Re: [PHP] Test if URL is alive before including a remote JS

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
>Or just fopen() would work fine. Except you can't set the "timeout" for fopen() and it's incredibly long, isn't it?... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Re: Help please!

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
>Hello, > I have a PHP script which gets data from a MySQL database and >returns an image. So returns the image of >id 3 from the database. What I really want is to state width is 100 and >height is 100 for example so I do not have to downlaod the entire >picture and specify the width and height

[PHP] Re: synchronizing php functions

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
>Does anyone know anyway to synchronize calls to php functions. >I was thinking of writting a hack that uses a lock file on the server put >if there is a proper way to do it then I would >rather use that. >Any suggestions would be good. Shared memory may be faster than lock files... *WHY* you t

Re: [PHP] FW: Help please!

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
>What load are you talking about? This is just an issue of telling the web >browser the image's dimensions. It's not like the image is being processed >to convert it to that image size. Au contraire. If you have an image named 'huge.jpg' at 1 x 1, and you ask a 386 computer to: Then

[PHP] Re: RegEx question

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
> How can I regex to compare the last three chars of a string to "php"? if (substr($foo, -3) == 'php'){ } Oh, wait, you wanted to use RegEx. Sorry, can't help you there. :-) Don't use a cannon to swat a fly. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP does not work??

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
>I forgot to point out another disadvantage of turning on register_globals >apart from that of security is that when you are sending a page with a >form to the same page, e.g: > > > >there is a tendency to lose info.. E.g. >If you are sending text separated by spaces you only manage to >send the

[PHP] Re: Java Pop UP...

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
>Hi everyone... > >I have a php page that return rows from a database. I then have an href >link to the individual thread as such: > >". > > >This works, it opens a new window which has the detailed information needed. >However, how would I write java code into this to force it to open the >windo

Re: [PHP] diffrance : require(); a file from localhost and from a domain.

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
>> > tecnically whats the diffrance if I do: >> > >> > require("http://localhost/image.gif";); >> > or >> > require("http://www.domain.com/image.gif";); ? >> >> The first one requires the file at "localhost/image.gif", and the >second >> one requires the file at "www.domain.com/image.gif". In

[PHP] Re: Using PHP to execute system commands on Win 98 w/apache

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
>I have been trying to figure out how to execute >commands on a win 98 system with php and apache. > >exec(), system(), and shell_exec() seem to work when i >try to execute a command (such as "netstat -n" or >"dir") because I can see the ms-dos window open on the >system, run the command, and then

[PHP] Re: Make strict?

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
> How do you make you PHP scripts require explicit variable declaration? >Like Java/SQL/C/C++ or 'use strict;' in PERL or 'Option Explicit' in >VB/VBScript The closest you can come is: This can also be set in php.ini and/or .htaccess Note that PHP simply does not *have* variable declaration

[PHP] Re: Why is PHP unable to access my select list values?

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
>I've created the following file (see HTML/JavaScript code below) which >allows end-users to dynamically (on the client-side) move items from one >form select list (called "list_managers" to another (called simply >"managers[]"). When, however, I attempt to access the end-user created >"managers[

Re: [PHP] does a form submit from a http page to a https ensure secure data?

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
>>Your form action parameter has an absolute url specifying an https >>protocol. When the browser submits the form, it uses the url you specify >>which is https. So the request is going to be encrypted. You might >>consider serving the form page from https as well to kind of tighten >>things up a

Re: [PHP] Setting a cookie and redirecting

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
>If you don't mind, I'm interested in learning more about what exactly >ASP does differently. Are there two HTTP responses sent? No, it just happens to have sent them in the order his browser liked. ASP can't do anything "different" from PHP. I used to laugh when ASPers asked why PHP had to do

Re: [PHP] Re: Help and advice sought - search/replace

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
>> Just looking for a pointer or functions I can use to do this... >> >> I have a spreadsheet with a couple thousand entries that I'll be using for >> populating a MySQL database. The spreadsheet has names listed in "last, >> first" - the database I'll be populating has separate fields for first

