Recent content by skosterow

Okay here we are the battle of the regexp! ;-) thanks ishnid! Wise men ask questions, only fools keep quite.

Thanks again Varakal! Wise men ask questions, only fools keep quite.

Thanks varakal - BTW do you know of something i can learn about what is going on in that code? I appreshiate the answer however KUDOS!!! - Scott Wise men ask questions, only fools keep quite.

Okay NOT asking for the code asking for direction. I need to check and see if a variable has a numaric value or a char value. IE - $val1 = "2345b"; if ($val1 is all numaric) { do this.... } else { do this... } in this instance the else would be executed because $val1 has a 'b' in it...

KevinADC - thanks for pointing me in the right direction!!!! here is the finished code for anyone that ever searches this FAQ! if ($QUESTION::IMAGE ne '') { my $filename = $query->param('QUESTION-IMAGE'); my $upload_dir = "images/senario"; $filename =~...

cathiec, Im looking to do something simular to this except it would be with images. IE you have an image as a base: IMAGE01.gif and on that image there are 1 to 3 different places that the user can place a drag and drop image.... these being marked as placement_a, placement_b, placement_c...

Rieekan, Good idea if i knew how - im setting up for classes for FLASH MX Pro now - and i knew that you could do a small preloader - but then im still at the same place. There would have to be a selector for reg HTML. - Scott Wise men ask questions, only fools keep quite.

Paul - Thanks bud! Thats what i currently have - I know how to test for browser type with the $ENV{BROWSER} but speed is the concern - the guy that wrote the flash for the site left - and ofcourse its S-L-O-W loading on low speed connections - we want to get rid of the front page that says go...

Is it possible to test the inbound user connection speed? Then say: if ($connection_speed <= 26.6) { # do somthing } elsif ($connection_speed <= 56.6) { # do somthing } else { # do somthing } Wise men ask questions, only fools keep quite.

Okay along the same lines - as mu last question. Now i need to change the file name upon UPLOAD. for example: if the file name the user selects in the form tag QUESTION-IMAGE is say example01.gif - while using the following code: I need to rename the file upon upload to: $NEW::FILENAME...

perluserpengo - kewl beans thanks guys! - Scott Wise men ask questions, only fools keep quite.

Thank you duncdude! That was it!!!!!! One question - when i want to do txt files then i use the first way and thats that right? - Scott Wise men ask questions, only fools keep quite.

Okay I think I'm a dorkis - but here goes - I have been searching for a way to upload Binnary stuff IE gifs and jpegs to my server via perl - here is the code that im using: use CGI; $upload_dir = "/uploads"; $query = new CGI; $filename = $query->param('upload_file'); $filename =~...

I am trying to use a select statement from a MySQL DB using perl - I need to place the retreived data into an array - IE @db_data. Here is the code that I am currently using: my $dsn = "DBI:mysqlPP:nn_work_orders:$DB::SERVER"; my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $DB::USER, $DB::PASS)...

Waiterm, Thanks!!! Sorry it took me so long to look at this post i have been dealing with a few things. I am going to be looking into this and yes that makes ALOT of sense! I know that the way that im writting some of this code is the long way! And i appreshiate any and all help! - Scott...