[PHP-DB] CURL and ASP

2008-07-09 Thread ioannes
Has anyone here experience of CURLing .asp pages which use session cookies as I am having difficulty doing so on two different sites, both asp. Thanks, John -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-DB] Excel to xml

2008-06-07 Thread ioannes
I am on a cPanel type shared server, they don't have a way of converting an Excel spreadsheet to xml (to read it into the database). This is a pity because xls files are smaller for the purpose of uploading them. Is there anyway to do this otherwise on a server, perhaps a different flavour

Re: [PHP-DB] display fetched data in excel format

2008-03-25 Thread ioannes
I was looking at this page: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-phpexcel/#N10181 Hope this helps. Do you have a link on the pear solution as the pear example seems wrong on the above link? John santosh wrote: Hi All, I am using subquery to fetch data from

Re: [PHP-DB] Copying an image from one server to another

2008-02-05 Thread ioannes
in the file and lines starting with ';' or '#' are ignored. If FILE is -, the list will be read from standard input. So, from a PhpScript, you manage the contents of FILE and then launch rsync with the appropriate additional options. -Original Message- From: ioannes [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [PHP-DB] Copying an image from one server to another

2008-02-05 Thread ioannes
OK but I could execute the script on the target server, which is also mine. So the jpg on the source is actually the remote server, I would be reading a remote file and writing it to the server which is executing the script. Chris wrote: ioannes wrote: This is too advanced for me

Re: [PHP-DB] Copying an image from one server to another

2008-02-05 Thread ioannes
to include in the sync. Have you read the man page for rsync? -Original Message- From: ioannes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 9:48 AM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Copying an image from one server to another I was unsure what was meant by FILE

Re: [PHP-DB] Copying an image from one server to another

2008-02-05 Thread ioannes
OK, so how would I hand over the list of files from php to the script? And am I right that I would write the rsynch code in a text file called anything.txt and the rsync at the start of the line is what calls up the rsynch program, unlike php where you need to call it something.php -

Re: [PHP-DB] Copying an image from one server to another

2008-02-05 Thread ioannes
Am I right in thinking that exec() executes a string as a call to a program which executes in a shell? So am I to write: $callthis=the contents of my rsynch file; exec($callthis); ? John ioannes wrote: OK, so how would I hand over the list of files from php to the script? And am I right

Re: [PHP-DB] Copying an image from one server to another

2008-02-04 Thread ioannes
? (it would be a much more safer to transfer files) -Aleksander Chris wrote: ioannes wrote: I am trying to: - check whether an image file exists on a server, - check whether it does not exist on another server, and if not exists - to copy from the first location to the second. I am using cURL

Re: [PHP-DB] Copying an image from one server to another

2008-02-04 Thread ioannes
in a shared or dedicated environment). Chris wrote: ioannes wrote: I am trying to: - check whether an image file exists on a server, - check whether it does not exist on another server, and if not exists - to copy from the first location to the second. I am using cURL. First step to capture the image

[PHP-DB] Copying an image from one server to another

2008-02-03 Thread ioannes
I am trying to: - check whether an image file exists on a server, - check whether it does not exist on another server, and if not exists - to copy from the first location to the second. I am using cURL. First step to capture the image from the first server. When I return this image to the

Re: [PHP-DB] Beginners Problem

2008-01-08 Thread ioannes
I use: if(ISSET($select_sql_two)$select_sql_two!is_null($select_sql_two)) { or if($select_sql_two==submit) { if submit is the button value. I am not sure which is best. John Ben Stones wrote: Hello, I am having another problem with PHP, and I have tried rectifying the problem with each

Re: [PHP-DB] Download google spreadsheet

2007-12-27 Thread ioannes
: http://code.google.com/apis/documents/overview.html -TG - Original Message - From: ioannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-db@lists.php.net Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:59:12 + Subject: [PHP-DB] Download google spreadsheet I would like to get the information in a google spreadsheet

[PHP-DB] Download google spreadsheet

2007-12-26 Thread ioannes
I would like to get the information in a google spreadsheet (of a client) programatically into my database. I was thinking of using cURL, downloading the file into Excel, then uploading it into my database using a scheduled task, then cronjob some code to make it useful. However, the google

Re: [PHP-DB] Pages not fully loading

2007-09-28 Thread ioannes
It appears the dns message (including page not found and blank page) was a symptom of trying the email test page too often resulting in more than the allowed number of simultaneous processes (20 are allowed on the shared server). However, then I got a further solution: The apache timeout on

Re: [PHP-DB] Pages not fully loading

2007-09-27 Thread ioannes
I am trying to solve this. My server support made this test script: ?php if (mail([EMAIL PROTECTED],test php mail(),test php mail(),From: Bluehost Test [EMAIL PROTECTED])) { print Working.; } else { print Failed.; } ? I tried this many time and had the following experience (it will be the

Re: [PHP-DB] Pages not fully loading

2007-09-24 Thread ioannes
Further testing shows that the script fails just before the mail() line, though after a variable number of refreshes it goes through and downloads all OK. Can anyone think why there should be this occasional interaction between the mail() command line and the php script. John ioannes wrote

Re: [PHP-DB] Pages not fully loading

2007-09-24 Thread ioannes
I am now pretty sure that it fails after the mail() function sends email (since I receive the email) but before it reaches the next line of the script. I might try something like 'mail(...) or die(...)' and see if it prints out the die('') bit. But I am looking to find out why it dies,

Re: [PHP-DB] Pages not fully loading

2007-09-22 Thread ioannes
Thanks to all who replied. There is a lot of undefined index and undefined variables when I turn on error reporting. The error logs show 'file not found' errors in the last 24 hours for files that I am sure were never called from any script on my site. I do not understand 'mod_rewrite:

Re: [PHP-DB] Pages not fully loading

2007-09-22 Thread ioannes
The problem occurs without session data in the page also. Buffering is off on my php.ini file. Language Options output_buffering= Off I have been told that the MAIN error_log below also shows errors for other users on the server, so that does not help particularly. John ioannes wrote

Re: [PHP-DB] Pages not fully loading

2007-09-22 Thread ioannes
I also get this in my error log, I am not sure what to do with this (what side effect?): PHP Warning: Unknown(): Your script possibly relies on a session side-effect which existed until PHP 4.2.3. Please be advised that the session extension does not consider global variables as a source of

[PHP-DB] Pages not fully loading

2007-09-21 Thread ioannes
I am stumped and so is my hosting help desk (shared server) on this one. My site is on a php4 server, with database. Recently I have had pages not fully load, and it seems to be a symptom that is spreading to other pages in the site. I have considered the following causes and dismissed

[PHP-DB] POSTing values to other page

2007-05-13 Thread ioannes
I am trying to send POST values from one page to another, they are too long to be handled by GET. page1.php page2.php I've tried in page1 $str=?; foreach($_POST as $name=$value) { $str.=$name.=.$value.; } header(Location: http://host/path/page2.php$str;); gives:

[PHP-DB] ORDERing two UNION queries: Non-Subquery UNION Execution

2007-04-13 Thread ioannes
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/select-union.html Does anyone know what this means? Can it be implemented in the flow of php code without explicitly creating temp tables in the database? My query is like: $query = (SELECT Table.field, [other fields] FROM Table

[PHP-DB] Include function across servers

2007-04-02 Thread ioannes
I ask this as I do not have two web sites on different servers to test at the moment. Does it work to use an include function in the php code on one site that calls a function on the other site? If you include a file on a remote server that runs a function, where does the function run - on

Re: [PHP-DB] Include function across servers

2007-04-02 Thread ioannes
I have a particular business application so just returning html is OK, the output is the useful bit in this case. I understand from the discussion that I can still run my code on my server in response to a remote server requesting the result of a function in that file and that result gets

Re: [PHP-DB] CURL and process not finishing

2007-01-08 Thread ioannes
It is on a shared server, max_exec_time is 3000, ie 30 seconds, which yes is probably being exceeded. However, having set the CURL_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT thingy it worked a lot better, and the page kept working long after 30 seconds had expired, leaving me with the question: what does

[PHP-DB] Searching remote web sites for content

2005-10-22 Thread ioannes
I have a web site and google likes to count the inbound links. I have set up a way for people to add links from my site to theirs, however I would like to check whether they have linked back to my site. I ask them to nominate where the link back page is, and I could check this manually. But

[PHP-DB] Faster multiple insert and other queries

2005-08-17 Thread ioannes
Multiple inserts using mysql were very slow so I read http://ee.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-query.php for the function below. It works well, reducing insert/query times dramatically. However, I don't understand the difference below between 1 second and 5 seconds taken for the code below.

