PHP Forum

I'm new to PHP - moving over from ASP. I have a number of include files, the first of which sets the value of a variable $loginmsg. I use that variable in a subsequent include file, but get a "Notice: Undefined variable loginmsg" warning. I've had a good look at previous posts concerning this warning, and see that isset() is recommended...

I installed postgres and phppgadmin debian unstable (on ProMepis RC4) but I can't seem to access it. I type http://localhost/phppgadmin and it says file not found. Look in /var/www and sure enough, its not there and neither are any files relating to the phppgadmin. How do I get this thing to work?

a simple questions. how can I echo a variable made on in a PHP file inside a tpl file. the TPL file is included inside the PHP file. any suggestions?

First of all, I'm an Asian and I need to input Japanese, Korean and so on. I've tried many PHP IDEs today, but almost non of them supported Unicode (UTF-8) file. I've found that the only Unicode support IDEs are DreamWeaver 8 and Zend PHP Studio. DreamWeaver provides full support for Unicode. However, DreamWeaver is a web editor rather...

My website gathers some data on its first page, which is used on other pages. I would like to 'store' the data in some session variables between visits, to prevent any problems that may occur if a visitor bookmarks a different page. What is the best way of achieving this? Can I store the values in a cookie on the clients pc? Thanks for...

Hi, I must be missing something obvious. I cannot get this function to run the update query on Line 6, although the call to run the query evaluates true, and both update_cat_total functions execute, while the function itself returns true. A var_dump shows that all the variables are valid, and I can run the exact same update query at...

Hello there! Just wondered which mailing class do you use for your php sites? I've been using phpmailer for several months but I encounter some troubles using it now... Do you know good mailer class ? thanks a lot.

Hello, I am still a beginner of PHP, and while I found out the way to print all the variables passed as a POST, I was wondering (for debugging purposes) if there is a simple way to tell the PHP interpreter to print out all the variables that have been used during that session, without storing anything anywhere, and without buying a...

Hi, I have to develop a web based information system for an educational institution. It is going to be a 100% OO code. Therefore I also need an Object Relational Mapper. I have not used any object relational mapper so far, apart from some home grown classes that implement simple Row to Object mappings. Now these classes are becomming...

I have not seen any good examples on how to connect to a mySQL db. My website uses phpMyAdmin to administer the SQL databases. What confuses me is where are the databases that I create located? For example, if my website is www.mywebsite.com and I have installed myphpadmin in the folder tkd, now using this I have created two databases, one...

I need to deflate a tar.gz file, using php, and i have no shell access, please, im using php 4.3.11 on a iis 5.0 (i know, i sucks), i need to know weather or not thats possible thanks in advance.

<?php $dirname = "."; $dh = opendir($dirname); while ($file = readdir($dh)) { if (is_dir ("$dirname/$file")) { print ""; } print "$file<br>";

Hello: The phpBB sites are hacked. If you search for "HACKED BY CYBER-ATTACK" on msn.com you will get a list of all the sites hacked. Anyone knows what is the way to clean this up ? Thanks.

Hi, I'm sending some vars to php from javascript. These vars contain special chars (like "&" ,",")and also turkish characters. Therefore I'm using javascripts escape() function to be able to send them properly. My problem is on the php side. I am using rawurldecode to convert them back. However, Turkish characters like "I" (capital "I"...

Hi there, I want to get the file version of a file in PHP. Do somebody have the code for this? Thanks alot!

I'm trying to process a tab delimited file where each line in the file has around 12 tab delimited elements. My problem is the elements are surrounded by "quotes" and I need the script to remove the quotes after loading the file to the $addresses variable. The quotes need to be removed somewhere within the code below or by processing the file...

Hello, I have a recent version of phpBB (http://xgm.de/forum) on my own webserver. Everything works fine, only the automatic login does not work with all browsers. Cookies are accepted of course. Anyone got a idea what could be the problem? Thanks, Florian

Question on PhP, MySQL I am thinking of a consumer internet business for which I will have to build a database driven site. I am thinking of using PhP, MySQL as the main technologies amd Linux hosting( and some Dreamweaver). My question is:

On my website I have Guestmap that is written in PHP. I did not write it but got it from a freeware site. Anyway it works well, except I've discovered that if someone writes a message and uses the enter key, that will hangup the GuestMap. There is no error message, the icons simple will not load and no one else can enter a message. My...

Hi all The following code ( using target='_blank' ) opens a "normal" big size window. <a target='_blank' href='page2.php'>HERE</a> How can I open a window with a small size? TIA

Are there any free php source obfuscation tools? Thanks

Hello. Is it possible to send an email with some HTML code ? I tried the following code, where $msg == '<html><body>... blah blab blah etc.</body></html>' : // Adresse de l'expediteur $entete = "From: $from \n";

Hi there, I am building a File download counter in PHP5. It's working fine but the problem is that its not working with any Download Managers for ex: Free Download Manager / DAP etc. The download manager downloads the actual PHP script file. How can I correct this? Here is my code:

Hello I've almost finished my website, though the client has asked for an extra field in the Admin Panel, I've managed to do this in SQL and Admin/English/products.php though I was just wondering how to get this displayed in the admin panel itself It's called Products Location which needs to go under Products Model Thanks

I am working on a spider script but I only want to parse english pages. Is there a way I can check to see what language the content is in? I suppose I could restrict my spider to just .com , .org, etc so foreign countries would not get parsed.