[PHP] "x" as a multiplier

2002-12-03 Thread John Meyer
Code: $newwidth . "x" . $newheight What I want to get out is a string, like 89x115. All I am getting though, is one number, even though if I do this $newwidth . " x " . $newheight It prints out just fine. What is going on here? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsub

RE: [PHP] "x" as a multiplier

2002-12-03 Thread John Meyer
Exactly. But it's only giving me one of the numbers without the space between the numbers and the x. -Original Message- From: Adam Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 3:48 PM To: Kevin Stone Cc: John Meyer; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] &qu

[PHP] Nigerian oil scams

2002-12-12 Thread John Meyer
php How did a Nigerian oil scam e-mail get on this list, anyway? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] AIM and PHP

2002-12-15 Thread John Meyer
does anybody know of a class or a PEAR module to check the status of an AIM user and see if they are online or offline. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Apache authentication and adding a user.

2002-10-28 Thread John Meyer
Hi, is there any way to use PHP to programmatically add a user in terms of Apache user authentication? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] forcing .html pages to go through the PHP parser

2002-10-28 Thread John Meyer
how do you configure apache to force all .html pages to go through the php parser? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] preg_replace (underscore)

2002-10-28 Thread John Meyer
i've just used str_replace for underscores and it's worked wonderfully. -Original Message- From: Shawn McKenzie [mailto:nospam@;mckenzies.net] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 4:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] preg_replace (underscore) Why does preg_replace("^\W^","",$str); not

[PHP] MySQL and images

2002-10-29 Thread John Meyer
Assuming that I have to for some unknown reason, are there any articles on storing images in the database and retrieving them? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] MySQL and images

2002-10-29 Thread John Meyer
to speed-up queries, it is suggested that you DO NOT store images in the database. Rather, store the images in files and store file names in the database. - Original Message - From: "John Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 29

[PHP] array question

2002-10-30 Thread John Meyer
When retrieving an array from $_POST, which is the right way: $arrInterests = $_POST["interests[]"]; or $arrInterests = $_POST["interests"]; -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] array question

2002-10-30 Thread John Meyer
ssage - From: "John Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:29 AM Subject: [PHP] array question When retrieving an array from $_POST, which is the right way: $arrInterests = $_POST["interests[]"]; or $arrInterests =

RE: [PHP] test

2002-10-30 Thread John Meyer
Do I get a cookie for passing this test? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Changing the key

2002-10-31 Thread John Meyer
How do I change the key in an array without having a duplicate key=>$value? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] using mysql_field_type to disginguish between a blob and a text field.

2002-10-31 Thread John Meyer
I've recently found out that mysql returns blob for both blobs and text fields. Now, how do I distinguish between the two? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] SQL>Insert and recover the ID

2002-10-31 Thread John Meyer
use mysql_insert_id(). Much more reliable when and if you use the system with more than one person inserting at the same time. -Original Message- From: Christian Ista [mailto:mailing-list@;istasofts.com] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 2:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] SQL>Ins

[PHP] regular expression question

2002-11-01 Thread John Meyer
I've got a regexp: (EV[0-9]{2})!([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})!(GR[0-9]{2}).txt My question is, will it match this: EV01!2002-11-09!VR01!GR01.txt And anything formatted like this: (EV02, and so forth). -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.n

[PHP] image submit buttons

2002-11-04 Thread John Meyer
(isset($_POST["Submit"])) is this the way to check a submission image to see if it's been set? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Extracting first eight characters of a string

2002-11-07 Thread John Meyer
How do I extract only the first eight characters (alpha-numeric) in a string. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] Extracting first eight characters of a string

2002-11-07 Thread John Meyer
how about this: $cutstring = substr(preg_replace("\W","",$originalstring),0,8); -Original Message- From: Adam Voigt [mailto:adam@;cryptocomm.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 8:10 AM To: John Meyer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Extracting first e

