wrote: shiplu wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:11 AM, D. Dante Lorenso da...@lorenso.com wrote: All, I'm loading millions of records into a backend PHP cli script that I need to build a hash index from to optimize key lookups for data that I'm importing into a MySQL database. The problem is that storing this data in a PHP array is not very memory efficient and my millions of records are consuming about 4-6 GB of ram. What are you storing? An array of row objects?? In that case storing only the row id is will reduce the memory. I am querying a MySQL database which contains 40 million records and mapping string columns to numeric ids. You might consider it normalizing the data. Then, I am importing a new 40 million records and comparing the new values to the old values. Where the value matches, I update records, but where they do not match, I insert new records, and finally I go back and delete old records. So, the net result is that I have a database with 40 million records that I need to sync on a daily basis. If you are loading full row objects, it will take a lot of memory. But if you just load the row id values, it will significantly decrease the memory amount. For what I am trying to do, I just need to map a string value (32 bytes) to a bigint value (8 bytes) in a fast-lookup hash. Besides, You can load row ids in a chunk by chunk basis. if you have 10 millions of rows to process. load 1 rows as a chunk. process them then load the next chunk. This will significantly reduce memory usage. When importing the fresh 40 million records, I need to compare each record with 4 different indexes that will map the record to existing other records, or into a group_id that the record also belongs to. My current solution uses a trigger in MySQL that will do the lookups inside MySQL, but this is extremely slow. Pre-loading the mysql indexes into PHP ram and processing that was is thousands of times faster. I just need an efficient way to hold my hash tables in PHP ram. PHP arrays are very fast, but like my original post says, they consume way too much ram. A good algorithm can solve your problem anytime. ;-) It takes about 5-10 minutes to build my hash indexes in PHP ram currently which makes up for the 10,000 x speedup on key lookups that I get later on. I just want to not use the whole 6 GB of ram to do this. I need an efficient hashing API that supports something like: $value = (int) fasthash_get((string) $key); $exists = (bool) fasthash_exists((string) $key); fasthash_set((string) $key, (int) $value); Or ... it feels like a memcached api but where the data is stored locally instead of accessed via a network. So this is how my search led me to what appears to be a dead lchash extension. -- Dante -- D. Dante Lorenso da...@lorenso.com 972-333-4139 -- 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] memory efficient hash table extension? like lchash ...
values were stored, the APC storage began to slow down *dramatically*. I wasn't certain if APC was using only RAM or was possibly also writing to disk. Performance tanked so quickly that I set it aside as an option and moved on. IIRC, i think it is built over shm and there is no disk backing store. memcached gives no guarantee about data persistence. I need to have a hash table that will contain all the values I set. They don't need to survive a server shutdown (don't need to be written to disk), but I can not afford for the server to throw away values that don't fit into memory. If there is a way to configure memcached guarantee storage, that might work. True but the lru policy only kicks in lazily. So if you ensure that you never hit near the max allowed limit (-m option), and you store your key-val pairs with no expiry, it will be present till the next restart. So essentially you would have to estimate the value for the -m option to big enough to accommodate all possible key-val pairs (the evictions counter in memcached stats should remain 0). BTW, I have seen this implementation behavior in 1.2.x series but not sure it is necessarily guaranteed in future versions. Ravi On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:49 PM, D. Dante Lorenso da...@lorenso.com wrote: J Ravi Menon wrote: PHP does expose sys V shared-memory apis (shm_* functions): http://us2.php.net/manual/en/book.sem.php I will look into this. I really need a key/value map, though and would rather not have to write my own on top of SHM. If you already have apc installed, you could also try: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/book.apc.php APC also allows you to store user specific data too (it will be in a shared memory). I've looked into the apc_store and apc_fetch routines: http://php.net/manual/en/function.apc-store.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.apc-fetch.php ... but quickly ran out of memory for APC and though I figured out how to configure it to use more (adjust shared memory allotment), there were other problems. I ran into issues with logs complaining about cache slamming and other known bugs with APC version 3.1.3p1. Also, after several million values were stored, the APC storage began to slow down *dramatically*. I wasn't certain if APC was using only RAM or was possibly also writing to disk. Performance tanked so quickly that I set it aside as an option and moved on. Haven't tried these myself, so I would do some quick tests to ensure if they meet your performance requirements. In theory, it should be faster than berkeley-db like solutions (which is also another option but it seems something similar like MongoDB was not good enough?). I will run more tests against MongoDB. Initially I tried to use it to store everything. If I only store my indexes, it might fare better. Certainly, though, running queries and updates against a remote server will always be slower than doing the lookups locally in ram. I am curious to know if someone here has run these tests. Note that with memcached installed locally (on the same box running php), it can be surprisingly efficient - using pconnect(), caching the handler in a static var for a given request cycle etc... memcached gives no guarantee about data persistence. I need to have a hash table that will contain all the values I set. They don't need to survive a server shutdown (don't need to be written to disk), but I can not afford for the server to throw away values that don't fit into memory. If there is a way to configure memcached guarantee storage, that might work. -- Dante On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:39 AM, D. Dante Lorenso da...@lorenso.com wrote: shiplu wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:11 AM, D. Dante Lorenso da...@lorenso.com wrote: All, I'm loading millions of records into a backend PHP cli script that I need to build a hash index from to optimize key lookups for data that I'm importing into a MySQL database. The problem is that storing this data in a PHP array is not very memory efficient and my millions of records are consuming about 4-6 GB of ram. What are you storing? An array of row objects?? In that case storing only the row id is will reduce the memory. I am querying a MySQL database which contains 40 million records and mapping string columns to numeric ids. You might consider it normalizing the data. Then, I am importing a new 40 million records and comparing the new values to the old values. Where the value matches, I update records, but where they do not match, I insert new records, and finally I go back and delete old records. So, the net result is that I have a database with 40 million records that I need to sync on a daily basis. If you are loading full row objects, it will take a lot of memory. But if you just load the row id values, it will significantly decrease the memory amount. For what I am trying to do, I just need to map a string value (32 bytes
Re: [PHP] Object Oriented Programming question
Hi Bob, [Couldn't resist jumping into this topic :)] Even if you look at traditional unix (or similar) kernel internals, although they tend to use functional paradigms, they do have a OOP-like flavor. Example: Everything in a unix system is a 'file' (well not really with networking logic, but it is one of the most important abstractions). There is a notion of a 'abstract' base class 'file', and then there are different 'types' of files - regular, directory, devices etc... So you 'instantiate' a specific 'concrete' object when dealing with a specific file. What are the methods that apply to all files? There is open(), close(), read(), write(), ioctl() etc... Not all methods are valid for certain kinds of files - e.g. usually you don't write() to a keyboard device. In unix and C, the OOP is modeled using structs (to store various attributes, or data members), and each struct tends to have 'pointer-to-functions' (listed above in case of files) to actual implementation on how to deal with such objects in the system. In fact the device-driver framework in unix can be thought of as an excellent example of polymorphism where a table stores all the specific functions that operate on the device. Grouping data and its associated operations is one of the hallmarks of OOP. In C, there is no *direct* support to express such groupings where as in C++ (and other OOP languages), there is direct support via notion of 'classes' to express such relationships. I would recommend this book: 'The design and evolution of C++' by Bjarne Stroustrup where such topics are discussed more in depth. Hope this helps. Ravi On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Bob McConnell r...@cbord.com wrote: From: tedd At 10:26 AM -0500 1/19/10, Bob McConnell wrote: Some problems will fit into it, some don't. I teach OOP thinking at the local college and haven't run into a problem that doesn't fit. For example, in my last class I had a woman who wanted to pick out a blue dress for her upcoming wedding anniversary. The class worked out the problem with a OOP solution. Hi Tedd, Here's one you can think about. I have a box, purchased off the shelf, with multiple serial ports and an Ethernet port. It contains a 68EN383 CPU with expandable flash and RAM. The firmware includes a simple driver application to create extended serial ports for MS-Windows, but allows it to be replaced with a custom application. The included SDK consists of the gcc cross-compiler and libraries with a Xinu kernel and default drivers for a variety of standard protocols. I need to build a communications node replacing the default drivers with custom handlers for a variety of devices. It must connect to a server which will send it configuration messages telling it what hardware and protocols will be connected to each port. The Xinu package includes Posix threads. In the past 23 years I have solved this problem six times with five different pieces of hardware. But I still don't see how to apply OOP to it. Some people can look at problems and see objects and some can't. That's for certain -- but in time just about everyone can understand the basic concepts of OOP. Understanding basic concepts and understanding how to map them on to real problems are two entirely different skill sets. I understand the concepts, they just don't make any sense to me. All of the definitions are backwards from the way I learned to evaluate problems. I feel like a carpenter trying to figure out how to use a plumber's toolbox. There are some things in there I think I recognize, but most of it is entirely foreign to me. Cheers, Bob McConnell -- 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] Re: PHP programming strategy; lots of little include files, or a few big ones?
Hi, A note on bytecode caching and include/include_once performance. A while ago when we were profiling our code, we did notice that file includes do take a noticeable percentage of overall overhead (enough for us to look into it more deep). We are using apc cache on a standard LAMP platform (linux 2.6 series, apache 2.2x and PHP 5 series). Our includes were using 'relative' paths (e.g. include_once '../common/somefile.inc' or include_once 'lib/somefuncs.inc' ) and within APC cache logic, it resolves such relative paths to absolute paths via a realpath() calls. This can be fairly file-system intensive (lots of syscalls like stat() and readlink() to resolve symlinks etc...). APC uses absolute paths as key into the opcode cache. This gets worse if it has to find your files via the 'ini_path' setting (and most of your library or common code is not in the first component or so ). So from APC cache perspective, it is most efficient if your include paths are all absolute (realpath() logic is skipped) - e.g.: include_once $BASE_DIR . '/common/somefile.inc'; include_once $BASE_DIR . '/lib/somefuncs.inc'; and so on where '$BASE_DIR' could be set via apache Setenv directives ( $_SERVER['BASE_DIR'] or even hardcoded all over the place). There were other issues with include vs include_once and apc cache, but I don't recall why there were performance difference (with include only even with relative paths, the performance was better, but managing dependencies is to cumbersome). Not sure how other bytecode cache handles relative paths but I suspect it has to do something similar. From a pure code readability point of view and more automated dependency management (as close to compiled languages as possible), I do favor include_once/require_once strategy with absolute path strategy, but it is not unheard of where to squeeze out maximal performance, a giant single 'include' is done. Sometimes this is done on prod. systems where a parser goes through and generates this big include file, and ensure it is placed somewhere in the beginning the main 'controller.php' (MVC model) and all other includes stripped off. Hope this helps in making your decision. Ravi On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:48:59 -0500, rob...@interjinn.com (Robert Cummings) wrote: clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: Thank you all for your comments. I did not know about bytecode caches. They're an interesting concept, but if I am interpreting the paper http://itst.net/654-php-on-fire-three-opcode-caches-compared correctly they only double the average speed of operation, which is rather less than I would have anticipated. I strongly advise that you take the time to try a bytecode cache. Within linux environments I am partial to eaccelerator. In IIS environments I now use WinCache from Microsoft. From my own observations with a multitude of different types of PHP web applications I find that the speed gain is closer to 5 times faster on average. Five times faster is certainly more attractive than twice as fast. But under what circumstances is this achieved? Unfortunately these days it is difficult to find any solid information on how things actually work, but my impression is that caches only work for pages which are frequently accessed. If this is correct, and (as I suspect) somebody looks at my website once an hour, the page will not be in the cache, so it won't help. Also one of the more popular parts of this website is my photo album, and for this much of the access time will be the download time of the photos. Furthermore as each visitor will look at a different set of photos, even with heavy access it is unlikely that any given photo would be in a cache. A particular cache of bytecode is usually pushed out of memory when the configured maximum amount of memory for the bytecode cache is about to be exceeded. Additionally, the particular cache that gets eliminated is usually the oldest or least used cache. Given this, and your purported usage patterns, your pages will most likely remain in the cache until such time as you update the code or restart the webserver. Despite these comments the access times for my websites seem to be pretty good -- certainly a lot better than many commercial websites -- but have a look at http://www.corybas.com/, and see what you think. (I am in the process of updating this, and know that the technical notes are not currently working, but there is plenty there to show you what I'm trying to do.) I'm not disputing your good enough statistics. I'm merely asserting that a bytecode cache will resolve your concerns about file access times when your code is strewn across many compartmentalized files. In addition, I am advising that it is good practice to always install a bytecode cache. One of the first things I do when setting up a new system is to ensure I put
Re: [PHP] Re: PHP programming strategy; lots of little include files, or a few big ones?
Sorry forgot to mention that we used APC with apc.stat turned off which will give a little bit more performance gain, but it does mean flushing the cache on every code push (which is trivial). Ravi On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:30 AM, J Ravi Menon jravime...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A note on bytecode caching and include/include_once performance. A while ago when we were profiling our code, we did notice that file includes do take a noticeable percentage of overall overhead (enough for us to look into it more deep). We are using apc cache on a standard LAMP platform (linux 2.6 series, apache 2.2x and PHP 5 series). Our includes were using 'relative' paths (e.g. include_once '../common/somefile.inc' or include_once 'lib/somefuncs.inc' ) and within APC cache logic, it resolves such relative paths to absolute paths via a realpath() calls. This can be fairly file-system intensive (lots of syscalls like stat() and readlink() to resolve symlinks etc...). APC uses absolute paths as key into the opcode cache. This gets worse if it has to find your files via the 'ini_path' setting (and most of your library or common code is not in the first component or so ). So from APC cache perspective, it is most efficient if your include paths are all absolute (realpath() logic is skipped) - e.g.: include_once $BASE_DIR . '/common/somefile.inc'; include_once $BASE_DIR . '/lib/somefuncs.inc'; and so on where '$BASE_DIR' could be set via apache Setenv directives ( $_SERVER['BASE_DIR'] or even hardcoded all over the place). There were other issues with include vs include_once and apc cache, but I don't recall why there were performance difference (with include only even with relative paths, the performance was better, but managing dependencies is to cumbersome). Not sure how other bytecode cache handles relative paths but I suspect it has to do something similar. From a pure code readability point of view and more automated dependency management (as close to compiled languages as possible), I do favor include_once/require_once strategy with absolute path strategy, but it is not unheard of where to squeeze out maximal performance, a giant single 'include' is done. Sometimes this is done on prod. systems where a parser goes through and generates this big include file, and ensure it is placed somewhere in the beginning the main 'controller.php' (MVC model) and all other includes stripped off. Hope this helps in making your decision. Ravi On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:48:59 -0500, rob...@interjinn.com (Robert Cummings) wrote: clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: Thank you all for your comments. I did not know about bytecode caches. They're an interesting concept, but if I am interpreting the paper http://itst.net/654-php-on-fire-three-opcode-caches-compared correctly they only double the average speed of operation, which is rather less than I would have anticipated. I strongly advise that you take the time to try a bytecode cache. Within linux environments I am partial to eaccelerator. In IIS environments I now use WinCache from Microsoft. From my own observations with a multitude of different types of PHP web applications I find that the speed gain is closer to 5 times faster on average. Five times faster is certainly more attractive than twice as fast. But under what circumstances is this achieved? Unfortunately these days it is difficult to find any solid information on how things actually work, but my impression is that caches only work for pages which are frequently accessed. If this is correct, and (as I suspect) somebody looks at my website once an hour, the page will not be in the cache, so it won't help. Also one of the more popular parts of this website is my photo album, and for this much of the access time will be the download time of the photos. Furthermore as each visitor will look at a different set of photos, even with heavy access it is unlikely that any given photo would be in a cache. A particular cache of bytecode is usually pushed out of memory when the configured maximum amount of memory for the bytecode cache is about to be exceeded. Additionally, the particular cache that gets eliminated is usually the oldest or least used cache. Given this, and your purported usage patterns, your pages will most likely remain in the cache until such time as you update the code or restart the webserver. Despite these comments the access times for my websites seem to be pretty good -- certainly a lot better than many commercial websites -- but have a look at http://www.corybas.com/, and see what you think. (I am in the process of updating this, and know that the technical notes are not currently working, but there is plenty there to show you what I'm trying to do.) I'm not disputing your good enough statistics. I'm merely asserting
[PHP] Including Due by in an email sent from PHP program
Hi: does anyone know how to include a Due by attribute with a dare in an email that is sent from a PHP script. This value is acts as an reminder when the email is in Outlook. TIA -- Thank you, RaVi -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] ruby / rails within a php site
I have a regular php site. I also have a ruby / rails application. Now I want to put the HTML generated by ruby / rails application within a div section of a php page. This should be similar to like calling a php function within a div section, which would produce the HTML output of the php function. Is such a thing possible between php and ruby / rails? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks ravi
Re: [PHP] System errno in PHP
Hi,
I also ran into the same issue with file and socket apis, and for now, I just
hack it like ( for linux 2.6 systems ):
class Errno
{
const EINTR= 4;
const EIO = 5;
const EINVAL = 22;
const ENODATA = 61;
const EBADMSG = 74;
const EOPNOTSUPP = 95;
const ECONNRESET = 104;
const ENOTCONN = 107;
const ETIMEDOUT= 110;
const EALREADY = 114;
const EINPROGRESS = 115;
// useful static methods that use posix_strerror()
// and socket_strerror() to return strings for logging purposes...
.
.
}
Clearly this is not portable, but I am betting that usually on the
same kernel releases, they
don't usually change these numbers around.
Having PHP expose these useful constants in a portable manner would be
a big plus.
Thanks,
Ravi
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, February 20, 2008 2:56 am, Michal Maras wrote:
I have read http://php.net/fopen from top to bottom, but I could not
find
how to get system error number.
With set_error_handler I can get string for example
fopen(hmc_configuration.cfg)
[function.fopenhttp://ds63450.mspr.detemobil.de/%7Emmaras/HMC/function.fopen]:
failed to open stream: Permission denied
but I need integer number not string, because string error messages
depends
on locale setting.
Of course, I can test some conditions before fopen, but it is not
enough
for me.
Put in a Feature Request to expose the error number from the OS, I
guess...
http://bugs.php.net/
It *seems* like it ought to be reasonable enough to this naive user.
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[PHP] curl timeout vs socket timeout
Hi, We have two versions of client code, one using curl, and other one using raw sockets via fsockopen(), and we use the following code to set the i/o timeouts: 1) curl: . . curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1 ); . . $resp = curl_exec($handle) 2) sockets: stream_set_timeout( $sock, 1); Here we use frwrite() and fread() to send the request and read the response respectively. In (1), how is the timeout applied - is it: a) timeout includes the entire curl_exec() call - the combined socket write() ( to send the request ) and the read() ( read the response ) calls. or b) timeout is independently applied to write() and read() end respectively. Some of our tests seem to indicate it is (a). In (2), I am assuming the stream timeout is applied at each i/o call independently for fwrite() and fread() - I am pretty much certain on this as this is how it would map to underlying C calls. It will be good to get a confirmation on our doubts. Thanks, Ravi -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] apc and cli
Hi,
We have long running daemons written in php ( cli, non-apache
contexts) with the typical pattern:
while( !$shutdown )
{
$c = new SomeClass;
$c-process();
}
For performance reasons, would it help if apc.enable_cli is turned on:
apc.enable_cli integer
Mostly for testing and debugging. Setting this enables APC for the
CLI version of PHP. Normally you wouldn't want to create, populate and
tear down the APC cache on every CLI request, but for various test
scenarios it is handy to be able to enable APC for the CLI version of
APC easily.
I am slightly confused by the statement - 'Mostly for testing and
debugging.' .
On each loop iteration, does php recompile the code in 'SomeClass' (
and all its dependencies ) or it is really cached ( as it has seen the
class code once ).
If there is a php internals document on such issues, do let me know.
Thanks,
Ravi
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Re: [PHP] apc and cli
Thanks for clarifying my doubts - the steps below sounds right to me.
I was just considering the overall perf. of such php daemons and
whether we can get some free perf. boost
with that apc setting.
Ravi
On Dec 12, 2007 12:19 PM, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, December 12, 2007 1:33 pm, Ravi Menon wrote:
We have long running daemons written in php ( cli, non-apache
contexts) with the typical pattern:
while( !$shutdown )
{
$c = new SomeClass;
$c-process();
}
For performance reasons, would it help if apc.enable_cli is turned on:
apc.enable_cli integer
Mostly for testing and debugging. Setting this enables APC for the
CLI version of PHP. Normally you wouldn't want to create, populate and
tear down the APC cache on every CLI request, but for various test
scenarios it is handy to be able to enable APC for the CLI version of
APC easily.
I am slightly confused by the statement - 'Mostly for testing and
debugging.' .
On each loop iteration, does php recompile the code in 'SomeClass' (
and all its dependencies ) or it is really cached ( as it has seen the
class code once ).
If there is a php internals document on such issues, do let me know.
The following is almost-for-sure correct, but I wouldn't swear in
court...
Step 0. Read PHP/HTML source code.
Step 1. PHP uses a 2-pass compiler and generates byte-code.
Step 2. The byte-code is then feed to the executer.
Step 3. Executer spews output (or crashes or whatever)
APC and other caches add a Step 1A., which stores the byte-code in RAM
under the filename (or full path, depending on config) as a key.
Therefore, adding APC will not affect in any way the while loop --
It's compiled once in Step 1, and that's it.
If you re-run the same script again and again, however, APC in CLI
might be able to keep the script around and avoid a hit to the disk to
LOAD the script (Step 0 above) as well as avoiding the 2-pass
compilation to byte-code (Step 1 above).
NOTE:
Step 0 is the REALLY expensive step where APC et al are REALLY
boosting performance.
APC et al *could* just insert step 0A and store the PHP source, and
have ALMOST the same benefits.
However, storing the compiled version at Step 1A gets you some free
gravy in not re-compiling the PHP source to byte-code, so they do that
because, well, it's essentially FREE and saves a few more cpu cycles.
But the REAL boost, again, is from not hammering the hard drive (slow)
to load PHP source into RAM, Step 0.
PS
If you are really concerned about the constructor of SomeClass being
expensive, time it and see.
YOU may be doing something incredibly expensive there like
re-connecting to the database (slow!) each time.
You may also not even NEED a whole new SomeClass every time -- Perhaps
you could just make a singleton and then reset its values and call
process() with the new values instead of building up a whole new
instance each time.
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Re: [PHP] php.ini include_path and symlinks
Are you using a compile cache like eaccelerator or APC etc? Sometimes it's the cache that doesn't realize things have changed. I use a symlink switcher for version releases also and I always flush the eaccelerator directory when I do that. Yes we use APC ( with apc.stat on ). This was the case even before we introduced include_path, but earlier, all the symlinks were to a relative path ( e.g. libraries --- ../libs/.. ). Thanks for the pointer - I will look into this. Ravi 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
[PHP] php.ini include_path and symlinks
Hi, We run php 5.2.0 + apache 2.2. with apc turned on ( apc.stat also on ). Earlier we did not use the php.ini include_path setting. We relied on some symlinks for our common code so that require_once works correctly. This worked fine and during code releases we flipped the main 'release' symlink atomically, without restarting apache. Later we decided to use php.ini include path to refactor common code more cleanly and it looks like: include_path=.:/some/dir/current:.. Now 'current' above is a symlink. When we push out a new release the current is updated atomically and apache is not restarted. This seems to pick the new changes and I ran some manual tests to confirm. However occasionally I see weird errors where it seems php could be resolving the symlink to the actual dir. at apache startup, and it assumes that old dir. When a new release goes out, we see 'fatal redeclare errors' etc.. Restarting apache (TERM and not USR1) seems to fix it. We could update our install scripts to restart apache, but I am just curious, is this really necessary? Is there anyway to prevent php from not resolving symlinks but use them as it is in the include_path? Thanks, Ravi -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: newbie questions
That was very very helpful. Thanks a ton! One more question. For every request, I am sending a redirect back to the user and the browser takes the user to another url. The problem is that the browser is not redirecting until the script finishes. Even if I do flush(), the browser waits til script ends. Is there a way to force browser to redirect and not wait for the script to end? In Java I can think of many ways, one is to use threads, hand of data to another thread and return the response. Another solution would be to store data in memory (static variable) and update only after every 100 requests. Is any of this possible in PHP? M. Sokolewicz wrote: Ravi wrote: Guys, I am fairly new to PHP. Here are a few questions, if anybody can answer it will help me get started. Thanks I am trying to build a website and I would like to do the following in my scripts 1. I want to return response to the browser and AFTERWARDS make a log entry in to a database. I need this so user can experience a fast response. There is no before and after. Everything you do happens during (part of) the response. But you can just output your data, whatever it may be, flush() it and then log it via the same script. Your user won't notice a thing (Hell, even without the flush your user won't notice it probably). 2. If the database update fails, I want to ignore it (since it is just log entry). Something like try-catch construct in Java. This is more important if item1 mentioned above is not possible. Essentially whether I make a database entry or not, I must return a valid response to user. So ignore it :) If you don't check for errors, you won't see them... Makes debugging very annoying, but you won't see em nevertheless. If your output is not based on anything from your database-update, then there apparently is no need to worry about it. 3. Is there something like connection pool in php? Do usually people open/close database connection for every request (I doubt that, it sounds really slow). There is something like that, the persistent connections (ie. via mysql_pconnect), but generally people DO open/close connections via the same script each and every time the script is executed (this might sound very slow, but it's actually not too bad). Using persistent connections is not always the best option (and usually doesn't even make much sense); there's a good bit of documentation about it in the php docs: http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.persistent-connections.php Some code samples or pointers to documentation for the above would also be very helpful. code samples of what exactly ? Thanks Ravi -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: newbie questions
Richard, unfortunately I cannot end the script. I need something like this:
?php
header('Location: http://www.yahoo.com');
// somehow let the browser move to yahoo.com
// now update the database to store some information about user
exit;
?
Richard Heyes wrote:
Ravi wrote:
That was very very helpful. Thanks a ton!
One more question. For every request, I am sending a redirect back to
the user and the browser takes the user to another url. The problem is
that the browser is not redirecting until the script finishes. Even if
I do flush(), the browser waits til script ends. Is there a way to
force browser to redirect and not wait for the script to end?
In Java I can think of many ways, one is to use threads, hand of data
to another thread and return the response. Another solution would be
to store data in memory (static variable) and update only after every
100 requests.
Not having read the rest of the thread, you could call exit just after
the redirect header is sent, eg:
?php
header('Location: http://www.yahoo.com');
exit;
?
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[PHP] Re: newbie questions
Maybe you have a point. I will do performance testing and then decide if I should try to optimize to that point. Yes the logging is just one simple insert into the database. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] newbie questions
Guys, I am fairly new to PHP. Here are a few questions, if anybody can answer it will help me get started. Thanks I am trying to build a website and I would like to do the following in my scripts 1. I want to return response to the browser and AFTERWARDS make a log entry in to a database. I need this so user can experience a fast response. 2. If the database update fails, I want to ignore it (since it is just log entry). Something like try-catch construct in Java. This is more important if item1 mentioned above is not possible. Essentially whether I make a database entry or not, I must return a valid response to user. 3. Is there something like connection pool in php? Do usually people open/close database connection for every request (I doubt that, it sounds really slow). Some code samples or pointers to documentation for the above would also be very helpful. Thanks Ravi -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] call to pprofp not working for PHP APD
Hello, I was wondering if somebody could provide some advice on where I might be going wrong if I am receiving the following error: bash: /usr/bin/pprofp: /usr/local/bin/php: bad interpreter: No such file or directory. When I try to call the pprofp program in order to format the profile data using APD. Thanks for you help. Ravi Jethwa OPUS MEDIA PLC - Developer t +44 (0)845 122 3180 f +44 (0)845 122 3190 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] w www.opusmediaplc.com a 4th Floor, 24 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6LB This email and its attachments are intended solely for the addressee. Any views or opinions presented are those of the originator, unless otherwise stated, and do not necessarily represent those of Opus Media plc. If you received this in error, please notify us immediately and then delete the email and any copies of it. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any distribution, copying or use of this information is strictly prohibited.
