Re: [PHP] window.open access parent's JS?
Yup, window.opener it is. Much thanks. I was surprised how much Googling I did and didn't find that. On 07/07/2010 04:31 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Not really anything to do with PHP there :p Well, given the breadth the topics I've seen discussed on this list I thought it would slide by. But for my penance I'll ask the following: Is there a way to have a window opened with window.open() inherit the parent windows JS environment... when it resides in a much larger PHP/MySQL application? How's that for a qualifier! :) Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] window.open access parent's JS?
Hey all, Is there a way to have a window opened with window.open() inherit the parent windows JS environment? In other words, I call window.open() with a URL that displays a form created by a PHP script. JS code has already been loaded by the parent, and I need to be able to access that code via mouse overs and onclick calls from the code in the newly opened window. Is this possible? Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Converting funky characters
Hey all, What's the best way to filter/convert characters that don't translate properly from say news stories to HTML? For example, I have a form that people cut and paste the lead in paragraph from news stories they want to link to from their sites to the original. And of course things like long dashes, double quotes, single quotes, etc, always translate is wacky unprintables when they are rendered, and the user needs to edit them to replace them with standard characters. Is there way to filter this text through a function that will convert them to web friendly chars? Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] SSL and multiple host names
Hey all, Just wanted to let you know what I find out about this and how I solved the problem. First, name based SSL is, as one person told me, only good for one IP address in an Apache installation. I'll let Apache explain it themselves because they are better at it than I am. The reason is that the SSL protocol is a separate layer which encapsulates the HTTP protocol. So the SSL session is a separate transaction, that takes place before the HTTP session has begun. The server receives an SSL request on IP address X and port Y (usually 443). Since the SSL request does not contain any Host: field, the server has no way to decide which SSL virtual host to use. Usually, it will just use the first one it finds, which matches the port and IP address specified. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_faq.html#vhosts2 So the solution is that each host name has to have its own IP address if you're going to do both port 80 for HTTP and port 443 for HTTPS. You can assign different ports for your different SSL host names, but that can get messy, and because these are paying customers for an account on our system it was a no brainer to go with separate IPs per host name. So my process now is to leave them on the shared virtual host name configuration until they require SSL, which our clients only do when they start processing credit card transactions, and once they do that they get their own IP and we configure them accordingly. So I hope this little nugget helps anyone who comes across this same issue. And incidentally, if you need to configure IP-based SSL on FreeBSD I'm you're guy; I'm now a whiz at it :) Skip Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Anyone good with multiple SSL on Apache?
Hey all, I have an Apache virtual config running a bunch of sites, one with SSL. I finally have a need to add SSL to one more, but when I do the first one (which is further down the file) comes up untrusted. Since this is pretty far off topic I'd be obliged if someone who has configured this before can email me off list for some assistance. Much thanks! Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Anyone good with multiple SSL on Apache?
D'oh! ...and I suppose there is just no way around that, eh? Skip Frank M. Kromann wrote: You can only have one SSL per IP address. The SSL connection between the client and server is done before the host header name is made available to Apache. - Frank On 3/8/10 2:13 PM, Skip Evans wrote: Hey all, I have an Apache virtual config running a bunch of sites, one with SSL. I finally have a need to add SSL to one more, but when I do the first one (which is further down the file) comes up untrusted. Since this is pretty far off topic I'd be obliged if someone who has configured this before can email me off list for some assistance. Much thanks! Skip -- Frank M. Kromann, M.Sc.E.E. Web by Pixel, Inc. Phone: +1 949 742 7533 Cell: +1 949 702 1794 Denmark: +45 88 33 64 80 -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Replacing accented characters
Hey all, Does anyone have a function that replaces accented characters with the non-accent equals? I can't figure out how to get them out of the Ubuntu keyboard the way it is configured so I've just tried three different functions off the Internet and none of them have worked. Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] HTML plain text in Outlook 2007
Ashley Sheridan wrote: That last reason could be why your email is failing! HTML email is the one place where it is actually better to code the old way with tables for markup, font tags, and very little (if any) CSS. If you do use any CSS, it's best left inline as well, as some email clients strip out anything within the head tags of your email. Yes, that's exactly what I took away from the conversation. HTML emails should be coded using the old way. Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] HTML plain text in Outlook 2007
Hey Guys, Thanks for all the info on this. Sorry for the late reply, but I got sidetracked writing the module that will send out all these nasty emails. I do have the text going on top, and I think I said, looks perfect in Evolution and Thunderbird in both text and HTML. I also read about MS ripping out the IE renderer and going back in time basically. I thought the solution of converting a Word document into HTML with open office is interesting. I'll run that by the client and test it out. Bottom line is, HTML is just a total pain, and yes, the email the client created in HTML using the most update to date CSS and HTML! Thanks! Skip Robert Cummings wrote: Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 13:44 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: What about signing yourself up to some newsletters to see how they do it? Looking at the ones I get from Facebook as an example, they use the boundary codes you mentioned, and I can't see anything particularly special that's been added. What order are you sending the two message parts by the way? I think the traditional way is to send the plain/text part first, so that UA's that don't understand or support multipart messages only use the first one. As you mentioned that you're seeing HTML code at the top, I'd hazard a guess that you're sending the HTML first? The problem is most likely NOT his email structure, but the fact that Microsoft in all their lock-in, make things difficult, non standard, monopolistic philosophy chose to switch out the IE HTML renderer (which was getting pretty decent with IE7 and IE8) with the Office HTML renderer... so now basic things like CSS padding of something as simple as a p tag is not possible. You now need to use margins instead. The full list of supported attributes / CSS can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx Obviously creating HTML emails was getting too easy (like it is with Thunderbird). Of course... I guess it could be as bad as Google stripping out the stylesheets entirely when viewing HTML content which forces you to put the styles on the tags themselves. ... actually I'm not sure what's worse... at least you can use standard styles with Google's gmail. Either way... making nice looking HTML emails that work across Outlook, Thunderbird, Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail is a pain in the ass. Cheers, Rob. If he's getting HTML output at the top of the email, I would think that did suggest that MS Word didn't like the structure. Making HTML emails is now such a difficult job, as the email clients rendering engines tend to not get updated as often as browsers, and there doesn't seem to be any effort in bringing the rendering of the email clients together. Whenever I create these emails I try to make sure I try no to get too creative in the design, and use not only CSS styles, but properties of the HTML tags themselves. It means I end up writing the CSS essentially twice and backing it up with old deprecated HTML attributes, but it usually does the trick. Is there any effort by some standards group that email clients could benefit from? I think I skipped over some relevant information in the original post :) Still... as you've said... email HTML sucks... and MS made it worse. Cheers, Rob. -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] HTML plain text in Outlook 2007
Hey all, First, let me say thanks for all the advice on Magento, and especially to Ryan who has used the beast and gave some great advice on skinning, links to some good docs and a book just for my designer. We'll be using and I'm looking forward to learning it. But anyway... I'm doing some maintenance work on a system that sends an email message using the multi-part boundaries to include both a plain text version and an HTML version of an email. I've read up on this before, but never actually done it. So implementing the code was not a big issue, and in fact it works perfectly when tested on my Ubuntu machine using Thunderbird to test the HTML and Evolution to test the plain text version. In fact, I can switch formats on both of these and all looks great. Enter Microsoft (Insert opening of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor to send chills up my readers' spines.) On Outlook 2007 in HTML mode it renders, how can I put this... half-assedly. In text mode the whole things a bust. There is the HTML code all stuffed up at the top, boundary codes are visible, just plain awful. Googling around I see articles from 2007 when that version of Outlook came out lamenting the fact that MS pulled the IE rendering engine from it and replaced it with MS Word's renderer to plug security holes expoitable via email. Does anyone have any experience with HTML plain text multi-part messages and Outlook 2007, or any tips how I can get this working? Still Googling, but any tips would be greatly appreciated. Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Magento shopping cart
Hey all, So I'm more comfortable all the time with using Magento, more I read, and Ryan said, Its great, I have been using it for over 2 years very flexible platform very easy to manipulate, and the end user admin is second to none mate. ... Mate?... Are there Aussies on this list? ;) Anyway, what about skinning this animal. If I install it will our designer be able to put the site's custom look and feel into it? Ryan, what do you think? Skip Nathan Nobbe wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: I'm not totally opposed to using Magento, though I can see my comments, especially if it's what the client wants. I have been looking over the site and it does have a lot of features so I can see it saving some serious time, especially given the extras he wants. So Nathan, having used it, do you have any tips for a Magento newbie when it comes to integrating it with a custom site? I havent used it yet, but we are considering using it as a second-gen platform at my new place of biz. initial glimpses are promising, but it appears to be a somewhat complex offering compared to say wordpress w/ an e-commerce plugin. i imagine there may be other tradeoffs as well, like a number of general purpose plugins and probly more look feel options in wordpress than magento. I haven't found any integration documentation for programmers yet. google for magento extension and it looks like you may have to hit the appropriate mailing list for more details. fwiw, afaik, x-cart is one of those older e-commerce platforms circa os-commerce / zencart days. the code is ass, but frankly that damn thing has installations up all over the net (or did once upon a time, lol). -nathan -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Magento shopping cart
