RE: [PHP] Dear Lazy Web: Pseudo Randomisation Strategies on Listing Websites

2010-08-20 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Col, Interesting problem. > Are there any other approaches I've missed? Off the top of my head, how about this: 1. Add a new unsigned int column called "SortOrder" to the table of widgets or whatever it is you're listing 2. Fill this column with randomly-generated numbers between 0 and wha

RE: [PHP] Text editor

2010-07-27 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Jordan, > Do you somebody know some simple text editor with buttons > for bold italic etc. TinyMCE is worth a look: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ HTH Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Counting back 90 days...

2004-01-05 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Tris, > But is there an easy was to calculate 90 days > from the timestamp... There are 86400 seconds in a day... can't you just do something like: $timestamp -= (86400 * 90); Or even $timestamp -= 7776000; // 90 days Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] register_globals & security

2003-11-13 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Fernando, > I have a PHP application that passes variables (values) from a form. > I get these using $_POST > > However I do also post some variables via a link. Which ofcourse requires > register_globals to be ON. Do you mean variables in a URL, like this: www.example.com/index.php?foo=1&bar

Re: [PHP] Allowing specific IP's to bypass security.

2003-10-21 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Tris, > reset the session variable: > $_SESSION['details_captured'] == FALSE; > > Re-asign it to yes: > $_SESSION['details_captured'] == "yes"; You're using ==, which is the comparison operator - give it a go with just a single = instead. Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.p

Re: [PHP] Resource Limits

2003-09-27 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > How can I get the values of 'max_execution_time', > 'max_input_time' and 'memory_limit' from my php script ? Use the ini_get function: http://php.net/ini-get Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] PHP Editor - which to use?

2003-09-24 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > Good coder will understand this at a glimpse: [snip horrible code] > if($pos_params!=false) Assuming it's a boolean, $pos_params is *already* true or false, so testing it like this is pretty much pointless. It makes more sense (and is much more readable IMHO) to do something like this: i

Re: [PHP] Getting part of a string...Was protecting a file via php

2003-09-16 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Steve, > $pfile = str_replace('get.php?file=','','$file'); > $p = explode('.', $pfile); > // How do I say look at the extension and put it into the switch? > $extension = $p; > // end of the bit I'm stuck on. At this point $p is an array rather than a variable, so you'll need to get the last e

Re: [PHP] Training Help

2003-09-12 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Ryan, > $tireqty = $_POST['tireqty']; > $oilqty = $_POST['oilqty']; > $sparkqty = $_POST['sparkqty']; That'll certainly fix the problem, but it kind of defeats the point of using $_POST :-) Ideally you'd clean the data at this point to make sure no-one's trying to submit anything nasty (Googl

Re: [PHP] Training Help

2003-09-12 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Ryan, Sounds like register_globals is turned off on your server (this is generally a Good Thing). Rather than having all your form fields converted directly into variables - which your book is assuming, as it's how PHP used to do it - you'll need to access them via the $_POST array. Try changi

Re: [PHP] game in php

2003-09-07 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > I have this database with this fields; id and > number_attacks. And every 10 minutes > number_attack to be increased by 1. You'll need to set up some sort of scheduled task (if you're on unix, your best bet is probably cron) - this task should call a script that connects to your database an

Re: [PHP] Can Objects be passed to another page?

2003-09-03 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > is it possible to pass an Object to another php page? Have a look into serialization: http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop.serialization.php Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] snippet

2003-08-05 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Harry, > can someone explain this for me: > ... > $sFont =submit("font") ? SITE_ROOT . PROG_PATH . submit("font") : ""; > ... It's called the "ternary operator", and it's a shorthand for if...else... The line you're asking about is equivalent to: if (submit("font")) { $sFont = SITE_ROOT .

Re: [PHP] controlling winamp with COM

2003-07-22 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > It might even be possible that Winamp itself provides > hooks to a running instance of itself via command line > parameters (one can hope) which would simplify the > task greatly. Winamp (v2 at any rate, I haven't worked with v3) has a great API, including hooks via the command line, which

Re: [PHP] Help with Date

2003-07-21 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Elliot, > I need a function to create the dates of previous > Fridays, in 21-JUL-2003 format. It'll be different depending on what you want to happen if you pass a Friday timestamp to the function, but it should be something like: function friday($ts) { while (date("w", $ts) != 5) $ts

Re: [PHP] News Reader

2003-07-21 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi David, > Could someone advise me of a good news reader. Agent is pretty good: http://www.forteinc.com/agent/ Mozilla has a mail and news component, which you can download on its own if you don't want the browser, IRC client, HTML editor, etc: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/ Chee

Re: [PHP] How to..

2003-07-21 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Haseeb, > i.e. divide the functions into files. and then include > only that file that has the function. That's how I usually do it - for example, I have a file called "dates.lib.php" which contains all my functions for handling dates and times, a file called "db.lib.php" which has my database

Re: [PHP] Help with UPDATE command...

2003-07-19 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Tony, > The UPDATE command does not seem to support > the ORDER BY part despite it being listed in the > instructions on the mysql.com website. This is only supported in versions 4 and above - if you're using 3.23 you can get away with LIMIT in your update queries, but not ORDER BY. Cheers Jo

Re: [PHP] Communication between PHP Server code and HTML/JavaScript client without refreshing the page

2003-07-04 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Sharat, > How do I communicate betwen an HTML page > having JavaScript and a PHP server code without > having to refresh the HTML page. I don't think this is possible: once PHP has run (and sent your Javascript to the browser), it's finished - you can't use it again until the next time the pag

Re: [PHP] - Default Date

2003-06-23 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Gary, > Is there a default variable built into PHP that has > today's date? Have a look at http://php.net/date for this - http://php.net/mktime will probably be of interest as well. Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/un

Re: [PHP] typecasting .. easy?

2003-06-19 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Roy, > If $amount equals for example 52., how do I get > that to print as "52.00" similarly, if amount = > 52.5 how do I get that to print as "52.50" Have a look at the number_format() function, it should do what you want. It'll also add commas to break up any thousands in your number (you ca

RE: [PHP] convert seconds to hours, minutes, seconds

2003-06-03 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Chinmoy, > I have a value 178607, which is stored as seconds. I > like to convert it (178607 Secs) to Hours, Minutes and > Seconds appropiatly. Can anybody help me supplying the code? Try something like this: "; echo sec2hms(60). ""; echo sec2hms(66). ""; echo sec2hms(3600). ""; echo

RE: [PHP] determine action of a form dynamically?

2003-06-03 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Mukta, > I want action of a form to be PHP_SELF untill user > presses "continue" button. If continue button is > pressed than "next.php" should be the action of the > form. how to do this? One way would be to have two buttons in your form, but submit to only one page: ... and then, o

RE: [PHP] Opinion on a method....

2003-04-04 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Dan, > the ini file looks like: hostip&user&password&databasename > after I import it, I split it up, and assign each to a variable > name. I also have it outside the doc root, and it gives a > generic error msg for every error in the system. Should do it - it's a bit of a long-winded route, t

RE: [PHP] Opinion on a method....

2003-04-04 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Dan, > I would like to get some opinions here on a method I'm doing > to grab connect information for a mysql connection. Currently > I am doing: > $pinfo = fopen ("/director1/directory2/filename.ini","r"); Does this filename.ini contain the code to connect to your database? If so, I usually

RE: [PHP] FTP

2003-04-01 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Tomás, > What's the meaning of this error?: FTP_PUT: Could not > determine CWdir: No such directory. ^ Are you trying to save a file in a directory that doesn't exist? Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http

RE: [PHP] checkdate function

2003-04-01 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Siva, > checkdate function verifies whether the date is valid or > not by taking month, day and year as arguments. > The problem is when someone enters a three digit year by > mistake (200 instead of 2003), this function does not catch it. Yes, I've been bitten by this as well :-) > We are se

RE: [PHP] global var.

2003-03-31 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Sebastian, > $variable = $id; > // some other stuff > @mysql_query here > $id = mysql_insert_id(); > > How do I get $id from insert_id() to pass to $variable > above? Hard to explain the situation i am in, but the > query has to be below $variable ::blink:: Perhaps something like:

RE: [PHP] problem with mysql.

2003-03-31 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Ryan, > when configuring php i use --with-mysql and it configures just > fine. i've even added an =/path/to/php after it to no avail. Try --with-mysql=/path/to/mysql instead of --with-mysql=/path/to/php. Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

RE: [PHP] [Newbie] Password()

2003-03-31 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Bobby, > In my code I am trying to send an email (containing a password) > to a user when he has forgotten his password. [...] > The problem is that security leads to needing to encrypt > passwords in the database. Im using the password function > within mysql. Is there any way of reversing the

RE: [PHP] Session Theft

2003-03-28 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Haseeb, > if i can get something from user end that is unique > for that user.for e.g. his/her IP . Firstly, an IP address can be shared between multiple users, or it can change constantly for one user. Here's what a page request from an AOL user looks like (I've snipped the request paths, b

RE: [PHP] connecting to mysql db

2003-03-25 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Iggy, > I mean the difference between having that code on > every page or calling it from an external page > doesn't tell me if it is realy necessary to do it > all the time. Yes, you do have to connect to the database in every script that needs to access it. Usually this is done at the st

RE: [PHP] random letter/character?[Scanned]

2003-03-19 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > function gen_password($length = 8) { > > $chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789"; [snip] Just as a tip - if you want to save hassle for yourself and your users, remove the following characters from that string: - 1 (number one) - l (lower-case letter L

RE: [PHP] querying for values inside range

2003-03-18 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Jason, > $sql = "select * from table where age>=$age1 and age<=$age2"; > what if i don't know which is value is greater, age1 or age2? PHP has a couple of handy functions for this: min() and max() $min = min($age1, $age2); // get smallest of two values $max = max($age1, $age2); // get large

RE: [PHP] Re: newbie:restricting users to change data in a textarea

2003-03-18 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Coert, > > There is one field that I whant to stop them from changing > > You can put READONLY in your TEXTAREA tag While this would probably keep the honest people honest (assuming it's supported across all browsers), it won't stop anyone who wants to pollute the database. What's to st

RE: [PHP] table cell space under image in IE

2003-03-13 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Larry, > Why would they have take up visible space? It's a block-level element, like a paragraph or a div. > Hmm, I guess I'll have to find a new angle or hide > the closing form beyond the table. You don't have to resort to kludges, just tell the browser what you actually want:

RE: [PHP] how to uploads files

2003-03-12 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Luis, > how can i uploads files to my server by php script ? The manual explains this (read the user notes as well, though): http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] rates for differents date?

2003-03-07 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Shaine, > ok question: 7days in a week. > day 1-2 costs $10, > day 3-5 cost $15, > day 4-7 costs $10. I'm assuming you meant 6-7 here instead of 4-7, otherwise you've introduced a contradiction with days 3-5. > how can I work out the total if someone stays from say day 2-5? > or what about d

RE: [PHP] \n

2003-03-04 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi John, > Nothing fancy. Can't get it to echo ¶ Is that a pilcrow sign? If so, have you tried "¶" instead, like this: $inputresult = str_replace('\n', '¶\n', $testtextarea); Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] PHP on IIS session problems

2003-03-03 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Victor, > Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: > open(/tmp\sess_f4aa3ef3c537bb6327d5e7b991e91be7, O_RDWR) failed: No such > file or directory (2) in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\picoblog\admin.php on line 2 Pay attention to the error messages. This one explains exactly what you're doing wr

RE: RE: [PHP] formtext

2003-03-03 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Diksha, Please excuse the line wrapping in my last post - you may have to copy 'n' paste into a text editor to see it as it should be :-) Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] info required reg. PHP

2003-03-03 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > 1) Can we display an alert box using PHP. No, you need to use Javascript's alert() function. PHP is server-side only. > 2) I would like to know the max. number of records or max. space > a database (mentioned below) can provide. Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server are limited only by the space

RE: RE: [PHP] formtext

2003-03-03 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Diksha, > Parse error: parse error, expecting `','' or `';'' in > /var/www/html/bdoi_change/f1.php on line 11 > > the code is: > > echo" > Please enter other login id: > "; You need to escape the quotes inside the string, or use single quotes to define it. Either this: echo "Please ente

RE: [PHP] formtext

2003-03-03 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Diksha, > Parse error: parse error in /var/www/html/bdoi_change/f1.php on > line 10 > > > > > > > > Business Directory Of India > > You can't use HTML directly when you're inside a PHP block - het rid of the ""; // etc Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/

RE: [PHP] Capitalising Personal Names

2003-02-28 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Danny, > > I need to clean up the capitalisation of user-entered personal names. > > Well it's hardly rocket science - a flick through the manual and I > came up with : > $name=ucwords(strtolower($name)); While that would work in many cases, how do you catch exceptions such as the following?

