Re: [PHP] Why this doesn't work ?

2005-10-24 Thread Jordan Miller
why don't you just echo your $query to see if it is coming out correctly, before even trying to mess with mysql_query()? I think you should be able to see the problem from there. Jordan On Oct 24, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Mário Gamito wrote: Hi, Make this line instead $result = mysql_quer

Re: [PHP] Ugh, w32 anything is making me want to drink!

2005-10-21 Thread Jordan Miller
I agree with John. It looks like you either need a hammer or the rooftop of a 5-story building... Jordan On Oct 21, 2005, at 3:26 PM, Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] I just noticed that extension_dir in phpinfo is c:\php4 THAT AIN'T RIGHT! Why is PHP not loading the proper ini file? This is

Re: [PHP] Declaring vars as INT ?

2005-10-21 Thread Jordan Miller
Also, look at this function: http://www.php.net/ctype_digit Jordan On Oct 21, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Chris Knipe wrote: Hi, Uhm... Let's take the below quickly: Function DoSomething($Blah) { $Blah = (int) $Blah; return $Blah } $Blah, cannot be larger than 2147483647, and sometimes, I get ne

Re: [PHP] Declaring vars as INT ?

2005-10-21 Thread Jordan Miller
Hello, you could treat your variable as a string, and use the is_numeric() function (but this will include floats, too). To answer your question precisely and accurately, you may have to do regex matching since you are out of the bounds of int. However, why, *exactly*, are you trying to c

Re: [PHP] Trapping for an uploaded file that's too large?

2005-10-20 Thread Jordan Miller
rote it as an example :)). 1MB is more than enough as a buffer. If you have a 53MB file, what will happen then ? I have no idea if it's a bug or a feature. Either way I did lose some hair over this when I switched from PHP4 to PHP5. Catalin Jordan Miller wrote: Catalin, Wow, tha

Re: [PHP] Recommended Reading?

2005-10-18 Thread Jordan Miller
Zandstra's "PHP 5 objects patterns practice" has been getting excellent reviews. i also recommend it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590593804/ On Oct 18, 2005, at 1:43 PM, Alan Lord wrote: Hi all, Forgive this long diatribe, a bit off-topic I know, but it might stimulate a good disc

Re: [PHP] RE: php-general Digest 17 Oct 2005 10:35:46 -0000 Issue 3742

2005-10-17 Thread Jordan Miller
3742 Topics (messages 224207 through 224218): Funky array question 224207 by: Brian Dunning 224209 by: Minuk Choi 224210 by: Jordan Miller 224211 by: Jordan Miller 224212 by: Jordan Miller Re: editor 224208 by: yangshiqi1089 a couple of problems with PHP form 22421

Re: [PHP] Funky array question

2005-10-16 Thread Jordan Miller
one more thing... if you have php <5 and >= 3.0.6, you could use stristr for case insensitive comparison without having to deal with the slower and more cumbersome regex. On Oct 16, 2005, at 11:18 PM, Minuk Choi wrote: Assuming that you are also accepting partial matches... (e.g. if you

Re: [PHP] Funky array question

2005-10-16 Thread Jordan Miller
sorry, I am mistaken here. I forgot that "!==" is the same functionality as a "===", in that the comparison is made by value *and* type. On Oct 16, 2005, at 11:26 PM, Jordan Miller wrote: Also, note the warning on the man page. you would want to use a triple eq

Re: [PHP] Funky array question

2005-10-16 Thread Jordan Miller
Hello, what have you been trying for comparison so far that has not been working? if you have php 5, you would want to use stripos, which is case- INsensitive, not strpos, which is the opposite. Also, note the warning on the man page. you would want to use a triple equals sign "!===false"

Re: [PHP] why does this not work?

2005-09-27 Thread Jordan Miller
javascript is a client-side language, while php is a server-side language... the value you are passing to $width only exists on the client side, therefore the php server-side boolean fails. i think you will have to pass the client-side calculated variable of screen.width to the php server b

Re: [PHP] Easy question - delete strings from the beginning of space...

2005-09-20 Thread Jordan Miller
to get rid of potential double spaces after the explode, you could do: foreach ($words as $word) { if (!empty($word)) { $first = $word; break; } } echo $first; This will always return the first word. Jordan On Sep 20, 2005, at 7:24 AM, Jochem Maas wrote: how much eas

Re: [PHP] Can I install versions of PHP/MySQL that will be compatible with my host server?

