***
function write_string(count) {
for ($x = 0; $x $count; $x++) {
echo option value=$x Row $x/option;
}
}
$my_string = write_string(5);
echo $my_string;
***
8-Untested
Right now, it's logging the client's IP, the page that
they're viewing,
the page that they came from, the time of the visit, and their system
and browser info.
Ummm, you do understand that, for Apache at least, all of this
information can be made available through it's logging? You also
Does anyone know of an intelligent way to establish a user's location
(roughly) from either IP address or some other variable
available to the
server from the browser? (Other than polling the user)
Not really - the problems you face are:
1. Processing Delays - if you need to do whois
I have a string in this format:
2003-02-15 13:19:02
I want to display it in a more readable format like
Staurday, 11 Februardy,
2003, 13:19:02. How can I achieve that. I tried date()
function but could
not get what I wanted.
The date format above is a standard mysql date/time
as a general rule of thumb, try to do as much
checking as you can with
JavaScript. For those checks such as is the field a valid
date, is
the field numeric and so on, it is much faster to check on
the client,
than to send the data back to the server and check it there.
What I want to do is have the registration form, on submit, check the
data validity right then, if there is an error, redisplay
the form with an * next to the field that is incorrect.
This is the code logic rather than the actual working code:
---Start of PHP Page---
1. Check for form
i've written a secure PHP login script which will allow
users to login to a
directory such as this:
smezone.com/members/index.php
however, how do I restrict people from accessing HTML files in that
directory (which they can easily do so by typing the URL into their
browser),
Can anybody help me with file uploading, again...
Have you tried using the fairly simple example that is given at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php yet? I've found
that starting with this example and then adding all the extras tends to
work well when you've got problems.
echo(| %s | %s | %s | %s | %s |br /, $array[id],
$array[username],
$array[password], $array[status], $array[notes]);
If you look at http://www.php.net/echo you'll see that echo
does not support this syntax. If you want to use this syntax
then you should probably be using some form of
Karl,
what is a winmail.dat file?
Is it too much to ask that you do some of this sort of thing for
yourself?
Here, I'll help you...
1. Connect to the Internet (if necessary)
2. Load a web browser
3. Navigate to http://www.google.com/
4. Type what is a winmail.dat file into the search box
i want to set up a form that will load values from a table
and make them the
value of the edit box... then when people press an update
button then all
of the stuff that changes from the record already in the table gets
changed... anybody know how to make it where you can get the
i am having a problem using input tags by using current
values kept in a mysql table. how do you get the values out of the
table and
into a form so they show as the value= part of the tag?
Start by making a basic test:
?PHP
$some_string = some string;
echo input type=\text\
G'day Scott
Just curious, is there a PHP function that will break up the
string for us?
I'm not specifically having a go at you but more observing that some
people use this list as a first line of question rather than doing some
work themselves.
Assuming that I didn't already know what
I have a conditional:
if (a == b)
a is the number 0, but b is a string Friday August 22.
The condition is evaluating as true, which is not what I want.
What am I misunderstanding?
You're comparing a string to a number perhaps?
I tried this:
-8-
$a = 0;
$b = Friday August
Is there a way to get to know from which country a user is
calling the webside with my php-script?
Probably only if you're going to ask them to tell you what country they
are in.
You can look at the resolved domain that they are coming from and it's
country code - this might be indicative
You could rely somewhat of the time zone codes as you refer
to them, the
only issue is in some parts of the world
this would include 10 countries at a time.
But what time zone are you getting? The time zone of the browser? The
time zone of the proxy cache that's in a possibly different
On another note, I have found that if I include (and use)
the submit button
everything works perfectly, HOWEVER if I just enter data and
hit return then it messes up.
You could try including a hidden submit field like this:
input type=hidden name=submit value=1
For name=submit change
Hi Karl
First up, would you mind posting your messages in plain text instead of
html format? It's just a courtesy to the rest of us.
does anyone have the code to where i can have the time
printed on my home page like for example
Monday, January 19, 2003
Sure, check out the date()
G'day CJ
This is really a html more than a php question.
Yep, it probably is...
Is it possible to have two buttons and have different
actions for each button in the same form?
Yep, you can.
form etc
input type=submit name=first_submit_action value=do this
input type=submit
My question is this: is it possible to use
autoincrement to generate
the id's and still keep them sequential when I delete say,
item 3 of 5.
Generally speaking, an auto-increment column will not fill gaps and keep
sequential orders. Your choice, basically, is to write your code
How do I create a drop down list that automatically
generates a list of months for the next 12 months upto and including
this month
This would do it...
select name=st_month style=width: 80px class=forms
?PHP
$curr_month = date(n, mktime());
for ($x = 1; $x = 12; $x++)
{
$month_name
@MYSQL_QUERY(UPDATE d SET h='$h' WHERE id='$id'); // this
query doesn't work
Personally, I'd call it bad programming practice to do a database update
and not check to see if it worked or not. In this case, how are you
determining that the query did not work? Are you manually checking
$mysql query1
result
array[cityid][cityname]
mysql query2
result
array[cityid][cityname]
now what i want to do is kick out any doubles in my array
and resort them alphebetically by cityname ?!
It's difficult to answer this question without knowing more about the
context and
So, there is something in the new security of XP and Win 2K
SP 3 that
does not let the dll load and run. Ever since I loaded SP 3
I have had
problems - like many others!
Don't know about Win2k as I haven't tried it but Apache/PHP/MySQL is
working perfectly well on my Win XP laptop.
G'day Peter
I have a form with several date fields. I want to be able to
set these by selecting from a calendar display. Does anyone
know of any php function or code which would let me do this?
If you mean having some sort of pop-up calendar display that the user
can select a date from
Hi All
This is probably off-topic here and my only real excuse is that after
having searched google as well as both php and mysql sites/manuals I'm
no closer to an answer for something I'd like to get solved this
morning...
I have two database tables (mysql). One contains information about
Does anybody know of a SELECT QUERY that will select every
other record of a
table ? I want to do this so that I can display my products
in 2 columns (I
will also be using arrays of course).
Don't know of a select that'll do it, but then I don't really understand
why you'd want to
My OS is Windows XP Pro but the computer with admin
privaliges is Windows
98. It's not software, it's hardware. It's built into the
HUB of the LAN.
There is some software to open ports but I'm not sure what
it is or anything
like that. Thanks for the help so far.
No offence
To those of you that helped me with this problem I have spent time
eliminating lines of code.. the problem was in the following line:
if ($_SESSION[first_name])
the line should be like this
if (ISSET($_SESSION[first_name]))
The change that would induce this error is likely to be
G'day David
My problem is that files uploaded through a form are
increasing in size.
Doesn't that look like the EOL characters are being
translated after the fashion of ftp ascii transfers?
Maybe have a look at the two versions in a
hex viewer and see if that is the case?
Hi All
I'll start by saying that I've checked the online manual (and comments)
as well as having done a Google search on this with no success.
My problem is that files uploaded through a form are increasing in size.
For example, I upload an image that is 7658 bytes and the uploaded
version is
I'm currently working on a big photo album tool, and I want
to provide user
the ability to upload a lot of jpeg files in one time...
The big problem with form is it's too slow...
Does anyone know how to by-pass this ( with java or other
tools )?
It's primarly slow because
For all those who don't know my question from yesterday, I
have a form where I can upload up to 9 files at a time.
Unfortunately, only the first 5 of those files are being
uploaded at any given time.
I haven't specifically checked your program logic but I believe that
this is where
Just wanted to let everyone know:
PHP version is 4.2.1
Apache is 1.3.24
Running WindowsXP Pro
Oh, yeah, that.
My dev environment is almost exactly the same.
CYA, Dave
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Using PHP and a MySQL database, I want to grab the highest
number in a particular column.
