so what do you do with all this data if you want to pass it around or to have it persist between requests its

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Hi how can I set variables with the loop count in the variable name in a for loop That is path1 path2 etc where
Some background information this is for a dead simple ajax chat app im writing new lines are fetched every 3
Does anyone have any idea how to use php to find ip neighbors

rather long split

I'm sure he will shout at you for getting help

doesn't look like a once-in-a-lifetime rocket science code, either

Yeah, I know, just being a little paranoid

AlexC_, _tfr_ is there another way?

depends on what you want to achieve

That's the easiest way

weird, I'm out of ideas

read a file's contents, but without using an external prog

Cheers, that's the problem I've been having :P

file_get_contents reads the file contents without using an external prog.

file_get_contents is a built in function

? you don't need to use an external program/extension

same here, it looks okay to me
but the usual debug method (at least for me) in this case is to start cutting out code _before_ the error

or remove the buggy code just to check it is that causing it

yes, i want another built in function that does the same thing\

why?

what's wrong with file_get_contents ?

i dont get any syntax errors on my end

nothing i just want to know if there's another way

file()

In that case check the documentation for fopen() and fread()

$var = explode("", file('filename'));

grrr, i hate not getting my regex's right,, trying to match this list of country codes

will do the same thing as file_get_contents

there's file(), there's, fopen()/fread()/fclose(), there's readfile()

i have country code then country name seperated by 5 whitespaces

er not explode, implode

Hmmm... that's everything but getKeys() commented out now!

can enyone recomend any good pastebin sites?

pastebin.ca ?
move getKeys to the top of the class and rename it, or something

paste2.org

you have something very odd going on, i dont get any syntax errors on your file
is your php hosting engine doing any script prepending?

Definately - I just moved the function and still get an error on the same line
And no, it's not doing anything unusual other then setting an include_path

comment out Config.php
just for some giggles

replace the entire file with echo 'foo';

hah yeah, that too

if it doesn't echo foo, then you're probably having a case of A) Editing the wrong file, B) uploading to wrong directory without noticing

Hmmm... good call, although I just edited the file on the live server. Same error
bHmmm... good call, although I just edited the file on the live server. Same error/b

http://rafb.net/p/mqYPgf82.html - I got this little script to controll if the user is logged on or not. Problem is when $_SESSION['verified']="no" I still get the admin controls. any ideas?

but just make sure your editing the eight file... if you do an echo, and it doesn't echo, and you get the same error... you have the wrong file

i have a class users that extends another class, how can i pas the arguments submitted to the new user object to the class that user extends ?

on your load function, wouldn't that ${lang} be ${$lang}?

Bingo - my include_path was using an old config

hehe

Nope, ${lang} is just fine thanks

can anyone think of a disadvantage to having form fields named the same as your database host columns (for form submission)?

Woot! New error.
Thanks guys

nothing wrong with it, so long as you clean your data first

figured that, just wanted to make sure there wasn't something obvious I was missing

grr, ok, i'm trying to get a pattern match agains a list of country codes and country names eg "ci Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire)" so i want the replace output to be "ci"="Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire)", the ci and Ivory are seperated by 5 spaces.. soo what I have that works sort of so far is ^([a-z]{2,3})[\s]{5}([\w,\s{1}-]*)
I don't match the () or , or . or '
also have a carriage return problem

*blink*
WHY

there's a handle for that

do a XML parser first run the start handler, then the data handler and the the end handler?

handler for??
Well i'm trying to get the regex to work as I am in my editor so trying to do a regex search and replace

handle. If the machine get's stuck, it will perform a carriage return when you pull the handle

but I suppose if i parse the file with a little php script i can just explode each line.. easier..

anyone here who can change the topic?

Why can't you use pastebin here? (Just out of question)

use pastebin.ca
pastebin.com is slow / dead

Right.
What happens If you were to use www.pastebin.com ?
Does that incur a channel ban?

'(\S+)\s+(.*)'
No, it just doesn't get anyone looking at your paste
Since many of us cannot reach it (browser times out)

arrgg, that's so bloody simple.. damn you!
:P
thanks though
I neeeed more regex practice

Counting is "hard" for an FA, so any time you can skip the counting and write to the PATTERN, do it.

FA?

Finite Automata

oh.

"regex engine"

gotcha.
actaully what is simply the best example of an email host validation script you've seen,, i was looking at one that's in Linux Journal there last month.. quite good, based on someone elses (i think it was from the ilikejackdaniels site) but added dns lookups to the A and MX record for the domain
sorry, www.ilovejackdaniels.com

hey quick check.. its monday and my brain isnt fully functional.. to grab the php mysql web hosting AUTO_INCREMENT value of the last inserted query of a table.. mysql_insert_id correct? like mysql_query(insert into tbl); $id = mysql_insert_id();

yep

thanks

correctamundo
happy monday

whats so happy about it.. i still have a headache from saturday night...

hah,, doh.. I don't seem to do that anymore..
Havn't been drunk in a donkeys age
might well be 8 months since my last drunken state.
that one scared me sober

i realized this weekend im getting too old for this crap.. when you still hurt on monday, its time to hang your liver up

Never seen myself that drunk before(there was a short video), and never want to be that bad again..

hehe.. gotta hate the video evidence

there it is.... http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/php/email-address-validation/
not for the first time, i'm a youtube star

i really dislike the drunks where you say somthing or do something you are 100% sure youwill regret when you are sober

:P
i stick to nice easy beer shandys at parties these days...
that way i don't get stupid

nice

yeh, saying things you regret the next day is baaad.. specially when it's your girlfriend you say it to.

what's bcompiler?

well its bad if she is not your GF the next day

hi
speak you polish ?

i dont i can hardly speak english
and thats the only language i speak. man im worhtless

aww man you broke the pattern!

i'm so easy english speaker
why ?

do you have your files in that directory as file.txt and file.jpeg and file2.txt and file2.jpeg ?

eee... yes

there is your oproblem

not jpeg, gif :P
if file.gif & file.txt is good ?

hold on im sending you new code

http://saint-tomy.miniville.fr/ i don't ud nothing!
a href="http://saint-tomy.miniville.fr/"http://saint-tomy.miniville.fr//a i don't ud nothing!

can i embed c in php somehow?

