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[PHP] Question about session_id() and session_start() (no replies)

孟远涛 — Mon, 20 May 2013 05:40:04 +0200

I find the Note in PHP document.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-id.php

"Note: When using session cookies, specifying an id for session_id() will
always send a new cookie when session_start() is called, regardless if the
current session id is identical to the one being set."

I feel puzzled about this feature. Even if the current session id is
identical to the one one being set, session_start will send a new cookie. I
want to know why session_start behave in this way.

Forgive my poor English. Thanks in advance.

[PHP] Moving from mysql functions to mysqli or PDO - which is best? (1 reply)

dealTek — Sat, 18 May 2013 20:40:02 +0200

Hi folks,

[post newbie abilities] - I'm attempting to move away from PHP mysql functions to something newer, either mysqli or PDO.

I have read various things about them, but I'm curious at this point which would be best to learn for the present and future. I'm usually working on small to medium size projects.

I understand that PDO has an extra abstraction layer so it can work with / convert to other databases like oracle and others fairly easily, but some have said that PDO can be a bit slower the MySQLi?

So I would really like to hear opinions on the best choices of either MySQLi or PDO.

Also I'm also trying to learn OOP, so I'm looking for a very good working PDO and/or mysqli database class - to get started with, that has all the basic needs like UPDATE - INSERT - DELETE - QUERY etc. That would be very helpful.

Thanks in advance for your opinions!

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[PHP] looking for a PDF generator class/library for PHP 5? (3 replies)

dealTek — Sat, 18 May 2013 20:20:02 +0200

Hi all,

I'm looking into a good versatile PDF generator class/library to use with PHP 5? --- Preferably one which is maintained somewhat recently...

Mostly needed for basic pages, but I also have some longer reports (more than one 8.5" x 11" page) and it would be nice if the pdf was able to split it up without losing part of the font when crossing page boundaries etc...

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[PHP] A Good OOP Tutorial/Read? (21 replies)

Dan Joseph — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:40:01 +0200

Hey Folks,

I'm looking to refine my PHP 5 OOP skills. I know the basics, understand
patterns, but have clearly missed a few things along the way.

Do any of you have some real good PHP 5 OOP tutorials/reads bookmarked you
could share? Something other than php.net/oop5.

Thanks!

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[PHP] Trying to understand what I've broken to not allow mkdir() to work. (3 replies)

Richard Quadling — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:50:02 +0200

Hi.

I'm running on a Mac with a Centos VM (via VirtualBox).

Was running from from our SVN server.

New repo, now running from GIT.

The checkout is on my local machine (using Netbeans, LESS, etc.)

The VM is running Apache and PHP V5.4.15

During the move, I've got some permissions issues, which I simply don't
understand enough to a) resolve myself, b) know what to ask for to get the
right help in solving the issue.

I've been told that the permissions on my mac via the shared folder through
VirtualBox to the Centos setup is where my problem lies. But I don't know.

Is there anyone who can give me definite help here? I can manually create
the directories, but that's just daft.

Nothing LOOKS any different between the two repos, but I don't know how to
tell beyond comparing ls outputs.

Any help would be good.

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[PHP] Saving session to database (7 replies)

Lester Caine — Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:04 +0200

I'm having a problem with webtrees ... http://webtrees.net/
My copy is running on http://webtrees.lsces.org.uk and you will see that it is
throwing an error relating to the session handling.

Running Apache 2.2.22, PHP5.4.14, MySQL 5.5.31 ( http://lsces.org.uk/phpinfo.php )

If I comment out the session_set_save_handler() section of session.php then I
can log in and use the site. Have tried reworking that as a
SessionHandlerInterface without any success. As far as I can see, the 'write'
function of the handler is not being called and while there are various notes
about problems with PHP5.4 blocking access to the write and close functions,
none of the fixes I have tried have resulted in a working setup.

Anybody seen this problem with PHP5.4?

http://lsces.org.uk/hg/webtrees/file/dcf6ff358108/includes/session.php#l334 is
the code that seems to be failing.

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Re: [PHP] undef func - any more clues ? (no replies)

georg — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:50:04 +0200

Hi David, and all who helped,

for now one step forward my text message "db open" hit the screen.

after som brain-melting of various inputs i ad hoc came to the quite obvious conclusion,
try yum with what yum could be wanting:

** yum install php-odbc **

and see that magic, without knowledge of what Im really doing I got through

tnx
/georg
----- Original Message -----
From: georg
To: David OBrien
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] undef func - any more clues ?

found this that might be right (64 what does that stand for, i have to my knowledge a 32bit machine)

how would I go about to install this ?

tnx
Goerg
----- Original Message -----
From: David OBrien
To: georg
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] undef func - any more clues ?

On May 12, 2013 1:35 PM, "georg" wrote:
>
> Hi
> Im not really following, I have done:
> pecl list-all ; but dont find anything that has to do with ODBC
>
> so still stuck with Apache error log saying : no such function (or eqiv speak) odbc_connect()
> tnx
> Georg
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashley Sheridan"
> To: "georg"
> Cc: "James Yerge" ; "PHP General"
> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 12:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [PHP] undef func - any more clues ?
>
>
>
>> On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 11:36 +0200, georg wrote:
>>
>>> Hi again,
>>> is there any more clues to how Apache/PHP would get hold of ODBC libraries ?
>>>
>>>
>>> (( summery; Im a bit new to linux (here Fedora 17) so Im not sure of how
>>> these entities get hold of each other; are they linked into same module or
>>> are they dynamically loaded
>>> libraries, guess that the latter. Then Im not clear over the "path" or
>>> "linkage" of these; that is where
>>> are the definitions made to link them together; there is a series of conf
>>> and ini files (and keyword) which should
>>> link names, and point to file names in (defined ?) directories (given by
>>> paths) ))
>>>
>>> / Georg
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "georg"
>>> To: "James Yerge"
>>> Cc: "PHP General"
>>> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 12:47 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [PHP] undef func
>>>
>>>
>>> > Ok, txn ! so
>>> > yum install php-devel
>>> >
>>> > worked, and got me a hole lot of pearl, however, still PHP has
>>> > odbc_connect() call as undefined function. as per Apache error log.
>>> >
>>> > There was some mentioning of php.ini; could that be something here ?
>>> >
>>> > /georg
>>> >
>>> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James Yerge"
>>> > To: "Gabriel Ricci"
>>> > Cc: "georg" ; "Serge Fonville"
>>> > ; "Daniel Brown" ; "tamouse
>>> > mailing lists" ; "PHP General"
>>> >
>>> > Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 12:12 AM
>>> > Subject: Re: [PHP] undef func
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> On 05/10/2013 06:08 PM, Gabriel Ricci wrote:
>>> >>> pear isntall php-dev
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Att.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Gabriel Ricci
>>> >>> ____________________
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Website http://gabrielricci.github.com
>>> >>> Follow @gabrielricci http://www.twitter.com/gabrielricci
>>> >>> Facebook profile http://www.facebook.com/gabrielricci2, GitHub
>>> >>> profilehttp://www.github.com/gabrielricci/
>>> >>> http://code.google.com/p/syslibjs/
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:07 PM, georg >>> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> **
>>> >>>> So thanx again, closing in. It turned out that I had tried; yum >>>> install
>>> >>>> php_pear // i.e. with an underscore, should be with hyphen !
>>> >>>> so crawling a mm forward; then stuck on; pecl install pdo_odbc // >>>> in
>>> >>>> this case the undrscore is ok (!)
>>> >>>> which fails as
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> "Cant find php headers in /usr/include/php" followed by "Error >>>> phpize
>>> >>>> failed"
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> /georg
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> >>>> *From:* Serge Fonville
>>> >>>> *To:* georg
>>> >>>> *Cc:* Gabriel Ricci ; Daniel
>>> >>>> Brown; tamouse
>>> >>>> mailing lists ; PHP
>>> >>>> General
>>> >>>> *Sent:* Friday, May 10, 2013 11:41 PM
>>> >>>> *Subject:* Re: [PHP] undef func
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Assuming OP is using a distro that uses yum for package management;
>>> >>>> A "yum whatprovides pecl" should provide the package name that needs >>>> to
>>> >>>> be
>>> >>>> installed, in case of an apt based distro, this could be done >>>> through
>>> >>>> aptitude. Either way, it seems what might provide more information >>>> is
>>> >>>> details like the commands executed, the distro used and the errors
>>> >>>> received
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> HTH
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Kind regards/met vriendelijke groet,
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Serge Fonville
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> http://www.sergefonville.nl
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Convince Microsoft!
>>> >>>> They need to add TRUNCATE PARTITION in SQL Server
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/417926/truncate-partition-of-partitioned-table
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> 2013/5/10 georg
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>> noop, didnt take, no such package, was my reward
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> /georg
>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> >>>>> From: Gabriel Ricci
>>> >>>>> To: georg
>>> >>>>> Cc: Daniel Brown ; tamouse mailing lists ; PHP General
>>> >>>>> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 11:06 PM
>>> >>>>> Subject: Re: [PHP] undef func
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> To have pecl, you need to install PEAR first, "yum install >>>>> php-pear"
>>> >>>>> (or "yum install php5-pear") should work.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Then you can try "pecl install pdo_odbc."
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Att.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Gabriel Ricci
>>> >>>>> ____________________
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Website
>>> >>>>> Follow @gabrielricci
>>> >>>>> Facebook profile, GitHub profile
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:03 PM, georg
>>> >>>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> unfortunately that didnt take, pecl is undefined command (my >>>>> linux
>>> >>>>> is
>>> >>>>> not so strong)
>>> >>>>> trying yum renders no such package
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Brown"
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> To: "tamouse mailing lists"
>>> >>>>> Cc: "georg" ; "PHP General" <
>>> >>>>> php-general@lists.php.net>
>>> >>>>> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 9:21 PM
>>> >>>>> Subject: Re: [PHP] undef func
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:18 PM, tamouse mailing lists
>>> >>>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Aren't DLLs a Windows thing?
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Yeah, I misread the bit about "MS XP" and thought he was
>>> >>>>> using XP
>>> >>>>> for this install. I just realized the remainder of the
>>> >>>>> discussion
>>> >>>>> between us was off-list, so - for posterity - my response, >>>>> when
>>> >>>>> finding out it is indeed a Linux box, is: pecl install >>>>> pdo_odbc.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> --
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>>> >>>>>
>>> >>
>>> >> Should be yum install php-devel
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>>
>>
>> So far it seems like you've only installed the Pear stuff (that was done
>> with the yum line) but not the PECL stuff. Try installing the PECL stuff
>> again now that you have Pear installed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ash
>> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>>
>>
>>
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Have you tried finding an rpm for it manually

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=php-pdo_odbc(x86-64)

[PHP] Sync CSV files with MySQL Database. (2 replies)

Carlos Sura — Sun, 12 May 2013 21:30:01 +0200

Hello mates,

Perhaps this seems to be a silly question, but it is not to me, here is the
scenario:

I know how to import CSV files with PHP to a MySQL database, the thing is,
that CSV file is automatically feed by a third-party application, I want to
do something to add just the new records, not all the records again.

Any idea or example, will be really appreciated.

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[PHP] pecl/gender bug in PHP V5.3 (no replies)

Richard Quadling — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:30:02 +0200

Hello all.

Very odd behaviour.

if (extension_loaded('gender')) {
$o_Gender = new Gender\Gender;

var_dump($o_Gender);
}

class Variable {

public $value = null;
}

$a = new Variable;
$b = clone $a;

var_dump($a, $b);
?>

If using pecl/Gender V0.9.0 with PHP V5.3.3, V5.3.13, V5.3.23, then I get
an error ...

PHP Fatal error: Trying to clone an uncloneable object of class Variable
in - on line 14

No problem with V5.4.14

No idea why this is the case. Changelog for V5.3 doesn't reveal anything
regarding cloning.

I'm running this on a CentOS vm (not my speciality, so I can't diagnose any
further, sorry).

If anyone can shed some light on this, then that would be useful.

