RE: [PHP] Php | Architect Magazine?

2002-11-10 Thread John W. Holmes
> Has anyone taken a look at this magazine yet (www.phparch.com)? I came > across mention of it on Slashdot earlier today and it looks interesting. > I > am considering subscribing but wouldn't mind some feedback about the > overall quality of the publication beforehand. > > Nick Oostveen It's ne

RE: [PHP] confusion in session vars

2002-11-10 Thread John W. Holmes
> did any one face a prob when session vars get mixed from a website to > another when you use the same browser window ? No, did you? ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] Handling Errors Gracefully

2002-11-10 Thread John W. Holmes
Well, if you rule out ob_* and javascript, the best you can probably do is to just include() your error page or write a function to display it. You won't be redirected to the page, but it'll show up. ---John Holmes... > -Original Message- > From: Monty [mailto:monty3@;hotmail.com] > Sent:

RE: [PHP] isset doesn't like "->"?

2002-11-10 Thread John W. Holmes
> I don't know if this is a bug, or what, but I get an error when trying the > following > > if ( isset($adodbobject->Fields('myresult') ) ) { // do something } > > PHP throws an error ( not warning ) saying: > Parse error: parse error, expecting `','' or `')'' in /path/to/index.php > on > line 45

RE: [PHP] Re: Request entity too large (already seen the FAQ)

2002-11-10 Thread John W. Holmes
> OK, thanks for no help whatsoever. But I'm not bitter; I'm here to > report what I found so that the next guy with this problem isn't stuck: > > The PHP docs say to change variables in /etc/php.ini (like the whole > world knows about) but the key is to *also* look into php.CONF, too. >

RE: [PHP] date comparison

2002-11-10 Thread John W. Holmes
> I have a problem here again regarding the date comparison. I need to > check the most recent date that was entered in mysql database in date > format ("Y-m-d"), if the datetoday is a day or two days in advanced > compared to the queried date. > I need to make sure that the next inserted date in

RE: [PHP] Urgent CPU and|or hdd test

2002-11-11 Thread John W. Holmes
> Is there a way i can test the cpu or the hdd for its serial number in php > under linux and win? Can you do it from the command line? Run the same command through exec(). You can only get information for the server, not anything about the client's computer, btw... ---John Holmes... -- PHP G

RE: [PHP]

2002-11-11 Thread John W. Holmes
> Line 110: > > VALUES ('$receptor[1]', '$mfi->email', '$frm[priority]', '$frm[title]', > '$frm[description]', now(), '$on_special') Those "errors" are just warnings. It's telling you that $receptor[1] does not have a value when it reaches that statement. Does that matter to you? You may want to

RE: [PHP] [ANN] Zip code db available with latitude and longitude

2002-11-11 Thread John W. Holmes
This is actually a pretty common question on here, so it's good to know of another source to point people to. ---John Holmes... > -Original Message- > From: Bret L Conard [mailto:bretlc@;donet.com] > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 12:11 PM > To: Brian Dunning; Ernest E Vogelsinger > Cc:

RE: [PHP] [ANN] Zip code db available with latitude and longitude

2002-11-11 Thread John W. Holmes
> On Tuesday 12 November 2002 01:26, John W. Holmes wrote: > > This is actually a pretty common question on here, so it's good to know > > of another source to point people to. > > You really meant "... so it's good to know that if people search the > arc

RE: [PHP] _POST & _GET

2002-11-11 Thread John W. Holmes
> Hi- > Can I use both _GET and _POST in the same php file? Thanks!! > -Greg Yes, you can use both in your code, but only one method is going to be valid when your page is requested by a user. A user can't request a page with both a GET and POST request at the same time. ---John Holmes... --

RE: [PHP] Undefined Variable errors

2002-11-11 Thread John W. Holmes
> I'm migrating to PHP from ColdFusion. > > I've been running some sample scripts I have found in various places and > all > of them throw an error: > > Notice: Undefined variable: in > c:\inetpub\wwwroot\myphpcalendar\ on line . > > In ColdFusion, I can use the tag to preset a variable. I've

RE: [PHP] wildcard search?

