RE: [PHP] regexp appears to be faulty!?

2004-02-24 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 24 February 2004 12:40, Henry Grech-Cini wrote: Hi All, function extractFieldsets($subject) { $regexp=/fieldset([^]*)[^(\/fieldset)]*/i; This: [^(\/fieldset)] will match any *single* character except the ones listed -- i.e. any character that isn't one of: ()/defilst So this:

RE: [PHP] Nested Loops

2004-02-19 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 18 February 2004 22:13, Alex Hogan wrote: Sorry..., Line 17 is: print trtda href=\$id\$row2[$rtxt]/a/td/tr; I haven't a clue what this is relating to (bit *too* much snippage there!), but I think that statement is going to need some curly braces to have a chance of working as

RE: [PHP] UK Postcodes Format

2004-02-18 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 17 February 2004 19:44, Shaun contributed these pearls of wisdom: However the following code wont let me add any postcode!: if(!preg_match(/[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9][0-9A-Z]? [0-9][ABD-HJLNP-UW-Z]{1,2}/, $_POST[postcode])){ $error = Invalid Postcode; header(Location:

RE: [PHP] Class rules

2004-02-18 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 17 February 2004 22:02, Alex Hogan contributed these pearls of wisdom: Hi All, What are the rules of thumb for classes and included files? Can I not include a file in a class function? No. The entire class has to be in the same file (and inside a single set of ?php ? tags).

RE: [PHP] how to deal with http and https directory structures?

2004-02-18 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 17 February 2004 23:40, Chris W. Parker contributed these pearls of wisdom: http root: /home/cparker/www/domain.com/http/ https root: /home/cparker/www/domain.com/https/ includes directory: /home/cparker/www/domain.com/includes/ this way i don't have to worry about symlinks or

RE: [PHP] Javascript array [] length is undefined when only singl e element

2004-02-18 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 18 February 2004 01:21, Daevid Vincent contributed these pearls of wisdom: Okay kids. Here's another strange one. Very simple form. The array is dynamically generated from PHP as per the suggested method: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php#faq.html.arrays However, when there is

RE: [PHP] apos;

2004-02-18 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 18 February 2004 16:24, Diana Castillo contributed these pearls of wisdom: How do I convert apos; to ' before displaying it in HTML? You don't. That's the browser's job. Cheers! Mike -- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser, Learning Support Services, Learning

RE: [PHP] boolean type function ?

2004-02-18 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 18 February 2004 18:28, Mike Mapsnac contributed these pearls of wisdom: I search on php.net. How to declare php function as type boolean? You don't -- PHP is a dynamically typed language. Just return a Boolean value, and there you are. Cheers! Mike -- Mike Ford, Electronic

RE: [PHP] UK Postcodes Format

2004-02-17 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 17 February 2004 10:43, Roddie Grant wrote: on 17/2/04 10:25 am, Shaun at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, does anyone know the format of the postcodes in the UK so I can keep my database accurate? Thanks Try http://javascript.internet.com/forms/uk-postcode-validation.html

[PHP] [wandering OT!] RE: [PHP] UK Postcodes Format

2004-02-17 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 17 February 2004 12:45, Roddie Grant wrote: Hmm, I hadn't actually looked at the JavaScript - just at the description of how postcodes are structured. But the link to the Royal Mail site is much better for that. sigh / If only Royal Mail had remembered programmers when they thought up the

RE: [PHP] isset() question

2004-02-16 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 15 February 2004 18:30, Richard Davey wrote: I feel the book you're learning from might not be the best out there! Especially as it uses the horrible if : else : endif notation, I'd have to disagree with you on that one -- personally I think that's a very elegant and useful syntax, and all

RE: [PHP] How to access $_GET while using mod_rewrite

2004-02-16 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 16 February 2004 15:19, Merlin wrote: Hi there, I am using mod_rewrite which makes it impossible to use the $_GET function. However, it should be possible to do the same with a function. I figured out how to get the parameter string out of the url, now I am stuck in splitting

RE: [PHP] [Q]PHP not taking input values from forms

2004-02-12 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 11 February 2004 18:01, Dan Aloma wrote: Sorry about not including code the first time. Here is a snippet of code I am fairly certain should be doing something. Thank you SOOO much for the help. I've been working on setting up php for four days now and EVERYTHING else works (phpinfo()

RE: [PHP] Please help me understand gmmktime()

2004-02-12 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 11 February 2004 20:26, Richard Day wrote: Hello: Environment: Linux server PHP 4.3.4 This code: echo 'br'.strftime('%T %Z',mktime()).', Timestamp='.mktime(); echo 'br'.strftime('%T GMT',gmmktime()).', Timestamp='.gmmktime(); yields this result:

RE: [PHP] mutliple select form not passing multiple values

2004-02-12 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 11 February 2004 21:39, Ben Ramsey wrote: Ah-ha! I missed that, and I always do. Let's hope I don't anymore. While we're on the subject, why is PHP set up this way? Why can't it just add the elements to the array automatically, since adding the square brackets to one's HTML form name is

RE: Re[2]: [PHP] HELP: Nested include(...)'s take relative paths not intuitively

2004-02-11 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 11 February 2004 00:38, Adam Bregenzer contributed these pearls of wisdom: On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 19:06, Richard Davey wrote: This is slightly off-topic, but related to the include() function. What is the given standard regarding when you should or shouldn't use braces on a function.

RE: [PHP] Sessions on Win2k

2004-02-11 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 11 February 2004 16:39, Alex Hogan contributed these pearls of wisdom: Session_start() has to be the first thing at the top of the page before anything else. Even header info. Er, no. session_start() itself generates headers, so it doesn't matter whether it goes before or after other

RE: [PHP] Recommendation on PHP encoder please

2004-02-05 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 05 February 2004 11:30, Harry Sufehmi wrote: ...SNIP... As you can see, the content will be secured, but the script is now becoming the weak point since it'll store the encryption key needed to decrypt the content. I hope you don't mean that literally. If you're really being security

RE: [PHP] multi dimension array sort help

2004-02-05 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 05 February 2004 04:33, Justin French wrote: Hi, I've read and re-read array_multisort(), but still can't get a grip on how to sort my array: Array ( [0] = Array ( [path_id] = 3 [year] = 2004 [month] = 02 [day] =

RE: [PHP] Recommendation on PHP encoder please

2004-02-05 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 05 February 2004 13:10, Harry Sufehmi wrote: On 05/02/2004 at 11:48 Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote: On 05 February 2004 11:30, Harry Sufehmi wrote: As you can see, the content will be secured, but the script is now becoming the weak point since it'll store the encryption key

RE: [PHP] Re: Issue with 'W' in the date() function?

2004-02-04 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 03 February 2004 16:16, William Bailey contributed these pearls of wisdom: Ok. Its been a long day and my brain is starting to shut down so... How would i work out which year the 'W' relates to? I have a unix timestamp value and want to end up with the correct 'YW' value. Look at

RE: [PHP] R: [PHP] SQL Query Not Kosher?

2004-02-04 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 03 February 2004 13:45, Alessandro Vitale contributed these pearls of wisdom: try removing curly braces as follows: $query = mysql_query(UPDATE stories SET status='approved' WHERE story_id={$id}); | Nothing wrong with the above, it's perfectly valid -- just a slightly different way of

RE: [PHP] session problem

2004-02-04 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 04 February 2004 12:59, marc serra contributed these pearls of wisdom: Hi, I'm working on a multi-langage website and i got problem with a fonction which destroy my session :-( I got a file which change my langage like this :

RE: [PHP] Session troubles

2004-02-04 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 03 February 2004 21:20, DL contributed these pearls of wisdom: Hi all, I am using PHP v4.12, and here is the scenario. Which OS are you on? I seem to remember that a bug in 4.1.2 meant that sessions were write only on one particular group of OS -- but I can no longer remember whether it

RE: [PHP] Why are my style sheets all listed on one line?

2004-01-30 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 30 January 2004 08:55, Freedomware wrote: David Obrien wrote: You need a \n at the end of each line inside the quote like echo stylesheet\n; \n is newline -Dave Another way you could go, as this is mostly HTML with some PHP values thrown in, is to write it as such -- then all

RE: [PHP] parsing variables inside a variable?

2004-01-30 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 29 January 2004 14:56, jimbo wrote: Hi, I have a query regarding variable parsing. I have some text in a MySQL database in which I have included some variable names. Eg (but w/o quotes): thankyou $name for registering on our web site. I query and use mysql_fetch_array to get the

RE: [PHP] parsing variables inside a variable?

2004-01-30 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 30 January 2004 12:35, jimbo wrote: Great - thanks v. much Mike. I don't know why there was no mention of eval() in the section of the manual on Variable Parsing. Possibly because they didn't want to get into the security issues involved. It sounds like you're ok there, as you only intend

RE: [PHP] Show Results one at a time ?

2004-01-29 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 29 January 2004 12:51, Dave Carrera wrote: Hi List, I have a test function who's aim is to take an array an do something which each value of the array and show the result on screen one at a time. --- Test Function Code --- function TestFunc(){ $cnt = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10);

RE: [PHP] Using unset with $_SESSION

2004-01-28 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 27 January 2004 15:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to find a reliable method to clean out all session variables and start clean. Running PHP 4.3.1 on Win2K developing a web app to run on Linux. Session cookies are enabled, register globals is off. I access all session

RE: [PHP] Using unset with $_SESSION

2004-01-28 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 27 January 2004 16:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27 Jan 2004 Stuart wrote: In that case, try this... foreach (array_keys($_SESSION) as $key) unset($_SESSION[$key]); Yes, I had tried that but forgot to mention it. It does work. However, I'm still mystified as to why

RE: [PHP] addslashes stripslashes

2004-01-28 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 28 January 2004 12:31, Will wrote: I'm a little confused with these functions. How I here you ask. Well I thought I understood what they were for: Escaping characters that might cause a problem when you enter your data into a database query. i.e. \ ' Anyway what is confusing me is, say

RE: [PHP] Tip For The Day

2004-01-28 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 28 January 2004 15:52, Cesar Cordovez wrote: Jay Blanchard wrote: I think that you meant to its already been broughten!, didn't you? Did you know that you will find that bracing style has been debated since the days of FORTRAN? Oh! Fortran 77! I remember those times! =)

RE: [PHP] Seems Simple enough

2004-01-27 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 26 January 2004 16:56, Christopher J. Crane wrote: Ok here is the wierd thing. I pasted more code, it seems to not work because of me changing the number format. This works ... if($Balance = 10001) { $Balance = number_format($Balance,2,'.',','); echo font

RE: [PHP] unexpected include parse error

2004-01-27 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 27 January 2004 05:50, Paul Furman wrote: Shawn McKenzie wrote: I've noticed in both of your posts that you aren't terminating the line before the include with a ; Yup, thanks! Then I fixed my global problem without bugging you guys too. Actually, no you didn't -- you just bypassed

RE: [PHP] unexpected include parse error

2004-01-27 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 27 January 2004 05:18, Shawn McKenzie wrote: PS I'm on my windows apache server but the forward slash seems to work in php that keeps it portable. I tried it both ways. Yes -- PHP internally translates between / and \ on Windows, precisely for portability reasons. Thus, you can

RE: [PHP] Html forms on windows servers

2004-01-22 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 22 January 2004 14:24, Carolina Silva Animas wrote: Hi This is my first experience with php... and I'm already having trouble... I´m working on an html form for a website which uses php to create an e-mail. My 'Submit' button has a php document as action. It works great on my unix

RE: [PHP] Odd Code Error.

2004-01-21 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 21 January 2004 04:01, Luke contributed these pearls of wisdom: ok, i read the section, but even so if $a == $b and $a == $c then $b should be equal to $c No, not necessarily! but php is saying otherwise? Yes. this sounds confusing i want to try n get my head round it a string

RE: [PHP] Where is the mistace? Warning: ftp_put(): 'STOR ' not u nderstood.

