[PHP] Re: PHP+MySQL -> Excel ?

2002-05-17 Thread Evan
Thanks to all :-) Bye, Evan "Evan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto nel messaggio [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Is it possible to create an excel file with some data from mySQL, using PHP > ? > > Thanks, > Evan > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscri

RE: [PHP] PHP+MySQL -> Excel ?

2002-05-17 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Is it possible to create an excel file with some data from mySQL, using PHP ? [/snip] Evan, I'll send you the article I recently wrote for evolt.org, it details all of the things you need to know. Excel will honor all HTML table formatting issues, except color. Colors need to be stated as

Re: [PHP] forms into database and visa versa

2002-05-17 Thread Dennis Gearon
Thank you for reply, I don't understand what your answer has to do with taking input from users in forms and putting it into a database safely. If you could explain that, I could learn from your much appreciated reply. Geoff Hankerson wrote: > > depending on your needs you could just cre

Re: [PHP] PHP+MySQL -> Excel ?

2002-05-17 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
It is also possible to connect directly to MySQL from Excel via MyODBC. -Rasmus On Fri, 17 May 2002, Chris Boget wrote: > > > Is it possible to create an excel file with some data from mySQL, using PHP > > > ? > > Yes if you know the file format for excel. If not then write your data into a > >

[PHP] Confused about which function to use with forms/database

2002-05-17 Thread Don
Hi, I have forms that retrieve date from mysql databases and send (for storage) data to same databases. I note many functions to make sure that the data is correct in appearance when it comes to special characters. addslashes() stripslashes() htmlspecialchars() htmlentities() get_html_transla

Re: [PHP] PHP+MySQL -> Excel ?

2002-05-17 Thread Chris Boget
> It is also possible to connect directly to MySQL from Excel via MyODBC. True, but only if you are running PHP on a windows platform, yes? Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] PHP+MySQL -> Excel ?

2002-05-17 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
No, this has nothing to do with PHP. You can run MySQL on Windows or UNIX, doesn't matter, and set up a connection directly from Excel to MySQL. PHP can of course run anywhere you want and manipulate the data in MySQL which will then be reflected in Excel. -Rasmus On Fri, 17 May 2002, Chris Bo

RE: [PHP] PHP+MySQL -> Excel ?

2002-05-17 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] > It is also possible to connect directly to MySQL from Excel via MyODBC. True, but only if you are running PHP on a windows platform, yes? [/snip] Nope, no PHP, just the ODBC driver would have to live on Windows Jay -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, vi

Re: [PHP] PHP+MySQL -> Excel ?

2002-05-17 Thread Chris Boget
> No, this has nothing to do with PHP. You can run MySQL on Windows or > UNIX, doesn't matter, and set up a connection directly from Excel to > MySQL. > PHP can of course run anywhere you want and manipulate the data in MySQL > which will then be reflected in Excel. Are there examples anywhere t

Re: [PHP] PHP+MySQL -> Excel ?

2002-05-17 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
> Are there examples anywhere that illustrate how this can be done? I'm not very > interested in looking into this alternative. You are not very interested, but you want examples? Just read the MyODBC docs at mysql.com. -Rasmus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscrib

[PHP] Q:Anybody using PHP directly on Mac-OSX???

2002-05-17 Thread Marcus James Christian
Hello, I love PHP but I haven't gotten deep into it because of the issue of needed to upload it to my hosts server to test it. I'd love to get REALLY good with PHP, advanced shopping cart stuff, DB etc. but I just know the way my mind works and unless its a simple one click to test it on my des

[PHP] accessing mysql_fetch_array more than once?

2002-05-17 Thread Chris Knipe
Hi all, Howcome, when I do a SQL lookup, I can only access the array once? Say, I have... -- me -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] accessing mysql_fetch_array more than once?

2002-05-17 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
reset() On Fri, 17 May 2002, Chris Knipe wrote: > Hi all, > > Howcome, when I do a SQL lookup, I can only access the array once? > > Say, I have... > > $SQL = mysql_query("SOME SELECT STATEMENT"); > while ($var = mysql_fetch_array($SQL)) { > echo $var['columbname']; > } > > // that works, and

Re: [PHP] PHP+MySQL -> Excel ?

2002-05-17 Thread Chris Boget
> > Are there examples anywhere that illustrate how this can be done? I'm not very > > interested in looking into this alternative. > You are not very interested, but you want examples? eep, sorry. "not" should have been "now". > Just read the MyODBC docs at mysql.com. Excellent. Thank you

[PHP] Re: PHP+MySQL -> Excel ?

2002-05-17 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, On 05/17/2002 01:18 PM, Evan wrote: > Is it possible to create an excel file with some data from mySQL, using PHP > ? Sure, you can use this class to generate Excel files on fly on even in non-Windows platforms. http://www.phpclasses.org/biffwriter -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP+MySQL -> Excel ?

2002-05-17 Thread Glenn Sieb
At 02:13 PM 5/17/2002 -0300, Manuel Lemos posted the following... >Hello, > >On 05/17/2002 01:18 PM, Evan wrote: >>Is it possible to create an excel file with some data from mySQL, using PHP >>? > >Sure, you can use this class to generate Excel files on fly on even in >non-Windows platforms. Hec

[PHP] what does this mean in plain english?

2002-05-17 Thread Jeff Field
Hi. I'm fairly new to PHP and programming in general. I'm learning mostly by deconstructing what others have written...but even though I have plenty of PHP books and have searched the Internet high and low, I'm stumped by the exact meaning in the following function of what the question mark's ("?

Re: [PHP] forms into database and visa versa

2002-05-17 Thread Analysis & Solutions
> Anyone have a link or links to how to definitively make safe inserts to > databases with form information? It's a good idea to validate all data you're sticking in before you do. For example, if you have a numeric field, you don't want the person to be able to submit letters in that field. So,

Re: [PHP] Comon guys, please help.

2002-05-17 Thread Jerome Houston
This isn't a php question, which is why you aren't getting any answers... there are many ways to go about this. with cybercash and payflow, and all other payment gateways, you DO need a merchant account. specifically, a merchant account that is compatible with the payment gateway you're trying

[PHP] looking for training course in london

2002-05-17 Thread Adrian Murphy
Hi, anyone know/done good php training courses in london thx adrian

Re: [PHP] what does this mean in plain english?

2002-05-17 Thread Stuart Dallas
On 17 May 2002 at 12:23, Jeff Field wrote: > $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL"; It's a shortened version of the if...else construct. As in... condition ? this_if_true : this_if_false -- Stuart -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe

Re: [PHP] what does this mean in plain english?

2002-05-17 Thread Analysis & Solutions
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:23:45PM -0500, Jeff Field wrote: > I'm stumped by the > exact meaning in the following function of what the question mark's ("?") > and colon's (":"), mean and do? That's the "ternary" comparison operator. See http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison

Re: [PHP] what does this mean in plain english?

2002-05-17 Thread Adrian Murphy
The ? in this senario is called the ternary operator basically shorthand for an if/else statement e.g $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" :"NULL"; is the equivalent of if($theValue != "") { $theValue =$theValue ; } else{ $theValue ="NULL"; } - Original Message - From:

[PHP] mysql error

2002-05-17 Thread Randum Ian
Hi all, I have got this code but I can get it to work, it doesnt make sense! but I am getting this error - "Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /usr/home/e/a/eagadmin/public_html/main.php on line 14" but I dont understand why! Can anyone help? Regards, Ian. -

Re: [PHP] upload but restrict

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Fri, 17 May 2002, r wrote: > Sorry for the late reply, > but i have a boss who wants everything done RIGHT NOW! > > Anyway, as an example think a person uploads a .php or .exe file, I just > dont want it to run on my webserver > how can i restrict him/her? Just make sure the uploads are i

[PHP] a set of *real* random numbers?

2002-05-17 Thread savaidis
I want to show in random way 8 pictures (jpg) from a collection of 20 I have , so the users have more interest to visit the page. I use the follow small code with the help from the manual: But the random numbers are all accending order for 1 -> 20 and in cycle, as the seed comes from computers

Re: [PHP] Looking for web based email

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Martin Wickman wrote: > Jared Boelens wrote: >> This is the one my company uses: >> >> http://nocc.sourceforge.net/ >> >> I found it very easy to modify, and it fully supports attachments as >> well as the related RFCs. > > I had problem with it, since it required imap stuf

Re: [PHP] mysql error

2002-05-17 Thread Kevin Stone
The mysql_select_db() function is going to return a handle. You need to capture that handle and use it as the second parameter in your mysql_query() function. Although this is not required in certain cases where the server automatically knows which database to work with, chances are thats whats

[PHP] Re: mysql error

2002-05-17 Thread Thomas Seifert
also try to: echo mysql_error(); after the select-query, it will tell you what went wrong. Thomas On Fri, 17 May 2002 18:45:07 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randum Ian) wrote: > Hi all, > > I have got this code but I can get it to work, it doesnt make sense! > > > > $host="localhost"; > $us

RE: [PHP] PHP & PDF

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Fri, 17 May 2002, James E. Hicks III wrote: > I do a > >system("html2ps SOME.html > SOME.pd"); > > then I do a > >system("ps2pdf SOME.pd"); How about just: system('html2ps < some.html | ps2pdf > some.pdf'); ? miguel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsub

[PHP] lists of headers

2002-05-17 Thread Joshua E Minnie
Can anybody tell me where I can find a list of all the possible headers that I can use in the header function? I searched through the manual and can't seem to find a list of headers. I need to know what header it is that display an "authorization required" or "forbidden" when my authentication fa

Re: [PHP] lists of headers

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Joshua E Minnie wrote: > Can anybody tell me where I can find a list of all the possible headers that > I can use in the header function? I searched through the manual and can't > seem to find a list of headers. Everything's in the RFC. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rf

Re: [PHP] Confused about which function to use with forms/database

2002-05-17 Thread Analysis & Solutions
Don: > I have forms that retrieve date from mysql databases and send (for > storage) data to same databases. I note many functions to make sure > that the data is correct in appearance when it comes to special > characters. > > addslashes() > stripslashes() > htmlspecialchars() > htmlentities()

Re: [PHP] Confused about which function to use with forms/database

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Don wrote: > I have forms that retrieve date from mysql databases and send (for > storage) data to same databases. I note many functions to make sure > that the data is correct in appearance when it comes to special > characters. > > addslashes() > stripslashes() > htmlspeci

[PHP] Avoiding 'page expired' warnings

2002-05-17 Thread Scott Graham
Hi I've got a PHP powered site that involves some form submissions for searches and when using the browser's 'back' button to return to the search results page I get the horrible 'Page expired' warning due to the page being created from variables sent in a form. I know there is a way to avoid

Re: [PHP] Q:Anybody using PHP directly on Mac-OSX???

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Marcus James Christian wrote: > I love PHP but I haven't gotten deep into it because of the issue of > needed to upload it to my hosts server to test it. > > I'd love to get REALLY good with PHP, advanced shopping cart stuff, DB > etc. but I just know the way my mind works a

Re: [PHP] Avoiding 'page expired' warnings

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Scott Graham wrote: > I've got a PHP powered site that involves some form submissions for searches > and when using the browser's 'back' button to return to the search results > page I get the horrible 'Page expired' warning due to the page being created > from variables sent

RE: [PHP] PHP & PDF

2002-05-17 Thread James E. Hicks III
I've gotta be able to do either one. Sometimes the script just stops with the PS and sends that in the email based on a flag. It depends on what format the customer prefers his invoices in. James -Original Message- From: Miguel Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 2

Re: [PHP] apache redirect and request

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Adrian Murphy wrote: > my isp has set up an internal redirect that > resolves www.mysite.biz to www.mysite.com > how can i check if the request was for the .biz version. If it's really a redirect, then I don't think you can; the browser makes a second request for www.mysite.

