Re: [PHP] [php] while loop failure

2009-04-06 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Does any one knows why while loop below ends after few loops when it meant to keep in loop? File name: while_loop_script.php define('run', 0); define('START', 10); while(START run){ $ch = curl_init(mydomain/update_script.php?action=run); curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); } using

Re: [PHP] [php] while loop failure

2009-04-06 Thread Virgilio Quilario
setting: max_execution_time = -1     ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds max_input_time = -1    ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data ;max_input_nesting_level = 64 ; Maximum input variable nesting level memory_limit = 2036M      ; Maximum

Re: [PHP] [php] scheduled task in php

2009-04-02 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Please how can you run a timed php script file via window scheduled task. or how can u execute a php script on a a time interval for instance every 4minutes hi Andrew, first schedule a task, locate and select your php.exe, and schedule it to run daily for the moment. after creating it, you

Re: [PHP] thread question

2009-04-01 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Hi all, Another question: If a script starts to perform an operation and the user browses away will that terminate the thread perfoming the operation eg. the operation is aborted ? Mvh Toke the script is aborted as soon as server gets no response from the browser when it sent output

Re: [PHP] Error on .htaccess

2009-04-01 Thread Virgilio Quilario
In all the servers i had tested my system i dont have any problem, but in this server the apache are displaying to me the error 500 Internal Server Error. Someone can say tome what is wront with my .htaccess? RewriteEngine On IfModule mod_rewrite.c RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

Re: [PHP] thread question

2009-03-31 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Hi all, Another question: If a script starts to perform an operation and the user browses away will that terminate the thread perfoming the operation eg. the operation is aborted ? Mvh Toke the script is aborted as soon as server gets no response from the browser when it sent output to

Re: [PHP] PHPizabi - Applying php in TPL (smarty template engine)

2009-03-28 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Well well I forgot to install Smarty, but show the message. Ididn't modify Smasrty.class.php. And index.tpl in libs directpory don't exist only the file in root. Anybody Can save me? I'm X confuss. All is new for me.  Warning: Smarty error: unable to read resource: index.tpl in

Re: [PHP] foreach and form submission.

2009-03-28 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Hi all. I'm writing a script that accepts several different forms with different content. Depending on what data is sent with the form the script will do one or the other think. Before the form data is processed I'd like to scrub it of HTML tags. I can do this manually as below but the

Re: [PHP] Calling function on the same line?

2009-03-28 Thread Virgilio Quilario
I miss the utility to do stuff like that ... seriously ... but in any case: ?php echo ($f = 'str_replace') ? $f(a, b, aaa) : null; ? where echo is optional. Regards you mean this ?= ($f = 'str_replace') ? $f(a,b,aaa) : null; ? virgil http://www.jampmark.com -- PHP General Mailing

Re: [PHP] Sort a multi-dimensional array on a certain key followed by another key

2009-03-28 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Ok so, I have an array [0(index)][1st key][2nd key] Basically I don't care about the index. As a matter of fact I'd prefer it reset to still be in order afterwards. However, I need to sort the 1st key and keep correlation w the second key. Then sort on the second key. I have video

Re: [PHP] Problems with implode

2009-03-26 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Dunno why you guys started talk about utf-8 problems, he has a list of ids which should contain only unsigned integers, otherwise I do not get how that query could work with an implode(',', $whatever) rather than 'id in ('.implode(',', array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', $whatever)).')'

Re: [PHP] PHPizabi - Applying php in TPL (smarty template engine)

2009-03-26 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Hi there! Any know how Can I use PHP code into Smarty Temple Engine (TPL files) ? I usued {php} include(text.php); {/php} but the code don't run simply output the code. What's the problem? Wht don't run? Thankx, Luciano Felli it may be the file path. try echoing something before the

Re: [PHP] Script Analysis (was Conclusion of use strict...)

2009-03-21 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Thanks, I downloaded Netbeans week or two ago and I found all that. I thought there is something more advanced (these things have any decent editor/ide (for example eclipse + pdt also have all that)). We are talking completely different level of checks :-) In the end I may switch to

Re: [PHP] [News] Affordable Independent Web Developer - Search Engine Optimization Services - March 19th, 2009

2009-03-21 Thread Virgilio Quilario
As a matter of fact DANIEL ...I AM A REAL PERSON ! You know, I really hate it that people like YOU reply back to me with your self-vain - self-important attitudes - and act like no one else on the F-ing planet has the right to live or even share the same air you breath YOU

Re: [PHP] today i found the best function I've ever seen

2009-03-21 Thread Virgilio Quilario
if( !function_exists('clean_sql_term') ) {    function clean_sql_term($term) {        return $term;    } } beautiful hi Nathan, Nice find. You have found a very useful function. Here is how I use it to load needed PHP files that declares the function. if

Re: [PHP] Trying To Read - Show A Csv File Line By Line

2009-03-21 Thread Virgilio Quilario
The for loop iterates through each field of each line, the while loop iterates through each line.  Move the br / out of the for loop, right before the end of the while loop as follows: ?php $row = 1; $handle = fopen(try3.csv, r); while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ,)) !== FALSE) {  

Re: [PHP] Having trouble with a form to mail script.

