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Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 11:26:41 CST

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php-general Digest 14 Nov 2002 17:26:41 -0000 Issue 1704

Topics (messages 124384 through 124458):

Re: Help with project
124384 by: Brendon G

Re: Trivial newbie regex question
124385 by: Charles Wiltgen

session randomly loses objects
124386 by: Josh Bauguss
124391 by: Ernest E Vogelsinger

How to edit and ecternal .html file through a form
124387 by: mwenriqu.mweb.co.za
124388 by: Jason Wong

Re: can a popup window get the page referer?
124389 by: Jason Wong

php mail confirmation
124390 by: Martin Hudec
124395 by: Jason Wong

Syntax Help
        124392 by: conbud
        124393 by: Jason Wong
        124397 by: Petre Agenbag

LDAP specific?
        124394 by: Tony Earnshaw
        124399 by: Chris Hewitt
        124409 by: Krzysztof Dziekiewicz
        124421 by: Tony Earnshaw
        124431 by: BigDog
        124432 by: BigDog
        124451 by: Tony Earnshaw

Re: _POST incorrect output...
124396 by: Sebastian Konstanty Zdrojewski

Re: runing com
124398 by: kai
124404 by: Michael Hazelden

Re: Need Help in escaping " and\
124400 by: Per

Re: locale
124401 by: Bc. Radek Krejèa

multiple file upload
        124402 by: Funk-XL
        124403 by: Funk-XL
        124405 by: John W. Holmes
        124406 by: Justin French
        124407 by: Jason Wong
        124423 by: Marek Kilimajer
        124424 by: Marek Kilimajer
        124425 by: Edward Peloke
        124434 by: Javier Montserat
        124447 by: Javier Montserat

Re: posible bug, require and symlinks
        124408 by: Krzysztof Dziekiewicz
        124422 by: Michael Sims
        124426 by: Jonathan Sharp

connecting to a remote host through mysql.exe
        124410 by: Mr. BuNgL3
        124411 by: Jason Wong
        124412 by: Brian McGarvie

Re: Would appreciate thoughts on session management
        124413 by: Ford, Mike [LSS]
        124414 by: Ford, Mike [LSS]
        124457 by: Charles Wiltgen

Re: How do i make an upload script?
        124415 by: Tweak2x
        124417 by: Jon Haworth
        124443 by: brucedickey

Re: small php engine
124416 by: Marek Kilimajer

Image from MIME email
124418 by: Christoph
124427 by: Erwin

Re: How to cache PHP on Apache
124419 by: Marek Kilimajer

how to generate ms-word files
        124420 by: michael
        124433 by: BigDog
        124450 by: Tom Woody

PHP download problem IE5 on mac
124428 by: Javier Montserat
124436 by: Ernest E Vogelsinger

passing multiple variables in a url
        124429 by: CJ
        124430 by: pig pig
        124435 by: BigDog
        124437 by: Adam Williams
        124438 by: CJ
        124440 by: . Edwin
        124442 by: . Edwin

scanning for non alpha characters
        124439 by: CJ
        124441 by: Coert Metz
        124445 by: Ernest E Vogelsinger
        124446 by: CJ

Swear word substitution
124444 by: CJ
124449 by: CJ

query question
124448 by: Steve Buehler

Re: PHP Auth with Apache
        124452 by: ed.home.homes2see.com
        124453 by: BigDog
        124454 by: Ysrael Guzmán
        124455 by: Adam Voigt

Re: Mail Question
124456 by: R'twick Niceorgaw

Run webscript from command line
124458 by: Aate Drageset

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*slaps head*

*screams*

feel better now *gets back to work*

Cheers

Brendon

-----Original Message-----
From: Karl James [mailto:karl.jamesverizon.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 3:41 AM
To: php-generallists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] Help with project

Hello people

Im doing the fantasy football project
I have created a form for my owners to register there username and
passwords
So that it gets added to the dbase.
My question is what should be my next part?
Make a login page if so I would need help with that and wonder if there
is anyone
Out there that can help me.
Then from there, once you log in it will take you to your team action
page
Where you can add/delete trade players.

I need help with interface and login script as well.pleas email me.

Karl.

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Hello,

Many thanks for the responses! It's working great now...

-- Charles

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I've read about this before in spots. (like the bug report system)

I've got a fairly high traffic server. (30-50K uniques per day)

For the most part, everything works ok. We get plenty of orders (between
70-90 a day). However, I also get complaints from people who say they keep
losing their cart.

To try and track down what was going on. I started storing some fairly
simple stats from the site. Here is an example of one sent to me via e-mail
from my order.html page.

Person's cart failed?
Referring url is: http://www.t-shirtking.com/cart.php
User Agent is: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; DigExt;
Roadrunner)
Cookie output: c93856925c2ed796d3560d3729ebeb60
Other Session:
http://www.t-shirtking.com/catalog/136-00813/c93856925c2ed796d3560d3729ebeb6
0
Other Session: addProduct
new session is: c93856925c2ed796d3560d3729ebeb60

A quick description is as follows. If they come to the order.html page and
the script doesn't see the $_SESSION["cart"] variable, it sends me this
message. It sends me the referring url. (a lot of people hit checkout
instead of add to cart for some odd reason, so this is proof that this
particular person went through the cart) Then I grab the user agent to try
and narrow down the browsers with problems. Then I see if the session id is
in a cookie. Then, by looking at their session variable, I can see that
they went to cart.php via the given url. (I store the http_refferer as a
session variable on the cart.php page) Then, to prove to myself that the
cart function ran, I store the fact that the person came from the catalog
url and did indeed pass the cart command addProduct (via the form post
data). As a last test, I send myself the session_id that order.html is
using (to make sure the session wasn't restarted)

So, what can I gather from this....I only give one example. However, I get
about 10 of these messages a day. I'm sure there are even more than that
considering that some people may give up when they notice their cart isn't
holding their products and don't bother going to order.html. As you can
tell from above, it is clear that the session id is indeed intact. Also,
I'm actually able to pull information out of the session that was stored on
a previous page. (the addProduct command and the url stored in the session
by the cart.php page) However, the cart variable, which is an object, is no
longer there. (it is a simple object btw. Just an object with an array in
it and a few member functions)

I thought perhaps using the default php session manager, that it was having
problems. So I recently switched it to a mysql based manager. (just using
the session_save_handler). I still get the issue though. Therefore, I
cancel out blaming php's file storage method.

Where is my cart object going? It happens only randomly. It also happens
only to users of IE. (though 90% of our traffic are IE users) It happens to
IE6.0, IE5.5, IE5.0. It also happens at any time during the day (meaning,
high traffic times and low traffic times) I have also been able to
immediately look at my sessions table in the database when I receive a
message like the above. Sure enough, the session is there...it has
data...just no cart.

Of course, the biggest bitch of all....I can't reproduce the bug to save my
life. I've tested on 10 different machines using a variety of Windows
versions and IE versions. I've tested the cart well over 100 times. Yet, I
never seem to be able to break it. I even try to add the product that I
know the person who did lose the cart was trying to buy.

I'm pretty sure I'm losing orders because of this. I can't imagine how many
people are having issues. I'm in desperate help as my client would love me
if I could fix the number of orders per day to get back to 100. (he
switched to Miva a couple months ago and the dedicated Sun Solaris box
choked to death due to high server load. around 50-60 according to top.)
So we came in and very quickly implemented a php based solution. Of course,
it is working great except for this.

As a test, I just recently installed php4.3pre2 to see if it fixed the
issue. alas, it did not. I was previously using 4.2.3.

HELP!.

