Re: [PHP] string to array

2003-02-12 Thread Steve Werby
r favorite looping construct. You could also easily convert it to an array at that point, but unless you need each character as an array element for a later operation it doesn't seem very efficient. I don't think explode() will let you use a separator of '', but you might

Re: [PHP] automatically delete records from a table

2003-02-10 Thread Steve Werby
o that you don't need to send a request to the web server. I figure you know how to write the script and that it's just a matter of scheduling it. If not please be specific about the problem. This is asked pretty frequentl on php-general so between the archives and Google you should find

Re: [PHP] numerics

2003-02-10 Thread Steve Werby
ntry to alphanumeric characters. I've seen better JS code to do the same so if it's not suitable keep looking. http://javascript.internet.com/forms/val-char.html -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] MySQL vs. basic text file

2002-09-23 Thread Steve Werby
or in a book and playing with one of the more popular open source databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] OT - php/mysql/cron

2002-06-03 Thread Steve Werby
o supply those parameters to the mysql commandline program or other MySQL programs if you want to login as that default user. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Workaround for no cron?

2002-04-07 Thread Steve Werby
time or you just need someone who can do the same via a cron job on one of their boxes. Hope that helps. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Searching 'Help' Text

2002-02-26 Thread Steve Werby
p section all on a single page? Is the text stored in a db? Do you want the text matching the user's search term to be highlighted? ... -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Pulling Variables from URL

2002-02-20 Thread Steve Werby
es and PHP variables in the PHP manual and apache.org (assuming you run Apache webserver). I'm sure a quick search of google or a few Linux / PHP tutorial sites will turn something up. I don't have any references offhand. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www

Re: [PHP] Pulling Variables from URL

2002-02-20 Thread Steve Werby
available since there are many that are quite useful. Also see parse_url() in the manual since it lets you grab each of the URL's components separately and you can supply the URL as $SCRIPT_URI, $SCRIPT_URL or something similar. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC ht

Re: [PHP] Chatroom sounds

2002-02-20 Thread Steve Werby
t or Flash, not PHP. You'll probably get better help if you post a URL to the specific chatroom script you're talking about and post to a list that deals with JavaScript or Flash. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] mass mail

2002-02-20 Thread Steve Werby
ssed the solution in a reply to a poster with a slightly different problem just a few minutes ago under the subject "Timed Jobs". -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Timed Jobs.

2002-02-20 Thread Steve Werby
ord protecting the script so others can't access it. Others accessing it may not be a security risk, but it could add load you don't want. Both lynx and wget allow you to pass a HTTP user/password. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com

Re: [PHP] Difference between two dates

2002-02-20 Thread Steve Werby
cts in the date format. It wouldn't matter what you hardcode them as since it would use the same time of day for both dates. http://www.befriend.com/code_gallery/php/get_elapsed_time/ -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mai

Re: [PHP] md5 decrypt

2001-12-05 Thread Steve Werby
e time it cracked the password (if it did) your user would have likely taken their business elsewhere. On a few servers I manage I run it periodically to check for weak passwords, then I contact the users with weak passwords and ask that they change them. John the Ripper: http://www.openwal

Re: [PHP] Logic

2001-12-04 Thread Steve Werby
entire if statement will evaluate to true. Not what you want. It might be easier to edit and follow your code if you rewrite as: if ( ! in_array( $type, array( 'add', 'edit', 'delete' ) ) ) { } -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befrie

Re: [PHP] howto run shell script

2001-12-03 Thread Steve Werby
"Danar Prabandaru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >how do I run a shell script from PHP web interface?? > >assume /path/to/my/script.sh as the path and the owner and group of >this script are belong to apache See exec(), system(), etc. -- Steve Werby

Re: [PHP] Good host needed

2001-11-29 Thread Steve Werby
the dedicated hosting forum and then posting to that forum with specific questions. With thousands of members and tens of thousands of messages about hosting it's a better place to do your homework. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP Gen

Re: [PHP] how to transfer a local DB to a DB on Server ?

2001-11-27 Thread Steve Werby
m the source machine to the destination machine using FTP. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact

Re: [PHP] Directory Contents Listing

2001-11-27 Thread Steve Werby
"Deependra B. Tandukar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I display the directory contents using PHP? See readdir() in the online manual. I'm pretty sure it even has example code you could paste in. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www

Re: [PHP] What kind of looping ?

