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That's an interesting suggestion. I'm still very much learning OOP and the proper way to write things (thanks, BTW, to the great suggestions made at this forum). I always like to write things to make my life easier in the long run, though it was my understanding that if you can boil functions/classes down to their most simplistic format, it's better to have a bunch of things that each do one thing rather then a few things that each do many things. Is this the right way of looking at this? - MT

So, in reference to my script this line: $this->setEventVars($sportSchedules,$counter); should really be this line: self::setEventVars($sportSchedules,$counter); yes? - MT

Ah, got it! It took some tweaking but I finally got the concept down. Here's the final script, enjoyably much leaner: <?php class TranslateXML { public function __construct($type,$url) { global $newXML; $this->scheduleXML = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<events>\n"; $data = simplexml_load_file($url); $counter = 0; $sportSchedules = Array(); switch($type) { case 'mlb': include 'class/class.MlbSchedule.php'; foreach($data->{'sports-schedule'}->{'baseball-mlb-schedule'}->{'game-schedule'} as $schedule) { $this->scheduleXML .= "\t<event>\n"; $scheduleOBJ = new MlbSchedule($schedule,$data); $sportSchedules[$counter] = $scheduleOBJ; $this->setEventVars($sportSchedules,$counter); $this->scheduleXML .= $this->buildNode(); $counter++; } $this->scheduleXML .= "</events>\n"; break; case 'nba': include 'class/class.NbaSchedule.php'; foreach($data->{'sports-schedule'}->{'nba-schedule'}->{'game-schedule'} as $schedule) { $this->scheduleXML .= "\t<event>\n"; $scheduleOBJ = new NbaSchedule($schedule,$data); $sportSchedules[$counter] = $scheduleOBJ; $this->setEventVars($sportSchedules,$counter); $this->scheduleXML .= $this->buildNode(); $counter++; } $this->scheduleXML .= "</events>\n"; break; case 'nfl': include 'class/class.NflSchedule.php'; foreach($data->{'sports-schedule'}->{'football-nfl-schedule'}->{'game-schedule'} as $schedule) { $this->scheduleXML .= "\t<event>\n"; $scheduleOBJ = new NflSchedule($schedule,$data); $sportSchedules[$counter] = $scheduleOBJ; $this->setEventVars($sportSchedules,$counter); $this->scheduleXML .= $this->buildNode(); $counter++; } $this->scheduleXML .= "</events>\n"; break; case 'nhl': include 'class/class.NhlSchedule.php'; foreach($data->{'sports-schedule'}->{'hockey-nhl-schedule'}->{'game-schedule'} as $schedule) { $this->scheduleXML .= "\t<event>\n"; $scheduleOBJ = new NhlSchedule($schedule,$data); $sportSchedules[$counter] = $scheduleOBJ; $this->setEventVars($sportSchedules,$counter); $this->scheduleXML .= $this->buildNode(); $counter++; } break; } } function getNewXml() {return $this->scheduleXML;} function setEventVars($myOBJ,$myCount) { $this->myGameID = $myOBJ[$myCount]->getGameID(); $this->myHomeTeamName = $myOBJ[$myCount]->getTeamName('home'); $this->myHomeTeamCity = $myOBJ[$myCount]->getTeamCity('home'); $this->myVisitTeamName = $myOBJ[$myCount]->getTeamName('visit'); $this->myVisitTeamCity = $myOBJ[$myCount]->getTeamCity('visit'); $this->myGameDate = $myOBJ[$myCount]->getGameDate(); $this->myGameTime = $myOBJ[$myCount]->getGameTime(); $this->myVenueID = $myOBJ[$myCount]->getVenueID(); $this->myPerfID = $myOBJ[$myCount]->getPerfID(); $this->myGenre = $myOBJ[$myCount]->getPcomGenre(); } function buildNode() { $tempData = "\t\t<event_id>" . $this->myGameID . "</event_id>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t<event_title>" . $this->myVisitTeamCity . ' ' . $this->myVisitTeamName . ' (away) vs. ' . $this->myHomeTeamCity . ' ' . $this->myHomeTeamName . " (home)</event_title>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t<perf_id>" . $this->myPerfID . "</perf_id>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t<addl_perfs></addl_perfs>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t<venue_id>" . $this->myVenueID . "</venue_id>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t<event_desc>" . $this->myVisitTeamCity . ' ' . $this->myVisitTeamName . ' (away) vs. ' . $this->myHomeTeamCity . ' ' . $this->myHomeTeamName . " (home) [" . $this->myGameDate . ' @' . $this->myGameTime . "]</event_desc>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t<genres>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t\t<genre>" . $this->myGenre . "</genre>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t</genres>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t<showtimes></showtimes>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t<schedule>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t\t<performance date=\"" . $this->myGameDate . "\">" . $this->myGameTime . "</performance>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t</schedule>\n"; $tempData .= "\t</event>\n"; return $tempData; } } ?> Guys thanks for all of your help. Nightslyr, I had one question about your post: Are you saying instead of using "$this->" I should use "self::"? What is the difference between the two? - MT

UPDATE: Mark, I posted the function above the constructor exactly as I have it listed above. While it didn't error out, it also didn't assign the vars. I have a feeling this is because it doesn't know what "this" is anymore, right? How would I correct this? - MT

Sure, sorry about that: function setEventVars() { $this->myGameID = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getGameID(); $this->myHomeTeamName = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamName('home'); $this->myHomeTeamCity = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamCity('home'); $this->myVisitTeamName = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamName('visit'); $this->myVisitTeamCity = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamCity('visit'); $this->myGameDate = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getGameDate(); $this->myGameTime = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getGameTime(); $this->myVenueID = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getVenueID(); $this->myPerfID = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getPerfID(); $this->myGenre = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getPcomGenre(); } I had put this AFTER the constructor but it seems like I need to put it BEFORE the constructor as Mark pointed out, yes? - MT

Hey all, I'm trying to optimize a class file that I've written and I'm hoping you can help me. Here is the class file that I've written: <?php class TranslateXML { public function __construct($type,$url) { global $newXML; $this->scheduleXML = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<events>\n"; $data = simplexml_load_file($url); $counter = 0; $sportSchedules = Array(); switch($type) { case 'mlb': include 'class/class.MlbSchedule.php'; foreach($data->{'sports-schedule'}->{'baseball-mlb-schedule'}->{'game-schedule'} as $schedule) { $this->scheduleXML .= "\t<event>\n"; $scheduleOBJ = new MlbSchedule($schedule,$data); $sportSchedules[$counter] = $scheduleOBJ; $this->myGameID = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getGameID(); $this->myHomeTeamName = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamName('home'); $this->myHomeTeamCity = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamCity('home'); $this->myVisitTeamName = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamName('visit'); $this->myVisitTeamCity = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamCity('visit'); $this->myGameDate = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getGameDate(); $this->myGameTime = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getGameTime(); $this->myVenueID = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getVenueID(); $this->myPerfID = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getPerfID(); $this->myGenre = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getPcomGenre(); $this->scheduleXML .= $this->buildNode(); $counter++; } $this->scheduleXML .= "</events>\n"; break; case 'nba': include 'class/class.NbaSchedule.php'; foreach($data->{'sports-schedule'}->{'nba-schedule'}->{'game-schedule'} as $schedule) { $this->scheduleXML .= "\t<event>\n"; $scheduleOBJ = new NbaSchedule($schedule,$data); $sportSchedules[$counter] = $scheduleOBJ; $this->myGameID = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getGameID(); $this->myHomeTeamName = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamName('home'); $this->myHomeTeamCity = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamCity('home'); $this->myVisitTeamName = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamName('visit'); $this->myVisitTeamCity = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamCity('visit'); $this->myGameDate = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getGameDate(); $this->myGameTime = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getGameTime(); $this->myVenueID = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getVenueID(); $this->myPerfID = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getPerfID(); $this->myGenre = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getPcomGenre(); $this->scheduleXML .= $this->buildNode(); $counter++; } $this->scheduleXML .= "</events>\n"; break; case 'nfl': include 'class/class.NflSchedule.php'; foreach($data->{'sports-schedule'}->{'football-nfl-schedule'}->{'game-schedule'} as $schedule) { $this->scheduleXML .= "\t<event>\n"; $scheduleOBJ = new NflSchedule($schedule,$data); $sportSchedules[$counter] = $scheduleOBJ; $this->myGameID = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getGameID(); $this->myHomeTeamName = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamName('home'); $this->myHomeTeamCity = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamCity('home'); $this->myVisitTeamName = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamName('visit'); $this->myVisitTeamCity = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamCity('visit'); $this->myGameDate = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getGameDate(); $this->myGameTime = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getGameTime(); $this->myVenueID = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getVenueID(); $this->myPerfID = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getPerfID(); $this->myGenre = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getPcomGenre(); $this->scheduleXML .= $this->buildNode(); $counter++; } $this->scheduleXML .= "</events>\n"; break; case 'nhl': include 'class/class.NhlSchedule.php'; foreach($data->{'sports-schedule'}->{'hockey-nhl-schedule'}->{'game-schedule'} as $schedule) { $this->scheduleXML .