RE: [PHP] Formatting a MYSQL time

2002-02-07 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 10:47, Kevin Stone wrote: > Unless the $eventdate coming being pulled from your database a bonified > Unix timestamp the date() function will not work. > > I don't like MySQL functions so I've always used $timestamp = mktime() > to create the timestamp. Then plug that value

Re: [PHP] ODBC_EXECUTE has a DANGEROUS 'feature'!!!

2002-02-08 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 04:43, * R&zE: wrote: > Hi folks, > > I don't know if everyone ever knew this, but I haven't been able to > find anything about this, anywhere... > > odbc_execute has a very dangerous 'feature'. I would like to call it > a bug, because someone has implemented it on purpose

Re: [PHP] mysql_select_db() problem

2002-02-09 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 12:24, Nick Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > I just can't see what could possibly be wrong with my php here: > > $sel_db=mysql_select_db("mydb") or die > ("could not get the bugger"); > exit; > > I can

Re: [PHP] Parameters via Link

2002-02-09 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 15:39, Manuel Ritsch wrote: > Still doesnt' work, any ither suggestions? Sounds like you don't have register_globals turned on. (Don't turn it on! globals are eevviill! ;) Try: if ($_REQUEST['link'] == 'home') { . . . } Or, if using an older (pre-4.1.0) version of PHP

Re: [PHP] Nested functions

2002-02-09 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 15:40, DL Neil wrote: > Hi, > Have been experimenting with the array_walk function and a little array debug print >facility, but ran into a > problem with nested functions. The code can be written with nested functions and >successfully executed once; but > when repeatedly

Re: [PHP] Parameters via Link

2002-02-09 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 15:54, Manuel Ritsch wrote: > I have PHP Version 4.0.5 and register_globals turned on but it doesnt' work > =( Is it inside a function? If not, can you send me a copy of the script? Torben > "Lars Torben Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [PHP] my math stinks

2002-02-10 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 11:05, Gary wrote: > Hi All, > This is the first time I have had to deal with math. I have gone > through the manual and a few books and I think I am worse off then when > I started. Can someone give me an example of the simple math below. I > think If I see some in code

RE: [PHP] ODBC_EXECUTE has a DANGEROUS 'feature'!!!

2002-02-12 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 06:46, Jerry Verhoef (UGBI) wrote: > I think you all are missing the point that *R&zE is making. > > The software you use/create should be bugfree and free from undocumented > features. Otherwise security risks could occur. And ofcourse all other In a perfect world, yes. H

Re: [PHP] ereg-digits only...

2002-02-12 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 03:04, B. Verbeek wrote: > > How do I check a string for it to only contain numbers? > > >> > > if(!ereg("([0-9]+)",$string)){ > > print "It contains characters other than numbers"; > > }else{ > > print "Only numbers"; > > } > > << > > Can anyone give

Re: [PHP] PHP not parsed in HTML

2002-02-12 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 12:36, SpyProductions Support Team wrote: > > Hhere's another humdinger of a question: > > I am with a hosting company that doesn't want to parse PHP in HTML files > because they are afraid it will slow down their server(s) too much. > > So. I really like them and

Re: [PHP] getting $PHP_SELF's basename

2002-02-12 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 13:16, Erik Price wrote: > Is there already a built-in function that gets the basename of the > current file? > > I wrote this: > > function get_current_page_name() > { > $current_page_name = explode("/", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); > $current_page_name = array_slice($c

Re: [PHP] getting $PHP_SELF's basename

2002-02-12 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 13:32, Erik Price wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 04:26 PM, Lars Torben Wilson wrote: > > > echo basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); > > > > http://www.php.net/basename > > > > Thank you Torben. Reading th

Re: [PHP] How to obtain the script's path?

