[PHP] Phpstop.com project - wanna be a writer?

2008-05-05 Thread Auto-Deppe, C. Haensel
Hi guys and girls I have followed this group for quite some time now and have seen some great tipps and tricks concerning PHP and its surroundings. I have gotten hold of a very nice domain name ( phpstop.com ) and have thought of something nice I could do with it. Now, my idea is to start an

[PHP] Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Jorge
First I would like to say that I have had PHP experience but not enough to say I am a PHP developer. I want to use PHP to build a site that uses MySQL, I am building it from scratch so I don't know where to start, should I start with PHP and design a database around my code, or should I

[PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Tony Marston
As a person who has been developing database applications for several decades my advice is to ALWAYS start with the database design, then build your code around that. The database must be properly normalised otherwise it will be difficult to get at the data you need in an efficient manner. OO

Re: [PHP] Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 01:15 -0600, Jorge wrote: First I would like to say that I have had PHP experience but not enough to say I am a PHP developer. I want to use PHP to build a site that uses MySQL, I am building it from scratch so I don't know where to start, should I start with PHP

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Richard Heyes
The database must be properly normalised otherwise it will be difficult to get at the data you need in an efficient manner. Not true. If your needs are simple for example, normalisation can increase the complexity of a schema, hence increasing development time needed. Sometimes for example

Re: [PHP] Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Børge Holen
On Monday 05 May 2008 09:15:29 Jorge wrote: First I would like to say that I have had PHP experience but not enough to say I am a PHP developer. I want to use PHP to build a site that uses MySQL, I am building it from scratch so I don't know where to start, should I start with PHP and design

Re: [PHP] retrieve email address

2008-05-05 Thread Yui Hiroaki
HI! I do not use PEARm then find email address from email. Dose anyone know how to get it?? It does noe blow; ereg(^From: \s+ .*, $data) ; Regards, yui 2008/5/5 Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would like to retrieve email address from email with regular expression.

Re: [PHP] Apache child pid segfault + APD

2008-05-05 Thread Waynn Lue
My main problem with using xdebug was that it seemed to require KDE to interpret the traces that it took, which I don't have installed on my server. I only spent 15 minutes looking at it, though, so that could be completely unjustified... Would upgrading glibc help? On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:48

Re: [PHP] Apache child pid segfault + APD

2008-05-05 Thread Aschwin Wesselius
Waynn Lue wrote: My main problem with using xdebug was that it seemed to require KDE to interpret the traces that it took, which I don't have installed on my server. I only spent 15 minutes looking at it, though, so that could be completely unjustified... Would upgrading glibc help? Hi,

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Tony Marston
Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The database must be properly normalised otherwise it will be difficult to get at the data you need in an efficient manner. Not true. If your needs are simple for example, normalisation can increase the complexity of a

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Tony Marston
Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tony Marston wrote: Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The database must be properly normalised otherwise it will be difficult to get at the data you need in an efficient manner.

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Richard Heyes
Tony Marston wrote: Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The database must be properly normalised otherwise it will be difficult to get at the data you need in an efficient manner. Not true. If your needs are simple for example, normalisation can increase the

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Richard Heyes
I do not agree that creating a database which is normalised to3NF is a waste of time. It isn't always, but it is sometimes. When time is a (significant) factor, getting something up and running (which has acceptable performance) may be more impotant than creating a technically perfect

RES: [PHP] set_error_handler help

2008-05-05 Thread Thiago Pojda
Oh Yes this helped, thanks a lot :) I was missing the callback part ;) Regards, Thiago -Mensagem original- De: Jim Lucas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: sexta-feira, 2 de maio de 2008 15:26 Para: Thiago Pojda Assunto: Re: [PHP] set_error_handler help Thiago Pojda wrote: Hi

Re: [PHP] SMS Cellular Text Messaging

2008-05-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-04-28 15:24:53, schrieb Richard Lynch: If you want any kind of volume, you pay a gateway. Or you could invest a few billion and build your own. :-) I am using a bunch of GSM/GPRS/EDGE modems which have cost me arround 105 Euro/Modem and bought some SIMs from O2, Vodaphone, D2,

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Jason Pruim
On May 5, 2008, at 6:21 AM, Tony Marston wrote: Anyone who doesn't know how to reach 3NF shouldn't be designing databases. Just out of curiosity... How many Records do you need to have in a database before you'll start seeing a performance boost from doing that? I have written a few

