Thank you for replying.
Just diff the HTML.
Unfortunately it is not that easy. Even if the same PHP modules are
present, if they are written into the page in a different place, they
show up as differences. The same goes for all the HTML tags and
everything else, so what I end up with is
Nope. Basically it connects to a database to load an ACL (which at
[...]
I thought xdebug was supposed to be a pretty good profiler. If it
calculating the time correctly, where are the other ~3.6 seconds
going?
One night I saw a script wait indefinitely for a response from a tanked
database,
Per Jessen wrote:
Which is exactly the bug I reported. An application that deliberately
ignores the locale setting passed from the environment is buggy unless
it is clearly documented. Why should a developer be forced to be aware
of the locale when it has already been done for him? That is
You can use http://us.php.net/mysql_real_escape_string to escape the
input.
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You should prep your data for insertion into the data by using a tool
that formats it strictly for the database. In the ops case
mysql_real_escape_string() is the correct tool for the job.
What about using
Jim Lucas wrote:
I expected 'no match' but get 'match'.
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cut/paste your code and it works for me.
Works for me as well. I get 'no match' from PHP 5.1.2, 5.2.6, and 5.2.8. What
version do you have?
If I might suggest a couple of simplifications that would make it easier to
I've been searching php.net for a function to do this:
if page_url('browse.php') {
The $_SERVER global array has this sort of information. The 'PHP_SELF' key
might be what you want:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php
But where is the code that needs to know? I'm
Ben Dunlap wrote [TWICE]:
The $_SERVER global array has this sort of information. The 'PHP_SELF' key
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Ben
Very sorry for the double-post. Reply-all in Thunderbird News seems a little
overzealous by default.
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echo (preg_match($pattern, $test) != false)
The != false here is redundant.
Understood. But what you think is redundancy is, to me, clarity in
programming. I happen to think that boolean tests shouldn't ride on
whether or not an array returned from a function is empty or not (or a
Ben Dunlap wrote:
have -- ($x != false) -- will be true whether $x is 0, NULL, an empty
string,
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But $x !== false will only be true in the last case.
Sorry, replace be true with be false above.
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Jim Lucas wrote:
Miller, Terion wrote:
I Figured it out using this:
if ($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] = browse.php ) {
$default = A;
} else {
$default = ;
}
$letter = isset($_GET['letter'])? $_GET['letter'] :$default ;
unless you are doing more then what you are showing above.
I don't THINK I need to worry about circular mappings... but I'm not
sure how to check for it if I did...
Any suggestions? Thanks!
Would the following work? It avoids recursion entirely and also checks for
circular mappings. You can plug in your own code where the comments are to do
whatever
while (isset($FieldMap[$Field]) {
Oops, left out the final close-parenthesis. I always do that with isset() for
some reason.
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Miller, Terion wrote:
if ($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] = browse.php ) {
You're using the assignment operator above ('=') instead of the comparison
('=='). If that's not simply a typo that entered the code when you composed
your email, then that's the source of your problem.
You might
Sorry... I'm using GET. I have used the code you supplied below,
but as I mentioned, it gets sent for every itemid in the table. I needs
to be sent only once, and right after the action. That's where I'm
stumped.
Hidden form inputs should work with GET or POST -- they're only hidden
sorry man, but a good data design keeps only data in a table u can not
calculate. in ur case that would be only date start and end time.
refernces to user and project/tasks in other tables.
ur time sheet is definately a job for a report. that type of design limits u
to nothing. a user can
OK, I think I understand most points except the start and stop time.
Every time sheet I have used, SAP and several other smaller ones, I
enter a weeks worth of time data like:
Project Sun Mon TuesWed ThurFri Sat
I don't have any data blobs in my database - which makes incremental
backups easier - I use rsync for files and do a nightly mysql dump.
Except for the first of the month, the diff of that nights backup
compared to first of month is saved to flat file for rsync. Binary blobs
in the database
changes to the code or to the files, just one day all of a sudden any
time someone purchases a DMG, EXE, PDF, etc. they get zero bytes. I've
[8]
Has anyone ever heard of something (besides my code and my files) that
could cause this behavior? You'll be my best friend if you can help.
Thanks.
Very interesting. Excellent debugging advice. It's giving me a 500
error, probably why the Rackspace techs told me to check my code:
HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error
Did you get that 500 while running curl from a machine outside of Rackspace's
network?
If so, I'd be interested to see what
$pattern = '|^.+?display:none.+?$|mi';
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I found your use of ? rather... creative... Anyway, just add the
You mean the non-greedy flag? I think that's necessary the way the
regex was originally formulated -- without it, .+display would
gobble up all of the list-items until the last one.
But on another site it still works, but gives this error:
Notice: Undefined index: UserWishesDateRange in
/home/vs/site/phvs/bl/7solarsecrets/admin/trackingcode.html on line 79
I assume that is because the error display settings are set to a more
rigorous level in this latter site.
Is this
$shows = array();
$show_01 = array();
$show_01['title'] = 'Van Cliburn Gold Medal Winner';
$show_01['date'] = 'Tues. 10/13/2009';
$show_01['time'] = '11am';
$show_01['price'] = 4.00;
$show_01['soldout'] = 0; //IF THE SHOW SELLS OUT, CHANGE 0 to 1
(without quotations).
I am using the print function to display my html. I cannot get the line
return ( \n ) character to actually push the html onto the next line, it
just gets displayed instead. Should I be using echo?
In the PHP code snippet you pasted above, you're using single-quotes
to delimit your literal
# before was $styles = array( 'even', 'odd' );
# after new requirements it is...
$styles = array( 'white', 'white', 'gray' );
foreach($items as $item)
{
printf( 'li class=%s%s/li', current( $styles ), $item );
next( $styles ) or reset( $styles );
}
+5000. I think is by far the most
statements, it becomes unmaintainable very quickly, use a templating
language, ether with a framework(recomended) or standalone.
But he /is/ using a templating language... PHP. ;-)
Ben
Personally I try to not use double quoted.
PHP parses single quoted very much faster.
# for this
echo Hi, $name, wellcome $home;
# I use
echo 'Hi, ', $name, ', wellcome ', $home;
I'm not sure if this was true in older versions of PHP, but it's not so much
any more, and I wonder if it
@Adam
The headers_sent() wasa test to ensure that no other data was creeping
into the headers before I wanted it to. Keeping it in does no harm, as
it is basically saying, if there are no headers that have been sent,
send the correct ones for the image.
But if there are headers that have
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Ben Dunlap bdun...@agentintellect.comwrote:
@Adam
The headers_sent() wasa test to ensure that no other data was creeping
into the headers before I wanted it to. Keeping it in does no harm, as
it is basically saying, if there are no headers that have been
# before was $styles = array( 'even', 'odd' );
# after new requirements it is...
$styles = array( 'white', 'white', 'gray' );
foreach($items as $item)
{
printf( 'li class=%s%s/li', current( $styles ), $item );
next( $styles ) or reset( $styles );
}
+5000. I think is by far the most
statements, it becomes unmaintainable very quickly, use a templating
language, ether with a framework(recomended) or standalone.
But he /is/ using a templating language... PHP. ;-)
Keep telling yourself that... and be sure to pat your own back.
I'm sure there are plenty of situations
I have the following code for order_update.php:
[code]
session_start();
extract($_POST);
foreach ($_POST as $var = $val) {
if ($val 0) {
$_SESSION[$var] = $val;
} else {
unset($var);
}
header(Location: order_process.php);
}
[/code]
This is not working, however, and it
Thanks all for your patience! I will work on this today and write back with
any further questions I can't figure out on my own. And if anyone has any
advice I will be checking my email regularly.
If you've already tried this with no luck, please ignore -- but you
might speed up the whole
2009/8/14 João Cândido de Souza Neto j...@consultorweb.cnt.br:
I think a good solution is to put the ini file out of your html folder so
only your scripts can read it.
I agree, and I try to do the same, but I've noticed that most
open-source CMSes I've looked at (Drupal, Joomla, Textpattern,
1) Name your ini files .php so, database.ini will be database.php
Actually I was assuming the configuration file to be a PHP script --
as is typical in big open-source CMSes. I took ini file earlier in
the thread to be a generic description of any file, whatever the
extension, that contains
Note: If this function is not used to escape data, the query is
vulnerable to SQL Injection Attacks.
Does that necessarily imply this:
If this function is used to escape data, the query is not vulnerable
to SQL Injection Attacks.?
Logically, it does _not_ mean the same thing.
Definitely
This is a newbie question...
Let's say there are 3 php files, page1.php, page2.php and page3.php. Form
submission from page1.php or page2.php will take user to page3.php.
