Re: [PHP] Retaining data across multiple sites

2002-02-20 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hey Ben: Ben Sinclair wrote: These are all workable solutions Not really. JavaScrap and cookies are not a solution. They're a quick answer which doesn't work 100% of the time. *IF* you're going to use sessions, use a URL based session ID, which will work in 100% of browsers. Not all

Re: [PHP] how to pass variable and an internal link

2002-02-20 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hey Sergio: Jena wrote: how can I pass either the internal anchor and the variable in the url? I tried in many ways echo a href=\page.php#my_anchor?variable= . $my_variable . \go to/a; echo a href=\page.php?variable= . $my_variable . #my_anchor\go to/a; This URL works for me:

Re: [PHP] getenv $REMOTE_ADDR

2002-02-20 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hi Steven: Steven Walker wrote: Does anybody know why the predefined variable $REMOTE_ADDR would be null, while getenv(REMOTE_ADDR) works fine? Put register_globals on via your php.ini or .htaccess file. In php.ini, change register_globals = Off to register_globals = On Enjoy,

Re: [PHP] textarea form input converting lt; and gt; to

2002-02-20 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hi Byron: Byron Albert wrote: The major problem here is that some times we want lt; and some times we want to input html tags. The solution depends on what you're trying to do. What's your goal. Are you using the text area to store full web pages, or examples of how to write HTML, or

Re: [PHP] dealing with MSWord curly quotes in text

2002-02-20 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hey Austin: text has been edited in MSWord and the quotes that it uses get turned into question marks. does anyone know a way to convert these MSWord quotes to normal marks? Replace the nasties with preg... $Data = preg_replace('/[\x93\x94]/', '', $Data); I figured out the Hex

[PHP] exec()/PGP: long file names, hanging.

2002-02-19 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hi Folks: Upgraded today from 4.0.7-dev to 4.1.1 on my Windows NT / Apache system in hopes of eliminating a problem I'm having. But, doing so brought up another problem... First, I found that in my 4.1.1 implementation, I had to use short file names when running PGP in an exec() statement. In

Re: [PHP] Form Data History

2002-02-11 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Howdy Steven: Steven Walker wrote: If data is missing or incorrect, the user is alerted to 'go back'... but upon going back in history, all the data that was in the form is lost. This did not occur on my regular not-secure web server. Page caching. You can alter that through the header()

Re: [PHP] Forms and IE

2002-02-10 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hi Sean: Sean Hurley wrote: Agree input type=checkbox name=agree[] value=agree I Do Not Agree input type=checkbox name=disagree value=disagree if ($agree) /* (I have tried this also with ($isset = $agree)) */ { header (location: ?link=form); } else { header (location: /LETS); }

Re: [PHP] attachment problem

2002-02-09 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hi Olev: There are several threads on this in the archives. In fact it was discussed just the other day. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=engroup=php.general Put mime email into the search criteria and that discussion is the third one down. Enjoy, --Dan -- PHP scripts

Re: [PHP] Verisign / Payflow Pro

2002-02-07 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hi Ed: I saw PHP has built-in support for Cybercash, but that Verisign has purchased them. It looks like I'll have to go with Payflow Pro, but I'm wondering if PHP has built-in support, available modules, or what the best approach is. Any recommendations? PHP does indeed have support for

Re: [PHP] Calling PHP function from Perl - as external program

2002-02-07 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hey Vaclav: Vaclav Muchna wrote: system('/fullpath/ob', '100'); produce this message: X-Powered-By: PHP/4.1.0 Content-type: text/html No input file specified. but, when i remove -q parametr from ob, it procude this message: X-Powered-By: PHP/4.1.0 Content-type: text/html #!

Re: [PHP] How to find out what country the visitor comes from

2002-02-07 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hi: SED wrote: I'm trying to find out what country the visitor comes from to offer them suitable language $HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR or gethostbyaddr($REMOTE_ADDR) Domain names and IP's are NOT the way to go. Way to unreliable. Use the HTTP header

Re: [PHP] How to Configure the MySql Database?