[PHP] Re: Strings with embedded quotes and double quotes

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
>I need to echo a string that contains both quotes and double >quotes. > >I remember doing this once using a special construct where the >string started on a new line with a triple slash if I remember well. Or >it was a triple something... > >I can't find the topic in the online PHP doc... > >A

[PHP] Re: SESSION newbie question

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
>www.net.co.cr/test/test.php frame session test '; } if ($QUERY_STRING == "1.html") { echo "This is just a dummy frame."; } if ($QUERY_STRING == "2.html") { echo ""; echo "The value of \$_SESSION['tree'] is:"; echo gettype($_SESSION['tree']); echo ""; } ?> -- Like Music?

Re: [PHP] Setting a cookie and redirecting

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
>> If you have to do header("Location: ...") you have a >> design/engineering/organizational problem in your code/pages/site. >> >> I'm sure a zillion people will disagree with this "rule" > >I agree, except there's one exception to this that I can't see a way around. > >When dealing with form s

Re: [PHP] Setting a cookie and redirecting

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
>I don't agree with the general rule of thumb that the use of the >"Location" header is bad, but I have reviewed plenty of code where >people misuse it terribly, as a lazy goto-style operation. In most >cases, you do want to design your application to: >1) receive data >2) analyze data >3) resp

[PHP] Re: Stock Prices

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Lynch
>How would I get recent stock prices in a page? I obviously need to get >this from some source. It's so easy, you have to pinch yourself to make sure you're not dreaming... :-) http://www.sometocksite.com') or die("Could not read stock page"); $stockhtml = implode('', $stockhtml); # You now

[PHP] Re: Problem with menu

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Lynch
>when I echo menu($id) I get the current page's title. > >How do I print it's peers and it's single parent? You will need a second query to ask for all the children of the parent: $peer_query = "select id as child_id, title from meta_data where pid = $pid"; $peers = mysql_query($query) or error_

[PHP] Re: Does Location: headers constantly

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Lynch
>1) does this HTTP protocol work with all browsers? Every one I've ever seen... But it *might* not work with, say, Mozilla 1.0 from 1989 or so... :-) >2) are there any complications that need to be addressed Yes. Once you decide to send a Location: header, all bets are off on the other header

[PHP] Re: help with PHPwebsite

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Lynch
> >I get the following error when i try to install an app >called "PHPwebsite" ( http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/ ) > >Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by > (output started at C:\apache\htdocs\php\setup\index.php:9) >in C:\apache\htdocs\php\htmlheader.php on line 30 > >

[PHP] Re: synchronizing php functions

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Lynch
>Well I have a system that people can login to, and I want to produce an >array (or something of the sort) >that holds who is logged in so that I can monitor it. Aha! The "who's logged in right now" feature! :-) Problem #1. First, you need to clearly define "logged in" Am I logged in for the

[PHP] Re: Submitting Form Data

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Lynch
>I have a php script that performs a query and then dynamically builds a >section of a page for every row returned. Each section has some fields and >three submit buttons. My problem is this. If I make a change to one >particular section, how can I submit the form passing only the relevant >sectio

[PHP] Re: Program executing in PHP. Please help

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Lynch
>$output = shell_exec("uudeview -i /bla/bla.txt -p /bla/bla/"); >echo ""; >echo $kick_my_ass; >echo ""; >?> > And I get nothing :(. Script like below: Well, no... Your data is in $output, and you are echo-ing out $kick_my_ass... Try echo $output >$output = shell_exec("uudeview"); >echo ""; >ec

[PHP] Re: Simple Example of Passing on a file through a PHP script

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Lynch
>I want to show info when my docs are viewed though my stats program. I have >decieded the best way would be to put the info into a DB through php file >then output the PDF, Excel, Zip or Powerpoint file. > >Only trouble is I have no Idea how to do this Stuffing the actual data into your database

