Ok, you got the obligatory 'wrong list' comments. It is the wrong list, but
for the sake of public completeness... how about an answer to the question.
You can put it anywhere but a couple of considerations:
1. I believe if you put it AFTER where the JS functions defined in that block
are
The age old question... is it that time of the year again already?
Some reviews and lists:
http://www.php-editors.com/
I've used Zend Studio for years, and really like it, but lately I've gotten
tired of the java virtual machine seeming to hog tons of system resources.
I've also used Crimson
Very weird and counter intuitive. Looking at the php manual, I see this:
Converting to integer from floating point:
When converting from float to integer, the number will be rounded towards
zero.
But you'd think the multiplication would happen before the rounding.
if you do:
$a = ceil(75.82
Probably return 7582 instead of 7581.
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On 8/1/07, Mark Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This sort of thing really isn't helpful...
?php
$a = 75.82 * 100;
echo intval($a);
?
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I'm not sure that there's actually anything you'd need to access in the server
registry (and certainly no registry in Linux if you're also transitioning from
Windows to Linux). And depending on what the ActiveX control your ASP pages
accessed actually does, it may be better to recreate it in
Yeah, that could be one thing that the ASP/ActiveX combo need to access the
registry for.. but if he's replacing ASP with PHP and if the ActiveX control
doesn't do anything he can't re-create in PHP, then there's no need to verify
that anything relating to ASP or ActiveX is registered and
View the source and trace through the javascript.
Looks like it has to do with:
function openLogin()
Which calls:
dojo.require(dojo.widget.Dialog);
and..
floatingWindow = dojo.widget.createWidget(Dialog, properties, node);
and..
floatingWindow.setContent(iframe (bunch of stuff)/iframe);
First, funny that you say that from a Gmail account, where top-posting is
encouraged by the mail system.
Second, and not to get into a big discussion about top vs bottom posting, but I
top-post because typically if I'm involved in a conversation, I know what's
been said already and don't want
Excellent information Jim! Thanks a ton! I really wish I knew linux more
intimately so I knew what was a vital organ and what was an appendix :)
Your suggestions sound like exactly what I'm looking for. Greatly appreciated!
Actually.. one question. Won't it try to set up a swap partition?
Thanks for the suggestions.. but again, the question wasn't what distro of
linux to use. And I don't mind upgrading things. The question is what would
someone recommend for a really small distro of linux preferably with the bare
essentials + apache, mysql, php and samba.
Failing that, I'll
Thanks again for the info, Jim. will look into the 'install to flash drive'
information. Technically that's not what I'm doing, just want to store the
virtual machine on the flash drive, but the installation instructions should be
tight enough to be pertinent still.
I think you got close
logic is subjective.
When I read Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion., I already
knew what you were talking about without having to read the question.. because
I knew what was being discussed in this thread. If it wasn't an answer to my
original question, then it was about
Ok, done all my googling and experimenting, now I'm tossing it to you guys.
Can anyone recommend a small, no frills, LAMP-centric linux package/distro?
What I'm doing is setting up a test/development environment in a VMWare virtual
machine to keep things all nice and comparmentalized. It's
Yeah, I took a quick look at Damn Small Linux. And have been playing around
with Puppy Linux (which is pretty cool too).
I may end up using one of those. Wanted to see if there was a distro with
everything built into it already (Damn Small seems to have a lot of average
user apps and not
Yeah.. I'm aware. As I stated in my original email:
Ideally I'd like to keep using my traditional Windows apps to do
development...
I'm comfortable moving around in linux, but the tools and OS I choose to use
are all Windows-centric. But instead of installing Apache and PHP and MySQL
on my
Don't forget that in cases like the one below, you can use the list() function
to tighten things up a bit:
$start_date='2007-06-20';
list($start_year, $start_month, $start_day) = explode('-',$start_date);
I prefer using the date functions that some of the other people mentioned and
only use
Could try something like this:
$types = array('T', 'D', 'L');
if (in_array($type, $types)) {
// do something
}
But that's going to just check to see if $type is one of the valid types you're
looking for.
