RE: [PHP-WIN] exe app with php

2001-12-17 Thread Boget, Chris
> >Is there a way to launch an .exe app using PHP. Example; > > Have a user click a link to notepad and have it launch the > > user's notepad.exe for them? > RTFM: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php Except that is server side and what the person asking the question wants to do is cl

RE: [PHP-WIN] Re: How to do a File browse operation in PHP

2001-12-17 Thread Boget, Chris
> This can be done simply by HTML, just put this line in your code: > This can be a little dangerous if all he wants is a file name and not have that file uploaded. Becasue that's what would happen auto- matically if he uses the above. I know that, as a user, if I were filling out a a form tha

RE: [PHP-WIN] mulit dimensional array

2001-11-26 Thread Boget, Chris
> i have set up an array like this... > $myCart = "myShopping Cart"; I don't think you are allowed to have spaces in variable names. Try removing the above space and see if that doesn't fix your problem. Chris

RE: [PHP-WIN] why doesn´t exec("dir"); work ?

2001-11-15 Thread Boget, Chris
> why can´t I run exec("dir"); ? What you want is: exec( "dir", $dirContents ); foreach( $dirEntry as $dirContents ) { echo $dirEntry; } I believe that'll work and do what you want... Chris

RE: [PHP-WIN] anti-advocacy: Larry Seltzer, pcmag May'01 pub.

2001-05-23 Thread Boget, Chris
> Midnight Commander on Linux is one of the best editors our > there. It ranks right up there with the VERY OLD Microsft > Editor which I still use regularly! Anybody else remember "me"? "me"? Multi-Edit? If so, that editor rules! I just wish their Windows version didn't suck. I still use

RE: [PHP-WIN] include_path

2001-04-13 Thread Boget, Chris
> Further the above, this is the exact error message I'm > getting (I've been fooling around with the include path > and so that's why it says something different here): Warning: Failed opening '/pathto/apache/apache/htdocs/virtual_host/folder1/index.php3' for inclusion (include_path='C:\path

RE: [PHP-WIN] include_path

2001-04-13 Thread Boget, Chris
> However, whenever I run a file that includes another file, > regardless of where that file resides, I always get an error. > As part of the error, it says that the only path for the include > is '.' (dot). Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to set > up the include directory somewhere else?

[PHP-WIN] include_path

2001-04-13 Thread Boget, Chris
I've set up Apache and PHP (latest ver) on my Windows98 machine. I've set up a virtual host (c:\path\to\apache\htdocs\virtual_host) and I have all my include files here: (c:\path\to\apache\htdocs\include_dir) In my php.ini, which resides in my windows directory, I've set the include path to b

RE: [PHP-WIN] PHP Editor

2001-04-12 Thread Boget, Chris
> I use UltraEdit 8 for editing PHP and Perl. I checked out UltraEdit. It does seem pretty cool. It just doesn't have the features I need. :/ Chris

RE: [PHP-WIN] PHP Editor

2001-04-12 Thread Boget, Chris
> RE: [PHP-WIN] PHP EditorI'm using Homesite + the Php > extensions for about a year now I'm using the same, but have been for the past 3 years. Every day, I keep hoping and praying that I can find an editor that has the features I need so I can delete this software with impunity. > and,I had

RE: [PHP-WIN] PHP Editor

2001-04-12 Thread Boget, Chris
> You should try Homesite 4.5 or Ultradev 4.0 with the PHP > extension PHAkt > (http://www.interakt.ro/phakt/) Don't even bother with Homesite. There aren't enough expletives (plus, this is a family list :p) to adequetly describe how bad this software is. And don't take my word for it. Go to A

RE: [PHP-WIN] how to execute PHP code on the fly

2001-02-22 Thread Boget, Chris
> I am storing html fragments in mysql. The html has PHP in it. Here's > the problem: The text that is pulled out isn't "executed" as it is > returned. I can still see all the various php bits, in other words. > Is there a command to allow PHP to execute all the php code in a > string? check out

RE: [PHP-WIN] Page names as variables?

2001-01-23 Thread Boget, Chris
> Is there an easy way to grab the page name or the referring page from > another page? I have a logon script which checks if they are > logged in and dumps them to a logon page if they aren't and I'd like to > have a way for them to get back to where they came from (ie. they walked > away fr

RE: [PHP-WIN] Sessions/security

2001-01-17 Thread Boget, Chris
> Try looking at register_shutdown_function at > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.register-shutdown-function.php >From the documentation: "int register_shutdown_function (string func) Registers the function named by func to be executed when script processing is complete." What qualifies a

RE: [PHP-WIN] RE: decimal numbers

2001-01-10 Thread Boget, Chris
> You need to use sprintf or printf to format the output. Here's the > necessary code: > $Percent = sprintf ("%0.2f", $Percent); > If you use printf it will print the result, whereas sprintf > (as used above) returns the string and lets you assign it to a variable > instead. > More info here: