Re: [PHP] Sessions seems to kill db connection

[kranthi]

>> Db error: Access denied for user 'www-data'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

>> WTF? I´m not using a user called www-data for MySQL connections, but apache 
>> runs as this user

in the case where $test is true there is an open mysql connection, but
when $test is false there is no open connection is  available. may be
you have opened a connection when $test is true or used a
mysql_close() when $test is false or when $_SESSION['login']['uid'] is
set.

regarding www-data, when mysql_query() fails to find a valid MySql
connection, it tries to open a new connection with mysql.default_user
and mysql.default_password (u can see these values trough phpinfo());
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php

this used to be the behavior earlier, seems it was changed from PHP > 5.3.0

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Re: [PHP] php mail() function

[Paul M Foster]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 09:11:25PM -0700, James Prentice wrote:

> I found the mail server for my ISP (shawmail.vc.shawcable.net) and
> edited main.cf in the following manner:
> 
> myhostname = shawcable.net
> relayhost = [shawmail.vc.shawcable.net]
> 
> I still don't receive the mail from the PHP script though. The error
> log from /var/log/mail.log is this:
> 
> Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/pickup[7044]: 6CA44A70109: uid=33
> from=
> Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/cleanup[7107]: 6CA44A70109:
> message-id=<20091024040031.6ca44a70...@shawcable.net>
> Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/qmgr[7045]: 6CA44A70109:
> from=, size=527, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/error[7109]: 6CA44A70109:
> to=, relay=none, delay=0.04, delays=0.03/0/0/0.01,
> dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced ([shawmail.vc.shawcable.net])
> Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/cleanup[7107]: 75517A7010A:
> message-id=<20091024040031.75517a70...@shawcable.net>
> Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/bounce[7110]: 6CA44A70109: sender
> non-delivery notification: 75517A7010A
> Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/qmgr[7045]: 75517A7010A: from=<>,
> size=2219, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/qmgr[7045]: 6CA44A70109: removed
> Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/error[7109]: 75517A7010A:
> to=, relay=none, delay=0.03,
> delays=0.02/0/0/0.01, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced
> ([shawmail.vc.shawcable.net])
> Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/qmgr[7045]: 75517A7010A: removed
> 
> Have I edited main.cf incorrectly, or are there other values that need
> to be edited?

1. Not sure why you have square brackets around the relayhost value.

2. You're getting a bounce from the ISP's mail server, one indicating it
still won't allow relay.

3. I suspect the relayhost name is wrong. This may be the name you find
in the mail headers on messages relayed to you, but I doubt it's the one
you should use to post to. I could be wrong, though.

4. All due respect to Kranthi, but I believe he's wrong about relaying
mail from your webserver to the ISP's mailserver. I believe the ISP's
mailserver doesn't care, as long as the mail comes from your "pipe". You
could probably call yourself "pi...@pepperoni.com" and your ISP would
accept it. It's just the From:. Again, I could be wrong.

5. This would be a lot simpler if you just call Shaw and ask them for
the name of the mailserver, and ask them if it's a problem for you to
post mail from your internal webserver to their mailserver. Then ask
them why such posts might bounce with a 5XX error.

Paul

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Re: [PHP] php mail() function

[kranthi]

i never worked with postfix, but form my experience with hmail server
i can say that you need to relay through a mail account of ISP(not the
server itself)

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Re: [PHP] php mail() function

[James Prentice]

I found the mail server for my ISP (shawmail.vc.shawcable.net) and
edited main.cf in the following manner:

myhostname = shawcable.net
relayhost = [shawmail.vc.shawcable.net]

I still don't receive the mail from the PHP script though. The error
log from /var/log/mail.log is this:

Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/pickup[7044]: 6CA44A70109: uid=33
from=
Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/cleanup[7107]: 6CA44A70109:
message-id=<20091024040031.6ca44a70...@shawcable.net>
Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/qmgr[7045]: 6CA44A70109:
from=, size=527, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/error[7109]: 6CA44A70109:
to=, relay=none, delay=0.04, delays=0.03/0/0/0.01,
dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced ([shawmail.vc.shawcable.net])
Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/cleanup[7107]: 75517A7010A:
message-id=<20091024040031.75517a70...@shawcable.net>
Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/bounce[7110]: 6CA44A70109: sender
non-delivery notification: 75517A7010A
Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/qmgr[7045]: 75517A7010A: from=<>,
size=2219, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/qmgr[7045]: 6CA44A70109: removed
Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/error[7109]: 75517A7010A:
to=, relay=none, delay=0.03,
delays=0.02/0/0/0.01, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced
([shawmail.vc.shawcable.net])
Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/qmgr[7045]: 75517A7010A: removed

Have I edited main.cf incorrectly, or are there other values that need
to be edited?
Cheers

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:24 PM, James Prentice  wrote:
> How would I determine my ISP's SMPT server ID? And do I need to edit
> main.cf in order to use that server?
>
> Also, is there a way to test the script just sending an email locally?
> I tried sending the email to use...@localhost, but the email was still
> not received.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:15 PM, LinuxManMikeC  
> wrote:
>> The problem is you won't be trusted to deliver mail directly to most
>> mail servers unless you have a static IP.  Even then thats no
>> guarantee.  What you have to do is relay through your ISP's SMTP
>> server where you're "trusted".  You should also be able to setup PHP
>> to use your ISP's SMTP server and never touch the SMTP service on your
>> local machine (if you don't feel like playing with Postfix).
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:56 PM, James Prentice  
>> wrote:
>>> I'm trying to use the php mail() function to send a mail within a php
>>> script. This is using PHP 5.2.4 and Ubuntu Hardy Heron linux. The
>>> script runs fine and the return value of the mail function is TRUE,
>>> but the mail is never received. I'm trying to send an email to my
>>> gmail account via the local server on my machine, just to test if this
>>> script works.
>>>
>>> I installed postfix because I read in several places that people have
>>> had good luck with that mail program. From what I can tell, postfix is
>>> working. I can do:
>>>
>>> telnet localhost 25
>>> Trying 127.0.0.1...
>>> Connected to localhost.
>>> Escape character is '^]'.
>>> 220 homemade ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)
>>> ehlo localhost
>>> 250-homemade
>>> 250-PIPELINING
>>> 250-SIZE 1024
>>> 250-VRFY
>>> 250-ETRN
>>> 250-STARTTLS
>>> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
>>> 250-8BITMIME
>>> 250 DSN
>>>
>>> After the php script runs, I type 'mailq' and get the result 'mail
>>> queue is empty.' If I check /var/log/mail.log, this is what I see:
>>>
>>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/pickup[5735]: 2A31EA70109: uid=33
>>> from=
>>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/cleanup[7997]: 2A31EA70109:
>>> message-id=<20091022065435.2a31ea70...@homemade>
>>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 2A31EA70109:
>>> from=, size=499, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/error[7999]: 2A31EA70109:
>>> to=, relay=none, delay=0.04, delays=0.03/0/0/0.01,
>>> dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (gmail.com)
>>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/cleanup[7997]: 3217DA7010A:
>>> message-id=<20091022065435.3217da70...@homemade>
>>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 3217DA7010A: from=<>,
>>> size=2095, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/bounce[8000]: 2A31EA70109: sender
>>> non-delivery notification: 3217DA7010A
>>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 2A31EA70109: removed
>>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/local[8001]: 3217DA7010A:
>>> to=, relay=local, delay=0.03, delays=0/0.02/0/0.01,
>>> dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: procmail -a
>>> "$EXTENSION")
>>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 3217DA7010A: removed
>>>
>>> Any ideas? I am new both to php and postfix. Thanks for any help.
>>>
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Re: [PHP] How to pronounce PHP code over the phone?

[Dotan Cohen]

> But I think for the OP's purposes, he could simply DEFINE any word he wanted
> at the beginning of the conversation: "Listen up duder. When I say 'de-ref'
> you make hyphen and a greater-than sign. Capiche?". He could just as easily
> say, "Listen up duder. When I say 'arrow-thingy' you make hyphen and a
> greater-than sign. Capiche?"  Problem solved. ;-)
>

That is what was done, but I wanted to know if there was already some
agreed-upon language.


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Re: [PHP] Fedora 11 PHP install problems

[Kim Madsen]

Ashley Sheridan wrote on 2009-10-23 19:29:

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:29 -0400, Israel Ekpo wrote:


What about the error

libphp5.so: undefined symbol: OnUpdateLong

Are you still observing that error?


[removed a bunch of old posting]
Ashley, you quotefucker :-)


Well, I'm not compiling from the source now, I went back to trying to
use the Fedora repositories (which was the only reason I ended up trying
to compile from source in the first place)


If I'm not mistaken php had to be compiled with "--with-apxs" to use 
modules in Apache, did you do that?


Regarding the PHPmyAdmin, did you try to give the root user a password? 
Maybe it's a security feature in PHPmyAdmin. I don't know, havent been 
using that system since 1999 due to the terrrible handling of "" and 
null values, which caused severe trouble in an ISP i worked for before 
we figured out what was going on + i LOVE the tab completion in the 
MySQL commandline tool


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Re: [PHP] regex pattern for extracting URLs

[Ashley Sheridan]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:17 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 01:54:40PM -0400, Brad Fuller wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Ash you are awesome!
> 
> Brad, you're violating list rules. We never say that kind of thing to
> Ash *where he can hear it*. Only behind his back. ;-}
> 
> Paul
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> 


Well, it makes a refreshing change, off list people just want to insult
me :p

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

Re: [PHP] regex pattern for extracting URLs

[Paul M Foster]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 01:54:40PM -0400, Brad Fuller wrote:

> Thanks Ash you are awesome!

Brad, you're violating list rules. We never say that kind of thing to
Ash *where he can hear it*. Only behind his back. ;-}

Paul

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Re: [PHP] Sessions seems to kill db connection

[Kim Madsen]

Kim Madsen wrote on 2009-10-22 17:51:

Hi PHPeople

I have an odd problem at my new work and wonder if it's some sort of odd 
setup that is causing this problem when using sessions:


Like I said, my new work and odd setup, an include file had a 
mysql_close() in the bottom


Speaking of mysql_close(), I think I've read somewhere that in PHP6 a db 
connection will not be closed, when the script is done. Is this true? 
Cause then it would definetly be best practice to to _always_ have a 
mysql_close() in the end for the main file.


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Re: [PHP] regex pattern for extracting URLs

[Brad Fuller]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Israel Ekpo  wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Ashley Sheridan 
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:45 -0400, Brad Fuller wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Ashley Sheridan
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > >  On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:23 -0400, Brad Fuller wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I'm looking for a regular expression to accomplish a specific task.
>> > >
>> > > I'm hoping someone who's really good at regex patterns can lend a
>> > > quick hand.
>> > >
>> > > I need a regex pattern that will grab URLs out of HTML that have a
>> > > certain link text. (i.e. the word "Continue")
>> > >
>> > > This is what I have so far but it does not work properly (If there are
>> > > other attributes in the  tag it returns them as part of the URL.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > preg_match_all('#]*href\s*=\s*([\"\']+)([^>]+?)(\1|>)>Continue#i',
>> > > $html, $matches);
>> > >
>> > > It needs to be able to extract the URL and disregard arbitrary
>> > > attributes in the HTML tag
>> > >
>> > > Test it with the following examples:
>> > >
>> > > Continue
>> > > Continue
>> > > http://example.com/path/to/url.html";
>> > > class="link">Continue
>> > > http://example.com/path/to/url.html";
>> > > onlick="someFunction('foo','bar')">Continue
>> > >
>> > > Please reply
>> > >
>> > > Your help is much appreciated.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks in advance,
>> > > Brad F.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > preg_match_all('#]*href\s*=\s*[\"\']+([^\"\']+?).+?>Continue#i',
>> > > $html, $matches);
>> > >
>> > > I just changed your regex a bit. What your regex was previously doing
>> > > was
>> > > matching everything from the first quote after the href= right up
>> > > until the
>> > > first > it found, which would usually be the one that closes the
>> > > opening
>> > > tag. You could make it a bit more intelligent if you wished with
>> > > backreferencing to make sure it matches against the same type of
>> > > quotation
>> > > character it matched as the start of the href's value.
>> > >
>> > >   Thanks,
>> > > Ash
>> > > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> > I appreciate the help.  However, when try this I only get the first
>> > character of the URL.  Can you double check it please.
>> >
>> > Thanks again
>>
>>
>> I think it's probably the first ? in ([^\"\']+?)
>>
>> Remove that and it should do the trick
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ash
>> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>>
>>
>
> Hi Brad,
>
> I agree with Jim.
>
> Take a look at this. It might help.
>
> 
> $xml_string = << 
>     
>     
>     
>     
>     
>     http://example.com/path/to/urlA.html";>Continue
>     http://example.com/path/to/url2.html";>Brad Fuller
>     http://example.com/path/to/urlB.html";>Continue
>     http://example.com/path/to/url4.html";>PHP.net
>     http://example.com/path/to/urlC.html";
> class="link">Continue
>      href="http://example.com/path/to/urlD.html";
> onclick="someFunction('foo','bar')">Continue
>     
>     
> 
> TEXT_BOUNDARY;
>
> $xml = simplexml_load_string($xml_string);
>
> $continue_hrefs = $xml->xpath("//a[text() = 'Continue']/@href");
>
> print_r($continue_hrefs);
>
> ?>
>

Thanks, I'm sure I will use this at some point in the future :)

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Re: [PHP] regex pattern for extracting URLs

[Brad Fuller]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Ashley Sheridan
wrote:

>  On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:45 -0400, Brad Fuller wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Ashley Sheridan
> wrote:
>
> >  On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:23 -0400, Brad Fuller wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking for a regular expression to accomplish a specific task.
> >
> > I'm hoping someone who's really good at regex patterns can lend a quick 
> > hand.
> >
> > I need a regex pattern that will grab URLs out of HTML that have a
> > certain link text. (i.e. the word "Continue")
> >
> > This is what I have so far but it does not work properly (If there are
> > other attributes in the  tag it returns them as part of the URL.)
> >
> > 
> > preg_match_all('#]*href\s*=\s*([\"\']+)([^>]+?)(\1|>)>Continue#i',
> > $html, $matches);
> >
> > It needs to be able to extract the URL and disregard arbitrary
> > attributes in the HTML tag
> >
> > Test it with the following examples:
> >
> > Continue
> > Continue
> > http://example.com/path/to/url.html"; class="link">Continue
> > http://example.com/path/to/url.html";
> > onlick="someFunction('foo','bar')">Continue
> >
> > Please reply
> >
> > Your help is much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Brad F.
> >
> >
> >
> > preg_match_all('#]*href\s*=\s*[\"\']+([^\"\']+?).+?>Continue#i',
> > $html, $matches);
> >
> > I just changed your regex a bit. What your regex was previously doing was
> > matching everything from the first quote after the href= right up until the
> > first > it found, which would usually be the one that closes the opening
> > tag. You could make it a bit more intelligent if you wished with
> > backreferencing to make sure it matches against the same type of quotation
> > character it matched as the start of the href's value.
> >
> >   Thanks,
> > Ash
> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
>
> I appreciate the help.  However, when try this I only get the first
> character of the URL.  Can you double check it please.
>
> Thanks again
>
>
> I think it's probably the first ? in ([^\"\']+?)
>
> Remove that and it should do the trick
>
>   Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>
That did the trick.  Thanks Ash you are awesome!

Also thanks Jim for your suggestion.  I may move to SimpleXML if the project
grows much bigger.  But for now I was looking for a nice one liner and this
is it.

Cheers,
Brad

Re: [PHP] regex pattern for extracting URLs

[Israel Ekpo]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Ashley Sheridan
wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:45 -0400, Brad Fuller wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Ashley Sheridan
> > wrote:
> >
> > >  On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:23 -0400, Brad Fuller wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm looking for a regular expression to accomplish a specific task.
> > >
> > > I'm hoping someone who's really good at regex patterns can lend a quick
> hand.
> > >
> > > I need a regex pattern that will grab URLs out of HTML that have a
> > > certain link text. (i.e. the word "Continue")
> > >
> > > This is what I have so far but it does not work properly (If there are
> > > other attributes in the  tag it returns them as part of the URL.)
> > >
> > >
> preg_match_all('#]*href\s*=\s*([\"\']+)([^>]+?)(\1|>)>Continue#i',
> > > $html, $matches);
> > >
> > > It needs to be able to extract the URL and disregard arbitrary
> > > attributes in the HTML tag
> > >
> > > Test it with the following examples:
> > >
> > > Continue
> > > Continue
> > > http://example.com/path/to/url.html";
> class="link">Continue
> > > http://example.com/path/to/url.html";
> > > onlick="someFunction('foo','bar')">Continue
> > >
> > > Please reply
> > >
> > > Your help is much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Brad F.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> preg_match_all('#]*href\s*=\s*[\"\']+([^\"\']+?).+?>Continue#i',
> > > $html, $matches);
> > >
> > > I just changed your regex a bit. What your regex was previously doing
> was
> > > matching everything from the first quote after the href= right up until
> the
> > > first > it found, which would usually be the one that closes the
> opening
> > > tag. You could make it a bit more intelligent if you wished with
> > > backreferencing to make sure it matches against the same type of
> quotation
> > > character it matched as the start of the href's value.
> > >
> > >   Thanks,
> > > Ash
> > > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I appreciate the help.  However, when try this I only get the first
> > character of the URL.  Can you double check it please.
> >
> > Thanks again
>
>
> I think it's probably the first ? in ([^\"\']+?)
>
> Remove that and it should do the trick
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>
Hi Brad,

I agree with Jim.

Take a look at this. It might help.







http://example.com/path/to/urlA.html";>Continue
http://example.com/path/to/url2.html";>Brad Fuller
http://example.com/path/to/urlB.html";>Continue
http://example.com/path/to/url4.html";>PHP.net
http://example.com/path/to/urlC.html";
class="link">Continue
http://example.com/path/to/urlD.html";
onclick="someFunction('foo','bar')">Continue



TEXT_BOUNDARY;

$xml = simplexml_load_string($xml_string);

$continue_hrefs = $xml->xpath("//a[text() = 'Continue']/@href");

print_r($continue_hrefs);

?>

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Re: [PHP] regex pattern for extracting URLs

[Ashley Sheridan]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:45 -0400, Brad Fuller wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Ashley Sheridan
> wrote:
> 
> >  On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:23 -0400, Brad Fuller wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking for a regular expression to accomplish a specific task.
> >
> > I'm hoping someone who's really good at regex patterns can lend a quick 
> > hand.
> >
> > I need a regex pattern that will grab URLs out of HTML that have a
> > certain link text. (i.e. the word "Continue")
> >
> > This is what I have so far but it does not work properly (If there are
> > other attributes in the  tag it returns them as part of the URL.)
> >
> > 
> > preg_match_all('#]*href\s*=\s*([\"\']+)([^>]+?)(\1|>)>Continue#i',
> > $html, $matches);
> >
> > It needs to be able to extract the URL and disregard arbitrary
> > attributes in the HTML tag
> >
> > Test it with the following examples:
> >
> > Continue
> > Continue
> > http://example.com/path/to/url.html"; class="link">Continue
> > http://example.com/path/to/url.html";
> > onlick="someFunction('foo','bar')">Continue
> >
> > Please reply
> >
> > Your help is much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Brad F.
> >
> >
> >
> > preg_match_all('#]*href\s*=\s*[\"\']+([^\"\']+?).+?>Continue#i',
> > $html, $matches);
> >
> > I just changed your regex a bit. What your regex was previously doing was
> > matching everything from the first quote after the href= right up until the
> > first > it found, which would usually be the one that closes the opening
> > tag. You could make it a bit more intelligent if you wished with
> > backreferencing to make sure it matches against the same type of quotation
> > character it matched as the start of the href's value.
> >
> >   Thanks,
> > Ash
> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
> 
> I appreciate the help.  However, when try this I only get the first
> character of the URL.  Can you double check it please.
> 
> Thanks again


I think it's probably the first ? in ([^\"\']+?)

Remove that and it should do the trick

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

Re: [PHP] regex pattern for extracting URLs

[Brad Fuller]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Ashley Sheridan
wrote:

>  On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:23 -0400, Brad Fuller wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a regular expression to accomplish a specific task.
>
> I'm hoping someone who's really good at regex patterns can lend a quick hand.
>
> I need a regex pattern that will grab URLs out of HTML that have a
> certain link text. (i.e. the word "Continue")
>
> This is what I have so far but it does not work properly (If there are
> other attributes in the  tag it returns them as part of the URL.)
>
> 
> preg_match_all('#]*href\s*=\s*([\"\']+)([^>]+?)(\1|>)>Continue#i',
> $html, $matches);
>
> It needs to be able to extract the URL and disregard arbitrary
> attributes in the HTML tag
>
> Test it with the following examples:
>
> Continue
> Continue
> http://example.com/path/to/url.html"; class="link">Continue
> http://example.com/path/to/url.html";
> onlick="someFunction('foo','bar')">Continue
>
> Please reply
>
> Your help is much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Brad F.
>
>
>
> preg_match_all('#]*href\s*=\s*[\"\']+([^\"\']+?).+?>Continue#i',
> $html, $matches);
>
> I just changed your regex a bit. What your regex was previously doing was
> matching everything from the first quote after the href= right up until the
> first > it found, which would usually be the one that closes the opening
> tag. You could make it a bit more intelligent if you wished with
> backreferencing to make sure it matches against the same type of quotation
> character it matched as the start of the href's value.
>
>   Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>

I appreciate the help.  However, when try this I only get the first
character of the URL.  Can you double check it please.

Thanks again

Re: [PHP] Fedora 11 PHP install problems

[Ashley Sheridan]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:29 -0400, Israel Ekpo wrote:

> What about the error
> 
> libphp5.so: undefined symbol: OnUpdateLong
> 
> Are you still observing that error?
> 
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Ashley Sheridan
> wrote:
> 
> >  On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:19 -0400, Israel Ekpo wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >  On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Ashley Sheridan <
> > a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hiya,
> >
> > I know this isn't the best place to ask, but I figured enough people
> > here would have at some point installed PHP on some Linux variant, and
> > I'm hoping that some of you may have even done it on Fedora 11.
> >
> > I'm using the built in gui package manager in Fedora (kpackagekit) to
> > install php, mysql and php-mysql. I let it resolve the dependencies and
> > install, but phpMyAdmin refuses to connect to the Mysql database with
> > the default username and password (root, no password) even though I can
> > successfully connect to plain old Mysql over the command line with
> > "mysql -u root -p"
> >
> > I thought it was some problem with the built in repositories, so I
> > attempted to build PHP from source, and after sorting out the
> > dependencies manually, I got PHP installed and working from the command
> > line. However, when I try to start httpd up again, it gives me the
> > following error:
> >
> > libphp5.so: undefined symbol: OnUpdateLong
> >
> > I ran a nm command against the libphp5.so file, and the first line is "
> > U OnUpdateLong" (intentional spaces there)
> >
> > Has anyone come across either of these problems and do you know of a way
> > to overcome either one? All I need really is a way to get it working, so
> > don't mind whether it's via the GUI or the command line!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ash
> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Ashey,
> >
> > What version of PHP did you compile?
> >
> > What were your ./configure options?
> >
> > It looks like the php source is using OnUpdateLong but the source file
> > containing OnUpdateLong is not included or linked properly.
> >
> > I have ran into this kind of problem before.
> > --
> > "Good Enough" is not good enough.
> > To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
> > Quality First. Measure Twice. Cut Once.
> >
> >
> > I've actually got some steps closer to figuring out the problem. It seems
> > that the connection between PHP and MySQL was fine, it just refused a
> > connection as root. If I create another user it connects via phpMyAdmin just
> > fine.
> >
> > The thing now is figuring out either how to get it to connect as root (it
> > currently keeps refusing root) or create another user with all the
> > privileges of root so I can connect with that. As of yet I haven't been able
> > to figure out either!
> >
> >
> >   Thanks,
> > Ash
> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 


Well, I'm not compiling from the source now, I went back to trying to
use the Fedora repositories (which was the only reason I ended up trying
to compile from source in the first place)

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

Re: [PHP] regex pattern for extracting URLs

[Ashley Sheridan]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:23 -0400, Brad Fuller wrote:

> I'm looking for a regular expression to accomplish a specific task.
> 
> I'm hoping someone who's really good at regex patterns can lend a quick hand.
> 
> I need a regex pattern that will grab URLs out of HTML that have a
> certain link text. (i.e. the word "Continue")
> 
> This is what I have so far but it does not work properly (If there are
> other attributes in the  tag it returns them as part of the URL.)
> 
> 
> preg_match_all('#]*href\s*=\s*([\"\']+)([^>]+?)(\1|>)>Continue#i',
> $html, $matches);
> 
> It needs to be able to extract the URL and disregard arbitrary
> attributes in the HTML tag
> 
> Test it with the following examples:
> 
> Continue
> Continue
> http://example.com/path/to/url.html"; class="link">Continue
> http://example.com/path/to/url.html";
> onlick="someFunction('foo','bar')">Continue
> 
> Please reply
> 
> Your help is much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Brad F.
> 


preg_match_all('#]*href\s*=\s*[\"\']+([^
\"\']+?).+?>Continue#i', $html, $matches);

I just changed your regex a bit. What your regex was previously doing
was matching everything from the first quote after the href= right up
until the first > it found, which would usually be the one that closes
the opening tag. You could make it a bit more intelligent if you wished
with backreferencing to make sure it matches against the same type of
quotation character it matched as the start of the href's value.

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

Re: [PHP] Fedora 11 PHP install problems

[Israel Ekpo]

What about the error

libphp5.so: undefined symbol: OnUpdateLong

Are you still observing that error?

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Ashley Sheridan
wrote:

>  On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:19 -0400, Israel Ekpo wrote:
>
>
>
>  On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Ashley Sheridan <
> a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hiya,
>
> I know this isn't the best place to ask, but I figured enough people
> here would have at some point installed PHP on some Linux variant, and
> I'm hoping that some of you may have even done it on Fedora 11.
>
> I'm using the built in gui package manager in Fedora (kpackagekit) to
> install php, mysql and php-mysql. I let it resolve the dependencies and
> install, but phpMyAdmin refuses to connect to the Mysql database with
> the default username and password (root, no password) even though I can
> successfully connect to plain old Mysql over the command line with
> "mysql -u root -p"
>
> I thought it was some problem with the built in repositories, so I
> attempted to build PHP from source, and after sorting out the
> dependencies manually, I got PHP installed and working from the command
> line. However, when I try to start httpd up again, it gives me the
> following error:
>
> libphp5.so: undefined symbol: OnUpdateLong
>
> I ran a nm command against the libphp5.so file, and the first line is "
> U OnUpdateLong" (intentional spaces there)
>
> Has anyone come across either of these problems and do you know of a way
> to overcome either one? All I need really is a way to get it working, so
> don't mind whether it's via the GUI or the command line!
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>
>
> Hi Ashey,
>
> What version of PHP did you compile?
>
> What were your ./configure options?
>
> It looks like the php source is using OnUpdateLong but the source file
> containing OnUpdateLong is not included or linked properly.
>
> I have ran into this kind of problem before.
> --
> "Good Enough" is not good enough.
> To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
> Quality First. Measure Twice. Cut Once.
>
>
> I've actually got some steps closer to figuring out the problem. It seems
> that the connection between PHP and MySQL was fine, it just refused a
> connection as root. If I create another user it connects via phpMyAdmin just
> fine.
>
> The thing now is figuring out either how to get it to connect as root (it
> currently keeps refusing root) or create another user with all the
> privileges of root so I can connect with that. As of yet I haven't been able
> to figure out either!
>
>
>   Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>


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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
Quality First. Measure Twice. Cut Once.

