RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Redirecting to a new page

2002-01-07 Thread matt stewart
yeah, i know this, but i'm just trying to get this to work before i add some security in there - passing sessions through etc to ensure they're logged in as admin etc. it doesn't really have to be that secure for what i want anyway, but probably a good job you pointed that out ;) -Original

RE: [PHP-DB] Fixed Quote Marks in Inputs

2002-01-07 Thread matt stewart
No! don't get them started again! my inbox won#039;t take it any more. -Original Message- From: Boaz Yahav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 January 2002 08:07 To: Bogdan Stancescu; Jonathan Hilgeman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Fixed Quote Marks in Inputs

[PHP-DB] Formated Results

2002-01-07 Thread Barry Rumsey
Hi I have a database that has lyrics in it. I can get them to list but they are not aligned the same as whats in the database. How can I get the results aligned as whats in the database ?

[PHP-DB] Database Security

2002-01-07 Thread Tom Oram
Hi, We have developed a PHP security extension, it was originally developed to make it possibly to store you database password securly!!! So I thought I'd post a copy of the email I posted to the dev list to this list as well. Here it is == Maybe one or two of you may have read a post a

RE: [PHP-DB] Formated Results

2002-01-07 Thread matt stewart
without code it's hard to know, but i'd have thought a simple html pre tag around the entry should work. ie... printf pre%s/pre,$myrow[Lyrics]; -Original Message- From: Barry Rumsey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 January 2002 12:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] Formated

Re: [PHP-DB] Formated Results

2002-01-07 Thread Andrey Hristov
Try printing pre before and /pre after them Regards, Andrey Hristov - Original Message - From: Barry Rumsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 2:19 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] Formated Results Hi I have a database that has lyrics in it. I can get them to

Re: [PHP-DB] Formated Results

2002-01-07 Thread Barry Rumsey
Yes thank you that was the answer. While I'm asking questions , I've got one good one : Whats the best book to buy on php mysql ? - Original Message - From: Andrey Hristov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Barry Rumsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 1:27 AM

RE: [PHP-DB] Formated Results

2002-01-07 Thread matt stewart
well, i'm sure there are lots out there, but i am very happy with... PHP and MySQL Web Development By Luke Welling and Laura Thomson, published by SAMS First printed in March 2001, so it's still not out of date. there are probably lots of other good books out there too though. -Original

Re: [PHP-DB] Formated Results

2002-01-07 Thread markus|lervik
On Monday 07 January 2002 14:32, you wrote: Yes thank you that was the answer. While I'm asking questions , I've got one good one : Whats the best book to buy on php mysql ? I can recommend PHP Blackbook by Peter Moulding (Coriolis, ISBN 1-58880-053-9), 845 pages. It concentrates mostly

[PHP-DB] ABC listings

2002-01-07 Thread Barry Rumsey
One last question for tonight as I have been given alot of help from this group to keep me going for awhile. I would like to set up one of those A B C D E F page listings. How do i query the database to grab the first letter from each entrey.

[PHP-DB] Concept help required

2002-01-07 Thread George Pitcher
Hi all, In trying to learn PHP (and MySQL), I am attempting to replicate a database-web solution built previously using Filemaker Pro and Lasso (on NT). I am currently working with PHP/MySQL on NT and will be moving this to Linux before the end of January. Filemaker is able to perform

Re: [PHP-DB] ABC listings

2002-01-07 Thread Marty Landman
At 01:48 AM 1/8/02 +1300, Barry Rumsey wrote: I would like to set up one of those A B C D E F page listings. How do i query the database to grab the first letter from each entrey. Barry try something such as select info from mytab where name like $ltr%; Marty Website Creation Made

Re: [PHP-DB] Database Connection Properties

2002-01-07 Thread Miles Thompson
Set the username and password for your database to whatever you want. It doesn't have to be nobody/nobody. Pass the username and password from an include file. Miles Thompson At 09:31 PM 1/6/2002 -0800, patrick gibson wrote: I'm new to PHP, and I have a question regarding the storage of

Re: [PHP-DB] Concept help required

2002-01-07 Thread Miles Thompson
George, Suggestions interspersed below Miles At 12:53 PM 1/7/2002 +, George Pitcher wrote: Hi all, In trying to learn PHP (and MySQL), I am attempting to replicate a database-web solution built previously using Filemaker Pro and Lasso (on NT). I am currently working with PHP/MySQL on NT

[PHP-DB] Is this kind of querry possible in MySQL?

