php-general Digest 15 Feb 2011 16:52:10 - Issue 7183
Topics (messages 311301 through 311306):
Correct file permissions for a website
311301 by: Ashim Kapoor
311302 by: Camilo Sperberg
Re: 2 submit buttons.
311303 by: Floyd Resler
311304 by: Steve Staples
Dear All,
The book PHP and MySQL bible says that the php directory should be world
executable ? I remember posting a different question earlier to this list
and one person suggesting this and another person replying that that was
incorrect.
Could someone clear the smoke on this one ?
Many
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 08:35, Ashim Kapoor ashimkap...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All,
The book PHP and MySQL bible says that the php directory should be world
executable ? I remember posting a different question earlier to this list
and one person suggesting this and another person replying
On Feb 14, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Paul M Foster wrote:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 05:15:11PM -0500, Floyd Resler wrote:
On Feb 14, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Paul M Foster wrote:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:35:02PM -0400, Paul Halliday wrote:
I have 2 buttons on a page:
if
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 08:07 -0500, Floyd Resler wrote:
On Feb 14, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Paul M Foster wrote:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 05:15:11PM -0500, Floyd Resler wrote:
On Feb 14, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Paul M Foster wrote:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:35:02PM -0400, Paul Halliday wrote:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 20:26, Brian Waters brianmwat...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone! I'm just starting out with PHP so I'm looking for a good
place to ask some questions, have my code critiqued (read: visciously
ripped apart), and generally BS about PHP and programming in general
(if that's
At 8:26 PM -0500 2/14/11, Brian Waters wrote:
Hi everyone! I'm just starting out with PHP so I'm looking for a good
place to ask some questions, have my code critiqued (read: visciously
ripped apart), and generally BS about PHP and programming in general
(if that's OK). I know that PHP sometimes
Frankly, while that modulo looks like something worthy of learning,
for my immediate time critical need I went with a quicker method,
which is working. The complete script is below. It simply counts
cells and resets the row when a number is exceeded.
?php
# The next several lines declare an
Welcome to the list, Brian. I'm fairly new to PHP and the list myself, and
I've found it to be a great resource. Another is stackoverflow.com,
especially for How do I do X? type questions. I often find someone else
has already provided an answer.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:51 AM, tedd
Back to the list for Kirk ;-P
-- Forwarded message --
From: Kirk Bailey kbai...@howlermonkey.net
Date: Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:09
Subject: Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)
To: Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net
On 2/15/2011 10:03 AM, Daniel Brown wrote:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011
At 4:32 PM -0500 2/14/11, Paul M Foster wrote:
Understood. It sounded like you were saying you could only get back POST
or GET values from a page, which isn't true. The form itself, yes, can
only have one or the other method attribute.
What it sounded like was:
What others have not
On Feb 15, 2011, at 10:51 AM, tedd wrote:
At 8:26 PM -0500 2/14/11, Brian Waters wrote:
Hi everyone! I'm just starting out with PHP so I'm looking for a good
place to ask some questions, have my code critiqued (read: visciously
ripped apart), and generally BS about PHP and programming in
Welcome to the list, Brian. I'm fairly new to PHP and the list
myself, and I've found it to be a great resource. Another is
http://stackoverflow.comstackoverflow.com, especially for How do
I do X? type questions. I often find someone else has already
provided an answer.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011
At 11:37 AM -0600 2/15/11, Nicholas Kell wrote:
On Feb 15, 2011, at 10:51 AM, tedd wrote:
At 8:26 PM -0500 2/14/11, Brian Waters wrote:
(if that's OK). I know that PHP sometimes has a reputation for having
(some) lousy developers, and I'd like to avoid becoming one of those
We don't
Hey there,
I've just migrated to Mysql 5.5 from source and it works like a charm. Still
every now and then (in intervals of approximatly an hour) I get the following
error:
Error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000] [2013]
Lost connection to MySQL server at
On Feb 15, 2011, at 11:52 AM, tedd wrote:
At 11:37 AM -0600 2/15/11, Nicholas Kell wrote:
On Feb 15, 2011, at 10:51 AM, tedd wrote:
At 8:26 PM -0500 2/14/11, Brian Waters wrote:
(if that's OK). I know that PHP sometimes has a reputation for having
(some) lousy developers, and I'd like to
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:52 PM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote:
At 11:37 AM -0600 2/15/11, Nicholas Kell wrote:
On Feb 15, 2011, at 10:51 AM, tedd wrote:
At 8:26 PM -0500 2/14/11, Brian Waters wrote:
(if that's OK). I know that PHP sometimes has a reputation for having
(some)
I would say all languages have their 'lousy developers', however, since very
few schools focus on teaching the 'proper coding style' for PHP it leads to
people learning from a variety of resources available online, and this leads
to them receiving mixed messages from the tutorials and allowing
On Feb 15, 2011, at 1:20 PM, Mujtaba Arshad wrote:
I would say all languages have their 'lousy developers', however, since very
few schools focus on teaching the 'proper coding style' for PHP it leads to
people learning from a variety of resources available online, and this leads
to them
Dear List -
I have a form. In one field, the customer types the name of a
product. The first seven(7) results of the MySQL query that the
entry generates should be displayed as a clickable drop down list.
How do I do it?
Thanks.
Ethan
MySQL 5.1 PHP 5.3.3-6 Linux [Debian (sid)]
On 15 February 2011 20:28, Ethan Rosenberg eth...@earthlink.net wrote:
Dear List -
I have a form. In one field, the customer types the name of a product.
The first seven(7) results of the MySQL query that the entry generates
should be displayed as a clickable drop down list.
How do I do
At 2:03 PM -0500 2/15/11, Brian Waters wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:52 PM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote:
I guess that we run in different worlds. Most of the PHP programmers I know
are very good.
I didn't mean to suggest anything. Nor do I necessarily subscribe to
the idea
At 12:52 PM -0600 2/15/11, Nicholas Kell wrote:
On Feb 15, 2011, at 11:52 AM, tedd wrote:
I guess that we run in different worlds. Most of the PHP
programmers I know are very good.
I have to agree with you, tedd. Most of the PHP devs that I know are
also quite good. But, the fact that
At 2:20 PM -0500 2/15/11, Mujtaba Arshad wrote:
I would say all languages have their 'lousy developers', however, since very
few schools focus on teaching the 'proper coding style' for PHP it leads to
people learning from a variety of resources available online, and this leads
to them receiving
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:37 PM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote:
So, I took a *weekend* and programmed about 90 percent of application in
FutureBasic. I then created a shell application and forwarded it to the
client.
After receiving the application, the client said Yes, this is exactly
Hey all -
I've got long articles, the HTML for which comes out of MySQL. Works great. I
want to split it up so that I can insert ad blocks at various points within it.
The articles are all pretty long but they're of variable length. I want to chop
them up into three close-to-equal (doesn't
Hello Steve Staples,
Am 2011-02-14 12:32:51, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
Is there such a thing? or will I have to have a pre-req of php and
php-cgi must be installed on linux disclaimer?
If you are a OVER-GEEK, youc can compile the php and php-cli 100%
static, which I have done some
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 15:54 -0500, tedd wrote:
At 2:20 PM -0500 2/15/11, Mujtaba Arshad wrote:
I would say all languages have their 'lousy developers', however, since very
few schools focus on teaching the 'proper coding style' for PHP it leads to
people learning from a variety of resources
On 16/02/2011, at 10:03 AM, Brian Dunning wrote:
Hey all -
I've got long articles, the HTML for which comes out of MySQL. Works great. I
want to split it up so that I can insert ad blocks at various points within
it. The articles are all pretty long but they're of variable length. I want
On 11-02-15 04:03 PM, Brian Dunning wrote:
Hey all -
I've got long articles, the HTML for which comes out of MySQL. Works great. I
want to split it up so that I can insert ad blocks at various points within it.
The articles are all pretty long but they're of variable length. I want to chop
On 11-02-15 04:08 PM, Steve Staples wrote:
Tedd:
Your bracing style is WRONG. Whitesmiths Style sucks... and Allman
Style is the best way to do it.
:)
My personal bracing style is the Allman Style... I've been doing it that
way forever, it just made sense to me (even before I knew there was
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Steve Staples sstap...@mnsi.net wrote:
My personal bracing style is the Allman Style.
I use KR. I started with it just as shown but as monitors increased in size
I stopped cuddling the else so it's now on its own line, aligning the if,
elseif, and else nicely.
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote:
Advice: don't use eval() this way. It's slow and dangerous.
Could you elaborate, or provide a link?
...read in the file and pass it to you on the stack, which is
really an abuse of the stack if you can avoid it.
@tedd
I was interested about the reasons why people perceive php as a poor
language. I came across the following stackoverflow thread:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/309300/defend-php-convince-me-it-isnt-horrible
The guy answering him immediately after brought up some very good rebuttals,
On 11-02-15 04:59 PM, Brian Waters wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Robert Cummingsrob...@interjinn.com wrote:
I started with KR and quickly migrated to Allman style. The advantage I see
with Allman is that the braces form a visual pocket into which the
associated code gets placed :)
I see firebug-lite-debug.js but not jquery.js. Does firebug include jquery?
