Re: [PHP] PHP fails to install on Ubuntu 12.10. What's going on?

2013-02-14 Thread John Iliffe
On Thursday 14 February 2013 14:20:06 Chris Bergstresser wrote: Hi all -- I've got a cloud server on Rackspace. If I bring up a fresh Ubuntu 12.10 machine image, and type apt-get install php5 it seems to install fine. But if I then type php -version I get PHP Parse error: syntax

[PHP] Expansion of Apache definitions

2013-01-10 Thread John Iliffe
I recently made a posting on the Apache users group regarding recovering the client IP address using the $_SESSION['REMOTE_ADDR'] function in PHP. I received the following caveat from another developer: -start quote You may want to update that. Since 2.4, apache

Re: [PHP] Boolean type forced on string assignment inside if statement

2013-01-03 Thread John Iliffe
On Thursday 03 January 2013 10:26:39 Jim Giner wrote: On 1/2/2013 2:02 PM, Marc Guay wrote: Something else that's happening with this, which makes it a Bad Idea (tm) is that when the operator is or, as it is in my real life scenerio, the 2nd variable occasionally doesn't get populated if

Re: [PHP] Boolean type forced on string assignment inside if statement

2013-01-03 Thread John Iliffe
On Thursday 03 January 2013 11:33:22 Marc Guay wrote: First, did the original poster realize that he was assigning a value to the variable $a in the 'if' statement? Hello, Yes, I did, and if you read my responses you can see that I came to the realisations you describe. I don't think