php-general Digest 27 Jan 2009 13:05:57 -0000 Issue 5925
Topics (messages 287193 through 287209):
Variable formatting problem using sessions...
287193 by: Rick Duval
287198 by: Chris
Re: Coding for email response forms
287194 by: Edmund Hertle
Re: Multiple queries in PHP
287195 by: Edmund Hertle
287197 by: Chris
Re: PHP 5.2.8 fails to find libiconv
287196 by: Chris
Doc standard for methods?
287199 by: Larry Garfield
Re: Make New-Age Money Online with Google
287200 by: clive
287201 by: Stuart
287206 by: Martin Zvarík
Get Money Fast with the Government Grants
287202 by: Dora Gaskins
287203 by: clive
287204 by: Andrew Williams
Re: best practice wrt multi-lingual websites, gettext() etc.
287205 by: Per Jessen
287207 by: Jan Ka¹tánek
287208 by: Per Jessen
287209 by: Phpster
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I'm using an "OnClick" routine to set a session variable before I go
to another page.
onClick=<?php $_SESSION['local_part']= 'rick'; ?> works fine but I
need a variable where "rick" is
I've tried
onClick=<?php $_SESSION['local_part']= $local_part; ?>
and other variations but it doesn't work.
Can anybody tell me what the proper formatting is to get this to
resolve correctly?
Thanks
Rick
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Rick Duval wrote:
I'm using an "OnClick" routine to set a session variable before I go
to another page.
onClick=<?php $_SESSION['local_part']= 'rick'; ?> works fine but I
need a variable where "rick" is
I've tried
onClick=<?php $_SESSION['local_part']= $local_part; ?>
and other variations but it doesn't work.
Can anybody tell me what the proper formatting is to get this to
resolve correctly?
Not sure what you're trying to do exactly, but if you're trying to get
the 'onClick' to set the $_SESSION['local_part'] variable, it won't.
onClick is handled by your browser. PHP runs from the server and has no
idea what your browser is doing.
You either need to do an ajax call to connect to the server, set the
session var, then do the page redirect - or use a get variable and use
that on the next page.
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2009/1/26 Tom <obeli...@comcast.net>
>
> "Shawn McKenzie" <sh...@mckenzies.net> wrote in message
> news:497e3ab9.2060...@mckenzies.net...
> >
> >
> > Shawn McKenzie wrote:
> >>
> >> Tom Scott wrote:
> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn McKenzie"
> >>> <nos...@mckenzies.net>
> >>> Newsgroups: php.general
> >>> To: <php-gene...@lists.php.net>
> >>> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 3:52 PM
> >>> Subject: Re: [PHP] Coding for email response forms
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Tom wrote:
> >>>>> "Shawn McKenzie" <> wrote in message
> >>>>> news:a0.87.62571.3d92e...@pb1.pair.com...
> >>>>>> Tom wrote:
> >>>>>>> My Hosting site said that I needed to include the PHP otherwise
> >>>>>>> the form
> >>>>>>> won't work. I need to know where to include my email info to get
> >>>>>>> this set
> >>>>>>> up
> >>>>>>> don't I? What do you suggest?
> >>>>>>> T
> >>>>>>> "Daniel Brown" <danbr...@php.net> wrote in message
> >>>>>>> news:ab5568160901261259p6d6442a4ya5ea4134025e5...@mail.gmail.com.
> ..
> >>>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 15:57, Tom <obeli...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> I am a new user of PHP, and am using Dreamweaver CS3 for the
> >>>>>>>>> webpages.
> >>>>>>>>> The
> >>>>>>>>> following page has my form but the submit button is not working
> >>>>>>>>> properly.
> >>>>>>>>> http://www.richlandmtg.com/contacts.html
> >>>>>>>>> What code is needed and where does it get placed in the page.? I
> >>>>>>>>> thought
> >>>>>>>>> CS3
> >>>>>>>>> took care of this.
> >>>>>>>> Tom,
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> This issue has nothing at all to do with PHP. This is all
> >>>>>>>> client
> >>>>>>>> side (JavaScript and HTML).
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>>> </Daniel P. Brown>
> >>>>>>>> daniel.br...@parasane.net || danbr...@php.net
> >>>>>>>> http://www.parasane.net/ || http://www.pilotpig.net/
> >>>>>>>> Unadvertised dedicated server deals, too low to print - email me
> >>>>>>>> to find
> >>>>>>>> out!
> >>>>>> What you have now is a form that when submitted sends the data to
> >>>>>> itself. So you either need to include some php in this file to
> >>>>>> gather
> >>>>>> up the data and email it when submitted, or submit to another file
> >>>>>> that
> >>>>>> does that.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Thanks!
> >>>>>> -Shawn
> >>>>>> http://www.spidean.com
> >>>>> Shawn,
> >>>>> So would that look something like this:
> >>>>> <?