2002-02-12 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 13:44, Alex Shi wrote: > Hi, > > I have a script need to be launched from terminal, and I want > it to report the script's path. Because this script is required to > be launched from command line, so those Apache env vars > have not effect work, even $PHP_SELF don't work. >

Re: [PHP] Convert a string to an array w/o spliting or exploding

2002-02-13 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 07:19, brendan conroy wrote: > Hi, thanks for reading this novice question, I'd be grateful if someone > could email me and tell me if its possible to convert a string to an array > whithout using the split[] or explode[] function, as these aren't > appropriate for the tas

Re: [PHP] Convert a string to an array w/o spliting or exploding

2002-02-13 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 09:06, Erik Price wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 10:19 AM, brendan conroy wrote: > > > Hi, thanks for reading this novice question, I'd be grateful if someone > > could email me and tell me if its possible to convert a string to an > > array whithout usin

RE: [PHP] Php is serversided????

2002-02-13 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 11:56, Rick Emery wrote: > The if-statements are based upon values read from session variables, > cookies, values from databases, and values for the form that was just > submitted. > > So, no, there are no if-statements executed on data the user has not > submitted. Say wha

Re: [PHP] querystrings passed in header("Location: n") ?

2002-02-13 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 07:34, Erik Price wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 09:53 AM, Rick Emery wrote: > > > try: > > header("Location: > > domain.com/errorpage.php?errorcode=".urlencode($errorcode)); First to the original question: yes, querys are allowed in Location headers, acco

Re: [PHP] trouble with headers

2002-02-13 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 17:57, Erik Price wrote: > Sorry, I debugged it myself. > > Don't add extra whitespace lines after you jump out of PHP mode (for > instance, at the end of an include file, don't have any extra lines > after the '?> PHP-jump-out mark'. The extra lines at the bottom of the

Re: [PHP] Filling Forms with $variables

2002-02-13 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 13:56, Steven Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble setting the value of form elements using variable > values. For example: > > > > > > > > In the browser, the name field is only filled with "Steven", and drops > off everything after the space. If I echo $

Re: [PHP] ODBC_EXECUTE has a DANGEROUS 'feature'!!!

2002-02-13 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 00:21, * R&zE: wrote: > I understand you try to 'protect' your own product, but you have to > stay a bit realistic about some things. Ofcourse I check the input. > But you know... there's absolutely nothing wrong with allowing > quotes to be stored in the database. It's just

Re: [PHP] Browse and Upload file

2002-02-13 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 17:38, Reuben D Budiardja wrote: > > Hi, > Does anyone know how to upload file using Web Browser as the interface? > > I want to do a web page, where you can click on a button, and then you can > browse the local directories of the person who are browsing the page, and >

Re: [PHP] Browse and Upload file

2002-02-13 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 18:26, Reuben D Budiardja wrote: > Thanks. I follow the manual. I changed my php.ini: > upload_tmp_dir = '/home/web/' > which is writable by web (the user running apache/php) and restart apache. > > However, after I upload the file, I can't find it. When I do > print_r($H

Re: [PHP] Browse and Upload file

2002-02-13 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 18:53, Reuben D Budiardja wrote: > Sorry, I meant to include those information. > > Here is from php.ini > > ; File Uploads ; > > file_uploads = On; Whether to allow HTTP file uploads > upload_tmp_dir = /home/web > upload_max_files

Re: [PHP] Browse and Upload file

2002-02-13 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 19:18, Reuben D Budiardja wrote: > Yes, I have. I follow the example exactly from > http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php. Well, that's the problem then. The example in the manual is buggy. :) This was fixed in cvs earlier today, actually, but the online m

Re: [PHP] how a function 'return' statement works

2002-02-14 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 07:32, Erik Price wrote: > Hm... I tried quite a few variations on this. I can't seem to get any > displayable value out of this function. > > function get_current_page_name() > { > $current_page_name = explode("/", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); > $current_page_name = $current_pa

Re: [PHP] good practice

2002-02-14 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 11:09, James Taylor wrote: > Can someone recommend a better method for doing something like the following? > All of my programs are written like this, but it's really poor form > considering I'm not predeclaring my variables, etc. Only thing I can really > think of is to

Re: [PHP] Sorting an array of arrays....

2002-02-14 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 08:26, Fifield, Mike wrote: > What I am trying to do is sort a array of arrays but I want to sort by one > of the pieces of data stored in the arrays inside the array. For example; > $data[blue] = array("name", "age", "time", "3"); > $data[green] = array("name", "age", "time"

Re: [PHP] More about sessions.

2002-02-14 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 11:40, Morten Nielsen wrote: > Hi again, > I have read about sessions in the PHP manual and as far as I understand > session needs the user to allow cookies. Is my understanding correct so far? > But if it is required to accept cookies why not just pass all the required > par

Re: [PHP] really weird problem

2002-02-14 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 11:15, Jaxon wrote: > hi folks, can someone shed some light here? > > i've got a file called index.php with the following contents: > > > echo "debug output: index.php loaded"; > if (is_null($page_name)) $page_name="about"; > echo "debug: page name = $page_name"; > > $na

Re: [PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and view its code in thebrowser?

2002-02-14 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 12:26, Kevin Stone wrote: > How can I open a local PHP script and view its code to the browser? The > Readfile() method appears to parse and execute the code. The Fopen() > method appears to parse and then not execute the code, leaving a blank > screen, or at the very least

RE: [PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and view its code in thebrowser?

2002-02-14 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
> > This works.. > View Source for > Myscript.php > > This doesn't work.. > http://www.mydomain/myscript.php";>View > Source for Myscript.php > > Thanks for your help. It's always the little things that'll get ya. :) > > -- > K

Re: [PHP] fopen

2002-02-14 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 17:34, John Smythe wrote: > i wanna know if there is a way of opening a file in a certian mode so when i write >to a txt file it writes at the top of the file, and doesnt overwrite whats at the >start of the file No, not with fopen(). What you can do is create a temporary

RE: [PHP] fopen

2002-02-15 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
condition'. The other method avoids that, since while you're writing data to the temp file, processes just keep using the original. Once you're done, the rename happens atomically, preventing the race condition. Torben > -Original Message- > From: Lars Torben Wils

Re: [PHP] fopen

2002-02-15 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 08:14, Erik Price wrote: > > On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 04:53 AM, Lars Torben Wilson wrote: > > > The problem with that is that you have a time lag (perhaps only > > in microseconds, but it still is a problem) while you're writing > &

Re: [PHP] writing / reading from text files

2002-02-15 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 10:36, cyberskydive wrote: > thanks guys, > > there is just one more question I dont see an answer for anywhere I've > looked. > > will fseek read past \n's and if so how do I move the filepointer to a > newline, or should I just put all the data on one line? (not unreasona

Re: [PHP] The ASP "application" object in PHP?

2002-02-15 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 05:43, Bendik Simonsen wrote: > > I've recently started to learn ASP (*ducks the hurled flowerpots and > vases*) because my school requires it, but of course I prefer PHP for > my own scripting needs. > > I have however, noticed one feature that ASP has that I have not foun

Re: [PHP] What Do You Think?

2002-02-15 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 11:40, Richard Crawford wrote: > I'd be much more interested in microbreweries, though. Most commercial > breweries like Anheuser Busch and Coors don't brew beer. Send some of > their product to a lab, and the results will say something like, "Your > horse has diabetes." >

Re: [PHP] LINUX distrib of PHP different to windows?

2002-02-16 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 05:55, Andy wrote: > Hi there, > > I just installed my first linux box and I have problems on configuring php > for my needs. > > It does not matter what I do to php.ini, nothing is changing. And yes, I did > restart apache. I thought php4.1.1 > comes with gd2.0 build in, l

Re: [PHP] Re: Where To Find Resources About Programming Style (mybleedin' code is so darn ugly)

2002-02-17 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 11:05, Christian Blichmann wrote: > Hi there! [snip] > if (condition) one_statement(); > > if (condition) > one_statement(); > else > other_statement(); > > if (condition) > on

Re: [PHP] Re: Polymorphism in PHP

2002-02-18 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 12:12, Richard Fox wrote: > That's right, the difference between C++ "pure virtual" and "virtual" is > that a virtual function has an implementation but pure virtual only defines > an interface. > > But can we get back to my original PHP question: Can I do something like the

Re: [PHP] Shared Memory Error.

