Re: [PHP] Distinguishing between multiple browser windows for the same php session

2005-09-03 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
you are in. You could place the value in a hidden form field with JS and then post back to the server, but something tells me you may be approaching the problem in the wrong way. Without more details I can't suggest alternatives, though. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting -

Re: [PHP] Re: Tracking a mobile phone

2005-09-02 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
the phone is in (for example "Cathedral Square" here in Christchurch, New Zealand) but I'm not so sure about location. And some cell names are pretty vague ("Christchurch East"). Anyway, this is a bit OT now... -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasp

Re: [PHP] Re: calling PHP self with a text link

2005-09-02 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
t already, and it is well worth a read, especially the post by Satyam That thread was very interesting, and while Satyam's advice was very true and thought-provoking, you must remember (as one reply mentioned) that you are talking about optimisations that save you about 0.1ms or so... --

Re: [PHP] Re: calling PHP self with a text link

2005-09-02 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
#x27;echo' language construct. The '?' is just a string, and is interpreted just like any other string in PHP. That will print out the value of $PHP_SELF followed by ?&action=something By the way, you really shouldn't have register_globals turned on. And you also really

Re: [PHP] calling PHP self with a text link

2005-09-02 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
PHP_SELF, so you might want to escape or validate that variable. See [1], mentioned recently by Chris Shiflett on this list. [1] http://blog.phpdoc.info/archives/13-XSS-Woes.html -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ If you find my advice useful, please

Re: [PHP] Allowing access to only one host/referer

2005-09-01 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
, and other cool stuff. See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_access.html#allow -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ If you find my advice useful, please consider donating to a poor student! You can choose whatever amount you think my advic

Re: [PHP] session cookies

2005-09-01 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Mikey wrote: Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Philip Hallstrom wrote: Then use an HTML meta refresh (or javascript, just not Header("Location...) to redirect them to another page. Why not header("Location...")? Just out of interest -- it's always worked for me, and it&#x

Re: [PHP] session cookies

2005-09-01 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
any reasons[1] (like not breaking the back button). [1] http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] ID based on position?

2005-08-31 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
T [offset],[rowcount] and the offset starts at 0. -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ If you find my advice useful, please consider donating to a poor student! You can choose whatever amount you think my advice was worth to you. http://tinyurl.com/7

[PHP] Re: [suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] RE: [PHP] Re: [suspicious - maybe spam] PHP/MySQL/XmlHTTPRequest

2005-08-30 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Death Gauge wrote: Ok how do I get rid of the annoying "[suspicious - maybe spam]" crap that appears when I post? This won't help with that, but please stop top-posting. Your ISP is probably adding it because it thinks you're message is spam. It might be something to do with your signature, m

Re: [PHP] IMAP socket?

2005-08-30 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
file descriptors and sockets, so providing the file descriptor would break that abstraction. -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ If you find my advice useful, please consider donating to a poor student! You can choose whatever amount you think my a

[PHP] Re: [suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] PHP/MySQL/XmlHTTPRequest

2005-08-30 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Death Gauge wrote: Where do I go learn about XmlHTTPRequest? I've done googles and all I've found was stuff about toolkits no tutorials or documents telling how to use it. How about the top three results on Google? http://www.google.com/search?q=XMLHTTPRequest -- Jasper Bry

Re: [PHP] Cookies.

2005-08-30 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
hat cookies are enabled, but the application may be performing some sort of sanity check, which is obviously failing... Put a die($_COOKIE[session_name()]); just before that line, and tell us what it shows. -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ If yo

Re: [PHP] Re: upload file - clients path to file?

2005-08-30 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well basically i need it for an "add products" page and if the users doesnt fill in all the fields correctly I display some error message as well as populate the textfields and dropdown lists with the values they previously entered, so if they entered/selected the file I

Re: [PHP] upload file - clients path to file?

2005-08-30 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
h. is this possible? Not with pure PHP. Maybe with some JavaScript, but most browsers heavily limit any interaction with controls from JavaScript. So probably not at all. -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ If you find my advice useful, please con

Re: [PHP] divide-column?

