> > The greatest way of doing this is
> > 1. develope php-script for generating updated html from moved php-script
> > and updating index.html (e.g. ;)
> > 2. develope another script or program which will call the first one
> > periodically (once an hour, e.g.)
>
> I like that.
> It sounds
Gidday Justin,
For us guys that don't get dates very often, the subject is one of intense
fascination! I answered a bunch of
these questions a couple of weeks back, and reproduce that discussion below. Also some
comments/responses to you
interspersed:-
> I'm looking to normalise the way in whi
Tj,
> I am really baffled by this problem. I have tried so many things to get
> this working but to no avail. Here is the
> actual code:
>
> function verify_user($username, $password){
> $conn = mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass) or
...
> Anyways the problem is I cannot get it to ev
Juni,
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Juni Adi wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
> After meessing up with installation stuffs, now
> it's time for PHP code:
>
> 1. How to tell PHP to open a file like Perl do
> through:
>
> open (FILE, $file);
>
> 2. Same question, this time to open/read a
> directory:
>
> ope
Hank,
You youngster you!
One other dimension, the institutions can only offer classes in the languages (and
techniques/technologies) that
the trainers know and than they have the resources (hardware, compilers/interpreters)
to cover.
Maybe therein lies an answer to the 'marketing' side too. Th
Jeff,
FWIW my system is set up to hold PHP in C:\program files\php, which is where the
php.exe can be found.
PHP.ini is supposed to be in c:\winnt isn't it?
=dn
- Original Message -
From: "Jeff D. Hamann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "DL Neil" <[
-c Look for php.ini file in this directory
PHP is case sensitive (whereas Windows is not).
Where is the .ini file? (not the PHP.exe file)
Does this help?
=dn
- Original Message -
From: "Jeff D. Hamann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "DL Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mike and Jeff,
> what about the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? is it failing on a 'bad' email address? or
> maybe putting everything in variables and trying
>
> mail($to,$subject,$message);
=there's a difference between the way PHP talks to an SMTP server (using mail()) on
Win32 compared to *nix -
which
> the path to php is already in the PATH variable...
>
> I'm not doing anything different that http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=6742
> ,but for some reason the -c doesn't make a difference...
>
> Jeff.
>
>
> "Dl Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro
Jeff,
The following batch files works for me (WinNTWS 4.0 SP6a):-
cd c:\program files\php
php.exe -q c:\.path.\w.php >>c:\.path.\webute.log
NB the first line reflects my PHP config - your mileage may vary!
Of course the other possibility is to add the PHP folder into the PATH environment
vari
Dani,
Am slightly confused/finding the question ambiguous.
Could you provide the code you have so far, and the relevant column specification(s)?
Could be simple or complex!
=dn
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From: "Dani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 18 January 2002 12:22
Subj
Chris,
\n = *nix
\r = Mac
\r\n = PC
(now that you've 'dropped' "MS Notepad" into the conversation...) The simplest M$
tools content themselves with
black blocks (apparently not being interested in your comfort), but the more
sophisticated tools will sometimes
oblige...
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- Original Messa
Brandon,
Please do some 'homework': Will the native query run from the MySQL command line, or
in a admin tool? Have you
tried varying the number of fields? What are the column specifications?
In and amongst this you might like to check where you should have spaces (a) for
legibility (particula
Niklas,
> No good, since starts counting when page is first opened, so
Don't think this is applicable - When is the page "opened": after the script reaches
the , or after the
script concludes and the web server sends the page to the browser?
If the latter, then the speed of the connection aff
Alternatively, remember that HTML has this built in (and PHP outputs a HTML page):
move c) before a)
implement it using a meta tag in the HTML page HEAD section
d) will then happen after the defined time period
Regards,
=dn
- Original Message -
From: "Jon Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To
ing a *nix box? There is a difference between *nix, Windows, and Mac with
line ends being represented
by LF, CRLF, or CR.
=Regards,
=dn
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 04:29:03PM -, DL Neil wrote:
> > Hank,
> > You say "just text" and "text/plain".
> > What d
Phil,
> After I make a queryhow do I fetch a specific row from that query ??
