php-general Digest 9 Feb 2009 16:06:05 -0000 Issue 5949

2009-02-09 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 9 Feb 2009 16:06:05 - Issue 5949 Topics (messages 287946 through 287973): Re: Class constant inconsistency 287946 by: Paul M Foster Securing suexec PHP against local attacks by the webserver user 287947 by: Andrew 287969 by: Jochem Maas Re: maybe

[PHP] Securing suexec PHP against local attacks by the webserver user

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew
Hi, I am trying to set up a site which can run securely on a shared hosting environment where users have a choice of running PHP scripts using suexec and FastCGI, or using mod_php and running the scripts as the same user as the webserver. My scripts need to read a local file with the

Re: [PHP] maybe we could all?

2009-02-09 Thread Marcus Gnaß
Nathan Rixham wrote: Project: PHP Common Objects and Datatypes Has anything been setup for project COD-pieces yet? I like this name! ;) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Re: php get rss tag using DOM

2009-02-09 Thread Rob Richards
Morris wrote: I know rss_php, but it doesn't fit my solution. Is anyone able to help me with my question? thx 2009/2/8 Nathan Rixham nrix...@gmail.com Morris wrote: Hi, I am trying to write a programme to read a rss xml file. ... media:content url=*exampe.jpg* ... ... scan anyone

[PHP] xls to pdf conversion in unix

2009-02-09 Thread Thodoris
Hi gang, I did a little research to find out how can someone convert an xls file into pdf and I found that you can use openoffice to do that (already done that in perl). My problem is that I need to find a way for doing this without openoffice by using just PHP. I know that I could

Re: [PHP] maybe we could all?

2009-02-09 Thread Nathan Rixham
Marcus Gnaß wrote: Nathan Rixham wrote: Project: PHP Common Objects and Datatypes Has anything been setup for project COD-pieces yet? I like this name! ;) Hi Markus, Actually, yes it has - the project, well working group, has been called voom. So far there are 8 developers including

[PHP] [PHP]: php validate user password

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Williams
Hi, Can some body help out on how to validate user password from the database? Thanks Andrew

Re: [PHP] [PHP]: php validate user password

2009-02-09 Thread Jan G.B.
2009/2/9 Andrew Williams andrew4willi...@gmail.com: Hi, Hi, Can some body help out on how to validate user password from the database? There are several possibilities. This would be one. ? $query = 'SELECT 1 from `usertable` where `name` = ' .

[PHP] php validate user password

2009-02-09 Thread Michael Kubler
These days SHA should really be used instead of MD5, and you should be SALTing the password as well. Here's a great guide : http://phpsec.org/articles/2005/password-hashing.html Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions http://www.greyphoenix.biz Jan G.B. wrote: 2009/2/9 Andrew Williams

Re: [PHP] php validate user password

2009-02-09 Thread Stuart
2009/2/9 Michael Kubler mdk...@gmail.com: These days SHA should really be used instead of MD5, and you should be SALTing the password as well. Here's a great guide : http://phpsec.org/articles/2005/password-hashing.html Good advice. I would also advise against stripping and trimming anything

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread tedd
Now maybe you didn't mean it that way, but IMO that appears more demeaning of the poster than providing help. I'm surprised, because that's not typical of you nor this list. Indeed. Not really sure what I was thinking when I wrote it and I apologise for the attitude. We all have off

Re: [PHP] php validate user password

2009-02-09 Thread Jan G.B.
2009/2/9 Stuart stut...@gmail.com: 2009/2/9 Michael Kubler mdk...@gmail.com: These days SHA should really be used instead of MD5, and you should be SALTing the password as well. Here's a great guide : http://phpsec.org/articles/2005/password-hashing.html Good advice. Absolutley. I used

Re: [PHP] Adding Records Capture The New Record ID

2009-02-09 Thread tedd
At 9:00 AM +1100 2/9/09, Chris wrote: Person a signs up with em...@example.com Before you are able to fetch the result (which is possible in a high traffic site), person b also signs up with em...@example.com Going back to person a, when you fetch, you get record #2 instead of #1. They are

Re: [PHP] php validate user password

2009-02-09 Thread Stuart
2009/2/9 Jan G.B. ro0ot.w...@googlemail.com: 2009/2/9 Stuart stut...@gmail.com: I would also advise against stripping and trimming anything from passwords. By removing characters you're significantly reducing the number of possible passwords. Surely, the stripping should only be done when

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread Stuart
2009/2/9 tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com: Now maybe you didn't mean it that way, but IMO that appears more demeaning of the poster than providing help. I'm surprised, because that's not typical of you nor this list. Indeed. Not really sure what I was thinking when I wrote it and I

Re: [PHP] Re: require() causing strange characters ?