Regards,

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[PHP] undef func (19 replies)

georg — Tue, 14 May 2013 10:20:02 +0200

Hello !

im increasingly frustrated on my effort to get PHP/ODBC going with Apache on Linux (did it on MS XP, that was trixy but this is worse, nothing seem to be correct; utilities missing, erroneous file-directory references, crapy stringency in description...)

well:

"undefined function odbc_connect() " is what I currently find in my Apache Error_log

So evidently I have sucessfully gotten at least PHP to get working, but to connect to ODBC

(this then would indicate that dynamical loading of libararies is not successful, but what...)

man tnx for clues
georg

[PHP] Having a problem with clone. (5 replies)

Richard Quadling — Sat, 11 May 2013 11:40:02 +0200

Hi.

I'm having an issue where I get ...

Fatal error: Trying to clone an uncloneable object of class Smarty_Variable
in
xxxxxx/trunk.newbuild/includes/frontend/site_includes/classes/smarty-3.10/sysplugins/smarty_internal_template.php
on line 269

This issue happens consistently on our live server and on our test server,
but not on my dev setup.

The issue doesn't happen if I comment out 1 line of completely unrelated
code ...

$o_Gender = new Gender\Gender;

If I immediately follow that with ...

unset($o_Gender);

and have no other access to $o_Gender, I still get the error.

Comment out the code, no problems.

The extension is used in other parts of the system with seemingly no
problem. That is, the code behaves as expected and I get no errors, but
those elements don't use Smarty. The error being reported is clearly wrong.
And the extension (as far as I can see) has no interaction with global
elements in any way (I have to use the Gender namespace to access anything
in it - which I think is correct). I've var_dump()'d a debug_backtrace() at
the point of failure in the Smarty code, with and without the $o_Gender
variable being defined (it isn't used in the Smarty template - so Smarty is
never touching it). When I compare the 2 dumps, the only differences is in
the datetime stamp elements and the object count values (there's 1 more
when $o_Gender exists).

My setup is on a CentOS VM running PHP V5.4.14

The live setup is on a remote CentOS server running PHP V5.3.21
The test server is on CentOS server running PHP V5.3.3

I don't know CentOS well enough to just swap out a new version of PHP. But
I will be getting some help on that.

Where do I start to find the problem?

I have full root access to the command line test server, so I can, within
reason, follow instructions to run/wrap the code in any way needed.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!!

Thanks in advance,

Richard.

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[PHP] php extension about php_stream_fopen_tmpfile() (1 reply)

Bleakwind — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:30:03 +0200

I write a php extension.
How can I user Zend API do that?
where can I find some doc about file_handle->handle ?

ZEND_API zend_op_array *(*org_compile_file)(zend_file_handle *file_handle,
int type TSRMLS_DC);
ZEND_API zend_op_array *sead_compile_file(zend_file_handle *file_handle,
int type TSRMLS_DC)
{
php_stream *stream;
char *data_decode;
int data_decode_len;

/* ... */

/* Zend API Begin: This unsuccessful */
php_stream *tmpstream;
if ((tmpstream = php_stream_fopen_tmpfile()) == NULL) {
php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "Unable to create
temporary file. Check permissions in temporary files directory.");
php_stream_close(stream);
return org_compile_file(file_handle, type TSRMLS_CC);
}
numbytes = php_stream_write(tmpstream, data_decode, data_decode_len);
if (numbytes != data_decode_len) {
php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "Only %d of %d bytes
written, possibly out of free disk space", numbytes, data_decode_len);
numbytes = -1;
}
php_stream_rewind(tmpstream);
/* Zend API End */

/* C Begin: This is OK */
FILE *tmpstream;
tmpstream = tmpfile();
fwrite(data_decode, data_decode_len, 1, tmpstream);
rewind(tmpstream);
/* C End */

file_handle->handle.fp = tmpstream;
file_handle->type = ZEND_HANDLE_FP;
file_handle->opened_path = expand_filepath(file_handle->filename, NULL
TSRMLS_CC);

return org_compile_file(file_handle, type TSRMLS_CC);
}

[PHP] 5.4.15 and PHP 5.3.25 released! (no replies)

Stas Malyshev — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:00:01 +0200

Hello!

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP
5.4.15 and PHP 5.3.25. These releases fix about 10 bugs. All users of
PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4. PHP 5.3.25 is recommended
for those wishing to remain on the 5.3 series.

