[ZendTo] Feature request: optional units on some preferences

Thu Dec 10 18:04:24 GMT 2020

Hi again.

Php.ini uses M for megabyte as an example…
I suspect there is already a php function for this …

From: Jules <Jules at Zend.To>
Sent: giovedì 10 dicembre 2020 17:55
To: Massimo Forni <Massimo.Forni at turboden.it>; ZendTo Users <zendto at zend.to>
Subject: Re: [ZendTo] Feature request: optional units on some preferences

Hi Massimo,

Fair point.
Sadly they are also supposed to be powers of 10 and not 2.
And I never realised that Z was smaller than Y and not the other way round. That's bonkers!

Will people always get the case right, even when they never read the instructions?
Or do I only insist on "m" and "M" having the right case, and ignore the case on all the others?
Bit awkward. Only other option is to infer whether it's a byte count or a time duration from the name of the setting (/bytes/i ==> byte count, rules like that).

Cheers,
Jules.
On Thu 10/12/20 16:49, Massimo Forni wrote:
Hi,

Just to point out that in the SI the Mega, Giga, etc are all capital letters, this way you can still use ‘m’ for minutes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#Prefixes<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units*Prefixes__;Iw!!BYEqwblc0Q!gEqsGtNmXcVA4cxJ5hsQzzbxdmh9PFV3jKOiWF3vXaA4Bj1AUSaK4G3Ak6XQA1FWjFqPnA$>

best regards

From: ZendTo <zendto-bounces at zend.to><mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to> On Behalf Of Jules via ZendTo
Sent: giovedì 10 dicembre 2020 17:42
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Cc: Jules <Jules at Zend.To><mailto:Jules at Zend.To>
Subject: Re: [ZendTo] Feature request: optional units on some preferences

John and others,

I didn't ignore this, I just mentally added it to the list without remembering to reply to you about it! :-/

I should be able to do hours and days and stuff like that too.
So that it matches with what happens in the code already, can we agree to use 1024, 1024^2, 1024^3 etc as the K, M and G multiples?
For times I could allow s, h, d, w.

So the multipliers would be (ignoring case):
k = 1024
m = 1024*1024
g = 1024*1024*1024
s = 1
h = 60*60
d = 60*60*24
w = 60*60*24*7

Are there any I have missed (I'm avoiding minutes in favour of megs).

The syntax would have to change in the preferences.php file where you chose to use a suffix, as
    'maxBytesForDropoff' => 24G,
is not valid PHP, it would need to be
    'maxBytesForDropoff' => '24G',
but you would only need the quotes round ones where you chose to use a suffix.

Sound okay to everyone?

Cheers,
Jules.
On Tue 17/11/20 19:13, John Thurston via ZendTo wrote:
Computers are good at doing math. Can we have the option of including units on some preferences?

I'm thinking, particularly, about:
  maxBytesForDropoff
  maxBytesForFile
  maxBytesForChecksum
  maxBytesForEncryption

These are currently specified in bytes. This is generally a long number which is hard to read and easy to stumble over. May we have the default continue to be "number of bytes" but have it accept an optional unit-suffix? For example:
  'maxBytesForDropoff'   => 25769790582,
could be specified as:
  'maxBytesForDropoff'   => 24G,

Old preferences would continue to work, and new preferences would be easier to read.

Jules

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