[PHP] RES: [PHP-DB] Shopping cart session handling

2008-05-05 Thread Thiago Pojda
Forwarding to the correct mailing list. You should get flames...*cough* I mean, answers here :) Regards, Thiago -Mensagem original- De: Ron Piggott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: domingo, 4 de maio de 2008 19:35 Para: PHP DB Assunto: [PHP-DB] Shopping cart session handling I am

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Richard Heyes
Anyone who doesn't know how to reach 3NF shouldn't be designing databases. Just out of curiosity... How many Records do you need to have in a database before you'll start seeing a performance boost from doing that? There's no hard and fast rule. When it becomes a chore to maintain I

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Tony Marston
Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not agree that creating a database which is normalised to3NF is a waste of time. It isn't always, but it is sometimes. When time is a (significant) factor, getting something up and running (which has acceptable

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Tony Marston
Jason Pruim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 5, 2008, at 6:21 AM, Tony Marston wrote: Anyone who doesn't know how to reach 3NF shouldn't be designing databases. Just out of curiosity... How many Records do you need to have in a database before you'll

Re: [PHP] Phpstop.com project - wanna be a writer?

2008-05-05 Thread tedd
I have gotten hold of a very nice domain name ( phpstop.com ) and have thought of something nice I could do with it. Now, my idea is to start an E-ducation (online PHP education) website with some authors who know what they're talking about. I've been thinking about the same thing.

RE: [PHP] Phpstop.com project - wanna be a writer?

2008-05-05 Thread Chris Haensel
ROFL! I can not believe Mr Tedd THE Sperling has been thinking bout the same thing. Well, you are going to do it webbased, aren't ya? I was thinking to have it in PDF magazine style. Maybe I can have you as a writer? ;o) And maybe 2 or 3 more of this list The big names, ya know *g*

RE: [PHP] Phpstop.com project - wanna be a writer?

2008-05-05 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 15:12 +0200, Chris Haensel wrote: Maybe I can have you as a writer? ;o) And maybe 2 or 3 more of this list The big names, ya know *g* Oh well, my name is only 4 letters so I guess I am out? ;) --Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Richard Heyes
You obviously do not understand what technically perfect means when it comes to data normalisation. Obviously. That's why solutions which are thrown together are often incapable of being expanded to include new requirements. I've never adovocated throwing together a solution. Merely that

Re: [PHP] Any Running Simple Ajax Sample for Php

2008-05-05 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Jon L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you aren't already, I recommend putting to use a JS library with Ajax support. Nothing else, they can reduce the browser compatibility overhead coding you'll need to do. I found that they also reduce or eliminate some

Re: [PHP] Apache child pid segfault + APD

2008-05-05 Thread Mario Guenterberg
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 02:41:17AM -0700, Waynn Lue wrote: My main problem with using xdebug was that it seemed to require KDE to interpret the traces that it took, which I don't have installed on my server. I only spent 15 minutes looking at it, though, so that could be completely

Re: [PHP] Phpstop.com project - wanna be a writer?

2008-05-05 Thread Jason Pruim
On May 5, 2008, at 9:17 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 15:12 +0200, Chris Haensel wrote: Maybe I can have you as a writer? ;o) And maybe 2 or 3 more of this list The big names, ya know *g* Oh well, my name is only 4 letters so I guess I am out? ;) --Paul That's why

Re: [PHP] Web page excerpt editor

2008-05-05 Thread tedd
At 6:49 PM -0400 5/4/08, Robert Cummings wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 17:27 -0500, Mike Potter wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Paul Scott wrote: FCKEditor, TinyMCE and a host of others. All JS based, so not really relevant on a PHP list though Whereas, SnippetMaster *is*

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 10:31 +0100, Tony Marston wrote: Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The database must be properly normalised otherwise it will be difficult to get at the data you need in an efficient manner. Not true. If your needs are simple

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 11:10 +0100, Richard Heyes wrote: Tony Marston wrote: Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The database must be properly normalised otherwise it will be difficult to get at the data you need in an efficient manner. Not true. If

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 13:51 +0100, Tony Marston wrote: Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not agree that creating a database which is normalised to3NF is a waste of time. It isn't always, but it is sometimes. When time is a (significant)

Re: [PHP] Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Jason Pruim
On May 5, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Dan Joseph wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 3:15 AM, Jorge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First I would like to say that I have had PHP experience but not enough to say I am a PHP developer. I want to use PHP to build a site that uses MySQL, I am building it from

Re: [PHP] Phpstop.com project - wanna be a writer?

2008-05-05 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 09:08 -0400, tedd wrote: I have gotten hold of a very nice domain name ( phpstop.com ) and have thought of something nice I could do with it. Now, my idea is to start an E-ducation (online PHP education) website with some authors who know what they're talking about.

RE: [PHP] Phpstop.com project - wanna be a writer?

2008-05-05 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 15:17 +0200, Paul Scott wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 15:12 +0200, Chris Haensel wrote: Maybe I can have you as a writer? ;o) And maybe 2 or 3 more of this list The big names, ya know *g* Oh well, my name is only 4 letters so I guess I am out? ;) I was gonna use

Re: [PHP] Phpstop.com project - wanna be a writer?

2008-05-05 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 09:34 -0400, Jason Pruim wrote: On May 5, 2008, at 9:17 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 15:12 +0200, Chris Haensel wrote: Maybe I can have you as a writer? ;o) And maybe 2 or 3 more of this list The big names, ya know *g* Oh well, my name

Re: [PHP] Web page excerpt editor

2008-05-05 Thread Jason Pruim
On May 5, 2008, at 9:43 AM, tedd wrote: At 6:49 PM -0400 5/4/08, Robert Cummings wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 17:27 -0500, Mike Potter wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Paul Scott wrote: FCKEditor, TinyMCE and a host of others. All JS based, so not really relevant on a PHP

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Tony Marston
Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You obviously do not understand what technically perfect means when it comes to data normalisation. Obviously. That's why solutions which are thrown together are often incapable of being expanded to include new

Re: [PHP] Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Dan Joseph
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 3:15 AM, Jorge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First I would like to say that I have had PHP experience but not enough to say I am a PHP developer. I want to use PHP to build a site that uses MySQL, I am building it from scratch so I don't know where to start, should I start

RE: [PHP] Phpstop.com project - wanna be a writer?

2008-05-05 Thread tedd
At 3:12 PM +0200 5/5/08, Chris Haensel wrote: ROFL! I can not believe Mr Tedd THE Sperling has been thinking bout the same thing. Well, you are going to do it webbased, aren't ya? I was thinking to have it in PDF magazine style. Maybe I can have you as a writer? ;o) And maybe 2 or 3 more of

Re: [PHP] Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Richard Heyes
Right now I just have 1 application, with a small account in it, it's about 1,000 records... But I plan on marketing the program which would (Hopefully) increase the user base and total records. I could see having 20-30 customers with all with around 1,000 to 30,000+ names in the database. At

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Richard Heyes
Your experience in the real world must be very limited Clearly. as it is often the case where a customer starts off with a simple requirement then keeps expanding it as time goes by as he dreams up more things that the system should do for him. If at day #1 you say these reqirements are

RE: [PHP] Phpstop.com project - wanna be a writer?

2008-05-05 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I have gotten hold of a very nice domain name ( phpstop.com ) and have thought of something nice I could do with it. Now, my idea is to start an E-ducation (online PHP education) website with some authors who know what they're talking about. [/snip] By the very act of responding to this I

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Tony Marston
Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your experience in the real world must be very limited Clearly. as it is often the case where a customer starts off with a simple requirement then keeps expanding it as time goes by as he dreams up more things that

Re: [PHP] Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Jason Pruim
On May 5, 2008, at 10:11 AM, Richard Heyes wrote: Right now I just have 1 application, with a small account in it, it's about 1,000 records... But I plan on marketing the program which would (Hopefully) increase the user base and total records. I could see having 20-30 customers with all

Re: [PHP] Phpstop.com project - wanna be a writer?

