[PHP] Re: PHP Trouble-Ticket-Systems?
I actually spent all day last Wednesday for looking for such a tool to integrate into a web hosting control panel we've built, but there really isn't a good one out there. PerlDesk is a free one that is template based, yet it's lacking a few features. At work, we use Response Tracker v2 (RT) which is also Perl based, but the template engine is nightmare to give it a new look. It has everything you mention below, but the interface and installation is the drawbacks. So, I spent my Thanksgiving weekend working on PHP port of RT2 which at the moment is able to authenticate technicians, create a new ticket, reply/comment to tickets, activity logging, queue stats, and a few other things. I haven't done the client side yet, but shouldn't be too hard since the DB schema is complete and I can safely reuse templates in the technician screen for the client area with a small bit of changing out the WHERE clauses in the SQL querying. The DB layer is ADODB so it can be ported over to PostGreSQL later on. Smarty is the template class I'm using with custom error pages on all errors, warning, or notices. Until the web interface is hardened, then I'll work on email parser to pipe it into database and parse MIME attachments. . . I'd like to see it evolve into something like cyracle.com where there is a knowledge base in which the visitor can rummage through before submitting in a ticket. "Thomas Seifert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi folks, > > I already searched through the web but couldn't find any which provide the features I want. > > What I would want to see in such a system: > - adding TroubleTickets through webinterface or sending an email to an support email-address > - adding answers to troubletickets to their parent > - nice admininterface to answer support-requests and add comments (not sent to visitors) > - open/close/stalled/bogus ... and so on tags for the system > - ... > > > So the question is, does anyone know any good troubleticket/helpdesk-systems written in PHP? > > > Thanks, > > Thomas -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] XML-RPC, is this the best approach for something like this?
Hi guys! I'm wrapping up a web hosting control panel written in PHP that fills up a queue with commands such as create web hosting account, or change password. A Perl based CRON job on each server will query the database trying to determine what tasks it needs to execute. The problem however is that these jobs will run every 60s which isn't fast enough for my boss. He'd like to see things happen instantly. There are a few ways this could be accomplish that I could think of. 1) Write a daemon that queries the database for tasks only when the infinite while loop determines that the master server sent a request to begin querying the master database for tasks. 2) The CRON job could be set to run at a lower interval, maybe every 30s. 3) Write a deamon that opens a port using sockets to listen for commands and executes. 4) Using XML-RPC, construct an encrypted payload across a SSL connection to the remote server. Some of the problems I'm facing is getting a response back from the server in case there are any issues with account creation. At the moment, there is a disconnection between the master database and the web hosting servers in which if an error is generated, the user does not know believing everything is okay and an email is dispatched to the admin to check out the problem. I'm also faced with tasks that running on top of each other. Perhaps it took the server 60s to create the hosting account because the load was incredibly high. Then the second job starts up, which would be to delete the catch all account. The catch all account does not exist, but only in the database it does. I think method 1 will fix the instant change account maintenance problem, but I still can't get any responses back from the server if account creation was not successful. Method 2 will not fix the instant change, only making it quicker. Method 3 will fix the instant change and responds back if there are issues Method 4 sounds like the best method, yet I'm afraid of the script timing out and permissions issue. I don't want the remote machine running PHP that's parsing the XML payload to run with high level permissions and I hate to compile another instance of PHP and Apache. So I'm left with Method 3 with probably the best choice. Before I dive into the world of socket development, is there any recommendations or feedback? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Mass Mailing
An upcoming project I'm working and spec'ing out is a mass mailing application. Initially, I was looking at Mailman which was written in Python since it looks like it handles delivering emails efficiently without killing the server. We have 1 client able to send 110,000 emails at 6.5K avg per week on PIII 800 with 128 MB RAM using Mailman. The inteface however is very bad and we'd like to develop other features like text ads, tracking, templates, etc. This would require writing a wrapper around Mailman in PHP. I was considering of writing the mass mailing application in PHP instead though. If anyone has eperience writing such applications with this amount of emails, I'd like to know what you've done. I'm thinking of coding the front end in PHP that will put the email into a queue table that will force a command line PHP script listening on a particular port to scan the database for this new task in queue. Once it picks up the task, the timeout for this application to run will be set to infinite. It'll establish a SMTP socket either to a really beefed up mailing list server or the localhost SMTP server to begin blasting out these emails. >From what I understand, it's better to blast emails via an open socket connection to SMTP rather than looping through Sendmail. Is this the right thing todo? I've also heard that PHP is not good for writing mailing lists application, but Mailman is written in Python and it's able to send thousands of email just fine. Any thoughts on this? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Mass Mailing
