Re: [PHP] String eval assistance

2011-03-16 Thread Alex
I'm not sure as to why strpos does what it does here, at least its not immediately obvious, but, a solution to this would be to use a regular expression search, it would be more exact, it has never failed me, and it will be faster; I recall reading that preg functions were faster at then str one

Re: [PHP] String eval assistance

2011-03-16 Thread Richard Quadling
On 16 March 2011 00:25, Jack wrote: >>     Here you're trying to access it as an array, which it's not, so the > 'response' >> key doesn't exist.  In addition, you're looking for UPPER-CASE, whereas > that's >> not the case in your example variable. >> Finally, you're checking to make sure that th

RE: [PHP] String eval assistance

2011-03-15 Thread Jack
> Here you're trying to access it as an array, which it's not, so the 'response' > key doesn't exist. In addition, you're looking for UPPER-CASE, whereas that's > not the case in your example variable. > Finally, you're checking to make sure that the string IS INDEED found, but > then printing

Re: [PHP] String eval assistance

2011-03-15 Thread Simon J Welsh
On 16/03/2011, at 10:34 AM, Jack wrote: > Hello All, > > > > I got some help on this yesterday, but somehow it's not consistant > > > > > > > $results = "3434approd34"; > > > > if(strpos($results['response'], 'APPROVED') !== false) { > > > > print "declined"; > > > > } else {

Re: [PHP] String eval assistance

2011-03-15 Thread Daniel Brown
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 17:34, Jack wrote: > Hello All, > > > > I got some help on this yesterday, but somehow it's not consistant > > > > $results = "3434approd34"; Here you're defining the variable as a string. > if(strpos($results['response'], 'APPROVED') !== false) { Here you're tr

Re: [PHP] String length output in php-generated response

2011-02-07 Thread Richard Quadling
On 6 February 2011 15:57, Florin Jurcovici wrote: >  said it, Bush junior proved it Is this actually part of the output? -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://

RE: [PHP] String length output in php-generated response

2011-02-07 Thread Ford, Mike
> -Original Message- > From: Florin Jurcovici [mailto:florin.jurcov...@gmail.com] > Sent: 06 February 2011 15:57 > I'm trying to build myself a small JSON-RPC server using PHP. > > Using wireshark, here's the conversation: > > Request: [...snip...] > Response: > HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Re: [PHP] String Encodings - loose guidelines

2011-01-28 Thread Donovan Brooke
Marc Guay wrote: 1.) Saving strings to a database One thing I always forget to remember is to send tge "SET NAMES utf8" command to MySQL after making a connection. This will save you 1000 headaches if you're working with non-latin characters. I can't count the number of times I've thrown html

Re: [PHP] String Encodings - loose guidelines

2011-01-25 Thread Marc Guay
> 1.) Saving strings to a database One thing I always forget to remember is to send tge "SET NAMES utf8" command to MySQL after making a connection. This will save you 1000 headaches if you're working with non-latin characters. I can't count the number of times I've thrown htmlentities, htmlspec

Re: [PHP] String passed to object constructor turning into aninstance of that object?

2010-12-17 Thread Kris Deugau
Nathan Nobbe wrote: 2. try modifying Tag & SelectBoxOption to have __construct() instead of Tag() & SelectBoxOption(), then call parent::__construct() from inside of SelectBoxOption::__construct(); see if that clears up your problem under 5.2 (read: this will only be a partial solution as it on

Re: [PHP] String passed to object constructor turning into aninstance of that object?

2010-12-17 Thread Kris Deugau
David Harkness wrote: I've never used the old-style constructors, but perhaps the semantics of "parent::" changed and you need to instead use "$this->" as in $this->Tag("option", $name); That's a total guess. I don't have 5.2 handy to try it out, but both work in 5.3 using a simple example.

Re: [PHP] String passed to object constructor turning into aninstance of that object?