Re: [PHP] regex pattern for extracting URLs

[Jim Lucas]

Brad Fuller wrote:
> I'm looking for a regular expression to accomplish a specific task.
> 
> I'm hoping someone who's really good at regex patterns can lend a quick hand.
> 
> I need a regex pattern that will grab URLs out of HTML that have a
> certain link text. (i.e. the word "Continue")
> 
> This is what I have so far but it does not work properly (If there are
> other attributes in the  tag it returns them as part of the URL.)
> 
> 
> preg_match_all('#]*href\s*=\s*([\"\']+)([^>]+?)(\1|>)>Continue#i',
> $html, $matches);
> 
> It needs to be able to extract the URL and disregard arbitrary
> attributes in the HTML tag
> 
> Test it with the following examples:
> 
> Continue
> Continue
> http://example.com/path/to/url.html"; class="link">Continue
> http://example.com/path/to/url.html";
> onlick="someFunction('foo','bar')">Continue
> 
> Please reply
> 
> Your help is much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Brad F.
> 

Looking at this document from an XML standpoint, I could see doing this rather
easily.  Without having to use regex.  You might look into using DomDocument and
simpleXML to complete the task.

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Re: [PHP] Fedora 11 PHP install problems

[Ashley Sheridan]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:19 -0400, Israel Ekpo wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Ashley Sheridan
>  wrote:
> 
> Hiya,
> 
> I know this isn't the best place to ask, but I figured enough
> people
> here would have at some point installed PHP on some Linux
> variant, and
> I'm hoping that some of you may have even done it on Fedora
> 11.
> 
> I'm using the built in gui package manager in Fedora
> (kpackagekit) to
> install php, mysql and php-mysql. I let it resolve the
> dependencies and
> install, but phpMyAdmin refuses to connect to the Mysql
> database with
> the default username and password (root, no password) even
> though I can
> successfully connect to plain old Mysql over the command line
> with
> "mysql -u root -p"
> 
> I thought it was some problem with the built in repositories,
> so I
> attempted to build PHP from source, and after sorting out the
> dependencies manually, I got PHP installed and working from
> the command
> line. However, when I try to start httpd up again, it gives me
> the
> following error:
> 
> libphp5.so: undefined symbol: OnUpdateLong
> 
> I ran a nm command against the libphp5.so file, and the first
> line is "
> U OnUpdateLong" (intentional spaces there)
> 
> Has anyone come across either of these problems and do you
> know of a way
> to overcome either one? All I need really is a way to get it
> working, so
> don't mind whether it's via the GUI or the command line!
> 
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Ashey,
> 
> What version of PHP did you compile?
> 
> What were your ./configure options?
> 
> It looks like the php source is using OnUpdateLong but the source file
> containing OnUpdateLong is not included or linked properly.
> 
> I have ran into this kind of problem before.
> -- 
> "Good Enough" is not good enough.
> To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
> Quality First. Measure Twice. Cut Once.


I've actually got some steps closer to figuring out the problem. It
seems that the connection between PHP and MySQL was fine, it just
refused a connection as root. If I create another user it connects via
phpMyAdmin just fine.

The thing now is figuring out either how to get it to connect as root
(it currently keeps refusing root) or create another user with all the
privileges of root so I can connect with that. As of yet I haven't been
able to figure out either!
 

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

[PHP] regex pattern for extracting URLs

[Brad Fuller]

I'm looking for a regular expression to accomplish a specific task.

I'm hoping someone who's really good at regex patterns can lend a quick hand.

I need a regex pattern that will grab URLs out of HTML that have a
certain link text. (i.e. the word "Continue")

This is what I have so far but it does not work properly (If there are
other attributes in the  tag it returns them as part of the URL.)

    
preg_match_all('#]*href\s*=\s*([\"\']+)([^>]+?)(\1|>)>Continue#i',
$html, $matches);

It needs to be able to extract the URL and disregard arbitrary
attributes in the HTML tag

Test it with the following examples:

Continue
Continue
http://example.com/path/to/url.html"; class="link">Continue
http://example.com/path/to/url.html";
onlick="someFunction('foo','bar')">Continue

Please reply

Your help is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Brad F.

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Re: [PHP] Fedora 11 PHP install problems

[Israel Ekpo]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Ashley Sheridan
wrote:

> Hiya,
>
> I know this isn't the best place to ask, but I figured enough people
> here would have at some point installed PHP on some Linux variant, and
> I'm hoping that some of you may have even done it on Fedora 11.
>
> I'm using the built in gui package manager in Fedora (kpackagekit) to
> install php, mysql and php-mysql. I let it resolve the dependencies and
> install, but phpMyAdmin refuses to connect to the Mysql database with
> the default username and password (root, no password) even though I can
> successfully connect to plain old Mysql over the command line with
> "mysql -u root -p"
>
> I thought it was some problem with the built in repositories, so I
> attempted to build PHP from source, and after sorting out the
> dependencies manually, I got PHP installed and working from the command
> line. However, when I try to start httpd up again, it gives me the
> following error:
>
> libphp5.so: undefined symbol: OnUpdateLong
>
> I ran a nm command against the libphp5.so file, and the first line is "
> U OnUpdateLong" (intentional spaces there)
>
> Has anyone come across either of these problems and do you know of a way
> to overcome either one? All I need really is a way to get it working, so
> don't mind whether it's via the GUI or the command line!
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>

Hi Ashey,

What version of PHP did you compile?

