Re: [PHP] Mysql Rows

2006-03-03 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
On 4/03/2006 5:36 PM, Anthony Ettinger wrote: Yep, that's one good reason among many for using unique ids. Thinking a little about the OP's question, I could understand row order being relevant in certain situations where you wanted to display something like, "You were the 4

Re: [PHP] Mysql Rows

2006-03-03 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
I have to agree with Anthony - why are you using row order to determine something relating to users? I couldn't follow your brief explanation above, and the fact that you're doing it sets off some soft alarm bells about the design of your application. Why is it important that there shouldn't be

Re: [PHP] Mysql Rows

2006-03-03 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
On 4/03/2006 2:49 PM, benifactor wrote: thank you. the table does have and id feild that auto increments, however if you delete a user there will be a gap between the users between which would not be what is not acurate enough. thank you for you help. simple fix. i should have caught it. - Or

Re: [PHP] Is it better to return a multi-array, or an array of objects?

2006-03-03 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
On 4/03/2006 3:10 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: I'm building a fairly large project. I've been trying to follow best practices, but I'm a bit worried about performance. Using PHP 5.1 and mySQL 5.0. I have product and company classes. So when a user does a search of the database, is it better/faster

Re: [PHP] how to learn php

2006-02-10 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
On 11/02/2006 10:10 AM, /dev/null wrote: hello i have been trying to learn php. what is the best approach to learning php for someone who has no programming experience? i am very familiar with html, xhtml, and css. i'm not an idiot when it comes to using computers. i have bought several boo

[PHP] Redirect from /rss.xml to /rss/rss.xml

2006-02-09 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, This may turn out to be more of an apache question (but I'm hoping there are some apache experts on the list as well), but I'm wondering how I would go about automatically redirecting requests for /rss.xml to read the contents of /rss/rss.xml instead? Any help appreciated! Much warm

[PHP] Preparing site content for RSS XML feed

2006-02-02 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, I currently generate a simple rss.xml file for syndication from my site, containing nothing more than the subject of the post and a link to the article on my site. I'd like to syndicate the the actual content of each of the posts, but as I understand it RSS / XML is somewhat demandin

[PHP] CR \ LFs being represented as ascii characters in output of mail()

2006-01-31 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, I'm having an odd problem with formatting of line feeds in an email my site automatically sends to me when someone comments on one of my blog entries. For some reason "\r\n" characters are coming through exactly like that in the email, and yet the same value being stored in the backe

Re: [PHP] date("H", $datevalue) always adds an hour?

2006-01-20 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
On 20/01/2006 8:48 PM, David Grant wrote: Murray, As far as I know, Queensland is in EST (Eastern Standard Time), so that is the correct value. Are you using the same machine or is it remote? David Hi David, I'm currently working entirely on my local (Queensland) machine. The remote mach

Re: [PHP] date("H", $datevalue) always adds an hour?

2006-01-20 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
On 20/01/2006 8:39 PM, David Grant wrote: Murray, What do you get if you print date("T")? David Hi David, I get "EST", which I assume is "Eastern Savings Time"? If that's the case, any idea where I change this value so that it only affects my local machine? Much warmth, Murray -- PHP

[PHP] date("H", $datevalue) always adds an hour?

2006-01-20 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, Wondering if anyone can help me work out why date("H") always adds an hour? I'm *assuming* it thinks it should be compensating for Daylight Saving Time (though I'd be just as willing to believe that it's caused by something else), however we don't observe DST in Queensland, Australia.

[PHP] Template engine that doesn't rely on PEAR?

2006-01-15 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, Can anyone recommend a PHP 4.x compliant template engine that doesn't depend on PEAR? I can't get PEAR to operate properly on my remote host, so I'm looking for something that can be dropped in to an existing site and is complete in and of itself. Any recommendations that suit the

Re: [PHP] What software do you use for writing PHP?

2005-12-07 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Jim Moseby wrote: man you guys are wimps.. gvim on windows... :) Pt'Edit' in DOS. ;) (Pt * 2) 'edlin' in DOS. :) Infinitely recursive pfft A pencil and a piece of paper and ringing people to describe the cool web site you've just drawn, -- PHP Gener

Re: [PHP] No forums?

2005-11-08 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Richard Davey wrote: I agree 99% with you, the majority are (excuse my French) utter shite. *but* the code quality, features and stability of the excellent FUD Forum thankfully doesn't fall into the camp you describe. While I don't use it myself, you only need to take a quick look at the code a

Re: [PHP] Line breaks in mail function?

