php-general Digest 3 Dec 2002 13:41:08 -0000 Issue 1741
Topics (messages 126791 through 126846):
Re: dynamic arraynames
126791 by: Floyd Baker
Re: printing array
126792 by: . Edwin
126793 by: Matt
Re: IIS 5
126794 by: . Edwin
Validating get and post data
126795 by: Beth Gore
126802 by: Matt
126803 by: . Edwin
126804 by: John W. Holmes
126806 by: . Edwin
126822 by: Tom Rogers
126825 by: Tom Rogers
126833 by: Ford, Mike [LSS]
Re: PHP --with-dbm enabled???
126796 by: . Edwin
Need advice on downloading files and databases
126797 by: Dara Dowd
126819 by: Jason Wong
PHP and the PDFlib
126798 by: Ryan Smaglik
126799 by: Morgan Hughes
126807 by: Marco Tabini
Re: Browser going to page twice?
126800 by: Leif K-Brooks
Comment Threading
126801 by: Beth Gore
126818 by: Philip Hallstrom
How to handle "so called" expired sessions??
126805 by: Gerard Samuel
126820 by: Tom Rogers
126823 by: Gerard Samuel
[JOB] Senior Developer (PHP/Perl/Java/SQL), Washington DC Area
126808 by: Alok K. Dhir
Re: PDF Help Please
126809 by: Larry Brown
Can't get this right
126810 by: John Taylor-Johnston
hiding php
126811 by: Larry Brown
126812 by: Peter Houchin
126813 by: Rasmus Lerdorf
126816 by: Justin French
126821 by: Larry Brown
126824 by: Jason Wong
126827 by: Serge A.
126830 by: Dan Hardiker
126834 by: Ford, Mike [LSS]
126840 by: Dan Hardiker
Re: Show Folder Contents in Form
126814 by: . Nilaab
easiest way to get 1st and last dates of the month?
126815 by: Justin French
126817 by: Justin French
126832 by: Ford, Mike [LSS]
Does using msql_select_db excessively burn resources?
126826 by: Rob Paxon
Re: Date problem
126828 by: James Coates
126835 by: Jason Wong
Pear vs Phplib vs adodb
126829 by: David Eisenhart
object method overloading
126831 by: Javier Montserat
writing to mysql using php
126836 by: Shams
does anybody know PHPlib's source site?
126837 by: Alexander A. Savenkov
Problem: Only 1 fsockopen() connection for apache at a time.
126838 by: William Bailey
mail with CC and BCC
126839 by: Alain ROMERO
126843 by: Jason Wong
Re: php5 features?
126841 by: Brad Young
[SEMI-OT] Making secure flash high scoring?
126842 by: Leif K-Brooks
variable num of function args
126844 by: christian haines
126845 by: christian haines
need advice on template engine
126846 by: Alexander A. Savenkov
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Just want to thank everyone and tell how it finally came out...
I was making way to much of this and went into difficult concepts too
quickly. That's where the problem came from. Trying to build on
earlier mistakes.
We already had an array for the column names so a suggestion that I
use one single array for all the data columns works out the best.
Now I'm unwinding that one long array according to how many name
fields there are in each row. As each process is done, the fields are
there in the original column order, no matter how big the x-y grid is.
The data from the 'basic' column arrays is also going to be included
in the single array too.
I'm not a wiz by any means so creating the best application 'method'
can be rough no matter what I know about the individual functions.
The *single* array just never dawned on me. Thanks for the help...
:-)
Floyd
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:47:56 -0000, you wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Floyd Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: 28 November 2002 17:09
>
>OK, I think I'm finally beginning to understand what you're up to, and it seems to me
>everyine's been making rather heavy weather of it so far!
>
>> The user's choice is made from a drop down list of available items,
>> prior to running the routine itself. The choices are predetermined
>> and kept in a personal table to be called by the routine. This part
>> is finished to the point of putting the needed column names at the top
>> of the input columns on the form. The choices are fixed spellings to
>> match formula if-then's, etc.
>
>If this is the case, couldn't you use 2-dimensional arrays with the column names as
>the first dimension, and the values relating to it in the second dimension?
>
>So you'd have something like
>
> $user['colour'][0] $user['hobby'][0] $user['etc'][0]
> $user['colour'][1] $user['hobby'][1] $user['etc'][1]
> $user['colour'][2] $user['hobby'][2] $user['etc'][2]
> $user['colour'][3] $user['hobby'][3] $user['etc'][3]
>
>etc.
>
>Anyway, going back to your forms:
>
>> >if ($start_button=="1")
>> > {
>> > print "<form action=$PHP_SELF method=get>";
>> > print "Input the following information";
>> > // these are your fixed cells and they now contain user input
>> > print "Name: <input type=text name=name value=\"$name\"
>> size=20><br>";
>> > print "Temp: <input type=text name=temp value=\"$temp\"
>> size=20><br>";
>> > print "Time: <input type=text name=time value=\"$time\"
>> size=20><br>";
>> > print "Offset: <input type=text name=offset value=\$offset\"
>> >size=20><br>";
>> > print "Input the names of the desired additional cells in the spaces
>> >provided.";
>> > // this is where your user will name the cells he asked to create
>> > for($i=1;$i<=$additional_cells;$i++)
>> > {
>> > print "$i <input type=text name=user_added[$i] size=20><br>";
>> > }
>
>OK, this looks good -- it will give you your array of column names. But you really
>should quote all those attributes, so:
>
> print "$i <input type=\"text\" name=\"user_added[$i]\" size=\"20\"><br>";
>
>The next bit is where I'd do the clever stuff to build the 2-dimensional array:
>
>> >> Name Temp Time Offset Etc. As needed...
>> >> process 1 [input] [input] [input] [input] [inputs]
>> >> process 2 [input] [input] [input] [input] [inputs]
>> >> process 3 [input] [input] [input] [input] [inputs]
>> >> process 4 [input] [input] [input] [input] [inputs]
>> >>
>> >> Right now, for the three *basic* columns, I have the lines
>> below in a
>> >> 'while' loop.