2010-12-16 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Kris Deugau wrote: > Nathan Nobbe wrote: > >> Why not test for the type of $name at each point of interest in the >> SelectBoxOption >> constructor? If you're passing a string value to the constructor it >> almost >> has to be getting changed by the Tag construct

Re: [PHP] String passed to object constructor turning into an instance of that object?

2010-12-16 Thread David Harkness
I've never used the old-style constructors, but perhaps the semantics of "parent::" changed and you need to instead use "$this->" as in $this->Tag("option", $name); That's a total guess. I don't have 5.2 handy to try it out, but both work in 5.3 using a simple example. Can you post the constr

Re: [PHP] String passed to object constructor turning into an instance of that object?

2010-12-16 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Kris Deugau wrote: > Nathan Nobbe wrote: > >> probly something screwy going on w/ the old style of naming constructors. >> 2 >> things, >> >> 1. can you post the Tag constructor as it reads now? >> > > function Tag($tag='', $tagContent='') { > $this->tagContent

Re: [PHP] String passed to object constructor turning into an instance of that object?

2010-12-16 Thread Kris Deugau
Nathan Nobbe wrote: probly something screwy going on w/ the old style of naming constructors. 2 things, 1. can you post the Tag constructor as it reads now? function Tag($tag='', $tagContent='') { $this->tagContent = $tagContent; $this->tag = $tag; $this->showEndTag = false; $this->a

Re: [PHP] String passed to object constructor turning into aninstance of that object?

2010-12-16 Thread David Harkness
It's acting as if Tag's constructor a) declares $name as a reference using &$name, and b) is assigning itself ($this) to $name for some (probably bad) reason. That's the only way I can see that $name inside SelectBoxOption's constructor could change from a string to an object. A peek at Tag's cons

Re: [PHP] String passed to object constructor turning into aninstance of that object?

2010-12-16 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Kris Deugau wrote: > Nathan Nobbe wrote: > >> Why not test for the type of $name at each point of interest in the >> SelectBoxOption >> constructor? If you're passing a string value to the constructor it >> almost >> has to be getting changed by the Tag construct

Re: [PHP] String passed to object constructor turning into aninstance of that object?

2010-12-16 Thread Kris Deugau
Nathan Nobbe wrote: Why not test for the type of $name at each point of interest in the SelectBoxOption constructor? If you're passing a string value to the constructor it almost has to be getting changed by the Tag constructor, right ? class SelectBoxOption extends Tag { function SelectBo

Re: [PHP] String passed to object constructor turning into an instance of that object?

2010-12-16 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Kris Deugau wrote: > Tommy Pham wrote: > >> class SelectBoxOption extends Tag { >>> function SelectBoxOption($name, $value, $selected=false) { >>> parent::Tag("option", $name); >>> $this->addAttribute("value", $value); >>> if($selected) { >

Re: [PHP] String passed to object constructor turning into an instance of that object?

2010-12-16 Thread Kris Deugau
Tommy Pham wrote: class SelectBoxOption extends Tag { function SelectBoxOption($name, $value, $selected=false) { parent::Tag("option", $name); $this->addAttribute("value", $value); if($selected) { $this->addAttribute("selected", '', false); } if ($name

RE: [PHP] String passed to object constructor turning into an instance of that object?

2010-12-16 Thread Tommy Pham
> -Original Message- > From: Kris Deugau [mailto:kdeu...@vianet.ca] > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:57 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] String passed to object constructor turning into an instance of > that object? > > I'm in the process of migrating customer webs

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-14 Thread Robert Cummings
tedd wrote: At 9:29 PM -0400 6/13/10, Robert Cummings wrote: $parsed['pathbits'] = explode( '/', ltrim( dirname( $parsed['path'] ), '/' ) ); return $parsed; } $url = my_parse_url( 'http://foo.fee.com/blah/bleh/bluh/meh.php' ); print_r( $url ); ?> Cheers, Rob. Rob: Very neat. It

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-14 Thread tedd
At 9:29 PM -0400 6/13/10, Robert Cummings wrote: $parsed['pathbits'] = explode( '/', ltrim( dirname( $parsed['path'] ), '/' ) ); return $parsed; } $url = my_parse_url( 'http://foo.fee.com/blah/bleh/bluh/meh.php' ); print_r( $url ); ?> Cheers, Rob. Rob: Very neat. It also handle

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-13 Thread Adam Richardson
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: > Rick Dwyer wrote: > >> Hello List. >> >> I need to parse the PATH portion of URL. I have assigned the path >> portion to a variable using the following: >> >> $thepath = parse_url($url); >> >> >> Now I need to break each portion of the pa

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-13 Thread Robert Cummings
Rick Dwyer wrote: Hello List. I need to parse the PATH portion of URL. I have assigned the path portion to a variable using the following: $thepath = parse_url($url); Now I need to break each portion of the path down into its own variable. The problem is, the path can vary considerably

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-13 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 18:52 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: > OK, sorry for any confusion. > > Here is all my code: > > $url = "http" . ((!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) ? "s" : "") . "://". > $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; > $thepath = parse_url($url); > > So, given that the URL can var

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-13 Thread Rick Dwyer
OK, sorry for any confusion. Here is all my code: $url = "http" . ((!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) ? "s" : "") . "://". $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; $thepath = parse_url($url); So, given that the URL can vary as follows: /mydirectory/mysubdirectory/anothersubdirectory/mypage.

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-13 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Jun 13, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 17:35 -0500, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: On Jun 13, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 17:27 -0500, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: > >> On Jun 13, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: >> >>> On S

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-13 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 18:35 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: > OK, I get the following error: > > Warning: basename() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in > > When I use the following: > > $thepath = parse_url($url); > $filename = basename($thepath); > > Is my variable thepath not auto

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-13 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Jun 13, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Rick Dwyer wrote: OK, I get the following error: Warning: basename() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in When I use the following: $thepath = parse_url($url); $filename = basename($thepath); Is my variable thepath not automatically string?

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-13 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 17:35 -0500, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: > On Jun 13, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > > On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 17:27 -0500, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: > > > >> On Jun 13, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 18:13 -0400, Rick Dwyer w

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-13 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Jun 13, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Rick Dwyer wrote: OK, I get the following error: Warning: basename() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in When I use the following: $thepath = parse_url($url); $filename = basename($thepath); Is my variable thepath not automatically string?

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-13 Thread Rick Dwyer
OK, I get the following error: Warning: basename() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in When I use the following: $thepath = parse_url($url); $filename = basename($thepath); Is my variable thepath not automatically string? --Rick On Jun 13, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Ashley Sheridan

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-13 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Jun 13, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 17:27 -0500, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: On Jun 13, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 18:13 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: Hello List. I need to parse the PATH portion of URL. I have assigned th

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-13 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 17:27 -0500, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: > On Jun 13, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > > On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 18:13 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: > > > >> Hello List. > >> > >> I need to parse the PATH portion of URL. I have assigned the path > >> portion to a variable

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-13 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Jun 13, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 18:13 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: Hello List. I need to parse the PATH portion of URL. I have assigned the path portion to a variable using the following: $thepath = parse_url($url); Now I need to break each portion o

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-13 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Jun 13, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Rick Dwyer wrote: Hello List. I need to parse the PATH portion of URL. I have assigned the path portion to a variable using the following: $thepath = parse_url($url); Now I need to break each portion of the path down into its own variable. The problem is,

Re: [PHP] String Parse Help for novice

2010-06-13 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 18:13 -0400, Rick Dwyer wrote: > Hello List. > > I need to parse the PATH portion of URL. I have assigned the path > portion to a variable using the following: > > $thepath = parse_url($url); > > > Now I need to break each portion of the path down into its own > vari

Re: [PHP] string concatenation with fgets

2009-11-30 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 09:40 -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Ash, > > Actually I need the if because the code will print out an empty line > and add "sometext" to it. > > So without the if check for an empty line, at the end of the loop I'll > get sometext. For example, if the file I

Re: [PHP] string concatenation with fgets

2009-11-30 Thread aurfalien
Hi Ash, Actually I need the if because the code will print out an empty line and add "sometext" to it. So without the if check for an empty line, at the end of the loop I'll get sometext. For example, if the file I am processing called somename.txt has a b c in it. I'll have; asomet

Re: [PHP] string concatenation with fgets

2009-11-30 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 09:04 -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Shawn, > > Your code looks cleaner then mine so i tried it and got the last entry > in the txt file printed twice. > > > On Nov 30, 2009, at 7:07 AM, Shawn McKenzie wrote: > > > aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > >> So here is my f

Re: [PHP] string concatenation with fgets

2009-11-30 Thread aurfalien
Hi Shawn, Your code looks cleaner then mine so i tried it and got the last entry in the txt file printed twice. On Nov 30, 2009, at 7:07 AM, Shawn McKenzie wrote: aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: So here is my final test code, notice the check for ' ' in the if. Since I'm on Linux, this has to

Re: [PHP] string concatenation with fgets

2009-11-30 Thread Shawn McKenzie
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > So here is my final test code, notice the check for ' ' in the if. > > Since I'm on Linux, this has to do with whats between the last LF and > EOF which is nothing but this nothing will get printed out. > > $file = fopen("somefile.txt", "r"); > while (! feof($file)) >

Re: [PHP] string concatenation with fgets

2009-11-26 Thread aurfalien
So here is my final test code, notice the check for ' ' in the if. Since I'm on Linux, this has to do with whats between the last LF and EOF which is nothing but this nothing will get printed out. $file = fopen("somefile.txt", "r"); while (! feof($file)) { $names = trim(fgets(

Re: [PHP] string concatenation with fgets

2009-11-24 Thread aurfalien
On Nov 24, 2009, at 5:52 PM, ryan wrote: Is this what you want $file = fopen("test.txt", "r"); while (!feof($file)) { $line = trim(fgets($file)); print $line."sometext\n"; } fclose($file); outputs asometext bsometext csometext Ref to http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.fgets.php. "Rea

Re: [PHP] string concatenation with fgets

2009-11-24 Thread aurfalien
On Nov 24, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Nirmalya Lahiri wrote: --- On Wed, 11/25/09, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: From: aurfal...@gmail.com Subject: [PHP] string concatenation with fgets To: php-general@lists.php.net Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 7:00 AM Hi all, I'm trying to append some text to w

Re: [PHP] string concatenation with fgets

2009-11-24 Thread Nirmalya Lahiri
--- On Wed, 11/25/09, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > From: aurfal...@gmail.com > Subject: [PHP] string concatenation with fgets > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 7:00 AM > Hi all, > > I'm trying to append some text to what I read from a file. > > My code; > >

Re: [PHP] string concatenation with fgets

2009-11-24 Thread ryan
Is this what you want $file = fopen("test.txt", "r"); while (!feof($file)) { $line = trim(fgets($file)); print $line."sometext\n"; } fclose($file); outputs asometext bsometext csometext Ref to http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.fgets.php. "Reading ends when /length/ - 1 bytes have

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP String convention

2009-11-04 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
2009/11/4 Nathan Rixham : > Nick Cooper wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I was just wondering what the difference/advantage of these two >> methods of writing a string are: >> >> 1) $string = "foo{$bar}"; >> >> 2) $string = 'foo'.$bar; > > 1) breaks PHPUnit when used in classes (need to bug report that) > 2)

[PHP] Re: PHP String convention

2009-11-04 Thread Nathan Rixham
Nick Cooper wrote: Hi, I was just wondering what the difference/advantage of these two methods of writing a string are: 1) $string = "foo{$bar}"; 2) $string = 'foo'.$bar; 1) breaks PHPUnit when used in classes (need to bug report that) 2) [concatenation] is faster (but you wouldn't notice)

