Re: [PHP] Adding users to a linux system?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 you need to be root to add users - and your web server is most likely not runings as root (certainly shouldn't be!!) To make this work, add the user apache runs under to /etc/sudoers (look at the sudo man page), then change the command you have to this... sudo /usr/sbin/adduser -g mel -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -p $pass $usuario That will use sudo to run adduser as root. btw - try to only allow sudo access for the apache user, and only to use the command adduser (e.g. NOT rm or anything else dangerous..) Also, make very sure that $paqss and $usuario contain only alphanumeric characters; no backticks or quotes or anything. Hope that helps Cheers Shane On Tuesday 15 October 2002 2:16 pm, :: wkwrz entertainment :: wrote: $creador = /usr/sbin/adduser -g mel -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -p $pass $usuario; $creador = exec($creador); echo $creador; I HAVE THIS, BUT IN THE APACHE LOG FILE I HAVE THIS: adduser: unable to lock password file what should i do to run the $creador sucefully? - -- Shane http://www.shanewright.co.uk/ Public key: http://www.shanewright.co.uk/files/public_key.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9rCgK5DXg6dCMBrQRAtm5AKCykAWtTJntkIKIbKx1hH7kAM+i0gCgrd6o Lz8qZCsNAdhY1orz0yNDLLM= =sqJ/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Adding users to a linux system?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A C wrapper running setuid root? I guess there's less chance of getting a 'bad' username to execute arbitrary commands, but at the same time I wonder about the possiblity of exploiting overflows, but that'd be much harder. (hmm, if the C program shells to adduser anyway the same problem is there?) I dunno, personally I dont like the idea of _anything_ needing root.. S On Tuesday 15 October 2002 3:51 pm, Tim Monaghan wrote: Is it better to use a c wrapper to do this? thats what Ive always done. Which is more secure? Tim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Custom Programming Web Programming community discussion http://www.inter-apps.com - Original Message - From: Shane Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 9:36 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Adding users to a linux system? you need to be root to add users - and your web server is most likely not runings as root (certainly shouldn't be!!) To make this work, add the user apache runs under to /etc/sudoers (look at the sudo man page), then change the command you have to this... sudo /usr/sbin/adduser -g mel -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -p $pass $usuario That will use sudo to run adduser as root. btw - try to only allow sudo access for the apache user, and only to use the command adduser (e.g. NOT rm or anything else dangerous..) Also, make very sure that $paqss and $usuario contain only alphanumeric characters; no backticks or quotes or anything. Hope that helps Cheers Shane On Tuesday 15 October 2002 2:16 pm, :: wkwrz entertainment :: wrote: $creador = /usr/sbin/adduser -g mel -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -p $pass $usuario; $creador = exec($creador); echo $creador; I HAVE THIS, BUT IN THE APACHE LOG FILE I HAVE THIS: adduser: unable to lock password file what should i do to run the $creador sucefully? - -- Shane http://www.shanewright.co.uk/ Public key: http://www.shanewright.co.uk/files/public_key.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9rDKV5DXg6dCMBrQRAn5JAJ90z11UFAUQ7KBgGIC5OdWJH8XlvwCggqQ6 En4ZsJ31Y617D2IdfDou6pI= =26WP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] strange bug(?) when opening lots of files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi One of my pages opens ~100 files, reads from them, and closes them, (only one file open at a time). The problem is that the page just dies mid-way through execution - no errors, no segfault, it just dies and returns a blank page to the user. the problem goes away if I reduce the number of files accessed. its a build of PHP 4.1.2 on Linux running as an Apache module, (if it makes any odds, the configure line is below). I can't see anything on bugs.php.net about this - has anyone seen this before (and, of course, the crucial question; what can I do to fix it?) Any help appreciated, Thanks - -- Shane http://www.shanewright.co.uk/ Public key: http://www.shanewright.co.uk/files/public_key.asc './configure' '--with-gd' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-track-vars' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-calendar' '--with-zlib' '--prefix=/opt/php-4.1' '--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/etc/httpd/conf' '--enable-memory-limit' '--with-db2=/usr' '--with-db3=/usr' '--with-gdbm=/usr' '--with-ndbm=/usr' '--with-dbase' '--with-xml' '--with-expat-dir=/usr' '--enable-debugger' '--enable-ftp' '--with-ttf' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--enable-bcmath' '--with-openssl' '--enable-trans-sid' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6' '--with-png' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-imap' '--with-dom=/usr' '--with-bz2' '--with-curl' '--with-mhash=/usr' '--with-mcrypt=/usr' '--with-pgsql' '--with-gmp' '--with-gettext' '--with-iconv' '--with-kerberos' '--enable-xslt' '--with-xslt-sablot' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9h6lW5DXg6dCMBrQRAhhiAKCIo1xdyyDtx7fT8SO8Xz4bfWOg7QCfdjE3 STUVeNEID6bzu4+hq+PqCI4= =zZqL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] strange bug(?) when opening lots of files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the input - but its definately not that; time limit is set to 600 seconds and it dies inside 1 second :( (i should have added this to the original mail, but it seems to supply the page but keep the connection open, strange...) S On Wednesday 18 September 2002 12:01 am, Tyler Longren wrote: How long does the script tend to run before it just quits? Perhaps a timeout is set too low in php.ini. Take a look at max_execution_time in php.ini tyler On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:14:46 +0100 Shane Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi One of my pages opens ~100 files, reads from them, and closes them, (only one file open at a time). The problem is that the page just dies mid-way through execution - no errors, no segfault, it just dies and returns a blank page to the user. the problem goes away if I reduce the number of files accessed. its a build of PHP 4.1.2 on Linux running as an Apache module, (if it makes any odds, the configure line is below). I can't see anything on bugs.php.net about this - has anyone seen this before (and, of course, the crucial question; what can I do to fix it?) Any help appreciated, Thanks - -- Shane http://www.shanewright.co.uk/ Public key: http://www.shanewright.co.uk/files/public_key.asc './configure' '--with-gd' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-track-vars' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-calendar' '--with-zlib' '--prefix=/opt/php-4.1' '--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/etc/httpd/conf' '--enable-memory-limit' '--with-db2=/usr' '--with-db3=/usr' '--with-gdbm=/usr' '--with-ndbm=/usr' '--with-dbase' '--with-xml' '--with-expat-dir=/usr' '--enable-debugger' '--enable-ftp' '--with-ttf' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--enable-bcmath' '--with-openssl' '--enable-trans-sid' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6' '--with-png' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-imap' '--with-dom=/usr' '--with-bz2' '--with-curl' '--with-mhash=/usr' '--with-mcrypt=/usr' '--with-pgsql' '--with-gmp' '--with-gettext' '--with-iconv' '--with-kerberos' '--enable-xslt' '--with-xslt-sablot' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9h6lW5DXg6dCMBrQRAhhiAKCIo1xdyyDtx7fT8SO8Xz4bfWOg7QCfdjE3 STUVeNEID6bzu4+hq+PqCI4= =zZqL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php - -- Shane http://www.shanewright.co.uk/ Public key: http://www.shanewright.co.uk/files/public_key.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9h8Q85DXg6dCMBrQRApEbAKCIewL9fgwPT1ey3byL2t2pg1BPRACfWJwN rUT+B2yFqGn6e2IO3XAGqeM= =qz1m -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] strange bug(?) when opening lots of files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi my ISP keeps a little behind the curve - sometimes thats a good thing, but sometimes not. :( We could install our own PHP, but unless this is a known issue that has been fixed since I'd rather not risk any others by installing a new version (and having to deal with the update issues that causes with my ISPs updates) Thanks Shane On Wednesday 18 September 2002 1:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't you upgrade to 4.2.3 many bugs were fixed. - -- Shane http://www.shanewright.co.uk/ Public key: http://www.shanewright.co.uk/files/public_key.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9h8gz5DXg6dCMBrQRArHKAJ4w3TjYJpI4ZaRSIi1cXWqOj7DzdwCgu1et ofTLnvU/I9C4RQMNnpvwXIY= =JLHf -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Dos Paths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I have a problem that's somewhat related to this - I can get short filenames from the OS but I really need long filenames. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks Shane On Wednesday 10 July 2002 1:14 pm, BB wrote: I've got an application that requires dos folder names (8.3 standard) as input. I also have PHP, which quite happily can cope with both. Can someone help me write a function to translate full paths to dos paths Thanks - -- Shane http://www.shanewright.co.uk/ Public key: http://www.shanewright.co.uk/files/public_key.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9LEBu5DXg6dCMBrQRAk7bAKCS10F8NjFrStSaha0Dkno0uwGE0QCgjdFi gNzKf3kaWjP5h2rWtImS6Xw= =I22O -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] get pwd on windows
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Ok, I need to write this little script to run on a Windows box (don't ask...),
but I'm getting completely shafted by the inconsistent use of long filenames.
I need to get the current directory, but it must have long filenames and not
be chopped to xxx~1 or anything. $SCRIPT_FILENAME is not set, there is no
pwd utility, nothing is set in the environment and realpath('./') returns
cropped firectory names.
Is there a way to do this or am I condemned to bang my head against a wall and
swear some more?
Cheers
- --
Shane
http://www.shanewright.co.uk/
Public key: http://www.shanewright.co.uk/files/public_key.asc
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Re: [PHP] Number formatting
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi $aprTemp = number_format($apr, 2); which in the case of 3.05 will return 305.00 and 300.00 for 3%. Anyone have a snippet to test and display properly so that 3% would be 3.00, etc. you could try this... $val = sprintf(%0.02f, $val); Cheers - -- Shane www.shanewright.co.uk Public key: http://www.shanewright.co.uk/files/public_key.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8/58q5DXg6dCMBrQRApb0AJsFZ7WxZK5PRguKZqNbRndVUnkl/QCgpafj VWVFBaJ9ysYxJqNP3Bxm2EI= =zrZI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] am i just a session tracking idiot?
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Hi
This may sound silly - but is there enough free disk space on whatever
partition /tmp is mounted on?
Alternatively, as a workaround, you could create a new directory and give the
web server user permission to write to it and tell PHP to save sessions
there. (this is actually better from a security standpoint as well; less
chance of session hijacking).
Cheers
- --
Shane
www.shanewright.co.uk
Public Key: http://www.shanewright.co.uk/files/public_key.asc
On Thursday 06 June 2002 6:31 pm, dan radom wrote:
I can't seem to get session tracking to work to save my life. The end
result I'm after is to store the value of the single column returned from
this query .. SELECT user_id from users WHERE user_name = '$user_name' AND
user_password = '$user_password' .. for use throughout the site. The
current error I'm getting is Warning: Failed to write session data
(files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is
correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0 which is very strange, as
session.save_path is set to /tmp, and tmp is drwxrwxrwt2 root
root. The code is listed below. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
dan
?
// if ($user_name) {
//class 'new uid' { var $row-user_id; };
//start_session();
//$abqSession = new abqnl;
//$abqSession-user_id = $uid;
//session_register(abqSession);
// }
if ($user_name) {
session_id($_GET['user_id']);
session_start();
$foo=$row-user_id;
$_SESSION[uid] = $foo;
echo $foo;
}
include '/storage/apache/htdocs/test.radom.org/.siteconf.php';
echo brbr;
if (!$user_name) {
echo center;
echo table cellspacing=10;
echo tr;
echo form method=post action=\login.php\;
echo td align=left;
echo user name;
echo /td;
echo td align=left;
echo input size=12 name=\user_name\;
echo /td;
echo /tr;
echo tr;
echo td align=left;
echo password;
echo /td;
echo td align=left;
echo input type=\password\ size=12 name=\user_password\;
echo /td;
echo /tr;
echo tr;
echo td;
echo /td;
echo td align=left;
echo center;
echo input type = \submit\ value=\submit\;
echo /center;
echo /td;
echo /form;
echo /tr;
echo /table;
echo /center;
exit;
} else
$result = pg_exec ($database, SELECT user_id from users WHERE user_name
= '$user_name' AND user_password = '$user_password');
if (!$result) {
echo query died\n;
exit;
}
if (pg_num_rows($result) == 0) {
echo centeryou have entered an invalid user name and password
combination. please try again. new users may create an account from the
sign up link above./center; exit;
}
for ($i = pg_num_rows($result) - 1; $i = 0; $i--) {
if(!($row = pg_fetch_object($result)))
continue;
}
echo your user_id is ;
pg_close($database);
?
/body
/html
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Shane
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Re: [PHP] am i just a session tracking idiot?
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Hi
On Thursday 06 June 2002 7:55 pm, dan radom wrote:
the last bgcolor example was cut and pasted from oreilly's session tracking
examples. it should work.
IIRC, some things depend on your PHP version and ini file (register_globals,
track_vars and maybe others). its worth trying those definately. The manual
also says that $_SESSION is only available after 4.1.0 - if you're using an
older version try $HTTP_SESSION_VARS.
that file write error concerns me. i think
something larger is going on here.
