Re: [PHP] Re: Sending PHP mail with Authentication

2013-09-29 Thread Paul M Foster
rather well. > I have to agree on the code bloat. Unless your requirements are extraordinary (which the OP's are), the native PHP mail() function is generally quite adequate. Never thought about creating a PHP email client. Interesting idea... Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz

Re: [PHP] Static methods vs. plain functions

2013-09-19 Thread Paul M Foster
ted. For example, the interface to a DBMS is something which may involve many many functions. It is definitely something which benefits from OOP code, not flat functions. I've personally found that dates benefit from this same treatment. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://qu

Re: [PHP] PHP Dependency Injector

2013-09-05 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 04:19:18PM -0400, Bastien Koert wrote: > Jee, that should have been a friday comment..."how does your dic standout" Don't send emails like that to the list when I've got a mouthful of water! It all came out my nose! ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster htt

Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA

2013-08-20 Thread Paul M Foster
bly heavy language for web work. Much like Ruby but more so. I'll say it again-- one of the reasons for the popularity of PHP is its similarity to C, at least a passing skill in which is common to most programmers. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] how to see all sessions sets in server

2013-08-04 Thread Paul M Foster
nuine, but I'm not *that* > unpopular! I'm sorry. Were you saying something? As soon as I saw "Ashley Sheridan" in my email client, it closed and my computer rebooted for some strange reason. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- P

Re: [PHP] POST action

2013-08-01 Thread Paul M Foster
defend the indefensible and champion the cause of spaghetti code! So there! ;-P Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] POST action

2013-07-29 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:50:01AM -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > On 7/28/13 9:23 PM, Paul M Foster wrote: > >On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 08:46:06PM -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: [snip] > > > >Except as noted above. This is all home-grown, using native PHP > >functions

Re: [PHP] POST action

2013-07-28 Thread Paul M Foster
d when writing the POST-handling code with the idea in mind that no matter what the HTML says, the return value must conform to what *I* think it should be. No MVC framework written by others (though I do conform to MVC paradigm). Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Reseting the auto-increment number in a MySQL database.

2013-06-27 Thread Paul M Foster
x27;t interrupted the way it should have been. I remember the system taking forever to calm down before it gave the next transaction a number way forward of the last one. I waited in front of my browser for quite some time. But I couldn't explain why. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.

Re: [PHP] Migration of applications to PHP 5.4

2013-06-25 Thread Paul M Foster
mately, you'll probably need to contact the authors of the individual packages to get them to upgrade, so they can see the problems and fix them. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Detect and Redirect Mobile Users

2013-06-12 Thread Paul M Foster
e main indicator, the screens on mobile devices have become progressively more and more capable. Some of them are better than many desktops I've seen. So I'd be interested in the answer to the question myself. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PH

Re: [PHP] limit access to php page

2013-05-30 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:06:02PM -0400, Tedd Sperling wrote: > On May 29, 2013, at 11:05 PM, Paul M Foster > wrote: > >> http://sperling.com/php/authorization/log-on.php > > > > I realize this is example code. > > > > My question is, in a real

Re: [PHP] limit access to php page

2013-05-29 Thread Paul M Foster
than I have) could rather easily hack the session value to change its value. But then again, I pretty much suck when it comes to working out how you'd "hack" (crack) things. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-04 Thread Paul M Foster
m that we do > not want cold-calling SEO marketing messages. Since that message there has > been a significant reduction in emails from legitimate SEO companies. "legitimate SEO companies" ROTFL! (Oh, sorry, did I say that out loud?) Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com

Re: [PHP] target question

2013-03-25 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 04:37:50PM +, Stuart Dallas wrote: > On 25 Mar 2013, at 16:35, "Ford, Mike" wrote: > > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Paul M Foster [mailto:pa...@quillandmouse.com] > >> Sent: 25 March 2013 16:09 > >> &g

Re: [PHP] target question

2013-03-25 Thread Paul M Foster
ll it. The browser determines what helper application it will use to open it when it downloads the content. Whether to open a separate window/tab is determined by the HTML the browser is looking at when it makes the content request. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Open form in new window

2013-03-04 Thread Paul M Foster
ead, but are you sure you want multiple > submit buttons, especially more than two? > There are probably better solutions for what you want, for example, radio > button to select which action to take? > > - Matijn I have to agree with Matijn for this reason: If the user hits the [