2001-11-27 Thread Steve Werby
Create blank table cells if final row doesn't use all columns. // You can get away without this on broken browsers like IE, but // then you'll generate invalid HTML and browsers like NS // won't display your pages. if ( $array_count % $columns > 0 ) { $o .= str_repeat(

Re: [PHP] Re: failure notice

2001-11-26 Thread Steve Werby
options you need in ./configure. You'll get better bang for your buck searching the archives for cobalt-users and posting there. After all, *everyone* on that list runs Cobalt servers whereas probably only a small percentage do on the PHP list. See archives at marc.theaimsgroup.com and list subs

Re: [PHP] Installing PHP 4 on a RAQ3

2001-11-25 Thread Steve Werby
nstalled PHP countless times on dozens of Cobalt boxes so it definitely can be done. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMA

Re: [PHP] Piping into script...

2001-11-20 Thread Steve Werby
"Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Werby wrote: > > > Exactly. It sounds like you're doing INSERTs so unless you're doing an > > UPDATE or SELECT that can give unexpected results if another instance of the > > script is

Re: [PHP] Piping into script...

2001-11-20 Thread Steve Werby
u have other scripts accessing the same files/tables that may run at the same time you're ok. If there are potential conflicts look at explicit LOCKing in the database. FYI, potential problems related to database and file writes are not just a product of piping to a script - the same potential e

Re: [PHP] Piping into script...

2001-11-20 Thread Steve Werby
be more than one email incoming at the same > time...while theoretically the MTA only passes them one by one to > whatever's next in line (whether it's procmail, or any other type of > program) I don't think you'll have a problem. Each call to the program should run as a se

Re: [PHP] Conversion number two?

2001-11-20 Thread Steve Werby
perl for us lazy people so i dont have to use > commas and enter every variable name in single quotes? I think you mean PHP not perl, but there is a way. $required = explode( ' ', 'name address phone' ); The code above turns the space separated list into an array. -- Steve Werby

Re: [PHP] MySQL and GROUP BY

2001-11-20 Thread Steve Werby
ness_Name', CONCAT( Last_Name, ', ', First_Name ) ) AS mylist FROM My_Table ORDER BY mylist -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addition

Re: [PHP] floating point exception after php 4 upgrade on raq 2

2001-11-20 Thread Steve Werby
mips processor. Before you do ./configure edit line 105 in the PHP source distro of ext/standard/crypt.c and change it to: php_srand(time(0) * getpid() * (php_combined_lcg() * 1.0)); I've upgraded Apache/PHP/MySQL dozens (maybe hundreds) of times from sourrce on the RaQ1/2 so if you still h

Re: [PHP] passing variables between pages without using url??

2001-11-03 Thread Steve Werby
lude the PHP code necessary to process form1.php. If that doesn't make sense maybe you can include some code or explain in more detail what you're trying to accomplish and what the problem you're facing is. It's late here so maybe I'm just not thinking clearly. --

Re: [PHP] site last updated

2001-11-03 Thread Steve Werby
"Ryan Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can do this in a per-page basis w/: > > $modified = stat("yourfile.html"); > echo date("l, F dS",$modified[9]); Also see getlastmod() and filemtime(). -- Steve Werby President, Befrie

Re: [PHP] Number_Format Question

2001-11-03 Thread Steve Werby
m_parts[1]; Or if it's always going to be a number b/w 0 and 1 then you could use substr() to get the part you want. You could also use something like ereg_replace(). Someone else may have a solution that's better. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://ww

Re: [PHP] Questions per installing on linux (Php 4)

2001-11-03 Thread Steve Werby
you referenced in your post. It might be a better idea to ask about the PHP install on cobalt-users (go to www.cobalt.com to subscribe, after searching the archives of course) since everyone on that list is running RaQ systems, while my guess is that only a fraction of the people on this list

Re: [PHP] bcc

2001-11-03 Thread Steve Werby
"Nikola Karović" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how can i send bcc from my php @mail script. mail( $to, $subject, $message_body, "From: $from_name <$from_address>\nbcc:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ); -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befr

Re: [PHP] passing variables between pages without using url??

