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need advice on a free DB hosting site
hi hello everyone im stil new here i just want some advice...now im working on a database install script in php....just a simple one... i just need to test it online thats why i need advice on a database hosting site that is free.. that also i can activate it with a username and password, can create database or ... 14 Jul 2008 09:34

Freelance PHP development in India
Dear friends. I am looking for freelance web developers in India. Can contact me? Thanks Denis ... 16 Jul 2008 13:01

string comparison
hi i am writing a small application where a user enters a phrase in the textfield and i would like to display all the files present in the root directory which consists of the keyword or keywords entered by the user. i have used a few comparison functions but i am not getting the expected result. $my_file =... 13 Jul 2008 14:06

Shared Authentication Scheme - the reason for the Redirect andPOST mailing
Alex Chamberlain wrote: The server and client will initially be programmed in PHP, so I wanted to gather some opinion on whether people wanted another SAS, and what would make them use it over any other?? The company will be there, not only to serve the end user, but to serve the developer as well. If anybo... 13 Jul 2008 11:01

Shared Authentication Scheme - the reason for the Redirect and POST mailing
I am at the very early stages of developing a shared authentication scheme (SAS). Often referred to as single sign on, but a fundamentally different concept, the scheme hopes to assign a single set of credentials to each user (username, password etc), which they can then use to sign on to a range of websites. The s... 13 Jul 2008 11:01

Saving loading time at counting rows
I had this question, which I didn't really know where to ask, so I thought to begin at this mailing list. Very basicly said, I count the rows of a table which had approx 50000 or more rows. The problem is, there is a notable difference in loading time with other pages. Is there a technique to estimate the numb... 14 Jul 2008 16:49

PDO Question. Number of rows returned
I am switching to PDO and can't find an equivalent to mysql_num_rows. Am I missing something silly? Or is there a change of thinking needed for PDO? How should I determine how many rows a query returned? Thanks Stephen ... 13 Jul 2008 12:03

Passing arguments as they are received to another function
Hello, I'm trying to implement a few simple wrappers for some PHP functions. Here's an example of what I'm trying to do: function myWrapper() { return defaultPhpFunction(func_get_args()); } The example above is broken since I'm just passing an array to the original function. The only way to achieve t... 12 Jul 2008 13:35

IPv6 validation
This one time, at band camp, Yeti <yeti(a)myhich.com> wrote: Now i was wondering of what there might be the best way to validate an IPv6 address. from this url.. http://phpro.org/tutorials/Filtering-Data-with-PHP.html#9 <?php /*** an IP address ***/ $ip = "2001:0db8:85a3:08d3:1319:8a2e:0370:7334"; /... 14 Jul 2008 03:25

[PHP] IPv6 validation
Hello community, I have been working with alot of IPv6 lately. Now i was wondering of what there might be the best way to validate an IPv6 address. Couldn't think of any working regexp, since even ::1 or :: is valid (localhost), so i tried it the following way: <?php //RFC 4291 //http://tools.ietf.org/h... 12 Jul 2008 09:29