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Hi, I include the following function: <?php function login($members_only) { if (isset($_COOKIE)) { $login = explode("|split|",$_COOKIE); $login = array("username"=>$login,"password"=>$login); }

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Hi all, I have a strange problem. I have a login procedure that uses a mysql database in which the users are stored. The login procedure is pretty straightforward. In every page I unclude my session.php. session.php: =============

How can i check if subdomain exists? DNS or what? And how ? thx

Is it better coding practice to do this: $wibble = (bool)true; $wobble = (int)108; or just this: $wibble = true; $wobble = 108;

I don't really know PHP that well. I'm fixing a Perl program that accesses a db after getting form input from a PHP page. If the server-side validation fails I'd like to reload the form with all the user's info still filled in. I could embed the entire page in the Perl program but it seems like there must be a better way to go. Is there a...

Is there a current copy of the PHP manual available with user comments? I can't seem to spot one on the doc page.

I'm developing a web site, which I test first on my PC (http://localhost/...) and then upload to the web site on the internet when ok. I have a little bit of PHP code (in file download.php) which I use to force the Save dialogue when I want the user to download a PDF file. The hyperlink looks like:- ...

Im trying to send a variable via GET to a php script like so: <a href="process.php?id=test & test">Link</a> Leaving spaces is no problem, but the & symbol (ampersand) cannot be displayed to the screen. I want it to show "test & test". Instead it displays just "test" without the rest following it. Can anyone tell me how to display the...

What free programs, where to download and how to install and start programming a dynamic website that enables visitors to log in, lookup and write data in/from a serversite database. So how can I write and test it without internet on a win98se pentium? thanks

I've got a cgi script that allows me to add the output of a php script to an html page using the following line of code. #insert : http://www.url.com/sript.php# What I'm wondering is if someone could write me a couple of lines of code for script.php that would randomly select one line of information from a text file called text.txt. ...

hi all, Trying to get those cookies to work but they wont... Doing this. Have a page login.php wich tests the user and pass. If they are correct a cookie is set with one variable like this: setcookie ("cookieUser", $user); then the browser is sent with header("Location: spelersPage.php"); to another page. I there try to read the...

hi all, i'm currently designing a search engine. I'd like certain keywords to have affiliated synonyms listed so that I can find out which keywords are symantically related to each other. Is there a thesaurus available that I can install on the server and query via php, or possibly a server on the net that takes web-queries and returns...

Hi all, I have a question regarding the header function. I send a browser to a certain page (eg first.php ) wich sends no output to the browser. This page sends the browser to another page (eg second.php) with the header("Location:") function. second.php doesn't either send any output to the browser. The browser is then send to another page...

The Why: I'm in the process of creating a Linux+Apache+PHP website with a public area and an admin area for configuration and updates. The What: One of the features of the admin area is image-upload, where the images are subsequently viewably by the general public. Currently I've created a dedicated "pictures" directory which...

Hopefully someone here can help. I would like to perform multiple queries to a MySQL database and have all the results in 1 result set. Is this possible? TIA RG

I have written a pair of scripts that are supposed to work together to display an index of files and then, upon the user choosing the files (with checkboxes on an HTML form submitted to itself), tar/gzip the file and send it to them. To this end the first script performs an exec() call and generates the archive (it's a random number but...

Hi, how would I make a script that pics a random file from a tree? Is there something like this existing? I need one that can handle many files on a large tree. thanks Oliver

Folks, I feel like pulling my hair out - I tried unsuccessfully over the past few days to install ImagMagick but because of version conflicts and missing libraries I had to give up. I originally choose ImageMagick because I've heard so much about it. I then decided to go with the inbuilt GD tools since I'm using PHP 4.3.3 that I compiled...

I am getting a "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagecreatefromjpeg() in..." error in one of my scripts, and after doing a bit of searching on the 'net I found various messages relating to a failure to have the GD library installed. However, my phpinfo() reports (in the Apache GD section): GD Support enabled GD Version bundled...

I can't fing a way, to match any characters except the phrase 'foo'. Using + matches any character except a, b or c, but I need to not match 'foo', because f is ok, o is ok, but foo - 3 letters at once not Any clue? Thanks -- Daniel Koñczyk

Hi, I have a website in a Linux/Apache shared hosting environment and have been given access to the MySQL server running on the same machine. To access this database from PHP, I have to call mysql_connect(host, user, password) where the password is hardcoded into my PHP source file in clear text. I see two security problems with this:

I'm new to the GD/Image functions with PHP, and I'm trying to use them to manipulate jpeg images that I've stored in a MySQL database (specifically, creating thumbnails). The thing I can't tell from reading the documentation is how to use these image functions to operate on image data -- it looks like you get a GD image resource in each case...

At first I thought this error had to do with a timeout problem, but now I am almost certain it has direct bearing on the size of the data that I am posting. I am using a simple form: <?php $contents = "a bunch of text"; ?> <form enctype='multipart/form-data'

Hello, I want to write a script that will display a table with a number of rows the user wants. Example, I go to a page and need 30 rows, I press submit and 30 rows are made. I was thinking of a FOR EACH statement, but those examples are for arrays. Any ideas? Scott n7seb@softhome. net