php-general Digest 15 May 2008 08:51:05 -0000 Issue 5460

2008-05-15 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 15 May 2008 08:51:05 - Issue 5460 Topics (messages 274334 through 274358): Re: Tracking down the elusive expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM 274334 by: mike 274337 by: Boyd, Todd M. 274338 by: Daniel Brown 274340 by: Tyson Vanover

php-general Digest 15 May 2008 21:26:39 -0000 Issue 5461

2008-05-15 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 15 May 2008 21:26:39 - Issue 5461 Topics (messages 274359 through 274394): the class as a namespace 274359 by: Iv Ray 274364 by: Iv Ray Re: SCanning text of PDF documents 274360 by: Frank Arensmeier 274366 by: Eric Butera Re: Using SVN w/

[PHP] Re: Scottish Devs

2008-05-15 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 05/14/2008 01:37 PM Nathan Rixham said the following: Just had word of a freelance project on for the next 4 weeks, start immediately, basically 1 static site (design already done) - an easy job, and 1 static site + a bit of PHP, breadcrumb, site search - it's £200 GBP a day (so

Re: [PHP] Validating Form input

2008-05-15 Thread Adam Richardson
I completely agree, server-side validation does always have to exist. That said, I like providing feedback on the validity of a form before the user leaves the page AND I hate duplicating the validation logic in Javascript when it's already present in my PHP. What I did in my PHP

[PHP] SCanning text of PDF documents

2008-05-15 Thread Angelo Zanetti
Hi All. This is a quick question. A client of ours wants a solution that when a PDF document is uploaded that we use PHP to scan the documents contents and save it in a DB. I know you can do this with normal text documents using the file commands and functions. Is it possible with PDF

Re: [PHP] SCanning text of PDF documents

2008-05-15 Thread David Otton
2008/5/15 Angelo Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A client of ours wants a solution that when a PDF document is uploaded that we use PHP to scan the documents contents and save it in a DB. I know you can do this with normal text documents using the file commands and functions. Is it

[PHP] Re: Using SVN w/ Zend Studio for Eclipse

2008-05-15 Thread Colin Guthrie
Steve Finkelstein wrote: If any of you have run into similar frustrations, I'd love to hear it. So far I've spent the better part of the evening fiddling with extremely rudimentary features which no IDE in any programming environment I've ever worked with has imposed on me. Perhaps this thing

[PHP] the class as a namespace

2008-05-15 Thread Iv Ray
Is there a notion of the class as a namespace? My understanding is that the namespaces are intended to help organize the classes in large projects (and are not perfect). Is it considered good style to use a class simply to box related functions? For instance, a class called files, contains

Re: [PHP] Can I install a newer version of php over an older version

2008-05-15 Thread Iv Ray
Tony M wrote: Can I install a newer version of php over an older version? Perhaps what you need is this - Upgrading PHP with the Install To upgrade, run the installer either graphically or from the command line as normal. The installer will read your current install options, remove your old

Re: [PHP] SCanning text of PDF documents

2008-05-15 Thread Frank Arensmeier
A reliable solution depends partly on the pdf document itself. Consider if your pdf document contains roted text or text that spans about several different blocks/pages. My experience with ps2acsii and other ghostscript related tools is that sometimes it works quite well, sometimes the

Re: [PHP] Using SVN w/ Zend Studio for Eclipse

2008-05-15 Thread Iv Ray
I do not want to copy the project into a new directory as the existing directory is where Apache's DocumentRoot is set. And although that's simple to change, I really don't think any IDE should mandate where I set my project's directory on the filesystem. I use PDT, and there is no problem

[PHP] Working with internal data formats

2008-05-15 Thread John Gunther
What technique can I use to take an 8-byte double precision value, as stored internally, and assign its value to a PHP float variable without having the bytes misinterpreted as a character string. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] the class as a namespace

2008-05-15 Thread Iv Ray
Richard Heyes wrote: That's a common use of static classes. Eg: HTTP::Redirect($url); In fact this (from the article I've read) is exactly how namespaces will look like. So in the above example, HTTP could be either a namespace or a class. Right. Namespaces do look similar. And PEAR

Re: [PHP] Good HTML parser needed

2008-05-15 Thread Eric Butera
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Yi Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone provide some code that can't be stripped by strip_tags? On 5/15/08, Eric Butera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-14 at

Re: [PHP] SCanning text of PDF documents

2008-05-15 Thread Eric Butera
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Angelo Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All. This is a quick question. A client of ours wants a solution that when a PDF document is uploaded that we use PHP to scan the documents contents and save it in a DB. I know you can do this with normal text

Re: [PHP] Variable Scope from child to parent

2008-05-15 Thread Andrew Ballard
Ok, I forgot to reply-all to the list. Here we go again. On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Tyson Vanover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get a child class to pass an array of valid keys to it's parent when the constructor is run, and the parent appends the data to one of it's array of

Re: [PHP] how do I stop Firefox doing a conditional get?