Re: [PHP] String scrambling

2009-09-11 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 11:03 +0100, Tom Chubb wrote: > !niBgo > > > /* > $str = "Bingo!"; > str_shuffle($str); > */ > > > > :) No, that won't work at all, it's in comments ;) Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, vis

Re: [PHP] String scrambling

2009-09-11 Thread Tom Chubb
!niBgo /* $str = "Bingo!"; str_shuffle($str); */ :)

Re: [PHP] String scrambling

2009-09-10 Thread Eddie Drapkin
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Ron Piggott wrote: > Is there a function in PHP which scrambles strings? > > Example: > > $string = "Hello"; > > Output might be: ehlol > > Ron http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-shuffle.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe

Re: [PHP] String Formulas

2009-08-26 Thread Floyd Resler
Wow, I would never have even thought of that! Thanks! Take care, Floyd On Aug 26, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 12:03 -0400, Floyd Resler wrote: How can I take a mathematical formula that is in a string and have the result, product, sum, etc. returned? I

Re: [PHP] String Formulas

2009-08-26 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 12:03 -0400, Floyd Resler wrote: > How can I take a mathematical formula that is in a string and have the > result, product, sum, etc. returned? I did a search on the Web and > couldn't find any suitable solutions. > > Thanks! > Floyd > > eval() Thanks, Ash http://www

RE: [PHP] String to Date Conversion Problem

2009-07-31 Thread Alice Wei
Looks like what I did by using mm/dd/ was extra, which was probably why it didn't work. Thanks, looks like this is up and running now. Alice > CC: php-general@lists.php.net > From: stu...@stuconnolly.com > To: aj...@alumni.iu.edu > Subject: Re: [PHP] String to Date C

Re: [PHP] String to Date Conversion Problem

2009-07-31 Thread Stuart Connolly
Hi Alice, Based on the string format that you mentioned (DD MMM YY - DAY) you should be able to transform to any other date using the following: $parts = explode(' ', '23 JUL 09 - THURSDAY'); echo date('m/d/Y', strtotime("{$parts[1]} {$parts[0]} {$parts[2]}")); Cheers Stuart On 31 Jul 200

Re: [PHP] String variable

2009-01-11 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
2009/1/11 Ashley Sheridan : > On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 14:36 +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: >> On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 08:59 -0500, MikeP wrote: >> > Hello, >> > I am trying yo get THIS: >> > where ref_id = '1234' >> > from this. >> > $where="where ref_id="."'$Reference[$x][ref_id]'"; >> > >> > but i cer

Re: [PHP] String variable

2009-01-11 Thread Nathan Rixham
Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 14:36 +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 08:59 -0500, MikeP wrote: Hello, I am trying yo get THIS: where ref_id = '1234' from this. $where="where ref_id="."'$Reference[$x][ref_id]'"; but i certainly have a quote problem. Any help?

Re: [PHP] String variable

2009-01-11 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 14:36 +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 08:59 -0500, MikeP wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying yo get THIS: > > where ref_id = '1234' > > from this. > > $where="where ref_id="."'$Reference[$x][ref_id]'"; > > > > but i certainly have a quote problem. > > > >

Re: [PHP] String variable

2009-01-11 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 08:59 -0500, MikeP wrote: > Hello, > I am trying yo get THIS: > where ref_id = '1234' > from this. > $where="where ref_id="."'$Reference[$x][ref_id]'"; > > but i certainly have a quote problem. > > Any help? > Thanks > Mike > > > > It should look like this: $where="whe

Re: [PHP] String variable

2009-01-11 Thread Eric Butera
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:59 AM, MikeP wrote: > Hello, > I am trying yo get THIS: > where ref_id = '1234' > from this. > $where="where ref_id="."'$Reference[$x][ref_id]'"; > > but i certainly have a quote problem. > > Any help? > Thanks > Mike > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.ph