2005-09-19 Thread Jordan Miller
That is very interesting, thank you. We cannot escape politics, eh? Jordan On Sep 19, 2005, at 9:32 AM, Jochem Maas wrote: Jordan Miller wrote: On Sep 19, 2005, at 8:31 AM, Jochem Maas wrote: e.g: $var = array_pop( explode('-', '1-2-3-4-5') ); .. is bad code (read

Re: [PHP] Can I install versions of PHP/MySQL that will be compatible with my host server?

2005-09-19 Thread Jordan Miller
On Sep 19, 2005, at 8:31 AM, Jochem Maas wrote: e.g: $var = array_pop( explode('-', '1-2-3-4-5') ); .. is bad code (read the manual page for array_pop very carefully) and would work in older versions but the engine has been tightened up to disallow such fauxpas. Jochem, Whoa... what

Re: [PHP] Way for script to discover it's path?

2005-09-18 Thread Jordan Miller
Hey Ken, The variable you want is already a superglobal known as $_SERVER ['SCRIPT_FILENAME']. See: http://www.php.net/reserved.variables Do something like this to get started: echo $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']; Good luck. Jordan On Sep 18, 2005, at 4:58 PM, Ken Tozier wrote: I'm working

Re: [PHP] email validation regex

2005-09-16 Thread Jordan Miller
What do you mean? What's wrong with top posting? ;) Jordan On Sep 16, 2005, at 11:31 AM, John Nichel wrote: bruce wrote: hi.. looking for a good/working/tested php email validation regex that conforms to the rfc2822 standard. a lot of what i've seen from google breaks, or doesn't follow

Re: [PHP] Domain Info Possible?

2005-09-15 Thread Jordan Miller
do you have log files? the page you linked to was generated by webalizer. is there a reason you can't use that (or Awstats, or something similar)? you probably don't need to reinvent the wheel here... though you may need to tweak your webserver to put more information in the log files so yo

Re: [PHP] A tricky little addition

2005-09-14 Thread Jordan Miller
the syntax for variable variables is: $variable= $$add; or alternatively: $variable= ${$add}; Jordan On Sep 14, 2005, at 2:25 PM, Ross wrote: $variable= "$".$add; -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] whats wrong in this program.

2005-09-14 Thread Jordan Miller
php's autotyping is so great anyway). Jordan On Sep 14, 2005, at 10:54 AM, John Nichel wrote: Jordan Miller wrote: you need single quotes around $subnum in the sql statement. don't know why you seem to be arbitrarily leaving them off (put them around $uv and $dur

Re: [PHP] whats wrong in this program.

2005-09-14 Thread Jordan Miller
#x27;$comment')"); if(!$res){ echo "insert failed"; } } the values of array ($subnum)are not inserted , can you tell me where the problem is. Jordan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think I finally understand what you are trying to do. I don'

Re: [PHP] Deny access from certain hosts

2005-09-14 Thread Jordan Miller
if people are allowed to post copyrighted images to your bulletin board, shouldn't you have some sort of password protection anyway? negating that, i would do it with PHP and not Apache. rather than simply serving up the file raw: why not setup a php script to do URL referring blocking:

Re: [PHP] whats wrong in this program.

2005-09-13 Thread Jordan Miller
I think I finally understand what you are trying to do. I don't see any reason why you need to use the token functions, and I would recommend using array functions instead (also, it is exceedingly easy to sort the elements of an array... see the end). I believe this will do what you are try

Re: [PHP] array simple question

2005-09-13 Thread Jordan Miller
please provide code and an example output, and say how this is different than you would like. what you describe is unclear. Jordan On Sep 13, 2005, at 4:04 PM, matt VanDeWalle wrote: hello, I have a simple question, not really a problem this time. I know that the function print_r() will p

Re: [PHP] Deny access from certain hosts

2005-09-13 Thread Jordan Miller
you need to do it like this: Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Deny from 85.65.154 http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_access.html Jordan On Sep 13, 2005, at 2:30 PM, David Pollack wrote: Hello, I have a problem where someone is illegally linking to my site. There site is in an

Re: [PHP] Round with ONE-decimal... always...

