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The below login script does work. The form does not seem to be submitting. I keep getting the username and password fields. The only errors I get are notices that email and password and undefined indexes. Here's the login script: <?php session_start(); // includes

Do I understand correctly that in PHP 5.0 objects will be passed by reference (by handle, they say) automatically, not as a copy, as happens with most PHP variables?

Hi I am in the process of "beautifying" a web site based on PHP + XTemplate. I wish to include a fixed left navigation bar on almost all the pages. I have a xtpl file that defines the header of each HTML document. If I use FRAMESET etc. directives in this, how do I make sure that the main page is shown in as a window.frame kind of object...

I have installed php-4.3.3RC1 on Suse 8.2, and everything went fine even the make install, but I do not see the new version in yast2 software packages, it still has the old version 4.3.1 any ideas ? is there another step I need to take, how do I check what is really installed ? ps apache is 2.0.46 and mysql is 4.1.0

I swear, these loops and for each's are going to kill me (if regex doesn't first ;) anyways, this is what i have: if ($_POST != "") { @$item_name1 = $_POST; @$item_number1 = $_POST; }

I asked this a couple of days ago, but got no response. Surely it's not difficult? I have a file, which my PHP has created, called say, /tmp/fred.txt. I want to send that file to the user so a dialog pops up and they get to save 'fred.txt' (or whatever they name it) on their local disk. How do I do that?

Hello developers! I'm sticking in a problem. I want to read the folder hierarchy of the webserver and store the information in a tree, built like a linked list - you know 'a tree'. you see in function readsubtree() i'm storing the object child in the array of the actualfoldernode. but this doesn't work out. it never arrives there.

I implemented a timer in my PHP page to see how long it takes to run. Here's the code: $this->start_time = microtime(); /* All the code */ $this->end_time = microtime(); $this->calc_time = ($this->end_time - $this->start_time); print "<tr><td colspan=\"5\">Calculated in: <b>"; printf("%." . $this->time_precision . "f", $this->calc_time);...

Real conspiracy theory's script: leaving the key Assalam u'Alekum :), The second night , before the two women came in, Mahmud Kurchu left a key with me, he told me I have to give this key to the women to got o hospital during the day, the day came and the women came asked for the key etc, I gave them this key but they had told me, they can't...

I'm trying to run a php script setuid. I've tried POSIX_setuid but you have to be root to run this. The files are located on a public access unix system and have me as the owner and nobody as the group. Rather than make them group writable where in anybody could make a script and write to my files i would like to make them setuid. I tried...

Hi, I've got a site which Google is indexing 3 different ways: glassgiant.com host5.veoweb.net/~glassgia veodns.com/glassgia I only want people accessing it the first way. If they access it any way but through the domain, I would like to send a moved permanently code, or at least use a header("Location: blah blah blah").

I need to create a data file from my PHP for the user to load into their word processor as a mail merge data source. Organising the data into rows of comma separated values isn't too difficult; what puzzles me is how to get that data into a .txt file somewhere on the user's PC. How, in general terms, should I go about doing that? Presumably...

Hello every one, Does anyone know how to make php work on your computer? please reply I need help Chris

Try to create a MySQL tables and don't know how to decide the type of some fields: Key: SSN - use int/bigint/char ? PhoneNumber - int/bigint/char ...? The reason I asked is that I got a space used exceed the limit with just one row... Thanks in advance

I bought the PHP and MySQL For Dummies book and I'm having trouble understanding how I use PHP to verify and check forms input text data - the book shows snippets of code so I know how to do the actual check but I don't understand what web page the php checking code should go into? For example, I have a simple login web page (username and...

Where are the best ready made PHP and MySQL templates for things like shopping carts, searchable databases etc.

I can write simple MySQL stuff in PHP but I'm having problems putting in WHERE clauses. Everytime I do I get errors like this: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\vod\mineral_action.php on line 10 The code that...

hello all, here is a preg_match routine that i am using. basically, $image is set in some code above, and it can be either st-1.gif or sb-1.gif (actually it randomly picks them from about 100 gifs). then it processes them based off of which image type it selected, either the st- 's or the sb- 's.

hello all, this is some code that i am using that "loops" through all of the variables that paypal ships back to me via ipn. for ($x=0; $x < count($postvars); $x++) { $y=$x+1; $postkey = $postvars; $postval = $$postvars; $postipn.= "&" . $postkey . "=" . urlencode($postval);

I have used some example code to create a database in MySQL and using php I can add binary files to the database. I was under the impression that I would be able to download the files with the source code provided, but am having trouble doing that. <?php if ($id_files) { include "./include/open_db.inc"; $sql = "SELECT bin_data, filetype,...

I'm sure I saw this somewhere but can't remember where and can't find it now... Is there a PHP function or global variable that will return name of the calling function? I want to do this for error reporting purposes without having to hardcode the function name into my scripts. Say the function is named getFunctionName(). I want to do...

hi folks: Does anyone know how to calculate the shipping rate on Fedex? There was a web module to handle the web query for rate at http://grd.fedex.com/cgi-bin/rrr2010.exe?func=Rate Currently it is not available, I wonder if there still has a similar module like that. I did some search on the Fedex sites and find out they have several...

I've been trying for 2 days now to solve this problem, which should be pretty simple, but it is turning off to not be as simple. I am trying to pull data out from a form that was POSTed on a previous page. The code that I have that works is below: <?php for ($i = 2; $i <= $stoped; $i++) { echo '<tr>' .'<td>Step '."$i".'</td>'

<? // Test example: echo '<pre>'; $aInput = ' abtgh kdghg 9867 jkuhkh ^ { ooijj 438764 - 56_ 67 '; $aInput = ereg_replace('', ',' , $aInput); echo $aInput;

I have a slight problem with sessions. I use a session var to store a user's details and also a set of permissions to various parts of my application. This involves several SQL queries which is why I do it once and cache the result in a session var. My problem occurs when I change a user's permissions. At this point I need to invalidate...