2005-11-06 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 12:20 +1000, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful wrote: Example code: $body = 'From: ' . $name . '\r\n\r\n'; $body .= 'Email:' . $email . '\r\n\r\n'; $body .= 'IP Address: ' . $_SERVER['

[PHP] Line breaks in mail function?

2005-11-06 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, I'm building a site on a new web host and am currently working on feedback forms. I'm using the mail() function to send the feedback to the destination mail account, and I'm having problems getting the body of the email to line break. I've tried constructing the body with both "\n\

[PHP] Unsubscribing from several PHP lists

2005-11-04 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, Does anyone know of a way to unsubscribe an email address from the PHP email lists when you can't send a reply to the confirmation email? My host for my currently subscribed email address has an issue with its SSL certificate which means that I can't send replies from that account (w

Re: [PHP] Handling competing edits in a wiki engine?

2005-10-03 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Terence wrote: Murray @ PlanetThoughtful wrote: Hi All, I've recently been working on building my own wiki engine for my blog site. While the majority of the engine is complete, a remaining concern I have is how to handle competing edits (ie when two or more people are editing the

[PHP] Handling competing edits in a wiki engine?

2005-10-03 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, I've recently been working on building my own wiki engine for my blog site. While the majority of the engine is complete, a remaining concern I have is how to handle competing edits (ie when two or more people are editing the same wiki page simultaneously). I'm wondering if anyone else o

RE: [PHP] Regex Help

2005-09-28 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Hi, folks. I'm having trouble with a simple regex. I'm sure it's just > something small that I'm missing but nothing I'm trying is working. > > In an HTML file I have comments like this: > > > various html crap here > > > Here's the regex I'm using: > > /(.*?)/ > > And then the call to

RE: [PHP] Optimal Regex?

2005-09-26 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Wow, that definitely works. I would sort of like to know how to tweak the regex, but maybe this is the best way of doing it. Is "[0-9]*[.0-9]*?" the best way of looking for a number with decimals? Hi David, Just to answer this question, I would probably use something like the following pattern

RE: [PHP] Optimal Regex?

2005-09-26 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> I need to catch all instances of a coordinate in a give string. So far I > have this, which only works if the coordinate is in a certain format. > > > $string = (334,-53.44),(111,222); > $expression = '([(][-]?[0-9]*[.0-9]*?,[-]?[0-9]*[.0-9]*?[)])'; > preg_match_all($expression, "$string", $mat

RE: [PHP] serialize

2005-09-26 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Sent this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but forgot to copy php-general... > heh. Here it is again. > > I would use a table such as > Table > |_UserData > > Then use objects per user to store the data. > class User { > var TestScore; > var ScoreType; > ... > var Vars; > fun

RE: [PHP] PCRE false match with preg_match?

2005-09-26 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> I recently encountered a strange behaviour, could someone please > countercheck it, to either tell me there is an error in my pattern? > > I have a test string: "7005-N/52" > I have two match patterns:a) "/([0-9]*)\/(.*)/i" > b) "/([0-9]*)\-(.*)/i" > I check the

RE: [PHP] serialize

2005-09-26 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> murray... > > it may have been helpful to the guy to also give him an idea of your tbl > structure. i think you're talking about something like: > tbl schema > > EvalTBL >-id >-UserID >-ScoreTypeID > > ScoreTBL >-id >-ScoreType > > table ScoreType could/would have as many

RE: [PHP] serialize

2005-09-24 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> I have an app that stores evaluation scores so I have 30+ values all > within a certain range, currently in the db, each of these values has > it's own column: > > Table test >id >user_id >motivation >caring >personal_characteristics >creativity, >...etc. > > If the

RE: [PHP] basic user/input form questions... more validation!

2005-09-22 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> -Original Message- > From: bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 23 September 2005 10:23 AM > To: 'Jasper Bryant-Greene'; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] basic user/input form questions... more validation! > > one more question/issue... > > the mysql_real_esca

RE: [PHP] Re: email validation (no regex)

2005-09-21 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> > because you should want/need to validate that the address is correct > prior > > to determining if the email server is up running... > > > > the regex function simply allows you to quickly determine if the address > > is > > valid... doens't mean that it's going to go to an actual live user...!

