RE: [PHP] .INC files

2005-06-02 Thread Denis Gerasimov
OK... Let me explain a couple things... On Wed, June 1, 2005 1:29 am, Denis Gerasimov said: Second, which way are you differ PHP .inc files from HTML .inc files? There is no such thing as an HTML .inc file. :-) I see what you mean... but I use templating systems to separate code from

[PHP] str_replace weird output

2005-06-02 Thread Johan . Barbier
Hello guys :-) I have a question. I have been using str_replace() quite a lot of times, and never encountered any issue. But this time, something weird happened, and I am wondering wether, in fact, I have never really understood how this function worked, or if there is some kind of bug. If I

Re: [PHP] .INC files

2005-06-02 Thread Rory Browne
I do not agree. Not agreeing with Rasmus on a PHP list, can be seriously damaging to your credability, unless you really know what you're talking about and have a solid argument. Having that said, I personally use .inc.php - .inc as Rasmus said, to denote include files, and .php because I

Re: [PHP] .INC files

2005-06-02 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Rory Browne wrote: Alternatively if the include_path, contained the path that your includes were in, (and only the directory where you put your includes), then php wouldn't have very far to search. Well, no real difference between that and just making sure most of your includes are in the

Re: [PHP] PHP 5 Question about OO

2005-06-02 Thread Marcus Bointon
On 2 Jun 2005, at 03:00, Richard Lynch wrote: Maybe I'm being dumb, but how can an object's __autoload function get called when the object class definition hasn't been loaded, and that's why you're calling __autoload in the first place... It wouldn't solve everything, but it would help. It

[PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string?

2005-06-02 Thread Thomas
Hi there, I have a bit of strange question: when wanting to insert multiple records into the db, instead of looping through the set and executing mysql_query (which will then call the db n times), is it not better to concat a string with all the insert statements and let mysql handle the

Re: [PHP] Craig's List Clone part deux

2005-06-02 Thread Angelo Zanetti
have you looked on sourceforge? there are alot of helpful scripts there, hope this helps. Angelo Zanetti Z Logic www.zlogic.co.za [c] +27 72 441 3355 [t] +27 21 469 1052 Philip Hallstrom wrote: On May 31, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Michael O'Neal wrote: Thanks John. That's one of the reasons I

Re: [PHP] Japanese with UTF-8 and mysql

2005-06-02 Thread M. Sokolewicz
Mark Sargent wrote: Richard Davey wrote: Hello Mark, Monday, May 30, 2005, 4:18:20 PM, you wrote: MS I have my settings in php.ini set for UTF-8, and the encoding for MS the mysql database table's column that is using Japanese to UTF-8. MS Now, if I view the data stored in that column in

RE: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string?

2005-06-02 Thread Shaw, Chris - Accenture
Thomas, If you're inserting alot of rows, (eg millions) then concating them and calling the db once probably would give a small speed advantage, because of the database handshaking. But I would look at the load the database is under, if there is alot of users hitting the database with small

Re: [PHP] TEST

2005-06-02 Thread Angelo Zanetti
gmail doesn't show you your own posts why is that?? Angelo Zanetti Z Logic www.zlogic.co.za -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string?

2005-06-02 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Thomas, Thursday, June 2, 2005, 10:20:11 AM, you wrote: T I have a bit of strange question: when wanting to insert multiple T records into the db, instead of looping through the set and T executing mysql_query (which will then call the db n times), is it T not better to concat a string

[PHP] Accessing DLL from PHP

2005-06-02 Thread Rory McKinley
Hi list I do not have much programming experience outside some PHP stuff so please excuse a stupid question: I have a DLL provided to me by a third-party with a small bit of documentation regarding its structure and methods. The DLL caculates event costs based on parameters passed to it. I would

Re[2]: [PHP] Japanese with UTF-8 and mysql

2005-06-02 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Mark, Thursday, June 2, 2005, 4:18:30 AM, you wrote: MS ?php MS session_start(); MS include(database.php); ? I would recommend setting UTF-8 as the Content-type via PHP itself: header('Content-type: UTF-8') - do it as one of the first things when you're ready to output the HTML. MS

RE: [PHP] dynamic drop down

2005-06-02 Thread Mark Rees
The dropdown list is on the client (browser). Javascript runs on the client. PHP runs on the server. You have 2 options - one is to do as Richard says and use javascript to change the contents of one select box when an option is selected in another. - the other is to refresh the page when the

RE: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string?

2005-06-02 Thread Shaw, Chris - Accenture
Thomas, I am not sure what database you are using, but there was a previous email thread about using execQuery($concatstring) for mySQL, which apparently worked. Make sure that your insert statements end with the standard line terminator character, usually ';'. Personally, I would output the

RE: [PHP] TEST

2005-06-02 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] gmail doesn't show you your own posts why is that?? [/snip] Sounds like a question for the gmail folks. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string?

2005-06-02 Thread Rory McKinley
Richard Davey wrote: snip Sure.. mysql_query doesn't support more than one query in the sql statement. snip At the risk of being thick, does the OP not mean something like this: INSERT INTO blah VALUES (value1, value2), (value3, value4) versus INSERT INTO blah VALUES (value1, value2)

Re: [PHP] PHP 5 Question about OO

2005-06-02 Thread Marcus Bointon
On 2 Jun 2005, at 11:56, Colin Ross wrote: The way I see it, you are gonna be spending quite a bit of time writing all those lines of code for the class, what is bad about another requiring the file each time? Huh? Writing a 1-line function in a base class means that I would never have

Re: [PHP] PHP 5 Question about OO

2005-06-02 Thread Jochem Maas
Richard Lynch wrote: On Wed, June 1, 2005 3:53 am, Marcus Bointon said: On 1 Jun 2005, at 11:38, Jochem Maas wrote: all true, now imagine that you install a couple of 3rdparty php5 'packages' and they all define __autoload() - ain't gonna work! which is why there has been discussion on

RE: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string?

2005-06-02 Thread Thomas
Hi Chris, Thanks, I thought so. You are quite right with the errors, I ran into some where it looked like that php does not allow you to execute such a concated string ... the error started at the second insert statement with no apparent reason. Is that a ph restriction? Thomas -Original

RE: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string?

2005-06-02 Thread Thomas
Thanks Richard that makes it clear. Thomas -Original Message- From: Richard Davey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 June 2005 12:43 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string? Hello Thomas, Thursday, June 2, 2005, 10:20:11 AM, you wrote:

Re: [PHP] Quick q, most prolly 0T

2005-06-02 Thread Jochem Maas
Ryan A wrote: Hey, On 6/2/2005 5:17:47 AM, Richard Lynch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: URL re-writing can do that -- It ends up using his 'index' file (or whatever) but you don't see it in the URL. Thanks for replying. But if I want to copy his exact way of doing things...instead of index

Re: [PHP] .INC files

2005-06-02 Thread Jochem Maas
Richard Lynch wrote: On Wed, June 1, 2005 1:29 am, Denis Gerasimov said: Second, which way are you differ PHP .inc files from HTML .inc files? There is no such thing as an HTML .inc file. :-) All your HTML .inc files, by definition, if they are being require'd or include'd into PHP *are*

Re: [PHP] Accessing DLL from PHP

2005-06-02 Thread Rory Browne
I'm not too sure, but that sounds like a job for ffi. I think you'll find ffi at pecl.php.net, although, be warned that I've never used ffi, nor have I read any reports as to how well it worked. On 6/2/05, Rory McKinley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list I do not have much programming

Re: [PHP] Accessing DLL from PHP

2005-06-02 Thread Angelo Zanetti
perhaps the system command is what you are looking for? its in the manual. just search in the manual for it... Hope this helps Angelo Zanetti Z Logic www.zlogic.co.za Rory McKinley wrote: Hi list I do not have much programming experience outside some PHP stuff so please excuse a stupid

Re: [PHP] Quick q, most prolly 0T

2005-06-02 Thread Ryan A
Hi Chris, Thanks for replying I noticed a site that is using php, but he is has shortened the url so that the filename was not shown.. eg: somesite.com/?a=1 How did they do that? It's called a directory index. Examples include index.html and index.php. You configure this with the

RE: [PHP] Multiple inserts as a single string?

