[PHP] A really wacky design decision

2009-10-03 Thread clancy_1
Daevid Vincent is surprised that: $num = 123; $num = $num++; print $num; //this prints 123 and not 124 ?!! To me this is relatively logical. As I understand it, the post-increment operator says do something with the variable, and then increment it. The trouble in this case is that we are

Re: [PHP] A really wacky design decision

2009-10-04 Thread clancy_1
I am well aware of the === operator, but I had an uneasy feeling that there was still a trap. However when I tried it it worked, so I was going to thank you for your suggestion, though I find the concept of having separate 'sort of equal' and 'truly equal' operators decidedly distasteful, but

Re: [PHP] A really wacky design decision

2009-10-04 Thread clancy_1
On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:57:36 -0400, f...@thefsb.org (Tom Worster) wrote: On 10/3/09 7:21 AM, clanc...@cybec.com.au clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: However there is one feature of PHP which, to my mind, is really bad design. How many of you can see anything wrong with the following procedure to

Re: [PHP] A really wacky design decision

2009-10-05 Thread clancy_1
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 14:52:36 +0200, an_...@hotmail.com (Andrea Giammarchi) wrote: $a = 2260; $b = 226e1; $c = 2.26e3; $d = 2260.0; $a==$b==$c==$d, and $b===$c===$d $b , $c, and $d are the same indeed ... they represent the floating point 2260.0 in I think every language

Re: [PHP] Whacky increment/assignment logic with $foo++ vs ++$foo

2009-10-06 Thread clancy_1
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:08:14 -0400, tedd.sperl...@gmail.com (tedd) wrote: At 10:48 AM -0300 10/6/09, Martin Scotta wrote: No matter how silly it can looks like (a = a++) it is still completely valid code and it SHOULD run without problems. Yeah, it's a valid as: $a = $a; and does the same

Re: [PHP] Whacky increment/assignment logic with $foo++ vs ++$foo

2009-10-07 Thread clancy_1
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 12:15:54 -0400, tedd.sperl...@gmail.com (tedd) wrote: At 3:56 PM +0200 10/6/09, Andrea Giammarchi wrote: Does these behaves exactly? for($i=0; $i10; ++$i) for($i=0; $i10; $i++) different benchmarks showed ++$i is usually faster than $i++ Faster is a relative term that

Re: [PHP] What method is best for generating thumbnails in PHP from PDF's?

2009-11-12 Thread clancy_1
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:45:55 -0800 (PST), stephe...@rogers.com (Stephen) wrote: --- On Thu, 11/12/09, Chris Payne chris_pa...@danmangames.com wrote: I have been asked to create thumbnails from the first page of a PDF document on the fly with PHP, I have looked online but am confused as

[PHP] Re: Extracting a time zone from a latitude longitude

2009-11-21 Thread clancy_1
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:25:16 -0800, level...@gmail.com (Haig Davis) wrote: Good Morning all, Having a look at the time zone functions in PHP you can enter a time zone city and get it's lat long. Does anybody know how you can run the function in reverse (or know of a similar function) i.e. get

[PHP] PHP programming strategy; lots of little include files, or a few big ones?

2010-01-06 Thread clancy_1
I have a flexible program, which can do many different things according to the type of data it is fed. Ideally the flexibility is achieved by calling different functions, though when the functionality is ill-defined I sometimes just include blocks of code. Ideally, from the point of program

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP programming strategy; lots of little include files, or a few big ones?

2010-01-07 Thread clancy_1
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 19:11:07 -0800, dae...@daevid.com (Daevid Vincent) wrote: -Original Message- From: Al [mailto:n...@ridersite.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 5:09 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Re: PHP programming strategy; lots of little include

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP programming strategy; lots of little include files, or a few big ones?

2010-01-07 Thread clancy_1
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:20:26 -0500, kolb0...@umn.edu (Daniel Kolbo) wrote: Daevid Vincent wrote: -Original Message- From: Al [mailto:n...@ridersite.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 5:09 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Re: PHP programming strategy; lots of

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP programming strategy; lots of little include files, or a few big ones?