How to be impossible to know people visit site from proxy or not? It this impossible?

stop highlighting me and most of all, stop spamming stupid urls

http://nopaste.com/ please ;P

http://nopaste.com/p/aOq8aAAmV
give that a shot

!+pastebin
wtf
where's the bot

ist good - thanks

there was a netsplit before and little bot went

death to netsplit infidels

- Can only " character cause XSS?

do you understand now why you got 2 instances instead of one?

you shouldn't be using =

yeah use %
hehe

..
:P

SettlerX, and you have a space

2 spaces

it's only an example

damn right.

it's using short tags,

http://www.php.net/manual/en/internals2.ze1.php

the syntax is deprecated and would be removed in PHP6

Any other characters that can make XSS?

which are not enabled on every server, so on some servers your script will not work

ah, I see

or only " in that case?

php and = will go

php ... ?

any ones.

I think you mean

what about zend?

yes my code all files showed. It must only .gif.

SettlerX, plenty of characters can be used for XSS

you wanted to know how to "embed C in PHP". you'd do that by adding it to PHP, or writing an extension or such.

but inside "", e.g. value=" "?

backticks, single quotes, double quotes, UTF-7 code

exactley

ah, it's not been done already?

afk

can doing what he said name="php echo $value; ?" cause an XSS attack? if $value has " in it or any other XSS goodness?

yes

htmlspecialchars() ftw

yep.
I do.
yes.
$value = '"script......';

I know one thing people keep forgetting
values in urls

okay, htmlspecialchars() maybe good but too long name
or (int) of numeric value

htmlentities

but .... hum, I've had Firefox extensions before and still have - that let me run javascript hosting code

better than htmlspecialchars?

function h() { return call_user_func('htmlentities', func_get_args())' }

well, it will escape everything that needs escaping
not just a fixed set of chars

that's Firefox-specific chrome

is there a list of major changes in php6 compared to 5?

yes
register globals, magic quotes and safe mode goes bye bye

by the time that php6 is released, there will be a changelog

aww really? my app needs all of those =(
hehe =D I'm just kidding =D

im glad theyre gettin rid of safe mode.

and magic quotes!

too bad they force you into unicode instead :P

i dont mind those, they can be disabled at the user level

that hasn't been fully decided yet

actualy encoding is another common issue

too many webhosts use safe mode, makes me wanna cry.

really? I've never, ever ran into a webhost that does

magic quotes? is that like saying "what me pull a rabbit out of a hat ... "

they need to figure out a way to run php/cgi scripts as the correct user

I thought you already could?

possibly

why does register globals go bye bye in 6?

it sucked

no seriously how do you really feel

is there any function or something like this to know users who join to my web using proxy or not

I hope they get rid of session_register too

why? session_register or session_start();

i can see how it could be useful for a large app

I don't know of one. sorry.

register_globals for a large app is not useful - not for any app

if($ext != "txt") && ($ext != "php"){ - not good ?

i disagree.. and if you smite me again.. I SHALL TAUNT YOU A SECOND TIME!

if you need it that bad, you can reproduce the effect with something like 3 lines of code.

do you know what register_globals does?

yes. its registers a global

...

keep in mind that $_GET, $_POST etc are superglobals, whereas the regular userland vars created via register_globals are not, so you'd have to use the 'global' keyword or $GLOBALS all the time.

it turns all user input into variables, instead of keeping them in their respective superglobal arrays

in functions, methods, etc

if($ext != "txt") && ($ext != "php"){ = error - Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_BOOLEAN_AND in CProgram Files\WebServ\httpd\homepage_armageddon\port.php on line 8

it's very bad for security

i know.

no, the superglobal arrays are still available with register_globals.

why ?

add another set of parentheses around the if()
if () && ()
if ( () && () )

i didnt mean to say the superglobal is destroyed.

i'm so stupit xD
stupid*

i'm just saying I could see in certain instances, with a lzy coder, you could see a benefit for globals.. thats all im saying.. right wrong or indiffertent.. i dont use them, im just syaing i could see how other people could..

ah, okay

then that lazy coder should give up coding,

are you sure? http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#remove-support-for-and-script-language-php-and-add-php-var says: 'We kill "%" but keep "".'

s/voding/breathing/

damn then how am i gonna feed my 6 kids

knitting

im not dextarious

youd still have to filter all of the user input. i dont see it saving you any time at all.

yes. php host source code that has embedded confuses XML processors.
it was a terrible idea, and one should not rely on it

if youre that lazy, use your editors find and replace function :b

aha okay, thanks

im not disagreeing with ya.. im just saying under certain circumstances.. i see how it could be useful.

s/$username/$_POST['username'] heh

Hello, any idea how I can use a programming language like java web host to upload to a php scrip
t

i would never use it, but I have seen crazy people do crazier things

ask in #java

Cool123 write your script in PHP

Ive done that

at my last job, i watched my coworker do things that you seriously couldnt imagine. he was so confused that i couldnt even laugh at him.

seriously annoying.,.. forms just beat me..

and #Java sent me here :P

then write your upload script in php web hosting as well

bloody forms, why do i HAVE to use a table to get it to layout in anyway nicely./

have you sat back and wondered.. maybe this guy is so crazy, he could be a genius?

you don't have to at all, just learn CSS and do it the way you're ment to

how to get file length of an image resource?

u could awlays use div layers with absolute positioning... HEHEH im kidding

how??

the upload script that you proposed would be written in Java, so ask about that particular script in #java. The script that receives it, though, is written in PHP, so ask about that particular script here.

agchchch,,, yuck

if flipping my code upside down, pulling out the mysql calls and sticking them all at the end of the script and then complaining to me that my code doesnt work is genius, i guess so.

ook

and your original question was about the uploader script, not the receiving script, so.

there are many ways to layout forms without tables, simple enough is to use a label then input boc
s/boc/box

hehe... i have seen crazier.

i found it incredibly amusing when he blamed it on me

as a last resort to newline them,, but then the bloody things just mess up,, look all disorganised

i normally use the go f--- yourself approach when it comes to people using my code then bitching about it

for that, read up on semantic coding

lolburp

semantics are well and good when you can afford them.. but I can just never get the block layout to work for me with forms

ahh broken aian

then go and learn more css

#css

i've read Geofrey Zeldmans book already.
I dunno, it drives me to distraction.. i've tried and tried to get perffect semantic form code and the layout will never work for me ...

then ask for help in #css #html or #web

Wgat is the goal of call_user_func? What is it for?

on his form examples!

i use it too

I could link you to many, many sites that have bad html - does that mean you should be doing it :P

_is_ bad

Hi all

but quirksmode uses the br to service older browsers, it's not bad to be considerate of old systems
and I would dare say quirksmode is not a badly coded site..

omg your lucky i was getting ready to taunt you a second time.. ;P dam monty python is stuck in my head

I never said that site was badly coded

I could link you to many, many sites that have bad html " certainly feels like you were thinking it! :P

yes, I said I could link you to many bad html sites - that does not mean I said that site has bad html

ok I'm just pushing your buttons

also, that site does not exist

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/forms.html
it most certainly exists..
sorry if i misspelled

in that example you could easily remove the and add margin property to css

The point of the br is to allow for browsers that won't see the css

bad example.. he is using but most of his format is with css
by most i mean 95%

:P ok..

so I should use font-color="#FF0000" in my HTML incase the browser does not use css?

how are that type of variables called? /_xml

I need some help with the php ldap api ...

or what ever it is you do in HTML for color :P

where did i ever mention colour?

"Warning: ldap_add(): Add: Already exists ..." I would like to hide this warning
does anybody know how to do this ?

well this is just getting to be a silly pissing contest now.. I'll be the BIGGER man and back down :P
well this is just getting to be a silly pissing contest now.. I'll be the BIGGER man and back down :P

yeah turn off your warninglevel in php.ini
hehe

this is not a practical solution

well you didnt ask for "practical" in your request
;P

help please! can ordinary string functions handle multi-bytes?
must i use mb_xxxx instead of ordinary string funtcions?

theres a multibyte extension that you probably need.

did you have any particular function in mind, or do you need several of them?

well you could always turn off the warning level with that one script.. with ini_set
are you trying to add a ldap user?

(for example, htmlentities() can be passed a charset, rendering mb_* unnecessary for that purpose)

yes

can anyone have a look at this for me? I'm doing this on thousands of calls, with thousands of codes, and it's quite slow... it seems to me to be pathetic http://rafb.net/p/h1t94w20.html

dioxide Vystrix_Nexoth ya, but i found that usual string functions can still handle multi-bytes...

well, you don't need $nr. dunno how much that'll help, though.
heh, was it just UTF-8?

you can break out of the loop when you find your first match

Kobaz the while() breaks when match is valid?
i just wondered if other people did it this way

oh hmm yeah
well any type of pattern match is going to be slow if done on a large number of items

actually... since i started making the paste for the pastebin i have improved it a little to be honest so this helps as it is

Hi. This question is not for PHP but it is a similar function: Can/how I set the HTTP Header to Plain text as well as an attachment?

The default configuration of php is really unsafe to use with a public server ?

in_array is very slow also
index your array by the value itself, and do direct access

header()

emence I know that, I need the string that can set it
"Content-Type", "text/plain"

1);

I need an attachment as well as the text

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php .. not to be a duick, but RTFM

and then you can check if it's in the array by doing $array[$match];
that should give you a a very large speed improvement

I tried to put a @ in front of ldap_add ... it does the stuff
thanks

avoid searching large arrays

nice
it should also write the error message to $php_error or something along that line so you should be able to check that to xcheck for an error

Kobaz coolness thanks for that tip. this large array i must search :/ If php doesn't have a built in function for this then mysql sure won't

Why don't you search in your DB?

hmm, that name comes out in ASCII as "KFA". :P

Wolfpaws because of the weirdness of 'finding the closest intersection between a string and an array of strings starting at position 0" - i wouldnt know where the sql even begins to do that
i guess i should go ask 'em

well, in_array does a search
that's what i was talking about

IIRC, mysql can handle sort of arrays as well.

if you have 100,000 items in your array, and do an in_array, worst case scenerio... you will read 100,000 items to find the one you are looking for... average case is 50,000 items searched

vs if($array[$key]) is faster?

yeah
array[key] will do one access

kewl i changed it makes it easier to read as well

yeah

how can i debug php?

should I use isset() ?

zend debugger
yeah you should

how do i execute that?

debug how?

xdebug is nice

xdebug too
google

xdebug with eclipse's xdebug plugin
very slick

What do you mean by debugging PHP? Debugging PHP code? Debugging PGP engine? What?

Kobaz thanks thats actually a hell of a lot faster

my script segfaults and i want to see wherre
*where and why

That can sometimes happend with undefined variable in class.
You probably want GDB then

nifty
in_array == slow... heh

I ran a some test an array_key_exists() ended up being 10,000-20,000 times faster than in_array
I ran some tests and

well yeah, you're not searching

but gdb is for executable files, no?

gdb has plugins for everything

but 2 times slower to do $array[$value] = 1; as opposed to $array[] = $value;

on bugs.php.net there is a link to how to debug PHP.

what's the name for the php gdb plugin?

Can I disable functions for php files in one specific directory=
*?

i dunno... google?

My hypothesis was that php uses some sort of ordered hashtable, so it wouldn't have to search the array for the keys

http://bugs.php.net/bugs-generating-backtrace.php

you can set up php to prepend code that will check the cwd and define functions... say you want to disable fopen... so you do... function fopen() {} in your prepended script
you dont search the array for keys, correct

php.ini thing

but in_array does not search keys... it searches values
yeah

hello everybody, does someone knows any ORM tool for PHP excepet Propel?

so that way

yeah, I know, that's why I suspected it would be much slower

actually, no wait.. i'm dumb
that wont work

Haha

try AR implementation...

that would prevent a user defining the fopen function... but you cant redefine built in functions anyway (without an extension)

I am just learning php, and I am working on connecting to MYSql. I'm having trouble with my code (very basic, I'm just trying to connect and add some values to a table), and was wondering if someone can help me.

that's a good question

http://jaws.townsville.nl/index.php?blog/show/4

I want to disable a bunch of functions for everybody but me

plan b

http://pastebin.ca/610638

edit your apache config and do php_admin values for all the vhosts you want to disable the functions for

Wolfpaws, tks

hmm, have a big block of html with all the carriage returns stripped out which i presume is for obfustication.. how can i parse the html into a nicely indented formated stream?, so how can i process

php_admin_value disable_functions "fopen" /Location

AHa
Thanks

or something like LocationMatch /home/something/something.*
to match a whole bunch of dirs

Its /home/username
But I want to exclude mine

yeah okay, that's fine
you'll have to put in something like
LocationMatch /home/.*
and set the disabled functions

That will include my dir

and then after that do a LocationMatch /home/jckf/.*
and set disabled functions to ""

Vystrix_Nexoth yes, utf-8 only, i've found that htmlentities has a parameter to set encoding

Can anyone help me?

i think that should work

can someone recommend a nice SMTP class?

but i don't know whether strpos things can handle multi-bytes correctly

tidy might do it

ahh, tidy.. ok,, tahknks

have you searchec pecl

nope

or pear
they should have some

So I've got a really weird challenging problem that needs some wizardry. I'm getting a string value from a Postgre SQL database using PHP 5. This value is simply of the format "%d.%d.%d". its a time delimited by periods instead of the usual colon. when I get this value out of the DB and try to split(".", $time), the array it returns has no elements. It wont split it! Can anyone think why putting that string through the database would cause this

what are we looking for?

http://pastebin.ca/610638
it won't write to the database

I'm looking at that. what-- oh.

Don't use split, use explode
They're not the same thing.

wow. thats all it was. geez. thanks! I was using explode for a while, not sure when I started splitting instead.

try adding "or die (mysql_error())" after each call to mysql_query()

split() uses regular expressions... the "." regex will evaluate to not what you want

You should NEVER use split

as in, mysql_query($query) or die (mysql_error());

To locate which one fails?

right

If you want to split on a regex, use preg_split()

rgr, thanks mates

nanousr, what are the fields in the table you are inserting in

I'm getting the error: Table 'sample.links' doesn't exist when executing "$query = "INSERT INTO links VALUES (url, 'test2')";"
I found a problem.
It's not creating the table inside the sample database.

http://pastebin.ca/609426 -- a bit of Python fun

I notice you only perform the queries if mysql_select_db() returns FALSE.
which seems somewhat odd.

nanousr, you have id not null and you are not inserting into it

it's also auto-increment.

nanousr, try using values('', url, 'test2')

and the immediate problem is the table trying to insert into doesn't exist.

This isn't doing what I want it to "$query = "CREATE TABLE links ( id INT(10) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, url varchar(75), PRIMARY KEY (id), UNIQUE id (id))";"

remove the unique key and default 0

unique(id) and pk(id) is redundant.

primary is already unique

perhaps, after you CREATE DATABASE, try mysel_select_db()ing it?
if I can't select the database { create it; create a table in it; } insert into table;

you dont want to default to zero, you want it to be whatever autoinc assigns it.

but when you create the database, you never select it.

hello, it's possible to add up date object ( DateTime) ?

and yeah, heed the advice of these others regarding the 'id' field.

it won't either way, NOT NULL int's default to 0 whether you spec it or not

Ok, now I'm all confused.

then remove the not null, whatever

add another mysql_select_db ($database, $db); after the CREATE DATABASE query.

Call to undefined function mysel_select_db() in config.php on line 16"

mysql_ not mysel_

oops

mysel_sqlect_db hehe
hmm, but it actually calls it, or tries to. figured the database would remain created after the first time you tried the script. *shrug*

According to phpminiadmin it's creating the database correctly
But not creating the table

what error message do you get in PHP?
er, did you try running the script again?

Who else thinks implementing CRUD operations are the ultimate grunt work

(if not, do.)

I only get an error message when I try to write to the nonexistant table

any idea what might cause a variable's value to change immediately after assignment
"?

the problem is in your SQL, not php

ah:
Incorrect table definition; there can be only one auto column and it must be defined as a key
http://pastebin.ca/610688

I see the problem, I think

CREATE TABLE links ( id INT(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, url varchar(75))

CREATE TABLE links ( this, that, PRIMARY KEY(), UNIQUE ID (id) )

CREATE TABLE links ( id INT(10) AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, url varchar(75))

CREATE TABLE link ( this, that) PRIMARY KEY(id) UNIQUE ID(id)

half true. there can be only one auto increment column, true, but not necessary a primary key

or what chadmaynard said, maybe.

The problem in the original sql was DEFAULT '0'
'0' is a string where the col was an int

IIRC, you can do stuff like update/insert on a numeric column even if you quote the number in question.

still not working

be more specific. error message?

yep, in mysql insert/updates with wrong datatypes throw warnings and are converted, but not table definitions.

it doesn't give an error message until i try to insert data

ah, ok

i have two variables, i echo their contents and assign them to other variables. i then echo the 2nd set of variables and one or both of their values are different than what i had assigned

i'm pretty sure i'm not selecting the database

I guess the table definition is fixed, then. so, don't make us play 20 questions. what's the error?

any idea what might cause this sort of behavior?

"Table 'sample4.links' doesn't exist"

you could INSERT INTO dbname.tablename and if that works then you are not selecting the db

I'm using RC3, and was wondering why users get periodically logged out, even if they select for them not to
is there an option to disable this?

The problem is there is no table in the database
the create table isn't working

with the error message...?

you must select the database before you can create the table

"doesn't work" doesn't work.

When I go into phpminiadmin, and select the database, then paste the sql code it works.
It creates the table.

but you're not using phpminiadmin here. you're using PHP. what does PHP say?

nothing

$patience--;

haha
Wrong channel

until I try to insert data into the table

whats pinner mean

and then it tells me that the table doesn't exist

what if you use this: CREATE TABLE sample4.links ( id INT(10) AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, url varchar(75)) ;

ah, we're getting there

I think line 20 in your latest pastebin (610688) is redundant, for what that's worth. if it selected in the first place (line 13), it's not necessary at line 20, and otherwise it'll create it and then select it at line 16. either way, by the time it gets to line 20, it's already selected, or should be.

"Column count doesn't match value count at row 1"

i have an array who's index keys do not reflect the actual ordering. but i need to find out what position number a particular key is in. how would i go about this?

that's an insert error

change your INSERT query to remove the empty first value, I think, or pass NULL (IIRC).
uchange your INSERT query to remove the empty first value, I think, or pass NULL (IIRC)./u
and, more to the point, remove the third value ('test2')
http://pastebin.ca/610688
^ is nanousr's latest paste

oh yea well that's a pretty obvious problem

array_search($value_to_find, array_values($big_array)); slow but does what you want.

INSERT INTO links VALUES (url, 'test2')

How large is this data set?
make that array_keys to search the keys instead

jmccaffrey, unkown. typically 50, but sometimes much larger.

Thanks for all of the help. It's working now.

This would be fine on that size of data

not entirely satisfied it's working optimally, but, if it works for you, I guess that'll do.

jmccaffrey, ok i'll use it for now then. thanks

It appears to be writing to to database fine. What would make it work optimally?

well, I'm leery about some stuff. like, where does "url" (without the quotes) come from in the INSERT?

that's the column name

but it's in the VALUES() part.

Is that bad?

did you notice the PHP constant warning?

INSERT INTO links (url) VALUES ('test2'); -- maybe that's what you're thinking of?
it's in the query, in a quoted string, not raw in PHP.

oh yea.

^_^

Vystrix_Nexoth, that code works as well

they even do the same thing

his fields are: id INT(10) and url varchar(75), and he was inserting VALUES (url, 'test2')
meaning 'url' (without quotes) got put into the 'id' field.
not sure what to make of that.

no becuase it's an auto increment. MySQL doesn't care what you insert if it isn't valid it becomes auto_inc_next_id

the code I suggested should be much better, making it clear what goes where (and letting the id field increment itself)

i agree it was wrong, but it still did the same thing.

Hey!

I'm looking for a lightweight php/webserver package for my laptop, so that I can test my pages when I have no iConnection. This is for linux, perferrably deb ubuntu

z0ap, lighter than apache?

bbryant, I was hoping for a package that included both...

i can save more GET variables in an url?

frank-busy: well, you can add more than one, if that's what you mean. foo.php?one=1&two=2
$_GET['one'], $_GET['two']

hmm
i asked this cos i had 1 GET variable in my url, and when i added another one, the first one was gone
...

zOap, installing apache and php seperately isn't too difficult, but if you tried to install the php5 module for apache2 without apache it would install apache for you too

what did it look like with the second one added?

try this in the terminal "sudo aptitude install apache2 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server"

it just saved only the last variable

bbryant, dificulty isnt the issue here.. I was just looking for a light server...

nanousr, I wasnt looking for mysql

frank-busy: I need to see some code for this, can you pastebin?
Lighthttpd using php fastcgi?
That seems to be the leanest setup I have run

jmccaffrey, are theses available in deb?

I would however use whatever you plan to use in your production environment on your laptop also to keep it consitant
probably

lighttpd is in the universe repository, at least on Feisty.

jmccaffrey, well I mostly program cms'es, so having several servers is just a bonus. allthough I have several beta testers It would be nice to try out new things. thanks for the tip, I'll look into it.

Does anyone know of a wysiwyg web editor that can be ajaxed?

Are you attempting to find a WYSIWYG editor that can be used to design a dynamic page?
Closest thing is going to be visual web developer .net, your mileage may vary

Im looking for a web based wysiwyg editor that can be loaded thru ajax
I dont want no stinkin .NET

Ah different than, this channel does not support third party scripts or anything, personally I have never used so I don't know.

:-(

mmmm ajax
check out ext

I have phpbb 3 RC3,and after a certain period, it logs people out. I'm sure I saw an option to change this, but I can't remember where... Can anybody help?

:-/

#phpbb

oops
sorry

!tell BARBA_RUIVA about guidelines

hmm maybe they dont have a wizzywig
thought they had one in the demos
oh they do have one in the demos
yeah, use ext
http://extjs.com/deploy/ext/examples/form/dynamic.html

you recon I can suck that thru ajax ?

it is ajax

hi, I'm a begginer in php. I'd like to know why php puts \\ in a file when I create a file from a textarea with just one \

ext is an ajax framework

:-/

is there a simpler way to detect if a number is odd then if((int)$x / 2 != $x / 2

if ($x % 2)

mod

if($x % 2 == 1) means it is odd, right?

right, the == 1 is implicit

is there an easy way to take 2 dates and make sure one if after the other, without regex extracting the info and cross compare?

thanks!

what format are they in?

