php-general Digest 22 Oct 2009 05:59:45 -0000 Issue 6403

2009-10-22 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 22 Oct 2009 05:59:45 - Issue 6403 Topics (messages 299157 through 299180): Re: How to pronounce PHP code over the phone? 299157 by: tedd 299163 by: Daevid Vincent Re: Sanitizing potential MySQL strings with no database connection 299158

RE: [PHP] how call a variable in a text

2009-10-22 Thread Samrat Kar
This is always safe to use variables like this... $text = This is . $variable; Or $text = This is . $variable[0]; Regards, Samrat Kar FRD, BARC Tel: 022-25597295 Alternate Email: esam...@yahoo.com -Original Message- From: Kim Madsen [mailto:php@emax.dk] Sent: Thursday,

Re: [PHP] Web Service Server in PHP

2009-10-22 Thread Sudheer Satyanarayana
On Thursday 22 October 2009 06:56 AM, Daniel Echalar wrote: Hi, Does anybody knows a web services server based on PHP? The only one a see is Nusoap, but even for this one i can't find the webpage to see the documentation. by the way, i'm trying to develop an application using web services in

[PHP] XML parsing with PHP

2009-10-22 Thread Mari Masuda
Hi, I need to transform some XML files and have not really done much XSLT. I am looking for recommendations on ways to parse XML via PHP. The XML files I have contain the content from our website CMS. We are switching from a proprietary CMS to Drupal and I need to transform the XML

Re: [PHP] how call a variable in a text

2009-10-22 Thread Thodoris
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 23:11 +0200, Kim Madsen wrote: Ashley Sheridan wrote on 2009-10-21 22:56: Try this though: ?php $var = array(array('great','alright'), 'boring'); print This is $var[0][0].; Print This is different from your previous example :-); -- Kind regards Kim

Re: [PHP] how call a variable in a text

2009-10-22 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 09:53 +0300, Thodoris wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 23:11 +0200, Kim Madsen wrote: Ashley Sheridan wrote on 2009-10-21 22:56: Try this though: ?php $var = array(array('great','alright'), 'boring'); print This is $var[0][0].; Print

RE: [PHP] how call a variable in a text

2009-10-22 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
Curly brackets are usually highlighted as well so it is a good practice, generally speaking, to use them for double quoted strings and maintainability increase automatically. Regards From: esam...@barc.gov.in To: php-general@lists.php.net Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:31:53 +0530 Subject: RE:

Re: [PHP] how call a variable in a text

2009-10-22 Thread Thodoris
Erm, the braces are meant to go *around* the variable, not around a bit of it: print Test: {$var[0][0]}; Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk In many cases braces can go around the variable name not the necessarily around the whole variable (like the bash scripts). Those are

RE: [PHP] how call a variable in a text

2009-10-22 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
Erm, the braces are meant to go *around* the variable, not around a bit of it: print Test: {$var[0][0]}; unrelated, just another usage of curly brackets $_ = 'abc'; $i = 0; echo $_{++$i}; // b Regards

RE: [PHP] how call a variable in a text

2009-10-22 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
So no they are not meant to go around. You can use them this way as well. that has almost the same meaning of $_ = '_POST'; echo count($$_); which again, for readability brackets are suggested to improve maintainability $_ = '_POST'; echo count(${$_}); Regards

Re: [PHP] how call a variable in a text

2009-10-22 Thread Thodoris
So no they are not meant to go around. You can use them this way as well. that has almost the same meaning of $_ = '_POST'; echo count($$_); which again, for readability brackets are suggested to improve maintainability $_ = '_POST'; echo count(${$_}); Regards

Re: [PHP] how call a variable in a text

2009-10-22 Thread Thodoris
Using the same type way as before in this thread. This was supposed to come out as using the same way of thinking. But the English-Nerdish dictionary came out... -- Thodoris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] how call a variable in a text

2009-10-22 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
I don't think it is about readability: $arr[3] = 'test'; $test = 3; //This prints $test echo This doesn't work: $$arr[3]; //This prints 3 echo This works: ${$arr[3]}; Using the same type way as before in this thread. Above example is a classic one where readability and

Re: [PHP] how call a variable in a text

2009-10-22 Thread Thodoris
I don't think it is about readability: $arr[3] = 'test'; $test = 3; //This prints $test echo This doesn't work: $$arr[3]; //This prints 3 echo This works: ${$arr[3]}; Using the same type way as before in this thread. Above example is a classic one where readability and

