PHP - Sqlsrv Driver Issues

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the notebook lenovo g 780 runs windows 8 and is not very stable.
the WLAN connecgtion is not very stable _ despite the fact that it is very very close to the router .


btw: several  linux-notebooks (opensuse) which are running under the same condition do not have any problem


want to load a new driver - but which one is  corrcet?

how to find out which driver is needed?

http://www.lenovo-dr...rivers-download

Networking: LAN (Ethernet)     Atheros LAN Driver     Windows 8 (32-bit)
Windows 8 (64-bit)     3.17MB     Download
Networking: LAN (Ethernet)     Atheros Lan Driver     Windows XP     3.02MB     Download
Networking: LAN (Ethernet)     Atheros LAN Driver     Windows 7 (32-bit)
Windows 7 (64-bit)     5.33MB     Download
Networking: Wireless LAN     Intel WiMax Driver     Windows XP     64MB     Download
Networking: Wireless LAN     Wireless LAN Driver (Liteon, CyberTan)     Windows 8 (32-bit)
Windows 8 (64-bit)     49.4MB     Download
Networking: Wireless LAN     Intel WLAN Driver     Windows XP     203MB     Download
Networking: Wireless LAN     Intel WiMax Driver     Windows 8 (32-bit)
Windows 8 (64-bit)     88.7MB     Download
Networking: Wireless LAN     WLAN Driver (Liteon, Cybertan)     Windows XP     41.8MB     Download
Networking: Wireless LAN     Intel Wireless LAN Driver     Windows 8 (32-bit)
Windows 8 (64-bit)     540KB     Download


how to find out which driver is needed?

Hello, I'm having troubles parsing text properly.  Whenever I submit data into a mysql db, and then call that specific data, in the text, I get this symbol,  �.  Does anybody know what it is or how to remove it?  I believe it's with utf-8 and me using a function that corrupts the string but I'm not sure.  Anybody have any clues?  Thanks in advance.

Issue # 1
How can i send the values come from $_POST['name'],$_POST['number'] to an email address xyz@radiations3.com???

Issue # 2
I am trying to display data from four different tables with the following sql query:
(The problem is that the data is getting displayed fine but i don't know why some of the (same )data gets repeated two or three times where as i checked in all four tables and all the data exists one time not twice)
If anything wrong with my query kindly help

SELECT distinct *
FROM applicant,applicant_info_nic,room,student
WHERE applicant_info_nic.status='Available' and  applicant.appNIC=applicant_info_nic.appNIC and applicant.roomID=room.roomID and applicant.appNIC=student.appNIC
ORDER BY applicant.roomID

i am trying to sort out a session now,

i normally use the folllowing code to check if someone is logged in and if they are not to forward them to the login page,
but i am getting this message:

Notice: Undefined index: username in

code:
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if ($_SESSION['username']) {
}else{
 include 'login.php';
 die("");
}

can someone help please.

Hey all,

I can not get utf-8 working properly.

I'm having issues with special characters, such as bullets, e with an accent over it, etc.

The data is being stored in my mssql database properly, and I can see everything there fine. It's when I grab it from the database and display it on my php page. The page it set up to utf-8, if I go to Tools>Page Info, it says encoding is utf-8. I have it in my headers, I just can not figure out why it will not display on the page.

Any thoughts?

Hello,

I have the following code


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class Uploads extends Controller
{
 public function __construct()
 {
  parent::__construct();

  if (empty($_FILES))
  {
   log_message('error', 'Uploads - files empty');
   exit('No files uploaded');
  }

  ini_set('memory_limit', '128M');

  $this->load->helper('file');
  $this->load->helper('helpers');
  $this->load->model('uploads_model');

 }

 public function font_handler()
 {
  $this->uploads_model->font_handler();
 }

}

class Uploads_model extends Model
{
    public function font_handler()
    {
  $config = array(
   'max_size'     => '8388',
   'allowed_types' => 'ttf',
   'upload_path'   => 'assets/fonts/'
  );

  $this->load->library('upload', $config);

  if ($this->upload->do_upload('Filedata'))
  {
   $file = $this->upload->data();
   $jsFile = $file['raw_name'].'.js';
   $query = $this->db->where('location', 'menuFont')->get('fonts')->row();

   if ($query->customFile != '' && file_exists('assets/fonts/'.$query->customFile))
         {
    unlink('assets/fonts/'.$query->customFile);
   }

   $path    = getcwd() . '/assets/fonts/cufon/convert.php';
   $command = 'php ' . $path . ' -u "U+??" ' . $file['full_path'] . ' 1> ' . getcwd() . '/assets/fonts/' . $jsFile;

   system($command);
  }
 }

}


Ok so, the ttf file is uploaded correctly and I can run $command from the command promt in putty and it works perfect, but when I try to run the same command from system() the js file just contains (from the controller) "No files uploaded" I have no idea why this is happening? Anyone have any ideas?  Also one thing i'm not sure about is if it should be 1> or > when creating the js file?!?


