Re: [PHP] Re: Sending PHP mail with Authentication

2013-09-29 Thread Paul M Foster
your requirements are extraordinary (which the OP's are), the native PHP mail() function is generally quite adequate. Never thought about creating a PHP email client. Interesting idea... Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http

Re: [PHP] Static methods vs. plain functions

2013-09-19 Thread Paul M Foster
functions. It is definitely something which benefits from OOP code, not flat functions. I've personally found that dates benefit from this same treatment. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit

Re: [PHP] PHP Dependency Injector

2013-09-05 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 04:19:18PM -0400, Bastien Koert wrote: Jee, that should have been a friday comment...how does your dic standout Don't send emails like that to the list when I've got a mouthful of water! It all came out my nose! ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http

Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA

2013-08-20 Thread Paul M Foster
, at least a passing skill in which is common to most programmers. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] how to see all sessions sets in server

2013-08-04 Thread Paul M Foster
sorry. Were you saying something? As soon as I saw Ashley Sheridan in my email client, it closed and my computer rebooted for some strange reason. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit

Re: [PHP] POST action

2013-08-01 Thread Paul M Foster
! So there! ;-P Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] POST action

2013-07-29 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:50:01AM -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: On 7/28/13 9:23 PM, Paul M Foster wrote: On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 08:46:06PM -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: [snip] Except as noted above. This is all home-grown, using native PHP functions designed to do these things

Re: [PHP] POST action

2013-07-28 Thread Paul M Foster
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Re: [PHP] Reseting the auto-increment number in a MySQL database.

2013-06-27 Thread Paul M Foster
remember the system taking forever to calm down before it gave the next transaction a number way forward of the last one. I waited in front of my browser for quite some time. But I couldn't explain why. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing

Re: [PHP] Migration of applications to PHP 5.4

2013-06-25 Thread Paul M Foster
to get them to upgrade, so they can see the problems and fix them. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Detect and Redirect Mobile Users

2013-06-12 Thread Paul M Foster
devices have become progressively more and more capable. Some of them are better than many desktops I've seen. So I'd be interested in the answer to the question myself. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net

Re: [PHP] limit access to php page

2013-05-30 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:06:02PM -0400, Tedd Sperling wrote: On May 29, 2013, at 11:05 PM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: http://sperling.com/php/authorization/log-on.php I realize this is example code. My question is, in a real application where that $_SESSION['auth

Re: [PHP] limit access to php page

2013-05-29 Thread Paul M Foster
) things. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-04 Thread Paul M Foster
not want cold-calling SEO marketing messages. Since that message there has been a significant reduction in emails from legitimate SEO companies. legitimate SEO companies ROTFL! (Oh, sorry, did I say that out loud?) Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP

Re: [PHP] target question

2013-03-25 Thread Paul M Foster
a separate window/tab is determined by the HTML the browser is looking at when it makes the content request. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] target question

2013-03-25 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 04:37:50PM +, Stuart Dallas wrote: On 25 Mar 2013, at 16:35, Ford, Mike m.f...@leedsmet.ac.uk wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul M Foster [mailto:pa...@quillandmouse.com] Sent: 25 March 2013 16:09 This behavior of the browser actually conforms

Re: [PHP] Re: Open form in new window

2013-03-04 Thread Paul M Foster
difference is an asynchronous Javascript/AJAX call or a synchronous PHP call (on a standard PHP form submission). What am I missing? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net

Re: [PHP] Re: Open form in new window

2013-03-04 Thread Paul M Foster
(as Matijn suggested) and then a single submit button. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Formatting -- defining sections of code

2012-12-14 Thread Paul M Foster
, their code base is relatively slim and well-organized. Also, obviously, study the MVC (model-view-controller) paradigm. It's a very useful way of dividing up your code's functionality. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http

Re: [PHP] storing searching docs

2012-12-12 Thread Paul M Foster
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[PHP] PHP site search broken?

