Re: [PHP] Need PHP & Web Developer in So Cal

2012-03-28 Thread Paul Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/03/2012 18:04, Michael Frankel wrote: > Hi - > > I am looking for a reliable, experienced PHP / Web developer or > development company to assist me with one of my long-time clients. > I need someone who has experience with all the following > te

Re: [PHP] Critical Error

2012-03-28 Thread Paul Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/03/2012 17:59, Karl James wrote: > > MYSQL: Duplicate entry for '0' for key 1. > > MYSQL: Insert Error - Duplicate entry '0' for key 1,. Simply means that you are trying to insert a database entry into your database table that already exists,

Re: [PHP] Intentionally generate an "Internal Server Error"

2011-08-07 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 07:30 +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > Quickest way I know of is to mess up an .htaccess file! Another good way to do it on shared hosts is to give a file incorrect permissions and try and access it -- -- Paul http://www.paulscott.za.net http://twitter.com/paulscott56 http

Re: [PHP] Happy New Year All!

2009-12-31 Thread Paul Scott
--=neXtPaRt_1262280971 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Robert Cummings wrote: > > Oh dear... that's terribly inefficient... Here's a better stab: True, but my design criteria included that it needed to fit into a 140 char tweet too... -- -- Paul ht

Re: [PHP] Happy New Year All!

2009-12-31 Thread Paul Scott
Bipper Goes! wrote: > return ThankYou; > > > Oh god I think I blowed it up. I prefer: http://www.paulscott.za.net http://twitter.com/paulscott56 http://avoir.uwc.ac.za All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal

Re: [PHP] Re: Dan Brown

2009-08-03 Thread Paul Scott
Daniel Brown wrote: > (behind schedule) and distribute refunds to clients. Having a baby is > difficult enough; having a baby and a career is more difficult; having > a baby and working as a freelancer or owner/operator of a company is > the epitome of masochism --- I'm learning that quite thoroug

Re: [PHP] PHPBB Speed Issues

2009-07-31 Thread Paul Scott
Ashley Sheridan wrote: > I've optimised the images in the template, enabled the GZ compression, > and it's only improved the speed by a mere fraction. I have noticed that > the page itself doesn't display until after this delay, so I was > guessing that I could maybe force the buffer to flush at ke

Re: [PHP] Re: Epiphany - a salute to APC

2009-07-04 Thread Paul Scott
Eddie Drapkin wrote: > if you want a pure opcode cache, APC is a great choice. > >> you think this is similar to http://www.danga.com/memcached/ or you think >> this method would be faster ? Which do you say would be the greatest >> benfit ? >> A simple rule of thumb that I use is: If you have on

Re: [PHP] Writing to a file

2009-07-03 Thread Paul Scott
Jason Carson wrote: > How would I go about writing stuff to a file but in between the > tags? > http://www.php.net/file_put_contents -- Paul http://www.paulscott.za.net/ http://twitter.com/paulscott56 http://avoir.uwc.ac.za -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, vi

Re: [PHP] PHP MySQL 500 Internal Error

2009-06-19 Thread Paul Scott
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 22:10 -0400, Shawn Simmons wrote: > Wrote a small script to connect to the MySql database. Tried to run the > script (http://localhost/dbscript.php) and I get a 500 Internal Server > error. I have been up and down the web for two days looking for a solution > and I am com

Re: [PHP] User Authentication across multiple server

2009-03-06 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 10:09 +0100, Edmund Hertle wrote: > The only method which possibly could work and came to my mind was using > somehow $_GET parameter for username and password (encrypted). Set a cookie and crypt that (RC4 works well) and then check for the cookie on both sites. Kind of like

Re: [PHP] Strange charecters

2009-03-03 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 10:09 +0530, Chetan Rane wrote: > I am using ob_start() in my application. However I am getting this error > about headers already sent. > _Any_ output will set that error off. Check for Notices, Warnings, echo's, prints and var_dumps in your code. -- Paul -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] E-Mail Attachment Filename Encoding Problem

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:30 +, Richard Heyes wrote: > > The *other* white meat? > > Sorry, no idea what that means. > Cats are the other white meat. Sorry have flu, may be delirious -- Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal/public/portal_

Re: [PHP] E-Mail Attachment Filename Encoding Problem

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:19 +, Richard Heyes wrote: > There's no reason not to use it - it works for a good many people. And > a few cats too. The *other* white meat? -- Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal/public/portal_services/disclaim

[PHP] ANN: Chisimba-2.1.0 release!

