[PHP] PHP security in a hosting environment

2004-04-07 Thread Ben Joyce
hi. one of my clients whom we host a website for has expressed interest in writing their own php/mySQL applications for their site. i've been looking in to the security implications of offering this service. My concerns are that the client *could* use a php script to access parts of the file

Re: [PHP] hello

2004-04-01 Thread Ben Joyce
Hello. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 3:14 PM Subject: [PHP] hello Try this, or nothing! -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] web statistics

2004-03-31 Thread Ben Joyce
I use AWStats for my web stats stuff. Pretty easy once the minimal configuration is done. http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ - Original Message - From: Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Elliot J. Balanza [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:00 PM Subject:

Re: [PHP] running php in sequence

2004-03-30 Thread Ben Joyce
I'd recommend that you build a set of functions (or a class) to do your bits and pieces, rather than include blocks of code. That way you can ZIP depending on the outcome of your CHECKOUT code. function checkoutStuff() { //if checkout code executes ok return true; } if(checkoutStuff())

Re: [PHP] how can I get the id of the last record I inserted into a table with an insert query?

2004-03-29 Thread Ben Joyce
hello. mysql_insert_id() should do what you need. lovely function, that one. hth, ben Diana Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] how can I get the id of the last record I inserted into a table with an insert query? (into Mysql database) -- Diana Castillo

[PHP] use of @ operator to suppress errors

2004-03-15 Thread Ben Joyce
hi. i'm using error_reporting(0) and set_error_handler(MyErrorHandler) to manage my errors but I'm getting situations where a NOTICE error is thrown. For example if I refer to $_GET['this'] when there is no 'this' querystring key then i get the error. I've tried using @$_GET['this'] but it

Re: [PHP] use of @ operator to suppress errors

2004-03-15 Thread Ben Joyce
errors Yes, it's normal. You've to check if is that variable set if (isset($_GET['this'])) and than you didn't get any NOTICE about that undefined variable. condition if ($_GET['this']) is not sufficient to check whether is variable set or not. /tom On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:43:24 - Ben

Re: [PHP] use of @ operator to suppress errors

2004-03-15 Thread Ben Joyce
not sure if I'm making much sense. Any help appreciated! Cheers, Ben - Original Message - From: Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ben Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 12:11 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] use of @ operator to suppress errors

Re: [PHP] use of @ operator to suppress errors

2004-03-15 Thread Ben Joyce
Many Thanks Nikolay. It seems then that if I'm to avoid the NOTICE errors then isset() should be used as suggested earlier. Not the greatest solution but a working one. Thanks to all. Ben - Original Message - From: Nikolay Bachiyski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ben Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED