Re: [PHP] Directory permissions question
On 4/19/2010 11:11 AM, Adam Richardson wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Aln...@ridersite.org wrote: I'm working on a hosted website that was hacked and found something I don't fully understand. Thought someone here may know the answer. The site has 4 php malicious files in directories owned by system [php created dirs on the site are named nobody] and permissions 755. Is there any way the files could have been written other than by ftp access or at the host root level? Clearly a php script couldn't. Thanks, Al.. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Are there any other programming options enabled on the account (Perl, JSP, Ruby, etc?) Even if the files are PHP, any of those programming options can be configured to create the files. Additionally, a vulnerability in one of the libraries leveraged to provide the hosting environment could also have provided the entry (PHP makes for a capable deliverable, but it doesn't have to provide the key for a hacking situation.) Adam Are Perl, JSP, Ruby, etc. able to ignore the dir ownership and write permissions on a Linux/Apache system? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Directory permissions question
Apache 2.0.63 php 5.2.8 I know both are obsolete and need updating. I told my client to request same from their ISP. Al On 4/19/2010 12:01 PM, Jim Lucas wrote: Al wrote: I'm working on a hosted website that was hacked and found something I don't fully understand. Thought someone here may know the answer. The site has 4 php malicious files in directories owned by system [php created dirs on the site are named nobody] and permissions 755. Is there any way the files could have been written other than by ftp access or at the host root level? Clearly a php script couldn't. Thanks, Al.. What version of Apache/PHP is it running? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: PHP execute very slow : PHP Version 5.2.6
On 4/10/2010 9:07 PM, Kristijan Marin wrote: Hi, I'm experiencing very slow performance of my php scripts ... At first and for a long time I thought it was Oracle fault cause I didn't use binding (I rewrote the code ), but the performance is still bad. So I tested my sql statement and did some time measurement and found out that Oracle can fetch 300 records in less then 2 seconds, but PHP needs 210seconds ... to display it to the user I'm using default php.ini I have a horizontal menu with buttons to switch pages . and just switching pages takes time with minimum or no oracle interactions. My php version: 5.2.6 OS: Windows XP sP3 and Windows Server 2008 Testing it in PHPEd using internal PHPEd server and FastCGI ... and also on Windows 2008 server in IIS ...same results both using the same php.ini Would anyone know what could be the cause of this ? Any hit is appreciated. Kris Use microtime() and record execution times at various points in your script. Save the times and its corresponding script line number in a string, with suitable formating br /s etc. At the end of the script, echo it. Incidentally, are you echo-ing output to the client as the info is available, or using output buffering? Will make big difference if you are sending a lot of output pieces. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Converting funky characters
On 3/28/2010 8:05 PM, Skip Evans wrote:
Hey all,
What's the best way to filter/convert characters that don't
translate properly from say news stories to HTML?
For example, I have a form that people cut and paste the lead
in paragraph from news stories they want to link to from their
sites to the original. And of course things like long dashes,
double quotes, single quotes, etc, always translate is wacky
unprintables when they are rendered, and the user needs to
edit them to replace them with standard characters.
Is there way to filter this text through a function that will
convert them to web friendly chars?
Thanks,
Skip
Here's how I handle the problem:
//region* Translate table for dumb Windows chars when user pastes from Word;
function strips all 160
$win1252ToPlainTextArray = array(
chr(130) = ',',
chr(131) = '',
chr(132) = ',,',
chr(133) = '...',
chr(134) = '+',
chr(135) = '',
chr(139) = '',
chr(145) = '\'',
chr(146) = '\'',
chr(147) = '',
chr(148) = '',
chr(149) = '*',
chr(150) = '-',
chr(151) = '-',
chr(155) = '',
chr(160) = ' ',
);
//endregion
function cleanWin1252Text($str, $win1252ToPlainTextArray)
{
$str = strtr($str, $win1252ToPlainTextArray);
$str = trim($str);
$patterns = array('%[\x7F-\x81]%', '%[\x83]%', '%[\x87-\x8A]%',
'%[\x8C-\x90]%', '%[\x98-\xff]%');
return preg_replace($patterns, '', $str); //Strip
}
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[PHP] Re: Server-side postscript-to-PDF on-the-fly conversion
On 3/27/2010 12:41 AM, Rob Gould wrote: Is there a free solution out there that will enable me to take a PHP-generated postscript output file, and dynamically, on-the-fly convert it to a PDF document and send to the user as a download when the user clients on a link? More description of what I'm trying to do: 1) I've got a web-page that accepts some user input 2) They hit SUBMIT 3) I've got a PHP file that takes that input and generates a custom Postscript file from it, which I presently serve back to the user. On a Mac, Safari and Firefox automatically take the .ps output and render it in Preview. 4) However, in the world of Windows, it seems like it'd be better to just convert it on-the-fly into a PDF, so that the user doesn't need to worry about having a post-script viewer app installed. http://pear.php.net/package/XML_fo2pdf http://pear.php.net/package/File_PDF -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Remote Desktop Management
Hi all, Am looking for Remote Desktop Management system that is written with PHP. Appreciate all feedback. TIA -- al
Re: [PHP] Deleting multiple backslashes; regex?
On 3/15/2010 5:03 PM, Jim Lucas wrote:
Al wrote:
Anyone have a regex pattern for deleting multiple backslashes e.g., \\\
I pretty good with regex; but, be damned if I can delete them with
preg_replace()
I've tried as the manual says
preg_replace(//, '', $str);
preg_replace(/()+/, '', $str);
preg_replace(/\x5C/, '', $str);
preg_replace(/\\x5c/, '', $str);
And lots of others.
stripslashes() and stripcslashes() are limited.
Might I ask, how are the multiple slashes getting generated in the first place?
Where is the data coming from?
Next question would be: Do you want to completely remove all instances of
multiple backslashes? Or, do you want to replace all instances of multiple
backslashes with a single backslash?
I would try something like this:
plaintext?php
$in = '\\\asasdf\\\asdf\asdf\asdf\asdf';
# to remove all backslashes, us this
echo preg_replace('|[]+|', '', $in).PHP_EOL;
# to remove all backslashes, us this
echo str_replace('\\', '', $in).PHP_EOL;
# to replace consecutive instances of backslashes with a single backslash
echo preg_replace('|[]+|', '\\', $in).PHP_EOL;
?
done!
As I reported earlier, problem was my code was reloading a POST array following
the backlash removal. Dumb error on my part.
Re: Might I ask, how are the multiple slashes getting generated in the first
place? Where is the data coming from? It comes from a client-side editor where
users can enter them at will. It is my standard practice to do a good job of
protecting users from themselves. I originally just had the usual stripslashes()
but found it didn't take care of users adding several.
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[PHP] Re: Splitting a string ...
On 3/14/2010 9:54 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
I'm not a regexp person (wish I was though), and I'm hoping someone can give
me a hand here. Consider the following strings:
- domain\usern...@example.org
- domain\username
- the same as above but with / instead of \ (hey, it happens)
- usern...@example.org
- username
Essentially I have a sign-up form where folks will be typing in their
username. The problem is, in our organization, when you tell someone to
enter their username, it could end up being any of the above examples
because they're used to a domain log in procedure where in some cases they
type the whole thing, in other cases just the e-mail, or sometimes just the
username.
So what I'd like is a way to capture just the 'username' part, regardless of
what other pieces they put in. In the past I would write a rather
inefficient split() routine and eventually get what I need. With split()
getting deprecated, I figured I may as well start looking into how to do it
properly. There's preg_split(), str_split(), explode() . possibly others.
So, what's the proper way to do this? How can I capture just the part I
need, regardless of how they typed it in?
Thanks!
A
The basic problem is that the slashes are legitimate characters for usernames
per the RFC 5322; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address
However, per the Notwithstanding the addresses permitted by these
standards paragraph, I disallow the ! # $ % * / ? ^ ` { | } ~ and have
not found a problem.
You didn't mention whether you had control over the whole submission process. If
so, I'd suggest checking the submitted address and sending back to the client a
message asking them to correct their submission and resending it.
You can check for any of the above characters and bounce the submission back to
the client.
Check out filter_var($emailAddr, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) It will catch a lot of
errors.
Also, you'll find the helpful preg_match(%[[:alnum:][:punct:]]%, $addr); These
are legit characters. First remove everything following the @ and the @ itself.
Obviously, you can use if(!preg_match) to catch anything not valid.
There are several str functions that'll do it or simply preg_replace(%...@.*%,
'', $addr)
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[PHP] Re: Mail Function In PHP
Use the Pear Mail package. In particular the smtp class. It will save you much grief and time. On 3/6/2010 11:54 PM, Kannan wrote: Hello I am creating a application for our college using the php.In that i want to send mail to all who are all the list. For that i am just simply use the mail function in php without configuring any mail system in the system.But the mail didn't send. For sending the mails wat are requirements and if u have any tutorials send it to me? Thanks.. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Advice on maintaining public and private files
On 2/21/2010 9:11 AM, Kim Madsen wrote: Al wrote on 20/02/2010 19:30: I use Kim's solution and take it one step forward. Htacces files can get lost or corrupted, so No solution to that problem as I see it. In my config file I have the text string. I like the idea, but what if this file is never accessed? Generally my applications have Admins and Users. Admins visit every day or two; when they do, function checkHTaccessFile($htaccessText) gets called. It can also be called when Users visit, which is of course more often. This option is set in the config file. If someone is particularly concerned a cronjob to run every x hours will also work. This seems to me to be a bit of overkill. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Advice on maintaining public and private files
I use Kim's solution and take it one step forward. Htacces files can get lost or
corrupted, so
In my config file I have the text string.
//region htaccess file text
// Code writes to /db folder; Admin mode checks file existence and text;
replaces with this if different.
$htaccessText = hta
# Prevent Direct Access to MiniRegDB DB Files
Files *
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
/Files
hta;
//endregion
In my main control file I call this function
/**
* checkHTaccessFile()
*
* Checks and restores htaccess Prevent Direct Access to MiniRegDB Program Files
*
* @param mixed $htaccessText in config file
* @return
*/
function checkHTaccessFile($htaccessText)
{
if(file_exists(MINIREG_DATA_DIR . '.htaccess')
file_get_contents(MINIREG_DATA_DIR . '.htaccess') == $htaccessText) return true;
file_put_contents(MINIREG_DATA_DIR . '.htaccess', $htaccessText);
return true;
}
On 2/20/2010 4:05 AM, Kim Madsen wrote:
Michael Stroh wrote on 19/02/2010 19:19:
I have a site I'm working on with some data that I want to be
readable by anyone, but some files that I want to keep hidden from
outside users. Here is an example of my file structure.
/products/data1/item_1/data.txt
/products/data2/item_2/data.txt
since no one has suggested it then... if you're on an Apache webserver
use a .htaccess file in data2 which contains:
Deny from all
Allow from none
That will do the trick and PHP can still fetch the files in data2 and
serve it to the user.
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[PHP] Re: Report generators: experience, recommendations?
On 2/13/2010 1:56 PM, Jonathan Sachs wrote: I'm looking for a report generator which will be used to create management reports for my client from a MySQL database. The web site is implemented in PHP. Some characteristics that would be nice to have, roughly in order of importance: * It is moderately priced (a few hundred dollars at most) or free. * A developer can easily learn to create moderately complex reports. * A developer can easily add code to provide functionality not supported by the generator. * The generator can be installed on a shared server (it doesn't require any unusual extensions or changes to php.ino or the server configuration. * A non-technical user can easily learn to create simple reports without help. A client-server solution is OK. The client has to run on Windows. I've found one PHP product so far, phpreports. There are many other reporting tools that might be suitable, but most of them seem to be written in Java, or else they're black boxes. Has anyone had experience with report generators that meet these criteria? What would you recommend; what would you stay away from? Try Source Forge. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: php selecting multiple stylesheets
On 2/7/2010 11:20 PM, David Mehler wrote: Hello, I'm trying to set up a web site. This site has multiple stylesheets, one default stylesheet that should be used if the other is not chosen. The second is a high contrast stylesheet and can be selected by user's who need it. I'm also thinking of adding two more for smaller and larger font selections. My issue is I want the high contrast sheet to be used on all subsequent pages and on subsequent visits to the site by user's who have selected it. I thought of using php with this and cookies. I'm using php5 and would appreciate any suggestions, googling has shown some examples, but none are working. Thanks. Dave. Dealing with style sheet caching by all the different browsers and the user's settings for them is the big problem. I'd suggest this: Use the sessions buffer for simplicity. And, link your complete [all the selectors] default css file in the header. Then, include ONLY the selectors needed to render the special selectors in the html's header style block. These selectors will override those in the css file. Now, simply modify the selectors here when you return the page. Far as I know, all browsers honor revised styles when they are in the page html header. header style type=text/css !-- special selectors go here -- /style /header -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Hi list --- justa simple question
On 2/7/2010 10:22 AM, ebhakt wrote: I am developing a website here wherein i need to post a lot of content. I am trying to develop a script to post data automatically to the site the site is designed in drupal any idea/comment or suggestion on how should i begin with because i am new to php language I'd recommend posting your question on the Drupal forum and investigating http://drupal.org/handbooks -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] OpenID
This is a bit off subject, but What is your opinion on OpenID? Are you using it? Is it worth the trouble? What php code applic, or did you code your own? Pear has an alpha release OpenID, anyone try or using it? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] strip out repeated ocurrence of a string
On 1/25/2010 10:48 PM, Camilo Sperberg wrote:
Hello list :)
I have this problem, a certain string can contain the following information:
$string = '
hi{value1;value2}
bye{value1;value3}
hi{value1;value4}
hi{value1;value2}
bye{value1;value2}
';
What I want is to be able to get this result:
$string = '
hi{value1;value2}
bye{value1;value3}
hi{value1;value4}
bye{value1;value2}
';
(the order of appearance doesn't matter)
Is it even possible to do this with regular expressions? Or should I first
look if there is some kind of match and then apply an
str_replace($match,'',$string) and add the $match again?
