Re: [PHP] Cleaning up my messy code

2003-10-08 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Here is what I would do (this advice and a buck will buy you a cup of coffee): First, I'd take my existing code, look over it and ask, Where am I doing the same thing over and over? Code that is repetitive is a prime candidate for using functions or objects. Objects are easier to maintain for

Re: [PHP] Re: Sorting parsed XML

2002-11-26 Thread Geoff Hankerson
don't really know enough about the programming challenge we are looking at to say for sure @ Edwin wrote: Geoff Hankerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems to me to be more easily handled by XSLT. (Not the only option but a good one). XSLT lets you select only the nodes you want

Re: [PHP] Re: Sorting parsed XML

2002-11-25 Thread Geoff Hankerson
This seems to me to be more easily handled by XSLT. (Not the only option but a good one). XSLT lets you select only the nodes you want and also sort them as well. @ Edwin wrote: Hello, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to write PHP code that will not only parse the XML but also

Re: [PHP] *.PHP save-as dialog

2002-11-05 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Did you try getting rid of the IfDefine HAVE_PHP4 stuff? Lee Philip Reilly wrote: Hi there, I posted this message yesterday: -- I recently upgraded from PHP version 4.0-ish to 4.2.3 on my Linux/Apache machine. AFAIK, Apache is setup correctly (it serves HTML) and PHP works, but only

Re: [PHP] XML and XLS Sablotron

2002-10-30 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Basically SAX and DOM are for parsing xml and xslt is for transforming xml into html, svg, wml, pdf and the like. So it sounds like you want to use xslt. Daniele Baroncelli wrote: Dear all, I am just approaching to XML and I would need some explanation, which most of you will probably

Re: [PHP] xml parsing

2002-10-17 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Change xml into a different type of xml sounds like a job for the xslt functions. Works like a charm Michael Ransburg wrote: Hi! I understand that it's easily possible to parse xml documents with php. But what about changing them? With other xml parsers, I have the xml document in a structure

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP XML

2002-10-16 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Ultimately it's about flexibility and seperating content from presentation.Even if you don't have sites that need to be output into multiple formats you will almost cetainly need to redesign some or all of the presentation at some point even if it is only in html. Have you ever had your

Re: [PHP] PHP XML

2002-10-15 Thread Geoff Hankerson
A few ideas: 1. I have been setting up a system to do almost exactly what you are doing (database -- xml -- xslt--html via a custom class) and have not noticed any significant performance hit, but this is not in production so your mileage may vary, but my gut feeling is the performance hit is

Re: [PHP] Is php even right for this design?

2002-09-19 Thread Geoff Hankerson
3)Reporting. I think I can get by with HTML reports for the most part. however checks and tax forms require precisely positioned reporting abilities. I think that I will be better off using an external reporting application (crystal,access,FoxPro etc) to generate these reports. But if

Re: [PHP] php nuke problem

2002-09-12 Thread Geoff Hankerson
I think you need change permissions the file that holds configurations settings for php-nuke. Read the install instructions it's in there chmod 665 config.ini or whatever the name of the file is Ryan A wrote: Hey guys, I just setup php nuke (damn,thats a big package) but the problem is that i

Re: [PHP] Windows Authoring Tools

2002-09-12 Thread Geoff Hankerson
jEdit is nice www.jedit.org Seán Dillon wrote: As an fan of Homesite for many years I'm a little annoyed I can no-longer purchase the product seperately, so am going to be stuck with v5.0 as I don't fancy the idea of forking out for Dreamweaver MX. I'm looking for (hopefully) a GNU/GPL Open

Re: [PHP] XML doubt

2002-09-05 Thread Geoff Hankerson
of the query into index.xml, but [Proccess 1] is still working with index.xml What happends? Geoff Hankerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió en el mensaje [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Forgot a step: (1C) make an xslt stylesheet which is basically just a beefed-up html page. C

Re: [PHP] sort dinamic generated table

2002-09-05 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Rodrigo Peres wrote: Hi, I have a resume system that put a rank in it resume at runtime. example: If you do a serach for each match that it finds it atribute 1 point, now I need to sort the generated list based in this rank, how can i do this, since this rank is dinamic and isn't in database??