Yea, I'd like to see that. How many people are on your lists if you don't mind me asking? I also came across this evening, http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net and http://www.octeth.com/index.php uses this class on it's backend, claiming that it is able to send 500,00 on a AMD Duron 900 with 512MB RAM in 10 hours. The phpmailer class says that directly conneting to mail() is better than using SMTP as it puts more of an overhead. Though I was looking at Perl packages such BulkMail that uses SMTP was able to send out 100,000 emails. Everyone says that PHP's mail() causes several Sendmail instances to fork off which is ineffcient. -Original Message- From: Gil Disatnik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 6:46 PM To: Jonathan Chum Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Mass Mailing I have written a few useful php functions that put the email addresses on one file and the message on another file. I have a crontabbed script that runs every min looking for these files and then using qmail-inject to send them (sendmail is bad, replace it ;)) It's very good for sending a few thousands emails every time as the php script execution finishes in a second and you don't have to deal with max execution time and everything. If you wish I could send you the scripts. At 05:10 PM 12/21/2002 -0500, you wrote: >An upcoming project I'm working and spec'ing out is a mass mailing >application. Initially, I was looking at Mailman which was written in Python >since it looks like it handles delivering emails efficiently without killing >the server. We have 1 client able to send 110,000 emails at 6.5K avg per >week on PIII 800 with 128 MB RAM using Mailman. The inteface however is very >bad and we'd like to develop other features like text ads, tracking, >templates, etc. This would require writing a wrapper around Mailman in PHP. >I was considering of writing the mass mailing application in PHP instead >though. > >If anyone has eperience writing such applications with this amount of >emails, I'd like to know what you've done. > >I'm thinking of coding the front end in PHP that will put the email into a >queue table that will force a command line PHP script listening on a >particular port to scan the database for this new task in queue. Once it >picks up the task, the timeout for this application to run will be set to >infinite. It'll establish a SMTP socket either to a really beefed up mailing >list server or the localhost SMTP server to begin blasting out these emails. > > From what I understand, it's better to blast emails via an open socket >connection to SMTP rather than looping through Sendmail. Is this the right >thing todo? > >I've also heard that PHP is not good for writing mailing lists application, >but Mailman is written in Python and it's able to send thousands of email >just fine. Any thoughts on this? > > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Regards Gil Disatnik UNIX system/security administrator. GibsonLP@EFnet http://www.disatnik.com _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ "Windows NT has detected mouse movement, you MUST restart your computer before the new settings will take effect, [ OK ]" Windows is a 32 bit patch to a 16 bit GUI based on a 8 bit operating system, written for a 4 bit processor by a 2 bit company which can not stand 1 bit of competition. -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mass Mailing
Well, the problem I'm facing is that the application I'm building will have several users that may have a few subscribers to very large subscriber list. Using the include function in sendmail aliases will still be using Sendmail to deliver the email, but folks have been saying that SMTP is much faster and includes features such as enveloping which increases the speed of delivery. The ability to use include function seems too easy of a solution as there are list server apps out there that costs 6,000 with added support costs and SMTP server. "Chris Knipe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 000e01c2a94f$6cef0730$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:000e01c2a94f$6cef0730$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Why not just use simple alias files? > > 1) You have a file with all your addresses > > file.asc: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > etc > > 2) You have the alias entry > my-mass-list::include:/path/to/file.asc > > 3) PHP sends one email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 4) The mail server (if it's any good), expands all the addresses from > file.asc and does the mass mailing... > > Problem sorted? The alias file (included) can easily be managed with PHP. > With a little tweaking, you can even include a script directly via the alias > file by using a | (pipe). The script can go as far as to even get the list > of email addresses from a MySQL DB or something... You can do the script in > just about anything you want... Sh, Perl, PHP, Python, Java... Doesn't > really make a difference. > > A pipe will actually give you better security, as you can verify the email > before