- Original Message -
From: Jason Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Laurie Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] More newbie help - mixing 2 different things into one
database
Make sure your $option_block2 is in the variable scope of your
Hi Warwick
I'd suggest looking at the PHP manual, it is available at
http://www.php.net.
You can look for string functions in the manual.
If you were looking for a case insensitive comparision you could use
stristr, if you are looking for a case senstivie comparision you could use
strstr.
You might remind them that anything under PHP 4.1.2 has a security whole
that can be exploited remotely, my web host refused to upgrade until they
learned about the security implications of not doing so.
Jason
David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Quite a few, there are 3641 messages in the php-general archive for between
02-01-02 and 03-01-02 this month there are already 3147 messages. If you
are concerned about transfer you could use a news client and connect to
news.php.net, the news groups are interfaces to the mailing lists that way
As the previous poster said you need to have around your value in your
input tag
Instead of input type=text name=fname_eng size='20' maxlength='18'
value=Jason J you need to be using input type=text name=fname_eng
size='20' maxlength='18' value=Jason J
Otherwise the browser is only displaying
Why build one when someone else already has built something that will work?
Take a look at www.hotscripts.com, http://php.resourceindex.com and
www.zend.com they all have libraries of scripts for PHP.
Jason
Denis L. Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
Look at chapter 3 of the PHP manual, it covers specifying PHP configuration
in your http.conf or .htaccess files, you can do this per virtual host, per
directory or however else you want to do it.
Jason
Chris Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
look at www.hotscripts.com
they are a pretty good resource of scripts.
Jason
- Original Message -
From: jeremy spielmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:13 AM
Subject: [PHP] Recommendation for PHP Shopping Cart
I'm looking for an off the shelf
Hi Edward
Look at ftp_set_option in the manual, you can access it online at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ftp-set-option.php.
FTP_TIMEOUT_SEC sounds like it might do what you are looking for.
Jason
- Original Message -
From: Edward van Bilderbeek - Bean IT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Works fine for me,
I run PHP 4.1.2 on FreeBSD 4.5 RELEASE and STABLE and Windows 2K and XP all
with apache 1.3.x
$_SESSION doesn't work on windows but thats already known about.
Jason
- Original Message -
From: R'twick Niceorgaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday,
What happens when you try to enter them? What does the HTML source for your
input field look like?
Is ' being turned into \' ?
Jason
- Original Message -
From: Denis L. Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 11:05 PM
Subject: [PHP] Cannot enter
Rather than using forms to pass information to a script you should
consider using sessions instead.
In any case if you are going to use forms instead of appending the
information to the form action use the input type=hidden field.
input type=hidden name=action value=change
This keeps your form
There is actually a gpg PHP module available that makes gpg easy
functions available to PHP so you do not need to execute command line
programs on plain text files.
Remember if you write your data to a plain text file it will temporarily
be vunerable to interception by anyone with read access to
For server colocation or dedicated leased servers I would recommend
Hurricane Electric, they have an excellent backbone, excellent technical
support and friendly sales staff. Their website is at
http://www.he.net.
For shared hosting I recommend pair networks ( http://www.pair.com ) or
Fidelity
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 08:03, John W. Holmes wrote:
I'm setting a session with
session_set_cookie_params (time()+648);
so the cookie should last 70 days+ but the data wasn't
returned.
from looking in the manual i see that session_cache_expire is used to
set
or print the current
php.ini can be in several different locations, the best way to identify
its location is to ask PHP where it is at (I have seen it in
/usr/local/etc, /etc, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/conf, among others).
Construct a php file with phpinfo() like:
?php
phpinfo();
?
Then visit the page in
Both databases work well for what they are intended to do.
Either database will have good basic performance, however PostgreSQL has
had more advanced features and stability in the past some of which MySQL
has worked on gaining.
Last I heard there was still issues with complex operations and
That is the exif_thumbnail() function line. I am
pretty sure I am doing it right. Look @
http://kidz.homeip.net/pics/image.phps
I'm trying to call it like this:
http://kidz.homeip.net/pics/image.php?file=test.jpg
Do you think that will work?