2012-12-04 Thread Paul M Foster
) does the same thing. Etc. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Beneficial site spamming framework

2012-10-11 Thread Paul M Foster
free to contact me privately if you think the answer shouldn't be in the archives of a public list. Likewise, if you can point me to a source of quickly absorbable research on the subject. I frankly don't know how I'd google such a thing. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http

Re: [PHP] Day after Friday

2012-09-23 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 09:33:33AM -0400, Tedd Sperling wrote: On Sep 22, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 01:05:51PM -0400, Tedd Sperling wrote: Hi gang: I know it's the Day after Friday, but I'm asking a off-topic question

Re: [PHP] Day after Friday

2012-09-22 Thread Paul M Foster
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Re: [PHP] Bounce messages

2012-09-21 Thread Paul M Foster
of cleaning up the bounce emails we all get when posting to the list(s)? ( Waits to delete all the bounce messages for this post :) ) Not seeing bounce messages here. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net

Re: [PHP] Re: Programmers and developers needed

2012-09-18 Thread Paul M Foster
bought TiVo partially so I could skip ads. I've revelled in it every day since. I can watch an hour-long program in 47 minutes. (Though this is a sad commentary on television and cable content providers.) Yes, ads are Evil(tm). Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com

Re: [PHP] The end of mysql

2012-09-08 Thread Paul M Foster
functions? Who exactly announced what, and is there a link to whatever announcement somewhere? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] FoxPro Table Structure

2012-08-28 Thread Paul M Foster
://noferblatz.com/dbfsak.php If you download the code and need help, just let me know. I believe the command line switch you're looking for is -i, as in: dbfsak -i mytable.dbf Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice / Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-18 Thread Paul M Foster
suspect it's true. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice / Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-18 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 05:10:39PM -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: On Aug 18, 2012 4:49 PM, Paul M Foster [1]pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: I can comment on part of this based on what I was recently told by an SEO company. Let's assume you've got a bunch of SEO goodness

Re: [PHP] Two ways to obtain an object property

2012-08-15 Thread Paul M Foster
in subsequent code, you're not suffering the (admittedly small) repeated overhead of the function call. But in answer to your question, isASubscriber() would be a pretty standard getter method to expose internal object properties. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com

Re: [PHP] Re: What do you call the end-user?

2012-07-24 Thread Paul M Foster
. But in the case of FOSS, nothing could be further from the truth. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] Re: [PHP] The Cat Signal

2012-07-20 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:04:30AM +0100, Lester Caine wrote: Paul M Foster wrote: Here's another one: There are currently discussions in the U.S. Congress in favor of forcing internet vendors to charge sales tax on*all* sales, regardless of whether the vendor has a presence in that state

Re: [PHP] What do you call the end-user?

2012-07-19 Thread Paul M Foster
half the people who read anything can't actually *apply* what they read to whatever system they're working with. Supposedly they can read. But somehow they still need someone to explain it to them, no matter how good the docs are. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http

Re: [PHP] Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] Re: [PHP] The Cat Signal

2012-07-19 Thread Paul M Foster
. Governments and large corporations are about power and *control*. The internet is the antithesis of this. So expect their efforts to control some or all of the internet to continue until they succeed. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http

Re: [PHP] What do you call the end-user?

2012-07-19 Thread Paul M Foster
to you. In this case, I wouldn't want to waste my time on what you describe. I don't care how big the check is. I have too many other more important things to do with my time. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net

Re: [PHP] Creating drop-down menus

2012-07-17 Thread Paul M Foster
don't know why, but Javascript just devours CPU on my computer. The more javascript, the worse. And like I said, JQuery is a LOT of code. This is one of the reasons I tend to code things in PHP instead of Javascript. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP

Re: [PHP] PDO: extend or encapsulate?

2012-07-13 Thread Paul M Foster
would prefer not be used by my code. Encapsulation limits the methods of the classes to just what I deem necessary and no more. I can always write new methods if I need them. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net

Re: [PHP] Entry point of an MVC framework

2012-07-12 Thread Paul M Foster
the use of .htaccess files and Apache's mod_rewrite, which you may not have in a shared hosting environment. Hopefully that helps. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net

Re: [PHP] Entry point of an MVC framework

2012-07-12 Thread Paul M Foster
.). Then use those as part of the toolkit, assembled (again on a shallow basis) in a loosely MVC pattern. If I make a mistake, I should be able to isolate where it is within an hour (ideally much less). And be able to go to the specific class and method involved. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http

Re: [PHP] Entry point of an MVC framework

2012-07-12 Thread Paul M Foster
on butterflies is exceptionally difficult. You really want to isolate that in your models. Fortunately, the herding_cats design pattern works equally well with butterflies. (Welcome to Friday, half a day early! ;-) Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] disabled cookies

2012-06-04 Thread Paul M Foster
, but you can keep your parliament. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Open Call: Official PHP Mirror

2012-06-02 Thread Paul M Foster
clients, Droids, Borg, Klingons, Romulans, toddlers, and the gum disease known as gingivitis. There I was, ready to volunteer, until I saw Romulans. Geez, a few bad apples spoiling it for the rest of us. Crap. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP

Re: [PHP] Happy Diamond Jubilee everyone!

