Webmaster Forum / PHP / General PHP Topics / July 2008

I am trying to make something here,,,
i am not an experienced php user so this might be an easy question but for
me it seems like a mountain!
So, i got a field in mySQL in which data is stored in this way:

i'm a web designer with a client who wants to password-protect a "members
area" based on yearly subsriptions.   i need a script that will offer an
admin cpanel to set up accounts (ie, simple name + password only), and have
an expiry date field as well, for when the user's ...

At http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-4625.html I found these two
functions:
// get image alt descriptions
function get_image_alt($file){

I have this nice bad_orderXL.php  page that works, calls some queries
and prints to the browser:
---------------
Validate_login("bad_order.php");

Compared with Java or .NET, do you think PHP is better for
outsourcing?

Hi, everybody:
In Joomla1 1.5 when a user is added, the following a message is shown:
Could not instantiate mail function.
In Global Configuration-Server-Mail Settings, the Sendmail path can be

I have a php script that runs from command line and makes an https
request to paypal, using curl.  It works fine if I run it from a web
page. It fails if I run it from CLI.  The error I get from the CLI:
* About to connect() to api-3t.sandbox.paypal.com port 443

I'm sure theres a way to make this simpler but I haven't been able to
figure it out.....heres whats going on:
$tnum = array();
for($i = 0; $i < count($targets['id']); $i++)

Can anyone recommend a script, form or class to use for a payment page to be
sent to Authorize.net? I don't need a whole shopping cart - just a good form
to collect the standard info to send for credit card payments. Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

As I understand it, object assignment causes the variable to contain
the same object identifier, whereas assigning a variable via reference
creates a true alias of the RHS:
<?php

As part of a data collecting system (basically a system that collects
submissions from forms), I was planning on logging a bit of data about
the submitting user agent for the purposes of spotting things like
multiple submissions.

I am not sure if there any tutorials out there on this topic or not.
Basic, I just want to grab videos from youtube, etc (flv format) and
posted it on my web site.
I would like to use PHP with a cron jobs.

I've got an app I'm working on and a benefit to my users versus the
old application is dynamic forms. I didn't want to do it at first but
I figured it's something I'll have to do and the added benefit is
experience. Enough of the filler...

I created a small website for a friend. On this website he has a
contact page where people can send him email. When I wrote this page I
checked some tutorial pages and they warned about certain precautions
to take to avoid spammers using the mail form to spam multiple

i am currently trying to compile php 5.1.6 on fedora 9 i386, when i ran in
to a compile issue with 'ext/cur;/interface.lo'. i got pass the ./configure
phase but dont know why its complaining about the 'make' phase.. Here is the
error below: