drcru posted:

They probably have terrible pings since you're likely somewhere in North America and they're XX hours away by plane.

moops posted:

Don't reinvent the wheel.. Use gettext
http://php.net/gettext

KuruMonkey posted:

But I suspect you have made your bed of monolithic code. You must sleep in it.

Tap posted:

I have a 'dataprocessor' library written in PHP that parses through a CSV file that varies in size (1K to 2M). The larger files end up taking quite a bit of memory because of the looping required to manipulate the actual data itself.

Now my question - is there a way to free up memory in PHP during the execution of the script? I call the unset() function on the variables that are unused but I don't think that unset is actually meant to free up memory.

Tap posted:

I have a 'dataprocessor' library written in PHP that parses through a CSV file that varies in size (1K to 2M). The larger files end up taking quite a bit of memory because of the looping required to manipulate the actual data itself.

Now my question - is there a way to free up memory in PHP during the execution of the script? I call the unset() function on the variables that are unused but I don't think that unset is actually meant to free up memory.

Begby posted:

Zorilla posted:

I thought $y =& $x does a reference, not $y = $x . Does it work differently in your example?

Munkeymon posted:

Did PHP garbage collect after the unset calls or does it just consider that memory free because it can be GCed whenever the hell GC runs?

Munkeymon posted:

That's not what I was asking. I'm asking whether PHP is reporting memory use after a hypotheical GC or whether the GC has already run and the memory is acually free to be used again.

quote:

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'PEAR.php' (include_path='.:/php/includes:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/vhosts/foobar.org/httpdocs/Joomla159/administrator/components/com_civicrm/admin.civicrm.php on line 15

supster posted:

lol no

drcru posted:

Thanks, I've stopped worrying about it now.

Here's another one, what do you guys use for templating your pages? Other than Smarty that is. Do you roll your own systems or just put the HTML in with your code? I've been using Smarty personally but it seems a little too much for what I need to do.

drcru posted:

Thanks, I've stopped worrying about it now.

Here's another one, what do you guys use for templating your pages? Other than Smarty that is. Do you roll your own systems or just put the HTML in with your code? I've been using Smarty personally but it seems a little too much for what I need to do.

supster posted:

That's a good question. I don't know. Either unset is forcing garbage collection to free up that object iff its reference count is 0, or memory_get_usage() returns the hypothetical memory usage.

I am tempted to say that unset() is actually freeing up the memory. If anyone knows for sure I would really like to know.

Sylink posted:

I am making a wiki like site (I'm not using Mediawiki because I want something simpler) but I want to use/retain a lot of the similar formatting features as far as editing pages.

What is the standard way this is done?

Such as putting <p> tags around blocks of text and converting ==Hello World== into <h2>Hello World</h2> and so on. Is it just straight up string parsing with a lot of counting involved or is this a different way?

Or would it be easier to simply allow certain html tags?

EDIT: Would it be easier for me to just use something like php markdown ? http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/

usingpond posted:

I'm trying to make a CMS for a Flash application that reads data from XML. I'm trying to use DOM PHP (it seemed a little more legit than SimpleXML when I started).

Reading and displaying XML with DOM is easy enough, but is there a simple way to edit it?

Lumpy posted:

Use the DOM XML Methods for editing to edit it? What exactly are you having trouble figuring out what to do?

usingpond posted:

Well basically, I wanted to edit a child from this:

code:

<root>
   <parent name="parent">
      <child>info</child>
   </parent>
</root>

To this:

code:

<root>
   <parent name="parent">
      <child>DIFFERENT INFO</child>
   </parent>
</root>

I can't seem to figure out an easy way to use the replaceChild method, or if that's even the correct method to use. All the examples I've found are part of a huge framework that are really complex, and nothing seems to simply explain how to do such a basic function.

Jreedy88 posted:

I'm working on some PHP code some old guy set up here at work. I hadn't looked at anything PHP until two days ago, so I'm still fairly new to this. I came across this and it didn't look right. Also, I don't think it's working as intended. Please shed some light on this.

This function is called in one part of a file:
executefootagetransaction(false);

Here's the function signature:
function executefootagetransaction($zero, $consumeroll = false)


Firstly, if you're going to call a function, don't you need to supply both arguments? Secondly, what is that $consumeroll = false nonsense in the signature?

Lumpy posted:

Firstly, no.
Secondly, that's how you make it so you don't have to supply all the arguments.

In PHP, and many other languages, you can set arguments to default values, so taht if the argument is not supplied, it's set. Here's fun made up code to learn you:

php:

<?

function blah($name="Dave",$msg="Sup d00d")
{
 echo "Hey $name, $msg";
}

blah(); // "Hey Dave, Sup d00d"
blah("Larry"); // "Hey Larry, Sup d00d"
blah("Skippy","you suck"); // "Hey Skippy, you suck"
?>

Golbez posted:

Out of curiosity, is there any way to skip the first argument in that? So like...

php:

<?
blah(,"you suck"); // "Hey Dave, you suck"
?>

?

Lumpy posted:

I do not say this with 100% certainty (but like 99.8%), but no. You can't pass over arguments.