[PHP] control panel--graphic question

2004-04-02 Thread Leonard B Burton
Greetings, This is more of a graphic question For a program I am writting I need to have a control panel to display anything that may be wrong. I would like to use something like a stoplight so that it would be easily understood by a lay person. Does anyone have any comments as to what they

[PHP] opening cash register drawer

2004-04-02 Thread Leonard B Burton
Greetings, I am working on a Point of Sale Program for PHP. I need to find out how to open a cash register drawer. Could anyone give me any info? Do I need to do this with a javascript section? Thanks, Leonard Burton -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe,

[PHP] php, mysql How to do a random selection and limit response?

2004-03-24 Thread Leonard B Burton
greetings, I would like to do a random selection in mysql [select * from members order by rand() limit $limit] and then I'd like to insert the items selected into a table [named already_selected] with a datetime stamp to make sure one item is only sleceted once over a defined period of time.

[PHP] creating a mailbot in php

2004-03-16 Thread Leonard B Burton
Greetings, I have been trying to come up with a script in PHP to take an email and do a little parsing and upload the data into a mysql database. However I have had a couple of glitches. Would someone be so nice to send me the code to just get it to do something (like update a counter or