2008-05-15 Thread Al
Make certain your steam is compressed http://www.whatsmyip.org/mod_gzip_test/ Per Jessen wrote: Robin Vickery wrote: 2008/5/14 Per Jessen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The issue is - I'd like this page to appear to be as real time as possible, and the occasional delay caused by the conditional get

Re: [PHP] how do I stop Firefox doing a conditional get?

2008-05-15 Thread Robin Vickery
On 15/05/2008, Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make certain your steam is compressed http://www.whatsmyip.org/mod_gzip_test/ Compressed steam can be dangerous: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_York_City_steam_explosion -robin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] Good HTML parser needed

2008-05-15 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Per Jessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shelley wrote: I want to know whether there are some good HTML parsers written in PHP. That is, the parser checks whether html tags like table, tr, td, div, dt, dl, dd, script, ul, li, span, h1, h2, etc. are nested

Re: [PHP] Re: Scripts slowing down?

2008-05-15 Thread René Leboeuf
Per Jessen a écrit : René Leboeuf wrote: The user sending emails is trusted by sendmail, and the sending program is located on the sendmail machine. No need to use SMTP then. You should just be calling sendmail to drop the emails into the queue. And that should not be slowing down.

Re: [PHP] Validating Form input

2008-05-15 Thread tedd
At 9:48 PM -0500 5/14/08, Chris W wrote: I was wondering what others think of my approach to form validation. I know many use Java script to do various validation. However, since there is no way to be sure the data sent to the server is actually valid, you have to check it in your php code on

Re: [PHP] Working with internal data formats

2008-05-15 Thread Iv Ray
John Gunther wrote: What technique can I use to take an 8-byte double precision value, as stored internally, and assign its value to a PHP float variable without having the bytes misinterpreted as a character string. Does it get misinterpreted, or do you just want to be sure? The

Re: [PHP] Tracking down the elusive expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM

2008-05-15 Thread Daniel Brown
Since I keep getting off-list and on-list replies, apparently not everyone reads the threads as they should. As you'll see from the message below, I'm aware that it's in all languages. It was meant jokingly, but I forgot to type in the smiley face. Otherwise, thanks (to the eleven or so

Re: [PHP] how do I stop Firefox doing a conditional get?

2008-05-15 Thread Per Jessen
Al wrote: Make certain your steam is compressed http://www.whatsmyip.org/mod_gzip_test/ The files I was having the problem with are GIFs, so already LZW compressed. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Scripts slowing down?

2008-05-15 Thread Per Jessen
René Leboeuf wrote: Per Jessen a écrit : René Leboeuf wrote: The user sending emails is trusted by sendmail, and the sending program is located on the sendmail machine. No need to use SMTP then. You should just be calling sendmail to drop the emails into the queue. And that should

Re: [PHP] Working with internal data formats

2008-05-15 Thread John Gunther
Iv Ray wrote: John Gunther wrote: What technique can I use to take an 8-byte double precision value, as stored internally, and assign its value to a PHP float variable without having the bytes misinterpreted as a character string. Does it get misinterpreted, or do you just want to be

Re: [PHP] Working with internal data formats

2008-05-15 Thread Robert Cummings
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 10:33 -0400, John Gunther wrote: Iv Ray wrote: John Gunther wrote: What technique can I use to take an 8-byte double precision value, as stored internally, and assign its value to a PHP float variable without having the bytes misinterpreted as a character

Re: [PHP] Working with internal data formats

2008-05-15 Thread Iv Ray
John Gunther wrote: Example: I extract the 8 bytes 40 58 FF 5C 28 F5 C2 8F from an external file You mean you extract 40 58 FF 5C 28 F5 C2 8F, so to speak, as a string, right? Sorry, for asking, but somehow I do not the case. -- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] Working with internal data formats