Greetings !
Assuming the duplicate segments are identical.
I'd use explode() and convert the string to an array. Use } for the delimiter.
Then use array_unique()
And then use implode() to restore the string.
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[PHP] Re: Creating an Entire .html page with PHP
On 1/25/2010 8:00 PM, deal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Folks, I would like to create an entire .html page gathered from database content mixed with html etc. and be able to save the page... like: --- save all this pre made content as .html page html head ... stuff /head body ... stuff ... stuff with database query results... ... stuff /body /html Q: Is there a function that might help with saving the whole content as .html page? Thanks, deal...@gmail.com [db-10] rename(APPLIC_DB_FILE, APPLIC_DB_FILE . 'BAK'); //make a backup $serTxt = serialize($dbTable); if(!file_put_contents(APPLIC_DB_FILE, $serTxt, LOCK_EX)) die(div style=\color:red; margin:10em auto auto auto\Major error in upDateDBTable(). Contact tech support/div); $dbTable = unserialize(file_get_contents(APPLIC_DB_FILE)); //Current application file -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: PHP programming strategy; lots of little include files, or a few big ones?
On 1/6/2010 7:18 PM, clanc...@cybec.com.au wrote: I have a flexible program, which can do many different things according to the type of data it is fed. Ideally the flexibility is achieved by calling different functions, though when the functionality is ill-defined I sometimes just include blocks of code. Ideally, from the point of program maintenance, each module should not be too long -- preferably just a page or so. This doesn't raise problems in a compiled language, but in an interpreted language like PHP the programmer must decide whether to lump a whole lot of functions into a single large include file, or to include lots of little files as the particular functions are needed. The first case can lead to memory bloat, as there are likely to be a lot of unused functions in memory on any given pass, whereas the second case may require lots of little files to be loaded. Are there likely to be significant performance costs for either approach, and what are your feelings about the relative virtues of the two approaches? It is highly unlikely you are going to create any significant memory bloat. Your code will likely be infinitesimal compared PHP's memory requirement. I suggest 3 files, one with your configuration settings, so they are all in one place and easy to find and change, another file with your functions and the third file contains the code for handling the internet interface. Obviously, the interface file controls everything by calling various functions as needed. Al... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Survey+Report in PHP
On 12/31/2009 12:25 AM, aditya shukla wrote: Sorry for the vague question. This is how the survey is.We have some question and answers to that questions.Some answers have multiple options(drop down) and some answers are to be entered in a text box.My aim s to get the answers and generate the report based on the answers (by using some mathematical formula's on the answers). The report would contain a paragraphs depending on what answers are selected or entered. My question is for some answers the result is fixed say What's your fav color? options:white/black/red/green Answer:-white. Report You are a peace loving person. (similarly for other colors).But for some questions the answers are to be generated on the fly. How long do you sleep ? text box:- 12 hours. report:-You are a lazy person.(here the answer depends on the value entered in the text box. So i cannot save the results in a table.So should i store some of the answers in the database?How should i go about this. Thanks Aditya Source Forge has dozens just such programs. Use one of them. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] File and Directory Ownership Question
I've got a PHP script running on a shared host [Blue Host] that creates a directory and writes files in it. The directory and files are owned by the site name, not nobody as I've always seen on other shared hosts. Anyone have a possible explanation for this? Thanks, Al. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] File and Directory Ownership Question
On 12/20/2009 1:06 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 12:58 -0500, Al wrote: I've got a PHP script running on a shared host [Blue Host] that creates a directory and writes files in it. The directory and files are owned by the site name, not nobody as I've always seen on other shared hosts. Anyone have a possible explanation for this? Thanks, Al. The files, if created by PHP, will belong to the user and group that your instance of Apache is running under. Some hosts are set up slightly differently, but it's nothing to worry about. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Thanks for the quick answer. On purpose, to add a little security, I set the permissions for 644 to limit access by anything other than PHP scripts. I'd like to put my script above the web space; but it's generally used by folks on shared hosts and some hosts won't provide access there. I guess I'll add an htaccess file to my application's root that prevents access by anything other than my scrip. I've also found several cases, on some hosts, where the directories can be indexed. So all the files are exposed. I've set config files, etc. with a php extension to prevent them from easily being read. Al -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: strip tags but preserve title attributes
Ashley Sheridan wrote: I'm looking for a way to strip HTML tags out of some text content (sourced from a web page) to leave just the text which I'll be running some basic analysis on. The thing is, I want to preserve text that is in alt and title attributes. I can't use any DOM functions, as I can't guarantee that the content will be valid XHTML, although it should be valid HTML. I'm happy doing this with string functions and regular expressions, but I was wondering if something for this already existed? The server I plan on putting this on does not have access to the shell (although it is a Linux server) so I won't be able to have Lynx or Elinks parse the content for me either :( Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Sounds easy with a simple regex expression, certainly easier than twisting a class or DOM function to do the job. How do you want to retain the text that is in the alt and title attributes? What form do you want it in? e.g., img alt=foo -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Question about includes
I'm having an include problem on a shared host and need the answer to the following to cover a key point. I'm getting this error: Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening 'Net/SMTP.php' for inclusion include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/home1/youstart/php/') in /home1/youstart/php/Mail/smtp.php on line 206 What's going on is that my script calls /php/mail.php which includes /Mail/smtp.php. smtp.php has include Net/SMTP.php on line 206. This bothers since the current working directory is effectively where my original script resides; is it not? If so, doesn't the include Net/SMTP.php on line 206 look for the path relative to it and not in /home1/youstart/php/? If my assumption is correct, is there a way around the problem? Remember, this is a shared host and changing stuff above the /public_html is a real problem. My script runs fine on 3 other Linux/Appache/cpanel shared-host servers. Al... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Question about includes
Brady Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Al n...@ridersite.org wrote: This bothers since the current working directory is effectively where my original script resides; is it not? If so, doesn't the include Net/SMTP.php on line 206 look for the path relative to it and not in /home1/youstart/php/? When including a file with a relative path PHP starts at the beginning of the include_path and checks each directory until it finds the file or reaches the end of the list. In this case it will start with the current directory since you've got the . as the first entry in the include path. When using relative paths, it's relative to the script with the include statement. So if you have a script myscript.php that includes mail.php, that include will be relative to myscript.php. Then when you include smtp.php from mail.php, the relative path will be relative to mail.php, not myscript.php. It looks like you're using PEAR classes, but the pear directory isn't in the include path. Try adding that path to your include_path by editing your .htaccess or using ini_set(). HTH, Brady Thanks Brady. That's a clear explanation and most helpful. The PHP manual could use a better description like your's. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Pear include path problem
I've got script that uses the pear Mail class and have had problems on some
shared hosts with the include path to Mail. E.g., Blue Host insists the site
owner must change the php.ini file. I'd rather not expect them to do that.
Can you folks critique this approach for me.
if(EMAIL_MODE=='smtp'){
$basePath = str_ireplace('public_html', '', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . basePath);
require_once $basePath/php . '/Mail.php';
$smtpStatus=(class_exists('Mail'))?true:false;
}
Thanks
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Re: [PHP] Pear include path problem
Jim Lucas wrote:
Al wrote:
I've got script that uses the pear Mail class and have had problems on
some shared hosts with the include path to Mail. E.g., Blue Host insists
the site owner must change the php.ini file. I'd rather not expect them
to do that.
Can you folks critique this approach for me.
if(EMAIL_MODE=='smtp'){
$basePath = str_ireplace('public_html', '', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . basePath);
require_once $basePath/php . '/Mail.php';
$smtpStatus=(class_exists('Mail'))?true:false;
}
Thanks
How about this
# Check to see if the constant is defined BEFORE you try to use it.
if ( defined('EMAIL_MODE') EMAIL_MODE == 'smtp' ) {
# You might want to do more checking on the path. Checking to see if it
# has double forward slashes at the end would be the first place to start
$basePath = str_ireplace('public_html', '', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
# IMO, no improvement needed here
set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . $basePath);
# Well, it is what it is
$filename = {$basePath}/php/Mail.php;
# Check to see if file exists and is readable BEFORE you try including it
if ( is_file($filename) is_readable($filename) ) {
require_once $filename;
$smtpStatus=(class_exists('Mail'))?true:false;
} else {
$smtpStatus = false;
}
}
Jim Lucas
Thanks for the feedback. That's big help. I'm sending this revised code to my
client to install on his Bluehost server.
Actually, I do check if EMAIL_MODE is defined; just didn't show it here.
And, I have debug mode that provides a more detailed error report. But, it
doesn't help if it can't even find Mail
if (PEAR::isError($result))
{
$mode = EMAIL_MODE;
throw new Exception(The email mode \$mode\ does not work. Check the
Applic email address and password in config file. br /
Tech support required, use DISABLE_MAIL_SEND to debug. Error found in
pearEmailSend().br / .
$result-getMessage());
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[PHP] Re: Form Validation filter - Regex Q
Haig Davis wrote:
Morning All,
I've been figthing with this little problem for two days now, so far no luck
with google and am beginning to question my own sanity.
I have a application that has over one hundred forms some quite lengthy so
what I'm trying to achieve rather than writing a bunch of individual
sanitize statements then form validation statemenst that I could run $_POST
through a foreach loop and filter the values by form class i.e.is it an
emaill addreess or simply a text block with letters and numbers. The regex's
alone work fine as does the foreach loop the only issue I have is the IF
statement comparing $key to expected varieable names.
Heres the bit of code envolved.
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
foreach($_POST as $keyTemp = $valueTemp){
$key = mysqlclean($keyTemp);
$value = mysqlclean($valueTemp);
$$key = $key;
$$key = $value;
if($key != ($customerServiceEmail) || ($billingEmail) ||
($website)){
if(preg_match(/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]/, $value)){
$style = yellow;
$formMsg = Invalid Characters;
$bad = $key;
}
}
if($key = ($customerServiceEmail) || ($billingEmail)){
if(preg_match(/^([a-za-z0-9._%...@[a-za-z0-9.-]+\.[a-za-z]{2,4})*$/,
$value)){
$style = yellow;
$formMsg = Invalid Characters;
$bad = $key;
}
}
}
}
Thanks for taking a peek.
Haig
Sorry about the misreading your request, earlier.
Here is a function that I use.
function checkEmailAddr($emailAddr)
{
if(empty($emailAddr))
{
throw new Exception(No email address provided);
}
if(!preg_match(%...@%, $emailAddr))
{
throw new Exception(Email address missing mailbox name, or syntax is
wrong. );
}
if(!filter_var($emailAddr, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
{
throw new Exception(Email address error. Syntax is wrong. );
}
$domain = substr(strchr($emailAddr, '@'), 1);
if(!checkdnsrr($domain))
{
throw new Exception(Email address warning. Specified domain
\$domain\ appears to be invalid. Check carefully.);
}
return true;
}
Use the function like this
try{
checkEmailAddr($userSubmitedDataArray[EMAIL_ADDR_FIELD]);
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
$userErrorMsg = $e-getMessage(); //Message text in check function
}
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[PHP] Re: Form Validation filter - Regex Q
Haig Davis wrote:
Morning All,
I've been figthing with this little problem for two days now, so far no luck
with google and am beginning to question my own sanity.
