php-general Digest 20 Aug 2009 09:28:55 -0000 Issue 6295

2009-08-20 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 20 Aug 2009 09:28:55 - Issue 6295 Topics (messages 296985 through 297002): Re: How to make sure that the target file to read is notunder writing by others? 296985 by: Clancy Re: PHP/Ajax Framework - Call for Developers Testers 296986 by: Raymond

Re: [PHP] daemon without pcntl_fork

2009-08-20 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
2009/8/19 Per Jessen p...@computer.org: Jim Lucas wrote: [snip] I probably wouldn't have chosen PHP for the first one, but there's no reason it shouldn't work.  For the second one, did you mean to write serial port?  That's a bit of a different animal, I'm not sure how far you'll get with

[PHP] How to download and configure php mvc website locally

2009-08-20 Thread Sumit Sharma
Hi, Please help as I have downloaded a php website for my client which is developed using model view controller pattern. Now when I am accessing this site locally it is not showing any thing. Please tell me the what's the problem Thanks, Sumit Sharma

RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Angelo Zanetti
-Original Message- From: Ben Dunlap [mailto:bdun...@agentintellect.com] Sent: 19 August 2009 08:18 PM To: Angelo Zanetti Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes We have a server with a site that does some XML calls. After lots of testing I have found

RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Leon du Plessis
Since we are on the subject: I have the following similar problem: When testing page on internet explorer, I find that one tab's variables can affect another tab's variables. Thus when having the same web-site open and using SESSION variables but for different users, Internet explorer can become

Re: [PHP] How to download and configure php mvc website locally

2009-08-20 Thread Sudheer Satyanarayana
Sumit Sharma wrote: Hi, Please help as I have downloaded a php website for my client which is developed using model view controller pattern. Now when I am accessing this site locally it is not showing any thing. Please tell me the what's the problem Thanks, Sumit Sharma It should at

Re: [PHP] DB Question | A hotel reservation scenario

2009-08-20 Thread Behzad
Good questions, I need to talk to the client to determine the exact requirements and specifications. Thank you every one for helping me to figure out the potential db-scheme and for opening my view with your answers :) On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Bob McConnell r...@cbord.com wrote: From:

RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Arno Kuhl
-Original Message- From: Leon du Plessis [mailto:l...@dsgnit.com] Sent: 20 August 2009 09:44 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes Since we are on the subject: I have the following similar problem: When testing page on internet explorer, I find that

RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Leon du Plessis
It's not an issue, it's a feature. Thanks Arno...but it is a pain also. If I work with user A in Tab1 (window1), I want to work with user B separately in Tab2. When user in Tab2 logs off, I still want user A to work, and not suddenly have to re-login. Same with bank. If I work with my company

Re: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 09:44:02AM +0200, Leon du Plessis wrote: Since we are on the subject: I have the following similar problem: When testing page on internet explorer, I find that one tab's variables can affect another tab's variables. Thus when having the same web-site open and using

Re: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Peter Ford
Leon du Plessis wrote: It's not an issue, it's a feature. Thanks Arno...but it is a pain also. If I work with user A in Tab1 (window1), I want to work with user B separately in Tab2. When user in Tab2 logs off, I still want user A to work, and not suddenly have to re-login. Same with bank.

Re: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:26:35AM +0200, Leon du Plessis wrote: It's not an issue, it's a feature. Thanks Arno...but it is a pain also. If I work with user A in Tab1 (window1), I want to work with user B separately in Tab2. When user in Tab2 logs off, I still want user A to work, and not

RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Leon du Plessis
It'd make sense for things to run this way, I think. After all, I'd find it quite confusing if I log into Google Docs, open a document (by default, it opens in a new tab) and I had to log in yet again to be able to edit it. Yes. I agree. But in this case the Tab being opened is used with the

RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Leon du Plessis
That is how I know browsers to work, yet for a while the bahaviour has changed. The question in light of this then is, should a new browser or tab not open a new PHP SESSION ID. Session ID's should be kept if called from existing pages or ID's? But new pages has no parent? Just wondering.

