Re: [PHP] Ini files for CLI only on non Win32 platform
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:40:27 +0100 From: Richard Quadling rquadl...@gmail.com To: PHP General list php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Ini files for CLI only on non Win32 platform. I've got an instance of PHP that is looking for additional ini files in /etc/php.d This seems to work well. I now need to make one of the ini files only accessible if the SAPI is CGI. So, I renamed the file ... mv /etc/php.d/my.ini /etc/php.d/my-cgi.ini If I do a ... php --ini I still see the ini file. Is the -SAPI filtering performed on the additional files? It doesn't seem to and I can't really tell from the dox if it is supposed to. Shouldn't the file name be php-cgi.ini ? Manual: If php-SAPI.ini exists (where SAPI is the SAPI in use, so, for example, php-cli.ini or php-apache.ini), it is used instead of php.ini. The SAPI name can be determined with php_sapi_name(). I'm in CLI mode here; note that my-cli.ini is ignored but php-cli.ini is not: [1016] Fri 13.Sep.2013 13:52:05 [kadmin@freebsd-devel][/www/data/] php --ini Configuration File (php.ini) Path: /usr/local/etc Loaded Configuration File: /usr/local/etc/php.ini Scan for additional .ini files in: /usr/local/etc/php Additional .ini files parsed: /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini [1017] Fri 13.Sep.2013 13:52:08 [kadmin@freebsd-devel][/www/data/] sudo touch /usr/local/etc/php-cgi.ini [1018] Fri 13.Sep.2013 13:52:26 [kadmin@freebsd-devel][/www/data/] sudo touch /usr/local/etc/php-cli.ini [1019] Fri 13.Sep.2013 13:52:32 [kadmin@freebsd-devel][/www/data/] sudo touch /usr/local/etc/my-cli.ini [1020] Fri 13.Sep.2013 13:52:44 [kadmin@freebsd-devel][/www/data/] php --ini Configuration File (php.ini) Path: /usr/local/etc Loaded Configuration File: /usr/local/etc/php-cli.ini Scan for additional .ini files in: /usr/local/etc/php Additional .ini files parsed: /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini I apologize if I'm missing the point or am obtuse or irrelevant; I don't play with the INI files very often. Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Finally....
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:23:18 -0400 From: Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net To: PHP General php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Finally # ezmlm-list ~ezmlm/php-general | grep skynet supp...@skynet.be # ezmlm-unsub ~ezmlm/php-general supp...@skynet.be # ezmlm-list ~ezmlm/php-general | grep skynet # No more of those Your e-mail concerning our products and services autoreplies from the Belgacom Webteam. Sorry it took me this long to realize it and get around to it. Happy Friday. Aunt AMaViS says, What autoreplies? ;) ;) Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] variable placeholders in a text file
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:29:38PM -0600, Nelson Green wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:59:02, Ashley Sheridan wrote: ___ On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 13:39 -0600, Nelson Green wrote: snip snip Nelson (et al), I've enjoyed reading this thread and apologize for dredging it up. It's interesting to see your progression of thought and the templating discussion is indeed a worthy one. However, I wanted to answer this objection from your initial message: The reason I ask is because I am going to want to do three substitutions, and I'd rather not do three str_replace calls if I don't have to. You *don't* have to; str_replace() is perfectly capable of handling arrays: = $replace = array(USER,SITENAME,SOME_CONSTANT); $replacements = array($user,$site_name,$foo); $replaced = str_replace($replace,$replacements,file_get_contents(/somefile.txt)); = This, of course, doesn't negate a good templating system* ... but it's handy to know and you'll probably use it sooner or later. Kevin Kinsey P.S. *assuming that's not an oxymoron! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Turning a string into a condition
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:37:18PM -0500, Marc Guay wrote: It shouldn't be that hard to parse this type of expressions. I appreciate your concern, and will do my best to validate the input, but there are two things: 1) The application will only be used by selected users. and 2) The range of possibilities are broader than I indicated. They would like to be able to enter conditions of all sorts. i.e. ($x / $y) 0.5 (($a+$b+$c) / $d) .75 etc. If you have any suggestions on how to increase the security while maintaning the flexibility, I'd be happy to hear it. Marc You might try making a list of dirty words (in this case, not the 4-letter type, but things you wouldn't want the user to be able to do (mail() calls, filesystem type calls, etc.). Another possibility might be to explode the contents of the expression and run a call to function_exists() on it ... but that might be a tad too broad as well. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Need Part-time Coder
You'll want your PHP code to be proprietary and encoded,
of course.
Run this script, save the output, and then run *that*.
?php
$helloworld = 'Hello World';
$n = 30;
for($i=0; $i$n; $i++)
{$helloworld = base64_encode($helloworld);
}
echo '?php\n$h=';
echo chunk_split($helloworld);
echo ';';
echo 'for($i=0;$i'.$n.'; $i++)';
echo '{$h = base64_decode($h);}';
echo 'echo $h;';
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Re: [PHP] Is it possible to install PHP on IIS?
Richard Quadling wrote: On 16 November 2010 13:21, Jay Blanchard jblanch...@pocket.com wrote: [snip] Hi Folks, is it possible to install PHP on IIS? If yes, can someone please guide me on how to go about doing it? Thanks [/snip] http://www.wampserver.com/en/ Jay, if that had been wimpserver ... I think it's a good point. Windows + IIS + MySQL + PHP == WINP(y) server :-P KDK -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php-general-digest-unsubscr...@lists.php.net not working?
Paul M Foster wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 12:34:35PM -0400, Daniel P. Brown wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:33, Daniel P. Brown daniel.br...@parasane.net wrote: If you continue to have issues, let me know and I will remove you. From the list, that is, to be clear. Not the Earth. Dang! I was just about to send you a list of people to remove! ;-} Paul Lord-a-mercy, yes!!! Daniel, what license for this service? BSD? CC? GPL? :-D Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] form post question
Bastien Koert wrote:
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Jack jacklistm...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a form which has the following: ( quick clip )
form id=form1 name=form1 method=post
action=http://www.abc.com/processing/process_form.php; onSubmit=return
preSubmit();
label
input name=area_interest type=checkbox id=field13
value=Peer Guide /
Peer Guide/label
br /
label
input type=submit value=Submit /
When the form runs process_form.php it emails the content and has several
other fields from the form, but I have some fields like the one above that
don't show up in the result. The script that builds the message looks like
the below
$temp_message .= Area(s) of Interest: .
$_POST['area_interest'] .\n;
Is there anything obvious that I am missing?
Is there a way for me to show all the fields from the form, and their field
names which are received by process_form?
Thanks!
Jack
Check boxes (assuming you have more than one in the set) are generally
coming in as an array. You can see this by running this
echo pre;
print_r($_POST);
echo /pre;
to see the entire post array
+1 for Bastien; print_r() and var_dump() are the keys to debugging.
See http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=threadid=10240608
for a decent overview of same.
And I guess you could reinvent the wheel, or actually process your
POSTed data, with foreach():
// Roll your own print_r()
foreach ($_POST as $p = $q) {
echo $p. -.$q. br /;
}
// Or do_something_useful()
foreach ($_POST as $p = $q) {
do_something_useful($p,$q);
}
HTH,
KDK
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Re: [PHP] PHP Question
Paulo Work wrote: Hello, Paulo! I am building a website with basic CMS functionality. My problem is that in one of the pages I am using Easyslider to display small comments about the clients. These comments are divided in 3 per slide. ex:(li pcomment 1/p pcomment 1/p pcomment 1/p /li) I am pulling the comments from the db and I would like to know if i can split that array in 3's (array_slice) perhaps? My goal is to within a foreach loop output 3 comments within a slide(wrapped in li), so first 3 would output: (li pcomment 1/p pcomment 2/p pcomment 3/p /li) Then another 3 I'm a hacker, so this is a HACK: ?php $data=(li pcomment 1/p pcomment 2/p pcomment 3/p /li); $lines=explode(\n,$data); array_shift($lines); array_pop($lines); print_r($lines); ? I'll leave it to the big boys to debate and devise more elegant solutions. Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Array problem
Marc Guay wrote: As Nicholas pointed out, the extra underscore in the key is the issue. That's way too easy a fix. I think he should check to make sure his version of PHP was compiled with the right extensions and that the browser isn't doing something unpredictably bizarre when submitting the form. Just checked the card file, today's cause is: Sunspots. KDK -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: 1984 (Big Brother)
Gary wrote: tedd wrote: I have a client who wants his employees' access to their online business database restricted to only times when he is logged on. (Don't ask why) Simply put a dead man's handle under his seat which turns on the power to the server when he sits on it. I figured we'd get here sooner or later, esp. after I saw Daniel B. talking about lawnmowers. And now you can tell the client with a straight face ... if you want any work to get done today you'd best sit your @$$ down right here Then, of course, for fun, you could encourage PHB to bounce up down a few times a day to keep the employees on their toes. He'd dig it, I'm sure, and you'd pick up a good parcel of extra work recovering DB's ... and disks. Richard Quadling: You get all the employees in a room, with the boss. And then you tell them that when the boss isn't in, they don't have to do any work. I'm pretty sure the employees will be your new BFFs. +11. We should ABSOLUTELY copy Scot Adams on this. Wait a minute, maybe Tedd's client IS Scot Adams. Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] exec in different directory where PHP is Installed
loki wrote: Hello, PHP is installed in c:\program files\php the PHP script are in network drive \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\scriptdir\ in the PHP script, we try to launch the command @exec(...) with a executable located in c:\program files\ourexecutable\ it's not work :( but if we move the PHP script from \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\scriptdir\ to c:\scriptdir\ then it's work !! everything work good EXCEPT the @EXEC command ... Safe mode in PHP is OFF ... Hello, Can you show us the script? The first thing I'd do is call is_file(\\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\scriptdir\foo.php) ... are you doing that? Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP Application Structre
Peter Lind wrote:
On 12 May 2010 07:10, Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz wrote:
Ashley Sheridan wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 08:48 +0530, chetan rane wrote:
Hi all,
mod rewrite was actually inrduced to have search engne frendly urls.