2002-11-11 Thread John W. Holmes
You'll do it in the database, not PHP. Look into using LIKE in your query... SELECT * FROM yourtable WHERE column LIKE '%searchterm%' The % characters are wildcards that'll match any amount of characters. You can use _ to match a single character. You could also look at FULL-TEXT indexing in M

RE: [PHP] Moving Files From One Directory To Another

2002-11-11 Thread John W. Holmes
> Which built-in PHP functions would I use to move a file from one directory > into another? I'm thinking that this requires more than one function to > achieve what I want. > > What approaches should I take? Do I need to copy the file into a temporary > directory first and then move it to the des

RE: [PHP] Can you read a parsing PHP page's results

2002-11-12 Thread John W. Holmes
> Is there anyway at all of reading the results of a parsing PHP page from > within that same PHP page itself. In other words can you read the HTML > code > it's going to create. I know that you can use regular expressions to parse > the HTML page manually swapping variable content as you would wit

RE: [PHP] Trying to e-mail password

2002-11-12 Thread John W. Holmes
If you want an email password feature, then just store it as plain text. If someone is able to get access to your database, that means they more than likely have access to the rest of your box, so your 'secret code' is worthless. ---John Holmes... > -Original Message- > From: rija [mailto

RE: [PHP] $_SESSION

2002-11-12 Thread John W. Holmes
> I have some code that looks like this: > > if(!session_is_registered('errors')) > session_register('errors'); > > but i want to do this using the $_SESSION, i tried > doing it this way > > if(!isset($_SESSION['errors'])) > session_register('errors'); > > but when i echo(isset($_SESSION['e

RE: [PHP] Trying to e-mail password

2002-11-12 Thread John W. Holmes
> I don't think so, > data stored as plain text is almost stored intact in the file system. > > Using stupid windows for example, > you can easily open mysql file "table.MYD" in the folder database with > NotePad, and you can read everything. Which means, everybody without any > hacking knowledge

RE: [PHP] Trying to e-mail password

2002-11-12 Thread John W. Holmes
> Using ENCODE and DECODE with protected 'secret code' help you to improve > your security and user's security. And you don't lost anything doing this, > on the contrary, it is a good marketing arguments, like as your system > (site) is more safe than other and user could fell in. And where do you

RE: [PHP] Trivial newbie regex question

2002-11-13 Thread John W. Holmes
He wants just "index" though, instead of "index.html" You can do it a variety of ways. You can use basename() like Jonathan said, and just strip off the last 5 characters using substr(). Or you can use either of the following two regular expressions. preg_match('~/([^/]*)\.html$~', $source, $des

RE: [PHP] Trivial newbie regex question

2002-11-13 Thread John W. Holmes
Wiltgen'; 'List ? PHP General' > Subject: Re: [PHP] Trivial newbie regex question > > but my way is so pretty! i mean, who cares if it doesn't work 'exactly' > as you want, we're going for the ballpark solution right??? > > fine... > sub

RE: [PHP] multiple file upload

2002-11-14 Thread John W. Holmes
> Is it posible to do multiple file upload without selecting each file > manual > in multiple form fields? No. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] damn it... i want to tranfer data from one table to another!

2002-11-17 Thread John W. Holmes
> Why i can't tranfer data from one table to another with this code? I can't > pass "$reg" to $c and $t... : \ > thanks > > $ligacao=mysql_connect("localhost","","") or die (mysql_error()); > $real="INSERT INTO divx (titulo,cds) VALUES ('$t','$c')"; move the above line... > $temp="SELECT * F

RE: [PHP] preg_replace_callback

2002-11-17 Thread John W. Holmes
"callback" should be the name of a function that determines what the matched pattern will be replaced with. Maybe you just need the regular preg_replace(), instead of the one with callback? ---John Holmes... > -Original Message- > From: Bikeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday,

RE: [PHP] coding special characters in html

2002-11-17 Thread John W. Holmes
> I'm cooking tothether a tiny php html editor right now, (textarea kind > of thing). To treat the text properly I need to encode characters like > '"', '<', '>', and friends into something that doesn't confuse the > browser. Htmlentities() or htmlspecialchars() > By the way, do you think encodi

RE: [PHP] Query to select every other record

2002-11-17 Thread John W. Holmes
Okay, stop and take a break. Now come back to the problem and ask yourself how you can display the results, two at a time on each row. After you display every second item, you want to end the row and start another one. Something like this... "; while($r = mysql_fetch_row($result)) { echo "show y

RE: [PHP] sending html email from a web-based form

2002-11-17 Thread John W. Holmes
> Here is the code that is supposed to do what I want: > > $headers = "From: \"$name $last\" <$email>\n" . "Reply-To: <$email>\n\n"; Try taking out the extra newline (\n) you have in the above line. Actually, the headers are supposed to be separated by \r\n, instead of just \n, also. ---John Hol

RE: [PHP] Phasing HTML

2002-11-18 Thread John W. Holmes
> OK I am trying to take some content from another site (I have total > consent) > and convert all the prices on the site to 5% more. I can get all the > content > off the site and display it where I want. I can ereg_replace all the money > to one price such as ($23.50) but I can't change the price

RE: [PHP] about processing time of function INCLUDE

2002-11-19 Thread John W. Holmes
> Is it will increase the processing time when too many "include" process in > a > program? Well, each include() takes up time, so yes. It depends on what you're including, though, as to how big of an impact it has on your program. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php

RE: [PHP] plus sign has changed to space after POST

2002-11-19 Thread John W. Holmes
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 6:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] plus sign has changed to space after POST > > After upgrade to 4.2.3, plus "+" sign has changed to space after POST. I > have checke

RE: [PHP] plus sign has changed to space after POST

2002-11-19 Thread John W. Holmes
ecause > user might input a string like "abc+%3423324hello%23ddd" > > > > > > > "John W. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 11/19/2002 03:52 PM > Please respond to holmes072000 > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL

RE: [PHP] plus sign has changed to space after POST

2002-11-19 Thread John W. Holmes
> might be my php code has problem the following code fragment will keep "+" > to "+" but "$" to "%24" That's what urlencode() is supposed to do. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] Seconds to minutes

2002-11-19 Thread John W. Holmes
> You can do something like this: > $seconds = 265; > $time = date('i s',$seconds); > $minSecs = explode(' ',$time); > echo "{$minSecs[0]} minutes and {$minSecs[1]} seconds\n"; > ?> That doesn't work for anything over 3599 seconds, though... ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List

RE: [PHP] plus sign has changed to space after POST

2002-11-19 Thread John W. Holmes
t I describe earlier in the thread. I can't save > %24 in the database but "$". > > ie > a user send a string "abc+def$ghi", I need to get the exact string back > but not "abc+def%24ghi". > > so is this a bug in PHP?? > > > > &

RE: [PHP] Simple Question on Date conversion

2002-11-20 Thread John W. Holmes
> Dear all > Can anyone pls tell me how i can turn number : 10 to Oct? > i counting on the month, that's why i won't to convert the result to > month! $months = array(1=>'January',2=>'February',3=>'March',...); echo $months[$your_month_number]; You could also use a combo of date() and mktime().

RE: [PHP] flush() issue

2002-11-20 Thread John W. Holmes
What do the include/EXPORT_*.php files do? ---John Holmes... > -Original Message- > From: Jock Pereira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 8:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] flush() issue > > Having an issue getting flush to work. Browser version

RE: [PHP] manage Form data

2002-11-20 Thread John W. Holmes
> -Original Message- > From: ??? ?ta? [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 8:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] manage Form data > > I want to sumbit data from a form and then view the data and then send it > to the data base... That's awesom

RE: [PHP] How to: If($var != '#' OR '#')

2002-11-20 Thread John W. Holmes
> I have code that says: > > if($_GET['sc'] != '2' OR '8'){ > do this. > } if($_GET['sc'] != 2 || $_GET['sc'] != 8) { do this... } You don't need the single quotes if you're comparing integers. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visi

RE: [PHP] Still having ereg migranes

2002-11-20 Thread John W. Holmes
> Sorry to repost this, but I haven't found a solution > and it's still nagging me. Maybe some of you can come > up with something I can't. Here was my original post: > > I've made myself an tag that > contains in the value attribute a list of > comma-delimited numbers. I need to find if a certai

