Re: [PHP] Assign multiple variables from mysql_fetch_row() call

2001-09-05 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:36:59 -0400, Ryan Fischer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You wrote: ($var1, $var2) is magic. I hate magic. It's not magic. It's just simpler. What do you look up in the Perl manual when you hit syntax like that?

Re: [PHP] Assign multiple variables from mysql_fetch_row() call

2001-09-05 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:13:59 -0400, Ryan Fischer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You wrote: Sure it is. Lists or list context. () is not that hard to determine what it means. At least, not nearly as hard as you make it out to be for any moderately-experienced programmer. So it's easy to look

Re: [PHP] Assign multiple variables from mysql_fetch_row() call

2001-09-04 Thread Mark Maggelet
I use list context a lot in PHP and Perl, and I prefer Perl's way of doing it *because* it allows you to be as verbose or terse as you like. PHP, unfortunately, doesn't give you that freedom. Hmm... the freedom to write unreadable, unmaintainable code, yes this is a very important feature.

Re: [PHP] FULLTEXT search sorting results

2001-09-01 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 14:01:57 +0200, BRACK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have query - $res = mysql_query(SELECT skits.*,category.cat_id,category.cat_name FROM skits,category WHERE MATCH (title,descr,skits) AGAINST ('%$search_idea%') and skits.lang like 'English' and skits.category like

Re: [PHP] Re: how to sort search results by relevance?

2001-08-29 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:58:34 +0200, BRACK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In article 3B8A1D6A.4295.2947D@localhost, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yura) wrote: How to sort search results of php-mysql site by relevance? See the mysql manual's chapter on FULLTEXT indexes. I indexed column 'text' and tried

Re: [PHP] Best Way?

2001-08-28 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:35:33 -0400, Michael Kimsal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So require them to have cookies turned on. If it's YOUR system, you can require whatever you want. If this is something for your company, presumably it's a business tool of some sort, and you can then require them to

Re: [PHP] The future of PHP

2001-08-24 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:25:08 -0400, Thomas Deliduka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Wait, you blame someone convicting microsoft for a recession? Give me a break. Things were on the way out before it started. Was that the cause? Not really, there were many causes and that was just one of them. Was

Re: [PHP] Eval error

2001-08-15 Thread Mark Maggelet
lots of things: 1) variables in single-quoted strings aren't evaluated so you don't need to escape the $ in $email 2) php uses . not + for concatenation. 3) try it like this: eval('$email = $email_'.$i.';'); or eval(\$email = \$email_$i;); 4) you can save yourself the trouble by using arrays

RE: [PHP] ucwords Except 'The' 'And' etc?

2001-08-13 Thread Mark Maggelet
Something like this, perhaps (untested): I needed this too so I just tested it. function smart_ucwords($String) { $ExceptionList = array('the', 'an', 'a'); # should all be in lowercase $String = ucwords(strtolower(ltrim($String))); # LINE A foreach ($ExceptionList as

Re: [PHP] How give a 'timed' online quiz?

2001-08-13 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:06:37 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Adams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sounds like you could use javascript rather than php for this one. Or you could try using an http refresh after a certain number of seconds. - Dan yeah but an http refresh won't post the form. you could try

Re: [PHP] How to stop images preloading in netscape?

2001-08-13 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:16:35 +0100, Seb Frost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a php page which generates a page of thumbnails from a database. In internet explorer all of the layout loads first, and the thumbnails appear one by one as they are downloaded. Netscape however seems to insist on

Re: [PHP] strstr Question

2001-08-12 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 18:42:48 -0500, Erich Zigler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am currently writing a piece of code that when a user enters in their email address it will check it for validity. In this instance they are supposed to type in [EMAIL PROTECTED] But if they just type in user I want it

Re: [PHP] PHP in corporate settings?

2001-08-09 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Thu, 09 Aug 2001 14:30:43 -0500, Sheridan Saint-Michel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Bzzzt...Wrong! But thank you for playing. If you read the FAQ on Sun's Open Source website not only do they admit Java is not open source, but they sort of tip toe around whether or not it ever will be. well,

Re: [PHP] checking for null form fields fails

2001-08-07 Thread Mark Maggelet
Well, Mark... almost! You shouldn't use empty() _instead_ of isset(). You should use 'm together: if (isset ($input) !empty($input)) { print (Okay... form is completed!); } else { print (No way... can't do!); } Because, when you check using empty($input) there's still the possibility

Re: [PHP] dynamic checkboxes?

