Re: [PHP] Re: Tricky question - referrer from ousite, or fromintern?

2002-08-27 Thread Justin French
ges, etc etc. There is no way you can possibly test all of these, and since they aren't REQUIRED to set the referrer, it's foolish to rely on it. Justin French -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] bulk mail

2002-08-27 Thread Justin French
on 28/08/02 9:17 AM, Pupeno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I know a lot has been discussed in this topic, but I still don't find any > solution. > What I want to do is send a lot of mails triggered from a web page using > php. > I've found diferent solutions but all of them has some problem: > 1)

Re: [PHP] Host

2002-08-27 Thread Justin French
Experthost.com allows payment by cheque, but the service is withheld until the cheque clears (understandable). Justin on 28/08/02 10:40 AM, Bruce Karstedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Anyone care to recommend a host as follows: > > Unix > PHP > MySQL > Domain Reg. > No unusual size or traffi

Re: [PHP] sending email to a mailing list

2002-08-27 Thread Justin French
on 28/08/02 1:38 AM, Raphael Hamzagic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm with a little doubt about the best way to send a mail message to a large > mailing list using PHP. I'm not interested in existing mailing list > managers, or source codes. > I dont know if the best way to send emails is to us

[PHP] cookie domain name

2002-08-27 Thread Justin French
Hi all, If I want a cookie to work on both www.domain.com and domain.com what should I set as the domain for the cookie? I'm having trouble deleting cookies when they were set without the www., but attempted to delete without... Thanks, Justin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.ne

Re: [PHP] Arrays within arrays question

2002-08-28 Thread Justin French
Okay, it may be the end of a long day here, but I can't tell the difference between the two arrays you posted! Justin on 28/08/02 5:31 PM, Jean-Christian Imbeault ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have the following loop to insert data into an array: > > while ($data = pg_fetch_object($res)) {

Re: [PHP] Stepping through an array more than once

2002-08-28 Thread Justin French
the very least, it would make updating the script easier, and reduce the lines of code. Good luck, Justin French -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] How can I strip the code from HTML pages to extract thecontents of a HTML page.

2002-08-28 Thread Justin French
Either the ereg_replace, eregi_replace, or preg_replace has a full working script that does this, returning pretty much plain text. There's also the strip_tags()/striptags() function which strips out all PHP and HTML tags -- perhaps not enough, nice you'd want to remove *some* other stuff maybe,

Re: [PHP] AOL problem with remote IP address

2002-08-28 Thread Justin French
nfirm/deny the problem. But I wouldn't be relying on a remote IP for anything... they're too unreliable. Justin French on 29/08/02 7:29 AM, Joseph Szobody ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In a portion of a website, I have implemented user authentication and > management using session

Re: [PHP] sending email to a mailing list

2002-08-28 Thread Justin French
it's just that every solution is a real messy job -- nothing is simple. FWIW, I wish to send personalised emails too, but at the moment can't see the light. Justin French > Andy > > > > "Justin French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag >

Re: [PHP] AOL problem with remote IP address

2002-08-28 Thread Justin French
on 29/08/02 1:01 PM, Joseph Szobody ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> But I wouldn't be relying on a remote IP for anything... they're too >> unreliable. > > This wasn't meant to be a fool-proof security solution to begin with. None of > these 'protected' pages contain anything real sensitive. Yes,

[PHP] Re: Stepping through an array more than once (offlist)

2002-08-28 Thread Justin French
$test = $result; immediately after doing the query and then using $test > in the while , but that doesn't work either... > > Anyway, not a train smash, will carry on with the trusty old ways. > > > > > > On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 18:30, Justin French wrote: >>

Re: [PHP] Re: Stepping through an array more than once (offlist)

2002-08-29 Thread Justin French
on 29/08/02 5:06 PM, Petre Agenbag ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jason > Thanks > the mysql_data_seek() works. > With Justin's help, I used the mysql_data_seek() to reset the $result > "matrix" to 0, and re-issued the same while statement. > It now produces the desired output. > Thanks. Of course

[PHP] wish list for my host's new compile

2002-08-29 Thread Justin French
p://indent.com.au/temp/newserver_phpinfo.html for a php_info output from the new server, as sent to me by the host) Justin French -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Can I show input data whrn back to the Input Form?

