Re: [PHP] auto refresh once
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 01:55, William Stokes wrote: Hello, Is it possible to force one automatic refresh browser when user enters to a webpage? If so, how? javascript timer and a reload in a function called vi body onLoad wouldd do it I guess. if you are only going to do it once you need to not write the javascript the second time through so you will have to keep track of whether this is the first time or not. HTH Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] How to handle actions that may take a long time?
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 03:05, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Am Dienstag, 1. März 2005 09:14 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can send a piece of HTML defining some little thing like a div layer with your please wait, bla bla bla So the visitor can read something. When the process is finished, you can write another piece of HTML containing some JavaScript lines, changing the text (and icons or images) so you can inform your visitor that the process had finished. If it's possible I'd like to avoid js ;-) This is the clasical no end web page... You can do something similar with frames, so in a little frame the visitor can see the status, (searching, wait...) and in another big frame can do something usefull. I'm going to evaluate some things... I don't know where I read it but there are some ideas out there that people use to monitor long running html uploads and provide status on them. IIRC the main idea was to write the status to a file ( or like you said, to a session var) and periodically reload the page to get the latest status. Now that I think about it it may have been a how to do a status bar for uploads. I do not recall if it needed js or not. HTH Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] textarea posting duplicate text
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 08:43, Elizabeth Lawrence wrote: Thanks, Dan. I copied your code exactly and posted it here: http://www.tidefans.com/test.php I pasted a large part of O'Henry's Gift of the Magi into the textarea, and it gets repeated, as before. Thanks for any help, Elizabeth There are some settings in php.ini that affect the max size of post variables. It is sort of interesting to me that it is not a complete copy but the first 1303 bytes or so are printed and then the test as a whole is there preceded by testarea=. It does not do this on my server. 4.3.6 apache 2 I notice that the Server API says Apache 2.0 Filter on your box and on mine it says Apache 2.0 Handler. I have no idea what that means. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] textarea posting duplicate text
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 10:19, Bret Hughes wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 08:43, Elizabeth Lawrence wrote: Thanks, Dan. I copied your code exactly and posted it here: http://www.tidefans.com/test.php I pasted a large part of O'Henry's Gift of the Magi into the textarea, and it gets repeated, as before. Thanks for any help, Elizabeth There are some settings in php.ini that affect the max size of post variables. It is sort of interesting to me that it is not a complete copy but the first 1303 bytes or so are printed and then the test as a whole is there preceded by testarea=. It does not do this on my server. 4.3.6 apache 2 I notice that the Server API says Apache 2.0 Filter on your box and on mine it says Apache 2.0 Handler. I have no idea what that means. Bret Hmm I did not remember writing the bit about post_max_size. I was checking your settings in the phpinfo output when I found the filter/handler deal. obviously the post_max_size is not the culprit. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] combining values
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 11:44, Sascha Kaufmann wrote: $birthday = $day.'.'.$month.'.'.$year; why wouldn't $birthday = $day.$month.$year; work as well. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Catalog or cart
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 04:45, Ryan A wrote: Hey all, I have a client who has a computer store, now he wants to put all his stuff in one site. He does not want to do any selling from his site, but just list all his items. I don't have a solution but I just wanted to say that the very first thing that came to mind was. Warning Will Robinson. Scope creep approaching! He does not want to do any selling from his site, NOW. If you are going to go to the trouble to set us something especially an existing solution I would strongly recommend that you give the ability to grow into a cart based ecommerce site serious weight over those catalog only solutions that do not have that capability. Best to look the hero when he says Ya know, I have had several customers that wish they could purchase via a web site. my $0.02 US. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php DBMS
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 11:31, Gerben wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if there is any DBMS, like MySQL, which is (fully) implemented in php. This so you don't have to buy a MySQL database. I'm currently trying to put something together, but this would be a waste of time if it already exists. Does MySQL cost money? I thought it was open source and available at no cost. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php DBMS
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 13:35, Jochem Maas wrote: Bret Hughes wrote: Does MySQL cost money? I thought it was open source and available at no cost. true its free, but you can also run a comcercial version which gives you indemnity and support and stuff Google for instance are known to run MySQL, companies like that like to have support contracts - at MySQL they are glad to oblige, just unlike some other very fairplaying non-antitrust type businesses they don't force feed you the license fee :-) So if he is looking for a non licensed dbms MySQL would still work albeit without formal support lie the rest of the open source world. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Identifying a user who previously created a profile
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 04:02, Jacques wrote: How can I ensure that a user is prevented from creating a second profile after he has registered a second time with different registration details? I thought of capturing his IP Address and checking this value against my users table in my database where I have captured IP Addresses of users who have previously registered. Not a good way for several reasons: Dynamic IP addresing: NAT based firewalls. I suspect your best bet is to place a cookie. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] uploading files with a single quote in the filename
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 01:04, Dotan Cohen wrote: that. A little javascript goes a long way in these sort of situations You don't want to do that will javascript. I, for one, surf with javascript turned off. The malicious script kiddie, I would presume, also would be very happy to send you a silly filename without letting javascript check it. Very good point. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] how to increase maximum upload file size
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 06:32, Srinadh Sannidhanam wrote: Hi, In my application I need to allow the user to upload a file with size more than 2M. I came to know that by default php will allow only 2M. How can change it. I changed, that in php.ini file and restarted apache. but still not working. How to solve this problem? Thanks, Seems like I had to change post_nax_size also. It is set to the same as upload_max_size in my php.ini. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] uploading files with a single quote in the filename
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 06:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi When uploading files using a type=file in a form, if a file is uploaded with a single quote the file gets truncated to whatever is after the quote eg. blah'sblah.txt will be uploaded as sblah.txt Is this a magic quotes issue? What is the best way to deal with it? I ran into a similar deal with a textbox and a while back but I think the issue was sending it back to the browser after the browser sent it up. In the absence of direct help, I would first look to see where the truncation is occurring ie; what is the browser sending? can you post the value and see what your browser is sending it as? is there anything in the logs with error_reporting set to E_ALL? I found trouble shooting the upload process cumbersome since it would fail without any messages but that was before I started setting the error_reporting to also log messages. Not much help but all I got. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] uploading files with a single quote in the filename
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 16:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Bret I have tried turning all reporting on - error_reporting(E_ALL); but that doesn't reveal anything significant I have looked in the logs but there is nothing significant there. Because the type is file in the form it is not handled like a post - the values go into an array called $_FILES There seems to be no way to intercept this before the filename gets truncated Well for another data point when I uploaded a file using our upload form the ' gets escaped on both IE6 (win98 running in win4lin) and galeon. test's qoutes.jpg becomes test\'s quotes.jpg on a fedora server with apache and php of course. I don't suppose the file gets put into a directory named with the first portion of the file? FWIW here is what my form tag looks like form enctype=multipart/form-data action=uploadFiles.php method=POST and the filechooser input name=userfile type=file Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] uploading files with a single quote in the filename
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 18:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brett My form is effectively identical to yours form enctype=multipart/form-data action=/uploadfiles.php method=post bUpload a file:/b input name=userfile type=file size=100 No the first part of the file name is just dropped and the file with the truncated name is saved in the correct place. But with it escaping the quote do you mean that you end up with a file with \ in it? That would be an illegal filename. Neil Yep that is exactly what I mean. Not sure if \it is illegal on a linux box although unusualThe directory separator is /. I am going to be looking at the code soon to try and get a handle on it. At this point I do not know where it is coming from but I should be able to examine the variables that get sent to the server and see where in the browser/php/OS interaction the thing is occurring. I'll let you know. I like allowing users to name files as they will and test all my scripts that handle file names to make sure the handle spaces well but should probably check for a few boneheaded things like that. A little javascript goes a long way in these sort of situations :) Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Hi ALL
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 05:27, Dhanasekar T wrote: hi all, i m new to this group ...now i want to learn php. i want all u r guidence to utilise this group... thanks in advance dhanas I would start by looking at and dare I say reading the manual at php.net. Then surf around for a beginners tutorial, and start coding. I suspect the learning curve shape depends on whether you have any previous programming experience or not. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] errors in insert queries
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 07:32, Bryan Dina wrote: I am having problems making proper insert queries against a MS SQL box when using a Linux server. A little background info, I have had this working correctly for many months. I am running Fedora Core 1, have compiled php 5.0.3 using the FreeTDS v.0.7 driver to access the MS SQL 2000 DBMS, and like I said, it has been working with out problems for several months now. I tried to update MySQL (which I also use locally on the web server for certain projects), which went fine as well, although after that every insert query I made against the MS SQL server returned a failed status EVEN THOUGH the inserts were ACTUALLY made. I have seen posts to the PHP site with users of php v.4.x.x complaining about this problem, and so far no answers on what to do to fix the problem(s). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Have you checked the bug database to see if it has been entered as a bug? Most projects don't get anything fixed unless there is a bug filed. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] [HAB] str_replace
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 09:59, OOzy Pal wrote:
Dears
I am trying replace anything between '{!' and '!}' i.e {!A!} and {!B!}
and {!ABC!} with XYZ. I tried the following but no help. Can anyone
help?