RE: [PHP] Preventing the "hijacking" of pictures

2003-02-28 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > $_SERVER[HTTP_REFERRER] does not help. Not sure if you've got it that way in your code, but that might be because it's spelt "HTTP_REFERER" - yes, it's wrong, you're right, but you have to live with it :-) I think you may also need to quote it like this, but I'm not sure: $_SERVER['HTT

RE: [PHP] date, "first of next month"?

2003-02-27 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Bryan, > > $t = mktime(0,0,0,date('m')+1,1,date('Y')); > > > > Gives you timestamp of first day, next month. > > Format accordingly with date(). > > is there such a say to now get the date of the first > weekday after that date? You can brute force it: // grab the timestamp $t = mktime(0,0,

RE: [PHP] Date check

2003-02-11 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Fredik, > I have to dates that i want to check who is biggest. > > This does not work: > if( $date1 > $date2){ > > > How can i check them? Presumably they're in SQL format, or something similar? The easiest way is to convert them to unix timestamps (look into the date() and mktime() f

RE: [PHP] mysql auto increment question

2003-02-07 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Robbert, > Is there an easy way to find out what the auto_incremented > number is so I can use it to update the other table? Sure, have a look at mysql_insert_id: http://php.net/mysql_insert_id Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.p

RE: [PHP] Dynamic input fields in Form

2003-02-07 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Frank, > I have a form where the user selects for example; how many cars > you have: 4. Then it most dynamicly create 4 input fields [...] Using only PHP, you'll have to make this a two-step process where page 1 collects the number of cars and posts to page 2, which generates the form accor

RE: [PHP] reading CD information

2003-02-05 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Adam, > Is it possible to have PHP read cd label information? Where is the CD? If it's in the CD-ROM drive of the webserver: probably. If it's in the CD-ROM drive of a visitor to your website: no. Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http:/

RE: [PHP] Documentation Help

2003-02-05 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Hardik, > I worked on educational intranet and library management system. I > did comment my code but i dont know how to document functional > and technical specification as well as database schema. Theoretically, you should write the specs before the program (that way, the program matches

RE: [PHP] Include today's date in a SQL statement?

2003-02-05 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Brian, > What would the SQL be to find a record where: >start_date < today <= end_date ... WHERE start_date < today AND today <= end_date If you're asking "how do I get today's date into an SQL statement", there are two ways: - use your DBMS's built-in function to get today's date - use

RE: [PHP] HTML if no PHP

2003-02-04 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Bob, > I want to display an HTML page if PHP can't load an > include file or otherwise has an error or just doesn't work. > How do I do this? Not sure you can, especially not for the "just doesn't work" scenario. FWIW, you can test for the existence of a file before including it: if (file_e

RE: [PHP] SQLqry in PHP

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > Yes, the field in the mssql database is > 1073741824, > but i want only to grab a few byte. I think you'll need to do this in the database, then. If you try and grab the whole field and then parse it in your script, you have to actually get that gig of data into your script - I assume thi

RE: [PHP] SQLqry in PHP

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Per, > I try to use a SQLqry in PHP, but i get this anwser in my browser: > FATAL: emalloc(): Unable to allocate 1073741824 bytes 1,073,741,824 bytes is exactly 1 gig - that's a *lot* of memory... Is this an astonishingly large query? Seems the PHP interpreter can't grab enough memory to do w

RE: [PHP] A way to break up the string????