[PHP] PHP and JavaScript

2002-11-07 Thread John Meyer
On a PHP event, does the onLoad event in a document run before or after the page is parsed, created, and sent to the user? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] " getting changed to \" when pulled from a

2002-11-07 Thread John Meyer
That's probably the way that you want it to be, if you're inserting the data into a database. When you retrieve it, you use stripslashes(). -Original Message- From: Brandon Orther [mailto:orther@;webintellects.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 1:16 PM To: PHP User Group Subject: [PH

RE: [PHP] " getting changed to \" when pulled from a

2002-11-07 Thread John Meyer
yep, mea culpa, just thinking of MySQL. -Original Message- From: Marco Tabini [mailto:marcot@;inicode.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:25 PM To: John Meyer Cc: Brandon Orther; PHP-General Subject: RE: [PHP] " getting changed to \" when pulled from a That's n

[PHP] What am I missing with this code?

2002-11-08 Thread John Meyer
for($i=1;$i<13;$i++) { ?>  () All it's printing out is "November" and "December", even though the month is incrementing. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] DHTML and PHP

2002-11-08 Thread John Meyer
I want to get the top layer to appear right on top of where the other two are. How do I do this? " style="visibility: visible; zIndex:1">');show('layerhide');show('ViewFullProfile');hide('More')">Want to know more about me? Click here!

RE: [PHP] How good is PHP to ASP?

2002-11-10 Thread John Meyer
First off, I wouldn't go comparing one language to another as "better" (a jihad has broken out on another list between Perl and PHP, substituting belief for anything remotely resembling a civilized and intelligent discussion), but if you want to convince them about the merits of PHP, look up the ne

[PHP] tag

2002-11-10 Thread John Meyer
I'm doing some PHP work, and I've come across the tag. What, exactly, is this? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] tag

2002-11-10 Thread John Meyer
Actually, it's a product of Microsoft Frontpage that a client sent me. -Original Message- From: John W. Holmes [mailto:holmes072000@;charter.net] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 9:33 PM To: 'John Meyer'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] tag > I'm doing some

RE: [PHP] test

2002-11-11 Thread John Meyer
I never do well on tests. Always forget my pencil. -Original Message- From: James Johnson [mailto:james@;owell.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 11:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] test test -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http:

[PHP] Curl and post

2002-11-11 Thread John Meyer
I need to send a post array to another page. How do I do this using CURL? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] redirecting a user to a page after a password popup

2002-11-12 Thread John Meyer
Hi, I'm generating a 401 header for a few pages, and if they click cancel, I want to send them to a 401 page. How do I do this? I've tried a header after those headers, but that just redirects them automatically. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://w

[PHP] multiple forms on the same page

2002-11-13 Thread John Meyer
hi, I have multiple forms on a page that refers to itself on the action. The only difference is that one has one extra field. The two have every other name in common. Will this be difficult to handle? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/

[PHP] Is there any way to resize an image?

2002-11-13 Thread John Meyer
Basically, my question for PHP. Anything in the libraries that can do that? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] Converting String to Variable

2001-03-03 Thread John Meyer
Here's my question: why do you want to do this, and is there a better way to do this, say a hash list or something? BTW, isn't monday defined as a constant that always equals "blah!" It always has for me. -Original Message- From: Randy Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday,

Re: [PHP] last inserted record

2001-03-07 Thread John Meyer
Assuming that you do have a primary key, how can you grab the last record you inserted? Can you use @@IDENTITY, or something like that? "Christian Reiniger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 01030310383101.00589@chrisbig">news:01030310383101.00589@chrisbig... On Saturday 03 March 2001 05:16, y

[PHP] script output doesn't show up

2001-03-12 Thread John Meyer
Here is the code   Problem is that the script output doesn't show up. Any idears? -- 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: [EMAI

[PHP] Variable variables

2001-03-13 Thread John Meyer
Okay, I read about this feature in the php manual. What I can't figure out is why in the world would anybody want to use this feature? Not to start a flame war, just would like an explanation of why this feature is useful. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-m

RE: [PHP] Variable variables

2001-03-13 Thread John Meyer
Okay, that makes a little sense, but isn't there some sort of collection that will do the same thing (coming from vb). -Original Message- From: Jason Stechschulte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 6:38 AM To: John Meyer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

RE: [PHP] Good Free PHP Editor?

2001-03-13 Thread John Meyer
Actually, I picked up htmlkit when it was mentioned in this group and it's just as good as Visual InterDev, in my opinion. -Original Message- From: Jens Nedal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 6:58 AM To: Angerer, Chad; 'Simon Garner'; Boget, Chris; [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP vs. ASP

2002-01-10 Thread John Meyer
ing ASP (or PHP) as long as they are basing it on the facts and there particular needs; what I don't like are advocates (read a**holes) turning this into a heated debate devoid of any facts or basis in reality. BTW, I use both and have used both. I'm more concerned with results, not egos.

Re: [PHP] mailing to 19000 users

2002-01-27 Thread John Meyer
How about croning the job and splitting up the load as you go. - Original Message - From: "Mostafa Al-Mallawani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 11:23 PM Subject: [PHP] mailing to 19000 users > hi, does anyone know how to send mail to 19000 use

Re: [PHP] php vs asp

2002-01-28 Thread John Meyer
You can use ASP with Mysql, as long as you have myodbc installed on your machine. For me, ASP has been a bit slower, but you can still use it. - Original Message - From: "liz lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 7:14 AM Subject: [PHP] php vs as

Re: [PHP] Php is serversided????

2002-02-14 Thread John Meyer
Two ways this is possible: 1. The user has selected an item and hit the submit button, thereby sending everything to the server and it is working there. 2. The user comes in from a different link, different server, or has a cookie on their machine. - Original Message - From: "Morten Niel

[PHP] Re: Lists are back up

2001-06-18 Thread John Meyer
At 12:15 PM 6/18/2001 -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >We have re-enabled the PHP mailing lists. They are now running from a >temporary machine sitting on the floor of my spare bedroom. A more >permanent home is in the works. > >-Rasmus Does this also refer to the news server? Jo

Re: [PHP] Is there a user group in Colorado?

2001-06-22 Thread John Meyer
At 11:24 AM 6/22/01 -0600, Unni wrote: >Is there a user group in Colorado? > >Thanks > If there is one, I'd like to be a part of it. John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer If we didn't have Microsoft, we'd have to blame ourselves for all of our programs crashin

Re: [PHP] Percentages

2001-06-24 Thread John Meyer
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, David Robley wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:04, Tim Thorburn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Working on a site that needs some billing information. Once upon a > > time done in ASP where we had the option to use the FormatPercent > > command - is there an equivalent command within PH

Re: [PHP] How to prevent people from downloading images

2001-07-03 Thread John Meyer
e? Or another trick might be to show them a low res version of the graphic, then require payment before you give the the high res one. --- John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither -- Ben Franklin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php

RE: [PHP] How to prevent people from downloading images

2001-07-04 Thread John Meyer
the "print screen" will take a screenshot > on windows machines, as someone else mentioned) Agreed, but how about only showing a very small image. Large enough for them to know what it is, but not large enough that saving it would do them much good. -- John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pro

Re: [PHP] Problem writting to file...

2001-07-06 Thread John Meyer
ata.txt", "w+"); > $counter = 0; > while ($counter <6) > { > fwrite($fp, $counter . "\n"); > $counter = $counter +1; > } > fclose ($fp); > ?> Is it writing anything out? -- John Meyer Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Gene

[PHP] foreach loop

2001-07-07 Thread John Meyer
= AddSlashes($value); } will the values be changed outside of the loop? John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer If we didn't have Microsoft, we'd have to blame ourselves for all of our programs crashing -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-ma

Re: [PHP] Global Variables -- why not have them?

2001-07-07 Thread John Meyer
having truly global variables is a very bad idea. In fact, you should be trying to limit your need of global variables, so that your program can count on the integrity of the variables. John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer If we didn't have Microsoft, we'd have to blame ourselves

[PHP] mysql_insert_id()

2001-07-07 Thread John Meyer
I have been reading about this function and I have a question. The PHP manual warns about using it if your AUTO_INCREMENT ID field is a BIGINT. I am using type INTEGER. Am I okay with this one, or should I use the MySQL function. John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer If we didn't

[PHP] arrays in forms.

2001-07-07 Thread John Meyer
mysql_auery($query) or die(echo mysql_error()); } } What I'd like to know is, is this correct, incorrect, redundant, etc? John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer If we didn't have Microsoft, we'd have to blame ourselves for all of our programs crashing -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] arrays in forms.

2001-07-07 Thread John Meyer
> > mysql_auery($query) or die(echo mysql_error()); By the way, I know this line should be mysql_query John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer If we didn't have Microsoft, we'd have to blame ourselves for all of our programs crashing -- PHP Gene

Re: [PHP] how can i creat a file and write a string to it!

2001-07-15 Thread John Meyer
At 06:27 PM 7/15/01 +0100, sunny AT wde wrote: >i've been looking for an adequate answer all morning in the archives, > > fwrite($file, $articletext); > Don't you have to do a fopen beforehand? John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer If we didn't have Mi

Re: [PHP] Example high-profile PHP sites

2001-07-26 Thread John Meyer
probably suggest using more of a "What PHP can do" tactic rather than "Who's using PHP". I'm sorry, but the latter tactic seems like a jumping on the bandwagon approach. John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer If we didn't have Microsoft, we'd hav

Re: [PHP] Why can't this code display my result?

2001-08-09 Thread John Meyer
Could you please give us some error messages, please? >$connect = mysql_connect("localhost","user_name","password"); > $select_data = mysql_select_db("ardani_cd_collection"); > $query = "SELECT * FROM main where description = '$song_title'"; > $result = mysql_query($query); > > while

[PHP] Dealing with a file

2001-08-13 Thread John Meyer
I haven't had much experience with dealing with uploaded files. Are there any links that would help me to deal with these files using PHP from a server-side. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PR

[PHP] Code works fine on Apache, but not on PWS.

2001-08-14 Thread John Meyer
Instead of posting the code, I'll give you the link: http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/bealers2904.php3?page=1 Short and long of it is the subject line. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [PHP] problem with a hacker

2001-08-16 Thread John Meyer
>I'm currently running my site on a win2k server, I'm using PHP for my tag >board. Today a hacker managed to overwrite the text file I was using to >store all the messages, which really isn't that big a surprise considering >the permissions to the folder it is kept in are wide open thanks to my

Re: [PHP] Printf fails on large files

2001-08-17 Thread John Meyer
At 05:14 PM 8/17/01 -0300, Inércia Sensorial Trabalhando wrote: > Hi All, > > A friend of mine said his printf is failing when he parses a variable from >a 4.5 mega file. On smaller files, it works fine. > > There's a limit on the printf or somewhere else? > > Thanks. Is he throwing the

Re: [PHP] Protecting include files

2001-08-18 Thread John Meyer
At 08:26 PM 8/18/01 -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > Order allow,deny > Deny from all BTW, .inc files can include PHP code that is executed, right? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [PHP] Checking FTP server response

2001-08-20 Thread John Meyer
At 03:03 PM 8/20/01 -0700, CC Zona wrote: >To test for a valid http address, I open a socket, pass a HEAD or GET >request, and look for a status code in the response headers. What should I >send to an FTP server to do a similar test? Why not just try and connect to it? -- PHP General Mailing

Re: [PHP] php-counter

2001-08-22 Thread John Meyer
At 05:49 PM 8/22/01 +0200, you wrote: >hi! > >do you know an easy-to-use-php-counter, which uses mysql to store the data? > >gert Not off hand, but I could probably program one within the day. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addi

Re: [PHP] help with php mysql and images...

2001-08-22 Thread John Meyer
A couple of things: 1. ASP is not dumb. It was just written by Microsoft. Seriously, though I'd learn both, it would make you much more marketable. 2. First off, create the database. Then ask yourself what are the steps that you have to go through. What your probably looking at right now

Re: [PHP] strange error

2001-08-22 Thread John Meyer
At 03:12 PM 8/22/01 -0400, you wrote: >Hi, > >I get an error message which I can't figure out. > >Its a Parse error: on line 142 which is the last line of the page containing >absolutly no code. The last line of code is simply ..Did >anyone have a similar experience? Can anyone help me out

Re: [PHP] Any point in learning ASP/JSP etc?

2001-08-22 Thread John Meyer
At 01:10 AM 8/23/01 +0100, you wrote: >Or is PHP the be-all and end all? > >I know its strong points, but what are the WEAK points of PHP? > >- seb PHP isn't default on Microsoft systems You have to learn a new language for PHP: ASP is basically either VBScript or JScript around some objects. T

RE: [PHP] Any point in learning ASP/JSP etc?

2001-08-22 Thread John Meyer
At 01:29 AM 8/23/01 +0100, you wrote: >Ah ha, but am I better off becoming a PHP guru or a >jackofalltrades-notverygoodatanyofthem kind of person ;-) I don't know. I've learned both PHP and ASP, and neither of them have decreased the other in terms of learning. The fact is, you are going to le

Re: [PHP] RE: What development environment do you use for PHP?

2001-08-27 Thread John Meyer
At 01:21 PM 8/27/01 -0700, you wrote: >I keep my web documents in a CVS repository on a Linux box, and use WinCVS >(GNU) to check files in and out on my WinNT desktop. I use ConTEXT >(freeware) for editing. Documentation and help are always available at >php.net and google.com. I have an Apach

Re: [PHP] PWS

2001-08-28 Thread John Meyer
At 07:27 AM 8/28/01 -0700, you wrote: >I have installed PHP CGI 4.0 on my Win 98 machine with >PWS and tried this script that I put in the wwwroot >directory and called test.php3: > >I called the page from my browser like this: > >http://localhost/test.php3 Why not just name the page test.php?

RE: [PHP] What does PHP stand for?

2001-08-28 Thread John Meyer
At 05:15 PM 8/28/01 +0228, you wrote: >It's actually a recursive acronym, like GNU: > > From the manual: > >"PHP, which stands for 'PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor', is an HTML-embedded >scripting language." > >J Am I making things up, or Did it stand for Perl Hypertext Preprocessor at one time?

[PHP] Suppressing error messages

2001-08-29 Thread John Meyer
It seems to have slipped me little mind, but how do you suppress error messages? -- 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]

[PHP] Posting to oneself

2001-08-29 Thread John Meyer
Two questions: 1. Can I tell a form to post to itself without specifying the name of the web page? 2. If I have a function on one page called by another, will this resolve correctly? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional c

Re: [PHP] Posting to oneself

2001-08-29 Thread John Meyer
At 12:07 AM 8/30/01 +0200, you wrote: >So sprach »John Meyer« am 2001-08-29 um 15:57:02 -0700 : > > Two questions: > > 1. Can I tell a form to post to itself without specifying the name of the > > web page? > > I am getting this error: Undefined variable: PHP_SE

Re: [PHP] Posting to oneself

2001-08-29 Thread John Meyer
At 03:18 PM 8/29/01 -0700, you wrote: >if you are within a function, try doing this first: > >global $PHP_SELF; Tried that, same error. BTW, FYI: Apache 1.3.20 (Win32) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

[PHP] determining the pixel width of a string

2001-08-30 Thread John Meyer
Is there anyway to determine the pixel width of a string? -- 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]

[PHP] Is there anything in here that could be considered a parse error?

2001-08-30 Thread John Meyer
if (empty($DidSurvey[$p_surveyid])) { if (is_array($p_answers)){ foreach($p_answers as $value) { error line--> $sql = "INSERT INTO RESULTS(SURVEY_ID, ANSWER_ID) VALUES(" . $p_surveyid . "," . $value . ");";

Re: [PHP] File read Parser error

2001-08-30 Thread John Meyer
At 11:53 PM 8/30/01 +0200, you wrote: >Gary wrote: >>Can someone tell me why I am getting an error for the second line below. >>It works locally but not live. >> >$filename = "www/name/test/free.txt" >>$toread = fopen($filename, 'r'); >>$conte

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

2004-07-27 Thread JOHN MEYER
Or you could retrieve that information prior to inserting the login information, say, as soon as they type in their login name, store that, then present it. From: Jason Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Harlequin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Retrieve The Last Recor

Re: [PHP] reading MS Excel?

2006-12-28 Thread John Meyer
On a side note, but going on the basis that the users are uploading .xls files and don't understand how to convert. Would it be better to use php's routines or to automate excel, convert it inside there, and then use the result? Leonard Burton wrote: > On 12/28/06, Jiffy Slides Leonard Burton <[EM

Re: [PHP] Hello

2007-01-13 Thread John Meyer
Edward wrote: > How do I create a php document so that people in my nonprofit can vote > on issues online through the organization's website? > > Thanks, > > Edward > Start with PHP, add MySQL or your database of choice, mix and prepare. Serves 500+. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php

Re: [PHP] most powerful php editor

2007-01-21 Thread John Meyer
Dear god Arnot, would you like to stand back for a moment and consider how retarded those statements are, or would you like for me to do it for you? Whether you use a powerful IDE or not, you still have to use the same compiler underneath. In PHP, that "compiler" is the web server. Unless you b

Re: [PHP] most powerful php editor

2007-01-24 Thread John Meyer
Jochem Maas wrote: > Curt Zirzow wrote: >> On 1/20/07, Vinicius C Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> hi everyone! >>> >>> i'd like to ask something maybe commonly asked here. what is the most >>> powerful php editor? >> >> So now we have a 4 day thread of discussing nothing but, this is what i >>

[PHP] Problem outputting MySQL Date field

2009-08-28 Thread John Meyer
Is there anything special I have to do to output a mysql date field as text? When I try to output it nothing appears on the web page. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Converting URL's to hyperlinks.

2009-08-28 Thread John Meyer
What sort of function would I need if I wanted to convert those URLs from plain jane text? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Problem outputting MySQL Date field

2009-08-28 Thread John Meyer
Devendra Jadhav wrote: No need to do anything special. It should display date as string. Can you provide little more information or code snippet? $tweettable .= preg_replace('@(https?://([-\w\.]+)+(:\d+)?(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?)@', '$1',$row["TWEET_TEXT"]) . "" . "Sent at: " . $rowqry["TWEET_

[PHP] Re: [PHP-WIN] Re: [PHP] Problem outputting MySQL Date field

2009-08-28 Thread John Meyer
Keith Davis wrote: But how are you getting the data from the db? Does $rowqry represent a call using the mysql_fetch_array() function? mysql_fetch_assoc() -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] שנה טובה!

2009-09-19 Thread John Meyer
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have a Hebrew mailing list. -Original Message- From: LuKreme [mailto:krem...@kreme.com] Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 2:51 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] שנה טובה! On Sep 19, 2009, at 10:09, Dotan Cohen wrote: > ניצן, תזה

Re: [PHP] DailyWTF - Maybe I Needing Later

2009-12-23 Thread John Meyer
On 12/22/2009 9:10 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Maybe-I-Needing-Later.aspx Read this, just loved it. Moral of the story (though some may turn it racist or otherwise moronic): maybe hiring at the lowest possible bidder isn't always the best idea. -- PHP Gen

Re: [PHP] What's the best way to extract HTML out of $var?

