[PHP] apache/vhosts wuestion...

2008-07-11 Thread bruce
Hi..

I recognize that this might be off base!! I've got an apache/vhosts question
that i'm grappling with. I've got a linux/apache system, and I'm trying to
get multiple vhosts to work. If this is an appropriate place, I'll provide
additional information on the issue.

I've looked/researched via the 'net but my issues are still with me!

Thanks




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[PHP] date() and strtotime()

2008-07-11 Thread Fabian Frei
Hello everybody,

I hope you all have a nice day, mines not that good 'cause i have encountered a 
strange problem.

i have a few functions to work with dates. they are all very simple, a few 
lines of code.
this first one does just gives you the monday of the current week:

function get_monday($date) {

$input_date = strtotime($date);
$date_array = date_parse(date('r',$input_date));
$get_sunday = 7 - $date_array['relative']['weekday'];

$day_label = date("D, d.m.y",mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")  , 
date("d")+$get_sunday, date("Y")));
$new_day_label = strtotime($day_label);
$monday = date("D, d.m.y",mktime(0, 0, 0, 
date("m",$new_day_label)  , date("d",$new_day_label)-6, 
date("Y",$new_day_label)));

return($monday);

}

now for testing purpose we say today is friday, 11.07.2008, this function 
returns correct Mon, 07.07.08.
now the problems lies in the second function or more in strtotime.
this second function just takes the inputed date and does some formating so it 
will fit into
the mysql db or query.

function get_mysql_date($date) {

$old_date = strtotime($date);
$new_date = date("Y-m-d",$old_date);

return($new_date);
}

But now the strange thing happening is, this function outputs '2008-07-14' 
which is monday of the next week.
now i think the problems lies somewhere in strtotime(), cause if i do this:

$dateForTable = $date_class->get_monday($today);
$dateTest =strtotime($dateForTable);
$dateTest2 =date('r',$yousuck);

it will also output 'Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:07:08 +0200'.

i think strtotime() takes just the first part 'Mon' and looks what date the 
next monday is.
i'm realtivly new to php so any help solving this problem will be greatly 
appreciated.

thanks alot to all.

greetings from switzerland
 
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Re: [PHP] apache/vhosts wuestion...

2008-07-11 Thread Wolf

bruce wrote:

Hi..

I recognize that this might be off base!! I've got an apache/vhosts question
that i'm grappling with. I've got a linux/apache system, and I'm trying to
get multiple vhosts to work. If this is an appropriate place, I'll provide
additional information on the issue.

I've looked/researched via the 'net but my issues are still with me!

Thanks



You guess it, this isn't an appropriate place.  What pieces are you 
struggling with as the Apache documentation works great for this stuff. 
 I've got 6 hosts on a single server with no issues using the Apache 
documentation.


Wolf


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Re: [PHP] date() and strtotime()

2008-07-11 Thread Bastien Koert
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Fabian Frei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I hope you all have a nice day, mines not that good 'cause i have
> encountered a strange problem.
>
> i have a few functions to work with dates. they are all very simple, a few
> lines of code.
> this first one does just gives you the monday of the current week:
>
> function get_monday($date) {
>
>$input_date = strtotime($date);
>$date_array = date_parse(date('r',$input_date));
>$get_sunday = 7 - $date_array['relative']['weekday'];
>
>$day_label = date("D, d.m.y",mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")  ,
> date("d")+$get_sunday, date("Y")));
>$new_day_label = strtotime($day_label);
>$monday = date("D, d.m.y",mktime(0, 0, 0,
> date("m",$new_day_label)  , date("d",$new_day_label)-6,
> date("Y",$new_day_label)));
>
>return($monday);
>
>}
>
> now for testing purpose we say today is friday, 11.07.2008, this function
> returns correct Mon, 07.07.08.
> now the problems lies in the second function or more in strtotime.
> this second function just takes the inputed date and does some formating so
> it will fit into
> the mysql db or query.
>
> function get_mysql_date($date) {
>
>$old_date = strtotime($date);
>$new_date = date("Y-m-d",$old_date);
>
>return($new_date);
>}
>
> But now the strange thing happening is, this function outputs '2008-07-14'
> which is monday of the next week.
> now i think the problems lies somewhere in strtotime(), cause if i do this:
>
> $dateForTable = $date_class->get_monday($today);
> $dateTest =strtotime($dateForTable);
> $dateTest2 =date('r',$yousuck);
>
> it will also output 'Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:07:08 +0200'.
>
> i think strtotime() takes just the first part 'Mon' and looks what date the
> next monday is.
> i'm realtivly new to php so any help solving this problem will be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> thanks alot to all.
>
> greetings from switzerland
> 
> Fabian Frei
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> fon: 071-390 04 35
> mobile: 079-733 45 27
> 
>
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function get_monday()
{
  return date("Y-m-d", strtotime("last monday"));
}

function get_mysql_date()
{
  return date("Y-m-d");
}

would seem to be much simpler

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Re: [PHP] apache/vhosts wuestion...

