.josh

Like I said, you can't just intermingle php and javascript like that. PHP parses and sends results to the client. If you want server/client interaction without using a submit button, you would have to separate them and use ajax to make a request to a script and call functions based on what you send via ajax methods.

could also possibly find a solution using com

so you don't see on the very first line of the code you provided how you have 2 opening parenthesis but only 1 closing?

You're missing a closing quote. But you would have known that if you read the error.

I have no intention of rewriting your code for you, but I suggest you look into using any one or more of the following functions: parse_url dirname basename pathinfo

php is parsed on the server. javascript is parsed on the client. php looks at javascript as regular text to be output to the client. It doesn't care about it. You can use javascript to validate form fields and then have the info submitted by traditional methods (just clicking the form's send button, with the form's method set to 'post'), or you can use some ajax to send it to the server. Not that I would recommend clientside validation anyways. It is a trivial thing, even by script kiddie standards, to get around clientside validation.

need to validate the length in your script. setting maxlength to 3 isn't enough, as someone can easily edit the form to remove that restriction and submit. try casting the value as a string: $cadence = (string) $_POST['cadence'];

The point of OOP is to give you the ability to make your script modular (so as to make it more portable, easily interfaced with other things, etc..) and to enforce standards (like with interfaces, you can demand that classes under it have certain properties/functions defined, etc...) so that things can be easily added on. That's it. If you are making a program like a CMS or bulletin board system where you expect addons/mods to be made by yourself or others, OOP is a good thing. But if you are scripting something and don't expect it to constantly be a "work in progress" or addons/mods isn't really the nature of the script, then it's not necessary, and in fact, it is more than likely overkill. It is, of course, a little more complicated than that, because the uses of OOP extend beyond just making addons for a website. But still. I see all the time code that's made way more complicated than it needs to be, because sure, it's great that they programmed it that way, but seriously, they will never use it for something else. The main problem with OOP is that people keep saying you can do this or you can do that or it makes this or that possible but the bottom line is whether you really need those options or not. You just need to decide what your code is going to be used for, and what you realistically think it could be used for.

oh and if you have a local program like outlook express, you can set up multiple mail accounts to send from, using POP/IMAP services. A lot of web based email systems allow for it too (like gmail).

well if you format your header as this: Your Name <[email protected]> it will show up as 'Your Name' in the from (or as the to, if you put it in the 'to' portion of the header).

preg_match('~<td align="right">Sale Date :</td>[^<]*<td align="LEFT" colspan="2">(.*?)</td>~s',$test,$match); $date = preg_replace('~\s~','',$match[1]);

Well unless you are doing some kind of huge batch job, I would still opt for the preg_match method, as it is the 1-line solution. I guess it just depends on what the OP needs it.

oh and in case people didn't catch it..., my benchmark was multiplying microtime by 1000, so the difference is beyond negligible. Even looking at nrg_alpha's benchmark results, we're talking about .003s diff from doing 1000 calculations.

Yeah I know that if you're wanting to for instance to just check if a string is inside another string, to use the built-in functions instead; I figured ctype_digit and strlen by itself would be faster, but I just figured that since you were having to do multiple things: type casting, both function calls, more complex conditions, etc.. that it would all add up.

@MadTechie: \d allows for exponents. Better to use [0-9]{1,3} if you strictly want a 3 digit number. @nrg_alpha: Since you have to cast the subject as a string to make sure that ctype_digit works, and since you have to make conditions based on two diff functions (ctype_digit and strlen), I automatically assumed the regex would be way faster. But for shits and grins I decided to benchmark it anyways, and was surprised to see that the ctype/strlen method was actually faster... Here is my benchmark script and sample of results: <?php function pregMethod ($subject) { if (preg_match('~^[0-9]{1,3}$~', $subject)) return true; else return false; } // end pregMethod function ctypeMethod ($subject) { $subject = (string) $subject; if ((strlen($subject) > 0) && (strlen($subject) < 4)) { if (ctype_digit($subject)) return true; } else { return false; } // end strlen range } // end ctypeMethod $subject = 123; /*** test regex method ***/ for ($x = 1; $x < 11; $x++) { $time_start = microtime(true)*1000; pregMethod($subject); $time_end = microtime(true)*1000; $pregTime[$x] = $time_end - $time_start; } // end test regex method /*** test ctype method ***/ for ($x = 1; $x < 11; $x++) { $time_start = microtime(true)*1000; ctypeMethod($subject); $time_end = microtime(true)*1000; $ctypeTime[$x] = $time_end - $time_start; } // end test regex method /*** generate some stats ***/ $pregSum = array_sum($pregTime); $ctypeSum = array_sum($ctypeTime); $higher = max($pregSum, $ctypeSum); $lower = min($pregSum, $ctypeSum); $diff = $higher - $lower; $ratio = round($higher / $lower,1); /*** end generate stats ***/ /*** echo out stats ***/ echo "Benchmark test<br/>"; echo "regex vs. ctype/strlen methods<br/>"; echo "time measured in microtime*1000<br/>"; echo "<br/>"; echo "regex method: $pregSum total<br/>"; echo "ctype method: $ctypeSum total<br/>"; echo "difference of: $diff or $ratio times faster"; echo "<pre>"; print_r($pregTime); echo "</pre>"; echo "<pre>"; print_r($ctypeTime); echo "</pre>"; /*** end echo out stats ***/ ?> Benchmark test regex vs. ctype/strlen methods time measured in microtime*1000 regex method: 0.152 total ctype method: 0.0630000000001 total difference of: 0.0889999999998 or 2.4 times faster Array ( [1] => 0.087 [2] => 0.0179999999999 [3] => 0.00599999999997 [4] => 0.00600000000009 [5] => 0.00599999999997 [6] => 0.00599999999997 [7] => 0.00600000000009 [8] => 0.00499999999988 [9] => 0.00600000000009 [10] => 0.00599999999997 ) Array ( [1] => 0.013 [2] => 0.00599999999986 [3] => 0.00600000000009 [4] => 0.00599999999997 [5] => 0.00600000000009 [6] => 0.00500000000011 [7] => 0.005 [8] => 0.005 [9] => 0.005 [10] => 0.00599999999997 )

