Webmaster Forum / PHP / General PHP Topics / February 2007

I have the following code:
$req = "SELECT * FROM table1";
$res = mysql_query($req);
if(!$res)

I don't know, maybe this isn't strange but someone else set up the
shopping card coding I'm working with, the way it works is to get the
time() in seconds like 1172693735 and that's the shopper_ID number and
the shopping_cart_last_modified number is generated the same way once

Thanks in advance for reading this.
I'm not a novice, but I'm not a PHP pro, either, nor a programming
expert of any kind, so I'm kind of trying to find a solution that
works for a job that I'm working on.

I need to save some content from another site (with permission, of
course). It's just the text portion, no graphics, and I can't simply
use frames to target the intended content. Rather, I need to save the
content to a file on my server for later importing into a database and

i have a code:
/* some code creating picture */
header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
imagepng($new);

Hi can someone give me the code to convert a line break in a multiline
textfield to a <br/> tag ? It's something to do with CR LF but I can't
find the exact code anywhere.
Cheers,

i want to create an application web by PHP.
i want to create un command buttum whit must close de navigator
(internet explorer, mosilla, ...)
can you help me

I have a text and I want to match several words like this "(controller|
data|IT)?" at least one of the words in the group should be mandatory,
but I dont want to match a word that is part of another word like this
"datamanager" it should only match the word "data" or any other word

up until now I have used PHP4 as an Apache module which works lovely.
I used to have the following line per VHost for a userdir:
php_admin_value open_basedir /var/www/user/
This allowed users to only browse/open their own dir. Also I had a

Sessions have unexpectedly stopped working on a client's webserver.
PHP Version 4.4.1 running under IIS.  When moving from page to page the
session information is lost.
It used to work fine, and the same code works on other machines.  AFAIK

Trouble passing mysql table name in php. If I use an existing table
name already defined everything works fine as the following script
illustrates.
<?php

any suggestions on what php website to use to help me manage my
website? new to this and not sure which to use... phpwebsite, nuke, ?
any help greatly appreciated

Are there good pre-canned php site search mechanisms?
I've worked with lucene in the java servlet context,
and I like lucene a lot.  But it isn't available
on the shared host server I have to work with now.

I need to loop through a number of categories (in object $category) and compare
items (from object $itemdata) to create a list of items organized by category.
foreach ($category as $cat_item)
{

The version of Turck MMCache that I have found only works with PHP 4.
Has anyone worked on getting it to work for 5.2?
Thanks,
Dan