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Scott
The next release of the Chisimba PHP5 framework is now available (Chisimba-2.1.0). Major enhancements included in this release are: - Numerous enhancements to the database abstraction layer for increased performance - Numerous core bugfixes and enhancements - Patch descriptions added in modul

Re: [PHP] Re: hello

2009-01-09 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 18:15 -0500, Phpster wrote: > -12C in Toronto > Meh! 30C - 35C in Cape Town, South Africa almost every day for the last month. It has been a scorcher this year! -- Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal/public/portal_serv

Re: [PHP] on Mapserver and php5_MapScript

2009-01-09 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 14:15 -0500, Eduardo Arévalo wrote: > As I write this line is highlighted in black php5_MapScript > You should probably ask this on the UMN Mapserver lists at mapserver-us...@lists.osgeo.org but... > ; > $jStyle->outlinecolor->setRGB(200, 200, 200); You are setting an out

Re: [PHP] First steps towards unix and php

2009-01-09 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 14:53 +0200, Paul Scott wrote: > First choice is ./configure && make && make install, second choice is > apt > Even better, of course, is the: "Yo sysadmin intern! Install for me please and don't screw it up" -- Paul All

Re: [PHP] First steps towards unix and php

2009-01-09 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 07:50 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: > I'd take SMART or urpmi over yum as well, for the record. First choice is ./configure && make && make install, second choice is apt -- Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal/public/po

Re: [PHP] Holocoste against palestinians

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 22:51 -0800, It flance wrote: > The message is to webhosting companies, > This is not a web hosting company. > Israel is killing palestinian children. Some sites are are showing the fotos > of israel's holocoste against palestinians. > Now here is a link that shows to is

Re: [PHP] permission failure with fopen

2008-11-07 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 14:27 +0200, Thodoris wrote: > > > > I'm testing on Windows XP SP2 with PHP 5.2.0 > > As far as I remember, you need to pass the "b" parameter to Windows as well on fopen(), so you would do an fopen("/path/to/file","wb"); --Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered by

RE: [PHP] web shot script

2008-10-23 Thread Paul Scott
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 22:20 -0400, Joey wrote: > Really I want to do this, not pay someone to do it via those services you > linked to. > So nobody has seen open source code for this? I run a free (freedom and beer) webservice to do this via the Chisimba framework (http://avoir.uwc.ac.za) The do

Re: [PHP] PHP Dev Facts

2008-10-17 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 00:14 +0100, Nathan Rixham wrote: > Evening All, > > I'd be /really/ interested to know who uses what! > > *Procedural or OOP?* > OOP > *Dev OS* > Ubuntu 8.04 > *Dev PHP Version* > PHP-5.2.3 > *Live Server OS* > Debian > *Live Server PHP Version* > PHP-5.2.3

[PHP] ANN: Chisimba-2.0.3 Released!

2008-09-04 Thread Paul Scott
The next release of the Chisimba PHP5 framework is now available. Major enhancements included in this release are: - PDO and MDB2 support - Improved database performance - Bug fixes - Better code documentation - API integration for many more modules - Remote downloads of modules (apt like

Re: [PHP] Re: very very small CMS

2008-07-19 Thread Paul Scott
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 10:18 -0400, tedd wrote: > At 12:48 PM +0200 7/19/08, Frank Arensmeier wrote: > >19 jul 2008 kl. 05.05 skrev Robert Cummings: > >>>Here's a CMS I've been working on. > >>> > >>>http://www.webbytedd.com/a/easy-page-db > >>> > >>>The idea is to allow the user edit pages in situ.

[PHP] Re: SPAM SPAM Re: [PHP] Capture homepage screenshot

2008-06-13 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 14:45 -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: > There are several commercial options available, but I may put > together a script this afternoon capable of generating thumbnails from > websites. If I do, I'll keep you informed. > In my project, we do this through a small Python ap

[PHP] Re: SPAM SPAM [PHP] Build and Deployment Process

2008-06-10 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 14:56 -0700, VamVan wrote: > What is the best method to build and deploy php scripts along the different > environments? You can talk about rpm's and stuff In my project(s) I use Phing. http://phing.info It is even written in PHP, so keeping this thread on topic. --Paul --