You might try something like switch.
switch ($type) {
case 'T':
// Output 'T'
double pipes constitutes an OR operation. You can use the keyword OR as
well. Also, and AND are the same as well.
http://us.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.logical.php
-TG
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Excellent! Double pipes to seperate possible multiple variable values.
lock in
Mom! Dad! Stop fighting!
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On 5/22/07, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yours is the least maintainable.
Hehe.. with 4 times as many lines of code and 160% more bytes of code overall?
cat locale.php|grep -v ^$|wc -l
16
cat simple.php|grep -v
Don't know if it'll do what you want it to do...and if you're using Joomla, it
might be tricky (or not... havn't messed with Joomla enough to know) to insert
it into the system in a meaningful way.. but check out this:
FirePHP:
http://www.firephp.org/
Works with Firebug Firefox extension to
When you load your data into your array, you can use the timezone (or whatever
field you're using to sort) as the array key, then use ksort().
Check the see also for a bunch of other types of sorting you can do.
When it comes to the multisorts and user defined sorts, I'm at a bit of a
In my data scrubbing function, I pass it a content type (phone, city, SSN,
etc), do whatever scrubbing/filtering I'm going to do on that type of content,
then after everything's done, then I do the mysql_real_escape_string() on it
and return that to where the function was called.
That way,
I had some issue when I tried CSV in the past. I don't know if there was some
issue with use of commas in the data and not getting Excel to properly use
some data, with commas, some more data so that it'd omit the quotes as well
or what. In the end, for the quick and dirty throwaway project I
Mom! Dad! Please don't fight!
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On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 22:04 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote:
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 9:54 pm, Robert Cummings wrote:
You say Using tables for layout *is* a hack. Unfortunately for you
tables were intended for laying out tabular
Or, even better and more useful:
http://pear.php.net/package/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
It's not perfect, but it does the basic job.
Also, if you output an HTML table and set the content type in your header to an
Excel content type, it should ask the client PC to open the page in Excel
Couple of questions come to mind...
1. How big is this template that you're loading? Not sure why almost any HTML
file would take up 300+ meg of memory when loaded into a variable. Are you
loading images and other content in as well or just the HTML file?
2. Replacing the placeholders with
Stut beat me to it... downloading multiple files at once is probably best done
with compressing them and just downloading the one file.
You could possibly rig a situation where the user downloaded one file, then a
certain number of seconds later, the page redirects to the next file to
Does this mean we need to start lobbying against connectionless protocols like
HTTP so we can better download multiple files? hah
And POP3 probably existed long before the old BBS', so it's not that things got
LESS efficient, it's just that we didn't NEED to bundle bunches of emails
together
Unset works, but if he's trying to do a search and remove in one function,
unset is a step removed from that criteria (missing the 'search' part).
Looking at the array functions, I see some potential.
# array_remove(array(1=2,2=3),2,true); // array (2=3)
// Keep all but where values = 2
In addition to the suggestions made, check out opendir() too. It may be a
little simpler for what you're doing. Not sure.
Remember, the beauty of PHP is that there's almost always a fuction or two
already made that do what you want. Even some semi-obscure stuff. So always
scan through the
Just glad this wasn't my grociey list or something worse. hah.. sent to the
wrong address, my apologies.
But for anyone looking for some good tradeskill craft recipe lists for World of
Warcraft or for ways to help their Firefox be a little nicer on memory usage,
there ya go.
*shame*
-TG
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Turn on MAGIC QUOTES and REGISTER GLOBALS
Once you've done that, install Postgres. Run your MySQL command again,
Postgres has much better error reporting and will assist in debugging the
situation.
You might consider replacing your javascript functions with PHP ones since JS
can sometimes
Top-posting is sublime. Embrace it. Why scroll through 10 pages of emails
you've already read when you can get to the meat of it all in the first few
lines of an email? :)
Plus trying to quickly separate all the previous replies from the latest one
when some emailers indent, indent with
Sorry, I only saw the one response to this question so not sure if what I'm
going to propose was already mentioned and wouldn't work.
Two things come to mind.. first, it looks like blocoTextoLast just has
different margin settings, I assume because it's located on the right side of
the page
I think you're probably doing what almost all of us have done. Get an idea,
see PHP as a potential solution and decided to just dive right in. I don't
think many people start out in a classroom style Hello World situation and
build slowly onto that.
I'm sure other people have better starter
As mentioned, this isn't a PHP issue really, except a little bit on the
receiving end.
Why not use multiple 'submit' buttons instead of using HREF links?
input type=submit name=action value=Add
input type=submit name=action value=Edit
input type=submit name=action value=Remove
In PHP, you'd
I agree with Tijnema on the fact that visual positioning doesn't really matter
to the bots. They don't really see the page the way we see it. Most tricks
you're going to try using HTML and JS are going to be readable by a bot.
You could take your example and replace the alert() with a
Maybe I'm missing something.. if the intent is to have 'hidden' fields that a
user would end up submitting but a bot wouldn't.. that wouldn't work very well.
A bot could easily see the hidden fields and submit them along with whatever
other data they were sending.
If the intention is to
hah.. I was going to let this discussion die a bit because a lot of it is
fairly off-topic. But here and there we've hit on some PHP specific topics.
I just had to say Kudos to tedd for providing a fairly interesting and possibly
very functional CAPTCHA solution. True, a simple blue dot could
Ah ok.. that makes a bit more sense. Even still.. anyone who's going out of
their way to program a bot to defeat your specific CAPTCHA mechanism will
probably notice the failure in testing.
Unless you made a failure behave similar to a success but put them in a
situation where ultimately they
Good topic. It's touched on here and there in other questions, but always good
to hit it head-on from time to time too.
First, mysql_real_escape_string() for inserting into MySQL and whatever equiv
you can find for whatever other database you may be using. addslashes() isn't
so hot for
You can pass session ID data via the URL. Ugly as it is, that's a viable
option (that I see used a lot actually.. kinda drives me nuts but I understand
it) for when you don't have people logging in and/or can't guarentee that
cookies will be available.
As was mentioned a few times, CAPTCHA
It played the same sequence for me when I re-clicked the Play button.. until I
went away for a min or two and my session probably timed out. Did it not play
the same sequence for you?
-TG
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Just a really quick check right now is all I have time for, but it
looks
Not bad. Seems to work nicely. No OMGWTF! obvious slips like naming the MP3
with the digits the user needs to enter.
Worked fine in Firefox 1.5 too. Sometimes when audio is embedded in a page, it
tries to load Windows Media Player or something which doesn't always work well
in Firefox without
I've seen an issue similar to this a few times recently. It involved a phpBB
board I log onto periodically. It seems that the server is really slow and
after what seems to be a timeout period, sometimes I'll get a download request
in Firefox. If I let it download, I get an empty file. I
I don't think there's a way to do it with SQL in MySQL. Jay's talking about a
substring search within a field and what you really want is to know if two
whole rows (multiple columns) within a database are similar or not.
You could pull in all the data and use PHP to figure out what's similar
Different strokes for different folks...
Might I toss a new recommendation into the mix?
SELECT text FROM fortunes ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1;
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N~~meth Zolt~~n wrote:
2007. 02. 20, kedd keltez~~ssel 08.17-kor Jim Lucas ezt ~~rta:
Mike Shanley wrote:
I'd like to
Ah.. sorry Jay. I had like 8,000 emails today and must have missed some of the
original responses.
Or maybe I'm just trying to look smart by riding on your coat-tails. Either
way, apologies for the repeated information.
-TG
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[snip]
Different strokes for
As referenced in the manual ( http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.echo.php ),
check out this url:
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/1/fid/40
Short story, there is a difference, but the speed difference is negligable.
