RE: [PHP] Trigger root script?

2005-09-26 Thread Michael Sims
Jeffrey Sambells wrote: > I need a php script to trigger another script to run as root on a > machine. Currently, the scripts run as the www-data user, but that > means I can't modify any files on the system that aren't owned by > www-data or world writable. I somehow need to trigger a php script t

RE: [PHP] Max execution time while doing DB queries

2005-09-22 Thread Michael Sims
Jeroen Geusebroek wrote: > For this application i'm using a MSSQL database. There is an ini > setting (mssql.timeout) which should do what i want but afiak doesn't > work. It defaults to 60 which i assume are seconds. > > My app has had times that it was waiting way longer then that before > it die

RE: [PHP] Max execution time while doing DB queries

2005-09-22 Thread Michael Sims
Jeroen Geusebroek wrote: > I was wondering how i can limit a script from waiting too long for > a database query to return. > > The problem is that it will wait an infinite time while performing a > query on a database when there is for example a lock on a table. I > want it to exit/fail when a set

RE: [PHP] Re: email validation (no regex)

2005-09-22 Thread Michael Sims
J B wrote: > On 9/21/05, Michael Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Additionally, some mail servers unconditionally accept mail >> addressed to ANY username at their domain, whether that user >> actually exists or not. This is very bad practice, because it >> usu

RE: [PHP] Re: email validation (no regex)

2005-09-21 Thread Michael Sims
Philip Hallstrom wrote: >>> but you could do what you want to do. however, it's going to be >>> painful if you want it to match the rfc spec... >> >> Really? Why does it need to be painful? I just need to do a >> 'EHLO', 'Mail From:' and 'RCPT to:' and 'QUIT'. It's not going to >> actually send a

RE: [PHP] email validation (no regex)

2005-09-21 Thread Michael Sims
Jim Moseby wrote: >> There's no requirement for an MX-record, so you'd need to check the >> A-record ($domain) too. > > Excellent answer. No requirement for MX record? > > [showing my ignorance] > How does email routing happen if there is no mail exchanger in the > zonefile for a particular domain

RE: [PHP] Re: Suggestions for class design

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Sims
Murray @ PlanetThoughtful wrote: > My post was not aimed at saying 'using packaged approaches to solve > coding problems is bad', but to say 'the original poster is asking a > fundamental learning question, so a packaged approach will possibly, > maybe even probably, hamper his development as a pro

RE: [PHP] Tidying code for PHP5.0.5/PHP4.4.0

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Sims
Jochem Maas wrote: > Michael Sims wrote: >> So, as far as foo() knows: >> >> foo($a = 5); >> and >> foo(5); >> >> are exactly the same... > > I don't think they are, and you're examples don't prove it. > Anyone care to come

RE: [PHP] Tidying code for PHP5.0.5/PHP4.4.0

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Sims
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Michael Sims wrote: >> When used as an expression, an assignment evaluates to whatever is >> on the right side of the assignment operator, not the left. >> Example: [...] >> foo($a = 5); >> and >> foo(5); >> >> are ex

RE: [PHP] Tidying code for PHP5.0.5/PHP4.4.0

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Sims
Jochem Maas wrote: >>> foo($a = 5); > > by definition the expression is evaluated _before_ the function is > called - so the expression is not passed to the function, the result > of the expression is passed ... I was under the impression that the > the expression evaluates to a 'pointer' (I'm sur

RE: [PHP] Re: Suggestions for class design

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Sims
Murray @ PlanetThoughtful wrote: > Once he understands how to solve class abstraction problems such as > the one he is asking about, he will be better equipped to deal with a > wider range of application development tasks. I agree with this. > This is not to trivialize your Metastorage project (o

RE: [PHP] User error handler must not modify error context

2005-09-19 Thread Michael Sims
Noel wrote: > Error Message: > Fatal error: User error handler must not modify error context in > [FILENAME] on line 58 [...] > My site has just been upgraded to this version. In the previous > version (4.3.11), my site works just fine. Could this be a bug? If it > is, how can I solve it at least u

RE: [PHP] Suggestions for class design

2005-09-19 Thread Michael Sims
Chris W. Parker wrote: > Let's take for example a class called 'Customer' that (obviously) > manipulates customers in the database. Here is a very basic Customer > class. (Data validation and the like are left out for brevity.) [snip] > Where I get tripped up is when I realize I'll need to at some

