Re: [PHP] GD problem

2003-09-23 Thread Pete James
You're outputting a blank PNG image, in binary form. In order to display it (not that you'd see anything since it's blank), you need to output a Content-Type header first, like so: header(Content-Type: image/png); THis will instruct the browser to treat the incoming data as image data. HTH.

Re: [PHP] help with arrays

2003-09-23 Thread Pete James
Of course, you could do it in a much more cryptic way... just for fun. :-) INPUT: ?php $a = array( '0' = 'j', 'fname' = 'j', '1' = 'j', 'lname' = 'j', '2' = 'jj', 'state' = '', '3' = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]',

Re: [PHP] non-php issue

2003-09-22 Thread Pete James
Hey, look... yours IS bigger than mine. :-) Seriously, though, I think it's safe to say that your mileage may vary. It certainly doesn't take 2 minutes to compile and install all of the dependencies along with PHP. It also doesn't take me 6 minutes to restart my version of Windows (2

Re: [PHP] non-php issue

2003-09-22 Thread Pete James
Chris Shiflett wrote: There has been research to support that Linux is attacked more than three times as much as Windows (http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3076701). This makes sense, too, because Linux is more likely to be protecting important data. The argument that those who

Re: [PHP] PHP Interview questions

2003-08-29 Thread Pete James
Binary search. I'd say I have too much time on my hands, but I don't. ?php $eggs = array(1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1); $eggs1_6 = array_slice($eggs, 0, 6); $eggs7_12 = array_slice($eggs, 6, 6); if (array_sum($eggs1_6) array_sum($eggs7_12)) $half_eggs = $eggs1_6; else $half_eggs =

Re: [PHP] disable notice errors

2003-08-29 Thread Pete James
You have two solutions, one of which is better. A. Fix the problem, and define your indexes. B. Set error_reporting = E_ALL ~E_NOTICE I'd strongly recommend doing A before B, as PHP doesn't carp for the sake of carping. fatih olcer wrote: how to disable notice error output i have set

Re: [PHP] Gripe

2003-08-29 Thread Pete James
Cuz the the way the PHP parser is written makes it impossible to discover the error before it gets to the end of the file, and realizes that there are no more braces to go around. It definitely sucks... almost as badly as a stray backtick. Try finding that little bugger at 1600x1280...

Re: [PHP] Sharing PHP(Apache) session with JSP session (Tomcat)

2003-08-14 Thread Pete James
Check out http://php.net/session_set_save_handler, and save your session data in a database, or leave it as is and access the session file directly. Here's an example of sharing php sessions with perl... it may provide some ideas.

Re: [PHP] capturing reloads

2003-07-30 Thread Pete James
My personal favourite is to logically separate actions and views, which is very easy to do and is virtually foolproof. This way a user submits a form to a page that outputs nothing. This page does its work, then redirects to another page which only shows data. This is invisible to the user,

Re: [PHP] Re: looking for some kind of CMS breakthough (slightlyOT)

2003-07-30 Thread Pete James
Why not use a wysiwyg edit box? There are quite a few of them... unless you don't want to restrict your users too much. http://www.labs4.com/htmleditbox/2.0/demo.php Mark wrote, On 2003/Jul/30 11:11 AM: But isn't this just defining your own version of something like bbcode? And wouldn't you be

Re: [PHP] Are left joins more efficient?

2003-07-25 Thread Pete James
THese are very different things, generally. The first join is an INNER join. It pulls all records that have the matching ids. The left join is an OUTER join. It pulls ALL records from table1, and any matching records from table2. This is useful if you want customer and address info, but

Re: [PHP] mysqldump

2003-07-25 Thread Pete James
Sorry to be a stickler... but _technically_ the backtick is shorthand for shell_exec(). exec and passthru are a little different. Mike Migurski wrote, On 2003/Jul/25 11:12 AM: Thanks for the replies guys but the main reason I'm doing this is because most times I don't have access to the

Re: [PHP] RedHat

2003-04-05 Thread Pete James
John, I'm not sure if you've noticed, but pretty much every question you've asked on this list of late has received at least one comment about finding the appropriate resource. If I were in your situation, I'd start to see a theme. The PHP General mailing list is for questions about

Re: [PHP] trigger error and set error handling in an object

2003-04-04 Thread Pete James
From a class I wrote... -- snip -- // hack to work around the inability to use a method as // a callback for the set_error_handler function // NOTE: if you forget the '', then all of the settings // to class properties will be lost

Re: [PHP] PHP syntax colouring on documentation

2003-04-04 Thread Pete James
check phpinfo()... it lists the colors that highlight_file()/show_source() uses. Better yet, here's the values: highlight.bg#FF #FF highlight.comment #FF9900 #FF9900 highlight.default #CC #CC highlight.html #00 #00 highlight.keyword

Re: [PHP] Re: XML+XSLT or Smarty again??

2003-03-31 Thread Pete James
This xml+html+xslt paradigm provides great separation, especially when viewed in light of the traditional xslt=html+code method. I've used it with good success. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/07/26/xslt/xsltstyle.html HTH. Pete. -- Pusher http://www.shaman.ca/pusher A news aggregator with

Re: [PHP] Re: XML+XSLT or Smarty again??

2003-03-31 Thread Pete James
IMO, Smarty is just an abstraction of PHP. Smarty templates are HTML templates, but they still contain their own application logic for looping, etc, and so are still not a real separation (or are *dirty*, as 'rush' calls it). XML+HTML+XSLT (or Template Tamer from what I can gather) take it

Re: [PHP] if statment

2003-03-31 Thread Pete James
Also, take a look at isset() and empty() http://php.net/empty http://php.net/isset Jennifer Goodie wrote: so change it to -Original Message- From: Tim Haskins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] if statment My bad, I

[PHP] A cool PHP tool - Pusher

2003-03-28 Thread Pete James
Some of you may like to stay on top of the PHP world (as well as countless other worlds) without having to do too much work. To you I would suggest checking out http://www.shaman.ca/pusher/ There are a number of news feeds here from various PHP sites. Cheers, Pete. -- PHP General Mailing

Re: [PHP] A cool PHP tool - Pusher

2003-03-28 Thread Pete James
Right now the value is in the service, not the code. I use it to keep up on PHP developments. Some of the already available feeds are blogs highlighting what high profile people in the PHP community (people like Sterling Hughes, Zak Greant, etc) are working on. Others are from web sites

Re: [PHP] Re: A cool PHP tool - Pusher

2003-03-28 Thread Pete James
Agreed. Now it allows searching and browsing without sign-up. Thanks, Pete Manuel Lemos wrote: Hello, On 03/29/2003 01:22 AM, Pete James wrote: Some of you may like to stay on top of the PHP world (as well as countless other worlds) without having to do too much work. To you I would suggest

Re: [PHP] Session Data

2003-03-21 Thread Pete James
If your session id is not stored in a cookie (if url rewriting is on), then the $url page may not be getting your session id, and thus is starting a new, empty one? Tony Bibbs wrote: I'm wrapping up an MVC implementation for PHP. Everything is working splendidly except that redirects seem to

Re: [PHP] Cleaning user data

2003-03-19 Thread Pete James
It really depends on what you what to do with the data. For instance, if you want to insert into a database, you'll want to run addslashes() on it, or some other such quoting. If you wnat to use the data as a forum post or comment, etc, you'll want to strip the html out of it with strip_tags()

Re: [PHP] convert VARCHAR 10 to DATETIME

2003-03-19 Thread Pete James
Could you use a function like strtotime()? freaky deaky wrote: this question is not strictly php related, but i thought possibly someone on this list might have dealt with this type of problem before. i am exporting a database out of filemakerpro 5 as a comma delimited file, and importing

Re: [PHP] Mailing List Digest

2003-03-18 Thread Pete James
It is sent twice a day and contains all of the messages sent during that period. It's so that you don't get 200+ messages a day in your inbox. Tom Sommer wrote: What does the mailing list digest contain, compared to a normal subscription? What is the difference? -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] no phun intended!!!

2003-03-18 Thread Pete James
Steve and Niels, I personally don't think that this sort of garbage has any place on this list. The PHP lists are for the promotion and assistance of the PHP community. In our small ways, we are all ambassadors for PHP and should behave as professionals. Having sexist and inappropriate

Re: [PHP] no phun intended!!!

2003-03-18 Thread Pete James
Steve Keller wrote: Sexist and inappropriate? You would be offended because I insulted geeks? Actually, it was not so much your comment that offended me, but the fact that you chose to reprint his. If I was a female coder, I would take great offense to these comments... but maybe that's just

Re: [PHP] Using PHP to get a word count of a MSword doc

2003-03-18 Thread Pete James
The tokenizer that Erik was referring to is actually a PHP lexer, not a general tokenizer. Perhaps you would be looking for the strtok() function? www.php.net/strtok Brad Wright wrote: Erik, thanks, are you able to pint me to some good reference sources on tokenizer's... i have never come

Re: [PHP] A faster way to Redirect pages

2003-03-17 Thread Pete James
Try zero seconds? Poon, Kelvin (Infomart) wrote: Hi, I know this topic was discussed but I deleted my previous mail so I can't go back and review them. My question is, is there a faster way to redirect html pages other than just using meta HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT=1; URL=login.php ? Is

Re: [PHP] A faster way to Redirect pages

2003-03-17 Thread Pete James
header(), session_start(), etc. can go anywhere in a page (after any content) as long as you start the page using output buffering (ob_start()). Example (bad example) follows: ?php ob_start() print this; print that; if ($forgot) { // oops need to redirect header('Location: foo.php'); }

Re: [PHP] What is the difference: include()

2003-03-17 Thread Pete James
Only that you can embed vars in the second one. if $foo='bar'; include('somefile_{$foo}'); will include the file 'somefile{$foo}', where include(somefile_{$foo}); will include the file 'somefile_bar' HTH. Charles Kline wrote: What is the difference as in... why one or the other?

Re: [PHP] What's this _FILE junk?

2003-03-17 Thread Pete James
Is your form enctype set? Like so: form name='foo' method='post' action='foo.php' enctype='multipart/form-data' Liam Gibbs wrote: This line: INPUT TYPE = FILE NAME = imprintpicture SIZE = 22 when clicking submit, produces nothing. I print_r $_FILES[imprintpicture], I try to echo

Re: [PHP] How to manipulate a Access database(MDB file) with PHP.

2003-03-17 Thread Pete James
This was answered just this morning. Please do some research before asking questions. -- the answer from this morning I just tried putting PHP and Microsoft Access into Google. The first item has the text This code is useful for those who want to use a *Microsoft* *Access* database with a

Re: [PHP] Session problem

2003-03-17 Thread Pete James
You need to start the session at the beginning of the script, or use output buffering. Either: ?php session_start(); require(... ... or ?php ob_start(); require(... ... You're trying to output stuff to the screen (which implicitly sends the headers) then trying to send more headers by calling

[Fwd: Re: [PHP] inserting parameters into URLs dynamically]

2003-03-14 Thread Pete James
You could use output buffering to do the rewriting for you. IF you use ob_start('my_function'); at the top of your page, where my_function is the name of a callback function This function might look like this: function my_function($buffer) { return $buffer . '?x=fooy=bar'; } That's

Re: [PHP] Random String Generation

2003-03-12 Thread Pete James
The method I use is to take their user_id or email and create an HMAC (hashed message authentication code) by hashing it with a secret key on my end. This way the activation link looks like the following: http://mysite.com/activation.php?user_id=petejID=ghjghjg367ghjlkj9hjlkj THe activation

Re: [PHP] Char check

2003-03-12 Thread Pete James
Try is_numeric()? Boaz Yahav wrote: Maybe this can help Check int / integer - checking if a variable is an integer or not. The php is_int() function does not check if the string value is integer or not. http://www.weberdev.com/index.php3?GoTo=get_example.php3?count=1705 How to check

Re: [PHP] changing the brightness of an images

2003-03-12 Thread Pete James
Although I don't know how to do this myself, one of the places I've seen it done is in JpGraph (www.aditus.nu). The function that does it is AdjBackgroundImage($bright, $contrast, $saturation) in jpgraph.php. You could try taking a look at the source? Pete. Dimitar Haralanov wrote:

[PHP] apache seg fault (sig 11)

2002-08-14 Thread Pete James
Wondering if any of the gurus out there have any insight... I'm running a set of php scripts using nested output buffering + sessions and I'm getting sporadic seg faults. If I turn off output buffering it seems to work fine, which would be great if I didn't need it. I'd post code, but there's

[PHP] Re: Logging out with authentication

2002-08-01 Thread Pete James
?php if(!isset($PHP_AUTH_USER) || (isset($logout))) { header(WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\Your Realm\); header(HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized); echo Your custom 401 message here\n; exit; } else { echo pHello $PHP_AUTH_USER./p; echo pYour password is $PHP_AUTH_PW./p;

[PHP] Re: Doing an HTML POST using header()

2002-07-22 Thread Pete James
Don't redirect, use curl to post your data to the new page. Francis wrote: I'm trying to redirect to another website but doing a post to that website at the same time. (ie POST rather than a GET (eg: header(Location: www.anothersite.com/index.php?page=22); ) How do you do an HTML post

[PHP] Re: Doing an HTML POST using header()

2002-07-22 Thread Pete James
, its gonna be quite simple but whats the syntax? there must be a way to do it... Pete James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Don't redirect, use curl to post your data to the new page. Francis wrote: I'm trying to

Re: [PHP] upgrade 4.1.2 to 4.2.2 (passing vars problem with 4.2.2)

2002-07-22 Thread Pete James
Evan Nemerson wrote: If you need register globals on for your old stuff, but want to write better new code, you can just use ?php ini_set(register_globals, 0); ? in your new stuff. You can't do this in a php file... by the time it gets to this line, it's too late. According to the set_ini

[PHP] Re: Question about using if elseif ...

2002-07-18 Thread Pete James
Is there any problem with leaving out the last else and just ending it with an elseif such as ... if($a == '1'){ echo '1'; } elseif ($a == '2'){ echo '2'; } Nothing syntactically, but surely you wouldn't want a rogue '3' or '0' to fall through the cracks... that wouldn't be very good,

Re: [PHP] Checking for a successful login and setting a global flag.

2002-07-08 Thread Pete James
You could also try using Javascript to popup a window when they close the current one, and reset your cookies (and/or destroy your session) in that window. Pete. Kevin Stone wrote: Okay sorry for the misunderstanding. You can set the lifetime of the cookie to die when the browser window

[PHP] Re: Difference between executable and Apache server

2002-07-08 Thread Pete James
I also would like to hear the answer to this... I try set_time_limit(3600), but my script still appears to time out early Jay Blanchard wrote: Good afternoon, We have some cases where we run PHP as a standalone executable for scripting certain processes that can be called from CRON, and

Re: [PHP] Survey: MySQL vs PostgreSQL for PHP

2002-07-07 Thread Pete James
From the php.net manual for pg_fetch_array: Note: From 4.1.0, row became optional. Calling pg_fetch_array() will increment internal row counter by 1. Ilia A. wrote: On July 5, 2002 07:54 pm, Pete James wrote: Ilia A. wrote: The biggest annoyance I've come across is the fact

Re: [PHP] Re: opening pdf file in new window with a POSToperation

2002-07-05 Thread Pete James
Tom Rogers wrote: Hi get data is insecure by nature so the whole page is insecure and no warnings, as soon as you post you invoke the security. You probably have a url on your page that is coming from an insecure server (http:// instead of https://) Tom Believe me when I say that there

[PHP] Re: total (slightly OT)

2002-07-05 Thread Pete James
more specific? What fields... from a database? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, Am working late as usual before the weekend and so I fear i'm a bit braindead! Anyway,heres my problem I have fields named total and avg and no idea how many records how do I get the total and

[PHP] Re: opening pdf file in new window with a POST operation

2002-07-05 Thread Pete James
Thank you, Richard. I think I understand now... I experienced this HTML behavior when trying to debug this problem, but figured it had little to do with the problem. HTML coming up in that page (even the pdf, as garble) was not producing a warning... Now I understand. One last question,

[PHP] opening pdf file in new window with a POST operation

2002-07-03 Thread Pete James
This is a strange one... h1test/h1 form action=https://my.server/reports.php; method=post target=_blank input type=text value='1' name=pdf_client_num input type=text value='q1_2002' name=pdf_time_period input type=text value='reports' name=task input type=text value='pdf' name=report_type input