[PHP] Interesting Rails Vs. PHP article

2007-09-23 Thread Colin Guthrie
Thought ppl here may be interested in this: http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html Originally linked from /.: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/23/1249235 Col -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] Interesting Rails Vs. PHP article

2007-09-23 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 18:02 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: Thought ppl here may be interested in this: http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html Originally linked from /.: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/23/1249235 It's funny, every

Re: [PHP] Interesting Rails Vs. PHP article

2007-09-23 Thread Guillaume Theoret
That's actually a very good article and while I don't agree with some of it (most notably #6, the I love SQL.. I find a good ORM layer to be a life saver should you ever need to make database structure changes without having all your apps collapse all over themselves), I certainly agree with the

Re: [PHP] Interesting article about PHP security exploit by GIF files

2007-06-21 Thread tedd
At 9:27 PM +0200 6/20/07, Tijnema wrote: On 6/20/07, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are worried about evil code being in the image, you could always resample the image (larger or smaller). Not that I have personal experience, but I would think that any piece of code that is resampled is

[PHP] Interesting article about PHP security exploit by GIF files

2007-06-20 Thread Tijnema
Hi all, Just received a mail from phpclasses, which pointed to this very interesting article[1]. Seems good to know for starters ;) The experts around here probably already know this way of exploits. Tijnema [1] http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/67-PHP-security-exploit-with-GIF-images.html

Re: [PHP] Interesting article about PHP security exploit by GIF files

2007-06-20 Thread Daniel Brown
On 6/20/07, Tijnema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Just received a mail from phpclasses, which pointed to this very interesting article[1]. Seems good to know for starters ;) The experts around here probably already know this way of exploits. Tijnema [1]

Re: [PHP] Interesting article about PHP security exploit by GIF files

2007-06-20 Thread Jochem Maas
Daniel Brown wrote: On 6/20/07, Tijnema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Just received a mail from phpclasses, which pointed to this very interesting article[1]. Seems good to know for starters ;) The experts around here probably already know this way of exploits. Tijnema [1]

Re: [PHP] Interesting article about PHP security exploit by GIF files

2007-06-20 Thread Daniel Brown
On 6/20/07, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Brown wrote: On 6/20/07, Tijnema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Just received a mail from phpclasses, which pointed to this very interesting article[1]. Seems good to know for starters ;) The experts around here probably already

Re: [PHP] Interesting article about PHP security exploit by GIF files

2007-06-20 Thread Guillaume Theoret
Thanks for the link. I got worried for a second that my code could be exploited so I did a quick check to make sure that mime-types were correct. (I check the mime type to make sure it's an image, not the file extension.) I renamed a .jpg file .jpg.php and uploaded it and got application/x-php

Re: [PHP] Interesting article about PHP security exploit by GIF files

2007-06-20 Thread tedd
At 12:53 PM -0400 6/20/07, Daniel Brown wrote: No, not the upload and execution, per se, but rather using images to contain processable PHP code. -- Daniel P. Brown Daniel: Wow! Now that's something I would like to see -- you do have a demo? As far as legitimate reasons, how about

Re: [PHP] Interesting article about PHP security exploit by GIF files

2007-06-20 Thread Daniel Brown
On 6/20/07, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:53 PM -0400 6/20/07, Daniel Brown wrote: No, not the upload and execution, per se, but rather using images to contain processable PHP code. -- Daniel P. Brown Daniel: Wow! Now that's something I would like to see -- you do have a demo? As

Re: [PHP] Interesting article about PHP security exploit by GIF files

2007-06-20 Thread tedd
At 2:32 PM -0400 6/20/07, Guillaume Theoret wrote: Thanks for the link. I got worried for a second that my code could be exploited so I did a quick check to make sure that mime-types were correct. (I check the mime type to make sure it's an image, not the file extension.) I renamed a .jpg file

Re: [PHP] Interesting article about PHP security exploit by GIF files

2007-06-20 Thread Tijnema
On 6/20/07, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:32 PM -0400 6/20/07, Guillaume Theoret wrote: Thanks for the link. I got worried for a second that my code could be exploited so I did a quick check to make sure that mime-types were correct. (I check the mime type to make sure it's an image, not

Re: [PHP] Interesting article about PHP security exploit by GIF files

2007-06-20 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 15:12 -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: On 6/20/07, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:53 PM -0400 6/20/07, Daniel Brown wrote: No, not the upload and execution, per se, but rather using images to contain processable PHP code. -- Daniel P. Brown Daniel:

[PHP] Interesting problem in PHP and Squirrelmail

2006-01-18 Thread Mark
I am working on an XML serializer module for PHP. It will allow session information to be stored as XML in the database. While this sounds like self promotion, and it probably is a bit, it is needed to make sense of why I am doing this. Anyway, the XML stream is so that I can use PHP session data

Re: [PHP] Interesting problem in PHP and Squirrelmail

2006-01-18 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 15:36, Mark wrote: [-- CLIPPED --] Here's a point of debate, should this sort of behavior be allowed? If it is allowable, how does one support it in any sort of serialized methodology? I have a few ideas but none very pretty. I'm pretty sure it causes problems in

Re: [PHP] Interesting problem in PHP and Squirrelmail

2006-01-18 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 15:44, Robert Cummings wrote: Yes it should be allowed, Actualy was just thinking about how I didn't allow this in JavaScript... you might want to make it an option as a second parameter to recurse. I know in JavaScript any DOM element references the entire DOM tree and

Re: [PHP] Interesting problem in PHP and Squirrelmail

2006-01-18 Thread Mark
Robert Cummings wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 15:36, Mark wrote: [-- CLIPPED --] Here's a point of debate, should this sort of behavior be allowed? If it is allowable, how does one support it in any sort of serialized methodology? I have a few ideas but none very pretty. I'm pretty sure it

Re: [PHP] Interesting problem in PHP and Squirrelmail

2006-01-18 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, January 18, 2006 2:36 pm, Mark wrote: Here's a point of debate, should this sort of behavior be allowed? Of course it should be allowed! It's a standard computer science technique! There are entire branches of mathematics / science devoted to recursive graph theory. Whole *BOOKS*

Re: [PHP] Interesting problem in PHP and Squirrelmail

2006-01-18 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 16:20, Mark wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: The implementation is slightly more difficult than what I've just described, but simple enough :) It's truly ugly, don't you think? Actually I find it quite elegant, but maybe that's just me :) Cheers, Rob. --

[PHP] Interesting Referer behaviour- how to copy it?

2005-08-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
I creating a out.php file that will record clicks, and the redirect the user to the site that he wanted. I am currently using header(Location: $url); which works as expected. The only problem is, that the browser does not send $HTTP_REFERER info to the recieving site. However, that particular

Re: [PHP] Interesting Referer behaviour- how to copy it?

2005-08-04 Thread Jochem Maas
Dotan Cohen wrote: I creating a out.php file that will record clicks, and the redirect the user to the site that he wanted. I am currently using header(Location: $url); which works as expected. The only problem is, that the browser does not send $HTTP_REFERER info to the recieving site.

Re: [PHP] Interesting Referer behaviour- how to copy it?

2005-08-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 8/5/05, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: he runs php5, you run php4 - is the following set on his server perchance?: echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; //or echo getenv(HTTP_REFERER); note that $HTTP_REFERER is depreciated in php5. also the freeBSD box may have a firewall that is

Re: [PHP] Interesting Referer behaviour- how to copy it?

2005-08-04 Thread Jochem Maas
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 8/5/05, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: he runs php5, you run php4 - is the following set on his server perchance?: echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; //or echo getenv(HTTP_REFERER); note that $HTTP_REFERER is depreciated in php5. also the freeBSD box may have a

[PHP] Interesting, yet goofy behavior

2005-04-06 Thread Jay Blanchard
Let's say I have a form and the action is thus; form name=\managebatch\ action=\ . basename($PHP_SELF) . ?bid=edit\ method=\POST\\n; Note the 'bid' attribute. Now, I have a case statement in which stuff takes place since the form has called it because of the 'bid' attribute. Before I break from

[suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] Re: [PHP] Interesting, yet goofy behavior

2005-04-06 Thread Mattias Thorslund
But, Jay: Am I missing something here? It's obvious that the 'bid' parameter will appear in the query string... That's how the form posts it. Yes, you can unset it if you like, but the form will still add it to the URL that it posts to, unless you change the action attribute of the form tag.

RE: [PHP] Interesting, yet goofy behavior

2005-04-06 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Am I missing something here? It's obvious that the 'bid' parameter will appear in the query string... That's how the form posts it. Yes, you can unset it if you like, but the form will still add it to the URL that it posts to, unless you change the action attribute of the form tag.

Re: [PHP] Interesting, yet goofy behavior

2005-04-06 Thread Mattias Thorslund
Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Am I missing something here? It's obvious that the 'bid' parameter will appear in the query string... That's how the form posts it. Yes, you can unset it if you like, but the form will still add it to the URL that it posts to, unless you change the action attribute of

Re: [PHP] Interesting, yet goofy behavior

2005-04-06 Thread John Nichel
Jay Blanchard wrote: Let's say I have a form and the action is thus; form name=\managebatch\ action=\ . basename($PHP_SELF) . ?bid=edit\ method=\POST\\n; Note the 'bid' attribute. Now, I have a case statement in which stuff takes place since the form has called it because of the 'bid' attribute.