>> >>
>> >> <INPUT TYPE='text' NAME='temp[]' VALUE='$temp' SIZE='10'
>> >> MAXLENGTH='10'>
>> >> <INPUT TYPE='text' NAME='time[]' VALUE='$time' SIZE='10'
>> >> MAXLENGTH='10'>
>> >> <INPUT TYPE='text' NAME='offs[]' VALUE='$offs' SIZE='10'
>> >> MAXLENGTH='10'>
>
>So, you just need additional lines in your while loop to add the entries for the user
>columns, named in such a way that you'll get back the 2-dimensional array I described
>earlier. As you already have those column namers in the $user_added[] array built
>above, we can do it like this:
>
> foreach ($user_added as $user_col):
> echo "<input type='text' name=\"user['$user_col'][]\" size='10'
>maxlength='10'>";
> endforeach;
>
>and, bingo, you have your user's input being submitted into a 2-dimensional array
>indexable by column name and row number.
>
>(Actually, to be absolutely sure all the row numbers match, I'd be outputting those
>into the form field names as well.)
>
>Additionally, having gone this far I'd consider doing the same sort of thing with
>your standard columns, something like this:
>
> $std_cols = array('temp', 'time', 'offs');
>
> // now fill the $user_added[] array from database or wherever
>
> echo "<form ......>";
>
>
> for ($n=0; $n<ROWS_NEEDED; $n++):
>
> foreach ($std_cols as $col_id):
> echo "<input type='text' name=\"$col_id[$n]\" size='10' ....>";
> endforeach;
>
> foreach ($user_added as $col_id):
> echo "<input type='text' name=\"user['$col_id'][$n]\" size='10' ....>";
> endforeach;
>
> endfor;
>
>You could even 2-dimensionalize your standard columns, so you get:
>
> $std['temp'][0] $std['time'][0] $std['offs'][0]
> $std['temp'][1] $std['time'][1] $std['offs'][1]
>
>etc., with the corresponding form fields being written using:
>
> foreach ($std_cols as $col_id):
> echo "<input type='text' name=\"std['$col_id'][$n]\" size='10' ....>";
> endforeach;
>
>And, then, of course, you might well wonder why you should bother having two separate
>sets of very similar arrays, when you could merge them and just keep track of how
>many are standard ones (with the rest automatically treated as user added ones). So
>you'd start off something like:
>
> $cols = array('temp', 'time', 'offs');
> define('N_STD_COLS', 3);
>
>and build from there -- but I leave that as an exercise for the reader!!!
>
>Cheers!
>
>Mike
>
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>Beckett Park, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom
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>Tel: +44 113 283 2600 extn 4730 Fax: +44 113 283 3211
>
>
>
>
>
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Hello,
"empty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> <?php
> $stra=("aa,bb,cc,dd,ee,ff,gg,hh,ii,jj,kk,ll");
> $splited = array();
> $splited = split(",",$stra);
> $c=count($splited);
> for($i=0 ; $i<$c ; $i+=2){
> echo "$splited[$i]";
> echo "$splited[$i+1]"; // *****error is here******** >
> //Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE,
expecting ']' in D:\sites\c\htemp.php on line 12
> echo "<br>"
> }
> ?>
>
> I want to see on the screen is that
> aabb
> ccdd
> eeff
> gghh
> iijj
> kkll
>
> but the code above says wrong :(
Try incrementing $i outside:
for($i=0 ; $i<$c ; $i++){
echo "$splited[$i]";
$i++;
echo "$splited[$i]";
echo "<br>";
}
HTH,
- E
PS
BTW, notice the $i++ on the top as well.
And also, the semi-colon after "<br>"--you'll get a "parse error" again :)
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From: "empty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 8:08 PM
Subject: [PHP] printing array
> Hi
> <?php
> $stra=("aa,bb,cc,dd,ee,ff,gg,hh,ii,jj,kk,ll");
> $splited = array();
> $splited = split(",",$stra);
> $c=count($splited);
> for($i=0 ; $i<$c ; $i+=2){
> echo "$splited[$i]";
> echo "$splited[$i+1]"; // *****error is here******** >
You can do (at least) two things here to resolve that error:
1. If you really want the double quotes:
echo "{$splited[$i+1]}"; // curly braces help resolve the arrary reference
in double quoted strings.
2. Drop the double quotes:
echo $splited[$i+1];
> //Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE,
expecting ']' in D:\sites\c\htemp.php on line 12
> echo "<br>"
> }
> ?>
>
> I want to see on the screen is that
> aabb
> ccdd
> eeff
> gghh
> iijj
> kkll
>
> but the code above says wrong :(
>
> Can you help me?
> Thanks everybody.
>
>
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>
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Hello,
"Chris Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm getting "You are not authorized to view this page" when trying to run
> .php files.
You mean plain html files work fine?
> How do I fix this? I'm running php isapi on iis 5 on w2k
> server.
How did you configure it?
Anyway, it sounds like a permission problem so try checking whether your
server (or the user running as the server) is allowed to read files and
traverse directories that you're trying to access.
Just some ideas,
- E
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Okay, I've just solved my own problem by simply doing:
settype($input,"integer");
but.. I'm puzzled about why the following more complicated solution
didn't work. The ASCII value for 0 is 48, and for 9 is 57.
The idea was to read a character at a time from the $rawinput string,
check if it's within the correct range, and if so concantenate it to the
end of the output string.
However bizarrely this seems to behave incorrectly, as it cuts out "0"
as well. Can anyone explain why it does this?
function stripnum($rawinput)
{
for($x=0;$x < strlen($rawinput);$x++)
{
$c = substr($rawinput,$x,1);
switch($c){
case ($c > chr(47) and $c < chr(58)):
$output .=$c;
break;
default:
echo "escaped character at ".$x;
break;
}
}
return $output;
}
I just can't find the bug in my code at all, and even though I found a
better way to do it, it's annoying me that this didn't work!!!
Beth Gore
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From: "Beth Gore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 9:12 PM
Subject: [PHP] Validating get and post data
> Okay, I've just solved my own problem by simply doing:
>
> settype($input,"integer");
>
> but.. I'm puzzled about why the following more complicated solution
> didn't work. The ASCII value for 0 is 48, and for 9 is 57.
>
> The idea was to read a character at a time from the $rawinput string,
> check if it's within the correct range, and if so concantenate it to the
> end of the output string.
>
> However bizarrely this seems to behave incorrectly, as it cuts out "0"
> as well. Can anyone explain why it does this?
>
> function stripnum($rawinput)
> {
>
> for($x=0;$x < strlen($rawinput);$x++)
> {
> $c = substr($rawinput,$x,1);
>
> switch($c){
>
> case ($c > chr(47) and $c < chr(58)):
> $output .=$c;
> break;
I think what's happening here is a type issue. The comparison is returning a
boolean, so when $c != '0', the switch is true and the case is resolving to
true, and executing. But when $c == '0', with switch is (false), but the
case is true. Change the case to
($c > chr(58) and $c < chr(58)):
pass in '09090' and see what you get. Perhaps the case isn't the right
structure for this test.
>
> default:
> echo "escaped character at ".$x;
> break;
> }
>
> }
>
> return $output;
> }
>
>
> I just can't find the bug in my code at all, and even though I found a
> better way to do it, it's annoying me that this didn't work!!!
>
> Beth Gore
> --
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> rss feed: http://bethanoia.dyndns.org/bethanoia.rss
>
>
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Hello,
"Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think what's happening here is a type issue. The comparison is returning
a
> boolean, so when $c != '0', the switch is true and the case is resolving
to
> true, and executing. But when $c == '0', with switch is (false), but the
> case is true. Change the case to
> ($c > chr(58) and $c < chr(58)):
> pass in '09090' and see what you get. Perhaps the case isn't the right
> structure for this test.
I think you're in the right track.
Running these would produce different results:
---------- script 1 ----------
$s = '0';
switch ($s){
case ($s > chr(47) && $s < chr(58)):
echo 'Yehey!';
break;
default:
echo 'Boo!';
}
---------- script 2 ----------
$s = 0;
switch ($s){
case ($s > chr(47) && $s < chr(58)):
echo 'Yehey!';
break;
default:
echo 'Boo!';
}
BTW, there's no problem if you use "if...else" clause...
- E
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> > I think what's happening here is a type issue. The comparison is
> returning
> a
> > boolean, so when $c != '0', the switch is true and the case is
resolving
> to
> > true, and executing. But when $c == '0', with switch is (false),
but
> the
> > case is true. Change the case to
> > ($c > chr(58) and $c < chr(58)):
> > pass in '09090' and see what you get. Perhaps the case isn't the
right
> > structure for this test.
>
> I think you're in the right track.
>
> Running these would produce different results:
>
> ---------- script 1 ----------
> $s = '0';
> switch ($s){
> case ($s > chr(47) && $s < chr(58)):
> echo 'Yehey!';
> break;
> default:
> echo 'Boo!';
> }
>
> ---------- script 2 ----------
> $s = 0;
> switch ($s){
> case ($s > chr(47) && $s < chr(58)):
> echo 'Yehey!';
> break;
> default:
> echo 'Boo!';
> }
I think the problem is just the incorrect use of a switch. If you change
your code to
switch(1)
then it works as it should. You should be using if..elseif for your
style of "cases".
---John Holmes...
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"John W. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the problem is just the incorrect use of a switch. If you change
> your code to
>
> switch(1)
Or,
switch(true)
for that matter...
- E
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Hi,
Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 12:12:09 PM, you wrote:
BG> Okay, I've just solved my own problem by simply doing:
BG> settype($input,"integer");
BG> but.. I'm puzzled about why the following more complicated solution
BG> didn't work. The ASCII value for 0 is 48, and for 9 is 57.
BG> The idea was to read a character at a time from the $rawinput string,
BG> check if it's within the correct range, and if so concantenate it to the
BG> end of the output string.
BG> However bizarrely this seems to behave incorrectly, as it cuts out "0"
BG> as well. Can anyone explain why it does this?
BG> function stripnum($rawinput)
BG> {
BG> for($x=0;$x < strlen($rawinput);$x++)
BG> {
BG> $c = substr($rawinput,$x,1);
BG> switch($c){
BG> case ($c > chr(47) and $c < chr(58)):
BG> $output .=$c;
BG> break;
BG> default:
BG> echo "escaped character at ".$x;
BG> break;
BG> }
BG> }
BG> return $output;
BG> }
BG> I just can't find the bug in my code at all, and even though I found a
BG> better way to do it, it's annoying me that this didn't work!!!
BG> Beth Gore
BG> --
BG> http://bethanoia.dyndns.org/
BG> rss feed: http://bethanoia.dyndns.org/bethanoia.rss
switch will treat 0 as false which ever way you try to dress it up :)
I solved a similar problem like this:
switch($c){
case (ord($c) > 47 && ord($c) < 58)?True:False:
$output .=$c;
break;
default:
echo "escaped character at ".$x;
break;
}
--
regards,
Tom
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Hi,
Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 5:17:48 PM, you wrote:
TR> Hi,
TR> Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 12:12:09 PM, you wrote:
BG>> Okay, I've just solved my own problem by simply doing:
BG>> settype($input,"integer");
BG>> but.. I'm puzzled about why the following more complicated solution
BG>> didn't work. The ASCII value for 0 is 48, and for 9 is 57.
BG>> The idea was to read a character at a time from the $rawinput string,
BG>> check if it's within the correct range, and if so concantenate it to the
BG>> end of the output string.
BG>> However bizarrely this seems to behave incorrectly, as it cuts out "0"
BG>> as well. Can anyone explain why it does this?
BG>> function stripnum($rawinput)
BG>> {
BG>> for($x=0;$x < strlen($rawinput);$x++)
BG>> {
BG>> $c = substr($rawinput,$x,1);
BG>> switch($c){
BG>> case ($c > chr(47) and $c < chr(58)):
BG>> $output .=$c;
BG>> break;
BG>> default:
BG>> echo "escaped character at ".$x;
BG>> break;
BG>> }
BG>> }
BG>> return $output;
BG>> }
BG>> I just can't find the bug in my code at all, and even though I found a
BG>> better way to do it, it's annoying me that this didn't work!!!