The full list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog on
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

For source downloads of PHP 5.4.15 and PHP 5.3.25 please visit our
downloads page at http://www.php.net/downloads.php

Windows binaries can be found on http://windows.php.net/download/

Stanislav Malyshev Johannes Schlüter
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[PHP] FW: (10 replies)

Paul Novitski — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:30:02 +0200

http://www.shinwa-kensetsu.sakura.ne.jp/bth7rz.php

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[PHP] array_map() with multiple callback functions (4 replies)

George Langley — Thu, 09 May 2013 07:10:02 +0200

Hi all. I want to apply strtolower() AND trim() to all items in an array. But I don't see a way to call multiple callbacks with the array_map() function.
Are my two choices the following:

// 1) nesting two array_map() calls
$cleanData = array_map('trim',(array_map('strtolower',$rawData)));

// 2) call my own function with array_walk()
$cleanData = array_walk('myCleaner',$rawData);

function myCleaner($passedData){
$cleanData = array_map('strtolower',$passedData);
$cleanData = array_map('trim',$cleanData);
}
//(Of course, wouldn't bother with a function, just to call array_map twice...)

Just seeing if there's a better way than having to go through the array twice to apply each callback separately. Thanks,

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[PHP] Problems with array_push? (5 replies)

Jay Blanchard — Wed, 08 May 2013 05:00:06 +0200

I know that I must be missing something really ridiculous, but when I
print_r these arrays they are empty. I have confirmed that $arrayElement
is properly formed, it just seems that array_push is not working. I know
I have done this before, but I cannot find my older code. Can someone
clear the mud from my eyes?

$issueDifferently = array();
$issueProblem = array();
$issueComment = array();

function addToArray($id, $namecred, $product, $level, $type, $message) {
$arrayElement = $id
..'|'.$namecred.'|'.$product.'|'.$level.'|'.$type.'|'.$message;

if('DoDifferently' == $type) {
array_push($issueDifferently, $arrayElement);
} elseif ('Problem' == $type){
array_push($issueProblem, $arrayElement);
} elseif ('Comments' == $type) {
array_push($issueComment, $arrayElement);
}
}
print_r($issueDifferently);
print_r($issueProblem);
print_r($issueComment);

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[PHP] filesize question (3 replies)

Curtis Maurand — Thu, 09 May 2013 05:40:02 +0200

Hello,
I'm feeding a filename to a php script on the command line (command line
program). I run the following against it:

$inputline = fread($inputfile, filesize($argv[1]));

I'm getting an error complaining that the second parameter can't be '0'

any ideas?

thanks,
Curtis

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[PHP] ODBC (19 replies)

georg — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:30:01 +0200

Hi,

Id like to get ODBC connection to SQL from PHP going. Ive done that on XP, but now Im switching
to Linux (Fedora).

My impression in that the connecting part is per the DB designers responsibility. Im using Mimer-SQL,
but cant find any information on how to set up ODBC for that. Any advice welcome.

BR georg

[PHP] Re: generate onfly PDF (1 reply)

Tim Behrendsen — Sun, 05 May 2013 17:20:02 +0200

I have had outstanding success with wkhtmltopdf:

https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

It's a self-contained standalone program that you can call from PHP. It
uses a full-bodied HTML interpreter based on Webkit. Highly recommended, I've been using it for years. It's open source and free.

I should say, I've used the Linux version. It looks like there's a Windows version, but I have no experience with that, if that's what you need.

Tim

Rafnews wrote:

> Hi,
>
>Is there a solution to generate onfly PDF from HTML page, and from data
>
>user typed in form (let's say like a template) without using PECL ?
>i read that is hosting does not allow such extension, we can not
>generate PDF, so i would rather get a solution without such library.
>
>Moreover i'm searching a solution free and that i can supply with my
>web
>components.
>I created a component that should be able to generate PDF files quite
>often as service for user.
>
>thx
>
>Al.

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[PHP] PECL-Haru and UTF-8 (no replies)

Puiu Hrenciuc — Sun, 05 May 2013 11:20:02 +0200

Hello,

Does anyone have experience with using Haru extension for creating
PDF files containing UTF-8 encoded characters? I saw that UTF-8 encoding
was added to libHaru 2.3.0RC1 ( see http://libharu.org/ ), but I did
not find support for this in latest PECL-Haru (1.0.4). Am I missing
something?

Thank you,
Puiu

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[PHP] generate onfly PDF (7 replies)

Rafnews — Sun, 05 May 2013 20:40:03 +0200

Hi,

Is there a solution to generate onfly PDF from HTML page, and from data
user typed in form (let's say like a template) without using PECL ?
i read that is hosting does not allow such extension, we can not
generate PDF, so i would rather get a solution without such library.

Moreover i'm searching a solution free and that i can supply with my web
components.
I created a component that should be able to generate PDF files quite
often as service for user.

thx

Al.

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[PHP] PHP compiler - HipHop performance (2 replies)

Norah Jones — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:50:02 +0200

Hi,

I have downloaded HipHop for my website, I am going through various web links which are suggesting that performance will improve 3-6 times. However I don't know the Stability of the HipHop.

Please provide your inputs so that I can decide to use HipHop.

Thanks,
Norah Jones

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[PHP] 64bit php5.5.0beta3 on Windows (no replies)

Jan Vávra — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:20:02 +0200

Hello,
I've tried VC11 x64 Thread Safe (2013-Apr-10 17:40:00) downloaded from
http://windows.php.net/qa/
and I've called filesize on 4,25 GB file. This call failed with
"Warning: filesize(): stat failed"

Then I printed values of
echo PHP_INT_SIZE."\n";
echo PHP_INT_MAX."\n";

4
2147483647

This is weird. I've expected working filesize and values 8, 2 ^63.

Jan.

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[PHP] Updated PHP breaks processing-intense Procedure (9 replies)

Ken Kixmoeller — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:40:03 +0200

Hey - --

I have a huge screen -- to make it simple for the user, it does 100s of
calls to MySQL and has 1,000s (literally) of POST variables.

We have done extensive research and see that upgrading from php 5.1.6-27 to
5.1.6-39 is the thing that caused it to break. All other issues (Apache,
PHP and MySQL configuration and Versions) have been methodically ruled out.

Anybody experience this? Heard of it? Suggest a repair (other than changing
my screen)?

*** Please don't tell me to redesign the screen -- this may come, but now
is an urgent situation.***

Worked fine in prior versions for the last 3 years.

Thanks,

Ken

[PHP] IE 10 bug? (2 replies)

Jim Giner — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:40:02 +0200

I know - it sounds OT, but listen.

I have a form that has a "sign in " button which attempts to sent the
user to a form in a password-protected folder. In order to get there
the user must provide credentials. Once there the receiving script
simply sets a session var and does a header() back to the calling
script, where because of the session var that was set, a new group of
buttons are visible for the user to click.

Well, M$ did an update last week on me and now IE10 is acting
differently in the above scenario. Instead of my screen showing me back
on my original menu screen it shows some other application window,
probably the next one in z-order sequence.(?) It looks like my app
crashed or something since my IE is now behind the other appls sometimes.

Has anyone else seen this, and if so, how does one counter it?

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[PHP] A little confused (6 replies)

Chris Knipe — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:40:02 +0200

Hi All,

$_SESSION['ExpiryDate'] = "2013-04-23";
echo date_format($_SESSION['ExpiryDate'], "D, \t\h\e jS \o\f M Y");

Required Result: Mon, the 23rd of Apr 2013

I get however: PHP Warning: date_format() expects parameter 1 to be
DateTime, integer given in

I've had a look at the date/time function list, but I cannot seem to find
any way to convert $_SESSION['ExpiryDate'] to an DateTime??

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[PHP] Load testing an app (4 replies)

Andrew Ballard — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:40:02 +0200

I'm looking for ideas to help load test a PHP site my office wrote and
maintains. Peak usage for this site is during the fall when new students
arrive, and for the first time this past fall the traffic rendered the web
server completely unresponsive, almost as quickly as we could restart it.
The only major change to the site last year was to upgrade the database
server the site uses, but the curious thing is that it was the web server
rather than the database that became unresponsive. Other apps could
continue to use the database without any performance issues, and the
database server performance counters suggest it wasn't even breaking a
sweat.

