RE: [PHP] .INC files
OK... Let me explain a couple things...
On Wed, June 1, 2005 1:29 am, Denis Gerasimov said:
Second, which way are you differ PHP .inc files from HTML .inc files?
There is no such thing as an HTML .inc file. :-)
I see what you mean... but I use templating systems to separate code from
design, so I have to differ PHP .inc files from HTML .inc files ;-)
All your HTML .inc files, by definition, if they are being require'd or
include'd into PHP *are* PHP .inc files.
It is merely a coincidence of your design that they happen to have no
?php ? tags in them.
You *MAY* want to separate those into another other non-web tree
directory.
Of course, I do. My WWW root contains just a couple of files (like
application.php, robots.txt, favicon.ico etc.). All other included files are
stored outside document root.
Third, I always write context-independent include files.
Example?...
Example something.inc.php:
?php
define('DIR_SOMEDIR', DIR_ROOT . '/somedir/');
function someFunc($num) {
return $num / 2;
}
class MyClass {
var $_someVar;
}
?
Get me? :-)
You *NEED* to have the policy/procedure in place to get those .inc and
.inc.php and non-entry .php files *OUT* of the web-tree, or you will get
bit, sooner or later.
For 5 minutes of time, you can avoid dozens of potential pitfalls. [shrug]
Agree completely. So what I meant is .inc.php is *not* a security measure,
but just a way to make my life more comfortable.
But seems that that is a question of taste in some way. ;-)
Best regards,
Denis Gerasimov,
Chief Developer, VEKOS Ltd.
www.vekos.ru
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[PHP] str_replace weird output
Hello guys :-)
I have a question. I have been using str_replace() quite a lot of times,
and never encountered any issue. But this time, something weird happened,
and I am wondering wether, in fact, I have never really understood how
this function worked, or if there is some kind of bug.
If I do that :
?php
$test = 'bla';
$un = array ('b', 'l', 'a');
$deux = array ('c', 'd', 'e');
$test = str_replace ($un, $deux, $test);
echo $test , 'br /';
?
No prob, the output is the one I would have expected : cde
But if I do that :
?php
$texte = 'cd' ;
$original = array('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g');
$modif = array ('c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i');
$texte = str_replace($original, $modif, $texte) ;
echo $texte, ' br /' ;
?
The result is : ih
Why ?
It seems to me that str_replace is messing up a litlle bit if there are
identical values in both replacement and search arrays.
Or am I missing something ?
Thanks a lot :-)
Johan
Re: [PHP] .INC files
I do not agree. Not agreeing with Rasmus on a PHP list, can be seriously damaging to your credability, unless you really know what you're talking about and have a solid argument. Having that said, I personally use .inc.php - .inc as Rasmus said, to denote include files, and .php because I couldn't be bothered configuring my editor, to syntax highlight .inc files. There are security arguments to be made for both approaches: - .php (generally)means that any code is parsed as PHP - which generally means that it can't be read as source code. - .inc (generally) means that it won't execute if it is called on its own, so even if it does contain code that shouldn't be run in isolation it won't be run. - how about .inc.php.cgi? (: /me Ducks to avoid flamebashing.) Having that said, I'm about to make the same mistake, by disagreeing(sort of) with someone else on this list, who is generally right: (By the way, it's faster to specify an absolute path to your includes than to rely on include_path. You can save PHP the hassle of searching.) I see what you're saying, but the human time, you lose in keeping track where the include files are, and modding the code, any time it is moved would counteract his. Having that said, I suppose you could define an INCLUDES_DIR constant, and then include(INCLUDES_DIR . /include.ext). Alternatively if the include_path, contained the path that your includes were in, (and only the directory where you put your includes), then php wouldn't have very far to search. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] .INC files
Rory Browne wrote: Alternatively if the include_path, contained the path that your includes were in, (and only the directory where you put your includes), then php wouldn't have very far to search. Well, no real difference between that and just making sure most of your includes are in the first path in the include_path list. It's still an extra stat() syscall to do an include_path check. And by the way, a simple: include 'foo.inc'; is an include_path include which has the extra syscall overhead. By default . is in the include_path. A quick way to track these down is to simple remove . from your include_path and by looking at the errors go through and change all those to: include './foo.inc'; -Rasmus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP 5 Question about OO
On 2 Jun 2005, at 03:00, Richard Lynch wrote: Maybe I'm being dumb, but how can an object's __autoload function get called when the object class definition hasn't been loaded, and that's why you're calling __autoload in the first place... It wouldn't solve everything, but it would help. It solves the case where you have a class library that's quite heavily interconnected, and member functions instantiate other classes in that library (a common arrangement in my experience). By having an __autoload method, you get to at least partly avoid global handler clashes by having one that is specific to that library (it would work well in PEAR). If it is in a base class, then you are safe in the knowledge that any class can find any other in the same library, without tripping over anyone else's arrangements. You would still have to deal with the problem of finding the first class (which a global handler may help, subject to the issues that you've already raised), but once that's done, the problem is over. I don't see why they named it __autoload - the __ prefix is usually reserved for special purpose methods, not global functions. Just plain 'autoload' in a global context is not really anything wildly different in style to say ini_set or error_reporting. Marcus -- Marcus Bointon Synchromedia Limited: Putting you in the picture [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.synchromedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string?
Hi there, I have a bit of strange question: when wanting to insert multiple records into the db, instead of looping through the set and executing mysql_query (which will then call the db n times), is it not better to concat a string with all the insert statements and let mysql handle the inserting, that way we don't call the db n times from php. Does that make any difference? Maybe I am just stupid . Thomas
Re: [PHP] Craig's List Clone part deux
have you looked on sourceforge? there are alot of helpful scripts there, hope this helps. Angelo Zanetti Z Logic www.zlogic.co.za [c] +27 72 441 3355 [t] +27 21 469 1052 Philip Hallstrom wrote: On May 31, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Michael O'Neal wrote: Thanks John. That's one of the reasons I haven't gone that route. The whole operation seemed cheesy to me. I appreciate the feedback though. On Tue, 31 May 2005, Michael O'Neal wrote: Anyone else? I have a hard time believing it's not out there...but I could be wrong!!! I'm trusting you've looked at all 900,000 results here? :-) http://www.google.com/search?q=php+classified+scriptstart=0start=0ie=utf-8oe=utf-8client=firefox-arls=org.mozilla:en-US:official Seems like there is a *lot* out there, but whether or not they are any good is another matter :-) Maybe one of those sites will point you in the right direction. The app itself wouldn't be that hard to develop yourself I don't think... -philip -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Japanese with UTF-8 and mysql
Mark Sargent wrote:
Richard Davey wrote:
Hello Mark,
Monday, May 30, 2005, 4:18:20 PM, you wrote:
MS I have my settings in php.ini set for UTF-8, and the encoding for
MS the mysql database table's column that is using Japanese to UTF-8.
MS Now, if I view the data stored in that column in phpmyadmin, via
MS say, firefox, it displays in UTF-8, but, if I pull the code from
MS the database and display it in a UTF-8 set page, it is just ?
MS marks, although static J text displays fine...any thoughts on
MS this..? Driving me nutz. Cheers.
Are you doing anything to the data after you've pulled it back from
MySQL? Perhaps parsing it, or pushing it through a PHP function that
might convert it back to Latin1? (i.e. using non-overloaded PHP
functions when you should be using the mb functions)
Best regards,
Richard Davey
Hi All,
Richard, please view code provided below. Cheers.
Mark Sargent.
?php
session_start();
include(database.php);
?
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd;
html
head
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=UTF-8 /
titleJumbo Status-Product Details/title
/head
body lang=en
hr
h1 align=centerJUMBO STATUS/h1p
centerUsed Hardware Specialist/center
centera href=index.phpHome/a/center centera
href=search.phpSearch/a/center
hr
table align=center bgcolor=lightblue cellpadding=2 border=2
width=60%
?php
if (isset($_REQUEST[product_id])) {
$product_id = $_REQUEST[product_id];
$result = mysql_query(SELECT Products.product_id,
Products.product_name, Products.product_model_number,
Products.product_price, Products.product_qty, Products.product_desc,
Products.product_data_output, Conditions.condition_detail FROM Products
INNER JOIN Conditions On Products.condition_id = Conditions.condition_id
WHERE Products.product_id = '$product_id');
I don't know if you noticed, but $_REQUEST[product_id] (and thus
$product_id have *enormous* SQL-injection capabilities. Imagine someone
sending product_id=1';DROP TABLE Products, Conditions;, do you see the
problem? You should never ever trsut any user-input, scan it, reform it,
make sure it's what you expect, before using it.
if (!$result) {
echo Query failed: . mysql_error();
exit;
}
$num = mysql_num_rows($result);
$rows = mysql_fetch_array($result);
echo tr align=\center\td colspan=\4\Status-Product
Details/td/tr;
}
for ($i=0; $i$num; $i++){
echo tr align=\center\tdPRODUCT
NAME/tdtd.$rows['product_name']./tdbrtr
align=\center\tdQUANTITY/tdtd.$rows['product_qty']./td/trbrtr
align=\center\tdPRICE/tdtd.$rows['product_price
yen']./td/trbrtr
align=\center\tdCONDITION/tdtd.$rows['product_condition']./td/trtr
align=\center\td colspan=\2\MORE DETAILS/td/trtr
align=\center\td
colspan=\2\.$rows['product_desc']./td/trtr
align=\center\td colspan=\2\DATA OUTPUT/td/trtr
align=\center\td
colspan=\2\.$rows['product_data_output']./td/tr;
}
?
/table
p
p
p
hrcenteremail: p
Telephone: p
Fax:
/center
/body
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RE: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string?
