Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA

2013-08-20 Thread Pete Ford
On 20/08/13 15:00, Tedd Sperling wrote: Hi guys: A teacher at my college made the statement that JAVA for Web Development is more popular than PHP. Where can I go to prove this right or wrong -- and/or -- what references do any of you have to support your answer? (sounds like a teacher, huh?)

Re: AW: [PHP] PHP is Zero

2013-06-13 Thread Pete Ford
On 13/06/13 10:44, BUSCHKE Daniel wrote: Hi, thanks for your answer. Especially the answer "42" made me laughing :) My "Why" questions should be understand as "Why must it be like that" questions. On 13/06/13 08:59, BUSCHKE Daniel wrote: 5. Thats a bug I have opend: https://bugs.php.net/bug.ph

Re: [PHP] PHP is Zero

2013-06-13 Thread Pete Ford
On 13/06/13 08:59, BUSCHKE Daniel wrote: Hi all, I want to start a discussion about a PHP behaviour that drives me crazy for years. For the beginning I would like you to guess what the result of the following snippet will be: var_dump('PHP' == 0); I know the difference of == and === but the r

[PHP] Re: Tree menu list in php

2011-07-27 Thread Pete Ford
On 26/07/11 18:20, alekto wrote: Hi, is there a way to create a tree menu list only by using php/html/css? I found some, but they are all in JavaScript, do I have to make them by using JavaScript or is there a way in php as well? This is how I imagine the tree menu should look like: v First l

Re: [PHP] Constants in strings

2011-07-08 Thread Pete Ford
On 06/07/11 17:33, Robert Williams wrote: Where I've made most use of heredocs is when I want to do nothing but define a bunch of long strings in one file. I find the most useful thing about heredocs is that they don't care about quotation marks, so I often use them for SQL statements where I

Re: [PHP] Ftp upload

2011-06-15 Thread Pete Ford
On 15/06/11 01:24, Marc Guay wrote: I bought a 1GB external hard drive for $1000. Did I just choke on my lunch? If that was about 20 years ago, then it would be fine! -- Peter Ford, Developer phone: 01580 89 fax: 01580 893399 Justcroft International Ltd.

Re: [PHP] PHP download page blocking other HTTP requests

2011-06-07 Thread Pete Ford
On 06/06/11 21:07, Richard Quadling wrote: On 6 June 2011 13:55, Pete Ford wrote: Is there something on the Apache/PHP end that might be causing this blocking? (Apache 2.2.10, PHP 5.2.14) The browser and / or OS may be obeying the settings about the number of simultaneous connections per

[PHP] PHP download page blocking other HTTP requests

2011-06-06 Thread Pete Ford
I have a file download 'guardian' page which does something like this: $size = filesize($path); $fi = @finfo_file($path, FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE); @header('Content-type: ' . $fi); @header('Content-Length: ' . $size); @readfile($path); exit; ($path is derived from parameters in the request, including

Re: [PHP] Re: Date validation

2011-05-23 Thread Pete Ford
On 23/05/11 13:12, tedd wrote: At 9:47 AM +0100 5/23/11, Pete Ford wrote: Finally, for some applications I have made an AJAX (javascript + PHP) implementation which provides feedback to the user as they type in the date field: every time a character is typed in the box, the backend is asked to

[PHP] Re: Date validation

2011-05-23 Thread Pete Ford
On 20/05/11 16:29, Geoff Lane wrote: On Friday, May 20, 2011, Peter Lind wrote: Try: $date = new DateTime($date_string_to_validate); echo $date->format('Y-m-d'); Many thanks. Unfortunately, as I mentioned in my OP, the DateTime class seems to be 'broken' for my purposes because it uses str

Re: [PHP] Closing Session (Revisited)

2011-05-23 Thread Pete Ford
On 22/05/11 06:46, Roger Riordan wrote: On Thu, 05 May 2011 08:28:53 -0400, sstap...@mnsi.net (Steve Staples) wrote: On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 21:41 +1000, Roger Riordan wrote: I have developed a common engine which I use for several different websites. I had been using PHP 5.2.? and IE6 (yes; I

Re: [PHP] Warning: session_start()

2011-05-19 Thread Pete Ford
On 19/05/11 10:37, Tim Streater wrote: On 19 May 2011 at 10:20, Richard Quadling wrote: On 18 May 2011 19:15, Nazish wrote: Hi everyone, code, code, code. ?> The session cookie must be sent prior to any output. Including, but not limited to, comments, whitespace, HTML code, etc.

[PHP] Re: XML... Useful or another layer of complexity?

2011-04-04 Thread Pete Ford
On 03/04/11 19:41, Jason Pruim wrote: So the subject says it all... And yes I know this isn't related to PHP but it's the weekend and I trust the opinions on this list more then any other list I have seen. I've been doing alot of reading on XML and honestly it looks pretty cool... BUT the ques

[PHP] Re: mysql_num_rows()

2011-02-24 Thread Pete Ford
On 22/02/11 14:40, Gary wrote: "Pete Ford" wrote in message news:76.48.39221.054c3...@pb1.pair.com... On 22/02/11 13:59, Gary wrote: "Pete Ford" wrote in message news:a4.c0.39221.b3ca3...@pb1.pair.com... On 22/02/11 05:40, Gary wrote: Can someone tell me why this is no

[PHP] Re: Dynamically Created Checkboxes

2011-02-23 Thread Pete Ford
This bit? On 22/02/11 22:06, Gary wrote: for($i=1; $i<=$_POST['counties']; $i++) { if ( isset($_POST["county{$i}"] ) ) { You loop over $_POST['counties'] and look for $_POST["county$i"] I suspect that there is no field 'counties' in your form, so the server is complaining about the missing i

[PHP] Re: mysql_num_rows()

2011-02-22 Thread Pete Ford
On 22/02/11 13:59, Gary wrote: "Pete Ford" wrote in message news:a4.c0.39221.b3ca3...@pb1.pair.com... On 22/02/11 05:40, Gary wrote: Can someone tell me why this is not working? I do not get an error message, the results are called and echo'd to screen, the count does not work

[PHP] Re: mysql_num_rows()

2011-02-22 Thread Pete Ford
On 22/02/11 05:40, Gary wrote: Can someone tell me why this is not working? I do not get an error message, the results are called and echo'd to screen, the count does not work, I get a 0 for a result... $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `counties` WHERE name = 'checked'") or die(mysql_erro

Re: [PHP] Submitting data to MySQL database using HTML/PHP form

2011-02-21 Thread Pete Ford
On 20/02/11 21:37, Nazish wrote: Issue resolved! It turned out to be the use of quotations. Instead of double quotations to surround the $insert variable, it worked with single quotations: $insert = ' INSERT INTO user_info (login,password) VALUES ("'.$login.'", "'.$passw

Re: [PHP] HTML errors

2011-01-13 Thread Pete Ford
On 12/01/11 14:13, Richard Quadling wrote: On 12 January 2011 14:07, Steve Staples wrote: On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 13:40 +, Richard Quadling wrote: On 12 January 2011 13:20, Steve Staples wrote: Jim, Not to be a smart ass like Danial was (which was brilliantly written though), but you hav

[PHP] Re: HTML errors

2011-01-12 Thread Pete Ford
On 12/01/11 03:35, David McGlone wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm having a problem validating some links I have in a foreach. Here is my code: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> my PHP code: $categorys = array('home', 'services', 'gallery', 'about_us', 'contact_us', 'testimonials'); foreach($categ

[PHP] Re: Form Processing

2010-11-30 Thread Pete Ford
On 29/11/10 23:54, Ron Piggott wrote: I am unable to retrieve the value of $referral_1 from: $new_email = mysql_escape_string ( $_POST['referral_$i'] ); why? PHP while lopp to check if any of the fields were populated: $i=1; while ( $i<= 5 ) { $new_email = mysql_escape_string ( $_POS

Re: [PHP] Re: Xpath arguments in variable

2010-09-16 Thread Pete Ford
On 15/09/10 18:00, David Harkness wrote: And let's not forget $v = $row->xpath("//membernumber[. = \"$MemberId\"]"); The \" inside the string turns into a double-quote and using " to delimit the string allows for variable substitution. Oooh, I hate using backslashes - they always seem so unt

[PHP] Re: Xpath arguments in variable

2010-09-15 Thread Pete Ford
If you needed the double-quotes in the Xpath expression when the constant is used , then you probably need them in the variable version. $v = $row->xpath('//membernumber[. = "'.$MemberId.'"]'); That should put the double-quotes in for you... On 15/09/10 09:33, Sridhar Pandurangiah wrote: ---

Re: [PHP] Standalone WebServer for PHP

2010-09-13 Thread Pete Ford
On 12/09/10 18:33, tedd wrote: At 5:57 PM +0100 9/12/10, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 12:55 -0400, tedd wrote: Can a business have a server connected to the Internet but limit access to just their employees? I don't mean a password protected scheme, but rather the server being

Re: [PHP] Trapping for PDF Type and file size in a UPLOAD form...

2010-07-30 Thread Pete Ford
On 29/07/10 19:10, tedd wrote: At 9:50 AM -0700 7/29/10, Don Wieland wrote: I am trying to create an UPLOAD form and need to figure a way to only allow PDF files to be selected. The short answer is you can't -- not from php. You can create a standard form and upload it from there, but you don'

Re: [PHP] storing files in database and retriving them

2010-07-27 Thread Pete Ford
On 27/07/10 14:16, Peter Lind wrote: 2010/7/27 Nilesh Govindarajan: 2010/7/27 Dušan Novaković: Hello, so when I'm sending the array to model it's like this: $fp = fopen(INVOICE_PATH.date('Y-m-d').DS.$pdfName, "r"); $pdfContent = array( 'file

Re: [PHP] Do you have some standard for defined the variable in program language?

2010-07-27 Thread Pete Ford
On 27/07/10 10:42, viraj wrote: $firstName is the most readable.. for variables. does anybody have negative thoughts on using the same naming format for method/function and for class names? i guess it's worth sharing! many thanks! ~viraj I like to use $firstName, and function firstName(), b

Re: [PHP] How to alter the schema of a database to introducenewfeatures or change the current features

2010-07-15 Thread Pete Ford
On 15/07/10 09:14, Ashley Sheridan wrote: ALTER TABLE is the way to go. If in doubt, look at the SQL phpMyAdmin produces when you make the changes in there. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Yeah, scripting "ALTER TABLE" commands ... :) -- Peter Ford, Developer pho

Re: [PHP] How to alter the schema of a database to introduce newfeatures or change the current features

2010-07-15 Thread Pete Ford
On 15/07/10 06:03, Paul M Foster wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 09:28:53PM -0700, Slith One wrote: I'm developing an app using Zend Framwork using Git for version control. What is the best approach for updating the schema and the database when one of us makes an update to the db structure? cu

Re: [PHP] Inner join woes... and sweet tea!

2010-07-05 Thread Pete Ford
On 05/07/10 14:38, Richard Quadling wrote: On 5 July 2010 14:02, Jason Pruim wrote: Hi everyone, I'll admit right now that I'm still trying to wrestle with inner joins... It is all about set theory. Imagine two circles, which overlap (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram#Example as an e

[PHP] Re: function within a class function

2010-06-21 Thread Pete Ford
On 21/06/10 00:45, Rick Pasotto wrote: Within a class function I have defined another function for use with the usort() function. How do I reference it? When it's not part of a class usort($arr,"cmp") works fine but when it's within a class function I get this error: PHP Parse error: syntax er

[PHP] Re: combo box validation

2010-06-09 Thread Pete Ford
On 07/06/10 18:49, David Mehler wrote: Hello, I've got a form with two combo boxes, one for the month one for the day. Both are required. I've got code that checks the post submission to ensure neither is empty. My problem is that if a user does not select anything in the combo boxes January firs

Re: [PHP] PHP Encoder like IonCube

2010-05-12 Thread Pete Ford
On 12/05/10 11:23, shiplu wrote: Can you paste a sample encoded version of a php file on pastie.org? Shiplu Mokadd.im My talks, http://talk.cmyweb.net Follow me, http://twitter.com/shiplu SUST Programmers, http://groups.google.com/group/p2psust Innovation distinguishes bet ... ... (ask Steve Jo

Re: [PHP] PHP Encoder like IonCube

2010-05-12 Thread Pete Ford
On 12/05/10 10:48, Pete Ford wrote: On 12/05/10 01:06, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 16:50 -0700, Brian Dunning wrote: Hi Shiplu - I also have a product with similar requirements. I searched a LOT and was never able to find a free solution that I was satisfied with. Even a lot

Re: [PHP] PHP Encoder like IonCube

2010-05-12 Thread Pete Ford
On 12/05/10 01:06, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 16:50 -0700, Brian Dunning wrote: Hi Shiplu - I also have a product with similar requirements. I searched a LOT and was never able to find a free solution that I was satisfied with. Even a lot of the commercial solutions require

Re: [PHP] Converting floats to ints with intval

2010-05-06 Thread Pete Ford
On 06/05/10 11:52, Paul Waring wrote: Ashley Sheridan wrote: Why don't you store them as integer values and add in the decimal point with something like sprintf() afterwards? Store the values as pence and then you won't have any rounding problems. If I was designing the system from scratch, th

