php-general Digest 26 Nov 2004 15:42:47 -0000 Issue 3135
Topics (messages 202874 through 202898):
Odd Behaviour: DIE function
202874 by: Andre Dubuc
202875 by: Jon-Eirik Pettersen
remember me cookie
202876 by: Justin French
202877 by: John Nichel
Re: Getting static member for a class which name is stored in a variable
202878 by: Jake Press
202880 by: Greg Beaver
202883 by: Simas Toleikis
202898 by: Daniel Schierbeck
Re: intalling pear:db
202879 by: Greg Beaver
202881 by: Ryan King
Re: NH05 to 5, NH07 to 7
202882 by: Hidayet Dogan
202887 by: Ford, Mike
fedora core 3 mail() not working from web
202884 by: Minuk Choi
202888 by: Angelo Zanetti
Problem with recursion and FTP transfer
202885 by: kioto.slacky.it
202889 by: Raditha Dissanayake
test
202886 by: franco bevilacqua
Sending text file to users
202890 by: Rosen
rounding down
202891 by: Brad Ciszewski
202892 by: John Nichel
202893 by: David Bevan
202894 by: Marek Kilimajer
Script Name
202895 by: Jerry Swanson
202896 by: John Nichel
202897 by: Robert Cummings
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I've noticed some strange behaviour with respect to validation of user input.
Normally, using Linux, the die function in user input validation works as
expected. However, the same code in IE, the DIE function does not work as
expected.
I've noticed that fields, that should die and barf an error message, seem to
allow no input. Often, I notice that the user has entered a different
spelling as well. I'm puzzled by this (Furthermore, I wasn't aware the user
could change the contents of a dropdown select list [I cannot duplicate it in
Linux). Since one of the affected fields receives its input from an included
file (provcountry.dpn), perhaps this ius an IE issue??
provcountry.dpn
<td><b>Country </b></td>
<td><SELECT NAME=rcountry>
<option selected>Choose from List
<OPTION>USA
/* list of countries follows */
snippet code in validation page:
<?php
...
if ($_POST['rcountry'] == "Choose from List") die ("<h5><br><br>Please choose
your Country from the drop-down list<br><br><br>Click 'Back' on your
browser to enter this information</h5>");
...
?>
Any pointers of what I'm missing here would be appreciated.
Tia,
Andre
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Andre Dubuc wrote:
I've noticed some strange behaviour with respect to validation of user input.
Normally, using Linux, the die function in user input validation works as
expected. However, the same code in IE, the DIE function does not work as
expected.
I've noticed that fields, that should die and barf an error message, seem to
allow no input. Often, I notice that the user has entered a different
spelling as well. I'm puzzled by this (Furthermore, I wasn't aware the user
could change the contents of a dropdown select list [I cannot duplicate it in
Linux). Since one of the affected fields receives its input from an included
file (provcountry.dpn), perhaps this ius an IE issue??
provcountry.dpn
<td><b>Country </b></td>
<td><SELECT NAME=rcountry>
<option selected>Choose from List
<OPTION>USA
/* list of countries follows */
snippet code in validation page:
<?php
...
if ($_POST['rcountry'] == "Choose from List") die ("<h5><br><br>Please choose
your Country from the drop-down list<br><br><br>Click 'Back' on your
browser to enter this information</h5>");
...
?>
Any pointers of what I'm missing here would be appreciated.
Tia,
Andre
the <option>-element needs an ending-element. <option>value</option>
Some browsers may include a space at the end of the string.
I think this is the most "correct" syntax:
<option value="something">Text to show</option>
where "something" is what is sent as value when posting.
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I've done these plenty of times, but today i've decided to take a
serious look at how I do it, and do it the right way. My current
method is just to store the username and an md5 of the password in a
couple of cookies.
Is there anything else I should be doing, or an article I should be
reading, etc???
Shiflett??? :)
Thanks,
Justin
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Justin French wrote:
I've done these plenty of times, but today i've decided to take a
serious look at how I do it, and do it the right way. My current method
is just to store the username and an md5 of the password in a couple of
cookies.
Is there anything else I should be doing, or an article I should be
reading, etc???
Shiflett??? :)
I don't know if this is a better way, but I don't store the password
(encrypted or not) in the cookie. I store the userid and randomly
generated encrypted hash (that I also store in the db), along with the
timestamp. If a user comes back more than 24 hours after I set the
cookie, I regenerate the encrypted hash, and update the cookie and db.
I have a custom function I use for this...nothing special, but...
function encryptCookieAccess() {
global $config;
$enc = base64_encode ( $config['security']['randomWord'] );
$enc = crypt ( $enc, $config['security']['cryptSalt'] );
$enc = md5 ( $enc );
return $enc;
}
The random word is set in the 'config' array from a list of about 1000
words and phrases, each time a page is loaded.
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Hi Francisco,
Your not alone, a number of other users have enountered this bug.
:(
I have submitted a bug report, here: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30716
It would be appreciated if you show your support for this bug by
commenting/voting etc :)
I also have a `thread` on the php.generals mailing list you may want to
read, here: http://news.php.net/php.general/201458
Just quickly here is a dodgy workaround to get you moving
echo eval('return '. $ClassName .'::$Data;');
:)
Best Regards
Jake Press
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Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso wrote:
I've code like follows:
<?php
class TestClass {
public static $Data = 'This is the data';
}
$Obj = new TestClass ();
$ClassName = get_class ($Obj);
echo $ClassName::$Data;
?>
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.reflection.php
<?php
class TestClass {
public static $Data = 'This is the data';
}
$obj = new TestClass;
$a = new ReflectionClass('TestClass');
echo $a->getProperty('Data')->getValue($obj);
?>
in PHP 5.1 this should work
<?php
class TestClass {
public static $Data = 'This is the data';
}
$a = new ReflectionClass('TestClass');
echo $a->getProperty('Data')->getValue(null);
?>
Greg
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Jake Press wrote:
Hi Francisco,
Your not alone, a number of other users have enountered this bug.
string get_class ( object obj )
Its not a bug...
You are getting class name as a string for output purposes etc..
Doing something like "TestClass"::some_static is ofcourse illegal wih
strings.
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Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
public static function getData ()
Ooops, the method shouldn't have been static :)
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Merlin wrote:
that did not help. The pear manual says that this can be installed via
command line, plus "pear list" tells me that the package is installed.
However if I call phpinfo() there is no mentioning about pear in any
way?!
Do I have to enable it first anyhow?`
I assume you have very little PHP experience, so I'll try not to skip
any steps.
Forget pear for now.
in PHP, if you have this file:
<?php
include_once 'blah.php';
?>
then php.exe (on windows) or /usr/bin/php (in unix - path may vary) will
read a special configuration variable called "include_path" that looks
something like this:
.;C:\php4
in windows or
.:/usr/local/lib/php
in unix
PHP will pretend your script is:
<?php
include_once './blah.php';
?>
and if ./blah.php does not exist, it will try
<?php
include_once '/usr/local/lib/php/blah.php';
?>
See? So, if blah.php is actually located in /usr/lib/php/blah.php, php
will not find it and cause an error. So, you have to change the
include_path
<?php
set_include_path('/usr/lib/php' . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path());
include_once 'blah.php';
?>
PEAR only installs files, it does not change include_path because this
is impossible to do automatically. What you need to do is find the
location of DB.php, and make sure the absolute path that leads to DB.php
is in your include_path (/usr/local/lib/php/DB.php, perhaps, or
C:\php4\pear\DB.php)
Having said this, the error you are experiencing sounds like a bug in
the code. There are two possibilities
1) there is a file named "DB.php" located in the "." directory, that is
being included *before* pear's db would be included
2) there is an ancient version of DB.php that is being included before
pear's DB.php
the get_included_files() function can help you lots on this one
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.get-included-files.php
Greg
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On Nov 25, 2004, at 1:56 AM, Merlin wrote:
Hi,
that did not help. The pear manual says that this can be installed via
command line, plus "pear list" tells me that the package is installed.