Thomas, If you're inserting alot of rows, (eg millions) then concating them and calling the db once probably would give a small speed advantage, because of the database handshaking. But I would look at the load the database is under, if there is alot of users hitting the database with small inserts/queries then the database is going to suffer as opposed to the same number of users hitting the database once with a script. The only problem I can think of, from php (client) point of view, if the script (concated inserts) errors, then you will need to handle where it went wrong, if it was loop, you know exactly what went wrong by outputing the current insert statement. C. -Original Message- From: Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 June 2005 10:20 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string? Hi there, I have a bit of strange question: when wanting to insert multiple records into the db, instead of looping through the set and executing mysql_query (which will then call the db n times), is it not better to concat a string with all the insert statements and let mysql handle the inserting, that way we don't call the db n times from php. Does that make any difference? Maybe I am just stupid . Thomas This message has been delivered to the Internet by the Revenue Internet e-mail service * -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] TEST
gmail doesn't show you your own posts why is that?? Angelo Zanetti Z Logic www.zlogic.co.za -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string?
Hello Thomas, Thursday, June 2, 2005, 10:20:11 AM, you wrote: T I have a bit of strange question: when wanting to insert multiple T records into the db, instead of looping through the set and T executing mysql_query (which will then call the db n times), is it T not better to concat a string with all the insert statements and T let mysql handle the inserting, that way we don't call the db n T times from php. Does that make any difference? Sure.. mysql_query doesn't support more than one query in the sql statement. If you want to do that then upgrade to PHP 5 (if you're not using it already) and use mysqli_multi_query instead. I guess packages like Pear DB may offer similar functionality, but I don't know for certain. Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. - Isaac Asimov -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Accessing DLL from PHP
Hi list I do not have much programming experience outside some PHP stuff so please excuse a stupid question: I have a DLL provided to me by a third-party with a small bit of documentation regarding its structure and methods. The DLL caculates event costs based on parameters passed to it. I would like to access this DLL using PHP if possible. I have RTFM, and I am still busy STFW and STFA, but the little bit that I have found has lead me towards trying to understand COM (eek!). Before I go down that particular garden path, I would like to know if there is any chance of success with PHP, or should I look at non-PHP alternatives to access the DLL (e.g. C?) Regards Rory -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re[2]: [PHP] Japanese with UTF-8 and mysql
Hello Mark,
Thursday, June 2, 2005, 4:18:30 AM, you wrote:
MS ?php
MS session_start();
MS include(database.php);
?
I would recommend setting UTF-8 as the Content-type via PHP itself:
header('Content-type: UTF-8') - do it as one of the first things when
you're ready to output the HTML.
MS !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN
MS http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd;
This may well be a cause of the problem - your HTML doesn't look like
it's XTHML Strict compatible at all, so browsers are going to
re-render it (IE into Quirks mode). I would remove the DocType for now
or fix the mark-up errors.
MS ?php
MS if (isset($_REQUEST[product_id])) {
MS$product_id = $_REQUEST[product_id];
See the previous reply about why this isn't safe, but also it should
be: $_REQUEST['product_id'] (note the quotes) to avoid PHP scanning
for constants.
MS for ($i=0; $i$num; $i++){
MS echo tr align=\center\tdPRODUCT
MS NAME/tdtd.$rows['product_name']./tdbrtr
From a code point of view this is correct. Let's check a few obvious
things: does PHP have the mb extension installed? If so what is the
default character-set in php.ini?
Best regards,
Richard Davey
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RE: [PHP] dynamic drop down
The dropdown list is on the client (browser). Javascript runs on the client. PHP runs on the server. You have 2 options - one is to do as Richard says and use javascript to change the contents of one select box when an option is selected in another. - the other is to refresh the page when the option is selected and write different data into the second select box based on the option selected. This is a question of using echo and iterating through the data you wish to output. -Original Message- From: Danny Brow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 June 2005 07:08 To: PHP-Users Subject: Re: [PHP] dynamic drop down On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 22:08 -0700, Richard Lynch wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2005 8:48 pm, Danny Brow said: Could someone point me to an example with code for dynamic drop downs in PHP? I would like to be able to have drop downs like Select Country and another drop down show the states/provinces based on the selected country. Well, the dynamic part of it isn't gonna be in PHP at all ; It's gonna be JavaScript. I thought I'd have to use JS, but was hoping someone knew a way to do it with PHP. You can Google for JavaScript dynamic menus to find what you want. Then you just need to use PHP to spew out the JavaScript you want to spew out, but that's no different than spewing out the HTML you want to spew out, really. Tons on google, thanks, Dan. Gamma Global : Suppliers of HPCompaq, IBM, Acer, EPI, APC, Cyclades, D-Link, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, 3Com GAMMA GLOBAL (UK) LTD IS A RECOGNISED 'INVESTOR IN PEOPLE' AND REGISTERED FOR ISO 9001:2000 CERTIFICATION ** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This Email is confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender IMMEDIATELY; you should not copy the email or use it for any purpose or disclose its contents to any other person. GENERAL STATEMENT: Any statements made, or intentions expressed in this communication may not necessarily reflect the view of Gamma Global (UK) Ltd. Be advised that no content herein may be held binding upon Gamma Global (UK) Ltd or any associated company unless confirmed by the issuance of a formal contractual document or Purchase Order, subject to our Terms and Conditions available from http://www.gammaglobal.com EOE ** ** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string?
Thomas, I am not sure what database you are using, but there was a previous email thread about using execQuery($concatstring) for mySQL, which apparently worked. Make sure that your insert statements end with the standard line terminator character, usually ';'. Personally, I would output the statements to a file, then use the cmd line function for executing .sql files for that database. You could execute this from php by using the shell_exec function. This is so I could look at the executed sql file and find where the error is, I'm not a big fan of debugging in php. C. -Original Message- From: Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 June 2005 12:20 To: Shaw, Chris - Accenture Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string? * This e-mail has been received by the Revenue Internet e-mail service. * Hi Chris, Thanks, I thought so. You are quite right with the errors, I ran into some where it looked like that php does not allow you to execute such a concated string ... the error started at the second insert statement with no apparent reason. Is that a ph restriction? Thomas -Original Message- From: Shaw, Chris - Accenture [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 June 2005 12:20 PM To: Thomas; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string? Thomas, If you're inserting alot of rows, (eg millions) then concating them and calling the db once probably would give a small speed advantage, because of the database handshaking. But I would look at the load the database is under, if there is alot of users hitting the database with small inserts/queries then the database is going to suffer as opposed to the same number of users hitting the database once with a script. The only problem I can think of, from php (client) point of view, if the script (concated inserts) errors, then you will need to handle where it went wrong, if it was loop, you know exactly what went wrong by outputing the current insert statement. C. -Original Message- From: Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 June 2005 10:20 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string? Hi there, I have a bit of strange question: when wanting to insert multiple records into the db, instead of looping through the set and executing mysql_query (which will then call the db n times), is it not better to concat a string with all the insert statements and let mysql handle the inserting, that way we don't call the db n times from php. Does that make any difference? Maybe I am just stupid . Thomas This message has been delivered to the Internet by the Revenue Internet e-mail service * -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php This message has been delivered to the Internet by the Revenue Internet e-mail service * -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] TEST
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Re: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string?
Richard Davey wrote: snip Sure.. mysql_query doesn't support more than one query in the sql statement. snip At the risk of being thick, does the OP not mean something like this: INSERT INTO blah VALUES (value1, value2), (value3, value4) versus INSERT INTO blah VALUES (value1, value2) next iteration INSERT INTO blah VALUES (value3, value4) Regards Rory -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP 5 Question about OO
On 2 Jun 2005, at 11:56, Colin Ross wrote: The way I see it, you are gonna be spending quite a bit of time writing all those lines of code for the class, what is bad about another requiring the file each time? Huh? Writing a 1-line function in a base class means that I would never have to write another require anywhere in my library (other to include the base class of course, which could conceivably be picked up by a global autoload anyway). Each of my 50-odd classes probably talks to 5 other classes in the library, giving a net saving of 250 lines. How is that bad? (I am talking hypothetically anyway as we don't have autoload methods at present). This thread is meant to be about how to improve automatic include file location - saying not to try to do it at all is not very helpful. Marcus -- Marcus Bointon Synchromedia Limited: Putting you in the picture [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.synchromedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP 5 Question about OO
Richard Lynch wrote:
On Wed, June 1, 2005 3:53 am, Marcus Bointon said:
On 1 Jun 2005, at 11:38, Jochem Maas wrote:
all true, now imagine that you install a couple of 3rdparty php5
'packages'
and they all define __autoload() - ain't gonna work! which is why
there has been
discussion on internals regarding the possibility of use a handler-
function stack
for autoloading (in the same way that you can register a stack of
input/output
filter-function)... something to keep an eye on in case things
change :-)
I've run into this one. One way that would work for me (and initially
it's how I assumed it worked) is for __autoload to be a standard
class method like __construct, so that a class would attempt to run
its own autoloader before breaking out to the global function namespace.
Maybe I'm being dumb, but how can an object's __autoload function get
called when the object class definition hasn't been loaded, and that's why
you're calling __autoload in the first place...
That seems like classic chicken/egg situation to me...
that was my first reaction, but then I thought what if the __autoload()
function was called when 'any' class needed to be included while running
code inside said class... that _might_ actually be useful
at any rate the __autoload() issue is still very much undecided :-)
It's also incredibly likely that __autoload's being stacked won't work
out too well.
Consider this:
foo software defines an __autoload
Some foo_* classes get defined, autoloaded, everybody's happy.
bar software defines an __autoload
Some bar_* classes get defined, autoloaded, everybody's happy.
Now some foo_* classes try to get instantiated, for whateve reason.
bar's __autoload function is gonna kick, and that ain't good for foo_*
Seems to me you'd need an array of regular expressions and the function to
call:
array('foo_*'='foo__autoload', 'bar_*'='bar__autoload')
if you wanted to allow multiple __autoload functions to exist...
I'm sure there are other ideas/solutions floating around, but that's A
possibility.
For performance, maybe just use stristr and 'foo_' instead of RegEx and
'foo_*' [shrug]
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RE: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string?
Hi Chris, Thanks, I thought so. You are quite right with the errors, I ran into some where it looked like that php does not allow you to execute such a concated string ... the error started at the second insert statement with no apparent reason. Is that a ph restriction? Thomas -Original Message- From: Shaw, Chris - Accenture [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 June 2005 12:20 PM To: Thomas; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string? Thomas, If you're inserting alot of rows, (eg millions) then concating them and calling the db once probably would give a small speed advantage, because of the database handshaking. But I would look at the load the database is under, if there is alot of users hitting the database with small inserts/queries then the database is going to suffer as opposed to the same number of users hitting the database once with a script. The only problem I can think of, from php (client) point of view, if the script (concated inserts) errors, then you will need to handle where it went wrong, if it was loop, you know exactly what went wrong by outputing the current insert statement. C. -Original Message- From: Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 June 2005 10:20 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string? Hi there, I have a bit of strange question: when wanting to insert multiple records into the db, instead of looping through the set and executing mysql_query (which will then call the db n times), is it not better to concat a string with all the insert statements and let mysql handle the inserting, that way we don't call the db n times from php. Does that make any difference? Maybe I am just stupid . Thomas This message has been delivered to the Internet by the Revenue Internet e-mail service * -- 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] Multiple inserts as a single string?
Thanks Richard that makes it clear. Thomas -Original Message- From: Richard Davey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 June 2005 12:43 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string? Hello Thomas, Thursday, June 2, 2005, 10:20:11 AM, you wrote: T I have a bit of strange question: when wanting to insert multiple T records into the db, instead of looping through the set and T executing mysql_query (which will then call the db n times), is it T not better to concat a string with all the insert statements and T let mysql handle the inserting, that way we don't call the db n T times from php. Does that make any difference? Sure.. mysql_query doesn't support more than one query in the sql statement. If you want to do that then upgrade to PHP 5 (if you're not using it already) and use mysqli_multi_query instead. I guess packages like Pear DB may offer similar functionality, but I don't know for certain. Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. - Isaac Asimov -- 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] Quick q, most prolly 0T
Ryan A wrote: Hey, On 6/2/2005 5:17:47 AM, Richard Lynch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: URL re-writing can do that -- It ends up using his 'index' file (or whatever) but you don't see it in the URL. Thanks for replying. But if I want to copy his exact way of doing things...instead of index file I would like to use main.phphow would i do that? The reason I dont think its url rewriting is the rest of the files have all AFAIK there is no definite way to tell what he is doing behind the scenes. their values eg: somesite.com/?blah=blah somesite.com/?something=somethingdo=1 somesite.com/?page=introflash=no you can do the rewrite trick in php. make sure everything goes via the index. (easy) make sure 404's are handled by your index. (use .htaccess) if you have a '404' first parse the complete request to determine if you have some content to show based on what every you found in the request, if you do then make the 404 handler spit out a 200 Status header along with what ever output you have for the user -- other you have a real 404 to deal with. I have used such a schema to allow a user to define in a DB what 'nice URLs' should link to particular articles etc. e.g. the real URL is http://example.com/arts/article.php?id=345bar=foo the DB is configured to match: http://example.com/arts/article.php?id=345bar=foo with http://example.com/urlrewritten.html (I have it so that the URL query params in the 'real URL' are parsed and initialized before the real file [arts/article.php] is included) My php 404 handler sees the user requested 'http://example.com/urlrewritten.html' finds the match in the DB, loads the relevant GET args and includes/runs the script. thew backend might be hacky-as- but in terms of SEO it really works well! (and it beats trying to teach my dad to SSH into a webserver and edit a .htaccess full of rewrite engine declarations! :-) etc Thanks, Ryan On Wed, June 1, 2005 7:25 pm, Ryan A said: Hey, I noticed a site that is using php, but he is has shortened the url so that the filename was not shown.. eg: somesite.com/?a=1 How did they do that? if it was url rewriting it would be somesite.com/1/ so what is he using? Thanks, Ryan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.4.0 - Release Date: 6/1/2005 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] .INC files
Richard Lynch wrote: On Wed, June 1, 2005 1:29 am, Denis Gerasimov said: Second, which way are you differ PHP .inc files from HTML .inc files? There is no such thing as an HTML .inc file. :-) All your HTML .inc files, by definition, if they are being require'd or include'd into PHP *are* PHP .inc files. It is merely a coincidence of your design that they happen to have no ?php ? tags in them. You *MAY* want to separate those into another other non-web tree directory. Third, I always write context-independent include files. Example?... Can you guarantee that ever .inc and .inc.php and .php file in every third-party application is context-independent? Suppose your client insists tomorrow that you install [insert least favority forum software here]? You *NEED* to have the policy/procedure in place to get those .inc and .inc.php and non-entry .php files *OUT* of the web-tree, or you will get bit, sooner or later. It's simply too easy to transfer a site and lose the .htaccess files, or I've been bitten by that :-) so what I often do now is use a 'root' .htaccess to define my include_path, without it the whole site does nothing except go 'argh' at the first line of each script that can be calledthe first line always being 'include '; so now I don't forget to copy the .htaccess. ;-) also this approach makes it easier to check out a project from CVS and get it running whereever - you just need to create/edit (.htaccess don't live in my CVS for the very reason that they are specific to a given checkout/installation) a suitable .htaccess and the site goes. it's been a great week for tips and advice from the 'big guns' - thanks to you all, I really have learnt alot this week! (who are big guns? well their names are either splattered all over the source or they have been hammering this list with knowledge for years or both! yes you too Richard ;-) for a new/changed httpd.conf to not have the .inc rules or mess up PHP completely or... Why risk the possibility of your code being exposed or executed out of context when it's so *EASY* to move the include files and set include_path? I just don't understand the resistance to such a simple straight-forward elegant security measure. For 5 minutes of time, you can avoid dozens of potential pitfalls. [shrug] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Accessing DLL from PHP
I'm not too sure, but that sounds like a job for ffi. I think you'll find ffi at pecl.php.net, although, be warned that I've never used ffi, nor have I read any reports as to how well it worked. On 6/2/05, Rory McKinley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list I do not have much programming experience outside some PHP stuff so please excuse a stupid question: I have a DLL provided to me by a third-party with a small bit of documentation regarding its structure and methods. The DLL caculates event costs based on parameters passed to it. I would like to access this DLL using PHP if possible. I have RTFM, and I am still busy STFW and STFA, but the little bit that I have found has lead me towards trying to understand COM (eek!). Does the module you're trying to access have a COM interface? If not, then this is a non-runner. Regards Rory (seriously) Before I go down that particular garden path, I would like to know if there is any chance of success with PHP, or should I look at non-PHP alternatives to access the DLL (e.g. C?) Regards Rory -- 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] Accessing DLL from PHP
perhaps the system command is what you are looking for? its in the manual. just search in the manual for it... Hope this helps Angelo Zanetti Z Logic www.zlogic.co.za Rory McKinley wrote: Hi list I do not have much programming experience outside some PHP stuff so please excuse a stupid question: I have a DLL provided to me by a third-party with a small bit of documentation regarding its structure and methods. The DLL caculates event costs based on parameters passed to it. I would like to access this DLL using PHP if possible. I have RTFM, and I am still busy STFW and STFA, but the little bit that I have found has lead me towards trying to understand COM (eek!). Before I go down that particular garden path, I would like to know if there is any chance of success with PHP, or should I look at non-PHP alternatives to access the DLL (e.g. C?) Regards Rory -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Quick q, most prolly 0T
Hi Chris, Thanks for replying I noticed a site that is using php, but he is has shortened the url so that the filename was not shown.. eg: somesite.com/?a=1 How did they do that? It's called a directory index. Examples include index.html and index.php. You configure this with the DirectoryIndex directive in httpd.conf. I did see the directory index in the httpd.conf file, but let me explain a bit more about what I am trying to do. Basically I am waiting for the client to pay me...till he does, I am displaying the index page which is a under construction page...but he also wants to play with the site so I need to direct all calls to main.php...but i dont want to show the client that he is going to main.php so I wanted to use it like this clientssite.com/?do=blah Thanks, Ryan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.4.0 - Release Date: 6/1/2005 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string?
Thanks Richard that makes it clear. Thomas Hello Thomas, Thursday, June 2, 2005, 10:20:11 AM, you wrote: T I have a bit of strange question: when wanting to insert multiple T records into the db, instead of looping through the set and executing T mysql_query (which will then call the db n times), is it not better T to concat a string with all the insert statements and let mysql T handle the inserting, that way we don't call the db n times from php. T Does that make any difference? Inserting multiple rows with one INSERT statement is part of the SQL standard (IIRC), and MySQL supports it. INSERT INTO table(a,b) VALUES (1,1), (2,2), (3,3), ... ,(n, n) Jared -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP 5 Question about OO
Jochem Maas wrote: Richard Lynch wrote: On Wed, June 1, 2005 3:53 am, Marcus Bointon said: On 1 Jun 2005, at 11:38, Jochem Maas wrote: all true, now imagine that you install a couple of 3rdparty php5 'packages' and they all define __autoload() - ain't gonna work! which is why there has been discussion on internals regarding the possibility of use a handler- function stack for autoloading (in the same way that you can register a stack of input/output filter-function)... something to keep an eye on in case things change :-) I've run into this one. One way that would work for me (and initially it's how I assumed it worked) is for __autoload to be a standard class method like __construct, so that a class would attempt to run its own autoloader before breaking out to the global function namespace. Maybe I'm being dumb, but how can an object's __autoload function get called when the object class definition hasn't been loaded, and that's why you're calling __autoload in the first place... That seems like classic chicken/egg situation to me... that was my first reaction, but then I thought what if the __autoload() function was called when 'any' class needed to be included while running code inside said class... that _might_ actually be useful at any rate the __autoload() issue is still very much undecided :-) I opened up a feature request for this very topic a while back. The __autoload function should just register user-defined functions and store those func names in a stack so that (in turn) each function can require the appropriate file. If the first registered function fails to load the class then __autoload tries the next registered fucntion and so on until all of the registered functions have been tried. At this point if __autoload fails then we E_ERROR out explaining that __autoload could not load the class definition. As far as I can tell this is the cleanest solution that has been provided, but there is some disagreement over some of the details on this approach. just_kiddingLife would be so much easier if everyone just did things like the PEAR coders do/just_kidding -- Teach a man to fish... NEW? | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html STFA | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-generalw=2 STFM | http://php.net/manual/en/index.php STFW | http://www.google.com/search?q=php LAZY | http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=PHPsubmitform=Find+search+plugins -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] what is -- $this variable - $this other variable -- means?