[PHP] Re: CURL cannot connect to URL - IP address - after successful connection

2010-04-30 Thread Pete Ford
On 25/04/10 14:17, ioan...@btinternet.com wrote: I can return a target page - once, but then on refresh within a few hours the script curl_error is that it cannot connect to the host and return is empty. The target URL is an ip address, not a named url, so maybe it has something to do with DNS. I

Re: [PHP] Error handling strategies (db related)

2010-04-28 Thread Pete Ford
On 27/04/10 16:37, tedd wrote: Error handling is almost an art form. More like a black art - voodoo perhaps... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Re: Weird problem with is_file()

2010-04-26 Thread Pete Ford
On 26/04/10 16:56, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Peter, Am 2010-04-26 09:28:28, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: var_dump($isfile); Don't make assumptions of what the value is, just check it. Yes and grmpf! The filename has a space at the end but it can not removed even using var_dump(

Re: [PHP] PHP GUI library/package

2010-03-31 Thread Pete Ford
On 31/03/10 15:30, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 15:30 +0100, Pete Ford wrote: Hi All, I have a web project built in PHP which we want to break out part of into a stand-alone GUI program. The architecture is fine - display nicely separated from logic, so coding is not a problem

Re: [PHP] PHP GUI library/package

2010-03-31 Thread Pete Ford
On 31/03/10 15:30, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 15:30 +0100, Pete Ford wrote: Hi All, I have a web project built in PHP which we want to break out part of into a stand-alone GUI program. The architecture is fine - display nicely separated from logic, so coding is not a problem

[PHP] PHP GUI library/package

2010-03-31 Thread Pete Ford
Hi All, I have a web project built in PHP which we want to break out part of into a stand-alone GUI program. The architecture is fine - display nicely separated from logic, so coding is not a problem. What I can't work out is what to use for the GUI part. I looked at phpqt but I can't (yet) ge

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP in HTML code

2010-03-18 Thread Pete Ford
On 17/03/10 18:59, Tommy Pham wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Rene Veerman wrote: hmm.. seems easier to me to push a filetree of .php's with wrote: At 8:55 PM -0400 3/16/10, Adam Richardson wrote: That said, I'm not taking exception with those who don't use the short tag, only with

Re: [PHP] PHP / mySQL Project... Real men use 'cat'

2010-02-24 Thread Pete Ford
On 24/02/10 08:20, shiplu wrote: Lots of confusion! So I tried this, $ for x in cat dog rabbit rat; do echo -n "$x "; if whatis $x> /dev/null; then echo found; else echo not found; fi ; done; cat found dog not found rabbit not found rat not found That's easy to fix: sudo ln -s /bin/cat /b

Re: [PHP] Re: Enforce a constant in a class.

2010-01-25 Thread Pete Ford
Richard Quadling wrote: 2010/1/22 Pete Ford : IMHO, a constant is not the correct beastie in this case - if you want it to be different depending on the implementation then it ain't a constant! You should probably have protected static variables in the interface, and use the implementat

[PHP] Re: Enforce a constant in a class.

2010-01-22 Thread Pete Ford
mplements SetKillSwitch { public function __construct() { self::$isSet = FALSE; self::$date = '2010-01-21T09:30:00+'; self::$notes = "Test"; } } Cheers Pete Ford -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Re: how to retrieve a dom from innerHTML......

2010-01-20 Thread Pete Ford
I am on the top of the world! Borlange University wrote: hello, i can obnot retrieve a select ject from div innerHTML. what i want to do is that when a page is loaded, first selector,say #1, would be shown in the first div by sending a request.then i choose one option from #1, fire change event o

Re: [PHP] strtotime - assumptions about default formatting of dates

2010-01-04 Thread Pete Ford
On 24/12/09 16:59, Bastien Koert wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 9:12 AM, tedd wrote: At 10:20 PM +1000 12/24/09, Angus Mann wrote: Hi all. I need to allow users to enter dates and times, and for a while now I've been forcing them to use javascript date/time pickers so I can be absolutely sure

[PHP] Re: strtotime - assumptions about default formatting of dates

2009-12-24 Thread Pete Ford
On 24/12/09 12:20, Angus Mann wrote: Hi all. I need to allow users to enter dates and times, and for a while now I've been forcing them to use javascript date/time pickers so I can be absolutely sure the formatting is correct. Some users are requesting to be able to type the entries themselves