[PHP] Re: addslahes and magic quote woes

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Lynch
>I am trying to make my PHP safe against malicious data user inputs. >Reading up on this most people suggest using addslashes(), magic_quotes >on and other things like mysql_escape_string(); > >But I have been running into the problem that I mess up the user's input >because I use more then one

Re: [PHP] addslahes and magic quote woes

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Lynch
>magic_quotes is convenient for newbies, but after a while you'll find it >only trips you up, as you've discovered. Odd. In the 5 years I've been doing PHP, magic quotes has never hurt me in the least. It's just more convenient than calling addslashses() all over the place. And do you really

[PHP] Re: Problem With ora_do

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Lynch
>I'm having a weird problem with ora_do. It works fine as long as I don't >have a "WHERE" clause in the query. For example: > >select * from table_name > >works just fine but > >select * from table_name where col_name = value > >returns nothing. > >However, if I use ora_open, ora_parse and or

[PHP] Re: $_SESSION (turned off, destory??)

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Lynch
>Say that the end-user closed the browser(s) without logging off. The >$_SESSION can not be destroyed because the broswer(s) is closed. So, if hte >end-user did log off and close the browser(s). How can I destroy the >$_SESSION since the session_register() & session_destroy() can not be used >w

[PHP] Re: uploading a file via php - i need some simple code

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Lynch
>I am having the worst trouble trying to write a tiny simple script that >will upload a file. Below is my code - can anyone tell me why it's not >working > >HTML > >enctype="multipart/form-data"> > > > > > >PHP (upload.php) > >$filename = "/test.txt"; >if (!move_uploaded_file($userf

[PHP] Re: Authentication

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Lynch
>On my site, when a user logs in, their password is encrypted using md5() and >the username and encrypted password is then passed from page to page using >hidden form inputs (clicking on a link submits the form using POST). >Does anyone have any comments on this method e.g. security wise? I know I

[PHP] Re: GET data in URL

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Lynch
>I just installed php 4.2.1 and i have a couple of URL's that pass variables >through links (www.domain.com/index.php?test=123) and when I run that it >comes up on the next page and the test variable is empty? I can't figure >this out but if I had to guess I would think it's some setting in the >

[PHP] Re: Other than substr

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Lynch
>I need to show up some data from a DB which consist of phone numbers >with area code. They’re stored like () . What is the best >approach to print them into some textboxes so they can be edited? I’m >using substr but area codes (inside parenthesis) goes from 3 to 5 >numbers, so someti

[PHP] Re: New emalloc() error?

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>List, > I think I saw this one on here before...when reading/writing the database >I get this when executing odbc_exec(...); What was the fix? > > > >FATAL: emalloc(): Unable to allocate 1073784417 bytes This generally means that you tried to suck in a zillion bytes to a variable, and PHP on

[PHP] Re: opening pdf file in new window with a POST operation

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>https://my.server/reports.php"; method="post" >target="_blank"> > > >https://my.server/reports.php"; method="get" >target="_blank"> > > > >These forms are identical with the exception of the post/get methods. > >A PDF file is being dynamically generated and displayed in a pop-up. > >The GET metho

[PHP] Re: mySQL and phpMyAdmin

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>Hi, I installed php and mysql today and I'm trying to use phpMyAdmin but >I'm receiving the error message: >cannot load MySQL extension, >please check PHP Configuration. > >I checked the php.ini and couldn't find anything related, my configure >command says '--with-mysql=shared,/usr' and I have n

[PHP] Re: adding a variable to a variable name

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>I'm wondering if this can be done, and if so, what's the proper way to do >it. It can be done, and the proper way to do it is to use an array :-) But, if you are hell-bent on using "variable variables" you should really read the PHP documentation about them: http://www.php.net/manual/en/langua

[PHP] Re: extension problem

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>hi >I have an extension problem. >i have wrote this exemple >#include... >char* xx(){ > >return "true"; > > >} >it's a simple example. >I have compiled it into .SO dynamic library. >when I try to load it into PHP i get this message >cannot include .(may be not php extension). >CAN YOU HEL

Re: [PHP] Re: Configuration problems concerning sessions.

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>that's connected to the web, and it works. I went out and got the >php.ini that my user uses on that server and checked it with my local >copy. The only difference between the two were the lifetimes of >cookies, etc. Details, please. :-) >I've also tried passing the $PHPSESSID on to another pag

[PHP] Re: opening pdf file in new window with a POST operation

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>> >The GET method form works fine, while the POST method (which is what I >> >need to use) pops up a message about the page containing both secure and >> >nonsecure data. >> > >> >WTF? >> >> Well, the new browser window opens, but you're loading a PDF, not HTML, so >> it's not really getting any

Re: [PHP] Re: opening pdf file in new window with a POST operation

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>get data is insecure by nature so the whole page is insecure and no >warnings, as soon as you post you invoke the security. No, no, no. POST data is *NO* *MORE* *SECURE* than GET data! Period. Okay, if you want to get picuyane -- A total idiot user can read the URL in their location bar, and

[PHP] Re: Stack Overflow with: zend optimizer

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>Hi there, > >zend optimizer 1.3.1 / IIS 5 / PHP 4.2.1 / Windows 2000 > >I've been getting "Stack Overflow" errors frequently. Our software has >hundreds of db queries and hundreds of includes per page execution. Just to >give you some context, so I can't tell you exactly what I'm doing that's >

[PHP] Re: Uninitialized string offset

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>After upgrading to Red Hat Linux 7.3 (which also includes a new PHP >version), I saw this warning (Uninitialized string offset) on my apache >error log files. It refers to a line which was perfectly legal before: The new settings in php.ini are error_reporting E_ALL by default. Those errors hav

[PHP] Re: MySQL news database structure

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
> Hi, i am writing a news management system in PHP, with comments, etc, and >i am wondering if theres a better way of structuring the tables to increase >speed and stability. > This is how i am structuring my tables: > > Table 1 (news) > -- > ID > Date > Author > Titl

[PHP] Re: includes question

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>what is the path of the "includes" directory >in a windows dist of PHP (current version)? > >is that where all the dlls are? No. The DLLs are in your "extensions_path" (or something like that). Your include_path is where *YOUR* PHP files can be placed so you can use them in multiple scripts.

Re: [PHP] HTTPS vs. HTTP ?

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Jerome Houston wrote: >> if the browser is making a request, and it sees an https:// at the beginning >> of the request URL, it will : >> 1. get the domain's public key from a public key server >> 2. encrypt the whole request with the domain's public key >> 3. submit it to

Re: [PHP] HTTPS vs. HTTP ?

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>I saw that Microsoft has a Certificate Authority server package that allows >you to create your own key. Is there a way to do this in linux? In this >particular instance, it's me accessing my own web site. I'd like to encrypt >the session and I'm don't need someone to confirm anything. You ca

[PHP] Re: Print Question

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>Question I have is > >I want to run a print job of 200+ invoices > >I have a javascript code to open a print dialog box and >Then go to next invoice and do the loop.. > >Problem I am having is that I want it to pause if the ok button on the >dialog >Box is not pressed.. > >When I run the scr

[PHP] Re: how to resort results of a query

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>Also, how can I make certain columns into links? I'm making a site that >will list college courses. When users decide to browse listings by >discipline, or college, I'd like the titles of the courses to be links to >fuller descriptions of those courses. But I'm >not sure how to do that.

[PHP] Re: include errors

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>i work on Win98, apache 1.3.24/PHP4.2.1. >I include a PHP file (867 lines) witch contains functions : > >include("include/fonctions.php"); > >This previous code is inserted in the upper frame and the left frame. >But sometimes, i've got errors like : > >Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.' in

[PHP] Re: png image doesn't show

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>Hello all, > >I have been trying to modify the working of one of my pages which prints a >png graph. What I had was an included file named "graphit.php" which >creates a png file. I used the function >imagepng($image,'temp.png') to create an image and then used src=temp.png> to have the image

[PHP] Re: PHP Automatic Backup

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>I was reading the post by Pag called “MySQL backups” and I have the same >question, but not the shell access. It came to my mind, that if will be >very useful for me, and probably for many of us newbie’s, to be able to >build an automated PHP system that could make backups by itself at a >specifi

[PHP] Re: How to use transparent png in createfrompng?

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>Hi! > >I'm having problems with createfrompng… > >I do the following: > >1 Creates a new image > >2 Fill it with black > >3 copy an jpg on to it > >4 write some text > >5 tries to use copyimageresized to put a transparent png over the whole >image… > >It's in point 5 it goes wrong, because of som

[PHP] Re: Little optimisation question

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>Hello php-general, > > I've recently faced big optimization issues. Here is mine >situation: > >I make connection to NNTP server and fetch headers from the news group >lets say bla.bla.bla. Connection made ok. Next Php tryes to put >everything into the array. It's okey if number of headers a

[PHP] Re: $_SESSION troubles

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>Hello hello, > >I have this strange thing with a sort of login procedure (still working it >out, but it will work eventually) >On the first page, you log in (username + password) >Then we come to 'login.php' where I have this header > 1 2 session_start(); > 3 $logi

[PHP] Re: textarea new line

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>i want to add in textarea a string with new line tag in it. how to do that? > >my try: >$string="-line1n\ -line2 n\-line3"; >echo "$string"; > >but i see a single line instead of: >-line1 >-line2 >-line3 > >tx in advance for any help In addition to using \n instead of n\, you also should do: ec

[PHP] Re: Maybe not the right place, but...

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>Does anybody know which is the lenght limit for the parameter string >when GETting an URL? If there is a limit at all, of course. Yes. :-) The limit *USED* to be 255 characters. I think it's up to 1024 now, for GET. Any server *MAY* choose to impose *ANY* limit on GET, so long as they don't

[PHP] Re: help with session_decode in PHP 4.20 (fairly urgent)

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>My web host has just upgraded to PHP 4.20. My MySQL database is full of >session_encoded fields, but since the upgrade I can no longer session_decode >them. > >After doing phpinfo I find the following settings ... > >register_argc_argvon on >register_globals on on > > >I'

Re: [PHP] ./configure with register_globals turned on?

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>I tried following all of your suggestion and so far, still the same. I >tried changing other feature in the php.ini and check the phpinfo and found >that they haven't changed either. So, the problem lie with the file path in Aha! Then you *missed* the one where he said: Check phpinfo() and s

[PHP] Re: Session not expiring

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>All, > >My session is not expiring and I believe that I set this correctly. >I'm looking for a 15 minute expiration time. > >My current setting: > >session.cookie_lifetime = 900 ; lifetime in seconds of cookie >; or if 0, until browser is restarted > >Is

[PHP] Re: Scheduling tasks

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>Are there any scheduling fuctions with PHP? What I'm looking for is >something functionally close to a crontab. Most PHP sites just use crontab when they need crontab... :-) So you not have SSH access? How busy is your site? What kind of actions do you need to have occuring? You *COULD* hack

[PHP] Re: Stored Procedures

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
> I'm using a postgres datbase for my PHP project, how do I make stored >procedures? Or if no SPs then what would be recomendation for building >simple/reuseable "Put" and "Get" procedures for my data? Well, if nothing else, PostgreSQL does support user-defined functions, going 'way back. Tec

[PHP] Re: total (slightly OT)

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
> >Hey everyone, >Am working late as usual before the weekend and so I fear i'm a bit braindead! >Anyway,heres my problem >I have fields named "total" and "avg" and no idea how many records >how do I get the total and average? >Do I use a function? select sum(foo), average(foo), count(foo) fr

Re: [PHP] HTTPS vs. HTTP ?

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Lynch
>For Miguel Cruz posting back there. If I understand correctly, the private >key are inside the public key. Is this correct? If you have an SSL (or SSH, or whatever) key thingie, it always comes as a "pair" The private half, and the public half. You never, ever, ever, ever give the private ha

FW: [PHP] HTTPS vs. HTTP ?

2002-07-06 Thread Richard Lynch
>:-) Don't tell me if you're gonna use it for production!!! Depends on your user-base. If all of them know that the only difference is $119, and all of them inherently trust your web-server and domain name to be correct, there is no more risk with the free one. It's a true shame that the gener

[PHP] FW: upload file size

2002-07-06 Thread Richard Lynch
>I can't seem to upload file bigger than 5M even if I set the >upload_max_filesize to 20M in php.ini and MAX_FILE_SIZE to 20M in the >script. What's am I missing here? Is the temporary upload directory won't >handle file this size? Please give me some pointers here. TIA. Does show a 20 M limit?

Re: [PHP] HTTPS vs. HTTP ?

2002-07-06 Thread Richard Lynch
>On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Richard Lynch wrote: >> But unless you paid the $200 to get it from a CA, surfers will see a nasty >> (and totally inaccurate/misleading) warning about how insecure it is. > >It is easy to launch a man-the-middle attack against a session being >initia

Re: [PHP] Re: Stored Procedures

2002-07-06 Thread Richard Lynch
>Stored procedures are like any other type of programming construct. >You can do them right or you can do them wrong. Yeah, and GOTO is perfectly fine... In the right place. >When making a stored >procedure you should stick to ansi SQL as much as possible. All my SQL was so dirt-simple, it coul

Re: [PHP] HTTPS vs. HTTP ?

2002-07-06 Thread Richard Lynch
>>But unless you paid the $200 to get it from a CA, surfers will see a nasty >>(and totally inaccurate/misleading) warning about how insecure it is. >> > >They should. To do otherwise would be inaccurate and misleading. > >>The transmission is no less secure -- It's that the web-server on the othe

[PHP] Re: mail help, and php.ini help.

2002-07-06 Thread Richard Lynch
>i`ve coded a mass-mailer for my site but the $from header doesn't work. It works for about a million others. Show us source code. >when i get a test message back from it it says from "Unprivileged user" = >not what i set it to. That sounds more like email bouncing... But it could be your sen

[PHP] Re: help help help!!!!!!pls........

2002-07-06 Thread Richard Lynch
>Re: help help help!!pls First, use a valid subject. Experts will simply hit "Delete" for such vague subjects as "Help" >I have multiple check boxes ...and I gave the single name to all check >boxes. > >If I post to my php script I am not getting all the values as an >array.

[PHP] Re: Figuring Out the Best Day in stats program

2002-07-06 Thread Richard Lynch
>I have been going fine in a Web Stats program until now. > >How can I figure out which day has had the most records(ie visitors) >inserted? > >There is a time column which has unix timestamp of when the record was >inserted. > >The best I can think of currently is: >To use a while loop to repeate

[PHP] Re: phpBB Info

2002-07-06 Thread Richard Lynch
>I wanna be able to do some stuff, which involves getting data from my phpBB >board. > >Member Count: (this section should autoupdate) select count(*) from some_table_whose_name_I_do_not_know_but_you_can_look_up_in_phpMyAdmin >Number Of Forums: (this section should autoupdate) select count(*) f

[PHP] Re: FTP commands

2002-07-06 Thread Richard Lynch
> >Hi, i'm making a script, that logs some ftp characteristics, like resume >support and stuff...i try using ftp_site(), but it's not working > >I want to send a command like REST, but ftp_site() send the command like >this: SITE REST, with the SITE before the command...any way to do it? >Thx :D

[PHP] Re: Help w/ sessionl variables plz!