I have a application that has over one hundred forms some quite lengthy so
what I'm trying to achieve rather than writing a bunch of individual
sanitize statements then form validation statemenst that I could run $_POST
through a foreach loop and filter the values by form class i.e.is it an
emaill addreess or simply a text block with letters and numbers. The regex's
alone work fine as does the foreach loop the only issue I have is the IF
statement comparing $key to expected varieable names.
Heres the bit of code envolved.
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
foreach($_POST as $keyTemp = $valueTemp){
$key = mysqlclean($keyTemp);
$value = mysqlclean($valueTemp);
$$key = $key;
$$key = $value;
if($key != ($customerServiceEmail) || ($billingEmail) ||
($website)){
if(preg_match(/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]/, $value)){
$style = yellow;
$formMsg = Invalid Characters;
$bad = $key;
}
}
if($key = ($customerServiceEmail) || ($billingEmail)){
if(preg_match(/^([a-za-z0-9._%...@[a-za-z0-9.-]+\.[a-za-z]{2,4})*$/,
$value)){
$style = yellow;
$formMsg = Invalid Characters;
$bad = $key;
}
}
}
}
Thanks for taking a peek.
Haig
1] Pear has several classes that will help you from reinventing the wheel.
2] I always, when possible, restrict what users are allowed to enter. Then, I
simply delete or warn them about anything that is not permissible. e.g., they
can enter any of the plain html tags. Any tags not in this list are removed.
//region Usable XHTML elements for user admin prepared user instructions
[Only these XHTML tags can be used] /
$inlineHtmlTagsArray = array('a', 'b', 'img', 'em', 'object', 'option',
'select', 'span', 'strong',);//Note img is both empty and inline
$blockHtmlTagsArray = array('div', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6', 'p',
'pre',);
$emptyHtmlTagsArray = array('br', 'hr', 'img',);
$listHtmlTagsArray = array('li', 'ol', 'ul');
$tableHtmlTagsArray = array('col', 'table', 'tbody', 'td', 'th', 'thead',
'tr',);
I also do syntax and reverse DNS tests for all links and email addresses.
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[PHP] smtp mail question
Anyone see a problem if I login into the smtp server with Username different than the Return-Path? It seems to work OK; but, I know from experience using the mail servers that increasingly everything must be exactly right to prevent recipient mail servers from rejecting emails. So, I started using authenticated smtp exclusively. Reason I'm asking is that I'm developing an application that will have several pages and each one will have a different Return-Path and Reply-To. It will make things simpler if I can login to the smtp server with just one username/password. Al. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: how to replace many spaces with one space?
Jeffry Lunggot wrote: Hi, how to replace many spaces in any string of character with one space? Regrads Be careful about the word spaces do you mean exactly ; or white spaces defined by \s, which include spaces, tabs CRLFs. If you want specifically spaces and not all white spaces, then use \x20 reg_replace(%\x20+%, , $str);//note the space between the quotes in the replace. If our string has CRLFs [i.e., newlines] then they will all will be reduced to one. e.g., \n\n\n will end up as \n if you use \s. Also take into account the pattern modifier m (PCRE_MULTILINE). It may apply in your case. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: parse_str() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given
Use var_dump() and see exactly what your variable is. You can be certain it is really an array; the parser is good about such warnings. Fix the source of the variable given to parse_str. Julian Muscat Doublesin wrote: Hello* *Everyone, I am geetting the error below. Can you please guide me on a fix. It is working on the live site but not on local server. Has anyone ever experinced this error before. * Warning*: parse_str() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Built-in Debugging
Raymond Irving wrote: Hello, Will be ever see built-in debugging features for PHP? I kjnow there's xdebug but it's sometimes difficult to get it working. I'm hopoing that PHP will one day have intgrated debuging features that can be easily enabled or disabled: ?php enable_debug(true); debug_console(Hello world!'); // sends an output to the console of the debugger. ? Personally, I've found that turning on error_reporting(E_ALL), debug_backtrace() and debug_print_backtrace() quite adequate for most situations. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Built-in Debugging
Bob McConnell wrote: From: Raymond Irving Will be ever see built-in debugging features for PHP? I do not expect there would be. Debuggers are more likely to be provided by the IDE. For example, in MS-Windows, Visual Studio is the IDE and can include any of several compilers. It also includes the debugger, and uses the same front end for all languages. Of course, Microsoft has it much easier since they only support one hardware platform (x86) and one OS. Unlike the rest of the world where tools are more likely to be portable. For an IDE with debug capabilities, try NetBeans. I am sure there are others, but that is the only one I have actually looked at. Bob McConnell phpEdit, a super IDE, has an extensive suite of integrated debug tools. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Built-in Debugging
Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 09:04 -0400, Al wrote: Bob McConnell wrote: From: Raymond Irving Will be ever see built-in debugging features for PHP? I do not expect there would be. Debuggers are more likely to be provided by the IDE. For example, in MS-Windows, Visual Studio is the IDE and can include any of several compilers. It also includes the debugger, and uses the same front end for all languages. Of course, Microsoft has it much easier since they only support one hardware platform (x86) and one OS. Unlike the rest of the world where tools are more likely to be portable. For an IDE with debug capabilities, try NetBeans. I am sure there are others, but that is the only one I have actually looked at. Bob McConnell phpEdit, a super IDE, has an extensive suite of integrated debug tools. Real coders don't use debugging tools, comments and output statements are all you need ;) Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk I agree with you and that's why I said in my first message Personally, I've found that turning on error_reporting(E_ALL), debug_backtrace() and debug_print_backtrace() quite adequate for most situations. In fact, I don't recall even using debug_backtrace() and debug_print_backtrace() in the last couple of years. I script very robust code and it catches damn near all errors itself. Al... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: php exception handling
Lars Nielsen wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to make an exception class that emails the errors to myself.
I have started by using the example by ask at nilpo dot com on
http://dk2.php.net/manual/en/language.exceptions.php.
It work ok but i want it NOT to show the errors on the php-page but only
show the details in the email and then just write eg An error occurred
or so on the webpage. Can anyone give me a hint about how to achieve
this?
Regards
Lars Nielsen
Don't sell exception handling short; it can be very useful for processing
control. Here is an example of a sequence of user input validations and checks.
All check functions throw an exception, with the details, if they find an error.
e.g., Tag spen is invalid. Check spelling. This message is rendered so the
user can correct his/her mistake.
if(!empty($adminMiscSettingsArray['instrText']))
{
try{
checkValidTags($validHTMLtags,
allProxyTagsArray,adminMiscSettingsArray['instrText']);
checkTagMatching($emptyProxyTagsArray,$adminMiscSettingsArray['instrText']);
checkTagNesting($emptyProxyTagsArray, $adminMiscSettingsArray['instrText']);
checkTextLinks($linksProxyTagsArray, $adminMiscSettingsArray['instrText']);
}
catch (Exception $e){
$instrCheckErrorMsg = $e-getMessage();
}
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[PHP] Re: Fatal error on functions valid for PHP 4, 5
kro...@aolohr.com wrote: Hi, Would someone be kind enough to test whether these following functions work? I'm getting: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function easter_date() . . . easter_days on both local and production sites. ?php echo easter_days(2009); print brbr; echo date(M-d-Y, easter_date(2009)); print brbr; echo date(D d M Y, easter_date(2009)); ? I'm using 5.2.10 production; PHP 5.2.4 local. Tia, Andre Run get_defined_functions ( void ) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: How do YOU set default function/method params?
Jim Lucas wrote:
Here is a problem that I have had for years now. I have been trying to come up
with the perfect solution for this problem. But, I have come down to two
different methods for solving it.
Here is the problem...
?php
function sendEmail(
$to,
$from,
$subject,
$body,
$attachments=array(),
$headers=array()
) { # I typically do not put each argument on seperate lines, but I ran
#out of width in this email...
# do something here...
mail(...);
}
sendEmail('j...@doe.com',
'maryk...@uhhh.net',
'Hi!',
'Check out my new pictures!!!',
$hash_array_of_pictures
);
Now, we all have a function or method like this floating around somewhere.
My question is, how do YOU go about setting the required entries of the $headers
array() ?
I see three possible solutions. I want to see a clean and simple solution.
Here are my ideas so far:
function sendEmail(
$to,
$from,
$subject,
$body,
$attachments=array(),
$headers=array()
) { # I typically do not put each argument on seperate lines, but I ran
#out of width in this email...
if ( empty($headers['Date']) ) {
$headers['Date'] = date('c');
}
if ( empty($headers['Message-ID']) ) {
$headers['Date'] = md5($to.$subject);
}
# and the example goes on...
# do something here...
mail(...);
}
Or, another example. (I will keep it to the guts of the solution now)
$headers['Date'] = empty($headers['Date']) ?
date('c') : $headers['Date'];
$headers['Message-ID'] = empty($headers['Message-ID']) ?
md5($to.$subject) : $headers['Message-ID'];
OR, yet another example...
$defaults = array(
'Date' = date('c'),
'Message-ID' = md5($to.$subject),
);
$headers += $defaults;
END of examples...
Now, IMO, the last one is the simplest one and for me, I think it will be the
new way that I solve this type of problem.
But, my question that I put out to all of you is...
How would you solve this problem?
TIA
Jim Lucas
To me the key word in your question is default. Here is a send mail example of
how I do it. You'll see that I assign default stuff in the function. The all
caps are constants set in my config file. For extremely high volume
applications, one could memory cache the defaults.
I also use arrays assigned in my config file and then assign the array in the
function using global. When I do this, I immediately reassign the array so the
function can't change the the assignments made in the config. e.g.,
function foo()
global booArray();
boo2Array= booArray(); Only use boo2Array() in the function.
function pearEmailSend($recipient, $emailSubj, $emailText, $applicEmailAddr)
{
$emailTo = $recipient;
$headers['From'] = $applicEmailAddr;
$headers['To'] = $emailTo;
if(!empty($emailCC)) $headers['Cc'] = $emailCC;
$headers['Return-Path'] = $applicEmailAddr; //or can use SMTP_USER; bounces
are sent to applic address
$headers['Reply-To'] = $applicEmailAddr;
$headers['X-miniReg'] = APPLIC_NAME;
$headers['Date'] = date('r');
$headers['Subject'] = $emailSubj;
$params['debug'] = EMAIL_DEBUG; //Careful, do not leave on, creates a nasty
message for admins
$params['host'] = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
$params['auth'] = true; //binary, set in config; some servers require auth
$params[username] = $applicEmailAddr; //was SMTP_USER; //If auth true,
must have value
$params[password] = SMTP_PW; //If auth true, must have value
$params[localhost] = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
$params['persist'] = true; //Default true
$mail_object = @Mail::factory(EMAIL_MODE, $params);
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[PHP] webpage link validation
What's the simplest way to test if a link is valid? I've got a script that throughly checks the dns, etc. But, I'd also like to check to see if the user has inputted a valid link to a webpage. File_exists() and etc. seem to have a lot of caveats. E.g., foo.com/bar/file.txt Most things I've looked at are gross overkill. Al -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Validation XHTML code and repairing broken one
Hello, I have few questions about validation XHTML and repairing if it's broken. The problem is that I have some, for example HTML code (simple web page) and want to load that page to DOMDocument and than make something of it. That part works perfect, but if there is unclosed tag or something like that when I try to load that page I get an error because now that code is not valid. So my question would be, is there some way that I could build some script in php that would run thought that page and check if it's valid or not, and if it's not than try to repair it. Something that you have in all tools, for example Eclipse, NetBeans, etc. If anyone have any idea, please help me, because I'm stuck in here :-( Regards, Dusan I spent some time on this issue because I have several applications where users enter text that must be later displayed as valid XHTML on a webpage. I've found Tidy [a PHP extension] is the best and simplest solution. [I know about JAVA based, client-side scripts; but, don't like having to be constantly updating them for bug fixes, security patches and IE changes, etc.] However, my applications are designed to run on shared hosts and many web hosts won't install it for them. So, I've had to script my own XHTML validator. You are welcome to use the functions, just ask. I must warn you, much of the code uses regex expressions; so, if you are not familiar with regex, I'd advise not using them. Al. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Login should not allow users to login if the application is logged in with the same login credentials
Balasubramanyam A wrote: Hello, I've written a simple application, where users need to login to access the features of the application. I want to develop login system such that, if user is already logged in, the application should not allow the users to login with the same login credentials. How do I accomplish this? Regards, Balu Just save the credentials, for a valid user, in a session and check to see if a new login submission matches. Be certain to lowercase everything so as to prevent a simple case change from appearing to be a different user. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Tidy on a shared host
I've written an application that depends heavily on Tidy for cleaning up user inputed text. Unfortunately, some shared hosts won't install the extension for my clients. Is there a way I can install a stand alone version using FTP with access only in a directory where my program resides. The hosts have given me restricted FTP to the dir. Or, does anyone know of a stand-alone php class that emulates the tidy extension. I've looked; but, not found any. Al.. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Help on pregreplace
Merlin Morgenstern wrote: Hi there, I am highlighting keywords with the help of pregreplace. This works great with one limitation. If the word that has to be replaced contains a slash, preg throws an error. So far I could not find a fix. Can someone help? Here is the code: $pattern = /\b($words)\b/is; $replace = 'span style=background:#FF;color:#FC;\\1/span'; return preg_replace($pattern,$replace,$str); Thank you in advance, Merlin best insurance http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-quote.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Message Board Recommendations
tedd wrote: Hi gang: I have a client who is looking for a Message Board for Subscribers to be installed on his site -- one with a good admin. Any recommendations? Thanks, tedd If your request is for a forum type, then SMF is super http://www.simplemachines.org If the need is for a communications registry, then my MiniRegDB might fit the bill, using the Private/Secure mode. http://ridersite.org/MiniRegDBdemo/MiniRegDBoverview.php If neither of these fits the need, describe it in more detail. Al. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Tidy question about the config args
I have a question about using the $config arguments with tidy_parse_string() and tidy_repair_string() etc. The functions seem to totally ignore new-blocklevel-tags new-empty-tags new-inline-tags E.g., I have in my config array some custom tags [new-inline-tags] = blue,bold,green,italic,red,underline I feed this string greenxxx/greenx to tidy_parse_string() and get this report from the tidy_get_error_buffer() line 1 column 5 - Error: green is not recognized! line 1 column 5 - Warning: discarding unexpected green line 1 column 19 - Warning: discarding unexpected /green PHP does not report any errors. What's the point of having new, custom tags if functions ignore them? What am I missing? Thanks. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Linking to images above the webspace
I've got a php script in which I'd like to link to an image above the webspace [doc-root] and render it as img or object... Anyone know how this can be done? Googling always refers me to document_root, where absolute or relative. Do I first have to make a copy of the image and put it below doc_root? Thanks -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] General good practice question about functions directory location
Most of my scripts are written for use on shared hosts. I've generally put my function and config files in a web-space directory. However, I been thinking it would be less bother to make stuff more secure if the functions, et al, were above the root directory. I realize, some hosts still don't let the owner use the space above the document_root. So, I'll provide a means so the directory can be installed under it. What's your opinion and practice? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: SESSION variables: How much is too much?
