Re: [PHP] fgetcsv

2008-01-09 Thread Chris
Danny Brow wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm trying to compare a value to the first field in a csv fILE (example of the data below). Using while takes too long and I can't figure out how to compare just one row at a time. I've tried some variations of the following. So are you trying to compare the firs

Re: [PHP] Get Parameters in Includes?

2008-01-09 Thread Chris
The script is MEANT to be used this way I doubt it. If you want the contents from that url, then use curl (http://www.php.net/curl). -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.p

Re: [PHP] PHP shell commands

2008-01-10 Thread Chris
Lucas Prado Melo wrote: Hello, Some php applications store database passwords into files which can be read by the user www-data. So, a malicious user which can write php scripts could read those passwords. What should I do to prevent users from viewing those passwords? Not too much really. The

Re: [PHP] SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-11 Thread Chris
Also don't forget the part where you shouldn't disconnect and reconnect between mails sent. indeed but I have experienced situations where the SMTP server refuses more than X number of messages on any one connection ... which meant having to get the script to disconnect/reconnect every 200 (ii

Re: [PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-11 Thread Chris
And I'd be interested to hear of an actual side-by-side comparison on comparable hardware where sendmail using pipes beats SMTP on a LAN. I don't have that but a comparison between the main open-source mta's (all out of the box, no optimizations for any of them) revealed sendmail sucks the m

Re: [PHP] var_dump() results

2008-01-13 Thread Chris
or you could do $result = mysql_query($sql); $count = mysql_num_rows($result); for ($i=0; $i<$count; $i++) { var_dump($row); ... } Not unless you have a $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); before doing the var_dump of $row because $row isn't being set :)

Re: [PHP] SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-15 Thread Chris
Manuel Lemos wrote: Hello, on 01/15/2008 07:16 AM Per Jessen said the following: If there's any way to re-configure the MTA to queue the messages for later sending, that would save you a lot of overhead on the PHP end... The MTA will always queue the messages - well, that is certainly the case

Re: [PHP] Re: re[PHP] gister_globals

2008-01-15 Thread Chris
tbt wrote: Hi I have two php files as follows session_register.php // sets the value of $refString $_SESSION['refString'] = $_GET['refNo']; and session_data.php // retrieves the value of $refString echo $_SESSION['refString']; This code works fine when register_globals is set to 'o

Re: [PHP] Scripts are fast locally, but slow on remote server

2008-01-15 Thread Chris
Dave M G wrote: Per Jessen, Thank you for responding. Might this be a name-server issue? Maybe, but I don't think so. The reason I suspect that is not the case is because I can go first to a .html page on the server, and it loads up quickly. Then I go to one of my .php pages, and the slowd

Re: [PHP] PHP function to list all mysql tables used in a script

2008-01-16 Thread Chris
Javed Khan wrote: Hello All, I have php script which performs various sql operations, like insert row in table A, delete row from Table B and Update rows in table C. Now I would like to display all those tables that are affected by my script. Can anyone send me a function or script if it is alr

Re: [PHP] Digital Downloads and Scale

2008-01-20 Thread Chris
dg wrote: Hello everyone, I'd appreciate any insights, or source suggestions regarding site traffic and necessary adjustments. For example, I'm using a simple digital download page for an indie artist. Not a ton of traffic, not a ton of concurrent requests. Was thinking about introducing

Re: [PHP] password hashing and crypt()

2008-01-21 Thread Chris
Nathan Nobbe wrote: hi all, recently ive been debating a bit about the use of the crypt() function and the best practice thereof, im hoping you can help to clarify this for me. so, the crypt function http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php has a second parameter, $salt, which, if not su

Re: [PHP] a better way to do a data import?

