Connecticut PHP Developers Group - CPDG Google Group

Welcome to our newest member

rojas....@gmail.com — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:45:16 UT

Is been a while since we have some activity, everyone has there hands
full. But lets give a welcome to our newest member Michael.

PHP and the DOM

jazze...@gmail.com (Will) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:27:35 UT

I've been having an issue with a few of my scripts. I'm echoing
elements to the page that I wish to use with some of javascript's DOM
functions such as getElementById, etc. These work fine if I echo the
elements from the main script, or if I echo them from an include
file. The problem I'm running into is that when I echo from an

Red Form 0.1

rojas....@gmail.com — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:50:52 UT

Here is my first contribution. This is a form management. I was tired
of creating a processor for each form a created. I decided to create a
processor that can handle any type of form and any type of required
fields.

This processor contain numbers validation, email format validation,
required fields validation, anti-headers injections, post enforcer,

Parsing XML from a returned file.

jazze...@gmail.com (Will) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:37:43 UT

One of the features of the project I'm currently working on is a
function that will find the driving distance between two points, with
"driving" being the key word. There's numerous utilities that will
find the distance "as the crow flies" (a straight line), but the
client needs to know driving distance. I thought doing it with the

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare

jazze...@gmail.com (Will) — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:53:48 UT

I just had a problem that took me 15 minutes to solve, so I figured I
would post the answer here to help anyone with the same issue:

In an include file (f\customer.php), I'm calling a utility module that
contains some functions for an application I'm working on. I was
getting the following error when I tried to load the page containing

chmod and php

rojas....@gmail.com — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:39:07 UT

The chmod command (abbreviation of change mode) is a unix command that
will allow to change permissions of a file. This is a very useful when
working with OSCommerce and any application that writes the
configuration files. For security reason you will want to change the
permission to read only.

CPDG Tools

rojas....@gmail.com — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:59:29 UT

I added a new live tool in [link]

Is a MD5 Hasher.

CPDG New Official Domain

rojas....@gmail.com — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:46:28 UT

I want to let you know that I have already register CTPHP.org and is
live. It only contains a link to the group for the moment. Later on
when the website is up I will create emails for the managers. POP3 of
course.

MySQL connect Function and Close to use on a class.

rojas....@gmail.com — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:13:41 UT

This will save you time on coding a DB connection. This is to use on a
class.

--------------------------/
Connection /----------------------------- -------------------------

function db_connection($host,$user,$pas s,$data){

$conn = @mysql_connect($host,$user,$pa ss);
if(!$conn){
$error = TRUE;

Check for Empty String, $_POST, $_GET function

rojas....@gmail.com — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:04:51 UT

This function will allow you to check if a value is empty or NULL.,
very useful on forms.

------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---

function checkEmpty($variable){
if($variable == NULL || $variable == ''){
$isempty = true;

PHP Check Email Function

rojas....@gmail.com — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:53:47 UT

This function can be used to check for valid emails. Very simple.

------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---

function checkEmail($email)
{
// checks for proper syntax
if( !preg_match( "/^([a-zA-Z0-9])+([a-zA-Z0-9._ -])*@([a-zA-Z0-9_-])+