.josh

sounds like you need to contact google.

Nah, the s modifier will allow the dot (as a metachar, not as a literal char inside the char class he has) to also match newline chars, but he is not using a dot in his pattern, he is using a character class, so the s modifier won't actually work. Assuming my shot in the dark is right, he needs to throw newline chars into the mix, and since he'd specifically be matching for them (either putting them in a char class or listing them as an alternation to the char class), s modifier wouldn't be applicable.

my random shot in the dark is maybe you are trying to enter text on multiple lines (IOW pressing enter in the msg at some point in time) so it's failing because of \n or \r\n chars

But you know how it goes in the "real" world Phil; very little doing things the "right" way, a whole lot of jumping through hoops and following orders. This applies to all jobs and systems, not just coding.

what's worse than a shitty class and shitty teacher is the real coder taking the class and giving the teacher a hard time for failing. Don't be that guy. If the class doesn't offer you anything, pick another class. Or if it's a hoop you have to jump through, consider it an easy hoop and concentrate on something else. Don't be that guy.

No, the mbstring regex functions are not deprecated. Was that an oversight, or did they specifically decide to make an exception?

We get posts asking about this error on a fairly regular basis, so here's a sticky detailing the error and what to do to fix it. PHP has a number of POSIX regex functions for performing regex matching/replacing/splitting. All of these functions are deprecated, which means they are currently still available in php, but are going to eventually be removed from a future version of PHP. This is an "annoyance" to you now, because it causes an error, which may or may not show up, depending on what your error reporting settings are. This is bad news for you in the future, because your code will break when you upgrade to a future version of PHP that no longer supports these functions. The solution is to convert the POSIX functions to one of the PCRE regex functions instead. Here is the manual entry summarizing the differences, as well as what the PCRE function replacements are. For most cases, you simply have to pick the PCRE equivalent and wrap a delimiter around your pattern. You may also need to use the i modifier if you are using a case-insensitive POSIX function (eg: eregi vs. ereg). Example: Check if a username is only numbers, letters (case-insensitive) and 6-12 chars long. POSIX regex if ( eregi("[a-z0-9]{6,12}",$username) ) { // good username! } else { // bad username! } PCRE regex if ( preg_match("~[a-z0-9]{6,12}~i",$username) ) { // good username! } else { // bad username! } In the PCRE regex example, I use ~ as the delimiter and added the i modifier to make the regex case-insenstive. If doing this doesn't fix your problem, then more than likely your pattern itself has POSIX-specific stuff in it, and you will need to change that, in which case, feel free to post in this forum asking for help.

@kicken: lol I remember playing #2 w/ paper/pen when I was a kid, sittin' in church w/ my siblings

I'm a big fan of "generator" type scripts, especially ones that have to do with words. Example: IT Department [name] Generator from seventh sanctum

You can work yourself up to at least Guru membergroup status and be able to post tutorials yourself. Or you can submit to can submit the tutorial to us for review.

This thread is not meant to promote using frameworks instead of using core javascript for everything. That is just silly. Frameworks are not alternative languages, they are tools built on existing languages to make certain things easier. This thread is about using a framework for AJAX specifically.

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...and you are NOT using a framework like jQuery or Prototype, think long and hard to come up with a very good reason why you are not! In all my years of coding, the only valid reason I have ever seen for not using one of these tools, is because someone is trying to learn it the old fashioned way (but not necessarily actually build websites with it). Or...someone is trying to build their own framework. That's it! IMO there has been no other reason worthy enough to warrant not using jQuery or the like! "It will bloat my website, increase page load time, blahblah" is not a good enough reason! These frameworks are compacted and browsers will cache them! So if you post an AJAX question here and your code and/or question does not involve the use of an existing framework like jQuery, then be prepared for you first response to be something along the lines of "Why aren't you using a framework?" Seriously. It is super easy. Way easier than that code you're trying to post. Save yourself the headache. Get jQuery or similar. DO IT.

Also, since we probably won't be jumping in individually welcoming every single person comes by, here's your generic welcome message: Greetings, ___________ ! Thank you for joining the board! Feel free to ask any question, but please don't be stupid about it. Make an effort to pick the right forum, make an effort to be detailed about your question, make an effort to read relevant stickies/rules, and we'll make an effort to help you. .CV

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial/php-basic-database-handling

"level system" is pretty ambiguous... care to be more specific?

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial/php-add-text-to-image

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I believe thorpe is working on something like that right now. Don't have an ETA or anything.

How about a captcha tutorial? Lots of them around, but we're supposed to be a resource, right? I may do it myself, if someone else doesn't volunteer.

Honestly I don't really see anybody writing a tutorial like that on a technical level (actual code). Maybe on some kind of abstract level, like conveying general principles and program flow and good design, advice and pitfalls, etc.. but most tutorials that involve actual code are for teaching how to make building blocks. Things like forums and blogs and cms' are more like actual buildings, not building blocks. If you sit down and break down for instance all the things in a forum, you will quite easily find tutorials for just about all of those 'building blocks.' I suggest you either do that, or maybe find an open source version of one of those things and jump into it, instead.

Basic Database Handling

okay I thought I'd make a new post instead of editing the last one, since it's on a new page. Okay, It's all about.. Bride of Franky! <?php $relatives = array('mother', 'father', 'sister', 'brother','uncle', 'auntie'); $verbs = array('dislikes', 'sits on', 'licks', 'sucks', 'looks like', 'does', 'discusses the pros and cons of Web 2.0', 'loves', 'caresses', 'slides onto', 'hates', 'kisses', 'learns PHP with', 'has an AJAX interface with'); $animals = array('dogs', 'cats', 'horses', 'birds', 'giraffes', 'elephants', 'hippos', 'hamsters', 'gerbils', 'monkeys'); $adjectives = array('abhorrent','abject','abnormal','abrasive','absorbed','absurd', 'abusive','acrid','agonizing','ambiguous','ancient','apathetic', 'average','bad','barbarous','bawdy','belligerent','berserk', 'bizarre','black','boorish','brash','brawny','burly', 'callous','cold','colossal','combative','crabby','craven', 'crazy','creepy','crooked','cynical','demonic','deranged', 'devilish','direful','dirty','disagreeable','draconian','drunk', 'dysfunctional','erratic','evasive','evil','filthy','flippant', 'gaudy','giant','gigantic','greedy','grotesque','grouchy', 'gruesome','grumpy','guiltless','hellish','horrible','huge', 'hulking','icky','immense','irate','jaded','jittery', 'macho','maddening','malicious','mammoth','maniacal','massive', 'mighty','mindless','moaning','moldy','murky','mysterious', 'nasty','nauseating','noxious','oafish','obscene','psychotic', 'rabid','ruthless','sassy','scary','smelly','snobbish', 'snotty','spooky','threatening','tightfisted','tough','towering', 'trashy','ugly','unbecoming','unsightly','vagabond','vengeful', 'venomous','vulgar','wicked','wrathful','wretched'); function insult($secondary_person) { global $relatives; global $verbs; global $animals; $r_size = sizeof($relatives) - 1; $v_size = sizeof($verbs) - 1; $a_size = sizeof($animals) - 1; $r_rand = rand(0, $r_size); $v_rand1 = rand(0, $v_size); $v_rand2 = rand(0, $v_size); $a_rand = rand(0, $a_size); $insult = "Your {$relatives[$r_rand]} {$verbs[$v_rand1]} $secondary_person and {$verbs[$v_rand1]} {$animals[$a_rand]}"; return $insult; } class Greeting { function Greeting() { echo "Hello World!"; } } interface Singleton { public static function getInstance(); } interface Actor { public function speak(); public function meet($person); public function eat($animalArr); } abstract class Intestant_Abstract { abstract public function input($input); abstract public function output(); } class Stomach extends Intestant_Abstract implements Singleton { private static $instance; public static function getInstance() { if (!isset(self::$instance)) { self::$instance = new self; } return self::$instance; } private function __construct(){ } public $kilosOfFood; public function input($input){ $this->kilosOfFood += strlen($input); echo 'Franky liky to eats '.$input.'..<br />'; if($this->kilosOfFood > (strlen(implode('',$GLOBALS['animals']))/1.5)){ $this->output(); } } public function output(){ echo '<br />Bhaarf..<br />'; } } class Guts implements ArrayAccess, Singleton { private static $instance; public static function getInstance() { if (!isset(self::$instance)) { self::$instance = new self; } return self::$instance; } private function __construct(){ } private $intestants; public function add($name){ $this->intestants[$name] = call_user_func(array($name, 'getInstance')); } public function remove($key) { unset($this->intestants[$key]); } public function offsetExists($offset) { return isset($this->intestants[$offset]); } public function offsetGet($offset) { return $this->intestants[$offset]; } public function offsetSet($name, $value) { $this->add($name); } public function offsetUnset($offset) { unset($this->intestants[$offset]); } } class Franky implements Actor { private $person; public function meet($person){ $this->person = $person; } function eat($animals){ shuffle($animals); $guts = Guts::getInstance(); $guts->add('Stomach'); $guts['Stomach']->input(next($animals)); } public function speak($insult_them = false){ if($this->person == null){ $greet = new Greeting(); echo '<br />'; } else { echo 'Hello '.$this->person.'!<br />'; if ($insult_them) { echo insult($this->person) . '<br />'; } } } } if (isset($_POST['relativeName'])) { $relativeName = $_POST['relativeName']; $relativeType = $_POST['relativeType']; $h = new Franky; $h->speak(); $h->meet($relativeName); $h->speak(true); $h->eat($animals); $h->eat($animals); $h->eat($animals); $h->eat($animals); $h->eat($animals); $h->eat($animals); $h->eat($animals); $h->eat($animals); $monstername = $adjectives[array_rand($adjectives)]; echo "<br/>Franky wants to marry your $relativeType.<br/>"; echo "$relativeName will join the monster family and<br/>"; echo "$relativeName's monster name will be $relativeName the $monstername.<br/>"; } else { $person = $relatives[array_rand($relatives)]; echo <<<FORMINT What's your $person's name?<br/> <form action = '{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}' method = 'post'> <input type = 'text' name = 'relativeName' size = '10'> <input type = 'hidden' name = 'relativeType' value = '$person'> <input type = 'submit' value = 'submit'> </form> FORMINT; } ?>

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Yeah I meant no php5 on account of some people maybe people unable to test it if they don't have it installed, yes. But who cares. Cheating? Bah! I don't consider that cheating. In fact, I'm surprised the original "hello world" is still there. Why? Because I can put "Jesus" into the input field and it will in essence be do the same thing as before. p.s. - rewriting code to run more efficiently or "better" is okay too. I'm certainly not the most php saavy person here; for instance you guys' OOP skills are much better than mine. So if you feel like "Franky" is somehow being crippled because of his internals, rewriting/reorganizing is okay - to an extent. We don't want complete rewrites every single post, I guess. But, well..well for instance, exactly how redbull turned the simple "hello world" into a method inside a class. LoL, I ran the code and this is what I got: