RE: [PHP] How to disable output buffer per script

2004-06-08 Thread Michael Sims
Mike Zornek wrote: I wrote an importer script in PHP that outputs the percentage of items finished in 5% chunks. When I run the script however (web or command line) I don¹t get incremental output .. I get it all in one fell swoop. I have a feeling PHP is buffering it or something. It there

RE: [PHP] How to disable output buffer per script

2004-06-08 Thread Michael Sims
Curt Zirzow wrote: I have a feeling PHP is buffering it or something. It there any command I can use to disable such buffering for just this script so I can see some useful feedback. Thanks! Use this at the top of the script: ini_set('output_buffer', 0); The output_buffering setting

RE: [PHP] an easy (perhaps dumb) question about PHP

2004-06-07 Thread Michael Sims
Cere Davis wrote: In other scripting languages like Perl/Ruby/Python (that aren't meant to live in the web environment exclusively) there usually have a web library that writes basic html form input html types for like radio_button(name,val) and checkbox(name,val) type functions. I can't see

RE: [PHP] Unable to load pages with errors

2004-05-28 Thread Michael Sims
peter a wrote: It not just that page.. it is all pages the will generate some sort of PHP error. Instead of the usual error output I get nothing. Sounds to me like the apache process is segfaulting when PHP's error handler is invoked. You say it used to work for you, what changed recently?

RE: [PHP] IF statement question...

2004-05-19 Thread Michael Sims
Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] strpos() : 0.18918436765671 preg_match() : 0.26665662288666 [/snip] 1/3rd of a second slowerinteresting. You know what though, my original assertion is correctalmost any of the regex functions will work. Personally, I prefer using preg_match() 9 times

RE: [PHP] Accessing the values of objects

2004-05-10 Thread Michael Sims
John Nichel wrote: OOP is not my strong suit, and I'm trying to work with someone else's code, but am having trouble accessing a value. Let's say I have an object called $bob, and doing a print_r on $bob produces this Array ( Are you sure $bob is an object? It says above that it's

RE: [PHP] Accessing the values of objects

2004-05-10 Thread Michael Sims
John Nichel wrote: Michael Sims wrote: John Nichel wrote: Are you sure $bob is an object? It says above that it's an array. If $bob were an object, print_r() should give objectname Object instead of Array. Nah, that's just my bad typing without thinking. When I print_r($bob), it does

RE: [PHP] Re: strip comments from HTML?

2004-05-06 Thread Michael Sims
David T-G wrote: % you can make the .* less greedy... % % $text = preg_replace('/!--.*?--/', '', $text); How does that make it ungreedy? The only thing I see relating question marks and greediness is that a question mark makes part of a regexp with a /U modifier (otherwise not greedy)

RE: [PHP] Print a variable's name

2004-05-05 Thread Michael Sims
Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: Thanks Ryan, but what I want is to be able to pass any variable to a procedure and have the variable name and value printed by the procedure. Can this be done? I'm trying to extend my library of debugging functions/procedures by having a procedure which can be

RE: [PHP] Print a variable's name

2004-05-05 Thread Michael Sims
Dave Avent wrote: function showvar($var) { foreach($GLOBALS as $key = $value) { if($value == $var) { $varname = $key; } } The problem with the above is that it assumes that there

RE: [PHP] Cannot generate system identifier error while validating

2004-05-05 Thread Michael Sims
Richard Davey wrote: The actual error comes from a hyperlink that passes a parameter on the Querystring, like this: 1. Line 58, column 62: cannot generate system identifier for general entity f ...ef=xt/xt_apollo_mark_read.php?i=allf=1 You should be using amp; as a separator instead of

RE: [PHP] What's wrong with this IF statement?

2004-04-22 Thread Michael Sims
John W. Holmes wrote: You want instead of || if ($cat_id != 53 $cat_id != 54 $cat_id != 55 $cat_id != 117 $cat_id != 118 $cat_id != 74) For stuff like this I've always found the following slightly easier on the eyes: if (!in_array($cat_id, array('53', '54', '55', '117', '118', '74')))

RE: [PHP] eval() question

2004-04-21 Thread Michael Sims
OrangeHairedBoy wrote: I would like to use eval() to evaluate another PHP file and store the output of that file in a string. You could use output buffering to do this a bit more easily, I think: ob_start(); include('colors.php'); $colors = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); -- PHP General

RE: [PHP] eval() question

2004-04-21 Thread Michael Sims
OrangeHairedBoy wrote: I would like to use eval() to evaluate another PHP file and store the output of that file in a string. You could use output buffering to do this a bit more easily, I think: ob_start(); include('colors.php'); $colors = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); While that

Re: [PHP] Object References Problem

2003-10-30 Thread Michael Sims
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:54:49 +0100, you wrote: Hi there, I'm having trouble with passing objects as references. What I want to do is something like this: [snip code] The above code give the output: instance: parent: test where I want it to give: instance: test parent: test I don't pretend

Re: [PHP] call function as variable

2003-08-16 Thread Michael Sims
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 07:58:27 +0200, you wrote: $test = array(1=foo,2=zoo); and i want to call the fuction foo() and zoo something like; $object-$test[1](); I've never used this myself, but this should work: call_user_func($object, $test[1]); See:

Re: [PHP] ANY ONE CAN TELL ME WHAT PORT mssql_connect uses?

2003-07-15 Thread Michael Sims
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:00:27 +0300, you wrote: WHAT PORTS PHP USE WHEN COMUNICATING WITH MSSQL SERVER OVER THE NETWORK? I only have experience with MS SQL Server 7. It listens on TCP port 1433. I have an Linux server running Apache/PHP/MySQL. and I need to connect to another server running

Re: [PHP] ANY ONE CAN TELL ME WHAT PORT mssql_connect uses?

2003-07-15 Thread Michael Sims
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:36:42 +0300, you wrote: how can i specify the port for the direct connection mssql_connect() I've never had the need to do this, so I cannot verify that this works, but I believe you can supply a port number in the servername argument: mssql_connect('192.168.0.1:1433',

[PHP] Looking for experienced PHP programmer in the Memphis, TN area

2003-07-12 Thread Michael Sims
Hi, Sorry if this is frowned upon, but my company is looking for another PHP developer, and I figured I'd post the job ad here. We haven't had much luck finding PHP people in the past so I was hoping maybe I'd catch some eyes of people who maybe aren't necessarily actively looking for a new job.

Re: [PHP] MSSQL using Sybase FreeTDS

2003-04-03 Thread Michael Sims
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 12:17:50 +0100, you wrote: Has anyone experienced this, and if so know of a possible solution?? I have used addslashes() etc but still no joy. In addition to what the other respondents have said, you can set the INI setting magic_quotes_sybase to 1, and this will change

Re: [PHP] Fw: MD5 in PHP and MD5 in Perl dont match up.

2003-03-27 Thread Michael Sims
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:23:33 +0100, you wrote: Im Very Sorry / Embarrased.. my code example had a mistake with extra linebreak. Here is the example with out it, which gives a different MD5 hash. I don't know why this is, but if you call Digest::MD5-md5_hex() in a procedural rather than OO way,

Re: [PHP] how to force a refresh?

2003-03-13 Thread Michael Sims
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 02:25:57 -0800, you wrote: Ok, well I have a form that uploads images, but of course the problem is, is that IE caches the uploaded images. The only way to clear the cache is to refresh, but that isn't a very user friendly approach. I've tried the following header tags: You

Re: [PHP] preg_match_all()

2003-03-03 Thread Michael Sims
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 19:51:09 -0500, you wrote: preg_match_all('/begincommand(.*)endcommand/',$messagebody,$commandOuttake,P REG_PATTERN_ORDER); [...] How do I change the criteria to stop at the first instance of a match? How do I parse out only up to the first instance of endcommand? Here's an

Re: [PHP] email pipe

2003-03-01 Thread Michael Sims
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:26:37 +0300, you wrote: Dear Sirs, I wa using my @InBody = STDIN; To get data from email after piping. I am not sure that what I should use to have same result with php? Hi, Read the section beginning with Table 23-2. CLI specific Constants here:

Re: [PHP] PHP to read MS-SQL (solution)

2003-02-27 Thread Michael Sims
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:31:45 -0800 (PST), you wrote: Basically, it runs on the MS-SQL server and allows requests in XML format on a certain port. That's actually pretty cool, from a tech standpoint, but why not access the MS-SQL database directly? From Windows it's easy, you just need the SQL

Re: [PHP] is_writable for a dir?