Re: [PHP] AI file and mapping with PHP

2008-05-07 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 12:17 +0200, Angelo Zanetti wrote: > We have a project where by we have a map in ai format (vector format). What > we want to do is to programmatically come up with a solution that say on the > map there is a restaurant at a certain location, that we can zoom into the > map o

Re: [PHP] the Y2K38 BUG

2008-05-07 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 00:54 -0600, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > looks like mine only goes to dec. 31, =/ > *Gasp!* best you get cracking on finding an alternative solution! --Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal/public/portal_services/disclai

Re: [PHP] the Y2K38 BUG

2008-05-06 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 23:50 -0600, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > true-that ;) > anyway, the DateTime class is implemented as a 64-bit unsigned (i think) > value. so if you use it you should be good to go. > > php > echo date_create('2040-10-24')->format('M-d-Y'); > Oct-24-2040 > a 64bit unsigned int i

Re: [PHP] the Y2K38 BUG

2008-05-06 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:03 +0530, Chetan Rane wrote: > Have guys heard of the the Y2K38 Bug more details are on this link > Nope, but I can guess what its about. > Can there be a possible solution. As the system which I am developing > for my client uses Unix timestamp. > There are probably

Re: [PHP] strange behavior, when converting float to int

2008-05-06 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 09:34 -0500, Philip Thompson wrote: > I got the same results. I'm not exactly sure what's happening, but > I'd > be curious to see if there's anyone else who can shed some light. > > PHP Version 5.2.4. Is this not coming from the underlying C libs that directly use the F

RE: [PHP] Phpstop.com project - wanna be a writer?

2008-05-05 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 15:12 +0200, Chris Haensel wrote: > Maybe I can have you as a writer? ;o) And maybe 2 or 3 more of this list > The "big names", ya know *g* Oh well, my name is only 4 letters so I guess I am out? ;) --Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http:/

Re: [PHP] Web page excerpt editor

2008-05-04 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 10:12 -0500, Mike Potter wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with something else? Alternately, has > anyone written something they'd be willing to share under GPL? FCKEditor, TinyMCE and a host of others. All JS based, so not really relevant on a PHP list though --Pau

Re: [PHP] php framework vs just php?

2008-04-22 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 13:34 +0100, Richard Heyes wrote: > Absolutely. Personally I use a lot of disparate libraries, a lot of them > from PEAR. Doing this I've never found the need or the inclination to > use a "framework". > But that is kind of a framework! You get two kinds of framework in

[PHP] mime_content_type and FileInfo

2008-04-21 Thread Paul Scott
I am in a bit of a pickle, or is that PECL? I need to use either mime_content_type or FileInfo to get the mime type of a file that is dumped into the system via email. Now that is the easy part, where the hard part comes in is that a commercial host that I use will do neither reason being that m

Re: [PHP] April Fools Easter Egg

2008-04-01 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 10:28 -0400, tedd wrote: > You got me. > Wobbly PHP logo on mine (PHP-5.2.5 debian) --Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal/public/portal_services/disclaimer.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To un

Re: [PHP] new lines in textareas?

2008-03-30 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 12:29 -0400, tedd wrote: > At 9:26 PM -0700 3/29/08, Mary Anderson wrote: > >Hi all, > >I have a php script which produces text which is to be displayed > >in a textarea. I have the wrap for the text area set to 'hard'. I > >need to have newlines inserted in the text.

Re: [PHP] How to install PHP 5.x on Windows Server 2000 with IIS 5 and MySQL 5.x

2008-03-27 Thread Paul Scott
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 10:32 -0400, Wolf wrote: > I'd suggest going with a real operating system (linux) which keeps patches > updated quicker... > As much of a Free Software advocate as I am, that is not the answer to the question. That being said, however, I would replace the IIS with Apache2

Re: [PHP] optimilize web page loading

2008-03-26 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 09:25 +0100, Alain Roger wrote: > i would like to know if there is a way to know how long does a web page need > to be loaded into browser ? > this is interesting fact for me, as i will optimilize my PHP code in order > to reduce this time to minimum. Try using microtime() h

Re: [PHP] GPS Locator

2008-03-04 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 11:42 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote: > Almost for sure, browser security will not let you do this in a web > browser. > > You'll probably have to write a custom desktop C application, or get > the user to install some kind of glue widget... > > PEAR|PECL *might* have some USB

Re: [PHP] How do you send stylized email?