Re: [PHP] XML vs Everything Else

2002-09-04 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Rodrigo Dominguez wrote: I'm writting an application, a control panel for a web site, and it will be great if I can separe data from presentation, I know that I have to work with XML and XSL but I didn't understand how it works. Can you give me a simple example? Let guess that a client request

[PHP] Re: XML vs Everything Else

2002-09-04 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Javier Montserat wrote: Spend some time learning about xml and you won't regret it Could you (or anyone else on the list) recommend some good resources (Books / Websites) for learning XML and XSLT? Thanks, Javier http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/XML http://www.xml.com (look

Re: [PHP] XML doubt

2002-09-04 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Rodrigo Dominguez wrote: I don't know how to work with XML... I know that it's a good standard to pass information between computer or applications, but I don't know how to separe my data from my presentation on my PHP projects. I always use OOP, I organize all the data in databases and clases,

Re: [PHP] XML doubt

2002-09-04 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Forgot a step: (1C) make an xslt stylesheet which is basically just a beefed-up html page. Check out devshed.cm xml.com and w3c.org for info on xslt stlyesheets Geoff Hankerson wrote: Rodrigo Dominguez wrote: I don't know how to work with XML... I know that it's a good standard to pass

Re: [PHP] Any netscape users out there?

2002-09-03 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Dan Ostrowski wrote: I develop mostly in a Linux environment anymore, but I have a problem with Netscape and PHP. Well, not so much with PHP but developing it with Netscape. Post data makes Netscape REFUSE to show the underlying source code! It's virtually impossible to design form handling

Re: [PHP] XML vs Everything Else

2002-09-03 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Can anyone direct me to a page with xml in use? Something that can help me grasp what its all about. I didn't understand xml at all until I started using it . I asked pretty much the same question as you (what is it good for?). Now I will almost always use xml in any app I work on.

Re: [PHP] forms into database and visa versa

2002-05-17 Thread Geoff Hankerson
depending on your needs you could just create a .csv file (comma seperated text) that excel can read easily - Original Message - From: Dennis Gearon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 11:13 AM Subject: [PHP] forms into database and visa versa ***_PLEASE

Re: [PHP] Q:Anybody using PHP directly on Mac-OSX???

2002-05-17 Thread Geoff Hankerson
This will just start Apache if I remember correctly. You still have to alter the httpd.conf file. Details for MacOSX php setup are here: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/ct/49 php is covered in part III - Original Message - From: Miguel Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marcus James Christian

Re: [PHP] Add FTP user via PHP?

2002-04-23 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Could you write the user info to a file and have a cron job parse the file and add them as a user? - Original Message - From: Shane McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Php-General [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 9:43 AM Subject: [PHP] Add FTP user via PHP? Is there a way to

Re: [PHP] MSSQL help w/ auto_increment

2002-04-23 Thread Geoff Hankerson
I believe the auto increment field has to be set as the primary key as well. - Original Message - From: David Orn Johannsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 10:04 AM Subject: [PHP] MSSQL help w/ auto_increment I'm having a problem wiht creating a

[PHP] Php/Pdf application

2002-04-09 Thread Geoff Hankerson
I am wondering if one or more of you can point me in the right direction on this one. Our company has intellectual property (legal forms) that is in the form of a pdf. We want to sell this over the Web but a regular pdf is not secure and it would allow users to make unlimited copies and have

Re: [PHP] Using PHP to access an AS 400 database

2002-04-01 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Any way to use ODBC?? Just a thought - Original Message - From: Rance Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 8:37 AM Subject: [PHP] Using PHP to access an AS 400 database I'd like to find a way to get my PHP driven web site to connect to an AS 400

Re: [PHP] Temporary MySQL Tables

2002-03-21 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Couldn't you just use substr_replace and the html endcoding for a double quote (#34;) ? ?php echo input type=\hidden\ name=\name\ value=\ . substr_replace($name, '/', #34;). \; ? - Original Message - From: Georgie Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [PHP] Mac Classic and PHP...

2002-03-19 Thread Geoff Hankerson
I would worry about the hard drive failing on an old Mac. (This just happened to me on an old 7300/180 and a bondi iMac at work). The older macs use scsi hard drves that are hard to find and next to impossible to find new. At least with a 7300 it has 3 pci slots and you can put an IDE controller

Re: [PHP] Mac Classic and PHP...

2002-03-19 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Also remember you can pick up a brand new Dell 1.6 ghz P4 w/ 17 inch monitor for under $700. Then you can run php/apache on Windows if you want (check out the easy installer at www.nusphere.com) or any number of Linux or BSD variants. If your set on a Mac you can pick up a new previous

Re: [PHP] Mac Classic and PHP...

2002-03-19 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Well would you be so kind as to share your knowledge of where to pick up scsi drives. Remember these are old Mac compatible scsi drives 50 pin or something like that. - Original Message - From: Alnisa Allgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Geoff Hankerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PHP] Mac Classic and PHP...Part 2 The Wintel Nightmare.

2002-03-19 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Here is an easy one click install you can download for free http://www.nusphere.com/ (click download -- you have to register first) It puts Apache, MySQL, php and perl all in the right places for you. - Original Message - From: Chuck PUP Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP] Return the column names of MySQL table?

2002-03-19 Thread Geoff Hankerson
I believe it is: describe tablename; - Original Message - From: Kevin Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: [PHP] Return the column names of MySQL table? Forgive me for the off topic question. This is a MySQL question.. has