MM/DD/YYYY

ugh
if you get them into YYYYMMDD then you can just + 1 and compare

it get sent from the browser as a string in that format

no actually

MM/DD/YYYY
i guess i might be able to take a timestamp, one timestamp will be larger then the other

list($m, $d, $y) = explode('/', $date); $ts = strtotime($y . $m . $d);

i can seperated like that, just trying to figure out a good way to compare

well once you get those timestamps, isn't it trivial?

true

Hi folks. Just curious, I currently use Zend Platform Professional for writing PHP. I'm looking for extensibility for JavaScript as well, what's the general opinion on the maturity of eclipse?

Bye all

how do you make PHP convert " to ™. ive tried htmlspecialchars and htmlentities

What do you think about categories and topics and news?
Both arts, files, news, etc. can be divided into categories.
However, all news of all categories aren't shown currently.
And what do you think about it? Only categories? Or division into categories and topics is better?

anyone know how to make PHP convert """ to "™"?

is it okay to store 500k-1mb of text in $_SESSION?
I've got a max of 10 users doing this at once... how large can session data be? does php set a limit or is it up to available hardware?

htmlentities()

htmlentities will replace all & and htmlspecialchars only certain &?

Did I miss something, or is mysqli::multi_query() really executed in MYSQLI_USE_RESULT and there is no way to force it to store result?

didn't work! but i'll just do a str_replace.. :P

I have huge file with many sql queries (db dump) and I want them to execute all at once with multi_query() and I always get (of course) out of sync error. Therefore I have to iterate every result and free it ...
wich is kind of odd

It's possible, although I probably wouldn't recommend it with the default session handler. The main problem you'd likely run into is running out of memory, if you have a memory limit set, although the time to serialise and unserialise the session data wouldn't be great either, particularly if you have a lot of variables in there.

So what do you think about dividing news into categories?
Is it sufficient?
Or should they have also topics?
e.g. Hardware, Software, etc.

have you specified charset of that string according to manpage?

With ten users, the processing overhead probably isn't going to be too bad, so as long as it's well under the memory limit, I guess you'd be OK. Might not be great if you start needing to support more users, though -- you might then have to look at using shared memory to store the sessions or similar.

does somebody uses ADOdb Active Record to manipulate the database? is it nice?

whenever I put a """ in my PHP code, it comes out as a "ý". how can i make it appear in the source as the character """, not "ý"?
and this is nothing to do with ™
and when i say source i mean generated page source

LawnGnome if I use a custom session handler that points to mysql - will that change anything?
bLawnGnome if I use a custom session handler that points to mysql - will that change anything?/b

so echo """, causes "ý" to appear in the source

Depends on the nature of your data, but my gut feeling is probably not.

k tnks

Maybe try echoing the appropriate numeric character entity instead?
I don't have that symbol in my font, whatever it is, but it should be rather trivial to lookup

so what do you 'do' with all this data if you want to pass it around, or to have it persist between requests? it's processed data from a database, which I like to keep handy rather than re-query the database for a different report on the same time period?

shm, files

Then use the normal file-based session store
I don't think SHM is a terribly good idea, myself, but YMMV

kewl, thanks for that

I haven't used shm, what don't you like about it?

Most of the opcode caches I've used provide session handlers as well, although you're still subject to the usual limits on shared memory size and the like, since that's what they'll be using internally.

How do you break out of a loop? break?

I've had PHP leave things laying around, so I have to write cron jobs to clean it up. Also, he mentioned it might be about 1MB of data, which is more than I like to shove into an SHM block
josh[n00b]: yes

thanks TML

josh[n00b]: php.net/break

thanks

doesn't all the data get freed when the shm is destroyed?

alma you can store your sessions in database in blob columns if there is a need for that

all the memory, rather

The 1 MB issue was why I was hesistating a bit to recommend it too. It's a nice solution in many cases, but a meg of session data's a little out of the ordinary use case.

eh sorry i didn't scroll down, this is a bit outdated idea

I doubt that'll be any quicker than the normal files handler, by the time it's gone over the socket both ways. Probably be quite a bit slower, in fact.

The SHM's don't always get destroyed

ok, I get it

well 1MB is like about the outer-limits thanks!

so I have to write nasty cron scripts with ipcs

hrm

some days you ask a question and you get real value.

how about files on a ramdisk?

That's better, although you still have the serialisation overhead.
If it's a real problem, I guess you'd profile the hell out of it and see what was really happening.

Seen my Python magic?

No
Share

http://pastebin.ca/609426

marypoppins = ( superman + starship ) / god;

hahahaha XD

I guess that depends on a kind of data alma wants to store in session. can you for example store binary data in serialized arrays, which session data are?

cStringIO *and* BeautifulSoup in the same module? Agh!

What's wrong?

nasty
So it fetches youtube videos and saves them to disk?

YEah. And finally converts them to a given format

i'm currently using saving session into database btw, it's not any slower i'd say ... I'm playing with an idea to create session data as a HEAP table, which should be even faster than saving to files on hard drive

Aren't HEAP tables saved on the HD?

cStringIO is there only because of pycurl

Sounds like pycurl needs to be refactored

no, in RAM

cStringIO is old-school

at least every book/manpage says so, I've never used them

What is prefered now? StringIO?

The bytes class, probably

how can I get a backtrace from php without it actually segfaulting or erroring out?

I'll look into it. I have to do comic now...

print_r(debug_backtrace());

err... no a gdb trace
php takes like 10-15 seconds to print time(); and im tring to figure out wtf it's doing

now I'm interested in seeing a comparison between storing sessions in a DB, shm, files, and files on ramdisk
what's strace say?

uhh, im asking because I don't know how to use it :p

morning,

strace php5 -r 'echo time();'

it seems to hangup here: write(3, "RESOLVE-HOSTNAME-IPV4 ecolem01.b"..., 43) = 43
read(3, "-15 Timeout reached\n", 1024) = 20

so it's trying to resolve a hostname

how do I stop it :p

What is === used for ?

exact comparison

dunno

is it possible to include another file inside php.ini ?

where 1=='1' but not 1==='1'

Why would you want to do that?

what else are you doing?

nothing.. i just called php -r 'echo time(), "\n";'

I want to configure open_basedir per user
php is running as cgi

I did not got that what does it mean exact comparasion

look up, enygma told you

Thanks

Did not saw that

Hi folks - i'm being given the URL of an image file - what's the best way to download & store it? will file_get_contents() work?

ghento why you don't just try it first?

thanks man, i added my hostname to my /etc/hosts and it started to work :p

why would I be getting 4 digit numbers still with this code? http://pb.theoverclocked.com/61

good point, /ignore last message

1) ignored, 2) yes, it will
depending on your server configuration of course

im having trouble with the logic here....i want to take an array of say all the letters in the alphabet, and spit out every possible permutation of a given length. whats the best way to write that?
so like....aaa, aab, aac, ........jkl, jkm, etc.....

