[PHP] Stripping carriage returns

2011-01-11 Thread Richard S. Crawford
I'm retrieving CLOB data from an Oracle database, and cleaning up the HTML in it. I'm using the following commands: $content = strip_tags($description-fields['CONTENT'],'polulli'); $content = preg_replace(/p.*/,p,$content); The second line is necessary because the p tag frequently comes

Re: [PHP] Stripping carriage returns

2011-01-11 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 11:13 -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote: I'm retrieving CLOB data from an Oracle database, and cleaning up the HTML in it. I'm using the following commands: $content = strip_tags($description-fields['CONTENT'],'polulli'); $content =

Re: [PHP] Stripping carriage returns

2011-01-11 Thread Daniel Brown
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 14:13, Richard S. Crawford rich...@underpope.com wrote: $content = str_replace(chr(13),$content) and $content = str_replace(array('\n','\r','\r\n'),$content) Neither of these have replacement values, which might just be a typo. However, the larger issue is in

Re: [PHP] Stripping carriage returns

2011-01-11 Thread David Harkness
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Richard S. Crawford rich...@underpope.com wrote: $content = preg_replace(/[.chr(10).|.chr(13).]/,,$content) This should be $content = preg_replace('/[\r\n]/','',$content) First, you can embed \r and \n directly in the regular expression as-is (not

Re: [PHP] Stripping carriage returns

2011-01-11 Thread Richard S. Crawford
Strangely, when I use \n, or nl2br(), or PHP_EOL, or anything like that, it strips out not just line breaks, but most of the rest of the text as well. I suspect an encoding issue at this point. Daniel, you were right when you said that neither of my str_replace lines had repl.acement values; that

Re: [PHP] Stripping carriage returns

2011-01-11 Thread Mari Masuda
On Jan 11, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Richard S. Crawford wrote: Strangely, when I use \n, or nl2br(), or PHP_EOL, or anything like that, it strips out not just line breaks, but most of the rest of the text as well. I suspect an encoding issue at this point. Daniel, you were right when you said

Re: [PHP] Stripping carriage returns

2011-01-11 Thread Jim Lucas
On 1/11/2011 11:13 AM, Richard S. Crawford wrote: I'm retrieving CLOB data from an Oracle database, and cleaning up the HTML in it. I'm using the following commands: $content = strip_tags($description-fields['CONTENT'],'polulli'); $content = preg_replace(/p.*/,p,$content); The

Re: [PHP] Stripping Characters

2010-06-23 Thread Richard Quadling
On 23 June 2010 01:03, Rick Dwyer rpdw...@earthlink.net wrote: $find = '/[^a-z0-9]/i'; Replace that with ... $find = '/[^a-z0-9]++/i'; And now you only need ... $new_string = trim(preg_replace($find, $replace, $old_string)); -- - Richard Quadling Standing on the shoulders of some very

[PHP] Stripping Characters

2010-06-22 Thread Rick Dwyer
Hello List. I need to remove characters from a string and replace them with and underscore. So instead of having something like: $moditem = str_replace(--,_,$mystring); $moditem = str_replace(?,_,$mystring); $moditem = str_replace(!,_,$mystring); etc. For every possible character I can

RE: [PHP] Stripping Characters

2010-06-22 Thread David Česal
-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Stripping Characters Hello List. I need to remove characters from a string and replace them with and underscore. So instead of having something like: $moditem = str_replace(--,_,$mystring); $moditem = str_replace(?,_,$mystring); $moditem = str_replace

Re: [PHP] Stripping Characters

2010-06-22 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 11:40 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: Hello List. I need to remove characters from a string and replace them with and underscore. So instead of having something like: $moditem = str_replace(--,_,$mystring); $moditem = str_replace(?,_,$mystring); $moditem =

Re: [PHP] Stripping Characters

2010-06-22 Thread Shreyas Agasthya
Perhaps, ereg_replace(your regex, replacement_string, String $variable). Regards, Shreyas On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Rick Dwyer rpdw...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello List. I need to remove characters from a string and replace them with and underscore. So instead of having something

Re: [PHP] Stripping Characters

2010-06-22 Thread Richard Quadling
On 22 June 2010 16:44, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 11:40 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: Hello List. I need to remove characters from a string and replace them with and underscore. So instead of having something like: $moditem =

Re: [PHP] Stripping Characters

2010-06-22 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Rick Dwyer rpdw...@earthlink.net wrote: Hello List. I need to remove characters from a string and replace them with and underscore. So instead of having something like: $moditem = str_replace(--,_,$mystring); $moditem = str_replace(?,_,$mystring);

Re: [PHP] Stripping Characters

2010-06-22 Thread Shreyas Agasthya
Then, when does one use ereg_replace as against preg_replace? I read from one the forums that preg_* is faster and ereg_* is if not faster but simpler. Is that it? Regards, Shreyas On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Richard Quadling rquadl...@gmail.comwrote: A word character is any letter or

Re: [PHP] Stripping Characters

2010-06-22 Thread Rick Dwyer
Thanks to everyone who responded. Regarding the myriad of choices, isn't Ashley's, listed below, the one most like to guarantee the cleanest output of just letters and numbers? --Rick On Jun 22, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 11:40 -0400, Rick Dwyer

Re: [PHP] Stripping Characters

2010-06-22 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 13:35 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: Thanks to everyone who responded. Regarding the myriad of choices, isn't Ashley's, listed below, the one most like to guarantee the cleanest output of just letters and numbers? --Rick On Jun 22, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Ashley

Re: [PHP] Stripping Characters

2010-06-22 Thread Jim Lucas
Shreyas Agasthya wrote: Then, when does one use ereg_replace as against preg_replace? I read from one the forums that preg_* is faster and ereg_* is if not faster but simpler. BUT, all the ereg_* has been depricated. DO NOT USE THEM if you want your code to work in the future. :) Is that

Re: [PHP] Stripping Characters

2010-06-22 Thread Rick Dwyer
Hello again list. My code for stripping characters is below. I'm hoping to get feedback as to how rock solid it will provide the desired output under any circumstance: My output must look like this (no quotes): This-is-my-string-with-lots-of-junk-characters-in-it The code with string

Re: [PHP] Stripping Characters

2010-06-22 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 20:03 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: Hello again list. My code for stripping characters is below. I'm hoping to get feedback as to how rock solid it will provide the desired output under any circumstance: My output must look like this (no quotes):

Re: [PHP] Stripping Characters

2010-06-22 Thread Rick Dwyer
Very good. Thank you. --Rick On Jun 22, 2010, at 8:14 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 20:03 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: Hello again list. My code for stripping characters is below. I'm hoping to get feedback as to how rock solid it will provide the desired output under

Re: [PHP] stripping first comma off and everything after

2010-06-19 Thread Adam Richardson
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Adam Williams adam_willi...@bellsouth.netwrote: I'm querying data and have results such as a variable named $entries[$i][dn]: CN=NTPRTPS3-LANIER-LD335c-LH107-PPRNP9A92,OU=XXf,OU=XX,OU=X,DC=,DC=xx,DC=xxx Basically

Re: [PHP] stripping first comma off and everything after

2010-06-19 Thread Adam Richardson
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Adam Richardson simples...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Adam Williams adam_willi...@bellsouth.net wrote: I'm querying data and have results such as a variable named $entries[$i][dn]:

Re: [PHP] stripping first comma off and everything after

2010-06-19 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 15:03 -0500, Adam wrote: I'm querying data and have results such as a variable named $entries[$i][dn]: CN=NTPRTPS3-LANIER-LD335c-LH107-PPRNP9A92,OU=XXf,OU=XX,OU=X,DC=,DC=xx,DC=xxx Basically I need to strip off the

Re: [PHP] stripping first comma off and everything after

2010-06-19 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 10:09 +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 15:03 -0500, Adam wrote: I'm querying data and have results such as a variable named $entries[$i][dn]:

