Re: [PHP-DB] Manipulating text

2005-12-08 Thread Ron Piggott (PHP)
Thanks for telling me the 'explode' command. Ron On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 08:07 +0530, Amol Hatwar wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 21:25 -0500, Ron Piggott (PHP) wrote: > > If I have > > > > $variable = "play_time"; > > > > how may I remove "play_" from $variable and just have $variable equal to >

[PHP-DB] One final question regarding FTP :-)

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Payne
Hi there everyone, I found the PERFECT JAVA Applet for my PHP needs, it allows me to drag and drop and it uploads via FTP to the server very nicely with progress bar etc however, with this it doesn't send the file name to PHP which is what I urgently need. How can I list a directory an

RE: [PHP-DB] Manipulating text

2005-12-08 Thread Bastien Koert
str_replace $var = "play-time"; $var = str_replace("play-","",$var); regex $var = eregi_replace("[play-]","",$var); B From: "Ron Piggott (PHP)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PHP DB Subject: [PHP-DB] Manipulating text Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:25:39 -0500 If I have

[PHP-DB] Manipulating text

2005-12-08 Thread Ron Piggott (PHP)
If I have $variable = "play_time"; how may I remove "play_" from $variable and just have $variable equal to "time"? Ron -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-DB] Re: SQL Insert INTO question

2005-12-08 Thread Frank Flynn
Geekgirl, Let me expand on the answers so far... There are two things you can do here: add a new record or update an existing one. In SQL this makes a big difference and in your question you've confused the two (MySQL has a trick which kind of mixes the two and it is limited). I'm not ex

Re: [PHP-DB] Quick question

2005-12-08 Thread Amol Hatwar
** Comments Inline ** *chop* > Basically I need to be able to upload 1gig files via FTP which is based on Whoa! Did I read ONE GIG? By FTP I understand *the* File Transfer Protocol. How is it based on PHP? > PHP, when the file uploads successfully it then adds the info to a mysql > database so t

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: SQL Insert INTO question

2005-12-08 Thread Graham Cossey
How about: $review = $_POST['review']; $sql = "SELECT * FROM reviews WHERE review_id = '$id'"; $res = mysql_query($sql) or die ("Query failed: " . mysql_error()); if (mysql_num_rows($res) > 0) { $sql_upd = "UPDATE reviews SET review_text = '$review'

[PHP-DB] Emails Bouncing

2005-12-08 Thread Joseph Crawford
I keep getting the following, can someone from the staff rectify this please Your message To: Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Restricting What's Retreived Sent: Thu Dec 08 09:56:44 2005 did not reach the following recipient(s): [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu Dec 08 09:56:44 2005 The

Re: [PHP-DB] Quick question

2005-12-08 Thread Joseph Crawford
ini_set('max_execution_time', 9600); that's how you set the max_execution_time, i would assume the rest follow the same format. notice the time is in seconds. -- Joseph Crawford Jr. Zend Certified Engineer Codebowl Solutions, Inc. 1-802-671-2021 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP-DB] Restricting What's Retreived

2005-12-08 Thread Joseph Crawford
you can try this select SUBSTRING(field,0,100) from table -- Joseph Crawford Jr. Zend Certified Engineer Codebowl Solutions, Inc. 1-802-671-2021 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PHP-DB] Quick question

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Payne
Hi there everyone, How do I set the following items with ini_set()? I looked at the manual but when I try nothing happens: * file_uploads * upload_max_filesize * max_input_time * memory_limit * max_execution_time * post_max_size Basically I need to b

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: SQL Insert INTO question

2005-12-08 Thread dpgirago
In full agreement here. I scratched my head this morning, then looked up "INSERT" in the MySQL Docs for a sanity check. It must be an UPDATE statement to work as indicated below. David << Sorry David Mitchell >> == Is that

[PHP-DB] Restricting What's Retreived

2005-12-08 Thread Dave W
Does anyone know when you get info from a DB, can you restrict how many characters it gets from it? say you had a paragraph 1,000 letters but you only wont it to get 100 how would you do that?

Re: [PHP-DB] connect vs pconnect

2005-12-08 Thread Robert Twitty
Based on my understanding of pconnect, it is a poor man's implementation of connection pooling. Connection pooling requires a mediator server between the client and database in order to maintain a connection for reuse by another client. PHP does not provide such a server, so it uses the web server

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: SQL Insert INTO question

2005-12-08 Thread David Mitchell
Is that a syntax supported by MySQL? That is, an INSERT with WHERE clause? I tried it against Oracle, and it doesn't work (can you imagine how upsetting it would have been to have learned that, after having worked with SQL for several years, one can do an update using an INSERT statement?). I'm pr

RE: [PHP-DB] Session handler - Info wanted

2005-12-08 Thread Bastien Koert
great article at www.phpbuilder.com http://phpbuilder.com/columns/ying2602.php3?aid=19 Bastien From: Craig Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: [PHP-DB] Session handler - Info wanted Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:04:29 -0600 Hi There, I'm going to write my own session

[PHP-DB] Session handler - Info wanted

2005-12-08 Thread Craig Hoffman
Hi There, I'm going to write my own session handler for an upcoming project. I would like to store the session data in MySQL. I've never written one before; so if anyone has any tips, suggestions, in-sight, etc... please share. Thanks, Craig ___ Craig Hoffman www.ecl

Re: [PHP-DB] connect vs pconnect

2005-12-08 Thread Miles Thompson
Read the comments following the formal description at http://www.php.ca/mysql_pconnect They're pretty illuminating, and probably resulted from hard-earned experience. Miles At 11:47 AM 12/8/2005, Benjamin Adams wrote: I'm trying to figure out if running mysql_connect or mysql_pconnect would b

[PHP-DB] connect vs pconnect

2005-12-08 Thread Benjamin Adams
I'm trying to figure out if running mysql_connect or mysql_pconnect would be faster. Can someone explain the difference? Picking one for a very high traffic website with a 10 G database. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP-DB] inserting data into Oracle tables

2005-12-08 Thread roy . a . jones
You also need to consider your character set.  VARCHAR2(60 BYTE) means it only allows 60 bytes not 60 characters.  Some character sets use multiple bytes (2 or 3) for some characters.  You could define your table as VARCHAR2(60 CHAR) or set your nls_length_semantics to CHAR. I would also suggest

RE: [PHP-DB] inserting data into Oracle tables

2005-12-08 Thread Bastien Koert
check the length of your vairables before you insert...if its web based app, then you should limit the input anyway and validate it that it matches the desired data Bastien From: "David Skyers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "php-db" Subject: [PHP-DB] inserting data into Oracle tables Date: Thu, 8

[PHP-DB] Re: ftp_put

2005-12-08 Thread El Bekko
Chris Payne wrote: Hi there everyone, I'm using FTP to upload a file from a form, the information is stored in a MySQL DB and then FTP'd to the server. Is it possible - without altering the php.ini file as I don't have access to this on my clients server - to be able to upload large files r

[PHP-DB] Re: SQL Insert INTO question

2005-12-08 Thread El Bekko
geekgirl1 wrote: First time poster. This is the problem. I want to add the value of $_POST[review] to the reviews table where the unique id from the reviews table equals the review id on my form. The statement below does not work. Should I use UPDATE instead? "INSERT INTO reviews (review

[PHP-DB] inserting data into Oracle tables

2005-12-08 Thread David Skyers
Is there a standard for inserting data into Oracle tables from a user input field in PHP? Most Oracle tables will have a limit on the amount characters such as Name VARCHAR2(60 BYTE) - this means the maximum amount of characters allowed is 60. If you use special characters in PHP such as ente