The other developer in our office spent some time profiling the site with
xdebug and found that an exec() call to netsh used on a couple pages seems
to take 2-4 seconds to complete. Unfortunately, those exec() calls are the
one function that we cannot test in our development environment. We are
considering some optimizations, but since load on the production server is
at a seasonal low we want to duplicate the problem so we can measure the
impact of any changes we make. We spent most of today hammering the site
with JMeter today in an attempt to reproduce the issue. While we were
easily able to slow the site to a crawl (some samples taking over 2 minutes
to complete), the server returned to normal as soon as the test concluded
and it never became totally unresponsive like it did this past fall.

We're both new to JMeter. I know a single test server may not be able to
create enough simultaneous requests to accurately simulate real traffic,
but I'm fairly confident that our tests involved far more (roughly-)
simultaneous connections than we were experiencing live. (The first test
used 20 threads; we gradually increased the threads for each test to 500
threads before we quit for the day.) The site is on a private subnet, so
distributed and/or cloud-based testing are probably not options.

The site is running PHP 5.3 on IIS/Windows Server 2003. The netsh calls are
to a DHCP server on a separate Windows server, and the database is SQL
Server 2008 (previously 2000).

So, any ideas we can try?

Andrew

[PHP] Looking for complete entered URL (4 replies)

Angela Barone — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:50:01 +0200

I've written a script that logs all visits to a web site, complete with referrer and IP address. It also logs all 4xx errors. What I'd like to add to this is, if someone adds extra code after the page_name.php, to be able to capture any extra code and log that.

I've tried:

$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']
$_SERVER['REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING']
$_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL']

but nothing seems to get logged.

Is there a way, when either a false url is entered and a 404 is generated, or just when someone tacks on extra code to the URL, that I can grab that extra info? I'm looking for the complete URL that was entered by the user, not anything returned by the server.

I've created my own 4xx_error.php files which calls my tracking script, along with creating the proper ErrorDocument lines in the main ..htaccess file.

There are a lot of pages that have come up in my search, but nothing seems to pertain to what I'm trying to do.

Thank you,
Angela

BTW, I know about Piwik and I use that, as well. This is something I'm doing on my own.
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[PHP] mysql_connect noob question (65 replies)

Glob Design Info — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:10:01 +0200

I know this has probably been answered already.

When I pass a user name and password from a form to my PHP script and
then pass those to mysql_connect it doesn't connect. When I paste those
exact same values into mysql_connect as string literals it works.

Can anyone tell me why this happens?

I know the strings are identical to the literals I try in a test but
they don't work when submitted via form.

$form_user = $_POST[ 'user' ];
$form_pass = $_POST[ 'password' ];

# Connect to remote DB

$LINK = mysql_connect( $host, $form_user, $form_pass );

And yes, my $host param is correct.

Thanks,

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[PHP] Newbie Question - Parse XML with PHP... (9 replies)

dealTek — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:30:02 +0200

Hi all,

newbie - just starting with trying to parse XML...

$mylist = simplexml_load_file('thelist.xml');

then use a foreach to echo the data...

$mysongs = simplexml_load_file('songs.xml');

foreach ($mysongs as $songinfo) {
$title=$songinfo->title;
$artist=$songinfo->artist;
$date=$songinfo['dateplayed'];
echo $title.' --- ';
echo $artist.' --- ';
echo $date.' --- ';
echo '
';
}

?>

that I get ...

Question: how do you use $mylist when the xml is not as a file but is returned on a web page?

an example of the real xml I am trying to work with is like this demo below ....

Goal : when this response comes back - I would like to be able to get the data as php and then update the database....

example........

1

SUCCESS

1865264174

100

123456

sale

12.00

::1

ecommerce

ccprocessora

USD

Small Order

Red

Medium

1234

2.00

0.00

John

Smith

1234 Main St.
Beverly Hills
CA
90210
US
555-555-5555
test@example.com
Acme, Inc.

400000******0002

0118

Mary

Smith

1234 Main St.
Beverly Hills
CA
90210
US
Unit #2

SKU-123456

test product description

abc

5.0000

1.0000

7.00

2.00

1.00

2.00

1.00

sales

12345

SKU-123456

test 2 product description

abc

2.5000

2.0000

7.00

2.00

1.00

2.00

1.00

sales

12345

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