[PHP] Class Auto-Assigning to Variable
I have a situation where, for some unknown reason, where each class that
finishes its __contruct{} function, that class gets automatically assigned to a
variable - other than the variable I specify.
Conceptually:
class Hello { private $_world = 'World'; __construct(){} }
$clsHello = new Hello();
echo 'The variable $hello is '.gettype($hello).\n.print_r($hello,true);
Output:
The variable $hello is object
Hello Object
(
[_world:Hello:private] = World
)
There is no statement in my application that assigns an instance of the class
to another variable, the name being a lowercase variant of the class name.
Would there be a PHP function that would do this as a side-effect?
I am more interested in learning what is happening as opposed to rolling back
to a previous version. (A backup copy functions fine. A file compare does not
reveal any likely suspects.)
PHP5.4.17-NTS-VC9 (Windows XP-SP3)
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Re: [PHP] Class Auto-Assigning to Variable
Second go around:
I have a situation where, for some unknown reason, where each class that
finishes its __contruct{} function, that class gets automatically assigned to a
variable - other than the variable I specify.
Conceptually (a little bit better on the conceptualizing):
class Hello {
private $_world = 'World';
function __construct(){}
}
$clsHello = new Hello();
echo 'The variable $hello is '.gettype($hello).\n.print_r($hello,true);
Output:
The variable $hello is object
Hello Object
(
[_world:Hello:private] = World
)
There is no statement in my application that assigns an instance of the class
to another variable, the name being a lowercase variant of the class name.
Would there be a PHP function that would do this as a side-effect?
I am more interested in learning what is happening as opposed to rolling back
to a previous version. (A backup copy functions fine. A file compare does not
reveal any likely suspects.)
PHP5.4.17-NTS-VC9 (Windows XP-SP3)
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Re: [PHP] Class Auto-Assigning to Variable
I cannot replicate this. I don't expect anyone to be able to replicate this behavior. The example shows an extraordinarily stripped-down sequence of statements that informs what should work, but do to some unknown agent, which, therefore, cannot be included in the example, produces unexpected output. This conceptual example is not a 'sample' or 'excerpt' of the actual application. There is much, much more code. None of it is an apparent likely suspect in causing this behavior. I am hoping for a, Oh, yeah! I've seen that happen before. It's caused by... Let us focus on the central question: Would there be a PHP function that would do [what the example describes] as a side-effect? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Class Auto-Assigning to Variable
$hello = $clsHello; If that conceptual statement (or any occurance of the conceptual $hello) were in the code, then my (really good) Find feature of my code editor would have found it. There are only a few variables that get assigned as side effects of functions, but they have very specific names, and none of them are $hello (but I'm guessing that's not the actual variable name) I have two dozen classes in this application. In every case, there will be a variable, the name of which is a lowercase variant of the class name, to which is assigned an instance of the class, when the class's construct() function completes. The example informs you of this. Somewhere in your code there is something that is assigning to $hello. Find everything that's doing that and look at each instance in detail. I have. Many times. What I am looking for is a side-effect -- something not obvious. (This application does not use an eval() function where some obfuscated string manipulation would play this out.) I would say for definite that it's some of the surrounding code, Exactly. No sooner and no later than precisely when the class's construct() function ends, and control is given to the next statement after the one that instantiated that class. probably something similar to this: Let's explore this statement: $GLOBALS[strtolower(get_class($this))] = $this; May I infer that the declaration of $GLOBALS['hello'] will, at the same time, also create $hello (without a statement declaring such)? This: http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.globals.php implies the opposite direction. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Class Auto-Assigning to Variable
Your example does _not_ show this, it works
as expected and throws a notice, from which can be inferred there is other
code doing this
Or relevant code having a side-effect not currently realized.
Is your class maybe inheriting from another one and that contains the code
causing this issue?
No.
May I infer that the declaration of $GLOBALS['hello'] will, at the same
time, also create $hello (without a statement declaring such)?
The $GLOBALS array is what's known as a super global. Elements within the
array are reflected as global variables and vice-versa.
Let's refine the conceptual example:
class Hello {
private $_world = 'World';
function __construct(){}
}
$GLOBALS['hello'] = new Hello();
echo 'The variable $hello is '.gettype($hello).\n.print_r($hello,true);
Can we then postulate that the value of $GLOBALS['hello'] will also be revealed
in $hello, even though $hello was never formally declared?
I know that $GLOBALS['hello'] has a universal scope, and $hello (wherever it
comes from) needs to be global-ized inside functions.
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[PHP] Guaranteed Way to Get Error Message Wanted
It looks like you are running the thread-safe version with FastCGI, which I understand to be counter to the recommendations. Thank you for the comment. I switched to PHP5.4.17-NTS-VC9, but the application still crashes. And still no clue as to why. So, still looking for that magic method to get PHP to report what's happening on a 500 Internal Server Error when it's (presumably? not sure...) not the server's fault. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Guaranteed Way to Get Error Message Wanted
Have you got all your extensions updated? I would think so. Just to state the required disclaimers: phpinfo.php with ? phpinfo() ? works. Liberally peppering a tracer routine throughout the application shows it is getting executed up until one spot. But there is nothing obviously wrong with the code. Nothing! That's why I need the guaranteed message delivery on why PHP does not like the code. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Guaranteed Way to Get Error Message Wanted
I have an application running under PHP-5.4.17-TS-VC9 (and .14 as of yesterday) with Aprelium's Abyss X1 v2.8 web server in FastCGI mode on WinXPSP3. An earlier version of this application works. The current version causes a 500 Internal Server Error. There is no entry in PHP's (fully active) error log. I cannot decipher Abyss's logging, so I cannot determine if a clue was reported by Abyss or not. The current version works on a different system (Server 2003, PHP 5.3.5-TS-VC6 (Apache module), Apache 2.2). What I would like to have is a method of getting PHP to report in some undeniable manner, short of total system failure, what it doesn't like about whatever killed it. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Lifetime
I'm curious to know what the lifetime of a constant is. I know that sounds like a stupid question, but the context is this: I have a file I am writing to up to the very last possible micro-second. As such, I know that as PHP is destroying itself after having executed the last statement in the program, things begin to disappear. The Class objects destruct in no discernable order (they have destructors). Any open file handles close. Etc. My question is: During all this destruction, at what point must I no longer expect to have a constant available? That is, when the classes are executing their __destruct() functions, et al, I want to manage something with those destructors. So when does the constant actually-factually disappear? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Very Large File Splatter
PHP 5.4.4-TS-VC9 on Windows XP SP3 NTFS non-system drive with 18GB free. I dare not try to replicate this. As such, I cannot firmly place the blame on PHP. I have peppered a PHP application with a call to a function which appends-only to a logfile the parameters passed to it. Each pass of the application creates many MB of content. It is conceivable that I ran out of hard drive space. When that which what I was working on seemed to be acting very weird, I rebooted the computer only to see thousands of lines scroll by from Windows repairing the file system. I discovered logfile contents in many dozens of files. The timestamp and filesize of the damaged files were not changed. Only the contents replaced with slices of the logfile. Again, I'm not going to try to 'intentionally' replicate this, so I ask: Has PHP's interface with the NTFS file sub-system ever been reported to splatter a file across the contents of a drive? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Very Large File Splatter
If you can show the write portion of the code in your iteration, as well as a sample of the naming convention, it may offer more clues. $dbgMsg = a diagnostic string maybe 5K in length; $dbg_fp = fopen(ROOT_DIR.DS.dbg_log.txt, a); // Derives a full path fwrite($dbg_fp, $dbgMsg); fclose($dbg_fp); Did you shutdown the system cleanly, when you recognized this behaviour? Yes, a clean reboot. Not a reset-switch restart, nor a power-cycle restart. Sample lines from bootex.log: Checking file system on L: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. Windows will now check the disk. Attribute record of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x3 is cross linked starting at 0x20b3b for possibly 0x100 clusters. Attribute record of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x3 is cross linked starting at 0x20b3b for possibly 0x100 clusters. Some clusters occupied by attribute of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x3 in file 0x3680 is already in use. Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, $J) from file record segment 13952. Sorting index $O in file 25. The object id in file 0x4d14 does not appear in the object id index in file 0x19. Inserting an index entry into index $O of file 25. The object id in file 0x4d17 does not appear in the object id index in file 0x19. Inserting an index entry into index $O of file 25. The object id in file 0x4d19 does not appear in the object id index in file 0x19. Recovering orphaned file .svn (19642) into directory file 13948. Recovering orphaned file CATEGO~1.TPL (19720) into directory file 28688. Recovering orphaned file categories.tpl (19720) into directory file 28688. Recovering orphaned file CATEGO~1.BAK (19721) into directory file 28688. Recovering orphaned file categories.tpl.bak (19721) into directory file 28688. And many, many more of each section. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Is PHP unsuitable for HTML5 WebSockets?