2002-07-06 Thread Richard Lynch
>The following PHP script doesn't pass $course ("statistics") to the next >script. Why? > >// file: "root/reg_users_2.php", updated: 07/06/02 >set_time_limit(300); >session_start(); >session_register("course"); >$course="statistics"; >header ("location:estadisticas/contents.php"); >flush(); >exi

[PHP] Re: Help needed with hexdec();

2002-07-06 Thread Richard Lynch
>I have to convert a perl script to PHP trying to do so I get negative >values from hexdec(), If I use (int)hexdec() the numbers aren't negative >anymore, but they do not add up to what they should. >From the manual: http://php.net/hexdec "The largest number that can be converted is 7fff or

Re: [PHP] HTTPS vs. HTTP ?

2002-07-06 Thread Richard Lynch
>Honestly, I think you need to just buy on book on this. I think I >explained things pretty clearly, and your confusion now seems to be >based more on a lack of trusting my explanation more than anything. I >can't imagine how you could still be this confused. What I can't imagine is how confus

Re: [PHP] HTTPS vs. HTTP ?

2002-07-07 Thread Richard Lynch
7;s the only place he used it. *MAYBE* a good company will catch on. I bet against. But let's even assume our site-owner *NOTICES* his stolen domain name, and maybe even knows he got hacked and the Certs and keys all got stolen. Let's even give them the benefit of the doubt and assu

[PHP] Re: Plz help w/ global variables

2002-07-07 Thread Richard Lynch
>To test global variables, I wrote the following PHP script: > >(1)(2)session_start(); >(3)session_register("counter"); >(4)$counter++; >(5)echo "$counter"; >(6)// header ("location:statistics/contents.php"); > >PS: Richard, thank you

Re: [PHP] HTTPS vs. HTTP ?

2002-07-08 Thread Richard Lynch
>>>How do you know their certificate hasn't been stolen, and they haven't even >figured it out yet? How do you know they were trustworthy people in the >first place?<< > >Why do you ASSUME that they're NOT trustworthy people? Do you go through >your entire life in that shell? Everybody gets a

Re: [PHP] Re: Help needed with hexdec();

2002-07-08 Thread Richard Lynch
>I wrote a less-limited hex2dec function years ago, and threw it up on >Sklar, >or, uhhh, the *other* PHP code repository. There were really only two, >back >then... :-) Another option would be the BC Math package which will let you compute arbitrarily large numbers, albeit a bit slower. Just h

[PHP] Re: Figuring Out the Best Day in stats program

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>$query = "select count(*) as monthly_views from visitors group by >extract('year', time), extract('month', time) order by monthly_view desc >limit 1"; >Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in >C:\Inetpub\TecEco_PHP\stats_interface\summary.php on line 75 >You have an er

Re: [PHP] Thanks

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>Probably a stupid question. Is there anyway to force POSTing a form from >the refresh META? > > > >IMHO that is NOT possible, but maybe I am wrong. You are correct -- it cannot be done. If there is no JavaScript, you can only "force" a POST by getting the user to click on a FORM element, some h

[PHP] Re: PHP/MySQL and parameterized queries

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>Does MySQL support parameterized queries (e.g., "INSERT INTO table >(Col1,Col2) VALUES (?,?)"), and if so, is there a PHP function that allows >you to create and attach parameters to MySQL queries? I don't believe MySQL supports that, so there's no PHP mechanism for it. However, you *can* inser

[PHP] Re: Error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in...

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>Hi all. Im getting the above mentioned error: *Parse error*: parse >error, unexpected $ in *c:\program files\apache >group\apache\htdocs\login.php* on line *38* when I try to view the page >I just created. As a forewarning, I am very new to PHP, so I may have >done something stupid, and if it

Re: [PHP] Thanks -> Actually POSTING without javascript

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>javascript in this page verifies user configuration (screen, java >enabled, platform etc) and stuffs this data into a hidden form then >sends it back to index.html where data will be used to understand >whether we can rely on jscript and cookies within this session. Aha! What you probably sh

Re: [PHP] Problem with SQL query

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>LIMIT was not included in the SQL92 SQL standards and very few vendors >implement all of SQL99; the use of ANSI standards to promote "portable" >programs has always been beset by this kind of problems. Wow! There's actually an SQL99 that vendors are targeting, kinda sorta? Hey, with any luck,

[PHP] Re: transporting variable via post to another site

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>I do have a multisite form. There are several fields on page 1 and several >on page 2. > >Everything works fine exept of error handling. Which means if a user wants >to go back from step 2 to one and has already filled in some data in site 2 >he will loose this data for sure. It is not possible t

[PHP] Re: Mailing all the elements of a form

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>I have looked in PHP manual but I cannot seem to find what I am looking for. > >I have a very large form that I need to be able to mail. I just don't want >to have to code all of the field into my mail() function. I think this one is still in the FAQ, so maybe it's time to re-read that. I asked

Re: [PHP] Re: Stored Procedures

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 15:27:47 -0500 >> Do you have *ANY* idea how quickly: >> >> "select * from MyTable" can be parsed and an execution plan selected?! >> >> It's CHUMP CHANGE in time. >> >> *ONLY* if your SQL is so incredibly complicated that you can't even >> understand it will the parse/comp

[PHP] Re: suppressing errors with "@"

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>Doesn't @ surpress output (in general)? >Variables don't usually produce an output so putting @ before it shouldn't >make any difference. @ suppresses *ERROR* output, not just any old output. @ echo "foo"; will echo foo out. @ echo $foo; will echo out anything in $foo, but if you haven't *PU

Re: [PHP] inserting linebrakes in multisite forms

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>That looks like the result of htmlentities(nl2br($string)). Actually, it's probably the result of just nl2br($string) and being in the midst of the INPUT tag in the first place... >Do it the other way around. > >Better yet, don't call nl2br or htmlentities or anything else on data that >you are

[PHP] Re: About submitting multipart.forms

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>has anyone met with this problem.. using IE to submit multipart forms. in >text fields if there is "&" ... all text after it will disappear..quite a >nuisance when submitting You probably aren't using http://php.net/htmlentities as you pass data back out to the browser. Microsoft, in it's infin

Re: [PHP] Survey: MySQL vs PostgreSQL for PHP

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>I've been using MySQL/PHP for quite some time. Several months ago, I >wanted to port a project over to PostgreSQL. I found everything about pg >(eg the website, documentation, installation process) far less straight >ahead than MySQL. So much so, that I didn't get around to actually >installin

[PHP] Re: inserting linebrakes in multisite forms

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>One Form has a textfield, I submit it to another html site where there is >another form with a textfield. Inside this textfield I place a hidden field >with the value of the field from page 1 then I submit to the actual php site >inserting the values into a db. On the "middle" page, use "View So

[PHP] Re: newbie: a couple basic questions

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>1) in a fuction, does a return statment automatically exit the function as >well? Yes. Nothing more will get executed inside the function after the "return;" Some purists claim that you should *NEVER* have a return *ANYWHERE* except the last line of a function. EG: # WRONG function divide($n

[PHP] Re: configure breaks at return type of qsort...

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>configure: error: Cannot find header files under /usr/include/mysql >Bad exit status from /home/askwar/RPM/tmp/rpm-tmp.64223 (%build) > >I called configure with these parameters: > >--with-mysql=/usr/include/mysql >host:/S.u.S.E. # ls -la /usr/include/mysql >Does anyone have an idea about why

[PHP] Re: Printing Problem

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>I'll repeat my ealier question because some people can not think for >themselves.. There are actually two (2) possibilities here... One is that you actually want to print the invoices on the printer connected to the *WEB* *SERVER* If that is the case, you really should skip the whole JavaScrip

Re: [PHP] Re: suppressing errors with "@"

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
>I use it in front of variables (never tried it on $GLOBALS, etc though) > >eg: (using register_globals = on thingo - hey don't blame me, it's the >tech guys who have it on, and there's too much legacy code to turn it off :( >- anyway) > > if (@$var) { echo "Yep, var is there"; } else { echo "n

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