2002-02-18 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 23:34, Paul J. Stevens wrote: > I am using PHP Version 4.0.4pl1 with an Embedded Linux (PeeWee Linux, > which is based on Red Hat 6.2 w/ a 2.2.18 Kernel). > > I have tried using shmop_open(), shm_open() & shm_attach(). All of these > give an error message of "function not d

Re: [PHP] Unique Numbers

2002-02-18 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 13:14, Steven Walker wrote: > Is it safe to use time() to generate a unique id number? > > My thinking is that the call to the server will take enough time that no > two users will get the same time stamp (although they may be very > close). Even though the likelyhood of

Re: [PHP] NULL Apache environment variables

2002-02-18 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 08:56, Narvaez, Teresa wrote: > Hello, > I'm running PHP version 4.1.1. When I invoke this function, phpinfo()?>, all variables are set. However, when I try to retrieve a value > of a certain variable like this: > > > > It returns NULL. Is there a missi

Re: [PHP] NULL Apache environment variables

2002-02-18 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 14:58, Erik Price wrote: > > On Monday, February 18, 2002, at 05:44 PM, Lars Torben Wilson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 08:56, Narvaez, Teresa wrote: > >> Hello, > >>I'm running PHP version 4.1.1. When I invoke this functi

Re: [PHP] PHP_SELF Undefined

2002-02-18 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 15:02, Erik Price wrote: > > On Monday, February 18, 2002, at 05:50 PM, Narvaez, Teresa wrote: > > > When I execute the code below, why is PHP_SELF undefined? I will > > appretiate > > any help on this. I can get its value by: > > echo $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];Thanks

Re: [PHP] PHP_SELF Undefined

2002-02-18 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 15:29, Matt wrote: > > $foo = "This page is $_SERVER[PHP_SELF]"; > > > > Or, better: > > > > $foo = "This page is {$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}"; > > > > You do have to concat to do this in single-quoted (noninterpolated) > > strings, though. > > > > > http://www.php.net/manual/

RE: [PHP] PHP_SELF Undefined

2002-02-19 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 05:14, Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 18 February 2002 23:30 > > To: Lars Torben Wilson > > > > > $foo = "This page is $_SERVER[PHP_SELF]"; [

Re: [PHP] getenv & $REMOTE_ADDR

2002-02-20 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 12:26, Analysis and Solutions wrote: > Hi Steven: > > Steven Walker wrote: > > > > Does anybody know why the predefined variable $REMOTE_ADDR would be > > null, while getenv("REMOTE_ADDR") works fine? > > Put "register_globals" on via your php.ini or .htaccess file. In ph

Re: [PHP] getenv & $REMOTE_ADDR

2002-02-20 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 12:42, Steven Walker wrote: > What is the difference between $_SERVER and getenv()? Why should one be > more reliable/better than the other? > > > Better: avoid globals and use $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']. > > Sorry, if I'm asking you to repeat yourself... the documentation do

Re: [PHP] change request for function highlight_string

2002-02-20 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 14:13, Rein Velt wrote: > At this moment (php4.1.1) the function "highlight_string" has the following > syntax: > > > [quote] > bool highlight_string ( string str) > This function prints out a syntax highlighted version of str using the > colors defined in the built-in syn

RE: [PHP] file delete...