2004-01-16 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 15 January 2004 21:03, Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] That shouldnt matter, because FTP_BINARY is a constant, and therfore has a numeric, or string value. The only way FTP_BINARY would become a physical string is if there was quotes around it. As for the problem, are you sure you have

RE: [PHP] Re: PHP Includes and Echoes in Head Sections and Search Engines

2004-01-16 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 15 January 2004 22:39, Luke wrote: ? Holy cow, this gets simpler all the time. Pretty soon, there'll be ? nothing left on my page but PHP includes and echo functions! ? ? Does this cut down on a website's file size? In other words, are the php ? includes effectively inactive when no one's

RE: [PHP] Re: PHP Includes and Echoes (Sorry; read this post firs t!)

2004-01-16 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 16 January 2004 00:30, Freedomware wrote: I should have played with this some more before I posted more questions. After fixing an error on the included page, I replaced every instance of na/a1 on both pages with a1. That seemed to fix everything; the first style sheet comes through, but

RE: [PHP] Non American strtotime

2004-01-16 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 16 January 2004 11:14, Tom wrote: Is there a way I can force PHP's time functions not to read date strings in the American MM-DD- format? I am using strtotime and strftime and date at various points (mainlty to avoid some niggly 0/NULL problems between PHP and mySQL and

RE: [PHP] Re: PHP Includes and Echoes (From the top...)

2004-01-16 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 16 January 2004 13:54, Freedomware wrote: Thanks for all the tips. It's getting generally getting clearer, but I'm a little confused somewhere. [SNIP] I inserted one of the functions you suggested - $includea1 = TRUE; - after the include, but I'm sure I did it wrong. Just like before

RE: [PHP] Empty Reference to an Object

2004-01-13 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 13 January 2004 15:10, Sebastian Ossio wrote: Hi, I´m trying to give an empty reference as a parameter, in a function. Or rather make a parameter that is a reference optional. I have a function that should react differently if it is given an object or not. It works, but it gives me

RE: [PHP] I am totally nuts/banana. Please somebody help me with an include problem.

2004-01-12 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 12 January 2004 13:29, Burhan Khalid wrote: Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] please can somebody help me. I am going nuts. Really I am close to totally freaking out. [/snip] Sorry to hear that [snip] In the file page_dentona.class.php the first line says the following:

RE: [PHP] open_basedir clarification

2004-01-09 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 09 January 2004 01:16, Matt Grimm wrote: Can anyone clarify this for me? Is open_basedir recursive or restricted to the exact paths specified? This is a bit hard to find in the manual, but everything you need to know should be at

RE: [PHP] Getting results from Select Multiple HTML tag

2004-01-06 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 06 January 2004 04:06, Tyler Longren wrote: Hi, http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php#faq.html.select-multiple I read that. Doesn't work in php since the whole register_globals thing. Now, when I get the results from a form, they're all in a $_POST[] array. Example. When I

RE: [PHP] Strange IF(condition) behaviour

2004-01-06 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 06 January 2004 03:58, Tim L wrote: I'm not sure if this is intended behaviour or not, but I can see that is might be. Just thought I would bounce this to see what people think about it: ?php if (false) ? Hello?php else echo Hi; echo World\n; ? This returns a parse

RE: [PHP] eregi filter stopping valid email address, part two

2004-01-06 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 06 January 2004 15:53, Dave G wrote: PHP Gurus A while ago on this list I posted a few questions about an eregi filter for email addresses entered into a form. With the help of people on this list, I settled on the following code which has worked fine in the months since I

RE: [PHP] Changing languages

2003-12-19 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 19 December 2003 01:27, Cesar Aracena wrote: Hi all, I have an issue here. I'm making a english/spanish site and want the browser to remember their preference with a cookie. The first time a visitor comes into the site, they will be taken to the english part (www.site.com/eng/) and when

RE: [PHP] CLI question

2003-12-18 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 17 December 2003 21:33, Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] I'm using the CLI version 4.3.4 on Windows XP Pro. The script I'm writing has only a couple of functions, a couple of if conditionals and a while loop. At the very top of the script I have an echo statement with a message I want printed

RE: [PHP] CLI question

2003-12-18 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 18 December 2003 14:48, Rodney Green wrote: Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote: Shouldn't that be *don't* use output buffering and...? The flush() function has nothing to do with output buffering, and if output buffering is on you will need ob_flush() as well. Another (and probably better

RE: [PHP] Round() behaviour issue

2003-12-16 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 16 December 2003 11:13, Scott McDaid wrote: Hi there. I've been looking at the behaviour of the round functionality in PHP. We're currently still using v4.2.3, (but the documentation seems to suggest it's the same for versions after this). Doing the following rounds always rounds *up*

RE: [PHP] url rewriting within sessions - confused newbie needs h elp

2003-12-12 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 11 December 2003 19:58, Peter Walter wrote: I hope you mean session_start(). Yes, I did. Getting a bit dyslexic nowadays. Well, you would, because PHP would use the value from the PHPSESSID= URL parameter. ... except that on the second call, the url (as displayed by the

RE: [PHP] Session Link Problems

2003-12-12 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 12 December 2003 00:03, Steve Turner wrote: Hi, I am having a problem with sessions. On my testing machine my script works perfectly. However on the remote server it tries to pass the session id in the url even though I am accepting cookies. It is messing up all my links since it

RE: [PHP] passing arrays?

2003-12-12 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 12 December 2003 06:07, motorpsychkill wrote: Thanks Tom, that worked! I knew that $$level had something to do with it, just wasn't sure what exactly. Thanks again. -m -Original Message- From: Tom Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 9:34 PM

RE: [PHP] How to use anchor with php post string to jump to a pag e???

2003-12-12 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 12 December 2003 14:51, Scott Fletcher wrote: It does work now. Going the other way around does the trick. Surprisely, PHP doesn't treat it as if two seperate thing are combined into one post data, like color for example that would be displayed as 'redRowNum3'. That's because PHP never

RE: [PHP] Compiling...hellllp!

2003-12-11 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 11 December 2003 01:24, Ryan A wrote: Hi, Its been quite some time since I have done any compiling, the last time was java and before that C...which was years back. I want to install Turck MMCache for php on one of our new dedicated servers as we will be running a crapload of scripts

RE: [PHP] url rewriting within sessions - confused newbie needs h elp

2003-12-11 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 11 December 2003 16:54, Peter Walter wrote: Jason, Thanks for your help. It is a little clearer to me now. However, I have visited php sites that *claim* to be using session management but where the links do not have the session id appended, and there are no variables being passed in

RE: [PHP] url rewriting within sessions - confused newbie needs h elp

2003-12-11 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 11 December 2003 18:01, Peter Walter wrote: Mike, Thanks for the additional explanation, and I understand the sequence of events as you described. However, please bear with me a bit - the results I am getting do not quite match your explanation. Let me clarify what I am doing: I

RE: [PHP] $_POST var name char conversion . to _

2003-12-10 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 10 December 2003 16:19, ROBERT MCPEAK contributed these pearls of wisdom: Has anybody seen the seemingly automatic and unexplained conversion of the character . to _ in $_POST var names? Yes. It's PHP automagic by PHP. I've tested several ways, with and without PHP, and I've dug around

RE: [PHP] Re: Capturing $_POST variables

2003-11-28 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 28 November 2003 14:21, Shaun wrote: Thanks you for your replies, is there a reason why i couldn't use the following? $_POST = $_POST; None whatsoever -- but it's an expensive way of effectively doing nothing! (Which, I suspect, is not what you want to do.) The fact that you are even

RE: [PHP] Forms and Arrays

2003-11-28 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 28 November 2003 14:36, Dave Carrera wrote: Hi List, I have a dynamically generated form with inputs with names that create arrays i.e.: input name=fname[] input name=flab[] input name=fplc[] The extra bits for the inputs are omitted deliberately for this question but exists in

RE: [PHP] Forms and Arrays

2003-11-28 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 28 November 2003 17:22, Dave Carrera wrote: Thank you for clearing up my rather lame explanation. So how can I process $_POST[dynamic-name][user-entered-value] arrays to give me my desired output: fname0 = value flab0 = value fplc0 = value fname1 = value flab1 = value fplc1 = value

RE: [PHP] Is there a php built-in function to determine the numbe r of dimensions of the array?

2003-11-27 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 26 November 2003 15:23, David T-G wrote: Jay, et al -- ...and then Jay Blanchard said... % % Curious, how is it that you define multi-dimensional? I'm no expert, but I'd say that a multi is addressed as array[x,y,z] while a nested is array[x][y][z] In a nutshell, yes --

RE: [PHP] Is there a php built-in function to determine the numbe r of dimensions of the array?

2003-11-26 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 26 November 2003 03:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] contributed these pearls of wisdom: Hello all mailing list, I am wondering if it exists a PHP built-in function to determine the numbers of dimensions of any type of array (indexed, and associative), thanks for any help, bye. (i) All PHP arrays

RE: [PHP] Object aggregation/composition - Experimental..?

2003-11-26 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 25 November 2003 18:48, Video Populares et Optimates contributed these pearls of wisdom: Hi! I'm sifting through the possibilities with PHP and naturally one of the first things I searched for was the possibility for OO development. Now, I found chapter LXXII in the PHP manual (file

RE: [PHP] FLAG

2003-11-26 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 26 November 2003 12:43, Jay Blanchard contributed these pearls of wisdom: [snip] Well, so is there any online resource whereby I can read up on FLAG ???Or any idea how should I go about creating the memory location to store the binary-ish information (e.g. true/false, yes/no, 1/0)? Hope

RE: [PHP] Is there a php built-in function to determine the numbe r of dimensions of the array?

2003-11-26 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 26 November 2003 13:09, Jay Blanchard contributed these pearls of wisdom: [snip] (ii) All PHP arrays are 1-dimensional. Some elements of an array may themselves contain arrays, but that only makes them nested arrays, not multi-dimensional. If what you want to know is the deepest level

RE: [PHP] trim...

2003-11-26 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 26 November 2003 16:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] contributed these pearls of wisdom: Why doesn't this work...? $body = pblurb blah phappy days pend of text; $body = trim($body); $body now should output: pblurb blah\nphappy days\npend of text but it doesn't...? No it shouldn't -- it

RE: [PHP] Is there a way to use the strpos() for next string...

2003-11-21 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 20 November 2003 20:39, Scott Fletcher wrote: Yea, the manual is clear but honestly, don't know what the offset really meant since there is no definition or explaination of how the offset work. Well, I really don't know how much clearer the sentence that says The optional offset parameter

RE: [PHP] Is there a way to use the strpos() for next string...

2003-11-20 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 20 November 2003 14:53, Scott Fletcher wrote: Hi Everyone! Is there a way to get the strpos() to find the next needle in the haystack instead of just the 1st one only? (Where the 1st needle is the same string as the next needle)... Look at the optional 3rd parameter to strpos().

RE: [PHP] Is there a way to use the strpos() for next string...

2003-11-20 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 20 November 2003 17:39, Scott Fletcher wrote: How exactly does the 3rd parameter option work. I tried this but it doesn't work, so I don't know how exactly does it work... There isn't detail information on the php.net website... --snip-- $XML_Start =

RE: [PHP] How to get the key of a specific index of array?