$this-template=str_replace({!*!},XYZ,$this-template);
Thank you
IIRC str_replace does not use any type of globbing. You need to use one
of the function that uses regular expresions I prefer preg_replace
personally. regexes can get complicated looking pretty quick but are an
incredibly powerful mechanism once you understand even the rudiments. I
would place my self in that catagory.
try something like :
$this-template = preg_replace (/![^!]*!/,!XYZ!,$this-template);
untested but should be close.
what the /![^!]*!/ says is match any string that starts with a ! and is
followed by zero or more characters that are not ! followed by a ! the
replacement part of the function replaces it all with !XYZ!.
this will also catch the string !! and replace it with !XYZ! if this is
not what you want replace the * above with + (one or more) exactly one
char between them leave the * off altogether.
HTH
Bret
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Re: [PHP] Writing PNG Images to File from Command Line
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 10:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, Because of some latency issues in the display of dynamically created PNG images, I've been trying to separate the image-creation process from the image-display process. Essentially, I'm trying to run a cron job that writes a PNG image to file every 5 seconds. The php file pulls data from a MySQL db and creates a color-coded map of a cancer treatment building. The presence of normal levels of Neutrons would lead to the creation of a green flag, above-normal levels yields a yellow flag, and high levels yields a red flag. Another page will simply use a SRC tag to display the image, and will refresh every 5-6 seconds to get the latest readings/image. The concept worked extremely well when the image was output to the browser, except for the fact that a latency caused the image in the browser to flicker when it refreshed. So I've attempted the above, but without success, in that I can't get the cron job to actually make the image file. I know that the file is being processed because I can echo out a few words to the screen. And I know that the php file can create an image file because it does so when I add the file_name attribute to the imagecreate() function. I've checked permissions on folders, etc, and have tried both the CLI and SAPI versions of php, with and without available command line flags, but no luck. And it's not the db query portion of the process because I've commented out that portion of the code. Pretty much stumped and very open to thoughts/comments. The Set Up: RH 9.0 Apache 2.0.48 PHP 4.3.4 Mozilla 1.5 (MySQL 4.0.18) how are you trying to do this? your comment that it can create the file when you add the filename attribute to imagecreate leads me to believe you are not using this feature. Why not? Also what is the error_reporting set to? you might try error_reporting(E_ALL); at the top of your script to get additional info. Are you checking the returncode from the imagecreate? you might try posting the code and letting someone wiht more experience than I take a look. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Fatal error: Maximum execution time
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 06:52, Stanislav Kuhn wrote: Hi guys, I've got a processing script which takes long time to finish. The script includes several others and is ran from command line(by cron). I've sent phpinfo from inside of processing to my email, here is the important part max_execution_time = 1800 = 0 max_input_time = 120 = 120 memory_limit = 64M = 64M I'm setting 1800 inside a script and 0 exec time is by default... anyway I have tried to set it to whatever and wherever ;o) Script always terminates and that is strange not exactly at same time... it's aprox from 6 to 10 minutes and not in same place (in any of included script). And error message always displays 30 seconds... I have tried to grep a source for ini_set as well, nothing important anywhere in the code. PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in .php on line 130 Has somebody seen something like this or has an idea what's going on there? PHP Version = 4.3.10-2 Running with apache on Linux.. If this is running inside cron, can we assume that it is run from a command line - php myscript.php and that the webserver is not in use in anyway? I know that Apache has time constraints as well is the reason I ask. It looks like your timeouts are being set correctly and I have no idea what might cause this other than the apache stuff. have you tried running set_time_linit(60) occasionally in the main loop to reset the counter? just a thought. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] My FIRST php atempt
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 01:47, David Freedman wrote:
I am trying my FIRST php file with an attempt to connect
to my mySql server.
?php
// Connecting, selecting database
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'host', 'my_passqword')
or die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
echo 'Connected successfully';
mysql_select_db('eatc7402') or die('Could not select database');
// Performing SQL query
$query = 'SELECT * FROM my_table';
$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Query failed: ' . mysql_error());
==
more code to print results.
..
..
// Free resultset
mysql_free_result($result);
// Closing connection
mysql_close($link);
?
The problem is it won't connect to the database. The server IS running. The
host, username,
and password are the exact same thing I use to connect the mySqlAdmin tool
to the database.
Doesn't seem like this should be that difficult. How can I discover why it
doesn't
seem to connect.
what is in the mysql log? chances are it is a db permission issue since
you are not running as the same user as the server is.
There was a thread like this earlier this week maybe even today?
look in the archives of this list.
