Re[4]: [PHP] Super bizarre changing variable!!

Hi Brian, Friday, October 5, 2007, 2:10:32 PM, you wrote: > I definitely misunderstood what you guys are saying about the length. > That's clearly a problem for a lot of my values. > I can switch them both to bigint. One table has 34,000,000 records > and it's OK if this is hung up for a few m

Re[2]: [PHP] Super bizarre changing variable!!

Hi Brian, Friday, October 5, 2007, 1:28:35 PM, you wrote: > This is indeed the complete code, I did not cut anything out for > brevity, which is why this appears to be so impossible. > eAccelerator is activated, could something be corrupt? Could a > corrupt index cause this? > In table1, `r

Re: [PHP] Super bizarre changing variable!!

Hi Brian, Thursday, October 4, 2007, 4:50:09 PM, you wrote: > I'm running the following code: > $query3 = "DELETE FROM table1 WHERE referer=$referer ORDER BY > creation LIMIT $numtodelete"; > $result3 = mysql_query($query3); > $string = "$total found, $n kept, $numtodelete extras removed > (

Re: [PHP] Opening a file

Hi Dan, Wednesday, September 5, 2007, 3:24:43 PM, you wrote: > Opening this file is proving to be a pain. I have a folder that contains a > PHP page and a text file. I am trying to open the contents of the txt file > using file() but it keeps erroring out. Below is the code I'm using to try > and

Re: [PHP] manual vs. meta refresh

Hi Kevin, Friday, August 10, 2007, 7:26:30 PM, you wrote: > I doubt this, but is there any way to determine via PHP if a browser > was refreshed automatically via a META tag vs the person clicking the > refresh button? You could dynamically generate the meta tag, so it refreshes to your page w

Re: [PHP] Getting a 'newline' out of a string

Hi Faither, Friday, August 10, 2007, 5:16:09 PM, you wrote: > I'm kind of lost with how str_replace , preg_replace, ereg_replace or > even explode are handling a "\n"-ewline. > I have a text string from a form and am trying to replace the "\n" or > chr(10) or however you might call the newline

Re: [PHP] Recursion and threaded message boards...

Hi Tony, Friday, August 10, 2007, 5:23:28 PM, you wrote: > I have to write some PHP backend code for a threaded message board. > The db has a message table, and each message has a parent id. > Does anyone have any advice for someone whos never done this in PHP? > I'm currently thinking that I w

Re[2]: [PHP] Friday morning brain farts....

Hi Stut, Friday, August 10, 2007, 4:44:14 PM, you wrote: > On my production servers error_reporting is set to E_ALL, > display_errors is off and log_errors is on. I get an email from each > server containing the contents of the error log from the previous > day and my first task each day is to go

Re[2]: [PHP] Friday morning brain farts....

Hi Robert, Friday, August 10, 2007, 4:13:02 PM, you wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 11:00 -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: >> >> Remember to clean that input before you sit down at the table, there, >> boy! >> >> It's safe to ignore the `Undefined index` notices. That will just >> appear if a

Re: [PHP] Hosting cost

Hi Richard, Friday, August 10, 2007, 11:10:21 AM, you wrote: > This is off topic so feel free to reply off list. > My question is how much is it reasonable to charge for the following: > 1. Building a very small website (you can see it here: > http://www.cleardebtadvice.co.uk) > 2. Hosting

Re[2]: [PHP] javascript in or in ?

Hi Greg, Tuesday, August 7, 2007, 9:52:28 PM, you wrote: > PHP is the absolute worst language to do any sort of OO programming > in. Ignoring the digg user mentality of that statement, try ASP if you want to see OO suck *royally* Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.corephp.co.u

Re: [PHP] Array difficulty

Hi Carlton, Tuesday, July 31, 2007, 2:27:46 PM, you wrote: > I have an array like this: > $chance = array("lowercase" => 27, "uppercase" => 62, "integer" => 46); > The values for each of the keys are randomly generated. I want to > find the key name of the one which has the highest value. Curre

Re[2]: [PHP] Reading registry values

Hi, Monday, July 30, 2007, 7:40:52 PM, you wrote: > I'm not sure that there's actually anything you'd need to access in > the server registry (and certainly no registry in Linux if you're > also transitioning from Windows to Linux). And depending on what the > ActiveX control your ASP pages acces

Re: [PHP] how to use imagestring() function with Chinese String

Hi Davis, Saturday, July 28, 2007, 1:54:22 AM, you wrote: > Hi! I am trying to use the imagestring() function to put a string of > Chinese characters from a $_GET variable onto an image. However, the > characters do not display right (English is fine). Is there a way I can > fix this or it is t

Re: [PHP] Re: How to get stored procedure return values via PDO?