RE: [PHP] PEAR and MSSQL

2005-08-17 Thread Michael Sims
Chris Boget wrote: > We are using PEAR as our database abstraction layer for connectivity > to MSSQL. It seems that, for some inexplicable reason, that our code > is losing it's connection to the sql server. I've had similar problems in the past, only in my situation it was connecting from a Lin

RE: [PHP] REGEX for query

2005-08-11 Thread Michael Sims
Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > Assuming unix, I'd do the following from the root of the application > to get a list > of files that contain queries: > > $ egrep "=[:space:]*\".*\b(SELECT|INSERT|UPDATE)\b" * -ril > ... > > Anyway, that's how I'd do it. Hope you got something out of this... > :) [/

RE: [PHP] REGEX for query

2005-08-10 Thread Michael Sims
Jay Blanchard wrote: > I have a rather interesting issue. I need to locate every query in > every PHP application we have for an integration project. I have > started doing some research, but I wanted throw this out there as a > little exercize because it is interesting. > > Several queries are wri

RE: [PHP] parallel execution of php code?

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Sims
Martin van den Berg wrote: > I have this piece of php-code which inserts data into a database. > Before inserting it must verify if the data is unique. The php code > looks something like: > > $query = "SELECT id FROM mytable WHERE bla LIKE " . $x ."; > $rows = execute( $query ) > if ( $rows == 0 )

RE: [PHP] String to Stream

2005-08-05 Thread Michael Sims
Eric Gorr wrote: > Again, I would like to treat the string as a stream. > > One possible way to accomplish this would be to simply write the > string to a temporary file, open the file with fopen and then use > fscanf, fseek, etc. to process the text. > > However, I am assuming there is an easier w

RE: [PHP] DAO/VO Pattern Help

2005-07-13 Thread Michael Sims
Jed R. Brubaker wrote: > So I am running into a problem that I could really use some direction > on: DAO/VO works great with single tables, but I tend to make my > database work for its existance, and joins ar eeverywhere. What I > don't understand is how to approach DAO/VO when table joins are > i

RE: [PHP] Find largest integer filename

2005-07-05 Thread Michael Sims
Richard Lynch wrote: > Suppose I have a directory with a HUGE number of filenames, all of > which happen to look like integers: [...] > Now, in a PHP script, what's the most efficient way to find the > "largest" filename, where "largest" means in the sense of an integer, > not a string? [...] > Is

RE: [PHP] Bug in look-behind assertions in PCRE patterns ?

2005-03-23 Thread Michael Sims
Ian Thurlbeck wrote: > Dear All > > Is this a bug ? [...] > $line = '$res = $bar("ddd", "dfdf");'; > if (preg_match("/(? echo "Should NOT match \$bar, but found: ".$matches[1]; > } > > > In the first preg_match() is correctly ignores the foobar > function name. However the

RE: [PHP] Is this a mysql_connect() bug?

2005-01-29 Thread Michael Sims
tom soyer wrote: > Thanks for the error handling code. I think PHP still has a basic > problem. If mysql sever connection times out because wrong username or > password was used, then mysql_connect() should return FALSE. It does, at least for me on PHP 4.3.10 connecting to a local MySQL 4.0.23 ser

RE: [PHP] Regex help

2005-01-29 Thread Michael Sims
Bret Hughes wrote: > On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 08:58, Michael Sims wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I need a validation regex that will "pass" a string. The string can >>> be no longer than some maximum length, and it can contain any >>> characters

RE: [PHP] Regex help

2005-01-29 Thread Michael Sims
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, this is off-topic like every other "regex help" post, but I know > some of you enjoy these puzzles :) This isn't an exam question, is it? ;) > I need a validation regex that will "pass" a string. The string can > be no longer than some maximum length, and it can con

RE: [PHP] Re: Avoiding NOTICEs on Array References

2005-01-27 Thread Michael Sims
Jochem Maas wrote: > Michael Sims wrote: >> On a "controller" page (the C in MVC) that handles form submissions >> I create an array which defines what form variables are available >> and their default values if not entered. I then use array_merge() >> to com

RE: [PHP] Re: Avoiding NOTICEs on Array References

2005-01-27 Thread Michael Sims
Burhan Khalid wrote: > Michael Sims wrote: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>>> If one must check the value and not just the existence of the >>>> checkbox entry, or for other uses, e.g. where a flag may or may not >>>> be present, on