2012-06-01 Thread Paul M Foster
days :-/ *Very* nice work! Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Function size

2012-05-30 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:40:25PM +0200, Matijn Woudt wrote: [snip] On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: [snip] I think a lot of coders try to be kewler than the next 18 guys who are gonna have to look at the code, so they use a lot

Re: [PHP] Re: Function size

2012-05-30 Thread Paul M Foster
. ALWAYS satisfy yourself that you know what a function is doing by *looking* at what it's doing. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Function size

2012-05-29 Thread Paul M Foster
of compression techniques to reduce LOC. Plus, they're lazy. I'd rather see everything with lots of spaces and plenty of comments and blank lines. Especially since I'm sometimes that 18th guy to look at the code. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] Function size

2012-05-29 Thread Paul M Foster
extent they model how most people (programmers) would naturally approach the solution of programming problems. (Of course, there are always the oddballs like me who still prefer reverse polish notation on our calculators. Go figure.) Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http

Re: [PHP] PHP: a fractal of bad design

2012-04-11 Thread Paul M Foster
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Re: [PHP] Swiftlet is quite possibly the smallest MVC framework you'll ever use.

2012-02-13 Thread Paul M Foster
this is my C upbringing Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Swiftlet is quite possibly the smallest MVC framework you'll ever use.

2012-02-12 Thread Paul M Foster
that than spend hours trying to track down which file in which directory contains the class which paints the screen blue or whatever. (Yes, I'm aware that require_once() introduces some latency.) Just something to consider. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com

Re: Re: Re: [PHP] What's Your Favorite Design Pattern?

2012-02-08 Thread Paul M Foster
) around that time, and seeing all kinds of talk in the company materials about *Ethernet*. They explained the basic protocol and compared it to token ring, and I just thought, Hmm, yes, that seems like a pretty clever way to go about networking. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http

Re: [PHP] Arrays: Comma at end?

2012-02-07 Thread Paul M Foster
it for all these years. Thanks! Micky I've always avoided trailing array commas, but only because I was under the impression that leaving one there would append a blank array member to the array, where it might be problematic. Yes? No? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http

Re: Re: [PHP] What's Your Favorite Design Pattern?

2012-02-07 Thread Paul M Foster
was remarkably similar for solving certain types of programming problems. So they codified what that found and wrote a book about it. I have the book on my shelf, and it's decent technology, but you could spend your whole career and never use any of it, and get along just fine. Paul -- Paul M. Foster

Re: [PHP] Headers on smart phone browsers

2012-02-06 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 02:28:42PM -0600, Donovan Brooke wrote: Paul M Foster wrote: This is sort of obliquely related to PHP. I don't have a smart phone, but I need to know a couple of things: 1) Do smart phones use the same browsers as the desktop, or do they have their own stripped

Re: [PHP] Headers on smart phone browsers

2012-02-06 Thread Paul M Foster
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Re: [PHP] Headers on smart phone browsers

2012-02-06 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 04:04:28PM -0500, Adam Richardson wrote: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Adam Richardson [1]simples...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Paul M Foster [2]pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: This is sort of obliquely related to PHP

Re: [PHP] Headers on smart phone browsers

2012-02-06 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:01:45PM +, Stuart Dallas wrote: On 6 Feb 2012, at 05:58, Paul M Foster wrote: This is sort of obliquely related to PHP. I don't have a smart phone, but I need to know a couple of things: There are simulators available for most smartphones. 1) Do

[PHP] Headers on smart phone browsers

2012-02-05 Thread Paul M Foster
or smart phone version of a webpage)? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Variable Troubleshooting Code

2012-01-09 Thread Paul M Foster
; } I use this routine wherever I want to see what's going on. It formats (particularly) array output so that I can read it, instead of having everything look like JSON, which is much harder to read. Feel free to use the above yourself as needed. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com

Re: [PHP] PDF Printing instead?

2012-01-05 Thread Paul M Foster
then simply click on the link and their browser will open it and provide the native (usually Adobe Reader) interface for viewing and printing it. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http

Re: [PHP] Way to output HTML on professional websites

2011-12-26 Thread Paul M Foster
, I think you'll find that most CMS based site presentations are based on templating engines, though I could be wrong. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Question regarding passwords/security

2011-12-22 Thread Paul M Foster
. Is there any concensus or overwhelming argument one way or the other? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Question regarding passwords/security

2011-12-22 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:55:41PM -0500, Al wrote: On 12/22/2011 10:05 AM, Paul M Foster wrote: Not sure how to ask this question... I've always eschewed consulting a database on page loads to determine if a user is logged in, primarily because of latency issues. For example, you could

Re: [PHP] Finding and reading firefox bookmarks with PHP

2011-11-28 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:59:03AM -0500, David McGlone wrote: On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 22:20 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 06:47:36PM -0500, David McGlone wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if it's possible to find the bookmarks file in firefox and output the contents

Re: [PHP] Finding and reading firefox bookmarks with PHP

2011-11-27 Thread Paul M Foster
know why the first key I mentioned is 2 instead of 1.) Anyway, I have my Firefox set up this way. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Tutorial for the structure of an php-app ?

2011-11-26 Thread Paul M Foster
for has to do with the user interface and not PHP, there is no ONE way to build a PHP app. PHP is flexible enough to allow you to do it any of a number of ways. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe

Re: [PHP] news and article posts in one table

2011-11-26 Thread Paul M Foster
if this is a better arrangement than keeping them in separate tables.) I've had to hack this table. It's a prime example of bad design. Take a long look at the records of this table in an active blog, with a survey of each of the fields and their values. You'll see what I mean. Paul -- Paul M

Re: [PHP] Need help Wth PHP

2011-10-10 Thread Paul M Foster
to directly modify the site, without having to call a programmer or web developer. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Multiple SQLite statements

2011-10-10 Thread Paul M Foster
* that this may be how it actually works, but I wondered if anyone could confirm that. -- Cheers -- Tim The docs appear to agree that this is allowed. See: http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.sqlite-exec.php Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP

Re: [PHP] Re: Secure data management

2011-10-07 Thread Paul M Foster
injection beyond just quoting. Here's a good tutorial on how this works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bORZlmyDw0s Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] What determines your use of the type of DB framework/abstract?

2011-09-22 Thread Paul M Foster
) eases the work. As for ORMs, I'm old skool; my preference is to use straight SQL where possible. I think it makes you think more carefully about your database structure and the type of queries you do. And sooner or later, ORM gets in the way of multi-table foreign-key reliant queries. Paul -- Paul M

Re: [PHP] Any free online tests to test my PHP knowledge?

2011-09-22 Thread Paul M Foster
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Re: Re: [PHP] What would you like to see in most in a text editor?

2011-09-14 Thread Paul M Foster
they are-- flat files. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Code should be selv-maintaining!

2011-08-31 Thread Paul M Foster
of earthly obfuscation to comprehend the blinding truth that is KR. Amen. (Nah, it wasn't Kool-Aid. Tasted more like a cross between RC Cola and Dr Pepper.) ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net

Re: [PHP] PHP frameworks

2011-07-21 Thread Paul M Foster
://codeigniter.com ). It's a lightweight, well-engineered framework with relatively transparent code (meaning you can examine the source and see relatively easily what they're doing). Documentation is some of the best out there. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http

Re: [PHP] How to sum monetary variables

2011-07-18 Thread Paul M Foster
convert to decimal for display. If you're doing multiplies and divides, do them with the multi-precision PHP functions. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Re: Top Posting

2011-07-06 Thread Paul M Foster
, it's not just for spam. It can be used to filter out duplicate emails, file copies of emails under different folders by subject, etc. It also makes for a great car wax and salad dressing. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http

Re: [PHP] Re: Re: Top Posting

2011-07-06 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 04:24:29PM -0500, Tamara Temple wrote: On Jul 6, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Paul M Foster wrote: Postfix is a *nix program which can be connected to whatever program you use to grab mail with. With postfix, you write recipes which dictate what will be done with a piece

Re: [PHP] Top Posting

2011-07-05 Thread Paul M Foster
can make life easier both on yourself and the rest of us by snipping content not relevant to your reply (that doesn't mean *all* preceding content). Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit

Re: [PHP] Re: Top Posting

2011-07-05 Thread Paul M Foster
demand it) is silly. No offense, but it's pretty weak reasoning. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Create a hierarchical hash from flat source

2011-06-24 Thread Paul M Foster
CS undergrad. Bane? I thought they were elegant :) The way you know they're *not* elegant is that hardly any language since C has included them. We worship at the alter of languages with garbage collection. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP

Re: [PHP] Doctrine madness!

2011-06-16 Thread Paul M Foster
what I'd consider acceptable. Looking at some of the code that comprises most ORM and other frameworks (but particularly ORM frameworks) the bloat is amazing. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe

Re: [PHP] Doctrine madness!

2011-06-16 Thread Paul M Foster
pretty extensively in the big website category. Of course, if you ever want to do anything outside the Drupal/Joomla box, you're looking at a helluva lot of work and time. I've been there (briefly). Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List

[PHP] Uncatchable errors

2011-06-13 Thread Paul M Foster
and trace of the error. Any way to have things like parse errors do the same thing? Pointers to prior threads would do fine. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Class not used as an object (Scope Resolution Operator)

2011-06-09 Thread Paul M Foster
the class. They become global as soon as the source file is include()ed. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] phpsadness - P.C. shmee seee.

2011-06-05 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:52:15PM -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: and I'm balding from Alopecia Me too, but in my case, it's just 'cause I'm old. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Paul M Foster
with an actual sense of humor. I suspect most people snickered at the joke and admired the chutzpah it took to post it. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Announcing New PHP Extension: System Detonation Library (was: phpsadness)

2011-06-03 Thread Paul M Foster
this morning to build and release a new PHP extension, which provides a single function: detonate(). Third, you can read about it and download it here: http://links.parasane.net/29nh +1! Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-02 Thread Paul M Foster
back to that index page. I about doubled over when I first discovered it. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-29 Thread Paul M Foster
that interleaved replies or bottom posting will never be considered offensive on any list. Whereas we all know that top posting can often be considered offensive, depending on the list. By the way, bottom posting only really becomes offensive when you fail to trim as needed. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http

Re: [PHP] simple question abt convert to integer

2011-05-24 Thread Paul M Foster
$result1 into a boolean before passing it to these other functions. But I suspect it's #1 above. Please see the documentation for these functions at php.net. It may even be available in your native language. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] A Review Request

2011-05-20 Thread Paul M Foster
! ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] A Review Request

2011-05-19 Thread Paul M Foster
these things. I never know when I might learn something. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Consistent Class Renaming (Simple Refactoring)

2011-05-16 Thread Paul M Foster
a huge piece of explanation here. So my idea is to continously rename every occurence of class names and constants in the scripts by adding a suffix (ie. class A_123 and class A_234). Do you have an idea how to implement this during the deployment step? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http

[PHP] Running PHP5 in a PHP4 environment

2011-05-12 Thread Paul M Foster
interpreter hit some future code it didn't understand, it would issue a syntax warning or something similar. Is there some way I can squeeze some identifiable error code out of PHP 4 to indicate it's hit PHP 5 code it doesn't understand? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http

[PHP] Using SQLite without hosting support

2011-05-03 Thread Paul M Foster
, is it possible to run PHP5 and use SQLite, even if support for it is not built in? The dl() function has some restrictions on it which might prohibit its use, so is there some way to use SQLite in this situation without resorting to using the dl() function? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http

Re: [PHP] Using SQLite without hosting support

2011-05-03 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 02:14:17PM -0400, ad...@buskirkgraphics.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul M Foster [mailto:pa...@quillandmouse.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 12:36 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Using SQLite without hosting support Assume you

Re: [PHP] Debugging Help Needed

2011-04-12 Thread Paul M Foster
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Re: [PHP] the best 1 book for php

2011-04-07 Thread Paul M Foster
trying to learn the language, a book is a better companion than php.net. I'd recommend the O'Reilly book Programming PHP by Lerdorf, Tatroe MacIntyre. Before I discovered php.net, it was my bible (not the one Tedd referred to). Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com

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