> I'm posting this to the list as a private email to you was returned with a 550
>Access denied error.
Surely "open systems" means 'open' - in the support community as well as other
aspects!?
Echoing/amplifying Torben's comment earlier: Private replies do not benefit others on
the list (presu
Terry,
> I am trying to set up a MIME email that would include an HTML and Plain
> Text version of content, such that if the recipient's email client did
> not understand html or have html disabled, that the content would come
> through as plain text, but if html were accepted, the plain text wo
> >Echoing/amplifying Torben's comment earlier: Private replies do not benefit others
>on the list (presumably
with
> >similar questions/learning need), nor do they end up in any archive.
> >
> I did not feel the particular question added to the sum total of
> information so replied privately. I
Sven,
> Is it possible to mail files with the mail() commando?
> Or can it be done on a other way?
You're talking about 'attachments' aren't you?
Yes it is!
Recommend you visit http://phpguru.org/ and pickup the SMTP and MIME classes there
(including sample code which
shows how to attach file
Greetings Svavar
My SMTP server requests I use a password for every time I send(not IP based). How is
it possible to let PHP to
use password authentication when mail is sent.
=Eureka!
I have been looking at this, and made a note to come back to take a look at a 'likely
candidate'. Of course,
Steven
> It may be able to store 8MB, but each line can only hold 1024
> characters. I ran into this using a string variable to store the message
> body of an HTML email. If I did not put a '\n' at the end of each line,
> I would get random '!' placed through the sent email.
Maybe you know more
Steven (and anyone else interested),
I was working on email earlier in the day, and have just cleared my desk of all that
'junk'.
Your reading for tonight (1024/1000/997 byte line length limits in email) can be found
in the discussion of RFC
2646 available from sunsite.dk (and elsewhere) - one
Hi Brad,
> Hi all... I have a line in a page that should send me an email when
the page
> is loaded.
> mail("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "worked", "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine
3");
> when i load the page...i get NO error msgs, but the function does not
send
> the mail. There is no record of any activity in the
Hi Georgie,
> The date() function is returning the 19th of Januray 2038 as *ALL*
dates no
> matter what timestamp i feed it! whats goin on??
Result outside the UNIX epoch.
Sounds like DATE()'s being fed some crazy data.
What is the server's ToD clock showing?
Make sure you debugECHO the source
Hello Vidyut,
> I have a question regarding array_walk.. I couldn't find any help on
> the website or on irc.. didn't know where else to look.
You've come to the right place.
> I'm stumped, and about to just copy the function on top of this script
> to make it work.. any ideas from anyone else
Monty,
> Is preg_replace() the best PHP command to use for parsing custom codes
in
> text retrieved from a database (e.g., turning "[link= ]" into "")?
It is conventional wisdom that the PCRE functions are faster than their
EREG cousins.
However because/if you can guarantee that your 'template'
Hi Nick,
> masterfile.inc lives in /var/www/includes/ and contains this line:
> include("/var/www/includes/anotherfile.inc");
>
> in index.php I include masterfile.inc and thus get anotherfile.inc.
>
> What I'd like to know though is, is it possible to have the include
line
> in masterfile.inc sp
Brad,
> Yep it is a linux box.
Ok, seeing that's 'sweet', go for "KISS"!
See earlier comments about simplifying and once 'plain vanilla' is
working, add back the optional headers/multiple lines, etc. Will be
easier to work out what's breaking things, and then address that issue.
Regards,
=dn
and Nick Wilson opined in what could be seen to be an arrogant
fashion...
> * and then DL Neil declared
> > > masterfile.inc lives in /var/www/includes/ and contains this line:
> > > include("/var/www/includes/anotherfile.inc");
> > >
> > > i
Anas,
> I am wondering if someone could shed some light on
> this aspect of PHP. It might be something obvious, but
> I am not able to figure it out.
>
> I have a function that returns a dynamically generated
> HTML string. However, I need a way to let the caller
> know if that function has faile
Craig,
AFAIK you can't: fopen opens the file and leaves it up to you to read it
a character or some other chunk at a time, keeping what you want, and
leaving the rest. There is no concept of opening a file at a particular
character position, other than to write-over or write-append. (see
http://w
Hi Tim,
> I'm a major newbie.
I was in the navy so never made it to major!?