2008-07-11 Thread Daniel Brown
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:55 AM, bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi..
>
> I recognize that this might be off base!! I've got an apache/vhosts question
> that i'm grappling with. I've got a linux/apache system, and I'm trying to
> get multiple vhosts to work. If this is an appropriate place, I'll provide
> additional information on the issue.

Check the archives and mailing lists at http://httpd.apache.org/.
To give you a pointer, though, you'll need to either do an include
into the httpd.conf file or modify that file itself to include a
NameVirtualHost setting and VirtualHost container.  It works fine.
I've worked with servers that have had hundreds of virtual hosts.

The Apache folks are friendly, and don't bite *that* hard

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RE: [PHP] OT - RE: [PHP] scalable web gallery

2008-07-11 Thread tedd

At 12:31 AM -0400 7/11/08, Robert Cummings wrote:

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 12:06 -0500, Boyd, Todd M. wrote:
 > tedd also sent me an e-mail that sparked a memory of mine... the

 b-trees, regardless of their efficiency, still assign each dir/file
 INode an identifying number. This number, obviously, can only get so
 large in the context of one b-tree object (i.e., a directory).

 In spite of this mental exercise, I do *NOT* miss my Data Structures &

 > Algorithms class. :)

Really? That along with distributed computing, and parallel computing
were my favourites... and here I am programming for the Web... I guess
it's distributed ;)

Cheers,
Rob.


Todd and Rob:

I understand.

But, I'm more inclined to agree with Rob, I actually *DO* miss 
Algorithms and such. There are great minds out there and it's nice to 
be able to touch their genius.


As for favorites, I liked digital filters, FFT, ray theory, computed 
surfaces, and all versions of AI. I even developed an algorithm to 
explain why migrating birds fly in a V formation. Some exciting Geek 
stuff.


But here I sit programming the web and following a client's 
instructions "I don't like that 'Buy Button' in blue, make it red." I 
feel like a 45 that's being used to swat flies. But hey, we all can't 
be born rich and most of us have to work for a living. At least I 
have work.  :-)


Cheers,

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Re: [PHP] scalable web gallery

2008-07-11 Thread tedd

At 10:41 AM -0400 7/10/08, Daniel Brown wrote:

Still, I'd create 16 subdirectories under the images directory:
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f.  Then name the file as an MD5 hash of
the image uploaded, and place it in the directory matching the first
character of the new file name.


Why not use a hash table based upon the name of the file and 
distribute files that way?


You don't even need a directory until you actually need one -- then 
create one 'on-the-fly' and drop the file into it.


As such, it's easy to find the file again by simply hashing it's name 
-- you don't even need to store a path for the file, only the name of 
the file.


Cheers,

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[PHP] Question regarding OO

2008-07-11 Thread Yeti
size = $size; $this->max_number_of_cars = $max_cars;

}

};

cpark = new ParkingLot(5, 17);

// <--- 2nd CLASS

class ParkingSpace extends ParkingLot {

var ps_ID; // ID of the parking space ( 1 .. max_number_of_cars )

var occupied_by; // ID of the car on the parking space

var st_time; // Unix time stamp set when the car parks

function __construct($car, $id) {

$this->st_time = time();

$this->occupied_by = $car;

$this->ps_ID = $id;

}

};

/*

OK, so i got a parking lot class and its subclass parking space.

Now the question:

I want a list of occupied parking spaces, where do I put that? One might put
it into the ParkingLot Class, but wouldn't that be a recursion (a child
instance in the parent class)?

*/

$occ_parking_spaces = array();

$occ_parking_spaces[] =& new ParkingSpace('Joes Car', 8);

$occ_parking_spaces[] =& new ParkingSpace('My Prshe', 17);

$occ_parking_spaces[] =& new ParkingSpace('Toms Caddy', 4);

/*

After a while a method to print all occupied spaces is necessary. Correct me
if I'm wrong, but I usually add it to the ParkingLot class.

class ParkingLot {

// previous code ...

var $occ_parking_spaces = array();

function print_occ_spaces() {

var_dump($this->occ_parking_spaces)

}

};

What bothers me here is that I'm actually having a list of child classes in
the parent class, is there a better/correct way to do this?

I hope I made myself clear.

Greetz,

Yeti

*/

?>


Re: [PHP] Question regarding OO

2008-07-11 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 18:03 +0200, Yeti wrote:
>  
> /*
> 
> I have a question here regarding object orientation in PHP and any other
> language.
> 
> Let's start with some hypothetical code:
> 
> */
> 
> // <--- 1st CLASS
> 
> class ParkingLot {
> 
> var size; // size in sq feet
> 
> var max_number_of_cars; // how many cars there is space for
> 
> function __construct($size, $max_cars) {
> 
> $this->size = $size; $this->max_number_of_cars = $max_cars;
> 
> }
> 
> };
> 
> cpark = new ParkingLot(5, 17);
> 
> // <--- 2nd CLASS
> 
> class ParkingSpace extends ParkingLot {

Here's the point of your comfusion. ParkingSpace is not really a
ParkingLot is it? I mean you could say a parking lot having a single
parking space qualifies, but not really. I see you problem being similar
to apples versus apple tree. You wouldn't do the following (would you?):



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Re: [PHP] Relocating and POSTing

2008-07-11 Thread tedd

At 7:20 PM +0100 7/10/08, Alex Chamberlain wrote:

I need to send a header('Location:') and send some data along with it -
how would I do this??

