Re: [PHP] internal site search

2003-02-18 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:35:14 +, you wrote: > i wanna make an internal site search, i wanna search my internal html >pages and php pages..and i have no clue how to do thatany help!!! Choices 1. Embed a Google search that only searches within your site. Eg http://www.google.com/searc

Re: [PHP] internal site search

2003-02-18 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 14:19:16 +, you wrote: >On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:35:14 +, you wrote: > >> i wanna make an internal site search, i wanna search my internal html >>pages and php pages..and i have no clue how to do thatany help!!! > >Choices > >1. Embed a Google search that only se

Re: [PHP] php.ini question.....

2003-02-18 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 17:38:28 +0100, you wrote: >At last I got safe-mode turned off (Gott sei dank!). But I'm still having a >problem. I can only read Mysql DBs. I can not open a DB to update. You have to connect to MySQL with a username and password. First check that the user you're connectin

Re: [PHP] MySQL DB Schema

2003-02-18 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:23:52 -0800, you wrote: >Greetings all, > >Is there an easy way to pull out the schema of a MySQL for viewing?? You want the tables and the relationships between them? Not easy to get the links because of the lack of foreign keys in MySQL. If you want a table, "DESC tablen

Re: [PHP] escaping quotes for redisplay

2003-02-18 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:10:33 -0500, you wrote: > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] NULL character help

2003-02-18 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 16:02:59 -0500, you wrote: >http://www.psikon.com/vartest.php >http://www.psikon.com/vartest.phps > >how can I get rid of that null character or am I forced to use sub_str in >this case? You changed the string to be "abcd\0f" on line 8. You didn't remove the character, you set

Re: [PHP] is it possible to retrieve email from HOTMAIL

2003-02-19 Thread David Otton
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:57:42 +, you wrote: > >I wonder if it is possible to retrieve emails from an email account >say in hotmail, yahoo, or any other email provider. > http://people.freenet.de/courierdave/ http://httpmail.sourceforge.net/ http://www.geocities.com/ballarke/Projects/HttpMail/H

Re: [PHP] Recursion with database tables

2003-02-19 Thread David Otton
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:56:49 +, you wrote: >One questions though - if I delete a topic, I need to delete all of its >child messages and all of the child comments from each message. What is >the best technique to do this? This has been driving me up the wall as >it seems to involve some kind

Re: [PHP] Recursion with database tables

2003-02-19 Thread David Otton
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:16:47 +, you wrote: >>Otherwise, yes, in MySQL you have to recurse down the tree deleting >>comments. >How would I go about recursing down the tree? Has anyone done this before? I have, but it's been a while. Something like (pseudo-code) . def delete_comments(a) :

Re: [PHP] Find IP address

2003-02-19 Thread David Otton
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:59:27 +0100, you wrote: >I'd like when a customer fill in a form to recover his IP address, is there >a PHP function to do that ? echo ($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]); Be warned: This is NOT a reliable way to identify a user. These days you are probably /more/ likely to get the

Re: [PHP] Can I do this? header("Content-type: text/rtf");

2003-02-20 Thread David Otton
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 03:42:14 -0500, you wrote: >I'm using PHP & MySQL to generate a RTF document. I use this header: > >header("Content-type: text/rtf"); > >Of course, the header scares the poor browser. The browser bawks and says, unknown >file type, and instructs the browser to save the file. >

Re: [PHP] Encrypted URL links?

2003-02-20 Thread David Otton
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 06:20:26 -0500, you wrote: >Is there a way to encrypt a URL that will still work when clicked on, BUT >not show the customer where the file actually resides? It's not possible to "encrypt a URL" and leave it readable. URLs are plaintext. >Is it also possible to have it expir

Re: [PHP] Can I do this? header("Content-type: text/rtf");

2003-02-20 Thread David Otton
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 03:42:14 -0500, you wrote: >I'm using PHP & MySQL to generate a RTF document. I use this header: > >header("Content-type: text/rtf"); Sorry, I should have mentioned header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=myfile.rtf"); as well. Rather easier :) -- PHP General Ma

Re: [PHP] server side including

2003-02-20 Thread David Otton
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:41:09 +0100, you wrote: >Im have a "script.php" which needs to be able to tell if it has been >included in an .shtml file or not... > >e.g. if included is true: do this, else: do something else > >I could ofcourse do something like this: > > > >but it would be nice to totall

Re: [PHP] List folder contents with links?

