Re: [PHP-DB] Changing this php code to show multiple variables!

2004-10-20 Thread bbonkosk
Are you writting the flash side too?
You could just return a multi-dimensional array?
$result = mysql_query();
$count = 0;
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)
{
  $ret[$count] = $row;

  $count++;
}
return $ret;



- Original Message -
From: Juan Stiller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 12:27 pm
Subject: [PHP-DB] Changing this php code to show multiple variables!

 Hi, i´ve got this php code that sends a query to a
 mysql server, and when it gets the query results, it
 send it to a flash movieclip, everything works fine
 when i´ve got only one entry on the database, but when
 there´s more than one enrty, the variable is
 overwritten and as reslt, it shows only one entry i
 was told that i must create a function to to name
 multiple variables, so the result might be: 
 
 Lastname0=crawFirstname0=davidLastname1=ZarlangaFirstname1=John
 
 So here it is the php code:
 
 ?php
 $conn = @mysql_connect(***, ***, ***);
 
 if (!$conn) {
 echo( PNo se pudo conectar  .
 al servidor MySQL./P );
 exit();
 }
 
 if (! @mysql_select_db(clientes) ) {
 echo( PNo se puede encontrar  .
 la base de datos clientes!/P );
 exit();
 }
 
 // Request all data
 $result1 = mysql_query(select * from
 clientesnuevos);
 
 print Results=;
 echo h1Clientes agregados:/h1br;
 
 while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result1, MYSQL_ASSOC))
 {
 echo Id={$row['id']};
 echo Apellido={$row['apellidoclientesnuevos']};
 echo Nombre={$row['nombreclientesnuevos']};
 echo Dni={$row['dniclientesnuevos']};
 echo Telefono={$row['telefonoclientesnuevos']};
 echo Dia={$row['diacitaclientesnuevos']};
 echo Mes={$row['mescitaclientesnuevos']};
 echo Ano={$row['anocitaclientesnuevos']};
 echo Hora={$row['horacitaclientesnuevos']};
 echo Minutos={$row['minutoscitaclientesnuevos']};
 echo Abogado={$row['abogadoclientesnuevos']};
 echo Nombre={$row['nombreclientesnuevos']};
 echo Asunto={$row['asuntoclientesnuevos']};
 echo Donde={$row['dondeclientesnuevos']};
 }
 mysql_free_result($result1);
 ?
 
 Can anyone help me with this?
 
 Thanks
 Juan
 
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Re: [PHP-DB] Books

2004-10-18 Thread bbonkosk
In all seriousness...
http://www.php.net/manual/en/
- and -
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/index.html

are increible resources, no real need to throw money out for the books...

- Original Message -
From: Huy Ton That [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, October 18, 2004 1:19 pm
Subject: [PHP-DB] Books

 Can anyone recommend me any good books that they return to for both
 information learning PHP  maybe MySQL and/or reference?
 
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Re: [PHP-DB] mysql_query

2004-10-12 Thread bbonkosk
1. place your query string into a variable for easy dumping...
i.e. $query = insert into obiskovalci (ime, priimek, ulica, hstevilka, 
  pstevilka, posta) values('$ime', '$priimek', '$ulica', 
  '$hstevilka', '$pstevilka', '$posta');
echo $query;
(See if there are problems that come to light when you dump it out)

2. Print out the debug...
i.e. mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

(If this doesn't help you at the very least it should help the list more in answering 
your question.)