Re: [PHP] string comparison

2008-07-13 Thread dg
On Jul 13, 2008, at 9:17 AM, Sudhakar wrote: hi i am writing a small application where a user enters a phrase in the textfield and i would like to display all the files present in the root directory which consists of the keyword or keywords entered by the user. i have used a few comparis

Re: [PHP] string comparison

2008-07-13 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 21:47 +0530, Sudhakar wrote: > hi > > i am writing a small application where a user enters a phrase in the > textfield and i would like to display all the files present in the root > directory which consists of the keyword or keywords entered by the user. > > i have used a f

Re: [PHP] String to date

2008-06-30 Thread mike503
couldn't strtotime() do this without any mods? I personally would try that first... On 6/30/08, Mark Bomgardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to convert a date retrieved from user input to a mysql date. Here > the problem, I need to convert one of three possible combinations, either > 01/01

RE: [PHP] String to date

2008-06-30 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Bomgardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 3:58 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] String to date > > I need to convert a date retrieved from user input to a mysql date. > Here > the problem, I need to convert one o

Re: [PHP] String to date

2008-06-30 Thread Wolf
Mark Bomgardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to convert a date retrieved from user input to a mysql date. Here > the problem, I need to convert one of three possible combinations, either > 01/01/2008,01-01-2008 or 01.01.2008. I can't use explode because it's > limited to one charact

Re: [PHP] String to date

2008-06-30 Thread Bastien Koert
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Mark Bomgardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to convert a date retrieved from user input to a mysql date. Here > the problem, I need to convert one of three possible combinations, either > 01/01/2008,01-01-2008 or 01.01.2008. I can't use explode because it

Re: [PHP] String searching

2008-05-17 Thread Richard Heyes
Chris W wrote: I need to find the position of the first character in the string (searching from the end) that is not one of the characters in a set. In this case the set is [0-9a-zA-z-_] I guess to be even more specific, I want to split a string into to parts the first part can contain anything

Re: [PHP] String searching

2008-05-16 Thread Daniel Brown
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Chris W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to find the position of the first character in the string > (searching from the end) that is not one of the characters in a set. In > this case the set is [0-9a-zA-z-_] To find the position of a specific character, R

Re: [PHP] string

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel Brown
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Jim Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wonder if using strstr() with strtolower() would be faster or slower. [snip=code] > > Results: > Attempt #1 > 0.015728950500488 > 0.022881031036377 [snip!] While I don't really care much for a single selection abo

Re: [PHP] string

2008-04-07 Thread Jim Lucas
Daniel Brown wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:25 AM, John Taylor-Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: $name = "John Taylor"; I want to verify if $name contains "john", if yes echo "found"; Cannot remember which to use: http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php Sorry, John Since you

Re: [PHP] string

2008-04-07 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:30 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do a preg match to find one or preg_match_all to find all the john in the > string. preg_* is overkill if you're just searching for a literal string. use it if you're searching for any strings matching a pattern, part of which you don

Re: [PHP] string

2008-04-07 Thread John Taylor-Johnston
Excellent. Thanks all! John Daniel Brown wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:25 AM, John Taylor-Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: $name = "John Taylor"; I want to verify if $name contains "john", if yes echo "found"; Cannot remember which to use: http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php

Re: [PHP] string

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel Brown
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:25 AM, John Taylor-Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $name = "John Taylor"; > I want to verify if $name contains "john", if yes echo "found"; > Cannot remember which to use: > http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php > Sorry, > John Since you said you wan

RE: [PHP] string

2008-04-07 Thread admin
Do a preg match to find one or preg_match_all to find all the john in the string. $name = "John Taylor"; I want to verify if $name contains "john", if yes echo "found"; Cannot remember which to use: http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php Sorry, John -- PHP General Mailing List (htt

