[PHP] Hello

Hello, I'm an ASP guy gone PHP. So, be patient with me as I struggle my way with PHP. I have a some experience with writing C like syntax, as with JavaScript and TCL. I hope to pick up PHP quickly. 2 Questions: How to declare function and sub routines. How to call functions and sub routines.

[PHP] ASP to PHP

Is there such thing as program that will convert ASP code to PHP code? I have built some nice libraries with ASP and am interested in converting those over to PHP, rather than rewriting them! Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP] include statement

What about the security issue mentioned? Is it then possible (using the include and/or readfile) to grab anything found on the server? 1 More thing: what if I wanted to place the contents of a file into a variable. How do you achieve that? Karl *also a newbie, and this is a great group*

[PHP] ? PHP vs. ?

Is PHP the implied script, so that it is okay to begin PHP code like this ? vs. like this ?php When is it not implied? *wow, some real beginer questions! eh?* -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

[PHP] Ver3.0 Includes

Are includes supported in ver 3.0? I'm having troubles with my includes. Here is the include (after this evening we will ver 4.0): include ($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/gophp/Main.php"); Thanks -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[PHP] PHP Editors

So what editor is recommended? I'm a little familiar with Emacs (kinda cool, but I'm use to keywords and such being colored - as in Interdev). Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

[PHP] Print vs. Echo

What is the basic difference between print and echo? As I am understanding it, Echo allows you to define a multi-line area to output text without having to repeat quoting for each line but then what is the advantage of print? Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

[PHP] Variable Scope

I'm a bit troubled with the fact that variables declared at the top of your script are not then global to functions within that script. That in order to see that variable within a function you'd have to declare it as global in the function (understanding that the variable could have been set at

[PHP] Quotes and Values

Hello, I am trying to do this: $myVal = "form name="$name"" action="$action" method="$method"" *trying to accomplish putting " qotes around my string values* Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

[PHP] Where is information about Forms?

Hello, Looking through the PHP Site (someone needs to improve the search features), and can't find information about querying form field values etc... Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

[PHP] ASP Guy Looking for Select Case equivalent

Hello, What is the equivalent command to Select Case as in: Select case 10 + 2 case 10 'nope case 11 'nope case 12 'yep case 13 'yep - but case 12 comes first! end select -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe,

[PHP] Form Problems

I'm having troubles : ( I can't seem to figure out how to retrieve the posted data. I'm trying this: $HTTP_POST_VARS["Login"] ! WAIT ! as I write this, I'm guesing that maybe my problem is *scope* (and not the mouthwash). I'm going to try that right now, set the above var to global within that

[PHP] Function / String Problem

Okay, what is wrong with this: echo "brbr...are you logged in: $LoggedIn()brbr"; // outputs:...are you logged in: () Function is: function LoggedIn(){ global $HTTP_POST_VARS if ($HTTP_POST_VARS["Login"] == "PHPIsCool") {return "YES";} else {return

[PHP] but what if.. Function / String Problem

What if I want the function to be processed within the " " quotes? Same as a variable might be interopelated? IOW, can I call a function without concantenating the function together with the string? *being a little stubborn* - Original Message ----- From: "Karl J. St

[PHP] Local Path of Script

How do I obtain the path of the local script? Or do I have to build it from the $DOCUMENT_ROOT? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL

[PHP] Test for Cookies

Hi, I need to test for cookies. What is the simplest way to do this? Thanks - Karl -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP] Test for Cookies

Karl J. Stubsjoen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Hi, I need to test for cookies. What is the simplest way to do this? Be a little more specific - do you want to know if there are cookies at all, or if there are specific cookies? Depends on the settings in the Data Handling section

[PHP] -

What does - do? As in: $Something-then_something_over_here -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP] -

ginal Message - From: "Cal Evans" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Karl J. Stubsjoen" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "PHP Mailing List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 12:08 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] - It's means that what's on the right is part of the object on

Re: [PHP] Test for Cookies

And what about NS? Karl - Original Message ----- From: "Brian V Bonini" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Karl J. Stubsjoen" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "PHP Mailing List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 12:56 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Test for Cookies You'll need to at

[PHP] Redirect

What is wrong with this redirect: ? $rdrct = "http://www.dogpile.com"; header ("Location: " . $rdrct); exit; ? Thanks! Karl -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list

[PHP] Test for Cookies (Stored vs. Session)

So my Point is: What if you require "stored cookies" - cookies written to the users disk? Hmmm, this cookie test would return true if "per-session" cookies was enabled and "stored cookies" was disabled. Karl - Original Message - From: "Karl J. Stub

[PHP] Loop Through all Querystring Variables

What is the simplest way to set up a procedure to loop through all passed querystring values and/or form values? I'm very new to PHP, and don't know how to set up loops at all. Thanks! Karl -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[PHP] Look for and Trim Last Character

Hello, I'd like to check for a character at the end of a string, if it exists remove it, example: Looking for - Z In string - StringZ Result would be - String -or- Looking for - Z In string - StringZzz Result would be - StringZzz (no change) Thanks! Karl BTW: You guys are great! -- PHP

[PHP] I give - Whats wrong

I've tried and tried to figure out what is wrong with this function, but I can't. Could you please have a look. This function reconstructs the querystring values passed in the querystring: function PassOnGetVars() { global $HTTP_GET_VARS; #initialize retrn value $retrn = "?"; #loop

Re: [PHP] I give - Whats wrong

Freak'n Duhh! My eyes are still blury to PHP *obviously*. Thanks! So $QUERY_STRING eh? I'll look that one up. Karl - Original Message - From: "Rasmus Lerdorf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Karl J. Stubsjoen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "PHP Mailing List" [EMAIL PROTE

[PHP] Best way to describe Doc as HTML

Hello, So I think I've found 3 ways to describe the HTML Doc as "HTML". Which one is the best? 1) Via MetTag (this was generated in Dreamweaver): head meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /head 2) Print Statement at top of page:

[PHP] Read Vs. Include

Hello, I want to *read* a file into a page and not process any PHP. I'm just reading an HTML file. I though it was simple, I thought I had it figured out, but now when I try, I get the following error: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function read() in

[PHP] Why the Change in Ver 4?

Does Version 4 support either { } "squiglees" or [ ] "brackets" in this code: if($retrn{strlen($retrn)-1} == '') -or- if($retrn[strlen($retrn)-1] == '') Yes. This is a 4.x feature only. The idea is that in the long run, [] will no longer be supported for string offsets, only

[PHP] Check for Page

How could I: How could I check to make sure a page exists before I redirect to it (a page within my own server, but page name passed in querystring - therefore it could be changed by client)? Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PHP] Detect if Header has been written

How can I check if Headers have been written to the browser? Thank You! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PHP] Non Expiring Cookie

Is this a never expiring cookie, or a "per" session cookie? I want to create a never expiring cooky. SetCookie ("MyNeverExpiringCookie", "This cookie should never expire"); Thanks! Karl -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[PHP] Not receiving [PHP] mail - is PHP Mailing List Down?

I haven't received mail from the PHP list since the 27th. Is it down? Please respond to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you. Karl -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list

[PHP] HowTo: IBM DB2 w/PHP

Hello, We have succesfully installed the IBM DB2 RDMS on our Linux box and have successfully made a connection to our AS400. All through command line though. I am new to PHP, and am wondering: How do I instantiate the IBM DB2 in PHP, call commands, run queries, etc...? I'm not looking for all

[PHP] Readfile only return error

Hello, I'm performing a readfile, and am expecting that if the file isn't found and error will return unless you add the @ symbol before the readfile function as in: $retrn = @readfile ($FileName); My page only errors, and doesn't return false. I don't want my page to error, I would like to

Re: [PHP] HowTo: IBM DB2 w/PHP

We are running AS400 4.4 and PHP4, not sure what version of Linux we are running. - Original Message - From: "Antonio S. Martins Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Karl J. Stubsjoen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "PHP Mailing List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, Januar

[PHP] Exit Function

What is the way to exit a function? For example: function FooBar() { if ($foo = $bar) Exit_this_Function; ## otherwise execute the rest of this function } -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

[PHP] Why sprintf for query?