I'm only going to comment on your syntax and ignore the
wide/Unix-related issues:
> $noting = "";
> $checkval = "Hello
> World";
> $filename = "thefile.inc";
>
> $fd = fopen ($filename, "w");
> $contents = fread ($fd, f
Georgie,
> I'm getting loads of "undefined variable" errors with this script.
any1 know
> why?
You're using a recent release of PHP aren't you? Check out
http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.registerglobals.php for an
explanation of changes in 4.1.n.
Regards,
=dn
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Georgie,
> > > I'm getting loads of "undefined variable" errors with this script.
> > any1 know
> > > why?
> >
> > You're using a recent release of PHP aren't you? Check out
> > http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.registerglobals.php for an
> > explanation of changes in 4.1.n.
> no, registergl
Hey Kunal,
> I have a mysql table which stores the IP Address of my site visitors.
When I
> try to sort these Ip address in the ascending or descending order the
order
> is completely out of order. I am currently storing the IP addresses
under a
> varchar column. An int column would not store the
Yow Sven,
> I need to calculate the Time ( days hour minutes between 2 times )
> I have something but I have an error margine of 10 % and that is to
high
>
> Time one 2002/02/24 10:23:43
> Time two 2002/02/02 12:43:12
>
> this need to give me the correct time in days hours and minutes
between the
Ben,
> Is there an easy way to upload a CSV file into a MySQL table? Is
there also
> a way to export the MySQL file into a CSV file? I would like to make
a form
> using PHP to do import a CSV file into an existing table. Any advise
would
> be appreciated.
Manual: 6.4.9 LOAD DATA INFILE Synta
Erik,
> PHP's mktime() function uses a timestamp that is the number of seconds
> since the Unix epoch. MySQL uses the MMDDhhmmss format for its
> TIMESTAMP column type.
>
> I'm not complaining that they're not the same, but curious as to which
I
> should use for storing timestamps -- does it
Andy,
> So what is the proper function in PHP to convert the MySQL timestamp
into a
> proper format like Sonday, Apr. 20th 2002?
SELECT from SQL using UNIX_TIMESTAMP()
Format for presentation in PHP using: string date ( string format [, int
timestamp])
Regards,
=dn
> > > I am playing around
Hi Andy
I apologise. The way I wrote the suggestion looks very much like a SQL
query doesn't it? It wasn't!
It would have been better expressed if I had said:
retrieve the MySQL timestamp field as a UNIX (epoch) timestamp, by using
the UNIX_TIMESTAMP function within the SELECT statement
> I trye
Erik,
Apologies, I missed your reply in the mass of mailings and a rushed
start to the week...
> > The choice comes down to how you are generating the time data prior
to
> > its storage in the db, and how you plan to use it afterwards. If you
are
> > going to be doing lots of temporal processing
Rasmus/others,
O'Reilly are advertising the imminent release (Mar 2002) of "Programming
PHP" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progphp/desc.html).
Is that still going ahead?
(I'll submit an advanced purchase order...)
Regards,
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Brad,
[I've put this back on the list, because someone who's into PHP's MAIL()
from Linux might be able to help]
> OK, I 'KISS'ed' it. The line now reads:
> mail("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "Please call if this works", "Hi
there",
> "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]");
> and works fine. BUT, if i put my email a
Hi Erik,
> > Rasmus/others,
> >
> > O'Reilly are advertising the imminent release (Mar 2002) of
"Programming
> > PHP" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progphp/desc.html).
> > Is that still going ahead?
> > (I'll submit an advanced purchase order...)
> >
>
> Hmmm... on the one hand, it's an O'Reill
Hi Erik,
> On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 05:11 AM, DL Neil wrote:
>
> > My 'rules' are simple:
> > If the date/time is for processing, keep it as a timestamp (consider
> > which type).
> > If the timestamp is being used to keep track of RDBMS a
Hi Berlina,
> Im trying to install an Apache Web Server and PHP in a Windows NT .
>
> * Apache 1.2.23
> * PHP 4.1.1
> * Windows NT Server 4.0 with SP4
>
> The installation of Apache Web Server and PHP was succesfully ok, but
when I
> configure the PHP and Apache, editing the PHP.ini and httpd.con
BTW for all who are following this, Patrick has cleverly illustrated
that most of the northern hemisphere locations where summer time is
observed will 'spring forward' this weekend. Most of the southern
hemisphere locations that were in summer time did their 'fall back' last
weekend!
NB the two us
er time discontinuity. (so I don't need to
run it on another box/change the server's TZ setting, I simply read the
second half of the report)
It is not missing one day, but one hour!
Regards,
=dn
> Fucko. I kicked this pony-style. Yes - typo Didn't know what hit
me th
Erik,
My two cents' (with allowance for inflation...)
> > If you're distributing code in cyberspace it's a good
> > idea to make it error free too, E_NOTICE or otherwise.
To get the maximum help when coding, and to ensure the minimum of
confusion for your users, I recommend:
1 set the dev serve
Justin,
> I think this is a good idea, but it looks to be more of a searchable
FAQ,
> which will highly detailed... I'm really thinking of a medium-length
email
> introduction to the group (as per my attachment) which hopefulyl
cleans up
> the group a bit.
>
> Your resource could be fantastic, an
The answer "cron" refers to *nix OpSys. It is the name of a demon/daemon that kicks of
commands/jobs at a pre-specified
time and/or on a regular basis.
M$ spell it "at".
Was that your question?
=dn
- Original Message -
From: "Lucas Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent:
> Is it possible to use imap_mail() on php 4.0.6 on NT machine?
> Maybe anyone has dll for this.
Yes Val. It is possible.
See related thread/discussion list: [PHP-WIN] Help on using mail() function
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John,
Two inter-dependent problems:
1 a means of identifying a cipher within the text
2 a means of replacing the cipher with HTML code
1 there are a limited number of graphics formats (.GIF, .JPG, .PNG, etc) and the
number you are prepared to contemplate
may be even shorter. Thus it would not b
Isn't it fun when people asking questions on the list spark off your own
thoughts/inspiration!?
Has anyone seen a tabulation of the functions in (manual: IV Function Reference XXVI.
Filesystem functions) that shows
which functions [don't] work under what conditions? eg
Col1: function name,
Col
> Khalid Hazmi wrote:
> > How I can download the current Annotated PHP Manual???
> There is no such thing... AFAIK.
=> Yasuo Ohgaki
Yasuo: Yes there is (and VERY useful it is too), check out the range of PHP
documentation available from
http://www.php.net/docs.php
Khalid: Unlike some other p
> Is it possible to put variable operators in queries?
=I can see no reason why not - you're not actually putting the 'variable' in the
'query', just using a PHP-variable to
build a PHP-string which will be sent to MySQL as a SQL query...
> I tried this (the real variable comes from a form)
> $
> Hi folks,
> following problem appeared on PHP 3.0.16 on LINUX
> I have a binary file, where I want to replace some letters
> I do the following:
> $filename = "xyz.sdc";
> $fd = fopen( $filename, "r+b" ); // also tried "r"
> $x=filesize( $filename ); // this shows the correct filesize 22528 byte
> > > following problem appeared on PHP 3.0.16 on LINUX
> > > I have a binary file, where I want to replace some letters
> > > I do the following:
> > > $filename = "xyz.sdc";
> > > $fd = fopen( $filename, "r+b" ); // also tried "r"
> > > $x=filesize( $filename ); // this shows the correct filesiz
> I'm running 4.0.6 on a Solaris 8 box. The output given by
> echo mktime(0,0,0,1,1,1970);
> is 3600.
>
> Shouldn't it be 0? My box's locale is set to the UK defaults, so as I write
> this we are in daylight savings (GMT+1). Would this make a difference? (I
> have already tried
> echo mktime(0,0,
ubject: RE: [PHP] mktime() problem
>
>
> Thanks, I'll use gmmktime() from now on!
>
> James
>
> -Original Message-
> From: DL Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 October 2001 13:54
> To: Fairbairn,J,James,IVLH4 C; php-general
> Subject: Re: [PHP]
> I have a need for a package mechanism like that provided by TCL. We
> write a
> lot of code in reusable libraries and often encounter the situation in
> which
> an application uses a particular library but requires at least version X
> or
> greater.
>
> The require(), require_once(), etc. functi
Douw,
It's kind of eerie the way your reply appears in my email before I can see my
intervening post!!!???
Perhaps you're just more important than me (bow, scrape, simper...)
> Thanks for the feedback and additional ideas.
=HTH
> I had also though that it might be necessary to separate out th
> On Wednesday 24 October 2001 19:14, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
>
> The default value for $image parameter was missing:
>
> > function top ($image="defaultvalue") {
> > if ($image=="defaultvalue") echo "blah blah blah";
> > else echo "blah blah $image blah";
> > }
If the defa
> I suspect that PHP does all of it's work and, only when complete, will it
> send the generated html to the client.
>
> No matter what you try and do there's no way you can output the progress of
> your script to the browser while it is still being parsed.
>
> I could be wrong, but this is my und
> "John A. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I've installed ActivePerl, which gives me a way to run .pl files,
> > i.e. :
> > c:\> perl someprogram.pl
> >
> > Does the Win32 php installation give me a command-line
> > interpreter lik
> I have just set up PHP on my webserver (IIS 4 on NT4).
> I have set up the script mapping so that I can save php files as .html and
> php processes them.
>
> This works fine until someone goes to a page that doesn't exist - instead of
> getting the customised error 404 page (i.e. the page you r
Please define "long", and perhaps think of that in the context of the RFC ?822 is it?
=dn
- Original Message -
From: "BT News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 25 October 2001 17:38
Subject: [PHP] Truncating Lines
> Hi,
>
> I have the following code, which reads in an
nd I think that
is where you'lll find (at least) one.
=Regards,
=dn
>
> THanks.
> "Dl Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> 048001c15dab$d5c0fcf0$a516100a@jrbrown">news:048001c15dab$d5c0fcf0$a516100a@jrbrown...
> > > I have just set up
> I have an two dimensional array that is returned from code from an included
> file. I'm assigning parts of the array to variables ( $variable =
> $array["key"]["value"]; ). This works fine and can be printed until I send
> it through a function eg. ( ereg_replace(" ", "_", "$variable"); ). After
Don't you like the side-benefits of this list, eg that someone comes up with a
question that gets your thought processes
running or suggests an idea you'd not otherwise come up with!?
So further to the question:
> How can I know the line and the file from where a function has called. I
> alread
Mark,
Backing John's question up by one iteration: is there a PHP environment variable which
can be used to
distinguish between code being run from the command line and code being run in a
browser?
- and the Million dollar question, sorry make that the M$ question: will it also work
under Windo
iration.
=dn
> may be
>
> $argv
> Array of arguments passed to the script. When the script is run on the
> command line, this gives C-style access to the command line parameters. When
> called via the GET method, this will contain the query string.
>
> $argc
>
> Con
> Hello guys
>
> function replace_text_smiley(){
>
> global $comment;
> // To add a relation between a text smiley a an image smiley do this:
> // $faces["text smiley here"] = "img tag to image smile here";
>
> $faces[":)"] = "";
> $faces[":P"] = "";
> $faces[":D"] = "";
> $faces[":("] = "";
> $fa
> I am writing a script using php's command line ability and I am lost on
> how to work with a file when I don't kow what the file's name is.
>
> Example:
> script.php -f
>
> In my script, how do I reference the file when I have no idea what it's
> name is going to be?
>
> The scrip will get
John,
Netscape! Differences between servers AND differences between browsers AND differences
between in-browser and
command-line operations!
Isn't life fun?
Like you I'm messing around with some of these differences as part of a bid to
'convert' an existing set of
scripts from browser i/f to c
> Jokes aside, I still don't get it.
=the word "it" is part of the difficulty everyone faces in thinking about whether they
could help or not - what
"it" is, is not apparent
1 there is a problem with a mysql_pconnect() call, and
2 there is a problem with a mysql_query() call.
Which one is "it"?
Imar,
The global array is being defined in the mainline, but not populated. What happens if
you set element 0 to some
value (to take up some storage space first) and then try the switched function calls?
When you say "Alas, this also emptied the array each time I went from one function to
anothe
In an on-again-off-again desultory style, I keep trying to find the time to study
template systems - and quite
separately see if I can find a practical use for XML.
The idea of a template system is that the HTML code/presentation of the final view to
the user/browser, can be
devised/maintained
Is there someone 'up' on the way Apache works who can offer some comment please?
Th "how do I display 'please wait' " question was asked by someone (else) last week.
The standard answer is
"no" - server-side PHP assembles an HTML page, and when it is completed the whole page
is transmitted from
> > I teach law at a university .. I also run the website here ...
>
> Thankfully Tasmania is not considered part of Australia. :)
>
> *troll bait away*
=but are you trolling for bad lawyer jokes to wind up brendan, or inviting the rest to
take on the Aussies?
=Tasmania advertises itself as
> I have following code, sorry it's pretty big for posting, i want to
> split the output into 2 colomns, been trying almost all still can't
> get it working
Harik,
First off, have you checked the manual
(http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-result.php) and the
recommendations against th
Or do you really want: First array:
1
3
5
Second array
2
4
6
Corresponding to the two columns across the screen, and controlled by the same
iteration index?
=dn
- Original Message -
From: "Daniel Harik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 01 November 2001 07:25
Subject:
Wow, there are some long and curly ways to use RegExp-s aren't there? I'm not very
good at them (and I hear that
they can be expensively inefficient) so I tend to look elsewhere.
Check out pathinfo -- Returns information about a file path
array pathinfo (string path)
pathinfo() returns an associ
Mike,
> We have PHP installed as an ISAP module on our W2K IIS5 server and
> its operational with no problems - phpinfo() runs just fine.
>
> But - When I uncomment the php_mssql.dll extension in php.ini I get an error
> when PHP starts up saying it cannot find the .dll file.
>
> The extension di
> I am trying to ad extra headers to email's I am sending through php. I
> want to ad Reply-To: and Bounse-To: addresses. But when add them useing
> the forth feild of the mail() funtion.
> mail($recipient,$msubject,$message,"Reply-To: $sender");
> but for some reason when I send this e-mail i
Somewhere on my travels around the many PHP/script sites, I'm sure that at one time I
noticed a date-display
utility. I cannot find it again. Please would someone point the way...
What I'm looking for:
displays a form with a variety of date/time fields, user enters a date/time into
various fiel
Would the annotated manual LXV. "PHP options & information" be of any use?
=dn
- Original Message -
From: "jennyw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 03 November 2001 03:18
Subject: [PHP] Re: Questions about php.ini
> This is a dedicated server, and I have several sites
> Maybe I should be posting this on the Procmail list but someone here
> might have a non-Procmail solution. I'm trying to get a PHP script to
> process incoming email. The script will lookup a database and do
> something depending on the mail headers. I'm running on a FreeBSD
> virtual server acc
Hi Sundog,
Can help you with dates (but no, if you want that kind you'll definitely not be
wanting my advice...)
- Original Message -
> I am trying to determine if todays date ($today) is within a week
> ($startcheck) of a given date ($dob). This is what I have so far.
>
> $todaydate = (
> > Is is advisable that I mail lots of users from a database via one call to
> > mail() ?
>
> why not make a loop and send to one email at a time. if you have over
> 1000 I would use something else than mail(), ex direct to smtp with sockets.
Henrik,
It is my opinion (too?) that mail() is di
Hi Sjoerd,
> When i send a dynamic HTML newletter, which contains newsitems in the
> database I now send the e-mail with a link to the image on the webserver.
> What i would like to do is instead of linking the image, send the image as a
> sort of attachment. So an internetconnection is not requ
Third db question today: do folk know there is a (lightly loaded) '[PHP-DB] list' with
some v.competent members?
Hi Alexander,
- Original Message -
> Let me start by laying out some facts:
>
> SELECT e.NAME AS customer, g.NAME AS driver_lastname, g.FIRSTNAME AS
> driver_firstname, $Com
Rudolph,
Mail() is v.finicky!
Windows machines need more than the \n - what are you running?
Have you tried putting some string of characters into the (text) msg body?
Can you send us a copy of the actual email msg showing the headers etc (output as
received at the POP/IMAP
server) - after clippi
Chris,
Apologies for the belated response/absence.
I find myself constantly referring to Welling and Thomson ("PHP and MySQL Web
Development", 0-672-31784-2) and
happily recommend it to you. Apart from referring to the user as "she" which (both men
and women say) interrupts
the smooth flow of t
Greetings,
I'm hoping to visit the Stuttgart area* for one week ~ ten days
commencing c.Friday 19 August, to visit my brother-in-law and take a
short vacation.
If there are any PHP-related gatherings or activities I would be
interested to meet up (last time I tried, I missed out by one week.
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