[PHP] Correct file permissions for a website

Dear All, The book PHP and MySQL bible says that the php directory should be world executable ? I remember posting a different question earlier to this list and one person suggesting this and another person replying that that was incorrect. Could someone clear the smoke on this one ? Many thank

Re: [PHP] Correct file permissions for a website

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 08:35, Ashim Kapoor wrote: > Dear All, > > The book PHP and MySQL bible says that the php directory should be world > executable ? I remember posting a different question earlier to this list > and one person suggesting this and another person replying that that was > inc

Re: [PHP] 2 submit buttons.

On Feb 14, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 05:15:11PM -0500, Floyd Resler wrote: > >> >> On Feb 14, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Paul M Foster wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:35:02PM -0400, Paul Halliday wrote: >>> I have 2 buttons on a page: if

Re: [PHP] 2 submit buttons.

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 08:07 -0500, Floyd Resler wrote: > On Feb 14, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Paul M Foster wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 05:15:11PM -0500, Floyd Resler wrote: > > > >> > >> On Feb 14, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Paul M Foster wrote: > >> > >>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:35:02PM -0400, Pau

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 20:26, Brian Waters wrote: > Hi everyone! I'm just starting out with PHP so I'm looking for a good > place to ask some questions, have my code critiqued (read: visciously > ripped apart), and generally BS about PHP and programming in general > (if that's OK). I know that PH

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

At 8:26 PM -0500 2/14/11, Brian Waters wrote: Hi everyone! I'm just starting out with PHP so I'm looking for a good place to ask some questions, have my code critiqued (read: visciously ripped apart), and generally BS about PHP and programming in general (if that's OK). I know that PHP sometimes

[PHP] Re:[PHP] code quest

Frankly, while that modulo looks like something worthy of learning, for my immediate time critical need I went with a quicker method, which is working. The complete script is below. It simply counts cells and resets the row when a number is exceeded. # The next several lines declare an array of

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

Welcome to the list, Brian. I'm fairly new to PHP and the list myself, and I've found it to be a great resource. Another is stackoverflow.com, especially for "How do I do X?" type questions. I often find someone else has already provided an answer. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:51 AM, tedd wrote: >

[PHP] Howdy (new in here)

Back to the list for Kirk ;-P -- Forwarded message -- From: Kirk Bailey Date: Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:09 Subject: Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here) To: Daniel Brown On 2/15/2011 10:03 AM, Daniel Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 20:26, Brian Waters  wrote: >> >> Hi

Re: [PHP] using BOTH GET and POST in the same page.

At 4:32 PM -0500 2/14/11, Paul M Foster wrote: Understood. It sounded like you were saying you could only get back POST or GET values from a page, which isn't true. The form itself, yes, can only have one or the other method attribute. What it sounded like was: What others have not addressed

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

On Feb 15, 2011, at 10:51 AM, tedd wrote: > At 8:26 PM -0500 2/14/11, Brian Waters wrote: >> Hi everyone! I'm just starting out with PHP so I'm looking for a good >> place to ask some questions, have my code critiqued (read: visciously >> ripped apart), and generally BS about PHP and programming

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

Welcome to the list, Brian. I'm fairly new to PHP and the list myself, and I've found it to be a great resource. Another is stackoverflow.com, especially for "How do I do X?" type questions. I often find someone else has already provided an answer. On Tue, Feb 15, 20

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

At 11:37 AM -0600 2/15/11, Nicholas Kell wrote: On Feb 15, 2011, at 10:51 AM, tedd wrote: > At 8:26 PM -0500 2/14/11, Brian Waters wrote: >> (if that's OK). I know that PHP sometimes has a reputation for having >> (some) lousy developers, and I'd like to avoid becoming one of those > > We do

[PHP] Mysql 5.5 and PHP Mysql API Version 5.1.41

Hey there, I've just migrated to Mysql 5.5 from source and it works like a charm. Still every now and then (in intervals of approximatly an hour) I get the following error: Error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000] [2013] Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