2002-08-29 Thread Justin French
cts, checkboxes and some other things are a little more tricky, but you'll figure them out... search the archives too... it's been asked 1000's of times :) Justin French on 29/08/02 7:02 PM, Hakkan Lui ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear all, > > In my php program, when

Re: [PHP] wish list for my host's new compile

2002-08-29 Thread Justin French
on 29/08/02 6:59 PM, Liam MacKenzie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just happen to be re-compiling my hosting servers right now... > I'll compile those things into PHP. > > If your sites are: > non-profit > personal > development No, maybe 13 out of the 15 are commercial. And the other two aren

Re: [PHP] how to have a form keep values when user hits backbutton?

2002-08-29 Thread Justin French
I just answered a similar question in another current thread a few mins ago... So I'll just copy and paste: --- Relying on the back button isn't good... the data may or may not be there when they return. However, you CAN provide them with a button "change", and POST the data to a form... where

[PHP] Re: wish list for my host's new compile

2002-08-29 Thread Justin French
ing. GD2 is in Beta, so that won't happen :( Thanks, Justin on 30/08/02 3:06 AM, Philip Hallstrom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Justin French wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> My host is putting together a new linux box at the moment for hosting

Re: [PHP] Mail()....

2002-08-30 Thread Justin French
on 30/08/02 6:57 PM, Scott Houseman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Not on a plaintext mail, this will be decided by the mail client. > If your format the mail using html, then you will be able to format the > font. ... but that still won't guarantee it'll work... the user will have to have the fon

Re: [PHP] Re: session_unregister - but w00t about the back button?

2002-08-30 Thread Justin French
If you were REALLY concerned, you could use JavaScript (JavasCrap) to open a new window and close the parent... this way there would be no such thing as a "back" button... it'd be disabled. I think later version of JS can empty the history too (unsure though). It's not going to be fool proof for

Re: [PHP] mail() function problem

2002-08-31 Thread Justin French
I think mailing list managers like Yahoo, ezmlm, etc all have "features" in them to suspect bots and programs from subscribing/posting to the groups. I know I've had trouble subscribing/posting to groups managed by ezmlm... Probably there is a header or two that PHP automatically sets which make

Re: [PHP] Script Execution via URL

2002-09-01 Thread Justin French
This would work if the script you wished to call was default.php / index.php / etc etc... what I mean to say is site.com/index.php?var=foo is the same as site.com/?var=foo, as long as your server works that way. leaving out PHP_SELF will give different results if the script you wish to call ISN'

Re: [PHP] newest entry in db

2002-09-01 Thread Justin French
SELECT * FROM mytable ORDER BY timestampcolumn DESC LIMIT 1 or SELECT * FROM mytable ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1 HTH Justin French on 01/09/02 2:25 AM, Victor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How can I use php to get the newest entry from mysql database? Ie, if I > make a timestamp and

Re: [PHP] Word docs

2002-09-01 Thread Justin French
Hi, What's your definition of "open the word doc"? Do you want to parse the contents of the Word Doc into a var? Do you want to produce a link on the page TO the word doc? Please be more specific -- it helps us give better answers. Justin French on 01/09/02 9:11 PM, DC ([

[PHP] FW: suggestion for .hinge

2002-09-01 Thread Justin French
I go this email to my hinge address... I guess they want .h stubby holders!! J -- From: "Karen and Jimmy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Full Scale Reply-To: "Karen and Jimmy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 21:20:17 +1000 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stubbie holders! --

Re: [PHP] FW: suggestion for .hinge

2002-09-01 Thread Justin French
Apologies to the list -- I *totally* sent this to the wrong mailgroup sorry! Justin on 01/09/02 10:00 PM, Justin French ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I go this email to my hinge address... > > I guess they want .h stubby holders!! > > J > > -- > From: &

Re: [PHP] addslashes($variable)?

2002-09-01 Thread Justin French
on 01/09/02 10:23 PM, cLeAnEr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi. > I have recently started prograemming some php. Now I wonder exactly what > addslashes() is good for... > I´ve read about it that it insert slashes where needed to get data in right > form to Mysql? and then use stripeslashes() to re

Re: [PHP] PHP shopping

2002-09-01 Thread Justin French
on 02/09/02 6:40 AM, Ryan A ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi guys, > Kinda reached the end of my line, searched on yahoo,google,altavista,excite > etc and hotscripts,scriptsearch etc but could not find what i require > > I need a shopping cart software which will display and sell .swf files,

Re: [PHP] Escape characters won't go away

2002-09-01 Thread Justin French
tring = str_replace("\'", "", $string); $string = str_replace("\\", "", $string); Justin French -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Forum structure

2002-09-02 Thread Justin French
Hi Andrian, I built a forum from scratch, because I had very specific needs on how it would work... different to everything I've seen so far. Sorry to say it though, the underlying table structure IS determined by the way you want it to work. If you're after something stock-standard, I'd recomm

Re: [PHP] Function expects string but receiving array Warming??