Thanks,

Alex


Alext:

Or you could just:

   ob_clean();
   include('theNextScript.php');
   exit();

The variable in your parent script will be "passed" to the next script.

Cheers,

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Re: [PHP] Question regarding OO

2008-07-11 Thread Ted Wood


Object-oriented programming, with it's "class" and "object" approach,  
is meant to model real life more closely than functional programming.


In, a "parking space" is physically inside a "parking lot", but a  
parking space is not a subclass of a parking lot. It's not a variation  
or mini parking lot. It's an entirely different entity. A parking lot  
consists of parking spaces, but a parking space is its own thing.


In other words, don't extend ParkingSpace from ParkingLot. They should  
be separate classes entirely.


As for the recursion... no, that won't be a problem. Each ParkingSpace  
you're instantiating is a separate instance, and won't be related to  
the parent ParkingLot in anyway way internally.




In the above class definition, simply populate the $spaces array with  
instances of the ParkingSpace class.


~Ted




On 11-Jul-08, at 9:03 AM, Yeti wrote:


I have a question here regarding object orientation in PHP and any  
other

language.

Let's start with some hypothetical code:

*/

// <--- 1st CLASS

class ParkingLot {

var size; // size in sq feet

var max_number_of_cars; // how many cars there is space for

function __construct($size, $max_cars) {

$this->size = $size; $this->max_number_of_cars = $max_cars;

}

};

cpark = new ParkingLot(5, 17);

// <--- 2nd CLASS

class ParkingSpace extends ParkingLot {

var ps_ID; // ID of the parking space ( 1 .. max_number_of_cars )

var occupied_by; // ID of the car on the parking space

var st_time; // Unix time stamp set when the car parks

function __construct($car, $id) {

$this->st_time = time();

$this->occupied_by = $car;

$this->ps_ID = $id;

}

};

/*

OK, so i got a parking lot class and its subclass parking space.

Now the question:

I want a list of occupied parking spaces, where do I put that? One  
might put
it into the ParkingLot Class, but wouldn't that be a recursion (a  
child

instance in the parent class)?

*/

$occ_parking_spaces = array();

$occ_parking_spaces[] =& new ParkingSpace('Joes Car', 8);

$occ_parking_spaces[] =& new ParkingSpace('My Prshe', 17);

$occ_parking_spaces[] =& new ParkingSpace('Toms Caddy', 4);

/*

After a while a method to print all occupied spaces is necessary.  
Correct me

if I'm wrong, but I usually add it to the ParkingLot class.

class ParkingLot {

// previous code ...

var $occ_parking_spaces = array();

function print_occ_spaces() {

var_dump($this->occ_parking_spaces)

}

};

What bothers me here is that I'm actually having a list of child  
classes in

the parent class, is there a better/correct way to do this?

I hope I made myself clear.

Greetz,

Yeti

*/

?>



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Re: [PHP] Question regarding OO

2008-07-11 Thread Ted Wood

Corrected code example:

(too early in the morning to think)



In the above class definition, simply populate the $spaces array with  
instances of the ParkingSpace class.


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RE: [PHP] Relocating and POSTing

2008-07-11 Thread Alex Chamberlain
Ahh, but they are on different webservers

At the moment, I am just using a query string. How long is the limit of the
query string??

Alex

> -Original Message-
> From: tedd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 11 July 2008 17:12
> To: Alex Chamberlain; PHP General list
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Relocating and POSTing
> 
> At 7:20 PM +0100 7/10/08, Alex Chamberlain wrote:
> >I need to send a header('Location:') and send some data along with
> it -
> >how would I do this??
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Alex
> 
> Alext:
> 
> Or you could just:
> 
> ob_clean();
> include('theNextScript.php');
> exit();
> 
> The variable in your parent script will be "passed" to the next script.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> tedd
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Re: [PHP] Relocating and POSTing

2008-07-11 Thread Daniel Brown
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Alex Chamberlain
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ahh, but they are on different webservers

That's why I mentioned cURL at the very beginning, if it had to be
done as a POST request.

> At the moment, I am just using a query string. How long is the limit of the
> query string??

There is no official limit in the protocol, but you may want to
check out Section 3.2.1 of RFC 2068 for more on that.

The limits are in what the client is capable of sending, and what
the server is capable of receiving.  A quick S of TFW should give you
the information you need regarding PHP and the remote server's
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Re: [PHP] Re: What font/size do you use for programming?

2008-07-11 Thread Eric Butera
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Philip Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Omar Noppe wrote:
>
>> Is there any reason to pick a black background en white fonts in your
>> editor (for example writability)?
>
> I think a black background is much easier on the eyes

I use a big font on a black background because it doesn't strain my
eyes as much.  I started out with Monaco 9pt (or bitstream vera sans
mono 9pt on linux) on white.  Slowly though I kept getting more
frequent headaches.  Now I use black with big fonts and I'm fine.  I
have really good vision and all that, but just hours of coding will
get to me.

As a side bonus, using a bigger font also helps me adhere to wrapping
at the 80 character margin too.

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Re: [PHP] Question regarding OO

2008-07-11 Thread Eric Butera
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Yeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> /*
>
> I have a question here regarding object orientation in PHP and any other
> language.
>
> Let's start with some hypothetical code:
>
> */
>
> // <--- 1st CLASS
>
> class ParkingLot {
>
> var size; // size in sq feet
>
> var max_number_of_cars; // how many cars there is space for
>
> function __construct($size, $max_cars) {
>
> $this->size = $size; $this->max_number_of_cars = $max_cars;
>
> }
>
> };
>
> cpark = new ParkingLot(5, 17);
>
> // <--- 2nd CLASS
>
> class ParkingSpace extends ParkingLot {
>
> var ps_ID; // ID of the parking space ( 1 .. max_number_of_cars )
>
> var occupied_by; // ID of the car on the parking space
>
> var st_time; // Unix time stamp set when the car parks
>
> function __construct($car, $id) {
>
> $this->st_time = time();
>
> $this->occupied_by = $car;
>
> $this->ps_ID = $id;
>
> }
>
> };
>
> /*
>
> OK, so i got a parking lot class and its subclass parking space.
>
> Now the question:
>
> I want a list of occupied parking spaces, where do I put that? One might put
> it into the ParkingLot Class, but wouldn't that be a recursion (a child
> instance in the parent class)?
>
> */
>
> $occ_parking_spaces = array();
>
> $occ_parking_spaces[] =& new ParkingSpace('Joes Car', 8);
>
> $occ_parking_spaces[] =& new ParkingSpace('My Prshe', 17);
>
> $occ_parking_spaces[] =& new ParkingSpace('Toms Caddy', 4);
>
> /*
>
> After a while a method to print all occupied spaces is necessary. Correct me
> if I'm wrong, but I usually add it to the ParkingLot class.
>
> class ParkingLot {
>
> // previous code ...
>
> var $occ_parking_spaces = array();
>
> function print_occ_spaces() {
>
> var_dump($this->occ_parking_spaces)
>
> }
>
> };
>
> What bothers me here is that I'm actually having a list of child classes in
> the parent class, is there a better/correct way to do this?
>
> I hope I made myself clear.
>
> Greetz,
>
> Yeti
>
> */
>
> ?>
>

Listen to what everyone else has said so far.  Look up IS-A versus
HAS-A.  Favor composition over inheritance.  You want your parking lot
to have spaces, but spaces don't have to be in a parking lot.

http://www.javacamp.org/moreclasses/oop/oop5.html

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Re: [PHP] Relocating and POSTing

2008-07-11 Thread tedd

At 12:37 PM -0400 7/11/08, Daniel Brown wrote:

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Alex Chamberlain
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 Ahh, but they are on different webservers


That's why I mentioned cURL at the very beginning, if it had to be
done as a POST request.


 At the moment, I am just using a query string. How long is the limit of the
 query string??


There is no official limit in the protocol, but you may want to
check out Section 3.2.1 of RFC 2068 for more on that.

The limits are in what the client is capable of sending, and what
the server is capable of receiving.  A quick S of TFW should give you
the information you need regarding PHP and the remote server's
configuration.


Incidentally, I did some minor testing on this a few years ago and 
found the lengths vary greatly between servers.


Cheers,

tedd

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Re: [PHP] Relocating and POSTing

2008-07-11 Thread Daniel Brown
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:07 PM, tedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Incidentally, I did some minor testing on this a few years ago and found the
> lengths vary greatly between servers.

 and browsers.  If I remember correctly, on Winblows alone,
Opera is capable of somewhere in the 4,500 character range, while
Internet Exploder is only capable of 2048+slack (2083 bytes).  And
pre-1.0 HTTP days, it was common for many servers not to accept more
than 255 characters on GET.

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Fwd: [PHP] Question regarding OO

2008-07-11 Thread Eric Butera
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From: Yeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Question regarding OO
To: Eric Butera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


I understand my error in thinking now.

Apple can't extend Tree.

Oak, Evergreen or Willow extend Tree.

I thank you all for helping me to understand.

On 7/11/08, Eric Butera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Yeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  >
> > /*
> >
> > I have a question here regarding object orientation in PHP and any other
> > language.
> >
> > Let's start with some hypothetical code:
> >
> > */
> >
> > // <--- 1st CLASS
> >
> > class ParkingLot {
> >
> > var size; // size in sq feet
> >
> > var max_number_of_cars; // how many cars there is space for
> >
> > function __construct($size, $max_cars) {
> >
> > $this->size = $size; $this->max_number_of_cars = $max_cars;
> >
> > }
> >
> > };
> >
> > cpark = new ParkingLot(5, 17);
> >
> > // <--- 2nd CLASS
> >
> > class ParkingSpace extends ParkingLot {
> >
> > var ps_ID; // ID of the parking space ( 1 .. max_number_of_cars )
> >
> > var occupied_by; // ID of the car on the parking space
> >
> > var st_time; // Unix time stamp set when the car parks
> >
> > function __construct($car, $id) {
> >
> > $this->st_time = time();
> >
> > $this->occupied_by = $car;
> >
> > $this->ps_ID = $id;
> >
> > }
> >
> > };
> >
> > /*
> >
> > OK, so i got a parking lot class and its subclass parking space.
> >
> > Now the question:
> >
> > I want a list of occupied parking spaces, where do I put that? One might put
> > it into the ParkingLot Class, but wouldn't that be a recursion (a child
> > instance in the parent class)?
> >
> > */
> >
> > $occ_parking_spaces = array();
> >
> > $occ_parking_spaces[] =& new ParkingSpace('Joes Car', 8);
> >
> > $occ_parking_spaces[] =& new ParkingSpace('My Prshe', 17);
> >
> > $occ_parking_spaces[] =& new ParkingSpace('Toms Caddy', 4);
> >
> > /*
> >
> > After a while a method to print all occupied spaces is necessary. Correct me
> > if I'm wrong, but I usually add it to the ParkingLot class.
> >
> > class ParkingLot {
> >
> > // previous code ...
> >
> > var $occ_parking_spaces = array();
> >
> > function print_occ_spaces() {
> >
> > var_dump($this->occ_parking_spaces)
> >
> > }
> >
> > };
> >
> > What bothers me here is that I'm actually having a list of child classes in
> > the parent class, is there a better/correct way to do this?
> >
> > I hope I made myself clear.
> >
> > Greetz,
> >
> > Yeti
> >
> > */
> >
> > ?>
> >
>
>
> Listen to what everyone else has said so far.  Look up IS-A versus
> HAS-A.  Favor composition over inheritance.  You want your parking lot
> to have spaces, but spaces don't have to be in a parking lot.
>
> http://www.javacamp.org/moreclasses/oop/oop5.html

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RE: [PHP] Question regarding OO

2008-07-11 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip]
I understand my error in thinking now.

Apple can't extend Tree.

Oak, Evergreen or Willow extend Tree.

I thank you all for helping me to understand.
[/snip]

By jove, I think he's got it!

Parking space could be a member variable of parking lot, that would make
sense.

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RE: [PHP] cookie encoding/decoding

2008-07-11 Thread Jeff Demel
Anyone have any ideas on this at all?

-Original Message-
From: Jeff Demel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:50 AM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] cookie encoding/decoding

I have a situation where a cookie is being set elsewhere on a site by
ASP.NET, and I want to read it in my PHP.  However, when getting a cookie in
PHP, it does an automatic urldecode (or some kind of decoding).  Since the
cookie is entered in its pure form, with no encoding, on the ASP.NET side,
PHP is actually converting/decoding correct characters that don't need
decoding.  So, for example a plus sign would become a blank space.  This, of
course, means I'm getting incorrect info from the cookie.

Is there a way to turn off this PHP "feature"?  Perhaps a flag in the .ini
file?

-Jeff



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Re: [PHP] Relocating and POSTing

2008-07-11 Thread tedd

At 1:19 PM -0400 7/11/08, Daniel Brown wrote:

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:07 PM, tedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


 Incidentally, I did some minor testing on this a few years ago and found the
 lengths vary greatly between servers.


 and browsers.  If I remember correctly, on Winblows alone,
Opera is capable of somewhere in the 4,500 character range, while
Internet Exploder is only capable of 2048+slack (2083 bytes).  And
pre-1.0 HTTP days, it was common for many servers not to accept more
than 255 characters on GET.



Yes, those are generally the numbers I found as well.

In my more current test, I had one test that exceeded 5000 
characters, but most were in the 2000 character range.


So what it boils down to is, you can send a respectable number of 
characters via a GET, but if it's going to be in the 1K range, it's 
best to test (it's best to test anyway).


Cheers,

tedd

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RE: [PHP] OT - RE: [PHP] scalable web gallery

2008-07-11 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
> -Original Message-
> From: Robert Cummings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:31 PM
> To: Boyd, Todd M.
> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [PHP] OT - RE: [PHP] scalable web gallery
> 
> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 12:06 -0500, Boyd, Todd M. wrote:
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Robert Cummings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:24 AM
> > > To: Boyd, Todd M.
> > > Cc: Daniel Brown; php-general@lists.php.net
> > > Subject: Re: [PHP] OT - RE: [PHP] scalable web gallery
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 10:18 -0500, Boyd, Todd M. wrote:
> > > > > -Original Message-
> > > > > From: Daniel Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:42 AM
> > > > > To: paragasu
> > > > > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
> > > > > Subject: Re: [PHP] scalable web gallery
> > > >
> > > > ---8<--- snip
> > > >
> > > > > And for the record, in the "olden days," there was a limit
> of
> > > > > about 2048 files per directory, back when no one thought there
> > > would
> > > > > ever be a need for nearly that many files.  Then, with
improved
> > > > > filesystems, the limit was rumored to be another magic number:
> > > 65535.
> > > > > That depended on the operating system, filesystem, and the
> kernel.
> > > I
> > > > > think (but don't quote me on this) that BeOS had the 65535
> limit.
> > > > >
> > > > > Now, on an ext3 filesystem (we're not counting ReiserFS
> > because
> > > > > (1) I was never a fan, and (2) he might kill me if I say
> something
> > > > > bad!  8^O) you're okay with hundreds of thousands of files per
> > > > > directory.  ls'ing will be a bit of a pain in the ass, and if
> > > you're
> > > > > in Bash, you probably don't want to double-TAB the directory,
> but
> > > all
> > > > > in all, you'll be okay.
> > > > >
> > > > > Still, I'd create 16 subdirectories under the images
> > directory:
> > > > > 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f.  Then name the file as an MD5
> > hash
> > > of
> > > > > the image uploaded, and place it in the directory matching the
> > > first
> > > > > character of the new file name.
> > > >
> > > > Aren't directory structures in Windows (>2.x) and even DOS
(>4.x)
> > > built
> > > > with B-Trees? I wouldn't figure there would be any kind of
> > > > limit--excepting memory, of course--to how many files or
> > > subdirectories
> > > > can be linked to a single node.
> > > >
> > > > Been a while since I've played with those underlying data
> structures
> > > we
> > > > all take for granted, though, so maybe I'm way off base.
> > >
> > > They may all be B-Trees but the storage mechanism often differs
> > between
> > > one filesystem and another. FAT16 and FAT32 both suffered from
> > > limitations on the number of files that could exist in a
directory.
> > > Actually, I may be wrong about FAT32, but I do know for certain it
> had
> > > massive slowdown if it hit some magic number.
> >
> > tedd also sent me an e-mail that sparked a memory of mine... the
> > b-trees, regardless of their efficiency, still assign each dir/file
> > INode an identifying number. This number, obviously, can only get so
> > large in the context of one b-tree object (i.e., a directory).
> >
> > In spite of this mental exercise, I do *NOT* miss my Data Structures
> &
> > Algorithms class. :)
> 
> Really? That along with distributed computing, and parallel computing
> were my favourites... and here I am programming for the Web... I guess
> it's distributed ;)

Don't get me wrong--I enjoyed the class very much. I had never seen
sorting algorithms outside of the Bubble Sort, so learning Pivot, Shell,
etc. was quite a blast. Self-balancing data trees and such were a real
eye-opener as to the power of data structures, too.

I'm just... glad I don't have to learn it all over again in a classroom
environment. :)

Haven't taken a distributed computing class just yet, but I've still got
a bit until I graduate, and these elective credits are burning a hole in
my pocket...


Todd Boyd
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RE: [PHP] Question regarding OO

2008-07-11 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
> -Original Message-
> From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 1:51 PM
> To: Eric Butera; php php
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Question regarding OO
> 
> [snip]
> I understand my error in thinking now.
> 
> Apple can't extend Tree.
> 
> Oak, Evergreen or Willow extend Tree.
> 
> I thank you all for helping me to understand.
> [/snip]
> 
> By jove, I think he's got it!
> 
> Parking space could be a member variable of parking lot, that would
> make
> sense.

One thing at a time, Jay... one thing at a time. ;)


Todd Boyd
Web Programmer




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RE: [PHP] OT - RE: [PHP] scalable web gallery

2008-07-11 Thread tedd

At 5:01 PM -0500 7/11/08, Boyd, Todd M. wrote:

Don't get me wrong--I enjoyed the class very much. I had never seen
sorting algorithms outside of the Bubble Sort, so learning Pivot, Shell,
etc. was quite a blast.


I used to hang with a bunch of Macintosh software developers. It was 
brought to discussion about which sort would be best and everyone 
submitted theirs. I won the competition with a Quicksort. They all 
wow'ed about how fast it was, but I told them I didn't want to 
improve on it any more because I was afraid if I did, it would go 
back in time.



Self-balancing data trees and such were a real
eye-opener as to the power of data structures, too.


