Re: [PHP] Tidy HTML source?

2006-11-30 Thread Paul Novitski
On Thursday 30 November 2006 18:51, Paul Novitski wrote: With respect to separating code and markup, you said sometimes there are reasons not to do so, for example, web services. What are some of those reasons? At 11/30/2006 10:57 AM, Sancar Saran wrote: What about performance ? Web

Re: [PHP] Tidy HTML source?

2006-11-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/28/2006 05:05 AM, Satyam wrote: May I invite you to check http://satyam.com.ar/pht/? This is a project I started some time ago to help me produced HTML in a more clean and efficient way. Usually, producing good HTML involves running a sample output through some HTML validator or

Re: [PHP] Detecting naughty sites

2006-11-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/29/2006 01:51 AM, Robin Vickery wrote: Cubist Porn - very big in certain 'artistic' circles. What, both eggs on the same side of the sausage? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Tidy HTML source?

2006-11-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/29/2006 05:13 AM, Satyam wrote: - Original Message - From: Paul Novitski [EMAIL PROTECTED] What I find to be a much greater problem is the human readability of logic code when HTML is mixed throughout. Your innovation is helpful here, as you're nearly making HTML tags into PHP

Re: [PHP] Detecting naughty sites

2006-11-28 Thread Paul Novitski
Hi all. I am building a web app and as part of it advertisers can upload their ad image and website URL to go with their ad. Is there a good way to detect whether that site is a porn site via php? If the sites home page contains the words sex, babes, and a few other choice words, which I'll

Re: [PHP] Detecting naughty sites

2006-11-28 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/28/2006 11:57 AM, Rory Browne wrote: I didn't mean something quite that simple, or as an absolute solution. I meant something slightly more advanced, but based on that idea. From a robot point of view, what do you think is the difference between the php archives and a porn site? What

Re: [PHP] getting around the undefined index

2006-11-27 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/27/2006 11:21 AM, Ross wrote: $text = $_REQUEST['text_size']; if ($text) { echo $text; } I send the $text_size variable to the browser with lines like... a href=? $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ??text_size=small class=size1 id=oneA/a When the page initially loads I get a undefined index

Re: [PHP] text only and text sizer

2006-11-27 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/27/2006 02:11 PM, Ross wrote: $text_only = isset($_GET['text_only']) ? $_GET['text_only'] : 1; if ($text_only==1) { ? a href=?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];??text_only=0off/a // import css here ? } else { ? a href=?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];??text_only=1on/a/span // import css here

Re: [PHP] Powered by?

2006-11-22 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/21/2006 03:02 PM, pub wrote: Is it appropriate to ask your client to add Powered by your company to the sites you design and maintain? And when you see Powered by does it mean designed by or maintained by or both? 'Powered by' sounds like an engine or a fuel, so I imagine it to mean

Re: [PHP] Looping through array

2006-11-16 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/16/2006 12:19 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Say I have an array containing ten items, and I want to display them in a table as follows: 5 4 3 2 1 10 9 8 7 6 What's the best way to loop through that array to do that? My thinking gets me to create a loop for 5 through 1,

Re: [PHP] Re: Space in regex

2006-11-16 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/16/2006 01:56 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: $text=preg_replace_callback('/\[([A-Za-z0-9\'.-:underscore:]+)\|([A-Za-z0-9\'. -:underscore:]+)\]/i' , findLinks, $text); This regex should match any pair of square brackets, with two bits of text between them seperated by a pipe, like these:

Re: [PHP] Splitting a string

2006-11-16 Thread Paul Novitski
On Thursday 16 November 2006 01:38, Paul Novitski wrote: If you need to left-pad with zeroes, PHP comes to the rescue: http://php.net/str_pad However, if you're using the regular expression method then you might not need to pad the number. You can change the pattern from

Re: [PHP] Re: Space in regex

2006-11-16 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/16/2006 08:46 PM, Myron Turner wrote: The underscore plus alphanumeric are included in \w, so to get a regex such as you want: [\w\s\.\-\']+ You should escape the dot because the unescaped dot stands for any single character, which is why .* stands for any and all