RE: [PHP] Re: Avoiding NOTICEs on Array References

2005-01-26 Thread Michael Sims
Jochem Maas wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> If one must check the value and not just the existence of the >> checkbox entry, or for other uses, e.g. where a flag may or may not >> be present, one is saddled with clumsy constructs like: >> >> if (($isset($array['index']) && ($array['index'

RE: [PHP] Seemingly weird regex problem

2005-01-20 Thread Michael Sims
Tim Boring wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 13:41, Jason Wong wrote: >> I suspect what you want to be doing is something like this: >> >> switch (TRUE) { >> case ANY_EXPRESSION_THAT_EVALUATES_TO_TRUE: >> ... >> } > > Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not sure that does what I'm looking >

RE: [PHP] searching and sorting

2005-01-18 Thread Michael Sims
Richard Lynch wrote: > Brian A. Anderson wrote: [...] >> I am thinking of incrementally adding the resultant hits into two >> associative arrays with the link to the data and a calculated >> relevance value, and sorting this array by these relevences. [...] > One Axiom: Keep as much of the scoring/

RE: [PHP] Inconsistent behavior, same code, different server

2005-01-18 Thread Michael Sims
Rob Tanner wrote: > Granting the possibility that I may have unintentionally defined the > variables differently, what might cause them to be treated one way on > my development system and another on the production server given that > the php.ini file is the same on both systems? Any clues? Compa

RE: [PHP] strtotime time zone trouble

2005-01-18 Thread Michael Sims
Marcus Bointon wrote: > Much of the point of using zone names rather than fixed numeric > offsets is that it allows for correct daylight savings calculations > (assuming that locale data is correct on the server). > > Let me rephrase the question - how can I get the current time in a > named time z

RE: [PHP] question about a cron job

2005-01-17 Thread Michael Sims
Jochem Maas wrote: > Michael Sims wrote: >> "Additionally, cron checks each minute to see if its spool >> directory's modtime (or the modtime on /etc/crontab) has changed, >> and if it has, cron will then examine the modtime on all crontabs >> and reload

RE: [PHP] question about a cron job

2005-01-17 Thread Michael Sims
Erwin Kerk wrote: > The CRON daemon only refreshes it's job list after a job in the > current list is completed. Therefore, the CRON daemon won't notice the > "every-minute" job until 3.01 pm. I'm not sure I understand what you're saying above. Can you provide a pointer to documentation about th

RE: [PHP] question about a cron job

2005-01-17 Thread Michael Sims
>> #this is only for testing a new cronjob, every minute >> * * * * * /usr/local/bin/php > /www/r/rester/htdocs/phpList_cronjob/process_cronjob.php >>> /www/r/rester/htdocs/phpList_cronjob/cron.log 2>>&1 >> > > The new one doesn't seem to want to run until after 3:01 or 3:02. > Shouldn't the > seve

RE: [PHP] Help with encryption

2005-01-15 Thread Michael Sims
Greg Donald wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:53:30 -0800, Brian Dunning > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Could anyone point me to a web page or other documentation that >> shows a SIMPLE example of encryption? > > I know absolutely nothing about encryption. There are like 6 people > in the entire w

RE: [PHP] quicker arrays as func args?

2005-01-13 Thread Michael Sims
Justin French wrote: > Pretty sure this can't be done, but thought I'd ask any way... [...] > foo("cat","dog",("a"=>"1","b"=>"2","c"=>"3")); or > foo("cat","dog",{"a"=>"1","b"=>"2","c"=>"3"}); would be nice (Ruby has > something like this), but I'm guessing it's not possible. No, can't do that. I

RE: [PHP] PHP5 & FreeTDS

2005-01-13 Thread Michael Sims
Craig Donnelly wrote: > On the page where I connect to the MSSQL server I get the following > error: > > Warning: mssql_connect() [function.mssql-connect]: Unable to connect > to server: 172.16.xx.xxx in > /var/ftpusers/tarot/tarot/admin/sqltest.php on line 4 A couple of things to try: (1) Try de

RE: [PHP] Identify which function called another

2005-01-12 Thread Michael Sims
Lars B. Jensen wrote: > Is there any way, I from one function can identify which other > function called it, without parameter passing the name manually ? You can get this information from debug_backtrace()... http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.debug-backtrace.php -- PHP General Mailing Lis

RE: [PHP] stdClass to array

2005-01-11 Thread Michael Sims
Cere Davis wrote: > Hey folks, > > Does anyone know of a painless way to convert a stdClass object to an > associative array in php? Just cast it: $arr = (array) $stdClassInstance; > Also, I wonder, is there a way to "flatten" associative arrays in php? > So say: > $b=new array(s=>"S") > $a=new

RE: [PHP] Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object

2004-12-22 Thread Michael Sims
Tim Burgan wrote: > Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in > c:\XXX\inc\dbConnOpen.php on line 17 [...] > The file in question contains code that forms a connection to the > database. I've used this EXACT same code on this same website for the > last 8 months (both on localhost

RE: [PHP] Sort by string length...

2004-12-21 Thread Michael Sims
Russell P Jones wrote: > Any idea how to sort an array by string length? Use usort() in conjunction with a user defined function that compares the length of both strings using strlen(). If brevity at the (possible) expense of clarity is your thing, you can even use create_function() as your call

RE: [PHP] Re: How to set register_globals=off in the script?

2004-12-21 Thread Michael Sims
Jason Barnett wrote: >> So I want to keep PHP register_globals=on in php.ini, but in local >> files set to off? >> >> How I can do this? > > You can change this, and other php.ini directives, with the PHP > function ini_set register_globals cannot be changed with ini_set(). It is of type "PHP_IN

RE: [PHP] Re: 4.3.10 breaking things? Back working after reverting to 4.3.9

2004-12-17 Thread Michael Sims
Ben wrote: > Reverting back to 4.3.9 with the same build configuration options used > in 4.3.10 has fixed the problems with the various scripts. Do you use Zend Optimizer? If so you should upgrade to the latest version: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31134 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31108 I

RE: [PHP] Problem with loose typing

2004-12-17 Thread Michael Sims
Chris Boget wrote: > function test() { > static $i = 0; > > $i++; > $retval = ( $i <= 10 ) ? $i : ''; > > return $retval; > > } > while( $bob = test()) { > echo $bob . ''; > > } > > You would expect the while loop to go on forever just looking > at the above code.

RE: [PHP] File Locking during *other* file operations

2004-12-17 Thread Michael Sims
Gerard Samuel wrote: > Im talking about file locking during deleting, and moving > files. > Is it possible to perform file locking for these file operations? Yes, have your scripts attempt to lock a separate lock file before performing deleting or moving operations. -- PHP General Mailing List (

RE: [PHP] Spurious newlines when requesting empty php file

2004-12-11 Thread Michael Sims
Carl Michael Skog wrote: > If I save the response of this command with lynx (lynx -dump > "http://www.formatemp.com/catalog/paynova-reply.php"; > somefile), > I will get three newlines. Aha! I knew it. :) See: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=110272197009025&w=2 Lynx adds the newli

RE: [PHP] Multiple Inheritance

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Sims
Please note that I am specifically *not* weighing in on the OO vs. procedural religious war, but only wanted to make a couple of small comments. :) Richard Lynch wrote: > I spend a *LOT* more time, digging through endless class files, of > what are essentially name-spaces of singleton "objects" tr

RE: [PHP] Spurious newlines when requesting empty php file

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Sims
Richard Lynch wrote: > Carl Michael Skog wrote: >> I would have thought that the response from a empty php file would >> also be empty, but, to my surprise, they consist of 3 newlines !!! > > I just tried this with an empty PHP file, and got exactly what I > expected. > > A valid response with no c

RE: [PHP] null as function argumnent?

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Sims
Bas Jobsen wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use a ?: statement. If not true de default function > argument have to be used. How to do this > > function test($test='default') > { > echo $test; > } > test(($value==1)?'no default':null); >> > > What do i have to pass instead of null to get default prin

RE: [PHP] Re: automatic responder

2004-11-26 Thread Michael Sims
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > * Manuel Lemos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 11/26/2004 03:58 PM, Alessandro Rosa wrote: >>> How about coding an automatic responder via PHP ? >> >> The most portable solution is to have a POP3 mailbox associated with >> the e-mail address to which the messages are re

RE: [PHP] Capturing phpinfo()

