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Looking for a reasonable explanation as to why $_REQUEST exists
I have never had a use for this feature. To me it introduces another register_globals style atttack vector. I see no need why people need to combine post/get/etc variables into the same superglobal. I actually run unset($_REQUEST) on it at the top of my library to discourage its use. For third party products whi... 8 Jul 2008 11:03

[PHP] Problem with special characters - PHP & AJAX
Hi all, I'm writing a simple dictionary with php and ajax. It works perfects with firefox but not in IE. Here is the link http://kllapa.com/fjahalori/test.html I used alerts in js and find out that in the following function: function updateMsgOnBrowser(testXML) { var test = testXML.getElementsByTagN... 7 Jul 2008 03:17

Multiple words str_shuffle
I am trying to scramble individual words and/or phrases. When it is a phrase I would like to keep the letters of each word together, with a space between each one. The code I have so far is below. I use PHP 4.4.7. The code below is fine for a single word; it is phrases that I am now trying to accommodate. ... 8 Jul 2008 12:05

odbc msaccess php5 [Giving Up]
Peter Jackson wrote: well thats it Ive come to the conclusion that its a driver/lib issue. From what I can see mdbtools lib only reads and only does basic select. (eg Select * from table where col =thistext But not tex* % or date. Also looks like the project has died (think the last release was 2004 or so... 6 Jul 2008 08:54

Trying to keep a dropdown selection sticky [solved] - Forgive the length of message, please
At 11:31 AM -0400 7/5/08, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: What I eventually did was: -snip- You might also consider adding a javascript routine to do the same thing. Why? Because it's a bit quicker doesn't hit the server until all the fields are filled. Like this: http://webbytedd.com/c/form-submit/ Ch... 5 Jul 2008 14:34

class_is_loadable?
Greetings, all. I am trying to figure out a way to implement the following logic, but I am not sure if it is possible to do so without a lot of additional side work: I have a class, A, and another class B that extends A. They live in separate files. The logic I need to implement is as follows: if (class_... 7 Jul 2008 08:23

PHP and SAP
Hi, I'd like to know if there are any tutorials about SAP and PHP. I'm moving to a new company and there is the need to provide some sort of access to internet/intranet to resources available in SAP. Since I work with PHP I am wondering what kind of support, tips, info I can get in order to decided if it is t... 5 Jul 2008 12:31

Trying to keep a dropdown selection sticky [solved]- Forgive the length of message, please
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 21:30 +1000, Peter Jackson wrote: Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: I have a form I want to keep sticky, but I can't figure out how. I got all the <INPUT>'s to be sticky.... The select script <?php echo '<strong>State</strong><br>'; echo '<select name="... 5 Jul 2008 12:31

odbc msaccess php5
Hi list, I am trying to get info out of a MS Access 2000 db. So far I have managed to do some of it but current part has me stumped. Set up Machine 1 - Debian 4, Apache, PHP5 unixodbc, mdbtools Machine 2 - WindowsXP, MS-Access Database is in a windows share that is smfs mounted on the linux box. $con... 5 Jul 2008 20:41

first e-shop
Hi, I need to create an e-shop in PHP. this is for me the first time that i need to do that and i think the way how to approach such topic is different that creating a simple corporate web site. Here are the standard features that i need to implement: - home page including latest "article/news", offers, disco... 5 Jul 2008 11:30