2008-01-21 Thread Chris
blackwater dev wrote: I have a text file that contains 200k rows. These rows are to be imported into our database. The majority of them will already exists while a few are new. Here are a few options I've tried: I've had php cycle through the file row by row and if the row is there, delete

[PHP] understanding memory allocation

2008-01-21 Thread Chris
Hi all, Does anyone understand the difference between memory_get_usage and memory_get_peak_usage with and without the parameter? I don't understand how the allocations could be so far apart. eg (small script that takes a minute to run): $ php -f file.php Peak usage (true): 4,608.0

Re: [PHP] Upgrade to PHP5 and having issues with mysql

2008-01-21 Thread Chris
Tom Ray [Lists] wrote: Hey- I'm trying to install PHP5 with mysql support and I keep running into the same problem over and over again. I run the configuration with this: --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql and without fail I get this every time: ext/mysql/php_mysql.o: In function `zif_mysql_creat

Re: [PHP] Upgrade to PHP5 and having issues with mysql

2008-01-21 Thread Chris
Tom Ray [Lists] wrote: Chris wrote: Tom Ray [Lists] wrote: Hey- I'm trying to install PHP5 with mysql support and I keep running into the same problem over and over again. I run the configuration with this: --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql and without fail I get this every time: ext/

Re: [PHP] Best Approach

2008-01-21 Thread Chris
Miguel Guirao wrote: Hello fellow members of this list, There is a couple of rutinary tasks that our servers (different platforms) perform during the night. Early during the day, we have to check that every task was performed correctly and without errors. Actually, we do this by hand, going firs

Re: [PHP] Using mysql_real_escape_string without connecting to mysql

2008-01-22 Thread Chris
Dotan Cohen wrote: I have a file of my own functions that I include in many places. One of them uses mysql_real_escape_string, however, it may be called in a context that will or will not connect to a mysql server, and worse, may already be connected. So I must avoid connecting. However, when I r

Re: [PHP] upload problem

2008-01-22 Thread Chris
nihilism machine wrote: any ideas why this does not work? 1) the field in the form might not be 'upload1'. 2) the file is too big to upload (> max_upload_size) 3) the /tmp folder might not be writable or full 4) the folder you're trying to write into is not writable (or the drive is full) 5)

Re: [PHP] password hashing and crypt()

2008-01-22 Thread Chris
Richard Lynch wrote: On Sat, January 19, 2008 8:24 pm, Eric Butera wrote: I always make sure that I use a site specific salt which is just appended on the user supplied value. I started doing that when I read that people had created huge databases of hashed values that they can just search on.

Re: [PHP] password hashing and crypt()

2008-01-22 Thread Chris
Richard Lynch wrote: On Tue, January 22, 2008 7:43 pm, Chris wrote: Richard Lynch wrote: On Sat, January 19, 2008 8:24 pm, Eric Butera wrote: I always make sure that I use a site specific salt which is just appended on the user supplied value. I started doing that when I read that people

Re: [PHP] Using mysql_real_escape_string without connecting to mysql

2008-01-23 Thread Chris
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 23/01/2008, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It would be Real Nifty (tm) if the MySQL API had a function that let you specify the charset without a connection and did the escaping. Presumably you don't NEED a connection if you already know what charset thingie you are aimin

Re: [PHP] Using mysql_real_escape_string without connecting to mysql

2008-01-23 Thread Chris
Right now I still use mysql_escape_string and it seems to work fine, but it makes me nervous as everything else I use is mysqli and I know it is not 100% compatible (just haven't had anything break it yet) - but I hate having to have a connection handle open just to escape things. If you need

Re: [PHP] Using mysql_real_escape_string without connecting to mysql

2008-01-23 Thread Chris
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 23/01/2008, Jochem Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can read, I saw 2 functions the first time. each function cleans *and* escapes. cleaning is filtering of input. escaping is preparing for output. 2 concepts. I see your point. if the input needs to be stripped of h

Re: [PHP] Sql support

2008-01-24 Thread Chris
mattias wrote: I try to add php-support to my php installation on windows 2000 server Eh? What sort of support are you trying to add? -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.p

Re: SV: [PHP] Sql support

2008-01-24 Thread Chris
mattias wrote: oops sorry i meen sql You could probably access it through odbc but I can't see any other method available. If you want to use the mssql_* functions the php site has info about how to get it going: http://php.net/mssql Read the comments too - it looks like there are a few