2005-09-12 Thread Jordan Miller
besides sprintf, number_format will also do it: number_format(6, 1, ',', '');// Outputs '6,0' Jordan On Sep 12, 2005, at 3:52 AM, Gustav Wiberg wrote: Hi there! I want to adjust the round() -function a little... If I put round(6,0) there will be an output of 6 If I put round(6,32) th

Re: [PHP] Books / tutorials on Object Oriented Programming with PHP

2005-09-10 Thread Jordan Miller
Here is a thorough review on the Zandstra book: http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/16/0434205&tid=169&tid=6 Jordan On Sep 9, 2005, at 6:39 PM, Jason Coffin wrote: On 9/9/05, Vinayakam Murugan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am learning about Object Oriented Programming with PHP. Ca

Re: [PHP] Convert a timestamp to RFC822??

2005-09-10 Thread Jordan Miller
we *just* had a post similar to this. It's easy, just use the date() and strtotime() functions: $timestamp = '2004-05-14 13:24:48'; $RFC_formatted = date('r', strtotime($timestamp)); done! Jordan On Sep 10, 2005, at 11:14 AM, Brian Dunning wrote: I get my timestamp from the db in this form

Re: [PHP] Better timestamp explanation to the client

2005-09-08 Thread Jordan Miller
methinks you should convert the datetime to a unix timestamp with strtotime(). then you can compare the difference between this timestamp and a unix timestamp of "now" to find if you have logged in within a min. of the previous time. Then, once you know what text to display (e.g. "Less than

Re: [PHP] Sessions , expiry times and different time zones

2005-09-08 Thread Jordan Miller
like and expect. Another benefit is that this is more secure than relying on a cookie-supplied expiration time. Jordan On Sep 6, 2005, at 8:51 PM, Dan Rossi wrote: client cookie expires hence no more session ... On 07/09/2005, at 1:57 AM, Jordan Miller wrote: Hi Dan, Couldn't

Re: [PHP] Checking a date for validity

2005-09-07 Thread Jordan Miller
writing a parse script is okay, but it will be very difficult to always ensure they are inputting it correctly. I recommend putting a popup calendar next to the input field. If the field is automatically populated in this way you will have a much easier time parsing it correctly. I can't re

Re: [PHP] Assign values in foreach-loop

2005-09-07 Thread Jordan Miller
== $arr2['id']) { $_SESSION['arr1'][$key]['selected'] = true; } } } Jordan On Sep 7, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Jordan Miller wrote: foreach ($_SESSION['arr1'] as $arr1) { foreach ($_SESSION['arr2'] as $arr2) { if ($arr1[&

Re: [PHP] Assign values in foreach-loop

2005-09-07 Thread Jordan Miller
Hello, You simply need the $key variable, then you can set a new value for $arr[$key] for each array element: $value) { $arr[$key] = $value * 2; } // $arr is now array(2, 4, 6, 8) ?> http://www.php.net/foreach If you have PHP 5, you can perhaps more efficiently do this: As of PHP 5, yo

Re: [PHP] Sessions , expiry times and different time zones

2005-09-06 Thread Jordan Miller
Hi Dan, Couldn't you store an expiration time directly in the $_SESSION variable, rather than relying on cookie expiration (if I understand your question correctly)? Each time a page is loaded, update the expiration time in this variable to +24hr from the current time (all times relati

Re: [PHP] how to divide string

2005-09-05 Thread Jordan Miller
If you are using php 5, don't forget about str_split, with 4 as the second parameter. http://us2.php.net/str_split so you could do: echo implode("", str_split($string, 4)); if you still have php 4 or earlier, look at that page anyway as there is a workaround function in the comments for ear

Re: [PHP] Help: Get the value of pi up to 200+ digits?

2005-09-01 Thread Jordan Miller
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.precision precision sets the number of significant digits, *NOT* the number of digits displayed after the decimal point. If you want to get pi out to 16 decimal places you need a precision of *17* because the beginning 3 is a significant digit.