[PHP] ob_start() and ob_gzhandler

2002-05-17 Thread Jason Soza
Just wondering what would cause the following: I have a 512/128 cable connection through my ISP that I'm hosting my sites through. I have a 10gb/mo transfer limit (u/l and d/l) so when I saw mention of the ob_gzhandler (and mod_gzip for Apache), that kind of got me interested in it. Anyway, I

Re: [PHP] Listing the contents of a directory in an array

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Fri, 17 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am a newbie so be kind > > I have looked into the manual about directory functions etc. > > I want to return all the files from a directory into a array. > > Could some one give me a few pointers or something? > > I keep getting confused but I h

Re: [PHP] Q:Anybody using PHP directly on Mac-OSX???

2002-05-17 Thread Geoff Hankerson
This will just start Apache if I remember correctly. You still have to alter the httpd.conf file. Details for MacOSX php setup are here: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/ct/49 php is covered in part III - Original Message - From: "Miguel Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marcus James Christ

[PHP] Re: Query/Error

2002-05-17 Thread Richard Creech
Anthony, I find it is useful to write code such that every outcome, however remote, is handled by your code: $query = "INSERT INTO ... blah "; // pconnect, select and query if ($link_identifier = mysql_pconnect(DBSERVERHOST, DBUSERNAME, DBPASSWORD)) { if ( mysql_select_db(DBNAME, $link_i

Re: [PHP] ob_start() and ob_gzhandler

2002-05-17 Thread Robert Cummings
Jason Soza wrote: > > Just wondering what would cause the following: > I have a 512/128 cable connection through my ISP that I'm hosting my > sites through. I have a 10gb/mo transfer limit (u/l and d/l) so when I > saw mention of the ob_gzhandler (and mod_gzip for Apache), that kind of > got me i

RE: [PHP] Using php as a scripting language within cron jobs?

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Dan Hardiker wrote: >> from the cron I would call this command... >> >> wget -q -T10 http:/www.mydomain.com/myScript.php -0 /dev/null > > This makes it highly insecure as anyone could execute it (unless you > locked it down which is silly when you could just run it locally >

Re: [PHP] PHP,CyberCash,Verisign,PayFlow

2002-05-17 Thread Baba Buehler
Analysis & Solutions wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:27:50AM -0400, Analysis & Solutions wrote: > >>> Does this mean that if i want to start accepting credit cards on my >>> site i wont have to pay for a credit card merchant account? >> >> You betcha. > > Oh, Dear! I didn't see the "w

[PHP] brain cramp, ouch!

2002-05-17 Thread Kelly Meeks
Ok Let's say I'm querying a table, and looping thru the results: $connect=mysql_connect(host,user,pass); $thedb=mysql_select(database1); $thequery="select * from foo"; $theresult=mysql_query($thequery) or die (mysql_error()) while ($output=mysql_fetch_assoc($theresult)){ do stuff here.. } Wh

Re: [PHP] accessing mysql_fetch_array more than once?

2002-05-17 Thread Chris Knipe
Didn't do the trick But it did point my towards mysql_data_seek, which did the job beautifully :) Thanks -- me - Original Message - From: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chris Knipe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 7:04 PM Subject:

Re: [PHP] Re: [PHP-DEV] Console application with PHP

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Fri, 17 May 2002, D Lau wrote: >> http://gtk.php.net/ and >> http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php for a > > Sorry, I forgot to say my requirement is to make this a browser only > application. > Would all these still works? No, if you want highly interactive apps in a b

Re: [PHP] brain cramp, ouch!

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Kelly Meeks wrote: > Let's say I'm querying a table, and looping thru the results: > > $connect=mysql_connect(host,user,pass); > $thedb=mysql_select(database1); > $thequery="select * from foo"; > $theresult=mysql_query($thequery) or die (mysql_error()) > while ($output=mysql_

Re: [PHP] brain cramp, ouch!

2002-05-17 Thread Robert Cummings
Kelly Meeks wrote: > > Ok > > Let's say I'm querying a table, and looping thru the results: > > $connect=mysql_connect(host,user,pass); > $thedb=mysql_select(database1); > $thequery="select * from foo"; > $theresult=mysql_query($thequery) or die (mysql_error()) > while ($output=mysql_fetch_asso

Re: [PHP] brain cramp, ouch!

