Re: [PHP] Servers, servers and more servers

2002-05-21 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Stephen Tredrea wrote: > I'm trying to put together an architecture for a web environment and > have a newbie question regarding PHP and application servers... > > I have decided to use Apache and MySQL running on Linux, using PHP for > server side scripting. Were does an ap

RE: [PHP] Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish? Part 2

2002-05-21 Thread Ray Hunter
Jimmy, You could md5 something and send it encrypted and then verify the md5, something similar to sharing keys...md5 is similar to a key...i use it as something similar to kerberos... And yes, MD5 is a one-way hash...which comes in handy... Just remember that bigger is almost always better. I

[PHP] Servers, servers and more servers

2002-05-21 Thread Stephen Tredrea
Title: Message I'm trying to put together an architecture for a web environment and have a newbie question regarding PHP and application servers...   I have decided to use Apache and MySQL running on Linux, using PHP for server side scripting. Were does an application server fit into this an

Re: [PHP] Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish? Part 2

2002-05-21 Thread Vinod Panicker
Yes Jimmy, you are correct. MD5 is a one-way hash. Its used for getting a unique fingerprint of some data (like files / passwords etc) so that it can be compared with another MD5 hash. Thats the point of a hashing algorithm like MD5 and SHA1 - you should never need to decrypt the data. Refe

Re: Re: Re: [PHP] Full-Duplex communication

2002-05-21 Thread Vinod Panicker
What i have at the other end is a Instant Messenger client :) Cant have the script running till the time the user logs out can i? And also, different activities are triggered on the server asynchronously (presence status, instant messages, notifications) which has to be sent to the client. T

[PHP] Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish? Part 2

2002-05-21 Thread Jimmy Lantz
Thanx for the suggestions! Someone mentioned that I could use MD5 and then encrypt the hash, how would I ever decrypt that? Is'nt MD5 a 1-way thing only? Another question? Should I go for bigger keylength or bigger blocksize or both? What makes for the best encryption? / Jim (and before someon

Re: Re: [PHP] Full-Duplex communication

2002-05-21 Thread Richard Archer
At 5:55 AM + 22/5/02, Vinod Panicker wrote: >I want the ability to write to a socket thats been created earlier >- i want to steal it from Apache, so that i can use it when and >where i like. Why not just keep your script running and have it send more data to the browser whenever it becomes

Re: Re: Re: [PHP] Full-Duplex communication

2002-05-21 Thread Vinod Panicker
Thanks for the reply Miguel, but here i'm not trying to implement my own multi-threaded server - exactly the reason why i'm using Apache / PHP. I could have made a listening server which is based on a multi-threaded or multi-forked model, but the time and complexities involved would be huge.

Re: Re: [PHP] Full-Duplex communication

2002-05-21 Thread Miguel Cruz
Ah, yes - http://php.net/pcntl_fork Well there you go, then - everything required to create a server in PHP. miguel On Tue, 21 May 2002, Evan Nemerson wrote: > 1st thing: sorry about the double-post. i don't know why that happened. If > this one gets double posted too, i apologize in advance.

Re: Re: [PHP] Full-Duplex communication

2002-05-21 Thread Evan Nemerson
1st thing: sorry about the double-post. i don't know why that happened. If this one gets double posted too, i apologize in advance. 2nd: php.net/pcntl On Tuesday 21 May 2002 23:30 pm, Miguel Cruz wrote: > I don't think you're going to get Apache to hand you the socket. > > However, you can wr

Re: Re: [PHP] Full-Duplex communication

2002-05-21 Thread Miguel Cruz
I don't think you're going to get Apache to hand you the socket. However, you can write a program using the standalone (CGI) PHP interpreter that will act like a server - check out http://php.net/socket_create_listen for more info. You could redirect from your standard web server to your liste

Re: Re: [PHP] Full-Duplex communication

2002-05-21 Thread Evan Nemerson
Vinod, Interesting... Okay unless I'm mistaken, what you want to do can't be accomplished through PHP. However, you may want to take a look at libnet. http://www.packetfactory.net/Projects/Libnet/ I've always wanted someone to create a PHP interface for this- unfortunatly my C isn't quite th

Re: Re: [PHP] Full-Duplex communication

2002-05-21 Thread Vinod Panicker
Hi, It still seems like I havent made the problem clear enough. I am aware of the print(), echo() and flush() functions and what they do. It does not fit in as a solution. Let me explain my problem more elaborately - The client calls a PHP script, script_a.php on the Apache web server, usin

Re: [PHP] Function

2002-05-21 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Sqlcoders.com Programming Dept wrote: > When you include information from an include file, PHP treats the text as > inline code if you use the include() function. > > In other words, if you use code like this: > include 'file.php'; > ?> > > Then any functions inside file.ph

[PHP] make install issues

2002-05-21 Thread Evan Nemerson
$ make install /usr/local/php4/build/shtool install -c -m 0755 php /usr/local/bin/php-cgi cp: cannot stat `php': No such file or directory make: *** [install-sapi] Error 1 Any ideas? Configured with mcrypt, mhash, sockets, and ftp. Everything before this works perfect. Thanks in advance, Eva

Re: [PHP] Function

2002-05-21 Thread Kevin Waterson
On Wed, 22 May 2002 00:48:24 -0300 "Rodrigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys I_m trying to use a function on na .inc file, how should I do? > > How should I write the function and what should I write on the file so > that the function file is _Included_ to be used on a function call on > t

Re: [PHP] Function

2002-05-21 Thread Sqlcoders.com Programming Dept
Hi there!, When you include information from an include file, PHP treats the text as inline code if you use the include() function. In other words, if you use code like this: Then any functions inside file.php will be available just as if you'd copy/pasted them in. If file.php contained: funct

Re: [PHP] The $PATH to enlightenment

2002-05-21 Thread Brad Hubbard
On Wed, 22 May 2002 12:59, Martin Towell did align ASCII characters thusly: > putenv() and getenv() if it's for just one page Ok, that'll do it for one page, thanks. I was thinking of something for an entire site, any other ideas? This is running on (RH) Linux BTW. Cheers, Brad -- PHP Genera

RE: [PHP] Function

2002-05-21 Thread Peter
write the function as normal in na.inc and then on the page that u want to use that function type include(path_to_na.inc); -Original Message- From: Rodrigo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 22 May 2002 1:48 PM To: 'Php Lista' Subject: [PHP] Function Hi guys I’m trying to use a

[PHP] Function

2002-05-21 Thread Rodrigo
Hi guys I’m trying to use a function on na .inc file, how should I do? How should I write the function and what should I write on the file so that the function file is “Included” to be used on a function call on the php file? I appreciate any kind of sample code. Thanx, Rodrigo de Oliveira C

Re: [PHP] upload problem...

2002-05-21 Thread Jason Wong
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 07:02, Jas wrote: > Ok here is my error message: > Warning: Unable to open '' for reading: No such file or directory in > upload_done.php on line 9 > > I have checked permissions on the folder and they are correct, my only > guess is that upon doing several checks, session

[PHP] The $PATH to enlightenment

2002-05-21 Thread Brad Hubbard
What's the best way to alter the path that PHP looks in for exec(), system(), passthru(), etc. commands. IOW, how do I add /usr/local/ to the $PATH variable for the user (nobody in my case) that the webserver runs as. This question may be OT. Thanks in advance, Brad -- PHP General Mailin

Re: [PHP] JavaScript vs. Header redirect

2002-05-21 Thread Justin French
the below code should work, although, you've posted pseudo code, so i can't check it for any errors. if you don't print anything to the screen (including error messages, white space, etc), header() will work. be aware that any implementation of javascript will be limited to clients that have jav

RE: [PHP] Retrieving Session Variables

2002-05-21 Thread John Holmes
HTTP_SESSION_VARS has no scope within a function. Make it global first... function currentlogin() { global $HTTP_SESSION_VARS; echo $HTTP_SESSION_VARS['name']; return; } ---John Holmes... > -Original Message- > From: Tim Greenleaf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 2

[PHP] Retrieving Session Variables

2002-05-21 Thread Tim Greenleaf
I am having a problem getting a session variable in the function (currentlogin) below. I can process the script and in the else statement "print ($HTTP_SESSION_VARS['name']);" the session variable is printed but when the function tries to print the session variable, I get an error indicating an u

[PHP] JavaScript vs. Header redirect

2002-05-21 Thread Hunter Vaughn
Is there any reason I can't just use a JavaScript redirect from a PHP login handling script since I can't seem to get the header("Location: URL"); function to work? Any security concerns or anything else? As far as I can tell, all calls to header fail as soon as I attain variables based on a POS

Re: [PHP] upload problem...

2002-05-21 Thread Jas
Ok that didn't work, so far if I select a file other than a .jpg it returns me an error which is what I need to happen, however if I select an image with a .jpg extension for upload it tells me the upload was successful but when I check the directory there is never anything there. Any other ideas

Re: [PHP] upload problem...

2002-05-21 Thread Gerard Samuel
Take a look at move_uploaded_file() http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.move-uploaded-file.php Jas wrote: >Ok here is my error message: >Warning: Unable to open '' for reading: No such file or directory in >upload_done.php on line 9 > >I have checked permissions on the folder and they are corr

[PHP] php, files, character encoding???

2002-05-21 Thread Gerard Samuel
I was about to start putting together some code for a text editor. One of its requirements is that the files that it creates, must be able to be used in utf-8 char. encoded page. Then I started to wonder if php's fwrite() is character set aware. I did some preliminary searching, but I didn't come

[PHP] Re: Gibberish returned from forms

2002-05-21 Thread Gwen Fremonti
I'm not subscribed to the list because I'm not a "real" PHP user or developer (yet!), but I found this newsgroup on php.net and it allowed me to post anyway. I'm just trying to see whether I can help track down a problem. If anyone has any suggestions, could you please cc me on a response? Thanks

[PHP] upload problem...

2002-05-21 Thread Jas
Ok here is my error message: Warning: Unable to open '' for reading: No such file or directory in upload_done.php on line 9 I have checked permissions on the folder and they are correct, my only guess is that upon doing several checks, session vars, etc... it is loosing the file name somewhere. A

RE: [PHP] Reverse mySQL date

2002-05-21 Thread David Freeman
-Original Message- How can I reverse the date coming out of mySQL? ie 2002-05-21 becomes 21-05-2002 Can do it in the mySQL query or do I need to use PHP? -Original Message- Have a look at your favourite mysql manual for DATE_FORMAT - this will let you do what you need. CYA,

RE: [PHP] array empty after use

2002-05-21 Thread David Freeman
> When an array is 'used' with something like do while I can't > re-access it later in the page. Arrays have a pointer that steps through the array as you 'use' it. Once you reach the end you'll have to reset that pointer before you can step through the array again. See the manual section on

Re: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-21 Thread D. D. Brierton
I just thought that members of this list following this thread might like to know the results of my experimenting with this technique: All tests on Linux (testing on Windows 98 tomorrow): * Mozilla 0.9.9 worked perfectly. * Netscape 4.78 appeared to work but downloaded file was v

[PHP] do I need sessions?

2002-05-21 Thread Pushkar Pradhan
I've an array $layer in php, I pass this to javascript, JS can then add/remove elements and I get it back in php. I do this using: layerDesStr = ''; // php to JS // JS to php for(var i = 1; i < layer.length; i++) { goURL = goURL + "&layer[]=" + layer[i]; } document.location.href

[PHP] "Zend Timeout Window" crashed due to an Access Violation. -- Any ideas?

2002-05-21 Thread Sqlcoders.com Programming Dept
Hi there!, I've been testing some code for a company and I'm encountering something which I've never found before, right after making a call to a simple DB abstraction class which basically just makes a call to odbc_connect, then odbc_do, and then loops through the data saving the value of any fie

Re: [PHP] Full-Duplex communication

2002-05-21 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
For your specific problem, I think Mr. Lemos has provided a viable solution (using print() or echo() and flush() whenever you need to, instead of grabbing the socket and write() to it). My problem however is how you envision solving the communication the other way around (i.e. when the CLIENT

RE: [PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?