Re: [PHP] Re: Space in regex

2006-11-16 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/16/2006 03:19 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: However, this function: $text=preg_replace_callback('/\[([A-Za-z0-9\|\'.-:underscore:]+)\]/i' , findLinks, $text); Does what I want it to when there is no space, regardless of whether or not there is a pipe. It does not replace anything if there is a

Re: [PHP] Splitting a string

2006-11-15 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/15/2006 02:06 PM, Børge Holen wrote: Oh this was good. I added a while loop to insert extra strings 0 in front of the number to add if the string is less than 5 chars short. I forgot to mentinon that the string actually could be shorter (just found out) and the code didn't work with

Re: [PHP] Splitting a string

2006-11-14 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/14/2006 03:17 PM, Børge Holen wrote: $number = 123456789 should print as following: var1: 12345 (and it is this lengt witch varies) var2: 67 var3: 89. You can also do this with a regular expression: $iNumber = '123456789'; $sPattern = '/(\d+)(\d{2})(\d{2})$/'; preg_match($sPattern,

Re: [PHP] CSS / PHP / Javascript

2006-11-14 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/14/2006 08:00 PM, Ed Lazor wrote: I'm reading a book on CSS and how you can define different style sheets for different visitors. I'm wondering how you guys do it. The book recommends using Javascript functions for identifying the user's browser and matching them with the corresponding

Re: [PHP] one click - two actions?

2006-11-13 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/13/2006 01:28 AM, Mel wrote: Could someone please help me figure out how to show some description (where applicable) at the same time as I show an image, when I click on a link, without repeating the entire query? The image and the description are both in the same table in my database. I

Re: [PHP] Staff log-in

2006-11-10 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/10/2006 07:09 AM, tedd wrote: Lastly, I think we all know that non-profit simply means that at the end of the year you get to roll your profits over to the next year without incurring taxes on the excess. Nothing more. Plus, there's no limit or requirements as to the amount/percentage

Re: [PHP] Trying to create an encryption method

2006-11-04 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/4/2006 08:15 PM, John Meyer wrote: I'm trying to create this encryption method for puzzles (nothing super secret, just those cryptograms), but this seems to time out, can anybody point out what I'm doing wrong here: for ($i=1;$i=26;$i++) { $normalAlphabet[$i] = chr($i);

Re: [PHP] str_replace on words with an array

2006-10-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/29/2006 01:07 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: The purpose of the ^ and the $ is to define the beginning and the end of a word: http://il2.php.net/regex No, actually, ^ and $ define the beginnning end of the entire expression being searched, not the boundaries of a single word. Therefore

Re: [PHP] str_replace on words with an array

2006-10-29 Thread Paul Novitski
Paul Novitski wrote: If you go this route, perhaps you could enclose each member of your original array in \b word boundary sequences using an array_walk routine so that you don't have to muddy your original array declaration statement. At 10/29/2006 01:54 PM, rich gray wrote: IIRC

Re: [PHP] Decide witch table within a union

2006-10-29 Thread Paul Novitski
On Oct 29, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Børge Holen wrote: Would you suggest to use a extra field to hold the table name as default? At 10/29/2006 04:16 PM, Ed Lazor wrote: Definitely not. Review your design. If you need to know which table data comes from, then perform table specific queries. If

Re: [PHP] Decide witch table within a union

2006-10-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/29/2006 08:04 PM, Ed Lazor wrote: That seems unreasonably harsh. I can see what you mean, but don't take it that way. I was trying to help. Sorry, Ed, I had intended my reply to be friendly as well. I'm allergic to smiley-face icons, but I should have tried harder to convey my

Re: [PHP] heredoc usage [WAS: OPTION]

2006-10-28 Thread Paul Novitski
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:04:25 -0700, Paul Novitski wrote: It's so interesting that some details bug some people and others bug others. In an expression such as this: echo 'option value=' . $day . '' . $selected . '' . $day . '/option'; ...I count eight transitions (instances

Re: [PHP] heredoc usage [WAS: OPTION]

2006-10-27 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10:23 AM -0700 10/26/06, Paul Novitski wrote: For a robust general CMS, though, I want a completely unambiguous demarcation of replacable content. At 10/27/2006 09:01 AM, tedd wrote: If you want a completely unambiguous demarcation then use xml with a defined schema. I don't think you