2004-11-23 Thread Michael Sims
John Holmes wrote: >> From: "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> How can I stick phpinfo() at the bottom of a page in such a way >> that it doesn't display the data in the page, but instead creates a >> log file and dumps everything in there) The log file should either >> be appended to

RE: [PHP] VOTE TODAY

2004-11-02 Thread Michael Sims
John Nichel wrote: > ApexEleven wrote: >> I can't wait for the replies... > > cat $you > /dev/null Or the slightly more destructive variant: cat /dev/null > $you :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] An easier way? $_POST[] => $_SESSION[]

2004-11-01 Thread Michael Sims
Erich Kolb wrote: > Is there an easier way to assign all post data from a form to session > data? > > Eg., > > $_SESSION['first_name'] = $_POST['first_name']; > $_SESSION['last_name'] = $_POST['last_name']; > > $_SESSION['email'] = $_POST['email']; You could do this: $_SESSION = array_merge($_SES

RE: [PHP] Regex Lookbehind help

2004-10-26 Thread Michael Sims
Alex Hogan wrote: >> I just tried this out and the first regex is actually working for me >> on php 4.3.8 (cli). Can you post some code? > > At this point all I'm trying to do is print the array with the > addresses. > > $file=readfile('mypathto/myfile.html'); > $patrn

RE: [PHP] Is flock() necessary on a simple file append?

2004-10-26 Thread Michael Sims
Kevin Grigorenko wrote: > "Paul Fierro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> According to this post, you do not need to use flock() if you open a >> file in append mode: >> >> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=105165806915109&w=2 > > That's exactly what I was

RE: [PHP] Regex Lookbehind help

2004-10-26 Thread Michael Sims
Alex Hogan wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to identify an email address in a page but I don't want to > return the email if it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Here's what I have; > (\w[-._\w]*\w(? > It returns nothing, however when I take out the lookbehind section; > ([EMAIL PROTECTED],3}) > it works fin

RE: [PHP] Mac OS X and Editor

2004-10-21 Thread Michael Sims
Philip Thompson wrote: >> I don't personally use Mac OS X, but let me throw in a >> recommendation for jEdit (www.jedit.org). It's Java based, hence [...] > Just a side-comment: in general, OS X users enjoy/use Cocoa-based > applications over Java-based. Cocoa provides the "OS X Experience" > with

RE: [PHP] Mac OS X and Editor

2004-10-20 Thread Michael Sims
Jonel Rienton wrote: > Hi guys, I just like to ask those using Macs here as to what editor > and/or IDE they are using for writing PHP codes. I don't personally use Mac OS X, but let me throw in a recommendation for jEdit (www.jedit.org). It's Java based, hence cross-platform, and extremely power

RE: [PHP] proper method to do the following...

2004-10-06 Thread Michael Sims
Hugh Beaumont wrote: > the following code outputs : > > Notice: Undefined index: exact in search.php on line 10 > > code : > > if (!isset($_POST['exact'])) { <- line 10 > $_POST['exact'] == false; > } You have a typo in line 11. I'm assuming you want to use the assignment operator "="

RE: [PHP] Recursive Interpolation

2004-10-05 Thread Michael Sims
Chuck Wolber wrote: > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Michael Sims wrote: >> What's ugly about it? I saw your earlier post I was actually >> planning on responding and suggesting something exactly like you >> just came up with. > > The main problem (aside from performance, w

RE: [PHP] Recursive Interpolation

2004-10-04 Thread Michael Sims
Chuck Wolber wrote: > The method I've come up with in the meantime, I believe is much more > effective than heredocs, but still an ugly hack: > > function interpolate ($text, $msg_variable) { > $msg_key = '_FP_VAR_'; > > foreach (array_keys($msg_variable) as $key) { > $token = $msg_

RE: [PHP] Regular Expression - highlighting

2004-10-03 Thread Michael Sims
Aidan Lister wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm pretty terrible with regular expressions, I was wondering if > someone would be able to help me with this > http://paste.phpfi.com/31964 > > The problem is detailed in the above link. Basically I need to match > the contents of any HTML tag, except a link.

