php-general Digest 16 Feb 2012 14:53:59 -0000 Issue 7691

2012-02-16 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 16 Feb 2012 14:53:59 - Issue 7691 Topics (messages 316614 through 316616): pathinfo or other 316614 by: Donovan Brooke 316615 by: Elbert F Re: Form Post to different domain 316616 by: Tedd Sperling Administrivia: To subscribe to the digest,

php-general Digest 17 Feb 2012 04:40:57 -0000 Issue 7692

2012-02-16 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 17 Feb 2012 04:40:57 - Issue 7692 Topics (messages 316617 through 316646): Re: Form Post to different domain 316617 by: Daniel Brown 316619 by: Matijn Woudt 316620 by: Daniel Brown 316621 by: Matijn Woudt Bug with DOMNode::insertBefore in

Re: [PHP] Form Post to different domain

2012-02-16 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Feb 14, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 13:36, Rick Dwyer rpdw...@earthlink.net wrote: I only have access to domain B... the one receiving the Form POST. Then all you should need to do is: a.) Verify that Domain A is indeed pointing to Domain

Re: [PHP] Form Post to different domain

2012-02-16 Thread Daniel Brown
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:53, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: Why the '.PHP_EOL' ? I've never seen that before and looking through the PHP documentation doesn't give me much. Cross-compatibility. For systems which use \n, PHP_EOL will be \n. For systems which use \r\n,

Re: [PHP] Form Post to different domain

2012-02-16 Thread Matijn Woudt
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:53, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote:    This means you can rest assured that the newlines will be appropriate for the system on which PHP is running.  While it makes little difference

Re: [PHP] Form Post to different domain

2012-02-16 Thread Daniel Brown
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:57, Matijn Woudt tijn...@gmail.com wrote: What if the system PHP is running on not the same one as the one that is going to read the plain-text/CSV/.. files? I don't think it is good practice to use it when writing to files. I often write files on a Linux server

Re: [PHP] Form Post to different domain

2012-02-16 Thread Matijn Woudt
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:57, Matijn Woudt tijn...@gmail.com wrote: What if the system PHP is running on not the same one as the one that is going to read the plain-text/CSV/.. files? I don't think it is good practice to

[PHP] Connect to Google

2012-02-16 Thread John Taylor-Johnston
I'm a teacher. I want to use PHP to interface with Google and see if a student has plagiarized. I don't see many open-source projects on the subject, so I want to create my own script. How can I use PHP to interface with Google and see if this text exists on the internet? If this is

Re: [PHP] Connect to Google

2012-02-16 Thread Marc Guay
I'm a teacher. I want to use PHP to interface with Google and see if a student has plagiarized. Hi. Why not just enter the suspected text into a search engine and see if any close matches come up? If you use the advanced search tools you can choose verbatim and see if the exact phrase

Re: [PHP] Connect to Google

2012-02-16 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 21:56 -0500, John Taylor-Johnston wrote: I'm a teacher. I want to use PHP to interface with Google and see if a student has plagiarized. I don't see many open-source projects on the subject, so I want to create my own script. How can I use PHP to interface with

Re: [PHP] Connect to Google

2012-02-16 Thread Marc Guay
 If you use the advanced search tools you can choose verbatim and see if the exact phrase matches. Just correcting myself here, the way to do this is by simply wrapping the words in quotes like this, hey now. The verbatim tool is something else. Marc -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Connect to Google

2012-02-16 Thread John Taylor-Johnston
Can I use PHP to interface with Google? Any possible examples of this? Let's start with the first step. :) I'm sure proprietary sites like http://www.compilatio.net/ for example connects to search engines. They cannot be crawling the net too. That would be crazy. (I'm a top quoter. It's more

Re: [PHP] Connect to Google

2012-02-16 Thread John Taylor-Johnston
I'm a top quoter. I would parse the text first. Phrase by phrase, or phrase segments. Then spit out a report. Marc Guay wrote: If that's not good enough, can you explain how you would like it to function? Would the whole paper be scanned phrase-by-phrase for matches and then spit out a report?

Re: [PHP] Connect to Google

2012-02-16 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 14:47 -0500, John Taylor-Johnston wrote: Can I use PHP to interface with Google? Any possible examples of this? Let's start with the first step. :) I'm sure proprietary sites like http://www.compilatio.net/ for example connects to search engines. They cannot be

Re: [PHP] Connect to Google

2012-02-16 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 14:50 -0500, John Taylor-Johnston wrote: I'm a top quoter. I would parse the text first. Phrase by phrase, or phrase segments. Then spit out a report. Marc Guay wrote: If that's not good enough, can you explain how you would like it to function? Would the whole

Re: [PHP] Connect to Google

2012-02-16 Thread Matijn Woudt
2012/2/16 John Taylor-Johnston jt.johns...@usherbrooke.ca: Can I use PHP to interface with Google? Any possible examples of this? There's Google Custom Search API: http://code.google.com/intl/nl-NL/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html It interfaces in JSON, and PHP has json functions included

Re: [PHP] Connect to Google

2012-02-16 Thread Marc Guay
This is the first time I've been surprised that a Drupal module existed for something... http://drupal.org/project/authenticate -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Connect to Google

2012-02-16 Thread Marc Guay
Sort of off topic but here's a list of existing services (some of which are free) in case you don't want to reinvent the wheel. http://www.justfitstudio.com/articles/plagiarism-detection.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Turning a string into a condition

