Re: [PHP] Timing a MySQL response

2004-03-21 Thread John W. Holmes
Richard Davey wrote: Just a quick question - but does anyone know how to get the ms value back from MySQL that tells you how long it took to run your query? That value is not returned at all. Go with the wrapper... -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/

Re: [PHP] This Group....

2004-03-20 Thread John W. Holmes
gordon stewart wrote: Can someone point me in the right direction to some tutorials ( *EXAMPLES* ) to do the following functions (or point mer to an appropriate forum - see above).. http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ :- Open a file insert into an array/variable. (im trying to figure that one out

Re: [PHP] Convert Date Format?

2004-03-20 Thread John W. Holmes
Jeff Oien wrote: How do I convert this 9/8/2001 (which is Month/Day/Year) to this 20010908 (YearMonthDay - with leading zeros) echo date('Ymd',strtotime('9/8/2001')); -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals

Re: [PHP] DB connection problem

2004-03-19 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Khalid Judeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] i have a problem connecting to mysql db, i use the following code to connect to the db: $DBConn = mysql_connect(localhost, myusername,mypassword) or die(Could not connect to database, . mysql_error()); mysql_select_db(db1, $DBConn); and i get the

Re: [PHP] confused about logic

2004-03-19 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Aaron Wolski [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have input for where users can enter order numbers in which to search the database to find results matching their entry. To enter multiple order numbers they can comma separate like: 1,34,21,34,54 What I need to do is take those numbers and make a

Re: [PHP] Session problems...

2004-03-19 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Eric Gorr [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I visit test1.php with the url: http://domainpath/test1.php?name=billpwd=henry I see the output: user = 'bill' ID= 41699d4461e8fe3a71243bb3cb1c2298' You were remembered and are now being redirected to the home page. If this fails for some reason

Re: [PHP] RE: Guru's advice needed ........[Security: SQL injection]

2004-03-19 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Marek Kilimajer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt Chatterley wrote: In addition to protecting against SQL Injection, has anyone here experimented with detecting and recording attempts at injection? I've been pondering checking strings which come directly from user input for sql keywords

[PHP] What does it take to give a good technical presentation?

2004-03-19 Thread John W. Holmes
Since I'm fresh back from php|cruise, I thought I'd comment and ask for comments on what it takes to give a good technical presentation. I'm planning on writing about this topic in my next php|architect column, so be aware that anything said here may appear in it. This is in no way a jab at any

Re: [PHP] What does it take to give a good technical presentation?

2004-03-19 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Chris Shiflett [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3) Typing Code: Don't type code during your presentation. Why not? From my experience, people appreciate live demonstrations of the techniques you're discussing. Yeah, live demos are great, but I don't want to sit there and watch you type all of your

Re: [PHP] Blank Page instead of Errors

2004-03-19 Thread John W. Holmes
Jonathan Duncan wrote: I am getting blank pages (or partial blank pages if my HTML comes before the PHP) instead of errors. I know there are errors on the page because I have specifically put parse errors in my code to see if the server would give me errors, but instead all I get are blank

Re: [PHP] Simple question

2004-03-19 Thread John W. Holmes
webmaster wrote: how is the best way to keep from getting the submit button from comming through with the variables Don't name it? Just remember that users can send _any_ variable they want through a form... blindly looping through and accepting $_POST as a whole is probably a bad idea. --

Re: [PHP] How to keep a timestamp from updating?

2004-03-18 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Brian Dunning [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a timestamp field that updates itself with NOW() every time I update the record. I don't want that to happen - I want it to remain as the original creation timestamp. How do I prevent this from happening? Set it equal to itself or use a DATETIME

Re: [PHP] ereg_replace help

2004-03-18 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Richard Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sure this is blindingly simple, but could anyone tell me how to get an ereg_replace() to return a string where all characters OTHER than alpha-numerics have been stripped out? $output = ereg_replace('[^a-zA-Z0-9]','',$string); The ^ is NOT (when the

Re: [PHP] How to edit a datetime field?

2004-03-18 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Brian Dunning [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to set a datetime field to 24 hours in the future... NOW()+6000, which worked on a timestamp field, only gives 12 seconds in the future. Algebra suggested I try NOW()+720 which is invalid. field = NOW() + INTERVAL 1 DAY or field =

Re: [PHP] Get form name after submission

2004-03-18 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Jonathan Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a way to get the name of the form once it's submitted like $_POST['form1'] or something. No. You'd have to use javascript to set a variable upon submission and then find that variable. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] str_replace or regex

2004-03-18 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Adam Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I was wondering if I can get some help with either a str_replace or a regex. I have some data and it always begins with $$ but it can end with any letter of the alphabet. so sometimes its $$a and sometimes its $$b and sometimes $$c all the way to

Re: [PHP] Parsing recordsets - only first row returned

2004-03-18 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Alex Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am parsing data returned from a field that looks like this; 6-8-3-5-10-9-6__7-5-9--etc... Wow... you're totally missing the point of a database when you store data like this. The code below parses out the data they way I want it but only returns the

Re: [PHP] Retain form values...

2004-03-18 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Jonathan Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to be able to submit the page to another page vs PHP_SELF. On that page I want to be able to validate the form, and if it fails, return the user to the previous page. Now that's easy, but the catch is that I want to retain/repopulate their field

Re: [PHP] Retain form values...

2004-03-18 Thread John W. Holmes
Shane McBride wrote: Actually all form validation is done before the form action takes place, so that way we do not loose input. I think you're missing the point. Client side validation is extremely easy to bypass. If that's all you're relying on, you're in trouble. -- ---John Holmes... Amazon

Re: [PHP] How to make sure a redirect works

2004-03-17 Thread John W. Holmes
Benjamin wrote: Henry Grech-Cini wrote: 1) Do not redirect if the page is visited as the result of a POST Why is that? I do it all the time and it seems to work fine. I have read through all the emails for this thread and didn't find anything mentioned. Am I doing something wrong? No,

Re: [PHP] Fmod with PHP 4.2.0 ?

2004-03-17 Thread John W. Holmes
From: BEOI 7308 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My ISP's PHP is 4.2.0, and the fmod function was not available before 4.2.0 My question : is there a replacement to fmod, or what can i do to do a fmod without it ? Read second comment here: http://us2.php.net/fmod ---John Holmes... -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] Sessions

2004-03-16 Thread John W. Holmes
Will wrote: Hello All, I am having a problem. When I log into a forum it says Page Cannot Be Displayed I looked at my logs and did not find anything. I did a search everywhere and found nothing. As did your web server, apparently. :) So what page are you trying to load? It obviously doesn't

Re: [PHP] sql expression

2004-02-21 Thread John W. Holmes
Marc Greenstock wrote: I have a table with all the star signs, in the table are the fields 'Name','From','To'. Both the 'From' and 'To' are an integer of the relevant dates eg in the 'Gemini' row I have: Gemini, 521, 621 (521 means May 21st, 621 means June 21st). I hope I'm explaining my self ok.

Re: [PHP] Email - format

2004-02-21 Thread John W. Holmes
Sheni R. Meledath wrote: Can any body provide me with a regular expression (as per the latest standards) to check the validity of an email address. This is covered over and over and over, 100s of times (literally) in the manual. Look through the comments in either of the regular expression

Re: [PHP] Re: Delayed mail()... ?

2004-02-20 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Ben Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finally, your system must be Linux (or other unix-type system) for this to work correctly. If it's Windows, you can use the task scheduler, but I don't think it'll execute the PHP script. Sure it will. Just put the program to run as something like this:

Re: [PHP] Delayed mail()... ?

2004-02-20 Thread John W. Holmes
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Basically, prospective teachers/students, can sign up for more info etc. Currently, that info is captured, and the site admin people are E-mailed... all good so far.. What they've asked for, is that when they reply to the enquiry, they are reminded to chase up the

Re: [PHP] undelivery mails

2004-02-20 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Juan Cortabitarte [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need to send a newsletter and I need to know all mail addresses of the undelivery mails to update the database. Any suggestion? Do I need to parse the maillog? If you're using the basic mail() function in PHP, you're not going to get any data back

Re: [PHP] sending reply, the continuing

2004-02-20 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Lucas Gonze [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday, Feb 20, 2004, at 13:52 America/New_York, Pablo Gosse wrote: If by terminate the connection you mean stop sending back information to the browser, then perhaps you should look into output control functions:

