RE: [PHP-DB] Call an Image from local Harddisk thru PHP file in Remote Host.

2002-12-09 Thread Beau Lebens
This won't work, because the HOST needs to be able to access the files on your machine, which is a gross security risk, and isn't possible in this manner. The only way I can think of that you would be able to do anything useful like that would be to have an HTML page load an image using img

RE: [PHP-DB] Call an Image from local Harddisk thru PHP file in Remote Host.

2002-12-09 Thread Beau Lebens
of the 'city' // symbols... // // So... what I gonna do to increase the speed ??? // // --www.kapsul.org-- // DuFronte // // -Original Message- // From: Beau Lebens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:55 PM // To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [PHP-DB] Brand New to PHP

2002-12-08 Thread Beau Lebens
Look at the section in the manual on how to upload files via HTTP (Under the Features chapter from memory) for working with the images. a couple other things to think about; 1. some sort of validation on the images to make sure they are images (extension/mim-type?) 2. confirm that you can

RE: [PHP-DB] calling function on submit instead of going to a new script

2002-12-04 Thread Beau Lebens
long story short - you can't you can only call a function in javascript or some other client-side scripting language like that, and you would use the onSubmit= attribute of the form tag. by the sounds of what you want to do - i would say you would do something like; 1. load values from db and

RE: [PHP-DB] Assign a variable with another variables value

2002-12-01 Thread Beau Lebens
// Example: $foo = BAR; ${'new' . $foo} = some string; // this should do it i think, in this case creating a var called $newBAR HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: Martin Allan Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Monday, 2 December 2002 10:30 AM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //

RE: [PHP-DB] implode()

2002-11-25 Thread Beau Lebens
implode accepts an *array* as input, not a string. you would need to change your $sqlUpdate to be an array, and each statement look something like; if($textfield12 != '') { $sqlUpdate[] = textfield12='$textfield12'; } of course it would probably be easier to just do something like this;

RE: [PHP-DB] standart variabels melfunction

2002-11-19 Thread Beau Lebens
[php.ini] register_globals=On Beau // -Original Message- // From: Martin Allan Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Wednesday, 20 November 2002 12:41 PM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: [PHP-DB] standart variabels melfunction // // // Hi all, // // I have a problem with my

RE: [PHP-DB] A Question on Javascript

2002-11-13 Thread Beau Lebens
Not that there is actually a question in there... I assume your question is How do I pass a value from a window which was opened via JavaScript, back to the window which opened it Short answer: window.opener -- read up in a javascript reference manual about this object. Longer answer after

RE: [PHP-DB] Warning - newby question -- $_GET

2002-11-06 Thread Beau Lebens
did you try echoing the value of $id after you have assigned it? you may find it's because you aren't connected to your database or something and also, i am assuming that you are using a recent install/verison of PHP, because $_GET wasn't available until the last few releases. beau //

RE: [PHP-DB] string

2002-10-31 Thread Beau Lebens
you can do this as a part of your db query check the string functions available for your rdbms. mysql would use something like; SELECT SUBSTRING(monthname(blah), 0, 3) AS monthAbbrev FROM tablename from memory HTH beau // -Original Message- // From: John Coder

RE: [PHP-DB] exporting to xml

2002-10-29 Thread Beau Lebens
you don't see them because they are interpreted as HTML tags, they are unknown, so they are ignored. options; 1. View - Source 2. Encode all as lt; (HTML version) and it will display it all as text, then you can copy-paste it to somewhere else 3. Wrap it all in a pre tag, then follow 2.

RE: [PHP-DB] displaying flash from db

2002-10-21 Thread Beau Lebens
*** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING *** I haven't done this directly, but I imagine the process would be similar to working with images, and the same restrictions/rules of thumb would apply regarding storing them in the db versus storing them on the filesystem, i.e. store the flash files in the

RE: [PHP-DB] Query error

2002-10-02 Thread Beau Lebens
If it's on MySQL, then the problem is that it doesn't support nested queries :) If it's on something else, i'm afraid i don't know :/ Back to MySQL, you can get around that by doing your select author_code from authorxcat component query, then put the results into 'x', 'y', 'z' format, then do

RE: [PHP-DB]opening and reading from file

2002-09-22 Thread Beau Lebens
just use ?php $filename = C:\\Documents and Settings\\roslyn\\My Documents\\note.txt; // note double-slashes $contents = join('', file($filename)); echo $contents; ? should work. your parse error is probably because of the \ in your filename, you need to escape them with another \. HTH Beau

RE: [PHP-DB]opening and reading from file

2002-09-22 Thread Beau Lebens
\\note.txt, r); // $contents = fread ($fp, filesize ($filename)); // echo $contents; // fclose ($fp); // ? // // regards, // roslyn // Beau Lebens wrote:just use // // $filename = C:\\Documents and Settings\\roslyn\\My // Documents\\note.txt; // // note double-slashes // $contents = join('', file

RE: [PHP-DB]opening and reading from file

2002-09-22 Thread Beau Lebens
\\My // Documents\\note.txt; // $fp = fopen (C:\\Documents and Settings\\roslyn\\My // Documents\\note.txt, r); // $contents = fread ($fp, filesize ($filename)); // echo $contents; // fclose ($fp); // ? // /body // // /html // // regards, // // roslyn // // Beau Lebens wrote:what exact

RE: [PHP-DB] input 's id and name -- question...

2002-09-17 Thread Beau Lebens
nope - an id is used for other things (like javascript, style sheets, DHTML etc). They shouldn't affect your variable names. HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: Michael Zornek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Wednesday, 18 September 2002 6:41 AM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //

RE: [PHP-DB] Apache 2.X and PHP

2002-09-08 Thread Beau Lebens
i'm running php 4.2.2 and apache2 on my win2k laptop and it appears to be running fine (stable etc) but obviously only as a dev platform, so not under any sort of load or anything like that. also not running particularly complex operations, so don't know about how it will handle that :) but it

RE: [PHP-DB] External file integryti check

2002-09-03 Thread Beau Lebens
can't you just make the name of the file include a unique identifier of some sort, or store each user's files in a different directory or something, to make sure that they can't overwrite each other's (or their own) files? Or would that not work in your app? HTH Beau // -Original

RE: [PHP-DB] Upload csv file into mysql

2002-09-03 Thread Beau Lebens
try phpMyAdmin - nice and easy, although i'm pretty sure there is a direct command line. // -Original Message- // From: Dr. Indera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2002 12:21 PM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: [PHP-DB] Upload csv file into mysql // // //

RE: [PHP-DB] What's wrong with this code?

2002-09-01 Thread Beau Lebens
I'd use var inclusions like this; VALUES (' . $_POST['Name'] . ', that might help you // -Original Message- // From: Shoulder to Shoulder Farm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Monday, 2 September 2002 11:42 AM // To: PHP Database List // Subject: [PHP-DB] What's wrong with this

RE: [PHP-DB] MySQL/PHP

2002-08-30 Thread Beau Lebens
try a little thought... http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclientq=php+mysql+tutorial // -Original Message- // From: Bryan McLemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Friday, 30 August 2002 2:52 PM // To: PHP LIST // Subject: [PHP-DB] MySQL/PHP // // // Where can I find a

RE: [PHP-DB] Log Application Help...

2002-08-13 Thread Beau Lebens
Scott, can you just do it by sorting your query, then limiting the results to 10? ie. SELECT * FROM tables WHERE somthing='1' ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 10 should sort highest - lowest date (ie most recent, backwards) and give you the top 10 results. then if you have the option of flipping thru

RE: [PHP-DB] php mysql external server

2002-08-01 Thread Beau Lebens
Meethoo as it says in the PHP documentation, you can access a MySQL server whether it's on the same machine as the PHP install or not. ie. mysql_connect('localhost', $user, $pass) OR mysql_connect('111.111.111.111', $user, $pass) Beau // -Original Message- // From: Meethoo Salim

RE: [PHP-DB] Resetting MySQL Auto_Index - How?

2002-07-24 Thread Beau Lebens
monty, i found that if you do the command DELETE FROM table (with no WHERE clause) it deletes everything, and resets Beau // -Original Message- // From: Monty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Thursday, 25 July 2002 1:34 PM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: [PHP-DB] Resetting

RE: [PHP-DB] Global variables, $_GET problem

2002-07-23 Thread Beau Lebens
Ruth, your reference to $_GET('var') is close, but as you have seen - no cigar :) using the () after GET makes it refer to a function, but it is actually an array which is automatically created, so you need to use $_GET['var'] (note the square brackets as for point 2 (register_globals) did you

RE: [PHP-DB] php and javascript?

2002-07-22 Thread Beau Lebens
Bo, you have really answered your own question (question 1) all you need to do is replace http://detination with http://localhost/index.php?id=1 (as per your examples) and it should send them to the page which triggers the deletion of the page (if they confirm the box) as far as q2 goes, you

RE: [PHP-DB] or statement in url

2002-07-18 Thread Beau Lebens
or alternatively just do something similar to what you did, using either the in-built array handling, or your own string manipulation ie. http://url.com/page.php?var1=foo http://url.com/page.php?var1=bar could be either; http://url.com/page.php?var[]=foovar[]=bar ($_GET[var] will be an array

RE: [PHP-DB] change data before its sent to db?

2002-07-16 Thread Beau Lebens
Chip, a couple ideas 1. why not display the select list something like this select name=month option value=00Please Select/option option value=01January/option option value=02February/option ... /select That way the user sees the names of the months, but your database gets sent nice,

RE: [PHP-DB] resource ID #3

2002-07-11 Thread Beau Lebens
Jonathan, most (all?) of the database query-related functions in PHP return a Resource ID which contains the data resulting from your query. To access that information, you need to pass the Resource ID thru a function like (assuming u r using MySQL) mysql_fetch_array() or mysql_fetch_row() Have

RE: [PHP-DB] A Simple Question

2002-07-10 Thread Beau Lebens
/a'; then on link.php you'd have the array $array[] (with globals) or $_GET['array'][] cool Beau -Original Message- From: Adam Royle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 10 July 2002 9:05 PM To: Beau Lebens; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] A Simple Question Just

RE: [PHP-DB] A Simple Question

2002-07-09 Thread Beau Lebens
Also, as far as limitations go, the following are considerations; 1. You can't pass an array using the querystring 2. Multiline variables (ie. textarea contents) are bad 3. There is a limit of 255 or something characters to a URI (someone?) 4. Be careful with the $_GET[] array that Tony

RE: [PHP-DB] Urent please

2002-07-08 Thread Beau Lebens
how about when u open the new window (using something like window.open(...)) you make it open a URL something like foobar.php?var1=foo and then on that page (foobar.php) you can grab the value of $var1 as foo HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: its me [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] //

RE: [PHP-DB] Form select field problem

2002-07-08 Thread Beau Lebens
Keiran, A couple possibilities for you; 1. Try referring to the field (in JavaScript) as something like; (might have to play around with this) document.existing[groupchoice[]].selectedIndex 2. Make it so that each selection on the select tag is mirrored into another hidden input field

RE: [PHP-DB] Session data not being deleted on browser close.

2002-07-08 Thread Beau Lebens
have you closed all browser windows? eg. if you open your browser, then spawn a new window (ctrl-n or similar) then do something with one of them which creates session vars, then close that window, then open a new one again, the session has probably remained active because the first window was

RE: [PHP-DB] Excel to MySQL??

2002-06-30 Thread Beau Lebens
make sure there are no # chars in there, unless you have commented lines out (as below) # commented line in phpMyAdmin that is a comment, and the way it reads, if there's a # on a line, it comments from there onwards (from memory) HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: Chase

RE: [PHP-DB] E-mail address verification

2002-06-23 Thread Beau Lebens
also, you might like to do some client-side validation before sending it to the server, in which case you can use somehting like http://www.dentedreality.com.au/jsvalidation/ HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Friday, 21

RE: [PHP-DB] CSV/TXT file imported via PHP into MySQL

2002-06-10 Thread Beau Lebens
Keiran, in your second page, you refer to $textfile as the thing that you want to load into the database; this file doesn't exist on the server, so it is inserting nothing I would imagine. You need to use something like $_FILES['tmp_name'] to refer to the actual file, once it has been

RE: [PHP-DB] values across functions

2002-06-05 Thread Beau Lebens
have you declared the variables as global int eh function? eg function foo($bar) { global $this, $that, $theOther; [...] } that way $this, $that and $theOther variables are available everywhere HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: James Kupernik [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [PHP-DB] dropping one word from column entries

2002-05-29 Thread Beau Lebens
A cleaner option might be to do this before you get it to PHP at all, via your SQL query. Check out the string functions available, there are a number of substring-style things available, string position etc. HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: Ed Gorski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: [PHP-DB] mysql exclusion in php

2002-05-29 Thread Beau Lebens
chris, you'll need to do a little PHP manipulation, perhaps (pseudo) if -word. (regular expression?) for each -word SQL .= NOT LIKE '%word% AND' endforeach endif for each other word SQL .= LIKE '%word%' AND endforeach strip trailing AND clean up SQL as

RE: [PHP-DB] Truncated Data

2002-05-29 Thread Beau Lebens
htmlspecialchars() Beau // -Original Message- // From: Larentium [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2002 10:40 AM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: [PHP-DB] Truncated Data // // // Hello, // // I desperately need help... I've based my entire project on // the

RE: [PHP-DB] HELP USING THE MAIL FUNCTION WITH HTML

2002-05-26 Thread Beau Lebens
you have to change the Content-Type header or something (text/html) but the easiest way is to use a pre-packed class (unless you really want to do it yourself). Check out hotscripts or just do a google for php mail class or similar :) HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From:

RE: [PHP-DB] DROP tables with prefix match

2002-05-15 Thread Beau Lebens
if it's only a one-off thing, you could use php to get all table names (mysql_list_tables) and then go thru and create an array of the names that match your criteria, then go thru that array and DROP each one progressivly. HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: John Hughes

RE: [PHP-DB] Link for next db record

2002-05-13 Thread Beau Lebens
3:14 PM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Link for next db record // // // This line sets $row[rv_space] // echoTRTDSearch Record by Space Number // /TDTDnbsp;INPUT size=4 // name=rv_space/TD/TR; // // // // Beau Lebens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message // news:[EMAIL

RE: [PHP-DB] IIS - hangs up after one hour

2002-05-13 Thread Beau Lebens
Memory Leak? check task manager periodically over that time to see how much memory IIS is hogging (under Processes - you might have to add the column Mem Usage) Other than that... my only suggestion would be to upgrade to Apache :) (and yes, I intentionally use the phrasing - upgrade :) Beau

RE: [PHP-DB] SELECTING a sentence from a text field?

2002-05-13 Thread Beau Lebens
Larry, take a look in the MySQL manual (or other SQL reference, but MySQL has it there) String Functions http://www.mysql.com/doc/S/t/String_functions.html Particularly, look at (no named anchors that I can see :) LOCATE(substr,str,pos) ie, you could use perhaps LOCATE( , yourField, 95) ?

RE: [PHP-DB] Link for next db record

2002-05-12 Thread Beau Lebens
jen, assuming you are currently looking at a page which is something like php.php?record=3, then you should be able to just do a href='php.php?record=?php echo ($record-1) ?'Previous record/aa href='php.php?php echo ($record+1) ?'Next record/a and then on the php.php page, you would obviously

RE: [PHP-DB] REG_BADRPT

2002-04-18 Thread Beau Lebens
basically it means that you have an invalid regular expression pattern in a regex function. i think it's something to do with the . * ? + symbols - but just take a good look at your pattern and somewhere in there it is invalid :) HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: Camelia Enderby

RE: [PHP-DB] appending new entry to old entries

2002-04-18 Thread Beau Lebens
there might even be some cool SQL you can use tho, which would avoid having to get the data out and then put it back in again. I *think* (don't quote me on this) I remeber seeing something like UPDATE myTable SET myField = CONCAT(myField + 'new string of stuff here') WHERE myID='1' HTH beau