thanks for your responses, your comments have lead me to: http://php.mirrors.ilisys.com.au/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php and http://php.mirrors.ilisys.com.au/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php which certainly explain what I was after. Thanks! -- ...helmut helmutgranda.com Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, June 1, 2005 12:43 pm, ...helmut said: $this variable - $this other variable Means? I have seen it and i have used but I am not sure what exactly it means in regular English or Spanish wording that is. In Computer Science it is known as: slot property member variable depending on which language you use (Lisp, Scheme, C++, PHP, ...) Dunno what it would be in English, much less Spanish. It really isn't all that different from PHP's array indices, though in other languages the differences are magnified between an array element and - There are also funky things you can do (in PHP, even) to trigger action (code) when somebody accesses/reads a slot, or stores data/writes to a slot. If you Google for Object Oriented and Properties, Slots, Member Variables in various combinations you should find a ton of info. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Accessing DLL from PHP
Hello Rory, Thursday, June 2, 2005, 11:53:56 AM, you wrote: RM I have RTFM, and I am still busy STFW and STFA, but the little bit RM that I have found has lead me towards trying to understand COM RM (eek!). Before I go down that particular garden path, I would like RM to know if there is any chance of success with PHP, or should I RM look at non-PHP alternatives to access the DLL (e.g. C?) If the DLL has a COM interface then you can use PHP to talk to it, the process is actually quite straight forward (depending on what the DLL actually does of course). Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. - Isaac Asimov -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re[2]: [PHP] Accessing DLL from PHP
Hello Angelo, Thursday, June 2, 2005, 1:55:01 PM, you wrote: AZ perhaps the system command is what you are looking for? For calling functions within a DLL?? I don't think so. All system() does is to execute a command/executable. If the OP was to interface with this DLL from an exe, then this would be possible, but bear in mind the PHP memory limit - it extends to anything called via system too. If you're going to pay someone to create the exe in the first place they might as well build a COM interface for it to avoid this issue. Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. - Isaac Asimov -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] str_replace weird output
On Thursday 02 June 2005 09:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But if I do that :
?php
$texte = 'cd' ;
$original = array('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g');
$modif = array ('c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i');
$texte = str_replace($original, $modif, $texte) ;
echo $texte, ' br /' ;
?
The result is : ih
Why ?
You should know that, unless you tell php to limit the number of replaces, it
will keep on replacing until it doesn't find a match anymore.
Here is what happens:
?php
$texte = 'cd' ;
$original = array('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g');
$modif = array ('c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i');
$texte = str_replace($original, $modif, $texte) ;
#after first replacement
$texte='ef'
#after 2nd replacement
$texte='gh'
#after third replacement
$texte='ih';
If you want to prevent this, tell the function that you only want 2
replacements. Like this:
$limite=2;
$texte=str_replace($original,$modif,$texte,$limite);
Hope this helps
With kind regards
ps: the php documentation is also available in French. Check out:
http://fr2.php.net/manual/fr/function.str-replace.php for more info on
str_replace
Andy
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Re: [PHP] What Works Works Validator
Hello Richard, Wednesday, June 1, 2005, 3:16:50 PM, you wrote: R Does anybody know of a What Works Works Validator which checks R for maxiumum browser compatibility rather than the W3C standard? E. Got it listed on my XHTML test page at: http://www.devtek.org/test (In the resources section about validation services). I think it was the Hermish one. http://www.hermish.com/ Sorry, gotta run to pick up my daughter or I'd have checked it for you. -- Leif (TB lists moderator and fellow end user). Using The Bat! 3.5.24 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 on a Pentium 4 2GHz with 512MB -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Accessing DLL from PHP
Richard Davey wrote: snip If the DLL has a COM interface then you can use PHP to talk to it, the process is actually quite straight forward (depending on what the DLL actually does of course). Best regards, Richard Davey snip Hi Richard Rory (the other one ;) ) also mentioned a COM interface - currently I am trying to find out if such a beast exists for the DLL, there is nothing in the documentation. I would be interested to know if there was an easy way to found out - still STFW though. Have downloaded ffi as per Rory's suggestion, from the attached documentation it looks as if it may be doable if the COM route doesn't pan out. Regards Rory -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Questionary Development - Continued
That being the case, you may want to consider ajax, so that users answers are recorded as soon as they make them. What's 'ajax'? Link please? thnx, Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Using GET to build multiple sql queries
I'd love some help with http://hashphp.org/pastebin?pid=3443 if anyone can... Basically I want to make it so that, if the get in the url specifies no query or a query to a nonexistent row, send to vanilla index. If url specifies c= then set $c=c and use the number to build the mysql query; same for p= and s= - if they're valid build the query, if not kick em out. Can anyone offer any help? Thanks in advance! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP 5 Question about OO
Jason Barnett wrote: Jochem Maas wrote: Richard Lynch wrote: On Wed, June 1, 2005 3:53 am, Marcus Bointon said: On 1 Jun 2005, at 11:38, Jochem Maas wrote: ... I opened up a feature request for this very topic a while back. The __autoload function should just register user-defined functions and store those func names in a stack so that (in turn) each function can require the appropriate file. If the first registered function fails to load the class then __autoload tries the next registered fucntion and so on until all of the registered functions have been tried. At this point if __autoload fails then we E_ERROR out explaining that __autoload could not load the class definition. As far as I can tell this is the cleanest solution that has been provided, but there is some disagreement over some of the details on this approach. agreed, but as you point out - the devil is in the details. :-) just_kiddingLife would be so much easier if everyone just did things like the PEAR coders do/just_kidding say-it-like-a-piratethat be fightin' talk m'friend ;-)/say-it-like-a-pirate -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] OO DB in PHP?
When you have objects stored on disk, it's usually very convenient to read them on demand. However, MySQL is clearly not meant for this purpose. Query overhead, complexity of SQL needed, and some other limitation make object storage and retrieval a headache. The question is, is it possible to write reasonably efficient OO database in php? Two main factors would be: 1) Is is possible to make fast B-tree index search without writing any C code? 2)How long does it takes for PHP to open 1 file? (It will need to open hundreds of them.) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Questionary Development - Continued
On 6/2/05, Chris Boget [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That being the case, you may want to consider ajax, so that users answers are recorded as soon as they make them. What's 'ajax'? Link please? www.google.com thnx, Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Delay?
Has anyone else noticed significant delays in messages getting posted? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Questionary Development - Continued
Sorry I thought I'd sent this to the list. On 6/1/05, Rory Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php www.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX On 6/1/05, Ryan A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That being the case, you may want to consider ajax, so that users answers are recorded as soon as they make them. Hey Rory, Got the URL to Ajax? I'm just kinda curiousnever know when I might need something like this. Thanks, Ryan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.3.1 - Release Date: 5/31/2005 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re[2]: [PHP] Questionary Development - Continued
Hello Chris, Thursday, June 2, 2005, 4:43:09 PM, you wrote: That being the case, you may want to consider ajax, so that users answers are recorded as soon as they make them. CB What's 'ajax'? Link please? It's a way of using the XML HTTP Request object in JavaScript to provide a very dynamic instant web experience without page reloads (there are compatability caveats of course, but name me a technology that doesn't have this). XML HTTP Request info here: http://jibbering.com/2002/4/httprequest.html Very easy to use PHP interface: http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/ Some superb examples of AJAX in action: http://www.forgetfoo.com Look at areas like the calendar, image gallery, etc - looks almost Flash quality doesn't it? Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. - Isaac Asimov -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP 5 Question about OO
Maybe it's just me, but the core concept of __autoload() seems to be broken to me. Moreover, every proposed solution I've heard about is totally inside the box. I would do it like this: 1) Define $_AUTOLOAD superglobal. 2) If I need SomeClass to be autoloaded I write this: $_AUTOLOAD['SomeClass'] = 'some/dir/some_classs.php'; 3) If I care, I could check whether $_AUTOLOAD['SomeClass'] is already set and generate an error. This would mimic Java behaviour (it's about competing with Java, is it?) without creating artificial headache for programmers. But wait! What do I know? This will cbreak BC; moreover, BC will be broken by this. Forget I said something. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] OO DB in PHP?
On 6/2/05, GamblerZG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you have objects stored on disk, it's usually very convenient to read them on demand. However, MySQL is clearly not meant for this purpose. A serialized PHP object is just a string of data. MySQL is a very fast `data`base, so I don't quite understand this statement. Query overhead, complexity of SQL needed, and some other limitation make object storage and retrieval a headache. Did you have some code that you need help debugging? The question is, is it possible to write reasonably efficient OO database in php? I don't use objects in web applications. In my experience the overhead involved in creating an object for the extremely short lifetime it has is overkill. Two main factors would be: 1) Is is possible to make fast B-tree index search without writing any C code? MySQL supports btree indexes for MyISAM and InnoDB table types. 2)How long does it takes for PHP to open 1 file? (It will need to open hundreds of them.) Depends on your hardware, not so much PHP. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] sanitizing get vars
what is a safe way to clean a post/get before echoing it. example. input form, user enters some text, hits enter. .. next page i echo what they entered. right now i just run the variables passed by htmlentities() which preseves any html. is that acceptable? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Questionary Development - Continued
On 6/2/05, Chris Boget [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's 'ajax'? Link please? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX I've been playing with it using Ruby on Rails, it's built-in. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Using GET to build multiple sql queries
On 6/2/05, Jack Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd love some help with http://hashphp.org/pastebin?pid=3443 if anyone
can...