Re: [PHP] sending reply, the continuing

2004-02-20 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Lucas Gonze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nice bit of PHP obscurantia, John. That's what I'm known for! :) ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] heavy parsing of text, storing both versions

2004-02-19 Thread John W. Holmes
Justin French wrote: Hi all, I'm building a CMS that does heavy parsing of a HTML shorthand plain text to XHTML strict, in a similar way to Textile http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/. 1. Parse the text on demand into HTML -- the parsing script is to heavy/slow for this. 2. Store both the

Re: [PHP] heavy parsing of text, storing both versions

2004-02-19 Thread John W. Holmes
joel boonstra wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:35:11AM +1100, Justin French wrote: 1. Parse the text on demand into HTML -- the parsing script is to heavy/slow for this. 2. Store both the plain (shorthand HTML) text and parsed XHTML versions of each field -- the problem with this being that

Re: [PHP] Getting age from yyyy-mm-dd

2004-02-18 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Ryan A [EMAIL PROTECTED] Theres a date_of_birth field there that has the values in this format -MM-DD, the client wants me to print out the age of the person from that...looking in the manual (http://se.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php) I think I will need to use mktimebut

Re: [PHP] Custom Error Handler

2004-02-18 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a custom error handler class that's working well. My problem is that I can't find a way to find out whether a particular error has been suppressed using the @ prefix. Is there a way to do this with a custom handler? Next time start here

Re: [PHP] include (byname.php?lang=fr);

2004-02-18 Thread John W. Holmes
From: John Taylor-Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to create a language option, so the resulting html is in French or English, depending. But passing variables like this doesn't work: ?php include (../_phpcode/byname.php?lang=fr); ? echo $lang; // 'fr' Warning: main(): Failed opening

Re: [PHP] boolean type function ?

2004-02-18 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Mike Mapsnac [EMAIL PROTECTED] I search on php.net. How to declare php function as type boolean? I tried the following declaration; function booolean check_ip_remote() boolean check_ip_remote() But both declaration are wrong. I got the error messages Unless this is something new

Re: [PHP] Why doesn't PHP see my MySQL upgrade?

2004-02-17 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Donpro [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. I upgraded to PHP 4.3.4 2. I upgraded to MySQL 4.0.17 3. Restarted Apache; I even rebooted! When I run phpinfo() in my web browser, it shows: Client API version: 3.23.58 What's going on ??? That's usual, as far as I can tell. That just means PHP is

Re: [PHP] Re: Split()

2004-02-17 Thread John W. Holmes
From: John Taylor-Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can do this, but want to understand how to while it: Or should I? $tempslices = explode(\r\n, $pizza); foreach ($tempslices as $singleslice) { echo a href=\http://www.foo.org$singleslice\;$singleslice/a ; } Still learning :)

Re: [PHP] Help with '' character

2004-02-17 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Chris Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am having trouble with a string becoming truncated at an '' character. I am passing the variable via a link (http://...campaign=MBI%20List%20-%20Steel%20%20Concrete) and then when I try to grab the incoming value of campaign into a SELECT query, it

Re: [PHP] Class rules

2004-02-17 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Alex Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] What are the rules of thumb for classes and included files? Can I not include a file in a class function? If I put the include() outside the class structure everything works fine, but when I put it inside the class it freaks. Am I doing something wrong?

Re: [PHP] diskusage

2004-02-16 Thread John W. Holmes
Chakravarthy Cuddapah wrote: In php I want to know space used (du) by user on a remote system. Can anyone pls tell me how this can be done. Just call du through exec(). -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP

Re: [PHP] phps and iis

2004-02-15 Thread John W. Holmes
Marek Kilimajer wrote: Anders Gjermshus wrote: Is it possible to get IIS 6 to show php sources. ( phps files ) Is it possible to set a custom 404 handler in IIS? Than you can set it to a php page, in the php page parse the request URI and highlight_file(). Good catch; never thought of that. It

Re: [PHP] phps and iis

2004-02-14 Thread John W. Holmes
Anders Gjermshus wrote: Is it possible to get IIS 6 to show php sources. ( phps files ) No. I've never seen any way to do this with IIS. -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals www.phparch.com -- PHP

Re: Re[2]: [PHP] HELP: Nested include(...)'s take relative paths not intuitively

2004-02-11 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Ford, Mike [LSS] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mind you, there are exceptions: exit(), for example, is a language construct but requires the parens (at least, that's what the fine manual appears to say, and I've not tested it without!). Only if you want to pass an exit value, i.e. exit(101);