2002-09-03 Thread Justin French
You are trying to set a header() using methods not supported. But the really interesting bit is that you appear to be using it NOT for sending HTTP headers, but for setting header information on a TABLE read http://php.net/header ...this isn't what it does. "; foreach($values as $key =

Re: [PHP] greeting based on time

2002-09-03 Thread Justin French
Ummm, current time where? :) Assuming you mean your server's time, it shouldn't be too hard, but i thought I'd point out that your readers/users are bound to be in different time zones. Whilst some may think "oh, different time zone", others will probably think "idiots" :) Then another option w

Re: [PHP] php back?

2002-09-03 Thread Justin French
o back" in your PHP code (on the server), or provide your user with a "go back" link on the page? If the former, things like header("Location: referringpage.php") might work, otherwise if it's the latter, just use the javascript Justin French on 04/09/02 1:44

[PHP] Re: PHP / Bulk E-Mail

2002-09-03 Thread Justin French
Eric, Please don't email me off-list, unless you're looking to pay me for my services. 1. I generally dedicate a certain amount of my time per day to the list 2. If we discuss things off-list, then no one else benefits from the discussion. on 04/09/02 5:26 AM, Eric J Schwinder ([EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [PHP] Uploading file

2002-09-04 Thread Justin French
There is a perfecting good working example of file uploads on php.net... never quite sure why people re-invent the wheel all the time. In the example (at http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php), they make a call to move_uploaded_file()... until you do that, and move it to where you

Re: [PHP] Remote file download and https

2002-09-04 Thread Justin French
There is a download script (commonly used for restricting downloads to members, etc) on Zend.com... if you can't find it (in tutorials or articles), let me know. It should give you a good understanding of the principals, and a decent head start on the code, as it did for me. I don't think there

Re: [PHP] Encryption of emails.

2002-09-04 Thread Justin French
Perhaps not EXACTLY what you're after, but I wrote a small, simple function to encrypt a string with a key (i'll skip a long note about keeping the key safe). Then I send an email with the data encrypted, and decrypt it at the other end (me) using a decrypt script located on my local server. It

Re: [PHP] Currency Exchange and Weather

2002-09-04 Thread Justin French
This appears to do what you want... or at least provide some inspiration: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse.html/file/1220.html I'm sure there are hundreds of web services based on currency conversion and weather... usually they send XML data which you parse... google will help :) J

Re: [PHP] Array Javascript

2002-09-05 Thread Justin French
You can't. Javascript happens on the client side AFFTER PHP has happend on the server side. For PHP to ready variables made with javascrip,t you'd have to submit those variables/arrays via POST of GET to the PHP file. Justin on 05/09/02 9:11 PM, kale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hy, > I have

Re: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-05 Thread Justin French
method is an attribute of , not sure about . --- // Theme echo '   '; for($i=0;$i".$theme_name[$i]."\n"; } echo '  '; // or: echo '  '; $var_from_dropdown = $_POST['theme']; exec("echo $var_from_dropdown > /tmp/varfromdropdow

Re: [PHP] formatting a filename

2002-09-05 Thread Justin French
check out preg replace in the manual... particularly example 3 of this page: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php personally, i'd replace anything other than a-zA-z0-9 with _ Justin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/

Re: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-05 Thread Justin French
Why don't you take the guesswork out of it a bit, and NOT write to a file just yet... instead, just echo the var to the screen. IF that works, then we know it's not your form that is the problem, it's the exec(). Justin on 06/09/02 12:08 AM, Mario Ohnewald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well,

Re: [PHP] PHP e GD big files

2002-09-05 Thread Justin French
Attach the two GIFs (pre and post text) in an email to me... Justin on 06/09/02 1:26 AM, Rodrigo Peres ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using GD to put a dinamic text in some buttons. The problem is that the > original image that I use has 8k and after i put a black text it jumps to