2002-05-21 Thread Ray Hunter
And yes...md5 is a message digest hashing utility for "compact digital signatures for an arbitrarily long stream of binary data." MD5 website... Thanks, Ray Hunter -Original Message- From: Sqlcoders.com Programming Dept [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 12:47

RE: [PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?

2002-05-21 Thread Ray Hunter
It is a one way hash that many people use for simple encryption...however, it should not be used for encrypting sensitive information...some people have used it for encrypting data contained in files... For example do a md5 hash then encrypt the hash Thanks, Ray Hunter -Original Mess

Re: [PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?

2002-05-21 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
I imagine he would want to un-encrypt his files at some point and MD5 is a one-way method and not an encryption technique at all... ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: "Javier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: [PHP] Re: Mcr

Re: [PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?

2002-05-21 Thread Javier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I missed the part that talked about encrypting files. I thought it was just for a password. Sorry. Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos wrote: | On Tue, 21 May 2002, Ray Hunter wrote: | | |>MD5 is not that secure compared to blowfish or twofish or the other |>t

Re: [PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?

2002-05-21 Thread Sqlcoders.com Programming Dept
> > What about MD5? > MD5 is a message digest I believe, something akin to the oldstyle CRC32. Then again I haven't used it much (just to verify a client's credit card number without revealing the CC number). HTH, Dw. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: h

Re: [PHP] printer_open

2002-05-21 Thread Sqlcoders.com Programming Dept
hiya, there's not that much you can do directly (i.e.: without some activeX controls which the client has to accept and then only work on IE), you can print a document in JavaScript with window.print(); Something like this would work if you wanted to print the document on screen: (in the body tag

RE: [PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?

2002-05-21 Thread Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Ray Hunter wrote: > MD5 is not that secure compared to blowfish or twofish or the other > types of encryption available with mcrypt... > > Thanks, > > Ray Hunter How does MD5 relate to encrypting the file? It's just used as a hash function. --thalis > > > > -Origi

RE: [PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?

2002-05-21 Thread Ray Hunter
MD5 is not that secure compared to blowfish or twofish or the other types of encryption available with mcrypt... Thanks, Ray Hunter -Original Message- From: Javier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish

[PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?

2002-05-21 Thread Javier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What about MD5? Jimmy Lantz wrote: | Hi, | started playing with Mcrypt and just wanted to ask which encryption | method makes the stronger encryption? | (I can supply the necesary keylength). | Should I go for MCRYPT_BLOWFISH or MCRYPT_TWOFISH? Or no

[PHP] Which weblog package

2002-05-21 Thread Mike Payson
I'm in charge of setting up a web site/community for a non-profit group. We are looking for a few key features: weblog, forums, a calendar, possibly web-mail (not all of these need to be offered in the same package, of course). Other features may be added as time goes on. To start with, I'm fo

Re: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-21 Thread D. D. Brierton
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 21:02, Billy S Halsey wrote: > Here's the shell of a script I wrote a while back to do exactly what you > want: Thanks, Billy! That's really helpful. I'm curious as to the significance of the number 12399. Is this just a random number used as a separator, or does it indicat

[PHP] Re: substr....what does this mean? (newbie)

2002-05-21 Thread J. Wharton
>From what it looks like, R, this code: if (substr($text, -1) == ".") {$test = substr($text, 0, -1);} checks to see if there is a period at the end of text. If there is, it simply assigns $test to be $text without the '.' . I'm rather new at this, so if someone has a counterclaim to what this mi

Re: [PHP] printer_open

2002-05-21 Thread J. Wharton
I wish they had noted this in the PHP manual. Does anyone know of a way to manipulate the client computer's printer orientation? J. Wharton "1lt John W. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 006101c20101$6c3ae7b0$2f7e3393@TB447CCO3">news:006101c20101$6c3ae

