Re: [PHP] MacOSX / php.ini newbie question

2002-06-04 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Did a php.ini-dist or php.ini-recommended file come with your installation files? Locate those, edit them accordingly, and save it as php.ini in /usr/lib/ ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Verdon Vaillancourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP] PHP_AUTH_USER

2002-06-04 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
I have a bunch of pages on my site inside an apache .htaccess protected directory. After visitors have logged in I am on part of my site I need to find out which user it is that has logged in. I thought this information was stored in the $PHP_AUTH_USER variable, but when I print this variable

Re: [PHP] multisite hit counter, includin session statistics

2002-06-04 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
img src=http://www.yourserver.com/image.php?ID=xxx; Do what you need to do with the PHP code as far as keeping a count of visitors, etc, and then create an image header and send it the data for a 1x1 pixel transparant image. Got a question for everyone else, b/c I'm not sure on this. If I have

Re: [PHP] PHP_AUTH_USER

2002-06-04 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
. Holmes' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fifield, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 12:19 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP_AUTH_USER Correction Redhat7 :-) Got it working thanks for all the help! -Original Message- From: 1LT John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PHP] multisite hit counter, includin session statistics

2002-06-04 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
No problem bud, sorry I tried to help. Anyhow, this does work, you just do not know how to write image.php so that it returns the correct data for an image counter. maybe i misunderstood your first email, but I thought you were looking for a hidden way of keeping track of page hit counts and

Re: [PHP] Stopping multiple votes by IP

2002-06-05 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
The only good way to do it is with authentication. Have the user log in and then allow them one vote. Any other method is going to be open to cheating, so be aware of it. If the poll is important and the results need to be as exact as possible, use some form of authentication. If it's just a

Re: [PHP] Unexpected addslashes/stripslashes-behaviour?

2002-06-05 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
What are your settings for magic_quotes? magic_quotes_gpc magic_quotes_runtime in your php.ini. magic_quotes_gpc will automagically addslashes() to incoming GET, POST, and COOKIE data. So you don't need to do it yourself. The defaults to On. magic_quotes_runtime will autmagically addslashes()

Re: [PHP] multisite hit counter, includin session statistics

2002-06-05 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
in a new window, then the session will not exist and they will be considered a new user. Have you tried anything so far? ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Martin Smetak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 1LT John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 6

Re: [PHP] multisite hit counter, includin session statistics

2002-06-05 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
I said try it...I'm not guaranteeing it works. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Martin Smetak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 1LT John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 7:56 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] multisite hit counter, includin session

Re: [PHP] Crontab

2002-06-05 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Program it into the homepage to run once a day. As long as you get one hit per day, then it'll run. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Mauricio Cuenca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 9:15 AM Subject: [PHP] Crontab Hello, I need to

Re: [PHP] days between two timestamps

2002-06-05 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Since those look like MySQL timestamps, I would suggest you do it in your query. SELECT TO_DAYS(column1) - TO_DAYS(column2) AS Difference FROM table Adapt to your needs. Explain what your overall mission is and there is probably a query that'll return just that. If you want to use PHP, format

Re: [PHP] OT cron/perl/php..

2002-06-05 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
You already have the php script, so use that. modify it so that it does exactly what you need on your system, so that when you call it up through www.youdomain.com/script.php, it does what you need without any user interaction or producing any output to the screen (email or log file is okay).

