php-general Digest 7 Aug 2009 16:32:15 -0000 Issue 6272

2009-08-07 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 7 Aug 2009 16:32:15 - Issue 6272 Topics (messages 296416 through 296433): Re: PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites Book 296416 by: Angus Mann 296417 by: Michael A. Peters 296418 by: Larry Ullman 296420 by: HallMarc Websites

Re: [PHP] Radio buttons problem

2009-08-07 Thread leledumbo
you will have to manually maintain the number in the bracket. but you can try using a template engine like smarty, and use a for loop to take care of the numbers in the brackets Well.. the entries are inserted / deleted dynamically using JavaScript (to avoid unnecessary refresh). Why can't it

Re: [PHP] Displaying user data and picture

2009-08-07 Thread kranthi
not a good place to discuss the merits and demerits of binary blobs. is it ? now coming back to the question. Firebug firefox addon, and http live headers firefox addon will be of help to you in this case. You have img src=display_img.php?id=1 tag(or something similar) i suppose... try opening

Re: [PHP] PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites Book

2009-08-07 Thread Lester Caine
Tony Marston wrote: Don't be so pedantic. PHP 6 does not exist in a live, production-ready version. It is still under development and has not even reached the beta stage. Anyone who writes a book which documents the features of PHP 6 is being very premature as those features may change at any

Re: [PHP] Radio buttons problem

2009-08-07 Thread kranthi
you dont seem to understand how radio buttons work. they treat name=sex[][] as a single group. and you can select only one element in that group. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Re: PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites Book

2009-08-07 Thread Ralph Deffke
Hi Larry, nice to have a comment from the editor, and I want to say thanks for writing this book. however this discussion was initiated by a newbie asking what book he should use to learn php. ur book is important to the community of php freaks ! it saved my time to see where the path is going

RE: [PHP] Trying to create a comment function

2009-08-07 Thread Ford, Mike
-Original Message- From: Allen McCabe [mailto:allenmcc...@gmail.com] Sent: 06 August 2009 20:20 [] It was working wonderfully, until I wanted to display test of $newComment as a comment. [code] comment(test of $newComment); [/code] This rendered a comment that said

RE: [PHP] Radio buttons problem

2009-08-07 Thread Ford, Mike
-Original Message- From: leledumbo [mailto:leledumbo_c...@yahoo.co.id] Sent: 07 August 2009 05:43 This should work: input type='radio' name='sex[1]' value='1' input type='radio' name='sex[1]' value='2' input type='radio' name='sex[2]' value='1' input type='radio'

Re: [PHP] Re: Pattern Matching

2009-08-07 Thread Floyd Resler
Thanks to Martin's answer to my question (giving me the regular expressions to my patterns) I can convert the patterns the admin users enter into regular expressions. Thanks! Floyd On Aug 6, 2009, at 6:19 PM, Ben Dunlap wrote: I need some assistance in pattern matching. I want allow the

Re: [PHP] Pattern Matching

2009-08-07 Thread Floyd Resler
Martin, Thanks! Not only did that help tremendously but it also gave me a better understand of regular expressions. Thanks! Floyd On Aug 6, 2009, at 6:15 PM, Martin Scotta wrote: here you have the regexp's = \d{8} AA = \w{6} #A? = [\w\d]* (change the * for + to require at

RE: [PHP] Displaying user data and picture

2009-08-07 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Ralph Deffke however there are some reasonable reasons to store a image in the database. 1. if u have no access to write files to the disk this is the case in most free hosting services they give u php and mysql and thats it 2. if u want some access control to the image, e.g. login

[PHP] /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/imap.so: Undefined symbol ssl_onceonlyinit

2009-08-07 Thread Ebbe Hjorth
Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 7.2, Apache 2.2, php5-5.2.10 and php5-extensions 1.3, all from the freebsd ports. When i try to start apache with the imap.so extension enabled in extensions.ini, i get the error */libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/imap.so: Undefined symbol

Re: [PHP] curl_exec not hit server

2009-08-07 Thread Tom Worster
On 8/6/09 2:33 PM, Ted Yu ted...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I use the following code to call third party web service: curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 120); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 1);

Re: [PHP] curl_exec not hit server

2009-08-07 Thread Jerry Wilborn
You could also try checking the SSL log. This may give hints about the problem; none of the HTTP conversation happens until after SSL has been negotiated. Jerry Wilborn jerrywilb...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote: On 8/6/09 2:33 PM, Ted Yu

[PHP] Buffered Logging?

2009-08-07 Thread Waynn Lue
Hey PHPers, We've been doing sampled logging to the database in our application for awhile, and now I'm hoping eventually to blow that out to a larger scale. I'm worried about the performance implications of logging to our database on every single page load, though, so I was wondering if anyone's

[PHP] does array_slice not work on multidimensional arrays?

2009-08-07 Thread John Butler
does array_slice not work on multidimensional arrays? I have one multidimensional array, and when I run it thru' array_slice() nothing happens, that I can tell. If it does not work on multidimensional arrays, what is the *simplest* workaround? (I am already working past what was

[PHP] Server change affecting ability to send downloaded files???

2009-08-07 Thread Brian Dunning
Hey all -- A couple of weeks ago my online stores, on a machine I host at Rackspace, stopped delivering files that people purchase. I've used this for years, and it's always worked perfectly with all filetypes: header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream'); header('Content-Disposition:

[PHP] does array_slice not work on multidimensional arrays?