If anyone cares, I prefer echo too. Not sure why. Shorter
negligible.. blarg spelling. :)
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As referenced in the manual ( http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.echo.php ),
check out this url:
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/1/fid/40
Short story, there is a difference, but the speed difference is
You could use addslashes():
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.addslashes.php
Or, the code you mentioned below, could be rewritten like:
str_replace(\,\\,$code);
or
str_replace('','\',$code);
And if you're doing it for a MySQL query call, then you want to use
mysql-real-escape-string()
For downward rounding, you'd always want to use floor() and use ceil() for
rounding up. round() rounds up on a 5, down on a 4 and below.
Example:
echo round(141.074, 2); // 141.07
echo round(141.065, 2); // 141.07
I thought round() (or maybe it was a rounding function in another language or
hah yeah, always worth a little skepticism, but it seemed to make some kind of
sense. If you always round up or always round down, that's obviously not
right and you end up losing potentially a lot of money or over-estimating the
money involved.
Founding up for 5 through 9 and down for 0
Ok, screw work.. it's snowing out anyway (not that that makes a real difference
to doing PHP work inside), curiosity got the better of me.
btw.. the banker rounding code here was pulled from the round() manual page.
It's not what I read before, but it's the same concept:
function
Ahh.. good call.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding
Apprently it's called banker's rounding or statistician's rounding and is a
little more complicated than just looking at the odd/even of the digit being
arounded.
This is starting to get into some heavy math theory and scary stuff that
I don't buy zero doesn't count. But again, this is getting into serious
math. It should be good enough to say 0-4 = 0, 5-9 = 10, but if you don't keep
strict high precision throughout the whole process and round at every step,
things are going to be off no matter what. It's just a matter of
$num = 749;
$rounded = round($num * 2, -3) / 2;
echo $rounded;
-TG
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Is there an easy way in php to round to the nearest 500?
So if I have 600, I 500 and if I have 800 I want 1000?
Thanks!
___
Sent by
Lots of good recommendations have been made.. I just wanted to toss one more
into the mix. It hasn't been updated in years, but does a fantastic job, and
so far I havn't been lured by Notepad++ or any of the others enough (even after
trying them) to switch. Check out Crimson Editor when you
Paul's probably right.. putting the sorting values in a table would be eaiser
to maintain. I don't know what I was thinking with the whole then you don't
HAVE to create a table. Both ways work.. but especially if you think the
positions may change, then it'll be tons easier to update if
Exactly what I was going to mention, Brad. Here's some more info.
Quoted from PHP manual for urlencode():
Returns a string in which all non-alphanumeric characters except -_. have been
replaced with a percent (%) sign followed by two hex digits and spaces encoded
as plus (+) signs. It is
Well, kind of ugly but you can do something like this:
SELECT Position, CASE Position WHEN 'CEO' THEN 1 WHEN 'COO' THEN 2 WHEN 'CFO'
THEN 3 WHEN 'HR' THEN 4 ELSE 99 END AS PositionSort
FROM SomeTable
ORDER BY PositionSort
That way you're not creating a whole new table to store the sorting
I'll let everyone else do the why the hell are you doing this? security blah
blah! bad practice blah blah! type stuff.. I'm sure there will be plenty.
One reason this may be happening is, depending on your browser, there's a limit
to the number of characters you can have in a URL.
That seems
Not too many ads on the pages after you find what you're searching for, and
mostly just some ads by google type stuff.
Speaking of Google.. you can also go here for PHP code searching.. I do all my
cod (sic) searching there! Fresh!
My contribution to the insanity.. INSERT statements made easy:
$genericQY = INSERT INTO MOD_LMGR_Leads (; $genericQYvalues = VALUES (;
$genericQY .= FirstName,; $genericQYvalues .= 'John',;
$genericQY .= LastName; $genericQYvalues .= 'Smith';
Strangely enough, Stut and Jochem, I DO find this more readable. Hah. I know,
I'm insane. I have done it the way you guys proposed, using an associative
array and using the keys and values as the columns and insert values. While
that is what I'd call tighter code and when you understand what
If there isn't a function to do exactly what you want, you could use dec2bin()
to at least get the binary and work from there:
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.decbin.php
-TG
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Is there a php function I can call to pass in a number and get the values
returned?
