Webmaster Forum / PHP / Database Access / November 2004

At present I have webpage which is just a selection of 5 forms which
pass informaton to a .php files which update individual fields in a
database - i.e. price, details, type etc.
At present I'm using separate files for each form, which works well, but

I'm very very new to SQL. I want to analyze a log file of a online game and
store the gathered data in a mysql db.
Now I have some trouble to get startet with the layout of the database
tables.

I'm using phpmyadmin and am having trouble coming up with the sql statement
to delete all records from a table where the "username" starts with "m".
Can someone help?  Thanks.

I am trying to insert a PHP clock on my webpage, but it does not work.
The code I am using is from:
http://www.ftls.org/en/examples/php/clock_analog.php3#s6
I have uploaded my HTML file (clock.htm) and the clock.php from the website

I use php to connect to a MySQL database. In my php script I use the
readable username and password to connect to the database. My question is :
How is it possible to encrypt the username / password for connecting to a
database.

I am new to PHP and learning. On my web site, all my files have the html
extension. In the near future, I want to dynamically generate them by using
PHP. In doing so, for example, my index.html file will become index.php.
This will affect visitors linking  to my site using old ...

PHP is (for me) another programming language, along the ones I've used for
years.
What's wrong with the rest, and what's better with PHP?
I tried VB, C++, Javascript, Java ...

i have just downloaded this web counter and boy... it's more than just a
simple web counter...
check out http://bbclone.de/ for the main page and http://bbclone.de/demo/
for the demo...

i'm a starter with PHP,  i have made with PHPmaker a small site, but the background of the page are all white or any other color, but how can ia add a backgroud picture to the pages ?
Thanks for you're time
Andre

I have a record number passed to a PHP program from another php
program.
This number equates to a particular field in a row (the field is
called INDEX and the number is contained in $myINDEX)

I've looked through php.net and devshed and I can only suppose I'm not
understanding the definitions and the examples they give. (You can tell I'm
still fairly new around here.)
I'm looking for a php function which will take the yyyy-mm-dd output and

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could give me a tip on what I've done wrong,
I'm a newbie when it comes to php/sql, I just installed a board etc, and
wanted some mods installed, everything went fine until there was a part
where I had to do something to the database, now I think ...

I wanna make my own address database. One can store lots of information in
it (name, address, email-accounts, birthday, marriage, work, workaddress,
emails , phones, comment,  .................).
If you store all in one table, there is a lot of empty fields.

I have a talbe where there are 4 fields which involve dates and times. I
have a php file named output.php and here is how I am doing it:
$date1=mysql_result($result,$i,"date1");
$date2=mysql_result($result,$i,"date2");

I am new in php programming, and I am in trouble with getting the result of
a form back
The first line is :
echo "<TD><input $checkbox type=\"checkbox\" name=\"c[]\" value=\""