actually sending out 100,000 odd copies of it. Here, you can sign > the message with a PGP key via PHP for example. If the key's do not match, > the script doesn't send the email (And obviously, you remove the key from > the email before sending it out from the piped script) > > Anyways, that's how I would do it if I couldn't use mailman for whatever > reason. IMHO, keeping as much of the mail on a mail server will drastically > improove the performance, because a mail server is made to > process/send/receive email, PHP is not ;-) > > -- > me > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Jonathan Chum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Gil Disatnik'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 2:03 AM > Subject: RE: [PHP] Mass Mailing > > > > Yea, I'd like to see that. How many people are on your lists if you > > don't mind me asking? > > > > I also came across this evening, http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net and > > http://www.octeth.com/index.php uses this class on it's backend, > > claiming that it is able to send 500,00 on a AMD Duron 900 with 512MB > > RAM in 10 hours. > > > > The phpmailer class says that directly conneting to mail() is better > > than using SMTP as it puts more of an overhead. Though I was looking at > > Perl packages such BulkMail that uses SMTP was able to send out 100,000 > > emails. > > > > Everyone says that PHP's mail() causes several Sendmail instances to > > fork off which is ineffcient. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Gil Disatnik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 6:46 PM > > To: Jonathan Chum > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Mass Mailing > > > > I have written a few useful php functions that put the email addresses > > on > > one file and the message on another file. > > I have a crontabbed script that runs every min looking for these files > > and > > then using qmail-inject to send them (sendmail is bad, replace it ;)) > > It's very good for sending a few thousands emails every time as the php > > script execution finishes in a second and you don't have to deal with > > max > > execution time and everything. > > > > If you wish I could send you the scripts. > > > > At 05:10 PM 12/21/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > >An upcoming project I'm working and spec'ing out is a mass mailing > > >application. Initially, I was looking at Mailman which was written in > > Python > > >since it looks like it handles delivering emails efficiently without > > killing > > >the server. We have 1 client able to send 110,000 emails at 6.5K avg > > per > > >week on PIII 800 with 128 MB RAM using Mailman. The inteface however is > > very > > >bad and we'd like to develop other features like text ads, tracking, > > >templates, etc. This would require writing a w
[PHP] Re: Mass Mailing
Thanks Manuel, "Manuel Lemos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hello, > > On 12/21/2002 08:10 PM, Jonathan Chum wrote: > > An upcoming project I'm working and spec'ing out is a mass mailing > > application. Initially, I was looking at Mailman which was written in Python > > since it looks like it handles delivering emails efficiently without killing > > the server. We have 1 client able to send 110,000 emails at 6.5K avg per > > week on PIII 800 with 128 MB RAM using Mailman. The inteface however is very > > bad and we'd like to develop other features like text ads, tracking, > > templates, etc. This would require writing a wrapper around Mailman in PHP. > > I was considering of writing the mass mailing application in PHP instead > > though. > > > > If anyone has eperience writing such applications with this amount of > > emails, I'd like to know what you've done. > > If you do not need to send personalized messages (messages that differ > for each recipient), just put all recipients in a BCc: header and send a > single message to the local mailer queue (not via SMTP). > > If you do not care for the users that bounce messages, just make the > return path be black hole email address. OTOH, if you care about bounces > (you should if you mailing list is large or is not clean), consider > using ezmlm, which is a mailing list manager than among other things > takes care of bounce messages thanks to qmail VERP. I was told that is > the one that eGroups hacked to use in the now known YahooGroups site. > > Once I built a small Web interface for ezmlm. It was meant just to > create and edit several mailing lists meant to be used as newsletter for > a portal with many sites. Is simple but it already comes with a SOAP > interface to manage the mailing list subscribers remotely. > > http://www.phpclasses.org/ezmlmmanager I heard that using BCC, it can only handle a certain amount of receipients. Also, messages that are BCC'd are also tend to be blocked by mail servers and clients. > > I'm thinking of coding the front end in PHP that will put the email into a > > queue table that will force a command line PHP script listening on a > > particular port to scan the database for this new task in queue. Once it > > picks up the task, the timeout for this application to run will be set to > > infinite. It'll establish a SMTP socket either to a really beefed up mailing > > list server or the localhost SMTP server to begin blasting out these emails. > > > > From what I understand, it's better to blast emails via an open socket > > connection to SMTP rather than looping through Sendmail. Is this the right > > thing todo? > > No, queuing via SMTP is the slowest way to send messages. Your script > should not bother to