Re: [PHP] Anybody got a little spare time to help me out with a little OOP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_oriented_programming I remember having troubles understanding OOP, especially going from Pic Microcontroller assembly to Java, but I found the Wikipedia article helped a lot. I still write in functions, but I understand OO :-) . BTW : Hello list. I just joined. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Ted Wood wrote: On 1-Jun-08, at 8:15 AM, Ryan S wrote: Thanks for replying, but how and where do I put that into the script? all that this- stuff is confusing Tony Marsten's links seem to be very good, but let me offer you a simpler introduction. Once you can think in an OOP fashion, procedural-/functional-based programming seems archaic. Object-oriented programming is all about thinking about everything as objects people, cars, flowers, dogs, pictures, food items... whatever your application manages. You model up these real-world objects using simple PHP syntax. Objects can refer to themselves (or their inheritance) using $this-, which means me or mine. When using $this-, the object is referring to a property or method (aka function) within itself or inherited from one of its parents, whichever comes first. ~Ted
Re: [PHP] strlower problem
Does : /echo strtolower(CL22);/ work? You could also try : /var_dump($strLow); / Ed Curtis wrote: Richard Heyes wrote: Ed Curtis wrote: I'm converting upper case characters in a string to lower case and am coming up with an empty string. As I've done a million times before with other non-numerical strings. $thisStr = CL22; $strLow = strtolower($thisStr); echo $thisStr; Why does $strLow come up empty? My mistake. I meant to type echo $strLow; not echo $thisStr; in my post.
Re: [PHP] imap_open() error. (Can't open mailbox)
File Permissions? PHP safe mode? Mail server locking the file? Can you /tail /path/to/file-with-contents-at-bottom / ?? Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Mathijs van Veluw wrote: I get the error message: Can't open mailbox. While on the live server it works and i get the correct resource resource(42) of type (imap). I realy don't know what the problem is. Can someone help me with this? Thanks in advance. Mathijs.
Re: [PHP] how to create a slide show using PHP5
You could look into something like PicLens lite. http://piclens.com/lite/webmasterguide.php It's more of an image viewer than slideshow. But the FFox plugin works great with Flickr, youtube, etc.. Basically you create a media RSS feed of the photos or video. There's two flavours. PicsLens is the plugin for browsers, while PicLens lite uses javascript and lets people who don't have the browser plugin view the photos. http://piclens.com/lite/webmasterguide.php Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz philip wrote: Hi everyone, I want to create a slide show of photos for my web site. How is this done using php5? I am using Opensuse 10.3, Apache, PHP5. TIA for any assistance, Philip
Re: [PHP] Problem with special characters - PHP AJAX
Are the messages being sent as UTF-8 or something else? Is the server
sending the headers as something different to that listed in the header?
Actually, looking at it, you don't have a valid DOC-TYPE
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fkllapa.com%2Ffjahalori%2Ftest.htmlcharset=%28detect+automatically%29doctype=Inlinegroup=0,
nor character Encoding set.
It might be something else, but I haven't played with enough AJAX to
debug the javascript.
Michael Kubler
*G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz
bperquku wrote:
Hi all,
I'm writing a simple dictionary with php and ajax. It works perfects with
firefox but not in IE.
Here is the link
http://kllapa.com/fjahalori/test.html
I used alerts in js and find out that in the following function:
function updateMsgOnBrowser(testXML) {
var test = testXML.getElementsByTagName(test)[0];
var message=new Array(20);
var m = new Array(20);
var td = new Array(20);
var i;
for (i=1;i=10;i++){
message[i]=testXML.getElementsByTagName(message+i)[0];
message[i+1]=testXML.getElementsByTagName(message+i+r)[0];
if (message[i]!=null){m[i] = message[i].firstChild.nodeValue;}
else{m[i]=}
if (message[i+1]!=null){m[i+1] =
message[i+1].firstChild.nodeValue;}
else{m[i+1]=}
td[i]= document.getElementById(td+i);
td[i+1]= document.getElementById(td+i+r);
td[i].innerHTML=+m[i];
td[i+1].innerHTML=+m[i+1];
}
}
the line
message[i]=testXML.getElementsByTagName(message+i)[0];
becomes null in IE when tag message contains special character (ë, ç, Ë, Ç,
etc.). Why this works perfect in Firefox?
Any idea what could be the issue??
Thanks in advance
Re: [PHP] Re: geolocation
This is a slightly OT but along the same lines. I've found that the main way that ISP's and large content hosts control who can access their site and from where is by using BGP routing (Border Gateway Protocol), and other advanced things that are beyond the control of the majority of webserver admins. It allows them to change the routing that information, which is for example, how your ISPs servers know where to forward your data packet to next. However with some funky router, you can get 'magic' IP addresses, like Akami and most ISP's DNS server have. E.g, You will request to access data on a certain Akami IP address, instead and taking 200ms to hit some server on the other side of the world, and come back, it could go to a server sitting in your nearest capital city in 50ms, which is great for video content, and AJAX calls. The thing is, someone in another country could request the same data from the same IP, and the request will automatically be sent to a completely different server, most likely that of one in their capital city (or at least the closest place that has an Akami server containing the required info). Above is just another example of how you can't purely rely on IP addresses, although it is the easiest thing from a webservers PoV, and usually right 90% of the time (as far as I am aware, although haven't tested, nor have any good ways of testing besides Traceroute). Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-09-02 09:08:50, schrieb Schiz0: I use the GeoIP libraries. They work perfectly. YOu just need to install the pecl-GeoIP package, then make sure you keep the binary database up-to-date (from www.maxmind.com). http://php.net/geoip How does ths work with Compuserver or ALOL or even my IP's? We are using dynamicaly allocated IPs arround teh world... AOL in Germany is using IPs from the USA (ARIN) I use IPs from Germany (RIPE) but they are dynamicaly allocated in Iran, Turkey, Gemany or other Countries where I have POPs
Re: [PHP] Mailing lists
I agree. Mailman has everything you need from a mailing list and is the defacto standard. Besides, with it you only need to press 'reply' not 'Reply all' when trying to send to the list... unlike this one. Usually you would setup it up on a subdomain (e.g _lists.__domain.com_) and can then have multiple lists on that domain, such as [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc.. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Bjoern Bartels wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote .. 2008/10/29 Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Anyone know of a good (as opposed to a bad) mailing list manager, other than freelists.org (which I can't seem to get working). Thanks. ?!? that's ajoke, right? i pledge loyalty for gnus mailman http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html cheers bb
Re: [PHP] Weird Syntax Error
Hi Kyle,
The line looks fine in my text editor (SciTE).