Bret
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Re: [PHP] fgetcsv() excel data missing
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 09:12, M. Sokolewicz wrote: Binoy AV wrote: Thanks Jay. Could anybody please tell me how to read the data from an excel file ? It should work independent of the operating system. I don't want the csv format. excel files aren't independent of the OS, csv files are. Excel files need to be parsed, because they contain heaps of formatting data. If you're using php on a windows OS, then you can use COM or .NET to read it in. On other systems however, you'll likely run into problems pretty quickly, and will most probably need to write your own parser routine Not to mention the different versions of excel that alter the format. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Help with SQL statement
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 23:21, Jacques wrote: How can I determine which users have signed in and are still on-line during the first minute after they have signed in? My sql statement currently reads: SELECT * FROM tblusers WHERE usignedin = yes AND utimesignedin = (time() - 60) Hoe does one indicate seconds in a SQL statement? Can I use the time() function or should I use the now() function rather? Thanks Jacques I almost do not know where to begin. What database are you using? The functions you need to be looking at are going to be executed by the dbms not php. Look in the dbms docs for the time functions available. Are you really interested in users who logged in exactly 60 seconds ago ( you are using = afterall )? if course this also depends on what type of data is stored in utimesignedin if it is a timestamp with the resolution in seconds then you should be good to go with the whatever_database_function_returns_the_current_timestamp() - 60 deal. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] mysql query
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 18:24, Sebastian wrote: Hello, im working on an article system and looking to avoid running three queries. example, i have this query: SELECT id,title FROM articles WHERE id=$_GET[id] now say $_GET[id] = 5 I would like to get the previous id 4 and the next id 6 (if there is one) so i can do something like: sure how about : select id, title from articles where id = $_GET[id] - 1 and id = $_GET[id] + 1 order by num; should be valid sql but I have no experience with mysql Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] mysql query
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 22:02, Jason Petersen wrote: On 17 Feb 2005 19:28:18 -0600, Bret Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 18:24, Sebastian wrote: Hello, im working on an article system and looking to avoid running three queries. example, i have this query: SELECT id,title FROM articles WHERE id=$_GET[id] now say $_GET[id] = 5 I would like to get the previous id 4 and the next id 6 (if there is one) so i can do something like: I would do something like: $theId = $_GET['id']; $ids = $theId-1 . , . $theId , . $theId+1; $query = SELECT id, title FROM articles WHERE id IN ($ids); That is a good approach I wonder if there is any difference in performance? ... To answer my own question before I even post it: A quick test or two shows that on a postgres table with about 45K rows both ways used an index scan. on a table with about 35 rows the always used a index scan but the in() used a seq scan. I am sure mysql would use the index both ways as well but I do not know. Seems like the smaller the number of elements used the better off you are with the in() deal since each element in the index had to be compared to each of the numbers where as with the approach only two comparisions have to be made regardless of the range. This is not to say my approach was better I am just thinking out loud. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] How do I add PHP code into a DB field
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 00:45, Tim Burgan wrote: Hello, On my page, all my content is updated via a textarea online. If I include PHP code embeded with my HTML in the textarea, the database converts it to plain text, instead of code that can be used. It doesn't convert to lt; though, it's still in the database as , just when it's read out again.. it don't work! I want to be able to call a random image script in PHP from the content that's stored in the DB. How do I do this? How are you calling the page that retrieves the code? Does the file name end in php? I suspect that simply echoing code to the browser won't work because it's a string. Are you using eval? Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] [php] -help me
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 23:50, K Karthik wrote: i have got string as /home/karthik/welcome.php/view.php i just need view.php how shall i remove rest of the string. please do help me.i am new to php. -thanks, karthik Lets see if you can learn to fish. Since you are new you should learn that one of the greatest resources in all of opensource software is the php.net documentation. try entering php.net/searchterm in the browser ie: php.net/filename hmm looks like there is a function called basename you might want to look at. The manual has all functions arranged by functional area ( eg filesystem) I can't tell you enough what a powerful resource this was to me a a beginning php programmer and remains so to this day. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: isset
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 07:54, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: * Bret Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just wish there was a use strict; sort of deal so I would not have to hunt down logic errors due to mistyping a variable name. There is, in PHP5: E_STRICT. From the manual (http://php.net/manual/en/ref.errorfunc.php#errorfunc.constants): Run-time notices. Enable to have PHP suggest changes to your code which will ensure the best interoperability and forward compatibility of your code. Hmm. Good tip thanks. chalk up another reason to upgrade to 5. getting close to haveing enough reasons to do so :) E_STRICT is closer but still does not warn of assigning to undeclared variables in or out of a class. bummer. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: isset
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 10:34, Richard Lynch wrote: Bret Hughes wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 07:54, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: * Bret Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just wish there was a use strict; sort of deal so I would not have to hunt down logic errors due to mistyping a variable name. You SHOULD be using E_NOTICE to get warned when you *USE* an unassigned variable/propery/element and PHP is forced to initialize it. That will catch a bunch of your variable name typos -- And also will often let you know you typed it wrong in the place where you did the assignment. EG: this is exactly what I was looking for Richard thanks. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Minimalist permissions
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 10:17, Jason Wong wrote: On Wednesday 16 February 2005 23:30, Ugo Bellavance wrote: If the needed permissions for standard PHP files and directories are 'r' on files and 'r-x' on directories, how can I set my umask so that files and directories are always created as such? I looked up 'man umask' and it seems to treat files and directories the same way. Maybe that is impossible, but I logged in via FTP to a server of a web hosting company, and it implements just this: creates directories as rwxr-xr-x and files as rw-r--r--. chmod() after creating any directory or file. This is a very good idea. There was a bug in php at one time that allowed a umask setting to be held in the apache process that it was run in so you really could not rely on a umask being set to any specific value. It was reported via redhat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121454 Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Password Protection
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 21:31, Kevin Javia wrote: I am experimenting on my site and I want to make it password protected like www.realsolution.com. If any one enters correct user name and password, only then they will be able to enter into my site. How can I do that in PHP? Any ideas? Thanks a ton in advance. Chances are this is not a php thing at all but uses the webserver's authentication infrastructure. It depends on the server being used. The apache manual has a very good write up on authentication options available: See if this gets you started: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/auth.html Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Getting floats from 8 byte IEEE binary representations
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 18:36, Ian Johnson wrote: I am trying to write a function which will read a string of bytes from a binary file and convert 8 byte sequences to Float type data. I've been through the manual and can find nothing but think I must be missing something. It can't be that hard. Can someone help me out. what have you tried? won't fread() work? http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] XHTML 1.1 + php sessions = :(
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 19:07, b1nary Developement Team wrote: Hi there guys... First time caller here ;). I'm currently developing a content management system. One of it's features is that it's going to be completely standards compliant (XHTML 1.1). I'm having some troubles however, and they come in the form of sessions. When I use session_start(), it throws the PHPSESSID into the URL of all of my links and form actions and what not. This is a problem because in my forms it throws in a hidden input, which doesn't validate right, plus they don't use amp; insteand of just . Is there any way to stop a session from being passed through the URL? Sure enable session.use_only_cookies in php.cfg and cookies will be used. nothing in the page sent to the browser at all as far as I know. http://us4.php.net/session Bret -- 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] Re: Why is my class throwing this error?
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 23:11, Dan Phiffer wrote: NathanielGuy#21 wrote: Error thrown -- Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/blacknut/public_html/picserv/includes/gallery.class on line 52 -- For what it's worth, I'm able to execute the code without parse errors (v5.0.3). A long shot, but could there be another file called gallery.class that you've mistaken for this one? (I've done that a couple times.) what about stray no native linefeeds or other non printable chars? delete the line and retype it. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Delete a file immediately after download
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:00, Richard Lynch wrote: Matt M. wrote: I have a database that contains encrypted data using Mysql function ENCODE(). Certain users will be allowed to view this data and I will allow them to download a CSV file contain the decrypted data using the Mysql DECODE() function. However I don't want this file to be left on the server, is there a way to ensure that the file is deleted immediately after it has been downloaded? http://us4.php.net/unlink PS If the data is REALLY sensitive, you may want to look into command line tools to actually ERASE the data instead of just doing unlink. 'unlink' only nukes the directory information to find the file. The file contents still exist, intact, and there are tools to mine un-linked files to find content. Hard Drive forensics experts can even manage to retrieve over-written files based on some very very very expensive/hard analysis of the magentic fields -- Sort of like reading through scratched out stuff on paper by holding it up to the light, only a lot more technical and a lot more expensive... It's unlikely you need to worry about *THAT* though, as I understand it... As Richard pointed out the unlink will leave the data on the disk but simply remove the directory pointers to it. If physical security of the box is an issue then overwriting the file with random data and then unlinking it might be a decent solution. If a file is opened for writing I suspect it depends on the operating system as to whether the same disk blocks are used so overwriting a file might not actually over write the data on the disk. It should, however at least change the directory entry enough that someone with access to the box will not be able to use a simple undelete utility to retrieve the file. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Intelligent Forms and Form Processing
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 17:00, dan wrote:
Matt M. wrote:
Any feedback will be appreciated.
why reinvent the wheel?
take a look at:
http://pear.php.net/package/Html_quickform
To the people who want to truly understand how the system works, the
wheel, as it stands, is wothless :)
I know I can use a drop-in solution, and I might consider it in the
future. However, if I understood in more detail the entire process, I
would be able to troubleshoot and add advanced features to the wheel.
That's how I look at it, anyway.
I like the attitude from a learning standpoint but since you asked for
feedback you could have at least acknowledged the guys effort in offerin
one solution.
This thread is very similar to another one today. and the answer is the
same. use some sort of conditional construct to determine how you are
being requested and process accordingly.
I usually set a hidden variable that can be checked to let me know what
to do.
if (isset($_POST[myvar] $_POST[myvar] = expected value){
# perform second phase form
}
else {
#do form phase one stuff.
print input type=hidden name=myvar value='expected value'\n;
}
one of many ways to do it. I have to say I have done quite a bit of
this sort of thing and it gets really confusing to maintain if there is
a lot of logic involved.