Ummm... Why?

because i want the list.
im just getting lost in all the loops lol

definitely go the recursive route, hmm lemme think about it for a bit, interesting problem

for some reason when i assign some variables from $_SESSION, their value seems to change immediately after (http://www.mentalcases.net/~sinthetek/cartprob.txt). i have been experiencing a lot of problems with this program that seem illogical and which i have had to code around (using isset() and other functions rather than == or === mostly)

"all the loops"?
You should only need two

http://pastebin.ca/610930

nvm got it

i am not sure if the previous problems this one are related, but this one (with the variable assignment) can be manifest with the code i added in lines 151-161

thanks i'll look at it

range('a', 'z')

Oh you can do that?

You can indeed

working here: 1-3how 'bout here: 1-3blah =2bleh = 3

i would prefer $str = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'; $letters = str_split($str);

Uhh...why?
range('a', 'z') is a lot easier to read

range is for sure the best

in case you dont want just a through z
like if you want numbers too

blah should contain the value 1 as it was assigned the var whose value is 1, however when it's printed 2 lines later, it's value is now 2

I don't understand
How does your way make that "Better"?

well it isnt better obviously if you're ONLY going to use a-z

$letters = range('a', 'z'); $letters = array_merge($letters, range(0, 9);
Except I dropped a )

1-2how 'bout here: 1-2blah =5bleh = 2

but if its a script where you want to easily plugin a range, i would prefer just typing out all the characters that could be in it
abcdejk9230@7834|[]()
that would work with my way
jmccaffrey, this is good, but it wont work with a customizable length...you would need to keep adding foreaches
should i just replace the second foreach with a for($i=0;$i=$len;$i++) ?

why

because it only works with a length of 3 at the moment

could someone at least acknowledge my existence since this is like my 3rd time presenting the problem and i have thus far not even gotten that much? perhaps my login to nickserv wasn't truly successful or something, heh
ucould someone at least acknowledge my existence since this is like my 3rd time presenting the problem and i have thus far not even gotten that much? perhaps my login to nickserv wasn't truly successful or something, heh/u

I acknowledge your existence

yay! validation!
thanks

Now, if you could condense your question down to something that is locally reproducible in ~ 10 lines of code, I can probably help you
uNow, if you could condense your question down to something that is locally reproducible in ~ 10 lines of code, I can probably help you/u
What I'm not going to do is read your 230 line masterpiece and try and tell you what you did wrong.
bWhat I'm not going to do is read your 230 line masterpiece and try and tell you what you did wrong./b

does anybody have a favorite open source commerce platform? OSCommerce, ZenCart, CubeCart. Are there others I should be aware of? Does anyone have specific likes or dislikes of any of these products?

[fields]: OSCommerce is a steaming pile of bovine excrement

i understand why you wouldn't want to, but i've tried replicating the error but it wasn't so successful
actually i could try a few other things...
s/error/problem

Ok... now why?

when i tried to replicate it i didn't use $_SESSION, i will try replicating with that instead

Which, to me, says you need to start from the simplest possible script and work your way upwards, checking at every possible functional addition, until you hit the problem...then reduce the last addition to locally reproducible code

hey

i'm looking for an "admin page generator" software. but i couldn't find anything

you wont find one here

i know

"admin page generator" ? wtf?

maybe someone using it

no idea lol

[fields]: Because I've written better code while asleep at my keyboard

are you just looking for a password protection generator? I've seen an htaccess one at dynamicdrive.com

it's a software that creates administration pages
looking your database

what are admin pages?

seriously....

http://pastebin.ca/610950

forget it..
thanks.

forgotten.

DeliPenguen, check phpmaker

thanks.

TML, hey, you might be interested to know that theGZA has been evading his ban from ##php by moving to a different IP, he was in #phpc last night bragging about it

hahahaha he's finally banned from here?

AlexC_, yeah that's what i thought too

bless him
s/him/it =D

jmccaffrey, thats awesome...thanks

AlexC_, took a while. only reason i know he's banned is because he showed up in #vim talking about his ban from ##php and i thought to myself "damn, i wish i had been there to see it"

I have some permutation code someone from here gave me that works very well... let me hunt it down.

does he do it on purpose then?

AlexC_, i was suprised he lasted as long as he did actually, testament to the patience of some of the ops in here
AlexC_, um, hard to tell actually. i don't think so, which is what makes him so lame.

I don't know who TheGZA is, nor what addy he's supposed to be banned under. I suspect Wolfpaws is the one who needs to be informed.

the permutation generator reminds me of www.projecteuler.net
anyone ever seen that before?

I've got no idea how he does it, he's banned from #html, #web, #css, #javascript, #js and now ##php

That is impressive

BINGO!

its just a bunch of math challenges you need to solve with your choice of a programming language

That makes it easy to answer how. A more interesting question might be "why"?

trolls have been around since the beginning of the web :P

perhaps he has a third nipple with a mind of it's own, and that sometimes overpowers him?

at one forum i visit, there is one that has created over 50 accounts, accessed it through many different proxies, just to make pointless topics
it amazes me...

blah
i could re-write this entire cart to use a doubly-linked list instead faster than testing it all one var at a time
i would really like to figure out what is causing the problem for future reference though

And caffinated.

TML, i suppose so too

theGZA is one of those who ask like billion questions and refuse to even look at the manual once.

You're implementing a linked list in php?

and one of those who hits enter about 50 times while asking those billion questions... so that's about 50 billion actual messages

no, but i will be soon most likely

That is the reason why he was banned by caffinated. I just locked up his secondary IP

Wolfpaws, anyway, might wanna set ban on theGZA!*@*

Why?

how do i take a unix timestamp and get a readable date?
i know there a function and i cant remember it

NAh. The IP ban works fine. He changed the nick, anyways.

hey all, i'm trying to include() an html file which has a flash app, and for some reason its all squished vertically, if I view just the html page its fine
any ideas how to give that more room?

because it seems the next simplest way to implement the functionality i require

duh date

Wolfpaws, he was in #phpc last night with this "video" of him opening files. dunno if you're familiar with his little "i'll pay you to video tape yourself opening files faster than me" epeen contest. it was pretty sad.

http://pastebin.ca/610970

o.O

If you wouldn't mind, could you explain your situation to me? I believe there are design improvements that could be made to avoid having to do this
[fields]: Thanks

wow, you learned how to be the fastest at using the most innefecient method to open files. you go.

when running a LAMP server, with 2 or more httpd does the max memory get split between the virtual servers or does each recieve the full amount?

hahahaha

I3ooI3oo, you mean vhosts?
I3ooI3oo, or do you mean like with Apache + otherwebserver + anotherwebserver
I3ooI3oo, besides that... sounds like a better question for ##linux or #apache

well it's a php error that is hitting my apache loogs, or i should say it seems like it is
multiple vhost

the simplest way seemed to be using $_SESSION to store cart items, quantitites and a count of the items. i use loops to iterate through the session vars. items and quantities are associated to each other via their offset from the start of their respective arrays via the loop: while($count $_SESSION['itemcount']) { ... $count++; }. $_SESSION['itemqtys'][$count] contains the quantity for $_SESSION['cartitem'][$count]

jmccaffrey, whats the difference in that funtion you gave me between echo "$stringbr /";return; and return "$stringbr /"? the latter doesnt work.

Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted ---- but the max is set for 32Mb

chat where is the return value being echoed?
or even captured?

http://pastebin.ca/610950 line 8 and 9

yet somehow for some reason variables seem to be changing sponaneously which is manifesting itself in a way i cannot understand. it is evident when i do: echo "working here: ".$_SESSION['itemqtys'][$count]; echo "-".$_POST['qty']; echo "how 'bout here: ".$_SESSION['itemqtys'][$count]; echo "-".$_POST['qty']; and the result is: working here: 2-2how 'bout here: 2-2blah =5bleh = 2

I store that data in a database table, and just store a cart_id in the session data.

i could do that but it seems sort of superfluous use of resources to store such a small amount of info for such a finite period of time

hmm

i guess it would be easier to integrate into existing code than a doubly-linked list though

jmccaffrey, the problem is that i dont want the function to echo out the values - if possible, echo out an array

Its not, using the DB to store things is what it was meant to do, it can handle it. Using this method also streamlines your system as you can query the DB from anything to view the data for reports or what not. This method is more conventional so maintainers can more easily understand it than some rather complicated data structure in memory. Also the database is more scalable than session files.
you need a second array passed, called &$results that you push data into instead of echoing

how would i make a page that will allow only authorized users to d/l files?

ok
majikman, dynamically create a new file every time a logged in user requests to download it. once he downloads it, delete it.

I would just make a download.php file that reads and writes the desired file

or echo out the contents of the file once the user is authorized..

how can I change 5-14-2007 into May 14, 2007?

i was more concerned with the overhead to calls to the db and traffic on the network than actual storage on the db

Does your commerce site not use the database for anything else?

date("...", mktime()); look in the manual at mktime() for examples

jmccaffrey; also, i would have to set up some sort of routines to check the db and purge info leftover from unfinished purchases etc
yeah, it does
s/purchaces/transactions

Right, this is very typical usage on a database, usually you have an hourly cron script maintaining the data on there

step 1 is explode your datestamp and then put those in individual variables in the right place on mktime

yes, crappy/lazy coding practices are very typical these days, that doesn't mean i wish to embrace them personally :P
although i'm not saying i won't
it just seems that my method shouldn't be much if any harder/complex and would have a lot less overhead

jmccaffrey, im pretty confused, as ive never used references before. http://pastebin.ca/610998 generates the error Cannot pass parameter 2 by reference in Ewamp\www\random\permutation.php on line 15

erm...no offense

Hi, I'm new to PHP, is it true that the Zend engine has poor multithreading support compared to perl?

Chatmasta, if i do that, the user could stop the d/l in the middle of d/l, save the url, and pass it on
Chatmasta, the file would never be deleted

it boils down to priority. some people are used to coding to be more productive and make more money, whereas my priority atm is making the most of what little i have

jmccaffrey, if i do that, how do i handle large files so that it doesn't exceed php's memory limit?

and learning to be more offecient

In my opinion the preferable method from a design standpoint is using the database for this operation. Usually I try to minimize on processing done in php because honestly it is better done elsewhere. If you are going for performance over anything else, I would run some benchmarks for the sake of scientific method, however if your aim is maintainability I would work on the database approach.

how can i see what options was my php configured with?

how can I extract the date string from the filename priority_5-14-2007.rate?

preg_match, google pcre

will all your iles start with priority_ and end with .rate ?

Don't store them in memory, just stream them to the host

php.net/pcre

[fields], yup

Read a block, write a block, etc...

jstarcher dont use preg then

str_replace();

hmm..... ok, i'll try that

Wolfpaws jo dud

$file = "priority_5-14-2007.rate"; $tmp = str_replace("priority_", "", $file); $tmp = str_replace(".rate", "", $tmp);

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