Re: [PHP] first letter

2004-12-20 Thread bbonkosk
Check this out... http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php - Original Message - From: Ahmed Abdel-Aliem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, December 20, 2004 12:59 pm Subject: [PHP] first letter > hi > if i have for example this variable > > $name = "John"; > > how can i echo the

Re: [PHP] How to get 2 columns to display?

2004-12-06 Thread bbonkosk
You need a way to make new table rows... if you want to do it ever other image, then just add a counter variable, incrememnt it each time and if it is even then make a new table row. (Also if the images are two big, the browser may put them on a new line, so you might have to look into shrinkin

Re: [PHP] Looking for pointers to mysql functions

2004-11-11 Thread bbonkosk
- Original Message - From: Stuart Felenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, November 11, 2004 7:13 am Subject: Re: [PHP] Looking for pointers to mysql functions > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This would be handled in your query, so get a SQL > > book or look into the mysq

Re: [PHP] Looking for pointers to mysql functions

2004-11-11 Thread bbonkosk
This would be handled in your query, so get a SQL book or look into the mysql documentation... Look at the select statement, to request specific fields, as well as the Limit keyword to return a certain number of results per page. -B - Original Message - From: Stuart Felenstein <[EMAIL

Re: [PHP] POST losing SESSION vars?

2004-11-09 Thread bbonkosk
Pass your session along with your form action... i.e $s = SID; echo " - Original Message - From: Sam Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2004 1:12 pm Subject: [PHP] POST losing SESSION vars? > > I have a page that will be redirected to a login page if the > SESSI

Re: [PHP] what am i doing wrong..??

2004-11-04 Thread bbonkosk
Echo out your queries! $query = "insert into joke values('',".$_POST['joke_text'].",'date')"; ---> echo $query; $result= mysql_query($query); This will tell you what is going on, perhaps some of the information is not set? You can even copy and paste the output to run against your mysql backend

Re: [PHP] Socket trouble

2004-10-28 Thread bbonkosk
To prevent the blocking and your CPU going up to 100% usages look into: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.socket-select.php For length of a string: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php - Original Message - From: René Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, October 28

Re: [PHP] Simple Time Question

2004-10-21 Thread bbonkosk
Set your server to GMT. - Original Message - From: Ben Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, October 21, 2004 10:48 am Subject: [PHP] Simple Time Question > Probably a stupid question, but hopefully has a simple answer. Is > there a > way to get Grenwich Mean time? time() and date

Re: [PHP] PHP on Windows

2004-10-20 Thread bbonkosk
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Windows+directories+writable - Original Message - From: Jonathan Haddad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 12:59 pm Subject: [PHP] PHP on Windows > So I'm setting up a website that needs to run on a windows server. > > There are fi

Re: [PHP] PHP Configuration Error

2004-10-19 Thread bbonkosk
It can't find your mysql stuff to link in. What does your configuration command look like? you might have to specify the path to mysql, i.e. --with-mysql=/path/to/mysql -Brad - Original Message - From: "Mulley, Nikhil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 7:18 am Subject: [

Re: [PHP] setting index of array as 1

2004-10-18 Thread bbonkosk
for ($i=0; $i Date: Monday, October 18, 2004 2:33 pm Subject: Re: [PHP] setting index of array as 1 > It's not what I was looking for. Looks like I didn't explain very > well :) > > look at this case: > > $query = mysql_query("select name from names order by date desc"); > while($result = mysql

Re: [PHP] setting index of array as 1

2004-10-18 Thread bbonkosk
$new_array[1] = 'something'; - or - $new_array = array(1=>'something'); - Original Message - From: Afan Pasalic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, October 18, 2004 1:14 pm Subject: [PHP] setting index of array as 1 > when create an array using: > $new_array[] = 'something'; > first index o

Re: [PHP] Floating values

2004-10-18 Thread bbonkosk
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.number-format.php - Original Message - From: Nunners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, October 18, 2004 7:03 am Subject: [PHP] Floating values > Simple question. > > > > I'm writing an accounting package, and have setup the MySQL > database with

Re: [PHP] Referring Page

2004-10-14 Thread bbonkosk
Yes, write a script with: and you will find all the wonderous variables at your disposal... -B - Original Message - From: Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, October 14, 2004 3:37 pm Subject: [PHP] Referring Page > I am trying to set up a script that will do different things based

Re: [PHP] intenger

2004-10-14 Thread bbonkosk
Start here... http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.types.php - Original Message - From: Juan Pablo Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, October 14, 2004 1:19 pm Subject: [PHP] intenger > Please, i need output a intenger, what function can i use for this?. > Print?, echo? > > Than

