[PHP] Beginner Q How to load externally defined function

2004-01-25 Thread Paul Furman
I'm just barely beginning... but I have tried to research this... As per instructions in the class I'm taking I set up several php library folders outside of public_html, one of which is ../phplib/utilities/ and inside that folder I've put a file scandir.php containing the function called

[PHP] Re: Why we love Microsoft (0t)

2004-01-25 Thread Paul Furman
Barefoot wines got sued by the French maker of Chateu la fite for their Chateu la feet and Barefoot lost. Amazing but that's the precedent that comes to mind. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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

2004-01-25 Thread Paul Furman
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 save a lot of trouble. Thanks! Paul Furman wrote: I'm just barely beginning... but I

[PHP] [php.ini include] Beginner Q How to load externally defined

2004-01-25 Thread Paul Furman
John W. Holmes wrote: snipped a bit As for your php.ini, you put a path for include files that PHP will look in by default. So if you put 'c:/_Paul/web/phplib/utilities' as an include path, you'll be able to just use include 'dirfile.php'; instead of giving the complete path. I added this line

[PHP] Re: [php.ini include] Beginner Q How to load externally defined

2004-01-25 Thread Paul Furman
Paul Furman wrote: I added this line to my php.ini without luck: include_path = 'c:/_Paul/web/phplib/utilities' PS I also tried it with backslashes instead of forward-slashes. Inside php code that doesn't matter (or at least it works) on my windows machine but the php.ini does ask that you follow

[PHP] Re: [php.ini include [SOLVED]] Beginner Q How to load externally defined

2004-01-25 Thread Paul Furman
Solved again, double quotes needed! include_path = c:\_Paul\web\phplib\utilities include_path = 'c:/_Paul/web/phplib/utilities' PS I also tried it with backslashes instead of forward-slashes. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Naming Files

2004-01-26 Thread Paul Furman
It doesn't matter what I name my files apparently, I don't need any extension or anything once I get the first script going and that can be index.php, index.htm or anything if I pont to it specifically. To me it makes sense to call them xx.php 'cause I'm on a windows machine it's just

[PHP] unexpected include parse error

2004-01-26 Thread Paul Furman
I'm new so probably missing something easy or doing something terribly wrong but I have spent a lot of time experimenting... ?php $dirstr= ./ include 'scandir.php'; scandir('$dirstr'); ? parse error, unexpected T_INCLUDE in [the above file] if I comment out the $dirstr= ./ above that

Re: [PHP] unexpected include parse error

2004-01-26 Thread Paul Furman
David Obrien wrote: the \ has to be slashed .\\; Ah great, thanks! that fixes most of the errors. The following runs where I define the $dirstr in the function but if I try to define it in the page that calls the function, it still gives Parse error, unexpected T_INCLUDE in [#call] #call

Re: [PHP] unexpected include parse error

2004-01-26 Thread Paul Furman
Paul Furman wrote: PS I'm on my windows apache server but the forward slash seems to work OK actually, it was the back slash that was causing problems, it only works with a forward slash! but... I've still got the include error: ??? Parse error, unexpected T_INCLUDE #call $dirstr

Re: [PHP] unexpected include parse error

2004-01-26 Thread Paul Furman
Shawn McKenzie wrote: I've noticed in both of your posts that you aren't terminating the line before the include with a ; Yup, thanks! Then I fixed my global problem without bugging you guys too. Final result: #call.php $dirstr= ./; include 'scandir.php'; scandir('$dirstr'); #scandir.php

[PHP] Directory Browse Concept

2004-02-01 Thread Paul Furman
I'm beginning to learn PHP to rebuild my web site in such a way that I can update it more easily (...and add some other dynamic features ...and utilize a database). I like the idea of a simple directory structure and it's a sensible way to organize my various projects and topics. So what I

Re: [PHP] PHP not working with Apache

2004-02-01 Thread Paul Furman
The php installer doesn't do everything for a windows installation. You'll need to edit php.ini httpd.config for apache, as described in the installation guide. Raditha Dissanayake wrote: Yes sounds like you have not read the installation guide. Mark Mark wrote: I am running Apache 1.3.29

[PHP] Re: Directory Browse Concept

2004-02-02 Thread Paul Furman
doesn't need to be so complicated and looks exactly how I want it to... maybe still possible... we shall see. Paul Furman wrote: I'm beginning to learn PHP to rebuild my web site in such a way that I can update it more easily (...and add some other dynamic features ...and utilize a database). I like

