RE: [PHP] xml header

2001-12-05 Thread Matthew Loff
The proper content type is text/xml. --Matt -Original Message- From: bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 3:11 PM To: Tyler Longren Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] xml header Hmmm. I'm thinking of the http headers. Assume you have an xml

RE: [PHP] XML and PHP - dynamic hell

2001-12-01 Thread Matthew Loff
Did you try adding: header(Content-Type: text/xml); To the top? -Original Message- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 12:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] XML and PHP - dynamic hell I'm having one page output XML for other sites to

RE: [PHP] Speed of Images from DB

2001-11-30 Thread Matthew Loff
It would be mighty handy for MySQL to have a binary file column type, like Oracle, where the file was stored externally, outside of the rest of the table data... Anyone heard of any plans to implement this? -Original Message- From: Julio Nobrega Trabalhando [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: [PHP] MySQL to Excel with mutiple sheets

2001-11-29 Thread Matthew Loff
tables) http://www.nusphere.com/products/tech_library.htm -Original Message- From: jimmy elab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 1:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] MySQL to Excel with mutiple sheets Matthew Loff wrote: http://www.wotsit.org

RE: [PHP] PHP 4.1 out?

2001-11-28 Thread Matthew Loff
http://snaps.php.net/ Again, the whole not fully tested issue comes to play... I'd avoid using these on a production server, obviously. :) -Original Message- From: Mike Eheler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:04 PM To: Zeev Suraski; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [PHP] MySQL to Excel with mutiple sheets

2001-11-28 Thread Matthew Loff
Can't be done easily with PHP right now... To get that type of functionality, you'd need to write it in Perl using the SpreadSheet::WriteExcel module. http://homepage.tinet.ie/~jmcnamara/perl/WriteExcel.html -Original Message- From: Brian Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: [PHP] MySQL to Excel with mutiple sheets

2001-11-28 Thread Matthew Loff
- From: Jason Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:02 AM To: 'Matthew Loff'; 'Brian Lee'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] MySQL to Excel with mutiple sheets Can't be done easily with PHP right now... To get that type of functionality, you'd need

RE: [PHP] exporting

2001-11-19 Thread Matthew Loff
I always stick with PHP for web apps, but I am in a similar situation, I have to write a script that generates statistics and item reports from a database... The client wanted them in Excel format... I could have done CSV, but for the sake of aesthetics, I decided to go with a native Excel

RE: [PHP] Transfer variable to next web-page

2001-11-17 Thread Matthew Loff
Richard already answered the variable part, but I thought I'd point out that you need to use double quotes in your HTML tags... Single quotes are incorrect... ? echo(P FORM method=\POST\ action=\join2.php\ text for button INPUT type=\submit\ value=\Next step\ INPUT type=\hidden\

RE: [PHP] Re: alzheimers and confused

2001-11-17 Thread Matthew Loff
I was waiting for someone to meantion de Morgan! 10 points for Mr. Elab. Ha ha... -Original Message- From: jimmy elab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: alzheimers and confused de Morgan and Boole, not

RE: [PHP] documentation comment

2001-11-04 Thread Matthew Loff
I would have to agree on a global scale. However, strictly in discussion of server-side languages, I haven't seen ASP documentation as complete/useful as PHP's... I have never had to use anything besides the PHP manual to solve a problem in writing something. -Original Message-

RE: Re[3]: [PHP] split array in 2 halfs

2001-10-31 Thread Matthew Loff
More generally, this should work: $smallarray1=array_slice($bigarray, 0, sizeof($bigarray) / 2); $smallarray2=array_slice($bigarray, sizeof($bigarray) / 2); I haven't tested it though... -Original Message- From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 4:32

RE: [PHP] Problem with very big array !

2001-10-29 Thread Matthew Loff
What prevents you from doing this iteratively, (not loading all 150,000 rows into memory, but processing each row sequentially)? -Original Message- From: Nicolas Guilhot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 11:44 AM To: Php General MailingList Subject: [PHP]

RE: [PHP] I'm not username, log me out....

2001-10-27 Thread Matthew Loff
I found sessions to be kind of fussy to get working, perhaps that's just because I didn't have any experience with them until the last site I did... A simple call to session_unset() won't erase the session, but should clear whatever username/passkey (I say passkey, assuming/hoping it's

RE: [PHP] Advanced. Trapped in architecture.

2001-10-26 Thread Matthew Loff
Response.Clear Response.Redirect Doesn't that imply that ASP buffers the output? The problem with redirecting the browser after you output data isn't a PHP issue, it's the HTTP spec. I think the best solution would be to turn on output buffering, then immediately flush the output buffer when

RE: [PHP] = 0 and = 0

2001-10-25 Thread Matthew Loff
The only reason I could see that not working is if PHP is typecasting test to (int) in the second example... $qty = 0; (string) test = test; (string) 0 != test (evaluates true) $qty = 0; (int) test = 0; (when cast to int) 0 != 0 (evaluates false) e.g. By comparing an int to a string in

RE: [PHP] delete html

2001-10-21 Thread Matthew Loff
The main manual seems to be down right now, probably being rebuilt... Take a look at: http://www.php.net/manual/en/html/ strip_tags() is under String Functions, and has been around for a while. -Original Message- From: jtjohnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 21,

RE: [PHP] Tar and GZIP functions

2001-10-05 Thread Matthew Loff
Last time I checked, there is a class for creating tar files in PEAR... Check your PHP installation... Once you create a tar file, I'm sure you can filter it through zlib to create a .tar.gz file. -Original Message- From: Georgie Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October

RE: [PHP] associative array syntax question - got it!

2001-10-03 Thread Matthew Loff
Have you tried using curly brackets? print td$a[B]td{$quotes[$a[B]]}td Does that work? Just cuious... -Original Message- From: Job Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 8:44 PM To: Maxim Maletsky (PHPBeginner.com); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP]

RE: [PHP] fprintf

2001-10-02 Thread Matthew Loff
The lack of fprintf() has been discussed on this list before, but I'm not sure what the status is on the PHP development side... http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=1027 -Original Message- From: Bill Rausch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 7:08 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: [PHP] Even more text document stuff!!

2001-09-24 Thread Matthew Loff
Read the manual. (Déjà vu?) http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php Even has an example that says -- get contents of a file into a string -Original Message- From: Kyle Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 7:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [PHP] Disk Usage

2001-09-23 Thread Matthew Loff
PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 4:11 AM To: Matthew Loff; 'Steve Werby'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Disk Usage Well, it's an intriquing idea, but I'm not getting any success out of it. thanks for the suggestion. I'll keep plugging away. -- Scott Poarch http://www.globalhost.com

RE: [PHP] Disk Usage

2001-09-22 Thread Matthew Loff
! -Matt -Original Message- From: Scott Poarch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 10:37 PM To: Matthew Loff; 'Steve Werby'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Disk Usage I appreciate the help. I understand the 'du -sk', but what's the (int) all about. Are you

RE: [PHP] Just for fun:

2001-09-20 Thread Matthew Loff
-Original Message- From: Jason Bell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 8:32 PM To: PHP Users Subject: [PHP] Just for fun: Here is a question, just for fun: What is the biggest function (In terms of line count) you have ever written? I just finished one

RE: [PHP] Print current page with no printer dialog box - How ?

2001-09-18 Thread Matthew Loff
FYI-- Page breaks can be designated with CSS (style sheets)... Although that's not a completely cross-platform method. -Original Message- From: * RzE: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 4:01 AM To: hue micheal; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Print

RE: [PHP] Performance: PHP vs. Visual Basic

2001-09-17 Thread Matthew Loff
Thanks for the clarification... Anyone have any benchmarks of the MySQL ODBC driver? Just out of curiousity... --Matt -Original Message- From: Andrew Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 9:47 AM To: Matthew Loff; 'Michael Kimsal'; 'Masami Kawakami' Cc

RE: [PHP] Getting screen resolution and color depth

2001-09-16 Thread Matthew Loff
Can't be done... 1) Browser sends request 2) PHP page is compiled and executed 3) PHP output is sent to browser 4) Browser displays page/executes javascript/etc. -Original Message- From: Salty Marine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 3:54 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: [PHP] Getting screen resolution and color depth

2001-09-16 Thread Matthew Loff
+ 'color_depth=' + screen.colorDepth -Original Message- From: Seb Frost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 4:13 PM To: Matthew Loff; 'Salty Marine'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Getting screen resolution and color depth But you could then re-submit the page

RE: [PHP] Performance: PHP vs. Visual Basic

2001-09-16 Thread Matthew Loff
I would agree that the DB is probably the biggest bottleneck... Are you connecting to the DB via ODBC? I'm not an expert at DB stuff outside of the MySQL realm, but I've heard many say ODBC is horribly slow. I don't know ASP that well, but could someone comment on ADODB? It uses OLEDB, not

