Re: [PHP] validating form input

2010-07-08 Thread Michael Shadle
On Jul 8, 2010, at 12:38 PM, David Mehler wrote: > Hello, > Got a form that takes in data to enter in to a database. I want to > make it as secure and as invulnerable to sql injection and other > attacks as possible. I'm wondering if mysqli_real_escape_string or > stripslashes should be used or

[PHP] validating form input

2010-07-08 Thread David Mehler
Hello, Got a form that takes in data to enter in to a database. I want to make it as secure and as invulnerable to sql injection and other attacks as possible. I'm wondering if mysqli_real_escape_string or stripslashes should be used or if the former does the latter. For example, I have a name vari

Re: [PHP] Simple XML - problem with errors

2010-07-08 Thread Richard Quadling
On 8 July 2010 18:55, Gary . wrote: > On 7/8/10, Marc Guay wrote: >>> And yes, I'd rather use DOM, but I can't. >> >> Could you use this: http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/? > > Interesting. > > Although I can't use DOM or Tidy (because they're normally built in, > but TPTB decided to recompile

Re: [PHP] Login using just cookies, bad idea?

2010-07-08 Thread Adam Richardson
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 09:53 -0700, Michael Calkins wrote: > > > I right now have a complete user login and registration system however it > uses cookies when you login to store information. Is this a bad > thing?$_COOKIE vs $_SESSION for l

Re: [PHP] MSSQL failing.

2010-07-08 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Paul Halliday wrote: > Is there something that needs to be tweaked or added to get this to > work? I am trying to connect to server 2008 w/ MS SQL 2008. I can see > the connections fail in the servers event logs if I take away \domain > from \domain\username (mixed

Re: [PHP] Re: Simple XML - problem with errors

2010-07-08 Thread Gary .
On 7/8/10, Nisse Engström wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 17:15:02 +0200, "Gary ." wrote: >> I'm guessing that those attributes "must" be quoted in XML and >> "should" be in HTML (but patently aren't)? > > For that attribute value, it's a "must" in both cases. Okay. Please tell L**! :) -- PHP Ge

Re: [PHP] Simple XML - problem with errors

2010-07-08 Thread Gary .
On 7/8/10, Marc Guay wrote: >> And yes, I'd rather use DOM, but I can't. > > Could you use this: http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/? Interesting. Although I can't use DOM or Tidy (because they're normally built in, but TPTB decided to recompile PHP and exclude them, and I am not allowed to rec

Re: [PHP] Re: Simple XML - problem with errors

2010-07-08 Thread Gary .
On 7/8/10, Richard Quadling wrote: > On 8 July 2010 16:15, Gary wrote: >> Okay. At least one of the problems with this so called HTML seems to >> be that the body tag looks like >> >> and xml_parse complains that "> required" on that line (i.e. it is >> claiming it can't find the end of the tag!).

RE: [PHP] MSSQL failing.

2010-07-08 Thread Tommy Pham
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Halliday [mailto:paul.halli...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 10:01 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] MSSQL failing. > > Is there something that needs to be tweaked or added to get this to work? I > am trying to connect to ser

Re: [PHP] Date Test...

2010-07-08 Thread Don Wieland
On Jul 8, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: thanks Ash, I figure it out. I was not entering the full year. date('y-m-d',strtotime($fval)) needed to be date('o-m-d',strtotime($fval)) Duh ;-) Thanks, Don On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 13:28 -0700, Don Wieland wrote: Hello all, I am proc

Re: [PHP] Date Test...

2010-07-08 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 13:28 -0700, Don Wieland wrote: > Hello all, > > I am processing an array to build an INSERT string in PHP. The code > below I build an a separate array for the TARGET fields and the VALUES. > > I am trying to trap for a NULL ENTRY in a Date Input Field. Date > fields a

Re: [PHP] Login using just cookies, bad idea?

2010-07-08 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 09:53 -0700, Michael Calkins wrote: > I right now have a complete user login and registration system however it > uses cookies when you login to store information. Is this a bad > thing?$_COOKIE vs $_SESSION for login systems > > From,Michael calkinsmichaelcalk...@live.co

[PHP] MSSQL failing.

2010-07-08 Thread Paul Halliday
Is there something that needs to be tweaked or added to get this to work? I am trying to connect to server 2008 w/ MS SQL 2008. I can see the connections fail in the servers event logs if I take away \domain from \domain\username (mixed auth is turned off) so the communication is somewhat working.

Re: [PHP] Setting up a XDebug debugging environment for PHP / WAMP / Eclipse PDT

2010-07-08 Thread Adam Richardson
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:40 AM, David Négrier < d.negr...@thecodingmachine.com> wrote: > Hi list, > > After struggling a bit to set-up a debug environment in PHP, I decided to > write a complete tutorial to explain how to set-up XDebug in a WAMP / > Eclipse PDT environment. > > Everything was alre

[PHP] Login using just cookies, bad idea?

