php-general Digest 27 Mar 2008 08:57:50 -0000 Issue 5370

2008-03-27 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 27 Mar 2008 08:57:50 - Issue 5370 Topics (messages 272132 through 272153): Re: PHP Book 272132 by: Wolf 272133 by: Daniel Brown Re: optimilize web page loading 272134 by: Al 272140 by: Andrew Ballard 272149 by: Al Quick email

Re: [PHP] Re: Quick email address check

2008-03-27 Thread Tom Chubb
Can anyone recommend anything that would be good to use on an existing mailing list that is a few years old and didn't have any bounce handling? On 27/03/2008, Manuel Lemos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, on 03/26/2008 02:28 PM Al said the following: I'm scripting a simple registry where

Re: [PHP] Re: optimilize web page loading

2008-03-27 Thread jeffry s
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depends on the server and it's load. I've strung together some rather large html strings and they aways take far less time than the transient time on the internet. I used to use OB extensively until one day I took the time to

[PHP] Pattern etc to reduce duplicated validation?

2008-03-27 Thread David Lidstone
Hi All I seem to be writing a lot of this: // SCRIPT = $var = $_POST['var']; // validate $var $foo = new foo; $foo-setBar($var); // CLASS == class foo { public function setBar($var) { // validate $var } } As you can see, the issue is that I

[PHP] Re: Pattern etc to reduce duplicated validation?

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Ford
David Lidstone wrote: Hi All I seem to be writing a lot of this: // SCRIPT = $var = $_POST['var']; // validate $var $foo = new foo; $foo-setBar($var); // CLASS == class foo { public function setBar($var) { // validate $var } } As you can

Re: [PHP] Re: Quick email address check

2008-03-27 Thread Richard Heyes
All good suggestions guys. Richard's has the advantage of solving the potential for a delay by the user's email server. I'll have the user submit and tell'm to wait while I check the email address for them. Solves several problems. Al wrote: I'm scripting a simple registry where the user

Re: [PHP] Pattern etc to reduce duplicated validation?

2008-03-27 Thread Eric Butera
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:36 AM, David Lidstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I seem to be writing a lot of this: // SCRIPT = $var = $_POST['var']; // validate $var $foo = new foo; $foo-setBar($var); // CLASS == class foo { public

[PHP] How to install PHP 5.x on Windows Server 2000 with IIS 5 and MySQL 5.x

2008-03-27 Thread edwardspl
Hello to All, Would you mind to help as the title of mail ? Thanks ! Edward. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] WAMP servers

2008-03-27 Thread Rod Clay
Hello. Does anyone use a WAMP server? And, if so, have you found one to be better than another? I am using a WAMP server entitled, aptly enough, WampServer (formerly WAMP5). In the few weeks I have been using it, I frequently get messages that a certain library or routine cannot be found.

Re: [PHP] WAMP servers

2008-03-27 Thread Bastien Koert
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Rod Clay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Does anyone use a WAMP server? And, if so, have you found one to be better than another? I am using a WAMP server entitled, aptly enough, WampServer (formerly WAMP5). In the few weeks I have been using it, I

Re: [PHP] Re: optimilize web page loading

2008-03-27 Thread Philip Thompson
On Mar 26, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Al wrote: Depends on the server and it's load. I've strung together some rather large html strings and they aways take far less time than the transient time on the internet. I used to use OB extensively until one day I took the time to measure the difference. I

Re: [PHP] WAMP servers

2008-03-27 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Rod Clay wrote: Hello. Does anyone use a WAMP server? And, if so, have you found one to be better than another? I am using a WAMP server entitled, aptly enough, WampServer (formerly WAMP5). In the few weeks I have been using it, I frequently get messages that a certain library or routine

Re: [PHP] How to install PHP 5.x on Windows Server 2000 with IIS 5 and MySQL 5.x

2008-03-27 Thread Wolf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to All, Would you mind to help as the title of mail ? Thanks ! Edward. What problems are you having? Have you read the Manual yet? I'd suggest going with a real operating system (linux) which keeps patches updated quicker... Wolf -- PHP