Re: [PHP] heredoc usage [WAS: OPTION]

2006-10-26 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/25/2006 11:24 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: Now, the thing that I dislike about heredoc for such small strings is the switching between heredoc mode and the switching back. It's ugly on the scale of switching in and out of PHP tags. It's so interesting that some details bug some people and

Re: [PHP] heredoc usage [WAS: OPTION]

2006-10-26 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/26/2006 08:24 AM, tedd wrote: At 1:04 AM -0700 10/26/06, Paul Novitski wrote: My comparable example (but in an HTML context) would look like: Hello span class=firstNameFIRSTNAME/span, where the engine replaces the content of the span with the value from the database based

Re: [PHP] counting records in db

2006-10-26 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/26/2006 10:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what would be better solution to count records in table (e.g., how many customers have last name 'Smith'): $query = mysql_query( SELECT COUNT(*) as NoOfRecords FROM customers WHERE last_name =

Re: [PHP] counting records in db

2006-10-26 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/26/2006 11:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be ok to use the same code to check if customer is loged in? $query = mysql_query( SELECT COUNT(Username) as NoOfRecords FROM customers WHERE Username = '$Username' AND Password =

Re: [PHP] OPTION

2006-10-25 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/25/2006 04:09 PM, Stut wrote: Dang that's painful!! Try this... ?php foreach (range(1, 31) as $day) { print 'option value='.$day.''; if ($selected_day_of_month == $day) print ' selected'; print ''.$day.'/option'; } ? Ouch! Gnarly mix of

[PHP] heredoc usage [WAS: OPTION]

2006-10-25 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/25/2006 04:09 PM, Stut wrote: print 'option value='.$day.''; if ($selected_day_of_month == $day) print ' selected'; print ''.$day.'/option'; On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 17:35 -0700, Paul Novitski wrote: print hdDay

Re: [PHP] How to recognise url in a block of text

2006-10-17 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/17/2006 12:39 AM, AYSERVE.NET wrote: Please, I need help on how to to recognise url in a block of text being retrieved from a database and present it as a link within that text. Here's an illustration of your problem: Input: Text text http://example.com/directory/filename.html#anchor

Re: [PHP] sorting in array

2006-07-31 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10:31 PM 7/30/2006, weetat wrote: I have problem when doing usort() when 'country' = '', i would like to display records where country = '' last. Any ideas how to do that ? ... $arraytest= array( array ( 'country' = '', ) , array (

RE: [PHP] sorting in array

2006-07-31 Thread Paul Novitski
At 05:40 PM 7/30/2006, Peter Lauri wrote: function cmpcountry($a, $b) { $country1 = $a['country']; $country2 = $b['country']; if($country1=='') return 1; else return ($country1 $country2) ? -1 : 1; } Good call, Peter; my suggestion was

RE: [PHP] sorting in array

2006-07-31 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12:22 AM 7/31/2006, Paul Novitski wrote: I could make that last statement just a bit simpler: function cmpcountry($a, $b) { $country1 = ($a['country'] == '') ? zzz : $a['country']; $country2 = ($b['country'] == '') ? zzz : $b['country']; return ($country1

Re: [PHP] sorting in array

2006-07-31 Thread Paul Novitski
At 01:14 AM 7/31/2006, weetat wrote: Thanks Paul, Very weird tried Peter's option, it doesn't work. Btw , how to sort by ascending ? Please explain what you mean. The current script DOES sort ascending by country (except for the blank country fields which are placed at the end):

Re: [PHP] call a javascript within php

2006-07-30 Thread Paul Novitski
At 09:59 AM 7/30/2006, Jochen Kaechelin wrote: How can I call a JavaScript inside php? You can't literally call client-side JavaScript from server-side PHP because they're executing at different times and in different computers. PHP executes on the server then downloads the page to the

Re: [PHP] different value in array

2006-07-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11:18 PM 7/28/2006, weetat wrote: I have 2 array which populated from MYSQL as shown below : My program will update status in the temporary table according to compare of 2 arrays, for example from 2 array below: in $temptablearr = there 3 elements in $currenttablearr = there 2

Re: [PHP] different value in array

2006-07-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12:20 AM 7/29/2006, Paul Novitski wrote: You might consider concatenating all the elements in each sub-array to make the comparison logic simpler, e.g.: foreach ($currenttablearr as $key = $subarray) { $comparisonArray[$key] = explode(_, $subarray

Re: [PHP] Re: Help with some clever bit operations

2006-07-21 Thread Paul Novitski
Niels schrieb: The problem: A function tries to update an existing value, but is only allowed to write certain bits. There are 3 variables: A: the existing value, eg. 10110101 B: what the function wants to write, eg. 01011100 C: which bits the function is allowed to write, eg. With

Re: [PHP] Separation between View and State (The Back Button)

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11:27 AM 7/13/2006, Michael B Allen wrote: Let's say you have a Buy button that posts a form to a script that inserts or increments the quantity of a record in a shopping cart table. So you click Buy and then Checkout. Now if you hit the Back button it asks the user if they would like to

Re: [PHP] parse error

2006-07-10 Thread Paul Novitski
At 08:11 AM 7/10/2006, Schalk wrote: I am getting the following error:* Parse error*: parse error, unexpected $ in */home/httpd/vhosts/demo.bdiverse.com/httpdocs/accessible/processlogin.php* on line *69 In my code the last line i.e. ? is marked as line 69 I don't see anything wrong with

Re: [PHP] What's the regex for this...?

2006-07-04 Thread Paul Novitski
At 04:50 PM 7/4/2006, Brian Dunning wrote: I have the source of a web page stored in $here and I want to set $this to whatever appears between 'span class=myclass' and '/ span'. Example: $here contains (amid tons of other stuff): span class=myclassThis is a statement./span If you can

Re: [PHP] pdf

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11:50 PM 6/28/2006, weetat wrote: I am using PHP 4.3.2 and MYSQL database. I need to convert the sql query to Adobe PDF format. Any one have any suggestion how to do this? I'm enjoying using the PHP class FPDF http://www.fpdf.org/ It's not a one-step conversion utility, it's a PHP

[PHP] cool your jets [WAS: Re: [PHP] working on a template system...]

2006-06-28 Thread Paul Novitski
Hey kids, I thought I was joining a PHP list, not a snarky ego-fest. I assume most of us are trying to get work done around here and are interested in programming QA. Please take your squabbles off-list or re-title them. They're off-topic and a waste of everyone's else's time. Yeah I've

Re: [PHP] Multiple if() statements

2006-06-28 Thread Paul Novitski
At 04:38 PM 6/28/2006, Grae Wolfe - PHP wrote: The first problem is men's names and unmarried women's names... they will have the same hs_last_name and last_name so I don't want the duplicate displaying on the page. The second problem is the entry of the word none by some of the visitors in

Re: [PHP] Re: How to re-order an array

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Novitski
At 07:53 PM 6/11/2006, jekillen wrote: I force the user to have javascript enabled Oops. Unless you're working IT in a penal colony, I suspect that what you really mean is that you choose to serve broken pages or no content at all to users who don't have JavaScript enabled, whether by

Re: [PHP] How to re-order an array

2006-06-11 Thread Paul Novitski
At 06:44 PM 6/9/2006, jekillen wrote: ... A script begins with one indexed array (not associative) and one other indexed array with the same values in a different order, the final order. I want to create an interim array and progressively re order the array until it matches slot for slot one

Re: [PHP] remove last comma in string

2006-06-09 Thread Paul Novitski
weetat wrote: I have a sql statement below : UPDATE tbl_chassis_temp SET country = 'Singapore', city 'SINGAPORE', building = 'Tampines Central 6', other = 'Level 03-40', I need to remove the last comma from sql text above. I have tried using substr and rtrim , without any success ?

Re: [PHP] Removing an aspect of a variable...

2006-06-06 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12:37 AM 6/6/2006, Rob W. wrote: Say I have a variable setting an ip address of 192.168.100.0 I want to be able to remove the last to chr's of that variable ie: .0 What would be my best solution to do that? If you want the last two characters you can use substr(): [1] $sResult =

Re: [PHP] When is z != z ?

2006-06-06 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10:38 AM 6/4/2006, tedd wrote: for ($i=a; $iz; $i++) { echo($i); } -- it stops at y But, if you use -- for ($i=a; $i=z; $i++) { echo($i); } -- it prints considerably more characters after z than what one would normally expect -- why is that? Tedd, The discussion of PHP

Re: [PHP] Getting totals

2006-06-06 Thread Paul Novitski
At 06:46 PM 6/6/2006, Rob W. wrote: if (strstr(192.168.100,192.168.100.10)) { $inc++; } echo $inc; That returns nothing. What am i still doing wrong? I would use quotation marks to explicitly type these as strings: strstr(192.168.100,192.168.100.10) Paul -- PHP General Mailing

Re: [PHP] pop-up window in php???

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11:03 AM 5/29/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyway to have a pop-up window to ask are you sure? yes / no in php? I know you can do it in Javascript, but I'm not sure what's the best way to implement it in php. I want the page to do nothing if no is pressed. With all due respect

RE: [PHP] pop-up window in php???

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 04:38 PM 5/29/2006, Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] However, PHP can download a page with input fields disabled that includes a div styled to look like a dialog box with a couple of submit buttons labeled YES NO. Submitting YES will request the same page from PHP but without the dialog div and

RE: [PHP] pop-up window in php???

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 05:04 PM 5/29/2006, tedd wrote: This really isn't any different than a page calling itself, or another page, where the result looks like a pop-up dialog box. That's right. Add the dialog form to the markup and position it absolutely to appear centered a bit down from the top of the

RE: [PHP] pop-up window in php???

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 06:25 PM 5/29/2006, Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] I'm not aware that PHP can ask a browser to open a second window without using JavaScript. What I'm suggesting would LOOK like a second window appearing on top of the primary window, then going away, when it would actually be a single page

Re: [PHP] [NOT PHP] good javascript list?

2006-05-27 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11:37 AM 5/27/2006, tedd wrote: I'm looking for a recommendation for a good javascript list like this list is for php -- does anyone have any recommendations? I've been on the LA Tech javascript list the last few years and find the quality of discussion usually high (and with much less

Re: [PHP] Can a script run twice?

2006-05-23 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11:08 AM 5/23/2006, Lester Caine wrote: I could not believe that double clicking a link would run the link twice. It just does not make any sense. So I've been round the browsers. IE does NOT process the link twice how ever I try and since all the user sites are IE they should be OK. Moz,

Re: [PHP] Can a script run twice?

2006-05-23 Thread Paul Novitski
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 15:01, Paul Novitski wrote: An additional strategy to make your system more robust is to use three pages for your form submission: 1) the form itself, which submits to: 2) the script that processes input, which redirects to: 3) the page that displays the results

Re: [PHP] Can a script run twice?

2006-05-23 Thread Paul Novitski
At 01:50 PM 5/23/2006, Lester Caine wrote: 2) the script that processes input, which redirects to: Yep that is the one, and it does check if the user already has an existing ticket, but it does not see the ticket created by the first click of double click in Moz :( *THAT* should prevent the

RE: [PHP] selecting current month from a database

2006-05-22 Thread Paul Novitski
At 06:32 AM 5/22/2006, Jef Sullivan wrote: $cur_month = date(m); while ($r = mysql_fetch_array($month_query)) { $v = $r[m_id]; $out = $r[months]; if( $cur_month = $v ) { echo(option selected=.$cur_month. value=.$v..$out./option) }

Re: [PHP] selecting current month from a database

2006-05-21 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11:45 PM 5/20/2006, Paul Goepfert wrote: I have a drop down menu where I have the months of year as menu items. I want to be able to have the current month be the selected month. I have tried using the date function as the way to set the current month as the selected value but it seems that

Re: [PHP] Need Help Please

2006-05-21 Thread Paul Novitski
At 07:38 PM 5/21/2006, marvin hunkin wrote: now, when i open the form, it does not set focus to the first form field which is the user name. goes to the login button. why is this? Marvin, Although someone else has suggested you use JavaScript to set the focus on a particular form field, I

Re: [PHP] Narorwed down my problem to one statement:

2006-05-17 Thread Paul Novitski
At 09:38 PM 5/16/2006, John Meyer wrote: $sql = INSERT INTO BOOKS(CopyrightYear,CoverType,DatePurchased,EditionNumber,ISBNNumber,Notes,Pages,Publisher,LOCNumber) VALUES(\ . $_POST[copyrightyear] . \,\ . $_POST[covertype] . \,\ . $_POST[datepurchased] . \, . $_POST[editionnumber] . ,\ .