2002-04-17 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 13:12, Leotta, Natalie (NCI/IMS) wrote: > According to this, you should actually use unlink, but delete is available. > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.delete.php > > -Natalie That's not actually what the page says...;) > -Original Message- > From: jas [ma

Re: [PHP] Array function to delete

2002-04-25 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 12:22, Liam Gibbs wrote: > I've been checking the PHP documentation, but can't > find a function that will delete a member of an array, > like such: > > $a = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5); > > Use the function, say array_delete($a, 3); and that > will delete the third member in the

Re: [PHP] Array function to delete

2002-04-25 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 12:34, Nathan wrote: > No. :-) > > What I've had to do is add a dummy value, unset($array[4]) and then array_pop the >dummy value off > the array to get it out of there completely. The reason: unset will only remove >$array[4]'s value, > not the key. > > There are plenty

Re: [PHP] Array function to delete

2002-04-25 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 12:32, Pushkar Pradhan wrote: > That's neat but I just read the docs. it says unset() won't work inside a > function, even if you pass by reference! No, that is not at all what it says. > Anyways as far as you don't use functions to do the delete it will work > fine. > > On

Re: [PHP] Array function to delete

2002-04-25 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 14:01, Kevin Stone wrote: > About all I would suggest is that you eliminate the unecessary function > calls substr and explode to optimize your code. I doubt prebuilt PHP > functions will help you here. This is perfectly valid method for deleting > elements in an array and

Re: [PHP] PHP can't access txt files (but TCL can..??)

2002-05-11 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 14:53, Phil Powell wrote: > TCL 1, PHP 0 > > Ok, I am frustrated.. here is my code and this portion has to be done in > PHP. I have a frame that can only be accessed if 1 of 2 things occur: > > 1) if $HTTP_REFERER has a specific value > 2) if your nickname passed in the qu

Re: [PHP] read all files in directory

2002-05-11 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 15:39, Andreas Indahl wrote: > Hi! > > How can I read all files in a directory, when I don't know which files are > there? > > Sincerely > Andreas Indahl Try some of the examples from the manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.opendir.php http://www.php.net/manua

Re: [PHP] read all files in directory

2002-05-11 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 15:52, olinux wrote: > $dirPath = "C:\somepath"; > $dhandle = opendir($dirPath); > > while ($filename = readdir($dhandle)) { This will bail on the first directory entry which has a name which evaluates to false. Try it after 'touch 0' in the directory you're scanningth

Re: [PHP] Enabling Java in a web browser using PHP script

2002-05-13 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 18:03, Michael P. Carel wrote: > Hi to all, > > How could i automatically enable Java in a Web browser to execute java > script using PHP. I have some javascripts line's in my PHP script and im > worried that it will not work if the browser was not java enabled. Or is > ther

Re: [PHP] Where's the error?

2002-05-13 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 19:32, Josh Edwards wrote: > This is meant to grab a date out of a log file from the first line of the > array but I'm getting a parse error on line 13. Any ideas? > > function getdate($hit) There is already a PHP function named 'getdate()'; you'll need another name here.

Re: [PHP] Where's the error?

2002-05-13 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 20:01, Josh Edwards wrote: > Thanks heaps for your help I really appreciate it. I have made the changes > you suggested but now I only get a blank screen. > > function getmydate($hit) > { > $single = explode (" ",$hit); > return $single[3].$single[4]; > } > > $filename =

Re: [PHP] PHP Tag question

2002-05-15 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 13:31, Matthew Walker wrote: > I'm writing a coding standards document for our programmers, and I need > to know if the 'echo' shortcut PHP tags are always on, or if we need to > assume they might not be on. > > (By echo shortcut, I mean this syntax: ) The only guaranteed a

Re: [PHP] The future of call time pass-as-reference

2002-05-15 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 17:13, Frank wrote: > > After installing PHP 4.2.0 I got the following error-message under a run: > > "Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed > by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration > of [runtime fu

Re: [PHP] regexp magic

2002-05-28 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 16:56, Dan Harrington wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > I'm trying to do some regexp magic and just can't seem to > get it done with PHP. > > Basically I want to evaluate a word and if the last character > of the word is an 's', to knock it off, unless there are > two conse

Re: [PHP] PHP new super globals or something else??

2002-05-28 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 18:05, Gerard Samuel wrote: > Its a fairly long script but this is a basic rundown of the mechanics. > > some_page.php > - > /* user is sent here from another page, grab foo and bar from the url */ > $foo = $_GET['foo']; > $bar = $_GET['bar']; >

[PHP] Re: [PHP-DEV] Help on PHP vs JAVA

2002-02-21 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 01:07, Berlina wrote: > Hello to everybody, > > I need some help for writting a comparison of PHP vs JAVA, and of course, I > need that PHP wins > ;-D Wins what? For what task? This is quite a nebulous question. And if you've decided which will win before you've done the r

Re: [PHP] Safe mode/restricted directory file system operations

2002-02-21 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 10:44, Dave wrote: > Apache server with PHP module > Apache user is nobody:nobody > Virtual user is user1:user1 [snip] > Ideas or suggestions appreciated. > > Dave Well, this isn't really a PHP issue, but what the hell. If you need to do filesystem stuff as a certain user

Re: [PHP] XML compliance with forms and trans_sid when usingsessions

2002-02-21 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 09:45, James Nord wrote: > Hi, > > How do I get PHP to output an HTML tag instead of and XML tag when using > trans_sid and a form in PHP. > > (eg) > php outputs > > > > but I don't want the trailing / > > /James I already told you how in the bug system: use output b

Re: [PHP] Re: NULL value for variable

2002-02-21 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 08:16, Andrey Hristov wrote: > It seems that you use global where it is not needed- outside of any function > First error because error_reporting is not set to 0 in php.ini so error_reporting >valus includes E_WARNING. > if you set error_reporting=0 in php.ini or error_repor

RE: [PHP] Re: NULL value for variable

2002-02-21 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
Download Now > > > > > downloadfile.php > >print_r ($_REQUEST['fileId']); >if ( ! is_numeric($fileId) ) > die ("Invalid PictureNumber specified: ($fileId)"); >?> > > > > -Origin

Re: [PHP] XML compliance with forms and trans_sid whenusing sessions

2002-02-21 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 14:11, James Nord wrote: > Unfortunatly I know some that need to leave it. > > >If you would state exactly what the problem with the slash being > >there is, perhaps we could help you. > > > The HTML renderer that comes with Java (jfc) renders the '>' due to the > '/' bein

Re: [PHP] overwriting PHP_SELF and PHP_AUTH_xxxx

2002-02-21 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 22:31, K.Tomono wrote: > Hi there. > > This must be a curious question, but I want to know... Globals, and register_globals = on, are insecure for exactly this reason. This is why new versions of PHP will default to register_globals = off, and why it's a good idea to use r

Re: [PHP] grab a file from location and save it to server

2002-02-25 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 13:03, Mike Krisher wrote: > Is there a way with PHP to grab a file from an external server > (http://www.domain.com/image.jpg) and save/upload it onto my local server? > > Thanks in advance, > __ > Mike Krisher http://www.php.net/curl Cheers,

Re: [PHP] Numbered Arrays

2002-02-25 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 13:56, Phillip S. Baker wrote: > What is the quick way to generate numbered arrays? > I cannot seem to find it in my documentation. > > Looking to generate and populate an array with the numbers 0-23. > > Thanks > > Phillip http://www.php.net/range Cheers, Torben

Re: [PHP] switch & continue statements

2002-02-25 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 20:13, KAT 44 wrote: > Hello, > I'm not sure if this is a newsgroup, list or direct e-mail > address. In any case, I ask of anybody who can answer my > question to *send me an e-mail* at [EMAIL PROTECTED], > and not answer on the list/newsgroup/etc. (Thank you.) I'm reply

Re: [PHP] word wrapping again

2002-02-26 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 20:36, Michael P. Carel wrote: > Hi there, > > Is there any function that can i used in wrapping a continuous line of words > that will be displayed in the HTML table to avoid destroying its table > format. I've tried wordwrapping function but it only wraps word with spaces

Re: [PHP] array_search

2002-02-26 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 01:29, Roger Keays wrote: > Hi, > > Can anybody explain why the output of this script is > > not found > Found! Yup. array_search() returns the key of the found object, as noted in the docs (http://www.php.net/array_search). Since the first test has the searched-for field

Re: [PHP] is_uploaded_file() emulation?

