[PHP] Webpage Persistence Load balancing

2013-05-29 Thread Al
t a server issue that you must fix? Thanks, Al. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Header Keep-Alive

2013-05-27 Thread Al
I'm trying to increase the connection timeout; but can't get it to work. Note: Keep-Alive gets repeated. I'm using: header("Connection: Keep-Alive"); header("Keep-Alive: timeout=9, max=100"); I get: (Status-Line) HTTP/1.1 200 OK DateMon, 27 May 2013 20:19:54 GMT Server Apache Connection

[PHP] htaccess question

2013-04-09 Thread Al
I know it's not a php question, but I can't readily find the answer elsewhere. I want to make this directive universal. Put htaccess file on any host in any folder. This works RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.foo.org/bar/$1 [R=301,L] #Here the

Re: [PHP] Undefined Variables

2013-02-14 Thread Al
On 2/14/2013 1:54 PM, Stuart Dallas wrote: Sorry for the top post! I don't know numbers, but my gut instinct is that the cycles wasted raising the notice (it gets raised even if it goes nowhere so turning display and log doesn't remove the hit completely) are better spent executing defensive

Re: [PHP] Need to have form protection techniques

2012-08-17 Thread Al
On 8/17/2012 10:42 AM, Robert Cummings wrote: On 12-08-17 10:15 AM, Tedd Sperling wrote: On Aug 17, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Ansry User 01 wrote: I need to know the forms validity techniques for Php. This will probably take a while to

Re: [PHP] Too many open files

2012-08-12 Thread Al
On 8/10/2012 12:02 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Robert Cummings wrote: On 12-08-09 08:01 PM, Al wrote: I can't find a way to see what files could be open or what the limit is. Site is on a shared server, cPanel. ^ THIS is pro

[PHP] Too many open files

2012-08-09 Thread Al
Getting "Too many open files" error when processing an email batch process. The batch size is actually rather small and the email text is small likewise. I've looked extensively and can't find more than about 100 files that could be open. All my fetching is with get_file_contents(); I can't

Re: [PHP] Re: Regex

2012-07-27 Thread Al
On 7/27/2012 2:56 PM, David Harkness wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Al wrote: "%[\w\d,.]%" "\w" will match digits so "\d" isn't necessary, but it will also match underscores which isn't desired. David You're correct, I forgo

[PHP] Re: Regex

2012-07-27 Thread Al
On 7/27/2012 1:07 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear list - I've tried everything and am still stuck. A regex that will accept numbers, letters, comma, period and no other characters Thanks. Ethan Rosenberg "%[\w\d,.]%" -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, v

Re: [PHP] Reverse DNS testing

2012-07-12 Thread Al
On 7/12/2012 3:58 PM, David OBrien wrote: On Jul 12, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Al wrote: I want to do a rDNS check on a admin entered host name to insure in-coming mail servers don't reject mail, sent by my app, because the rDNS doesn't exist or doesn't match. Here is the f

Re: [PHP] Reverse DNS testing

2012-07-12 Thread Al
On 7/12/2012 3:09 PM, Jim Lucas wrote: On 07/12/2012 11:17 AM, Al wrote: I want to do a rDNS check on a admin entered host name to insure in-coming mail servers don't reject mail, sent by my app, because the rDNS doesn't exist or doesn't match. Here is the fundamental code: $

[PHP] Reverse DNS testing

2012-07-12 Thread Al
I want to do a rDNS check on a admin entered host name to insure in-coming mail servers don't reject mail, sent by my app, because the rDNS doesn't exist or doesn't match. Here is the fundamental code: $host = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; //site name shared or not $ip = gethostbyname($host); $hos

[PHP] What's happened to our newsgroup?

2012-06-26 Thread Al
No postings for days. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: php form action breaks script

2012-06-15 Thread Al
It is a small price to pay for large block, especially if the text has any quotes. Personally, I can't keep them straight and delimit them, etc. Heredoc saves all that such stuff. $insert= MY_DEFINED; echo << On 06/15/2012 06:35 AM, Jim Giner wrote: Hear, Hear for heredocs. The only way to c

[PHP] Re: php form action breaks script

2012-06-15 Thread Al
On 6/14/2012 7:28 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hello list, I was just wondering if I could get some opinions on a snippet of code which breaks a php web page. First the working code which is basically an html form being echoed by php: if ($output_form) { echo ' Subject of email: B

Re: [PHP] global array

2012-06-14 Thread Al
On 6/14/2012 12:49 PM, Jim Giner wrote: Yes - PHP is very picky. Hence I never capitalize anything! I use underscores to make varnames more understandable, as in $inv_req There is another nice custom e.g. $invReg it's easy to read and it doesn't conflict with PHP syntax for some function

[PHP] Re:

2012-06-04 Thread Al
On 6/3/2012 8:26 PM, Chris Purves wrote: Hello, I am trying to use preg_match to match something from an html file. Within the html file is some text that looks like: Something, something end I know that the text ends 'end', but I don't know what the Something, something is. I am using preg_

[PHP] disabled cookies

2012-06-03 Thread Al
Disabled cookies use to be a problem years ago. What's your experience these days. I need it for my session ID. As I read the docs, the old method of appending it to the URL is a security issue. I can obviously save the ID in a temp file which can be read by all the pages needing it.

[PHP] Best practice question regarding set_include_path()

2012-05-10 Thread Al
For my applications, I've been using includes and other file addressing by using the doc root as the base dir. e.g. require_once $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/miniRegDB/includes/miniRegDBconfig.php'; Recently, I ran into a problem with a new installation on a shared host where the doc root wa

[PHP] Re: foreach

2012-04-05 Thread Al
On 4/5/2012 4:15 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear Lists - I know I am missing something fundamental - but I have no idea where to start to look. Here are code snippets: I have truncated the allowed_fields to make it easier to debug. $allowed_fields = array( 'Site' =>'POST[Site]', 'MedRec' =>

Re: [PHP] foreach weirdness

2012-03-24 Thread Al
On 3/23/2012 10:11 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: On 12-03-23 06:30 PM, Simon Schick wrote: 2012/3/23 Robert Cummings On 12-03-23 11:16 AM, Arno Kuhl wrote: it still does not produce the correct result: 0 1 3 6 10 15 21 0 1 3 6 10 15 15 This looks like a bug... the last row should be the s

[PHP] Re: $POST and $_SESSION

2012-03-17 Thread Al
On 3/17/2012 12:52 PM, Al wrote: On 3/15/2012 11:04 AM, Tedd Sperling wrote: $first_name = $_SESSION['first_name'] ? $_SESSION['first_name'] : null; $first_name = isset($_POST['first_name']) ? $_POST['first_name'] : $first_name; $_SESSION[&

[PHP] Re: $POST and $_SESSION

2012-03-17 Thread Al
On 3/15/2012 11:04 AM, Tedd Sperling wrote: $first_name = $_SESSION['first_name'] ? $_SESSION['first_name'] : null; $first_name = isset($_POST['first_name']) ? $_POST['first_name'] : $first_name; $_SESSION['first_name'] = $first_name; $_SESSION['first_name'] = (isset($_POST['first_name']))?

[PHP] Re: Test

2012-02-20 Thread Al
Doesn't appear to meet DMARC standards. On 2/20/2012 1:57 PM, Jay Blanchard wrote: Does this work? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Re: Continued Problems Accessing *.php.net?

2012-01-24 Thread Al
e very talented folks" fix the severely restricted access to the NNTP server. Rarely can I download more than about 10 topics without a time out. Per your request several times over at least 2 years, I've filed bug reports. The problem still exists. Though until about a week ago, it wa

Re: [PHP] Re: Question regarding passwords/security

2011-12-22 Thread Al
On 12/22/2011 2:54 PM, Stuart Dallas wrote: On 22 Dec 2011, at 19:34, Paul M Foster wrote: I have concerns that the items in a session buffer can be copied and used to spoof legitimate logins. This is harder to do when the info is held in a database. Storing stuff in a database is no more s

[PHP] Re: Question regarding passwords/security

2011-12-22 Thread Al
On 12/22/2011 10:05 AM, Paul M Foster wrote: Not sure how to ask this question... I've always eschewed consulting a database on page loads to determine if a user is logged in, primarily because of latency issues. For example, you could store a nonce like the session ID in a table for a user whe

[PHP] Re: Preferred Syntax

2011-12-14 Thread Al
On 12/14/2011 7:59 AM, Rick Dwyer wrote: Hello all. Can someone tell me which of the following is preferred and why? echo "$page_name"; echo "".$page_name.""; When I come across the above code in line 1, I have been changing it to what you see in line 2 for no other reason than it delineate

[PHP] Re: How to use a variable variable in an array walk?

2011-12-13 Thread Al
On 12/13/2011 5:43 PM, Nils Leideck wrote: Anyone?:-( is my description too unclear? On 11.12.2011, at 11:25, Nils Leideck wrote: this is my first post to the PHP general list. I have an issue with a variable variable (http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php) My use c

Re: [PHP] Common way to store db-password of open session?

2011-11-29 Thread Al
On 11/29/2011 7:40 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On Tue 29 Nov 2011 01:34:08 PM IST, Andreas wrote: Hi, is threre a most advisble way to store db-passwords of an open user-session? As far as I get it, a common login strategy is to let the user login by name&password, check it, store a login=

Re: [PHP] Parsing the From field

2011-11-19 Thread Al
On 11/19/2011 11:29 AM, Alain Williams wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:23:59AM -0500, Ron Piggott wrote: I am unsure of how to parse first name, last name and e-mail address from the 'From:' field of an e-mail. What I am struggling with is if the name has more than two words - Such as the

Re: [PHP] Re: newline and return issues in string

2011-10-11 Thread Al
On 10/11/2011 10:44 AM, ad...@buskirkgraphics.com wrote: Richard L. Buskirk Senior Software Engineer/Systems Administrator You can’t grow your business with systems that are on life support... -Original Message- From: Al [mailto:n...@ridersite.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011

[PHP] Re: newline and return issues in string

2011-10-11 Thread Al
On 10/11/2011 7:58 AM, ad...@buskirkgraphics.com wrote: I have come across an issue with my string that I would like to find a faster way to resolve. It seems there are new lines and returns at different positions of the string. First I exploded on the new line explode(“\n”, $ string) This

[PHP] Re: filter_input and $_POST deep array

2011-09-23 Thread Al
On 9/23/2011 5:51 AM, jean-baptiste verrey wrote: Hi, I have using a form that gives me something like $_POST=array( 'login'=>array( 'email'=>'he...@myphp.net', 'password'=>'123456' ) ) is there a way to use filter_input function to filter the values? I tried fil

[PHP] Re: Stop PHP execution on client connection closed

2011-09-12 Thread Al
See http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.connection-aborted.php On 9/12/2011 10:40 AM, Marco Lanzotti wrote: Hi all, I'm new in the list and I already have a question for you. I'm running an heavy query on my DB in a PHP script called by AJAX. Because client often abort AJAX connection to ask a

Re: [PHP] Re: testing

2011-08-03 Thread Al
On 8/3/2011 9:16 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Al wrote: On 8/2/2011 5:18 PM, Jim Giner wrote: Don't seem to be getting any feeds thru the newsgroup mirror(?). This newsgroup has been a mess for almost a year now. One big problem is that the server only accepts a small numb

[PHP] Re: testing

2011-08-03 Thread Al
On 8/2/2011 5:18 PM, Jim Giner wrote: Don't seem to be getting any feeds thru the newsgroup mirror(?). This newsgroup has been a mess for almost a year now. One big problem is that the server only accepts a small number of connections, for just some mail clients, eg Thunderbird; but works

[PHP] Re: this newsgroup and OE

2011-06-22 Thread Al
I've reported the issue Bugzilla two times, and others have also. On 6/22/2011 11:27 AM, Shawn McKenzie wrote: On 06/22/2011 09:45 AM, Jim Giner wrote: Perhaps someone can tell me the secret to getting problem-free access to the php newsgroups using OE. I have two other newsgroup servers confi

[PHP] htaccess question

2011-05-23 Thread Al
How can I prevent access to all files in a directory except one with an htaccess file. I've tried several approaches found with Googling; but, none seem to work. e.g., Order Allow,Deny Deny from all This seems to me as it should deny to all except makeScodeImg.php Thanks -- PHP General Ma

[PHP] Re: Script ID?