RE: [PHP] Re: email validation (no regex)

2005-09-21 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> because you should want/need to validate that the address is correct prior > to determining if the email server is up running... > > the regex function simply allows you to quickly determine if the address > is > valid... doens't mean that it's going to go to an actual live user...!! > > btw si

RE: [PHP] Re: email validation (no regex)

2005-09-21 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> > What you have is virtually impossible to determine if all legitimate > possibilities are covered. > > email validation using regex is a very heavily analyzed subject > > Google "regex email validate" and you'll find loads of expressions. > Look at the Zend article, it provides some insigh

RE: [PHP] Re: Suggestions for class design

2005-09-20 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> > This is not to trivialize your Metastorage project (or, to be more > > accurate, I know nothing about it, so it's not my place to trivialize > > it or otherwise), but to point out that 'out-of-the-box' solutions to > > fundamental coding development problems probably ultimately makes for > > a

RE: [PHP] Re: Suggestions for class design

2005-09-20 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
[snippage] > I do not understand why this could bother you or anybody else. If you > have a better solution, nothing stops you to make your recommendations. Hi Manuel, I did make my recommendation. To you. It went something like (and I'm paraphrasing), "Your proposed solution doesn't solve the o

RE: [PHP] Tidying code for PHP5.0.5/PHP4.4.0

2005-09-20 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Jochem Maas wrote: > > Michael Sims wrote: > >> So, as far as foo() knows: > >> > >> foo($a = 5); > >> and > >> foo(5); > >> > >> are exactly the same... > > > > I don't think they are, and you're examples don't prove it. > > Anyone care to come up with the proof. > > No, I was wrong, Rasmus cor

RE: [PHP] Re: Suggestions for class design

2005-09-20 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> on 09/19/2005 02:33 PM Chris W. Parker said the following: > > Let's take for example a class called 'Customer' that (obviously) > > manipulates customers in the database. Here is a very basic Customer > > class. (Data validation and the like are left out for brevity.) > > This is a basic object

RE: [PHP] html forms in php

2005-09-15 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Good day all, > > I have a problem for you all.. > I have a form that has has the ability to delete a lot of information from > my MySQL database. > > I would like to create a bit of security, in case the user hits the button > by accident. > I would like to create an additionnal window that wo

RE: [PHP] error message while mysqling on php

2005-09-13 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> I have received an error: Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is > not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/www/mksystem.net when trying to > execute $num = mysql_num_rows($result); > > Please go to http://mksystem.net/phpinfo.php and tell me whether it is due > to the version of php

RE: [PHP] Modifying data in forms with values

2005-09-13 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
include " SELECTED" in the select HTML you are building. One if statement should handle the situation nicely. Much warmth, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful --- "Lost in thought..." http://www.planetthoughtful.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] Opinion Request - No PHP content - Versioning Systems

2005-09-12 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Hey, I'm about to implement a versioning system here, and was going to > go with CVS, but being that I haven't used it in almost two years I was > wondering what y'all think? Opinions on the best, user-friendly (Mac > Geeks will be using it), etc? Thanks. > Hi John, I only have experience

RE: [PHP] setting 'expiry date'

2005-09-12 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> I have a php/mysql database with articles. What I need is a php sctipt > that > will compare the current day with the 'expiry date' entered by the user > and > if the there is a difference then drop it from the database.. > > I retrieve the date (called time and format it like this... > > $quer

RE: [PHP] searching through a mysql db/tbl

2005-09-10 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> hi... > > i'm trying to figure out how to approach/solve a few issues. looking > through > google hasn't made the light shine!! > > 1) i'm trying to figure out how to allow a user to search through a > query/tbl for a given string. ie, if i have the following as the result of > a > query: > >

RE: [PHP] RE: PHP wiki recommendations

2005-09-09 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
of templates that can > be applied globally or by each user (these may be the CSS bit, again, I > just haven't played). > > User logins can be pre-assigned or user driven so you can control who > does what. > > I think you can turn on/off the CamelCase feature. >

RE: [PHP] Cleaning a resultset

2005-09-08 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Hi, > > I have a resultset from a query and need to remove some rows after doing > some php processing then insert into another table i.e. > > /** Get data**/ > $qid = mysql_query('SELECT ...); > > /** Clean data **/ > while( $r = mysql_fetch_object( $qid ) ) { > > } > > How can i genera

[PHP] PHP wiki recommendations

2005-09-07 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, I want to add a wiki to my blog site to help create a knowledgebase of the characters, localities, stories I write to make it easier for new visitors to delve into the areas that interest them. I've been experimenting with a couple of different wiki packages, but am always interested in o

RE: [PHP] regular expression for integer range

2005-09-07 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Hi all, > > > I want to write regular expression for checking the string format entered > by user. > > the allowed formats are > > examples: > 10 > 10, > 10,12-10 > 12-10 > > that is the valid strings are: > 1. only integer > 2. an integer, range of integers example 3 > > and no other chara

Re: [PHP] php/mysql web question

2005-09-06 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> hi... > > if an app has a webpage that has to interface/display data from a mysql > db, > does the app have to essentially do a new db_connection for each time that > a > user accesses the page during the session. > > as far as i can tell, it does. > > in other words, the page would need to l

RE: [PHP] conditional statement inside while loop?

2005-09-01 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Hello everyone, > > I'm using a while loop to display a list of people contained in my > database. > I'd like to assign different font colors to each depending on which city > they're from, but I can't seem to get an if/elseif/else statement to work > inside the while loop. Is there another way

RE: [PHP] Saturdays and Sundays

2005-09-01 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Hi, > > Is it possible to get the number of saturdays and sundays for a given > month > / year? > > Thanks for your help. Hi Shaun, Not sure if there's a graceful PHP solution (there probably is, but can't think of one, myself, right at this moment) but it sounds like what you might need is a

RE: [PHP] (Yet another) I'm blind ... post

2005-08-31 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> In this code, I'm not getting the value of $list passed to the Mailman > page. > I've checked this umpteen times by now, but fail to see the error. I've > beaten myself suitably with a steel ruler -- but it didn't help. Nor does > the cold I'm coming down with I suppose. > > Anyone see the error

RE: [PHP] divide-column?

2005-08-30 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Murray @ PlanetThoughtful wrote: > >>Hi there! > >> > >>How do I do a sort in PHP where a column in a db must be two other > columns > >>divided...`? > > > > > > > > > > Hi Gustav, > > > > You should

RE: [PHP] divide-column?

2005-08-30 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Hi there! > > How do I do a sort in PHP where a column in a db must be two other columns > divided...`? Hi Gustav, You should be able to use the divide operation in your query's ORDER BY clause. Eg SELECT * FROM mytable ORDER BY (field1 / field2) Regards, Murray --- "Lost in thought..."

RE: [PHP] How can I format text in textarea?

2005-08-30 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Hi > When I enter text as more than on paragrahs in a textarea field,The text > is displayed in one solid block of text even though I have entered it in > paragraphs. > How I can to insert line breaks in the text. (The values of textarea is > stored in database and then displayed.) > > > Bushr

RE: [PHP] Problem With Inner Loop

2005-08-30 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Hi, > > The following code is attempting to display a list of work types for all > the > users in my database. However it only loops through the inner loop once > and > I can't work out why, can anyone help here please? > > Thanks for your help > > > include('application.php'); > $staff_qid

[PHP] Resizing thumbnails to the browser

2005-08-21 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hello All, I have a series of thumbnails on my site of photos I've taken that are all 150px in width, but of variable height. I want to randomly display one of the thumbnails each time the home page of my site is loaded in a column that is 140px wide. I'm wondering if anyone can point me at

[PHP] Class for creating RSS 2 feed?

2005-07-26 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, Just curious if anyone knows of an existing class that will take MySQL records containing HTML and create a valid RSS 2.0 newsfeed from them? Much warmth, Murray --- http://www.planetthoughtful.org "Building a thoughtful planet, one quirky comment at a time." -- PHP General Mailing Lis

[PHP] Translating english into amglish

2005-07-19 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, I'm based in Australia but my blog is predominantly read by Americans. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a class that will translate Australian / UK / Canadian / Whathaveyou English spellings into their American English equivalents? In other words, a class that will take a string wit

[PHP] Re: Ouput HTML w/PHP

2005-06-30 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Rick Emery wrote: This leads (sort of) to a second question: how can I validate my HTML? My applications run on an intranet (with database access), so I can't use the W3C Validator to point to the URL. If I try to upload the file, the validator doesn't parse the PHP to get the HTML output (whi

RE: [PHP] Re: security question...??