Thanx for the help.
-Dade
--- Jason Sheets [EMAIL
You might look at the PHP manual, also create a page that executes the
phpinfo() function, this will a lot of the variables you may be looking
for.
Jason
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 10:27, Brian J. Celenza wrote:
Hello!
I'm looking for a link that contains a list/description of all the built in
If you go to www.hotscripts.com they have several PHP application
frameworks listed.
I've investigated PHPLIB, and horde (http://www.horde.org) but wound up
creating my own framework because I have not yet found a well documented
framework that does what I need it to do.
Jason
On Fri,
You can also enable output buffering on your middle page, this will
allow you to output data and set cookies, send headers, etc at any point
in your script.
You can enable output buffering globally with php.ini, with an .htaccess
for specific directories or use the output buffering functions to
Your include path is not setup so that the web server can find the file
you are trying to include, if the file is in a sub directory make sure
you are properly including it include_once('include/main.php') not just
include_once('main.php').
And make sure the file you are trying to include exists
Instead of doing a foreach to unset your session variables you can use
session_unset(); which will unset all your session variables for you.
Additionally if you are wanting to remove a cookie from a visitor's
browser you should use setcookie, not unset $_COOKIE, $_COOKIE allows
you to access the
Actually you should be able to get mcrypt working with PHP on Windows
(mcrypt is not distributed with PHP because of the legal issues
surrounding exporting encryption).
If you visit the PHP manual page for mcrypt at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mcrypt.php you will see the following
under
If you do that you might as well just turn on register globals, you
should look at the $_REQUEST variable, it combines $_POST, $_GET and
$_COOKIE into one array so you can just reference $_REQUEST['variable']
for example $_REQUEST['one'].
Jason
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 11:50, Michael J. Pawlowsky
You could use a header() with Location: but why do you need to reload
the page? If you already have your data in $form_value then the data is
already available to you.
If you are using a newer version of PHP ( 4.1) you can reference the
information from the $_COOKIE array as well.
You could do
Not to cause a flame war, but, MySQL and PostgreSQL are both excellent
choices, MySQL tends to be a lighter less feature rich database while
PostgreSQL tends to have more features, perform better under load, etc.
You can read a lot about the two databases at google.com and also at
postgresql.org.
Assuming you are using a textarea/textarea to allow your users to
input their text you need to either use the nl2br (converts new lines to
br) or use pre/pre tags, following are short examples:
print nl2br($data); or
print 'pre';
print $data
print '/pre';
You can find out more about the nl2br
That will usually work on Unix but will not work on Windows. Rather than
executing an external program you can use PHP itself to do a recursive
delete.
There are examples at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rmdir.php if
you read the user notes you will see several posts about doing this.
You should always use the exit after a redirect, the browser is not
required to go to the new location.
If you do not exit your script after you redirect and the browser does
not go to the new location you risk the unintended continued execution
of your script.
Jason
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at
First are you sure the data was not deleted? If the cookie is still set
in your browser a new session file will be created with the same session
id.
I believe you adjust the session gc and the session max lifetime,
additionally if you are concerned about someone bookmarking a sessionid
or
Not exactly sure why your transactions aren't working but if your script
already has an open connection to the database and you issue another
call to pg_connect with the same connect string PHP will return the
existing connection and should not create another connection to the
database, that is
Try the following code, please note you may want to trim() the string as
well if it is coming from a user.
?php
$char = 'hello world';
$number_characters = strlen(str_replace(' ', '', $char'));
?
Jason
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 10:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to count
Include will evaluate the file as PHP code, that most likely is not what
you want it to do. Take a look at file_get_contents(), manual page
available at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.
Jason
phpSun, 2003-01-12 at 19:36, Stanislav Skrypnik wrote:
Hi all,
I have the
Yes, the php manual is available at http://www.php.net, session
information is available at http://www.php.net/session.