I've looked all over the net and I have been unable to find a concrete answer to this question. I am about to start development on a web application that will need to provide real-time updates of data to user's browsers. WebSockets are ideal for this task. I have read in some places on the net that PHP is not suitable for WebSockets due to it's nature. That WebSockets are designed for long running threads/processes which each maintain multiple event-driven connections, whereas PHP was designed around the short-lived single process procedural paradigm. Yet on the other hand I see lots of guides and libraries (such as http://socketo.me/) on the net that deal with PHP WebSockets. So I don't know what to think at this stage. Is PHP a suitable platform for developing a web application that requires WebSockets?
Re: [PHP] File moving hell on Windows
Regular Windows networking. On Jul 30, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Mike Mackintosh mike.mackint...@angrystatic.com wrote: What protocol are you targeting? FTP, SFTP, SSH, SMB, etc? -- Mike Mackintosh PHP 5.3 ZCE -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] File moving hell on Windows
I'm dealing with a Windows NT network that includes some digital printing presses that also run Windows. PHP 5.3.8 is running on one NT machine. Its job is to take CSV files that exist in a directory on one machine, and move them to a directory on the digital presses. All the source and destination folders require different network credentials to read and write -- and because of red tape bureaucracy, that cannot be changed. Any suggestions how I could do this? I can't find any file-move examples that include the use of network credentials with each read and write. Thanks... :-( -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Bust out a PDF via the print stylesheet?
Hey all - The articles on my web site already have a very nice stylesheet that produces a print version. Does anyone know if there's a such a thing as a PHP class that would let me put up a Download PDF link that would generate a PDF doc on the fly, using that same stylesheet? I've used various PHP PDF classes before, but I'd rather see if I can shortcut this rather than assembling the doc from scratch. - Brian -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] FPDF ?
I never found a solution to this myself. On Apr 26, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Jim Giner wrote: For those of you with FPDF experience. I've just begun using it and have figured out how it works I think. I am still having trouble with the bottom of the page tho. Seems that if I get too close to the bottom margin and my data line exceeds the amount of available space, my MultiCell elements print some of their contents and then my Footer gets printed and then I go to a new page where some small amount of the remaining data for that line gets printed and then a new page is output and repeat. This can go on for 3-4 pages before things work out and my report continues until it gets a full page again and then it all happens again. I know it sounds complicated, but I'm hoping someone else has experienced this kind of learning curve and can give me a clue as to what I'm doing wrong, or at least what's happening. Even better would be an algorithm for detecting how much space I have left so I can avoid these split lines and perhaps solve my entire problem. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Running through an enormous SQL file
I have a script that downloads a 267MB SQL file (it creates and loads a MySQL database). Any idea how to do this? Obviously I'm not going to get a file that size into memory to loop through. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Running through an enormous SQL file
How would you launch that from PHP? On May 4, 2012, at 6:11 PM, tamouse mailing lists wrote: Is there any need to use PHP with this at all? If it's already in SQL, can't you just feed it to mysql? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Serving a .dmg via readfile?
Thanks, this suggestion from Dante completely solved the problem.
Replaced:
readfile('/var/www/mypath/My Cool Image.dmg');
With:
$fd = fopen ('/var/www/mypath/My Cool Image.dmg', r);
while(!feof($fd)) {
set_time_limit(30);
echo fread($fd, 4096);
flush();
}
fclose ($fd);
It's now serving all files properly.
On Apr 25, 2012, at 9:07 PM, D. Dante Lorenso wrote:
You'll want to use fopen, fread, fwrite, and fclose to loop through bytes in
your file as you shuttle chunks to the client instead of slooping it all into
memory in one hunk.
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[PHP] Serving a .dmg via readfile?
Hey all - I'm having no luck serving a .dmg from my online store. I stripped
down the code to just the following to debug, but no matter what I get a
zero-byte file served:
header('Content-Type: application/x-apple-diskimage'); // also tried
octet-stream
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=My Cool Image.dmg');
$size = filesize('/var/www/mypath/My Cool Image.dmg');
header('Content-Length: '.$size);
readfile('/var/www/mypath/My Cool Image.dmg');
This same code works for a number of other file types that I serve: bin, zip,
pdf. Any suggestions? Professor Google is not my friend.
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[PHP] Updating Google Plus
Anyone know a way to update Google Plus via the 33669 SMS number? Yes, I have seen the popular how-to instructions to get the secret email address by using Google Voice and forcing the error message, but I'd prefer a legit non-hack way to do it. I'd even be happy to pay for an SMS gateway rather than depend on the email address, which they might decide to terminate. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Updating Google Plus
Sorry, I did not mention the implied using PHP. Since everything I do eat breathe is PHP, it didn't even occur to me to state the obvious. :-) :-) On Mar 29, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Stuart Dallas wrote: Err, what has this got to do with PHP?!? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Updating Google Plus
That's EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thanks! Don't know why my Google-Fu failed me... :-) On Mar 29, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Don Wieland wrote: First Google+ (Google Plus) status update bot in PHP http://360percents.com/posts/first-google-google-plus-status-update-bot-in-php/ Is that what you are looking for or something different? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Wrong POSTFIELDS Posted
I have a script that accepts four POST variables. Three are used and five more are added for a total of eight keys and their urlencode() values all strung together in the proper format. Then cURL is initialized with the field string given to: curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,8); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $string); But that's not the string arriving at cURL's target URL! What's arriving at the target is exactly the POST array that this script received in the first place. Here's what I don't understand... The cURL request is coming from this script on domainA, but the target address is also domainA. Does everybody play nice in this situation? PHP 5.3.5 Apache 2.2 Note: CURLOPT_POST evaluates to true, regardless that I use an integer. All other curl* commands are set. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: ASP to PHP
I've done a site from Classic ASP (no .net) to non-oop PHP. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] PEAR Mail $obj-send()
A client has: PHP 5.3 on Win7x64 running a local web app that needs to send mail. (This app was once hosted on a linux-based hosted space.) Apache 2.2 is installed but apparently not being used. I think the IIS service is actually the web server that is engaged. During troubleshooting a wide range of problems, I discovered that the PEAR Mail module needed to be installed. So I installed PEAR (the PEAR Installer) and the Mail module with all dependencies. The PEAR_ENV was added. The system was rebooted. A test php script instantiates the Mail class and the script proceeds fine until the send() method is called. I get a browser with Waiting for localhost for more than 60 seconds. (I used die(); to trace the script. Instead of 'auth'= true, I used 'auth' = PLAIN as suggested by a user comment on the Mail documentation page.) I believe all the parameters are correct. The actual web app works - except emailing. I added a firewall rule allowing outbound port 465 just for kicks. I can double-check for the PHP timeout setting but would PHP timeout in this case (waiting for a socket??)? Any suggestions? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: PEAR Mail $obj-send()
Instead of 'auth'= true, I used 'auth' = PLAIN as
suggested by a user comment on the Mail documentation page.)
