Re: [PHP] best way to determine mime type of file these days?

2010-03-18 Thread Per Jessen
Robert P. J. Day wrote: i realize it sounds trivial but the online info is annoyingly recursive. there's mime_content_type(), but it's officially deprecated. On the manual page there is a reference to the Fileinfo PECL extension: http://php/manual/en/ref.fileinfo.php -- Per Jessen,

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP in HTML code

2010-03-18 Thread Pete Ford
On 17/03/10 18:59, Tommy Pham wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Rene Veermanrene7...@gmail.com wrote: hmm.. seems easier to me to push a filetree of .php's with?= through the str_replace(), than it is to get all the?= writers to comply with your wishes, which may not apply to their

Re: [PHP] Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader problem

2010-03-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 19:21 +0800, I am on the top of the world! Borlange University wrote: sounds good, i havnt checked out it with cvs format. thanks On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 20:16

Re: [PHP] Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader problem

2010-03-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 12:56 +0100, Jochen Schultz wrote: Microsoft managed to basterdise this format a bit as well, and lets you use tabs, spaces and all sorts of other characters to delimit data fields. Someone obviously didn't mention to them that the file type is 'comma separated

Re: [PHP] Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader problem

2010-03-18 Thread Jochen Schultz
Microsoft managed to basterdise this format a bit as well, and lets you use tabs, spaces and all sorts of other characters to delimit data fields. Someone obviously didn't mention to them that the file type is 'comma separated values'! Or maybe it is because someone told them, that there is

Re: [PHP] Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader problem

2010-03-18 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:35:33AM +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: snip The .csv format is just a plain text format, so you won't get formatting or formulas in your 'sheets' (csv is also a sheetless format) but it's been used for years by many systems for data. A lot of database systems

Re: [PHP] I need a fresh look at storing variables in MySQL

2010-03-18 Thread tedd
At 5:18 PM -0700 3/17/10, Tommy Pham wrote: -snip- Below is how I'd do the db structure: tbl_survey_questions: questionId = int / uid your call languageId = int / uid / char your call if you intend to I18n it ;) question = varchar length is your requirement PK questionId + languageId

Re: [PHP] Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader problem

2010-03-18 Thread Jochen Schultz
AFAIK, there is no real standard out there for CSV file definition and since Microsoft and many others (me too btw) use other chars for field separation in so called CSV files, i think it is a good way to deal with it and let it be how it is (actually i have to look into every CSV file that is

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP in HTML code

2010-03-18 Thread Jan G.B.
2010/3/18 Pete Ford p...@justcroft.com: On 17/03/10 18:59, Tommy Pham wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Rene Veermanrene7...@gmail.com  wrote: hmm.. seems easier to me to push a filetree of .php's with?= through the str_replace(), than it is to get all the?= writers to comply with

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP in HTML code

2010-03-18 Thread tedd
At 9:34 AM + 3/18/10, Pete Ford wrote: I do tend to use ?php for blocks of code - so I guess I'm in the middle camp here. Whoa, that's even worse -- make a choice and stick with it -- IMO. I'm all for consistency and have often found myself redoing dozens of scripts because I changed

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP in HTML code

2010-03-18 Thread tedd
At 4:11 PM +0100 3/18/10, Jan G.B. wrote: I agree. And I believe the persons ranting about short open tags are just like some religious people. It's almost like a war between Linux/Windows/Mac, IE/FF or ASP/PHP. Also, people love to recommend things that others recommended before. It mustn't

[PHP] protecting pages with a login system

2010-03-18 Thread David Mehler
Hi, I am wanting to protect some pages by requiring a user to log in to access them. I'd prefer this be as simple as possible, and without requiring a database. So for example when a user goes to www.domain.com/example.php they'll get a page prompting for their log in credentials, and only after

Re: [PHP] Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader problem

2010-03-18 Thread tedd
At 11:35 AM + 3/18/10, Ashley Sheridan wrote: The .csv format is just a plain text format, so you won't get formatting or formulas in your 'sheets' (csv is also a sheetless format) but it's been used for years by many systems for data. A lot of database systems will let you import csv files

Re: [PHP] best way to determine mime type of file these days?

2010-03-18 Thread tedd
At 8:52 AM +0100 3/18/10, Per Jessen wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: i realize it sounds trivial but the online info is annoyingly recursive. there's mime_content_type(), but it's officially deprecated. On the manual page there is a reference to the Fileinfo PECL extension:

Re: [PHP] protecting pages with a login system

2010-03-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 11:40 -0400, David Mehler wrote: Hi, I am wanting to protect some pages by requiring a user to log in to access them. I'd prefer this be as simple as possible, and without requiring a database. So for example when a user goes to www.domain.com/example.php they'll get a

Re: [PHP] best way to determine mime type of file these days?