Re: [PHP] User Defined Forms

2004-10-14 Thread bbonkosk
Create some format to store the info for the form contents... like off the top of my head... TEXT:Name:20:RADIO:Sex:Option1:Option2:CHECKBOX:State:Option1:Option2:...:PASSWORD:Password:20: Just an example, but doable to store in a database, then you create parsing functions to handle this str

Re: [PHP] mail problems - phpinfo information

2004-10-13 Thread bbonkosk
- Original Message - From: "Jed R. Brubaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 1:21 pm Subject: Re: [PHP] mail problems - phpinfo information > So as I am not an administrator, and all I have to go on is > phpinfo (unless > anyone has some suggestions), should I be

Re: [PHP] unexpected $ error

2004-09-21 Thread bbonkosk
if (isset($_POST['submit])) (missing close apostrophe here...) if (isset($_POST['submit'])) - not sure if this is THE problem, but A problem for sure. -Brad - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 8:36 am Subject: [PHP] unexpected $ error > hi, > >

[PHP] Install Headaches

2004-09-21 Thread bbonkosk
Hello All, I've had this problem for a little while now. I am building PHP as an Apache shared Module, so my configure looks something like this: ./configure --with-mysql=.. --with-pgsql=.. --with-gd --with-apxs=.. This works fine, builds fine, but when I run make install, it freezes. HOST php

Re: [PHP] Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_pconnect() in /var/www/html/includes/db_fns.php on line 6

2004-08-12 Thread bbonkosk
The tip.. copy and paste your error code into google ;-) Do it for all errors, you'll be amazed @ how many have already been answered - Original Message - From: "Eric L. Sammons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:44 pm Subject: [PHP] Fatal error: Call to undefined

Re: [PHP] Retrieve The Last Record in a Table

2004-07-26 Thread bbonkosk
I'm sure there are many ways to do this. Perhaps use something like this as a query? select * from login_table order by DATE_LAST_LOGGED_IN ASC limit 1 - Original Message - From: Harlequin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, July 26, 2004 1:27 pm Subject: [PHP] Retrieve The Last Record in

Re: [PHP] socket_bind

2004-06-25 Thread bbonkosk
I think all sockets less then 1024 need superuser permission to bind. And because Apache typically runs as nobody you don't have permission, so either run apache as root (DANGER!) or choose a socket above 1024. -Brad - Original Message - From: Josh Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Frida

Re: [PHP] bad programming?

2004-06-23 Thread bbonkosk
Try: if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') and then read: http://us4.php.net/reserved.variables -Brad - Original Message - From: Amanda Hemmerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 12:13 pm Subject: [PHP] bad programming? > We just moved a bunch of code from one web

Re: [PHP] Mac Address Lookup

2003-07-18 Thread bbonkosk
I guess I should have put this in one post Your subject says something different then your question, one asking for the computer name, the other the MAC. To get the MAC the computer will need to be on your LAN, otherwise this is not possible. You can then use the 'arp' command to get the MA

Re: [PHP] Mac Address Lookup

2003-07-18 Thread bbonkosk
If you have the IP address, then 'nslookup' or I guess now 'dig' and 'host' would be the newere versions. They are Linux system calls, use system() or exec() to use them within your script, and play around with the options and/or read the man pages for how to use them. HTH -Brad - Origina

Re: [PHP] image galleries

2003-06-23 Thread bbonkosk
Well, Start here to read about how to upload files to a web server.. http://us2.php.net/features.file-upload And then as for displaying them, look into some standard HTML to display the text links, and possibly this solutions for readin directory contents: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.dir.php

Re: [PHP] typecasting .. easy?

2003-06-19 Thread bbonkosk
This is really a formatting issue, not type casting, so loook in those areas of the manual. Perhaps start around: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.printf.php -Brad > $amount is a calculated number > > If $amount equals for example 52., how do I get that to print as "52.00" > similarly, i

Re: [PHP] mySQL: Rows and columns

2003-06-18 Thread bbonkosk
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/ALTER_TABLE.html > I know this is more of a mySQL question but, how do I delete and add rows > and columns? > > -- > > - Zavaboy > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.zavaboy.com > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www

Re: [PHP] This is NOT the right place to ask this but I am desperate

2003-06-09 Thread bbonkosk
Run 'ipconfig' from a command prompt to get your IP address. (or as mentioned, localhost will work) -Brad > Hi all, > > I know this is not the right group to this but I am desperate. I have just > got Apache and I am a total newbie to Apache and to playing with servers, so > as u can imagine I am

Re: [PHP] user (system) authentification

2003-06-03 Thread bbonkosk
Well, make sure you tunnel it securly with SSL or the like, but have a look at: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php -Brad > Hi, > > is there a way, to verify a password via php, if it matches it's entry > in /etc/shadow ? > I am trying to write a script, which needs a user authentif

Re: [PHP] thumbnails

2003-05-29 Thread bbonkosk
Hello, I did a family photo gallery, and from my experiences it would be best if you handle the thumbnail generation during the upload process. Just make sure you have a naming convention or link the thumnail into your repository/DB so you don't loose that space when you delete the record. It

RE: [PHP] chill out

2003-04-03 Thread bbonkosk
Sorry to all who think this horse is sufficiently beat, but just to throw another couple of cents into the pot... I think this list is a product of its own behavior. Some people do get mad because of "dumb" or simple questions. We breed those questions though because instead of people explain

Re: [PHP] PHP Manual w/ Comments?

2003-03-12 Thread bbonkosk
I would say the dynamic nature of this guide requires it to be online, unless you want to make some sort of "update" feature. Otherwise you would only be downloading a snapshot. And then comes into play creating and maintaing all the various "snapshots" of this ever changing document. IMHO, I

Re: [PHP] info required reg. PHP

2003-03-03 Thread bbonkosk
Answer to number 1: I'm sure you could, but why would you want to when Javascript is more suited for this type of processing. If you don't know javascript google for some tutorials or for alert boxes, and I'm sure you will find plenty of examples. for #2: For Mysql check this: http://www.mysql

Re: [PHP] Live chat screen

2003-02-24 Thread bbonkosk
Sure, in JAVA. > Hi! > > Is it possible to create a chat screen that updates screen in some kind > of loop from the database? > > So if someone sends a message to database it immediately shows on chat > screen? > > Kind regards, > Sami > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.ne

Re: [PHP] Php 4.3

2003-02-10 Thread bbonkosk
Check the archives about global variables in the php.ini file > Hello, > > I am having issues after I upgraded from 4.0.5 to 4.3 > > Alot of my link pages were based in > www.something.com/phptest.php?foo=9323 > > Now that I have upgraded, I get foo errors. > > It says that it no longer gets t

Re: [PHP] Client Side PHP

2003-02-06 Thread bbonkosk
Like a previous poster said, you would have to develop some type of plug-in to work with the browsers that would incorporate PHP on the client side. Or talk Microsoft into including it in Internet Exploder by default :-) This strategy depends on user experience studies..I know many people who

Re: [PHP] Client Side PHP

2003-02-06 Thread bbonkosk
"One language across the whole web" In a word: JAVA Has the cross-platform flexability of PHP with a little more versitility and power under the hood. Of course PHP still has its niche, but I'm still waiting to go to an ecommerce page that fires up and interactive store applet on the client si

Re: [PHP] backslash t

2003-01-22 Thread bbonkosk
You need to escape the '/' with a '/', as it is a special character. So, anytime you run into an issue where it looks like PHP is trying to interpret something you just want it to print. The best first guess is to try and escape it. Just Thought I would offer a little more explaination. > --

Re: [PHP] building web album - design questions

2003-01-09 Thread bbonkosk
> Hi, > > I'm planning to build a web album for my digital photographs, and have > some questions regarding the design: > > 1) Is it better to store the images within the database, or just store > pointers to the images which is put outside, in the filesystem? > IMHO, store a link of "poin

Re: [PHP] Re: *Cannot connect to db

2002-12-18 Thread bbonkosk
Can you get into the mysql DB via command line? If so, try to get in there and make sure this user has permissions in the mysql.users table to connect via localhost. Also verufy password they are using. Try to have this user connect via the commandline in MYSQL, which if he is unable to there

Re: [PHP] *Cannot connect to db

2002-12-18 Thread bbonkosk
the '@' sign suppresses the error/warning messages. Perhaps you would want to leave that off in a development environment. It may lead to some good keys to finding the solution.. -Brad > mySQL; php running in safe mode; compared to the other code on the same > server. here is mine - I don't ge

Re: [PHP] Creating reports in database systems implemented over Web interface

2002-12-16 Thread bbonkosk
Quality HTML/embedded with PHP? (Same way any reports are printed from the web) -or- Perhaps, check out PDFLib. -Brad > Hi everybody: > > Over linux, I'm using PostgreSQL , Apache server, and PHP pages to create> a > database systems with web interface. > > I need to know how programmers have

Re: [PHP] PHP + MySQL looping question

2002-12-12 Thread bbonkosk
Mark, Try looking at : http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-data-seek.php and see if that function gives you the desired result. HTH -Brad > I was wondering if there is a easy way to loop through the same SQL results > many times. > I have a for loop that loops 3 time. Each time I want to

[PHP] Boucing Emails

2002-12-11 Thread bbonkosk
Hello... I gotten a few of these, was wondering if this account is going to be axed from the distrbution list, hopefully soon. This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks -Brad -- PHP Genera

Re: [PHP] Add column to table

2002-12-11 Thread bbonkosk
look at the alter table syntax on the mysql Documentation page. -Brad > Hi, > > please could someone tell me what the sql command is to add a colummn to a > table? > > Thanks for your help > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.

Re: [PHP] PHP 2.4.3 and Apache 2.0.x

2002-12-04 Thread bbonkosk
Wow, PHP Version 2, that's OLD school. If you mean 4.2.3, check out the archives for the list. I believe there has been discussion on the issue and it seems like Apache 2.0.x is really still in development at this point so it is a "use at your own risk", but they whouls work, just might not be

Re: [PHP] new php version

2002-11-19 Thread bbonkosk
I think there is a PHP release mailing list, that should keep you in the loop, or check php.net. The news is usually fresh there. -Brad > When will there be a new release of php? > > With kind regards, > > Richard Pijnenburg > Klik-on Internet Solutions > > -- PHP General Mailing L

Re: [PHP] which PHP debugger?

2002-11-19 Thread bbonkosk
h... I *think* PHP is platform independant for the most part, and it is not like it is a compiled language where you have fancy debuggers to set breakpoints, step through the code, etc... Why not use the functions built into PHP? echo " "; if a mysql problem: mysql_error() -Brad > Hi all,

Re: [PHP] seeding using mt_srand();

2002-10-16 Thread bbonkosk
What Version :-) Check the manual, it has an interesting note: Note: Since PHP 4.2.0 it's no longer necessary to seed the random number generator before using it. HTH -Brad > Let's say you have a simple PHP file that just displays a random number. > When the user hits the submit button, the

Re: [PHP] Creating a voting system.

2002-10-16 Thread bbonkosk
Have you by chance read any documents or tutorials? I know there are many helpful ones at places like phpbuilder.com, and many others. This list is more helpful when you have a specific question to be answered, this is too open ended. -Brad > Hello, > > I am making a page where people c

Re: [PHP] PHP 4.3.0pre1

2002-10-10 Thread bbonkosk
Is there a changelog for this, so we know what to test? -Brad > Hello, > > PHP 4.3.0pre1 is available for download from http://qa.php.net. PHP > 4.3.0 incorporates a very large number of changes, new features, and > bugfixes, and thus requires extensive testing. This preliminary release > is mea

Re: [PHP] Need help with fsockopen()

2002-10-04 Thread bbonkosk
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php Seems to be A LOT of useful information there? Did you check it out? -Brad > I have a script that downloads html pages from many different sites. The > script executes as expected but is slw. I would like to replace > fopen() with fs

Re: [PHP] Trying to add table prefix variable to query

2002-09-10 Thread bbonkosk
Maybe you should assign the query to is's own value doing your string concatenation... i.e. $query = "select * ..."; then echo out the query: echo $query; I think you will see the problem them, I would guess that when you are adding the table_prefix to the table name that you are getting an e

RE: [PHP] Troubles Inserting into MYSQL

2002-09-09 Thread bbonkosk
If you read: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-query.php You will see what $sql4 can be. My guess would be he is connected to 2 or more different databases, and this is specifiying which one to execute the query on. -Brad > [snip] > if ($update_type == update_Williams) { > mysql_query

Re: [PHP] Re: Hardware Address

2002-09-06 Thread bbonkosk
Someone already posted a solution, which was a great idea actually :-) exec("arp $_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR]", $output); echo "H/W Addr should be: $output[1]"; Because you are on a LAN, you should be easily able to acertain the MAC address through ARP. This would not qork for non-LAN situations, but

Re: [PHP] Link for downloading?

2002-09-06 Thread bbonkosk
Question 1: I think this has to do with how you attribute your file extensions in httpd.conf (Apache thing, not PHP), so check out the docs on apache.org Question 2: I woudl tend to believe it depends what kind of link it is... is it and HTTP downlaod site (which would use the windows "save file

Re: [PHP] Image Resizing ... lets try this again.

2002-09-06 Thread bbonkosk
What I found works very well for this is the function: getimagesize(); $image_file = "something.jpg"; $size = getimagesize($image_file); //$size[0] = height and $size[1] = width (double check on php.net) //Then just divide them... $width = $size[1]/2; $height=$size[0]/2; This way it will keep

RE: [PHP] Problem with inserting values into database through php

2002-09-06 Thread bbonkosk
Just and FYI update, in case someone else has this problem... The problem was the example was using $PHP_SELF as the form action variable, of course it has been discussed on this list that in the newer versions of PHP, register_globals is turned off in php.ini, so $PHP_SELF had no real meaning,

Re: [PHP] passing error code vars

2002-09-05 Thread bbonkosk
If the variable is within a form you could do: This would pass to the next page, otherwise the ?name_of_var=$err_code mau be the way to go? -Brad > hi there i am trying to pass error code vars within a page say i post to a > query string like ?action=upload i would like to be able to send an