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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...

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...

I'm trying to install PHP 4.3.3 under Windows 2000 Server as an ISAPI DLL (on my development PC). Things weren't going smoothly so I uninstalled it (with the Wise wizard) and now it still shows up under the Control Panel installed programs! I hate it when that happens. Be that as it may, I uninstalled it for two reasons. Firstly the file...

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 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...

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

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...

Hi. I reaslise this is possibly considered off-topic, but I want to pick as many expert brains as possible. Apologies in advance.... I have a form on which I have a username and password box. Then in the validation function called by the form's onsubmit event, I'm taking the username and password and generating an MD5 hash (using javascript)...

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

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...

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

Can anyone recommend a free PHP IDE for Windows 2000? There seem to be a number of them.

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'

Hi all, Does anyone know of a class which will read outlook email messages. I need to be able to scan outlook for "non-read" e-mails with a specific subject and then save the attachments and mark the e-mail as "read". I tried working with the am outlook application COM object but could not get it to work. If you have another way to do...

Hi, I've got a strange query that I can't figure out. I've got a new installation of Apache 1.3.28 and PHP 4.3.3 on my laptop, but it doesn't appear to be processing URLs correctly. I've tried to do a direct copy of my config on my desktop (which is Apache 1.3.27 and PHP 4.3.1, I think), but I don't have access to it any more to check the...

first, i would like the thoughts of some folks with more experience than i have. i want to learn pgsql. i have some vb and msaccess experience and would like to learn how to use php and pgsql to develop some nice website / application functionality. however, i'm not sure the hurdle of relatively miniscule documentation and tutorials is...

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

Hi all I am reasonably new at php. I have a database table with three fields, id, caption and data. I have used the id and caption to create a dynamic menu. it just throws it into a loop with extra html formatting stuff. No problem. The data field is a large blob. The data is a complete html file which comes out of a timing system for...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to write a PHP script that will download a list of all the newsgroups on a news server and put them into a MySQL database. I bought a $50 book that had some NNTP examples in it, but none of them show how to just download the groups, not the articles. I tried on my own for about 2...

How do I send CHECKBOXES via email through the mail() function in PHP? Example: You have 67 checkboxes, all with unique names, but only want to send the ones that were checked. Mailer: Verifies only 2 of those 67 were checked, so the email only has 2 checkboxes checked.

How do most of you construct your applications? Do you break it up into sections based on the functions of the app? example: contact_add.php contact_delete.php contact_edit.php .....

There are a couple of good tutorials on OO architectures done in PHP 4 at http://www.objectmonkey.com Jason

My name is Sofia and I have for many years been running a personals site, together with my partner, on a non-profit basis. The site is currently not running due to us emigrating, but during its last year we got traffic of between 2000 - 2500 unique visitors per day. We are now about to re-launch the site from Sweden and we need to purchase a...

Hi All, I am moving some php code from a Linux machine to a Windows 2000 machine with the code belowe I get the following error : Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test.php on line 5 1) reset($kolom1); 2) while(list($cat,$lnk) = each($kolom1)){ 3) kop($cat);

How can I execute a javascript file(test.js) from within PHP. I'm running oscommerce and want to insert a menu created in javascript by Sothink DHTMLMenu. Thanks in advance