RE: [PHP] Basic PHP knowledge test

2006-07-20 Thread Finner, Doug
My advice, give the candidates problems and see how they solve them. Even if they don't finish, you get an idea of how they think. tedd I like this idea! Do you expect them to be able to work with code written by others? If so, hand them some of your existing code (good examples and not so

[PHP] Re: When is z != z ?

2006-06-06 Thread Finner, Doug
I love this thread. Who'da thunk alphabets could be so much fun? FWIW: Different language, different rules - to do 'letter math', letters must be converted to their ASCII number value, add one, convert back to a letter. The set of allowed ASCII numbers is limited to (I think) 256 and 'real'

[PHP] RE: Can php convert doc to HTML?

2006-05-24 Thread Finner, Doug
On 5/23/06, Martin Alterisio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that's the case, why don't you just use the export as web page or save as web page tools of MS Word (if you don't have it anymore you can as someone who still has it, or I think OpenOffice also has a similar tool). Because there are

RE: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-16 Thread Finner, Doug
In the end it is not worth worrying about. If someone asks you what PHP stands for tell them it stands for the best darned programming language you ever saw. Not disagreeing, just wondering if people here see PHP as a programming language, or a scripting language? Just curious what the

RE: [PHP] Reverse Engineering of Smarty

2006-02-06 Thread Finner, Doug
-Original Message- From: Robert Cummings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 2:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: PHP-General Subject: Re: [PHP] Reverse Engineering of Smarty On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 01:12, Sumeet wrote: Rory Browne wrote: If you don't have backups,

[PHP] Re: No forums?

2005-11-07 Thread Finner, Doug
Wow, go away for a few days and holy war breaks out...cool! Why not one system that supports both without extra work? The model I'm thinking of is Google or Yahoo groups(*). You can access any 'forum' via a web browser, search, post, reply, etc AND/OR you can subscribe to any forum and get

RE: [PHP] PDF printing under windows.

2005-10-25 Thread Finner, Doug
Not sure how this might work in PHP, but there is something called WSH (go to MS and poke around) that gives you access to a ton of really interesting Windows bits and pieces. The following is a script I run in Lotus Notes (LotusScript is rather like VBA) and it allows you to set the default

[PHP] RE: PHP wiki recommendations

2005-09-08 Thread Finner, Doug
I'm not a Wiki expert, but have been using TikiWiki for a while and very much like it. It does everything you say with the possible exception of CSS. It may very well support CSS, I just don't need it so haven't investigated. It also allows for the use of templates that can be applied globally