Jason
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 20:58, Lars Espelid wrote:
Is it possible to register an array as a session variable? If so I think it
solves my problem.
Thanks.
Lars
What version of PHP is running on the server, what version did you
develop the script with? Do you know if register globals are on or off?
You can get a lot of information about PHP by doing ?php phpinfo(); ?
Do you receive any error messages indicating the file can not be opened
for writing or
Hi Carlos,
I've written a similar script in the past, except mine was to backup
files and then automatically restore them if they were accidentally
deleted (I had 75 people that had to modify 1 excel document at least
once a day).
What I have done is write a script that gets a list of files
Hello,
The PHP manual page for filesize
(http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.filesize.php) mentions that it
will not work on remote files. fread will stop once n number of bytes
are read or EOF is received so you could set this to the maximum file
size (in bytes) that you want to download.
You can do either, many people have responded and given their thoughs on
the matter. I personally avoid storing images in a database, the
filesystem is better equipped IMO to handle files. On top of the
overhead of storing the image in your database you will be creating
additional database
Not a good idea, you might look at some form of public key encryption
where you encrypt the credit card information with the public key and
the merchant decrypts it with their private key that is not on the
server.
You generally do not want to store the information encrypted with mcrypt
because
Using a PHP encoder or compiling a binary does not make it more secure
than storing the IV and encryption key in plain text in a PHP script.
The problem is the fact that the encryption cipher requires the same key
for encryption and decryption, this is not a problem in many encryption
cases but
Hello Todd,
It sounds like register globals are not enabled and your code relies on
register globals being enabled, register globals now defaults to off.
If you have a recent version of PHP (= 4.1) you should use the super
globals, most likely you are looking for $_GET.
You could change your
This is a good reason to use include_once and require_once.
Jason
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 15:59, John W. Holmes wrote:
I have this message coming when calling the page main.php
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare formatdate() in
/home/virtual/site239/fst/var/www/html/home/not_main.php on
You could create a integer column with an autoincrement flag, then order
the rows by this column, that should give you the data in the order it
was inserted into the db. Depending on your database there are other
ways to do it.
Jason
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 18:07, John W. Holmes wrote:
On Sat,
You might take a look Pear's Image_Barcode, it uses GD so it should be
able to make them in PNG.
With PEAR::Image_Barcode class you can create a barcode represent given
string. This class uses GD function because of this the generated
graphic can be any of GD supported supported image types.
Take a look at the getlastmod() function, an example of the usage would
be:
$last_mod = date (F d Y H:i:s., getlastmod());
Then you can print or operate on last_mod any way you want, if you don't
want to operate on the date you can just print the return of date.
This information is available in
One resource I've found valuable is the PHP Coding Standard at
http://utvikler.start.no/code/php_coding_standard.html
To quote the introduction:
The PHP Coding Standard is with permission based on Todd Hoff's C++
Coding Standard. Rewritten for PHP by Fredrik Kristiansen / DB Medialab,
Oslo
This code will work for determining if the week is odd or even, it uses
Monday for the first day in the week as noted on
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php.
?php
if ((date('W') % 2) == 0) {
print 'week is even';
} else {
print 'week is odd';
}
?
Note I just scribbled
This code *should* do something similar to what Phillip suggested. It
will figure out the correct Sunday based on whether the week is odd or
not, then it will add the correct number of days to get to either next
Saturday or the Saturday after next Saturday.
?php
if ((date('W') % 2) == 0) {
//
An easy way would be to to convert your code to a function and use
recursion with an is_dir conditional.
Here is a quick example, there are also a few examples in the user notes
at the PHP manual for opendir or readdir.
function lsdir($dir) {
if ($handle = opendir($dir)) {
You could use an iframe or you could turn on output buffering, when
output buffering is enabled you can send headers after normal output has
been sent. Just do ob_start(); at the top of your script. Not the most
elegant way of doing it but it would work and not require you to use an
iframe.