hnce if you want a seo site then you have to use options 1 2. using
smarty or any templating engine for readibility is not total true.
one of the major advantages of using template engines is caching
I've read some {disparaging?) comments on option 2, but I've
got a question, or point, about that. I'm not at all sure that
you have to use mod_rewrite at all, can't you just use a
FORCETYPE directive on your handler script(s)?
I've certainly got some work in the form:
somesite.com/scriptname/var1/var2/var3
that seems to work well with no use of the rewrite module.
And why wouldn't you want to use mod_rewrite? It's an extremely
powerful tool that does the job really well.
Well, again, I'm not purporting to be an authority, but the
first thing that comes to mind is that my reasoning would be
much the same as my reasoning in building stuff: I've got a nice
STIHL chainsaw, but I don't need it to cut two-by-fours, and
I've got access to a Hole Hawg but don't need it to make a
path for a CAT5 cable. I guess you could call the concept
avoiding overkill, but I'm not cognizant enough with the
inner workings of Apache to know really how much of a hit
the rewrite module makes. I suppose, in terms of computing, it's
kind of similar to a Unix philosophy: small tools that
do one job without extra fluff.
KDK
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Re: [PHP] PHP Application Structre
Ashley Sheridan wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 08:48 +0530, chetan rane wrote:
Hi all,
mod rewrite was actually inrduced to have search engne frendly urls.
hnce if you want a seo site then you have to use options 1 2. using
smarty or any templating engine for readibility is not total true.
one of the major advantages of using template engines is caching
I've read some {disparaging?) comments on option 2, but I've
got a question, or point, about that. I'm not at all sure that
you have to use mod_rewrite at all, can't you just use a
FORCETYPE directive on your handler script(s)?
I've certainly got some work in the form:
somesite.com/scriptname/var1/var2/var3
that seems to work well with no use of the rewrite module.
Aside from the fact that I've yet to find any actual evidence that
search engines treat what most people consider 'search engine friendly'
urls any different from the 'unfriendly dynamic' ones. Next time you
search for something online have a look at the URLs and see how many
belong to forums with dynamic URLs. More than you'd think I would
imagine, but it does go a long way to prove that most search engines
don't give much credence to the URL these days.
Of course, it does help if your keywords are in the URL, but I've not
noticed much of a difference between:
somesite.com/page-about-subject
and
somesite.com/?page=page-about-subject
I think that this may be an artifact of an earlier time. There
was a time when SE's didn't do so well with query strings, but it'd
be a little silly to think their owners didn't realize this and left
things exactly the way they were back in 2002 ... wouldn't it?
My $0.02,
Kevin Kinsey
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Re: [PHP] What's your game? (X-PHP)
Richard Quadling wrote: On 25 April 2010 14:16, tedd t...@sperling.com wrote: What's your game? Ooh, do we *have* to tell? I've got interest in the AOE stuff, but haven't played in a while. Haven't purchased AOE3. If I'm *really* bored, I've got freecell.exe running on every O.S. I run I'm also a Player Moderator in a large MMORPG, but I'm not sure I should say which one ... Mods there are big targets; suffice it to say it's a love/hate relationship, and I either need counseling or to go work on my combat skills RIGHT AWAY!!! KDK -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP not being read?
Gary wrote:
Peter
Check that the php module is loaded by Apache on the 'bad' machine and
that the proper handler is set. Should be a line like:
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3
I have been looking through some of the files, but frankly it is a
combination hunt and peek and a guessing game, I'm just not sure which
file to look in or where to find that file. I have done a few searches
for addhandler and have not found it.
Could you point me in the right direction?
Find the file httpd.conf. I've no idea what OS you're on;
a classical location might be something like:
{/usr/local}/etc/apache/httpd.conf
HTH,
Kevin Kinsey
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Re: [PHP] Re: replying to list (I give up)
Bobby Pejman wrote: I must say, I never heard or even thought of the idea of calling it LookOut. Hahaha. It made me laugh for a good 10 minutes and if that term is open source, I will be using it ;) I've still got a Win98 box in service somewhere around here; I use it for audio recording. Someone (possibly even me) renamed most of the desktop icons ... OE's shortcut is Outluck Depress. :-) Kevin D. Kinsey FWIW: Lists that set reply to sender: All FreeBSD.org lists Lists that set reply to group: All Yahoo Groups lists My prefs: I couldn't care less, really. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mail Function Using PEAR Issues
Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
Hey Alice,
Again, try throwing the MIME in.
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . \r\n;
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . \r\n;
Also:
$headers .= 'Errors-to: myworkingemailaddr...@foo.com' . \r\n;
Which I suggested on your previous thread. Also, I see you have
$from set to equal localhost. Many SMTP servers will reject this
I *think*, because localhost is a hostname, not a working mailbox.
Try making $from equal to a real working address - possibly the same
one as your Errors-to: header..
My $0.02,
KDK
On Apr 18, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Alice Wei wrote:
Hi,
After several days, I have rebuilt my system on Linux using Ubuntu,
installed PEAR and such. Thankfully, when I execute the code, it no
longer gives me the error that the class is not found. Yet, when I
submit the form now, I can always see the confirmation message telling
me that my message has been sent, but I cannot see it even in another
mailbox.
Here is the code:
require_once(Mail.php);
$mail = Mail::factory(mail);
$your_name = $_POST['your_name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$question = $_POST['question'];
$comments= $_POST['comments'];
$submit = $_POST['submit'];
$from = localhost;
$to = $email;
$subject = Comments;
$body = From: $your_name\n E-Mail: $email\n Reason Contact:
$question\n Comments:\n $comments;
$host = localhost;
$headers = array ('From' = $from,'To' = $to,'Subject' = $subject);
$mail -send($to, $headers, $body);
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) echo p . $mail-getMessage() . /p;
else {
echo pMessage successfully sent!/p div id='main'
h1Thank You For Contacting Us/h1
pWe will contact you within the next b24 business
hours/b./p
pHere is what you have input:/p
ulliYour Name is b . $your_name . /b/li
liYour Email is b . $email . /b/li
liYou contacted us because you have a b . $question .
/b/li
liHere are your comments: b . $comments . /b/li/ul
h1Have a Nice Day!/h1/div;
}
}
Can anyone on the list please give me some pointers on what might have
been wrong here? I have not edited anything in the php.ini file
regarding SMTP.
Thanks.
Alice
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Re: [PHP] Mail Function Using PEAR Issues
Alice Wei wrote:
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:02:29 -0500
From: k...@daleco.biz
To: aj...@alumni.iu.edu
CC: k...@designdrumm.com; php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] Mail Function Using PEAR Issues
Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
Hey Alice,
Again, try throwing the MIME in.
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . \r\n;
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . \r\n;
Also:
$headers .= 'Errors-to: myworkingemailaddr...@foo.com' . \r\n;
Which I suggested on your previous thread. Also, I see you have
$from set to equal localhost. Many SMTP servers will reject this
I *think*, because localhost is a hostname, not a working mailbox.
Try making $from equal to a real working address - possibly the same
one as your Errors-to: header..
My $0.02,
KDK
On Apr 18, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Alice Wei wrote:
Hi,
After several days, I have rebuilt my system on Linux using Ubuntu,
installed PEAR and such. Thankfully, when I execute the code, it no
longer gives me the error that the class is not found. Yet, when I
submit the form now, I can always see the confirmation message telling
me that my message has been sent, but I cannot see it even in another
mailbox.
Here is the code:
require_once(Mail.php);
$mail = Mail::factory(mail);
$your_name = $_POST['your_name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$question = $_POST['question'];
$comments= $_POST['comments'];
$submit = $_POST['submit'];
$from = localhost;
$to = $email;
$subject = Comments;
$body = From: $your_name\n E-Mail: $email\n Reason Contact:
$question\n Comments:\n $comments;
$host = localhost;
$headers = array ('From' = $from,'To' = $to,'Subject' = $subject);
$mail -send($to, $headers, $body);
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) echo p . $mail-getMessage() . /p;
else {
echo pMessage successfully sent!/p div id='main'
h1Thank You For Contacting Us/h1
pWe will contact you within the next b24 business
hours/b./p
pHere is what you have input:/p
ulliYour Name is b . $your_name . /b/li
liYour Email is b . $email . /b/li
liYou contacted us because you have a b . $question .
/b/li
liHere are your comments: b . $comments . /b/li/ul
h1Have a Nice Day!/h1/div;
}
}
Can anyone on the list please give me some pointers on what might have
been wrong here? I have not edited anything in the php.ini file
regarding SMTP.
Thanks.
Alice
Hi,
Here is the revised version, and I don't think I have experienced any
changes in terms of the output on the screen. Plus, I still get no email.
?php
require_once(Mail.php);
$mail = Mail::factory(mail);
$your_name = $_POST['your_name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$question = $_POST['question'];
$comments= $_POST['comments'];
$submit = $_POST['submit'];
$from = aj...@alumni.iu.edu;
$to = elite.engl...@gmail.com;
$subject = Comments;
$body = From: $your_name\n E-Mail: $email\n Reason Contact: $question\n
Comments:\n $comments;
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . \r\n;
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . \r\n;
$headers .= 'Errors-to: elite.engl...@gmail.com' . \r\n;
$mail -send($to, $headers, $body);
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) echo p . $mail-getMessage() .
/p;
else {
echo pMessage successfully sent!/p div
id='main'
h1Thank You For Contacting Us/h1
pHere is what you have input:/p
ulliYour Name is b . $your_name .
/b/li
liYour Email is b . $email .
/b/li
liYou contacted us because you have a b .
$question . /b/li
liHere are your comments: b . $comments .
/b/li/ul
h1Have a Nice Day!/h1/div;
}
I have made sure that my $from and $to addresses are different,
Could there be anything else wrong here? I have not edited
anything in php.ini regarding this issue. Would I need to?
Well, it's a Good Thing(tm) to know what those settings are.
Have they changed since your last thread?
KDK
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Re: [PHP] Saving form data into session before leaving a page
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Re: [PHP] Saving form data into session before leaving a page
Dan Joseph wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.comwrote I had a pair-a-dimes one time. Unfortunately I was a nickel short of a quarter to put in the slot. But the question is... were they outside the box? Nah, the question is, since the slot was intended to accept a quarter, why the heck didn't it take two dimes and a nickel ... or just two dimes, and throw a nickel in gratis? I must be getting old. We have toilets that flush themselves now. WTF happened to grown up being equal to taking responsibility for things? KDK -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mail Function Problem
Alice Wei wrote: Hi! You have the following php.ini params:SMTP = smtp.live.com smtp_port = 587 live.com not support relay and it requires authentication. Is there an email account that I could try? I thought most email accounts requires authentication anyway. Well, therein lies the rub, as the Bard said (maybe). PHP's mail() was built on a general assumption that there would be a local SMTP server. It supports remote SMTP, but I'm not aware of any ability to do SMTP auth, even in the PEAR packages. You might just wanna read up on mail in general. The php.net/mail page lists several relevant RFC's, and has links to most of the PEAR mail classes, etc. You should definitely read up on live.com's email configuration. If they use SMTP auth, I'm not sure you can do this (per above). If it uses, say, POP before SMTP for authorization, you might be able to hack something together with the PHP IMAP functions, or even sockets, but you're getting into a big lotta work for what seems a small thing. Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mail Function Problem
kranthi wrote: PEAR's mail package does support authentication. http://email.about.com/od/emailprogrammingtips/qt/PHP_Email_SMTP_Authentication.htm I will say mea culpa on this one; apparently I didn't dig deep enough into the PEAR docs to figure this out. It's certainly not mentioned on the manpage at php.net, but, of course, the PEAR stuff is elsewhere. I read over the first page linked from the PHP manpage, so it must have been a lil' deeper than that. If it's only available at about.com (lol), I'd suggest filing a PR with the PEAR folk's documentation team, eh? But, this time I'll do what I shoulda mentioned before and include the IANAE disclaimer on all things PEAR, many things PHP, and some things SMTP. Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mail Function Problem
Alice Wei wrote:
Hi,
I have an issue here where I see no PHP errors on my mail
function usage, and yet I am not getting the mail in the
desired account. Here is what I have for my PHP code:
$headers = From: aj...@alumni.iu.edu;
$to = aj...@alumni.iu.edu ;
$subject = Comments Regarding My Studio;
$body = From: $your_name\n E-Mail: $email\n Reason Contact: $question\n Comments:\n
$comments;
mail($to, $subject, $body,$headers);
I don't see any way for you to know if there are any errors.
Try this as a very basic start:
$headers = From: aj...@alumni.iu.edu;
$to = aj...@alumni.iu.edu ;
$subject = Comments Regarding My Studio;
$body = From: $your_name\n E-Mail: $email\n Reason Contact: $question\n Comments:\n
$comments;
$success=mail($to, $subject, $body,$headers);
if ($success) {
echo Mail was sent successfully!;
} else {
echo Sending of mail failed!;
}
This is what I have in my PHP.ini:
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = smtp.live.com
smtp_port = 587
; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = aj...@alumni.iu.edu
; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: sendmail -t -i).
;sendmail_path =
; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra
parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.
;mail.force_extra_parameters =
Yet, I don't see any mail in my aj...@alumni.iu.edu Mailbox, can
anyone on the list please give me some pointers on what I may have done wrong
here?
Thanks for your help.
Thanks to the worldwide brotherhood of crooks known as spammers,
sending e-mail these days isn't nearly as easy as PHP makes it look.
You might wanna look into an errors-to header to help debug any
problems with sender authorization, bad ports, etc.
HTH,
KDK
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Re: [PHP] Greate day for you,
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 04/07/10 21:41, Chris G wrote: http://sites.google.com/site/vfgbyuhoi6/kewe2w snip Is there no spam filter at lists.php.net ? Does your filter catch 101% of all of it? That's the only one I've seen in a Long Time(tm). Just asking :-) Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Logical reason for strtotime('east') and strtotime('west') returning valid results?
Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Kevin Kinsey at 05/04/10 19:15 did gyre and gimble: Nonetheless, I'm suspecting the programmers had something like this in mind. Yeah I guess that's why it interprets these terms. Good thinking :) Isn't strtotime() based on some GNU utility? Yeah, that's why I said the relevant authorities. I couldn't remember off-hand where it came from so figured I'd not blame PHP just yet :p Apparently these strings are being recognized as TZ stamps, but the underlying logic is not fully implemented: see http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/Low_002dLevel-Time-String-Parsing.html Try it with some TZ stamps ... I'm pretty sure that in the previous example it was taking East to be EST, as I observed (rather by accident) earlier. Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP (32 bit) on IIS7.5 and MySQL 5.1.45 (64 bit) - established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond
Sumarliði Einar Daðason wrote: I have setup PHP (32 bit) on IIS7.5 and MySQL 5.1.45 (64 bit) with success. phpinfo() shows the MySQL extension loaded, but when I try to use mysql_connect( $host, $user, $password ) in a PHP script I get following error: PHP Warning: mysql_connect() [a href='function.mysql-connect'function.mysql-connect/a]: [2002] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not (trying to connect via tcp://localhost:3306) in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\old\index.php on line 29 I have search on the Internet for a solution for this but without any luck. Any ideas? Yes, first check that MySQL is actually listening on port 3306 (Netstat should do that trick), and, if it is, try turning your firewall off. What is the value of $host? KDK -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] How to know which PHP is used by Apache
Devendra Jadhav wrote: I am still confused. As per Nilesh php's binary is not required and as per Ashley it is required. Which one is correct? And I am not able to find which php's binary is used by using phpinfo(). Anyone confident about either of the two answers? Pretty confident about all of them. Nilesh probably misunderstood, or we are misunderstanding him. PHP has to have a binary file, whether it's the CLI interpreter or the Apache module. Run a script with phpinfo() in it. Look for the line that says Server API. If this reads something like Apache $N.$N Handler, then the PHP interpreter binary is something like libphp$n.so. If the line reads Command Line Interface, then you are using something like /usr/bin/php, /usr/local/bin/php, etc. (I'm from a BSD background, your $penguin_path may vary). If you are talking about actually having two different versions of PHP installed, and not sure which is actually being called, you might find out something with the Linux equivalent of the BSD `pkg_which`: [31] Thu 01.Apr.2010 10:39:24 [ad...@archangel][/usr/local/bin] sudo pkg_which /usr/local/bin/php php5-5.2.11 This command is highly dependent on your Linux distro: on RH I think it's rpm, dpkg on Debian, urpmf on Mandriva, etc. If you have two installations of the same version, $deity help you :-) HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] How to know which PHP is used by Apache
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: libphp5.so doesn't need the php binary. You're right, and of course not. libphp5.so *is* a PHP binary :-) I've confirmed this using a test. My local apache is configured to use libphp5.so I moved /usr/bin/php to /root, then started apache and ran drupal. It worked. This confirms that libphp5.so is independent of the php binary in /usr/bin as I suggested earlier. No one was questioning that .. or at least, I wasn't. One is an executable binary file ... a program. The other is also a binary file, but it's a _library_. What I said was you need one or the other. A binary file, either the Apache SO or the binary interpreter... It's possible to configure Apache to use a PHP executable (CGI), and the CGI and CLI executables are similar, if not identical. I dunno if anyone actually does that anymore, though. :-) Ashley said The libphp5.so is the Apache module that links PHP into Apache. You need this and PHP installed if you want to use PHP in Apache. Devendra apparently misinterpreted this to mean that you need both the SO and the binary interpreter, but you don't. You DO need the rest of the PHP extensions, libraries, config files, etc. ... a PHP installation, whether or not your have the CLI binary is not that important, although I always do since I like to run system scripts in PHP via cron, etc. Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] File encryption under PHP
Paul M Foster wrote: Folks: If I wanted to encrypt a file in PHP and then write it out to disk (one-way encryption, requiring a password), what PHP built-ins might you recommend to encrypt the contents of the file before writing it out to disk? Paul Here's a very generic mcrypt example. IANAE where security is concerned, but from what I've read, BLOWFISH should be a fairly decent algorithm for most applications. This isn't my work, can't remember whose ... uses 3DES. KDK ?php $plaintext = Four score and seven years ago; $cipher = MCRYPT_TRIPLEDES; $mode = MCRYPT_MODE_ECB; $rand_src = MCRYPT_DEV_RANDOM; //MCRYPT_DEV_RANDOM $password = 'Extra secret password'; print (Plaintext: $plaintext\n); // OK, let's encrypt the data $handle = mcrypt_module_open ($cipher, '', $mode, ''); if (!$handle) die (Couldn't locate open mcrypt module for '$cipher' algorithm); $iv_size = mcrypt_enc_get_iv_size ($handle); $ivector = mcrypt_create_iv ($iv_size, $rand_src); if (mcrypt_generic_init ($handle, $password, $ivector) == -1) die (Error: mcrypt_generic_init() failed.); $ciphertext = mcrypt_generic ($handle, $plaintext); mcrypt_generic_end ($handle); echo br Ciphertext: . bin2hex ($ciphertext) . \n; // Now let's decrypt it $handle = mcrypt_module_open ($cipher, '', $mode, ''); if (!$handle) die (Couldn't locate open mcrypt module for '$cipher' algorithm); if (mcrypt_generic_init ($handle, $password, $ivector) == -1) die (Error: mcrypt_generic_init() failed.); $plaintext = mdecrypt_generic ($handle, $ciphertext); mcrypt_generic_end ($handle); echo br Plaintext: $plaintext\n); ? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] open source bookshop
Ali Reza Sajedi wrote: Hello all, Does anybody know a good open source bookshop/bookstore system written in php+mysql? Google and sourceforge search didn't yield good results. Any hint would be very much appreciated. SAM'S published a PHP book some years ago that had just such an app in demo form, on CD, included. A big purple book. The app was basically a shopping cart system, but it was specifically for books. Might be a good way to learn something and a good framework for further customization. Given that it's a few years old, though, you'd want to definitely do some reading on security best procedures and changes since PHP 4 As for the rest of the discussion, a bookshop could easily be most of the standard cart-type apps. Since they have only a few characteristics, it's much easier than, for example, retail clothing ;-) HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP Sessions
Martine Osias wrote: Hi: I need to store variables to send then between pages. I don't need the variables in a database so I try to send them with sessions. The variables don't seem to be there when I try to get them. What could be the problem. Here are the pages where I store and retrieve the variables. Page 1 (variables stored): ?php session_start(); $_SESSION['scripture_text'] = $row_scripture['ScriptureText']; $_SESSION['scripture_ref'] = $row_scripture['ScriptureRef']; Do sessions work at all? Something simple, like ?php //a.php session_start(); $_SESSION['test']=foo; echo 'a href=b.phpClick me/a'; ? ?php //b.php session_start(); echo $_SESSION['test']; // should say foo ? * ... would be a good 1st test. If that works, I'd suspect that $row_scripture['ScriptureText'] and friends are empty. If it doesn't, I'd suspect a combination of very strict browser privacy settings (disallow all cookies) with lame server config (use_only_cookies), or that session support is missing or disabled. HTH, KDK -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP Sessions
Forgot to mention, you could check into the privacy vs. server settings by doing: session_start(); echo session_id(); on both pages. If they're different, then this is the problem. KDK -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP MySQL Insert Statements
Martine Osias wrote: Hi, My insert statements on this web page don't execute. The select statements do work. This tells me that the database connection is working. The username and password are the administrator's. What else could prevent the insert statements from executing? Thank you. Martine Should be trivial to find out what's happening. Something like: $success=mysql_query($insert_statement) or die(Uh-oh, mysql said:.mysql.error()); HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] EHLO error 554: what can it be?
Thilo Klein wrote: Kevin Kinsey schrieb: Andre Polykanine wrote: Hello everyone, I'm writing a class to send mail via an SMTP server with authorization. Everything seems to work but I get an EHLO error: 554 SMTP synchronization error Where should I look to avoid this? Thanks! Be polite :-D Make sure your class waits for the other server's greeting before you send HELO/EHLO. ;-) HTH, Kevin Kinsey He is polite. You are not. I'm afraid that you've misinterpreted at the very least. I'm not accusing him of being impolite, but saying that what is probably happening is that his script is sending HELO/EHLO before the receiving server sends its greeting. Im comparing that to talking when you should be listening, which is impolite in general conversation, at least where I live. If Andre really thought I meant he was impolite, I apologize. I did not. That is, incidentally, the reason there is a smiley there. Also, I have to beg this question: if I am impolite, then why am I the only person who has attempted to answer his question thus far? ;-) KDK -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] EHLO error 554: what can it be?
Andre Polykanine wrote: Hello everyone, I'm writing a class to send mail via an SMTP server with authorization. Everything seems to work but I get an EHLO error: 554 SMTP synchronization error Where should I look to avoid this? Thanks! Be polite :-D Make sure your class waits for the other server's greeting before you send HELO/EHLO. ;-) HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mail Function In PHP
Kannan wrote: Hello I am creating a application for our college using the php.In that i want to send mail to all who are all the list. For that i am just simply use the mail function in php without configuring any mail system in the system.But the mail didn't send. For sending the mails wat are requirements and if u have any tutorials send it to me? Thanks.. Hello, Read the manual page for the mail() function ... http://www.php.net/mail Mail() requires an operating SMTP server. This can be set in php.ini, and possibly via the ini_set() function. These might be worth looking into: $config1=ini_set(sendmail_path,/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i); $config2=ini_set(SMTP,localhost); $config3=ini_set(smtp_port,25); If you absolutely can't run an SMTP server or use a remote server, you'd probably have to hack something together with sockets or streams. My $0.02, Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Parse a string containing name and email
Don wrote: Hi, I am pulling email values out of a database and the format is as follows: John Smithjohn.sm...@somedomain.com I need to parse the string into two variables as such $name = John Smith $email = john.sm...@somedomain.com What would be the easiest way to do this? Thanks. [36] Sun 07.Mar.2010 0:27:35 [kad...@archangel][~/scripts] cat split ?php $data=John Smithj...@foo.com; list($name,$email)=explode(,str_replace(,,$data)); echo $name's email address is $email; ? [37] Sun 07.Mar.2010 0:27:40 [kad...@archangel][~/scripts] php split John Smith's email address is j...@foo.com Throw in a foreach() and some data writes or w/e, and you're done. Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] How to get the 'return type' of a function?
