Re: [PHP] Flags package for PHP?

2008-10-15 Thread Chris
Waynn Lue wrote: I'm running some command-line scripts that are taking more and more arguments, and I'm wondering whether anyone's used a good flags package for PHP? Support for string/int/boolean arguments would be nice, otherwise I'll just hack together my own. http://pear.php.net/package/Co

[PHP] Flags package for PHP?

2008-10-15 Thread Waynn Lue
I'm running some command-line scripts that are taking more and more arguments, and I'm wondering whether anyone's used a good flags package for PHP? Support for string/int/boolean arguments would be nice, otherwise I'll just hack together my own. Thanks for any advice, Waynn

Re: [PHP] Microsoft China to Punish private windows users

2008-10-15 Thread Shelley
You are REALLY "drive traffic", "spam", "SEO" experts. They are beyond my mind. The topic being here is just because the news is each national site's cover story and every mate talked about it. 2. Not a place to "DRIVE TRAFFIC". My English is still at preliminary school level, you see. (should be p

Re: [PHP] Microsoft China to Punish private windows users

2008-10-15 Thread Ben Stones
via e-mail? lol - speaking of which doubt many would visit the site anyway :)... oh wait, the archive... is it indexed by Google? 2008/10/16 Ashley Sheridan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 16:38 -0400, Wolf wrote: > > > > > This is extremely off-topic. Please don't abuse this list in

Re: [PHP] Microsoft China to Punish private windows users

2008-10-15 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Ashley Sheridan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I apologise then. I thought it was spam, sorry. Quit apologizing until you've done something wrong, Sheridan. ;-P -- More full-root dedicated server packages: Intel 2.4GHz/60GB/512MB/2TB $49.99/mo. Intel 3.06GH

Re: [PHP] Microsoft China to Punish private windows users

2008-10-15 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 19:17 -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Ashley Sheridan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think the PHP part of the URL was added by the mailing list. Short of > > that, I think it's just some schmuck trying to boost his/her SEO > > ranking. >

Re: [PHP] Microsoft China to Punish private windows users

2008-10-15 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Ashley Sheridan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the PHP part of the URL was added by the mailing list. Short of > that, I think it's just some schmuck trying to boost his/her SEO > ranking. "Shelly" has been here for over a year, on and off, and I think

Re: [PHP] Microsoft China to Punish private windows users

2008-10-15 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 16:38 -0400, Wolf wrote: > > > This is extremely off-topic. Please don't abuse this list in an attempt > > > to drive traffic to your blog. > > > > > > -Stut > > > > > > > It *is* powered by PHP, Stut. :P > > > > True, but that's the ONLY PHP thing about it... OK, and

Re: [PHP] searching by tags....

2008-10-15 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 15:36 -0600, Govinda wrote: > >>> > >>> improvement if I went for static URLs on the site, but I don't > >>> have any > >>> evidence for that, and I'm willing to admit it. > >> I'd rebuff this but it would feel like Im feeding a troll. > > > > choices: > > 1 - Waste some ti

Re: [PHP] searching by tags....

2008-10-15 Thread Nathan Rixham
Govinda wrote: improvement if I went for static URLs on the site, but I don't have any evidence for that, and I'm willing to admit it. I'd rebuff this but it would feel like Im feeding a troll. choices: 1 - Waste some time on a live test to prove this 2 - Explain how I know this and show the

Re: [PHP] searching by tags....

2008-10-15 Thread Govinda
improvement if I went for static URLs on the site, but I don't have any evidence for that, and I'm willing to admit it. I'd rebuff this but it would feel like Im feeding a troll. choices: 1 - Waste some time on a live test to prove this 2 - Explain how I know this and show the historical ev

Re: [PHP] searching by tags....

2008-10-15 Thread Nathan Rixham
Jochem Maas wrote: Ashley Sheridan schreef: On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 11:22 +0100, Nathan Rixham wrote: Jochem Maas wrote: Ashley Sheridan schreef: On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 00:58 +0100, Nathan Rixham wrote: Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 01:17 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Nathan Rixham

Re: [PHP] Microsoft China to Punish private windows users

2008-10-15 Thread Wolf
> > This is extremely off-topic. Please don't abuse this list in an attempt > > to drive traffic to your blog. > > > > -Stut > > > > It *is* powered by PHP, Stut. :P > True, but that's the ONLY PHP thing about it... OK, and the URL has PHP in it... ;) Wolf -- PHP General Mailing List (

Re: [PHP] searching by tags....

2008-10-15 Thread Jochem Maas
Ashley Sheridan schreef: > On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 11:22 +0100, Nathan Rixham wrote: >> Jochem Maas wrote: >>> Ashley Sheridan schreef: On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 00:58 +0100, Nathan Rixham wrote: > Ashley Sheridan wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 01:17 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: >>> Nathan

Re: [PHP] Microsoft China to Punish private windows users

2008-10-15 Thread Jay Moore
Stut wrote: On 15 Oct 2008, at 14:53, Shelley wrote: It will punish private Windows XP and Office 2003, Office 2007 users. This is extremely off-topic. Please don't abuse this list in an attempt to drive traffic to your blog. -Stut It *is* powered by PHP, Stut. :P -- PHP General Maili

Re: [PHP] searching by tags....

2008-10-15 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 11:22 +0100, Nathan Rixham wrote: > Jochem Maas wrote: > > Ashley Sheridan schreef: > >> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 00:58 +0100, Nathan Rixham wrote: > >>> Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 01:17 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: > > Nathan Rixham schreef: > >> As

Re: [PHP] Information on Cookies

2008-10-15 Thread Yeti
> You encrypt stuff with a string that you keep secret. That string is needed > to decrypt the string. I recommend you change that string once in a while. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Information on Cookies

2008-10-15 Thread Eric Gorr
On Oct 15, 2008, at 1:21 PM, Yeti wrote: You encrypt stuff with a string that you keep secret. That string is needed to decrypt the string. I recommend you change that string once in a while. Also, picking up a copy of: Essential PHP Security by Chris Shiflett # ISBN-10: 059600656X # ISBN-

Re: [PHP] Information on Cookies

2008-10-15 Thread Stut
On 15 Oct 2008, at 18:21, Yeti wrote: You encrypt stuff with a string that you keep secret. That string is needed to decrypt the string. I recommend you change that string once in a while. That's never a bad idea with any secret token, but bear in mind that when you do all existing cookies

[PHP] Re: Brain dead... write image to file

2008-10-15 Thread Ryan S
AGH! Just got up, feel like I have a hangover which is not really fair because I didnt drink so dont deserve one. It really is screwed up, you pull an all nighter and when you get up you look at the code you produced and it just isnt your best work... and the question pops up, why bother? S

Re: [PHP] Information on Cookies

2008-10-15 Thread Ben Stones
Makes perfect sense. I have included this security in my script - thanks to both of you for your help! Cheers! 2008/10/15 Stut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 15 Oct 2008, at 16:04, Ben Stones wrote: > >> Can you explain to me the benefits of hashing/encrypting/md5'ing cookie >> values? I don't see how

Re: [PHP] Information on Cookies

2008-10-15 Thread Stut
On 15 Oct 2008, at 16:04, Ben Stones wrote: Can you explain to me the benefits of hashing/encrypting/md5'ing cookie values? I don't see how it'd stop hackers from changing cookie values? You encrypt stuff with a string that you keep secret. That string is needed to decrypt the string. Wh

Re: [PHP] Information on Cookies

2008-10-15 Thread Ian
On 15 Oct 2008 at 16:04, Ben Stones wrote: > Can you explain to me the benefits of hashing/encrypting/md5'ing cookie > values? I don't see how it'd stop hackers from changing cookie values? Hi, You would keep a copy of the hash on the server and check that against the submitted value. If they

[PHP] Information on Cookies

2008-10-15 Thread Ben Stones
I've read a few videos on cookie security and it makes sense that people can modify cookie values which is a problem I'm trying to figure out to *try* and prevent. What I'll first do is at the top of the page that validates if the cookie values is in the database, but what my next problem is they'd

Re: [PHP] Information on Cookies

2008-10-15 Thread Ben Stones
Can you explain to me the benefits of hashing/encrypting/md5'ing cookie values? I don't see how it'd stop hackers from changing cookie values? 2008/10/15 Stut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 15 Oct 2008, at 15:23, Ben Stones wrote: > >> I've read a few videos on cookie security and it makes sense that

Re: [PHP] Information on Cookies

2008-10-15 Thread Stut
On 15 Oct 2008, at 15:23, Ben Stones wrote: I've read a few videos on cookie security and it makes sense that people can modify cookie values which is a problem I'm trying to figure out to *try* and prevent. What I'll first do is at the top of the page that validates if the cookie values is

Re: [PHP] Output to matrix printer

2008-10-15 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Ashley Sheridan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 19:15 -0300, Miles Thompson wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Dušan Novaković <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I have some request to sent text to matrix printer to print ticket for >> > t

Re: [PHP] Microsoft China to Punish private windows users

2008-10-15 Thread Stut
On 15 Oct 2008, at 14:53, Shelley wrote: It will punish private Windows XP and Office 2003, Office 2007 users. This is extremely off-topic. Please don't abuse this list in an attempt to drive traffic to your blog. -Stut -- http://stut.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/

Re: [PHP] Re: Brain dead... write image to file

2008-10-15 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Nathan Rixham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ryan S wrote: >> >> $uploaddir = 'C:\\wamp\\www\\ezee\\funny\\'; > > delimited backslashes in a string that doesn't need delimited (single quotes > not double. > > $uploaddir = 'C:\wamp\www\ezee\funny\'; > > -- > nathan ( [

Re: [PHP] Re: Output to matrix printer

2008-10-15 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Per Jessen wrote: > Shawn McKenzie wrote: > >> Matrix printer? Is this an awesomely powerful matrix of multiple >> printers high output printers? >> >> -Shawn > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_printer > > > /Per Jessen, Zürich > Ha,ha, yes I know. My first printer was a http://en.wikip

Re: [PHP] Re: 1 last error to fix before the application is done!

2008-10-15 Thread Jason Pruim
On Oct 15, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Nathan Rixham wrote: Jason Pruim wrote: I probably should have mentioned that this was in a function to do the heavy lifting for authentication :) I just didn't paste the whole function since 90% of it worked just fine :) Now I just need to get better and separ

Re: [PHP] Re: 1 last error to fix before the application is done!

2008-10-15 Thread Nathan Rixham
Jason Pruim wrote: I probably should have mentioned that this was in a function to do the heavy lifting for authentication :) I just didn't paste the whole function since 90% of it worked just fine :) Now I just need to get better and separating presentation and code :) very smiley today

[PHP] Re: Brain dead... write image to file

2008-10-15 Thread Maciek Sokolewicz
Ryan S wrote: Hey all, am feeling a bit brain dead, pulled an all nighter and would appreciate some help as have already wasted over 2hrs on this :( just not thinking straight. I got this script off the net, cant even remember where :( its basically to resize an uploaded image (i have a script

Re: [PHP] Re: 1 last error to fix before the application is done!

2008-10-15 Thread Jason Pruim
On Oct 14, 2008, at 7:24 PM, Jochem Maas wrote: Colin Guthrie schreef: Jochem Maas wrote: Jason Pruim schreef: if(isset($_SESSION['userInfo']['loggedin']) && $_SESSION['userInfo']['loggedin'] == TRUE) { Or, seeing as I'm a stickler for compact code: me too, I also like to be able to chan

[PHP] Re: Brain dead... write image to file

2008-10-15 Thread Nathan Rixham
Ryan S wrote: $uploaddir = 'C:\\wamp\\www\\ezee\\funny\\'; delimited backslashes in a string that doesn't need delimited (single quotes not double. $uploaddir = 'C:\wamp\www\ezee\funny\'; -- nathan ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) { Senior Web Developer php + java + flex + xmpp + xml + ecmascript

Re: [PHP] searching by tags....

2008-10-15 Thread Nathan Rixham
Jochem Maas wrote: Ashley Sheridan schreef: On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 00:58 +0100, Nathan Rixham wrote: Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 01:17 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Nathan Rixham schreef: Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:54 -0700, Ryan S wrote: quite a few sites

[PHP] Re: 1 last error to fix before the application is done!

2008-10-15 Thread Colin Guthrie
Jochem Maas wrote: Colin Guthrie schreef: if(!empty($_SESSION['userInfo']['loggedin'])) { if (Sess::userLoggedIn()) { /* ... :-) */ } Well, yes, that's how I do it in my apps too, but in internally in that function you may want to use the empty() call :) I agree that when checking for

[PHP] Brain dead... write image to file

2008-10-15 Thread Ryan S
Hey all, am feeling a bit brain dead, pulled an all nighter and would appreciate some help as have already wasted over 2hrs on this :( just not thinking straight. I got this script off the net, cant even remember where :( its basically to resize an uploaded image (i have a script that does exact

Re: [PHP] searching by tags....

2008-10-15 Thread Jochem Maas
Ashley Sheridan schreef: > On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 00:58 +0100, Nathan Rixham wrote: >> Ashley Sheridan wrote: >>> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 01:17 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Nathan Rixham schreef: > Ashley Sheridan wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:54 -0700, Ryan S wrote: >>> quite a few