Re: [PHP] heredoc question

2006-05-05 Thread Paul Novitski
At 07:40 AM 5/5/2006, Al wrote: How can I include place holders for variables in a heredoc such that after the heredoc is declared, I can assign the variables? Al, Escape the $'s in your heredoc expression so that the variable names remain and aren't evaluated, then eval() the whole

Re: [PHP] Paged Results Set in MySQL DB with one result

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11:51 AM 5/3/2006, Phillip S. Baker wrote: I have some articles stored in a MySQL DB. What I want is if the article is above a certain length in characters, to page article through a few pages for site readability. So I would want to print X number of words/characters. Save the where the

Re: [PHP] Paged Results Set in MySQL DB with one result

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Novitski
At 07:12 AM 5/4/2006, tedd wrote: If the text is organized into paragraphs, which I can't imagine it not being, then the solution can be found in using a combination of javascript and php. Javascript can detect the size (height width) of window the user is currently using and the web site

RE: [PHP] Maximum URL length (Pretty much 0T)

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10:41 AM 5/4/2006, Jay Blanchard wrote: People who use GET requests are lazy. Lazy?? Jumpin jujubees yer spoilin' fer a fight, boy. GET can be an extremely useful tool. As a user, with certain applications, I appreciate being able to tweak the URL manually in the browser address bar,

Re: [PHP] Maximum URL length (Pretty much 0T)

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10:41 AM 5/4/2006, Jay Blanchard wrote: People who use GET requests are lazy. Paul Novitski wrote: Lazy?? Jumpin jujubees yer spoilin' fer a fight, boy. ... Now go on outside and breath some fresh air, you been workin on that computer too long. At 11:54 AM 5/4/2006, John Nichel

RE: [PHP] What editor do you use?

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Novitski
At 01:53 PM 5/4/2006, Robert Cummings wrote: Direct memory access beats secondary helper memory every time. Autocomplete is an incentive to have a lazy mind. When your brain has a larger overall picture of available resources, it can formulate better strategies than when it only has part of the

Re: [PHP] Portfolio suggestions

2006-05-03 Thread Paul Novitski
At 03:24 PM 5/3/2006, Rory Browne wrote: It's just struck me, that even though I've been using PHP for six years, Most of my code, has either been integrated into specialised systems, or for random administrative job, I've got very little in the line of a portfolio. This is such a great

Re: [PHP] Zend refuses to include file while parser finds it

2006-05-01 Thread Paul Novitski
At 01:06 AM 5/1/2006, Nicolas Verhaeghe wrote: When I run the Zend debugger, it returns an error telling me it cannot find a certain include, while when I run the site it works fine. ... The error I get is: Debug Warning: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\bfbb\includes\pages\header.php line 3 -

Re: [PHP] PHP Standard style of writing your code

2006-04-29 Thread Paul Novitski
IMHO, vertical aligned brackets can be messy when nesting relatively-small blocks (and seems to me like a lot of wasted space) I'm struggling to get my head around this concept of 'wasted space' with regard to software code. What is it that's getting wasted, exactly? If we printed

Re: [PHP] we are looking for experienced php programmers full time freelance...

2006-04-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10:46 AM 4/29/2006, tedd wrote: ... I have found it is simply a waste of my time to try to find profitable common ground. They are concerned with one thing, and one thing only, and that is how cheap can they get it -- and they seldom have a clue as to what it is -- but, contrary to their

Re: [PHP] php - js (was Javascript Navigation)

2006-04-27 Thread Paul Novitski
At 08:03 AM 4/27/2006, tedd wrote: Forgive me my simplicity, but trying to tie communication between php with javascript is like trying to get the past and future to talk to each other -- they exist at different times. Normally, php is history when js steps on the stage and while js may say a

Re: [PHP] php - js (was Javascript Navigation)

