php-general Digest 26 Mar 2007 11:17:48 - Issue 4698
Topics (messages 251343 through 251358):
Re: Optimization of all mysql databases on a server
251343 by: Chris
251353 by: Tijnema !
Re: Book Suggestion for ZCE
251344 by: Zoltán Németh
Re: My own captcha from 2
On 3/26/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
itoctopus wrote:
The purpose of this script is to optimize all associated tables in all
databases on a mysql server. This script is working great, you can put in a
CRON and run it every day. Feel free to throw in your 2 cents!
It's going to time out
On 3/26/07, Jake McHenry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Like I said... Even if they have sound turned on.. Which all my sets do...
Most of them don't have speakers... That was put into effect over a year ago
due to some people listening to those damn screaming prank things at full
volume... Anyways...
Hi,
We have moved our DNS server from one IP to another. But on a Linux
server, the PHP programs keep using the old DNS server IP. For
example, for a simple php file:
? echo gethostbyname (smtp.cpttm); ?
When it is run, it tries to lookup smtp.cpttm using the old DNS
server (I know it using
Kent Tong wrote:
We have moved our DNS server from one IP to another. But on a Linux
server, the PHP programs keep using the old DNS server IP. For
example, for a simple php file:
? echo gethostbyname (smtp.cpttm); ?
When it is run, it tries to lookup smtp.cpttm using the old DNS
server (I
Stut stuttle at gmail.com writes:
Assuming you're using a web server it's possible PHP is caching the DNS
server details. Try restarting the web server. Alternatively try the
same script on the command line.
Wow! You're right! Stopping apache and then starting it (in two steps)
solves the
Hi All
I am porting some perl to PHP and have struck a small snag. The perl
script has quite a few substitutions that take place so data can be fed
into a html page.
The script uses the following perl syntax
$html = `cat search_results.html`;
$html =~ s/%Accom/$accom/g;
As I understand perl
2007. 03. 26, hétfő keltezéssel 21.17-kor [EMAIL PROTECTED] ezt
írta:
Hi All
I am porting some perl to PHP and have struck a small snag. The perl
script has quite a few substitutions that take place so data can be fed
into a html page.
The script uses the following perl syntax
$html =
I've just noticed that \r\n and \t characters create a space when
rendered in the browser (tested in IE and Firefox). I'd always thought the
browser would ignore these characters. This wouldn't normally be a problem
but the wysiwyg html editor in the cms I'm using tries to be friendly by
2007. 03. 26, hétfő keltezéssel 13.54-kor Arno Kuhl ezt írta:
I've just noticed that \r\n and \t characters create a space when
rendered in the browser (tested in IE and Firefox). I'd always thought the
browser would ignore these characters. This wouldn't normally be a problem
but the wysiwyg
2007. 03. 26, hétfő keltezéssel 13.58-kor Zoltán Németh ezt írta:
2007. 03. 26, hétfő keltezéssel 13.54-kor Arno Kuhl ezt írta:
I've just noticed that \r\n and \t characters create a space when
rendered in the browser (tested in IE and Firefox). I'd always thought the
browser would ignore
At 10:02 PM -0400 3/25/07, Jake McHenry wrote:
Like I said... Even if they have sound turned on.. Which all my sets do...
Most of them don't have speakers... That was put into effect over a year ago
due to some people listening to those damn screaming prank things at full
volume... Anyways... I
At 12:29 AM +0200 3/26/07, Zoltán Németh wrote:
2007. 03. 23, péntek keltezéssel 20.36-kor Tijnema ! ezt írta:
On 3/23/07, Németh Zoltán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2007. 03. 23, péntek keltezéssel 17.30-kor Dwayne Heronimo ezt írta:
YES this works thank nemeth:
your welcome but please
Jake McHenry wrote:
Like I said... Even if they have sound turned on.. Which all my sets do...
Most of them don't have speakers... That was put into effect over a year ago
due to some people listening to those damn screaming prank things at full
volume...
and didn'tr we all have a fun with
Browsers ignore \n \r and \t. Look at the resultant html source code in your
browser.
Something is converting them BEFORE sending the html code to the client browser.
Arno Kuhl wrote:
I've just noticed that \r\n and \t characters create a space when
rendered in the browser (tested in IE and
-Original Message-
From: tedd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 8:49 AM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP] My own captcha from 2 years ago..
At 10:02 PM -0400 3/25/07, Jake McHenry wrote:
Like I said... Even if they have sound turned on..