2003-02-20 Thread David Otton
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:33:19 -0500, you wrote: >Is it possible to display the contents of a given folder, list them , and >make them links? http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.readdir.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] php and mysql

2003-02-20 Thread David Otton
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:44:51 +, you wrote: >When using a php script to pull recorda from a db how can I cut the records >at 1/4 of the total and arrange them alaphabetically according to a certain >field? Thanks in advance. http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/SELECT.html LIMIT and ORDER BY. This

Re: [PHP] session emergency

2003-02-21 Thread David Otton
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 08:05:47 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >Where can I set the session data size? AFAIK, the only limit to the amount of data stored in a session is the filesize limit of the underlying OS. What's the problem exactly? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe,

Re: [PHP] Dynamic Dropdowns

2003-02-21 Thread David Otton
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:37:42 -0700, you wrote: >>Quoting Steven Kallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I am creating dynamic drop down lists... I would like to have an >> option appear in the drop down list, but have it greyed-out and not be >> selectable... I know you can disable selects, but I

Re: [PHP] Array instead of Switch

2003-02-21 Thread David Otton
On 22 Feb 2003 03:28:22 -, you wrote: >Let's say I need to take one of 20 actions depending on a form selection. I >could use a switch statement with 20 cases, but I could also do something >like: > >// Pretend this comes from a form >$formchoice = "mars"; > > >$response = array( > "mars" =>

Re: [PHP] forward to a html file

2003-02-22 Thread David Otton
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 15:25:36 +0300, you wrote: >I need forward a html file in my php. > >If I use include, it comes a part of .php result. In the navigation window >shows that myscript.php > >But I want to show that destination.html. Not absolutely sure what you're asking for, but I think you wan

Re: [PHP] Another Logging Question

2003-02-23 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:30:27 -0600, you wrote: >1. Have the counter dump visitor info to a text file, then run a cron job on >that nightly to process the data and perform a full analysis. Consider what will happen when two people hit the counter at exactly the same time. You'll have to code to de

Re: [PHP] PHP_SELF syntax

2003-02-23 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:55:06 -0500, you wrote: >Could someone tell me why this code prompts a parse error. I have tried it >several different way. The statement is called from within a function: > >print "action=\"$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']\">\n"; echo ('' . "\n"); works for me (moved the variable out

[PHP] array_filter

2003-02-25 Thread David Otton
I suspect this can't be done in PHP. However... Is it possible to pass additional parameters to the callback function used by array_filter()? I guess I'm looking for something functionally equivalent to this Python code: from string import count list = ('apple', 'avacado', 'banana', 'blueberry'

[PHP] rand/mt_rand oddity

2003-02-28 Thread David Otton
I wrote a simple function to randomize the order of an array. In pseudo-code, it looks like this : def _array_rand (a) : for i = 0 to len (a) j = rand (len (a)) temp = a[i] a[i] = a[j] a[j] = temp return(a) Can anyone tell me if I'm missing the obvious here

Re: [PHP] ICQ # validation

2003-03-03 Thread David Otton
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:00:43 -0500, you wrote: >Maybe I'm off my rocker, but I don't see how this can't work. I'm trying to validate >an ICQ number, and assuming a valid one is between 7 and 9 numbers. My line of code >is this: > >if(ereg("^[0-9]{7,9}$", $_REQUEST["icqnumber"])) { >print("a-o

Re: [PHP] News Content

2003-03-03 Thread David Otton
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:09:39 -0500, you wrote: >Anyone know of any pre-built modules or whatnot that provide some news >content and/or links and captions via PHP/MySQL that can be integrated with >minimal disruption to a site? (A prerequisite being that it acts legally in >terms of gathering t

Re: [PHP] All Code Executing Even After header() Redirect

2003-03-03 Thread David Otton
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 14:50:00 -0500, you wrote: >I thought the code below the header() redirect would not actually be >executed unless the user was logged in and allowed to proceed. Is this how >PHP is supposed to work? Is there any way to prevent the script from header() isn't a goto - it just ou

Re: [PHP] Help with SQL statement

2003-03-03 Thread David Otton
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:04:37 -0800, you wrote: >I have a database that holds a start date and an end date and I have a form >with a start date and an end date. The report would be to get everything in >the database's date ranges that overlap the form's date range. I am having >trouble figuring out

Re: [PHP] Browser Sniffing

2003-03-04 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:32:33 -0700, you wrote: >I know, it can't be done in PHP. That's not exactly what I'm here >for. I have a client who would like to redirect people to a polite >'upgrade your browser' page whenever people visit his site (which has >been developed in PHP no less). My

Re: [PHP] Splitting a string

2003-03-13 Thread David Otton
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:13:35 -0500, you wrote: >Then split the variable where there is a "S". The problem showed up when >there is another "S" in the field. I only want to split the first "S" at the >beginning of the field. Isn't there an additional value to add to the split $line = 'S12345'; if

Re: [PHP] Rotating text

2003-07-01 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:41:47 -0700, you wrote: >What would the best way to rotate text 90 degrees? Using php's image >generator? Some fancy HTML I don't know about? Or something else? CSS http://www.ssi-developer.net/css/vertical-text.shtml But as to browser support *shrug*. -- PHP Gen

Re: [PHP] Having problems with an IF statement, just doesn't make sense

2003-07-06 Thread David Otton
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:18:04 -0700, you wrote: >if (isset($theme)) { > print("Current theme is $theme"); > require "content/header_$theme.php"; >} else { > print("$theme"); > require "content/header.php"; >} > >now one would think that if it didn't return true that the else >statement wouldn't

Re: [PHP] Call by reference to function arguments

2003-07-07 Thread David Otton
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:36:26 +0100, you wrote: >I want to write a function (as I have written in several other languages) that >obtains it's arguments dynamically (using func_get_arg()) and then assigns to that >argument. Think of the way that scanf() works -- that sort of thing. > >I have distille

Re: [PHP] Advise needed - rateing/voteing system

2003-07-07 Thread David Otton
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 21:07:14 +0100, you wrote: >check sessions >if session is not set >check cookie >if cookie is not set >checkip >if ip is not set >do a reverse ip check >if that too comes clean then allow the person a vote > >as you can see i am trying my best to make sure that the visitor only

Re: [PHP] Call by reference to function arguments

2003-07-07 Thread David Otton
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 23:37:58 +0100, you wrote: >On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 06:20:42PM +0100, David Otton wrote: >> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:36:26 +0100, you wrote: >> >> >I want to write a function (as I have written in several other languages) that >> >obtains

Re: [PHP] include like function

2003-07-08 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 09:35:10 +0100, you wrote: >> Hello, i need a function that gets a internal file say news.php, and >follows >> the urls from its copied location, >> >> say if i am in >> /pages/ >> and i need a file from >> /pages/php/wow >> >> i put >> include('php/wow/news.php') >> But the new

Re: [PHP] Form being filled out automatically....

2003-07-09 Thread David Otton
On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 07:00:38 -0500, you wrote: >I've got a problem. I have a form that the user fills out and then >hits submit on and it sends an e-mail. My problem is that I have one >AOL user that claims that when ever he goes back to the form, it >doesn't present the form - it just sends the

Re: [PHP] Using PHP with windows logon

2003-07-09 Thread David Otton
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:02:21 +0930, you wrote: >can you use your windows logon as set it as a variable in php?? > >eg I log onto a windows machine using brenton can i use a php script to set >that as a variable, I have seen a similar type function before but i have no >idea how it works, I know win

Re: [PHP] What did I do wrong to cause a parse error?