RE: [PHP] successive imap_open calls result in failure

2004-10-01 Thread Michael Sims
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting raditha dissanayake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> This probably means that your imap server is running under xinetd (or >> something similar) that has a rate limit or a limit on the number of >> connections from one client. You can find out how many connections >> are o

RE: [PHP] List Etiquette

2004-09-21 Thread Michael Sims
Octavian Rasnita wrote: > No, there is no way for customizing the headers Outlook Express use > to put in the email messages. > I wish there was, because I don't like them also... Although I haven't used it personally, OE-QuoteFix may help: http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ I do

Re: [PHP] Re: imap_open() on windows extremely slow?

2004-09-08 Thread Michael Sims
Michael Wallner wrote: > Well, so here comes /the oddity/ > > connecting from debian to windows/exchange ~0.5 seconds > connecting from debian to debian/courier ~0.2 (assumed to be somewhere at 0.x > seconds) > connecting from windows to debian/courier ~5 seconds > connecting from windows to win

RE: [PHP] Odd behaviour of non-existent keys?

2004-08-26 Thread Michael Sims
Geoff Caplan wrote: > Michael Sims wrote: >> IMHO what you have described is a bug in PHP, and if I were you, >> I'd report it as such. If it's not a bug it at least has a very >> high WTF factor. > > Problem with reporting is that I am using Debian Test and

RE: Re[2]: [PHP] Odd behaviour of non-existent keys?

2004-08-25 Thread Michael Sims
Geoff Caplan wrote: > I think you are probably right - but this behaviour causes problems. > For example: > > $foo['one']['two'] = "test-string" ; > > // Evaluates to TRUE (not what's wanted!) > isset( $foo['one']['two']['three'] ) ; > > I need a reliable way to test for the non-existence of a > mu

RE: [PHP] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP] Sessions vs. IE security

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Sims
Stanislav Kuhn wrote: > Thanks for help. I have set up p3p policy to my site.. I passed it > trouth validator and IE can find privacy policy but it still doesn't > allow me cookies... I can't find information what exactly to specify > in privacy policy IE allows me third party cookies... > Does so

RE: [PHP] OO Theory Question

2004-08-17 Thread Michael Sims
Jed R. Brubaker wrote: > Consider the following: I have a login class that is instantiated at > the top of every page. It can log you in, check to see if you are > logged in, etc. This class has an assortment of class variables such > as userID, userType, etc. [...] > A solution is to set all of th

RE: [PHP] Problem querying postgres

2004-08-13 Thread Michael Sims
Joshua Capy wrote: > of PHPADMIN and try use pg_query() to do a select such as "SELECT > PersonID FROM person" > > the string that is sent is "select personid from person". Now this is > a problem because in the data base the field PersonID is not the same > case as in the select that is sent and I

RE: [PHP] PHP logic - Whats going on here?

2004-08-11 Thread Michael Sims
Michael Sims wrote: > string at various points to see what it contains. You may need to > drill down into the actual source code for the Send() method to see > what it things the body string is. Errr... s/things/thinks/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscri

RE: [PHP] PHP logic - Whats going on here?

2004-08-11 Thread Michael Sims
Kim Steinhaug wrote: [snip] > For some reason the above results in a blank mail, no $body at all, > rest is fine. However, if I include a dummy for if all goes well : > >if(!$mail->Send()) { > echo $lang_error['mailer_error'] . "\n"; >} else { > // Why do I need this one??? >

RE: [PHP] help with regular expression

2004-07-29 Thread Michael Sims
Barbara Picci wrote: > I've a script that must strip a string when it find the first word > containing at least 4 characters; it must print the content of the > string before that word, that word, a separator and the rest of the > string. > > I've tried with ereg whit this script ([EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [PHP] Re: Classes, instances and NULL

2004-07-29 Thread Michael Sims
Oliver Hitz wrote: > Thank you. I know there is a `===' operator, but to me this doesn't > make sense either. > > class A { } > class B { var $x; } > > It is logical that an instance of `A' is not identical to null. > However, why is an instance of `A' equal (`==' operator) to null, an > instan

RE: [PHP] -> operator and :: (formal names?)

2004-07-26 Thread Michael Sims
Katie Marquez wrote: > Hi! > > I did a search of the PHP manual for these: > > -> and :: > > I know what they are used for, but what I don't know > is what they are formally called. Can someone tell me > what they are called (short of using the symbol in the > name)? I don't know what PHP's offic

RE: [PHP] background="#"

2004-07-22 Thread Michael Sims
Tobias Brasier wrote: > I have recently noticed a problem with our code or our webserver > (Apache) when I execute a .php file. I have taken all php code out, > but within an html tag, I use background="#", which is used for > older browsers such as Netscape 4.7 if you have a background color or

RE: [PHP] exec/system question..

