php-general Digest 19 Oct 2009 07:45:16 -0000 Issue 6398

2009-10-19 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 19 Oct 2009 07:45:16 - Issue 6398 Topics (messages 299035 through 299036): Re: ip-to-country 299035 by: George Langley parse_str() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given 299036 by: Julian Muscat Doublesin Administrivia: To subscribe to the

[PHP] parse_str() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given

2009-10-19 Thread Julian Muscat Doublesin
Hello* *Everyone, I am geetting the error below. Can you please guide me on a fix. It is working on the live site but not on local server. Has anyone ever experinced this error before. * Warning*: parse_str() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given**

Re: [PHP] parse_str() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given

2009-10-19 Thread Tommy Pham
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Julian Muscat Doublesin opensourc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello* *Everyone, I am geetting the error below. Can you please guide me on a fix. It is working on the live site but not on local server. Has anyone ever experinced this error before. * Warning*:

Re: [PHP] ip-to-country

2009-10-19 Thread John Black
SED wrote: How can I access an index for IP to a country (or a more detailed location)? I have not yet found a function for that in PHP nor a free to use website that offers a remote search. http://www.hostip.info/ is free, provides a database to download and even allows you to query the

Re: [PHP] ip-to-country

2009-10-19 Thread Paul Halliday
You might find this useful: http://sites.google.com/site/interrupt0x13h/code/ip2c On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:03 PM, SED s...@sed.is wrote: Hi, How can I access an index for IP to a country (or a more detailed location)? I have not yet found a function for that in PHP nor a free to use website

[PHP] Re: parse_str() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given

2009-10-19 Thread Al
Use var_dump() and see exactly what your variable is. You can be certain it is really an array; the parser is good about such warnings. Fix the source of the variable given to parse_str. Julian Muscat Doublesin wrote: Hello* *Everyone, I am geetting the error below. Can you please guide me

[PHP] French characters

2009-10-19 Thread Don
Hi, I use PHP to read data form a mysql 5 table. allow the user to edit the data and then update the table. I am having trouble with French characters. Before the update: Pas de description détaillée After the update:Pas de description détaillée When I read from the table I wrap the

RE: [PHP] French characters

2009-10-19 Thread Mert Oztekin
What about browsers encoding? And also, does your html code has a header about character-encoding in french -Original Message- From: Don [mailto:d...@program-it.ca] Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 3:58 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] French characters Hi, I use PHP to

Re: [PHP] French characters

2009-10-19 Thread Don
I am using the following code: meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 / Mert Oztekin mozte...@anadolusigorta.com.tr wrote in message news:e2c046087e10d943811a0bd0a4e8316d1bd2e81...@ankara.anadolusigorta.pvt... What about browsers encoding? And also, does your html

RE: [PHP] French characters

2009-10-19 Thread Mert Oztekin
You may use UTF-8 both in your code and database. It is used more commonly. (almost seems to become a encoding standart) -Original Message- From: Don [mailto:d...@program-it.ca] Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 4:08 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] French characters I

[PHP] Recurring payment by PayPal

2009-10-19 Thread LAMP
Hi, I need to build the form (donation) people will use to submit their basic data (name, email, city/country) to mysql and start recurring payment using PayPal. The amount has to be selected from drop-down menu or radio buttons or any other solution. Does anybody already built up something

Re: [PHP] French characters

2009-10-19 Thread Don Proshetsky
Thanks. For the database, there are many UTF8 collations. Is this the recommended one? UTF8_unicode-ci? - Original Message - From: Mert Oztekin To: 'Don' ; php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 9:13 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] French characters You may use

Re: [PHP] French characters

2009-10-19 Thread Don
This doesn't not seem to be having an affect as the French characters are still written scrambled. Mert Oztekin mozte...@anadolusigorta.com.tr wrote in message news:e2c046087e10d943811a0bd0a4e8316d1bd2e81...@ankara.anadolusigorta.pvt... You may use UTF-8 both in your code and database. It is