=isn't the purpose of the query to return specific results?
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Jimmy,
> > However it is also possible that in order to save time the LAST_ID
> > information is built into the resultset coming back from the INSERT -
> > thus when mysql_insert_id() is called PHP would not need to go back
> > to MySQL/last_insert_id().
>
> yes, what you said could be true also
Hi Jimmy,
> >> the only problem i can think of might occur with pconnect is,
> >> last_insert_id() will return you the last inserted ID from
> >> previous 'session', not current 'session'.
> >> to prevent this, you should call last_insert_id() only when
> >> your INSERT query executed succesfully
Sam,
> I know I hear you all groan with this topic...
> I know this topic has been asked before...
>
> But looking through the archives there have been a lot of advice, URLs,
> classes given out, yet I haven't really found anything that can easily be
> implemented so that I can send muliple attac
Hank,
You say "just text" and "text/plain".
What do you mean by "mungs the formatting"? What formatting in plain text?
=dn
> I've got an app that sends emails, not complicated emails, their just
> text, the mail text is stored in text files on the server so they can be
> edited independant of t
Hi Jimmy,
> >> 2 because the (function argument) controlling feature is the
> >> connection, it is not possible for another concurrent user to
> >> 'steal' your ID or influence the ID returned to you - it's all
>
> > Ok, assume you are correct, but what if you are using persistent
> > connections
Hi Martin,
> > 2 because the (function argument) controlling feature is the connection, it is not
>possible for another
> > concurrent user to 'steal' your ID or influence the ID returned to you - it's all
>yours!
>
> Ok, assume you are correct, but what if you are using persistent
> connection
Hi Wee,
> Is it possible that I would get the wrong ID (Not the ID I just inserted in
> Auto_Increment field) by using mysql_insert_id function if someone is also
> inserting record at the same time? How does mysql_insert_id work accurately?
=A couple of things here:
1 if the field is defined
Hi Wee,
> Is it possible that I would get the wrong ID (Not the ID I just inserted in
> Auto_Increment field) by using mysql_insert_id function if someone is also
> inserting record at the same time? How does mysql_insert_id work accurately?
=A couple of things here:
1 if the field is defined
Alexis,
> Could anybody confirm exactly which characters, if any, are NOT valid in an
> email address.
=such rules of the Internet are laid out in documents called "RFC"s (initially they
are "Requests for Comment"
but once adopted become ...) You are looking for RFC822 (although there are othe
Rasmus,
I have held several datetime-related conversations with people recently, and another
series about 'when'/whether
to use PHP or MySQL functionality.
Here you are, "the man" of PHP, advising Sander to use MySQL functionality! (and in
marked contrast to the
(biased) advice one might expec
Marvin,
> I'm using the PHP date() function on my site, but since my hosting company
> (Pair Networks) is on the East Coast and I'm on the West Coast, everything
> shows as three hours later (for most of my visitors, anyway). Pair tells me
> there's no setting I can make on my account to change t
Yes, I thought about that. But, what should I do when the markers are absolutely NOT
in any sequence.
=sequence would matter if it was possible that one of the markers could replace some
text and that replacement
subsequently became the marker for a further replacement ... nightmare=recursion!
Or checkout the sql import facilities offered by your choice of database to 'convert'
the data from log to
db-tbl, then set up your analysis in PHP+SQL separately.
=dn
- Original Message -
From: "Martin Wickman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 11 January 2002 09:08
Subj
Erik,
Two suggestions:
1 check out mysql_fetch_assoc(), and
2 make use of AS to 'set' the variable names (carried through from MySQL to PHP).
Regards,
=dn
- Original Message -
From: "Erik Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Rick Emery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 1
Brian,
> first off, Martin your suggestion looks great but I don't think its SQL
> syntax is supported by MySQL. It's a good start though - gives me something
> to work with :)
=until it is tried, you won't know! From an SQL point of view it looks ok. In fairness
to Martin, from the
'further in
RE: [PHP] counting with dates (help!)Hi Sander,
(and Chris, and Martin)
> $today = date("Ymd", mktime(0,0,0, date(m),date(d),date(Y)));
> $last_week = date("Ymd", mktime(0,0,0, date(m),date(d)-7,date(Y)));
> echo ($today - $last_week);
> The result is a number like 8876 (20020107-20011231 = 8876)
CJ,
> i have a problem using the mail function on my server.