Hey all, Anyone ever use the Magento shopping cart? Pluses, minuses, opinions? I have a client that is pretty adamant about using it, but I've found over just about any I've used I can do a better service to the client by writing them from scratch. It's easy and they always get exactly what they want. I see they seem to have a lot of plug ins, but I think someone just told him it is the best cart to use so he's sort of fixated on it. Like I said, I typically find I can custom write one with better results. I found xCart, for example, to contain some of the worst code I had ever seen and it turned me off to third party carts. Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Magento shopping cart
Ashley Sheridan wrote: Why spend ages reinventing the wheel? I've come across so many clients using third party carts who have been unhappy with the final results. I hear so often It does eighty percent of what we need, but we do things like this [insert idiosyncratic business practice here]. And then getting a third party cart to do what they wanted was often either incredibly frustrating/time consuming, or often just not doable. Yes, writing a cart takes time, but I've found I can whip them out pretty easily, and I have a lot of code I reuse all the time. I pretty much have a complete basic cart stored away, but I intentionally keep its functionality to a minimum so that I can expand on it to their specifications. To date the results have been pretty good. Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Magento shopping cart
I'm not totally opposed to using Magento, though I can see my comments, especially if it's what the client wants. I have been looking over the site and it does have a lot of features so I can see it saving some serious time, especially given the extras he wants. So Nathan, having used it, do you have any tips for a Magento newbie when it comes to integrating it with a custom site? I haven't found any integration documentation for programmers yet. Skip Nathan Nobbe wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com mailto:s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Ashley Sheridan wrote: Why spend ages reinventing the wheel? i whole heartedly agree. I've come across so many clients using third party carts who have been unhappy with the final results. I hear so often It does eighty percent of what we need, but we do things like this [insert idiosyncratic business practice here]. thats why a lot of the modern incarnations have embraced the concept of modularization, eg. plugins / skins etc. etc. just look back a os-commerce / zen-cart; the notion of skins they had was horrific, basically since the ui was intertwined w/ logic, skins were tied to revs of the application - ouch! the community has matured a lot since then from what i gather. And then getting a third party cart to do what they wanted was often either incredibly frustrating/time consuming, or often just not doable. i think in most cases, anymore, youre mainly looking at ramp-up time on how to use / customize / extend an existing third party system. while that can be sucky, you should really weigh the trade-off between that and getting beaten over the head w/ requests to develop the most common place look-and-feel customization crap / features. ive started to lean towards the former in my personal career, having come from zealous devotion to the later in my initial years in the industry. Yes, writing a cart takes time, but I've found I can whip them out pretty easily, and I have a lot of code I reuse all the time. I pretty much have a complete basic cart stored away, but I intentionally keep its functionality to a minimum so that I can expand on it to their specifications. ok, well, when your custom cart has all the features of magento / [your fav e-commerce platform here] let me know. ill have finished up the proprietary plugins that make my site unique and have forgotten pretty much everything about silly crap id never want to write - like custom look at feel, crm, reports etc etc. o and also, when you have as many users / devs hitting your codebase as some of the popular platforms, im interested in hearing about that as well, lol. -nathan -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] SQL question
Kim Madsen wrote: But Skip, as the others say, use a date class, since you're passing a php var on to the SQL anyway, then you could determine the exact days from start to end of donation. Combine this with to_days and you have your solution Yes, this sounds like the best way to go. Thanks everyone! Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Replacing accented characters?
Hey all, I'm looking for recommendations on how to replace accented characters, like e and u with those two little dots above them, with the regular e and u characters. I'm finding some solutions via Google, but would like to hear from some of you to hear how you handle those situations. Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Replacing accented characters?
Looks like strtr() is the way to go? Skip Skip Evans wrote: Hey all, I'm looking for recommendations on how to replace accented characters, like e and u with those two little dots above them, with the regular e and u characters. I'm finding some solutions via Google, but would like to hear from some of you to hear how you handle those situations. Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] SQL question
Hey all, I have an SQL query that's stumping me. I have two date variables, $start and $end that are in mm/dd/ format and two database fields, start_date and no_donations. The start date is mm/dd/ format and no_donations is an integer that represents the number of months from start_date that donations will be made. So if start date is say 02/01/2010 and no_dations is 4 then donations will be made four times from the start date for four months. What I need to do is come up with a query that will determine if the start_date + no_donations falls within $start and $end. But I'm pretty stumped. How can I convert start_date + no_donations in the database to the date when the last donation will take place so I'll now if the donations fall between $start and $end? Any suggestions would be very help and appreciated, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Subversion Ubuntu client
Hey all, Can anyone recommend a good Subversion client for Ubuntu? Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Shipping calculator
Hey all, I've written a few shopping carts, but not one that calculated shipping charges. So I did a bit of Googling and found SONICODE that looks pretty good here. http://www.sonicode.com/php_shipping_rates_calculator.php It's a PHP library that handles the calls to the carries USPS, UPS and FedEx and then returns the shipping charges back to you. It's only 50 bucks and I figure for saving time writing the XML code, etc, this might be a good route for me to go. It's a pretty big app so this is a small investment. Also comes with full source. I'm wondering if anyone has used this one, or others and can toss out some opinions and thoughts to someone who hasn't done this before. Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Passing HTML array index to JS?
Hey all, I have an HTML field like this input type=text name=qty[] value=!!quantity!! size=4 style=text-align: right; onblur=calculateBidUnit(); ... and what I need to do is pass to the calculateBidUnit function the value of quantity, do a calculation on it and plug into this field. input type=text name=bid_unit_value[] value= size=4 Which of course I know how to do for non-array values, but not sure how to get the values to do the calculation on the JS side if the fields are in an array. Any help, as always, is greatly appreciated, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Passing HTML array index to JS?
Hey Philip,
But will that ID value identify the right member of each
array? I thought about that but just assumed that it would not.
Skip
Philip Thompson wrote:
On Dec 7, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Skip Evans wrote:
Hey all,
I have an HTML field like this
input type=text name=qty[] value=!!quantity!! size=4 style=text-align: right;
onblur=calculateBidUnit();
... and what I need to do is pass to the calculateBidUnit function the value of
quantity, do a calculation on it and plug into this field.
input type=text name=bid_unit_value[] value= size=4
Which of course I know how to do for non-array values, but not sure how to get
the values to do the calculation on the JS side if the fields are in an array.
Any help, as always, is greatly appreciated,
Skip
This question is probably more appropriate for a JS list... but I'm not mean,
so I'll let you know. The easiest way would be to update the blur event qty
input:
onblur=calculateBidUnit(this.value);
Now you have the value sent to that function. Another way would be to give your
input and output an id each - let's say 'qty' and 'bid_unit_value',
respectively. Then reference those ids in your function. This gives you the
following:
input type=text name=qty[] value=!!quantity!! onblur=calculateBidUnit();
id=qty /
input type=text name=bid_unit_value[] value= id=bid_unit_value /
script type=text/javascript
function calculateBidUnit () {
var qty = document.getElementById('qty');
var buv = document.getElementById('bid_unit_value');
buv.value = qty.value;
}
/script
I'll give you a small warning. All browsers are not alike, so my recommendation
would be to use a library that handles the cross-browser compatibility portion
of javascript (I use Mootools). Nonetheless, the above *should* work. Learning
the bare bones of javascript will help with the more complicated stuff and
you'll be smarter for it! =P
Hope that helps,
~Philip
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Re: [PHP] Disabling button onclick in IE
Yup. That was it. I found that Googling around as well. Eesh. Skip Andrew Ballard wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Hey all, You probably remember me asking about disabling a submit button when it is clicked to prevent double clicks submitting a form for CC processing. I put the following code into the submit button and it works fine on FireFox, but... hold your breath... not on IE. The button gets disabled but the form just sits there, not submitting. At first I just had onclick=this.disabled=true; and that worked in FF also, but not in IE. Then I added the document.ticket_form.submit(); But even that doesn't work with IE. Below is the whole snippet for the button. input type=submit name=submit value=Purchase Ticket(s) id=submit_tickets onclick=this.disabled=true; document.ticket_form.submit(); Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. It looks like IE has an issue with your button being named submit, and is replacing the submit() method of the form with the element named submit. Try changing the name of the button. Andrew -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Disabling button onclick in IE
Hey all, Tedd Ash, yes, I'm definitely looking into solving it server side, but I need this quick fix while I come with a solution more along the lines of what you've both suggested. Ash, how do you store the time stamp when the first request comes through? Do you use a session variable or something like that and when each request comes through compare the data with any previous request within the half second or so? Skip tedd wrote: At 9:16 PM + 12/1/09, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 15:06 -0600, Skip Evans wrote: wow, i really think you're going about this all the wrong way. Ash: I thought the same thing considering that I went through the exact same problem and provided a solution, which he never mentioned. Cheers, tedd -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Disabling button onclick in IE
Okay, I'll work on something along those lines. In the meantime, the JS will work better than nothing. Thanks, Skip Ashley Sheridan wrote: I'll tell you about the problem I had. One site was offering up contact details for sale on a contract basis. The names were presented in a list of links, and clicking through purchased those details for a 24-hour period. When a visitor clicked on a link, it added an entry into a database along with the current time. Because links are all GET data, the process was performed twice by some browsers. Each time a details page was displayed it checked to see if these details were requested by the same user (using the login details) within a certain time period. If no record was found, then a new purchase entry was made. You could use this sort of thing on your own system as a general idea. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Powerpoint from PHP?
Hey all, I have a client who creates PowerPoint presentations to sell their clients on projects. What he would like his site to do is allow his clients to arrange their own PP presentations from an existing collection of slides with images, but then add their own text. So the problem I need to solve is to take a set of PP slides with images, and then insert text into each one below the image and then assemble a .ppt file consisting of the selected slides. I'm Googling around now for a solution, but if anyone has tackled this before and can point me in a productive direction heaps of praise will be orated at my next heap praise on people party. ...in other words, thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Powerpoint from PHP?
Yeah, from Googling around I'm getting the impression there is not a PHP library capable of doing this. I guess the next best thing we can do is just let them download files with collections of slides and create the presentation themselves. Skip Ashley Sheridan wrote: I don't think that's possible. You could look at the Microsoft XML formats to see if you can take that apart, but it would be tricky. It might be far easier to do it with the Open Office presentation format, but again, I don't know of any libraries that are capable of doing this. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Powerpoint from PHP?
I wonder what other alternatives to PP might exist for a possible solution to this. I don't know squat about Flash, but the client is not married to PP, just needs some kind of presentation the side can assemble, again basically put images and text into something that can be displayed to potential clients. The OpenOffice API suggestion from Leonard sounds a bit intriguing but the client doesn't have a huge budget for me to spend a lot of time experimenting. I'm wondering what can be done with images and either ImageMagick or perhaps GD and then something. Skip Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 11:41 -0500, Ryan Sun wrote: php on windows server may have the capability... On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Yeah, from Googling around I'm getting the impression there is not a PHP library capable of doing this. I guess the next best thing we can do is just let them download files with collections of slides and create the presentation themselves. Skip Ashley Sheridan wrote: I don't think that's possible. You could look at the Microsoft XML formats to see if you can take that apart, but it would be tricky. It might be far easier to do it with the Open Office presentation format, but again, I don't know of any libraries that are capable of doing this. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php I think for COM stuff to work, you'd have to have MS Office installed on the server. I wouldn't recommend that to anyone; that would be just another way into the server should someone wish it. Windows and MS Office are just about the most popular bits of software around, and Windows is inherently insecure, such that I'd be unsurprised if their Office software was as insecure. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Powerpoint from PHP?
Shawn McKenzie wrote: 1. If they're not married to PP, why not just use HTML? You can do all of the same things on your own in PHP/HTML. Also, this looks pretty cool: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ Bingo. That's what I'm going to propose. I can do a nice slide-like presentation in HTML the people can just log onto the web site to view. Thanks all! Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Disabling button onclick in IE
Hey all, You probably remember me asking about disabling a submit button when it is clicked to prevent double clicks submitting a form for CC processing. I put the following code into the submit button and it works fine on FireFox, but... hold your breath... not on IE. The button gets disabled but the form just sits there, not submitting. At first I just had onclick=this.disabled=true; and that worked in FF also, but not in IE. Then I added the document.ticket_form.submit(); But even that doesn't work with IE. Below is the whole snippet for the button. input type=submit name=submit value=Purchase Ticket(s) id=submit_tickets onclick=this.disabled=true; document.ticket_form.submit(); Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Wiki recommendation?
Hey all, I'm looking for a good Wiki to maintain documentation on a large commercial web site that is always growing. DokuWiki is the only one I've installed and used at any length, so before I just use that one again I'd like to hear from the peanut gallery what other suggestions you'd have. Remember, this will be for end user documentation for a large commercial CMS type system, something site admins will go to for information on site features, updates, etc. Let the shouting begin! Thanks, all, and a very happy eating-charred-dead-bird-flesh day to you all!!! Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Recognizing double clicks
Hey all, Every site I've ever stuck a credit card into said only click once I just this requirement from a client. a.System should recognize a duplicated click, so the message in red “only click once” should be unnecessary. Is this doable??? Has anyone on the list ever done this??? -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Recognizing double clicks
It just dawned on me the button may be disabled right when it's clicked to prevent a double submit? Is that doable? Skip Skip Evans wrote: Hey all, Every site I've ever stuck a credit card into said only click once I just this requirement from a client. a.System should recognize a duplicated click, so the message in red “only click once” should be unnecessary. Is this doable??? Has anyone on the list ever done this??? -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Netbeans IDE 6.5
Hey, No import button in NetBeans 6.5 on Ubuntu. Skip Tom Calpin wrote: If you go ToolsOptions Keymap tab, you can click the 'Import' button at the bottom. It just imports the zip file. I'm new to Netbeans myself and decided to install this colour scheme, however I can't get it to display correctly. I'm also missing word wrap and a more simple one-click FTP upload interface, so I'm still in half a mind as to whether I abandon NuSphere (which we sort of grew up with) just yet. Unless anyone out there knows any plugins that add the functionality to Netbeans? -Original Message- From: Skip Evans [mailto:s...@bigskypenguin.com] Sent: 28 October 2009 00:50 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Netbeans IDE 6.5 Hey all, I just downloaded the Netbeans 6.5 IDE to use as a code editor, installed the PHP plugin for syntax highlighting and it didn't look so good, so I find on the forum a guy who has made a collection of files, starting in a directory called config, that will apparently change the highlighting more in line to what I'm used to. But he gave no instructions how this is to be installed and I can't find anywhere in the documentation how to install this stuff. Any Netbeaners out there know how to install syntax highlighting stuff? I found it here. http://forums.netbeans.org/post-46850.html Downloaded and unzipped the archive and then I stopped like the robot on Lost in Space when they pulled out his power pack. Any help would be great! Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Apache file order
Hey all, I modified an Apache config file to list the HTML file first, after the PHP file, it still pulls up the PHP file first. Is there another setting in Apache I should be looking for? I need it to check for the HTML file first. Thanks, Skip IfModule dir_module DirectoryIndex index.html index.php /IfModule -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Netbeans IDE 6.5
Bob McConnell wrote: Three questions. 1. Why did you install an obsolete version? 6.7.1 is current and 6.8 is now in beta. Because that what Ubuntu installs with apt-get install netbeans and I like to stick with Ubuntu tested stuff. 2. You just asked this question on the NetBeans mailing list, which is more likely to result in a useable answer. Can't you wait for them? No. 3. Did you try reading the help section on Configuring IDE Settings? Yes. Once again you forgot to include that you installed this on Ubuntu. You mean people still use Windows? Talk about obsolete! -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Netbeans IDE 6.5
Greg Maruszeczka wrote: Download NB 6.7.1 (or even better, 6.8 Beta which looks pretty good to me), run the install script and you're done. It's built-in updater will handle the rest. Then if you're still feeling antsy about the choice of syntax colors you can choose any of five different theme profiles under Tools-Options-FontsColors or customize any one of them to your heart's content. I took Greg's advice and downloaded 6.7.1, installed no problem, and now there is an import button, but when I try to import the new style from the NetBeans Forum it doesn't have any affect. So, taking Greg's advice again I'll restyle it myself. Now, if I can just get rid of that red line at the 80 column mark. I haven't bothered with 80 columns since I wrote assembly on a terminal connected to a PDP-11 in college. Skip Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Netbeans IDE 6.5
Hey all, I just downloaded the Netbeans 6.5 IDE to use as a code editor, installed the PHP plugin for syntax highlighting and it didn't look so good, so I find on the forum a guy who has made a collection of files, starting in a directory called config, that will apparently change the highlighting more in line to what I'm used to. But he gave no instructions how this is to be installed and I can't find anywhere in the documentation how to install this stuff. Any Netbeaners out there know how to install syntax highlighting stuff? I found it here. http://forums.netbeans.org/post-46850.html Downloaded and unzipped the archive and then I stopped like the robot on Lost in Space when they pulled out his power pack. Any help would be great! Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Little perl help?
Hey all, I know this is a PHP list, but I could use a bit of Perl help, a language which just does not fit in my C/C++/Java/PHP trained brain. A directory is created with the following: mkdir($img_dir,$CHMOD_ON_FOLDER_CREATE); I need to replace spaces with the underscore character so the directory name contains no spaces, so I tried preceding it with $img_dir =~ s/ /_/g; Which did nothing. Can someone help here? Much thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: [SPAM] [PHP] Little perl help?
My Bad. It looks like I had some code in the wrong place. Will try again. Skip m...@elysianfieldssoftware.com wrote: Skip, That *should* work. The below works on my Linux box. $img_dir=This is an dir name with spaces; $img_dir =~ s/ /_/g; printf(%s\n,$img_dir); mkdir($img_dir,$CHMOD_ON_FOLDER_CREATE); Is there something else you're not posting, or maybe I'm not understanding? Always glad to help a fellow cheesehead. Regards, Matt Flaig Elysian Fields Software, L.L.C. Original Message Subject: [SPAM] [PHP] Little perl help? From: Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com Date: Wed, September 09, 2009 3:35 pm To: php-general@lists.php.net php-general@lists.php.net Hey all, I know this is a PHP list, but I could use a bit of Perl help, a language which just does not fit in my C/C++/Java/PHP trained brain. A directory is created with the following: mkdir($img_dir,$CHMOD_ON_FOLDER_CREATE); I need to replace spaces with the underscore character so the directory name contains no spaces, so I tried preceding it with $img_dir =~ s/ /_/g; Which did nothing. Can someone help here? Much thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Displaying image paths with spaces
Ashley Sheridan wrote: How are you outputting those URLs? PHP won't just automatically converty '%20' to a '\ '. What is the raw URL format you're getting from FCKEditor? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk The raw code in the FCKeditor looks like this: src=/clients/client_118/images//Event%20images/Show%20ads/catspaw1compressed.jpg (withing an img... tag of course) But when the page displays and the images do not appear, viewing the image's properties shows this: (Notice the %5C). That %5C is what I think is being converted to a slash. Why it shows up is baffling me. http://penguinsites.com/clients/client_118/images//Event%5C%20images/Show%5C%20ads/catspaw1compressed.jpg I simply output the code from the FCKeditor with a plain echo to the browser. But then if I right-click the image to view it, that's when I see this The requested URL /clients/client_118/images//Event\ images/Show\ ads/catspaw1compressed.jpg was not found on this server. So it seems it's not preserving the %20 as coded spaces, and also converting that %5C to a slash! Wh Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Displaying image paths with spaces
HallMarc Websites wrote: Actually, %5C is a \ character, % is %25 Why it is adding a character that is used in local address strings is baffling and I think a clue as to what is going on. Is it possible it is mashing a local file address into a web address? Aha! I think that might be it. In the database it is stored as src=/clients/client_118/images//Event%20images/Show%20ads/catspaw1compressed.jpg But somehow it is converting this to a local file address before it is displayed. BTW, IMHO using spaces in folder and/or file names is bad practice and should be avoided. I totally agree and the code I write I always replace user's spaces with '_' characters, but this is FCKeditor's directory creation code. Maybe I should look into modifying it to do the same. I actually have already modified FCK to store images in client specific directories and found the code to be pretty well written so maybe I need to do the same and solve the problem that way. I'll check that out. Thanks Ash and Marc for the input. I think we're on the right path ;) Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Displaying image paths with spaces
Hey all, I have a CMS system that uses the FCKeditor to allow users to create directories in which to store images. FCK allows users to create directories with spaces in them, and it's pretty deep in the JavaScript code so modifying that is not a simple option, so at this point I'm trying to work from the assumption that the users will continue to be allowed to create directory names with spaces. All that said, the CMS outputs data in two ways. I'll start with the second method because it works and then move on to the problem. What the user has created in the FCKeditor is a path to an image that appears like this: src=/clients/client_118/images//Event%20images/Show%20ads/catspaw1compressed.jpg Notice the '%20' codes for the spaces in the directory names like 'Event images' and 'Show ads'. The first way the code is displayed is with an AJAX call. It's read on the PHP side, echo'd back out to the JavaScript code and inserted into an ID with an innerHTML assignment. This method works. The first way the code is loaded is pure PHP. It's read from the database just as it appears above and then echo'd back to the browser. However, in the browser it appears like this: /clients/client_118/images//Event\ images/Show\ ads/catspaw1compressed.jpg And of course the browser can't display the image with those '\ ' combinations. So my task is to get it to display the image properly on the pure PHP side the same way it does via the AJAX call. I should also say that the code the image path resides in contains a text, etc, so it's a block of content, containing both text and image paths. Is there a way to read and echo this on the PHP side and preserve a properly displayable path like the AJAX call, but that also won't interfere with the rest of the HTML and text code contained within the block of content? I'm stumped on this one, so any help would be greatly, wonderfully, blissfully even... appreciated. Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Sending email w/ attachments
Hey all,
Trying to send emails with attachments, first try at this. And
am trying to adapt sample code I found here:
http://www.webcheatsheet.com/PHP/send_email_text_html_attachment.php
Trying this:
($data contains the contents of the file; I've verified this)
$hash = md5(date('r', time()));
$attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
$body_attachment = --PHP-mixed-$hash--\n .
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\$filename\\r\n .
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n .
Content-Disposition: attachment\n.
$attachment . \n .
--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n;
I then append $attachment this to the end of the email body
and send it on. I've verified it is reading the file properly,
in this test case it is a place text file. But I've tried a
PDF and that did not work as well.
What happens is the email comes through and shows an
attachment paper clip icon in Thunderbird, but when the email
is clicked on the icon disappears and the email is empty, even
the body is not there and no attachment either.
A final question I have is does the content-type value need to
change for text files, Word Docs, PDFs, Excel files, etc, or
is there one type that can handle any file type?
Any help would be great. I'm rather stuck and floundering here.
Thanks,
Skip
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Re: [PHP] Sending email w/ attachments
Bastien Koert wrote: Use PHPMailer or one of the other classes available...makes life so much easier eric cartman Kick Ass!!! /eric cartman Yes! Wow! Was that a breeze! That class rocks! Thanks tons, Bastien! I have to admit when I first saw your reply I thought, Oh, man, another class to learn? But I know this is so close to working. I look at the sample and thought, This looks easy, and had it working in no time. Big thanks again! Attachments were a big deal here and this makes it a breeze, AND it looks like multiple attachments would be no problem? Very cool! Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Asterisk anyone?
I'm looking at this page now that shows working with the database through socket type stuff, but now the ball is in the client's court what they want to do. Not sure, so I'm just reading up. http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Web+based+Asterisk+Database+maintenance But thanks all for the pointers. It has been helpful. I've looked up Trixbox, thanks. Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Formatting plain text file
Hey all, Am I brain fading or what? I'm so used to formatting text in tables for HTML display I can't think of how to do it for a plain text file. I just need to create a columned table of names and addresses type stuff... sprintf? -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Formatting plain text file
Jim Lucas wrote: Skip Evans wrote: Hey all, Am I brain fading or what? I'm so used to formatting text in tables for HTML display I can't think of how to do it for a plain text file. I just need to create a columned table of names and addresses type stuff... sprintf? or a little str_pad on each variable... Sure, that will do it. But isn't there some way to construct formatted tables similar to HTML? -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Asterisk anyone?
Hey, I've been asked to write a simple couple of public pages that would let an Asterisk customer modify their account configuration, but the client has no idea how Asterisk stores its data, apparently not in MySQL. Anyone know of any resources for accessing Asterisk from PHP? If anyone has done this can you tell me if I'm on the right track here? http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+AGI+php#PHPTipsandExamples -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Asterisk anyone?
Per Jessen wrote: Depends on which data we're talking about. Asterisk is very flexible. For example, the first screen they want people to be able to change data on is: call waiting,do not disturb and then it looks like numbers (forwarding?) unconditional,unavailable,busy I'm trying to figure out now are these values stored in a regular relational database like MySQL. But so far the documentation I see is really all about how to handle calls, not manage customer data. -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] JS alert that links to a file
Hey all,
With LinuxMan's help I got this working. It was a bit tricky
as it's an AJAX environment, but what I did was create a
separate page with code similar to what he has below and then
call it from the JS side and it works great.
Thanks all, and especially LinuxManMikeC for the key!
Skip
Skip Evans wrote:
LinuxManMikeC wrote:
?php
header('Content-type: text/csv');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=file.csv');
echo 'field1,field2,field3,field4';
?
Okay, right, I remember this.
But it has to be in it's own file, otherwise you get the 'headers
already sent error', right?
Is there any way around that? Any way to get it right at the end of
where the file is created???
Thanks!
Skip
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[PHP] JS alert that links to a file
Okay, I know I've done this before, but now I'm blanking out. I have code that creates a CSV file, and when it's done I want a JS alert to pop up and let them save the file. Isn't this some kind of alert() type call on the JS side??? I know I've done this before and I've been on Google an hour now! -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Saving server side file to local machine with JS
Sorry, I should have been clearer. When PHP finishes creating the file I need one of the JS alert type windows to appear that says.. Your file has completed, would you like to save it to your machine? Like you get when you download a file. If I knew the JS code to do this I perhaps could embed it in the PHP at the end of the function that creates the file??? Is that clearer? Thanks, Skip Paul M Foster wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 09:55:14PM -0500, Skip Evans wrote: Okay, I know I've done this before, but now I'm blanking out. I have code that creates a CSV file, and when it's done I want a JS alert to pop up and let them save the file. Isn't this some kind of alert() type call on the JS side??? I know I've done this before and I've been on Google an hour now! Not sure I understand your question, but there is a function called alert() in javascript. It opens a window with your error message in it. I don't know of a way to trigger this from PHP, since PHP is server-side and Javascript is client-side. You might be able to have javascript scan for the existence/closing of the file in question and then alert the user. Or you could have PHP, when the file is complete, launch a new page which contains the javascript code to alert the user. Paul -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] JS alert that links to a file
LinuxManMikeC wrote:
?php
header('Content-type: text/csv');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=file.csv');
echo 'field1,field2,field3,field4';
?
Okay, right, I remember this.
But it has to be in it's own file, otherwise you get the
'headers already sent error', right?
Is there any way around that? Any way to get it right at the
end of where the file is created???
Thanks!