As is usual for questions like this, the answer is most likely that you
should do it in your sql query. In this case, something like this would
probably do it:
SELECT MAX(some_column) FROM
post_max_size = 10M
upload_max_filesize = 8M
memory_limit = 8M
As I said before, however.. even without throwing files
there, my loop
test code only spits out '01234', meaning that its only
looping 5 times
through the code before exiting... Does file handling only
allow
Song Table:
Song_id
A_id
Type
Name
Length
Lyrics
...
That's my ideas on how to do it. There are many ways to do
it, though.
Totally agree with what John says. If the lyrics are long
(as I assume
they will be) then I'd probably hive the lyrics off into a table
Indeed, another problem I have is that if a single is on an
album, which track it is on the album.
Off hand, I'd say that if you need this information as well (ie. You
want to recreate the songs on album list in the correct order) then
you need to extend one of your tables to include this
I am at my wits end at the moment. I am pulling a
datetimestamp out of a database and attempting to
get the year month and day out of it.
Do it in your sql query. Check out chapter 6 of the MySQL manual for
ways to manipulate dates.
Eg. $query = select DATE_FORMAT(DTStamp, '%e %b
?php
if (is_readable(owner.php))
echo READABLE;
else
echo UNREADABLE;
include (owner.php);
?
According to the manual, the results of is_readable() is cached. So, if
you've been testing this and have both readable and unreadable you may
have the wrong one cached.
I send hidden variables from a form to a php. In the php
I have the following code to convert the global vars sent:
If (isset($_GET['foo']))
$foo = $_GET['foo']
else
$foo = 0;
But this only works using the GET method!
If you're sending the variable
I have no interest in getting into a Win2K/Linux debate. There are
strengths and reasons for using both systems.
Good for you, I was about to post something similar. For the record my
dev environment is a laptop with a Celeron 1.2/256MB/WinXP Pro and it's
running Apache, MySQL and PHP
I am the webmaster of the site, i pay for the server space,
is that what you mean?
First up Simon, I deleted over a hundred lines of no longer relevant
content from your message including things like signatures. You should
probably trim messages down when you reply to them...
Next up,
I have 2 identical tables called tmp_data and data. (on
the same mysql database).
What would be the simple and more convenient way to update
table data with a row from table tmp_data.
What about getting rid of tmp_data completely and adding an extra
column to your data table. The
I am having trouble with a PHP script. I am not the one who
made this and my knowledge on php is very little.
I came across this php script
www.canberra-wx.com/bomonster/bomonster01.php
Tried loading this and had too many page errors to figure out what you
are doing.
Thats a Nice feaure you have, How do you do that?
I have a cron event on my server that grabs the relevant page from the
web site soon after it is updated (around 20 past each hour) using lynx
-dump url which then pipes the resulting page dump through grep to grab
just the line of data that
Doing stuff with || is always a good way to stuff up. In the case of
your example it will always evaluate to true.
if ($A != $C || $B != $C) {
I think, but im fairly new
This would work if you did this:
If (!($A == $C || $B == $C)) {
In perl, I would do this:
unless ($c =~
ex. SELECT feild1, field2, COUNT(*) FROM tables GROUP BY
category, format.
Try this instead:
SELECT field1, field2, COUNT(*) AS field3 FROM TABLS GROUP BY
category,format
Now you'll find your count is available as 'field3'.
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If you've typed your code in accurately then...
$detailqry = SELECT id, parentitemid, itemtypeid, itemstatusid,
[etc]
$result = mysql_query($detailqry) or die(Failed finding
task details);
somewhere in about here you want to have something like:
$sqldata = mysql_fetch_array($result);
How do you alternate colors of the rows in a table inside a
while statement
when dealing with the output of data from a DB. I am sure
it's something
simple but I keep getting into some really long math thing...
For two alternating colours I normally do something like this:
$use_col
Ok so how do I sum up an entire column in my db?
For example if one row is : 1 , the next is 2, and the next
is 1 - I need to
have a total of 4 and the be able to divide by the num_rows
The problem I ma having is the inside row addition
If you're doing it on values from a database
I have, in my database, a bunch of dates stored like this:
-M. Month is obviously the number of the month (5), not
the name (May).
I want to convert the format to MMM, (ex: May, 2002),
Do the conversion in MySQL - it'll save you grief in the long run...
SELECT
And here is the error I get:
-
Warning: Unable to create
'/home/thehobby/public_html/php/phpforums/uploads/': Is a
Does this directory exist? Does the user that your web server is
running as have permission to write files in this directory?
I've got a php form, that gathers certain information, and
then passes that info on to a couple of shell scripts to
move files around, create links, import data into some mysql
databases via sql files, etc.
The two shell scripts work fine when I'm logged in as root
via telnet.
SELECT COUNT(x) FROM table;
Make 'x' equal to any column name in the table and add WHERE to the
clause as needed.
err...all very well, but how do i retrieve the
value afterwards?
$sqlcom=select count(codigo) from comments where
codigo=$id;
SELECT
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($info))
{
do stuff
}
$count = 0;
$last = sizeof($info);
While (list($key, $val) = each($info))
{
if ($count == 0)
{
// first time through
}
if ($count == $last)
{
// last time through
}
// do stuff
$count++;
}
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I keep getting Undefined variable: PHP_SELF when using the
following:
form method=post action='$PHP_SELF'
Global variables are off... What am I doing wrong?
In current versions of PHP, $PHP_SELF is available if globals are on.
You'll need $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] instead if you're
How do you make a link in MySQL?
I tried following code were the field geluid contains a
link to a mp3
while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo trtd;
echo $row[woord_nl]. /tdtd
. $row[woord_ost]. /tdtd
. $row[betekenis_nl]. /tdtd
. $row[geluid];
echo /td/tr;
}
In my MySQL db I have a date-field on every entry looking like this :
2002-08-10
When presented on a PHP page, I want it converted to
Saturday, Augusth
10th, 2002.
How do I achieve that? I've been playing around with the
date-command and
strtotime-command but haven't
I've tried that, but as usual rtfm doesn't help me. I need
concise examples
:(
How would I write this basic select query to get the date in
my format
(Saturday, August 10th, 2002)?
SELECT datum FROM news_items
(where datum is the date-stamp in -MM-DD format)
Rasmus is
I know I shouldn't do more to keep this going but I'll make this one,
and only, post.
this all started when rasmus had a problem with the click
in my original post
From what I read, Rasmus made a correction to your opinion. You are
entitled to your opinion, but perhaps you should learn
I just upgraded to PHP 4.2.2 and am trying to make my sites work with
register_globals turned OFF. I notice, however, that with
register_globals turned off any variables I pass via the URL don't
seem to be
recognized by the script it was passed to.
I thought register_globals only
What i want to do is delete the entire IDs and
generate them again so that they are in one single
order like 1,2,3,4,5... .like this.
I suspect that if your table, as you use it, needs this ordering then
you've got something wrong. It really shouldn't matter much what the
internal IDs
Mmm.. think you misinterpreted my question...
http://www.mysql.com/doc/M/i/Miscellaneous_functions.html
PASSWORD(str)
how do you unPASSWORD(str) in PHP?
Basically, you don't.
Instead, what you do is use the password that was provided as user
input. You create a suitable
is there some other easyer way to do in one line than this?:
$fullname = $session[f_name];
$fullname .= ;
$fullname .= $session[l_name];
$fullname = $session[f_name] . . $session[l_name];
CYA, Dave
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Yes, I am afraid that regarding GPL I have to agree with
Microsoft when they say it is a cancer. The problem is that if you
want to
distribute something that incorporates GPL licensed components, your
software also needs to be distributed as GPL and so it gets
contaminated.