Thanks guys!

Hi, I am having some major issues.
My site provides sheet music available for downloading for free. When a user clicks on a sheet to download, a new window opens up. This user views our sponsor's website for 30 seconds. Once the time is up, they can download the free sheet.

Now for the issues:

I found a download script that I'm putting to the test. When clicking download, it asks where you want to save the file and downloads the file just fine. After some testing, i found that if the user tries to download the sheet again, my entire php/html code displays on the page, as well as a bunch of nonreadable characters (I'm guessing this is from the .pdf file that is supposed to be downloaded).

I need to modify my code to stop this from happening. I've tried to exit() the code or die() after the sheet downloads, but I must be doing it wrong because nothing seems to work. I also tried a redirect to send them to a different page once they download the file. That doesn't work either.

The next issue is the bottom page is supposed to display our sponsor's website, which it does. However, the frame that contains the website is not 100% in height as it is specified to be. Something in my code is causing it to stop extending all the way.

If you would like to see exactly what is happening for yourself, you can go he
http://www.sheetmusichaven.com/download.php?sheet=98%20Degrees-I%20Do%20Cherish%20You-SheetMusicHaven.pdf&artist=98%20Degrees&title=I%20Do%20Cherish%20You

I'm using the latest version of Firefox, PHP 5.

And for the code. I warn you it is ugly ><

<?php
session_start();

include_once('inc/connect.php');

$sheet = $_GET['sheet'];
$artist = stripslashes($_GET['artist']);
$title = stripslashes($_GET['title']);
$hyphen = " - ";
$url = "http://www.youtube.com";
$timetodownload = $_POST['timetodownload'];

$todayquery = mysql_query("SELECT `todayviews` FROM `websites` WHERE `active`='yes'");
$todayresult = mysql_fetch_assoc($todayquery);

$todayviews = $todayresult['todayviews'];

$result = mysql_query("SELECT `url` FROM `websites` WHERE `active`='yes' && `dailyviews`>'$todayviews' && `credits`>0");
$i = 0;
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
    
    while($i<1){
    
    $url = $row['url'];    
    $i++;
    
    }
  
  }


if(strlen($artist)+strlen($title)>80){
    $artist = "";
    $hyphen = "";
}
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
// Time Goes Here

// $ipcheck = mysql_query("SELECT ip FROM downloading WHERE ip='$ip'");
// $ipcount = mysql_num_rows($ipcheck);

// if ($ipcount!=0)
// {
// $error1 = "<div id='regerror'>Username already taken!</div>";
// }

// $ipquery = "INSERT INTO downloading VALUES ('','$ip','$time')";
// mysql_query($ipquery);

$timesdownloaded = 0;
if(isset($timetodownload)&&$timesdownloaded<1){
###############################################################
# File Download 1.31
###############################################################
# Visit http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/ for updates
###############################################################
# Sample call:
#    download.php?f=phptutorial.zip
#
# Sample call (browser will try to save with new file name):
#    download.php?f=phptutorial.zip&fc=php123tutorial.zip
###############################################################

// Allow direct file download (hotlinking)?
// Empty - allow hotlinking
// If set to nonempty value (Example: example.com) will only allow downloads when referrer contains this text
define('ALLOWED_REFERRER', '');

// Download folder, i.e. folder where you keep all files for download.
// MUST end with slash (i.e. "/" )
define('BASE_DIR','admin/uploads/');

// log downloads?  true/false
define('LOG_DOWNLOADS',true);

// log file name
define('LOG_FILE','downloads.log');

// Allowed extensions list in format 'extension' => 'mime type'
// If myme type is set to empty string then script will try to detect mime type 
// itself, which would only work if you have Mimetype or Fileinfo extensions
// installed on server.
$allowed_ext = array (

  // archives
  'zip' => 'application/zip',

  // documents
  'pdf' => 'application/pdf',
  'doc' => 'application/msword',
  
  // images
  'gif' => 'image/gif',
  'png' => 'image/png',
  'jpg' => 'image/jpeg',
  'jpeg' => 'image/jpeg',
);



####################################################################
###  DO NOT CHANGE BELOW
####################################################################


// If hotlinking not allowed then make hackers think there are some server problems
if (ALLOWED_REFERRER !== ''
&& (!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) || strpos(strtoupper($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']),strtoupper(ALLOWED_REFERRER)) === false)
) {
  die("Internal server error. Please contact system administrator.");
}

// Make sure program execution doesn't time out
// Set maximum script execution time in seconds (0 means no limit)
set_time_limit(0);

if (!isset($sheet) || empty($sheet)) {
  die("Please specify file name for download.");
}

// Nullbyte hack fix
if (strpos($sheet, "\0") !== FALSE) die('');

// Get real file name.
// Remove any path info to avoid hacking by adding relative path, etc.
$fname = basename($sheet);

// Check if the file exists
// Check in subfolders too
function find_file ($dirname, $fname, &$file_path) {

  $dir = opendir($dirname);

  while ($file = readdir($dir)) {
    if (empty($file_path) && $file != '.' && $file != '..') {
      if (is_dir($dirname.'/'.$file)) {
        find_file($dirname.'/'.$file, $fname, $file_path);
      }
      else {
        if (file_exists($dirname.'/'.$fname)) {
          $file_path = $dirname.'/'.$fname;
          return;
        }
      }
    }
  }

} // find_file

// get full file path (including subfolders)
$file_path = '';
find_file(BASE_DIR, $fname, $file_path);

if (!is_file($file_path)) {
  die("File does not exist. Make sure you specified correct file name."); 
}

// file size in bytes
$fsize = filesize($file_path); 

// file extension
$fext = strtolower(substr(strrchr($fname,"."),1));

// check if allowed extension
if (!array_key_exists($fext, $allowed_ext)) {
  die("Not allowed file type."); 
}

// get mime type
if ($allowed_ext[$fext] == '') {
  $mtype = '';
  // mime type is not set, get from server settings
  if (function_exists('mime_content_type')) {
    $mtype = mime_content_type($file_path);
  }
  else if (function_exists('finfo_file')) {
    $finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME); // return mime type
    $mtype = finfo_file($finfo, $file_path);
    finfo_close($finfo);  
  }
  if ($mtype == '') {
    $mtype = "application/force-download";
  }
}
else {
  // get mime type defined by admin
  $mtype = $allowed_ext[$fext];
}

// Browser will try to save file with this filename, regardless original filename.
// You can override it if needed.

if (!isset($_GET['fc']) || empty($_GET['fc'])) {
  $asfname = $fname;
}
else {
  // remove some bad chars
  $asfname = str_replace(array('"',"'",'\\','/'), '', $_GET['fc']);
  if ($asfname === '') $asfname = 'NoName';
}

// set headers
header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Cache-Control: public");
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Type: $mtype");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$asfname\"");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: " . $fsize);

// download
// @readfile($file_path);
$file = @fopen($file_path,"rb");
if ($file) {
  while(!feof($file)) {
    print(fread($file, 1024*8));
    flush();
    if (connection_status()!=0) {
      @fclose($file);
      
      die();
    }
  }
  @fclose($file);
}

// log downloads
if (!LOG_DOWNLOADS) die();

$f = @fopen(LOG_FILE, 'a+');
if ($f) {
  @fputs($f, date("m.d.Y g:ia")."  ".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."  ".$fname."\n");
  @fclose($f);
  
}


    $timesdownloaded++;
    if(isset($timetodownload)==($_POST['timetodownload'])){
    $timetodownload = "";
    echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=index.php?letter=0\">";
    }
    if($timesdownloaded>0){
        header("Location: index.php");
    }
}

?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta name="description" content="Free Piano Sheet Music - Sheet Music Haven" />
<meta name="keywords" content="free,piano,sheet,music,download,keyboard,haven,lyrics,notes,chords,score,top,modern,popular,jazz,classical,sheetmusichaven" />
<meta name="author" content="Sheet Music Haven - Free Piano Sheet Music. Download all types of piano sheet music for free. Popular sheets are added often" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Downloading <?php echo $sheet; ?> - Sheet Music Haven</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles/style.css" />
<style>
iframe {
padding: 0px;
spacing: 0px;
}

body{
    margin: 0px;
    color: #000000;