Re: [PHP] Interesting, yet goofy behavior

2005-04-06 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Jay Blanchard wrote: Let's say I have a form and the action is thus; form name=\managebatch\ action=\ . basename($PHP_SELF) . ?bid=edit\ method=\POST\\n; Note the 'bid' attribute. Now, I have a case statement in which stuff takes place since the form has called it because of the 'bid' attribute.

Re: [PHP] interesting behavior of ob_end_flush() in __destruct()

2004-09-25 Thread aRZed
Chris Dowell wrote: I haven't searched through the archives to refresh my memory, but it's something to bear in mind. I wonder whether error messages are also not passed to the browser. I have pointed out some more aspects of this issue: Error messages and normal output are passed to the browser

[PHP] interesting behavior of ob_end_flush() in __destruct()

2004-09-24 Thread aRZed
I discovered an interesting behavior, when ob_end_flush() or ob_end_clean() is used in a destructor of an object. I don't think it is actually a bug, so i decided to post it here. ?php class foo { public function __construct() { ob_start(); } public function __desctruct()

Re: [PHP] interesting behavior of ob_end_flush() in __destruct()

2004-09-24 Thread Chris Dowell
it seems that php first ends output buffering and then calls then destructs the objects. so the output buffering is still ended when the destructor is calles. one has to unset the object to reverse that order manually. aRZed If I remember correctly, there were a number of posts about this

[PHP] interesting problem with zlib/ob_gzhandler compression

2004-07-22 Thread Christian Calloway
I have ran into a rather interesting problem while zlib or gzip compression is enabled on my site. I have an external javascript-php file (a javascript file that is dynamically generated as in filename.js.php) which is included in the main template using the script element (for example script

[PHP] interesting

2004-05-25 Thread Bob Lockie
echo \ . $search_for_list[$i][0] . \ works but echo \$search_for_list[$i][0]\ prints Array[0]. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] interesting

2004-05-25 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Bob Lockie [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo \ . $search_for_list[$i][0] . \ works but echo \$search_for_list[$i][0]\ prints Array[0]. $search_for_list[$i] is an 'Array' which is followed by the string '[0]' ... how is PHP supposed to know you mean $search_for_list[$i][0]? echo

Re: [PHP] interesting

2004-05-25 Thread Daniel Clark
What does the { } around the array mean? From: Bob Lockie [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo \ . $search_for_list[$i][0] . \ works but echo \$search_for_list[$i][0]\ prints Array[0]. $search_for_list[$i] is an 'Array' which is followed by the string '[0]' ... how is PHP supposed to know you mean

Re: [PHP] interesting

2004-05-25 Thread Michal Migurski
What does the { } around the array mean? http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.parsing.complex - michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca

Re: [PHP] interesting

2004-05-25 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Daniel Clark echo \{$search_for_list[$i][0]}\; will work, btw. What does the {}around the array mean? It delimits your variable so PHP knows what to interpret as a variable and what to interpret as a string. $ar[1] = 'foo'; echo Value is {$ar[1]}; // Value is foo $ar = 'foo'; echo

Re: [PHP] interesting

2004-05-25 Thread Daniel Clark
Thank you John, and Michal :-) From: Daniel Clark echo \{$search_for_list[$i][0]}\; will work, btw. What does the {}around the array mean? It delimits your variable so PHP knows what to interpret as a variable and what to interpret as a string. $ar[1] = 'foo'; echo Value is {$ar[1]}; //

Re: [PHP] interesting

2004-05-25 Thread Justin Patrin
John W. Holmes wrote: From: Daniel Clark echo \{$search_for_list[$i][0]}\; will work, btw. What does the {}around the array mean? It delimits your variable so PHP knows what to interpret as a variable and what to interpret as a string. $ar[1] = 'foo'; echo Value is {$ar[1]}; // Value is foo $ar

Re: [PHP] interesting

2004-05-25 Thread Daniel Clark
Good point Justin ! John W. Holmes wrote: From: Daniel Clark echo \{$search_for_list[$i][0]}\; will work, btw. What does the {}around the array mean? It delimits your variable so PHP knows what to interpret as a variable and what to interpret as a string. $ar[1] = 'foo'; echo

Re: [PHP] interesting

2004-05-25 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMHO it's just better to use concatenation and single quotes for your string. PHP doesn't have to parse your strings for variables that way and it makes it obvious what parts are variables. To each his own. Shall we discuss the merits of print vs. echo