What were your ./configure options?

It looks like the php source is using OnUpdateLong but the source file
containing OnUpdateLong is not included or linked properly.

I have ran into this kind of problem before.
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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
Quality First. Measure Twice. Cut Once.

[PHP] Fedora 11 PHP install problems

[Ashley Sheridan]

Hiya,

I know this isn't the best place to ask, but I figured enough people
here would have at some point installed PHP on some Linux variant, and
I'm hoping that some of you may have even done it on Fedora 11.

I'm using the built in gui package manager in Fedora (kpackagekit) to
install php, mysql and php-mysql. I let it resolve the dependencies and
install, but phpMyAdmin refuses to connect to the Mysql database with
the default username and password (root, no password) even though I can
successfully connect to plain old Mysql over the command line with
"mysql -u root -p"

I thought it was some problem with the built in repositories, so I
attempted to build PHP from source, and after sorting out the
dependencies manually, I got PHP installed and working from the command
line. However, when I try to start httpd up again, it gives me the
following error:

libphp5.so: undefined symbol: OnUpdateLong

I ran a nm command against the libphp5.so file, and the first line is "
U OnUpdateLong" (intentional spaces there)

Has anyone come across either of these problems and do you know of a way
to overcome either one? All I need really is a way to get it working, so
don't mind whether it's via the GUI or the command line!

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

RE: [PHP] Is there any way to get all the function name being called in a process?

[Andrea Giammarchi]

> even APD is not up to the task
> 
> xdebug trace http://devzone.zend.com/article/2871 is sufficient, but
> the output will be in a separate file.



> Thank a lot.
> 
> APD is just doing what I was looking for.
> 
> -- 
> Satya
> Bangalore.

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Re: [PHP] Is there any way to get all the function name being called in a process?

[Eddie Drapkin]

There's xdebug, as mentioned, that'll do it as an extension.

What you REALLY probably are looking for is http://php.net/debug_backtrace

And what kind of reverse engineering would you be doing without
reflection? ( http://php.net/reflection ) ;]

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RE: [PHP] php mail() function

[Bob McConnell]

From: Paul M Foster

> Regarding the rejection of dynamic IPs by smarthosts, are you saying
> that it's a "blacklist" of sorts that lets them know an IP is dynamic?
> (Serious question. I don't know the mechanism by which they determine
> what is and isn't a dynamic IP.)

You are talking about two different mechanisms here. The black or grey
lists are services that track known open relays and other sources of
spam, viruses and assorted malware. Anyone can subscribe to them and use
them to validate relay requests.

There are also services that keep track of valid domain addresses and
the IP assigned to them. They are usually called DNS hosts. These can be
polled to identify the IP address for authorized domains and hosts.
There are even special records for the email severs within a domain.
Most dynamically allocated IP addresses will not show up on these
servers unless you have access to a service authorized to inject
records.

So basically, qmail did a DNS lookup on your host/domain name and did
not find a record pointing to your server. Therefore it rejected your
request.

You will have to ask your ISP for the address of their SMTP and POP
servers if you don't know them. But usually your email client is already
configured to talk to them. I would just go into my Thunderbird setup
and look up those addresses.

Bob McConnell

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Re: [PHP] Is there any way to get all the function name being called in a process?

[kranthi]

even APD is not up to the task

xdebug trace http://devzone.zend.com/article/2871 is sufficient, but
the output will be in a separate file.

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Re: [PHP] php mail() function

[John Black]

Paul M Foster wrote:

Regarding the rejection of dynamic IPs by smarthosts, are you saying
that it's a "blacklist" of sorts that lets them know an IP is dynamic?
(Serious question. I don't know the mechanism by which they determine
what is and isn't a dynamic IP.)


I run my own mail server and use the zen blocklist from spamhaus.org. 
The zen list combines all the the anti spam lists plus all IPs 
designated to end users (http://www.spamhaus.org/zen/)


The reason for blocking end users is that a lot of SPAM is sent out by 
compromised machines from some home Internet connection. I am currently 
getting about 5 connections every 2 seconds from compromised computers 
attempting to spam my server. The origin is usually a dynamically 
assigned IP from Sprint or Comcast (USA ISPs).
So blocking the end users from sending SPAM tends to cut down on a LOT 
of junk.


Here is a bit more info about the end user blocklist.
http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/

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Re: [PHP] Is there any way to get all the function name being called in a process?

[Satya Narayan Singh]

Thank a lot.

APD is just doing what I was looking for.




On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Andrea Giammarchi wrote:

>
> > That won't do what the OP asked, it will just return a list of all the
> > functions defined, which could be a lot more than is actually being used
> > in a process, such as in the case of included libraries of functions.
>
> uhm, right, I guess APD then:
> http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/book.apd.php
>
> Regards
>
> --
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> online.
>



-- 
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Bangalore.

RE: [PHP] Is there any way to get all the function name being called in a process?

[Andrea Giammarchi]

> That won't do what the OP asked, it will just return a list of all the
> functions defined, which could be a lot more than is actually being used
> in a process, such as in the case of included libraries of functions.

uhm, right, I guess APD then:
http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/book.apd.php

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RE: [PHP] Is there any way to get all the function name being called in a process?

[Ashley Sheridan]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 10:27 +0200, Andrea Giammarchi wrote:

> http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.get-defined-functions.php
> get_defined_functions
> 
> Regards
> 
> > Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:54:34 +0530
> > From: astra.sat...@gmail.com
> > To: php-general@lists.php.net
> > Subject: [PHP] Is there any way to get all the function name being called 
> > in a  process?
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am working on reverse engineering for a web project. I was trying to know
> > that, is there any way(function by PHP, Zend, extension etc)
> > to find out how many function has been called to perform a task.
> > 
> > If no, can you suggest is it possible/feasible or not?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > -- 
> > Satya
> > Bangalore.
> 
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That won't do what the OP asked, it will just return a list of all the
functions defined, which could be a lot more than is actually being used
in a process, such as in the case of included libraries of functions.

Would some form of PHP debugger help here? I've not used any debuggers
before, but I would imagine that this is something which could be
achieved quite easily with one.

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

Re: [PHP] Spam opinions please

[Ashley Sheridan]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 08:55 +0100, Peter Ford wrote:

> Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Won't stop a bot worth it's salt either, hence the need for more complex
> > and confusing captchas. The best way to stop spam, is to use linguistic
> > testing on the content being offered, which protects against bot and
> > human spammer alike.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Ash
> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately, it might also confound someone who doesn't speak the language.
> Admittedly, they would probably already be struggling with the rest of the 
> site...
> 
> I guess locale-dependent captchas are a possibility.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Peter Ford  phone: 01580 89
> Developer   fax:   01580 893399
> Justcroft International Ltd., Staplehurst, Kent
> 


I'm not talking about language problems for the user to solve. This
question originally started by the op asking for solutions to human
spam, but most of what I've seen so far in the thread is all about how
to stop bots. By Linguistic analysis, I'm talking about passing the user
offered content through a filter to check for the probability that it is
spam. This goes beyond just looking for spammy words by looking at the
relationship between words, frequency of words, and much more. It's very
complex, but by the end of it, each post gets a rating value, which can
be used as part of a threshold to reach in order to have a post
automatically verified.

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

Re: [PHP] input form save and display conflict

[Ashley Sheridan]

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 21:32 -0400, PJ wrote:

> I have several input fields to update a book database. There seems to be
> a conflict in the way tags and text are input through php/mysql and
> phpMyAdmin. If I enter the data with phpMyAdmin the input fields in the
> php page see quotation marks differently than what is input in phpMyAdmin.
> example:
> if the data is input through the update form, single quotes cause an
> error. Double quotes update the db but when the edit(update) form
> displays the text for modification outside the input field except for
> the first part, precisely where the first quotation mark appears in the
> text - as below:
> 
> *Reviewed by mailto:recipi...@somewhere.com";>Recipient:
> blah, blah, blah...religion." _size="50" />_
> The text in square brackets is displayed outside the input field and
> includes part of the code at the end.
> bold is within the field, the rest is outside and the underlined is part
> of code.
> 
> If the same text is entered with phpMyAdmin using single quotes and the
> " characters, the display in the editing field shows correctly...
> but it will not update, that is, the update query generates errors and
> only accepts the double quotes within the tags.
> 
> So, the question is, are there some kind of metacharacters to be used to
> have mysql accept the " ? I have triee backslashing, forward slashing
> and they don't do it.
> 
> Or is there an encoding conflict here? It looks like a display and save
> mismatch somewhere...
> 
> below is another example:
>  href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0773468943/frankiesbibliogo'> height=68 alt="Order This Book From Amazon.com"
> src="../images/amazon1.gif" width=90 border=0 />
> 
> The single quotes for the href seem to work. But the " does not work;
> and using " or ’  also also do not display correctly; again,
> from "Order... the image is not displayed but only the image blank with
> "Order.. " in it.
> I'm rather puzzled.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


Single quotes need to be escaped if you are using them as part of a
query. For example:

$query = "UPDATE table SET title='This is a title with \"quoted\"
\'characters\''";

Note that here, double quotes are used to encapsulate the whole query
string (as it is generally preferred this way), the value of the title
field is encapsulated in single quotes. Lastly, where I've wanted double
quotes to be used in the query, I've escaped them with a back-slash.
This escapes them from PHP, as mysql is using single quotes, so directly
in the query they're fine. The single quotes are also escaped with
back-slashes, but this time to escape them from mysql, as single quotes
are used as the string delimiters there.

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

RE: [PHP] Is there any way to get all the function name being called in a process?

[Andrea Giammarchi]

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.get-defined-functions.php
get_defined_functions

Regards

> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:54:34 +0530
> From: astra.sat...@gmail.com
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP] Is there any way to get all the function name being called in 
> aprocess?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on reverse engineering for a web project. I was trying to know
> that, is there any way(function by PHP, Zend, extension etc)
> to find out how many function has been called to perform a task.
> 
> If no, can you suggest is it possible/feasible or not?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> -- 
> Satya
> Bangalore.
  
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Re: [PHP] Spam opinions please

[Peter Ford]

Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> 
> 
> Won't stop a bot worth it's salt either, hence the need for more complex
> and confusing captchas. The best way to stop spam, is to use linguistic
> testing on the content being offered, which protects against bot and
> human spammer alike.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> 
> 
> 

Unfortunately, it might also confound someone who doesn't speak the language.
Admittedly, they would probably already be struggling with the rest of the 
site...

I guess locale-dependent captchas are a possibility.


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