Re: [PHP] Convert UTF-8 to PHP defines

Dear Sir/Madam Please unsubscribe Angus Mann angusm...@pobox.com from your database. My husband passed away 6 May 2010. Thank you Sonya Mann - Original Message - From: "tedd" To: Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Convert UTF-8 to PHP defines A

Re: [PHP] Need login suggestions

We're building a large site for a school district, to be used by both students and parents. When a student logs in, they gain some access to the site, and when a parent logs in, they gain access to other sections on the site. That's all fine and dandy, it's the actual registration process tha

Re: [PHP] FPDF passing values into header and footer?

- Original Message - From: "Angus Mann" To: "php-general" Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 2:46 PM Subject: [PHP] FPDF passing values into header and footer? Hi all. Whilst this question relates to fpdf (www.fpdf.org) I think it really is a PHP question, because

[PHP] FPDF passing values into header and footer?

Hi all. Whilst this question relates to fpdf (www.fpdf.org) I think it really is a PHP question, because it involves passing values into classes and functions. Here's the problem .. I need to pass a PHP variable like $number into the header of a PDF. I have extended the FPDF class as follows..

[PHP] Recommendation for online PHP editor please....

HI all. I'm looking for a recommendation for an online PHP editor. Here's what I mean I mean a PHP program I can install on my web-server, then log in and use it to browse and edit other PHP files on the server. The idea is that I could make changes and bugfixes to a web app while I'm away

Re: [PHP] Does PHP support multi-thread ?

Oh No ! Not again ! Please !! This was the subject of a very long and heated discussion a while ago. No - it does not support multi threading. - Original Message - From: "ttplayer" To: "php-general" Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 11:17 PM Subject: [PHP] Does PHP support multi-th

[PHP] Database design

Hi all. I know this is not strictly a PHP question but the code will be written in PHP, and I figure the folks here will be well versed in the questions I raise. Please feel free to contact me off the list if appropriate. I need some assistance with database design for a project I'm coding in PH

Re: [PHP] Re: UK Project Opportunity

This thread's getting a bit tired but here's my $0.02 worth. I've always found the phpclasses website a bit confusing to navigate and I've never had much success finding what I want. But it's free and as a non-paying customer I don't feel entitled to complain, when probably a bit more work fro

Re: [PHP] Strange behaviour with str_ireplace()

Grrr...please ignore. After battling with this for a while I now can't reproduce the problem. Apologies for an un-necessary post. - Original Message - From: "Angus Mann" To: "PHP-General" Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:02 AM Subject: [PHP] Strange be

[PHP] Strange behaviour with str_ireplace()

Hi all. I found some unexpected behaviour with str_ireplace. To summarize, if the $replace term is a number, but formatted as currency with trailing zero's (34.50) the function drops the trailing zero. Example : $price=34.5; $message="You owe me #amount#."; $message1 = str_ireplace("#amount#,sp

[PHP] Speed of sending email .. can I put them in a queue rather than wait?

Hi all. I'm currently using the phpmailer class from phpmailer.worxware.com to send datatbase -populated emails to clients. At the moment I'm runninng PHP on Windows and using the built-in sendmail equivalent packaged with XAMPP. It uses a remote SMTP that authenticates by prior logging into a

Re: [PHP] If the first four characters are "0000", then do {}

- Original Message - From: "John Taylor-Johnston" To: "PHP-General" Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:36 PM Subject: [PHP] If the first four characters are "", then do {} I am reading the manual: http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php $mydata->restored = "-00-00"; How

Re: [PHP] Creating an Entire .html page with PHP

- Original Message - From: To: "PHP-General" Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:00 AM Subject: [PHP] Creating an Entire .html page with PHP Hi Folks, I would like to create an entire .html page gathered from database content mixed with html etc. and be able to save the page... l

Re: [PHP] corect way to use mail() function

There are only 11 types of people in this world. Those that think binary jokes are funny, those that don't, and those that don't know binary. ErUmmm.shouldn't that read "...only 10 types of people..." ? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www

[PHP] Luhn (modulo 10) check digit calculator

Hi all. Perhaps a lazy request, but does anybody have some cut-n-paste code to calculate a Luhn check-digit? It's a check-digit often added to the end of things like credit card or account numbers to make detecting typo's a bit easier. I found lots of code to validate a number once the check-di

Re: [PHP] Re: strtotime - assumptions about default formatting of dates

I wrote a little AJAX gadget which sent the string typed to a PHP backend which parsed it using strtotime and then formatting it out again as something unamiguous (like 2 January 2009). Then every time the date entry field is changed by the user (with an onKeyUp event), this AJAX call is trigge

[PHP] strtotime - assumptions about default formatting of dates

Hi all. I need to allow users to enter dates and times, and for a while now I've been forcing them to use javascript date/time pickers so I can be absolutely sure the formatting is correct. Some users are requesting to be able to type the entries themselves so I've decided to allow this. I'm i

Re: [PHP] Checking for internet connection.

Why can't you put the update on the same LAN server that the app resides? If that is not possible, what about using CURL, and update if it can connect successfully, but don't if it cannot? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Since the LAN is remote (many hundred

[PHP] Checking for internet connection.

Hi all. I'w writing a PHP app that is designed to run over a LAN, so internet connection for the server is not really essential. Some users may deliberately not connect it to the internet as a security precaution. But I'd like the app to make use of an internet connection if it exists to che

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP sessions, AJAX, authentication and security.

same as everywhere else in your apps.. ajax is no different in any way at all, not even slightly. as far as PHP and web server is concerned it's just a plain old request same as any other; thus.. if( !$_SESSION['is_logged_in'] ) { exit(); } // do stuff Thanks for that. Sometimes the solution

[PHP] PHP sessions, AJAX, authentication and security.

Hi all. A question about PHP sessions and their interaction with AJAX. I have a database containing sensitive information and users need to log in to my PHP script and be authenticated before they are granted access. For one of the forms I would like to retrieve information using AJAX, and some

Re: [PHP] tracking forwarded emails using PHP

1. Is possible. Google the term web-bug. Be prepared that it will only work if the recipient has a HTML enabled email reader AND allows downloading of images. Be prepared also that every time the email (including forwarded emails) are viewed your server gets a hit. Might equal alot of hits. Just

Re: [PHP] uniqid() and repetition of numbers generated

Here's part of the confusion: If you were to express the number of microseconds since 1970 in a decimal number, it would indeed take 16 digits. But uniqid() returns a /13 character string/, not a 13 digit number. The string is actually a hexadecimal number (and thus can express a greater range o

Re: [PHP] uniqid() and repetition of numbers generated

Original Message - From: Ashley Sheridan To: Angus Mann Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] uniqid() and repetition of numbers generated On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 08:22 +1000, Angus Mann wrote: Hi all. I'm sure I can

[PHP] uniqid() and repetition of numbers generated

Hi all. I'm sure I can't be the first person to ask this question but a search of the net leaves me confused. I need a unique identifier in an SQL table and for complicated reasons I don't want to use auto-increment. So I thought I would use a pseudo-random method instead. I am NOT scared of p

Re: [PHP] Strange behaviour with uploaded files .. XAMPP on Windows

Yep, you were right. When I look, now I see that the permissions for the file are different to locally created files. Thanks for that ! Yeah, definitely sounds like a permissions issue. I'm not much of a windows admin, but this looks like it might help: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007

[PHP] Strange behaviour with uploaded files .. XAMPP on Windows

Hi all. I'm not sure if this is really a PHP question or specific to XAMPP, or windows in general... I have XAMPP including PHP 4.29 running on a Vista machine. When I use a form to upload a file, using $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name'] and move_uploaded-file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['name'], $ta

Re: [PHP] PHP Header issue

Your code does not make sense (to me anyway). It flags an error because you are sending HTML before the header command. Don't bother looking for whitespace etc...the etc is more than enough to produce this error. Using "Location" redirects to another URL. It does not make sense to redirect in

[PHP] Dan Brown

Dan Brown is a frequent poster here and developer on the PHP team. Dan has not posted to the PHP list for quite a while and is not responding to my emails directly to him. Does anyone know if he's OK? If anyone has knowledge can they please reply to me directly - off list. Thanks, Angus

Re: [PHP] "PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites" Book

Hi all. I monitor this list and occasionally contribute as an amateur so please forgive a question that might seem terribly obvious to those in the know. I'm confused about all this PHP 6 talk. Until now I thought I was right up there, because I worked with PHP 5.29 and was ready to upgrade to 5.

[PHP] PHP Manual in PDF format

Hi all. I realize this question has been asked before and I've found responses in the archive, but none of the links work now, or the files they point to are old or unsuitable. I'd like to print the most recent PHP manual to paper, so I need it in a format that's suitable. I've downloaded it fr

Re: [PHP] alpha/beta/gamma TO $var['alpha']['beta'] = 'gamma'

??? Huh ??? - Original Message - From: "דניאל דנון" To: "PHP General List" Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 8:11 PM Subject: [PHP] alpha/beta/gamma TO $var['alpha']['beta'] = 'gamma' I have encountered a problem when trying to turn -- Use ROT26 for best security -- PHP General Ma

[PHP] Web application design considerations - a good reference ?

