PHP :: Getting Rid Of "Index Of" Pages.

Pagnation - Limit Number Of Pages Between "Previous" & "Next" Hyperlinks
Was hoping for some advice with a part of page navigation....

It works at the moment so there is a "Previous" & "Next" Hyperlink underneath the records. In between the Previous & Next links are the number of pages that there is of these records. e.g:

Previous 1234 Next

This is fine if there are only a few pages of records, but when there are hundreds of pages the numbers are listed and they take up half the web page with them.

How can i make it so only limited 10 numbers of pages say appear between the "Previous" & "Next" Hyperlink and as you progress through the pages they are as do the next 10 numbers of pages? Code:

Failed To Connect To Mailserver At "localhost" Port 25, Verify Your "SMTP" And "smtp_port" Setting In Php.ini
Warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25,
verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini

in php.ini I have:

SMTP = localhost
SMTP_PORT = 25
SENDMAIL_FROM = NULL
SENDMAIL_PATH = "H:WINNTsystem32" (this is where sendmail.dll is
sitting. H is the drive with w2k)

Other PHP code on that page is working.

What else should I check?

Using "php Urls" I.e Index.php?option=login
How it is done?

for example, i have following HTML code

<a href="index.php?option=login">Log in[/url]

..and a PHP code to switch pages

<?php
switch($_GET['option']) {
case "login": {
include("login.php");
break;
default: {
echo "Error 404";
break;
}}?>

Do I just type a variable in the URL and switch it with php or what?

'echo "": No Such File Or Directory" Error Using "exec" To Pipe In PHP Script
[TCL]
set php {<? print_r("Hello World"); ?>}
puts $php; # PRINTS OUT <? print_r("Hello World"); ?>
puts [exec "echo '$php' | php -q"]
[/TCL]

When I try this within TCL I get the following error:

How Do I Do Something Like $color = ("red", "yellow", "blue")[$colornum]?
How do I take an index of a literal array, instead of a variable?

That is, say I want to get the short name of a month. Can I do
something like:

$monthname = ("Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug",
"Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec")[$month];

or do I always have to do:

$blah = array("Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug",
"Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec");
$monthname = $blah[$month];

It seems a shame to have to create a variable specifically for this
one-shot purpose.

Easy Way To Make "pages" From A Database List
If I list all the rows in a database and "LIMIT 20", how do I make it so I can go to, the next 20 rows? Say if I have 50 rows, and only want to show 20 per a page?

PHP Pages Getting 404 Error, "Page Cannot Be Displayed"...
I tried putting this into the PHP Installation forum but don't get any answers or suggestions there so I'm going to try it here and hope it doesn't get moved.

I'm on a Windows 2003/PHP 5.22 setup. I'm TRYING to upgrade from PHP 5.02 which did work on my server and quite well. I followed the upgrading and installation instructions layed out on the PHP.net set -- I still can't get it to work.

The install dumped all the PHP related files under "c:program filesphp". I've ensured that path is in my windows PATH statement for my env vars. I've also verified that "c:program filesphpphp-cgi.exe" is in my Web Service Extensions listing in IIS and the status is set to "Allowed".

From the command-line, I can execute my "test.php" file that has the phpinfo(); info function in it and it works fine. It's only when I try to use my web browser to access the php file that I get the 404 error, "page cannot be displayed". I know that IIS in general is working ok because I can point it to the default http://servername/iisstart.htm and it resolves to that page just fine. It's only when I change it to http://servername/test.php (which has my phpinfo()) function in it when I get the 404 error.

My web server just doesn't seem to be interpretting PHP files anymore and I can't figure out why.

Preventing Visitors Ability To "re-visit" A Page Via The "back Button"..
I have a rather complex registration/member sign up form.. which gets a little confused, when a visitor "backs" completely out of the form, then for whatever reason returns to the form. The form contains 'cancel' buttons, which naturally cancel the reg process and redirects them to the document just before they started.

JS provides us with the "location.replace()" method, but I can't seem to find a way to coordinate the use of location.replace() with the posting of the form values. In short, I want to "replace" the first step of the form with the "second step".

I think what's making this tricky, is that each step of the form are located within the "same" page (register.php). The document works like so: The first step is the "Member Agreement" when they click "agree" (submit) the system creates a new row in the temporary register table of the db.