-B



- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 8:15 am
Subject: [PHP-DB] mysql_query

 hello,
 
 I have a begining question.
 I've got simple html form and php script, but insert doesn' t 
 work. What is 
 wrong in my insert mysql_query?
 
 mysql_query( insert into obiskovalci (ime, priimek, ulica, 
 hstevilka, 
 pstevilka, posta) values('$ime', '$priimek', '$ulica', 
 '$hstevilka', 
 '$pstevilka', '$posta'));
 
 There is also id, which is auto_increment. After fill form and 
 press Submit, id 
 is writen in table, but there is no other inputs. Nothing, except 
 id.
 thanks for answers
 BR, Balo
 
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Re: [PHP-DB] Empty query result

2004-07-26 Thread bbonkosk
Why not...??

if (!($queryResult =
mysql_result($queryResult, 0)))
{
return 0;
}
- Original Message -
From: Philip Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, July 26, 2004 12:57 pm
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Empty query result

 Pablo,
 
  Hello Philip,
 
  pse.. can you paste the error information?
  There is no known empty set problem.
 
 Here's my function:
 
 function
getMysqlSelectResultForUsername($identifier,
$userName, 
 $link){
 $queryResult = mysql_query(select $identifier
from theTable 
 where 
 username = '$userName', $link);
 
 if (!($queryResult =
mysql_result($queryResult, 0))) {

session_register('_selectIdentifierFromTheTable');
 header(location:error.php);
 exit;
 }
 
 return $queryResult;
 }
 
 Here's the code that calls it:
 
 $hall =
getMysqlSelectResultForUsername('buildingID',
$_userName, 
 $link);
 $roomNum =
getMysqlSelectResultForUsername('roomNum',
$_userName, 
 $link);
 $phone1 =
getMysqlSelectResultForUsername('phone1',
$_userName, 
 $link);$phone2 =
getMysqlSelectResultForUsername('phone2', 
 $_userName, $link);
 $lastLogin =
getMysqlSelectResultForUsername('lastLogin', 
 $_userName, 
 $link);
 
 If the mysql_result($queryResult, 0) returns
zero/nothing, then it 
 goes 
 to the 'error.php' page. However, I just want it
to move on. For 
 example, if there is no 'phone2' given in the
database, I want it 
 to 
 just assign $phone2 to zero/nothing, not go to the
error page.
 
 Hope this helps.
 
 Thanks,
 ~Philip
 
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  PT Hi all.
 
  PT I am querying a database of single
information multiple times 
  using a
  PT simple 'select' statement. However, whenever
the data in the 
 DB is
  PT empty or is 0 (zero), then it throws an
error. However, I 
 don't 
  want it
  PT to throw an error, I just want it to move on
to the next query.
 
  PT This is being shown on a webpage I have.
Note that I am using a
  PT function for this select statement because I
just have to 
 change 
  the
  PT identifier that I am looking for - saves
space. So I don't use
  PT mysql_error() to show my errors, I redirect
to a global 
 'error' 
  page.
 
  PT Is there a way to get around this empty
set problem? Yes, I 
 know PT about using @ to suppress warnings, but
it's more than this.
 
  PT Thanks a bunch,
  PT ~Philip
 
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Re: RE: [PHP-DB] hi (php-SSH)

2003-07-29 Thread bbonkosk
I *think* I set this to you yesterday...

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~arun/misc/ssh.html
-Brad

- Original Message -
From: Suman Aluru [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:32 pm
Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] hi (php-SSH)

 could somebody tell me howto Generate the SSH key file to connect SSH
 without password from php
 
 Suman  R Aluru
 -Original Message-
 From: David Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 11:19 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] hi (php-SSH)
 
 
 Suman Aluru wrote:
 
 hi ,
   is there any way to write a PHP program for SSH.
 I want to establish a SSH connection and work some commands in 
 the remote
 system and close the connection.
 
 
 Yes, just do this (uses an SSH key file):
 
 ?php
echo Executing remote command...br /;
echo `ssh -i /path/to/key/file [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls /tmp`;
echo Done executing remote command.br /;
 ?
 
 Use an SSH key file so you won't have to provide a password. I do this
 all the time for system administration, works great for inter-host
 communication.
 
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Re: [PHP-DB] md5 question!

2003-06-24 Thread bbonkosk
They would be the same, they have to be.  If you can de-crypt it, there has to 
be some method of validation.  So, if someone choose the same password as you 
did, and you stored those in a DB as encrypted with md5, then they would look 
identical.  So, you would know the other person's password.



