php-general Digest 29 Jul 2009 18:40:02 -0000 Issue 6256

2009-07-29 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 29 Jul 2009 18:40:02 - Issue 6256 Topics (messages 295995 through 296014): Re: GeoIP Character Encoding 295995 by: Nisse Engström 295997 by: Nisse Engström Re: Broken IF behavior? (Changing the branch changes the evaluation) 295996 by: Peter

[PHP] How to Install Roadsend Compiler on Fedora

2009-07-29 Thread Javed Khan
Can something please show me to install Roadsend Compiler on Fedora 10. Thank you, J.K

[PHP] Re: GeoIP Character Encoding

2009-07-29 Thread Nisse Engström
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:10:33 -0400, APseudoUtopia wrote: 'Portugal, 09, Vila Real De Santo António' 'Norway, 08, Ålesund' 'Portugal, 04, Vila Nova De Famalicão' (Note the ó, Å, and ã). I'm using PostgreSQL as my database. The database's encoding is UTF8, and the locale is C. When I

Re: [PHP] Broken IF behavior? (Changing the branch changes the evaluation)

2009-07-29 Thread Peter Ford
Matt Neimeyer wrote: It's exactly what I would expect... The content of the row... But in any case, what does changing the content of the { } branch have to do with how the IF() itself is evaluated? array(4) { [0]= string(8) CustName [config]= string(8) CustName [1]=

[PHP] Re: GeoIP Character Encoding

2009-07-29 Thread Nisse Engström
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:10:33 -0400, APseudoUtopia wrote: I'm using the PECL GeoIP module on php 5.2.10. When I look up an IP address, the geoip_record_by_name() function is giving me a string that contains special characters, such as the following: The PECL GeoIP page links to

[PHP] Re: Message Board Recommendations

2009-07-29 Thread Al
tedd wrote: Hi gang: I have a client who is looking for a Message Board for Subscribers to be installed on his site -- one with a good admin. Any recommendations? Thanks, tedd If your request is for a forum type, then SMF is super http://www.simplemachines.org If the need is for a

Re: [PHP] Re: Message Board Recommendations

2009-07-29 Thread Floyd Resler
On Jul 29, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Al wrote: tedd wrote: Hi gang: I have a client who is looking for a Message Board for Subscribers to be installed on his site -- one with a good admin. Any recommendations? Thanks, tedd If your request is for a forum type, then SMF is super

Re: [PHP] Argh Date problems (RESOLVED)

2009-07-29 Thread Miller, Terion
I had a tiny syntax error keeping it from working in the form of a cap letter. On 7/28/09 3:51 PM, Miller, Terion tmil...@springfi.gannett.com wrote: On 7/28/09 3:48 PM, Bastien Koert phps...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Miller, Teriontmil...@springfi.gannett.com

Re: [PHP] How to Install Roadsend Compiler on Fedora

2009-07-29 Thread Jim Lucas
Javed Khan wrote: Can something please show me to install Roadsend Compiler on Fedora 10. Thank you, J.K Why don't you look at Roadsend for the question. http://code.roadsend.com/pcc/wiki/BuildInstructions The PHP mailing list is not a support group for Roadsend. If you need

[PHP] Ridiculous ..won't print or echo ...

2009-07-29 Thread Miller, Terion
Ok in my output to Quark I need to have $P printed to the page like this: @$p2118 S. Campbell Ave So in my php which is going to be grabbing this info and formatting it for the Quarkisn't echoing that $p all I get is the @ I have tried several things: $p = $p $p = print($p) $p = echo $p

RE: [PHP] Ridiculous ..won't print or echo ...

2009-07-29 Thread Aipok
Ok in my output to Quark I need to have $P printed to the page like this: @$p2118 S. Campbell Ave So in my php which is going to be grabbing this info and formatting it for the Quarkisn't echoing that $p all I get is the @ I have tried several things: $p = $p $p = print($p) $p = echo $p

Re: [PHP] Ridiculous ..won't print or echo ...

2009-07-29 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 11:36 -0400, Miller, Terion wrote: Ok in my output to Quark I need to have $P printed to the page like this: @$p2118 S. Campbell Ave So in my php which is going to be grabbing this info and formatting it for the Quarkisn't echoing that $p all I get is the @ I

Re: [PHP] Ridiculous ..won't print or echo ...(RESOLVED)

2009-07-29 Thread Miller, Terion
Yep just figured that out too..the escaping thing.. Thanks On 7/29/09 10:45 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 11:36 -0400, Miller, Terion wrote: Ok in my output to Quark I need to have $P printed to the page like this: @$p2118 S. Campbell Ave So

Re: [PHP] Re: Broken IF behavior? (Changing the branch changes the evaluation)

2009-07-29 Thread Matt Neimeyer
$Ret = mysql_fetch_array($result); if(!$Ret) { } else { return $Ret; } I'm assuming that you are calling my_fetch_array() in a loop of some sort and so at some point there are no more records in the result. Oh... Um... Yeah... Well... headdesk So... Checking the docs... Returns an array of

RE: [PHP] Ridiculous ..won't print or echo ...

