Re: [PHP] error_handler : unique "caller ID" ?

2012-11-13 Thread Robert Williams
On 11/13/12 11:20, "B. Aerts" wrote: >Having read access to a variable's address (like a C-pointer) would be >perfect - but Google tells me you can't in PHP. If you can restrict yourself to objects for the passed variables, you can use spl_object_hash(). It does exactly what you need, but it on

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP as Application Server

2012-09-26 Thread Robert Williams
On 9/26/12 10:18, "Matijn Woudt" wrote: >Writing scripts for an application server requires a much deeper >understanding of threads and computer internals,so as a result it >probably increases error rate. Well... yes and no. PHP's architecture pretty much keeps you from having to mess with thre

Re: [PHP] Reading class variable value always returns NULL

2012-08-14 Thread Robert Williams
I'm not real clear on what's happening. Are you saying that if you assign values to the protected class members, and then immediately read them, that they're null? So, there's code something like this: class Foo { public function Something() { $this->foo = 1; //shows null instead o

Re: [PHP] Awkward time processing

2012-08-02 Thread Robert Williams
On 8/2/12 05:51, "Paul Halliday" wrote: >What I have is an array of values and timestamps: > >17 15:31 >16 15:32 >27 15:33 >14 15:34 >11 15:35 > >now for a day I should have 1440 entries but there could be spotty >results, no data from say 11:59 -> 13:00. >What I need is to sum the values for ea

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

2012-07-20 Thread Robert Williams
On Jul 20, 2012, at 0:59, "Adam Nicholls" wrote: > Personally if I'm feeling a bit cheeky I'll go with "Muggle" - (thanks to J K > Rowling!) - people just don't appreciate the magic involved behind the scenes > in usability, infrastructure, application logic etc. Wow. I really, really (, reall

Re: [PHP] Entry point of an MVC framework

2012-07-12 Thread Robert Williams
On 7/12/12 14:44, "Daevid Vincent" wrote: >Personally I *hate* frameworks with a passion, but if you're going to use >one, then why not just build with one that is already out there and well >supported. http://www.phpframeworks.com/ to start with. I wouldn't suggest most people try to build one

Re: [PHP] Entry point of an MVC framework

2012-07-12 Thread Robert Williams
On 7/12/12 13:21, "Simon Dániel" wrote: >And I can't do it with the constructor of the inherited >class, becouse this way I would overwrite the parent constructor. Just call to the parent constructor from the child: public function __construct() { parent::__construct(); //do whatever }

Re: [PHP] How does this code work?

2012-07-03 Thread Robert Williams
On Jul 2, 2012, at 22:15, "Jim Lucas" wrote: > I think you missed something here... > > The above function uses strtr() not strstr() Wow. I knew there had to be a simple, logical explanation (there was), that it would likely be one of those stupid things that I'd spot in two seconds the next m

[PHP] How does this code work?

2012-07-02 Thread Robert Williams
I found this code in a user comment in the PHP docs for htmlentities(): $v) $trans[$k]= "&#".ord($k).";"; return strtr($string, $trans); } ?> It seems to work. For instance, this (assuming UTF-8 encoding): echo xml_character_encode('Château'); echo "\n"; echo xml_character_encode('Ch&teau');

Re: [PHP] Re: php batch/queue framwork

2012-06-30 Thread Robert Williams
Zend Server includes a job queue. It supports queuing up jobs directly in the UI or via a PHP API, and it includes a variety of scheduling and load management options. -- Bob Williams Notice: This communication, including attachmen

Re: [PHP] help with preg_match

2012-06-03 Thread Robert Williams
On Jun 3, 2012, at 17:28, "Chris Purves" wrote: > I know that the text ends 'end', but I don't know what the Something, > something is. I am using preg_match as follows: > > preg_match('/[^>]*end/',$curl_response,$matches); > > I want to match 'end' and everything before it that is not '>'. You

Re: [PHP] iphone & php

2012-03-05 Thread Robert Williams
On 3/5/12 11:58, "Jim Giner" wrote: >"Marc Guay" wrote in message >news:CAL0DAJq0y-iOMvt4Ko+D4Z_t+oo3PT9SYmR+9foa=9q9gsr...@mail.gmail.com... >> And if you change your input type to "date", because it's a date, does > that bring up the numeric keys as well? > >actually I have not seen anything

Re: [PHP] Arrays: Comma at end?

2012-02-07 Thread Robert Williams
On 2/7/12 13:15, "Paul M Foster" wrote: >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 >to the array, where it might be problematic. Yes? No? Nope. In fact, it's officially supported syntax:

Re: [PHP] Numeric help needed

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Williams
On Jan 15, 2012, at 19:00, "Simon J Welsh" mailto:si...@welsh.co.nz>> wrote: On 16/01/2012, at 2:48 PM, Chris Payne wrote: "If the loan amount is $68500.00, the insurace will be based on $69000.00 as the amount is always rounded up to the next $1000." The round() function only rounds decimal va

Re: [PHP] PDF Printing instead?