Re: [PHP] How to install PHP 5.x on Windows Server 2000 with IIS 5 and MySQL 5.x

2008-03-27 Thread Paul Scott
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 10:32 -0400, Wolf wrote: I'd suggest going with a real operating system (linux) which keeps patches updated quicker... As much of a Free Software advocate as I am, that is not the answer to the question. That being said, however, I would replace the IIS with Apache2 at

Re: [PHP] How to install PHP 5.x on Windows Server 2000 with IIS 5 and MySQL 5.x

2008-03-27 Thread Philip Thompson
On Mar 27, 2008, at 8:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to All, Would you mind to help as the title of mail ? Thanks ! Edward. Ok, I understand that sometimes people *have* to use a certain OS, but I would not use IIS - Apache is your friend. As far as your question goes... have

Re: [PHP] WAMP servers

2008-03-27 Thread Haig Dedeyan
http://apache2triad.net/ is also good. Haig Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Rod Clay wrote: Hello. Does anyone use a WAMP server? And, if so, have you found one to be better than another? I am using a WAMP server entitled, aptly enough, WampServer (formerly WAMP5). In the few weeks I have

[PHP] Developing existing java portal in php

2008-03-27 Thread Sangamesh B
Hi all, Here is one web portal product which is already developed using java tools. I don't know java, php or perl. But I can learn php quickly compared to java. My question is: Is it possible to develop such web portal using php html? Let me explain how the java portal/product works: The

Re: [PHP] How to install PHP 5.x on Windows Server 2000 with IIS 5and MySQL 5.x

2008-03-27 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Paul Scott wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 10:32 -0400, Wolf wrote: I'd suggest going with a real operating system (linux) which keeps patches updated quicker... As much of a Free Software advocate as I am, that is not the answer to the question. That being said, however, I would replace the

Re: [PHP] Re: optimilize web page loading

2008-03-27 Thread Al
Good point. I usually do use the single quotes, just happened to key doubles for the email. Actually, it's good idea for all variable assignments. Philip Thompson wrote: On Mar 26, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Al wrote: Depends on the server and it's load. I've strung together some rather large html

Re: [PHP] WAMP servers

2008-03-27 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Bastien Koert wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Rod Clay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Does anyone use a WAMP server? And, if so, have you found one to be better than another? I am using a WAMP server entitled, aptly enough, WampServer (formerly WAMP5). In the few weeks I have

Re: [PHP] Re: optimilize web page loading

2008-03-27 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Al wrote: Good point. I usually do use the single quotes, just happened to key doubles for the email. Actually, it's good idea for all variable assignments. Philip Thompson wrote: On Mar 26, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Al wrote: Depends on the server and it's load. I've strung together some

Re: [PHP] Developing existing java portal in php

2008-03-27 Thread Wolf
Sangamesh B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Here is one web portal product which is already developed using java tools. I don't know java, php or perl. But I can learn php quickly compared to java. My question is: Is it possible to develop such web portal using php html? Let

Re: [PHP] Re: optimilize web page loading

2008-03-27 Thread Jason Pruim
On Mar 27, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Shawn McKenzie wrote: Al wrote: Good point. I usually do use the single quotes, just happened to key doubles for the email. Actually, it's good idea for all variable assignments. Philip Thompson wrote: On Mar 26, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Al wrote: Depends on the

Re: [PHP] Re: optimilize web page loading

2008-03-27 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Jason Pruim wrote: On Mar 27, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Shawn McKenzie wrote: Al wrote: Good point. I usually do use the single quotes, just happened to key doubles for the email. Actually, it's good idea for all variable assignments. Philip Thompson wrote: On Mar 26, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Al

Re: [PHP] Re: optimilize web page loading

2008-03-27 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Shawn McKenzie wrote: Jason Pruim wrote: On Mar 27, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Shawn McKenzie wrote: Al wrote: Good point. I usually do use the single quotes, just happened to key doubles for the email. Actually, it's good idea for all variable assignments. Philip Thompson wrote: On Mar 26,

Re: [PHP] Re: optimilize web page loading

2008-03-27 Thread tedd
At 10:21 AM -0500 3/27/08, Shawn McKenzie wrote: I would assume your 2 examples to be the same because the point is that the PHP interpreter must parse for vars to substitute when it encounters double-quotes whether there are any vars in it or not. With single-quotes the interpreter does not

[PHP] Possible using XPath?

2008-03-27 Thread Christoph Boget
Let's say I have the following structure: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? root child id=c1 child id=gc1 child id=ggc1/ child id=ggc2/ /child child id=gc2 child id=ggc3/

Re: [PHP] Possible using XPath?

2008-03-27 Thread Robin Vickery
On 27/03/2008, Christoph Boget [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's say I have the following structure: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? root child id=c1 child id=gc1 child id=ggc1/ child id=ggc2/ /child

Re: [PHP] Re: optimilize web page loading

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Ford
Jason Pruim wrote: On Mar 27, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Shawn McKenzie wrote: Al wrote: Good point. I usually do use the single quotes, just happened to key doubles for the email. Actually, it's good idea for all variable assignments. Philip Thompson wrote: On Mar 26, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Al wrote:

Re: [PHP] Possible using XPath?

2008-03-27 Thread Christoph Boget
Is that possible? Or is this something I'd have to do programatically using the nodes returned by the XPath query? Basically, I'm just trying to get a fragment of the larger xml document... //[EMAIL PROTECTED]'gc3']/child/ancestor-or-self::* Thanks for the response. However, I

Re: [PHP] Re: optimilize web page loading

2008-03-27 Thread Eric Butera
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Peter Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Pruim wrote: On Mar 27, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Shawn McKenzie wrote: Al wrote: Good point. I usually do use the single quotes, just happened to key doubles for the email. Actually, it's good idea for

Re: [PHP] Possible using XPath?

2008-03-27 Thread Robin Vickery
On 27/03/2008, Christoph Boget [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that possible? Or is this something I'd have to do programatically using the nodes returned by the XPath query? Basically, I'm just trying to get a fragment of the larger xml document... //[EMAIL

[PHP] Having problems with XMLDocument

2008-03-27 Thread Christoph Boget
What is wrong with the following code? It's throwing a DOMException when I try to set the id attribute for the $lvl1Node but I can't see why... $doc = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8'); $root = $doc-appendChild( $doc-createElement( 'root' )); for( $a = 0; $a = 3; $a++ ) { $lvl_1_id =

Re: [PHP] Developing existing java portal in php

2008-03-27 Thread ganu
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Sangamesh B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Here is one web portal product which is already developed using java tools. I don't know java, php or perl. But I can learn php quickly compared to java. Learning PHP,Perl is very easy as compare to Java. My

[PHP] php_mssql.so

2008-03-27 Thread Liz Kim
We have a set of PHP files which uses dl() to load the extension php_mssql.so at runtime. These were running on a server with PHP 4.3.9 and have been recently moved to a new server with PHP 5.1.6 (both RedHat). I have tried to simply copy the file php_mssql.so file to the directory of PHP modules,

Re: [PHP] php_mssql.so

2008-03-27 Thread Chris
Liz Kim wrote: We have a set of PHP files which uses dl() to load the extension php_mssql.so at runtime. These were running on a server with PHP 4.3.9 and have been recently moved to a new server with PHP 5.1.6 (both RedHat). I have tried to simply copy the file php_mssql.so file to the

Re: [PHP] php_mssql.so

2008-03-27 Thread Liz Kim
Maybe I could just compile it on a test machine and copy the .so file over to the working server. Would there be any incompatibility issues there? Where could I download PHP 5.1.6? I am only able to see 5.2.5 and 4.4.8 on php.net... Thank you! On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Chris [EMAIL

