php-general Digest 24 Aug 2008 14:05:48 -0000 Issue 5642

2008-08-24 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 24 Aug 2008 14:05:48 - Issue 5642 Topics (messages 278580 through 278586): Re: Serving pages based on user input 278580 by: Prasad Chand 278581 by: tedd 278582 by: Robert Cummings 278583 by: tedd Re: Quick question regarding getcwd() and

Re: [PHP] Quick question regarding getcwd() and directory location.

2008-08-24 Thread Ólafur Waage
I am pretty certain that this isnt possible under current code. But i just wanted a confirmation on this, since i worked on the code for a while trying to get to the end point. And yes Jochem, i am looking for a magical location :P Well, thanks guys :) Ólafur Waage 2008/8/24 Micah Gersten

Re: [PHP] Help and Advice needed please.

2008-08-24 Thread Byron
Yep, a mysql database seems like the way to go. Thanks to all who have offered to help on this project. Perhaps we could get together and figure out what needs doing, assign jobs etc. I have hosting already sorted. Cheers guys. On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 5:05 AM, sean greenslade [EMAIL

[PHP] Adding a single php file to .htaccess.

2008-08-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On one particular server, all *.html files are written in Python. I uploading a few PHP files to the directory, but they must also have .html extensions (they are replacing files that _were_ python, but it is rather important that the filename stay the same and I'd rather avoid rewrite). I figured

Re: [PHP] Adding a single php file to .htaccess.

2008-08-24 Thread Stut
On 24 Aug 2008, at 15:05, Dotan Cohen wrote: On one particular server, all *.html files are written in Python. I uploading a few PHP files to the directory, but they must also have .html extensions (they are replacing files that _were_ python, but it is rather important that the filename stay

Re: [PHP] Adding a single php file to .htaccess.

2008-08-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/8/24 Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In theory all you need to do is add a hash-bang line to the start of the PHP scripts. This should work... #!/usr/bin/env php Thanks, that's what I am doing right now. I was hoping to avoid that for portability, but if it is unavoidable then I can live with

Re: [PHP] Adding a single php file to .htaccess.

2008-08-24 Thread Stut
On 24 Aug 2008, at 15:39, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/8/24 Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In theory all you need to do is add a hash-bang line to the start of the PHP scripts. This should work... #!/usr/bin/env php Thanks, that's what I am doing right now. I was hoping to avoid that for portability,

Re: [PHP] Adding a single php file to .htaccess.

2008-08-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/8/24 Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you use env then it should be pretty portable. The only other way to do it would be to specify each script individually Yes, this is what I want to do, specify each file individually. or with a regex No!!! (then I'd have two problems :)) if that's

Re: [PHP] Adding a single php file to .htaccess.

2008-08-24 Thread Stut
On 24 Aug 2008, at 16:09, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/8/24 Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you use env then it should be pretty portable. The only other way to do it would be to specify each script individually Yes, this is what I want to do, specify each file individually. or with a regex No!!!

Re: [PHP] Adding a single php file to .htaccess.

2008-08-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/8/24 Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm confused. A #! line does not harm the portability of a PHP script in any way whatsoever, and if you use the env version rather than an absolute path then it should work out of the box on 99% of Linux servers and will also work everywhere else because that

Re: [PHP] Adding a single php file to .htaccess.

2008-08-24 Thread Stut
On 24 Aug 2008, at 16:27, Ashley Sheridan wrote: By your own definition, this will not work on 1% of the Linux servers, and don't forget that Linux is not the only operating system that is capable of running a PHP server... and will also work everywhere else Windows will have no problem

Re: [PHP] Adding a single php file to .htaccess.

2008-08-24 Thread Stut
On 24 Aug 2008, at 16:30, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/8/24 Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm confused. A #! line does not harm the portability of a PHP script in any way whatsoever, and if you use the env version rather than an absolute path then it should work out of the box on 99% of Linux servers

Re: [PHP] Adding a single php file to .htaccess.

2008-08-24 Thread Micah Gersten
You can replace the Python files with .html files that just have a redirect header in them. Then you can just have the php files as .php. Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com Dotan Cohen wrote: On one particular server, all *.html files are

Re: [PHP] Serving pages based on user input

2008-08-24 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 13:35 +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 22:17 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 01:32 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Ólafur Waage schreef: You can read about the header function.

Re: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes

2008-08-24 Thread ioannes
George Bernard Shaw, an Irishman. tedd wrote: At 11:13 PM +0100 8/22/08, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Not to mention, but of the two major English speaking countries, both America and England have different address standards. All too often an American site seems to think that a postcode is the

Re: [PHP] Serving pages based on user input

2008-08-24 Thread Jochem Maas
tedd schreef: At 9:55 PM -0700 8/23/08, Prasad Chand wrote: This is off-topic, but the reason I was touchy about includes was because it could create seo problems. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=31519 any takers on how the above link was found? lol Bttt -- nope --

Re: [PHP] Serving pages based on user input

2008-08-24 Thread Jochem Maas
Robert Cummings schreef: On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 13:35 +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 22:17 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 01:32 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Ólafur Waage schreef: You can read about the header function.

Re: [PHP] Serving pages based on user input

2008-08-24 Thread Jochem Maas
tedd schreef: At 10:02 PM -0700 8/23/08, Prasad Chand wrote: Thanks for that information. But in my case I need to serve pages based on selection of US states. There are 50 of them, so generating pages dynamically would have been a nice idea. WTF? do you have any idea why we write scripts as

Re: [PHP] Serving pages based on user input

2008-08-24 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 21:53 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Robert Cummings schreef: On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 13:35 +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 22:17 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 01:32 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Ólafur Waage schreef: You can read

Re: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes

2008-08-24 Thread tedd
At 7:47 PM +0100 8/24/08, ioannes wrote: George Bernard Shaw, an Irishman. tedd wrote: As Churchill once said We are two peoples separated by a common language. And so did Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, and Patton -- Google it and you'll find that everyone said it. Cheers, tedd -- ---

Re: [PHP] Adding a single php file to .htaccess.

2008-08-24 Thread Jochem Maas
Stut schreef: On 24 Aug 2008, at 16:30, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/8/24 Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm confused. A #! line does not harm the portability of a PHP script in any way whatsoever, and if you use the env version rather than an absolute path then it should work out of the box on 99% of

Re: [PHP] Serving pages based on user input

2008-08-24 Thread tedd
At 10:02 PM +0200 8/24/08, Jochem Maas wrote: tedd schreef: You don't have to generate 50 pages dynamically to do it -- try this: http://webbytedd.com/bbb/map/ That demo is done with just pure css -- no php nor javascript a version of europe actually :-P I saw that after I had done mine.

[PHP] newbie Q: How to say, if the fileNAME is equal to..., or better yet, if the fileNAME ends with '.jpg'?

2008-08-24 Thread Govinda
Hi all :-) It'll be fun to work here with you guys over the coming months. I have been out of the coding loop for 7 years, and I am totally new to PHP, but I should catch up not-too-slowly as I used to code HTML, WebDNA, and a little Visual Basic too. Kindly bear with me. First Q: This

Re: [PHP] newbie Q: How to say, if the fileNAME is equal to..., or better yet, if the fileNAME ends with '.jpg'?

2008-08-24 Thread Chris
But two of those entries are apparently named . and ... Right. That's linux doing that, not php. If you jump into a ssh connection and do an $ ls -la you will see . and .. at the top. if ($filename == '.' || $filename == '..') { continue; } I haven't yet found the

Re: [PHP] newbie Q: How to say, if the fileNAME is equal to..., or better yet, if the fileNAME ends with '.jpg'?

2008-08-24 Thread Jochem Maas
Govinda schreef: Hi all :-) It'll be fun to work here with you guys over the coming months. fun? work? you must be new :-) I have been out of the coding loop for 7 years, and I am totally new to PHP, but I should catch up not-too-slowly as I used to code HTML, WebDNA, and a little Visual

Re: [PHP] Help and Advice needed please.

2008-08-24 Thread Jochem Maas
Byron schreef: Yep, a mysql database seems like the way to go. Thanks to all who have offered to help on this project. Perhaps we could get together and figure out what needs doing, assign jobs etc. I have hosting already sorted. Cheers guys. great, take it offlist please. this is not a forum

Re: [PHP] Quick question regarding getcwd() and directory location.

2008-08-24 Thread Jochem Maas
Micah Gersten schreef: What is the point of figuring that out? If we knew that, we might be able to help you with a solution. As it stands what you want is not possible AFAIK. you know wrong. he has all the info needed. 1. the document root of the site (/var/www/example.com) 2. the

Re: [PHP] stream_select

2008-08-24 Thread Jochem Maas
Damien Churchill schreef: Is there a known issue with using stream_select with apache2 mod_php? I have a script (http://php.pastebin.com/m601965d) that when run with mod_php doesn't work, but when run with php-cgi from the command line works fine. define doesn't work. what exact php apache

Re: [PHP] Forward slashes and header requests

2008-08-24 Thread Jochem Maas
Dave M G schreef: Ashley, Thank you for responding. best way to fix it was to use $location = str_replace('//','/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); Unfortunately the trim() command I use seems to destroy all slashes anyway, so this doesn't seem to have an impact. Thank you for the suggestion,

Re: [PHP] Forward slashes and header requests

2008-08-24 Thread Jochem Maas
Jochem Maas schreef: ... apply ... or I'm just inconsistent or ... well Cumming no doubt has something to say about it ;-) that should have been Cummings as in Robbert. don't you just hate it when you see a typo after you hit send and before the email leaves the screen :-P -- PHP

Re: [PHP] php not reading file properly

2008-08-24 Thread Jochem Maas
sean greenslade schreef: I have this snippet of code that is supposed to read the apache access log and display it: ?php $myFile = /var/log/httpd/access_log; $fh = fopen($myFile, 'r'); $theData = fread($fh, filesize($myFile)); fclose($fh); echo This weeks apache log

Re: [PHP] newbie Q: How to say, if the fileNAME is equal to..., or better yet, if the fileNAME ends with '.jpg'?

2008-08-24 Thread Govinda
Should I send replies to just the list?, or is the etiquette to reply- to-all? fun? work? you must be new :-) new to PHP; could get boring after a long time with it, sure... but I have that 'coder's bug'... i.e. once fluent, then creatively solving problems is fun! okay enough jokes

[PHP] WHERE is syntax doc'ed for saying: if (expr1 *OR* expr2 *AND* expr3)

2008-08-24 Thread Govinda
I swear I am RTFM, but it's an art in itself (at first anyway)/ WHERE is the syntax doc'ed for saying: if (expr1 *OR* expr2 *AND* expr3) { ? I got *AND* to work with , but | does not seem to work for *OR* -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] newbie Q: How to say, if the fileNAME is equal to..., or better yet, if the fileNAME ends with '.jpg'?

2008-08-24 Thread Chris
if (stripos(strrev($file), gpj.) === 0) { echo $file; } note the ===, 3 equals signs here is very important! check the docs for why. == means 'equals', and === means 'is identical to'. Seems like they would do the same thing when comparing '0' to 'the position in the string where

Re: [PHP] WHERE is syntax doc'ed for saying: if (expr1 *OR* expr2 *AND* expr3)

2008-08-24 Thread Chris
Govinda wrote: I swear I am RTFM, but it's an art in itself (at first anyway)/ WHERE is the syntax doc'ed for saying: if (expr1 *OR* expr2 *AND* expr3) { ? I got *AND* to work with , but | does not seem to work for *OR* Actually is a bitwise operator in php, not what you want. You want

Re: [PHP] php not reading file properly

2008-08-24 Thread sean greenslade
Well, if you really want to know, I have to go to many places that do not have internet access. For those places, I have a PDA. I have Avantgo software on the PDA, and I wanted it to be able to store a copy of the log file to review it when I do not have internet access. All I needed was a webpage

Re: [PHP] WHERE is syntax doc'ed for saying: if (expr1 *OR* expr2 *AND* expr3)

2008-08-24 Thread Govinda
I had been to that page, tried this: if (stripos(strrev($file), gpj.) === 0) || (stripos(strrev($file), fig.) === 0) || (stripos(strrev($file), gnp.) === 0) { (yes, Jochem, the regExp solution is best, but I am practicing things ;-) and got Parse error: syntax error, unexpected

Re: [PHP] WHERE is syntax doc'ed for saying: if (expr1 *OR* expr2 *AND* expr3)

2008-08-24 Thread Greg Bowser
if (stripos(strrev($file), gpj.) === 0) || (stripos(strrev($file), fig.) === 0) || (stripos(strrev($file), gnp.) === 0) { You have too many parenthesis: if (stripos(strrev($file), gpj.) === 0) -- this ends the if statement; the next || is unexpected. Also, at the end, you're missing a

[PHP] int(1) and int(11)

2008-08-24 Thread Shelley
Hi all, Is there any difference between int(1) and int(11) when creating a table? I checked the mysql manual and got that 1 and 11 are used to specify the display width of an column. Is there any other difference? Any ideas appreciated. Thx. -- With best regards, Shelley Shyan

Re: [PHP] RE: Sale 79% OFF !!!

2008-08-24 Thread Ryan S
klip I hate to admit to this, but some 15 years ago I was consulting for a company doing oil exploration in Nigeria and I received a very elaborate and believable Nigerian scam. It was complete with signed and official documents from both the Nigerian Government and the Bank of Nigeria. I

[PHP] Re: [PHP-DB] int(1) and int(11)

2008-08-24 Thread Chris
Shelley wrote: Hi all, Is there any difference between int(1) and int(11) when creating a table? I checked the mysql manual and got that 1 and 11 are used to specify the display width of an column. Is there any other difference? Straight from the manual: The display width does not

[PHP] concatenating with . or ,

2008-08-24 Thread Govinda
easy to find our about concatenating with . in the docs... but not so with , what is the difference? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php