Re: SV: SV: [PHP] Sql support

2008-01-24 Thread Chris
mattias wrote: yes but if you check my phpinfo.php http://mjw.se/phpinfo.php i can't reed out if sql support are enabled If it was there would be a big section called 'mssql' - like there is for odbc. If that's not there, then no you don't have mssql support enabled. -- Postgresql & php tut

Re: [PHP] Hex Strings Appended to Pathnames

2008-01-28 Thread Chris
Mick wrote: Operating System: CentOS 4.6 PHP Version: 4.3.9-3.22.9 Zend Optimizer (free) version: 3.2.6 Hello. I've got somewhat of a strange problem here involving Squirrelmail. Basically, what is happening is that one of our customers is logged out of his Squirrelmail session at random int

Re: [PHP] Another question about functions...

2008-01-29 Thread Chris
What's happening is, I have the code set and it downloads the file into excel, but it doesn't have the database fields in it, rather a copy of the entire webpage which it trys to put into excel. Below is the code that I am using in my function to export the records: echo $select . "\n";

Re: [PHP] Timeout while waiting for a server->client transfer to start (large files)

2008-01-29 Thread Chris
Barney Tramble wrote: Hey I have a script that I am trying to figure out to allow a remote file to be sent to a client's browser. It works ok for small files, but it keeps timing out for large files. I don't think it should even take as long as it does (i.e. about 10seconds) before it pops u

Re: [PHP] Mysql session handler?

2008-01-29 Thread Chris
Mike Yrabedra wrote: Can anyone recommend a good php-mysql session handler class? http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-set-save-handler.php#79706 looks ok. -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, v

Re: [PHP] How can I do this -- method chaining

2008-01-30 Thread Chris
I dunno about the OOP instances getting GC'ed, but PHP *definitely* reclaims memory from arrays and strings as they go out of scope, usually. Does anyone else find that funny? :) It definitely does it ... usually ;) -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] How can I do this -- method chaining

2008-01-30 Thread Chris
Richard Lynch wrote: On Wed, January 30, 2008 6:19 pm, Chris wrote: I dunno about the OOP instances getting GC'ed, but PHP *definitely* reclaims memory from arrays and strings as they go out of scope, usually. Does anyone else find that funny? :) It definitely does it ... usually ;)

Re: [PHP] Fileinfo

2008-02-05 Thread Chris
Mad Unix wrote: I did what you recommended i get the same erorr ;;; ; Resource Limits ; ;;; max_execution_time = 3600 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds max_input_time = 60 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request da

Re: [PHP] PHP CLI Problem

2008-02-05 Thread Chris
First off, the script runs great from the command line when I type "php5 backup.php" but when I type ./backup.php I get an error: "bash: ./backup.php: No such file or directory". Maybe backup.php that you think it's running is the wrong one. Add something like: echo "I am file " . __FILE__ .

Re: [PHP] PHP CLI Problem

2008-02-06 Thread Chris
In your cronjob, replace the php5 entry with the following (including the backticks): `which php5` If that still doesn't work, replace it simply with php, not php5: `which php` You can use 'env php' instead and it'll pick up the first one in $PATH (same sort of idea a

Re: [PHP] urgently help required in integration of PHP and Geronimo

2008-02-07 Thread Chris
Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_language() in /usr/puneet/geronimo-tomcat6-jee5-2.0.2/repository/default/collabo_gero/1202406746983/collabo_gero-1202406746983.war/sns/config.php on line 403 You need to add multibyte support to your php setup. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstr

Re: [PHP] killing a process through php webservice

2008-02-07 Thread Chris
Fahad javed wrote: I am developing a webservice in PHP/Linux where I need to kill a process. I tried using exec("kill ".$pid); and exec("kill -KILL ".$pid); but the return value was always 1 and the process still remained. I wrote up a small shell script and have exec run that script. The scri

