RE: [PHP] dev style guide

2003-08-09 Thread Miles Thompson
At 11:27 AM 8/6/2003 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Just a remark but isn't it pointless to use Hungariannotation in a language that is by default typeless??? [/snip] We use it becuase we have a group of programmers, so the notation makes it easier for one in the group to understand the intenti

Re: [PHP] AOL Email client

2003-08-08 Thread Miles Thompson
At 07:57 PM 8/7/2003 -0500, php list wrote: I am using php mail and setting all my $headers info to show From:, To:, etc. It work perfectly on my computer. I use MS Outlook. I am doing this for a client who received his email via his aol account. When he receives the email, the email comes in with

Re: [PHP] Re: Parse error not understood

2003-08-06 Thread Miles Thompson
Yes, I'm top posting, pls forgive. This is a situation where an editor which has built-in brace matching really helps - if in the midst of "looking" one remembers to use it. Another tip, although it probably wouldn't help here: Save the code with a .phps extension and look at it in the browser.

Re: [PHP] html and php in the same document

2003-07-24 Thread Miles Thompson
html page is parsed by PHP. He will still have to turn PHP on and off within the page. Unless he *really* wants to hide usage of PHP, I don't see the point of doing this. Miles Thompson PS Curt - Like the sig. Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not

Re: [PHP] PHP Webpage like MySql- need to be able to see all fields and edit

2003-07-24 Thread Miles Thompson
Matt, Juli Meloni has a tutorial on this at her web site. I think it's called something like "Custom Error Messages" and if I remember the fields are pulled from a database, and there are code examples of how it operates if fields are not completed, information fails a simple parsing test, etc.

RE: [PHP] I'm really getting annoyed with PHP

2003-07-23 Thread Miles Thompson
Yes! And where do we find the tags ? Cheers - Miles At 09:55 PM 7/23/2003 +0200, Petre Agenbag wrote: If you want to "use PHP", then you must use the headers() function. BUT, with the header function, you MUST make sure that there will be absolutely NO output to the page before the header() fu

Re: [PHP] MySQL Results - display issue :S

2003-07-09 Thread Miles Thompson
might be too much info; what does your prof want?) HTH - Miles Thompson At 10:45 AM 7/10/2003 +0930, Brenton Dobell wrote: I know im probibly getting irritating to most of you :P but i thought i may ask another thing that is on my mind! I have a sql query bringing back 200 rows for arguments sake

Re: [PHP] PHP, MySQL and Flash

2003-07-09 Thread Miles Thompson
Randy, Flash is so damned graphically oriented, but the graphic bits aren't necessarily connected to bits of data ... I'm just talking off the top of my head here w/o knowing any specifics of your requirements. Assuming you have n cars, then two tracks would have to be created, each with

Re: [PHP] php arrays into flash

2003-07-07 Thread Miles Thompson
Jim, The key words are "implode" on the PHP side and "split" on the Flash side. Here's an example: The data is returned from PHP like so, after doing the connect, select, etc. to produce an array of 7 dates for back issues ... no claim that this is optimal code. if( $result && mysql_num_rows(

Re: [PHP] qry not running??

2003-07-07 Thread Miles Thompson
Micah, Echo your SELECT statement to make certain it reads the way it should. Test for number of rows returned, or an error - $result probably contains nothing, that is it's not pointing to an array. Miles At 01:23 PM 7/7/2003 -0600, Micah Montoy wrote: Anyone see what is wrong with this? //ge

Re: [PHP] how to modify in the db

2003-07-06 Thread Miles Thompson
Start with a good tutorial on PHP and MySQL - there are scads of them around, and Julie Meloni has some excellent examples at www.thickbook.com. At 04:41 PM 7/6/2003 -0300, Kevin Fradkin wrote: hi... i have this secuence to insert data to my db mysql_query ("INSERT INTO my_table( number,name,sur

Re: [PHP] file pointer

2003-07-01 Thread Miles Thompson
Start by checking the file functions in the manual - there are some interesting options for foen(). Miles At 10:59 AM 7/1/2003 -0500, Kyle Babich wrote: How would I set the file pointer to the very end of the last line of the file? ex. ahkjhff asdjfhlkajf sdfhaksljdh kasjdhkjlfh asdjfhklajs askjdh

Re: [PHP] PHP on one box, Apache on another?