Re: [PHP] Stopping multiple votes by IP

2002-06-05 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Subject: Re: [PHP] Stopping multiple votes by IP -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then 1LT John W. Holmes declared The only good way to do it is with authentication. Have the user log in and then allow them one vote. Any other method is going to be open to cheating

Re: [PHP] Sessions question (-enable-trans-sid)

2002-06-05 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
If you compile it with --enable-trans-sid, then PHP will use cookies when they are available and if they are not, it'll append the SID to links and forms. Basically, it's automatic. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Jeff Field [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [PHP] Passing variable to new page and pulling the rest of info from database

2002-06-05 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
SELECT * FROM table WHERE ID = $_GET['ID'] Then create a page to display all of that information. Look at the mysql functions and learn some PHP. We can't help you without knowing what's in your table and how you want it displayed, etc... So keep learning and reading and you'll figure out how

Re: [PHP] Finding out how a variable was registered

2002-06-05 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Use $HTTP_POST_VARS['var'] instead of $var and you will know it comes from post. Or $HTTP_GET_VARS['var'] if you want it from GET (the URL). Or use the superglobals like someone else mentioned if you have the latest PHP version. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Joe

Re: [PHP] Passing variable to new page and pulling the rest of info from database

2002-06-05 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
PROTECTED] Voice: 201-462-2149 Fax: 201-288-1515 -Original Message- From: 1LT John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 4:29 PM To: Igor Portnoy; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Passing variable to new page and pulling the rest of info from

Re: [PHP] Sessions question (-enable-trans-sid)

2002-06-05 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
I guess PHP just can't tell that cookies are enabled. I'm sure the method isn't full proof. Your sessions get through either way, so what's the big deal? ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Dan Hardiker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 4:50

Re: [PHP] multiple selects and $_POST['vars']

2002-06-06 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
form method=post action=blah.php select multiple name=bleh option value=11/option option value=22/option option value=33/option option value=44/option option value=55/option /select /form form method=post action=blah.php select multiple name=bleh[]

Re: [PHP] FW: NEED HELP (passing variable to new page)

2002-06-06 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Asking twice doesn't help, bud. It's just going to piss people off. If someone has an answer they'll let you know, otherwise look for other resources. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Igor Portnoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Thursday,

Re: [PHP] HTML or PHP problem? Please check this ...

2002-06-10 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Can you do the strtoupper() in your query, using the appropriate Oracle function? Maybe it'll handle the different character sets better. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 3:07 PM Subject: [PHP] HTML or PHP

Re: [PHP] storing html in a db

2002-06-10 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Look at the output buffering section in the manual. Read the user comments. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.outcontrol.php ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: W. Enserink [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 3:34 PM Subject: [PHP] storing html

Re: [PHP] Re: Can a php script be placed within a stylesheet?

2002-06-10 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
The PHP parsing would take place before the file is sent to the browser. The CSS goes into effect when it hits the browser, on the client side, so it wouldn't matter. All the client cares is that there was a CSS file sent, it doesn't care if it was text or created by PHP or whatever. That's how

Re: [PHP] Determine if variable is set

2002-06-11 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Just note that REQUEST accounts for COOKIE, POST, and GET data...the settings for which overrides which are in php.ini. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Analysis Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PHP List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 10:25 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [PHP] Postgres query problem

2002-06-12 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Double check that you have a.title, and not just title by itself. Two tables must have a title column, so make sure you specify which one you mean. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 12:40 AM

Re: [PHP] checking some presence lines continuously using php

2002-06-12 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
I don't understand what you want at all, but you can use fopen() to open your file and read it from there... www.php.net/fopen ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Uma Shankari T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PHP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 6:46 AM Subject: [PHP]

Re: [PHP] Help with forms data please

2002-06-12 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Make the target of the form a blank window. process the form, then generate some javascript to close the window. original window remains unchanged. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Bret L Conard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 7:33 AM

Re: [PHP] bulk mail()

2002-06-12 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Do it just like you would with prev/next links. Use LIMIT in your query to get out 50 or so at a time. Loop through them, sending mail, then use header to automatically redirect to the next page, incrementing the number to use in LIMIT. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From:

Re: [PHP] Newbie ? on sessions

2002-06-13 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
You shouldn't have to store the sessionID. It's going to be new each time someone comes to the site, anyhow. Once the log in, you should know who they are. Save the tracking information you want in your database and pull it out based on their username. You have to use a database or a file to

Re: [PHP] session variables in OOP....