2002-05-17 Thread Robert Cummings
Robert Cummings wrote: > > Kelly Meeks wrote: > > > > Ok > > > > Let's say I'm querying a table, and looping thru the results: > > > > $connect=mysql_connect(host,user,pass); > > $thedb=mysql_select(database1); > > $thequery="select * from foo"; > > $theresult=mysql_query($thequery) or die (mysql

Re: [PHP] ob_start() and ob_gzhandler

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Jason Soza wrote: > Am I doing something wrong? Shouldn't the ob_start() by itself just > load all output into a buffer and not display it until I call ob_flush > ()? Or when you get to the end of execution... http://php.net/ob_implicit_flush miguel -- PHP General Ma

[PHP] Strange behavior with imap, php and apache

2002-05-17 Thread Sergio Tirado
I just installed Red Hat 7.3 with Apache and PHP. I ran a simple script to test the imap_open function and it doesn't work when using the values for servers on my subnet. http://www.gym.itesm.mx/imap.php However, if the mailbox I request to open is on another server outside, it does work.

Re: [PHP] ob_start() and ob_gzhandler

2002-05-17 Thread Jason Soza
Hmmm... So if I -wanted- to buffer the entire page using ob_gzhandler, I wouldn't use ob_implicit_flush(), correct? Or would this be beneficial in this case? The way I read the manual page on ob_implicit_flush() is that it flushes after each output call. Would that mean that ob_start("ob_gzhan

Re: [PHP] ob_start() and ob_gzhandler

2002-05-17 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
You can just set output_handler in your php.ini file to automatically buffer and compress everything. On Fri, 17 May 2002, Jason Soza wrote: > Hmmm... So if I -wanted- to buffer the entire page using ob_gzhandler, > I wouldn't use ob_implicit_flush(), correct? Or would this be > beneficial in th

[PHP] Problem displaying certain text from a form on to the browser

2002-05-17 Thread Don
Hi, On my form, I have a text area. I was doing some testing and on one line, I entered the following: When I looked at the results pages sent to the browser, that line was missing. I think that the "<" character is the culprit. I've tried stripslashes() and htmlentities() but I cannot ge

[PHP] 4.3.0 coming out?

2002-05-17 Thread Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos
Any hint from the developers as to when to expect 4.3.0? cheers, thalis -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] 4.3.0 coming out?

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos wrote: > Any hint from the developers as to when to expect 4.3.0? Check the archives of this list, as it's been hinted at more than once in the past week or so. miguel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http:/

Re: [PHP] Problem displaying certain text from a form on to the browser

2002-05-17 Thread Kevin Stone
Clearly is being interpreted by the browser as an HTML tag. Use htmlspecialchars() to encode these characters in the string. Or find and replace "<" with "<" and ">" with ">". -Kevin - Original Message - From: "Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "php list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, Ma

[PHP] $_FILES, file upoad and backslashes

2002-05-17 Thread BOb Pardoe
Please can anyone tell me how to cope with IE6 showing files after browsing with http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Current URL is http or https?

2002-05-17 Thread Steven Walker
Hi, I'm trying to find a way to determine whether a clients browser current url is prefixed by http or https. However, I cannot seem to find the right predefined variable to give me this information. Basically, I want the same thing that HTTP_REFERER provides, but for the _current_ page. Any

[PHP] Re: Current URL is http or https?

2002-05-17 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I would guess you want $_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"] which returns "HTTP/1.1" for me and probably "HTTPS..." for https connections... also if you're using apache I think it sets some SSL_* variables that exist only when using https. On Fri, 17 May 2002, Steven Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to

[PHP] Re: Current URL is http or https?

