[PHP-DB] setup connection to sybase

2003-03-12 Thread P Lok
Cannot setup connection to remote Sybase db. Using Apache 1.3.x + PHP 4.x on Windows 2000 server. Remote Sybase db on Windows 2000 server. PHP manual says Servername in sybase_connect() defines in 'interfaces' file. What are they? Where are they? rgds -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www

[PHP-DB] PHP script execution - display issue

2003-03-12 Thread Petre NICOARA
Hello, I have a display problem with one of my sites. Because there is an big amount of information in the pages, which is extracted from database, using IE browser I see only the background of the site, and then, after a time, the whole page. My client has recently requested to make something to

[PHP-DB] textarea data and printing

2003-03-12 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, We are accepting Detailed description of the item in . Is there any function which can return full words without breaking the lines. The data is stored in a PostgreSQL database in varchar field. item_detail_description varchar(200) I am assuming that the user need not press the 'enter' key

[PHP-DB] Re: [PHP] Cannot execute php applications. Problems with required library mysql.so

2003-03-12 Thread Richard Sumilang
Well for starters, you shouldn't be running a repetitive process from the web each time, thats why they have cron jobs. In order to have cron jobs execute php code as an executable, you must make sure you have php compiled as a cgi. It seems on your error message also that you don't have php compil

[PHP-DB] listbox not adding data to mySql?

2003-03-12 Thread Billy
Im having a problem getting listbox data to go into a mySql database. This may be a simple problem but Ive been searching with out any result, and thought I would ask on here. Here goes... No Yes the name of the field in the database is server, all of the other inputs that I have within

[PHP-DB] Cannot execute php applications. Problems with required library mysql.so

2003-03-12 Thread Mathieu Dumoulin
Got this problem here. I have a script i wish to run from a crontab every 2 minutes (Compiles live stats for a hockey site). This script doesn't run at all in shell mode as an application but works perfectly fine when called from the web. Problem is i can't integrate it in the web site like when

Re: [PHP-DB] Real Killer App!

2003-03-12 Thread Nicholas Fitzgerald
Ok, I thought the index bit might be the problem since when I went to look I realized I hadn't created one for this database. I also noticed a problem with my raid array so I updated the driver and that went away. Still, no matter what, I get this same problem. So here you go. Below is that en

[PHP-DB] ODBC Query max()

2003-03-12 Thread Squirrel User
I'm trying to extract one record that has largest sequence ID number for an employee, so I've tried below but doesn't work. Help. $mQuery = "EmployeeID = '$user'"; $mCur = odbc_exec( $mCnx, "select ID=max(ID),Date,TimeIn,TimeOut,StationIP from Clocks where $mQuery" );

Re: [PHP-DB] Real Killer App!

2003-03-12 Thread Peter Beckman
Could it be that a certain web server sees you connect, you request a file, and that file happens to take forever to load, leaving your script hanging until memory runs out or something else? Do you have timeouts set properly to stop the HTTP GET/POST if nothing is happening on that connection? P

Re: [PHP-DB] Cropped Text

2003-03-12 Thread Micah Stevens
substr(); On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 13:21, Dallas Freeman wrote: > I dunno what it is called so that is why I am asking, so that I can > search the web about it. > What do you call the method of cropping text back, so that there are a > limited number of characters shown, the rest is cut off. > > Th

[PHP-DB] Re: Cropped Text

2003-03-12 Thread Joel Colombo
i believe u mean the dictionary term. not PHP function. "Truncating" Joel "Dallas Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I dunno what it is called so that is why I am asking, so that I can > search the web about it. > What do you call the method of cropping text

Re: [PHP-DB] Cropped Text

2003-03-12 Thread Jeffrey_N_Dyke
if you're using mysql you can use LEFT(column_name, 10) this will return the first 10 chars of whatever is in column_name. you could also use SUBSTRING(col, position, length)... i'm sure most DB's support variations of the above. hth jeff

RE: [PHP-DB] Cropped Text

2003-03-12 Thread Hutchins, Richard
Truncate? > -Original Message- > From: Dallas Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 4:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP-DB] Cropped Text > > > I dunno what it is called so that is why I am asking, so that I can > search the web about it. > What d

RE: [PHP-DB] Cropped Text

2003-03-12 Thread Aaron Wolski
Strlen : -Original Message- From: Dallas Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 12, 2003 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] Cropped Text I dunno what it is called so that is why I am asking, so that I can search the web about it. What do you call the method of croppi

[PHP-DB] Cropped Text

2003-03-12 Thread Dallas Freeman
I dunno what it is called so that is why I am asking, so that I can search the web about it. What do you call the method of cropping text back, so that there are a limited number of characters shown, the rest is cut off. Thanking You, Dallas Freeman -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.