On Feb 15, 2011, at 11:52 AM, tedd wrote: > At 11:37 AM -0600 2/15/11, Nicholas Kell wrote: >> On Feb 15, 2011, at 10:51 AM, tedd wrote: >> > At 8:26 PM -0500 2/14/11, Brian Waters wrote: >> >> (if that's OK). I know that PHP sometimes has a reputation for having >> >> (some) lousy developers, an

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:52 PM, tedd wrote: > At 11:37 AM -0600 2/15/11, Nicholas Kell wrote: >> >> On Feb 15, 2011, at 10:51 AM, tedd wrote: >> > At 8:26 PM -0500 2/14/11, Brian Waters wrote: >> >> (if that's OK). I know that PHP sometimes has a reputation for having >> >> (some) lousy devel

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

I would say all languages have their 'lousy developers', however, since very few schools focus on teaching the 'proper coding style' for PHP it leads to people learning from a variety of resources available online, and this leads to them receiving mixed messages from the tutorials and allowing peop

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

On Feb 15, 2011, at 1:20 PM, Mujtaba Arshad wrote: > I would say all languages have their 'lousy developers', however, since very > few schools focus on teaching the 'proper coding style' for PHP it leads to > people learning from a variety of resources available online, and this leads > to them

[PHP] Displaying Results

Dear List - I have a form. In one field, the customer types the name of a product. The first seven(7) results of the MySQL query that the entry generates should be displayed as a clickable drop down list. How do I do it? Thanks. Ethan MySQL 5.1 PHP 5.3.3-6 Linux [Debian (sid)] --

Re: [PHP] Displaying Results

On 15 February 2011 20:28, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear List - > >  I have a form.  In one field, the customer types the name of a product. >  The first seven(7) results of the MySQL query that the entry generates > should be displayed as a clickable drop down list. > > How do I do it? Ask googl

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

At 2:03 PM -0500 2/15/11, Brian Waters wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:52 PM, tedd wrote: > I guess that we run in different worlds. Most of the PHP programmers I know are very good. I didn't mean to suggest anything. Nor do I necessarily subscribe to the idea (that PHP has some lousy de

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

At 12:52 PM -0600 2/15/11, Nicholas Kell wrote: On Feb 15, 2011, at 11:52 AM, tedd wrote: > I guess that we run in different worlds. Most of the PHP programmers I know are very good. I have to agree with you, tedd. Most of the PHP devs that I know are also quite good. But, the fact that b

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

At 2:20 PM -0500 2/15/11, Mujtaba Arshad wrote: I would say all languages have their 'lousy developers', however, since very few schools focus on teaching the 'proper coding style' for PHP it leads to people learning from a variety of resources available online, and this leads to them receiving m

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:37 PM, tedd wrote: > So, I took a *weekend* and programmed about 90 percent of application in > FutureBasic. I then created a shell application and forwarded it to the > client. > > After receiving the application, the client said "Yes, this is exactly what > I want -- ex

[PHP] Finding split points in an article for inserting ads

Hey all - I've got long articles, the HTML for which comes out of MySQL. Works great. I want to split it up so that I can insert ad blocks at various points within it. The articles are all pretty long but they're of variable length. I want to chop them up into three close-to-equal (doesn't have

[PHP] Re: PHP -- using without installing

Hello Steve Staples, Am 2011-02-14 12:32:51, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Is there such a thing? or will I have to have a pre-req of "php and > php-cgi must be installed on linux" disclaimer? If you are a OVER-GEEK, youc can compile the "php" and "php-cli" 100% static, which I have done

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 15:54 -0500, tedd wrote: > At 2:20 PM -0500 2/15/11, Mujtaba Arshad wrote: > >I would say all languages have their 'lousy developers', however, since very > >few schools focus on teaching the 'proper coding style' for PHP it leads to > >people learning from a variety of resour

