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Zerik: Automating MySQL Backups with Cron

nospam@example.com (Zerik) — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:59:03 -0400

it works great, just one thing, it doesnt make any gzip files although i set that parameter to true.

do i need some library to have it working?

thanks.

atomiku: 8 Practical PHP Regular Expressions

nospam@example.com (atomiku) — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:27:19 -0400

Excellent, this is very very handy.

Thanks!

Sascha: How to install Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) in Ubuntu 7.10

nospam@example.com (Sascha) — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:34:24 -0400

Great tutorial! Runs perfect! Thanks a lot...

Peter Li: 8 Practical PHP Regular Expressions

nospam@example.com (Peter Li) — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:52:14 -0400

I think there is a small bug in your email regexp:

^[^0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_]+

your regexp matches an email that does not start with a digit... this possibly correct, however it would allow any character including comma, plus, dollar etc.
You probably really wanted just alpha chars. So you probably want to use:

^[^a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]+

hence your example would be:

$string = "first.last@domain.co.uk";
if (preg_match(
'/^[^a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]+([.][a-zA-Z0-9_]+)*[@][a-zA-Z0-9_]+([.][a-zA-Z0-9_]+)*[.][a-zA-Z]{2,4}$/',
$string)) {
echo "example 3 successful.";
}

James: Practical (and impractical) PHP Optimizations

nospam@example.com (James) — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:38:36 -0400

Great set of comparisons.

stormwild: How to install Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) in Ubuntu 7.10

nospam@example.com (stormwild) — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:32:58 -0400

Hi Scoobie,

Did a quick google search for the error and found a link to the Apache wiki:

http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/CouldNotDetermineServerName

I'm still learning more about Apache so I'm not sure if it will solve the problem you're having.

There's also an Ubuntu forum post which discusses the same or similar problem.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2874560

Anyway, hope it helps.

Regards,

stormwild

google searcher: 8 Practical PHP Regular Expressions

nospam@example.com (google searcher) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:00:24 -0400

/^[(/*)+.+(*/)]$/
Your pattern to match multiline php comments doesn't make any sense to me.
First of all you're using ^ and $ symbols in a POSIX like way, in PCRE (preg) ^ and $ mean the start and end of lines and to activate this meaning in your pattern you must use the 'm' modifier after the delimiter (which you didn't), else they are taken literally.
Why would you need to verify the begg.of end of a line anyways at all when trying to match php multiline comments? I think this is irrelevant.

I think this is a better alternative:
~/\*.*?\*/~s where '~' is the delimiter and 's' is the modifier to make '.' match newline characters as well. And '\\' is the escape character.

if (preg_match('~/\*.*?\*/~s', '/* commmmment
here is a valid php comment /**/')) {
echo 'now it is successful!';
}

See it here:
http://nancywalshee03.freehostia.com/regextester/regex_tester.php?seeSaved=6s7pah8k

This page has great google rankings, maybe it will be more beneficial now.

Scoobie: How to install Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) in Ubuntu 7.10

nospam@example.com (Scoobie) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:50:15 -0400

Hey there,
Thanks for a great tutorial, easy to follow and explains things clearly. Apache is giving me a few problems though, when I restarted I got this:
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName

And now Apache wont start, any idea what broke?
Cheers

Scoobie

mozey: How to install APC in Ubuntu 7.10

nospam@example.com (mozey) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:34:23 -0400

DUDE, i just got it working,

12 requests/second
to
54 requets/second

my application tho is lots of php and no db.

Erik Söderblom: Installing Avant Window Navigator in Gutsy

nospam@example.com (Erik Söderblom) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:22:43 -0400

Perfect.
Just what I needed.

Thanks

Joey: Installing Avant Window Navigator in Gutsy

nospam@example.com (Joey) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:49:12 -0400

Erik,

The quick answer - You can add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu/ gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu/ gutsy main

and run sudo apt-get update to enable the use of another repository.

You can find a great wiki for AWN at http://wiki.awn-project.org/index.php?title=DistributionGuides . They've outlined all of the information for installing on Gutsy, Hardy, and other distributions and setups. Hope that helps!

Erik Söderblom: Installing Avant Window Navigator in Gutsy

nospam@example.com (Erik Söderblom) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:59:34 -0400

It apears that the repositories dosn't exist anymore ??? (tuxfamily.org ?)

Can I use something else ?

ES

Joey: Open Calais Tags

nospam@example.com (Joey) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:25:29 -0400

Tom,

I appreciate you taking the time to leave a reply.

Having access to Calais with PHP gives me so many great ideas for uses with your service.

This is the beginning of a great time on the web - the ability to automatically semantically tag and store meta data without having to dig in and do all of the dirty work by hand. This is really just the beginning.

I took a look at the Powerhouse Museum, very interesting how they're using it.

I'd love to have a chance to talk with you more in depth about Open Calais and where you plan to take it.

Tom Tague: Open Calais Tags

nospam@example.com (Tom Tague) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:06:25 -0400

Joey:

Thanks for noticing this great tool that Dan has developed for Calais. For PHP'ers this greatly simplifies accessing the Calais web service.

You mentioned tagging archived content - I thought you might be interested in http://snipurl.com/244hz [www_powerhousemuseum_com]

The Powerhouse Museum in Syndney is using Calais to automatically tag their entire collection and provide end users of their online catalog with new search and navigation methods. Pretty Cool.

Regards,

David P: Practical (and impractical) PHP Optimizations

nospam@example.com (David P) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:53:46 -0400

SQL Injection prevention:

$sql = "SELECT FROM table WHERE id = " . mysql_real_escape_string($var);

$sql = sprintf("SELECT FROM table WHERE id = %u", $var);