php-general Digest 12 May 2008 07:02:40 -0000 Issue 5454

2008-05-12 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 12 May 2008 07:02:40 - Issue 5454 Topics (messages 274155 through 274171): creating an xls file from mysql data 274155 by: Richard Kurth 274156 by: Andrew Johnstone Re: How to determine if file is writable and deletable 274157 by: Al

[PHP] Good XML Parser

2008-05-12 Thread Waynn Lue
What's the best way to pull down XML from a URL? fopen($URL), then using xml_parse? Or should I be using XML_Parser or SimpleXML? Thanks, Waynn -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] mysql_pconnect issue

2008-05-12 Thread Chetan Rane
Hi The host name is localhost, username: root, and the password is blank . If you have selected the option to allow anonymous login during installation you can even give the user name and password dboth blank. It will log you in as an anonymous user. Chetan Dattaram Rane Software Engineer

Re: [PHP] Good XML Parser

2008-05-12 Thread David Otton
2008/5/12 Waynn Lue [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What's the best way to pull down XML from a URL? fopen($URL), then using xml_parse? Or should I be using XML_Parser or SimpleXML? XML parsers fall into two general camps - DOM and SAX. DOM parsers represent an entire XML document as a tree, in-memory,

[PHP] Re: A Little Something.

2008-05-12 Thread Peter Ford
tedd wrote: Hi gang: This is what I did this morning: http://webbytedd.com/bb/tribute/ It speaks for itself. Cheers, tedd tedd, Nothing to do with the subject matter, but I noticed because it is one of your more simple pages: I get a JS urchinTracker() not defined error on your site,

[PHP] PHP and a misbehaving contact form

2008-05-12 Thread Fernando Ronci
Hello, I've got a very simple PHP script that mails me a contact form of a website. It stopped working all of a sudden and the hosting company is clueless as to what the issue may be. The PHP script basically picks up the input fields on the form, builds an e-mail message and then sends it

Re: [PHP] Re: A Little Something.

2008-05-12 Thread Stut
On 12 May 2008, at 09:39, Peter Ford wrote: tedd wrote: Hi gang: This is what I did this morning: http://webbytedd.com/bb/tribute/ It speaks for itself. Cheers, tedd tedd, Nothing to do with the subject matter, but I noticed because it is one of your more simple pages: I get a JS

Re: [PHP] Good XML Parser

2008-05-12 Thread Waynn Lue
So if I'm looking to parse certain attributes out of an XML tree, if I use SAX, it seems that I would need to keep track of state internally. E.g., if I have a tree like head a b/b /a a b/b /a /head and say I'm interested in all that's between b underneath any a, I'd need to have

Re: [PHP] PHP and a misbehaving contact form

2008-05-12 Thread Bojan Tesanovic
Hi Fernando, The first thing that I would do i send mail to local mail account eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] and see if that mail will be delivered. or something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that mail doesnt go outside server , this way you can see if mail function is working properly. If this doesnt

Re: [PHP] Re: A Little Something.

2008-05-12 Thread Eric Butera
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 May 2008, at 09:39, Peter Ford wrote: tedd wrote: Hi gang: This is what I did this morning: http://webbytedd.com/bb/tribute/ It speaks for itself. Cheers, tedd tedd, Nothing to do with the

Re: [PHP] Good XML Parser

2008-05-12 Thread Bojan Tesanovic
Fot SImpler XMLs and not too large up to 1Mb I would use $X = simplexml_load_file($URL); simple xml is fairly fast and is very easy to use it accepts foreach loops, accessing attributes via array fashion etc On May 12, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Waynn Lue wrote: What's the best way to pull down

Re: [PHP] Good XML Parser

2008-05-12 Thread Bojan Tesanovic
Here is the very simple way ;) ?php $XML=XMLL head a href='/asas' bFirst/b /a a href='/bla' b class='klas' Second/b /a /head XMLL; $X = simplexml_load_string($XML); foreach ($X-a as $a){ echo $a-b .\n; if( $a-b['class'] ) { echo 'B has class -

Re: [PHP] Good XML Parser

2008-05-12 Thread David Otton
2008/5/12 Waynn Lue [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So if I'm looking to parse certain attributes out of an XML tree, if I use SAX, it seems that I would need to keep track of state internally. E.g., if I have a tree like head a b/b /a a b/b /a /head and say I'm interested in all that's

Re: [PHP] Re: A Little Something.

