Webmaster Forum / PHP / General PHP Topics / April 2007

What would be the meaning of the '@' in @mysql_query()?
I did not find googling, I miss some keyword...
Thank you for any help.

i am trying to create a pdf using pdflib in php which includes some
text and an image.  however, the part that loads the image seems to
keep failing.  can someone help please?
the code:

I just wondered if someone could clarify... I have a a script connecting
with mysql_connect and in an include at end of page mysql_close
If they script terminates before end of page ie. with an exit() or maybe
trigger_error(), does php always disconnect the open'ed connection?

Like on 9/11, the Federal Government apparently WANTED people to die
at the hands of Cho at VA Tech, because they told campus police not to
pursue Cho after the double homicide occurred.
Story via

I want to check a string only contains a-z 0-9 ( ) . and #
I've used
ereg("^[a-zA-z0-9().#]*)$"),$instr)
which parses a string correctly until I try and parse a !,",£,$ ... or any

Hey all,
I'm a designer, not a developer, but I'm trying to learn.  Anyway, I'm
trying to get a contact form working, but apparently I have some empty
expressions here.  Of course, I don't know what the heck to put in them.

I am working on converting some old PHP 4 scripts to PHP 5. I used to
use the PEAR DB module in PHP 4 and in PHP 5 I want to use PDO.
I am using this code to connect to the DB:
$dbh = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=name', 'username',

I wonder if anyone has experienced something like this, as it seems
truly bizarre and is causing me to tear out my hair (what little there
is left of it)....
The exec() function just suddenly stopped working, for no discernable

I am trying to set up an ultra simple database backup. I don't want it
zipped or anything. I am basically just trying to figure out how to use
mysqldump on a php page, because I have spent the last hour+ reading web
sites that were way beyond my level.

do you know a tool like TIDY which allows to validate the HTML code
with PHP tags?
TIDY is not good enough because it removes a lot of php  code!!
Thanks for your help..

Please tell me how to integrate DHL Shipping Method in a ecommerce
website.
If you provide me the API, It would be great.
Thanks,

Hi Group,
  The page 167 of book Learning PHP5 by David Sklar  says that
setcookie() and session_start()  must be added before any output.
      I tried to use that functions at last line but no warning!.

I have data that is in this format:  8-8-19-29-1-4-41
I wanted to write a simple function or regular expression that
verified that data is in that format. The numbers should only be 1 or
2 digits. There should be 6 dashes (-) with 7 numbers around the

Hello php group,
I have a dev server running php 5.0 and apache 2.2, I have created
some php files that create classes, etc  All works well with this.
But when I copy the files to my hosting service's server - I get the

I have forgotten how to do this (At least I think I knew how)
I have SELECT CONCAT(A, ' ', B)  as C ........
If A or B is NULL this select fails. What do I need to do so it won't
fail...