Re: [PHP] Input variable from form help request

2011-09-30 Thread Richard Quadling
On 29 September 2011 23:28, PHProg wrote: > > Hello Richard, > > Your suggestion worked perfectly. > ... it works beautifully. Now that's what I like to hear! Glad to be of help. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend : PHPDoc @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY : bit.ly/lFnVea

Re: [PHP] Input variable from form help request

2011-09-29 Thread PHProg
Hello Richard, Your suggestion worked perfectly. Basically, I just copied and pasted your example and with a few, very minor adjustments, it works beautifully. Many thanks for your help. All the best. At 08:43 AM Thursday 9/29/2011, Richard Quadling wrote: On 29 September 2011 13:30, PHPro

Re: [PHP] Input variable from form help request

2011-09-29 Thread Tim Streater
On 29 Sep 2011 at 13:30, PHProg wrote: > I'm trying to create a standard web form that will use a PHP script > to copy a file from one server to another. [snip] > if(!@copy('http://mydomain.com/files/".$_POST['trakname']."','/".$_POST['dirna > me']."/".$_POST['trakname']."')) This line:

Re: [PHP] Input variable from form help request

2011-09-29 Thread Richard Quadling
On 29 September 2011 13:30, PHProg wrote: > if(!@copy('http://mydomain.com/files/ > > ".$_POST['trakname']."','/".$_POST['dirname']."/".$_POST['trakname']."')) > { >    $errors= error_get_last(); >    echo "COPY ERROR: ".$errors['type']; >    echo "\n".$errors['message']; > } else { >    echo "Fi

Re: [PHP] input form save and display conflict

2009-10-27 Thread PJ
Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 21:32 -0400, PJ wrote: >> I have several input fields to update a book database. There seems to be >> a conflict in the way tags and text are input through php/mysql and >> phpMyAdmin. If I enter the data with phpMyAdmin the input fields in the >> php

Re: [PHP] input form save and display conflict

2009-10-23 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 21:32 -0400, PJ wrote: > I have several input fields to update a book database. There seems to be > a conflict in the way tags and text are input through php/mysql and > phpMyAdmin. If I enter the data with phpMyAdmin the input fields in the > php page see quotation marks dif

Re: [PHP] Input field

2007-11-13 Thread Chris
Ronald Wiplinger wrote: I added just into a input field" 19" enclosure which was displayed from the database as: 19\" enclosure That gives me some questions: 1. where the protecting slash comes from? Probably magic_quotes_gpc 2. how can I get it away when I want to display that field?

RE: [PHP] Input field

2007-11-13 Thread Shelley Shyan
1.Probably that's because the function mysql_real_escape_string() is turned on. You can check that in your php.ini configuration. 2. If you want to display them as you wanted, you can use stripcslashes() on your output contents. 3. Maybe phpmyadmin automatically stripped that out. And 1. Any

Re: [PHP] input on sessions vs cookies

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Lynch
Save us a lot of grief and just use PHP built-in sessions until you can prove them to not meet your needs. On Sat, February 24, 2007 7:48 pm, benifactor wrote: > i would like your input on session vs cookies regarding login data > like usernames/passwords ect... -- Some people have a "gift" l

Re: [PHP] input on sessions vs cookies

2007-02-25 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 20:05 -0800, benifactor wrote: > as of right now, when the user logs in, i have a cookie storing username... > then on all of the pages i need data i have it query the database and using > the cookie data to retrieve user information.. is there a more secure way to > do this?

