RE: [PHP-DB] GREATEST, LEAST

2002-03-11 Thread Beau Lebens
Is it perhaps actually MAX and MIN? SELECT MAX(profit) FROM schemes WHERE revenueexpenses (not tested, confirmed etc :P) HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: Jeff Oien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Tuesday, 12 March 2002 10:20 AM // To: PHP-DB // Subject: [PHP-DB] GREATEST,

RE: [PHP-DB] Renaming files after a name in a db field possible?

2002-03-13 Thread Beau Lebens
andy, this should be pretty basic - just try something along the lines of 1. SELECT country/codes from DB [1] 2. loop thru those results [2] a. check if a file called country code-map.gif exists[3], if it does, rename[4] it to matching country name-map.gif b. if

RE: [PHP-DB] Random Selecting from mySQL

2002-03-13 Thread Beau Lebens
could you perhaps do the select on the first page, then store the results in a session (array) and just load different indexed portions of the resultset each page? only problem there is that you wouldn't get any refreshed results while browsing those pages - but i don't know if this matters for

RE: [PHP-DB] Selecting random record from a database?

2002-04-02 Thread Beau Lebens
SELECT * FROM quotes ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1 something like that, take a quick look in the MySQL (or other) docs for the RAND() function. HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: Dan Swensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Wednesday, 3 April 2002 1:45 PM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //

RE: [PHP-DB] saving details problem (big)

2002-04-04 Thread Beau Lebens
Dave, would it be possible (not ideal, but might work) to do something like this; - user fills out form - user clicks submit - submit fires off 2 events, one submits to AFD server, the other opens a new window, behind the current, submits certain values (the 3 new ones) and saves them into

RE: [PHP-DB] Upload Multiple Images

2002-04-11 Thread Beau Lebens
brandon, you can only ever upload 1 file per file input box, but you can have more than one of these input fields per form. you might have something like input type=file name=file1 input type=file name=file2 input type=file name=file3 that way when you are processing (assuming PHP4+) you can

RE: [PHP-DB] Limitations on sending text to a database via text area forms

2002-04-17 Thread Beau Lebens
could you perhaps save the contents directly into a file, then read the file into the database? I know for a fact (http://www.dentedreality.com.au/webpad/) that you can use a textarea to pump more info than that into a file, but haven't tried doing it straight into a database. HTH Beau //

RE: [PHP-DB] REG_BADRPT

2002-04-18 Thread Beau Lebens
basically it means that you have an invalid regular expression pattern in a regex function. i think it's something to do with the . * ? + symbols - but just take a good look at your pattern and somewhere in there it is invalid :) HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: Camelia Enderby

RE: [PHP-DB] appending new entry to old entries

2002-04-18 Thread Beau Lebens
there might even be some cool SQL you can use tho, which would avoid having to get the data out and then put it back in again. I *think* (don't quote me on this) I remeber seeing something like UPDATE myTable SET myField = CONCAT(myField + 'new string of stuff here') WHERE myID='1' HTH beau

RE: [PHP-DB] Link for next db record

2002-05-12 Thread Beau Lebens
jen, assuming you are currently looking at a page which is something like php.php?record=3, then you should be able to just do a href='php.php?record=?php echo ($record-1) ?'Previous record/aa href='php.php?php echo ($record+1) ?'Next record/a and then on the php.php page, you would obviously

RE: [PHP-DB] Link for next db record

2002-05-13 Thread Beau Lebens
3:14 PM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Link for next db record // // // This line sets $row[rv_space] // echoTRTDSearch Record by Space Number // /TDTDnbsp;INPUT size=4 // name=rv_space/TD/TR; // // // // Beau Lebens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message // news:[EMAIL

RE: [PHP-DB] IIS - hangs up after one hour

2002-05-13 Thread Beau Lebens
Memory Leak? check task manager periodically over that time to see how much memory IIS is hogging (under Processes - you might have to add the column Mem Usage) Other than that... my only suggestion would be to upgrade to Apache :) (and yes, I intentionally use the phrasing - upgrade :) Beau

RE: [PHP-DB] SELECTING a sentence from a text field?

2002-05-13 Thread Beau Lebens
Larry, take a look in the MySQL manual (or other SQL reference, but MySQL has it there) String Functions http://www.mysql.com/doc/S/t/String_functions.html Particularly, look at (no named anchors that I can see :) LOCATE(substr,str,pos) ie, you could use perhaps LOCATE( , yourField, 95) ?

RE: [PHP-DB] DROP tables with prefix match

2002-05-15 Thread Beau Lebens
if it's only a one-off thing, you could use php to get all table names (mysql_list_tables) and then go thru and create an array of the names that match your criteria, then go thru that array and DROP each one progressivly. HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: John Hughes

RE: [PHP-DB] HELP USING THE MAIL FUNCTION WITH HTML

2002-05-26 Thread Beau Lebens
you have to change the Content-Type header or something (text/html) but the easiest way is to use a pre-packed class (unless you really want to do it yourself). Check out hotscripts or just do a google for php mail class or similar :) HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From:

RE: [PHP-DB] dropping one word from column entries

2002-05-29 Thread Beau Lebens
A cleaner option might be to do this before you get it to PHP at all, via your SQL query. Check out the string functions available, there are a number of substring-style things available, string position etc. HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: Ed Gorski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: [PHP-DB] mysql exclusion in php

2002-05-29 Thread Beau Lebens
chris, you'll need to do a little PHP manipulation, perhaps (pseudo) if -word. (regular expression?) for each -word SQL .= NOT LIKE '%word% AND' endforeach endif for each other word SQL .= LIKE '%word%' AND endforeach strip trailing AND clean up SQL as

RE: [PHP-DB] Truncated Data

2002-05-29 Thread Beau Lebens
htmlspecialchars() Beau // -Original Message- // From: Larentium [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2002 10:40 AM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: [PHP-DB] Truncated Data // // // Hello, // // I desperately need help... I've based my entire project on // the

RE: [PHP-DB] values across functions

2002-06-05 Thread Beau Lebens
have you declared the variables as global int eh function? eg function foo($bar) { global $this, $that, $theOther; [...] } that way $this, $that and $theOther variables are available everywhere HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: James Kupernik [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [PHP-DB] CSV/TXT file imported via PHP into MySQL

2002-06-10 Thread Beau Lebens
Keiran, in your second page, you refer to $textfile as the thing that you want to load into the database; this file doesn't exist on the server, so it is inserting nothing I would imagine. You need to use something like $_FILES['tmp_name'] to refer to the actual file, once it has been

RE: [PHP-DB] E-mail address verification

2002-06-23 Thread Beau Lebens
also, you might like to do some client-side validation before sending it to the server, in which case you can use somehting like http://www.dentedreality.com.au/jsvalidation/ HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Friday, 21

RE: [PHP-DB] Excel to MySQL??

2002-06-30 Thread Beau Lebens
make sure there are no # chars in there, unless you have commented lines out (as below) # commented line in phpMyAdmin that is a comment, and the way it reads, if there's a # on a line, it comments from there onwards (from memory) HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: Chase

RE: [PHP-DB] Urent please

2002-07-08 Thread Beau Lebens
how about when u open the new window (using something like window.open(...)) you make it open a URL something like foobar.php?var1=foo and then on that page (foobar.php) you can grab the value of $var1 as foo HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: its me [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] //

RE: [PHP-DB] Form select field problem

2002-07-08 Thread Beau Lebens
Keiran, A couple possibilities for you; 1. Try referring to the field (in JavaScript) as something like; (might have to play around with this) document.existing[groupchoice[]].selectedIndex 2. Make it so that each selection on the select tag is mirrored into another hidden input field

RE: [PHP-DB] Session data not being deleted on browser close.

2002-07-08 Thread Beau Lebens
have you closed all browser windows? eg. if you open your browser, then spawn a new window (ctrl-n or similar) then do something with one of them which creates session vars, then close that window, then open a new one again, the session has probably remained active because the first window was

RE: [PHP-DB] A Simple Question

2002-07-09 Thread Beau Lebens
Also, as far as limitations go, the following are considerations; 1. You can't pass an array using the querystring 2. Multiline variables (ie. textarea contents) are bad 3. There is a limit of 255 or something characters to a URI (someone?) 4. Be careful with the $_GET[] array that Tony

RE: [PHP-DB] A Simple Question

2002-07-10 Thread Beau Lebens
/a'; then on link.php you'd have the array $array[] (with globals) or $_GET['array'][] cool Beau -Original Message- From: Adam Royle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 10 July 2002 9:05 PM To: Beau Lebens; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] A Simple Question Just

RE: [PHP-DB] resource ID #3

2002-07-11 Thread Beau Lebens
Jonathan, most (all?) of the database query-related functions in PHP return a Resource ID which contains the data resulting from your query. To access that information, you need to pass the Resource ID thru a function like (assuming u r using MySQL) mysql_fetch_array() or mysql_fetch_row() Have

RE: [PHP-DB] change data before its sent to db?