Re: Re[4]: [PHP] HELP: Nested include(...)'s take relative paths not int uitively

2004-02-11 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Richard Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personally I use a file called common.inc which is basically my global include file - it has nothing but variables I need set (no functions, etc - they are held elsewhere) and files I need to include. It sits at the root of my project and is included on

Re: Re[6]: [PHP] HELP: Nested include(...)'s take relative paths not int uitively

2004-02-11 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Richard Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] JWH I hope you are also denying access to .inc files otherwise we could view JWH your file as plain text. Please.. try ;) I used to call the file common.php until we had a rather large debate about the correct naming convention for PHP include files on

Re: [PHP] uploaded files are corrupted

2004-02-11 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Donpro [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a script that allows the user to browse his/her local hard drive for a file and email it as an attachment. Text files come through OK but any binary type file, e.g., JPEG or PDF arrive broken. JPEG will show as a red X in my browser and Adobe will

Re: [PHP] mysql functions

2004-02-10 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Angelo Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a query which returns only 1 row, which of the following would be the best to get the value from the resultset: mysql_result() mysql_fetch_field() mysql_fetch_row() the resultset only returns 1 column, so basically its only 1 field i get from

Re: [PHP] HELP: Nested include(...)'s take relative paths not intuitively

2004-02-10 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Samuel Ventura [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have 3 files in nested subdirectories (1) /test.php (2) /subdir1/test.php (3) /subdir1/subdir2/test.php if I call (3) it loops forever in (2) trying to including itself. Is this a bug or a feature? A feature? You make a request for (3). The

Re: [PHP] HELP: Nested include(...)'s take relative paths not intuitively

2004-02-10 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Alex Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you saying that it's better not to use relative paths on include(...)'s, require(...)'s and their (x)_once(...) cousins? That seems awkward to me. Why would I want to hard code a path, even if I was including additional functionality from another

Re: [PHP] HELP: Nested include(...)'s take relative paths not intuitively

2004-02-10 Thread John W. Holmes
Richard Davey wrote: include $dir/file.php vs. include($dir/file.php) Both work just fine. The manual includes examples of both methods. So which do most people consider the right way ? If you use echo, then you should use include(). If you use print, then you should use include . Unless you

Re: [PHP] Can PHP redirects be detected?

2004-02-09 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Lowell Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] A recent thread on the WebDesign-L raised the question of whether search engines can detect (and penalize sites for) PHP redirects of the form: header(Location: http://www.whatever.com/;); I don't see how that could be the case, since the redirect occurs

[PHP] Re: [PHP-DB] SMTP authentication

2004-02-09 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Marco A. Ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to ask you, how I must setup my PHP.INI file, to send e-mail from my Web Site if my SMTP server requires authentication. Otherwise, I want to know if exits some kind of public SMTP sever that I could use. If your SMTP server requires

Re: [PHP] Question About Date Function in PHP/MySQL

2004-02-08 Thread John W. Holmes
Freedomware wrote: When I view my data in phpMyAdmin, all I see in that column is NULL. When I preview it in a webpage, nothing displays at all. If I change it to NOT NULL, I see -00-00 in every cell. Here's a row of text from the CSV file I imported into my MySQL table:

Re: [PHP] Question About Date Function in PHP/MySQL

2004-02-08 Thread John W. Holmes
Freedomware wrote: EMS lists the following: Short Date: M/d/ Long Date: , dd, Day followed by month, followed by another day, then year??? That format means something like Friday, May 5, 2004 I thought it was supposed to be year first, followed by month and day, as in the

Re: [PHP] Re: .html or.php extension

2004-02-08 Thread John W. Holmes
Paul Furman wrote: If you start with one index.php then use that to include additional files, it should accept any file, even with no extension. At least it works that way for me. Just be careful with that. Remember that the files can be requested on their own, also. If you have database.inc

Re: [PHP] Undefined Index Errors

2004-02-06 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Cameron B. Prince [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm creating some strings from array elements obviously. The issue is, the array elements don't always exist depending on which function you are running. And when they don't, the server log is full of undefined index errors. Is there a way I can avoid

Re: [PHP] beginner question about while loops

2004-02-06 Thread John W. Holmes
- Original Message - From: Paul Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Totally ignorant need for clarification... Should I set up a counter for loops $integer++ or if I'm going through something, the while function knows to just go through those and fills in array numbers accordingly? [snip]

Re: [PHP] beginner question about while loops

2004-02-06 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Paul Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] So when assigning values to an array inside a loop, it knows to advance to the next but then if I want to print those out at the same time, it's complaining while ($file = readdir($fh)){ if (strstr ($file, '.jpg')){ $pictures[] = $file;

Re: [PHP] Surpressing a 'foreach' Error Message

2004-02-06 Thread John W. Holmes
craig wrote: craig mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Friday, February 06, 2004 2:24 PM said: if (is_array($project)) foreach ($project as $project_id = $value) { $fields[] = $project_id; $values[] = $value; } } you're missing a curly brace after the if (). my bad, that's what you get

Re: [PHP] PHP5: __call() implementation

2004-02-05 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Vivian Steller [EMAIL PROTECTED] i want this function simply call the method of another class with SomeClass::$method(...) but i'm getting into trouble (bit heavy programming!:) passing the arguments (stored as Array in $params) to the SomeClass::$method([arguments]) method... further,

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP5: __call() implementation EXAMPLE

2004-02-05 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Vivian Steller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vivian Steller wrote: Hello, as you know there is a new callback function __call($method, $params) in php5. the __call() method of an object is called, if the method named $method is not declared in this class. i want this function simply

Re: [PHP] How to search for a date

2004-02-05 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Brian Dunning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] How to search for a date A date? Well, you could try Friendster or orkut to find date, or... oh wait... Sorry this is such a basic question - but I couldn't find it online. I have a date field in MySQL: -00-00. I'm trying to insert or

Re: [PHP] How to search for a date

2004-02-05 Thread John W. Holmes
From: John McKerrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] INSERT INTO mytable (dateField) VALUES (CURRENT_DATE); For MySQL you're still going to need NOW() instead of CURRENT_DATE though surely? No. He has a DATE column, so why use NOW() which includes time informatin. Quote: CURRENT_DATE and

Re: [PHP] multilingual website

2004-02-05 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Shaunak Kashyap [EMAIL PROTECTED] My inclination would be to just use the DB, have linked tables with languages and pieces of text in various languages. A single query could get a full language preference setting for a site, and a little array munging could turn it into a usable set

Re: [PHP] starting a session

2004-02-03 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Angelo Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] is there ever a certain situation where you would have something at the top of your page before session_start();? If so why would it be before session_start();? Sure, there could be. It just wouldn't be able to output anything unless you were using

Re: [PHP] Comparing multiple Mysql tables to find duplicates

2004-02-03 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Chris Bruce Is there a php function that escapes single quotes in Mysql queries? addslashes() mysql_escape_string() mysql_real_escape_string() ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Regular expressions

2004-02-03 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] alternatively (actually this looks like the easier way to do it!) use preg_replace(), with the 'e' modifier tagged onto the end of the replacement expression: the 'e' modifier causes the expression to be evaluated as PHP.

Re: [PHP] Printer Friendly pages

2004-02-03 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Alex Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a printer friendly page and I want to get rid of the referring url at the bottom of the page. How can I do this? I can't seem to find any reference to this in the archives. This is controlled by the browser; there's no way for PHP to change it.

Re: [PHP] New lines

2004-02-03 Thread John W. Holmes
From: John Nichel [EMAIL PROTECTED] If all the OP wants to do is echo out the file, then why not just use the file() function. Then each line is loaded up into an array element, and you've saved yourself a bit of cpu. And your example above doesn't address the OP's claim that it is not

Re: [PHP] My PHP file is not parsed

2004-02-02 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Reem M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have installed Apache 2.0.43 (win32) on my XP machine, together with PHP 4.2.3. I have configured the server to recognise PHP, local directories etc. Apache starts - no errors, and will accept PHP documents from my browser. But when I run my PHP pages,

Re: [PHP] Question about dates

2004-02-02 Thread John W. Holmes
Renan G. Galang wrote: I just need a confirmation, when the getdate() function is invoked inside a PHP script, the date returned will be the server hosting the pages' date and not the client requesting the page, right? or am i wrong in my assumption? Thanks guys. Yes, you are not wrong in

Re: [PHP] formated text after Submit in MySQL/PHP

2004-01-31 Thread John W. Holmes
Matt Hedges wrote: Can someone help me with the following? Preferably someone other than the wise ass below? Of course... thanks matt Burhan Khalid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt Hedges wrote: Hello, I have a page where users can enter in information about

Re: [PHP] 3 variables not passing to function!!!????