RE: [PHP-DB] Limitations on sending text to a database via text area forms

2002-04-17 Thread Beau Lebens
could you perhaps save the contents directly into a file, then read the file into the database? I know for a fact (http://www.dentedreality.com.au/webpad/) that you can use a textarea to pump more info than that into a file, but haven't tried doing it straight into a database. HTH Beau //

RE: [PHP-DB] Upload Multiple Images

2002-04-11 Thread Beau Lebens
brandon, you can only ever upload 1 file per file input box, but you can have more than one of these input fields per form. you might have something like input type=file name=file1 input type=file name=file2 input type=file name=file3 that way when you are processing (assuming PHP4+) you can

RE: [PHP-DB] saving details problem (big)

2002-04-04 Thread Beau Lebens
Dave, would it be possible (not ideal, but might work) to do something like this; - user fills out form - user clicks submit - submit fires off 2 events, one submits to AFD server, the other opens a new window, behind the current, submits certain values (the 3 new ones) and saves them into

RE: [PHP-DB] Selecting random record from a database?

2002-04-02 Thread Beau Lebens
SELECT * FROM quotes ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1 something like that, take a quick look in the MySQL (or other) docs for the RAND() function. HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: Dan Swensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Wednesday, 3 April 2002 1:45 PM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //

RE: [PHP-DB] Renaming files after a name in a db field possible?

2002-03-13 Thread Beau Lebens
andy, this should be pretty basic - just try something along the lines of 1. SELECT country/codes from DB [1] 2. loop thru those results [2] a. check if a file called country code-map.gif exists[3], if it does, rename[4] it to matching country name-map.gif b. if

RE: [PHP-DB] Random Selecting from mySQL

2002-03-13 Thread Beau Lebens
could you perhaps do the select on the first page, then store the results in a session (array) and just load different indexed portions of the resultset each page? only problem there is that you wouldn't get any refreshed results while browsing those pages - but i don't know if this matters for

RE: [PHP-DB] GREATEST, LEAST

2002-03-11 Thread Beau Lebens
Is it perhaps actually MAX and MIN? SELECT MAX(profit) FROM schemes WHERE revenueexpenses (not tested, confirmed etc :P) HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: Jeff Oien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Tuesday, 12 March 2002 10:20 AM // To: PHP-DB // Subject: [PHP-DB] GREATEST,

RE: [PHP-DB] why won't session_start() work?

2002-02-27 Thread Beau Lebens
Ryan, you need to make all of those calls *before* ANY output has been sent by your script, otherwise you can't send a header any more. so the TOP of a script might look like ?php session_start(); $signor = $monsieur + $madame; session_register(signor); // the rest of your code goes here ? html

RE: [PHP-DB] accessing system cmds w/ PHP

2002-02-27 Thread Beau Lebens
JJ, I seem to recall most people saying that the shorthand works best $output = `chmod -R 777 *'; HTH beau // -Original Message- // From: Jeremiah Jester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2002 9:37 AM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: [PHP-DB] accessing

RE: [PHP-DB] Still bangin my head

2002-02-25 Thread Beau Lebens
you would need to do a select and find out how much is in the account first, then do a check on the equation to see if the result is going to come out negative - if it is, then either don't allow it, or give them an option to clear the account or whatever, otherwise just go ahead and do the

RE: [PHP-DB] Delete selected files

2002-02-25 Thread Beau Lebens
your checkboxes should pass a value (probably just the filename) and you could perhaps name them all filenames[] or something, using the array trick in PHP, so that on the page you submit to, $filenames will be an array containing everything that was checked. you can then loop thru the array and

RE: [PHP-DB] Passing contents of array on as variables...

2002-02-25 Thread Beau Lebens
rather than all the hidden fields and stuff you guys are trying to do - why not just build the array variable you want, then save it into a session, on the next page, access the session variable and wallah - there's your array, still in tact and just as you left it (ie. containing all the info

[PHP-DB] SELECT where something exists but something else does not

2002-02-20 Thread Beau Lebens
that doesn't eqal '2002', even if they happen to also have one that *is* for 2002 (ie. my test student has a report for 1999, 2001 and 2002, but still gets selected by that -- Beau Lebens, Technical Officer Science and Mathematics Education Centre Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987 Perth

RE: [PHP-DB] Join

2002-02-20 Thread Beau Lebens
what you are referring to actually has nothing to do with PHP Jen - that's why the manual wasn't much help :) JOIN is an SQL command, so check out the manual of your RDBMS (ie. http://www.mysql.com/doc/J/O/JOIN.html for MySQL) good luck :) Beau // -Original Message- // From: Jennifer

RE: [PHP-DB] formating problem

2002-02-19 Thread Beau Lebens
htat's because the delete button is in the wrong place in your code. if you put an HTML element between the table and /table tags, but don't enclose it in at least tr and td tags (pretty loose about closing them, but of course you should always close your tags!) then the browser will display

RE: [PHP-DB] sql query

2002-02-18 Thread Beau Lebens
try replacing WHERE display=$custcatergory); with WHERE display='$custcatergory'); and also tru echoing the value of that SQL statement (assign it to a var first) to make sure you are getting the right thing. HTH /b // -Original Message- // From: CrossWalkCentral [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [PHP-DB] Session confusion :-(

2002-02-17 Thread Beau Lebens
are you always refreshing the session on each page dave? i am pretty sure you need to call session_start() on every page that you will be accessing the session-based variables. HTH beau // -Original Message- // From: Dave Carrera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Saturday, 16

RE: [PHP-DB] RE: Logging visits using a database

2002-02-14 Thread Beau Lebens
i think i saw an article on phpbuilder.com regarding how to set up a good thing for the path taken - something along the lines of storing IP vs time vs page hit, then a good method for selecting from the db that shows the path of the visitor HTH beau // -Original Message- // From:

RE: [PHP-DB] Email Validation

2002-02-11 Thread Beau Lebens
have a look at the online annotated php manual under the regular expression functions, there are *stacks* of examples of using regexps to validate email patterns beau // -Original Message- // From: CrossWalkCentral [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2002 12:20 PM

RE: [PHP-DB] protecting

2002-02-11 Thread Beau Lebens
you might find the library at http://www.dentedreality.com.au/jsvalidation/ useful, but you should also perform similar checks server-side using PHP since if you are that worried about malicious use of your site, people can easily circumvent javascript validation // -Original Message- //

RE: [PHP-DB] javascipt window

2002-02-10 Thread Beau Lebens
Mike, you have a conflict with your different quote-styles, have a look at the source code when you output that and you will see what i mean, you need to do something like this; echo td ALIGN=\CENTER\a href=\javascript:launchwin('$row[5].htm','newwindow','height=480,width=640'

RE: [PHP-DB] More Date operations.

2002-01-31 Thread Beau Lebens
you have changed the command from when you do it in mysql to when you do it in php - you are leaving out the ' quote marks around the date you are passing :) // $sql=SELECT TO_DAYS(2001-01-01) AS bar; should be // $sql=SELECT TO_DAYS('2001-01-01') AS bar; HTH beau // -Original

RE: [PHP-DB] drop down list

2002-01-30 Thread Beau Lebens
apologies for answering such an already-over-answered question, but i feel that no-one has given a particularly *good* answer, so i'll add mine to the list. I use this function (as well as a couple others which do similar things for all form elements; // Creates an HTML select box of values. //

RE: [PHP-DB] HTTP authentication

2002-01-20 Thread Beau Lebens
not that this has anything to do with databases... ([php-db]) assuming; 1. you are using apache 2. you have command-line access to your server 3. your webhost has htaccess enabled and configured to use .htaccess as the security file you should be able to drop a file called (usally) .htaccess

RE: [PHP-DB] HTTP authentication

2002-01-20 Thread Beau Lebens
if you could still help me, or anyone else I would // greatly appreciate it! // // Yours, // // Kevin // Beau Lebens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message // news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. // edu.au... // not that this has anything to do with databases... ([php-db]) // // assuming; // 1. you are using

RE: [PHP-DB] Easy way to calculate difference between two dates

2002-01-20 Thread Beau Lebens
soo what happens with php if you do something like convert them both to Y-m-d H:i:s and then subtract one from the other, i have a feeling (haven't tried) that php will handle the rest for you... // -Original Message- // From: SpamSucks86 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Monday, 21

RE: [PHP-DB] Reading and Writing ?

2002-01-17 Thread Beau Lebens
easy peasy dave :) (pseudo-code - cause i'm lazy and hopefully you aren't :P) ?php[esque] create file pointer to file 1 (read-only r?) read file 1 into string close file pointer to file 1 create file pointer to file 2 (creating if necessary (w)) write string from file 1 to this pointer

RE: [PHP-DB] Connecting from PHP to MySQL on another Server

2002-01-17 Thread Beau Lebens
// 1. What is the difference between working with PHP and MySQL // on a local // server and working with PHP and MySQL when MySQL is on a // remote server? none - just specify different hostname in connection call (perhaps IP more reliable) // 2. What is the protocol used to connect to MySQL

RE: [PHP-DB] Updating multiple rows from a single form submission

2002-01-17 Thread Beau Lebens
Hi John - I have come up against this one a number of times, and have found that the following works pretty nicely - although there may be better ways out there - get your records from the db - loop thru them, using some sort of ID field to print each row in your table with names something

RE: [PHP-DB] Web Poll Using sql

2002-01-17 Thread Beau Lebens
Jacob, I think you can do something like UPDATE tablename SET fieldD=fieldD+1 WHERE pollTitle='title'; or similar? check the manual on updates and mathematical functions probably -b // -Original Message- // From: Jacob Wyke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Friday, 18 January 2002

RE: [PHP-DB] Combining INSERT...SELECT and INSERT INTO

2002-01-16 Thread Beau Lebens
if you are using mysql then no i don't think you can do that, since it doesn't support nested queries - postgres or some other db may well support it tho but like miles said - give it a go :) (maybe on a test database/table just in case) hth -b // -Original Message- // From: Markus

RE: [PHP-DB] What is REG_BADRPT, and why do I get it?

2002-01-16 Thread Beau Lebens
on a guess - echo the value of $search_name in between each call to see what happens to it as it goes through - you may find that something is going haywire in there somewhere (or that it's blank) -b // -Original Message- // From: Markus Lervik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent:

RE: [PHP-DB] Problem with mail function

2002-01-16 Thread Beau Lebens
also - rather than change the ini file, you can just put ?php set_time_limit(43200); ? which gives the script 12 hours to run (or however you think you need) i have a simple script for mailing out bulk mail done in php - it has successfully worked on 700 emails so far - so it works :) -b //

RE: [PHP-DB] Optimizing mail()

2002-01-16 Thread Beau Lebens
hey olinux - i did something like this with a mailing list thing i have for a website (insertfashionhere.com - about to be relaunched) and all i did was ordered the emails to be sent by their server - as you have said. mine were in a database, so in my select i did something liek SELECT email,

RE: [PHP-DB] Searching a variable

2002-01-16 Thread Beau Lebens
i don't doubt that there are probably better ways of going about this chris, but you can do something like; ?php $words = explode( , $searchText); $query = SELECT * FROM table WHERE ; foreach ($words as $word) { $query .= field LIKE '%word%' AND ; } $query .= field!='' ORDER BY

RE: [PHP-DB] Can't use field names in print

2002-01-13 Thread Beau Lebens
you need to use the *_fetch_array() functions i.e. if you are using MySQL $SQL = something; // build SQL query $result = mysql_query($SQL); // execute query, save all results in $result $firstResult = mysql_fetch_array($result); // create an array containing each returned record // subsequent

RE: [PHP-DB] Can't use field names in print

2002-01-13 Thread Beau Lebens
you should be able to just change the mysql_fetch_row to a mysql_fetch_array and then use the names rather than the numbers in your print (modified below, not tested :) // ? // $user = root; // $pw = ; // $db = pete; // // $mysql_access = mysql_connect(localhost, $user, $pw); //

RE: [PHP-DB] Sanitizing user input for interaction with DB.

2002-01-13 Thread Beau Lebens
Hi Benny, I know this is a bit of a run-around again, but try the annotated manual on php.net, it has some good examples of using things here and there. Specifically useful functions are htmlspecialentities() htmlspecialchars() addslashes() stripslashes() nl2br() also, as far as using regexps

RE: [PHP-DB] I think i saw this somewhere....

2002-01-06 Thread Beau Lebens
*being a smart-ass from your email signature* sure... you can download the script from .. just kidding :) the best way to do this as far as I know would be to have a PHP script which had write-access to your apache conf files, which then just added in the required lines and restarted

RE: [PHP-DB] Run php page automatically

2001-12-20 Thread Beau Lebens
it's better to do something like 0,10,20,30,40,50* * * * /usr/bin/php -q /home/you/yourscript.php /dev/null since crontab actually stores the result of it's operations in a file (/home/you/Mailbox?) so you will bloat your server if you don't clear the output.

RE: [PHP-DB] date format question

2001-11-27 Thread Beau Lebens
try H as your hour format (date(H)+5) although out of interest, at 9:51am, using either g or H gives me 2:51 pm HTH /beau // -Original Message- // From: Matt Nigh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2001 9:48 AM // To: php-db // Subject: [PHP-DB] date format

RE: [PHP-DB] Flushing PHP output

2001-11-22 Thread Beau Lebens
if you just echo() the results/messages as you come across them, the page should incrementally load. in my experience (IE5?) if there is data being added to the page, then the browser will display what it can, and keep adding to it until the stream breaks or it finishes. one thing to note is

RE: [PHP-DB] Database help needed

2001-11-21 Thread Beau Lebens
should be able to do something like SELECT whatever FROM whereever WHERE value='50' AND value='45' is that what you are looking for? // -Original Message- // From: Chris Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Thursday, 22 November 2001 3:11 PM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //

RE: [PHP-DB] getting database tables

2001-11-12 Thread Beau Lebens
or even mysql_list_tables() :) /beau // -Original Message- // From: Rick Emery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Tuesday, 13 November 2001 1:47 AM // To: 'mike luce'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] getting database tables // // // In PHP: // $query = SHOW TABLES; //

RE: [PHP-DB] Date Calculation

2001-11-12 Thread Beau Lebens
in PHP, coming out in yyy-mm-dd date("Y-m-d", mktime(0,0,0, date("m"), date("d")+14, date("Y")); untested, so please test it - this will ignore hours, minutes, seconds (the leading 3 0's) and make a timestamp using mktime for this month, this day + 14, this year, then return it formatted as

RE: [PHP-DB] Application variables

2001-10-28 Thread Beau Lebens
php doesn't have application variables as such, however there are a couple options for implementing them... 1. have a single file with your application variables and manually include that in all files of the project 2. use the session_*() functions to keep the vars alive on pages 3. as you said,

RE: [PHP-DB] HELP! (mysql)

2001-10-25 Thread Beau Lebens
if you have phpMyAdmin then just use that (if you don't then you *really* should :) otherwise, yeah just use mysql_query() or use the command line of course the second 2 options assume you can construct the SQL command to do it, using phpMyAdmin you won't really need to know. /beau //

RE: [PHP-DB] Help, need the scripts of processing the to-be-confirmed email.

2001-10-25 Thread Beau Lebens
// Question 1: // How to process the confirmation email by clicking the url // given in the email // and by replying the email. when you send them an email, include some sort of confirmation code ie http://server/confirm.php?confirmCode=xxx when they click, it passes this code, and you look

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Newbie in Need of Assistance

2001-10-24 Thread Beau Lebens
carols - true, but to avoid confusion and problem sif your names get more complex (i.e. i think $$some_name will go crazy, you should always do it like this $var_name = game1; ${$var_name} cheers guys // -Original Message- // From: Carlos Augusto Abarca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] //

RE: [PHP-DB] https

2001-10-22 Thread Beau Lebens
you mean to use for some sort of header redirect or something? couldn't you do 1. click link change to secure mode 2. pass the url you just came from with the link (or get it from HTTP_REFERRER or whatever it is) 3. header(Location: . str_replace(http://;, https://;, $last_url)); or am i

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