2009-02-09 Thread cr.vegelin
Thanks Nisse, - Original Message - From: Nisse Engström news.nospam.0ixbt...@luden.se To: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 6:06 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: require() causing strange characters ? On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 10:11:49 +0100, cr.vege...@gmail.com wrote:

[PHP] Newbie Help - No .php file extension

2009-02-09 Thread Hibbert Miller
Hello,I have been asked to install an existing PHP/MySQL application on a system using Windows Vista. I have installed PHP 5.2.8, MySQL 5.1.31 and IIS 7.0. PHP is working as expected (I created a test page which displays the output from phpinfo()). The application in question posts to a login

Re: [PHP] Adding Records Capture The New Record ID

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:25 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: At 9:00 AM +1100 2/9/09, Chris wrote: Person a signs up with em...@example.com Before you are able to fetch the result (which is possible in a high traffic site), person b also signs up with em...@example.com Going back to

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 03:20:48PM -0500, tedd wrote: At 3:54 PM + 2/8/09, Stuart wrote: 2009/2/8 tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com: I wasn't able to find a lot of information, but here's a useful link:

Re: [PHP] php validate user password

2009-02-09 Thread tedd
At 2:02 PM + 2/9/09, Stuart wrote: 2009/2/9 Michael Kubler mdk...@gmail.com: These days SHA should really be used instead of MD5, and you should be SALTing the password as well. Here's a great guide : http://phpsec.org/articles/2005/password-hashing.html Good advice. I would also

Re: [PHP] php validate user password

2009-02-09 Thread Bruno Fajardo
tedd, I think that the problem of the duplicated hashes in the database (in the case of two users using the same password) persists with a constant prefix in the passwords. Although the random salt portion get stored in the database concatenated to the hash, the attacker don't know the string

Re: [PHP] Adding Records Capture The New Record ID

2009-02-09 Thread tedd
At 9:54 AM -0500 2/9/09, Andrew Ballard wrote: You are right, but the point is that if you intend something to be unique then you should declare it as such in the database. We didn't discuss that. You are saying that if I checked my database for a email address and find it's not there [1]

Fwd: [PHP] Interface OOP

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Williams
Hi, I am working on a back end OOP project with about about 18 classes of Object but some of the Objects shear one or two functions in common, like external login system . What is the best way to avoid a repeatable function among the classes without using global object instance. class a{

Re: [PHP] Securing suexec PHP against local attacks by the webserver user

2009-02-09 Thread Jochem Maas
Andrew schreef: Hi, As an example of the attack... $ whoami www-data isn't the whole point of suexec/PHP/FastCGI that the local user has no access to the www-data account ... suexec switches to the users account from the webserver account not the other way around. so the attack is

Re: [PHP] Adding Records Capture The New Record ID

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: At 9:54 AM -0500 2/9/09, Andrew Ballard wrote: You are right, but the point is that if you intend something to be unique then you should declare it as such in the database. We didn't discuss that. You are saying that if I

[PHP] PHP OOP

2009-02-09 Thread tedd
Hi gang: At the college where I teach, they are considering teaching OOP, but they don't want to settle on a specific language. My thoughts are it's difficult to teach OOP without a language -- while the general concepts of OOP are interesting, people need to see how concepts are applied to

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread tedd
At 2:41 PM + 2/9/09, Stuart wrote: I think people are like that everywhere, particularly above a certain level of management in my experience. I wish you luck in convincing them but I've found that PHP rarely wins when put up against the sales and marketing budgets available to Microsoft and

Re: [PHP] Adding Records Capture The New Record ID

2009-02-09 Thread tedd
At 10:55 AM -0500 2/9/09, Andrew Ballard wrote: -snip- Andrew As I said many times before. I've learned something new every day of my life -- and I'm getting damned tried of it. Thanks for the lesson. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com

Re: [PHP] PHP OOP

2009-02-09 Thread Kyle Terry
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:02 AM, tedd t...@sperling.com wrote: Hi gang: At the college where I teach, they are considering teaching OOP, but they don't want to settle on a specific language. My thoughts are it's difficult to teach OOP without a language -- while the general concepts of OOP

Re: [PHP] Using DLL with PHP

2009-02-09 Thread Dan Shirah
Check out the com [www.php.net/com] functionality Bastien Alrighty, I'm trying to use the COM function, but not getting much of anywhere. This is what I have: ?php // The VB function for reference /*function DTM_CONVDMSToMultiTIFF Lib D32_CONV.DLL _ (ByVal FullPathFrom As String, ByVal

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread tedd
At 10:02 AM -0500 2/9/09, Andrew Ballard wrote: On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Perhaps a better question then might be how many IIS servers are there out there compared to Apache. Apache servers uniformly support PHP, but I think only IIS

Re: [PHP] Interface OOP

2009-02-09 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Andrew Williams andrew4willi...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I am working on a back end OOP project with about about 18 classes of Object but some of the Objects shear one or two functions in common, like external login system . What is the best way to avoid a

Re: [PHP] Adding Records Capture The New Record ID

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:05 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: At 10:55 AM -0500 2/9/09, Andrew Ballard wrote: -snip- Andrew As I said many times before. I've learned something new every day of my life -- and I'm getting damned tried of it. Thanks for the lesson. Cheers, tedd

Re: [PHP] PHP OOP

2009-02-09 Thread Thodoris
Hi gang: At the college where I teach, they are considering teaching OOP, but they don't want to settle on a specific language. My thoughts are it's difficult to teach OOP without a language -- while the general concepts of OOP are interesting, people need to see how concepts are applied

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: At 10:02 AM -0500 2/9/09, Andrew Ballard wrote: On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Perhaps a better question then might be how many IIS servers are there out there compared to

Re: [PHP] PHP OOP

2009-02-09 Thread Eric Butera
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Thodoris t...@kinetix.gr wrote: Hi gang: At the college where I teach, they are considering teaching OOP, but they don't want to settle on a specific language. My thoughts are it's difficult to teach OOP without a language -- while the general concepts of

Re: [PHP] php validate user password

2009-02-09 Thread tedd
At 12:20 PM -0300 2/9/09, Bruno Fajardo wrote: tedd, I think that the problem of the duplicated hashes in the database (in the case of two users using the same password) persists with a constant prefix in the passwords. Although the random salt portion get stored in the database concatenated to

Re: [PHP] Using DLL with PHP

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Dan Shirah mrsqua...@gmail.com wrote: Check out the com [www.php.net/com] functionality Bastien Alrighty, I'm trying to use the COM function, but not getting much of anywhere. This is what I have: ?php // The VB function for reference /*function

Re: [PHP] Adding Records Capture The New Record ID

2009-02-09 Thread tedd
At 11:15 AM -0500 2/9/09, Andrew Ballard wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:05 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: I've learned something new every day of my life -- and I'm getting damned tried of it. Well, you probably know what they say about the day you stop learning Yeah, you

Re: [PHP] Adding Records Capture The New Record ID

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:32 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: At 11:15 AM -0500 2/9/09, Andrew Ballard wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:05 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: I've learned something new every day of my life -- and I'm getting damned tried of it. Well, you

RE: [PHP] Using DLL with PHP

2009-02-09 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
-Original Message- From: Andrew Ballard [mailto:aball...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 10:30 AM To: Dan Shirah Cc: Phpster; PHP-General list Subject: Re: [PHP] Using DLL with PHP On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Dan Shirah mrsqua...@gmail.com wrote: Check out the

RE: [PHP] php validate user password

2009-02-09 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
-Original Message- From: tedd [mailto:tedd.sperl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 10:30 AM To: Bruno Fajardo Cc: PHP General Subject: Re: [PHP] php validate user password At 12:20 PM -0300 2/9/09, Bruno Fajardo wrote: tedd, I think that the problem of the

Re: [PHP] PHP OOP

2009-02-09 Thread Nathan Rixham
Eric Butera wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Thodoris t...@kinetix.gr wrote: Hi gang: At the college where I teach, they are considering teaching OOP, but they don't want to settle on a specific language. My thoughts are it's difficult to teach OOP without a language -- while the

Re: [PHP] Securing suexec PHP against local attacks by the webserveruser

2009-02-09 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Jochem Maas wrote: Andrew schreef: Hi, As an example of the attack... $ whoami www-data isn't the whole point of suexec/PHP/FastCGI that the local user has no access to the www-data account ... suexec switches to the users account from the webserver account not the other way

Re: [PHP] PHP OOP

2009-02-09 Thread Per Jessen
tedd wrote: I lean toward C++ because I wrote in it for a few years AND C++ appears to be the most common, widespread, and popular OOP language. I would agree, although I suspect Java is also a good candidate. However, while I don't know PHP OOP, I am open to considering it because of the

Re: Fwd: [PHP] Interface OOP

2009-02-09 Thread Jochem Maas
each class should focus on a single area of responsibility. therefore the login check doesn't belong in class A or B, instead it belongs in the code consuming the functionality of said classes. ?php $login = new login($pwd, $acc, $customerAcc); $bee = new b(); if ($login-validate())

Re: [PHP] PHP OOP

2009-02-09 Thread Per Jessen
tedd wrote: I lean toward C++ because I wrote in it for a few years AND C++ appears to be the most common, widespread, and popular OOP language. I would agree, although I suspect Java is also a good candidate. However, while I don't know PHP OOP, I am open to considering it because of the

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread Stuart
2009/2/9 Andrew Ballard aball...@gmail.com: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: At 10:02 AM -0500 2/9/09, Andrew Ballard wrote: On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Perhaps a better question then might be how many

Re: [PHP] PHP OOP

2009-02-09 Thread Stuart
2009/2/9 tedd t...@sperling.com: Hi gang: At the college where I teach, they are considering teaching OOP, but they don't want to settle on a specific language. My thoughts are it's difficult to teach OOP without a language -- while the general concepts of OOP are interesting, people need

Re: [PHP] Using DLL with PHP

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Dan Shirah mrsqua...@gmail.com wrote: I can't help much, but this might get you started. 1) Does the DLL you are trying to use actually supports COM. I know some don't. 2) I'm pretty sure that the string you pass to new COM('...') should be the name the

Re: [PHP] PHP OOP

2009-02-09 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:02:37AM -0500, tedd wrote: Hi gang: At the college where I teach, they are considering teaching OOP, but they don't want to settle on a specific language. My thoughts are it's difficult to teach OOP without a language -- while the general concepts of OOP are

Re: [PHP] PHP OOP

2009-02-09 Thread Eric Butera
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/9 tedd t...@sperling.com: Hi gang: At the college where I teach, they are considering teaching OOP, but they don't want to settle on a specific language. My thoughts are it's difficult to teach OOP without a language --

RE: [PHP] php validate user password

2009-02-09 Thread tedd
At 10:41 AM -0600 2/9/09, Boyd, Todd M. wrote: -Original Message- From: tedd [mailto:tedd.sperl...@gmail.com] Granted, there are things here that are above my head -- I am not passing myself off as an expert but rather as someone proposing ideas to see if they pass or fail. I

Re: [PHP] PHP OOP

2009-02-09 Thread Per Jessen
Paul M Foster wrote: PHP is *not* a good example for OO. There are a lot of OO principles it doesn't follow. I would have suggested Smalltalk, the original OO language, except that no one uses it any more, and other languages don't necessarily fully implement OO as done in Smalltalk.

Re: [PHP] php validate user password

2009-02-09 Thread Jan G.B.
2009/2/9 Stuart stut...@gmail.com: 2009/2/9 Jan G.B. ro0ot.w...@googlemail.com: 2009/2/9 Stuart stut...@gmail.com: I would also advise against stripping and trimming anything from passwords. Trimming could be left out but it minimizes user errors and users pretending to know their password.

RE: [PHP] Using DLL with PHP

2009-02-09 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
-Original Message- From: Andrew Ballard [mailto:aball...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 11:21 AM To: Dan Shirah Cc: Phpster; PHP-General list Subject: Re: [PHP] Using DLL with PHP On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Dan Shirah mrsqua...@gmail.com wrote: I can't help

Re: [PHP] Using DLL with PHP

2009-02-09 Thread Dan Shirah
I can't help much, but this might get you started. 1) Does the DLL you are trying to use actually supports COM. I know some don't. 2) I'm pretty sure that the string you pass to new COM('...') should be the name the class as registered with Windows, not the actual file name. They are

Re: [PHP] Using DLL with PHP

2009-02-09 Thread Dan Shirah
I believe you do have to register it with regsvr32 for it to be visible. I think the GUID that Todd mentioned might even work, but I've only ever used the ProgID. If you don't know the ProgID that is registered, you should be able to find it in the Windows registry after you've registed it

[PHP] mysql_query - CREATE DATABASE

2009-02-09 Thread R B
Hello, When i create a mysql database with the next command: mysql_query(CREATE DATABASE my_db,$con) In the server is created the database, but usually the name is created with a prefix. In this case: someuser_my_db How can i detect with PHP the complete name of the new database created?

Re: [PHP] Newbie Help - No .php file extension

2009-02-09 Thread Thijs Lensselink
Hibbert Miller wrote: Hello,I have been asked to install an existing PHP/MySQL application on a system using Windows Vista. What application are we talking about here? Is it a known Open/Closed source application? Is it supposed to run on windows? I have installed PHP 5.2.8, MySQL 5.1.31

[PHP] sqlsrv vs Mssql

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Williams
Hi, Can somebody help me with why I have communication problem using MSSQL with SQLserver 2005. Instead I am now using SQLSRV -- Best Wishes Andrew Williams -- Best Wishes Andrew Williams

Re: [PHP] sqlsrv vs Mssql

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Andrew Williams andrew4willi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can somebody help me with why I have communication problem using MSSQL with SQLserver 2005. Instead I am now using SQLSRV -- Best Wishes Andrew Williams Care to be more specific? Andrew -- PHP General

[PHP] Re: mysql_query - CREATE DATABASE

2009-02-09 Thread Shawn McKenzie
R B wrote: Hello, When i create a mysql database with the next command: mysql_query(CREATE DATABASE my_db,$con) In the server is created the database, but usually the name is created with a prefix. In this case: someuser_my_db How can i detect with PHP the complete name of the new

Re: [PHP] sqlsrv vs Mssql

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Williams
MSsql unable to connect to the SQLserver2005 but not SQLserver2008 On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Andrew Williams andrew4willi...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Can somebody help me with why I have communication problem using MSSQL with SQLserver 2005. Instead I am now using SQLSRV -- Best Wishes

Re: [PHP] Re: mysql_query - CREATE DATABASE

2009-02-09 Thread R B
I´m creating a software that use a database, and i want to include a install.php file to install the database of the software. I can create the database in the install.php file with mysql_query(CREATE DATABASE my_db,$con) But when is created, i don´t know the complete name of the database,

[PHP] Re: mysql_query - CREATE DATABASE

2009-02-09 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Shawn McKenzie wrote: R B wrote: Hello, When i create a mysql database with the next command: mysql_query(CREATE DATABASE my_db,$con) In the server is created the database, but usually the name is created with a prefix. In this case: someuser_my_db How can i detect with PHP the

Re: [PHP] Securing suexec PHP against local attacks by the webserver user

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew
Jochem Maas wrote: Andrew schreef: Hi, As an example of the attack... $ whoami www-data isn't the whole point of suexec/PHP/FastCGI that the local user has no access to the www-data account ... suexec switches to the users account from the webserver account not the

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread Daniel Brown
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 09:35, Richard Heyes rich...@php.net wrote: Hi, Can anyone point out some general statistics on PHP usage compared to other server languages? I've tried Netcraft, but they only appear (or I've only found) to have statistics on the httpd server used. All @php.net

Re: [PHP] Re: mysql_query - CREATE DATABASE

2009-02-09 Thread R B
I´m looking that i have another problem: I´m making a software to install in any server. The software needs a database, so i want to create a script install.php to create the database when this script is executed. At this point of the instalation, i don´t know none of the users that are defined

[PHP] Re: mysql_query - CREATE DATABASE

2009-02-09 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Shawn McKenzie wrote: Shawn McKenzie wrote: R B wrote: Hello, When i create a mysql database with the next command: mysql_query(CREATE DATABASE my_db,$con) In the server is created the database, but usually the name is created with a prefix. In this case: someuser_my_db How can i

Re: [PHP] PHP OOP

2009-02-09 Thread Yannick Mortier
2009/2/9 tedd t...@sperling.com: Hi gang: At the college where I teach, they are considering teaching OOP, but they don't want to settle on a specific language. I guess that is not a good idea, you should really combine it with a language, as some students will be curious enough to play