2008-05-12 Thread Peter Ford
Stut wrote: On 12 May 2008, at 09:39, Peter Ford wrote: tedd wrote: Hi gang: This is what I did this morning: http://webbytedd.com/bb/tribute/ It speaks for itself. Cheers, tedd tedd, Nothing to do with the subject matter, but I noticed because it is one of your more simple pages: I get a

Re: [PHP] Re: A Little Something.

2008-05-12 Thread Stut
This is a bit off-topic, but since Peter appears to have missed the point of my post I feel I must reply. It may also be interesting to the list. On 12 May 2008, at 14:43, Peter Ford wrote: Stut wrote: On 12 May 2008, at 09:39, Peter Ford wrote: tedd wrote: Hi gang: This is what I did

[PHP] convert query result to array

2008-05-12 Thread It flance
Hi, is there any function that can convert the result of query to an associative array? what i want is the following: $query = select * from tablename; $result = mysql_query($query); $arr = somefunction($result); where $arr should be an assoiative array whose indices have the same name as

Re: [PHP] convert query result to array

2008-05-12 Thread Stut
On 12 May 2008, at 15:56, It flance wrote: is there any function that can convert the result of query to an associative array? what i want is the following: $query = select * from tablename; $result = mysql_query($query); $arr = somefunction($result); where $arr should be an assoiative

[PHP] Replacing accented characters by non-accented characters

2008-05-12 Thread Yannick Warnier
Hello, I've been trying to find something nice to transform an accentuated string into a non-accentuated string. Obviously, I'm mostly playing inside the European languages, but any method that could transform arabic or asian characters to plain non-accentuated characters would be perfect. I

Re: [PHP] Replacing accented characters by non-accented characters

2008-05-12 Thread James Dempster
maybe try iconv (http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php) e.g. echo iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8//TRANSLIT', 'français'); -- /James On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Yannick Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been trying to find something nice to transform an accentuated

Re: [PHP] Replacing accented characters by non-accented characters

2008-05-12 Thread James Dempster
oops wrong way round echo iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT', 'français'); On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:27 PM, James Dempster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe try iconv (http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php) e.g. echo iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8//TRANSLIT', 'français'); -- /James

Re: [PHP] A Little Something.

2008-05-12 Thread Daniel Brown
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 9:35 AM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gang: This is what I did this morning: http://webbytedd.com/bb/tribute/ It speaks for itself. You tell Bubba we all said thanks. I may not be a Vietnam vet, but I've served my time as well. When anyone at all

Re: [PHP] Replacing accented characters by non-accented characters

2008-05-12 Thread Yannick Warnier
Thanks James, That would probably work out if it wasn't too dependent on the locales to work. I'm developing an open-source product which could end up on a server without the locales for French but be used by some French people, which would make (as far as I can get out of one comment from Richie

Re: [PHP] Re: unsubscribe

2008-05-12 Thread Daniel Brown
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Craige Leeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've even had to resort to using classes and other strange stuff to program. Clearly signs of mental fatigue. :-) :o. I think mental fatigue might be evident by one not using it. But that's just me ;) Depends on

Re: [PHP] Replacing accented characters by non-accented characters

2008-05-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/12 Yannick Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I've been trying to find something nice to transform an accentuated string into a non-accentuated string. Obviously, I'm mostly playing inside the European languages, but any method that could transform arabic or asian characters to plain

[PHP] Permissions set on php script question

2008-05-12 Thread David Jourard
Hi, I'm very new to php. One thing I noticed in order to run the php program (on a linux server) I need to set the read permission for Other. In this program I'll have the MySQL credentials defined. Are there are any security concerns when the read permission is set like this. Wouldn't it be

Re: [PHP] Permissions set on php script question

2008-05-12 Thread Bojan Tesanovic
Heh you are really new to Linux permissions on linux are set per user/group/other bases so for most secure set permissions to read only for web-server user so chown 'webserveruser' file.php chmod 400 file.php make sure you have root access at server so you can change that file or make a group

Re: [PHP] Re: unsubscribe

2008-05-12 Thread tedd
At 11:46 AM -0400 5/12/08, Daniel Brown wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Craige Leeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've even had to resort to using classes and other strange stuff to program. Clearly signs of mental fatigue. :-) :o. I think mental fatigue might be evident by one not

[PHP] session.auto_start Linux vs Windows

2008-05-12 Thread Balpö
Hi everyone, I'm having a problem moving my code to a linux computer. I won't post the whole code here, but an accurate example that reproduces exactly the error. // 1.php ?php session_register('tree'); $_SESSION['tree'] = This is tree number one; header(Location:

[PHP] php_svn.dll with Apache/2.0.63

2008-05-12 Thread Vedanta Barooah
hi y'all, is there a known issue with php_svn.dll (5.2.1.1) on Apache/2.0.63 (windows xp sp 2 - 32bit)? i am pretty sure i did configure it well, but for some reason apache fails to use this extension. the svn extension is usable from the cli but not via apache. any pointers will be of great

Re: [PHP] Replacing accented characters by non-accented characters

2008-05-12 Thread Yannick Warnier
Le lundi 12 mai 2008 à 19:07 +0300, Dotan Cohen a écrit : 2008/5/12 Yannick Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I've been trying to find something nice to transform an accentuated string into a non-accentuated string. Obviously, I'm mostly playing inside the European languages, but any

Re: [PHP] Replacing accented characters by non-accented characters

2008-05-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/12 Yannick Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why are you removing the accents? Why not store/process the data as UTF-8, which supports all the accents in all the languages, and even non-latin languages. You mention Arabic, which does not use accented latin characters (Maybe you are thinking of

Re: [PHP] Re: A Little Something.

2008-05-12 Thread tedd
Gentlemen: First, my apologies for publishing the page without checking it first for pet-peeves. Second, please educate me as to the statement that NoScript is blocking UrchinTracker. Where do I have declared NoScript and why would I want it? I have numerous sites and they all generate

Re: [PHP] Re: unsubscribe

2008-05-12 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:17 AM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:46 AM -0400 5/12/08, Daniel Brown wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Craige Leeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've even had to resort to using classes and other strange stuff to program. Clearly signs of mental

[PHP] Re: php_svn.dll with Apache/2.0.63

2008-05-12 Thread Vedanta Barooah
more on this, i just found out that php_svn.dll does not work with the mpm version of apache, i did a 'Apache -X' (single process mode) and php_svn.dll works fine. how do i run it in mpm mode? - vedanta On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Vedanta Barooah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi y'all, is

Re: [PHP] Re: A Little Something.

2008-05-12 Thread Eric Butera
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:57 PM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen: First, my apologies for publishing the page without checking it first for pet-peeves. Second, please educate me as to the statement that NoScript is blocking UrchinTracker. Where do I have declared NoScript and why

Re: [PHP] Replacing accented characters by non-accented characters

2008-05-12 Thread tedd
Yannick: Considering that we just had a flurry of pet-peeves on the list, I rant on one of mine. At 1:25 PM -0500 5/12/08, Yannick Warnier wrote: I'm trying to give a universally-manageable directory name to an item using a free-text title. I want to avoid every type of accentuated character

Re: [PHP] Re: A Little Something.

2008-05-12 Thread tedd
At 3:11 PM -0400 5/12/08, Eric Butera wrote: NoScript is a FireFox extension to protect users from malicious scripts. NoScript is also a tag for browsers to read and react to IF they do not accept javascript. http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_noscript.asp That's an unfortunate naming

[PHP] creating an xls file from mysql data

2008-05-12 Thread Richard Kurth
This script will create an xls file from the data that is sent to it When I run this it only gets one recored and it is supposet to get all the records that are past by the $_POST[selectedcontactlist] I think I have a } in the wrong place but I can not figure it out anybody have a suggestion

Re: [PHP] Permissions set on php script question

2008-05-12 Thread David Jourard
Bojan Tesanovic wrote: Heh you are really new to Linux permissions on linux are set per user/group/other bases so for most secure set permissions to read only for web-server user so chown 'webserveruser' file.php chmod 400 file.php make sure you have root access at server so you can

Re: [PHP] convert query result to array

2008-05-12 Thread Yi Wang
I think flance's meaning is whether there is a build-in function that can convert the result set to an array. The short answer is: do it yourself. On 5/12/08, Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 May 2008, at 15:56, It flance wrote: is there any function that can convert the result of query