One one hand it is nice to know you only have to change one file if a
change is needed ( especially if there are changes to the parameters
being passed from the entry side to the processing side. I have yet to
feel strongly one way or the other whether it is better to use a single
file or multiples.
Bret
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Re: [PHP] issue with accents and mysql
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 17:40, mario wrote:
Hi,
thanks, but that seems to be ok:
SQL result
Host: 127.0.0.1
Database :
Generation Time: Feb 15, 2005 at 11:36 PM
Generated by: phpMyAdmin 2.5.7-pl1 / MySQL 3.23.58
SQL-query: SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%';
Rows: 2
Variable_name
Value
character_set
latin1
character_sets
latin1 big5 cp1251 cp1257 croat
czech danish dec8 ...
any further idea?
thanks
mario
ps of course, I could
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 21:42, Guillermo Rauch wrote:
Try
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%'
and verify your character set is latin1.
If not, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/charset-database.html
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:04:30 +, mario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
please help me on the following issue.
please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] too.
(I asked for help on the php-db ml, but nobody replied)
I have hacked the following function:
function accents($text) {
global $export;
$search = array ( 'à', 'è', 'ì', 'ò' , 'ù');
$replace = array ( '\\`{a}', '\\`{e}', '\\`{i}', '\\`{o}', '\\`{u}');
$export= str_replace($search, $replace, $text);
return $export;
}
It works fine, as long as I feed it with a string:
accents('à') -- \`{a}
The issue is when I get 'à' from a mysql table.
I.e., for some record of a mysql table Table, let à the value of the
field Field, and say
$result = mysql_fetch_array($answer, MYSQL_BOTH),
where $answer= mysql_query(SELECT * FROM Table).
Now accents($result['Field']) returns à (instead of \`{a}).
Why? I have no idea.
Any hint is welcome.
Thanks a lot
I have no idea what might be the problem but I would probably start by
seeing what the difference is at the ascii level.
preg_split the strings and run ord on each one
foreach ( preg_split(//,this is a string) as $char ) {
echo The ascii value for $char is . ord($char) . \n;
}
post the results from both sources and lets see what can be found.
Bret
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Re: [PHP] Re: isset
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 16:22, M. Sokolewicz wrote: Chris. that's a different issue. There are always at least 2 things you should do with your (expected) input: 1 - check if it *exists* (isset) 2 - check the validity (input-validation) for step #2 empty is very commonly used, and also a very useful function. However, you should never do #2 without #1, since that again raises issues (of security, problems, unexpected input, etc) Also note that empty($non_existent_var) will always throw an E_NOTICE error when the variable in question is not set. isset() is the only function/language-construct that can check for the existence of variables without throwing an E_NOTICE. This is not true and explicitly states so in the doc. I had to reread it to remember why I stopped using it. empty will return true if the value is one of several things , 0, 0 to name a few. Since I do not consider these empty I stick with isset and then test for a valid value depending on the circumstance. Personally, I think people piss and moan too much about what I consider proper coding practices. Input validation is to important to skimp on. Again it is my opinion. I have been revisiting some php code that I wrote a couple of years ago and have been pleasantly surprised at the job I did on input validation. A similar complaint occurs when installing a new version of or moving code to another box where register_globals is not on. I pissed and moaned and wailed for about 10 minutes until I thought about it and can now see the value in not having unknown variables pollute the namespace. Of course, since most of my code was already validating the variables, a few :s/\$\(var\)/\$_GET[\1]/ iterations and I was good to go. Yes it took some time but I feel better having done it. I just wish there was a use strict; sort of deal so I would not have to hunt down logic errors due to mistyping a variable name. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Regex help
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 08:58, Michael Sims wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, this is off-topic like every other regex help post, but I know
some of you enjoy these puzzles :)
This isn't an exam question, is it? ;)
I need a validation regex that will pass a string. The string can
be no longer than some maximum length, and it can contain any
characters except two consecutive ampersands () anywhere in the
string.
I'm stumped - ideas?
Yup, use this perl regex:
/^(?:()(?!)|[^]){1,5}$/
Where 5 above is the maximum length of the string. You can change this to
any positive value and the regex will still work. Basically it says look
for 1 to 5 single characters where each either isn't an ampersand, or IS an
ampersand but isn't immediately followed by an ampersand. The (?!) is a
zero-width negative look-ahead assertion which is like other assertions such
as \b that don't eat up the portions of the string that they match.
Great explanation. Thanks from one who has not had an exam for over ten
years.
Bret
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Re: [PHP] Class declaration, constants and array
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 14:50, Marek wrote:
php5 class {
const _SOMETHING_ = 'test';
private $abc=_SOMETHING_; // fails, well actually anything fails
similar to this.
var $test=$test2;// also fails
So since I can not use dynamic var assignment within the class declaration,
what are some of the easy solutions to this ? without making anything global
to the script ?
Thanks
I believe you will have to establish stuff like this in the
constructor. jsut create a function the same name as the class and it
will be run on object instantiation. I had to do the a couple of years
ago for an array.
Check out the manual it used to explain this.
Bret
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Re: [PHP] Re: [NEWBIE GUIDE] For the benefit of new members
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 11:15, Rory Browne wrote: P.S. An addition to the above, a reminder that you have to CC to php-general@lists.php.net, for responses to be sent to the list might be a good idea. I've lost count of how many times I've forgotten to do this, including this time(sorry Jay), and ended up sending it only to the original sender, instead of to the list, resulting in the original sender recieving the thing twice. I did this a few times when subscribed so I added this to my procmail.rc ( actually to a file lists.rc that I keep all my list processing stuff in. :0 fhw * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | formail -i Reply-To: php-general@lists.php.net Now I just hit reply. and I do not feel stupid two days later when I wonder why my reply never made it :) Another favorite if someone gets too obnoxious: :0 * ^FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Log-in script help
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I need a particular type log in script. I'm not sure how to do it or where I could find a tutorial that would help me, so I'll describe what I need and then maybe someone could tell me what kind of script I need (sessions or whatever) and where I could get the script/learn how to make it. I need a pretty basic log in script. Something that people log in to, and the page and all linked/related pages cannot be accessed unless the person has logged in. So what do I need for this? Cookies, sessions both? And where can I learn how? -Andrew I use the pear auth package and like it alot. I know I did some modification for our purposes but I suspect it works out of the box. All you do is include auth.php on all pages you want to protect and it will direct you to a login page if you have not logged in. Pretty cool stuff. http://pear.php.net/package/Auth HTH Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Understanding intval() and types conversion
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 17:29, Bruce Douglas wrote: so... you're saying that 7.9 (repeating) is equal to 8.0 i say prove it.. as i recall the numbers might be for all practical purposes the same, they are in fact vastly different... so, prove your assertion... -bruce Check out this one: http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.0..html Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Help with file not writing
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 07:53, Joey wrote:
I'm not too good with classes, in the below class I can get the hit counter
to write to the hit counter file, but I can't get it to write the log file,
I know security is done correctly on the file because it's the same as the
counter log file, but I can't figure out why the other file isn't being
written to.
Also while the IP address works within the code prior to calling the class
function writeLog()
{
$ip_address=$REMOTE_ADDR;
$date_stamp=date(F j, Y, g:i a);
$log_entry=$date_stamp . : . $ip_address . \n ;
echo TEST- . $log_entry ;
$log = fopen($this-log_file,w+);
fputs($log,$this-$log_entry );
fclose($log);
you set $log_entry but write $this-log_entry which does not exist.
try fputs($log,$log_entry );
HTH
Bret
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Re: [PHP] String to Date and Date to String Functions?