2001-11-03 Thread Steve Werby
f the GET method. Then the variables are not displayed in the query string. If you are passing across a series of pages, after the first page you'll want to add the variables you're going to pass to hidden input fields or use session variables which will make the variables available th

Re: [PHP] cron or something similar ?

2001-11-03 Thread Steve Werby
ms do this > even when they are hosted at remote sites? Some people just use mailing list programs like majordomo, mailman, smarlist, etc. and send the newsletter out to the recipients manually... -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] Q:Syntax for a space? ...like \n is for new line???

2001-10-25 Thread Steve Werby
her. I had been using   since '96 and only started using   in the last 2 months because I was under the impression that it was more universally accepted.If you happen to know of a resource describing ascii code standards or differences b/w Mac and PC character sets please let me know on o

Re: [PHP] Q:Syntax for a space? ...like \n is for new line???

2001-10-25 Thread Steve Werby
started using that instead of   a few months ago b/c I thought it was *more* universal. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comm

Re: [PHP] Q:Syntax for a space? ...like \n is for new line???

2001-10-25 Thread Steve Werby
o str_repeat( ' ', 10 ). If you wanted to create a space within HTML I'd suggest using " " (some people prefer " "), but if you do that within the body of a text email it should display the actual characters, not the text, so that won't get you the desi

Re: [PHP] array to string

2001-10-19 Thread Steve Werby
m to find the > sure-to-be simple command to do this on php.net or phpbuilder.com, etc. Any > ideas? See implode(). $fcontents_string = implode( '', $fcontents ); -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing L

Re: [PHP] Re: Submitting variables via /'s

2001-10-05 Thread Steve Werby
ialhandlingequipment-bids.com/products/pallet_rack.html If you want to browse a couple of my side projects you'll see I implement the same practices there too. http://www.sexcriminals.com/ (not an adult content site) http://www.tysonchandler.com/ HTH, -- Steve Werby President, Befriend

Re: [PHP] ODBC version of PHPMyAdmin?

2001-10-05 Thread Steve Werby
be able to find it at www.greatbridge.org, but Great Bridge has closed its operation so you'll probably have to look elsewhere. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[PHP] Re: OT page load speed [was: howw do I programm a PREV & Next mechanism in PHP? Help Please!!]

2001-10-04 Thread Steve Werby
m a single PHP script by configuring Apache to point requests to this script using the AliasMatch directive so that the end user and search engines thinks the content is static and the URLs don't get cluttered with ugly query strings. However that doesn't improve speed, it actually degr

Re: [PHP] Should I convert special characters before writing them to a table?

2001-10-04 Thread Steve Werby
depends on the configuration of PHP (I'm thinking magic quotes settings off-hand). From experience I know that stripslashes() can be needed when retrieving data from a db. Just today I've had to do so for clients separately using PostgreSQL and MySQL. YMMV. -- Steve Werby P

Re: [PHP] MySQL tables are read-only

2001-10-04 Thread Steve Werby
so we can help. SELECT * FROM mysql.user WHERE user = 'yourusername'; SELECT * FROM mysql.db WHERE user = 'yourusername'; BTW, this is really a purely MySQL problem and is better suited for the mysql mailing list. See mysql.com if you'd rather take the topic there. --

Re: [PHP] need phpmyAdmin but no so good

2001-10-04 Thread Steve Werby
page in the phpMyAdmin session. Or you could reinvent the wheel. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Re: [PHP] stripslashes

2001-10-04 Thread Steve Werby
$row[description]$row[solution] > > where would i put the stripslashes function to get the description? $var = $row[product] . '' . $row[prob_title] . '' . stripslashes( $row[description] ) . $row[solution]; -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://ww

Re: [PHP] Should I convert special characters before writing them to a table?

2001-10-04 Thread Steve Werby
w has a single > quote in it). Try addslashes() before executing the query and stripslashes() when retrieving data from the db. See the online manual for more details. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.ph

Re: [PHP] display query results at random

2001-09-26 Thread Steve Werby
from $var[], removing each element after it's selected (more efficient) or adding code to ensure the same element isn't picked twice (less efficient). -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)

Re: [PHP] php script ownership

2001-09-25 Thread Steve Werby
ere was a thread a few hours ago which described how to install and run in this mode. Just set the script's owner to the desired user and that's who it will run as. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://ww

Re: [PHP] help with Mysql Query...