}
#bggreen{
    width: 99%;
    height: 88%;
    background-color: #6aa504;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    text-align: center;
}
#countdown{
    color: #4296ce;
    font-size: 18px;
        
}

.sheetbar a{color: #000000;
         font-family: "Arial", Helvetica, sans-serif;
         }
#logo{
    position: relative;
    width: 320px;
    height: 65px;
    text-align: center;
    float: left;
    top: 19px;
}
#timer{
    position: relative;
    width: 65%;
    height: 59px;
    float: left;
    text-align: center;
    top: 3px;
    background-color: #ececec;
    border-style: solid;
    border-color: #93DB70;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">

var time = 2;

function startCountdown(){
    var t = setTimeout("countdown()", 1000);
}

function countdown(){
var sHeet = "<?php echo $sheet;?>";
var artist = "<?php echo $artist;?>";
var tItle = "<?php echo $title;?>";

    --time;
    if(time == 0){
        document.getElementById("countdown").innerHTML = "<form action='download.php?sheet=<?php echo $sheet; ?>' method='POST'><input type='image' src='img/download.png' alt='Download' name='timetodownload' value='Download'><\/form>";

    }else{
        document.getElementById("countdown").innerHTML = time;
        var t = setTimeout('countdown()', 1000);
    }
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="startCountdown();" bgcolor="#343331">

<table width="100%" height="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<?php

echo "<tr><td style='background:#343331;height:80px;border-bottom:#aaaaaa solid 2px;'>";

echo "<div id='bggreen' class='sheetbar'>
<div id='logo'><a href='index.php'><img src='img/logosmall.png'></a><br />
    <a href='suggestions.php' style='color: #ececec; font-size: 14px;'>Report Errors</a></div>
<div id='timer'>
It is our sponsor's that keep this website running. Please view their website while you wait for:<br />
 <span style='color: #6aa504;'>".ucwords($artist).$hyphen.ucwords($title)."</span>
<br />
<div id='countdown'>2</div>
</div>
</div>".$error;
echo "</td></tr>";
?>

<tr><td>
<iframe src="<?php echo $url;?>" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
  <p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p>
</iframe>
</td></tr>

</table>

</body>
</html>

Hey guys,
I wrote a function called isServer() so I can quickly move files from my local machine to my server without modifying too much.  The function is as follows:

function isServer() {
  if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'myservername') {
    return(true);
  } else {
    return(false);
  }
} // isServer()

I have placed this function in a system.php file I created that is used to simply to keep things in order.  That files contents a

<?php
session_start();

function isServer() {
  if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'myservername') {
    return(true);
  } else {
    return(false);
  }
} // isServer()

include "configuration.php";
include "functions.php";
include "functions_sql.php";
include "functions_soap.php";
include "functions_mail.php";

if (isProductionServer()) {
  $dbhost = 'db';
  $dbuser = 'db_user';
  $dbpass = 'pass123';
} else {
  $dbhost = 'localhost';
  $dbuser = 'user';
  $dbpass = 'pass';
}

$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die ('Error connecting to mysql');

$dbname = 'my_database';
mysql_select_db($dbname) or die ('Selected database does not exist');
?>


The problem I am having is for some reason none of the include files are recognizing the function.  For example, the functions_mail.php file references the function to determine which emails to send (because the different environments have different modules and such installed).  I know this is something easy, but I can't seem to figure it out.  Thanks for any help!

Hello, Well let me explain my problem to you guys.

I am using a printf function with an array, a custom function which i got off php.net

Anyways, Everytime I use it, It seems to leave random numbers at the end of the string for no reason at all.

Here is the result in source:
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<td><a href="?page=download&name=DarkRP">DarkRP</a></td>
      <td>08:10:17 AM 07/08/2010</td>
      <td>Updated DarkRP from revision: 670 to revision: 67150</td>
      Array
(
    [Name] => DarkRP
    [TimeStamp] => 1281186617
    [Revision1] => 670
    [Revision2] => 671
)
    </tr>It is mean't to show Code: [Select]
Updated DarkRP from revision: 670 to revision 671but instead it has the random number 50 at the end for no reason...