It then issues a registration cookie, which carries the row id, and session value. in addition (for those cookie impared users) we carry the row id and session value in hidden elements. So far, as long as the user continues through the process all is fine, but if they (for whatever reason) back all the way out, and click 'agree' again, the process fails.

I guess I have to find a way to force a reload of the 1st step "if they've gone back" OR "replace()" the first step with the second, so as to prevent the user from going "back" to the 1st step of the register page.

Errors Won't Show Up Even With Error_reporting(E_ALL) And Ini_set("display_errors","1")
Here's my code:

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_startup_errors","1");
ini_set("display_errors","1");

wefw
wefwef=wefwe
2349023909()
;wrgwrg ====232

phpinfo(); ?>

I get a blank page.

If I take out the crap, it prints phpinfo() just fine.

PHP 4.3.something...

Single Quotes, Double Quotes And "undefined Index"
I am trying to write clean code but keep having trouble deciding
when to quote an array index and when not to.

sometimes when I quote an array index inside of double quotes I
get an error about enased whitespace (to my best memory)

AT other times I get an undefined index notice as below:

Notice: Undefined index: last_reminder_id in...

the 2nd line (which wraps to the 3rd in this posting
is the one listed in the error message:

$sql = "SELECT * from notes
where recall_date Ɔ' and recall_date <= '$now' and id >
'$_SESSION[last_reminder_id]'";

what is the correct syntax and/or can anyone point me at a
reference that will explain this ?

[regex] Stripping Out "name" And "value" Values Out Of Tags, Aaargh
Searched through the site, but couldn't find the right regex syntax I was looking for.

the thing i want is, to extract with preg_match_all the given values in a tag...

ex.

$str = '<input type="text" name="name" value="value">'
$pattern = some magic stuff I need to know
preg_match_all($pattern, $str, $result);

And in result I want to have the values text, name and value AND it's important that the order doesn't matter
so structure of tags can be <input type =name= value=> or <input name= class= value= type=> etc, etc...

Group Mailing, Want To Suppress All The "to" Addresses In The "to:" Field
I want to do a mass emailing for a club.
I don't want all the clubs members to see all the addresses of the
other club members for privacy reasons.

How do I set up the php mail function to not display the recipients
email addresses, just to display something like, "U7 Soccer Club
Team"?

'Parse Error' Problem In "isset" And "empty"
I've been having some problems with a parse error that I can't figure
out (PHP 4.3.11 on Solaris9). Sample code:

<?php
// getting strange parse errors on this
class A {
var $value;
function A() {
$this->value = 1;
}

function getValue() {
return $this->value;
}
}

$a = new A();
if (!empty($a->getValue())) {
echo "success";
}
else {
echo "failure";
}
?>

The result of this is:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '(', expecting ')' in
/foo/public_html/parse_errors.php on line 15

I also get the same effect with "isset", however, testing with "is_null"
or "is_int" produces the correct ("success"/"failure") result. Any ideas?

Echo "";
I have a search script which returns a page of results, however I'd like the returned page to be in the same format as the rest of my site.
To do this I've tried adding the HTML for my site to my PHP page with echo" " commands. This works for the plain HTML, but my regular pages also use SSI to do other stuff (some of them even execute other PHP scripts to generate tables of data etc). I've tried

echo "";
but it doesn't work as I get a parse error. My question is, how do I go about doing this properly? Is this possible at all? And if not have you guys got any suggestions to get around this?

Any File Size Limit In <PARAM Name="***" Value="***"> ?
I embed an applet in my php script which has a parameter providing an
input file for the jar. Does this file has size limit?

The code is as follows:
<APPLET ARCHIVE="myapplet.jar" WIDTH=372 HEIGHT=360 VSPACE=0 HSPACE=0
ALIGN=middle>

<?php echo "<PARAM NAME="data" VALUE="myfile.">";?>

when "myfile" is beyond 15M, my applet cannot load sucessfully, but
while this file is limited like 5M or 7M, it works well.

Does anybody know is the reason caused by php script limit, applet
mechanism, or by different browser?

How To Do PHP "require()" Or TCL "source" In Bash Script
I can't figure out how to explain this any better than
this.

In PHP we have a command "require()" that obtains a file and logically
places it into another file.