RE: [PHP] XML parsing with PHP

2009-10-22 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I need to transform some XML files and have not really done much XSLT. I am looking for recommendations on ways to parse XML via PHP. The XML files I have contain the content from our website CMS. We are switching from a proprietary CMS to Drupal and I need to transform the XML

[PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread resea soul
Hi, I want to be able to get a screenshot of a given website on the fly. Can you give me any suggestions. Thank you

Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Cummings
resea soul wrote: Hi, I want to be able to get a screenshot of a given website on the fly. Can you give me any suggestions. http://sourceforge.net/projects/khtml2png/ It might already be in your favourite Linux distro's repositories also. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application

RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
What you see is what a browser engine renders for your eyes while what you can do with PHP is a snapshot of the source code. Regards Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:28:15 -0400 From: reseas...@gmail.com To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website Hi, I

[PHP] Re: Text File Busy

2009-10-22 Thread Floyd Resler
It happens on any file I try so there must be something else going on. Thanks! Floyd On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Shawn McKenzie wrote: Floyd Resler wrote: For some reason I'm getting a Text file busy error when I try to execute PHP scripts from the command line now. It used to work, but

Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Cummings
Andrea Giammarchi wrote: What you see is what a browser engine renders for your eyes while what you can do with PHP is a snapshot of the source code. One should remember that PHP serves quite well both as a glue language and as a wrapper language. There is no reason why you can't use PHP to

Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Cummings
resea soul wrote: Thanks, I checked the faq of their website. They say that I must have an an X session. I don't host myself my website. I want something that I can use only by using cpanel. What i want basically is allow the user to enter the url of a website. And the script must give him

RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
Rob, I agree, but you are suggesting is khtml2png which is cool, perfect, fantastic, but it's not PHP, isn't it? You ask me: I want a snap via PHP I reply: well, I don't think such thing exists: a render engine entirely written in PHP and GD2 Maybe we should create one ... Regards Date:

RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
Thanks, I checked the faq of their website. They say that I must have an an X session. I don't host myself my website. I want something that I can use only by using cpanel. What i want basically is allow the user to enter the url of a website. And the script must give him the

RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 16:17 +0200, Andrea Giammarchi wrote: Rob, I agree, but you are suggesting is khtml2png which is cool, perfect, fantastic, but it's not PHP, isn't it? You ask me: I want a snap via PHP I reply: well, I don't think such thing exists: a render engine entirely written

Re: [PHP] how call a variable in a text

2009-10-22 Thread Martin Scotta
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Thodoris t...@kinetix.gr wrote: I don't think it is about readability: $arr[3] = 'test'; $test = 3; //This prints $test echo This doesn't work: $$arr[3]; //This prints 3 echo This works: ${$arr[3]}; Using the same type way as before in this thread.

RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
GD is just a library that PHP uses, in a similar way that you'd be utilising what khtml2png can do through PHP. What you just said doesn't make much sense. except I cannot find anything in both php.net and pecl websites Regards

Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Cummings
Andrea Giammarchi wrote: Thanks, I checked the faq of their website. They say that I must have an an X session. I don't host myself my website. I want something that I can use only by using cpanel. What i want basically is allow the user to enter the url of a website. And the script must

Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Cummings
Andrea Giammarchi wrote: Thanks, I checked the faq of their website. They say that I must have an an X session. I don't host myself my website. I want something that I can use only by using cpanel. What i want basically is allow the user to enter the url of a website. And the script must

RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Jason
-Original Message- From: resea soul [mailto:reseas...@gmail.com] Sent: 22 October 2009 14:28 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website Hi, I want to be able to get a screenshot of a given website on the fly. Can you give me any suggestions. Thank you

[PHP] Fun with XSLT

2009-10-22 Thread Matthew Croud
Hi Guys, Well i;ve been slaving on with my PHP XML endeavors and i'm loving it, just finishing the meaty parts of my XSLT for dummies book too. I have a question which asks is it possible?. Using XSLT I can collect specific parts of my XML using something sexy like xsl:template

RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
I see you are being rather obtuse :| I use system/shell calls without problems if there is the lib I need. The problem here is that the question was, in my opinion, the classic: how to assign javascript var to php (directly) Indeed he is trying to find a PHP solution, of course with third

Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Cummings
Andrea Giammarchi wrote: I see you are being rather obtuse :| I use system/shell calls without problems if there is the lib I need. The problem here is that the question was, in my opinion, the classic: how to assign javascript var to php (directly) Indeed he is trying to find a PHP

RE: [PHP] Fun with XSLT

2009-10-22 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
is there a way to somehow embed the contents of the xml into the php code (like using EOF for html), and being able to substitute the template match string for a variable ? Any ideas ? XSLT should be used via modules, as is with match and templates indeed. The only idea is to save

RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
Given the knowledge (or extremely likely probability) of the non-existence of a PHP only solution for generating website thumbnails it follows that my suggestion was absolutely applicable. I have never said the opposite ... I have just said: pure PHP with standard core

RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
Hi, If a windows web server is being used, we've had very good results with the activex control (use via COM within PHP5) from http://www.acasystems.com/en/web-thumb-activex/ The developer is very responsive to bug reports / feature suggestions. Full PHP example code is given for all

RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 17:33 +0200, Andrea Giammarchi wrote: Hi, If a windows web server is being used, we've had very good results with the activex control (use via COM within PHP5) from http://www.acasystems.com/en/web-thumb-activex/ The developer is very responsive to bug

Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Cummings
Andrea Giammarchi wrote: Given the knowledge (or extremely likely probability) of the non-existence of a PHP only solution for generating website thumbnails it follows that my suggestion was absolutely applicable. I have never said the opposite ... I have just said: pure PHP with standard

[PHP] Trapping failure of file_get_contents()

2009-10-22 Thread Marshall Burns
I have a script that downloads a sequence of files online. Every hundred files or so, it fails with: == Warning: file_get_contents(URL) []: failed to open stream: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time,

Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Cummings
Andrea Giammarchi wrote: Hi, If a windows web server is being used, we've had very good results with the activex control (use via COM within PHP5) from http://www.acasystems.com/en/web-thumb-activex/ The developer is very responsive to bug reports / feature suggestions. Full PHP example

RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Jason
-Original Message- From: Andrea Giammarchi [mailto:an_...@hotmail.com] Sent: 22 October 2009 16:34 To: networkad...@emarket2.com; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website Hi, If a windows web server is being used, we've had very good results

[PHP] Re: Fun with XSLT

2009-10-22 Thread Peter Ford
Matthew Croud wrote: Hi Guys, Well i;ve been slaving on with my PHP XML endeavors and i'm loving it, just finishing the meaty parts of my XSLT for dummies book too. I have a question which asks is it possible?. Using XSLT I can collect specific parts of my XML using something sexy like

Re: [PHP] Trapping failure of file_get_contents()

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Cummings
Marshall Burns wrote: I have a script that downloads a sequence of files online. Every hundred files or so, it fails with: Check for the return value being equal to false: ?php if( ($sFil = file_get_contents( $sURL )) === false ) { // FAIL } else { //

[PHP] Re: Fun with XSLT

2009-10-22 Thread Peter Ford
Matthew Croud wrote: Hi Guys, Well i;ve been slaving on with my PHP XML endeavors and i'm loving it, just finishing the meaty parts of my XSLT for dummies book too. I have a question which asks is it possible?. Using XSLT I can collect specific parts of my XML using something sexy like

Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Cummings
Jason wrote: -Original Message- From: Andrea Giammarchi [mailto:an_...@hotmail.com] Sent: 22 October 2009 16:34 To: networkad...@emarket2.com; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website Hi, If a windows web server is being used, we've had very

[PHP] Sessions seems to kill db connection

2009-10-22 Thread Kim Madsen
Hi PHPeople I have an odd problem at my new work and wonder if it's some sort of odd setup that is causing this problem when using sessions: if($test) { $query = SELECT count(*) FROM articles WHERE group1 = 'fp';# AND group2 = 'login'; $r = mysql_query($query) or die('Db error: ' .

Re: [PHP] Trapping failure of file_get_contents()

2009-10-22 Thread Jim Lucas
Robert Cummings wrote: Marshall Burns wrote: I have a script that downloads a sequence of files online. Every hundred files or so, it fails with: Check for the return value being equal to false: ?php if( ($sFil = file_get_contents( $sURL )) === false ) { // FAIL

Re: [PHP] Re: Fun with XSLT

2009-10-22 Thread Matthew Croud
On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:39, Peter Ford wrote: Matthew Croud wrote: Hi Guys, Well i;ve been slaving on with my PHP XML endeavors and i'm loving it, just finishing the meaty parts of my XSLT for dummies book too. I have a question which asks is it possible?. Using XSLT I can collect

Re: [PHP] Create a screenshot of a website

2009-10-22 Thread Kim Madsen
resea soul wrote on 2009-10-22 15:28: Hi, I want to be able to get a screenshot of a given website on the fly. Can you give me any suggestions. Do you mean I wanna make a screendump of _my_ website? Then this is for you: http://dk2.php.net/manual/en/function.imagegrabscreen.php - It works

RE: [PHP] Trapping failure of file_get_contents()

2009-10-22 Thread Marshall Burns
Robert and others, I made that change in the code. It still does not trap the failure. I believe the reason is that the script is timing out while file_get_contents() is sitting there waiting for input. The problem is that the function never returns, so there is no return value to check. What I

Re: [PHP] Please don't kick me!

2009-10-22 Thread Philip Thompson
On Oct 20, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Kim Madsen wrote: Philip Thompson wrote on 2009-10-20 21:58: I got it to draw the different background colors successfully. However, drawing borders is not as straight forward. I'm sure I could get it working as well... but I'd rather it work *out of the

Re: [PHP] Trapping failure of file_get_contents()

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Cummings
Marshall Burns wrote: Robert and others, I made that change in the code. It still does not trap the failure. I believe the reason is that the script is timing out while file_get_contents() is sitting there waiting for input. The problem is that the function never returns, so there is no return

Re: [PHP] Trapping failure of file_get_contents()

2009-10-22 Thread Gerardo Benitez
Hi Marshall, the function file_get_contents may have problem with large files. You could try get the file using fread and feof. Here i put a example $contents = ''; while(!feof($stream)){ $contents .= fread($stream, 8192); } Gerardo Benitez. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:38 PM,

Re: [PHP] Spam opinions please

2009-10-22 Thread Philip Thompson
On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Gary wrote: NO I have not, I think my issue is I hate when I run across one, it usually takes me more than one try to actually figure out what the charactor is, so hence my disdain. GAry Here are some captchas: What's three minus two? Which word is listed

[PHP] Limit query/function time

2009-10-22 Thread Philip Thompson
Hi all. I'm running into a random issue where sometimes it take several minutes (up to 10 or 15) to complete a query. According to 1 or 2 references, this may be a mysql bug. These links explain the similar problem I'm experiencing: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?24,57257

Re: [PHP] Limit query/function time

2009-10-22 Thread Eddie Drapkin
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Philip Thompson philthath...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I'm running into a random issue where sometimes it take several minutes (up to 10 or 15) to complete a query. According to 1 or 2 references, this may be a mysql bug. These links explain the similar problem

Re: [PHP] Limit query/function time

2009-10-22 Thread Philip Thompson
On Oct 22, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Philip Thompson philthath...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I'm running into a random issue where sometimes it take several minutes (up to 10 or 15) to complete a query. According to 1 or 2 references, this may

[PHP] input form save and display conflict

2009-10-22 Thread PJ
I have several input fields to update a book database. There seems to be a conflict in the way tags and text are input through php/mysql and phpMyAdmin. If I enter the data with phpMyAdmin the input fields in the php page see quotation marks differently than what is input in phpMyAdmin. example:

Re: [PHP] php mail() function

2009-10-22 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:24:14PM -0700, James Prentice wrote: How would I determine my ISP's SMPT server ID? And do I need to edit main.cf in order to use that server? What ID? There's no ID needed. You just configure postfix to relay any non-local mail sent to it to the SMTP server at your

Re: [PHP] php mail() function

2009-10-22 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Paul M Foster wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:24:14PM -0700, James Prentice wrote: One other note. People look at me like I'm crazy when I mention this, but I've seen it quite a bit at various internet mail servers. Sometimes, in order to accept email from you, the internet mail server

Re: [PHP] php mail() function

2009-10-22 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:40:34PM -0500, Shawn McKenzie wrote: snip This is fairly accurate in premise but just to clarify. Mailservers don't operate like this by default and there is really no trust. There are public blacklists that a mailserver can be configured to use that tell the