> >>>>> if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == "POST") {
> >>>>>
> >>>>> // Just to be safe, I strip out HTML tags
> >>>>> $realname = strip_tags($realname);
> >>>>> $email = strip_tags($email);
> >>>>> $feedback = strip_tags($feedback);
> >>>>>
> >>>>> // set the variables
> >>>>> // replace $...@mysite.com with your email
> >>>>> $sendto = "$...@mysite.com";
> >>>>> $subject = "Sending Email Feedback From My Website";
> >>>>> $message = "$realname, $email\n\n$feedback";
> >>>>>
> >>>>> // send the email
> >>>>> mail($sendto, $subject, $message);
> >>>>>
> >>>>> }
> >>>>> ?>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> Oh, you should also think about some other things, such as validation.
> >>>> Is realname only alpha characters? Is email in the form of a real
> >>>> email
> >>>> address? At a bare minimum, are they not empty:
> >>>>
> >>>> if (empty($_POST['email']) ||
> >>>> empty($_POST['realname']) ||
> >>>> empty($_POST['feedback']))
> >>>> {
> >>>> echo 'You must complete all required fields!';
> >>>> // show form again
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Thanks!
> >>>> -Shawn
> >>>> http://www.spidean.com
> >>> Ok. I have the validation part.
> >>> http://www.richlandmtg.com/index-5.html still working on the Send
> >>> button.
> >>>
> >>> T
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Please reply all so this stays on the list.
> >>
> >> 1. In the source for your link I see that the JS is doing some
> >> validation.
> >> 2. You have method="get" in your form. This will work, but you'll have
> >> to change the PHP code to use $_GET instead of $_POST vars. Or change
> >> to method="post" in the form.
> >> 3. If you want to keep the .html extension for the page, then you'll
> >> probably need to send the post to another script with a .php extension.
> >> Normally a file with a .html extension won't execute the PHP code.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> -Shawn
> >>
> >>
> >>
> I was just looking at that. Someone told me to use GET instead of POST.
> Since JS is validating is it as easy replacing GET with POST ? Nothing else
> needed? Is it better to remove the JS and just code using PHP as you showed
> before?
> if (empty($_POST['email']) ||
> empty($_POST['realname']) ||
> empty($_POST['feedback']))
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
Yes, I think it is better to just use PHP code and post is the better method
(in this case) because with get all your fields and values will show up in
the url
-eddy
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2009/1/26 Chris <dmag...@gmail.com>
>
>
>> This extension does not have to be installed. If your server is running
>> php5, then this extension is installed
>>
>
> No it's not. The mysql extension no longer ships with php by default, you
> have to build it when you ./configure or install the external php-mysql
> package (depending on your o/s and/or how you built it).
>
> If you have the php-mysql package installed, then you have mysqli - but
> it's not there by default.
Yes this is right. This was my fault. I think I got it mixed up with another
extension, sorry.
-eddy
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Per Jessen wrote:
Ashley Sheridan wrote:
I've run into a bit of a problem. I put together a query using mysql
variables in the form set @m:= 0; with the select that uses it
directly after. For any wondering, the select was using it as an
incremental value which can't be hard coded, as the value will depend
on the ordering of the results of the query itself.
The problem seems to be that while phpMyAdmin would execute this
double query perfectly well, php using mysql_query() was having
problems, as apparently it can't actually run multiple queries.
I don't know about the PHP mysql_query(), but the MySQL C API works fine
with multiple queries, it just has to be specifically enabled - the
default is one query per call.
However, it looks like the multiple query option is not supported by
PHP:
http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.real-connect.php
"For security reasons the MULTI_STATEMENT flag is not supported in PHP.
If you want to execute multiple queries use the mysqli_multi_query()
function."
Same for mysql_query:
"mysql_query() sends a unique query (multiple queries are not supported)"...
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Ro Achterberg wrote:
Hi,
I'm attempting to install PHP 5.2.8 on CentOS 5.2 x86_64. The glibc iconv
doesn't seem to function very well, leading to a bunch of failed tests when
running 'make test' (see below). After a bit of Googling I stumbled upon
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/intro.iconv.php which suggests to install libiconv
instead of relying on glibc's iconv, when things go wrong.
My configure line reads as follows:
./configure --prefix=/chroot/apache2/php --with-apxs2=/chroot/apache2/bin/apxs
--disable-cgi --with-zlib --with-gettext --enable-sockets --with-xmlrpc
--with-xsl --with-config-file-path=/php/etc --with-mcrypt --enable-mbregex
--with-gd --with-mime-magic=/usr/share/mime/magic --enable-mbstring=all
--with-openssl --with-mysql=/chroot/mysql --with-curl=/usr/lib64 --enable-zip
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/lib64 --with-png-dir --with-jpeg-dir
--with-libdir=lib64 --with-gnu-ld --with-iconv=/usr/local/lib
which yields the following result:
--------
checking for iconv support... yes
configure: error: Please reinstall the iconv library.
--------
what's in config.log ?
Configure runs fine when I omit the path in the --with-iconv directive, but
that will use glibc's iconv, which results in the following failed tests when
running make check:
You might have more luck asking on the installs list
(http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php).
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Greetings, all. I am looking for feedback on a documentation question, in the
hopes that someone else has found a good solution to an abnormal situation.