2008-05-15 Thread Robin Vickery
On 15/05/2008, John Gunther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iv Ray wrote: John Gunther wrote: What technique can I use to take an 8-byte double precision value, as stored internally, and assign its value to a PHP float variable without having the bytes misinterpreted as a character

[PHP] Flush file contents

2008-05-15 Thread Mário Gamito
Hi, How do I open a file and flush all it's contents to insert new ones and close again ? I've browsed through the fopen function aguments and didn't find one that do this (or I misunderstood one of them). Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito -- PHP General Mailing

[PHP] My open source php CMS

2008-05-15 Thread Dmitri
Hello, first of all, sorry for this plug, I am looking for interested developers. I just want to let you know about my open source project that uses over 15 pear classes and uses pear installer as the primary means to install it I also wrote a web-based interface for using pear installer to

Re: [PHP] how do I stop Firefox doing a conditional get?

2008-05-15 Thread Al
Try by not LZW compressing and the use ob_start() and flush() so your files are gzip compressed. I don't know if Firefox knows how to readily handle LZW on the fly. It does know how to handle gzip. Per Jessen wrote: Al wrote: Make certain your steam is compressed

Re: [PHP] Flush file contents

2008-05-15 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Mário Gamito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do I open a file and flush all it's contents to insert new ones and close again ? I've browsed through the fopen function aguments and didn't find one that do this (or I misunderstood one of them). Any help

[PHP] RE:Windows Service Call from linux php server

2008-05-15 Thread admin
I used soap to perfect the Windows service call and resolved the issue so simple it kills me. Not happy with the huge upgrade of php process but happy with final results. Resolution: ?php $wsdl= http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/WebService/service.asmx?WSDL; $soap = new soapclient($wsdl,wsdl);

RE: [PHP] My open source php CMS

2008-05-15 Thread admin
Page Not Found. Hello, first of all, sorry for this plug, I am looking for interested developers. I just want to let you know about my open source project that uses over 15 pear classes and uses pear installer as the primary means to install it I also wrote a web-based interface for

Re: [PHP] how do I stop Firefox doing a conditional get?

2008-05-15 Thread Per Jessen
Al wrote: Per Jessen wrote: Al wrote: Make certain your steam is compressed http://www.whatsmyip.org/mod_gzip_test/ The files I was having the problem with are GIFs, so already LZW compressed. Try by not LZW compressing and the use ob_start() and flush() so your files are gzip

Re: [PHP] Can I install a newer version of php over an older version

2008-05-15 Thread Brady Mitchell
On May 14, 2008, at 854PM, Tony M wrote: Can I install a newer version of php over an older version ? I am new to php and am in the process of installing it and reading various tutorials. I always suggest using XAMPP (http://xampp.org) or a similar package that will install MySQL, PHP

[PHP] changing order of items

2008-05-15 Thread afan pasalic
this one bugs me for a while. how to change order. I have a list of tasks. by status, task could be 1 (todo) or 0 (done) - status value stored in mysql. I can list tasks per status or all. order number is stored in mysql too. the easiest way to change order is to have form for each task where you

Re: [PHP] changing order of items

2008-05-15 Thread Iv Ray
afan pasalic wrote: this one bugs me for a while. how to change order. I have a list of tasks. by status, task could be 1 (todo) or 0 (done) - status value stored in mysql. I can list tasks per status or all. order number is stored in mysql too. the easiest way to change order is to have form

Re: [PHP] changing order of items

2008-05-15 Thread afan pasalic
Iv Ray wrote: afan pasalic wrote: this one bugs me for a while. how to change order. I have a list of tasks. by status, task could be 1 (todo) or 0 (done) - status value stored in mysql. I can list tasks per status or all. order number is stored in mysql too. the easiest way to change

Re: [PHP] changing order of items

2008-05-15 Thread Eric Butera
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:49 PM, afan pasalic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iv Ray wrote: afan pasalic wrote: this one bugs me for a while. how to change order. I have a list of tasks. by status, task could be 1 (todo) or 0 (done) - status value stored in mysql. I can list tasks per status or

Re: [PHP] changing order of items

2008-05-15 Thread afan pasalic
Eric Butera wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:49 PM, afan pasalic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iv Ray wrote: afan pasalic wrote: this one bugs me for a while. how to change order. I have a list of tasks. by status, task could be 1 (todo) or 0 (done) - status value stored in

Re: [PHP] changing order of items

2008-05-15 Thread robert
On May 15, 2008, at 11:58 AM, afan pasalic wrote: Eric Butera wrote: I use this: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/dragdrop/dd-reorder.html This one is good too. But, actually, I need something more simple. Nothing fancy :D. for something very simple how about add a drop down