2009-08-07 Thread John Butler
I worked around the issue by running the too fat multi-dimed array through a foreach{ ... if($counter = $myArrLength) { $MyNowSlicedMultiDimArr[$key]=$value; }} , but I'd still (always!) love to hear from you seasoned PHPers on this topic (anytime actually!). I learn the most from your

[PHP] Re: Server change affecting ability to send downloaded files???

2009-08-07 Thread Ben Dunlap
changes to the code or to the files, just one day all of a sudden any time someone purchases a DMG, EXE, PDF, etc. they get zero bytes. I've [8] Has anyone ever heard of something (besides my code and my files) that could cause this behavior? You'll be my best friend if you can help. Thanks.

Re: [PHP] Buffered Logging?

2009-08-07 Thread Jerry Wilborn
You don't mention what database you're using, but mySQL supports memory based tables. You can use this to insert your single page loads and then have a job that periodically inserts in bulk. Memory based tables: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/memory-storage-engine.html Jerry Wilborn

Re: [PHP] Server change affecting ability to send downloaded files???

2009-08-07 Thread Brian Dunning
Very interesting. Excellent debugging advice. It's giving me a 500 error, probably why the Rackspace techs told me to check my code: HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:01:10 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.10 Content-Disposition: attachment;

Re: [PHP] Server change affecting ability to send downloaded files???

2009-08-07 Thread Brian Dunning
Correct, the files on the server have not changed either, and have been working fine for a long time. No funny characters. On Aug 7, 2009, at 4:59 PM, Adam Randall wrote: Sorry for replying to myself, but the files themselves only contain US-ASCII characters, and no quotes, correct? Having

Re: [PHP] Server change affecting ability to send downloaded files???

2009-08-07 Thread Ben Dunlap
Very interesting. Excellent debugging advice. It's giving me a 500 error, probably why the Rackspace techs told me to check my code: HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error Did you get that 500 while running curl from a machine outside of Rackspace's network? If so, I'd be interested to see what

Re: [PHP] Server change affecting ability to send downloaded files???

2009-08-07 Thread Adam Randall
Change to cron -i to see what other information, if any, is also being passed back. You might get some errors, or some such. Since you are getting empty files my gut tells me you aren't getting anything. Since you are actually getting a PHP 500 error, that lends me to believe that it's not some

Re: [PHP] Server change affecting ability to send downloaded files???

2009-08-07 Thread Jerry Wilborn
The 500 is the result of the missing content-type in the real header. Once you get a blank line in there, it thinks thats the content. The error log will likely say 'premature end of script headers'... Good mystery on why it's got the blank line though. Jerry Wilborn jerrywilb...@gmail.com On

[PHP] Re: Buffered Logging?

2009-08-07 Thread Ollisso
On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:46:38 +0300, Waynn Lue waynn...@gmail.com wrote: Hey PHPers, We've been doing sampled logging to the database in our application for awhile, and now I'm hoping eventually to blow that out to a larger scale. I'm worried about the performance implications of logging to our

Re: [PHP] Re: Buffered Logging?

2009-08-07 Thread Waynn Lue
Hey PHPers, We've been doing sampled logging to the database in our application for awhile, and now I'm hoping eventually to blow that out to a larger scale. I'm worried about the performance implications of logging to our database on ... If you are using mysql and MyISAM tables, you

Re: [PHP] Re: Buffered Logging?

2009-08-07 Thread Ralph Deffke
I did some very complete logging for two major german companies on their intranet pages. an application with something like 23000 registered users and more then 5 hits a day. I did none of any kind of buffering, just raw table inserts. it never gave any problem on performance HOWEVER we did a

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP programming strategy

2009-08-07 Thread Clancy
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:32:48 +0100, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk (Ashley Sheridan) wrote: ... How, for example, could I otherwise achieved the following effect, which displays an image with a border slightly darker than the background, and with the title and subtitle inside the border?

Re: [PHP] Re: Buffered Logging?

2009-08-07 Thread Phpster
On Aug 7, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Waynn Lue waynn...@gmail.com wrote: Hey PHPers, We've been doing sampled logging to the database in our application for awhile, and now I'm hoping eventually to blow that out to a larger scale. I'm worried about the performance implications of logging to

Re: [PHP] Notification system

2009-08-07 Thread Phpster
On Aug 2, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Dušan Novaković ndu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does anyone has any idea how to create notification system with combination of php, mysql and javascript. It should be something similar to facebook notification system (when someone make some action it should be

Re: [PHP] Notification system

2009-08-07 Thread Jonathan Tapicer
Also, take a look at Comet Server: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming) I think that Facebook uses that and also Gmail, it tends to consume less resources than periodical ajax calls, the hidden iframe method is simple and works fine. To implement it in PHP you will need to use the

Re: [PHP] Notification system

2009-08-07 Thread Bastien Koert
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Jonathan Tapicertapi...@gmail.com wrote: Also, take a look at Comet Server: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming) I think that Facebook uses that and also Gmail, it tends to consume less resources than periodical ajax calls, the hidden iframe method

[PHP] Can php be cause a strain on a web server

2009-08-07 Thread Curious george
Is there a case where php can become unscalable for a web sever ? If so can anyone please state to me how... Thanks George