2002-02-27 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 13:22, Bogdan Stancescu wrote: > Hello all! > > How do I find out if a file was actually uploaded /without/ using > is_uploaded_file()? First: Why not use is_uploaded_file()? Second Second: What version of PHP are you using? Torben > My first though is that I should use

Re: [PHP] Reading a conf file

2002-02-27 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 13:43, Brandon Orther wrote: > Does anyone have a good idea of how I can pull the info out of a conf > file setup like this? Maybe pull it into an array. > > > ## Conf File ## > > domain.websites.com > > > newsite.worldwideweb.net > > > So I would get the domain.we

Re: [PHP] Non printable page

2002-03-01 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
Diana Castillo writes: > Is there any way tomake a page that cannot be printed?? No. If you display data on my machine I can do anything with it, since it must exist on my machine in some form in order to be displayed. -- Torben Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.thebuttlesschaps.com htt

Re: [PHP] Re: Non printable page

2002-03-03 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 20:03, michael kimsal wrote: > Diana Castillo wrote: > > Is there any way tomake a page that cannot be printed?? > > > > > GZIP the page and force the end user to use Netscape. ??? No, still wouldn't work. If the data ever gets displayed, then it is present on the viewer

Re: [PHP] exit status

2002-03-03 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 04:16, David Apthorpe wrote: > I'm using PHP on the command line. Is there any way to exit, whilst setting > the exit status, without having it print out? For example, exit(2) will > print "2". > > Thanks in advance, > > David Apthorpe This will be in PHP 4.2.0. -- T

Re: [PHP] % character in sprintf

2002-03-03 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
Job Miller writes: > > how do i escape the % character to appear in a sprintf > statement? > > it doesn't mention that in the sprintf php manual > page. > > > > job Yeah it does--it's the first item in the list. :) -- Torben Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.thebuttlesschaps.com ht

Re: [PHP] Pipe

2002-03-03 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 19:32, Ken Tossell wrote: > What var is the piped data placed in? > > Php 4.1 executable rhlinux 2.4.17 I'm gonna assume that you mean that you're doing something like this: % cat somefile.txt | script.php In which case, you'd need to fopen() the file 'php://stdin' and re

Re: [PHP] using a variable to a function call

2002-03-07 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 06:25, Matt Williams wrote: > Hi all > > I get a variable that is set be a select box on a page. > I want to use this variable to call a function within a class that is based > on it's name. > > so if $var = "me" > > I want to call $class->me_function(); > > or if > >

Re: [PHP] --with-xml set by default?

2002-03-11 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 13:14, Erik Price wrote: > Hello, > > I have a quick question, as I recompile my PHP installation up to 4.1.2: > > Is the --with-xml option to ./configure a standard these days? I seem > to remember that in my initial PHP 4.0.6 installation I used this > parameter, but I

Re: [PHP] Scope problem in while loop

2002-03-11 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 18:51, Randall Perry wrote: > According to the PHP 4 docs all variables are global unless within a > function. I've got the following test code which should output 2, but > outputs 1. The while loop creates it's own class object (which seems strange > since it isn't explicitl

Re: [PHP] Is there a faster way to escape special characters in aregex?