2001-09-24 Thread Steve Werby
having a query that creates a temporary table, then drop it... No temp table necessary. Use a LEFT JOIN. SELECT * FROM table_a LEFT JOIN table_b ON table_a.id = table_b.id WHERE table_b.id IS NULL -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP Genera

Re: [PHP] Disk Usage

2001-09-22 Thread Steve Werby
they > doesn't seem to work at all for me. If you're on Linux or another un*x, try calling 'du' using system() or a similar command. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] UPDATE syntax

2001-08-13 Thread Steve Werby
x27;$post[$i]' WHERE > > ID='$counts'" If each row has a unique value for ID then it will only update a single row. When in doubt what is happening store the SQL statement in a var like $sql and then echo $sql to the screen to check it over, pasting into database commandl

Re: [PHP] subroutines?

2001-08-09 Thread Steve Werby
eed to declare the variables global within each function that access them or access the variable via the $GLOBALS array. $var = 'something'; function go() { return $GLOBALS["var"]; } or function go() { global $var; return $var; } echo go(); -- Steve Werby Pres

Re: [PHP] sample or tutorial for conditional pulldown menus

2001-08-07 Thread Steve Werby
7;ve found that it only makes sense when very few target users will have javascript disabled and the potential contents of the select boxes are less extensive than make and model detail. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (ht

Re: [PHP] Displaying tables

2001-07-20 Thread Steve Werby
er to > display all of the tables with all of their information? Get phpMyAdmin from http://www.phpwizards.net/. Or see mysql_list_tables(), mysql_list_fields(), etc. See http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.

Re: [PHP] Unlink Woes

2001-07-20 Thread Steve Werby
rver. If you're running PHP as a CGI then it runs with the privileges of the user who owns the CGI file. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additio

Re: [PHP] PHP & MySQL

2001-07-20 Thread Steve Werby
anted to clarify that what Susan suggested will reverse the sort direction which is not what the poster asked for. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For add

Re: [PHP]need an opinion on this idea of mine...!!

2001-07-09 Thread Steve Werby
php? index.php if you're simply include()'ing the content from bio.php. If you're using Apache AliasRewrite magic and the URLs for each file are pointing to the script index.php then it will be set to bio.php. A good way to learn is to write short test scripts, add phpinfo() to the code

Re: [PHP] Question about how to do this...

2001-07-08 Thread Steve Werby
was directly within the calling code then it needs it in the include'd file too and if it wouldn't have in the calling code then it won't in the include'd file. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (htt

Re: [PHP] easy mysql question

2001-07-08 Thread Steve Werby
st-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list admi

Re: [PHP] Running PHP as a cron job....

2001-07-08 Thread Steve Werby
for every problem. BTW, I split my shell scripting between bash and PHP, used to do shell scripting in Perl, but I rarely use it anymore so I'm much faster scripting in PHP. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http

Re: [PHP] Running PHP as a cron job....

2001-07-08 Thread Steve Werby
"Ben Bleything" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting method, with the lynx... I imagine that if you've only built > the DSO, then that would be the way to do it.. if it worked. It works. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befr

Re: [PHP] Running PHP as a cron job....

2001-07-08 Thread Steve Werby
rongly suggest adding authentication via an .htaccess file and passing the user/pwd to lynx (see "man lynx") so that your script which is probably only intended to be run via cron isn't available for anyone on the web to access. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Servic

Re: [PHP] is_alpha_numeric ?

2001-07-06 Thread Steve Werby
"John Monfort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to determine if an argument is alphanumeric. Is there a > function to do this? There may be in the CVS version (would have to check), but there's not in 4.0.6. eregi( [[:alnum:]]{1,}, $string ) may do the

Re: [PHP] PHP/mySQL Query

2001-07-05 Thread Steve Werby
n table owners the field teamname will be blank. Assuming all of the data is in both tables it's not a problem, but believe me at some point when doing database programming this issue will arise. SELECT teampages.ownerID, teampages.last_update, owners.teamname FROM teampages LEFT JOIN owners

Re: [PHP] Email verification (was: [PHP] Removing Invalid Users)

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Werby
email address is not valid. IMO, the only way to verify that an email address exists *and* is being used by the person who supplied it (I assume in most cases this is the whole point) is to send a unique string or URL and check that the recipient responds with the string in an email or visi

Re: [PHP] Email verification (was: [PHP] Removing Invalid Users)

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Werby
a number of different email addresses on different hosts and all reported "Command Unimplemented". -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additi

Re: [PHP] Email verification (was: [PHP] Removing Invalid Users)

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Werby
> "Steve Werby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Like Tom said, use regex to check the email is of a valid format. A small > > percentage of servers can be contacted to find whether an email address is > > valid, but fewer and fewer are allowing this so it

Re: [PHP] checking if checkbox is checked

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Werby
don't want to clutter the code. The code below assumes the fields aren't preset to values other than those listed above. for ( $i = 1; $i < 4; $i++ ) { $field = 'interest' . $i; if ( ! empty( $$field ) ) { $flag = TRUE; } } if ( $flag =

Re: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Werby
"Sascha Schumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Steve Werby wrote: > > > "Jon Haworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, I would have thought this would do it: > > > > > > if (strstr($file, "/usr/l

Re: [PHP] Removing Invalid Users

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Werby
f matching emails and changes a flag in your DB record to designate the email address as valid or a script in the webpage that does the same. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mai

Re: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Werby
Modify as appropriate. > > Have I missed anything, or will this do the trick? Something along those lines will work. Without some kind of limitations built in, the page will be able to load any file that's world-readable so it's a good idea to limit access to certain directories

Re: [PHP] recommend a good PHP site specific search engine

2001-07-03 Thread Steve Werby
ttp://www.mnogosearch.org/ -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP] search

2001-07-03 Thread Steve Werby
or one word can be made to find other forms of that word. FYI, to break a string into an array like you describe use strlen() to get the length of the string, substr() to pull out the first N characters from the string, then loop through and add each element to an array by adding as follows (pseudocode):

Re: [PHP] Filtering out \ when a ' is user entered?

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Werby
"Marcus James Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > \' How can I filter out these backslashes so they don't appear on the > final public viewable page? Use stripslashes(). -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ --

Re: [PHP] logout

2001-06-20 Thread Steve Werby
"Jacky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anyway I can do the logout that will completely > get rid of all login detail without having user to close browser? If you're using sessions session_destroy() will do it. Create a link or form button that calls tha

Re: [PHP] validate phone numbers

2001-06-20 Thread Steve Werby
ess numbers with extensions or automated systems that have to be traversed. So you may be better off not validating the phone #. YMMV. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/

Re: Re[2]: [PHP] variables in a e-mail

2001-06-19 Thread Steve Werby
ns to replace all template variables with their corresponding PHP variable. As you loop through each line and parse it add the parsed line to a string. When you're done include the string in a mail() function to email it or use a file function to write it to a file. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/

Re: [PHP] variables in a e-mail

2001-06-18 Thread Steve Werby
al first or access like $GLOBALS["HTTP_POST_VARS"]["my_form_field"]. So, in your example you'd do: $msg_body = "Hello, " . $GLOBALS["HTTP_POST_VARS"]["variable"]; -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/

Re: [PHP] "IF" statements

2001-05-22 Thread Steve Werby
the code within the braces or $date and $hour aren't returning the values you expect. Try echoing them before the if statement to verify they contain the values you expect. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://w

Re: [PHP] while loops [ newbie ]

2001-05-17 Thread Steve Werby
x27;t match. Then use fwrite to write to a temporary file and copy that file over the original. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP] webmaster volunteer

2001-05-17 Thread Steve Werby
gt; consequently it would be desirable to work free-of-charge. Beforehand > thank. Give http://www.sourceforge.com/ a try. There are thousands of projects listed there and I bet a few could use some help. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ --

Re: [PHP] Uptime script?