Re: [PHP] thumbnail script

2004-02-06 Thread Paul Furman
Jason Wong wrote: manual imagejpeg() siblings You could take a look at the source code for gallery for more ideas. Google gallery php or something like that. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] beginner question about while loops

2004-02-06 Thread Paul Furman
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? Below is my project (while loop at the bottom): I'm getting unexpected $end on

Re: [PHP] beginner question about while loops

2004-02-06 Thread Paul Furman
Eric Gorr wrote: the while function knows to just go through those and fills in array numbers accordingly? The while function has nothing to do with it. Using the syntax $array[] simply adds an element onto the _end_ of the array and PHP picks the next logical, numerical index. OK thanks

Re: [PHP] beginner question about while loops

2004-02-06 Thread Paul Furman
OK thanks again for helping through the stumbling blocks... I'm rolling again now. John W. Holmes wrote: Just make sure $pictures is defined as an array before you try to push a value onto it (even using the method you have now), otherwise you'll get a warning. It seems to be working fine this

[PHP] math produces strange characters 

2004-02-06 Thread Paul Furman
What is this:  ?php $result= (1 * 10); print$result ? 10 there is a 10 in the end of that Again, I very new to this, first time I tried doing a little simple math, I'm befuddled. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] math produces strange characters 

2004-02-06 Thread Paul Furman
Chris W. Parker wrote: Paul Furman wrote: 10 I'm befuddled. What other code is in that page? That was the whole page but it's being included from a template. When I made the test math file empty: ?php ? I still got the funny characters but not with any other pages I include

Re: [PHP] math produces strange characters 

2004-02-06 Thread Paul Furman
10 Chris W. Parker wrote: What happens if you make test.php completely blank inside? I'm talking no ?php ? or anything. Totally empty still produces the strange characters. I also had a big complex page and printing some math in that produced the characters. ... AH, OK, it was this code

[PHP] Re: excel output question

2004-02-07 Thread Paul Furman
Single quote everything should work. Jake McHenry wrote: Hi everyone. I'm outputing payroll information to an excel csv file, and when anyone get's paid over 1k, the amount is split into two fields because of the comma in the amount. Is there anyway I can tell excel that this particular comma is

Re: [PHP] Re: excel output question

2004-02-07 Thread Paul Furman
Jake McHenry wrote: That just filled my spreadsh**t with quotes around everything... still the amounts larger than 1k are in 2 columns.. did I do something wrong? Sorry it didn't work. Maybe double quotes? I've output data from MS Access that came out smothered in quotes and when importing

[PHP] Beginner amazes self with image gallery script!

2004-02-07 Thread Paul Furman
This PHP stuff is too cool! Thanks for getting me over the hump folks. Here's my work in progress: http://hills.ccsf.edu/~pfurma02/index.php?SCREEN=ecards.php Only the 'next' button works for now but still I'm darn impressed with myself g. This will work on any folder of pictures with a subfolder

[PHP] Re: Beginner amazes self with image gallery script!

2004-02-07 Thread Paul Furman
Paul Furman wrote: This PHP stuff is too cool! Thanks for getting me over the hump folks. Here's my work in progress: http://hills.ccsf.edu/~pfurma02/index.php?SCREEN=ecards.php Only the 'next' button works for now... ...Of course I'll want to be able to click each thumbnail to bring

[PHP] function only available if PHP4 compiled using --enable-exif

2004-02-07 Thread Paul Furman
Does this mean I need to recompile from source code? (seems an extreme measure to me but what do I know) Is that difficult to do on a windows machine? I see it in some phpinfo's out there like this: http://www.php.net/~jimw/info.php but that's not in mine or at school or most hosting companies

[PHP] Re: function only available if PHP4 compiled using --enable-exif

2004-02-07 Thread Paul Furman
Thanks. I could have sworn I searched php.ini for exif. I had to do both of the below to make it work. Ben Ramsey wrote: php.ini [extension_dir = c:\PHP\extensions] [uncomment] extension=php_exif.dll -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

[PHP] Re: refresh page (might be 0t)

2004-02-07 Thread Paul Furman
.htaccess file on the server maybe? I'm not at all sure though you might not want to reload the page *every* time it's visited. Ryan A wrote: Hey, Have run into a little problem...any help appreciated. Heres what I am doing: I give the client a control panel where he can add,edit and delete

[PHP] Re: .html or.php extension

2004-02-08 Thread Paul Furman
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. E . H . Terwiel wrote: My PHP system demands that files to be interpreted by PHP MUST have the .php extension. If I have an .html

[PHP] $_POST trouble with html form

2004-02-08 Thread Paul Furman
Why am I getting the error Undefined index: comment? It's probably a typo because I had something similar that worked. form action=?php include (ACTION_DIR./jpeg-comment.php); ? method=post textarea name=comment ROWS=6 COLS=60 ?php print $comments[$thumb_num] ? /textareabr

[PHP] Re: $_POST trouble with html form

2004-02-08 Thread Paul Furman
, this is all new to me. I never used form action= before, especially not with PHP. php.net assumes I know all this g. Paul Furman wrote: Why am I getting the error Undefined index: comment? It's probably a typo because I had something similar that worked. form action=?php include (ACTION_DIR./jpeg

Re: [PHP] $_POST trouble with html form

2004-02-08 Thread Paul Furman
Adam Bregenzer wrote: Also perhaps related, when I call $_POST[comment] in the action file, it gives me Forbidden You don't have permission to access...[error message] but this is my own server at home. I'm quite unfamiliar with forms (and new to PHP for that matter). That looks like an

Re: [PHP] $_POST trouble with html form

2004-02-08 Thread Paul Furman
Paul Furman wrote: Adam Bregenzer wrote: Make sure the directory this file is in is accessible from the web. No, it's not accessible from the web, it's in my protected php_library outside public_html. It does load the protected action file as long as I don't try to call $_POST[comment

Re: [PHP] $_POST trouble with html form

2004-02-08 Thread Paul Furman
Adam Bregenzer wrote: Should I make a little php action file in public_html that includes the actual file? yes OK thanks, I made this: ?php # jpeg-comment-public.php include (C:/_Paul/web/phplib/action/jpeg-comment.php); ? but now the hidden one isn't aware of any variables. Forbidden You

Re: [PHP] $_POST trouble with html form

2004-02-08 Thread Paul Furman
Adam Bregenzer wrote: You will not have access to the $_POST[comment] variable until the form is submitted. Understood. That debug test only worked after submitting the form. So maybe the better way is to just submit the form with the action file simply reloading the main page to refresh it

[PHP] Re: [SOLVED] $_POST trouble with html form

2004-02-08 Thread Paul Furman
OK, this is what I've done and it seems to work: Paul Furman wrote: So maybe the better way is to just submit the form with the action file simply reloading the main page to refresh it then put my code below with an if statement checking if the form has been submitted yet and clearing $_POST

Re: [PHP] beginner question about while loops

2004-02-09 Thread Paul Furman
Jochem Maas wrote: Paul, the warning that John refers to does occur - whether you see it depends on the error reporting level, PHP will create the array for you if you have not already initialized it but a warning will be generated in such cases. ... error_reporting = E_ALL ...

[PHP] Re: unset Fuction

2004-02-10 Thread Paul Furman
Johnt wrote: function foo() { static $a; $a++; echo $aBR; unset($a); } foo(); foo(); foo(); /// *** RESULT 1 2 3 Should it be all 1's at this time? Is it the code, function, or my php setup..any idea

[PHP] Re: speeding up PHP

2004-02-10 Thread Paul Furman
When I started looking into this I was told ASP was slow at processing very large databases (and I think also large numbers of users) but I don't think this becomes a problem unless the site is extremely large or gets an awful lot of traffic. Merlin wrote: Hi there, I do have a performance

Re: [PHP] Re: Linked Table Structure

2004-02-10 Thread Paul Furman
My background is only with MS Access where everything is drag drop. In that case you can link fields and they will populate automatically. If you have Access, it might be an easier way to set up the database, enter the data and then export it to MySQL or whatever. Sajid wrote: I am not aware

Re: [PHP] A dumb question

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Furman
Chris W. Parker wrote: Chris W. Parker on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:45 AM said: I think in this is what's called a reference. Sounds like that's simply a way of making an alias for a variable: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.references.php -- PHP General Mailing List

[PHP] IPTC image comments utility

2004-02-12 Thread Paul Furman
Does anyone know of a utility for WRITING or at least reading IPTC data in images with PHP? I found lots of EXIF utilities and did an experimental thing with that. PHP even has a built in EXIF reader but the only IPTC utilities I've found are expensive ActiveX or Delphi components and I don't