Hi M., Thursday, July 26, 2007, 2:09:47 PM, you wrote: > Richard Davey wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm calling a MySQL Stored Procedure via PDO (PHP 5.2.3) >> >> $stmt = $dbh->prepare('CALL forum_post(?, ?, ?, ?, ?, @status, @thread_id, >> @mes

[PHP] How to get stored procedure return values via PDO?

Hi, I'm calling a MySQL Stored Procedure via PDO (PHP 5.2.3) $stmt = $dbh->prepare('CALL forum_post(?, ?, ?, ?, ?, @status, @thread_id, @message_id)'); At the moment in order to get the values of status, thread_id and message_id I need to issue a second query: $sql = "SELECT @status AS status,

Re: [PHP] query not working properly

Hi Joey, Thursday, July 26, 2007, 1:36:37 PM, you wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'mt trying to do the below query which itself works correctly, but when I > add a order by statement just bombs. > $query = "select * from articles where ( {$now} BETWEEN startdate > AND enddate) and categoryid =

Re: [PHP] global variable does not exist anymore?

Hi Patrik, Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 11:30:56 PM, you wrote: > Dear my friends... > I create a very simple script in html and php as a first step. I use suse, > apache2, mysql and php. > I wonder why this script does not work: > > > > > Guru - Virtual bookstore who understands you for

Re: [PHP] module loading problems

Hi Chris, Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 5:36:29 PM, you wrote: > I'm running PHP 5.2.0 on windows XP SP2 lately when it starts I > have been getting the an error when it tries to load the mysqli dll. > It loads the standard mysql dll fine and all the dlls are in the > same place the path and php

Re: [PHP] Notice warnings and performance

Hi Erfan, Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 9:39:35 AM, you wrote: > The site I'm working on has a lot of notice warnings, thousands. And > they are all about: (Notice: Undefined variable..) > I was wondering if I set the php.ini file to not log these in file or > display them, does all of these notice

Re[2]: [PHP] Better way to store data in memory?

Hi Richard, Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 5:20:32 AM, you wrote: > It's possible, maybe, that using imagecolorat and imagesetcolor (or > whatever it is) would be faster than array access... In the end I implemented RLE on the image data, and depending on the image in question it is saving sometimes

Re[4]: [PHP] Help needed with Curl

Hi Dave, Tuesday, July 24, 2007, 4:45:13 PM, you wrote: > No I don't have a local certificate created. > I'm only need to do a post using xml-rpc and I have SSLVerifyPeer turned > off. This turns off client certificate authentication $xmlrpc_client->>setSSLVerifyPeer(0); What does your PHP err

Re[4]: [PHP] Help needed with Curl

Hi Daniel, Tuesday, July 24, 2007, 3:57:11 PM, you wrote: > On 7/24/07, Richard Davey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> *Never* put PHP DLLs into the Windows System folder. >> It's neither required, nor sensible. >> >> Keep them where they belong - in your PHP

Re[2]: [PHP] Help needed with Curl

Hi Daniel, Tuesday, July 24, 2007, 2:34:06 PM, you wrote: > In order to enable cURL on a Windows box, you have to copy > libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll from the DLL folder of the PHP/ binary > package to the SYSTEM folder. (to be safe, you may want to do both > C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ and C:\WINDOWS\SY

Re[2]: [PHP] Better way to store data in memory?

Hi Robert, Monday, July 23, 2007, 6:00:50 PM, you wrote: > What kind of data? Can't you just store it in the image? Or a working > copy of the image? Afraid not, I'm performing deformation on the data that requires a temporary location before rendering to the final image. If this was a straight

[PHP] Better way to store data in memory?

Hi php-general collective, I'm building up some image data in my PHP script (ready for output to the browser). Having to do some complex per pixel manipulation, which is fine - but I'm just wondering is there a quicker / more efficient way of storing the pixel data than in an array? At the moment

Re[2]: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

Hi Crayon, Monday, July 23, 2007, 4:09:57 PM, you wrote: > On Monday 23 July 2007 22:26, Larry Garfield wrote: >> So when does "Rasmus Lerdorf and the Deathly Hallows" open in theaters? > They've got to make "Rasmus Lerdorf and the Order of the PHP" first. Or even "Rasmus Lerdorf and the Order

Re[2]: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

Hi John, Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 3:27:16 PM, you wrote: >> Citing a reference in a book to another is not the same as >> reproducing that ENTIRE book wholesale, page for page, illustration >> for illustration. > All right, supposing I do a cut copy paste on a section of a book, > not the whole t

Re[2]: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

Hi John, Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 2:01:42 PM, you wrote: > So it isn't as black and white as you say. There apparently is a > place where you can not only copy, but redistribute, and as long as > you gave proper credit, you don't have to pay. Citing a reference in a book to another is not the sam

Re[2]: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

Hi John, Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 1:02:15 PM, you wrote: > Really? Did you cite and pay every source you used in your book? And > what about those of us who downloaded books that we've bought? Neither of these things apply to my rant, don't quote me out of context. > Seriously, I think you nee

Re[2]: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

Hi Jochem, Monday, July 16, 2007, 6:11:12 PM, you wrote: > no personal attack is intended here ... I hope you don't mind if I > rebutt/discuss, I find it a rather interesting topic :-) Not at all, my original post wasn't meant personally towards you specifically, just in general. > did you look

Re[4]: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

Hi Crayon, Monday, July 16, 2007, 4:22:14 PM, you wrote: > I think no matter which way you dice it, sending 1 email is a lot more > energy efficient than printing 1 book. Just because the tree itself is > renewable, the *energy* used in cutting it down, turning it into paper, > turning the paper

Re: [PHP] I am lost

Hi Grant, Saturday, July 14, 2007, 8:07:43 PM, you wrote: > Previously I had PHP on my older computer using IIS 5.1 it worked fine. But > I'm on my new computer using IIS 7 and features like include or completely > normal scripts that use to work no longer work. I have try to see if it's > the we

Re: [PHP] Php code in html buttons

Hi k, Tuesday, July 10, 2007, 11:59:42 PM, you wrote: > I'm trying to make a button execute some php code when the button is > clicked. I'm not sure if it is the button i'm coding wrong or the php code. > Here is the code I am using. > echo ""; ?>> Everything about this approach is wrong. PHP

Re[3]: [PHP] HTML in database

>> Thanks. Sorry, I should have mentioned I'm using MS Sql Server and >> I don't see a mssql equivalent to that function. > MSSQL treats '' as an escaped ', not \' like MySQL does. > So you can't addslashes it. Perform your own ' to '' conversion. And to reply to my own reply :) ... If you can

Re[2]: [PHP] HTML in database

Hi Bruce, Thursday, July 5, 2007, 1:26:01 AM, you wrote: > Thanks. Sorry, I should have mentioned I'm using MS Sql Server and > I don't see a mssql equivalent to that function. MSSQL treats '' as an escaped ', not \' like MySQL does. So you can't addslashes it. Perform your own ' to '' convers

Re[4]: [PHP] Re: php security books

Hi Andrew, Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 8:29:51 PM, you wrote: > I have no doubt he is a great bloke and a great public speaker / PR > for PHP application level security, I apologise if it sounded like > FUDing (why does that sound dirty?). I just don't like / agree with > his book or some of the se

Re[2]: [PHP] Re: php security books

Hi Andrew, Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 4:23:38 PM, you wrote: >>> Avoid the O'Reilly one as it is flawed. >> In what way? > Its written by Chris Shiflett, isn't that enough reason? No, not really. The errata are clearly published online, and while you could argue that some of them shouldn't ha