2003-02-22 Thread Michael Sims
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 07:23:20 -0500, you wrote: Hi, all -- How can I tell if a directory is writable? It seems that is_writable only works on file, and the mode I get out of stat() is [in this case, anyway] '16895' for a 0777 dir. The 16895 is in decimal. Use decoct() to convert it to octal

Re: [PHP] is_writable for a dir?

2003-02-22 Thread Michael Sims
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:49:09 -0500, you wrote: The real problem still remains, however; if it's not writable for all, then I need to see whether or not its writable, and preferably without checking the making of a temp file or digging into UID/GID and group membership and so on... I wouldn't

Re: [PHP] sorting multi-dimensional array where array elements are structs [simple class]

2003-02-11 Thread Michael Sims
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:27:57 -0600, you wrote: Thanks for the reply. I had already tried usort previously. For some reason, there is no data for the array fields at all in the cmp function - not sure why. Does anyone know? All help is appreciated! Thanks. Can you post a short code sample

Re: [PHP] sorting multi-dimensional array where array elements are structs [simple class]

2003-02-10 Thread Michael Sims
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:23:10 -0600, you wrote: Hi. I’m working with a multidimensional array where the data in the array is a class (struct). All the information is being stored correctly, but I need to sort each “column” (AA0, BA0, etc. – see below) by the fieldNo portion of the struct.

Re: [PHP] Function Stack

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Sims
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 07:08:05 -0500, you wrote: Is there any way to access the Function Stack from php? Starting with PHP 4.3.0 you can use debug_backtrace(), which returns an array of caller stack information. You might want to build a wrapper around it which formats the information the way you

Re: [PHP] Line Number function?

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Sims
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 19:59:00 -0800, you wrote: PHP keeps track of what line# is being executed, so that when there's an error (say in pg_exec() ) it reports what line the error occured on. [...] Is there a function where I can access this information? Something like get_line(); or something?

Re: [PHP] Files PHP in tmp ?

2003-01-24 Thread Michael Sims
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:05:16 +0100, you wrote: and my ls dir -rw--- 1 nobody nobody 3687 Jan 23 14:25 phpqlG5ny -rw--- 1 nobody nobody621 Jan 22 21:06 phpqt95I4 -rw--- 1 nobody nobody424 Jan 23 00:04 phprM5Vkx [...] Some PHP applications do their own

Re: [PHP] SSH change password!

2003-01-24 Thread Michael Sims
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:48:50 -0600, you wrote: What I need is to change users password on the server, I want to write that script and it needs to be safe. So I don't know what should I use. I think I will need to check username and password, then log in through website with it and then use passwd

Re: [PHP] setcooke(...) before header(Location: XYZ) - Cookie doesn't set!

2003-01-21 Thread Michael Sims
[top-posting fixed] Jason K Larson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Discussion on this list has suggested that it can work if PHP is set to run as ISAPI, not CGI. Do you know how do do this? Although using the ISAPI dll version of PHP would

Re: [PHP] setcooke(...) before header(Location: XYZ) - Cookie doesn't set!

