Re: [PHP] Novice question

2011-10-30 Thread Rico Secada
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:24:07 - "John Allsopp" wrote: > Hi > > I'm afraid I've fallen a little out of touch with PHP dev, so a stupid > question for you. > > I want to write a script that requests a URL and then reads that > website .. I'm interested to map web structures. My web host is > s

[PHP] Code should be selv-maintaining!

2011-08-29 Thread Rico Secada
Dont get me wrong, I love programming! But what an absolute pain in the ass it is when you re-use old code only to discover something "less well made". You all know about this right? You go into your homemade library of code to re-use some piece that you already are using 12 other places in produ

Re: [PHP] PDO Prepared Statements and stripslashes

2010-12-21 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:32:21 -0500 Adam Richardson wrote: > 1. Turn off magic_quotes_gpc if on, as its use has been deprecated. > 2. Use prepared statements. > 3. Don't worry about stripping slashes ever again :) Thank you for a very enlightening answer. I guess I misunderstood the "PDO automati

Re: [PHP] PDO Prepared Statements and stripslashes

2010-12-20 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:32:19 -0500 Paul M Foster wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:31:15AM +0100, Rico Secada wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > In an article about SQL Injection by Chris Shiflett he mentions the > > following in a comment: "The process of escap

[PHP] PDO Prepared Statements and stripslashes

2010-12-20 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. In an article about SQL Injection by Chris Shiflett he mentions the following in a comment: "The process of escaping should preserve data, so it should never be necessary to reverse it. When I'm auditing an application, things like stripslashes() alert me to design problems." Now, I'm always

[PHP] No errors gets displayed, just a blank page

2010-12-07 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. What can cause that no parse error gets displayed (blank page/no output at all) even though error reporting is set to "-1"? I have run the script through php lint on the console and it comes up with no errors. I have run into this problem the last couple of days making debugging a nightmare

Re: [PHP] Wordpress Page: How to add pagination?

2010-11-22 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:27:28 +0800 (SGT) vince samoy wrote: Hi Vince. This is not a Wordpress mailing list. This is the general users PHP mailing list. > Hi guys, > > I was wondering if this is the right place that this question of mine > might get an answer. I'm currently working on a website

Re: [PHP] Is it possible to install PHP on IIS?

2010-11-16 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:16:25 +0530 Himani Aggarwal wrote: > Hi Folks, is it possible to install PHP on IIS? If yes, can someone > please guide me on how to go about doing it? Thanks Now, why would you wanna do something crazy like that?! :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) T

Re: [PHP] Documentation

2010-10-27 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:52:58 +0200 Jordan Jovanov wrote: > Hello All, > > I finished with coding and now I am on the part when need to write > documentation. But I don't know how to write correct documentation. > Does have some rules or standard for writing documentation for PHP? > Or maybe hav

Re: [PHP] Best practice for if (!$stmt->execute())

2010-10-25 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:56:37 -0400 Paul M Foster wrote: > Bear in mind, an "error" is *never* that a query returned no data or > data the user might consider bad. This is an important point. When is an "error" an actual error? When is it something that *needs* to be logged and mailed? > Paul >

Re: [PHP] Best practice for if (!$stmt->execute())

2010-10-25 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:26:23 -0700 "Tommy Pham" wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Rico Secada [mailto:coolz...@it.dk] > > Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 9:06 PM > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: [PHP] Best practice for if (!$

[PHP] Best practice for if (!$stmt->execute())

2010-10-24 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. I have been doing like this: if (!$stmt->execute()) { return false; } else { ... some code return true; OR return $foo; // Some int, string, whatever. } I am thinking about changing the "return false" with a: if (!$stmt->execute()) { die(DB_ERROR); This w

Re: [PHP] I need some thoughts on code duplication and separation

2010-10-24 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:55:14 -0400 Paul M Foster wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 04:05:50AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I am working on a small system where I am both trying to avoid code > > duplication and at the same time I am trying to k

[PHP] I need some thoughts on code duplication and separation

2010-10-20 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. I am working on a small system where I am both trying to avoid code duplication and at the same time I am trying to keep the presentation logic separated from the application logic. I am using sessions and are avoiding "headers already sent" problem by keeping the HTML out of the application.

Re: [PHP] Fixing the path

2009-09-13 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:43:50 -0400 Paul M Foster wrote: > (Or maybe I've completely misread what you're trying to do.) Yes you did, but never mind :) > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Fixing the path

2009-09-11 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. Some time ago I developed a small web application that a bunch of users has installed. I have always used the DOCUMENT_ROOT for my includes, but the other day I installed the application in a subdirectory, and as you've guessed a lot of the includes didn't work. I have been reading up on the

Re: [PHP] Re: Memcached is driving me nuts

2008-11-24 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:13:32 -0500 Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try debug_backtrace() Thanks for your reply. I get an empty array: array(0) { } > Rico Secada wrote: > > Hi. > > > > This post has also been posted on the Debian list. > > > >

[PHP] Memcached is driving me nuts

2008-11-24 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. This post has also been posted on the Debian list. I have two different Debian Etch machines running with the exact same packages installed, when I use PHP memcached with compression (zlib) it works at one machine but not the other. No errors are thrown. I need to know why it is only workin