Shawn McKenzie wrote: D.M.Jackson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to learn php mostly by reading the docs and pulling through other peoples projects for reference examples. One particular application I'm looking at has a ton of variables being handled through the SESSION global variable, probably about 25 or so variables. That just seems like alot. Since I'm pretty new to php I was wondering if this was typical and acceptable or if there was another best practice for maintaining large amounts of information throughout a session, like maybe persisting a temporary object in the database and passing a connection...or something. Or is just passing around a pile of variables directly in the SESSION object better? Thanks, Mark There is no difference between using session vars and storing vars in a file/db and retrieving them every page load yourself. It's really the same thing except sessions are more automagic. The main differences are that you of course reduce some overhead if you only need certain vars on certain pages or if you need them infrequently then you can store/retrieve them yourself. As far as a large amount of large objects, if you don't need them every page load then you may want to look at stuffing them in a db and only retrieving then when needed. Shawn's right, just start using them. I was reluctant when I first started using PHP just because they seemed so special. Now, I use them for just about every page in an application. In fact, I'd like to session constants. Al. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Cleaning up automatically when leaving a page
Mary Anderson wrote: Hi all, I have a php application for which I have a page which creates temporary junk and puts it into a persistent store (in this case a postgres database, but that is beside the point.) I have a Save button which puts the stuff I really want into the persistent store and cleans up the temporary junk. I have a Cancel button which only cleans up the temporary junk. I would really like to have the cleanup code run anytime a user leaves the page without hitting the Save button. Is there anyway to do this? I.e. have php code called conditionally on exiting the page? Thanks Mary I assume you looked at register_shutdown_function() and session_set_save_handler() One way I handled this problem is to save the data in cleanup files. Then when the page is called by a new client, a function checks the file's time stamp, say if it's more than 10 minutes earlier, does the cleanup process. This technique assumes that a new client will come along and that the cleanup process(es) are fairly fast. Al... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] preg_replace problem
This preg_replace() should simply replace all with amp; unless the value is already amp; But; if $value is simple a quote character [] I get quote. e.g., test = quote;testquote; Search string and replace works as it should in Regex_Coach. echo $value.'br /'; $value=preg_replace(%(?!amp;)%i, amp;, $value); echo $value; I tried using \x26 for the in the search string; didn't help. This seems too obvious to be a bug. Using php5.2.9 Al... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: preg_replace problem
Shawn McKenzie wrote: Al wrote: This preg_replace() should simply replace all with amp; unless the value is already amp; But; if $value is simple a quote character [] I get quote. e.g., test = quote;testquote; Search string and replace works as it should in Regex_Coach. echo $value.'br /'; $value=preg_replace(%(?!amp;)%i, amp;, $value); echo $value; I tried using \x26 for the in the search string; didn't help. This seems too obvious to be a bug. Using php5.2.9 Al... Your code works for me, unless I'm misunderstanding the problem. With the following: $value = quote;testquote;; I get: quote;testquote;br / amp;quote;testamp;quote; I may not have been very clear. Feed it just test with the quotes. You should get back, test the same as you gave it. Instead, I get back quote;testquote; Like wise, if I give it just a single quote [] I get back [quote;] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: preg_replace problem
Shawn McKenzie wrote: Al wrote: This preg_replace() should simply replace all with amp; unless the value is already amp; But; if $value is simple a quote character [] I get quote. e.g., test = quote;testquote; Search string and replace works as it should in Regex_Coach. echo $value.'br /'; $value=preg_replace(%(?!amp;)%i, amp;, $value); echo $value; I tried using \x26 for the in the search string; didn't help. This seems too obvious to be a bug. Using php5.2.9 Al... Your code works for me, unless I'm misunderstanding the problem. With the following: $value = quote;testquote;; I get: quote;testquote;br / amp;quote;testamp;quote; I tried IE8 thinking it could be a weird browser bug. Same error. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: preg_replace problem
Al wrote: This preg_replace() should simply replace all with amp; unless the value is already amp; But; if $value is simple a quote character [] I get quote. e.g., test = quote;testquote; Search string and replace works as it should in Regex_Coach. echo $value.'br /'; $value=preg_replace(%(?!amp;)%i, amp;, $value); echo $value; I tried using \x26 for the in the search string; didn't help. This seems too obvious to be a bug. Using php5.2.9 Al... I erred when I keyed this message. The But, should be as, without the e on quote. Which is an HTML entity for quote. But; if $value is simple a quote character [] I get quot. e.g., test = quot;testquot; -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: forms problem
PJ wrote: The code: ...snip div id=loginbox form name=login method=post action=? echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ? h2accegrave;s client br /input type=text name=title value=? echo $user; ? size=10 /br / mot de passe br /input type=text name=title value=? echo $passwd; ? size=10 /br / input class=submit name=submit type=submit value= entrez /br //h2 h2a href=inscription.php Inscription /a/h2 /form /div snip... PROBLEM 1: On Firefox3, the first input (accès client) does not accept any input, does not show the cursor; the second input (mot de passe) works fine. PROBLEM 2: The form does not appear on IE 6 Running FreeBSD 7.1, apache22, php 5, using sessions, CSS Am I doing something wrong? Always W3C validate html and CSS . Use Firefox's Web Developer extension. It's super. It would have shown you the problems in minutes, see the forms selections. I also use the HTML Validator extension. Leave it active and as you develop and test your resultant html code, it'll check your pages on the fly. When you see the red circle, with a cross, click the circle and get an error report in detail. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: forms problem
Michael A. Peters wrote: Al wrote: I also use the HTML Validator extension. Leave it active and as you develop and test your resultant html code, it'll check your pages on the fly. When you see the red circle, with a cross, click the circle and get an error report in detail. Hey wow - that's nifty. I've got some pages that require login to access, so validate by URL doesn't work, I have to cut and paste the source. That extension makes validating those pages a lot easier :) Also W3C validate. I've found both miss things the other one finds. E.g., FF HTML validate catches irregular fieldset tags that the W3C validator doesn't. HTML validate reports warnings for arbitrary, but legit, CSS selectors e.g., div status=good. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: how to manage permissions for file uploader
Lamp Lists wrote: to upload an image for a photo gallery (my own code) I have to have permission for the directory images 0777. but having permission for a directory 0777 is REALLY bad idea, isn't it? I'm owner of the directory (lamp:lamp images). what to do to set my code has permission to upload an image into the images directory and have permissions on the directory 0755? I googled for file uploader scripts and classes to se how they handle it but I can't see that part. just file/size/type validation and moving uploaded file to final destination. thanks. -LL A simple way is have your program create the dir, instead of you doing it with ftp or a file manager on the sever. Then your scripts will own the dir. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: General Web Development Editor/IDE
Casey wrote: Hi list, I'm looking for a nice, user (i.e. me) friendly general-purpose IDE, where most of my work will be done in PHP. I'm considering using Dreamweaver CS4 as my IDE, where I will disable most of the WYSIWYG elements and use all of the other features that I need/want (contextual syntax coloring and project management). But before I try that, are there any suggestions from all you experts out there? Thanks, - Casey phpEdit -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] CSS tables
There appears to be a bug in the FF3x cell line generating code. border-collapse is a mess, it doubles up some cell lines and drops others when drawing and redrawing tables. I had to make a nice lines between cells by assigning tds with bottom and right sides only. Al... Jessi Berkelhammer wrote: Hi, This post is another one that might be better asked on a CSS-list, but it is relevant to this thread. The calendar at http://php1.net/my-php-calendar/ seems to have a similar issue to a problem I am havingcell borders (sometimes) disappear in Firefox when you zoom out. In both this calendar and mine, the behavior is unpredictable---sometimes a border will be there, and other times not. In my case, I have a javascript mouseover, and the mouseover changes the border behavior below it. Does anybody have any experience with this? Thanks! -jessi tedd wrote: At 11:28 PM +0100 5/15/09, Nathan Rixham wrote: tedd wrote: However, there are occasions such as in a calendar where not using a table would be more than difficult. I haven't received a decree yet as to IF that would be considered column data or not. I'm gonna differ on this one, when you simply float each calender item to the left you're pretty much done, in many cases i find it easier than tables. Okay -- so you find them easier to use for this purpose. This is my little php calendar (not all the code is mine): http://php1.net/my-php-calendar/ and I use tables. I would not want to redo this script using pure css, but I probably will do it at some point. We all have investments into our code. Do you have a css calendar to show? Cheers, tedd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: CSS tables
PJ wrote:
I know of no better place to ask. This may not be strictly a PHP issue,
but...
I am busting my hump trying to format rather large input pages with CSS
and trying to avoid tables; but it looks to me like I am wasting my time
as positioning with CSS seems an impossibly tortuous exercise. I've
managed to do some pages with CSS, but I feel like I am shooting myself
in the foot or somewhere...
Perhaps I am too demanding. I know that with tables, the formatting is
ridiculously fast.
Any thoughts, observations or recommendations?
It appears this thread has neglected to mention the display property values
that emulate table elements, e.g., table-row, table-cell, etc. As in:
div class=cell where *.cell{display:table-cell}. Thus, one can make a
complete table without once ever using table tags table, td etc.
Personally, using the display table properties to avoid using table tags has
left me a bit puzzled. But, I just figured I was overlooking something.
Can some one educate me on this point.
Al.
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Re: [PHP] Re: CSS tables
Paul M Foster wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 09:20:56AM -0400, Al wrote:
PJ wrote:
I know of no better place to ask. This may not be strictly a PHP issue,
but...
I am busting my hump trying to format rather large input pages with CSS
and trying to avoid tables; but it looks to me like I am wasting my time
as positioning with CSS seems an impossibly tortuous exercise. I've
managed to do some pages with CSS, but I feel like I am shooting myself
in the foot or somewhere...
Perhaps I am too demanding. I know that with tables, the formatting is
ridiculously fast.
Any thoughts, observations or recommendations?
It appears this thread has neglected to mention the display property
values
that emulate table elements, e.g., table-row, table-cell, etc. As in:
div class=cell where *.cell{display:table-cell}. Thus, one can make a
complete table without once ever using table tags table, td etc.
Personally, using the display table properties to avoid using table tags
has
left me a bit puzzled. But, I just figured I was overlooking something.
Can some one educate me on this point.
According to my Visibone cheatsheet, the attributes you're talking about
are unimplemented W3C features.
Paul
IE8, FF3x etc. do. Problem is with IE7, which makes it impractical to use.
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[PHP] Re: CSS tables
PJ wrote: I know of no better place to ask. This may not be strictly a PHP issue, but... I am busting my hump trying to format rather large input pages with CSS and trying to avoid tables; but it looks to me like I am wasting my time as positioning with CSS seems an impossibly tortuous exercise. I've managed to do some pages with CSS, but I feel like I am shooting myself in the foot or somewhere... Perhaps I am too demanding. I know that with tables, the formatting is ridiculously fast. Any thoughts, observations or recommendations? Generally, if your content can vary somewhat, tables are easier. Browsers are very good at handling flow with tables. If the content is relatively constant, div are best. Unfortunately DIVs behave differently if they are assigned a position element. Learn to use the various values. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/position Then learn to use Floats https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/float Google, there are many good tutorials for floating divs. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: speaking of control structures...
Tom Worster wrote:
On 5/6/09 4:02 PM, Al n...@ridersite.org wrote:
Here's the way I handle validating user form inputs. Each function validates
several things and throws an error with the message stating what's wrong.
try
{
checkEmailAddr($userSubmitedDataArray[EMAIL_ADDR_FIELD]);
checkPhoneDigits($userSubmitedDataArray[PHONE_NUM_FIELD],
'phone');
checkNotes($userSubmitedDataArray, $sizesArray);
if(!empty($userSubmitedDataArray[CELLPHONE_NUM_FIELD]))
{
checkPhoneDigits($userSubmitedDataArray[CELLPHONE_NUM_FIELD],
'cell');
checkCellCarrier($userSubmitedDataArray['carrier']);
}
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
$userErrorMsg = $e-getMessage(); //Message text in check
function
}
A typical function looks like this:
function checkEmailAddr($emailAddr)
{
if(empty($emailAddr))
{
throw new Exception(No email address provided);
}
if(!preg_match(%...@%, $emailAddr))
{
throw new Exception(Email address missing mailbox name.);
}
if(!filter_var($emailAddr, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
{
throw new Exception(Email address error. Syntax is wrong. );
}
$domain = substr(strchr($emailAddr, '@'), 1);
if(!checkdnsrr($domain))
{
throw new Exception(Email address warning. Specified domain
\$domain\ appears to be invalid. Check carefully.);
}
return true;
}
thanks for the example, Al. the combination of checker functions and
exceptions (as far as i understand them, the exceptions chapter of the php
manual is a little terse) so you can throw from inside the checker seems
convenient.
Incidentally, the throw new exception doesn't have to be in a function. it can
be simply in your code sequence. e.g.,
if($foo != 'boo') throw new Exception(foo is not equal to boo. );
try/catch is a God sent for me. I'm big on telling the user everything that is
wrong with their entry and what to do about it. Prior to try/catch being
available, I'd have to have to test the return for true or a message and then
have logic to skip over the following checks to post a message for the user.
Keep in mind, with this approach, it is most useful if you want to inform users
about errors one at a time. If you want to get fancy, you can control the
exception handler. See manual on this.
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[PHP] Re: speaking of control structures...
Tom Worster wrote:
there's a control structure i wish php had: a simple block that you can
break out of, e.g.
block {
if ( condition )
break;
blah...
blah...
if ( another condition )
break;
blah...
blah...
etc...
}
the block is just like a loop except that it is executed once only.
this would be a handy structure for writing input validation code. the blah
blah fragments can be used for opening files, talking to the db,
manipulating strings, processing dates and times, etc., the conditions for
testing if the input is unacceptable.
i'm sure many of the programmers here do this kind of thing routinely and
have their own habits and solutions. i'd be curious what they are. please
let us know!
i guess i ought to go first. it's fugly but it works:
$once = true;
while ( $once ) {
$once = false;
stuff using break where needed ...
}
tom
Here's the way I handle validating user form inputs. Each function validates
several things and throws an error with the message stating what's wrong.
try
{
checkEmailAddr($userSubmitedDataArray[EMAIL_ADDR_FIELD]);
checkPhoneDigits($userSubmitedDataArray[PHONE_NUM_FIELD], 'phone');
checkNotes($userSubmitedDataArray, $sizesArray);
if(!empty($userSubmitedDataArray[CELLPHONE_NUM_FIELD]))
{
checkPhoneDigits($userSubmitedDataArray[CELLPHONE_NUM_FIELD],
'cell');
checkCellCarrier($userSubmitedDataArray['carrier']);
}
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
$userErrorMsg = $e-getMessage(); //Message text in check function
}
A typical function looks like this:
function checkEmailAddr($emailAddr)
{
if(empty($emailAddr))
{
throw new Exception(No email address provided);
}
if(!preg_match(%...@%, $emailAddr))
{
throw new Exception(Email address missing mailbox name.);
}
if(!filter_var($emailAddr, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
{
throw new Exception(Email address error. Syntax is wrong. );
}
$domain = substr(strchr($emailAddr, '@'), 1);
if(!checkdnsrr($domain))
{
throw new Exception(Email address warning. Specified domain
\$domain\ appears to be invalid. Check carefully.);
}
return true;
}
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Re: [PHP] graphical integrated development environment recommendations?
Michael A. Peters wrote: Adam Williams wrote: With the wide range of users on the list, I'm sure there are plenty of opinions on what are good graphical IDE's and which ones to avoid. I'd like to get away from using notepad.exe to code with due to its limitations. Something that supports syntax/code highlighting and has browser previews would be nice features. I'm looking at Aptana (www.aptana.com) but it seems like it is more complicated to use then it should be. Either Linux or Windows IDE (i run both OSes) recommendations would be fine. Not an ide - I use bluefish, which is a gui text editor with syntax highlighting. It's an X11/gtk2+ application, packaged for most Linux distribution (ie yum install bluefish on Fedora or RHEL) For previewing, I just run a web server on my development box. Only hitch with bluefish - the syntax highlighting sometimes gets confused and it drops the highlighting. Press F5 and it reloads. I believe there is a windows port of bluefish but if I was on windows, I'd probably just use Homesite (not free). Look at phpEdit. It has everything you are looking for and is rock solid. I love the folding and regions features. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: E-Mail Verification - Yes, I know....
Jay Blanchard wrote: Our company wants to do e-mail verification and does not want to use the requests / response method (clicking a link in the e-mail to verify the address), which as we all know is the only way you can be truly sure. I found this; http://verify-email.org/ Which seems to be the next best deal and it is written in PHP. Has anyone used this? Is anyone doing something similar? How do you handle errors? I know that some domains will not accept these requests. I think that this method would really work for us and cut down on the bogus e-mail addresses we're receiving though. Thoughts? Use login smtp with authenticate Include Domain Keys and SPF in your message header. Many incoming mail servers use them to verify mail. I've not had one email rejected since using them. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Unable to send mail from PHP to ATT e-mail address
Edward Diener wrote:
I have a PHP script which uses the PHP 'mail' function. When the
script's 'to' address is an ATT address, such as my own as an ATT ISP
customer, the mail never gets to me. If the 'to' address is anything
other than an ATT address, the mail gets to the recipient. The PHP code
for sending the mail is essentially:
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . \r\n;
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . \r\n;
$headers .= 'From: Some From Name somefromname.com';
$to = 'mybellsouthaddress.net';
$subject = 'Some Subject';
$msg = 'Some Message';
if(mail($to,$subject,$msg.\r\n\r\n,$headers))
echo good;
else
echo bad;
In the actual PHP script the $to, $subject, and $msg are successfully
passed to the script from the client side as $_POST, $_POST and $_FILES
parameters respectively. I have just filled them in above so that they
can be seen as if they were part of the script. The script always
returns good, so the mail function must be successful.
In my project, testing has reported that any attempt to use the 'mail'
function on the server to send to an ATT address fails to reach the
recipient, while all other addresses used in the testing succeed in
reaching the recipient. I can assert this to be the case with my own
ATT address also. I have also checked my ATT mailbox online to make
sure the mail is not being received as Spam.
Does anybody have an idea why using the 'mail' function succeeds with
all but ATT $to addresses ? Naturally in the client-server application
on which I am working, sending mail from the server must work for all
$to addresses.
Try using SMTP as your mail server. Increasingly, incoming mail servers are requiring secure email.
This means logging into your outgoing server. Also, I've starting using Domain Keys and SPF on all
my emails, including text to cellphones.
Here is my code function, it works with ATT just fine. Note the use of Pear
mail
function pearEmailSend($recipient, $emailSubj, $emailText, $applicEmailAddr)
{
$emailTo = $recipient;
$headers['From'] = $applicEmailAddr;
$headers['To'] = $emailTo;
if(!empty($emailCC)) $headers['Cc'] = $emailCC;
$headers['Return-Path'] = $applicEmailAddr; //or can use SMTP_USER; bounces are sent to applic
address
$headers['Reply-To'] = $applicEmailAddr;
$headers['X-miniReg'] = APPLIC_NAME;
$headers['Date'] = date('r');
$headers['Subject'] = $emailSubj;
$params['debug'] = SMTP_DEBUG; //Careful, do not leave on, creates a nasty
message for admins
$params['host'] = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
$params['auth'] = SMTP_AUTH; //binary, set in config; some servers require
auth
$params[username] = SMTP_USER; //If auth true, must have value
$params[password] = SMTP_PW; //If auth true, must have value
$params[localhost] = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
$params['persist'] = true; //Default true
$mail_object = Mail::factory('smtp', $params);
if(!ENABLE_SEND)
{
echo(br /pearEmailSend; sending is inhibited. This is the stuff. br
/Recipient=$recipientbr /Text=$emailText);
echo printArray($headers) . 'br /';
return;
}
$result = $mail_object-send($recipient, $headers, $emailText);
if (PEAR::isError($result))
{
throw new Exception(The email SMTP login does not work, check the config settings. br
/Tech support required. Error found in pearEmailSend() . $result-getMessage());
}
return true;
}
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[PHP] Re: try - catch is not so clear to me...
Lamp Lists wrote:
hi to all!
actually, the statement in the Subject line is not 100% correct. I understand
the purpose and how it works (at least I think I understand :-)) but to me it's
so complicated way?
let's take a look in example from php.net(http://us3.php.net/try)
?php
function inverse($x) {
if (!$x) {
throw new Exception('Division by zero.');
}
else return 1/$x;
}
try {
echo inverse(5) . \n;
echo inverse(0) . \n;
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Caught exception: ', $e-getMessage(), \n;
}
// Continue execution
echo 'Hello World';
?
I would do the same thing, I think, less complicated:
?php
function inverse($x)
{
if (!$x) {
echo 'Division by zero';
}
else return 1/$x;
}
echo inverse(5);
echo inverse(0);
// Continue execution
echo 'Hello world';
?
I know this is too simple, maybe not the best example, but can somebody please explain
the purpose of try/catch?
Thanks.
-LL
Here is a practical example that may help you.
Each of the functions can throw an exception, which causes
the flow to jump to the catch block.
try
{
$checksOK = true;
checkEmailAddr($userSubmitedDataArray[EMAIL_ADDR_FIELD]);
checkPhoneDigits($userSubmitedDataArray[PHONE_NUM_FIELD],'phone');
checkNotes($userSubmitedDataArray, $sizesArray);
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
//Message text in check functions
$userErrorMsg = $e-getMessage();
}
Here is one of the functions:
function checkEmailAddr($emailAddr)
{
if(empty($emailAddr))
{
throw new Exception(No email address provided);
}
if(!preg_match(%...@%, $emailAddr))
{
throw new Exception(Email address missing mailbox
name.);
}
if(!filter_var($emailAddr, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
{
throw new Exception(Email address error. Syntax is
wrong. );
}
$domain = substr(strchr($emailAddr, '@'), 1);
if(!checkdnsrr($domain))
{
throw new Exception(Email address warning.