2005-06-02 Thread Jared Williams
Thanks Richard that makes it clear. Thomas Hello Thomas, Thursday, June 2, 2005, 10:20:11 AM, you wrote: T I have a bit of strange question: when wanting to insert multiple T records into the db, instead of looping through the set and executing T mysql_query (which will then

Re: [PHP] PHP 5 Question about OO

2005-06-02 Thread Jason Barnett
Jochem Maas wrote: Richard Lynch wrote: On Wed, June 1, 2005 3:53 am, Marcus Bointon said: On 1 Jun 2005, at 11:38, Jochem Maas wrote: all true, now imagine that you install a couple of 3rdparty php5 'packages' and they all define __autoload() - ain't gonna work! which is why there has

Re: [PHP] what is -- $this variable - $this other variable -- means?

2005-06-02 Thread ...helmut
thanks for your responses, your comments have lead me to: http://php.mirrors.ilisys.com.au/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php and http://php.mirrors.ilisys.com.au/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php which certainly explain what I was after. Thanks! -- ...helmut helmutgranda.com

Re: [PHP] Accessing DLL from PHP

2005-06-02 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Rory, Thursday, June 2, 2005, 11:53:56 AM, you wrote: RM I have RTFM, and I am still busy STFW and STFA, but the little bit RM that I have found has lead me towards trying to understand COM RM (eek!). Before I go down that particular garden path, I would like RM to know if there is any

Re[2]: [PHP] Accessing DLL from PHP

2005-06-02 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Angelo, Thursday, June 2, 2005, 1:55:01 PM, you wrote: AZ perhaps the system command is what you are looking for? For calling functions within a DLL?? I don't think so. All system() does is to execute a command/executable. If the OP was to interface with this DLL from an exe, then this

Re: [PHP] str_replace weird output

2005-06-02 Thread Andy Pieters
On Thursday 02 June 2005 09:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if I do that : ?php $texte = 'cd' ; $original = array('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g'); $modif = array ('c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i'); $texte = str_replace($original, $modif, $texte) ; echo $texte, ' br /' ; ? The

Re: [PHP] What Works Works Validator

2005-06-02 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Richard, Wednesday, June 1, 2005, 3:16:50 PM, you wrote: R Does anybody know of a What Works Works Validator which checks R for maxiumum browser compatibility rather than the W3C standard? E. Got it listed on my XHTML test page at: http://www.devtek.org/test (In the resources section

Re: [PHP] Accessing DLL from PHP

2005-06-02 Thread Rory McKinley
Richard Davey wrote: snip If the DLL has a COM interface then you can use PHP to talk to it, the process is actually quite straight forward (depending on what the DLL actually does of course). Best regards, Richard Davey snip Hi Richard Rory (the other one ;) ) also mentioned a COM

Re: [PHP] Questionary Development - Continued

2005-06-02 Thread Chris Boget
That being the case, you may want to consider ajax, so that users answers are recorded as soon as they make them. What's 'ajax'? Link please? thnx, Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Using GET to build multiple sql queries

2005-06-02 Thread Jack Jackson
I'd love some help with http://hashphp.org/pastebin?pid=3443 if anyone can... Basically I want to make it so that, if the get in the url specifies no query or a query to a nonexistent row, send to vanilla index. If url specifies c= then set $c=c and use the number to build the mysql query;

Re: [PHP] PHP 5 Question about OO

2005-06-02 Thread Jochem Maas
Jason Barnett wrote: Jochem Maas wrote: Richard Lynch wrote: On Wed, June 1, 2005 3:53 am, Marcus Bointon said: On 1 Jun 2005, at 11:38, Jochem Maas wrote: ... I opened up a feature request for this very topic a while back. The __autoload function should just register

[PHP] OO DB in PHP?

2005-06-02 Thread GamblerZG
When you have objects stored on disk, it's usually very convenient to read them on demand. However, MySQL is clearly not meant for this purpose. Query overhead, complexity of SQL needed, and some other limitation make object storage and retrieval a headache. The question is, is it possible to

Re: [PHP] Questionary Development - Continued

2005-06-02 Thread Rory Browne
On 6/2/05, Chris Boget [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That being the case, you may want to consider ajax, so that users answers are recorded as soon as they make them. What's 'ajax'? Link please? www.google.com thnx, Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

[PHP] Delay?

2005-06-02 Thread Jack Jackson
Has anyone else noticed significant delays in messages getting posted? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Questionary Development - Continued

2005-06-02 Thread Rory Browne
Sorry I thought I'd sent this to the list. On 6/1/05, Rory Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php www.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX On 6/1/05, Ryan A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That being the case, you may want to consider ajax,

Re[2]: [PHP] Questionary Development - Continued

2005-06-02 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Chris, Thursday, June 2, 2005, 4:43:09 PM, you wrote: That being the case, you may want to consider ajax, so that users answers are recorded as soon as they make them. CB What's 'ajax'? Link please? It's a way of using the XML HTTP Request object in JavaScript to provide a very

Re: [PHP] PHP 5 Question about OO

2005-06-02 Thread GamblerZG
Maybe it's just me, but the core concept of __autoload() seems to be broken to me. Moreover, every proposed solution I've heard about is totally inside the box. I would do it like this: 1) Define $_AUTOLOAD superglobal. 2) If I need SomeClass to be autoloaded I write this:

Re: [PHP] OO DB in PHP?

2005-06-02 Thread Greg Donald
On 6/2/05, GamblerZG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you have objects stored on disk, it's usually very convenient to read them on demand. However, MySQL is clearly not meant for this purpose. A serialized PHP object is just a string of data. MySQL is a very fast `data`base, so I don't quite

[PHP] sanitizing get vars

2005-06-02 Thread Sebastian
what is a safe way to clean a post/get before echoing it. example. input form, user enters some text, hits enter. .. next page i echo what they entered. right now i just run the variables passed by htmlentities() which preseves any html. is that acceptable? -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Questionary Development - Continued

2005-06-02 Thread Greg Donald
On 6/2/05, Chris Boget [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's 'ajax'? Link please? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX I've been playing with it using Ruby on Rails, it's built-in. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] Using GET to build multiple sql queries

2005-06-02 Thread Greg Donald
On 6/2/05, Jack Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd love some help with http://hashphp.org/pastebin?pid=3443 if anyone can... Basically I want to make it so that, if the get in the url specifies no query or a query to a nonexistent row, send to vanilla index. If url specifies c= then set

Re: [PHP] Delay?

2005-06-02 Thread Sebastian
yea.. takes hours... sometimes 6+ or more. i dont post that much to the list for this reason.. if it stays like this i'll just unsubscribe.. its pointless... this is suppose to be E-mail, not post office mail. Jack Jackson wrote: Has anyone else noticed significant delays in messages

Re: [PHP] Delay?

2005-06-02 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Jack, Thursday, June 2, 2005, 5:24:26 PM, you wrote: JJ Has anyone else noticed significant delays in messages getting posted? Yes. My last post took just under 1 hour! I copied this to you as well to prove the point :) Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP

Re: [PHP] Delay?

2005-06-02 Thread Jason Sweeney
Jack Jackson wrote: Has anyone else noticed significant delays in messages getting posted? No, no delay on my end. So... any word on the release date for PHP 3? -- jason sweeney jason.designshift.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] sanitizing get vars

2005-06-02 Thread Greg Donald
On 6/2/05, Sebastian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is a safe way to clean a post/get before echoing it. example. input form, user enters some text, hits enter. set_magic_quotes_runtime( 0 ); if( get_magic_quotes_gpc() == 0 ) { $_GET= isset( $_GET )? array_map( 'slashes', $_GET )

Re: [PHP] OO DB in PHP?

