Re: [PHP] Re: PHP does not work??

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
I forgot to point out another disadvantage of turning on register_globals apart from that of security is that when you are sending a page with a form to the same page, e.g: form name=whatever action=$PHP_SELF method=post there is a tendency to lose info.. E.g. If you are sending text separated

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP does not work??

2002-06-28 Thread Scott Fletcher
Not a problem, I can make some code modification. Sometime it is better to do it now and not have so much headache later on when more features are being added. Scott Kondwani Spike Mkandawire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I forgot to point out

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP does not work??

2002-06-28 Thread Scott Fletcher
Not a problem! I can make some adjustment to the $user_detail[''] (session_id()) to make it work as $_SESSION['']. Scott Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 02:37 PM, Scott Fletcher wrote: I didn't know

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP does not work??

2002-06-27 Thread Kondwani Spike Mkandawire
I forgot to point out another disadvantage of turning on register_globals apart from that of security is that when you are sending a page with a form to the same page, e.g: form name=whatever action=$PHP_SELF method=post there is a tendency to lose info.. E.g. If you are sending text separated

RE: [PHP] Re: PHP does not work??

2002-06-26 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I'm using UNIX, not windows, so there is no php.ini in UNIX. [/snip] Look here /etc/apache/php.ini-dist or /etc/apache/php.ini. There is an ini file for PHP, and you may have to rename php.ini-dist to php.ini. Once done, look for ; You should do your best to write your scripts so that

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP does not work??

2002-06-26 Thread Erik Price
On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 02:13 PM, Scott Fletcher wrote: I'm using UNIX, not windows, so there is no php.ini in UNIX. Sorry, don't take offense if I ask if you've been living under a rock -- I only use Linux, and there is definitely a php.ini file that you use. I put mine in

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP does not work??

2002-06-26 Thread Scott Fletcher
I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. I think it would be best that I not use php.ini. I can write the script to register the variable. What would be a demo script that would work? I'm having a little trouble understanding that on the php.net website. Most of the script that use global

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP does not work??

2002-06-26 Thread Scott Fletcher
Hi Erik! This is my 2nd posting, not sure what happened to my first one. Sorry about not seeing your previous posting before. Windows crashed on me. My fault. I didn't know we can use php.ini in UNIX or Linux. Cool! Haven't been using it on UNIX for a long time. I think I can leave it out

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP does not work??

2002-06-26 Thread Scott Hurring
There is no feasable way to hide data being submitted to your website. Anything that a user's browser can send, the user can telnet to port 80 of your server and spoof. You can try POSTing data, which will not appear in the URL, but dont even waste time trying to hide submitted data, rather,

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP does not work??

2002-06-26 Thread Erik Price
On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 02:56 PM, Scott Fletcher wrote: I tried that and it worked. I have one question, what about the hyperlink? People will see the option in the hyperlink. You know. Is there a way around it to hid that in the hyperlink? If by hyperlink you mean the URL

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP does not work??

2002-06-26 Thread Erik Price
On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 02:37 PM, Scott Fletcher wrote: I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. I think it would be best that I not use php.ini. On the contrary, I think it would be best if you read through it and read about it at http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.php

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP does not work??

2002-06-26 Thread Scott Fletcher
Um, alright, I'll just leave the code in the hyperlink the way it is. It is not possible to use the form or post of some sort for the hyperlink. form will work with the submit button where we can use post or hidden. Hyperlink meant words or sentences that have underline underneath it, when