Re: [PHP] php-not-executing-in-html-file-help

2005-03-20 Thread Ian Firla
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Re: [PHP] unexplainable - page generation time class

2005-03-06 Thread Ian Firla
10096261.12 1110096263.13 generation time: 2.00168681145 All the best, Ian --- Ian Firla Consulting http://ianfirla.com On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 22:04 -0700, James Williams wrote: > Howdy! I've made a class which simply determines the page generation > time of a php script... After

Re: [PHP] Bypassing php.ini setting for file uploads?

2005-03-02 Thread Ian Firla
There're all kinds of threads on this if you google around for a bit but one good on in my bookmarks is: http://www.webdevforums.com/showthread.php?t=7231 Ian On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 09:39 -0800, Matt Cassarino wrote: >Hi, > >I am trying to modify the php.ini settings for post_max_size and >uplo

Re: [PHP] Writing new code vs. re-writing someone else's code

2004-12-21 Thread Ian Firla
Good question. Personally, I think I tend to write more new code than reworking old code. However, I have taken on numerous projects where I've been required to port ASP to PHP and MSSQL dbs to Postgre or MySQL... but these projects also require a fair bit of new code. There are *so* many legacy

Re: [PHP] Uncompressing files on server

2004-12-20 Thread Ian Firla
Which platform? How are the files compressed? Do you have access to the commandline on your server? Ian On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 23:00 -0500, Josh wrote: > I have some PHP files from a content management system. I uploaded the > compressed files to the server, but how do I un-compress them now?

[PHP] mixed strings

2004-12-18 Thread Ian Firla
Hi All, I'm wondering if anyone knows if there's a way of sending strings of mixed type to a UDP socket. I'm storing the data I need to send in an array. Parsing the array with a foreach, I'm sending out the various pieces to the socket with fwrite. Unfortunately, it seems that UDP terminates e

Re: [PHP] File-handling

2004-12-17 Thread Ian Firla
fgets uses the resource created by fopen. Read the manual: http://it.php.net/fopen http://it.php.net/fgets look at the example: Ian On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 11:24 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there! > > Can someone explain the major difference between fgets and fopen? Which is > the

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2004-12-16 Thread Ian Firla
Ciao Tomas, I'm not sure if I followed your question completely but do you mean to test a variable or an array element and unset it if it matches a certain type? If so, then maybe: http://it.php.net/is_int is_bool(), is_float(), is_numeric(), is_string(), is_array(), and is_object() will be of

Re: [PHP] cURL FTP

2004-12-15 Thread Ian Firla
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 08:27 -0500, Lowell Allen wrote: > $fh = fopen("test.txt", "r") or die($php_errormsg); Try opening the file "rw". At the moment, you're opening it read only. Ian -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] "Byte Array"

2004-12-14 Thread Ian Firla
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 08:40 -0800, Richard Lynch wrote: > Ian Firla wrote: > > > > Just a follow-up to myself... I decided to try packet sniffing to see > > what was going on and ettercap confirms that I'm sending out strings > > rather than data of the type stor

Re: [PHP] "Byte Array"

2004-12-13 Thread Ian Firla
ry bits as binary bits? Ian On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 12:12 +0100, Ian Firla wrote: > You're right. I think it will. Thanks. > > I've got another issue now though which may indeed be a show-stopper. > > It seems that while socket_recvfrom is binary safe, there's no way t

Re: [PHP] "Byte Array"

2004-12-13 Thread Ian Firla
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 07:57 -0800, Chris wrote: > Try the unpack function, it should do quite nicely. > > Chris > > Ian Firla wrote: > > >Hello All, > > > >I've hit a bit of a show stopper in a project I'm working on. > > > >I'm gett

[PHP] "Byte Array"

2004-12-13 Thread Ian Firla
Hello All, I've hit a bit of a show stopper in a project I'm working on. I'm getting a 65 byte stream of data. 32 of those bytes are of the type "Byte Array". Is there a way that I can covert that data into something useful? For the record, the data stream that I'm getting is in the format: |a

Re: [PHP] How do I su to another account??

2004-11-11 Thread Ian Firla
Do you really need to switch users or do you need to run something as another user? Try looking into setting up and using sudo. Ian On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 09:20 -0500, Scott Fletcher wrote: > How do I su (switch user) to another account from the nobody in php? I > haven't got it to work, so I g

Re: [PHP] passing resources from one script to another

2004-11-11 Thread Ian Firla
Thanks Greg. That is what I'm doing. The problem remains passing a resource to the script executed by exec. Ian On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 08:45 -0600, Greg Donald wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:15:56 +0100, Ian Firla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem is the dialogue

Re: [PHP] passing resources from one script to another

2004-11-11 Thread Ian Firla
hy don't use session vars? (or an array of them?) > > Sebastiano > > > Alle 15:15, giovedì 11 novembre 2004, Ian Firla ha scritto: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm developing a small server application that accepts connections on a > > socket and then launches

[PHP] passing resources from one script to another

2004-11-11 Thread Ian Firla
Hi All, I'm developing a small server application that accepts connections on a socket and then launches an interactive session with the client. The server needs to be able to accept N connections. This part is working famously thanks to code I've borrowed and modified from: http://www.zend.com

Re: [PHP] Most efficient way of fetching 1,000 records from MySQL ?