However if I call phpinfo() there is no mentioning about pear in any
way?! Do I have to enable it first anyhow?`
How about trying a var_dump() on your DB object? For me, this is always
the first step in trying to solve a mystery like this. Chances are,
your DB object is really a PEAR_Error object because your failed to
connect to your database.
-ryan
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echo str_replace("NH", "", "NH13");
Hidayet Dogan
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On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Wiberg wrote:
> hi there!
>
> i guess you know a simple solution to convert the string
>
> NH01 into 1
> NH02 into 2
> ..
> ...
> NH13 into 13
>
> and so on
>
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On 25 November 2004 22:11, Wiberg wrote:
> i guess you know a simple solution to convert the string
>
> NH01 into 1
I can think of several.
Oh, you want one? How about:
$x = "NH01";
$n = (int)substr($x, 2);
Cheers!
Mike
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hey gang,
I have a fedora core 3, with standard PHP and MySQL included with the
distribution.
I'm having a rather odd problem.
the following script(mailTest.php)
<?PHP
$result = mail('[EMAIL PROTECTED]', 'test subject', 'test message');
if (!$result)
echo "FAILURE";
else
echo "SUCCESS";
?>
does NOT work if I access it from the web
BUT
if I were to execute it as root on the Command prompt
php mailTest.php
It executes correctly and I get mail.
This feels like the apache user is lacking access over sendmail or something...
since as root I can execute the script from the CLI without a problem, but from
the web, I get a failure.
Can anyone shed a light as to what settings I need to tweak PHP so mail() can
work?
Thanks
-Minuk
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Hi,
It could have something to do with your PHP.ini file??
Can you post the error message, as it will give us a better idea of
what could be wrong.
Angelo
>>> "Minuk Choi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/26/2004 10:31:59 AM >>>
hey gang,
I have a fedora core 3, with standard PHP and MySQL included with the
distribution.
I'm having a rather odd problem.
the following script(mailTest.php)
<?PHP
$result = mail('[EMAIL PROTECTED]', 'test subject', 'test message');
if (!$result)
echo "FAILURE";
else
echo "SUCCESS";
?>
does NOT work if I access it from the web
BUT
if I were to execute it as root on the Command prompt
php mailTest.php
It executes correctly and I get mail.
This feels like the apache user is lacking access over sendmail or
something... since as root I can execute the script from the CLI without
a problem, but from the web, I get a failure.
Can anyone shed a light as to what settings I need to tweak PHP so
mail() can work?
Thanks
-Minuk
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Hi all
I have create a script for FTP function.
When i have testing the script with little file and directory it's ok
The script read data in all folder with recursive function and the same
path of data
like C:\backup\folder1\file.txt is the same on remolte folder
/httpdcos/folder1/file.txt
The problem is that when i testing the script with MB of files
the recursion is much more speed of transfer of a single file and a
file is copied to a path that is not the same of local folder.
How to fix the problem ?