Re: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-21 Thread D. D. Brierton
On Tue, 21 May 2002 20:57:46 +0100, 1lt John W. Holmes wrote: > Use PHP to write a META-REFRESH to the file that's going to be downloaded, > or a php file that controls the download. Basically, you show them an HTML > page that says the download will begin, the META tag refreshes after X > second

Re: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-21 Thread Stuart Dallas
On 21 May 2002 at 20:37, D. D. Brierton wrote: > The result I'm looking for is like the CGI script at netscape for > downloading NS6 - it takes you to a page which says aomething like > "The download should start automatically" and then the download > begins. I'm having trouble figuring out how to

Re: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-21 Thread Billy S Halsey
Hi, Here's the shell of a script I wrote a while back to do exactly what you want: Note the format of the "Boundary" headers, especially the dashes. /bsh/ -- /-=[ BILLY S HALSEY ]=--\ | Member of Technical Staff, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ESP Sol

[PHP] Gibberish returned from forms

2002-05-21 Thread Gwen Fremonti
(cross-posted to php.dev) Hi - I don't know whether I'm looking in the right place for information, but I figured it couldn't hurt. We have our website hosted at a place that uses PHP. We have several forms that users submit information to us with. Just lately the email that we receive is complet

Re: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-21 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Use PHP to write a META-REFRESH to the file that's going to be downloaded, or a php file that controls the download. Basically, you show them an HTML page that says the download will begin, the META tag refreshes after X seconds to the actual file, and the download box pops up. ---John Holmes...

Re: [PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-21 Thread Robert Cummings
"D. D. Brierton" wrote: > > The result I'm looking for is like the CGI script at netscape for downloading > NS6 - it takes you to a page which says aomething like "The download should > start automatically" and then the download begins. I'm having trouble figuring > out how to do this in PHP - I

Re: [PHP] printer_open

2002-05-21 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Restart your web server when you make changes to php.ini. Also, note that these functions are for the printer on the server, i.e. where the code is running. ---John Holmes... - Original Message - From: "Sqlcoders.com Programming Dept" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "php general" <[EMAIL PROTEC

[PHP] How to simultaneously send HTML *and* start download?

2002-05-21 Thread D. D. Brierton
The result I'm looking for is like the CGI script at netscape for downloading NS6 - it takes you to a page which says aomething like "The download should start automatically" and then the download begins. I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this in PHP - I suspect through ignorance of the ap

Re: [PHP] Mail() function performance/optimization question

2002-05-21 Thread Wesley Furgiuele
I am in a shared hosting environment. Here's the info I grab from phpinfo(): SunOS admin 5.7 Generic_106541-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-MP sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail -t SMTP: localhost I don't yet know what the "-t" flag means on the Sendmail path. Also, I included the SMTP value but I a

Re: [PHP] printer_open

2002-05-21 Thread Sqlcoders.com Programming Dept
Hiya!, Have you tried adding this line in the very top of your script (just inside the opening To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: May 21 2002 11:19 AM Subject: [PHP] printer_open > I'm attempting to use the printer_open function in php, and am getting the > following error: > > Fatal error: Call to

[PHP] printer_open

2002-05-21 Thread J. Wharton
I'm attempting to use the printer_open function in php, and am getting the following error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: printer_open() in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\new\aview.php on line 209 I've tried commenting and uncommenting the extension=php_printer.dll line i

Re: [PHP] Mail() function performance/optimization question

2002-05-21 Thread Miguel Cruz
What platform and MTA are you using? Your MTA may be trying to handle the message while-u-wait rather than queuing it properly. miguel On Tue, 21 May 2002, Wesley Furgiuele wrote: > Adding a mail() step to my page increases the page load time from an average > of about 2 seconds to nearly 8 se

[PHP] Mail() function performance/optimization question

2002-05-21 Thread Wesley Furgiuele
Adding a mail() step to my page increases the page load time from an average of about 2 seconds to nearly 8 seconds. That would be OK if the page completed displaying all the text and then just kind of hung there while the mail() function finished. The page I am using, by the way, is a 5-column/