Re: [PHP] Re: Open form in new window

2013-03-04 Thread Paul M Foster
vascript/AJAX call or a synchronous PHP call (on a standard PHP form submission). What am I missing? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Formatting -- defining sections of code

2012-12-14 Thread Paul M Foster
suggest downloading something like CodeIgniter, and studying the way they structure their code physically. They may not be the optimum example, but for a well-known framework, their code base is relatively slim and well-organized. Also, obviously, study the MVC (model-view-controller) paradigm. It&

Re: [PHP] storing & searching docs

2012-12-12 Thread Paul M Foster
tadata about the text objects would be stored separately from the "payload" (text object). Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] PHP site search broken?

2012-12-04 Thread Paul M Foster
not always) does the same thing. Etc. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Beneficial site spamming framework

2012-10-11 Thread Paul M Foster
is is a risky question for a public list. Feel free to contact me privately if you think the answer shouldn't be in the archives of a public list. Likewise, if you can point me to a source of quickly absorbable research on the subject. I frankly don't know how I'd google such a thin

Re: [PHP] Day after Friday

2012-09-23 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 09:33:33AM -0400, Tedd Sperling wrote: > On Sep 22, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Paul M Foster > wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 01:05:51PM -0400, Tedd Sperling wrote: > > > >> Hi gang: > >> > >> I know it's the Day after Frida

Re: [PHP] Day after Friday

2012-09-22 Thread Paul M Foster
CakePHP, Code Igniter, etc. Administrators! Ach! Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Bounce messages

2012-09-21 Thread Paul M Foster
list. BUT is there no way of cleaning up the bounce emails > we all get when posting to the list(s)? > > ( Waits to delete all the bounce messages for this post :) ) Not seeing bounce messages here. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General M

Re: [PHP] Re: Programmers and developers needed

2012-09-18 Thread Paul M Foster
ommon providers of ad content are localhost, making most requests for ad content yield 404 errors. I bought TiVo partially so I could skip ads. I've revelled in it every day since. I can watch an hour-long program in 47 minutes. (Though this is a sad commentary on television and cable c

Re: [PHP] The end of "mysql"

2012-09-08 Thread Paul M Foster
stepped into the middle of a conversation. What's this about "announced end of the mysql functions"? Who exactly announced what, and is there a link to whatever announcement somewhere? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] FoxPro Table Structure

2012-08-28 Thread Paul M Foster
needed. The code is on SourceForge. See: http://noferblatz.com/dbfsak.php If you download the code and need help, just let me know. I believe the command line switch you're looking for is -i, as in: dbfsak -i mytable.dbf Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.co

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice / Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-18 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 05:10:39PM -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: >On Aug 18, 2012 4:49 PM, "Paul M Foster" <[1]pa...@quillandmouse.com> >wrote: >> >> I can comment on part of this based on what I was recently told by an >> SEO company

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice / Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-18 Thread Paul M Foster
o earthly idea what they're talking about. In this case, what they're saying makes sense to me, and I suspect it's true. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Two ways to obtain an object property

2012-08-15 Thread Paul M Foster
ng to have to make that decision in an "if" statement repeatedly, I'd probably say: $isSubscribed = $crntUser->isASubscriber(); just because in subsequent code, you're not suffering the (admittedly small) repeated overhead of the function call. But in answer to your ques

Re: [PHP] Re: What do you call the end-user?

2012-07-24 Thread Paul M Foster
ocs for anything. Very true. Also, apparently in some quarters, "free" == "worthless". But in the case of FOSS, nothing could be further from the truth. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] Re: [PHP] The Cat Signal

2012-07-20 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:04:30AM +0100, Lester Caine wrote: > Paul M Foster wrote: > >Here's another one: There are currently discussions in the U.S. Congress > >in favor of forcing internet vendors to charge sales tax on*all* sales, > >regardless of whether the ven

Re: [PHP] What do you call the end-user?

2012-07-19 Thread Paul M Foster
waste time. But when you get older, your time becomes progressively more valuable to you. In this case, I wouldn't want to waste my time on what you describe. I don't care how big the check is. I have too many other more important things to do with my time. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.c

Re: [PHP] Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] Re: [PHP] The Cat Signal

2012-07-19 Thread Paul M Foster
ide. Yay. You might want to get busy on that one. Governments and large corporations are about power and *control*. The internet is the antithesis of this. So expect their efforts to control some or all of the internet to continue until they succeed. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http:/

Re: [PHP] What do you call the end-user?

