[PHP] spawing new PHP process

I'm interested in spawing a new PHP process -- if that's the correct terminology. The situation is that I've got a very slow loading page, where, for example, I'm using PHP to send, say, 1000 emails. The user clicks submit, and, although PHP is firing out the emails, it appears to the user that

Re: [PHP] spawing new PHP process

for this particular problem is to just queue the outbound mail and have your MTA deliver them out of band. "man sendmail" -Rasmus On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, ROBERT MCPEAK wrote: > I'm interested in spawing a new PHP process -- if that's the correct terminology. > > Th

[PHP] timing out a for loop, fopen

Dear PHP Gurus: I'm looking for a way to timeout an fopen function. I'm doing some link checking inside of a for loop and some links "hang" rather than return a definitive "can't connect" or "can connect." (Pardon the highly technical jargon there...) In cases where my link hangs, I'd like to

[PHP] preg_replace: literal "/" in pattern string

Search through the docs/archive and can't figure this one out. Surely I'm overlooking something obvious. I can't figure out how to escape a literal "/" in $q. Adding the line: $q=str_replace("/", "\/", $q); yields a literal "\/" in $content. $q_upper=strtoupper($q); $q_lower=strtolower($q);

Re: [PHP] Dynamic value lookups

I agree that you will probably have to build all possible select value arrays on pageload if you want the select list to switch without a page reload. PHP is parsed by the webserver and then sent to the page. Javascript is parsed by the browser. You can use PHP to "dynamically" generate Javas

[PHP] variables not behaving as expected

We've recently upgraded to PHP version 4.2.2 running on SuSE 7.2 with the 2.4.4 kernel and I'm seeing variables behave in a way I didn't expect. With the prior configuration http post variables were freely available on the receiving page, but now, for some reason, they aren't. This code: forea

[PHP] flaking out on foreach

Why is this code: "; } ?> Rendering only "6". That's it. Just "6". What am I missing here? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] resizing an image

Could someone show me some php that proportionally resizes an image? I'm collecting user sumbitted images and need them all to be within certain size constraints. What's the simplest, best way to do this? Sample code would be a huge help, as I'm a newbie and have not done anything with PHP imag

Re: [PHP] resizing an image

Sheesh, I will. Thanks. >>> Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/29/02 09:47AM >>> ROBERT MCPEAK wrote: > > Could someone show me some php that proportionally resizes an image? > I'm collecting user sumbitted images and need them all to be within &

[PHP] php mysql error

Our box recently went down and after reconfiguring it we're left with a semi-operation mySQL. One error I'm getting is this: mysql> select region from clip_art where region is not null and released = 'yes' group by region; ERROR 1: Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#sqld0e_76_1.MYI' (Errcode: 13)

[PHP] random array sort

Could someone show me a quick and simple way to randomly sort array elements? I can't seem to pinpoint the correct parameters in the docs. Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] random array sort -- array() selection quant??

* 1000); $input = $the_exploded_ids; $rand_keys = array_rand ($the_exploded_ids, 2); $this_key=$input[$rand_keys[0]]; $this_key=trim($this_key); >>> "ROBERT MCPEAK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/10/02 10:22AM >>> Could someone show me a quick and simple way to randomly so

[PHP] replacing literal " in string

Could somebody help me with the correct syntax for an ereg_replace to replace literal occurences of the quote character in a string. I can't seem to get it right. In other words, I have a form input variable -- that literally may look like this: "some_value", and I want it to literally look lik

[PHP] replacing literal " in string

Could somebody help me with the correct syntax for an ereg_replace to replace literal occurences of the quote character in a string. I can't seem to get it right. In other words, I have a form input variable -- that literally may look like this: "some_value", and I want it to literally look lik

[PHP] php mysql fulltext search min word length = 3

Much to my dismay, I've learned that the mySQL minimum indexable/searchable word length is 3 characters. This is a real problem for me. Anybody know a workaround, or how to tweak mySQL to allow for matches of words 3 chars or less. >From the online mysql docs (http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Fullte

[PHP] randomly select file

Could someone suggest some php for randomly selecting a file from a directory and then displaying the contents of the file? Thanks in advance! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] randomly select file

Thanks guys & gals, for clueing me in. >>> "rija" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/04/02 05:31PM >>> Why don't you cope with opendir / readdir () and array_rand () I tried it and I look ok- But, I wonder if there are noble another way to do it? - Original

[PHP] session cache limiter

Could somebody shed some light on this error message I'm getting. Could you point me at the appropriate docs or clue me in somehow. PHP Warning: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/mmc/results.php:79) in /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/m