Have you checked the line above it is properly enclosed and ended?
Michael Kubler
*G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz
Kyle Terry wrote:
I keep getting this syntax error on the following string...
syntax error unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE expecting T_STRING or
T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING
$insert = INSERT INTO release_file_upload (upl_file_name, upl_file_type,
upl_file_size, upl_date, upl_by, upl_path, release_id) VALUES ('$filename',
'$_SESSION['upload']['type']', '$_SESSION['upload']['size']', now(),
'$username', '$path', '$release_id');
Re: [PHP] Another question about Google maps
Well, it shows up for FFox v2 and v3 on Windows XP as well. I managed to replicate it by shift+refreshing the page. I also managed to stop it mid load by setting Firefox to 'Work Offline' just as it displayed the flash of both boxes. Using the Web Developer plugin for FFox I can tell you that the top box has a class of '.gsmsc-mapDiv' while the bottom div one is '.gsmsc-idleMapDiv', and both are wrapped in the '.gsmsc-appContainer' div, and also the '#mapsearch' div. I've not played with google maps enough, but doubt the above helps, I just but know that it's not a PHP issue. It's almost like a flash of unstyled content http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/fouc.asp/, but is being generated because of the javascript. I hid the '.gsmsc-mapDiv' which stopped the flash of both box boxes appearing, and I could view the map, but caused the map to disappear after I tried searching for a different Google Maps location. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz tedd wrote: Hi gang: I posted this question on the Google Map Discussion group/list thingie, but got zip in replies. Maybe someone here might have an idea. Here's the url: http://masoncollision.com/contact.php In both Safari and FireFox for the Mac (I have not tested it with other browsers) as the page loads the map border is momentary drawn twice. The map border is shown stacked one above the other making the page much longer than it actually is. But immediately thereafter, the map is drawn correctly and the page returns to the size it's supposed to be. I just want to get rid of the momentary flash. Anyone have any ideas? Cheers and thanks, tedd
Re: [PHP] how can I make an email bounce
If you have a previous bounce message then something like Mail Redirect https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/550 extension in thunderbird might work. You simply bounce the email to yourself, or from one account to another. I've used it quite often to test procmail rules, and the like. Although, as I use gmail for my email I don't have to worry about my inbox being full. Also, if you can give us more details about the actual email server then maybe there could be a way to induce the required bounce messages, somewhat like the eicar http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm file is a semi-standardised anti-virus test. Then again, I run exim4, and haven't bothered looking at trying to force certain bounce messages without reconfiguring the server. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 23, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Richard Kurth wrote: I need to make a bunch of emails bounce in different ways so I can check to see if my script to read a mail box full of bounced emails will work properly. Does any body know how I can do this. If you have access to a Mac, in Apples Mail.app there is a feature for bouncing messages that show up like a real bounce. All you need are the donor e-mails to bounce from. Just keep in mind that when you bounce a message in mail.app it removes the e-mail... So I wouldn't go bouncing lvoe letters from your girl! ;) If you don't have such access, let me know, and I can probably help out with it.
Re: [PHP] Text To Speech Update
Works ok for me on FFox v2 and v3 on my Windows XP machines, but when trying it on IE v6.0 the speech is played back REALLY fast. Like super chipmunk style. I tried a duration of 5.5, but that mainly just made the pauses between the words longer, but was still very high pitched and fast. Also, it's really annoying that the text that I just typed in to test disappears. I HATE it when websites forget what I just input, and when writing scripts I hate loosing or throwing away user input. But still, good work on the VOX, too bad all text to speech synthesisers I've used sound like a computer. My Dad blurted out when I first went to your site 'Ohh I was playing with text to speech 30 years ago.' I can see things like this being a big plus for usability. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Nathan Nobbe wrote: On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Daniel P. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Any/All: For those of you who were asking about the PHP Text-To-Speech system I had running, it's back online now. If you have a few free seconds, please take a look at http://www.pilotpig.net/txt2wav.php and let me know if it's working for sure in your browser and on your OS. With a bit more time being available to devote to non-paid projects, and hopefully getting a bit better still in the next week or so, I've had time to be able to work more with the PHP project and the PHP-VOX. When I make enough improvements to the installation routines so that folks can easily do it on their own servers, I'll have the source available for download. Thanks, everyone. Hope you're all enjoying the weekend. kick-ass dan, i cant wait until the source is out there :D -nathan
Re: [PHP] Accessing the 'media' attribute in php
A couple of sites about making CSS print stylesheets. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/ http://www.webdesignschoolreview.com/css-printing.html I'd send you links to more, but my Internet connection is shaped, and it's too slow to look through many more. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Clancy wrote: On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:28:17 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (German Geek) wrote: You can do things on the client side with Javascript ;) Sorry, what was the result you are after? I have enough trouble getting my rather ancient brain around PHP, and was hoping that I could avoid getting involved with JavaScript. However it seems that it, or CSS, are the only possibilities for this case. Bother!
Re: [PHP] Poll of sorts: Javascript Form validation or PHP
I agree with Nathan. Always do server side validation, and if you have the skills, time, or are being paid then add javascript validation to make the user experience better. I have a general contact form which checks the input server side (PHP) and if there's something wrong then it indicates as such, and shows the user their input, with the errors and why (e.g not a valid email address, etc..). If it was for anything larger than about 10 fields per page, then javascript validation can be useful. Slightly off topic, but does anyone know of an easy way of checking user input like the PHP filter_var() function? I've seen plenty of libraries for AJAX, and the like (Prototype, jquery, etc), but haven't run across any for standard form input validation. Thanks. Michael Kubler* * http://www.greyphoenix.biz Nathan Rixham wrote: where as I think validation always needs to happen at the server side; each application or script should be self contained, it needs to check that the data it recieves is valid before working with it; if it is not valid it needs to inform the system that sent it the data is not valid. The system that sent it in this case is the html output; so you need a method of displaying errors in the html. That is the bare minimum and always needed. As for making the experience nicer; javascript is good for this; it can be used to pre-validate input on the way in to the system; but should not be relied upon as it can be turned off, stop functioning due to another faulty javascript on the page or simply not be supported by the client. You still need the server side validation though. So.. more of a case of always validate server side; and should / do you want to use javascript validation in addition. IMHO :p -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] array_reverse() and garbage collection
What about using array_pop to take the bottom array element from the first one and add it to the second? So basically you are feeding the 2nd array from the bottom of the 1st one, and assuming garbage collection is done for each call of array_pop, then you'd only need the memory usage of one copy of the array, not two. The downside is that it's not going to be as fast as just looping through, and making two copies, but the upside is less memory usage. I can see it being particularly useful for processing large arrays on memory restricted webservers which would possibly not have the ram for two copies of the array in memory at the same time. Not sure if that actually helps, seeing as array_reverse() is already a function that's probably written in C which could just make a copy with re-arrange the pointers or something. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Richard Heyes wrote: Hi, So I've been thinking, because occassionally I do, about array_reverse() and how to implement it. Of course, it's entirely theoretical, because it would a total waste of time. But I'm wondering which of two methods would be best. 1. Do it correctly and in place. ie, loop through the the first half of the array once swapping element 0 with the end one, element 1 with the next to last one and so on. 2. Loop thru the array once creating a new one. Normally this would take up a little more memory because you end up with two copies of the array in memory just before the end of the function. But what if you set the original element to null once you've assigned it to the new array? The most memory I can see it using is two copies of one element. But only if garbage collection kicks in before you start on the next element. Does garbage collection kick in that often? From what I remember from an article by Derick Rethans, if the refcount is zero, then it gets cleaned up. Cheers.
Re: [PHP] Online Members
Some people will be happy with just a corny 1 liner, other's you'll need to invite to dinner, and promise a romantic evening, and show how masculine/feminine you are. But I doubt you'll be able to get that many dates, unless it's a single site most will probably already be in a relationship, or are simply not interested. Seriously though, I'm not quite sure what you mean by picking up all the members online. If you mean working out how many people are currently online, then you can tail the log files, if you have HTTP auth, and manually work it out, or the easier way (that likely keep a track of the last activity from a user, and assume they are online if they have had any activity within the last 30mins, assuming they haven't logged out. Hope that helps a little, unless I've completely mis-interpreted the question. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Stephen Alistoun wrote: Hi all, What is the best way to pick up all the members online on a website? Regards, Stephen
Re: [PHP] PHP webhosting - USA
Hi, If your a windows user, then ignore the text below. Quantact.com are great. Great value, great support, I've been with them for a few years now. I guess the only downside is that while the bandwidth is great (both quota and speed), and the hard drive access is fast, the memory usage is usually much lower, although on the OpenVZ plans can burst up higher if needed. You get full root access (SSH), and I've installed Apache, PHP, MySQL, Exim, and Mailman, and could do more if I wanted (FTP, DNS, SVN), except I run most of the other services on other boxes. The uptime is usually pretty great, although I've had two issues in recent memory where something major has died (like the hard drive raid array, or the motherboard), taking the server down for 1 hour, which may not be acceptable if your doing financial transactions, but ask them about the Xen hosting, which might have better data replication. I know they have snapshot capabilities, although you need to stop the server for a while to do that, so I just run a daily rsync onto a Linux box at home. rSnapshot is great for that. Running your own server may be a bit more work, but it's so much more customisable. Don't have PERL? apt-get install it (assuming Debian or Ubuntu), need to probe a server? Run nmap. I have a script that emails me the compressed MySQL database, and also have a PHP CLI script that I cronjob daily to send me the server stats, membership details of various mailman mailing lists, amount of data transferred, HDD space left, ram used, uptime, and current load, and all sorts of things. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Daniel Brown wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:03, Martin Zvarík mzva...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I currently host my site by Powweb, and I am WANT to change it - can you guys recommend me something good? Powweb's website looks awesome and it's the best marketing I think I had saw! After a minute it makes you think there is NO better hosting - and it's a LIE.
Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question
The easiest way would be to use GET parameters (i.e data in the actual URL).
There are a number of ways you can structure a HTML link to get what you
want.
You can have something basic (but not very elegant looking), like
a href=index.php?page=HomeHome/a
Then in your index.php code you'd probably have something like :
?php
$page = urldecode(*$_GET['page']); *
include_once header.inc; //Include a script that contains the
general header information
if(is_file(pages/*$page*.inc;)) //make sure they haven't requested a
non-existant file
{
include_once pages/*$page*.inc; //Doesn't have to be .inc you
could simply output HTML data if that's all your using.
}
else
{
include_once pages/Home.inc; //If the user wanted a file that
doesn't exist, then just take them to the home page (or you could
take them to an error page if that's what you want).
}
include_once footer.inc; //Which would contain the footer if you've
got one.
?
This is approximately how I do it although sometimes have a functions
file I call, or a config file with basic presets, and various other
things. I use .inc (for inclusion) as the file extension, so I can
easily differentiate between .php files that customers will use (such as
index.php, admin.php, login.php, etc..), and the included files.
In the header file I usually have something like that below.
--- header.inc starts below this line ---
!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN
html lang=en
head
title?php echo *$page*; ? - Insert Company or Website Name/title
!-- Meta Tags --
meta http-equiv=content-type content=application/xhtml+xml;
charset=utf-8
meta name=robots content=index, follow
!-- CSS --
link rel=stylesheet href=css/main.css
media=screen,projection,tv,tty,handheld,embossed,braille,aural
type=text/css
link rel=stylesheet href=css/print.css media=print
type=text/css
/head
body
div id=header
h1HEADER INFORMATION (or image) HERE/h1
br /
!-- end header div --
/div
div id=mainNav
?php
*$main_navigation_list* = array(0 = array( 'name' = 'Home',
'url' = 'index.php?page=Contact',
'title' = 'The home page'),
1 = array('name' =
'Contact' ,
'url'
= 'index.php?page=Contact',
'title' = 'The contact details')
);
?
ul id=main_nav_list
?php
foreach(*$main_navigation_list* as *$index* = *$nav_list*)
{
echo 'lia href=' . *$nav_list*['url'] .' title=' .
*$nav_list*['title'] . ''. *$nav_list*['name'] . '/a/li';
}
?
/ul
/div
!-- end mainNav div --
/div
--- END header.inc --
In the header.inc I've manually created an array, then got PHP to go
through the array to add the name, URL and other details from the array,
but that's just to simplify this, usually I pull the navigation data
from a database (or if there's no MySQL installed I might unserialise it
from a file).
There are other ways of pulling the data. If you want nice URLs, you can
have something like /pages/Home/ and then have a mod_rewrite rule in
Apache to then change that into index.php?page=Home, (although you'll
also need to change the a href to the new links. If you aren't running
on apache, you can manually find the page information by doing
print_r($_SERVER), and seeing what bits and pieces you can put together,
but that's not nearly as good or reliable.
Sorry if there's too much info, but I'm guessing this is roughly what
you'll be doing.
If you want to have more than one variable (like say a sub page) then
you add *amp;* between each variable. E.g
a href=index.php?page=Homeamp;sub_page=more%20newsHome -
Archived News/a
You can usually get away with just using ** as the separator but it
probably won't validate properly if your making it in xhtml (as you
should be). Also, if your not sure what the %20 means (a space) then
look up urlencode http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php
and urldecode http://au.php.net/url_decode.
Michael Kubler
*G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz
Christopher W wrote:
At least I hope it is simple...
I am trying to get an HTML menu link to set a variable's value. For
example, when a user clicks the Home button on my page it would cause
$page = home; or clicking the About Us button will set $page=about_us;
etc.
I think this should be fairly simple but being
Re: [PHP] Re: process creation
Hmm, are people getting confused between and = ? for($icount=0;$icount11;$icount++) (is less than 11) for($icount=0;$icount=10;$icount++) (is less than or equal to 10) Both iterate 10 times. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Per Jessen wrote: Tom Sinclair wrote: Per Jessen wrote: for($icount=0;$icount11;$icount++) Iterates 10 times?? Hmm 10, 11 - no big difference is there? /Per Jessen, Zürich
Re: [PHP] profiler web server
If you want to profile your web server, i.e artificially see what it's like under load, then you can use a program like 'ab' on Linux which will create the specified number of HTTP requests as if the URL was being requested (although not all the other things like the images, .css files, etc..) An example command might be *ab -n 1 -c 50 http://localhost/*;, although you'll want to check the options first. You'll probably also want to use something like htop (or at least top) to view the current load on the server, and how many apache threads are spawned. Ohh and I'd suggest backing up or clearing the log file before and after (depends if you keep the log file or not). I just tried myself, and on my un-optimised backup server at home it responds to 150 concurrent connections faster then 500 concurrent connections mainly because it has to spawn so many children as it ramps up. Actually if the OP wants a proper answer we will need more detail, like the operating system or distro. I know on Ubuntu it's simply seen as apache2, and ps shows it as '/usr/sbin/apache2' Also, if you want to know how many threads are running this command works for me : ps augx | grep apache | wc -l Sorry, I know this isn't directly PHP specific,although this sort of thing can be useful when testing various scripts, and comparing an internal looping test in PHP to time an algorithm, and actually running the script say 10,000 times. Also good for making sure your site can survive a slashdot (it turns out that without some tweaking of apache mine can't). Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Boyd, Todd M. wrote: Statements do not end with question marks... He is asking a question. It looks to me like he wants to know which process he should watch to determine the performance of Apache v2.2. I believe it's httpd. HTH, // Todd
Re: [PHP] Kinda 0.T... php site and maintenance
Depends on what they want, how much time it'll take you (and thus how experienced you are at PHP), and how much code you can re-use. Break it down a bit. You'll probably want PHP to do a few things. It'll probably generate the main navigation when you view the page, that's one section. You'll probably want an admin page so they can edit the HTML. That's another section (that deals with writing files, and also lots of user input). Maybe they can't edit raw HTML, and want a BBcode editor, or even full wysiwyg editor, that's at least a sub-section. Then there's photos. So they'll want a gallery. Does the gallery just show next and back, or does it show an index page of thumbnails? Will they be able to save comments? Will users be able to leave comments? How will the customer upload, edit, and delete the images? What about a news feed, if done properly it'll be a bit like a blog, with an RSS feed, and postings, and archives. Will the data be pulled from a database? Are you familiar with databases? Also, what about an AJAX interface? some things, especially the back end (and pre-loading the next gallery image), lend themselves to being done in AJAX. Do you know javascript, and XML? What if they want to upload a video instead of a picture? Will you just get them to use YouTube and embed it, or will you work out the issues of uploading LARGE files, using something like FFMPEG to compress it, and then finding a suitable flash player to play them. As you can see, there's a lot of things that could be done on such a site. Personally I try it this way. I estimate the time it's going to take me to do each thing, then double it (as I am habitually optimistic in my