2009-03-21 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Hi there, Well, after reading the post about so called experts and licensing programming, I can say that I sure am not licensed or even remotely close to a novice PHP programmer, just a ‘lil ole PHP beginner trying to get my web page set up and learn a few things.  I’m not sure if I am in

Re: [PHP] need help with code

2009-03-21 Thread Virgilio Quilario
I hate asking for help with simple code like this because I can usually figure it out, but I'm stumped on this one.  I'm getting a parser error on line 13, whether I comment out the require_once line or not.   Can you help? ?php require_once('twitterlib.php');

Re: [PHP] Select Query with Multiple Optional Values

2009-03-21 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Trying to find best way to accomplish following scenario.  Looking to search inventory through a POST form, have the following optional fields to search by: Product Name, Color, Size, and Status.  Search maybe for the Product Name and/or Color or they may search for just the Color or all 4

Re: [PHP] mysql_real_escape_string paranoid enough?

2009-03-21 Thread Virgilio Quilario
I typically do something like this: $data_sql = mysql_real_escape_string($data, $connection); $query = insert into data(data) values('$data_sql'); $insert = mysql_query($query, $connection); if (!$insert){  trigger_error(mysql_error($connection), E_USER_ERROR); } My custom error handler

Re: [PHP] need help with code

2009-03-21 Thread Virgilio Quilario
hi Chris, basing on the code you posted, you're missing the closing brace for if ($accessToken===NULL) { there should be 3 closing braces before the last ?    That'll be the next error, but that error would print unexpected $end on line xxx. well, if you're getting the parse error

Re: [PHP] how to make multiple sql run faster

2009-03-21 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Usually a single transaction is faster than an insert a time (with or without union) Hi all, I am inserting more than 5000 rows into sql database but its taking more than 30 mins  to get it all the data inserted. I use union to insert multiple rows of 20 at a time. What is the best way

Re: [PHP] Smarty Tips and Techniques

2009-03-20 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Hi Virgil, After your last post here, I looked at your site, then the Smarty site. That was what triggered this question. Templates are a black art to me. I don't even know where to begin to understand them. Every reference I have looked at so far assumes that I already understand the MVC

Re: [PHP] Script Analysis (was Conclusion of use strict...)

2009-03-20 Thread Virgilio Quilario
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Pierre Lilliman lilli...@live.com wrote: I have been using same program for some (not very long time), and I find it very useful, although it has some annoying things (inability to work with all kinds of include expressions). Still I think every serious PHP

Re: [PHP] Web Development/Application Analysis

2009-03-20 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Hello, I have just hired a remote PHP programmer. His main job is web development and applications. I have few concerns, I would be happy if someone can point me to the right direction.   1. How can I provide him the requirements. I mean how can I analyze the site and put everything in

Re: [PHP] how to make for statement run faster

2009-03-20 Thread Virgilio Quilario
I have a program where I process more that 5000 list of 100 data at  time but it very slow due to many  *for statement*s. how you make it run faster code for statements to use a variable or contant for testing in every iteration like below for ($i = 0; $i 100; $i++) {} also try to optimize

Re: [PHP] Smarty Tips and Techniques

2009-03-19 Thread Virgilio Quilario
That looks nice, but how do I get to the point where I can understand how to use it? I have also looked at the Smarty site http://www.smarty.net/, but their documents assume significant experience in building and using templates. Where can I find guidance or tutorials on how to do all of

Re: [PHP] Looking for a configurable Flash or PHP Live Chat Box or Shout Box With Rooms Optional

2009-03-19 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Does anyone have a good link to something like this for reasonable price or free? Configurable meaning skinnable and sizeable? Something Ajaxy would be cool but it would need to save state like the facebook IM feature on their site. Thanks, T here is a good list of free scripts

[PHP] Smarty Tips and Techniques

2009-03-18 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Hi list, Just wanna share my collection of Smarty scripting tips and techniques. Smarty is a template engine for PHP that you can use to separate data and logic from web design. This way programmers can work on the php scripts and designers can work on the templates for the same web site. Here

Re: [PHP] preg_replace() question

2009-03-18 Thread Virgilio Quilario
1. What is the overhead on preg_replace? it really depends on your operation. when you think it can be done using str* functions then go for it as they are much faster than preg* functions. 2. Is there a better way to strip spaces and non alpha numerical characters from text strings? I

Re: [PHP] Handling (very) large files with PHP

2009-03-11 Thread Virgilio Quilario
*Handling (very) large files with PHP* Hello, I am planning a project in PHP, and I have few unsolved issues that I'd like you to help me... The project will start by loading a file of about 50GB. The file has a many objects with a pattern, for example, Name: Joe Joe likes to eat

Re: [PHP] Silly question - include vs. eval

2009-03-11 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Hi, I wondering what is the difference between include(), and eval(' ?'.file_get_content().' ?php ')? If there is something I should be aware, please, let me know. Use include since it allows a cache like eAccelerator or APC to work. Eval never gets cached. Also, include let's the engine

Re: [PHP] This code using _GET exploitable

2009-03-11 Thread Virgilio Quilario
filtered schreef: Hi, we have script containing  ? echo $_GET['studio'] ? let say I do: example.com/yourscript.php?studio=script type=text/javascriptalert('I am an evil haxor');/script excusing the fact that the query is not urlencoded, what happens on your site (replace domain and

Re: [PHP] PHP/Apache: script unexpectedly invoked multiple times in parallel every 30 secs.

2009-03-11 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Hi all, I wrote a PHP script running in Apache which takes more than 30 seconds to complete. It uses set_time_limit() to extend the time it is allowed to run. The script generates thumbnails from a list of images. Upon completion, the script redirects the browser to another page using HTTP

Re: [PHP] PHP includes

2009-03-09 Thread Virgilio Quilario
I'm working on learning php and have been toying with includes, and I am trying to figure the advantages/disadvantages to using them. I know that using them eliminates the need to put the files once altered as with a template, however, is that the only advantage. My particular concerns are

Re: [PHP] Line Break Problem

2009-03-09 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Hi,  I have a question regarding using line breaks in PHP. I have the code something like:       echo 1 . \t . $x . \t . $y . \r\n; When I run the code, it looks like a whole blob of text, but when I use View Source, the line breaks are formatted then correctly. Anyone can please tell

Re: [PHP] Opendir on site root directory?

2009-03-09 Thread Virgilio Quilario
I want to index the files on a website recursively. The program will run in the site root directory, which GETCWD reports as D:/Websites/Website_1.  I can open any file in the root directory simply using its file name; Joe.dat, for example, and I can opendir for any

Re: [PHP] web refreshing problem

2009-03-09 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Hi, my php program does not display current result of submitted form instead the previous content is shown until you refresh manually (which means resubmitting the form). Can someone help me out because, I want to display the result of the latest form result and not the old one. I am

Re: [PHP] Retrieving Image Location in PHP from MySQL

2009-03-09 Thread Virgilio Quilario
I am using a WAMP server for my coding purposes. My MySQL Version is 5.0.51b, PHP version is 5.2.6 and Apache version is 2.2.8 I have created a database with one of the tables containing a location of the image. Using PHP I am trying to retrieve the location of the image (from the mysql db)

Re: [PHP] Error in Building an XML File

2009-03-09 Thread Virgilio Quilario
I am using PHP to build an XML file, but I keep on getting an XML error when open the file in Google Chrome. - This page contains the following errors: error on line 30 at column 318: Entity 'iuml' not defined

Re: [PHP] web refreshing problem

2009-03-09 Thread Virgilio Quilario
my php program does not display current result of submitted form instead the previous content is shown until you refresh manually (which means resubmitting the form). Can someone help me out because, I want to display the result of the latest form result and not the old one. I am

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP Frameworks

2009-03-09 Thread Virgilio Quilario
m...@hallmarcwebsites.com wrote: @todd; Micah - Precisely why I presented the question anew. Not only do I not have enough time to troll through the archives; I was looking for a fresher set of responses based on today's smorgasbord. Thank you for your input; I have looked at both YII and

Re: [PHP] optimizing space for array of booleans

2009-02-23 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Some languages allows to bit-pack structures to save spaces. Since PHP doesn't have native set data type and operations, will array of booleans be optimized as such? If not, how can I achieve the same result? I need to save about 200 boolean values and I guess it's a good idea to use bitsets.

Re: [PHP] PHP - user profile page with pic

2009-02-23 Thread Virgilio Quilario
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Re: [PHP] Apache odd behavior

2009-02-17 Thread Virgilio Quilario
I'm submitting a url like this: http://mysite.com/index.php/alfa/bravo/charlie/delta The index.php calls has code to decode the url segments (alfa/bravo/charlie/delta). It determines that the controller is alfa, the method is bravo, and converts charlie and delta to $_GET['charlie'] =

Re: [PHP] Opinions Please, Describing PHP as Web Framework of C and C++

2009-02-17 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Recently we had some serious discussion on local boards. I prefer calling PHP as Web Framework of C and C++ if you had a time for this fruitless discussion. Please send your opinions. PHP is a server side scripting language for the Web using a C like language structure and conventions. The

Re: [PHP] Full versus relative URLs

2009-02-17 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Here's a question related to my last post. When specifying a link in a HTML file (like to the css or an image file), there are two ways of doing it. One is to simply include the relative path to the file (relative to the doc root), like: /graphics/my_portrait.gif Or you can include the

Re: [PHP] display_errors and error_reporting not enough?

2009-02-17 Thread Virgilio Quilario
I want to enable error messages while I'm testing or developing. I use php 5.2.4 on ubuntu server. These two lines does only print notices. ?php ini_set('display_errors', 1); error_reporting(E_ALL); ? When I make something wrong like syntax error; I get blank pages. Is there

Re: [PHP] [Fwd] How to make a secured login form

2009-02-13 Thread Virgilio Quilario
I have secured the login form for my CMS with a challenge-response thing that encrypts both username and password with the (login-attempts-counted) challenge (and; here's my problem: a system hash) sent by the server (it would end up in your html as a hidden inputs, or as part of a json

Re: [PHP] APC problem with PHP

2009-02-13 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Hmm, I'll try taking down the optimizer and seeing if it segfaults or not. If that's what it is it's a crying shame that apc and zend_optimizer can't get along. maybe give eaccelerator a shot, i believe theyve got an optimizer in there. im not sure how it stacks up to zend's, but it

Re: [PHP] Re: Extract result from a https remote server response

2009-02-13 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Sorry all, I was testing in a Windows environment. I feel like an idiot... :) Thanks to all. -- m a r k u s Bruno Fajardo wrote: Assigning the return of file_get_contents to a variable? Didn't get your point... 2009/2/13 m a r k u s queribus2...@hotmail.com Shawn McKenzie wrote:

Re: [PHP] Opinions needed

2009-02-13 Thread Virgilio Quilario
I'm scripting a light-weight, low volume signup registry for a running club. Folks sign up to volunteer for events and the like. There will generally be a handful of signup registries at any one time. A typical registry will only contain 50 to 100 names. Each registry is only in existence

Re: [PHP] How can an elephant count for nothing?

2009-02-13 Thread Virgilio Quilario
While PHP has a lot of nice features, it also has some traps which I am forever falling into. One which I find particularly hard to understand is how mixed mode comparisons work. For instance $string = 'elephant'; If($string == 0) returns true; If($string != 0) returns false;

Re: [PHP] Simple open source CMS as a starting point

2009-02-13 Thread Virgilio Quilario
I need simple CMS sistem that I could use as a staring point (to save some time in setting up the structure) in developing my own CMS. The code should be simple to understand so that I can easily get on and start building on it. It would be of great help if it already had features like

Re: [PHP] Happy 1234567890 day!

2009-02-13 Thread Virgilio Quilario
http://coolepochcountdown.com/ On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 13:34 -0500, TG wrote: http://timestamp1234567890.com/ Happy cool epoch 1234567890 day! virgil http://www.jampmark.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] PHP OOP

2009-02-12 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Java is really awesome at OOP and it is great for teaching OOP or, shall we say illustrating OOP. OOP is a programming technique in general without any bias towards any programming language. Good background on OOP concepts is essential in learning language specific OOP implementation. So don't

Re: [PHP] (Perl) Regular Expressions - oposite match or get the non-matches of a substring

2009-02-11 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Hi all, I consider myself quite good with Regular Expression, but i could never find out how to match something like: match this but not this and that so i would like to match the first match this (or another this) but not not this. Seems pretty straight forward but i haven't found a

Re: [PHP] Help on caching an object.

2009-02-11 Thread Virgilio Quilario
My problem is very simple: I have an object that's definately called with every page request. It's pretty much the same for every unregistered/anonymous user. And it's not small. Alot of attributes are being set from DB queries etc. Now my idea was to do some sort of caching with PHP to

Re: [PHP] Module Structure ideas

2009-02-11 Thread Virgilio Quilario
Last year I began to sepearte my module files to many files for their purposes. Last time use use lots of dirs for their types someting like controllers a.cont.php b.cont.php definition a.def.php b.def.php models a.model.php b.model.php views a.view.php b.view.php Then