2002-06-14 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
If you want to do it right, don' t output anything, obviously. Instead of using ECHO, assign all output to a variable within your class. Then, at the end of the processing, after everything is done, echo out that variable (which will contain the entire page). Then you can set cookies, sessions,

Re: [PHP] Editor

2002-06-14 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Google?? http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF8oe=UTF8q=HTML-Kit ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Adrian Greeman [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Editor URL?? :) * * Cal Evans

Re: [PHP] Beginning / and end of word / in eregi_replace

2002-06-14 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
You have your answer, just use this: $outstring = eregi_replace(badword,goodword,$stringtocheck); It'll replace it whether it's at the beginning or end of a string, embedded in a word, or by itself. Isn't that what you want? Actually, it'd be better and faster to just use str_replace() instead

Re: [PHP] protect code or something like..

2002-06-14 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Kind of. You can have it include() or fopen() something from another server and do whatever. But you have to realize that the code is still open on their page, so they can bypass or just comment out whatever you are trying to do. Search the archives, too. Wasn't there a huge discussion on this

Re: [PHP] Passing variables from one page to another

2002-06-14 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Plain and simple...you have four options: COOKIE, GET, POST, SESSION. So, load all of your data into a cookie or load it into hidden elements in a form and submit it somewhere... Okay? ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP] ucwords() usage QUICKIE

2002-06-14 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
You pass a string to the function and it returns a string with each word starting with an uppercase. $string = hello world; $new_string = ucwords($string); echo $new_string; // Displays 'Hello World' ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Daniel Negron/KBE [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [PHP] row pointer

2002-06-14 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
So you just want to insert a bunch of words into the table if they aren't there already? Why not make the column unique and just insert them. Ignore the warnings about duplicates... ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Zac Hillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: [PHP] sessions and temporary tables

2002-06-18 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Temporary tables only exist for the duration of your script, with or without using mysql_pconnect(). If you want a MySQL table to remain, then don't make it temporary. Make it a regular table and then create a cron script that goes through and deletes tables that are more than X minutes/hours

Re: [PHP] How do I hide download link ...

2002-06-18 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
I thought we answered this question already! It's simple. On your login page or whatever, you start a session and set a variable saying that the user is logged in. ? session_start(); //check username and password //if good... $_SESSION['logged_in'] = 1; ? Now, the most secure way to protect

Re: [PHP] Sessions : see also Tracking file downloads

2002-06-18 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
You can do whatever you want, of course. Sessions just make your code easier and portable and more people will be able to understand what you're talking about. Sessions are just a way to pass a variable between pages. You assign a variable to the session, and you retrieve it on any other page

Re: [PHP] Tracking file downloads

2002-06-18 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
See my posting I just made about How do I hide the download link ... You'll want to use a similar method with the download.php. You may not have to check for a session, but you can use the scirpt to keep track of what file was downloaded, increment it's counter in a database, or send an email,

Re: [PHP] PHP to Excel?

2002-06-18 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
The layout on that site is so annoying. Yeah, it looks pretty, but it's annoying. It's PHP2Excel BiffWriter that your looking for on that site. Should be one of the topics when you expand the central dot (after you close the news' popup). annoying... Like someone else said, I just use HTML and

Re: [PHP] server problems

2002-06-18 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Are you sure display_errors is turned ON in php.ini on the new server? Do the two servers have different settings for register_globals in php.ini? ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Kris Vose [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:12 AM

Re: [PHP] PHP to Excel?