Re: [PHP] interesting

2004-05-25 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote John W. Holmes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): From: Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMHO it's just better to use concatenation and single quotes for your string. PHP doesn't have to parse your strings for variables that way and it makes it obvious what parts are variables. To each

Re: [PHP] interesting

2004-05-25 Thread Daniel Clark
Ok, print or echo :-) From: Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMHO it's just better to use concatenation and single quotes for your string. PHP doesn't have to parse your strings for variables that way and it makes it obvious what parts are variables. To each his own. Shall we discuss the

Re: [PHP] interesting

2004-05-25 Thread Justin Patrin
John W. Holmes wrote: From: Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMHO it's just better to use concatenation and single quotes for your string. PHP doesn't have to parse your strings for variables that way and it makes it obvious what parts are variables. To each his own. Shall we discuss the merits of

[PHP] Interesting phpversion() thing.

2004-03-30 Thread Axel IS Main
I just upgraded to 4.3.5. I double checked and made sure I put everything in the right place. If I run php or php-cli from the command line and the script has phpversion() in it, it returns the correct string, i.e. 4.3.5. If, however, I pull the same script up in a browser it gives me 4.3.4.

Re: [PHP] Interesting phpversion() thing.

2004-03-30 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote Axel IS Main ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I just upgraded to 4.3.5. I double checked and made sure I put everything in the right place. If I run php or php-cli from the command line and the script has phpversion() in it, it returns the correct string, i.e. 4.3.5. If, however, I pull

Re: [PHP] Interesting question re HTTP Ranges and PHP

2003-07-17 Thread Curt Zirzow
Dan Goodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I currently have an interesting dilemma - any help is appreciated (if possible, CC directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as the list). What Ive got is a PHP wrapper script that performs authetication, and uses readfile() to return the

Re: [PHP] Interesting question re HTTP Ranges and PHP

2003-07-17 Thread Dan Goodes
Hi Chris, a million thanks for the help there. That's what i thought I'd have to do. What I'm doing now is inspect the Range header to pull out the start and end, and then deduce the length, and then using fopen, fseek and fread to open the file and read from a certain offset for a certain

[PHP] Interesting question re HTTP Ranges and PHP

2003-07-16 Thread Dan Goodes
Hi folks, I currently have an interesting dilemma - any help is appreciated (if possible, CC directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as the list). What Ive got is a PHP wrapper script that performs authetication, and uses readfile() to return the requested file. So a user requests

Re: [PHP] Interesting question re HTTP Ranges and PHP

2003-07-16 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Dan Goodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want is for the PHP script to read ALL the headers for the request (in particular, RANGE headers), and then return the relevant portion of the file. Can this be done fairly simply? I think you will find all header in the $_SERVER array. It is

[PHP] Interesting.... :/

2003-06-04 Thread Chris Knipe
Lo all, Some input much appreciated. I upgraded mod_php4 from 4.2.3 to 4.3.2, and needless to say, something went horribly wrong. PHP compiled without any serious problems, and the installation seemed to have gone fine as well. When issuing a apachectl restart, apache immediately core dumped...

[PHP] Interesting Error??

2003-03-24 Thread Fatih stnda
I'm using Command Line php and php-xslt functions ( sablotron 0.96 ) I have got an error such that : php: output.cpp:1554: Bool OutputterObj::eventAttributeStart(Situation , const EQName ): Assertion `!eventAttributeStart' failed. Any idea? Fatih stnda Yre Elektronik Yaymclk A.. 0 212 234 00

Re: [PHP] Interesting Error??

2003-03-24 Thread Marek Kilimajer
This is either bug in the extensions, or you give wrong parameters to a function or method. Fatih stnda wrote: I'm using Command Line php and php-xslt functions ( sablotron 0.96 ) I have got an error such that : php: output.cpp:1554: Bool OutputterObj::eventAttributeStart(Situation , const

[PHP] Interesting timeout issue

2003-01-09 Thread Ben Vaughn
Hello, I just recently upgraded from 4.2.3 to 4.3.0 and a script of mine has begun behaving erratically. The code is included at the bottom of this message. I am essentially updating a large (1.94m row) table to include a new field...the queries needed to do this updating are somewhat

RE: [PHP] Interesting timeout issue

2003-01-09 Thread Ben Vaughn
: Ben Vaughn Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Interesting timeout issue Hello, I just recently upgraded from 4.2.3 to 4.3.0 and a script of mine has begun behaving erratically. The code is included at the bottom of this message. I am

[PHP] Interesting results with date()