I cannot figure out how to do this in bash script as the requirement
is necessary for a migration script to obtain the code from a .cfg
file and then be able for the "parent" script to run the code it
"imported" from the .cfg file, much like PHP's require() or TCL's
"source".

This is what I have so far and it fails:

if [ -f ivc.cfg ]; then
cat ivc.cfg
fi

Anyone really know bash script well please help, it's a barrier for me
not to be able to get just this one piece working.

Error In Page When Checking Http_get_vars("myvar") And "myvar" Was Not Passed In URL String
PHP, coming from ASP coding

if (HTTP_GET_VARS['b']==1){
print "Yes";
}else{
print "No";
}

when "b" is not passed via
(http://www.mydomain.com?b=1

an error occurs and the "NO" is printed but an error is printed too.

How can I check for the value of "b" so that no error occurs if b is
not passed??

example

http=www.mydomain.com

$myvar=HTTP_GET_VARS['b']

causes an error because
"b" does not exist (ie. its not passed in the URL string.

$myvar maybe evaluated as NULL or Empty but the error is printed in
the page, anyway.

Coding "NEXT" And "PREVOIUS" Buttons
Hi

I am stuck here. I am doing a form which dispalys details of client companies. My query includes this statement:

.... WHERE CompanyName LIKE %$name% ....

What I need is following: if a query returns more then one result I what to "flip" through result with NEXT and PREVIOUS buttons.

Mysql/php - "LIMIT" And "ORDER"
In the following fragment of code, I am querying a database that in order to display a list of films. The list is very long and I would like to offer the possbility to restrain the range of results showned by page keeping in mind that the user should be able to browse forward or backward data if applicable. I know that I have to add the LIMIT method in the MySQL query but I have a hard time figuring how not to get lost in setting it dynamically in the PHP script.

Then I have a second question. Is there a more elegant / straightforward way to deal with the display order of the data (cf. $ot, $od and $oy)? Code:

Sticking "if" Or Changes Within A MySQL "where" Array?
I'm not exactly sure how to even ask the question, and I know my terminology
is not good as I'm a SQL beginner, but, here goes.

I need to find a way to make an if statement within an array...or, the
"while" portion of a recordset.

The best way I can ask is show what I mean.
http://oscarguy.mechphisto.net/awardbrowse.php
If you go there and select an award (like Best Picture), leave the year
field alone, and select YES and submit, you'll see a lot of results. And I
have HR's dividing each entry.

What I need to do is group all the entries of the same year, or at least
only put HR's between the blocks of years.
So, I'd have all the entries for 2002, an HR, then all for 2001, an HR, etc.

Here at the bottom I'll include my PHP code I'm using so far.
But I have no idea where to even start looking for an answer...if it's even
possible.
If someone can just give me the name of the function or process or
technique, then I can go Web/book searching myself...I just need a direction
of where to go.

PHP:------------------------------------------------------------------------
------
$query_RS_award = "SELECT * FROM $award WHERE id != Ƈ' ORDER BY year DESC,
w DESC";
//$query_RS_award = "SELECT * FROM $award WHERE year =
"$year"";
$RS_award = @mysql_query($query_RS_award, $connection) or
die("Couldn't query: " . mysql_error());
$totalRows_RS1 = mysql_num_rows($RS_award);
while ($row_RS_award = mysql_fetch_assoc($RS_award)) {
$award_id = $row_RS_award['id'];
$award_tblid = $row_RS_award['tblid'];
$award_award = $row_RS_award['award'];
$award_year = $row_RS_award['year'];
$award_category = $row_RS_award['category'];
$award_won = $row_RS_award['w'];
$award_film = $row_RS_award['film'];
$award_nominee = $row_RS_award['nominee'];
$award_note = $row_RS_award['note'];
if (!($award_category)) {
$award_category = "n/a";
} else {
$award_category = $award_category;
}
if ($award_won == "1") {
$award_won = " - Award Winner";
} else {
$award_won = "";
}
$display_block_Award .= "YEAR: <span
class='normalText12White'>$award_year</span><br>FILM: <span
class='normalText12White'>$award_film</span><br>CATEGORY: <span
class='normalText12White'>$award_category</span><br>NOMINEE: <span
class='normalText12White'>$award_nominee</span><span
class='normalText12BoldWhite'>$award_won</span><br><blockquote><span
class='normalText12White'>$award_note</span></blockquote><hr>";
}

Cookies And "include" Or "require"
i'm having a problem with my setcookie() instructions. Although there are absolutely
no html tags in front of them,for some reason PHP3 sends me back the message "oops...php3_SetCookie called after header has been sent"...