2008-05-05 Thread Daniel Brown
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:59 AM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 3:12 PM +0200 5/5/08, Chris Haensel wrote: The big names, ya know *g* I don't go by the name Tedd anymore -- non sum qualis eram. I'd visit the site just to see who the Big Names[tm] are. ;-P -- /Daniel P. Brown

Re: [PHP] Web page excerpt editor

2008-05-05 Thread Eric Butera
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:43 AM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FCKEditor and TinyMCE are impressive in what they do, but they produce a mix of css and html -- that's not good in my book. This is an interesting idea. Most clients don't want to see a text area to input raw html though. In the

[PHP] Recommended book on PHP/SOAP

2008-05-05 Thread Todd Cary
I would like a book on implementing SOAP geared for someone with no SOAP experience. Hopefully SOAP can be used with PHP 4?!? Many thanks... Todd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Recommended book on PHP/SOAP

2008-05-05 Thread Dan Joseph
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Todd Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like a book on implementing SOAP geared for someone with no SOAP experience. Hopefully SOAP can be used with PHP 4?!? Many thanks... I'm not sure of a book, but for PHP4 you'll want to grab NuSOAP. Its actually a

Re: [PHP] Recommended book on PHP/SOAP

2008-05-05 Thread Todd Cary
Dan Joseph wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Todd Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like a book on implementing SOAP geared for someone with no SOAP experience. Hopefully SOAP can be used with PHP 4?!? Many thanks... I'm not sure of a book, but for PHP4 you'll want to grab

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Richard Heyes
Then surely designed well would include a normalised database? Not necessarily. You could for example have a database that accommodates future needs without being completely normalised. -- Richard Heyes ++ | Access SSH with a Windows mapped drive | |

Re: [PHP] Re: Where to start!

2008-05-05 Thread Tony Marston
Richard Heyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Then surely designed well would include a normalised database? Not necessarily. You could for example have a database that accommodates future needs without being completely normalised. That depends on your definition

Re: [PHP] Recommended book on PHP/SOAP

2008-05-05 Thread Eric Gorr
On May 5, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Todd Cary wrote: I would like a book on implementing SOAP geared for someone with no SOAP experience. A book I like is: Pro PHP XML and Web Services # ISBN-10: 1590596331 # ISBN-13: 978-1590596333 This book requires PHP 5. Hopefully SOAP can be used with PHP

[PHP] using explode

2008-05-05 Thread Jason Pruim
Hi everyone, I am wondering if I can write this cleaner? $weightExplode = explode(., $totalWeight); $explodetest = .; $explodetest .= $weightExplode[1]; $explodetest = $explodetest*16; I'm hoping I've missed something... Basically I just need to include the .

Re: [PHP] using explode

2008-05-05 Thread Zoltán Németh
Jason Pruim írta: Hi everyone, I am wondering if I can write this cleaner? $weightExplode = explode(., $totalWeight); $explodetest = .; $explodetest .= $weightExplode[1]; $explodetest = $explodetest*16; I'm hoping I've missed something... Basically I just need to include the

Re: [PHP] using explode

2008-05-05 Thread Stut
On 5 May 2008, at 20:04, Jason Pruim wrote: I am wondering if I can write this cleaner? $weightExplode = explode(., $totalWeight); $explodetest = .; $explodetest .= $weightExplode[1]; $explodetest = $explodetest*16; I'm hoping I've missed something... Basically

[PHP] Regex to catch ps

2008-05-05 Thread Ryan S
Hey all! To say I suck at regex is an understatement so really need any help I can get on this, I have a page of text with different html tags in them, but each block of text has a p or a class=something tag... anybody have any regex that will catch each of these paragraphs and put then

Re: [PHP] Regex to catch ps

2008-05-05 Thread Eric Butera
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Ryan S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To say I suck at regex is an understatement so really need any help I can get on this, I have a page of text with different html tags in them, but each block of text has a p or a class=something tag... anybody have any regex

Re: [PHP] Assigning functions

2008-05-05 Thread Philip Thompson
On May 2, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Craige Leeder wrote: Hello Philip First thing first: design patterns are your friend. A good reference for which, is: http://www.fluffycat.com/PHP-Design-Patterns/ Second of all. What is the situation in which you are trying to do this? I can't really think of one

Re: [PHP] Regex to catch ps

2008-05-05 Thread Ryan S
clip To say I suck at regex is an understatement so really need any help I can get on this, I have a page of text with different html tags in them, but each block of text has a p or a class=something tag... anybody have any regex that will catch each of these paragraphs and put then

RE: [PHP] Phpstop.com project - wanna be a writer?

2008-05-05 Thread Chris Haensel
-Original Message- From: tedd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:59 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Phpstop.com project - wanna be a writer? At 3:12 PM +0200 5/5/08, Chris Haensel wrote: ROFL! I can not believe Mr Tedd THE Sperling has been