Re: [PHP] input on sessions vs cookies

2007-02-24 Thread benifactor
as of right now, when the user logs in, i have a cookie storing username... then on all of the pages i need data i have it query the database and using the cookie data to retrieve user information.. is there a more secure way to do this? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubs

Re: [PHP] input on sessions vs cookies

2007-02-24 Thread tedd
i would like your input on session vs cookies regarding login data like usernames/passwords ect... usernames/passwords ? Session yes, cookies no. tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscr

Re: [PHP] input on sessions vs cookies

2007-02-24 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 17:48 -0800, benifactor wrote: > i would like your input on session vs cookies regarding login data like > usernames/passwords ect... How are you differentiating sessions vs cookies? Sessions are often implemented USING cookies. If you mean sessions using a session ID in the

Re: [PHP] INPUT

2006-08-14 Thread Chris Shiflett
Warren Vail wrote: > I would be interested to know what might get past the > addslashes function that the mysql_escape_string function > catches. I wrote an example to demonstrate this: http://shiflett.org/archive/184 The theory behind this type of problem is pretty easy to understand - if your

Re: [PHP] INPUT

2006-08-10 Thread Jochem Maas
Richard Lynch wrote: > On Thu, August 10, 2006 1:54 pm, Jochem Maas wrote: >> Warren Vail wrote: >>> Many of the older PHP implementations don't have the >>> mysql_escape_string >>> function, if not addslashes should work >> this is true. >> >>> I would be interested to know >>> what might get

Re: [PHP] INPUT

2006-08-10 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, August 10, 2006 1:54 pm, Jochem Maas wrote: > Warren Vail wrote: >> Many of the older PHP implementations don't have the >> mysql_escape_string >> function, if not addslashes should work > > this is true. > >> I would be interested to know >> what might get past the addslashes function

Re: [PHP] INPUT

2006-08-10 Thread Jochem Maas
; Cc: 'João Cândido de Souza Neto'; php-general@lists.php.net >> Subject: Re: [PHP] INPUT >> >> Warren Vail wrote: >>> Just happened to think of one other thing you might want to >> be aware >>> of; >>> >>> When a query behaves

Re: [PHP] INPUT

2006-08-10 Thread Jochem Maas
Warren Vail wrote: > Just happened to think of one other thing you might want to be aware of; > > When a query behaves like this, your site is usually vulnerable to the "Sql > Injection Hack". Basically this is where someone sticks an insert query > into one of your data form fields (quotes are i

RE: [PHP] INPUT

2006-08-10 Thread Warren Vail
rom: Jochem Maas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:31 AM > To: Warren Vail > Cc: 'João Cândido de Souza Neto'; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] INPUT > > Warren Vail wrote: > > Just happened to think of one othe

Re: [PHP] INPUT

2006-08-10 Thread Jochem Maas
Warren Vail wrote: > http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.addslashes.php adding a slash to a quote char that is part of an html tag's attribute's value is not the correct way to encode the quote (actually it's not correct anywhere in an html document) - although I wouldn't be surprised if it work

RE: [PHP] INPUT

2006-08-10 Thread Warren Vail
Just happened to think of one other thing you might want to be aware of; When a query behaves like this, your site is usually vulnerable to the "Sql Injection Hack". Basically this is where someone sticks an insert query into one of your data form fields (quotes are involved), and the additional

Re: [PHP] INPUT

2006-08-10 Thread Jochem Maas
João Cândido de Souza Neto wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Excuse me by off-topic. why; are you writing the app in ASP or something? ;-) > > I´ve been a little trouble in showing data in html form. > > e.g.: In a e-commerce my client have a "Sony 29" TV" that when i put it in a > input value, it see

RE: [PHP] INPUT

2006-08-10 Thread Warren Vail
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.addslashes.php Good luck, Warren Vail > -Original Message- > From: João Cândido de Souza Neto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:11 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] INPUT > > Hi everyone, > > Excuse

Re: [PHP] input validation?

2006-01-13 Thread PHP Superman
I think the attribute is called maxlength but i'm not sure, oh well add the maxlength attribute to your input tag to have a quick, clean non-javascript-realiant solution On 1/12/06, John Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stut wrote: > > Ok, you're clearly missing my point and while I don't wa

Re: [PHP] input validation?

2006-01-12 Thread John Meyer
Stut wrote: Ok, you're clearly missing my point and while I don't want this to degrade into the usual pissing contest I do feel I need to clarify what I was saying. I completely agree that in this case Javascript should be used to provide the user with feedback as to how close to the limit th

Re: [PHP] input validation?

2006-01-12 Thread Stut
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree... PHP frequently involves interacting with or outright using alternative technologies to accomplish your goal. This includes HTML, XML, databases, etc. To effectively use PHP you need to understand your options and the pros/cons in using the other techn

Re: [PHP] input validation?

2006-01-12 Thread Stut
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm.. I didn't see anyone ask "before or after the user clicks SUBMIT"? Probably because this is a PHP list and nothing that happens on the client side is a) controllable by PHP or b) guaranteed. Whatever you do on the client side you should always validate anythi

Re: [PHP] input validation?

2006-01-12 Thread tg-php
Hmm.. I didn't see anyone ask "before or after the user clicks SUBMIT"? If it's before, then you should use javascript to check the form element prior to submitting (you can check realtime with the onkeydown, onkeyup events... check after a user moves off of the form element with onchange or ev

Re: [PHP] input validation?

2006-01-12 Thread Austin Denyer
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:56:43 +0200 "William Stokes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I need to check that user input text is less than 300 characters > long. How? if(strlen($UserInputText) > 300){ echo("Too long"); } See http://www.php.net/manual/en/print/function.strlen.php R

Re: [PHP] input validation?

2006-01-12 Thread Larry E. Ullman
I need to check that user input text is less than 300 characters long. How? if (strlen($_POST['input']) < 300) { ... You may want to also apply trim() to the input text to get rid of extraneous white space at the beginning and end of the input. Larry -- PHP General Mailing List (http://ww

Re: [PHP] input validation?

2006-01-12 Thread Silvio Porcellana
William Stokes wrote: > Hello, > > I need to check that user input text is less than 300 characters long. How? > > Thanks > -Will > Try with strlen: http://php.net/strlen Silvio -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] input validation?

2006-01-12 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I need to check that user input text is less than 300 characters long. How? [/snip] string length, it's in the manual. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] input type=file problem (Maybe 0T)

2005-07-30 Thread Ryan A
> > setting a VALUE="path/file" but that > > does not work. > As far as I know, you > can't set the initial values for 'file' inputs. > It's a security thing. H, you're right,saw the same thing on google after digging a little deeper, thanks mate. Cheers, Ryan -- PHP General Mailing Li

Re: [PHP] input type=file problem (Maybe 0T)

2005-07-30 Thread Edward Vermillion
Ryan A wrote: Hey, Heres what I am doing, I have a form where a user can enter values and in the form I have a FILE box so the user can upload her pic, if she screws up anywhere (eg: putting an alphabet in her date of birth) I send her back to the form and her date of birth gets highlighted plus

Re: [PHP] Input to PHP from Java

2004-09-29 Thread raditha dissanayake
Rajesh Batchu wrote _outputStream.flush(); _outputStream.close(); // receive response _inputStream = new DataInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(_httpsConnection.getInputStream())); OT: if you close the outputstream from URLConnection you will not be able to read the

Re: [PHP] Input to PHP from Java

2004-09-29 Thread Marek Kilimajer
Rajesh Batchu wrote: Hi, I have a page with SSL enables as below. https://email.website.com/usrfolder/one.php For this page, my customer is posting some XML data using a java output stream as below. ( pseudo code) URL url = new URL(_url); _httpsConnection= (HttpsURLConnectio

Re: [PHP] Input Validation of $_SESSION values

2003-11-05 Thread Chris Shiflett
--- Pablo Gosse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's obviously best practice to rigorously check and validate all input > coming via $_GET or $_POST, but what about $_SESSION values? Session data can be considered safe, but there are of course caveats. It is not possible for the user to manipulate se

Re: [PHP] input field masks

2003-09-12 Thread Brent Baisley
PHP is server side, it has nothing to do with client side, aside from server up some information. You can, and should, validate the input using PHP after it is submitted. For client side validation you would need to use javascript. You can do what you are trying to do in javascript, but it will

Re: [PHP] input field masks

2003-09-12 Thread Ryan A
Javascript is your answer. Cheers, -Ryan We will slaughter you all! - The Iraqi (Dis)information ministers site http://MrSahaf.com - Original Message - From: "Bobpilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 11:20 AM Subject: [PHP] input field mask