RE: [PHP] File Uploads

2002-11-21 Thread John W. Holmes
> I just wanted to know if there was a way to control the owner of the new > file because when iupload files the owner is set to httpd which means that > I > can't access the file properly. Not much you can do about it, if PHP is running as a module. If it's CGI, then I think you can set it up so

RE: [PHP] PHP Coding HELP

2002-11-21 Thread John W. Holmes
> Users can upload their files, but the files they upload can only be > downloaded X amount of times. After they've been downloaded so many times > in > an ideal world they'd be automatically removed, though just to be made so > people couldn't download them anymore would be great. You need a down

RE: [PHP] Which is faster?

2002-11-21 Thread John W. Holmes
> I'm wondering which is faster, eregi('[A-Z]',$variable); or > ereg('A-Za-z',$variable);? Well, you're not even matching the same thing, for one... And, second, why not read this page, www.php.net/microtime so you can do your own testing in the future? They run about the same in my tests, assum

[PHP] FW: ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found and action taken.

2002-11-21 Thread John W. Holmes
---John Holmes… -Original Message- From: System Attendant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:40 PM To: 'John W. Holmes' Subject: ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found and action taken. Trend SMEX Content Filter has detected sensitiv

[PHP] RE: [PHP-DB] Help with Date

2002-11-21 Thread John W. Holmes
> Is there a way to convert a date " 20/11/2002 " to a Float number in PHP, > since the date starts in 30/12/1899, just like the delphi treats the > dates Yeah, of course. To convert "20/11/2002" into a float, just do echo (float)"20/11/2002"; and you get 20!! Or you can use strtotime() to

RE: [PHP] PHP/MySQL

2002-11-22 Thread John W. Holmes
> What is the line code to optain the system date? > I propose is to compare the system date with the date in one field in the > database... Then what would be the mysql command to select all the rows > with > date with 10 days or less from the system date? NOW, CURDATE(), or CURRENT_DATE SELECT

Re: [PHP] Re: Website templating schemes

2003-08-27 Thread John W. Holmes
rush wrote: While PHP is often considered as template system in it self, I think it is is not very strong, or efficient one. Wow... where'd you pull that from?? Any facts to back that up? :) FYI: I've got a template benchmark site running at http://sepodati.realxl.net/tpl_bench/ Any interest in

Re: [PHP] IS THIS A BUG?

2003-08-27 Thread John W. Holmes
Steve Todd wrote: Is it possible to define a variable, such as: $foo = "bar"; and then do as follows to create a totally different variable: $$foo = "text here"; this seems to mean $bar = "text here";. Is this a bug or can we legally use it. Yes it's legal. http://us2.php.net/manual/en/lan

Re: [PHP] can pdf forms be used to submit data into db?

2003-08-27 Thread John W. Holmes
Chris Boget wrote: All the information is on www.php.net/fdf. I just read the above page and I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would want to do this. Of course, it's likely that I am simply being myopic. Would anyone who's actually used fdf enlighten as to the need to do it this wa

Re: [PHP] can pdf forms be used to submit data into db?

2003-08-28 Thread John W. Holmes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, that is EXACTLY what i want, now the question is...have you seen this implemented somewhere? so php would pass the data to a database and when a user/client wants to see that data again, php would "re-generate" the form with the data that is being requested right?

Re: [PHP] beginner: cut text after " "

2003-08-28 Thread John W. Holmes
Andras Kende wrote: Hello All, I have a very simple question: Want to remove the string after the first whitespace like: "here is a text what i have" to: "here" $word = substr($sentence,0,strpos($sentence,' ')); -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ ph

Re: [PHP] selecting based on a month in a date

2003-08-28 Thread John W. Holmes
Creative Solutions New Media wrote: Hi, Asked this on the mySQL list but it seems to be more of a PHP syntax thing that a mySQL thing. In have the following line in PHP I have a mySQL table which contains dates formatted as dates(-xx-xx) I want to select all records based on a specific mon

Re: [PHP] post v get

2003-08-28 Thread John W. Holmes
andu wrote: When you POST a form to the server the server replies with a new page. if you click the Back button in the browser the server wants to re-POST the form. Short of using GET is there a way to prevent re-submitting the previous form? Of course. :) One technique is to use a "middle-man" p

Re: [PHP] How to?