2002-06-18 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:47 AM To: Martin Lucas; 'Chad Day'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP to Excel? The layout on that site is so annoying. Yeah, it looks pretty, but it's annoying. It's PHP2Excel BiffWriter that your looking

Re: [PHP] Crontabs

2002-06-18 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Like someone else said, this applies if PHP is compiled as a cgi and you can run it from the command line. If it's a module, you have to load up your page through a web browser to run it. So for your command, you can use lynx --dump http://www.domain.com/whatever.php providing you have lynx

Re: [PHP] Forum with php

2002-06-19 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
http://phorum.org - Original Message - From: Martin Thoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 5:43 AM Subject: [PHP] Forum with php Hello! I saw a lot of forums (or boards) which looks almost the same and they are done in php. Is there a free

Re: [PHP] Date Comparsion

2002-06-20 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
I never saw the original post, but you'll want to use the TO_DAYS() function in your query. SELECT TO_DAYS(leave_to) - TO_DAYS(leave_from) AS Num_Days FROM your_table ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Lazor, Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Jack' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

Re: [PHP] Speed tests? RAM usage displays?

2002-06-20 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Is there any way to determine script's memory usage? Depends on your web server. There is a way in apache. Rasmus answered this same question for me a couple weeks ago, look through the archives. I saw an option in IIS to put memory usage into the logs, that may work, too. What about

Re: [PHP] Anyone have slides for an Intro to PHP Class?

2002-06-22 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Sorry, I should've mentioned I had looked over those. I may take bits and pieces from those. Was just wondering if anyone had anything else. something that follows the manual, for example? This is a variable, this is an IF loop, this is how you do a file upload, etc... ---John Holmes... -

Re: [PHP] UPDATE mysql

2002-06-22 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
It's correct for PHP, but there's no telling what MySQL is actually recieving. Are you sure all of those variables have values?? Yeah? Are you really sure?? Use mysql_error() with your query. $result = mysql_query(UPDATE ...) or die(Error in update: . mysql_error()); ---John Holmes... -

Re: [PHP] Error(Newbie)

2002-06-22 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
$query = INSERT INTO `stats` (`vid`, `id`, `vn`, `time`, `host`, `referrer`, `browser`) VALUES ('', '$id', '$_COOKIE ['tececo_stats']', '$time', '$_SERVER['REMOTE_HOST']', '$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']', '$_SERVER ['HTTP_USER_AGENT']'); ; Try using $_COOKIE[tececo_stats] instead...without the

Re: [PHP] getaddrinfo failed

2002-06-22 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
So what's on /usr/home/pagon/www/index.php on line 497 at a few lines before it? ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Pag [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 9:50 PM Subject: [PHP] getaddrinfo failed Sorry, i sent this to the list a few days

Re: [PHP] Error(Newbie)

2002-06-22 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
$query = INSERT INTO `stats` (`vid`, `id`, `vn`, `time`, `host`, `referrer`, `browser`) VALUES ('', '$id', '$_COOKIE ['tececo_stats']', '$time', '$_SERVER['REMOTE_HOST']', '$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']', '$_SERVER ['HTTP_USER_AGENT']'); ; I hope you are using addslashes on your $_COOKIE and

Re: [PHP] UPDATE mysql

2002-06-22 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
$query = UPDATE $table SET field1='$var1' WHERE id='$id'; I really hope you don't have register_globals on, or you are validating the value of $table before you run this kind of query, otherwise your query is open up to an attack to update any table in the database... $table = admin SET

Re: [PHP] Error(Newbie)

2002-06-23 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
info from? Thanks, JJ Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tececo.com BTW I have fixed the error now. - Original Message - From: 1LT John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Error(Newbie) $query

Re: [PHP] real time php

2002-06-24 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
I have a program in php, with access at mysql database. The problem is, my users have to access Refresh button anytime when they want to see real time values in database. How to make a function for refreshing values in php pages, without pressing Refresh button. What must i read? PHP can't

Re: [PHP] Time Delay using phpscript

2002-06-24 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Take a look at this page, it uses flush to stagger the results as php processes it. pretty cool http://www.massassi.com/bTemplate/benchmarks/benchmark_var_assign.php?i=50 I'd be interested to hear from other people if that works in other browsers. It had a nice effect when I looked at it in

Re: [PHP] php JavaScript

2002-06-24 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Can you please explain what you're doing more? PHP and Javascript are completely different. PHP happens first, on the web server, to create code to send to the browser. The browser then interprets this code, executes any javascript, etc, and displays the page. You can't have both at the same

Re: [PHP] Sybase Fetch Array Question

2002-06-24 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Can someone let me know when you call sybase_fetch_array that the internal row pointer of the sybase result is increased. So that subsequent calls using sybase_fetch_array will return a result 1 more than the previous result return? Hey, I just wanted to let you know that when you call

Re: [PHP] Lost, need help debuggin....

2002-06-24 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Do you have display_errors ON in your php.ini ?? ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Chuck PUP Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PHP General [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 3:24 PM Subject: [PHP] Lost, need help debuggin Hi, I am trying to debugging this

Re: [PHP] Lost, need help debuggin....

2002-06-24 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
PROTECTED] To: 1LT John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Chuck PUP Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PHP General [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Lost, need help debuggin Not sure I am on my laptop, an iBook running php/apache. So I am not sure where php.ini is. Chuck

Re: [PHP] Stumped.

2002-06-24 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Are there any other reasons why header() would fail while output buffering is off. What's the error message? It tells you exactly what file and line number started the output, so that's where you should look... ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] [php] How to get request url string and server hostname

2002-06-25 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
A combination of $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], and $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] should get you what you want. Check out a phpinfo() page for more variables, or do a print_r($_SERVER); ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Harriet Xing [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [PHP] php not remembering a session

2002-06-25 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Put a valid path in your session.save_path in php.ini. Something like c:\windows\temp or whatever... ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Phil Schwarzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 1:54 PM Subject: [PHP] php not remembering a session

Re: [PHP] forms question

2002-06-25 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
I'm busy with an order form in php. How would I display a text field only if a checkbox is checked. The reason for this is that if the user selects the product in the form and, how would I get to display the quantity field corresponding to that checkbox

Re: [PHP] Security problem?

2002-06-25 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
On Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 03:46 PM, Peter wrote: When you have the standard $link = mysql_connect(localhost,username,secretpassword); Would it not be possible for someone to use PHP from another server to download your source and find out your MySQL details including password?

Re: [PHP] sessions are remembered for one page, then forgotten

2002-06-26 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Do you have session_start() on each page? ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Phil Schwarzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:31 AM Subject: [PHP] sessions are remembered for one page, then forgotten I'm still having a little

Re: [PHP] grabbing content of a web page...

2002-06-27 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
fopen('http://www.yahoo.com,r;); ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Kelly Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 3:53 PM Subject: [PHP] grabbing content of a web page... Howdy, I know there has to be a way to grab output of an url on

Re: [PHP] Newbie problem - Slashes

2002-06-27 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
You're fault. :) Remember that quotes are used to tell the beginning and end of a string. So if you are using a to mean the beginning of the string, then there can't be any within the string itself. If there are any , they need to be changed to \, which means they are escaped.

Re: [PHP] PHP Session Idle Time

2002-06-27 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
How do you define idle time in a stateless environment?? How do you know if it just takes the person 20 minutes to read the page, or they are idle? All you can do is set a time when the page was requested, and when the next page is requested, if it's been over XX minutes, they were idle too

Re: [PHP] Keeping Secrets in PHP Files

2002-06-28 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
From: Jonathan Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let's say I am in a shared server environment the provider does NOT have safe_mode turned on. In that case, it seems to me that it is insecure to keep secrets (e.g., DB passwords) in a PHP file that is executed by the server. I say this because

Re: [PHP] Searching within a range

2002-06-28 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
I want to search within a result from a query A specific range (price) If that's what you really want, then you need to save the results of your first query into a table that you can re-query at a later date. Run a cron job to delete old tables. If your query is: SELECT * FROM main WHERE price

Re: [PHP] Searching within a range

2002-06-28 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
From: Jason Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] select * from table where price 0 AND price 50; SELECT * FROM table WHERE price BETWEEN 0 AND 50; Same thing, easier to read (assuming MySQL, don't know if it works on others). ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] Keeping Secrets in PHP Files

2002-06-28 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Thanks for the reply. But changing the ground read permission of the PHP files wouldn't help, either, would it? Because the other users who have web sites can just create a PHP file that reads my PHP files from one of their pages (which would be running in group websecret). Seems like

Re: [PHP] Reading MSWORD Doc File Comments

2002-07-01 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
There are some programs out there that'll take a word document and extract all of the text from it. Good for indexing database or making summaries. I can't remember the name of any, but search the usual Google, sourceforge, hotscripts.com, etc.. ---John Holmes... - Original Message -

Re: [PHP] mySQL time = year 2038 [HELP]

2002-07-01 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Can you post some example code. I know that 2038 is the maximum for a MySQL date column, but I don't know how you'd be setting it to that... ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 12:38 PM Subject: [PHP]

Re: [PHP] Displaying the table records along with check boxes.

2002-07-03 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
The code to create a check box is: input type=checkbox name=whatever value=something HTH, ---John Holmes... PS: It might help if you actually try to do something yourself and then ask a question. We're not here to feed you code. Anyways, a way you might approach it is to name all of your

Re: [PHP] Submitting Form Data

2002-07-03 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Put a form around each section, so only the data in the form will be submitted. You can have more than one form on a page, and only the form containing the submit button that's pressed will be sent, the others will be ignored/dropped/whatever... ---John Holmes... - Original Message -

Re: [PHP] whats wrong with this function

2002-07-03 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Yes, your problem is it doesn't work. HTH, ---John Holmes... PS: Think that's a worthless answer? Well...same for your question... - Original Message - From: Adrian Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 8:47 AM Subject: [PHP] whats wrong with

Re: [PHP] Simple Example of Passing on a file through a PHP script

2002-07-03 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
$fd = fopen($filename,'r'); fpassthru($fd); or readfile($filename); Saves you an fopen call, same result... ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] addslahes and magic quote woes

2002-07-03 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Just pick one, and use only one. If you have magic_quotes ON, then you don't need addslashes, etc. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Jean-Christian Imbeault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 9:40 AM Subject: [PHP] addslahes and magic quote

Re: [PHP] addslahes and magic quote woes

2002-07-03 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
From: Jean-Christian Imbeault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Erik Price wrote: Turn off magic_quotes and do addslashes() explicitly every time you do a database insert. Then make sure you always stripslash() data returned from a database query. You don't need to strip slashes from data coming out

Re: [PHP] $_POST into a formatted string, help!

2002-07-03 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
- Original Message - From: Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] foreach ($_POST as $key = $val) { $str .= $key=$val; } Make sure you define $str = ; before it enters the loop, othewise you'll throw some warnings if your error reporting level is set high. It's because $str is

Re: [PHP] Solution to register_globals=off existing code???

2002-07-03 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Or just use import_request_variables(). You can do all of them at once. It's only in PHP 4.1.0, though. www.php.net/import_request_variables ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Kevin Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-general [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 2:33

Re: [PHP] parsing of SSI scripts.

2002-07-03 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Look into exec() or virtual(). If the script is run over the web, you can just do a fopen(http://www.example.com/script.php;); and read the result. You can do the same for any other script that's run through the web b/c you'll receive it's parsed output, not the source. ---John Holmes... -

Re: [PHP] parsing of SSI scripts.

2002-07-03 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
. In article 007501c222c5$2014f020$2f7e3393@TB447CCO3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1lt John W. Holmes) wrote: I have a perl script that outputs HTML data. How would I do to execute that script from within a php-script and have it's output parsed by -apache-. I'm not talking about eval

Re: [PHP] parsing of SSI scripts.

2002-07-03 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
It seems that PHP is much more powerful and would completely replace the need for SSI. Heh...wow...the understatement of the century.. :) Glad you figured that out. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Warning: Undefined Index?