PHP can fork on Unix, just not from a web environment. So you need to
execute the command from the command line or maybe an exec.
Take a look at: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcntl.php
Jason
Damien G wrote:
Hi Readers,
Heres what i'm trying to achieve:
A script, that uses multiple
This is something you would probably do with your e-mail server, not
with PHP. You can log all of the emails sent by your scripts by writing
a wrapper around mail though. Basically check your SMTP daemon's
documentation whether it be sendmail, qmail or something else and look
for auditing or
dbc looks like a MySQL Connection Resource, a connection returned from
mysql_connect. It looks like this function is using the mysql escape
function to make sure the data is properly escaped for that particular
database. If you use a function other than mysql_real_escape_string you
can
You can't get the intended value from a variable that hasn't been
defined yet, obviously because you haven't given the variable a value.
If you are trying to make something like a counter you may consider one
of the following:
1. Insert the value into a database like MySQL or PostgreSQL,
2.
The problem is the owner of the script must be the owner of the file
that you are accessing. If you fix your file ownership for your news
directory or change your php script to be the same owner as the news
directoryo you will be able to access the files.
Look at the chown command,. you will
In most cases you can make Curl submit the login form itself, in which
case Curl would become logged in.
You can use Curl to get both GET and POST requests, the comments in the
PHP manual are pretty decent.
Jason
John Ryan wrote:
i was more asking for the actual curl commands to do so, i
Kevin Stone wrote:
I used to program that way. The logic and presentation portions of my
scripts were combined into one or two monolithic files. That worked well
for small projects. But as I got involved in larger projects and had to
juggle many code files at once I found that I prefered to
Hello Andrei,
I've been using Turck MMCache for over 6 months now. I use it on
several severs including FreeBSD (2), Windows (1) and Linux (3). I've
been very happy with Turck MMCache and as of the last few releases it is
actually faster than Zend's product though not by very much (granted
Just a note, in most cases where you have your own private /tmp it is
not the same /tmp PHP uses. You are in a chrooted or jailed environment
with a virtual /tmp where usually Apache runs outside this restricted
environment , the biggest reason being running a seperate set of Apache
processes
mod_php is the recommended installation for Apache. Thousands of people
use mod_php with Apache. When I switched to mod_php from CGI I saw a
significant performance increase, also you can not use things like Turck
MMCache in CGI mode. In short not that I'm aware of, you might google
for it
Use PHP's file functions to read the file and output it to the browser,
sending the attachment header so it opens the save as dialog. After you
finish outputing the file unlink() the file.
Another way to do this is to store the files outside your www root, then
authorize the user to access
Why not go to a cybercafe every few days or once a week and check on the
project? You can also go to Kinkos or your local library, most of them
have internet enabled pcs.
Jason
Michael A Smith wrote:
Hi,
I'm going off to school and won't have computer access for like 9
months... :-\ .. and
Try using str_ireplace, it is str_replace but is case insensitive.
str_replace and str_ireplace both can take arrays as parameters for the
needle, replacement value. The string functions tend to be much faster
than regular expressions, in any case you don't need the foreach..
Jason
Chris
Someone wrote a php module that did this around 6 to 9 months ago. It
was easy to install but you needed access to php.ini.
Try using extract with the option to use references so you don't create
a copy of the variable just a pointer to it.
Jason
Matthias Nothhaft wrote:
Sorry this all is
One thing to be aware of, Location: /newpage.php will probably work with
most browsers (I know it works with IE, Mozilla and Opera) but the spec
requires an absolute path to the file you are redirecting to including
protocol, server, path and file. As Wouter demonstrated you should
always
Take a look at pwgen, it is a command line utility that makes it easy to
generate random passwords with a user specified length, it can generate
random words that are easier to remember or truly random secure
passwords with non alpha numeric characters in it. It is available in
the FreeBSD
More safely maybe, but even that solution could be exploited somewhat
easily. The script that writes the file would be better off as a CGI
than executed through the Apache module, this would allow you to
restrict write access to the directory where the file that triggers the
restart is stored
Rather than turning on register globals system wide I'd use .htaccess to
enable register globals for the specific sites or applications that
require them. Because the super globals have been introduced the
problem with register globals and application security may be more
prounounced for
This isn't really a problem with PHP, you will encounter it with many
other languages how is the parser supposed to know you haven't closed a
brace until it reaches the end of the file? It doesn't match using
indentation like humans do.
