Re: [PHP] Array problem

2004-03-22 Thread Firman Wandayandi
Hi noginn, $columntotals[$count] = $columntotals[$count] + $sum; ^-^ ERROR HERE Seem you tried to assign columntotal[index] with itself and you never defined it. You should tried this one. =

Re: [PHP] SQL Injection check (mysql)

2004-03-22 Thread Evan Nemerson
On Sunday 21 March 2004 06:39 pm, Chris Shiflett wrote: --- Michael Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be clear: make sure the data that the user submitted only contains the characters you think are valid (don't bother trying to guess malicious characters - you're sure to miss one)

Re: [PHP] what is the best idea to make mirror for mysql database

2004-03-22 Thread Burhan Khalid
QT wrote: Dear Sirs, I have a web site which is keeping user data in mysql. I am afraiding that to collapse of existing server without my control. I want to use another server to keep in standby and I want to set new server DNS as a third and forth server. As far as I know if primary and

[PHP] what is the best idea to make mirror for mysql database

2004-03-22 Thread QT
Dear Sirs, I have a web site which is keeping user data in mysql. I am afraiding that to collapse of existing server without my control. I want to use another server to keep in standby and I want to set new server DNS as a third and forth server. As far as I know if primary and secondary server

[PHP] Peculiar number_format() behaviour

2004-03-22 Thread Paul Hopkins
Here's the code: ?php $a = 676.6; $b = 0.175; $y = $a * (1 + $b); echo(y: . $a . * (1 + . $b . ) = $yBR); $z = $a + ($a * $b); echo(z: . $a . + ( . $a . * . $b . ) = $zBR); echo(number format(y)=.number_format($y, 2).BR); echo(number format(z)=.number_format($z, 2).BR); ? Here's the

[PHP] Re: Zend Optimiser -- wide spread??

2004-03-22 Thread Kim Steinhaug
As other people mention here PHP Zend Optimizer is usually NOT installed on any systems unless they have encountered a customer which needed it. Were selling a shoppingcart system and *every* host were encountered did not have it installed. Another sollution comes up, since a lot of the hosting

RE: [PHP] Peculiar number_format() behaviour

2004-03-22 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 22 March 2004 10:31, Paul Hopkins wrote: Here's the code: ?php $a = 676.6; $b = 0.175; $y = $a * (1 + $b); echo(y: . $a . * (1 + . $b . ) = $yBR); $z = $a + ($a * $b); echo(z: . $a . + ( . $a . * . $b . ) = $zBR); echo(number format(y)=.number_format($y, 2).BR);

[PHP] building CLI version only

2004-03-22 Thread neko
Hey guys, A server I'm using has PHP compiled into Apache, and I want to leave that alone and just build a CLI version of php. Can I get away with just going: ./configure --with-mysql --prefix=/some/home/dir make make install ? I dont' want to upset the existing apache installation of PHP or

RE: [PHP] Decoding a URL without decoding values

2004-03-22 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 21 March 2004 16:03, Ben Ramsey wrote: I've got a querystring that looks like this: ?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftest.alpharetta.ga.us%2Findex.php%3Fm%3Dlink s%26category%3DRecreation%2B%2526%2BParks%26go.x%3D22%26go.y%3D7 As you can gather, I'm trying to pass a URL to another script for some

Re: [PHP] Array problem

2004-03-22 Thread noginn
Ye that is true, however to create the totals of each columns I had to somehow do this. I have fixed the problem in a way, but it was probably a very crude way of doing so. $rowtotal = $rowtotal + $sum; if(!empty($columntotals[$count])) {

[PHP] Question for PHP.net

2004-03-22 Thread Florian Hoenl
Dear PHP.net, I have got a question!!! I`ll develop a new PHP Site and threr is a problem with Hyperlinks!!! How can I use index?nav=Webmaster?? Whats the source code for this funktion Best Regards Florian Hoenl -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

[PHP] Fill strings with nbsp;