timing), then work out the hourly rate. I personally wouldn't work for less than $25/hour, even if it was a friend, and that wouldn't be for something of this magnitude. I normally charge AUD$45/hour, and most people think I'm undercutting the market. Although my rates can be off as I usually have to do photography, and film work for a client as well. At the end, you multiply the number of hours it'll take you, by your hourly rate and get a total. The hard thing is, the first time you make such a site you'll probably learn a LOT, and it'll take you a fair amount of time, then the second time you'll probably re-program it because you know better (like to use Object Oriented, and whole new programming and UI techniques), and after that you'll probably just write an installation script that'll allow you to create new sites within minutes. So do you charge the 1st person $10,000 when they'll probably end up with the worst site, and everyone else gets charged $200, or do you split the cost up over a number of potential sites, and absorb any miscalculations? But the real question you have to ask is if it is really worth all the effort when you can simply use a plugin for something like Wordpress http://wordpress.org/ which will be 10x better than anything you'll ever create anyway. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz PS : Sorry to everyone about the long email replies... seems to be my thing today. Ryan S wrote: Hey, Got a question for you guys who make a lot of personal sites. I got a US client who wants me to make a personal site, 4-7 sections (eg: about me, photos, whats new etc) and have to put a yearly maintenance $$ amount... I thought i'll make most of the stuff using php rather than plain html so the client can update different sections without me (eg: whats new, add pics) What do you guys charge for something like this (dont count hosting and domain fees) Thanks! R
Re: [PHP] Dirty Button
I like the idea of not updating the content straight away (as the user might not want to see it updated), but depending on the situation I would personally make the submit button look grey and inactive unless they've changed something in which case it'll be normal and (black). Although actually making it inactive could be bad as the javascript might not correctly update it's status to active, preventing the customer from actually submitting the data they've just painstakingly entered. The whole progressive enhancement/graceful degradation thing. However, on the other hand to having it not automatically update, the thing that I hate the most on a website is when it looses valid data that I've entered (clicked, selected, whatever), which is where saving the current state using Ajax can be useful, although probably over the top for most things anyway. Ohh btw Tedd, the problem with your implementation is that as a user, if I change some settings, but want them back, when I set it back to say C 5 as I had it before, the button is still Red, and I could get confuzled about what I'd previously entered. Obviously having a reset button would fix that, (as long as it set the submit text back to normal), or you could get PHP to set the javascript to check if the values are as they were before and set the button back. Obviously a lot more javascript than the 3 lines of code you've got there, for only a minor usability point, especially if the users previous selection is listed next to the actual buttons, but it's at least something to be aware of. My 2c. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: Since you are using JS why not just update the content straight away? (ajax/etc) On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:55 PM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi gang: I had a problem and solved it -- here's the write-up: http://www.webbytedd.com/b/update-select/index.php What do you think of the solution? Cheers, tedd --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com
Re: [PHP] Re: unlink file rights problem
http://au2.php.net/cli PHP via command line. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Shawn McKenzie wrote: Merlin Morgenstern wrote: Hi there, I am trying to unlink a file which is inside a folder that is not writable to phps user www. Of course this failes, but I need to find a solution for it. Backgroud is following: I have pure-ftpd installed where user directories get created by pure-ftpd. Unfortunatelly there seems to be a bug and pure-ftpd does only create the homedirectory folder in 750 mod. My PHP-Script scans this directories every x minutes and processes those files. Upon completinon those files should get deleted, but as the dir is not writable by the user www this failes. The dir looks like this: drwxr-x--- 2 ftpuser ftpgroup 4096 Jan 28 10:18 merlin/ files inside look like this: -rwxrwx--- 1 ftpuser ftpgroup 16868 Jan 28 10:20 test.xml* User www which executes php via cron is inside the group ftpgroup. Any ideas? I am kind of lost with this one. Thank you for any help! Best regards, Merlin Why not run the cron as root, or ftpuser?
Re: [PHP] Web Shop Management
If it's just documentation you could use a wiki. I've found that mediawiki http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki is the best (the one that wikipedia uses), although twiki isn't too bad, but the problems with wiki's are that they expect you to know how to use them, and all their crazy words and syntax. Something like Google Docs http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html is actually really sexy (can I say that about a web app that looks like a slimmed down version of office?), because it is so easy to use. You could also check out things like dotproject http://www.dotproject.net/, or google 'project management + PHP'. As a non PHP, hosted alternatively you could look into basecamp http://www.basecamphq.com/, which is designed for making project collaboration, with goals, timelines, and all sorts, although that doesn't quite sound like what you want as it isn't something you host, and you'd basically need to create a new one for each project. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Sancar Saran wrote: Not really. It was someting like customer tracking. Finding 200 apache directory with no info was very frustrating experiment. Some of them are abandoned, some customers are leaved. some of them just projects but customers does not accept. I want store some info about the customer or project. Maybe categorize them. Lets call it customer documentation. I want to record something like that This was blahblah.com owned by some guy, needs this. dislikes this. Please be careful when moving or altering site. He was sychopath to check every 30 min to his 5 hit per day site. This system uses uber CMS system which needs php-tidy php-postgresql etc etc. Have to acess some blah blah service. Regards Sancar
Re: [PHP] Weird url passing what does it mean, am I hacked?