2003-11-19 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 19 November 2003 12:59, David Strencsev contributed these pearls of wisdom: Wouter Van Vliet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] First of all, you said to use the first three values of the array for anoter reason .. well the, what I'd do is this: $FirstThree =

RE: [PHP] stepping through alphabet

2003-11-19 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 19 November 2003 14:25, Jay Blanchard contributed these pearls of wisdom: [snip] for ($letter = 'A'; $letter++; $letter = 'Z') echo a href=\?action=alphabetletter=$letter\$letter/a\n; [/snip] I tested this and found two small problems. The code works if you do this (I was myself

RE: [PHP] stepping through alphabet

2003-11-19 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 19 November 2003 16:15, Jay Blanchard contributed these pearls of wisdom: [snip] 'Z'+1 is defined to be 'AA' (it says that in the manual, too!), so your loop has to be: for($letter = 'A'; $letter = 'AA'; $letter++){ echo $letter . \n; } [/snip] Run this, you'll be

RE: [PHP] passing random variables names

2003-11-07 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 07 November 2003 08:41, Yonatan Ben-Nes wrote: Hi all, I made a form which pass constant variables which never change (Ex. product_name) and dynamic variables which i withdraw from the db (Ex. attribute_id = 1, value = color). Now my problem is with the passing of the dynamic variables.

RE: [PHP] Handling checkboxes that aren't checked!!!

2003-11-05 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 04 November 2003 20:43, Pablo Gosse contributed these pearls of wisdom: On Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:45 PM Kevin wrote: [snipped] How can I test for it without getting an error if it is not checked?? [/snipped] Hey Kevin. Use isset($var) to test if a var has been set. So you

RE: [PHP] Changing the php.ini file

2003-11-05 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 05 November 2003 14:39, Mike At Spy contributed these pearls of wisdom: I re-checked the files - nothing I change in the php.ini files seems to take effect. How do I check apache? I saw the post_max_size thing and changed that to be equal to the upload_max_filesize. I'll make it a

RE: [PHP] sorting

2003-10-20 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 18 October 2003 10:10, Wang Feng wrote: I can't uderstand why the number 18 is stored in the $third rather than $first. I tried to change the 18 to 18, that is, change it from a decimal number to a string and by that way, 18 is stored in the $first, which is what I expected. But why

RE: [PHP] best way to use session vars?

2003-10-20 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 19 October 2003 13:00, David T-G wrote: It seems to me that for a fast fix I could set $pw and other vars in my include file in place of registering them and then, later, take my time to correctly switch over to $_POST['pw'] and $_SESSION['pw'] everywhere. Does that sound like a good

RE: [PHP] sorting

2003-10-20 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 20 October 2003 13:36, Wang Feng wrote: Mike, So, in PHP, when a string is converted to a number to compare with the other decimal input, the compiler doesn't look at the ascii set table *at all*? Instead, it simply convert the string to 0? Yes, if it doesn't start with a valid string

RE: [PHP] sorting

2003-10-20 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 20 October 2003 13:53, Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote: Yes, if it doesn't start with a valid string representation of a string -- see Oops -- string representation of a *number*, of course... ;) Cheers! Mike - Mike Ford

RE: [PHP] where is my session data on my new server?

2003-10-16 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 14 October 2003 14:45, David T-G wrote: Mike, et al -- ...and then Ford, Mike [LSS] said... % % On 14 October 2003 11:26, David T-G wrote: % % I ran a phpinfo() comparison and didn't see anything markedly % different (except for how the output is formatted, which made

RE: [PHP] Pulling variables from a URL

2003-10-15 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 14 October 2003 18:59, Carl Furst contributed these pearls of wisdom: double quotes say interpolate $variables. However I have discovered (at least in php 4.2.3) that you cannot use subarrays in double quotes like my var in the subarray subarray: $array['subarray']['subarray'] That

RE: [PHP] header() refresh vs location

2003-10-15 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 14 October 2003 20:11, Chris Hubbard contributed these pearls of wisdom: All, I have done a number of searches. I have read the online documentation and user supplied comments. I recently ran into problem using: -some code here to create session and set variables- header('Location:

RE: [PHP] Sessions Question

2003-10-15 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 15 October 2003 01:31, Mike Brum contributed these pearls of wisdom: One quick note - if you're starting a session then you can't user the header() function afterwards. You'll get the lovel headers already sent error. Actually, so long as you do both *before* outputting any actual page

RE: [PHP] Sessions Question

2003-10-15 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 15 October 2003 05:25, Jake McHenry contributed these pearls of wisdom: Yes, submit, inout, username and password all come from the index.php form submission, but username changes throughout the different pages, that was one of my problems. I'm not sure what I did wrong before, but once I

RE: [PHP] newbie question

2003-10-14 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 13 October 2003 13:49, 'Eugene Lee' wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:32:18AM +0100, Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote: On 12 October 2003 23:36, Eugene Lee wrote: The PHP manual is vague in several sections. I wonder how bug reports get submitted for it? http://bugs.php.net

RE: [PHP] where is my session data on my new server?