Basically I want to make it so that, if the get in the url specifies no
query or a query to a nonexistent row, send to vanilla index. If url
specifies c= then set $c=c and use the number to build the mysql query;
same for p= and s= - if they're valid build the query, if not kick em out.
Can anyone offer any help?
I'd iterate over the $_GET array to build the query elements. Then
implode those elements.
$array = array();
while( list( $k, $v ) = each( $_GET ) )
{
if( $k == 'somekeynotindb' )
{
continue;
}
$array[] = $k . =' . $v . ';
}
if( $array )
{
$and = implode( ', ', $array );
}
$sql =
SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE 1
$and
;
$query = mysql_query( $sql );
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Re: [PHP] Delay?
yea.. takes hours... sometimes 6+ or more. i dont post that much to the list for this reason.. if it stays like this i'll just unsubscribe.. its pointless... this is suppose to be E-mail, not post office mail. Jack Jackson wrote: Has anyone else noticed significant delays in messages getting posted? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Delay?
Hello Jack, Thursday, June 2, 2005, 5:24:26 PM, you wrote: JJ Has anyone else noticed significant delays in messages getting posted? Yes. My last post took just under 1 hour! I copied this to you as well to prove the point :) Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. - Isaac Asimov -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Delay?
Jack Jackson wrote: Has anyone else noticed significant delays in messages getting posted? No, no delay on my end. So... any word on the release date for PHP 3? -- jason sweeney jason.designshift.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] sanitizing get vars
On 6/2/05, Sebastian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what is a safe way to clean a post/get before echoing it.
example. input form, user enters some text, hits enter.
set_magic_quotes_runtime( 0 );
if( get_magic_quotes_gpc() == 0 )
{
$_GET= isset( $_GET )? array_map( 'slashes', $_GET ) : array();
$_POST = isset( $_POST ) ? array_map( 'slashes', $_POST ): array();
$_COOKIE = isset( $_COOKIE ) ? array_map( 'slashes', $_COOKIE ) : array();
}
function slashes( $var )
{
if( is_array( $var ) )
{
return array_map( 'slashes', $var );
}
return addslashes( $var );
}
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Re: [PHP] OO DB in PHP?
Did you have some code that you need help debugging? Since you have asked... http://fs.net/projects/naturalgine Could you please download the latest version, open tools/objects.php and look at getObjects() function? Just take a look at it, and you will undesrstand what am I talking about, and why I don't want to use mySQL. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: OO DB in PHP?
Hello, on 06/02/2005 12:37 PM GamblerZG said the following: When you have objects stored on disk, it's usually very convenient to read them on demand. However, MySQL is clearly not meant for this purpose. Query overhead, complexity of SQL needed, and some other limitation make object storage and retrieval a headache. Not if you use an efficient object-relational tool. You may want to take a look at Metastorage. This is a tool that generates efficient persistent object classes from a model definition in a simple XML format of classes, variables, relationships, validation rules, functions to manipulate the objects. Then Metastorage generates classes of persistent objects that perform the necessary object-relational mapping that you can use right away in your applications. It supports its own Object Query Language (OQL) so you can express object search and filter conditions, that may include parameter values passed to your persistent object classes at runtime. Metastorage compiles the OQL expressions into efficient SQL that is embedded into the generate PHP code of the persistent object classes. You may find all about Metastorage here: http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html Screenshots of the Web interface of Metastorage compiler http://www.meta-language.net/screenshots.html Documentation with tutorials and examples http://www.meta-language.net/documentation.html#metastorage Download http://www.meta-language.net/download.html -- Regards, Manuel Lemos PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ PHP Reviews - Reviews of PHP books and other products http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/ Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP 5 Question about OO
On 6/2/05, GamblerZG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe it's just me, but the core concept of __autoload() seems to be
broken to me. Moreover, every proposed solution I've heard about is
totally inside the box. I would do it like this:
1) Define $_AUTOLOAD superglobal.
When forced to do OO, I use it like this:
function __autoload( $class )
{
require_once( $GLOBALS[LIB_PATH]/$class.class.php );
}
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[PHP] Best way to use other objects within classes?
Hi All,
I'm using the MDB2 object to access my MySQL database. I have a number
of classes that perform page-building activities that need db access,
and I'm wondering what the best way to expose the MDB2 object to them is?
(Note: my development environment is PHP 5.0.3, but the production
environment is 4.3.10. This is my first project built with 5.x local and
4.1.x remote, so if anyone with more experience spots any fatal flaws
where I'm using 5.x specific methods etc, I'd appreciate knowing about them)
Currently, I'm instantiating the MDB2 class in my main page, then
passing it as an object reference to each of the other classes that
require it.
A simple representation of my main page and a class would be:
?
$db = connectMDB2(); // function that returns instantiated MDB2 object
$comments = new displayComments(); // class that performs displaying
of comments
$comments-set_db($db); // passing the MDB2 object to the class
$comments-doSomethingElse();
?
The displayComments() class might then look something like:
class displayComments{
private $db;
public function set_db($db){
$this-db = $db;
}
public function doSomethingElse(){
$sql = SELECT something FROM sometable;
$rs = $this-db-query($sql);
while ($row = $rs-fetchRow(MDB2_FETCHMODE_OBJECT)){
echo $row-something.br /;
}
$rs-free();
}
}
My main page calls on at least 8 or 9 such classes as it is being built,
and I'm concerned that I may not be handling the MDB2 object in respect
to them in the most efficient way possible. In a way, I guess this isn't
specifically about the MDB2 package, but more about how to handle
objects when they are required within classes.
I'd very much appreciate any comments or advice anyone might be able to
give.
Much warmth,
Murray
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Re: [PHP] Delay?
Has anyone else noticed significant delays in messages getting posted? No, no delay on my end. At least 4hrs on my end... thnx, Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] sanitizing get vars
set_magic_quotes_runtime( 0 ); This is for database, not for showing data in browser. For browser you need to kill all unknow tags and all unknown properties of known tags. Afterwards, you need to prepend http:// to any urls that have unknow protocols. Alternatively, you can make sure that data diplayed to user is submitted by the same user. Example of the former method: http://token.by.ru/ksscripts/htmlparser6.txt -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Delay?
Sebastian wrote: yea.. takes hours... sometimes 6+ or more. i dont post that much to the list for this reason.. if it stays like this i'll just unsubscribe.. its pointless... this is suppose to be E-mail, not post office mail. I don't understand why everyone like these mailing lists so much. Web-forums more convenient. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Unit testing ?
Hi, I am trying the phpunit2 for unit testing but the examples found in the documentation are few and do not address, for example, tests when database access is involved. Perhaps this belongs to a more general question (i.e strategies for unit testing) so any urls, docs would be great. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Exporting to MS Word or Excel
Hi!!! Are there any chances that I could export a dynamic created web page into MS Word or Excel? I know this can be done with PDF!! I'm using LAMP!! --- Miguel Guirao Aguilera Logistica R8 TELCEL Tel. (999) 960.7994 Cel. 9931 600. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] sanitizing get vars
Sebastian wrote: what is a safe way to clean a post/get before echoing it. There are two steps that you're lumping into one. Sanitizing and cleaning are informal terms for filtering, and this is an inspection process where you inspect data to be sure that it's valid. You should do this with any input, regardless of the source. You need to escape data to prepare it for output. When you're sending data to the client (echo), you want to use htmlentities(). If possible, specify your character encoding (see http://php.net/htmlentities). This talk covers these two steps in the first few slides: http://brainbulb.com/talks/php-security-briefing.pdf (PDF) http://brainbulb.com/talks/php-security-briefing.swf (Flash) Hope that helps. Chris -- Chris Shiflett Brain Bulb, The PHP Consultancy http://brainbulb.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Using GET to build multiple sql queries
On 6/2/05, Jack Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the reply, Greg,
I see how that is useful. I am confused as to how I would implement it
here. Please bear with me as I am a newbie and am now perhaps more
confused than ever!:
Bummer, sorry.
I'm trying to use the number given in the $_GET URL to build one piece
of the sql:
If there is anything set in the $_GET field other than ?c=[valid int] or
?p=[valid int] or ?s=[valid int] then I want to bounce to a plain index.
if( !( isset( $_GET[ 'c' ] ) is_int( $_GET[ 'c' ] )
|| isset( $_GET[ 'p' ] ) is_int( $_GET[ 'p' ] )
|| isset( $_GET[ 's' ] ) is_int( $_GET[ 's' ] ) ) )
{
header( 'Location: index.php' );
exit;
}
If it's a valid int (a positive int which corresponds to a valid row)
then I want to set its value to the appropriate variable: either $c, $p
or $s,
If it's in the URL it's already set as $_GET[ 'c' ], $_GET[ 'p' ], or
$_GET[ 's' ].
and thus set the values of $fields, $from and $where.
?php //IF there is a valid query by cartoon, use $c to build the SQL
$fields = 'SELECT art.*,publisher.*,subject.*';
$from = 'FROM art,subject
LEFT JOIN publisher
ON publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id';
$sort = ORDER BY art.art_pub_date;
$where = WHERE art.art_id = '$c' AND
WHERE art.art_id = '$_GET[c]'
subject.subject_id=art.subject_id;
?
If that were instead a $p then I would do:
?php //IF there is a valid query by publisher, use $p to build the SQL
$fields = SELECT art.*,publisher.*,subject.*;
$from = FROM art,subject
LEFT JOIN publisher
ON publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id;
$where = WHERE publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id AND
art.publisher_id = '$p' AND
art.publisher_id = '$_GET[p]' AND
subject.subject_id=art.subject_id;
?
If that were instead an $s then I would do:
?php //IF there is a valid query by subject, use $s to build the SQL
$fields = SELECT art.*,publisher.*,subject.*;
$from = FROM art,subject
LEFT JOIN publisher
ON publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id;
$where = WHERE publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id AND
art.subject_id = '1' AND
art.subject_id=subject.subject_id;
?