[PHP] publishing php > mysql website on cd-rom

My organization has a need to publish some of our web content on a CD-ROM. I'm in search of suggestions on how to publish our dynamic content (php/mysql templates) in some sort of "runtime" configuration that would let users browse the site from cd. What's involved with this? Is there such a t

Re: [PHP] publishing php > mysql website on cd-rom

-- Maxim Maletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] "ROBERT MCPEAK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... : > My organization has a need to publish some of our web content on a CD-ROM. I'm in >search of suggestions on how to publish our dynamic content (php/mysql templates) in >some sort of &

[PHP] dynamic variable headache

My newbie brain is maxed out on this, and I'm sure one of you more experience guys can quickly straighten me out. I've got a variable: $_mmdd = a_date_value; Later, I've got four variables; $foo= _; $bar=; $bleh=mm; $doh=dd; I want to stick these variables together on the fly to get

[PHP] newbie: help with date arithmetic

I'm trying to add/subract two dates. I think I need to use mktime() but I can't quite figure out how. I'd like to do something like this: (2002-11-15)-(2002-11-10)=5 or (2002-12-10)-(2002-11-10)=20 Obviously taking into account number of days in a given month. Does somebody have some code

RE: [PHP] newbie: help with date arithmetic[Scanned]

* 24 * 60 * 60)); Hope this helps, Michael Egan -Original Message- From: ROBERT MCPEAK [mailto:RMCPEAK@;jhuccp.org] Sent: 12 November 2002 15:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] newbie: help with date arithmetic[Scanned] I'm trying to add/subract two dates. I think I need to use mktim

[PHP] interpreting variables containing in another variable

I've got a variable - $email_body, that contain's other variables. For example, echo "$email_body," might look like this: $name, $address, $phone, $blah I want those variables to interpreted with corresponding values set earlier in the script. So, in effect, where name=bob, address=101 east

Re: [PHP] interpreting variables containing in anothervariable

Duh!!! Thanks! Being a newbie hurts sometimes. >>> Chris Shiflett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/20/02 01:50PM >>> --- ROBERT MCPEAK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a variable - $email_body, that contain's other variables. > For example, echo &

[PHP] $_POST var name char conversion "." to "_"

Has anybody seen the seemingly automatic and unexplained conversion of the character "." to "_" in $_POST var names? I've tested several ways, with and without PHP, and I've dug around in the HTML specs and can't find a good explanation. Can anybody shed some light on this? Can this be overri

RE: [PHP] $_POST var name char conversion "." to "_"

Thanks all. I guessed that it was something built in to PHP, although I was surprised when I couldn't find a good explanation in the usually excellent docs. -Bob Mc >>> "Ford, Mike [LSS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/10/03 11:29AM >>> O

Re: [PHP] ARRAY

Because it's and array! print and echo take strings, not arrays, I believe. Anyway, print_r() or a foreach loop will do it for you. "; } ?> Something like that. >>> Brian Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/10/03 01:26PM >>> I am trying to read in a text file to an array using the following code,

[PHP] php .htaccess autologin

I've dug around quite a bit and can't figure out how I might use PHP to handle an .htaccess login. For example, if I wanted a script to log in the user, rather than the user logging in with the standard .htaccess dialog. Any ideas? Since the .htaccess vars are stored in the browser, should I b

[PHP] email attachments

This nifty code (taken from PHP Cookbook) sends an email with a file "attached" in-line. The text from the attached file appears within the body of the email. I need to send attached files that are not in-line, but, rather, come as attached files that the user views outside of their email browse

RE: [PHP] email attachments

goes exactly. James -----Original Message- From: ROBERT MCPEAK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 8:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] email attachments This nifty code (taken from PHP Cookbook) sends an email with a file "attached" in-line. The text

[PHP] formatting form input/sql insert

I'm collecting data with from textarea inputs. The user may enter a linebreak with the return key, or a tab, etc. I then write this data to a mySQL table, formatting the data with addslashes(). I then output the data to a text file using a "select into file" statement. When I import the file i

[PHP] formatting form input

How do I use PHP to remove certain characters from form input? Specifically, how to I ensure that form data does not contain any newline/linebreak or tab characters? Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] attachment filename

The code below very nicely sends an email attachment, but, the name of the attachment appears as "Part.000," not the original filename of the attached file. How do I set the filename of the attachment? I'd like it to be something nice, like "yourfileattachment.txt" or something, not "Part.000."