2003-07-01 Thread Miles Thompson
Your intention is a little foggy. PHP is server side, it works through the web server, thus Apache parses the scripts, so no, it can't. If you mean scripts on one box, database on another, no problem. Miles Thompson At 09:20 AM 7/1/2003 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: I don't know the

RE: [PHP] php-general as REPLY TO

2003-06-30 Thread Miles Thompson
art typing "php-" it autocompletes. Sorry for jumping in, and wasting bandwidth, but this is a petty matter. More importantly, this is a pretty high quality list, with good questions, solid answers, and, most of the time, consideration shown for others. Regards - Miles Thompson At 0

RE: [PHP] Re: Seraching for good Hotel & room booking program.....

2003-06-27 Thread Miles Thompson
Don't flame me, this doesn't have a PHP back end, I suspect it's Flash Communications server at the back end, as there seems to be a constant data stream for virtually every change made on the form. But everyone should have a look at the Broadmoor's Reservation system, and play with it a bit ...

Re: [PHP] weird switch behaviour

2003-06-26 Thread Miles Thompson
Try cleaning it up ... switch( trim( strtoupper( $type ) ) ); I had this happen to me - the $type echoed OK, but would not get caught in the "case". The above fixed it. Miles Thompson At 02:18 PM 6/18/2003 +0100, cg wrote: I am testing a var in a switch statement, sw

Re: [PHP] Security conundrum ....

2003-06-24 Thread Miles Thompson
So it's not a PHP solution, I'm popping up an intermediate window and closing it, which is ugly - flicker. And I've not been able to figure out a way to have that intermediate window open at a small size -- everything in JS seems to operate on children. Regards - Miles Thompson

[PHP] Security conundrum ....

2003-06-22 Thread Miles Thompson
and I need a new one. I obviously can't pass ckval in the URL, and I don't have any way, that I know of, to fake a POST. Suggestions or nudges in the right direction will be appreciated. Regards - Miles Thompson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] WARNING: FW: Virus Found in message "[PHP-DB] Re Now how about Roman Numerals?"

2003-06-16 Thread Miles Thompson
At 01:45 AM 6/17/2003 +0800, Jason Wong wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2003 01:29, Miles Thompson wrote: > Hard to say - bugbear is making the rounds, and it's a pernicious little > beastie. > > It not only uses an existing address list, it has a built-in SMTP mailer > and synt

Re: [PHP] WARNING: FW: Virus Found in message "[PHP-DB] Re Now how about Roman Numerals?"

2003-06-16 Thread Miles Thompson
Marios, Hard to say - bugbear is making the rounds, and it's a pernicious little beastie. It not only uses an existing address list, it has a built-in SMTP mailer and synthesizes not only "To:" addresses, but also "From:" addresses. Last week I had mail addressed to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) from

Re: [PHP] slow mail()

2003-06-13 Thread Miles Thompson
also investigate flush() (I think) . HTH -Miles Thompson At 03:19 PM 6/13/2003 +0200, you wrote: Hi all, Sending multiple emails using PHP - as BCC or multiple mail() commands - takes quite long; usually over 50 seconds for 10 addresses. While sending these messages the browser won't show any

Re: [PHP] nl2br

2003-06-11 Thread Miles Thompson
hen I have to edit a news story!) /mt At 05:50 PM 6/11/2003 -0400, Leif K-Brooks wrote: That's plain wrong. This is the /world wide/ web, not the IE users' club. Either stop that BS or keep off of the internet! Miles Thompson wrote: We limited our users to using IE -- The above

Re: [PHP] slash trouble when editing text

2003-06-11 Thread Miles Thompson
Check out stripslashes(). MT At 04:16 PM 6/11/2003 -0400, Matt Palermo wrote: I wrote a small script that creates a link to all the .php and .txt files in a given directory. When one of these links is clicked, it brings up another window with the files contents inserted into a text area. From

Re: [PHP] nl2br

2003-06-11 Thread Miles Thompson
ripslashes, and nothing else. When the story is fed for printing, the text body is processed this way, $stext = $row[ txtBody ] ; $stext = stripslashes( $row[ txtBody ] ); $stext = ereg_replace("(\r\n|\n|\r)", "", $stext); The last line was cribbed fro

RE: [PHP] Best PHP books

2003-06-10 Thread Miles Thompson
on a dialup connection, too. Addressing examples, etc., there are an awful lot of good tutorials out there for PHP, once a couple of those are worked through you pretty well have what you need. HTH - Miles Thompson At 12:49 PM 6/10/2003 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Does anyone have any

Re: [PHP] Fw: What Visual PHP Edit ?

2003-06-03 Thread Miles Thompson
The "editor" topic has been beat to death, please check the archive. However, PHP is code, all code, there's no "visual" component. All a visual editor would give you is a prettier interface; be more concerned about an editor that lets YOU write quickly and efficiently, whether it be vim, emacs

Re: [PHP] Individual member pages

2003-04-04 Thread Miles Thompson
member page? Because the header() is function is called and there can be no output at all before that function. How you authenticate is up to you, but there's a good start, if I remember correctly, at http://www.thickbook.com, or Devshed, Webmonkey, etc. There are a couple of good article

Re: [PHP] chill out

2003-04-03 Thread Miles Thompson
Jason ... A fellow proofreader!! Well done! Miles > We all know your smarter than the rest of us ;-) I hope you don't think I'm making you stupid, but I think you mean "you're". -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To un

Re: [PHP] chill out

2003-04-03 Thread Miles Thompson
g a particular class, or won't let go of the bone, but they're rare. 8. Rasmus L. watches the list! 9. It's open to exchanges like this, which would never get past a moderator. 10. Overall, people are really responsive. Cheers - Miles Thompson At 01:14 PM 4/3/2003 +1000, [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [PHP] Test tables existance

2003-03-30 Thread Miles Thompson
Come on, check the mysql section of the PHP manual ... this took about 20 sec http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-list-tables.php At 11:34 PM 3/30/2003 +0300, Antti wrote: How do I test if a mysql table exists or not? Is there a function for this? I didn't find a good one. -antti -- PHP

Re: [PHP] Looking functions for deal with special characters

2003-03-29 Thread Miles Thompson
e and represents only char 0 - 127 - what I know as high-ascii goes from 128 - 254 - happy faces and the like, and yes, characters with unlauts and acute or grave accents. If you look at the .csv with a plain text editor, what do you see? No answer - but I hope this helped. Miles Thompson At 10:16

Re: [PHP] webeditor

2003-03-29 Thread Miles Thompson
http://www.editworkspro.com/index.php I've not used it, and it requires IE - but the demo was impressive. Miles At 11:21 AM 3/28/2003 -0800, Daniel Guerrier wrote: Does anyone know of an open source webeditor that I can use to enter information into a text area field. I have a custom CMS and I wou

Re: [PHP] List tables

2003-03-15 Thread Miles Thompson
As noted earlier, in the manual and please don't cross post. Miles At 05:37 PM 3/26/2003 +, shaun wrote: Hi, i would like to list all of the tables and field names in my database e.g. table 1 field 1 field 2 field 3 table 2 field 1 field 2 field 3 table 3 field 1 field 2

RE: [PHP] Inserting records in a particular way in MySQL

2003-02-16 Thread Miles Thompson
use auto increment. Not because of gaps, but in case I need to reload the table. They do have meaning if they are foreign keys to another table. - Larry -Original Message- From: Miles Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 1:14 PM To: Phillip S. Baker; PHP

Re: [PHP] Inserting records in a particular way in MySQL

2003-02-16 Thread Miles Thompson
Phillip, It doesn't matter, obviously you're not using the autoincrement ID for a foreign key. All this does is identify a record. If you did a SELECT and found a missing sequence number, what's to say that value would not be inserted by another user before your INSERT? If you have not set up

Re: [PHP] Headers bust ?

2003-02-15 Thread Miles Thompson
find it at www.thickbook.com Scripting often requires us to invert what we would see as the "normal" flow of eventsl Cheers - Miles Thompson At 09:01 AM 2/15/2003 -0500, Malcolm wrote: Hello, I've been fooling with this for a few days now. I'm getting a hearders already sent e

RE: [PHP] tracking bulk email

2003-02-04 Thread Miles Thompson
Do the database updates, it's what db's are for!Q M. At 09:40 AM 2/4/2003 -0500, Leonard Burton wrote: What about making the log a .txt file and not a database? Wouldnt that be quicker? Leonard. -Original Message- From: Lowell Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 04

Re: [PHP] Security question with PHP on Unix / Linux.