RE: [PHP] Input area allowing text formatting

2003-08-31 Thread Dynamical.biz
http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/ this is not concerning php but javascript -Mensaje original- De: Todd Cary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: domingo, 31 de agosto de 2003 21:18 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [PHP] Input area allowing text formatting I would like t

Re: [PHP] Input field array ends up as "Array" string

2003-01-21 Thread Dan Delaney
Well, in the process of pulling out some code into a sample page to send to the list I found the problem. It was yesterday when someone who was testing it told me about the problem, but the problem must have been going on for a week, because a week ago I added code to a global include script th

Re: [PHP] Input field array ends up as "Array" string

2003-01-21 Thread Jason Wong
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 23:03, Jason Wong wrote: > Undo any configuration changes made recently, downgrade any recent upgrades > etc. To paraphrase Newtown's First Law of Motion: Sorry, "Newton's First Law of Motion" :) > "Any working system tends to remain in that state unless external force

Re: [PHP] Input field array ends up as "Array" string

2003-01-21 Thread Jason Wong
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 22:33, Dan Delaney wrote: > Hi every body. I have a form that was originally working just fine. It > had a series of input checkboxes with the same name ("interests[]"). > These values then ended up in an array ($_POST['interests']), which I > then imploded into a comma s

Re: [PHP] Input field array ends up as "Array" string

2003-01-21 Thread Leon Mergen
"Rick Emery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 024801c2c15b$1a770e70$0500a8c0@honeybee">news:024801c2c15b$1a770e70$0500a8c0@honeybee... > show us code Learn how to quote. :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Input field array ends up as "Array" string

2003-01-21 Thread Rick Emery
show us code - Original Message - From: "Dan Delaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:33 AM Subject: [PHP] Input field array ends up as "Array" string Hi every body. I have a form that was originally working just fine. It had a series of input checkboxes wit

[PHP] Re: PHP input and variables dynamic :)

2002-07-23 Thread Richard Lynch
> > >onclick = "document.all['tree'].status[].value='expand'; No matter what you do, JavaScript will *NEVER* accept the [ or ] character as part of a field's NAME. Those are RESERVED keys in JavaScript. You'll have to refer to the INPUT by NUMBER, rather htan name. onClick = "document.all.tre

Re: [PHP] input

2002-03-13 Thread Jason Wong
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 21:07, Rick Emery wrote: > Nope, that's not the problem. the $_POST[] is NOT inside single-quotes. > The problem is he used commas before and after the $_POST[]. You can use commas to separate expressions when using echo. So that's not the problem. AFAICS the code *i

Re: [PHP] input

2002-03-13 Thread Jason Wong
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 21:02, Edward van Bilderbeek - Bean IT wrote: > the single quotes you use for your echo indicate that the variable in your > echoed string won't be parsed double quotes indicate that it will be > parsed... > > e.g. > > $test = 1 > > echo '$test' // prints: $test >

RE: [PHP] input

2002-03-13 Thread Rick Emery
t: Re: [PHP] input the single quotes you use for your echo indicate that the variable in your echoed string won't be parsed double quotes indicate that it will be parsed... e.g. $test = 1 echo '$test' // prints: $test echo "$test" // prints: 1 Greets, Edward &g

Re: [PHP] input

2002-03-13 Thread Jason Wong
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 20:54, John Gurley wrote: > hello, > Someone was kind enough to give me this code for sending a value from > one page to another, but it doesn't work. I wonder if anyone can see > anything wrong: > > echo ' > > '; > ?> > > I want to pass $inp to another pagee. Ple

Re: [PHP] input

2002-03-13 Thread Edward van Bilderbeek - Bean IT
the single quotes you use for your echo indicate that the variable in your echoed string won't be parsed double quotes indicate that it will be parsed... e.g. $test = 1 echo '$test' // prints: $test echo "$test" // prints: 1 Greets, Edward > > > hello, > > Someone was kind enough