2009-07-29 Thread Ford, Mike
-Original Message- From: Miller, Terion [mailto:tmil...@springfi.gannett.com] Sent: 29 July 2009 16:36 Ok in my output to Quark I need to have $P printed to the page like this: @$p2118 S. Campbell Ave So in my php which is going to be grabbing this info and formatting it for

RE: [PHP] Re: Broken IF behavior? (Changing the branch changes the evaluation)

2009-07-29 Thread Ford, Mike
-Original Message- From: Matt Neimeyer [mailto:m...@neimeyer.org] Sent: 29 July 2009 16:47 $Ret = mysql_fetch_array($result); if(!$Ret) { } else { return $Ret; } I'm assuming that you are calling my_fetch_array() in a loop of some sort and so at some point there are no more

Re: [PHP] Re: Broken IF behavior? (Changing the branch changes the evaluation)

2009-07-29 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Ford, Mike wrote: -Original Message- From: Matt Neimeyer [mailto:m...@neimeyer.org] Sent: 29 July 2009 16:47 $Ret = mysql_fetch_array($result); if(!$Ret) { } else { return $Ret; } I'm assuming that you are calling my_fetch_array() in a loop of some sort and so at some point there

[PHP] preg_match too greedy

2009-07-29 Thread b
I'm trying to figure out how to test if a string matches *exactly* another string, using a regexp pattern. The manual says that ereg() is deprecated (in favour of what?) and preg_match() is giving me trouble. The problem is that I'm passing the end-of-line delimiter ($) but it seems to be

Re: [PHP] Getting rid of extra lines

2009-07-29 Thread Miller, Terion
On 7/29/09 1:34 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 11:29 -0700, Miller, Terion wrote: I am trying to get rid of empty whitespace lines, I can't us chop() because as I read it it will remove all whitespacesright? Right now my db is outputting with

Re: [PHP] Getting rid of extra lines

2009-07-29 Thread Ashley Sheridan
[snip/] Have you thought of just using a regular str_replace() on your code? You can ask it to replace newlines and carriage returns with nothing and see if that fixes you problem? Thanks Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

RE: [PHP] Getting rid of extra lines

2009-07-29 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Miller, Terion /* snip */ Before anyone can tell you how to fix it, you need to find out what is causing that white space. is it empty lines, vertical tabs, thousands of spaces, ...? Once you find that out, it is pretty easy to decide how to get rid of them. Can you save the output to a

Re: [PHP] preg_match too greedy

2009-07-29 Thread Ben Dunlap
Jim Lucas wrote: I expected 'no match' but get 'match'. [8] cut/paste your code and it works for me. Works for me as well. I get 'no match' from PHP 5.1.2, 5.2.6, and 5.2.8. What version do you have? If I might suggest a couple of simplifications that would make it easier to

[PHP] Asterisk anyone?

2009-07-29 Thread Skip Evans
Hey, I've been asked to write a simple couple of public pages that would let an Asterisk customer modify their account configuration, but the client has no idea how Asterisk stores its data, apparently not in MySQL. Anyone know of any resources for accessing Asterisk from PHP? If anyone

Re: [PHP] preg_match too greedy

2009-07-29 Thread Jim Lucas
Ben Dunlap wrote: Jim Lucas wrote: I expected 'no match' but get 'match'. [8] cut/paste your code and it works for me. Works for me as well. I get 'no match' from PHP 5.1.2, 5.2.6, and 5.2.8. What version do you have? PHP 5.2.5 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Mar 11 2008

Re: [PHP] Getting rid of extra lines

2009-07-29 Thread Jim Lucas
Miller, Terion wrote: I am trying to get rid of empty whitespace lines, I can't us chop() because as I read it it will remove all whitespacesright? Right now my db is outputting with extra lines, I have stripped tags I know it isn't that causing it to look like this

Re: [PHP] Getting rid of extra lines

2009-07-29 Thread Miller, Terion
On 7/29/09 1:45 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: [snip/] Have you thought of just using a regular str_replace() on your code? You can ask it to replace newlines and carriage returns with nothing and see if that fixes you problem? Thanks Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Yep