Re: [PHP] php_mssql.so

2008-03-27 Thread Alfredo CV
Hola Liz You should go to http://rpm.pbone.net and search for php-mssql. In fact I did it;and there you will find the php-mssql packages for both RedHat 5 and RedHat 4 and for i386 and X86_64 and even for many other linux distributions. I upgraded my mysql to 5.0.2 and my php to 5.0.3

Re: [PHP] php_mssql.so

2008-03-27 Thread Chris
Liz Kim wrote: Maybe I could just compile it on a test machine and copy the .so file over to the working server. Would there be any incompatibility issues there? If and only if: - They are the same architecture (they both have to be i386 for example, one can't be an amd-64 and the other be

[PHP] munge / obfuscate ?

2008-03-27 Thread Joey
Hi All, I have written an app to allow a person to go online and see a picture we take of them. When we link to the picture I don't want it to be obvious that the URL is Domain.Com/Pix/123.jpg because the next person we take a picture of may be 123.jpg, so I am trying to munge/obfuscate the

Re: [PHP] munge / obfuscate ?

2008-03-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 21:10 -0400, Joey wrote: Hi All, I have written an app to allow a person to go online and see a picture we take of them. When we link to the picture I don't want it to be obvious that the URL is Domain.Com/Pix/123.jpg because the next person we take a picture

Re: [PHP] How to install PHP 5.x on Windows Server 2000 with IIS 5 and MySQL 5.x

2008-03-27 Thread Shelley
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Philip Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 27, 2008, at 8:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to All, Would you mind to help as the title of mail ? Thanks ! Edward. Ok, I understand that sometimes people *have* to use a certain OS, but

RE: [PHP] munge / obfuscate ?

2008-03-27 Thread Robert Cummings
Hi Joey, Please keep responses on the list so others can also benefit from the learning process. Comments below... On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 21:46 -0400, Joey wrote: -Original Message- From: Robert Cummings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:28 PM To: Joey

[PHP] Re: munge / obfuscate ?

2008-03-27 Thread Colin Guthrie
Joey wrote: Hi All, I have written an app to allow a person to go online and see a picture we take of them. When we link to the picture I don't want it to be obvious that the URL is Domain.Com/Pix/123.jpg because the next person we take a picture of may be 123.jpg, so I am trying

[PHP] Re: Quick email address check

2008-03-27 Thread Bill Guion
At 1:28 PM -0400 3/26/08, Al wrote: I'm scripting a simple registry where the user can input their name and email address. I'd like to do a quick validity check on the email address they just inputted. I can check the syntax, etc. but want check if the address exists. I realize that

Re: [PHP] munge / obfuscate ?

2008-03-27 Thread Bastien Koert
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Joey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have written an app to allow a person to go online and see a picture we take of them. When we link to the picture I don't want it to be obvious that the URL is Domain.Com/Pix/123.jpg because the next person we take

Re: [PHP] Re: Quick email address check

2008-03-27 Thread Bastien Koert
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Bill Guion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 1:28 PM -0400 3/26/08, Al wrote: I'm scripting a simple registry where the user can input their name and email address. I'd like to do a quick validity check on the email address they just inputted. I can check the

Re: [PHP] munge / obfuscate ?

2008-03-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 22:36 -0400, Bastien Koert wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Joey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have written an app to allow a person to go online and see a picture we take of them. When we link to the picture I don't want it to be obvious that

Re: [PHP] munge / obfuscate ?

2008-03-27 Thread robert
I like this and never would have thought to do this. What kind performance hit does this have, if there were 100 images, for example? On Mar 27, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: Hi Joey, Please keep responses on the list so others can also benefit from the learning process.

Re: [PHP] munge / obfuscate ?

2008-03-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 22:48 -0700, robert wrote: I like this and never would have thought to do this. What kind performance hit does this have, if there were 100 images, for example? Well... it would be like requesting 101 PHP pages :/ It would be heavy. It's not something I'd generally