On Wednesday 16 April 2008, vester_s wrote:
> Can anybody tell me how can php connect to NNTP to get the list of all
> users in the newsgroups?
NNTP has no concept of "users".
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On Sunday 02 December 2007, Daniel Brown wrote:
> There are a great deal of highly-intelligent people on this list, so why
> not take advantage of that resource?
I do, that's why I'm on the list.
> So until you've been around enough to truly earn your right to
> tell someone far more accomp
On Saturday 01 December 2007, chris smith wrote:
> Considering the rest of the off-topic questions that regularly get
> asked on this list it's a bit much to single out this one particular
> post.
I didn't single it out, it just happened to be at the top of the pile at
the the time. It was also h
On Friday 30 November 2007, Jochem Maas wrote:
> my guess it took less time to search for 'Crayon' in his mail archive
> than it took you to write the sentence.
Is not so much the actual time taken but rather that he had the free time
at all.
> aparently Rob wasn't saying this ... but I would,
On Friday 30 November 2007, Robert Cummings wrote:
> I'm sorry, allow me to rephrase... in the past 5 months you've made 2
> on-topic useful posts, with the rest either being on-topic for an
> off-topic thread, or completely off-topic. I see no point in saying
> more, I've made my point.
I know y
On Saturday 01 December 2007, tedd wrote:
> At 10:21 AM +0800 11/30/07, Crayon Shin Chan wrote:
> >On Friday 30 November 2007, tedd wrote:
> >> I'm trying to understand joins,
> >
> >Ask on a database related list.
> Really?
Really.
> No language l
On Friday 30 November 2007, Robert Cummings wrote:
> > Or are you saying that one needs to make a lot of on-topic posts to
> > build up credit in order to be able to make off-topic posts?
>
> No, I'm merely pointing out the hypocrisy.
That would only be true if I had been making off-topic posts. B
On Friday 30 November 2007, Robert Cummings wrote:
> That's an amusing statement. I took a peek back in time and noticed
> that in the past 5 months you've only made two on-topic useful posts to
> the PHP General list-- and they were both for the same thread.
If you have that much free time on yo
On Friday 30 November 2007, tedd wrote:
> I'm trying to understand joins,
Ask on a database related list.
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On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Jay Blanchard wrote:
> [snip]
> So the summary of my proposal is as follows:
> reached or question is asked. This will allow a step-by-step document
> (of sorts) to be created and made "searchable" on the web.
> [/snip]
>
> This has been the expected behavio
On Monday 29 October 2007, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
> if you were going to do that you may as well use PHP_EOL
> its cross-platform and doesnt require an define directive.
> (php5 only)
It's available in 4.3.10 as well, but manual doesn't specify what it
defines - I suppose I can echo or vardump it to
On Sunday 28 October 2007, magoo wrote:
> I have switched to using single quotes, and found out that newline (\n)
> only works in double quotes. It looks kind of stupid using
> 'someString'."\n"; and it`s kind of inconsistent using double quotes
> for some lines like "someString\n";.
You can:
On Friday 26 October 2007, Diana wrote:
> The problem is I am the mail server administrator also.
Fire the mailserver administrator and employ a better one?
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On Friday 21 September 2007, Karl james wrote:
> I am in need of some help.
> I would love to get some assistance on this.
> I need to start creating a database for my website.
> This will be for a fantasy football league website.
> To store stats on the database for archive purposes,
> And be abl
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 22:21, Larry Garfield wrote:
> "Commercial publication" didn't exist as a concept until after the
> invention of the printing press, which is when copyright was invented
> in order to protect the business of the publishers.
Presumably you're talking about Europe, because i
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 21:37, tedd wrote:
> Extortion? Are you saying that anyone who owes a copyright is
> obtaining money through force or threats? That sounds strange.
Wow, it seems you haven't heard of the RIAA and their racketeering.
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On Tuesday 31 July 2007 02:45, tedd wrote:
> Well, when I *use* my neighbor's car without his authorization it's
> called "stealing"
If your intention was not to keep the car on a permenant basis then you
would probably be prosecuted for joyriding rather than stealing.
> >How? Nobody is not bei
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 02:08, tedd wrote:
> No, if you want something that you don't have -- you have three
> choices: a) go without; b) BUY it; c) STEAL it.
Rubbish. You can borrow, lease, hire purchase, rent, and there are
probably other options as well.
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On Monday 30 July 2007 23:49, tedd wrote:
> The opposite of BUYING is STEALING
I think you meant SELLING.
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On Thursday 26 July 2007 11:44, Ken Tozier wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Edward Kay wrote:
> > PS: Please don't top post on mailing lists.
>
> I'm unfamiliar with the term "top post". What does it mean?
But you are familiar with google?
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On Tuesday 24 July 2007 06:02, Ryan A wrote:
> >Instead of clip tags, I recommend that you configure your mail client
> >to prepend a greater than sign to quotes. It's rather customary, if
> >not standard.
>
> Sorry about that, its driving me crazy too. I have to manually do it if
> I want it (li
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 06:12, tedd wrote:
> How about "Rasmus Lerdorf, Lord of the Code"
I thought it was supposed to be based on a Potter book?
How about "Rasmus Lerdorf, Prisoner of ASP".
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On Monday 23 July 2007 22:26, Larry Garfield wrote:
> So when does "Rasmus Lerdorf and the Deathly Hallows" open in theaters?
They've got to make "Rasmus Lerdorf and the Order of the PHP" first.
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On Monday 23 July 2007 12:23, Ken Tozier wrote:
> The permissions for the "test" folder is set to me in a WebServer
> subfolder on Mac OS X.
What exactly does "permission ... set to me" mean?
> Do I need to set permissons to something else
> to get this to work? If so, what permissions should
On Monday 23 July 2007 08:45, Ryan A wrote:
> Disagree again, if Adam uploads or not, there is a whole bunch of stuff
> out there that he cant hope to download in a lifetime.
It was never mentioned *when* Adam uploaded his file, it could've been
when the site first started out and uploads then
On Sunday 22 July 2007 23:05, Ryan A wrote:
> Let me give you an example, "Adam" buys your book/cd/ or a video,
> "rips" it into digital format and uploads it onto...say... thepiratebay
> (since thats where you found your book's links) Adam does not make a
> cent by doing so,
Not exactly, Adam's
On Sunday 22 July 2007 18:13, David Powers wrote:
> That's why books keep on
> coming. The situation in the music industry is similar.
Perhaps you authors should make greater use of things like www.lulu.com
where you can dictate the terms and cut out the middle-men. But if you're
relying on the
On Saturday 21 July 2007 10:24, Jim Lucas wrote:
> So, I guess to sum up what the guy is talking about, I think he is
> right. Some of us might have been DDOSed from making posts on this
> list.
>
> my email address points right back to my web server.
>
> What does everybody else think?
Ther
On Saturday 21 July 2007 08:58, Richard Lynch wrote:
> In the olden days, it often turned into "slash the cover and donate it
> and collect tax break", I do believe, but I think that practice was
> decried and has decreased.
Just curious, which part was decried: "slash the cover" or "donate it an
On Saturday 21 July 2007 16:20, Jim Lucas wrote:
> more then likely, recycling a stack of newspapers would cost more then
> running my computer for a month.
Also reminds me of how some people (especially Americans) who drive miles
and miles in their big gas-guzzling SUVs so they could drop off t
On Saturday 21 July 2007 04:15, Tijnema wrote:
> Old paper can be recycled, lost energy from computers can't ;)
Recycling old paper use energy as well.
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On Wednesday 18 July 2007 22:12, Stut wrote:
> There is a very very important difference. Stealing/theft is a criminal
> offence. Copyright infringement is not. For you to be prosecuted for
> copyright infringement the injured party must bring a civil case.
Actually whether it's civil or criminal
On Monday 16 July 2007 20:51, Richard Davey wrote:
> Someone ought to create a 'carbon footprint per email sent'
> calculator. Total up how much energy is literally wasted in the
> transmission (and consequent receiving) of just one message. I bet if
> you add it all up it'd put a printed book, wh
On Monday 16 July 2007 19:42, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I guess that I'm naive. I've gotten a few "what's the address"
> requests, but none from authors...
What makes you think any of the authors are subscribed to this list? Even
if some are, what makes you think they monitor the list 24/7? They mig
On Friday 13 July 2007 22:38, Robert Cummings wrote:
> > in which the sender is responsible for storing the mail until the
> > intended recipient retrieves it seems like a good start.
