[PHP-DB] Connecting to remote db securely

2002-11-25 Thread Lisi
I am writing a content management section for a site that will use as part of the front page three small sub-sections from another site's home page (with their permission, of course). They are worried about giving us the password to their database, where the information is stored, because we

Re: [PHP-DB] Connecting to remote db securely

2002-11-25 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Which DB? MySQL supports encrypted connections. On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Lisi wrote: I am writing a content management section for a site that will use as part of the front page three small sub-sections from another site's home page (with their permission, of course). They are worried about

Re: [PHP-DB] Connecting to remote db securely

2002-11-25 Thread Lisi
I didn't realize that, is this discussed in Paul DuBois' book? Or, can you point me to the function(s) on the mysql website I need to look at? Thanks, -Lisi At 12:09 AM 11/25/02 -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Which DB? MySQL supports encrypted connections. On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Lisi wrote: I

Re: [PHP-DB] Connecting to remote db securely

2002-11-25 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
See php.net/mysql_connect The client_flags argument is the one you want, so you will need PHP 4.3 for it and MySQL 4.0.x. -Rasmus On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Lisi wrote: I didn't realize that, is this discussed in Paul DuBois' book? Or, can you point me to the function(s) on the mysql website I

Re: [PHP-DB] Connecting to remote db securely

2002-11-25 Thread Lisi
I checked with phpinfo() and this is what I got: PHP Version 4.2.2 mysql - Client API version 3.23.51 Is there any secure way to connect using these versions? I am on a virtual host so there's not much I can do about upgrading. Also, does it matter which versions the server I am connecting to

Re: [PHP-DB] Sessions Vs DB Access

2002-11-25 Thread Mika Tuupola
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Peter Beckman wrote: Don't forget that you can use the DB to store PHP Sessions as well, which is faster than storing the sessions in /tmp on the file system. If you have well written SQL, you can have 5-30 queries per page, most of which should return the data in under

Re: [PHP-DB] Sessions Vs DB Access

2002-11-25 Thread Andrey Hristov
Quick hack for those who think that the MM handler is not stable is to use the standard handler and the directory where the session files will be to be mounted as tmpfs (even /tmp). This will give almost of the MM's speed without worrying whether MM is stable or not. Andrey - Original

Re: [PHP-DB] Connecting to remote db securely

2002-11-25 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Yup, only MySQL 4.0.x has SSL support. I suppose you could try to set up some sort of tunnel, but it might not be the most reliable thing in the world. On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Lisi wrote: I checked with phpinfo() and this is what I got: PHP Version 4.2.2 mysql - Client API version 3.23.51 Is

Re: [PHP-DB] Connecting to remote db securely

2002-11-25 Thread Lisi
OK, then I'll throw this back to the list - any other ideas how I can get to their data without compromising their DB? I thought maybe about asking them to set up a separate DB with just the table I need, and sync it to those table in their main db, but it has to be a solution that involves the

Re: [PHP-DB] Connecting to remote db securely

2002-11-25 Thread Bastian Vogt
Hi, why don't you write a script which simply gets all the data you need out of their database and puts it into some arrays. then include the page on your website and then you can work with the arrays as if they were on your server HTH, Bastian -- PHP Database Mailing List

[PHP-DB] option selected

2002-11-25 Thread mike karthauser
I'm using the contents of a table to print an option list in another form to allow me to cross reference the tables in my data. ? $result = mysql_query(SELECT * FROM category,$db); printf(select name=\catcode\\n); while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { printf(option value=\%s\%s/option\n,

Re: [PHP-DB] Connecting to remote db securely

2002-11-25 Thread Jason Wong
On Monday 25 November 2002 18:03, Lisi wrote: OK, then I'll throw this back to the list - any other ideas how I can get to their data without compromising their DB? I thought maybe about asking them to set up a separate DB with just the table I need, and sync it to those table in their main

Re: [PHP-DB] Connecting to remote db securely

2002-11-25 Thread DL Neil
I didn't realize that, is this discussed in Paul DuBois' book? Or, can you =not book, but books! =MySQL (New Riders) discusses network access/security in Chap 12, but Jason's solution is also discussed in Chap 11. Unfortunately this book is getting a bit old when it comes to these more advanced

[PHP-DB] Re: option selected

2002-11-25 Thread Tjoumaidis Tasos
Hope it helps a bit Mike Karthauser wrote: I'm using the contents of a table to print an option list in another form to allow me to cross reference the tables in my data. ? $result = mysql_query(SELECT * FROM category,$db); printf(select name=\catcode\\n); while ($myrow =

Re: [PHP-DB] option selected

2002-11-25 Thread Kae Verens
mike karthauser wrote: Once i have selected from the drop box the variable is submitted back to my table and saved. When re-edit the data - the record already has a value for catcode which i want to reflect within the drop box - in html it would be the addition of selected=selected within the

[PHP-DB] Questions about policy

2002-11-25 Thread Antonio Bernabei
Is it possible to post a message about looking for someone developing php software? Thanks Antonio Bernabei -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-DB] PDFlib

2002-11-25 Thread nikos
Hello everybody Does evrybody know if there is a free version of PDFlib Thanx Nikos

Re: [PHP-DB] PDFlib

2002-11-25 Thread Kent Roper
Web Monkey lists a few alternatives here: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/02/20/index3a.html?tw=programming - Original Message - From: nikos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PHP-mailist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 7:19 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] PDFlib Hello everybody Does

[PHP-DB] error 1100

2002-11-25 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi people, I dont know why but am stuck trying to debug this problem. I keep getting error number 1100 (Table 'jobs' was not locked with LOCK TABLES) from PHP when i try querying a mysql database. It has me stumped because I am using the LOCK TABLES statement when locking the tables...but maybe

Re: [PHP-DB] PDFlib

2002-11-25 Thread Jason Wong
On Monday 25 November 2002 23:19, nikos wrote: Hello everybody Does evrybody know if there is a free version of PDFlib Thanx Nikos You have started a new thread by taking an existing posting and replying to it while you changed the subject. That is bad, because it breaks threading.

RE: [PHP-DB] PDFlib

2002-11-25 Thread Ryan Jameson (USA)
Is this for real? I never knew this either. I almost always send emails to the list by replying to old ones and changing the subject for new threads. I will remember this in the future if I create a thread. I don't imagine Nikos and I are the only two who did not know this. Though I'm sure the

RE: [PHP-DB] PDFlib

2002-11-25 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
We do mention it at http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php I'll post the mailing list guidelines here as well, as it is good to remind people every now and then: * Use a valid email adress. Every new poster's email address is checked for validity through confirmation. * Send plain

[PHP-DB] MySQL 4 Syntax Question

2002-11-25 Thread John Taylor-Johnston
$SQL = SELECT AU,ST,BT,AT,id FROM ccl.ccl_main WHERE MATCH (AU) AGAINST ('\Margaret Atwood\' IN BOOLEAN MODE) ORDER BY id desc; When I enclose Margaret Atwood in double quotes, it's like having no quotes at all. Therefore, it searches for all occurences of Margaret and Atwood. Any inspiration?

[PHP-DB] Cool MySQL - Excel Shell Script

2002-11-25 Thread Michael Zornek
Here is a simple, yet very useful shell script that will automate MySQL output to open into Excel where you can view it with more control, save it to a spreadsheet for other coworkers, etc. I played with this a bit and it's really cool. Bound to save me a lot of time so I thought I'd share. While

[PHP-DB] PHP Shell Script

2002-11-25 Thread Afif
Dear All, I have question about syntax to make http request and send email through CLI command I have script while the sender [Mobile Phone] send sms to my gateway and then if their request have right result, the gateway will reply back to their mobile phone, but if the result is

[PHP-DB] implode()

2002-11-25 Thread Jef
I am having difficulty with the implode function. What I am doing is building a string for an UPDATE SQL command. At the end of the building portion of the code, I want to insert a comma between the various fields that will be updated. However, it is not working. Here is a portion of my

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;