Webmaster Forum / PHP / Database Access / June 2007

i'm using the dreamweaver login.
it uses php/mysql and user session. the problem i'm ecountering is
that the sessions don't expire until you log out.
how can i make the sessions expire in let's say 1 hour when there is

Hello dear friends,
I am writing a small program to test transactions in php. But when I
try to simulate an error condition during transaction, my php script
aborts. It does

Newbie question = how to send variable form one page to the other
i have a page with a very simple login. i want to be able to use the
username variable to great the user by username when he reaches the
page where he is redirected to. and at the same time get the ID field

I have query which returns to many results to handle (therefore to be
displayed screen at one time and to be transferred from the server).
I therefore want to create a search results screen which displays a limited
subset of query results and the user of the application can ...

I will try to be short and to the point.(good Luck)  I have a form
written in HTML. I have a Mysql database. I am using a linux server
and I would like to use php to write the following code:
After the user inputs their name, address, email, phone, etc. in my

As maybe mentioned in some previous postings I had some problems going live
with no code. Performance seemed to suffer.
But actually now I run the same code on live and test and the test server
seems much faster. This is running a version of MySQL 3 and the live server

I have a customer table and a customer_email_address table which are linked
as a customer can have multiple email addresses.
When I do a query that links the table, obviously it is possible that I
might get results with identical rows accept for the email_address field.

I have recently had some corruption in my database of my php/ mysql
application. I have made some changed to my application that meant I did a
lot more larger queries.
I'm thinking I can write better SQL code to query my database and also make

What is wrong with the below?
$sql=mysql_query("INSERT INTO advertiser_tbl WHERE adv_id='7' (adv_name,
cont_name)
VALUES ('Peter', 'Griffin')");

I'm trying to return to a user the result of his web form address
input, with one element being the country of his choice. If he
approves, the form forwards it as part of the approved data; if he
doesn't approve, he has the chance to select another country.  The

Hi y'all,
I've made the below work by combining the 2 pages ( form and php file) into
1, but when I run the separated files the php file isn't run, it's
displayed.  Any ideas?

This is just going a little over my head. I'm using a database
containing products, which, among other data, can have associated
tags, any number of them. Until now I used a serialize()'d PHP array
which I stored in a simple VARCHAR field with each product. Since I