2003-01-29 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Scott, > Just curious, is there a PHP function that will break up the > string for us? http://php.net/explode Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] IFRAMES & PHP

2003-01-27 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Greg, > But the buttons are outside of the iframe, so that no matter how > large the frame gets, the buttons are always in the same place :/ So stick an image of the button outside the , wrap it in an , and use the onclick handler to call a javascript function that submits the form. Of course

RE: [PHP] Adjusting Indexed Field After Deleting Entry

2003-01-27 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > I originally had a link #1, #2, and #3. I obviously deleted them. > I was wondering if there is a way to use PHP/MySQL to get the > indexed numbers to re-assign so that the first link you see is > always #1 the second link you see is always #2 and so on? (apologies for previous incomplet

RE: [PHP] Adjusting Indexed Field After Deleting Entry

2003-01-27 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > I originally had a link #1, #2, and #3. I obviously deleted them. > I was wondering if there is a way to use PHP/MySQL to get the indexed numbers to re-assign so that the first link you see is always #1 the second link you see is always #2 and so on? Thanks in advance, Roger PS The orig

RE: [PHP] $_GET space in index changed to underscore

2003-01-23 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Per, > Anyone who knows why get variables whit spaces in looking like this in > the URL blah.php?aa+bb=1 is changed to aa_bb in $_GET resulting in > $_GET['aa_bb'] instead of $_GET['aa bb']? I don't think spaces are legal in variable names - PHP's probably just trying to recover from the dod

RE: [PHP] A rather strange problem.

2003-01-23 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Denis, > if the field is "Jane Enterprises", the textbox shows only "jane". At the moment, if you view the HTML, you'll see: Your browser sees this as an input with a value of "jane" and an attribute called "enterprises", which it doesn't recognise (and therefore ignores completely). Wh

RE: [PHP] Problem with functions

2002-12-20 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > I keep getting errors in my script that says 'x' function > is undefined or 'y' function is undefined. I defined it as > 'function test ($a, $b)' and call it using 'test($a, $b)' You need to post code :-) Try this: "; echo "a is $a"; echo "b is $b"; } test(1, 2); ?> C

RE: [PHP] validate date

2002-12-19 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Diana, > If a user inputs a date into a form, what function can I > use to validate that he put in a valid date? You can't. Here are two dates in two different formats. Only one is valid. - 13/04/01 - 13/04/01 Can you spot which is which? > I want to use checkdate but that needs the da

RE: [PHP] Displaying first 20 characters of a comment

2002-12-19 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Kevin, > I am trying to find out what the best way is to display only > the first 20 or so characters of a comment. [...] > I am not sure if it is best to do it with the select statement > or format it with the PHP. Either way I am not sure how. If you only want the first 20 characters, an

RE: [PHP] How to upload a file

2002-12-18 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Somesh, > > > This works fine for small files of like some > > > Kbs but fails to upload larger files near to 1MB. > > > > What's your upload_max_size set to in php.ini? > > It is as follows > ; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files. > upload_max_filesize = 8M I don't have a clue then

RE: [PHP] How to upload a file

2002-12-18 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Somesh, > This works fine for small files of like some > Kbs but fails to upload larger files near to 1MB. What's your upload_max_size set to in php.ini? Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] Javascript var to PHP

2002-12-18 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Cesar, > Jon, thanx for the fast response, but the problem is > that the link is made dynamically from a DB and the varvalue > changes on every link... if it helps, I make this link > list with a FOR loop in PHP and the varvalues > I want to pass are the IDs of a table elements. You probabl

RE: [PHP] Javascript var to PHP

2002-12-18 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Cesar, > I want one of my links to open a brand-new > pre defined window using a javascript > but I don't know how to pass a variable so > the opened PHP file knows which info to get > from MySQL... In your launchinfopage() function, presumably you're specifying the url of the page ("foo.

RE: [PHP] Undefined variable error message

2002-12-18 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Michael, > All of the PHP scripts hosted on a Linux server > I'm working with have suddenly begun producing > an error message: > > undefined variable 'variablename' Looks like someone's tweaked the error reporting level so it's on E_ALL, which can be a somewhat alarmist setting :-) R

RE: [PHP] if question

2002-12-17 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi John, > Can anyone tell me why this doesn't seem to work ?? It probably is working, but it's obviously not doing what you want :-) > if (($stelle_who != '1') OR ($stelle_who != '2') OR > ($stelle_who != '3') OR ($stelle_who != '5') ) { This will always evaluate to true: if $stelle_who

RE: [PHP] PHP with GD Support

2002-12-17 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Oliver, > ich want to install php.4.2.3 with gd-suport. > Any hints are welcome. You'll need to look it up, or do a configure --help or something, but I imagine you compile with something like --with-gd=/path/to/gd Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscrib

RE: [PHP] Showing 10 record items per page...?