2004-07-21 Thread Michael Sims
bruce wrote: > michael... > > something strange is happening/or i'm missing something basic... but > here's the sys response from your suggestion... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]# php -r 'exec("bash -c 'exec nohup perl > /home/test/college.pl >/dev/null 2>&1 &'");' > [3] 2566 > -bash: ");: command no

RE: [PHP] exec/system question..

2004-07-21 Thread Michael Sims
Justin Patrin wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:55:37 -0500, Michael Sims > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sorry to followup to my own post, but I just did some quick testing >> and apparently none of the above (nohup, setsid) is really >> necessary. As long a

RE: [PHP] exec/system question..

2004-07-21 Thread Michael Sims
bruce wrote: > my attempt (below) never seemed to work properly... > > php -r 'exec("perl /home/test/college.pl /dev/null 2>&1 &");' <<< > works, but doesn't return until the perl app completes... > > > php -r 'exec("bash -c 'exec nohup perl /home/test/college.pl > /dev/null 2>&1 &'");' <<< can't g

RE: [PHP] exec/system question..

2004-07-21 Thread Michael Sims
Michael Sims wrote: > Justin Patrin wrote: >> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:09:52 -0700, bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> 2) i could run the perl script, and have it somehow run in the >>> background this would ba good, if there's a way to essentiall

RE: [PHP] exec/system question..

2004-07-21 Thread Michael Sims
Justin Patrin wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:09:52 -0700, bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> 2) i could run the perl script, and have it somehow run in the >> background this would ba good, if there's a way to essentially [...] > AFAIK there's no way to do this. When the request ends (user

RE: [PHP] Performance issues and trees

2004-07-20 Thread Michael Sims
Sven Riedel wrote: > letters "0" and "1". My tree-traversal algorithm looks like this: > > $bit_array = str_split( $bitstring ); > $tree_climber = $tree; // assign tree-climber to the > tree root > > // main loop > while( !is_null( $bit = array_shift( $bit_array ) ) ) { > $tr

RE: [PHP] Re: using the mssql functions on a linux server

2004-07-14 Thread Michael Sims
Skippy wrote: >> Is this the only way around it? Can I get to mssql without using >> the mssql extension? > > I don't think so. Plus, the entire setup is a bit complicated and you > need FreeTDS as well as UnixODBC installed, plus some /etc > configuration "magic". Why is UnixODBC necessary? I'v

RE: [PHP] php 4.3.7/5.0

2004-07-13 Thread Michael Sims
Curt Zirzow wrote: > * Thus wrote Josh Close: >> if($var) >> >> used to work for >> >> if($var != 0) or if($var != "0") >> >> but that doesn't seem to work since I upgrade. So I'm just going to >> do >> >> if((int)$var) > > I still think this is unnecessary > > if ("0") { echo '"0"'; } > if ("") {

RE: [PHP] php 4.3.7/5.0

2004-07-13 Thread Michael Sims
Josh Close wrote: > $result = mssql_query($sql); > $row = mssql_fetch_array($result); > $var = $row[0]; > > So it should be an int. And if it's copied into a function it > shouldn't be changed. > > But doing > > if($var) > > doesn't seem to work after I upgraded versions. Which is making me > think

RE: [PHP] Client IP

2004-07-07 Thread Michael Sims
John W. Holmes wrote: >> IP adress not send ?!? And how server communicate with client ? > > A variety of ways. What I meant is that it's not sent in the browser's > headers that it sends to the site, which is where getenv() and > $_SERVER[] would snatch it from. Correct me if I'm wrong, but shoul

RE: [PHP] PHP page memory usage

2004-07-06 Thread Michael Sims
Michael Gale wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to monitor or test out how much CPU / memory a php > page uses ? I would like to find out how intensive some of my scripts > are. Don't know about CPU, but you can get memory usage with this function: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.me

RE: [PHP] session id changing all the time on some pc's

2004-07-02 Thread Michael Sims
Zilvinas Saltys wrote: > The problem is as i understand IE is not accepting the cookie. So the > session id allways regenerates. Everything works fine with mozilla. [...] > The only thing i want to know is all the truth about IE (6?) and > cookies :) Could it be a problem with IE6 and P3P (http://

