PHP Forum

Hello all, I am writing an app in PHP that uses a PostGres database. One thing i have noticed is that what should/could be a single line of SQL code takes about 6 lines of PHP. This seem wasteful and redundant to me. Here is a sample of what I'm talking about ($db is a PDO already defined and created).

hi in form TEXTAREA i have text like: bla bla http://www.google.com/bla/bla/bla text text text text now how to make from this text like: bla bla text text text text

I've looked at and installed PatUser http://www.php-tools.net/site.php?&file=/patUser/overview.xml and PHPautomembersarea http://www.dwalker.co.uk/phpautomembersarea/ but neither of those systems seem to do what I want, which is: some PHP pages need to run for anybody on the web and also for signed on users that get additional content, I...

Let's say I have function dosomething ($var1, $var2, $var3) { ... } How do I make $var3 optional so that I can pass only 2 arguments and still have it work?

When I try ti install DB I get this output: # pear install db downloading DB-1.7.6.tgz ... Starting to download DB-1.7.6.tgz (124,807 bytes) .............................done: 124,807 bytes requires package `PEAR' >= 1.0b1 DB: Dependencies failed When I try to install the newer PEAR I get:

Hello, With php4 I did the following in class initialisation : class base_class { function modify_polymorphic($otherclass){ $this=new $otherclass(); }

Hi all. With this simple script I can see all my jpg in a web page.. but they are confused randomly in the page. is there a way to put them alfabetically? from A to Z? thanx <?php if ($handle = opendir('/cover')) {

I don't know preg's that well, can anyone tell me how to write a regular expression that will select everything BUT files/folders that begin with ._ or __?(that's period-underscore and underscore underscore)

Many of you recommend SlickEdit for PHP development. One thing I haven't been able to determine is if it has a debugger for PHP scripts? Looking for breakpoint, watch lists, etc. similar to what the major ide's have. Thanks!

Hello My host does not allow external connections to my MySQL database on their server from a remote computer. I would like users of my VB application to be able to add records from a table on said database to their local MySQL database. Can anyone advise me of my options to solve this one (appart from changing host)? Thanks Ian

Hi Folk I am reading the info below and I am thinking, just how trusted is it. I have a redirection in place using an .htaccess file. The file it redirects to is 404.php. Is there a way to find out what the file was that people entered originally? I was thinking about $_SERVER but that does not seem to do the trick (it is empty). ...

Hi folks! I noticed in my static example which I did in PHP that the static variable is not stored over multiple php pages. So this does differ than to other OO languages like JSP. Is this so or did I something wrong? MyClass.php: <? class MyClass

Hi, I'd like to globalize my website. I've seen some pre-coded php apps using this kind of code : echo __('Hello') ; This displays the Hello message in the correct language. I can't get how it works and no doc over the web about that !

Hi All, I'm putting a website together using PHP and a MySQL database. I've been using phpMyAdmin as it makes updating the DB nice and easy. For development, I've been using Apache, MySQL and PHP installed on my local machine but now I'm having problems porting to my hoster's server. To transfer the database contents, I've exported the...

Ive heard about some sort of script or program that converts a web address with a php extension to that with a html. E.g. say if you had www.abc.com/123.php the user would be able to access this via www.abc.com/123.html. We're creating a new site in php and dont want to effect our search engine rankings by getting rid of all our existing html...

Hi, I use MySQL databases for my websites but at work I use PostgreSQL databases. Is there such a thing, similar to PHPMyAdmin, for PostgreSQL where I can view table structure, browse table data, run sql queries, backup etc? Cheers Burnsy

Is there a PHP script that can find unused variables? I'd like to 'clean up' my scripts. Thanks...

Hello there, A newbie question....any help is appreciated. I'm trying to create a script that searches a few database tables based on the search text and user search preferences. I created a PHP script (search_form.php) that displays textbox, a search button and a preferences link. The preferences link opens a popup (preferences.html)...

I have created a wizard which walks a user through a process of selecting data to be generated into an XML file. Each page adds its own data to $_SESSION, until the final page. On this page, an input button launches a PHP script (genHTML.php) that creates an HTML file. The genHTML file starts by setting two headers: header('Content-type:...

I'm just beginning my PHP studies and one of the first tutorials gives different results. The user is prompted for a Name, and PHP is to say "Welcome <name>!" on another page. On my hosted server the example works fine, but on my own machine the message "Welcome !" is displayed, instead of "Welcome James!" (or whatever). The code: ...

This is an amazing opportunity to win a tin of sardines if you can answer this difficult question correctly! Question: What kind of loop do you need to turn an array like this: $notes = array( '1:1', '1:2', '1:3'

Hello, I seem to get an extra empty field in every 'mysql_fetch_array' command I issue. For example: I have a simple table 'tblName': ID Name 1 Jane 2 Joe 2 Doe

hello, I am finding that setting session variables is very unreliable (for me). Am I doing something wrong with syntax : $contnum = getrequest("ID1") ; (ID1 is passed in the URL) $_SESSION= $contnum ; My program will randomly start to fail. If I echo $sess_contnum, sometimes it is set, sometimes not.

I am simply trying to zip together selected files into a single ZIP file. Windows XP doesn't have a native process by which you can do this, so I borrowed gzip, downloaded and installed, and upon using it: <? $msg = exec('gzip -q --suffix .zip '. @join(' ', $fileArray)); ?> All of my files named in $fileArray were horribly mangled!!...

Hi there friends, I want to encode a date in PHP5. I have 3 variables for ex: $day = 20 (integer) $month = 10 (integer) $year = 2005 (integer)