[PHP] Swear filter ideas

Hi all, Just wanting to pick your collective brains on this one: How do you go about implementing a swear / bad-word filter in PHP? Reasons for needing one aside, I'm just wondering if you favour a regexp, a substr_count, or what? Do you like to *** out the bad words, or just error back to the u

[PHP] Counting Capital Letters

Hi, I've written a short regexp which will *count* how many capital letters are in a given string (the woefully simple: '/[A-Z]/') Although it's an English language web site, I'm curious how you'd count capital letters that span beyond just the standard A-Z. For example characters such as the La

Re[2]: [PHP] Comparing string to array

Hi Robin, Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 8:28:50 PM, you wrote: > On 19/06/07, Richard Davey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> $userparam = "test['sam'][]"; >> >> // How to check if $userparam exists in the $_POST array >> // and get

Re[2]: [PHP] Comparing string to array

Hi Jim, Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 6:21:25 PM, you wrote: > let me try this again. > in the submitted $_POST array, you are looking for a key (test) that contains > a given $username > that may or may not have any values set? > Correct? Sorry not even close. Here, let me try again... $param =

Re: [PHP] Force zero numbers on a integer

Hi, Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 5:17:29 PM, you wrote: > I have a integer that is submitted by the user and i need it to always > contain 5 digits. > If the user submitted 45, i need it to be 00045. > If the user submitted 4595, i need it to be 04595. > How can i do this? Given PHPs type switchin

Re[2]: [PHP] Comparing string to array

Hi Jim, Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 5:47:29 PM, you wrote: > Jim Lucas wrote: >>> $userparam = "test['sam'][]"; > then what you are saying it that this HAS to be your search string? Heck no, it doesn't *have* to be. Feel free to remove the quotes from it and then attempt my original questio

Re[2]: [PHP] Comparing string to array

Hi Jim, Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 5:29:55 PM, you wrote: > Richard Davey wrote: >> Hi Jim, >> >> Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 5:06:47 PM, you wrote: >> >>> DON'T USE SINGLE QUOTES IN YOUR NAME="" ATTRIBUTE >> >> Hate to piss on your

Re[2]: [PHP] Comparing string to array

Hi Jim, Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 5:06:47 PM, you wrote: > DON'T USE SINGLE QUOTES IN YOUR NAME="" ATTRIBUTE Hate to piss on your bonfire but a single quote is a perfectly valid (if somewhat stupid choice of) character for inclusion in an array key. Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http

Re[2]: [PHP] Comparing string to array

Hi Stut, Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 1:49:53 PM, you wrote: >> Very nice, thank you. I was hoping there would be a way to do it >> without resorting to eval(), but if even you can't figure out how, I'm >> not going to waste any more time trying to either :) > You probably could by breaking it into e

Re: [PHP] Re: Comparing string to array

Hi Al, Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 1:46:47 PM, you wrote: > preg_grep() or > foreach($_POST as $value){ > if(empty($value)) continue; > $good_stuff[] = $value; > } A classic case of not reading the post fully methinks. Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.corephp.c

Re[2]: [PHP] Comparing string to array

Hi Stut, Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 1:16:54 PM, you wrote: >> The problem is finding a way to expand the input name (which is a >> string) into a format that $_POST can be searched for. Or do the >> reverse, iterate through $_POST to find a match for the input name and >> get that value. > Try this

Re[2]: [PHP] Comparing string to array

Hi Stut, Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 12:09:12 PM, you wrote: > If you have no control over what the fields in the form will be, what > are you doing with the data? Surely if you're writing logic that > requires you to know what the fields are called, you need to have > control over it. Here, this

Re[2]: [PHP] Comparing string to array

Hi Stut, Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 10:16:02 AM, you wrote: > If you can't control $userparam and it has to look like you have it then > you're parsing of it is a little more involved, but still fairly simple. > What are you actually trying to do? Where will $userparam actually come > from? There i

Re[2]: [PHP] Comparing string to array

Hi Larry, Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 2:55:07 AM, you wrote: > Perhaps you're looking for in_array()? If only it was that simple! But pray tell how an in_array search is going to find: $userparam = "test['bob'][]"; within: Array ( [test] => Array ( ['bob'] => Array

[PHP] Comparing string to array

Hi all, Ok it's 2am, my brain has gone to mush and I am having trouble figuring out an easy way to do this, can anyone shed some light? Take a peek at the following code: // START red green blue red2 green2 blue2 // END From the code above I'm trying to figure out how to tell if the $

Re[7]: [PHP] Need a more elegant way of bitwise ORing values

Hi tedd, Saturday, June 16, 2007, 1:18:58 PM, you wrote: > How about? > switch (1) > { > case $allow_fraction: > $filter['flags'] = FILTER_FLAG_ALLOW_FRACTION; > break; > case $allow_thousand: > $filter['flags'] = FILTER_FLAG_ALLOW_THOUSAND; >

Re[2]: [PHP] Re: outputing image part 2

Hi Ross, Friday, June 15, 2007, 10:40:37 PM, you wrote: > Any ideas how to save the imagecopyresampled() to the folder? Call imagepng (or imagejpeg or whatever) and pass it a filename to save the image instead of output it. Check the help files for examples. Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Eng

Re: [PHP] Re: outputing image part 2

Hi Ross, Friday, June 15, 2007, 10:00:53 PM, you wrote: > I have this > $img_url="http://www.xxx.co.uk/images/ENbb24469/room1.JPG";; > echo ">"; > and on the display image page I have: > $img_url= $_GET['img_url']; > $image = imagecreatefromjpeg($img_url); > if ($image === false) { exit;

Re: [PHP] Creating 'Previous - Next Buttons' Logic - Novice Question

Hi, Friday, June 15, 2007, 9:53:24 PM, you wrote: > I know very little about PHP ... however, I am hoping that there is some > kind of preset " open source" php code that I might be able to use. There is the Pear pagination package which can do this, although not quite in the way you want it do

Re[6]: [PHP] London PHP salaries

Hi Crayon, Friday, June 15, 2007, 2:06:47 AM, you wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2007 07:39, Richard Davey wrote: >> Yeah, it makes buying software from the US a dream at the moment. > Huh? When software comes across the pond they usually markup at 1USD=1GBP Sure, bastards like Adob

Re[4]: [PHP] London PHP salaries

Hi Tijnema, Friday, June 15, 2007, 12:10:56 AM, you wrote: >> It's actually 1 USD = 0.50 GBP. > Ohh nice :) Yeah, it makes buying software from the US a dream at the moment. Same goes for domain names, server hosting, etc. Of course it means SELLING software into the US is a complete bitch, but

Re[2]: [PHP] London PHP salaries

Hi Daevid, Thursday, June 14, 2007, 9:26:44 PM, you wrote: > We had an employee (a friend of mine) "start a UK office", and due to > corporate legal reasons, and taxes, etc, he got paid in US DOLLARS. > Aside from even more legal/tax issues he personally had to face, his > salary was almost halve

Re[2]: [PHP] Re: London PHP salaries

Hi Daniel, Thursday, June 14, 2007, 7:40:52 PM, you wrote: > I gross ~$2,400 per month. [snip] > So, with bills alone, it costs me a minimum of $2,700. That > leaves me with about $900 extra which then goes to repaying loans I'm curious.. how does $2,400 - $2,700 = $900 left over

Re: [PHP] London PHP salaries

Hi Javier, Thursday, June 14, 2007, 9:23:25 AM, you wrote: > I've received a job offer from a London zone 1 based > company as Senior PHP developer. > I'm really interested but I live in Spain an have no > idea about UK salaries so I wonder if somebody could > give me a clue. > How much money is

Re[2]: [PHP] Need a more elegant way of bitwise ORing values

Hi Richard, Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 6:44:55 PM, you wrote: >> if ($allow_fraction) > //Should we warn you that $allow_fraction is not actually defined?... Should I warn you that to save everyone's sanity I only posted what was needed from the code? ;) $allow_fraction came from a function para

Re[8]: [PHP] Need a more elegant way of bitwise ORing values

Hi Robert, Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 3:37:38 PM, you wrote: > Personally I hate constants (can't use non-scalar values so why get used > ot them... also they're just another point for name collision) so if it > were my own code I'd do something more like the following: Sure, but the filter exten