Maybe you can use Firebug http://getfirebug.com/, or the Web Developer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60 plugins for Firefox? Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 13:42 -0600, Terion Miller wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.ukwrote: On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 11:01 -0600, Terion Miller wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 10:10 -0600, Terion Miller wrote: I noticed yesterday that sometimes I was seeing a strange url passing at the bottom of the browser when clicking around my site I'm working on while watching the page loads, its calling to mouserunner.com and I went to the site and it is a bunch of links, my site is on a private server for a large media company, clues on what this means and where to look to stop it, what's it doing scraping my site or something? Thanks folks... Are you using some of their content on your site? You may not realise it's come from them, it could be some Javascript you've found online and used on your site. It's more than likely just a call-back script to register a 'hit' along with other details. As for scraping your sites content, there is no way to prevent this. If your content is viewable for a human, it's viewable for a computer. Would you mind posting a link so we can see what you're seeing? Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Hi Ash! My site isn't an outside app, it's an in house work order app hosted on our corporate servers, I was working on it yesterday and caught a glimpse in the bottom of the browser where you can see page loads , I kept seeing a www.mouserunner.com in there and was wondering what the hell...I googled and visited the site and found no other post anywhere complaining about this site or if it was a hacker/phishing site... Copying the list back in on this. You still haven't mentioned if you were using any scripts you sourced from elsewhere? Have you performed a search on the server in question for any files containing a link to that website? Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk no scripts that i've found, I inherited this app, and its about 57 pages 1200 lines each and I don't have access to the server corp rules... Do a search on all the files for that site. I'm guessing you'll find something in a .js file somewhere. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] Question about version control.. sorta..
I'll put in a +1 for Subversion. I use it and love it. I have the actual repository sitting on a linux box and usually use TortiseSVN to update, and commit to the repository. It's pretty easy to use, and was much easier to setup than I expected. I simply apt-get install svn, and then edited some Apache config files, of which the code is available with a quick google. I keep all the websites I code in the repository and even though I have 3 computers on the same network I'll sometimes commit related files on one PC, and update the local copy on another computer because it's even easier than using windows network file transfer. Plus the fact that I have a script to automatically backup the repository regularly, so once the data is in the repository I'm highly unlikely to loose it (esp as I've got local cached copies on 3 computers). Best of all? IT'S FREE! my 2c. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz TG wrote: So, for my purposes.. after trying a handful of solutions.. open source and commercial.. I think I've decided that Reliable Software's Code Co-op is what's going to work best for me. My trial is almost up, so as soon as my next paycheck comes, I think I'll be purchasing the full version for $150. For me, it's totally worth it. It stores everything in a local database, but allows collaboration if that's what you're into. Via email for the $150 version, via LAN for the $200 version. It lets me add files by type, is easy to check out files. Anyway.. if anyone's looking for an easy Windows version control system, check it out. (no, I don't work for them, just passing along the recommendation since I'm digging this software) Thanks for all the input! -TG -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] php validate user password
These days SHA should really be used instead of MD5, and you should be
SALTing the password as well.
Here's a great guide : http://phpsec.org/articles/2005/password-hashing.html
Michael Kubler
*G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz
Jan G.B. wrote:
2009/2/9 Andrew Williams andrew4willi...@gmail.com:
Can some body help out on how to validate user password from the database?
There are several possibilities. This would be one.
?
$query = 'SELECT 1 from `usertable` where `name` = ' .
mysql_real_escape_string(STRIPPED_AND_TRIMMED_REQUEST_VAR_HERE)
. ' AND `pass` = md5(' .
mysql_real_escape_string(STRIPPED_AND_TRIMMED_REQUEST_VAR_HERE) .
');';
?
[PHP] Looking for some PHP OO programming guides
Hi,
I'm just getting into programming in an Object Oriented fashion, and am
looking for some guides, tutorials, hints, tips, etc...
I only just found out that you remove the $ from variables when calling
them from $this-
e.g :
?php
class People
{
private $person = not set;
function __construct()
{
*$person* = A person; //This doesn't work (well it creates a
variable $person that only has the scope of the current function from
what I can gather)..
$this-*person* = A person; //This works properly
}
function display_list()
{
echo $person; //This doesn't work
echo $this-person; //This works.
}
}
$person= new People;
$person-display_list();
?
Instead of painstakingly working out most of the other mistakes I'm
likely to make, I'd love to read about other peoples issues they had
with learning OO so I can skip most of the hard stuff, and only make
small mistakes (hopefully).
--
Michael Kubler
*G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz
Re: [PHP] Google Apps AuthSub = missing $_GET element
Do you have magic quotes on? Also, try a *print_r($_SERVER);* or even a *var_dump($_GET);* See what's actually in the arrays. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz John Corry wrote: I am completely baffled by this. I have a PHP script that is using Cameron Hinkle's LightweightPicasaAPIv3 to authenticate with the Google Picasa service using the AuthSub method. Basically, if we're not authenticated, redirect to the google authsub URL: (https://www.google.com/accounts/AuthSubRequest?next=http%3A%2F%2Ftwozerowest.com%2Fsnowdog%2520gallery%2Fadmin.phpscope=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapisession=1) This page requests that the user either grant access or deny access. Grant access takes us to the URL specified (my authentication script) with a ?token=x added to the end of the URL. This all works. We get back to my URL with ?token=x appended to the URL. That's when it starts getting weirder than anything I've seen in PHP: My debugging output confirms that: 1. $_SERVER['request_method'] = GET 2. strlen($_GET['token']) = 0 3. $_GET - array()...but it's empty! 4. $_REQUEST[] contains no 'token' element 5. echo($_GET['token']) prints the value of ?token= from the URL So WTF?
[PHP] PHP AS an FTP server
Hi, This is probably a bit stupid, but I've been having issues getting any of the good FTP servers running on my Ubuntu 6.06 (LTS) box. I've tried Pro-FTP, Pure-FTP, and briefly installed some others, but the versions available for my distro don't seem to support MySQL (or I'm simply doing something wrong). Anyway, I had the thought that the FTP server won't be used much, as I mainly use SSH, however I need to be able to give other people access, which is why I'm wondering if there are any PHP scripts that can be used AS an FTP server. That is, I'd setup Apache to accept on the standard FTP port(s), and get it to point everything to a PHP script, which I could then use to pull user/pass details each of which would have their own directories, allowing each user to access a sym-link to their domain(s) log file, website directory, and anything else. Has someone already got a script that does this (at least accepting FTP connections), or is this a crazy idea that's just not possible? Should I just compile the latest version of some FTP server, and try and configure that to do what I want instead? Thanks. -- Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz
Re: [PHP] PHP AS an FTP server
Yeah, I don't want local user access (SSH, their own entries in passwd, etc..). Too much work to ensure they all have the correct file permissions, etc.. I think I'll just skip the PHP bit and use a proper FTP server. I've configured them a few times, but all the examples I found only had Anonymous FTP login, or MySQL (which is what I want), but the server wouldn't work with the MySQL plugin. Looks like I'll have to compile from source... joy. Thanks for all the replies though. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Thodoris wrote: The local users part was about ssh-sftp access Ash not ftp. IMO when you add local users you add extra risks to your system than simple ftp (non-local) users may not cause. Of course if you secure your system carefully everything will work fine but I would avoid that and there are many security issues that here is not the place to discuss. Of course if this fits your needs I have no objections. -- Thodoris
Re: [PHP] Working directory of PHP pages?
You can configure different index file names for Apache to check for. e.g index.html, index.htm, index.php, default.htm I had one webserver where it would only accept default.htm as the file, and didn't allow .htaccess files. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Clancy wrote: It is my understanding that when you open a page the PHP server looks for index.php in the site root directory, and loads it. As a result the working directory of the page will be the root directory of the site. I have always worked on this assumption, and it has always been correct. On the other hand Stewart thinks that I cannot rely this, and am likely to get into trouble as a result. Are there any systems in which my assumption will not be correct?
Re: [PHP] PHP bandwidth control
DO NOT USE GO-DADDY. Sorry, just had to say that Go-Daddy will cause all sorts of issues when your domain expires, or if you check for a domain but don't purchase it straight away. When you come back a little bit later you'll have to pay hundreds of dollars for the domain (as they registered it while you were gone), instead of the usual $20/yr type thing. Try Planetdomain (although their website is being re-designed at the moment), MelbourneIT (expensive), or even Google (surprisingly cheap). Actually if you search, there's a website that has a list of the different domain registrars and their costs that you could look at. As for quota control you can pipe everything through PHP which is more CPU intensive but will be more accurate in terms of which user was accessing the account. You could also parse the Apache log files (or whatever the web server is), which is more accurate but also slower. For bandwidth you can use something like the bandwidth mod for Apache which will allow you to prevent your webserver from completely saturating your Internet connection, allowing you to still surf the net or play games while people are accessing your site. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz JD wrote: Excellent, thanks both for the suggestions. I'd like to continue hosting it myself if for no other reason than I want to learn how to manage some of the hardware, software and operating systems that I otherwise don't get much exposure to. I'm treating this as a learning experience. I like the idea of the file_get_contents() as it sounds easier to implement, but, again, I'm using this as a learning experience so maybe I'll try and parse out the log files as you suggest. Again, many thanks! Dave -- Original Message -- From: Michael A. Peters mpet...@mac.com To: Yannick Mortier mvmort...@googlemail.com Cc: JD danceintherai...@netzero.com, php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP bandwidth control Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:03:12 -0700 Yannick Mortier wrote: 2009/4/6 JD danceintherai...@netzero.com: Hello, I am relatively new to PHP and am trying to make a video/image sharing site for my family to upload and share family videos and pictures. My concern is that because I'm hosting this site at my house, I will quickly exceed my bandwidth limitations each month if all the family members I think will use the site do actually end up using it. What I'd like to do is set up each family member with their own login and track how much bandwidth they use and cap it after a certain amount. The login stuff is easy and I have that figured out, but I haven't been able to figure out a good way to track the bandwidth used by each user that logs in. Is there a good way to do this with PHP? Thanks, Dave Click here for free information on how to reduce your debt by filing for bankruptcy. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxXKInZ3kl2SDnqN7ifO3PSaE96m9RMpRCn9agvvsomFpM5Y0grTAM/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php I guess there are multiple ways to engage this problem. It depends how deep you want to log the traffic. If you just want to count the traffic of each image, video etc you could just wrap up each image and video to go through php first with file_get_contents() (look in the php manual there are some examples how to work with this), count how many bytes of data will be sent out and log this in a database or however you want to do this. If the bandwith limit is exceeded you don't deliver the image anymore and display an error message instead. If you want to catch all traffic you must parse the log files from you webserver. To do this you could save the IP with which the login of the user was performed and connect all traffic that was done by that IP to the User. If the traffic limit is exceeded you display an error message. I guess for some family-internal sharing the first approach should be good enough. Just make sure you take some bandwith for the html pages into your calculations. My suggestion would be to do it on a real server and avoid any and all ISP restrictions, present and future. Don't register your domain with your host though, I found it to be a real PITA to switch hosts when you use them as your registrar, getting them to relinquish control of the domain can be a PITA. Instead register with someone like godaddy that lets you specify the nameservers and host elsewhere. Then if you feel like you need to move it to a different host, your current host can't be jerks about it. Purify your water with professional water treatment. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxWi0WoglDK0IWRPkII8DwKjpWYPNFWYl5H4goF180aUp9479wxiL2/
Re: [PHP] Add php.net to my browser search box