> win2000 Pro
> IIS 5.0
> PHP Version 4.0.6
>
> i'm not sure if it's a configuration problem with IIS or i'm missing
> something in the php.ini file.
The pre-requisite is that the php.ini file points to a visible SMTP server. Pl
Hi Sander,
> I made a database with bookmarks, these bookmarks are catogarized by
> type.
> Now I want to display those bookmarks in tables by category. This works
> already fine.
> The only problem I have is that the tables are very difficult to handle.
>
> I want to make 4 tables in a row (so
Hey Steve,
> Im need to generate an email and Im trying to keep the exact spacing
> I use when I define the body of the email. When the email is sent and i
> view it with Outlick Express or simply use Pine, the spacing is all out
> of wack. (Too many spaces here, not enough spaces there)
>
> I
Chris,
Apologies for the belated response/absence.
I find myself constantly referring to Welling and Thomson ("PHP and MySQL Web
Development", 0-672-31784-2) and
happily recommend it to you. Apart from referring to the user as "she" which (both men
and women say) interrupts
the smooth flow of t
Rudolph,
Mail() is v.finicky!
Windows machines need more than the \n - what are you running?
Have you tried putting some string of characters into the (text) msg body?
Can you send us a copy of the actual email msg showing the headers etc (output as
received at the POP/IMAP
server) - after clippi
Third db question today: do folk know there is a (lightly loaded) '[PHP-DB] list' with
some v.competent members?
Hi Alexander,
- Original Message -
> Let me start by laying out some facts:
>
> SELECT e.NAME AS customer, g.NAME AS driver_lastname, g.FIRSTNAME AS
> driver_firstname, $Com
Hi Sjoerd,
> When i send a dynamic HTML newletter, which contains newsitems in the
> database I now send the e-mail with a link to the image on the webserver.
> What i would like to do is instead of linking the image, send the image as a
> sort of attachment. So an internetconnection is not requ
> > Is is advisable that I mail lots of users from a database via one call to
> > mail() ?
>
> why not make a loop and send to one email at a time. if you have over
> 1000 I would use something else than mail(), ex direct to smtp with sockets.
Henrik,
It is my opinion (too?) that mail() is di
Hi Sundog,
Can help you with dates (but no, if you want that kind you'll definitely not be
wanting my advice...)
- Original Message -
> I am trying to determine if todays date ($today) is within a week
> ($startcheck) of a given date ($dob). This is what I have so far.
>
> $todaydate = (
> Maybe I should be posting this on the Procmail list but someone here
> might have a non-Procmail solution. I'm trying to get a PHP script to
> process incoming email. The script will lookup a database and do
> something depending on the mail headers. I'm running on a FreeBSD
> virtual server acc
Would the annotated manual LXV. "PHP options & information" be of any use?
=dn
- Original Message -
From: "jennyw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 03 November 2001 03:18
Subject: [PHP] Re: Questions about php.ini
> This is a dedicated server, and I have several sites
Somewhere on my travels around the many PHP/script sites, I'm sure that at one time I
noticed a date-display
utility. I cannot find it again. Please would someone point the way...
What I'm looking for:
displays a form with a variety of date/time fields, user enters a date/time into
various fiel
> I am trying to ad extra headers to email's I am sending through php. I
> want to ad Reply-To: and Bounse-To: addresses. But when add them useing
> the forth feild of the mail() funtion.
> mail($recipient,$msubject,$message,"Reply-To: $sender");
> but for some reason when I send this e-mail i
Mike,
> We have PHP installed as an ISAP module on our W2K IIS5 server and
> its operational with no problems - phpinfo() runs just fine.
>
> But - When I uncomment the php_mssql.dll extension in php.ini I get an error
> when PHP starts up saying it cannot find the .dll file.
>
> The extension di
Wow, there are some long and curly ways to use RegExp-s aren't there? I'm not very
good at them (and I hear that
they can be expensively inefficient) so I tend to look elsewhere.