2003-08-29 Thread John W. Holmes
Jay Fitzgerald wrote: I need to create a form for this example in php. I need to have an unlimited number of seats with radio buttons next to each seat for the user to be able to select. BUT, when the user visits this page, it needs to pull the seats taken from the db and cross them out, render

Re: [PHP] Absolute URLs with Require & Include

2003-08-29 Thread John W. Holmes
Seth Willits wrote: Is there anyway to get an absolute URL to work with Require & Include? Why doesn't it work already? I did see the tip about using $_SERVER, but this slows down page-loading considerably. You can use URLs in your include() or require() calls. include("http://www.google.co

Re: [PHP] converting date into database date format(newbie)

2003-08-29 Thread John W. Holmes
Anil Garg wrote: I am reading date in the format "08-Aug-03" from a text file. While writing this date into the myqsl database's date column it shows '00-00-'. Is there a function or some other way to convert "08-Aug-03" type of dates in to format which is acceptable by date field of the mysql

Re: [PHP] Array Push and Keys

2003-08-29 Thread John W. Holmes
Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote: Having said that, I've just given you a clue: since array_push($array, $var) is equivalent to $array[] = $var, you can get the result you want by doing: $array[] = array($k, $v); (with, of course, appropriate values for $array, $k and $v substituted to suit your code!).

Re: [PHP] Gripe

2003-08-29 Thread John W. Holmes
Jackson Miller wrote: Why is it that when you forget a "}" the error says: Unexpected $ on line [last line of file] Why can't it just say: Missing } on or before (best guess). How could the parser possibly know that one was missing as it's going through the file? It just keeps a count and can only

Re: [PHP] cookie crumbles

2003-09-01 Thread John W. Holmes
John Taylor-Johnston wrote: $StudentId = "weather.htm9995"; if (!isset($_COOKIE["weather.htm$StudentId"])) if(!isset($_COOKIE[$StudentID])) { echo "Cookie not found, not reading weather.htm$StudentId"; echo "\$_COOKIE[\"weather.htm$StudentId\"]". $_COOKIE["weather.htm$StudentId"]."-"; }else{

Re: [PHP] multiple db query

2003-09-02 Thread John W. Holmes
Aris Santillan wrote: is it possible to query on 2 databases but with same tablename and merge its output? Probably. It depends upon your database, though. SELECT t1.column, t2.column FROM database1.table1 t1, database2.table2 t2 WHERE ... -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/r

Re: [PHP] how to include() N lines?

2003-09-02 Thread John W. Holmes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for your answers! i'm not quite sure if i made my point clear. this is my problem: image.php include("database.php"); ImagePNG($image, '', 95); imagedestroy($image); ?> database.php instead of including the whole database.php i need to include only a given number

Re: [PHP] search result highlighting / regexp voodoo

2003-09-02 Thread John W. Holmes
Lee O'Mara wrote: PROBLEM: I want to produce short "snippets" for search result pages. The search results are already partially processed (search terms get wrapped in [strong] tags), but I keep hitting dead-ends with this step. Now, I've tried a wide number of approaches, spent an embarasing am

Re: [PHP] register_globals

2003-09-02 Thread John W. Holmes
Deependra b. Tandukar wrote: Hi, I have configured PHP 4.3.3 in which register_gloabals is set to be off. I modified etc/php.ini and set it to be On but still it shows it is off and some developed applications in php are asking for it to be turned on. How do I do this? Did you restart the web

Re: [PHP] how to include() N lines?

2003-09-03 Thread John W. Holmes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This really begs the question of WTF you have a 10,000+ line file that you only need a couple lines from... seems like your logic is screwy. every time my script is executed a line is added to a given image. right now every image is saved as new file because it needs to re

Re: [PHP] php editor

2003-09-03 Thread John W. Holmes
STONE Steven wrote: What's the best php editor out there? Thanks in advance for nay replies! We've reached our quota on answering this question. Search the archives. -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals

Re: [PHP] Ob_start question

2003-09-03 Thread John W. Holmes
Beauford.2005 wrote: I am getting this error: Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /usr/local/apache/php/includes/2004server.inc:24) in /usr/local/apache/php/includes/restricted.inc on line 5 I have ob_start

Re: [PHP] Q on Class and EXTEND

2003-09-03 Thread John W. Holmes
jsWalter wrote: -Original Message- From: Matt Matijevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I dont know much about classes, but dont you want $a = new THECHILD('walter'); //so you can access $a->abc instead of $a = new THEPARENT ('walter'); No, I'm wanting to EXTEND the orginal class. meaning

Re: [PHP] Too Advanced? Re: Cookies & Hidden Image

2003-09-03 Thread John W. Holmes
Nicole wrote: I have the hidden image code: http://thetrackingurl/?param1=val1¶m2=val2&etc... height=0 width=0 border=0> This hidden image code is placed on the ThankYou page that people see after they have bought something. What it does is load a script on the tracking site to let the owner know

Re: [PHP] syntax error using header and SID

2003-09-04 Thread John W. Holmes
bob pilly wrote: Hi all Can someone tell me what the correct syntax is to pass a Session ID via the header redirect is? Im trying: header( "Location: page2.php?" ) but it isnt working for me and all the docs i can find just deal with tagging it to the end of a hyperlink. header("Location: page2.ph

Re: [PHP] Passing objects as a reference and extracting the index of an associative array.

2003-09-04 Thread John W. Holmes
Webmaster wrote: Hi, i am using the smarty template engine. Here is the problem that I would like to ask about: function initTop(&$page, $array) { for ($i=0; $iassignVars(, $array[$i]) } } The function is supposed to know which object's attributes she is supposed to change. Do I have to pass

Re: [PHP] Front Page User Logout

2003-09-04 Thread John W. Holmes
John Welty wrote: I'm only accessing the result of the user logging in through $GLOBALS["PHP_AUTH_USER"] I've tried unsetting that but it doesn't change anything. The only thing that logs a user out is them closing their browser and reopening it. I'd like a user to be able to switch usernames by c

Re: [PHP] session.save_path is a big security hole!

2003-09-04 Thread John W. Holmes
You didnt understand. I change save.session_path to other's site session directory, do session_start(), write every variable what i want, write down session number, go to this site and using this generated session. You cannt prevent this ever! Does enabling safe_mode counter any of these writing

Re: [PHP] HTML Template, PHP, Javascript & PATH_INFO

2003-09-04 Thread John W. Holmes
Richard A. DeVenezia wrote: [snip] I can do - site.com/info/template.html and get two alerts - site.com/info/content1.html and see a new text under H1 - site.com/info/slick.php/content1.html and get neither alert nor new text. - instead I get 4 browser (IE) 'problem alerts', I presume - 1. for

Re: [PHP] using fwrite to create PHP files

2003-09-05 Thread John W. Holmes
Vince LaMonica wrote: I wish to use fwrite() to create a small PHP file. So far, when I attempt to do this, php parses the contents of the file that fwrite needs to create. Eg, I have this: $new_id = mysql_insert_id(); // create brand new file $new_file = fopen("/var/www/html/$sitename/$submitted_

Re: [PHP] global array, can't assign values from variables

2003-09-05 Thread John W. Holmes
Chris Edwards wrote: I'm just going to give the code and output. It should be self explanatory. The array, $criteria, is having the issue. I don't know what it's doing. I cannot seem to assign the value from the $data variable to the $criteria[index] value. You will see some attempts to debug

Re: [PHP] Notices - Variable not defined

2003-09-05 Thread John W. Holmes
Leonie wrote: I have this code: if (!$path) { $path = getPath(); } Sometimes $path is set (there are forms on the page that can change it). When the page is first displayed: Notice: Undefined variable: path in e:\program/ etc... It then gives a reference to the line: if (!$path) { Is there