Re: [PHP] dynamic screencapture using gd

2002-09-05 Thread Justin French
I seriously doubt it, because really, what you want to capture is how the *browser* renders the HTML code... GC is not a browser, nor a parser of HTML code. This topic has been discussed a few times in various shapes and forms in the archive... it'd be worth doing a search for screen grab and scr

[PHP] defining vars within functions as global

2002-09-05 Thread Justin French
Hi, I'd like to be able to define multiple variables within a function, and have it available outside the function from the point the function is called... eg: How to I specify that $foo and $bar (defined in the func) are to be set globally (ie, outside the function)? I'm aware I could return

Re: [PHP] question

2002-09-06 Thread Justin French
a form with two buttons: --- --- script.php --- if($_POST['button'] == "option 1") { echo "option 1 was clicked"; } elseif($_POST['button'] == "option 2") { echo "option 2 was clicked"; } --- I think there's an issue with what happens if they hit enter (which value ge

Re: [PHP] Re: Source code

2002-09-06 Thread Justin French
I'd beg to differ: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.show-source.php Justin French on 06/09/02 9:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You can't. > > -- > > Nicos - CHAILLAN Nicolas > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.WorldAKT.com - Hébergemen

Re: [PHP] defining vars within functions as global

2002-09-06 Thread Justin French
on 06/09/02 10:45 PM, Michael Sims ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How about this: > > function foo() > { > return array ( > "foo" => "aaa", > "bar" => "bbb" > ); > } > > extract(foo()); > > echo $foo; > echo $bar; > ?> Very cool !! -- thanks to everyone's replies. Justin -- PHP General Ma

Re: [PHP] Low Cost PHP Hosting

2002-09-06 Thread Justin French
7;m sure if you searched the archives for "HOST", you'd find 1000's of posts and suggestions. Justin French on 06/09/02 10:46 PM, Philip Radford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All, > > I have recently subscribed to the list and would like to thank everyone for &g

Re: [PHP] Web based FTP client

2002-09-06 Thread Justin French
on 07/09/02 12:48 AM, Jon Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > A couple of s side by side should let you do that. > > The biggest problem I can see you hitting is reading the contents of the > user's hard drive... usually this is impossible, for good reasons. I *think* that's what he was asking

Re: [PHP] \n to Problem

2002-09-07 Thread Justin French
on 07/09/02 1:51 AM, N. Pari Purna Chand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > $newstr = ereg_replace ("\n", "", $newstr); Instead, I think you'd have to escape the slash: "\\n"... but it's irrelevant, because there's a function that does this for you: $newstr = nl2br($newstr); Also, you should try to

Re: [PHP] Link for downloading?

2002-09-07 Thread Justin French
http://www.zend.com/zend/trick/tricks-august-2001.php the stuff he does with mime types and headers is all relevant to what you want to do... Justin on 07/09/02 1:56 AM, Alex Shi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks for your reply! Still have another question: How to use > header() to generate

Re: [PHP] Question about character acces, [] vs {}

2002-09-07 Thread Justin French
Somewhere in an article or the manual it *strongly* advises using in {} not [] for access of a certain character in a string. Justin on 07/09/02 5:34 AM, Robert Cummings ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Some time ago i wrote some code where I used the now deprecated > form of accessing characte

Re: [PHP] email with html and images

2002-09-07 Thread Justin French
I'd start by having a look at Manuel's class at phpclasses.org... called mimeMial or something... Justin on 07/09/02 9:32 AM, josh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey all > > I have seen many tutorials on sending HTML email, and sending email with > attachments, but have found nothing on sending

Re: [PHP] Re: Proposal for securing PHP sessions

2002-09-07 Thread Justin French
on 08/09/02 5:04 AM, M1tch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Why not just use IP? > I created a nice system, whereby if your IP is changed (or someone is > hacking your session), the session is destroyed, and the user must log in. > Does not add much overhead either. large ISPs like AOL use variable

Re: [PHP] Credit Card Validation

2002-09-07 Thread Justin French
You have be a little clearer. What do you want to return on true? a) the card number appears to be numerically valid b) the card has enough credit left on it to place the order I'll assume A. You need to decide what cards are going to be accepted, and look for a class or set of functions which

Re: [PHP] Re: Proposal for securing PHP sessions

2002-09-08 Thread Justin French
the first part, that's > better than nothing. > I'm having a headache now, because I'm already behind schedule, and this has > just thrown a spanner in the works :( (but still thanks for bringing it up > now, rather than at production time!) > > > "Justin

Re: [PHP] How to program very basic chat on PHP?