Anyways heres the echoing code:

<?php
foreach($Logs as $Log){
$Time = TimeToDate($Log['TimeStamp']);
if($Log['Revision1']&$Log['Revision2']){
     $Message = 'Updated %1$s from revision: %3$s to revision: %4$d';
}else{
     $Message = 'Freshly downloaded: %1$s revision: %3$d';
}
?>
    <tr>
      <td><?php echo '<a href="?page=download&name='. $Log['Name'] .'">'. $Log['Name'] .'</a>'; ?></td>
      <td><?php echo $Time['Time'] .' '. $Time['Date']; ?></td>
      <td><?php echo printf_array($Message, $Log); ?></td>
      <?php print_r($Log); ?>
    </tr>
<?php
    }
?>
  </table>
  <br />

Functions:

function MySQLGetLogs(){
    global $Connection;
    if($Connection){
        $Query = sprintf('SELECT name, timestamp, revision1, revision2 FROM update_logs ORDER BY timestamp DESC;');
        if($Result = mysql_query($Query)){
            $Array = array();
            while($Row = mysql_fetch_array($Result)){
            $Array2 = array(array(
                                  'Name' => $Row['name'],
                                  'TimeStamp' => $Row['timestamp'],
                                  'Revision1' => $Row['revision1'],
                                  'Revision2' => $Row['revision2']
                                 )
                           );
                $Array = array_merge($Array, $Array2);
            }
            mysql_free_result($Result);
            return $Array;
        }
    }
}

function printf_array($Format, $Array) { 
    return call_user_func_array('printf', array_merge((array)$Format, $Array)); 
}

Also, I got the same issue with printf alone instead of the custom array function above.

Hey guys im having a real problem trying to make this string happend
the problem is passing parameters on the javascript function "onmouseover"


$map_array .= "<a href='map.php?planet=$address' 

onmouseover='ajax_popup
($picture,$detail_name,$stargate_address,$detail_owner,$time_conquered,$time_offset,$detail_siege,
$alliance)'>

<img src='images/star.jpg' style='position:absolute; left:".$b_x."px; top:".$b_y."px; border-style:solid;
border-color: yellow;'></a>";


if I try this it works
onmouseover='ajax_popup(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)'>

So the problem is when the variables equal words. Cause of the quote issue.

Is there like a way i should be using JSON to do what im trying to do? I have to keep this as a php string too. Or end as a php string

I have an XML document that id decrypted and shown onto a table. At the bottom of the page, I'm trying to have it count up one

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foreach($Data as $Types) // loop through book
foreach($Types as $Colors) // loop through book
{

print_r(count($Colors->Color));

}
There are 4 colors, blue, green, red, yellow.
Blue is listed 7 times, green is 3, red is 8, and yellow is 4 times.

What I expect it to print is:

7 3 8 4

Instead, it's printing this:

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

If I was to just do the print function without count, it lists like this:

blue red blue red green yellow blue red yellow red red green yellow yellow blue blue green blue yellow blue red red blue red


My end-goal of this code is to get it to print this:
Blue: 7
Green: 3
Red: 8
Yellow: 4

Hi Guys,
             Beginner needs help with accommodation search feature...i have two drop downs(area and type), each one has an 'any' option. I cant evalute the 'any' options directly against the database so have written this:

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<?php
                
                //query database
if ($_SESSION['type']== 'any' && $_SESSION['area']== 'any'){
    $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM hotels Order by RAND() ");
   
}
elseif ($_SESSION['area'] == 'any' && $_SESSION['type'] != 'any'){
    $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM hotels WHERE type = $_SESSION[type] Order by RAND()");
}
elseif ($_SESSION['type'] == 'any' && $_SESSION['area'] != 'any'){
    $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM hotels WHERE location =$_SESSION[area] Order by RAND()");
}

else{
    $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM hotels WHERE location ='$_SESSION[area]' AND type ='$_SESSION[type]' Order by RAND()");
}
    

//show results
while ($search_result = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) 
{
  echo '<b>'.$search_result[name] . '</b><br>';
  echo '<p><img src="'.$search_result['photo1'].'" /></p>';
  echo '<p><img src="'.$search_result['award'].'" /></p>';
  echo $search_result[description] . '<br><br>';
}?>
The first if and last else return the correct info from database but the middle two elseif's throw this error: Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given....
I have commented out the queries and replaced them with simple echoes and they all seem to evaluate correctly!. So im lost why $query isnt assigned in the middle two elseif's ??