Thanks,

Josh Bauguss

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At 07:39 14.11.2002, Josh Bauguss said:
--------------------[snip]--------------------
>I've got a fairly high traffic server. (30-50K uniques per day)
>
>For the most part, everything works ok. We get plenty of orders (between
>70-90 a day). However, I also get complaints from people who say they keep
>losing their cart.
>
>To try and track down what was going on. I started storing some fairly
>simple stats from the site. Here is an example of one sent to me via e-mail
>from my order.html page.
>
> [...]
--------------------[snip]--------------------

Hi,

maybe this could be because users are submitting carts twice,
doubleclicking the submit button?

What happens in this case would be something like this:

User hits submit button (Inst.1) PHP reads session data from file
User hits button again (Inst.2) PHP reads session data from file

I didn't find any hint in the docs that PHP would _not_ flush the session
upon an aborted connection. Having both instances using the same session
data it would be possible for instance 2 to complete before instance 1 gets
to flush its session data, effectively overwriting what instance 2 had saved.

In a closed environment this might be quite unlikely, but with a fairly
high load server it might very well be that the aborted apache fork sleeps
longer than the second instance needs to complete.

If this could be the cause of those intermittent problems there are a
number of solutions you could apply, from simple to complicated. I'll be
happy to submit some ideas here; don't have the time right now, but I'll be
back soon ;-)

-- 
   >O     Ernest E. Vogelsinger
   (\)    ICQ #13394035
    ^     http://www.vogelsinger.at/

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Hi there everyone. If you have a spare moment please could you help me with the following.

I'm trying to do the following: =========================================== Have the contents of a an external (on same server).html file load in a form so that the user can edit its contents and save the file. The save function would need to save over everything that was previously in the .html file. ===========================================

Hi, as i'm sure is obvious by my posting i'm new to this so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers and Best Regards Enrique

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On Thursday 14 November 2002 14:51, mwenriqumweb.co.za wrote: > Hi there everyone. > If you have a spare moment please could > you help me with the following. > > I'm trying to do the following: > =========================================== > Have the contents of a an external (on same > server).html file load in a form so that the > user can edit its contents and save the file. > The save function would need to save over > everything that was previously in the .html > file. > =========================================== > > Hi, as i'm sure is obvious by my posting i'm > new to this so any help would be greatly > appreciated.

The "Filesystem functions" section of the manual has all the info/functions you need. In particular file() and fopen(), fwrite(). The manual is full of examples, I suggest you try them out and play around with them, understand them, then modify them to your needs.

-- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development *

/* Reality always seems harsher in the early morning. */

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On Thursday 14 November 2002 10:43, Martin Towell wrote:

> Unfortunately I didn't catch the start of this thread, bur no matter.... > In IE, all you need to do to bring up a window with an address bar is the > select the window you want to know the address of and press CTRL-N - there > you go, a new window, pointing to the same page, with the addess bar > showing exactly where the page is. I use this method quite often :)

This, for me, was one (amongst many) of the annoying things about IE. Nice to hear that someone has actually found a use for it :)

Have you found a use for the [right-click]>[open] function (as opposed to just a plain left-click)?

-- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development *

/* "I don't believe in sweeping social change being manifested by one person, unless he has an atomic weapon." -- Howard Chaykin */

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Hello all,

I would like to ask how can I make registration confirmation by email...user will receive mail confirming his registration immediately after he registers in application.....is it possible to make mail() function filled with data from registration (email)?

-- Best regards, Martin mailto:corwin

corwin.sk

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On Thursday 14 November 2002 17:02, Martin Hudec wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to ask how can I make registration confirmation by > email...user will receive mail confirming his registration immediately > after he registers in application.....

> is it possible to make mail() > function filled with data from registration (email)?

Yes, well why not? Just build up the body of your mail using the info from your form ($_POST or $_GET) and pass it to mail().

-- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development *

/* It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa. -- Groucho Marx */

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Whats wrong here ?? The variables are getting the correct information from the form but for some reason as soon as I put the variables into the $sql they dont post the proper data to the database, its connecting to the database ok but just not updating the data.

$sql = "UPDATE updates SET member= '{$_POST['mem']}', email= '{$_POST['email']}', position= '{$_POST['pos']}', dateadded= '{$_POST['dateadded']}', descp= '{$_POST['descp']}', message= '{$_POST['message']}' where id= '{$_POST['id']}'";

$result = mysql_query($sql);

Lee

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On Thursday 14 November 2002 17:22, conbud wrote: > Whats wrong here ?? The variables are getting the correct information from > the form but for some reason as soon as I put the variables into the $sql > they dont post the proper data to the database, its connecting to the > database ok but just not updating the data. > > $sql = "UPDATE updates SET member= '{$_POST['mem']}', email= > '{$_POST['email']}', position= '{$_POST['pos']}', dateadded= > '{$_POST['dateadded']}', descp= '{$_POST['descp']}', message= > '{$_POST['message']}' where id= '{$_POST['id']}'"; > > $result = mysql_query($sql);

Does echo($sql) look OK?

How about echo mysql_error()? Or executing $sql in the mysql command line interface?

-- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development *

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What do you mean by "dont post proper data"?

Have you added slashes to the variables? (use addslashes() and then stripslashes() when reading the contents from the db) On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 11:22, conbud wrote: > Whats wrong here ?? The variables are getting the correct information from > the form but for some reason as soon as I put the variables into the $sql > they dont post the proper data to the database, its connecting to the > database ok but just not updating the data. > > $sql = "UPDATE updates SET member= '{$_POST['mem']}', email= > '{$_POST['email']}', position= '{$_POST['pos']}', dateadded= > '{$_POST['dateadded']}', descp= '{$_POST['descp']}', message= > '{$_POST['message']}' where id= '{$_POST['id']}'"; > > $result = mysql_query($sql); > > Lee > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >

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People,

I'm trying to produce a "book of mugs" (a 'mug' is a 'face') for people at work to be able to manage and change, as far as they are allowed to, their own personal details in the org's directory database.

It's based on PHP 4.2.3/Apache and Openldap 2.1.8 and above and/or Novell eDirectory NLDAP 8.0 or above.

One of the things I have to do, is show and change jpeg photos from the user's browser. Browsers are the latest IE, Netscape or Mozilla. No problem with that, only a problem with the following (Code sample below):

I can show a jpeg using a href with a target, either in a new page or a frame. To do this, PHP needs to be fed 'header("Content-type: image/jpeg")'. This can be put more or less anywhere in the very short script used for showing the jpeg and works. However, if I try to put any more html code into the script, i.e. 'print <html>';, print '<body>'; etc, *anywhere*, I get a "headers already sent" error. So I can't include code for changing the BGCOLOR, sizing the image or anything like that.

Anybody know a workaround? I've cheesed as much code as i can from the recoginized tools, such as LDAPExplorer, John Hallam's magnificent yet not widely known contrib. and the Wrox books, but none of them even attempts to address what I want.

Best,

Tony

P.s., thanks for what is probably the most *patient minded* and catholic mailing list on the Internet, and all the good advice.

<?php

// Code to show a jpeg from an attribute sent on a previous page // $headers = getallheaders(); // foreach ($headers as $name => $content) { // echo "headers[$name] = $content<br>\n"; // }

$ds=ldap_connect($Host, $Port);

if ($ds) { $r=ldap_bind($ds);

if ($r) { $these_attrs = array($Attribute); $result = ldap_search($ds, $BaseDN, $target, $these_attrs); if ($result) { $result_id = ldap_first_entry($ds, $result); if ($result_id) { $foto=ldap_get_values_len($ds, $result_id, $Attribute); header("Content-type:image/jpeg"); print $foto[0]; } } } } ?>

Tony Earnshaw

Cricketers are strange people. They wake up in October, only to find that their wives had left them in May.

e-post: tonnibilly.demon.nl www: http://www.billy.demon.nl

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Tony Earnshaw wrote:

>frame. To do this, PHP needs to be fed 'header("Content-type: >image/jpeg")'. This can be put more or less anywhere in the very short >script used for showing the jpeg and works. However, if I try to put any >more html code into the script, i.e. 'print <html>';, print '<body>'; >etc, *anywhere*, I get a "headers already sent" error. So I can't > The headers must be the first thing that is sent to the browser. Do all your other html afterwards, or use output buffering.

HTH Chris

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> I can show a jpeg using a href with a target, either in a new page or a > frame. To do this, PHP needs to be fed 'header("Content-type: > image/jpeg")'. This can be put more or less anywhere in the very short > script used for showing the jpeg and works. However, if I try to put any > more html code into the script, i.e. 'print <html>';, print '<body>'; > etc, *anywhere*, I get a "headers already sent" error.

You can not put any html code with image code. If you send some html you mean to send header("Content-Type: text/html") with header("Content-type: image/jpeg") Where do you want go to ?

You can do so: There is on the page http://xxx/user.html?name=smith some html code where a user can act. Among the html code you insert <img src="http://xxx/userfoto.html?name=smith"> On http://xxx/userfoto.html you send header("Content-type: image/jpeg") and the image content and no html code.

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tor, 2002-11-14 kl. 11:14 skrev Chris Hewitt:

> >frame. To do this, PHP needs to be fed 'header("Content-type: > >image/jpeg")'. This can be put more or less anywhere in the very short > >script used for showing the jpeg and works. However, if I try to put any > >more html code into the script, i.e. 'print <html>';, print '<body>'; > >etc, *anywhere*, I get a "headers already sent" error. So I can't

> The headers must be the first thing that is sent to the browser. Do all > your other html afterwards, or use output buffering.

Thanks for the answer, Chris. I realise this, but that just does not work - been there, seen it, done it.

Wherever (even as 1st line) *any* PHP4 header stuff is put in the script, adding html code later results in the same "headers already sent" error. That's why I asked for a "workaround," by name.

Best,

Tony

Tony Earnshaw

Cricketers are strange people. They wake up in October, only to find that their wives had left them in May.

e-post: tonnibilly.demon.nl www: http://www.billy.demon.nl

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Why can u not do a page that displays the images as img src?

That should work for ya...instead of sending the headers. Are u saving the image in the ldap server?

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 09:27, Tony Earnshaw wrote: > People, > > I'm trying to produce a "book of mugs" (a 'mug' is a 'face') for people > at work to be able to manage and change, as far as they are allowed to, > their own personal details in the org's directory database. > > It's based on PHP 4.2.3/Apache and Openldap 2.1.8 and above and/or > Novell eDirectory NLDAP 8.0 or above. > > One of the things I have to do, is show and change jpeg photos from the > user's browser. Browsers are the latest IE, Netscape or Mozilla. No > problem with that, only a problem with the following (Code sample > below): > > I can show a jpeg using a href with a target, either in a new page or a > frame. To do this, PHP needs to be fed 'header("Content-type: > image/jpeg")'. This can be put more or less anywhere in the very short > script used for showing the jpeg and works. However, if I try to put any > more html code into the script, i.e. 'print <html>';, print '<body>'; > etc, *anywhere*, I get a "headers already sent" error. So I can't > include code for changing the BGCOLOR, sizing the image or anything like > that. > > Anybody know a workaround? I've cheesed as much code as i can from the > recoginized tools, such as LDAPExplorer, John Hallam's magnificent yet > not widely known contrib. and the Wrox books, but none of them even > attempts to address what I want. > > Best, > > Tony > > P.s., thanks for what is probably the most *patient minded* and catholic > mailing list on the Internet, and all the good advice. > > <?php > > // Code to show a jpeg from an attribute sent on a previous page > // $headers = getallheaders(); > // foreach ($headers as $name => $content) { > // echo "headers[$name] = $content<br>\n"; > // } > > $ds=ldap_connect($Host, $Port); > > if ($ds) { > $r=ldap_bind($ds); > > if ($r) { > $these_attrs = array($Attribute); > $result = ldap_search($ds, $BaseDN, $target, $these_attrs); > if ($result) { > $result_id = ldap_first_entry($ds, $result); > if ($result_id) { > $foto=ldap_get_values_len($ds, $result_id, $Attribute); > header("Content-type:image/jpeg"); > print $foto[0]; > } > } > } > } > ?> > > -- > > Tony Earnshaw > > Cricketers are strange people. They wake up > in October, only to find that their wives had > left them in May. > > e-post: tonnibilly.demon.nl > www: http://www.billy.demon.nl > >