deliver the messages to the recipients SMTP > servers. Delivery can take hours or days to finish due to network > congestions and hard to conect SMTP servers. Just queue the messages in > the local mailer and let it take care the actual delivery. > > I would recommend a qmail based system anytime, with or without ezmlm on > top. In a production system that I manage, it just takes 3 seconds to > queue a alert message to be sent to 50,000 via a local qmail server. > > You can also use sendmail almost as fast using the queue only mode. Some > people think that sendmail is slow and many forks processes because they > are not aware of how to configure it to queue the messages the fastest > way that is possible. > > You may want to look into this class that has a sub-classes for > delivering with sendmail program directly instead of using the mail(). > It lets you configure the sendmail delivery mode. There is also a > sub-class for delivering with qmail. > > http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage I was looking at a variety of methods, and seems that everyone thinks for best performance, you would inject the email in to Qmail or Sendmail's queue and run it every hour. As for SMTP, I meant sending the email through your outbound SMTP server which in our case, a server we build specifically for handling that sort of volume. I was reading through Perl's BulkMail module, http://mojo.skazat.com/support/documentation/Bulkmail.pm.html They are using SMTP to delivery their emails. Using envelopes and sorting the emails by their host meant even faster delivery. Though the envelope method seems to be like BCC as you can't personalized each email To: recepient. Your Mime Message class seems to be better for sending mass mailings as it queues up the email into Sendmail without opening/closing the connection for each recepient. phpmaile
[PHP] Problem with Search Engine Friendly URLs under PHP & Windows XP
I'm following various tutorials online that uses the PATH_INFO to do this, however Apache isn't playing nicely. I read a few documents that Apache has a built in look back feature, but a query on google on lead me back to a few articles that I just read so I'm assuming this feature is made up in the article? I've gotten the .htaccess to run a file as a .php, however I can't attach arguments to the right hand side of the URL. An example would be, I have a file called index.php. I turn this into index and run it as a .php file. It works fine, though I should be able to add /name/1 which shows up under the PATH_INFO variable. However, I get a blank page and this error logged in Apache: [Sat Jan 11 10:33:40 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Unable to open c:\apache\www\www.mxportal.com\public_html\dir\resources\d in Unknown on line 0 So it looks like Apache is not reading back to resources, but thinks there is folder called resources and a file called d in which it's trying to open and pass it to PHP. This however works under *NIX systems. I'm not sure if there's a different of doing it under Windows or if this is a bug in Apache. Any ideas? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Problem with Search Engine Friendly URLs under PHP & Windows XP
Toying with Apache further, I actually was able to get this to work a few minutes I posted the thread. What I was doing wrong was running PHP as a CGI rather than using it as SAPI module. Hopefully this helps other folks as I was going nuts going through google.com trying to find a solution. Add this line to your httpd.conf with the path to php4apache.dll included in the Windows distribution: LoadModule php4_module C:\apache\php\sapi\php4apache.dll Then add this line: AddModule mod_php4.c Then add the MIME types for PHP: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3 AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml Also, you'll need to copy php4ts.dll into your c:\Windows\System32 folder. After all that, this feature works under Windows whoohoo :) "Gerard Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > As far as I know, this technique doesn't work under windows... > > Jonathan Chum wrote: > > >I'm following various tutorials online that uses the PATH_INFO to do this, > >however Apache isn't playing nicely. I read a few documents that Apache has > >a built in look back feature, but a query on google on lead me back to a few > >articles that I just read so I'm assuming this feature is made up in the > >article? > > > >I've gotten the .htaccess to run a file as a .php, however I can't attach > >arguments to the right hand side of the URL. An example would be, I have a > >file called index.php. I turn this into index and run it as a .php file. It > >works fine, though I should be able to add /name/1 which shows up under the > >PATH_INFO variable. > > > >However, I get a blank page and this error logged in Apache: > > > >[Sat Jan 11 10:33:40 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: > >Unable to open c:\apache\www\www.mxportal.com\public_html\dir\resources\d in > >Unknown on line 0 > > > >So it looks like Apache is not reading back to resources, but thinks there > >is folder called resources and a file called d in which it's trying to open > >and pass it to PHP. > > > >This however works under *NIX systems. I'm not sure if there's a different > >of doing it under Windows or if this is a bug in Apache. Any ideas? > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Gerard Samuel > http://www.trini0.org:81/ > http://dev.trini0.org:81/ > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] SMTP, mail() and piping directly into Sendmail, which is better?