2012-07-19 Thread Paul M Foster
tem. You didn't learn to drive by just sitting in a car and guessing how it is done. Don't expect a web-based application to be operable simply by guessing, necessarily. By the way, I'm quite happy to write documentation for systems. Unfortunately, more than half the people who read anything

Re: [PHP] Creating drop-down menus

2012-07-17 Thread Paul M Foster
ttle CPU meter in my taskbar. And nothing jacks that meter up like Javascript. I don't know why, but Javascript just devours CPU on my computer. The more javascript, the worse. And like I said, JQuery is a LOT of code. This is one of the reasons I tend to code things in PHP instead of Javascript.

Re: [PHP] PDO: extend or encapsulate?

2012-07-13 Thread Paul M Foster
e of the classes involved. Besides, it exposes methods which I would prefer not be used by my code. Encapsulation limits the methods of the classes to just what I deem necessary and no more. I can always write new methods if I need them. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http:/

Re: [PHP] Entry point of an MVC framework

2012-07-12 Thread Paul M Foster
ing to store data on butterflies is exceptionally difficult. You really want to isolate that in your models. Fortunately, the herding_cats design pattern works equally well with butterflies. (Welcome to Friday, half a day early! ;-) Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandm

Re: [PHP] Entry point of an MVC framework

2012-07-12 Thread Paul M Foster
eep open on your desktop all day. I prefer to develop shallow classes which deal with specific aspects of page handling (dates, databases, encryption, users, etc.). Then use those as part of the "toolkit", assembled (again on a shallow basis) in a loosely MVC pattern. If I make a mistake, I shou

Re: [PHP] Entry point of an MVC framework

2012-07-12 Thread Paul M Foster
by those who believe there's such a mythical beast as "pretty URLs" preferred by search engines (there isn't). It requires the use of .htaccess files and Apache's mod_rewrite, which you may not have in a shared hosting environment. Hopefully that helps. Paul -- Paul M.

Re: [PHP] disabled cookies

2012-06-04 Thread Paul M Foster
27;m not sure I could take less-than-bright government bureaucrats telling me how to do the job of programming. No offense, Ash, but you can keep your parliament. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Open Call: Official PHP Mirror

2012-06-02 Thread Paul M Foster
x27;re applying, shared hosting clients, Droids, > Borg, Klingons, Romulans, toddlers, and the gum disease known as > "gingivitis." There I was, ready to volunteer, until I saw "Romulans". Geez, a few bad apples spoiling it for the rest of us. Crap. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Fost

Re: [PHP] Happy Diamond Jubilee everyone!

2012-06-01 Thread Paul M Foster
guys all have a great weekend, more so if you're > unlucky enough to be working over the whole 4 days :-/ *Very* nice work! Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Function size

2012-05-30 Thread Paul M Foster
that other function was *actually* doing. Rule: NEVER assume you know what a function is doing by looking at its name. ALWAYS satisfy yourself that you know what a function is doing by *looking* at what it's doing. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Function size

2012-05-30 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:40:25PM +0200, Matijn Woudt wrote: [snip] > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Paul M Foster > wrote: [snip] > > > > I think a lot of coders try to be kewler than the next 18 guys who are > > gonna have to look at the code, so they u

Re: [PHP] Function size

2012-05-29 Thread Paul M Foster
to, say, APL or Lisp/Scheme. And to some extent they model how most people (programmers) would naturally approach the solution of programming problems. (Of course, there are always the oddballs like me who still prefer reverse polish notation on our calculators. Go figure.) Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Function size

2012-05-29 Thread Paul M Foster
is much worse than > having more than 20 lines in a function. I think a lot of coders try to be kewler than the next 18 guys who are gonna have to look at the code, so they use a lot of "compression" techniques to reduce LOC. Plus, they're lazy. I'd rather see everything wi

Re: [PHP] PHP: a fractal of bad design

2012-04-11 Thread Paul M Foster
omplete for Javascript. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Swiftlet is quite possibly the smallest MVC framework you'll ever use.

2012-02-13 Thread Paul M Foster
there somewhere. I can see it right there, and it comforts me. Maybe all this is my "C" upbringing Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Swiftlet is quite possibly the smallest MVC framework you'll ever use.