Re: [PHP] Re: mysql_query - CREATE DATABASE

2009-02-09 Thread Shawn McKenzie
R B wrote: I´m looking that i have another problem: I´m making a software to install in any server. The software needs a database, so i want to create a script install.php to create the database when this script is executed. At this point of the instalation, i don´t know none of the

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread Kyle Terry
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 09:35, Richard Heyes rich...@php.net wrote: Hi, Can anyone point out some general statistics on PHP usage compared to other server languages? I've tried Netcraft, but they only appear (or I've only

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 09:35, Richard Heyes rich...@php.net wrote: Hi, Can anyone point out some general statistics on PHP usage compared to other server languages? I've tried Netcraft, but they only appear (or I've only

Re: [PHP] Re: require() causing strange characters ?

2009-02-09 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 15:46 +0100, cr.vege...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Nisse, - Original Message - From: Nisse Engström news.nospam.0ixbt...@luden.se To: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 6:06 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: require() causing strange characters ?

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread Daniel Brown
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 14:39, Andrew Ballard aball...@gmail.com wrote: For what it's worth, you missed .do, .dll, .exe, and I'm sure others (yes, I've seen web sites running what I assume to be compiled web applications with all of these extensions) as well as anything using URL rewriting

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Daniel Brown wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 14:39, Andrew Ballard aball...@gmail.com wrote: For what it's worth, you missed .do, .dll, .exe, and I'm sure others (yes, I've seen web sites running what I assume to be compiled web applications with all of these extensions) as well as anything

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread Daniel Brown
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 14:58, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote: And HTM shows 701M, so it is now beating out ASP :-) Another bone of contention is the masking --- I mentioned it briefly in my original remarks in this thread, but on further investigation, it may actually have a

Re: [PHP] Re: mysql_query - CREATE DATABASE

2009-02-09 Thread R B
thank you. On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote: R B wrote: I´m looking that i have another problem: I´m making a software to install in any server. The software needs a database, so i want to create a script install.php to create the database

Re: [PHP] Using DLL with PHP

2009-02-09 Thread Dan Shirah
H, maybe it's not a problem with the DLL I'm trying to access because just doing a simple: $my_com = new COM(Excel.Application); Gives me the same error: *Fatal error*: Uncaught exception 'com_exception' with message 'Failed to create COM object `Excel.Application': Invalid syntax ' I've

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread Stuart
2009/2/9 Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 14:58, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote: And HTM shows 701M, so it is now beating out ASP :-) Another bone of contention is the masking --- I mentioned it briefly in my original remarks in this thread, but on further

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread Daniel Brown
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 15:21, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: I would advise you against wasting your time because there is no reliable way to tell what systems a server is actually using to serve pages. Nearly all sites I work on these days use techniques to remove extensions from URLs, and

Re: [PHP] Using DLL with PHP

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Dan Shirah mrsqua...@gmail.com wrote: H, maybe it's not a problem with the DLL I'm trying to access because just doing a simple: $my_com = new COM(Excel.Application); Gives me the same error: *Fatal error*: Uncaught exception 'com_exception' with message

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread Stuart
2009/2/9 Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 15:21, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: I would advise you against wasting your time because there is no reliable way to tell what systems a server is actually using to serve pages. Nearly all sites I work on these days use

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread Daniel Brown
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 15:41, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed, but I find coding without QA requirements is a great way to relax. It's what I do to take a break from coding for The Job[tm]. I suppose that makes us seem a little ill, eh? -- /Daniel P. Brown

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 15:21, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: I would advise you against wasting your time because there is no reliable way to tell what systems a server is actually using to serve pages. Nearly all sites I

[PHP] DOCUMENT_ROOT errors

2009-02-09 Thread Marc Fromm
I updated fedora core from FC5 to TC6, thus httpd and php were updated in the process. My pages worked with no errors before the upgrade. My php pages are no not displaying and generating this error in the httpd logs PHP Notice: Undefined variable: DOCUMENT_ROOT in

[PHP] Re: DOCUMENT_ROOT errors

2009-02-09 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Marc Fromm wrote: I updated fedora core from FC5 to TC6, thus httpd and php were updated in the process. My pages worked with no errors before the upgrade. My php pages are no not displaying and generating this error in the httpd logs PHP Notice: Undefined variable: DOCUMENT_ROOT in

[PHP] Re: DOCUMENT_ROOT errors

2009-02-09 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Shawn McKenzie wrote: Marc Fromm wrote: I updated fedora core from FC5 to TC6, thus httpd and php were updated in the process. My pages worked with no errors before the upgrade. My php pages are no not displaying and generating this error in the httpd logs PHP Notice: Undefined variable:

[PHP] strtr array replace issue...

2009-02-09 Thread Brad Freshour
Apache: 2.2.8 threaded PHP: 5.2.4-2 mySQL: 5.051.a Ubuntu 8.04 minimal with everything needed installed via apt-get. Using SMF forum, I'm having an issue with the strtr command... Here's the code... $ftp_file = strtr($filename, array ($_SESSION['pack_ftp']['root'] ='')); The

Re: [PHP] maybe we could all?

2009-02-09 Thread Marcus Gnaß
Nathan Rixham wrote: Marcus Gnaß wrote: Nathan Rixham wrote: Project: PHP Common Objects and Datatypes Has anything been setup for project COD-pieces yet? I like this name! ;) Actually, yes it has - the project, well working group, has been called voom. Sounds fine too! ;) If you're

RES: [PHP] maybe we could all?

2009-02-09 Thread Jônatas Zechim
Me too.. Zechim from Brazil. -Mensagem original- De: Marcus Gnaß [mailto:gona...@gmx.de] Enviada em: segunda-feira, 9 de fevereiro de 2009 19:59 Para: nrix...@gmail.com Cc: PHP-General; Paul M Foster Assunto: Re: [PHP] maybe we could all? Nathan Rixham wrote: Marcus Gnaß wrote:

Re: [PHP] PHP usage stats

2009-02-09 Thread tedd
At 3:44 PM -0500 2/9/09, Daniel Brown wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 15:41, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed, but I find coding without QA requirements is a great way to relax. It's what I do to take a break from coding for The Job[tm]. I suppose that makes us seem a little ill,

Re: [PHP] maybe we could all?

2009-02-09 Thread Kyle Terry
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Jônatas Zechim zechim@gmail.com wrote: Me too.. Zechim from Brazil. -Mensagem original- De: Marcus Gnaß [mailto:gona...@gmx.de] Enviada em: segunda-feira, 9 de fevereiro de 2009 19:59 Para: nrix...@gmail.com Cc: PHP-General; Paul M Foster

Re: [PHP] php validate user password

2009-02-09 Thread Micah Gersten
onlist this time... tedd wrote: snip I think the MD5() hash is a pretty good way and if the weakness is the user's lack of uniqueness in determining their passwords, then we can focus on that problem instead of looking to another hash. And besides, the solution presented was to

Re: [PHP] php validate user password

2009-02-09 Thread Bruno Fajardo
Or, like the article suggested, a random portion for the hash... I agree with you, Micah. The hash collision is a problem, and must be avoided. Same password hashes for different users are very good candidates for a dictionary attack. Probably, in most of this cases, users picked easy passwords,

[PHP] Enquiry

2009-02-09 Thread War Crimes TV
Greetings All, We write with reference to our website at http://www.warcrimes.info/shop/html/. Our web host tells us that our website currently runs on php 5.2.8. We recently faced this error: Fatal error: Call to a member function sql_query() on a non-object in

Re: [PHP] Securing suexec PHP against local attacks by the webserver user

2009-02-09 Thread Jochem Maas
Andrew schreef: Jochem Maas wrote: Andrew schreef: Hi, As an example of the attack... $ whoami www-data isn't the whole point of suexec/PHP/FastCGI that the local user has no access to the www-data account ... suexec switches to the users account from the

[PHP] Generate unique login token

2009-02-09 Thread sean greenslade
I have a login system that I am coding. I need it to generate a unique token on login to be stored in the browser's cookie. I currently use a script that generates a MD5 hash of the current unix timestamp, then checks the mysql database to see if the token already exists. It loops this

Re: [PHP] Generate unique login token

2009-02-09 Thread Eric Butera
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:52 PM, sean greenslade zootboys...@gmail.com wrote: I have a login system that I am coding. I need it to generate a unique token on login to be stored in the browser's cookie. I currently use a script that generates a MD5 hash of the current unix timestamp, then checks

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