I know that we can use parameter that is appended in the action attribute of
the form (e.g FORM METHOD=POST
$stmt = $db-prepare(SELECT priv FROM testUsers WHERE
username=:username AND password=:password);
$stmt-bindParam(':username', $user);
$stmt-bindParam(':password', $pass);
$stmt-execute();
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I haven't followed this thread, so I don't know what you mean by, I
do not see how there could
That's exactly the case. I have been running my business on a Perl
cart for the last 5+ years, and I can't switch to a PHP cart just yet. I
was just hoping to add some functionality with PHP. Perl was much harder
It would probably bomb your performance but you could always call a
We have a server with a site that does some XML calls. After lots of testing
I have found that the server is losing session variables.
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Also the site goes from HTTP to HTTPS at some point but this isn't the issue
as it loses the sessions as soon as they are set sometimes.
Therefore I
?
$fName = $_REQUEST['fName'] ;
$emailid = $_REQUEST['emailid'] ;
$number = $_REQUEST['number'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
mail( ch...@gmail.com, $number, $message, From: $emailid );
header( Location: http://www.thankyou.com/thankYouContact.php; );
?
This is a bit of a
ISTR the Royal Air Force has a Specialist Aircrew track where the really
good
pilots, who wanted to fly planes rather than desks, could be promoted to
management ranks but avoid the management duties.
They had a position like this at the first big company I worked for --
Member of the
another change in the email admin best practices discussion. For a short
while the network became clogged in bounce messages sent to both valid
and invalid addresses. Some of the invalid addresses even triggered
infinite loops of error messages. None of the servers I am familiar with
send
The second problem is that it still forces the originating SMTP server
to pass on the 5xx error as a bounce message to the originator.
Yeah, I guess this would be a problem in cases where the originating
server is an open relay that's being exploited by a spammer. I wonder
what proportion of
You might try to use the reported IP of the submitter, again unique, but
that can be forged -- so again anyone can vote more than once.
Can you say more about forging the reported IP? I've always been under
the impression that forging the source IP in a TCP session is a pretty
sophisticated
Sort of. Create two tables a login table with user details and a specific
field for a ROLE.
Then create a roles table that lists the various permissions. I store this
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This process is significantly simpler when managing users, it's easier to
adjust permissions on one role than to edit a
Yes, they offer an additional layer of granularity on permissions. The apps
I write use groups and role to limit acces to certain functionality. The
roles determine functional access to records, ie what the user can do with
them. The groups membership determines what records the user can see.
Which format should I used for log file? *.log or *.txt?
Doesn't matter to PHP -- but you do need to provide a local path, not a URL.
[http://domain.com/log/logfile.*] or
No...
[C:\some_path\domain.com\log\logfile.*] or just
Yes!
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To
I was surprised when no one recommended this:
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')
So now I'm wondering if there's a pitfall to this method that I'm not
aware of...
Thanks,
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Well, as far as I'm aware $_SERVER isn't reliable from server to server.
That said, I've never had a problem using it.
Thanks -- I just looked it up and the manual says: There is no
guarantee that every web server will provide any of these; servers may
omit some, or provide others not listed
I would set up Wireshark to capture and compare the http sequences from
each browser. After you capture each stream, use the Follow TCP Stream
option to look at the raw HTTP. If it is the browsers, there should be
some obvious differences in the sequence of requests from them.
This is a good
Safe mode is a bad idea. :) It's not safe; it may only have the effect
of making you think you're safe. If you have a particular reason to
use it then maybe it's OK, but just be aware that it will not exist in
future versions of PHP and relying on it is not a good idea. Security,
What I would do for UK PHP events :-(
Something like this perhaps?
http://conference.phpnw.org.uk/phpnw09/
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Is there another way to cleanly wrap method calls for timing/logging
purposes?
I have a possibly-evil idea that gets around type-hinting by
dynamically declaring decorator classes as children of the real
classes that need to be timed. You end up with as many decorators as
you have classes that
code. Instead, just use interfaces. The only real downside is that
all the classes you want to decorate would need to implement them and
that would cause a wee bit of ugliness in the code/class declaration.
Can you explain a bit more? As I understood the OP, the challenge was
to take a
Is there is a way to search only for the alphanumeric content of
field in a db? I have an itemID field that contains item #'s that include
dashes, forward slashes, etc, and I want people to be able to search for an
item # even if they don't enter the punctuation exactly.
Not sure if
Excuse me? Somebody suggested a PHP loop to solve a query problem and you are
saying that REGEXP should not be used?
MySQL caches queries and 100 SELECT with a REGEXP will cost zero after the
first one if nothing changed inside the table.
Even if the REGEXP has to change with every query?
What's wrong with using the wildcards that are built into most SQL
variants?
SELECT * FROM table WHERE item_id LIKE '%#abcdef'
Will select all records where the item_id field ends in '#abcdef'
That works if you know the user is always going to enter the last 7
characters of the product id,
I followed this thread:
http://spikomoko.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/magento-not-working-on-php-5-3/
.
But then, I'm bounched on this error in my webbrowser for visitting my
magento on my production server desktop:
.:
Fatal error: Call to a member function createDirIfNotExists() on a
stripping, stemming, spelling corrections ?
... uhm, that's probably why they invented regular expressions, isn't it?
As I said, at the end of the day, this will be a manual slow, potentially
wrong implementation of what we already have and use on daily basis.
If you've got a
$map = ms_newMapObj($mapfile);
The command creates a new mapscript object.
And PHP is hanging somewhere inside that constructor? Is this in a web
context or a command-line context? Or both?
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:38 PM, jim white jbw2...@earthlink.net wrote:
It's a web app that draws maps in a browser. Sometime it will generate a
seg fault. The command should not take long, so if there is some script
construct that will throw an exception after a few seconds if the command
has
My solution was to add a table to my database, and add an insert job id
into the table after the line that is causing the problem. When I submit the
script I use setTimeout to run an AJAX query of the table 5 seconds later.
If the line has failed the job id will not be in the table and I
The object only exists for that instance of the script, so when the user
navigates to the next page, the object is freed up from the memory.
There are a couple of ways you could get round this:
* don't navigate away from the page, and use AJAX calls to update
parts of the page
I thought this code:
$enc=mcrypt_ecb(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256,salt123,encrypt_me,MCRYPT_ENCRYPT);
$dec=mcrypt_ecb(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256,salt123,$enc,MCRYPT_DECRYPT);
echo $dec;
would yield encrypt_me. The actual result is
encrypt_me.. (bunch of extra dots).
Why, and how do I
?php
echo gethostbyname('www.google.de').\n;
print_r(dns_get_record('www.google.de', DNS_A)).\n;
?
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I don't understand why the first lookup fails, but the second one succeeds.
Unfortunately thinks like fsockopen() seem to use the same technique as
gethostbyname(), so they don't work
I was under the impression that sqlite2 was supported widely by PHP,
but sqlite3 seems only to be enabled on php 5.3.0 by default.
My concern now is actually that users may find that their hosting
service providers don't provide sqlite3 out of the box.
PDO seems to support both versions:
$dbh = new PDO('sqlite:$db_file');
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$dbh = new PDO('sqlite2:$db_file');
But with double-quotes, not single-quotes. ;-)
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I have a php cli script that listens on a UDP socket and, when data is
[8]
So I think the the MSG_WAITALL is causing it to block until incoming
data connection is closed (it never reaches the 512 byte mark before
[8]
your clients are not maintaining an open connection to the socket,
so it'll
So I'm trying to set up a small website that includes a store (
www.rareintaglio.com), i have all of my HTML hammed out and now I'm working
on creating an admin login for the sites owner to input data from a back
I would really strongly advise against building your own
authentication system.
several packages available to provide it. But I believe that telling
someone to adopt a complete portal system like CI just to get basic
authentication is gross overkill. There has to be a better way to
provide this core functionality without installing a monster package
that will be 95%
I would recommend this to anyone looking to build any sort of web app.
Could be that nothing out there will end up serving your purposes, but
... and, on further investigation, it looks like CI, surprisingly
enough, doesn't actually have pre-built authentication and access
control (although it
I assume that I can get increment value/sequence from db (I used harcoded
increment value in the code above (generate_id(1))),
but I don't know how I can get this incremental value from db.I use mysql
5.0.
If you're thinking of retrieving the newest value of an AUTO_INCREMENT
column,
Honestly, whipping up a security scheme the way I have done it is a
couple of days' work (including login and management screens). I'm not
sure why people seem to be averse to it. You just work up your screens,
I suppose it does depend on the use case. If you're building a system
for internal
1. user A insert into table (get id = 1 from auto increment value)
2. user B insert into table (get id = 2 from auto increment value)
3. user A get value from $id = LAST_INSERT_ID() (id = 2)
4. user B get value from $id = LAST_INSERT_ID() (id =2)
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How can we make sure that those 3
upload keys, and any keys created via apc_add(). This listing includes a
Timeout value, which is none for the apc_add keys and 3600 for the upload
keys. Somewhat suspicious, I'd say, since the keys stop being working after
1 hour of use.
APC lets you set a number of timeout values:
have IE 6 for whatever reason. If you block them then you are blocking
possible clients. There is still a large percentage that still use it.