2008-02-27 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 13:18 -0500, Andrew Ballard wrote: > Seriously? All e-mail? Sorry - couldn't resist. That is one serious > disclaimer. I especially like the last line. > Holy crap! I had never actually looked at that stupid disclaimer before! It gets added on the way out of our network, s

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 14:48 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: > Paul Scott schreef: > there seems to be some misunderstanding ... a design pattern is not > a component (or anything else of substance) but merely a conceptual > strategy used to tackle a problem ... ever find yourself writing c

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 19:50 +0800, skylark wrote: > What design patterns do you usually use? I am not sure that you are understanding what a design pattern is. It is not a piece of software or a thing to use, but it is a set of repeatable components that you use in whatever app you are writing.

Re: [PHP] How do you send stylized email?

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 22:52 -0300, Manuel Lemos wrote: > messages. I use this popular MIME message composing class. Try the > test_simple_html_mail_message example script for instance. > > http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage > > Hehe, I was holding my breath for Manuel to come on to this thr

Re: [PHP] How do you send stylized email?

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:44 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: > I wonder if I can just apt-get the wedding and have it all > automated for me. ;-P If only! I remember the stress, and a good friend of mine is gettin' hitched on Sat - while I am in Uganda - go figure! Anyway, congrats, and enjoy th

Re: [PHP] How do you send stylized email?

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:27 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Marriage?? That's for backwards people stuck in ancient pointless > > traditions >:) And moreso in today's culture... it's just a commercial > > suckfest whe

Re: [PHP] PHP 24 hour processes?

2008-02-24 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 07:39 +0100, Zoran Bogdanov wrote: > How can you perform a timed event in PHP; for example: > > Count 24 hours and then delete all rows in a database... > I thought that this question was answered in some detail before... Anyway, on *NIX based systems use cron.daily or on

Re: [PHP] Deleting all rows in a database every 24 hours?

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 07:28 +0100, Zoran Bogdanov wrote: > The title says it all, how do I perform an action every 24 hours? > $sql = "TRUNCATE TABLE 'sometable'"; $this->query($sql); on a cron.daily --Paul -- . | Chisimba PHP5 Frame

Re: [PHP] Exception vs exception

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Scott
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 21:01 -0800, Prabath Kumarasinghe wrote: > In second approach for every query I have to write > throw new MySQLException("My Message"). It's very time > consuming isn't it? In order to *be* lazy, you have to *think* lazy... Don't go and define every single query with an exc

Re: [PHP] temporary error

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Scott
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 14:54 +0100, Mirco Soderi wrote: > Consider the following code: > > $sqlQueryInserimentoDatiAllenamentoCalciPiazzati = "INSERT INTO ... etc etc How long does it take you to write a single line of code with variable names like that? --Paul All Email originating from UWC i

Re: [PHP] fail on preg_match_all

2008-02-20 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 23:34 -0600, Hamilton Turner wrote: > if i know the file handle is valid (i grabbed it using 'or die'), and ^ This is probably your problem, you are trying to match on a resource handle, not a string or something. Check out http://www.php.net/pre

Re: [PHP] Sending SMS via PHP

2008-02-20 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:01 -0800, Nick Stinemates wrote: > > Do you need to receive SMS? If you need to receive SMS, you will need to > > host your own GSM device or modem so that people can send you SMS. > > > > If not, you can just use internet SMS gateways like clickatell to do the > > work, a

RE: [PHP] What community software package gets your vote? PHPfox etc...

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 23:21 -0500, TS wrote: > On Feb 19, 2008 8:41 PM, TS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everyone. I'm not sure what the budget is but, obviously inexpensive > > would be nice. Someone turned me on to PHPfox. Yet I don't have any others > > to compare it to. If you all woul

Re: [PHP] Better DB Class MySQL

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Scott
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 16:17 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote: > And some have figured out that PDO does not quite live up to its > promise (yet) and needs some more work... > I am finding this out the hard way, but just with MySQL and PostgreSQL support (including MySQLi). Portable, kinda, stable, no

Re: [PHP] Template system in PHP

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Scott
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:29 +0100, Zoltán Németh wrote: > and by the way, symfony has YAML configuration files and a plugin for > REST services. > and Chisimba does YAML configs in the blog module, REST, SOAP and XML-RPC services as well as a whole whack of XML-ish things. --Paul -- -

Re: [PHP] Session and Multi Server Architecture

2008-02-11 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 12:48 -0500, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.memcache.php > and http://www.danga.com/memcached/ --Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal/public/portal_services/disclaimer.htm -- PHP General Maili