Re: [PHP] Nested IFs Problem

2005-08-31 Thread Jordan Miller
why not rewrite it to be more concise... i can't see a problem at the moment. are you sure you can do a "<" comparison operator on the '12:00' and '2005-10-02' string?? Maybe if you are using 24 hr format you could just get rid of the ":" on both sides of the operator to have the "<" proper

Re: [PHP] running process in the background

2005-08-31 Thread Jordan Miller
Oh wait... you are not specifying your $_POST variable. you need to use the key for $_POST. just do a print_r($_POST) to find the key from the $_POST array that you are looking for. also, i would not pass a $_POST variable directly to your shell without escaping it somehow, first... forea

Re: [PHP] Browsing Into Levels

2005-08-30 Thread Jordan Miller
>'s "recently viewed pages" is another good example (though probably patented ;)) What are these kind of breadcrumbs called and which classes would you recommend using to implement them? Thx, - Greg On 8/30/05, Jordan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: They are call

Re: [PHP] Browsing Into Levels

2005-08-30 Thread Jordan Miller
They are called breadcrumbs: http://www.google.com/search?q=php+breadcrumbs Jordan On Aug 30, 2005, at 4:57 AM, areguera wrote: Hi, I been wondering the best way to make the level browsing, I mean, those links up in page which tell you the position you are, and make you able to return secti

Re: [PHP] invert

2005-08-25 Thread Jordan Miller
you need to provide more information. we cannot tell what you are doing. you should: **PASTE THE RELEVANT SECTION OF YOUR CODE IN YOUR EMAIL** On Aug 25, 2005, at 2:38 PM, George B wrote: Łukasz 'nostra' Wojciechowski wrote: W odpowiedzi na maila (21:21 - 25 sierpnia 2005): I have wri

Re: [PHP] invert

2005-08-25 Thread Jordan Miller
if you are using mysql, just put the "DESC" (descending) directive at the end of your sql statement (default is no "DESC" directive, meaning ascending). most recent records will be returned first. Jordan On Aug 25, 2005, at 2:21 PM, George B wrote: I have written a shoutbox, and it works g

Re: [PHP] syntax for two comparison operators

2005-08-25 Thread Jordan Miller
Good to know about expression evaluation. Writing the expression(s) like that (left-to-right and right-to-left) solves my dilemma... thanks! Jordan On Aug 25, 2005, at 2:44 AM, Richard Lynch wrote: I personally would use: ((2 < $x) && ($x <= 4)) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.

[PHP] syntax for two comparison operators

2005-08-24 Thread Jordan Miller
General question, Is there a technical reason why PHP does not allow comparison operator expressions like the following: if (2 < $x <= 4) {} I prefer this concise way as it is common for mathematics expressions, and much easier to grasp physically on first glance. From what I can tell,

Re: [PHP] Problem with SimpleXML

2005-08-24 Thread Jordan Miller
Yes, simplexml can do this easily. See: http://www.php.net/simplexml Example 7. Setting values Data in SimpleXML doesn't have to be constant. The object allows for manipulation of all of its elements. movie[0]->characters->character[0]->name = 'Miss Coder'; echo $xml->asXML(); ?> The abov

Re: [PHP] Special HTML characters question.

2005-08-22 Thread Jordan Miller
Did you try html_entity_decode? http://us2.php.net/html_entity_decode You may want to combine this with mysql_real_escape_string()...? Jordan On Aug 22, 2005, at 8:29 AM, Jay Paulson wrote: I have a problem that I'm sure some of you have run into before, therefore I hope you all know of an

Re: [PHP] build sql query struture and values from form fields

2005-08-22 Thread Jordan Miller
I agree, you must be careful of SQL injection... use mysql_real_escape_string(). To chop off the last character of text use substr(): $sqlstruct = substr($sqlstruct, 0, -1); Jordan http://www.php.net/substr Example 3. Using a negative length On Aug 20, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Greg Donald wro

Re: [PHP] Week Days

2005-08-19 Thread Jordan Miller
Yo, All you need is the mktime() command. do something like: $futureDate = date("Y-m-d", mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $today+ $daysToAdd, $year)); Jordan http://www.php.net/mktime mktime() is useful for doing date arithmetic and validation, as it will automatically calculate the correct value

Re: [PHP] PHP MySQL insert

2005-08-18 Thread Jordan Miller
besides just escaping your strings, i think you are having a quoting error: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php Commas should not have to be escaped, and indeed the mysql_real_escape_string() function will not escape commas. After escaping your input data with this functi

Re: [PHP] Re: sending HTML (incl. embedded images) to browser

2005-08-18 Thread Jordan Miller
Pardon me, but I don't think he is trying to send an HTML email. I believe he is just asking about making a simple webpage. Relative URLs should be fine and are often preferable for portability. Jordan On Aug 17, 2005, at 7:34 PM, Manuel Lemos wrote: Hello, on 08/17/2005 07:42 PM Jake Sa

Re: [PHP] sending HTML (incl. embedded images) to browser

2005-08-17 Thread Jordan Miller
Hi Jake, You don't have to do anything special, you just have to have standards compliant HTML output. What is the HTML for the IMG tag output to the browser (i.e. go to the web browser, load the page in question, find the img tag, and send us this text). I think maybe your images are jus

Re: [PHP] Help correcting a form mailer problem...

2005-08-17 Thread Jordan Miller
w is this done? test form is on http://www.passeycorp.com/event_reg.php check it out and I think you'll see what I mean. The suggestions and help are greatly appreciated. Ted - Original Message - From: "Jordan Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [PHP] Help correcting a form mailer problem...

2005-08-17 Thread Jordan Miller
Sorry, I believe you are mistaken here... you *can* specify a value for each checkbox and have it come through. I have written scripts that do this, and here is another example: http://www.tizag.com/phpT/examples/formex.php/ all zedleon needs to do is add the correct value parameter to each

Re: [PHP] Help correcting a form mailer problem...

2005-08-17 Thread Jordan Miller
wherever you think you are adding data to the gmev array, you are merely adding the "on" string. I would search your script for the string "on" and you will find the problem. what you need is the value in the HTML form to be the text you want inserted into the array, such as: Jordan On

Re: [PHP] mail()

2005-08-17 Thread Jordan Miller
Did you install sendmail? http://www.php.net/mail Requirements For the Mail functions to be available, PHP must have access to the sendmail binary on your system during compile time. If you use another mail program, such as qmail or postfix, be sure to use the appropriate sendmail wrapp

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP 5 limits "readfile" to 1.9 MB?

2005-08-17 Thread Jordan Miller
nough as a buffer. If you have a 53MB file, what will happen then ? I have no idea if it's a bug or a feature. Either way I did lose some hair over this when I switched from PHP4 to PHP5. Catalin Jordan Miller wrote: Catalin, Wow, that worked great, thanks. I'm curious why you se

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP 5 limits "readfile" to 1.9 MB?

2005-08-17 Thread Jordan Miller
will happen then ? I have no idea if it's a bug or a feature. Either way I did lose some hair over this when I switched from PHP4 to PHP5. Catalin Jordan Miller wrote: Catalin, Wow, that worked great, thanks. I'm curious why you set a static buffer of 1024768... why not just do

Re: [PHP] How Can I delete an Item of one array

2005-08-17 Thread Jordan Miller
you use the unset() function: unset($array[$key]); // http://www.php.net/unset you can reindex the keys if they are numeric with: $reindexedArray = array_values($array); // http://www.php.net/ array_values Jordan On Aug 17, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Tomás Rodriguez Orta wrote: Hi people. How Ca

Re: [PHP] optional argument when creating a function

2005-08-17 Thread Jordan Miller
apparently the ampersand means to treat $link as a reference, not as an optional argument: http://www.softwareprojects.org/php-functions-12.htm I think the way to do it would be to set a default value in your function so that if a value is set by the calling statement that would override it

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP 5 limits "readfile" to 1.9 MB?

2005-08-17 Thread Jordan Miller
bytes. You have to work around that with: $fp = fopen($file, 'r'); if($fp) { while(!feof($fp)) { echo fread($fp, 1024768);//see the huge buffer to read into } } else { //whatever error handler } Catalin Jordan Miller wrote: Hello all, I

[PHP] PHP 5 limits "readfile" to 1.9 MB?

2005-08-16 Thread Jordan Miller
Hello all, I am new to this list and I have searched the archives to no avail. I am having a peculiar problem when upgrading to PHP 5: My downloads are now limited to the first 1.9 MB of the file in question, with the download either terminating at 1.9 MB or seemingly continuously stuck i