2004-10-25 Thread Ian Firla
I think you'll find that your first approach is not only more correct, it's the only manageable one. Ian On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:15 +0200, Steve McGill wrote: > Hello, > > In my script I have generated an array of 1,000 userIDs for example. Now for > I need to fetch each user's record and I am

Re: [PHP] PHP App User Permissions Tecnique

2004-10-15 Thread Ian Firla
Definitely store them in a session. A db lookup will mean a much heavier and process intensive procedure. Ian On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 09:41, Brendon wrote: > I am building a web based community forum type software using PHP. I am > currently working on how different user privelages are handled. E

Re: [PHP] Re: crypt()

2004-08-26 Thread Ian Firla
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 15:01, Aaron Todd wrote: > Thanks for the tip, it worked great, however everything I have been reading > says that md5 is only one way. The way I have setup my app is the database > contains the encrypted version of what the user entered as their password. > Then on my log

Re: [PHP] fatal error undefined call to mysql_connect

2004-08-25 Thread Ian Firla
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 17:08, Angelo Zanetti wrote: > I never installed it so... here is my next question. how would I find out how it was > installed? Look at the output of phpinfo(). But before doing that, read the documentation or you'll be back here in a flash with more really basic questions

Re: [PHP] session cookie paths

2004-08-25 Thread Ian Firla
Answered my own question. Creating an .htaccess file containing: php_value session.name "uniqueSESSIONname" takes care of the problem. On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 12:30, Ian Firla wrote: > Dear All, > > I've been trying to figure out a solution for this problem and have &

[PHP] session cookie paths

2004-08-25 Thread Ian Firla
Dear All, I've been trying to figure out a solution for this problem and have googled the subject but cannot come up with anything meaningful. I have several applications running on my server which use php and sessions. In each case, logging out from an application destroys the session. The tr

Re: [PHP] connecting to MySQL from shellscript

2004-03-11 Thread Ian Firla
Thanks everyone for your advice. The problem appears to be with the debian package which I was using. I tried compiling php from source as Adam suggested and the script now runs flawlessly. Ian On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 16:47, Ian Firla wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a shellscript writt

[PHP] connecting to MySQL from shellscript

2004-03-11 Thread Ian Firla
Hello all, I have a shellscript written in php that needs to connect to a mysql database. Everything I've been reading suggests that this cannot be done easily. Is this true? The one workaround I've found is: http://www.phpbuilder.com/annotate/message.php3?id=1012940 But it's very inelegant an

Re: [PHP] MySQL Connection

2004-03-04 Thread Ian Firla
I think you've just answered your own question here: "I get a "Can't Connect to MySQL Server" error. I am not sure if it is localhost, since my webserver is on a different machine with a different name. The MySQL installation is on a different machine, separate from the web server with its own

Re: [PHP] values from string query

2004-03-01 Thread Ian Firla
Try echoing your query and pasting it into mysql to make sure that the problem isn't in the structure of your query. Your connect statement selects a db, right? Ian On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 14:01, Angelo Zanetti wrote: > HI all I have a Select that get a resultset, once I get this then I use the >

Re: [PHP] RE: Check to remove file that are older than 1 week

2004-02-17 Thread Ian Firla
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 17:35, YC Nyon wrote: > Hi, > > I want to delete files than are older than 1 week from a specific directory. > Anyone mind to share their code? Can't anything on phpbuilder on this. > > Regards > Nyon I have a bash script that I use: #! /bin/bash # call as: ./delete_old.s

Re: [PHP] mem

2004-02-17 Thread Ian Firla
Try this: http://it2.php.net/manual/en/function.disk-free-space.php (PHP 4 >= 4.1.0) disk_free_space -- Returns available space in directory Ian On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 07:25, John Taylor-Johnston wrote: > I'm not even sure if this is a Unix thing, or if it can be done, but ... > How can I read

Re: [PHP] redirecting

2004-02-17 Thread Ian Firla
Stick something like this in your html : Location won't work because you've already sent output to the browser. Ian On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 07:19, ajay wrote: > hi! > > after having trawled through many google articles, i've been told that the best > way to redirect a person is using header("

Re: [PHP] A question about file creation

2003-11-02 Thread Ian Firla
http://it.php.net/manual/en/function.fwrite.php On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:25, Yeung Koala wrote: > Hi, > > Silly question of beginner: > Is is possible to write a script to create and write a text file on server? > How? > > > P.S. Thanks Simon Stiefel for the "chomp" stuff > >