$obj = Mail::factory('smtp',
array ('host' = $host,
'port' = $port,
'auth' = true,
'username' = $username,
'password' = $password));
(Variables are set. $host = smtp.gmail.com, $port = 465)
Do you have a mail server running on localhost?
No.
If you do not have a local MTA then you need to change the
params so it uses a remote mail server.
It does.
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[PHP] Would like to subscribe to this mailing list
I would like to subscribe to this mailing list please. Thanks. Sincerely, Brian Dworkin Managing Partner Bright Telecom 201-892-9553 (mobile #) br...@brighttelecom.net http://www.brighttelecom.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Parent Limits?
With all kind respect to Richard Buskirk and Daniel Brown (thank you for responding), their replies did not actually answer my question. My question is: What module or php.ini setting would render inoperative a directory traversal of X parents? My original post follows. The following works (three parents): include(../../../includes/ini.inc.php); require_once(../../../includes/ini.inc.php); The following works (four parents): include(../../../../includes/ini.inc.php); The following does not work (four parents): require_once(../../../../includes/ini.inc.php); That is, require_once() with four parents has been reported to have been disabled for security purposes. But apparently, not disabled is include() with four parents. The device or setting which is causing the problem is not known to me. It may be just the four parents (and include() is getting the data from this file elsewhere) or it may be the combination. It has been reported this is not a limit within open_basedir. So, what is it? What module or php.ini setting would have this effect? Thank you. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Time zones are spinning my brain
Help. I'm using PayPal's API to get a report of all the yesterday's
transactions. I'm in California, and I define yesterday as California's
yesterday, midnight to midnight.
PayPal wants the STARTDATE and ENDDATE provided in UTC/GMT. I'm building and
testing my report using this:
$start = gmdate('Y-m-d\TH:i:s.00\Z', strtotime(yesterday 00:00:00));
$end = gmdate('Y-m-d\TH:i:s.00\Z', strtotime(yesterday 23:59:59));
which produces:
2011-06-28T07:00:00.00Z
2011-06-29T06:59:59.00Z
I think this is right, since it's 7 hours off California time, but I just need
someone to double check my spinning head. Will this give me the PayPal
transactions that arrived during California's yesterday, or do I need to change
something?
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Re: [PHP] Time zones are spinning my brain
Thanks everyone. It seems to be working correctly. You gave me some extra peace
of mind. I did set the date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles') but it
looks like that was in the defaults anyway. :-)
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[PHP] Parent Limits?
The following works (three parents): include(../../../includes/ini.inc.php); require_once(../../../includes/ini.inc.php); The following works (four parents): include(../../../../includes/ini.inc.php); The following does not work (four parents): require_once(../../../../includes/ini.inc.php); That is, require_once() with four parents has been reported to have been disabled for security purposes. But apparently, not disabled is include() with four parents. The device or setting which is causing the problem is not known to me. It may be just the four parents (and include() is getting the data from this file elsewhere) or it may be the combination. It has been reported this is not a limit within open_basedir. So, what is it? What module or php.ini setting would have this effect? Thank you. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Convert a PDF to a PNG?
I have heard back from Rackspace and ImageMagick is not going to happen for the time being, but they say Ghostscript is installed. Is it possible to do this completely with GS without ImageMagick? The PDFs are text only. On Jun 15, 2011, at 2:28 AM, Richard Quadling wrote: I use PDF2PNG as this provides the cleanest output mechanism I've found. But I didn't try GS which, theoretically, should be perfect. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Best way to create an image with flowing text?
Hey all - I need to create PNG images with transparent backgrounds that contain text. The text will come from four fields in a database, and needs to be centered, and text wrapped. The fields are going to be of varying lengths, so each block of text (which will be shown in a different font size) will flow onto an unknown number of lines, and I want to start the next line right below, wherever it is. Unfortunately I have come up against some restrictions. - I will not be able to use ImageMagick. - I have Ghostscript, but only version 7.07. - The server is Red Hat 4.x with PHP 5.2 and installing new software is unlikely. Can anyone suggest a tool to make this easiest? :-( - Brian -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Convert a PDF to a PNG?
My server has GD but NOT ImageMagick. Can I convert a PDF doc to a PNG? I have the PDFs stored as a files and I need to save an identical PNG alongside each. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Convert a PDF to a PNG?
The server does not have that software installed either. :-( On Jun 14, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Richard Quadling wrote: I do that using an external tool pdf2png. For me, I use Cygwin. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Convert a PDF to a PNG?
The PDFs are text only (white text on transparent background). I made them using the FPDF, which was tedious to set up but works great. I've since learned that I need PNG images, not PDFs. I know that I could rebuild them using GD, but it's a lot of strings of text wrapping and formatting and that would be the long, long way around. I've put in a request to see about getting ImageMagick/Ghostscript installed... see how that goes. On Jun 14, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Richard Quadling wrote: Can you see what pdf tools ARE installed? Are the PDFs text based or just images in a PDF file (mine are both), but for just images, you _COULD_ extract the image data manually. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Going crazy with include require not working
Thanks, this helped me solve it. FPDI extends a class in FPDF, so I simply had
to reverse the order in which I call them and all is hunky dory.
On Jun 6, 2011, at 5:54 PM, Michael Shadle wrote:
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
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[PHP] Going crazy with include require not working
Here's my code:
error_reporting(E_ALL);
require_once('/var/www/mysite/includes/fpdi.php');
require_once('/var/www/mysite/includes/fpdf.php');
I have used fpdf many times and never had a problem with it. I've double
checked my pathnames until I'm blue in the face. But for some reason, the
script just STOPS at these lines. I've tried include, include_once, require,
require_once and no error gets reported, it just stops. Help?
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[PHP] webserviceX.net?
I'm looking for some geographic data, like ZIP codes, area codes, but it has to be current and correct. Has anyone ever used the free web services at webserviceX.net? Do you know anything about the data? How current/correct is it? Seems to be an awful lot they're giving away for free. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Can I modify a MySQL object?
Let's say I do a query: $result = mysql_query(select * from tablename); Is there some way I can manually update the contents of certain columns/records in $result? I don't want to actually update MySQL, just the results that I'm holding in memory for this script. Can I do it without converting it to a regular array? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Can I modify a MySQL object?
I should have said modify the contents of a MySQL resource. On Mar 23, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Brian Dunning wrote: Let's say I do a query: $result = mysql_query(select * from tablename); Is there some way I can manually update the contents of certain columns/records in $result? I don't want to actually update MySQL, just the results that I'm holding in memory for this script. Can I do it without converting it to a regular array? -- 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] Help! Made a boo-boo encrypting credit cards
My merchant provider levies monthly fines based on how many of their security restrictions you fail to follow. I follow as many as are reasonably practical, but I think it's virtually impossible to follow them all, such as absurdly expensive (and probably unnecessary) hardware. IMHO, some of the restrictions are based less on reality and more on their security consulting firm's ability to frighten them. Their consulting firm's disclosed commissions on the fines creates an inherent conflict of interest. Goofily, my provider's fine structure does not differentiate between transactions that are merely processed on my server with no storage, and transactions originating from a card number stored on my server. So I have to constantly weigh the monthly fines vs. the cost of the upgrades vs. the amount of money that my various services bring in. There is no perfect solution. Nevertheless, I'm very open to any suggestions people have for transactions requiring that I keep the card number (in this case, recurring monthly charges where the customers choose not to use PayPal etc. and where too many customers would flake or get frustrated if forced to re-enter their card info every month for an annoyingly small transaction). Sorry this is getting a little off-topic for PHP. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Help! Made a boo-boo encrypting credit cards
That's a great suggestion. I will try this and report back. It's also been suggested to me that I should have base64_encoded the encryptions before storing them in MySQL, so I'll try this option at the same time. On Mar 1, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Onto the problem of the data you already have. Do you have a test-case that causes the problem? Try running a bunch of fictitious numbers against your code and store the results in your DB. For a decent test, you'll want to test it against a lot of numbers, store each one in plain format in the DB (use the same character encoding as you already have to see if that's part of the issue) alongside the encrypted version, then retrieve the encrypted value and test it against the original. It may take only a few dozen numbers to show the problem, it may take a thousand, but just let it run until it finds a problem. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Help! Made a boo-boo encrypting credit cards
I just wanted to ping this, as it's becoming a serious problem. I hope someone
can help.
On Feb 11, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Brian Dunning wrote:
Hey all -
I'm using mcrypt to store credit cards into MySQL. About 90% of them decrypt
fine, but about 10% decrypt as nonsense (b1�\�JEÚU�A��� is a good example).
Maybe there is a character that appears in about 10% of my encryptions that's
not being encoded properly???
// Encryption is set up at the top of the script:
$crypto = mcrypt_module_open('rijndael-256', '', 'ofb', '');
$iv = mcrypt_create_iv(mcrypt_enc_get_iv_size($crypto), MCRYPT_DEV_RANDOM);
$ks = mcrypt_enc_get_key_size($crypto);
$key = substr(md5('my_funky_term'), 0, $ks);
// When the card number is collected by the form, it's encrypted:
$cc_number = addslashes($_POST['cc_number']);
mcrypt_generic_init($crypto, $key, $iv);
$cc_encrypt = mcrypt_generic($crypto, $cc_number);
mcrypt_generic_deinit($crypto);
// This is written to the database:
$query = update accounts set cc_encrypt='$cc_encrypt', encrypt_iv='$iv',
other_fields='$other_stuff' where id='$account_id' limit 1;
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
Both the cc_encrypt and encrypt_iv fields are tinytext, latin1_swedish_ci,
MyISAM, MySQL 5.0.91
In another script, when I retrieve, I first set it up at the top of the
script exactly like step #1 above, then retrieve it like this:
mcrypt_generic_init($crypto, $key, $row['encrypt_iv']);
$cc_number = trim(mdecrypt_generic($crypto, $row['cc_encrypt']));
mcrypt_generic_deinit($crypto);
Most of them are good, a few of them are bad. Can anyone see anything I'm
doing wrong or a case I'm not covering? Thanks much.
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Re: [PHP] chat facebook
2011/2/19 fakessh @ fake...@fakessh.eu: anyone have a recipe for it on facebook chat a recipe for what? and I request a second thing how to install PHP API you're going to have to be more specific than that. - BW -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:52 PM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: At 11:37 AM -0600 2/15/11, Nicholas Kell wrote: On Feb 15, 2011, at 10:51 AM, tedd wrote: At 8:26 PM -0500 2/14/11, Brian Waters wrote: (if that's OK). I know that PHP sometimes has a reputation for having (some) lousy developers, and I'd like to avoid becoming one of those We don't agree that PHP has a reputation of having some lousy developers -- because that's simply not true. Humm I seem to agree with the OP. But, that being said, unlike most language fanboys PHP'ers usually fully admit it. I guess that we run in different worlds. Most of the PHP programmers I know are very good. I didn't mean to suggest anything. Nor do I necessarily subscribe to the idea (that PHP has some lousy developers). It's just something I've heard bouncing around - probably on those noisy internet forums. - BW P.S: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:51 AM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: PS: We seldom point out spelling errors, but it's good to review what you post. Remember, what you post will be public for generations to come. I'm aware that I misspelled viciously in my original post but was too lazy to rectify the situation. P.P.S, Apologies for backchanneling tedd there; I'm used to mailing lists with a default Reply-To: t...@mailinglist.com header. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Howdy (new in here)
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:37 PM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: So, I took a *weekend* and programmed about 90 percent of application in FutureBasic. I then created a shell application and forwarded it to the client. After receiving the application, the client said Yes, this is exactly what I want -- except I want it in C++. Of course, that's a ridiculous reason to choose one language over another. But to augment what you're saying, sometimes certain languages are chosen because of the availability of libraries and tools, and, more importantly, because of the availability of skilled programmers. That's especially important if a client has to expand and modify a solution in the future. - BW PS, Once again, tedd, apologies for backchanneling you... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Finding split points in an article for inserting ads
Hey all -
I've got long articles, the HTML for which comes out of MySQL. Works great. I
want to split it up so that I can insert ad blocks at various points within it.
The articles are all pretty long but they're of variable length. I want to chop
them up into three close-to-equal (doesn't have to be) chunks of paragraphs,
thus:
pHere's the original article/p
pHere's the original article/p
pHere's the original article/p
pHere's the original article/p
pHere's the original article/p
Would become:
pHere's the original article/p
pHere's the original article/p
?php include('first_ad'); ?
pHere's the original article/p
pHere's the original article/p
?php include('second_ad'); ?
pHere's the original article/p
Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Re: [PHP] Rate my (really) simple template class
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Advice: don't use eval() this way. It's slow and dangerous. Could you elaborate, or provide a link? ...read in the file and pass it to you on the stack, which is really an abuse of the stack if you can avoid it. Interesting. I'm used to statically-typed languages. Normally I never would have passed a large structure like that on the stack. But then again, in those languages, large structures are usually passed by reference, by default. In C, the only way to pass a string or array by value is to wrap it in a struct, and in Java, objects are passed by reference (if I recall correctly). Guess that's something to get used to. - BW -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Finding split points in an article for inserting ads
Yes, thanks, what I'm looking for is how to do that. On Feb 15, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Simon J Welsh wrote: Assuming you're only using p tags, count the number of opening p tags, divide by three. First ad block goes after the round($amount/3)-th /p, second ad block goes after the round($amount/3*2)-th /p. --- Simon Welsh -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Help! Made a boo-boo encrypting credit cards
On Feb 13, 2011, at 12:44 AM, Richard Quadling wrote: You are using addslashes($_POST['cc_number']). Considering a credit card number is purely numeric, the addslashes would seem to be redundant as you don't need to escape numbers. I do that routinely to all input fields as one additional layer of protection against injection attacks. And you can run a Luhn10 check against the card number to make sure it is valid before storing it. I do that as well. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Howdy (new in here)
Hi everyone! I'm just starting out with PHP so I'm looking for a good place to ask some questions, have my code critiqued (read: visciously ripped apart), and generally BS about PHP and programming in general (if that's OK). I know that PHP sometimes has a reputation for having (some) lousy developers, and I'd like to avoid becoming one of those people. To that end, I've subscribed here because I've always found mailing lists to have much higher-quality discourse than the average online foum. Looking forward to participating! - BW P.S, The rules page on the web (http://us2.php.net/reST/php-src/README.MAILINGLIST_RULES) is currently broken, but this one works: http://us2.php.net/reST/php-src/trunk_README.MAILINGLIST_RULES. Just a heads up to whoever is in charge of that. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Rate my (really) simple template class
So I decided to write a template class in order to get myself going on
learning PHP. Of course I wrote the simplest thing possible:
class Template
{
protected $template;
protected $vars;
public function __construct($template)
{
$this-template = $template;
}
public function __set($name, $value)
{
$this-vars[$name] = $value;
}
public function __get($name)
{
return $this-vars[$name];
}
public function __toString()
{
ob_start();
eval('?' . $this-template);
return ob_get_clean();
}
}
Which you can use, quite simply like this:
$tpl = new Template(file_get_contents('index.tpl.php'));
$tpl-title = 'Here\'s the title';
$tpl-text = 'Blah blah blah...';
echo $tpl;
I have a few questions though.
- First, I'm storing the template as an actual string, instead of just
a path to a template file, which means I'm using eval() instead of
require() in my __toString(). My thinking was that this would avoid
reading the template file twice in the case that __toString() gets
called multiple times. But will PHP handle this automagically if I do
in fact decide to store a path to a file, and call require() instead?
- Secondly, I noticed that in the constructor, it's not necessary to
initialize $vars to an empty array, and I haven't done so. I guess PHP
automatically initializes it the first time I set one of its elements
to a value. Is this okay, or is there a better way in the name of best
practices?
- Finally, I'd like to be able to limit what things can be accessed
from the scope of the template file. As it stands, if you have a
function named blowUpTheComputer() or a gobal variable called
$dontTouchThis, a template author can easily cause trouble. They can
also access any methods and properties of the Template class. How
would you go about restricting this?
Thanks a lot!
- BW
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[PHP] Help! Made a boo-boo encrypting credit cards
Hey all -
I'm using mcrypt to store credit cards into MySQL. About 90% of them decrypt
fine, but about 10% decrypt as nonsense (b1�\�JEÚU�A��� is a good example).
Maybe there is a character that appears in about 10% of my encryptions that's
not being encoded properly???
// Encryption is set up at the top of the script:
$crypto = mcrypt_module_open('rijndael-256', '', 'ofb', '');
$iv = mcrypt_create_iv(mcrypt_enc_get_iv_size($crypto), MCRYPT_DEV_RANDOM);
$ks = mcrypt_enc_get_key_size($crypto);
$key = substr(md5('my_funky_term'), 0, $ks);
// When the card number is collected by the form, it's encrypted:
$cc_number = addslashes($_POST['cc_number']);
mcrypt_generic_init($crypto, $key, $iv);
$cc_encrypt = mcrypt_generic($crypto, $cc_number);
mcrypt_generic_deinit($crypto);
// This is written to the database:
$query = update accounts set cc_encrypt='$cc_encrypt', encrypt_iv='$iv',
other_fields='$other_stuff' where id='$account_id' limit 1;
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
Both the cc_encrypt and encrypt_iv fields are tinytext, latin1_swedish_ci,
MyISAM, MySQL 5.0.91
In another script, when I retrieve, I first set it up at the top of the script
exactly like step #1 above, then retrieve it like this:
mcrypt_generic_init($crypto, $key, $row['encrypt_iv']);
$cc_number = trim(mdecrypt_generic($crypto, $row['cc_encrypt']));
mcrypt_generic_deinit($crypto);
Most of them are good, a few of them are bad. Can anyone see anything I'm doing
wrong or a case I'm not covering? Thanks much.
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[PHP] How to define a data range for graphing?
Hey all - I'm trying to provide reporting to users of our widget. Some may get 0 to 5 hits a day; others may get up to 10,000 hits a day. I need to define the range of the graph (using one of Google's). If their max day is 7, I'd like the graph to go from 0 to 10. If their max day is 5678, I'd probably like it to go from 0 to 6000. I'm guessing the way to do this is with a ceiling function? - Brian -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Help with sending credentials?
Gents -
I'm trying to work with a major vendor's web service, but all my efforts are
met with a 401 authentication error response. I can log in manually to this URL
using these credentials through a browser, so I know the credentials are good.
Unfortunately the support guys at the vendor don't see any problem with my code
and have not been able to help.
$url = https://servername.com/script;;
$ctx = stream_context_create(array('https' = array(
'timeout' = 10,
'header' = sprintf(Authorization: Basic %s\r\n,
base64_encode(myUsername:myPassword))
)));
$result = file_get_contents($url, 0, $ctx);
$http_response = explode(' ', $http_response_header[0]);
$response_code = $http_response[1]; === This is evaluating to '401'
Thanks.
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[PHP] Variable (Class instantiation) collision
I am running into a variable collision. The project I'm developing is NOT guaranteed to be operating on PHP5. Any solution I find should (hopefully) be able to run on PHP4 (yes, I know PHP4 is deprecated). I am building a bridge between two third-party applications. Both instantiate their respective database class assigning it to $db and I cannot change that. So, I am interested in solutions to this. I found a reference to a Packager class and will be looking at it shortly. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Variable (Class instantiation) collision
Just to clarify, both packages are instantiating and calling their
respective classes from the $db var, which is in the global scope.
Is this correct?
I would say yes to the way you are asking. Take the following two applications.
The four respective statements are in each their respective script.
Application A:
?php
class foo {}
$db = new foo();
$outA = barA();
function barA() { global $db; include(Application B); }
?
Application B:
?php
class bar {}
$db = new bar();
$outB = barB();
function barB() { global $db; }
?
The bridge project is operating in A and include()'ing the script that is B (as
I have not found an API for B). $db in B is colliding with $db in A.
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[PHP] version_compare
I found this code...
if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.2.0', '=')) {
$text=filter_var($text, FILTER_SANITIZE_URL);
}
...to be questionable.
Under what conditions would version_compare() return true, yet the filter_var()
be undefined? Because that's what is happening.
Thank you.
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Re: [PHP] version_compare
Personally, I would change that to be
if ( function_exists('filter_var') ) {
So would I:
*But it's not my code.
*I wish to learn and understand the cause of the problem - not walk around it.
It means condition (PHP_VERSION = 5.2.0)
I understand that. There was a second, more relevant, part to my question.
I have found the version of PHP used as reported in the HTTP header responses.
filter_var() is undefined in PHP/5.2.4_p20070914-pl2-gentoo
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[PHP] filter_var (was: Re: [PHP] version_compare)
As Paul pointed out, maybe your version of PHP was built without the filter_var function compiled in. This is what I have learned about PHP with filter_var() as an illustrative point: Many people who provide elaborations on PHP make too many assumptions or are blatently and woefully incomplete. Statements such as PHP 5.2.0 or higher is required for this to work is misleading. The PHP online manual pages for respective functions make no distinction that any particular function or capability is an optional include for a build - considered an extension as opposed to, what?, native code? I have also learned that when coding my own scripts, I must not only read the manual page for that function, but also any metadata for it and its group, such as the Introduction page, Installing/Configuring, etc. And where, when I finally find it, if I can reason out that I should be looking for it, it may say The filter extension is enabled by default as of PHP 5.2.0, that I need to be reasonably cautious because some idiot may build PHP 5.2.0+ without this extension. Are the array_*() functions also an optional extension? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] SimpleXML/array duality (like particles waves)
I am kind of jacked here. I have a SimpleXML object that's been converted to an
array. In one of the nodes, for no reason I can see, the array is populated
differently if there is only one order_item than if there are multiple
order_items.
If there is just one, my $order_item array looks like this:
Array
(
[order_item_product_code] = 1300
[order_item_description] = 4x8 photo cards (set of 20)
)
But if there are multiple items, I get this:
Array
(
[0] = SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[order_item_product_code] = 1060
[order_item_description] = 4x5.3 trueDigital print(s)
)
[1] = SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[order_item_product_code] = 1300
[order_item_description] = 4x8 photo cards (set of 20)
)
)
See my problem? I can't foreach through those and process the items in the same
way.
In case it matters, here is that snip of what the original XML looks like, it's
all good:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
order xmlns=http://.com/; version=1.0
order_items
order_item
order_item_product_code finish=glossy1060/order_item_product_code
order_item_description4x5.3 trueDigital
print(s)/order_item_description
/order_item
order_item
order_item_product_code finish=glossy1300/order_item_product_code
order_item_description4x8 photo cards (set of
20)/order_item_description
/order_item
/order_items
/order
And here is the function I'm using to convert the XML to an array:
function xmlToArray($xml, $isChild = false) {
if($xml instanceof SimpleXMLElement) {
$xmlObject = $xml;
} elseif($isChild) {
return $xml;
} else {
try {
$xmlObject = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
} catch(Exception $e) {
$string = $e-getMessage();
throw new Exception('Invalid XML found in ' .
__FUNCTION__ . ' function on line '.__LINE__.'.');
}
}
$children = (array)$xmlObject-children();
if(is_array($children)) {
if(count($children) == 0) {
$children = '';
} else {
foreach($children as $element = $value) {
$children[$element] = xmlToArray($value, true);
}
}
}
return $children;
}
Any suggestions?
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Re: [PHP] SimpleXML/array duality (like particles waves)
If you read down to the bottom of the post, the function I used is given. On Sep 28, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Nathan Nobbe wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Brian Dunning br...@briandunning.com wrote: I am kind of jacked here. I have a SimpleXML object that's been converted to an array. how was the SimpleXMLElement converted to an array? -nathan
[PHP] Can't read $_POST array
I'm trying to write a VERY simple script that does nothing but store all the submitted GET and POST vars in a string and echo it out. $response = print_r($_REQUEST, true); echo $response; The problem is it only shows GET vars. I've tried $POST instead of $_REQUEST and it always gives an empty array. I've got it on two different servers, and we have three guys trying various methods of submitting forms to it, trying to eliminate all potential problems, like the possibility that the request might not actually have any POST vars. I think we've safely eliminated these possibilities. Can anyone see a reason why the above should not see POST vars? Is there some security setting I don't know about? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Can't read $_POST array
Sorry, my typo, $_POST is one of the options we tried, not $POST. It returns an empty array also. On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Joshua Kehn wrote: On Aug 18, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Brian Dunning wrote: I'm trying to write a VERY simple script that does nothing but store all the submitted GET and POST vars in a string and echo it out. $response = print_r($_REQUEST, true); echo $response; The problem is it only shows GET vars. I've tried $POST instead of $_REQUEST and it always gives an empty array. I've got it on two different servers, and we have three guys trying various methods of submitting forms to it, trying to eliminate all potential problems, like the possibility that the request might not actually have any POST vars. I think we've safely eliminated these possibilities. Can anyone see a reason why the above should not see POST vars? Is there some security setting I don't know about? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php You have to use $_POST for the post data. Regards, -Josh Joshua Kehn | josh.k...@gmail.com http://joshuakehn.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Can't read $_POST array
This was the complete code of the page (this is the POST version not the
REQUEST version):
?php
$response = print_r($_POST, true);
echo $response;
?
Returns an empty array no matter what POST vars are sent. We fixed it by
changing it to this, which I've never even heard of, but so far is working
perfectly:
?php
$response = file_get_contents('php://input');
echo $response;
?
I have no idea what the problem was. Thanks to everyone for your help.
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[PHP] Battle of Spam
Hey - It looks like a PHP form on my server is insecure and is being used to send spam. This is Rackspace's best guess. The problem is there are SO MANY forms on all the web sites on this server that it would be a nightmare task to try and look at them all to be sure they're properly secured. Is anyone aware of a way to shortcut this process, maybe find out what script(s) are being attacked to send the spam? :-( -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Battle of Spam
Agreed that's a great overall strategy but what I need now is a way to track down the offending script, within the next few days if possible. On Jun 7, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Jim Lucas wrote: Change all the forms to use a single processing script and then you won't have such a big problem tracking down the information processing error/insecurity that you are having. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Battle of Spam
I think I must have misstated the problem. Thanks to everyone for the replies, but the question is not how to fix it, it's how to find the script being attacked. Many different admins manage many different sites on this server, and I can't even begin to guess how many mail forms are on there from different programmers. I'm currently downloading the logs as Peter suggested, and will take a look. I'm not much of a sysad and I just thought maybe someone might know a way to sniff outgoing email or something, I really don't know how to attack this. Fixing the scripts is a long term solution, obviously, but I need a short term fix other than killing email on the apache account. Might be more of a Linux question than a PHP question. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Battle of Spam
I'm currently geotargeting all the IPs in the log, and focusing on the hits from Russia (the majority of these apache@ spams seem to be Russian). I've got a much shorter list of scripts to look at now. Hopefully I'll find some that just use mail() with no scrubbing. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Help, FPDI is changing the size of my PDFs
I'm using FPDI to add some stuff to some existing PDF documents. Works great,
except that it's slightly changing the size of the PDF document (the physical
page size, not the file size), which is unacceptable since this is for a
high-end print file. I've stripped out all the code to the bare bones to try
and debug this. Here is what I have:
$pdf = new fpdi();
$pdf-AddPage();
$pdf-setSourceFile('D:\\DocShare\\'.$filename);
$tplidx = $pdf-importPage(1);
$pdf-useTemplate($tplidx);
$pdf-Output('newpdf.pdf', 'D');
When I have PHP output the raw original PDF file, it measures 8.34x11.12. If
I process it with the above code, the output measures 8.27x11.7 with a blank
white band added along the bottom. Any suggestions? I just need the new file to
be the same size as the original. Thanks!
Re: [PHP] Help, FPDI is changing the size of my PDFs
Solved it. Here's the solution:
$pdf = new fpdi();
$pdf-setSourceFile('D:\\DocShare\\'.$filename);
$tplidx = $pdf-ImportPage(1);
$s = $pdf-getTemplatesize($tplidx);
$pdf-AddPage($s['h'] $s['w'] ? 'P' : 'L', array($s['w'], $s['h'])); // This
gets it the right dimensions
$pdf-useTemplate($tplidx, 0, 0, 0, 0, true);
$pdf-Output('newpdf.pdf', 'D');
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[PHP] 2D barcodes
I have a project where I need to add some 2D barcodes onto some PDF files. I plan to use fpdi, since I've used it before and am familiar with it, but I need a source to generate the 2D barcodes, preferably as a png or jpg. Anyone have a suggestion - either a local classfile or a reliable web service? Free is preferred. :-) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP Encoder like IonCube
Hi Shiplu - I also have a product with similar requirements. I searched a LOT and was never able to find a free solution that I was satisfied with. Even a lot of the commercial solutions required some server-side runtime EXE or something be installed, and my customers are not tech savvy enough to get that going. I ultimately settled on PHP Lockit, which is $29. It's a Windows program that you run to create an obfuscated version of your script. I'm very satisfied with the obfuscation, and it does not require any external runtime files or anything. Works like a charm, and I recommend it. http://phplockit.com/ - Brian On May 9, 2010, at 1:36 PM, shiplu wrote: Is there any php encoder like IonCube ? Looking for an opensource solution. My main target is to deliver encoded php codes so that it can not be re-engineered. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP Encoder like IonCube
Totally agree. But just in case it wasn't clear, you only need a Windows computer once to run the obfuscator; once done the code runs on any PHP server. On May 11, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Does slightly limit you to the Windows platform though, which I always think is a shame when using a language as open as PHP. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] simplexml choking on apparently valid XML - Solved
I was able to resolve this by changing the XML file encoding from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1. Works like a charm now, with the XML-encoded characters. Thanks to all who offered their help. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] simplexml choking on apparently valid XML
This time simplexml-load-string also gave me the same error on the following line: first_nameCharlie amp; Brady/first_name Can anyone confirm whether simplexml-load-string will or will not accept or allow XML-encoded characters? It seems that it should and would be pretty surprising if it wouldn't. On May 6, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Brian Dunning wrote: Hey all - I'm using simplexml-load-string just to validation a string of XML, and libxml-get-errors to return any errors. It's always worked before, but today it's choking on this line in the XML: client_orderitem_numberBasketball Personalized Notebook - Jeffapos;s/client_orderitem_number It's returning Premature end of data in tag client_orderitem_number line 90 but as far as I can tell, Jeffapos;s is properly XML encoded. I can't debug this. Any suggestions? I have run the XML through a couple of online validators and it does come back as valid with no errors found. -- 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] simplexml choking on apparently valid XML
Hey all - I'm using simplexml-load-string just to validation a string of XML, and libxml-get-errors to return any errors. It's always worked before, but today it's choking on this line in the XML: client_orderitem_numberBasketball Personalized Notebook - Jeffapos;s/client_orderitem_number It's returning Premature end of data in tag client_orderitem_number line 90 but as far as I can tell, Jeffapos;s is properly XML encoded. I can't debug this. Any suggestions? I have run the XML through a couple of online validators and it does come back as valid with no errors found. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Simple code obfuscation
Hey all - I'm selling a custom PHP solution to FileMaker users. It uses FileMaker's PHP API, so everyone who has FileMaker Server is already set up to use it, but very few of them have any knowledge of how to set up a server or do anything PHP related. But I do want to add some level of code obfuscation to prevent them from making simple changes to my code that allow them to exceed the privileges they've purchased. I've looked at custom code encryption services like Ioncube and phpCipher, but in my estimation, deploying the needed server-side code for these is going to be beyond the capabilities of a large segment of my customers. I would rather have a few customers cheat me than offer a product that most customers are unable to figure out how to run. So I was thinking of doing something like base64_encoding the crucial chunk of my code (maybe 20 lines worth) and using eval(base64_decode($that_content)) to run it. I figure that will scare away most of the customers who might be able to edit my code. Can anyone suggest something that goes one better? - Brian -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Can't get my PHP-generated RSS to serve properly
Hey all - Glad some of you found that sample data helpful. :-) I use PHP/MySQL to generate RSS feeds of my podcasts. The feed is submitted as *.xml and I use .htaccess to redirect it to my PHP document. The start of the document sets the right header and outputs the ? ? to prevent PHP from trying to process the leading XML line as code (this is cleaned up a bit for readability): ?php header(content-type: application/rss+xml); echo '?'; ? xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8 ?php echo '?'; ? rss xmlns:itunes=http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd; xmlns:atom=http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom; version=2.0 This has always worked fine on one podcast, but on a new one it's not. You can see the results here: http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Finfactvideo.com%2Fpodcast.php It's throwing a 500 error, a parsing error, and complaining that feeds should not be served with the text/html type, even though I'm serving the right header. Other PHP pages on this site work fine, and there are no special Apache directives on my site that works that are missing here. Can anyone suggest what I might be missing? - Brian -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Can't get my PHP-generated RSS to serve properly
Ugh. Stupid me. Thanks Robert. It was a type elsewhere in my code further down the page. I was so hung up thinking it was an encoding or MIME or delivery problem I didn't think to check my PHP. Someone slap me upside the head please. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Good source for sample data?
Thanks for the suggestions but I couldn't find any that suited my needs, so I made my own. Feel free to download if you can use them, I made files with up to a million unique records. Name, Company, Address, Phone, Email, etc., all are fake but are real addresses with correct area codes, zips, exchange, so will work for mapping, phone or address validation, whatever your needs are. Hope someone find it useful. http://www.briandunning.com/sample-data/ On Jan 28, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Brian Dunning wrote: I need a few million sample contact records - name, company, address, email, web, phone, fax. ZIP codes and area codes and street addresses should be correct and properly formatted, but preferably not real people or companies or email addresses. But they'd work if you did address validation or mapping. Anyone have a suggestion? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Good source for sample data?
Hey all - I need a few million sample contact records - name, company, address, email, web, phone, fax. ZIP codes and area codes and street addresses should be correct and properly formatted, but preferably not real people or companies or email addresses. But they'd work if you did address validation or mapping. Anyone have a suggestion? - Brian -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Emergency! Performance downloading big files
This is a holiday-crunch emergency.
I'm dealing with a client from whom we need to download many large PDF docs
24x7, several thousand per hour, all between a few hundred K and about 50 MB.
Their security process requires the files to be downloaded via https using a
big long URL with lots of credential parameters.
Here's how I'm doing it. This is on Windows, a quad Xeon with 16GB RAM:
$ctx = stream_context_create(array('http' = array('timeout' = 1200)));
$contents = file_get_contents($full_url, 0, $ctx);
$fp = fopen('D:\\DocShare\\'.$filename, w);
$bytes_written = fwrite($fp, $contents);
fclose($fp);
It's WAY TOO SLOW. I can paste the URL into a browser and download even the
largest files quite quickly, but the PHP method bottlenecks and cannot keep up.
Is there a SUBSTANTIALLY faster way to download and save these files? Keep in
mind the client's requirements cannot be changed. Thanks for any suggestions.
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Re: [PHP] Emergency! Performance downloading big files
Oops, it's several hundred per hour, several thousand per day. Sorry for the accidental superlative. I'm dealing with a client from whom we need to download many large PDF docs 24x7, several thousand per hour, all between a few hundred K and about 50 MB. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Emergency! Performance downloading big files
Can someone explain how this would work? It's a Windows web server running IIS and the files are saved to a drive that is outside the web root. PHP is grabbing each filename from a MySQL database, along with the URL and credentials for it, and ends up with a url something like this: https://server.com?filename=filename.pdfuser=xxxpass=xxxsomething=xxx On Dec 1, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Why not put the files behind a secured directory. Apache will handle that, so PHP needs not be involved. Once logged in, they can download loads without it being asked for again. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Checkbox in PHP form
input class=text id=myCheck1 type=checkbox ?php if ( $row[33] ==
'no') { echo checked=checked; } ? value=PFDs
name=f_sequipment1/bfont size=2PFDsb
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Re: [PHP] � Frontier Acela High Performan ce Fume Hoods
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[PHP] Cookie Quandary
I wrote some cookies for a whole bunch of site admins, but failed to set the path, so all the cookies are set to '/admin', which is not going to work for everything they need to do. They are also too long, set for 6 months. I need to correct both issues, so I changed it to write cookies to '/' for 72 hours. I've checked my Safari, and I see that I have both cookies set: A long one for '/admin' and a short one for '/'. I'm worried that once the admins' short cookies run out, their browsers will pick up the longer lasting value for the '/admin' version of the cookie. I want to kill everyones' '/admin' cookies, but I'm worried that some browsers might erase both cookies if I do this. Does anyone know if I can safely kill the '/admin' cookie without risking deletion of the '/' cookie? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Cookie Quandary
No, I'm talking about cookies, thus the references to pathnames and expirations. On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Cookies are client-side. Do you mean session files? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] getcsv error
I have a script which uploads csv data into a database. This works well and has worked in every instance so far. However what I am noticing is that today, even if I escape the data before putting it into mysql it will not enter a line if it has a single quote, once I take out the single quote it enters it into the database so I know it is the single quote, is this an error or are single quotes not allowed in csv...? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] getcsv error
Brian Hazelton wrote:
I have a script which uploads csv data into a database. This works
well and has worked in every instance so far. However what I am
noticing is that today, even if I escape the data before putting it
into mysql it will not enter a line if it has a single quote, once I
take out the single quote it enters it into the database so I know it
is the single quote, is this an error or are single quotes not allowed
in csv...?
I figured out part of the problem. The problem lies with one of my
functions for cleaning the data before putting it into the database. I
have a function, see below, that will clean the data to put into mysql
and work whether magic quotes is on or off. It is not working because I
echo the query and the part I need escaped is not being escaped. I try
mysql_real_escape_string and it is being escaped by that so I think the
problem is something with my function, if anyone can help that would be
appreciated.
function clean($str){
if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()){
stripslashes($str);
mysql_real_escape_string($str);
return $str;
}
else{
mysql_real_escape_string($str);
return $str;
}
}
$name = 'O'Leksy';
$cleaned_name = clean($name);
echo of $cleaned name = O'Leksy';
if mysql_real_escape_string is used it echoes O\'Leksy';
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Re: [PHP] getcsv error
Brian Hazelton wrote:
Brian Hazelton wrote:
I have a script which uploads csv data into a database. This works
well and has worked in every instance so far. However what I am
noticing is that today, even if I escape the data before putting it
into mysql it will not enter a line if it has a single quote, once I
take out the single quote it enters it into the database so I know it
is the single quote, is this an error or are single quotes not
allowed in csv...?
I figured out part of the problem. The problem lies with one of my
functions for cleaning the data before putting it into the database. I
have a function, see below, that will clean the data to put into mysql
and work whether magic quotes is on or off. It is not working because
I echo the query and the part I need escaped is not being escaped. I
try mysql_real_escape_string and it is being escaped by that so I
think the problem is something with my function, if anyone can help
that would be appreciated.
function clean($str){
if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()){
stripslashes($str);
mysql_real_escape_string($str);
return $str;
}
else{
mysql_real_escape_string($str);
return $str;
}
}
$name = 'O'Leksy';
$cleaned_name = clean($name);
echo of $cleaned name = O'Leksy';
if mysql_real_escape_string is used it echoes O\'Leksy';
Sorry for all of the posts. I got it figured out, it was just me being
stupid. Since this data isnt coming from get, post or cookies then
calling this function will still work but no slashes are getting added
so when the stripslashes function is called it returns an error and will
not continue to work because it does not return the string on error.
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[PHP] Ubuntu and Apache
I know this is not quite on topic but I do not know where else to turn. I needed to reinstall ubuntu and now I cannot change myself to be the owner of var www. I had been able to change myself to the owner of it and create, delete and modify any files I wanted before I had to reinstall. Now it seems the change is not taking effect. What happens is I use the sudo chown command and it shows that I am the owner. I have a script that creates a file when I go to the page and it creates a file and has www-data as the owner, not me. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Brian -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP broadcast mailer
I thought about doing a batch email, is that an accepted practice, also how do I find my smtp server limit? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] PHP broadcast mailer
I am in charge of an email newsletter list and making sure it gets sent out in time. My problem is I have never done broadcast emailing and right now we have 400 subscribers but want to build a system that can scale well regardless of the number of subscribers. Right now I use mysql to store the email and use phpmailer in a loop to send an email to each of the emails in the db, it is already slow with just 400(takes around 10 min (i think that's slow isnt it?). Has anyone built a broadcast email script and willing to help me? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Really quick try/catch question
I have a new SimpleXMLElement() that is occasionally throwing:
'Exception: String could not be parsed as XML'
Will this catch it when it happens, or am I missing something?
function domyfunction() {
// This does some stuff to exit the script gracefully
}
try {
$xmlobject = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
} catch($e) {
domyfunction($e);
}
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Re: [PHP] Server change affecting ability to send downloaded files???
A Rackspace guy determined that php.ini was set to use 16MB of memory, and he upped it to 32MB, and now everything works. Some of my downloads are as large as 41MB so I asked him to up it to 48MB. Maybe they upgraded the PHP version or something and wiped this setting. The 41MB files had always been downloading to customers before, without any problem -- is there some way that could have worked with php.ini set to 16MB, or does this mean for sure that the setting was changed somehow? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Server change affecting ability to send downloaded files???
Hey all --
A couple of weeks ago my online stores, on a machine I host at
Rackspace, stopped delivering files that people purchase. I've used
this for years, and it's always worked perfectly with all filetypes:
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.
$file_row[filename].'');
$size = filesize('../../store/files/'.$file_row['filename']);
header('Content-Length: '.$size);
readfile('../../store/files/'.$file_row['filename']);
But then, all of a sudden, it only works with ZIP files. There were no
changes to the code or to the files, just one day all of a sudden any
time someone purchases a DMG, EXE, PDF, etc. they get zero bytes. I've
asked Rackspace if they upgraded something that might produce this
change but they say check your code. The code had not been touched
in years (literally). I've tried a zillion combos of different headers
but I'm having no luck.
Has anyone ever heard of something (besides my code and my files) that
could cause this behavior? You'll be my best friend if you can help.
Thanks.
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