2004-01-31 Thread John W. Holmes
Ryan A wrote: I am getting everything except the 3 variables($admin,$site,$lic), heres my function: *** include_once('PRO-Config.php'); echo $admin; // This was a test to see if I am getting the value from the include..I am. function sendEmail() { [snip] Admin: $admin Site: $site

Re: [PHP] diff between script_filename, path_translated

2004-01-30 Thread John W. Holmes
From: John Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] After reading the manual entry on $_SERVER predefined variables, I'm unclear on the difference between 'SCRIPT_FILENAME' and 'PATH_TRANSLATED'. Results from a test script, run from a few different locations on my webserver, were always the same for these

Re: [PHP] Re: parsing variables inside a variable?

2004-01-30 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] What you need to understand is that the string parsing for variables only happens when the string is actually in your script. When you dynamically create a string (or get it from a DB) it's just a string of characters in memory and is *not* parsed. To

Re: [PHP] textimage

2004-01-30 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Maciek Hofstede [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have one problem, i can't use 'text mode' exp: echo blah; end 'image function'? exp: imagepng($rys); Any idea? I've had my coffee now and I'm still confused. What are you trying to do? I'm going to try more coffee. ---John Holmes... --

Re: [PHP] Transferring an initiated Session to a Browser !!

2004-01-30 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Admin - CpanelPlus [EMAIL PROTECTED] I Need to access certain data in a Page protected by user login. I have written a script with socket functions which connect to port 80 and automates what any browser does. That's Ok .. Now I have the Data What I wanted in a variable. But I am also

Re: [PHP] Comparing multiple Mysql tables to find duplicates

2004-01-30 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Chris Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to write a function that would compare one table to a number of other tables in Mysql and remove any duplicates found. This is for tables of email addresses where I want to remove any dups found. Example: Master list - compare to list1, list2,

Re: [PHP] Comparing multiple Mysql tables to find duplicates

2004-01-30 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Chris Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mysql 3.23.54. My first thought was to load the output from the tables into an array and they use a foreach and in_array to create a list of dups, but I wanted to see if there was an easier way. Ah, in that case, my other query won't work. :) This

Re: [PHP] How do you guys do this?

2004-01-30 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Ryan A [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am having all the pics upload to one common directory (member_pics) so what do you suggest I name the pictures? uniqid() and md5() would come in handy here. Another question related to this, I am restricting the uploaded files to be jpg,png and gif for

Re: [PHP] Exectution Time?

2004-01-30 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Mike Mapsnac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a way to find out the execution time of php program? If you start a task at 10:00 and finish at 10:15, how long did it take? ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] vars in echoed file_get_contents string

2004-01-30 Thread John W. Holmes
Shawn McKenzie wrote: I'm having a brain fart here: ---file.php $myvar = Hello!; $stuff = file_get_contents(file.html); echo $stuff; ---file.html b$myvar/b Any ideas why when $stuff is echoed I get $myvar and not Hello? It's because you're echoing the contents of a variable, not evaluating it.

Re: [PHP] random?

2004-01-29 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] $sql = SELECT * FROM agentdb WHERE ((OfficeID 214) and (agentdb.agent_id 1115421) and (agentdb.agent_id 100) and agentdb.agent_id 333)) ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1; It does however seem to favor one agent more than the others. Does anyone have any

Re: [PHP] Show Results one at a time ?

2004-01-29 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Dave Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wherever I put sleep(1), notice the comments, in the func all it dose is wait 10 seconds then shows the full output and not each result 1 at a time to the screen. Are you running this over the web or on the command line? Even though your script is

Re: [PHP] Finding news items by Month

2004-01-29 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Michael Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a bunch of news items in a database. All of them have a date associated with them. I am trying to make a function that queries the db and tells me which months have newsitems in them(if any at all), and how many each of the months have. You should

Re: [PHP] PH error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end

2004-01-29 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Denham Eva [EMAIL PROTECTED] Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end Please can someone help! You need an editor that does source code highlighting. If you had that, you would not have encountered this error because you'd have noticed the unterminated string here $query = insert into

Re: [PHP] Error fread() after switching Register Globals Off

2004-01-29 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Daniel Perez Clavero [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\dpc\modulos\mod_ins_doc.php on line 13 I´ve got a form that calls a module to insert data. IT WAS WORKING before I switched the

Re: [PHP] __autoload() in PHP4

2004-01-28 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Pietuka Krustins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there something like __autoload() of PHP5 in PHP4? After using PHP5 for a month, I just can't stand writing those never-ending includes and requires. Any ideas how to simulate an __autoload()? I am not afraid of a little overhead. For those who

Re: [PHP] Help: arrays in a class

2004-01-28 Thread John W. Holmes
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] class clsfTreeNode { //member variables var $fName; var $fData; var $includedFiles; //constructor function clsfTreeNode( $fileName ) { $this-$fName = $fileName; $this-$fData = file_get_contents($this-$fName); $this-ParseFile(); You have an extra $ sign

Re: [PHP] chunk_split();

2004-01-28 Thread John W. Holmes
chunk_split();From: Benjamin Trépanier I am using the chunk_split(); function to separe a long long text on differents pages. At this time, I can split the string into x sections of 2000 characters. Now I need to show only the first 2000 . when user click on page #2, it's reloading and

Re: [PHP] Still error messages!!

2004-01-28 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Radwan Aladdin [EMAIL PROTECTED] So where are the errors? In your code or database, I'm sure of it. In other words, why don't you tell us what error message your getting, the line number, etc. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] amp

2004-01-28 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're absolutely correct. I jumped the gun way too early. My experience with replacing with amp; is that if the content already contains entity content, for example nbsp; Running str_replace will mess them up. Depends how you define mess them up... If

Re: [PHP] Still error messages!!

2004-01-28 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Radwan Aladdin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I made that.. but there is something strange!! It's strange you can't follow instructions... I SELECTED field from the database.. but it is not showing what it contains!! This is what is shown on the screen : UPDATE accounts SET

Re: [PHP] Still error messages!!

2004-01-28 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Radwan Aladdin [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I mean by $RightLoginTime = 'LoginTime'; the selected field from the database (LoginTime).. First I selected the LoginTime from the database and now I'm trying to name a variable for it to use it.. So what is the correct code? You end up with

Re: [PHP] Size of session?

2004-01-27 Thread John W. Holmes
From: motorpsychkill [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure if this has been covered (I searched the archives) but does anyone know if there is a size limit on what a session can store? What is this dependant on? I think you already got your answer. I'd just like to say that if you have to ask this

Re: [PHP] drop down list not populating

2004-01-27 Thread John W. Holmes
Montagna, Dan wrote: I've got the code for a drop down list and the drop down box displays--but with no info in it. The underlying table is populated so I could use some advice on what might be wrong from here SELECT ? include(includes/db.php); MYSQL_CONNECT(HOST,USER,PASS) OR

Re: [PHP] Making Graph / Chart

2004-01-27 Thread John W. Holmes
unkno me wrote: Does anyone know what function is needed to make graphic chart like those line / pipe char? Any example? The easy, simple way is to just have PHP control the width of an image and stretch it. So if you had a 1x1 blue pixel image, you could stretch it 100 pixels for 100% and 50

Re: [PHP] MySQL query

2004-01-27 Thread John W. Holmes
Jason Giangrande wrote: UPDATE link SET hits = hits+1 WHERE website_link = '$link' $link is the website link that was clicked on. The query works fine. The problem is if $link is a website that does not exist in the database mysql_query(); still returns true even though nothing was updated.

Re: [PHP] Conditional code execution

2004-01-26 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Craig Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] This would require something like the equivalent of eval in javascript. Does PHP have that capability? Yes. Oddly enough it's called eval(). Imagine that... ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] Re: [SOLVED] Beginner Q How to load externally defined function

2004-01-25 Thread John W. Holmes
Paul Furman wrote: You can also define your include dir in php.ini or if running as an apache mod in an .htaccess file. I had luck with the include approach: include 'c:/_Paul/web/phplib/utilities/dirfile.php'; echo scandir(); I guess it'd be more wise to put in my php.ini to

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