-- .: B i g D o g :.

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This is how I do it.

I create a php page that gets the image and sends the correct header. Then in my other php page that displays the details about a user i call <img src="showperson.php?name=$fullname">. Then in showperson i send the correct image headers and the image is displayed properly.

HTH...

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 10:50, Krzysztof Dziekiewicz wrote: > > I can show a jpeg using a href with a target, either in a new page or a > > frame. To do this, PHP needs to be fed 'header("Content-type: > > image/jpeg")'. This can be put more or less anywhere in the very short > > script used for showing the jpeg and works. However, if I try to put any > > more html code into the script, i.e. 'print <html>';, print '<body>'; > > etc, *anywhere*, I get a "headers already sent" error. > > You can not put any html code with image code. > If you send some html you mean to send > header("Content-Type: text/html") > with > header("Content-type: image/jpeg") > Where do you want go to ? > > You can do so: > There is on the page http://xxx/user.html?name=smith some html code where a user can act. > Among the html code you insert <img src="http://xxx/userfoto.html?name=smith"> > On http://xxx/userfoto.html you send header("Content-type: image/jpeg") and the > image content and no html code.

-- .: B i g D o g :.

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tor, 2002-11-14 kl. 11:14 skrev Chris Hewitt:

> The headers must be the first thing that is sent to the browser. Do all > your other html afterwards, or use output buffering.

Please nobody else bother, it's my own stupid fault for not knowing enough.

I'm halfway there, output buffering will prove to be the answer and like everything else with PHP it's a question of reading and practicing. I'm an OS man rather than a programmer.

Best and thanks,

Tony

Tony Earnshaw

Cricketers are strange people. They wake up in October, only to find that their wives had left them in May.

e-post: tonnibilly.demon.nl www: http://www.billy.demon.nl

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The substitution is made only to array keys, not its values...

Brad Apps wrote: > Hey Again, > > I am doing the output from a _POST array and it seems to replace all spaces > and '.'s in the file names with '_'. so a file name brads doc.htm outputs > as brads_doc_htm. Any suggestions, PLEASE. > > Thanks. > >

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Phone (+39) 02.68.80.731 E-Mail s.zdrojewskineticon.it Website http://www.neticon.it

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Hi Michael, thanks for your reply.

> Firstly - that error would suggest to me that Word is not installed on your > machine.

Thats true thats why i've been trying to start other applications like wordpad, just to see some funktionality.

>... try looking it up in the registry to confirm the registration > for COM exists.

Maybe you can give me a little hint on that. I've been creating some com components in vb some time ago, but as I remember I had to register them with regsvr.exe but that was for dll's and stuff.

But hey I don't know exactly what you are suggesting, please help.

> Second ... why do you want to run media player to play a wave file on the > server? I would have thought you'd want to activate the script on the client

No, what I am trying to do is, if someone I know activates a button on my site, a sound file will play on my server, which is locate in my kitchen, to catch my attention.

Further more I'd like to control outlook for different tasks.

> Another good idea is to check over the event viewer on the server - there > are sometime some very revealing errors in there.

I've tried that, but did not see any entries related to my problem.

If your com code is running fine, maybe you can remember if you have some special settings in your php.ini, appache or win2k settings.

Any suggestion is welcome.

Thank you very much

KAi "Michael Hazelden" <michael.hazeldenocado.com> wrote in message news:C1260EE72F22C44F833D033A17524AD702A4D159lhoexc1... > I've been having some fun with COM myself recently ... so I can suggest a > couple of things ... > > Firstly - that error would suggest to me that Word is not installed on your > machine. Remember - in order to interface with an app - it has to be there. > If it is ... try looking it up in the registry to confirm the registration > for COM exists. > > Second ... why do you want to run media player to play a wave file on the > server? I would have thought you'd want to activate the script on the client > ... > > Another good idea is to check over the event viewer on the server - there > are sometime some very revealing errors in there. > > Cheers, > > Michael. > > -----Original Message----- > From: kai [mailto:kai_flashhotmail.com] > Sent: 14 November 2002 07:20 > To: php-generallists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] runing com > > > hi guy's I have a problem running com+ code and would appreciate any help. > > What I like to do is have the mediaplayer run a wave file triggert from php > via com. > but I can not run any example code from the help without errors. > > > this code is from a the help and should work but doesn't on my mashine: > > // starting word > $word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instanciate Word"); > print "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}\n"; > > file://bring it to front > $word->Visible = 1; > file://open an empty document > $word->Documents->Add(); > file://do some weird stuff > $word->Selection->TypeText("This is a test..."); > $word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("Useless test.doc"); > file://closing word > $word->Quit(); > file://free the object > $word->Release(); > $word = null; > > This is all very basic code and should run. > I do not have word so I tried with other apps. like wordpad or painbrush > but allways recieve this error: > > Warning: Invalid ProgID, GUID string, or Moniker: Invalid syntax in > D:\Apache\htdocs\ring.php on line 7 > Unable to instanciate .......... > > Now I tried to give the access right's on the particular apps in dcomcnfg > and > also edited php.ini to > allow Distributed-COM calls > com.allow_dcom = true > > > Does anybody can give me a run down on what I have to do exactly to get this > code running for > let's say wordpad. > > Thank you > > KAi > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > This message has been checked for all known viruses by the > MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. > > This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. > > > ********************************************************************* > > Notice: This email is confidential and may contain copyright material of Ocado Limited (the "Company"). Opinions and views expressed in this message may not necessarily reflect the opinions and views of the Company. > If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete all copies of this message. Please note that it is your responsibility to scan this message for viruses. > > Company reg. no. 3875000. Swallowdale Lane, Hemel Hempstead HP2 7PY > > *********************************************************************

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Apologies all - that should have just gone to the Windows list ...

-----Original Message----- From: Michael Hazelden [mailto:michael.hazeldenocado.com] Sent: 14 November 2002 10:18 To: 'kai'; php-windowslists.php.net Subject: [PHP-WIN] RE: [PHP] runing com

Kai,

I've moved this to the Windows list because someone else here might be able to add something.

I'm afaid I didn't have to adjust anything within the PHP ini or anything - for me it worked pretty much "out of the box".

With regards the registry - in order to check that you are using the appropriate application id - simply open up regedit and search for the name of the identifier you are using - if it's going to be used as a COM identifier - it has to be in there somewhere.

Finding out what that identifier is though (if you don't already know it) ... is another matter ... the easiest way (I think) ... is to use "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" in the registry ... browse through that list and look to see if there is something appropriate.

In your case - for Media Player - I found "Mediaplayer.mediaplayer" in my Windows 2000 server registry. It might be the one - but I haven't tried that to see whether it works.

Basically - if you don't have documentation on the functions contained within a COM object - you are a little shafted ... because it's going to be very hard to know what functions to access and how.

Luckily - in my case - the application I interface with has full COM documentation.

Sorry I can't be of more assistance.

Michael.

-----Original Message----- From: kai [mailto:kai_flashhotmail.com] Sent: 14 November 2002 19:05 To: php-generallists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] runing com