-Original Message-
From: tedd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 8:49 AM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP] My own captcha from 2 years ago..
At 10:02 PM -0400 3/25/07, Jake McHenry wrote:
Like I said... Even if they have sound turned
Can I put post values directly into insert statements?
$query = INSERT INTO categories (category_name) VALUES
('$_POST['cat_name']);
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Ross wrote:
Can I put post values directly into insert statements?
$query = INSERT INTO categories (category_name) VALUES
('$_POST['cat_name']);
Yes you can, but it is not secure to do that!
use (insecure):
$query = INSERT INTO categories (category_name) VALUES
thanks.
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Can I put post values directly into insert statements?
$query = INSERT INTO categories (category_name) VALUES
('$_POST['cat_name']);
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I want to trim any whitepace and check if it is empty in the same line this
is not working.
if (empty(trim($_POST['_createcategory']))) {
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Ross wrote:
I want to trim any whitepace and check if it is empty in the same line this
is not working.
if (empty(trim($_POST['_createcategory']))) {
perhaps try:
if( strlen(trim($_POST['...']))) = 0 ) { ... }
don't think empty is the right function for this...
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Ross wrote:
I want to trim any whitepace and check if it is empty in the same line this
is not working.
if (empty(trim($_POST['_createcategory']))) {
You can't do this because empty needs the variable - it can't work on
teh return value. The closest you can get would be...
if
Brad Bonkoski wrote:
Ross wrote:
I want to trim any whitepace and check if it is empty in the same
line this is not working.
if (empty(trim($_POST['_createcategory']))) {
perhaps try:
if( strlen(trim($_POST['...']))) = 0 ) { ... }
don't think empty is the right function for this...
Ross schrieb:
I want to trim any whitepace and check if it is empty in the same line this
is not working.
if (empty(trim($_POST['_createcategory']))) {
Hi,
try this:
if (isset($_POST['_createcategory']))
{
$value = trim($_POST['_createcategory']);
if (empty($value))
{
}
}
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Stut wrote:
You could also do something like this...
$_POST['_createcategory'] =
isset($_POST['_createcategory']) ?
trim($_POST['_createcategory']) : '';
if (empty($_POST['_createcategory'])) {
Still not pretty but slightly better in that you can cleanse your data
before
Ross wrote:
Can I put post values directly into insert statements?
$query = INSERT INTO categories (category_name) VALUES
('$_POST['cat_name']);
Yes, although this is not recommended.
What is someone puts a single quote in there? Or some other bad
characters
otherwise... 2
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 16:23 +0100, Stut wrote:
Ross wrote:
I want to trim any whitepace and check if it is empty in the same line
this
is not working.
if (empty(trim($_POST['_createcategory']))) {
You can't do this because empty needs the variable - it can't work on
teh return
Tim wrote:
Ross schrieb:
I want to trim any whitepace and check if it is empty in the same
line this is not working.
if (empty(trim($_POST['_createcategory']))) {
Hi,
try this:
if (isset($_POST['_createcategory']))
{
$value = trim($_POST['_createcategory']);
if (empty($value))
{
Richard Davey schrieb:
Tim wrote:
Ross schrieb:
I want to trim any whitepace and check if it is empty in the same
line this is not working.
if (empty(trim($_POST['_createcategory']))) {
Hi,
try this:
if (isset($_POST['_createcategory']))
{
$value = trim($_POST['_createcategory']);
Hi,
I am having some problems getting my mod_rewrite to work on my development
server. On my
production server (linux) this works fine. But on my development server it
woun't work.
I have a file basicpage.php that is located in the webroot. I then have
a .htaccess file
with the following
Hi all,
I am attmepting to run a php scrip and this is the error i keep on getting.
The scripts first 4 lines are below the errors. When errors are returned,
does that mean that the error is local or in one of the include scripts? I
have tried to reverse the order of the includes but when i
On Mar 26, 2007, at 12:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am having some problems getting my mod_rewrite to work on my
development
server. On my
production server (linux) this works fine. But on my development
server it
woun't work.
I have a file basicpage.php that is located in the
Jonathan Kahan wrote:
I am attmepting to run a php scrip and this is the error i keep on
getting. The scripts first 4 lines are below the errors. When errors are
returned, does that mean that the error is local or in one of the
include scripts? I have tried to reverse the order of the
At 10:59 AM -0400 3/26/07, Brad Fuller wrote:
echo 'img src=image.php';
This does not run or call image.php.
This line of code sends this output to the browser.
Brad:
Yes, but the browser runs the code by trying to load an image.
Check this out:
At 3:59 PM +0100 3/26/07, Ross wrote:
Can I put post values directly into insert statements?
$query = INSERT INTO categories (category_name) VALUES
('$_POST['cat_name']);
Open to sql injection.
tedd
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From: tedd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 10:59 AM -0400 3/26/07, Brad Fuller wrote:
echo 'img src=image.php';
This does not run or call image.php.
This line of code sends this output to the browser.
Brad:
Yes, but the browser runs the code by trying to load an image.
...
My
Can someoune point me in the right direction as to how (if possible)
to convert a video format uploaded to a server to a flash format
(.flv) no matter what the orginal format is?
thanks
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On Monday 26 March 2007 19:49:48 Erik Jones wrote:
Yep, take this to the mod_rewrite forums @ http://www.modrewrite.com/
as this is a php list :)
Thanks. This solved it for me:
http://forum.modrewrite.com/viewtopic.php?p=10796#10796
/Peter
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On 3/26/07, Bruce Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someoune point me in the right direction as to how (if possible)
to convert a video format uploaded to a server to a flash format
(.flv) no matter what the orginal format is?
thanks
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We had a discussion about having video
On Mar 26, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Peter Lauri wrote:
On Monday 26 March 2007 19:49:48 Erik Jones wrote:
Yep, take this to the mod_rewrite forums @ http://www.modrewrite.com/
as this is a php list :)
Thanks. This solved it for me:
http://forum.modrewrite.com/viewtopic.php?p=10796#10796
/Peter
Bruce Gilbert wrote:
Can someoune point me in the right direction as to how (if possible)
to convert a video format uploaded to a server to a flash format
(.flv) no matter what the orginal format is?
We've had good success with automating Sorenson Squeeze directly via
batched jobs on the
On Mon, March 26, 2007 11:31 am, Jonathan Kahan wrote:
I am attmepting to run a php scrip and this is the error i keep on
getting.
The scripts first 4 lines are below the errors. When errors are
returned,
does that mean that the error is local or in one of the include
scripts? I
have tried
On Mon, March 26, 2007 10:17 am, Ross wrote:
I want to trim any whitepace and check if it is empty in the same
line this
is not working.
if (empty(trim($_POST['_createcategory']))) {
Define not working if you would...
Personally, I always use isset() to determine if any POST data was
sent,
On Mon, March 26, 2007 9:59 am, Ross wrote:
Can I put post values directly into insert statements?
$query = INSERT INTO categories (category_name) VALUES
('$_POST['cat_name']);
Sure!
If you want your webserver to get hacked by the Bad Guys, just go
right ahead and do that.
[that was
None of the previous posts added any security...
They all ONLY provided different syntax to leave your database wide
open for abuse.
This is much safer:
$cat_name_sql = myqsl_real_escape_string($_POST['cat_name']);
$query = insert into categories (category_name) values
('$cat_name_sql');
You
Ave,
Another option would be to just create a UNIQUE INDEX on the fields
you think should be unique, and then your second insert is gonna
fail, and you can just ignore that.
Could you possibly elaborate on this?
Things I'm trying are still not working out the way or want to, or
efficiently.
On Mon, March 26, 2007 12:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am having some problems getting my mod_rewrite to work on my
development
server. On my
production server (linux) this works fine. But on my development
server it
woun't work.
I have a file basicpage.php that is located in the
On Mon, March 26, 2007 6:54 am, Arno Kuhl wrote:
I've just noticed that \r\n and \t characters create a space when
rendered in the browser (tested in IE and Firefox). I'd always thought
the
browser would ignore these characters.
No.
HTML collapses any run of whitespace to a single space
On Mon, March 26, 2007 4:21 am, Kent Tong wrote:
We have moved our DNS server from one IP to another. But on a Linux
server, the PHP programs keep using the old DNS server IP. For
example, for a simple php file:
? echo gethostbyname (smtp.cpttm); ?
When it is run, it tries to lookup
On Mon, March 26, 2007 1:47 am, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)
wrote:
It's strange though because I don't see an SNMP section on the result
of a phpinfo();
Almost for sure you still don't have SNMP then.
Check config.log to see if PHP found the snmp libs or not.
Probably not.
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On Sun, March 25, 2007 8:41 am, Lorin Lund wrote:
I have a web site where I have posted some programs I have written as
shareware.
a href=myprogram-setup.execlick here to download/a
works great with mozilla but with MS IE it tries to display the
program.
What is the simplest way to set it
On Sat, March 24, 2007 11:00 pm, Jake McHenry wrote:
Index.php
?php
session_start();
header(Refresh: 1);
I dunno what the heck the Refresh header is, but it would not shock
me in the least that your sessions are getting lost because your
browser does the refresh before it processes the cookie
Ave,
To be honest, I don't think it's OT.
I ran into a similar problem quite a while back, working on a File Manager
application programmed in PHP/mySQL. I used the following 'fore-download'
header in php which assured the user present with a Save Dialog box to
download the file, and not open
If the code is embedded in the audio filename, or as part of the HTML,
the CAPTCHA itself is kinda useless to a serious attack. The attacker
will simply read the code from the HTML/URL
You need the secret code to never actually leave your server for it to
stay secret.
That said, CAPTCHA can
On Mar 26, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:
On Mon, March 26, 2007 1:47 am, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)
wrote:
It's strange though because I don't see an SNMP section on the result
of a phpinfo();
Almost for sure you still don't have SNMP then.
Check config.log to see if
On Sun, March 25, 2007 9:49 am, Jake McHenry wrote:
Do I call the image creation file in an html img tag? I've tried a
bunch of
things, and this is the only way I've been able to display the image
inline
so far, without the image headers blocking the rest of my output
There is no such
On Sun, March 25, 2007 9:02 pm, Jake McHenry wrote:
In image.php is this:
?php
session_start();
..captcha code..
$_SESSION['code'] = rand(blahblahblah) to get the random code
Arooo?
Don't randomize the code you're going to put on the image here.
Make up a
On 3/26/07, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, March 26, 2007 12:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am having some problems getting my mod_rewrite to work on my
development
server. On my
production server (linux) this works fine. But on my development
server it
woun't work.
I
On 3/26/07, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, March 26, 2007 4:21 am, Kent Tong wrote:
We have moved our DNS server from one IP to another. But on a Linux
server, the PHP programs keep using the old DNS server IP. For
example, for a simple php file:
? echo gethostbyname
On Mon, March 26, 2007 2:49 pm, Rahul Sitaram Johari wrote:
header(Content-Type: application/force-download);
header(Content-type: asfdsgfhrsiu/luhgireughinfibvn);
would work equally well as application/force-download
header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=.basename($F));
I was actually going through your blogspot on the subject and figured quite
a few flaws in my code and am re-writing it as we speak.
But believe it or not Richard, at the time I was researching this, and this
is about 2 years back, I was provided the code that I have in this very
mailing list
On Mon, March 26, 2007 2:28 pm, Rahul Sitaram Johari wrote:
Another option would be to just create a UNIQUE INDEX on the fields
you think should be unique, and then your second insert is gonna
fail, and you can just ignore that.
Could you possibly elaborate on this?
Things I'm trying are
Hi guys,
I work with hierarchical world areas organization in my php script.
It consumes a lot of memory so I'm trying to optimize it.
The more I try the worse it is ;o)
Consider following code:
general::debug(make_hierarchy,before hier split);
//lets organize areas by parents
foreach
On Mon, March 26, 2007 10:50 am, Richard Davey wrote:
Tim wrote:
Ross schrieb:
I want to trim any whitepace and check if it is empty in the same
line this is not working.
if (empty(trim($_POST['_createcategory']))) {
Hi,
try this:
if (isset($_POST['_createcategory']))
{
$value =
I'm exporting the data from mySQL table(s) into a dbase DBF table. The
unique index you're talking about should be in the DBF end, if I'm not
mistaken - but I'm not sure how to do that, and if that will help mySQL to
get that error and fail the second insert.
Unless I'm not getting this right.
On Sun, March 25, 2007 12:46 pm, Otto Wyss wrote:
Sorry that doesn't work with dates like 1.4.2007.
list($d, $m, $y) = explode('.', '1.4.2007');
$unixtime = mktime(1, 0, 0, $m, $d, $y);
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On Sat, March 24, 2007 4:52 am, Tijnema ! wrote:
That means that at 1000 iterations, you are saving how much time?
.00026 seconds?
.4 seconds?
Puhleaze.
Well, if you execute this script 1000 times, you would get a
difference of 2.6 seconds?