2003-07-10 Thread David Otton
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 00:53:32 -0400, you wrote: >foreach ($profileArray[$i][attributes] as $key => $val) { > $singleProfileHTML .= $key . "=\"" . str_replace("'", ''', str_replace('"', > '"', $val)) . "\"\n"; >} > >The parsing error occurs in the "$singleProfileHTML.." line. I'm completel

Re: [PHP] Is it possible to test an uploaded file to check the type?

2003-07-13 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:32:00 -0400, you wrote: >The upload process, already collects info on file types when you upload. > From the manual -> > >> $_FILES['userfile']['type'] >> >> The mime type of the file, if the browser provided this >> information. An example would be "image/gif". >> >

Re: [PHP] Replacing newlines (\n) with smething else

2003-07-13 Thread David Otton
On 13 Jul 2003 17:01:24 -0400, you wrote: >I'm trying to replace newlines with something else. For this example >I'll use as the thing to replace a newline with. This is what I >tried and it doesn't work. nl2br() in the specific case >$article = str_replace("\n", "", $article); > >What am I d

Re: [PHP] Replacing newlines (\n) with smething else

2003-07-13 Thread David Otton
On 13 Jul 2003 17:27:04 -0400, you wrote: >Perhaps. When getting text from a form field, what is substituted for a >newline (i.e. when someone hits enter). You can work it out for yourself. Run over the string, displaying each character as it's ASCII equivalent with ord(). Eg for ($i =

Re: [PHP] Is it possible to test an uploaded file to check the type?

2003-07-14 Thread David Otton
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 00:24:03 -0400, you wrote: >Looking for opinions. Can a spoofed uploaded file hurt a script or a >webserver?? >Reason why Im asking is because, I looked over the magic.mime file on my >server, and I see that it >doesn't support flash files (I may be wrong), of which I curren

Re: [PHP] Validating two variables

2003-07-14 Thread David Otton
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:04:54 +0200, you wrote: > if ($user!='monganl') is what I have > >this is what I want to do > if ($user!='monganl' or 'wilsonma') > >what would be the proper format for this! if ($user != 'monganl' || $user != 'wilsonma') however, this condition would never fire, as $user

Re: [PHP] elegant way of doing something else the last time through a loop?

2003-07-14 Thread David Otton
On 14 Jul 2003 13:11:11 +0200, you wrote: >Anyway, as you can see my problem lies with the SQl when the last >element is reached, then it should NOT add another "and" or "or". The short answer is "implode()". >Any help with my "logic", ie, how do/would you guys do this? if ($_POST[any_all] == "

Re: [PHP] MySQL/PHP problem.

2003-07-22 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:08:50 -0400, you wrote: >I am trying to count in mySQL the number of entries in the field "day" where day=2 or >3. > >Then I want to check just to see if that returned a value greater than 0 or not. > >I am using the code below, but having a problem, I keep getting 0 as th

Re: [PHP] Using $PHP_SELF

2003-07-31 Thread David Otton
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:38:41 -0500, you wrote: >I am having problems while transfering information to another page. I >am using $PHP_SELF and I am getting errors here is a bit of code so you >can see what I am saying: > >echo "$file\n"; > >This is what the browser is saying... >Notice: Undefine

Re: [PHP] headline news retriever

2003-07-31 Thread David Otton
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 20:26:25 -0400, you wrote: >Does anyone know any headline news retrieving script/library specially >something able to check with several news sites? I'm planing to roll my own >but I want to see different approaches. RSS. The BBC (for example) have RSS feeds, and most journ

Re: [PHP] Invalid Characters, XML...

2003-08-04 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 21:51:53 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >Im using PHP to write to XML files, but I am having some problems. A lot >of users are cutting and pasting content from text editors like word, >which uses odd quotation marks, dashes, etc. which PHP writes to the XML >file, and then the XML par

Re: [PHP] problem looping through records

2003-08-10 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:11:09 +0100, you wrote: >I have a sql statement which brings about 15 records... inside the while >loop i am trying to get data from another table by passing an id, the >problem is i am only getting the first record .. not the whole 15 records.. > >any suggestion?? > >functi

Re: [PHP] Container functions....