2004-03-22 Thread Merlin
Hi there, I was searching for a php function which fills empty spaces in string varibales with nbsp;, but could not find one. Is there such thing? Thanx for any help, Merlin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Question for PHP.net

2004-03-22 Thread Red Wingate
Hi, Dear PHP.net, I have got a question!!! I`ll develop a new PHP Site and threr is a problem with Hyperlinks!!! First of all, there is no problem with hyperlinks, you maybe have an problem understanding how to use hyperlinks. How can I use index?nav=Webmaster?? Whats the source code for

Re: [PHP] Scheduling PHP on Windows

2004-03-22 Thread imran asghar
hi, I do this task on window thru schedule task as, First I create BATCH file File.bat:: @ECHO OFF c:\php\php -q c:\dailyscript\script.php then I added this file.bat path into schedule Task for specify time interval imran - Original Message - From: [EMAIL

Re: [PHP] Fill strings with nbsp;

2004-03-22 Thread Red Wingate
Hi Merlin, guess there is no php function which handles this, but you can easily use str_replace to do this. http://php.net/str_replace -- red Am Montag, 22. März 2004 13:02 schrieb Merlin: Hi there, I was searching for a php function which fills empty spaces in string varibales with

RE: [PHP] Fill strings with nbsp;

2004-03-22 Thread Dave G
I was searching for a php function which fills empty spaces in string varibales with nbsp;, but could not find one. Wouldn't str_replace do it? http://jp2.php.net/str_replace -- Yoroshiku! Dave G [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] Fill strings with nbsp;

2004-03-22 Thread Firman Wandayandi
$str = str_replace(' ', 'nbsp;', $str); $str = preg_replace('/\s+/', 'nbsp;', $str); $str = ereg_replace('[[:space:]]+', 'nbsp;', $str); Good Luck, Firman - Original Message - From: Merlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 7:02 PM Subject: [PHP]

[PHP] Client does not support authentication protocol requested

2004-03-22 Thread Khalid Judeh
i psoted a message here before few days asking how to solve this problem, fortunately i found the solution on a website, i reseted the pass and all worked. MySQL 4.1 uses an authentication protocal based on a password hashing algorithm that is incompatible with that used by older clients. If

[PHP] String Length ??

2004-03-22 Thread gordon stewart
Hi there I'm new to PHP (as some may know)... ive spotted / Found the answers to 2-3 problems tonight - By looking through the PHP documentation.. but this problem is perplexing.. Ok - Ive got a FORM - Which basically, I put lots of text into it (For testing purposes, I go to news websites

Re: [PHP] String Length ??

2004-03-22 Thread Filip de Waard
On Mar 22, 2004, at 1:46 PM, gordon stewart wrote: === foreach ($text as $color) { echo SAF '$color' - ; echo B.strlen($color)./BBR\n; } === QUESTION :- Is this the right code to use ? to find the length of each line ? ($color) - No worries - Ive just copied code from the web

Re: [PHP] String Length ??

2004-03-22 Thread gordon stewart
--- Filip de Waard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: strlen() is the correct function to use here. Use it like: echo strlen($_POST['input_name']); Thanks... Where $_POST['input_name'] should be replaced by the variable you want to check. strlen() is always right, but it counts the actual

Re: [PHP] SQL Injection check (mysql)

2004-03-22 Thread trlists
On 21 Mar 2004 Chris Shiflett wrote: I would never argue that something is an absolute defense, but I would characterize my recommendation as a best practice. Fair enough. I agree with you that checking for valid characters is safer than checking for malicious characters, but even the