I'm sure your method works ( ;) ). If I understand it, as my friend
Darrell said about your suggestion:
'...We iterate through the array seeing if there's a submitted HTML form
field name that matches the current database column name. If so, we add
the column name and the value submitted in the form to a string that is
being built into a database query.'
It's just a matter of checking for variables in the $_GET array and
doing what you need to do if they exist and are valid or not. Do you
know about print_r() yet?
echo 'pre';
print_r( $_GET );
echo '/pre';
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RE: [PHP] Delay?
Chris Boget mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, June 02, 2005 12:16 PM said: Has anyone else noticed significant delays in messages getting posted? No, no delay on my end. At least 4hrs on my end... Uhh.. I think he was joking... Take another read of his next sentence. :) Chris. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Using GET to build multiple sql queries
Thanks for the reply, Greg,
I see how that is useful. I am confused as to how I would implement it
here. Please bear with me as I am a newbie and am now perhaps more
confused than ever!:
I'm trying to use the number given in the $_GET URL to build one piece
of the sql:
If there is anything set in the $_GET field other than ?c=[valid int] or
?p=[valid int] or ?s=[valid int] then I want to bounce to a plain index.
If it's a valid int (a positive int which corresponds to a valid row)
then I want to set its value to the appropriate variable: either $c, $p
or $s, and thus set the values of $fields, $from and $where.
?php //IF there is a valid query by cartoon, use $c to build the SQL
$fields = 'SELECT art.*,publisher.*,subject.*';
$from = 'FROM art,subject
LEFT JOIN publisher
ON publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id';
$sort = ORDER BY art.art_pub_date;
$where = WHERE art.art_id = '$c' AND
subject.subject_id=art.subject_id;
?
If that were instead a $p then I would do:
?php //IF there is a valid query by publisher, use $p to build the SQL
$fields = SELECT art.*,publisher.*,subject.*;
$from = FROM art,subject
LEFT JOIN publisher
ON publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id;
$where = WHERE publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id AND
art.publisher_id = '$p' AND
subject.subject_id=art.subject_id;
?
If that were instead an $s then I would do:
?php //IF there is a valid query by subject, use $s to build the SQL
$fields = SELECT art.*,publisher.*,subject.*;
$from = FROM art,subject
LEFT JOIN publisher
ON publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id;
$where = WHERE publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id AND
art.subject_id = '1' AND
art.subject_id=subject.subject_id;
?
I'm sure your method works ( ;) ). If I understand it, as my friend
Darrell said about your suggestion:
'...We iterate through the array seeing if there's a submitted HTML form
field name that matches the current database column name. If so, we add
the column name and the value submitted in the form to a string that is
being built into a database query.'
I'm trying to see how this code lets me do that. I know it's right in
front of my face but I cannot see how to adapt it to the task. .
Thanks in advance!!
Greg Donald wrote:
On 6/2/05, Jack Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd love some help with http://hashphp.org/pastebin?pid=3443 if anyone
can...
Basically I want to make it so that, if the get in the url specifies no
query or a query to a nonexistent row, send to vanilla index. If url
specifies c= then set $c=c and use the number to build the mysql query;
same for p= and s= - if they're valid build the query, if not kick em out.
Can anyone offer any help?
I'd iterate over the $_GET array to build the query elements. Then
implode those elements.
$array = array();
while( list( $k, $v ) = each( $_GET ) )
{
if( $k == 'somekeynotindb' )
{
continue;
}
$array[] = $k . =' . $v . ';
}
if( $array )
{
$and = implode( ', ', $array );
}
$sql =
SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE 1
$and
;
$query = mysql_query( $sql );
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Re: [PHP] Using GET to build multiple sql queries
SORRY - one small correction below:
SNIP
If that were instead an $s then I would do:
?php //IF there is a valid query by subject, use $s to build the SQL
$fields = SELECT art.*,publisher.*,subject.*;
$from = FROM art,subject
LEFT JOIN publisher
ON publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id;
$where = WHERE publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id AND
art.subject_id = '$s' AND
art.subject_id=subject.subject_id;
?
/SNIP
I had accidentally put a number 1 in place of the $s in the above
example. Apologies for the extra mail and thanks in advance.
Greg Donald wrote:
On 6/2/05, Jack Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd love some help with http://hashphp.org/pastebin?pid=3443 if anyone
can...
Basically I want to make it so that, if the get in the url specifies no
query or a query to a nonexistent row, send to vanilla index. If url
specifies c= then set $c=c and use the number to build the mysql query;
same for p= and s= - if they're valid build the query, if not kick em out.
Can anyone offer any help?
I'd iterate over the $_GET array to build the query elements. Then
implode those elements.
$array = array();
while( list( $k, $v ) = each( $_GET ) )
{
if( $k == 'somekeynotindb' )
{
continue;
}
$array[] = $k . =' . $v . ';
}
if( $array )
{
$and = implode( ', ', $array );
}
$sql =
SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE 1
$and
;
$query = mysql_query( $sql );
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Re: [PHP] Best way to use other objects within classes?
On 6/2/05, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: private $db; PHP4 doesn't have member visibility. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] RE: Questionary Development - Continued
I've just been looking at phpSurveyor. Would that help at all? It's PHP, with mySQL database . . . -Original Message- From: ...helmut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 4:35 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Questionary Development - Continued Hello All, Thank you for all the wonderful ideas, there are so many things that can be over look when working by yourself. When I asked help for a questionary, in reallity I meant a long form. With that said I apologize for having some people in mind more like a question answer type of thing(school test and similar). So, after reviewing this project I have come out with the final descicion... In order to fill out a form the user must have an UN and PASS, so that I can write their answers to the DB as they are filling out the form, reason for this is in case they have to stop in the middle of the form they can come back on a later time to finish with their UN and PASS, they should be able to continue their form or to start all over. I decided to divide the forms into 5 different sections, and as some one suggested divide the sections by groups so people can fill out the form and concentrate in the section they are working on. Similar to when you have to fill out your taxes online: https://taxes.hrblock.com/hrblock/login/LoginRegistration.aspx the difference is that this has been done with ASP (ewww! :) ) Thank you everyone for your input. Any more suggestions are welcome -- ...helmut helmutgranda.com ...helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a form that contains 100 questions. To make it easier on the user, I will divide it into 5 sections (20 questions per section), then all the information will be written to a db. What is the best way to carry along through the pages the information that has already been submitted? Cookies? Writing to a DB after each section? Session Variables? I read that writing to a database as i go along could be too much of a hazzle for the db, specially if I have multiple people filling out the form at the same time. TIA -- helmut helmutgranda.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Delay?
On 6/2/05, GamblerZG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand why everyone like these mailing lists so much. Web-forums more convenient. What's keeping you.. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Best way to use other objects within classes?
Greg Donald wrote: On 6/2/05, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: private $db; PHP4 doesn't have member visibility. Hi Greg, Thanks for this tip! Regards, Murray -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Using GET to build multiple sql queries
Greg, thank you for all this... See below
Greg Donald wrote:
On 6/2/05, Jack Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the reply, Greg,
I see how that is useful. I am confused as to how I would implement it
here. Please bear with me as I am a newbie and am now perhaps more
confused than ever!:
Bummer, sorry.
Twasn't you; were me.
I'm trying to use the number given in the $_GET URL to build one piece
of the sql:
If there is anything set in the $_GET field other than ?c=[valid int] or
?p=[valid int] or ?s=[valid int] then I want to bounce to a plain index.
if( !( isset( $_GET[ 'c' ] ) is_int( $_GET[ 'c' ] )
|| isset( $_GET[ 'p' ] ) is_int( $_GET[ 'p' ] )
|| isset( $_GET[ 's' ] ) is_int( $_GET[ 's' ] ) ) )
{
header( 'Location: index.php' );
exit;
}
Of course, that almost did it. But I wanted to do it it *weren't* an
int. I put a ! in front and that works like a charm!
If it's a valid int (a positive int which corresponds to a valid row)
then I want to set its value to the appropriate variable: either $c, $p
or $s,
If it's in the URL it's already set as $_GET[ 'c' ], $_GET[ 'p' ], or
$_GET[ 's' ].
I get it. Thanks for that. Including it in the sql didn't work as you
suggested:
?php //IF there is a valid query by cartoon, use $c to build the SQL
$fields = 'SELECT art.*,publisher.*,subject.*';
$from = 'FROM art,subject
LEFT JOIN publisher
ON publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id';
$sort = ORDER BY art.art_pub_date;
$where = WHERE art.art_id = '$c' AND
WHERE art.art_id = '$_GET[c]'
I guess it was missing a print command or something. I did this up top
though:
$c = intval($_GET['c']);
$p = intval($_GET['p']);
$s = intval($_GET['s']);
and then did it as I had it in the sample above and it worked like a
charm, too.
subject.subject_id=art.subject_id;
?
If that were instead a $p then I would do:
?php //IF there is a valid query by publisher, use $p to build the SQL
$fields = SELECT art.*,publisher.*,subject.*;
$from = FROM art,subject
LEFT JOIN publisher
ON publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id;
$where = WHERE publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id AND
art.publisher_id = '$p' AND
art.publisher_id = '$_GET[p]' AND
subject.subject_id=art.subject_id;
?
If that were instead an $s then I would do:
?php //IF there is a valid query by subject, use $s to build the SQL
$fields = SELECT art.*,publisher.*,subject.*;
$from = FROM art,subject
LEFT JOIN publisher
ON publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id;
$where = WHERE publisher.publisher_id=art.publisher_id AND
art.subject_id = '1' AND
art.subject_id=subject.subject_id;
?
I'm sure your method works ( ;) ). If I understand it, as my friend
Darrell said about your suggestion:
'...We iterate through the array seeing if there's a submitted HTML form
field name that matches the current database column name. If so, we add
the column name and the value submitted in the form to a string that is
being built into a database query.'
