Webmaster Forum / PHP / General PHP Topics / October 2005

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?

How can I obtain my IP address?
I have tried gethostbyname('localhost'), and of course, the output is
127.0.0.1 :)
Thanks in advance

This section of code has been driving me mad for hours.
I don't understand why it generates the following output.
PRIOR TO call to setName(some text) item->name=an item.= ((OK))
AFTER TO call to setName(widget + number) item->name=widget 5442 ()OK))

I have a query that i run on my website, heres the pseudo code:
select
bottle_caps.caps_id,
products.products_id,

Howdy,
I'm creating a register form which passes some user values to my php file
using POST
here's the code:

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

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.

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.

I am having a bit of difficulty when sending mail() with multipart.
Under a Windows server, it is working nicely.  I am receiving the email
message in HTML.
Howver, When I run the code under a Unix server the emails I am receiving a

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 ?

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

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

I'm pulling chunks out of a line of text.  In this instance the bit I
want is delimited by square braces; '[' and ']'.
Is there a single php function that I can do this with?
I know how to do it with multiple functions (something like

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

Hi everyone, this is my first post here.
Right now I am using a script at the top of each page that pulls 3 variables
from an url such as www.domain.com?id1=333&id2=55335&id3=4976197:
<?PHP