Specified domain \$domain\ appears to be invalid. Check
carefully.);
}
return true;
}
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[PHP] Re: unknown number of inputs
PJ wrote: I have a script with $_POST and form to load data with text input. Situation: enter name of author(s) for book. I have the script set up to enter first_name, last_name for Author1 and the same for Author 2. Check if entry 1 exists then proceed accordingly Check if entry 2 exists then proceed accordingly. Now, If I have three or more authors to enter, is there a way to add a radio button to add more rows for input or to skip further inputs, if I have to enter the inputs for each additional author? I'm looking for a simple way to do this. Could or should Ajax be involved in this somehow? Here's the way I do it, especially if typically the number of entries are small. e.g., 4 or so. Show the 4 and let the user Submit them. Then, if they used all 4, return the page with an additional 4. Show all 8. Then, if they've used all 8, repeat until they leave at least one unused. Process the page. Make the batch size a constant that you can easily change. And consider making the first rendering say 6 and subsequent additions 3, or whatever. If you want to get a little fancy. Make a simple log file for the total number of entries. After the application has been used for a while, you can check the log and adjust your batch size constant(s) accordingly. Al -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: unknown number of inputs
Phpster wrote: On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:44, Al n...@ridersite.org wrote: PJ wrote: I have a script with $_POST and form to load data with text input. Situation: enter name of author(s) for book. I have the script set up to enter first_name, last_name for Author1 and the same for Author 2. Check if entry 1 exists then proceed accordingly Check if entry 2 exists then proceed accordingly. Now, If I have three or more authors to enter, is there a way to add a radio button to add more rows for input or to skip further inputs, if I have to enter the inputs for each additional author? I'm looking for a simple way to do this. Could or should Ajax be involved in this somehow? Here's the way I do it, especially if typically the number of entries are small. e.g., 4 or so. Show the 4 and let the user Submit them. Then, if they used all 4, return the page with an additional 4. Show all 8. Then, if they've used all 8, repeat until they leave at least one unused. Process the page. Make the batch size a constant that you can easily change. And consider making the first rendering say 6 and subsequent additions 3, or whatever. If you want to get a little fancy. Make a simple log file for the total number of entries. After the application has been used for a while, you can check the log and adjust your batch size constant(s) accordingly. Al -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Why, why make trips to the server when you don't need to? I have an ongoing arguement with the vp from my company ( I'm the director of dev) where he's done the same thing. It is a more complex app and he does it in blocks of ten. But when the clients try to add 100 items, all the processing he does makes that entire process take almost an hour when all is said and done. I keep telling him it should be js only to add new rows, with no trips to the server. But then he's as smart as the guy who wrote the jpeg image compression ;-P I digress but never make a trip back when you don't need to. Bastien Everything is a compromise. I avoid scripts on the client side; just another thing to be concerned about for compatibility. Todays speeds for servers, browsers and the net are so fast one can hardly get their finger off the mouse button before pages are replaced. For 100 rows, sounds to me like you need a complete application on the client side that does all or most of the processing. Must take an hour for your users to simple enter data into 100 rows. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] if elseif elseif elseif....
Al wrote:
PJ wrote:
PJ wrote:
Daniel Brown wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 17:51, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
elseif ($obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 0;
}
Are you certain you only wanted a single equal operator in the
last elseif() condition? Further, are you sure it should even be an
elseif() and not a straight else?
That's where the problem lies... the algorhythm is if any one of a
series is empty, then it's an error, but if they are all ls then we
go on...
So the last one should show up as 0...
I tried else $obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 0; but that doesn't want to
work. I tried echo $obligatoryFieldNotPresent;
just get a blank page...
I can't figure out how to determine if anything is in the String...
perhaps I should be checking for null
elseif ($obligatoryFiledNotPresent == ) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 0;
}
I tried that too, but same result...
finally found the problem... wrong names for string and this is what now
verifies correctly
if (strlen($_POST[titleIN]) == 0 ) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
}
elseif (strlen($_POST[first_nameIN]) == 0 ) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
}
elseif (strlen($_POST[publisherIN]) == 0 ) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
}
elseif (strlen($_POST[copyrightIN]) == ) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
}
elseif (strlen($_POST[ISBNIN]) == 0 ) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
}
elseif (strlen($_POST[languageIN]) == 0 ) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
}
elseif (!empty($_POST['categoriesIN'])) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 0;
But now I have to figure out the workflow and see why it is not going
the right way... wonder where I got some of this stuff...
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent=null;
foreach($_POST, as $value)
{
if(!empty($value)continue;
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent=true;
}
Sorry, I was in too big a hurry...
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent=null;
foreach($_POST as $value)
{
if(!empty($value))continue;
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent=true;
}
And if you want to know which field(s) failed:
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent=array();
foreach($_POST as $key=$value)
{
if(!empty($value))continue;
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent[]=$key;
}
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[PHP] Re: Strange charecters
Chetan Rane wrote: Hi gang I am using ob_start() in my application. However I am getting this error about headers already sent. I have put ob_start at the beginning of the script. I think this has to do something with Unicode. Can anyone explain why this happens. And whats the solution for this Chetan Dattaram Rane | Software Engineer | Persistent Systems mailto:milind_khar...@persistent.co.in chetan_r...@persistent.co.in | Cell: +91 94033 66714 | Tel: +91 (0832) 30 79014 Innovation in software product design, development and delivery- http://www.persistentsys.com www.persistentsys.com Put this above the ob-start(): ini_set(display_errors, on); error_reporting(E_ALL); I didn't test it; but vaguely recall that the error msg includes the line where the first header was sent. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] if elseif elseif elseif....
PJ wrote:
PJ wrote:
Daniel Brown wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 17:51, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
elseif ($obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 0;
}
Are you certain you only wanted a single equal operator in the
last elseif() condition? Further, are you sure it should even be an
elseif() and not a straight else?
That's where the problem lies... the algorhythm is if any one of a
series is empty, then it's an error, but if they are all ls then we go on...
So the last one should show up as 0...
I tried else $obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 0; but that doesn't want to
work. I tried echo $obligatoryFieldNotPresent;
just get a blank page...
I can't figure out how to determine if anything is in the String...
perhaps I should be checking for null
elseif ($obligatoryFiledNotPresent == ) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 0;
}
I tried that too, but same result...
finally found the problem... wrong names for string and this is what now
verifies correctly
if (strlen($_POST[titleIN]) == 0 ) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
}
elseif (strlen($_POST[first_nameIN]) == 0 ) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
}
elseif (strlen($_POST[publisherIN]) == 0 ) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
}
elseif (strlen($_POST[copyrightIN]) == ) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
}
elseif (strlen($_POST[ISBNIN]) == 0 ) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
}
elseif (strlen($_POST[languageIN]) == 0 ) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
}
elseif (!empty($_POST['categoriesIN'])) {
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 0;
But now I have to figure out the workflow and see why it is not going
the right way... wonder where I got some of this stuff...
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent=null;
foreach($_POST, as $value)
{
if(!empty($value)continue;
$obligatoryFieldNotPresent=true;
}
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Re: [PHP] Online Part Time Job Available
Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 17:12 +0200, Marc wrote: Richmal Whitehead schrieb: Hi, Our online market research organization starts recruiting self-motivated and reliable individuals willing to take part in well-paying research conducted by leading international businesses. Your opinion as a consumer is important for the success and profitability of many business ventures. That is why they are ready to pay for what you think. Our members are paid for participating in online surveys, focus group discussions, and product/service evaluations. What's best, all you need to work with us is a computer, an Internet connection, and will to voice your honest opinion. We'd like to hear from you soon if you want to become one of our highly valued survey takers. Please excuse us if this email is unwanted for you and we have disturbed you in some way, but this is a serious and sincere enquiry. Please reply to 15966nyazaha...@gmail.com Best regards, Stephanie Cunningham Die in a fire. /Marc -- http://bithub.net/ Synchronize and share your files over the web for free My Twitter feed http://twitter.com/MarcSteinert Well, they did say your honest opinion was wanted ;) Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Several stipulations rule out most of the gang that hang out here. For example: * self-motivated * reliable individuals * honest opinion Oh well, next time maybe -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Opinions needed
Rene Veerman wrote: Al wrote: I'm scripting a light-weight, low volume signup registry for a running club. Folks sign up to volunteer for events and the like. There will generally be a handful of signup registries at any one time. A typical registry will only contain 50 to 100 names. Each registry is only in existence for a month or so. I really don't see the advantage of using a real DB [e.g., mySQL,] for this. Don't need any special searching, etc. Am thinking of using a simple serialized array file for each registry; or, using Pear Cache_lite. Cache_lite has several nice functions I can take advantage of. In spite of its name, it can be configured to be permanent. I'd just go ahead and use Cache_lite; but, I'm always reluctant to use a Pear package for fear it may not be updated for for future php releases, etc. I aways aim to keep maintenance to a minimum. Anyone had experience with Cache_Lite? Anyone have an opinion on the alternatives or maybe another storage approach? Thanks, Al AdoDB + SQL = easier to maintain than a half dozen custom storage interfaces.. imo. I don't really have any custom storage interfaces. To create a new signup registry, we simply place a file in the topic directory [e.g., /10Krace/Volunteers.php] that contains one line of code that includes the operational scripts. require_once $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/signups/commonReg.php'; commonReg.php takes care of everything and the signup's ID is simply /10Krace/Volunteers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Opinions needed
I'm scripting a light-weight, low volume signup registry for a running club. Folks sign up to volunteer for events and the like. There will generally be a handful of signup registries at any one time. A typical registry will only contain 50 to 100 names. Each registry is only in existence for a month or so. I really don't see the advantage of using a real DB [e.g., mySQL,] for this. Don't need any special searching, etc. Am thinking of using a simple serialized array file for each registry; or, using Pear Cache_lite. Cache_lite has several nice functions I can take advantage of. In spite of its name, it can be configured to be permanent. I'd just go ahead and use Cache_lite; but, I'm always reluctant to use a Pear package for fear it may not be updated for for future php releases, etc. I aways aim to keep maintenance to a minimum. Anyone had experience with Cache_Lite? Anyone have an opinion on the alternatives or maybe another storage approach? Thanks, Al -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Opinions needed
Robert Cummings wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 15:26 -0500, Al wrote: I'm scripting a light-weight, low volume signup registry for a running club. Folks sign up to volunteer for events and the like. There will generally be a handful of signup registries at any one time. A typical registry will only contain 50 to 100 names. Each registry is only in existence for a month or so. I really don't see the advantage of using a real DB [e.g., mySQL,] for this. Don't need any special searching, etc. Am thinking of using a simple serialized array file for each registry; or, using Pear Cache_lite. Cache_lite has several nice functions I can take advantage of. In spite of its name, it can be configured to be permanent. I'd just go ahead and use Cache_lite; but, I'm always reluctant to use a Pear package for fear it may not be updated for for future php releases, etc. I aways aim to keep maintenance to a minimum. Anyone had experience with Cache_Lite? Anyone have an opinion on the alternatives or maybe another storage approach? By writing this email you've already spent about as much time as it would take to set up an SQL database and just start coding. Cheers, Rob. True, but, the website is on a shared host which means someone must setup and maintain the DB and my code has to create and remove tables, as needed. Plus, someone must keep the login parms in sync between the DB and my code. Al -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Opinions needed
Robert Cummings wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 15:45 -0500, Al wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 15:26 -0500, Al wrote: I'm scripting a light-weight, low volume signup registry for a running club. Folks sign up to volunteer for events and the like. There will generally be a handful of signup registries at any one time. A typical registry will only contain 50 to 100 names. Each registry is only in existence for a month or so. I really don't see the advantage of using a real DB [e.g., mySQL,] for this. Don't need any special searching, etc. Am thinking of using a simple serialized array file for each registry; or, using Pear Cache_lite. Cache_lite has several nice functions I can take advantage of. In spite of its name, it can be configured to be permanent. I'd just go ahead and use Cache_lite; but, I'm always reluctant to use a Pear package for fear it may not be updated for for future php releases, etc. I aways aim to keep maintenance to a minimum. Anyone had experience with Cache_Lite? Anyone have an opinion on the alternatives or maybe another storage approach? By writing this email you've already spent about as much time as it would take to set up an SQL database and just start coding. Cheers, Rob. True, but, the website is on a shared host which means someone must setup and maintain the DB and my code has to create and remove tables, as needed. Plus, someone must keep the login parms in sync between the DB and my code. Check if sqllite is available. Cheers, Rob. It is still available and I've got it on my consideration list. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Opinions needed
tedd wrote: At 3:26 PM -0500 2/12/09, Al wrote: I'm scripting a light-weight, low volume signup registry for a running club. Folks sign up to volunteer for events and the like. There will generally be a handful of signup registries at any one time. A typical registry will only contain 50 to 100 names. Each registry is only in existence for a month or so. I really don't see the advantage of using a real DB [e.g., mySQL,] for this. Don't need any special searching, etc. Am thinking of using a simple serialized array file for each registry; or, using Pear Cache_lite. Cache_lite has several nice functions I can take advantage of. In spite of its name, it can be configured to be permanent. I'd just go ahead and use Cache_lite; but, I'm always reluctant to use a Pear package for fear it may not be updated for for future php releases, etc. I aways aim to keep maintenance to a minimum. Anyone had experience with Cache_Lite? Anyone have an opinion on the alternatives or maybe another storage approach? Thanks, Al Personally, I find working with files more difficult than using a database. Sure, the searching functions are an overkill for what you're doing, but you don't have to use them either. Think of a dB as just a filing system where you don't have to keep track of paths. Plus, at some future date, you may want people to logon to their accounts and register for any events without having to fill in the forms again and again with their name and address. Make it easy for both you and your users. Cheers, tedd Part of the problem is that in my attempt to keep my request brief, I skimped on describing the big picture. The site's architecture is highly compartmentalized into dozens of topics and applications http://www.restonrunners.org. Each has it's own content managers, who are not technical. I chose, early on, to use directories as a means to control and maintain the compartmentalization. It has worked well; we can add, change and remove whole topics with ease. It is easy for our content managers to comprehend and work with. Applications like the one described here simply use a calling file in the topic directory that consists of a single line of code. require_once $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/signups/commonReg.php'; commonReg.php takes care of everything and the signup's ID is simply the /dir/callingFilename. Signups are quite fluid, we have dozens per year and all have different fields. One page has 9 individual signups and these will only be posted for less than 1 month. There is never any need for a common perpetual DB. There are no personal accounts per se. Thanks for everyones help in getting me to think about alternatives. Al -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: RES: [PHP] Rounded rectangle in php
Jônatas Zechim wrote: Thank u, i'll try, when I do, i'll post here. zechim -Mensagem original- De: c...@l-i-e.com [mailto:c...@l-i-e.com] Enviada em: quinta-feira, 29 de janeiro de 2009 13:52 Para: php-general@lists.php.net Assunto: Re: [PHP] Rounded rectangle in php Yes, you will need four ellipses, arcs, or similar shapes -- but they'll all be the SAME except for the center, so make that a function probably. Imagick functions will do it easily. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: validating directory and file name with preg_match
Frank Stanovcak wrote:
I'm limiting access to certain proceedures based on the file trying to use
them, and the directory they are located in on my server. Right now I am
using two preg_match statments as you will see. What I want to know is
this. Is there a way to write a single regex for this that will supply the
file name as a match, and only return if the directory is valid?
