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Hi again As I'm developing my site, i've come across a problem with the database use. While developing it I only have mySQL, but the final server has msSQL. I was thinking about using all my own functions (ie sql_query), which would be a function in an include file which would either call mysql_query or mssql_query depending on the server...

Hello: I have a form in which I have checkboxes. Right now, I wrote the form's html and the php4 script. I use associative arrays in the form to capture the checkboxes that are checked. My html form puts the data in $info if the check box is checked. Part of my php4 script is as follows:

Hi. I'm using a MS Access DBase to store user information for DigiChat (a java based chat program). The ssite requires users to log in and out. I have all of this working properly except this. When a user is finished they should log out but we all know not everyone does what they should. What I was windering is can something be done so that if...

hey all, i am currently using a search engine on my site that compares values stored in the meta tags with what the user types in. any matches return the "title" of the page, a thumbnail and a link. all is working great. however, i find myself adding all sorts of variations, i.e. gift, gifts. i am starting to store both the soundex and...

Hi, Is there anyway to set a custom error handler which is actually a method of a class? i.e. setting the method eh() of class foo as error handler in the snippet below. class foo { function eh() { do something } }

What is the easiest way to import an XML Datafeed from a URL into a MYSQL Database? Possibly using PHP Regards Joe PS Please answer to group and joe@joesharman.co.uk

I work in a network support office which uses a web form to receive network related problem reports from our end users. The web server is IIS 5.0 on win2k server, and we use PHP and MySQL to handle the form and tracking. I'd like this setup to launch an mp3 player on the web server when a problem report is sent in. I've tried exec("little...

Over on www.monkeyclaus.org I'm getting back slashes showing up on my web pages, where this function outputs. This despite the explicit use of stripslashes(). Does anyone know why this might be?

Hello Everyone: I am running XP Pro with IIS 5.1. Which is the best PHP version to install: CGI, CLI or ISAPI?? The installation manual lists all three but does not say which is most stable, fastest, other advantages/disadvantage.

Hello group! I'm having a problem and I hope some of you may be able to point me in the right direction. I inherited a web site using php, running on Windows 2000 & IIS. The site was developed by a consulting firm about a year before I came on board, the consultant has since gone out of business. Overall, I've never had a problem with...

For some reason, even though my php script does require and prompts the user for authentication, the page still loads slowly in the background. Normally authentication windows pop up before the page starts to load and only loads on correct validation, but in my case it prompts the user, yet the page still loads in the background. Any...

Hello My current host has register_globals switched on in their php.ini file. Would it be prudent for me to design code which works when register_globals is switched off in case I switch hosts in the future? If I dont is it normally straightforward to edit the code so that a script can be run with register_globals off in the future? ...

Hi! When using imap_open to connect to a imap server using ssl, can I pass the username and password as plain strings or do they need to be encrypted? Best regards, /Michael

I'm submitting a string of data, with several words in it. When I try to retreive it from the database, I'm finding the words of the string have been removed. For example, if the string entered is a person's title, such as Vice President of Finance, it is only showing VicePresident then nothing else is showing. What could be the problem? ...

I have a question. I want to use the emdeddin links within a PHP script. I give an example : $var = "string"; and at some line of the current script: <a href="another.php?arg1=$var">link</a> Why doesn't work this construction? But if I give some value or string then we can get the

I created two different files with almost the exact same content. file.xml contains pure xml data file.php contains the exact same data except the first line, this on is changed to <? echo ("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>"); ?> instead of just

Salut tout le monde, je rencontre quelque problèmes en PHP car je ne suis pas un pro :-( Je voudrais deux script le premier c'est une page de contact.htm dans la quelle il y a : nom, prénom, adresse, societe, mail, ville code postal et num tel. Dès le visiteur saisie c données il une base Mysql(car je travail avec PHP/MYSQL) récupère les...

Hey pros, Using a form I want to collect the user name, password and the number of years they want to use an account and then use that info to create an account on the debian operating system. Does anyone have an idea how I can do this? Based on the number of years they want to use the account, I want to set the account expiration date to...

Hi there, Anybody an idea which phpscript I could use for a helpdesk. E-Mail messages sent to support@blabla.com should automaticaly being transfered to the system and email the user back with a ticketnumber. After that ofcourse should be the rest for handling the tickets. If possible... freeware ;) Greetings,

Hi there, Just a little problem I guess... I have stripped out just an imageresize string for ImageMagic in a php-file: <? exec('convert -quality 100 -antialias -sample 100x100 /var/www/html/aftermath2.jpg /var/www/html/thumb_aftermath.jpg'); ?>

Hi all, Im a bit thrown by curl. I want to submit some order data on an ecommerce site via a form to a php page, where the data is saved to a database. Then I want to use curl to submit the form data I just saved (and redirect the user) to my secure credit card gateway. Problem is, they have their own secure payment screen where the...

Dear folks: I was wondering how to query MySQL to display only a selection (1-20, 21-40) of a query in an HTML list. Can that be done in an SQL statement, or do you have to use PHP to dissect the returned array with for n elements to n+20 elements. How does Google achieve the returning of results in its search engine. I imagine that the...

Hi... From inside a PHP program, is there a way I can obtain the document name (e.g. if the php program is located in /x/y/zzz.php, I want that whole string returned to me in a PHP program). Can it be done? TIA, Joe

Here I have two functions, the first returning a value to the second. When I put print_r() on the last line of the first function, I can see that the correct values are in the array as expected. But when I put print_r() in the second function, around the array supposedly returned from the first function. I get nothing. What should I look for?

Hi, With the sentence : "Bordeaux est au bord de l'eau" How to do to underline, for instance, the word "eau" ? without underlining the substring of "Bordeaux" ? I don't know how to isolate the word...