2001-08-06 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 08:57:08 -0500, garman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a form that generates a list of categories dynamically. That is, for each category in a database, the form has a corresponding checkbox. The checkboxes are given serialized names, such as chkbx1, chkbx2, etc. I'm having

Re: [PHP] checking for null form fields fails

2001-08-06 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 13:56:45 -0500, garman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: For all of my HTML forms, I put in some JavaScript to check and make sure no fields are left blank. When the forms are processed in PHP, I also perform a check to make sure the forms fields aren't null (redundant, I know).

Re: [PHP] Matching Question

2001-08-04 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 12:40:42 -0500, Jeff Oien ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: After a sign up page I want to check if someone is already entered into a database. The First Name, Last Name and Address all have to match exactly in order for it to be considered a duplicate. However this isn't doing what I

Re: [PHP] Take JS array send by form

2001-08-01 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 23:17:49 +0200, Ivo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi I faced following problem: I've a form where which could have one or more input text fields (it is not clear how many they will be - one or more). Thay have same name - pn - and if they are more that one JavaScript treat them

Re: [PHP] PHP mail() function

2001-07-27 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:11:57 -0600, Kevin Leavell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: mail0 is sending mail that can't be received by aol or my local isp. That same mail can be received by other sites on that same server. The mail doesn't bounce but I am getting a few DSN errors in my maillog. it

Re: [PHP] PHP mail() function

2001-07-27 Thread Mark Maggelet
. If you can ping, say, google.com from the server then that says your dns is ok, if so your problem is probably that php can't find sendmail or something like that. otherwise it's a network problem and you'll have to let the host figure it out. Kevin - Original Message - From: Mark

Re: [PHP] explode()

2001-07-16 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 16:23:19 -0700, Adam Plocher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: $reqmonth = ${explode(-,$row[5])}[1]; Is there anyway I can get that to work without having to use multiple lines of code? hmm... how about $reqmonth = array_pop(explode(-,$row[5],2)); -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Using an image as a reset button on a PHP script

2001-07-13 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 14:46:41 -0700, Brandon Orther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I am making a script at the moment and want to use images instead of the usual buttons. Does anyone know how I can use the image as a reset button? Thank you,

[PHP] upgrading to gd2.0.1

2001-07-05 Thread Mark Maggelet
Hi, I just upgraded gd to 2.0.1 and recompiled apache1.3.20/php4.06. when I do phpinfo() it says: GD Support enabled GD Version 1.6.2 or higher WBMP Support enabled and when i call imagepng() it says: Warning: ImagePng: No PNG support in this PHP build any ideas what's going on here? I removed

Re: [PHP] multiple domains using one cookie

2001-07-05 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:59:19 +0200, Tobias Talltorp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello all. I want multiple domains to be able to read from one cookie, or set one cookie each for the different domains. Here is the case: When the user logs in to my server, I want to set a cookie that has the value

Re: [PHP] help: unzip files for php 3.0

2001-07-02 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 12:55:32 -0700 (PDT), John Holcomb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The company that houses our servers only has php 3.0 installed. I need a function that can unzip files. Are there any methods(functions) that can handle this in php3.0 or any version of php that's before php 4.0.

[PHP] setting output_buffering for certain hosts or directories

2001-06-28 Thread Mark Maggelet
Is there any way to set output_buffering per directory or host? I tried putting: php_value output_buffering On in my virtual host, also in directory, location, and .htaccess the only place it seems to get noticed is in php.ini php4.7devel/apache1.3.20/linux thanks, - Mark -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] [OT-ish] Optional Extras.

2001-06-28 Thread Mark Maggelet
I don't see how this is weighted. I would suggest doing it the easy way and treating the options as keywords and just putting them all in a text field with a fulltext index. this will give you the weighting you want and it will be a lot easier to deal with, but you will have to watch out for

RE: [PHP] Help with simple regular expression

2001-06-25 Thread Mark Maggelet
another way to match this that works with preg or ereg is to go like this: body[^]* On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 15:31:29 -0400, scott [gts] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: exactly. use the non-greedy ? with the perl regex's to have perl match the least amount of characters it can. preg_match('/blah(.*?)/',

Re: [PHP] An idea

2001-06-20 Thread Mark Maggelet
it looks like you're getting your ereg and preg mixed up but try it like this: switch(1){ case ereg(\\.jpg$,$filename): echo JPEG Image;break; case ereg(\\.gif$,$filename): echo GIF Image;break; case ereg(\\.zip$,$filename): echo Compressed File; break; default:

Re: [PHP] Regular Expression Help

2001-05-22 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 22 May 2001 10:44:42 -0700, Jason Caldwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to say with a Regular Expression how to check for the following characters in a phone number: ( ) - with a length between 1 and 20 -- I've tried the following and it doesn't seem to work.

Re: [PHP] Job listings DB

2001-05-21 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Mon, 21 May 2001 13:55:12 +0100, py ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I am designing a system for my company to get employee resumes via the Web, rather than paper. All resumes now go into a mySQL DB, which can be searched by HR (at least that's the theory :) [I would do it like that also]

Re: [PHP] function to complete strings with white spaces on the left

2001-05-20 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Sun, 20 May 2001 22:03:05 -0300, Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello All, I need to output a string that must always be 17 characters even if the inside value is not. Supose a have the HELLO word that is a 5 character string and I need to output HELLO

Re: [PHP] PHP Pros/Cons, Case Examples, PHP vs Servlets

2001-05-18 Thread Mark Maggelet
The sercuity of java is better and the network controlling features is better too . The loading time of servlet is faster since the server just need to run the servlet one times You probably mean that it needs to load the jvm one time, the servlet gets run with every request (unless you cache).

Re: [PHP] ssh

2001-05-15 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Mon, 14 May 2001 23:29:03 -0800, Christopher Ostmo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Tyrone Mills pressed the little lettered thingies in this order... How about using something like puTTY or SecureCRT? Just a side note. I also like SecureCRT, but it isn't free (which was the original request)

RE: [PHP] Change 'key' names of an associative array.

2001-05-15 Thread Mark Maggelet
reset($array); while(list($key,$value)=each($array)){ $array[strtoupper($key)]=$value; unset $array[$key]; } On Tue, 15 May 2001 16:19:41 -0400, Altunergil, Oktay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Yes. But I want to change the name of the key, not the value. Plus I want to be able to do

Re: [PHP] protecting video files

2001-05-11 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Fri, 11 May 2001 17:28:25 -0500, WebMaster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I did :( went character by character and could find not extra spaces. At 06:16 PM 5/11/01 -0400, Michael Kimsal wrote: Check for extraneous spaces in your script. Tim Schulte wrote: Hi there - I am having some

RE: [PHP] Apache error when installing PHP 4.0.5

2001-05-09 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Wed, 9 May 2001 15:49:51 -0500, Joseph Bannon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: you need to point to the apache-source install ie: ./configure --with-apache=../apache-1.3.19 But what if I have apache already installed? I have a Cobalt Raq3 with apache already installed. you need to recompile

Re: [PHP] Is there a string index funct?

2001-05-09 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Wed, 9 May 2001 18:08:45 -0700, Dexter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi PHP sters, Looking for a function like Perls index function to get the first occurrence of a string within another. Thanks Dexter http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] PC MAG article

2001-05-09 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Wed, 9 May 2001 20:19:34 -0400, Mike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As a devoted php programmer I was surprised how bad PC MAG blasted php this month.It sound as if it doesnt scale very well(Ive never had more than a few people on my site at once).Any comments??? seeing as how zdnet is owned by

Re: [PHP] conversion script

2001-05-08 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 8 May 2001 11:09:18 -0700, Ryan Christensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Would anyone be able to help me out with this: I have quite a few (almost 2000) .html files that I would like to change over to the .php extension. Past that, I would also like to add text to the top bottom of each

Re: [PHP] MySQL select rand() with weighting?

2001-05-03 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Thu, 3 May 2001 20:15:26 +0100, James, Yz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Guys, Does anyone know how to select one field randomnly from a MySQL table against a weighting column in the same row the field is selected from? For example, SELECT id, url, image FROM table ORDER BY rand() LIMIT

Re: [PHP] timezones

2001-04-30 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:56:20 -0500, Joe Stump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a quick question regarding timezones ... On the local side a record is inserted into the DB by someone in Michigan, while the server rests in CA. Thus a three hour difference. The local mktime() will create a

Re: [PHP] timezones

2001-04-30 Thread Mark Maggelet
between them and pst*3600 2.) we have users ALL OVER the world - is there a place to find all of the timezones at? good luck, there's tons and some of them are wacky or don't honor daylight saving time. --Joe On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:11:55PM -0700, Mark Maggelet wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13

Re: [PHP] Strange errors

2001-04-25 Thread Mark Maggelet
maybe it's something in auto_prepend_file or auto_append_file. do phpinfo() to check. On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:36:56 +0930, Joseph Blythe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey all, I keep getting this error message on a couple of pages from a site I am currently working on, the strange thing about this

[PHP] cookies and clocks

2001-04-25 Thread Mark Maggelet
I have a cookie that times out after an hour for security reasons. About 1 out of 200 of my users send me an email saying they can't log into my site and I find out that it's usually because their clocks are off. Has anyone had any luck using the time on the client to set cookies by instead of

Re: [PHP] Big Problem

2001-04-25 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 01:48:13 +0200, Thomas Booms ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, I'm using on my new machine (SuSE 7.0) PHP4. In one PHP4-Script I use the mail-Function. But my /var/log/mail (qmail) does not give any entry for this mail. Is there a bug? In PHP3 it was all running good. I

Re: [PHP] Strange errors

2001-04-25 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:54:04 +0930, Joseph Blythe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Chris Fry wrote: Have a look at php.ini in /usr/local/lib It looks like your prepend file is browser.php - just comment that line out. Those lines in the php.ini are blank ; automatically add files before or after

Re: [PHP] cookies and clocks

2001-04-25 Thread Mark Maggelet
there has had this problem and found a good way around it. thanks, - Mark HTH, DanO Mark Maggelet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I have a cookie that times out after an hour for security reasons. About 1 out of 200 of my users send me

Re: [PHP] cookies and clocks

2001-04-25 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:48:48 -0700 (PDT), Rasmus Lerdorf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a cookie that times out after an hour for security reasons. About 1 out of 200 of my users send me an email saying they can't log into my site and I find out that it's usually because their clocks are

Re: [PHP] baffled ::

2001-04-17 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:59:37 +1000, Peter Houchin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: can any one see a problem with this loop? ? $db = include"connect.inc"; $foo = "SELECT * FROM 6pci WHERE card='$card' ORDER BY card"; $result = mysql_query($foo,$db); while ( ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result) )

Re: [PHP] Finding Duplicate Numbers?

2001-04-17 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:30:07 -0700, Colin Putney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tuesday, April 17, 2001, at 11:00 AM, Devin Atencio wrote: I have a SQL Table that has over 1,000 records and I was wanting to write a script that would find duplicate phone numbers and then list the duplicate

Re: [PHP] Dynamic Pages and Google ???

2001-04-17 Thread Mark Maggelet
Google doesn't choke at all on dynamic pages. pages get ranked by keywords appearing on the page and even more importantly, the link text of links on other pages pointing to the page that's being indexed. in other words, if a lot of sites link to your page like so: a href="yourpage.com"google

Re: [PHP] Finding Duplicate Numbers?

2001-04-17 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:34:27 -0700, Colin Putney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tuesday, April 17, 2001, at 12:19 PM, Mark Maggelet wrote: That works for mysql. He probably just wants to kill the duplicates, so there's an easier way: add a unique index to the phone_number field. alter

RE: [PHP] Why is this happening

2001-04-17 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:55:38 -0500, Boget, Chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ok, I found out what the problem was. I'm still curious why the problem is occuring. if( $tmpArray[errorNumber] $typesToDisplay ) { // line to comment out you're using the bitwise when you want the logical --

RE: [PHP] Why is this happening

2001-04-17 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:06:47 -0500, Boget, Chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ok, I found out what the problem was. I'm still curious why the problem is occuring. if( $tmpArray[errorNumber] $typesToDisplay ) { you're using the bitwise when you want the logical No, I actually wanted to use

Re: [PHP] resultset array

2001-04-12 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:42:54 -0400, Mike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I would like to put a mysql resultset into an array of type row(rownunber)(data).Any Ideas? Mike P [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [PHP] Limitation of redirecting using header()?