2002-12-17 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi David, > If I have lets say 30 items that match the query, > I would like the page to display this at the bottom > > Previous 10 page 1 2 3 Next 10 of 30 To get the 20 results starting at #100, your query will be something like "SELECT foo FROM bar LIMIT 100, 20" To do paged results wit

RE: [PHP] "Use of undefined constant" error

2002-12-17 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > "Notice: Use of undefined constant id - assumed 'id' in ..." Try changing this: > if(isset($_GET[id])){ to this: if(isset($_GET['id'])) { note quotes PHP thinks you're trying to use a constant called "id", which you haven't defined - hence the "unde

RE: [PHP] Performance issues

2002-12-12 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Karel, > > > mysql entries: at least 2M > > > php code: at least 1M lines > > > > More than a million lines of code? That's a *big* app. > > 1megabyte of code :) > not 1M lines Aha :-) > and the problem began slow, not noticable... > But it's now worse then ever. Are you doing something th

RE: [PHP] Performance issues

2002-12-12 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Karel, > mysql entries: at least 2M > php code: at least 1M lines More than a million lines of code? That's a *big* app. > And now we are experiencing a really heavy > load on the server. (no root access, but we think > it's PHP). You're running it on a server with no root access? Is it a

RE: [PHP] Filter vulger / controversial words - need word source

2002-12-11 Thread Jon Haworth
> > > if you want a partial list of offensive terms - try looking > > > at the meta keywords on a few porn sites ... > > > > Excellent idea! > > Unfortunately I'd have to explain that to my boss... "No, > > really, I'm doing some research..." > > but won't your gateway/web server's filter prevent

RE: [PHP] Filter vulger / controversial words - need word source

2002-12-11 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Sean, > if you want a partial list of offensive terms - try looking > at the meta keywords on a few porn sites ... Excellent idea! Unfortunately I'd have to explain that to my boss... "No, really, I'm doing some research..." Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

RE: [PHP] Filter vulger / controversial words - need word source

2002-12-11 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > I think we've seen this discussion on the list before > (so Christopher, check the archives!) Quite :-) > > The problems that others have experienced in the past are: > > - what happens with "mis"spellings, e.g. "fsck"? > > - what happens with dodgy formatting, e.g "f s c k"? > > - what ha

RE: [PHP] Filter vulger / controversial words - need word source

2002-12-11 Thread Jon Haworth
> Following up to my own post And again... > I wonder if it was "Shorpe" I suppose I'll > find out when/if I get another bounce :-) I got another bounce :-) Whoever is running this filter obviously doesn't want to do business with any of the 70,000 odd people who live in a particul

RE: [PHP] Filter vulger / controversial words - need word source

2002-12-11 Thread Jon Haworth
minutes later: > Trend SMEX Content Filter has detected sensitive content. > Place = 'Christopher Raymond'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > Sender = Jon Haworth > Subject = RE: [PHP] Filter vulger / controversial words > - need word source > Delivery Time = December 11, 2002 (Wedne

RE: [PHP] Filter vulger / controversial words - need word source

2002-12-11 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Christopher, > I'm wondering if someone has a great source for a master-list > of controversial and vulger words that I can use on my site. > I would like to pattern match input text against this master-list > in order to prevent vulger and controversial words from appearing > on my site.

RE: [PHP] Pls Help: Moving script from Win to Linux

2002-12-10 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Shane, > I can pass variables till I am blue in the face, even > see them in the URL but they are still showing up as (!isset) Are you accessing these variables through $var or $_GET["var"]? Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.

RE: [PHP] run query

2002-12-10 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Diana, > After I run a query lik this, > $db->query($sql); > > what is the quickest way to find out how many > records result? Look into mysql_num_rows (or the equivalent if you're not using MySQL) Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http:/

RE: [PHP] How know from wich page you came from

2002-12-10 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Rodrigo, > Hi guys I need a way to know how to know from wich > page the visitor came echo $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]; HTH Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] Creating a report in PHP

2002-12-09 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Todd, > Is there a "report generator" that will give me the > flexibility to use fonts and fontfaces that works with > PHP and MySQL? I don't know of a PHP-based report generator (although a hunt round sourceforge might turn something up), but you can: 1. use PHP scripts to output your repo

RE: [PHP] Who can tell me the best php-base webmail?

2002-12-02 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Joskey, > Who can tell me the best php-base webmail? IMP (http://www.horde.org/imp/) is pretty good, I use it for my webmail and don't have any complaints. Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] Newbie Question

2002-12-02 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Hacook, > I have a mySQL database called "srchresult" in a "srchresult" base. > In it, i have 9 fields. Everything works perfectly. > I would like to know how can i list in a HTML table 30 results for example > but only with 7 columns (7 fields only) ? Try this: ; // loop through the resul

RE: [PHP] How do I run a command as root?

2002-12-02 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Luke, > I'm trying to find out how to run a command on the > server as root. Does anybody know how to do this? How about using a combination of exec() and sudo (assuming you're in the sudoers file, that is)? Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit

RE: [PHP] Hello ! How to write a programme in PHP which executes a routine at a given time ?

2002-11-28 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Jonathan, > Do you mind to tell me how to make a PHP programme > to execute a centian routine at a given time ? Thank you ! PHP doesn't have anything built in that'll do this for you (at least, nothing that I'm aware of). The best solution is to call your script from your OS's scheduler - cr

RE: [PHP] url - self

2002-11-21 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Paul, > I just need to know how to get the url of the page > calling the function so I can delete the information > from the appropriate table. Does $PHP_SELF not give you what you're after? Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.p

RE: [PHP] character ' in switch

2002-11-21 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Martin, > I would like to know how can I put ' character to case in switch... > > switch ($action) { >case about: >code >break; > >case what's new: <-- i want this... >code >break; Try wrapping the cases in quotes: switch ($action) { case "

RE: [PHP] New generation of PHP Program, reaction to ASP.NET

2002-11-20 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > Are you interested in this?! > New generation of PHP Program, reaction to ASP.NET I saw it when you posted it yesterday and tried it out, but it didn't work for me. I imagine this is because I've disabled Javascript. Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubsc

RE: [PHP] Loooooooooonnnnnnnnnnggggggggg

2002-11-19 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > I made a script that works on a very long charachter > chain and its process is lnggg about 5 minutes ! > Do you have any tips to make it faster ? My mysterious ninja PHP developer powers have told me that you need to fiddle with lines 23 and 72, that's where it's slowing down. I

RE: [PHP] I'm in need of a PHP web host recommendation

2002-11-15 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Phil, > would like to hear some recommendations of some > good companies that host PHP/MySQL and also JSP. http://34sp.com/ are great if you don't mind .uk-based hosting. I've heard good things about http://oneandone.co.uk/ but haven't used them myself. At the other end of the scale, you s

RE: [PHP] something like array_walk?

2002-11-15 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > I want to take an array and get the soundex() for each element > in that array and return the results into another array. How about: $color = array("blue", "green", "orange", "purple", "red", "yellow"); $soundex = array(); foreach ($color as $foo) { $soundex[] = soundex($foo) } HT

RE: [PHP] Re: How do i make an upload script?

2002-11-14 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > > > How do i make an upload script? > > > > http://us.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php > > ok, this is upload.php: > > > > Send this file: > > Yup, copied and pasted from the manual page, that should work. > > what else do i need? 1. A script to receive the uploads 2. A

RE: [PHP] airport codes db

2002-11-13 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Eddie, > I am working on a php page where I need some airport codes > data, I have seen a few places online where you can buy this > data so I was wondering if anyone has used any of these databases > and if anyone had a good source for a mysql airport code db. Google is your friend. http:

RE: [PHP] How do i make an upload script?

2002-11-12 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, > How do i make an upload script? You need an HTML form with an element, and a script to handle the upload. Post your code and tell us what problems you're having. If you haven't written any code yet, go and read this section of the manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-uplo

RE: [PHP] random numbers

2002-11-12 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Tamas, > > > for ($i=1; $i<=6; $i++) > > $x[] = mt_rand(1, 90); > > foreach ($x as $current) > > echo $current. ""; > > ?> > > Thanks for help, but your program may generate same numbers between > the 5 generated numbers, hovewer I want to generate different numbers > such as lottery-numb

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