RE: [PHP] Accessing pdf file thru php

2001-09-12 Thread Matthew Loff
Are you using Internet Explorer? I've found that broken installations of Acrobat will cause that... Try reinstalling acrobat on your computer, and also try using Netscape... See if they work. --Matt -Original Message- From: George Pitcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: [PHP] Problem with Uploading Many Files (22)

2001-09-12 Thread Matthew Loff
What version of PHP are you running? There were a few bugs in the file upload code that have been fixed in recent relases of PHP... --Matt -Original Message- From: Jani Rautiainen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [PHP] Dynamic Form

2001-09-12 Thread Matthew Loff
echo SELECT NAME=\whatever\\n; while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($yourquery) echo OPTION . ($whatever == $row['value']? SELECTED :) .VALUE=\{$row['value']}\{$row['name']}/OPTION\n; echo /SELECT\n; Just insert a ternary operator in there, and check if the submitted value is equal to the

RE: [PHP] Dynamic Form

2001-09-12 Thread Matthew Loff
Oops... My bad. I misread the question... Ignore my previous reply. -Original Message- From: Jason Bell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 6:47 PM To: Jared Mashburn; PHP Users Subject: Re: [PHP] Dynamic Form PHP does not know what the user has selected

RE: [PHP] mod_rewrite

2001-09-09 Thread Matthew Loff
Subdomains are first a DNS issue... The first place you have to go is your DNS config, since users.body-builders.org wouldn't exist without an A or CNAME record. I don't know if mod_rewrite can do anything about the subdomains like that, if it can't, you will have to add VirtualHost directives

RE: [PHP] mod_rewrite

2001-09-09 Thread Matthew Loff
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 1:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Matthew Loff' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] mod_rewrite How about http://wasarrested.com? IO don't know how they do it, but you can enter whatever subdomain you want and it reflecst

RE: [PHP] difference between ?php and ?

2001-09-09 Thread Matthew Loff
There isn't any difference, if your php.ini settings allow it (short_tags, I believe), you can use ? instead of ?php -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] difference between

RE: [PHP] Ordering a query

2001-09-08 Thread Matthew Loff
You could insert a ternary operation... ($order?$order:defaultfield) Is the same as: if($order) echo $order; else echo defaultfield; ... $result = mysql_query(SELECT articles.title,vote.votes,vote.total,articles.date,staff.firstname,artic les.content,articles.id FROM

RE: [PHP] Re: Mailing, which is faster

2001-09-06 Thread Matthew Loff
Doesn't PHP exec sendmail when mail() is called anyway? (Unless you run another MTA, of course) I would think they'd take the same amount of time, unless there is overhead with using popen() --Matt -Original Message- From: Chris Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday,

RE: [PHP] Making gd Extensions

2001-09-04 Thread Matthew Loff
Banning PHP from your system just because GD won't compile with it seems a bit drastic... You have to realize that the PHP developers don't really have anything to do with GD, pdflib, etc... they have added support for them into the PHP language, but an issue with one of these external

RE: [PHP] im puzzled

2001-08-29 Thread Matthew Loff
You need to specify which item to group the query by. SELECT users.uid FROM users, picks WHERE users.uid picks.user_id GROUP BY users.uid; -Original Message- From: Jeremy Morano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [PHP] pdflib + pdf_findfont

2001-08-29 Thread Matthew Loff
I got the same error message, and couldn't figure out why... In the example for pdf_findfont(), it has: $font = pdf_findfont($pdf, Times New Roman, winansi, 1); Try changing your embed parameter to 0... $font = pdf_findfont($pdf, Times New Roman, winansi, 0); ... That fixed it for me. Give

RE: [PHP] Question about PDF lib.

2001-08-27 Thread Matthew Loff
It's postscript points, I believe... 72 points per inch. So, an 8.5x11 page is 612x792 points large. --Matt -Original Message- From: Johan Holst Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 3:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP]

RE: [PHP] 2 NEWBIE QUESTIONS

2001-08-22 Thread Matthew Loff
1) strftime(%T on the %D, strtotime($yourdate)); Should produce: 00:12:45 on the 08-22-2001 You can check the manual page for strftime() to see different ways to format the time to your liking: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php 2) The way you're trying to do that sounds

RE: [PHP] debugger_on() undefined?

