RE: [PHP] How do YOU set default function/method params?

2009-10-05 Thread Mert Oztekin
IMO, array_merge() is easy to use, however it suppose to use more cpu than other options. If you are a performance freak, i suggest you to not choose array_merge() solution. (also you execute date() and md5() functions even if you wont need to use them) In the other way, I think first option (w

Re: [PHP] How do YOU set default function/method params?

2009-10-05 Thread paragasu
why bother, i use available good library http://swiftmailer.org/ On 10/6/09, Jim Lucas wrote: > Eddie Drapkin wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Jim Lucas wrote: >>> Here is a problem that I have had for years now. I have been trying to >>> come up >>> with the perfect solution for th

Re: [PHP] Spry, XML, PHP and XSLT Hell

2009-10-05 Thread Andrew Mason
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Matthew Croud wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Is there anyone here who uses Spry with XML and PHP and understands XSLT, >> At the moment i'm in development hell and have a rather bloated question to >> ask someone who

Re: [PHP] A really wacky design decision

2009-10-05 Thread clancy_1
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 14:52:36 +0200, an_...@hotmail.com (Andrea Giammarchi) wrote: > > > >> $a = 2260; $b = 226e1; $c = 2.26e3; $d = 2260.0; >> >> $a==$b==$c==$d, >> >> and >> $b===$c===$d > >$b , $c, and $d are the same indeed ... they represent the floating point >2260.0 in I thi

Re: [PHP] How do YOU set default function/method params?

2009-10-05 Thread Jim Lucas
Eddie Drapkin wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Jim Lucas wrote: Here is a problem that I have had for years now. I have been trying to come up with the perfect solution for this problem. But, I have come down to two different methods for solving it. Here is the problem... date('c'),

[PHP] Re: sending HTML email

2009-10-05 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 10/05/2009 11:27 AM John Corry said the following: > I've inherited a PHP application, first task of which was relocating to a > new server. > We've installed and configured all of the files on a dedicated linux server > at 1 and 1 (using qmail as an MTA). > > Since the move, the client

Re: [PHP] How do YOU set default function/method params?

2009-10-05 Thread Eddie Drapkin
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Jim Lucas wrote: > Here is a problem that I have had for years now.  I have been trying to come > up > with the perfect solution for this problem.  But, I have come down to two > different methods for solving it. > > Here is the problem... > > > function sendEmail

[PHP] Re: SWF Manipulation with PHP

2009-10-05 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 10/05/2009 11:52 AM Igor Escobar said the following: > Hi Folks! > > A very long time ago i spend a little bit of my time to find how i can load > a swf file, load an specific frame of that SWF File and save this like a JPG > or any other format. > > I try the "ming" but it can't load

[PHP] How do YOU set default function/method params?

2009-10-05 Thread Jim Lucas
Here is a problem that I have had for years now. I have been trying to come up with the perfect solution for this problem. But, I have come down to two different methods for solving it. Here is the problem... date('c'), 'Message-ID' => md5($to.$subject), ); $headers += $defaults; END of

Re: [PHP] Self-Process php forms or not?

2009-10-05 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 10/05/2009 03:02 PM Philip Thompson said the following: >>> I try to avoid the use of hidden form elements as much as possible, >>> especially for tracking whether a user has submitted a form or not... >>> >>> I use name="submit" for the submit button instead, that will pass the >>> valu

Re: [PHP] a trivial little function (PostToHost)

2009-10-05 Thread Kirk . Johnson
tedd wrote on 10/05/2009 01:44:00 PM: [snip] > Hi Kirk: > > Okay, but what specifically is that script? > > I have written a script at server B to print_r($_POST), but I don't > get anything other than log errors (see below*). > > Here's an example: > > http://www.webbytedd.com/aa/send-for

Re: [PHP] a trivial little function (PostToHost)

2009-10-05 Thread tedd
At 12:27 PM -0600 10/4/09, kirk.john...@zootweb.com wrote: tedd wrote on 10/04/2009 08:51:13 AM: [PHP] a trivial little function (PostToHost) tedd to: php-general 10/04/2009 09:05 AM Hi gang: The following 'trivial little' function I'm trying to get my head around: http://aspn

Re: [PHP] Spry, XML, PHP and XSLT Hell

2009-10-05 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Matthew Croud wrote: > Hello, > > Is there anyone here who uses Spry with XML and PHP and understands XSLT, > At the moment i'm in development hell and have a rather bloated question to > ask someone who is knowledgeable in the above areas. > > My head is about to

Re: [PHP] Self-Process php forms or not?