BG>> Beth Gore
BG>> --
BG>> http://bethanoia.dyndns.org/
BG>> rss feed: http://bethanoia.dyndns.org/bethanoia.rss
TR> switch will treat 0 as false which ever way you try to dress it up :)
TR> I solved a similar problem like this:
TR> switch($c){
TR> case (ord($c) > 47 && ord($c) < 58)?True:False:
TR> $output .=$c;
TR> break;
TR> default:
TR> echo "escaped character at ".$x;
TR> break;
TR> }
TR> --
TR> regards,
TR> Tom
BTW you may find this runs a bit quicker
function stripnum($rawinput)
{
$len = strlen($rawinput);
$output = '';
for($x=0;$x < $len;$x++)
{
switch($rawinput[$x]){
case (ord($rawinput[$x]) > 47 && ord($rawinput[$x]) <
58)?True:False:
$output .= $rawinput[$x];
break;
default:
echo "escaped character at ".$x;
break;
}
}
return $output;
}
--
regards,
Tom
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beth Gore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 03 December 2002 02:12
>
> However bizarrely this seems to behave incorrectly, as it
> cuts out "0"
> as well. Can anyone explain why it does this?
>
> function stripnum($rawinput)
> {
>
> for($x=0;$x < strlen($rawinput);$x++)
> {
> $c = substr($rawinput,$x,1);
>
> switch($c){
>
> case ($c > chr(47) and $c < chr(58)):
> $output .=$c;
> break;
>
> default:
> echo "escaped character at ".$x;
> break;
> }
>
> }
>
> return $output;
> }
>
>
> I just can't find the bug in my code at all,
Well, that's just not the way the switch statement works! The value of the
expression after each case is compared for equality to the expression after
switch -- so, in this case, you have the equivalent of:
if ($c == ($c > chr(47) and $c < chr(58)))
and I think you can figure out why that gives the wrong answer!
In fact, switch doesn't work well for this kind of test, as you'd have to
write it as:
switch ($c):
case '0':
case '1':
case '2':
case '3':
case '4':
case '5':
case '6':
case '7':
case '8':
case '9':
$output .= $c;
break;
default:
echo "escaped character at ".$x;
break;
endswitch;
You're much better off here with a straight if/else.
Cheers!
Mike
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Learning Support Services, Learning & Information Services,
JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University,
Beckett Park, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: +44 113 283 2600 extn 4730 Fax: +44 113 283 3211
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Hello,
"Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm being told that I need to have php compiled --with-dbm and it is not,
> but it is complied --with-db3. Is that the same thing or do I need
> recopile --with-dbm to use the dbmopen() function?
I think you can find the answer here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dba.php
- E
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Hello everybody,
Newbie here...basically I need to develop a site that will allow users to
download files, e.g
Word docs, XL sheets, and I would like to know whether it is better to store
the entire file in a database,
or just the filepath, or even whether I need a database at all. Is it possible
to link to a file on a remote server if the file isn't in the root directory? Any
advice gratefully received.
Thanks,Dara
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On Tuesday 03 December 2002 10:33, Dara Dowd wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> Newbie here...basically I need to develop a site that will allow users to
> download files, e.g Word docs, XL sheets, and I would like to know whether
> it is better to store the entire file in a database, or just the filepath,
> or even whether I need a database at all.
In general just storing the filepath is best. For the pros and cons search the
archives, this has been asked and answered many times before, keywords "store
file in database" (or similar).
> Is it possible to link to a file
> on a remote server if the file isn't in the root directory?
Yes.
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Has anyone found any other means of opening an existing pdf file and adding
text to it? The only thing I could find is the PDI + PDFlib commercial
combo which I do not have the $1000 to dish out right now...
Any Ideas?
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On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Ryan Smaglik wrote:
> Has anyone found any other means of opening an existing pdf file and adding
> text to it? The only thing I could find is the PDI + PDFlib commercial
> combo which I do not have the $1000 to dish out right now...
> Any Ideas?
While the PDFlib/PDI combo is the only way that's actually been stated
to work... It bears remembering that PDF files are modified Postscript,
and tools to convert PDF to/from Postscript do exist. Perhaps you can
build something by converting the PDF to PS, which should be text you
can read and manipulate, then convert back to PDF. The utilities I'm
thinking of are ps2pdf and pdf2ps, which seem to be part of the
Ghostscript package and ship with most Linux distros...
Hoep this helps!
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C programmer and highly caffeinated mammal.
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Take a look at the iText library--it's a Java library, but you can build
your Java classes and then instantiate them through PHP by executing
them as external apps.
That's what we use to personalize copies of our magazine.
Marco
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On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 21:58, Ryan Smaglik wrote:
> Has anyone found any other means of opening an existing pdf file and adding
> text to it? The only thing I could find is the PDI + PDFlib commercial
> combo which I do not have the $1000 to dish out right now...
>
> Any Ideas?
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Hmm, nope. It's now off and it's still doing that. (I did restart apache)
Morgan Hughes wrote:
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Leif K-Brooks wrote:
Yes, I'm using Apache 1.3.22. Mind giving specifics on what to set
those options to? I'm not very great with configuring apache...
Basically, you can have any number of names resolve to the server's IP
address, via DNS or hosts files (/etc/hosts, c:\windows\hosts, or
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts). This is especially true if
you're doing virtual hosting on the server.
You use ServerName to tell the server what it's DNS name is, so it
doesn't have to look it up. This may be just one of the several names
you can give the server, but it's the one it will reply with, and the
one it will print out on directory indexes and error messages.
As long as you set UseCanonicalName, the server will use with the
ServerName, or whatever it looked up for its IP address. This may be
different to whatever you accessed it by, so it may redirect you to the
same page with the new name. If you turn off UseCanonicalName, the
server will reply with whatever name you used to contact it, which may
solve this problem.
I almost always run with UseCanonicalName off, on my development
servers... For production servers one doesn't usually have that level
of control... If you can turn it off, try that. I'm not sure it'll
help, but it's worth a try.
Good luck!
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Hello,
I'm trying to work out how to do some simple comment threading using
PHP. I've overridden the blockquote tag in CSS so that it only indents
from the left.
At the moment comments are simply displayed in reverse chronological
order as all the replies to a particular post.
I just can't get my head around how to do the threading.
I could add an extra column in the comments table, i.e, "repliedto"
which would contain the comment ID of the comment the user replied to,
but that would seem to require some sort of recursion to check whether
or not a comment has a reply, which I'd rather avoid if I can (mainly
because I don't think I'm good enough to pull it off)
The other idea would be to have a threadID.. hmm...
table thread: threadID, rootCommmentID, replyCommentID
Then perhaps every time a user replies to a comment, it adds a row to
the database?
How can I somehow take the data in the comments and/or thread table and
sort an array of comment data which I can then use to layout the page,
i.e, adding a different level of indent for each "thread"?
ie:
originalpost
-comment1/thread1(reply to post)
--comment2/thread2(reply to comment1)
---comment3/thread3(reply to comment 2)
----comment3/thread4(reply to comment 3)
--comment5/thread1(reply to comment1)
---comment3/thread5(reply to comment 2)
--comment6/thread2(reply to comment1)
-coment7/thread1(reply to post)
Thanks for any help/examples. I really just can't get my head around it.
Beth Gore
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Your best bet would be to look at how some of the other apps do it :)
(taking licensing issues into account that is :)
This might help as well.. not sure how efficient it is on a really long
list, but it works for my little stuff...
http://stuff.adhesivemedia.com/php/heirarchial-sorting.php
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Beth Gore wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to work out how to do some simple comment threading using
> PHP. I've overridden the blockquote tag in CSS so that it only indents
> from the left.
>
> At the moment comments are simply displayed in reverse chronological
> order as all the replies to a particular post.
>
> I just can't get my head around how to do the threading.
>
> I could add an extra column in the comments table, i.e, "repliedto"
> which would contain the comment ID of the comment the user replied to,
> but that would seem to require some sort of recursion to check whether
> or not a comment has a reply, which I'd rather avoid if I can (mainly
> because I don't think I'm good enough to pull it off)
>
> The other idea would be to have a threadID.. hmm...
>
> table thread: threadID, rootCommmentID, replyCommentID
>
> Then perhaps every time a user replies to a comment, it adds a row to
> the database?
>
> How can I somehow take the data in the comments and/or thread table and
> sort an array of comment data which I can then use to layout the page,
> i.e, adding a different level of indent for each "thread"?
>
> ie:
>
> originalpost
> -comment1/thread1(reply to post)
>
> --comment2/thread2(reply to comment1)
>
> ---comment3/thread3(reply to comment 2)
>
> ----comment3/thread4(reply to comment 3)
>
> --comment5/thread1(reply to comment1)
>
> ---comment3/thread5(reply to comment 2)
>
> --comment6/thread2(reply to comment1)
>
> -coment7/thread1(reply to post)
>
> Thanks for any help/examples. I really just can't get my head around it.
>
> Beth Gore
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Ive just been getting myself deep into using sessions.
Sessions are working as it should except for one condition.
Say I log into the site, and the session is started, and I don't do
anything for the next 30 mins, then go back to the site.
Im temporarily logged out, but because the session cookie is still good,
the next page load logs me back in.
How do the people who use sessions handle this type of scenario??
Thanks for any insight you may provide...
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http://www.trini0.org:81/
http://dev.trini0.org:81/
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Hi,
Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 1:57:21 PM, you wrote:
GS> Ive just been getting myself deep into using sessions.
GS> Sessions are working as it should except for one condition.
GS> Say I log into the site, and the session is started, and I don't do
GS> anything for the next 30 mins, then go back to the site.
GS> Im temporarily logged out, but because the session cookie is still good,
GS> the next page load logs me back in.
GS> How do the people who use sessions handle this type of scenario??
GS> Thanks for any insight you may provide...
GS> --
GS> Gerard Samuel
GS> http://www.trini0.org:81/
GS> http://dev.trini0.org:81/
Do your own session timing by storing a last access time in sessions and check
the duration yourself, if it is over the timeout you want delete the session
data and start again. That way the cookie is ok but won't point to any old data.
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regards,
Tom
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I had something similar in mind. Thanks for your input...
Tom Rogers wrote:
Hi,
Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 1:57:21 PM, you wrote:
GS> Ive just been getting myself deep into using sessions.
GS> Sessions are working as it should except for one condition.
GS> Say I log into the site, and the session is started, and I don't do
GS> anything for the next 30 mins, then go back to the site.
GS> Im temporarily logged out, but because the session cookie is still good,
GS> the next page load logs me back in.
GS> How do the people who use sessions handle this type of scenario??
GS> Thanks for any insight you may provide...
GS> --
GS> Gerard Samuel
GS> http://www.trini0.org:81/
GS> http://dev.trini0.org:81/
Do your own session timing by storing a last access time in sessions and check
the duration yourself, if it is over the timeout you want delete the session
data and start again. That way the cookie is ok but won't point to any old data.
--
Gerard Samuel
http://www.trini0.org:81/
http://dev.trini0.org:81/
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We have openings for a couple of experienced web application developers
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I know this is probably a day late and a dollar short but I was curious
myself whether this would be a good outlet to use for reports for a client
and wondered if there was such a thing. After seeing your post I went to
there site and it looks like you have to have the PDI side to be able to
modify existing ones. The $1,000. Was there a reason you thought there was
some other solution?
Larry S. Brown
Dimension Networks, Inc.
(727) 723-8388
-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Smaglik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 5:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] PDF Help Please
I need to figure out by tonight how to:
1. open a .pdf file using php.
2. add text to certain parts of it.
3. save it and output to browser.
4. Then delete the temp file so the process can be done over again.
I have PDFlib but not the $1000 PDI addition....
