JavaScript: The Return to Sender Issue
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A persistent problem with the Web API is the Return-to-Sender issue. JavaScript is capable of alleviating it, but it's not always enabled by software vendors. By Jacques Surveyor. 1014
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One of the problems facing JavaScript developers is that the core features are only supported in the latest browsers. In this article, users will learn how to use JavaScript to solve this problem. by Guyon Roche. 0930
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Although frankly I really didn't feel the need to read the entire thread, I can tell you that the posting to the PHP 3 mailing list is related to the Smarty Templating Engine back in the day. In fact, I believe this was the original spec Andrei proposed before Smarty even existed. Although I don't remember the exact e-mail, this posting reminded me that there was a point in time I thought exactly this way... quoting myself:
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Don't get stuck with dud holiday gifts. Tips on avoiding gift return traps.
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If you've been around the net for a while you've been subscribed to a few thousand mailing lists.  I'm on a few big mailing lists now that host more than a few thousand users.  Sooner or later some guy on the list will go on vacation and instead of just letting email sit in their inbox he's nice enough to respond to all his email - with a form letter!  Usually in the shape of:  "I'm on vacation.  I'll be back in January."  Of course they're stupid enough to apply this to *every* folder in their inbox and so everytime someone posts or replies to the list this message is sent out to one of every three thousand posters.  We don't care if you're on vacation.  We don't care when you get back and  ...
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Complaint line dealing with other complaints Punters who paid Â£1.50 to send an anonymous Valentine's Day message to the object of their affections (assuming they had a suitably equipped and configured handset) were disappointed to find that a technical fault prevented its delivery.â¦
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By Karen J. Bannan About a year ago, Scott Madlener, a marketing executive, e- mailed a client several times but his messages were not getting through.
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As mentioned by Ed Finkler, there's a list of signs your PHP needs refactoring from Soledad Penades.    I have had to go through a php application recently which has given me more than one headache and has required me to use all my possible patience. While working with it, I thought This is good material for an article, so that nobody else does the same in the future, and nobody else will need to experience the same displeasure as I have had to.   So here are the signs your PHP application needs a serious refactoring, right now    Included in the list are things like:   Uses global variables Everything's an array The neverending switch Interface inconsistency   It hits on one of the thing that bugs me too, the problem of "Brackets galore" - so many subarrays that you have to resort to three or more sets of bracketed keys to get to the value you want. It's bad enough trying to follow someone else's code without having to "trace down" an array to figure out which of the values they're talking about.
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has wound up its working group on Sender ID, the proposed spam-cutting standard. The purpose of Sender ID technology is to help verify the source of emails by authenticating domain addresses as valid.
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In a quick note from Steven's blog is a pointer to tricky problem with the clone keyword in PHP 5- "There is a nasty change in PHP5: objects are now always passed by reference. Variables hold a handle to the object rather than the object itself. This brings PHP more in line with other OO languages (like Java) and removes some of the ugly from PHP OO code, but it also means that objects are treated differently from all the other types. Old code that depends on having objects copied when not passed by reference will break." For the fix, go here.
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A new tutorial on PHPBuilder.com gives a quick look at creating a form combining HTML and PHP that can send out emails to the address of choice.   Like any email form, the original form itself is quite simple. No great shakes here, just a standard HTML form with a POST method and the action pointing to the PHP page that will process the form results.   Included in the short tutorial are the HTML for the form, the PHP to process the email information from the form and the code to send it all out.    It's also important to note that they defined the email address to send it to in the PHP code handling the POST request. If you allow your user to define the email address, you're begging for spammers to come around and abuse it.
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The technical standards body for the internet, the IETF, has bounced back Microsoft&#39;s controversial proposal for stopping spam, Sender ID.
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People who think their instant messages disappear after being sent should think again.
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Paul Reinheimer, one of two behind the funcaday website (providing details on one PHP function each day and special content on the weekends) has posted a supplement to this weekend's posting covering escaping.   The disadvantage with the escape for now, not for later approach is simple. If you save a user's post to the database, then that user's post is displayed 2,000 times there will be some serious differences. [...] You will need to balance your security concerns with performance needs.   The comments on his post back up his suggestions (and include other tips like a recommendation to cache on an even higher level - page blocks).
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IF you were planning to save on postage this year by sending electronic greeting cards, think again. And be careful when opening any you get.
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The DeveloperTutorials website has a new tutorial posted today that covers their method for combining Ajax and PHP to create a custom form handler.   For this project, I needed a form to send an email to the client once it's been validated and checked to be ok. [...] I decided to spice things up a bit with a little AJAX and a few effects from Scriptaculous. So let's dive into exactly how I did it.   They create their form first - a standard user info type of thing - and set it up to use the WForms validation script in PHP. They include the Javascript the script needs to run the validation and to handle sending the form's contents back out via an email.