2012-02-12 Thread Paul M Foster
he current file depends. It sort of obviates the autoloader stuff, but I'd rather do that than spend hours trying to track down which file in which directory contains the class which paints the screen blue or whatever. (Yes, I'm aware that require_once() introduces some latency.) Just some

Re: Re: Re: [PHP] What's Your Favorite Design Pattern?

2012-02-08 Thread Paul M Foster
gone along to > look into XNS). I remember working for Xerox (copy center employee) around that time, and seeing all kinds of talk in the company materials about *Ethernet*. They explained the basic protocol and compared it to token ring, and I just thought, "Hmm, yes, that se

Re: Re: [PHP] What's Your Favorite Design Pattern?

2012-02-07 Thread Paul M Foster
seudocode about how it might be constructed. I imagine the authors looked at a lot of code and discovered that programmers were coming up with code that, in each case was remarkably similar for solving certain types of programming problems. So they codified what that found and wrote a book about it. I have

Re: [PHP] Arrays: Comma at end?

2012-02-07 Thread Paul M Foster
uld prefer to have the trailing comma... I just can't believe I > have avoided using it for all these years. > > Thanks! > Micky I've always avoided trailing array commas, but only because I was under the impression that leaving one there would append a blank array member

Re: [PHP] Headers on smart phone browsers

2012-02-06 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:01:45PM +, Stuart Dallas wrote: > On 6 Feb 2012, at 05:58, Paul M Foster wrote: > > > This is sort of obliquely related to PHP. > > > > I don't have a smart phone, but I need to know a couple of things: > > There are simula

Re: [PHP] Headers on smart phone browsers

2012-02-06 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 04:04:28PM -0500, Adam Richardson wrote: >On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Adam Richardson <[1]simples...@gmail.com> >wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Paul M Foster > <[2]pa...@quillandmouse.com> wrote: > >

Re: [PHP] Headers on smart phone browsers

2012-02-06 Thread Paul M Foster
so long as handhelds remain at crappy resolutions. But I don't expect that to be the case forever. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Headers on smart phone browsers

2012-02-06 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 02:28:42PM -0600, Donovan Brooke wrote: > Paul M Foster wrote: > >This is sort of obliquely related to PHP. > > > >I don't have a smart phone, but I need to know a couple of things: > > > >1) Do smart phones use the same browsers as

[PHP] Headers on smart phone browsers

2012-02-05 Thread Paul M Foster
desktop or smart phone version of a webpage)? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Variable Troubleshooting Code

2012-01-09 Thread Paul M Foster
rint "\n"; print_r($var); print "\n"; } I use this routine wherever I want to see what's going on. It formats (particularly) array output so that I can read it, instead of having everything look like JSON, which is much harder to read. Feel free to use the ab

Re: [PHP] PDF Printing instead?

2012-01-05 Thread Paul M Foster
ory and provide a link to it on a webpage. The user can then simply click on the link and their browser will open it and provide the native (usually Adobe Reader) interface for viewing and printing it. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mai

Re: [PHP] Way to output HTML on professional websites

2011-12-26 Thread Paul M Foster
er language decoding the "pseudo-HTML" above and displaying it. Kind of a waste, in my opinion, though a lot of people swear by templating systems. Again, my opinion, they're lazy typists. In any case, I think you'll find that most CMS based site presentations are based on temp

Re: [PHP] Re: Question regarding passwords/security

2011-12-22 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:55:41PM -0500, Al wrote: > > > On 12/22/2011 10:05 AM, Paul M Foster wrote: > >Not sure how to ask this question... I've always eschewed consulting a > >database on page loads to determine if a user is logged in, primarily > >becaus

[PHP] Question regarding passwords/security

2011-12-22 Thread Paul M Foster
han consulting the table. Is there any concensus or overwhelming argument one way or the other? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Finding and reading firefox bookmarks with PHP

2011-11-28 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:59:03AM -0500, David McGlone wrote: > On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 22:20 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 06:47:36PM -0500, David McGlone wrote: > > > > > Hi all, I am wondering if it's possible to find the bookmarks file in

Re: [PHP] Finding and reading firefox bookmarks with PHP

2011-11-27 Thread Paul M Foster
t right. (For example, I don't know why the first key I mentioned is 2 instead of 1.) Anyway, I have my Firefox set up this way. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] news and article posts in one table

2011-11-26 Thread Paul M Foster
this table in an active blog, with a survey of each of the fields and their values. You'll see what I mean. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Tutorial for the structure of an php-app ?