Re: [PHP] stripping first comma off and everything after

2010-06-19 Thread Daniel P. Brown
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 05:09, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: A substring() a strpos() should do the trick: Echo echo [sprintf()] -- /Daniel P. Brown URGENT: EXTENDED TO SATURDAY, 19 JUNE: $100 OFF YOUR FIRST MONTH, FREE CPANEL FOR LIFE ON ANY NEW

Re: [PHP] stripping first comma off and everything after

2010-06-19 Thread Al
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[PHP] stripping first comma off and everything after

2010-06-18 Thread Adam Williams
I'm querying data and have results such as a variable named $entries[$i][dn]: CN=NTPRTPS3-LANIER-LD335c-LH107-PPRNP9A92,OU=XXf,OU=XX,OU=X,DC=,DC=xx,DC=xxx Basically I need to strip off the first command everything after, so that I just have it

Re: [PHP] stripping first comma off and everything after

2010-06-18 Thread Robert Cummings
Adam Williams wrote: I'm querying data and have results such as a variable named $entries[$i][dn]: CN=NTPRTPS3-LANIER-LD335c-LH107-PPRNP9A92,OU=XXf,OU=XX,OU=X,DC=,DC=xx,DC=xxx Basically I need to strip off the first command everything after, so

[PHP] stripping first comma off and everything after

2010-06-18 Thread Adam
I'm querying data and have results such as a variable named $entries[$i][dn]: CN=NTPRTPS3-LANIER-LD335c-LH107-PPRNP9A92,OU=XXf,OU=XX,OU=X,DC=,DC=xx,DC=xxx Basically I need to strip off the first command everything after, so that I just have it

Re: [PHP] stripping first comma off and everything after

2010-06-18 Thread Daniel P. Brown
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 15:56, Adam Williams adam_willi...@bellsouth.net wrote: I'm querying data and have results such as a variable named $entries[$i][dn]: CN=NTPRTPS3-LANIER-LD335c-LH107-PPRNP9A92,OU=XXf,OU=XX,OU=X,DC=,DC=xx,DC=xxx Basically I

Re: [PHP] stripping with an OB callback

2006-09-22 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, September 20, 2006 7:13 pm, Christopher Watson wrote: I've been coding with PHP for maybe a year. So I'm somewhat new to it. But I've learned quickly, and created a fairly serious LAMP app that is capable of returning large query results. During my investigation into various means

Re: [PHP] stripping with an OB callback

2006-09-22 Thread Richard Lynch
Cannot compression be set in .htaccess? Or even within the script??? I suspect you could even find a PHP class out there to compress and send the right headers to do it all in PHP, regardless of server settings... On Wed, September 20, 2006 7:33 pm, Christopher Watson wrote: Hi Robert, Well,

Re: [PHP] stripping with an OB callback [SOLVED]

2006-09-22 Thread Christopher Watson
Thanks for the follow-up Richard. I am now bracketing my Fusebox core includes with ob_start(ob_gzhandler) and ob_end_flush(). It's done wonders for those large query results. And since there is absolutely nothing in this app that relies on multiple contiguous whitespace characters, I'm good

[PHP] stripping with an OB callback

2006-09-20 Thread Christopher Watson
I've been coding with PHP for maybe a year. So I'm somewhat new to it. But I've learned quickly, and created a fairly serious LAMP app that is capable of returning large query results. During my investigation into various means for incrementally reducing the response sizes, I've discovered

Re: [PHP] stripping with an OB callback

2006-09-20 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 17:13 -0700, Christopher Watson wrote: I've been coding with PHP for maybe a year. So I'm somewhat new to it. But I've learned quickly, and created a fairly serious LAMP app that is capable of returning large query results. During my investigation into various means