Re: [PHP] Better DB Class MySQL

2008-02-10 Thread Chris
Nathan Nobbe wrote: On Feb 9, 2008 7:03 PM, nihilism machine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looking to really beef up my DB class, any suggestions for functions to add that will be more time saving for a web 2.0 app, or ways to improve existing methods? thank you everyone in advance. first of al

Re: [PHP] upload issue

2008-02-17 Thread Chris
nihilism machine wrote: any idea why this fails?this is the error: "Sorry, there was a problem uploading your file" It can't move the file to the $target location, or maybe the file wasn't uploaded properly in the first place. What's in $_FILES['uploaded']['error'] ? http://www.php.net/manu

Re: [PHP] upload issue

2008-02-17 Thread Chris
Børge Holen wrote: On Sunday 17 February 2008 19:22:03 nihilism machine wrote: any idea why this fails?this is the error: "Sorry, there was a problem uploading your file" insert_sql("INSERT INTO CMS_Media (File_Name) VALUES ('')"); $target = "media/" . $insertID . $extension; //echo $target; if

Re: [PHP] Protected ZIP file with password

2008-02-17 Thread Chris
Petrus Bastos wrote: Unfortunately I don't have access to this family of methods because security policy. Lefting this way out, I didn't find anyway on how to do that. If you have any idea or know any module can do that, I'll appreciate to know too! See if the pear package does what you want:

Re: [PHP] unable to unset reference

2008-02-19 Thread Chris
Sylvain Rabot wrote: Hello, First of all I would like to know if one day we will be able to unset $this into a class in order to destroy the object. It could really be useful to prevent big memory usage. I doubt the php-dev's will ever allow something like that, seems rather dangerous to me.

Re: [PHP] MySQL Stored Procedures

2008-02-19 Thread Chris
my only wish was that more people wrote more articles about the proper structure. You mean like the example on the mysql website? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/stored-procedures.html -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www

Re: [PHP] Re: fopen never ends?

2008-02-19 Thread Chris
Perhaps concider moving to fsockopen or stream_socket_client with timeout parameters to solve your issue. fsockopen has no context Maybe I'm missing something but it returns a resource just like fopen. http://php.net/fsockopen -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ --

Re: [PHP] unable to unset reference

2008-02-19 Thread Chris
Hence my previous gibberish, I would expect a reference to be destroyed when the object is, but obviously it's not. It has nothing specifically to do with objects, it's all about how references are handled. $ php -a Interactive mode enabled http://blog.libssh2.org/index.php?/archives/51-Yo

Re: [PHP] unable to unset reference

2008-02-20 Thread Chris
I don't mean unset($this) is the best wy to allow an object to destroy itself. I just say we miss something to auto destroy objects. We could also think about a magic method like __destroy(). An object that destroys itself is a really bad idea from an architectural point of view. I, as a consu

Re: [PHP] Php warning message

2008-02-20 Thread Chris
I may be showing my ignorance here... But on your if ($counter % 2 ==0) line what does the "%" do? Was that possibly a typo? % is the modulus operator, so basically that will alternate between a line having a font tag and not having a font tag. http://www.php.net/operators.arithmetic -- Po

Re: [PHP] Help on running external command / Partially solved

2008-02-20 Thread Chris
Daniel Brown wrote: On Feb 20, 2008 10:30 AM, Mário Gamito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please keep the replies on-list, Mario. It helps others out, and ensures that you'll get better advice from a larger group of talented people. \n"; print_r($ret); echo "\n"; echo isset($err) ? "Error: ".

Re: [PHP] Converting tab delimited file to CSV

2008-02-20 Thread Chris
Back to my 'original' problem/question, if I '$f = fopen("$file", "r")' and 'while ($data = fgets($f))' on the above first format and do a $data = str_replace("\t",",",$data); the resulting file looks like the second example above when opened into Textpad but will not open into separate columns

Re: [PHP] fail on preg_match_all

2008-02-20 Thread Chris
Hamilton Turner wrote: Does anyone know why a server would simply fail on this line? $num = preg_match_all($regex, $theData, $match, PREG_SET_ORDER); if i know the file handle is valid (i grabbed it using 'or die'), and the regex is valid What file handle? preg_match doesn't work on resource

Re: [PHP] AMP installer

2008-02-21 Thread Chris
Ryan A wrote: Hey! Need to reinstall Apache PHP and MySql for personal development use on my new laptop... I usually used phpdev in the past but now I want php5 compatability... can anyone recommend any such "all in one installer". And yes, I know its good experience and so on to do each one

Re: [PHP] Exception vs exception

2008-02-21 Thread Chris
Prabath Kumarasinghe wrote: Hi All Recently I'm came across following code snippet regarding exceptions there I'm executing invalid query and catch the exception as follows. First Approach --- try{ $result = mysql_query('SELECT * from unknowntable'); }c

Re: [PHP] Exception vs exception

2008-02-21 Thread Chris
But it's give a many information using $e->getTrace() is this correct. If there are several mysql_query then I can put it as bunch within try block and catch exception easily. No, it doesn't give any such information. 1 : In second approach for every query I have to write throw new MySQLExcep

Re: [PHP] Copying specific fields from table to table

2008-02-24 Thread Chris
Rob Gould wrote: I've got 2 tables. One table which contains a series of barcodes assigned to product id #'s, and another table with JUST product id #'s. I need to somehow transfer all the barcodes from the first table into the second table, but only where the id #'s match. Can anyone tell m

Re: [PHP] Checking an array against user input?

2008-02-26 Thread Chris
Keikonium wrote: I am a bit confused by your code, Rob. $newTimestamp = $oldTimestamp; $newTimestamp[5] = '.'; means make the 6th character (remember php is 0 based so the first character is index 0) a '.'. -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP General Mailing L

Re: [PHP] sort in while(list($vars) = mysql_fetch_row($result))

2008-02-27 Thread Chris
Verdon Vaillancourt wrote: Hi, I'm running into some sorting issues using a while(list($vars) = mysql_fetch_row($result)). I can provide more code if needed, but thought I would try this little bit first to see if I'm missing a fundamental concept and not a detail. In a nutshell, I have a q

Re: [PHP] ZCE guidance needed

2008-02-27 Thread Chris
But Im interested in how many right answers you should make to pass the exam. As many as you can? -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Making sure an include file works

2008-03-02 Thread Chris
have you considered installing a local copy of php (and suitable webserver) so you can test it there? I'd also suggest using a revision control system (subversion or git) and have pre-commit hooks to check the syntax. It's a bit of work to set up but once it's done you'll notice a differen

Re: [PHP] Importing and exporting from MySQL, escape slash problem

2008-03-02 Thread Chris
Richard Lynch wrote: It's possible that there is an .htaccess file in phpMyAdmin that has Magic Quotes on that is messing you up... Other than that, it's specific to phpMyAdmin, so maybe ask those guys what they did... Also make sure you are running the latest version, in case it's something

Re: [PHP] PHP performance

2008-03-03 Thread Chris
Just FYI, using ADODB will slow down the performance of your app. Any function calls cost against you and it all adds up. If you remove it, then you remove functionality - so before you go and rip it out, check whether it's the bottleneck using xdebug. I use an abstraction layer all the ti

Re: [PHP] Fatal error: Call to a member function web_order_change() on a non-object

2008-03-03 Thread Chris
Ben Edwards wrote: Our server has just been upgraded to PHP 5.2.5 and suddenly I am getting the following error: Fatal error: Call to a member function web_order_change() on a non-object in /var/www/vhosts/cultureshop.org/httpdocs/cart.php on line 32 The code is: $SESSION["cart"]->web_order_c

Re: [PHP] Fatal error: Call to a member function web_order_change() on a non-object

2008-03-03 Thread Chris
I don't think it's a change in OO handling, maybe it's a change in the error_reporting level for the new version and you hadn't noticed the problem before. Its a Fatel Error not a warning. Dont see how level off error reporting could be relevant. Fair enough :P What type of variable is '

Re: [PHP] PHP performance

2008-03-03 Thread Chris
These 'benefits' you talk about really only matter if you switch your databases. If this app is written against Oracle and they never plan to change it, then it isn't a bad idea to cut out that fat and just deal with the native interface. Even writing wrapper functions that are very basic that

Re: RES: [PHP] PHP performance

2008-03-03 Thread Chris
I have a copy of the files and database, but setting it up is not that simple. This vb.net is licensed and we don't have license for. If I could profile the app I'd be more than happy, but that's not going to happen anytime soon. What does the vb.net stuff do? Is it the frontend (eg for data-

Re: [PHP] validating mysql bound date

2008-03-04 Thread Chris
Larry Brown wrote: Its been a long week already... -MM-DD. On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 20:16 -0500, Larry Brown wrote: Does anyone know if there is a builtin function for checking the formatting of an incoming date to verify it is /MM/DD. I know how to convert between formats but want a quic

Re: [PHP] How to measure memory leakage/usage in PHP?

2008-03-05 Thread Chris
Zareef Ahmed wrote: Hi All, I am looking into the concepts behind memory management in PHP. Which kind of approach will be best to measure memory leakage or usage in a PHP script? I can measure my apache process but is there any way by which I can know which exact part of script is consuming

Re: [PHP] How to measure memory leakage/usage in PHP?

2008-03-05 Thread Chris
Zareef Ahmed wrote: Hi Chris, Thanks for such quick response. quite good suggestion, but my application is using a framework and lots of includes and even autoloads of classes are being done, so using break point approach is not possible for me. Why not? It just means the files are

Re: [PHP] CVS Scripts

2008-03-06 Thread Chris
If you want to ask, and have answered, a question that's important to you, then consider asking it in a way that's respectful. That's understandable, is it not? He did ask a question. "I would like to be able to automatically check projects out from a CVS repository using PHP rather than a t

Re: [PHP] Transferring files between computers using php

2008-03-06 Thread Chris
Rahul wrote: I have a small file to be transferred between two computers every few seconds. I'm using unix with a bare bones version of php, i.e. just the original thing that gets installed when I run "yum install php". As there is no webserver on any of these machines, I was wondering if there

Re: [PHP] Re: Transferring files between computers using php

2008-03-06 Thread Chris
Rahul wrote: Thank you all so much for replying... I guess I was very vague in describing the situation. I will write in detail: I have three computers A, B and C. To login to B and C I should use A because it has a SSH key. I don't have any other way of accessing these two computers. Now, if

Re: [PHP] Re: Transferring files between computers using php

2008-03-06 Thread Chris
If ssh keys are installed on the remote hosts then scp works transparently and you just stick the scp in a cron job. Am I missing something? Yeh - looks like you have to log in to "A" and then it uses key-forwarding to let you log in to "B" and "C": --- To login to B and C I should use A b

Re: [PHP] PHP CLI neat errors!

2008-03-12 Thread Chris
Steve Finkelstein wrote: So, I use a Mac to develop with. I used to host Zend Core on my box, until I switched to the MAMP PRO framework. Unfortunately somewhere in between, this lovely issue started occuring with my CLI binary of PHP: foo:~ sf$ php -l dyld: NSLinkModule() error dyld: Symbol no

Re: [PHP] mail function and headers

2008-03-12 Thread Chris
as you can see my Return-Path is still pointing on the wrong direction :-( any other idea ? return-path is set with the 5th mail() param: mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'); -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http:

Re: [PHP] Why does the host make a difference?

2008-03-12 Thread Chris
Rick Pasotto wrote: I have a routine that uses the PEAR module CRYPT_BLOWFISH to encrypt a value and then base64_encode() to create a printable string. If I reverse the process on the same host I get the orginal value however if I do the reverse processing on a different host the result is garbag

Re: [PHP] mail function and headers

2008-03-13 Thread Chris
Alain Roger wrote: Hi Chris, interesting thing, but i get the following error message : *Warning*: mail() [function.mail <http://test4.rogtek.com/common/function.mail>]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The fifth parameter is disabled in SAFE MODE. in */test4/common/sendmail.php* o

Re: [PHP] mail function and headers

2008-03-13 Thread Chris
Alain Roger wrote: hiChris, i've read several forums where this mail() function from PHP initial package is not so great. mail() works fine. phpmailer (and zendmailer, swiftmailer and other such packages) help you with things like: - sending through an smtp server - putting a multipart em

Re: [PHP] Intercepting errors

2008-03-13 Thread Chris
Stephane Ulysse wrote: PLEASE STOP EMAILING ME THEN CLICK THE UNSUBSCRIBE LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE EMAIL. IT'S VERY EASY TO DO. -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] curl fails to connect when not port 80

2008-03-13 Thread Chris
When running this same script through apache however, it works fine without the port directive. However, I get no results when attempting to connect to port 8080. Command line curl works fine too. It's only when connecting through apache that my script fails. Here are some specifics about my

[PHP] PHP 5 file_get_contents() problems

2008-03-18 Thread Chris
hange? Is there a work around to this or how would one access remote web services if allow_url_include is OFF. This looks like a huge problem since many services, like PayPal's IPN and Google maps geocoding, rely on communication with their servers. Thanks, Chris -- PHP General Mai

Re: [PHP] question about php with sql database

2008-03-18 Thread Chris
Sudhakar wrote: instead of using mysql database which is conventionally used as database with php, if sql server database is used with php are there any major differences to keep in mind. In syntax or what? Yes there are differences between the two as far as sql syntax goes. 1. are the conn

Re: [PHP] Re: MySQL Group?

2008-03-19 Thread Chris
George J wrote: Hi John, "John Taylor-Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know of a good MySQL group? I want to make a relational link from `data` to `shopping` so when I insert a new record in `shopping`, I will see the contents of `data`.`name`

Re: [PHP] Re: MySQL Group?

2008-03-19 Thread Chris
John Taylor-Johnston wrote: Thanks for getting me started. (Sorry, I'm a top quoter.) Below is some working code for the archives. What I've learned so far is that : 1) what I'm referring to in `person` has to be a key. It should be a unique item rather than just a 'key' (indexed item). If y

Re: [PHP] php_mssql.so

2008-03-27 Thread Chris
Liz Kim wrote: We have a set of PHP files which uses "dl()" to load the extension "php_mssql.so" at runtime. These were running on a server with PHP 4.3.9 and have been recently moved to a new server with PHP 5.1.6 (both RedHat). I have tried to simply copy the file "php_mssql.so" file to the dir

Re: [PHP] php_mssql.so

2008-03-27 Thread Chris
Liz Kim wrote: Maybe I could just compile it on a test machine and copy the .so file over to the working server. Would there be any incompatibility issues there? If and only if: - They are the same architecture (they both have to be i386 for example, one can't be an amd-64 and the other be a

Re: [PHP] LDAP in php

2008-03-30 Thread Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As LDAP can have SQL back-end (I saw an example with PostgreSQL) - is it a very wild idea to implement (a simple) LDAP server in php? We have all the address data already in PostgreSQL and a php application managing all of it. I am thinking of simple uses, such as pr

Re: [PHP] Re: Quick email address check

2008-03-30 Thread Chris
I have used this to good effect function isEmail($email) { if (eregi("^[a-z0-9]+([-_\.]?[a-z0-9])[EMAIL PROTECTED]([-_\.]?[a-z0-9])+\.[a-z]{2,4}",$email)) { return TRUE; } else { return FALSE; } }//end function I often have a '+' in my email address (wh

Re: [PHP] how to possibly cache something and the theory of better performance / better speed

2008-04-01 Thread Chris
I used to use a script to grab a random image from a folder of images by scanning the folder, returning the list of images, getting one of them randomly and displaying it. Isn't that what the code is doing? Maybe I'm missing something but you've only mentioned one method. What's the second