2005-06-02 Thread GamblerZG
Did you have some code that you need help debugging? Since you have asked... http://fs.net/projects/naturalgine Could you please download the latest version, open tools/objects.php and look at getObjects() function? Just take a look at it, and you will undesrstand what am I talking about,

[PHP] Re: OO DB in PHP?

2005-06-02 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 06/02/2005 12:37 PM GamblerZG said the following: When you have objects stored on disk, it's usually very convenient to read them on demand. However, MySQL is clearly not meant for this purpose. Query overhead, complexity of SQL needed, and some other limitation make object storage

Re: [PHP] PHP 5 Question about OO

2005-06-02 Thread Greg Donald
On 6/2/05, GamblerZG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe it's just me, but the core concept of __autoload() seems to be broken to me. Moreover, every proposed solution I've heard about is totally inside the box. I would do it like this: 1) Define $_AUTOLOAD superglobal. When forced to do OO, I use

[PHP] Best way to use other objects within classes?

2005-06-02 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, I'm using the MDB2 object to access my MySQL database. I have a number of classes that perform page-building activities that need db access, and I'm wondering what the best way to expose the MDB2 object to them is? (Note: my development environment is PHP 5.0.3, but the production

Re: [PHP] Delay?

2005-06-02 Thread Chris Boget
Has anyone else noticed significant delays in messages getting posted? No, no delay on my end. At least 4hrs on my end... thnx, Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] sanitizing get vars

2005-06-02 Thread GamblerZG
set_magic_quotes_runtime( 0 ); This is for database, not for showing data in browser. For browser you need to kill all unknow tags and all unknown properties of known tags. Afterwards, you need to prepend http:// to any urls that have unknow protocols. Alternatively, you can make sure that

Re: [PHP] Delay?

2005-06-02 Thread GamblerZG
Sebastian wrote: yea.. takes hours... sometimes 6+ or more. i dont post that much to the list for this reason.. if it stays like this i'll just unsubscribe.. its pointless... this is suppose to be E-mail, not post office mail. I don't understand why everyone like these mailing lists so much.

[PHP] Unit testing ?

2005-06-02 Thread mbneto
Hi, I am trying the phpunit2 for unit testing but the examples found in the documentation are few and do not address, for example, tests when database access is involved. Perhaps this belongs to a more general question (i.e strategies for unit testing) so any urls, docs would be great. -- PHP

[PHP] Exporting to MS Word or Excel

2005-06-02 Thread Miguel Guirao
Hi!!! Are there any chances that I could export a dynamic created web page into MS Word or Excel? I know this can be done with PDF!! I'm using LAMP!! --- Miguel Guirao Aguilera Logistica R8 TELCEL Tel. (999) 960.7994 Cel. 9931 600. -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] sanitizing get vars

2005-06-02 Thread Chris Shiflett
Sebastian wrote: what is a safe way to clean a post/get before echoing it. There are two steps that you're lumping into one. Sanitizing and cleaning are informal terms for filtering, and this is an inspection process where you inspect data to be sure that it's valid. You should do this with

Re: [PHP] Using GET to build multiple sql queries

2005-06-02 Thread Greg Donald
On 6/2/05, Jack Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply, Greg, I see how that is useful. I am confused as to how I would implement it here. Please bear with me as I am a newbie and am now perhaps more confused than ever!: Bummer, sorry. I'm trying to use the number given in

RE: [PHP] Delay?

2005-06-02 Thread Chris W. Parker
Chris Boget mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, June 02, 2005 12:16 PM said: Has anyone else noticed significant delays in messages getting posted? No, no delay on my end. At least 4hrs on my end... Uhh.. I think he was joking... Take another read of his next sentence. :) Chris.