Sorry for my bad language
<?php
#Mode transfer data
$mode = FTP_ASCII;
#The base path of remote directory
$remote_folder = "/httpdocs";
#Include data for the connection to the FTP server
include_once("./config.php");
function ftp_connection() {
global $user, $pasw, $ftp_server;
$conn = @ftp_connect($ftp_server);
$login = @ftp_login($conn, $user, $pasw);
if((!$conn)||(!$login)) {
die("Cannot open connect with $ftp_server\n");
}
else {
return $conn;
}
}
$conn = ftp_connection();
if(!(@ftp_chdir($conn, $remote_folder)))
die("Cannot to change data folder\n");
function recursive_dir($dir){
#Get ID connect ftp_mode and
global $mode, $conn, $remote_folder;
#Open resource to read data
if (!($handle = @opendir($dir)))
die("Cannot open datadir\n");
#Read data from local folder $default_dir
while(false !==($item = @readdir($handle))){
if (is_dir($dir."/".$item)) {
#Erase al "." and ".." to content of $item
if ($item != "." && $item != ".."){
#Make directory on remote Server
if (!(@ftp_mkdir($conn, $item)))
die("Cannot possible mkdir $item\n");
#Get current directory for current session
$pwd = @ftp_pwd($conn);
if(!$pwd) die("Cannot get current Work Directory\n");
if(!(@ftp_chdir($conn, $pwd."/".$item)))
die("Cannot change
directory:".$pwd."/".$item."\n");
#Call recursive dir to
recursive_dir($dir."/".$item);
if(!(@ftp_chdir($conn, $remote_folder)))
die("Cannot change directory to
$remote_folder");
}
}//End for first check of $item: if is_dir($item)
else {
$fp = @fopen($dir."/".$item, "r");
$pwd = @ftp_pwd($conn);
//echo $pwd."\n";
if(@ftp_fput($conn, $item, $fp, $mode)){
//$count++;
//print $dir."\\".$item."\n";
}//End for if uploaded file
fclose($fp);
}
}//End for else
closedir($handle);
}//End for recursive function
#Called to recursive function
recursive_dir($default_dir);
#Close the connect to FTP Data
ftp_close($conn);
?>
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
I have create a script for FTP function.
When i have testing the script with little file and directory it's ok
The script read data in all folder with recursive function and the
same path of data
like C:\backup\folder1\file.txt is the same on remolte folder
/httpdcos/folder1/file.txt
The problem is that when i testing the script with MB of files
the recursion is much more speed of transfer of a single file and a
file is copied to a path that is not the same of local folder.
How to fix the problem ?
Sorry for my bad language
Though i don't generally bother with long code samples i decided to make
an excemption:
i believe calling @ftp_chdir($conn, $remote_folder) in your recursive
function is wrong instead you should do a CDUP (call the corresponding
function for that).
btw: get rid of the @ symbols and configure your php.ini so that all
errors are written to the log file, you will then find it a lot easier
to debug.
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éàélàél
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Hi,
How can I send 3 text files to user generated from PHP script?
Should I must to generate them first and then to send them to user?
Is there a way to send 3 text files to user in just one PHP script ?
Thanks in advance !
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hi everyone, i am looking for a snipplet to round down a number. i was
wondering if you could put a negative number in the round() statement to do
this, i want it to round down even if its at something.9, as long as its not a
whole number, if needs to be rounded down. can anyone help me?
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Brad Ciszewski wrote:
hi everyone, i am looking for a snipplet to round down a number. i was wondering if you could put a negative number in the round() statement to do this, i want it to round down even if its at something.9, as long as its not a whole number, if needs to be rounded down. can anyone help me?
http://us4.php.net/floor
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On November 26, 2004 08:58, Brad Ciszewski wrote:
> hi everyone, i am looking for a snipplet to round down a number. i was
> wondering if you could put a negative number in the round() statement to do
> this, i want it to round down even if its at something.9, as long as its
> not a whole number, if needs to be rounded down. can anyone help me?
Searching on the php.net site in the manual is/can be your friend.
You want the floor() function.
Take a look at:
http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.floor.php
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Brad Ciszewski wrote:
hi everyone, i am looking for a snipplet to round down a number. i was wondering if you could put a negative number in the round() statement to do this, i want it to round down even if its at something.9, as long as its not a whole number, if needs to be rounded down. can anyone help me?
floor()
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What variable(parameter) in PHP stores file name?
TH
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Jerry Swanson wrote:
What variable(parameter) in PHP stores file name?
TH
Stores what filename? The name of the file being executed?
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']
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On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 09:46, John Nichel wrote:
> Jerry Swanson wrote:
> > What variable(parameter) in PHP stores file name?
> >
> > TH
>
> Stores what filename? The name of the file being executed?
>
> $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']
Or if you want the name of the file included or whatnot...
__FILE__
Cheers,
Rob.
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