Re: [PHP] Finding split points in an article for inserting ads

On 16/02/2011, at 10:03 AM, Brian Dunning wrote: > Hey all - > > I've got long articles, the HTML for which comes out of MySQL. Works great. I > want to split it up so that I can insert ad blocks at various points within > it. The articles are all pretty long but they're of variable length. I w

Re: [PHP] Finding split points in an article for inserting ads

On 11-02-15 04:03 PM, Brian Dunning wrote: Hey all - I've got long articles, the HTML for which comes out of MySQL. Works great. I want to split it up so that I can insert ad blocks at various points within it. The articles are all pretty long but they're of variable length. I want to chop th

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

On 11-02-15 04:08 PM, Steve Staples wrote: Tedd: Your bracing style is WRONG. Whitesmiths Style sucks... and Allman Style is the best way to do it. :) My personal bracing style is the Allman Style... I've been doing it that way forever, it just made sense to me (even before I knew there was

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Steve Staples wrote: > My personal bracing style is the Allman Style. > I use K&R. I started with it just as shown but as monitors increased in size I stopped cuddling the else so it's now on its own line, aligning the if, elseif, and else nicely. One of the deve

Re: [PHP] Rate my (really) simple template class

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Paul M Foster wrote: > Advice: don't use eval() this way. It's slow and dangerous. Could you elaborate, or provide a link? > ...read in the file and pass it to you on the stack, which is > really an abuse of the stack if you can avoid it. Interesting. I'm used

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

@tedd I was interested about the reasons why people perceive php as a poor language. I came across the following stackoverflow thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/309300/defend-php-convince-me-it-isnt-horrible The guy answering him immediately after brought up some very good rebuttals, how

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

On 11-02-15 04:59 PM, Brian Waters wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: I started with K&R and quickly migrated to Allman style. The advantage I see with Allman is that the braces form a visual pocket into which the associated code gets placed :) What about K&R for

Re: [PHP] Jquery

I see firebug-lite-debug.js but not jquery.js. Does firebug include jquery? David

RE: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

[snip] Allman Style is the best way to do it. [/snip] Only if you're playing guitar Junior. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

[snip] This is what I show my students: http://rebel.lcc.edu/sperlt/citw229/brace-styles.php Cheers, tedd I didn't know there were names for bracing styles... but I used the K&R Style on my last project, which I would call the Larry Ullman style since that is where I took it from. Howev

Re: [PHP] Finding split points in an article for inserting ads

Yes, thanks, what I'm looking for is how to do that. On Feb 15, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Simon J Welsh wrote: > Assuming you're only using tags, count the number of opening tags, > divide by three. First ad block goes after the round($amount/3)-th , > second ad block goes after the round($amount/3*2

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

Hello David, As for me, I use K&R style, also. I find it the most readable, accessible and maintainable. -- With best regards from Ukraine, Andre Skype: Francophile My blog: http://oire.org/menelion (mostly in Russian) Twitter: http://twitter.com/m_elensule Facebook: http://facebook.com/

Re: [PHP] Custom function

Hello Ron, Give it a default (possible empty) value: function MyFunction($x, $y, $z="") { // function goes here if (!empty($z)) { // The optional parameter is given } } -- With best regards from Ukraine, Andre Skype: Francophile My blog: http://oire.org/menelion (mostly in Russian) Twitter: htt

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

On 15 February 2011 20:42, tedd wrote: > At 12:52 PM -0600 2/15/11, Nicholas Kell wrote: >> >> On Feb 15, 2011, at 11:52 AM, tedd wrote: >> >>  > I guess that we run in different worlds. Most of the PHP programmers I >> know are very good. >>> >> >> I have to agree with you, tedd. Most of the PHP

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

On 15 February 2011 21:08, Steve Staples wrote: > Your bracing style is WRONG.  Whitesmiths Style sucks... and Allman > Style is the best way to do it. It's not Friday. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY -- PHP General Mailing List (htt