Jim Lucas wrote: I use FF 2 3 and I created a bookmark that simply had a keyword assigned to it. Bookmark properties are as follows: Name: PHP.net Location: http://www.php.net/%s Keyword:php Description:Type php search term in the address bar to perform a PHP.net search Not sure if you can do this with other browsers, but I have found it to be very useful. Jim Lucas I second that. It's great to be able to type something like PHP str_replace into Firefox's address bar and go straight to the documentation on that function. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz
Re: [PHP] Shoutbox suggestion needed
The main issue with these systems is updating the client on a regular enough basis. If the content is time critical, like with Facebook chat, then you need to do long polling. However for a Shoutbox, because it's more like an IRC channel with people 'shouting' to a channel, you can probably just set the client to automatically update on a regular basis. Or even more advanced, would be to get it to check in increasing intervals. Firstly it checks 0.5s later, then 1s later, then 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s, with a limit of 60s (i.e it checks at least once a minute for an update), upon new content being received the time is reset back to the 0.5s If you need to do long polling http://ajaxpatterns.org/HTTP_Streaming then look into the Tornado Webserver http://www.tornadoweb.org/ which Friendfeed http://friendfeed.com/, and more recently, Facebook use (for their LiveFeed system). For a PHP based implementation check this out http://www.zeitoun.net/articles/comet_and_php/start. Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Mobile : 0433483008 I believe in a better world. I support the Zeitgeist Movement http://www.zeitgeistsa.com. Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 12:06 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 02:46:45PM +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: I don't know of anything you can use like this, especially that runs purely on Ajax. Just take a look at Facebook chat. That's Ajax, and fails and falls over on a constant basis to the point where it is almost useless. Imho, Java seems to be pretty good at this sort of thing, and there are plenty of free options out there that you could use. It's often been argued back and forth whether people have Javascript turned off. I suspect the vast majority of people have Javascript turned on. However, Java is another story. You may find that many more have it turned off. Paul -- Paul M. Foster Yeah, but then, generally, you can tell the people visiting this site what they need enabled, as it looks like the visitors are going to be a select few. Java is available on all the main browsers, and generally only needs one to accept the applet. For a chat application to be written using only Ajax technology, well, like I said before, if Facebook tried it and still can't get it right with all the financial backing they have, what hope for someone to release this sort of thing open source and Facebook not be aware of it? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] RSYNC - who knows more?
What is it you want to do? Do you want to create a client for RSYNC, or maybe rsync to AmazonS3 http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/007641.html (which is admittedly hard), or maybe use something like rsnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ to have rsync + snapshot functionality, which is great when you get a whole heap of corrupt data that gets sync'd across, you can go back to an old snapshot instead of loosing everything. -- Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Mobile : 0433483008 I believe in a better world. I support the Zeitgeist Movement http://www.zeitgeistsa.com. Jens Geier wrote: Hello, as sugestet i tried backup by using RSYNC. It is working fine. But i have some more Questions for this software. Is here some one that can help me with it? Kind Regards Jens Geier
Re: [PHP] Do you use a public framework or roll your own?
I read somewhere (can't find the link at the moment) that there's probably 2.5 frameworks per PHP developer. I know that when I started I was writing my own bits and pieces of two frameworks. One was function based and the other was OO based. I've since found the Yii http://www.yiiframework.com/ PHP framework and LOVE it. As someone that used to do assembly code programming on Pic microcontrollers with very little SQL background it was a bit of work to try and understand OO, MVC, ActiveRecord, etc.. But now that I have I'm much faster and more efficient. There's also the added bonus that being a Open Source project it is being worked on by lots of people and constantly getting better. So I'd have to vote twice. I've used my own frameworks, but now using a proper one. My 2c. -- Michael Kubler I believe in a better world. I support the Zeitgeist Movement http://www.zeitgeistsa.com. James McLean wrote: In hindsight, it's a little clunky now. But I was proud of it and I still am to a point :) Personally I believe any PHP developer who wants to be taken seriously should have written thier own framework :)
Re: [PHP] Re: Good source for sample data?
Agree'd. I've done this a couple of times. Usually best is to grab a couple of free online dictionary lists. One for peoples names, another for business names, then just randomly pull the data from the dictionaries. Addresses, websites, phone numbers, and zip codes can all be randomly generated, or you can use the GEONames database http://www.geonames.org/ to generate actual locations. Also, wasn't there some test data available by MySQL? I think it was the Sakila http://dev.mysql.com/doc/sakila/en/sakila.htmldatabase http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?121. -- Michael Kubler I believe in a better world. I support the Zeitgeist Movement Shawn McKenzie wrote: Brian Dunning wrote: Hey all - I need a few million sample contact records - name, company, address, email, web, phone, fax. ZIP codes and area codes and street addresses should be correct and properly formatted, but preferably not real people or companies or email addresses. But they'd work if you did address validation or mapping. Anyone have a suggestion? - Brian It should be easy to code a routine to generate random data. Maybe 20 - 30 lines of code. Obviously you may have a name like Dgidfgq Xcvbop and company Wsdkn, but it shouldn't matter if testing is your purpose.
Re: [PHP] Mail Function In PHP
Having worked at a decent sized, respectable ISP with 100,000+ customers sending email via Iron Ports (email scanners), even they would get put on a blacklist on a monthly basis. Hell it wouldn't surprise me if Gmail's SMTP servers got put on a black list at some point. There's seemingly hundreds of blacklists and whilst some play nice, others are very paranoid. Usually the good email servers will detect your on a blacklist then rate limit the number of emails it'll accept from you. If you keep pissing it off, by sending emails to non-existant addresses (something they REALLY hate), sending emails that are too big, or simply sending too many emails or emails with too many recipients, then it'll tighten the restrictions. Over time if your good then those restrictions will be released and eventually you'll be able to send at normal rates. -- Michael Kubler I believe in a better world. I support the Zeitgeist Movement -- www.zeitgeistaustralia.org Teus Benschop wrote: Once a domain or ip address was black listed, it was quite a process to get it unlisted again, and even then as soon as mail came from that domain, it got blacklisted again. Supposedly there is some certification process that official smtp relays need to go through so as to prove or certify that they won't allow spam to be sent through them, and take steps to remove offenders from using their relay. However, this is all guessing, and in the end we just gave up and used our ISP's official relay. Teus. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