Please help,
Ryan
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What am I supposed to be doing with my slashes, exactly? Here is my first post:
http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.general&article=126754
I can't get this right. I know I have to esacpe my quotes for my SQL to work.
http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.general&article=126755
PHP addes the slashes all by itself, right? So here is my code:
$sql = 'SELECT id,AU,ST,BT,AT FROM '.$table.' WHERE MATCH
(TNum,YR,AU,ST,SD,BT,BC,AT,PL,PR,PG,LG,AUS,KW,GEO,AN,RB,CO)
AGAINST (\''.$search.'\' IN BOOLEAN MODE) ORDER BY id asc';
http://ccl.flsh.usherb.ca/print/index.html
echo $sql; gives me this. This is what I thought I needed, but it doesn't work either.
SELECT id,AU,ST,BT,AT FROM ccl_main WHERE MATCH
(TNum,YR,AU,ST,SD,BT,BC,AT,PL,PR,PG,LG,AUS,KW,GEO,AN,RB,CO) AGAINST ('\"ready maria\"'
IN BOOLEAN MODE)
ORDER BY id asc
If I copy & paste, it will work as a SQL in PHPMyAdmin. But it won't in PHP.
Can someone point at what I've done wrong? I've tried addslashes($search).
?? John
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This should bump up my popularity here...can you run asp on apache? The
reason I ask is that I understand you can use a php option to hide the fact
that you are running php. This sounds like a good idea to keep people
guessing, but I also want to use .asp extensions and have them parsed for
the php tags. I thought this would be nice if someone wanted to screw with
a site they wouldn't even be trying tools that would apply. However, if you
can't run asp on apache nobody would be fooled. Any thoughts?
Larry S. Brown
Dimension Networks, Inc.
(727) 723-8388
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yes look around for sum thing like chilli soft from sun microsystems, but
it's not free.. i dunno if there is a free one..
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 December 2002 4:13 PM
> To: PHP List
> Subject: [PHP] hiding php
>
>
> This should bump up my popularity here...can you run asp on apache? The
> reason I ask is that I understand you can use a php option to
> hide the fact
> that you are running php. This sounds like a good idea to keep people
> guessing, but I also want to use .asp extensions and have them parsed for
> the php tags. I thought this would be nice if someone wanted to
> screw with
> a site they wouldn't even be trying tools that would apply.
> However, if you
> can't run asp on apache nobody would be fooled. Any thoughts?
>
> Larry S. Brown
> Dimension Networks, Inc.
> (727) 723-8388
>
>
>
>
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So change your Apache server string to say IIS instead. Why tell them you
are using Apache?
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Larry Brown wrote:
> This should bump up my popularity here...can you run asp on apache? The
> reason I ask is that I understand you can use a php option to hide the fact
> that you are running php. This sounds like a good idea to keep people
> guessing, but I also want to use .asp extensions and have them parsed for
> the php tags. I thought this would be nice if someone wanted to screw with
> a site they wouldn't even be trying tools that would apply. However, if you
> can't run asp on apache nobody would be fooled. Any thoughts?
>
> Larry S. Brown
> Dimension Networks, Inc.
> (727) 723-8388
>
>
>
>
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Why not just make up an extension, like your initials (.lsb) or your
business name (.dim or .dni), and set-up apache to pipe all those files
through PHP...??
That way they'll have no clue at all (if used in conjunction with the "hide
PHP" stuff, etc etc).
Justin
on 03/12/02 4:13 PM, Larry Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> This should bump up my popularity here...can you run asp on apache? The
> reason I ask is that I understand you can use a php option to hide the fact
> that you are running php. This sounds like a good idea to keep people
> guessing, but I also want to use .asp extensions and have them parsed for
> the php tags. I thought this would be nice if someone wanted to screw with
> a site they wouldn't even be trying tools that would apply. However, if you
> can't run asp on apache nobody would be fooled. Any thoughts?
>
> Larry S. Brown
> Dimension Networks, Inc.
> (727) 723-8388
>
>
>
Justin French
--------------------
http://Indent.com.au
Web Development &
Graphic Design
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Because its better to have someone waste time trying known hacks for a
platform I don't have than to have the same person not know the platform and
start spending time figuring out what it is right off the bat.
Larry S. Brown
Dimension Networks, Inc.
(727) 723-8388
-----Original Message-----
From: Justin French [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 12:39 AM
To: Larry Brown; PHP List
Subject: Re: [PHP] hiding php
Why not just make up an extension, like your initials (.lsb) or your
business name (.dim or .dni), and set-up apache to pipe all those files
through PHP...??
That way they'll have no clue at all (if used in conjunction with the "hide
PHP" stuff, etc etc).
Justin
on 03/12/02 4:13 PM, Larry Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> This should bump up my popularity here...can you run asp on apache? The
> reason I ask is that I understand you can use a php option to hide the
fact
> that you are running php. This sounds like a good idea to keep people
> guessing, but I also want to use .asp extensions and have them parsed for
> the php tags. I thought this would be nice if someone wanted to screw
with
> a site they wouldn't even be trying tools that would apply. However, if
you
> can't run asp on apache nobody would be fooled. Any thoughts?
>
> Larry S. Brown
> Dimension Networks, Inc.
> (727) 723-8388
>
>
>
Justin French
--------------------
http://Indent.com.au
Web Development &
Graphic Design
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On Tuesday 03 December 2002 15:01, Larry Brown wrote:
> Because its better to have someone waste time trying known hacks for a
> platform I don't have than to have the same person not know the platform
> and start spending time figuring out what it is right off the bat.
In response to your original question, yes you can run asp on apache.
google -> "asp apache" would have told you the answer is less than 1 second.
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> Because its better to have someone waste time trying known hacks for a
> platform I don't have than to have the same person not know the platform
and
> start spending time figuring out what it is right off the bat.
That will not work.. try the following:
telnet yourserve 80
and than type GET / HTTP1.0 and press Enter twice
You'll see the server response which will tell anybody that the server is
Apache and even the operation system it runs at.
Regards,
Serge
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Actually..
You can turn off header responses in both apache and php. Inside the
php.ini you will find:
[ expose_php = Off ]
In the ini-dist its even switched off by default.
In the apache httpd.conf file you can set the following:
[ ServerSignature On ]
I believe you may also find some help in "mod_headers".
In short you can do alot with the configuration to mask what you are
running on what platform. If you are running FreeBSD you can even get it
to emulate the SYN packets (used for TCP operating system fingerprinting)
of alternative OS's (eg: Red Hat [why you would want people to think
you'd run RH, to I dont know] / Solaris).