2002-09-08 Thread Justin French
An extremely basic chat would be a frame or iframe which has a meta tag refresh (or javascript refresh) of a plain HTML page every 10-20 seconds. As far as the flash stuff goes, have a look at macromedia.com or the 1000's of flash sites... I'm positive you'll find some development tools for a pre

Re: [PHP] best way to turn a text file into tables in PHP

2002-09-08 Thread Justin French
the functions used in the manual, in particular fgetcsv() Enjoy! Justin French on 09/09/02 4:29 PM, Peter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I have 'test_file.txt' with the contents: > > label1label2label3comments > name1 name2 name3 > name4

Re: [PHP] Problem with session handling with frameset.

2002-09-09 Thread Justin French
er https), the second time is when opening mysite.php, I'm currently > using self-signed certificate so every time the https page opens up in a new > browser it will prompt you for whether or not accept the ceritificate). Sure, there may be some issues with SSL. A great way to make sure

Re: [PHP] form variables

2002-09-09 Thread Justin French
The text field only has newlines (\n) not breaks. For starters, in the text area tag, you need wrap="virtual": Then instead of print "$mailingAddress"; try print nl2br($mailingAddress).""; ... which converts all new lines (\n) into breaks () Regards, Justin on 10/09/02 2:21 PM,

Re: [PHP] Verify phone format?

2002-09-10 Thread Justin French
The problem you have is that not all phone numbers share that format... mine for example (Australia) is 61 3 (that is, CountryCode, State, Exchange, Number). So it depends on who will fill out your form... if you're talking international, you may want to think twice. It never ceases to

Re: [PHP] Sending Attachements through php email form

2002-09-11 Thread Justin French
Hi, I'm not aware of any existing code/samples for this, but the individual components you need to break it down into are pretty straight forward: 1. Learn about forms, validation of user input, and in particular file uploads (which there is a perfect library of working code in the manual: http:

[PHP] basic voting

2002-09-11 Thread Justin French
nk I want to be that restrictive. Am I missing something obvious? Or do you just use a combo of 1 + 2??? Justin French -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] basic voting

2002-09-11 Thread Justin French
ng > to accept multiple votes from the same person. There's NOTHING to stop me from entering 24 different names or email address', so I don't consider these options either. > Sorry. It's not your fault :) Justin French -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] IPlanet Webserver

2002-09-11 Thread Justin French
asked DAILY, if not more frequently :) Justin French on 12/09/02 1:42 AM, Chris Boget ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Do any of you guys have experience setting PHP up > with the IPlanet webserver? We are trying it out (for > a client) and we can't seem to get to so that PHP > ge

Re: [PHP] Cry for help

2002-09-12 Thread Justin French
like installing the latest version of Internet Explorer :) Good luck, Justin French on 12/09/02 6:44 PM, Chad Winger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I need to learn PHP and databases. If I had those skills, I would be so much > more succesful with my web designs. What I usually do, is make

Re: [PHP] Better Images

2002-09-12 Thread Justin French
Why would you convert them to PDF on the fly??? If you wanted to show really hi-res images, yes PDF would result in *slightly* smaller files, in *some cases*, but for standard web stuff, why not consider the humble compressed JPG? Whatever format, the file is gonna be huge if they're trying to r

Re: [PHP] A mailing list

2002-09-13 Thread Justin French
ezmlm Justin on 13/09/02 6:31 PM, John Wards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Guys and Gals sorry if this is off topic but I hope someone can answer this > question. > > I need some mailing list software that works like this list i.e. its all > done through email and has a web based archive. > >

Re: [PHP] stopping repeated posts to a Bulletin Board

2002-09-17 Thread Justin French
ing, message text, etc) before inserting... if okay, cool, otherwise, spit out an error. Justin French on 17/09/02 11:52 PM, Resarch and Development ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What is the best way to avoid the "repeated comment/post" syndrome > caused by the user clicking the sub

Re: [PHP] any new form builders

2002-09-17 Thread Justin French
Check out the source of phpMyAdmin -- they do this, and do it well :) Also, check out the mysql_* functions in the manual -- field_type for example. Justin on 18/09/02 4:33 AM, Vincent Stoessel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > Are there any new scripts out there that will build an html f