I'm working on mass mailing list application and doing my research on the part with the actual delivery of the message. I've been using a Perl script called MojoMail which sends out blasts just fine and boasts that SMTP is the fastest way for delivery than with Sendmail using a module called BulkMail. I always understood that SMTP adds an additional layer around the MTA which really slows things down, however only useful if you plan to blast emails across several SMTP servers for a load balancing purposes. So that's a 'pro' for using SMTP. The 'con' is that delivery is not quite as fast. Then with PHP's mail(), folks have been saying that because it opens/closes a connection, looping through mail() adds additional overhead and that the best way would be to pipe into the MTA with popen()/pclose() Now I'm curious which method is really better...Piping into the MTA will still open/close the connection and adds the same amount of overhead as mail() do right? What are your thoughts on SMTP? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Mass Mailing
Hi, I was surfing through google's archive, and some reason my USENET reader didn't catch this reply, so here goes. . .(my comments are embedded below) "Manuel Lemos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hello, > > On 12/22/2002 02:52 PM, Jonathan Chum wrote: > >>>I was considering of writing the mass mailing application in PHP instead > >>>though. > >>> > >>>If anyone has eperience writing such applications with this amount of > >>>emails, I'd like to know what you've done. > >> > >>If you do not need to send personalized messages (messages that differ > >>for each recipient), just put all recipients in a BCc: header and send a > >>single message to the local mailer queue (not via SMTP). > >> > >>If you do not care for the users that bounce messages, just make the > >>return path be black hole email address. OTOH, if you care about bounces > >>(you should if you mailing list is large or is not clean), consider > >>using ezmlm, which is a mailing list manager than among other things > >>takes care of bounce messages thanks to qmail VERP. I was told that is > >>the one that eGroups hacked to use in the now known YahooGroups site. > >> > >>Once I built a small Web interface for ezmlm. It was meant just to > >>create and edit several mailing lists meant to be used as newsletter for > >>a portal with many sites. Is simple but it already comes with a SOAP > >>interface to manage the mailing list subscribers remotely. > >> > >>http://www.phpclasses.org/ezmlmmanager > > > > > > I heard that using BCC, it can only handle a certain amount of receipients. > > No, if you look in the archives of this list you will notice that this > was explained several times. What happens is that some ISP of shared > hosting limit the number of recipients of the messages you can send > because they do not want you to do mass mailing at all. You should check > your ISP Acceptable Use Policy before trying to do any mass mailing. > Trying to queue individual messages to each recipient may fool the > server limitations but you may still be against the AUP. > > > > Also, messages that are BCC'd are also tend to be blocked by mail servers > > and clients. > > Any server owners that do that are dumb because while they think they > are blocking spammers, what they get is they are simply blocking opt-in > mailing lists for instance like this one you are getting. At the same > time you still keep getting most of the spam because real spammers use > dedicated machines make the recipients addresses show in the messages as > needed to defeat that silly anti-spam criteria. So, what they get is to > block solicited e-mail. > > Anyway, the problem of personalizing messages is that makes your > mailings take much longer to generate and queue because you need to > create separate message for each recipient. I'm weighing down personalization and enveloping for this project, and probably going for the personalization of each email. This rules out BCC and enveloping with SMTP. > > >>No, queuing via SMTP is the slowest way to send messages. Your script > >>should not bother to deliver the messages to the recipients SMTP > >>servers. Delivery can take hours or days to finish due to network > >>congestions and hard to conect SMTP servers. Just queue the messages in > >>the local mailer and let it take care the actual delivery. > >> > >>I would recommend a qmail based system anytime, with or without ezmlm on > >>top. In a production system that I manage, it just takes 3 seconds to > >>queue a alert message to be sent to 50,000 via a local qmail server. > >> > >>You can also use sendmail almost as fast using the queue only mode. Some > >>people think that sendmail is slow and many forks processes because they > >>are not aware of how to configure it to queue the messages the fastest > >>way that is possible. > >> > >>You may want to look into this class that has a sub-classes for > >>delivering with sendmail program directly instead of using the mail(). > >>It lets you configure the sendmail delivery mode. There is also a > >>sub-class for delivering with qmail. > >> > >>http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage > > > > > > I was looking at a variety of methods, and seems that everyone thinks for > > best performance, you would inject the email in to Qmail or Sendmail's queue > > That is because it is really the
[PHP] Re: SMTP, mail() and piping directly into Sendmail, which is better?