This
When I issue this command to remove any commas at end of string:
$query = rtrim($query, ,);
PHP give me an error saying Wrong parameter count for
rtrim(). How can
this be? The online manual shows rtrim can accept two
parameters. Shouldn't
this work? I have PHP 4.0.6
Do you charge by the page, script or by the hour (that would
be nice).
We do this sort of thing in, basically, one of three ways...
1. Client gives us a budget and we give them a clear idea of what that
budget will get them.
2. Client gives us a good idea of what they want to achieve
I have a datetime field in one of my mysql tables...when
displaying some of
my records I want to display the date in the aforementioned
datetime field,
but if the date is today I want to display today instead.
If the date is
yesterday I want it to display that so I how do I
what doesn't work is after they login to Page 1, the
redirect sends them to
Page 2 and right back to Page 1 because the global session
isn't staying
registered.
Are you putting session_start() at the top of each page where you want
to be able to use the session stuff you've set?
Failed opening '/var/www/html/BOOKS/newbooks.php' for inclusion
(include_path='.:/php/includes:/usr/share/php') in Unknown
on line 0
I am getting the following error, when the file
newbooks.php is invoked.
The first lines in this entire file starts with the ?php
tag,
When you say,
Order by RAND()
I would think the Order by construct expects a column name.
In your case, it gets a decimal value.
How does Order by treat decimal values?
Oh, I just checked the manual:
In MySQL Version 3.23, you can, however, do: SELECT * FROM
table_name ORDER
can I use limit to show the 2nd record on without knowing
how many more records there might be?
also, what happens if I set the limit in a mysql statement
(LIMIT 5,10), but there are only 3 results? 7 results?
My answer would tend to be that you should try it for yourself and
can you teach me how to retrieve random data from my
database? like for example...i have a list of names on my
database and i'd like to retrieve only one name at a
time..randomly. how do i go about this?
This is really a database question rather than a php question and you
haven't
Which method is the best way to store date/time in MySQL and
then which PHP
command is the best to use to convert that date to something
useful?
Get comfortable with MySQL's date functionality and you'll find that you
don't often need to do the date comparisons and manipulation in php
Greetings, this may be simple, but it's late and my brain
needs a hand.
I have a string such as first,second,third,fourth
I need a way to take each one of the items separated by the
comma to be an item in an array.
Check out explode() and I think you'll find what you need.
The problem I have is with a page I build dynamically. The
whole page is encased in form/form tags. In between these tags
there
are sections echoed as a result of a databasse query. Each of these
sections is a form.
form name=addproduct
table
!-- loop round result set
id 3 from the database. What I really want is to state width
is 100 and height is 100 for example so I do not have to downlaod the
entire
picture and specify the width and height as part of the image:
Do not want
img src=getdata.php?id=3 width=100 height=100
Yep, I was using the DATE() function in PHP to convert a
TIMESTAMP from a MySQL DB query. I was getting a year of
2038 because MySQL and PHP use different TIMESTAMP formats.
$getmyTime = mysql_query(SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP(timestamp_col)
AS yournamehere FROM
myDBnamehere WHERE
I am trying to write a program that is very modular in
nature one of the
features I need the user to be able to do is install/uninstall or
enable/disable the module though the interface.
I have, in the past, stored such information in a database. In projects
that have need of such
My apologies if this has been asked a thousand times. I've
just joined the list.
I has, but you get that...
I can't find any information on passing JavaScript variables
to PHP on the same page (i.e. not through the POST information of a
submitted form). Is this because it's not
? // general_config.php
$siteTitle
$colBg = #FF;
$colText = #FFCC99;
$colLink = #EE;
$colComplimentary = #CC6600;
$fontHeading = FONT class=\heading\ face=\verdana, arial\
size=\3\;
Wouldn't you ultimately be better off moving most of this sort of thing
into
I've got Windows XP Pro OS. I installed and am running
mySQL on that.
However, PHP is not getting configured with Apache on
it. I got the latest Apache, 1.3.24 or something, not
the Version 2. Anyway, Apache runs perfectly on it.
However, when i put in the required PHP lines in
Wouldn't you ultimately be better off moving most of this sort of
thing
into style sheets and then have the designers play with the style
sheets instead?
What if your designer wants to change from a two column
table to a four column table. Or change the menu from a vertical
I've tried to include a simple javascript in a .php file,
but couldn't get it to work.
Actually not even the php code worked at all...
Is there any specific configuration flag that needs to be
set up in the Apache server so that the javascripts work
correctly?
Not
I want to set up a site at home to play with php
I have windows xp pro, dreamweaver MX and mysql
Do I need anything to view live application data locally in
my browser
You'll need to install a web server that supports php and php itself. I
did this recently on my XP Pro laptop
I know this might be a bit easy for all you experts out
there. I have multiple checkboxes and text areas in a form. In the
confirmation email sent to the user I manage to get the text areas to
display
in the email. How would I get the results of the checkboxes to to
display as
function cleandate($indate) {
str_replace(-, /, $indate);
return date(F j, Y, strtotime($indate));
}
I suspect that you actually need something like this:
function cleandate($indate) {
$indate = str_replace(-, /, $indate);
return date(F j, Y, strtotime($indate));
}
user input, which is not always reliable, has to be in the correct
format.
What I've done for things like this is to have three separate select
form elements. The first for selecting a day of the month. The second
for selecting a month and the third for selecting a year. I usually set
the
Okay, let's say I want to send a user to a certain webpage...
usually I would use...
include(website.php);
but, if i want to send a user to a website along with a
variable like...
$temp = website.php?var=.$var;
include($temp);
...this doesn't work.
If you are
$query = select count(*) from users where
You are asking for a count() in your query. This will always give you
one row returned with a count. If you really want to do this you should
probably have:
$query = select count(*) as usercount from users where
Then you can do your tests
I would like to have a column returned in a query that tells
you which record I'm looking at? Sort of like an
auto_increment? IOW, the query results would look like:
record first last
1 johndoe
2 joe blow
3 carol fisher
The table
It has just occured to me though that if I'm to list maybe
100 news items with descriptions it means alot of memory
right because i have 100 items containing:
date
title
text (could be any length)
I will use substr()
I have a JavaScript function that onChange of a list box,
takes the value of an option and grabs data from a MySQL
table. My problem is how do I use the JavaScript var in my
sql statement?
Javascript is client-side, php is server-side. The only way to get
something that happens in
I have a string something like 10.2.3
I want to be able to use the . as a delimiter to reference
the elements (10, 2, and 3).
My thought was to create an array, using . as the
delimiter. Is there a function that will create an array out
of a string, using a delimiter you specify?
echo i = $ibr;
for($c=1;$c=$i;$c++){
echo team_number $team_number_$cbr;
echo sub1_$c = $sub1_$cbr;
echo sub2_$c = $sub2_$cbr;
echo sub3_$c = $sub3_$cbr;
echo sub4_$c = $sub4_$cbr;
echo sub5_$c = $sub5_$cbr;
}
}
Perhaps this:
Echo sub1_$c
Being relatively new to php, I discovered the following
after about 2 hours of debugging last night and was wondering why???
I had the following code:
if ( $num_results = 0 )
{
echo no records found;
}
else
{
for ($i=0; $i $num_results; $i++)
{
What Im trying to do here is not inside PHP nor MySQL books
I have. I need to query the DB to look the max result in a
column. That is, if I have affiliate members with ID going
from 1 to 10, get the query to know that the last member
added was 10 so I can add member 11 without
I have a db field, type varchar, that is actually a 'date'
string formatted as dd-mm-. I used type 'varchar' (rather than
type 'date') since I had to accomplish other things with it.
Now, however, I do need to extract the Year (the last four
digits in the array).
Ummm, are you
The directory and file name:
museum/trees/admin/upload2.php
The directory I want to store the uploaded file is:
museum/landmark/photos/
I've found that if you need more control over directory paths than
something fairly simple then you're often best off just declaring a set
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