>
> Bleh, that's so easily solvable for spammers. Create one real message,
> then softllink it for every actual em
On Friday 13 July 2007 14:07, Richard Lynch wrote:
> I'd give a lot of money to be able to teleport back in time and yell
> at the email designer folks to tell them just how horrible a mess they
> were making... :-)
But you have to give them credit for designing something so scaleable that
even
On Wednesday 11 July 2007 19:58, tedd wrote:
> If you bought an iPhone, please contact me off-list -- I have a
> question.
They have:
http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone
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On Wednesday 11 July 2007 21:32, Steven Macintyre wrote:
> Any takers on this ... I JUST want the duration of the mp3 file - with
> a small function if possible ... I honestly don't want to use a class
> like http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/112.html
>
> The coding is terrible and SERIOUSL
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 22:56, Stut wrote:
> > I saw there is a free version of Studio, but I think it's for
> > students... You cannot go build a corporate project with it I
> > think...
>
> More FUD. Go read the licence before claiming to know what it says!
Regardless, the "Express" version has
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 21:52, Stut wrote:
> > In short words it's not Micro$oft and you don't need to buy stuff to
> > develop in it.
>
> You have never needed to buy anything to develop ASP.net applications.
However, remember that many of the functions and extensions that PHP
has "builtin" are
On Saturday 30 June 2007 00:32, Jay Blanchard wrote:
> In short PHP cannot perform OCR functions.
Why? PHP provides all requisite functions/features so if someone was
sadistic enough and talented enough there's nothing to stop them writing
an OCR app using it.
> You could insert an OCR
> app
On Wednesday 27 June 2007 06:32, Edward Vermillion wrote:
> Most /tmp directories are world rwx. So anyone that can log into the
> server through a shell, or any account running on the server, has at
> least read access to anything in the /tmp directory. They wouldn't
> need to do it through a web
On Wednesday 27 June 2007 03:53, Daniel Brown wrote:
> On 6/26/07, Al Rider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think most systems have a /tmp directory above the web dir, so
> > outsiders can't watch it anyhow.
>
> True, but on an unsecured box, this becomes possible, as Apache
> will most likely
On Monday 25 June 2007 11:55, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
>- why cache script output on disk? if a fast cache is your goal,
> why not store the result of script output in memory rather than on
> disk; that would be much faster
Under most OSs whatever is on disk will end up cached in memory sooner or
On Saturday 23 June 2007 04:29, Tijnema wrote:
> > 3) This is basically the same as point 1, but I think it's still
> > worth making. I don't know about anyone else, but this is 1 of 14
> > lists I subscribe to. Keeping track of what's happening in all
> > current threads in all those lists is not
On Wednesday 20 June 2007 03:27, Robert Cummings wrote:
> > 1) study a selection of frameworks and learn from their strengths and
> > weaknesses then go on to create a kickass framework based on what
> > you've learnt
>
> Now, now, let's not pretend that you even nearly suggested that in your
> or
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 06:58, tedd wrote:
> Yes, but the fact still remains, for the exception of drug companies
> passing DNA sequences off as patents,
In the bad old U S of A you can patent your own grandmother (or at least
someone somewhere thinks you ought be able to).
> the *majority* of
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 13:47, Robert Cummings wrote:
> No, it's simple probability.
So it's probability now? Which has the greater probability:
1) study a selection of frameworks and learn from their strengths and
weaknesses then go on to create a kickass framework based on what you've
learnt
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 09:26, Robert Cummings wrote:
> Making up phrases and passing them off as though they are common adages
> only goes towards showing that you have no steam to your argument.
I really wish you would make up your mind. On the one hand you value
individuality and originality
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 09:35, Robert Cummings wrote:
> Ah but it is quite possible that the OP will go ahead and try to build
> a framework, he may fail miserably, all the while learning from his
> mistakes. Then he may try again and subsequently build a kickass
> framework.
In the pragmatic wo
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 09:12, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
> it seems to me most people use the terms flavor and distribution
> interchangeably when referring to linux.
Yeah and most people forget that linux (the kernel) is only a tiny part of
a "linux distribution".
> although gentoo linux [the only o
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 02:04, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
> discouraging new framework development is like telling the people of
> the world never to develop a new flavor of linux.
There are no new flavours of linux. You're probably mixing it up with
linux distributions of which there are many. Most of
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 02:18, Robert Cummings wrote:
> I put that exact phrase (double quoted of course) into Google and
> turned up the following:
>
> Your search - "there's a fine line between personal satisfaction
> and egotism" - did not match any documents.
>
> I'm going to guess you
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 00:36, tedd wrote:
> What about the wasted time in searching through "billions of
> half-baked to fully-baked
> frameworks" to find one that works for you? That's really a waste of
> time.
Well search through the fully-baked frameworks only, and don't create
another half-
On Monday 18 June 2007 04:00, Robert Cummings wrote:
> Typo... *yawn*.
Please lookup the real meaning of typo .
> You knew what was intended.
Of course. I'm not a computer and can make judgements based on context and
experience. I only brought it up because you seem to delight in
grammatical
On Monday 18 June 2007 13:15, makhan wrote:
Stop top posting.
> I am also using shell_exec('matlab -r myscript') to run
> my matlab script.
Using shell_exec('matlab -r /path/to/myscript') would be a better idea.
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On Monday 18 June 2007 02:12, Robert Cummings wrote:
> Why not? You're argument is invalid.
"You're" == "You are", which makes the above invalid, or at least
nonsensical.
> It suggests that since solutions
> already exist to a problem that we should lie down and leave things as
> they are. Pro
On Monday 18 June 2007 00:12, Robert Cummings wrote:
> Good reasons to write your own:
It's an extremely inefficient use of precious time. Inventing the wheel
over and over. Surely out of the billions of half-baked to fully-baked
frameworks out there must be something suitable for everyone. How
On Saturday 16 June 2007 22:00, Ryan A wrote:
> This is already possible via cpanel but rather than enter each
> address by hand in cpanel... is there anyway to do this via a php
> script so that as the user creates a userid and specifies his real
> address the forward is created?
Yeah, find ou
On Saturday 16 June 2007 03:47, Daniel Brown wrote:
> Once again, this doesn't matter so much for per-directory (though
> listing will take longer, as I think I mentioned) as it does the
> filesystem mount.
Several years ago, having say 3000+ files in single directory on ext2
would mean tha
On Saturday 16 June 2007 02:51, Daniel Brown wrote:
> And remember, the fact that they're all
> in one directory doesn't matter at all to the system, as directories,
> folders, et cetera, are just representations for human readability and
> organization. In fact, those files reside on several sec
On Friday 15 June 2007 21:23, Jochem Maas wrote:
[etc]
> IT is a joke, this list is joke, I'm a joke. no joke.
Someone give this guy his meds :)
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On Friday 15 June 2007 04:09, Martin Marques wrote:
> Using PHP 5.2.0 and I get this error:
>
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_list_encodings_alias_names()
> in /home/martin/prueba.php on line 3
>
> But mb_list_encodings() works like a charm. What's wrong?
RTFM
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On Friday 15 June 2007 07:39, Richard Davey wrote:
> Yeah, it makes buying software from the US a dream at the moment.
Huh? When software comes across the pond they usually markup at 1USD=1GBP
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On Friday 15 June 2007 06:50, Richard Davey wrote:
> VAT is 17.5%, doesn't apply to all goods (certain items are exempt)
Foodstuffs and "essential" items are exempt.
> and is in practise no different to your state taxes. Think yourself
> lucky it's only 17.5%, some European countries go way high
On Thursday 14 June 2007 17:11, Javier Leyba wrote:
Please trim your post!
> How much should be the lower limit to keep a family
> happy (happy means with enough money for a flat, food,
> clothes, entertainment, education and something to
> save for the future) ?
$salary = 3 + (sizeof($famil
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 12:39, Paul Scott wrote:
> Our interns and students specifically. They are all dead scared of
> joining mailing lists in general, and find that using a web based
> prettier interface is much easier and friendlier.
Not to mention slower, clumsier and more bandwidth hungr
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 00:22, Tijnema wrote:
> On 6/11/07, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 10:38 -0400, tedd wrote:
[snip]
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On Sunday 10 June 2007 04:12, Sukhwinder Singh wrote:
> $img_resized = ImageCreateTrueColor ($img_new_width, $img_new_height);
> But the above doesn't work using php 4.4.x and creates images with lots
> of white lines/dots in it. Some pixel is transparent and some it isn't.
> I have no knowedge a
On Sunday 10 June 2007 04:05, Robert Cummings wrote:
> Funny how the solution often presents itself after you make your
> problem public *lol* :) Wonder if it falls under Murphy's Law.
There should be a dummy list that people post to, if they don't work out
the answer themselves 10 minutes after
On Saturday 09 June 2007 02:21, Robert Cummings wrote:
> As for how this affects the aspect ratio of an image... it doesn't
> really, but the person who said that "You can't really be 'approximate'
> when coding" didn't exactly confine it to the question about aspect
> ratio and an image.
Taking
On Saturday 09 June 2007 01:22, Daniel Brown wrote:
> I actually haven't found a platform yet that I couldn't port PHP
> to, if it wasn't already native. We're talking Windows, Linux, BSD,
> true *nix, MacOS, SunOS, Amiga, et cetera. I doubt it would run on my
> old Commodore 64 with the 154
On Friday 08 June 2007 22:17, tedd wrote:
> >> Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 11:41:19 AM, you wrote:
> >> > I want to force users to insert landscape rather portrait images.
> >> > I don't want to be too pedantic about it but they do need to have
> >> > an
> >>
> >>approximate 4x3
> >>
> >> > aspe
On Friday 08 June 2007 04:10, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote:
> I found one intersting item though: Under the "What does Python have
> that PHP doesn't?" header, there's a bullet stating that "support for
> all major GUI frameworks". I know that both php and python have support
> for gtk. Am I to unde
On Friday 08 June 2007 13:50, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> > Micro$oft expressed interest in Python. But I don't know whether it's
> > a trap or bait... :)
>
> I said these because of Foxpro. Micro$oft bought it, improved it. But
> now that Micro$oft wanan go .NET, Visual Foxpro was discontinued.
>
> Sam
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 21:33, Robert Cummings wrote:
> You certainly can be "approximate" when coding. It's called heuristics
> and it's an absolute necessity in many areas of software development.
But you still have to define _precisely_ how "approximate" you want to be.
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On Thursday 31 May 2007 01:33, Jared Farrish wrote:
> Can anybody spot why this doesn't seem to be working right? The manual
> ( http://us2.php.net/preg_match) says it returns "false" on error, but
> preg_last_error() returns 0, which I assume points to the
> "PREG_NO_ERROR" error code.
>
>
> pre
On Thursday 24 May 2007 04:57, Jay Blanchard wrote:
> Send this all to the developer's list
Too late now. The damage has been done. Fixing all the inconsistencies
would either break backward compatibility or introduce a whole raft of
yet more aliases.
Rasmus should have applied strict controls
On Thursday 24 May 2007 00:51, Greg Donald wrote:
> As I watch PHP de-evolve into Java, I find myself wanting something
> lighter weight and with a smaller syntax.
PHP has long since spawned into something uncontrollable. Compare the
number of functions (and its aliases) to eg Ruby. The string
On Monday 21 May 2007 19:33, Rob Desbois wrote:
> How often does the timezone DB (php_timezonedb.dll) actually *need* to
> be updated?
Whenever jurisdictions around the world change their time?
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On Friday 18 May 2007 01:00, Richard Davey wrote:
> Viruses? God, that old bullshit ladened chestnut*. At least come up
> with some kind of valid OS argument, please. If you'd gone for
> 'competent use of the CPU', or 'effective memory management', you'd be
> worth taking seriously.
In a roundabo
On Monday 14 May 2007 07:30, Daniel Brown wrote:
Please don't top post.
> The biggest thing to remember is that a license is like a key
> it's meant to keep an honest man honest, but won't stop someone who is
> intent on taking what they want for a profit.
Sure, but if you don't make you
On Monday 14 May 2007 18:41, Don Don wrote:
> am thinking echo $arrayName['Errors']['ErrorId']; // should display the
> value but it does not Anyone wants to shed more light ?
echo $arrayName['Errors'][0]['ErrorId']; // ??
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On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:17, Micky Hulse wrote:
> I will definitely read-up on the MIT license after I get some zzZZzz's!
Don't forget the MIT license allows people to incorporate your code into
commercial products and sell for profit without having to give anything
back (money/improved code/et
On Friday 11 May 2007 03:08, Dave Goodchild wrote:
> Another small and unrelated point - you don't need to use double quotes
> inside the array brackets - you're not processing them at all.
You seemed to have left out:
"use single quotes instead".
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On Friday 11 May 2007 12:45, Robert Cummings wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 21:23 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestion and concern. Fear not, I'm a PHP Guru as
> > mentioned.
>
> A Guru would have spent 60 seconds testing to see if the
> session_start() scenario worked BEFORE
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