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Re: OT: Why do so many forms require numbers be entered without hyphens or spaces?

a.nony.m...@example.invalid (Beauregard T. Shagnasty) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 18:49:31 UT

<huge snippage required>
Therefore, a field for (US) SSN should be eleven characters, to allow
the enterers to type 123-45-6789. It does not need to be stored that
way.
It's been a long time since I've worked with SSNs in software, but there
is a small subset used for things like brochures, TV advertising, etc.

Re: Converting one date format to another

matthew.leonha...@gmail.com (matt) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 18:45:00 UT

Hmm...I work for a living, and I find it way faster to search php.net
than post to Usenet and wait for a response...

Re: OT: Why do so many forms require numbers be entered without hyphens or spaces?

matthew.leonha...@gmail.com (matt) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 18:42:27 UT

Okay...once again, I feel the need to defend my example. I had no
idea so many panties would get twisted here. This was an
example...ONE! Not the be all, end all phone number input field. I
guess I made the mistake of thinking that this thread was related to
usability, not internationalization.
Just because there aren't one-format-fits-all solutions to common

Re: OT: Why do so many forms require numbers be entered without hyphens or spaces?

matthew.leonha...@gmail.com (matt) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 18:25:44 UT

Yeah...I guess that really depends on the application's specs, doesn't
it. Not exactly related to my point though...

Re: query error handling

matthew.leonha...@gmail.com (matt) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 18:24:07 UT

I'll concede that members.id is *likely* a numeric field...although I
don't see the harm in calling mysql_real_escape_string().
What I will not concede is the idea that $id obviously contains a
numeric value. I'm surprised that you would have made the suggestion
to remove a sanitizing function without providing an example or

Getting rid of special characters

eastside...@gmail.com (JustWondering) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 17:55:21 UT

I am collecting some tweets using the Twitter API. The output is an
XML file. I use DOMDocument to process the XML doc.
Every once in a while, someone includes some special characters, or
HTML code in the tweet's body, and that trips DOMDocument (when I do --
characters, and HTML code from a string?

Re: OT: Why do so many forms require numbers be entered without hyphens or spaces?

jstuck...@attglobal.net (Jerry Stuckle) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 17:08:38 UT

But humans aren't telephones, and the formats are meant to enhance
readability. There are standardized formats - in the U.S., for
instance, they can include hyphens, dashes and/or periods.
But neither of those are used by U.S. and Canadian people, for instance.
And other countries have much different formats.

Re: OT: Why do so many forms require numbers be entered without hyphens or spaces?

hell...@ninehells.com (Peter H. Coffin) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 15:06:13 UT

Sorry, Jerry, but I think you are missing it. You're saying "there's
lots of formats" and Doug's saying "there IS NO format", and as far as
actual dialing goes, there isn't a format. I've seen no telephone that
supported dialing a "-" or a ")". I'd go so far as to say there's
exactly one format, and it looks like

Re: Converting one date format to another

l...@invalid.lan (Luuk) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 15:06:32 UT

Op 20-12-2009 0:10, Scott Johnson schreef:
lol, my reply was ment as an advice too.... ;-)
But sometimes its hard to write te proper English words, and someone
like /me who is not a native English speaker might do it wrong ?

Re: php and microchips

colin.mckin...@gmail.com (C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/)) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 13:42:49 UT

As others have said - this is WAY off topic here.
If the card writer is client-side then go read about how to play
outside the sandbox (its not impossible, but its a quite a complex
process - this ensures that malicious websites are limited in the
damage they can wreakk on your PC).
If the card writer is connected server-side, then it should be very

Re: file_get_contents - failed to open stream

colin.mckin...@gmail.com (C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/)) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 13:30:53 UT

It also pre-supposes that the server can make outgoing DNS lookups and
HTTP connections.
C.

Re: Null vs Zero vs Empty String vs Not Set

wafflesouf...@yahoo.com (WaffleSouffle) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 12:03:53 UT

My personal favourite is:
<?php echo var_export('strings equate to 0' == 0, true); ?>
true

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Re: Should I always use Strict comparisons with ===?

ivan.sku...@gmail.com (Ivan S) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 08:52:41 UT

That's good to know. I've tested it in MySql (mysql, not mysqli),
numeric fields are returned as a string.

Re: Should I always use Strict comparisons with ===?

satyaka...@gmail.com (satya-weblog.com) — Mon, 12 Dec 2009 08:33:58 UT

I think, when your expected incoming data is Boolean then you should
use strict comparison.
Otherwise it is not required.