RE: [PHP-DB] Define()

2003-03-12 Thread Jonathan Villa
Jim, I don't think that matters. One can escape into PHP in several ways (depending on the php.ini config of course) 1. Jonathan -Original Message- From: Jim Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP-D

Re: [PHP-DB] Apache Problem

2003-03-12 Thread Jim Hunter
What does the code look like for the page you are trying to load? There is an error in the code that is causing the problem, or the page does not return anything viewable. If you call a PHP page that returns nothing because of problems with your code, this is the error you will get. Start by adding

RE: [PHP-DB] Define()

2003-03-12 Thread Hutchins, Richard
Let me amend that, you need to delete the FILES from the temporary internet files directory, not the directory itself. Sorry. > -Original Message- > From: Hutchins, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:25 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Su

RE: [PHP-DB] Define()

2003-03-12 Thread Hutchins, Richard
Yes! I ran into this once and it stumped me for a while. You need to delete the temporary internet files directory on the machine where you're viewing the source. Took me three days of looking on microsoft.com to figure that one out. I'm not proud. > -Original Message- > From: Jonathan V

RE: [PHP-DB] Define()

2003-03-12 Thread Jonathan Villa
For starters, and in general, does anyone know why a view source would not work in IE 6? This hasn't worked for weeks, so I usually have to use Mozilla to view the source. Anyway, Jim, this is my basic page setup. This is where my HTML codes goes. So for example, a link to another page woul

[PHP-DB] Apache Problem

2003-03-12 Thread Alex Francis
Please bear with me, I am a complete newbie. I am trying to use an in house server for test purposes and am having some problems. I get an Internal Server error and when I look at the error log the error is as follows: "Premature end of script headers: /apache/php/php.exe." I have tried the Apach

[PHP-DB] Re: Real Killer App!

2003-03-12 Thread Benjamin Walling
Are you doing some kind of recursion and getting stuck or overflowing the stack? If you create something like: function Factorial($x) { if ($x == 1) { return $x; } else { return $x * Factorial($x-1); } } You can get into a problem with overflowing the call stack with a sufficiently hi

RE: [PHP-DB] Define()

2003-03-12 Thread Jonathan Villa
Jim, Thanks for reply. I haven't moved this into production yet, the d:/is/ was just for testing as well as because when I use /client_name, the links do not work. I will to use the variable names instead of the define and see where this gets me. Just to note, I tried define(IMG_HOME_ROOT

Re: [PHP-DB] Define()

2003-03-12 Thread Jim Hunter
The reason it doesn't work may go beyond PHP. You are trying to make an HREF point to an exact location on your hard drive. When the user of your web page clicks the link, they do not have that location on their system so it will fail. Always use relative locations for links. Then once you get that

[PHP-DB] Define()

2003-03-12 Thread Jonathan Villa
I am developing an app which needs 3 constants. The value of these constants comes from a database result. This works fine. My problem is that they do not work very well. I am developing on both windows/Linux (depending what I boot into). This is the effect I want $doc_dir = the string of d:

RE: [PHP-DB] newsletter optimization help needed

2003-03-12 Thread Miles Thompson
I've been doing that with a much smaller list, and we periodically run into problems with subscribers SPAM filter, double-propagation of some addresses, etc. I think the days of bcc: are numbered. The approach we're working on now is to send an URL to subscribers. They click on that and view t

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Real Killer App!

2003-03-12 Thread Nicholas Fitzgerald
I think at this point, as I've been working on it the past few hours, I can safely say that it is NOT going into an endless loop. It's just dying at a certain point. Interestingly, it always seems to dies at the same point. When indexing a particular site, I noticed that it was dying on a certa

Re: [PHP-DB] Real Killer App!

2003-03-12 Thread Jim Hunter
Just a guess, but do you have an index on the table that you are using to store the URLs that still need to be parsed? This table is going to get huge! And if you do not delete the URL that you just parsed from the list it will grow even faster. And if you do not have an index on that table and you

RE: [PHP-DB] newsletter optimization help needed

2003-03-12 Thread SELPH,JASON (HP-Richardson,ex1)
You could form them into an array and then use implode with whatever delimiter sendmail uses (unless you changed it I believe it is just a comma). To test it, try limiting your select statement to the first 50 or so, then echo everything into a test output page. Then try with a defined limit of 1

Re: [PHP-DB] newsletter optimization help needed

2003-03-12 Thread Jason Wong
On Thursday 13 March 2003 02:14, Chris Payne wrote: > That makes sense :-) One question, my brain is kind of dead today (Some > would say always :-) But how would I get $emailadd to display all the > addresses in the bcc bit? I know you have to add the addresses, seperate > them with a , etc ..

Re: [PHP-DB] newsletter optimization help needed

2003-03-12 Thread Chris Payne
Hi there. That makes sense :-) One question, my brain is kind of dead today (Some would say always :-) But how would I get $emailadd to display all the addresses in the bcc bit? I know you have to add the addresses, seperate them with a , etc . but for the life of me I can't think straight

Re: [PHP-DB] Real Killer App!

2003-03-12 Thread Nicholas Fitzgerald
Rich Gray wrote: I'm having a heck of a time trying to write a little web crawler for my intranet. I've got everything functionally working it seems like, but there is a very strange problem I can't nail down. If I put in an entry and start the crawler it goes great through the first loop. It ge

Re: [PHP-DB] how to show online members.

2003-03-12 Thread Jim Hunter
There was a post yesterday on PHP Classes that is this very thing. Go to www PHPclasses.org and search for UsersOnline2. This should help you out a bunch Jim hunter ---Original Message--- From: Smita Manohar Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 09:59:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [P

RE: [PHP-DB] newsletter optimization help needed

2003-03-12 Thread SELPH,JASON (HP-Richardson,ex1)
You could change the TO: to something generic like "Email List Subscriber" then add everyone to the BCC field and then generate 1 email with 9000 people in the BCC field. Let sendmail do the rest. It should take less time to send the emails and only a few seconds to generate your page. Cheers Ja

[PHP-DB] how to show online members.

2003-03-12 Thread Smita Manohar
hello all, im writting code for discussion forum. can any one give any idea about how to show online status of members on and off ? - smita. _ Get ball by ball action on your desktop. http://server1.msn.co.in/msnspecials/cricketdo

[PHP-DB] how to show online members.

2003-03-12 Thread Smita Manohar
hello all, im writting code for discussion forum. can any one give any idea about how to show online status of members on and off ? - smita. _ Get ball by ball action on your desktop. http://server1.msn.co.in/msnspecials/cricketdo

[PHP-DB] newsletter optimization help needed

2003-03-12 Thread Chris Payne
Hi there Everyone, Below is some code I use to send a newsletter to clients subscribed on my mailing list. The problem is I have over 9000+ email addresses in the DB and it takes around 30-45 minutes to send them with the below code. Can anyone see someway I can optimize it so it sends out the

RE: [PHP-DB] Easy array question...

2003-03-12 Thread NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI)
GREAT. This does the trick for me. Thanks a lot. I am now getting the output I want, so I can now feel confident about inputting this into the actual database. -Original Message- From: Katie Evans-Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 11:21 AM To: NIPP,

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: Real Killer App!

2003-03-12 Thread Matthew Moldvan
Even if the system is working correctly the first couple times, it may go into an endless loop if you do not specify the right conditions, for any programming application ... I am very curious about this project ... is it open source? If so, I'd be interested in taking a look at how you implement

RE: [PHP-DB] Easy array question...

2003-03-12 Thread Jonathan Villa
Try it with the original array first, just for testing ---> Jonathan -Original Message- From: NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 11:10 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'Hutchins, Richard'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Easy array

RE: [PHP-DB] Easy array question...

2003-03-12 Thread NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI)
Here is basically what I have and what I am getting... The section of code to copy and then process the copied array: $other2 = array(); array_push($other2, $other); foreach ($other2 as $test) { if ($test == "") { echo "NOTHING".""; } else {

RE: [PHP-DB] Easy array question...

2003-03-12 Thread Jonathan Villa
Sorry, I just reread your post $array_copy = array(); array_push($array_copy, $original_array); echo $array_copy[0];//or whatever to test ---> Jonathan -Original Message- From: Jonathan Villa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 10:56 AM To: 'NIPP, SCOTT V

RE: [PHP-DB] Easy array question...