We're in the process of introducing OOP syntax to a large procedural code
base. Our developer base is a mixture of people who are procedural-centric
and those that flip between procedural and OOP easily. One area we've run into
is documenting some of the more complex OOP interactions. For example, if we
have a method chain:
foo()->bar()->baz()->narf();
some developers have expressed concern in figuring out which narf() method is
actually being called, since foo(), bar() and baz() may return objects of
different classes (of the same interface) depending on various conditions (the
classic factory pattern).
Currently, we're including a docblock (Doxygen, close enough to PHPDoc for
government work) on the interface or parent class that has full docs, and then
nothing on the child classes. My understanding of docblocks is that most
documentation parsers prefer that, so that the docblock itself inherits.
One suggestion that has been raised is to reference the parent class and
factory function in a comment after the method signature. That is:
class Narfing_mysql {
// ...
public function narf() { // Narfing foo()
// ...
}
}
So that it can be easily grepped for. That strikes me as a very hacky non-
solution. Does anyone else have a recommendation for how to improve such
documentation? Is there a standard in PHPDoc that I don't know about? Any
other projects doing something like that?
--
Larry Garfield
la...@garfieldtech.com
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Ashley Sheridan wrote:
On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 10:14 +0200, Dora Elless wrote:
That's why I am sending this email only to people I know and care
about.
And they send to a mailing list. Come again?
So Funny, they went through all the trouble of signing up, unless hey
have bots now that can sign up to mailing lists?
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2009/1/27 clive <clive_li...@immigrationunit.com>:
> Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 10:14 +0200, Dora Elless wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> That's why I am sending this email only to people I know and care
>>> about.
>>>
>>
>> And they send to a mailing list. Come again?
>>
>>
>
> So Funny, they went through all the trouble of signing up, unless hey have
> bots now that can sign up to mailing lists?
Yes they do - it's not hard, but you don't actually need to subscribe
to PHP mailing lists to post to them.
-Stuart
--
http://stut.net/
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Ashley Sheridan napsal(a):
On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 10:14 +0200, Dora Elless wrote:
That's why I am sending this email only to people I know and care
about.
And they send to a mailing list. Come again?
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
The sad thing though is that there will be always people who believe
this shit and pays...
Like my dad bought a little book "Take off your glasses" for $10 and he
received 2 papers saying: sun is our best friend, look right into it and
it will heal your eyes.
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Dora Gaskins wrote:
If you have received this email, take a time to really read it carefully!
American Gov Money
More spam, can't we have the maillist software require people to
register before posting?
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Hi,
Beware of he spam mailer so do not let them spam your money away.
Andrew
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:18 AM, clive <clive_li...@immigrationunit.com>wrote:
> Dora Gaskins wrote:
>
>> If you have received this email, take a time to really read it carefully!
>>
>> American Gov Money
>>
> More spam, can't we have the maillist software require people to register
> before posting?
>
>
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Bastien Koert wrote:
> No, as all of our users have to authorized to use the app, we store
> the desired language in a field in the user record. However, we also
> supply functionality via a drop down to allow the user to change the
> language if desired.
Okay, that's very similar to my approach. For first-time users (of
which I will have a lot), the language is set by their browser's
language setting. Most users won't be changing it.
> I agree its difficult to separate the language and the code, but if
> you create xslt / html files for each language then its a much simpler
> matter, and far less resouce intensive, to direct the user to that
> page in their desired language.
I leave that to Apache and the 'prefer-language' environment variable -
I guess my main issue is to do with e.g. error-messages from PHP code
("please complete this field correctly" etc) and from javascript ditto.
I guess for error-messages, it's back to gettext(), which does make some
sense.
> Again, you and just use PHP and handle the labels and option (drop
> downs, radios etc) variables in real time but I never see the point
> in doing the same thing over and over again when its much cleaner (if
> more management intensive) to direct the user to a static resource
> and pass in an XML string with the data in it.
Totally agree.
> At work, we don't use gettext() since :
> a) its an classic ASP shop ( :-( ), therefore no Linux and no PHP
Ah. :-)
> b) the db current doesn't support multi-byte charsets
>
The gettext db doesn't support UTF8??? Uh oh, that's a show-stopper.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
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Per Jessen:
>
> The gettext db doesn't support UTF8??? Uh oh, that's a show-stopper.
It supports. We use it. But only in MsgStr (translation), not in MsgId
(original strings).
--
toby
http://toby.cz/
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Jan Kaštánek wrote:
> Per Jessen:
>>
>> The gettext db doesn't support UTF8??? Uh oh, that's a show-stopper.
>
> It supports. We use it. But only in MsgStr (translation), not in MsgId
> (original strings).
>
Yeah, I found out too. (from the GNU gettext docu).
/Per Jessen, Zürich
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Sorry guys,
I meant that the current application database is not configured for
utf-8
Bastien
Sent from my iPod
On Jan 27, 2009, at 6:04, Per Jessen <p...@computer.org> wrote:
Jan Kaštánek wrote:
Per Jessen:
The gettext db doesn't support UTF8??? Uh oh, that's a show-stopper.
It supports. We use it. But only in MsgStr (translation), not in
MsgId
(original strings).
Yeah, I found out too. (from the GNU gettext docu).
/Per Jessen, Zürich
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