2011-11-26 Thread Paul M Foster
o actually build a house out of those > things. Aside from the fact that, yes, much of what you're asking for has to do with the user interface and not PHP, there is no ONE way to build a PHP app. PHP is flexible enough to allow you to do it any of a number of ways. Paul -- Pa

Re: [PHP] Multiple SQLite statements

2011-10-10 Thread Paul M Foster
It *appears* that this may be how it actually works, > but I wondered if anyone could confirm that. -- Cheers -- Tim > The docs appear to agree that this is allowed. See: http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.sqlite-exec.php Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http:/

Re: [PHP] Need help Wth PHP

2011-10-10 Thread Paul M Foster
ows the site owner to directly modify the site, without having to call a programmer or web developer. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Secure data management

2011-10-07 Thread Paul M Foster
I post/ask because I am wanting to > SEE the whole everything like you few experts here who really know > exactly what everyone is talking about (or when they are just groping > in the dark). There is more to SQL injection than getting the quoting correct. In my understanding, prepared st

Re: [PHP] Any free online tests to test my PHP knowledge?

2011-09-22 Thread Paul M Foster
ng PHP code, I don't do well on those tests. Helps my confidence a lot, as you can imagine. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] What determines your use of the type of DB framework/abstract?

2011-09-22 Thread Paul M Foster
ORM gets in the way of multi-table foreign-key reliant queries. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: Re: [PHP] What would you like to see in most in a text editor?

2011-09-14 Thread Paul M Foster
nd then *upload* them to the blog. That, and the silly idea that one should store huge masses of text in relation databases; large masses of text should be stored as what they are-- flat files. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Code should be selv-maintaining!

2011-08-31 Thread Paul M Foster
> Cheers, Rob. > > No, not indenting braces is T > LYY. > > Make things uniform -- a condition followed by indented code located > between equally indented braces makes sense to me. > How people read > other code styles is a m

Re: [PHP] PHP frameworks

2011-07-21 Thread Paul M Foster
you, Try CodeIgniter ( http://codeigniter.com ). It's a lightweight, well-engineered framework with relatively transparent code (meaning you can examine the source and see relatively easily what they're doing). Documentation is some of the best out there. Paul -- Paul M. Fo

Re: [PHP] How to sum monetary variables

2011-07-18 Thread Paul M Foster
arithmetic in an environment where you're doing mostly adds and subtracts, store data as integers and do your math that way. Only convert to decimal for display. If you're doing multiplies and divides, do them with the multi-precision PHP functions. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://

Re: [PHP] Re: Re: Top Posting

2011-07-06 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 04:24:29PM -0500, Tamara Temple wrote: > > On Jul 6, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Paul M Foster wrote: > >Postfix is a *nix program which can be connected to whatever > >program you > >use to grab mail with. With postfix, you write "recipes" which d

Re: [PHP] Re: Re: Top Posting

2011-07-06 Thread Paul M Foster
te folder. Moreover, it's not just for spam. It can be used to filter out duplicate emails, file copies of emails under different folders by subject, etc. It also makes for a great car wax and salad dressing. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com --

Re: [PHP] Re: Top Posting

2011-07-05 Thread Paul M Foster
ead adoption of Outlook as a reason why top-posting is superior (because business people demand it) is silly. No offense, but it's pretty weak reasoning. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Top Posting

2011-07-05 Thread Paul M Foster
x27;re stuck with exactly what you described. However, you can make life easier both on yourself and the rest of us by snipping content not relevant to your reply (that doesn't mean *all* preceding content). Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com --

Re: [PHP] Create a hierarchical hash from flat source

2011-06-24 Thread Paul M Foster
changed assign_children to be > >> > >>function assign_children($id,$list,&$leaf) > >> > >>Which solved that also! > > > >Ah, pointers, how we love them. The bane of every CS undergrad. > > Bane? I thought they were elegant :) The way you kn

Re: [PHP] Doctrine madness!

2011-06-16 Thread Paul M Foster
and Drupal are used pretty extensively in the "big website" category. Of course, if you ever want to do anything outside the Drupal/Joomla "box", you're looking at a helluva lot of work and time. I've been there (briefly). Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com

Re: [PHP] Doctrine madness!