 Hi,
 
 Hmmm okay... So if the passowrd was.
 
 jerry
 
 and the md5 output was
 SKHDJHDJDHJDHSfdfs
 
 and another user sets their passowrd to the same as
 mine does that mean the md5 output would be identical
 to the last as the same password is entered?
 
 e.g.
 
 User 1:
 Username: Fred
 Password: jerry
 
 User 2:
 Username: notfred
 Password: jerry
 
 Or is each entry unique ?
 
 I'm thinking if each entry was unique than reversing
 the md5 action could be inconclusive.  But if the
 output is the same if the same password is entered
 than sure it's reliable.  But I could be barking up
 the wrong tree all together here, so correct me if I
 am wrong.  I have not used md5 before so learning on
 that behalf.
 
 Jerry
 
  --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  Just use brute
 force...
  Example:
  md5('password') will ALWAYS produce the same output!
  So, if I intercept a pmd5 encrypted password that
  looks like: SKHGDOIUYFB
  then I could just say:
  if (strcmp (md5('password'), SKHGDOIUYFB) == 0)
printf(Your password is: %s\n, password);
  
  So, just start a loop going through all possible
  combinations od legal password 
  character and encrypt with md5, then compare.  
  
  Hard?  Not at all, Time consuming, perhaps, but with
  3+ Ghz processors coming 
  out you'd be surprised how quickly one could loop
  through billlions of possible 
  password combinations.  Enter distributed
  environments and it is much fatser.  
  The key is not to rely on passwords but to rely on
  other system security 
  messures, use SSL, so it is hard to intercept in the
  first place, make sure 
  your system is secure so these passwords cannot be
  extracted from your DB 
  without you knowing about it, etc...
  
  
  
   Marco,
   
   Thanks, that's what I originally thought that it
  was
   one way.  So websites that have the option to
  retrieve
   password don't use md5?
   
   I guess technically there MUST be a way to break
  the
   barrier where you can reverse it.  If there is a
  way
   to make it there is always a way to break it,
  somehow.
  But what I have heard and read it's very
  tight
   and probably the best method to handle passwords
  for
   now, until something new is released.  Which will
   happen when md5 is broken, like everything else
  after
   a little bit of time.
   
   Jerry
   
--- Marco Tabini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  Hi
   Jerry--

No, md5 is a one-way hash. That's why it's so
safe--because if someone
steals the information he still can't tell what
  the
passwords are.

You may want to reset the passwords upon your
  users'
request and send it
to them via e-mail instead.

Cheers,


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On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 08:35, JeRRy wrote:
 Hi,
 
 If I use md5 to handle passwords to my
  database is
 there a way to reverse the action if someone
forgets
 their password?  Is there a way for me to
  decode
the
 32bit to plain text?
 
 Jerry
 
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Re: [PHP-DB] Image upload get file dimensions

2003-06-23 Thread bbonkosk
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.getimagesize.php

 Hi there everyone,
 
 In short, I use the following to upload an image to the server:
 
 $max_size = 40;
 if (is_uploaded_file($userfile)) {
 
 all works great, but what I want to do is store the file details in my
 MySQL DB, how can I easily find out the image width and height etc 
 from the uploaded image so that I can store this information in the DB?
 
 Thanks for your help everyone :-)
 
 Chris
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Re: [PHP-DB] Help with MySQL Logic

2003-03-03 Thread bbonkosk
What about two tables, one would have this:
carID
carCompany
carPayload
etc...

the second this:
position
carID

This table would be static and if a car was not present in certain conditions 
they would contain (-1) for the carID.  Then finding an empty slot to place an 
incoming car should be doable (stepping through to find (-1), and when a car is 
removed from a slot, then you could update the list, just dump out 
the 'current' order into an array, and then you would be able to sort, order, 
etc...