2003-10-14 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 14 October 2003 11:26, David T-G wrote: On the first server when you enter the password and hit the button the page comes back up with $pw set and in you go. On the second server $pw is always empty and we are endlessly prompted. I ran a phpinfo() comparison and didn't see anything

RE: [PHP] Major wierdness - ack!

2003-10-13 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 10 October 2003 21:28, James Johnson wrote: Hi, I'm getting so frustrated with this. I have put some error trapping code in my site with the following code (an included file): ?php ob_start(); error_reporting(E_ALL); set_error_handler('pc_error_handler');

RE: [PHP] Sessions

2003-10-13 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 11 October 2003 02:23, Lowell Allen wrote: I'm trying to track down some issues with my site, and am trying to decide if it's a session variable issue. On a random basis, it appears that session vars are being dumped, deleted, or unset, as the site will break. Queries based on session

RE: [PHP] newbie question

2003-10-13 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 12 October 2003 23:36, Eugene Lee wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:23:53AM +1000, Wang Feng wrote: 1. An optional padding specifier that says what character will be used for padding the results to the right string size. This may be a space character or a 0 (zero character). The

RE: [PHP] or return problem

2003-10-09 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 08 October 2003 17:20, Chris Shiflett wrote: The internals developers probably didn't see a need to provide support for return in conditionals since it can't return a value to the conditional. Ugh. This is the same misconception, again. Let's try some different code: ? function

RE: [PHP] problem transferring a variable using POST

2003-10-09 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 09 October 2003 16:57, Davy Campano wrote: I am having a problem with a form. I am trying to have a form pass a variable so that I can update an item. I think the problem is that the variable (ticketed) is being read as text instead of a number. These are the tests I have run. This

RE: [PHP] or return problem

2003-10-08 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 07 October 2003 18:15, Pat Carmody contributed these pearls of wisdom: So far everyone is telling me that it won't work, but no one is telling me why. (btw I did search extensively for the answer to this question but so far have found nothing). Robert, could you be more specific in your

RE: [PHP] shell_exec question

2003-10-08 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 08 October 2003 15:19, Chris Blake contributed these pearls of wisdom: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 15:23, Marek Kilimajer wrote: Then check your httpd.conf for php_(admin_)?(flag|value) OK, so I`ve tried all the suggestions posted, thanks guys...but then I went and deleted the php.ini file

RE: [PHP] or return problem

2003-10-08 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 08 October 2003 16:13, Chris Shiflett contributed these pearls of wisdom: --- Ford, Mike [LSS] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly, or, as a Boolean operator requires two operands, both of which must have an actual value. [snip] statements don't have a value

RE: [PHP] or return problem

2003-10-08 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 08 October 2003 16:43, Robert Cummings contributed these pearls of wisdom: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 11:43, Curt Zirzow wrote: * Thus wrote Chris Shiflett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): --- Ford, Mike [LSS] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly, or, as a Boolean operator requires two

RE: [PHP] embedding code

2003-10-03 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 03 October 2003 05:06, John Taylor-Johnston wrote: Brian or anyone, Ok, supposing I don't want someone to be able to use script language=php and I'm the paranoid sysadmin, (WebCT system see open source moodle.org). What advice would you give me? Students are allowed to upload files to

RE: [PHP] regex drive me crazy

2003-10-02 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 01 October 2003 21:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The PHP manual sais to escape the escape char, it has to be written twice*, but: Yes, it does. But it also says that to put a \ into a string, you need to write it twice (escape it) ***. So: $term = preg_replace('/(\\)/', 'backslash

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