2002-02-07 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Mr K: Karadamoglou Kostas wrote: I don't know to configure MySql Database On Apache Server in Windows System. What I must do? (step by step) Read my MySQL Basics tutorial: http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/code/mybasic.htm. It's a really straight ahead, step by step explanation on how to

Re: [PHP] Re: automatic forward URL to other URL

2002-02-07 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Folks: Baloo :0) wrote: header(Location:www.mydomain2.com); The header funcion really requires a fully qualified URI, and needs a space, so make that header(Location: http://www.mydomain2.com/;); Later, --Dan -- PHP scripts that make your job easier

Re: [PHP] Creating Tab-Delimited Text File

2002-02-07 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Phillip S. Baker wrote: Greetings All, What I want to do is create a tab-delimited text file for download from records in a database. Construct then execute the desired query http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-query.php Loop through each record, putting each row into an

Re: [PHP] http://

2002-02-07 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hi John: jtjohnston wrote: I'm looking for a function that will find occurences of urls in any given string and do this: http://www.nowhere.com/ becomes a href=http://www.nowhere.com/;http://www.nowhere.com//a ?php $Val = body of text you want to process...; $Val =

Re: [PHP] Sending MIME emails with base64 encoded attachments

2002-02-06 Thread Analysis and Solutions
]'; # from address $Name = 'Analysis and Solutions'; # your name $FileName = 'email.attach.test'; # should be a .zip file # don't include file extension $InDir = '.'; # directory where file can be found # Used for purposes of this example, # but set another way in my real script

Re: [PHP] RE: RE: Sending MIME emails with base64 encoded attachments

2002-02-06 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hey Petr: 2) I realize that in string obtained by fread() the following characters are changed: #0 () - #92#48 (\0) #34 () - #92#34 (\) #39 (') - #92#39 (\') #92 (\) - #92#92 (\\) WAIT A SECOND! You've got the magic_quotes_runtime configuration variable

Re: [PHP] PHP / MYSQL security bug

2002-02-05 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hi Folks: Gerard Onorato wrote on the PHP-GENERAL mailing list: Security Advisory DW020203-PHP Release: 3rd February 2002 PHP Safe Mode Filesystem Circumvention Problem ... snip ... FIX Currently, no fix exists. ... snip ... A suggested fix for the PHP developers might be to scan

Re: [PHP] Duplicate e-mails

2002-02-05 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hi Anthony: Anthony Rodriguez wrote: The following php script sends two (2) e-mails to each addressee. Why? I'll bet the email addresses in question are listed in the table twice. Open up a MySQL command line prompt and enter select * from con_inf; to make sure. To keep this from

Re: [PHP] Collecting Meta Tags and Traping Errors

2002-02-04 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hi Philip: Several problems... ?php $get_url = http://www.philipsdomain.com;; Put a / on the end there. Without it, you're not really hitting a page, but rather a redirect to a page. $metatags= get_meta_tags($get_url,1); echo $metatags[Keywords]; The manual indicates that the key

Re: [PHP] Redirect problem.... UGH!!

2002-02-04 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hi Robert: Perhaps you can help, since my posts don't seem to be making it to the newsgroup. I have been trying to use readfile() or header() to load another PHP... Check the archives: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=engroup=php.general Good luck, --Dan -- PHP scripts

Re: [PHP] Collecting Meta Tags and Traping Errors

2002-02-04 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hi Philip: Philip J. Newman wrote: ?php $get_url = http://www.philipsdomain.com/;; $metatags = get_meta_tags($get_url,1); echo $metatags['keywords']; echo $metatags[description]; ? This code works perfectly for me, on an NT 4 machine using PHP 4.0.7 dev. Oh, perfectly, spare the fact

Re: [PHP] Redirect problem.... UGH!!

2002-01-30 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Ben: ? #Header(Location: index.html); ? You need to put the complete URL, not just the file name. By the way, folks, DON'T use JavaScript for redirection (or other essential navigational stuff). Plenty of people out there keep Java'Scrap turned off for security and privacy reasons.

[PHP] Apache PHP File Disclosure Vuln

2002-01-28 Thread Analysis and Solutions
Hi Folks: I haven't been reading the list lately. I went to the mailing list archives on Google and MARC to see what's been said about the Apache Win32 PHP.EXE Remote File Disclosure Vulnerability. I was surprised to find only one post to the php-dev list: As I responded on Bugtraq, this is,