Check out pathinfo -- Returns information about a file path
array pathinfo (string path)
pathinfo() returns an associ
Or do you really want: First array:
1
3
5
Second array
2
4
6
Corresponding to the two columns across the screen, and controlled by the same
iteration index?
=dn
- Original Message -
From: "Daniel Harik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 01 November 2001 07:25
Subject:
> I have following code, sorry it's pretty big for posting, i want to
> split the output into 2 colomns, been trying almost all still can't
> get it working
Harik,
First off, have you checked the manual
(http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-result.php) and the
recommendations against th
> > I teach law at a university .. I also run the website here ...
>
> Thankfully Tasmania is not considered part of Australia. :)
>
> *troll bait away*
=but are you trolling for bad lawyer jokes to wind up brendan, or inviting the rest to
take on the Aussies?
=Tasmania advertises itself as
Is there someone 'up' on the way Apache works who can offer some comment please?
Th "how do I display 'please wait' " question was asked by someone (else) last week.
The standard answer is
"no" - server-side PHP assembles an HTML page, and when it is completed the whole page
is transmitted from
In an on-again-off-again desultory style, I keep trying to find the time to study
template systems - and quite
separately see if I can find a practical use for XML.
The idea of a template system is that the HTML code/presentation of the final view to
the user/browser, can be
devised/maintained
Imar,
The global array is being defined in the mainline, but not populated. What happens if
you set element 0 to some
value (to take up some storage space first) and then try the switched function calls?
When you say "Alas, this also emptied the array each time I went from one function to
anothe
> Jokes aside, I still don't get it.
=the word "it" is part of the difficulty everyone faces in thinking about whether they
could help or not - what
"it" is, is not apparent
1 there is a problem with a mysql_pconnect() call, and
2 there is a problem with a mysql_query() call.
Which one is "it"?
John,
Netscape! Differences between servers AND differences between browsers AND differences
between in-browser and
command-line operations!
Isn't life fun?
Like you I'm messing around with some of these differences as part of a bid to
'convert' an existing set of
scripts from browser i/f to c
> I am writing a script using php's command line ability and I am lost on
> how to work with a file when I don't kow what the file's name is.
>
> Example:
> script.php -f
>
> In my script, how do I reference the file when I have no idea what it's
> name is going to be?
>
> The scrip will get
> Hello guys
>
> function replace_text_smiley(){
>
> global $comment;
> // To add a relation between a text smiley a an image smiley do this:
> // $faces["text smiley here"] = "img tag to image smile here";
>
> $faces[":)"] = "";
> $faces[":P"] = "";
> $faces[":D"] = "";
> $faces[":("] = "";
> $fa
iration.
=dn
> may be
>
> $argv
> Array of arguments passed to the script. When the script is run on the
> command line, this gives C-style access to the command line parameters. When
> called via the GET method, this will contain the query string.
>
> $argc
>
> Con
Mark,
Backing John's question up by one iteration: is there a PHP environment variable which
can be used to
distinguish between code being run from the command line and code being run in a
browser?
- and the Million dollar question, sorry make that the M$ question: will it also work
under Windo
Don't you like the side-benefits of this list, eg that someone comes up with a
question that gets your thought processes
running or suggests an idea you'd not otherwise come up with!?
So further to the question:
> How can I know the line and the file from where a function has called. I
> alread
> I have an two dimensional array that is returned from code from an included
> file. I'm assigning parts of the array to variables ( $variable =
> $array["key"]["value"]; ). This works fine and can be printed until I send
> it through a function eg. ( ereg_replace(" ", "_", "$variable"); ). After
nd I think that
is where you'lll find (at least) one.
=Regards,
=dn
>
> THanks.
> "Dl Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> 048001c15dab$d5c0fcf0$a516100a@jrbrown">news:048001c15dab$d5c0fcf0$a516100a@jrbrown...
> > > I have just set up
Please define "long", and perhaps think of that in the context of the RFC ?822 is it?
=dn
- Original Message -
From: "BT News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 25 October 2001 17:38
Subject: [PHP] Truncating Lines
> Hi,
>
> I have the following code, which reads in an
> I have just set up PHP on my webserver (IIS 4 on NT4).