= "\t<event>\n"; $scheduleOBJ = new NhlSchedule($schedule,$data); $sportSchedules[$counter] = $scheduleOBJ; $this->myGameID = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getGameID(); $this->myHomeTeamName = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamName('home'); $this->myHomeTeamCity = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamCity('home'); $this->myVisitTeamName = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamName('visit'); $this->myVisitTeamCity = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getTeamCity('visit'); $this->myGameDate = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getGameDate(); $this->myGameTime = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getGameTime(); $this->myVenueID = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getVenueID(); $this->myPerfID = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getPerfID(); $this->myGenre = $sportSchedules[$counter]->getPcomGenre(); $this->scheduleXML .= $this->buildNode(); $counter++; } break; } } function getNewXml() {return $this->scheduleXML;} function buildNode() { $tempData = "\t\t<event_id>" . $this->myGameID . "</event_id>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t<event_title>" . $this->myVisitTeamCity . ' ' . $this->myVisitTeamName . ' (away) vs. ' . $this->myHomeTeamCity . ' ' . $this->myHomeTeamName . " (home)</event_title>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t<perf_id>" . $this->myPerfID . "</perf_id>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t<addl_perfs></addl_perfs>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t<venue_id>" . $this->myVenueID . "</venue_id>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t<event_desc>" . $this->myVisitTeamCity . ' ' . $this->myVisitTeamName . ' (away) vs. ' . $this->myHomeTeamCity . ' ' . $this->myHomeTeamName . " (home) [" . $this->myGameDate . ' @' . $this->myGameTime . "]</event_desc>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t<genres>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t\t<genre>" . $this->myGenre . "</genre>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t</genres>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t<showtimes></showtimes>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t<schedule>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t\t<performance date=\"" . $this->myGameDate . "\">" . $this->myGameTime . "</performance>\n"; $tempData .= "\t\t</schedule>\n"; $tempData .= "\t</event>\n"; return $tempData; } } ?> As you can see in the switch statement, each of the four options does a lot of the same thing. I'd like to wrap those assignment statements in a function to cut down on size. However, whenever I try to add the function to the constructor, I get one of two errors (depending upon whether I use the prefix "$this->" with the call to the function: Fatal error: Call to undefined method TranslateXML::setEventVars() OR Fatal error: Call to undefined function setEventVars() I believe that the function needs to be encapsulated within the constructor but I think I'm missing something very small but VERY important. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hey all, I'm in the process of writing a small script that pings blogsearch.google.com via REST client. The problem is that I don't think that Google works as nicely as they'd like you too believe. Here's what's going on: We have about seventy or so blogs that we're pinging Google with. The process basically performs a file_get_contents which returns either a 200 alert or an error. Immediately after the ping process is complete, I download their changes.xml document to see if any of our requested URLs have been accepted. Sometimes I get lucky and a few actually make it into the changes.xml file. However, when I try to search for any of our blogs in their blogsearch, I don't get any responses. My guess is that the blobsearch is being pinged so quickly and so frequently by everyone and their second cousins that it doesn't have time to ingest everything. Has anyone else had this experience? If you have any suggestions on how best to deal with this, please let me know. Thanks, - MT p.s. here is my script if that helps any of you: <?php if(file_exists("changes.xml")) {unlink("changes.xml");} $blogsURL = "[document containing blog links]"; //links should be in the following format: //<google>http://blogsearch.google.com/ping?name=[blog_name]&url=[blog_url]&changesURL=[blog_feed.rss]</google> $counter = 0; $blogsData = file_get_contents($blogsURL); preg_match_all("/(?<=<google>)(.*)(?=<\/google>)/isU", $blogsData, $linksFound); foreach($linksFound[0] as $link) { $counter++; $link = substr($link,34,strlen($link)); $link = "http://blogsearch.google.com/ping?" . getEscapeChars($link,"esc"); $myURL = $link; $myData = file_get_contents($myURL); $blogName = substr($link, 39, (strpos($link,"&url")-39)); $blogName = str_replace("+", " ", str_replace("%27", "'", str_replace("%3A", ":", str_replace("%2C", ",", str_replace("%21", "!", $blogName))))); if($myData == "Thanks for the ping.") {print("The url for '" . getEscapeChars($blogName,"unesc") . "' was accepted.\n");} else {print("The url for '" . getEscapeChars($blogName,"unesc") . "' was not accepted.\n");} } print("Total Blogs: " . $counter . "\n\n"); exec("curl http://blogsearch.google.com/changes.xml?last=900 -o changes.xml"); print("\n"); function getEscapeChars($myChars,$myProcess) { if($myProcess == "esc") {$myChars = str_replace(":","%3A",str_replace("/","%2F",str_replace("+","%2B",$myChars)));} else {$myChars = str_replace("%3A",":",str_replace("%2F","/",str_replace("%2B"," ",$myChars)));} return $myChars; } ?>