2010-01-14 Thread John Meyer
On 1/14/2010 7:15 PM, alexus wrote: > What's the best way to extract HTML out of $var? > > example of $var > > $var = "http://http://stackoverflow.com/"Stack Overflow" > I want > > $var2 = "http://starckoverflow.com/"; > example: preg_match(); > > what else? > Actually what it looks like you

Re: [PHP] Re: MySQL ID -- what happens when you run out of range?

2010-01-25 Thread John Meyer
On 1/25/2010 1:19 PM, Nathan Rixham wrote: Parham Doustdar wrote: Hello there, A friend called me today and was wondering what happens if the ID colomn of an MYSQL database, set to autoinc reaches the int limit. Will it return and begin choosing the ID's that have been deleted, or... what? you

Re: [PHP] REQUEST

2013-05-29 Thread John Meyer
Jim Giner wrote: On 5/29/2013 5:45 PM, Tedd Sperling wrote: PS: I think it probably best not to rise to the bait from people who forgot to turn off their cap's key. You call it "bait"? I call it stupidity. Once no, more than once YES. Why not both? Cue cute taco shell girl. -- PHP G

Re: [PHP] strlen ?

2013-07-05 Thread John Meyer
Jim Giner wrote: Trying to manage line breaks in some output I'm generating and using strlen to measure the lengths of the strings I'm printing. Discovered something strange (to me!) in that strlen is returning +1 more than it should. The strings are from a query of my database - simple name

Re: [PHP] strlen ?

2013-07-05 Thread John Meyer
MOTS: never take any input on faith. Jim Giner wrote: On 7/5/2013 3:02 PM, Stephen wrote: On 13-07-05 02:50 PM, Jim Giner wrote: Now the question is - how the heck did I put that in there? Certainly not intentionally. The data is captured from a d/e screen I wrote and it simply grabs the p

Re: [PHP] Algorithm Help

2013-10-01 Thread John Meyer
On 10/1/2013 12:51 PM, Floyd Resler wrote: Here's my task: A group of kids is going to be staying with different host families throughout the next 8 months. The number of kids staying with a host family can range from 2 to 10. When deciding which kids should stay together at a host family, t

[PHP] date difference

2004-07-15 Thread JOHN MEYER
Hello, Is there a function to determine the difference between two dates? I am asking so I can do some date verification for COPA. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] mysql connection question

2004-07-15 Thread JOHN MEYER
Hi, For a long time, on all of my mysql pages, I've done something like this $conn = mysql_connect($server,$username,$password) or die("Could not connect") mysql_select_db($db); I've finally put that into its own script file, moved it to my include files, and simply included it whereever I neede

Re: [PHP] separating strings from extensions

2008-02-17 Thread John Meyer
Daniel Brown wrote: On Feb 17, 2008 5:37 PM, nihilism machine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i am using this code to get the extension of a filename: $extension = strtolower(strrchr($fileName,".")); how can i get the text BEFORE the . (period) You can STFW and RTFM. This list should

Re: [PHP] separating strings from extensions

2008-02-17 Thread John Meyer
Børge Holen wrote: On Monday 18 February 2008 00:10:30 John Meyer wrote: Daniel Brown wrote: On Feb 17, 2008 5:37 PM, nihilism machine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i am using this code to get the extension of a filename: $extension = strtolower(strrchr($fileName,"

Re: [PHP] how PHP is batter?

2007-07-03 Thread John Meyer
Muhammad Hassan Samee wrote: > ASP.net VS PHP? > > how PHP is batter? > Without context that question is meaningless and only serves as troll bait. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Swear filter ideas

2007-07-03 Thread John Meyer
Richard Lynch wrote: > Don't. > > Trying to solve a social problem with software hacks never works out > well. > > :-) > > Taking the emotion out of this, if you wanted to catch any list of words (the Esperanto dictionary, the words to that last song that got ground into your head), how would y

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