Definately - if all else fails it could be worth upgrading PHP (if your ISP
won't let you, maybe they've seen the problem before?).
Ah! What user is your web server running as? Try creating a new user,
running the web server as that user (group as well come to think of it), and
trying the permissions with that). I'm not sure why this should make a
difference but it rings bells for some reason (can't remember enough offhand
about UNIX users/permissions).
Cheers
- --
Shane
www.shanewright.co.uk
Public Key: http://www.shanewright.co.uk/files/public_key.asc
* Chris Knipe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Have you tried using $_SESSION['bgcolor'] = bleh
It might work... who knows...
- Original Message -
From: dan radom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] am i just a session tracking idiot?
what's weird is that if i set session.save_handler = mm, i obviously
don't
get the file error, but it still won't work.
here's another example of what i've tried...
mars:~/apache/htdocs/test.radom.org$ cat test.php
?
// create a new session
session_start();
// register a session-variable
session_register(bgcolor);
// Assign a value to the session-variable
$bgcolor = #8080ff;
?
html
head
titleSession Example #1/title
/head
body bgcolor=?=$bgcolor? text=#00 link=#00
vlink=#00 alink=#00
Welcome to a session-enabled page! The background color on the next
page
will be set to a stylish blue.p
a href = test2.phpGo to another session-enabled page/a.
/body
/html
and
mars:~/apache/htdocs/test.radom.org$ cat test2.php
?
// Resume session created in Listing 1-2
session_start();
?
html
head
titleSession Example #1/title
/head
body bgcolor=?=$bgcolor? text=#00 link=#808040
vlink=#606060 alink=#808000
?
// Retrieve SID from cookie.
print Your SID is $PHPSESSID br;
// Display the value of the $bgcolor variable.
print The persistent background color is: $bgcolor.;
?
argggh!
* dan radom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I've just tried that. /foo is owned by nobody and is mode 777.
there's
135M available on that partition.
* Shane Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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Hi
This may sound silly - but is there enough free disk space on
whatever partition /tmp is mounted on?
Alternatively, as a workaround, you could create a new directory
and
give the
web server user permission to write to it and tell PHP to save
sessions
there. (this is actually better from a security standpoint as
well;
less
chance of session hijacking).
Cheers
- --
Shane
www.shanewright.co.uk
Public Key: http://www.shanewright.co.uk/files/public_key.asc
On Thursday 06 June 2002 6:31 pm, dan radom wrote:
I can't seem to get session tracking to work to save my life.
The
end
result I'm after is to store the value of the single column
returned
from
this query .. SELECT user_id from users WHERE user_name =
'$user_name' AND
user_password = '$user_password' .. for use throughout the site.
The
current error I'm getting is Warning: Failed to write session
data (files). Please verify that the current setting of
session.save_path
is
correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0 which is very strange, as
session.save_path is set to /tmp, and tmp is drwxrwxrwt2
root root. The code is listed below. Any suggestions are
greatly
appreciated.
dan
?
// if ($user_name) {
// class 'new uid' { var $row-user_id; };
// start_session();
// $abqSession = new abqnl;
// $abqSession-user_id = $uid;
// session_register(abqSession);
// }
if ($user_name) {
session_id($_GET['user_id']);
session_start();
$foo=$row-user_id;
$_SESSION[uid] = $foo;
echo $foo;
}
include '/storage/apache/htdocs/test.radom.org/.siteconf.php';
echo brbr;
if (!$user_name) {
echo center;
echo
Re: [PHP] Undefined variables
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not really. You either have to init your variables or turn off notices in error_reporting() (or otherwise suppress them; i.e. display_errors = off). initialising them with safe defaults is the thing to do - the point of the error is to warn about uninitialised variables (which, if register_globals is on, could be used by an attacker to make your scripts to bad things...) - -- Shane -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8pmm85DXg6dCMBrQRAl0PAJ9W6iBFtaYtXBKnvmtfKPPVJzHWyACfRg91 6IXouixJwNAsLJDhvYyhnSs= =DBej -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Undefined variables
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sorry, didnt get that that was your prefered method - didnt mean to step on your toes :) S On Sunday 31 March 2002 2:50 am, Lars Torben Wilson wrote: On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 17:43, Shane Wright wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not really. You either have to init your variables or turn off notices in error_reporting() (or otherwise suppress them; i.e. display_errors = off). initialising them with safe defaults is the thing to do - the point of the error is to warn about uninitialised variables (which, if register_globals is on, could be used by an attacker to make your scripts to bad things...) - -- Shane Yes, this is my standard suggestion as well, but since Ernesto seemed to be aware of the issues I decided not to press the point. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8pm4K5DXg6dCMBrQRAsTLAJ9377x/gjRKbHrfcSYW11BKUgotgACfQmTw x2rcCdMlPbAaPg8zAey7L/8= =WVbB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] sessions concurrency
Hi If I set up a session while generating a page, and I store some data in it, when does that data become available for other connections from the same user (same session)? I.e. If I have a complex page with some session data that is used to dynamically generate some of the images in the page, it is conceivably possible that the browser could receive the HTML and IMG tags for the images before the page itself finishes building. I'm thinking that the session data probably isnt written until the PHP script exits, and that there probably isnt any locking. Is this the case? I imagine that if this is true I could write my own session save/load handlers to install with session_set_save_handler() and handle locking/concurrency issues - if so would these work if written in C as a php extension? Any info appreciated, Thanks -- Shane -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Uploading a file
Hi Jason You have set the form's ENCTYPE attribute to 'multipart/form-data' haven't you? FORM ENCTYPE='multipart/form-data' -- Shane On Friday 25 Jan 2002 2:08 pm, Todd Cary wrote: Jason - Using the recommended HTML, everything works *except* the file does not become part of the data sent back to the server. In fact, the VALUE from the INPUT element is not received (e.g. $filename== $HTTP_POST_VARS[filename];). I am using RH Linux 7.2 with Apache. Is there a parameter in the Apache that needs to be set for file uploads? Many thanks... Todd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] strange behaviour of mysql_pconnect()
Actually, I'd be interested to know why the same connection is used for two connections to the same database? I'm guessing people could fall over this trying to do, say, unbuffered queries through one to fetch a huge result set, and normal queries through another to make changes Of course thats not really a good thing to do anyways... -- Shane On Tuesday 22 Jan 2002 4:27 pm, Jimmy wrote: Hi list, I do a small test on mysql_connect() and mysql_pconnect(), and discover a strange behaviour. ? $cid1 = mysql_pconnect($host,$user,$pass) or die(cant connect1); $cid2 = mysql_pconnect($host,$user,$pass) or die(cant connect2); echo $cid1, $cid2; ? the output if using mysql_connect(): Resource id #1 Resource id #1 (both resource id are the same, as expected) the output if using mysql_pconnect(): Resource id #1 Resource id #2 (both resource id are different) at first I though pconnect() will create 2 different connection because the printed resource id is different. But after doing some test (by looking at the mysql processlist) i can conclude that those two link_identifier are actually the same (only one link, but with two different id) the question is, why pconnect() print different resource id, whereas connect() print the same one? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] RTFM
Hi Maybe this list should be split - kindof into a php-newbies and a php-advanced ? -- Shane On Friday 18 Jan 2002 9:39 pm, Richard Crawford wrote: Consider yourself fried. ;-) Seriously, though, I think that there are more advanced PHP lists that would probably be more to your liking. Try doing a search on php.net or yahoogroups.com for something more technical. I, personally, joined this list just over a year ago when I was assigned a project at work to rebuild Phorum to work against my former company's custom database. The respondents on this group were incredibly helpful; and most of the responses to technical questions I've seen on this list have usually included comments like, This works because..., or You can find more information about this at I've found that this list is an excellent resource for beginners, as well as an excellent place for advanced users to get quick answers to urgent questions. Nick Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, just a very quick note: I've been following the list for about a week and I probably follow one or two threads a day. Some of the stuff here is *very* interesting. Unfortunately most of the stuff posted is a little ridiculous in that it's posted by people that clearly don't know where the online manual is located. Don't get me wrong, I'm no expert and I don't object to the 'I had a look but...' posts I just think the list might be a little more interesting if those that *really* know there stuff stopped giving detailed answers to Q's like 'my html page shows the php code' and were just a little less tolerant. Feel free to fry me. - -- Nick Wilson Tel:+45 3325 0688 Fax:+45 3325 0677 Web:www.explodingnet.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE8SJLTHpvrrTa6L5oRAg8SAKCLzzFk6i29BzABak9ezbtsVIIw9wCgnn4o +Evq2JM0f2FDj1O1WEvm82o= =NaDy -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Time calculation after UNIX
Use 64bit integers! They'll count up to a much higher number and will last way beyond 2038. In the database, set the correct type (INT8 in PostgreSQL, dont know about the others). Dont worry about PHP as I'm sure there'll be a few newer versions supporting wider int formats before then (if it doesn't already??) -- Shane On Wednesday 16 Jan 2002 9:33 am, Olav Drageset wrote: Hi I have a database that is supposed to last more than 30 years Could someone advice me how to calculate (add and subtract) time in a maner that willl be correct after 2030 when Unix Time stop working? ragards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] PHP vs. ASP
Hi Something I dont think anyone's mentioned yet is that PHP is also great for running stuff from the command line - e.g. for background scripts for a site or mailing scripts or whatever... In case that doesnt sound so useful, it measn you can use all the same libraries for the online site as for the offline processing bits :) -- Shane On Wednesday 09 Jan 2002 1:43 pm, Jake wrote: Hello there, I need some help. I have to do a technical report(about 2200 words) comparing PHP to ASP. I have already decided to make PHP the winner becasue it is superior. But I am kinda stumped on what areas to compare the two. If you could help me out in suggesting some possible areas of comparison. Keeping in mind that I need about the same amount of info on both PHP and ASP. Also if you could point me in the right direction by including some web links that deal with the topic. Thank You, Jake -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] PostgreSQL query taking a long time
Hi,
You dont have the book field in the asv_bible table indexed. Use this to
index it
CREATE INDEX myindexname ON asv_bible(book);
(the primary key fields are ok because PostgreSQL creates a unique index to
implement the PRIMARY KEY constraint).
Hope that helps :)
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I have a PostgreSQL database that is storing The Bible. It has 31,103
records in it and I have a PHP page executing this query:
SELECT
books.book_name, bible.chapter, bible.verse, bible.versetext
FROM asv_bible bible, book_bible books WHERE bible.book = books.id ORDER BY
random() LIMIT 1
The database schema is:
/*
Sequences
*/
CREATE SEQUENCE book_bible_seq start 1 increment 1 maxvalue 2147483647
minvalue 1 cache 1;
/*
Table structure for table asv_bible
*/
CREATE TABLE asv_bible (
id int8 NOT NULL,
book int8,
chapter int8,
verse int8,
versetext text,
CONSTRAINT asv_bible_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id)
);
/*
Table structure for table book_bible
*/
CREATE TABLE book_bible (
id int4 DEFAULT nextval('book_bible_seq'::text) NOT NULL,
book_name varchar(20),
CONSTRAINT book_bible_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id)
);
Right now it takes 9 seconds to return the results. I was wondering if
anyone could offer any help with lowering the time it takes to run?
Or if this is the normal runtime for a database of this size, I'd just like
confirmation.