I do however use two "require" calls, one to a file with a .php extension, and one to a file with an .inc extension. At the beginning of each files there's a Could the cookie failure and the include functions be related ?

In my text, I have even wiped out any HTML tags such as "bold, paragraph, line break" tags, even in "echo" commands, but to no avail what am i doing wrong ?

FTP_login + $pass="" And $user=""
I use the following scrit in an Intranet with the user name = "" and
the password = "" :

<?php
$ftp_server = "192.168.25.25";
$ftp_user = "";
$ftp_pass = "";

$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Couldn't connect to
$ftp_server");

if (@ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user, $ftp_pass)) {
echo "Connected at $ftp_user@$ftp_server
";
} else {
echo "Can't connect with $ftp_user
";
}
?>

I have the following message :

Connected to 192.168.25.25
Warning: ftp_login(): 'USER': Invalid number of parameters in
E:www est_ftp.php on line 26

I tried to : ftp_login($conn_id, "", "") but i have the same result...

Alphabetize Results Ignoring "and" And "the"
is there a good way to alphabetize results and ignore articles like "the", "and", "a", and "an" so that it will alphabetize by the next word? just wondering...

Why Use "Stripslashes" And "Addslashes" Function
Can someone let me know why one would use strip slashes or add slashes functions. I know what they do but cannot see the exact use for them e.g. if i have a textfield and encase it in an stripslashes function, it will escape any back slashes etc...

Parse Errors With "case "action":
I want to call an action that is in a file called "configm.php" but I get a parse error on line 8. (the bit that goes 'case "add":') Code:

How To Count "Hit" And "View"
I would like to know when a user logs in, he clicks Mike's E-mail. It will count one which mean "Hit". So that I will be able to know how many times users click Mike's E-mail.

Like Sitepoint. When other users read other problems. Views will count 1. I would like to know how to do it. Could you explain with script?

"echo" Or "print" ?
Can tell me someone is some big different between "echo" and "print". What You prefer to use?

Make "blabla" Into Keywords As In "php.net/blabla"
I know this must be documented, but I cant seem to find it.

How would you transform the URL into values? Like how php.net does;

www.php.net/date
does a search for "date" in their database...

I have built a simple search function on my site, and I would like to do the same.. anyone who knows how? Or who has seen an article in the subject? Or has any other tips?

If("0X0"=="000"){echo "boo";}
Everything is in the title. the prob is "boo" is displayed ! Can you
believe it ?

Error Using Header("", FALSE) To Show Multiple Images From MySQL Db
Many people seems to have problems when displaying multiple images from their database (mySQL db). Often you can read error statements like "Header already sent out ...". To solve this, people often propose to use include files.

To keep the scipt it would be nice not having this problem, being able to sent out multiple headers to a browser without getting these error messages. In the PHP4 manual, we can read an option that can be added to the header statement, Header("xxx",FALSE). It would enable multiple headers to be sent out.

For instance the following statement:

while ($product = db_fetch_object($result)) {
header("Content-type: pv($product->filetype)",false);
echo pv($product->image)"
}

However, it doesn't work. Anybody has any idea why? Does anybody use this option FALSE with success?

Reading An Array Of Records From MYSQL Then "Save As" Them Back As Copy
Hi all,

Ok here is what I want to do then I will show you what I have. I have some records in a MySQL DB that I want to store in an array and then immediately copy them back where the only thing that would change would be one field - the date. So here is my table:
-------------------------------------
|userName | date | value |
--------------------------------------
| theDano | 200005 | 123 |
--------------------------------------
| theDano | 200005 | 345 |
--------------------------------------
| theDano | 200004 | 678 |
--------------------------------------
| joeUser | 199908 | 897 |
---------------------------------------

So if I am querying for the user "theDano" on a specific date (format yyyymm) in this case 200005 (year 2000 month of May)

Here is my array to query all records to fullfill this request:

if ($update=="future")
{
if ($month!="01")
{
$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "dbuser");
if($db)
{
mysql_select_db("dbName",$db);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tableName WHERE userName = '$userName' AND date = '$date' ORDER BY value DESC ",$db);
if ($result)
{
$num=mysql_numrows($result);
$i=0;
while($i < $num)
{
$userName = mysql_result($result,$i,"userName");
$value = mysql_result($result,$i,"value");
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td width=Ê×'>" . $userName . "</td>";
echo "<td width=ï`'><div align='right'>" . $value . "</div></td>";
echo "</tr>";
++$i;
}
}
}
}
}

Now I want to take the array of records queried which was:

| theDano | 200005 | 123 |
--------------------------------------
| theDano | 200005 | 345 |

and copy them to look like this back into the database:

| theDano | 200006 | 123 |
--------------------------------------
| theDano | 200006 | 345 |

so you can see that the only thing changed was increasing the month by one. Would seem simple to most but I am having a tough time wirting the code to read the array and increase each date value by "1".

Thank you in advance for anyone that replies. )

Dano

Force Reload Of Page When User Press "Back" Button
Is there a way to force a page to reload if a user har pressed the "Back" button in the browser.

Bizarre Phantom Bug (Calling A PHP Script From An Apache "Action" Directive)
I am using an "Action" directive in my Apache configuration to map a
certain file type (by means of AddType and AddHandler) to a PHP script.
I wasn't sure if this would work, since the Apache docs say the Action
directive is for mapping a handler name to a CGI script in particular.
But it seemed to work at first.

Then a mysterious bug arose: Sometimes it works perfectly, and other
times the output is a totally blank page. It seems that if I haven't
viewed a page for a while, it chooses to do one of these at random
(though it is blank more often than not), and then it persists in the
same behaviour until I reload it many times. (That is, usually a page
appearing blank will eventually display if I reload it many times;
however, only rarely will a correctly-displayed page regress to
appearing blank after reloads.) Checking with `curl -i', it would
appear to a client program that the request was perfectly successful:
all the headers are there (with the correct content-type), it has an
HTTP/1.1 200 OK line, and so on (and there's nothing unusual in the
server's access or error logs), except Content-length is 0, and there
is indeed no content at all after the two newlines.

WTF?? Since when do computers behave non-deterministically? I should
hope, if a program is not going to behave correctly, that it at least
do so predictably and consistently. That would make debugging it much
easier. But what am I to make of this Schrodinger's Bug? How do I even
approach the debugging process?

(Also, if anyone could suggest a workaround, an alternate method of
having a PHP script handle files with a certain extension, then that
would be just as welcome. Though I'd like to stay within mod_php,
avoiding a CGI-based technique, because I'd prefer to not start a
process every time these pages are requested.)

Another "Fatal Error: Call To Undefined Function: Mysql_connect()"Question
I am getting the following error when I try to view a test page in my
browser. This test page just reads a table in mysql and outputs the
results.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in
/var/web/public/test.php on line 2

I'm using:
Apache 2
MySQL 4.1.12
PHP 4.4.0

I have tried upgrading PHP to PHP5. I went back down to PHP4. I
verified that mysql.so was being loaded. I tried using the OLD_PASSWORD
feature in mysql. Verified that the PHP module is loaded in apache.

What is weird however (at least I think) is when I run the following via
telnet:

php ./test.php

It pulls up the page, connects successfully to the database and displays
the records. No error message.

Mime_content_type() Returns "text/plain" For Large Quicktime Files - HELP
Code:

Pear Install Error "no Signature Found For Package.info"
I get the same error trying to install any pear package if it's not
alreay installed.

# pear install Net_SMTP
no signature found for package.info(string,string,bool)

# pear -V
PEAR Version: 1.3.3
PHP Version: 5.0.3
Zend Engine Version: 2.0.3
Running on: SunOS fido 5.6 Generic_105181-26 sun4u

I understand that this is probably a server side error on pear.php.net
.... who clears it?

"failed To Open Stream No Such Directory Or File" Apache Suse 10.0
<<"failed to open stream no such directory or file>>

Avez vous trouve ? J'ai le meme genre de probleme en essayant
d'installer en local avec SuSE 10 apache2 php4 , il me semble qu'il
manque un package mais lequel ?