Re[6]: [PHP] Need a more elegant way of bitwise ORing values

Hi Robert, Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 3:15:39 PM, you wrote: > It's terribly verbose and inefficient... > $filter['flags'] = 0; > if( $allow_fraction ) > { > $filter['flags'] |= FILTER_FLAG_ALLOW_FRACTION; > } > if( $allow_thousand ) > { > $filter['flags'] |= FILTER_FLAG_ALLOW_THOUSAND

Re[4]: [PHP] Need a more elegant way of bitwise ORing values

Hi Zoltán, Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 3:09:16 PM, you wrote: > 2007. 06. 13, szerda keltezéssel 15.42-kor Tijnema ezt írta: >> On 6/13/07, Richard Davey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi Zoltán, >> > >> > Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 2:21:18 PM, y

Re[4]: [PHP] Need a more elegant way of bitwise ORing values

Hi Tijnema, Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 2:42:28 PM, you wrote: > Nice one, but you could also do it like this: > $filter['flags'] = FALSE; > if ($allow_fraction) > { >$filter['flags'] = $filter['flags'] | FILTER_FLAG_ALLOW_FRACTION; > } > if ($allow_thousand) > { >$filter['flags'] = $fi

Re[2]: [PHP] Need a more elegant way of bitwise ORing values

Hi Zoltán, Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 2:21:18 PM, you wrote: > 2007. 06. 13, szerda keltezéssel 14.13-kor Richard Davey ezt írta: >> Hi all, >> >> Can anyone think of a more elegant way of achieving the following? >> >> > $flags = array(); >>

[PHP] Need a more elegant way of bitwise ORing values

Hi all, Can anyone think of a more elegant way of achieving the following? 0) { $c = '$c = ' . implode('|', $flags) . ';'; eval($c); $filter['flags'] = $c; } ?> The code checks for 3 booleans ($allow_fraction, etc) and if true it adds the const to the $flags array. At the end each v

Re: [PHP] PHP Corrupts URLs

Hi Nathan, Friday, June 8, 2007, 9:47:22 PM, you wrote: > I have a php script that gets a url from a GET query parameter. I have > been running this script on PHP 5.2.2 on Ubuntu Linux, and everything > works as expected. I have just installed PHP 5.2.3 on OS X via > MacPorts, and the same qu

Re[4]: [PHP] checking the aspect ratio of an images

Hi Robert, Friday, June 8, 2007, 7:47:17 PM, you wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 19:35 +0100, Richard Davey wrote: >> Hi Robert, >> >> Friday, June 8, 2007, 7:21:39 PM, you wrote: >> >> > Precisely defined limits are not the same as precisely defined value

Re[2]: [PHP] checking the aspect ratio of an images

Hi Robert, Friday, June 8, 2007, 7:21:39 PM, you wrote: > Precisely defined limits are not the same as precisely defined values. I > might precisely define the amount of entropy on a random value as being > some formula based on the current temperature of my CPU. The formula is > quite precise, b

Re[2]: [PHP] checking the aspect ratio of an images

Hi Crayon, Friday, June 8, 2007, 6:08:30 PM, you wrote: > On Friday 08 June 2007 22:17, tedd wrote: >> >> Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 11:41:19 AM, you wrote: >> >> > I want to force users to insert landscape rather portrait images. >> >> > I don't want to be too pedantic about it but they do nee

Re[2]: [PHP] Parse domain from URL

Hi Brad, Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 5:04:41 PM, you wrote: > Yes, that's basically what my code already does. > The problem is that what if the url is "http://yahoo.co.uk/"; (note the lack > of a subdomain) > Your script thinks that the domain is "co.uk". Just like my existing code > does. > So

Re[2]: [PHP] Re: customer ids

Hi Burn, Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 4:39:05 PM, you wrote: > Worst thing that can happen is having mysql throw an error while trying > to insert an ID that's already present in the database. It gets more > complicated and unpredictable if the field isn't required to be unique > at database design

Re: [PHP] Re: customer ids

Hi Burn, Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 3:55:21 PM, you wrote: > Here's how I do it, for 1 single table though.. you'll have to write > yourself the mod to check on more tables. If you plan to have > 10 > millions records make sure the maxrand is higher. > When the "do" loop exits you have a unique i