Thanks,
Kevin
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Re: [PHP] PHP ssi
Hi Nick, No, this isnt possible - but the constructs in PHP should allow you to do anything you can do with SSI just as easily. -- Shane On Friday 21 Dec 2001 5:45 pm, Nick wrote: Is it possible to have a .php file parse SSI's? I tried adding .php as a SSI file but it overwrote the php type, and wouldn't display PHP. And vice-versa. If not, i'd hafta write a php script that executes a program, and take the output from that program and parse it, which I don't know how to do. If anyone can help on that, please do so, and if anyone knows how to get SSI working with PHP, please let me know how. Thanks. -Nick -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] PHP / SSL
Hang on, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't 56bit DES significantly different from 40-bit SSL (which uses a 40bit key for the public key crypto and something like a 3000bit key for the symmetric cipher used for the actual data transfer). What I mean is, DES is significantly weaker than the weakest part of standard 40bit SSL yes? If I'm wrong, arent a lot of people putting a lot of confidence in something that really isnt secure (i.e. all SSL sessions...)?? -- Shane On Thursday 20 Dec 2001 9:07 pm, TD - Sales International Holland B.V. wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2001 14:58, you wrote: I urge you strongly to advise against that. Although it might be possible to downgrade your encryption to 40bit I'd like to make you aware of the fact that DES which is 56 bit encryption if I'm not mistaken was cracked several times by brute force in UNDER 22 hours by the distributed.net people (www.distributed.net). Therefore I would NOT consider 40 bits encryption safe and I feel obligated to make you aware of that. You are warned now :-) so do as you please. Kind regards, Ferry van Steen PS I'm also on distributed.net's mailing list. I once asked why it wouldn't be safe then, since distributed.net has a huge load processing power due to the number of people that participate. Appearantly it's fairly easy for a lot of companies/governments/etc to EASILY!! match that computational power. Hi, Bit off topic this, but I thought I'd ask anyway... I've been implementing a financial reporting system, in PHP, which will be running on the internet. Obviously, therefore, security is an issue. The system itself implements a username/password login system, but I want to be able to run it using SSL for obvious reasons. My problem is this: The server we have (Red Hat 7.0, Apache 1.3.14-3, open-ssl 0.9.5a-14, mod_ssl 2.7.1-3) came with ssl preconfigured and ready to use. It runs at 128 bit encryption which is fine as far as I'm concerned. The people who will be using the system, however, have a company standard browser which is IE 4 and only supports 40 bit encryption. And for various political reasons they don't want to upgrade all the browsers. So what I want to know is how easy it is to turn down the encryption level, and how to go about it. Any suggestions, pointers??? All the documentation I've come across thus far doesn't really cover anything like this Richy == Richard Black Systems Programmer, DataVisibility Ltd - http://www.datavisibility.com Tel: 0141 435 3504 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] compressed content and output buffering
Hi The way output buffering and output compression work, all the output is buffered until script termination, at which point it's compressed and then all sent to the browser. Is there any way having it compressed but not buffering it? gzip is a stream based algorithm, so there shouldn't be any problem theoretically. I imagine mod_gzip would help in this respect - but I'd like it to be switched on and off within PHP. Anyone know a nice way of doing this? Thanks -- Shane -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] 'Select All'
Hi Martin,
Excellent, thanks for your help :)
Regards
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On Monday 17 Dec 2001 10:15 pm, Martin Towell wrote:
you _can_ reference it by name - try this:
script
function my_select(type)
{
frm = document.forms.test;
ele = frm[mycheckbox[]];
len = ele.length;
for (i = 0; i len; i++)
ele[i].checked = type;
}
/script
form name=test
input type=button value=All onClick=my_select(true);
input type=button value=None onClick=my_select(false);
input type=checkbox name=mycheckbox[]
input type=checkbox name=mycheckbox[]
input type=checkbox name=mycheckbox[]
input type=checkbox name=mycheckbox[]
/form
Martin
-Original Message-
From: Shane Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 4:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] 'Select All'
Hi
I'm having somewhat of a problem :(
I have my banks of checkboxes, all named 'mycheckbox[]' with the values as
different IDs. The user happily checks a few of them and my scripts
happily
process the resulting arrays.
But... how do I get Javascript to do a 'select all' on them?? I cant
access
them by name because of the square brackets, and I cant access them by
going
through all form elements in case there are other checkboxes that dont want
to be included.
Is there a tidy way around this, does any of the above make sense?
Thanks
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[PHP] 'Select All'
Hi I'm having somewhat of a problem :( I have my banks of checkboxes, all named 'mycheckbox[]' with the values as different IDs. The user happily checks a few of them and my scripts happily process the resulting arrays. But... how do I get Javascript to do a 'select all' on them?? I cant access them by name because of the square brackets, and I cant access them by going through all form elements in case there are other checkboxes that dont want to be included. Is there a tidy way around this, does any of the above make sense? Thanks -- Shane -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] 'Select All'
Hi Charles, As a button, ideally two in fact - 'select all' and 'unselect all'. I've done it easily with ASP sites - where the '[]' is not required to have the values passed back as an array. (I know I could find a non-array way of doing it but its a pain) -- Shane On Monday 17 Dec 2001 6:06 pm, Charles Williams wrote: Shane, is this meant for initial settings of the form only or as a button, or some such, to allow someone to select all the boxs? chuck - Original Message - From: Shane Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 6:54 PM Subject: [PHP] 'Select All' Hi I'm having somewhat of a problem :( I have my banks of checkboxes, all named 'mycheckbox[]' with the values as different IDs. The user happily checks a few of them and my scripts happily process the resulting arrays. But... how do I get Javascript to do a 'select all' on them?? I cant access them by name because of the square brackets, and I cant access them by going through all form elements in case there are other checkboxes that dont want to be included. Is there a tidy way around this, does any of the above make sense? Thanks -- Shane -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] [PHP/Apache] Transparent Subdomains ?
If there are no other virtual hosts on your box, you could leave Apache as is (unrecognised hostnames will go to the default site), and do the dynamic processing in PHP using the $REQUEST_URI variable... as for the crazy-page.php thing, you could set up a custom error handler page that points at your dynamic page... Hope that helps... -- Shane On Thursday 13 Dec 2001 7:56 pm, Jon Shoberg wrote: Any ideas on how to pull this off. I would like to have http://mydomain.com and http://www.mydomain.com resolve to my /index.html page. When a user types in http://crazy.mydomain.com or http://crazy.mydomain.com/crazy-page.php, I would like to have it resolve to /home/mydomain/public_html/handler.php where I can trap for the subdomain/URI and perform dynamic processing on those values. I presume it would have to be a process though mod_rewrite and .htaccess? Is this able to be done. I've gone though quite a bit yet unable to get it working as described. Any ideas? Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Logout problem - help me out....!
HTTP authentication (which is what you're using) is controlled by the browser. Some browsers even keep the login/password after the window is closed until the user logs out (Konqueror on Linux for one...) If you want more control over logins and the ability to do a logout, you should make your own login scheme using an HTML form for username/password and setting a cookie to flag that the user is 'logged in'. Then, when the user wants to log out, clear the cookie and job done :) -- Shane On Saturday 15 Dec 2001 5:37 am, J.F.Kishor wrote: hello all, I have already posted this mail, Is there anyone to help me out?, it's urgent plz.! I have designed a web page using php, as a security measure I have kept it password protected. I have used Apache authentication, using htpasswd file. Now I want to keep a logout in this web page, I tried to send a header request http/1.0 401 Unauthorized to force it to reauthenticate when the logout link is clicked in the form, but this dose not work. I tried using session_destroy() even that does not work. To get the authenticated users name I have used GetEnv(REMOTE_USER) in all the form and with that username I'am handling mysql and other requests. I don't know where exactly the REMOTE_USER gets stored. So please help me out in this problem. I want to remove the window's authentication cache. Please give me some ideas and suggestion to remove the user name and make the page fresh for the other user to log in. If possible please send me a sample script. Thanks for sparing time on this mail. with hope's, - JFK kishor Nilgiri Networks -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Is PHP up to task?
Or... what you can do though it 'post-load' them. Same idea, but stick images that are on other pages in some JS at the _end_ of the HTML and they'll load after the images on that page are complete. That way, the browser is essentially preloading images for the next page the users is likely to visit (while the user is sitting there reading the page...) It isnt appropriate in all situations, but it can be a useful trick... :) -- Shane On Saturday 15 Dec 2001 7:39 pm, René Fournier wrote: What you're saying makes sense--that loading ALL the nav button images for the whole site at once is overkill. In this case, however, it really isn't, since there are just to 'sets' of nav buttons--the top-level set, which needs to be preloaded no matter what page the user is on; and the products subsection set, which SHOULD be preloaded, because every visit will inevitably visit that section (it is the reason why any visits the site). I agree that if there were numerous sub-level 'sets' of nav button images, that loading all of them would be inefficient. ...Rene On Saturday, December 15, 2001, at 02:08 AM, Charles Williams wrote: - Original Message - From: René Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 1:27 AM Subject: [PHP] Is PHP up to task? (Now that I have your attention... :-) Here's the situation: All the navigational buttons in the site I'm working on have three different states (for mousovers--normal, mouseover, onClick). What I don't like: When I mouse over one button, it takes a second or two for the page to fetch the mouseover state of the button from the server. Now, normally, I would just write a preloadimages() function in JavaScript and preload all the button states when the pages load. BUT, this is a little harder, since this is a fairly big site (or will be) and it's not always the same buttons that need to be loaded; they can change from page to page (say, between sections, with subnav bars). That being said, I've kept one thing simple: All the buttons (and their states) are stored in the same directory, and in fact only button images are in that directory (/nav). So here's what I would like to know: Is it possible for PHP to read the contents of a directory--all the files--and then take that array and generate some javascript preload() statements? (Of course, I'm sure it IS possible, but I would appreciate any pointers you might have before I undertake it. Maybe there's even a better way than what I can see!) What I was thinking was to preload all the nav buttons and their states in the header.inc. Thanks. ...Rene Rene, Of course this is possible. However, I doubt if it is desirable. The more visitors to your site the larger the load if you load all the graphics, because each session would have it's own copy of all the graphics. It would be better if you checked the page being loaded and passed a list of the needed graphics needed to a function that would load ONLY those graphics needed for said page. This is not too very difficult and if run on a PHP caching server then the overhead is not so bad. The hard part is getting the JS to work correctly (at least for me. hehe. I suck at JS). For example. http://clans.acnsnet.com is a package I'm working on that uses templates to control the layout. Each menu item is stored in an SQL backend as well as the Template info (location, menu type, state, etc). I already have a function to determine what page is active. So finding out what menu items are visible is simply a matter of comparing the active page to the array of menu items. I can then determin which images I would need to load (depending on the template in use). This way I only load the images that are needed, which saves on load time and memory. Anyway, have fun. chuck -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- René Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Need high bandwidth provider for my Asian community site
For a UK based server, have a look at dsvr.co.uk - they do great hosting and bandwidth is pretty cheap (AFAIK for a dedicated box its ~£300 p/month for 40-50Gb of storage and 25Gb/month bandwidth) Its worked out the best deal for us anyways :) (PHP4 with loads of extensions compiled in, mySQL, PostgreSQL, ssh access, cron access, they're very flexible (edit your own apache and PHP configs, add your own extensions and so forth, support is also great; quick and knowledgable). [no, I dont work for them, but they're the best I've found - so long as you know a bit about Linux/Apache/PHP] Hope that helps -- Shane On Thursday 13 Dec 2001 1:13 pm, sunny AT wde wrote: I also forgot to ask: are messageboards really big bandwidth suckers?? I get about 2000 messages posted a day on my messageboard and I use up nealry 20 gigs with that. Is this normal? My site is - www.barfiCulture.com thanks sunny --- sunny AT wde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I manage an South-Asian community site from the UK (but hosted in USA) which is currently wolfing down 20 GB per month and is increasing to about 25 very soon as the popularity grows. I've searched the mailing lists, but couldn't find a good solution. How shall I go about increasing bandwidth? Should I go for a dedicated boxes? Or does anyone know a host that provides 25-30 a month fairly cheaply (its a non-commercial site). TIA sunny __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Performance
another resounding YES vote on this corner
[anything so I dont have to do it all myself]
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On Thursday 13 Dec 2001 5:45 pm, Jim Lucas wrote:
the site that I design for has converted all of the echo; print() and
any other printing function of php into a simple breakout into HTML.
ie:
?
for($i=0;$i10;$i++)
{
?We have done ?=$i? loop.?
}
?
We have done performance testing on most everything that can be done out
put and include()/require() stuff. If you would like information on the
performance results I might be able to round up some of the data. It is
faster and cleaner.
Jim Lucas
www.bend.com
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From: René Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:05 AM
Subject: [PHP] Performance
Is it true that mixing HTML and PHP--switching back and forth with
?php ? tags--slows down performance? (I'm using PHP4.) Is it better
to echo output than to drop out of PHP mode?
And concerning database connections, my ISP asks that I always close a
MySQL connection with a mysql_close()--which I can understand. But I'm
curious, if I have to make, say, 10 SELECTs throughout a page (in the
header, body, and footer), is it perhaps faster to use the mysql_close()
at the very end of the page (in the bottom of the footer.inc)? In other
words, is there any disadvantage performance-wise (or stability reason)
to open and immediately thereafter close mysql connections?
Can anyone recommend an article or two on coding techniques for
improving PHP and MySQL performance? I don't wan to spend the rest of my
life optimizing my php code, but if I knew a few basic rules about its
performance characteristics, I might be able to make better decisions
when coding. Thanks.
...Rene
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Re: [PHP] Need high bandwidth provider for my Asian community site
but it can understand br [ive never had any problems anyways...] -- Shane On Thursday 13 Dec 2001 6:14 pm, l0t3k wrote: Sunny, AFAICR, br / is for Netscrape, which apparently cant understand br/ for some reason.. Sunny At Wde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... yeah i'll have a look at making the html a lot smaller as well :) i guess thats a cheap way of tryin to hold out on the machine as much as possible. the br / unfortunately happens automatically when i use the nl2br function before stuff goes into the database. anyway of avoiding that? /sunny -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Connecting MS SQL
Hi you're getting MS SQL messages so you have the MS SQL library installed ok (otherwise you'd be getting 'undefined function' or thereabouts...) The problem is most likely with MS SQL itself - is the username/password set up and is access allowed from the machine your making the connection from (most likely localhost)? -- Shane On Thursday 13 Dec 2001 6:14 pm, pong-TC wrote: Hello All I am trying to connect MS SQL, but got the error message as follows: Warning: MS SQL message: Login failed for user 'pong'. (severity 14) in d:\inetpub\wwwroot\cgi-bin\mailman.php on line 26 Warning: MS SQL: Unable to connect to server: dilbert in d:\inetpub\wwwroot\cgi-bin\mailman.php on line 26 Cannot connect to the database. I followed all instructions before I did try ie. copy php_mssql.dll to winnt/system32 directory and uncomment extension in php.ini. Still no luck, anyone, please help. I am running PHP 4.1.0 on IIS 5. Thank you. Pong -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] flushing contents to the browser
Hi The most practical thing to do is to do the big db operation in a background process and have an independent page on the browser that automatically refreshes and changes when the job is done. There are 2 issues... 1 - running the background process, there are quite a few ways of doing this (search the list archives for details). 2 - automatic refresh. There's an HTML meta tag that does this, check out an HTML reference. Hope that helps -- shane On Wednesday 12 Dec 2001 9:17 pm, DigitalKoala wrote: hi folks, i'm trying to display something like processing... please wait on a web page whilst a rather hefty database query is being run. i don't want to refresh the page so i've been attempting to use flush and ob_start, together with some css stuff to try and do this.. but no luck so far - as once the buffer has been flushed, i can't retrieve the content.. does anyone have any nifty ideas? many thanks dk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] How to get week number from date
Actually, this is in PHP 4.1.0 which has just been released... ..here's the line from the changelog: Added 'W' flag to date() function to return week number of year using ISO 8601 standard. (Colin) -- Shane On Tuesday 11 Dec 2001 3:37 pm, Nick Ward wrote: Hello, First of all I am very new to PHP so if I am asking something very obvious then I apologise. I am writing a time-sheet application for a division of our company and we book all time by week number. Is it possible to get PHP to work out the week number (1-53) from the current date. Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated. Regards Nick Ward -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] php as cron
Hi You probably need to set the path to your PHP binary in crontab. Alternatively (this is probs a better way), wrap the whole lot up in a simple shell script and get cron to run the shell script. It's easier than it sounds... #!/bin/bash cd /path/to/php/scripts php myscript.php /dev/null (also, I tend not to have PHP direct output to /dev/null, but to configure cron not to send emails on completion - that way you get the info when you run the script on the command line but dont get overrun with pointless emails) Hope that helps :) -- Shane On Monday 10 Dec 2001 5:54 pm, Jay Paulson wrote: I'm trying to test php running as a cron job and I have installed php as a CGI in /usr/local/bin and I have edited my crontab file to call a php file every two minutes. However, it's not working and I was wondering if you all would know what's going on. Anyway, here's how I have things set up. crontab file: */2 * * * * php /home/crontest.php /dev/null crontest.php: #!/usr/local/bin/php -q ?php mail([EMAIL PROTECTED],cron test, testing,NULL); ? email I'm receiving with error: Subject: Cron php /home/crontest.php /dev/null Body: /bin/sh: php: command not found thanks for any help. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Running WML (WAP services) under PHP
Hi
i think that php sends out headers showing that the page is html.not
sure bout this, but you might have to send a diff header..
This is true - you should send a content type of either text/x-wap.wml or
text/vnd.wap.wml (for WML 1.0 and 1.1 respectively)...
header('Content-Type: text/x-wap.wml');
PHP doesnt insert anything extra into the output that isn't in the script you
write - check there is no leading whitespace before the first '?' (same
applies in all include files)
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From: M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 5:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] Running WML (WAP services) under PHP
Hello, I am trying to develop some WML apps using PHP.
To run WML apps into my local Apache (win98) server, I added
AddType application/x-httpd-php .wml
into httpd.conf. This works ok when calling directly from netscape
http://localhost/mywml.wml ,
treating script like a true PHP program.
BUT when writing a REAL WML app. (cards and so) and trying to run on
NOKIA simulator (by calling URL), it shows a parse error on line 1 (for
all scripts).
The same script, when executed in file mode on NOKIA sim (that is first
load .wml file and then press SHOW button) , works fine, proving the
error is not in script, but in way PHP interpret .WML pages.
I suspect PHP introduces some invisible code (just 1 byte?) or something
at beginning of .WML page.
Thanks for your attn.
Miguel
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Re: [PHP] Stripping slashes from db-insert?
Addslashes() is probably getting called twice on the data on the insert... if you have magic_gpc on, any inputted data already has the necessary escapes - so you shouldnt need to call it again... Hope that helped :) -- Shane On Saturday 01 Dec 2001 1:14 pm, Daniel Alsén wrote: Hi, i know this has been asked before - but: When i add entries to MySql (varchar and text) all and ' gets a slash in front of them. How do i get rid of these slashes? Regards # Daniel Alsén| www.mindbash.com # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +46 704 86 14 92 # # ICQ: 63006462 | +46 8 694 82 22 # # PGP: http://www.mindbash.com/pgp/ # -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] APC and memory troubles
Hi List, I'm having some troubles with APC and was wondering if anyone else had seen this and perhaps knew of a solution... Basically, random pages at random times cause the script to run out of memory. This first happened with the default 8Mb limit, so I upped it to 20Mb but the problem remained. It happened in both the shm and mmap modes. the versions are PHP 4.0.5 as an apache DSO and APC 1.1.0pl1. Has anyone seen this before? Is there anything else thats likely to ceuse problems with APC? Any help appreciated, Regards Shane -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] setcookie BUG w/ IE 5.5, 6.0 Netscape!
Oh yeah, about the lifetime of the cookie - with no valid expiry time it is created as a session cookie - which is supposed to only live as long as the browser does. [opening a new independent browser window does not share the session, but window.open() calls do, as do other 'browser created from browser with session' methods, if that makes any sense, grin] -- Shane On Saturday 29 Dec 2001 6:35 pm, Kris Wilkinson wrote: Just recently I've noticed an issue with setcookie. My scripts which normall ran : setcookie (myCookie,Blah,time()+7201); Are killing the cookie immediately after you close the browser window, or access another https:// site. It appears as though the life of the cookie is actually not being set, and is based entirely around the life of the browser window which it was originally called. if you leave the window open, and attempt at access the cookie from another window, the cookie does not exist. IDEAS? PHP GODS? :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] cookies
Hi Urb Can you not just set the cookie again [using the updated expiry date]. If I remember correctly, this should work.. -- Shane On Tuesday 27 Nov 2001 5:45 pm, Urb LeJeune wrote: Speaking of cookies, is there a way using session control to modify the expiration date of a cookie? I would like to add a check box in a login dialog that says remember me Thanks Urb -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Standalone PHP Application
mm, thats true - there is no compiler as such. PHP probably isnt the right language for you in this case :( -- Shane On Sunday 18 Nov 2001 11:43 pm, John Monfort wrote: I just got it. So far, it doesn't look like it lets convert your code to a .exe code. My client's scoring logic is proprietary and I need to protect the code. __John Monfort_ _+---+_ P E P I E D E S I G N S www.pepiedesigns.com The world is waiting, are you ready? -+___+- On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Shane Wright wrote: Hi You could have a look at the GTK+ bindings for PHP - AFAIK they let you write standalone apps. There's info on the PHP web site ( www.php.net ). -- Shane I'm looking for information on using PHP for standalone applications. Specifically, I need to create a PHP-based application that can be runned from a CD-ROM. Have any of you done this? Any suggestions? On another note: I need to develop a CD-ROM based Survey, where the result will be saved in an external file. What software, would you recommend, to use for this? I'm currently using Multimedia Builder, and was wondering if there is something better. I need something that allows customization(via scripting) and more interaction with external files/commands. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -John __John Monfort_ _+---+_ P E P I E D E S I G N S www.pepiedesigns.com The world is waiting, are you ready? -+___+- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Quiz questions on PHP
Hi Have a look at the PHP tests on Brainbench.com - they're of a different ilk but may be useful (I think they're still free)... [dunno about the copyright though - but it should say on the site, if nothign else it might help with some pointers] -- Shane On Sunday 18 Nov 2001 12:43 pm, Srinivasan Ramakrishnan wrote: Hi, I'm preparing a quiz on PHP for some programmers. I was wondering if there are good questions that I can use instead of inventing my own. I'm also evaluating any quizzing software out there that will allow me to conduct it. Actually I'm in the process of throwing together a script to do that, but I'm guessing any prefab script will be more feature packed. Do you know of any? Cheers, -Srini -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Changing var value from int to string
Hi Nope, this is fine [not necessarily good programming practise mind, but thats a different story...] -- Shane On Sunday 18 Nov 2001 6:13 am, phantom wrote: Is there any inherit danger or taboos against changing the value of a variable from an integer to a string? example: if ($Msg==1) $Msg = You have foobar'ed your entire server.; Thanks. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Standalone PHP Application
Hi You could have a look at the GTK+ bindings for PHP - AFAIK they let you write standalone apps. There's info on the PHP web site ( www.php.net ). -- Shane I'm looking for information on using PHP for standalone applications. Specifically, I need to create a PHP-based application that can be runned from a CD-ROM. Have any of you done this? Any suggestions? On another note: I need to develop a CD-ROM based Survey, where the result will be saved in an external file. What software, would you recommend, to use for this? I'm currently using Multimedia Builder, and was wondering if there is something better. I need something that allows customization(via scripting) and more interaction with external files/commands. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -John __John Monfort_ _+---+_ P E P I E D E S I G N S www.pepiedesigns.com The world is waiting, are you ready? -+___+- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] select+uploading multiple files
Hi fitiux I'm sure the list will correct me if I'm wrong, but what you're talking about isnt possible, at least not in this way. This isn't a limitation of PHP - its a limitation of the HTML form element that handles the uploads. You could consider a client-side applet to achieve the result another way. A Java applet would do the job - although you will need to sign it and users will need to grant it permission to read their hard drives (I think this is how it works, it's been a while...) Good luck Shane On Friday 02 November 2001 3:01 pm, fitiux wrote: Hi everybody! I'm new in the list. I'll help anybody if I can =) by now I have a little trouble ;-) I have to create a php page where users can upload many files the idea is that users could select many files by holding down the shift key... with this I can avoid to put many input tags in my page. When I use an input type=file and pass to the next page a temporary file name (/var/temp/phpGH65YT) is created.. but if I try to use another way to send the file name.. this temp file name is not created. and I just get an error: I cannot open the file name test.txt in /var/html/pages/test.php for reading an alternative is in fact of I know the file names that users must upload. I could ask them for the path and then I'd show a list of files to upload and users only will have to click on one button. is it possible to make more easy the file uploading for users? I mean... is it possible to upload many files without to choose one by one within a html page with many input tags? ooh yes.. I cannot use zipped files not even a ftp connection best regards from Chile. PS: I apology for my english... I hope that you can understand me =) -- Shane -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] How to get Usernames
Hi Michael How about explode()ing it using '/' as the seperator, then finding the element in the resulting array that begins with '~', strip that first character using substr() and bod's your uncle... I'd write the code but I've had a long day... Shane On Friday 02 November 2001 6:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a setup where users can access their own pages using a /~username here account I need to put a PHP script in their directoies that will be able to tell me what their username is. I was thinking about $REQUEST_URI however if I go to /~username/dir/page it will return it all. all I want is the username... Thanks for your help, Michael -- Shane -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] How to get Usernames
Okz,
Hows this...
$myarray = explode('/', $REQUEST_URI);
for ($i=0; $icount($myarray); $i++) {
$mystr = $myarray[$i];
if ($mystr[0] = '~') {
$username = substr($mystr, 1);
$i = count($myarray);
};
};
and presto, username in $username
[there are more efficient ways to walk the array, but I've had a long day...]
Hope that helps,
Shane
On Friday 02 November 2001 6:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok,
How do I do that?
Hi Michael
How about explode()ing it using '/' as the seperator, then finding the
element in the resulting array that begins with '~', strip that first
character using substr() and bod's your uncle...
I'd write the code but I've had a long day...
Shane
On Friday 02 November 2001 6:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a setup where users can access their own pages using a
/~username here account
I need to put a PHP script in their directoies that will be able to
tell me what their username is.
I was thinking about $REQUEST_URI however if I go to
/~username/dir/page it will return it all.
all I want is the username...
Thanks for your help,
Michael
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Re: [PHP] A way to simulate modem speeds?
duno about for windows, but there's quite a bit around on packet shaping for Linux and *BSD which amounts to the same thing - could be worthwhile sticking an old server in the middle with some different rules on different ports (i.e. port 81 set up for 14k4 equiv, 82 for 28k8 equiv, etc..) sorry aint got any URLs but some googling should get you somewhere... Shane On Wednesday 31 October 2001 6:23 pm, Michael Hall wrote: I apologize for the only-vaguely-PHP-related nature of this, but I'm endlessly impressed with the knowledge here. I'm looking for a way to clamp down a network machine (we're on a T1) to modem speeds (28 to 52 K) for testing purposes. Is there software (preferably for Windows) that would do this? Better yet, would this software be free? I don't want much, do I? Thanks. -- Shane -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
