PHP Forum

Dear friends, I have a big problem. With an usersonline script I need to extract in php the output of a cgi using buffering output in this way: <?php ob_start(); include('/home/mysite/public_html/cgi-bin/usersonline/online.cgi'); $contents = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean();

I have a file with thousands of these lines: $GPRMC,131334.00,A,4538.6259,N,01021.4755,E,0.43,0.0,021105,1.3,E,A*0D $GPGGA,131334.00,4438.6259,N,01021.4755,E,1,00,7.8,29.8,M,40.2,M,,*5C $GPRMC,131343.00,A,4538.6270,N,01021.4789,E,2.87,0.0,021105,1.3,E,A*0F I must capture ONE line EVERY 10 LINES but only a block of 200 lines with the first...

Hi guys, i'm trying to replace a picture inside an RTF file. I have found that this is the format the picture is described inside RTF: {\*\shppict{\pict\picscalex80\picscaley80\piccropl0\piccropr0\piccropt0\piccropb0\picw800\pich600\picwgoal12000\pichgoal9000\jpeglib ....some binary data...}} RTF file is about 3,9MB and this expression...

I'm trying to access a Cloudscape/Derby database via PHP and am using the IBM DB2 Lite client which I have installed. As soon as I call db2_connect(...) in the php code, I get a db2_connect Undefined function error message, so it is not finding this function in the IBM DB2 stuff. I've verified that the Apache Server, PHP and DB2 and the...

Suppose I need to get an image as a stream of bytes. I want to store this in a variable and then embed it in some Postscript code. In my Postscript code, the image might look like this: {< ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ff000000000000000000000000000000000000ffffffffffffff...

Hello, I'm a very, very novice C programmer and I have written an extension for php that does its purpose well, or at least it used to until they asked for that one extra feature. It's a very little thing, very easy, but damn it all, it has a mysterious bug. I tracked it down to one specific line where the weirdness occurs, but I can't...

Hello, I have an application, that does a redirect inside a frame, after setting a sessionvariable, like this: content of http://appserver.de/login1/test1.php: <?php session_start();

I'm looking to convert my WBB Lite to another forum, but there doesn't seem to be any converters out there, any ideas?

for my web site I am looking for a simple PHP plain text menu system, the menu would have at least four levels and about 200 links, at starting only the main levels should appear, for example : MATHEMATICS HISTORY GEOMETRY once you click on one of these a submenu would appear

Ok I have read alot of things on zend.com, php.net and other sites went to the wikibooks to try to understand how to use a class. I have this project I want to do that I am sure would work great with a class. I just don't grasp the whole concept, and how to do it. I want to make a Collectable Card Game Draft Engine...(if any of you play...

Hi, I have a table with a field that contains a file path(www/docs/.../.../...) Some of the path contain this characters 'é' or 'è'. How can i do an update on this table to replace only the characters 'é' or 'è' by a 'e'. Thanks for your ideas VooDoo

I have a search form used to query a MySQL database. I want the search results to appear on the same page as the search form, below the search box after the have entered their search criteria. I can do this using the GET method, however this displayrs all the parameters in the URL. I understand you can hide the parameters by using the POST...

Hi, Does anyone know if it's possible to use regular expressions to grab all content between two words. For example.... ------ This is some example text to illustrate my problem and here's another my for you. ------

I'm a newbie, and struggling a bit ! I've spent about 3 days trying to solve a simple problem, and I've failed. I have a screen, with two buttons. When the user hits either button, a php function (or procedure) should get called, and the php code needs to programatically work out which button is pressed. Sounds simple. But I just don't know...

I checked the official PHP documentation and it makes no mention of "@ini_set" function with the "@" symbol in front of it. The code I'm looking at does have the "at" symbol in front of "ini_set". So what's the "@" for? Thanks.

Hello... I wrote a simple subscribe script that when a user completes the subscription form he gets added in the database and then he receives an e-mail where he/she clicks on the follow link : <a href=www.mysite.com?confirm&subscribers_id=mysql_insert_id($rs_subscriber_id)>Confirm</a> and gets added in the newsletter subscribers.

Hello, My php.ini file currently has magic quotes set to On, but I have read that it is better to code with it off. Currently with magic quotes on, I only use stripslashes() to properly format strings that are displayed on the screen. I know that now with magic quotes off, I will have to manually handle escaping special characters with...

Hi There, I firstly wish to thank those who have helped me:) I have one issue that I sort of am lost in the dark, I have searched google without any luch, I am passing the following through to a html link result.php?1001 How can I get the query to recognise that number as the WHERE clause

Here is the code i have to read stings that are set out as such - {STRING} $pattern = '/{(\w+)}/'; $replace = '$\1'; $template = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $template); This outputs $STRING Anybody know how i can get the $STRING to $string within the preg_replace. I have tried:

As far as I know PHP code is always a script which is interpreted by the PHP interpreter, compiled to machine code, then executed by the CPU. Much like Java, one could say. (I am not talking about the source code to PHP itself; rather, the code that one using the PHP language would write.) However, since the interpreter has to compile the...

Hi, I'm using the following php script to send an email. mail($to, $subject, $message, $from) I have a question though. How do I construct $message to include a web-link so that the reader of the email can open the email and click the link in the email to be forwarded to a linked website.

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Hello, PHP and mysql I have the following select statement whch gives me a count for downloads for previous day. SELECT COUNT(swid) FROM

Hi I posted three days ago about a function I wrote which kept refusing to run a mysql_query. Well I did away with the function, and hard coded the variables into the query itself. Here's what I have now: mysql_query("UPDATE about SET category_id = 58 WHERE about_id = 5") or die('error: ' . mysql_error());

Greetings. I'm still pretty new to PHP and I have a question. I know that variables are preceeded by a "$" (dollar sign). Typically, a variable has one value, unless it is an array. Then it is essentially a pointer to numerous values sequential in memory. The code I'm looking at now is using the same variable name, but assigning a...