Re: [PHP] Upload files problem with IIS server

2006-08-04 Thread chris smith
On 8/5/06, Mace Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am having problems with uploading files to a windows server using php. I have used the same script on other server with no problems. From what I can tell this new server is running windows with IIS. I think the problem is with the path

Re: [PHP] Strip non-alphanumerics from beginning and end?

2006-08-04 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 19:12 -0700, Brian Dunning wrote: > Is there a command to strip all non-alphanumerics form the beginning > and end of a string? > > Ex.: '&^%kj.h,kj..*(' becomes 'kj.h,kj' Cheers, Rob. -- .. | InterJinn Applica

[PHP] Strip non-alphanumerics from beginning and end?

2006-08-04 Thread Brian Dunning
Is there a command to strip all non-alphanumerics form the beginning and end of a string? Ex.: '&^%kj.h,kj..*(' becomes 'kj.h,kj' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Upload files problem with IIS server

2006-08-04 Thread Mace Eliason
Hi, I am having problems with uploading files to a windows server using php. I have used the same script on other server with no problems. From what I can tell this new server is running windows with IIS. I think the problem is with the path. Does anyone have any suggestions? Here is a s

Re: [PHP] The difference between ereg and preg?

2006-08-04 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 10:50 +0900, Dave M G wrote: > Jochem > > Thank you for your continued assistance. > > > ^--- remove the caret as you dont want to only match when the line > > starts with (the can be anywhere on the line) > > > Ah, I get it now. I was confused about the meaning of the

Re: [PHP] The difference between ereg and preg?

2006-08-04 Thread Dave M G
Jochem Thank you for your continued assistance. ^--- remove the caret as you dont want to only match when the line starts with (the can be anywhere on the line) Ah, I get it now. I was confused about the meaning of the caret. I'll assume you also have the mb extension setup. Yes, I

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP Frameworks - Opinion

2006-08-04 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 08/03/2006 05:18 PM Martin Alterisio said the following: >> Anyway, you may want to read this more in depth reflection of the state >> of the PHP framework world and recommendations on how to pick what suits >> best for you: >> >> http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/52-Recommended-PHP-fr

Re: [PHP] Please help me with in_array

2006-08-04 Thread Jochem Maas
Chris G wrote: > I have already tried using > > foreach($_GET['question'] as $key => $value) > > the in_array function does not work with it for some reason. 'does not work with it' ?? use var_dump(); to see what's actually in your variables. > > > On 8/5/06, *Jochem Maas* <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [PHP] xml v php question

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, July 25, 2006 8:33 am, David Tulloh wrote: > Larry Garfield wrote: >> Disable short tags. >> >> The correct answer is (b). (PHP 6 won't even have short tags, so >> get used to >> not having them.) > > Can you find anywhere where this was announced? I don't recall seeing > any decision on

Re: [PHP] database connections

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, July 24, 2006 1:33 pm, Ryan A wrote: > Hey Rob, > Thanks for replying. > > >> It's usually a sign of poor programming and/or >> purist OOP programming. >> >> When I say purist OOP programming... >> I saw >> one really retarded >> implementation of this kind of system where an >> excess of 2

Re: [PHP] Please help me with in_array

2006-08-04 Thread Jochem Maas
Chris G wrote: > Hi all > > I have been stuck on this problem for 4 hours. Please anyone that can help > here I would appreciate it. > > If I print_r($_GET) I have > > Array ([question] => Array ( [10] => 1 [11] => 2 [12] => 1 [13] => 1)' > > > So now I try > > foreach($_GET['question'] as $k

Re: [PHP] database connections

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, July 24, 2006 10:46 am, Ryan A wrote: > This is not really a problem, more like a slightly OT > question. > > Recently I have been testing some "CMS/carts/BB > boards" and other related software, sometimes at the > end of the page the software outputs the time it took > to generate the page

Re: [PHP] Efficiency question

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, July 25, 2006 11:41 pm, Paul Scott wrote: > I have googled around a bit, but not really found anything useful... > > Which is more efficient? A case switch or a $$method style method? > > An example: > > switch($action) { > case 'edit': > //do some stuff > ... > re

[PHP] Please help me with in_array

2006-08-04 Thread Chris G
Hi all I have been stuck on this problem for 4 hours. Please anyone that can help here I would appreciate it. If I print_r($_GET) I have Array ([question] => Array ( [10] => 1 [11] => 2 [12] => 1 [13] => 1)' So now I try foreach($_GET['question'] as $key) { if(!in_array($key, $_SESSION[

