php-general Digest 20 Mar 2010 10:35:42 -0000 Issue 6649

2010-03-20 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 20 Mar 2010 10:35:42 - Issue 6649 Topics (messages 303021 through 303041): Re: any reason *not* to use PEAR DB module when accessing mysql? 303021 by: Michael A. Peters 303032 by: Nilesh Govindarajan 303034 by: Michael A. Peters 303035 by:

php-general Digest 20 Mar 2010 22:57:03 -0000 Issue 6650

2010-03-20 Thread php-general-digest-help
and how to stop it. Hopefully I have given enough information. Thank you Gary __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4961 (20100320) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage

Re: [PHP] php compile / configure options

2010-03-20 Thread Simon J Welsh
On 20/03/2010, at 10:46 AM, Gregory Machin wrote: Hi I'm setting up a development environment that runs multiple versions of php. I'm looking a list of the compile option options for each php release other than ./configure --help with more detail on what each option does. Any suggestions

Re: [PHP] Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader problem

2010-03-20 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:13:54PM +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: snip It's not really just that. In the csv format, a field value of 00123 (I don't really know what zip code formats are) is perfectly valid. ZIP codes are simply five digits. The starting digit (0-9) identifies a broad

Re: [PHP] Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader problem

2010-03-20 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 06:01:38PM -0400, Jason Pruim wrote: snip But if you have a decent CASS software then it should add the zip back in hehe :) For the sake of those in Europe and elsewhere, CASS software is software certified by the US Postal Service which cleans up addresses to conform

Re: [PHP] any reason *not* to use PEAR DB module when accessing mysql?

2010-03-20 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 02:01:03PM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: snip I use MDB2. I hear PDO hyped a lot, what does it really give me that MDB2 does not, other than making the application dependent upon a binary module? Maybe nothing. But PDO is built-in and MDB2 isn't. Paul -- Paul M.

Re: [PHP] where to make observations about current PHP manual?

2010-03-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Daniel Brown wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 16:59, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  i don't see a separate mailing list for documentation so is this where i would point at oddities in the manual?  as in, here:

Re: [PHP] Re: where to make observations about current PHP manual?

2010-03-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Daniel Brown wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 20:57, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  i'm not sure that addresses my post -- it doesn't make grammatical sense to state that something is unavailable since something that is yet to be officially released.

[PHP] PHP SMTP Mailers

2010-03-20 Thread King Coffee
Hi, I'm executing a third-parity standard PHP application on a Windows IIS 7 shared hosting server. I need to convert, or use, a SMTP mailer service. I found two SMTP PHP scripts - I think may work. The sourceforge.net PHPMailer project and the pear.php.net (Mail, Net_SMTP) project.

[PHP] no svn checkout of the current PHP development repo?

2010-03-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
just for fun, i figured i'd check out the current PHP development stream. however, if you read the web page here: http://php.net/svn.php there's no mention of the trunk, simply references to branches such as 5.2 and 5.3. i popped over to: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/ and,

Re: [PHP] PHP SMTP Mailers

2010-03-20 Thread Jan G.B.
2010/3/20 King Coffee kcof...@hotmail.com Hi, I'm executing a third-parity standard PHP application on a Windows IIS 7 shared hosting server. I need to convert, or use, a SMTP mailer service. I found two SMTP PHP scripts - I think may work. The sourceforge.net PHPMailer project and the

Re: [PHP] no svn checkout of the current PHP development repo?

2010-03-20 Thread Daniel P. Brown
This starts to get out of the scope of the General list. If you think it's a bug, report it. Did you check out the latest snap? It's an hourly build from the SVN repo. (If this top-posts, my apologies. I'm sitting in the living room with my little girl, typing from my DROID.) On Mar 20, 2010

Re: [PHP] no svn checkout of the current PHP development repo?

2010-03-20 Thread Peter Lind
You should probably have a look at the internals list - there's a lot of discussion going on as to what should happen in terms of SVN structure. Regards Peter On 20 March 2010 12:32, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  just for fun, i figured i'd check out the current PHP

Re: [PHP] no svn checkout of the current PHP development repo?

2010-03-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Peter Lind wrote: You should probably have a look at the internals list - there's a lot of discussion going on as to what should happen in terms of SVN structure. ok, i might do that. as daniel suggested, that issue is noticeably outside the scope of this general list.

Re: [PHP] no svn checkout of the current PHP development repo?

2010-03-20 Thread Daniel Brown
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 09:03, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  ok, i might do that.  as daniel suggested, that issue is noticeably outside the scope of this general list. Just be prepared for what you'll encounter on Internals. I was deliberately not suggesting that list at

[PHP] How do I upgrade GD?

2010-03-20 Thread PmI
Hi, how do I upgrade GD? PHP still comes bundled with the three year old version 2.0.34, even though there have been lots of bugfixes in 2.0.35 and 2.0.36 (most importantly, 2.0.36 now actually supports unicode text, rather than any unicode text as long as it's only UCS-2, which means any

Re: [PHP] How do I upgrade GD?