2002-05-17 Thread Steven Walker
Thanks! I got it: $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == "on" Steven J. Walker Walker Effects www.walkereffects.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 01:09 PM, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > I would guess you want $_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"] which returns > "HTTP/1.1" for me and probably "HTTPS..." for

[PHP] Error compiling PHP-4.2.1 on linux

2002-05-17 Thread Scott Hurring
Hello everyone. I have been using PHP since version 4.0.6 and always compile from source. I have not had a single problem until now. I'm trying to upgrade from php-4.1.2 to php-4.2.1, and when i make install php-4.2.1, *any* PHP page i access throws off a ton of errors that i've never seen befo

[PHP] $answers[answer$n]

2002-05-17 Thread Jule
Hey guys, i'm getting this error whe i try to access this variable. $answers[answer$n] Parse error: parse error, expecting `']'' in /home/blindtheory/web/quiz/add_quiz/add_quiz_process_2.php on line 36 the variable $answer[answers$n] comes from a form on the preceding page in which a number of

[PHP] passthru()

2002-05-17 Thread gamin
I have a PHP script that computes the URLs to files that i need to download. Is it possible to put passthru() with wget in a while loop and donwload multiple files at one time ? Or does passthru() complete the shell command and then proceed. Any other suggestions ? thx in advance gamin. --

RE: [PHP] $answers[answer$n]

2002-05-17 Thread Scott Hurring
Try $answers["answer".$n] --- Scott Hurring Systems Programmer EAC Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 201-462-2149 Fax: 201-288-1515 > -Original Message- > From: Jule [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 4:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] $answers[answe

[PHP] Newbie - create image error URGENT

2002-05-17 Thread Dani
Hi everyone! I'm still learning PHP and MYSQL using windows98, MYSQL, PHP 4 in my local hard drive. I want to learn uploading image and resizing image in my local machine. when I execute this code: http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] Newbie - create image error URGENT

2002-05-17 Thread Scott Hurring
Probably don't have the GD extension enaabled. On a win machine, it's easy, look in your php.ini and set the extensions_dir to where your extensions are then un-comment php_gd.dll --- Scott Hurring Systems Programmer EAC Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 201-462-2149 Fax: 201-288-1515 >

[PHP] ADODB - whaddya think?

2002-05-17 Thread Jerome Houston
Testimonial time! Despite ROCK STAR assistance from a PHP developer, I'm having troubles with mssql_*() functions. most of the problems are gone (or being fixed by some AWESOME people), but to make use of those fixes, i've got to use php v 4.3-dev. and there's other bugs in that (as there sh

RE: [PHP] ADODB - whaddya think?

2002-05-17 Thread Cal Evans
I've been using it for about 4 months and it's very stable. =C= * * Cal Evans * Journeyman Programmer * Techno-Mage * http://www.calevans.com * -Original Message- From: Jerome Houston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 4:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] ADO

[PHP] Kiev party (fwd)

2002-05-17 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Could someone who has a clue about this fill in Serg and the rest of the folks on this list who might be interested? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 23:32:28 +0300 From: Serg Lysak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Kiev party Hello webmaster, So

RE: [PHP] Q:Anybody using PHP directly on Mac-OSX???

2002-05-17 Thread David Freeman
> So, anybody out there have PHP installed on their local home > desktop Mac OSX box able to test by a quick "preview in > browser" from say an app like BBedit? I went to: http://www.google.com/ I entered the following into their dinky little search box: mac osx apache mysql php installe

RE: [PHP] Confused about which function to use with forms/database

2002-05-17 Thread David Freeman
> I've read the documentation but am still confused about what > to use when. > > When passing data from forms to database, which do I use? > When retrieving data from database to display in forms, > which do I use? Kinda depends on what you're using the data for really. If you don't c

RE: [PHP] Confused about which function to use with forms/database

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Sat, 18 May 2002, David Freeman wrote: > As a general rule, though, you'll need to 'escape' anything that your > database won't like - this is typically the ' and " chars. Addslashes() > will do that for you. Anything else you want to do depends on what you > need the data for. > > When you

RE: [PHP] Confused about which function to use with forms/database

2002-05-17 Thread David Freeman
> > When you suck the data back out you'll obviously need to > > stripslashes() to get rid of the 'escape' chars you added above. > > Nope, because the escape characters don't actually get added to the > database. > When the database's command interpreter sees it, it removes > the esc

[PHP] Alter table and add cell at a time.

2002-05-17 Thread Jule
a question: if i have this: for ($n = 1; $n <= $quiz[number_answers]; $n++) { $table = $qcode."_answers"; $value = $answers["answer".$n]; $value2 = "answer".$n; $query_alter_table = "ALTER TABLE $table ADD $value2 TEXT NOT NULL"; $query_add_answers = "INS

[PHP] HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE

2002-05-17 Thread Gerard Samuel
Im looking to know how to handle it. HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE = en-us, en;q=0.75, th;q=0.50, yi;q=0.25 What are the 'q' values for? Thanks... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Alter table and add cell at a time.

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
update table set answer3=5 where id=2; miguel On Fri, 17 May 2002, Jule wrote: > a question: > > if i have this: > > for ($n = 1; $n <= $quiz[number_answers]; $n++) { > $table = $qcode."_answers"; > $value = $answers["answer".$n]; > $value2 = "answer".$n; > > $query_al

Re: [PHP] HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE

2002-05-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Gerard Samuel wrote: > Im looking to know how to handle it. > HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE = en-us, en;q=0.75, th;q=0.50, yi;q=0.25 > What are the 'q' values for? How much they'd like to receive one of those other languages. The closer the number is to 1, the more excited they are ab

Re: [PHP] Q:Anybody using PHP directly on Mac-OSX???

2002-05-17 Thread Justin French
I haven't jumped ship to OSX yet (still on OS9), but I believe it's not far away... However, I don't know if I'd put my test server on the same box... time will tell, but I prefer having my old clunker P133 box under the desk running the same OS / Apache version / PHP version / MySQL version as b

[PHP] mktime()

2002-05-17 Thread Josh Edwards
After reading the manual Istill can't convert this 09/May/2002 to a timestamp. Any Pointers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] mktime()

2002-05-17 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
A couple of ways to do it: strtotime('09 May 2002'); mktime(12,0,0,5,9,2002); On Sat, 18 May 2002, Josh Edwards wrote: > After reading the manual Istill can't convert this > 09/May/2002 to a timestamp. > > Any Pointers > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsub

[PHP] character conversion problem

2002-05-17 Thread darcy w . christ
hi, i'm in a bit of a bind and i'm hoping someone can help me. i'm working on a project in which some data was saved into a postgresql database. It was copied from quark express and entered through a php interface. Unfortunately some of the records have a strange character encoding. Fo

[PHP] Feelin' dumb...

2002-05-17 Thread Jason Soza
Okay, I'm apologizing right now for this, but I hope it's at least tolerable. I have this: for ($i=1; $i<=$num_pages; $i++) { // print stuff here } For each loop, I want to add 20 to $i, so after the first iteration, I have 21, then 41, 61, etc. I've tried $i+20, $i + 20, I've tr

Re: [PHP] Feelin' dumb...

2002-05-17 Thread Jule
try, for ($i=1; $i<=$num_pages; $i = $i + 20) { } or try, $i = 1; while ($i<=$num_pages) { //text here $i = $i + 20; } I got those little problems too all the time.. and the boards/lists always help. Jule On Friday 17 May 2002 23:19, you wrote: > Okay, I'm apologizing right n

Re: [PHP] Feelin' dumb...

2002-05-17 Thread Richard Baskett
Hmm... Wouldn¹t you just do this?: for ($i=1; $i<=$num_pages; $i+20) { // print stuff here } Rick "The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs." - Vance Havner > From: "Jason Soza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 17 May 200

Re: [PHP] Feelin' dumb...

2002-05-17 Thread Jule
would that work? isn't $i++; abbr. for $i = $i + 1; so now the $i + 20; doens't declare anything. just like $i += $b; is abbr. $i = $i + $b; Jule. On Friday 17 May 2002 23:14, you wrote: > Hmm... Wouldn¹t you just do this?: > > for ($i=1; $i<=$num_pages; $i+20) { > // print stuff here > }

RE: [PHP] Feelin' dumb...

2002-05-17 Thread Jason Soza
Well, I tried that but the page doesn't finish loading... I.e. a script that normally doesn't take more than a second to load just sits there. With $i++, everything's fine - with $i+20, the browser says it's loading, but all I have is a white screen for about 30 seconds... Then it times out.

Re: [PHP] character conversion problem

2002-05-17 Thread Tom Rogers
Hi That looks like UTF-8 encoding and I think you will need the iconv extension installed to convert it easily. Tom At 12:56 PM 18/05/2002, darcy w.christ wrote: >hi, > > i'm in a bit of a bind and i'm hoping someone can help me. i'm working > on a project in which some data was saved into

RE: [PHP] Feelin' dumb...

2002-05-17 Thread Craig Vincent
> For each loop, I want to add 20 to $i, so after the first > iteration, I have > 21, then 41, 61, etc. I've tried $i+20, $i + 20, I've tried looking in the > manual, but I assume this is some C-type function, and I'm not > familiar with > C! Well this is a bit of a detour from the other suggesti

Re: [PHP] Feelin' dumb...

2002-05-17 Thread Richard Baskett
I apologize :) yes you need to do this: for ($i=1; $i<=$num_pages; $i=$i+20) { echo "$i - is i"; } Make sure $num_pages is set though.. If not it wont work you'll just get a blank white page. Yes I did some testing *hehe* It worked beautifully when $num_pages is set though.. Rick "The hum

Re: [PHP] Feelin' dumb...

2002-05-17 Thread Tom Rogers
Hi What you need is for ($i=1; $i<=$num_pages; $i+=20) { // print stuff here } Tom At 01:19 PM 18/05/2002, Jason Soza wrote: >Okay, I'm apologizing right now for this, but I hope it's at least >tolerable. I have this: > >for ($i=1; $i<=$num_pages; $i++) { > // print stuff here >

RE: [PHP] Feelin' dumb...

2002-05-17 Thread Jason Soza
Thanks Craig, that worked! I wonder why the other suggestions weren't working. They seemed logical enough, I even tried variations of your suggestion, first I tried: for ($i=1; $i<=$num_pages; $number = $i + 20) {} That wasn't working, still was getting the 30 second timeout. Then I tried: for

RE: [PHP] Feelin' dumb...

2002-05-17 Thread Craig Vincent
> I wonder why the other suggestions weren't working. They seemed logical > enough, I even tried variations of your suggestion, first I tried: > > for ($i=1; $i<=$num_pages; $number = $i + 20) {} > for ($i=1; $i<=$num_pages;) { $number = $i + 20; } The problem with these two statements was that t

RE: [PHP] Feelin' dumb...

2002-05-17 Thread Jason Soza
Makes sense. Thanks! Now... I have this little problem: if ($num_pages >= 2) { for ($i=1; $i<=$num_pages; $i++) { $number = ($i * 20) + 1; $page = $i+1; printf("| Page %s | ", $number, $page); } } I want $page to be $i + 1, but when I do $page = $i+1;, $i

Re: [PHP] Feelin' dumb...

2002-05-17 Thread Richard Baskett
What do you want the output to look like? I did this: $num_pages =120; if ($num_pages >= 2) { for ($i=1; $i<=$num_pages; $i+=20) { $page = $i+1; printf("| Page %s | ", $number, $page); } } And got this: | Page 2 | | Page 22 | | Page 42 | | Page 62 | | Page 82 | | Page 102 |

RE: [PHP] Feelin' dumb...

2002-05-17 Thread Jason Soza
When I use that, here: if ($num_pages >= 2) { for ($i=1; $i<=$num_pages; $i+=20) { echo "$i"; } } I get 1, or whatever I set $i= in the first expression. No other iterations. When I use Craig's way, it works - ki

Re: [PHP] ob_start() and ob_gzhandler

2002-05-17 Thread Jason Wong
On Saturday 18 May 2002 02:48, Jason Soza wrote: > Either way, is there any way to tell if my output is really being > compressed by ob_gzhandler? If you have NN4.X use view source, if the source is empty then compression is active. If you're using some form of un*x then: lynx --mime_header

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