Re: [PHP] Suggestions on FAQ application?

2003-01-11 Thread Jeffrey B. Ferland
Why re-invent what is already written? I'm well aware that it's easy to write but there may be something out there already that suits my needs and has some features that I hadn't thought of. If you don't have a suggestion on a package please spare me the rude replies which seem to run rampant

Re: [PHP] count characters without space

2003-01-11 Thread Jeffrey B. Ferland
who knowes how to count the charcaters in a string without the space character? Using a regular expression to strip out all the spaces before passing to the word counting function seems easiest. You'll be left to adapt it to PHP, but the regexp is: 's/ //g' That removes all spaces. If it gives

Re: [PHP] MySQL vs PostgreSQL

2003-01-06 Thread Jeffrey B. Ferland
I'm just deciding which DB to use for my projects and I'm not clear with one thing... When considering a database for web, is MySQL good enough? I read it only supports table locking, which is not very satisfying in such a multiuser environment as the internet.. PostgreSQL has

Re: [PHP] MySQL vs PostgreSQL

2003-01-06 Thread Jeffrey B. Ferland
Not to cause a flame war, but, MySQL and PostgreSQL are both excellent choices, MySQL tends to be a lighter less feature rich database while PostgreSQL tends to have more features, perform better under load, etc. Under differing types of load, yes. MySQL is more hit-based, while PostgreSQL

Re: [PHP] Function passed as argument to function

2002-12-01 Thread Jeffrey B. Ferland
For reference, see http://autocracy.homelinux.org/template.php and http://autocracy.homelinux.org/error.php Unless you have a good reason to do otherwise please post your code here. People would be less inclined to help if they have to go about clicking on links to see what your problem

Re: [PHP] Guestbook

2002-12-01 Thread Jeffrey B. Ferland
The quick solution, if you intend to continue the autoincrement field, is to number the entries manually when you're displaying them: Something along the lines of: $count = 0; while ($row(mysql_fetch_array($result_id))) { $count++; echo Entry $count; ... ... } The

[PHP] Function passed as argument to function

2002-11-30 Thread Jeffrey B . Ferland
std_layout(Title here, list_writings(poetry)) both std_layout and list_writings are user-defined functions. std_layout() echo's the two arguments that it takes at select points in its execution. I want to the output of list_writings() to be an argument for std_layout(). -Jeff SIG: HUP --

Re: [PHP] Function passed as argument to function

2002-11-30 Thread Jeffrey B . Ferland
On Saturday 30 November 2002 03:14 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 01 December 2002 03:54, Jeffrey B.Ferland wrote: std_layout(Title here, list_writings(poetry)) both std_layout and list_writings are user-defined functions. std_layout() echo's the two arguments that it takes at select points in