RE: [PHP] manipulating files with php

2001-05-09 Thread Benjamin Munoz
There are a number of ways to do this. Mine is something like this: if (has_read_perm($user_id, $file_id)) { send_file_to_browser($file_id); } else { // print error message(); } ... function has_read_perm($user_id, $file_id) { // check db table // return true/f

RE: [PHP] sending attachments via mail(), possible?

2001-05-09 Thread Benjamin Munoz
There is a PHP class someone wrote called mime_mail that makes this easy. The resulting code using this class is something like: // create new mime_mail object instance $mail = new mime_mail; // set all data slots $mail->from= "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; $mail->to = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; $m

RE: [PHP] Simple Questions

2001-05-08 Thread Benjamin Munoz
This is not working? echo("$server->server_num_players."/".$server->server_max_players "); If you are trying to print out 4/4 but can't because it is evaluating it mathematically, try using the HTML character entity for /, / echo("$server->server_num_players/$server->server_max_players"); Hop

RE: [PHP] Commercial sites that use PHP

2001-04-10 Thread Benjamin Munoz
Yahoo uses a lot of Python. Yahoo Mail pages have extensions of .py, indicating Python. Yahoo acquired eGroups and Google this past year, both of which openly use Python to generate pages. They most likely use Python in conjunction with other scripting and compiled languages. -Ben -Origi

RE: [PHP] double byte problem

2001-04-08 Thread Benjamin Munoz
Can you send some code? -Original Message- From: Subhrajyoti Moitra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 8:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] double byte problem hi, i am having a little problem in using php with double byte character.

RE: [PHP] PHPSESSID sticks to every link after upgrate of Apache/PHP

2001-04-08 Thread Benjamin Munoz
In your php.ini, change the following line: >session.use_trans_sid = 1 ; use transient sid support if enabled to >session.use_trans_sid = 0 ; use transient sid support if enabled And see if that solves your problem. Also, check the change with phpinfo(), and if nothing change

RE: [PHP] Bad Practices

2001-02-13 Thread Benjamin Munoz
Three good articles by the author of PHP Developer's Cookbook. Top 21 PHP progamming mistakes By Sterling Hughes http://zend.com/zend/art/mistake.php http://zend.com/zend/art/mistake1.php http://zend.com/zend/art/mistake2.php -Ben Munoz -Original Message- From: Jeff Oien [mailto:[E

RE: [PHP] A php-xml mailing list?

2001-02-09 Thread Benjamin Munoz
Yes, I subscribe to this PHP-XML mailing list, but it is very low volume. I'd encourage anyone considering using XML/XSL/SOAP/RSS to join this list, so that XML and SOAP can be easily used with a PHP web app environment. I've used ASP/COM when I really wanted to use PHP, but the Microsoft S

RE: [PHP] 20 Million Fresh E-mail Addresses

2001-02-06 Thread Benjamin Munoz
On replying to SPAM: Most of you already know this, but replying to SPAM (even if they tell you that you can remove yourself) usually leads to more SPAM, b/c you've just given the SPAMMERS your email address confirmed. http://www.chugach.net/~techtips/spam3.htm Just a warning. -Ben -O

RE: [PHP] contracting & consulting (was "[PHP] Pricing for PHP programming???")

2001-02-01 Thread Benjamin Munoz
Great thread. When I was changing jobs in April of 2000, a recruiter told me that PHP is "cool and all", but there is zero demand for developers of PHP web apps (in Los Angeles). Although I've been very productive developing in PHP, he advised me to learn something else, b/c the demand just isn't

RE: [PHP] Suggest for List

2001-02-01 Thread Benjamin Munoz
April, There was a discussion like in 1999 (i remember cuz I was learning PHP then), and Richard Lynch (i think) had a good point that splitting the list would reduce the quality of the answers on the beginners list--PHP newbies answering each others questions, you see. Newbies should continue

RE: [PHP] Uploading images only

2001-01-30 Thread Benjamin Munoz
You can check the mime type of the uploaded file. First upload the file, as usual. Then check the mime type before copying from the temp directory to the files directory. If this is your form: > File: Then on submission, $userfile will be your file, $userfile_name will automatically

RE: [PHP] How can I make PHP to work on Win98 ?

2001-01-30 Thread Benjamin Munoz
You can find some info here... http://php.net/manual/en/install-windows95-nt.php And more here... http://php.weblogs.com/easywindows First requirement is to have a web server (Xitami, Apache, Personal Webserver) on your Win98 box. Then you can run one of the installers found on one of the above

RE: [PHP] PDF Questions

2001-01-30 Thread Benjamin Munoz
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/perugini20001026.php3 http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/uwe20001116.php3 http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php -Ben -Original Message- From: Conover, Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 6:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [PHP] Problem!

2001-01-29 Thread Benjamin Munoz
Stephen, If this date format is coming from a MySQL database (frequently the case), you might want to look at the date formatting functions of MySQL. http://www.mysql.com/doc/D/a/Date_and_time_functions.html. ex. select DATE_FORMAT('1997-10-04 22:23:00', '%W %M %Y'); One drawback is that thi

RE: [PHP] Multiple Page Form

2001-01-23 Thread Benjamin Munoz
Make sure you are not forgetting to include $action as a hidden input, so your script can know how to process. , for example -Ben -Original Message- From: Jeremy Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Multiple Page

[PHP] Export to Spreadsheet Format

2001-01-23 Thread Benjamin Munoz
I want to run a query on a database and export the recordset to a spreadsheet, preferably Excel native. The box is on a Win32 OS, so I can instantiate a Excel COM object (similar to the PHPBuilder COM article), and use the COM methods to create an Excel file. Or, I can fopen and fput a CSV fo

RE: [PHP] Extracting Data from a URL output

2001-01-17 Thread Benjamin Munoz
// get a web page into an array and remove html // file() returns an array, which you can then loop through $fcontents = file ('http://www.php.net'); while (list ($line_num, $line) = each ($fcontents)) { // if preg_match the weather text you are looking for // preg_replace a

RE: [PHP] Two things

2001-01-17 Thread Benjamin Munoz
Did you mean this? -Ben -Original Message- From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 11:52 AM To: Phil Labonte Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Two things > When I get a list of items from a database I would like to display them with >

RE: [PHP] error message handling

2001-01-17 Thread Benjamin Munoz
You probably want to suppress the error message with an @ symbol. Try putting an "@" before the function calls that give you errors. This suppresses the error function. Many functions return FALSE if unsuccessful, so you can test and supply your own error message. If you find yourself d

RE: [PHP] $row->user_id;

2001-01-16 Thread Benjamin Munoz
wing mean or should I ask how does it work? $row->user_id; Is it somehow relate to the following? $row["user_id"]; I tried to look for this in the manual but without any luck... perhaps I'm going blind ;) SED -----Original Message- From: Benjamin Munoz [mai

RE: [PHP] MySQL - How to transfer a query resault into a variable?

2001-01-16 Thread Benjamin Munoz
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-fetch-object.php Modified example from the manual above... user_id; $name = $row->name; // print them out if you want, or store them in an array to return if this is a function print ("$name\n"); } mysql_free_result ($result);

RE: [PHP] How to keep unauthorized viewers out

2001-01-16 Thread Benjamin Munoz
Correction: Inside X.php, you have some authentication code. Maybe something simple as: -Ben -Original Message- From: Benjamin Munoz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 4:20 PM To: 'Miles Thompson'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] How to keep un

RE: [PHP] How to keep unauthorized viewers out

2001-01-16 Thread Benjamin Munoz
Miles, If you can save 2.htm as 2.php, use some authentication code. Story.php becomes Inside X.php, you have some authentication code. Maybe something simple as: Inside story.php, set $valid to true Now accessing 2.php directly means that $valid is valid and you'll be redirected to story

RE: [PHP] Strings??

2001-01-16 Thread Benjamin Munoz
Ade, What kind of string? What do you want to do with them? -Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 2:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Strings?? Quick Question. I have a form which has 10 fields, is there