2012-01-06 Thread Robert Williams
On 1/5/12 14:40, "Paul M Foster" wrote: >The fpdf and/or tcpdf libraries are the standard answers to this. Depending on requirements, another good option may be Pdftk. Where TCPDF is focused on document creation, Pdftk is focused on document manipulation, and because it's a compiled binary that

Re: [PHP] New to mac and trying to define a php.ini file.

2012-01-04 Thread Robert Williams
On 1/4/12 14:34, "Tim Streater" wrote: >As I hinted in my previous mail, client and server side of my app are >always on the user's machine. When the user starts the app, I create an >apache config file on the fly and run an instance of apache just for the >user. So I'm not messing with the stand

Re: [PHP] New to mac and trying to define a php.ini file.

2012-01-04 Thread Robert Williams
On 1/4/12 13:33, "Tim Streater" wrote: >What I do seem to have is /etc/php.ini.default which I suppose you could >rename to php.ini if you really wanted to modify it. Yes, this is correct. I'm not sure if Apple started doing this with Lion or before, but they give you the .default file to renam

Re: [PHP] Is there a decent design app ?

2011-11-26 Thread Robert Williams
On Nov 25, 2011, at 16:18, "Andreas" wrote: > Like you have /foo.css and for some reason or another you move it to > /lib/css and rename it to bar.css. > Now it'd be nice if an IDE was aware of all the references within a site > and update the affected urls. Check out PhpStorm from JetBrains. I

Re: [PHP] What is wrong with this preg_match?

2011-10-27 Thread Robert Williams
On 10/27/11 11:43, "Paul Halliday" wrote: >if ($argc == 1 || $argc > 2 || !preg_match("(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})", > >Usage: ./process_patches.php > >patches@innm2 ~/Code/Oculi $ ./process_patches.php 2011-01-011 The problem is that your expression basically defines a 'contains'-type search, so

Re: [PHP] FW: parse error

2011-10-13 Thread Robert Williams
On 10/13/11 10:06, "David Savage" wrote: >php -l voip_cdrs.php >PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in >/usr/local/cytrex/voip_cdrs.php on line 1050 >Errors parsing voip_cdrs.php > > $alias_sql_stmt="SELECT ani FROM ldrates WHERE >ani='$termnum10'";// <

Re: [PHP] Variable variable using constant

2011-10-12 Thread Robert Williams
On 10/12/11 11:51, "Marc Guay" wrote: >Let's say that I have 2 constants > >DEFINE('DESKTOP_URL_en', "http://www.website.com/index.php?page=home";); >DEFINE('DESKTOP_URL_fr', >"http://www.website.com/index.php?page=accueil";); > >and I would like to populate the value of an href with them depend

Re: [PHP] How can I check for characters in a $_POST[] variable?

2011-09-22 Thread Robert Williams
[Redirecting thread back to the list for the benefit of others.] On 9/22/11 13:38, "Eric" wrote: >So is $_POST["username"][0] appropriate or does that only work >with normal variables? As far as this sort of manipulation goes, $_POST is just like any other variable. Referencing the 0th element

Re: [PHP] How can I check for characters in a $_POST[] variable?

2011-09-22 Thread Robert Williams
As an alternative to the regular expression approaches already provided by others, you could also use ctype_alnum(): if (ctyp_alnum($_POST['username'])) { //username contains only letters and numbers } else { //username contains characters other than letters and numbers } //if-else Docs:

Re: [PHP] Help on number matching function

2011-09-16 Thread Robert Williams
On Sep 16, 2011, at 6:02, "Dare Williams" wrote: > > I have a 5 Digits set of number and need to match it with another set of > five digits and return how many number are match and the figures that are > match. Check out array_intersect().

Re: [PHP] lost return value during a static call

2011-09-15 Thread Robert Williams
On Sep 15, 2011, at 6:03, "chamila gayan" wrote: > when it goes through 2 static methods, at some point it stops returning > value to the calling method. (please see comments in-line). The getArray() method and the 'else' portion of the getChild() method both lack a return statement, so they'r

[PHP] Mysqli error handling

2011-08-31 Thread Robert Williams
Okay, so I've finally got an opportunity to start converting our code to use Mysqli instead of the old mysql_* functions. Mysqli is new to me, but I thought things were going well until the first time I tried to run a query with a syntax error in it, and it threw up a PHP warning. Being that Mysqli

Re: [PHP] Constants in strings

2011-07-06 Thread Robert Williams
On 2011-07-6 08:09, "ad...@buskirkgraphics.com" wrote: >I use constants in my OOP and I never use the heredoc syntax. Now I am >fearing that I have not taken advantage of something. >My understanding of heredoc syntax as of 5.3 is just a string quoting >right? >Is there an advantage of using th

Re: [PHP] PHP to Java integration using : shell_exec function

2011-05-26 Thread Robert Williams
On 2011-05-26 12:00, "Eli Orr (Office)" wrote: > $EncXML = shell_exec(""/usr/bin/java/java -jar MyApp.jar -XML ><$XML_toEnc>); <<== ??? How can I pass parameters like a large string of >let say XML? You're missing the shell escaping. Try something like this: $xml = 'hello'; $xml_shell = e