RE: [PHP-DB] Session variables and arrays

2002-10-29 Thread Ryan Neudorf
Ok. The categories are coming from checkboxes, e.g.: Accountant Which then are handled by a $cgi class dealy and handed to the $_SESSION['categories'] variable before being forwarded to the next step. I was thinking that the problem might be with the $cgi object, but when I print_r($_SESSION['cate

Re: [PHP-DB] Decimal places.

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Beckman
printf("%d",($eall - $sall) / 1000); On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Andrew Wilson wrote: > Hay guys, > I have two variables ( integers ) that are being minused one from the other > and i am printing the result to the screen but i am getting unwanted > decimals. > > print ($eall - $sall) / 1000; > > My ques

[PHP-DB] Decimal places.

2002-10-29 Thread Andrew Wilson
Hay guys, I have two variables ( integers ) that are being minused one from the other and i am printing the result to the screen but i am getting unwanted decimals. print ($eall - $sall) / 1000; My question is what is the easiest way to strip decimals off the above result. The only way i know a

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: losing my session variables

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Beckman
prepend.php gets called before running any page on a site. Put the "session_start()" in the prepend.php and you won't have to worry where you put it. Learn more about it on the php web site (don't have the url handy). Peter On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Seabird wrote: > turns out, I already have a sess

Re: [PHP-DB] losing my session variables

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Beckman
Put "session_start()" somewhere in your code. $_SESSION isn't set until you "start" your session. And don't set session variables by $_SESSION[foo] = bar; DO this: $foo = bar; session_register("foo"); Much better. However, if anyone can correct me, go for it. I just believe that setting glob

Re: [PHP-DB] Session variables and arrays

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Beckman
Well, can't say I see the same problem: "bye"); print_r($_SESSION['foo']); echo "\n\n"; print is_array($_SESSION['foo']); Outputs: X-Powered-By: PHP/4.2.2 Content-type: text/html Array ( [hi] => bye ) 1 Which is what I'd expect it to show. Now how did you assign categories? Maybe the var

[PHP-DB] Archiving A Database

2002-10-29 Thread Josh Johnson
Does anyone know of speedy methods of periodically archiving and retrieving a database table? I've got a table I'm using to log statistical data, and it's getting 10k+ entries per day. Entries are only logged in the database if the user is authenticated for access, and only once per access session

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 < (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 tag, then follow 2. 4.

[PHP-DB] Re: losing my session variables

2002-10-29 Thread Seabird
turns out, I already have a session_start(). I have some seperate files and use them as includes. The thing is... my login form is located on my "index.php" and if I do a login, only this file will recognize my session variables. I load pages external into a layer, but none of them get the session

[PHP-DB] Re: losing my session variables

2002-10-29 Thread Seabird
where do I place a session start in a script? before the form? after? inside? Jacco -- http://seabird.jmtech.ca Attitude is Everything! But Remember, Attitudes are Contagious! Is Yours worth Catching "Baroiller Pierre-Emmanuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:20021030002059.9083.qmai

[PHP-DB] Re: losing my session variables

2002-10-29 Thread BAROILLER Pierre-Emmanuel
You only need to add session_start() in your script before storing your data into the $_SESSION array. Without session_start(), no session is started by php... Regards, P.E. Baroiller "Seabird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit dans le message de news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi everyone, > > I use a login

[PHP-DB] losing my session variables

2002-10-29 Thread Seabird
Hi everyone, I use a login-script, but for some reason I keep losing my $_SESSION variables. Can Anyone tell me why? Here's my login script: please fill in the required fields. '; } // authenticate. if(!get_magic_quotes_gp

[PHP-DB] connections not closing

2002-10-29 Thread David Esposito
Hello all, Platform: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) Redhat 7.2 PHP/4.2.3 Postgres 7.2.1 Summary: periodically, something spazzes out and causes connections to the database to stop closing at script termination; after a few seconds, the number of connections to the database exceeds the connection limit for

[PHP-DB] Session variables and arrays

2002-10-29 Thread Ryan Neudorf
I'm having a problem with session variables and arrays. I'm building a multi step sign up form and I need to store all the variable until the final step, when they are inputed to a database. I thought the best way to do this would be to store the contents for $HTTP_POST_VARS in session variables. T

Re: [PHP-DB] Converting database from MS Access to MySQL on Linux

2002-10-29 Thread Steven Dowd
I think you would have to go a long way to beat DBTools which i might add is free and will convert most all db formats msaccess/foxpro/excell/dbf/csv/txt etc etc to mysql and also now supports PostgreSQL http://www.dbtools.com.br Steven - Original Message - From: "Michael Mauch" <[E

