[PHP] Using PHP on an .html file
I looked everywhere for the answer to this dilemma, and i know there is a way around it, maybe something about the headers, cant really remember how it was, but can someone please tell me how i can use PHP code on a file with an extension of .html? For example, on a file called info.html, i want to have some PHP code that actually gets executed. Thanks. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] finding out localhost :-P
Heres the problem. I have one of my client's site hosted on a crappy server, and i have it running with php+mysql ok, the thing is i need to connect to that site's mysql's database from a different site to get data. The problem is that on the origin site (the crappy server), to connect to the database, i use localhost. How can i find out the real server to connect to from the other site? I tried using the whole domain, like www.crappyserver.com, but doesnt work. :-P Thanks. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] session variables
HI, Am trying to give controlled access to who logs in to my site. Have a quick doubt: I register a session var named $tu (value is taken from the DB) when a user logs in, how can i reference to that var? I mean, if i want to check its value, if i do print($tu);, it doesnt seem to work. Thanks. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Hacker problem
Been having some hacker problems on my site, and a simple one: I have a shoutbox, a simple form with name and text that adds lines to the database. I do checks for insults, too long words, tags, etc, but its still possible to circumvent those checks by adding the data on the url instead of using the form. something like: www.domain.com/shoutb.php?name=hackertext=generalnonsenseandbadwords To prevent this, i tried tracing the http_referral so that only data from inside the site goes into the shoutbox. THe problem is that if you do that url above after visiting my site, the http_referral obviously thinks its coming from inside the site. :-P How can i solve this? Is there any way to prevent data adding from outside? Maybe some invisible check on the form or something? Thanks. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Follow-up to Hacker problem
Your tips were nice, guys, thanks a lot. I tried a few things and i decided to go for making all the checks server side, cant go safer than that. Just have a doubt on one of the checks, at least so far. I have a check for long words, because the shoutbox is in a IFRAME, so if someone posted a long word, the infamous horizontal scroll bar would appear. How can i check for long words on a string and remove them before they get written on the DB? Thanks. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] PHP Online Store
Hi, I have to write a PHP/MySQL online store with product catalogs, prices, descriptions, and ordering (no payment) etc, but i have a big doubt when it comes to updating. How is it usually done? I mean, i never did a project like this, with a big amount of products to update. Whats the easiest way of updating the prices like say, every week? The suppliers send a list of the new prices to the store, and the store has to update the prices online manually, one by one? Also i thought of saving the excel file in csv format and uploading to the site, where some sort of parser would collect the new info from it. The problem with that approach would be if the supplier changes a cel on some product name, then everything would be ruined. How is it usually done? Big thanks, i am completely blind in this. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] problem with and '
Hi, When a user wants to add a comment on my site and uses either or ', and when it gets printed out, comes out as / or /', either to the web page or on a form to alter. The only treatment i give it after its submited on the form is: $comentarioc = str_replace(\r\n, \n, $comentarioc); $comentarioc = str_replace(\r, \n, $comentarioc); Is there a way to solve this? So it can accept both and ', and be able to alter/print it with no problem? Thanks. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] File upload problem
Which sounds like it has to be there to me? I just checked a working file upload form without MAX_FILE_SIZE field, and it worked.. I guess i misunderstood what was on the tutorials ? Or i wonder if this was a must in the earlier versions of PHP? Anyone? I have an upload feature on my administration side of my site and i dont use the MAX_FILE_SIZE as a hidden field on the form. I simply have a field for the file to upload and do all the checks, for size, change filename, etc, on the receiving end (different script) and it works fine. If you want the code, i can send it to you or post it here. :-) Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] and ' giving problems
Hi, When a user wants to add a comment on my site and uses either or ', and when it gets printed out, comes out as / or /', either to the web page or on a form to alter. The only treatment i give it after its submitted on the form is: $comentarioc = str_replace(\r\n, \n, $comentarioc); $comentarioc = str_replace(\r, \n, $comentarioc); Is there a way to solve this? So it can accept both and ', and be able to alter/print it with no problem? Thanks. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] counter freezes whole site!
Hi, I am having a serious problem on my site. It was working fine until a day ago, when it simply freezes. After i made a few checks i realized it loops on this code. I tried everything but i cant understand why and i am going crazy trying to figure it out! This code is supposed to write a 24h cookie at first visit, and then checks for it at every refresh, if the cookie doesnt exist, it increases a counter on the DB. Simple, right? Then why did it stop working out of the blue? It loops on the refresh, keeps thinking the cookie is not active, so it keeps adding +1 to the counter. What am i doing wrong? How can i fix it? oh, this code is right at the top of my main page. Thanks! ? if ($pvisita == '1') { break; } else { include ('databaseinfo.txt'); $ligacao=mysql_connect($h, $u, $p) or die(Erro ao aceder a MySQL); @mysql_select_db($DBname) or die(Unable to select database . $DBname); $resultado = mysql_query (select * from counttable where id='0'); if ($resultado) { $registo = mysql_fetch_array($resultado); $id = $registo[ID]; $contador = $registo[contador]; $contador = $contador + 1; $resultado2 = mysql_query (update counttable set contador='$contador' where id='0'); setcookie(pvisita, 1, time() + 86400); header(Location: $PHP_SELF); }else{ print (não há registos); break; } } ? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] How to check for refresh in PHP
Hi, I have a news site where i want to track how many visits or reads each individual news has. I have a main list with all the titles, then clicking on them shows the details of the specific news, only then the counter for that particular news is increased. The problem is, if the user does a refresh while at the details, the counter is increased again. How can i prevent this from happening? I thought it would be something like a unique counter problem, but its like having a counter problem for each news i have. :-P What would be nice, if it exists, is to check if the user is doing a refresh or coming from somewhere else. If its a refresh, the counter would simply not increase. That would be sufficient to keep the i-want-my-news-to-have-the-higher-number-of-visitors author, from having his way. Thanks. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Login and sessions?
Hi, I am trying to add a login functionality to my new manager. A simple username/password functionality, so that the user logs in and everything he does inside the site will have his name. I mean, if he wants to create a new entry on the database, the field name wont have to be filled, etc. Anyway, i dont have a clue to where to start. Tried to search the net but i dont even know the keywords to search for. Could you guys please put me in the good path? Heres where i got so far: Have a table on a mysql database named USERS, with name, password address, etc on it. What do i use to authenticate the user on my site? Sessions? If so, the steps i need to solve the problem are, user logs in, the server keeps his personal variables in memory so everytime they are needed for some form or whatever, the server fills the fields automatically. How can i have several users logged on and then have like a box on the site displaying who and how many users are logged in? Sorry for the messed up explanation, but i really dont know what do do about it. Thanks. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] dumb time question
Ok, this is going to be laughable, but here goes. I am looking at code too much to get this one: Have 2 text fields on a database called hours and minutes. How can i get the current time (hour-minutes) in two digit format and apply it to the two variables? Everything i do only gets one digit when the minutes are between 00 and 10. I know its going to be stupid but anyway, could use your help, i cant see anything straight in this code anymore. :-P Sorry and thanks. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] FORM text formatting problem
Hi, When i retrieve the text i have on my database, which was taken from a form textbox, i have line breaks ate the end of each line in the textbox. Ah, hard to explain! My textbox is small, and everytime, while writing a text in it, the line ends and we continued writing on the next one, thats the formatting my text on the database gets. It doesnt recognize the line breaks we want (by pressing ENTER), but takes line breaks simply from reaching the end of the textbox. How can that be? Before i insert the text from the textbox into the database, i do this: $texto = str_replace(\r\n, \n, $texto); $texto = str_replace(\r, \n, $texto); And when i want to retrieve the text from the database to display it on the site, i do: $texto = str_replace(\n, br, $texto); Some help, please? Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] FORM text formatting problem
Are you using a WRAP attribute on your TEXTAREA? You'll want to set it to OFF or NONE, probably. I can't remember the exact values, it can take, but I think it's PHYSICAL, VIRTUAL, and NONE/OFF. Thank you. Problem solved. Better put thank you on some sort of macro because it seems i will be using it a lot. :-) Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Form duplicate post problem
You can still use one page and use a middle-man technique. The part that processes the form input would redirect back to itself after the data is inserted into the database, thus getting rid of the post data. So subsequent refreshes of the page will refresh without attempting to repost the data. This post is merely for reference and, hopefully, to help out some other person that runs into the same problem. I solved my duplicate form post problem using that middle-man technique you guys mentioned, but i did it in a little more user friendly way than using a complete page and redirecting back to the original. (thus preventing some design problems on my specific site) I used some javascript to open a small window, it has the code to insert the comment into the database, thanks for the user input and immediately closes and refreshes the original, showing that last inserted comment. Works very smoothly, and if the user connection is fast enough, he doesnt even notice the window. If anyone needs the code, feel free to email me, ok? I am just not posting it because its a bit long, and might unnecessarily clutter the list. :-) Thanks for all the help, guys, you got me in the right direction. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Form duplicate post problem
