Re: [PHP] appreciation

2012-10-12 Thread Lester Caine
David McGlone wrote: I feel good about this and what's even better, I killed 2 birds with 1 stone.. LOL Anyway, I just wanted to let everyone know I appreciated all the feedback.:-) One thing to remember David is there are normally 10 ways of doing something in PHP and the best one is always

Re: [PHP] appreciation

2012-10-12 Thread Maciek Sokolewicz
On 12-10-2012 06:10, tamouse mailing lists wrote: if ( ! is_dir($dirBase."/".$get_the_album) // this is not a directory || ! strpos($get_the_album, '.') // directory name does not contain a period || ! strpos($get_the_album, '\') // directory name does not contai

Re: [PHP] appreciation

2012-10-12 Thread David McGlone
On Thursday, October 11, 2012 11:10:46 PM tamouse mailing lists wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:02 PM, David McGlone wrote: > > Dear everybody :-) > > > > I wanted to thank everyone for helping me out on the stuff that I had been > > trying to do in the last couple weeks. I know I was unorgani

[PHP] Re: appreciation

2012-10-12 Thread Tim Streater
On 12 Oct 2012 at 12:36, Maciek Sokolewicz wrote: > However, this is likely not what the OP wants. What he likely does want > is to check if the filename is not '.' or > '..'. Of course, there are numerous ways to do this. From very simple > things like: > if ( $filename != '.' && $filename != '

[PHP] Re: Reaching the PHP mailing list owners

2012-10-12 Thread Helmut Tessarek
Well, this is useful. First I get a a message that the owner of the list is available at internals-ow...@lists.php.net and then I get another automated reply. On 12.10.12 13:48 , PHP Lists Owner wrote: > This is an automated response to your message to > "internals-ow...@lists.php.net" > > If y

Re: [PHP] Re: Reaching the PHP mailing list owners

2012-10-12 Thread Daniel Brown
What is it you're trying to achieve with the below, Helmut? On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Helmut Tessarek wrote: > Well, this is useful. > > First I get a a message that the owner of the list is available at > internals-ow...@lists.php.net and then I get another automated reply. > > On 12

Re: [PHP] Re: Reaching the PHP mailing list owners

2012-10-12 Thread Helmut Tessarek
Hello Daniel, I wanted to get an answer to my question (which you would have seen, if you actually had read the mail). I got a mail that messages bounced from my mail server. So I sent a reply to the list owner to get an explanation how this is possible, since my mail server only rejects mails wh

Re: [PHP] Re: Reaching the PHP mailing list owners

2012-10-12 Thread Daniel Brown
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Helmut Tessarek wrote: > Hello Daniel, > > I wanted to get an answer to my question (which you would have seen, if you > actually had read the mail). I briefly glanced, and no more, because anyone with any idea of Internet etiquette knows not to forward an ent

Re: [PHP] Re: Reaching the PHP mailing list owners

2012-10-12 Thread Matijn Woudt
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Helmut Tessarek wrote: >> Hello Daniel, >> >> I wanted to get an answer to my question (which you would have seen, if you >> actually had read the mail). > > I briefly glanced, and no more, because anyone

Re: [PHP] Re: Reaching the PHP mailing list owners

2012-10-12 Thread Helmut Tessarek
Hello Daniel, > I briefly glanced, and no more, because anyone with any idea of > Internet etiquette knows not to forward an entire bunch of junk to a > public and wholly-unrelated mailing list. Had you considered the > appropriate options, such as reading about how to contact us, you'd > hav

Re: [PHP] Re: Reaching the PHP mailing list owners

2012-10-12 Thread Helmut Tessarek
Hi Daniel, Do you see what I mean by condescending? On 12.10.12 14:45 , Matijn Woudt wrote: > Did you really need to use that many words? The answer is pretty > simple, he's using a crappy mail server.. > -- regards Helmut K. C. Tessarek lookup http://sks.pkqs.net for KeyID 0xC11F128D /* T

Re: [PHP] Beneficial site spamming framework

2012-10-12 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 01:59 +0200, Maciek Sokolewicz wrote: > On 11-10-2012 22:18, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > >>> I've been getting spam comments on my personal blog (runs on > >>> self-written PHP blog software). I'd like to test some methods I've > >>> devised to prevent or block it. Does anyone k

Re: [PHP] Beneficial site spamming framework

2012-10-12 Thread Maciek Sokolewicz
On 13-10-2012 01:55, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 01:59 +0200, Maciek Sokolewicz wrote: On 11-10-2012 22:18, Ashley Sheridan wrote: I've been getting spam comments on my personal blog (runs on self-written PHP blog software). I'd like to test some methods I've devised to preven