Questions?
>> Because its better to have someone waste time trying known hacks for a
>> platform I don't have than to have the same person not know the
>> platform and
>> start spending time figuring out what it is right off the bat.
>
> That will not work.. try the following:
>
> telnet yourserve 80
>
> and than type GET / HTTP1.0 and press Enter twice
>
> You'll see the server response which will tell anybody that the server
> is Apache and even the operation system it runs at.
--
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ADAM Software & Systems Engineer
First Creative
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 03 December 2002 07:02
>
> Because its better to have someone waste time trying known hacks for a
> platform I don't have than to have the same person not know
> the platform and
> start spending time figuring out what it is right off the bat.
Well, if you *really* wnat to get hem going, you could send .jsp and .cfm (and any
others you can think of) through PHP as well!!
Cheers!
Mike
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>> [Larry Brown]
>> Because its better to have someone waste time trying known hacks for a
>> platform I don't have than to have the same person not know
>> the platform and
>> start spending time figuring out what it is right off the bat.
> [Mike Ford]
> Well, if you *really* wnat to get hem going, you could send .jsp and
> .cfm (and any others you can think of) through PHP as well!!
If your gong down that road, you could use an arbitrary extension to pipe
through php so that at the simplist level (the URL) the technology isnt
misinformed (eg: .cfm as cold fusion), but at a blank completely, eg:
http://your-server.com/some.script
With .script being parsed by php, but the outside world not knowing what
technology you are using behind the scenes. Very simple, yet very
effective way of blindfolding the end user.
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ADAM Software & Systems Engineer
First Creative
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Here is a basic format for the select statement. All you have to do is take
the names of all the files and put them into an array, such as $filename[].
Then you place the file name between the option element using a for loop or
something similar. You will have to place a unique value that identifies
which file has been selected by using the "value" attribute of the <option>
element (which can be the same value as the array values if you want it to
be). When you press the submit button, you will have a variable called
$file_name (which was created from the "name" attribute of the <select>
element) and it will have the value of whatever option was selected from the
form. Then you can do whatever you want with the value found in $file_name.
Sorry, I'm too lazy to write the code tonight, but you have a basic
framework for what you need. Remember, the below is just pseudo-code, so
make sure you see that it cooperates with PHP by printing it out correctly,
adding the correct sets of quotes, etc. Then use a loop of some kind to list
the option data as you see fit.
If you have an array which has this:
$filename[0] = "filename1.php";
$filename[1] = "filename2.php";
$filename[2] = "filename3.php";
<select name="file_name">
<option value="$filename[0]">$filename[0]</option>
<option value="$filename[1]">$filename[1]</option>
<option value="$filename[2]">$filename[2]</option>
</select>
So if the user picks option #2, he chose $filename[1], whose value is
filename2.php. After the user hits the submit button then $file_name equals
"filename2.php" and you can use that information however you need it. Hope
that didn't confuse you. If you need further help, please let me know. Good
luck...
- Nilaab
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 3:04 PM
> To: PHP List
> Subject: [PHP] Show Folder Contents in Form
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible, and if so how, to get the filenames and last edited
> time/date, then display them in a select field in a form for a user to
> select? I'd need to show them in order of most recently edited to last
> edited. How can this be done if it can?
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen Craton
> http://www.melchior.us
>
> "Life is a gift from God. Wasting it is like destroying a gift
> you got from
> the person you love most." -- http://www.melchior.us
>
>
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Hi,
I'm looking to get a unix timestamp for the first and last day of a month,
given a timestamp.
But so far everything i've come up with has been waaaay too many lines of
trickery -- especially for the last day of the month (which isn't always 31)
Any ideas or snippets of code floating around?
Justin French
--------------------
http://Indent.com.au
Web Development &
Graphic Design
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Thanks for pointing out the obvious !!! -- it's been a long day!
Justin
on 03/12/02 4:52 PM, rija ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> How about date("t") ?
> It's supposed return the last day of a month (28 - 31).
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Justin French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "php" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 4:31 PM
> Subject: [PHP] easiest way to get 1st and last dates of the month?
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking to get a unix timestamp for the first and last day of a month,
>> given a timestamp.
>>
>> But so far everything i've come up with has been waaaay too many lines of
>> trickery -- especially for the last day of the month (which isn't always
> 31)
>>
>> Any ideas or snippets of code floating around?
>>
>>
>> Justin French
>> --------------------
>> http://Indent.com.au
>> Web Development &
>> Graphic Design
>> --------------------
>>
>>
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>
>
>
Justin French
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Web Development &
Graphic Design
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin French [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 03 December 2002 05:31
>
> I'm looking to get a unix timestamp for the first and last
> day of a month,
> given a timestamp.
>
> But so far everything i've come up with has been waaaay too
> many lines of
> trickery -- especially for the last day of the month (which
> isn't always 31)
>
> Any ideas or snippets of code floating around?
In addition to other solutions, this may or may not be appropriate depending
on how you're handling your dates, but on the manual page for mktime is the
following:
> The last day of any given month can be expressed as the "0"
> day of the next month, not the -1 day. Both of the following
> examples will produce the string "The last day in Feb 2000
> is: 29".
>
> $lastday = mktime (0,0,0,3,0,2000);
> echo strftime ("Last day in Feb 2000 is: %d", $lastday);
>
> $lastday = mktime (0,0,0,4,-31,2000);
> echo strftime ("Last day in Feb 2000 is: %d", $lastday);
Cheers!
Mike
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I plan to have my sites using several databases, but there is a common database they
must all use. Obviously I'll have to use "mysql_select_db" each time I change the
database I wish to use. Does this simply select the database
and hold it as a variable until a query is made, or does it load it in a way that
would potentially slow things down?
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At 18:44 02/12/2002 -0500, John W. Holmes wrote:
> Can you help me for this ?
Yeah, I already did:
Perhaps you could throw a clue my way, in that case.