It's just a matter of checking for variables in the $_GET array and
doing what you need to do if they exist and are valid or not. Do you
know about print_r() yet?
echo 'pre';
print_r( $_GET );
echo '/pre';
I did and thank you. This is close to working, though I still have to
deal with what happens once I run those queries. But thanks for sorting
out that mess for me,. I really appreciate it.
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[PHP] How to find random records in a subset?
I am using a routine to find 50 random records in a large MySQL database (about a million records) where I generate a list of 50 random unique ID's, and then use MySQL's in command to find them. I can't use order by rand() due to its performance hit. But I have to take it one more step: I want to first limit my found set to those matching a different search criteria, and then find 50 of those. Anyone? Can this be done all within MySQL, or is it going to require some humongo PHP arrays? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Exporting to MS Word or Excel
To export it exactly as displayed (like when you print to a virtual printer to generate a PDF) might be tricky, but you can definitely create Excel and I believe Word files without even having Excel or Word installed. If you DO have Excel or Word installed on your server, then you can always use a COM connection to handle this. First, maybe check out the Excel Writer PEAR package. Here's a link to a post I made about it a while ago with instructions on how to install it: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-generalm=111409575703230w=2 Excel Writer uses another PEAR package called OLE which is used to generate older format MS Office files in general. Both can be found at http://pear.php.net Also, try searching the archives, I know this question has been asked many times (even recently) and I'm sure you'll find some good stuff in there. PHP-General archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general PHP-Windows archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-windows PHP-Databases archives (never know eh?): http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-db And of course, the links to all these can be found on the PHP mailing lists page: http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php Good luck! -TG = = = Original message = = = Hi!!! Are there any chances that I could export a dynamic created web page into MS Word or Excel? I know this can be done with PDF!! I'm using LAMP!! --- Miguel Guirao Aguilera Logistica R8 TELCEL Tel. (999) 960.7994 Cel. 9931 600. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php ___ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Delay?
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 15:32 -0400, GamblerZG wrote: Sebastian wrote: yea.. takes hours... sometimes 6+ or more. i dont post that much to the list for this reason.. if it stays like this i'll just unsubscribe.. its pointless... this is suppose to be E-mail, not post office mail. I don't understand why everyone like these mailing lists so much. Web-forums more convenient. Convenient for your maybe, I personally hate web forums. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[PHP] Re: What Works Works Validator
Simple, blank page with just content, thats the only true way, Anyway why you wanna be backward compatible that far is beyond me cus they handle HTML even worse so its a losing battle!, use the CSS @import rule for style sheets and older browsers will simply ignore the CSS, you could then just give your page a basic look that older browsers could handle well while overriding the HTML styling with CSS for newer browsers. Also answer to your other question... try use PHP's built in validator tool to auto replace any errors in your code. Also table height, no other way I know sorry, HTH Richard Lynch wrote: This is OT in that it's more about HTML than PHP, but solutions involving PHP would be particularly welcome. After playing with the W3C validator again for an hour or so... The thing is, I really want to be backwards compatible with ancient browsers. Like, REALLY ancient. Like, say, going back as far as 3.0 browsers. So, relying on CSS to do my layout is a non-option. It's just not there. But I LIKE the idea of having HTML validated to catch tag imbalance, typos in attributes, and maybe even layout problems in weird versions of browsers (eg Netscape 4.7 or IE on the Mac). I don't really want to be compatible with the W3C standards, however, since the penalty is layout that just plain doesn't work in ancient browsers. For example, I simply can't validate with a 100% height table, but that's the only way to get the layout I want on both ancient and current browsers. Does anybody know of a What Works Works Validator which checks for maxiumum browser compatibility rather than the W3C standard? Or even just some tools that check HTML tag balancing, and maybe spell-check attributes. It has to be post-PHP URL-based on not IDE/editor based, unless there's a PHP interpreter built into the editor to figure out the HTML I'm spitting out... Failing all that, does anybody know a non-CSS way to get a table to be 100% tall so I can get rid of this last error? Or, perhaps, a way between JavaScript and PHP to calculate how much white-space I need to make a spacer image to be the right height? Or... PS Please let's not start a flame war about browser versions, browser makers, standards-compliance, etc. You can do whatever you want ; I just happen to believe that backwards compatibility is more important than compliance with standards that aren't even implemented correctly at this time. So if your answer doesn't actually match my question, just hit delete Thanks. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Mailing list delays
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[PHP] Re: What Works Works Validator
A small example, using the code below all older browser who cant understand CSS will ignore it because its within a comment block... style type=text/css !-- @import url(MyStyleSheet.css); -- /style -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: what is -- $this variable - $this other variable -- means?
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Re: [PHP] sanitizing get vars
Sebastian wrote: what is a safe way to clean a post/get before echoing it. example. input form, user enters some text, hits enter. .. next page i echo what they entered. right now i just run the variables passed by htmlentities() which preseves any html. is that acceptable? You might also want to use stripslashes() if magic_quotes_gpc is on, so the data is not double escaped. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: php forum and (almost certainly 0T) client editor
Hello, I can answer your second question... Frames can be used to achieve the effect of two seperate windows, one can refresh while the other stays as-is. For a client editor... Some javascript to add tags on the client side would be fairly simple to create, just create some custom tags for display to clients then when submitted use PHP's str_replace function to search for your custom tags then replace with some HTML before it hits the forums, James Ryan A wrote: Hey guys (and girl...as we have one on the list...(that i know of)), Can anybody recommend a real bare bones forum that i can modify or a tutorial for creating a forum or URLs/Classes etc to help me create a simple forum? I checked on google but I couldnt find any tutorials or code, went to hot-scripts and saw a _c r a p l o a d_ of forums (for free and otherwise) but I have a client who insists I build him a forum which must fall _exactly_ to his specifications and work of our currently registered users database. Worse scenario, I will dl a few of the forums from hotscrpts and go through each of their code...but I would like to avoid that if anyone can give me a better option. 2nd question I will need a kind of client editor for when people write their messages into the forum, eg: make this bold and that italics and that centered and that with an image and so on I had actually seen a (dhtml, I think) form some time back where you could preview your message at the side as you made changes...somewhat like what google has for their ad-cents accounts where you can change the colors of your ad and immediatly it shows the changes at the side in a box. I remember sometime back someone posting some WYSIWYG kind of editors which loads on the clients machine with just a textbox and the buttons to go bold, italics,centered etc unfortunatly looking into the archives i cant find it. Thanks, Ryan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mailing list delays
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Re: [PHP] Delay?
Danny Brow wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 15:32 -0400, GamblerZG wrote: Sebastian wrote: yea.. takes hours... sometimes 6+ or more. i dont post that much to the list for this reason.. if it stays like this i'll just unsubscribe.. its pointless... this is suppose to be E-mail, not post office mail. I don't understand why everyone like these mailing lists so much. Web-forums more convenient. Convenient for your maybe, I personally hate web forums. (six hours later of course) I agree. Thanks -dant -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mailing list delays
wow, got that in 20 seconds.. can we go for a record? ;) Sebastian wrote: Thanks. *test* Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: We found a problem caused by a recent disk failure that wiped out a named pipe qmail needed. I am hoping the mailing list delays should be fixed now. -Rasmus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Can't Get PHP to work
You need to insert these two lines to your Apache httpd.conf configuration file to set up the PHP module for Apache 2.0: Example 6-6. PHP and Apache 2.0 as Module # For PHP 5 do something like this: LoadModule php5_module c:/php/php5apache2.dll AddType application/x-httpd-php .php # configure the path to php.ini PHPIniDir C:/php Subscriber wrote: Hi, I sure hope someone here can help me. I spent the entire day yesterday and most of the evening setting up a webserver on my Windows 2000 Pro system. I've got PHP 5.04, MySQL 4.1.12, ActivePerl 5.8.6, Java Runtime Environment, Tomcat 5.5.9, ZendOptimizer 2.5.10, MyODBC 3.5.11 and phpMyAdmin 2.6.2 all installed. From what I can tell, all is working well except PHP and phpMyAdmin. I added PHP to my path like this: C:\Perl\bin\;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\php;C:\Apache2\bin;C:\mysql\bin;C:\php\dlls;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ulead Systems\MPEG;C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\MailFrontier I've got a copy of php.ini in both my c:/php directory and in c://winnt. I've listed my user directory as c:/apache/apache2/htdocs and I've placed phpmyadmin in htdocs. But when I try to view a php page I get an error or page cannot be displayed. On a couple of occassions I viewed the raw php data in my browser. Also, when I try to add a php extension using LoadModule in my httd.conf file I get an error loading Apache telling me that the file cannot be found (but I've verified it exists - like php5apache.dll and php5ts.dll). Can someone please help me figure out where I'm screwing up at? Thanks in advance! Edited to say I'm getting Closer!!! Now when I go to [url=http://localhost/phpmyadmin]http://localhost/phpmyadmin[/url] I get the following info: cannot load mysqli extension; please check PHP configuration [u]Documentation[/u] And the documentation says: [b][1.20] I receive the error cannot load MySQL extension, please check PHP Configuration. [/b]To connect to a MySQL server, PHP needs a set of MySQL functions called MySQL extension. This extension may be part of the PHP distribution (compiled-in), otherwise it needs to be loaded dynamically. Its name is probably mysql.so or php_mysql.dll. phpMyAdmin tried to load the extension but failed. Usually, the problem is solved by installing a software package called PHP-MySQL or something similar. I have tried using both mysql and mysqli in config.inc.php (phpmyadmin config file) and either way I get the same error message. And in php.ini I have enabled the following extensions: extension=php_mysql.dll extension=php_mysqli.dll -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Quick q, most prolly 0T
Ryan A wrote: Basically I am waiting for the client to pay me...till he does, I am displaying the index page which is a under construction page...but he also wants to play with the site so I need to direct all calls to main.php... You want to only show an under construction page, but you also want the client to be able to use the application? I don't understand how these conditions can coexist. Can you clarify? Chris -- Chris Shiflett Brain Bulb, The PHP Consultancy http://brainbulb.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Site Design Strategy
This is my first post to this group. I've been trying to figure this out on my own, but I keep running into complications, so I've decided to get some help. Much thanks for any help! I've been writing php server application for a couple of years, but now I'm turning my attention to re-building our company's aging website. This is a big project and is going to require a solid foundation. At the crux of this post is the following question: How do you develop a very robust, dynamic web-site, but also allow non-technical people to contribute? There must be an easier way. Here are my working assumptions and my strategy. Please help me if I'm thinking down the wrong path. Assumptions: 1) Non-technical people in the company need to be able to build pages, and they should be able to post their pages without bothering me. We have a tech-support person who will be able to help them, but she has zero programming knowledge and only a superficial understanding of HTML. 2) Every page needs to reside within he shell of the web site. This includes header(the top-level menu) left-side menu (a dynamic, context-specific menu) content (this is what the non-technical people will produce) footer (your standard fare text-based links) 3) I don't want to use frames, and I don't want to use Dreamweaver templates. Strategy: Currently, I am working on the following model: There is a top-level index.php page. This is the target of EVERY page on the site. The page that gets loaded in depends on the parameters of query-string. It's very simple, if the query string reads ?target=products/gsp, then my php will look for a site-relative document such as products/gsp.htm OR products/gsp/index.hml. Then, this document will get included as the content in my shell. Well, this works to a degree, but it requires that people use site-relative paths for all of their graphics and links, which is way, way to much to ask. After all, people are using WYSIWIG editors such as Dreamweaver and even Word to build their pages. Typically, site-relative paths don't work in these environments. They shouldn't need to upload their document to preview it. It also requires that they put their page within a 550 pixel wide -td- tag. I'd love to drop that requirement. So, now I considering the following: A parser that will convert any content into includable form. Relative paths will be translated to the site-root, etc. I'm a bit stuck here. There's got to be a better way. Thanks. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Unit testing ?
