Re: [PHP] Wildcard fromURL

2003-03-14 Thread Verdon Vaillancourt
Hi Chris, Thanks for the pointer :) I found some other interesting reference and ideas on using this in the manual. Now I just need to provide some error checking in case $_GET['menu'] isn't defined in the URL (that should be pretty straight fwd) and in case it is defined, but a corresponding

[PHP] Wildcard fromURL

2003-03-13 Thread Verdon Vaillancourt
Hi :) I want to place a particular image on a page based on the URL of the page. I have a variety of standard patterns to match in the URL. For instance; I would want all the following pages to load an image named something like foo_2.jpg mod.php?mod=userpagemenu=2page_id=xxx

Re: [PHP] Wildcard fromURL

2003-03-13 Thread Chris Hayes
At 21:55 13-3-2003, you wrote: mod.php?mod=userpagemenu=215page_id=xxx mod.php?mod=userpagemenu=20001page_id=xxx mod.php?mod=site_mapmenu=20010 And would want all the following pages to load an image named something like foo_1.jgp mod.php?mod=userpagemenu=1page_id=xxx submit.phpmenu=100

[PHP] php Wildcard???

2002-11-15 Thread vernon
Hey all, I'm coming over from programming ASP in VBScript and I know that a wildcard there is '%' can anyone tell me what it is in PHP? Thanks. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] php Wildcard???

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Hazelden
Wildcard for what? Please be more specific ... do you mean database queries ... regular expressions ... what? Thanks. -Original Message- From: vernon [mailto:vernon;comp-wiz.com] Sent: 15 November 2002 15:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] php Wildcard??? Hey all, I'm coming

Re: [PHP] php Wildcard???

2002-11-15 Thread Ewout de Boer
You mean the opening tag ? For php use ?php {code here} ? regards, Ewout de Boer - Original Message - From: vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 4:32 PM Subject: [PHP] php Wildcard??? Hey all, I'm coming over from programming ASP

[PHP] wildcard search?

2002-11-11 Thread Håkan
I'm trying to make a small and simple search function, but it only works for exact searches, and I can't figure out how to make a wildcard search, if I do it in the php or in the mysql_query, can't really find anything about it and I don't know what to look for on php.net Håkan -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] wildcard search?

2002-11-11 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
That's because this is a MySQL-specific question and you should be reading the MySQL documentation or asking on the MySQL list. -Rasmus On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Håkan wrote: I'm trying to make a small and simple search function, but it only works for exact searches, and I can't figure out how to

RE: [PHP] wildcard search?

2002-11-11 Thread John W. Holmes
in MySQL to create a better search feature. ---John Holmes... -Original Message- From: Håkan [mailto:hw2k;barrysworld.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] wildcard search? I'm trying to make a small and simple search function, but it only

Re: [PHP] wildcard search?

2002-11-11 Thread John Nichel
RTFM... http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Pattern_matching.html Håkan wrote: I'm trying to make a small and simple search function, but it only works for exact searches, and I can't figure out how to make a wildcard search, if I do it in the php or in the mysql_query, can't really find anything about

[PHP] Wildcard search

2002-11-08 Thread Mako Shark
I've tried doing a search for this problem on the web, but haven't found anything, nor have I found any solution on the php.net documentation. Does anyone know if it's possible to do a file search with a wildcard character? I need to find if there are any HTML files in a certain directory,

Re: [PHP] Wildcard search

2002-11-08 Thread Marco Tabini
How about: $a = explode (' ', shell_exec (ls $foldername/*.html)); This should return an array that contains the name of all the *.html files in the folder $foldername, if any. Hope this helps. Cheers, Marco - php|architect -- The Monthly Magazine For PHP Professionals Come

RE: [PHP] Wildcard search

2002-11-08 Thread Mark Charette
-Original Message- From: Mako Shark [mailto:phpman2000;yahoo.com] do I have to do a readdir() and read the filename of every file until I find an HTML or until all files have been read. This is what the shell expression supplied by Marco Tabini actually does; doing it in PHP

Re: [PHP] Wildcard search

2002-11-08 Thread Mako Shark
$a = explode (' ', shell_exec (ls $foldername/*.html)); Didn't know of shell_exec() until now. It works, though. Thanks! Is there any reason why it wouldn't work? If I changed servers, say, and there were some ports blocked and etc. etc., is there a risk that I should know?

Re: [PHP] Wildcard search

2002-11-08 Thread Marco Tabini
Well, as a general rule, it won't work if you're not using a UNIX o/s or if PHP has been set up with safe mode on, or if you don't have the right permission to see that folder. That's probably a non-inclusive list, but there should be ways around each of these problems (depending on the degree of

Re: [PHP] Wildcard search

2002-11-08 Thread Charles Wiltgen
Mako Shark wrote... Didn't know of shell_exec() until now. It works, though. Thanks! Is there any reason why it wouldn't work? If I changed servers, say, and there were some ports blocked and etc. etc., is there a risk that I should know? My understanding is that many security-conscious

Re: [PHP] Wildcard search

2002-11-08 Thread Mako Shark
Well, as a general rule, it won't work if you're not using a UNIX o/s orif PHP has been set up with safe mode on, or if you don't have the rightpermission to see that folder. That's probably a non-inclusive list, butthere should be ways around each of these problems (depending on thedegree of

Re: [PHP] Wildcard search

2002-11-08 Thread Marco Tabini
If you're only executing one-liners and get all the results back you're better off using shell_exec(). popen() lets you open a pipe to a command--that way, you can funnel data to it as if you were typing from the keyboard. Permissions would be a problem with readdir() as well. Marco --

Re: [PHP] Wildcard search

2002-11-08 Thread Mako Shark
If you're only executing one-liners and get all the results back you're better off using shell_exec(). popen() lets you open a pipe to a command--that way, you can funnel data to it as if you were typing from the keyboard. That's what I'll do then: use shell_exec(). Permissions would be

[PHP] Wildcard

2002-07-10 Thread César Aracena
Hi all. I’m trying to figure out how to do a search trough a MySQL db using LIKE or = but the thing is that I have 3 select boxes from where to choose the search terms. Can I use something like a wildcard instead of making several IF statements like this? SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE col1 =

Re: [PHP] Wildcard

2002-07-10 Thread Chris Hewitt
Cesar, Yes, its: select * from table_name where col1 like '%' and col2 like '%' and col3 like '%'; As your default is %, then this is easy. Its all in the mysql manual, Section 6.3.2.1 String Comparison Functions. HTH Chris César Aracena wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to figure out how to do a

[PHP] wildcard redirecting

2001-08-29 Thread Kevin Keeler
Sorry, I couldn't think of a well-worded, descriptive title for what I'm trying to do. As I believe I mentioned before, I use PHP and MySQL to keep a journal. all the entries are accessed by /index.phtml?id=23 , where 23 is replaced by the id of the entry you want. A problem I'm having is that

RE: [PHP] wildcard redirecting

2001-08-29 Thread Brett
As I believe I mentioned before, I use PHP and MySQL to keep a journal. all the entries are accessed by /index.phtml?id=23 , where 23 is replaced by the id of the entry you want. A problem I'm having is that some search engines' spiders (google, most notably), won't navigate through all the