2003-08-11 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 10:50:03 -0400, you wrote: >In a language that I used to program in - for development we used to be able >to make a function that basically just executed everything inbetween: > >Print "This is html printed" Print "this is more >code"; > > >So basically everything in between h

Re: [PHP] How to point at a spot and get relevant information?

2003-08-14 Thread David Otton
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 10:59:01 -0500 , you wrote: >Thank you for your reponses. The problem is there are thousands of spots on >the plot. >The locations are random. This may be one of those "you can't get there from here" problems, and you'll have to rethink the presentation of your data. What's th

Re: [PHP] Why Redirection works on 1 machine but not on another

2003-08-14 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:32:21 +0800, you wrote: > I have this peculiar problem, my header > >header( "Refresh:2;url=$g_prog_path/$l_refresh_url" ); > >is set up correctly to be the FULL pathname. It works on some PC but now on >some others. I'm using IE on win98/2000. The offending one is IE6

Re: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread David Otton
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:33:54 -0500, you wrote: >Basically in the class I have methods that perform a task, and return true >on success, or false on failure. Easy enough. If it returns false however, I >want to display errors for the user. The best way I can think of doing this >is adding a member v

Re: [PHP] Attention everyone 0-t

2003-08-14 Thread David Otton
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 02:17:21 +0200, you wrote: >> for some reason over 90% of all posters to this list has been >> > blacklisted by spamcop... >> >> And how do you know this? > >I use mailwasher pro which queries spamcop for all mail i recieve and >automatically blacklists it so i wont have to both

Re: [PHP] counting files, choosing at random

2003-08-14 Thread David Otton
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:54:58 +0200, you wrote: > > I want to choose a file at random from a > directory which adheres to certain naming scheme. > I can't get it to work. It's probably something > simple...Here is a relevant snippet: > >http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.p

Re: [PHP] Container Functions Continued.....

2003-08-14 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:04:00 -0400, you wrote: >First of all, I understand the argument about having a testing, development >and live servers, however, in the real world not every client can afford >that hardware and it is not always feasable for smaller websites to have all >the equipment. The

Re: [PHP] how to change index.php?passwd to index.php in the address bar

2003-08-14 Thread David Otton
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:03:43 +0530, you wrote: >Thanks for the message. Actually I tried only html files in the beginning. >Let me explain my problem. > >I want to open a new window in a link with a function as >function newwindow() >{ >window.open("/home.php?userid=user1","Homepage"); >} Th

Re: [PHP] how to change index.php?passwd to index.php in the address bar

2003-08-14 Thread David Otton
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:18:13 +0530, you wrote: In your first post you say > When go to a new page from login page the address bar has >localhost/regsuccess.php?password="ASD" But in your second, >Method Not Allowed >The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /products.html.

Re: [PHP] Category and sub-category logic

2003-08-14 Thread David Otton
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 00:20:58 +0200, you wrote: >Hi, >I am thinking of making a program for personal use which does a very simple >thing, just displays listings under categories, >eg: >under main category "Auto" there would be "cars","bikes" etc >under "banking" there would be "financing","loans"

Re: [PHP] call function as variable

2003-08-16 Thread David Otton
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 07:58:27 +0200, you wrote: >I have folowing function which they are a member in a class. > >function foo(){ >something >} > >function zoo(){ >something else >} > > >and i have a array such: > >$test = array(1=>foo,2=zoo); > >and i want to call the fuction foo() and zoo somethin

Re: [PHP] Nestled 'while's or 'for's or 'foreach's -- I'm lost

2003-08-17 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:47:04 -0400, you wrote: >I'm trying to take a paged result set and divide it into two chunks for >displaying on the page. Basically making something that looks like a typical >thumbnail gallery. I'm limiting my result set to 6 records and want to >display it as 2 rows of 3 c

Re: [PHP] How do they do that?

2003-08-17 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 23:13:24 -0400, you wrote: >I was wondering. >http://www.php.net/date >gives me/redirects to: >http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php > >How do they do that? >What $_post[??] is that? Or is it a sevrer (Apache, I suppose?) thing? I don't know how php.net does it, but I

Re: [PHP] Removing empty array values.

2003-08-18 Thread David Otton
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:03:25 -0400, you wrote: >How do I remove empty array values? That could mean a lot of things. I'm going to assume you have a simple indexed array and want to remove any entries where array[index] == FALSE, and reindex the array. The most elegant way is to copy all the valu

Re: FW: [PHP] pop3 functions

2003-08-19 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:15:00 -0500, you wrote: >I will definitely agree that there are a few inconsistencies in the >function naming... more than likely due to the many many contributors, >and a lack of strict naming conventions. My pet hate: bool array_walk (array, function) array array_map

Re: [PHP] in the middle of shift and pop

2003-08-19 Thread David Otton
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:25:32 +0200, you wrote: >is it possible to remove an element of an indexed array such as this exemple > $A = array('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'); >in a way that we can optain this result : > $A = array('a', 'b', 'd', 'e', 'f'); > >something like that perhaps ? >a

Re: [PHP] COM("Excel.Sheet")

2003-08-20 Thread David Otton
On 20 Aug 2003 15:11:26 +0200, you wrote: >i'd like to use full power of Excel.Sheet COM object. Does anybody know >where can I find full documentation of Excel.Sheet COM object ? Uh... MSDN? http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odeopg/html/deovrworkingwithofficeappli

Re: [PHP] Question on syntax...

2003-08-20 Thread David Otton
On 20 Aug 2003 09:57:20 -0500, you wrote: >I've seen this a few times in some code examples... > >XXX::XXX > >What do the 2 colons signify? Static method of an object. Calling a method of a class without first instantiating an instance of the class. /* Class A has method B */ cl

Re: [PHP] CHAT about PHP

2003-08-20 Thread David Otton
On 20 Aug 2003 11:31:02 -0400, you wrote: >On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 11:11, Curt Zirzow wrote: >> * Thus wrote Damian Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> > www.phpexpert.org >> > Programming Help >> > and General Programming Topics >> >> Is this a joke? > >Looks like an email harvester. Why does it need an

Re: [PHP] Any similiar function to number_format????

2003-08-21 Thread David Otton
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:12:16 -0400, you wrote: >This time, without a period. For example, if I get a '1', I would like to >format it to be '01' in two digit. printf ("%02d", 1); -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Random selection

2003-08-23 Thread David Otton
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 15:06:32 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: >In my mysql db i have a colum called names; > >In names their are: > >Frank >Frank >Bob >Alice >Bob >Alice >Jim >Alice >Frank > >I want to make a random selection (max 3 value's for example).. Only it may not >produce two times the same name.

Re: [PHP] str_replace performance in large mailing script

2003-08-24 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:42:01 +0200, you wrote: >I have a mailing script that sends individualised mails to users(some >users even get more than one mail). >I have a template html mail file. I individualise this by using >str_replace function. >It is really slow. >Can anyone point me to some perf

Re: [PHP] str_replace performance in large mailing script

2003-08-24 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:38:13 +0100, you wrote: >Second tip is that sprintf() should be faster than str_replace(). Compare: > >$text = "Hello %s"; >$name = "John"; > >echo (str_replace ("%s", $name, $text)); >echo (sprintf ($text, $name)); Thinking about it, straight concatenation should be faster

Re: [PHP] Reading an MS Access Database file on *NIX platform using PHP

2003-08-24 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:54:41 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >I'm building a small web application for a friend using PHP. He'd like to >use MS Access to keep the data in, and update the data on the site by FTP'ing >Access files he edits on his machine up to the web host. > >The web host is unix-based (F

Re: [PHP] user verification with apache/php question

2003-08-26 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0700, you wrote: >I want to password protect a directory with a .htaccess file. But i don't >want to use the (ugly) browser popup login window. > >Is there a way that php sends the password/login data to apache so that the >browser popup won't show up? Chapter 16 in

Re: [PHP] Controlling Access

2003-08-26 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:44:59 -0700, you wrote: >I have an application that consists of some 30 php modules. Each one links >to another, as you can imagine. How can I create a security mechanism that >only allows the modules in my system to be called from one-another? I do >nto want any of the