* mbneto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am trying the phpunit2 for unit testing but the examples found in the documentation are few and do not address, for example, tests when database access is involved. Perhaps this belongs to a more general question (i.e strategies for unit testing) so any urls, docs would be great. Jason Sweat covered this at php|Tropics, using SimpleTest as the unit testing framework. I use phpt unit tests (developed for testing php itself, and used by the PEAR project for regression tests). The principles are the same regardless of framework, however. The fundamental problem is: your code may depend on the results of a DB operation -- it's primary purpose may even be to perform a DB operation. While you can test the code, you still need to test whether or not your code can successfully perform the DB operation as well. A common problem I find is that I'm building SQL on the fly -- and that process may build shoddy SQL. It may be building exactly what I designed it to do, but the RDBMS will never be able to actually utilize the SQL I build. Tests can help catch these issues. Basically, when testing code that interacts with a database, you've got two basic strategies: (1) test against the DB, or (2) use mock objects. The latter is a tricky subject, as it assumes you're using a DB abstraction layer, and because you then have to mimic how that abstraction layer works. Basically, you end up doing a lot of code simply to test. Which brings us back to (1), test against the DB. The way to do this is to have some code that sets up and tears down a TEST database -- not the one with your live data. It should likely create and populate any tables you need, and then be able to tear them down again. The reason behind this is that you can then have a set of consistent data to test against -- once you run tests, chances are likely that you've altered the data. Each test you run should tear down the DB and then recreate and/or repopulate it. If you use the phpt unit tests, the place to do this is in your setup.php.inc file. I then create a file with the raw SQL for setting up and populating a test table, slurp it in with file_get_contents, and pass it on to the DB from within a function in that setup file. Then another function can truncate or delete all records from the tables utilized. The code within the test might then look like this: ?php include_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/setup.php.inc'; setupDb(); // do a test teardownDb(); setupDb(); // do another test teardownDb(); ? That's kind of a long-winded answer to your question, but it's not something you see a lot of information on. I hope that it helps. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney | WEBSITES: Webmaster and IT Specialist | http://www.garden.org National Gardening Association| http://www.kidsgardening.com 802-863-5251 x156 | http://nationalgardenmonth.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://vermontbotanical.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Best way to use other objects within classes?
* Murray @ PlanetThoughtful [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
snip
(Note: my development environment is PHP 5.0.3, but the production
environment is 4.3.10. This is my first project built with 5.x local and
4.1.x remote, so if anyone with more experience spots any fatal flaws
where I'm using 5.x specific methods etc, I'd appreciate knowing about them)
snip
?
$db = connectMDB2(); // function that returns instantiated MDB2 object
$comments = new displayComments(); // class that performs displaying
of comments
$comments-set_db($db); // passing the MDB2 object to the class
$comments-doSomethingElse();
?
The displayComments() class might then look something like:
class displayComments{
private $db;
public function set_db($db){
$this-db = $db;
}
The above is the nut you need, and you're doing it right. As Greg
pointed out, you'll need to change that from 'private $db' to 'var $db'
as PHP4 doesn't have member visibility. However, you're correctly
passing by reference -- something required by PHP4 if you want to share
the same object amongst several classes. (In PHP5, objects are passed by
reference by default, and the above code will actually generate some
notices -- but since you're developing for PHP4, you can safely ignore
them).
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RE: [PHP] Delay?
My average post takes 2+ hours. mayo -Original Message- From: Chris W. Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 4:22 PM To: Chris Boget; Jason Sweeney Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Delay? Chris Boget mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, June 02, 2005 12:16 PM said: Has anyone else noticed significant delays in messages getting posted? No, no delay on my end. At least 4hrs on my end... Uhh.. I think he was joking... Take another read of his next sentence. :) Chris. -- 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] Newbie - Request interface for PHP 5 website
For PHP 4.x sites I used my index page to capture the HTTP request and use a switch statement to call the content or task based on the $_GET and $_POST arrays. That was very inefficient and the Switch case became totally unmanageable along with the rest of the site. I am re-designing the site using PHP5 and OO design patterns like Composite and Builder as an example. I know these are basic patterns but its a start. Anyway I am not sure how to capture the HTTP request and pass it to the relevant objects. Is there a generic way¹ developers process the request to call the classes and generate the needed objects in PHP5? Thanks for your help! T
Re: [PHP] Mailing list delays
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Re: [PHP] Japanese with UTF-8 and mysql
Richard Davey wrote:
Hello Mark,
Thursday, June 2, 2005, 4:18:30 AM, you wrote:
MS ?php
MS session_start();
MS include(database.php);
?
I would recommend setting UTF-8 as the Content-type via PHP itself:
header('Content-type: UTF-8') - do it as one of the first things when
you're ready to output the HTML.
Yes, have already tried it. No success.
MS !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN
MS http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd;
This may well be a cause of the problem - your HTML doesn't look like
it's XTHML Strict compatible at all, so browsers are going to
re-render it (IE into Quirks mode). I would remove the DocType for now
or fix the mark-up errors.
Can't c that as it, as static J renders fine.
MS ?php
MS if (isset($_REQUEST[product_id])) {
MS$product_id = $_REQUEST[product_id];
See the previous reply about why this isn't safe, but also it should
be: $_REQUEST['product_id'] (note the quotes) to avoid PHP scanning
for constants.
Ok, will look into that stuff a little more, once I get J rendering
correctly.
MS for ($i=0; $i$num; $i++){
MS echo tr align=\center\tdPRODUCT
MS NAME/tdtd.$rows['product_name']./tdbrtr
From a code point of view this is correct. Let's check a few obvious
things: does PHP have the mb extension installed?
Yes, installed.
If so what is the
default character-set in php.ini?
Best regards,
Richard Davey
httpd.conf:
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
AddCharset ISO-8859-1 .iso8859-1 .latin1
AddCharset ISO-8859-2 .iso8859-2 .latin2 .cen
AddCharset ISO-8859-3 .iso8859-3 .latin3
AddCharset ISO-8859-4 .iso8859-4 .latin4
AddCharset ISO-8859-5 .iso8859-5 .latin5 .cyr .iso-ru
AddCharset ISO-8859-6 .iso8859-6 .latin6 .arb
AddCharset ISO-8859-7 .iso8859-7 .latin7 .grk
AddCharset ISO-8859-8 .iso8859-8 .latin8 .heb
AddCharset ISO-8859-9 .iso8859-9 .latin9 .trk
AddCharset ISO-2022-JP .iso2022-jp .jis
AddCharset ISO-2022-KR .iso2022-kr .kis
AddCharset ISO-2022-CN .iso2022-cn .cis
AddCharset Big5.Big5 .big5
# For russian, more than one charset is used (depends on client, mostly):
AddCharset WINDOWS-1251 .cp-1251 .win-1251
AddCharset CP866 .cp866
AddCharset KOI8-r .koi8-r .koi8-ru
AddCharset KOI8-ru .koi8-uk .ua
AddCharset ISO-10646-UCS-2 .ucs2
AddCharset ISO-10646-UCS-4 .ucs4
AddCharset UTF-8 .utf8
php.ini:
output_handler = mb_output_handler
;; Set HTTP header charset
default_charset = UTF-8
[mbstring]
; language for internal character representation.
mbstring.language = Neutral
; internal/script encoding.
; Some encoding cannot work as internal encoding.
; (e.g. SJIS, BIG5, ISO-2022-*)
mbstring.internal_encoding = UTF-8
; http input encoding.
mbstring.http_input = auto
; http output encoding. mb_output_handler must be
; registered as output buffer to function
mbstring.http_output = UTF-8
; enable automatic encoding translation accoding to
; mbstring.internal_encoding setting. Input chars are
; converted to internal encoding by setting this to On.
; Note: Do _not_ use automatic encoding translation for
; portable libs/applications.
mbstring.encoding_translation = On
; automatic encoding detection order.
; auto means
mbstring.detect_order = auto
; substitute_character used when character cannot be converted
; one from another
mbstring.substitute_character = none
Cheers.
Mark Sargent.
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