Re: [PHP] stripping with an OB callback

2006-09-20 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 20:21 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote: On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 17:13 -0700, Christopher Watson wrote: I've been coding with PHP for maybe a year. So I'm somewhat new to it. But I've learned quickly, and created a fairly serious LAMP app that is capable of returning large

Re: [PHP] stripping with an OB callback

2006-09-20 Thread Christopher Watson
Hi Robert, Well, I think the main reason I'm not using transparent output compression is because this app shares php.ini with several other PHP apps on the server, and I don't want to foist this change on the admins of those apps. I was trying to come up with a localized strategy for trimming

Re: [PHP] stripping with an OB callback

2006-09-20 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 17:33 -0700, Christopher Watson wrote: Hi Robert, Well, I think the main reason I'm not using transparent output compression is because this app shares php.ini with several other PHP apps on the server, and I don't want to foist this change on the admins of those apps.

Re: [PHP] stripping with an OB callback

2006-09-20 Thread Christopher Watson
Bingo! That's the ticket. Thanks, Robert. -Christopher On 9/20/06, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why settle for 30% speed boost when you can get 90% ... http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.ob-gzhandler.php :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

[PHP] Stripping weird characters again...

2006-07-24 Thread Paul Nowosielski
Dear All, I'm having a problem replacing these bad characters from a feed. Example: descriptionThe United Kingdom92s National Arena Association has elected Geoff Huckstep, the current CEO of the National Ice Centre and Nottingham Arena, as chairman./description The 92is actually a single

Re: [PHP] stripping enclosed text from PHP code

2006-04-10 Thread Robin Vickery
On 09/04/06, Winfried Meining [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am writing on a script that parses a PHP script and finds all function calls to check, if these functions exist. To do this, I needed a function that would strip out all text, which is enclosed in apostrophes or quotation marks.

Re: [PHP] stripping enclosed text from PHP code

2006-04-10 Thread Richard Lynch
Have you considered running php -s from the command line, which syntax highlights your source file for you, the searching for whatever color codes in your php.ini are used for functions? For that matter, you could custom-code the choices for the color and make the functions read in a separate

[PHP] stripping enclosed text from PHP code

2006-04-09 Thread Winfried Meining
Hi, I am writing on a script that parses a PHP script and finds all function calls to check, if these functions exist. To do this, I needed a function that would strip out all text, which is enclosed in apostrophes or quotation marks. This is somewhat tricky, as the script needs to be aware

Re: [PHP] stripping enclosed text from PHP code

2006-04-09 Thread Satyam
http://www.phpcompiler.org/ Satyam - Original Message - From: Winfried Meining [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 10:20 PM Subject: [PHP] stripping enclosed text from PHP code Hi, I am writing on a script that parses a PHP script

Re: [PHP] Stripping control M character (^M)

2005-09-11 Thread Burhan Khalid
Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hello All, I'm having some issues with carriage returns. Specifically the control M character (^M). I have attempted to clean and validate the file I'm creating. Here's the code. while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ // assign and clean vars $artist =

[PHP] Stripping control M character (^M)

2005-09-07 Thread Paul Nowosielski
Hello All, I'm having some issues with carriage returns. Specifically the control M character (^M). I have attempted to clean and validate the file I'm creating. Here's the code. while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ // assign and clean vars $artist = trim($row[artist]);

Re: [PHP] Stripping control M character (^M)

2005-09-07 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hello All, I'm having some issues with carriage returns. Specifically the control M character (^M). I have attempted to clean and validate the file I'm creating. Here's the code. while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ // assign and clean vars $artist = trim($row[artist]); $tdDate

Re: [PHP] stripping html tags

2005-06-06 Thread Richard Lynch
Your RegEx is probably fine... But you are probably missing a closing quote in lines BEFORE line 39, and PHP thinks everything up the the =^ is still part of some giant monster long string that spans multiple lines, and then it gets to the /head bit (because your opening quote is really a

Re: [PHP] stripping html tags

2005-06-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 6/7/05, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your RegEx is probably fine... But you are probably missing a closing quote in lines BEFORE line 39, and PHP thinks everything up the the =^ is still part of some giant monster long string that spans multiple lines, and then it gets to

[PHP] stripping html tags

2005-06-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
I took this example from php.net, but can't figure out where I went wrong. Why does this: $text = preg_replace(/head(.|\s)*?(.|\s)*?\/head/i , , $text); throw this error: syntax error at line 265, column 39: $text = preg_replace(/head(.|\s)*?(.|\s)*?\/head/i , , $text);

Re: [PHP] stripping html tags

2005-06-05 Thread Marek Kilimajer
Dotan Cohen wrote: I took this example from php.net, but can't figure out where I went wrong. Why does this: $text = preg_replace(/head(.|\s)*?(.|\s)*?\/head/i , , $text); throw this error: syntax error at line 265, column 39: $text = preg_replace(/head(.|\s)*?(.|\s)*?\/head/i

Re: [PHP] stripping html tags

2005-06-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 6/5/05, Marek Kilimajer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: I took this example from php.net, but can't figure out where I went wrong. Why does this: $text = preg_replace(/head(.|\s)*?(.|\s)*?\/head/i , , $text); throw this error: syntax error at line 265, column 39:

Re: [PHP] stripping html tags

2005-06-05 Thread Richard Lynch
On Sun, June 5, 2005 7:05 am, Dotan Cohen said: I took this example from php.net, but can't figure out where I went wrong. Why does this: $text = preg_replace(/head(.|\s)*?(.|\s)*?\/head/i , , $text); throw this error: syntax error at line 265, column 39: $text =

Re: [PHP] stripping html tags

2005-06-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 6/6/05, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, June 5, 2005 7:05 am, Dotan Cohen said: I took this example from php.net, but can't figure out where I went wrong. Why does this: $text = preg_replace(/head(.|\s)*?(.|\s)*?\/head/i , , $text); throw this error: syntax error at

[PHP] stripping of the last character

2005-04-18 Thread Ross
I have a large group of email addesses serperated by commas. I need to trim off the very last comma $recipients = [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], Also how would I add a space after every comma? to give [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] many

Re: [PHP] stripping of the last character

2005-04-18 Thread Sebastian
$recipients = '[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],'; echo str_replace(',', ', ', substr($recipients, 0, -1)); - Original Message - From: Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a large group of email addesses serperated by commas. I need to trim off the very last comma

Re: [PHP] stripping of the last character

2005-04-18 Thread Chris Kay
use substr($recipients,0,1); to remove the last char and ereg_replace(,, ,,$recipients); to add the spaces Hope this helps CK On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:05:42PM +0100, Ross wrote: I have a large group of email addesses serperated by commas. I need to trim off the very last comma

Re: [PHP] stripping of the last character

2005-04-18 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, April 18, 2005 5:11 am, Chris Kay said: use substr($recipients,0,1); to remove the last char and ereg_replace(,, ,,$recipients); to add the spaces If the list is *REALLY* large, http://php.net/str_replace might be a bit faster. For sure, there's no need to haul out the Ereg

[PHP] stripping negative number

2004-12-23 Thread Roger Thomas
I want to convert negative number to its positive equivalent. $num = -40; printf(Unsigned value is %u, $num); output is: Unsigned value is 4294967256 I have checked the manpages and %u seems the right format. Pls advise. -- roger --- Sign Up

Re: [PHP] stripping negative number

2004-12-23 Thread Justin England
: Thursday, December 23, 2004 1:18 AM Subject: [PHP] stripping negative number I want to convert negative number to its positive equivalent. $num = -40; printf(Unsigned value is %u, $num); output is: Unsigned value is 4294967256 I have checked the manpages and %u seems the right format. Pls advise

Re: [PHP] stripping negative number

2004-12-23 Thread tg-php
I believe this is because taking a value and displaying it as an unsigned value isn't the same as displaying the absolute value of a number. Ever take a calculator that does hex and decimal, enter a negative number then convert it to hex? There's no negative in hex, so you end up with