Re: [PHP] Finding split points in an article for inserting ads

Brian Dunning wrote: > Yes, thanks, what I'm looking for is how to do that. > > On Feb 15, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Simon J Welsh wrote: > >> Assuming you're only using tags, count the number of opening >> tags, divide by three. First ad block goes after the round($amount/3)-th >> , second ad block g

Re: [PHP] Custom function

Hi. On Tuesday 15 Feb 2011 at 23:41 Andre Polykanine wrote: > Give it a default (possible empty) value: > > function MyFunction($x, $y, $z="") { > // function goes here > if (!empty($z)) { > // The optional parameter is given > } > } Using an empty string and the empty() function in this way can

Re: [PHP] Custom function

On 16 February 2011 00:21, Mark Kelly wrote: > Hi. > > On Tuesday 15 Feb 2011 at 23:41 Andre Polykanine wrote: > >> Give it a default (possible empty) value: >> >> function MyFunction($x, $y, $z="") { >> // function goes here >> if (!empty($z)) { >> // The optional parameter is given >> } >> } > >

Re: [PHP] Custom function

Hello Mark, Hm... will if ($z) evaluate to true if $z==0? I thought no... Actually, we can use if (isset($z)) -- With best regards from Ukraine, Andre Skype: Francophile My blog: http://oire.org/menelion (mostly in Russian) Twitter: http://twitter.com/m_elensule Facebook: http://facebook.com

Re: [PHP] Custom function

On 16/02/2011, at 1:21 PM, Mark Kelly wrote: > In this way almost any value in $z will trigger the conditional code, > including 0 or an empty string. The exceptions are FALSE and NULL. If you > explicitly need to react to a NULL value, use is_null() to detect it. http://nz.php.net/boolean#lan

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:00 PM, David Harkness wrote: > I use K&R. I started with it just as shown but as monitors increased in size > I stopped cuddling the else so it's now on its own line, aligning the if, > elseif, and else nicely. One of the developers at my company uses the > truly abominab

[PHP] Re: PHP arguments getting lost in call!?

Hi. > I had no idea you were using Xdebug. When you said Zend Studio i assumed > you were using the standard Zend debugger. My bad. > > Been trying to get Xdebug working in combination with Zend Studio 8. The > two seem to talk to each other. But Zend Studio doesn't display any > data, no breakpoi

Re: [PHP] Rate my (really) simple template class

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 05:02:51PM -0500, Brian Waters wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Paul M Foster > wrote: > > Advice: don't use eval() this way. It's slow and dangerous. > > Could you elaborate, or provide a link? A year or two on this list. The comments in the php.net article on

Re: [PHP] Rate my (really) simple template class

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Brian Waters wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Paul M Foster > wrote: > > Advice: don't use eval() this way. It's slow and dangerous. > > Could you elaborate, or provide a link? > Hi Brian, Here's a dated but still relevant reference: http://blog.joshua

Re: [PHP] Rate my (really) simple template class

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Brian Waters wrote: > So I decided to write a template class in order to get myself going on > learning PHP. Of course I wrote the simplest thing possible: > > class Template > { >        protected $template; >        protected $vars; > >        public function __c

Re: [PHP] Finding split points in an article for inserting ads

On Feb 15, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Brian Dunning wrote: Yes, thanks, what I'm looking for is how to do that. On Feb 15, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Simon J Welsh wrote: Assuming you're only using tags, count the number of opening tags, divide by three. First ad block goes after the round($amount/3)-th

Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)

On Feb 15, 2011, at 4:17 PM, Donovan Brooke wrote: [snip] This is what I show my students: http://rebel.lcc.edu/sperlt/citw229/brace-styles.php Cheers, tedd I didn't know there were names for bracing styles... but Neither did I -- just the K&R style was the only name I recognized. (I