But if every microseconds counts for your
I have no idea what DBF is, but if the data is already in MySQL with
duplicates, you'll need to take everything I just said, and
translate it to DBF.
If it cannot be translated to DBF because DBF has no unique indeces,
you could, perhaps, create a TEMP table in MySQL, with the unique
index,
DBF is native dbase databases, used by foxpro etcetera.
But anyhow, I think what you've suggested is what I'll have to do. Take
records from all my mySQL table(s) and put Unique records (based on your
unique identifier exception code) into a temp mySQL table and then simply
transfer the records
The try again button doesn't work...
And geez I had this working ok the entire time When I saw yours it
hit me... I don't have a form. It would never echo out the code to
match whats in the picture... When the form is submitted it will check.. But
I didn't have it on a form... I was
Refresh was at 1 sec... Cause I was just playing with the images... And I
just figured it out... And responded to the list... But again... I had it
working the entire time, but I didn't have a form to submit something to
compare it to, which when I do that, it works, but it will never echo out
At 2:53 PM -0500 3/26/07, Richard Lynch wrote:
If the code is embedded in the audio filename, or as part of the HTML,
the CAPTCHA itself is kinda useless to a serious attack. The attacker
will simply read the code from the HTML/URL
I have not finished with the blind testing of my audio
At 2:56 PM -0500 3/26/07, Richard Lynch wrote:
On Sun, March 25, 2007 9:49 am, Jake McHenry wrote:
Do I call the image creation file in an html img tag? I've tried a
bunch of
things, and this is the only way I've been able to display the image
inline
so far, without the image headers
On Fri, March 23, 2007 10:34 pm, Myron Turner wrote:
You can do it with flock, but then you end up sooner or later with a
locked file from an exit or killed script, and then you have to
know
to remove locks older than X minutes.
You could also just do a mkdir for your lock, and check its
On 3/23/07, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, March 23, 2007 7:52 pm, Yvan Strahm wrote:
I am confused with the flock function and its usage. I have jobs which
are
stored in a database, these jobs are run by a series of job_runners
scripts
but sometimes the job_runners stop (
On 3/23/07, Myron Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard Lynch wrote:
On Fri, March 23, 2007 7:52 pm, Yvan Strahm wrote:
I am confused with the flock function and its usage. I have jobs which
are
stored in a database, these jobs are run by a series of job_runners
scripts
but sometimes
Escape it, use either htmlentities (with ENT_QUOTES) or addslashes.
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On Mon, March 26, 2007 9:59 am, Ross wrote:
Can I put post values directly into insert statements?
$query =
I've been trying some of the programs
in the PHP manual at http://www.php.net/manual/en/
in chapters CLXXXI and CLXXXII to work, for example
// Example 2519. Creating an XSLTProcessor
?php
$xml_filename = collection.xml;
$xsl_filename= collection.xsl;
$doc = new
you hijacked someone else's thread. don't do that.
you are making assuptions about references are correct - the engine is cleverer
than
you think (Sara Golemon has a nice blog post about this kind of reference
assuption that you might want to look up)
the word is 'because' not 'cos'.
'short
He said if you run the /script/ itself 1000 times, not a loop with 1000
iterations. This is quite possible; I am fairly certain there are websites
out there that get accessed well over 1000 times a minute, yes?
So every minute, that website is saving a total of 2.6 seconds to do...
whatever it
Hello everyone,
I have a working lighttpd + fastcgi + PHP + eaccelerator installation.
I have also enabled short tags on the /usr/local/lib/php.ini but I'm
having problems with PHP not escaping the short tags.
To better illustrate, my phpinfo() file can be accessed at
Jake Gardner wrote:
He said if you run the /script/ itself 1000 times, not a loop with 1000
iterations. This is quite possible; I am fairly certain there are
websites
out there that get accessed well over 1000 times a minute, yes?
So every minute, that website is saving a total of 2.6
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) schrieb:
Hello everyone,
I have a working lighttpd + fastcgi + PHP + eaccelerator installation.
I have also enabled short tags on the /usr/local/lib/php.ini but I'm
having problems with PHP not escaping the short tags.
To better illustrate, my phpinfo()
Timothy Murphy escribió:
I've been trying some of the programs
in the PHP manual at http://www.php.net/manual/en/
in chapters CLXXXI and CLXXXII to work, for example
// Example 2519. Creating an XSLTProcessor
?php
$xml_filename = collection.xml;
$xsl_filename=
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