On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 11:03, Ben Edwards wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:38:03 -0600, Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] String to Date Function return date stringToDate( str Date, str Format ) e.g. $todayDt = stringToDate( '01/01/2003','DD/MM/' ); Date to String Function return str dateToString( date Date, str Format ) e.g. $todayStr = dateToString ( $todayDt,'DD/MM/' ); Anyone know of any functions that do this or have pointers as to how it can be done. [/snip] You've looked at http://www.php.net/date ? Yes. It douse the dateToString bit but how do I do the reverse. I can use it to convert a timestamp to a string but how do I convert a string to a timestamp. I must say i've used a few languages in my time and the PHP data/time functions are a mess. Generaly when you find a function to do something to a data item there is an obvious way of reversing this (i.e. it has a simeler name). This douse not seem to be the case with PHP;( I have never come across something that I could not achieve using a combination of mktime, date, time, and strtotime. I think mktime is the piece you are missing. I have been irritated by date parsing in the past but If it works ... HTH Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Date ranges
On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 14:07, Mikey wrote: *PLEASE NOTE* I know that if I spent time on it, I would be able to do it, but I have A very close deadline and if anyone else has been through this I would *really* appreciate the help... Are you using MySQL? If so you can start with the DATE_ADD and DATE_SUB functions. http://www.mysql.com/date Then RTFM http://www.php.net/date, spacifically http://www.php.net/mktime. With a combination of the two you can do all sorts of things. So you haven't been through this, and didn't bother to read what I said? Thanks! I have done a fair bit of date parsing/ processing and if you had not been so rude to this guy I would have helped just because it is a neat exercise. I may do it anyway. if I do I will post it. And no, I have not done this exact thing so I guess that disqualifies me from making suggestions that might be helpful as well. Bummer. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] regular expression help
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 10:12, Jason wrote:
Simple functions to check fix if necessary invalid formating of a MAC
address... I seem to be having problems with the global variable $mac
not being returned from the fix_mac() function. Any help is appreciated.
?php
/*
* ex. 00:AA:11:BB:22:CC
*/
function chk_mac( $mac ) {
if( eregi(
^[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}\:[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}\:[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}\:[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}\:[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}\:[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}$,
$mac ) ) {
return 0;
} else {
return 1;
}
}
/*
* check validity of MAC do replacements if necessary
*/
function fix_mac( $mac ) {
global $mac;
/* strip the dash replace with a colon */
if( eregi(
^[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}\-[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}\-[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}\-[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}\-[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}\-[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}$,
$mac ) ) {
$mac = preg_replace( /\-/, :, $mac );
return $mac;
}
/* add a colon for every two characters */
if( eregi( ^[0-9A-Fa-f]{12}$, $mac ) ) {
/* split up the MAC and assign new var names */
@list( $mac1, $mac2, $mac3, $mac4, $mac5, $mac6 ) = @str_split( $mac,
2 );
/* put it back together with the required colons */
$mac = $mac1 . : . $mac2 . : . $mac3 . : . $mac4 . : . $mac5
. : . $mac6;
return $mac;
}
}
// do our checks to make sure we are using these damn things right
$mac1 = 00aa11bb22cc;
$mac2 = 00-aa-11-bb-22-cc;
$mac3 = 00:aa:11:bb:22:cc;
// make sure it is global
global $mac;
if you want to use globals you need to use the global in the function
not the main body.
afaict you don't need globals at all you pass mac1 to each function and
use it as $mac in the function (exactly what you want to do) and return
local $mac to $mac in the main body. perfectly legal. If you set mac
to global in the function I suspect that you end up not using the local
mac and are testing an empty var in the first pass of fix_mac.
remove the global statements and you are well on your way.
Bret
// if mac submitted is invalid check fix if necessary
if( chk_mac( $mac1 ) != 0 ) {
$mac = fix_mac( $mac1 ); echo $mac1 . converted to . $mac . br;
}
if( chk_mac( $mac2 ) != 0 ) {
$mac = fix_mac( $mac2 ); echo $mac2 . converted to . $mac . br;
}
if( chk_mac( $mac3 ) != 0 ) {
$mac = fix_mac( $mac3 ); echo $mac3 . converted to . $mac . br;
}
?
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Re: [PHP] nl2br misprint
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 17:52, Jason Wong wrote: On Saturday 22 January 2005 07:36, Scott DeMers wrote: From the function page on php.net ( http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php ): Starting with PHP 4.0.5, nl2br() is now XHTML compliant. All versions before 4.0.5 will return string with 'br' inserted before newlines instead of 'br /'. Is this a misprint, ot does the revised function actually do this? According to the w3c, br /' is compliant, while br is not; see http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/. Versions before 4.0.5 returns br Versions after 4.0.5 returns br / Logic error. what about the case of version = 4.0.5. :) No need to reply. I get it but could not resist the dig. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Seemingly weird regex problem
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:59, Richard Lynch wrote:
Tim Boring wrote:
Hello! I'm having an odd regex problem. Here's a summary of what I'm
trying to accomplish:
switch ($line)
{
case ($total_counter = 5):
break;
case preg_match(/^\W+/, $line):
While it would be Really Nifty (tm) if PHP worked this way, as far as I
know, you can only have a CONSTANT in your case.
switch($char){
case 'X': echo It was an X; break;
}
You can't just put arbitrary expressions there...
Feel free to correct me if the Manual sez different.
yeah, the discussion for switch illustrates the use of functions in
case statements. I have never done it and I wonder if there is a
difference in what preg_replace returns vs what is true but if that
was an issue, why doesn't the if catch it. wish I had time to play.
Bret
http://www/php.net/switch
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Re: [PHP] Seemingly weird regex problem
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 12:43, Jason Wong wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 02:16, Tim Boring wrote: It's perfectly legit to use expressions. Now perhaps there is something wrong with the regex I'm trying to use, but using a regex in and of itself is legal. http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php Yes, but comparing those expressions to: switch ($line) where $line is a string, doesn't make sense. See my other post. Chaching ( sound of light bulb turning on) I see that in the example in the manual it needs to be compared to true ( a boolean value) switch (true) rather than switch ($line) What is not apparent to me is why the first case matches if the preg fails. Wouldn't line evaluate to true in a boolean context? Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Seemingly weird regex problem
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 13:21, Tim Boring wrote:
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 13:41, Jason Wong wrote:
On Friday 21 January 2005 01:52, Tim Boring wrote:
Well the biggest problem in your code right now is your incomprehensible
(to
me anyway) use of the switch construct. For a start I've no idea why you're
using ...
switch ($line)
... when your tests do not involve $line
case ($total_counter = 5):
I see your point, but the other tests do involve $line. This one that
you reference I'm using for a special need--basically so I leave in
the initial column headings from the report, because they would match
several of the tests that would discard those lines.
I suspect what you want to be doing is something like this:
switch (TRUE) {
case ANY_EXPRESSION_THAT_EVALUATES_TO_TRUE:
...
}
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not sure that does what I'm looking
for. I really think the problem is with my regex, not necessarily with
the way I've constructed my switch statement.
I say this because I have since changed the first word in each line from
something like AKRN to a numeric value, and everything works just as I
would expect it to. So it seems as if the ^ might be negating the \W+
part of the regex. Although that shouldn't be happening because ^
only acts as a negation when it's used inside brackets, at least
according the documentation.
Again, thanks for the suggestion!
I think I see a possible explanation for the behavior. preg_replace
does not return a true or false value it returns the string passed as
the subject with any matched replacements done. Hmm the manual says it
better:
If matches are found, the new subject will be returned, otherwise
subject will be returned unchanged.
What I think is happening is that the first match is not finding
anything to replace and returning $line unchanged. the comparison is
true since you are comparing to $line in the switch statement.
I will p[lay with it a bit since it pisses me off when I can't figure
out what is happening.
Bret
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Re: [PHP] Seemingly weird regex problem
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 14:06, Bret Hughes wrote: I think I see a possible explanation for the behavior. preg_replace does not return a true or false value it returns the string passed as the subject with any matched replacements done. Hmm the manual says it better: If matches are found, the new subject will be returned, otherwise subject will be returned unchanged. What I think is happening is that the first match is not finding anything to replace and returning $line unchanged. the comparison is true since you are comparing to $line in the switch statement. I will p[lay with it a bit since it pisses me off when I can't figure out what is happening. Well it sure is easier to debug when you are looking at the right frigging function. I think the logic error is still similar you are comparing two values that are not meant to be compared. Since if an integer is involved in a comparison, and it is here since preg_match returns an integer, the string will be converted to an integer. IIRC string to integer conversion results in 0 if the string does not look like number. Since the match is not found, preg_match returns 0 compared to the string contained in $line will be converted to 0 ( if it begins with a letter its integer represetation is 0) the case mathes and the block executes. That and the first case is totally misued. you are trying to use the switch as a series of ifs and the analogy only holds true if the comparison is the same. I would not hesitate to rewrite this and encourage you to do so because even if you get it to work as intended it is not clear what you are trying to do. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Providing a means for the surfer to send a file
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 14:03, Todd Cary wrote: I am looking for some sample code on setting up a page that provides a means for the surfer to send a file to the server. Hmm lets see: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=q=html+file+upload+phpbtnG=Search First hit looks promising. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Upgrading PHP 4.2.2 on Red Hat 9
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 18:12, James Butler wrote: Greetings, Has anyone successfully upgraded a PHP 4.2.2 installation on a Red Hat 9 machine to a more secure version? I just want any more-secure version of PHP than 4.2.2, but it's looking like I'll have to use Fedora or Gentoo or Mandrake or something in order snip Thanks in advance for ANY help at all. Redhat used to do a pretty good job of backporting security issues and I am assuming that fedoralegacy.org is still doing it. There are php rpms out there dated October so I it looks like to me they are trying to keep up. http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/9/updates/i386/ you might take a look at the changelog to see if the fix you are worried about is there. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] debugging
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 05:51, Marek Kilimajer wrote:
Justin French wrote:
On 19/01/2005, at 5:36 PM, William Stokes wrote:
I would like to add some debugging/info code to my pages. In test
environment of course. Any ideas how to do this? I mean for example to
print
to a web page the line number when the script fails or something like
that.
It's a pain on the **s to hunt typo's by just reading the source over and
over again.
William,
I start by trying to programatically find out if I'm in a development or
production environment and setting a constant DEV to true or false. For
me, I development things on my desktop Mac, so the server and client are
the same machine, and share the same IP address. So my check for DEV is
if the client IP and server IP match.
? define('DEV',($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']==$_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'])); ?
Interesting. So I just need to use the same hosting server as you do and
your scripts will tell me interesting facts ;)
I use simple define('DEBUG', true'); in the main config file where also
database login info is stored.
for complicated stuff I will usually place if $(DEBUG N ){echo stuff}
lines in the code so I can easily print interesting stuff in various
parts of the script then if I hit a problem place a $DEBUG=1; or
whatever level I want at the top of the script; This way I can turn it
off and on without making code changes other than setting $DEBUG = 0;
when moving to production. This causes some additional work in
production but I suppose if I had that many ifs in there I could write a
script to remove the $DEBUG { } blocks from the code during the move to
production.
Since we are on the topic, does anyone have such an animal? If I write
one, would anyone be interested in it?
Bret
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Re: [PHP] Need best way to determine if cronjob or external browser called my script
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 07:47, Al wrote:
I'm working on a script that can be initiated by a cronjob or from a browser.
I want the script to act differently depending on which one called it.
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I do not know what the definitive answer is but there are a bunch of
environment differences. Here is one taken from
http://us2.php.net/features.commandline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] elevatetest]$ cat testbrowser.php
?php
if ($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT']) { echo SERVER MODE\n; }
else { echo CLI MODE\n; }
?
results from wget:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] elevatetest]$ wget -q --output-document=-
https://localhost/elevatetest/testbrowser.php
SERVER MODE
[EMAIL PROTECTED] elevatetest]$
results from cli
[EMAIL PROTECTED] elevatetest]$ php testbrowser.php
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.6
CLI MODE
[EMAIL PROTECTED] elevatetest]$
mozilla returns
SERVER MODE
HTH
Bret
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Re: Re: [PHP] Re: Delay at first use of OpenSSL functions
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 11:45, Vladas Shukevichus wrote: 18.01.2005 18:06:31 Marek Kilimajer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] M. Sokolewicz wrote: didn't you read what wez said? they're gathering entropy... you *can't* (and shouldn't want to) prevent that. Or get some good entropy source Can you explain this a bit? How can I do this? Now you getting back to the there are only six people in the world that understand encryption deal :) entropy in these terms ( as I understand it ) is a source of randomness used by open ssl. I believe /dev/random is the source for this on a linux system. various system events cause random characters to be added to the entropy pool that is then accessed via /dev/random. I rna into this a couple of years ago setting up a freeswan link that was taking forever (hours) to generate the keys. Turns out that since I was on a headless scsi system there was a severe lack of entropy. At the time, ide hard drive activity, mouse events and possibly keyboard activity were the primary inputs into the pool. If your system needs a lot of randomness there are various random number generators available. Do some searching, cryptogeeks take thier randomness very seriously. I had no idea until I ran into this. The coolest one I found was a lavalamp array that had a camera pointed at it and the output was massaged to generate the random data. Last I heard, even this was being debated as to whether it was random enough. this is important enough that Via puts a random number generator built into the epia boards so appliances will have enough of an entropy pool to quickly establish vpns. Have fun learing about it. I did. Having said all this, you might try moving the server mouse around immediatly before and during the transaction to see if its faster. HTH Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Delay at first use of OpenSSL functions
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 14:34, Marek Kilimajer wrote: Bret Hughes wrote: Having said all this, you might try moving the server mouse around immediatly before and during the transaction to see if its faster. Or hire a monkey :) Hmm. depending on the current cost of Purina Monkey Chow, this might yield a good cost per bit of random data. But then there is the clean up. I wonder if you would have to give the monkey an account on the box? Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Hidden Images.
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 12:24, Rob Adams wrote: Ok - Let me restate some of this: I am creating these images in PHP. I have a script right now that accepts two images. A main one, and the one that will be hidden. These can be either jpg, gif, or png. It then outputs a png image like this: http://imagineinc.net/images/ I really don't know much about graphics, and struggled quite a bit just getting it to this point. I've tried several techniques to 'dim' the hidden image, or take the color out of it, but nothing has really produced what I'm after. I'm not even sure of the terminology, but does anyone know a way to 'dim' the image or to make it blend with another image? I'm just doing this for fun, because I thought the concept was really cool. I don't have access to my code right now, but can post it later today, if any else is interested. dim might refer to transparency or alpha level. I don't know if browsers do that but I suppose a div might have an alpha level you could manipulate via javascript. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] question about a cron job
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 09:01, Erwin Kerk wrote: Al wrote: I've got a question about the following cronjob. #At 3:01 our time, run backups 1 0 * * * /usr/local/bin/php /www/r/rester/htdocs/auto_backup/back_em_up.php /www/r/rester/htdocs/auto_backup/cron.log 21 #At 3:02 clean up sessions folder 2 0 * * * (find /www/r/rester/htdocs/sessions/ -name 'sess_*' -mtime +1 -delete) #this is only for testing a new cronjob, every minute * * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /www/r/rester/htdocs/phpList_cronjob/process_cronjob.php /www/r/rester/htdocs/phpList_cronjob/cron.log 21 The new one doesn't seem to want to run until after 3:01 or 3:02. Shouldn't the sever just run it every minute? And, the every minute job doesn't add anything to its log file. Apache on a virtual host. The 3:01 and 3:02 jobs have been running fine for months. Thanks The CRON daemon only refreshes it's job list after a job in the current list is completed. Therefore, the CRON daemon won't notice the every-minute job until 3.01 pm. I am not sure I read that correctly. Are you saying that the job cannot be running for the new crontab to be installed? If so, I could see that althought I have never experienced it. If you are saying that each job in the crontab must be run before the new crontab is completed, then I believe you are in error. I have often changed crontab entries to test how a job will operate in the cron environment and never experienced any delay on the acceptance of the new job even though I have hourly and daily jobs there. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Finding first/last occurrence of a substring
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 09:27, Vikram Vaswani wrote:
Hi
I have a string like this:
Just when you begin to think the wagon of Vietnam-grounded movies is grinding
to a slow halt, youre hit squarely in the face with another one. However,
while other movies depict the gory and glory of war and its effects, this
centres on the psychology of troopers before they're led to battle.