[PHP] Re: IPTC image comments utility

2004-02-12 Thread Paul Furman
OK this looks like the thing: http://multipart-mixed.com/photo/iptc.html It's a perl module. Can I use that in PHP? Paul Furman wrote: Does anyone know of a utility for WRITING or at least reading IPTC data in images with PHP? I found lots of EXIF utilities and did an experimental thing

Re: [PHP] Re: IPTC image comments utility

2004-02-12 Thread Paul Furman
Perl module -undocumented, some serious compatibility problems, improper format function save( $sOutputFile = null ) $sImageData = @iptcembed($sIPTCBlock, $this-_sFilename, 0); function output() @iptcembed($sIPTCBlock, $this-_sFilename, 2); Paul Furman wrote: OK this looks

Re: [PHP] Referring to Parent Folders

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Furman
Richard Davey wrote: Why not set-up a variable in a common include file (something like $basedir = /usr/home/vinny/public_html/php) and then you can just do this: include $basedir/script.php; Here's what I use: -- HOME: --

[PHP] Re: E-Commerce II

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Furman
Jimmy wrote: ...they both charge monthly fees for using their E-Commerce Tools. Why? I thought it should be a one time thing? Or are they not providing code, just letting us use the code via Explorer and Frontpage? 2. If I were to look for a website hoster, any recommendations? Many open source

[PHP] Re: HTML: Make a TR/TD resize to fill a space?

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Furman
table tr td style=border:1px solid black; valign=top topbrtopbrtop /td td style=border:1px solid black; rowspan=2 textbrtextbrtextbrtextbrtextbrtextbrtextbr /td /tr tr td style=border:1px solid black; valign=bottom bot /td /tr /table Matt Hedges

[PHP] Scope: global $GLOBALS[]

2004-02-16 Thread Paul Furman
I checked the manual but I still don't get it. http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php I'm setting a variable $pics with a form by post method. It's on a screen that is included, then it needs to be applied to another screen that will take it's place when it's all re-processed.

[PHP] Re: Scope: global $GLOBALS[]

2004-02-16 Thread Paul Furman
$pics everywhere. Is that bad? Paul Furman wrote: template: global $pics; if (!isset($pics)){$pics = 8;} picture screen: global $pics; # works fine with the setting 8 from the template settings screen: global $pics; print $pics

[PHP] Re: Scope: global $GLOBALS[]

2004-02-16 Thread Paul Furman
file which does an include on the template that includes the screens. I set global in all of those. Paul Furman wrote: Help. After changing $pics on the setting screen, the picture screen will not recognize the new value. I'm just not clear where I need to set global (where it's being

[PHP] Re: Scope: global $GLOBALS[]

2004-02-16 Thread Paul Furman
to jump the gap but it's killed in $POST too! I thought $POST was a superglobal. What would make that lose it's value? Any ideas? Paul Furman wrote: The template wipes it out on the second round through after changing in settings. Coming into the template the second time it prints out empty. If I

[PHP] Are variables persistent?

2004-02-16 Thread Paul Furman
When I refresh a script using a form, it goes through resets all my custom Constants but presumably all my variables should still hold their values from the last run, right? THere are no functions involved. What would cause a variable or even a $POST[] value to be erased? -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] Are variables persistent?

2004-02-16 Thread Paul Furman
Jay Blanchard wrote: What would cause a variable or even a $POST[] value to be erased? [/snip] Refreshing the script causes the variable arrays to be repopulated with empty or blank variables unless a session was used to hold the variables. Refreshing is essentially calling the script without

Re: [PHP] Are variables persistent?

2004-02-16 Thread Paul Furman
Paul Furman wrote: So... $_REQUEST is the only way to go without getting into sessions? OK I see, it either goes in the url or a cookie. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Are variables persistent?

2004-02-16 Thread Paul Furman
Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] $_REQUEST is the only way to go without getting into sessions? [/snip] Nope, $_REQUEST (as its name implies) contains variables that are part of the request process. If you refresh the form the $_REQUEST array will essentially be empty for those vraibles that would

Re: [PHP] Are variables persistent?

2004-02-16 Thread Paul Furman
Paul Furman wrote: OK I'm confused. I want to set a variable with a form. How do I do that? I guess I need to put it in the url? I did a mail form that worked by putting stuff in the $POST and when it refreshed to the same mail page, I grabbed the stuff back out of that (at least that's what I

Re: [PHP] Are variables persistent?

2004-02-16 Thread Paul Furman
Matt Matijevich wrote: snip I'm guessing this is not a sensible approach. Every place I construct a url, I'd have to remember to add this. /snip Have you looked into sessions and/or cookies? I'm taking a class we are probably not going there for a while. It looks involved. I think you

Re: [PHP] Are variables persistent?

2004-02-16 Thread Paul Furman
Ugh, I think I'm done for the day. header() requires output buffering which would span several files and sounds like another mess. Paul Furman wrote: Matt Matijevich wrote: snip I'm guessing this is not a sensible approach. Every place I construct a url, I'd have to remember to add

[PHP] Re: [solved] Are variables persistent?

2004-02-17 Thread Paul Furman
followup... Paul Furman wrote: Ugh, I think I'm done for the day. header() requires output buffering which would span several files and sounds like another mess. Well, for now, I set up some of the links to maintain the $pics variable in the url as a $_REQUEST and circumvented the header

Re: [PHP] * populate menu from directory *

2004-02-17 Thread Paul Furman
Matt Matijevich wrote: snip I want to be able to simply FTP a new movie onto the server, and then have the menu update itself. possible? I would also be looking to do something similar with JPGS. /snip here is some code to help start you Here's another example: (more error checking probably

[PHP] Re: Sessions

2004-02-17 Thread Paul Furman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a questions about sessions. In building a simple app do I have to include the session id in the url string or in a hidden tag? or does it normally track it by cookies and so I dont have to call it on every page? thoughts on best way to do this I'm trying to

[PHP] Figuring out how to use a class with no documentation

2004-02-18 Thread Paul Furman
problems, improper format function save( $sOutputFile = null ) $sImageData = @iptcembed($sIPTCBlock, $this-_sFilename, 0); function output() @iptcembed($sIPTCBlock, $this-_sFilename, 2); Paul Furman wrote: OK this looks like the thing: http://multipart-mixed.com/photo

[PHP] Re: fopen errors

2004-02-18 Thread Paul Furman
Admin wrote: Here is the code I am using: $fileHandle = fopen($fileUpload, r); $fileContent = fread($fileHandle, $fileUpload_size); $fileContent = addslashes($fileContent); Warning: fopen(C:\\0-temp\\100_0078.jpg, r) -No such file or directory in /var/www/testbed/httpdocs/blob/grabfile.php on

Re: [PHP] fonts

2004-02-18 Thread Paul Furman
Jake McHenry wrote: it's for my intranet, figured it might be easier this way instead of touching every machine. All my machines are either on 98 or XP, which both will use the same font. There is such a thing as embedding fonts in a web page. I don't know the specifics but it exists. -- PHP

[PHP] Unexpected ;

2004-02-19 Thread Paul Furman
I don't see what's wrong with this if statement: while ... and ... { if (($pic_num + 1) = $thumb_num { $tab = ((($pics * $page) - 1) + $pic_num); } Error unexpected ; on the last line there. I added some extra () to make sure I had everything together not two statements or something odd

[PHP] Re: Unexpected ;

2004-02-19 Thread Paul Furman
Thanks folks, it was the missing paren on the if statement. if (...{...} if (...){...} I'm using PSPad as an editor with syntax highlighting and it works pretty well but I don't always g. Paul Furman wrote: I don't see what's wrong with this if statement: while ... and ... { if (($pic_num

[PHP] Re: apache mysql php windows

2004-02-24 Thread Paul Furman
Shane Nelson wrote: Hi Folks A few days ago on the list I saw someone mention a package that includes apache, mysql and php for Windows. The one install file included all these programs. Anyone remember what it was? I've checked google and searched through my email list but I can't seem to

[PHP] Redirect or Set Current Directory?

2004-11-21 Thread Paul Furman
I've got a script that lists all the folders on my web space. If the folder containes a non-php old web page with an index.htm in it I try to include that index.htm but the links inside there do not realize they are another folder deep. I've been away from this php stuff for a while so am

[PHP] Re: help with html through php

2004-11-21 Thread Paul Furman
Todd Alexander wrote: Hello all, I am a complete newbie to php so apologies for what I'm sure is a simple/dumb question. I want to use php to include another html doc in an existing set of documents. In other words 123.html will use php to call on abc.html so I can make changes to abc.html and

Re: [PHP] images process

2004-11-21 Thread Paul Furman
You need to set up an apache server get that running on your windows machine in order to run php. Then you go thru IE to view the php script run it that way. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I need a sample ( display images with php directly from database ) for reference... So, can you help