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i'm running the following php script, and where i would expect it to create a file, test.txt, it doesn't. it isn't in the directory i am exectuting the script in, nor can i do cat on it (not that i would expect to, since it doesn't exist, heh): <?php print system("ls > test.txt"); print system("cat ls.txt");

The move_uploaded_file() function is very quirky. I want to allow users to upload images to the Web site. Here is the code: if(!move_uploaded_file($_FILES, $imagefile)) { die("Could not move file: ".$_FILES." -> $imagefile"); } else { enter record into database...

can anyone be so kind as to look at http://www.mysolution.ws/HYPOCRITE.php and let me know why it isn't passing the form data to http://www.mysolution.ws/insertHYPOCRITES.php for the most part, the scripts were created with http://phpcodegenie.sourceforge.net/

I'm trying to execute a long query with mssql_query(), but it fails after 30 seconds. I've tried to use ini_set in my script : ini_set("mssql.timeout", "120"); Both just before the query and before the connection is initiated. I've tried to add this to php.ini : mssql.timeout = 120 But nothing seems to work, mssql_query() in the script...

Hello. How can I make a PDF file from PHP? What do I need, and how do I write the code? Thanks in Advance Espen

I want to write to file in word, but the second line is wrong. Cannot call tht illegal function COM. Any Idea?? <?php $word=new COM("Word.Application") or die("Cannot start word for you"); print "Loaded word version ($word->Version)\n"; $word->visible =1 ;

We installed ez publish 3.1 on Linux Mandrake 9.1 We used graphic setup, following all instructions. Now we login as admin in http://localhost/ezpublish/index.php/admin/login but we see many strange problems: - if we go to set up-->content and try to edit a class or press "new class" button nothing changes! - if we go to address...

Hi everybody. For a long time now, I've been searching for a good, fast, reliable CMS. Most of the stuff out there (like phpnuke) is too fancy and overloaded for what I need: - more than one Menu-Layer... submenus and all - MySQL-support - configurable templates - custom input templates (not a must) That's all I need. Do you have any...

Hi, When I initially start my browser (any of 'm) and point it to my PHP script the $PHPSESSID is always blank. On all subsequent hits or after a refresh the value for $PHPSESSID is fine... why do I have to complete a php file before the $PHPSESSID is set? I tried to do session_start() before anything still blank, what did I miss? (Aix...

I've been trying to just open a png and display it, that way: <? header ("Content-type: image/png"); $im = imagecreatefrompng('empty.png'); imagepng($im); ?> But the transparency is not kept. I did try in netscape too, but it's visible even in explorer, when comparing how the

Hi ! If I have an input field <form ... method="post"> <input type="text" name="abc def"> </form>

Hello. I am trying to put one counter in my php with the next code: <?php $hitfile = "/admin/contador.txt"; if (!file_exists($hitfile)) { $file = fopen($hitfile,"r+"); $hits = fread($file,filesize($hitfile)); fclose ($file); }

I am trying to find a good PHP/mysql based frontend to create a support database where admins can post solutions to problems we have on our intranet. Like Moveable Type - or something like that - except for a technical support database. Can be simple, can be free or for cost, but search of docs and cross referencing would be almost...

hi, i was wondering wat is wrong in this little code below??? <?php $verifyemail = $_GET; $checkemail = "SELECT verified FROM users WHERE (email = '$verifyemail')"; $emailresult = mysql_query ($checkemail);

I am looking for an open source php accelerator that works in cgi mode. I am guessing that to do that the cache would have to be on disk and not in memory. I was looking at the turk accelerator (since it will cache to disk), but it says somewhere that it will not work in cgi mode. I am almost tempted to try it though. Ideas? BTW my...

Can anyone point me to java packages which aid in parsing web pages? TIA matt

My OS is Winxp . My web server is apache 2 which is installed as a NT service . My php version is 4.32 , and I extracted it into "c:\php" . I run php as a apache module . I want to load Additional extensions .They are php_mbstring.dll, php_xslt.dll and php_domxml.dll .

My OS is Winxp . My web server is apache 2 which is installed as a NT service . My php version is 4.32 , and I extracted it into "c:\php" . I run php as a apache module . I want to load Additional extensions .They are php_mbstring.dll, php_xslt.dll and php_domxml.dll .

Does PHP work better than Java with MySQL? What are pros and cons of using PHP vs Java? Which one is faster? Can someone share the experience or point me to some good white papers or benchmarks? Thanks.

Hi, newbie question ahead: suppose i have two html-formatted documents with appropriately coded <?php ?> areas. a typical query is this: file.php?call=123.html in 123.html i define a variable $doctitle How can I display $doctitle in file.php (an html-formatted file as well)

Hi, if i try to set a cookie but the user has cookies disabled does this resolve in an error? if so how to prevend it? thanks

if ((!isset( $PHP_AUTH_USER )) || (!isset($PHP_AUTH_PW))) { header( 'WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Private"' ); header( 'HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized' ); echo 'Authorization Required.'; exit; } else { echo "You entered $PHP_AUTH_USER for a username.<BR>";

I am trying to code my "notfound.html" page when people click on the link that will send them back to home page, that the "entire" browser is "refreshed". Reason for doing this. I have frames on the home page. When user click on the link on "notfound.html", the home page appears within the home page frame. So I see 2 home pages. I have...

ucfirst({explode('/', $val)}) This produces a parse error expecting ')', but why? I thought this was perfectly valid code structuring in PHP! Any ideas? Phil

I'm looking in my PHP book but still figure out the best way to validate that certain characters are contained in a string - for example, when a user enters a username, I want to limit the characters to a..z, A..Z,0..9 only. What's the best way to check for this? Thanks...