Would decrypting a file be considered reverse engineering? I thought reverse engineering was like, decompiling a compiled program. I think I would probably classify this as cryptanalysis.

I really don't see how you can possibly be proud of taking someone else's code and running it. Because that's all you did. I mean, if you wanna pat yourself on the back, by all means, go ahead. Just don't expect anybody else to be impressed. Kind of reminds me of when my mom calls me up saying she bought a computer and she's proud of herself because she got it up and running all by herself. Well whoopty doo you just plug the color coded wires in the box and flip the switch and it installs itself. I would never burst her bubble, though. She is, after all, my mom, and I love her. But you aren't my mom. POP.

Doesn't seem like a very bright thing to be asking after you've already done it, and bragged about it.. Interesting to...who? Especially when you admit you just c/p'ed somebody else's code...what would be interesting to know is whether you have any clue what this frankenstein code you "made" actually does.

What I mean is, if you're going to for example scrape a webpage using file_get_contents, you wouldn't be using quotes to assign the data to a var at all, so quoting is not an issue. But in the regex above, you are taking into consideration escaped quotes, which would be non-existent in a scraped page from file_get_contents, since the data would already be rendered. Point is, when you are trying to create a regex pattern using example data in a string, you're going to have to do some quote juggling, be it escaping, or using single/double, or whatever. But that won't really necessarily be the case/issue for where your data is coming from in production environment. Look at the OP's example string: $code = "<a href=\"test.html\">test</a>"; It would not look like that if that link was coming from a page scrape. It would not be escaped like that. But he made his regex to look for escaped quotes.

note that unless you are retrieving your string from some text file or something where the escape quotes will physically be there, you need to remove the escape quotes from your regex. For example, scraping a rendered webpage will not have escaped quotes in it.

just return the variable (or variables, as an array) and assign the function call to something. function something () { $array = array('a','b','c'); return $array; } $foobar = something(); echo $foobar[0]; // output: a echo $foobar[1]; // output: b echo $foobar[2]; // output: c

You are right, I was just going off the OP's provided number. I do agree that $65-$80k a year does seem rather high for a web dev gig, but tbh I have no idea what the cost of living in Vegas is. Cost of living is a somewhat significant factor in determining a reasonable salary. And I do agree that the OP is probably living a pipe dream if he expects to walk in there and land the job with no formal schooling/degree. Dunno what his portfolio looks like, or if he even has one. If I were the OP, and the employer did not put down $65k as an offer in their advert, I certainly wouldn't start there, given what I'm bringing to the table. But that's the key: the employer put that $65k up in their advert, so the OP would be basing negotiations off that.

Well I'm all for the concept of if you can understand and do the job, who cares what it took you to get to that point. Which is the same philosophy the guys who run the business usually have. You're past experience, schooling, portfolio, etc.. blahblahblah only serves one purpose to them: verification that you aren't blowing smoke out your ass claiming you can do stuff you can't, and thereby wasting everybody's time. I'm not saying that a formal education has no value beyond that. I'm just saying that that value is subjective. Some people benefit from being in a classroom and being shown by someone else how to do something. Some people can learn just as easy from a book or website. I've seen tons and tons of people with college educations in various fields who tbh have no business doing what they are doing. And I've seen tons and tons of people without a college education in whatever field run circles around them. You really shouldn't get upset about the guy next to you, unless his pay clearly doesn't match what he's pumping out.

see I was going to suggest that, except that that function is limited to the scope it's called from. So if I have for instance: <?php class something { public $a; private $b; protected $c; function __construct() { $this->a = 'apple'; $this->b = 'banana'; $this->c = 'coconut'; } // end __construct } // end class something $obj = new something; $x = print_r($obj, true); $y = get_object_vars($obj); echo "print_r<br/><pre>$x</pre>"; echo "get_object_vars<br/><pre>"; print_r($y); echo "</pre>"; ?> You would get the following: print_r something Object ( [a] => apple [b:private] => banana [c:protected] => coconut ) get_object_vars Array ( [a] => apple )

What do you mean by "filter out"? Filter means you want to take $x and add/remove stuff to it to come out with $y. Your code looks like you are wanting to validate, not filter. As in, $x isn't this certain format in the first place, I want to do something. If you're going for the filter, you would use preg_replace. Either way, the only thing I see wrong is that you forgot to put the forward slash in your character class (the [...]) so it's not allowing for the forward slashes. Another thing that may or may not be a factor is the + makes your preg_match expect at least 1 character match, or it will fail. If you are expecting $_GET['arg'] to be empty at times, use * instead. Also, Unless you are in fact trying to filter (and therefore use preg_replace), you don't need the parenthesis ( ) they are meant for capturing results for later use.