php-general Digest 9 Feb 2010 21:05:38 -0000 Issue 6582

2010-02-09 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 9 Feb 2010 21:05:38 - Issue 6582 Topics (messages 301897 through 301912): Re: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities 301897 by: Rene Veerman 301898 by: Teus Benschop 301899 by: Nathan Rixham 301900 by: Richard Quadling

[PHP] Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

2010-02-09 Thread Nathan Rixham
Rene Veerman wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a strategy to do informative error handling at all levels of my code, yet keep these errors non-fatal as often as possible. error_log - for logging errors throw Exception - for show stoppers try/catch - for when you can handle a potential show stopper

Re: [PHP] Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

2010-02-09 Thread Richard Quadling
On 9 February 2010 11:48, Nathan Rixham nrix...@gmail.com wrote: Rene Veerman wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a strategy to do informative error handling at all levels of my code, yet keep these errors non-fatal as often as possible. error_log - for logging errors throw Exception - for show

Re: [PHP] Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

2010-02-09 Thread Richard
Hi, I have extended the standard exception class to send me an email whenever an exception occurs. I did that once. Once being the operative word... :-) Ended up with tens of thousands of emails one morning. At first I thought... Wow, maybe my popularity has grown somewhat. But it hadn't. --

Re: [PHP] Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

2010-02-09 Thread Richard Quadling
On 9 February 2010 12:55, Richard rich...@php.net wrote: Hi, I have extended the standard exception class to send me an email whenever an exception occurs. I did that once. Once being the operative word... :-) Ended up with tens of thousands of emails one morning. At first I thought... Wow,

Re: [PHP] Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

2010-02-09 Thread Richard
Hi, But I bet you REALLY quickly fixed the problem! I just took out the error handling. :-) -- Richard Heyes HTML5 canvas graphing: RGraph - http://www.rgraph.net (updated 7th February) Lots of PHP and Javascript code - http://www.phpguru.org -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

2010-02-09 Thread Robert Cummings
Richard wrote: Hi, I have extended the standard exception class to send me an email whenever an exception occurs. I did that once. Once being the operative word... :-) Ended up with tens of thousands of emails one morning. At first I thought... Wow, maybe my popularity has grown somewhat.

Re: [PHP] Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

2010-02-09 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 09:19 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: Richard wrote: Hi, I have extended the standard exception class to send me an email whenever an exception occurs. I did that once. Once being the operative word... :-) Ended up with tens of thousands of emails one morning.

Re: [PHP] Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

2010-02-09 Thread Robert Cummings
Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 09:19 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: Richard wrote: Hi, I have extended the standard exception class to send me an email whenever an exception occurs. I did that once. Once being the operative word... :-) Ended up with tens of thousands of emails

[PHP] create archive file in memory with zipArchive class

2010-02-09 Thread Ryan Sun
I want to generate credential zip file for user on the fly with zipArchive and render it for download, so I created following code - $zip = new ZipArchive(); $filename = '/tmp/xxx.zip'; if ($zip-open($filename, ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE)!==TRUE) {   

Re: [PHP] Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

2010-02-09 Thread Richard Quadling
On 9 February 2010 14:20, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 09:19 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: Richard wrote: Hi, I have extended the standard exception class to send me an email whenever an exception occurs. I did that once. Once being the

Re: [PHP] create archive file in memory with zipArchive class

2010-02-09 Thread Richard Quadling
On 9 February 2010 15:42, Ryan Sun ryansu...@gmail.com wrote: I want to generate credential zip file for user on the fly with zipArchive and render it for download, so I created following code - $zip = new ZipArchive(); $filename =

Re: [PHP] Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

2010-02-09 Thread Richard
Hi, Real developers don't have errors in their code; they're undocumented features ;) Or alternatively, if you freelance - Forthcoming employment opportunities :-) -- Richard Heyes HTML5 canvas graphing: RGraph - http://www.rgraph.net (updated 7th February) Lots of PHP and Javascript code -

Re: [PHP] create archive file in memory with zipArchive class

2010-02-09 Thread Ryan Sun
thanks, Richard, maybe you are right, the actual file name is not my job I changed it to 'php://temp' but its still the same, nothing has been changed... On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Richard Quadling rquadl...@googlemail.com wrote: On 9 February 2010 15:42, Ryan Sun ryansu...@gmail.com

[PHP] SOAP connect error

2010-02-09 Thread Eric Lommatsch
Hello, I am working with the SOAP package of PHP and I am trying make a connection from a hosted website to a server in our office. I can get to the server perfectly fine from within our office, but I cannot connect from the eternal site. I have checked and I am certain that the firewall

[PHP] Re: SOAP connect error

2010-02-09 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Eric Lommatsch wrote: Hello, I am working with the SOAP package of PHP and I am trying make a connection from a hosted website to a server in our office. I can get to the server perfectly fine from within our office, but I cannot connect from the eternal site. I have checked and I

[PHP] RE: SOAP connect error

2010-02-09 Thread Eric Lommatsch
-Original Message- From: Shawn McKenzie [mailto:nos...@mckenzies.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 3:07 PM To: Eric Lommatsch Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: SOAP connect error Eric Lommatsch wrote: Hello, I am working with the SOAP package of PHP and I am trying make

Re: [PHP] Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

2010-02-09 Thread clancy_1
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:09:05 +, rquadl...@googlemail.com (Richard Quadling) wrote: On 9 February 2010 14:20, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 09:19 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: Richard wrote: Hi, I have extended the standard exception class to

Re: [PHP] Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

2010-02-09 Thread Rene Veerman
Well, i've thought of a few ways to allow localized overriding of values returned by functions in case of an error. I have yet to figure out what the exact advantages are of this code-standard, but the overhead seems acceptable and i recon this, when done, will beat the trigger_error()-try-catch

Re: [PHP] Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

2010-02-09 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:38:42PM +0100, Rene Veerman wrote: Well, i've thought of a few ways to allow localized overriding of values returned by functions in case of an error. I have yet to figure out what the exact advantages are of this code-standard, but the overhead seems acceptable

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-09 Thread clancy_1
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:39:03 +0100, joc...@iamjochem.com (Jochem Maas) wrote: Op 2/4/10 1:32 AM, clanc...@cybec.com.au schreef: Recently I have frequently found, especially in the morning (GMT 2200 - 0200), that I can open a bookmark in the manual, for example

[PHP] Owner or other; permissions for webpage users

2010-02-09 Thread clancy_1
I'm basically familiar with the UNIX permissions - 'owner', 'group', or 'other', but I have no real idea how these apply to webpage users under PHP. I know that if I FTP to the server I am the owner, and I think that if I, or anyone else, opens one of my webpages I am 'other'. However what I

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-09 Thread James McLean
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:26 PM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:39:03 +0100, joc...@iamjochem.com (Jochem Maas) wrote: as for using IE6 ... WTF ... you do realise this is essentially a web developers mailing list right? The interesting things in my websites go on

Re: [PHP] Owner or other; permissions for webpage users

2010-02-09 Thread James McLean
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: I'm basically familiar with the UNIX permissions - 'owner', 'group', or 'other', but I have no real idea how these apply to webpage users under PHP. I know that if I FTP to the server I am the owner, and I think that if I, or

Re: [PHP] Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

2010-02-09 Thread Rene Veerman
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: $d = funcD($q); // tests if necessary $c = funcC($p); // tests if necessary $b = funcB($c); // tests if necessary $r = funcA($b, $d); You're right. I knew when i was posting my last reply yesterday that i had

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-09 Thread Lester Caine
James McLean wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:26 PM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:39:03 +0100, joc...@iamjochem.com (Jochem Maas) wrote: as for using IE6 ... WTF ... you do realise this is essentially a web developers mailing list right? The interesting things in my