Re: [PHP] PHP Hosting Services

2002-01-31 Thread Les Neste

I've been happy with phpwebhosting.com

At 09:36 AM 1/31/02 -0500, Mike Baranski wrote:
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Hello, just wondering if anyone here could recommend a good (free, if there 
is a good one) PHP/mysql Hosting service.  I'm willing to pay some, but not 
more than 15 /month

Thanks

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Re: [PHP] Content Management

2002-01-30 Thread Les Neste

When I think content management, I think of:

-- separates content from presentation -- ie supports templates with which
a content item can be rendered
-- allows specification of language (ie French German English whatever)
with which content is presented
-- provides handy tools for managing content, ie, spell checking, broken
link checking, query index / search contents, etc
-- supports archiving, versioning and releasing (aka publishing)

Famous commercials content management apps are Vignette, Interwoven,
MediaBin etc.  A search on freshmeat shows several -- I'm familiar with but
have not used the Ars Digita Community / Content Management System.


At 03:39 PM 1/30/02 -0400, Miles Thompson wrote:

What do you mean by the term content management? It is a little 
ambiguous, do you mean something like a wiki? Large is a bit unquantified 
as well. Like the time I went to the bank and my wife asked be to bring her 
some money. She was a bit surprise to be handed three bucks; subsequent 
requests were more specific.

Cheers - Miles


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Does anyone know of an organization who has built and is maintaining a web
content management app for a large site using PHP?

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Re: [PHP] PHP Menu.

2001-06-28 Thread Les Neste

Here's some code to include in your HTML to create the popups.

html
head

SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT

!-- Hide from older browsers which ignore script tag
-- they'll interpret this as comment.
// Javascript-enabled browsers will ignore HTML-style
comments within script and see script statements

function open_popup( page, h, w, s ){
window.new_win = window.open( page, popupname,
height=+h+,width=+w+,scrollbars=+s+,menubar=0,resizable=1 );
}
// end hiding here --


/SCRIPT

/head
body

a href='javascript:open_popup(d-t1.jpg, 400, 630, 1 );'FIA
Guide/a

/body
/html


At 09:50 PM 6/27/2001 -0300, Miles Thompson wrote:

PHP is a server side language, Javascript is better for this.
Miles Thompson

At 03:03 PM 6/27/01 +0200, Deon Heunis wrote:
Hi,

I would like to know if it is possible to make a pop-out navigation menu 
with PHP.

Regards,

Deon Heunis
Hetzner Africa
PO Box 3450
Durbanville 7551
South Africa
Tel: +27 21 975 7930
Fax: +27 21 975 9731
Internet: http://www.hetzner.co.zahttp://www.hetzner.co.za



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Re: [PHP] Templates??

2001-06-19 Thread Les Neste

The template defines the look and feel for a class of pages.  The advantage
is in allowing you to change one file -- the template file -- and have your
changes be reflected in all the individual pages that use the template
WITHOUT having to individually edit all of those pages.  

For smaller sites, this may not be a big deal, but, for sites with
thousands of pages, you clearly want to avoid hand-edits if at all possible.

I'm personally reworking my online portfolio, and I'm now using templates
so I can present a different look and feel to suit different potential
clients.

FYI, at the last ThunderLizard web design conference, a presenter speaking
about content management tools said that most sites only need 6 or so
templates ... that there are usually only 6 categories of pages.



At 05:48 PM 6/18/2001 -0700, Daniel Guerrier wrote:
What the true advantage of using templates and where
can I get info on using them?

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Re: [PHP] HTML and PHP?

2001-04-14 Thread Les Neste

I think the echo approach is pretty handy if you want a subroutine to spit
out a common chunk of HTML which is less than an entire page.  And the
here-doc marker lets you just paste existing HTML in place without having
to escape all the quotation marks.  To me, this is a Good Thing.

At 01:56 PM 4/14/2001 -0400, Brian Clark wrote:
Hi Steve,

@ 11:34:26 PM on 4/13/2001, Steve Werby wrote:

...
 ?
 echo STOP

 html
 Yes, echo can use here-docs!  Is it really that *hard* to take 1 minute to
 test for yourself? ;-)
 And you can use whatever marker (the 'STOP' above and below) you choose.
 Just make sure you don't indent the closing marker or the parser will miss
 it!
 /html

 STOP;
?

Why even bother? Why not just do this?

?

html
  Boo
/html

?php

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RE: [PHP] PHP without a webserver

2001-04-14 Thread Les Neste

Can anybody comment on PHPTriad?  This appears to be PHP+MySQL+Apache for
the Windows desktop.  

At 07:51 PM 4/14/2001 +0200, Jeroen Wesbeek wrote:
well actually you could compile php4
on it's own so you get a php executable which
you can use as an interpreter for php4 scripts...
no webserver needed


dowebwedo
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.programming
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The Netherlands
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From: Brian Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: zaterdag 14 april 2001 19:53
To: PHP is not a drug.
Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP without a webserver


Hi Plutarck,

@ 11:37:09 AM on 4/14/2001, Plutarck wrote:

 I've heard much about how PHP is far more than just a language for
 web programming, and I agree. I agree enough that I would like to
 actually try it. I'd like to use PHP scripting in a C/C++ program
 that doesn't need a webserver as an intermediary.

It doesn't. You don't have to have a web server installed in order to
use PHP.

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Re: [PHP] HTML and PHP?

2001-04-13 Thread Les Neste

Cool.  Does that work with echo too, do you know?

At 06:19 PM 4/13/2001 -0700, DanO wrote:
try this:

?
print EOP

html
jldsfajlf;dsajfl;dkfl;dsa
/html

EOP;
?

AFAIK it is the easiest way to do multi-line printing!

DanO


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9b868e$2ca$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:9b868e$2ca$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
 Is there a utility that I can use that will take a bunch of HTML and
 encapsulate it in the PRINT command?

 i.e.

 PRINT("{html stuff}\n");

 ??

 I have a ton of HTML pages that I want to make dynamic, but dread having
to
 type the PRINT command in front of every line of html, and let alone
having
 at manually add the slashes... urg.

 Thanks.
 Jason
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RE: [PHP] Sorry - Way OT but I need help

2001-04-09 Thread Les Neste

Check out my site, I just did the same thing.

http://www.lesneste.com

I used to have a bunch of personal info out there for the world to see, but
I decided it was invitation to identity theft so I put it behind a
password.  Now, to get access, you have to reveal an email address to which
your password will be mailed, which I think is a reasonable tradeoff.

I decided I wanted to stay with HTML files as much as possible so I could
develop most of my pages on my local hard drive without an HTTP server in
the loop.  This mandated no sessions, just .htaccess.  I use one PHP page
that lets users request their password.

I found something bizarre (unexpected in a way that makes no sense to me)
with Apache ErrorDocuments, namely, that you can specify an ErrorDocument
in another directory besides the one containing the file that generated the
error, and that ErrorDocument will be loaded, but all relative URLs within
that page will be resolved relative to the original directory (the one
containing the .htaccess file).  My solution to this was to use absolute
URLs instead of relative in the ErrorDocument for things like specifying
IMGs.  I don't like using absolute URLs, but it worked.

Here's the .htaccess that gets the job done.  Notice I care about a 401
(authorization) and not 404.

=

AuthUserFile /yourpathhere/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Personal"
AuthType Basic
ErrorDocument 401 /requestpwd.php?func=introsecn=photos

Limit GET POST
require valid-user
/Limit

===

Hope that helps.

At 01:57 PM 4/9/2001 -0500, Boget, Chris wrote:
 I know this has nowt to do with PHP so I'll keep it as short 
 as possible.
 My problem is, I'd like to get 404 error redirecting to work 
 in IE under Apache. I've set the ErrorDocument in apache.conf 
 and in .htaccess. It works in Netscape et al but not in IE.
 IE seems to be issuing it's own error page. I know there must 
 be a config somewhere other than the client side "Show friendly 
 error messages", but can't seem to find it. I have RTFM and 
 scanned the Web but still not found it. Hope you can help.
 Once again I apologize for being Off Topic.

Does someone have an example of how to do this within .htaccess?
I've tried everything and all I ever get is an Internal Server Error
when the .htaccess file is in place... :/

Chris


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Re: [PHP] Safety with PHP.

2001-04-03 Thread Les Neste

Marthe, if you post the script we can all get to the bottom of this pretty
quickly.  You have a lot of expertise here ready to help.  Just copy and
paste it into your email.

BTW, you should remove it from your site before you post it, if at all
possible.

Good luck.





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[PHP] ctype_alpha etc

2001-04-03 Thread Les Neste

Hi, I'm using PHP4.04pl1 as an Apache module.  I just wrote some code which
calls ctype_alpha() and got the message 

Fatal error: 
Call to undefined function: ctype_alpha() in
/usr/local/lesneste/requestpwd.php on line 80

Is this function truly non-existent or is there some compile-time setting I
need to enable to include these functions in the build?  Here's my
phpinfo().  Thanks in advance.

System
 Linux tsunami 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 20:53:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
Build Date
 Mar 8 2001
Configure
Command
 './configure'

'--with-apache=/usr/local/samba/shared/preinstall/Apachetoolbox-1.5.13a/apac
he_1.3.19'
 '--enable-exif' '--enable-memory-limit=yes' '--enable-track-vars'
'--with-calendar=shared'
 '--enable-safe-mode' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-trans-sid'
'--enable-wddx'
 '--enable-ftp' '--with-mcrypt' '--with-mhash' '--with-mysql=/usr'
'--with-pgsql'



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Re: [PHP] Sneaky solution

2001-04-03 Thread Les Neste

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it possible to fake the referrer?  

This may not matter for your application -- are you writing a financial app
or a personal portfolio? -- but if you really need to authenticate the
source of data that comes from some other IP address (as is the case with a
web browser) then you're into PGP keys and signed certificates.


At 11:18 PM 4/3/2001 -0700, Dallas K. wrote:
If you want to check where your submit is comming from, then you need to
check the REFERER url. do so by useing the global $HTTP_REFERER
variable.


global $HTTP_REFERER;

if($HTTP_REFERER == "YOUR_FORM_PAGE_HERE")
{
//PROCESS CODE.
}
else
{
echo"Your a hacker, so BITE ME!!!";
}




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From: "Plutarck" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 7:58 PM
Subject: [PHP] Sneaky solution


  How do you check to make sure that any
  form submissions originate from your site?

 You basically can't.

 ...well that was easy ;)


 All you can do is assume that every single piece of data sent from the
 client is an attempt to screw up your application. After stripping
non-valid
 characters and using strlen to ensure the data is of a valid size, there
 isn't much you can do. But if you know ahead of time that the date should
 _NOT_ be 1998, just encode such a validator.


 But if you want to be really sneaky, make something like this:

 value1=vally|val2=vooly

 Then run it through some encryption feature or a home-brewed scrambler,
and
 make the whole thing one single "hidden" value.

 In your script you decode it, split it apart into proper variables, and
 continue along as normal.


 Still not fool proof, but I use it when I have no other better method. And
 it basically thwarts 99% of casual tinkerers, and an equal amount of
script
 kiddies, and it allows you to be really creative in your data validation,
 plus you can screw with people's heads...which of course is the most
 important function ;)



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 ...but forgot what it was.



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[PHP] sanity check please

2001-03-30 Thread Les Neste

Hi,

I have a question about security with PHP.  I'm building a site with PHP
and some of the scripts connect to MySQL.  All someone needs to do to get
my MySQL passwords is view the PHP source, right?  And the recommended
approach around this is to use Zend, right?

Please correct me if I'm off base here.  TIA!






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[PHP] PHP and .htaccess

2001-03-29 Thread Les Neste

Hi all,

We're all familiar with the skanky little box the web browser pops up to
get your username/password in response to a 401 from the web server.  What
I want is the same functionality, except through a login web page instead.

I know how cookie-based or session-based logging in works with PHP, but I
would actually prefer (since it's more general) an HTML-only solution if
there is one.  Or maybe there's something I can do to configure the server
(Apache) to redirect to a login page if a 401 is generated.  

Anyt thoughts?  Help would be much appreciated.




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[PHP] Installation on RH6.2: help!

2001-03-06 Thread Les Neste

Hi all,

I'm in the process of my first installation of PHP and running into a
problem.  Any experts, feel free to chime in with your knowledge.

After I unzip it, I run the configure script.  Here's the command line I
use and the error I get:

./configure --with-mysql=/var/lib/mysql --with-apxs
... lots of output ...
Checking for MySQL support: yes
configure: error: Cannot find header files under /var/lib/mysql

I've tried lots of different directories, none of which seem to work.
Which header files is it looking for?

BTW, I'm attempting to install php 4.0.4 pl1, as an apache module (rather
than statically linked with apache).  I've already installed MySQL 3.22 and
it appears to have been successfully installed.

Any help much appreciated.


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Re: [PHP] Ethics question...

2001-01-17 Thread Les Neste

What Egan wrote is very true.  I speak with some knowledge -- having
weathered a copyright violation suit based on the action of one of my
employees -- and if you write it (as anything other than an employee) then
you own it, 'it' being the source code and the program compiled from that
source code.

Egan, you mentioned something new to me: that you as author own it except
for 'that one client who paid for it'.  Can you offer some citation to back
this up?

At 11:06 PM 1/17/2001 -0500, Egan wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:59:41 -0600, "Scott Gerhardt"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

If your client paid you to develop the E-Commerce system  they would
typically own all rights to it unless otherwise agreed upon.

I don't know what country you are speaking of, but in the U.S., that
view is a commonly held misconception.

Under U.S. copyright law, if the author is an independent contractor,
in the absence of a written agreement covering the work, the author
owns all copyrights to the work, with the exception that the client
who paid for the work is automatically granted a license to their one
copy (and only their one copy).  The client does *not* have copy
_rights_ which permit them to resell it, or even give it away, unless
the author specifically gave them those rights in writing, such as a
work for hire agreement.

If the author was working as an employee, OTOH, then the situation is
reversed, and the employer owns the copyrights by default.

As for the license of PHP itself, vs. an author's license to any code
he writes in the language known as PHP:

Writing application code in the PHP language does not make the code
you wrote automatically become open source,  Yes, the PHP processor is
open source, but its copyright is entirely separate and distinct from
any application system which may be written in the PHP language.

I if write a C program, it does not matter whether I compile it with
GCC which is GPLed, or with some proprietary C compiler.  Either one
is irrelevant for determining ownership of the copyrights which apply
to the code I wrote in the C language.

You cannot copyright ideas, and the PHP language is only an idea.

The PHP Apache module or other PHP processor is an *expression* of
ideas embodied in the PHP language.  And only its expression can be
copyrighted, not the idea itself.

Suppose RWS said you have to stop writing proprietary C programs, just
because someone might compile it with GCC?

I hope you would laugh. :-)


Egan



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Re: [PHP] Ethics question...

2001-01-17 Thread Les Neste

At 02:50 AM 1/18/2001 -0500, Egan wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 02:45:01 -0500, "Romulo Roberto Pereira"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Copyright? This do not exist!!! See the case of NAPSTER

The law is one thing.  Whether people obey it or not, is another.

I agree.  I would also say that the law is one thing, and common sense is
another.



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