Best wishes John! We'll hold the fort and keep fighting the good fight in your
absence. :)
Good luck to ya!
-TG
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Howdy ladies and gents:
For the past 9 or so years, with one email account or another, I have
been subscribed to the PHP General Mailing List.
God I love this list.. great answers everyone! (serious and non-serious :)
In addition to the editors listed, here's a few more to consider:
Crimson Editor - my personal favorite when I don't need code completion. Code
highlights for many different types of code (including my beloved LUA files
MD5 is a hasing algorithm.. one-way.. really only good for checking known
values and keeping them 'private', like storing passwords in a database. That
way, if someone breaks into your database, they don't get the passwords, only
the non-reversible MD5 hashes of the passwords.
To check a
Still.. that has nothing to do with how well known MD5 is (so I stand by my
point).All these databases are is a giant list of pre-MD5'd strings. Brute
force stuff, no magic behind it that allows for reversing MD5. You could
technically do that with just about any crypto or hashing system.
First.. I apologize for power-reading your message and not really grasping
everything you're trying to do. From the responses, it sounds like my vote
would be for PDF as well, being a very universal format and very easy to work
with and makes small enough for your needs. If a file is still
I'm guessing the SMS system is rejecting the email because it's lacking some
headers that mail programs tend to use... and spammers sometimes forget.
You might send your email from Thunderbird.. CC yourself on it. Verify that it
went through as a text message, then open the CC'd copy and look
Maybe phpMailer isn't sending the correct headers either. Sometimes all it
takes is one missing header that a system is looking for and it may filter it
as spam or something.
Again, I encourage you to examine the headers from your Thunderbird good
email and compare it to your PHP and/or
I thought the same thing as Jochem... that resources like database connections,
couldn't be stored in $_SESSION. You say that's how you have (had?) it set up
and it was working, but still sounds wrong to me.
As for connections.. definitely don't open a new connection every time you run
a
You'll probably get 50 answers to this, but here's probably what happened.
There's a setting called register globals that will turn your name=me and
age=27 into $name = me and $age = 27. It used to be turned ON by default.
This was generally considered to be bad security, so it now defaults
Yeah, this is exactly what we do at my work. We have a license for PDFLib and
essentually we load blank forms and then say take this text and position it at
this location. Kind of like putting words on a clear piece of acetate and
overlaying it on top of a piece of paper.
If I recall, we had
I would guess this would depend highly on how you're displaying the data.
Let's set up a scenario:
1. Full results come out to say, 100 records.
2. Searched item is #53 in the result set.
Your choices for displaying the data could be one of the following:
* One big web page, jumping to the
Ha! Mine too! How long before this secret gets out and our apps all start
imploding??
Technically this is true. You can't do AJAX with PHP4. Or PHP5. Not the
AJAX part at least, since it's all handled in Javascript.What gets
returned to the AJAX app and what it interacts with on the
Not sure why it does it, but doesn't seem to be a huge deal. I'm guessing it's
because an empty string is still a string. It's not null.
Anyway, it's documented at:
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php
A user writes:
If you split an empty string, you get back a one-element array
So you have two single table votes.. make this a third. I'm guessing that
each time you collect data, it's going to be one of each piece of data every
time.
Temperature, barametric pressure, humidity, wind direction, etc. You're not
going to have 5 things all the time and like 3 other
I hate you all. Screw PHP. I'm switching to Cold Fusion.
:)
PS. Puppies are good with ketchup.
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tedd wrote:
At 3:50 PM -0500 12/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm going to be controversial here and take issue with both of you.
2. Pointing out someone's
To view a video, you do have to download it. But you don't have to download all
of it at once.
If a user did have to download the whole video and you still wanted to protect
it, you'd want to look into some kind of DRM (digital rights management)
solution probably.
YouTube and similar
Cheers tedd! Thanks for coming around. Life's too short to stress about
stuff like this. There's always going to be people who don't understand (after
all.. HE WASNT THERE MAN! sorry.. I couldn't help it :) I wasn't there
either so my turn to be village idiot for a moment.. forgive the
I'm going to be controversial here and take issue with both of you.
