php-general Digest 20 Jan 2008 11:03:47 -0000 Issue 5246

2008-01-20 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 20 Jan 2008 11:03:47 - Issue 5246 Topics (messages 267678 through 267700): Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 267678 by: Daniel Brown 267679 by: David Powers 267680 by: Jochem Maas 267681 by: David

php-general Digest 20 Jan 2008 23:28:23 -0000 Issue 5247

2008-01-20 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 20 Jan 2008 23:28:23 - Issue 5247 Topics (messages 267701 through 267722): Re: avoid server folder reading 267701 by: Richard Heyes 267702 by: Anup Shukla 267703 by: Richard Heyes New website dedicated to debugging PHP. 267704 by: Keith

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread Per Jessen
Nathan Nobbe wrote: i didnt see the option in gmail; but if you know where it is or how to set it up in gmail, i will happily take the 2 seconds to enable it. Sorry, I don't use gmail. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] avoid server folder reading

2008-01-20 Thread Alain Roger
this is what i already did before asking :-) On Jan 19, 2008 7:53 PM, Nathan Nobbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 19, 2008 1:46 PM, Alain Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if my post was not clear... in fact i would like to hide the contant of my webfolders and avoid user to see

Re: [PHP] avoid server folder reading

2008-01-20 Thread Richard Heyes
I would like to know how to avoid (using PHP code) any user to read the content of my website folder ? as my website is hosted by and external company, i do not have access to apache conf file. If your server's default file is index.php, you could use the following in an index.php file: ?php

Re: [PHP] avoid server folder reading

2008-01-20 Thread Anup Shukla
Richard Heyes wrote: I would like to know how to avoid (using PHP code) any user to read the content of my website folder ? as my website is hosted by and external company, i do not have access to apache conf file. If your server's default file is index.php, you could use the following in an

Re: [PHP] avoid server folder reading

2008-01-20 Thread Richard Heyes
Will that not result in an infinite redirection loop? Or am i missing something very obvious ! If it's placed in the root folder of the website, yes. But why do that? If, however, that's what is required just put an empty index.html file there. -- Richard Heyes

[PHP] New website dedicated to debugging PHP.

2008-01-20 Thread Keith Roberts
Hi everyone. Please excuse me for cross posting to four lists, but I'm aware that not everyone subscribes to all of the lists, so I don't want anyone to miss this announcement. I have written a new website that is dedicated to debugging PHP applications. From the about page:

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread Daniel Brown
On Jan 19, 2008 9:39 PM, Nathan Nobbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 19, 2008 9:25 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, at least we know which subject will make it to the top next week nice; say, dan, here comes another feature request; can we see the top thread

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread Jason Pruim
On Jan 20, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Jan 19, 2008 9:39 PM, Nathan Nobbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 19, 2008 9:25 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, at least we know which subject will make it to the top next week nice; say, dan, here comes

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread David Powers
Andrés Robinet wrote: 3 - I don't like the attitude of both Dan and David. IMHO, David thinks the issue is more severe than it is, and Dan just won't recognize that mangling email addresses is kind of a (arguably also) standard practice. No public apologize is needed, but maybe Yeah, I just

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 10:04 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: That would actually be pretty interesting. Since we've all been known to beat a thread to death, it certainly wouldn't be difficult to collect the data. FWIW, I would like to continue to see these postings, as mailing list metrics

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread Stut
On 20 Jan 2008, at 17:49, David Powers wrote: Andrés Robinet wrote: 3 - I don't like the attitude of both Dan and David. IMHO, David thinks the issue is more severe than it is, and Dan just won't recognize that mangling email addresses is kind of a (arguably also) standard practice. No

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread David Powers
Stut wrote: You seem unable to accept that you are the one that put your email address out there for anyone to collect. If you can't understand that then there is indeed no point in continuing the conversation. I do understand it. What I object to is a supposedly responsible member of this

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread Stut
On 20 Jan 2008, at 18:02, David Powers wrote: Stut wrote: You seem unable to accept that you are the one that put your email address out there for anyone to collect. If you can't understand that then there is indeed no point in continuing the conversation. I do understand it. What I object

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 18:02 +, David Powers wrote: Stut wrote: You seem unable to accept that you are the one that put your email address out there for anyone to collect. If you can't understand that then there is indeed no point in continuing the conversation. I do understand it.

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008:php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread David Powers
Robert Cummings wrote: I understand what you are thinking, but the fact remains your address is already public for having posted to the list. It seems you are getting bent out of shape because you aren't grasping this fact. Dan hasn't done anything wrong nor does he owe any apologies or

[PHP] Digital Downloads and Scale

2008-01-20 Thread dg
Hello everyone, I'd appreciate any insights, or source suggestions regarding site traffic and necessary adjustments. For example, I'm using a simple digital download page for an indie artist. Not a ton of traffic, not a ton of concurrent requests. Was thinking about introducing

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008:php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread Nathan Nobbe
have you ever googled for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? looks like it brings up some thread from around september of 07... oh wait; isnt that before dan started up the stat program .. -nathan

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008:php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread Børge Holen
On Sunday 20 January 2008 22:06:54 Nathan Nobbe wrote: have you ever googled for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? looks like it brings up some thread from around september of 07... oh wait; isnt that before dan started up the stat program .. -nathan MAN don't expose it like that. Now he'll get tons

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008:php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread Børge Holen
On Sunday 20 January 2008 19:58:03 David Powers wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: I understand what you are thinking, but the fact remains your address is already public for having posted to the list. It seems you are getting bent out of shape because you aren't grasping this fact. Dan hasn't

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008:php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Jan 20, 2008 4:09 PM, Børge Holen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MAN don't expose it like that. Now he'll get tons upon tons of spam :D damn, did i, like, just publish it again :-O -nathan

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008:php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread Børge Holen
On Sunday 20 January 2008 22:38:24 Robert Cummings wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 16:13 -0500, Nathan Nobbe wrote: On Jan 20, 2008 4:09 PM, Børge Holen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MAN don't expose it like that. Now he'll get tons upon tons of spam :D damn, did i, like, just publish it again

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008:php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Jan 20, 2008 4:38 PM, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 16:13 -0500, Nathan Nobbe wrote: On Jan 20, 2008 4:09 PM, Børge Holen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MAN don't expose it like that. Now he'll get tons upon tons of spam :D damn, did i, like, just

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008:php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 16:13 -0500, Nathan Nobbe wrote: On Jan 20, 2008 4:09 PM, Børge Holen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MAN don't expose it like that. Now he'll get tons upon tons of spam :D damn, did i, like, just publish it again :-O Is this going to turn into one of those things like

RE: [PHP] Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Sending to the LIST this time... I personally replied, how dumb was *I* this morning... And top posted... Twice... Dang Jay, you feeling OK? You've been quiet the last week... Or did Richard just tie you up so you couldn't post and he could get top honors this week? :) [/snip]

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January,2008:php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread David Powers
Børge Holen wrote: You really don't get it yet? You distributed it, I knew your email long before Dan did squat, didn't take any programming to acomplish that. Obviously, you don't get it either. It's now common practice to remove email addresses from public forums. Instead of justifying

Re: [PHP] Digital Downloads and Scale

2008-01-20 Thread Chris
dg wrote: Hello everyone, I'd appreciate any insights, or source suggestions regarding site traffic and necessary adjustments. For example, I'm using a simple digital download page for an indie artist. Not a ton of traffic, not a ton of concurrent requests. Was thinking about introducing

[PHP] general time question

2008-01-20 Thread jekillen
Hello again; I am developing an application that uses php with Apache. A user requests a script file from a web site and the server takes such things as $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDRESS'] and uses php's time() function to record the time in utc code (which would be the server's system time) and other

RE: [PHP] A stupid question?

2008-01-20 Thread Shelley Shyan
Regards, Shelley -Original Message- From: Eric Butera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:03 AM To: Jochem Maas Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] A stupid question? On Jan 18, 2008 10:49 AM, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Butera

[PHP] change php variable depending on selection

2008-01-20 Thread PHP-General
Hi, I've looked everywhere on the web (except of course the place that has the answer ;) ) but can't seem to find a solution. I'm trying to build an rss reader on a webpage. The idea is simple: there's a dropdown box where you select the name of the blog and when you select the blog you

Re: [PHP] general time question

2008-01-20 Thread Jochem Maas
jekillen schreef: Hello again; I am developing an application that uses php with Apache. A user requests a script file from a web site and the server takes such things as $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDRESS'] $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDRESS'] is a pretty useless value for the age old reason that, for instance,

Re: [PHP] Digital Downloads and Scale

2008-01-20 Thread Jochem Maas
dg schreef: Hello everyone, I'd appreciate any insights, or source suggestions regarding site traffic and necessary adjustments. For example, I'm using a simple digital download page for an indie artist. Not a ton of traffic, not a ton of concurrent requests. Was thinking about

[PHP] $_POST Array and Cleaning

2008-01-20 Thread nihilism machine
I'm trying to create a function that will first take an array of $_POSTs and give them key/value pairs like variables. For instance, if i had $_POST['whatever'] = whatever, that would be made into $whatever = whatever, then i can clean for sql injection and xss. any ideas here? - e --

Re: [PHP] $_POST Array and Cleaning

2008-01-20 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Jan 20, 2008 9:22 PM, nihilism machine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to create a function that will first take an array of $_POSTs and give them key/value pairs like variables. For instance, if i had $_POST['whatever'] = whatever, that would be made into $whatever = whatever, then i

Re: [PHP] change php variable depending on selection

2008-01-20 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Jan 20, 2008 8:51 PM, PHP-General [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've looked everywhere on the web (except of course the place that has the answer ;) ) but can't seem to find a solution. I'm trying to build an rss reader on a webpage. The idea is simple: there's a dropdown box where you

Re: [PHP] Digital Downloads and Scale

2008-01-20 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Jan 20, 2008 8:43 PM, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: get a book? I happen to be rereading building scalable websites by Carl Henderson ... something like that might help you to get a better idea of what you might be facing. wow, you read books too? i though i was the only one! dg,

[PHP] POST/GET into variables

2008-01-20 Thread nihilism machine
how does this look? should this by me calling ... myforms = new forms(); work by turning all key/value pairs for both get and post into variable names of the same name as the get/post key, and the variable values as the values from the post/get? class forms { // Some stuff

Re: [PHP] change php variable depending on selection

2008-01-20 Thread PHP-General
thx for the reply but i am a bit confused (i am new to php and even to javascript) Where would I put the javascript portion (the window.onLoad part), then? Here is the relevant portion of the code. My test page can be seen at http://valueinvestingplanet.com/test. The idea is to have the rss

Re: [PHP] Digital Downloads and Scale

2008-01-20 Thread Jason Paschal
this may be common knowledge, but a simple thing for databases that decreased my query time was making sure that you have indices on those fields you use in your SQL. made a world of difference for me. On Jan 20, 2008 2:57 PM, dg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I'd appreciate any

Re: [PHP] POST/GET into variables

2008-01-20 Thread nihilism machine
im trying to keep this php4 OOP. im just trying to clean the post/gets and then make them all into variables with their names being the keys to the get/post, and their values as the variables values. ie: $_POST['someFormInputName'] = somevalue ... turns into $someFormInputName = somevalue.

[PHP] mssql and latin characters

2008-01-20 Thread Leticia Larrosa
Hello I have a MSSql 2000 database that have stored data with the follow special characters: ó, í, Ñ, á, é, ú. When I see the data through any MsSql Client I see exactly those characters. The Collation of database is: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS I can’t change the method of insert data

Re: [PHP] POST/GET into variables

2008-01-20 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Jan 20, 2008 9:47 PM, nihilism machine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how does this look? should this by me calling ... myforms = new forms(); work by turning all key/value pairs for both get and post into variable names of the same name as the get/post key, and the variable values as the values

Re: [PHP] change php variable depending on selection

2008-01-20 Thread Nathan Nobbe
here is a complete, working example; hope it helps. http://nathan.moxune.com/exampleDynamicSelect.php -nathan

Re: [PHP] POST/GET into variables

2008-01-20 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Jan 20, 2008 10:15 PM, nihilism machine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: im trying to keep this php4 OOP. im just trying to clean the post/gets and then make them all into variables with their names being the keys to the get/post, and their values as the variables values. then all you have to do

RE: [PHP] Word Wrap on highlight_file

2008-01-20 Thread Shelley Shyan
One solution I can think of is: $showCode = highlight_file($fileWithPath, true); echo str_replace('br /', br /\n, $showCode); It may not be the best one. But it's not recommanded to use echo wordwrap($showCode, 70); Because you may break br / into something like br / Regards,

Re: [PHP] Digital Downloads and Scale

2008-01-20 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 02:43 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: use simple code, optimize your db and go and read up on everything you can find about optimizing [download] connections on your webserver ... these spring to mind In addition to optimizing code and db (I presume that includes using

Re: [PHP] password hashing and crypt()

2008-01-20 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 23:17 -0500, Nathan Nobbe wrote: thanks for the great responses guys. i guess what im really getting at though is, if crypt() will embed a salt in the value it returns automatically, is there any benefit to creating a salt to pass to the second argument and storing that