Re: [PHP-DB] Converting database from MS Access to MySQL on Linux

2002-10-29 Thread Michael Mauch
Matthew Hildebrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.devhood.com/Tools/tool_details.aspx?tool_id=759 > I've been very happy with this tool, and it is well worth the cost. If you are the author of the tool, you want perhaps add a note that "the tool" can convert _from_ Access _to_ MySQL on L

[PHP-DB] Problems with ODBC connectivity

2002-10-29 Thread Bill Hudspeth
I have developed a PHP application that accesses a Microsoft Access database through ODBC. The application works well using PHP version 4.1. I have recently installed the newest version of PHP (4.2.3) on another machine running NT4, and IIS 4. Again, I am using an ODBC connection, and have given th

Re: [PHP-DB] new to cookies

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Beckman
First off, cookie documentation: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php Second, since you store your info in the DB, it might be easier and more scalable to use a "$user" object which contains everything about the user: userID, username, email, etc. for quick reference: $user = m

[PHP-DB] Agata Report: new version

2002-10-29 Thread Pablo Dall'Oglio
Univates, October, 22, 2002 I've just published the version 3 of Agata Report = http://agata.codigolivre.org.br ::: Agata Report is a Report Generator writen in PHP-GTK using Pear:DB. ::: further information at the end of message. * Currently, Agata has support to English, Po

RE: [PHP-DB] Column Defualts

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Beckman
This should be useful, mysql-wise: http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_MySQL_Optimisation.html#Data_size Declare columns to be NOT NULL if possible. It makes everything faster and you save one bit per column. Note that if you really need NULL in your application

RE: [PHP-DB] Column Defualts

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Beckman
With MySQL you save a bit by declaring a column not null. If it is null, you are using a bit. For performance on high volume and high transaction servers, declaring your columns not null will help, if only slightly. Peter On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Ryan Jameson (USA) wrote: > No, I believe all datab

RE: [PHP-DB] Column Defualts

2002-10-29 Thread Ryan Jameson (USA)
Also note that many databases calculate the maximum allowable rowsize and allocate that much space whether it's populated or not. This is especially evident when you use char types verses varchar types. It's actually a good thing in most cases that they do, since it allows query algorithms to be

RE: [PHP-DB] Column Defualts

2002-10-29 Thread Ryan Jameson (USA)
No, I believe all databases have an isnull bit flag to go with any column stored. So whether you set it or not the bit is being used. <>< Ryan -Original Message- From: Gerard Samuel [mailto:gsam@;trini0.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 9:47 AM To: php-db Subject: [PHP-DB] Column Defu

[PHP-DB] Column Defualts

2002-10-29 Thread Gerard Samuel
Is defaulting a column to NULL considered as a waste of space?? I have a table that has 2 columns (so far) that defualt to NULL, and potentially, there can be good amount of rows with NULL. Just wondering... -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://dev.trini0.org:81/ -- PHP Database

Re: [PHP-DB] fetching image by url and storing in mysql

2002-10-29 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
You don't need filesize(). $fp = fopen('address_to_image','r'); while(!feof($fp)) { $image .= fread($fp,1); } Something like that will work... ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: "Marcus Fleige" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PHP-Mailinglist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, O

[PHP-DB] fetching image by url and storing in mysql

2002-10-29 Thread Marcus Fleige
hi there, i would like to get an image from an web-url and store it into mysql-db. inserting local images or images i upload to the server is no problem, but handling urls as images seems quite difficult.. now, for fopen() i need the filesize() of the image, but that command does not work on url

[PHP-DB] new to cookies

2002-10-29 Thread Seabird
Hi everyone, I created a login on my page that handles with a session. I also would like to add a cookie so that people don't have to sign in every time they visit my page, but I have no clue how to create it. Is there anyone out there willing to help? my login script:

RE: [PHP-DB] Converting database from MS Access to MySQL on Linux

2002-10-29 Thread SELPH,JASON (HP-Richardson,ex1)
I use this, it has a nag screen but doesn't require any money. http://www.accessmysql.com/ works as an access plugin, just select an access table, point it to your mysql db and click a button. easy to use. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hildebrand [mailto:gosherm@;byu.edu] Sent: Tuesd

RE: [PHP-DB] Converting database from MS Access to MySQL on Linux

2002-10-29 Thread Matthew Hildebrand
Oops... my mistake. I gave the wrong link. Here's the correct link: http://www.devhood.com/Tools/tool_details.aspx?tool_id=758 --Matthew -Original Message- From: 1LT John W. Holmes [mailto:holmes072000@;charter.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:44 AM To: Matthew Hildebrand Subject:

[PHP-DB] exporting to xml

2002-10-29 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, i am creating script which will make select and desc to table and then based on results it will make xml file...all is okay, but on my IE it takes it as xml file (it is okay) BUT on my screen I dont see any of tags...how can i override that? script is here: header("Content-type

Re: [PHP-DB] Interbase BLOB problem

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Beckman
Your SQL query doesn't need that semicolon at the end of the query -- lose it. I never used ibase, so here's what I found from the PHP Manual page for ibase_query: Using BLOB Insert BLOB: /* create blob */ $blob_id = ibase_blob_create(); /* fill blob */ ibase_blob_add($blob_id, $var_datablob);

RE: [PHP-DB] Converting database from MS Access to MySQL on Linux

2002-10-29 Thread Matthew Hildebrand
http://www.devhood.com/Tools/tool_details.aspx?tool_id=759 I've been very happy with this tool, and it is well worth the cost. --Matthew -Original Message- From: Soma Shekhar K [mailto:somashekhark@;yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 6:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [PHP-DB] Converting database from MS Access to MySQL on Linux

2002-10-29 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
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[PHP-DB] Converting database from MS Access

2002-10-29 Thread Soma Shekhar K
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[PHP-DB] Converting database from MS Access to MySQL on Linux

2002-10-29 Thread Soma Shekhar K
Sir, Can u pls help in "Converting database from MS Access to MySQL on Linux". Pls send the code for converting. Bye Som __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php

[PHP-DB] Interbase BLOB problem

2002-10-29 Thread David Russell
Hi all, I have a file I need to insert into a blob in a interbase table. Code as follows: $filehandle = fopen($file, "r"); $blob_id = ibase_blob_import($filehandle); $qry = "INSERT INTO BPFATTACHMENTS "; $qry = $qry . "(BPFATTACHMENTNO, BPF, ATTACHMENTTYPE, FILENAME, FILESIZE, ATT

Re[2]: [PHP-DB] database synchronization

2002-10-29 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello Juhan, JK> So you can't determine database servers' ip addresses, since they may or JK> may not be dynamic. So don't use the ip address, use hostname and JK> update this hostname every time ip-address changes. You can do it with JK> your own scripts and local host file or you can use public

Re[6]: [PHP-DB] database synchronization

2002-10-29 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, see below... -- Best regards, Martinmailto:corwin@;corwin.sk Tuesday, October 29, 2002, 10:51:17 AM, you wrote: PL> Hi PL> If the records are all independant - ie travel agent (TA) A has their own PL> records and so does TA B then REPLACE INTO MainDB SELECT

RE: Re[4]: [PHP-DB] database synchronization

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi If the records are all independant - ie travel agent (TA) A has their own records and so does TA B then REPLACE INTO MainDB SELECT * FROM Travel_agent_A_DB so the main database is just receiveing updated records from the TAs. Travel agent logs in to master php driven site . master php driven s

Re: [PHP-DB] database synchronization

2002-10-29 Thread Juhan Kundla
Hei! Ühel ilusal päeval [29-10-2002 12:14] kirjutas Martin Hudec: > Hello Peter, I'm not Peter and i don't know, if i can help, but here is one idea. > I have server of travel agencies records (we need to update this, so > it is slave) with stable IPand then bunch of other computers (from >

Re[4]: [PHP-DB] database synchronization

2002-10-29 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello Peter, okay :)))so far I understand...buthmmm let me explain I have server of travel agencies records (we need to update this, so it is slave) with stable IPand then bunch of other computers (from these we are updating...so they are all masters) in various travel agencies...

RE: Re[2]: [PHP-DB] database synchronization

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi Replication works continuously when the two databases are in contact with each other, unless you specify otherwise. Likewise, if you connect periodically, MySql will synchronise the two databases itself. With replication, MySql logs everything the master does. When a slave logs in (you can hav

Re[2]: [PHP-DB] database synchronization

2002-10-29 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello Peter, nice readinglooks like i need to get binary log with queries that modified some data...okayand use queries from this log on our slave databaseokay mysqlbinlog log-file | mysql -h server_name i suppose server_name is hostname but what if this hostname changes (or IP).

RE: [PHP-DB] database synchronization

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi Take a look at replication http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Replication.html HTH Peter --- Excellence in internet and open source software --- Sunmaia www.sunmaia.net tel. 0121-242-1473 --

[PHP-DB] database synchronization

2002-10-29 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, maybe this is not to be posted here but I am working on this using PHP and MySQL (one application for travel agencies) Does someone know how to synchronize automatically two databasesi have one database running on my server with static IP and another, from