[PHP] Re: changing order of items

2008-05-15 Thread Nathan Rixham
afan pasalic wrote: this one bugs me for a while. how to change order. I have a list of tasks. by status, task could be 1 (todo) or 0 (done) - status value stored in mysql. I can list tasks per status or all. order number is stored in mysql too. the easiest way to change order is to have form

[PHP] question about validation and sql injection

2008-05-15 Thread Sudhakar
A) validating username in php as part of a registration form a user fills there desired username and this is stored in a mysql. there are certain conditions for the username. a) the username should only begin either letters or numbers, and Underscore character example = user123, 123user,

Re: [PHP] changing order of items

2008-05-15 Thread Jason Murray
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:09 PM, afan pasalic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this one bugs me for a while. how to change order. I have a list of tasks. by status, task could be 1 (todo) or 0 (done) - status value stored in mysql. I can list tasks per status or all. order number is stored in mysql

[PHP] fsockopen + fputs

2008-05-15 Thread debussy007
Hello, I use fsockopen and fputs to call a distant URL, but I have the following error : The requested URL /registration/test was not found on this server. This is my code: $req = 'username=' . $usr . 'password=' . $pass . 'date_of_birth=' . $year . - . $month . - . $day .

Re: [PHP] question about validation and sql injection

2008-05-15 Thread Dmitri
your validation looks good enough to me. If you only allow alphanumerical chars, then your should not be worried about sql injection also use addslashes($username) before you insert into database and you should be fine. Usually addslashes is enough to prevent this, but the validation that you

Re: [PHP] question about validation and sql injection

2008-05-15 Thread Chris
Dmitri wrote: your validation looks good enough to me. If you only allow alphanumerical chars, then your should not be worried about sql injection also use addslashes($username) before you insert into database and you should be fine. Usually addslashes is enough to prevent this, but the

Re: [PHP] Good HTML parser needed

2008-05-15 Thread Yi Wang
On 5/15/08, Eric Butera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Yi Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone provide some code that can't be stripped by strip_tags? On 5/15/08, Eric Butera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Robert Cummings

Re: [PHP] SCanning text of PDF documents

2008-05-15 Thread Ray Hauge
Angelo Zanetti wrote: Hi All. This is a quick question. A client of ours wants a solution that when a PDF document is uploaded that we use PHP to scan the documents contents and save it in a DB. I know you can do this with normal text documents using the file commands and functions. Is it

Re: [PHP] SCanning text of PDF documents

2008-05-15 Thread Robert Cummings
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 20:17 -0500, Ray Hauge wrote: One thing you'll have to watch is that if the PDF was created by a scanner, then the text on the PDF is actually just an image and cannot be read without OCR. I got stumped on that one for a while when I was doing something similar :)

[PHP] Re: question about validation and sql injection

2008-05-15 Thread Chris W
Sudhakar wrote: A) validating username in php If you do what needs to be done to prevent sql injection, it doesn't matter what you let users have for their user name. B) preventing sql injection htmlentities this has nothing to do with sql injection it just is needed so when you

[PHP] Re: changing order of items

2008-05-15 Thread Chris W
afan pasalic wrote: this one bugs me for a while. how to change order. I have a list of tasks. by status, task could be 1 (todo) or 0 (done) - status value stored in mysql. I can list tasks per status or all. order number is stored in mysql too. the easiest way to change order is to have form

[PHP] $_SESSION lost

2008-05-15 Thread hce
Hi, I've just installed PHP 5.2.4 on a FC 7 with a web server. $ php -v PHP 5.2.4 (cli) (built: Sep 18 2007 08:50:58) Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies It seems some PHP module might be missing, I tested it with a page1.php:

Re: [PHP] $_SESSION lost

2008-05-15 Thread Chris
$ php -v PHP 5.2.4 (cli) (built: Sep 18 2007 08:50:58) Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies This shows the php command line version, not the webserver php version. To do that, look at a phpinfo() page. They may indeed be the same

[PHP] Plugins... (like wordpress?)

2008-05-15 Thread Ryan S
Hey, Have just started screwing around with wordpress and I must say... it has a lot of really really nice bits and pieces... two of my favourites are widgets and plugins... not a hundred percent certain exactly what the diff is though! :) Anyway, was thinking it would be a great way to