> I have set up the script mapping so that I can save php files as .html and
> php processes them.
>
> This works fine until someone goes to a page that doesn't exist - instead of
> getting the customised error 404 page (i.e. the page you r
> "John A. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I've installed ActivePerl, which gives me a way to run .pl files,
> > i.e. :
> > c:\> perl someprogram.pl
> >
> > Does the Win32 php installation give me a command-line
> > interpreter lik
> I suspect that PHP does all of it's work and, only when complete, will it
> send the generated html to the client.
>
> No matter what you try and do there's no way you can output the progress of
> your script to the browser while it is still being parsed.
>
> I could be wrong, but this is my und
> On Wednesday 24 October 2001 19:14, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
>
> The default value for $image parameter was missing:
>
> > function top ($image="defaultvalue") {
> > if ($image=="defaultvalue") echo "blah blah blah";
> > else echo "blah blah $image blah";
> > }
If the defa
Douw,
It's kind of eerie the way your reply appears in my email before I can see my
intervening post!!!???
Perhaps you're just more important than me (bow, scrape, simper...)
> Thanks for the feedback and additional ideas.
=HTH
> I had also though that it might be necessary to separate out th
> I have a need for a package mechanism like that provided by TCL. We
> write a
> lot of code in reusable libraries and often encounter the situation in
> which
> an application uses a particular library but requires at least version X
> or
> greater.
>
> The require(), require_once(), etc. functi
ubject: RE: [PHP] mktime() problem
>
>
> Thanks, I'll use gmmktime() from now on!
>
> James
>
> -Original Message-
> From: DL Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 October 2001 13:54
> To: Fairbairn,J,James,IVLH4 C; php-general
> Subject: Re: [PHP]
> I'm running 4.0.6 on a Solaris 8 box. The output given by
> echo mktime(0,0,0,1,1,1970);
> is 3600.
>
> Shouldn't it be 0? My box's locale is set to the UK defaults, so as I write
> this we are in daylight savings (GMT+1). Would this make a difference? (I
> have already tried
> echo mktime(0,0,
> > > following problem appeared on PHP 3.0.16 on LINUX
> > > I have a binary file, where I want to replace some letters
> > > I do the following:
> > > $filename = "xyz.sdc";
> > > $fd = fopen( $filename, "r+b" ); // also tried "r"
> > > $x=filesize( $filename ); // this shows the correct filesiz
> Hi folks,
> following problem appeared on PHP 3.0.16 on LINUX
> I have a binary file, where I want to replace some letters
> I do the following:
> $filename = "xyz.sdc";
> $fd = fopen( $filename, "r+b" ); // also tried "r"
> $x=filesize( $filename ); // this shows the correct filesize 22528 byte
> Khalid Hazmi wrote:
> > How I can download the current Annotated PHP Manual???
> There is no such thing... AFAIK.
=> Yasuo Ohgaki
Yasuo: Yes there is (and VERY useful it is too), check out the range of PHP
documentation available from
http://www.php.net/docs.php
Khalid: Unlike some other p
> Is it possible to put variable operators in queries?
=I can see no reason why not - you're not actually putting the 'variable' in the
'query', just using a PHP-variable to
build a PHP-string which will be sent to MySQL as a SQL query...
> I tried this (the real variable comes from a form)
> $
Isn't it fun when people asking questions on the list spark off your own
thoughts/inspiration!?
Has anyone seen a tabulation of the functions in (manual: IV Function Reference XXVI.
Filesystem functions) that shows
which functions [don't] work under what conditions? eg
Col1: function name,
Col
John,
Two inter-dependent problems:
1 a means of identifying a cipher within the text
2 a means of replacing the cipher with HTML code
1 there are a limited number of graphics formats (.GIF, .JPG, .PNG, etc) and the
number you are prepared to contemplate
may be even shorter. Thus it would not b
> Is it possible to use imap_mail() on php 4.0.6 on NT machine?
> Maybe anyone has dll for this.
Yes Val. It is possible.
See related thread/discussion list: [PHP-WIN] Help on using mail() function
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