Indenting code and code syntax highlighting make it very
I wouldn't want to see a limit placed on recursion depth, IMHO it is
the responsibility of the programmer to limit recursion not the language
itself otherwise the language is limiting the programmer. Another
possiblity is hitting the execution time limit, sounds like you are
using IE with
Hi ccj,
GET data is passed in the URL, POST data is not so loss of the
information would be expected. It sounds like you should use sessions,
it is a better way of passing data between pages.
Take a look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php
Jason
ccj wrote:
Hi all
Based on
I wrote a web based front end to the free Turck MMCache PHP
optimizer/encoder, a link is on the main Turck page near the bottom or
you can go to http://phpcoder.shadonet.com.
Turck was actually beating Zend in performance on the benchmark I ran as
of a few releases ago.
Jason
Charles Kline
I would recommend installing Turck MMCache as well and you will see
immediate benefit for almost all PHP applications (assuming you are
running mod_php not as cgi), you should get a 2 to 10x performance
increase in many cases. MMCache is open source and is available free of
charge at
You can also use ini_set or .htaccess to increase the max execution time
for the PHP script. I have some reports that used to take 5 or 6
minutes to run and this worked well, note though that IE has a timeout
where it will close the connection if the page has not finished loading
within n
Take a look at Turck MMCache and Zend Encoder, both will require your
user to install a free Loader. Turck MMCache is free, Zend Encoder is
not, either will make your applications run faster.
You should workout good licensing deals with your clients because with
enough motivation and time
Are you using the bundled MySQL libraries under Unix/Linux? What
version of PHP are you running with what operating system? If MySQL
compiled as a module that must be loaded?
Jason
Naintara Jain wrote:
I get this error Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in one
I wrote a custom session handler that encrypts the session before it is
stored in /tmp that way even if someone has access to the session files
they are useless.
It stores the randomly generated encryption key on the user's client
base64_encoded, which can be intercepted as well all know but
Looks like that code depends on register globals being enabled which
have been off for some time. You can either turn register globals on in
php.ini (not recommended) or with an .htaccess file (better than using
php.ini not as good as changing the code if that is possible).
Information about
Try using global $HTTP_SERVER_VARS at the top of your function or using
the $_SERVER super global which is automatically global.
Jason
Webmaster wrote:
Hi,
why doesn't this work?
## IP FUNCTIONS ##
function assignClientIP()
{
if (getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR') == '')
{
PEAR has an Excel Spreadsheet Writer class, view it at:
http://pear.php.net/package/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
Jason
Payne wrote:
Jackson Miller wrote:
Is there a way to output PHP to MS Excel format?
-Jac
One you can do a dump with mysqladmin save the file as myfile.csv ,
excel can read
You can enable them on a per directory bases with .htaccess, take a look
at http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.php.
I recommend using the .htaccess method rather than globally turning on
register globals.
Jason
Frank Tudor wrote:
This is more for a linux group post but I know someone
Hello, take a look at http://www.turcksoft.com/en/e_mmc.htm. Basically
there is a 2 to 10x performance increase generally. I wrote a web based
front end to Turck MMCache to make encoding scripts easier, its
available at http://phpcoder.shadonet.com
If your scripts are database bound you wont
Sounds like you might have an open { somewhere, PHP can't tell that you
have a problem until it reaches the end of the file.
Jason
Burhan Khalid wrote:
Stevie D Peele wrote:
Can someone spot what Is wrong with my code?
[ trim ]
It says Line 195 which is the ?