2002-10-11 Thread Joshua E Minnie
Hey all, I am having some interesting, but confusing results when I use date(). What is confusing me is that when I use date with only the first argument, I get some interesting results with the timezone. i.e. ?php echo date(r T); ? You would expect to see something like this: Fri, 11

[PHP] Interesting Links, can be not PHP

2002-04-22 Thread Mantas Kriauciunas
Hey PHP General List, Well i have seen some strange links last few months earlyer i didn't look at them because i didn't care... and now i am curious... how to understand link like this Http://www.foo.com/# and thats it... links ends and as it sayes for example it links to Our Works

RE: [PHP] Interesting Links, can be not PHP

2002-04-22 Thread Martin Towell
this as either don't move or top it's useful when doing onClicks, etc. when you don't want to user to go to a different page HTH -Original Message- From: Mantas Kriauciunas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 5:17 PM To: PHP General List Subject: [PHP] Interesting Links, can

Re[2]: [PHP] Interesting Links, can be not PHP

2002-04-22 Thread Mantas Kriauciunas
: Mantas Kriauciunas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] MT Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 5:17 PM MT To: PHP General List MT Subject: [PHP] Interesting Links, can be not PHP MT Hey PHP General List, MT Well i have seen some strange links last few months earlyer i MT didn't look at them because i

[PHP] interesting problem / NETSCAPE-related

2002-02-28 Thread Vlad Kulchitski
Hi guys, I hope someone out there can help me I just ran into an interesting issue Basically, I am working on a php-powered template which works in two different languages (English and Ukrainian): http://wwwkulchitskicom/btl/templatephp?lang=eng When you go to this address (!in Netscape),

Re: [PHP] interesting problem / NETSCAPE-related

2002-02-28 Thread Billy S Halsey
Vlad, Try a href=$PHP_SELF?lang=ukrIMAGE/a /bsh/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://wwwphpnet/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://wwwphpnet/unsubphp

[PHP] Interesting Problem

2002-01-09 Thread Yoed
Hi... I have an interesting problem I don't know which way to solve. So I'll shoot it out to you guys and see what you might offer. I have two databases, say X, and Y: CREATE TABLE X( Id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, Dep_Date date, Return_Date date, Cat1_Status varchar(100), Cat2_Status

Re: [PHP] Interesting Problem

2002-01-09 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
It's obviously more effective to do it in MySQL, but you shouldn't have any real processing problems even if you don't find an appropriate solution using MySQL exclusively, because you'd have the two arrays ordered by MySQL, so all you'll have to do would be something like

Re: [PHP] Interesting Problem

2002-01-09 Thread Jimmy
Hi Yoed, mysql_query(SELECT Id, Dep_Date, Return_DateFROM X,Y WHERE Dep_Date LIKE '%$SelectDate%' OR Return_Date LIKE '%$SelectDate%' ORDER BY Dep_Date); Will give you a ton of errors, and I'm not very fimilar with JOIN and SQL and how that works. My idea was to create two querys, but the

[PHP] interesting warning!!!

2001-09-20 Thread Balaji Ankem
Hi,friend, i registered login info while login using session_register session_register(user,pw); --- and during logout i have unregistered like following.. session_unregister(user,pw); This is the warning i got after logout.. Warning: Wrong parameter count for

Re: [PHP] interesting warning!!!

2001-09-20 Thread * RzE:
Original message From: Balaji Ankem [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:11:59PM +0500 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] interesting warning!!! Hi,friend, i registered login info while login using session_register session_register(user,pw

[PHP] Interesting links

2001-08-16 Thread Elias Santiago
PHP IDE for Linux Only a.. Coffeecup Editor (the best IDE for PHP on Linux) PHP editor b.. HTML/PHP editors Quanta c.. HTML/PHP editors Blue Fish d.. HTML editors AswEdit On Windows a.. PHP IDE and Editor PHP Coder and mirror b.. Zend PHP IDE c.. IDE for PHP scripting (Web browser)

[PHP] Interesting Problem (Sessions and Cookies)

2001-05-24 Thread Jason Caldwell
Is there a way to store users input on *another* page (i use frames), in hidden fields, then be able to update those hidden fields as the user goes along, also, be able to extract that data when a user returns back to a previous form? I'm thinking of using this instead of Sessions or Cookies.

Re: [PHP] Interesting Problem (Sessions and Cookies)

2001-05-24 Thread Peter Dudley
You can indeed do this in javascript. You need to put a FORM on the page in the other frame and then access the data elements in that form with the syntax parent.frame[x].formname.elementname.value or something along those lines. This gets pretty ugly pretty quickly, IMO. Also, I think you