2012-02-16 Thread Marc Guay
Hi folks, I've constructed simple conditions based on DB data and would like to actually evaluate them with PHP. For example, the coded string $x $y has been str_replaced into 4 5, but now I would actually like to use that string in an if() statement. I tried eval() but got an unhelpful

Re: [PHP] Turning a string into a condition

2012-02-16 Thread Joshua Kehn
Can you explain a more clearly what it is you're trying to accomplish? It sounds like you have a string $x $y in the database that you then replace into a string 4 5 which you want to test a conditional on. If this is the case, why are you storing conditionals in the database? Regards,

Re: [PHP] Turning a string into a condition

2012-02-16 Thread Marc Guay
It sounds like you have a string $x $y in the database that you then replace into a string 4 5 which you want to test a conditional on. If this is the case, why are you storing conditionals in the database? The user will be able to construct their own query strings, it's complicated but

Re: [PHP] Turning a string into a condition

2012-02-16 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 15:38 -0500, Marc Guay wrote: It sounds like you have a string $x $y in the database that you then replace into a string 4 5 which you want to test a conditional on. If this is the case, why are you storing conditionals in the database? The user will be able to

Re: [PHP] Turning a string into a condition

2012-02-16 Thread Marc Guay
I just added the return statement and the semicolon, because the error was complaining about it not being a proper PHP statement basically. That's beautiful, thanks. I just stumbled across a forum post that said it wasn't possible and was about to give up for the day. Marc -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] Turning a string into a condition

2012-02-16 Thread Matijn Woudt
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Marc Guay marc.g...@gmail.com wrote: I just added the return statement and the semicolon, because the error was complaining about it not being a proper PHP statement basically. That's beautiful, thanks.  I just stumbled across a forum post that said it wasn't

Re: [PHP] Turning a string into a condition

2012-02-16 Thread Marc Guay
It shouldn't be that hard to parse this type of expressions. I appreciate your concern, and will do my best to validate the input, but there are two things: 1) The application will only be used by selected users. and 2) The range of possibilities are broader than I indicated. They would like

[PHP] Re: Connect to Google

2012-02-16 Thread Maciek Sokolewicz
On 16-02-2012 03:56, John Taylor-Johnston wrote: I'm a teacher. I want to use PHP to interface with Google and see if a student has plagiarized. I don't see many open-source projects on the subject, so I want to create my own script. How can I use PHP to interface with Google and see if this

Re: [PHP] Turning a string into a condition

2012-02-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:37:18PM -0500, Marc Guay wrote: It shouldn't be that hard to parse this type of expressions. I appreciate your concern, and will do my best to validate the input, but there are two things: 1) The application will only be used by selected users. and 2) The

Re: [PHP] Re: Connect to Google

2012-02-16 Thread Matijn Woudt
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Maciek Sokolewicz maciek.sokolew...@gmail.com wrote: On 16-02-2012 03:56, John Taylor-Johnston wrote: I'm a teacher. I want to use PHP to interface with Google and see if a student has plagiarized. I don't see many open-source projects on the subject, so I

Re: [PHP] Turning a string into a condition

2012-02-16 Thread Matijn Woudt
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Marc Guay marc.g...@gmail.com wrote: It shouldn't be that hard to parse this type of expressions. I appreciate your concern, and will do my best to validate the input, but there are two things: 1)  The application will only be used by selected users. and

Re: [PHP] Turning a string into a condition

2012-02-16 Thread Marco Behnke
Am 16.02.12 22:37, schrieb Marc Guay: 2) The range of possibilities are broader than I indicated. They would like to be able to enter conditions of all sorts. i.e. ($x / $y) 0.5 (($a+$b+$c) / $d) .75 etc. If you have any suggestions on how to increase the security while maintaning the

Re: [PHP] pathinfo or other

2012-02-16 Thread Donovan Brooke
Elbert F wrote: SCRIPT_NAME is a server side path, try REQUEST_URI. This includes the query string but it's easy to remove. Elbert http://swiftlet.org Hi, I thought I should say that server side SCRIPT_NAME seems to be fine for me in this case. Thanks for the input. Donovan -- D

[PHP] basic captcha

2012-02-16 Thread Donovan Brooke
Hello, Does anyone know of a basic (open source or freeware) form captcha system for PHP? TIA, Donovan -- D Brooke -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] basic captcha

2012-02-16 Thread Patrick Hafner
Hi, have you tried reCAPTCHA by Google? You can find the PHP library on the website. Easy to use, customizable and free, but nothing to install on your server (no open source) Best regards, Patrick Hafner Am 17.02.2012 um 05:40 schrieb Donovan Brooke li...@euca.us: Hello, Does anyone

Re: [PHP] basic captcha

2012-02-16 Thread Savetheinternet
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Donovan Brooke li...@euca.us wrote: Hello, Does anyone know of a basic (open source or freeware) form captcha system for PHP? TIA, Donovan -- D Brooke Hi, There are plenty of free PHP captcha scripts out there. Just google captcha PHP. Securimage

Re: [PHP] basic captcha

2012-02-16 Thread Simon Schick
Hi, all When you ask for a captcha, I'd first ask what do you want to use it for. If you read the first lines of Wikipedia it has been developed to differ between a real user and a bot. If you'd now say that you want to use it to protect spam in a formula I'd give you the same explanation that

[PHP] problems in extension development

2012-02-16 Thread Rui Hu
hi, I just started to write a simple PHP extension hello, but encountered some problems. I followed tutorials step by step: 1. ./ext_skel --extname=hello 2. modified hello.c and php_hello.h, and wrote function hello_world() which simply return a string hello world. 3. phpize 4. ./configure ; make