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Printing HTML pages directly from browsers usually does not give the best printing output, compared to output from word processors such as Microsoft

In this article, I will briefly describe how to compile PHP with ORACLE 8i support. When I tried to compile php with oracle support on

In this article, I will briefly describe how to compile PHP with ORACLE 8i support. When I tried to compile php with oracle support on

By Ying Zhang on July 30, 2000 This document describes how to customize the session handlers in PHP4. We will provide examples of how to write a fully functional session handler that works with DBM files and one that works with a MySQL database. New to PHP4 was a set…

By Ying Zhang on July 30, 2000 Session Handler Functions Any custom session handler we write will have to provide 6 basic functions, they get called by the PHP4 session handler so you do not need to worry about calling them yourself. The nice thing about all this is that…

By Ying Zhang on July 30, 2000 A DBM Session Handler Our first example is to write a customized session handler to save session data into a DBM file. (This is the session_dbm.php file from ying20000602.zip.) There are many reasons why you might want to do this, for example, if…

By Ying Zhang on July 30, 2000 Our 6 functions will now work against a MySQL database: sess_open($sess_path, $session_name); We need to connect to the MySQL database here using mysql_pconnect(), and then selecting the session database using mysql_select_db(). The $sess_path and $session_name parameters are irrelevant but we have to keep…

By Ying Zhang on July 30, 2000 A MySQL Session Handler Our next example is to write a customized session handler to save session data into a MySQL database. (This is the session_mysql.php file from ying20000602.zip.) You would want sessions stored in a database when you have lots of web/PHP…

By Stefan Wiesendanger on December 17, 2000 How To Generate The Image Now that I’ve kept you waiting for so long, on to create that image! The source code below shows the general stub for creating an image in PHP. Let’s define the image’s $width and $height first, since you’ll…