Re: [PHP] Using GET to build multiple sql queries

2005-06-02 Thread Jack Jackson
Thanks for the reply, Greg, I see how that is useful. I am confused as to how I would implement it here. Please bear with me as I am a newbie and am now perhaps more confused than ever!: I'm trying to use the number given in the $_GET URL to build one piece of the sql: If there is

Re: [PHP] Using GET to build multiple sql queries

2005-06-02 Thread Jack Jackson
SORRY - one small correction below: SNIP If that were instead an $s then I would do: ?php //IF there is a valid query by subject, use $s to build the SQL $fields = SELECT art.*,publisher.*,subject.*; $from = FROM art,subject LEFT JOIN publisher ON

Re: [PHP] Best way to use other objects within classes?

2005-06-02 Thread Greg Donald
On 6/2/05, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: private $db; PHP4 doesn't have member visibility. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] RE: Questionary Development - Continued

2005-06-02 Thread Allan, David (ThomasTech)
I've just been looking at phpSurveyor. Would that help at all? It's PHP, with mySQL database . . . -Original Message- From: ...helmut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 4:35 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Questionary Development - Continued Hello

Re: [PHP] Delay?

2005-06-02 Thread Greg Donald
On 6/2/05, GamblerZG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand why everyone like these mailing lists so much. Web-forums more convenient. What's keeping you.. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe,

Re: [PHP] Best way to use other objects within classes?

2005-06-02 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Greg Donald wrote: On 6/2/05, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: private $db; PHP4 doesn't have member visibility. Hi Greg, Thanks for this tip! Regards, Murray -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] Using GET to build multiple sql queries

2005-06-02 Thread Jack Jackson
Greg, thank you for all this... See below Greg Donald wrote: On 6/2/05, Jack Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply, Greg, I see how that is useful. I am confused as to how I would implement it here. Please bear with me as I am a newbie and am now perhaps more confused than

[PHP] How to find random records in a subset?

2005-06-02 Thread Brian Dunning
I am using a routine to find 50 random records in a large MySQL database (about a million records) where I generate a list of 50 random unique ID's, and then use MySQL's in command to find them. I can't use order by rand() due to its performance hit. But I have to take it one more step: I

Re: [PHP] Exporting to MS Word or Excel

2005-06-02 Thread tg-php
To export it exactly as displayed (like when you print to a virtual printer to generate a PDF) might be tricky, but you can definitely create Excel and I believe Word files without even having Excel or Word installed. If you DO have Excel or Word installed on your server, then you can always

Re: [PHP] Delay?

2005-06-02 Thread Danny Brow
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 15:32 -0400, GamblerZG wrote: Sebastian wrote: yea.. takes hours... sometimes 6+ or more. i dont post that much to the list for this reason.. if it stays like this i'll just unsubscribe.. its pointless... this is suppose to be E-mail, not post office mail. I

[PHP] Re: What Works Works Validator

2005-06-02 Thread JB
Simple, blank page with just content, thats the only true way, Anyway why you wanna be backward compatible that far is beyond me cus they handle HTML even worse so its a losing battle!, use the CSS @import rule for style sheets and older browsers will simply ignore the CSS, you could then

[PHP] Mailing list delays

2005-06-02 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
We found a problem caused by a recent disk failure that wiped out a named pipe qmail needed. I am hoping the mailing list delays should be fixed now. -Rasmus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Re: What Works Works Validator

2005-06-02 Thread JB05UK
A small example, using the code below all older browser who cant understand CSS will ignore it because its within a comment block... style type=text/css !-- @import url(MyStyleSheet.css); -- /style -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

[PHP] Re: what is -- $this variable - $this other variable -- means?