Re: [PHP] Getting rid of extra lines

2009-07-29 Thread Miller, Terion
On 7/29/09 2:19 PM, Jim Lucas li...@cmsws.com wrote: $clean = preg_replace('|\s+|', ' ', $input); Hi Jim, The extra whitespace lines are in the data store, coming from it I'm going to try your method but is there a way to not have mySQL store it with so many lines (this is data being screen

Re: [PHP] Getting rid of extra lines

2009-07-29 Thread Jim Lucas
Miller, Terion wrote: On 7/29/09 2:19 PM, Jim Lucas li...@cmsws.com wrote: $clean = preg_replace('|\s+|', ' ', $input); Hi Jim, The extra whitespace lines are in the data store, coming from it I'm going to try your method but is there a way to not have mySQL store it with so many

Re: [PHP] Asterisk anyone?

2009-07-29 Thread Per Jessen
Skip Evans wrote: Hey, I've been asked to write a simple couple of public pages that would let an Asterisk customer modify their account configuration, but the client has no idea how Asterisk stores its data, apparently not in MySQL. Depends on which data we're talking about. Asterisk is

Re: [PHP] Getting rid of extra lines

2009-07-29 Thread Jonathan Tapicer
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Miller, Teriontmil...@springfi.gannett.com wrote: On 7/29/09 1:45 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: [snip/] Have you thought of just using a regular str_replace() on your code? You can ask it to replace newlines and carriage returns with

Re: [PHP] Getting rid of extra lines (RESOLVED)

2009-07-29 Thread Miller, Terion
On 7/29/09 3:05 PM, Jonathan Tapicer tapi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Miller, Teriontmil...@springfi.gannett.com wrote: On 7/29/09 1:45 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: [snip/] Have you thought of just using a regular str_replace() on your

Re: [PHP] Getting rid of extra lines (RESOLVED)

2009-07-29 Thread Jim Lucas
Miller, Terion wrote: On 7/29/09 3:05 PM, Jonathan Tapicer tapi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Miller, Teriontmil...@springfi.gannett.com wrote: On 7/29/09 1:45 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: [snip/] Have you thought of just using a

[PHP] Locating Bad Image Files

2009-07-29 Thread Floyd Resler
I use convert to create thumbnail images. However, we have several PDFs that convert doesn't seem to like. Even though it produced error messages it still creates the thumbnail which doesn't display an image. Is there an easy way for me to identify those bad image files somehow in PHP

Re: [PHP] Getting rid of extra lines (RESOLVED)

2009-07-29 Thread Miller, Terion
On 7/29/09 3:16 PM, Jim Lucas li...@cmsws.com wrote: Miller, Terion wrote: On 7/29/09 3:05 PM, Jonathan Tapicer tapi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Miller, Teriontmil...@springfi.gannett.com wrote: On 7/29/09 1:45 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk

[PHP] Expand Variables in String

2009-07-29 Thread Daniel Kolbo
Hello, Is it possible to force a string to expand variable names after the string has been set and before the variable's been defined without having to do a string replace or preg_replace? for example, ?php $str = some string and some \$var plus other stuff; echo $str.br /; $var = Variable

Re: [PHP] Ridiculous ..won't print or echo ...(RESOLVED)

2009-07-29 Thread Miller, Terion
Yep I forgot about escaping the $ On 7/29/09 10:51 AM, Ford, Mike m.f...@leedsmet.ac.uk wrote: -Original Message- From: Miller, Terion [mailto:tmil...@springfi.gannett.com] Sent: 29 July 2009 16:36 Ok in my output to Quark I need to have $P printed to the page like this:

[PHP] Page or URL function?

2009-07-29 Thread Miller, Terion
I've been searching php.net for a function to do this: if page_url('browse.php') { $default = A; } $letter = isset($_GET['letter'])? $_GET['letter'] :$default ; else { $letter = isset($_GET['letter'])?

Re: [PHP] Expand Variables in String

2009-07-29 Thread Jonathan Tapicer
Use eval, like this: eval('$str_expanded = ' . str_replace('', '\\', $str) . ';'); The str_replace is used because you could have a inside $str and it would break the string, if you are sure the $str has no inside you can omit it. Jonathan On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Daniel

[PHP] fileinfo returning wrong mime type for Excel files

2009-07-29 Thread Christoph Boget
Consider the following: $finfo = finfo_open( FILEINFO_MIME, '/usr/share/file/magic' ); if( $finfo ) { $mimeType = finfo_file( $finfo, '/path/to/my/excel.xls' ); finfo_close($finfo); } echo $mimeType; When I run the above, it echoes out

[PHP] Re: Page or URL function?

2009-07-29 Thread Ben Dunlap
I've been searching php.net for a function to do this: if page_url('browse.php') { The $_SERVER global array has this sort of information. The 'PHP_SELF' key might be what you want: http://us.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php But where is the code that needs to know? I'm

[PHP] Re: Page or URL function?

2009-07-29 Thread Ben Dunlap
Ben Dunlap wrote [TWICE]: The $_SERVER global array has this sort of information. The 'PHP_SELF' key [8] Ben Very sorry for the double-post. Reply-all in Thunderbird News seems a little overzealous by default. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] Asterisk anyone?

2009-07-29 Thread Skip Evans
Per Jessen wrote: Depends on which data we're talking about. Asterisk is very flexible. For example, the first screen they want people to be able to change data on is: call waiting,do not disturb and then it looks like numbers (forwarding?) unconditional,unavailable,busy I'm trying to

Re: [PHP] Expand Variables in String

2009-07-29 Thread Daniel Kolbo
Jonathan Tapicer wrote: Use eval, like this: eval('$str_expanded = ' . str_replace('', '\\', $str) . ';'); The str_replace is used because you could have a inside $str and it would break the string, if you are sure the $str has no inside you can omit it. Jonathan On Wed, Jul 29,

Re: [PHP] Expand Variables in String

2009-07-29 Thread Jonathan Tapicer
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Daniel Kolbokolb0...@umn.edu wrote: Jonathan Tapicer wrote: Use eval, like this: eval('$str_expanded = ' . str_replace('', '\\', $str) . ';'); The str_replace is used because you could have a inside $str and it would break the string, if you are sure the

[PHP] Re: preg_match too greedy

2009-07-29 Thread Clancy
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:42:23 -0400, p...@logi.ca (b) wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to test if a string matches *exactly* another string, using a regexp pattern. If this is REALLY what you want to do, what is wrong with strcmp? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] preg_match too greedy

2009-07-29 Thread Daniel Kolbo
Jim Lucas wrote: Ben Dunlap wrote: Jim Lucas wrote: I expected 'no match' but get 'match'. [8] cut/paste your code and it works for me. Works for me as well. I get 'no match' from PHP 5.1.2, 5.2.6, and 5.2.8. What version do you have? PHP 5.2.5 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built:

Re: [PHP] preg_match too greedy

2009-07-29 Thread b
On 07/29/2009 02:07 PM, Jim Lucas wrote: b wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to test if a string matches *exactly* another string, using a regexp pattern. The manual says that ereg() is deprecated (in favour of what?) and preg_match() is giving me trouble. The problem is that I'm passing the

Re: [PHP] preg_match too greedy

2009-07-29 Thread b
On 07/29/2009 03:03 PM, Ben Dunlap wrote: Jim Lucas wrote: I expected 'no match' but get 'match'. [8] cut/paste your code and it works for me. Works for me as well. I get 'no match' from PHP 5.1.2, 5.2.6, and 5.2.8. What version do you have? 5.2.9 If I might suggest a couple of

Re: [PHP] preg_match too greedy

2009-07-29 Thread b
On 07/29/2009 07:48 PM, Daniel Kolbo wrote: code works (no match) for me too on php 5.2.6 build date May 2 2008 18:01:20 with dumbdows NT. preg_match fails but for a reason other than what I think you may be expecting. It fails b/c of the first forwards slash in $url. The regex engine

Re: [PHP] fileinfo returning wrong mime type for Excel files

2009-07-29 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:15:38PM -0400, Christoph Boget wrote: Consider the following: $finfo = finfo_open( FILEINFO_MIME, '/usr/share/file/magic' ); if( $finfo ) { $mimeType = finfo_file( $finfo, '/path/to/my/excel.xls' );

Re: [PHP] preg_match too greedy

2009-07-29 Thread Daniel Kolbo
b wrote: On 07/29/2009 07:48 PM, Daniel Kolbo wrote: code works (no match) for me too on php 5.2.6 build date May 2 2008 18:01:20 with dumbdows NT. preg_match fails but for a reason other than what I think you may be expecting. It fails b/c of the first forwards slash in $url. The regex

Re: [PHP] preg_match too greedy

2009-07-29 Thread b
On 07/29/2009 11:18 PM, Daniel Kolbo wrote: b wrote: On 07/29/2009 07:48 PM, Daniel Kolbo wrote: code works (no match) for me too on php 5.2.6 build date May 2 2008 18:01:20 with dumbdows NT. preg_match fails but for a reason other than what I think you may be expecting. It fails b/c of the