Re: [PHP] stripping negative number

2004-12-23 Thread Jason Wong
On Thursday 23 December 2004 16:18, Roger Thomas wrote: I want to convert negative number to its positive equivalent. $num = -40; printf(Unsigned value is %u, $num); output is: Unsigned value is 4294967256 I have checked the manpages and %u seems the right format. Pls advise. You've

[PHP] stripping text from a string

2004-10-29 Thread Adam Williams
Hi, I use a piece of proprietary software at work that uses weird session ID strings in the URL. A sample URL looks like: http://zed2.mdah.state.ms.us/F/CC8V7H1JF4LNBVP5KARL4KGE8AHIKP1I72JSBG6AYQSMK8YF4Y-01471?func=find-b-0 The weird session ID string changes each time you login. Anyway, how

Re: [PHP] stripping text from a string

2004-10-29 Thread sylikc
Adam, Hi, I use a piece of proprietary software at work that uses weird session ID strings in the URL. A sample URL looks like: http://zed2.mdah.state.ms.us/F/CC8V7H1JF4LNBVP5KARL4KGE8AHIKP1I72JSBG6AYQSMK8YF4Y-01471?func=find-b-0 The weird session ID string changes each time you login.

[PHP] stripping the query string from url

2004-04-10 Thread Andy B
i have to write code for the following standard: 1. 13 links at the top and bottom of the page 2. those links reload the same page with a query string that will be part of a mysql query 3. all query strings that come from anywhere except from say www.test.com/ViewEvents.php get stripped out and

[PHP] stripping content and parsing returned pages?

2004-03-15 Thread Dustin Wish
I have been looking everywhere for any tips or tutorials on, posting to separate websites and parsing the return values for input into a mysql db. I understand the parsing or stripping of html content from a page, but not how to post to a form on a different site and once the values are

Re: [PHP] stripping content and parsing returned pages?

2004-03-15 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Dustin, Monday, March 15, 2004, 2:45:06 PM, you wrote: DW I need to post to a login script, then once the page is processed, I will DW parsed the returned page for the data after logined. any help please? One word for you: snoopy Oh and one URL too: http://snoopy.sourceforge.com It will

[PHP] Stripping out all illegal characters for a folder name

2003-11-26 Thread Joseph Szobody
Folks, I'm taking some user input, and creating a folder on the server. I'm already replacing with _, and stripping out a few known illegal characters (', , /, \, etc). I need to be sure that I'm stripping out every character that cannot be used for a folder name. What's the best way to do

Re: [PHP] Stripping out all illegal characters for a folder name

2003-11-26 Thread Sophie Mattoug
Joseph Szobody wrote: Folks, I'm taking some user input, and creating a folder on the server. I'm already replacing with _, and stripping out a few known illegal characters (', , /, \, etc). I need to be sure that I'm stripping out every character that cannot be used for a folder name. What's

Re: [PHP] Stripping out all illegal characters for a folder name

2003-11-26 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote Sophie Mattoug ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Joseph Szobody wrote: I'm taking some user input, and creating a folder on the server. I'm already replacing with _, and stripping out a few known illegal characters (', , /, \, etc). I need to be sure that I'm stripping out every

Re: [PHP] Stripping out all illegal characters for a folder name

2003-11-26 Thread CPT John W. Holmes
Sorry for the reply to the reply, but OExpress won't let me reply to newsgroup posts... From: Sophie Mattoug [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joseph Szobody wrote: I'm taking some user input, and creating a folder on the server. I'm already replacing with _, and stripping out a few known illegal characters

RE: [PHP] Stripping out all illegal characters for a folder name

2003-11-26 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Sorry for the reply to the reply, but OExpress won't let me reply to newsgroup posts... [/snip] Had to laugh... :) AND BTW Happy Thanksgiving to all of our folks who celebrate that holiday! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] Stripping out all illegal characters for a folder name