Quote:

Formmail.php Brings Up Error Message About Configuring "sendmail_from" Line
This may not be the best place to put this but i have set up apache as
a testing server on my local machine. Whenever i try to use a
formmail.php script i downloaded is always come sup saying that i need
to configure sendmail_from.

I have changed this (in php.ini) to be to my email address and the smtp
server is set to be my university's smtp server (which i hope should
work). But it still comes up with the error.

The actual error is:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or
custom "From:" header missing

How To Create A "send-a-message_and-show-the-sended-message"-homepage?
Hi! How to create a homepage, in which you can send a message, the
website shows on another webpage the message, so you can read it. I
mean, how to create so a system, which you need? (databank...) I only
know, that you must use PHP for creating it.

Ciao and thx for answers! :-)

"Cannot Send Session Cookie ..." I Truely DON'T Output ANYTHING Before Calling Session_start()
there are many postings on this subject, I have read them put don't
have an answer.
I get these warnings: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent
in,
but my php-scripts are okay.

As you can see in the code and response below, I really don't output
anything.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
my PHP-Code

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
session_start();
if (!isset($_SESSION['content'])) {
$_SESSION['content']=""; $_SESSION['task']=0;
}
session_regisyoter("content");

error_reporting (E_ALL);
set_time_limit(0);

....

Yet Another "session_start() Cannot Send Session Cache Limiter - Headers Already Sent" Question
I'm somewhat of a newbie to PHP coding, but have developed a site
using the technology, and have been pleasantly surprised by the
capabilities offered. I am more comfortable in the ASP world, however
and am really struggling with managing sessions in PHP, based on my
experiences with managing sessions in ASP.

99.9% of the feedback I have seen when dealing with the errors has
referred to having whitespace before the <?php or after the ?>. I
have opened my source in several different editors and can't find that
to be the case with my code. Aside from having general issues with
the basic methodology in which I am managing sessions, I am completely
perplexed as to why I am getting these errors, from time to time...

For those who might have recommendations on an overall session
management strategy, I basically want to allow my user to come into my
site, through any page that might be bookmarked. Not all pages are
going to require a session, but they may be required to have a session
value set in order to perform certain administrative functions (which
requires a successful login), so I would need to check for the
existence of a session value and log them in and set it, if it doesn't
exist...

Now to my specific problem...

I have an include page called master_session.php, which looks like
this (no whitespaces before or after php tags):
=================================
<?php
if (! isset($ADMIN_session)) {
ob_start();
ob_clean();
session_start();
session_register("ADMIN_session");
}
?>
=================================

I have a login page, which looks like this (no whitespace before the
include of master_session)
=================================
<?php require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/common/includes/
master_session.php'); ?>
<?php if ($content_identifier == false){
$content_identifier = 'parish'}?>
<? $page_title = "Administration"; ?>
<?php require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/common/includes/
master_header.php'); ?>
<?php require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/common/includes/
master_nav.php'); ?>
<?php require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/common/includes/
bg100.php'); ?>

<form name="criteria_form" action="adminvalidation.php" method="post">
<table height="100%" border="0" width="81%" align="center"
background="/common/bkgrnds/bg100.gif"">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" height="40"> </td>
</tr>
<? if (${"login"} == "invalid")

Can't Install PHP - Keep Getting "Invalid Directory" Error Regarding The Path To Apache Httpd.h
I've installed Apache 1.3.36 on my Redhat EL 3 machine. Now I'm trying
to install PHP 5.1.4. I can not get the ./configure command to work. I
keep getting this error:

configure: error: Invalid Apache directory - unable to find httpd.h
under /usr/local/apache/include

So then I run this command:

find / -name httpd.h

which should find every file on my machine with the name "httpd.h".
These are the results I get:

/usr/local/apache/include/httpd.h
/home/shelley/apache_1.3.36/src/include/httpd.h

So I've rerun the ./configure command, using this first:

--with-apache=/usr/local/apche/include

and since that didn't work:

--with-apache=/home/shelley/apache_1.3.36/src/include/httpd.h

but I get the "Invalid directory" error with both addresses.

"Warning: Page Has Expired" - How To Aviod When Using Browser Back Button?
In summary:
I want to a form to submit information via a HTTP POST, however, when using
Internet Explorer I want to be able to use the back button and all the
information retained. Presently we get a "Page has expired" message. How can
we avoid this?

Full details:
Having searched for postings on how to avoid the "Page has Expired" they are
numerous, however, I have not found one that answers the question
adequately.

Hence this posting.

One posting directed me to the following webpage:
http://in.php.net/session_cache_limiter

but I played around with "session_cache_limiter()" and it did not give the
desired results. (It seem to make no difference). Also many people say to
use HTTP GET instead but this is not an option in this case.

Where can I find concise definitive information on how to avoid "Warning:
Page has Expired" and allow the user to press the back button and see the
form as it was before they submitted it?

"Cannot Modify Header Information" With Large HTML FORM Options
I'm having some really odd behavior with a PHP script. I have it
populating an HTML select form with a for loop. When I try the years
2006 to 1900. I get the following error:

PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent
by (output started at
/Users/chrobb/Sites/city-directory/controlBar.php:54) in
/Users/chrobb/Sites/city-directory/controlBar.php on line 88

I've done a fair amount of searching and it looks like this usually
shows up when people have some extra whitespace after their closing PHP
tags. Doesn't apply seem to apply here. When I crank the number down on
the for loop to 94 iterations, the error goes away. Once I crank it up
to 95, the error comes into play. So, it's tied to the output somehow.
Looking at the raw HTML, there doesn't appear to be any significant
difference between the version with 94 iterations versus the one with
95 iterations, except for the error and the failure of my script.

Form Processing: Change The "action=" Based On Pull Down Menu
I have an html form for that uses username and password to login to a
specific area of the website. The "area" the user wants to go to is
based on a pull down menu. Becasue the user/password info is in
differnet databases, how can I call different validation scripts based
on this input ?

See below please. Somethinglike this:

form.html:
<form name="loginform" method="post" action="login.php">
<select name="loginform">
<option value="one">Section 1</option>
<option value="two">Section 2</option>
</select>

login.php:

@extract($_POST);
if($_POST[loginform] == "one") {

echo "action = /forums/scc/dispatch.cgi/_admin/AVFLogin"
NAME="LoginForm" >
echo "<input type=hidden name="autologin" value="1">
";
echo "<input type=hidden name="formstyle" value="standard">
";
echo "<input type=hidden name="returnforum" value="_admin">
";
echo "<input type=hidden name="returnmsg"
value="acahomepage">
";

} else {

echo "action = /path to different cgi
";
echo :different values for hidden fields".

}

PHP "Calender Like" Pop Up To Select Date And Store As Variable In Mysql Format?
I use to have this feature on my site about two years ago when i hired someone. It would allow the user to select between two different dates, via a small calender, save it as a variable then query the database.

Does anyone know where I can find the script for the small calender? I think it must of been populated by an external clock since all the dates were accurate etc. July 21st was on a saturday.

PHP Form Submission <input Type="hidden"> Security Issues?
Someone has said to me that when using a form (method = post), that storing data in "hidden" tags

ie <input type="hidden" name="myField" value="something">
means that the user can set the value to whatever they like

So my questions are:

1. How would they do this
2. How can I stop it
3. Do I have to abandon the hidden values and go with sessions?

Warning: Failed To Connect To Mailserver, Verify Your "SMTP" Setting In Php.ini
I am working my way through a php book and am trying to send a conf email when a user registers but I am getting this error message when I submit the information Warning:

"Failed to connect to mailserver, verify your "SMTP" setting in php.ini in"

I have downloaded QK SMTP server and added Stephen 00 as a user. I am using phpdev. Code:

Losing $_POST Data With Input Type="image"
I am having problems with a php script that I am developing. I have a file called "login.php". It contains an HTML form with a username and password field, and is submitted with an image.

Here is a simplified version of my form:

<form name="form1" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post">
<input type="text" size="20" maxlength="50" class="text" name="uname">
<input type="password" size="20" maxlength="12" class="text" name="passwd">
<input type="image" src="images/b-login.jpg" border="0" name="submit">
</form>

As you can see, the script calls itself. However, when I try to access $_POST['uname'] and $_POST['password'], they do not exist.

If I replace the line

<input type="image" src="images/b-login.jpg" border="0" name="submit">

with

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Login">

everything works fine. I need to use this image to submit my form, not the standard "Submit" button. Any ideas on what the problem is?