Hi all. I'm working on a PHP project for my own personal business use. It will handle billing and invoices as well as payments and time management, bookings, appointments and a few more. I may add things like personal messaging between the various users and a customer login to check on the pr

Re: [PHP] Directing form to different handlers?

Thanks to all posters for their input. For what it's worth, I'm writing a PHP application for a very specific purpose of running my office billing etc so I have total control over the JavaScript settings for users. The entire application would break without JS so if they turn JS off, all they

[PHP] Directing form to different handlers?

Hi all. I realize this is more an HTML question than PHP but I'm sure someone here can help. I have several forms with lots (dozens) of text inputs. If the user presses the "Update" button I want the form handled by "update.php" but if they press "Delete" it needs to be handled by "delete.php"

Re: [PHP] Button id's - firefox and IE different ?

but for my purpose that's a pain is the ***. IE returns the text displayed in the button regardless of the "btid" value. It seems to just ignore it. Firefox returns the value assigned to "btid" as I intended regardless of the text in the button that the user sees.

[PHP] Button id's - firefox and IE different ?

Hi all. I want to have several delete buttons with just one form, and depending on which button is pressed, one of several items is deleted. So I need multiple submit buttons for 1 form, each displaying the same text "Delete" to the user, but each with a different "value" so the PHP script can

Re: [PHP] foreach and form submission.

Thanks Ashley...that did the trick. After reading about the limitations of strip_tags I decided to just replace the bad bits as below... It still uses your "foreach" suggestion but replaces "<" and ">" with "(" and ")" instead of stripping tags. I think I will extend the good and bad arrays to

[PHP] foreach and form submission.

Hi all. I'm writing a script that accepts several different forms with different content. Depending on what data is sent with the form the script will do one or the other think. Before the form data is processed I'd like to scrub it of HTML tags. I can do this manually as below but the form ma

[PHP] Proper code formatting

Hi all, I'm fairly new to PHP so I don't have too many bad habits yet. I'm keen to make my code easy to read for me in the future, and for others as well. Are there any rules or advice I can use for formatting (especially indenting) code? for example how best to format / indent this ? if (

Re: [PHP] Pricing for PHP programming???

At 11:54 1/02/2001 -0800, Terrence Chay wrote: > We should be prudent when discussing how much we charge for programming. >I'm no lawyer but I believe it's okay to discuss hypotheticals, histories, >and such, but remember that discussing wage rates may run against anti-trust >regulation as evi

[PHP] Compiler? (Was Re: [PHP] PHP site on CD-ROM)

At 22:35 18/01/01 -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >You would need to go through a web server for it to work. I seem to recall seeing something on the Zend site a while back about a "compiler" for PHP that was in the pipeline. After the store was launched I can't find anything. Am I imagining thin

Re: [PHP] What's wrong with this link?

At 11:25 20/01/01 -0700, Mike Yuen wrote: >I realize my slashes are most likely in the wrong spot and i'm new to this >PHP stuff so a little help would be appreciated. I get a parse error > >print "/">Click Here"; You've got the wrong type of slashes - use backslashes within the string - e.g. p

Re: [PHP] (Newbie) String within a string

At 13:48 18/01/01 +, jalist wrote: >I'm trying to grab a string from within a string based on a matching word or >phrase. Example... > >$string = "This is a string I need to grab the middle out of" >$query_word = "need" > >I need to get x amount of characters either side of $query_word, so the

Re: [PHP] identifying clicked link?

At 23:10 17/01/01 -0500, andrew wrote: >How can I pass an anchor tag attribute to a page? >e.g. If I want to echo "1" on page_two: > > >page_one.php contains: > > click All you're doing there is setting the variable id to "1". You're not even printing it. >page_two.php contains: > > > >but page

Re: [PHP] Ethics question...

At 21:24 17/01/01 -0500, Shane McBride wrote: >I have spent a lot of time working on a specific E-Commerce >(shopping-cart) to fill a need for a customer. Now that the project is >complete, I would like to market the product, which is entirely PHP and MySQL. > >My question is: Is it ethical to s

Re: [PHP] random no. between two numbers?

At 23:24 16/01/01 -0800, Erick Papadakis wrote: >hi, > >in php, how can i generate a random no. but between >two numbers? for example, i need to generate any >integer, randomly, between 1 and 1000. Check out the manual entry for mt_rand. (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mt-rand.php) e.g. y

Re: [PHP] Regex for telephone number

At 17:55 15/01/01 +0500, Vikram Vaswani wrote: >Hi! > >Can someone help me out with a regex to validate a phone number? We'd need to know what format of telephone numbers you're looking to validate, first. Angus. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAI