php-general Digest 27 Nov 2004 04:11:23 -0000 Issue 3136
Topics (messages 202899 through 202927):
Re: Read PDF files with Php
202899 by: Jacob Friis
202902 by: Brad Ciszewski
Installing PHP5 on Red Hat
202900 by: Sandy Keathley
Running PHP as CGI
202901 by: Tim Traver
202922 by: Curt Zirzow
automatic responder
202903 by: Alessandro Rosa
202910 by: Manuel Lemos
202920 by: Curt Zirzow
202923 by: Matthew Weier O'Phinney
202925 by: Michael Sims
proxy - detect
202904 by: Brad Ciszewski
202905 by: Jason Wong
202908 by: Rens Admiraal
Passing Parameters
202906 by: David Blackburn
mysql_connect vs mysql_pconnect
202907 by: fabien champel
202926 by: Robby Russell
unlink images
202909 by: Julian
202911 by: Vail, Warren
202912 by: Mike
202913 by: Jason Wong
PHP arrays and javascript
202914 by: Nick Peters
202917 by: Pablo Gosse
202919 by: Marek Kilimajer
Re: remember me cookie
202915 by: Curt Zirzow
Re: fedora core 3 mail() not working from web
202916 by: Curt Zirzow
Re: Script Name
202918 by: Jerry Swanson
Re: help with html through php
202921 by: Curt Zirzow
Go Back Problem
202924 by: Cyrus
Reg Jpgraph...
202927 by: Sagar C Nannapaneni
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Do I need PDFlib in order to read PDF files?
Is there another way?
> There is a nifty tutorial on this subject over at zends.com
Can I read PDF files with that?
Thanks,
Jacob
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i am not sure if this uses PDFlib but, this is a wonderful script which
helps create a PDF file. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf-php/
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From: "Jacob Friis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Christopher Way" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Read PDF files with Php
> >> Do I need PDFlib in order to read PDF files?
> >> Is there another way?
> > There is a nifty tutorial on this subject over at zends.com
>
> Can I read PDF files with that?
>
> Thanks,
> Jacob
>
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Has anyone come across this problem?
PHP5 on Red Hat Linux (Enterprise version)
Can't locate API module structure `php5_module' in file
/usr/local/lib/libphp5.so: /usr/lib/libapr-0.so.0: undefined symbol:
php5_module
Thanks.
Sandy Keathley
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Hi all,
In the quest to secure php script running, I am starting to think about
running php as a cgi instead of through the module.
I generally set the open_basedir directory within the apache
configuration file for individual hosts. If I ran php as a CGI, would
that directive still be in effect ? or do I have to set that in a
php.ini file that is specific for that virtual host ?
Thanks,
Tim.
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* Thus wrote Tim Traver:
> Hi all,
>
> In the quest to secure php script running, I am starting to think about
> running php as a cgi instead of through the module.
>
> I generally set the open_basedir directory within the apache
> configuration file for individual hosts. If I ran php as a CGI, would
> that directive still be in effect ? or do I have to set that in a
> php.ini file that is specific for that virtual host ?
The directive will be effectve for which ever apache's <Directory>
direcve applies, other wise the setting to the default directory
will be used.
php in general, has no clue about virtual hosts. This is rather a
appache issue.
Curt
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How about coding an automatic responder via PHP ?
Alessandro Rosa
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Hello,
On 11/26/2004 03:58 PM, Alessandro Rosa wrote:
How about coding an automatic responder via PHP ?
The most portable solution is to have a POP3 mailbox associated with the
e-mail address to which the messages are received and use a POP3
client to access and process the message replying to it if that is the case.
You may want to try this POP3 client class to do that.
http://www.phpclasses.org/pop3class
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* Thus wrote Manuel Lemos:
> Hello,
>
> On 11/26/2004 03:58 PM, Alessandro Rosa wrote:
> >How about coding an automatic responder via PHP ?
>
> The most portable solution is to have a POP3 mailbox associated with the
> e-mail address to which the messages are received and use a POP3
> client to access and process the message replying to it if that is the case.
>
> You may want to try this POP3 client class to do that.
/me ponders how pop3 has to dow with auto respoders
/me then thinks spam.
Curt
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* Manuel Lemos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello,
>
> On 11/26/2004 03:58 PM, Alessandro Rosa wrote:
> > How about coding an automatic responder via PHP ?