[PHP] Re: How to download and configure php mvc website locally

2009-08-20 Thread Sumit Sharma
Hi all, The site I have download was developed using cake php. Now when trying to access the website it is showing a blank page. As Sudheer suggested I went to error log and noted down the errors there, which are as follows: [Thu Aug 20 14:10:16 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not

Re: [PHP] PDF Width

2009-08-20 Thread Nitebirdz
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 02:59:43PM -0400, Floyd Resler wrote: Does anyone know how I can find the width of a PDF in PHP? Would this help? Search for width within the page. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Leon du Plessis
Hi, Just a re-iteration on the problem: Browser 1 has user A details Browser 2 has user B details User B logs off, then user A is suddenly in logged of status also. The method used to destroy the session is: // Unset all of the session variables. $_SESSION = array(); // Finally, destroy

Re: [PHP] Sanitizing mysql inserts of user data

2009-08-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
That said, I would recommend binding parameters if you can. It's a cleaner way of separating the logic of a query from its data, and theoretically more reliable than mysql_real_escape_string(): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection#Parameterized_statements I fail to understand

Re: [PHP] Sanitizing mysql inserts of user data

2009-08-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
Thanks Paul, that was a much better explanation than the one I was attempting. I'm guessing the OP was being thrown off by the colons in the SELECT statement above. I can see how those could look like comments to someone not familiar with PDO and named parameters. It wasn't the colons being

RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 10:50 +0200, Leon du Plessis wrote: It'd make sense for things to run this way, I think. After all, I'd find it quite confusing if I log into Google Docs, open a document (by default, it opens in a new tab) and I had to log in yet again to be able to edit it. Yes. I

Re: [PHP] Re: How to download and configure php mvc website locally

2009-08-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 23:00 -1000, Sumit Sharma wrote: Hi all, The site I have download was developed using cake php. Now when trying to access the website it is showing a blank page. As Sudheer suggested I went to error log and noted down the errors there, which are as follows: [Thu Aug 20

Re: [PHP] Re: How to download and configure php mvc website locally

2009-08-20 Thread Nitebirdz
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:00:46PM -1000, Sumit Sharma wrote: Hi all, The site I have download was developed using cake php. Now when trying to access the website it is showing a blank page. As Sudheer suggested I went to error log and noted down the errors there, which are as follows: [Thu

RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Leon du Plessis
Thanks Ashley, I just want to iterate again that when a new page is opened by another existing page in a new browser or Tab, the session_id is already created and therefore the current way browsers work is in no way compremised. The new browser/tab would receive the session id along with GET or

RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 12:04 +0200, Leon du Plessis wrote: Thanks Ashley, I just want to iterate again that when a new page is opened by another existing page in a new browser or Tab, the session_id is already created and therefore the current way browsers work is in no way compremised. The

RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Leon du Plessis
Thanks Ashley. Will implement if the need arise again.. By limitation I actually meant annoyance. Limitation was the wrong word to use. (I think all browsers has something great and something not so great) :-) Greetings -Original Message- From: Ashley Sheridan

RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Angelo Zanetti
Hi Leon and all. LEON you are misunderstanding how the sessions work. Also please start your own thread and don't hijack mine. To the rest that replied. Thanks, I am still stuck with the problem I have asked the hosting company to check the storage capacity and also any other issues with the

Re: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:04:08PM +0200, Leon du Plessis wrote: Thanks Ashley, I just want to iterate again that when a new page is opened by another existing page in a new browser or Tab, the session_id is already created and therefore the current way browsers work is in no way

Re: [PHP] How to make sure that the target file to read is not under writing by others?

2009-08-20 Thread Tom Worster
On 8/19/09 9:56 PM, Clancy clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: I gather from this discussion that PHP allows two users to open a file for R/W? I had assumed it wouldn't. i think php does allow this. but i'm not sure all file systems do. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Leon du Plessis
Hi Angelo, No need to be nasty and touchy. If you have done trouble to read I have closed the discussion in a prior listing and referred back to your original thread. thanks -Original Message- From: Angelo Zanetti [mailto:ang...@zlogic.co.za] Sent: 20 August 2009 01:21 PM To: 'Leon du

Re: [PHP] php get rss tag using DOM

2009-08-20 Thread Rodgerr
Getting RSS Feeds is going really good right now, what amazing technology :) http://www.msnnick.net Nickname Msn Morris-25 wrote: Hi, I am trying to write a programme to read a rss xml file. ... media:content url=*exampe.jpg* ... ... scan anyone tell me how to get the url

Re: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Floyd Resler
Leon, Sessions are used on a per-domain basis. So, no matter how many windows or tabs you have open for mydomain.com it will be the same session for all. Having a different session start up for each window or tab would be a major pain. If you needed to keep track of a user ID, for

RE: [PHP] How to make sure that the target file to read is not under writing by others?