2001-08-17 Thread Matthew Loff
PHP docs are weak on debugger_on() because the debugger isn't a feature in PHP 4 :) It was not included in the transition from PHP 3 to 4. You'll have to use a 3rd-party debugger for PHP code. Search the archives for this list, it has been discussed in the past. -Original Message-

RE: [PHP] Re: javascript reference (slightly ot)

2001-08-15 Thread Matthew Loff
JavaScript Reference Guide-- http://rts.ncst.ernet.in/resources/javascript/reference/ I remember having trouble finding a complete object/method reference too, this document really helped me. -Original Message- From: Al [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001

RE: [PHP] MySQL connection

2001-08-09 Thread Matthew Loff
How exactly is the username/password from the mysql_connect() call shown to the browser? I normally just get a PHP error when the db connection can't be made. No code is shown, just a line number. If, in your case, PHP dumps the source code to the browser window when the db connection won't

RE: [PHP] Is there a debugger ???

2001-08-08 Thread Matthew Loff
The debugger is not built into PHP 4, it was a feature in PHP 3. --Matt -Original Message- From: Peter Dowie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 12:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Is there a debugger ??? Hi, I noticed in php.ini there was a

RE: [PHP] MySQL connection

2001-08-08 Thread Matthew Loff
Ha ha... hardcore the user/password Sorry... I realize you gave a good answer, just had to laugh. :) -Original Message- From: Attila Strauss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] MySQL connection hi, there

RE: [PHP] form validataion?

2001-08-08 Thread Matthew Loff
Usually if-statements and regex's are used to validate data... If you just want to make sure the form is filled out completely, you could do this: (which is how I do it) if(empty($name) || empty($address) || empty($phone)) { // Form is not complete echo 'Name: INPUT TYPE=TEXT

RE: [PHP] 3rd include

2001-08-08 Thread Matthew Loff
For reference, in case anyone cares-- from within functions, I usually just do: global $HTTP_POST_VARS; extract($HTTP_POST_VARS); ...to account for the scope of the form vars. -Original Message- From: Mark Roedel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 4:08 PM

RE: [PHP] Images

2001-08-07 Thread Matthew Loff
Resizing a whole page of large images on the fly every time is going to put a heavy load on your CPU... If you insist on doing that, see the PHP image functions available through the GD library... http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php I recommend you use PHP 4.0.6 with GD 2.0.x... With

RE: [PHP] Splitting Text

2001-08-06 Thread Matthew Loff
You can do this several ways... Either use explode(): http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php ...to split the retrieved data by a space as the delimeter, then use a for() loop to print X number of words... E.g.: $array = explode( , $db_string); for($i = 0; $i 25; $i++)

RE: [PHP] Attitude of B van Ouwerkerk

2001-07-31 Thread Matthew Loff
I agree with the try to answer your own question first theory that you propose... I have used PHP for almost 2 years now, and just subscribed to this list a month or two ago, but have yet to ask a single question... But I realize we're all at different skill levels, and so far, I haven't done

RE: [PHP] Trouble creating a list on months

2001-07-31 Thread Matthew Loff
Try this: function month_list() { echo select name=\month\\n; $month_names = array(1 = January, 2 = February, 3 = March, 4 = April, 5 = May, 6 = June, 7 = July, 8 = August, 9 = September, 10 = October, 11 = November, 12 =

RE: [PHP] Trouble creating a list on months

2001-07-31 Thread Matthew Loff
Oops! I forgot to include the parameter... function month_select($month) { echo select name=\month\\n; $month_names = array(1 = January, 2 = February, 3 = March, 4 = April, 5 = May, 6 = June, 7 = July, 8 = August, 9 = September, 10 = October,

RE: [PHP] dynamic variable names?

2001-07-31 Thread Matthew Loff
RTFM... Read the Fabulous Manual. :) ha ha... It's possible, and downright easy. http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php -Original Message- From: Matthew Delmarter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:58 PM To: PHP Mailing List

RE: [PHP] Find and Replace

2001-07-30 Thread Matthew Loff
Instead of using numbers, I use this system: chmod a+rwx (all users read/write/execute) chmod u+rwx (owner of file read/write/execute) chmod g+rwx (group read/write/execute) chmod o+rwx (all users read/write/execute) The plus + can be substituted with a minus - to remove specific

RE: [PHP] my php script is very slow. help?

2001-07-27 Thread Matthew Loff
If you're only doing one DB query per page, then the query is probably what's taking the longest. Log into mysql, and execute EXPLAIN SELECT ...rest of query ... It'll tell you how MySQL plans on performing the query across the rows of the table(s). You can use the information it provides to

RE: [PHP] Re: download a pdf file

2001-07-26 Thread Matthew Loff
If the PDF file is publicly accessible via a web server, you should be able to simply do: header(Location: http://www.server.com/file.pdf;); -Original Message- From: kaab kaoutar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 7:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [PHP] Learning PHP

2001-07-25 Thread Matthew Loff
O'Reilly book and PHP manual? That's the best you're going to get. (Others will recommend other books, but the O'Reilly one is great to start with) Good luck! -Original Message- From: Kyle Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [PHP] The BIG Question

2001-07-25 Thread Matthew Loff
That's like saying What's C++ good for? Well, not quite... Ha ha... I get a bit carried away... But it's close enough. PHP does what you want it to do... Database-driven sites are covered frequently on this list because PHP's database support is extensive and very easy to use. You

RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question

2001-07-25 Thread Matthew Loff
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php string substr (string string, int start [, int length]) Substr returns the portion of string specified by the start and length parameters. If start is positive, the returned string will start at the start'th position in string, counting from

RE: [PHP] Zip Code Locator?

2001-07-24 Thread Matthew Loff
Ben-- Thanks for pointing that out... I've been looking for info like that for a long time! Much appreciated. --Matt -Original Message- From: Ben Bleything [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 1:23 PM To: Vincent P. Cocciolone Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

RE: [PHP] Syntax Eyes

2001-07-24 Thread Matthew Loff
Output control functions will let you buffer the output, and you can decide to send a header instead of flushing the buffer to the client: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.outcontrol.php ob_start() flush() should accomplish this all for you. -Original Message- From: Clayton Dukes

RE: [PHP] Networking

2001-07-23 Thread Matthew Loff
I don't see why you wouldn't be able to access that share... Did you try escaping the path? e.g. chdir(computer\\dir); -Original Message- From: ReDucTor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 6:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Networking Hey does any

RE: [PHP] Capitalize Function ??

2001-07-23 Thread Matthew Loff
I think ucfirst() only does the first character of the string... ucwords() will do all the parts of the name. The only shortcoming I've found is if people put in a middle initial and add a period to it, or put a nickname in quotes... ucwords() skips those. -Original Message- From:

RE: [PHP] 33 Need A Vacation? Let Us Take You On One for FREE...

2001-07-22 Thread Matthew Loff
Whew! They're giving away a lot of vacations if we -all- qualify... :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 4:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] 33 Need A Vacation? Let Us Take You On One for FREE... You have

RE: [PHP] formatting host output

2001-07-22 Thread Matthew Loff
If $lookup is passed from the client, then you should be careful with that exec() call... http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php Use one of the escape...() functions, perhaps? -Original Message- From: David Robley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 12:47 AM

RE: [PHP] passing variables from forms to the same page repetatively

2001-07-17 Thread Matthew Loff
INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=name_of_variable VALUE=value_of_variable -Original Message- From: Tim Olsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 2:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] passing variables from forms to the same page repetatively People, I have 4 forms

RE: [PHP] How to add a new color to JPEG

2001-07-17 Thread Matthew Loff
I don't know a way around the problem you're describing with your version of PHP, but PHP 4.0.6 with GD 2.0.1 allows you to call ImageCreateTrueColor(), which eliminates the 256-color limitation with JPEG files-- solved my problem right away. -Original Message- From: Jennifer

RE: [PHP] GEt Command

2001-07-17 Thread Matthew Loff
$site = fopen( http://www.whatever.com/ http://www.whatever.com/, r); $contents = fread($site, 102400); fclose($site); -Original Message- From: Clayton Dukes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 2:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] GEt Command Does

RE: [PHP] REPOST: converting multiple URL values for the same variable into an array

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Loff
If PHP won't overload them to an array, you could parse $QUERY_STRING manually. -Original Message- From: Jason Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 11:06 PM To: 'Kurt Lieber'; 'PHP General List (E-mail)' Subject: RE: [PHP] REPOST: converting multiple URL

RE: [PHP] learning PHP from scratch

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Loff
I am not sure how easy it would be to learn PHP from scratch without any prior programming experience... In my case, knowing C and HTML very well made learning PHP easy as pie... I think both are great starting points for someone who wants to do PHP well. -Original Message- From:

RE: [PHP] Web application?