Re: [PHP] PHP Developer Needed in San Jose, CA w/ Occasional Travel to Palo Alto

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, July 24, 2006 11:58 pm, Paul Scott wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 14:17 -0500, Franco Pawlisz wrote: > >> My Client is specifically looking for a developer with strong front >> end PHP experience knowledge of Java and or Ruby is a major plus. >> > > What the heck is "front end PHP", or am

Re: [PHP] Error Reporting for file commands

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, July 25, 2006 10:32 am, James Nunnerley wrote: > We've created a file manager which allows users to access their web > space on > a server. It's working brilliantly, except that it would seem there > are > some caching issues, either by the system cache or the web server > cache that > are

Re: [PHP] Lots of queries!

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
Put this at the top of the script: Also, it's possible that the browser is timing out if the script is too slow. Another issue is that if you are closing/reopening the 2 database connections between steps 2 and 3, then it's probably not very efficient. Keeping them both open is much more effici

Re: [PHP] mail headers

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, July 25, 2006 11:47 pm, Chris wrote: > There's a default for reply-to in the php.ini? What's the variable > called - I can't see one. I can see these: > ; For Win32 only. > sendmail_from = [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: 'sendmail > -t -i'

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP Frameworks - Opinion

2006-08-04 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 17:23 -0300, Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello, > > on 08/03/2006 02:53 PM Robert Cummings said the following: > >>> The main thing in Manual's post that got me writing this in the first > >>> place was : > >>> > >>> "Imagine if there would be only one PDBC (JDBC for PHP). Instead

RE: [PHP] pop up "save dialog" box

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, July 26, 2006 7:00 am, Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > I have code below which save MYSQL to csv file. I am using ADODB > library to do this. > > The saving MYSQL to csv file is ok . > However i need to allow the the user to enter file name for csv > file. > > Anybody have any ideas

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP Frameworks - Opinion

2006-08-04 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 08/03/2006 02:52 PM Kilbride, James P. said the following: >> I admit I have not expressed myself clearly. What I meant is >> not that people should be disallowed to implement alternative >> APIs, but rather that they should not feel the need to do it. >> >> In the Java world, JDBC is

Re: [PHP] Big files management

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, July 26, 2006 5:16 am, Yannick Warnier wrote: > I'm trying to deal with big files (over 4GB) with PHP4.3.9 ans PHP4.4 > but obviously it's not really possible. You can't use something like file_get_contents() or file() because it would pull the whole 4GB into RAM, but http://php.net/fopen

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP Frameworks - Opinion

2006-08-04 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 08/03/2006 02:53 PM Robert Cummings said the following: >>> The main thing in Manual's post that got me writing this in the first >>> place was : >>> >>> "Imagine if there would be only one PDBC (JDBC for PHP). Instead of that >>> we have a never ending choice of PHP database abstraction

php-general@lists.php.net

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, July 26, 2006 8:40 am, Jochem Maas wrote: >> How did you know that he had an extra space in $u? Actually... Since he's getting them from a file, and since fread() and friends INCLUDE the newline at the end, I would now suggest that the "extra" character is a single newline, and not a spac

[PHP] Re: Regular Expresson for checking password strength

2006-08-04 Thread Al
Adam Zey wrote: Al wrote: James Nunnerley wrote: I want to have a regular expression that check the following criteria are met by $password: - contains at least 6 characters (any) - has at least 1 letter - has at least 1 number - other 6 characters can be anything... I'm happy to work out th

RE: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, August 4, 2006 1:08 pm, Jim Moseby wrote: >> >> Jim Moseby wrote: >> > >> > I recently read an article about IP fingerprinting. The >> concept is that >> > every PC-NIC-CABLE-FIREWALL combination has subtle, but measurable >> > differences in the way they communicate. It was very >> in-de

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP Frameworks - Opinion

2006-08-04 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 17:15 -0300, Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello, > > on 08/03/2006 02:49 PM Robert Cummings said the following: > The point of the post is that there is no framework in particular to > recommend. I use my own packages for my needs. They suit me well. It > does not mea

Re: [PHP] Postcode proximity classes

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, August 3, 2006 4:27 pm, tedd wrote: > At 2:23 PM -0500 8/3/06, Richard Lynch wrote: >>Note that the number of zip codes is around 60K in the TIGER data, >> and >>there have been a whole mess of zip codes added since then. > > > Can you get the postal code by themselves? The last time I look

Re: [PHP] Problem with wrapper script for Tidy

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
Did you try to use "-" as the file and pipe the output?... That might work... As far as the Tidy not validating the included PHP, I'm not sure what you mean, but I don't see this making the PHP code any less secure than it was before you wrapped Tidy around it... On Fri, August 4, 2006 6:21 am,

Re: [PHP] Newbie Form Question

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, August 4, 2006 7:14 am, David Ellsworth wrote: > I was wondering how simple it would be to set up a script to provide a > subscribe/unsubscribe form for a list serve. The form would send an > email to > the subscribe address or unsubscribe address as selected. It's pretty simple: Subsc

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP Frameworks - Opinion

2006-08-04 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 08/03/2006 02:49 PM Robert Cummings said the following: The point of the post is that there is no framework in particular to recommend. I use my own packages for my needs. They suit me well. It does not mean they will suit everybody. >>> How would you know that there is no

Re: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, August 4, 2006 10:25 am, Andrew Senyshyn wrote: > I need to get local user IP, but server with apache and php is in > another subnetwork. > So from server environment I can get only router's IP. > The only solution that I see - is getting with some magic algorithm > local IP from brouser an

RE: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread Jim Moseby
> > Jim Moseby wrote: > > > > Found it: > > > > http://www.caida.org/publications/papers/2005/fingerprinting/ > > Thanks! Interesting stuff... > > Regards, > Austin. No problem. My recollection of the technique was a bit off, but the concept was still there. ;-) JM -- PHP General Mail

Re: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread Austin Denyer
Jim Moseby wrote: > > Found it: > > http://www.caida.org/publications/papers/2005/fingerprinting/ Thanks! Interesting stuff... Regards, Austin. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread Jochem Maas
Austin Denyer wrote: > Jochem Maas wrote: >> John Nichel wrote: >>> Well, if you would stop using the Vic20, and upgrade! >> how dare you call my altair a vic20. new-fangled rubbish. ;-) >> you want real authentication? get some carrier pidgeons like us real >> programmers. > > So, how many differ

Re: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread Adam Zey
tedd wrote: At 1:26 PM -0400 8/4/06, John Nichel wrote: tedd wrote: At 12:55 PM -0400 8/4/06, John Nichel wrote: Wait, are you telling me that I can't auth my customers based on IP alone? Great, now how do I let them view their sensitive data? ;) Okay, how do you? Retina scan, and DNA sa

Re: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread Austin Denyer
Jochem Maas wrote: > John Nichel wrote: >> >>Well, if you would stop using the Vic20, and upgrade! > > how dare you call my altair a vic20. new-fangled rubbish. ;-) > you want real authentication? get some carrier pidgeons like us real > programmers. So, how many different tunes did you get your

Re: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread Jochem Maas
John Nichel wrote: > Jochem Maas wrote: >> Jim Moseby wrote: Jim Moseby wrote: > I recently read an article about IP fingerprinting. The concept is that > every PC-NIC-CABLE-FIREWALL combination has subtle, but measurable > differences in the way they communicate. It was ve

Re: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread John Nichel
Jochem Maas wrote: Jim Moseby wrote: Jim Moseby wrote: I recently read an article about IP fingerprinting. The concept is that every PC-NIC-CABLE-FIREWALL combination has subtle, but measurable differences in the way they communicate. It was very in-depth, but it worked amazingly well.

Re: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread Jochem Maas
Jim Moseby wrote: >> Jim Moseby wrote: >>> I recently read an article about IP fingerprinting. The >> concept is that >>> every PC-NIC-CABLE-FIREWALL combination has subtle, but measurable >>> differences in the way they communicate. It was very >> in-depth, but it >>> worked amazingly well. I

RE: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread Jim Moseby
> > Jim Moseby wrote: > > > > I recently read an article about IP fingerprinting. The > concept is that > > every PC-NIC-CABLE-FIREWALL combination has subtle, but measurable > > differences in the way they communicate. It was very > in-depth, but it > > worked amazingly well. If I can find

RE: [PHP] Saving a dynamic file

2006-08-04 Thread Miguel Guirao
Using the OB functions I got it done!! Thanks y'all!! Miguel -Original Message- From: Weber Sites [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of WeberSites LTD Sent: Sabado, 29 de Julio de 2006 02:00 p.m. To: 'MIGUEL ANTONIO GUIRAO AGUILERA'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Saving a dyn