Also for reference, but I would recommend to everyone that they not rely on Javascript and simply do all of this in the main window. With Pop-Up Blockers and different browser versions, Javascript should be avoided if possible unless you really know what your audience will be using (or don't care). I subscribe to your opinion, i spoke too soon. It seems i cant pass the form vars to the new javascript window, and i dont have a clue why not! Quite simply, if instead of opening a new window, i use the exact same code on the main window, all the vars are passed, if i use javascript to open a new window, no php vars are passed on. So i apologize for my early cry of victory, it quickly turned into a cry of despair. bah. Any ideas on how to get it working? PHP doesnt pass vars to javascript new window? (going for the main window approach for now, thanks john) Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Form duplicate post problem
Maybe I'm missing something here but I'm not sure why you consider it more user friendly to pop-up a window (and have it disappear automatically). If I was a user I would be thinking what the hell was that?. And if their connection was fast enough that they don't even notice the window pop-up disappear, and just see the main page refresh how different is that to the 'one page and use a middle-man technique'? Ok, i admit my donkeyness. :-P It takes the same time to popup, close and refresh, than it does to redirect and refresh. One thing that popup would prevent would be the browser history, i mean, if that popup method worked, if the user clicked on the back browser button, it would take him to where he came from. If i use that redirect method, the back button takes him to the redirect. Still trying to figure that one out. Would be nice to make the browser history forget that redirect. :-P But you are right, Jason, time wise i was wrong in going for the popup, not to mention those other very relevant facts john mentioned too. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Form duplicate post problem
Yeah, you should be using a header() redirect, not a javascript or META REFRESH redirect... Well, i tried, but i get an error saying that all the headers were already sent to the browser. :-P I used: header('Location: http://www.blahblah.com etc'); I placed this header right after all the database writes. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Form duplicate post problem
Got it to work. I removed everything except the PHP script. Works like a charm, no problem on the browser back button. Great help from you guys. Thanks a lot! Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Form duplicate post problem
Hi, I am having some problems with duplicate form input. I have a form that adds comments to an article, works fine, but if the user clicks on refresh, having added a comment previously, the same comment is added again. I tried clearing the variables after the database write, but the refresh somehow resends the previous values. Roughly, heres how my script works: (not using actual code syntax here) -- if {$flag=1 AND $name!='' AND $commentbody!=''){ inserts the comment into the database $flag = 0 $name = '' $comment = '' } -- routine to display the article and the existing comments here -- form here if user clicks send, puts $flag=1 and calls same page -- How can i prevent these double entries? Some command to definitely clear the variables? Thanks. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Form duplicate post problem
to a new page that displays the success notices etc and if they do a back or a refresh nothing will happen as the POST data is on the previous now removed from history page. I understand, but the reason i am trying to stick with just one page is that i want it to be practical. I mean, the moment the user clicks submit the page reloads and shows his comment immediately, and give him the functionality of pressing refresh to see if anyone else commented in the meantime. Also, by using a different page, even with a redirect back to the original, might take a little while, since the original is a bit heavy on the download side. ;-) Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Form duplicate post problem
The redirect using the header method is instant and if the middle page just does the inserts and you redirect right away using PHP it is not noticable at all. I gave up on reinventing the wheel and i am trying to use that middle-page method you guys mentioned. To make things a little more transparent to the user, i thought of using a popup window instead, you know, a tiny window pops up, with the code to insert the comment on the database, and closes right after it does so. but err..how can i close it right after the database insert? Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] include problem
Hi, i am trying to make my work a little easier when editing the appearance of a news site i am building. As it is, everytime i want to change the looks of how each news appears, i have to edit inside the print(' '); which is annoying, because of the backslash with problem thing(when i need to have a inside a print, i need to put a \, you know), for example: i have: print(br[$data] br $titulo br($user)br $intro br $texto brbr (comentarios=$contador)brbrhr size=1 width=90%br); Cant i do something like having the code inside the print on an external file? so when i want to change something, i only edit that file, instead of dealing with the print itself, like this: [some command(s) that put the content of the external file looks.inc in variable $a] print ($a); I dont even know what to look for in the net. This problem is so i, later on, can code some sort of backend in the ways of greymatter, that people can change the looks of the news entries by themselves. Thanks. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] news site, recent entries retrieval
Hi, I am writing a back end to be used by general news and journal sites and i am running into some problems. I already did all the background work, created the tables, programmed a php news manager to add, edit, remove entries/comments, etc. The problem is displaying all the info on the site. Whats the mysql command to display only n entries? I mean, assume i want to display only the 10 most recent entries on the main page, how do i do that? :-P One of the fields in my tables is type (values 0, 1, 2 etc), which divides the news into categories, how can i display like the 10 most recent entries of type = 2, for example? I am lost, could really use some help. Thanks! Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Passing a PHP variable to javascript
Hi, i am coding a news manager backend for a client and i ran into a little problem. I have two tables, one with the news and one with the comments on each news. How can i count how many comments there are for each news entry? Simply put, is there some sort of Mysql command query that can count how many records exist with a given field content? Example: Count on a database how many peters there are in there? Is there a specific SQL select or something, or i have to make a loop just to count them? Thanks. /Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] database value count retrieval
SELECT COUNT(x) FROM table; Make 'x' equal to any column name in the table and add WHERE to the clause as needed. err...all very well, but how do i retrieve the value afterwards? Heres my code: $sqlcom=select count(codigo) from comments where codigo=$id; $resultadocom = mysql_db_query (database,$sqlcom); $registocom = mysql_fetch_array($resultadocom); $contador = $registocom[codigo]; print(comentarios= $contador); Nothing comes out, although i dont have a clue on how to retrieve the result after the fetch_array. :-P /Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] security login
Well, first off sory for a very basic question, but i really dont know where else to look for the answer. Heres my dilemma: I need to code a backend for this site i am building, the backend will manage the news for the front page. The database stuff is pretty straight forward (so far!), but i need to validate who does the managing, i mean, some sort of login for only a few people. I am thinking of using username/pass from a table and all that but the thing is, how do i do the validating itself? Sure i know how to check for valid user/pass, but then what happens for the rest of the pages inside the backend, how do i keep the user validated and make sure only he can browse inside that secure mini site? Dont know if i am explaining things right, hmm, ok, any of you guys are familiar with gryematter? It validates the user at the start and then we can do whatever we want inside. I want to prevent users from skipping the login and just typing the other page url and go on from there. I use sessions, cookies? what? can you provide me with some urls for my research, or at least what to look for? Thanks a lot, really appreciate all the help. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] getaddrinfo failed
So what's on /usr/home/pagon/www/index.php on line 497 at a few lines before it? on line 497 theres the line: $linha=file('downs.txt'); then the rest of the script as below. Before this line theres simple, very simple, html. I dont understand the error. Pag ? $linha=file('downs.txt'); $t=count($linha); $l = $t - 1; $fim = $l - 3; if ($l 3) { $fim=$l - 3; } else { $fim = 0; } for ($i = $l; $i = $fim ; $i--) { $array=explode(|,$linha[$i]); print(div align=\left\); print(span class=\data\$array[0]/span); print(br$array[1]br); print(/divimg src=\spacer.gif\ height=\3\); } ? But from time to time, and with absolutely no visible reason, i get this error: Warning: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No address associated with hostname in /usr/home/pagon/www/index.php on line 497 Warning: file(downs.txt) - Bad file descriptor in /usr/home/pagon/www/index.php on line 497 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Whos online at the moment in PHP
Is it possible to code in PHP a small indicator on a site saying how many people are viewing that page at the moment? Sorry if its a silly question, but i am a newbie at PHP. If it is, could you point me in the good direction? i mean, some function or something. Thanks. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] getaddrinfo failed
Sorry, i sent this to the list a few days ago, but i dont think it got there. heres my problem: Hi, i have this script that simply reads lines from a txt files and displays them on my site, itlists the first 4 entries of a txt file with the files that exist on a download page: ? $linha=file('downs.txt'); $t=count($linha); $l = $t - 1; $fim = $l - 3; if ($l 3) { $fim=$l - 3; } else { $fim = 0; } for ($i = $l; $i = $fim ; $i--) { $array=explode(|,$linha[$i]); print(div align=\left\); print(span class=\data\$array[0]/span); print(br$array[1]br); print(/divimg src=\spacer.gif\ height=\3\); } ? But from time to time, and with absolutely no visible reason, i get this error: Warning: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No address associated with hostname in /usr/home/pagon/www/index.php on line 497 Warning: file(downs.txt) - Bad file descriptor in /usr/home/pagon/www/index.php on line 497 I tried everything, but i cant figure out why i get this error, the paths are ok (otherwise it wouldnt work in the first place) what could possibly cause it? The script is so small and simple, is there something wrong in it? But if it is, why does the error only appears randomly? I get this error on a different script on my site, also of the same type, reading a few lines from a txt file and displaying them. Thanks. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Weird error!!