Ignore this post, I got my answers from the archives :) "Jonathan Chum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I'm working on mass mailing list application and doing my research on the > part with the actual delivery of the message. I've been using a Perl script > called MojoMail which sends out blasts just fine and boasts that SMTP is the > fastest way for delivery than with Sendmail using a module called BulkMail. > I always understood that SMTP adds an additional layer around the MTA which > really slows things down, however only useful if you plan to blast emails > across several SMTP servers for a load balancing purposes. > > So that's a 'pro' for using SMTP. The 'con' is that delivery is not quite as > fast. > > Then with PHP's mail(), folks have been saying that because it opens/closes > a connection, looping through mail() adds additional overhead and that the > best way would be to pipe into the MTA with popen()/pclose() > > Now I'm curious which method is really better...Piping into the MTA will > still open/close the connection and adds the same amount of overhead as > mail() do right? What are your thoughts on SMTP? > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] 3 tier web development
I use Smarty for seperate PHP logic and template logic. For database abstraction, I use AdoDB. Not much a fan of Pear Adodb was pretty faithful when I ported my MySQL app to PostGreSQL. "Hardik Doshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Ok so for seperating interface and PHP code, smarty > templace engine is the best right? > > What about database abstraction layer? > > thanks for your information. I really appreciate that. > > Hardik > > --- John Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hardik Doshi said: > > > 1. How one can seperate HTML and PHP (or any other > > > programming code). Is there anything in PHP so i > > can > > > seperate Interface layer and programming logic > > layer? > > > > http://smarty.php.net > > > > > > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] MIME Decoding Class
I'm looking through Google for MIME decoding classes, one developed by Richard Heyes used in Pear and a few others. What I'm curious is how complete are these classes or if there is one you recommend that completely decodes emails from Outlook, Hotmail, Eudora, etc. based emails. I've looked at solutions written in C and they are about 800 KB source code in size compared to classes written in apps like Squirrel Mail which is 90KB. Does anyone know of any complete decoding classes in PHP either free or commercial. Command line are also fine. If there are C, C++, or C# libraries, those are okay as well if you know of any. I just couldn't come across any that are well coded to perform the task of complete MIME decoding. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Open Source Mailing Lists
Hi Guys, I'm looking for open source mailing lists. I'm aware of hotscripts.com and the mailing lists listed there was not what I had in mind. What I'm looking for is possible some code snippets or applications where the scripts handles much like Mailman in which one person can post a new message to the list and an email is emailed out to everyone. Anyone whose on that list can then reply to that message via email, and all emails are tracked via the ID so that it can be archived on the web. I've coded part of one, but stumped on how the messages retain reply to references in the header. The Reply-To field always reference back to the Message-ID of the message as it left the server, not the ID when it was received. I put this ID as part of the Reference field, but when replying in Outlook, the Reference field does not stay in tack when it reaches the server for parsing. It's like Outlook does not even attach the Reference header even when the message when you are replying to has a Reference header in it. Any ideas? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Recursive Threading
I'm using recursive threading for a simple thread board script, but the problem is the # of queries needed to execute. That is, once given the main thread post, it'll have to find all the posts where the parentID matches the current ID, then requery again for each of the post. So I'm trying to discover a way to limit the amount of querying, possibly there is some type of algo I don't know about or a method using arrays. Any wisdom on this is greatly appreciated. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] NNTP Indexing
I'm in dire need of suggestions for reconstruction of a database that contains USENET posts from a few groups on the server. This is the structure: CREATE TABLE /*!32300 IF NOT EXISTS*/ nntp ( pid mediumint(10) NOT NULL auto_increment, aid mediumint(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' , from_name varchar(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '' , subject varchar(100) NOT NULL DEFAULT '' , date int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' , body text NOT NULL DEFAULT '' , mid varchar(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '' , reference varchar(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '' , newsgroup varchar(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '' , tid varchar(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '' , viewed mediumint(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' , replies mediumint(3) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' , PRIMARY KEY (pid), INDEX nntp_reference_newsgroup (reference,newsgroup), INDEX nntp_mid_newsgroup_date (mid,newsgroup,date), INDEX nntp_mid (mid), INDEX nntp_date (date), INDEX nntp_reference_newsgroup_tid_date (reference,newsgroup,tid,date), INDEX tid (tid) ); This table contains data from multiple groups on the server. Right now, the amount of posts is reaching into 150K posts including full body. It's quite slow with a simple query to count the total posts of a particular group from a certain date: SELECT count(pid) AS total FROM nntp WHERE reference = '' AND newsgroup='macromedia.dreamweaver' AND date > '1008511669' An Index was created on the WHERE clause so that it could find the info fast, but it takes at least 30s to just query for the total row count. So my question is what's the best way to reconstruct this table. One method of handling was to seperate each group crawled into it's own table, but I am thinking into teh future when I begin to have hundreds of USENET groups to crawl and wouldn't want to maintain 100s of tables. Another idea would be to seperate the body of the posts into a seperate table. Any other ideas/suggestions? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re: PHP Bulletin Boards...how they work.
If you are just starting into PHP, try some something more basic. If you have some background into another language such as PERL, then you shouldn't have too much trouble. However, if you insist to taking on a bulletin board script for analyzing purposes, head over to hotscripts.com where I'm sure there is a few tutorials and many boards from the simplistic recursive wwwthreads style boards to the vertical setup like infopop and UBB. I've coded up BlazeBoard script last year and I must say, that majority of the work is getting the cool features rather than developing a foundation of the board. All a board does is input/output data from the database. So first step to take would be developing a core registration module, then utilizing it, authenticate the user so they can post to a forum, then build the module to retrieve the data. Of course there are other factors to consider on the complexity of the board, that is if you want to consider the ability to create more than one board for a forum or be able to categorize it. These are really features, and doesn't represent the core system of any board. Regards, Jonathan Chum http://www.flaap.com Flash resources "Anthony Ritter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I'm using Windows 98 with Apache, mysql and PHP. > > I'm in the process of learning PHP and would like to find a few tutorials on > PHP/mysql bulletin boards. > > I know that there are a few that you can download but I am trying to find a > tutorial that will let me anylaze the syntax and logic of the code so that I > can understand and breakdown the steps in how a BB program works. > > Any URL's will be helpful. > > Thanking all in advance. > Tony Ritter > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Running a script without flowing
I'm not sure of the exact term, but what I want todo is run a function
in a loop so that it doesn't wait for the function to finish and goes
ahead and executes the next in loop.
For example:
5; $i++) {
run_this();
}
?>
run_this may contain some long mathematical computations that takes a
while, but I want the script to go ahead and continue with the script
while the script computates...
or better yet, executes a shell script that runs in the bg, but the
PHP can safely quit without waiting for results of the shell script.
Any ideas?
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[PHP] Left Join Across Two Databases
I have one table on one database and another table on another database. I want to perform a left join these two tables in MySQL. I don't think it's possible, but cuious if there is a "method" that can be coded in PHP to do this? If you think there's is a problem with my schema, well the boss wants to have the user data on another database totally seperated from features of the portal. So I have a big problem on my hands. Any help would be much grateful! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re: Beginner's books?
Core PHP Programming by Leon Atkins is an excellent book IMHO. Each function comes with a clear cut example how to use it. I have the first edition and right now, I'm considering to purchase the second edition since it covers PHP 4. That was my first PHP book when I started PHP. "Lrw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > OK, here's a question that should just make me look like a newbie and not an > idiot: > > Anyone have any recommendations of good books for PHP beginners? > Something that gives the basics in clear detail and as few errors in the > examples as possible? =) > > I've found bad errors in Sam's "Teach Yourself ASP" for example. > > Thanks! > Liam > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] "Push" Images When HTML is already outputted.
In PERL, there is a way to push images even though the HTML is already outputted to the screen, therefore changing images, live. . . . An example would be this particular script: http://www.donerightscripts.com/cgi-bin/demos/sitesubmit/sitesubmitter.cgi I am wondering how could this be done with PHP. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re: "Push" Images When HTML is already outputted.
Scratch the message. :) I was thinking of something totally different :) "Jonathan Chum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > In PERL, there is a way to push images even though the HTML is already > outputted to the screen, therefore changing images, live. . . . An example > would be this particular script: > > http://www.donerightscripts.com/cgi-bin/demos/sitesubmit/sitesubmitter.cgi > > I am wondering how could this be done with PHP. > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Forking in PHP
I'm developing an app in PHP whereby I need to run simulataneous routines at once, but have some sort of control on how many instances of the childs will be spawned and died before another batch is started. Basically, I'm thinking of using a for loop that loops. Let's say I have 20 loops that I need todo, but loop through and executing a system() 5 loops then wait for 15s which should give it enough time for the script in the system() to finish up and die. Then loop the next batch of 5 and so on. I'm wondering whether this would work or not. Also, I'm wondering whether there is a way todo this, similar to the forking in PERL. Any help would be great! Regards, Jonathan Chum A I S M e d i a , I n c . "We Build eBusinesses" 3541 Habersham at Northlake, Building E Tucker, GA 30084 Tel: 678.382.2247 / Fax: 678.382.2471 http://www.aismedia.com / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] search engine submission
I believe that he wants an automated URL submission script. I've seen one that just been released like a week or two ago. It's good script from what I remember looking at the code with "success" page verification. If I can find the URL, I'll be sure to reply. I can't seem to find it my IE's history. I think the Windows XP Pro upgrade on Win2k did something to the browser's history. I have ported my PERL submission script to PHP, however I'm waiting for a particular feature in PHP, rather a function to be more "developed" before I release my port. "Jon Haworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 67DF9B67CEFAD4119E4200D0B720FA3FB5F105@BOOTROS">news:67DF9B67CEFAD4119E4200D0B720FA3FB5F105@BOOTROS... > You can find this code all over the web, an example of it can be seen at > most search engines on the "Add a URL" page :-) > > What are you trying to do? > > Cheers > Jon > > > -Original Message- > From: Krushna Kumar R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 24 September 2001 15:08 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] search engine submission > > > Hi, > > Can someone help me by where i could get some free code for search engine > submission > > Regards > Krushna Kumar > > > ** > 'The information included in this Email is of a confidential nature and is > intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, > any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be > unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether > inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality' > > ** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] OOP, Out of Scope Issue
I have a class called FrontEnd which extends a TemplateManager class.