Thanks. I've never used those but maybe it's time I did. - MT CORRECTION: Sorry, it's late in the day. I've used SimpleXML but in this case, it couldn't be done because the XML that I'm reading was non-standard so I had to use preg_match_all to grab chunks and rebuild.

that was sorta my thinking too because TextWrangler identifies a difference between "\r" and "\n". Thank you, at least I'm a lot closer then I was to figuring this one out. I think going forward I'm going to stick to Eclipse. - MT

In the hex editor, all of the affected areas contain: 0D 0A 20 20 - MT

I'll definitely give that a go. What's odd, and somewhat sad, is that I checked this file in other text editors (both PC and Mac) and this is the ONLY one that displays double carriage returns. I'm using TextWrangler by Bare Bones. I've used this particular text editor for many years without issue. I wonder why THIS script created THIS problem. Anyways, I'm going to try your suggestion and report back. I hate to just walk away from a problem and write it off as a "software bug" without being sure. - MT

Hey all, I have an odd issue that I've never quite seen before and I'm wondering if it has something to do with the way that fwrite is working (possibly coupled with issues in my data). Without a lengthy explanation of extraneous details, I have an array with each item in the array having something like the following (spacing was intentional): $myArray[1] = " <xmlTag>[DATA]</xmlTag> <newTag>[DATA]</newTag> <thirdTag>[DATA]</thirdTag>"; However, when it gets written to the file, I have this (again, spacing is intentional): <xmlTag>[DATA]</xmlTag> <newTag>[DATA]</newTag> <thirdTag>[DATA]</thirdTag> (note the double carriage returns) I've run print outputs all throughout the script to test what's going on and I'm viewing the responses in Terminal (on Mac). All of the print outputs display correctly. The only thing that displays incorrectly is the final data written in the text file. Has anyone else seen this before? Thanks, - MT

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I'm not sure if this is an installation problem or a syntax problem but I'm hoping you all can point me in the right direction. Here is the code: $files1 = scandir("/Volumes/my_dir/"); print_r($files1); The error I got was this: Fatal error: Call to undefined function scandir() Yet when I run php -v I get this: PHP 5.2.6 (cli) (built: Sep 19 2008 11:28:54) Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies I installed Entropy's latest php for Mac. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. - MT

D'oh! Sometimes it just helps to type things out. Here's what the function should look like: function compareDates($firstDate, $secondDate) { $firstDate = strtotime($firstDate[0]); $secondDate = strtotime($secondDate[0]); if($firstDate == $secondDate) { return 0; } else if ($firstDate < $secondDate) { return 1; } else { return -1; } } Thanks for the forum! - MT

Please note there is a typo above. The function should read: function compareDates($firstDate, $secondDate) { if($firstDate[0] == $secondDate[0]) { return 0; } else if ($firstDate[0] < $secondDate[0]) { return 1; } else { return -1; } } This does not resolve the problem however.

I have a class I've built who's main goal is compare unix time stamps and reorder them in an array accordingly. I have them reordering ok, but I think the ordering determination is a big askew. Here is the function: function compareDates($firstDate, $secondDate) { if($firstDate[1] == $secondDate[1]) { return 0; } else if ($firstDate[1] < $secondDate[1]) { return 1; } else { return -1; } } which is initiated here: usort($assetList, 'compareDates'); Here is a sample of what the array might look like: $assetList[0][0] = "2008-02-06T07:53:55.297-04:00"; $assetList[0][1] = "080605_pc_PBT_retailup"; $assetList[1][0] = "2008-03-04T14:01:48.293-04:00"; $assetList[1][1] = "080604_pc_PBT_maria_sludge"; $assetList[2][0] = "2009-06-03T12:26:22.773-04:00"; $assetList[2][1] = "080603_pc_PBT_hummer"; $assetList[3][0] = "2008-06-06T12:16:22.157-04:00"; $assetList[3][1] = "080602_pc_PBT_wachovia2"; $assetList[4][0] = "2007-05-09T13:37:59.697-04:00"; $assetList[4][1] = "080530_pc_PBT_redlasso"; Is this the best way to do this? Why are the dates coming back incorrectly sorted? Thanks, - MT

I wanted to post this here because I figured it was well deserved. Awhile back I posted a thread on whether or not I should be using a class to define my structures and my functions. There was a lot of positive feedback on this and the end result is that I've learned how much more powerful classes are and I now almost exclusively write my PHP in OOP (thanks of course, to you guys). The side effect of this is that I'm now an much more effective programmer and a more valuable asset to my company. Thanks guys! - MT

Hey all, I don't know if this is possible but I want to know if there's a declaration that I can call to CANCEL a previously declared style. Consider the following: At some point in my page, I have something like this (fictional example): <style type="text/css">.myStyle{background-color:#ff0000; width:500px;}</style> Later on, I want to REMOVE the width declaration (not patch over it, I know how to do that) so that the only active declaration is the background-color. Is this possible? Thanks, - MT

Neil, Thanks for this! I'll give it a go now. - MT

I have a process that I've build which will load multiple XML documents into memory using simplexml_load_file. The problem is that some of the documents contain data that is screwy. Specifically, we have file URLs that contain +, &dot; and & which obviously causes the simplexml_load_file to fail. Any suggestions on this? Modifying the XML before simplexml_load_file is not an option because we're downloading it from a vendor site. Thanks, - MT

Yes, please excuse me. I did mean Ubuntu 8.10. I've since come to realize that (in my limited knowledge of Linux) that 8.10 does not OOTB work with the MSI Wind, or am I wrong?

I have an XML Feed which contains a bunch of assets, each having a ton of variables. I just built a class that can return this data but I'm curious what the best way to return this data is. Should I: 1) Write it as a CSV to an external file? 2) Pass it over as a multi-dimensional array (i.e. 2300 or so assets each with 20 or so variables) What suggestions do you guys have?

I just bought an MSI Wind (used) and I wanted to install Ubuntu on it. I've had a ton of trouble with 8.10 so I'm wondering if anyone else has used something else, specifically with the MSI Wind, that they like. Thanks, - MT

Finally, for those of you who are like me and need a written example of this, here's what worked for me: exec("NET USE Z: \\123.456.78.910\myDIR /USER:username password"); . . . [script runs] . . . exec("NET USE Z: /DELETE"); This will, if I wrote it properly in php, mount my remote server, run my script which is located locally, and then dismount from the remote server. Thanks again to Aaron for pointing me in the right direction! - MT