Skip
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[PHP] Language translation
Hey all, We got a new project and language translation of content is a major priority. I've googled around and seen lots of options, but I'd like to hear from the list about more real world experiences about what some of you found and what both you as a coder and the client were most satisfied with. Big Hugs, Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PEAR Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer setLocked method
Thodoris wrote: I've used it for some time but never needed to lock a cell. Here is a piece of code that shows how to apply a format to a cell: Hope it helps. I think that by doing something like this: $format_bold-setLocked(); while creating the format could do the trick but it is not tested. No, this didn't do it. I already have some formats I've created for dollar amounts, right align, etc, and applying the setLocked() method to them had no affect. Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] PEAR Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer setLocked method
Hey all, Any one use the PEAR Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer package? I need to know how to implement the setLocked method to lock out a cell, but can't figure out how this would be done. Do you add it as a format? But then how is it applied to a cell. It's not documented on the PEAR pages. Any help as always is greatly appreciated. Also, what about making a cell span more than one cell below and above it? I can't find a way to do this either. Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] aesthetic beauty in conception, execution
Okay, had to chime in here... Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter See the trailer here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LRIypcaIX4 Skip Bastien Koert wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:34 PM, teddtedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: At 1:16 PM -0400 6/18/09, Paul M Foster wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:39:35PM -0400, PJ wrote: snip American movies, for the most part and what goes with them, are pollution of the senses. My take, of course. ;-) :-P Clear proof you are insane. The Matrix. Alien. Terminator. Star Wars. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Cannibal Women in the Avacado Jungle of Death. And don't forget my favorite Queen of Outer Space staring Zsa Zsa Gabore and a bunch of her friends -- real camp. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Jane Fonda as Barbarella remains a cult classic though ;-P -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Cross site scripting
Hey all, You may have seen my earlier message about a current client whose site I've taken over maintenance on that is trying to get PCI Compliance from Security Metrics. I've put all the forms behind https and a couple of other things, but this one I don't know how to solve. I'll read up on cross site scripting, but could someone help me understand what they believe the vulnerability is in their notes below? Thanks, Skip Possible cross site scripting on http://www.ranghart.com/index.php Use the following commands to verify this: wp --inject http://www.ranghart.com/index.php?action=searchkw=SEARCH%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28123%29%3C% TCP http/https 4 curl -L http://www.ranghart.com/index.php?action=searchkw=SEARCH%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28123%29%3C% grep 123 This website may have other injection related vulnerabilities. -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Automated form generation?
Hey guys gals all ships at sea, We've been approached by a central office of a relatively large religious denomination that collects data from their member churches in the form of an 11 page questionnaire with a diverse set of questions ranging from multiple choice, essay type, to financial statements. It's currently all hand filled out and then hand typed in to a MS Access database (shudder...). They want to webify it so I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations on PHP based form generation tools that would speed up the process of form creation and perhaps even the inserts into MySQL. So far I'm looking at phpFormGenerator here http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net/ But it says beta which gives me some small pause, and I'm actively browsing for others. Any experience or advice others have here would be greatly appreciated. Any CMS out there that might have a tool for this that would be quick to install and get up and going? Codeigniter have one, any others??? Much thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Automated form generation?
Hey all, I've read through the cakePHP docs for a potential project once and thought it looked pretty well put together, and liked it, but didn't get any hands on with it. Sounds promising... ...any other comments on Cake for this solution? Skip Shawn McKenzie wrote: Skip Evans wrote: Hey guys gals all ships at sea, We've been approached by a central office of a relatively large religious denomination that collects data from their member churches in the form of an 11 page questionnaire with a diverse set of questions ranging from multiple choice, essay type, to financial statements. It's currently all hand filled out and then hand typed in to a MS Access database (shudder...). They want to webify it so I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations on PHP based form generation tools that would speed up the process of form creation and perhaps even the inserts into MySQL. So far I'm looking at phpFormGenerator here http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net/ But it says beta which gives me some small pause, and I'm actively browsing for others. Any experience or advice others have here would be greatly appreciated. Any CMS out there that might have a tool for this that would be quick to install and get up and going? Codeigniter have one, any others??? Much thanks, Skip My first thought was CakePHP. Setup your database and run the cake bake script and you will get all the forms, create, retrieve, update and delete, as well as the PHP models and controllers to do it. Then you just start customizing. -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Web friendly file names
Hey all, I have a file uploader module that allows users to upload documents and of course people are using all kinds of file names that are not web friendly. I guess the best solution is to replace any non alphanumeric with maybe '_' the underscore? How does that sound? Unfortunately, after 20+ years of coding I cannot get my brain around regular expressions to any decent level of proficiency, I know sad. I'd like to hear other solutions for this problem, I am thinking of a regexp that replaces special chars with the underscore; sounds pretty robust and globally acceptable? Opinions, witticisms, flames, quotations by famous débutantes? (The last is optional) -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Web friendly file names
You mean like this? This would work as a good file name to be on the server and link to? $filename = urlencode($_FILES['myfile']['name']); move_uploaded_file($_FILES['myfile']['tmp_name'], $filename); Think that would do the trick? Skip Eddie Drapkin wrote: Why not just urlencode() the filename? (and suggest people use a URL shortening service and/or provide one) On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Richard Heyes rich...@php.net mailto:rich...@php.net wrote: Hi, I have a file uploader module that allows users to upload documents and of course people are using all kinds of file names that are not web friendly. I guess the best solution is to replace any non alphanumeric with maybe '_' the underscore? How does that sound? Unfortunately, after 20+ years of coding I cannot get my brain around regular expressions to any decent level of proficiency, I know sad. I'd like to hear other solutions for this problem, I am thinking of a regexp that replaces special chars with the underscore; sounds pretty robust and globally acceptable? I replace any non alpha chat with a hyphen, then replace two or more hyphens with one. Simple, but I would also include the date so that naming clashes are less likely (if it's applicable). So you might end up with something similar to this: /product/2009/06/03/24ct-gold-earrings Or if using the date is not applicable, you could get something like this: /product/24ct-gold-earrings -- Richard Heyes HTML5 graphing: RGraph (www.rgraph.net http://www.rgraph.net - updated 23rd May) PHP mail: RMail (www.phpguru.org/rmail http://www.phpguru.org/rmail) PHP datagrid: RGrid (www.phpguru.org/rgrid http://www.phpguru.org/rgrid) PHP Template: RTemplate (www.phpguru.org/rtemplate http://www.phpguru.org/rtemplate) PHP SMTP: http://www.phpguru.org/smtp -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Web friendly file names
Oh, of course that makes sense, and I suppose the PHP move_uploaded_file() function has no problem with weird and crappy file names? Skip Eddie Drapkin wrote: Well, erm, no. I'd store the filename, etc. as-is in the database, and then link it with urlencode() and you should be able to serve a file called A non friendly name! site.com/A%20non%20friendly.. http://site.com/A%20non%20friendly and a modern webserver should be fine with that, and even most browsers will allow you to type site.com/A http://site.com/A non friendly... without the url escaped characters and it will url escape them in the request. The only issue is that the urlencoded special characters are a lot uglier, which may or may not be a consideration for you. On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com mailto:s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] PCI compliance issue
Hey all,
Some may remember my question awhile back about ensuring all
CC forms are behind https. I've always put them so, but I've
taken over maintenance on a site that did not and have since
corrected the problem.
Now the client is going for PCI compliance as a requirement by
their credit card processor and we have been dealing with
issues determined risks by Security Metrics, most which were
legit (except one thinking IIS was running on a Linux
server!), but this one has me scratching my head.
The original programmer created the following in the system's
.htaccess file:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php
...which sends any incorrect URL to the home page, correct?
But Security Metrics, as part of their test ran two URLs
through the system that while both displaying the home page
had different things in the header, which they flagged as an
issue. Here is there explanation below, but my question is,
why is this considered a security risk, and what suggestions
might some of you have to correct it?
Thanks much!
Skip
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The reason why this issue is being flagged is simply that both
links should bring you to the same page but if look at the
HTTP header response (http://www.ranghart.com/cgi-bin/?D=A) it
returns a 403 forbidden even though it still takes you to the
main site page, with the other URL
(http://www.ranghart.com/cgi-bin/%3fD=A) it is returning a 200
OK when it is the same page as the URL that is returning a
403. You will need to make sure that the pages are responding
in the same way to correct this issue.
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[PHP] SQL help?
Hey all, I have a SQL requirement I'm not quite sure how to compose. I have two tables, shows, and shows_dates. It's a one to many relationship where there is a single entry in shows and multiple entries in shows_dates that list each date and time for a play production for a run of entries in shows, like I need a query that will read each record in shows, but I only want the first record from shows_dates, the first one sorted by date, so I can display all shows in order of their opening date. Not sure how to grab just the first record from shows_dates though. Hint, anyone? Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Software to read/write Excel to CD?
Hey all, I'm inheriting a project that was unsuccessfully off-shored and is now in such bad shape (I've seen the code. It's awful) that they are firing the off-shore company and starting over. One of the things the other company said was possible, and I'm not familiar with... if I understand correctly, is to create a CD with not just an Excel spreadsheet, but software on that CD that when placed in another computer will open the spreadsheet, allow it to be modified and rewritten back to the CD. This is part of the requirements. Does anyone know of such software and its name? Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Problems with HTTPS and maybe an .htaccess???
Hey all,
A while back I asked about forms that take credit card info
and https. I have always put such forms behind SSL, but a site
I have been asked to do maintenance work on did not, and after
responses from the list and at my recommendation they
installed an SSL and I modified the code to call https when it
hits that form, so that part is okay.
But now I have a problem implementing this on their
development site, which is just a duplicate code base inside a
directory public_html/_dev and a domain name dev.sitename.com,
instead of sitename.com.
The problem is, and I believe it may be the .htaccess file,
redirecting the https pages to the live site. In other words,
I'm trying to test something on the dev site in the shopping
cart, but when I click a button that takes it to the CC form,
hence https, although the URL says,
https://dev.sitename.com/... I can tell it is actually on the
live site because the code that executes is the old code on
the live site, not the new code on the development server.
I suspect the .htaccess file, which looks thusly...
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*
# Turn on the RewriteEngine
RewriteEngine On
# Rules
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php
Now I'm no expert at these rewrite rules, and sometimes have
to take several Valium, a shot of vodka, and weep for hours
after working with them (okay, that was a bit of hyperbole),
but it looks like any URL it cannot identify gets routed to
index.php, and that is because index.php evaluates and
processes URLs like
sitename.com/shirts/mens/
... and so forth.
Question is, am I on the right track suspecting the rewrite
rule for redirecting the https pages to the live site, and if
so, anyone see a fix for this? Again, hyperbole aside, I'm no
expert at rewrite rules.
Much thanks. Any help, as always, is greatly appreciated.
Skip
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Re: [PHP] Problems with HTTPS and maybe an .htaccess???
Hey all, No, adding * after the period had no affect at all. Still goes to the live site. Any other ideas? I'm stumped, desperate and on the verge of requiring medication. Skip Alex S Kurilo aka Kamazee wrote: RewriteRule . index.php Add an asterisk after the dot: RewriteRule .* index.php -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Expression Engine
Hey all, Anyone have any experience with Expression Engine? I have a new client that wants me to use it to build a site and I must say I am rather underwhelmed. But I happen to be one of those people that believe in developing your own lightweight framework you know yourself inside and out and building upon that for new sites. I find the learning curve, combined with inherent limitations of systems like this to take all the fun out of coding and project development... and make me want to become an insurance salesman. Thoughts on Expression Engine for those of you with exposure to it? Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] https and Credit Cards
Hey all, I've always put any forms that collect credit card information behind a secure connection, https, figuring that sending that information from the client browser to the server should be secure, but I'm having convincing a client that it is necessary. He instead insists that only the call to the credit card processor's server needs to be secure and of course the processor supplies the connection there. But doesn't also the form need to be secure since you're sending CC information from that form back to the web site's server? That's what I've always assumed. I need some opinions on this, and if I'm right I think the client will defer to a few more votes. -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] file_get_contents for URLs?
Hey all, I'm doing some maintenance work on an existing system and there is a piece of code that uses file_get_contents() to read data from a URL, which is fine in theory I suppose. But the problem is sometimes the server where that URL lives is not available, and the system hangs indefinitely. Shouldn't this be done with curl, and if so can it be done so that the call will time out and return control back when the server is not available? Any other recommendations? I just came across this code and it's one of the client's biggest complaints. -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Submitting URLs in IE
Hey all,
I have an application that uses AJAX to submit a page created
in the FCKeditor. It builds a URL and then submits that to the
server with a JavaScript call like this:
req.open('GET', url, false);
In Firefox it works great for just about any size page you
could want, but IE just stops on even medium size pages.
Is this some kind of limitation in IE that can be increased
with a registry setting or something?
Any suggestions would be helpful, as I am a bit perplexed.
Would using POST rather than get to submit the URL to the
server handle more data?
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[PHP] AJAX with POST
Hey all,
At the risk of being told this is a PHP and not a JS list, but
also knowing the discussions on this list, to the benefit of
all I believe, very wildly, I'm posting this JS code snippet
for some advice.
As I posted earlier, my AJAX app that uses a GET to post to
the server (and get a response), fails on IE with larger data,
so I thought I'd take a shot at writing a POST function, but
so far I can get it to get the data back, but the problem is
by the time the data has come back the function has already
returned null back to the calling function. What I need this
function to do is wait for the data to come back and then send
it back to caller. Here's the function. Any advice would be
greatly appreciated. (The code to get the appropriate object
per browser has been omitted.)
http.open(POST, url, true);
//Send the proper header information along with the request
http.setRequestHeader(Content-type,
application/x-www-form-urlencoded);
http.setRequestHeader(Content-length, url.length);
http.setRequestHeader(Connection, close);
http.send(url);
http.onreadystatechange = function() {//Call a function when
the state changes.
if(http.readyState == 4 http.status == 200) {
alert('['+http.responseText+']');
return (http.responseText);
}
}
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Re: [PHP] AJAX with POST
Hey Bastien all,
...D'oh! Thanks for the catch, yes, I am sending args on the
URL. But more to my problem, if I switch to POST will IE be
able to submit more data? If so, I can parse the URL down in
the function and build a proper post transaction, but my real
problem is IE can't submit, apparently, more than 2K through a
GET.
Do you know if POST can handle more?
Thanks tons for your reply!
Skip
PS. I'd very interested in seeing your set of functions.
Phpster wrote:
On Apr 4, 2009, at 17:30, Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote:
Hey all,
At the risk of being told this is a PHP and not a JS list, but also
knowing the discussions on this list, to the benefit of all I believe,
very wildly, I'm posting this JS code snippet for some advice.
As I posted earlier, my AJAX app that uses a GET to post to the server
(and get a response), fails on IE with larger data, so I thought I'd
take a shot at writing a POST function, but so far I can get it to get
the data back, but the problem is by the time the data has come back
the function has already returned null back to the calling function.
What I need this function to do is wait for the data to come back and
then send it back to caller. Here's the function. Any advice would be
greatly appreciated. (The code to get the appropriate object per
browser has been omitted.)
http.open(POST, url, true);
//Send the proper header information along with the request
http.setRequestHeader(Content-type,
application/x-www-form-urlencoded);
http.setRequestHeader(Content-length, url.length);
http.setRequestHeader(Connection, close);
http.send(url);
http.onreadystatechange = function() {//Call a function when the state
changes.
if(http.readyState == 4 http.status == 200) {
alert('['+http.responseText+']');
return (http.responseText);
}
}
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Skip,
You didn't show the code to build the url variable but I would assume
that since you started with a get method you are tacking data onto the
end of the URL that is the called Ajax page.
I had the same issue at work correcting the VP's mistake of mixing up
post and get in his ajax call. The trick is to build the data separately
from the URL and pass it.
I do an ajax.open(URL) then an Ajax. Send(data) to send just the data.
I can post my entire function set if you want.
Bastien
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Re: [PHP] RE: AJAX with POST
But my function using GET does seem to wait.
Granted I cobbled it together from various samples and didn't
author it from my own deep understanding of the exact process,
but here's the snippet that does the real work.
req.open('GET', url, false);
req.send(null);
if(req.responseText) {
if(req.responseText.substring(0,7) == 'debug!!') {
alert(req.responseText.substring(7));
}
}
return(req.responseText);
It seems to wait until it has data to return, because it works
perfectly. I can send it a URL from another function and get
the data back from server to the function as expected.
The only part of it I'm unsure of is this:
req.send(null);
What does that do? As I said, I cobbled this function from
examples, got it working, and presto, was off and running.
Skip
Brad Broerman wrote:
Well, as the A in Ajax is asynchronous, there's no real way to make it
wait. What you would normally do is use a callback:
function createXHRObject( )
{
if (typeof XMLHttpRequest != undefined)
{
return new XMLHttpRequest();
}
else if (typeof ActiveXObject != undefined)
{
return new ActiveXObject(Microsoft.XMLHTTP);
}
else
{
throw new Error(XMLHttpRequest not supported);
}
}
function sendAjaxRequest( websvcurl , params, callbackFn )
{
var xhrObject = createXHRObject();
xhrObject.open(POST, websvcurl, true);
xhrObject.onreadystatechange = function()
{
if (xhrObject.readyState == 4)
{
if( xhrObject.responseXML != null )
{
callbackFn (xhrObject.responseXML);
}
}
}
xhrObject.setRequestHeader(Content-type,
application/x-www-form-urlencoded);
xhrObject.setRequestHeader(Content-length, params.length);
xhrObject.setRequestHeader(Connection, close);
xhrObject.send(params);
}
-Original Message-
From: Skip Evans [mailto:s...@bigskypenguin.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 5:30 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: AJAX with POST
Hey all,
At the risk of being told this is a PHP and not a JS list, but
also knowing the discussions on this list, to the benefit of
all I believe, very wildly, I'm posting this JS code snippet
for some advice.