2003-01-21 Thread Michael Sims
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:17:40 -0700, you wrote: I tried a test file with this, and the form is sent, and the nph-test2.php file returns this Status: 302 Content-type: text/html X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.0 Location: test.php Set-Cookie: testcookie=test I'm a bit confused. Is it working for you now,

Re: [PHP] Form won't submit when pressing enter key

2003-01-15 Thread Michael Sims
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:23:26 -0800, you wrote: I have a form created by this code (I don't know if it's important): if ($_POST[submit]) { [...] After you fill out the only field, you HAVE to click the submit button to submit the form. If you press enter to submit the form it reloads the form

Re: [PHP] alternative control structure syntax

2003-01-15 Thread Michael Sims
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:34:26 +1100, you wrote: Hi, Can someone point me to the page in the manual where this style of control structure syntax is documented? $var = ($something) ? foo : bah; This is the ternary operator. It's kinda buried in the documentation:

Re: [PHP] restore_error_handler() to default error handler

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Sims
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 01:20:54 -0700, you wrote: Hi, I was playing around with error handlers, and tried this: [...] Which worked just fine. A little too good, in fact. I got over 1,200 emails in a matter of minutes (high traffic site). I'm not sure whey restore_error_handler() isn't working,

Re: [PHP] Trapping PHP errors

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Sims
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:25:05 +0900, you wrote: If it's not asking too much would you be willing to share that custome error handler you wrote? It's a big long so I'm sending it to you off-list. If anyone else is interested just send me an email off list and I'll send you a copy... -- PHP

Re: [PHP] Setcookie() and header()

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Sims
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 22:34:49 -0700, you wrote: Unless I am mistaken, the typical behavior for most browsers is exactly as you described. Which is due to the browser receiving a Location header and acting on it, disregarding any other headers. (ex: cache/no-cache, cookies, etc) Anybody care

Re: [PHP] Setcookie() and header()

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Sims
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 01:36:26 -0500, you wrote: Wow. You hit the nail on the head. :) Well, I spent a good day or two hunting the problem down the first time I ran across it. Spending that much time on something tends to make it stick in your head. :) I installed PHP on IIS via the

Re: [PHP] Trapping PHP errors

2003-01-13 Thread Michael Sims
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:38:11 +0100, you wrote: Hi all, is there a way to execute a custom function as soon as an error happens in PHP? I looked at the set_error_handler function, but it doesn't seem to trap all the errors. What I want to achieve is to execute a function that mails me the error

Re: [PHP] Too many open files

2003-01-10 Thread Michael Sims
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:38:31 + (GMT), you wrote: On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Macrosoft wrote: Can anybody explain me what does mean error: Warning: main(footer.inc.php) [function.main.html]: failed to create stream: Too many open files in /www/sql/main.php on line 96

Re: [PHP] how to make server response to emails

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Sims
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:33:02 +0800, you wrote: I believe that there is a way to make the mail server, or which ever it is, to response specifically to text within the mail. [...] However, I have no idea how this is accomplished and what this system is called, so I need some precious help here.

Re: [PHP] php-ldap - multiple modify actions within a single request

2003-01-07 Thread Michael Sims
On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 22:49:45 +0100, you wrote: hi! is it possible to make different modify actions (add, delete, etc.) during a single request? for changing a password in the NDS i would have to first delete the 'userPassword' and right after that add the new 'userPassword' AFAIK it is not

Re: [PHP] Re: custom error handling

2003-01-07 Thread Michael Sims
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:28:58 +1100, you wrote: hi there i am trying to build a ustom error handler for the pear db aswell as catch fatal and parse errors , unfortunatly the pear db error message wont give me back the file and the line where the error is, how can i determine the line and file

Re: [PHP] changing uid/gid

2003-01-06 Thread Michael Sims
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 02:03:05 -0500, you wrote: Is it posible to change the current uid/gid in a script that is being running ? of course, having the user and password ? like running su. I don't believe that it's possible to do this inside PHP. I would suggest writing a seperate script to do all

Re: [PHP] PHP and empty() if form value is 0

2003-01-04 Thread Michael Sims
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 19:26:02 -0500, you wrote: Whenever the form variable is equal to 0, the value is not passed into the corresponding variable. For example, if isLogin = 1, then $isLogin = 1 But if isRegistered = 0 then $isRegistered = {null} I do not understand why this happens, someone

Re: [PHP] PHP and empty() if form value is 0

2003-01-04 Thread Michael Sims
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:33:14 -0500, you wrote: I couldn't think of isset, so I winged it: if (strlen($var) 0) {...} This should work most of the time, but be aware this will produce a warning if $var isn't set (and you haven't set your error reporting level to ignore warnings)... If you're not

Re: [PHP] Getting short (DOS) name of file?

2002-12-31 Thread Michael Sims
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 02:14:18 -0500, you wrote: Thanks... thing is, it can be anything from c:\whatever.exe to c:\program files\program name\bin\program.exe. I'll write a function that goes to each directory in a string and does a dir /x if I have to, but isn't there a simpler way? I don't

Re: [PHP] PHP PostgreSQL

2002-12-30 Thread Michael Sims
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 04:11:02 -0700, you wrote: The things that bothered me the most: o Pg doesn't have DATE_FORMAT() to_char() accomplishes the same thing, for example: select to_char(lastlogin, 'FMMM-DD- FMHH:MI AM') as lastloginf from users; , or the types SET and ENUM. I'm not sure

Re: [PHP] function misfunction

2002-12-30 Thread Michael Sims
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:48:13 +0100, you wrote: function setCurrentDevGroup($devID) { // start original routine $query = SELECT dev_group FROM tracking WHERE (computer =

Re: [PHP] PHP PostgreSQL

2002-12-30 Thread Michael Sims
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 07:57:04 -0600, you wrote: o Pg doesn't have DATE_FORMAT() to_char() accomplishes the same thing, for example: select to_char(lastlogin, 'FMMM-DD- FMHH:MI AM') as lastloginf from users; Unless I missed something, that function doesn't work with unix timestamps. Is

Re: [PHP] imap_set_quota function

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 18:26:01 -0800 (PST), you wrote: This function requires the imap_stream to have been opened as the mail administrator account. It will not work if opened as any other user. [...] my question is, where do i set this admin called 'mailadmin' with password 'password'. do i set it

Re: [PHP] exec, system , backtick

2002-12-28 Thread Michael Sims
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 13:30:49 +0530, you wrote: Im running a linux system so i have no problem, but how would one redirect stderr to stdout on a Win machine, if it is possible at all g I believe it works the same way on NT kernels (NT, 2000, XP) but I could be wrong. A friend of mine actually

Re: [PHP] exec, system , backtick

2002-12-27 Thread Michael Sims
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 02:55:44 +0530, you wrote: I tried a simple command line script, in all cases no_file does not exist. I do not want the command line script to show the error on the screen but to deliver it in the variable $r. But alas, in all 3 cases i get 'rm: canoot remove `no_file': No

Re: [PHP] Quota function

2002-11-30 Thread Michael Sims
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 23:36:20 +0800, you wrote: There is a php code from Internet, it is enable Quota function with wu-imap server, but I can't run it into my server ( Linux Redhat system ) like There is a mailing list that is specifically for Imp. You'd have better luck getting answers if you

Re: [PHP] Detecting email bounces sent by the mail function?

2002-11-28 Thread Michael Sims
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 17:54:46 -, you wrote: Hello Is it possible to detect with PHP whether an email sent using the PHP 'mail' function has bounced back or has not been delivered? Hi, If you're using PHP on a unix/linux with sendmail you can set the envelope sender via the 5th parameter to

Re: [PHP] sessions and trans-sid problem/question

2002-11-24 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 17:01:21 +0900, you wrote: Michael Sims wrote: Then I suppose it's just an added feature of the session handler I am using. Maybe the OP should give it a shot, as I use it and I definitely don't have a problem with expired sessions I'll think about writing my own

Re: [PHP] sessions and trans-sid problem/question

2002-11-22 Thread Michael Sims
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:57:23 +0900, you wrote: [...] 1- the user logs in 2- bookmarks the page 3- closes the browser 4- opens the browser 5- goes to the saved bookmark page He has access to the page. I.e. the session did not close/terminate when he closed his browser ... I 'm not where I can

Re: [PHP] sessions and trans-sid problem/question

2002-11-22 Thread Michael Sims
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 15:08:31 +0100, you wrote: I don't think the session handler checks session expiry - only gc does. I haven't checked the PHP sources yet, but I found out that on my development server (where we definetely don't have a lot of traffic ;-) session files can persist over night,

Re: [PHP] imap_open

2002-11-18 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 22:08:36 -0800 (PST), you wrote: The function imap_open() is for opening an connection to an IMAP server. It doesn't operate directly on a file system and it is ignorant of the actual mailbox implementation as this is all abstracted by the IMAP protocol. Where the mail

Re: [PHP] imap_open

2002-11-17 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:00:13 -0500 (EST), you wrote: i'm looking for information on how to open mailboxes stored in user directories using imap_open. i've lookd into the c-client documentation as well as php.net and haven't had any luck. my experience so far is that imap_open will just open a

Re: [PHP] posible bug, require and symlinks

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Sims
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 20:12:44 -0500, you wrote: When I require a file from index.php, if there's no .. on the path (a relative path, but not going back), the relative path is from where the original file is, but if there's a .. on the path, the relative path is from where the symlink is

Re: [PHP] BUG with session trans sid ?

2002-11-13 Thread Michael Sims
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 01:58:49 +0200, you wrote: So, I use php4.0.6 in default redhat installation. My code: ini_set('session.use_cookies', FALSE); ini_set('session.use_trans_sid', TRUE); [snip] TRANS SID feature doesnt working, but constant SID set correctly (PHPSESSID=...). If I write SID in

Re: [PHP] Would appreciate thoughts on session management

2002-11-12 Thread Michael Sims
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:55:52 -0800, you wrote: It's simple, which is one thing I like about it. My submit.php looks like this: ?php session_start(); header('Location: ' . $_REQUEST['target']); [snip] I'm curious...your redirect doesn't include the session ID, so how you maintain

Re: [PHP] Would appreciate thoughts on session management

2002-11-12 Thread Michael Sims
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:28:53 -0800, you wrote: [snip] My Invisible GET method avoids all of this. If you get an example of this up and running somewhere why don't you post a link... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] set_error_handler() Keeps Triggering Errors

2002-11-10 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 10:48:46 -0500, you wrote: Hi Earnest. I found these user notes in the PHP manual, but, it's confusing and seems to be a bit contradictory: It's simple: A user defined error handler cannot handle parse errors or compile time errors. That makes sense to me...if your script

Re: [PHP] isset doesn't like -?

2002-11-10 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 18:34:52 -0600, you wrote: PS: what is the proper term for the - syntax? pointer? In Perl it's called an infix operator. I think in PHP the technical term for it is that - thingy... :-) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] Convince teh boss

2002-11-07 Thread Michael Sims
On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 10:45:18 +0100, you wrote: BTW, is there any reason why PostgreSQL is not mentioned here? While it seems there are far more MySQL installations, I personally value PostgreSQL higher... it's OpenSource as well, it's an OO database (you may inherit, have object identifiers,

Re: [PHP] How do I convert an array into a mask?

2002-11-05 Thread Michael Sims
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 20:56:33 -0800, you wrote: Does anyone know of a nice efficient way to convert an array of values into a mask... I'm going to assume that you mean a bitmask. I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to accomplish, so I may be off base here, but let me describe how I'm using

Re: [PHP] Battling with highlighting search criteria

2002-11-04 Thread Michael Sims
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:59:20 +0200, you wrote: Ok, this works. Just one more thing, How can I get the return in the same case as it was originally? Use backreferences to capture what matched and use that in the replace string. Example: ? $search = is; $str = This is a test, isn't it?; $str =

Re: [PHP] time of day

2002-10-03 Thread Michael Sims
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:43:37 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone has a good example of a way to do this. Kinda lame, but like if the time is between 8am and 12pm, say good morning, between 12pm and 6pm, say good afternoon, and so on. I know this is probably pretty trivial,

Re: [PHP] XSLT and PHP

2002-09-24 Thread Michael Sims
On 24 Sep 2002 10:22:41 -0500, you wrote: What I am looking for is either a way to use includes in xsl stylesheets or something like Fusebox layouts for xml/xsl. Thank you You may get better answers if you post this in comp.text.xml... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] Re: session_start function breaks flush function in 4.2.1