//make sure we are calling from the propper directory, and get the file name
that included to determine
//database access needs
preg_match('#^C:Inetpubwwwrootfolder(entry|edit)(\w*\\.(php|pdf))#i',
$included_files[0], $check1);
preg_match('#^C:Inetpubwwwrootfolder(\w*\\.(php|pdf))#i',
$included_files[0], $check2);
if(isset($check1)){
if(is_array($check1)){
$matches[4] = $check1[2];
};
unset($check1);
};
if(isset($check2)){
if(is_array($check2)){
$matches[4] = $check2[1];
};
unset($check2);
};
if(isset($matches[4]){
more code here
};
I don't have time to go thru your code in detail; but, here are a couple of
hints:
Get rid of all those \s Use the hex equivalents for special characters. e.g.
. use \x2E It's tough enough testing regex expressions without worrying about
all the back slashes.
You need preg_match_all()
Consider: if(!preg_match_all()){//no match code here}//Or maybe do the opposite
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Re: [PHP] Captha Image Matching the Session Value.
Stephen Alistoun wrote:
Hi all,
My captha code is working but the session code is not matching image
code(captha code).
How do i get them to match each other.
PHP CAPTHA
session_start();
$fontArray = array('arial.tff' , 'impact.tff' , 'tahoma.tff' ,
'tunga.tff'
, 'verdana.tff');
$fontOne = md5(rand(0,50));
$fontTwo = md5(rand(0,50));
$fontThree = md5(rand(0,50));
$fontFour = md5(rand(0,50));
//Let's generate a totally random string using md5
$md5_hashOne = md5(rand(0,999));
$md5_hashTwo = md5(rand(0,999));
$md5_hashThree = md5(rand(0,999));
$md5_hashFour = md5(rand(0,999));
//We don't need a 32 character long string so we trim it down to 5
$wordOne = substr($md5_hashOne, 15, 1);
$wordTwo = substr($md5_hashTwo, 15, 1);
$wordThree = substr($md5_hashThree, 15, 1);
$wordFour = substr($md5_hashFour, 15, 1);
//Set the image width and height
$width = 400;
$height = 150;
//Create the image resource
$image = @imagecreatefromjpeg(CapthaBack.jpg);
$grey = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255);
imagettftext($image,20, rand(0,70), 30, 30, $grey , 'impact.ttf' ,
$wordOne);
imagettftext($image,20, rand(0,70), 70, 30, $grey , 'impact.ttf' ,
$wordTwo);
imagettftext($image,20, rand(0,70), 110, 30, $grey , 'impact.ttf' ,
$wordThree);
imagettftext($image,20, rand(0,70), 150, 30, $grey , 'impact.ttf' ,
$wordFour);
session_unset($_SESSION[security_code]);
$_SESSION[security_code] = $wordOne . . $wordTwo . . $wordThree
.
. $wordFour;
header(Content-Type: image/jpeg);
//Output the newly created image in jpeg format
ImageJpeg($image);
//Free up resources
ImageDestroy($image);
HTML CODE
session_start();
table
tr
td/td
td colspan=2input
type=text name=captha value=?php
echo Test:.$_SESSION[security_code] ?/td
/table
Thanks,
Stephen
Pear has 3 very nice classes for generating and handling captchas.
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[PHP] Re: MySQL class. Thoughts?
Jay Moore wrote:
This is a MySQL class I use and I wanted to get everyone's thoughts on
how/if I can improve it. This is for MySQL only. I don't need to make
it compatible with other databases. I'm curious what you all think.
Thanks,
Jay
Class:
--
?php
// Standard MySQL class
class do_mysql
{
// Constructor
function __construct()
{
$this-do_mysql();
}
// Destructor
function __destruct()
{
//$this-close();
}
function do_mysql()
{
$this-login = '';
$this-pass = '';
$this-link = @mysql_connect('localhost', $this-login,
$this-pass) or die('Could not connect to the database.');
} // End do_mysql
// Functions
function close()
{
if ($this-link)
{
mysql_close($this-link);
unset($this-link);
}
} // End close
function fetch_array()
{
return mysql_fetch_array($this-result);
} // End fetch_array
function last_id()
{
return mysql_insert_id($this-link);
} // End last_id
function num_rows()
{
return mysql_num_rows($this-result);
} // End num_rows
function process($database = '')
{
if (is_null($this-query))
{
die('Error: Query string empty. Cannot proceed.');
}
$this-db = @mysql_select_db($database, $this-link) or
die(Database Error: Couldn't select $database br / . mysql_error());
$this-result = @mysql_query($this-query, $this-link) or
die('Database Error: Couldn\'t query. br /' . mysql_error() . br
/br / $this-query);
} // End process
function sanitize($ref)
{
$ref = mysql_real_escape_string($ref);
} // End sanitize
} // End do_mysql
?
Sample usage:
$value = 'value';
$sql = new do_mysql();
$sql-sanitize($value);
$sql-query = SELECT * FROM `wherever` WHERE `field` = '$value';
$sql-process('dbname');
$sql-close();
if ($sql-num_rows())
{
while ($row = $sql-fetch_array())
{
do stuff;
}
}
I think I'd use one of 20+ Pear classes. They are pretty throughly tested
because of the thousands of users.
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[PHP] Re: phpMailer Problem!
shahrzad khorrami wrote:
hi all,
I want to send email using SMTP Authentication with PHPMailer,
I searched more and more but I can't find anything of my problem
///
include_once('class.phpmailer.php');
include(class.smtp.php); // optional, gets called from within
class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail-IsSMTP();
$mail-Host = mail.xx.com; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP
server
$mail-Port = 80;
$mail-Username = webs...@xxx.com; // SMTP username
$mail-Password = x; // SMTP password
$mail-From = webs...@xx.com;
$mail-FromName = First Last;
$mail-Subject= PHPMailer Test Subject via smtp;
$mail-AltBody= To view the message, please use an HTML compatible
email viewer!; // optional, comment out and test
$mail-MsgHTML(h);
$mail-AddAddress(xx...@gmail.com, John Doe);
//$mail-AddAttachment(images/phpmailer.gif); // attachment
if(!$mail-Send()) {
echo Mailer Error: . $mail-ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo Message sent!;
}
result is nothing, no error but didn't send
then I remove Username password, but didn't work!...
thanks,
shahrzad khorrami
I'd suggest using the Pear Mail package http://pear.php.net/package/Mail. It's
easier to use and provides excellent error reporting. Turn on the debug flag
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Re: [PHP] Server cannot send emails
Sergio Jovani wrote:
Thanks to all. The problem is caused by a server restriction.
SourceForge.net does not allow to send emails from PHP.
Bye!
2009/1/17 Morris morris...@gmail.com:
If you are using apache + php, check php.in your server is able to support
the mail() function and you have correctly set up the send and return
address.
2009/1/17 Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 15:25 +0100, Sergio Jovani wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for replying. Adding From header did not solve the problem.
I'm thinking is a server limitation. Could it be?
2009/1/16 Thiago H. Pojda thiago.po...@gmail.com:
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Sergio Jovani lese...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi!
I have working at SourceForge.net project web space Drupal as CMS. I
have many modules installed related with email like Contact,
Notify...
This modules never worked and I tried send an email from email php
function. I did it with:
?php
$to = myem...@gmail.com;
$subject = Hi!;
$body = Hi,\n\nHow are you?;
if (mail($to, $subject, $body)) {
echo(pMessage successfully sent!/p);
} else {
echo(pMessage delivery failed.../p);
}
?
This does not work too. Is there any issue with email sending from
SourceForge.net?
Looks like you're missing the From: part of the email. That's
probably
your issue. I never used sourceforge, but I know many hostings require
you
to specify a sender.
from http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
?php
$to = 'nob...@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmas...@example.com' . \r\n .
'Reply-To: webmas...@example.com' . \r\n .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?
Thiago Henrique Pojda
http://nerdnaweb.blogspot DOT com
What's the return code you get from your mail() call?
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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It appears that hosts are starting to restrict email service unless the program
uses authenticated smtp. My host recently did so. It appears the problem is
Durpal and maybe not specifically SF; but, I didn't delve into throughly.
http://drupal.org/node/18694
All my new scripts with mail functions use Pear Mail and it works fine.
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Re: [PHP] What's the best way to rotate, resize, and thumbnail?
port23user wrote: I have a site (done in CodeIgniter) where users can upload pictures. When they upload a picture, I want to rotate it (rotating is optional, depending on how much cpu/ram I end up needing), resize it, and create a thumbnail. Right now I'm doing it all in that order using GD, but I'm not sure if it's as efficient as it could be. What's the best way to make this process faster? Imagick class. Has more image manipulating functions than you'll ever use. You name, and there's function to do it. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Php and CSS where to put it
Terion Miller wrote:
I have this code and the css seems to not work in IE at all, do I need to
put it somewhere different on the page maybe?
link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=inc/styles.css
?php include 'inc/dbconnOpen.php' ;
ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', true);
$sql = SELECT * FROM `textads` WHERE `expos` xCount ORDER BY RAND()
LIMIT 3;
$result = mysql_query($sql);
echo
table class=jobfont width=728 height=90 border=0 align=center
cellpadding=10 bordercolor=#66 background= 'inc/bg.gif' bgcolor=#CC
tr
td
table width=690 height=50 border=0 align=center cellpadding=5
tr;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo
td class=col align=center
width=33%{$row['title']}br{$row['blurb']}br
A HREF='{$row['href']}'{$row['href']}/a/td;
//Add to exposure count
$views = $row['xCount'] + 1;
mysql_query(UPDATE `textads` SET `xCount` = '{$views}' WHERE `ID` =
'{$row['ID']}');
}
echo /tr
/table/td/tr/table;
?
Terion: Install Firefox and the HTML Validator extension. It is a perfect tool
for you. It will clearly identify all the HTML errors and warnings, AND point
you to how to fix them. It uses Tidy, which classifies many errors as warnings.
However, you should fix them. Your page has 21 serious warnings many of which
are errors that will affect rendering. After you've fixed the warnings and
errors it finds, run the W3C HTML Validator.
Also, install the Firefox extension Validate CSS. Run it on your page. It has
8 bad errors.
These tools are great learning aids.
Incidentally, I'm not a fan of frames, often causes problems.
Al.
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Re: [PHP] Editing in a text area field
c...@l-i-e.com wrote: Rule #1. Never, ever, ever, alter the user's input, EXCEPT for sanitizing/filtering. Specifically, do NOT add br / tags in place of newlines. Store the newlines. Upon OUTPUT, you can use nl2br() to get br / tags. Or str_replace if you want /p instead. This is crucial as a habit, down the road, when you later want to put their stuff out as non-HTML such as RSS or PDF or other output mechanisms. Consider their input as sacrosanct (except for dangerous/evil input). I've been following this thread with interest because it is a recurring challenge I've had to deal with while coding applications for my running club. We have numerous non techies who enter text material for several applications. My code deals with most, if not all, the issues brought up in this thread. All processing on server-side. I save the user's input intact and only add the HTML and styling code on the fly when sending to browsers. Also, note, my rendered code is XHTML compliant. The error checking for the user is done with Tidy. If anyone is interested, I will provide the code used for this portion of the application. It is well documented and easily modified. Here is a copy of the user instructions for entering text in a textarea. Keep in mind when reading the instructions that the examples are styled, colored, bolded, etc. They are not in this plain text copy. The real thing is here: http://www.ridersite.org/miniReg/miniRegInstr.php ** User Instructions and Text Highlighting Proxie Tags are special instructions for the user's browser and consist of starting and, generally [there are exceptions as noted], ending elements [e.g., blueBlue Text/blue] Tag names can be lower or upper case, or any combination. A complete list of the usable tags is located just below the User Instructions box. HTML tags: You can use actual HTML tags; but, unless you are proficient with HTML coding, we recommend sticking with the proxy tags. Emphasize text like this: redRed Text/red blueBlue Text/blue boldbold text/bold [or the html bbold text/b] italicitalic/italic underlineunderline/underline Headers: headerHeader Text/header are used as paragraph lead-ins and are always left justified. New Lines: Occasionally, you may want to force a new line. Simple add this tag as needed br to force the new line. Titles: Titles are centered when rendered. You can use this tag for blue titles blueTitleTitle/blueTitle and bluesubtitleBlue Subtitle/bluesubtitle; and this for normal titles titleTitle/title Titles and subtitles must be on separate lines. Use this syntax for Email and URL Links: email links: emailrecipient's email addrnamerecipient's name/email URL links: linkURLlabellink text/link, IMPORTANT.. Be very careful that you close all tags [e.g., /span /blue] and that tags are nested properly [e.g., redboldRed Text/bold /red ]. Note that bold and /bold are both inside of red and /red. User Instructions HTML Error Checking To insure your user instructions will display properly on all browsers, the proxie and html tags you used are checked for validity. The check is performed on the actual HTML code that will be sent to the user. Thus, the proxie tags you used will have been converted to HTML tags. The Error Report: shows the HTML errors and thus it may not be clear the cause is due to a proxy tag error. For example, assume you misspelled link as lunk, the error report will say Error: lunk is not recognized! Warning: discarding unexpected lunk Warning: discarding unexpected /a. The lunk error is noted OK. But, note the discarding unexpected /a; that is because you correctly spelled the /link proxy tag and the proxy-to-HTML conversion process properly converted it to the HTML /a tag. The error checker thus found an unexpected /a tag. Pasting Text from Word Processors: You can copy/paste text from your wordprocessor into the member/user instructions box. However, you need to be alert since wordprocessors use some special characters that are incompatible with internet standards. MiniReg converts most, but not all, of them to equivalent internet compatible characters. Carefully check your text in the box and make any necessary corrections. /** * Proxie tags for user admin prepared user instructions * You add new ones, keep alpha order; just make certain they render properly under the Compose your member/user instructions here box */ $proxiesTranslateArray = array(// * 'link' = 'a href=http://', 'label' = ' target=_blank', '/link' = '/a', email = 'a href=mailto:', name = \, '/email' = '/a', 'line' = 'hr /', 'br' = 'br /', 'blue' = 'span class=blue', '/blue' = '/span', 'bluesubtitle' = 'div class=blueSubTitle', '/bluesubtitle' = '/div', 'bluetitle' = 'div class=blueTitle', '/bluetitle' = '/div', 'bold' =
[PHP] Re: Create image from HTML
Christoph Boget wrote: Does anyone know if it's possible, using PHP, to take HTML (either as an input or from a URL) and generate an image (essentially, create a screenshot) of that HTML/page? I've looked around but was unable to find anything and I'm just not sure if it's that there really is nothing like this out there or if I'm just looking in the wrong places. Any advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated! thnx, Christoph I vaguely recall ImageMagick will do it. Don't fuss at me if my memory is faulty. Use the Imagick wrapper. It's now a std php extension. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: redoing website after 7 years
Lamp Lists wrote: hi guys, I did php/mysql based website for one my client 7 years ago, in time when register_globals was on by default. hosting company upgraded server to php5/mysql5 and turned globals off. the site is doesn't work any more. I can define globals on again in .htaccess but rather not because it could be a big risk. to work again I have to spend a lot of hours to modify the code. boring job. but, I'm more concern does client has to pay the changes/upgrade or it's still my obligation? anybody had similar experience? thanks for any help. ll What's the magnitude of the problem? Are there a handful of files that need fixing or hundreds? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: redoing website after 7 years
Lamp Lists wrote: hi guys, I did php/mysql based website for one my client 7 years ago, in time when register_globals was on by default. hosting company upgraded server to php5/mysql5 and turned globals off. the site is doesn't work any more. I can define globals on again in .htaccess but rather not because it could be a big risk. to work again I have to spend a lot of hours to modify the code. boring job. but, I'm more concern does client has to pay the changes/upgrade or it's still my obligation? anybody had similar experience? thanks for any help. ll Looks like a case of: It's not if, but when. Someday, some will have to do it. Compare the situation with some other product. The customer should not expect the designer to provide free maintenance forever. Have they paid you a yearly maintenance fee? Also, things have changed regarding register_globals. They became a major security risk because hackers learned how to exploit them, since you designed the code. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Please point me in the right direction
David Knapp wrote: Greetings, I need to create a secure customer section on my site. User name and login would take you to a secured page that displays information like a calendar, downloads, budgets. These sections would be the same but each customer would display custom content (over 100 customers). I browsed php mysql books, but need a jump start. Any ideas? Is php not the best solution? If you can't tell, I'm a newbie. David You said secure! I'd highly recommend looking for a finished product designed by pros. Designing a secure application is not for newbies. Al... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Zend framework
I've not given it much thought, so far. But, am curious about what you folks think about it. Anyone with experience have a comment? Al.. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Zend framework
Richard Heyes wrote: 2008/12/24 Al n...@ridersite.org: I've not given it much thought, so far. But, am curious about what you folks think about it. Anyone with experience have a comment? On what? The Zend Framework? Sorry, I wasn't clear. Anyone with experience using the Zend framework, in general or any particular components, have a comment? Al... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Regular expressions (regex) question for parsing
Rene Fournier wrote: Hi, I'm looking for some ideas on the best way to parse blocks of text that is formatted such as: $sometext %\r\n-- good data $otherstring %\r\n-- good data $andyetmoretext %\r\n-- good data $finaltext -- bad data (missing ending) Each line should start with a $dollar sign, then some arbitrary text, ends with a percent sign, followed by carriage-return and line-feed. Sometimes though, the final line is not complete. In that case, I want to save those lines too. so that I end up with an array like: $result = array (matches = array (0 = $sometext %\r\n, 1 = $otherstring %\r\n, 2 = $andyetmoretext %\r\n ), non_matches = array (3 = $finaltext ) ); The key thing here is that the line numbers are preserved and the non-matched lines are saved... Any ideas, what's the best way to go about this? Preg_matc, preg_split or something incorporating explode? Rene Where does the text come from, a text file? client-side textarea? DB? etc.? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Create PHP form from MySQL table structure
R B MacGregor wrote: Hi folks Anybody got any recommendations for a utility which would create a quick head start by creating the php/html code for a basic form using the field structure of a MySQL table ? Thanks for any suggestions. Look at Pear HTML_QuickForm and other HTML classes. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Read/decode barcodes from an image
Al wrote: If anything can do it, it'll be ImageMagick Adam Randall wrote: I'm amazed that this either doesn't exist, or is hard to find. I basically am looking for a way to read in an image into PHP, or shell out to something on the Linux side, and determine, and see if it has a barcode in it or not. If it does, I need to decode the barcode so that I can identify the page as a separator page or not. Basically, what I'm doing is reading in a PDF or TIF which will contain multiple pages (probably a lot of pages) and look for a page containing a barcode. The barcode will identify the page as a separator page which will be used to split the multipage document into smaller single or multipage documents. Has anyone ever heard of anything that might help me in this process? Adam. Google imagemagick barcode and you get 140,000+ hits -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Read/decode barcodes from an image
If anything can do it, it'll be ImageMagick Adam Randall wrote: I'm amazed that this either doesn't exist, or is hard to find. I basically am looking for a way to read in an image into PHP, or shell out to something on the Linux side, and determine, and see if it has a barcode in it or not. If it does, I need to decode the barcode so that I can identify the page as a separator page or not. Basically, what I'm doing is reading in a PDF or TIF which will contain multiple pages (probably a lot of pages) and look for a page containing a barcode. The barcode will identify the page as a separator page which will be used to split the multipage document into smaller single or multipage documents. Has anyone ever heard of anything that might help me in this process? Adam. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Voting methodology
Shawn McKenzie wrote: tedd wrote: Hi gang: What methodology would be the best for online voting? I have a client who is a Union and they want members to vote online, but don't want someone to stuff the voting box. I have some ideas of my own, but would like to hear what you people would recommend. Cheers, tedd Being a union I would expect that they want some way to control the stuffing to their advantage. :-) Also, don't forget to insure the is NO audit trail. e.g., all champaign contributions less than $200, even for some credit cards that post $199 1000 times. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] pear mail() verses net-smtp()
Anyone have opinions on these two mail functions for sending smtp emails, pear mail() verses net-smtp()? Which is best, etc. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: HTMLEntities as NUMERIC for XML
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After reading this:
http://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/error/UndefinedNamedEntity.html
(all praise W3.org!)
I am searching for a PHP library function that will convert all my abc; into
#123;
I have a zillion of these things from converting stupid MS Word characters into
something that will, like, you know, actually WORK on the Internet, and do not
really want to re-invent the wheel here.
Somebody has to have written this function...
I'm kind of surprised it's not http://php.net/xmlentities or somesuch...
Here's what I use:
//Translate table for dumb Windows chars when user paste from Word; function
strips all 160
$win1252ToPlainTextArray=array(
chr(130)= ',',
chr(131)= '',
chr(132)= ',,',
chr(133)= '...',
chr(134)= '+',
chr(135)= '',
chr(139)= '',
chr(145)= '\'',
chr(146)= '\'',
chr(147)= '',
chr(148)= '',
chr(149)= '*',
chr(150)= '-',
chr(151)= '-',
chr(155)= '',
chr(160)= ' ',
);
function cleanWin1252Text($str)
{
global $win1252ToPlainTextArray; //translate array for many dumb Windows special chars; used
for paste in textarears
$str = strtr($str, $win1252ToPlainTextArray);
$str = trim($str);
$patterns = array('%[\x7F-\x81]%', '%[\x83]%', '%[\x87-\x8A]%',
'%[\x8C-\x90]%', %[\x98-\xff]%');
return preg_replace($patterns, '', $str); //Strip
}
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[PHP] Re: Memcached is driving me nuts
Try debug_backtrace()
Rico Secada wrote:
Hi.
This post has also been posted on the Debian list.
I have two different Debian Etch machines running with the exact same
packages installed, when I use PHP memcached with compression (zlib) it
works at one machine but not the other. No errors are thrown.
I need to know why it is only working on one machine and not the other.
I am talking about the MEMCACHE_COMPRESSED flag if anyone knows about
this.
I am using this small script to test with:
?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$memcached = new Memcache;
$memcached-connect('localhost', 11211);
$version = $memcached-getVersion();
print (pMemcached version: .$version./p);
// $memcached-flush();
$output = $memcached-get('var_key');
if (empty($output)) {
$memcached-set('var_key', 'Hello I am Memcached',
MEMCACHE_COMPRESSED, 3600);
print (Memcached has just been set!);
} else {
print (Memcached is already set with this value:
$output);
}
?
If I disable the compression flag (using the 'false' value or zero
value) on the failing machine, all works correctly, but when I enable
it like in the above script it fails without error.
I have also tried running memcached with -vv options, and checked the
log, but no errors show up.
I am suspecting that zlib isn't working right on the failing machine,
but using phpinfo() it shows that zlib is enabled.
On both machines the following packages are installed:
ii libcompress-zlib-perl 1.42-2
ii libio-zlib-perl 1.04-1
ii zlib1g 1.2.3-13
ii libapache2-mod-php5 5.2.0-8+etch13
ii php5 5.2.0-8+etch13
ii php5-common 5.2.0-8+etch13
ii php5-gd 5.2.0-8+etch13
ii php5-imagick0.9.11+1-4.1
ii php5-memcache2.0.1-1.1
ii php5-mysql 5.2.0-8
+etch13
ii php5-pgsql 5.2.0-8+etch13
Any help in understanding what is going on would be greatly
appreciated.
Best regards.
Rico
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