Re: [PHP] what is the best idea to make mirror for mysql database

2004-03-22 Thread QT
do you know best mysql newsgroup address? Burhan Khalid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] QT wrote: Dear Sirs, I have a web site which is keeping user data in mysql. I am afraiding that to collapse of existing server without my control. I want to use another

php-general Digest 22 Mar 2004 13:23:02 -0000 Issue 2661

2004-03-22 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 22 Mar 2004 13:23:02 - Issue 2661 Topics (messages 181109 through 181135): Re: Zend Optimiser -- wide spread?? 181109 by: Filip de Waard 181118 by: Kim Steinhaug Re: SQL Injection check (mysql) 181110 by: Chris Shiflett 18 by:

Re: [PHP] what is the best idea to make mirror for mysql database

2004-03-22 Thread Duncan Hill
On Monday 22 March 2004 23:20, QT wrote: do you know best mysql newsgroup address? http://lists.mysql.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Question for PHP.net

2004-03-22 Thread Burhan Khalid
Florian Hoenl wrote: Dear PHP.net, I have got a question!!! I`ll develop a new PHP Site and threr is a problem with Hyperlinks!!! How can I use index?nav=Webmaster?? Whats the source code for this funktion Florian : 1. Please don't end all lines with multiple puncuation marks. !!! is not

[PHP] Thanks : Re: [PHP] String Length ??

2004-03-22 Thread gordon stewart
--- Filip de Waard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: strlen() is the correct function to use here. Use it like: echo strlen($_POST['input_name']); Where $_POST['input_name'] should be replaced by the variable you want to check. strlen() is always right, but it counts the actual charactars of

[PHP] what can be wrong here?

2004-03-22 Thread Mike Mapsnac
Hello In CSS file all links are black: /* Part from CSS file */ a:link{color:#00; text-decoration: none;} /*unvisited link*/ a:visited{color:#00; text-decoration: none;} /*visited link*/ a:hover {color:#00; text-decoration: none;} /*mouse over link*/ a:active { color:#00} On the

Re: [PHP] what can be wrong here?

2004-03-22 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Mike, Monday, March 22, 2004, 1:45:24 PM, you wrote: MM Hello MM In CSS file all links are black: MM /* Part from CSS file */ MM a:link{color:#00; text-decoration: none;} /*unvisited link*/ MM a:visited{color:#00; text-decoration: none;} /*visited link*/ MM a:hover

RE: [PHP] what can be wrong here?{OT}

2004-03-22 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] In CSS file all links are black: /* Part from CSS file */ a:link{color:#00; text-decoration: none;} /*unvisited link*/ a:visited{color:#00; text-decoration: none;} /*visited link*/ a:hover {color:#00; text-decoration: none;} /*mouse over link*/ a:active { color:#00} [/snip]

[PHP] Re: Problems with PHP5 RC1

2004-03-22 Thread memoimyself
On 19 Mar 2004 at 19:23, Lester Caine wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to run PHP5 RC1 on a Windows 2000 test server with Apache 2.0.47. Mines 2.0.48, but no problem. Upon installation, when I first started Apache again, I got an error message to the effect that

[PHP] Problems compiling PHP with ImageMagick

2004-03-22 Thread Paul Hopkins
First, cheers to Mike Ward for the quick response to my maiden post this morning (about floating point vars). Next prob: I'm trying to recompile PHP 4.3.4 (on Redhat 7.3) with ImageMagick support. I've installed ImageMagick 5.5.7 and the PECL imagick package (0.9.8). I'm running Apache 1.3.29

[PHP] Re: Problems compiling PHP with ImageMagick

2004-03-22 Thread Paul Hopkins
I wrote: First, cheers to Mike Ward for the quick response to my maiden post this morning (about floating point vars). Second, apologies for getting Mike Ford's name wrong in my second-to-maiden post... :( Paul -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

[PHP] outputting php file

2004-03-22 Thread Ryan A
Hi, I have a set of scripts that read off a config_inc.php file (eg: database, username,password, admin_username,admin_pass etc), instead of the client manually making the changes (with mistakes sometimes) I have made a form where the client can pick most of the values via a drop down box and then

Re: [PHP] outputting php file

2004-03-22 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Ryan A [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a set of scripts that read off a config_inc.php file (eg: database, username,password, admin_username,admin_pass etc), instead of the client manually making the changes (with mistakes sometimes) I have made a form where the client can pick most of the

Re: [PHP] outputting php file

2004-03-22 Thread Ryan A
Hey John, Same as you write any other file, fopen, fwrite, fclose, etc, then send the appropriate headers to trigger a download of the file (discussed on here plenty of times). Yep, I got the working code to force a download from the list itself, but was outputting a file via readfile..