Any ideas what im doing wrong and is there a better way.
Cheers!!

Ok guys first off I am a amateur porn star and having coding issues. I am on a web-server and personally have not issues when I test my contact page. However if anyone else test the site it never comes through? The code is broken into two php pages and I have just posted the second page for review. If anyone can shed light on this I would be greatly appreciated!! I do know there are some missing stuff in the verified section but that will not affect it going through the mail.....lol

   <h3 align="center"><?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
     
    // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
   $email_to = "info@elaysmith.com";
    $email_subject = "Pick 3 Special";
     
     
    function died($error) {
        // your error code can go here
        echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
        echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
        echo $error."<br /><br />";
        echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
        die();
    }
     
    // validation expected data exists
    if(!isset($_POST['email']) ||
        !isset($_POST['vid1']) ||
      !isset($_POST['vid2']) ||
        !isset($_POST['vid3'])) {
        died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');     
    }
     
    $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
    $vid1 = $_POST['vid1']; // required
    $vid2 = $_POST['vid2']; // required
    $vid3 = $_POST['vid3']; // required
     
    $error_message = "";
    $email_exp = "^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$";
  if(!eregi($email_exp,$email_from)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
    died($error_message);
  }
    $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
     
    function clean_string($string) {
      $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
      return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
    }
     
    $email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Video 1: $vid1 \n";
   $email_message .= "Video 2: $vid2 \n";
   $email_message .= "Video 3: $vid3 \n";
     
     
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
?>
   
  <!-- include your own success html here -->
   
    Thank you for using my pick 3 Special
   
  <?php

I have no idea what the problem is with preg_replace and strings smaller than 3 characters. I'm writing to do a pattern search of abreviations(array) and replacements (array)... tried word boundries, which seems not to work at all. (it is VITAL that im able to match the whole word)
here is a quick example which I cannot understand maybe someone could explain to me:
1. why repitions of certain abrevs do not get replaced.
2. why '/\bs.\b/' wont get matched (where there is a space before  the b. - hense the word boundry)

here is a snippet of code could someone please explain why this happens:

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<?php
  $string='de d. s. pres. div. de de d. s.';
 
//DEFINE PATTERN
$patterns = array();
$patterns[0] = '/ s. /';
$patterns[1] = '/ b. /';
$patterns[2] = '/ pres./';
$patterns[3] = '/ Ind./';
$patterns[4] = '/ Mar./';
$patterns[5] = '/ Agt./';  
$patterns[6] = '/ Agy./';  
$patterns[7] = '/ Indpls./';                            
$patterns[8] = '/ Chgo./';
$patterns[9] = '/ Corp./';
$patterns[10] = '/ U./';    
$patterns[11] = '/ Fin./';          
$patterns[12] = '/ ls./';   
$patterns[13] = '/ Pres. /';    
$patterns[14] = '/ Internat. /';   
$patterns[15] = '/ m. /';
$patterns[16] = '/ N.Y.C./';   
$patterns[17] = '/ div. /';   
$patterns[18] = '/ de /';  
$patterns[19] = '/ d. /';    


//DEFINE PATTERN REPLACE
$replacements = array();
$replacements[0] = ' son of ';
$replacements[1] = ' born in ';
$replacements[2] = ' president';
$replacements[3] = ' Indiana ';
$replacements[4] = ' March ';
$replacements[5] = ' Agent ';  
$replacements[6] = ' Agency ';  
$replacements[7] = ' Indianapolis ';                            
$replacements[8] = ' Chicago';
$replacements[9] = ' Corporation ';
$replacements[10] = ' U '; 
$replacements[11] = ' Financial ';       
$replacements[12] = ' Island';   
$replacements[13] = ' President '; 
$replacements[14] = ' International ';  
$replacements[15] = ' married to ';
$replacements[16] = ' New York City ';   
$replacements[17] = ' divorced';    
$replacements[18] = ' de '; 
$replacements[19] = ' daughter of ';    

 echo '------ Original ---------<br>'.$string.'<br>';
$data = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $string);
 echo '<br>------ Abbreviation Replace ---------<br>'.$data.'<br>';  
?>

OUTPUT: ------ Original ---------
de d. s. pres. div. de de d. s.

------ Abbreviation Replace ---------
de daughter of son of president divorcedde daughter of d. s.

any help is appriciated thanks.