PeggyBuckham

The reason you get the result you do is that your date wasn't in single quotes so it took it to be 10 / 8 / 13 (ten divided by eight divided by thirteeen) lol ... Now that was a careless move wasn't it! Thanks so much!! I also have another field in the database that has the timestamp in it. I always put a timestamp on almost everything. I just wanted a column with the date in a string so that my client could read it when the data was output onto a spreadsheet. Thanks Again!

I have a script that, along with other data, uploads a date into database. The date is generated using the date() function. date('m/d/y'.time()); What gets put into the data base is: 0.1098901098461 If I echo out the date like this echo '<p>'.date('m/d/y'.time());.'</p>'; then I get the correct results: 10/8/13 Recently, after turning on php error messages on the server, I got an error (don't remember what it was exactly). I got rid of the error by putting this code in the header date_default_timezone_set('MST'); I've never had to set the default timezone before and I've never had problems with the date() function, but I know that someone out there can help me.

OK. Thank-you. I will have to do some reasearch...Thank You for your patience!!

No I was not going to ask the client for a spread sheet, I was going to ask the old developer. So are you saying that I can use the same code to access a Microsoft Access Database as I do to access a MySQL database? I thought I had to use asp to access it?

Thank you for that answer. It seems like alot of work to go through just to get the data out of a database. I believe I will just ask for a spread sheet of the data. Thanks Again!

I am unfamiliar with Microsoft Access databases. I am redoing a site for a customer. The old site was written in .asp and on a Microsoft Access databases database. I was given ftp access to the old site and it appears that the database is in a folder on a file with a .mdb extension. I am used to MySQL databases that I can look at the contents of the database in a browser. Can you please tell me is that not possible with a Microsoft Access database. If I want the content of the database so that I can use it to repopulate the new database. Should I just ask for a spreadsheet of the database or is there another way.

So i do not understant mail servers: POP3, SMTP etc.. I got the emails to work by taking out the html code. This is not a solution. It is a work around. For the moment I am going to let it go becouse I did not have any complecated emails to send out on this site. Thank You premiso, for your help! I am not going to mark this as solved, but I am going to move on to other work

Sorryi just saw the reply you left this morning. I will look... I have no idea how to figure out what mailserver I am using? But I will look into it.

So I actually have to places where the code i wrote sends out an email. One of them already had the "from" from noreply@mysite.com. This morning I tested the sytem and it was working for both email. I had them sent to two diffrent email addresses each (4 emails). ...the system worked this morning, but it does not work now. I allso noticed that the emails being sent to my personal email were displaying the html code/tags. I am going to see what happens if I send out emails that are not htmls. This smight be a clue.

OK I will try that. Yes I/we do control the mail server. It is a dedicated server from Godaddy. One of my co-workers upgraded the server and that is when the problem started.

No errors, and it returns TRUE

I have a page on my website that sends out a simple html email. This page worked a few days ago. Then last night when I was showing my client, it worked, but the email did not display properly (html code was visible in the email). Then today I can not get it to work at all. I have not changed my code, and I am using a script that I have used a lot of times. I'm not familiar with all the php settings on a server. I assume that one of these settings below are conflicting with each other. mail.add_x_header -- on mail.force_extra_parameters -- no value mail.log -- no value sendmail_from -- no value sendmail_path -- /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i MAILTO -- root Also I had a similar problem a week ago. The email was not being sent out, then I played around with it, but did not actually change anything and it started to work again.

Thank You! Actually i will study this and figure out all of the syntax you are using. Some is unfamiliar to me...but i need to learn. So Thank You!

Ok this works. It just seems like I took something that should have been simple and turned it into something complicated. i will leave this open for awhile in case someone has any suggestions on how i could have made it simpler. But this worked. I just added another array. <?php //-------------------------------------------------------------------------make variable out of Post value foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) { $$key = $value; } $c = 1; $example_array = array( $c++ => 'Blue', $c++ => 'Green', $c++ => 'Yellow', ); $c = 1; $variable_array = array( $c++ => 'example_1', $c++ => 'example_2', $c++ => 'example_3', ); //----------------------------------------------------------------------------this is part of a form for($i=1;$i<=count($example_array);$i++){ echo '<p><input style="width: 15px; margin:0" type="checkbox" name="example_'.$i.'" value="'.$example_array[$i].'"'; if($$variable_array[$i] == $example_array[$i]){ echo ' checked="checked" '; } echo '/> '.$example_array[$i].'</p>'; } ?>

Ok this should make more sense. I have an array that contains the values of checkboxes. I have used the array as part of a form. each checkbox has a different name...I know that is unusual, but i want to put the value(s) into separate fields of a database. I'm trying to get the value of the variables; $example_1 , $example_2 , $example_3. I am going to use this array later to read back the information that was submitted. I thought I was being clever so that in the future it would be easy to add to or edit the checkbox values. But I overlooked the fact that I did not know how do get the values of $example_1 , $example_2 etc. I will keep playing with it for awhile. I'm sure there is an answer. <?php //-------------------------------------------------------------------------make variable out of Post value foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) { $$key = $value; } $c = 1; $example_array = array( $c++ => 'Blue', $c++ => 'Green', $c++ => 'Yellow', ); //----------------------------------------------------------------------------this is part of a form for($i=1;$i<=count($example_array);$i++){ echo '<p><input style="width: 15px; margin:0" type="checkbox" name="example_'.$i.'" value="'.$example_array[$i].'"'; if('example_'.$i == $example_array[$i]){ echo ' checked="checked" '; } echo '/> '.$example_array[$i].'</p>'; } ?>

Um I guess I did not explain that very well. I will post more of the code tomorrow so that it makes more sense. I don't have the code here today

The point of the array in the first place is that I want to use the names of the variables...fields in more than one place and I only want to to change it in one place.

I have post data that I want to get information about using an array...I want to add the counter to a variable get the value...this example might make more sense. No this example does not work. for($i=1;$i<=count($example_array);$i++){ if( $variable_name_.$i == $example_array[$i]){ echo ' checked="checked" '; } } what i am trying to do is get the value for the variables: $variable_name_1 , $variable_name_2 , $variable_name_3 , $variable_name_4 etc. Hope this makes sense!

Thank You!!! I was a little desperate so I asked the question on a couple of other forums. Here is a little more inforation that might help out the next person * "a:4" says what follows will be an array with 4 elements * "i:0" says this is the 0th index in the array * "s:32" says what comes next is a string * "Green" is that string * the rest just follows this pattern

I used a plugin to create the data in a database, now I am displaying the data and writing code to search/sort. My problem is that I am not familiar with arrays that are put into a single field in a database. I’m not even sure of the correct “name” for data in this format so I can find info about it and learn. So it anyone could please direct me to as tutorial or documentation about this. I would appreciate it. Here is a sample of the code contained in one field of the database. Ultimately I will need to display this data with a <br/> seperateing each element in the array. I also need to understand it better so I can search the fields that are displayed this way. I also really want to learn about it, because I believe it is fairly common and I should understand it a:4:{i:0;s:32:"Green";i:1;s:26:"Red";i:2;s:31:"Blue";i:3;s:33:"Yellow";}

My Bad. I was just too impatient. The code above works!

I'm hoping someone has an answer for me becouse this is not working...yet... All I really need is to be able to get the emails that bounce to go to a specific email address. I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks Here is my code: <?php $to = $email; $subject = "Confirmation Email"; $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'From:noreply@example.com'. "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Return-Path: peggy@example.com'. "\r\n"; $return_path = 'peggy@example.com'; $message ='<html> <head> </head> <body> <table> <tr> <td> <p>my text</p> <img src="http://www.example.com/enews/images/photo.jpg" width="600" height="437" /> </body> </html>'; mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, '-f ' . $return_path); ?>

I have a form where the user puts in a email address. My client whats to make sure that the emails are valid emails. So after validating the format and the domain. I will send a email to the user. I want to check to see if this email bounces or not. I think that if I add $headers .= "Return-Path: me@example.com\r\n"; to the header of the email then if it bounces an email will be sent to me@example.com. There could end up being at least 50 bounces. Is this the correct way to do this?? I have never used a Return-Path in the $headers before. It would be nice if I could put the email address that bounce into the database that the infor collected from the form goes.

Thank you all for your imput. I am working this all out...I think...I have some bugs to work out but I think I have it. Thank You again.

I have been working on using the setTimeout() function in javascript. The best I can think is I need to get the javascript to execute the php script. Right? Thank you for answering me I had almost given up thinking that someone would answer me? It has taken me way to long to try to figure out something that I thought should be easy.