I think that percentage depends on the target audience. There was a
kerfuffle several months back (maybe a year ago now?) when 37signals
announced that
I was afraid it was a bug. I have generally just used whatever is at
whatever host, until this project, and didn't really think something so
glaring could be in there. WTF!
I wonder if massive uploads, like the ones you're coding for, really
aren't that common. I can imagine hard-coding that
I bought a Windows XP PC about three years ago with IE6 on it (I
normally do all my work in Linux). I haven't upgraded it, and I can't
imagine why the average user would. If it ain't broke (and most users
wouldn't consider IE6 broken), don't fix it.
I agree in general, but eventually
if ... you have
output_buffering option enabled in the php configuration.
Which is probably the case on the OP's local machine, and would
explain why the code doesn't fail for him there.
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$file = 'invoicetable_bottom.php';
fopen(http://yoursite.com/folder/$file,r;);
http://tr.php.net/function.fopen
worth trying. Easier than output buffering
Easier in what sense? It would end up requiring more code than
output-buffering because you'd have to read from the file after
calling
I attempted to use the same functions as FPDI/FPDF, but they did not
work in TCPDF.
Which functions did you use in FPDF?
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php not but perhaps the client its not clear and commonly defined what
clients do with cookies on reconnect and stuff or long idle times.
Maybe not, but I'd be really surprised. An HTTP client is supposed to
decide whether to send a cookie by looking at the domain name and path
of the URL it's
Suppose I have a variable $i = 0 or 1 or 2
and I have variables $item0, $item1 and $item2
how do I print the variable $item0 using a combination of variable $item and
variable $i?
or with this code it gives me an error:
$i = 0;
$item0 = test;
echo $item$i; #how do I properly use this
\r\n should be between double quotes: \r\n
I think you'll still see the literal brs in your final email,
though because htmlspecialchars() is converting the angle-brackets in
the tag to their respective HTML entities (lt; for and gt;
for ).
A bit of a thorny problem because you probably do
to make sure the user has properly filled out this form. So I have to
validate it. That's done in the background on the server, naturally. But
once the validating is done, it's time to send the user off to the
secure site with a payload of POST variables. At that point, the user
will enter
$line = fgets($handle);
list($col1, $col2, $col3) = $line;
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echo c1 is $col1 and c2 is $col2 and c3 is $col3.'br'; // this shows
just 1st char of each field
That's odd, I would have expected $col1, $col2, and $col3 to be NULL.
That's what I get when I try to assign a string to list(). It
Yes. But since I don't want to display a success information + form fields,
but only the success information,
I believe the only way we have to do this is by either use javascript and
update a div or similar, or using only php, by redirecting to another page.
Is this correct?
Whether or not
Can someone PLEASE explain why the developers of PHP chose this seemingly
whacky logic?
It mimicks C.
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My issue is that I see no reason to do the ASSIGNMENT FIRST and THEN
INCREMENT.
That's just counter intuitive. In the case of $foo = $num++, everything to
the right of the = should be computed FIRST and THEN handed off to the left
side. This particular expression (and I'm unaware of any
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Ben Dunlap bdun...@agentintellect.com wrote:
My issue is that I see no reason to do the ASSIGNMENT FIRST and THEN
INCREMENT.
That's just counter intuitive. In the case of $foo = $num++, everything to
the right of the = should be computed FIRST and THEN handed
int a = 2;
b = a++;
printf(b = [%d]\n, b);
b would be 2 when printed. However, after the second line (b = a++;)
finished executing, a would then be 3.
Sure, but that code is perfectly clear. It's the odd special case
where you assign the variable to itself, that's
If I put 0 filter_var() will return false.
Actually it returns the integer 0, not the boolean FALSE. Here's an
illustration of the difference:
http://codepad.org/73wff2u0
The integer value 0 can masquerade as false in an if() statement, of
course, as Ash pointed out above.
If I put 0342352
How is 0342352 being assigned to the variable that you're filtering?
If PHP thinks it's a string, then the filter will fail. If PHP thinks
it's a number, it seems to convert it internally to the number 115946,
before you get to the filter. Not sure what's going on there. At any
Sorry, brain
How is 0342352 being assigned to the variable that you're filtering?
If PHP thinks it's a string, then the filter will fail. If PHP thinks
Oops, potentially bad information there as well, sorry. In general, a
string representation of a decimal number /will/ pass
FILTER_VALIDATE_INT. But your
Also, I think you're getting confused over the zero with exactly what
you are asking PHP to do. filter_var() returns true if the filter
matches. If the 0 match is returned as a false, then filter_var() will
filter_var() actually returns the filtered data if the filter matches,
and FALSE if it
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