Re: [PHP] Session and Multi Server Architecture

2008-02-11 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 23:03 +0530, chetan rane wrote: > Can any one tell me what will be the best way to maintain session > information on a Multi Server Architecture i.e a Web Cluster. Memcached session handler. Provides failover as well as speeding things up significantly. Either that or in a

Re: [PHP] Order directory output

2008-02-08 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 21:19 -0500, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > i hooked up an spl example; and the files are sorted by name. > also, did you want that inside or outside the w/ > class=NormalText, because the opening and closing tags are > mixed up.. > Here is another, generic extension filter with S

Re: [PHP] Name of variable to string

2008-02-08 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 14:37 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: > On Feb 8, 2008 2:18 PM, Eric Butera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And look who chimes in with some helpful advice! ;-P > lol (now isn't that even more useless?) --Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://

Re: [PHP] killing a process through php webservice

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 09:56 +0500, Fahad javed wrote: > I still think the problem is access rights. question is how to solve it. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > Yes it is access rights. You will probably have to add PHP to the root or wheel group as a user or something insane like t

Re: [PHP] Directory

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Scott
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 12:30 -0600, Steve Marquez wrote: > Could someone please point me in the right direction? I am trying to have > PHP find out if a directory has files in it and then if it does, display and > include, if it does not, then not display the include. oooh, goodie! You get to play

Re: [PHP] Re: Multiple MySQL INSERT into loop

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Scott
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 10:55 +, Colin Guthrie wrote: > Simplest way would be to define your data in an array instead: > > e.g. $data = array(1 => array('id' => x, 'entry' => y, 'name' => z), ...). > And of course to tie it all into a transaction that can be rolled back in case of problems.

Re: [PHP] Exception handling in PHP

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Scott
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 00:20 -0800, Prabath Kumarasinghe wrote: > Understood, Thanks Paul > Pleasure, but please don't top post, it makes it really hard to follow a thread easily. Most people on this list take time out from their really busy day jobs to help out, and the more time that everyone

Re: [PHP] Exception handling in PHP

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 23:37 -0800, Prabath Kumarasinghe wrote: > Does that mean for every exception do we have to write > our custom exception and describe it from our own > message > No, it means that when you want to throw a meaningful exception, you need to type in a message. I mentioned cust

Re: [PHP] Exception handling in PHP

2008-02-06 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 23:10 -0800, Prabath Kumarasinghe wrote: > Is this following code work in PHP if mysql_connect > fails. > > try{ > mysql_connect('localhost','user',''); > > }catch(Exception $e){ > echo $e->getMessage(); > Probably not. I don't think that the mysql functions throw excep

Re: [PHP] Exception handling in PHP

2008-02-06 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 22:52 -0800, Prabath Kumarasinghe wrote: > Hi All > > I'm little bit confusing with PHP exception handling. > Could you able to explain how to put try{} and > catch(){} in a proper way in PHP. I had already read > php exception manual but it didn't help me to get > exact id

Re: [PHP] array problem with a zencart shipping module

2008-02-06 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 23:42 -0500, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > ouch, maybe you need to hire someone ? besides this has more to do than > just arrays; there is the rest of the application and clearly anyone whos > going > to help out must understand at least some of it.. Yeah, I concur! You really shou

Re: [PHP] Recommendation for an XML class?

2008-02-06 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 15:12 -0500, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > SimpleXML, > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php > Dude, I thought you were playing with SPL! SimpleXML _then_ use the SimpleXMLIterator to work with it! http://www.php.net/spl --Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered

Re: [PHP] Fileinfo

2008-02-05 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 23:13 -0800, Mad Unix wrote: > thanks it works now > > Libraries have been installed in: >/usr/local/src/Fileinfo-1.0.3/modules > Be sure to remember to add the extension to your php.ini now as well with an extension= line and restart your server for the changes to

Re: [PHP] Fileinfo

2008-02-05 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 22:49 -0800, Mad Unix wrote: > I did what you recommended i get the same erorr > Depending on your distro, you may have 2 php.ini files. On debian based systems there certainly are. One for Apache to use and another for cli. Check that this is not the case first, you may j

Re: [PHP] Anyone else doing PHP on Symbian?

2008-02-05 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:29 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: > Still debating what > device I'll get next, but I want to use it as a mobile server myself. > I had been working on a bound-for-trash PDA doing the same a while > back, but with what we'll refer to as "limited results." I think that the k

Re: [PHP] how dod you get to do multiple mysql queries concurrently?