Re: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread Austin Denyer
Jim Moseby wrote: > > I recently read an article about IP fingerprinting. The concept is that > every PC-NIC-CABLE-FIREWALL combination has subtle, but measurable > differences in the way they communicate. It was very in-depth, but it > worked amazingly well. If I can find the article, I'll pos

RE: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread Jim Moseby
> > Thanks. > > Not that I have done this on the net, but has anyone thought about > using a fuzzy logic approach to the problem? While it wouldn't be a > perfect solution, you could set a threshold you're comfortable with. > > Also while your DNA comment was meant to be humorous, it's not a b

Re: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread tedd
At 1:26 PM -0400 8/4/06, John Nichel wrote: tedd wrote: At 12:55 PM -0400 8/4/06, John Nichel wrote: Wait, are you telling me that I can't auth my customers based on IP alone? Great, now how do I let them view their sensitive data? ;) Okay, how do you? Retina scan, and DNA sample. Seriou

Re: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread John Nichel
Jochem Maas wrote: Andrew Senyshyn wrote: Hi all, I need to get local user IP, but server with apache and php is in another subnetwork. So from server environment I can get only router's IP. The only solution that I see - is getting with some magic algorithm local IP from brouser and sending it

Re: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread John Nichel
tedd wrote: At 12:55 PM -0400 8/4/06, John Nichel wrote: Wait, are you telling me that I can't auth my customers based on IP alone? Great, now how do I let them view their sensitive data? ;) Okay, how do you? Retina scan, and DNA sample. Seriously though, not by IP in any way, shape or f

Re: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread tedd
At 12:55 PM -0400 8/4/06, John Nichel wrote: Wait, are you telling me that I can't auth my customers based on IP alone? Great, now how do I let them view their sensitive data? ;) Okay, how do you? tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP G

Re: [PHP] The difference between ereg and preg?

2006-08-04 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 13:03 -0400, John Nichel wrote: > > Perl compatible regexs are faster* and more powerful. Course, writing a > good Perl regex is an art form in itself (probably why O'Reilly released > a book just on regexs), and takes some time (and headaches) to master > (if one ever doe

Re: [PHP] The difference between ereg and preg?

2006-08-04 Thread John Nichel
Dave M G wrote: PHP List, Recently I wrote a piece of code to scrape data from an HTML page. Part of that code deleted all the unwanted text from the very top of the page, where it says "of a "" tag. That code looks like this: ereg_replace("", "", $htmlPage); It works fine. But I noticed th

Re: [PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread Jochem Maas
Andrew Senyshyn wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to get local user IP, but server with apache and php is in > another subnetwork. > So from server environment I can get only router's IP. > The only solution that I see - is getting with some magic algorithm > local IP from brouser and sending it to serv

[PHP] php behind firewall

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Senyshyn
Hi all, I need to get local user IP, but server with apache and php is in another subnetwork. So from server environment I can get only router's IP. The only solution that I see - is getting with some magic algorithm local IP from brouser and sending it to server. My application is for intrane

[PHP] Re: The difference between ereg and preg?

2006-08-04 Thread Adam Zey
Dave M G wrote: PHP List, Recently I wrote a piece of code to scrape data from an HTML page. Part of that code deleted all the unwanted text from the very top of the page, where it says "of a "" tag. That code looks like this: ereg_replace("", "", $htmlPage); It works fine. But I noticed th

Re: [PHP] writing to fild on another server

2006-08-04 Thread Ray Hauge
On Friday 04 August 2006 10:07, Robert Cummings wrote: > You mean the http protocol won't let you write. At any rate, you can try > using ftp instead of http (you'll need to make sure it's set up on the > images server). Alternatively you can use a network file system or use > CURL or low level soc

[PHP] Re: Regular Expresson for checking password strength

2006-08-04 Thread Adam Zey
Al wrote: James Nunnerley wrote: I want to have a regular expression that check the following criteria are met by $password: - contains at least 6 characters (any) - has at least 1 letter - has at least 1 number - other 6 characters can be anything... I'm happy to work out the structure of a p

Re: [PHP] writing to fild on another server

2006-08-04 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 10:50 -0400, blackwater dev wrote: > I have a web server and an images server. My web server doesn't have > enought space for the images, hence the images server. I have to download > properties from a realty database hourly and the data goes in to a db on my > webserver whi

Re: [PHP] writing to fild on another server

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 10:50 -0400, blackwater dev wrote: > Fopen, however, won't let > me write using the http protocol. How can I open and write files between > servers? This scenario would be one of the times that I would use LOB's for the image data. That way you could simply drop in anothe

Re: [PHP] writing to fild on another server

2006-08-04 Thread Duncan Hill
On Friday 04 August 2006 15:50, blackwater dev wrote: > I have a web server and an images server. My web server doesn't have > enought space for the images, hence the images server. I have to download > properties from a realty database hourly and the data goes in to a db on my > webserver while

Re: [PHP] writing to fild on another server

2006-08-04 Thread Brad Bonkoski
blackwater dev wrote: I have a web server and an images server. My web server doesn't have enought space for the images, hence the images server. I have to download properties from a realty database hourly and the data goes in to a db on my webserver while the image needs to be taken from a

[PHP] writing to fild on another server

2006-08-04 Thread blackwater dev
I have a web server and an images server. My web server doesn't have enought space for the images, hence the images server. I have to download properties from a realty database hourly and the data goes in to a db on my webserver while the image needs to be taken from a MSSQL db and written to th

Re: [PHP] The difference between ereg and preg?

2006-08-04 Thread Jochem Maas
Dave M G wrote: > Jochem, > > Thank you for responding, and for explaining more about regular > expressions. > >> yes but you wouldn't use preg_replace() but rather preg_match() or >> preg_match_all() >> which gives you back an array (via 3rd/4th[?] reference argument) >> which contains >> the te

Re: [PHP] Newbie Form Question

2006-08-04 Thread David Ellsworth
what I need is what I would use after the form is submitted - responding to whether the form sent the value (post likely from a dropdown field) of "subscribe" or unsubscribe" to the posted page for processing. On 8/4/06 8:52 AM, "Duncan Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 04 August 2006

Re: [PHP] The difference between ereg and preg?

2006-08-04 Thread Dave M G
Jochem, Thank you for responding, and for explaining more about regular expressions. yes but you wouldn't use preg_replace() but rather preg_match() or preg_match_all() which gives you back an array (via 3rd/4th[?] reference argument) which contains the texts that matched (and therefore want t

[PHP] Re: Regular Expresson for checking password strength

2006-08-04 Thread Al
James Nunnerley wrote: I want to have a regular expression that check the following criteria are met by $password: - contains at least 6 characters (any) - has at least 1 letter - has at least 1 number - other 6 characters can be anything... I'm happy to work out the structure of a postcode etc

Re: [PHP] Newbie Form Question

2006-08-04 Thread David Ellsworth
Yes, the list serve software has the opt-in/confirmation stuff covered. I'm just trying to get the sub/unsub form on the website going. Thanks David On 8/4/06 8:40 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > are you doing your own mailing list management, or using a package that > inc

Re: [PHP] Newbie Form Question

2006-08-04 Thread Russell Jones
In most cases, your PHP build is set up with mail() attached to whatever SMTP you have on the server. you would just use the following... mail($recipientemail,$subject,$message); On 8/4/06, Duncan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 04 August 2006 13:27, Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] >

Re: [PHP] Newbie Form Question

2006-08-04 Thread Duncan Hill
On Friday 04 August 2006 13:27, Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > I was wondering how simple it would be to set up a script to provide a > subscribe/unsubscribe form for a list serve. The form would send an > email to > the subscribe address or unsubscribe address as selected. > [/snip] > > I wondere

RE: [PHP] Newbie Form Question

2006-08-04 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I was wondering how simple it would be to set up a script to provide a subscribe/unsubscribe form for a list serve. The form would send an email to the subscribe address or unsubscribe address as selected. [/snip] I wondered about that the other day myself and came to the conclusion that it

Re: [PHP] PAYPAL TRANSACTION.

2006-08-04 Thread Shafiq Rehman
On 7/31/06, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BBC wrote: > Hi list.. > > Please any one point me to the web which talk about making transaction with paypal step by step. Some body offered me the source > code and tutorial but until know he or she didn't send me. http://www.paypal.com I'm sure s

Re: [PHP] OT promotion & candidates needed

2006-08-04 Thread Jochem Maas
Jay Blanchard wrote: > Good news/kinda' bad news (but not really); I am proud to say that I > have been promoted to Director of IT in my little corner of the world. did they give you some pointy hair to go with that title? ;-) congrats btw :-) > This creates an immediate opening for a creative a

[PHP] Newbie Form Question

2006-08-04 Thread David Ellsworth
I was wondering how simple it would be to set up a script to provide a subscribe/unsubscribe form for a list serve. The form would send an email to the subscribe address or unsubscribe address as selected. Thanks David -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: htt

Re: [PHP] The difference between ereg and preg?

2006-08-04 Thread Jochem Maas
Ford, Mike wrote: > On 04 August 2006 11:30, Dave M G wrote: > >> Jochem, >> ... > > That's where capturing expressions and backreferences come in handy: > > preg_replace ("/.*(.*).*/", "$1", $htmlPage); > > (add qualifiers and other options to taste, as before!) ah yes, good point - you

[PHP] Regular Expresson for checking password strength

2006-08-04 Thread James Nunnerley
I want to have a regular expression that check the following criteria are met by $password: - contains at least 6 characters (any) - has at least 1 letter - has at least 1 number - other 6 characters can be anything... I'm happy to work out the structure of a postcode etc, but to be honest I'm st

Re: [PHP] The difference between ereg and preg?

2006-08-04 Thread Jochem Maas
Dave M G wrote: > Jochem, > > Thank you for responding. > >> >> does this one work?: >> preg_replace('#^<\!DOCTYPE(.*)]*>#is', '', $htmlPage); > > Yes, that works. I don't think I would have every figured that out on my > own - it's certainly much more complicated than the ereg equivalent. 1. t

[PHP] OT promotion & candidates needed

2006-08-04 Thread Jay Blanchard
Good news/kinda' bad news (but not really); I am proud to say that I have been promoted to Director of IT in my little corner of the world. This creates an immediate opening for a creative applications developer with PHP, MySQL, Oracle, the usual web skills/experience in the San Antonio, Texas area

RE: [PHP] The difference between ereg and preg?

2006-08-04 Thread Ford, Mike
On 04 August 2006 11:30, Dave M G wrote: > Jochem, > > Thank you for responding. > > > > > does this one work?: > > preg_replace('#^<\!DOCTYPE(.*)]*>#is', '', $htmlPage); > > Yes, that works. I don't think I would have every figured > that out on my > own - it's certainly much more complicated

[PHP] Problem with wrapper script for Tidy

2006-08-04 Thread Frank Arensmeier
Hello. Since my ISP does not provide the tidy module for Apache, I tested writing a wrapper script for a locally installed tidy binary. In general, the script is triggered by a modification to the .htaccess file like so: AddHandler server-parsed .php Action server-parsed /tidy_wrapper.php

Re: [PHP] The difference between ereg and preg?

2006-08-04 Thread Jochem Maas
Dave M G wrote: > Chris, Ligaya, Dave, > > Thank you for responding. I understand the difference in principle > between ereg and preg much better now. > > Chris wrote: >> ! in perl regular expressions means "not" so you need to escape it: >> \! > Still, when including that escape character, the f

Re: [PHP] The difference between ereg and preg?

2006-08-04 Thread Robin Vickery
On 04/08/06, Dave M G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seemed that the main difference was that preg_replace required forward slashes around the regular expression, like so: preg_replace("//", "", $htmlPage); It requires delimiters - slashes are conventional, but other characters can be used.

Re: [PHP] The difference between ereg and preg?

2006-08-04 Thread Dave M G
Jochem, Thank you for responding. does this one work?: preg_replace('#^<\!DOCTYPE(.*)]*>#is', '', $htmlPage); Yes, that works. I don't think I would have every figured that out on my own - it's certainly much more complicated than the ereg equivalent. If I may push for just one more examp

RE: [PHP] The difference between ereg and preg?

2006-08-04 Thread Ford, Mike
On 04 August 2006 10:52, Dave M G wrote: > Chris, Ligaya, Dave, > > Thank you for responding. I understand the difference in principle > between ereg and preg much better now. > > Chris wrote: > > ! in perl regular expressions means "not" so you need to escape it: > > \! AFAIR, that's only true

Re: [PHP] The difference between ereg and preg?

2006-08-04 Thread Dave M G
Chris, Ligaya, Dave, Thank you for responding. I understand the difference in principle between ereg and preg much better now. Chris wrote: ! in perl regular expressions means "not" so you need to escape it: \! Still, when including that escape character, the following preg expression does n

Re: [PHP] The difference between ereg and preg?

2006-08-04 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 04/08/06, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dave M G wrote: > PHP List, > > Recently I wrote a piece of code to scrape data from an HTML page. > > Part of that code deleted all the unwanted text from the very top of the > page, where it says " of a "" tag. > Is there any reason why either ere