2001-04-10 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:18:54 -0400, Daniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am writting a session enabled webapp that has a typical login page. The page submits to itself and upon validation, I want to allow the user to continue on to the next page. From everything I have read so far, the only way

[PHP] compile problems

2001-04-10 Thread Mark Maggelet
Hi , I'm having compile problems with php4.04pl1 and the latest development version (where can I get older?) here's what the end of make looks like: .libs/libphp4.a(xml.o): In function `xml_parser_dtor': /home/certscape/php4-200104102145/ext/xml/xml.c:304: undefined reference to

Re: [PHP] Passing variables,,, I know its not this hard.

2001-04-09 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Mon, 09 Apr 2001 12:08:48 -0400, Curtis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, Could someone please tell me where I am going wrong here. I have an HTML form and I want to past the input from a text box to the next page url to connect to my mysql database. Here is where I am at now form

Re: [PHP] scramble the code-sneaky solution

2001-04-05 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Thu, 05 Apr 2001 10:11:20 -0700, Lindsay Adams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you don't want to rewrite any of your existing code, consider the behavior of frames. If you make a frameset with a 0 height for the top frame, and then use the bottom frame for everything, then the URL in the

Re: [PHP] Loading SQL files (not CSV) into mySQL

2001-04-03 Thread Mark Maggelet
I think you want: exec("/path/to/mysql -p$password -u$username $database $filename"); On Wed, 04 Apr 2001 00:35:34 +0100, Andy Warwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm after some pointers on how to dump and load SQL files to and from mySQL using a PHP/HTML form. I've read the manual about "LOAD

Re: [PHP] Alphabetize array,.. please?

2001-04-03 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 16:44:36 -0700, Brandon Orther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I have an array from an ftp nlist. Is there any way I can alphabetize the array? sort($array); -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [PHP] Date difference

2001-03-31 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 20:07:10 +0600, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dear Friends, I am accessing a MySQL database through PHP. I have to calculate the difference between todays date and the date obtained from MySQL database. select to_days(curdate())-to_days(datefield) from table; - Mark -- PHP

Re: [PHP] Match em up

2001-03-29 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:58:51 +0200, Johannes Janson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, SELECT a.list FROM db1 a, db2 b WHERE a.email!=b.email; this shoulds work no, this isn't even close. you need a left join, there's an example in the mysql docs under left join that shows you how to do what you

Re: [PHP] Environment extract

2001-03-27 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:31:25 +0100, Costas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: when i try printing print $HTTP_USER_AGENT; I get the error message Undefined variable: HTTP_USER_AGENT have i missed a declaration of some sort or something else? thanks Are you doing this from inside a function? If so

Re: [PHP] Is it possible to have href link refer to same PHP file?

2001-03-27 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:04:58 -0600 (Central Standard Time), Michael Champagne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there a way to have an ordinary href link call some javascript and say "are you sure blah blah blah?" and then once you hit Ok it calls the same php file which then does all the database

Re: [PHP] Is it possible to have href link refer to same PHP file?

2001-03-27 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:50:44 -0600 (Central Standard Time), Michael Champagne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: But then how would you process it in the same file? If I'm calling it from myfile and my link is to myfile then how does it know that it's already been clicked? well you can make the url be:

Re: [PHP] banner exchange, how to?

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 21:27:14 -0800, Ed Lazor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi =) I'd like to setup a banner exchange with some friends. Some of them don't have PHP access, so I'm trying to come up with something that will work for everyone. I checked one site that's running a banner exchange and

Re: [PHP] MySQL DISTINCT query

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:04:48 -0700, Jared Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I need to retrive all column information from a DISTINCT query. But so far, I only can get one column to show by using this: SELECT DISTINCT my_column FROM my_table; which then gives me a list of my_column information

Re: [PHP] trim string

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:09:47 +0800, Wen Ni Leong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I need help in this basic string function. I query from the database by using while loop and the result in in array. I separated them by using "," . I want at the end of the string to be trim off. Unfortunately I tried

Re: [PHP] Benchmark single page

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:09:17 -0800, Jason Granum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm wanting to benchmark a single PHP page to the millisecond (if possible) that basicly just will put a This page generated in X.XXX seconds at the bottom of every page. I've tried looking through the past messages on

RE: [PHP] files with html extension

2001-03-20 Thread Mark Maggelet
for php4: AddType application/x-httpd-php .html for php3: AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .html On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:12:56 -0800, Rick VanNorman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 3/20/2001 at 12:29 PM Jack Dempsey wrote: You can tell apache to have the php interpreter parse files with an html

Re: [PHP] dynamically change a variable name

2001-03-18 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:36:15 -0500, Gary ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there a way to dynamically change a variable name? For example: I want to change the variable name $DWG to $DWG1 $DWG2 $DWG3 with a for loop. Is there a way to do this? you could try: for($i=1;$i=3;$i++){

Re: [PHP] Reminders

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Maggelet
Hi, I'm working on something like this too. I was hoping to be able to put something like this into an icapd server because my app might have been able to use mcal. It was too much effort though, so I'm looking at doing it with cron. Let me know if you find a more creative way of doing it. -

Re: [PHP] adding to functionality of mysql_fetch_field

2001-03-14 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:12:22 -0800, Dennis Gearon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'd like to see mysql_fetch_field() return as the last value in the object, the allowable values for an enum field as an array. Could I get a cc as well as a listserver group answer from the PHP guys as to whether they

Re: [PHP] Good Free PHP Editor?

2001-03-14 Thread Mark Maggelet
editplus can do this. On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:49:04 -0900 (AKST), chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Do any of these editors support server mappings allowing one to auomatically preview files through a server? I find this invaluable in HomeSite (which is also VERY stable for me using Win2K) and I

Re: [PHP] payment

2001-03-12 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:04:13 -0500, Russ Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you are worried about your payment processor going down (which to me would be a very serious concern) you might want to look at www.opayc.com which is a standardized way to talk to about 30 or so payment processors.

Re: [PHP] payment

2001-03-12 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:34:14 -0500, Russ Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:04:13 -0500, Russ Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you are worried about your payment processor going down (which to me would be a very serious concern) you might want to look at www.opayc.com

Re: [PHP] oohform validation help

2001-03-09 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:12:46 -0600, Chris Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: using client side form verification is a bad idea anyhow, just write a simple php verify. Imagine waiting 10 minutes for a 5 MB file to upload on a form just to get an error message that says 'please go back and fill out

Re: [PHP] Re: server side cookies

2001-03-02 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Fri, 02 Mar 2001 13:49:17 -0600, Michael David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jeff: You're talking about sessions, for the most part. I might be wrong but I think he's talking about setcookie(), for which the docs are here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php meaning that the

Re: [PHP] Need an array parser(CONT)

2001-02-28 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:33:55 -0800, Dallas K. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am looking for somthing that will parse a multidimentional array of any size, and return a key / value listing for debugging Example: if I have an array such as... $arr[name] = dallas $arr[address][city] = austin

Re: [PHP] Developer certifications

2001-02-28 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:54:07 +0200 (EET), Dragos Roua ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, If you'll take a look at Brainbench.com you'll see a PHP4 cert exam there. As brainbench plan to become a paid service, their certifications may start worth something sometime. The brainbench exam is

RE: [PHP] Developer certifications

2001-02-28 Thread Mark Maggelet
they start charging $20 or so for each exam -Original Message----- From: Mark Maggelet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 2:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Developer certifications On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:54:07

Re: [PHP] mySQL table joins are slow, need rebuild?

2001-02-27 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 15:04:09 -0800, Joe Stump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You need to remember a few things when it comes to joins: the joined fields must be the EXACT same definition - example: a join on id int(9) and id int(3) will NOT be optimized - more: a join on id char(9) and

Re: [PHP] Lets nock off any numbers at the begging of a string...

2001-02-26 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:57:04 -0800, Brandon Orther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, Is there a way to remove the first numbers of a string? Here is an example: $string1 = "12 this is number twelve"; when done: " this is number twelve"; $sting1 = "123 this is number one twenty three" when

Re: [PHP] isset()

2001-02-24 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 17:51:07 +0100, Christian Reiniger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Saturday 24 February 2001 17:18, PHPBeginner.com wrote: in my preceding email I've written: if($var!='') will fix your all your worries without an intervention of a strings function. Except that it will

Re: [PHP] MySQL execution order?

2001-02-22 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:41:43 -0500, ..s.c.o.t.t.. [gts] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: mysql executes the queries in the order it recieves them, (so if your program's logic executes a select before an update, you'll never see results from the update in your select... at least not normally :) well,

Re: [PHP] date format for MySQL

2001-02-21 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:36:02 -0800, Jerry Lake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a field in my MySQL DB that is "DATE" on the form that populates this field, various people will by typing in dates in various formats how to I convert say 2/21/01 or 02-21-2001 etc... to 2001-02-21(MySQL Format)

Re: [PHP] a good hosting experience

2001-02-21 Thread Mark Maggelet
The last time I used these guys I didn't like them because the software they were running was way out of date. I can deal with an old version of php, but mysql needs to be current because there's too many things that old versions can't do. Right now I'm looking for a cheap virtual host that runs

Re: [PHP] How to determine the parameter is a 1 dimension array or not?

2001-02-19 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 02:45:12 +0800, Zenith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In a self defined function, a one dimension or two dimension array may be passed, How can I check that, the passed in array is a one dimension array or a two dimension array? I guess you would call is_array() on one of the

Re: [PHP] save some typing

2001-02-16 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:31:46 -0600, Christopher Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hola: http://www.google.com/intl/en_extra/options/winnetscape.html Its kinda helpful: I modified the above to utilize the www.php.net/some_function Heres the trivial js code:

RE: [PHP] Search Engines and PHP

2001-02-15 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:33:00 +0100, Sander Pilon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you want to be totally searchengine-safe, do not use variables on the url, do not rely on cookies and do not rely on POST variables for the pages you want to have the searchengine spider. How the heck do you

Re: [PHP] case sensitivity checking?

2001-02-15 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:41:04 -, James, Yz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Guys, Just a quick question. If I have a user database, with joe_bloggs as a user, what would I need to do to make sure that his login details matched the case sensitivity in a MySQL database? Say if he logged in as

RE: [PHP] OOP in web development

2001-02-14 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 19:21:20 +1030, Nold, Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - --- - Disclaimer: The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the person(s) to whom it is addressed and

Re: [PHP] OOP in web development

2001-02-13 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:11:46 -0500, Kath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I find the ability to write something once (say a mysql_connect(); statement) and be able to run it on any page just with $db- connect(); is pretty cool. While that may not seem cool, if you some day change a a PHP statement

Re: [PHP] RE: Your Opinion?! PHP4 coding style - Comment and Splitting source code

2001-02-13 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:48:10 -0500, Sam Leibowitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: My personal opinions: The effect of comments in code parsing speed is negligable. Never hesitate to put in a comment because you think it's going to slow down the procedure. If your speed requirements were that down to

Re: [PHP] MySQL 3.23

2001-02-09 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 22:08:06 -0500, Jon Rosenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm about to upgrade to mysql 3.23 on a production installation on linux with PHP 4.0.4pl1, has anyone had any problems with this combination, as compared to 4.0.4pl1 with 3.22.xx? Thanks! I hit a snag with some of the

Re: [PHP] Change Password script

2001-02-02 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:13:50 -0800, Joe Stump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Not unless passwd takes stdin (which i don't think it does) It does, but php would have to be running as root, which is a bad idea. --Joe On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 04:07:47PM -0600, enthalpy wrote: sorry for the

Re: [PHP] Trim an array?

2001-02-02 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 17:31:43 -0500, Thomas Deliduka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I looked through the archives and couldn't find anything on this. I have a web form which takes 9 values to create a definition for a table that would have up to 9 columns. I made the table so that each form field is

Re: [PHP] common.inc probs.

2001-01-26 Thread Mark Maggelet
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:37:42 -0500, Shane McBride ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a script that pulls in the following file via: require 'common.inc' The problem occurs when it hits the $UNIX_PATH variable. At least I think that's where it creates a problem. If I comment it out it works fine,

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