2001-05-16 Thread Steve Werby
e > number of seconds the machine's processes have been idle. I have a function I wrote that displays uptime and takes arguments of time units and decimal places. Have fun. http://www.befriend.com/code_gallery/php/get_uptime/ -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://ww

Re: [PHP] i need some help with extracting data from mysql

2001-05-10 Thread Steve Werby
looping through each row it can be compared to $group so that you only display the group name when it doesn't match the $group of the previous row. I think this is what you wanted. If I misinterpreted what you were trying to do let me know. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Serv

Re: [PHP] i need some help with extracting data from mysql

2001-05-10 Thread Steve Werby
ame WHERE approved='yes' > GROUP BY folder ORDER BY folder; You lost me. Where is the field "folder"? Can you output the results of "DESCRIBE tablename" for the table and a few records? -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/

Re: [PHP] Shopping cart search

2001-05-10 Thread Steve Werby
shopping carts written in PHP. I don't know of a message board or mailing list dedicated to shopping carts. http://www.theexchangeproject.org/ http://www.fishcart.org/ -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://w

Re: [PHP] cobalt raq4

2001-05-09 Thread Steve Werby
DF source and a test script ./pdftest that creates a test PDF file. Can you get the test file to work? -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comm

Re: [PHP] Even more dynamic page

2001-05-04 Thread Steve Werby
gt; > Or do I have to resort to javascript for such things? Yes, use JS. PHP is server-side. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comm

Re: Re[2]: [PHP] Protecting programs

2001-05-03 Thread Steve Werby
er since he is correct in saying these methods aren't the best. An analogy is like leaving a bike unattended on a crowded city street, but typing it up in string. Anyone with time and half a clue can ride the bike away. The Zend compiler is worth looking at. -- Steve Werby President

Re: [PHP] MySQL fulltext indices and phrase search

2001-05-02 Thread Steve Werby
7;%foo bar%' Perhaps you should ask on the mysql list. List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP] Writing a file with break lines

2001-04-30 Thread Steve Werby
quot;\n" but it didn't worked. "\n" works for me. Perhaps you should post some of your code. Be sure "\n" is within double quotes; if it's in single quotes it won't work. Here's a line of code from a script I wrote that works. fwrite( $fout, "Da

Re: [PHP] Help: Logging Into Sites (webgames)

2001-04-30 Thread Steve Werby
after installing CURL first. You can also use fsockopen(). -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact t

Re: [PHP] Update statement?

2001-04-30 Thread Steve Werby
"$sql"); Add 'echo $sql;' here (no quotes) and look at the output. If the RHS of quantity= is zero, then $quantity passed to modify_quantity is zero and that's the problem. > if there is a value in the db field "quantity" then after the statement is > execute

Re: [PHP] php 4.04pl1 & ldap

2001-04-30 Thread Steve Werby
"Walgamotte, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is LDAP support default or are there any ./configure options I need to know Take a look at './configure --help'. You need to configure --with-ldap. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http:

Re: [PHP] Command Line

2001-04-30 Thread Steve Werby
"Randy Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how do access arguments if I run a script from the command line > > example > php myscript.php arg1, arg2 They'll be located in the global array $argv[]. Include in your script to see how to access them. -- Steve W

Re: [PHP] math calculations query

2001-04-26 Thread Steve Werby
script which selects description, price and quantity from a mysql > table. > > i have displayed the results on a page in the form of description, price, > quantity but I was wondering how best to go about calculating a total total, > ie. sum of quantitys multiplied by sum

Re: [PHP] *.php and the search engienes on the web

2001-04-26 Thread Steve Werby
;w=2 Here are links to other similar threads I've replied to - read all of each thread for the full picture. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=98754380108909&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=96578812203470&w=2 -- Steve Werby President, Befrien

Re: [PHP] Transfering an image

2001-04-26 Thread Steve Werby
e's probably a tutorial on zend.com or phpbuilder.com that discusses saving images in a MySQL DB and pulling them out to display on a webpage using PHP so find one of those articles and look near the end. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP

Re: [PHP] PHP and useradd

2001-04-23 Thread Steve Werby
d by root check it for entries from a cron job and run the commands if entries are found. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mai

Re: [PHP] Site Structure

2001-04-23 Thread Steve Werby
e the main include files in the same place. So the include directory (inc) is parallel to my web docs directory. The parent of both is a directory called 'production', which has directories parallel to it called 'development' and 'staging' which allows me to run

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