2009-08-20 Thread Arno Kuhl
-Original Message- From: Tom Worster [mailto:f...@thefsb.org] Sent: 20 August 2009 01:28 PM To: Clancy; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] How to make sure that the target file to read is not under writing by others? On 8/19/09 9:56 PM, Clancy clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: I

Re: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 02:34:54PM +0200, Angelo Zanetti wrote: Hi Leon, No harm intended :) Just thought that people were missing my post now and only answering yours. Angelo, excuse me if I'm bringing up something very basic, but I'm new to this. Just trying to help. I imagine

RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Angelo Zanetti
Hi Leon, No harm intended :) Just thought that people were missing my post now and only answering yours. Anyways hope your issue got resolved. Angelo -Original Message- From: Leon du Plessis [mailto:l...@dsgnit.com] Sent: 20 August 2009 01:46 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net

RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Leon du Plessis
No problem! Thx -Original Message- From: Angelo Zanetti [mailto:ang...@zlogic.co.za] Sent: 20 August 2009 02:35 PM To: 'Leon du Plessis'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes Hi Leon, No harm intended :) Just thought that people were missing my post now

Re: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread kranthi
The original problem.. server is losing session variables. I dont think PHP is not good at unset() ing variables while the script is executing. general logger will be of use in this case (especially when cant reproduce the problem every time). PEAR, Zend, FirePHP, files... any thing will do...

Re: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 18:38 +0530, kranthi wrote: The original problem.. server is losing session variables. I dont think PHP is not good at unset() ing variables while the script is executing. general logger will be of use in this case (especially when cant reproduce the problem every

[PHP] Form Spam

2009-08-20 Thread Gary
offer SEO services. It is not overwhleming, but about 5 a month. What is the best way to stop this. Thanks Gary __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4351 (20090820) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http

[PHP] SESSION VARIABLES ACROSS DIFFERENT WINDOWS/TABS

2009-08-20 Thread Leon du Plessis
It is just strange that I have this condition now...maybe I missed it a year ago ? Having a different session start up for each window for tab would be a major pain. Why? People must please try and understand what I mean by NEW. It does not apply to windows/tabs being opened from a link or

Re: [PHP] SESSIONS lost sometimes

2009-08-20 Thread kranthi
I imagine redirects couldn't be the cause of the problem, right? Thanks, this is really a life saver.. I never used session_write_close() before any redirects... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] SESSION VARIABLES ACROSS DIFFERENT WINDOWS/TABS

2009-08-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 15:16 +0200, Leon du Plessis wrote: It is just strange that I have this condition now...maybe I missed it a year ago ? Having a different session start up for each window for tab would be a major pain. Why? People must please try and understand what I mean by

Re: [PHP] Form Spam

2009-08-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
addresses are used in the input field and they all offer SEO services. It is not overwhleming, but about 5 a month. What is the best way to stop this. Thanks Gary __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4351 (20090820

[PHP] Re: Form Spam

2009-08-20 Thread Ralph Deffke
this. Thanks Gary __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4351 (20090820) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net

Re: [PHP] Extract column names from a (my)SQL query

2009-08-20 Thread kranthi
this might be some help... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/283087/php-mysql-sql-parser-insert-and-update -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Form Spam

2009-08-20 Thread Gary
and they all offer SEO services. It is not overwhleming, but about 5 a month. What is the best way to stop this. Thanks Gary __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4351 (20090820) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http

Re: [PHP] Form Spam

2009-08-20 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:25:15AM -0400, Gary wrote: There is plenty of commonaltiy in the submissions, all ip addresses start with an 122. They all offer SEO services, but change the wording, so if I tried to bannish any submissions with Search Engine, Ranking, Google etc, they would

Re: [PHP] Form Spam

2009-08-20 Thread Peter van der Does
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:11:47 -0400 Gary gwp...@ptd.net wrote: I have a client with a form on his site and he is getting spammed. It appears not to be from bots but human generated. While they are coming from India, they do not all have the same IP address, but they all have gmail addresses,

Re: [PHP] daemon without pcntl_fork

2009-08-20 Thread Jim Lucas
Lars Torben Wilson wrote: 2009/8/19 Per Jessen p...@computer.org: Jim Lucas wrote: [snip] I probably wouldn't have chosen PHP for the first one, but there's no reason it shouldn't work. For the second one, did you mean to write serial port? That's a bit of a different animal, I'm not

Re: [PHP] Form Spam

2009-08-20 Thread Adam Randall
. What is the best way to stop this. Thanks Gary __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4351 (20090820) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net

Re: [PHP] PHP/Ajax Framework - Call for Developers Testers

2009-08-20 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Raymond Irving xwis...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Nathan, Many thanks for the feedback. There many other useful features built into the API but my favorite is the embedded feature. You can see a live example here: http://raxanpdi.com/shoutbox-embedded-example.html

Re: [PHP] Form Spam

2009-08-20 Thread Gary
services. It is not overwhleming, but about 5 a month. What is the best way to stop this. Thanks Gary __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4351 (20090820) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com

RE: [PHP] SESSION VARIABLES ACROSS DIFFERENT WINDOWS/TABS

2009-08-20 Thread Jaime Bozza
Leon, This is really just a function of the browser. When a session cookie is created, if the browser is setup for a single instance, that's the session cookie it'll use for *any* request to that domain. This functions differently depending on what browser you're using. For example:

Re: [PHP] PHP and CGI

2009-08-20 Thread sono-io
Hi Tedd, In your .htacess file add this: # handler for phpsuexec. -- makes following prefixes considered for php FilesMatch \.(htm|html|pl)$ SetHandler application/x-httpd-php /FilesMatch Thanks for the code. I placed it in the .htaccess file for the output templates, but

Re: [PHP] Extract column names from a (my)SQL query

2009-08-20 Thread דניאל דנון
I haven't finished reading it yet - but this looks great - Thank you so much! On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:36 PM, kranthi kranthi...@gmail.com wrote: this might be some help... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/283087/php-mysql-sql-parser-insert-and-update -- Use ROT26 for best security

[PHP] Displaying 2 digit minutes/seconds

2009-08-20 Thread sono-io
Hi all, I'm using this code to display the current time for our location on our website: ?php date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles'); $theTimeIs = getdate(time()); $theHour = $theTimeIs['hours']; $theMinute = $theTimeIs['minutes']; // make

Re: [PHP] Displaying 2 digit minutes/seconds

2009-08-20 Thread Jonathan Tapicer
You can use sprintf or str_pad to fill in with zeros, with sprintf you can do this: echo sprintf('%02d', 5); That will print the string 05. Jonathan On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:27 PM, sono...@fannullone.us wrote: Hi all,        I'm using this code to display the current time for our location

Re: [PHP] Displaying 2 digit minutes/seconds

2009-08-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 14:27 -0700, sono...@fannullone.us wrote: Hi all, I'm using this code to display the current time for our location on our website: ?php date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles'); $theTimeIs = getdate(time()); $theHour =

Re: [PHP] Displaying 2 digit minutes/seconds

2009-08-20 Thread sono-io
On Aug 20, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: What's wrong with using the date() function? You can have it output any sort of format you wish. So, getting a 2 digit time in hours:minutes:seconds you would put: date(H:i:s); Thanks, Ash. I had tried that before but I couldn't find a

Re: [PHP] Displaying 2 digit minutes/seconds

2009-08-20 Thread sono-io
On Aug 20, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Jonathan Tapicer wrote: You can use sprintf or str_pad to fill in with zeros, with sprintf you can do this: echo sprintf('%02d', 5); Thanks, Jonathan! I learned two new functions today! Both work great but I think I like sprintf for this application

[PHP] Submit login form using HTTP AUTH

2009-08-20 Thread LinuxManMikeC
Anybody know of any tricks to make an HTML login form that sends the credentials via HTTP AUTH? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] Displaying 2 digit minutes/seconds

2009-08-20 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- From: sono...@fannullone.us [mailto:sono...@fannullone.us] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:53 PM To: Jonathan Tapicer; PHP General List Subject: Re: [PHP] Displaying 2 digit minutes/seconds On Aug 20, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Jonathan Tapicer wrote: You can

[PHP] Tidy on a shared host

2009-08-20 Thread Al
I've written an application that depends heavily on Tidy for cleaning up user inputed text. Unfortunately, some shared hosts won't install the extension for my clients. Is there a way I can install a stand alone version using FTP with access only in a directory where my program resides. The

Re: [PHP] PHP/Ajax Framework - Call for Developers Testers

2009-08-20 Thread Raymond Irving
Hi Nathan, I agree with you, and I believe that there are many persons who don't like the idea of hosting all their applications on a third party server. IMO there are some advantages and disadvantages to doing so but that's a discussion in itself. The good thing about Raxan's Embeddable Apps

[PHP] Is there limitation for switch case: argument's value?

2009-08-20 Thread Keith
Hi, I encounter a funny limitation here with switch case as below: The value for $sum is worked as expected for 1 to 8, but not for 0. When the $sum=0, the first case will be return, which is sum=8. Is there any limitation / rules for switch case? Thanks for advice! Keith $sum=0; switch($sum)