2002-07-03 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
// Message on my web page Warning: Undefined index: mode in /var/www/html/inc/header.php on line 3 // My Script Here 1: ?php 2: // These are globals on every page 3: $mode = $_GET['mode']; 4: $si_uuid = $_GET['si_uuid']; 5: $po_uuid = $_GET['po_uuid']; PHP is warning you that 'mode' is

Re: [PHP] I am out of pleases now get me off this fun list!

2002-07-09 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
My favorite part is that he requests a read receipt for every one of these messages. I hope everyone is sending him one of those, too, to clutter up his email even more. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Zac Hillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Erik Hegreberg [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: [PHP] mysql question

2002-07-11 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
How about SELECT * FROM table WHERE $current_shot BETWEEN start_shot AND end_shot Also, I hope you are validating $current_shot if register globals is on, to make sure it's really just an integer and not some extra SQL that'll allow someone to view your entire table/database... ---John

Re: [PHP] ' giving problem while inserting in table.

2002-07-12 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
You DON'T have to use stripslashes() on data coming out of a database. The slashes were there to escape certain characters so they could make it into the database. The actual slashes do not go into the database. If they are in your case, then you're using addslashes() twice, somehow. The only

Re: [PHP] Re: gd -1:image resolution 2:font quality

2002-07-12 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
The GIMP is free Man, if I had a nickel for every time I heard that... ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] PHP/MySQL -- Date/Time Confusion

2002-07-12 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
You've got all kinds of options. I suggest you do any date calculations in the database and use DATE_FORMAT to format any dates pulled out. It's exactly like the date() function in PHP. MySQL has some great date and time functions so you can select out exactly what you want. You can use the

Re: [PHP] Problem with implode() function

2002-07-16 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
I have an array of elements which are separated with the operator comma(,). == $array = implode(,, $checkb); echo $array.'\n'; $result = mysql_query(DELETE FROM temp WHERE inv_tag IN ($array)) or die('Error in query'.mysql_error());

Re: [PHP] Preventing Multiple Log-Ins after Authentication

2002-07-16 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
You'll have to assign each user a unique id each time they log on. If they attempt to log on again, check and see if they already have a unique id and if they do, don't let them log on again. the problems you'll run into with this is, though, is that if someone doesn't log out, they'll still

Re: [PHP] Exit script early

2002-07-16 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Why do you need to exit? If your code is layed out correctly, you shouldn't have to. if($something) { //part 1 } else { //part 2 } If $something evaluates to true, only Part 1 is executed...part 2 is never seen. vice versa if $something is negative. ---John Holmes... - Original Message

Re: [PHP] Sessions / logins / cookies / security

2002-07-16 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
There really isn't a good way to do this, I think. Any time you're taking just a cookie, and using that data to assume who the user is, it's open to hijacking. I can sniff the cookie or maybe find a cross-site scripting bug to steal it, create the same cookie on my machine, and poof, i'm that

Re: [PHP] Queries - Sometimes I need to use apostrophe, other times idon't

2002-07-17 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
It's not random. Strings need to be enclosed. You can use single or double quotes, but you have to use them. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Phil Schwarzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 11:19 AM Subject: [PHP] Queries - Sometimes I

Re: [PHP] $_SESSION - autostart, or session_start() ?

2002-07-17 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Call session_start() before ANY output. html is OUTPUT. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: Matt Babineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 11:20 AM Subject: [PHP] $_SESSION - autostart, or session_start() ? If I set the SESSION

Re: [PHP] querying for one specific row number

2002-07-17 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
I want query my mysql table and get one particular row. So let's say my table had 5 rows (entries) in it, and I want to pull just row #2, how would I do this?? What is row #2?? The second row when the table is ordered by the first column? second column? ascending? decending? without an ORDER

[PHP] Re: OT [PHP] querying for one specific row number

2002-07-17 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Off topic... So let's say my table had 5 rows (entries) in it, and I want to pull just row #2, how would I do this?? SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 1,1; Technically, without an ORDER BY in your query, the database can return a different row each time with this query. Without an ORDER BY, how do

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