2008-02-05 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 01:08 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: > the column spec. what kind of geomtery column is it? and A geographical "geometry" i.e. a projected data set of Geo data. > are you using it as a primary key? or some else No, the integer gid is usually a primary key still. The geo data is

Re: [PHP] how dod you get to do multiple mysql queries concurrently?

2008-02-05 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 11:53 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote: > This is actually pretty OT for the PHP list itself, really, unless you > want to try to implement GIS in PHP, which would be a particularly Bad > Idea (tm) due to the scale, scope, and calculations involved. > Err, sorry, but I must corre

Re: [PHP] Anyone else doing PHP on Symbian?

2008-02-05 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 14:44 +, George Pitcher wrote: > I've recently installed PAMP (PHP, Apache, MySQL & Python) on my Nokia N95. > I can do my development in Dreamweaver and move across to the phone and it > all works. > Sounds intruiging! Care to share some resources/links as to how to s

Re: [PHP] Schedule tasks from server

2008-02-04 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:46 +0200, Pieter du Toit wrote: > I am using paradigmsolutions.co.za. I read about cronjobs, but aparently it > is only available on unix or linux hosting, is this true? Well, why not just host on *nix then? I see your site is a MS Frontpage one, but most linux based ISP

Re: [PHP] Schedule tasks from server

2008-02-04 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:30 +0200, Pieter du Toit wrote: > Is there a way that i can schedule tasks on my webserver that will > automatically fire on a certain time and date, without anyone visiting the > website? > > This domain is hosted by a ISP and not by me. Ask your ISP if they support c

Re: [PHP] about preg_replace, please help !

2008-02-03 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 21:06 -0800, Casey wrote: > Why do you need preg_replace? > Else he fails a homework assignment? --Paul -- . | Chisimba PHP5 Framework - http://avoir.uwc.ac.za | :--

Re: [PHP] Resetting a session variable

2008-02-03 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 13:14 -0500, Ron Piggott wrote: > What is the command to reset a session variable --- essentially deleting > all of the values it contains? Ron Assign the session to an empty array() and then use session_destroy() All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer

Re: [PHP] php competion

2008-02-03 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 20:10 +1100, doc wrote: > come on people try you skills at > > http://www.rhwebhosting.com/comp/index.php Reworded as: Redesign our complete web presence and give us a couple of apps that we can flog to our clients, and we *may* give you a consolation prize. Yeah right.

Re: [PHP] Calling All Opinionated ******** ....

2008-02-01 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:18 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: > I'd like to hear from people who have or are using ZF with regard to their > experiences, dislikes, likes, problems, new found fame and fortune, etc ... > but > only if it concerns ZF. > I have integrated a few ZF components into the Chisi

Re: [PHP] array iteration vs. ArrayIterator

2008-02-01 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:11 -0600, Greg Donald wrote: > Thanks for the benchmark. > Yes, thanks! It has just confirmed what I have been experiencing as well. I am busy converting a static site to a Chisimba CMS based site at the moment with 43 000 odd static, frontpage generated HTML pages. I

Re: [PHP] Re: [Slightly OT] Apple MacBook MAMP and Logic

2008-02-01 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 10:58 +, Colin Guthrie wrote: > That's just how sudo works tho' right? You can configure sudo to not > require a password for certain commands run by certain users. Not sure > how it works on the mac as there may be some kind of wrapper but I'm > sure there would be a way

Re: [PHP] how dod you get to do multiple mysql queries concurrently?

2008-02-01 Thread Paul Scott
Did anyone actually get this mail? More concrete example? What would you like to see? I suspect that some of my mail is getting dropped :( --Paul On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 06:33 +0200, Paul Scott wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 03:40 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: > > > I for one would re

[PHP] Release candidate: Chisimba-2.0.0RC1

2008-01-31 Thread Paul Scott
The next major release of the Chisimba PHP5 framework is now available. Major enhancements included in this release are: - Remote downloads of modules through web interface - Upgrades of modules via package server in modulecatalogue - Skin downloads via remote package server - Updates to mod

Re: [PHP] how dod you get to do multiple mysql queries concurrently?

2008-01-31 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 03:40 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: > I for one would really like to see a concrete example of this kind of > use of geometry columns and spacial indexes as an alternative to the stand > integer based primary keys. On one of my local postGIS tables: CREATE INDEX k1 ON kanag

Re: [PHP] How can I do this -- method chaining

2008-01-29 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:17 -0500, Eric Butera wrote: > http://www.travisswicegood.com/index.php/2007/10/26/fluent_api_here_i_come > Looks like a repurpose of one of my posts: http://fsiu.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=blog&action=viewsingle&postid=gen9Srv59Nme5_7092_1182404204 --Paul All Email

Re: [PHP] how to display photos of the day?

2008-01-29 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 18:33 +0800, jeffry s wrote: > i have a mysql table contain data about 1000 rows. i want to display any of > the photos randomly > and it is fixed for one day. > MySQL has a rand() function, so you could bomb that off as a select once a day on cron or something, or you cou

Re: [PHP] how dod you get to do multiple mysql queries concurrently?

2008-01-28 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 12:29 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote: > >>Back on the mysql side of things, try using geometry columns rather > >>than numerical primary keys, with spatial indexes.. it's a MASSIVE > >>performance upgrade (I've cut 5 second queries down to 0.005 by using > >>geo columns) > > > >

Re: [PHP] Getting nuequiz pro wo to work in php5

2008-01-28 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:49 -0500, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > ive always thought about trying moodle for this purpose. Not to rag Moodle or anything, but trying to customize that thing is a nightmare. Besides, if you are willing to try out Chisimba, you can always ask me :) There is a test install at

Re: [PHP] Getting nuequiz pro wo to work in php5

2008-01-28 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 08:35 -0800, Jim Lucas wrote: > Well, since this quiz app doesn't work. Does anybody have suggestions > on a good tool to use for in-house/office training? Sort of like an > employee initial training or evaluation quiz application. Guess it > doesn't have to be just for

Re: [PHP] Posting Summary for Week Ending 25 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-28 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 16:43 +0100, Zoltán Németh wrote: > where is the stats for last week? the experiment is over or what? ;) > Jochem already did it for this week, so I think Dan is taking the week off. --Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/port

Re: [PHP] Getting part of string matched with regular expressions

2008-01-27 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 14:28 +0900, Teck wrote: > I was using preg_replace for this, and try to delete (i.e., replace > the non-matched part with an empty string) the second part, but I > can't make it work. Rather use preg_match_all() as that will produce an array of values, with the first va

Re: [PHP] Posting Summary for Week Ending 25 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-23 Thread Paul Scott
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 01:13 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: > stats while I'm at it ... I've been busy wracking my brain trying to > figure out > the setup for a load-balanced configuration for one of my major > clients ... at least > a system capable of migrating to loadbalancing ... global file system

Re: [PHP] performance/load testing ...

2008-01-21 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 10:50 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: > Does anyone have any tips, urls, advice as to how to start > going about creating something like a 'test suite' for testing > high load performance of a website? > I went through a similar headache recently, and looked at a whole whack of t

Re: [PHP] Digital Downloads and Scale

2008-01-20 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 02:43 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: > use simple code, optimize your db and go and read up on everything you can > find > about optimizing [download] connections on your webserver ... these spring to > mind > In addition to optimizing code and db (I presume that includes using

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 10:04 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: > That would actually be pretty interesting. Since we've all been > known to beat a thread to death, it certainly wouldn't be difficult to > collect the data. FWIW, I would like to continue to see these postings, as mailing list metrics

Re: [PHP] Re: Match anything between two " that is not a " except if it is escaped...

2008-01-18 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 12:28 +0200, Nikolay Ananiev wrote: > This is for double quotes: > '/"[^"]*(?:.[^"]*)*"/' > > this is for single: > '/\'[^\']*(?:.[^\']*)*\'/' > > i took these from the smarty compiler class. Has anyone started a commonly used PCRE Regexp library? I

Re: [PHP] XAdES in PHP

2008-01-14 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 10:59 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote: > After a quick Google to find out what the Hades is XAdES, I'd suggest > you look for a C implementation and link it in as an extension. There are a couple of implementations of XMLDSIG in PHP that I have seen, although none really up to sc

[PHP] Chisimba Release

2007-12-20 Thread Paul Scott
The next release of the Chisimba PHP5 framework is now available. Major enhancements included in this release are: - Better APC support - Improved database performance - Bug fixes - Better code documentation - XML-RPC API for Video conversions module - XML-RPC API for the Active Dynamic Mi

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