[PHP] Automatic .htaccess Authentication?
I'm looking for a way to have php automatically log a user into an htaccess protected directory. My problem is as follows. I currently have a large number of php scripts which use a database authentication system. Unfortunately, there are also a number of old CGI scripts which need to be protected by an .htaccess file. What I'm looking for is a way to allow php to perform the .htaccess authentication in the background when the user first logs into the DB based authentication so that when they go to access the cgi scripts they are not prompted for another login. Any Ideas? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Medium to Large PHP Application Design
As PHP becomes more accepted in the corporate world, it is only logical that larger and more complex applications are going to be developed using it. While there is an abundance of information out there about making specific things work, there seems to be a shortage regarding the big picture. As such, my question is this: What methods and techniques can be used to help design and build complex, medium to large PHP applications that are not only scalable, but maintainable and extensible? I'm looking for online references, personal experience and opinion and even examples of open source code which you think demonstrate the above criteria on this one. I think an extended discussion on this topic could be of great benefit to everyone. Obviously separating application and business logic from interface code is a given, but what about other things? Are the object orientated facilities of PHP currently worth really trying to take advantage of? If so, what are you doing to take advantage of them? Are design concepts such as design patterns relevant at this level? What frameworks, if any, currently exist to assist in rapid, structured development, and what specific benefits do they bring to the table? These are just some of the questions that I'd like to see expanded upon, I'm sure there are others out there who can add more to the list. Nick Oostveen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Domain Security Restrictions
Our company is currently running a server which is responsible for hosting numerous domains. As a web development firm, traditionally our server has been set up so that only our developers have access to run scripts on it. Recently some of our clients have been looking for FTP access to their sites, mostly static, so that they can make additions directly, and as such we are looking for a way to securely offer them this service. Essentially, I am looking for a way to do one or all of the following: 1) Enable safe mode on a domain by domain basis. 2) Disable the use of specific functions on a domain by domain basis. 3) Disable php entirely on a domain by domain basis. Any help or advice with any of the above would be greatly appreciated. Nick Oostveen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Php | Architect Magazine?
Has anyone taken a look at this magazine yet (www.phparch.com)? I came across mention of it on Slashdot earlier today and it looks interesting. I am considering subscribing but wouldn't mind some feedback about the overall quality of the publication beforehand. Nick Oostveen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] PHP Shopping Carts
I'm currently looking for a basic, php based shopping cart solution which is flexible (preferably using a template system of some sort), customizable and will allow me to get up and running in a minimum amount of time. I know that there are literally dozens of free or cheap (less than $200) products out there and would appreciate hearing your experiences and recommendations so that I can filter out the good from the bad. Thanks, Nick Oostveen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Persistant Connections
Persistent connections are typically a good thing to use on high traffic sites as they offer better performance than opening and closing connections for each database request. The reason for this is the overhead used in opening a database connection is actually quite high. While keeping them open when they are no longer needed may seem counter-intuitive, the connection isn't being saved for a particular user or page, instead it remains open and will automatically be used by any page requiring database connectivity on your site. If there are no free connections when a page request comes in, a new one is open. Conversely if a connection has not been utilized for a specific period of time (usually a couple minutes) it will be closed. At 02:46 PM 8/14/2002 +0100, John Wards wrote: I am running a website which generates around 100,000 pageviews a day and I am wondering if I stop using persistent conections to the database and use normal open and close conections this would reduce the load onto my server? Most conections are either made through my main file or the phorum message board system. Thanks in advance John Wards -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP - class question
If you are just trying to access a classes functions without creating an instance of it you're probably looking to use the scope resolution operator ::. For this to work all you have to do is ensure that the definition for the class you wish to use is included into the file containing the class you are trying to call the functions from. You would then call the functions as follows: ClassName::FunctionName(); At 02:43 PM 8/14/2002 -0400, you wrote: Hello, To begin.. i'm new to the list... I'm trying to learn good practices in OOP based PHP. I'm actually a bit new to OOP in general, but I've done quite a bit of reading and playing around with it in the past couple of months. What I'm trying to figure out is the proper way to call a class from a class. I dont mean by extending the class, but actaully just getting the functions... For instance... I'm trying to connect to a Database (database class) from my gen_XML class. Do I include the database class in the gen_XML constructor? Do I set a gen_XML variable as a database object (i.e. $this-mydb)? I hope my question makes some sense... Your help is appreciated... Mark Armendariz -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP warning with 4.2
You should be able to fix this by changing the function DECLARATION for the argument in question to take the variable by reference instead of by value (which is the default). So it should be something like: OCIFetchInto ( $var1, $rvar2, $var3 ) What you are currently doing is specifying at call-time that I want you to accept this variable by reference, even if you are expecting it to be passed by value. This can be very dangerous from a data corruption point of view, which is likely why it is being deprecated. At 11:13 AM 8/8/2002 -0700, PHP List wrote: Hi, after upgrading to 4.2, I seem to be getting this warning: PHP Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of [runtime function name](). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. on this line: OCIFetchInto ( $GLOBALS[oracle_statement], $row, OCI_NUM + OCI_RETURN_NULLS ) if I can't use $row anymore, what do I do? The warning says that future versions may not support this, so will this function be fixed? Or will this function be dissappearing? Thanks for any help. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Why Protect PHP coding?
Check out the Zend Encoder at http://www.zend.com to generate encoded php files. It is, however, a bit pricey. At 12:47 AM 8/2/2002 -0400, php banana wrote: Just out of curiosity when and why? Is there any method to encrypt PHP files. Nyon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php --__-__-__ eat pasta type fasta -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] re:Using PHP to reboot the linux server
Does the user apache is running as have access to reboot the server? At 07:18 PM 8/2/2002 +, you wrote: I am using the below command in the php page to reboot the linux server. But nothing happens . Where am i wrong or do i have to give a path or nething . Please help. $output = shell_exec(`reboot`); echo $output; _ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Oracle 8i SQL Problem..
I could be wrong on this but I believe that Oracle 8i uses a proprietary join syntax. This support has been added in the latest version of Oracle, but with 8i I believe you're out of luck using the left join keywords. Check out http://certcities.com/certs/oracle/columns/story.asp?EditorialsID=106 for more info on this. At 10:26 AM 7/28/2002 -0500, Frank S. Kicenko wrote: Hi, This really isn't a PHP issue..sorry. I'm having a nightmare with Oracle 8i (pos!). I'm writing common SQL which works for MSSQL 2K and seems correct for Oracle... but keeps giving me a Error.. ORA-00933 SQL command not properly ended on the following query... SELECT grp.grpdescrip, grp.grp, grp.createcust, grp.auth1, grp.auth2, usergrp.userid, users.userdescrip FROM grp LEFT JOIN usergrp ON grp.grp=usergrp.grp LEFT JOIN users ON usergrp.userid=users.userid ORDER BY grp.grp The error keeps pointing at the first LEFT JOIN. Anybody know why? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] calling user-defined php functions from a href tag
Check out http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/277/fid/40 Essentially you'll want to use this this combined with get variables hard coded into your url. For example: a href=script.php?action=function1function 1/a a href=script.php?action=function2function 2/a At 11:13 PM 7/26/2002 -0400, Bob Lockie wrote: --Original Message Text--- From: Michael Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 21:09:13 -0500 (EST) Hi, everyone. There MUST be some creative way to call a user-defined PHP function from an a href tag. Does anyone have any suggestions? For example: == Click here to start function joe(). == So, if the user clicks on the link, he'll see: The result of this function is: 20 Any ideas? Any help would be VERY much appreciated. Thanks! -- Michael It is not possible to do it in one step. The web server parses ALL the PHP code, generates HTML, sends it to the browser. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Parse error - new set of eyes?
Ok, I noticed a couple things.
One: There's no } ending your elseif statement.
Two (and the big one): Why all the opening brackets before your isset()
functions? I'm not sure if you're trying to do some nested logic in there,
but if so it will be much more readable if you use nested if statements
instead of a single huge statement. If you quickly count you'll see that
you've got 8 opening brackets and only 5 closing ones. That's where your
problem lies.
At 02:40 PM 7/25/2002 -0600, you wrote:
I am getting a parse error on line 14, I am trying to make sure session vars
are being set before rendering the page. This is lines 12,13,14 15. Any
help is appreciated.
Jas
if ((!$u_name) || (!$p_word)){
header(Location: index.php);
session_destroy();
exit; }
/* Check for missing session vars */
elseif ((!isset($HTTP_SESSION_VARS['clk']) ||
(!isset($HTTP_SESSION_VARS['holy_cow']) ||
(!isset($HTTP_SESSION_VARS['ipaddy']) || (!isset($HTTP_SESSION_VARS['a'])) {
/* Begin logging of client info to database table since session vars are
not present */
require '/path/to/connection/class/db.php';
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[PHP] GIF Manipulation
I'm currently developing a site which needs the ability to do server-side image cropping and resizing. I currently have a current version of GD installed with PHP, however the lack of support for GIFs is causing endless headaches. Is there any way to support GIFs in PHP without reverting to an older version of GD (and loosing PNG support in the process)? Nick Oostveen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Development Tools
A good, well designed, development tool can provide a huge productivity boost over an editor if it's used properly. And I don't mean auto-generated code by this either. Right off the bat, any good development tool will have code completion abilities, which are basically the programmers version of nix consoles tab completion. This little feature alone helps save time by reducing the amount of typing required, not to mention can virtually eliminate type-o's in function or variable names. Another basic feature any good IDE will have is a built in library of all php functions so that you can view the function along with all its arguments while your typing. Need to use a rare function and can't remember the order of the arguments it requires? Having this feature eliminates the need for you to go look up the function to check this trivial item. Additionally a good IDE will automatically read in the definitions for functions and classes you have defined in the current project and automatically add them to the above mentioned items. These first two things are immediately obvious to even first time users and will speed things up, but the real benefits come from other items such as a integrated debugging tools, performance analyzers, a good class browser, and built in database connectivity. If you're working in a team environment having an IDE which has built-in support for a content verification system can also be a huge advantage. Again, these features will only benefit someone who knows how to use them. Unfortunately I have yet to find a truly good PHP IDE. The two best I've found to date are NuSphere's PHPEd 3.0.0 (which unfortunately has dozens of minor, but annoying bugs) and the Zend IDE (which is very nice, but it crawls on anything but the fastest systems). If either of these fix the for-mentioned issues I'd be the first in line to purchase them. At 06:07 PM 7/10/2002 +0200, Uwe Birkenhain wrote: I think that - on windows - nothing is better than textpad (www.textpad.com). Simply the best editor the world has seen so far! What makes development tools better than a good editor? (serious question) Uwe -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Development Tools
While I can't speak for others, in our office we use template files which contain all HTML and then parse content generated from php scripts into them about 90% of the time. Not only does separating your code from your HTML make it easier to change the look of a site, but it also makes the code much easier to maintain. If you're interested I would recommend checking out the FastTemplate class for an example of how this works. At 02:42 PM 7/10/2002 -0700, you wrote: I'm definitely curious and want to check out the debugging tools, performance analyzer, and database connectivity tools provided by PHPEd. I get the impression most developers do not integrate coding and content. Is this correct? -Ed -Original Message- These first two things are immediately obvious to even first time users and will speed things up, but the real benefits come from other items such as a integrated debugging tools, performance analyzers, a good class browser, and built in database connectivity. If you're working in a team environment having an IDE which has built-in support for a content verification system can also be a huge advantage. Again, these features will only benefit someone who knows how to use them. Unfortunately I have yet to find a truly good PHP IDE. The two best I've found to date are NuSphere's PHPEd 3.0.0 (which unfortunately has dozens of minor, but annoying bugs) and the Zend IDE (which is very nice, but it crawls on anything but the fastest systems). If either of these fix the for-mentioned issues I'd be the first in line to purchase them. This message is intended for the sole use of the individual and entity to whom it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, nor authorized to receive for the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete the message. Thank you very much. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] File Uploading Question
I've got a (hopefully) simple question which is indirectly related to php. I'm currently developing an application which includes functionality to allow users to upload image files. Does anyone here know of a way to customize the look of the HTML file input type? By this I mean changing the browse button to a graphic, hiding the text field, etc. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP code optimization
I could be wrong, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that using ?
text ? is actually just shorthand for echo text ; as far as the php
engine itself is concerned.
Again I'm not positive, but if this is the case it would coincide with the
comment made earlier that they are in fact the same speed, but that
outputting a large amount of text through a single ? ? would be slightly
faster than using numerous echo commands.
At 06:39 PM 7/9/2002 -0500, Chris Shiflett wrote:
Peter Thoenen wrote:
Question on optimizing code for quicker runtimes. Which is quicker (this
is on a webpage also..NOT
commandline)?
?php if ($a){ echo 'abc'; } ?
OR
?php if ($a) { ? abc ?php } ?
Because the difference is going to be undetectable, this would probably be
a question that only someone really familiar with the engine would be able
to answer with any sort of assurance.
My bet is that the second method is faster in theory, because switching
in/out of PHP is likely marginally faster than executing the echo
function. Maybe if you create some scripts that loop through these
statements 10,000 times each and measure the time with microtime(), you
can get a more affirmative answer and let the list know your results.
Happy hacking.
Chris
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