Re: [PHP] convert query result to array

2008-05-12 Thread Forcey
I guess PDOStatement::fetchAll() should work? see http://www.php.net/manual/en/pdostatement.fetchall.php for details. - Forcey On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Yi Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think flance's meaning is whether there is a build-in function that can convert the result set to

Re: [PHP] creating an xls file from mysql data

2008-05-12 Thread Chris
Richard Kurth wrote: This script will create an xls file from the data that is sent to it When I run this it only gets one recored and it is supposet to get all the records that are past by the $_POST[selectedcontactlist] I think I have a } in the wrong place but I can not figure it out

Re: [PHP] creating an xls file from mysql data

2008-05-12 Thread Ray Hauge
Chris wrote: Richard Kurth wrote: This script will create an xls file from the data that is sent to it When I run this it only gets one recored and it is supposet to get all the records that are past by the $_POST[selectedcontactlist] I think I have a } in the wrong place but I can not figure

[PHP] using variable in php form before the form is POSTed

2008-05-12 Thread milt
I have a form that will be filled in by the user, I want to have access to the content of one of the fields in that form, in order to fill in an another variable that is not part of the form. this variable is used by a routine when the form is posted. Question - is the $_post[field name]

Re: [PHP] using variable in php form before the form is POSTed

2008-05-12 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 14:44 -0700, milt wrote: I have a form that will be filled in by the user, I want to have access to the content of one of the fields in that form, in order to fill in an another variable that is not part of the form. this variable is used by a routine when the form

[PHP] Good HTML parser needed

2008-05-12 Thread Shelley
Hi all, The fact is that I have a site that allow users to post hypertext articles. However, I saw that sometimes, because of their careless input, the articles is not rendered correctly. I want to know whether there are some good HTML parsers written in PHP. That is, the parser checks whether

Re: [PHP] creating an xls file from mysql data

2008-05-12 Thread Chris
Or you can do it straight from MySQL, which is a lot faster: With the caveat that you need extra mysql permissions to be able to do that. -- Postgresql php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] Good HTML parser needed

2008-05-12 Thread Yi Wang
strip_tags does the tricks. www.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php BTW, Why cn2 dot php.net blocked by the mail server? The rejected message: This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

Re: [PHP] Good HTML parser needed

2008-05-12 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 11:34 +0800, Shelley wrote: Hi all, The fact is that I have a site that allow users to post hypertext articles. However, I saw that sometimes, because of their careless input, the articles is not rendered correctly. I want to know whether there are some good HTML

[PHP] tracking Mials Which were bounced.

2008-05-12 Thread Chetan Rane
Hi All I am using a PHP Mailer to send mass mails. How can I Identify how mails have bounced. Chetan Dattaram Rane Software Engineer -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Good HTML parser needed

2008-05-12 Thread Shelley
Maybe I didn't use that tidy correctly. I don't want html, head, body things. Just parsed string. On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 11:34 +0800, Shelley wrote: Hi all, The fact is that I have a site that allow users to post

Re: [PHP] Good HTML parser needed

2008-05-12 Thread Yi Wang
You should pass the secend parm to the function. Like this: $allowable_tags = 'patdtable'; strip_tags( $text, $allowable_tags ); On 5/13/08, Shelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that. It will just remove all html tags, you know. -- Regards, Shelley -- Regards, Wang Yi -- PHP

[PHP] cn2 dot php.net can't be included in the mail.

2008-05-12 Thread Yi Wang
Hi, I sent a mail to this mailling list just now. But the mailling list rejected my mail for the mail including cn2 dot php.net. Replace ' dot ' with '.'. Why this mirror site can't be included in the mail? Maybe it's not in the whitelist? -- Regards, Wang Yi -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Good HTML parser needed

2008-05-12 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 12:28 +0800, Shelley wrote: Maybe I didn't use that tidy correctly. I don't want html, head, body things. Just parsed string. So strip them... ?php // ... tidy_parse_string( $html ); tidy_clean_repair(); $html = tidy_get_output(); $html =

Re: [PHP] Good HTML parser needed

2008-05-12 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 01:27 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 12:28 +0800, Shelley wrote: Maybe I didn't use that tidy correctly. I don't want html, head, body things. Just parsed string. So strip them... ?php // ... tidy_parse_string( $html );