Re: [PHP] php + copy file

2008-04-02 Thread Chris
$carpeta = "subidos"; // nombre de la carpeta ya creada. chmool 777 (todos los permisos) copy($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'] , $carpeta . '/' . $_FILE ['file']['name']); It's $_FILES not $_FILE (an 's' on the end). It's always worth using error_reporting(E_ALL) and ini_

Re: [PHP] require_once dying silently

2008-04-08 Thread Chris
Richard S. Crawford wrote: Hi, everyone. This one's been driving me bonkers for an hour now. Anyone have any idea why require_once would be dying silently in the script below? $CFG->dirroot = "/home/rcrawford/public_html/tanktrunk/tanktrunk"; $CFG->datar

Re: [PHP] Writing MySQL Update Query with NULL value

2008-04-13 Thread Chris
Bill Guion wrote: I'm trying to write a MySQL UPDATE query where one or more variables may be NULL. So, I'm trying something like: $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; $first_name = $_POST['first_name']; $suffix = $_POST['suffix']; $suffix = empty($suffix) ? NULL : $suffix; $phone = $_PO

Re: [PHP] PHP with NNTP?

2008-04-15 Thread Chris
vester_s wrote: Hi, Can anybody tell me how can php connect to NNTP to get the list of all users in the newsgroups? http://php.net/imap supports nntp. -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://ww

Re: [PHP] Database abstraction?

2008-04-16 Thread Chris
Jason Pruim wrote: Hi Everyone! I'm back with yet another question But getting closer to sounding like I know what I'm talking about and that's all thanks to all of you. A free beer (Or beverage of choice)* for everyone who has helped me over the years! Here's my question... I have a pr

Re: [PHP] Query in Query problems

2008-04-16 Thread Chris
VamVan wrote: Hello All, We many times encounter the situations of having Queries inside loop of another query. Many times we can solve the issue by query joins but there will be some situations where we cannot do it. For Example: function Change($id){ $qry_reg = "SELECT registrationI

Re: [PHP] Database abstraction?

2008-04-16 Thread Chris
Jason Pruim wrote: On Apr 16, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Chris wrote: Jason Pruim wrote: Hi Everyone! I'm back with yet another question But getting closer to sounding like I know what I'm talking about and that's all thanks to all of you. A free beer (Or beverage of choice)* f

Re: [PHP] mysql_connect slowness

2008-04-27 Thread Chris
Waynn Lue wrote: Our site has been slowing down dramatically in the last few days, so I've been trying to figure out why. I ran some profiling scripts on our site and saw that we're spending between 3-9 seconds on mysql_connect. Then I connected to our db and saw that there were over 100 connec

Re: [PHP] Xampp question, pretty much 0T

2008-04-29 Thread Chris
Ryan S wrote: Hello! I have been using XAMPP for quite some time now (thanks to the recommendations from this list) without any real complaints... and the only reason I am writing here is because i am sure a lot of you guys run the same thing considering the amount of people who recommended it

Re: [PHP] Xampp question, pretty much 0T

2008-04-29 Thread Chris
After reading a bit I see that if I just copy the "data" directory in the mySql directory, I can restore it from there? any idea if I have that wrong? Hmm I guess, but I'd take the safer road and open a console and run: mysqldump.exe -u -p --all-databases --add-drop-database --opt > mysql.

Re: [PHP] Best practices for using MySQL index

2008-04-30 Thread Chris
>> Index on most integer fields only. Text fields can be indexed, but is not >> important when you design your DB well. >> >> Don't index just all integer fields. Keep track of the cardinality of a >> column. If you expect a field to have 100.000 records, but with only 500 >> distinct values it ha

Re: [PHP] problem imap_headerinfo

2008-04-30 Thread Chris
Richard Kurth wrote: > I get a *Catchable fatal error*: Object of class stdClass could not be > converted to string on this line $mail_head = imap_headerinfo($conn, $i); RTM. http://www.php.net/imap_headerinfo It's an object, not a string. print_r($mail_head); -- PHP General Mailing List (h

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