>
> The most portable solution is to have a POP3 mailbox associated with
> the e-mail address to which the messages are received and use a POP3
> client to access and process the message replying to it if that is the
> case.
or IMAP... or use something like procmail or maildrop to pipe an
incoming message to a PHP script that then processes and responds to it
(my preferred method).
> You may want to try this POP3 client class to do that.
Or use PEAR's NET::POP3 classes, or mysql's native imap classes ( which
cover much more than IMAP).
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Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> * Manuel Lemos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> On 11/26/2004 03:58 PM, Alessandro Rosa wrote:
>>> How about coding an automatic responder via PHP ?
>>
>> The most portable solution is to have a POP3 mailbox associated with
>> the e-mail address to which the messages are received and use a POP3
>> client to access and process the message replying to it if that is
>> the case.
>
> or IMAP... or use something like procmail or maildrop to pipe an
> incoming message to a PHP script that then processes and responds to
> it (my preferred method).
Or if using sendmail alias an address to a php script:
username: "|/usr/local/bin/your_script.php"
I'm sure other MTA's support this as well...
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does anyone know the function to get the IP address before the proxy-IP?
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On Saturday 27 November 2004 02:10, Brad Ciszewski wrote:
> does anyone know the function to get the IP address before the proxy-IP?
print_r($_SERVER)
If it's there it's there. If not change proxy(!)
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Is only possible with proxy servers which support it (transparant
proxy's)... otherwise it won't work...
Brad Ciszewski wrote:
does anyone know the function to get the IP address before the proxy-IP?
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Hi
I used to pass parameters to my scripts like this
shell>php myscript.php "dog=max&cat=jess"
Since I have upgraded to PHP5 I dont seem to have this functionality
any more, has anyone else noticed this ? or know of a way to get this
working again ?
Thanks
Dave
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hello,
I do not know when I must use mysql_pconnect instead of the mysql_connect :(
what are the real advantages of persistent connections, please ?
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On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 19:55 +0100, fabien champel wrote:
> hello,
> I do not know when I must use mysql_pconnect instead of the mysql_connect :(
>
> what are the real advantages of persistent connections, please ?
>
http://www.google.com/search?q=advantages+of+persistent+connection
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Hello,
I would like to delete a set of images right after they are displayed on the
page using unlink. Unfortunately, with unlink the images are deleted before
they display on the user's browser. Is there a way to do this?
Thank you!
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PHP has wonderful capabilities to generate images on the fly, such that they
are never stored on disk, perhaps you should look into that as an option,
you could even make the code decide who should be able to see the image and
who should not.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php
Warren Vail
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> From: Julian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 11:14 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] unlink images
>
>
> Hello,
> I would like to delete a set of images right after they are
> displayed on the
> page using unlink. Unfortunately, with unlink the images are
> deleted before
> they display on the user's browser. Is there a way to do this?
>
> Thank you!
>
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What you may want to try doing is when the script is ran, it goes through a
"clean-up" function and deletes everything that it doesn't need for the
current execution.
Though, realize that if two people hit a page within a few seconds, you may
end up deleting some images that the first user is trying to get rid of.
You'll have to judge the traffic for yourself and figure out if this is a
viable option.
Other solutions that I can think of is after the page is ran you update a
text file with the names of the images that are to get deleted and just run
a cronjob to read this file and delete the files in there. Similarly, you
could add the names to a db table with a timestamp and delete all files that
are older than a particular time.
Many options, but you have to figure out what works best for you.
-M
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 2:14 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] unlink images
>
> Hello,
> I would like to delete a set of images right after they are
> displayed on the page using unlink. Unfortunately, with
> unlink the images are deleted before they display on the
> user's browser. Is there a way to do this?
>
> Thank you!
>
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On Saturday 27 November 2004 03:13, Julian wrote:
> I would like to delete a set of images right after they are displayed on
> the page using unlink.
I'm curious to know why you want this.
> Unfortunately, with unlink the images are deleted
> before they display on the user's browser. Is there a way to do this?
Channel your image requests to a php script that:
fopen()
fpassthru()
unlink()
Haven't tried it, but in theory it looks like it should work.
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Hey,
i know this probally a simple question, but it has been stumping me for
quite some time now. How do i pass a php array to a javascript?
i tryed:
<script language="javascript">
var myarray = new Array(<?PHP echo $myarray; ?>);
</script>
but it didn't work. Anybody got any ideas?
thanks in advance.
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i know this probally a simple question, but it has been stumping me for
quite some time now. How do i pass a php array to a javascript?
i tryed:
<script language="javascript">
var myarray = new Array(<?PHP echo $myarray; ?>);
</script>
but it didn't work. Anybody got any ideas?
</snip>
You need to generate the javascript array from your PHP array.
Example:
In your script create a php array of the values you wish to use. Using
indeces is not essential. If you do not use them, you can just use a
counter var when you loop through the array to create the indeces for
the JS array.
<?php
$arrayVar = array('first index'=>'item 1', 'second index'=>'item 2',
'third index'=>'item 3');
$jsVar = "var myArray = new Array();\n";
foreach ($arrayVar as $idx=>$val) {
$jsVar .= "myArray['{$idx}'] = {$val}\n";
}
?>
The final output of this will be:
var myArray = new Array();
myArray['first index'] = 'item 1';
myArray['second index'] = 'item 2';
myArray['third index'] = 'item 3';
HTH,
Pablo
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Nick Peters wrote:
Hey,
i know this probally a simple question, but it has been stumping me for
quite some time now. How do i pass a php array to a javascript?
i tryed:
<script language="javascript">
var myarray = new Array(<?PHP echo $myarray; ?>);
</script>
but it didn't work. Anybody got any ideas?
thanks in advance.
For integers and floats:
var myarray = new Array(<?PHP echo implode(', ', $myarray); ?>);
For strings:
var myarray = new Array(<?PHP echo '"'. implode('", "', $myarray) .'"'; ?>);
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* Thus wrote Justin French:
> 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.
I'd avoid storing username and expecially any sort of password
(even md5 hashed). If your athentication uses those values to
validate the user, and those values are accessable, your security
is very low.
If you have a basic authentication system that once the user logs
in you establish some sort of session var that flags the user as
authenticated. I would simply stick with that model, and just
adjust the time that that session is valid.
By default, php only keeps a session that will last for some value
of in-active minutes or until the user closes the browser. All you
need to do is set the ini setting session.cookie_lifetime to a
value (in seconds) for how long you want to remember this session.
I've never tested the above but in theory the idea is to retain the
session until a certain time, if that time has passed forget the
session and start a new one, forcing a new login.
I would avoid supplying a 'remember me' option excpecially if the
information that your application provides is sensitive data.
>
> Is there anything else I should be doing, or an article I should be
> reading, etc???
>
> Shiflett??? :)
Hopefully he's on a plane to northern california for a good talk I can
attend.
Curt
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* Thus wrote Minuk Choi:
> 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.
You're probably on the right track with this.
Check your php.ini settings for sendmail_path.
Also.. the default setting for sendmail_path is 'sendmail -t -i' so
if sendmail isn't in the path for your webuser then it wont get
executed. To fix this, specifiy in you php.ini with the
sendmail_path the absolute sendmail executable. ie:
sendmail_path = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i"
HTH,
Curt
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I meant, file that are being executed.
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:46:05 -0500, John Nichel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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']
>
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* Thus wrote Todd Alexander:
> Hello all,
> I am a complete newbie to php so apologies for what I'm sure is a
> simple/dumb question. I want to use php to include another html doc in
> an existing set of documents. In other words "123.html" will use php to
> call on "abc.html" so I can make changes to abc.html and have it update
> on all my pages.
I'm not sure what your asking. But by default .html files will
*not* get parsed by php, unless you modifyy how your webserver
treats .html files
Curt
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Dear All,
I have a problem of back to the previous page in php.....
I need to create a form let people to fill in .It can let user to preview the
form, if information is not correct , user can back to previous page and
correct it,
I have used the javascript : OnClick='history.go(-1)' and
OnClick='history.back()' in php , but it can not works....pls help me.
Thanks and Regards,
Cyrus Chan
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Hi all,
I think I shouldnt post this here...but i didnt find proper support at the
jpgraph
forums.
I'm using PHP 4.3.9 with GDK precompiled on apache2 using win2k.
When i open any of the jpgraph example files its giving me an error saying
"IE cannot find the site your are requesting". But when i remove some code
in the example file and refresh the page its working and when i put the deleted
code again back in that file and refresh its displaying the graph. When i close
and open a fresh browser the same problem persisting. Couldnt find what might
be the problem.
Again ...i'm sorry for posting this topic here...
/sagar
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