Re: [PHP] string

2008-04-07 Thread Stut
John Taylor-Johnston wrote: $name = "John Taylor"; I want to verify if $name contains "john", if yes echo "found"; Cannot remember which to use: http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php Either http://php.net/strpos or http://php.net/stripos if your version of PHP supports it. -Stut -- ht

Re: [PHP] string effect

2008-03-04 Thread tedd
At 9:51 PM +0100 2/29/08, Alain Roger wrote: What is the basic rule ? Text is cut off based on (numbers of words, number of characters,..) ? Yes. Use whatever you want. You can use the number characters or find the last *space* in a string that's just long enough to fit your limit. Let's sa

Re: [PHP] string effect

2008-03-01 Thread Richard Heyes
Mr. Heyes more or less prompted me to go dig for my other, slightly heavier version, that doesn't chop words up: Sorry I hit Reply instead Reply All. Regardless, here's my str_curtail. There is a bug in it that means if the string is all one word then it gets curtailed to nada, but that's easi

Re: [PHP] string effect

2008-02-29 Thread Greg Donald
On 2/29/08, Alain Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Text is cut off based on (numbers of words, number of characters,..) ? > what is the algorithm for such thing ? Mr. Heyes more or less prompted me to go dig for my other, slightly heavier version, that doesn't chop words up: function breakU

Re: [PHP] string effect

2008-02-29 Thread Greg Donald
On 2/29/08, Alain Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > since a long time now, i see that some paragraphs of text are cut off and > the additional text is replaced by 3 dots. > e.g: > > "this is the original long text but without any sense and also stupid" > > effect desired : > "this is

Re: [PHP] string vs number

2008-02-06 Thread Jochem Maas
Ford, Mike schreef: On 05 February 2008 21:37, Jochem Maas advised: the same is not exactly true for floats - although you can use them as array keys you'll notice in the output of code below that they are stripped of their decimal part (essentially a floor() seems to be performed on the float

RE: [PHP] string vs number

2008-02-06 Thread Ford, Mike
On 05 February 2008 21:37, Jochem Maas advised: > the same is not exactly true for floats - although you can > use them as array keys you'll > notice in the output of code below that they are stripped of > their decimal part (essentially > a floor() seems to be performed on the float value. I have

Re: [PHP] string vs number

2008-02-05 Thread Jochem Maas
Casey schreef: On Feb 5, 2008, at 10:43 AM, "Eric Butera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 1:40 PM, Nathan Nobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 1:36 PM, Hiep Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all, i have this php statement: debugging, i got $rowA[0] = 54, but i wa

Re: [PHP] string vs number

2008-02-05 Thread Eric Butera
On Feb 5, 2008 1:48 PM, Nathan Nobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 5, 2008 1:43 PM, Eric Butera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was thinking about saying that, but php is loosely typed, so 54 == > > '54'. > i only mentioned the type cast because it was asked about; actually, there > are r

Re: [PHP] string vs number

2008-02-05 Thread Daniel Brown
On Feb 5, 2008 1:36 PM, Hiep Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > i have this php statement: > > > > > debugging, i got $rowA[0] = 54, but i want $rowB[$rowA[0]] = $rowB['54']. > > is this possible? how do i force $rowA[0] to be a string ('54')? Type casting shouldn't be an issue

Re: [PHP] string vs number

2008-02-05 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Feb 5, 2008 1:50 PM, Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe this is the difference with arrays: > > $a = array(2 => "foo"); > Array(0 => null, 1 => null, 2 => "foo") > > $a = array("2" => "foo"); > Array("2" => "foo") > i think the implicit type casting applies there as well: php > $me

Re: [PHP] string vs number

2008-02-05 Thread Casey
On Feb 5, 2008, at 10:43 AM, "Eric Butera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 1:40 PM, Nathan Nobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 1:36 PM, Hiep Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all, i have this php statement: debugging, i got $rowA[0] = 54, but i want $rowB[$rowA