2002-07-16 Thread Beau Lebens
Chip, a couple ideas 1. why not display the select list something like this select name=month option value=00Please Select/option option value=01January/option option value=02February/option ... /select That way the user sees the names of the months, but your database gets sent nice,

RE: [PHP-DB] or statement in url

2002-07-18 Thread Beau Lebens
or alternatively just do something similar to what you did, using either the in-built array handling, or your own string manipulation ie. http://url.com/page.php?var1=foo http://url.com/page.php?var1=bar could be either; http://url.com/page.php?var[]=foovar[]=bar ($_GET[var] will be an array

RE: [PHP-DB] php and javascript?

2002-07-22 Thread Beau Lebens
Bo, you have really answered your own question (question 1) all you need to do is replace http://detination with http://localhost/index.php?id=1 (as per your examples) and it should send them to the page which triggers the deletion of the page (if they confirm the box) as far as q2 goes, you

RE: [PHP-DB] Global variables, $_GET problem

2002-07-23 Thread Beau Lebens
Ruth, your reference to $_GET('var') is close, but as you have seen - no cigar :) using the () after GET makes it refer to a function, but it is actually an array which is automatically created, so you need to use $_GET['var'] (note the square brackets as for point 2 (register_globals) did you

RE: [PHP-DB] Resetting MySQL Auto_Index - How?

2002-07-24 Thread Beau Lebens
monty, i found that if you do the command DELETE FROM table (with no WHERE clause) it deletes everything, and resets Beau // -Original Message- // From: Monty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Thursday, 25 July 2002 1:34 PM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: [PHP-DB] Resetting

RE: [PHP-DB] php mysql external server

2002-08-01 Thread Beau Lebens
Meethoo as it says in the PHP documentation, you can access a MySQL server whether it's on the same machine as the PHP install or not. ie. mysql_connect('localhost', $user, $pass) OR mysql_connect('111.111.111.111', $user, $pass) Beau // -Original Message- // From: Meethoo Salim

RE: [PHP-DB] Log Application Help...

2002-08-13 Thread Beau Lebens
Scott, can you just do it by sorting your query, then limiting the results to 10? ie. SELECT * FROM tables WHERE somthing='1' ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 10 should sort highest - lowest date (ie most recent, backwards) and give you the top 10 results. then if you have the option of flipping thru

RE: [PHP-DB] MySQL/PHP

2002-08-30 Thread Beau Lebens
try a little thought... http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclientq=php+mysql+tutorial // -Original Message- // From: Bryan McLemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Friday, 30 August 2002 2:52 PM // To: PHP LIST // Subject: [PHP-DB] MySQL/PHP // // // Where can I find a

RE: [PHP-DB] What's wrong with this code?

2002-09-01 Thread Beau Lebens
I'd use var inclusions like this; VALUES (' . $_POST['Name'] . ', that might help you // -Original Message- // From: Shoulder to Shoulder Farm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Monday, 2 September 2002 11:42 AM // To: PHP Database List // Subject: [PHP-DB] What's wrong with this

RE: [PHP-DB] External file integryti check

2002-09-03 Thread Beau Lebens
can't you just make the name of the file include a unique identifier of some sort, or store each user's files in a different directory or something, to make sure that they can't overwrite each other's (or their own) files? Or would that not work in your app? HTH Beau // -Original

RE: [PHP-DB] Upload csv file into mysql

2002-09-03 Thread Beau Lebens
try phpMyAdmin - nice and easy, although i'm pretty sure there is a direct command line. // -Original Message- // From: Dr. Indera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2002 12:21 PM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: [PHP-DB] Upload csv file into mysql // // //

RE: [PHP-DB] Apache 2.X and PHP

2002-09-08 Thread Beau Lebens
i'm running php 4.2.2 and apache2 on my win2k laptop and it appears to be running fine (stable etc) but obviously only as a dev platform, so not under any sort of load or anything like that. also not running particularly complex operations, so don't know about how it will handle that :) but it

RE: [PHP-DB] input 's id and name -- question...

2002-09-17 Thread Beau Lebens
nope - an id is used for other things (like javascript, style sheets, DHTML etc). They shouldn't affect your variable names. HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: Michael Zornek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Wednesday, 18 September 2002 6:41 AM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //

RE: [PHP-DB]opening and reading from file

2002-09-22 Thread Beau Lebens
just use ?php $filename = C:\\Documents and Settings\\roslyn\\My Documents\\note.txt; // note double-slashes $contents = join('', file($filename)); echo $contents; ? should work. your parse error is probably because of the \ in your filename, you need to escape them with another \. HTH Beau

RE: [PHP-DB]opening and reading from file

2002-09-22 Thread Beau Lebens
\\note.txt, r); // $contents = fread ($fp, filesize ($filename)); // echo $contents; // fclose ($fp); // ? // // regards, // roslyn // Beau Lebens wrote:just use // // $filename = C:\\Documents and Settings\\roslyn\\My // Documents\\note.txt; // // note double-slashes // $contents = join('', file

RE: [PHP-DB]opening and reading from file

2002-09-22 Thread Beau Lebens
\\My // Documents\\note.txt; // $fp = fopen (C:\\Documents and Settings\\roslyn\\My // Documents\\note.txt, r); // $contents = fread ($fp, filesize ($filename)); // echo $contents; // fclose ($fp); // ? // /body // // /html // // regards, // // roslyn // // Beau Lebens wrote:what exact

RE: [PHP-DB] Query error

2002-10-02 Thread Beau Lebens
If it's on MySQL, then the problem is that it doesn't support nested queries :) If it's on something else, i'm afraid i don't know :/ Back to MySQL, you can get around that by doing your select author_code from authorxcat component query, then put the results into 'x', 'y', 'z' format, then do

RE: [PHP-DB] displaying flash from db

2002-10-21 Thread Beau Lebens
*** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING *** I haven't done this directly, but I imagine the process would be similar to working with images, and the same restrictions/rules of thumb would apply regarding storing them in the db versus storing them on the filesystem, i.e. store the flash files in the

RE: [PHP-DB] exporting to xml

2002-10-29 Thread Beau Lebens
you don't see them because they are interpreted as HTML tags, they are unknown, so they are ignored. options; 1. View - Source 2. Encode all as lt; (HTML version) and it will display it all as text, then you can copy-paste it to somewhere else 3. Wrap it all in a pre tag, then follow 2.

RE: [PHP-DB] string

2002-10-31 Thread Beau Lebens
you can do this as a part of your db query check the string functions available for your rdbms. mysql would use something like; SELECT SUBSTRING(monthname(blah), 0, 3) AS monthAbbrev FROM tablename from memory HTH beau // -Original Message- // From: John Coder

RE: [PHP-DB] Warning - newby question -- $_GET

2002-11-06 Thread Beau Lebens
did you try echoing the value of $id after you have assigned it? you may find it's because you aren't connected to your database or something and also, i am assuming that you are using a recent install/verison of PHP, because $_GET wasn't available until the last few releases. beau //

RE: [PHP-DB] A Question on Javascript

2002-11-13 Thread Beau Lebens
Not that there is actually a question in there... I assume your question is How do I pass a value from a window which was opened via JavaScript, back to the window which opened it Short answer: window.opener -- read up in a javascript reference manual about this object. Longer answer after

RE: [PHP-DB] standart variabels melfunction

2002-11-19 Thread Beau Lebens
[php.ini] register_globals=On Beau // -Original Message- // From: Martin Allan Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Wednesday, 20 November 2002 12:41 PM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: [PHP-DB] standart variabels melfunction // // // Hi all, // // I have a problem with my

RE: [PHP-DB] implode()

2002-11-25 Thread Beau Lebens
implode accepts an *array* as input, not a string. you would need to change your $sqlUpdate to be an array, and each statement look something like; if($textfield12 != '') { $sqlUpdate[] = textfield12='$textfield12'; } of course it would probably be easier to just do something like this;

RE: [PHP-DB] Assign a variable with another variables value

2002-12-01 Thread Beau Lebens
// Example: $foo = BAR; ${'new' . $foo} = some string; // this should do it i think, in this case creating a var called $newBAR HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: Martin Allan Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Monday, 2 December 2002 10:30 AM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //

RE: [PHP-DB] calling function on submit instead of going to a new script

2002-12-04 Thread Beau Lebens
long story short - you can't you can only call a function in javascript or some other client-side scripting language like that, and you would use the onSubmit= attribute of the form tag. by the sounds of what you want to do - i would say you would do something like; 1. load values from db and

RE: [PHP-DB] Brand New to PHP

2002-12-08 Thread Beau Lebens
Look at the section in the manual on how to upload files via HTTP (Under the Features chapter from memory) for working with the images. a couple other things to think about; 1. some sort of validation on the images to make sure they are images (extension/mim-type?) 2. confirm that you can

RE: [PHP-DB] Call an Image from local Harddisk thru PHP file in Remote Host.

2002-12-09 Thread Beau Lebens
This won't work, because the HOST needs to be able to access the files on your machine, which is a gross security risk, and isn't possible in this manner. The only way I can think of that you would be able to do anything useful like that would be to have an HTML page load an image using img

RE: [PHP-DB] Call an Image from local Harddisk thru PHP file in Remote Host.

2002-12-09 Thread Beau Lebens
of the 'city' // symbols... // // So... what I gonna do to increase the speed ??? // // --www.kapsul.org-- // DuFronte // // -Original Message- // From: Beau Lebens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:55 PM // To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED

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