David
[snip] Allman Style is the best way to do it. [/snip]
Only if you're playing guitar Junior.
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Cheers,
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I didn't know there were names for bracing styles... but
I used the KR Style on my last project, which I would call the Larry
Ullman style since that is where I took it from.
Yes, thanks, what I'm looking for is how to do that.
On Feb 15, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Simon J Welsh wrote:
Assuming you're only using p tags, count the number of opening p tags,
divide by three. First ad block goes after the round($amount/3)-th /p,
second ad block goes after the
Hello David,
As for me, I use KR style, also. I find it the most readable,
accessible and maintainable.
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Hello Ron,
Give it a default (possible empty) value:
function MyFunction($x, $y, $z=) {
// function goes here
if (!empty($z)) {
// The optional parameter is given
}
}
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With best regards from Ukraine,
Andre
Skype: Francophile
My blog: http://oire.org/menelion (mostly in Russian)
Twitter:
On 15 February 2011 20:42, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote:
At 12:52 PM -0600 2/15/11, Nicholas Kell wrote:
On Feb 15, 2011, at 11:52 AM, tedd wrote:
I guess that we run in different worlds. Most of the PHP programmers I
know are very good.
I have to agree with you, tedd. Most of the
On 15 February 2011 21:08, Steve Staples sstap...@mnsi.net wrote:
Your bracing style is WRONG. Whitesmiths Style sucks... and Allman
Style is the best way to do it.
It's not Friday.
--
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Brian Dunning wrote:
Yes, thanks, what I'm looking for is how to do that.
On Feb 15, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Simon J Welsh wrote:
Assuming you're only using p tags, count the number of opening p
tags, divide by three. First ad block goes after the round($amount/3)-th
/p, second ad block goes
Hi.
On Tuesday 15 Feb 2011 at 23:41 Andre Polykanine wrote:
Give it a default (possible empty) value:
function MyFunction($x, $y, $z=) {
// function goes here
if (!empty($z)) {
// The optional parameter is given
}
}
Using an empty string and the empty() function in this way can lead to
On 16 February 2011 00:21, Mark Kelly p...@wastedtimes.net wrote:
Hi.
On Tuesday 15 Feb 2011 at 23:41 Andre Polykanine wrote:
Give it a default (possible empty) value:
function MyFunction($x, $y, $z=) {
// function goes here
if (!empty($z)) {
// The optional parameter is given
}
}
Hello Mark,
Hm... will
if ($z)
evaluate to true if $z==0?
I thought no...
Actually, we can use
if (isset($z))
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With best regards from Ukraine,
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Skype: Francophile
My blog: http://oire.org/menelion (mostly in Russian)
Twitter: http://twitter.com/m_elensule
Facebook:
On 16/02/2011, at 1:21 PM, Mark Kelly wrote:
In this way almost any value in $z will trigger the conditional code,
including 0 or an empty string. The exceptions are FALSE and NULL. If you
explicitly need to react to a NULL value, use is_null() to detect it.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:00 PM, David Harkness
davi...@highgearmedia.com wrote:
I use KR. I started with it just as shown but as monitors increased in size
I stopped cuddling the else so it's now on its own line, aligning the if,
elseif, and else nicely. One of the developers at my company
Hi.
I had no idea you were using Xdebug. When you said Zend Studio i assumed
you were using the standard Zend debugger. My bad.
Been trying to get Xdebug working in combination with Zend Studio 8. The
two seem to talk to each other. But Zend Studio doesn't display any
data, no breakpoints,
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 05:02:51PM -0500, Brian Waters wrote:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com
wrote:
Advice: don't use eval() this way. It's slow and dangerous.
Could you elaborate, or provide a link?
A year or two on this list. The comments in the
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Brian Waters brianmwat...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com
wrote:
Advice: don't use eval() this way. It's slow and dangerous.
Could you elaborate, or provide a link?
Hi Brian,
Here's a dated but still
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Brian Waters brianmwat...@gmail.com wrote:
So I decided to write a template class in order to get myself going on
learning PHP. Of course I wrote the simplest thing possible:
class Template
{
protected $template;
protected $vars;
On Feb 15, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Brian Dunning wrote:
Yes, thanks, what I'm looking for is how to do that.
On Feb 15, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Simon J Welsh wrote:
Assuming you're only using p tags, count the number of opening
p tags, divide by three. First ad block goes after the
On Feb 15, 2011, at 4:17 PM, Donovan Brooke wrote:
[snip]
This is what I show my students:
http://rebel.lcc.edu/sperlt/citw229/brace-styles.php
Cheers,
tedd
I didn't know there were names for bracing styles... but
Neither did I -- just the KR style was the only name I recognized. (I
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