Hi, i have this script that simply reads lines from a txt files and displays them on my site, itlists the first 4 entries of a txt file with the files that exist on a download page: ? $linha=file('downs.txt'); $t=count($linha); $l = $t - 1; $fim = $l - 3; if ($l 3) { $fim=$l - 3; } else { $fim = 0; } for ($i = $l; $i = $fim ; $i--) { $array=explode(|,$linha[$i]); print(div align=\left\); print(span class=\data\$array[0]/span); print(br$array[1]br); print(/divimg src=\spacer.gif\ height=\3\); } ? But from time to time, and with absolutely no visible reason, i get this error: Warning: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No address associated with hostname in /usr/home/pagon/www/index.php on line 497 Warning: file(downs.txt) - Bad file descriptor in /usr/home/pagon/www/index.php on line 497 I tried everything, but i cant figure out why i get this error, the paths are ok (otherwise it wouldnt work in the first place) what could possibly cause it? The script is so small and simple, is there something wrong in it? But if it is, why does the error only appears randomly? I get this error on a different script on my site, also of the same type, reading a few lines from a txt file and displaying them. Thanks. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php_network_getaddresses
nancies is local, so I'm not suprised that the pings came back ok. We did put up a firewall about a week ago that blocks pings from the outside though. Since everything is local though, I'm not sure why we would have this problem. I have this problem too, i mean, the same warning and bad location error. But its not always, i get it from time to time on my website (www.pagongski.com) and i cant figure out what it is. I have a random banner, a random quote and some fopen's for a shoutbox and news heading fetcher. Even changed all the vars hoping it would fix it. One thing i noticed is that the error is less frequent on IE6 at home than it is at work. At home i acess the net by adsl and at the office we use isdn but by router/lan. Something to do with that? Dont know the reason for such errors. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP compared to JSP
But my question still remains the same ... does PHP alone (without ZEND) compile code into some .compiled_PHP file so that the user loading same page for 2nd time gets better response than the 1st time? No, it doesnt. Every time a user accesses a page that has PHP, the page will be built on the spot. (server side) Its extremely fast so no delays whatsoever. More figurately, you have a webpage with the PHP code somewhere in it, if a user requests to view it, the server generates the code, builds the page, delivers it to the user and still keeps the original PHP code for the next user, going over it again, dynamically. Sorry if i cant explain this very well. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP compared to JSP
Does PHP compile : NO Does the user loading same page for 2nd time gets better response : YES it can if caching is provided On a side not..isnt caching a bit like going against why PHP was built in the first place? I mean, information may get a bit out of date if we get a page on the cache instead of getting it fresh from the server. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] PHP editing environment
Hi, i am new to the list and i am quite impressed with whats going on over here. Anyway, just have a small question. Have been coding php for a while now but i still havent found a stable (easy and not time consuming) way of working in PHP, i mean, i use homesite5 to code and when i want to test the php i upload the scripts and test them on the site. This process is a bit time consuming, so i installed php on my winXP, but even like that i can only test small things using php master editor. Anyone know how i can make my work more efficient? Like install MySQL and PHP and get everything working normally when i preview the code in internet explorer, that would be perfect, is it possible? How do you guys and girls work with php, what editors and/or tools you use? Thanks. Pag -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php