Re: [PHP] Auto-increment value

2002-09-18 Thread Justin French
not on postgreSQL :) Justin on 18/09/02 7:24 PM, Scott Houseman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi there. > > You can use the function mysql_insert_id( [link id] ). > > regards > > Scott > > Faisal Abdullah wrote: >> Hi people, >> >> I have a table with a column called ID (auto-increment). >

Re: [PHP] Auto-increment value

2002-09-18 Thread Justin French
I tend to (if I can't use mysql_last_id) insert a unique key into the row, and pull the row out that matches that key, in order to get the ID... ensures that it was the right row... then you can delete the unique key. Justin on 18/09/02 10:27 PM, Jon Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Bob

Re: [PHP] British Pound

2002-09-19 Thread Justin French
here's an ASCI chart for future reference :) http://www.main.org/no_index/clients/asci_codes.htm I think £ works too, but I'd be going for the ASCI number. Justin on 19/09/02 9:32 PM, karthikeyan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > How do i display British Pound through PHP. > > I can

Re: [PHP] PHP Execution Timer

2002-09-19 Thread Justin French
e in under a second... resulting in lots of 1's or 0's Justin French -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Check which PHP-Version a project needs?

2002-09-19 Thread Justin French
Nice idea!!! I'd be interested in contributing to such a project, if one doesn't already exist. Justin on 19/09/02 11:47 PM, Thomas -Balu- Walter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > is there any tool to check which PHP-Version a project needs at > minimum? > > I am looking for somethin

Re: [PHP] PHP Execution Timer

2002-09-19 Thread Justin French
on 19/09/02 11:37 PM, -=[ Julien Bonastre ]=- ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just want to know what function or module covers this feature.. If it is at > all possible.. Top of your script: Bottom: Similar things could be done with MySQL quereies, but I haven't looked into i

Re: [PHP] Stripping specific tags

2002-09-19 Thread Justin French
example This would make striptags() a HIGHLY powerful tool for validating user input which contains HTML. yes, it can all be done with regexp if you've got enough time and skills, but I don't :) Sorry for getting off topic!! Regards, Justin French -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] HTML 2 TEXT

2002-09-20 Thread Justin French
There's a perfect example in the manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php HTH Justin on 20/09/02 9:16 PM, SiTA WebMaster - VST ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Try to remove all strings starting with "<" and ending with ">". Be sure > not to remove ""'s. Also you need to form

Re: [PHP] HTML 2 TEXT

2002-09-20 Thread Justin French
moving everything outside the body would be another option, perhaps saving the contents of ... Justin French on 21/09/02 12:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > strip_tags() is the easiest way to remove HTML tags. If he wants to replace > them, then he can use ere

Re: [PHP] my i ramble for a while?

2002-09-20 Thread Justin French
If *I* were publishing data for others to USE in their own web sites (often called a web service), I'd make the data available in one of a few ways: - raw text -- let them format it as they see fit - CSV a simple CSV file can hold a wealth of information, and it is easy for the receiver to munch

Re: [PHP] Design question.

2002-09-21 Thread Justin French
Hi, I place name all my included files *.inc... I place them all in a folder /inc/ and place a .htaccess file in that directory to restrict the files being served of HTTP: Order Allow,Deny Deny from all Another option would be to place them in a folder ABOVE your web root, so that Apa

Re: [PHP] closing browser's window

2002-09-22 Thread Justin French
I can't imagine how anyone could thing this is a good idea! What's next? Change my browser preferences without asking me? Move some files around on my hard drive? FWIW, PHP is a SERVER SIDE language. It doesn't interact with the browser... by the time your browser recieves a page, it's just p

Re: [PHP] Redirection

2002-09-22 Thread Justin French
Validate the input BEFORE outputting anything to the browser... this way you have control over such problems. The code below exit; will only be executed if the input was NOT valid Regards, Justin on 23/09/02 9:42 AM, Sascha Braun ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I want to po

Re: [PHP] Help with mail...

2002-09-22 Thread Justin French
strings in double quotes are evaluated looking for $vars and {$vars} to substitute. strings with in single quotes are not evaluated for vars. $var = "my favourite color is {$col}"; // works $var = "my favourite color is $col";// works $var = 'my favourite color is $col';// doesn't work

Re: [PHP] Wrap content with a layout file

2002-09-23 Thread Justin French
Generally I like to have header and footer, but you should look at the template engines out there (smarty for example) for some inspiration. This for example, would work fine for a WIDE range of pages: file.php?include=something: ... ... Some prefer one style others prefer another. Just

Re: [PHP] MySQL vs. basic text file

2002-09-23 Thread Justin French
I *DO* find useful is to let some of my customers edit or export their data in CSV format, which I use to munch into a set of MySQL tables... It gives them very cheap, hands-on editing of the data, but still gives me a quick/flexible back-end. Justin French -- PHP General Mailing List (http:

Re: [PHP] How do i assign Integers only and not real numbers?

2002-09-23 Thread Justin French
Wouldn't round() work??? Or, if you always want to round down, why not just split it on the decimal? Or as long as you're willing to give up year 10,000 compliance :), the year will "always" be the first four digits. Plenty of options :) I think I'd just use substr() Justin on 24/0

Re: [PHP] Mail problem with more than 1k users

2002-09-23 Thread Justin French
This gets discussed quite frequently. My guess is that your ISP *may* be imposing some limitations, but more likely your PHP script is timing out or something similar. Justin on 24/09/02 9:08 AM, Research and Development ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello. I wrote a PHP script that will pull

Re: [PHP] Re: Mail problem with more than 1k users

2002-09-23 Thread Justin French
er. Even if the code does work, the sysadmin should shut it down to prevent the massive performance hit you cause. If you've got your own server(s), that's a different story... but then I'd be using ezmlm or something like that. Justin French -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Create login procedure...

2002-09-24 Thread Justin French
on 24/09/02 7:20 PM, Christian Ista ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I change the procedure to create an account for users. For the moment, > the user (to create and log in), have to create an account with e-mail + > password. I'd like to create a procedure to check the e-mail (login) > v

Re: [PHP] why manual says 'don't use session_register'?

2002-09-24 Thread Justin French
ster globals off, I recommend working the new way. Justin French on 24/09/02 6:37 PM, Giancarlo Pinerolo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The manual has many cautions that say 'do not use session_regiister,, > session_is_registered, session_unregister, when the ini setting is > regist

Re: [PHP] in a logic loop!

2002-09-24 Thread Justin French
SELECT DISTINCT * FROM table WHERE . Check out the MySQL manual for more help, or post yout existing query for me to gawk at :) HTH Justin on 24/09/02 11:24 PM, Naintara Jain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thank you Chris. > > I agree with you wholeheartedly that the SQL should be optimize

Re: [PHP] Problems with variables and PHP/HTML

2002-09-24 Thread Justin French
set register globals to ON in your PHP.ini for this to work, although I'd highly recommend doing what you already are doing... $username = $_POST['username']; It's a LOT more secure. Justin on 25/09/02 12:50 AM, Ed Curtis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am currently using Apache 1.3.26 and P

Re: [PHP] Adding to a MySql Database

2002-09-24 Thread Justin French
gt; it would have 6. > UPDATE tablename SET value=value+1 WHERE . Or something like that!! Check the MySQL manual. Justin French -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] script to check for register_gloabs=off compatibility

2002-09-24 Thread Justin French
I'm not aware of anything like that, apart from PHP itself :) Turn your error reporting to the strictest setting, and go through your applications, and it should complain whenever is has to echo/use a undefined variable. Although that sounds a little daunting with 8000 pages... are you using lot

[PHP] table-wide or database-wide search and replace?

2002-09-24 Thread Justin French
itel/howto/mysql-search-and-replace-howto.h tml So it doesn't seem too hard in theory. Justin French -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] table-wide or database-wide search and replace?

2002-09-24 Thread Justin French
t; How much will you pay me to write it?? :) I'll have a go first :P Thanks, Justin French > ---John Holmes... > >> -Original Message- >> From: Justin French [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:34 PM >> To: php >>

Re: [PHP] script to check for register_gloabs=off compatibility

2002-09-24 Thread Justin French
on 25/09/02 2:04 PM, Thom Porter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The applications vary from site to site. Many of them use include files, > some of them don't. One thing that is nice is any apps that use cookies or > sessions go through the _COOKIE or _SESSION arrays already. nice. > I did thin

Re: [PHP] for loop and array

2002-09-24 Thread Justin French
I think you add square brackets: so you'd have an array with a numeric key (0-n) and the value of the key would be the value of the input. or perhaps you'd prefer in this case the key of the array would be 'Hepb_ag', and the value would be true (1). In both cases, I don't think anything is

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