Re: [PHP] checking the aspect ratio of an images

Hi, Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 11:41:19 AM, you wrote: > I want to force users to insert landscape rather portrait images. I don't > want to be too pedantic about it but they do need to have an approximate 4x3 > aspect ratio. You can't really be 'approximate' when coding. You need to set some hard

Re[2]: [PHP] Double checking - I should turn off "magic quotes"

Hi Dave, Monday, June 4, 2007, 3:25:25 PM, you wrote: >> No, you should check the ini setting in your code and react accordingly. >> > Sorry, I don't quite follow you here. If I turn magic quotes off on both > my testing environment and my server, as is "preferable" according to > the manual,

Re: [PHP] RE: Return or not to return, that is the question

Hi Jared, Wednesday, May 30, 2007, 4:10:45 PM, you wrote: [snip] > I think putting "return;" at the end of every function is probably a healthy > practice, but is it best practice? If it's poorly written and/or poorly > factored code, it doesn't make any difference if they have returns on > every

Re[2]: [PHP] Return or not to return, that is the question

Hi Paul, Wednesday, May 30, 2007, 4:07:00 PM, you wrote: > I demur at your final point: If we don't use exit() and the function > performs non-aborting error handling, it's going to return to the > calling function which in most cases will need to know whether its > child function succeeded or

Re[2]: [PHP] Return or not to return, that is the question

Hi Chris, Wednesday, May 30, 2007, 1:17:39 PM, you wrote: >> If there is no need to return a value then I don't do >> so. However, the function is going to process something, >> and surely you should check that the processing has >> succeeded or failed? > This is precisely the point I was goi

Re[2]: [PHP] Return or not to return, that is the question

Hi Dave, Wednesday, May 30, 2007, 12:20:48 PM, you wrote: > If there is no need to return a value then I don't do so. However, the > function is going to process something, and surely you should check that the > processing has succeeded or failed? I have exception and error handling dealt with f

[PHP] Return or not to return, that is the question

Hi all, Just a quick straw-poll really: What is your take on using 'return' when you end a function, if you don't actually need to return a value? If you have to return say a true/false as the result of an operation, then it's an obvious choice. But what if all the function does is perform an ac

Re: [PHP] installing error

Hi Rafael, Saturday, May 26, 2007, 12:38:15 AM, you wrote: > Hello does anyone know the correct way to install PHP and APACHE (last > versions both of them) on WinXP???, Im doing it with the installers and I > cannot even run phpinfo(); script, I see apache's error log and it says that > i cant f

Re[2]: [PHP] Include file questions

Hi Tijnema, Friday, May 25, 2007, 5:58:46 PM, you wrote: > On 5/25/07, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Very. Each directory contains very specific types of code/content. >> Tracking down where any given function, class, custom tag, behaviour, >> etc is defined is extremely simple. >

Re[2]: [PHP] Include???

Hi Tedd, Friday, May 25, 2007, 2:42:34 PM, you wrote: > At 3:28 PM +0100 5/23/07, Richard Davey wrote: >> >> >>if ($_POST['status_code'] == 'C') >> ^^ >> >>Read-up on the if/else structure and comparison operat

Re: [PHP] Include???

Hi Dan, Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 3:24:11 PM, you wrote: > Okay, I think I'm doing everything right, but for whatever reason my include > isn't working. > echo $_POST['status_code']; > if ($_POST['status_code'] = "C") { > include ('complete_save.php'); > } ?>> > The echo of my status_code re

Re: [PHP] convert numerical day of week

Hi Dave, Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 5:46:38 PM, you wrote: > How can I convert the numerical day of week to the string version? > Example, if the day of the week is 1 I would like to print out 'Sunday'. $days = array(1 => 'Sunday', 2 => 'Monday', 3 => 'Tuesday', etc ...); then just $today = $days[

Re[2]: [PHP] ftp root dir?

Hi Al, Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 4:19:22 PM, you wrote: > I know that; but, I writing a script, that can be used on different > servers, which creates a directory and I want to > make certain it is created on the DOC ROOT. I don't want the user > to have to test the ftp connection with a ftp utili

Re[2]: [PHP] When does PHP free-up memory allocated to it?