2003-02-04 Thread Miles Thompson
server is installed. No one is encouraged to all access to the underlying system through the web server, although the exec() function allows execution of some commands. I can't help you much more than that, and I believe the other list will be more fruitful. Regards - Miles Thompson At 07

Re: [PHP] Streaming audio

2002-11-27 Thread Miles Thompson
the file, using appropriate headers. For the second, why not do a redirect to the audio server, passing the necessary parameters? Not knowing the first thing about how this works, why not? Miles Thompson At 12:55 PM 11/27/2002 -0800, Mako Shark wrote: Does anyone know how to do streaming audio

Re: [PHP] **** Converting dynamic webpages into static HTML pages

2002-11-27 Thread Miles Thompson
ntally surround the whole of the output - this would bring NS 4.x to its knees. HTH - Miles Thompson At 02:57 PM 11/27/2002 -0500, Matt Vos wrote: I'm not sure... I always echo... I don't really like embedded code... gets confusing when one part of the page is one thing and another is a

RE: [PHP] php/mysql report builder

2002-11-26 Thread Miles Thompson
It's not the same as simply generating a report in PDF. He's looking for a band-type of report writer with groupoing levels, automatic totals, subtotals, sub reports, drag anddrop fields, right click formatting options, etc. One of the great leaps backwards with PHP, or any of the scripting l

Re: [PHP] Getting Newest

2002-11-07 Thread Miles Thompson
be able to figure it out, otherwise query each table in turn & pick the most recent according to whatever criteria you use. Have an index on the field which determines "most recent", check the max() function and side effects it may have on query speed. Cheers - Miles Thompson PS Why

Re: [PHP] Distance Script Available?

2002-10-04 Thread Miles Thompson
From concept to reality? mt At 02:51 PM 10/4/2002 +0200, Maxim Maletsky wrote: >Distance of what? > > >On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 07:21:53 -0500 >"RoyW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There has to be somewhere you can pick up a script or function that will > > calculate distance? > > > > :-) > > > > R

RE: [PHP] what do you think?

2002-09-27 Thread Miles Thompson
Fully concur. mt At 01:26 PM 9/27/2002 +0100, Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Arminas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 27 September 2002 11:38 > > > > about http://smanager.web1000.com/ > >I think the page needs a drastic proof-read and grammar

Re: [PHP] How to test if a number is negative

2002-09-25 Thread Miles Thompson
Or, as my teenage son, who is smarter than me, suggests ... 1 / $x + abs( $x ) which yields 1/0 if $x is neg. (He didn't go into trapping for the error ... sigh.) Miles At 11:07 PM 9/25/2002 -0300, Miles Thompson wrote: >$x = -1; >if ($x < 0 ){ > echo &quo

Re: [PHP] How to test if a number is negative

2002-09-25 Thread Miles Thompson
$x = -1; if ($x < 0 ){ echo "Negative"; else echo "Positive"; } Or am I missing something? Miles At 07:02 PM 9/25/2002 -0700, Mike Dunlop wrote: >I've look through all the numerican functions but can't readily see a way >to test for a negative number e.g -7 > >Any ideas o

Re: [PHP] MyPHPNuke1.8.8-1 *** Nuked ***

2002-09-25 Thread Miles Thompson
e "14" is the length of the theme name Make certain the name you use matches the case used in the directory holding the theme. The closing ";" must be included. I also tried clicking and swearing, but the system would not respond. Hope this helps - Miles Thompson At 03:58 AM 9/25

Re: [PHP] Adding to a MySql Database

2002-09-24 Thread Miles Thompson
Marek's a bit more elegant, but I'm wondering when twelve of us press the button and the database is hit bang, bang, bang. Mightn't a MySQL autoincrement field be better, and let MySQL do the work? mt At 07:32 PM 9/24/2002 +0200, Marek Kilimajer wrote: >Or better UPDATE table SET col = col +1

[PHP] Import & Stamp PDF's

2002-09-20 Thread Miles Thompson
Save it Create the mail message & attach PDF Send it Delete the copy Repeat Regards - Miles Thompson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] question

2002-09-11 Thread Miles Thompson
Julie Meloni to the rescue again - http://www.thickbookcom, you'll find a tutorial on custom error messages. In fact, after working on that you may rethink your approach. Miles Thompson At 04:31 PM 9/11/2002 +0300, Meltem Demirkus wrote: >Hi, >I am working on a process which