2002-09-23 Thread Michael Sims
Chris Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I use a script which initially sends a friendly message to a browser, and then goes about some lengthy processing. The browser is IE and I am aware of the 256 byte issue. The script worked nicely in

[PHP] Designing N-tier applications in PHP (long)

2002-09-22 Thread Michael Sims
I have a few application design questions that I was hoping someone might have some thoughts on. I'll warn you in advance that this post is kinda long winded. I'll try my best not to use two many trendy buzzwords, but I may not be able to avoid it. :-) I work for a real-estate company and one

Re: [PHP] Designing N-tier applications in PHP (long)

2002-09-22 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:31:17 -0500, you wrote: Basically, it's really easy to create multiple interfaces to the same business logic. Don't try to make things more complicated than necessary, and since there is no need to use multiple languages in your implementation, that is a complexity

Re: [PHP] Designing N-tier applications in PHP (long)

2002-09-22 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:07:05 -0500, you wrote: Oh yeah, avoid that at all costs. Sounds like something like SOAP etc. could have been an answer, but then it depends on how you write your apps. Well, that is basically my question. I considered both SOAP and XML-RPC (which you mention later)

Re: [PHP] session_start() -- no more output

2002-09-22 Thread Michael Sims
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:54:07 +0200, you wrote: ?php session_register(bunt); phpinfo(); ? This is just a simple example. The problem is that the script produces no output at all when called with the browser. Is it possible that display_errors is set to Off in your php.ini? If this were the

Re: [PHP] Designing N-tier applications in PHP (long)

2002-09-22 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:45:37 -0300, you wrote: Hello, Hi Manuel... Good idea, bad project. It is good that you diversify your knowlegde if that helps your career but I think it is not a good idea to make technology shift in a project that is already written and working well in a certain

Re: [PHP] Designing N-tier applications in PHP (long)

2002-09-22 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:40:06 -0500, you wrote: I was just looking at my software architect book ... not half-way through yet. Good book. CORBA is what is mentioned know, a bit different than SOAP but I don't know enough of either yet to say for sure. Something like CORBA looks good to me,

Re: [PHP] checking if an array is empty

2002-09-21 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 01:13:08 +1000, you wrote: how can i check if an array is currently empty , for instance i have a file input field with an array name for multiple images, i need to check if there was no file uploaded in that field name and ignore it in the loop I find that empty() works

Re: [PHP] checking if an array is empty

2002-09-21 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:09:16 +1000, you wrote: thats the thing , the word Array is what it returns even though there was no input file. Oh, I see. Without seeing your code, the best recommendation I have is to loop through the array and remove the empty elements, then check to see if the array

Re: [PHP] Good OO PHP resources? Open Source APIs?

2002-09-19 Thread Michael Sims
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 00:50:56 -0400, you wrote: By doing so I want more and more of my PHP to be purely OO. I'm fairly aware of how to write my own classes for data but are their any frameworks out there to do the foundation stuff already? Have you looked at PEAR? It comes with the PHP

Re: [PHP] strtolower - strtoupper

2002-09-11 Thread Michael Sims
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 05:21:01 +0300, you wrote: [...] $name = mattson-hedman # correct format is Mattson-Hedman, but user can write in many ways. $name came from db. so how I can convert this $name format Mattson-Hedman. [...] Try this: function uc_all ($str) { $temp = preg_split('/(\W)/',

Re: [PHP] defining vars within functions as global

2002-09-06 Thread Michael Sims
On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 13:52:08 +1000, you wrote: Hi, I'd like to be able to define multiple variables within a function, and have it available outside the function from the point the function is called... How about this: ? function foo() { return array ( foo = aaa, bar = bbb );

Re: [PHP] Dumb Question

2002-08-31 Thread Michael Sims
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:04:11 -0400, you wrote: And I feel foolish asking... What is meant by 'procedural code' ??? It's the opposite of declarative code. Here's a page that briefly explains the difference: http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/DB/SQL/BeginSQL/beginSQL2_1.html and

Re: [PHP] foreach fails on unitialized array?