2005-08-30 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
might need to do: SELECT *, (field1 / field2) AS divField FROM mytable ORDER BY divField as I'm not sure if you can use expressions like that in the ORDER BY clause. Maybe... -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ If you find my advice usef

Re: [PHP] Protecing files

2005-08-29 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Thomas wrote: Thanks for all the answers. I had not considered leaving the xml file outside the webroot (duh!). However, in this case I don't think it would work, as the project is working through a svn structure (and some boxes run Linux, otherwise Win). I thought that the .htaccess would have b

Re: [PHP] Problem With Inner Loop

2005-08-29 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
o be executed over and over (why?) then you would need to move the mysql_query() inside the outer while loop. HTH -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ If you find my advice useful, please consider donating to a poor student! You can choose whatever amo

Re: [PHP] User redirection, passing HTTP AUTH credentials

2005-08-29 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
domain for them to look at (will the browsers let you do that? never tried), or implementing something in the backend, like an XMLRPC request behind-the-scenes that identifies the user and gives them a unique ID, which you could then pass to site.com in the query string. -- Jasper Bry

Re: [PHP] Sessions, Constructors, and Destructors - Oh my!

2005-08-29 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
ent Apache every request. [1] http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.magic.php [2] http://www.php.net/session_set_save_handler [3] http://www.php.net/session_save_path -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ If you find my advice useful, please consider d

Re: [PHP] PHP MySql Extension No Loading

2005-08-29 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
nt library (libmysql.dll or something similar) into c:\windows\system32 ? -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ If you find my advice useful, please consider donating to a poor student! You can choose whatever amount you think my advice was worth to you. http://t

Re: [PHP] How can I format text in textarea?

2005-08-29 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
you have the text in $string, then this will output it safely and with correct line breaks: print(nl2br(htmlspecialchars($string))); -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ If you find my advice useful, please consider donating to a poor student! You

Re: [PHP] Re: Getting queries from files FYI

2005-08-28 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
g all of the SQL queries out of given PHP files. -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ If you find my advice useful, please consider donating to a poor student! You can choose whatever amount you think my advice was worth to you. http://tinyurl.com/7oa5

Re: [PHP] just a php/mysql logic question

2005-08-28 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
. FOR UPDATE which locks the rows selected until the end of the current transaction [2]. So your SQL looks like: START TRANSACTION SELECT ... FOR UPDATE [...] UPDATE ... COMMIT [1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/transactional-commands.html [2] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/select.html

Re: [PHP] just a php/mysql logic question

2005-08-28 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
. In that case you might like to look in to making your tables InnoDB and using the transaction features of MySQL. -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ If you find my advice useful, please consider donating to a poor student! You can choose whatever

Re: [PHP] Image Rendering/Generation Options

2005-08-27 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
per [1] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396.html [2] http://www.php.net/gd -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ If you find my advice useful, please consider donating to a poor student! You can choose whatever amount you think my advice was worth to you. http

Re: [PHP] PHP CMS

2005-08-26 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
MV. http://www.opensourcecms.com/ Disclaimer: unlike the previous poster, I don't have a vested interest in giving you this link... -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ If you find my advice useful, please consider donating to a poor student!

Re: [PHP] changes in php.ini

2005-08-26 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
hope wrote: Hi all Whenever I create a site and create a index.php file as my home page. Whenever i run it a http://localhost/myproject/ it says Page cannot be found However if I have index.html file it displays. SOmebody told me that i need to make changes to php.ini bt where and what to

Re: [PHP] Computer name?

2005-08-26 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Adrian Cid Almaguer wrote: You can find the IP and find with it the name. Certainly, you can. But do you realise what sort of slowdown doing a DNS lookup for (I am assuming here) every request would cause? Better to store the IPs and run some sort of tool on the logs later to get the names,

Re: [PHP] PHP Security

2005-08-25 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Santosh Jambhlikar wrote: As this is the php mailing list it is obvious that i should not write against php. but people should know the truth. And it's a news (not by me) that's why i wanted to send link to u peoples. I am sorry if i did something wrong, i am new user in php mailing list. The

Re: [PHP] PHP Security

2005-08-25 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Santosh Jambhlikar wrote: also PHP HIT BY ANOTHER CRITICAL FLAW A new security flaw in the PHP Web service protocol used by a large number of Web applications could allow attackers to take control of vulnerable servers. http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,

Re: [PHP] short type codes for use in array conversion

2005-08-25 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Ken Tozier wrote: I found a method for converting javascript arrays to PHP arrays here: "http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/PHP/Recipe/414334"; and would like to expand the list of types the function knows about. It looks like 's' = string, 'a' = array but 'i' for integer and 'n' for

Re: [PHP] Easier way to clean GET Variables ?