Hope this makes sense.
-Brad

 Heh. Sounds like a programming class homework project.
 I would say through the clever use of where clauses's, like:
 
 UPDATE position SET posistion = (position-1) WHERE position 
 $idremoved;
 
 Would work, assuming $idremoved containted the position of the car
 removed.
 
 On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 10:59, Rankin, Randy wrote:
 
 Hello All,
 
 This may be a bit off topic. If so, my apololgies. 
 
 A client of mine, a rail car storage company, has asked that I
 create a
 PHP/MySQL application in which they will maintain and track rail
 cars. I am
 having a bit of trouble however working through one of thier
 requirements.
 They need to know in what position the rail car is on each track.
 For
 example, they might have a track called X which will hold 30 rail
 cars. They
 would enter the car information for 30 cars and associate each of
 them with
 track X. If one of the car owners decides to move car 3 out of
 storage, then
 the remaining 29 cars must be re-numbered ( ie; car 1 and 2 would
 remain and
 car 4-30 would become car 3-29 ). In the same manner, I need to be
 able to
 add a car to the track once an empty slot is available. For example,
 If the
 new car goes at the front of the track then it would become car 1
 and the
 remaining cars, originally numbered 1-29 would become 2-30. 
 
 I hope I explained thourougly. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
 
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Re: [PHP-DB] getting client browser info

2003-01-20 Thread bbonkosk
Well, it is a global variable/defined by PHP

write a script like this:
?php
phpinfo();
?

and run it.  This shoudl shed some light on the situation...
-Brad

 Hello all,
 
 I need a quick script to get the client's browser make and model.
 ie 5 ns 4.7 etc.
 
 I've found some info in two books but no examples of how to use it to 
 get your visitors info.  Not coming up with anything helpful on the php site -
 
 will continue to look.
 
 If anyone has done this and/or has an example I would be greatful
 
 Thx
 
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Re: [PHP-DB] airport codes db

2002-11-13 Thread bbonkosk
You should take advantage of this highly international PHP communicty and set 
up a simple PHP interface to a table like:
Airport Code | Airport City | Airport Name | Country | etc..

And then ask people to go in there and insert whatever information they know 
especially from around their area.  Then you could post the rresulting mysql 
database somewhere for people's future use?

 I am working on a php page where I need some airport codes data, I have seen
 a few places online where you can buy this data so I was wondering if anyone
 has used any of these databases and if anyone had a good source for a mysql
 airport code db.
 
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Re: [PHP-DB] Pgsql Vs. Mysql

2002-11-11 Thread bbonkosk
Have you tried checking out the archives?  I think this one would have a 
million plus one hits.  Also has been discussed on Slashdot, as well as other 
forums.

As far as difficulty to install, try it out.  I would say it it relative as 
I'm sure a linux expert would say it is simple, whereas a linux newbie may say 
it is tough, I know there is plenty of excellent documentation out there.

PHP has support for most everything you could want to do with pgsql.  
-Brad

 Sorry for the off-topic post, but it would be highly annoying to have to 
 subscribe to a new mailing list for just one topic.
 
 I'm currently using mysql, but I'm considering switching to pgsql.  I'm
 wondering which is better.  Also, how hard would Pgsql be to install?
   Php seems to have pgsql support, but there's currently no pgsql server.
 
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Re: [PHP-DB] Get a single result

2002-10-02 Thread bbonkosk

--- mysql_result($result_category_id, 0, $i);
I think it is compaigning about the '$i' of course we don't know
what that is set to, so cannot help much.  I would say it might not like it 
when '$i' is equal to 0... :-)

-Brad

 Hello guys.
 