2002-08-27 Thread Michael Sims
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:53:45 +0900, you wrote: When I use foreach on a uninitialized array I get the following warning: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /www/htdocs/jc/cart/add_item.php on line 21 I would expect foreach to treat an unitialized variable as an empty array

Re: [PHP] trouble with function

2002-08-25 Thread Michael Sims
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 01:12:56 +1000, you wrote: However, I was hoping to use it in a similar way that I use mysql in the above code... something like: ? while($song = getSongByArtist(4)) { echo song['title']; echo song['writers']; echo song['video']; echo song['artist_id'];

Re: [PHP] trouble with function

2002-08-25 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:49:00 -0500, you wrote: static $myrow; if($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { [...] Oops. We want to remember the position of the result set, so it's $result that should be static, not $myrow. In addition, you'll have to put a check at the top of the function to see

Re: [PHP] how to fight backslash in char variable???

2002-08-20 Thread Michael Sims
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:13:53 +0300, you wrote: the problem is that from out.php I need to echo this $intext but I get: blablabla \' blablabla the question is.. how to fight this backslash out of there? The magic_quotes_gpc setting is enabled on your server. If you have access to the server

Re: [PHP] Embeding images in HTML emails

2002-08-20 Thread Michael Sims
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:52:21 +0300, you wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to embed images in HTML emails in order to avoid a server request (no img src=http://server/foo.img;)? Is this possible? It is possible. If you are sending a multipart MIME message, attach the image as MIME type image/gif

Re: [PHP] stupid question

2002-08-15 Thread Michael Sims
Liam MacKenzie wrote: Ok, I'm having a blonde day... If $idx == 1, 4 or 9 I don't want it to echo $results. I have this, what's the syntax to put multiple values in there? if ($idx != 1) { echo$results; } Another way to do it is by using in_array(), like so: if

Re: [PHP] mailing list managers

2002-08-13 Thread Michael Sims
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 01:09:32 +1000, you wrote: I was hoping that maybe there's an opensource or commercial product out there that I can install in my doc root (ie, PHP + MySQL support) which will handle this in a more effective manner (ie, space the mailout across an hour or so, etc etc). Take

Re: [PHP] Comparing Data

2002-08-13 Thread Michael Sims
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:31:22 -0400, you wrote: Well, the only problem is, the data will be outputted into a dropdown box, so a loop would cause duplicates of the ID. Guess I should have mentioned that there are approx 50 ID's and they are not unique. The only way I can think of doing it is

Re: [PHP] location headers are crisco to cookie headers?

2002-08-13 Thread Michael Sims
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:14:28 -0500, you wrote: I had some headers that were working on one server (4.0.6), but isn't working on my (nearly) fresh install of 4.2.2. Here's the conundrum: header(Set-Cookie: mid=$mid); header(Location: $location); exit; worked just fine. I moved it

Re: [PHP] Encrypting Passwords - Is it really necessary??

2002-07-29 Thread Michael Sims
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:30:48 -0400, you wrote: Is it really necessary to store passwords encrypted in a mySQL DB for a membership site if you're not storing sensitive info such as credit card numbers? How much security does that offer, really, and for whom? [...] The reason I ask is because I'm

Re: [PHP] running php with .html files?

2002-07-28 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 08:18:40 +0100, you wrote: Hi All, [...] I have a php script that I wish to execute but I want to put it in index.html (not index.php) I know there is a solution involving configuration files in either the directory wher the file is held or specifically for the server.

Re: [PHP] How do I show the sourse code?

2002-07-27 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 03:41:19 +0200, you wrote: I have seen on some of the script-sites around some nice ways of presenting the source code. Often in nice colors. So, the natural question is: how is that done (cause I don't think anyone has the patience to put lt; and gt; around all the )

Re: [PHP] preg_match() occurence position

2002-07-25 Thread Michael Sims
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:05:36 +0200, you wrote: l for example: l $mem='this is a test'; l preg_match('/test/', ...) should return me somehow: 10 How about this: $mem='this is a test'; if(preg_match(/(.*)test/,$mem,$matches)) { echo strlen($matches[1]); } Of course, if test occurs more

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