2005-08-25 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Chris Shiflett wrote: Graham Anderson wrote: Is there a way to loop thru all of these GET requests by: putting the GET variables into an array processing the variable strings with trim/striptags/etc in a loop exploding the variables back out into separate variables otherwise this gets a bit te

Re: [PHP] Easier way to clean GET Variables ?

2005-08-25 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Burhan Khalid wrote: Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Prepending the variable name with an underscore happens to be what PHP does ($_SERVER, $_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIES, so on...) so it is simpler just to carry on that convention. This is exactly the reason why you shouldn't do it. You don&#

Re: [PHP] php solution to html problem

2005-08-25 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Aljaž Bizjak Zupanc wrote: I recommend using Smarty for wrapping: {$foo|wordwrap:30:"":true} That does the exact same thing as: print(wordwrap($foo, 30, '', true)); Which is much more convenient if you're not already using Smarty. Jasper -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] php solution to html problem

2005-08-25 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Richard Lynch wrote: PHP's wordwrap function may have an optional argument to FORCE it to never be wider than X characters, but I don't think so... http://www.php.net/wordwrap string wordwrap (string str [, int width [, string break [, bool cut]]]) "If the cut is set to 1, the string is alway

Re: [PHP] trying to get phpmail to send an attachment

2005-08-25 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Ross wrote: $mail->AddAttachment($_FILES('userfile')); Ignoring the fact that $_FILES['userfile'] is an array and probably isn't what you want to pass to the AddAttachment method (although I know nothing about phpmail specifics), shouldn't that be: $mail->AddAttachment($_FILES['userfile']);

Re: [PHP] Easier way to clean GET Variables ?

2005-08-25 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Burhan Khalid wrote: Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: [snip] Still need to check isset() status unless you've disabled E_NOTICE which I don't advise since it's sloppy ;) Yeah, I usually would in a real script. Just slipped my mind when writing that exam

Re: [PHP] Easier way to clean GET Variables ?

2005-08-24 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Robert Cummings wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 23:12, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Graham Anderson wrote: Is there a way to loop thru all of these GET requests by: putting the GET variables into an array processing the variable strings with trim/striptags/etc in a loop exploding the variables

Re: [PHP] Easier way to clean GET Variables ?

2005-08-24 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Graham Anderson wrote: Is there a way to loop thru all of these GET requests by: putting the GET variables into an array processing the variable strings with trim/striptags/etc in a loop exploding the variables back out into separate variables I just do this: function process_user_input($valu

Re: [PHP] problem with ' or "

2005-08-23 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
George B wrote: Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: George B wrote: I made a script that posts data into a database but it has a problem whenever I enter a ' or a ". How do I bypass this problem? If it is MySQL, use mysql_real_escape_string() [1]. If any other database, have a look

Re: [PHP] problem with ' or "

2005-08-23 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
George B wrote: I made a script that posts data into a database but it has a problem whenever I enter a ' or a ". How do I bypass this problem? If it is MySQL, use mysql_real_escape_string() [1]. If any other database, have a look in the PHP manual [2] for the relevant function, or as a last

Re: [PHP] Weird results of "=="

2005-08-23 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Brian P. O'Donnell wrote: ($b + $c)) { // do the second thing } elseif ($a < ($b + $c)) { // do the third thing } ?> Each of the three variables is derived by some earlier calculation, but for testing purposes I have made sure that they end up being $a = $b and $c = 0. I have tested for three

Re: [PHP] possible to get a function from another domain

2005-08-23 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Gustav Wiberg wrote: Hi! Njae I have a webshop and want to see a price from another webshop online (directly). Let's call my webshop - varupiraten.se and the other webshop - inwarehouse.se I want to be able to see what price inwarehouse.se has for a certain product directly. (without no co

Re: [PHP] possible to get a function from another domain

2005-08-23 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Gustav Wiberg wrote: Is it possible in PHP to retrieve value from one domain to another than my own? Something like this: Other domain: function getValueForMp3Player() My domain: $price = getValueForMp3Player('Inno AX VB4393') //retrieves value from other domain What exactly do you mean by

Re: [PHP] question on order of variables passed to a function

2005-08-23 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Vidyut Luther wrote: and then: trigger_error("log(x) for x <= 0 is undefined, you used: scale = $scale", E_USER_ERROR); ?> So, wouldn't this make $errno in the "myErrorHandler" be "log (x) " rather than E_USER_ERROR ? No, because you're calling trigger_error, not myErrorHandler. The

Re: [PHP] Mac OS X file name encoding problem

2005-08-23 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Giulio wrote: I have a problem with a script when it is runs on a Mac OS X environment. [snip] The problem appears when $filename contains special characters, like accented chars, on Mac OS X the ftp_fput function returns me an error. I thinked that the problem could depend on the filesyste

Re: [PHP] Files passing through

2005-08-23 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Richard Lynch wrote: On Tue, August 23, 2005 12:48 am, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Kim Steinhaug (php list) wrote: I'm using this method, works fine with 50mb+ files : if( $fd = fopen ($filepath, 'r')){ while(!feof($fd)) { $buffer = fread($fd, 2048);

Re: [PHP] preg_match

2005-08-23 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Robin Vickery wrote: Both of these will fail to compile: preg_match( '/\\7abc/', $myString); preg_match( '/\7abc/', $myString); Both of these are fine: preg_match( '/\\abc7/', $myString); preg_match( '/\abc7/', $myString); In fact they behave *exactly* as if you hadn't doubled them up. You've

Re: [PHP] Files passing through

2005-08-23 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Kim Steinhaug (php list) wrote: I'm using this method, works fine with 50mb+ files : if( $fd = fopen ($filepath, 'r')){ while(!feof($fd)) { $buffer = fread($fd, 2048); print $buffer; } fclose ($fd); exit; } Is there a reason why you assign the

Re: [PHP] Large URI request problem

2005-08-22 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Dean Maunder wrote: My session variables are saved in a database, that's more than possible, tho the thought of saving a 3000char session variable in a table is a bit hairy :) Wouldn't worry me. It's a lot better than putting it in the URL :) The other thing I thought of is, how are you genera

Re: [PHP] Large URI request problem

2005-08-22 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Dean Maunder wrote: Hi, I have a large string that I need to send to a script that creates an image. eg tag. What you could do, however, is put the data in a session variable and access it in the createimage.php file. Only thing I can think of, however, is that the createimage.php file migh

Re: [PHP] Files passing through

2005-08-22 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Kevin Waterson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My guess would be because file_get_contents returns the contents as a string. So if 'myfile' is 100mb, you're going to have to allocate 100mb of memory to store that string while echo() spits it ba

Re: [PHP] Resizing thumbnails to the browser

2005-08-22 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Dan Trainor wrote: Would the abovementioned use of ForceType also allow one to produce an image given an HTTP GET query? I was tinkering around with something in the past where I wanted to implement something such as: http://example.com/myscript.php?site=1&image=2&something=3";> Would what you

Re: [PHP] php vulnerability

2005-08-22 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Shafiq Rehman wrote: Thanx to all of you. My server is running on Linux and there is not any phpbb running on it. If vulnerability is in my code.. Is there any way that I can find the buggy code on my server which allowed that trojan to write into all the index files. To start with, take a lo

Re: [PHP] php vulnerability

2005-08-21 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Shafiq Rehman wrote: My server was hacked last week and the message displayed on home page was "spy kidz owns your server". I researched on internet and found that this is some kind of trojan which infects the *.index files. It penetrate from HTTP. Some paople were saying that there is vulnerab

Re: [PHP] Re: Problem between php4.4 and mysql

2005-08-21 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
M. Sokolewicz wrote: Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Well, it's hard to say without a bit more detail. Are you able to give us the actual error that PHP is giving on the database connected pages? I assume you are using the mysqli functions rather than the mysql functions to access

Re: [PHP] Re: Problem between php4.4 and mysql

2005-08-21 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
On 21 Aug 2005, at 21:24, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: As far as your database problem goes... Have you recently installed MySQL 4.1 or has it previously been working with MySQL 4.1? Alex Scott wrote: I Installed it about a month ago (from RPM's) and php 4.4 as well the two were wo

Re: [PHP] how to know when a php library is installed

2005-08-21 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Lizet Pena de Sola wrote: Hello all: I need to test whether a library is installed with php or not. In this case it's the tidy library I need for a project. Jasper -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] support for database interaction

2005-08-21 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Fernando Garza wrote: Hi, I am creating a 'Shell' in prolog language that interacts with a 'Visual Prolog' database format in 'Win32', I would like to interact with this database with 'PHP', just like the interaction with 'MySQL' database, can you give me some notion or the code that need to

Re: [PHP] exec ping

2005-08-20 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Juan Pablo Herrera wrote: Thanks Jasper, well, i need make a explode of results of the ping. The idea is check a host and when the host don´ t response send a email. I don't explode the result of the ping. If it was me, I'd try opening a socket connection to the host instead, and check to see

Re: [PHP] exec ping

2005-08-20 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Juan Pablo Herrera wrote: Hi all! I have following script: $comando = system('ping 168.192.0.1', $nn); echo $nn; Well, i need that only show the first ten lines of the ping and kill the process. How can i make it? If I understand your question correctly... $comando = system('ping -c 10 168.192

Re: [PHP] Super globals ?

2005-08-20 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Kevin Waterson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Jasper Bryant-Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Because he asked for superglobals, not globals. $GLOBALS (not $_GLOBALS) meh, force of habit happens to be an example of a superglobal. and variable can be set within its scope,

Re: [PHP] preg_match

2005-08-20 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
John Nichel wrote: Personally, I have never used \\ in PCRE when looking for things like spaces (\s), word boundraries (\b), etc. and it's all worked out fine. It will work fine, but only because those (\s and \b) just happen to not be special characters in PHP *at this time*. It's sloppy pr

Re: [PHP] Super globals ?

2005-08-20 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Kevin Waterson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Jasper Bryant-Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wong HoWang wrote: Hello, I want to know that is there any way to create a super global in PHP? Only with the runkit extension. Take a look: http://www.php.net/runkit This is e

Re: [PHP] Super globals ?

2005-08-20 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Wong HoWang wrote: Hello, I want to know that is there any way to create a super global in PHP? Only with the runkit extension. Take a look: http://www.php.net/runkit Jasper -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] php explained in sql

2005-08-19 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
John Taylor-Johnston wrote: In php, if I wanted to know if $mydata->email contained something, I would do this, right? if ($mydata->email) {} How would I express this in SQL (MySQL)? That doesn't tell you if $mydata->email contains something. It tells you whether the value of $mydata->email,

Re: [PHP] upload large files troubles

2005-08-19 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Richard Lynch wrote: I have a HUGE distrust of web browsers, so will go out on a limb and say: Web browsers are not reliable transport mechanisms for upload of monster files. Use FTP. That might be wrong, but that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. If somebody else wants to claim that uploadi

Re: [PHP] Automated data upload for customers

2005-08-19 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Richard Lynch wrote: On Fri, August 19, 2005 3:47 pm, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: For CSV, it's as simple as explode() the data by "\n" (perhaps strip out any "\r" before you start) and then explode() by ",". Depending on the software they're using, you

Re: [PHP] Automated data upload for customers

2005-08-19 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Brian Dunning wrote: I have a system where I'm trying to facilitate a process for customers to upload data to me (basically a list of people), and have it go into a database. I can give them certain parameters, like it has to be a CSV file, delimited in such a way, etc. but can't ask much m

Re: [PHP] Week Days

2005-08-18 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to add 3 (or a user-defined amount) week days to a certain date.. An example is today 2005-08-18 then adding 3 week days to give me a date of 2005-08-23. I have tried searching online but cannot find an easy way of doing so. $numDaysToAdd = 3; $s = ($numDa

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP MySQL insert

2005-08-18 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Ben Ramsey wrote: You don't need to convert the values to HTML entities when saving to a database. That's not going to prevent this problem. Furthermore, you don't need to use htmlentities() if you specify your character set properly and all the characters you are outputting are in your chara

Re: [PHP] ob_start changed from php4 to php5?

2005-08-18 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Richard Lynch wrote: Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent in test.php on line 4 I'm guessing that the error message has MORE information than that -- like the line number of the file in which the output occurred. I'm also guessing that it's the LAST line of the fil

Re: [PHP] mail()

2005-08-17 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
George B wrote: Can you send a link to a free MTA server please?? I don't mean to be rude, but this is getting beyond a joke. This is a PHP mailing list, not a PHP-and-MTAs-and-domains-and-everything-in-between mailing list. Google is your friend: http://www.google.com/search?q=free+MTA+se

Re: [PHP] Anyone on the list using Moodle?

2005-08-17 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
wayne wrote: I have one other question that I would like answered. One of the respondents in the archive file to the above question said that "in PHP objects don't have to be explicitly instantiated", could someone point me to some docs that explains this.The person never did give an explanation.

Re: [PHP] Anyone on the list using Moodle?

2005-08-17 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
wayne wrote: Okay, I got a reply from a moodle user pointing me to an archive, apparently someone had the same question. The answer seems to be that $CFG is an array dressed up as an object.The books that I'm learning from don't show this concept. Could some kind soul give an example. Thanks. h

Re: [PHP] Initiating cronjobs from PHP?

2005-08-16 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Cabbar Duzayak wrote: Hi all, I have a requirement for initiating tasks from my site that requires long processing times, i.e. uploading/downloading some files to remote nodes. And, to avoid timeouts and hence to be able to provide instant responses to the user (user does not need to get the res

Re: [PHP] Javascript Src and HTTP_REFERER

2005-08-16 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Dotan Cohen wrote: And, the thing is, within this javascript_dump.php, HTTP_REFERER shows nothing, because it gives you the referer of the html page (page1) that contains this

Re: [PHP] Problem when encoding non-english into UTF-8

2005-08-15 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Wong HoWang wrote: Dear all, When I try to encode non-english char. such as big5 to UTF-8 with utf8_encode(), it always generate a wrong result, which is not readable. What can I do? From the manual [1]: utf8_encode -- Encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8 You're using the wrong tool for t

Re: [PHP] array varible problems

2005-08-14 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jasper, Does your means : I need to rewite the source / result page as the following ? [snip] Yes. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] array varible problems

2005-08-14 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I don't quit understanding the site http://www.php.net/for... So, would you mind to give me a example about it ? for($i=0; $i<3; $i++) { print($i); } will print: 0 1 2 Basically in any expression like the following: for(expr1; expr2; expr3) { /

Re: [PHP] array varible problems

2005-08-13 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Dan Lowe wrote: for($i=1;$i<5;$i++) This means: * Start with $i = 1 * End loop if $i is less than 5 * Increment $i each time around So your loop is ending at the first check because $i is less than 5. You want $i > 4 instead, I think. Umm, no, I don't think so... Your second point is wron

Re: [PHP] wrapping text

2005-08-13 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
John Taylor-Johnston wrote: Folks are complaining mail arrives and text will not wrap. $message comes directly from a textarea. Old mail readers, I guess? How can I make their life better and make the text wrap? http://www.php.net/wordwrap -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] Mail-id validation script

2005-08-12 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Nahalingam Kanakavel wrote: Now I am doing a project using PHP, in that I created a form. That form has a field called e-mailid, to validate that I need a script (function), whether I have to write it in the server side or client side, which one is better?. I need your suggestions, If any scrip

Re: [PHP] header redirect not working

2005-08-12 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Pablo Gosse wrote: [snip] $conn->Execute("delete from cms_events where e_id = {$fd['e_id']}") or $this->CMS_error(2,$this->mod_name,$query,$conn->ErrorMsg()); header("Location:{$this->CMS_base_path}mods/events_manager/cms.events_ma nager.dsp.php"); [snip] Can anyone think of any

Re: [PHP] Blatantly Evil Question

2005-08-11 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Evert | Collab wrote: Lets just put it this way: if you don't want your site indexed, use robots.txt if you want to hide your site from search engines [ which won't even touch your files if you use robots.txt ] check the UA string. I can't imagine a situation where you want to hide your conte

Re: [PHP] Blatantly Evil Question

2005-08-11 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Jochem Maas wrote: Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: robots.txt will not do what you want it to. Just sniff for those robots' User-Agents (Google, MSN and Yahoo all publish their UA strings on their websites, AFAIK) and send different content if it's one of those. they will hammer

Re: [PHP] Blatantly Evil Question

2005-08-11 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Brian Dunning wrote: On Aug 11, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Evert | Collab wrote: Use robots.txt 'evil' searchengines will spoof the user-agent string anyway Can you be more specific about what you mean by "use robots.txt"? I just want to cloak for Google, MSN, and Yahoo. I couldn't care less about

Re: [PHP] date field

2005-08-10 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
John Taylor-Johnston wrote: I have a field 'updated' How can I tell if the date is older than 1 year ago (or should I think of 365 days)? `updated` date NOT NULL default '1999-12-12' From the description you gave it looks like you're using a DBMS to store the date. If it's MySQL, then just d

Re: [PHP] html_entity_decode () for …, ’, etc.

2005-08-10 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Richard Lynch wrote: On Wed, August 10, 2005 11:55 am, Marco wrote: I tried using html_entity_decode () but why won't these characters decode: ’ – … “ ” WILD GUESS: Those are not standards-based, and are some made-up Microsoft crap? Nah, they are standard HTML entities. Depending on your

Re: [PHP] N/A

2005-08-09 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
R. Ragunathan wrote: can we implement lock to a table using postgres with php. if any of u all knows the solution do reply back. You may also want to look at the following URL: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/explicit-locking.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net

Re: [PHP] N/A

2005-08-09 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
R. Ragunathan wrote: can we implement lock to a table using postgres with php. if any of u all knows the solution do reply back. Please, for the second time, simply read the manual. http://www.php.net/pgsql It explains both the issues you have recently posted about very well. If you have a s

Re: [PHP] Generating a 404 status message with header()

2005-08-09 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Sebastian wrote: yeah sorry, i must of deleted the original topic and all i had was the followups.. anyway, what do you want, the cake and eat it too? why two types of 404's? i mean you either use ErrorDocument or use php headers.. i guess i dont understand why use both.. to send 404 header

Re: [PHP] Generating a 404 status message with header()

2005-08-09 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Sebastian wrote: Paul Waring wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 04:37:12PM -0400, Eric Gorr wrote: Should it? Is it possible to write a doesexists.php script which would cause the 404 directive to be triggered? I also tried: header("Status: 404 Not Found"); but this did not work either.

Re: [PHP] About Get_meta_tags()

2005-08-08 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Jimmie wrote: Warning: get_meta_tags(): php_network_getaddresses: gethostbyname failed in d:\apache\htdocs\meta_tag.php on line 3 Looks like your DNS is failing or that host does not have a DNS record. Have you tried going to that URL in a browser on the same machine the PHP script is running

Re: [PHP] How to start a global variable within a function?

2005-08-08 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Jasper Wong HoWang wrote: as title, how to start a global variable within a function? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] A question on the term CFG.

2005-08-07 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
ut this and so I did a grep on "autoload" and came up empty. Is there a different way of checking for the magic function? Thanks On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 08:24 +1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Or if it's PHP 5 they might be using an __autoload() magic function which gets called wheneve

Re: [PHP] Java - toString() <-> php - ?

2005-08-07 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
If you use PHP 5 just use the __toString() magic method which does exactly that. http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.magic.php#language.oop5.magic.tostring Jasper Rory Browne wrote: Um - did you read my last email regarding var_dump var_export and print_r Did you try them? Do they d

Re: [PHP] A question on the term CFG.

2005-08-07 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Or if it's PHP 5 they might be using an __autoload() magic function which gets called whenever a class that isn't declared is instantiated. That function could be require()ing another file. Jasper Chris wrote: That isn't created by PHP, it must be declared in the code somewhere. Maybe there

[PHP] Fundamental question about ADTs

2005-07-29 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Hi all Recently I've been reading /Code Complete/ by Steve McConnell, and in it he recommends the use of ADTs, or Abstract Data Types, which I have been thinking about implementing in a major project I am currently embarking on. Basically the question that I have for the list is this: If I h

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