[PHP-DB] mysql INNER JOIN

2005-05-28 Thread ioannes
I usually use INNER JOIN to link tables together in a straight line, like a branch. Can I use it to link tables like twigs stemming off the branch. If so, do I use: SELECT TABLE1.FIELD, TABLE2.FIELD, TABLE3.FIELD FROM ( TABLE1 INNER JOIN TABLE2 ON TABLE1.FIELD =TABLE2.FIELD ) INNER JOIN

[PHP-DB] Merge result set of query?

2005-03-09 Thread ioannes
My first attempt was to use $result=array_merge($result1,$result2) - doesn't work. 'not a valid resource' I have two databases with different connections, so MySQL UNION query would not work. How do I merge the result set of the queries in that case? John -- PHP Database Mailing List

[PHP-DB] MySQL: Top $num results

2005-02-13 Thread ioannes
If you use LIMIT row_count with ORDER BY, MySQL ends the sorting as soon as it has found the first row_count lines rather than sorting the whole table. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/limit-optimization.html I need to get the top $num results from a completely sorted table (eg sorted on ID,

[PHP-DB] Reg Exp to change c:\dir\dir\pic.jpg to dir/pic.jpg - to upload image path

2005-02-09 Thread ioannes
I am trying to upload images - in fact an image path - from a PC. I use the input tag: INPUT NAME=addpic TYPE=file which nicely gives an input textfield and Browse button! This gives me, in the input box, eg: c:\pics\subdir\pic1.jpg The relative path on the server is something like:

[PHP-DB] Programmer required

2005-02-02 Thread ioannes
I'm looking for a programmer, preferably in London or UK, who has been maybe out of work for a few years, to discuss an easy project with. Pass the request on to your friends. John -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-DB] Variable within blob?

2005-01-29 Thread ioannes
Can I embed a variable within a blob field, so that when the blob is printed the variable is extracted and given its correct value? John -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DB] Input ++90 causing problems

2005-01-17 Thread ioannes
Switching off Auto-select in the Encoding in IE did solve it. Thanks a lot. John - Original Message - From: graeme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ioannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: php-db@lists.php.net Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 8:17 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Input ++90 causing problems It appears

Re: [PHP-DB] Input ++90 causing problems

2005-01-14 Thread ioannes
)! - Original Message - From: graeme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ioannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: php-db@lists.php.net Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 8:17 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Input ++90 causing problems It appears as plus sign and numbers on my computer. graeme. ioannes wrote: It appears that the code

[PHP-DB] Input ++90 causing problems

2005-01-13 Thread ioannes
It appears that the code below in short has the following problematic strings: ++90 ++90-212- gives 212- on my test page below: error2.htm. A clue might be that a search on google turns up Arabic unicode, and the input here was done in Turkey. check the link:

[PHP-DB] Uploading a db

2004-11-27 Thread ioannes
What is a good way to load a database which I have served in a sql file (with all the sql statements etc). I have tried a GUI called Mascon, and a terminal command mysql -u user -ppassword db_name file.sql with no luck due to various errors, including too large packet size, need reload

[PHP-DB] Replacing subtring within table record

2004-11-15 Thread ioannes
I want to replace one substring with another within a MySQL table record, eg a blob. Do I need to extract the record and do it in php or can I do it directly with mysql? The Replace Syntax notes in mysql.com seem to relate to replacing the whole row and I'm not quite confident with shell

Re: [PHP-DB] Dates - adding to unix 86400 seconds not equal nextday

2004-09-02 Thread ioannes
Sorry to visit this once again, but this is a problem with bits the solution to which causes other problems. I need to do this in a SQL query: (arrival+nights)='$thisdate' 'arrival' is a date field, and 'nights' is an integer, so the above makes no sense, being like 2004/12/31+7 which is

Re: [PHP-DB] Dates - adding to unix 86400 seconds not equal nextday

2004-09-02 Thread ioannes
The answer seems to be DATE_ADD but I haven't got it to work yet...asking the MySQL people. I need to do this in a SQL query: (arrival+nights)='$thisdate' -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DB] Dates - adding to unix 86400 seconds not equal nextday

2004-09-02 Thread ioannes
) '$thisdate'; INTERVAL means what it says, so from 1/1/04 add an interval of 1 gives 3/1/04, not 2/1/04. Hence my -1. John - Original Message - From: ioannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 7:42 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Dates - adding to unix 86400

[PHP-DB] Dates - adding to unix 86400 seconds not equal next day

2004-09-01 Thread ioannes
Code: ? //unix date is 1099177200 seconds since 01/01/1970 //date based on unix 31 10 2004 $thisdate=date(d m Y,1099177200); print($thisdate); $next=1099177200+60*60*24; //86400 //add 86400 should give next unix date //date based on this is also 31 10 2004 print(br); $thisdate=date(d m Y,$next);

Re: [PHP-DB] Dates - adding to unix 86400 seconds not equal nextday

2004-09-01 Thread ioannes
When I run this code I get: 31 10 2004 31 10 2004 http://www.shortstay-london.com/testdates.php - Original Message - From: Craig Brothers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ioannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Dates - adding

Re: [PHP-DB] Dates - adding to unix 86400 seconds not equal nextday

2004-09-01 Thread ioannes
[day after first day above], but this gives me 11pm on 31 Oct as above. ? - Original Message - From: John Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ioannes [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Dates - adding to unix 86400 seconds

Re: [PHP-DB] Dates - adding to unix 86400 seconds not equal nextday

2004-09-01 Thread ioannes
Magnificent. - Original Message - From: John Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ioannes [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:10 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Dates - adding to unix 86400 seconds not equal nextday From: ioannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunday 31st

Re: [PHP-DB] Dates - adding to unix 86400 seconds not equal nextday

2004-09-01 Thread ioannes
Message - From: Simon Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ioannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:16 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Dates - adding to unix 86400 seconds not equal nextday Isn't this due to how your operating system handles the switch from daylight

Re: [PHP-DB] Dates - adding to unix 86400 seconds not equal nextday

2004-09-01 Thread ioannes
Of course, it's because the whole of Summer is an hour out and this changes 31 Oct. I had it backwards. I'd still like to find out if there is a mysql equivalent of gmmktime for use in queries like: SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP(mydate) FROM MyTable WHERE UNIX_TIMESTAMP(mydate)='$thisdate'; and

Re: [PHP-DB] Dates - adding to unix 86400 seconds not equal nextday

2004-09-01 Thread ioannes
I'd still like to find out if there is a mysql equivalent of gmmktime for use in queries like: SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP(mydate) FROM MyTable WHERE UNIX_TIMESTAMP(mydate)='$thisdate'; and $thisdate is a gm date. Otherwise I need to convert the GMT date back to Summer time just for the query. Is

Re: [PHP-DB] Dates - adding to unix 86400 seconds not equal nextday

2004-09-01 Thread ioannes
Final problem on this was adding a number of nights to an arrival date in a query: $query=SELECT field FROM Table WHERE (UNIX_TIMESTAMP(arrival)+nights*86400-86400+3600)='$thisdate'); When the arrival date is in Summer, adding a number of night requires adjusting for the hour [3600], because

Re: [PHP-DB] Updating a table when using LEFT JOIN

2004-08-29 Thread ioannes
I tried something similar, though only updating one table, where the columns matched, and got errors: $query=UPDATE t1 SET t1.f1=t2.f2 WHERE t1.f3=t2.f4; query failed: Unknown table 't2' in where clause. However, t2 clearly does exist. Using nested query: $query=UPDATE t1 SET t1.f1=(SELECT