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@mg8Sep 15.2003

(.*)

What does that mean? ?

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@pyroSep 15.2003 — #I'm going to assume that it is part of a regexp, and in that case, it would mean this:

The parenthesis means it is a sub pattern, and that the match should be rememberd, the . means to match any character, and the * means to match 0 or more of the previous character. So, basically, that will match any number of any characters.

@mg8authorSep 15.2003 — #Ah ok.

@mg8authorSep 15.2003 — #I got another question:

I get this error when I run a php script:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:apachehtdocsmu.php on line 14

How do I change the execution time?

@pyroSep 15.2003 — #You'll have to have access to the php.ini file to change this. If you do, look for these lines:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
 ; Resource Limits ;
 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
 
 max_execution_time = 30     ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
 max_input_time = 60	; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
 memory_limit = 8M      ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)

and just change the max_execution_time to a slightly higher number (though I'd be curious what the script that maxed it out looked like...)

@mg8authorSep 15.2003 — #This is the script:

<?php

set_time_limit(100777);

$firstmarkup = "[li][color=orange]";

$secondmarkup = "[/color][link=http://users.ign.com/about/";

$thirdmarkup = "]";

$fourthmarkup = "[/link][/li]";

echo ("DragonBall Member Update<br><br>");

$names=file("names.txt");

for($i=0;$i<sizeof($names);$i++){

$fname="http://users.ign.com/about/".trim($names[$i]);

$userpage=fread(fopen($fname,"r"),900000);

eregi('Posts:</B> </td>

([ ]*)?<td class="BoardRowB">(.*)? <a href(.*)?view latest posts', $userpage,$regs);

$mu[$names[$i]]=$regs[2];

}

arsort($mu, SORT_NUMERIC);

while(list($name,$pc) = each($mu)){

echo <<<END

$firstmarkup $pc $secondmarkup$name$thirdmarkup$name$fourthmarkup <br>

END;

}

?>

It is designed to get a number and match it to the username and them print it out. It's for a MU (Member Update) at a forum site.

I have about 30 names in the names.txt file.

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