Re: [PHP] PHP and Transactions with InnoDB

2002-08-29 Thread Miles Thompson
begin by transaction, execute them, and do a commit or a rollback. Cdn$ .02 - Miles Thompson At 04:59 PM 8/29/2002 +0200, Geranium wrote: >I could use some practical tips on doing transactions with InnoDB >tables in MySQL. > >I want to grab and lock a record and do a whole load o

RE: [PHP] Error

2002-08-15 Thread Miles Thompson
Have you tried saving the pages with a .phps extension and looking at them in a browser? That usually uncovers syntactical errors quite quickly. Miles At 10:08 PM 8/15/2002 +0200, Christian Ista wrote: > > Havn't the foggiest idea what it means, but what has usually happened >is > > that I misse

Re: [PHP] Error

2002-08-15 Thread Miles Thompson
Havn't the foggiest idea what it means, but what has usually happened is that I missed a ";" on an earlier line. MT At 09:54 PM 8/15/2002 +0200, Christian Ista wrote: >Hello, > >Could you tell me the signification of this error : > >Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING

Re: [PHP] help with making appropriate indexes.

2002-08-15 Thread Miles Thompson
what they are. (You can do this unless you've gone too far with your system.) Miles Thompson At 02:15 PM 8/14/2002 +0200, lallous wrote: >give this query: > > SELECT > table_routing.id AS routeid, > t

Re: [PHP] Shared Hosting and Security Qualms ...

2002-08-15 Thread Miles Thompson
rench > > >on 15/08/02 10:36 PM, Miles Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > This is somewhat off-topic, but has to do with shared hosting. All of my > > experience with Linux has been on boxes where I've pretty well had the only > > account. I'm no

[PHP] Shared Hosting and Security Qualms ...

2002-08-15 Thread Miles Thompson
table. I could also insert records (which I subsequently deleted) into existing tables. Call me naive, but is this normal, or should I bail on this arrangement before going any further? It's a BSD system. Comments and opinions are solicited. Regards - Miles Thompson -- PHP Gener

Re: [PHP] include & require directive

2002-08-13 Thread Miles Thompson
Huy, Use Editplus, or something similar, not Notepad. Costs $45 and makes your work *much* easier. Miles At 08:41 AM 8/13/2002 -0700, Huy wrote: >Thanks, > >I thought I checked that already. Obviously, I use notepad in Win2000 to >edit the files, and save them as Unicode file, which Notepad p

Re: [PHP] mailing list managers

2002-08-13 Thread Miles Thompson
mean it didn't have an interface, I edited the source for the script every time I sent a mail. No problem, as it was a "proof of concept". Mightn't there be something at Hotscripts? HTH - Miles Thompson At 01:09 AM 8/14/2002 +1000, Justin French wrote: >Hi all, > &g

Re: [PHP] pdf to html

2002-07-25 Thread Miles Thompson
to feed a pdf stored on disk to a browser. I'd imagine extracting and displaying a PDF from a database would be similar to doing the same thing for a .jpg. Miles Thompson At 10:03 AM 7/25/2002 -0500, Tyler Longren wrote: >Hi, > >I've been searching around for ways to convert

[PHP] Re: [PHP-DB] Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pg_connect() in .....

2002-07-18 Thread Miles Thompson
e what they are. Regards - Miles Thompson At 06:37 PM 7/18/2002 -0700, Vincent wrote: >Hi, I'm a newbie here. I don't know what went wrong. >I've tried searching for solutions and can't find any. >How come pg_connect() isn't defined? Should I include >any header file

RE: [PHP] postnuke / geekware?

2002-07-18 Thread Miles Thompson
t; > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php John, Reasons why? I've been looking at a number of them; PostNuke seems to have the most aggressive development effort, including modules, blocks and themes.

Re: [PHP] One more thing... e-mails format

2002-07-12 Thread Miles Thompson
ned to turn that off. Can you imagine reading an HTML formatted message in Pegasus, mutt or pine? Cheers - Miles Thompson At 02:45 AM 7/12/2002 -0300, César Aracena wrote: >It’s me again… and not PHP related. Why is it that every piece of mail I >send to the list comes back as a *rich text”

Re: [PHP] Searching a Paradox Table with my PHP Script..

2002-07-11 Thread Miles Thompson
se you can proceed with your processing. I've also noted Chris Hewitt's suggestions re number of connections, etc.; that's worth checking as well. See below as well ... Cheers - Miles Thompson At 04:00 PM 7/11/2002 -02-30, Kondwani Spike Mkandawire wrote: >Hallo folks: (Sorry fo

Re: [PHP] mysql question

2002-07-11 Thread Miles Thompson
ve often sat slack-mouthed wondering why I had no data, simply because I was using "<" when it should have been ">". Cheers - Miles Thompson At 12:06 PM 7/11/2002 -0400, Alexander Ross wrote: >I realize this isn't a php question, but I figured that someone here k

Re: [PHP] Re: Working under Apache 1.3 but not Under IIS (Problem Resolved But its too Slow)...

2002-07-09 Thread Miles Thompson
sequential searches through a database. They are agonizingly slow. Regards - Miles Thompson PS cs.mun.ca is different, where are you located? At 04:31 PM 7/9/2002 -02-30, you wrote: >I got it fixed by changing the Max Execution Time in the >php.ini file... However, this is ridiculously sl

Re: [PHP] Exim sendmail faults

2002-07-04 Thread Miles Thompson
ox. This ain't much help - Miles At 02:21 PM 7/4/2002 -0400, Liam Gibbs wrote: >Miles Thompson wrote: > > Unfortunately I discarded the earlier messages, so I don't know what your > > error is. > >When I try to send an email I get: >unrouteable mail domain "

Re: [PHP] Exim sendmail faults

2002-07-04 Thread Miles Thompson
this? You may have to configure exim to use sympatico's SMTP server. (It's been so long since I've done that I forget how, and it was a real trial and error approach.) This probably isn't much help - Miles Thompson PS You may want to post this on the nslug.ca list; some mai

[PHP] Re: [PHP-DB] PHP dBASE connectivity

2002-07-04 Thread Miles Thompson
tions were not really reliable and were intended mostly to extract info for export to another database. I could not be 100% wrong on that, and I've not worked with the dbase functions in PHP. After this reply, please keep this focused on the php-db list. Regards - Miles Thompson At 12:14 P

Re: [PHP] PRIMARY KEY vs. INDEX

2002-05-02 Thread Miles Thompson
advantage of key fields are so slow. Indexes are your friend, they don't slow down the addition of records that much, and make retrieval of records extremely fast. Regards - Miles Thompson At 02:13 PM 5/2/2002 +0200, Christoph Starkmann wrote: >Hi there! > >I guess I got a very eas

[PHP] WIKI - CMS scripts

2002-04-05 Thread Miles Thompson
tioned scripts which are less busy, and on which navigation is clearer? Regards - Miles Thompson PS If you don't want to clutter the list, reply to me offlist and I'll summarize and post. /mt -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Re: PHP FAQ (again)

2002-04-03 Thread Miles Thompson
Hugh, No need - if you wouldn't mind, just post this list each day, along with the header "PHP FAQs -Check here first!" Miles At 10:17 AM 4/3/2002 -0500, Hugh Bothwell wrote: >"Justin French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > I saw this mentio

Re: [PHP] Database Development Price Inquiry?

2002-03-22 Thread Miles Thompson
? The ones who don't know what they want, or give the vaguest direction, and then you iterate from there. Those bills are usually astronomical, in the sense that what they ended up with could have been reached with a little more work and commitment at their end. Regards - Miles Thompson A

Re: [PHP] Seek server hardware recommendation

2002-03-21 Thread Miles Thompson
You're right Michael, but those are getting hard to find. M. At 11:13 AM 3/21/2002 -0600, Miguel Cruz wrote: >On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Aras Kucinskas wrote: > > LINUX > > Apache > > PHP > > mySQL > > > > Server purpose: > > One site (PHP+mySQL ) hosting, max 1000 visitors per day. > > > > What is re

Re: [PHP] Seek server hardware recommendation

2002-03-21 Thread Miles Thompson
a from multiple tables, constructing graphics on the fly and converting everything to PDF before sending it, then what I've suggested won't do. Regards - Miles Thompson PS Don't cross-post. It doesn't help but may annoy. This is replied to php-general only as it's not an

Re: [PHP] creating a dBase III file

2002-03-17 Thread Miles Thompson
>Unfortunately, I cannot alter the data in any way prior. > >----- Original Message - >From: "Miles Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 2:59 PM >Subject: Re: [PHP] creating a dBase III fi

RE: [PHP] Execute php script inside an HTML page???

2002-03-12 Thread Miles Thompson
This idea sounds very appealing, but remember that PHP will then parse every HTML file. Make certain this won't result in a performance hit. Miles Thompson At 03:43 PM 3/12/2002 -0500, Hunter, Ray wrote: >Yes, > >However, you need to add the .html file extension to the php pars

Re: [PHP] How to transfer letters (e.g. en-us, es, fr etc.) to full names (e.g. England, France etc.)?

2002-03-05 Thread Miles Thompson
The International Standards Organization may be your best bet. It maintains lists of countries and country codes which can be cut and pasted. Try searching for "ISO language code" or "ISO country code" Miles Thompson At 05:22 PM 3/5/2002 +, SED wrote: >Hi, I'm

[PHP] PHP on Novell Netware 6?

2002-03-04 Thread Miles Thompson
Novell firewall, or going the Cocoon route. Regards - Miles Thompson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] What Do You Think?

2002-02-15 Thread Miles Thompson
Friday afternoon -- one can tell! My votes are for Propellor Bitter or Garrison Red, both brewed here in Hfx, NS. Availability of the former more or less determines where we have our weekly Linux get-togethers. It's now 4:30, so I'm raising one to you all - Miles At 11:56 AM 2/15/2002 -0800,

Re: [PHP] Advanced books

2002-02-14 Thread Miles Thompson
" , or HDG a "PHP Bible" those should be quite comprehensive. Cheers - Miles Thompson Now, back to VB -- sigh!! At 12:24 PM 2/14/2002 -0500, Jackson Miller wrote: >I am looking for advanced books on PHP. I have read many tuts and a >couple of books, but I am looking fo

Re: [PHP] trouble with headers

2002-02-12 Thread Miles Thompson
You're right Erik. Subtle, ain't it? On the other hand, look how accepting browsers are of malformed HTML. I'm inclined to think that today they see the tag and 'think': "So, we assumed HTML anyway." Cheers - Miles Thompson At 08:57 PM 2/12/2002 -0500, E

Re: [PHP] Formatting a MYSQL time

2002-02-07 Thread Miles Thompson
Here Frank, play with this you'll have to add a bit of code to select your time values, but it will start you down the road. I spent some time playing with this a couple of years ago, this is taken from a file with the grand name of "junk.php"! Miles Thompson // up here

Re: [PHP] How do I keep form inputs from being cleared - Please Help!

2002-02-05 Thread Miles Thompson
http://www.thickbook.com choose the tutorial for a form with custom error messages. Miles Thompson At 06:40 PM 2/5/2002 -0500, SpamSucks86 wrote: >I have a registration form and if a user enters bad information and the >php script generates an error, I want the user to be able to hi

Re: [PHP] Two SQL tables: asking data in chronological order??

2002-02-04 Thread Miles Thompson
ELECT on each of activities and disbursements, then SELECT from results and order by fillin? Regards - Miles Thompson At 05:20 PM 2/4/2002 +0200, Lauri Vain wrote: >Hi there, > >I have a somewhat urgent issue so I'll get right to the point. > >There are two tables and for si

Re: [PHP] mysql backup function in php?

2002-02-04 Thread Miles Thompson
Take that a little further and extract the code from phpMyAdmin for use in your own project. Miles At 08:36 AM 2/4/2002 -0800, Mike Maltese wrote: >Use PHPMyAdmin. You can dump to a CSV file or it can output all of the >INSERT statements to rebuild a table. > > >- Original Message - >Fro

Re: [PHP] ReFilling mySQL Database with CSV file!!

2002-02-01 Thread Miles Thompson
does not matter, I just use .sql to tell me it is a different type of text file. If the new location uses phpMyAdmin, you'll have to find out what options are provided for creation of tables and import of data. The administrator may be willing to do the import as part of your setup. HTH

Re: [PHP] session.cookie_lifetime

2002-01-31 Thread Miles Thompson
At 05:15 PM 1/31/2002 -0800, Jon Drukman wrote: >At 09:03 PM 1/31/2002 -0400, Miles Thompson wrote: >>If you want persistence then use a cookie to >>- store the information >>- to provide a key for fetching data from a database >>or accept that if preservation of in

Re: [PHP] session.cookie_lifetime

2002-01-31 Thread Miles Thompson
If you want persistence then use a cookie to - store the information - to provide a key for fetching data from a database or accept that if preservation of inter-invocation data is impt enough to require registration of users and a login if the client has cookies turned off. Sessions are suppose

Re: [PHP] Hi - newbie questions...

2002-01-31 Thread Miles Thompson
At 02:14 PM 1/31/2002 -0500, Michael Kimsal wrote: >>>4th >>>sessions, can they be accessed from an asp script and the other way round? >> >>No, they cannot. They are specific to PHP. > > >not directly, but an ASP script on the same domain should be able to read >the cookie storing the session I

Re: [PHP] newbie question 2

2002-01-31 Thread Miles Thompson
that housekeeping. Miles Thompson At 06:54 PM 1/31/2002 +0100, Pafo wrote: >ok, i have reed the manual and i are having a hard time understanding it... >i tryed some examples with sessions but neither one of them did work >thats why i asked about sessions and cookies > &g

Re: [PHP] Hi - newbie questions...

2002-01-31 Thread Miles Thompson
You've got an interesting mix of PHP and HTML questions, and some reading will be required. At 01:56 AM 1/31/2002 +0100, Pafo wrote: >1st >How to start a cookie/how to delete a cookie and how to change/retrive >information from it Search Netscape's site for something like "developer cookie"

Re: [PHP] Content Management

2002-01-30 Thread Miles Thompson
What do you mean by the term "content management"? It is a little ambiguous, do you mean something like a wiki? "Large" is a bit unquantified as well. Like the time I went to the bank and my wife asked be to bring her "some money". She was a bit surprise to be handed three bucks; subsequent r

Re: [PHP] Got a problem I cant figure out

2002-01-28 Thread Miles Thompson
A goog first step is to rename the page with a .phps extension and display it in the browser. The coloring of the text often gives you an idea where PHP got turned off or something critical was commented out. Miles Thompson At 09:55 PM 1/27/2002 -0700, Ben Turner wrote: >Parse error: pa

[PHP] Re: [PHP-DB] [PHP] PHP and MYSQL Security`

2002-01-27 Thread Miles Thompson
$conn = mysql_connect( '$hostname', '$user', '$password'); mysql_select_db('$dbname',$conn) or die( mysql_errno()." : ".mysql_error()); There has been a lot of discussion on this topic, even within the past ten days, so a search of the archives wi

Re: [PHP] undefined symbol: uncompress

2002-01-27 Thread Miles Thompson
fina lmysql was a directory. It caused so me problems. It would help if the error messages were clearer, but they're still better than Winows GPF's. Miles Thompson On Sunday 27 January 2002 03:50 pm, David Jackson wrote: > Mike -- > Thanks for you reply, I made the change

Re: [PHP] a quick question..

2002-01-27 Thread Miles Thompson
Even better! mt On Sunday 27 January 2002 03:27 pm, you wrote: > * and then Tauntz blurted > > > If I have n variables: > > $nr1 = "some text"; > > $nr2 = "some other text" > > $nr3 > > > > and I want to print the text "randomly" (like if I enter the page.. it > > displays $nr1... ne

Re: [PHP] undefined symbol: uncompress

2002-01-27 Thread Miles Thompson
Add the path to libphp4.so to the file /etc/ld.conf.so and run ldconfig or copy libphp4.so to the libexec directory found beneath the main apach directory. It's most likely in the libs directory of your php source directory. The second way is probably the best. HTH - Miles Thompson

Re: [PHP] a quick question..

2002-01-27 Thread Miles Thompson
Try this: Store variables in an array, say $msg_array. (For those of Hungarian preference, $arrMessages.) $index = rand (0, $n) echo $msg_array[ $index ] Now this will require a bit of messing about, seeding the randomizer, etc., but you get the idea. Miles Thompson On Sunday 27 January

Re: [PHP] Control Panel

2002-01-26 Thread Miles Thompson
Spare us1 Miles Thompson On Saturday 26 January 2002 09:39 pm, karthikeyan wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I want a affordable and the best control panel for my website. Though i > can make it myself but it make some time to do that. Do any of you guys > and gals know about this

[PHP] Re: [PHP-DB] PHP + Postgresql + Linux = Frustration

2002-01-26 Thread Miles Thompson
gram would be if everything was compiled in by default. Hope this is helpful. If you have more problems, there is a php-install list which deals with specific installation problems. Regards - Miles Thompson PS These 4 programs were my first experience building on Linux systems, and initially i

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