php-general Digest 29 Aug 2009 13:06:00 -0000 Issue 6312

2009-08-29 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 29 Aug 2009 13:06:00 - Issue 6312 Topics (messages 297453 through 297472): Re: Problem outputting MySQL Date field 297453 by: Jim Lucas Re: [PHP-WIN] Re: [PHP] Problem outputting MySQL Date field 297454 by: Keith Davis 297455 by: John Meyer Re:

Re: [PHP] Re: Best way to test for form submission?

2009-08-29 Thread J DeBord
I've heard stories like this before, but never encountered it myself. I forgot to mention that it is a good idea to give your submit buttons a value attribute. Regardless of how the form is submitted, you should then have a value for ['submit']. Reminding the user that they must do anything

Re: [PHP] Converting URL's to hyperlinks.

2009-08-29 Thread Eric
- Original Message - From: John Meyer johnme...@pueblocomputing.com To: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 1:56 AM Subject: [PHP] Converting URL's to hyperlinks. What sort of function would I need if I wanted to convert those URLs from plain jane text? You

Re: [PHP] File Open Prompt?

2009-08-29 Thread Ralph Deffke
are u shure, u dont send anything out before u send the headers? even one space would be too much. ralph_def...@yahoo.de Dan Shirah mrsqua...@gmail.com wrote in message news:a16da1ff0908281328k641ea332v25d887c4de5b3...@mail.gmail.com... You will need to add some headers to the page to popup

Re: [PHP] File Open Prompt?

2009-08-29 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 09:03 +0200, Ralph Deffke wrote: are u shure, u dont send anything out before u send the headers? even one space would be too much. ralph_def...@yahoo.de Dan Shirah mrsqua...@gmail.com wrote in message

Re: [PHP] Re: Best way to test for form submission?

2009-08-29 Thread Nisse Engström
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:50:41 +0800, Keith wrote: I don't know why or in what condition that pressing [ENTER] will not submit the whole form include the $_POST['submit']. http://www.alanflavell.org.uk/www/formquestion.html http://www.alanflavell.org.uk/www/#Tips /Nisse -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] File Open Prompt?

2009-08-29 Thread Ralph Deffke
even the .tif is valid or not, the file should be downloaded Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote in message news:1251530173.27899.135.ca...@localhost... On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 09:03 +0200, Ralph Deffke wrote: are u shure, u dont send anything out before u send the headers? even one

Re: [PHP] Calling extension function from another

2009-08-29 Thread leledumbo
extension A has function a, extension B has function b. How can I make b calls a? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Calling-extension-function-from-another-tp25185839p25200892.html Sent from the PHP - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- PHP General Mailing

RE: [PHP] Re: Best way to test for form submission?

2009-08-29 Thread Warren Vail
To test a form I usually send the form contents to a php file that contains the following; foreach($_POST as $nm = $val) echo _POST[.$nm.] [.$val.]br; foreach($_GET as $nm = $val) echo _GET[.$nm.] [.$val.]br; Checkboxes and radio buttons only send their value if the control is checked. You can

[PHP] Re: Best way to test for form submission?

2009-08-29 Thread O. Lavell
Shawn McKenzie wrote: Adam Jimerson wrote: This question might give away the fact that I am a php noob, but I am looking for the best way to test for form submission in PHP. [..] Just to throw it into the mix: if(!empty($_POST)) for a general test of whether any form was posted. There

Re: [PHP] File Open Prompt?

2009-08-29 Thread Eric
- Original Message - From: Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk To: Ralph Deffke ralph_def...@yahoo.de Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 3:16 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] File Open Prompt? On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 09:03 +0200, Ralph Deffke wrote: are u shure, u

Re: [PHP] File Open Prompt?