Re: [PHP] French characters

2009-10-19 Thread Robert Cummings
Don wrote: I am using the following code: meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 / Ther emaybe something else setting the charset though. I find the easiest way to check the actual charset that the browser thinks you are using is to open up firefox and go to:

Re: [PHP] French characters

2009-10-19 Thread Don Proshetsky
- Original Message - From: Phpster phps...@gmail.com To: Don d...@program-it.ca Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] French characters On Oct 19, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Don d...@program-it.ca wrote: This doesn't not seem to be having

Re: [PHP] French characters

2009-10-19 Thread Phpster
On Oct 19, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Don d...@program-it.ca wrote: This doesn't not seem to be having an affect as the French characters are still written scrambled. Mert Oztekin mozte...@anadolusigorta.com.tr wrote in message news:E2C046087E10D943811A0BD0A4E8316D1BD2E81C11@

Re: [PHP] French characters

2009-10-19 Thread Don
Phpster phps...@gmail.com wrote in message news:587e29a7-9904-45f2-beb3-b818ed0ca...@gmail.com... On Oct 19, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Don d...@program-it.ca wrote: This doesn't not seem to be having an affect as the French characters are still written scrambled. Mert Oztekin

Re: [PHP] Sanitizing potential MySQL strings with no database connection

2009-10-19 Thread Kim Madsen
Dotan Cohen wrote on 2009-10-18 21:21: I thought that one could not test if a database connection is established or not, this is the most relevant thing that I found while googling that: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29645 from http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php $link =

[PHP] PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Typing 'pear segmentation fault' in Google produces tons of responses so I know I'm not the only one with this issue, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what the problem is and how to fix it. I rolled my own PHP 5.3.0 from source. Compilation went fine, no errors. Installation went

Re: [PHP] PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Thodoris
Typing 'pear segmentation fault' in Google produces tons of responses so I know I'm not the only one with this issue, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what the problem is and how to fix it. I rolled my own PHP 5.3.0 from source. Compilation went fine, no errors. Installation

Re: [PHP] French characters

2009-10-19 Thread John Black
Don wrote: I use PHP to read data form a mysql 5 table. allow the user to edit the data and then update the table. I am having trouble with French characters. Before the update: Pas de description d�taill�e After the update:Pas de description détaillée It is an encoding problem. My

[PHP] Blocking video streaming

2009-10-19 Thread Talawa
Hello everyone, I post a message here because i didn't find any solution yet. I just finished video streaming service on my website. I use xmoov script (http://xmoov.com/xmoov-php/) to do that. It works like a charm, but I find an issue. When the video is buffering into the flash player, all

Re: [PHP] PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Thodoris wrote: Was, by any chance, PHP installed as binary before you install it from source? If this is the case try uninstalling the binary and then configure and compile the source again running 'make clean' before. PHP was not installed at all on this machine. I grabbed the source

Re: [PHP] Blocking video streaming

2009-10-19 Thread Kim Madsen
Hey Talawa wrote on 2009-10-19 18:29: Hello everyone, I post a message here because i didn't find any solution yet. I just finished video streaming service on my website. I use xmoov script (http://xmoov.com/xmoov-php/) to do that. It works like a charm, but I find an issue. When the video

Re: [PHP] PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Thodoris
Thodoris wrote: Was, by any chance, PHP installed as binary before you install it from source? If this is the case try uninstalling the binary and then configure and compile the source again running 'make clean' before. PHP was not installed at all on this machine. I grabbed the source

Re: [PHP] How do YOU set default function/method params?