Self-balancing data trees were one of my favorites -- I even wrote a 
Macintosh application showing the operation of a splay binary-tree, 
as seen here (for those who have Macs):


http://sperling.com/freeware.php

A splay is based upon how often a search is preformed for a specific 
item. The more often the search, the closer the item appears toward 
the top of the tree -- thus less time to find it. The up and downside 
of the splay is that the tree is balanced each time a search is 
preformed -- requiring more time to balance it, but less time to find 
the item -- kind of a trade-off that works for some situations. I am 
sure that many search engines use a similar approach.



I'm just... glad I don't have to learn it all over again in a classroom
environment. :)


Not me, I would love to be in a classroom again. You would think that 
three degrees would burn me out, but just the opposite, I can't get 
enough of this stuff -- I'm constantly reading and programming 
everything I can lay my hands on.


The only downside of the classroom environment is that I can honestly 
learn more from this group et al than I can in a classroom. I just 
don't see academia keeping up with technology. By time the 
instructors prepare their class-notes, their class-notes are outdated 
-- or so is my perspective.


Cheers,

tedd


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Re: [PHP] OT - RE: [PHP] scalable web gallery

2008-07-11 Thread Jim Lucas

tedd wrote:
The only downside of the classroom environment is that I can honestly 
learn more from this group et al than I can in a classroom. I just don't 
see academia keeping up with technology. By time the instructors prepare 
their class-notes, their class-notes are outdated -- or so is my 
perspective.


Cheers,

tedd




This is so true.  Our Community College here in Central Oregon has a Cisco 
class that is based on the IOS from about 8 years ago.  Some of the things 
that the guy teaches are not even in the current ISO.  Or the work-a-rounds he 
talks about for problems in that ISO have already been fixed in the current 
releases.



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Re: [PHP] OT - RE: [PHP] scalable web gallery

2008-07-11 Thread Shawn McKenzie

Jim Lucas wrote:

tedd wrote:
The only downside of the classroom environment is that I can honestly 
learn more from this group et al than I can in a classroom. I just 
don't see academia keeping up with technology. By time the instructors 
prepare their class-notes, their class-notes are outdated -- or so is 
my perspective.


Cheers,

tedd




This is so true.  Our Community College here in Central Oregon has a 
Cisco class that is based on the IOS from about 8 years ago.  Some of 
the things that the guy teaches are not even in the current ISO.  Or the 
work-a-rounds he talks about for problems in that ISO have already been 
fixed in the current releases.





...and he even calls the IOS an ISO sometimes ;-)

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Re: [PHP] OT - RE: [PHP] scalable web gallery

2008-07-11 Thread Jim Lucas

Shawn McKenzie wrote:

Jim Lucas wrote:

tedd wrote:
The only downside of the classroom environment is that I can honestly 
learn more from this group et al than I can in a classroom. I just 
don't see academia keeping up with technology. By time the 
instructors prepare their class-notes, their class-notes are outdated 
-- or so is my perspective.


Cheers,

tedd




This is so true.  Our Community College here in Central Oregon has a 
Cisco class that is based on the IOS from about 8 years ago.  Some of 
the things that the guy teaches are not even in the current ISO.  Or 
the work-a-rounds he talks about for problems in that ISO have already 
been fixed in the current releases.





...and he even calls the IOS an ISO sometimes ;-)


good catch,  lazy/tired finger  TGIF

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Re: [PHP] scalable web gallery

2008-07-11 Thread paragasu
> Why not use a hash table based upon the name of the file and distribute files 
> that way?

sorry tedd, i don't really get it. but i am interested to know more
about the hash table concept.
can you explain a little bit more..

thanks..

On 7/11/08, tedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 10:41 AM -0400 7/10/08, Daniel Brown wrote:
>> Still, I'd create 16 subdirectories under the images directory:
>>0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f.  Then name the file as an MD5 hash of
>>the image uploaded, and place it in the directory matching the first
>>character of the new file name.
>
> Why not use a hash table based upon the name of the file and
> distribute files that way?
>
> You don't even need a directory until you actually need one -- then
> create one 'on-the-fly' and drop the file into it.
>
> As such, it's easy to find the file again by simply hashing it's name
> -- you don't even need to store a path for the file, only the name of
> the file.
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
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[PHP] Most popular per month

2008-07-11 Thread Ryan S
Hey!

The client has a set of 50 images that keep rotating everyday and when a user 
clicks one of those images he is taken to that images site, in the background 
(database) i maintain a counter _for the day_ and then display the top ten 
images everyday in this format: 1-10

before the next days counter starts this data is stored in a table which has a 
simple structure like this
img_id1 int,img_id2 int  (etc till img_id10) 


Now the client wants a little extra functionality, and with me sucking at maths 
I need some help please, basically he now wants to have a chart with all the 50 
images there and showing _via percentages_ instead of the present 1-10 display 
which ones are the most popular till date.

example:
1. image name: (percentage here)
2. image name: (percentage here)
3. image name: (percentage here)
etc
any ideas on where i can start/ code tips/ urls etc would be most appreciated.
Also, if i am not mistaken there was some charting software to display this 
kind of data in pie and line charts... anybody know what i am talking about? 
because i cant find such a link in my bookmarks.

Thanks in advance,
Ryan



  

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Re: [PHP] Most popular per month

2008-07-11 Thread Wolf

Ryan S wrote:

Hey!

The client has a set of 50 images that keep rotating everyday and when a user 
clicks one of those images he is taken to that images site, in the background 
(database) i maintain a counter _for the day_ and then display the top ten 
images everyday in this format: 1-10

before the next days counter starts this data is stored in a table which has a 
simple structure like this
img_id1 int,img_id2 int  (etc till img_id10) 



Now the client wants a little extra functionality, and with me sucking at maths 
I need some help please, basically he now wants to have a chart with all the 50 
images there and showing _via percentages_ instead of the present 1-10 display 
which ones are the most popular till date.

example:
1. image name: (percentage here)
2. image name: (percentage here)
3. image name: (percentage here)
etc
any ideas on where i can start/ code tips/ urls etc would be most appreciated.
Also, if i am not mistaken there was some charting software to display this 
kind of data in pie and line charts... anybody know what i am talking about? 
because i cant find such a link in my bookmarks.

Thanks in advance,
Ryan


percentages:
$total=img1 int + img2 int + img3 int + img50 int;
$perc1=(img1 int)/$total;
$perc2=(img2 int)/$total;
.
..
.
$perc50=(img50 int)/$total;

You can do it per day, per month, per year, per 28 days, per PMS cycle, 
per anything you want provided you have the data to do it.


Google had an pie chart thingie, check the archives of this list.

HTH,
Wolf


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Re: [PHP] OT - RE: [PHP] scalable web gallery

2008-07-11 Thread tedd

At 7:22 PM -0500 7/11/08, Shawn McKenzie wrote:

Jim Lucas wrote:

tedd wrote:
The only downside of the classroom environment is that I can 
honestly learn more from this group et al than I can in a 
classroom. I just don't see academia keeping up with technology. 
By time the instructors prepare their class-notes, their 
class-notes are outdated -- or so is my perspective.




This is so true.  Our Community College here in Central Oregon has 
a Cisco class that is based on the IOS from about 8 years ago. 
Some of the things that the guy teaches are not even in the current 
ISO.  Or the work-a-rounds he talks about for problems in that ISO 
have already been fixed in the current releases.




...and he even calls the IOS an ISO sometimes ;-)


He just proved his point, right?

I deal with local colleges a bit -- taught a few classes.

Recently our local Community College (LCC) decided to return to their 
previous database. They tried using Oracle for about six years, but 
they could never get it to work and finally gave up.


Unfortunately in the process, they spent over $20 million dollars, 
which included a help desk that cost over $650,000 per year, and 
everything failed miserably. They simply didn't have the experience 
and no one would admit that they didn't.


Instead of hiring local talent, the board of trustees sought out 
"experts" from NYC who encouraged them to throw even more money at 
the problem.


You see, NYC has all their colleges running on Oracle, but they also 
have over 200 full-time Oracle programmers working on it.


It wasn't until the Federal government threaten to hold up government 
money (because the college wasn't paying students their grant and 
other monies) that the college wised up and retreated from their 
"We're just like NYC" attitude.


Sometimes, these "smart" people aren't as smart as they think they are.

Cheers,

tedd

PS: BTW -- I offered my talents but they didn't have the professional 
curiosity to even reply. I'm afraid that the bad news isn't over for 
the local taxpayer just yet.


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Re: [PHP] scalable web gallery

2008-07-11 Thread tedd

At 8:51 AM +0800 7/12/08, paragasu wrote:
 > Why not use a hash table based upon the name of the file and 
distribute files that way?


sorry tedd, i don't really get it. but i am interested to know more
about the hash table concept.
can you explain a little bit more..


paragasu:

A hash table is simply a result from an algorithm where you take the 
name of the file and produce a number from it. It can be any 
computation you want that produces a number -- such as just totalling 
the number of letters in the name.


For example, tedd.gif would compute to 4, whereas Rob.gif would be a 
meager 3, and Daniel.gif would be a six (which is probably over-rated 
for him anyway).  :-)


Now, just use our respective number for storage in directories -- 
tedd.gif would be stored in directory 4, Ron.gif would be stored in 
directory 3, and Daniel.gif in directory 6.


If you store the names of the files in a database, then you don't 
need to store the paths as well because the paths can be computed 
from the file names -- do you see?


Also, you don't need to create a directory until there's actually a 
need for one.


This is old logic for creating memory structures where we weren't 
forced to allocate memory beforehand -- it's like a large array with 
holes in it. It's kind of slick when you can apply it to other stuff.


Now, the example I gave was pretty simple. However, a good hash 
algorithm is one that distributes things evenly, and that's a bit 
more complicated -- I'll leave that for another time.


  :-)

Cheers,

tedd

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