2001-07-14 Thread Matthew Loff
Just for reference, I originally meantioned a comparison of PostgreSQL beta vs. MySQL latest-- here's the article: http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim2705.php3?page=1 I'm curious to hear comments on stability of Postgres, since the author of that article meantions it as a concern of

RE: [PHP] Alternative to phpMyAdmin

2001-07-14 Thread Matthew Loff
You probably mean SSH tunnel, which is quite feasable-- Hank Marquardt posted this earlier to the list: --- BEGIN QUOTE --- Works just fine ... as does postgres -- ssh -N -2 -f -C -c blowfish -L3306:yourdatabase.server.here:3306 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or the other usual

RE: [PHP] Algorithm for repeating calendar events

2001-07-13 Thread Matthew Loff
on a Windows platform. Is there any way to get this functionality on Win32? I downloaded the tar.gz file with teh libmcal library in it, but I have no idea what I would do next. -Original Message- From: Matthew Loff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 1:43 PM

RE: [PHP] Alternative to phpMyAdmin

2001-07-13 Thread Matthew Loff
Unfortunately, it doesn't -- you bring up a good point. It does support the compressed client/server protocol, which would make it harder to intercept-- but encryption is not an option yet on the client. I don't suppose there's any way on Win32 to use an SSH tunnel, is there? -Original

RE: [PHP] Passwords and SSH port forwarding (was: Alternative to phpMyAdmin)

2001-07-13 Thread Matthew Loff
-h 127.0.0.1 for postgres examples, change the port numbers (3306) to 5432 On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 06:39:51PM -0400, Egan wrote: On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:28:37 -0400, Matthew Loff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does mysql-front encrypt the password before it travels the net? It does support

RE: [PHP] Alternative to phpMyAdmin

2001-07-12 Thread Matthew Loff
I second that recommendation-- MySQL-Front is downright excellent! http://www.mysqlfront.de/ -Original Message- From: Steve Brett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 6:47 AM To: Steph; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Alternative to phpMyAdmin mysql front

RE: [PHP] Alternative to phpMyAdmin

2001-07-12 Thread Matthew Loff
Message- From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 2:15 PM To: Matthew Loff Cc: 'Steve Brett'; 'Steph'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Alternative to phpMyAdmin So sprach »Matthew Loff« am 2001-07-12 um 14:07:16 -0400 : I second

RE: [PHP] Algorithm for repeating calendar events

2001-07-12 Thread Matthew Loff
libmcal is a pain in the butt to set up, but once it's set up, it has some great features... I had to write a PHP page that handled scheduling of appointments, and mcal saved me a lot of time, after I spent the initial 2 hours pulling my hair to set it up. :) -Original Message- From:

RE: [PHP] Thumbnail Generation from DB Stored Images.

2001-07-12 Thread Matthew Loff
Jason-- There are many reasons I don't quite recommend creating the thumbnails on the fly with ImageMagick: 1) I've heard many say that storing/retrieving images from MySQL databases isn't the greatest idea, because you end up with -huge- tables, which leads to long query times. 2) Resizing a

RE: [PHP] Protecting a directory

2001-07-12 Thread Matthew Loff
With PHP, not without creating an index file. If the server is apache, you can simply create a .htaccess file in the directory, containing: order deny,allow deny from all I'm pretty sure that should do it. -Original Message- From: Tom Malone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: [PHP] PHP installed - MySql Server can't connect

2001-07-12 Thread Matthew Loff
Maybe his mysql.sock file isn't in /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock? Mine is /tmp/mysql.sock -Original Message- From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 1:31 AM To: Gaylen Fraley Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP installed - MySql Server can't

RE: [PHP] Mail Bcc to a $variable?

2001-07-11 Thread Matthew Loff
Ahh! I forgot to meantion the \n at the end of the headers in my original post... -Original Message- From: Marcus James Christian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 1:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Mail Bcc to a $variable? Like this...

RE: [PHP] Back/Forward

2001-07-11 Thread Matthew Loff
Since IDs can disappear when records are delted, I think it's best to do a COUNT() first, then retrieve your listings with SELECT * FROM table WHERE blah LIMIT offset,number_to_retrieve; -Original Message- From: scott [gts] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001

RE: [PHP] Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_pconnect() in ...

2001-07-11 Thread Matthew Loff
Have you tried a non-persistant connection? Does that work? mysql_connect()? -Original Message- From: Tom Beidler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 3:12 PM To: php list Subject: [PHP] Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_pconnect() in ... I'm

RE: [PHP] Back/Forward

2001-07-11 Thread Matthew Loff
; } but that's also a quick-n-dirty way, becuase it doesnt know when the first/last record is... however, that's less quick and less dirty than the original code i posted TIMTOWTDI - there's more than one way to do it. :) -Original Message- From: Matthew Loff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [PHP] using GetImageSize in a directory of images

2001-07-11 Thread Matthew Loff
(This is assuming you'll have all images in the directory, and no other file types...) $directory = opendir(./); $dirEntry = readdir($directory); // Skip . $dirEntry = readdir($directory); // Skip .. while($dirEntry = readdir($directory)) { // GetImageSize Code for Each $dirEntry

RE: [PHP] mail() function 30minute delay??

2001-07-11 Thread Matthew Loff
Sendmail should (by default) attempt to send the mail immediately... If it can't deliver it on that attempt, then it should be queued to send again later (30 mins?)... Unless you've configured sendmail differently, it should attempt to deliver as soon as the mail is sent from PHP. You can

RE: [PHP] Re: Warning: mail() is not supported in this PHP build

2001-07-11 Thread Matthew Loff
The build date in phpinfo() is the date that configure was run from scratch on the build... Try deleting config.cache in the PHP directory, then rerun configure. -Original Message- From: Kyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 10:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [PHP] How to add a new color to JPEG

2001-07-10 Thread Matthew Loff
Is this only a problem with PHP/GD versions previous to 4.0.6/2.0.1? Does the new ImageCreateTrueColor() function fix this issue? http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagecreatetruecolor.php -Original Message- From: James Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 10,

RE: [PHP] Blind Carbon Copies? with mail ()???

2001-07-10 Thread Matthew Loff
(Have the To: address be yourself, or a mail account that simply dumps to /dev/null) $to = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; $subject = Subject of Message; $message = blah blah blah... $headers = From: Optional Name of List [EMAIL PROTECTED]\nBCC: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED];

RE: [PHP] How to add a new color to JPEG

2001-07-10 Thread Matthew Loff
I believe the problem is GD previous to version 2.0.1... They could only create images with indexed (256?) colors... I had a PHP script that used GD to resize JPEGs to smaller thumbnails automatically... And it would always reduce them to 256 colors, until I upgraded to PHP 4.0.6, GD 2.0.1, and

RE: [PHP] Blind Carbon Copies? with mail ()???

2001-07-10 Thread Matthew Loff
; ...or if you had the BCC e-mail addresses in one-dimensional array... $headers = BCC: . implode(,, $bcc_emails_array); Best of luck! -Original Message- From: Marcus James Christian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 9:48 PM To: Matthew Loff Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [PHP] Variables

2001-07-10 Thread Matthew Loff
You could always do... If(!strcmp($text1, $text2)) { equal; } else { not equal; } -Original Message- From: James Bartlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 10:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Variables No it doesn't seem to like

RE: [PHP] ok!

2001-07-08 Thread Matthew Loff
A quick plug for Mysql-front at http://www.mysqlfront.de/ that Hennik meantions here... If you use Win98/ME/2k/NT, and are looking for a utility to admin a MySQL database, this is hands-down the best front end I've ever used... -Original Message- From: Henrik Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [PHP] Running PHP as a cron job....

2001-07-08 Thread Matthew Loff
Make sure the code is like: #!/usr/local/bin/php -q ?php ...code... ? (obviously the location of php may be different, but the above works for me, I'm running a daily e-mail batch from a PHP script via cron) Make sure you chmod ug+x it. -Original Message- From: James, Yz

RE: [PHP] Mosinskis's autoreply

2001-07-08 Thread Matthew Loff
Yep... Getting them here too. -Original Message- From: Ben Bleything [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 8:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Mosinskis's autoreply Just out of curiosity, is everyone else receiving auto-replies from Peter Mosinskis when

RE: [PHP] Re: poor HTML syntax crashing (!) netscape

2001-07-08 Thread Matthew Loff
I completely agree, Dave... I use IE 6 for browsing, but when I develop sites, I always test them for backwards compatibility all the way down to Netscape 3.0. If your site renders properly in NS 3.0, then you can rest assured it will render correctly for the majority of web users out there.

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