I have an actor database (mySQL again) which has actor dates of birth in
'YYYY-MM-DD' format. I want to be able to query against that ignoring the year:
* give me actors who have birthdays in the next five days
* give me actors whose birthdays fall between two dates (ie: Aries)
I've got pretty much everything else working but this one's *really*
playing with my head. :-( I know I should've employed a db engineer! :)
James.
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On Tuesday 03 December 2002 18:29, James Coates wrote:
> Perhaps you could throw a clue my way, in that case.
> I have an actor database (mySQL again) which has actor dates of birth in
> 'YYYY-MM-DD' format. I want to be able to query against that ignoring the
> year:
>
> * give me actors who have birthdays in the next five days
Assuming the column holding the the birthday is called 'birthday':
a) you have to work out the date in 5 days time:
DATE_ADD(CURRENT_DATE, INTERVAL 5 DAY)
b) You have to transform the birthdays so that they are for the current year
(so instead of 1981-04-01 it becomes 2002-04-01)
CONCAT(YEAR(CURRENT_DATE), '-', MONTH(birthday), '-',
DAYOFMONTH(birthday))
c) Combine both into your query:
SELECT *,
CONCAT(YEAR(CURRENT_DATE), '-', MONTH(birthday), '-',
DAYOFMONTH(birthday)) as current_birthday
FROM table
WHERE current_birthday >= CURRENT_DATE
AND current_birthday <= DATE_ADD(CURRENT_DATE, INTERVAL 5 DAY)
** Untested ** use with extreme caution.
> * give me actors whose birthdays fall between two dates (ie: Aries)
This one is easy, use the BETWEEN clause in your SELECT statement. Consult
manual for details.
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I'm looking to choose a set of library code principally for database
functions. So far checked out Pear, Phplib and adodb which all appear to be
well crafted and easy to use. Irrespective of differences in the actual
functions provided (which of course are well documented) can anyone briefly
compare and contrast them from experience working with 2 or more such
libraries in a production environment in terms of robustness and speed (I
appreciate that speed tests have put adodb top, then phplib and finally
Pear, but have people found such differences to be very noticeable and if so
under what specific circumstances?)
Cheers,
David Eisenhart
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can you do method overloading in php as you can in java?
Javier
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Hi,
I'm relatively new to PHP and mySQL.
I currently have a simple table created within a MySQL database. And I have
a php script that connects to the database, presents a form for the user to
fill in, and then writes that record to the table.
Instead... is it possible, to write to multiple records at once using a
tabular view rather than one record at a time with a columnar view ?
Many Thanks,
Shams
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Hi All.
does anybody know PHPlib's source site?
or may be you can tell me which template engine
is more efficient or usefull or comfortable?
Alexander A. Savenkov
System Administrator
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JSC "Terminal GMB"
http://www.terminalgmb.ru
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Hello all.
I have a script that uses fsockopen() to connect to a remote server/port and
from what i am seeing mod_php4 with apache only allows 1 fsockopen connection
at a time and will que the other fsockopen calls and then process them when
the one before it has closed. Is there a way round this?
What i am after is for somebody to be able to goto the php page which will
then connect via fsockopen to the other server do its send/read stuff and
then produce the output. At the moment if one pages takes a bit of time to
finish the remote connection then all the other apache processes just sit
there and wait for it. The remote server only ever gets 1 connection at a
time even though there are free connections available.
Has anybody else seen this or know of a way around it.
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Regards,
William Bailey.
Pro-Net Internet Services Ltd.
http://www.pro-net.co.uk
http://wb.pro-net.co.uk
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PHP server = Win 2000 SP2/php 4.1.2
SMTP server = Netscape Messenger 4.15 (declare on php.ini)
Why CC and BCC never receive mail ?
The header 'TO' is correct : see CC and BCC !
The header : "From : ..... CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BCC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
I try severals classes I have found (PHP Classes), no good result !
Help please
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On Tuesday 03 December 2002 20:09, Alain ROMERO wrote:
> PHP server = Win 2000 SP2/php 4.1.2
> SMTP server = Netscape Messenger 4.15 (declare on php.ini)
>
> Why CC and BCC never receive mail ?
> The header 'TO' is correct : see CC and BCC !
> The header : "From : ..... CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BCC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Headers need to be separated by "\r\n". But it is much more convenient to use
a ready-made class instead ...
> I try severals classes I have found (PHP Classes), no good result !
... try phpmailer (www.phpclasses.org).
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Zeev Suraski wrote an article on the subject. You can find it at
http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/10007
From: ed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>Hi all. I was wondering if there are resources on the
>web that will help me get an
>idea of the changes and new features that will be in
>php5.
>I'm particularly interested in what's gonna be added
>or changed to php in regards to
>its OOP capabilities.
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Director, Product Marketing
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www.zend.com
Zend - The PHP Company
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Sorry for the semi-ot post, but this is both a flash and php question,
and I'm not a member of any flash lists, so I decided to post it here.
Anyway, I have a game site with virtual pets, virtual shops, user
accounts, etc. One feature request I get alot is flash games. I could
find someone to make them, but I'm not sure about ways of making the
score submitting secure. Any thoughts?
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hi all,
is it possible to somehow have a function which takes a variable number
of arguments (with some kind of key association) which can then be
converted to variables?
i am sick of continually having to go back and add empty parameters to
functions in use.
an example would be..
function test1()
{
extract(func_arg_keys());
print $this;
}
test1($test = 1, $this = 2);
// output
2
i know something similar can be done like this...
function test2()
{
extract($arr);
print $this;
}
test2($arr = array(
"test" => 1,
"this" => 2
));
// output
2
is there another ... better or cleaner way?
having something like this inbuilt into php would appear to be an
excellent to allow functions to easily expand without having to go
revisit already used instances of the function
many thanks
christian
ps sorry if this has been discussed before
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ooops that should be...
function test2($arr)
{
extract($arr);
print $this;
}
test2($arr = array(
"test" => 1,
"this" => 2
));
// output
2
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Hi PHP.
Suggest me which template engine is more popular?
I try select engine for me but I alredy become involved in that
number different version
Alexander A. Savenkov
System Administrator
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
JSC "Terminal GMB"
http://www.terminalgmb.ru
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