Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-21 Thread Ryan S
> > P.S will be deleting the urls that you created, hope you dont mind, coz > > just in case someone later keeps using the url you posted via the > > archives... >Hang on, I want to post it on Digg first Hehe, no fear there... all my posts on dig never get me more than a few clicks a

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-20 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 14:42 -0400, tedd wrote: > At 11:35 AM -0700 6/20/08, Ryan S wrote: > > > >Thats why I love this place... theres so many ways to skin a cat > > Yeah, but the cat ain't going to like any of them. (Foxworthy) I'd have to argue that the above claim is only true if the cat is st

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-20 Thread Daniel Brown
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Ryan S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, the never ending loop... thanks for pointing that out. > Thats why I love this place... theres so many ways to skin a cat and here > they tell you the ways you have forgotten or overlooked. As long as you remember to giv

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-20 Thread Ryan S
>Thats why I love this place... theres so many ways to skin a cat Yeah, but the cat ain't going to like any of them. (Foxworthy) Hehe good one! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-20 Thread tedd
At 11:35 AM -0700 6/20/08, Ryan S wrote: Thats why I love this place... theres so many ways to skin a cat Yeah, but the cat ain't going to like any of them. (Foxworthy) Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-20 Thread Ryan S
Ryan S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Stut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Iv Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Jon Drukman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:40:59 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy Ry, Make sure you

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-19 Thread Daniel Brown
Ry, Make sure you also disable the ability to add in your own site, and even similar competitors such as tinyurl.com. Otherwise, you'll get something like this: http://ezee.se/30 -- Dedicated Servers - Intel 2.4GHz w/2TB bandwidth/mo. starting at just $59.99/mo. with no contra

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-19 Thread Ryan S
> I really dont see what anybody could gain by spamming this form but > anyway it does check to make sure the person submits something that > starts with "http" via strstr (after bringing it down to lowercase, > thats why i didnt use stristr, and because it checks just "http", > https too

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-18 Thread Stut
On 18 Jun 2008, at 23:40, Ryan S wrote: Thanks for replying m8, but if you check the rest of the thread you will see this has alraedy been solved and the result is http://ezee.se/ezeeurl.php?do=1 Cheers! Ryan How do you protect this thing from being spammed? I do not know why somebody wou

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-18 Thread Ryan S
> Thanks for replying m8, but if you check the rest of the thread you will see > this has alraedy been solved and the result is > http://ezee.se/ezeeurl.php?do=1 > > Cheers! > Ryan How do you protect this thing from being spammed? I do not know why somebody would spam it, but I have had all k

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-18 Thread Jon Drukman
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Nate Tallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not to beat a dead horse, but why would you *not* want to preserve the 404? > If it's a bad url anyways, you probably *want* to return a 404 (albeit > prettier) and you probably *don't* want search engines indexing it. the

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-18 Thread Nate Tallman
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Jon Drukman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nate Tallman wrote: > >> Why is an ErrorDocument "insufficient" or "not the elegant way"? >> It accomplishes the goal in a clean way, no? >> > > It's *WRONG*. ErrorDocument still preserves the 404 error code, it just > give

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-18 Thread Philip Olson
> Why is an ErrorDocument "insufficient" or "not the elegant way"? >> It accomplishes the goal in a clean way, no? >> > > It's *WRONG*. ErrorDocument still preserves the 404 error code, it just > gives it a prettier face. If the page really is there, returning a 404 for > it is not correct. Sear

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-18 Thread Iv Ray
Ryan S wrote: Thanks for replying m8, but if you check the rest of the thread you will see this has alraedy been solved and the result is http://ezee.se/ezeeurl.php?do=1 Cheers! Ryan How do you protect this thing from being spammed? I do not know why somebody would spam it, but I have had al

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-17 Thread Ryan S
Thanks for replying m8, but if you check the rest of the thread you will see this has alraedy been solved and the result is http://ezee.se/ezeeurl.php?do=1 Cheers! Ryan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-17 Thread Richard Heyes
It's *WRONG*. So are vegetables. Long live the waffle! BTW, anyone seen this: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ ...? More to the point, is anyone using it commercially? -- Richard Heyes Employ me: http://www.phpguru.org/cv ++ | Access SSH wi

[PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-17 Thread Jon Drukman
Nate Tallman wrote: Why is an ErrorDocument "insufficient" or "not the elegant way"? It accomplishes the goal in a clean way, no? It's *WRONG*. ErrorDocument still preserves the 404 error code, it just gives it a prettier face. If the page really is there, returning a 404 for it is not corr

[PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-17 Thread Jon Drukman
Ryan S wrote: Hey! Thanks for replying. Digging a bit more i found RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([a-z][0-9][A-Z][aA0-zZ0])$ jj.php?show=$1 But it does not work :( do you see any fault with the above? this is an apache issue, not a php issue, so you'll probably have better luck on an a

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy [0.T]

2008-06-05 Thread Philip Olson
Hello, php.net uses a 404 error handler for this, and most mirrors store url data in an sqlite database. A simple $_SERVER dump in your 404 page will show you which variables are available. Regards, Philip

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy [0.T]

2008-06-05 Thread Daniel Brown
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Ryan S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey again, > > First of all please note that i added a [0.T] (= off topic ) to the subject > so if you dont want to continue with something OT, now's the time... > > Ok... for anyone thats curious as to why i wanted this.. just c

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy [0.T]

2008-06-05 Thread Ryan S
Hey again, First of all please note that i added a [0.T] (= off topic ) to the subject so if you dont want to continue with something OT, now's the time... Ok... for anyone thats curious as to why i wanted this.. just completed my version of tinyURL... except, its even more tiny!! Have christe

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-05 Thread Nate Tallman
Why is an ErrorDocument "insufficient" or "not the elegant way"? It accomplishes the goal in a clean way, no? Nate On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Yeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > still telling Ryan to produce errors is insufficient or at least not the > elegant way > > On 6/5/08, Nate Tallman

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-05 Thread Ryan S
As far as I remember, errordocument still send the code, in this case 404 to the client. In the case of IE, this will display IEs built-in error doc if the server supplied one is < 512 Bytes. Maybe other implications for spiders also. I might be wrong, but this is from some old memory. -S

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-05 Thread Nate Tallman
Correction for my statement: As long as the content length is greater than 512 bytes, IE will display the content from the 404. Less than that and it will display it's own pretty message. http://www.404-error-page.com/404-error-page-too-short-problem-microsoft-ie.shtml http://www.mattcutts.com/blo

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-05 Thread Shawn McKenzie
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q294807 Also, why would you want Google let's say, to receive a 404 Not Found header for http://php.net/arrays??? -Shawn Nate Tallman wrote: Not true, Apache does return a 404, but IE will use the custom 404 page if it is available. N

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-05 Thread Nate Tallman
Not true, Apache does return a 404, but IE will use the custom 404 page if it is available. Nate On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Shawn McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I remember, errordocument still send the code, in this case 404 > to the client. In the case of IE, this will di

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-05 Thread Shawn McKenzie
As far as I remember, errordocument still send the code, in this case 404 to the client. In the case of IE, this will display IEs built-in error doc if the server supplied one is < 512 Bytes. Maybe other implications for spiders also. I might be wrong, but this is from some old memory. -Sh

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-05 Thread Nate Tallman
ErrorDocument 404 /path/to/some/script.php * $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'] (somehow misplaced underscore) On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Nate Tallman < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not just set: > ErrorDocument 404 /path/to/some/script.php > Then check $SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'] for the failed reque

Re: [PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-05 Thread Nate Tallman
Why not just set: ErrorDocument 404 /path/to/some/script.php Then check $SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'] for the failed request. On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Shawn McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ryan S wrote: > >> Hey, >> one of the things that make the php.net site so cool is how easy it is t

[PHP] Re: Search like php.net's URL thingy

2008-06-05 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Ryan S wrote: Hey, one of the things that make the php.net site so cool is how easy it is to find info for a function or a list of topics.. eg: http://php.net/arrays http://php.net/count I'm sure nearly all of you reading this have done it more times than you would care to count, i'm trying t