Re: [PHP] smtp

2002-05-21 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Steve Buehler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PHP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 2:34 PM Subject: [PHP] smtp > I am trying to use the "smtp class" from phpguru.org with a mysql database > using PHP. My question is this. I understand that I can s

Re: [PHP] smtp

2002-05-21 Thread Miguel Cruz
http://php.net/array_push miguel On Tue, 21 May 2002, Steve Buehler wrote: > I am trying to use the "smtp class" from phpguru.org with a mysql database > using PHP. My question is this. I understand that I can send out email to > multiple email addresses using this class. How can I populat

[PHP] smtp

2002-05-21 Thread Steve Buehler
I am trying to use the "smtp class" from phpguru.org with a mysql database using PHP. My question is this. I understand that I can send out email to multiple email addresses using this class. How can I populate these arrays with the email addresses. The fields that would have all of the add

[PHP] Re: Getting only 255 chars from SQL Server

2002-05-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
A long time ago I had this problem and discovered a checkbox in the ODBC configuration wizard with NT where you could specify how many chars of a varcar to return... you might look there... On Mon, 20 May 2002, Tim Greenleaf wrote: > FYI: MS SQL Server 7 and greater, Varchar is a max of 8000 c

Re: [PHP] array empty after use

2002-05-21 Thread Jim lucas
when you loop through a mysql result set you move the pointer up one place. you need to use the mysql_data_seek($results, 0); to reset the pointer Jim Lucas - Original Message - From: "Web" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PHP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 2:47 AM Subject: [PHP

Re: [PHP] Thanks for the substr help

2002-05-21 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Wed, 22 May 2002, r wrote: > To answer your question and suggestion, > The reason I didnt know that is coz i am not going by the online manual but > by a book called "PHP blackbook" Its pretty good but just a bit hazy here > and there. You should definitely download or use the online manual. I

[PHP] Thanks for the substr help

2002-05-21 Thread r
Hi, Thanks for the help, To answer your question and suggestion, The reason I didnt know that is coz i am not going by the online manual but by a book called "PHP blackbook" Its pretty good but just a bit hazy here and there. Thanks again. -Ryan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)

RE: [PHP] OOP with PHP

2002-05-21 Thread Scott Hurring
Try it out for yourself. :- class Test{ var $x = ''; function Test(){} } $x = new Test(); $y = new Test(); $x->x = "Way"; $y->x = "No"; print $y->x . $x->x; --- Scott Hurring Systems Programmer EAC Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 201-462-2149 Fax: 201-288-1515 > -Original Message

Re: [PHP] file functions and clearstatcache

2002-05-21 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Gerard Samuel wrote: > I have a function that checks whether a file exists and loads it like so > > function foo($bar) > { > if (file_exists($bar)) > { > include($bar); > } > } > > According to clearstat cache, its use is for files that change often. >

[PHP] OOP with PHP

2002-05-21 Thread Erik Price
Yesterday, I read in the archives somewhere that in PHP, class attributes are all static attributes (class variables), not instance variables. (Figures, I can't find it again, so I can't provide a link.) In other words, the attributes apply to every single instance of an object. This contra

Re: [PHP] eregi(mail)

2002-05-21 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Denis L. Menezes wrote: > I use the following code, but it does not work. Is there something wrong? > > If > (ereg('^[-!#$%&\'*+\\./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+'.'@'.'[-!#$%&\'*+\\/0-9=?A-Z^_`a > -z{|}~]+\.'.'[-!#$%&\'*+\\./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+$', > $email_address)) One problem (syn

RE: [PHP] substr....what does this mean? (newbie)

2002-05-21 Thread Scott Hurring
-1 is the index of the char number you want to examine. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php So that code is checking the last char of the string to see if its ".", if it is, it returns everything *except* the ".". Please consult the online manual in the future... it wants to be you

Re: [PHP] Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?

2002-05-21 Thread Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Jimmy Lantz wrote: > Hi, > started playing with Mcrypt and just wanted to ask which encryption method > makes the stronger encryption? > (I can supply the necesary keylength). > Should I go for MCRYPT_BLOWFISH or MCRYPT_TWOFISH? Or no fish at all :) > > So what do I need it

[PHP] substr....what does this mean? (newbie)

2002-05-21 Thread r
Hi ppl, Can you tell me what does this mean? if (substr($text, -1) == ".") {$test = substr($text, 0, -1);} I know the if part searches the $text from the starting for the "." I am just confused about what the second and third arguement does in the substr. (Second line) I know that this is an ea

Re: [PHP] Getting only 255 chars from SQL Server

2002-05-21 Thread Tim Greenleaf
FYI: MS SQL Server 7 and greater, Varchar is a max of 8000 characters so it sounds like there is some limitation in the PHP functions that is limiting this. "Niklas lampén" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 008901c1fa7b$14539d30$ba93c5c3@Niklas">news:008901c1fa7b$14539d30$ba93c5c3@Niklas... >

Re: [PHP] in_array problems (another pair of eyes?)

2002-05-21 Thread Jason Wong
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 01:45, Jas wrote: > I don't think I am using the syntax correctly, I have been looking at this > function on php.net and everything I have seen says my code should be > working. What version of php are you using? In PHP versions before 4.2.0 needle was not allowed to be

RE: [PHP] Secure eval();

2002-05-21 Thread Scott Hurring
> -Original Message- > From: Chris Boget [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: Re: [PHP] Secure eval(); > > > Are you sure you have to run it through eval()? It sounds > like you're > > creating a query. Couldn't you just create the query > dynamically, then put > > it in a mysql_query(

Re: [PHP] Post form values - script flow

2002-05-21 Thread Jerome Houston
Looks good Tim. if you're going to do it this way, make sure register_globals is set on in your php.ini. also you check isset($srch) AND strlen(trim($srch)). in most cases, both checks won't be necessary. unless you have high error reporting, and php will complain if you check a variable th

[PHP] in_array problems (another pair of eyes?)

2002-05-21 Thread Jas
I don't think I am using the syntax correctly, I have been looking at this function on php.net and everything I have seen says my code should be working. A form allows the user to upload a file: Resulting file (upload_done.php): And here is my error: Warning: Wrong datatype for first arg

[PHP] Post form values - script flow

2002-05-21 Thread Tim Greenleaf
I am very new to PHP about two hours. I have a search page that I post back to the same URL. When the form is loaded I check to see if the seach variable is set ($srch is the name of the text box on the form) and then determine what function to call. I either call a welcome message function to

RE: [PHP] timezone problem

2002-05-21 Thread SP
Here's what I was just thinking. This timezone seems too complicated and what do you guys think about me just displaying all the times in GMT and then allow the user to set to their local time by selecting a pulldown list of all the times GMT -11 to GMT +12. set local time to 1:10pm set local ti

Re: [PHP] Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?

2002-05-21 Thread Sqlcoders.com Programming Dept
hiya, twofish runs at just over 25MB/sec when compiled into a test VC++ application, blowfish runs at 18MB/sec. As far as I remember, if you use the same keylenght (256 or 128) then you should get around the same level of encryption (probably not exact, but if one was that much weaker there'd be

Re: [PHP] timezone problem

2002-05-21 Thread Christopher Riordan
I had a similar issue, for a thing I'm doing for a Messageboard I am writing I need the timezones and offsets, so I compiled the best I could off different sites and info, and created a Mysql Table with all the timezones and offsets. there are duplicate offsets but since people know their TZ as di

Re: [PHP] PHP&Apache config to not require "?"

2002-05-21 Thread Jason Wong
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 00:37, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > Hello PHP'ers > > I am currently using the very cool PHPSlideshow(1) > > This gives me URLs that look like this: > > http://www.tntluoma.com/show.php?directory=nursery/ > > I would like to be able to have simpler URL like this: > >

RE: [PHP] timezone problem

2002-05-21 Thread SP
Hi Baba I've been trying to get as much info on this as possible and you are right it is quite messy. Thanks for that link, I'm going to take a look at your code. -Original Message- From: Baba Buehler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: May 21, 2002 5:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[PHP] PHP&Apache config to not require "?"

2002-05-21 Thread Timothy J. Luoma
Hello PHP'ers I am currently using the very cool PHPSlideshow(1) This gives me URLs that look like this: http://www.tntluoma.com/show.php?directory=nursery/ I would like to be able to have simpler URL like this: http://www.tntluoma.com/show/directory=nursery/ I was researchi

[PHP] Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?

2002-05-21 Thread Jimmy Lantz
Hi, started playing with Mcrypt and just wanted to ask which encryption method makes the stronger encryption? (I can supply the necesary keylength). Should I go for MCRYPT_BLOWFISH or MCRYPT_TWOFISH? Or no fish at all :) So what do I need it for? I'm going to use it encrypting files, sizes vari

php-general Digest 21 May 2002 15:58:17 -0000 Issue 1358

2002-05-21 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 21 May 2002 15:58:17 - Issue 1358 Topics (messages 98557 through 98607): Re: MySQL and sorting 98557 by: Miguel Cruz 98558 by: Tyler Longren 98559 by: Jason Wong 98562 by: David Freeman Smart quote algorithm 98560 by: Miguel Cruz

Re: [PHP] unknown problem of script

2002-05-21 Thread Analysis & Solutions
Erich: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:22:10PM +0800, erich wrote: > Warning: Undefined index: install in d:\wwwroot\program_files\install.php > on line 14 Undefined index means that the index you requested from an array doesn't exist. > > $install = $HTTP_POST_VARS["install"]; That's line 14.

Re: [PHP] Secure eval();

2002-05-21 Thread Chris Boget
> Are you sure you have to run it through eval()? It sounds like you're > creating a query. Couldn't you just create the query dynamically, then put > it in a mysql_query() function? (or whatever DB you're using) Then, even if > they try some kung fu on you, it'll just result in a bad query, not s

Re: [PHP] Secure eval();

2002-05-21 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
Are you sure you have to run it through eval()? It sounds like you're creating a query. Couldn't you just create the query dynamically, then put it in a mysql_query() function? (or whatever DB you're using) Then, even if they try some kung fu on you, it'll just result in a bad query, not some rogu

[PHP] unknown problem of script

2002-05-21 Thread erich
i run a install.php, the server says the following statement, Warning: Undefined index: install in d:\wwwroot\program_files\install.php on line 14 the strange things is when i install the php program, it does not have outputted this warning, but this warning occurs when i put all the files to a r

Re: [PHP] Secure eval();

2002-05-21 Thread Chris Boget
> You'll have to come up with a regular expression to check for bad > characters. How complex are the equations? If they are like your example, > you can just check that the equation doesn't have any letters and is only > made up of [0-9+*-/()] characters. It's pretty complex. What I gave was a

Re: Re: [PHP] Full-Duplex communication

2002-05-21 Thread Vinod Panicker
Hi, Tx for your very prompt reply. Yeah, I'll post the solution as soon as I find it someplace. Let me outline the problem in more detail - Client (VC++) calls a PHP script on the server, specifies the connection type as Keep-Alive. The PHP script, somehow (still a big question) gets the so

[PHP] Java PHP Integration

2002-05-21 Thread Conover, Ryan
I was wondering if anyone uses php to call enterprise javabeans? I wrote a java class that is accessed by some php code. This java class calls an EJB and gets a custom object returned to the java class called report. When I returned the custom object to php to reference, everything I try to oup

Re: [PHP] Secure eval();

2002-05-21 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
You'll have to come up with a regular expression to check for bad characters. How complex are the equations? If they are like your example, you can just check that the equation doesn't have any letters and is only made up of [0-9+*-/()] characters. ---John Holmes... - Original Message -

Re: [PHP] Full-Duplex communication

2002-05-21 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
Hi! I'm looking for an answer to your questions as well, so if you do find a solution on other lists, could you please post it here as well? Regarding the issue, your proposal wouldn't make for full-duplex as far as I understand since I don't see how the client would be able to send any data

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