Would it matter I don't have
PHP eclipse is also nice, you need eclipse from http://www.eclipse.org
and then you install the PHP Eclipse module
http://phpeclipse.sourceforge.net. Very easy to install, I am a big fan
of Komodo, I also like Vim, Kate and Eclipse. I tried Zend Studio 1 and
2 but it didn't live up to the
Rather than using this number I'd suggest generating your own, use
mt_rand or uniqid to generate a unique series of numbers and then use
md5 or sha1 to convert them to a hash (I've generated 128 character
session identifiers using a variety of these techniques). You may also
convert it to hex
I've used this technique quiet effectively in the past. I played
around with some timeouts to try to prevent the second user from logging
in but because of the nature of HTTP it is very hard to tell when
someone has logged out when they don't click the logout button and you
wind up
You might look at SCP using the PuTTY SCP or another SSH client to
securely upload the file. You could automate it in a batch file and
make a short-cut to the batch file. Doing this over the web is not a
good method like John said. If you use SCP you can setup an SSH key so
that you are not
Search the archives for Turck and MMcache, yes they work, the degree
differs depending on how much the database is used but you will see a
performance increase. Turck is open source and very good, I wrote a web
based encoder front end to it http://phpcoder.shadonet.com or you can
use the
PEAR has a class for image manipluation, http://pear.php.net. Also
there was an excellent class on phpclasses.org that allows you to easily
crop, resize, shrink, etc, etc, I can't remember its name but I used it
for a while.
Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote:
have a situation where clients will be
Hello Ho,
If you are using a printer that is postscript enabled (like HP
LaserJet's) it is easy. Simply convert whatever you want to print to a
postscript file (there are several utilities on freshmeat.net they do
this) and then using PHP open a socket to the JetDirect card and send
the data.
Yes,
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.memory-get-usage.php
Jason
Decapode Azur wrote:
Hi, is it possible to get, from a php script, the memory size it takes ?
Is there documentations explaining how to manage resources in php ?
thanks
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PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
It sounds to me like you are having them update their information on a
central admin control panel for their site.
There are a couple problems with your proposed method, first the .php
file by default will get parsed by their server before it is sent to you
so you will not be able to include
Install ZoneAlarm, and configure your web server to listen to IP
127.0.0.1. If you aren't using ASP and you are using PHP you might
consider installing Apache for Windows. If your brother is attempting
to exploit you from your LAN set the LAN trust level in Zone Alarm lower
so that it is the
If you are running Linux/Unix check /etc/newsyslog.conf as well, this is
a program run from cron that rotates the systems and other daemon log files.
Jon Kriek wrote:
Rob is aspsoletly correct; this has to be a rotation called from crontab.
Jon Kriek
http://phpfreaks.com
Robert
You aren't required to be subscribed to post to the list, so if you are
not subscribed you will not see the FAQ or the discussion about how to
post properly.
You could make it be sent in the confirmation email when someone first
posts to the email address but then you are making the mail
Take a look at the Classifieds section on www.hotscripts.com/PHP
Jason
SayOrange.com wrote:
I am working on a project that shall have a section for 'Lost and
Found' people lists with photographs. Does anyone knows of any package
or code that could be reused here.
Thanks in advance.
--
PHP
Hi Henrik,
Take a look at session_id, you can use it to get or set the session id.
Using some of my random generation functions I juse 72 to 96 character
session ids for my more secure PHP applications. Remember if you want
it to remain secure you need to pass it through SSL, longer keys do
Take a look at register_shutdown_function, it sounds like it might do
what you want just be aware that you obviously can't display output once
the connection is closed because no one is listening .
void register_shutdown_function ( callback function)
Registers the function named by function to
You could do it a couple different ways, if you just want to combine the
values the easiest way is:
$v_template = $_REQUEST['TemplateOne'] . $_REQUEST['TemplateTwo'];
If you want a space between the two values expand on this idea using:
$v_template = $_REQUEST['TemplateOne'] . ' ' .
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