Re: [PHP] web services

2003-03-21 Thread David Otton
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 22:49:05 +0100, you wrote: >I am currently trying to understand how to place content on a different site >without giving away my code. SOAP seems to be the solution. I am absolutly First off, I have to say this is a social problem, not a technical one. If you're worried about

Re: [PHP] Removing Risky Characters

2003-03-22 Thread David Otton
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 09:34:03 -0500, you wrote: >When validating user input to remove quotes and other characters that >can be used for hacks, does one need to be concerned about the high- >ASCII characters which have 'quote' meanings (e.g. 0x91 - 0x94). I >presume not, but just wanted to verify

Re: [PHP] Password Authentication

2003-03-22 Thread David Otton
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 09:31:14 -0500, you wrote: >First off, there are multiple encryption methods out there -- PHP >crypt() and the mcrypt functions, and MySQL encrypt(), for encryption; >and the md5 etc. functions for hashing. Is there any information on >best practices here, particularly in u

Re: [PHP] Separators in variable values causing MySQL commands to fail

2003-03-22 Thread David Otton
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:50:30 +, you wrote: >OK, I can bypass my oversight by stripping out apostophes from the >variable values. There has to be a better way please. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-escape-string.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscr

Re: [PHP] Test the server.

2003-03-22 Thread David Otton
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 12:59:19 -0800, you wrote: >Yes I know but my aim is to make a php script which checks automaticly >if the php and the shell functions I need are available. If you look at the output of phpinfo() you'll see a whole bunch of variables that are set differently depending on the

Re: [PHP] numbers problem

2003-03-23 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 14:09:26 +0100, you wrote: >And please note that I've seen that it happens only when >$row_Recordset1['Prezzo'] > 1000 What's the largest number you can get from the table? Exactly? 1000 is suspiciously close to 1024. Is it possible that your table is using a smaller data type

Re: [PHP] Removing Risky Characters

2003-03-23 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:51:43 -0500, you wrote: >My question was about input. What happens if someone enters an ASCII >147 or 148 in a form field, for example? Will PHP interpret them as >quotes? Or is only an ASCII 34 seen as a quote. If the former, will >addslashes() add shashes to them?

Re: [PHP] reloading a page..

2003-03-23 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 12:15:25 -0500, you wrote: >Not sure why things like this are so difficult. I have an authentication >script which allows users access to certain pages based on their user level. >If they click on a link to go to a page their not allowed to, I want to be First, why are the pa

Re: [PHP] Finding out which file is retrieved over HTTP

2003-03-23 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:21:39 +0100, you wrote: >The following short script retrieves a file over HTTP: > >$url = 'http://www.example.com/'; >implode('',file($url)); // or file_get_contents() > >Now I'd like to find out which file was really retrieved, for instance >http://www.example.com/index.ht

Re: [PHP] Web server request redirection

2003-03-27 Thread David Otton
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:10:34 +0100, you wrote: >Ray Hunter wrote: >They are two: >1/ php+apache/linux webserver (reachable from outside) >2/ iis/w2k running web service (behind firewall) > > > You can also create scripts that receive post data and then submit that > > data to another server via p

Re: [PHP] PHP and Web Services (where to start?)

2003-03-29 Thread David Otton
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 20:12:27 -0800, you wrote: >I'm a total newbie to programming, but I picked up PHP last month and redesigned my >website (I think it's great). > >What I want to do now, is create a price comparison engine of online bookstores using >PHP and whatever web services the vendors s

Re: [PHP] Individual member pages

2003-04-04 Thread David Otton
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 11:16:49 +0100, you wrote: >How could I have individual pages for each member who registers? >(ie) Pages only that member can see. > >Would this be easy(ish) to do or should I study PHP a little more first? This is a very general question. Yes it's possible, and yes you should

Re: [PHP] Bug ?

2003-04-05 Thread David Otton
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 09:40:19 +0300, you wrote: >I tried something like this: > >$arrayA = array(5,4,3,2,1); >$arrayB = $arrayA; >array_multisort($arrayA); >echo $arrayA[0], ""; >echo $arrayB[0]; >?> > > >The output is: >1 >1 > >I think it should be: >1 >5 It's not a bug (ie this is expected behavi

Re: Re[2]: [PHP] Bug ?

2003-04-05 Thread David Otton
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 13:18:08 +0300, you wrote: >David, thank you very much. I suspected smth. like this, but still, it is >weird: PHP already has the "&" operator (?) for assigning by reference. The reference operator $b = &$a; forces $b and $a to be references to the same variable now and forev

Re: [PHP] I guess I'll give the list a shot

2003-05-31 Thread David Otton
On Fri, 30 May 2003 21:47:03 -0400, you wrote: >Hi all, I've got a really tough question, I am building an application that >allows PayPal's shopping cart to have multiple items, but also multiple >prices for the same item, but a different style or size or color, and Im >quite stuck on how I wo

Re: [PHP] Getting the parsing time of a script

2003-05-31 Thread David Otton
On Sat, 31 May 2003 11:39:41 +0100, you wrote: >Is there any way getting the time taken to parse a script? > >IE: > >This page took 0.13 seconds to generate. Call microtime() at the beginning and end of the script. $timeTaken = $timeEnd - $timeStart; see http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.m

Re: [PHP] callback function via preg_replace_callback

2003-06-08 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 16:25:19 -0400, you wrote: >I have Function A containing a preg_replace_callback calling Function B. >The code works quite nicely. > >Now, is there a way for the callback function (B) to receive *additional* >arguments >(from A), so that, for example, it may optionally perform

Re: [PHP] HELP PLEASE

2003-06-08 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 13:31:25 +0300, you wrote: >AGES AND TRYING TO FIND A GOOD RSS CREATOR , PLEASE HELP, NOTE THAT I TRIED >http://www.phpclasses.org . PHP Classes Repository > > BUT I DIDN'T MANAGE > > PLEASE HELP ME A simple RSS document is pretty easy to generate. It's just text...

Re: [PHP] regexp for URL

2003-06-08 Thread David Otton
On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 07:13:43 +0200, you wrote: >Does anyone have a good regular expression for capturing all http URL in >a string? >now i'm using ?(http://[a-z0-9-/_;&=+-\.\?:@]+)\b?mi >in one of my programs, that is, all strings beginning with http:// and >contain chars like a-z0-9 ... > >does

Re: [PHP] Problem in windows

2003-06-14 Thread David Otton
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 08:02:57 -0400, you wrote: >I just installed php/mysql on my windows machine, now when I try to run >a script I get this: > >Use of undefined constant s_UID - assumed 's_UID' in >c:\inetpub\wwwroot\php_test\inc\session.php > >And then some Undefined variable: s_UserInfo. > >An

Re: [PHP] trigger download with left-click?

2003-06-17 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 06:00:28 -0500, you wrote: >I have a site with hundreds of downloadable forms in MS Word format. >Right now to download a form you have to right-click and choose "Save >Target As..." to download the form. Is there a simple script that I >could put in that would trigger the d

Re: [PHP] Problems passing variables from Javascript to PHP

2003-06-17 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:00:26 +0200, you wrote: >I'm embedding an SQL query constructed in Javascript to an URL and opening >it in PHP where I try to execute it. I can't believe anyone hasn't jumped on this yet :) Please be very, very careful. There's a big big hole there. >Problem is, the strin

Re: [PHP] Disaple warnings

2003-06-17 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:25:39 +0200, you wrote: >I have the following code: >if (file_exists("themes/$ThemeSel/modules/$name/$mod_file.php")) { $modpath >= "themes/$ThemeSel/";} > >At home on my PC (WinXP+PHP4.3.2) this code works without warnings. >But in my office (Win2000+PHP4.3.0) I always

Re: [PHP] Redirecting to index.php from index.html

2003-06-17 Thread David Otton
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:41:34 -0600, you wrote: >I'm a relative newbie to PHP coming from the Zope/Python/DTML world. Does >anyone know of a good way, short of a javascript, to redirect from index.html >to index.php. Also, can I use PHP to test for browsers, then redirect them >to the appropr

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