2010-03-20 Thread Per Jessen
PmI wrote: Hi, how do I upgrade GD? PHP still comes bundled with the three year old version 2.0.34, even though there have been lots of bugfixes in 2.0.35 and 2.0.36 (most importantly, 2.0.36 now actually supports unicode text, rather than any unicode text as long as it's only UCS-2, which

[PHP] blog design issue...

2010-03-20 Thread Jason Pruim
I know you are all probably thinking What does this have to do with PHP? and in reality... It's probably stretching it a little bit... BUT I am in the process of writing a blog software (Yes I'm aware of all the open source, and paid stuff out there... I'm doing this to learn :)) I am

Re: [PHP] blog design issue...

2010-03-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 11:40 -0400, Jason Pruim wrote: I know you are all probably thinking What does this have to do with PHP? and in reality... It's probably stretching it a little bit... BUT I am in the process of writing a blog software (Yes I'm aware of all the open source, and paid

Re: [PHP] blog design issue...

2010-03-20 Thread Richard
Hi, I know you are all probably thinking What does this have to do with PHP? and in reality... It's probably stretching it a little bit... BUT I am in the process of writing a blog software (Yes I'm aware of all the open source, and paid stuff out there... I'm doing this to learn :)) I am

Re: [PHP] blog design issue...

2010-03-20 Thread Robert Cummings
Jason Pruim wrote: I know you are all probably thinking What does this have to do with PHP? and in reality... It's probably stretching it a little bit... BUT I am in the process of writing a blog software (Yes I'm aware of all the open source, and paid stuff out there... I'm doing this to

Re: [PHP] blog design issue...

2010-03-20 Thread Richard
Hi, eg.42=6. Oops, that should be 4|2 = 6. -- Richard Heyes HTML5 canvas graphing: RGraph - http://www.rgraph.net (updated 13th March) Lots of PHP and Javascript code - http://www.phpguru.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] blog design issue...

2010-03-20 Thread tedd
At 11:40 AM -0400 3/20/10, Jason Pruim wrote: I know you are all probably thinking What does this have to do with PHP? and in reality... It's probably stretching it a little bit... BUT I am in the process of writing a blog software (Yes I'm aware of all the open source, and paid stuff out

Re: [PHP] blog design issue...

2010-03-20 Thread Dan McCullough
Table is the way to go for all the reasons that Rob mentioned. This is going to be a small blog to start, but I guess I should always be looking at performance, security, maintainability right? Good way to start is start small and build a strong base around a good database, good

[PHP] Session Variable Problem

2010-03-20 Thread Gary
as to why they keep getting dropped and how to stop it. Hopefully I have given enough information. Thank you Gary __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4961 (20100320) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http

Re: [PHP] blog design issue...

2010-03-20 Thread Rene Veerman
i'd go with tags over categories, because you can add multiple tags to a single blog post. table posts: postID integer ... table post_tags: postID integer tagID integer tagPercentageApplies float /* optional, not the industry standard */ table tags: tagID integer tagName varchar On Sat, Mar

Re: [PHP] Session Variable Problem

2010-03-20 Thread Adam Richardson
at http://www.paulgdesigns.com/one2one/lend_bor_input.php Im confused as to why they keep getting dropped and how to stop it. Hopefully I have given enough information. Thank you Gary __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4961 (20100320

Re: [PHP] Session Variable Problem

2010-03-20 Thread Gary
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Re: [PHP] Session Variable Problem

2010-03-20 Thread Adam Richardson
they keep getting dropped and how to stop it. Hopefully I have given enough information. Thank you Gary __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4961 (20100320) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http

[PHP] Pulling my hair out over an include_once();

2010-03-20 Thread Watson Blair
Hey all, i'm sure i'm missing something glaringly obvious, but i have yet to find a solution to this online... so heres the line of code that i'm getting hung up on: ?php include_once(http://www.jennysjunket.com/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc;);? which gives me this: *Warning*: include()

[PHP] Re: Pulling my hair out over an include_once();

2010-03-20 Thread Watson Blair
ah, i forgot to properly phrase my question... what am i doing wrong, and how do i make it work? slash, could you guys/girls point me towards a tutorial that will give me a hand? Thanks again, Watson On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Watson Blair bestudios...@gmail.comwrote: Hey all, i'm sure

Re: [PHP] Re: Pulling my hair out over an include_once();

2010-03-20 Thread Stan Vassilev
Hi, As the error says, this is a problem with the server configuration. In your php.ini file, allow_url_include should be enabled. As an alternative, if you have allow_url_include off, but allow_url_fopen on, you can file_get_contents() that URL and eval() it. Keep in mind you need

Re: [PHP] Re: Pulling my hair out over an include_once();

2010-03-20 Thread Adam Richardson
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Watson Blair bestudios...@gmail.comwrote: ah, i forgot to properly phrase my question... what am i doing wrong, and how do i make it work? slash, could you guys/girls point me towards a tutorial that will give me a hand? Thanks again, Watson On Sun, Mar 21,