 The scenery:  I've got an array with some values stored in it.  I want
to  
 retrieve the id code each value is associated to.  So I just do the
follo wing:
 
 for ($i=0; $icount($form_category);$i++)
 {
 $query_get_id = select cat_code from categories 
where cat_name like '$form_category[$i]';
 $result_category_id = mysql_query($query_get_id) or die(mysql_error());
 $form_category_id[$i] = mysql_result($result_category_id, 0, $i);
//Thi s
   is line
   170
 echo $form_category[$i]. .$form_category_id[$i].br;
 }
 
 I'm getting the following in my browser  (There are some comments I just 
 added):
 
 Arquitectura 2  //This is the correct category name and its ID
 
 Warning: Bad column offset specified 
 in /var/www/bva/new/common/scripts/admin_functions.php on line 170
 Caricatura //This is the correct category name but the ID is lost
 
 Warning: Bad column offset specified 
 in /var/www/bva/new/common/scripts/admin_functions.php on line 170
 Ciencias naturales //Same as before
 
 Any idea of what I'm doing wrong?
 
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Re: [PHP-DB] POSTGRESQL PHP

2002-09-09 Thread bbonkosk

Gosh..

It could be a bunch of things.  Maybe it requires a password, a username, is 
running on an alternate port, etc...
Any more information you can provide to us would be helpful.  Maybe echo out 
the output of pg_last_error()?

-Brad

 I've installed MySQL and PostgreSQL on my XP. I'd like to make an PHP script
 working with pgsql base. I created database (typed createdb name) but when
 trying execute script with pg_connect(host=localhost dbname=name); it
 fails.
 
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Re: [PHP-DB] Image in Mysql db

2002-09-06 Thread bbonkosk

Read this: (Does a good job explaining uploads)
http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

How I personally handle images in mysql, is not put the image in the database 
(Does it even allow this??) But just put the relative, or complete PATH to the 
image.  So, your database would store:
'/www/htdocs/IMAGES/some_picture.jpg'

Then you can pull that from your database and use the HTML img tage to 
display it.  

HTH
-Brad

 Hi,
 
 I know this should be simple but being a beginner...
 
 How do you insert an image into a mysql table and also how can you
 upload an image to a mysql table via a form.
 
 Thanks in advance.
 
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Re: [PHP-DB] not a valid MySQL result

2002-09-06 Thread bbonkosk

Hello,

It's always good practice to put some error detection in your code, i.e. 
$result = mysql_query($query)
or die(mysql_error());

I think your problem is the mysql does not like your query, but you are not 
catching it until PHP tries to figure out the number of rows returned by the 
query.  

HTH
-Brad
 

 Hello guys
 
 This is my first posting to the list, even though I've had some
experienc e 
 with C++, these are my first steps with php and mysql.
 
 Well, the thing is that I'm getting the following message:
 
 Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource 
 in /var/www/bva/new/main/colecciones.php on line 35
 
 The code is shown below:
 
 $query_cat = select author_names || ' ' || author_surnames 
 from author, author-cat
 where author_cat.cat_code = $code
 and author.author_code = author-cat.author_code;
   
   
 $result_cat = mysql_query($query_cat);
   
 $num_results_cat = mysql_num_rows($result_cat);  //This is line 35
 
 
 I did the same with a simpler select sentence and it worked alright, so
I  
 guess there's a problem with the select sentence but haven't been able
to  
 find it.
 
 Does anyone have an idea?
 
 Thanks a lot for your help.
 
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Re: [PHP-DB] need an idea...

2002-09-06 Thread bbonkosk

You would probably need some API plugins to search other websites.  

I've seen some people open socket connections, open the site and read the raw 
HTML from the socket into a buffer and then parse out the information that way.  
I don't know if PHP was really developed for such a purpose?  Maybe you can get 
the source code for htdig.

And I think pricewatch requires that the external companies 
notify/register/contact them.  They don't necessarily scane evry site out 
there, otherwise you might see Best Buy and CompUSA right?

-Brad

 Hi,
 
 I'm wondering how can I write some php script to scan a couple of(or more)
 websites to find out the lowest price of a particular item? what is the idea
 behind this kind of programing?
 
 Also, I am always wondering how does the pricewatch website works? (I don't
 think that they did page by page html, right? How do they grab the data from
 other websites?)
 
 Thank you and your ideas and info will be much appreciated...
 
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