Re: [PHP] string vs number

2008-02-05 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Feb 5, 2008 1:43 PM, Eric Butera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was thinking about saying that, but php is loosely typed, so 54 == > '54'. i only mentioned the type cast because it was asked about; actually, there are rare times in php when type casts are called for, such as pulling a value fr

Re: [PHP] string vs number

2008-02-05 Thread Eric Butera
On Feb 5, 2008 1:40 PM, Nathan Nobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 5, 2008 1:36 PM, Hiep Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hi all, > > > > i have this php statement: > > > > > > > > > > debugging, i got $rowA[0] = 54, but i want $rowB[$rowA[0]] = $rowB['54']. > > > > is this possible?

Re: [PHP] string vs number

2008-02-05 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Feb 5, 2008 1:36 PM, Hiep Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > i have this php statement: > > > > > debugging, i got $rowA[0] = 54, but i want $rowB[$rowA[0]] = $rowB['54']. > > is this possible? how do i force $rowA[0] to be a string > ('54')? php

Re: [PHP] String Issue

2008-01-23 Thread venkatk
Hi, Try this: $str = 'HTMLFiles/MenuDisplay.php?var=Thai%20Image&Item=1797&Action=add'; $str = preg_replace("/(\&Item.*)$/","", $str); this should work. Cheers, V -Original Message- From: Johny Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:

Re: [PHP] String Issue

2008-01-23 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 23:30 -0600, Johny Burns wrote: > I have the following string on the address line > > HTMLFiles/MenuDisplay.php?var=Thai%20Image&Item=1797&Action=add > > I am trying to delete or replace the '&Item=1797&Action=add' (it is at the > end of the string) > > I am not familiar

Re: [PHP] string as file

2007-08-10 Thread Jim Lucas
Rick Pasotto wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:39:51PM -0700, Jim Lucas wrote: Rick Pasotto wrote: Does php have a facility similar to python's stringIO? What I'm wanting to do is similar to a mail merge. IOW, I know I can create an include file like: $out = << template.php This is two diffe

Re: [PHP] string as file

2007-08-10 Thread Stut
Robert Cummings wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 16:28 +0100, Stut wrote: Rick Pasotto wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:19:29PM +0100, Stut wrote: Rick Pasotto wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 03:25:27PM -0500, Greg Donald wrote: On 8/9/07, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does php have a

Re: [PHP] string as file

2007-08-10 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 16:28 +0100, Stut wrote: > Rick Pasotto wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:19:29PM +0100, Stut wrote: > >> Rick Pasotto wrote: > >>> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 03:25:27PM -0500, Greg Donald wrote: > On 8/9/07, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does php have

Re: [PHP] string as file

2007-08-10 Thread Stut
Rick Pasotto wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:19:29PM +0100, Stut wrote: Rick Pasotto wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 03:25:27PM -0500, Greg Donald wrote: On 8/9/07, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does php have a facility similar to python's stringIO? What I'm wanting to do is simil

Re: [PHP] string as file

2007-08-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:19:29PM +0100, Stut wrote: > Rick Pasotto wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 03:25:27PM -0500, Greg Donald wrote: >>> On 8/9/07, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does php have a facility similar to python's stringIO? What I'm wanting to do is similar

Re: [PHP] string as file

2007-08-10 Thread Stut
Rick Pasotto wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 03:25:27PM -0500, Greg Donald wrote: On 8/9/07, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does php have a facility similar to python's stringIO? What I'm wanting to do is similar to a mail merge. IOW, I know I can create an include file like: $out = <

Re: [PHP] string as file

2007-08-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:39:51PM -0700, Jim Lucas wrote: > Rick Pasotto wrote: >> Does php have a facility similar to python's stringIO? >> What I'm wanting to do is similar to a mail merge. IOW, I know I can >> create an include file like: >> $out = <<> This is an example of $var1 and $var2. >>

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