Sprintf formats strings and numbers to a specific format (correct?) then why is this $q = SPRINTF("SELECT prodnum, childdesc FROM prodaval"); like that? Why SPRINTF in this case? We are calling a MySQL table, is it specific to calling a MySQL table or is this required for all calls to a DB...

[PHP] Tab character

Is this a tab character \t -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PHP] Include quotes inside textbox

Hello, I'm trying to pass back a link to the user in a textbox (so they can copy and paste it elsewhere), however my textbox is being parsed incorrectly by the browser because of the " quotes which happen in the link I'm passing - basically the HTML for the text box is getting parsed together

[PHP] htmlspecialchars Problem

When I perform thi function: $new = htmlspecialchars("a href='test'Test/a", ENT_QUOTES); I get the following error: Warning: Wrong parameter count for htmlspecialchars() in utility/HTMLFormObjects1-1.php on line 135 Anyone know why? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

[PHP] Why?? SPRINTF(SELECT sequence,prodnum,childdesc....);

What is the purpose of the SPRINTF in this instance? SPRINTF("SELECT equence,prodnum,childdesc,onhand,openorders,avlallocate,bakorder,webpricing FROM prodaval"); -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

[PHP] Set ODBC Timeout Value

Is there a way to set the timeout value for an ODBC connection, lets say for script trying to query a table which is locked? Right now, the default timeout value is well over1 minute, and I don't think I can change it anywhere else (meaning: I don't the the Network Administrator is going to

[PHP] Remote Scripting

Hello, I'm interested in the technology "Remote Scripting". Basically, I would like to deliver "real-time" information to a browser without having to reload the page. Is anyone familiar with this? Thanks, Karl -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[PHP] Tell me if this works

I'm using the SetTimeOut function of JavaScript to refresh an image every 3 seconds. The SRC for the image is a PHP page which constructs a valid image with some text added to the image and returns the image to the colling Image. This works fine, however the information should be changing every

Re: [PHP] Tell me if this works

never mind... 'or - i fixed my own problem! i enabled cacheing on both PHP pages, the page with the image who's source calls the PHP page that creates the image. - Original Message - From: "Karl J. Stubsjoen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "PHP Mailing List" [EMAIL PROTE

[PHP] Add commas to 1188889 so-- 1,188,889

Hello, Has anyone written a nifty little function to add commas to big numbers like: 119 so-- 1,188,889 If so, please share! Karl -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact

[PHP] Directories Files

GlacierI need to do a few things with files... 1 of them being to iterate through a directory and display each file. How do you do this? Karl J. Stubsjoen www.iexcelinlife.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 602.447 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail

[PHP] Zip mulitple files for download

GlacierHello, I need to zip multiple files into 1 zip file for download. Which function do I use to accomplish this? Thanks! Karl J. Stubsjoen www.iexcelinlife.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 602.447 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

[PHP] Readline and/or split by line break

GlacierHello, I'm reading a file into memory and I'd like to split each of the individual lines into an array. How would I do this? Thanks, Karl J. Stubsjoen www.iexcelinlife.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 602.447 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail

[PHP] Download file

(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=download.tar); readfile($filename); ===end code snippet= What I need to do, is specify the default directory for this file to be saved to. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks. Karl J. Stubsjoen www.iexcelinlife.com [EMAIL

RE: [PHP] Re: Download file

Errr... it from ASP (shoot) are you 100% sure? -Original Message- From: Owen Rudge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: Download file What I need to do, is specify the default directory for this file to be saved

[PHP] Environment Variables

BlankHello, I need to look up in the PHP online reference other variables similar to $DOCUMENT_ROOT. I can't find them. Anyone know where to find them at? Thank you, Karl J. Stubsjoen www.excelir.com/worldshop -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail

[PHP] Pie Charts Bar Charts Line Charts...

Hey Guys, Anyone have any good starting points for delivering charts on the web? Thanks a bunch. Karl J. Stubsjoen www.iexcelinlife.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 602.447

[PHP] AS400 SQL Errors and Resources

Hello, I reallize that the SQL syntax should be similar among all DB's which allow SQL, but there are slight differences amongst them. With that said, I have written an SQL statement to the AS400 and am getting errors back. So, and I don't have ANY, I need a site to visit where I can reference

[PHP] How to reference global variables in strings

If you don't prefix a global variable with $ then how can you interpit a global variable within a string? AS IN: define ("MY_PATH", "/home/me/"); print("This is My Path: MY_PATH or is it?"); -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[PHP] Save to Local Disk

Hello, I'd like to give the user an option to "Save to Disk" the contents of a text area. Any ideas how to do this? Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list

[PHP] Insert Data AS400

Help! (if you can). I'm having troubles inserting records into our AS400. I've tried just about every combination I can think of when trying to insert a record, but nothing is working. Here is the most recent error I keep getting: Warning: SQL error: [IBM][CLI Driver][AS] SQL7008N REXX

Re: [PHP] Insert Data AS400

Richard, If that doesn't help, just start throwing out columns. Or throw them all out and build it up 1 column at a time) until you find out which one it doesn't like. I have gone as far as creating a single table with a single alpa field. No luck there either. It gives me the exact same

[PHP] Return ODBC Results to an array

Is there a way to return the results of a query straight into an array? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PHP] @ Scope

When you @ "at" a command (supress error messaging) within a function, is the scope of the @ within the function? Example: CloseODBC(1); # is error message supressed here too? function CloseODBC($connection_id) { # error messaging supressed @odbc_close($connection_id); } -- PHP

[PHP] Closing Databases

I am making ODBC connections and MySQL connections, and want to make sure I'm closing my connection properly. Someone once replied that you do not need to worry about terminating the query set (for MySQL), that PHP takes care of this for you, is this true for the ODBC connection as well? So

[PHP] Help with session

I have 2 functions on my page, RegisterUser, IsValidUser. RegisterUser looks in the querystring to see if you've passed a certain key value. If you have it populates a session variable called "ValidUser" with a 1. All that IsValidUser does, is check to see if the session variable "ValidUser"

[PHP] Insert AS400 - We figured it out!

Hello All, Sometime later today, I will share with all of you how to perform inserts from PHP using the DB2 Universal Connection into an AS400 Table. Yes, we figured it out! Look for my post by end of day (Friday). Karl -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe,

[PHP] AS400 Insert - The answer

Okay, To insert data into an AS400 system (proven on Ver 4.4) you must first: Begin Journaling for the the file to insert into This is done by issuing the following command at the command prompt: STRJRNPF FILE(lib/file) JRN(jrnllib/jrnlfile) (where test is your libs and files) Let me know

[PHP] Enumerate files in a folder

Hello, I need a little help getting started with my project (i'm new to PHP). I need to enumerate all of the files in a folder, their name mostly. How would I do that? Thank you! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

[PHP] Return Image for PHP Link

Hello, I'd like the source of an image tag to point to PHP code. I'd like that PHP code to generate an image (accordingly) and print/output the results back to the calling image. So: img src="myphpcode.php" Where, myphpcode.php returns a valid image. I've done this before, but it is not

[PHP] Fw: Netscape 4.0 Double Loads my Page

Originally posted at an HTML newsgroup, but no response : ( Anyone here have any suggestions on the following problem? Hello All, Anyone have any ideas why Netscape 4.0 would be double refreshing my pages? This also occurs, this double refresh, when the page loads for the first time. It