[PHP] Unit test

2004-03-22 Thread Andres Ferrando
Hi! which Unit Test tool for PHP do you recomend? bye -- Andrés Ferrando [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Problems compiling PHP with ImageMagick

2004-03-22 Thread Jason Wong
On Monday 22 March 2004 23:11, Paul Hopkins wrote: Next prob: I'm trying to recompile PHP 4.3.4 (on Redhat 7.3) with ImageMagick support. I've installed ImageMagick 5.5.7 and the PECL imagick package (0.9.8). I'm running Apache 1.3.29 with PHP compiled as a module. These are the steps I've

Re: [PHP] building CLI version only

2004-03-22 Thread Jason Wong
On Monday 22 March 2004 19:25, neko wrote: A server I'm using has PHP compiled into Apache, and I want to leave that alone and just build a CLI version of php. Can I get away with just going: ./configure --with-mysql --prefix=/some/home/dir make make install ? I dont' want to upset the

[PHP] eregi for alpha-numeric, punctuation whitespace?

2004-03-22 Thread Jas
Not sure how to accomplish this, and not completely familiar with all the options available with regular expressions. I need to sanitize input data by only allowing alpha-numeric characters, whitespace, punctuation (,.;:) and of course carrige returns. here is what I have so far...

Re: [PHP] Zend Optimiser -- wide spread??

2004-03-22 Thread Richard epas
It isn't on most hosts, though it isn't difficult to install it on request. You may also look at alternatives: http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/#bench On Monday 22 March 2004 02:16, Justin French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm close to releasing my first widely distributed (I

[PHP] receiving ndr for each email sent to list

2004-03-22 Thread Chris W. Parker
hey everyone, i imagine other people are experiencing this also but i'm receiving the following email every time i send a message to the list. == Subject: Undeliverable: Delivery Report (failure) for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

RE: [PHP] receiving ndr for each email sent to list

2004-03-22 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] i imagine other people are experiencing this also but i'm receiving the following email every time i send a message to the list. [/snip] ROFL! Sorry Chris...had to laugh. :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] receiving ndr for each email sent to list

2004-03-22 Thread Chris W. Parker
Jay Blanchard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, March 22, 2004 10:51 AM said: [snip] i imagine other people are experiencing this also but i'm receiving the following email every time i send a message to the list. [/snip] ROFL! Sorry Chris...had to laugh. :) hey i like a good laugh

[PHP] Bogus headers returned by firewalls

2004-03-22 Thread Pablo Gosse
Hi folks. Has anyone out there ever had any issues with a user's personal firewall munging up the HTTP_REFERER for a page? I've got a mailer script which is accessed from a few domains within our network of sites, and sometimes users have been getting an error which informs them the script has

[PHP] read file help ....

2004-03-22 Thread Mooki
I am trying to read a file from a remote server using a URL. I have done this : * $html = implode('', file($url)); * echo $html the $url is the address with some pages like www.mooki.de/index.html ist works without a problem but with the address that i intend to use it only reads about 30

Re: [PHP] receiving ndr for each email sent to list

2004-03-22 Thread Red Wingate
Same here, but even without replying :-/ Chris W. Parker wrote: Jay Blanchard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, March 22, 2004 10:51 AM said: [snip] i imagine other people are experiencing this also but i'm receiving the following email every time i send a message to the list. [/snip]

Re: [PHP] Bogus headers returned by firewalls

2004-03-22 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Pablo Gosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi folks. Hi. Has anyone out there ever had any issues with a user's personal firewall munging up the HTTP_REFERER for a page? Yes. Some firewalls will do this for privacy reasons so you can't tell where they came from. You can't do anything about it, but

Re: [PHP] SQL Injection check (mysql)

2004-03-22 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:39:39 -0800, Chris Shiflett wrote: Can you explain that (and defend it)? The reason is security. A prepared statement cannot comprimize the security of our database because all sql-statements are precompiled in the DBMS. An example using pear: $res =

[PHP] Transparent Image Help

2004-03-22 Thread Nick Hird
I am trying to create an image in php. I need a little better description then whats in the manual. Anyone know a good tutorial / article on creating transparent images in PHP. Using another picture and adding text would be helpful as well. Go gentle, i am sorta new to php. Nick Hird [EMAIL

RE: [PHP] receiving ndr for each email sent to list

2004-03-22 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Chris W. Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ROFL! Sorry Chris...had to laugh. :) hey i like a good laugh just like anyone else... but i don't have any idea what you're talking about!! :( That makes two of us. :-) Chris = Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security - O'Reilly

RE: [PHP] receiving ndr for each email sent to list

2004-03-22 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] [snip] i imagine other people are experiencing this also but i'm receiving the following email every time i send a message to the list. [/snip] ROFL! Sorry Chris...had to laugh. :) hey i like a good laugh just like anyone else... but i don't have any idea what you're talking about!!

[PHP] Clearing Post Data with IE

2004-03-22 Thread Chris Thomas
Hey, Im writing a script for a poll, and im trying to figure out how to clear the _post. Right now i post the response that the user selected from the poll, back to the poll page, which then displays the results The way it works right now, if i try to refresh the page, IE will pop a dialog back

[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Andy B
From what I understand about sessions you can give a session a particular name like doing: session_start(SessionName); So in practicle means I can do this: ?php /*file #1*/ session_start($name); $_SESSION[name]=$name; $_SESSION[email]=$email; /*.*/ ? now my question is this: will i have to

[PHP] Session_destroy() questions

2004-03-22 Thread Elliot J. Balanza
Ok, I know that session_destroy wont delete all my session data, but just delete the variables with it... but for instance the session_id() will be the same. So my question is how can i make it so that let's say one people enter my site, and then decides to leave... but doesn't closes the browser

Re: [PHP] receiving ndr for each email sent to list

2004-03-22 Thread Elliot J. Balanza
Actually there is another funny part to it. The reazon you are getting this is because some of the people on the list, bounces mail... that is fact, hence you can get all kind of notifications that the mail wasn't deliverable... and it was true. But I thought anyone would know that... once again,

[PHP] Backup of a MySQL database.

2004-03-22 Thread Elliot J. Balanza
Can anyone post a link to a good reference material on how to do this... evidentely mysqldump is not working here... and i need to do this via php programming. thanks vamp -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Andy B [EMAIL PROTECTED] From what I understand about sessions you can give a session a particular name like doing: session_start(SessionName); You can give it a name, but you don't have to. PHP will use the default name if you don't and you'll just need to use session_start(); So in

RE: [PHP] SQL Injection check (mysql)

2004-03-22 Thread Pablo Gosse
snip The reason is security. A prepared statement cannot comprimize the security of our database because all sql-statements are precompiled in the DBMS. An example using pear: $res = DB:connect('mysql://someuser:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/thedb'); $sth = $res-prepare('select * from sometable

Re: [PHP] Session_destroy() questions

2004-03-22 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Elliot J. Balanza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can i make it so that let's say one people enter my site, and then decides to leave... but doesn't closes the browser window, then come back right in and wants to do other functions in the site but with a different session_id()?

Re: [PHP] receiving ndr for each email sent to list

2004-03-22 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Elliot J. Balanza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually there is another funny part to it. The reazon you are getting this is because some of the people on the list, bounces mail... that is fact, hence you can get all kind of notifications that the mail wasn't deliverable... and it was true.

[PHP] Re: Clearing Post Data with IE

2004-03-22 Thread Scott Fletcher
Using Pragma: private instead of no-cache would elminate that message about cache expired and asking if you want to resubmit. However, based on your questions. It's not the answer you're looking for. So, there is a better way around. Just do Webpage #1 for form and submit it to Webpage #2 for

Re: [PHP] Backup of a MySQL database.

2004-03-22 Thread Filip de Waard
On Mar 22, 2004, at 11:34 PM, Elliot J. Balanza wrote: Can anyone post a link to a good reference material on how to do this... evidentely mysqldump is not working here... and i need to do this via php programming. I'm sure you will find prewritten scripts with Google and I know phpmyadmin

RE: [PHP] receiving ndr for each email sent to list

2004-03-22 Thread Chris W. Parker
Elliot J. Balanza mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, March 22, 2004 2:33 PM said: Actually there is another funny part to it. The reazon you are getting this is because some of the people on the list, bounces mail... that is fact, hence you can get all kind of notifications that the mail

[PHP] fsockopen to spit out the HTTP's Location...

2004-03-22 Thread Scott Fletcher
Hi! I haven't found the right wording to spit out the HTTP scripts to the web browser through the fsockopen. In this case, the Location: script. I can not use the php header() function because of the FPDF strict checking. (Freeware PDF). All I did was to create a PDF and put it on

[PHP] What is the best way to backup a MySQL Database

2004-03-22 Thread Elliot J. Balanza
Hi I've been trying to use MySQL dump with a php query (since we dont have like a mysql_dump function) but it's not working. Can anyone please point me to a page so i can read a method to backup MySQL databases to an .sql file using php? thanks. Vamp -- PHP General Mailing List

RE: [PHP] What is the best way to backup a MySQL Database

2004-03-22 Thread Pablo Gosse
Elliot J. Balanza wrote: Hi I've been trying to use MySQL dump with a php query (since we dont have like a mysql_dump function) but it's not working. Can anyone please point me to a page so i can read a method to backup MySQL databases to an .sql file using php? thanks. Vamp Why

Re: [PHP] fsockopen to spit out the HTTP's Location...

2004-03-22 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Scott Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't found the right wording to spit out the HTTP scripts to the web browser through the fsockopen. I feel certain that I can help you, but unfortunately I can't seem to understand your question at all. Please understand that I'm not trying to

[PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Andy B
[snip] If you give the session a custom name, then, yes, you'll have to use that name on every page. $name can be something that in an include file or a constant, etc, though. Again, you don't _have_ to give a name, though. There's no real advantage to using another name, though, as it's going to

Re: [PHP] Backup of a MySQL database.

2004-03-22 Thread Elliot J. Balanza
I was looking something more like a MySQL dump class or function... I think since i can't do any phpmyadmin or anything like that, that i will simply write my own code... yuk i was hoping to save 1-2 days work... thanks vamp Filip De Waard [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió en el mensaje news:[EMAIL

RE: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Chris W. Parker
Andy B mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, March 22, 2004 3:19 PM said: so the theory is: if i require that the session be named after the persons login name there is probably 1 out of 2 million chances that it will mess up the names and get confused (specially if there are only a few

Re: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Elliot J. Balanza
What are the chances of two people getting the same session number in a thousends of day operation? When you down the size of that to a couple hundeed a day... WHy do we need to have a session name for that? Vamp Chris W. Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió en el mensaje news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Andy B
as long as your usernames are unique you should never have a problem. (assuming everything else works as planned.) it should... i want to use sessions for a login system and stuff too but i want it to check to see if the person is logged in before going to the login section... if the session

[PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Andy B
What are the chances of two people getting the same session number in a thousends of day operation? When you down the size of that to a couple hundeed a day... WHy do we need to have a session name for that? because eventually i want to take the user name (session name/variables/user info) and

RE: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Chris W. Parker
Elliot J. Balanza mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, March 22, 2004 3:43 PM said: What are the chances of two people getting the same session number in a thousends of day operation? When you down the size of that to a couple hundeed a day... WHy do we need to have a session name for

RE: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Chris W. Parker
Andy B mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, March 22, 2004 3:43 PM said: as long as your usernames are unique you should never have a problem. (assuming everything else works as planned.) it should... it will. a unique value is a unique value. is this code valid?? ?php

[PHP] Any Ideas?

2004-03-22 Thread Matthew Oatham
Hi, Sorry to ask this question, I am fairly new to PHP and wanted to ask for some help with the following. I have a MySQL table which uses a auto_increment int as the primary key - when I do an insert I want to create another id based on the primary key and insert this into the same table

[PHP] RE: Randomly expired session cookies

2004-03-22 Thread Ben Ford
I have noticed behavior like yours with our server setup. It is not a locally run (or owned) server so I cannot poke around to much. The session is timing out Randomly, causing our users to have to login again. It doesn't happen all the time either. In a rare case, less than a minute after

RE: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Chris W. Parker
Andy B mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, March 22, 2004 3:49 PM said: because eventually i want to take the user name (session name/variables/user info) and create a preferences section of the website im doing and that would require a constant session name from visit to visit yeah

RE: [PHP] Backup of a MySQL database.

2004-03-22 Thread Chris W. Parker
Elliot J. Balanza mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, March 22, 2004 3:05 PM said: I was looking something more like a MySQL dump class or function... this may not be as robust a solution as you require but can you not simply backtick the mysqldump command from within php? ?php $date =

Re: [PHP] Any Ideas?

2004-03-22 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 18:51, Matthew Oatham wrote: Hi, are there any functions that retrieve the last primary key created in the MySQL table? http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-insert-id.php Cheers, Rob. -- .. | InterJinn

Re: [PHP] Any Ideas?

2004-03-22 Thread John W. Holmes
Matthew Oatham wrote: I have a MySQL table which uses a auto_increment int as the primary key - when I do an insert I want to create another id based on the primary key and insert this into the same table i.e. if I do an insert and the primary key is 3 I want to generate the ID CR-003, if

[PHP] Re: Any Ideas?

2004-03-22 Thread Geir Pedersen - Activio AS
Matt, this is not a direct answer to your question, more a tip on how you design your database: You should avoid storing the same information twice. You only risk inconsistencies. In your case I suggest you compute the textual ID from the primary key value using the PHP sprintf function whenever

[PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread Andy B
you've already got that unique identifier. it's the username. the username will stay unique visit to visit, therefore you don't need to go against the design of the session id. the session id is not meant to keep uniqueness across multiple visits, only the current visit. are we/me

Re: [PHP] Backup of a MySQL database.

2004-03-22 Thread Filip de Waard
On Mar 23, 2004, at 1:10 AM, Chris W. Parker wrote: Elliot J. Balanza mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, March 22, 2004 3:05 PM said: I was looking something more like a MySQL dump class or function... this may not be as robust a solution as you require but can you not simply backtick the

Re: [PHP] Session_destroy() questions

2004-03-22 Thread John W. Holmes
Elliot J. Balanza wrote: Ok, I know that session_destroy wont delete all my session data, but just delete the variables with it... but for instance the session_id() will be the same. So my question is how can i make it so that let's say one people enter my site, and then decides to leave... but

Re: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread John W. Holmes
Andy B wrote: as long as your usernames are unique you should never have a problem. (assuming everything else works as planned.) it should... i want to use sessions for a login system and stuff too but i want it to check to see if the person is logged in before going to the login section... if

Re: [PHP] What is the best way to backup a MySQL Database

2004-03-22 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:35, Elliot J. Balanza wrote: Hi I've been trying to use MySQL dump with a php query (since we dont have like a mysql_dump function) but it's not working. Can anyone please point me to a page so i can read a method to backup MySQL databases to an .sql file using

Re: [PHP] Any Ideas?

