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1984 (Big Brother)
Hi gang: I have a client who wants his employees' access to their online business database restricted to only times when he is logged on. (Don't ask why) In other words, when the boss is not logged on, then his employees cannot access the business database in any fashion whatsoever including checking to s... 19 Sep 2010 18:40

How to handle a submitted form with no changes -- bestpractices sought
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Tamara Temple <tamouse.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: I have a general question and am looking for best practices. Is it worth the overhead of passing along the previous values in the table in hidden fields so that fields can be checked to see if they've been without storing al... 19 Sep 2010 18:39

New to PHP and the list
Hello, I'm new to PHP and also new to using newsgroups/mailing lists directly. So if I make a mistake, please forgive me this once and I'll try to do better in the future. Please help me understand, my head is absolutely spinning and I can't get my mind around this. In the php.net site there is an example on... 19 Sep 2010 18:39

How to handle a submitted form with no changes -- best practices sought
I have a general question and am looking for best practices. Suppose I present a user with a form for editing an entry in a table, i.e., the form has filled in values from the existing table entry. Now, suppose they click on 'submit' without making any changes in the form. (Perhaps, say, rather than clickin... 19 Sep 2010 18:39

Elegance is the goal... Sticky form submit help
Hey everyone! Hope you are having a great weekend, and I'm hoping someone might be coherent enough to help me find a more elegant solution to a problem that I have... I have a form for submitting an event to a website, and if the form is not submitted successfully (such as they didn't fill out a required... 19 Sep 2010 18:39

Disabling an extension on a perdir basis.
Hi. Can't seem to see a way to do this. Is there a way to do this? -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY ... 19 Sep 2010 18:39

Standalone WebServer for PHP
Ok, here it goes... I am building an app, that requires a web interface. I am using PHP becuase I am familiar with it. Most of the app's i've been looking at, use Python, Cherry.py and stuff, but what I was wondering, is is there a way to create a php CLI app, that creates it's own "web server" even if apache... 19 Sep 2010 18:40

newbie question about code
I'm looking at someone's code to learn and I'm relatively new to programming. In the code I see commands like: $code->do_command(); I'm not really sure what that means. How would that look in procedural style programming? do_command($code); or something else? ... 19 Sep 2010 18:39

php cli question
Hi, I have some basic questions on running php (5.2.x series on Linux 2.6) as a standalone daemon using posix methods (fork() etc..): #!/usr/bin/php <?php require_once ('someclass.php'); // do some initializations .. // main 'forever' loop - the '$shutdown' will // be set to true via a signal handl... 19 Sep 2010 18:40

Handling multiple form fields
Please i want to seek your opinion on how to handle large form fields, i have a table that contain 30 fields and i`m wondering if there is a better way to automatically create the html form and validate it. ... 19 Sep 2010 18:39