RE: [PHP] input

2002-03-13 Thread Rick Emery
'; ?> -Original Message- From: John Gurley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 6:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] input hello, Someone was kind enough to give me this code for sending a value from one page to another, but it doesn't work. I wonder

Re: [PHP] INPUT tag with default value

2001-10-23 Thread Silvia Mahiques
Dear Philip, Thank you very much, I have lost long time proving different alternatives that it's better not to implement. I prefer a safe code. Thanks again!. Cheers Silvia Mahiques "Philip Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje Pine.BSF.4.10.10

Re: [PHP] INPUT tag with default value

2001-10-23 Thread Richard S. Crawford
It is possible to utilize a VALUE attribute with a FILE type input field. Even the specs at Blooberry list "value" as an attribute of the input type=file field. I double-checked at w3c.org to make sure, though, and found the information repeated there. I even checked my O'Reilly book on XHT

Re: [PHP] INPUT tag with default value

2001-10-23 Thread Philip Olson
This is not possible. Default values cannot be set with type=file as if it were it would be quite a security risk.A little more information on the capability of this html form element: http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/i/inputfile.htm And a related RFC : http://www.faqs.or

Re: [PHP] input textfield value cat!

2001-03-09 Thread Richard Lynch
You need quotes around multi-word values in HTML. -- Visit the Zend Store at http://www.zend.com/store/ Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm - Original Message - From: "kaab kaoutar" <[EMAIL

Re: [PHP] input textfield value cat!

2001-03-05 Thread Batonik
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, kaab kaoutar wrote: > I'm using a variable! > > Quote the value: \"> Greets, Batonik -- 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,

Re: [PHP] input textfield value cat!

2001-03-05 Thread Christian Reiniger
On Monday 05 March 2001 17:29, you wrote: > I'm using a variable! > > Well, you *still* need to have quotes around it: > >Make sure you have quotes around the value. > > > > -- Christian Reiniger LGDC Webmaster (http://sunsite.dk/lgdc/) ...to paraphrase Churchill, while representative demo

Re: [PHP] input textfield value cat!

2001-03-05 Thread kaab kaoutar
I'm using a variable! > >From: "Brad S. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "kaab kaoutar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [PHP] input textfield value cat! >Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:08:21 -0600 > > > >Make sure you have quot

RE: [PHP] input type=file

2001-02-16 Thread Joe Sheble (Wizaerd)
alm Canvas, 3D, Graphics, ColdFusion, PHP, and mySQL http://www.wizaerd.com = > -Original Message- > From: Jerry Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 5:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PHP] input type=fil

RE: [PHP] input type=file

2001-02-16 Thread Jerry Lake
, 2001 4:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] input type=file so then maybe, if I understand it correctly (which may or may not be true) I could read the contents or a directory and populate a dropdown list...? Jerry Lake- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Designer Europa Communications

RE: [PHP] input type=file

2001-02-16 Thread Jerry Lake
-Original Message- From: Joe Sheble (Wizaerd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 4:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] input type=file to put it simply, you can't... but you could put an input type of text with a link or a button next to it man

RE: [PHP] input type=file

2001-02-16 Thread Joe Sheble (Wizaerd)
to put it simply, you can't... but you could put an input type of text with a link or a button next to it manually, and then on the onClick of either this button or link open a secondary window running a PHP script that reads a particular directory structure with full navigation support. Then wh

RE: [PHP] input type equals image

2001-02-12 Thread Jason Murray
> When a form is submitted from an image (e.g. ) this > will be passed in the URL as paging.x=SOME_NUMBER. If I try and > access this variable as ${paging.x} in the subsequent PHP script > I get nothing. How can I access this variable? all I want to do > is test for it's existance ? Simple as

Re: [PHP] input processor function

2001-01-10 Thread Joe Stump
This is how I usually do it: Then you have an array of values in $f then just do : while(list($key,$val) = each($f)) { $$key = strip_tags($val); } Which will then create a variable $firstname and put a strip_tags of $val into it (leaving your original $f array intact for future use) --Joe