php-general Digest 10 Aug 2005 05:58:22 - Issue 3616
Topics (messages 220292 through 220322):
Re: blank page with PHP
220292 by: Bruce Gilbert
220293 by: Bruce Gilbert
220294 by: Sabine
Re: Generating a 404 status message with header()
220295 by: Jasper
php-general Digest 10 Aug 2005 18:40:46 - Issue 3617
Topics (messages 220323 through 220353):
Re: N/A
220323 by: Jasper Bryant-Greene
220328 by: John Nichel
220352 by: Rory Browne
Fixing Invalid Characters in RSS Feeds.. ?
220324 by: Greg Schnippel
R. Ragunathan wrote:
can we implement lock to a table using postgres with php.
if any of u all knows the solution do reply back.
You may also want to look at the following URL:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/explicit-locking.html
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I wrote a custom blog/CMS script that I use to generate RSS feeds.
Every so often, in the process of cutting and pasting from other sites
I will inadvertently enter a bad character that RSS doesn't like which
causes the whole feed to break. (For example, versions of quotation
marks or long
Try this article on Evolt:
http://www.evolt.org/article/Storing_form_array_data_to_MySQL_using_PHP/18/60222/
that covers the whole process with good code examples..
- schnippy
On 8/9/05, Jesús Alain Rodríguez Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I have 5 chekboxes in a page, I would like
* Jesús Fernández [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
thanks, it works, but that returns the php code.
what i actually need is the output of that php code evaluated.
So eval() the string...
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Jesús Alain Rodríguez Santos wrote:
Hi, I have 5 chekboxes in a page, I would like insert the values of all
chekboxes checked in a mysql db.
Okay, have fun.
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R. Ragunathan wrote:
hi,
can we implement lock to a table using postgres with php.
if any of u all knows the solution do reply back.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Pay close attention to the sections dealing with Before you ask, and
Use meaningful, specific subject
Does anyone have any idea how to restart windows from a php script?
I tried the following:
exec('SHUTDOWN -r -t 01');
or
exec('SHUTDOWN /r');
I received the following warning message: Warning: exec(): Unable to
fork [SHUTDOWN -r -t 01].
I never used this kind of functions before.
[snip]
Does anyone have any idea how to restart windows from a php script?
I tried the following:
exec('SHUTDOWN -r -t 01');
or
exec('SHUTDOWN /r');
I received the following warning message: Warning: exec(): Unable to
fork [SHUTDOWN -r -t 01].
I never used this kind of functions
I don't want to restart windows locally, I want to restart it
remotely. I need a php script that restarts the server. Is this
possible or not?
On 8/10/05, Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Does anyone have any idea how to restart windows from a php script?
I tried the following:
Hi,
I think, Karl says that to how to shutdown the server.
This is posible with rundll, or using Win32API functions.
This is the detailed information about how to use Win32API functions
in PHP:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.w32api.php
So, also this is an information about ExitWindows()
First off, windows has no clue what a fork is, much less the command
'shutdown -r -t 01'.
You can get a windows based version here for windows 2000,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317371sd=tech
If you on windows xp or 2003 servers I'm not sure how this will work
now that
Hello Karl-Heinz,
Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 3:05:32 PM, you wrote:
KHCZ Does anyone have any idea how to restart windows from a php script?
KHCZ I tried the following:
KHCZ exec('SHUTDOWN -r -t 01');
KHCZ or
KHCZ exec('SHUTDOWN /r');
KHCZ I received the following warning message:
Could be that he's trying to use PHP to restart the server. Or could be using
php via command line or through a system like GTK or Winbinder. It's worth
noting that you should make sure you're restarting the machine you think you
are, but the question still remains... is this possible and
Hello Joseph,
Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 3:26:05 PM, you wrote:
JO First off, windows has no clue what a fork is,
A fork is several different things, and there's no reason why Windows
cannot implement a fork via its standard APIs.
JO much less the command 'shutdown -r -t 01'.
-r = Shutdown
Just out of interest, how is the restart going to authenticate itself to get
up and running?
I used to do something like this between two servers - but the were Macs and
I was using Frontier and it did work, but not without the odd mishap.
If you just want to do it remotely (without recourse to
Anyone have a script or know of a way to check and see what the url is of a
system and then sending it to another url if it is not right?
I have this problem where if someone is using:
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fourh
instead of:
http://www.nc4h.org
to get to my site it is breaking other
Hi,
I have a db wrapper class.
I use it like this :
$db-query(SQL HERE) or die ($db-error());
Is there a way to display the line on which $db-error() is executed without
doing die (__LINE__. .$db-error() )?
If i put __LINE__ in the class the line number is always the line in the class
file.
I
Try doing a pattern match on the server string and then using Header
to redirect them if its coming from the old server:
if (preg_match(/ces.ncsu/i, $_SERVER[HTTP_HOST])) {
header(Location: http://www.nc4h.org;);
}
- schnippy
On 8/10/05, Robert Sossomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Georgi Ivanov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have a db wrapper class.
I use it like this :
$db-query(SQL HERE) or die ($db-error());
Is there a way to display the line on which $db-error() is
executed without
doing die (__LINE__. .$db-error() )?
If i put __LINE__ in the class
Thank you for the replay.
I know i can pass __LINE to $db-error().
This is not the idea. I want $db-error() to print the line on which it was
executed .
$parent::__LINE__
Who is the $parent here ?
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 18:20, Mike Johnson wrote:
From: Georgi Ivanov [mailto:[EMAIL
From: Georgi Ivanov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you for the replay.
I know i can pass __LINE to $db-error().
This is not the idea. I want $db-error() to print the line
on which it was
executed .
$parent::__LINE__
Who is the $parent here ?
There isn't, necessarily. That was
Howdy boys and girls!
I have a rather interesting issue. I need to locate every query in every
PHP application we have for an integration project. I have started doing
some research, but I wanted throw this out there as a little exercize
because it is interesting.
Several queries are written as
Richard, thanks for the pointer on the shutdown command, nice to see them
implement that in 2k3 and XP, I don't use them on a regular base and sure
don't use them in server environment.
As for the fork, windows can't preform a fork of a process. There are API's
out there that can do this for
some of my users are complaining that when they try download media files
(mp3, mpeg, etc) their media player opens and doesn't allow them to
physically download the media. These are IE users, firefox seems to like
my code, but IE refuses to download the file and plays it instead..
can anyone
Karl-Heinz Christian Zeck wrote:
Does anyone have any idea how to restart windows from a php script?
I tried the following:
exec('SHUTDOWN -r -t 01');
or
exec('SHUTDOWN /r');
I received the following warning message: Warning: exec(): Unable to
fork [SHUTDOWN -r -t 01].
There are a
Jay Blanchard wrote:
I have a rather interesting issue. I need to locate every query in
every PHP application we have for an integration project. I have
started doing some research, but I wanted throw this out there as a
little exercize because it is interesting.
Several queries are written
Hello List,
I would like to create an object inside a function with its classname
and a parameter list submitted by the function call.
function create($class, $parameter) {
$obj = new $class($parameter);
return $obj;
}
This is working very well. But I have not every time the same count
Hello,
on 08/10/2005 10:05 AM Greg Schnippel said the following:
I wrote a custom blog/CMS script that I use to generate RSS feeds.
Every so often, in the process of cutting and pasting from other sites
I will inadvertently enter a bad character that RSS doesn't like which
causes the whole feed
If you are using apache you can use the redirect module
VirtualHost 152.1.45.10
Servername www.ces.ncsu.edu
ServerAlias *
Redirect permanent / http://www.nc4h.org/
/VirtualHost
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On Wednesday 10 August 2005 16:52, Robert Sossomon wrote:
Anyone have a script or know of a way to check
As Ireland's property developers scramble to snap up every last square
metre of prime Dublin real estate, a green oasis in the heart of this
booming capital is standing firm against the tide of change.
All this may seem highly irrelevent, but when you have a N/A subject,
then anything is in.
That would be browser dependent, something you have no control over. Maybe
you can include a little text message saying right-click save as for the
users not intelligent enough to figure it out themselves.
- Original Message -
From: Sebastian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
* Thomas Angst [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I would like to create an object inside a function with its classname
and a parameter list submitted by the function call.
function create($class, $parameter) {
$obj = new $class($parameter);
return $obj;
}
This is working very well. But I have
I tried using html_entity_decode () but why won't these characters decode:
rsquo;
ndash;
hellip;
ldquo;
rdquo;
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Hey all,
First time poster to this mailing list, but I've been lurking for a week
now, and it seems like there are a lot of helpful people on this list.
I hope to help others out with problems I can answer for them in the
future.
Now, I have an important task at hand. My company has assigned me
James R. wrote:
That would be browser dependent, something you have no control over.
Maybe you can include a little text message saying right-click save
as for the users not intelligent enough to figure it out themselves.
- Original Message - From: Sebastian
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
James R. wrote:
That would be browser dependent, something you have no control over.
Maybe you can include a little text message saying right-click save
as for the users not intelligent enough to figure it out themselves.
- Original Message - From: Sebastian
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
A comment is inline.
Sebastian wrote:
some of my users are complaining that when they try download media
files (mp3, mpeg, etc) their media player opens and doesn't allow them
to physically download the media. These are IE users, firefox seems to
like my code, but IE refuses to download the
I get this error a lot, and think it may be an easy fix, but don't
really know what to look for.
'Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE,
expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in
/hsphere/local/home/bruceg/inspired-evolution.com/Contact_Form_Test.php
on line
[snip]
I get this error a lot, and think it may be an easy fix, but don't
really know what to look for.
'Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE,
expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in
/hsphere/local/home/bruceg/inspired-evolution.com/Contact_Form_Test.php
on
Hi Marco
To awnser you question I do not know why it is excluded from the default
decode array. Maybe it could be that these are multibyte characters (any
takers)?
You can get a list of the entities that are changed
$trans = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
I don't see any missing semi-colons off hand. The error is supposedly
on line 556 in the below code:
!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN
html!-- InstanceBegin template=/Templates/subpage_template.dwt
codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked=false --
head
!-- InstanceBeginEditable
On Wed, August 10, 2005 12:49 pm, Chris wrote:
if ($extension != 'txt')
{
header(Content-disposition: inline; filename=\$file[type]\);
}
else
{
// force txt files to prevent XSS
header(Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\$file[type]\);
}
The Content-disposition header is
On Wed, August 10, 2005 12:43 pm, Sebastian wrote:
That would be browser dependent, something you have no control over.
Maybe you can include a little text message saying right-click save
as for the users not intelligent enough to figure it out themselves.
I defy you to find any web browser
On Wed, August 10, 2005 11:55 am, Marco wrote:
I tried using html_entity_decode () but why won't these characters decode:
rsquo;
ndash;
hellip;
ldquo;
rdquo;
WILD GUESS:
Those are not standards-based, and are some made-up Microsoft crap?
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hellip;
Is this the IP range assigned to hell? I always suspected they were on the
net.
JM
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Bruce Gilbert wrote:
snip a ton of un-needed code
Your heredoc is messed up. Look into getting an editor which will
highlight the errors for you. This mailing list isn't here to syntax
check (unless it's 4:30 on a Friday).
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[EMAIL
On Wed, August 10, 2005 8:10 am, Georgi Ivanov wrote:
Hi,
I have a db wrapper class.
I use it like this :
$db-query(SQL HERE) or die ($db-error());
Is there a way to display the line on which $db-error() is executed
without
doing die (__LINE__. .$db-error() )?
Sure!
Use these guys:
On Wed, August 10, 2005 7:45 am, Richard Davey wrote:
Hello Joseph,
Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 3:26:05 PM, you wrote:
JO much less the command 'shutdown -r -t 01'.
-r = Shutdown with restart
-t = Set the timeout for shutdown (xx seconds)
01 = The timeout value
Open a command prompt,
Can I ask why you are trying to write a script that from what I
understand goes to each box to retrieve the data instead of pushing the
data to the central db?
You could write a little script in PHP that gathers the required
information and then does an insert into your database. Then from the
On Wed, August 10, 2005 7:05 am, Karl-Heinz Christian Zeck wrote:
Does anyone have any idea how to restart windows from a php script?
You could send it the various hacks such as Ping of Death ranging up to
current Microsoft Windows bugs from any remote computers :-)
I tried the following:
[snip]
755 lines of code that should have never been posted in its entirity,
especially without line numbers or something saying ---HERE IS THE
PROBLEM LINE
[/snip]
Dude, when you have a syntax error like this only post 20 or 30 lines of
the code surrounding the line and then point out which line
Matthew Weier O'Phinney schrieb:
Use the func_* functions, along with array_shift(). In addition, you'll
need to use either a standard-named static instantiator, or the class
name as the constructor method:
function create($class) {
$args = func_get_args();
array_shift($args); // remove
[snip]
Dude, when you have a syntax error like this only post 20 or 30 lines of
the code surrounding the line and then point out which line is #foo, 'k?
Your HEREDOC appears to be messed up. On line 623 the closing identifier
is not in first column of the line (when I cut n paste the code into an
On Tue, August 9, 2005 3:07 pm, Sebastian wrote:
i'd like to create a graph with the amount of downloads per hour, i am a
little confused how i should go about this.
i know i can use rrdtool/mrtg, but im looking for more 'user friendly'
graphs with custom colors,etc.
each time someone
Hi Nate,
We are a hosting company. We use this Mambo-like CMS called CATS, which
pretty much tells us what company owns what server(s) in our data
centers. CATS will provide us with a list of details on the specs for
each machine they own, which include the specs I listed (memory, # of
cpus,
Richard Lynch wrote:
On Wed, August 10, 2005 12:49 pm, Chris wrote:
if ($extension != 'txt')
{
header(Content-disposition: inline; filename=\$file[type]\);
}
else
{
// force txt files to prevent XSS
header(Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\$file[type]\);
}
The
On Tue, August 9, 2005 2:55 pm, Jesús Fernández wrote:
Hi there,
i'm a little newbie you know.
I have a php that returns some xml, and i want to parse that xml through
php. the xml returned depends on the variable passed thru the url. what i
need is to get the output of that php file and
The best I found is:
O'Reilly book - Mastering Regular Expressions
On 8/3/05, -k. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone here tried to learn Regular expressions with RegexBuddy?
http://www.regular-expressions.info/regexbuddy.html
It looks pretty cool, and even has some PHP specific
Richard Lynch wrote:
On Wed, August 10, 2005 11:55 am, Marco wrote:
I tried using html_entity_decode () but why won't these characters decode:
rsquo;
ndash;
hellip;
ldquo;
rdquo;
WILD GUESS:
Those are not standards-based, and are some made-up Microsoft crap?
Nah, they are standard HTML
On 8/10/05, Patrick - Jupiter Hosting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Nate,
We are a hosting company. We use this Mambo-like CMS called CATS, which
pretty much tells us what company owns what server(s) in our data
centers. CATS will provide us with a list of details on the specs for
each
On Tue, August 9, 2005 6:16 am, Stut wrote:
Colons (:) are not allowed in Windows filenames.
Of course they aren't allowed in file NAMES -- Because they are an
integral part of a drive letter designation such as C: which is what is
being used here.
There's nothing wrong with the C: part of the
Hello Richard,
Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 9:40:02 PM, you wrote:
RL I dunno if YOUR Windows box has some cygwin thingie or something
RL that makes shutdown be a real command, or if it's just a
RL versioning issue, but the single test platform I had available
RL pretty much had no shutdown
I never used this kind of functions before. What's wrong? In IIS for
Execute Permissions I have Scripts and Executables. What
permissions should I set for the Internet Guest Account? Or something
else caused the problem, not the permissions? Please help me.:)
On windows, php uses cmd.exe to
On Wed, August 10, 2005 2:07 pm, Sebastian wrote:
if i don't use Content-disposition IE downloads the file as unknown
(mp3, exe, or otherwise) with no extension and the names the file you
are downloading becomes the name of the script that was called. lol?
So here's what you do.
Go ahead and
Hi Greg,
Thanks for the link, although I don't think this is exactly what I am
looking for. I am looking for a rather simple way to automate the ssh
into each box and gathering of the system information, instead of
monitoring the servers. This is going to be a one time operation, as
once we
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 19:07, Patrick - Jupiter Hosting wrote:
Hi Greg,
Thanks for the link, although I don't think this is exactly what I am
looking for. I am looking for a rather simple way to automate the ssh
into each box and gathering of the system information, instead of
monitoring
Hi there
I'm absolutely new at this so forgive me if none of it makes any sense!
I'm trying to write a page which lets you apply for tickets. I've
written it in PHP and used simple variable names for all the input
fields. Upon clicking submit, I want the form to be checked for
incorrect
Richard Lynch wrote:
On Wed, August 10, 2005 7:05 am, Karl-Heinz Christian Zeck wrote:
Does anyone have any idea how to restart windows from a php script?
...
SSL, password protected, maybe even have the script record a time-stamp
when it's run, and refuse to run itself more often than
Thomas Angst wrote:
Hello List,
I would like to create an object inside a function with its classname
and a parameter list submitted by the function call.
function create($class, $parameter) {
$obj = new $class($parameter);
return $obj;
}
This is working very well. But I have not
John Nichel wrote:
Bruce Gilbert wrote:
snip a ton of un-needed code
Your heredoc is messed up. Look into getting an editor which will
highlight the errors for you. This mailing list isn't here to syntax
check (unless it's 4:30 on a Friday).
can we hold you to that John ;-)
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Rory Browne wrote:
As Ireland's property developers scramble to snap up every last square
metre of prime Dublin real estate, a green oasis in the heart of this
booming capital is standing firm against the tide of change.
fantastic Rory! lol
All this may seem highly irrelevent, but when you
Thomas Angst wrote:
Thanks for you answer, but sorry, I do not understand your hint. I tried
this code:
class test {
var $txt;
function test($txt) { $this-txt = $txt; }
function out() { echo $this-txt; }
}
$obj = call_user_func_array(array('test', 'test'), array('foobar'));
Eli wrote:
Thomas Angst wrote:
Thanks for you answer, but sorry, I do not understand your hint. I tried
this code:
class test {
var $txt;
function test($txt) { $this-txt = $txt; }
function out() { echo $this-txt; }
}
$obj = call_user_func_array(array('test', 'test'),
Ravi Gogna wrote:
Hi there
I'm absolutely new at this so forgive me if none of it makes any sense!
I'm trying to write a page which lets you apply for tickets. I've
written it in PHP and used simple variable names for all the input
fields. Upon clicking submit, I want the form to be checked
On 8/10/05, Georgi Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have a db wrapper class.
I use it like this :
$db-query(SQL HERE) or die ($db-error());
Is there a way to display the line on which $db-error() is executed without
doing die (__LINE__. .$db-error() )?
Jochem Maas wrote:
Eli wrote:
?
$obj_eval=return new $class(;
for ($i=0; $icount($args); $i++)
$obj_eval.=\$args[$i],;
$obj_eval=substr($obj_eval,0,-1).);;
$obj=eval($obj_eval);
?
I believe that this is the kind of clever, evil stuff the OP was trying
to avoid...
(evil - eval :-) -
Hi all,
I have heard that function style is 400% faster than OOP in PHP, and
give a little agreement. So in the past year, I write more PHP code in
function way while less in OOP way.
This morning, I read an article called How efficient is OOP in PHP
according to the author's test, writing
Hi,
I want to implement a client-server relationship between a PHP server
application and another .NET client application.
I want the connection to be kept alive, so I use the socket routine
running till disconnecting. I also want to transfer the data between the
server and client using SOAP
I have a field 'updated' How can I tell if the date is older than 1 year
ago (or should I think of 365 days)?
`updated` date NOT NULL default '1999-12-12'
I've looked at: http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.getdate.php
Thanks,
John
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John Taylor-Johnston wrote:
I have a field 'updated' How can I tell if the date is older than 1 year
ago (or should I think of 365 days)?
`updated` date NOT NULL default '1999-12-12'
From the description you gave it looks like you're using a DBMS to
store the date. If it's MySQL, then just
In PHP, you could do something like:
$updated = strtotime($db_result['updated']);
$one_year_ago = strtotime('-1 year');
if ($updated $one_year_ago) {
// updated date is older than a year ago
}
John Taylor-Johnston wrote:
I have a field 'updated' How can I tell if the date is older
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