RE: [PHP] Problem with session on first page loaded

2004-07-02 Thread Michael Sims
Jordi Canals wrote: > the ISP changed a param in the PHP.INI, and they changed > session.use_trans_sid setting it to 1. [...] > Now I should talk to the provider to not set this parameter to ON by > default, because the security risk on it (As stated on the manuals). If they allow you to use .htac

RE: [PHP] Comparison Operator

2004-07-01 Thread Michael Sims
Gabe wrote: > I was looking at the comparison operators page and noticed that these > two operators were listed as "PHP4 only". Is that an error, or are > they really not used in PHP5? I don't want to use them if they're > going to break when I upgrade. And if they aren't included, then > does s

RE: [PHP] flock(), fclose() and O/S buffering

2004-07-01 Thread Michael Sims
Andrew Hill wrote: > $fp = fopen("/tmp/lock.txt", "w+"); > if (flock($fp, LOCK_EX)) { // do an exclusive lock >fwrite($fp, "$processName\n"); >flock($fp, LOCK_UN); // release the lock > } else { >echo "Couldn't lock the file !"; > } > fclose($fp); [...] > In this case, although process

RE: [PHP] Best external app from php

2004-06-29 Thread Michael Sims
C.F. Scheidecker Antunes wrote: > Hello all, > > I need to have a web application to call an external app that needs to > execute on the background. (It is an *NIX server) [...] > My question is this: > > Is it better to write the external app in PHP or Java? Assuming that you (or the developer(s)

RE: [PHP] Help with array / list looping syntax

2004-06-29 Thread Michael Sims
Robb Kerr wrote: > I need some help with a looping syntax. In english, "a" is used before > words that begin with consonants - "an" is used before words that > start with vowels. You are probably already aware of this, but that isn't strictly correct. The rule for deciding between "a" and "an" is

RE: [PHP] Construction

2004-06-27 Thread Michael Sims
Paul Bissex wrote: > FWIW Python also requires child classes to call parent constructors > manually. Not sure what the justification is for this design decision > is, though, in either language. Anybody? Flexibility, I would guess. With PHP's current behavior one can: (1) Call the parent constr

RE: [PHP] Understanding behavior of 'directories below files'

2004-06-25 Thread Michael Sims
KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: > If you go to this URL, you'll get a broken version of the main home > page on our site: http://www.hcpartnership.org/index.php/search . We > can't understand this, because 'index.php' is a file, not a > directory. (The correct web page is just at > http://www.hcpartnership.o

RE: [PHP] Testing if cookies are enabled

2004-06-21 Thread Michael Sims
Martin Schneider wrote: > I saw this on some pages and want to do the same: > > - On one page the user can login. Before that no cookie is set! > > - On the next page they set the cookie and show either the user data > or a warning that the user has disabled cookies and should enable > them. > > I

RE: [PHP] sessions & cookies

2004-06-19 Thread Michael Sims
Scott Taylor wrote: > How exactly do sessions work? I've heard that if cookies are disabled > that a session will then pass it's variables in the url (through GET). > Yet when I manually disable cookies none of my pages work (because the > $_SESSION variables do not seem to be working). The varia

RE: [PHP] php

2004-06-18 Thread Michael Sims
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > will retrieving data from files have a problem like if 2 person > access the same file at the same time and causing the data to crush? If you're only going to be reading the file you should be fine. Otherwise you've got a bit of research to do. Here's a starting point

RE: [PHP] Odd behavior with unset, array indexes, and types

2004-06-17 Thread Michael Sims
Curt Zirzow wrote: > To simplify things: > > $a[2] = '1'; > $k = (double)2; > echo isset($a[$k]); > unset($a[$k]); > echo isset($a[$k]); > echo " -> expect 1\n"; > > > Result: > 11 -> expect 1 Yeah, my version was just a wee bit verbose. :) >> It's the behavior that is specific to u

RE: [PHP] Odd behavior with unset, array indexes, and types

2004-06-17 Thread Michael Sims
Thomas Goyne wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:52:32 -0500, Michael Sims > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ceil() returns a variable of type double. In the above script I >> expected $foo to become an empty array after calling unset(). But >> it seems that unset() wi

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