2011-05-21 Thread Al
On 5/21/2011 10:11 AM, tedd wrote: Hi gang: Okay, so,what's the "best" (i.e., most secure) way for your script to identify itself *IF* you plan on using that information later, such as the value in an action attribute in a form? For example, I was using: $self = basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAM

[PHP] Newsgroup status

2011-04-27 Thread Al
Is this group off the air or just no topics being posted? I've not seen it so quiet in years. Al. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Re: htaccess question

2011-04-26 Thread Al
On 4/26/2011 5:54 AM, David Robley wrote: Al wrote: I want to restrict access to all files except one on my site and in parent dir. Thought this should work; but it doesn't. Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from xx.36.2.215 xx.36.2.215 is actual value IP This file makes a ca

[PHP] Re: htaccess question

2011-04-24 Thread Al
On 4/24/2011 5:48 PM, Al wrote: I want to restrict access to all files except one on my site and in parent dir. Thought this should work; but it doesn't. Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from xx.36.2.215 xx.36.2.215 is actual value IP This file makes a captcha image and is called

[PHP] htaccess question

2011-04-24 Thread Al
I want to restrict access to all files except one on my site and in parent dir. Thought this should work; but it doesn't. Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from xx.36.2.215 xx.36.2.215 is actual value IP This file makes a captcha image and is called with in file /dir/control.php makeSco

Re: [PHP] Please help with glob

2011-04-05 Thread Al Mangkok
someone else will benefit from this post. -- al On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Al Mangkok wrote: > Hi Louis, > Yes, I have read that glob is only available for PHP > 4.3 and I am > using version 5.2.1.7 > > # /usr/local/bin/php -v > PHP 5.2.17 (cli) (built: Feb 16 2011 15:

Re: [PHP] Please help with glob

2011-04-04 Thread Al Mangkok
one ? -- al On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Louis Huppenbauer wrote: > Hi there > > Since glob is actually a part of the core - Are you absolutely sure > that you're running PHP > 4.3 > > 2011/4/5 Al Mangkok : >> Hi everyone, >> I am very new to PHP a

[PHP] Please help with glob

2011-04-04 Thread Al Mangkok
CentOS 4.8 . How do I compile PHP to get the glob function in ? Please help. -- al -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Re: If Statements Array and Notice Undefined Index

2011-03-31 Thread Al
On 3/31/2011 10:45 AM, Nicholas Cooper wrote: Good day, I have three arrays A, B and C. Anyone of them might not have the 'id' key set which will give the Notice "Undefined index: id". I just wanted to know what the correct approach to this problem would be; without making the code overly com

Re: [PHP] Permission Denied - Help Requested

2011-03-29 Thread Al
On 3/29/2011 3:06 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: At 01:40 PM 3/29/2011, Adam Richardson wrote: On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > At 11:14 PM 3/28/2011, Adam Richardson wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Ethan Rosenberg <> eth...@earthlink.net>eth...@earthlink.n

[PHP] Re: Path question

2011-03-29 Thread Al
On 3/28/2011 9:18 PM, Jack wrote: Hello All, Is there a smarter way to do includes by setting up a path or something where I don't have to include /home/domain.com/includes/include_file.php Apparently my path is as shown above, but I would prefer to just put in /includes/include_file.php

Re: [PHP] Re: putting variables in a variable

2011-03-26 Thread Al
On 3/26/2011 11:57 AM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 11:46, Al wrote: You guys know this thread will be three years old on Monday, right? Interestingly enough, it looks like Ross ('Hulf') had his client, OS, or mailserver improperly configured, because it show

[PHP] Re: putting variables in a variable

2011-03-26 Thread Al
On 3/25/2011 10:01 PM, David Robley wrote: Hulf wrote: Hi, I am making and HTML email. I have 3 images to put in. Currently I have $body .=" "; ideally I would like to have $myimage1 = "image1.jpg"; $myimage2 = "image2.jpg"; $myimage3 = "image3.jpg"; and

[PHP] Re: echo?

2011-03-22 Thread Al
On 3/22/2011 6:22 PM, Jim Giner wrote: Kinda new to this, but I've been puttering/writing for about 3 weeks now and have some good working screens up. Ran into something new while I was debuggina script today. Tried to echo the $i value within a for loop as part of the list of items I was bui

[PHP] Question about directory permissions

2011-03-21 Thread Al
I understand dir perms pretty well; but, have a question I can't readily find the answer to. Under a Linux system, scripts can't write, copy, etc. to other dirs unless the perms are set for writable for the script e.g., nobody. But, is there a way a script can write or copy within its own dir

[PHP] Re: First PHP site - thanks - euca_phpmysql function library

2011-02-09 Thread Al
On 2/8/2011 4:58 PM, Donovan Brooke wrote: Hello, Just wanted to say thanks to those that helped me get through my first PHP project (over the last month). As is with much of the work we server-side language people do, the back-end (non-public) side of this site is perhaps the more interestin

[PHP] Re: nl2br problem

2011-02-02 Thread Al
nks, Donovan You have an example of a page you'd like to control that we can see? On the surface, it appears you may be able to control the rendering with advanced CSS2/3 selectors. Thus, the browsers will do the work for you. Al.. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net

[PHP] Newsgroup server time outs

2011-01-26 Thread Al
. Like this message; it required that disconnect, wait for a while, and reconnect to upload it. Al.. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] News Server Time Outs

2011-01-19 Thread Al
The newsgroup server seems to have a repeated-visit throttle, or whatever. For the last two weeks at least, I can only open 2 or 3 messages and them I get repeated time-outs. It acts like the DoS or flood prevention is kidding in to aggressively. Al.. -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP]: permission problem www-data

2011-01-18 Thread Al
On 1/18/2011 4:44 AM, Moses wrote: Hi Everyone, I am creating a file in PHP script which takes a value from a form and writes it to a file. However, i don't have the mode permission for the file instead it is owned by www-data.What can i do to ensure that the file is owned by me. drwxr-xr-x

[PHP] Server Response

2011-01-11 Thread Al
Newsgroup server response is terrible and has a strange behavior. Response for first posting or two is fast, then it acts like it doesn't want to give me any additional postings. You fixed it about about 2 or 3 weeks ago; but issue has returned, Al.. -- PHP General Mailing

[PHP] Re: Help: Validate Domain Name by Regular Express

2011-01-08 Thread Al
On 1/8/2011 3:55 AM, WalkinRaven wrote: PHP 5.3 PCRE Regular Express to match domain names format according to RFC 1034 - DOMAIN NAMES - CONCEPTS AND FACILITIES /^ ( [a-z] | [a-z] (?:[a-z]|[0-9]) | [a-z] (?:[a-z]|[0-9]|\-){1,61} (?:[a-z]|[0-9]) ) # One label (?:\.(?1))*+ # More labels \.? #

[PHP] Re: session_id() is not passed to the next page

2011-01-04 Thread Al
On 1/3/2011 11:46 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello, I am rewriting currently a login script and I encountered a problem with sessions. While reading the two pages I have not found a solut

[PHP] Re: Regex for ... genealogical names

2011-01-01 Thread Al
On 1/1/2011 4:46 AM, Lester Caine wrote: JohnDoeSMITH' or 'John Doe SMITH' Try this. not tested. First, which adds spaces as needed. e.g. JohnDoeSMITH > 'John Doe SMITH' $newName=preg_replace("%(?<=[a-z])([A-Z])", " $1", $name);//Cap following low case, add space before it Next, alphas fol

Re: [PHP] Re: Regex for telephone numbers

2010-12-31 Thread Al
On 12/31/2010 11:10 AM, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: Erm, you say regex is overkill, then use one in your example! Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk - Reply message - From: "Al" Date: Fri, Dec 31, 2010 15:53 Subject: [PHP] Re: Regex for telephone numbers To:

[PHP] Re: Regex for telephone numbers

2010-12-31 Thread Al
On 12/29/2010 7:12 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - Thank you for all your help in the past. Here is another one I would like to have a regex which would validate that a telephone number is in the format xxx-xxx-. Thanks. Ethan MySQL 5.1 PHP 5 Linux [Debian (sid)] Regex i

[PHP] Re: Do you trim() usernames and passwords?

2010-12-28 Thread Al
On 12/28/2010 7:49 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: I seem to have an issue with users who copy-paste their usernames and passwords coping and pasting leading and trailing space characters. The obvious fix was to trim() the values that I receive, but I worry how that would affect users who use a space at

Re: [PHP] Server response very poor again

2010-12-22 Thread Al
On 12/22/2010 12:17 PM, Nicholas Kell wrote: On Dec 22, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Steve Staples wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 10:19 -0500, Al wrote: It was fixed about 3 or 4 weeks ago; but, has reverted to poor again. Many times outs etc. Took me 4 tries to post this. Al... Not

[PHP] Server response very poor again

2010-12-22 Thread Al
It was fixed about 3 or 4 weeks ago; but, has reverted to poor again. Many times outs etc. Took me 4 tries to post this. Al... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Re: PHPInfo disabled due to security

2010-12-15 Thread Al
Personally, I would have changed ISPs long ago. On 12/15/2010 9:57 AM, Paul S wrote: Warning: phpinfo() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/.../php/phpinfo.php on line 2 My ISP has disabled phpinfo and has not answered my tech requests on this for over a month. They seem to neve

Re: [PHP] Poor newsgroup server performance

2010-11-29 Thread Al
On 11/29/2010 11:03 AM, Daniel P. Brown wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 09:14, Al wrote: Recently the response on our php.general php.pear.general have become horribly slow. At first I thought the problem was a time-of-day overload; but, it seems to be happening at all times. All other

[PHP] Poor newsgroup server performance

2010-11-29 Thread Al
Recently the response on our php.general php.pear.general have become horribly slow. At first I thought the problem was a time-of-day overload; but, it seems to be happening at all times. All other websites I visit are normal. Just getting to post this message took 2 timeouts. -- PHP Gener

[PHP] php running as module or cgi?

2010-11-10 Thread Al
Briefly, what are the trade offs on a typical shared host? I've done a little research and can't seem to find anything outstanding either way. Seems like as an Apache module is faster. This argument makes sense. CGI is more secure, this argument doesn't seem too persuasive to me. Maybe I'm mi

[PHP] Re: SEO Experts?

2010-09-26 Thread Al
On 9/26/2010 8:09 AM, David Mehler wrote: Hello, Do we have any SEO experts on this list? I'm not one, learning only, reading a book and a few articles/tutorials from webmasters, and I'm wanting to optimize an existing site to get the best search rank possible. Some techniques, dos and don'ts w

[PHP] Re: Handling multiple form fields

2010-09-10 Thread Al
On 9/10/2010 6:55 AM, Abah Joseph wrote: Please i want to seek your opinion on how to handle large form fields, i have a table that contain 30 fields and i`m wondering if there is a better way to automatically create the html form and validate it. By asking such a basic question, it sounds l

[PHP] Re: HTML in emails

2010-07-05 Thread Al
On 7/4/2010 11:43 AM, Al wrote: I know this is a bit off-topic; but close enough. I'm starting to update the email feature of one of my DB applications and noticed that it appears most of the fancy emails I receive are using just plain old, simple html pages, with a note about not being

[PHP] HTML in emails

2010-07-04 Thread Al
since all modern browsers handle it well. And, it appears to be the way web is going. What are you folks doing? Al.. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] stripping first comma off and everything after

2010-06-19 Thread Al
On 6/19/2010 3:08 AM, Adam Richardson wrote: $before_needle = true Requires 5.3 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Select Values Didn't Get Passed in From Two DifferentForms