2003-11-26 Thread Justin French
On Thursday, November 27, 2003, at 03:12 AM, Curt Zirzow wrote: I'd approach it the same way. preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9_]/', '_', $dirname); I totally agree with Curt here. Justin French -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Stripping Decimals

2003-11-04 Thread Ed Curtis
I currently use number_format() and str_replace() to remove a , or $ if entered and reformat it as a price for an item. I've asked the user not to use decimals but some still do. How do I remove a decimal and anything after from a number in a varable? Thanks, Ed -- PHP General Mailing List

RE: [PHP] Stripping Decimals

2003-11-04 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I currently use number_format() and str_replace() to remove a , or $ if entered and reformat it as a price for an item. I've asked the user not to use decimals but some still do. How do I remove a decimal and anything after from a number in a varable? [/snip] http://www.php.net/explode

Re: [PHP] Stripping Decimals

2003-11-04 Thread CPT John W. Holmes
From: Ed Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] I currently use number_format() and str_replace() to remove a , or $ if entered and reformat it as a price for an item. I've asked the user not to use decimals but some still do. How do I remove a decimal and anything after from a number in a varable?

Re: [PHP] Stripping Decimals

2003-11-04 Thread Ed Curtis
Thanks! Works like a charm. Ed On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, CPT John W. Holmes wrote: From: Ed Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] I currently use number_format() and str_replace() to remove a , or $ if entered and reformat it as a price for an item. I've asked the user not to use decimals but some

[PHP] stripping comments

2003-10-05 Thread zzz
I'm trying to strip comments out of my code. I can get it to strip one section of comments but the problem comes in when I have more then one comment section to strip. I am using this: $code = preg_replace('/\/*(.*?)*\//is', '$1', $code) and need help fixing my regex. example: code 1

Re: [PHP] stripping comments

2003-10-05 Thread Eugene Lee
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 04:46:16AM -0400, zzz wrote: : : I'm trying to strip comments out of my code. I can get it to strip one : section of comments but the problem comes in when I have more then one : comment section to strip. : : I am using this: $code = preg_replace('/\/*(.*?)*\//is', '$1',

Re: [PHP] stripping comments

2003-10-05 Thread Marek Kilimajer
You will run into more problems and there are many things you need to consider, for example /* in a string. But token_get_all() will parse php code for you and will make things much simpler. zzz wrote: I'm trying to strip comments out of my code. I can get it to strip one section of comments

RE: [PHP] stripping comments

2003-10-05 Thread zzz
Hey perfect Eugene, thanks -Original Message- From: Eugene Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 5, 2003 5:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] stripping comments On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 04:46:16AM -0400, zzz wrote: : : I'm trying to strip comments out of my code. I

Re: [PHP] stripping comments

2003-10-05 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 04:46:16 -0400, you wrote: I'm trying to strip comments out of my code. I can get it to strip one section of comments but the problem comes in when I have more then one comment section to strip. I am using this: $code = preg_replace('/\/*(.*?)*\//is', '$1', $code) and need

[PHP] Stripping out and URL hacking characters from a URL

2003-08-19 Thread Matt Babineau
Hi All-- Does anyone have a function or something they have already written to remove any URL hacking characters, mainly the single quote, but I'm looking for a nice function to filter my _GET variables against. Gotta protect the database...ya know :) TIA- Matt -- PHP General Mailing List

[PHP] Stripping out and URL hacking characters from a URL

2003-08-19 Thread Matt Babineau
Hi All-- Does anyone have a function or something they have already written to remove any URL hacking characters, mainly the single quote, but I'm looking for a nice function to filter my _GET variables against. Gotta protect the database...ya know :) TIA- Matt -- PHP General Mailing List

RE: [PHP] Stripping out and URL hacking characters from a URL

2003-08-19 Thread Chris W. Parker
Matt Babineau mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:10 AM said: Does anyone have a function or something they have already written to remove any URL hacking characters, mainly the single quote, but I'm looking for a nice function to filter my _GET variables against. Gotta

Re: [PHP] Stripping out and URL hacking characters from a URL

2003-08-19 Thread CPT John W. Holmes
From: Matt Babineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone have a function or something they have already written to remove any URL hacking characters, mainly the single quote, but I'm looking for a nice function to filter my _GET variables against. Gotta protect the database...ya know :) Just escape

RE: [PHP] stripping newlines from a string

2003-06-09 Thread Boaz Yahav
09, 2003 7:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] stripping newlines from a string Hi all, How would i go about stripping all newlines from a string? Thanks, Charles -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] stripping newlines from a string

2003-06-09 Thread Charles Kline
/str_replace $newstr = str_replace(\n, , $oldstr); - Original Message - From: Charles Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 10:44 PM Subject: [PHP] stripping newlines from a string Hi all, How would i go about stripping all newlines from a string? Thanks

Re: [PHP] stripping newlines from a string

2003-06-09 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 22:44, Charles Kline wrote: Hi all, How would i go about stripping all newlines from a string? Thanks, Charles Something like this: ?php error_reporting(E_ALL); $str = This string has unix\n and Windows\r\n and Mac\r line endings.; $new_str =

Re: [PHP] stripping newlines from a string

2003-06-09 Thread Philip Olson
Subject: [PHP] stripping newlines from a string Hi all, How would i go about stripping all newlines from a string? Thanks, Charles -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List

[PHP] stripping newlines from a string

2003-06-08 Thread Charles Kline
Hi all, How would i go about stripping all newlines from a string? Thanks, Charles -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] stripping slashes before insert behaving badly

2003-03-17 Thread Charles Kline
Hi all, I am inserting data from a form into a mySQL database. I am using addslashes to escape things like ' in the data input (this is actually being done in PEAR (HTML_QuickForm). The weird thing is that the data gets written into the table like: what\'s your problem? WITH the slash. I

RE: [PHP] stripping slashes before insert behaving badly

2003-03-17 Thread John W. Holmes
I am inserting data from a form into a mySQL database. I am using addslashes to escape things like ' in the data input (this is actually being done in PEAR (HTML_QuickForm). The weird thing is that the data gets written into the table like: what\'s your problem? WITH the slash. I am not

Re: [PHP] stripping slashes before insert behaving badly

2003-03-17 Thread Charles Kline
John, You are right, something was adding the additional slash. I removed the addslashes() and it fixed the problem. Something I am doing must already be handling that... will step through the code AGAIN and see if I can find it. - Charles On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 12:19 PM, John W.

Re: [PHP] stripping slashes before insert behaving badly

2003-03-17 Thread Foong
if Magic_quotes_gpc in you php.ini is set to 'on', php will automatically escape(add slashes) for you. Foong Charles Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] John, You are right, something was adding the additional slash. I removed the addslashes() and it fixed the

[PHP] stripping %20 and other characters from query string

2003-02-06 Thread Sarah Gray
Hello, Forgive me if this is an obvious question, but I am passing a value (a string with spaces and quotations) back in a query string and do not know how to strip the extra characters that have been placed into it. For example. $value = Sarah's Test Page query string =

Re: [PHP] stripping %20 and other characters from query string

2003-02-06 Thread Jason k Larson
Try these: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rawurldecode.php HTH, Jason k Larson Sarah Gray wrote: Hello, Forgive me if this is an obvious question, but I am passing a value (a string with spaces and quotations) back in a query string

Re: [PHP] stripping %20 and other characters from query string

2003-02-06 Thread Jonathan Pitcher
Sarah, There are a couple functions that could do this for you. Probably the fastest one for your example would be as follows. $NewString = str_replace('%20', ' ', $value); // Removes the %20 characters $NewString = str_replace '\', '', $NewString); // Removes \ character echo $NewString;

[PHP] stripping spaces from a string

2002-12-06 Thread Jule Slootbeek
Hi, What's the best and easiest way to strip all the spaces from a string? do i use regular expressions for it? TIA, J. Jule Slootbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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