Ashley Sheridan wrote: is_quantum() is pretty useful as well, if you want to see if it's sort of there and not at the same time. Probably turns into a cat in a box at some point too, everything quantum has cats in... Thanks, Ash So, should we add to the list: is_schrodingers_cat_alive() ?? KDK -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Anyone fancy getting paid to improve my PHP in London?
Robert Cummings wrote:
You forgot to configure the auto_prepend:
php.ini:
auto_prepend = robs_harem.php
?php
system(/bin/cat robs_harem.php | /usr/bin/mail -s 'looky here' $robs_wife);
if (!defined($robs_wife_is_extremely_rare_woman)) {
die($rob);
} else {
$days=rand(7,365);
$n=1;
chmod($wife,0600);
while ($n$days) {
fputs($rob,$couch);
sleep(28800);
}
}
?
Good luck, buddy ;-)
Kevin Kinsey
PS why are all the trolls in this thread named some
variant of Kenzie?
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Re: [PHP] Anyone fancy getting paid to improve my PHP in London?
Robert Cummings wrote: Send me a blank cheque-- if it clears then I'll get back to you... from someplace warm... by a beach while drinking martinis... and getting a massage... from more than one lady... should we forward this to your wife now, or after the check clears? She's one of the ladies... she's in on it!!! Warning: constant ladies defined incorrectly in 1236973618.10169.75.ca...@localhost line 7 /troll :-D Kevin Kinsey -- Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? -- Clarence Darrow -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] strange php url (CORRECTION)
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Pretty good thoughts, there. Some years ago, Tim Perdue (of PHPBuilder and SourceForge fame) had a popular article on Search Engine Friendly URL's (or some such), in which he described use of the Apache ForceLocal directive to make a site just One Big Script, parsing the slashed portions of the query string as variables (instead of GET, a la ?section=manterm=foo) so that the browser appears to be accessing documents in subfolders, but it's really just telling the server to grab a page with certain values defined in the URI. It sure looks like a possibility of this or similar magic in this case. Of course, I could be way off my tree... And it appears I was at least *slightly* off my tree. In looking for more info on this, my post (archived in 2 places), was the only reference to a ForceLocal directive in Apache that Google could find ;-) I meant ForceType, and here's how it works in httpd.conf: VirtualHost * ServerName test.foo.com DocumentRoot /var/www/data/footest ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Location /manual ForceType application/x-httpd-php /Location /VirtualHost Now, you write manual in PHP, (no file extension), and anything directed to manual is parsed by said script. Since I used the wrong terminology, I may have distracted any *real* gurus from recognizing what I was talking about. Sorry for any confusion. Kevin Kinsey -- It's hard to think of you as the end result of millions of years of evolution. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] strange php url
Hi, could anyone tell me why the following url doesn't generate a page not found ? http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.checkdnsrr.php/manual/ you can try with a longer url after the last .php. I tried with ../manual instead of manual and this produces a 404. I checked with www.php.net because my own site does the same and I wanted to be sure it didn't come from my config. thanks Nicolas Figaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other thing that could happen is they could be using something like the Apache mod_rewrite (some info at http://www.modrewrite.com/ among others) which can dynamically change the requested URL to a more standard URL before sending back to the user. Something like this: http://www.testserver.com/tgryffyn/homepage/middlesection Could be turned into something like: http://www.testserver.com/userpage.php?user=tgryffynpage=home#middleanchor But to the user requesting the page, it'll always look like the first URL. Forgive me if I got any syntax or capability of mod_rewrite wrong, never used it myself just know that's the general sort of thing that it does. Pretty good thoughts, there. Some years ago, Tim Perdue (of PHPBuilder and SourceForge fame) had a popular article on Search Engine Friendly URL's (or some such), in which he described use of the Apache ForceLocal directive to make a site just One Big Script, parsing the slashed portions of the query string as variables (instead of GET, a la ?section=manterm=foo) so that the browser appears to be accessing documents in subfolders, but it's really just telling the server to grab a page with certain values defined in the URI. It sure looks like a possibility of this or similar magic in this case. Of course, I could be way off my tree... Kevin Kinsey -- Byte your tongue. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] any better way...
benifactor wrote:
I am trying to come up with the best way to check for errors on a form. I have
done this before by checking each $_POST variable seperatly but needed a better
way that would display more then one error. The following is what i came up
with...
if (!$condition1 || !$condition2 || $condition1 != $condition2) {
if (!$condition1) {
$regError[0] = condition 1 not met.;
$regErrorc[0] = font color=red;
$regErrore[0] = /font;
$regErrord[0] = font color=red***/font;
}
else {
if (!$condition2) {
$regError[1] = condtion 2 not met.;
$regErrorc[1] = font color=red;
$regErrore[1] = /font;
$regErrord[1] = font color=red***/font;
}
else {
if ($condition1 != $condition2) {
$regError[0] = condition 1 is not equal to condition 2;
$regErrorc[0] = font color=red;
$regErrore[0] = /font;
$regErrord[0] = font color=red***/font;
$regErrorc[1] = font color=red;
$regErrore[1] = /font;
$regErrord[1] = font color=red***/font;
}
}
}
}
which works fine but gets rather lengthy... i was just wondering if there is
any better logic to go about this with and if there is could you please
enlighten me?
Well, the only real *variable* datum there is which condition
was broken. So, how about leaving out the HTML construction
until after the determination has been made?
HTH,
KDK
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Re: [PHP] phpMyAdmin--resetting auto increments to 0
alex wrote: hi everyone i have delete a few entries in my database as they were entered for testing purposes and are no longer need (actually 102 entries)... and even thought that db is empty i noticed that when the next entry went in the id number went to 103 not 0 so i was wondering is it possible to somehow reset the value to zero... it is of int type and auto_increment i have a few db's which id like to reset to zero i have tried placing a zero enrty after deleting the lot but it only jumps to its next increment. does anyone know what i mean...? any help will be grateful regards alex Select the desired database on the left. The browser will reload and show the STRUCTURE page. Click on the SQL tab; the browser should now load a page with a textarea that says Run SQL query/queries on database FOOBAR. Enter the following in the textarea: ALTER TABLE footable auto_increment=0; and then press the GO button. You can set the auto_increment number to any positive integer, AFAIK, though there might be a limit. :-) Kevin Kinsey -- Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they AREN'T after you. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] SQL result
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Dear all, I remember that i use a func that it return an array what it consist of result of my sql query. Please name me that. Yours,Mohsen Was it mysql_fetch_array()? Which SQL was it? Also, are you aware that even entering an incorrect function name at php.net will get you some free pointers ? H.A.N.D.! Kevin Kinsey -- There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. -- Churchill -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php security
Dallas Cahker wrote: I was looking to see if there was a quick checklist of settings for php to be disabled/enabled in the ini file to make the application more secure. I'm making sure the apps we come out with dont allow sql injections, or form injections and so forth, I have just seen some posts about magic quotes and so on and so I was curious. Well, generally php comes with a php.ini-dist and a php.ini-recommended; for tighter security, use the recommended version. Examining a diff of the files could help shed some light, as well. Of course, some of us could be waiting for the day when they ship with a php.ini-ironclad, php.ini-stealthmode, or php.ini-anal-retentive-paranoid, but I'm not sure those are slated, even for PHP6 ;-) HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] parse a Makefile
Benjamin D Adams wrote: I'm trying to parse a Makefile, (FreeBSD Ports) I plan on dumping the Makefile vars to a MySQL Database. Would I parse the make file like a ini file? Or would I have to use something different? Maybe someone knows a tool that can do this for me? Thanks Ben Try file() and ereg() or preg_match. If the Makefile has standard format you're looking for FOOBAR=some string here so reading the file into an array (the file() call) and using a regular expression conditional (to determine if you're looking at a variable or something else) might be quite enough to do the trick. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. -- Gloria Steinem -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] microsoft PHP ?
Stut wrote:
Joe Wollard wrote:
Leave poor Zouari alone! I for one think that Microsoft
buying Zend would be the best thing to happen to PHP, EVAR!
This Rasmus guy didn't even mean for PHP to be what it is, he
just wanted something simple and now look at it. It's WAY to
complex for an unorganized bunch of hobbyists to maintain. I'm
personally looking forward to the way they'll clean things up.
Who knows, maybe once they've got PHP under control we won't
need these security 'experts' like Chris Shifflett any more because
would be hackers won't be able to see the source code, which of
course means they won't be able to find vulnerabilities. You guys just
need to give up on this open source hippie dream and let Microsoft
change things for the better - who cares if Stephen King thinks
they are working in conjunction with the Crimson King and that
they might build robots that will someday take over the world
and more or less 'suck the s-m-r-t' out of 50% of the worlds
twins? He looks creepy anyway.