As I posted earlier, my AJAX app that uses a GET to post to
the server (and get a response), fails on IE with larger data,
so I thought I'd take a shot at writing a POST function, but
so far I can get it to get the data back, but the problem is
by the time the data has come back the function has already
returned null back to the calling function. What I need this
function to do is wait for the data to come back and then send
it back to caller. Here's the function. Any advice would be
greatly appreciated. (The code to get the appropriate object
per browser has been omitted.)
http.open(POST, url, true);
//Send the proper header information along with the request
http.setRequestHeader(Content-type,
application/x-www-form-urlencoded);
http.setRequestHeader(Content-length, url.length);
http.setRequestHeader(Connection, close);
http.send(url);
http.onreadystatechange = function() {//Call a function when
the state changes.
if(http.readyState == 4 http.status == 200) {
alert('['+http.responseText+']');
return (http.responseText);
}
}
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Madison WI 53703
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[PHP] Appending query result sets?
Hey,
Is it possible to append a result query from one call to
mysql_query() to the end of another if the specified fields
are identical?
Something like that would accomplish ths?
$r1 = mysql_query('some sql');
$r2 = mysql_query('some sql');
$r3 = $r1.$r2;
I suppose they could be read into an array then output that
way, but I was hoping to more easily just append the result sets.
Thanks,
Skip
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Re: [PHP] Appending query result sets?
Ashley Sheridan wrote: Can you not take this to the SQL itself, like maybe using some form of join on the query. I've been trying that, and frankly gave up, being whipped into submission and having to admin I'm not an expert DBA, but I hesitated to post the queries lest I be flamed for posting off-topic. -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Appending query result sets?
Oh, yeah, that's fine. I knew I could od it with arrays, but
also looked to see if there was any way to just do an append,
and I also need to sort them as well, so maybe I better get
back to figuring out a join.
Skip
Ashley Sheridan wrote:
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 12:37 -0600, Skip Evans wrote:
Ashley Sheridan wrote:
Can you not take this to the SQL itself, like maybe using some form of
join on the query.
I've been trying that, and frankly gave up, being whipped into
submission and having to admin I'm not an expert DBA, but I
hesitated to post the queries lest I be flamed for posting
off-topic.
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608.250.2720
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Those of you who believe in
telekinesis, raise my hand.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
Well if a join is not an option, what about something like this:
$r1 = mysql_query('some sql');
$r2 = mysql_query('some sql');
$results = Array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($r1))
{
$results[] = $row;
}
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($r2))
{
$results[] = $row;
}
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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Re: [PHP] frameworks
Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: I usually uses CI, just because it is written in PHP4 and in about 50% of the servers in Israel there is no PHP5 :X I am just curious. Why is PHP 5 so rare there? -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] frameworks
Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: In Israel most of the servesr run centos I first came across centos a few years back at a client's hosting facility and had never heard of it before, though it seems to have a large install base. I heard it's a free version of Enterprise Redhat??? Not sure, though, didn't follow up. Give me Debian or give me death! Nah,not really, I jus' LOVES my FreeBSD... but Linux is cool too, what I run on workstations. -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Connection error on URI
Hey all, I'm working on someone else's code that tries to read an XML transaction from a remote server with the following code. $url=http://xx.xx.xx.xx:1972/csp/test/SASS.Web1.cls?soap_method=FindMemBySASSNumSNum=.$user_sass; // $url = urlencode($url); $xml_response = file_get_contents($url, true); But this transaction times out and returns an empty transaction, even with the call to urlencode, which I tried as a quick fix. If I paste the identical transaction into a browser it works fine. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Peace, Love Curly Fries, Skip -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Connection error on URI
Here's the output with the call to error_reporting(255); in place. Calling Sassnet... Warning: file_get_contents(http://xx.xx.xx.xx:1972/csp/test/SASS.Web1.cls?soap_method=FindMemBySASSNumSNum=59) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /usr/sites/sassnet.com/members/www/url_test.php on line 6 I think the issue is not programming, but might be that the target server is not accepting requests from calling server. Skip Jan G.B. wrote: 2009/1/28 Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com: Hey all, $url=http://xx.xx.xx.xx:1972/csp/test/SASS.Web1.cls?soap_method=FindMemBySASSNumSNum=.$user_sass; $xml_response = file_get_contents($url, true); But this transaction times out and returns an empty transaction, even with the call to urlencode, which I tried as a quick fix. If I paste the identical transaction into a browser it works fine. Please call error_reporting(255); before your http-request starts, then post the error message you get. bye -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Opinions / Votes Needed
I will be brief. Tony is a dick. Peace Love, Skip Tony Marston wrote: Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote in message news:49723137.2010...@bigskypenguin.com... Wow, Tony, do you think in the future you could try to express yourself with just a bit more civility and in a less condescending tone? Nathan expressed some thoughts he had, politely, and when out of his way to come across in a non-critical and non-confrontational manner. Tony Marston wrote: Absolute rubbish! There's just no need to insult other list members like this. Saying that someone's ideas are absolute rubbish is not an insult. Calling him a moron would be, but I did not. Frankly, it's this kind of treatment that make these lists less productive than they could be. And you think that his ideas for changing PHP to suit his particular programming style would be productive? I think not. It intimidates less experienced programmers from asking good questions, What makes you think that he is an inexperienced programmer? What makes you think that these are good questions? He is saying that he doesn't like the way that PHP works and wants it changed to suit his personal needs. lest they get treated the way Nathan was. And isn't helping out less experienced coders one of the reasons this list exists? And it also makes others less inclined to participate, or drop off the list entirely. If it stops feeble minded people from filling this forum with useless requests then surely that's a good thing? Personally I'm sick and tired from reading posts such as this which say I'm used to language X, and my feeble brain cannot cope with the differences, so why can't PHP be changed to behave like language X? It's NOT just so we can blast each other and show off our highly dubiously assumed superiority. With all the frustrations we put up with in our daily lives, I would hope a list like this, especially since we are among colleagues, could be a place we could at least cautiously expect to be treated with respect. Then the OP should respect PHP for what it is, and not request changes that would make it unusable for 99.999% of the millions of programmers who have already written millions of programs with it. PHP is successful because of the way it works, and changing the way it works, as suggested by the OP, would not make it more successful. On the contrary, I think that it would PHuck it up completely. But that's just my opinion. -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Project management systems
Hey all (except Tony), I've been using dotProject for a few years now and have been quite happy with it, and have written my own invoicing module, and a few other mods for the way I track hours for subcontractors, etc. But it has trouble with MySQL 5 and from the Googling I've done it doesn't seem likely it will be fixed soon. Besides, I've hacked my install up quite a bit and if I were to upgrade there'd trouble 'a foot, ya'll. I'm considering switching to something else, and the start of a new year would be a good time since my subs have all been given their 10-99s so I can start fresh. Suggestions for a PHP based PM system? I'd like to be able to make mods so PHP is the logical choice since it's the language I know best, and as Tony will tell you, it's perfect and doesn't need no feeble minded Java guys trying to improve it. Basic requirements are time tracking for multiple coders, generating invoices per project based on start and end date (I bill the 15th and last day of each month). Gee, I guess that's the basics. Thoughts, opinions, corrections to grammar? -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Opinions / Votes Needed
You're right, and as soon as you apologize to Nathan for calling him feeble minded (and promise to adjust your attitude) I will apologize to you. I also think it would be a good idea for you to address the rest of the list and assure everyone you will try to be more polite in the future. Skip PS. And then adopt an abandoned puppy. Tony Marston wrote: Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote in message news:49733d18.6080...@bigskypenguin.com... I will be brief. Tony is a dick. To quote your own words: There's just no need to insult other list members like this. -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Project management systems
Hey Pfffster all, D'oh! Should have gone there first. Found this one that looks interesting. IT Project Guide- Project Management http://sourceforge.net/projects/itpgpm/ Web based Client and Team project management tool. Utilizes PHP, MySQL and JQuery. Has Company, Project, Task, Forum and Files modules and associated Gantt charts. Based on dotProject and Web2Project. Reduced complexity with the focus on ease of use. I'll download it and give it a spin. Hope this baby handles good in town. Skip Phpster wrote: There are a number on sourceforge.net that are worth looking at Bastien Sent from my iPod -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Project management systems
Hey Nathan and all, (even Tony, kisses big T!) I decided, rather quickly, on this one. http://itprojectguide.org/ It's dotProject based with apparent upgrades to work with MySQL 5 and jQuery so that it has some nice AJAX functionality where dP would keep you waiting on whole page refreshes. The developer is very responsive to the minor issues I've had, so I'm going to probably keep it and import my custom modules from dP into it. Skip Nathan Rixham wrote: Skip Evans wrote: Hey all (except Tony), treat others how you want them to treat you *passes all his biscuits* - yet lol. I've been using dotProject for a few years now and have been quite happy with it, and have written my own invoicing module, and a few other mods for the way I track hours for subcontractors, etc. condolences But it has trouble with MySQL 5 and from the Googling I've done it doesn't seem likely it will be fixed soon. Besides, I've hacked my install up quite a bit and if I were to upgrade there'd trouble 'a foot, ya'll. maybe you'd be best fixing it yourself OR not upgrading to mysql 5? I'm considering switching to something else, and the start of a new year would be a good time since my subs have all been given their 10-99s so I can start fresh. really.. good luck and please let me know what you choose Suggestions for a PHP based PM system? I'd like to be able to make mods so PHP is the logical choice since it's the language I know best, and as Tony will tell you, it's perfect and doesn't need no feeble minded Java guys trying to improve it. . Basic requirements are time tracking for multiple coders, generating invoices per project based on start and end date (I bill the 15th and last day of each month). Gee, I guess that's the basics. Thoughts, opinions, corrections to grammar? not every ones cup of tea but rally agile development [http://www.rallydev.com/] if you don't do anything else with this link please watch this: http://www.rallydev.com/5601_Rally_15.html than consider what you want from a project management system. in all honesty though, no I can't - none seem to fit the bill completly and in every place I've ever worked, and personally, picking a good project management system has always been a major stumbling block / problem -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Opinions / Votes Needed
Wow, Tony, do you think in the future you could try to express yourself with just a bit more civility and in a less condescending tone? Nathan expressed some thoughts he had, politely, and when out of his way to come across in a non-critical and non-confrontational manner. Tony Marston wrote: Absolute rubbish! There's just no need to insult other list members like this. Frankly, it's this kind of treatment that make these lists less productive than they could be. It intimidates less experienced programmers from asking good questions, lest they get treated the way Nathan was. And isn't helping out less experienced coders one of the reasons this list exists? And it also makes others less inclined to participate, or drop off the list entirely. It's NOT just so we can blast each other and show off our highly dubiously assumed superiority. With all the frustrations we put up with in our daily lives, I would hope a list like this, especially since we are among colleagues, could be a place we could at least cautiously expect to be treated with respect. -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Zend (or other) Framework...where to start?
John Corry wrote: For the new-to-frameworks, is there a better/easier framework to use that will streamline the development process from the beginning? I've been using my own I developed from the ground up for the past couple years, but have recently looked at cakePHP and I think it might be good for some new to frameworks. Drupal is awfully popular, but I've only glanced at it and get the impression there's a bit of a steep learning curve. I'd be very interest to hear what others think of both of these. -- == Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison, Wisconsin 53703 608-250-2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] FirePHP -- pretty cool
Hey all, I'm sure many of you use Firebug in Firefox for help debugging, and some of you also no doubt know about FirePHP, the PHP class that let's you write logs to the Firebug console. In case you don't know about it, Joe Bob Briggs says, Check it out. I just installed and it's pretty cool. http://www.firephp.org/ Very easy install and set up: you basically include on PHP file and you're off to the races. I wrote a quick wrapper function that takes a string and outputs it to the Firebug console and am finding it pretty helpful. I think it's especially useful if you write a lot of AJAX calls that don't allow easy output of debug statements. Would like to hear other opinions of this little tool. -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison, Wisconsin 53703 608-250-2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] FirePHP -- pretty cool
Hey Nitsan all, I haven't been through it all, I just installed the plug in and download the file to include and started using it. I would imagine you have to use their log function to get any output, but it seems like the kind of thing that could be left in the code without any ill-affect. I wrote a wrapper in my global functions file, and I suppose if I wanted to turn it off I'd just have that function return at the top. So far I'm finding it useful and easy enough to use. If you don't want to change your code I would imagine something like xdebug would be the next step. Skip Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: I'm using FireBug 24/7/365 and I also knew FirePHP before but I never tried it or had any experience with it that I can share. There are any other options and functions that FirePHP gives which not require you to involve changing your code? Nitsan On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com mailto:s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Hey all, I'm sure many of you use Firebug in Firefox for help debugging, and some of you also no doubt know about FirePHP, the PHP class that let's you write logs to the Firebug console. In case you don't know about it, Joe Bob Briggs says, Check it out. I just installed and it's pretty cool. http://www.firephp.org/ Very easy install and set up: you basically include on PHP file and you're off to the races. I wrote a quick wrapper function that takes a string and outputs it to the Firebug console and am finding it pretty helpful. I think it's especially useful if you write a lot of AJAX calls that don't allow easy output of debug statements. Would like to hear other opinions of this little tool. -- Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison, Wisconsin 53703 608-250-2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- == Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison, Wisconsin 53703 608-250-2720 http://bigskypenguin.com Those of you who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
Daniel Brown wrote: In any case, as Nate R. mentioned, Linux is just as susceptible to viruses, worms, and other malware. My belief is that it's not so much an attack on an Evil Empire[TM] of software, but that, if BeOS or RISC were the single-most popular operating systems in the world, Windows wouldn't get the misguided attention it gets. Hey all, From my reading I get the impression that the above statement, Linux is just as susceptible to viruses, worms, and other malware, is inaccurate. Here are some links to good articles written by far more qualified individuals than myself. http://nnucomputerwhiz.com/linux-virus.html http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=virus#virus3 Full disclosure: I run Ubuntu Linux for workstations, FreeBSD Unix for servers, and have a Mac running OS X for testing Safari, and use Windows only for testing IE and specific Windows software. I much prefer a well set up *Nix system to Windows any day. Skip -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] First steps towards unix and php
Hey Frank, My vote is for Ubuntu Linux, and the easiest way to get a PHP development environment going is by installing XAMPP. http://www.ramanean.com/installing-xampp-on-ubuntu/ Keep in mind that XAMPP is not a production environment install, but good for development and educational purposes. If you have other questions feel free to email me directly. Skip Frank Stanovcak wrote: I've been a microshaft punk for some time now, and am just getting ready to try to step over to unix on one of my own boxes. Does anyone have any suggestions on which flavor would be a good idea to start with? I'm looking mostly for compatibility with php, mysql, and other web based programming languages. Thanks in advance! Frank -- === Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin Street Madison, Wisconsin 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
Hey Daniel, It seems that most of your points of disagreement stem from the potential for poor system administration by homo sapiens (and other primates who might have access to a console), but I still think that from a pure design and implementation perspective, *nix systems are more secure for the reasons the articles point out. Certainly any system can suffer reduced security through laziness or poor administration. I mean, how many amateur system administrators respond to I have a permissions problem with chmod 777 *? But do you not think the permissions issues with who can run what on *nix versus XP makes it more secure? Daniel Brown wrote: I certainly wish there were more like you! If only that woman who lives down the block would give me the opportunity to make her say that... *sigh*. -- === Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin Street Madison, Wisconsin 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
Hey, Well, I find the points that *nix by default restricts users to their own executables and Windows allows anyone to run any program (has this changed with Vista? I don't follow MS too closely) to be a major reason by default, as installed, *nix systems are more secure. I would also bet that as/if MS loses it's monopoly on the desktop the type of vulgar, socially dysfunctional people who should be viscously beat that write malware will begin to focus on *nix systems and it will become an issue for us cool people as well. Incidentally, I think building their OS on FreeBSD was about the smartest thing the Apple/Mac people ever did. Skip Robert Cummings wrote: On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 13:43 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 13:41, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 13:31 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 13:24, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: Just as susceptible?? Please refer me to some resources where I can verify this statement. http://marc.info/?t=10016019247r=1w=2 Meaning, read the rest of the thread and send shortbread recipes to your friend, Dan, instead of just reading the first couple of messages and determining that you know the context of the entire conversation. ;-P I've been reading the entire thread. As for the shortbread recipe... my wife says she can't find it... but as a consolation here's a tasty alternative shortbread recipe we really like: http://www.interjinn.com/download/recipe.shortbread_melts.png Cheers, Rob. -- === Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin Street Madison, Wisconsin 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
You could also fill all empty space in the case with a polyurethane sealing compound for added security, and then bury it in the back yard. Dang, I could make big bucks as a security consultant! I'm adding this to my resume! Skip c...@l-i-e.com wrote: Fact is if you want to be secure just disconnect you're machine from the internet, remove cd/dvd/floppy drives and unplug the keyboard. You forgot to cut the internal USB cables. :-) -- === Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin Street Madison, Wisconsin 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
Nathan Rixham wrote: if it's a computer thats on, with an os, a keyboard and a network card connected to the internet it's insecure. Well of course. That's like saying if it's alive it's dying. But the question was are *nix systems more secure than Windows, and I think even Daniel agrees that out of the box installs *nix systems are inherently more secure because of the way they handle users and permissions to executables. Daniel seemed, and he can correct me if I'm wrong, that more vulnerabilities are introduced via the human factor until any system can be rendered at risk. -- === Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin Street Madison, Wisconsin 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: hello
Ashley Sheridan wrote: think about it for a minute; an OS can either be secure (0 vulnerabilities) or insecure (1 or more vulnerabilities); as all OS's have 1 or more vulnerabilities they are all equally insecure; because they are all insecure. What you are saying, in real world terms, not your Binaryland, is that if OS A has 2 vulnerabilities that not many people now about, and OS B has a whole slew of the posted all over the web that they are both equally insecure. Or, for another analogy, you're saying that because all cars can either be sitting still or moving then they are all equally fast. -- === Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin Street Madison, Wisconsin 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: First steps towards unix and php
Ross McKay wrote: You should also check out editors and IDEs - STFW for previous posts made to this and other groups. Then pick Geany ;) Hey Ross all, I used Kate on Ubuntu for a code editor. I just read through a bit about Geany (was not familiar with it), but don't see too much more it would do for me than Kate. What are some of your favorite features of Geany I should be aware of? -- === Skip Evans Big Sky Penguin, LLC 503 S Baldwin Street Madison, Wisconsin 53703 608.250.2720 http://bigskypenguin.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