Hi Richard, Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 1:24:35 AM, you wrote: >> I would have expected (or rather, hoped) that the memory use would >> have dropped down quite dramatically after destroying the image >> resource that was using up nearly 4MB of memory, but it didn't seem to >> change. > How are you me

[PHP] When does PHP free-up memory allocated to it?

Hi, Quick question - does anyone know when PHP actually frees allocated memory during the process of a script? I'm using 5.2.2. For example I see the following results when profiling: Memory: 256 KB Load a 1024x768 JPEG (via GD) Memory: 4 MB Create thumbnail (via GD) Memory: 5.2 MB Destroy origin

Re: [PHP] Uploading Files Should I use MySQL or Server for storage?

Hi benc11, Monday, May 21, 2007, 2:16:19 AM, you wrote: > I am in the process of adding a part to my website which would include > pictures, pdf files, txt files, and excel files. The files sizes > could be anywhere on average of 100k to 2mb. Do you think I should be > uploading the files to a

Re[2]: [PHP] stay logged in for session

Hi Edward, Friday, May 18, 2007, 12:43:43 PM, you wrote: > Just because some user agents handle non-standard data doesn't make > it correct. You mean user agents follow RFCs to the letter? :) Since when? :) I do agree with your comment, but it's a LOT more than "some user agents". "Every browse

Re[8]: [PHP] A Guide to running Apache 2, PHP 4 & PHP 5 on Windows XP

Hi Greg, Thursday, May 17, 2007, 7:23:47 PM, you wrote: >> Viruses? God, that old bullshit ladened chestnut*. At least come up >> with some kind of valid OS argument, please. > 1. The virus and malware protection racket - M$ spent billions of > 2. Perpetual Upgrading - you can use Ubuntu Linux 6

Re[8]: [PHP] A Guide to running Apache 2, PHP 4 & PHP 5 on Windows XP

Hi Robert, Thursday, May 17, 2007, 7:01:00 PM, you wrote: > I had 500 things I wanted to change, then I switched from Windows to > Linux in 2000 and found that they had been addressed. Sure enough > though, I'm working on a new list. There's only a few things on it > though ;) I envy those who's

Re[2]: [PHP] A Guide to running Apache 2, PHP 4 & PHP 5 on Windows XP

Hi Lester, Thursday, May 17, 2007, 6:24:44 PM, you wrote: > How about installation time. Just clocked up 6.5 Hours re-installing XP on a > machine. To get the last linux machine to the same level - 20 mins. > Of cause running Eclipse - it does not matter what the OS is :( Yeah I'd take installat

Re[6]: [PHP] A Guide to running Apache 2, PHP 4 & PHP 5 on Windows XP

Hi Greg, Thursday, May 17, 2007, 5:49:45 PM, you wrote: >> Sure, but you're in the minority*, so what do I care? :) > I'm not asking you to care. Windoze still sucks, no matter how many > idiots use it. The virus protection racket alone is enough to make me > throw up. Viruses? God, that old

Re[2]: [PHP] A Guide to running Apache 2, PHP 4 & PHP 5 on Windows XP

Hi Jon, Thursday, May 17, 2007, 5:46:12 PM, you wrote: > I find it funny that the addition of the numbers above would logically > put me in the 0% category. You could select multiple operating systems from the list. 50% of them used Linux too. It didn't show how the results were mixed though, i.

Re[4]: [PHP] A Guide to running Apache 2, PHP 4 & PHP 5 on Windows XP

Hi Greg, Thursday, May 17, 2007, 5:01:18 PM, you wrote: >> There's always one ;) > No, there's more than one. Sure, but you're in the minority*, so what do I care? :) * I just took the Zend PHP IDE research poll, and at the end it gives you the chance to view the stats of everyone else who too

Re[2]: [PHP] A Guide to running Apache 2, PHP 4 & PHP 5 on Windows XP

Hi Robert, Thursday, May 17, 2007, 4:43:14 PM, you wrote: > Suggestion: get rid of Windows XP and use a real OS There's always one ;) > You have "previously" and "the past" redundancy since > previous implies the past and past implies previous. Fixed :) Cheers, Rich -- Zend Cert

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