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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

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...

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:

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. 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...

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 I have a page written with php and a MySQL Database. Now, I want to redesign the whole, but still with the Database and php. is it possible to design the page with Flash and then to put all the php commands into the source code? specially, I still need the extension *.php? Greets and thanks in advance mirco

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! 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

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'); ?>

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

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...

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

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...

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... 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

Does anyone know what sorting algorithm(s) -- quicksort, mergesort, radix sort, etc. -- does PHP use internally in its sort function?

I'm writing an XML application at the moment and I'm trying to implement exception handling - particularly fatal exceptions. currently if a fatal exception is raised, I create error data in XML format and then send the well-formed XML result document to the user agent. I'm also careful to set the mime type to text/xml or application/xml...

I can use mysqldump to create a .sql file backup of my data.. For importing how can I test to see if the DB exists, if it does import the .sql If not create the DB then import the .sql ! Thanks

I am having troubles with some imap_open() I am using the following code: <?php $mbox = imap_open ("{mailserver:993/imap/ssl/no-validatecert}INBOX", "user", "password"); echo "<p><h1>Mailboxes</h1>\n";

I have setup an HTML page were the user will be able to set the number of text boxes they want to enter data in. The number of text boxes will be saved as a hidden form variable. Below is a quick HTML code that will show what im talking about. <Form> <input type="textbox" name="n1"> <input type="textbox" name="n2"> <input type="textbox"...

Folks, A quick opinion poll: I'm looking to write an RSS Aggregator. None of the PHP-based aggregators out there do exactly what I like, but it wouldn't be difficult at all to homebrew one. However, I don't feel like writing my own parser. I've looked at Magpie and Onyx, but haven't yet tested either. If any of you out there use an RSS...

Hi After months of waiting for Redhat to come out with up to date rpms, I decided to compile a working OpenSSL/ MySQL / PHP / httpd installation for myself. Installed the latest versions of mcrypt and mhash, followed by openssl and mysql (version 4.0.13) - all from source. Configured httpd with :

Hi On an ecommerce project that I recently deployed, I have been asked to add the functionality of uploading images over SSL. I am a relative (compared to you folks) newbie at PHP / Apache. What part of PHP should I be looking at ? Thanks, MS