I need to know the index position of every occurrence of the pattern the in
the string above, and replace it with something else. Specifically, I need
the position of the last, first and third occurrences of the.
I'm totally lost as to how to do this. Could someone help me out?
do you want to replace them or just find the position in the string?
There are functions for both try looking at the manual for
preg_replace:
http://www.php.net/preg_replace
looks like
$replacedstr = preg_replace('/the/','whatever',$origstr,3);
would replace the first three occurances of the with whatever in the
string contained in $origstr and place it in $replacedstr.
HTH
Bret
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Re: [PHP] Re: PHP in MS-DOS
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 09:45, Shawn McKenzie wrote: Thanks, but I'm not running Windows, I'm running just MS-DOS from a bootable floppy. Hence my question :-) PHP seems to actually be the php5ts.dll. Would there be binaries for MS-DOS or is there a way to get this working? Must be a big floppy if you are going to put it all on there :) Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Writing static file from dynamic PHP page
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 21:16, Chris Bruce wrote: Hi, I am looking for a way to write to a file what the browser would see (raw html) when viewing a dynamic PHP page. I have numerous include files, MySQL db queries, loops etc. and I want to generate the static result of that file and save it as an html page. I have toyed a little with output buffering to no avail. Is there an easy way to do this? Interesting requirement. I suppose something other than view source from the browser or wget is needed? Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] cron job style php...
On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 17:00, Russell P Jones wrote: I have written a simple script that when a date in an array matches todays date, it sends an email (notifies me when bills are due). Any ideas on how to make this run once a day? Can you do a cron job on a PHP prog? Russ Jones Never tried it but on linux (RHL or Fedora) I would add a file to /etc/cron.daily with something like this in it /usr/bin/php /usr/local/bin/myjob.php where myjob.php is the php script. if it runs from the command link now it should work. This will run as root of course and if you wnated it to be run as someone else you could probably add the line: 0 2 * * * username /usr/bin/php /usr/local/bin/myjob.php to /etc/crontab or the users crontab without the username field. hth Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Executing command in Linux
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 11:57, Rosen wrote: Hi, I have this problem: Linux Red Hat 7.3 server and PHP 4.3.8 MySQL 4. When I Try to execute linux command - nothing happens and in Apache logs I see Access denied. This is about permissions in executing this command. My question is can I execute a linux command via PHP ( this is command allowed only for root user ) ? P.S. I own this server - i.e. I have user pass for root. I use sudo for these situations. use visudo to establish that the user that owns the apache process ( I can't remember if RHL 7.3 was nobody or if the had switched to apache by then ). THen you can use exec(sudo yourCommandThatMustBeRunAsRoot arg1 arg2); man pages for sudo, sudoers and visudo are good resources. I am pretty sure 7.3 had the rpm available. visudo MUST be used to edit the sudoers file. you can add the following line to get you started apache ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:yourCommandThatMustBeRunAsRoot, someotherCmd What this says is let the user apache run yourCommandThatMustBeRunAsRoot and someotherCmd without having to enter a passwd. There are some things you can do to limit the arguments that can be passed to the commands see the man pages. Very cool stuff with finegrained permission on what can be run by who. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Simple question: $_POST
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 07:48, Stuart Felenstein wrote: When using $_POST vars is it required that a form is used ? In other words I can create an href link and echo variable and pick them up using $_GET in the following page. No so with $_POST ? You could probably create hidden vars and on the href set the var values and submit the form ( with form method defined as post of course). You could create the javascript needed in a function built dynamically setting the vars and simply call the function in the onclick method of the href. I think you will have to return false from the function so that the link won't try to go to nowhere. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] regex help
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 15:06, Jason Morehouse wrote: Hello, I normally can take a bit of regex fun, but not this time. Simple enough, in theory... I need to match (count) all of the bold tags in a string, including ones with embedded styles (or whatever else can go in there). b and b style=color:red. My attempts keep matching br as well. interesting. I usually try to specifically describe in english what I am looking for. in your case, I would say a string that begins with followed by zero or more spaces followed by a b or a B followed by zero or more spaces followed by zero or more anything followed by /\s*[bB]\s*.*/ or perhaps it is enough to say match a followed by 0 or more spaces followed by a b or a B and not followed by a r or a R and followed by zero or more anything followed by /\s*[bB][^rR].*/ These are untested but should be close and can be used in preg* functions. the greedy matching might grab too much stuff and I always forget how to do that when I hit it. try them, let us see the results and we can get there Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php editor
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 10:02, William Stokes wrote: Hello, I'm quite new with writing php code. I was considering of using some kind of php editor program to help with the syntax. Know any goog ones? These sort of threads are good every now and then I think. Especially since it has been so long since I read this list on a day to day basis. I assume windows by your mailer. html-kit was good when I used windows on a day to day basis several years ago. I wish there was an html-kit for linux.. gvim is my old stand by on windows and linux and does a pretty good job of syntax highlighting but no completion/options based stuff. gvim in combination with a browser ready to hit the manual pages is all I use nowadays. I am interested to hear what other folks are using. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php dot net auto complete search engine
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 05:38, Jochem Maas wrote: Richard Davey wrote: ... It's JS (what else could it be?!) - more info here: what else? spontaneous self-realising tele-kinetic voodoo. :-D We used to call that MTAM (Mental Telepathy Access Method) Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] use of curly braces with string interpolation.
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 12:08, Jochem Maas wrote: Marek Kilimajer wrote: Jochem Maas wrote: hi guys, I always use curly braces around vars placed in double quoted strings, I do this for 2 reasons: 1. I believe It helps the engine because the var delimitation is explicit, and this means the interpolation is (should be?) faster. 2. it looks nice (easier to read!) I have tried to test this with a simple script that does a million interations - but I cannot get it to return consistent results - one time with curlies is faster, another its slower. The difference happens at parse time, so if you want to measure any difference execute php script in a loop, not loop inside php script. DOH! nice one Marek, will make an attempt to 'bash' a script together asap (I'm crap at shell scripting! but the challenge is a good one). thanks for the heads up. thinking about what you said, dumping some test code inside an exec() call would have the same effect, no? Try this, put your code in a file, say, testparse.php and testparsebracket.php and try something like myseq=`seq 1 1000` time for i in $myseq; do php testparse.php;done time for i in $myseq; do php testparsebracket.php;done of course the time to spawn php will probably be the most time consuming part Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] long running page on apache 2
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 10:17, Richard Lynch wrote: Bret Hughes wrote: As I begin to write this I wonder if this really an apache issue but will ask here to see if anyone has some idea. We have a php interface to our system running apache 2 on fedora 1 box. One page calls a script that does a system() call on a script that runs for several minutes. The issue is that no other calls to the server will return from the client until the script returns. I like the From the *same* browser? Cuz, like, some browsers only allow one connection at a time, others limit it to 4, some let you configure it, some don't... Check your browser settings or try a different browser to access other content while the first browser plugs away at the slow stuff. You can also throw something like Apache Benchmark at your server to see if the children are behaving. It should be pretty apparent if things are out of whack with that, I should think. ability to watch the progress of this script but is suppose I can send the output to a file and occasionally retrieve the contents of the file but that seems really inefficient. If there is another way to have apache process additional requests, from the same client, that would be a good thing. As far as can tell, the same apache process is is used each time, but i am having trouble verifying that to my satisfaction. Always seems to me like the same child will get used unless you actually manage to get TWO requests through at the same time. Presumably, this is more efficient, as it avoids having to page memory to swap in another child. All work is done in https and there is extensive use of php sessions on the system if that makes a difference. Shouldn't matter, I don't think. Thanks for the reply. It turns out that it was session usage. See my other post if you haven't already. Bret -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] if(date(Y-m-d)
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 12:08, John Taylor-Johnston wrote:
Hi,
I would like some help to improve this script. I'm a teacher with a schedule
of 17 weeks.
Instead of using if(date(Y-m-d) = $week3) I would like to do a for i = 1
to 17 and if the current date date(Y-m-d) = week[i] I would like to echo
This is week $week[i];
Can someone show me how please?
?php
#old code:
$week1 = 2005-01-17;
$week2 = 2005-01-24;
...
$week17 = 2005-05-09;
if(date(Y-m-d) = $week3)
{
echo this is week 3);
}
?
(Mistakenly sent to the OP only and I could not stand having my code not
seen by all :) tested in a shell not web page so YMMV. Now as I look
at it, a valid date in the last week would not work since there was no
end defined. I added a 18th date and modified the if to next week
date. This code should work with no assumptions that today is even in
the range of weeks defined.
You practically wrote it already. Also you can use a for loop to load
the array of dates.
$m=1;
$d=11;
$y=2005;
//Load week array
$week= array();
for ($i=0; $i= 17; $i++ ) {
$week[$i] = date(Y-m-d,mktime(0, 0, 0, $m , $d + (7*$i), $y));
}
$today=date(Y-m-d);
for ($i=0; $i= 16; $i++ ){
if ($today = $week[$i] and $today $week[$i+1] ){
echo This is week . ($i + 1) . that began on $week[$i]\n;
exit;
}
}
echo could not find what week $today is in\n;
echo start date is $y-$m-$d\n;
echo end date is $week[17]\n;
HTH
Bret
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Re: [PHP] 403 not working -- apache 2 / php5 / linux
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 15:21, Jason Morehouse wrote: Jonel Rienton wrote: man chmod, i gather you're new to linux/*nix I don't need a lesson in file permissions, thanks. Apache runs as nobody. The problem isn't trying to get apache to display test.php, it's having it display the proper 403 error page, rather than a php error when it doesn't have access to a page. Each page, test.html and test.php have the same permissions. The html page gives the expected 403 error message when I try and access it (thats what I want). The other, php script doesn't. This is a security concern for me as it reveals paths on my system in the event a page has the wrong permissions. Why does apache not server the 403 on the php page? Maybe this is better off in the apache list. Ahh. well I guess everyone got a refresher on *nix perms at least :) I see what you are concerned about but am wondering if relying on the underlying file system perms is a good thing to begin with. Still, I have no answer for your question. It is an interesting one and I hope you will enlighten us once you find the answer. FWIW it sounds to me to be a php issue. Apache sees the php extension and passes it off to php who then pukes on the perms. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] long running page on apache 2
As I begin to write this I wonder if this really an apache issue but will ask here to see if anyone has some idea. We have a php interface to our system running apache 2 on fedora 1 box. One page calls a script that does a system() call on a script that runs for several minutes. The issue is that no other calls to the server will return from the client until the script returns. I like the ability to watch the progress of this script but is suppose I can send the output to a file and occasionally retrieve the contents of the file but that seems really inefficient. If there is another way to have apache process additional requests, from the same client, that would be a good thing. As far as can tell, the same apache process is is used each time, but i am having trouble verifying that to my satisfaction. Any tips appreciated. All work is done in https and there is extensive use of php sessions on the system if that makes a difference. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] umask wierdness
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 22:10, Curt Zirzow wrote: * Thus wrote Bret Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have found a funky situation that I am trying to figure out if it is bug or not: I see this behavior on both redhat 9 and fedora running php 4.3.4 httpd(apache) 2.0.48 calling umask(0002) in a script leaves the httpd process with a umask of 2 after exit so that the next process to hit that process gets the new umask. in other words the environment does not revert to default as the umask() docs say it should. This does not happen on my 7.3 box running apache-1.3.27-2 php-4.1.2-7.3.6 I found this chasing a rabbit trail of a bug. This is kind of sneaky since it only changes the umask for the single httpd process it hits. multiple calls to umask(0002) will change every process it hits. This set up works perfectly fine for me, umask is reset to original value after php dies so all my checkumask.sh output results with 18. System: FreeBSD, apache 1.3.29, php5. Looking at the php source code, it looks like all its doing is calling the system's umask(), which leads me to belive its an issue with either the OS or apache. You might want to ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this they might be able to help you a little more about this. Last email went straight to Curt by mistake. Basically said thanks. here is the latest on the bug report at redhat: From redhat developer/bug owner: It's a bug in the Apache 2.0 support in PHP: I've got a patch which I'll integrate and submit upstream. I suspect this is a pretty wide ranging problem, and if you are using redhat/fedora and have sensitive data you are writing to disk expecting the default umask, I would check it out. Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] umask wierdness
I have found a funky situation that I am trying to figure out if it is
bug or not:
I see this behavior on both redhat 9 and fedora running
php 4.3.4
httpd(apache) 2.0.48
calling umask(0002) in a script leaves the httpd process with a umask of
2 after exit so that the next process to hit that process gets the new
umask. in other words the environment does not revert to default as the
umask() docs say it should. This does not happen on my 7.3 box running
apache-1.3.27-2
php-4.1.2-7.3.6
I found this chasing a rabbit trail of a bug. This is kind of sneaky
since it only changes the umask for the single httpd process it hits.
multiple calls to umask(0002) will change every process it hits.
I distilled this down to this test:
BTW this is also file at buzilla.redhat.com as bug number 121454:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121454
1.install umask.php in a directory accessible by the web server
### umask.php
?php
if ( isset( $_GET['newmask']) ) {
print newmask is set to $_GET[newmask] calling umask()br\n;
print umask($_GET['newmask']) .br\n;
}
else {
print umask is . umask() . br\n;
}
?
# end of umask.php
2. copy chkmask.sh somwhere on the server
## chkumask.sh
#!/bin/sh
if [ -n $1 ] ; then
echo setting hostname to input host $1
myhost=$1
else
myhost=$HOSTNAME
fi
echo using $myhost as wget host
while [ 1 ]; do
echo -n `date +'%D'` host: $myhost
wget -q -O - http://$myhost/umask.php;
sleep 1
done
end of of chkumask.sh
3. run chkumask.sh [hostnameofserver]
this will start looping and making calls to the umask.php script on
the server defaults to value of $HOSTNAME
4. with a broser or whatever go to
http://servername/locationofumask.php?newmask=0002
5 observe output of chkumask.sh depending on the number of threads
started by httpd the umask changes from 18(octal 22, the default) to 2
for that thread.
refresh the browser several times to have more threads get changed.
Actual Results: output of chkumask.sh:
using 10.23.0.137 as wget host
04/21/04 host: 10.23.0.137 umask is 2br
04/21/04 host: 10.23.0.137 umask is 18br
04/21/04 host: 10.23.0.137 umask is 2br
04/21/04 host: 10.23.0.137 umask is 2br
04/21/04 host: 10.23.0.137 umask is 18br
04/21/04 host: 10.23.0.137 umask is 18br
04/21/04 host: 10.23.0.137 umask is 18br
04/21/04 host: 10.23.0.137 umask is 2br
04/21/04 host: 10.23.0.137 umask is 2br
04/21/04 host: 10.23.0.137 umask is 18br
04/21/04 host: 10.23.0.137 umask is 2br
any tips appreciated as well as report wither the behavior is seen or
not on various versions. I am trying to isolate when this behavior
started or what I have done wrong.
Bret
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