Re: [PHP] Re: change value of session variable?

2004-07-22 Thread Five
Sounds like an old bug in PHP. What version are you using?

I've been trying to get it to work at:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/primeooze/info.php

I also have ( apache/php 4.3.4/mysql ) installed on my computer and I get much more 
satisfactory results on it.
I have made progress and some of my confusion on the subject has been cleared up so 
I'll just keep at  it and see what happens.

Thanks for your help

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[PHP] change value of session variable?

2004-07-21 Thread Five
Is it possible to assign a value to a session variable on say, page1.php:

$_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'blue';

and then on another page, say page2.php reassign the value:

$_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'green'; ?

So far experimentation says no.

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[PHP] Re: change value of session variable?

2004-07-21 Thread Five
page1.php
?php
session_start();
echo 'page #1br';

echo $_SESSION['favcolor'];
$_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'green';

echo 'bra href=page2.phppage 2/a';
?


page2.php
?php
session_start();
echo 'page #2br';

echo $_SESSION['favcolor'];
$_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'blue';

echo 'bra href=page1.phppage 1/a';
?

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[PHP] Re: change value of session variable?

2004-07-21 Thread Five

Five [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 page1.php
 ?php
 session_start();
 echo 'page #1br';

 echo $_SESSION['favcolor'];
 $_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'green';

 echo 'bra href=page2.phppage 2/a';
 ?

 
 page2.php
 ?php
 session_start();
 echo 'page #2br';

 echo $_SESSION['favcolor'];
 $_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'blue';

 echo 'bra href=page1.phppage 1/a';
 ?

Actually the above code doesn't initialize the variable as either green or blue. It 
leaves it blank.

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Re: [PHP] Re: change value of session variable?

2004-07-21 Thread Five

Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:50:36 -0400, Five [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Five [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   page1.php
   ?php
   session_start();
   echo 'page #1br';
  
   echo $_SESSION['favcolor'];
   $_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'green';
  
   echo 'bra href=page2.phppage 2/a';
   ?
  
   
   page2.php
   ?php
   session_start();
   echo 'page #2br';
  
   echo $_SESSION['favcolor'];
   $_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'blue';
  
   echo 'bra href=page1.phppage 1/a';
   ?
 
  Actually the above code doesn't initialize the variable as either green or blue. 
  It leaves it blank.
 

 Are you behind any kind of firewall or proxy? Are you blocking
 cookies? These could be stopping the session from working period.

 You should have said that it wasn't working period. Your original
 e-mail lead me to believe that it could be set initially.

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The test code at

http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php

worked so I knew sessions were working to some extent.

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Re: [PHP] Re: change value of session variable?

2004-07-21 Thread Five

Chris Shiflett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 --- Five [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  page1.php
  ?php
  session_start();
  echo 'page #1br';
 
  echo $_SESSION['favcolor'];
  $_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'green';
 
  echo 'bra href=page2.phppage 2/a';
  ?
 
  
  page2.php
  ?php
  session_start();
  echo 'page #2br';
 
  echo $_SESSION['favcolor'];
  $_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'blue';
 
  echo 'bra href=page1.phppage 1/a';
  ?
 
  Actually the above code doesn't initialize the variable as
  either green or blue. It leaves it blank.

 You might want to echo a variable after you set it (page1.php) or after
 you change it (page2.php). :-)

 Chris

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That did it! I wonder if there is a way, then, to have it work even if the variable is 
initialized after it is echoed.
I was actually trying to do this to pass values in another script. I'm writing some 
code that has to do with storing and retrieving
images in mysql. I'm having trouble passing image information (the kind needed for 
getimagesize( ) to work) and I can't get session
variables to initalize in that either. More experimentation with echo (and other code) 
placement needed.

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Re: [PHP] Re: change value of session variable?

2004-07-21 Thread Five

Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:43:12 -0400, Five [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
   On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:50:36 -0400, Five [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
Five [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 page1.php
 ?php
 session_start();
 echo 'page #1br';

 echo $_SESSION['favcolor'];
 $_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'green';

 echo 'bra href=page2.phppage 2/a';
 ?

 
 page2.php
 ?php
 session_start();
 echo 'page #2br';

 echo $_SESSION['favcolor'];
 $_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'blue';

 echo 'bra href=page1.phppage 1/a';
 ?
   
Actually the above code doesn't initialize the variable as either green or 
blue. It leaves it blank.
   
  
   Are you behind any kind of firewall or proxy? Are you blocking
   cookies? These could be stopping the session from working period.
  
   You should have said that it wasn't working period. Your original
   e-mail lead me to believe that it could be set initially.
  
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  The test code at
 
  http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php
 
  worked so I knew sessions were working to some extent.
 

 Did you use the normal link or the SID link?

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Both.

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Re: [PHP] Re: change value of session variable?

2004-07-21 Thread Five

Chris Shiflett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 --- Five [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  That did it! I wonder if there is a way, then, to have it work even if
  the variable is initialized after it is echoed.

 You see, that makes no sense, and that's why no one else was able to
 answer your question. Code is executed in order. Consider this:

 ?php
 $foo = 'one';
 echo $foo;
 $foo = 'two';
 ?

 This script will output one, and it should. :-)


My problem isn't the logic of when and where to output variable values. It's figuring 
out when a session variable will accept
initialization and what enables and/or prevents it from doing so. I would like to be 
able to initialize a session variable on one
page, call a second page, have the code on the second page process some information 
and reinitialize the session variable to another
value so that new value could be available to be used on the first page. A lot like 
having a function return a value. The problem is
that the session variable won't accept a new value just any old where in the code on 
the second page (apparently.)

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Re: [PHP] Re: change value of session variable?

2004-07-21 Thread Five

John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Chris Shiflett wrote:

  --- Five [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 That did it! I wonder if there is a way, then, to have it work even if
 the variable is initialized after it is echoed.
 
  You see, that makes no sense, and that's why no one else was able to
  answer your question. Code is executed in order. Consider this:

 Maybe some custom output buffer will make it work!? :)

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Good idea. I'll look into that.

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Re: [PHP] Re: change value of session variable?

2004-07-21 Thread Five
 The problem is
 that the session variable won't accept a new value just any old
where in the code on the second page (apparently.)

Or on the first one for that matter.

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Re: [PHP] Re: change value of session variable?

2004-07-21 Thread Five

Chris Shiflett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 --- Five [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  My problem isn't the logic of when and where to output variable
  values. It's figuring out when a session variable will accept
  initialization and what enables and/or prevents it from doing so.

 There's no magic. Session variables behave exactly like any other
 variable. If you output a session variable before initializing it, you
 will see nothing (and a notice is generated, depending on your
 error_reporting setting).

 The only difference, in terms of using session variables, is that they
 persist from page to page.


page1.php
?php
session_start();
echo 'page #1br';

echo $_SESSION['favcolor'];
$_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'green';

echo 'bra href=page2.phppage 2/a';
?


page2.php
?php
session_start();
echo 'page #2br';

echo $_SESSION['favcolor'];
$_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'blue';

echo 'bra href=page1.phppage 1/a';
?


When I tested the above example, no matter how many times I clicked back and forth 
between the two pages, the session variable would
not accept assignment of values 'blue' or 'green', while there should be no value on 
the first look at page1 but should have echoed
'green' on the first visit to page2 as that was the value it was assigned on page1.
When I changed the initialization and assignment of the session variable to before 
attempting to echo it's value, it then worked.
That started me thinking that placement of the initialization/assignment might make a 
difference on whether a session variable would
accept assignment of a value. An ordinary variable would have accepted assignment of a 
value after an attempt to echo it's value.

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Re: [PHP] Re: change value of session variable?

2004-07-21 Thread Five

John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Five wrote:
  
  page1.php
  ?php
  session_start();
  echo 'page #1br';
 
  echo $_SESSION['favcolor'];
  $_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'green';
 
  echo 'bra href=page2.phppage 2/a';
  ?
 
  
  page2.php
  ?php
  session_start();
  echo 'page #2br';
 
  echo $_SESSION['favcolor'];
  $_SESSION['favcolor'] = 'blue';
 
  echo 'bra href=page1.phppage 1/a';
  ?
  

 This code works exactly the way it's supposed to!! No value first time,
 then rotating value!!

 If it does not work for you, are you sure you're accepting the session
 cookie? How are you sure? Do you have a valid session.save_path? How do
 you know? Are you displaying errors? How do you know? If you see an SID
 in the URL when navigating the pages, does it stay the same between
 pages or change?


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Re: [PHP] upload an image and store it in mysql

2004-07-16 Thread Five

Ed Lazor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 You're seeing raw data and need to specify the mime type with headers.  Search the 
 mailing list archive, there's a few example
scripts in there.  Just keep in mine that you need to create a separate script that 
handles the display of images.



  Thanks, that seems to work. Although trying to retrieve them and show them
  in a browser shows characters / symbols instead. This
  kind of stuff:
 
  jw4ëÜ­qÈHæQI'?Úeã@D[?A\Á­ `Ñ*[#?j ¥q6Ñ]Q.b Oâ¶(YO:9£-Òª(K\¯'½È
  ZÛÃEbXÊê£W(Ìe
   9Æ¹pã´EXZaâÑlÑ˵m8=~±{ãx´fî ©ÜÎ Lãùy§ùeñ©±(£Zâ5O ¢µPP?3aª -
  Ãç?o XSÓD ~ûüJ¢
  ÜVиܶF·7´s© cæ[3bä±C°EôÐî 


I've been playing with this for two days and am wondering if there's a way to retrieve 
and display the images in a browser using
only php or is it necessary to use a graphics library like GD?

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Re: [PHP] upload an image and store it in mysql

2004-07-16 Thread Five

Raditha Dissanayake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 The approach that an overwhelming majority of PHP developers (and other
 developers for that matter) use is to simply store the image  on the
 file system. If these images are part of a web application you can then
 store a reference to the image in the database (ie: the filename only).

Yes, I understand that, but for some reason I want to learn both ways : )
Anyhow, it's finally working (woohoo!) so thanks again everyone for your help.

Dale

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[PHP] upload an image and store it in mysql

2004-07-14 Thread Five
I have php code that takes text input from a webpage and and stores it in a mysql data 
base.
I tried uploading small images (jpg) using basically the same syntax but they don't 
make it into the data base.
Does anyone know of a simple tutorial that shows how to do this?

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Re: [PHP] upload an image and store it in mysql

2004-07-14 Thread Five

John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Five wrote:
  I have php code that takes text input from a webpage and and stores it in a mysql 
  data base.
  I tried uploading small images (jpg) using basically the same syntax but they 
  don't make it into the data base.
  Does anyone know of a simple tutorial that shows how to do this?

 although I'm against storing files in databases...

 $file =
 mysql_real_escape_string(file_get_contents($_FILES['yourfile']['tmp_name']));
 $query = INSERT INTO yourtable (imgdata) VALUES ('$file');

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Thanks, that seems to work. Although trying to retrieve them and show them in a 
browser shows characters / symbols instead. This
kind of stuff:

jw4ëÜ­qÈHæQI'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `Ñ*[#‰j ¥q6є]Q.b Œâ¶(YŒ:9£-Òª(K\¯'½È 
ŽÛÃEbXÊê£W(Ìe
 9Æ›¹pã´EXŽaâÑlÑ˵m8=˜±{ãx´fî ©ÜÎ Lãùy§ùeñ©±(£Žâ5Œ ¢µPP€‹3›aª —Ãç‰o XŠÓD 
~ûüJ¢
ÜVиܶF·7´š© cæ[3b䱄C°EôÐî 

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[PHP] mysql - can't use the copy/paste function

2004-03-30 Thread Five
Windows 98 se

When using the dos window command line for mysql commands everything works fine except 
if I try to use the paste function to paste
pre-typed commands, the window freezes. This is aaannnoooyyyiiinnnggg.

advance thanks
Dale

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[PHP] string function that inserts a char

2004-03-20 Thread Five
I just finished looking through string functions
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php
and can't find one that inserts a character, not replaces one.

If there's a string that's over 50 chars long without a space, I want to insert a 
space without replacing or losing any of the
original characters. Is there a function to do that?

advance thanks,
Dale

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[PHP] Re: string function that inserts a char

2004-03-20 Thread Five

Five [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 I just finished looking through string functions
 http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php
 and can't find one that inserts a character, not replaces one.

 If there's a string that's over 50 chars long without a space, I want to insert a 
 space without replacing or losing any of the
 original characters. Is there a function to do that?

 advance thanks,
 Dale

I should add that, unless there's a function that does it all, I'm not really 
concerned with the finding the 50th char part. I know
there's other funcs for that kind of thing. It's just that all I'm trying to do is 
make sure that when the string is output, it will
wrap to the width of a table and not stretch the table width to suit it's fancy.
If I manufacture a function to do all of the little things necessary to make this 
thing wrap, it seems like a lot of ugly code to do
a simple task.

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Re: [PHP] Re: string function that inserts a char

2004-03-20 Thread Five

Jason Giangrande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Five wrote:
  Five [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 I just finished looking through string functions
 http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php
 and can't find one that inserts a character, not replaces one.
 
 If there's a string that's over 50 chars long without a space, I want to insert a 
 space without replacing or losing any of the
 original characters. Is there a function to do that?
 
 advance thanks,
 Dale
 
 
  I should add that, unless there's a function that does it all, I'm not really 
  concerned with the finding the 50th char part. I
know
  there's other funcs for that kind of thing. It's just that all I'm trying to do is 
  make sure that when the string is output, it
will
  wrap to the width of a table and not stretch the table width to suit it's fancy.
  If I manufacture a function to do all of the little things necessary to make this 
  thing wrap, it seems like a lot of ugly code
to do
  a simple task.
 

 Use substr_replace() and set the length value to 0.  Here's an example:

 $text = Thistext;
 echo $textbr /;
 $text = substr_replace($text,  , 4, 0);
 echo $text;

 Test it and you will see that a space is added into the text without
 replacing any of it.

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Thanks Jason

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[PHP] Re: Javascript Mouseover Help

2004-03-18 Thread Five
I would be very interested in a solution to this problem because I have a similar one.

I stored tables on a page.

examp:

$table_1 = tabletrtd.$name./td/tr/table;
$table_2 = tabletrtd.$message./td/tr/table;
etc...

and included the page and used the variables (echo $table_1;)

The table displayed as it should,
however the variables didn't have values( for $name, $message, etc..)

I began testing for the problem by defining the string variable for the table on the 
same page as the php code

examp:

?php
$table_1 = tabletrtd.$name./td/tr/table;
$table_2 = tabletrtd.$message./td/tr/table;

$name = blah blah;

if(blah blah){
echo $table_1;}
else{
echo $table_2;}
?

Again, the tables printed fine, but the variables ($name, $message) had no values.


Most recently, I put the whole dam table in each conditional option.

if (blah blah){  echo tabletrtd.$name./td/tr/table;}

else{  echo  tabletrtd.$message./td/tr/table;}


Voila, the variables have values.

It would seem that if a solution was found for Jake's problem
it would also solve, or provide a key for solving, this one.

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Re: [PHP] Re: Javascript Mouseover Help

2004-03-18 Thread Five

 F ?php
 F $table_1 = tabletrtd.$name./td/tr/table;
 F $table_2 = tabletrtd.$message./td/tr/table;

 F $name = blah blah;

 F if(blah blah){
 F echo $table_1;}
 F else{
 F echo $table_2;}
 ?

 You have to define variable $name before you try to use it.
 The only other way would be to eval the string but that is not the way
 to go :)


Doesn't  $name = blah blah;  define it enough?

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Re: Re[2]: [PHP] Re: Javascript Mouseover Help

2004-03-18 Thread Five

Tom Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Hi,

 Friday, March 19, 2004, 1:11:52 AM, you wrote:


 F Doesn't  $name = blah blah;  define it enough?


 Not if it comes after   $table_1 = tabletrtd.$name./td/tr/table;
 at this point $name does not exist. Try turning on E_ALL error
 reporting and it will tell you things like this.

 -- 
 regards,
 Tom

Cool, it works!
include (the file where the tables are stored) after the the variables are defined, 
and it works.
I took 3 semesters of C and C++  programming. I should have figured that out myself.

Thanks Tom. Can you steer me to where the E_ALL error reporting gets activated?
Some ini file I imagine?

And oh yeah, I don't know if it helped Jake, but it worked for me.
Thanks for starting the topic, Jake.

Dale

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Re: [PHP] how to convert array into integer

2004-03-13 Thread Five

Firman Wandayandi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Hi Kenneth,

 You can implode an array first, and convert it to integer, see below.

 $number = (int) implode('', $yourarray);

 Good Luck,
 Firman

 - Original Message - 
 From: Kenneth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 12:48 PM
 Subject: [PHP] how to convert array into integer


  To all,
  I have an Array ( [0] = 2 [1] = . [2] = 2 [3] = 0 [4] = 8 )
  but i want to convert it into integer 2.208 in order to use it to plot
  graphhow can i convert it?
  thx,
  Kenneth
 
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implode(,)

T'hat's a good one. What won't they think of next?
Now I can get rid of my loops.

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[PHP] Re: Are $_POST and $_GET interchangable?

2004-03-10 Thread Five

David Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 I understand the difference between how they process from data.
 Most application seem to reply on $_GET which display the
 session/from/cookie values in the URL windows.

 What I'm not clear on are there times when you have to either $_POST or
 $_GET?

 TX,
 david




That's a good question. Your post prompted me to check the manual.
Searching the different categories at

  www.php.net

 for $_GET[], I found indirect references
(documentation of other subjects that use $_GET[]  and $_POST[] )
but no documentation focusing directly on either.

Is there on line documentation specifically dedicated to these two phenomena?

tia
Dale

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Re: [PHP] Re: Are $_POST and $_GET interchangable?

2004-03-10 Thread Five

Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[snip]
 for $_GET[], I found indirect references
(documentation of other subjects that use $_GET[]  and $_POST[] )
but no documentation focusing directly on either.

Is there on line documentation specifically dedicated to these two
phenomena?
[/snip]

This is more of a general web programming question (see the info at
http://www.w3c.org) GET and POST are two different methods of moving
data from client to server. The GET method utilizes the URL for passing
data and is limited in size (I forget the total number of characters
allowed in the URL). It is also makes spoofing a little easier. Let us
say I am an employee of a company and my app designers have done a poor
job at security. I go to employee information at

http://www.foo.com/employee.php?eid=jsmith

If I have some snap and I want to see some other employee's info I can
then type it into the URL

http://www.foo.com/employee.php?eid=bstreisand

POST removes the information from the view of the user, and IIRC you can
pass tons of information to the server.

The rules for usage come down to this - A little common sense goes a
long way. There are really no specific rules. For web apps at my company
I set the rules, I have seen other companies with other rules for the
use of these two.


I googled a few different queries and can't find any direct documentation.

 http://www.w3c.org has a lot of info, but none that I can find' on this subject (they 
need a 'search this site' option)

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Re: [PHP] Re: Are $_POST and $_GET interchangable? MORE

2004-03-10 Thread Five

Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[snip]
stuff
[/snip]

From http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.1

17.13.1 Form submission method
The method attribute of the FORM element specifies the HTTP method used
to send the form to the processing agent. This attribute may take two
values:

get: With the HTTP get method, the form data set is appended to the
URI specified by the action attribute (with a question-mark (?) as
separator) and this new URI is sent to the processing agent.
post: With the HTTP post method, the form data set is included in the
body of the form and sent to the processing agent.
The get method should be used when the form is idempotent (i.e.,
causes no side-effects). Many database searches have no visible
side-effects and make ideal applications for the get method.

If the service associated with the processing of a form causes side
effects (for example, if the form modifies a database or subscription to
a service), the post method should be used.

Note. The get method restricts form data set values to ASCII
characters. Only the post method (with enctype=multipart/form-data)
is specified to cover the entire [ISO10646] character set.


I'm begining to see. The definitions of $_POST and $_GET
are word for word identical as predefined variables:

http://ca.php.net/reserved.variables

However they are designed to be paired with post and get form  methods,
the $_GET to be used with  a href  query string (after the '?' in a url)
as mentioned in the page you supplied above (reposted below):

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.1

So apparently, one of the morals to the story is that the $_GET
method is more prone to security breach?
I still don't see the whole picture, but for what I'm doing now I don't really need to.

Dale

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[PHP] php/mysql run on Microsoft Personal Web Server 4.0 ?

2004-03-05 Thread Five
I've been learning php/mysql by uploading my scripts to a php/mysql enabled website.
It's getting to be a drag uploading each script change to check if it works.
I think this can be done but wanted to double check before starting instalation.
Will  Microsoft Personal Web Server 4.0   running on Win98se support php and  mysql?

advance thanks
Dale

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[PHP] Re: php/mysql run on Microsoft Personal Web Server 4.0 ?

2004-03-05 Thread Five

Five [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 I've been learning php/mysql by uploading my scripts to a php/mysql enabled website.
 It's getting to be a drag uploading each script change to check if it works.
 I think this can be done but wanted to double check before starting instalation.
 Will  Microsoft Personal Web Server 4.0   running on Win98se support php and  
 mysql?

 advance thanks
 Dale


I can tell you if you install the server, install php using the windows installer, and 
then try to run a php script, nothing happens
:  (

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[PHP] Re: php/mysql run on Microsoft Personal Web Server 4.0 ?

2004-03-05 Thread Five

Five [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 I've been learning php/mysql by uploading my scripts to a php/mysql enabled website.
 It's getting to be a drag uploading each script change to check if it works.
 I think this can be done but wanted to double check before starting instalation.
 Will  Microsoft Personal Web Server 4.0   running on Win98se support php and  
 mysql?

 advance thanks
 Dale

If anyone is sstill interested, here's an excelent website that walks you through 
downloading, installing and configuring apache,
php, and mysql.

http://internetmaster.com/installtutorial/index.htm

If it can work for my dyslexic eyes, it can work for anyone.

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[PHP] Re: Get MySQL table field names

2004-02-29 Thread Five

Michael Kunze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Matt Palermo wrote:

  How can I get the field names from a specified MySQL table?  I don't need
  the data, I just want to get an array of the tables field names.

 use 'DESC table_name;'

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Could you elaborate on that a litttle? I spent about an hour researching and 
experimenting with DESC and can't get it to work.

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Re: [PHP] Re: Get MySQL table field names

2004-02-29 Thread Five

Jason Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 On Monday 01 March 2004 10:04, Five wrote:
  Michael Kunze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
  news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
   Matt Palermo wrote:
How can I get the field names from a specified MySQL table?  I don't
need the data, I just want to get an array of the tables field names.
  
   use 'DESC table_name;'
 
  Could you elaborate on that a litttle? I spent about an hour researching
  and experimenting with DESC and can't get it to work.

 mysql_list_fields(), read it before you use it.

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Thanks, that's much easier

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[PHP] Re: Text cleaning?

2004-02-27 Thread Five
You mean something like this?

$message = ereg_replace( \n,  , $message);

It seems to replace all new line instances with a blank space.



Karl Timmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Does anyone have some PHP code to remove incorrect carriage returns?

 Example:

 Sentence should be Hi, my name is Karl and I like PHP.
 but is: Hi, my name is Karl and I like
 PHP.

 or
 Hi my name is Karl and
 I like PHP.

 I think I saw some code before that does it, but can't find it anywhere.

 Thanks!
 Karl

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