2003-03-12 Thread Jonathan Villa
$array_copy = array(); array_push($array_copy, $_SESSION['original_array']); echo $array_copy[0];//or whatever to test ---> Jonathan -Original Message- From: NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 10:43 AM To: 'Hutchins, Richard'; '[EMAIL

RE: [PHP-DB] Easy array question...

2003-03-12 Thread NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI)
I don't think that is the case because I am able to access the original array in this same page without having to use the session variable reference. Won't hurt to give it a try though. Thanks for the feedback. -Original Message- From: Hutchins, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [PHP-DB] Easy array question...

2003-03-12 Thread Hutchins, Richard
Are you using: $array2 = $_SESSION["array1"]; Not sure that will do the trick, but it was my first inclination. Rich > -Original Message- > From: NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 11:37 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [PHP-DB] Easy

[PHP-DB] Easy array question...

2003-03-12 Thread NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI)
I create an array on one page and then process it on the next page as I have registered the array as a session variable. I need to basically process one of these arrays twice, so I want to make a copy of the array. The question is how do I do this? I have tried the following: $array2 = $

RE: [PHP-DB] MySQL Query help please!

2003-03-12 Thread Griffiths, Daniel
urm, so it does.., thank you for your polite reply, I had included a month element in my query but left it out cos i didnt think it made a dufference, of course i was using a where month = 1 clause after the ON bit which was limiting the link to those records, duh! cheers Dan -Original Me

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Real Killer App!

2003-03-12 Thread Nicholas Fitzgerald
Well, I'm not locking them out exactly, but for good reason. When a url is first submitted it goes into the database with a checksum value of 0 and a date of -00-00. If the checksum is 0 the spider will process that url and update the record with the proper info. If the checksum is not 0,

RE: [PHP-DB] session and header("location....")

2003-03-12 Thread George Pitcher
Lars, I'm not sure if this is related (possibly), but I has similar problems with cookies. I doiscovered that the cookie was only being set if the page that set it actually produced HTML. By redirecting, you cut out the HTML-writing. Why not redirect the user if the test fails instead. HTH Geo

[PHP-DB] session and header("location....")

2003-03-12 Thread Lars Rasmussen
Hi everyone, Thanks for looking at my question! Well, i just made a script that firstly check's up username and password (log-in script) then next if the user enteret the correct information a session is set like this: session_id($sessid); session_start(); $_SESSION[

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL Query help please!

2003-03-12 Thread Mark
I just set up a test db using your info, and the query you have worked ok. It provided a zero. Here's what I have (slightly modified from yours, but not appreciably). select ports.port, sum(stats.amount) as Total from ports left join stats on ports.port=stats.to_port group by ports.port order by T

[PHP-DB] Re: Real Killer App!

2003-03-12 Thread Nelson Goforth
Do you "lock out" the URLs that have already been indexed? I'm wondering if your system is going into an endless loop? -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-DB] MySQL Query help please!

2003-03-12 Thread Griffiths, Daniel
Hi all, I have 2 tables that I need to extract data from, say PORTS and STATS. PORTS contains a list of Sea Ports in PORT i.e. : - PORTS.PORT UK FRANCE GERMANY NETHERLANDS SPAIN ITALY STATS contains a few thousand records that with among other things has the elements TO_

Re: [PHP-DB] How to Connect remote DB server?

2003-03-12 Thread Mark
A couple of things. First, I believe it's pg_connect(), not pgsql_connect(). Also, note that according to the docs, the old syntax with multiple parameters $conn = pg_connect("host", "port", "options", "tty", "dbname") has been deprecated. But more importantly, can you ping the postgres/mssql se

RE: [PHP-DB] Don't Understand

2003-03-12 Thread Mark
--- "Snijders, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that's bull > > on www.marksnijders.com and www.nederlandmobiel.nl i use those > scripts (php > and the GD functions ) for automatically changing the file size... I think you're missing what he's saying. He's not saying that you can't resize an

[PHP-DB] session and header("location....")

2003-03-12 Thread Lars Rasmussen
Hi everyone, Thanks for looking at my question! Well, i just made a script that firstly check's up username and password (log-in script) then next if the user enteret the correct information a session is set like this: session_id($sessid); session_start(); $_SESSION[

Re: [PHP-DB] php, mssql and french accents

2003-03-12 Thread Benjamin MAsdoua
hi, The charset used on my sql server is : Character Set = 1, iso_1 ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) - Western European 8-bit character set. Where can I change these settings ? Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin Boersma) wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Your code page setting might be wrong. > > > E

RE: [PHP-DB] Real Killer App!

2003-03-12 Thread Rich Gray
> I'm having a heck of a time trying to write a little web crawler for my > intranet. I've got everything functionally working it seems like, but > there is a very strange problem I can't nail down. If I put in an entry > and start the crawler it goes great through the first loop. It gets the > url

[PHP-DB] Re: [PHP] Re: [PHP-DB] How to Connect remote DB server?

2003-03-12 Thread Patrick LOK
Couldn't be ! I have MS client connecting to the db-server! I tried odbc_connect for both MSSQL & PostgreSQL and it is ok! However, odbc connection is no good for db processing! Further help? ./pl "Niklas lampén" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Possibly the db-serv

Re: [PHP-DB] How to Connect remote DB server?

2003-03-12 Thread Patrick LOK
There is no firewall within the LAN environment. I tried the mssql_connect too using mssql_connect("testdb","sa","") but same error returned! Any idea? ./pl "Jason Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Wednesday 12 March 2003 19:28, Patrick LOK wrote: > > It is p

Re: [PHP-DB] How to Connect remote DB server?

2003-03-12 Thread Jason Wong
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 19:28, Patrick LOK wrote: > It is possible to connect a remote db server using x_connect? > e.g. a PostgreSQL in server PSQLDB, ip=192.168.0.100 and a MSSQL server > MSSQLDB, ip=192.168.0.110 > > I tried pgsql_connect("psqldb","administrator","") & > pgsql_connect("1

Re: [PHP-DB] Don't Understand

2003-03-12 Thread mike karthauser
on 12/3/03 12:01 pm, Snijders, Mark at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on www.marksnijders.com and www.nederlandmobiel.nl i use those scripts (php > and the GD functions ) for automatically changing the file size... Yeah but GD's server side... Unless they have something installed on their client mac

RE: [PHP-DB] Don't Understand

2003-03-12 Thread Snijders, Mark
that's bull on www.marksnijders.com and www.nederlandmobiel.nl i use those scripts (php and the GD functions ) for automatically changing the file size... -Original Message- From: Dallas Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 12 maart 2003 12:58 To: 'mike karthauser' Cc: [EMA

RE: [PHP-DB] Don't Understand

2003-03-12 Thread Dallas Freeman
By the looks of it, I will have to create something in Delphi or some-type of web application. Thanks, Dallas Freeman -Original Message- From: mike karthauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2003 9:50 PM To: Dallas Freeman Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Don't Underst

RE: [PHP-DB] Don't Understand

2003-03-12 Thread Dallas Freeman
Dear Mark, Thanks, very useful! Can you direct me where for help on getting an image to resize before it is even uploaded (inother words, it will resize itself on the end-user's machine and then upload to the database). Thanking You, Dallas Freeman -Original Message- From:

[PHP-DB] How to Connect remote DB server?

2003-03-12 Thread Patrick LOK
It is possible to connect a remote db server using x_connect? e.g. a PostgreSQL in server PSQLDB, ip=192.168.0.100 and a MSSQL server MSSQLDB, ip=192.168.0.110 I tried pgsql_connect("psqldb","administrator","") & pgsql_connect("192.168.0.100","administrator","") but failed! Error is "Unab

RE: [PHP-DB] Don't Understand

2003-03-12 Thread Snijders, Mark
no there is no other way, and it is pritty easy if you get it.. i've made a special function for it, but got the code @ home but read this: http://www.php.net/manual/nl/function.imagecopyresized.php and especially the user comments.. they are always very usefull goodluck -Original Messa

[PHP-DB] Don't Understand

2003-03-12 Thread Dallas Freeman
Help! I don't understand how to use the gdImageCopyResized gdImageCopyResized(gdImagePtr dst, gdImagePtr src, int dstX, int dstY, int srcX, int srcY, int destW, int destH, int srcW, int srcH) Thanking You Dallas Freeman * is there a simpler way to change the size of an image?

[PHP-DB] Re: some php and database questions!

2003-03-12 Thread Joel Colombo
i think i gotcha... u really have a whole site design u need here huh. do u know PHP / MYSQL ? TABLE : games FIELDS: game_id as PRIMARY INDEX game_title VC(100) team_1 int (tie to key from teams table) team_2 int (tie to key from teams table) team_