2002-01-07 Thread Andy
Hi there, I have a user table which contains province and country. Another table named provinces contains this fields to and also the name of the province. Now I am trying to find out the provinces user are registered coming from a special country. Unfortunatelly this statement underneath:

Re: [PHP-DB] ABC listings

2002-01-07 Thread Kodrik
On Monday 07 January 2002 04:48 am, Barry Rumsey wrote: One last question for tonight as I have been given alot of help from this group to keep me going for awhile. I would like to set up one of those A B C D E F page listings. How do i query the database to grab the first letter from each

RE: [PHP-DB] How to insert to DB from txt??? Please help

2002-01-07 Thread Leotta, Natalie (NCI/IMS)
That's why I skipped the regular expression and irregular expression and grep stuff and used explode :-) All it takes is the string and the delimiter and it feeds you back an array. I've been using it to pass parameters in the $QUERY_STRING when I don't use $HTTP_POST_VARS. You can even have

Re: [PHP-DB] Concept help required

2002-01-07 Thread George Pitcher
Miles, Thanks for the response. My description of the Filemaker solution was very simple. In fact it is 13 databases with some containing up to 18000 records. At the centre is a Transaction database containing 15000 'book' records. Each transaction record contains a pack ID field and this is

[PHP-DB] SuSSE and PHP

2002-01-07 Thread Shane Peery
I am looking for compiled libraries for PHP 4.1.1 and SuSE 7.2 for use with M$ SQL 7+ Does anyone know where I can find this library? Thanks, Shane Peery -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

[PHP-DB] rewriting the $server_name variable with php?

2002-01-07 Thread Kevin Ruiz
Is there anyway to rewrite the $server_name variable with php? This is kind of an ambitious post for I think I already know the answer. My company has just changed our corporate identity and we want our old url to point to the new one, http://www.worktiviti.com. This isn't a problem, we've

[PHP-DB] Pulling a long list of data stalls PHP

2002-01-07 Thread Peter Westergaard
Hi, I'm attempting to pull about 300 rows from a mysql database, (all rows in the table). I can pull the first 10, the first 20, the first 30, no problem. (using LIMIT (start), (10|20|30)... in the SQL statement) But if I attempt to pull all of them (no LIMIT clause), or even the first (x)

[PHP-DB] Re: Is this kind of querry possible in MySQL?

2002-01-07 Thread Peter Westergaard
Assuming that c.province is the province name, and c.province_id is the province code, and U.province_id is the province code from the User table, I don't see where in your statement you have filtered the search down to just the province_id for the CURRENT USER. I think you need something

[PHP-DB] RE: Formated Results

2002-01-07 Thread Peter Westergaard
Barry, Since you're posting to an HTML page, you need BR and/or P to produce formatting. I'm guessing that if you look at the SOURCE for the web page you've produced, you'll see all the formatting. So, you can either fetch the lyrics and replace all line-ends with BR, or else use the tags

[PHP-DB] PHP/SQL search engine help (newbie)

2002-01-07 Thread Keith Hughes
Hi, Completely new at this, so don't be too harsh. I'm trying to create a help file system for a programme (much like the help files that you get with macromedia flash). All the help files will be in HTML format and will be in an access database. I need to search through the database with a

Re: [PHP-DB] ABC listings

2002-01-07 Thread DL Neil
I would like to set up one of those A B C D E F page listings. How do i query the database to grab the first letter from each entrey. Barry try something such as select info from mytab where name like $ltr%; Barry, What you have asked for (from each entrey [sic]) is: SELECT LEFT(

[PHP-DB] PHP/SQL Login problem

2002-01-07 Thread Jeremy Reed
I am having problems connecting and pulling data from a local SQL server. I have set up a user and, as far as I can tell, all the settings for the user are correct. However, when I try to pull data using the user, I get empty result sets--almost as if I don't have SELECT permissions. When I

Re: [PHP-DB] Concept help required

2002-01-07 Thread DL Neil
George, In trying to learn PHP (and MySQL), I am attempting to replicate a database-web solution built previously using Filemaker Pro and Lasso (on NT). I am currently working with PHP/MySQL on NT and will be moving this to Linux before the end of January. =As a general comment, it is

RE: [PHP-DB] Fixed Quote Marks in Inputs

2002-01-07 Thread Jonathan Hilgeman
Although my case was targeted specifically at forms and inputs, your question depends on how your application would write to the text file. When an HTML entity is retrieved from the database and put into the VALUE of an INPUT box or put inbetween TEXTAREA tags, the HTML entity is left encoded

RE: [PHP-DB] rewriting the $server_name variable with php?

2002-01-07 Thread Robert V. Zwink
If all of your pages share an include file, then add to the include file something like this: ?php if(strstr($HTTP_HOST, oldhostname.tld)){ header(Location: http://www.newhostname.tld.$PHP_SELF); } ? That way all requests to the old url will be redirected to the new url. You can

Re: [PHP-DB] Database Connection Properties

2002-01-07 Thread Indioblanco
Store the connection strings in an include file preferably outside the wed root. You can include files with a fully resolved path, or using the php include_path variable if you have access to the configuration. Alternately, if you don't have access to directories outside the webroot, put the

Re: [PHP-DB] Pulling a long list of data stalls PHP

2002-01-07 Thread Miles Thompson
Is your table indexed on the field your query is based on? That will greatly speed up the query. Miles Thompson At 11:32 AM 1/7/2002 -0500, Peter Westergaard wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to pull about 300 rows from a mysql database, (all rows in the table). I can pull the first 10, the first

Re: [PHP-DB] PHP/SQL search engine help (newbie)

2002-01-07 Thread Miles Thompson
If this is targetted at the Windows platform, why not use Windows own help engine ... htmlhelp, or something like that? If it's headed for the web, apologies. Miles Thompson At 04:17 PM 1/7/2002 +, Keith Hughes wrote: Hi, Completely new at this, so don't be too harsh. I'm trying to create

Re: [PHP-DB] Database Connection Properties

2002-01-07 Thread patrick gibson
Store the connection strings in an include file preferably outside the wed root. You can include files with a fully resolved path, or using the php include_path variable if you have access to the configuration. Alternately, if you don't have access to directories outside the webroot, put the

Re: [PHP-DB] Database Connection Properties

2002-01-07 Thread patrick gibson
Given that the data are on a shared server, then your info is available to anybody else with root access to the database directories. A previous web-site I had allowed me open access to other users mysql databases. I could have blown those databases away. Thankfully, I happen to be that

Re: [PHP-DB] PHP/SQL search engine help (newbie)

2002-01-07 Thread Keith Hughes
I wanted to make it look nicer than the windows help engine. The idea was to have a framed HTML page with the search engine part in the left and the help file that has been selected in the right. If you've used flash or dreamweaver before then that's the type of look I'm going for. It just looks

[PHP-DB] Blocks

2002-01-07 Thread Barry Rumsey
Hi In these web portals they have these things called blocks, is there a tutorial on how to do these anywhere

Re: [PHP-DB] PHP/SQL search engine help (newbie)

2002-01-07 Thread olinux
Start playing around with some basic php tutorials and you'll catch on fast and see how to change things to do what you want. If you have a basic grasp of SQl you'll be able to think out the thing. Here's an article on building a search engine. http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/clay19990421.php3

[PHP-DB] DESC LIMIT

2002-01-07 Thread Barry Rumsey
$query = SELECT * FROM xp_sings,xp_artist,xp_songs WHERE xp_artist.artist_id = xp_sings.artist_id AND xp_sings.song_id = xp_songs.song_id AND song_name LIKE 'b%' DESC LIMIT 5; $req = mysql_query($query); $res = mysql_num_rows($req); if ($res == 0) { echo centerbSorry there is no

Re: [PHP-DB] DESC LIMIT

2002-01-07 Thread Miles Thompson
Barry, Try ORDER BY song_name DESC and then add a LIMIT. Simply saying DESC is ambiguous as you are selecting all fields. Miles On Monday 07 January 2002 07:55 pm, Barry Rumsey wrote: $query = SELECT * FROM xp_sings,xp_artist,xp_songs WHERE xp_artist.artist_id = xp_sings.artist_id AND

Re: [PHP-DB] Concept help required

2002-01-07 Thread George Pitcher
DL Neil, Thanks for your response. =As a general comment, it is always dangerous to replicate when shifting platforms, better to reverse engineer and then implement anew and taking advantages of the strengths of the new tools. This particularly when moving into the relational field...

[PHP-DB] Re: DESC LIMIT

2002-01-07 Thread Ian Ferger
to use a desc, you need an order by Barry Rumsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 001001c197d6$ceb70160$0100a8c0@weizmain">news:001001c197d6$ceb70160$0100a8c0@weizmain... $query = SELECT * FROM xp_sings,xp_artist,xp_songs WHERE xp_artist.artist_id = xp_sings.artist_id AND xp_sings.song_id =