The purpose of the TemplateManager class is to initate Smarty.
So my FrontEnd constructor looks like this:
function FrontEnd()
{
$db = new DatabaseConnection();
$this->db = $db->initDatabase();
$this->sm = $this->initTemplate();
}
I have another function:
function DisplayMain($parentID)
{
if (!isset($parentID)) $parentID = '1';
$product = new Products($this->db, $this->sm);
$category = new Categories($this->db, $this->sm);
$category->FetchCategories($parentID);
$product->FetchProducts($parentID);
$this->DisplayPage('display-products');
}
I'm passing in an instance of the smarty object instantiated by the FrontEnd
constructor into Products and Categories. The FetchCategories and
FetchProducts methods will take the smarty instance and assign the variables
into the template, assuming it's the same instance of Smarty. The problem
I'm having is that it sees in each class a new instance of Smarty or a copy
of the object which when I call DisplayPage, a method within the FrontEnd
class, it doesn't see all of the variables I assigned earlier by
FetchProducts and FetchCategories even though I've not declared a new
instance of Smarty.
How can I fix it so that it uses the same Smarty object and not a copy?
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Re: [PHP] OOP, Out of Scope Issue
Awesome, great tip. It works just fine in PHP 5, but after gooogling more
information about references and values, it appears that PHP 5 supports
references automatically.
I was trying to get it to work under 4.3.8 which I had to use the &.
For anyone else, this page goes into more depth:
http://www.webreference.com/programming/phpanth2/5.html
Thanks!
"Zareef Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> Please visit
>
> http://www.phpcertification.com/manual.php/functions.arguments.html#func
> tions.arguments.by-reference
>
> Hope it will be helpful.
>
>
> zareef Ahmed
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Jonathan Chum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 9:52 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] OOP, Out of Scope Issue
>
>
> I have a class called FrontEnd which extends a TemplateManager class.
>
> The purpose of the TemplateManager class is to initate Smarty.
>
> So my FrontEnd constructor looks like this:
>
> function FrontEnd()
> {
>$db = new DatabaseConnection();
>
>$this->db = $db->initDatabase();
>$this->sm = $this->initTemplate();
> }
>
> I have another function:
>
> function DisplayMain($parentID)
> {
>if (!isset($parentID)) $parentID = '1';
>
>$product = new Products($this->db, $this->sm);
>
>$category = new Categories($this->db, $this->sm);
>
>$category->FetchCategories($parentID);
>$product->FetchProducts($parentID);
>
>$this->DisplayPage('display-products');
> }
>
> I'm passing in an instance of the smarty object instantiated by the
> FrontEnd
> constructor into Products and Categories. The FetchCategories and
> FetchProducts methods will take the smarty instance and assign the
> variables
> into the template, assuming it's the same instance of Smarty. The
> problem
> I'm having is that it sees in each class a new instance of Smarty or a
> copy
> of the object which when I call DisplayPage, a method within the
> FrontEnd
> class, it doesn't see all of the variables I assigned earlier by
> FetchProducts and FetchCategories even though I've not declared a new
> instance of Smarty.
> How can I fix it so that it uses the same Smarty object and not a copy?
>
>
> --
> Zareef Ahmed :: A PHP develoepr in Delhi ( India )
> Homepage :: http://www.zasaifi.com
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