Re: [PHP] RE: php-general Digest 17 Oct 2005 10:35:46 -0000 Issue 3742
I just had a small doubt..Is it possible to write JavaScript through PHP??? On 10/17/05, Aftab Alam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, any one can help me i want to generate Pdf file using php. how can i what tools is required for this. Regards, _ Aftab Alam -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 4:06 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: php-general Digest 17 Oct 2005 10:35:46 - Issue 3742 php-general Digest 17 Oct 2005 10:35:46 - Issue 3742 Topics (messages 224207 through 224218): Funky array question 224207 by: Brian Dunning 224209 by: Minuk Choi 224210 by: Jordan Miller 224211 by: Jordan Miller 224212 by: Jordan Miller Re: editor 224208 by: yangshiqi1089 a couple of problems with PHP form 224213 by: Bruce Gilbert 224218 by: Mark Rees Re: OPTIMIZING - The fastest way to open and show a file 224214 by: Ruben Rubio Rey 224215 by: Ruben Rubio Rey 224216 by: ac can't get IIS to run php if the script is not directly under wwwroot 224217 by: tony yau 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: php-general@lists.php.net -- -- 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] Automatically generated emails
This is probably a really simple question, but I can't work out what to write! I've written a fairly standard HTML form and I would like an email to be generated as soon as the user clicks 'Submit'. Can you help?! Thanks Ravi Gogna -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Automatically generated emails
Nice to know that newbies are well looked after on these lists. If you didn't wanna help, you could have not clicked reply Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Yes. [/snip] Watch out, this'll start a flood of why can't you be nice? e-mail John, any relatives still in LA? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Redisplaying information from a HTML form
Hi there I'm absolutely new at this so forgive me if none of it makes any sense! I'm trying to write a page which lets you apply for tickets. I've written it in PHP and used simple variable names for all the input fields. Upon clicking submit, I want the form to be checked for incorrect formats and blank fields. I've managed to write the checking program in such a way that clicking submit launches an 'error' page which displays at the top of the page which field is wrong, and then redisplays the form. (The form redisplay is done using a function which uses the variables I used in the HTML form page). My problem is this: when the 'error' page comes up all of the text boxes will quite happily redisplay the data that was put into them, but I have a couple of drop-down boxes and radio buttons which lose their value. Is there a way I can make these boxes and buttons retain their value? Thanks Ravi Gogna -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Accessing env variables
Hi, I have defined couple of environment variables in one of my apache module using setenv() at fixups and handler function calls. I have another php module, where I need to access these variables. So I have defined these variables as global $var1, $var2 ..etc; When I try to access these variables as $var1 and $var2 , they don't seem to be set, so I am not getting correct values, but they give correct values when I acess them using getenv() call. I thought that the global command would make the global environment variables available in the local php code. How to access these environment variables in my php code without using getenv() call. Thanks Ravi Natarajan
[PHP] is there any application , by using i can produce php exe files in windows ?
HI, is there any windows application , by using we can produce standalone php .exe files ? --- knowledge is power share it --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] plz help!compiled php but iam still getting old version ???
HI, existing configuration : PHP Version 4.3.4 ( default rpm with fedora fc2 install) Server version: Apache/2.0.49 (default with fedora fc2 install) Server built: May 6 2004 07:15:13 NOw i want to install 4.3.3 , so i compiled and install ( with no errors ) if i type php -v at shell iam getting correct version *BUT if tried phpinfo() in browser iam getting still OLD version :( restarted apache but no use. please help - thanks for your time. --- knowledge is power share it - ravi.us --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Safe mode effect
HI, goole.com found so many details about safe mode too much to understand. My hosting provider set php safe mode = enable . so iam unable to use so many scripts . can any one give good free image gallery software which will work under safe mode = enable . is it true that with apache 2.x version , we can get ride of php safe mode ? - thanks for your time -- Knowledge is power share it - http://ravikumar.info -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] setcookie on PHP??
I need to set a cookie within a document in PHP? setcookie didn't work. I guess it works only in PHP3 PHP4 Any good ideas?? Thanks Rave -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Date difference
Dear Friends, I am accessing a MySQL database through PHP. I have to calculate the difference between todays date and the date obtained from MySQL database. The Database string is in the form of \"-mm-dd\". I have to convert the above string into unix timestamp so that i can calcualte the difference between the two time stamps. Please help me in this regard. Thanking you, B. Raveendra Reddy National Law School of India University -- 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] Fwd: Help - removal of trailing zeros from double integer field
Dear friends, I am accessing MySQL database using apache and php. I have to display a double integer field without trailing zeros. The number of digits after the decimal point varies. I have tried searching the archive and did not get any previous questions. Kindly help me in this regard. Thanking you. Sincerely, Raveendra Reddy B National Law School Bangalore India E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - End forwarded message - -- 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]