2004-03-22 Thread John W. Holmes
Robert Cummings wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 18:51, Matthew Oatham wrote: Hi, are there any functions that retrieve the last primary key created in the MySQL table? http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-insert-id.php If you read the whole question, though, the poster wanted to use the

Re: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread John W. Holmes
Andy B wrote: WHy do we need to have a session name for that? because eventually i want to take the user name (session name/variables/user info) and create a preferences section of the website im doing and that would require a constant session name from visit to visit Ummm... that's why you set a

[PHP] Passing by conditional IF statement...why?

2004-03-22 Thread Ryan A
Hi, I have this simple code in my php script: * * * * * $res = mysql_query(SELECT product_id, now()-1 FROM .$tc._prods where cno=$cno AND product_id='$product_id' LIMIT 1); if($res) { $r = mysql_fetch_row($res); $product_id2 = $r[0]; $th_pres= $r[1]; echo debug echo; }else {echo No

Re: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread John W. Holmes
Andy B wrote: [snip] If you give the session a custom name, then, yes, you'll have to use that name on every page. $name can be something that in an include file or a constant, etc, though. Again, you don't _have_ to give a name, though. There's no real advantage to using another name, though, as

RE: [PHP] Passing by conditional IF statement...why?

2004-03-22 Thread Pablo Gosse
Ryan A wrote: Hi, I have this simple code in my php script: * * * * * $res = mysql_query(SELECT product_id, now()-1 FROM .$tc._prods where cno=$cno AND product_id='$product_id' LIMIT 1); if($res) { $r = mysql_fetch_row($res); $product_id2 = $r[0]; $th_pres= $r[1]; echo debug

RE: [PHP] Passing by conditional IF statement...why?

2004-03-22 Thread Martin Towell
Ryan Because you are actually getting a result, a result with no records... Might be better to use http://au2.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-num-rows.php instead Martin -Original Message- From: Ryan A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2004 11:37 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [PHP] Any Ideas?

2004-03-22 Thread Matthew Oatham
The idea was that the user uploads a file and I insert details about the file into the mysql table and rename the file using the generated id. so if the next primary key is 4 I generate the file id CR-004 and rename the uploaded file to CR-004 whilst also storing CR-004 in the table. Thanks for

Re: [PHP] RE:[PHP] sessions...how to use not clear?

2004-03-22 Thread John W. Holmes
Andy B wrote: you've already got that unique identifier. it's the username. the username will stay unique visit to visit, therefore you don't need to go against the design of the session id. the session id is not meant to keep uniqueness across multiple visits, only the current visit. are

RE: [PHP] SQL Injection check (mysql)

2004-03-22 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:36:44 -0800, Pablo Gosse wrote: Huh? How does this accommodate for a dynamically generated query which is based upon user input? Have you read my arguments? A prepared statement cannot be dynamically generated! It is validated and its type set before it is

Re: [PHP] Any Ideas?

2004-03-22 Thread Raditha Dissanayake
Matthew Oatham wrote: The idea was that the user uploads a file and I insert details about the file into the mysql table and rename the file using the generated id. Even with this scenario you probably can do with out the extra column as John has suggested. so if the next primary key is 4 I

Re: [PHP] Any Ideas?

2004-03-22 Thread Matthew Oatham
Bit rough at the moment but I have come up with the following - it doesn't rename the file using the new ID yet but I am more concerned about my method for creating the new ID - can anyone see any potential problems such as database problems, i.e duplicate keys, bad coding practices etc... cheers

RE: [PHP] Any Ideas?

2004-03-22 Thread Chris W. Parker
Matthew Oatham mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, March 22, 2004 4:56 PM said: can anyone see any potential problems such as database problems, i.e duplicate keys, bad coding practices etc... cheers matt if(!empty($_FILES[cr])) { $uploaddir = cr/; // set this to wherever

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