2009-10-05 Thread Philip Thompson
On Oct 2, 2009, at 3:00 AM, Manuel Lemos wrote: Hello, on 10/02/2009 04:41 AM kranthi said the following: I try to avoid the use of hidden form elements as much as possible, especially for tracking whether a user has submitted a form or not... I use name="submit" for the submit button instead

Re: [PHP] Developer Question [DOMDocument]

2009-10-05 Thread Michael A. Peters
Ashley Sheridan wrote: I never tried to say that classes are case-sensitive, that was actually mentioned by Lupus who misunderstood what I was trying to say. What I was meaning is exactly what you just said here, that the PECL DomDocument is very different from the more typical DOMDocument. I

RE: [PHP] Header problem

2009-10-05 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
> There's a useful function called headers_sent() which checks to see if > the headers have already been sent to the browser. This might be a good > place to throw into your code at various points to check and see if > something is being written which you don't expect. true, check that as well,

RE: [PHP] Header problem

2009-10-05 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
> Sorry, the .phps file wasn't updated, but the page still works as > expected even though I've printed stuff after the header (i tested that > just for fun). I already said magic behavior are not part of my developed code, unrelated output is an error, even if the download work, it is an err

Re: [PHP] Header problem

2009-10-05 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 18:10 +0200, Kim Madsen wrote: > Hi Andrea > > Andrea Giammarchi wrote on 2009-10-04 19:36: > > Unless I am missing something, your page has too many if and it always > > ends up with print something ... but there is no exit after the > > download, so the zip will have ext

Re: [PHP] strtotime strangeness

2009-10-05 Thread Daniel Brown
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:15, Jim Lucas wrote: > > You stated that you are running PHP 5.2.10 , too bad the function recommend > (locale_get_default()) is only available in PHP 5.3 or newer. That's my fault entirely, not Floyd's. I didn't look to see what version of PHP he was running. --

RE: [PHP] SWF Manipulation with PHP

2009-10-05 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
AFAIK, you can create snaps from ActionScript, but you cannot save browser rendered plug-in content via PHP It's more like canvas.toDataURL, it requires to be rendered, unless you don't have InDesign or something similar able to render internally and export as image. Regards > Date: Mon, 5 Oc

Re: [PHP] strtotime strangeness

2009-10-05 Thread Jim Lucas
Floyd Resler wrote: > Well that's odd. locale_get_default() gave me an undefined function > error. Apparently this year problem has been reported as a bug on > bugs.php.net but the status for it (and everything else) is Bogus. I'm > not sure if that means anything or not but hopefully a fix wil

[PHP] Spry, XML, PHP and XSLT Hell

2009-10-05 Thread Matthew Croud
Hello, Is there anyone here who uses Spry with XML and PHP and understands XSLT, At the moment i'm in development hell and have a rather bloated question to ask someone who is knowledgeable in the above areas. My head is about to explode and I can't find any answers, If there are Spry/XML f

Re: [PHP] Header problem

2009-10-05 Thread Kim Madsen
Hi Andrea Andrea Giammarchi wrote on 2009-10-04 19:36: Unless I am missing something, your page has too many if and it always ends up with print something ... but there is no exit after the download, so the zip will have extra output included without a reason ... which is an error, imho, dunno

Re: [PHP] strtotime strangeness

2009-10-05 Thread Floyd Resler
Well that's odd. locale_get_default() gave me an undefined function error. Apparently this year problem has been reported as a bug on bugs.php.net but the status for it (and everything else) is Bogus. I'm not sure if that means anything or not but hopefully a fix will be coming soon. Th

Re: [PHP] Variable name as a variable?

2009-10-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
Thanks, all! I will experiment with the three different solutions presented and see what best fits this application. As to the security aspect, yes, I am aware that this is a simplification and that the values must be sanitized. Have a great week. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://g

RE: [PHP] Self-Process php forms or not?

2009-10-05 Thread tedd
At 7:25 PM +0100 10/4/09, MEM wrote: Unfortunately, I'm really REALLY on a rush. I saw a bumper sticker the other day which read: Humpty Dumpty was rushed Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.

Re: [PHP] Variable name as a variable?

2009-10-05 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:56:48 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: > I need to store a variable name as a variable. Note quite a C-style > pointer, but a way to access one variable who's name is stored in > another variable. > > As part of a spam-control measure, a certain public-facing form will > have dummy

Re: [PHP] sending HTML email

2009-10-05 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 10:27 -0400, John Corry wrote: > I've inherited a PHP application, first task of which was relocating to a > new server. > We've installed and configured all of the files on a dedicated linux server > at 1 and 1 (using qmail as an MTA). > > Since the move, the client is comp

Re: [PHP] Variable name as a variable?

2009-10-05 Thread Tommy Pham
- Original Message > From: Dotan Cohen > To: php-general. > Sent: Mon, October 5, 2009 7:56:48 AM > Subject: [PHP] Variable name as a variable? > > I need to store a variable name as a variable. Note quite a C-style > pointer, but a way to access one variable who's name is stored in > a

Re: [PHP] Variable name as a variable?

2009-10-05 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 16:56 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I need to store a variable name as a variable. Note quite a C-style > pointer, but a way to access one variable who's name is stored in > another variable. > > As part of a spam-control measure, a certain public-facing form will > have dummy

[PHP] Variable name as a variable?

2009-10-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
I need to store a variable name as a variable. Note quite a C-style pointer, but a way to access one variable who's name is stored in another variable. As part of a spam-control measure, a certain public-facing form will have dummy rotating text fields and a hidden field that will describe which t

[PHP] SWF Manipulation with PHP

2009-10-05 Thread Igor Escobar
Hi Folks! A very long time ago i spend a little bit of my time to find how i can load a swf file, load an specific frame of that SWF File and save this like a JPG or any other format. I try the "ming" but it can't load a external swf movie. You only can CREATE a swf. I try the libswf too but i no

[PHP] sending HTML email

2009-10-05 Thread John Corry
I've inherited a PHP application, first task of which was relocating to a new server. We've installed and configured all of the files on a dedicated linux server at 1 and 1 (using qmail as an MTA). Since the move, the client is complaining that *some* of the recipients of the HTML email that the s

Re: [PHP] strtotime strangeness

2009-10-05 Thread Daniel Brown
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 17:00, Floyd Resler wrote: > Sorry to hear that!  I live in Cincinnati so I normally don't get to watch > the Colts play when they are on at the same time as the Bengals.  But this > week I did and, best of all, they won! Yeah, well, the Browns sure didn't, so bite me.

RE: [PHP] Developer Question [DOMDocument]

2009-10-05 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
Yeah, if it can make you feel better, you are not the only one with some PECL habit, lazily introduced in PHP as core feature changing almost everything. Regards > From: a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk > To: an_...@hotmail.com > CC: mickael+...@lupusmic.org; php-general@lists.php.net > Date: Mon, 5 O

RE: [PHP] Developer Question [DOMDocument]

2009-10-05 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 13:59 +0200, Andrea Giammarchi wrote: > > > search engines aren't case-sensitive! > > ... try to search php.net or PHP.NET in Google and you'll obtain exactly the > same result ... in PHP strtolower and strToLower are exactly the same, as the > same is DomDocument, DOMDo

RE: [PHP] Developer Question [DOMDocument]

2009-10-05 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
My apologies I read search engines ARE case sensitive ... never mind, still DomDocument and DOMDocument are the same. Regards > From: an_...@hotmail.com > To: a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk; mickael+...@lupusmic.org > CC: php-general@lists.php.net > Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:59:43 +0200 > Subject: R

RE: [PHP] Developer Question [DOMDocument]

2009-10-05 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
> search engines aren't case-sensitive! ... try to search php.net or PHP.NET in Google and you'll obtain exactly the same result ... in PHP strtolower and strToLower are exactly the same, as the same is DomDocument, DOMDocument, or DOMDOCUMENT, at least in PHP 5.3 If you used an early versio

Re: [PHP] Developer Question [DOMDocument]

2009-10-05 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 13:36 +0200, Lupus Michaelis wrote: > Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > > > I've not had a look at DOMDocument myself, having only used DomDocument > > before (there's a slight difference in the capitalisation of the 2nd and > > 3rd letters which made it a pain in the proverbial to

Re: [PHP] Developer Question [DOMDocument]

2009-10-05 Thread Lupus Michaelis
Ashley Sheridan wrote: I've not had a look at DOMDocument myself, having only used DomDocument before (there's a slight difference in the capitalisation of the 2nd and 3rd letters which made it a pain in the proverbial to work with at first!) Did you never notice that PHP has case insensitiv

RE: [PHP] Developer Question [DOMDocument]

2009-10-05 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
saveXML and transform it via XSL It should be simple since basically the only thing you have to do is to replicate everything adding right at the beginning and nothing else. Is this solution suitable for your requirements? Regards > Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 01:45:03 -0700 > From: mpet...@mac.c

Re: [PHP] Developer Question [DOMDocument]

2009-10-05 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: Ashley Sheridan wrote: I've not had a look at DOMDocument myself, having only used DomDocument before (there's a slight difference in the capitalisation of the 2nd and 3rd letters which made it a pain in the proverbial to work with at first!) but I would assume that

Re: [PHP] Developer Question [DOMDocument]

2009-10-05 Thread Michael A. Peters
Ashley Sheridan wrote: I've not had a look at DOMDocument myself, having only used DomDocument before (there's a slight difference in the capitalisation of the 2nd and 3rd letters which made it a pain in the proverbial to work with at first!) but I would assume that if it might offer a metho

Re: [PHP] Developer Question [DOMDocument]

2009-10-05 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 01:45 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > I'm hoping someone who knows the answer to this question is on this list. > > I need to modify either libxml2 and/or php DOMDocument to make a small > change. > > Issue - saveHTML() function predates html5 (which isn't even finalized

[PHP] Developer Question [DOMDocument]

2009-10-05 Thread Michael A. Peters
I'm hoping someone who knows the answer to this question is on this list. I need to modify either libxml2 and/or php DOMDocument to make a small change. Issue - saveHTML() function predates html5 (which isn't even finalized yet) and thus does not know about it's tags. the source element is