2009-10-19 Thread Thodoris
Here is a problem that I have had for years now. I have been trying to come up with the perfect solution for this problem. But, I have come down to two different methods for solving it. Here is the problem... ?php function sendEmail( $to, $from, $subject, $body,

Re: [PHP] PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Thodoris wrote: Is there a good reason for needing this pear package? http://pear.php.net/package/DB It is old and it has been replaced with MDB2 some time ago. Why don't you use it instead of trying to install DB. The issue here isn't what package is being installed. The issue is that

Re: [PHP] PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Thodoris
Thodoris wrote: Is there a good reason for needing this pear package? http://pear.php.net/package/DB It is old and it has been replaced with MDB2 some time ago. Why don't you use it instead of trying to install DB. The issue here isn't what package is being installed. The issue is that

Re: [PHP] PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Thodoris wrote: Obviously something went wrong while installing PHP and you will have to find this because this probably the reason pear segfaults. Did you run make test before installing? (makes sure everything went well) You know you don't need pear binary to use a pear's package right?

Re: [PHP] PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Eddie Drapkin
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner ash...@pcraft.com wrote: Thodoris wrote: Obviously something went wrong while installing PHP and you will have to find this because this probably the reason pear segfaults. Did you run make test before installing? (makes sure everything

Re: [PHP] PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Eddie Drapkin
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner ash...@pcraft.com wrote: Eddie Drapkin wrote: Have you tried running pear upgrade pear?   Yep, but I'll do it again for you to see: pear -vvv upgrade pear Warning: file_exists(): Unable to find the wrapper channel -

Re: [PHP] PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Eddie Drapkin wrote: Try rebuilding PEAR manually. No dice. Same segfault. Bunch of deprecated warnings too ... [ ... snip ... ] Installing selected packages.. PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in

Re: [PHP] PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Thodoris
O/H Ashley M. Kirchner έγραψε: Eddie Drapkin wrote: Try rebuilding PEAR manually. No dice. Same segfault. Bunch of deprecated warnings too ... [ ... snip ... ] Installing selected packages.. PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated

Re: [PHP] PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Eddie Drapkin wrote: Have you tried running pear upgrade pear? Yep, but I'll do it again for you to see: pear -vvv upgrade pear Warning: file_exists(): Unable to find the wrapper channel - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in

Re: [PHP] Blocking video streaming

2009-10-19 Thread Talawa
Kim Madsen a écrit : Hey Talawa wrote on 2009-10-19 18:29: Hello everyone, I post a message here because i didn't find any solution yet. I just finished video streaming service on my website. I use xmoov script (http://xmoov.com/xmoov-php/) to do that. It works like a charm, but I find an

Re: [PHP] PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Ok, we have activity here. Before deleting everything and re-installing, I decided to just rename my php.ini file. Low and behold, pear works now. So, now the next task is figuring out where and why does php.ini cause pear to bomb. -- H | It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature.

Re: [PHP] PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Thodoris wrote: Manually is the best solution as far as I can tell: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.getting.php That's exactly what I did. I grabbed http://pear.php.net/go-pear and saved it, then ran php go-pear.php. The result is what you saw in my previous e-mail. -- H |

Re: [PHP] PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Well, it boiled down to zlib.so causing the segfault. As soon as I removed that module, everything worked. Recompiling just the zlib.so module yielded the same result: pear segfaults. So now the question is: is it zlib's fault, or is it pear? At this point I've accomplished what

[PHP] Please don't kick me!

2009-10-19 Thread Philip Thompson
Hi all. I know this question has been asked a thousand times on the list, but my searches in the archives are not being nice to me. So... please don't kick me. Currently, we use DOMPDF to generate PDFs from HTML. However, it's no longer maintained and it has a few bugs that we just can

Re: [PHP] Please don't kick me!

2009-10-19 Thread Floyd Resler
Phillip, I use ezpdf (http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/). I've been using it for years and have found it very capable of making any PDF I want. Take care, Floyd On Oct 19, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Philip Thompson wrote: Hi all. I know this question has been asked a thousand times on the list, but my

Re: [PHP] Sanitizing potential MySQL strings with no database connection

2009-10-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/10/19 Kim Madsen php@emax.dk: Dotan Cohen wrote on 2009-10-18 21:21: I thought that one could not test if a database connection is established or not, this is the most relevant thing that I found while googling that: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29645 from

Re: [PHP] Please don't kick me!

2009-10-19 Thread Philip Thompson
On Oct 19, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Floyd Resler wrote: Phillip, I use ezpdf (http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/). I've been using it for years and have found it very capable of making any PDF I want. Take care, Floyd This one seems fairly neat. However, it appears as though the author no longer

Re: [PHP] Please don't kick me!

2009-10-19 Thread Floyd Resler
Nope. I've never had any troubles with it. I've been able to produce all kinds of PDFs including loan agreements, inventory pick lists with barcodes, and various others. I find it incredibly powerful and easy to use. Take care, Floyd On Oct 19, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Philip Thompson wrote:

Re: [PHP] Please don't kick me!

2009-10-19 Thread Kim Madsen
Hi Philip Philip Thompson wrote on 2009-10-19 22:47: Hi all. I know this question has been asked a thousand times on the list, but my searches in the archives are not being nice to me. So... please don't kick me. Why would anyone do that? We're PHPeople and PHfrinds (ho ho) Currently,

Re: [PHP] Please don't kick me!

2009-10-19 Thread ray
- Original Message - From: Philip Thompson philthath...@gmail.com To: PHP General list php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 1:47 PM Subject: [PHP] Please don't kick me! Hi all. I know this question has been asked a thousand times on the list, but my searches in

Re: [PHP] Blocking video streaming

2009-10-19 Thread Talawa
Talawa a écrit : Kim Madsen a écrit : Hey Talawa wrote on 2009-10-19 18:29: Hello everyone, I post a message here because i didn't find any solution yet. I just finished video streaming service on my website. I use xmoov script (http://xmoov.com/xmoov-php/) to do that. It works like a

Re: [PHP] Header problem - SOLVED

2009-10-19 Thread Kim Madsen
This has been solved today. Talawa had a similar problem and came up with a solution to his problem, namely using session_write_close() before creating the headers. That stunt also solved my problem :-) -- Kind regards Kim Emax Kim Madsen wrote on 2009-10-03 13:30: Hi PHP people I have a

Re: [PHP] Sanitizing potential MySQL strings with no database connection

2009-10-19 Thread Jim Lucas
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/10/19 Kim Madsen php@emax.dk: Dotan Cohen wrote on 2009-10-18 21:21: I thought that one could not test if a database connection is established or not, this is the most relevant thing that I found while googling that: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29645 from

[PHP] MySQLi and prepared statements

2009-10-19 Thread Chris W
If I am using the mysqli extension and prepared statements, after I execute bind_param, is there a away to print the actual query that gets sent to the server? -- Chris W KE5GIX Protect your digital freedom and privacy, eliminate DRM, learn more at

[PHP] Statically linked library?

2009-10-19 Thread Ning Shi
Hi, I'm writing a program to record the system calls my web application places by interposing the libc libraries. However, I noticed that none of the system calls generated by the MySQL module in PHP is being recorded. I did ltrace and it seems like the module is statically linked, but doing file

[PHP] Re: PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Greg Beaver
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Typing 'pear segmentation fault' in Google produces tons of responses so I know I'm not the only one with this issue, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what the problem is and how to fix it. I rolled my own PHP 5.3.0 from source. Compilation went fine, no

Re: [PHP] PEAR segfaulting

2009-10-19 Thread Greg Beaver
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Well, it boiled down to zlib.so causing the segfault. As soon as I removed that module, everything worked. Recompiling just the zlib.so module yielded the same result: pear segfaults. So now the question is: is it zlib's fault, or is it pear? At this

[PHP] Access violation error again

2009-10-19 Thread Marshall Burns
Hi, The error I posted about the other day, PHP has encountered an Access Violation at ., is recurring on an intermittent basis. I find that once it starts occurring, it continues happening for about an entire day, and then it mysteriously stops occurring again for a day or two.