1. The original question was about a hosting provider. Presumably a PHP web
hosting provider. So it is vaguely on-topic and is a question that's asked a
lot. It's easy to get a list of hosting providers online, but I believe
I'm going to be controversial here and take issue with both of you.
1. The original question was about a hosting provider. Presumably a PHP web
hosting provider. So it is vaguely on-topic and is a question that's asked a
lot. It's easy to get a list of hosting providers online, but I believe
If you didn't say using regex this is how I'd do it (untested, forgive typos
and such..ripped from some code I actively use and stripped down):
?PHP
$_XML_RESPONSE_PARSER = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($_XML_RESPONSE_PARSER,
'xml_response_open_element_function',
You'd assume those ENV variables are secure.. or secure enough. I know
there's no such thing as perfect security, but I still wonder if there's a
better way.
Although at this point, if there was a way to read other process/subprocess ENV
variables, it'd most likely be something an attacker
Without using cookies or session information, you're going to go through your
picture list faster depending on how many users are accessing the random pic
page. If you don't make it user-specific, then it doesn't really matter if you
go through the images sequentially.. it may appear random on
If you did use ENV to set the username and password, you could always unset it
using the same method after you ran the mysql command. So it'd only be exposed
for a very brief period of time and slightly less accessible than just running
a process list.
It still falls under the category of
Would it be possible, Jochem, to just make a shell script that does the call to
mysql and have PHP exec() the shell script?
I don't know if you'd have the same problem or not. I've never done something
like this in *nix and paid attention to the process list.
Also, I'm guessing you're seeing
Ah.. makes sense. Good old DOS is stupid enough not to card most times. You
can create a text file with a Y in it, and redirect it into a command like:
del . y.txt
Guess that's not a pipe technically. And some commands may be smart enough to
prevent something like this.
Thanks for the
Doesn't look like the content type is set properly. Here's another link that
may be useful (from Zend themselves!) maybe that can help you out a bit.
Content type and setting the xml version and DOCTYPE in the header are all
fairly important.
Also, if I recall.. Firefox and/or Opera (not IE)
WAP is just a sort of XML specific to creating 'cards' and content for cell
phones. I did some stuff a few years ago, was even in line to teach a class at
a local training institute.
Once you figure out what structure you want to use for your cards and all that,
the PHP stuff is really
Ah.. grat pull! I did forget about that one. Good stuff, thanks! And yes,
that appears to be the address.
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On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 17:11 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.w3schools.com/wap/
Also, don't forget hawhaw. I think it lives at
As Rasmus said, they filter as much as they can on the list.
But consider this... if someone's machine is infected and they below to this
email list, it can harvest your email address and either spam (or send malware)
from their PC to you or send your email address to somewhere else where it
As Rasmus said, they filter as much as they can on the list.
But consider this... if someone's machine is infected and they below to this
email list, it can harvest your email address and either spam (or send malware)
from their PC to you or send your email address to somewhere else where it
As Rasmus said, they filter as much as they can on the list.
But consider this... if someone's machine is infected and they below to this
email list, it can harvest your email address and either spam (or send malware)
from their PC to you or send your email address to somewhere else where it
As Rasmus said, they filter as much as they can on the list.
But consider this... if someone's machine is infected and they below to this
email list, it can harvest your email address and either spam (or send malware)
from their PC to you or send your email address to somewhere else where it
http://www.winbinder.com
much better than GTK if you work on Windows platforms and want standalone PHP
apps :)
And I can't find it now, but a few years ago when I was dipping my toe into the
ASP.NET world to try to be compliant with Existing standards in a company I
worked for (before
There is no practical way to 'decrypt' an MD5 hash. It is meant to be a
one-way encoding of data to produce a (mostly) unique ID. It does a lot better
job than some of it's predecessors like CRC32, in producing a unique ID, but
apparently it still has a very slim possibility of generating the
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