2006-04-27 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10:33 AM 4/27/2006, tedd wrote: At 9:18 AM -0700 4/27/06, Paul Novitski wrote: I believe you're seeing monsters in the closet where there are only rumpled socks. I'm not trying to see, or create monsters, I'm just trying to understand. Sorry, that was my attempt to be light-hearted

Re: [PHP] php - js (was Javascript Navigation)

2006-04-27 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10:33 AM 4/27/2006, tedd wrote: Can js cycle reading cookies waiting for something to do while php crons writing them as needed -- and vise-versa? Is that a viable method of communication and activation between the two? At 01:57 PM 4/27/2006, Paul Novitski wrote: No, because cookie

Re: [PHP] php - js (was Javascript Navigation)

2006-04-27 Thread Paul Novitski
At 04:39 PM 4/27/2006, tedd wrote: What I don't get is how php can pass variables to js and cause it to run at will. Do you mean the way one function can call another function within the same program? It sounds like you're picturing PHP JavaScript executing continuously simultaneously.

[PHP] list noise [WAS: How to find img tag and get src of image]

2006-04-24 Thread Paul Novitski
At 06:29 AM 4/24/2006, Philip Thompson wrote: I think you are too kind. I think my response would have been likes Jay's... RTFM. However, you went above and beyond. Isn't this listserv great!! =D Thanks, Philip. There may or may not be such a thing as stupid questions but there sure as hell

Re: [PHP] How to find img tag and get src of image

2006-04-23 Thread Paul Novitski
At 05:30 PM 4/23/2006, Pham Huu Le Quoc Phuc wrote: I want to get src of image form a $text, I have a below text $Text = table border=1 cellpadding=3% cellspacing=3% width=100% trtd width=20% img align=middle border=0 id=userupload/78/Autumn.jpg src=userupload/78/Autumn.jpg

Re: [PHP] sorting troubles

2006-04-22 Thread Paul Novitski
At 02:49 AM 4/22/2006, William Stokes wrote: I have a column in DB that contains this kind of data, A20,B16,B17C14,C15,D13,D12 etc. I would like to print this data to a page and sort it ascending by the letter an descending by the number. Can this be done? Like A20 B17 B16 C15 C14 D13 D12

Re: [PHP] unique array problem

2006-04-22 Thread Paul Novitski
At 03:21 AM 4/22/2006, suresh kumar wrote: I am facing one project in my project . this is my code: a=array(0=10,1=10,2=20,3=30,4=30,5=40); b=array(); b=array_unique($a); print_r($b); o/p getting from above code is b[0]=10,b[2]=20,b[3]=30,b[5]=40; but i want the o/p be

Re: [PHP] sorting troubles

2006-04-22 Thread Paul Novitski
At 03:43 AM 4/22/2006, I wrote: Then just do a reverse sort on $aTemp and you get: Z20 Y17 Y16 Then translate the letters back to their original values and you get: A20 B17 C16 Oops, I made a typo: that final value should have been B16, not

Re: [PHP] Passing Form As Argument

2006-04-20 Thread Paul Novitski
At 03:46 PM 4/20/2006, Chris Kennon wrote: I'm drafting a function.php page, which will be included() in the pages in need. How would I pass a form as an argument of a function? Unlike client-side JavaScript, server-side PHP doesn't see the client-side form. All PHP sees are the values of

Re: [PHP] Creating an OO Shopping Cart

2006-04-20 Thread Paul Novitski
At 05:14 PM 4/20/2006, Steve wrote: I'm creating my own Object Oriented PHP Shopping Cart. I'm confused about the best way to call the functions of the class given the static nature of the web. For example, if I have a function addItem($code), how will this be called from the catalog or

Re: [PHP] New image already cached.

2006-04-18 Thread Paul Novitski
At 03:47 PM 4/18/2006, tedd wrote: Unfortunately, not all browsers treat an image link in the same manner. For example, Safari and FireFox treats the link /images/merged.png as a new image every time. Unfortunately, Opera and some other browsers cache the first image and every time after

Re: [PHP] New image already cached.

2006-04-18 Thread Paul Novitski
At 04:12 PM 4/18/2006, Richard Lynch wrote: If however, you want to be sure the browser doesn't cache the image, because it is dynamic, just add some randomness to the URL. Technically, that means the browser WILL cache it, but you'll never use the same URL twice, so you won't really care.

Re: [PHP] New image already cached.

2006-04-18 Thread Paul Novitski
of a different tack altogether: At 04:06 PM 4/18/2006, Paul Novitski wrote: I suggest you merge an image with the copyright notice only the first time it's requested, then save that merged image on the server and allow it to be cached normally. Paul -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net

Re: [PHP] Table formation...

2006-04-16 Thread Paul Novitski
At 05:19 PM 4/16/2006, Jay Blanchard wrote: I have a table of data and I want to display items by two's, i.e. Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4 Item 5 Pardon my asking on the eve of your launch, but is a table the most sensible markup for this data? It looks to me like a one-dimensional

Re: [PHP] make keys of a associative array DB field names?

2006-04-14 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12:54 PM 4/14/2006, Bing Du wrote: Would anybody remind me how this should be achieved? This returns all the names of the fields. while( ($f = odbtp_fetch_field( $qry )) ) { echo $f-name . \n; } This returns the query results: while( ($rec = odbtp_fetch_array($qry)) ) {

Re: [PHP] Compacting multiple spaces...

2006-04-14 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12:15 PM 4/14/2006, Geoffrey E. Quelch wrote: even though the string does contain 9 consecutive spaces, only one is ever printed to the screen with echo, print or printf. At 01:19 PM 4/14/2006, Satyam wrote: It is not PHP but HTML. In HTML any 'whitespace character', that is space, tab

Re: [PHP] php varible in Javascript alert()

2006-04-11 Thread Paul Novitski
On 4/11/06, Mace Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure why this won't work I am pretty sure I have done it before; if($error) { echo $errorMessage; // for testing error message is displayed to screen echoscript language=\JavaScript\alert('$errorMessage');/script;

Re: [PHP] Variable within a Variable

2006-04-09 Thread Paul Novitski
At 06:54 PM 4/9/2006, bob pilly wrote: Im trying to store a document template in mysql that has php var names within it and then find it in the datebase and print it out with the var names replaced with the var values. At 04:05 PM 4/7/2006, Paul Novitski wrote: At 02:41 PM 4/7/2006, David

Re: [PHP] Handling Large Select Boxes

2006-04-07 Thread Paul Novitski
At 08:51 AM 4/7/2006, Brad Bonkoski wrote: I have a form for user interaction and part of it is a select box with a large number of options from a database ~12K options. Currently I have a function which queries the DB to get fresh data and loads the HTML (option value=XY/option) into a string,

Re: [PHP] Parsing variables within string variables

2006-04-07 Thread Paul Novitski
At 09:37 AM 4/7/2006, David Clough wrote: I have a variable containing a string that contains the names of variables, and want to output the variable with the variables it contains evaluated. E.g. $foo contains 'cat' $bar contains 'Hello $foo' and I want to output $bar as Hello cat

Re: [PHP] Parsing variables within string variables

2006-04-07 Thread Paul Novitski
I wrote: You need to EVALUATE the string coming from the database: Assuming that $sDataField contains the string 'Hello $foo': $foo = cat; $sText = eval($sDataField); RESULT: $sText = Hello cat http://php.net/eval I was assuming that you meant that the string Hello $foo --

Re: [PHP] Re: Parsing variables within string variables

2006-04-07 Thread Paul Novitski
At 02:41 PM 4/7/2006, David Clough wrote: I have to parse the string 'Hello $foo' as it comes from the database: I don't get to construct it. I did hold out more hope for the eval function, but it seems to me that this is for PHP code in a database, not to evaluate variables. David, please

Re: [PHP] Faking Boolean

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11:08 PM 4/5/2006, John Taylor-Johnston wrote: How can I take enquiry: input name=searchenquiry type=text value=john or input name=searchenquiry type=text value=john johnston and parse its value to come up with this to do a boolean search +john or +john +johnston John, If you're

Re: [PHP] IF or SWITCH

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Novitski
At 07:48 PM 4/5/2006, Ray Hauge wrote: I have 57 if/elseif/else statements because of all the different criteria. Is it considered better programming practice to use if/elseif/else statements over a switch(true) case (true false || true || false) syntax? Here are two seemingly

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