2010-01-07 Thread clancy_1
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:48:59 -0500, rob...@interjinn.com (Robert Cummings) wrote: clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: Thank you all for your comments. I did not know about bytecode caches. They're an interesting concept, but if I am interpreting the paper

[PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-19 Thread clancy_1
I am trying for the first time to use cookies. The manual contains the statement Cookies are part of the HTTP header, so setcookie() must be called before any output is sent to the browser. When I first started using sessions, I was alarmed to read a very similar statement about sessions, but

Re: [PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-19 Thread clancy_1
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:12:17 -0200, bsfaja...@gmail.com (Bruno Fajardo) wrote: 2010/1/19 clanc...@cybec.com.au: I am trying for the first time to use cookies. The manual contains the statement Cookies are part of the HTTP header, so setcookie() must be called before any output is sent to

Re: [PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-19 Thread clancy_1
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:45:37 +0530, kranthi...@gmail.com (kranthi) wrote: When I first started using sessions, I was alarmed to read a very similar statement about sessions, but I soon found that if I started my program with the statement session_start(); I could then set up, access, modify

Re: [PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-19 Thread clancy_1
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:45:14 -0500, phps...@gmail.com (Phpster) wrote: The first setcookie call is empty which produces the errors that cause the second cookie to fail. I'm afraid not. I modified the program started to read: ?php //;V;;; Cypalda/Index.php Printed:

Re: [PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-20 Thread clancy_1
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:19:03 +, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk (Ashley Sheridan) wrote: On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 15:45 +1100, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:45:14 -0500, phps...@gmail.com (Phpster) wrote: The first setcookie call is empty which produces the errors that

Re: [PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-20 Thread clancy_1
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:05:42 -0200, bsfaja...@gmail.com (Bruno Fajardo) wrote: 2010/1/20 clanc...@cybec.com.au: When you are working with sessions, provided you start your program with session_id(), you can then do anything you like with session variables at any point in your program. Hi,

Re: [PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-21 Thread clancy_1
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:54:44 -0500, tedd.sperl...@gmail.com (tedd) wrote: At 12:15 PM +1100 1/21/10, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:05:42 -0200, bsfaja...@gmail.com (Bruno Fajardo) wrote: Well, I hope this information is helpful. Yes, thanks to everyone who contributed.

Re: [PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-22 Thread clancy_1
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:00:30 +, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk (Ashley Sheridan) wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 08:58 +1100, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:54:44 -0500, tedd.sperl...@gmail.com (tedd) wrote: At 12:15 PM +1100 1/21/10, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Wed,

Re: [PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-23 Thread clancy_1
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:32:37 -0500, tedd.sperl...@gmail.com (tedd) wrote: At 1:13 PM +1100 1/23/10, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: but I would be grateful for any suggestions how I could make this procedure more secure. We have given you advice that you should NOT use Cookies in any fashion to

Re: [PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-23 Thread clancy_1
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:10:11 +, nrix...@gmail.com (Nathan Rixham) wrote: To answer your specific questions though - what can be done to make this process more secure - no matter what approach you take, when working via http and needing logged in / secure

[PHP] Users, groups, and permissions

2010-01-23 Thread clancy_1
I am using a Quadra Hosting Multi Domain (http://www.quadrahosting.com.au/) to host five different domains. As site owner I have FTP access to the root directory, and to everything underneath it. There is no domain directly attached to the root. Each domain has its own directory tree under the

Re: [PHP] Cookies sessions

2010-01-24 Thread clancy_1
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:44:16 +1100, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:10:11 +, nrix...@gmail.com (Nathan Rixham) wrote: To answer your specific questions though - what can be done to make this process more secure - no matter what approach

Re: [PHP] Creating an Entire .html page with PHP

2010-01-26 Thread clancy_1
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:31:54 -0800, deal...@gmail.com (deal...@gmail.com) wrote: On Jan 25, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Shawn McKenzie wrote: file_put_contents() is s much easier. Thanks Shawn I'll check that out ... - I see it says : This function is identical to calling fopen(), fwrite() and

Re: [PHP] Creating an Entire .html page with PHP

2010-01-26 Thread clancy_1
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:52:06 -0800, dae...@daevid.com (Daevid Vincent) wrote: First of all writing pages in this old fashioned .cgi sort of way is so 1990's. Concatenating your whole page to a giant string is silly and defeats the benefits (and purpose) of using PHP. I'm actually in

Re: [PHP] Do you use a public framework or roll your own?

2010-01-26 Thread clancy_1
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:57:05 -0500, pa...@quillandmouse.com (Paul M Foster) wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 04:17:26PM -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: I'm not looking to start a holy war here or re-hash the tired debate. I just want some hard cold numbers to look at. Do you use a public

Re: [PHP] Creating an Entire .html page with PHP

2010-01-27 Thread clancy_1
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:21:00 -0800, deal...@gmail.com (dealtek) wrote: On 1/26/2010 6:08 PM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: In principle this is extremely simple. Take your existing procedure to generate the page then: 1. $page = ''; 2. Replace every echo 'whatever'; statement with $page

Re: [PHP] Creating an Entire .html page with PHP

2010-01-28 Thread clancy_1
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:10:42 +0100, rene7...@gmail.com (Rene Veerman) wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:31 AM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:21:00 -0800, deal...@gmail.com (dealtek) wrote: Opening tables, etc, wrongly generally messes the page up completely, but

Re: [PHP] Creating an Entire .html page with PHP

2010-01-29 Thread clancy_1
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:39:31 -0800, mpet...@mac.com (Michael A. Peters) wrote: clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:10:42 +0100, rene7...@gmail.com (Rene Veerman) wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:31 AM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:21:00 -0800,

Re: [PHP] Creating an Entire .html page with PHP

2010-01-29 Thread clancy_1
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:23:05 -0500, pa...@quillandmouse.com (Paul M Foster) wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 08:17:34AM +1100, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:10:42 +0100, rene7...@gmail.com (Rene Veerman) wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:31 AM, clanc...@cybec.com.au

Re: [PHP] Pointers For Newbies, Reminders For Oldies

2010-01-29 Thread clancy_1
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:02:56 -0500, rob...@interjinn.com (Robert Cummings) wrote: I don't know what you guys are doing wrong but the following should be the correct behaviour: ?php function get_memory( $init=false ) { static $base = null; if( $base === null || $init ) {

[PHP] Appalling Dreamweaver performance

2010-01-31 Thread clancy_1
I use Dreamweaver as my editor, mainly because I'm familiar with it, although I only use about 1% of its capabilities. However it generally handles long files well. The other day I downloaded the two shortest of Brian Dunning's sets of test data *. I opened the shortest in Dreamweaver, had a

Re: [PHP] Appalling Dreamweaver performance

2010-02-01 Thread clancy_1
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:51:39 +, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk (Ashley Sheridan) wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:28 +1100, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: . Don't use Dreamweaver then :p Joking aside (Dreamweaver is a very capable editor, although it is quite large for

Re: [PHP] Good source for sample data?

2010-02-01 Thread clancy_1
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:08:49 -0800, br...@briandunning.com (Brian Dunning) wrote: Thanks for the suggestions but I couldn't find any that suited my needs, so I made my own. Feel free to download if you can use them, I made files with up to a million unique records. Name, Company, Address,

[PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-03 Thread clancy_1
Recently I have frequently found, especially in the morning (GMT 2200 - 0200), that I can open a bookmark in the manual, for example http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php. But if I then do a search of any type I get 'The page cannot be displayed'. I then cannot reach any page, including

Re: [PHP] Re: poll: howto do informative error handling without the fatalities

2010-02-09 Thread clancy_1
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:09:05 +, rquadl...@googlemail.com (Richard Quadling) wrote: On 9 February 2010 14:20, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 09:19 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: Richard wrote: Hi, I have extended the standard exception class to

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-09 Thread clancy_1
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:39:03 +0100, joc...@iamjochem.com (Jochem Maas) wrote: Op 2/4/10 1:32 AM, clanc...@cybec.com.au schreef: Recently I have frequently found, especially in the morning (GMT 2200 - 0200), that I can open a bookmark in the manual, for example

[PHP] Owner or other; permissions for webpage users

2010-02-09 Thread clancy_1
I'm basically familiar with the UNIX permissions - 'owner', 'group', or 'other', but I have no real idea how these apply to webpage users under PHP. I know that if I FTP to the server I am the owner, and I think that if I, or anyone else, opens one of my webpages I am 'other'. However what I

Re: [PHP] Owner or other; permissions for webpage users

2010-02-10 Thread clancy_1
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:08:42 +1030, james.mcl...@gmail.com (James McLean) wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: I'm basically familiar with the UNIX permissions - 'owner', 'group', or 'other', but I have no real idea how these apply to webpage users under PHP.

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

2010-02-11 Thread clancy_1
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:18:18 +, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk (Ashley Sheridan) wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 10:16 +1100, Ross McKay wrote: ... There's a good reason for OpenOffice having some difficulties with MS Office documents. Back when MS rushed through getting their document

[PHP] Re: Advice on maintaining public and private files

2010-02-19 Thread clancy_1
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:19:50 -0500, st...@astroh.org (Michael Stroh) wrote: I have a site I'm working on with some data that I want to be readable by anyone, but some files that I want to keep hidden from outside users. Here is an example of my file structure. /products/data1/item_1/data.txt

Re: [PHP] array conversion

2010-02-20 Thread clancy_1
Or: $a = array ('Cats', 'white', 'Dogs', 'black', 'Mice', 'grey', 'Camels', 'brown'); $b = '';// Just in case it has some leftover value $k = 2* (int) (count ($a)/2); // ensure even no of terms $i = 0; while ($i $k) { $b[$a[$i++]] = $a[$i++];

Re: [PHP] Re: Pre/Post inc (Was array conversion)

2010-02-20 Thread clancy_1
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:44:00 -0500, you wrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Nathan Rixham nrix...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Quadling wrote: On 20 February 2010 11:18, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: Or: $a = array ('Cats', 'white', 'Dogs', 'black', 'Mice', 'grey', 'Camels', 'brown');

[PHP] Re: Creating Days in a Year - Stored Procedure

2010-02-23 Thread clancy_1
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:49:01 -0800, d...@pointmade.net (Pointmade_Noah1) wrote: I found this code below online and I am trying to modify it for my needs. I want to pass a YEAR (Int) to the stored procedure and have it create all the day in that passed year. With one tweak, If the day is

[PHP] PHP: inexplicable behaviour of pre- and post-increment operators

2010-02-26 Thread clancy_1
A week ago Dasn asked a question about converting arrays, and I quoted one possible way of achieving his task, using the operation: $i = 0; while ($i $k) { $b[$a[$i++]] = $a[$i++]; } I added the comment that I have always been wary of using statements like this because I was unsure when the

Re: [PHP] PHP: inexplicable behaviour of pre- and post-increment operators

2010-03-03 Thread clancy_1
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 08:21:06 -0600, halip...@gmail.com (haliphax) wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:01 PM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: while ($i $j) { $b[$i] = $a[$i++]; } B. You get $b[0] = $a[1], and so on (as you would expect). Wouldn't that be $b[0] = $a[0], with the value

[PHP] Re: Array Search Not Working?

2010-03-10 Thread clancy_1
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:52:30 -0500, aj...@alumni.iu.edu (Alice Wei) wrote: Hi, I have two arrays here that I have combined into a new array, as shown here: $from = explode(-, $from); $change = explode(-,$change); $new_array = array_combine($from,$change); I then tried reading it from a file

[PHP] erratic results from ftp_rawlist

2010-08-16 Thread clancy_1
I had a procedure for listing the files on a remote directory recursively using FTP, using the code below. I thought it was working, but when I tried to use it yesterday I found it listed every second directory, and returned false for the others. I then tried replacing line A with line B (shown

[PHP] PHP5.3.5: error message for date()

2011-03-04 Thread clancy_1
After a long battle to get my system back on air after a hard disk crash, I got PHP 5.3.5 running under Apache 2.2.3. I now get a diagnostic every time I call date(), complaining about a missing parameter. The manual states that the second parameter is optional, and even phpinfo doesn't know