2010-07-08 Thread Michael Calkins
I right now have a complete user login and registration system however it uses cookies when you login to store information. Is this a bad thing?$_COOKIE vs $_SESSION for login systems From,Michael calkinsmichaelcalk...@live.com425-239-9952 __

[PHP] Re: Simple XML - problem with errors

2010-07-08 Thread Nisse Engström
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 17:15:02 +0200, "Gary ." wrote: > Okay. At least one of the problems with this so called HTML seems to > be that the body tag looks like > > and xml_parse complains that "> required" on that line (i.e. it is > claiming it can't find the end of the tag!). > > I'm guessing that

Re: [PHP] Simple XML - problem with errors

2010-07-08 Thread Marc Guay
> And yes, I'd rather use DOM, but I can't. Could you use this: http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Simple XML - problem with errors

2010-07-08 Thread Richard Quadling
On 8 July 2010 16:15, Gary . wrote: > Okay. At least one of the problems with this so called HTML seems to > be that the body tag looks like > > and xml_parse complains that "> required" on that line (i.e. it is > claiming it can't find the end of the tag!). > > I'm guessing that those attributes

[PHP] Re: Simple XML - problem with errors

2010-07-08 Thread Gary .
Okay. At least one of the problems with this so called HTML seems to be that the body tag looks like and xml_parse complains that "> required" on that line (i.e. it is claiming it can't find the end of the tag!). I'm guessing that those attributes "must" be quoted in XML and "should" be in HTML (

Re: [PHP] Simple XML - problem with errors

2010-07-08 Thread Marc Guay
> I wonder what the difference is between doing "new > SimpleXMLElement" and calling simplexml_load_string which results in the > libxml_use_internal_errors call being ineffective. Odd. The documentation for "Dealing with XML errors" only mentions simplexml_load_string() and this comment http://c

Re: [PHP] Simple XML - problem with errors

2010-07-08 Thread Gary .
Marc Guay writes: >> libxml_use_internal_errors(true); >> $this->xml = new SimpleXMLElement($this->htmlString); > I have code that looks like this: > > libxml_use_internal_errors(true); > $xml = simplexml_load_string($val); Yeah. I tried simplexml_load_string and found that "worked" (in that it d

Re: [PHP] Simple XML - problem with errors

2010-07-08 Thread Marc Guay
> libxml_use_internal_errors(true); > $this->xml = new SimpleXMLElement($this->htmlString); Hi Gary, I have code that looks like this: libxml_use_internal_errors(true); $xml = simplexml_load_string($val); $errors = libxml_get_errors(); if ($errors) do this else do that which wo

Re: [PHP] Simple XML - problem with errors

2010-07-08 Thread Gary .
Richard Quadling writes: > On 8 July 2010 08:07, Gary wrote: >> Why am I still getting an exception when I do this: >> >> libxml_use_internal_errors(true); >> $this->xml = new SimpleXMLElement($this->htmlString); >> >> or this >> $this->xml = new SimpleXMLElement($this->htmlString, >> LIBXML_NOERRO

Re: [PHP] Multiple Access Question

2010-07-08 Thread tedd
At 11:48 AM +0100 7/8/10, Richard Quadling wrote: On 7 July 2010 17:59, tedd wrote: Hi gang: I have *my way* of handling this problem, but I would like to hear how you > guys do it. -snip- I hope this is of some sense to you. It certainly is an interesting topic. Richard. Richard:

Re: [PHP] interface name file

2010-07-08 Thread shiplu
I use naming convention for interface. If an object can be cached, I create an interface I+Cache+able = ICachable. So a sample class would be named as ASampleClass.php And the Interface would be ICachable.php This is a well known interface naming convention. Shiplu Mokadd.im My talks, http://ta

Re: [PHP] Simple XML - problem with errors

2010-07-08 Thread Richard Quadling
On 8 July 2010 08:07, Gary . wrote: > Why am I still getting an exception when I do this: > > libxml_use_internal_errors(true); > $this->xml = new SimpleXMLElement($this->htmlString); > > or this > $this->xml = new SimpleXMLElement($this->htmlString, > LIBXML_NOERROR|LIBXML_NOWARNING); > > ? > > T

Re: [PHP] Multiple Access Question

2010-07-08 Thread Richard Quadling
On 7 July 2010 17:59, tedd wrote: > Hi gang: > > I have *my way* of handling this problem, but I would like to hear how you > guys do it. > > Here's the problem -- let's say you have a database containing names and > addresses and you want "approved" users to be able to access the data. As > such,

[PHP] Setting up a XDebug debugging environment for PHP / WAMP / Eclipse PDT

2010-07-08 Thread David Négrier
Hi list, After struggling a bit to set-up a debug environment in PHP, I decided to write a complete tutorial to explain how to set-up XDebug in a WAMP / Eclipse PDT environment. Everything was already available on the web but was squattered on several different sites. I've tried to write a s

Re: [PHP] interface name file

2010-07-08 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 04:00 +0200, Hans Åhlin wrote: > *.api > Application Programming Interface > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_Programming_Interface > > ** > Hans Åhlin >Tel: +46761488019 >icq: 275232967 >http://www.kronan-net.

[PHP] Simple XML - problem with errors

2010-07-08 Thread Gary .
Why am I still getting an exception when I do this: libxml_use_internal_errors(true); $this->xml = new SimpleXMLElement($this->htmlString); or this $this->xml = new SimpleXMLElement($this->htmlString, LIBXML_NOERROR|LIBXML_NOWARNING); ? The exception says "Exception: String could not be parsed

Re: [PHP] "php -l" - does it find *anything*?

2010-07-08 Thread Gary .
On 7/6/10, Per Jessen wrote: > It really is _only_ the syntax. Same goes for e.g. the C lint - Sorry, but that's not what I remember from my C days, nor what wikipedia says "lint was the name originally given to a particular program that flagged some suspicious and non-portable constructs (likely