Re: [PHP-DB] Locating php.ini file
Jeff, I believe /usr/local/lib is the path for the application. The ini file is typically located in /etc... For example, mine is: /etc/php.ini Hope this helps, cheers! John Pickett http://www.bvstudios.com/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP-DB] Locating php.ini file
Jeff, This also worked for me (sorry for the double-post): [root@server johnp]# find / -name php.ini Make sure you're logged in as root just in case although it should work anyway... That'll return filenames of php.ini in every directory (I think, not very literate with CLI yet ;-)). L8R! John -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP-DB] Password Question
Ugh, need to proof-read... Let me repost: Jeff, In order to maintain a strong encryption of passwords, you should probably use an MD5 hash. Unfortunately, this is a one-way street. What I would suggest doing however, is not actually attempt to give the user their password, but allow them to change it. To do this, you would need to have some sort of lost password script. This would ask for an email address as input (you might also consider allowing a username input... or both). The script would then insert a new MD5 hash of some useful, but meaningless information into the database (same row as their user information, such as a timestamp or something similar... Of course, you might want to make it a little more difficult than that for genuine randomness... It would then email a URL of another script with this MD5 hash in the URL. When the go to the URL, you would check the MD5 hash they provide with the one you stored in the database. If it matches, you can let them change their password. I've never actually done this, but it seems logical and is definately how I'd do it given the need... Cheers! -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP-DB] Password Question
seen this done however, many sites use it I believe... I'm providing this information as-is, with no warranty of its' security level or anything of the sort... Just don't wanna get crap if it isn't executed correctly :-) Cheers! John Pickett http://www.bvstudios.com/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP-DB] Random question selection in PHP w/ MySQL backend.
Adam, I'm what I would call a novice to PHP and databases in general, however if I had to do what you're doing, I might do the following... Add a field to the table that contains your questions called displayed and have it be an enum of Yes/No True/False, etc... In your script, you'd then query for all the questions that haven't already been displayed. Then get a random one of those (plenty of randomizing functions in PHP I believe). Display it, mark it as displayed in the db... Next time, it won't even get returned in the query. I don't know if you have to do this on a per-user basis or what. If so, you will probably have to create a session table and keep track of the questions each user has viewed... Hope this gets you started... Cheers! My 2 ¢ John Pickett http://www.bvstudios.com/ Co-Author: Inside Dreamweaver 4 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735710848/xtremist - Original Message - From: Adam Lundrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:32 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] Random question selection in PHP w/ MySQL backend. I'm having a bit of trouble creating a random question selector. I'm using PHP 4.0.6 and MySQL 3.23.36 on Windows 98 SE. I've tried several different solutions, but none work at all. What i need to do is select 10 questions from a database (db: vpt, table: questions), and make sure that the same question doesn't appear twice. The questions need to appear in a random order each time the script is loaded. It sounds simple enough, but i just can't seem to get it to work. Any suggestions?? Thanks in advance, -Adam Lundrigan CEO, VPU http://www.vpu-virtual.com/ ICQ # 73617446 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP-DB] Allowing refresh without form processing?
Hey, I have a page where I'd like to allow the client to use their refresh button. The only problem with this is, when they submit a form that's on the page, it is parsed by the same page. So if they hit refresh, the same information will be submitted twice (or more). How can I clear out any knowledge that a form was submitted? I've tried adding unset ($HTTP_POST_VARS); to the bottom of the page but that didn't do anything for it... Any other ideas? BTW, I'm asking this because the form uses a db to process and I'm unsure if that may be the issue or not... My 2 ¢ John Pickett http://www.bvstudios.com/ Co-Author: Inside Dreamweaver 4 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735710848/xtremist -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP-DB] Unexplained MySQL Error..
Chris: The MySQL documentation would make you think so... UPDATE [LOW_PRIORITY] [IGNORE] tbl_name SET col_name1=expr1, [col_name2=expr2, ...] [WHERE where_definition] [LIMIT #] Note there isn't a tbl_name [, tbl_name2, ...]. It's just tbl_name... Cheers! My 2 ¢ John Pickett http://www.bvstudios.com/ Co-Author: Inside Dreamweaver 4 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735710848/xtremist - Original Message - From: Boget, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Mike Gifford' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 2:25 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Unexplained MySQL Error.. UPDATE WLPbib, WLPpublisher,WLPprofile,WLPbib2profile I think you can only update one table at a time... I could be wrong, though... Chris -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP-DB] Unexplained MySQL Error..
Chris, My first sentance was in response to your I think you can only update one table at a time... statement, not I could be wrong, though... Supported by the example I gave. Sorry for the confusion... My 2 ¢ John Pickett http://www.bvstudios.com/ Co-Author: Inside Dreamweaver 4 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735710848/xtremist - Original Message - From: Boget, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'John Pickett' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 2:35 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Unexplained MySQL Error.. Chris: The MySQL documentation would make you think so... I don't think so UPDATE [LOW_PRIORITY] [IGNORE] tbl_name Note there isn't a tbl_name [, tbl_name2, ...]. It's just tbl_name... Right... that means just *one* table. Your query is updating 4 tables. Chris -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP-DB] Error 127
Cami, Here's what I found on the error and what to do about it: http://www.mysql.com/doc/R/e/Repair.html Hope that helps! My 2 ¢ John Pickett http://www.bvstudios.com/ Co-Author: Inside Dreamweaver 4 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735710848/xtremist - Original Message - From: Cami To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 8:56 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] Error 127 Hi everybody, All of the sudden I got an error one of mysql tables. Got error 127 from table handler. Can't browse it not even from phpmyadmin get the same error. Anybody had this before? What do I do to recuperate my table? I really appreciate any help, Thanks, Cami -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