2005-06-02 Thread JB05UK
http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] sanitizing get vars

2005-06-02 Thread Marek Kilimajer
Sebastian wrote: what is a safe way to clean a post/get before echoing it. example. input form, user enters some text, hits enter. .. next page i echo what they entered. right now i just run the variables passed by htmlentities() which preseves any html. is that acceptable? You might also

[PHP] Re: php forum and (almost certainly 0T) client editor

2005-06-02 Thread JB05UK
Hello, I can answer your second question... Frames can be used to achieve the effect of two seperate windows, one can refresh while the other stays as-is. For a client editor... Some javascript to add tags on the client side would be fairly simple to create, just create some custom tags for

Re: [PHP] Mailing list delays

2005-06-02 Thread Sebastian
Thanks. *test* Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: We found a problem caused by a recent disk failure that wiped out a named pipe qmail needed. I am hoping the mailing list delays should be fixed now. -Rasmus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] Delay?

2005-06-02 Thread dan
Danny Brow wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 15:32 -0400, GamblerZG wrote: Sebastian wrote: yea.. takes hours... sometimes 6+ or more. i dont post that much to the list for this reason.. if it stays like this i'll just unsubscribe.. its pointless... this is suppose to be E-mail, not post office

Re: [PHP] Mailing list delays

2005-06-02 Thread Sebastian
wow, got that in 20 seconds.. can we go for a record? ;) Sebastian wrote: Thanks. *test* Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: We found a problem caused by a recent disk failure that wiped out a named pipe qmail needed. I am hoping the mailing list delays should be fixed now. -Rasmus -- PHP

[PHP] Re: Can't Get PHP to work

2005-06-02 Thread JB05UK
You need to insert these two lines to your Apache httpd.conf configuration file to set up the PHP module for Apache 2.0: Example 6-6. PHP and Apache 2.0 as Module # For PHP 5 do something like this: LoadModule php5_module c:/php/php5apache2.dll AddType application/x-httpd-php .php #

Re: [PHP] Quick q, most prolly 0T

2005-06-02 Thread Chris Shiflett
Ryan A wrote: Basically I am waiting for the client to pay me...till he does, I am displaying the index page which is a under construction page...but he also wants to play with the site so I need to direct all calls to main.php... You want to only show an under construction page, but you also

[PHP] Site Design Strategy

2005-06-02 Thread asinning
This is my first post to this group. I've been trying to figure this out on my own, but I keep running into complications, so I've decided to get some help. Much thanks for any help! I've been writing php server application for a couple of years, but now I'm turning my attention to re-building

[PHP] Re: Unit testing ?

2005-06-02 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
* mbneto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am trying the phpunit2 for unit testing but the examples found in the documentation are few and do not address, for example, tests when database access is involved. Perhaps this belongs to a more general question (i.e strategies for unit testing) so any urls,

[PHP] Re: Best way to use other objects within classes?

2005-06-02 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
* Murray @ PlanetThoughtful [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip (Note: my development environment is PHP 5.0.3, but the production environment is 4.3.10. This is my first project built with 5.x local and 4.1.x remote, so if anyone with more experience spots any fatal flaws where I'm using 5.x specific

RE: [PHP] Delay?

2005-06-02 Thread mayo
My average post takes 2+ hours. mayo -Original Message- From: Chris W. Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 4:22 PM To: Chris Boget; Jason Sweeney Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Delay? Chris Boget mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday,

[PHP] Newbie - Request interface for PHP 5 website

2005-06-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For PHP 4.x sites I used my index page to capture the HTTP request and use a switch statement to call the content or task based on the $_GET and $_POST arrays. That was very inefficient and the Switch case became totally unmanageable along with the rest of the site. I am re-designing the site

Re: [PHP] Mailing list delays

2005-06-02 Thread Danny Brow
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 17:15 -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: We found a problem caused by a recent disk failure that wiped out a named pipe qmail needed. I am hoping the mailing list delays should be fixed now. -Rasmus test signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PHP] Japanese with UTF-8 and mysql

2005-06-02 Thread Mark Sargent
Richard Davey wrote: Hello Mark, Thursday, June 2, 2005, 4:18:30 AM, you wrote: MS ?php MS session_start(); MS include(database.php); ? I would recommend setting UTF-8 as the Content-type via PHP itself: header('Content-type: UTF-8') - do it as one of the first things when you're ready to