2005-06-22 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> if i as a bank, refuse to allow you to signin to my server, because i > detect > that your client is not valid/legitimate, meaning i think it's been > hacked, > how have i trampled the rights of anyone. i haven't. will some customers > run, sure.. perhaps.. will i potentially feel better. yeah. w

RE: [PHP] Re: security question...??

2005-06-20 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> from my perspective, i strongly disagree... > > if you're going to be writing apps that deal with sensitive information, > you > better damm well give some thought as to how secure the client is, or even > if the client is actually valid! To the best of my knowledge, if you're developing an app

RE: [PHP] Re: Retrievable weather service info?

2005-06-14 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/forecasts/zone/ Hi Philip, This would probably have been ideal for what I have in mind (don't mind going to a little effort to parse the text files) but appears to be limited to US information only, whereas I'm hoping to be able to randomly select a city from ar

RE: [PHP] Re: Retrievable weather service info?

2005-06-14 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html > > Weather XML Data Feed > Now you can include weather from The Weather Channel in your own > application by signing up for access to our XML data feed. We'll enable > you to search for a location and to integrate current conditions and the > forecast

[PHP] Retrievable weather service info?

2005-06-14 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, Just wondering if anyone knows of a free weather service that can be interrogated by PHP for information such as current temperature for a range of cities around the world? Regards, Murray -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub

RE: [PHP] formatting paragraphs in to strings

2005-06-13 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Good point. Only problem is, if someone hit enter a-million times, > you would end up with a-million spaces where the "\n" characters were. > To take care of that repetition, maybe something like: > > > while (strpos($textarea_text, "\n\n")) { > . > } > > > would be one way you cou

RE: [PHP] formatting paragraphs in to strings

2005-06-13 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Use the PHP str_replace function before writing it to the DB. Replace > all "\n" characters with an empty string "". > > http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php I think it might be better to replace all "\n" characters with spaces " ", otherwise you will end up with sentences tha

RE: [PHP] Re: reverse MD5 ???

2005-06-13 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Amazing. > > Thanks for sharing that. It's a great example. :-) You're very welcome! If it helps just one other developer avoid the same pitfall, then today is a very good day. :-) > Exactly, and this is why it's a good practice to use a seed when you > generate MD5s for passwords. Which is e

RE: [PHP] Re: reverse MD5 ???

2005-06-13 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> In that framework there is no such thing as "decrypting" an MD5 digest, > because an MD5 digest is not an encrypted version of the message to > start with. No amount of CPU power will change this basic fact -- > though CPU power can be used to do a brute force search for strings > which will gen

RE: [PHP] Frames or iframes? (Basically "The devil or deap sea" or "A rock and a hard place" etc) - - - -> (0T)

2005-06-04 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Since its a forum and she is not doing any advertising its important the > search engines index the site > properly or shes going to have a big forum with no visitors. > Then I read that the search engines dont like frames muchso I was > thinking of using iframes and > then I read about the "

RE: [PHP] ampersands in href's

2005-06-04 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> If I want to make a link to a URL which includes some GETs can I just do: > > > or must I escape the ampersand somehow? Depends very much on the document type of your page. Valid XHTML (transitional, at least), for example, doesn't like single ampersands in links. For XHTML, you need to repl

RE: [PHP] Re: Best way to use other objects within classes?

2005-06-03 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> If you're developing with PHP5, but the production environment is PHP4 > then at the top of each script you probably want to add: > > > ini_set('zend.ze1_compatibility_mode', 1); > > ?> > > This way you will have objects default to pass by value instead of by > reference and you don't end up

Re: [PHP] Best way to use other objects within classes?

2005-06-02 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Greg Donald wrote: On 6/2/05, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: private $db; PHP4 doesn't have member visibility. Hi Greg, Thanks for this tip! Regards, Murray -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://

[PHP] Best way to use other objects within classes?

2005-06-02 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, I'm using the MDB2 object to access my MySQL database. I have a number of classes that perform page-building activities that need db access, and I'm wondering what the best way to expose the MDB2 object to them is? (Note: my development environment is PHP 5.0.3, but the production en

RE: [PHP] Replacing 2 strings

2005-05-31 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> > function replace($string){ > preg_match("/^<\^([a-zA-Z]+?)_([a-zA-Z]+?)>/", $string, $matcharr); > $string = str_replace($matcharr[0], $matcharr[1] . " " .$matcharr[2] > . ":", $string); > return $string; > > } > > $string = "<^JIM_JONES> Leicester, 1720. Oxford, 1800 CON

RE: [PHP] Replacing 2 strings

2005-05-30 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> > function replace($string, $search) > { > $string = strstr($string, $search) > $string = preg_replace("/(<|\^|>)/", "",$string); > $string = str_replace("_", " ", $string); > return $string; > > } > > $text = 'My name is <^JIM_JONES> and I like ice cream'; > $

RE: [PHP] Replacing 2 strings

2005-05-30 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> This is a great help, thanks to both. One question I have though. > How do I just leave the formatting "as is"? In the loop you gave me, > Brian...: [snippage] > I can't see how I can disregard strtolower without disrupting the rest > of the function! My problem is $string contains a whole

RE: [PHP] Replacing 2 strings

2005-05-30 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> AHHH! ucwords(); I probably looked right at it a million times.. I knew > there had to be something to do that Lol, I know that feeling well! One thing, btw, looking at the solution you provided. Once you'd preg_split()ed the string into component words, you could have simply applied strtou

RE: [PHP] Replacing 2 strings

2005-05-30 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Someone much more clever that I can probably come up with something much > cleaner and efficient but This works... Definitely not more clever and arguably not more efficient, but a different way of handling this might be: )/", "",$string); $string = str_replace("_", " ", $string); $stri

RE: [PHP] Re: Free penetration test

2005-05-30 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> For me, of course there is nothing wrong on the PHP Group help > themselves making money with referrals. My point is that it is pretty > common to not distract people with the details of who gets what with > referrals because it does not change anything for who follows a link > with our without t

RE: [PHP] Regex question: replacing incidences of character when not enclosed within HTML tags? (somewhat solved)

2005-05-29 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> So, thinking about it a little more, I decided what I was looking for was > a > regular expression that would allow me to replace any incidences of > hyphens > when not contained within tags (i.e., when not contained between "<" and > ">"). > > And this is where things have ground to a halt. Hi

[PHP] Regex question: replacing incidences of character when not enclosed within HTML tags?

2005-05-28 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, I have content that contains several lengthy hyphenated sentences, such as: This-is-a-sentence-in-which-all-the-words-are-hyphenated. I've noticed that some (maybe all?) browsers, particularly Firefox, will not wrap long strings of hyphenated words when they are contained in a DIV tag --

RE: [PHP] Very long delay posting to php-general (might be OT)

2005-05-25 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> > I don't know WHY posts take hours to get through, but I'm not honestly > > seeing it as a "problem" personally. > > > > I see one problem, some questions get the same answer from several > people. This increases the list traffic without any benefit. That, of course, is exacerbated by the dela

[PHP] db aware text editor? (slightly OT?)

2005-05-24 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, I'm wondering if anyone knows of a 'db aware' text editor? By 'db aware', I mean one that can pull a recordset back from a local MySQL server and edit the content of fields much like a standard text editor does with files. I could probably build myself a simple one in Java, but before I u

RE: [PHP] Regex nightmares

2005-05-24 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> [Course, when you *DO* need RegEx it's *more* than a bit of a headache. > More like a migraine :-)] One of these days I will truly master regular expressions. After that, enlightenment should be easy. Regards, Murray -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: ht

RE: [PHP] Image Verification - Problems in Safari, Mac OS X

2005-05-19 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> But here's the problem that came afterwards in IE ! > IE is storing the image in it's cache.. And it's displaying the same image > on the verification page whether you use the BACK button, FORWARD button, > or > actually go through the website and land back on the verification page. So > in IE, r

RE: [PHP] html editor written in PHP

2005-05-18 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Has anyone seen an example of a HTML editor written in PHP (no JS)? > You know the ones - for adding HTML tags to a text field, etc. > > Thanks! You've already received a number of responses indicating that it's not possible to have a pure PHP browser enabled HTML editor, mainly due to the fact

RE: [PHP] regex question

2005-05-16 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Try (for example if character was "A") ... > > ([^A]|^)A([^A]|$) > > This matches four cases: > A is at beginning of string and there is another letter after it, > A has a letter before it and a letter after it, > A is at end of string and there is a letter before it, > or A is the only charact

RE: [PHP] regex question

2005-05-16 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> What pattern can I use to match ONLY single occurrences of a character in > a string. > > e.g., "Some text @ and some mo@@re and [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc @@@. > > I only want the two occurrences with a single occurrence of "@". > > @{1} doesn't work; there are 4 matches. > > Thanks Please

RE: [PHP] regex question

2005-05-16 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> What pattern can I use to match ONLY single occurrences of a character in > a string. > > e.g., "Some text @ and some mo@@re and [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc @@@. > > I only want the two occurrences with a single occurrence of "@". > > @{1} doesn't work; there are 4 matches. "/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EM

RE: [PHP] Add to array problem

2005-05-16 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> I'm having a little problem adding to an array. Each time I add to an > array it wipes what was previously added. I'm using array_push(). > > $items=array(); > $items=array_push($items, $_POST["whatever"]); > > I'm missing something easy. Try: $items=array(); array_push($items, $_POST["whatev

RE: [PHP] dynamically updating site

2005-05-16 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> I looking for a way to update certain parts of a site that is highly > dynamic. I've tried creating static files via cronjobs then including > them, > but it is a pain to do. for instance, i have a news page that utilizes > mysql, rather than query the DB on each page load i would like to have it

[PHP] PHP-GTK, or something else, for desktop app development?

2005-05-16 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, I'd like to do some desktop app development and I'm looking for others' thoughts on whether PHP-GTK is a suitable environment in which to work? Years ago I developed desktop apps in Access / VB6, but it's been long enough now, and VB in particular has changed so much in the intervening ti

RE: [PHP] Strange characters

2005-05-11 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> I dunno what the hell 0x96 is in MS Word, but if you want a dash, use an > ASCII dash and be done with it. :-) > > Or, if you REALLY want that "ASCII extended" Linux dash (assuming it > exists) I'm sure you can strtr(0x96, 0xYY, $string) and get it. > > Then it won't work on Windows, of course,

RE: [PHP] expand array into function arguments?

2005-05-11 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher J. Bottaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 12 May 2005 5:13 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] expand array into function arguments? > > You can do this in Python: > > > def myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg): > #do something >

RE: [PHP] marking words bold

2005-05-11 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Include a space in your str_replace statement. > > For instance > > $t = str_replace(" $word ", " $word ", $text); > > That should prevent the problem your having and ensure only individual > words > are bolded. Not the best solution if Merlin's code needs to account for the possibility of ta

RE: [PHP] marking words bold

2005-05-11 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> I am trying to mark words inside a sentence bold. Problem is, if there is > an > overlap it does not work anymore. > I am using this code: $t = str_replace($word, "$word", $text); > > For eample: > Mark those words bold: adventure in singapore > Text: My adventure flying to singapore > > The

[PHP] Templating systems for single developers?

2005-05-10 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, Given that templating seems to be a hot topic at the moment, I'm wondering if anyone here uses templating in a single developer environment, and why if so? I've looked at various template systems from time-to-time but I've always come away thinking, 'yep, I can see the point in a team env

RE: [PHP] Help with regex: breaking strings down to 'words' and 'phrases'

2005-05-10 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> On Wed, 11 May 2005, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I'd very much appreciate some help building a regular expression for > > preg_match_all that can differentiate between 'words' and 'phrases'. > > > > F

[PHP] Help with regex: breaking strings down to 'words' and 'phrases'

2005-05-10 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, I'd very much appreciate some help building a regular expression for preg_match_all that can differentiate between 'words' and 'phrases'. For example, say I have a string that contains: 'this is an "example of a phrase"' I'd like to be able to break that down to: this is a

RE: [PHP] Any alternative to POST method FTP uploads from client computer?

2005-05-08 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> Hi, > > On 5/9/05, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I need to implement the ability to ftp upload files from client machines > via > > a form in a web application I'm developing. > > > > From

[PHP] Any alternative to POST method FTP uploads from client computer?

2005-05-08 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Hi All, I need to implement the ability to ftp upload files from client machines via a form in a web application I'm developing. >From reading the PHP help, all I can find to perform this is the POST method for handling file uploads (http://au2.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php).

RE: [PHP] Problem with array

2005-05-01 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
> -Original Message- > From: Richard Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 2 May 2005 6:16 AM > To: Murray @ PlanetThoughtful > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] Problem with array > > On Sun, May 1, 2005 1:08 pm, Murray @ PlanetThoug

RE: [PHP] Problem with array

2005-05-01 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
m: Richard Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 2 May 2005 5:04 AM > To: Murray @ PlanetThoughtful > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Problem with array > > On Sun, May 1, 2005 10:21 am, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful said: > > > [Here there be snippag

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