2010-05-26 Thread Al
On 5/26/2010 3:50 PM, Alice Wei wrote: Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 15:36:18 -0400 To: php-general@lists.php.net; aj...@alumni.iu.edu From: tedd.sperl...@gmail.com Subject: RE: [PHP] Select Values Didn't Get Passed in From Two Different Forms Alice: You provide: Select the type of your start

Re: [PHP] Remove blank lines from a file

2010-05-22 Thread Al
On 5/22/2010 4:34 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: Al wrote: On 5/22/2010 1:02 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: tedd wrote: At 4:27 PM +0200 5/21/10, Anton Heuschen wrote: So in the file it would look like (from the original file the user uploads that is) 1 2 3 4 5 6 but when the file is saved

Re: [PHP] Remove blank lines from a file

2010-05-22 Thread Al
On 5/22/2010 1:02 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: tedd wrote: At 4:27 PM +0200 5/21/10, Anton Heuschen wrote: So in the file it would look like (from the original file the user uploads that is) 1 2 3 4 5 6 but when the file is saved to the server it must look like 1 2 3 4 5 6 If that is

Re: [PHP] Question about a security function

2010-05-21 Thread Al
On 5/21/2010 10:36 AM, Jim Lucas wrote: Al wrote: On 5/21/2010 9:24 AM, David Otton wrote: On 20 May 2010 16:51, Al wrote: I'm not being clear. First pass is thru the blacklist, which effectually tells hacker to not bother and totally deletes the entry. If the raw entry gets pas

Re: [PHP] Question about a security function

2010-05-21 Thread Al
On 5/21/2010 9:21 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 14:24 +0100, David Otton wrote: On 20 May 2010 16:51, Al wrote: I'm not being clear. First pass is thru the blacklist, which effectually tells hacker to not bother and totally deletes the entry. If the raw entry gets

Re: [PHP] Question about a security function

2010-05-21 Thread Al
On 5/21/2010 9:24 AM, David Otton wrote: On 20 May 2010 16:51, Al wrote: I'm not being clear. First pass is thru the blacklist, which effectually tells hacker to not bother and totally deletes the entry. If the raw entry gets past the blacklist, it must then only contain my whitelist

[PHP] Re: how to update array keys and keep element order ?

2010-05-21 Thread Al
On 5/21/2010 5:56 AM, cr.vege...@gmail.com wrote: How do I update an array key without disturbing the element order ? Suppose an existing array("FR", values ...) where I want to change 0 => "FR" to "country" => "FR" and keep the original element order. TIA, Cor I short on time; but, it se

[PHP] Re: Remove blank lines from a file

2010-05-21 Thread Al
On 5/21/2010 8:03 AM, Anton Heuschen wrote: Hi Im trying do something like this, have a function which uploads my file and returns file pointer ... but at same time ... I want to remove all Blank lines in a file and update it before it goes to the final location ... What I tried was to do a wr

Re: [PHP] Question about a security function

2010-05-20 Thread Al
On 5/20/2010 12:43 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 12:40 -0400, Al wrote: On 5/20/2010 12:02 PM, Jim Lucas wrote: Al wrote: On 5/20/2010 11:23 AM, David Otton wrote: On 20 May 2010 15:52, Alwrote: I agree blacklisting is a flawed approach in general. My approach

Re: [PHP] Question about a security function

2010-05-20 Thread Al
On 5/20/2010 12:02 PM, Jim Lucas wrote: Al wrote: On 5/20/2010 11:23 AM, David Otton wrote: On 20 May 2010 15:52, Al wrote: I agree blacklisting is a flawed approach in general. My approach is to strictly confine entry text to a whitelist of benign, acceptable tags. The But that&#

Re: [PHP] Question about a security function

2010-05-20 Thread Al
On 5/20/2010 11:23 AM, David Otton wrote: On 20 May 2010 15:52, Al wrote: I agree blacklisting is a flawed approach in general. My approach is to strictly confine entry text to a whitelist of benign, acceptable tags. The But that's not what you've done. You've blackliste

Re: [PHP] Question about a security function

2010-05-20 Thread Al
On 5/20/2010 10:07 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 14:27 +0100, David Otton wrote: On 20 May 2010 13:53, Al wrote: I have a password-protected, user, on-line editor that I'm hardening against hackers just in case a user's pw is stolen or local PC is infected.

[PHP] Question about a security function

2010-05-20 Thread Al
I have a password-protected, user, on-line editor that I'm hardening against hackers just in case a user's pw is stolen or local PC is infected. The user can enter html tags; but, I restrict the acceptable tags to benign ones. e.g., , , , etc. e.g., no Just to be extra safe, I've added a fun

Re: [PHP] A simple question, however it's urgent

2010-05-17 Thread Al
On 5/17/2010 8:53 AM, Andre Polykanine wrote: Ash, Magic quotes are disabled: http://gviragon.org/study/php.php Any ideas? Thanks a lot! Your code should work for something as simple as this, almost regardless of the php setup. Change your $what=array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"); $with=array(""

Re: [PHP] Re: Displaying errors

2010-05-16 Thread Al
On 5/16/2010 1:10 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 12:57 -0400, Al wrote: On 5/16/2010 7:39 AM, Malka Cymbalista wrote: Hi all, we are running Apache 2.2.6 and PHP 5.2.6 on a Linux machine. If someone gets an error when displaying a php web page, he does not get any error

[PHP] Re: Displaying errors

2010-05-16 Thread Al
On 5/16/2010 7:39 AM, Malka Cymbalista wrote: Hi all, we are running Apache 2.2.6 and PHP 5.2.6 on a Linux machine. If someone gets an error when displaying a php web page, he does not get any error message on the screen. The arror is written into the apache error log file, but most users

[PHP] Re: regexp questions

2010-05-11 Thread Al
Get a copy of http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/ and contribute. Use the pattern on your string, one section at a time. On 5/10/2010 7:53 PM, Spud. Ivan. wrote: Hi, I've recently changed from php 5.1 to 5.3.2 and I'm havong problems with preg_match, because the same regular expressions used i

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP Application Structre

2010-05-10 Thread Al
On 5/10/2010 12:17 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: 3} Unless the site is small and has few pages and applications, it is almost impossible to maintain. I disagree here. As long as there are useful naming conventions for all of the files (I've seen projects where files have been named 1.php, 2

[PHP] Re: PHP Application Structre

2010-05-10 Thread Al
On 5/10/2010 6:39 AM, Alex Major wrote: Greetings all, This question basically surrounds how you structure your PHP applications, whether it changes depending on what you're doing and which you'd favour. I have a feeling it'll come down to a question of personal taste, but on the off-chance

[PHP] Re: dynamically generating and retrieving page data using flat files

2010-05-08 Thread Al
On 5/8/2010 9:41 PM, David Mehler wrote: Hello, I've got a project that i have to reference information stored on one page from another. This page I won't be visiting first, and at the moment i'd prefer to use flat php files, but should that prove to hard i'll transition to a mysql database. I'

[PHP] Re: Finding similar results with php from mysql

2010-05-07 Thread Al
On 5/7/2010 7:37 PM, Merlin Morgenstern wrote: Hi there, I am searching for a way to show the user similar records from the mysql database. A functionality like "this could also be of interest to you". Does anybody know if this is there is a standard functionality to do this, or a good way on

[PHP] Connection error expected but ...

2010-05-06 Thread Al Mangkok
Code below from the manual. I changed $ldaphost to some fictitious name. When I ran the script, I always get the message "Connection was successful !" Why didn't the script bomb and give the could not connect message? TIA. -- al

Re: [PHP] Re: Malware Question

2010-04-29 Thread Al
On 4/29/2010 1:35 PM, Gary . wrote: On 4/29/10, Al wrote: Ross had a good suggest about planted links to external malicious sites. One of the sites I worked on a couple of years ago had this happen. They ask me to look into it. There were about 90 htaccess files that redirected the user to a

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