- and a happy April fool's to all ;-)
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:-D
Here's assuming that was a joke so I won't get into the factual
errors. I wonder how Zend and the other core developers will
feel about being referred to as an unorganized bunch of hobbyists.
-Stut
Well, I'm not sure about your LOCALE and cultural referents,
but from where I'm sitting I could freakin' *see* the sarcasm
tags on that one ... or maybe it's just my MUA. ;-)
As an aside, to prevent further potential misunderstanding,
there's one on my ASCII art as well :-D
KDK
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Re: [PHP] IP Address Filtering
Joe Harman wrote: if you really want to mess with them.. only show the user with the NULL IP address all the spam posts.. .make them think that they've been successful Freaking hilarious idea!! Remind me not to let my kids play with yours. :-D Of course, there's probably not any Real People(tm) behind these addys. Kevin Kinsey -- Sentient plasmoids are a gas. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Three quickies anyone?
Ryan A wrote: Hey, I am new to CLI and using PHP to run shell but need to know it so am getting my feet wet, hopefully with your help :-) Now when I said three quickies, I mean three PHP RELATED quickies of course...if you thought anything otherwise... you have a wicked mind. Here goes: 1. I start my CLI scripts with: #!/usr/local/etc/php as thats the path on my machine... the problem is some of these scripts will have to be installed on clients machines by them... any easy way for them to find out whats the path PHP is installed on their machine? (this q is more of a doubt really) is it the same as $_SERVER[include_path] The canonical way: #!/usr/bin/env php This will call the first php executable in $PATH, and is generally used when portability in scripts is desired. 3. This should be a rather simple question but I just confused myself after reading/searching google (i do that to myself sometimes, totally unintentional really) Can I run CLI/Shell scripts eg: scripts that began with the #!php path on machines that have PHP loaded as a CGI and as a module or only as a CGI or only as a module? Well, if you use the canonical way I describe above, one problem I foresee is that the cgi-bin directory is hardly ever in $PATH. . . HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- How many people work here? Oh, about half. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Irritating [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ryan A wrote: Anybody else getting these annoying auto responses from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? If yes, can someone email the list mod to delete his account or something, or email me back the list mods email and I'll do it myself. Thanks, Ryan What, no killfile? If we bug the mods for every idiot autoresponder out there, when will they have time to improve PHP? My $0.02, KDK -- An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -- Benjamin Franklin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] where php at?
tedd wrote: Warren Vail said: Looks like you have a unix machine, if you have a shell account you may be able to use the command; which php to identify it's path. John Meyer said: If you're on a linux box, have you tried which php? Where do I type in which php? I'm dealing with a host account and I'm simply trying to find out where php is so I can set up a cron job. Thanks. tedd If you don't have a shell, you might get away with a page using system(), backticks, escapeshellcmd(), and the like (though on a shared host I'd think them to be wise to disable a shell for www/nobody/apache): ?php $foo=`which php`; echo $foo; ? Now, you may want to use whereis(1) instead, since which is a shell-built in . . . but it sounds like a catch22: no shell, no which; no shell, no shell, so whereis(1) can't work either ... hmm, OTOH, which is only a shell builtin in some shells, in which case ... ah, nevermind. If you're guessing? typical places include : /usr/local/bin/php, /usr/bin/php, /usr/etc/php . . . . HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- The devil finds work for idle glands. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] where php at?
Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Aarrrg -- no disrespect meant. I'm totally and absolutely clueless and frustrated. It must be my age because I haven't seen a command line since my Apple][ days -- let alone one while doing web work. I'm sitting in front of my computer accessing my remote web site via ftp (GoLive) writing code and trying to set up a cron job using cpanel to run that code. Now, I have no idea of where I should type in which php -- I've tried putting it in my cpanel cron jobs command to run box, but that doesn't do anything. Does anyone have any reference material of where a command line of the host is? [/snip] Dagnabit! Contact your host provider, they will tell you. If they offer a shell account. I *shudder* to think that as recently as 1999 I was administering a remote mail/webserver in the Pac NW from the center of the country via telnet. Possibly they offer access via ssh (Secure Shell), but a lot of hosts don't any longer --- many customers wouldn't know what to do with it anyway (heh, their loss), and some customers who *do* know how to use it are a tad too curious sometimes, I expect. I know I've seen more than one big hosting company act like such things didn't exist Kevin Kinsey -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Why Should I Use Zend Optimizer?
Richard Davey wrote: On 27 Mar 2006, at 19:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short, Zend Optimise has *nothing* at all to do with 'making dumb programmers code better' I'm afraid. I'm not completely sure on this, and if it is true I don't have the links, but I think it does do one thing to make your code better. That is to use pre-increments wherever possible, since the post-increment requires the parser to store the value first then increment it (or something to that effect). But even then it's really only saving you milliseconds of processing time, which would only make a beneficial improvement on an enterprise system (million-plus hits). Sorry I should have been more explicit - I meant it won't re-write your actual source code for you, which I believe is what the OP thought it was supposed to do (if only!) Cheers, Rich Yeah; I'm still petitioning the Team daily via cron for 'make_shopping_cart(str general_business_type);' in PHP6 :D KDK -- In Boston, it is illegal to hold frog-jumping contests in nightclubs. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] colored text in images
Marcus Gnaß wrote: Hi list! I like to generate a larger image from different tiles. Each tile should have a text on it which should be red for better readability. I figured out how to compose the larger image but got stuck when to color the text. I tried the following code: $img = imagecreate($w * 100, $h * 100); $tile = imagecreatefromgif($tile_name); $red = imagecolorallocate($tile, 255, 0, 0); imagestring($tile, $font, $gebilde_x, $gebilde_y, $gebilde, $rot); Because PHP doesn't grok that $red==$rot, and I'm not sure that it is, either? What happens when you use $red in the imagestring() call? imagecopy($map, $tile, $dst_x, $dst_y, 0, 0, imagesx($tile), imagesy($tile)); header(Content-Type: image/gif); imagegif($map); The text was writte an expected, just it was grey and not red. What do I have to do to make it read and why was it grey? Hopefully, you caught that above. The 6th parameter of imagestring should be an integer to represent the color. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- You will hear good news from one you thought unfriendly to you. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] problem
Simone O'Brien wrote: Hi, I have set up a message board and we cannot log out or do anything on the page at all. We cannot use it at all. http://myminiaturegoats.com/forum3/index.php?action=logout;sesc=331181faba9b2783a9506ad21068fb8b Database Error Please try again. If you come back to this error screen, report the error to an administrator. This is what we get above on the screen. Can you give me any idea on how we acess it and fix it? Your forum is the Simple Machines Forum --- http://www.simplemachines.org/ The copyright indicates that this software is owned by Lewis Media --- http://www.lewismedia.com/ The server that runs the 'myminiaturegoats.com' site is apparently within a netblock owned by securenet-server.net, and the technical contact for this domain is listed as: Acenet Inc Jerald Darow([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 5880 N Canton Center Rd Canton MI,48187 US Tel. +1.7343546936 Finally, there would be the who in the question who set up this site for you, or who hosts it, or what company did you buy the web-space from? (which looks like it should be related to the above (Acenet), if not exactly them. Any one of these sources should be a better place to ask support questions than this mailing list. This list is for discussions of PHP programming (m/l), and your issue is related to the actual use of software that just happens to be written in PHP. Not that we're particularly resentful, but we can't give you much help. You need to get in touch with the person who's got access to the server. The good news, however, is that it should be a relatively simple issue to fix, provided you get in contact with the right person; it's just that we ain't him/her. G'day, Kevin Kinsey -- Oatmeal raisin. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Invoices
Leonard Burton wrote: HI All, What do you all use for keeping track of invoices? I looked at a few open source projects (including http://billing-software.us/) and it seems that there is not really a good Open Source Project out there for invoices. Am I wrong? What would be nice is a project with a good API that would allow other projects to use its invoice handling capabilities. It would be nice if it weren't designed for one specific situation. Have I missed the boat here? Is there a nice OS Invoice program that will do all this? Has anyone considered starting one? Thanks, -- Leonard Burton, N9URK PHP has become a bit of a breeze for me to use, thanks to its authors (who came up with a nice syntax and great docs) and its community (who didn't flame me too much when I was a newbie, less than 5 years ago). As a result, my business is managed by a home grown app --- calendar, checkbook management, invoicing, task list, local messaging, some accounting computations, mileage computation, expense records, etc. ATM, I'm adding trouble tickets to the mix, and a few other ditties. Now, if there's nothing else out there, I can imagine it would be nice to release it, but, as I mention, I'm a relative newbie, and started coding it 4 years ago and much of it is have never been updated. Much is from before I learned that web standards existed (I learned HTML from reading the source created by MS FrontPage Express in the late 1990s, [ugh!!!]), and I'm not a geek by training (so, I've a shelf of books on OOP and still haven't a great handle on it, but there again comes PHP to the rescue), so open sourcing it might well take so much cleaning up that it would kill me. And if it's not cleaned up, it'd probably be as traumatic as appearing on American Idol in a Speedo (at my age, not very pretty at all; or you can sub in hosting a Tupperware party in the nude if you wish, but who would?). Anyway, I guess my point was, rolling your own isn't the end of the world (unless you want the world to see it). All that said, have you looked at Hermes, CentraView (not PHP, IIRC) or NOLA? ATM, I can't even recall what NOLA does, but I seem to recall that it was fairly generic (may have been more of a retail-frontend). Also, a quick Googling turns up a rather long list at: http://cbbrowne.com/info/financefreesoft.html Good luck, HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Stability itself is nothing else than a more sluggish motion. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Convert all named entities into numeric character references
Jacob Friis Saxberg wrote: Does anyone know of a Php funtion that can do this: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/NumericEntities.html Hi there! http://se.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php ? htmlentities converts to named entitites. I want it to numeric entities. Yes; 'tis true. However, in looking at the manual page further, I see at least one user submitted entry that looks like what you may be desiring, not too far down the page. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] CLI utility
John Nichel wrote: Ray Cantwell wrote: Hello again, I was wondering if any of you knew of a good command line utility for php5 on linux? The box i write on has no X-windows. Ray. A command line utility to do what? Indeed. Context might even indicate he's looking for something to use to write his PHP scripts on a box with no GUI. In which case, the question is better avoided as it's a terribly effective magnet for holy war. Furthermore, I didn't choose the .sig below, it's randomly generated by fortune(6), but it really speaks to me, heh KDK PS. ed(1) is the standa nah. ;-) -- Uncle Ed's Rule of Thumb: Never use your thumb for a rule. You'll either hit it with a hammer or get a splinter in it. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] CLI utility
Ray Cantwell wrote: Indeed i am looking for a tool to write my code with on a box that has no gui environment, However if a Jihad is going to ensue because of it, i shall withdraw my question, head bowed. RTC context snipped in froward violation of common sense Well, kudos to you for discretion, which has been noted as 'the better part of valor', indeed. For our mutual edification, here are a few links relevant to the discussion as it pertains to PHP in particular, from a favorite forum of mine. The classic: http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10209798 The imitators: http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10280025 http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10274550 (GPL version) http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10255309 http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10253439 http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10298665 http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10256359 Regarding WYSIWYG editors: http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10264772 For the Mac user: http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10297539 I'd also recommend plugging such terms as editor, text editor, PHP IDE and so on into a good search engine. Finally, try reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_wars --- for some background on why this question is so, um, politically incorrect ? (ahem), and try Googling the phrase vi versus emacs to see that it's actually true. Meanwhile, I'm off to unwedge my tongue, which seems to have lodged itself firmly between my cheek and upper jaw Use what you want, they'll make more, Kevin Kinsey -- A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Help! Apache 2.2 gives segmentation fault errors with PHP.
Olaf Greve wrote: Hi guys, I suspect something went wrong in the way I try to use PHP. Basically, I first removed the installed /usr/ports/lang/php4 port, then built and installed the /usr/ports/www/mod_php4 port, and then added various php4-extensions, using the /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions port (I suspect the extensions to cause the problem). Does anyone know what could be going on and/or how to properly set up PHP 4 under Apache 2.2? Tnx a lot in advance, and cheers! Olafo Check at least these two things: 1. The extension_dir directive in /usr/local/etc/php.ini should be pointing to the latest directory of *so files (or, more correctly, to the one that corresponds to the build you completed in conjuction with apache2 --- Shared Objects built with wrong dependencies is a classic segfault waiting to happen scenario in my experience). 2. For the extension doubling, check the contents of /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini --- almost surely you have duplicate entries there. Just as an aside, if you're trying to keep up with PHP development and the latest Apache, it might be a Good Thing(TM) to update from FBSD 5.2.1 also. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- The Creation of the Universe was made possible by a grant from Texas Instruments. -- Credits from the PBS program 'The Creation of the Universe' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor
Jay Blanchard wrote: In the end it is not worth worrying about. If someone asks you what PHP stands for tell them it stands for the best darned programming language you ever saw. Hrm, I thought it was People Hate PERL . :-D /me ducks and runs -- First Corollary of Taber's Second Law: Machines that piss people off get murdered. -- Pat Taber -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Ternary operators
Carl Furst wrote: Well, I tried something simple... $ php -r 'echo hello world\n;' Error in argument 1, char 2: option not found r Error in argument 1, char 2: option not found r Usage: php [-q] [-h] [-s] [-v] [-i] [-f file] php file [args...] -a Run interactively -C Do not chdir to the script's directory -c path|file Look for php.ini file in this directory -n No php.ini file will be used -d foo[=bar] Define INI entry foo with value 'bar' -e Generate extended information for debugger/profiler -f fileParse file. Implies `-q' -h This help -i PHP information -l Syntax check only (lint) -m Show compiled in modules -q Quiet-mode. Suppress HTTP Header output. -s Display colour syntax highlighted source. -v Version number -w Display source with stripped comments and whitespace. -z fileLoad Zend extension file. This means my install can't run inline stuff like this? Guess it wasn't set up to do that. So no I won't say that I will use php -r to test anything.. lol :) Actually run php -v and let's see if it's not version 4 ... in which there is no r option available IIRC please say your going start using php -r to test stuff like this. :-) Not unless he upgrades, apparently. Still, not too hard to open an editor, code a tiny script, and run it from the CLI in either PHP4 or PHP5. Let's all learn to test things, eh? Kevin Kinsey -- If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it. -- Edward A. Murphy Jr. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Blogger post failed?
Jay Blanchard wrote: Is anyone else getting these messages? Yes. Very annoying. Yes. Barry wrote: ] Sometimes. ] Proably the server is reaching its limits :P Seems doubtful; if I read the headers correctly, this list is managed by ezmlm, which means it's running on a qmail server, and probably on FreeBSD or Linux. Not that you couldn't overload such a machine/operating system, but it's not real likely. Blogger post failed seems to indicate that someone is attempting to pipe their subscription to their blog/website/whatever; when this fails, their MTA doesn't know who else to notify but the sender, e.g. php-general@lists.php.net, and we all get a nice error message to sift. I suppose it's just like any community; if somebody farts on the subway, we all get to share the result #include disclaimer.h Kevin Kinsey -- My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. -- Oscar Wilde -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] phpinfo returns a permission error
Dave M G wrote: and this: $ ls -l /home/dave/web_sites/phpinfo.php It says: -rw--- 1 dave dave 20 2006-02-13 22:45 /home/dave/web_sites/phpinfo.php Well, I'd sure suspect this. PHP/Apache are probably running as nobody, daemon, www, or somesuch, and the permissions on the file above only allow the user dave to read (and write to) this file. Try: $ chmod 644 /home/dave/web_sites/phpinfo.php and see if you can read the file. In addition, do some checking on your umask, or try and remember how you created this file. A umask of 22 should produce -rw-r--r--: [624] Tue 14.Feb.2006 16:15:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/daleco/software/Windows] umask 22 [625] Tue 14.Feb.2006 16:17:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/daleco/software/Windows] touch foobar ls -l foobar -rw-r--r-- 1 kadmin wheel 0 Feb 14 16:17 foobar but obviously, yours did not. 022 is the default umask for most shells. Seems likely that you were running your editor/IDE/whatnot setuid root, perhaps? HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] phpinfo returns a permission error
Dave M G wrote: PHP list, I wanted to adjust my register global settings in my php.ini file. I found instructions on this page: http://www.dmcinsights.com/phpmysql/phpini.php The first thing it says to do is take a look at the results of phpinfo(); to see where the php.ini file actually is. So I created a phpinfo.php file, put in the following code: ?php phpinfo(); ? ... and then accessed it through FireFox at localhost. To my surprise, I got the following error message: Warning: Unknown(/home/dave/web_sites/phpinfo.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 Warning: (null)(): Failed opening '/home/dave/web_sites/phpinfo.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in Unknown on line 0 It looks to be a permissions issue. But who has permission if not me, and how is permission an issue when I'm just looking at the file through a browser? By the way, I'm using PHP 4.4.0-3 on Ubuntu 5.10. Any advice or help would be much appreciated. Thank you. -- Dave M G So, what does this say: $umask and this: $ ls -l /home/dave/web_sites/phpinfo.php and are you using the browser to view the file via a server (e.g., the browser address bar says http://;), or via the filesystem (you've opened it from an explorer type window and the address bar says file:///) Is PHP running as mod_php in apache, or CGI? Finally, can you view other files in the same directory via similar means? Kevin Kinsey -- Stult's Report: Our problems are mostly behind us. What we have to do now is fight the solutions. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] testing text body emails
Mark Steudel wrote: Im using phpmailer to send emails, with htmlbody and an alternate textbody. Any suggestions on how to test the text only body? Thanks, Mark Sure. Use a text-only MUA?* /rimshot But, seriously, most 'Nix gurus have access to text only mail if they care to. If you've a friend who's always preaching about open sores, you might call him up. Also, several web-mail solutions are text-only, or have that option, IIRC. Although it's been a while since I used hotmail or excite, etc., you might take a look. HTH, Kevin Kinsey *I'm not joking too much about the MUA, just the answer. I actually like mutt a good deal... -- The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance money. -- Sherlock Holmes -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Oracle buying out Zend ... how does that affect PHP?
Marc G. Fournier wrote: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2006/tc20060209_810527.htm Also in Oracle's crosshairs: closely held Zend, based in Cupertino, Calif. Zend's PHP software language is one of the most prevalent on the Web, present in more than 18 million Web sites. The company, which snared headlines last year when Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen joined its board, has been trying to extend its success with the Web into business applications. Zend could sell for $200 million, according to one source. Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 Well, we'd run the risk of losing? a good support company and optimizer. But the language above is misleading: PHP isn't owned, per se, by Zend, although Zend is owned or at least was founded by some pretty big guns on the PHP Devel Team. So the effects might not be much beyond what I mention above. It's kind of interesting to speculate, though; and it's good news for the Zend guys --- nice (for them anyway) when you start looking that juicy to the big players, as a friend of mine says. Makes you wonder if this really isn't a jab against the other DB companies/orgs --- I could foresee Zend pushing some PHP/Oracle interface/optimization products within a year or so if this happens Kevin Kinsey -- Reality -- what a concept! -- Robin Williams -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] how to learn php
tedd wrote: hello i have been trying to learn php. what is the best approach to learning php for someone who has no programming experience? -snip- any advice and/or opinions would be greatly appreciated. thanks. First, welcome to the language. Second, I suggest that you find a beginner's book -- snip 1. If you can do any learning from books (e.g. you were/are a decent student in whatever educational system you did/are attend/attending), by all means follow tedd's Second, Somewhat contrary to the advise get a book with everything in it, I found Larry Ullman's PHP The World Wide Web (PeachPit Press) to be da bomb when I decided to learn PHP. I'll plug him for readability, his explanations, and he was a fellow Missourian (think he's in California now). I get no money from PeachPit or Larry for that, though ... ;-) Keep in mind that there is no way that books can keep up with real-time development on a language like PHP; the need for the online manual (or the Windows .chm help files) is also great. In particular, I found that Larry's book was mostly written from a PHP3 POV, but PHP4 was out by the time I got my hands on it. There were a few differences; sometimes he made mention of that. 2. Write some code: ?php echo Hello, world!; ? 3. Read the source code of scripts you can download for free at sites like hotscripts.com. Then, write something better (be sure to adhere to any licensing restrictions you find)! Then, you can start reading source code for bigger projects, and see how the big boys work 4. Get involved in a PHP developer community (PHPBuilder.com's forum gets my vote, and, of course, you've joined this mail-list, I suppose...) and read, read, read, and ask sensible questions. Read Eric S. Raymond's essay 'How to ask questions the smart way, if you've not already done so. So, it's read, code, and read code; then, ask for help nicely if you need it! Good luck with PHP, Kevin Kinsey -- Chicagoan: So, wherere you from? Hoosier:Whats wrong with Indiana? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php versions between os/platform
pedro mpa wrote: Greetings! I am building a website using PHP 5.1.2 and MySQL 5.0.18 and I am using windows xp with IIS. All the hosting companies I have contacted are using php 4.x.x and mysql 4.x.x or 3.x.x, on linux I suppose. Are php versions the same for every os/platform? Thanks in advance. PHP 5.1.2 is the 'latest and greatest', or pretty close to it. For various reasons, hosting companies tend to be reluctant to upgrade such things; the old (USA, anyway) engineer's adage if it ain't broke, don't fix it comes to mind --- and these hosting companies figure that it's working and they don't want to take chances, IMHO. An even greater reason behind this fact/trend that you notice is that PHP has become so well-known that websites of all types are using it, even those whose webmasters don't know much about how to write in/use the language; therefore they are using c'n'p ed scripts from the net that may date back some distance in Net-Time; register_globals must be on, long global arrays (although they're pretty much backwards- compatible with PHP 5.X), etc., and deprecated $foo ad nauseum. The hosting companies don't want their helpdesks flooded with calls of OMG my site is down!, and Why doesn't my shopping cart | contact form | uploader | downloader | gallery | ... work??? During my last local update of PHP I finally updated php.ini as well; took me quite a while to get my business interface running probably again because I'd written the first scripts with short tags years ago. That's the sort of thing they don't want to have to deal with just yet. Of course, the day will come anyway, so they'd better be getting ready Richard Lynch wrote: ] I'm betting that you can get PHP 5.x out of http://pair.com, since ] they host http://php.net and you gotta figure they're on top of things ] like that, eh? Pair.com would probably be an excellent choice. Not only do they host php.net, but they are very supportive of the Open-Source movement as a whole, flamebaitand run the best OS on the planet /fb. ] YMMV ] NAIAA ] IANAL Neither am I. TIFWIW Kevin Kinsey -- Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Weirdness with PHP FreeBSD/OSX/Linux headers already sent
Eric Butera wrote: PHP List, Perhaps one of you might know the answer to this, because I certainly do not, nor do any of my coworkers. The problem is that scripts on our OSX 10.4 (our local development machines) and RedHat/Debian linux servers do not throw the headers already sent message. I could have an entire page of html, php code, whatever I wish and call session_start() at the bottom of the page and everything would be fine. No errors on screen, in error_log, or anywhere else. I know this is invalid and so do most webservers/environments because everywhere else I have ever coded I see the headers already sent, output started at message. I have used Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD versions of PHP with Apache 1.3 and 2 and had the error print out as expected. I want to know if any of you know the reason why this is happening. I would prefer the strict error messages to help keep everyones coding in check. Unfortunately I cannot for the life of me seem to find any configuration settings which point to this. Any pointers or help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance! Mostly out of curiosity, but also somewhat out of my troll-like and pedantic nature, what happens if you start your scripts with: ?php error_reporting(E_STRICT); ?? And, the obvious troll question: you do have session support compiled? Kevin Kinsey -- Anyone who has had a bull by the tail knows five or six more things than someone who hasn't. -- Mark Twain -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Newbie Question Can't insert values into MySQL DB via PHP
Jochem Maas wrote:
Duggles Temple wrote:
I am having a problem with a shop system. I can't add values into the
MySQL
DB via a PHP statement. The values are being transferred from one
page to
another (know that from the echo statement), but the SQL statement isn't
working.
The statement is as follows:
$conn = mysql_connect($DBhost,$DBuser,$DBpass) or die('Unable to
connect to
database');
$t = $_GET['newdvdtitle'];
$y = $_GET['newdvdyear'];
$c = $_GET['newdvdcost'];
$p = $_GET['newdvdpurchased'];
@mysql_select_db($DBName) or die(Unable to select database $DBName);
$sqladd = INSERT INTO 'dvd' ('id', 'title', 'year','cost','purchased')
VALUES ( NULL , '$t', '$y', '$c' , '$p' );
echo $sqladd;
using echo to find out whats' in your variable is a good start, also
take a look a print_r() and var_dump() - they given more feedback
regarding
passed in vars.
it would have been useful if you had actually posted the output of the
echo statement.
$result = mysql_query($sqladd);
try adding something like:
if (!$result) {
die(mysql_errno($conn) . : . mysql_error($conn) . \n)
}
Very good habit to be into. Also, adding the query will help during
the debugging phase of development. I generally use something like:
mysql_query($query) or die(Error in query: query was $query and MySql
sez: .mysql_error());
If, as the continuing thread suggests, the query is actually empty,
the above would make that rather obvious right away.
HTH,
Kevin Kinsey
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Re: [PHP] pcntl functions and database
chris smith wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to work out threaded apps and I'm trying to use the pcntl functions. I can get it working ok without using a database but when I plug the database in I get 'lost connection during query' errors. Does anyone have any suggestions or a working example ? Thanks! My code: Your code works for me, *most* of the time - say, 96%++. I tested with small values for $childrencount (2 up to 200). I'd hesitate to speculate, but it smells like an SQL server performance issue to my weak nose...(IANAE). Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. -- Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. -- Sam Brown, The Washington Post, January 26, 1977 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