2002-03-12 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 05:57, Richard Davey wrote: > Hi all, > > At the moment I'm doing this to escape all "special" regular expression > characters from my regex string: Sounds like you want preg_quote(): http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-quote.php Hope this helps, Torben >$

Re: [PHP] parse error? how can I print spesific message for allerror mesage

2002-03-12 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 12:32, Ceyhun Güler wrote: > if I write directly "localhost/myphp/resmigoster.php" on his browser > it response > Warning: Undefined index: dir in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\kocak\resimgoster.php on > line 1 > > Warning: Undefined index: res in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\kocak\resimgoster.p

Re: [PHP] variable scope

2002-03-12 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 14:38, David Johansen wrote: > I have a little chunk of code that checks to see if a variable exists and if > not then it sets it. It goes like this: > > if (empty($page)) > { >$page = "login"; > } > > I then end that part of the php script after doing what I need to. T

Re: [PHP] mixed type

2002-03-12 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 14:33, max wrote: > While looking thru php funcions (mixed ora_getcolumn ( int cursor, mixed > column) in partucular) > I came across type MIXED. What does that mean? There is no such type > mentioned in the php > docs under TYPES section. > > thanks. > > max. It simply me

Re: [PHP] $PHP_SELF in include files

2002-03-12 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 15:02, David Johansen wrote: > Is there a way that I can use $PHP_SELF in include files, so that the > function will use the URL of the php script that calls the include file? > Thanks, > Dave If a.php includes b.php, and you check $PHP_SELF in b.php, it should give you the

Re: [PHP] $PHP_SELF in include files

2002-03-12 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
c%20on%20line%2035 >?page=questions You probably have register_globals turned off, as it should be. In versions of PHP from 4.1.0 onward, it's off by default; see http://www.php.net/release_4_1_0.php for more information. In short, try $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] and see what you get.

Re: [PHP] $PHP_SELF in include files

2002-03-12 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 15:17, David Johansen wrote: > Here's the chunk of code in the include file that gave me that. I should > have put it with the original post: Ach. Well, $PHP_SELF is in the global scope, so you will either need to use 'global $PHP_SELF;' at the beginning of your function, o

Re: [PHP] Own ErrorHandler but standard ErrorMsg

2002-03-13 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 11:06, Malte Hübner wrote: > Hi! > > I've got a little Problem with my ErrorHandler. > > set_error_handler('ErrorHandler'); is executed on top of my script. Right > after it the ErrorHandler function. > > After the ErrorHandler function there is a require('foo.php'); > >

Re: [PHP] include() question

2002-03-14 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 13:20, Phil Schwarzmann wrote: > Why doesn't this work... > > include("index.php?var='$var'); > > I want to include a page in my code and send a variable to it but I get > some funky error. > > THANKS!! Please read this page carefully, especially the third paragraph an

Re: [PHP] Can I search for a partial match in an array ?

2002-03-28 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 16:50, Dalton Hunter wrote: > Hi, I want to search for a partial match in an array? Does in_array() or > search_array() support this or is there another way? For example if I have > 30 file names in an array in the format ... > > file1.txt > file2.txt > pic1.gif > pic2.gif >

Re: [PHP] BUG in recursion

2002-03-30 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 15:59, Uros Gruber wrote: > Hi! > > This is a code > > function Test() > { > static $count = 0; > > $count++; > echo $count; > if ($count < 10) { > Test (); > } > echo "j"; > } > test(); > > Output is > > 12345678910jj > > Why is

Re: Re[2]: [PHP] BUG in recursion

2002-03-30 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 16:16, Uros Gruber wrote: > Hi! > > This I simply don't understand why this code executes that > way. So there is only inportant to put return after recursive > call and it works like i wan't. I sometimes write small C > programs and I don't remeber that code like this have

Re: [PHP] For Loop going too long

2002-03-30 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 15:40, David Johansen wrote: > I have a question about something weird that I've noticed Here's some code > that I have that loads up > >$sql = "SELECT * FROM pickup_times WHERE DAYOFMONTH(time0_name) = > $dayofmonth"; > >$result = mysql_query($sql, $dbh); >$day

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