2010-03-18 Thread Per Jessen
tedd wrote: At 8:52 AM +0100 3/18/10, Per Jessen wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: i realize it sounds trivial but the online info is annoyingly recursive. there's mime_content_type(), but it's officially deprecated. On the manual page there is a reference to the Fileinfo PECL

Re: [PHP] protecting pages with a login system

2010-03-18 Thread APseudoUtopia
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 11:40 -0400, David Mehler wrote: Hi, I am wanting to protect some pages by requiring a user to log in to access them. I'd prefer this be as simple as possible, and without requiring

Re: [PHP] Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader problem

2010-03-18 Thread Tommy Pham
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:40 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: At 11:35 AM + 3/18/10, Ashley Sheridan wrote: The .csv format is just a plain text format, so you won't get formatting or formulas in your 'sheets' (csv is also a sheetless format) but it's been used for years by many

Re: [PHP] Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader problem

2010-03-18 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:57:00AM -0700, Tommy Pham wrote: snip Personally, I find working with fixed widths is best. The text file might be larger but I don't have worry about escaping any type of characters ;) I find this impossible, since I never know the largest width of all the

Re: [PHP] Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader problem

2010-03-18 Thread Mattias Thorslund
Paul M Foster wrote: I process a lot of CSV files, and what I typically see is that Excel will enclose fields which might contain commas in quotes. This gets messy. So I finally wrote a C utility which parses the file and yields tab-delimited records without the quotes. Paul And fgetcsv()

Re: [PHP] Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader problem

2010-03-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 12:12 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:57:00AM -0700, Tommy Pham wrote: snip Personally, I find working with fixed widths is best. The text file might be larger but I don't have worry about escaping any type of characters ;) I find

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP in HTML code

2010-03-18 Thread Jan G.B.
2010/3/18 tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com: Calling it ranting or religious unjustly demeans the discussion and is inflammatory. In all of this, I've simply said it's your choice. What I said was: *persons ranting about short open tags* *are just like some religious people * I did not address

Re: [PHP] Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader problem

2010-03-18 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:16:30AM -0700, Mattias Thorslund wrote: Paul M Foster wrote: I process a lot of CSV files, and what I typically see is that Excel will enclose fields which might contain commas in quotes. This gets messy. So I finally wrote a C utility which parses the file and

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP in HTML code

2010-03-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 17:32 +0100, Jan G.B. wrote: 2010/3/18 tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com: Calling it ranting or religious unjustly demeans the discussion and is inflammatory. In all of this, I've simply said it's your choice. What I said was: *persons ranting about short open tags*

Re: [PHP] Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader problem

2010-03-18 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 04:15:33PM +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 12:12 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:57:00AM -0700, Tommy Pham wrote: snip Personally, I find working with fixed widths is best. The text file might

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP in HTML code

2010-03-18 Thread Jan G.B.
2010/3/18 Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk Technically, PHP isn't embedded in any language; it's the other way around. XML and PHP are used together more often than you might realise. Consider Ajax and RSS, which are becoming more and more popular. Also, there are sites out there

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP in HTML code

2010-03-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 17:57 +0100, Jan G.B. wrote: Sure - XML is often used and served. But in general, a web server only parses PHP-Files (ie. .+\.php\d?) unless you configure your server to parse any file or .xml files. So the XML ? is not a problem at all for the interpreter. I wasn't

Re: [PHP] Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader problem

2010-03-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 12:57 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 04:15:33PM +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 12:12 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:57:00AM -0700, Tommy Pham wrote: snip Personally, I

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP in HTML code

2010-03-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 18:09 +0100, Jan G.B. wrote: 2010/3/18 Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk I'd rather have short tags turned off than remember each time that I have to keep breaking up the and ?php before I output it in-case the parser gets confused. You don't need to

[PHP] web sniffer

2010-03-18 Thread madunix
I've been trying to read the contents from a particular URL into a string in PHP, and can't get it to work. any help. Thanks -- If there is a way, I will find one...*** If there is none, I will make one...*** madunix ** -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] web sniffer

2010-03-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 00:03 +0200, madunix wrote: I've been trying to read the contents from a particular URL into a string in PHP, and can't get it to work. any help. Thanks -- If there is a way, I will find one...*** If there is none, I will make one...*** madunix

Re: [PHP] web sniffer

2010-03-18 Thread Adam Richardson
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:03 PM, madunix madu...@gmail.com wrote: I've been trying to read the contents from a particular URL into a string in PHP, and can't get it to work. any help. Thanks -- If there is a way, I will find one...*** If there is none, I will make one...***

Re: [PHP] web sniffer

2010-03-18 Thread madunix
trying http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php do you a piece of code that read parts pages. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.ukwrote: On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 00:03 +0200, madunix wrote: I've been trying to read the contents from a

Re: [PHP] web sniffer

2010-03-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 00:11 +0200, madunix wrote: trying http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php do you a piece of code that read parts pages. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 00:03

Re: [PHP] web sniffer

2010-03-18 Thread Adam Richardson
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.ukwrote: On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 00:11 +0200, madunix wrote: trying http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php do you a piece of code that read parts pages. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Ashley

Re: [PHP] web sniffer

2010-03-18 Thread madunix
okay ..it works now i use ?php $data=file_get_contents(http://www.my.com;); echo $data; ? On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Adam Richardson simples...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 00:11 +0200, madunix

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2010-03-18 Thread Blake Morgan
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