[PHP] php permissions

php is running on our box as nobody:nogroup. I'm trying to write php code that will edit/delete files uploaded to the server by other users, and, obviously, I get a permissions error. My sysadmin is hesitant to give php more access until I do some research about the security issues involved, an

Re: [PHP] php permissions

>>> "Dave Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/19/02 01:55PM >>> chown them to nobody. - Original Message - From: "ROBERT MCPEAK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 7:53 PM Subject: [PHP] php permiss

RE: [PHP] php permissions

Craig, you seem very knowledgable and I appreciate your help. I confused matters by mentioning the word "upload." I'm actually not using php to upload the files. The user ftps the files to the server, and the ownership permissions prevent php from manipulating the files. I'm looking for a clea

[PHP] newbie: string manipulation

I need code that grabs the file at the end of a file path. I have this: /usr/blah/doh/yuck/wow/abigfile.html And would like to return this: abigfile.html Could somebody show me how to do this? Thank you! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php

[PHP] basename unix/windows

I'm running php on linux and wish to use basename() to get the file name from a windows path. basename() on our linux/php box can't seem to cope with the use of backslash (\) in the Windows paths I'm feeding it. In other words: basename(/usr/blah/doh/yuck/wow/abigfile.html) resolves to : abig

[PHP] date(), strtotime(), Wed, Dec 31, 1969 ??

Running PHP3 on a Linux box and I've got trouble with date(). Here's the code: $blah=2002-05-02; $thedate = date("D, M d, Y", strtotime($blah)); $echo "$thedate"; Why is $thedate resolving to Wed, Dec 31, 1969. Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit

[PHP] date wierdness

On PHP3 where $row["art_date"] == 2002-05-03, $thedate resolves to "Thurs, May 2, 2002" YESTERDAYS DATE! See for yourself, if you wish, here: http://www.endvaw.org/current.php3 What gives. $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); $blah = eregi_replace("-", "/", $row["art_date"]); $thedate = date

[PHP] newbie: dynamically building associative arrays

I'm trying to build what I think is an associative array from a set of mySQL results. It looks like this: //First, a mySQL results loop for a select statement return unique occurrences of data in the field "term": for ($i=0; $i <$num_results; $i++) { $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); echo $

[PHP] php/mysql join query help

I have a table with a field "key" containing a unique value. I have a second table containing a field called "keys" containg a pipe-delimited list of values from the "key" table. I'd like to do a query that took each value from key, and matched it agains the field "keys" in the second table, and

RE: [PHP] Leading zeroes

I'm a newbie, but maybe this'll do it: if ($str!='0') { $str = ltrim($str, '0') } >>> Liam Gibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/23/02 01:49PM >>> > From version 4.1.0, $str = ltrim($str, '0') This works excellently. Thanks. One problem that I didn't think of, though: If the number is 0 (only 0), then t

Re: [PHP] php/mysql join query help

key per row in table2. If a row has 'blue' twice, only one will be counted. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: "ROBERT MCPEAK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 1:22 PM Subject: [PHP] php/mysql join query help

[PHP] new to php/mysql - insert not working

Can somebody help me with this? The following code gets me "document contains no data." I have done a successfull select from mysql db, but not an insertion. I don't know how to troubleshoot this. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To u

[PHP] mysql update help needed

Can somebody straighten this out for me? I can't get the update to work. I'm sure the variables are being passed to the code. Thanks! if ($postaction==edit) { echo "it fired"; // process form $db = mysql_connect("myhost, "myunam

[PHP] html form select list "selected"

I'd like to determine the selected option in a select list based on a passed variable. The code below won't work, but I can't figure out why. Any guesses? echo ""; echo ""; echo "Display"; echo "Don't Display"; echo ""; echo ""; Thanks!

[PHP] Fwd: html form select list "selected"

Whoops! Still won't work but that code should read: echo ""; echo ""; echo "Display"; echo "Don't Display"; echo ""; echo ""; >>> ROBERT MCPEAK 03/20/02 04

RE: [PHP] Fwd: html form select list "selected"

ely you could do. True False Now the contents of $display is an integer which will can be interpreted as a boolean value (true or false). Then you can compare it like you had. if ($display == false) -Kevin -Original Message- From: ROBERT MCPEAK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wedne

[PHP] broken select solution

echo ""; ?> >>> "ROBERT MCPEAK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/20/02 04:39PM >>> Still doesn't work. What gives? >>> &quo

[PHP] testing for blank var

if $img_url has a value, then I'd like to show the image, if it doesn't, then I'd like to show a message. What's wrong with my code? Am I incorrectly testing for the value? The else works fine, but not the if. Thanks! if (!$img_url) { echo "No Image URL Entered"";

RE: [PHP] testing for blank var

Beautiful! >>> Rick Emery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/21/02 09:19AM >>> if ( ! ISSET($img_url) ) -Original Message- From: ROBERT MCPEAK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 8:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] testing for blank

[PHP] newbyie - date conversion to human readable form

I've dug around for a while but I can't find a direct answer on how to convert a date in this format: "2002-03-25" to a human readable format such as " March 25, 2002," or even better, "Monday, March 25, 2002." Can anybody help me with this, or point me to some clear directions on how to do this?

RE: [PHP] newbyie - date conversion to human readableform-CORRECTION

>>> Rick Emery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/25/02 11:04AM >>> CORRECTION: SELECT DATE_FORMAT( mydate, "%W, %M %d, %Y") AS thedate FROM mytable; -Original Message- From: ROBERT MCPEAK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 9:58 AM To: [E

[PHP] parse error, mysql select

When I execute from browser I get a parse error, but when I enter the query directly into a MySQL command prompt I get a successful return. Can anybody see the problem with this code: $query = "SELECT DATE_FORMAT( exp_date, "%W, %M %d, %Y") AS thedate from tifrequest wher

RE: [PHP] parse error, mysql select

Ack! Thanks. >>> Rick Emery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/01/02 02:59PM >>> $query = "SELECT DATE_FORMAT( exp_date, \"%W, %M %d, %Y\") AS thedate from tifrequest where user='$user' limit 1,1"; Missing escape \ in front of quotes -Original Mes

[PHP] date comparison expressions

I'd like to compare today's date against a stored date, and then fire some code based on the result. Like. if ($today's_date < stored_date+5 days) then {blah} Can somebody clue this newbie in on how to do this? -Bob -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: ht

[PHP] date expressions

How do I compare a date (2002-05-01) against a date plus 5 days? I need help figuring out how to do math operations on dates, etc. Could somebody fill this newbie in? Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] syntax for date math expressions

What is the php syntax for adding or subtracting dates? For example, I'd like to do something like this: 2002-04-03 - 2002-04-02 = 1 or 2002-04-03 - 2002-04-02 = -00-01 or 2002-04-03 + -00-01 = 2002-04-03 etc. Can anybody help this newbie? Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List

[PHP] Re: syntax for date math expressions

er, Chief Developer PHPBeginner.com (Where PHP Begins) www.PHPBeginner.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ROBERT MCPEAK writes: > What is the php syntax for adding or subtracting dates? > > For example, I'd like to do something like this: > > 2002-04-03 - 2002-04-02 = 1 > >

[PHP] mySQL join query error

I get an error with the follow query. There is a field "user" in both tables, tifrequest & tifexpire. Can anybody see what's wrong with it? Thanks. SELECT * FROM tifrequest LEFT JOIN USING(user) WHERE tifexpire.exp_date >=2002-04-04 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsub

[PHP] newbie html forms primer help

I need some help with html forms. I primer on html forms and variables is much needed. Anybody have some code snipets to share? I'm getting acquainted with $HTTP_POST_VARS but need some help in accomplishing a couple of things. I'd like to collect all "checkbox" input variables and stick the

Re: [PHP] newbie html forms primer help

others. Is there a smarter way to do this? Thanks Bob >>> Erik Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/10/02 04:27PM >>> On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 04:12 PM, ROBERT MCPEAK wrote: > I need some help with html forms. I primer on html forms and variables > is much needed.

[PHP] unique ID

Could somebody share with me a simple way to create a unique numeric ID for a new record in a mySQL db? Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] PHP Training is New York

Can't make it to this one but would like to know of any other training opps in the Balt-Wash-Phil-NY areas. Anybody know of a good source for this info? >>> "Daniel Kushner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/12/02 10:48AM >>> LAST DAY TO REGISTER http://websapp.com/training.php --Daniel -- PHP Gene

[PHP] newbie: unix/php/mySQL permissions

I'm very new to php & mySQL and need some help understanding how I should set up my Unix permissions. I would like to run php code that could delete/create/edit existing files. I've tried to issue the load data infile statement from the command line but mySQL gives me a permissions error. How

[PHP] newbie: unix/php/mySQL permissions

I'm very new to php & mySQL and need some help understanding how I should set up my Unix permissions. I would like to run php code that could delete/create/edit existing files. I've tried to issue the load data infile statement from the command line but mySQL gives me a permissions error. How

[PHP] newbie: unix/php/mySQL permissions

I'm very new to php & mySQL and need some help understanding how I should set up my Unix permissions. I would like to run php code that could delete/create/edit existing files. I've tried to issue the load data infile statement from the command line but mySQL gives me a permissions error. How