2011-06-16 Thread Paul M Foster
isfied with the delivery time, but complain about latency, isn't what I'd consider acceptable. Looking at some of the code that comprises most ORM and other frameworks (but particularly ORM frameworks) the bloat is amazing. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quill

[PHP] Uncatchable errors

2011-06-13 Thread Paul M Foster
y and trace of the error. Any way to have things like parse errors do the same thing? Pointers to prior threads would do fine. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Class not used as an object (Scope Resolution Operator)

2011-06-09 Thread Paul M Foster
they can simply be external functions. These may be grouped this way for logical reasons, but if I have functions like this (which relate to a class but don't depend on the class), I generally put them in the class source file but outside the class. They become global as soon as the source file is include()ed. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] phpsadness - P.C. shmee seee.

2011-06-05 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:52:15PM -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > and I'm "balding" from Alopecia Me too, but in my case, it's just 'cause I'm old. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (ht

Re: [PHP] Announcing New PHP Extension: System Detonation Library (was: phpsadness)

2011-06-03 Thread Paul M Foster
e > a few moments this morning to build and release a new PHP extension, > which provides a single function: detonate(). > > Third, you can read about it and download it here: > http://links.parasane.net/29nh +1! Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.c

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Paul M Foster
> > > > > Yes, to be preceded with: > > > > echo('Alaho Akbar'); > > > > Nice ... any idea how many people you just insulted there? I'm guessing no one with an actual sense of humor. I suspect most people snickered at the joke and a

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-02 Thread Paul M Foster
he index for "The C Programming Language" for recursion, which points right back to that index page. I about doubled over when I first discovered it. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-29 Thread Paul M Foster
imagine that interleaved replies or bottom posting will never be considered offensive on any list. Whereas we all know that top posting can often be considered offensive, depending on the list. By the way, bottom posting only really becomes offensive when you fail to trim as needed. Paul -- Pa

Re: [PHP] simple question abt convert to integer

2011-05-24 Thread Paul M Foster
ows() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean > given in > > *Warning*: mysql_num_fields() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean > given in ** Your error messages clearly mean that 1) you're not getting a proper resource object back from mysql_query(), or 2) you're somehow

Re: [PHP] A Review Request

2011-05-20 Thread Paul M Foster
-) OMG! She must be related to *my* wife! ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] A Review Request

2011-05-19 Thread Paul M Foster
but I'm still interested in how other people do these things. I never know when I might learn something. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Consistent Class Renaming (Simple Refactoring)

2011-05-16 Thread Paul M Foster
" error. Well of course, you would get that error. But I'm completely lost beyond that point. Why must both scripts use the same class names in them? Why not call the class in script2.php "B" instead of "A"? I'm guessing you left out a huge piece of explanation here. &

[PHP] Running PHP5 in a PHP4 environment

2011-05-12 Thread Paul M Foster
eems like if the PHP interpreter hit some "future code" it didn't understand, it would issue a syntax warning or something similar. Is there some way I can squeeze some identifiable error code out of PHP 4 to indicate it's hit PHP 5 code it doesn't understand? Paul

Re: [PHP] Using SQLite without hosting support

2011-05-03 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 02:14:17PM -0400, ad...@buskirkgraphics.com wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: Paul M Foster [mailto:pa...@quillandmouse.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 12:36 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Using SQLite witho

[PHP] Using SQLite without hosting support

2011-05-03 Thread Paul M Foster
uct, is it possible to run PHP5 and use SQLite, even if support for it is not built in? The dl() function has some restrictions on it which might prohibit its use, so is there some way to use SQLite in this situation without resorting to using the dl() function? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblat

Re: [PHP] JavaScript Injection ???

2011-04-18 Thread Paul M Foster
hy. The most popular reason > thus far is "Browsers have changed", but I'm not sure as to what did > change. No longer works for *you*. Works fine for me. Ergo, I have to assume it's a browser issue. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] email w/attachments

2011-04-18 Thread Paul M Foster
n't work. I'm > about to pull out what hair I have left. Links from a prior thread on this subject (not thoroughly examined): http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Composing-Messages-in-HTML-for-MIME-Email-with-PHP/ http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt5/html-email-multi.htm Paul

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