2009-08-29 Thread Eric
- Original Message - From: Eric blueray2...@yahoo.com To: a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk; Ralph Deffke ralph_def...@yahoo.de Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] File Open Prompt? - Original Message - From: Ashley Sheridan

Re: [PHP] Calling extension function from another

2009-08-29 Thread J DeBord
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:14 AM, leledumbo leledumbo_c...@yahoo.co.idwrote: extension A has function a, extension B has function b. How can I make b calls a? What is an extension? -- View this message in context:

Re: [PHP] Calling extension function from another

2009-08-29 Thread Stuart
2009/8/28 leledumbo leledumbo_c...@yahoo.co.id: Is it possible to call a function that resides in an extension from another extension? It's certainly possible but I've never needed to do it so I don't know how. I suggest you ask this question on the PHP Internals list. -Stuart --

Re: [PHP] Re: Best way to test for form submission?

2009-08-29 Thread tedd
At 5:33 PM +0100 8/28/09, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 12:28 -0400, tedd wrote: Ash: What catches me every once in a while is using variable names that are the same as $_SESSION indexes, such as: $session_name = $_SESSION['session_name']; Believe it or not, that

Re: [PHP] Re: Best way to test for form submission?

2009-08-29 Thread tedd
At 5:51 PM +0100 8/28/09, Ashley Sheridan wrote: I usually just tend to use the $_REQUEST array instead of $_POST or $_GET. You get the benefit of being able to work with both arrays (as well as $_SESSION and $_COOKIE) without any drawbacks. Thanks, Ash Ash: Drawbacks are funny things. Not

RE: [PHP] Re: Best way to test for form submission?

2009-08-29 Thread tedd
At 1:18 AM -0700 8/29/09, Warren Vail wrote: To test a form I usually send the form contents to a php file that contains the following; foreach($_POST as $nm = $val) echo _POST[.$nm.] [.$val.]br; foreach($_GET as $nm = $val) echo _GET[.$nm.] [.$val.]br; Checkboxes and radio buttons only send

RE: [PHP] Date Comparison

2009-08-29 Thread tedd
At 1:01 PM -0400 8/28/09, David Stoltz wrote: Hey Stuart - RTFM yourselfI did read it, and obviously misunderstood... I'm really sorry to bother you. I thought that was what a listserv like this was for - to ask questions... I'll try not to ask questions I should know the answer to next

Re: [PHP] Re: Best way to test for form submission?

2009-08-29 Thread Robert Cummings
Warren Vail wrote: To test a form I usually send the form contents to a php file that contains the following; foreach($_POST as $nm = $val) echo _POST[.$nm.] [.$val.]br; foreach($_GET as $nm = $val) echo _GET[.$nm.] [.$val.]br; Checkboxes and radio buttons only send their value if the control

Re: [PHP] Re: Best way to test for form submission?

2009-08-29 Thread Tom Worster
On 8/29/09 9:29 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: At 1:18 AM -0700 8/29/09, Warren Vail wrote: To test a form I usually send the form contents to a php file that contains the following; foreach($_POST as $nm = $val) echo _POST[.$nm.] [.$val.]br; foreach($_GET as $nm = $val) echo

[PHP] Re: Login should not allow users to login if the application is logged in with the same login credentials

2009-08-29 Thread John Pillion
Balasubramanyam A knowledge.wea...@gmail.com wrote in message news:893c34ce0908270424n2d81596dq8529f13818dc9...@mail.gmail.com... Hello, I've written a simple application, where users need to login to access the features of the application. I want to develop login system such that, if user

[PHP] starting session with AJAX

2009-08-29 Thread John Pillion
Ok, so I've got an authentication/login form that is powered by ajax. The user logs in, is authenticated, and the last step is to start a session and save the necessary information in the $_SESSION vars. For some reason, it appears (and almost of makes sense) that the session that is started via

RE: [PHP] user permissions

2009-08-29 Thread John Pillion
In this mechanism, does a role differ significantly from a group? I have to admin a CRM system that has both roles /and/ groups, and it always seems a bit excessive. But maybe there's some benefit to roles, as such, that I'm not seeing. Thanks, Ben [JP] As described, a role appears to

RE: [PHP] user permissions

2009-08-29 Thread John Pillion
As described, a role appears to act essentially the same as a group - a predefined set of permissions that can be assigned to multiple users (as opposed to a set of permissions unique to the user). [JP] I should say, the logic of a role is essentially the same as the logic behind a group. It

[PHP] RE: starting session with AJAX

2009-08-29 Thread John Pillion
I found two small errors in the isLoggedIn(), which are corrected below. They don't have any effect on the issue at hand though. ** function isLoggedIn($debug = 0){ global $COOKIE_NAME; // if there is an active session. if (isset($_SESSION) $_SESSION['sessDBID'] !=

[PHP] RE: starting session with AJAX

2009-08-29 Thread John Pillion
Nevermind. It was a simple mistake - I had session_start() on the page the ajax was calling from, but not at the beginning of the php script it was calling to.

[PHP] Re: PHP Crash in file_get_contents

2009-08-29 Thread Ralph Deffke
on a regulary base I read the docs even on functions I know, I just read about the funstion u use and the doc says this: Note: If you're opening a URI with special characters, such as spaces, you need to encode the URI with urlencode(). did u try to avoid the problem by using urlencode ? just a

Re: [PHP] Converting URL's to hyperlinks.

2009-08-29 Thread Nisse Engström
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:22:20 -0600, LinuxManMikeC wrote: a href=?php echo $url; ?click here/a *Groan* Throw any random web site to an HTML validator and you're likely to see this kind of slop all over. The correct solution is of course: $u = htmlspecialchars ($url); echo a href=\$u\$u/a;

[PHP] What is the best way to process live data?

2009-08-29 Thread Paul Halliday
For those of you that remember (not likely but anyway) I am working on some code that splits CLF records and feeds them into a database. What I need to do now is automate it. So what I have is a program (urlsnarf) that redirects its output (simple cmd file.txt) to a file. The script currently

Re: [PHP] Converting URL's to hyperlinks.

2009-08-29 Thread LinuxManMikeC
2009/8/29 Nisse Engström news.nospam.0ixbt...@luden.se: On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:22:20 -0600, LinuxManMikeC wrote: a href=?php echo $url; ?click here/a *Groan* Throw any random web site to an HTML validator and you're likely to see this kind of slop all over. The correct solution is of

Re: [PHP] What is the best way to process live data?

2009-08-29 Thread LinuxManMikeC
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul Hallidaypaul.halli...@gmail.com wrote: For those of you that remember (not likely but anyway) I am working on some code that splits CLF records and feeds them into a database. What I need to do now is automate it. So what I have is a program (urlsnarf)

Re: [PHP] Converting URL's to hyperlinks.

2009-08-29 Thread Nisse Engström
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:19:05 -0600, LinuxManMikeC wrote: As for your more elaborate example, I'm sure that heredoc will validate nicely. It does. and rethink your code so you aren't processing the same data over and over again. I see this kind of slop all over. Touché! Would you believe

Re: [PHP] Converting URL's to hyperlinks.

2009-08-29 Thread LinuxManMikeC
2009/8/29 Nisse Engström news.nospam.0ixbt...@luden.se: On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:19:05 -0600, LinuxManMikeC wrote: As for your more elaborate example, I'm sure that heredoc will validate nicely. It does. Perhaps you haven't met a few good friends of mine. Their names are html, head, and

Re: [PHP] Converting URL's to hyperlinks.

2009-08-29 Thread Nisse Engström
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:47:47 -0600, LinuxManMikeC wrote: 2009/8/29 Nisse Engström news.nospam.0ixbt...@luden.se: On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:19:05 -0600, LinuxManMikeC wrote: As for your more elaborate example, I'm sure that heredoc will validate nicely. It does. Perhaps you haven't met a

[PHP] OpenCart

2009-08-29 Thread HallMarc Websites
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