Re: [PHP] Too Advanced? Re: Cookies & Hidden Image

2003-09-05 Thread John W. Holmes
Nicole wrote: Not sure what else to do other than try something different. Using Cookie seems to be the only way to store the value on the client side for later retrieval. How about using a session and passing the session ID in the URL for the cookie? -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.am

Re: [PHP] Function calling from url

2003-09-06 Thread John W. Holmes
Robin Kopetzky wrote: I would like to call a function from a 's ACTION attribute. This is what I'm trying to do: I can include the PHP_FILENAME but passing parameters to the function I can't figure out how to do. Any help would be appreciated. Ummm... no. You call a PAGE from the action attribute

Re: [PHP] Unregistering several variables at once -- how?

2003-09-06 Thread John W. Holmes
James Johnson wrote: Hi, I have 15 - 20 $_SESSION vars that I want to clear when a user logs out. I've been doing it with the following code: if(session_is_registered($_SESSION['svUserID'])){ session_unregister($_SESSION['svUserID']); } But, this is tedious. Is there a better way, like se

Re: [PHP] A bd problem

2003-09-04 Thread John W. Holmes
Carlos Castillo wrote: HI, i have the following problem Im working with sql server 2000 in a windows xp pc, then in the bd i have a table called "noticias" and a text type field, when i insert into the field everything goes rigth, but when i try to get the info of teh field, i can get all the

Re: [PHP] this code unsets $_SESSION['editor'] but doesn't touch any other session variables

2003-09-07 Thread John W. Holmes
anders thoresson wrote: Hi, I've had troubles with an application that randomly (until now) unsets the session variable $_SESSION['editor']. I've hunted through all my code and finally managed to rule out everything else than the following couple of lines. It unsets the session variable $_SES

Re: [PHP] Re: highlighting multi term search results

2003-09-07 Thread John W. Holmes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag, 07.09.03 um 14:11 Uhr schrieb Catalin Trifu output: this is just a test (after the first term is highlighted the second one can't be found anymore.) but how to work around it?? Highlight the longest words first? -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.ama

Re: [PHP] Date Confusion

2003-09-07 Thread John W. Holmes
Seth Willits wrote: 2) Have a date string representing the first of the month and manipulate it to be the last day of the previous month. You can use mktime() for this. To get the last day of a given month, just give the parameters for the "zeroth" day of the next month. For example, to get th

Re: [PHP] php, denial of service attack

2003-09-08 Thread John W. Holmes
nabil wrote: I have a postnuke website and i had denial of service attack the point is the attack is one only the home php page ... with cpu 100% and few apache procceses.. Any comment ? It was not me. -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect:

Re: [PHP] storing quotes into a variable

2003-09-11 Thread John W. Holmes
Doug Parker wrote: isn't there a function that allows me to store a string with a bunch of quotes in it (like an html tag) into a variable? for example, i need something like: $perf_mod = http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc -- ---John Holm

Re: [PHP] Problem with HTML Text box and PHP variable.

2003-09-11 Thread John W. Holmes
Jim Lucas wrote: > $dins="Dinesh"; >>> echo ""; >>>?> >> >>Use double quotes for HTML attributes. > Why do you say that? Yeah, I figured someone would ask that. :) I couldn't find anything definitive on w3c.org; can someone back me up? AFAIK, they are required in XML and XHTML. It's a good h

Re: [PHP] Problem with HTML Text box and PHP variable.

2003-09-11 Thread John W. Holmes
Vail, Warren wrote: Question: will the substitution for the variable $dins occur if surrounded by single quotes? I could be mixing languages here, but I seem to recall a rule in one language about substituting variable contents only occurring between double quotes. In PHP, no, variables will no

Re: [PHP] Searching with Date Ranges

2003-09-11 Thread John W. Holmes
Seth Willits wrote: If I want to show events (records in a MySQL table) for the next 10 days (and I do), what would be the best approach to searching with this range? (The dates in my table are stored as a string in the format /MM/DD.) SELECT * FROM Table WHERE event_date BETWEEN NOW()

Re: [PHP] array encapsulate

2003-09-12 Thread John W. Holmes
Bill wrote: How do I know it won't just assume that $_POST["detail"][11][116] means the 116th character in the string $_POST["detail"][11]? Because $_POST['detail'][11] is an array (or it should be). If you're in doubt, make sure it is with is_array(). -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.a

Re: [PHP] Text into a url

2003-09-13 Thread John W. Holmes
Tom Wollaston wrote: Hi I am havening a problem retrieving url from a mysql database. I have the url's stored as text and am using the following code to retrieve them $query = "SELECT name,url FROM clubs WHERE url>'' ORDER BY name"; $result = @mysql_query($query) or die ("Query failed"); if (my

Re: [PHP] MySql Query Help: COUNT()

2003-09-13 Thread John W. Holmes
I'm trying to get the total number of a certain records from a database, but the result is always '1'. Please advise! =MySql Table = =activitiy = id | employee_id | project_id | date 1 | 45 | 60 | 2003-09-09 2 | 34 | 10 | 2003-09-10 3 | 45 | 45

Re: [PHP] Calling functions from Button actions

2003-09-13 Thread John W. Holmes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Dan J. Rychlik wrote: >>>Is their an easy way to call a function based upon a button action? >> >>Example: >> >> >> >> >> >> >>action.php: >>function action1() { >>echo "Hello, I'm action1"; >>} >> >> >>function action2() { >>echo "Hello, I'm action2"; >>}

Re: [PHP] Calling functions from Button actions

2003-09-13 Thread John W. Holmes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apologies i generally use this system for deleting records, i give a confirm box if they press ok it goes to another action, i suppose i should change this system to submit the form instead and check for the post var ? i guess at least it could store the http_referer then

Re: [PHP] change PHP include directory

2003-09-13 Thread John W. Holmes
Tim Thorburn wrote: Normally to change a sites include directory for PHP I'd use a .htaccess file and the following command: php_value include_path ".:/path/to/web/" Again normally, I would get the path to the site by doing a simple phpinfo(); command and find the _ENV["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] line n

Re: [PHP] Need Help Troubleshooting Code That Works Till It Comes to Form at End

2003-09-14 Thread John W. Holmes
Stephen Tiano wrote: So I got is to display every column of every entry. But when I tried a specialized select statement in the query box provided by the form at the very end of this code, when I pressed the "Submit" button, nothing changed; I was still left staring at the table of all the info

Re: [PHP] square brackets in form names violate HTML specs?

2003-09-14 Thread John W. Holmes
Curt Zirzow wrote: * Thus wrote Robert Cummings ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:21, Eugene Lee wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 06:15:29PM +, Curt Zirzow wrote: : * Thus wrote Eugene Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): : > Something I've noticed in PHP is a proliferation of code like this:

Re: [PHP] CGI Error, IIS

2003-09-14 Thread John W. Holmes
nabil wrote: Why this happen with me with IIS CGI Error The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are: Although it's not a bug, read this: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=12061 -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amaz

Re: [PHP] space sensitive?

2003-09-14 Thread John W. Holmes
Stevie D Peele wrote: Is PHP space sensitive?? PHP is very sensitive about it's space. Don't go into it's personal space otherwise you can upset it and cause it to cry. -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professiona

Re: [PHP] htmlentities -- can it skip tags

2003-09-14 Thread John W. Holmes
Justin French wrote: Hi all, I need to convert some text from a database for presentation on screen... as per usual, characters like quotes and ampersands (&) are giving me grief. the obvious answer is to apply htmlspecialchars(), BUT this also converts all < and > into < and > signs, which d

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP|Con insane pricing

2003-09-15 Thread John W. Holmes
Jeremy Brand, B.S. wrote: Thanks to everyone for their responses, though I still have not found a way to get to the conference at a reasonable price (what I consider reasonable). If anyone has any comments other than justifying the price of the conference, like a friends of php list I can get o

Re: [PHP] PHP|Con insane pricing

2003-09-15 Thread John W. Holmes
Jeremy Johnstone wrote: Actually the $495 is the conference fee only... It does not include the $160 a night for the hotel room (price of the hotel the conference is at), or food, or transportation. That is just your ticket into the conference. Factor in everything else, and your easily up to $150

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