koolaid

I am doing an image gallery. I am debating whether to cycle through my image directory to output html or to create an xml file and cycle through that outputting html. Which would be more efficient?

Hi guys. I have dabbled in PHP for a while. Mainly PHP parsing XML and outputting HTML. I have been learning on an "as needed" basis by reading documentation on php.net, but I would like to get a really good overview of PHP and MYSQL. I also have a large project looming. This project would be creating a reservation system and calendar. Do any of you have a suggestion on the books you have found especially useful, particularly, on PHP with MYSQL databases.

Sorry i did look at the manual. This was the example given thats why i was going about it the way i was. $filename = 'somefile.txt'; if (file_exists($filename)) { echo "$filename was last modified: " . date ("F d Y H:i:s.", filemtime($filename)); } This worked perfectly thank you guys. $date1 = date (filemtime($folder.$filename));

Hello. I want an xml document to update every five minutes. I want to check the documents last modified against the the value of time(). but i cant seem to get it formatted properly. What ( string $format , ) do i use to return an integer formatted like the integer returned by time()? Or i am i going about this all wrong? date (" ???string $format??? ", getlastmod($folder.$filename)) Thanks in advance guys

Hello, I have a project that is a little out of my scope. I need a product gallery and a CMS for it. Like a shopping cart only with no checkout. I can do this with Flash and mysql, or flash and xml, but SEO is important for my client. Does anyone know of writen script for sale, or would anyone be interested in writing it. I would do all the "skin" for it. I would provide styles and layout, I would just need someone to code it up. I attached a pdf that describes further what I need. Here is a link to my test site so far, it is just a home page: http://www.mattpaxton.com/testsDelete/woodheat/ [attachment deleted by admin]

Yup exactly what i was looking for. TNX a lot. My original code worked but i am always looking for better ways to do things.

Hi all. O.K. i have a sorta goofy block of code here. I know there is a much better way to do this. So i was just looking for a little insight on looping through an array with PHP. here is the code i have. $error_str = ''; if($_POST["email"]) { $email = $_POST["email"]; }else{ $error_str .= "failed to post email"; } if($_POST["info"]) { $info = $_POST["info"]; }else{ $error_str .= "\r\nfailed to post info"; } if($_POST["imagepath"]) { $imagepath = $_POST["imagepath"]; }else{ $error_str .= "\r\nfailed to post image path"; } Now you can see what i am trying to accomplish. Seems to me like a looping through an array would be much cooler. In AS it looks like this var myArray = [item1, item2, item3]; var results:String = ""; for(var i : Number = 0; i < myArray.length; i++) { if(myArray[i] != undefined) { results += "\narray item" + i + " = " + myArray[i]; //this would output something like array item 1 = (whatever the value was) }else{ results += "\narray item" + i + " = undefined"; } } trace(results); /* the above trace would look something like: array item 1 = dog; array item 2 = undefined; array item 3 = cat; */ Can anyone show me how i would properly form a similar loop in php. Or tell me i am all wrong and __________ is the way i should accomplish something like this. Thanks in advance guys.

I think you are exactly right. i have been digging and that is all i can come up with. How would i change the group to allow ftp changes (when executing the creation of the file)?

Hi guys, i am having trouble with permissions after I make a directory. It makes my directory then writes my .xml file to it exactly how i would like it to, but then when i ftp in i cannot delete that directory. I am on a linux server. Does anyone have any insight for me? I am making a new directory and writing an xml file to it, like so <?php $var1 = $_POST["stringXML"]; $varrandom = $_POST["randomString"]; $folder = "./pending/$varrandom/"; if(!is_dir($folder)) mkdir($folder, 0777); $mode = file_exists($folder.'pending.xml')?'a':'w'; $fp = fopen($folder.'pending.xml',$mode); fwrite($fp, "$var1"); fwrite($fp, "\r\n\r\n"); fclose($fp); ?> Thanks in advance

Hey guys i have a 2 part question. I need to copy an xml file from a remote domain to my own domain, to display an RSS feed. I have php doing this. Well, the first part of my question if i have PHP do this every time the page is requested, i think it would increase load time + processor usage, and i would imagine that if i have 10,000 people going to the page at once it could create all kinds of errors, right? Could i write a conditional statement that would only copy the file if it hasn't been modified in more then an hour, if so how? Or is there a better way to do this? Or is having it write everytime the page is requested be ok. Your advice + help is greatly appreciated.

neil.johnson: ignorance (answer to both questions). I am trying to get a hold on how sessions work. i have been reading on it, but it hasn't clicked yet. So i don not need to commit the session with session_write_close? thanks redarrow!

Can i access and change session data after i commit the session? If so how. I want to keep the same session i dont want to destroy and write over it. i just want to add values. So for example i have: session_start(); $_SESSION['blah1'] = "whatever"; $_SESSION['blah2'] = "i love my dog"; session_write_close(); a few pages later i want to change that data but i need to keep the same session id. So for example if (!session_id()) { if (isset($_GET['session_id'])) { session_id($_GET['session_id']); $_SESSION['blah1'] = "new info"; $_SESSION['blah2'] = "i love my dog"; session_write_close(); } session_start(); $_SESSION['blah1'] = "whatever"; $_SESSION['blah2'] = "i love my dog"; session_write_close(); } well, if i remove all my session_write_close() it works in FF, but without session_write_close() the session does not function properly in IE. With the session_write_close() i cannot alter the session data in IE. Both methods work in FF. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. i am stuck here. Thanks in advance, Matt

bump

Yup, same domain. The script i run just doesn't preserve any session data.

I have a very simple session. When i run an external script the session id changes. Has anyone else had this problem? I need to run the script without refreshing the page. Is there a way to have my external script access my session data? if (session_id()) { echo "session has started."; $_SESSION['sessid'] = session_id(); echo $_SESSION['sessid']; } else { $time = time(); $date = $today = date("Ymd"); $id = $time + $date; session_id($id); $_SESSION['sessid'] = session_id(); echo $_SESSION['sessid']; } external script <?php session_start(); echo session_id(); echo $_SESSION['sessid']; ?>