Webmaster Forum / PHP / General PHP Topics / November 2006

I'm trying to dynamically generate a html select list from a MS Access
database using the code below:
<?php
$conn=odbc_connect('customer','','')or die('Could Not Connect to ODBC

The code from the manual will not call the destructor.  The constructor gets called no
problem.
I am running PHP 5.0.4.  Any ideas why it would call the first method and not the cleanup?
class MyDestructableClass

Hi - total newb here. But then you'd figure that out by the easy problem
I have:
I have a CMS that lets me insert PHP code, and I want to display a
message until a certain time, for example:

I am looking for a simple way to keep my log files from growing too
large. Basically I would want something that truncates the off first 25
kb of a 100kb log file. I could do something with reading in the file
twice, first to determine number of lines. Then a second time to write

 I am trying to read wmv file formats. I would like to develop a
script in php which would split WMV files . Like suppose user enter
starting time and end times of some particular WMV file . then my
script should be able to make a new WMV file which would be played from

I am puzzled, I want to change the upload_max_filesize setting, if I
do this with
ini_set('upload_max_filesize', 8000000);
the upload_max_filesize is not set.  However, if I make the change in

I'm a business owner in Canada British Columbia I need to implement a
software to integrate purchasing for two stores into one place. I found a
software project that almost fits exactly what I'm trying to acomplish.
unfortunately the software creator has not responded to my ...

I dont know what is going on ( cuz i get no error message ) but i can make
insert into mysql db (empty rows).
Im testing with if(isset($_GET['name','ID'])) and all data that i need is
passed from login page to check page.

I am going bananas trying to get text breaks and empty lines into this text
which is sent in an email.
I have tried "'s and \n and r\n\ but the text in the email still wraps and also
I see the code in the text.

I need a function to convert a date/time (dd-mm-yyyy  hh:mm:ss) to a 64-bit
win32 FILETIME and reversed.
Is this possible with PHP ?
Thansk in advance,

I have limited knowledge in php and I am having trouble with uploading
an image to a remote directory and resizing it if it's larger and
renaming it to a unique id, while at the same time I would like to
create a record in mysql database. I've tried to find some tutorials

I've noticed that some scripting languages (PHP, for example) have options
to control whether the script can be terminated by the user clicking STOP on
their browser (or similar mechanisms).
How does this apply to CGI-BINs?  Can Apache ever try to terminate a

I have resords in an access database. I want to retrieve them using php
and generate an xml file with them. I can retrieve the records and
generate an xml file but the xml file contains no data.
This is the code im using:

Please let me know how do we effectively and quickly test a php code ?

I have a form with various text inputs.  Whe the user types something into,
say, the name field, once the user tabs off, or clicks a button next to that
field, I want to update the other fields without sending it to another form
(or itself).  Is there such a way and if so, has ...