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[Joel De Gan]

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 17:49, David Mintz wrote:
> > I just finished a project for bypassing one of our partners captchas so
> > we could automate using curl to snag some pages we needed..  So you say
> > "captcha?" and you got that... :)
> 
> Maybe they oughta save you the trouble by exposing the data you need as a
> web service, or something sexy like that?
> 

That would have been nice, but they declined to offer us that or to
provide it due to some policy about that particular data. So in response
we just automated going through their captcha. :)

-- 
joeldg - developer, Intercosmos media group.
http://lucifer.intercosmos.net


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> I find myself testing arrays for certain values all the time (of =
course) -
> but sometimes the element may not be set, so to avoid the Notice that =
the
> index does not exist, I often wrap the test in an isset.  This seems a

Good man.  Also:

http://phundamentals.nyphp.org/PH_variableevaluation.php

> little silly to me, and I wonder if anyone has a more elegant approach =
to
> handling this (besides better code :) or if there is some simple PHP
> function I'm just not using...

Some simple function?  isset()   :)  That's the way to do it.

H