Re: [PHP] Inspiration for a Tombstone.

[Jason Murray]

Body not found? Who do you think I am?  Jesus?

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 14:54 -0400, Jason Murray wrote:
>> I'm thinking:
>>
>> > header("HTTP/1.1 410 Gone");
>> die();
>> ?>
>
> What about a 404? >:)
>
> 
>header( 'HTTP/1.1 404 Body Not Found' );
>
> ?>
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
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Re: [PHP] Inspiration for a Tombstone.

[Jason Murray]

I'm thinking:



Regards,

Jason

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:54 PM, David Giragosian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  My favorite vi command:
>
> e! Damn it. e!

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Re: Re: [PHP] exec() Error

[Jason Murray]

Alice,

If you are already set 755 on the CGI, it looks like it might be a webserver
configuration issue.

If you are using Apache (I'm assuming you are) you might want to take a look
at

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/cgi.html#configuringapachetopermitcgi

for some hints on how to make sure that the server configuration is proper
for using CGI scripts.

Regards

Jason

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Wei, Alice J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi, Todd:
>
>   It looks like I have some other errors in my Perl code, and I got it
> fixed, switched the permission to 755, and made attempts to call it using
> cURL through my working PHP script.
>
>   Here is the code:
>
> // create a new cURL resource
> $ch = curl_init();
>
> // set URL and other appropriate options
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://192.168.10.63/total.cgi";);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
>
> // grab URL and pass it to the browser
> curl_exec($ch);
>
> // close cURL resource, and free up system resources
> curl_close($ch);
>
> This time, I do not get the "script" output from the script in total.cgi,
> but I got
>
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access /total.cgi on this server.
>
> I have switched the permission to both scripts at both servers. Is there
> something wrong I have done here?
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> Alice
> ==
> Alice Wei
> MIS 2009
> School of Library and Information Science
> Indiana University Bloomington
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> From: Boyd, Todd M. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:07 PM
> To: Wei, Alice J.; php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: Re: [PHP] exec() Error
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Wei, Alice J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 3:31 PM
> > To: Boyd, Todd M.; Per Jessen; php-general@lists.php.net
> > Subject: RE: Re: [PHP] exec() Error
>
> ---8<--- snip
>
> > > Well, "http://www.mysite.com/calculate.php"; is not an executable.
> > Try
> > > this instead:
> > >
> > > exec("php /calculate.php");
> >
> > I still don't think this is how exec() should be used when executing
> > remote PHP scripts via HTTP, since the web server is not going to give
> > you the underlying code simply because you're calling the URL from PHP
> > and not your web browser. User-Agent tags do not a secure connection
> > make.
> >
> > Perhaps doing a wget and directing it to /dev/null (if you're on *nix)
> > would be appropriate to invoke a remote script and pass it parameters.
> > Hell, even wget to standard output if you want, and use that as your
> > "result code." It's basically doing what cURL does, but outside of the
> > PHP script itself.
> >
> > Anyway, I digress. My point is that exec("php
> > http://mysite.com/script.php";) will fail, since it will be reading the
> > remote script's OUTPUT, and not the remote script's SOURCE CODE.
> >
> >I dont' know how come his code works either. I figured that exec()
> > is not going to get me anywhere when I have it stored remotely.
> >I am now using cURL instead of using exec(), since it is doing a
> lot
> > closer to what I initiated. I am not sure if I should have a new
> thread
> > for this, but I found that things start to get a little weird when I
> > tried to do cURL with Perl files inside. The PHP only brings me back
> > Perl code and not the processed content. Is this something I should
> not
> > be doing with cURL? It seems to do quite a bit of powerful processing
> > when I wrote everything in PHP and have it stored remotely.
>
> Alice,
>
> If it's returning the code instead of the processed content, then it
> means that the webserver which houses the Perl script is not
> executing/parsing it. You should check with the administrator of the
> remote webserver to see if they have a Perl module installed, and if it
> is configured properly for your web app.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Todd Boyd
> Web Programmer
>
>
>
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Re: [PHP] changing order of items

[Jason Murray]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:09 PM, afan pasalic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> this one bugs me for a while. how to change order.
>
> I have a list of tasks. by status, task could be 1 (todo) or 0 (done) -
> status value stored in mysql. I can list tasks per status or all.
> order number is stored in mysql too.
> the easiest way to change order is to have form for each task where you
> will enter manually number and then submit (one submit button for whole
> form). but, if you change order number for any task you have to change
> then all order numbers "below" the task manually
>
> solution with "arrows" (or up/down buttons) where you click on arrow and
> the task switch the place with its "neighbor" is easy and fancy. Though,
> I get in trouble if, e.g. tasks 10, 11, 12, and 13 change status from 1
> to 0 and I have to move task 14 to place 6. I have to click first 4
> times (to switch places with tasks 13, 12, 11, and 10) - but nothing is
> actually happening on screen (of course) before start switching places
> with 9, 8, 7, and 6.
>
> how do you avoid this "gap"?
> what solution do you use at all?
>
> thanks for any help.
>
> -afan
>  
>
>
I am assuming that each time you click the up or down arrow you are
re-loading the page (via a GET request).  A simple solution to this, would
be to adjust the URLs assigned to the up and down arrows to carry an extra
variable, the item either directly above or directly below the one selected,
and instead of doing whole-sale renumbering, create a swap function.  That
just swaps the position of the two items.

example:

 0) {
echo 'move
up ';
  }
  //create mode down link
  if ($i < (count($rows) -1)) {
echo 'move
up';
  }
}
?>

Then your page would just have to watch for those two variables being set at
load and select the appropriate items in the database based on the order and
swap their two positions, this will allow you to handle gaps in the
positioning scheme, for example when you are only listing the status 1 items
and not all the items.

*note* The code above is completely off-the-cuff and not tested, don't blame
me if there are any bugs in it ;)

Regards,

Jason

Re: [PHP] Two word array Value

[Jason Murray]

Try:

  echo "". $value."";


On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Mark Bomgardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> I am trying to use array's to populate a group of check boxes for a form.
>  I
> am getting the checkboxes to print OK, but when the form is posted I am
> only
> getting part of the array.
>
>
>
> Form Page:
>
>
>
> $vars = array("Main Classroom" => "Main Classroom", "Break Out Classroom"
> =>
> "Break Out Classroom", "Gym" => "Gym",
>
> "Firearms Range" => "Firearms Range", "EVOC Track" => "EVOC Track");
>
>
>
>
>
> $cols = 4;
>
> echo " colspan=".$cols." align=center>Equipment Needed";
>
>foreach($vars as $key => $value){
>
>  if (($cols % 4) == 0 ){ echo ""; }
>
>
>
>  echo " value=".$value.">".$value."";
>
>  $cols++;
>
>}
>
>
>
> echo "";
>
> echo "";
>
>
>
> When I submit the form I am only getting the following having checked the
> boxes for Mail Classroom and Break Out Classroom.  If I eliminate the
> spaces
> between the words, I get everything, but when I put the spaces between the
> words in the array, it cuts off the second word.  Not sure what is
> happening?
>
>
>
> Array ( [Main] => Main [Break] => Break [Submit] => Submit )
>
>

RE: [PHP] MYSQL :(

[Jason Murray]

> How can I get this to use the next auto_increment of 
> id (Next Autoindex = 52)?

What if you just remove id from your field list?

insert into ccl.ccl_maintest (id,RNum,YR,AU,ST
  ^^^
  Here :)

(Just an idea...)

J

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RE: [PHP] random -n lines array problem

[Jason Murray]

> Where do you get that from?

Probably from not trying it before I open my mouth. I must 
have dreamed it somewhere, sorry :)

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RE: [PHP] random -n lines array problem

[Jason Murray]

> You need to explode() $line.

Won't that still cause problems for him, since explode() will
ignore concurrent separators ()?

Jason

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[PHP] RegEx for a URL?

[Jason Murray]

Hi folks,

I'm looking for a regular expression which matches a URL. I've found
several already by looking around various sites, but they don't seem
to accomplish what I'm looking for.

I'm developing a PHP-driven message board / forum system. As a part
of this, of course, I have to give users the ability to put links
in their messages without allowing them to post HTML, so I've settled
on the markup "[link=URL]text[/link]" (odd how much that looks like
an  tag, I know). There is also an [image=URL] tag which gets 
changed into an  tag. Additionally, for user-friendliness, I'd 
like to catch any URLs that are in the body of the text themselves - 
these will be preceded by a newline, a space or will be at the very 
start of the message, so the same RegEx should suffice.

The RegEx's I've tried so far:

1. (From the online PHP manual's user-contributed notes):
   [[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]

Works ok for picking out URLs from plain text, but doesn't work with
[link=URL]text[link] ... it seems to eat the closing ] of the [link]
markup and it's all bad from there on out. Works fine though if I 
change the markup rule to [link=URL]text[/link], but that's
nonstandard and not very intuitive.

2. (From regexlib.com, long line sorry)
 
(http|https|ftp)\://[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(:[a-zA-Z0-9]*)?/?([a
-zA-Z0-9\-\._\?\,\'/\\\+&%\$#\=~])*[^\.\,\)\(\s]

Works fine for [link=URL]text[link] and picking URL itself out of 
plain text, as long as URL isn't too complicated. It's happy with
a URL like http://www.shadow.net.au but when that URL has a path
after it, like http://www.game-spin.com/forums/gfx/stars/star1.gif
then it gets real useless, real fast.

If anyone's interested, the board system itself is up and running
on my dev/test server at http://boards.shadow.net.au - you can see
a live version at http://www.auswrestling.com/forum/ and also at
http://www.game-spin.com/forums/. I'll be releasing it soon, and
if someone can give me a working URL RegEx I'd be happy to give
them some credits in the documentation ;)

Thanks in advance...

Jason

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RE: [PHP] phpmysqladmin ? still viable?

[Jason Murray]

Go to www.google.com -> enter "phpMyAdmin" -> hit "I'm Feeling Lucky"

:)

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> -Original Message-
> From: Erik Gilchrist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:15 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] phpmysqladmin ? still viable?
> 
> 
> First off, I am a total newbie to php and DB stuff.  Pardon 
> the intrusion on 
> your busy schedules.  Really.
> 
> My host is having a hard time finding phpmysqladmin and he 
> touted this as a 
> solution to my wanting to get into the DB arena as well as 
> php.  Does anyone 
> know where to get it?   All of my evening has now been wasted 
> googling 
> looking for it and perhaps there is a better solution.
> 
> And no, I really am out of my game here, but I figured it was 
> a good place 
> to ask.  The only caveat the host said was that it MUST be PHP4.x 
> compatible.
> 
> I sincerely apologize for the intrusion if it's not on topic 
> enough.  I know 
> I need to go further in my exploration that the net has via 
> tutorials and 
> PHP manual, but if anyone has time I would sincerely 
> appreciate it.  I have 
> been lurking for a week or two.  Good stuff to be found here.  Indeed.
> 
> I could have all the assumptions above all wrong and some bad 
> data/opinions...  sorry.  please explain.  If I am in the 
> wrong place to 
> ask, please tell me where the best place to look/ask is.  I 
> don't want to 
> waste anybodys time.  I surely would not want mine wasted.
> 
> BTW-- I am on DIGEST, so a CC: would be appreciated dearly.
> 
> TIA.
> Erik
> 
> _
> Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
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RE: [PHP] Re: function over loading?

[Jason Murray]

> > Can you practice function over-loading in php?
> 
> No you cannot overload in PHP.

You can achieve the same effect (having the same function do
something else in a different circumstance) by making
parameters optional:



$param1 is required, $param2 is optional - if its not
supplied when the function is called, it will be "".

J

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RE: [PHP] header problems

[Jason Murray]

> Can anyone tell me if there is any reason why this would not 
> be working?
> 
> mysql_connect($DBhost,$DBuser,$DBpass) or die(header("Location:
> error.php"));

Why bother calling die() at all there?



J

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RE: [PHP] is their a way to run a command as root ???

[Jason Murray]

> Is their a way to run a command as root..or another user..
> 
> I know their are a log of security issues with allowing this.. I will
> tighten down security after I get it to work.

Get your sysadmin to set up "sudo" so that the user running your
web server (usually "nobody", "httpd" or "www") can execute that
one single command, then use PHP's Execute() function.

Jason

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RE: [PHP] Home Finance System / Bill Splitter

[Jason Murray]

> > I was about to set up a spreadsheet again - but since I've started 
> > getting into learning PHP - and have recently set up our home linux 
> > server - thought that it would be a lot more exciting / functional 
> > to have a system running on the server that would allow each person 
> > to log in, track the current bill status, pay a bill, enter new 
> > bills, etc.
> 
> It seems strange to me why anyone would want to do such a thing.

Actually I did something similar last week for my household (3 people), 
so that we know who paid what bill and thus how much each of us owes
each other in the balance. It was a complicated spreadsheet, and this
way it allows me to set up rules so that person X is excluded from
the calculations for a certain transaction.

Kinda cool, in a geeky way.

Why do it? Because I can. ;)

> And it's even stranger that someone *has* come up with such a thing :)
> I think I saw it on freshmeat.net. 

Oh, damn. :)

J

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RE: [PHP] SQL Warning

[Jason Murray]

> Would you please direct your attention to this URL
> 
> http://testphp.netfirms.com/code1.html
> 
> Look at the bottom where the big orange commented syntax is 
> and explain what is going on there?

{$config["prefix"]}

I think this should be

${config["prefix"]}

... also, it's handy to actually echo or print the SQL you're
executing, as you will be able to see if the SQL is correct
or not. 

The error on line 14 occurs because you're trying to execute 
mysql_fetch_array on a mysql result set that doesn't exist. 

The most likely reason it doesn't exist is because the SQL is 
wrong. Echo the SQL and you'll find out whats happening.

J

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RE: [PHP] Nasty DoS in PHP | Windows only?

[Jason Murray]

> I know what you are saying. I've taken down apache on win32 
> with setcookie
[snip]
> I'm pretty sure they ran PHP on apache, not IIS. Maybe this 
> problem is only with the win32 version of the PHP module.

Yep, apparently I can't read. Apache, IIS, same header() probs.

> Nonetheless, a bug is still a bug. It would be nice if it 
> wasn't there=)

Agreed! :)

J

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RE: [PHP] Nasty DoS in PHP | Windows only?

[Jason Murray]

> I'd be interested in knowing your versions and the versions 
> of the first guy that posted about this. Maybe he has the same 
> setup as me, or close enough, but both of us are different 
> from you. 

Actually, I just thought about it - maybe you guys are both running
it on Windows (shame on you ;)).

I *have* actually seen PHP bring down IIS with a setcookie command.
Since a setcookie issues headers, I thought "fine, screw you, I'll
set the headers myself", and it STILL brought IIS down. And indeed,
the load *did* skyrocket and require a reboot of the server.

I asked around here at the time if anyone had experienced this (look
through the mailing list archive to find it) and at the time got
more of a congratulatory salute from the list members than any real
responses :)

Maybe this is more of a PHP-on-IIS issue than an actual security
issue in PHP.

Jason

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RE: [PHP] Nasty DoS in PHP

[Jason Murray]

> Mine produced the same error message as yours, Jason, but the memory 
> and CPU usage continued until I hit the 'stop' button on the browser. 
> It seemed to have overridden both time and memory limits, as it had 
> racked up 320 megs of my RAM by the time I stopped it.

It certainly didn't do that here, but it could be a difference between
RAM, PHP and Apache versions (simple paranoia ;)) that causes it. 

PHP clearly sent the error *to my browser* and the browser stopped loading
immediately (thus, the "fatal" error was indeed fatal, and PHP terminated
at that time).

J

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RE: [PHP] Nasty DoS in PHP

[Jason Murray]

> So that was both as an Apache mod and a CGI binary?  Sounds like it's 
> reproducible. 

Running as an Apache module here, it terminated as expected at 30 seconds.

Jason

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RE: [PHP] Nasty DoS in PHP

[Jason Murray]

> A big "if", since the OP has not yet verified that the time limit and 
> memory limit are in effect at the outset of the loop as supposed.  
> Someone else want to test for this scenario?  Someone, that is, who 
> can deliberately bring down their server without getting kicked 
> off permanently?

Done. Result:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in
/usr/local/apache/virtual/misc/random.phpdev.mit/htdocs/index.php on line 3

Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) PHP/4.0.6

I think that kind of closes this case...

Jason

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RE: [PHP] Nasty DoS in PHP

[Jason Murray]

> "If the user has enough access to the server to place files on it" ?
> 
> There are hosting places that have PHP and you can just upload the PHP
> script through FTP and access it in your browser.

... in which case all you'll accomplish is taking out your own server,
which is not a DoS attack. :)

(This is also why its very hard to find free servers with PHP on them)

J

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RE: [PHP] Nasty DoS in PHP

[Jason Murray]

> It's a default PHP installation. We aren't calling set_time_limit(). 
> I know its an infinite loop, the point is that if a user wanted to 
> attack a server (happens every day) they would be able to use this 
> method to take the server down.

But, if the user has enough access to the server to place files on it,
then they can do much, much worse stuff than running an infinite loop 
in PHP. Like I said, if it gets to that point you have bigger problems.

Jason

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RE: [PHP] Nasty DoS in PHP

[Jason Murray]

> It does not stop after its execution time.

Is your PHP actually configured to stop running after 30 seconds, 
though? Its the default, but you may have overridden it.

> We have let this run for 10+ minutes to see if it would crash the 
> server, and it did. 

Is it possible you're called set_time_limit() to increase the
script's timeout and thus allow it to run?

> It does not affect the person that loads the code in the browser, 
> just affects the server running the code.

Well ... yeah. This is not surprising :p :)

Either way, the fact still remains it's an infinite loop and you
just shouldn't write it. :)

J

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RE: [PHP] Nasty DoS in PHP

[Jason Murray]

> I have found something interesting that can kill the server. 
> I'm not sure if this is because of Apache or PHP. If you use 
> PHP to send a header() inside of a while loop, the httpd 
> process will begin to use massive CPU and Memory until it is 
> killed, or the server is killed. Here is what I used:
> 
>while(0<1) {
> header("A");
>   }
> ?>

Umm, but, this is an infinite loop. It won't stop executing.

Actually, it *should* stop executing once PHP hits its maximum
execution time limit (usually 30 seconds).

If you code something like this into pages, you've got bigger
problems than a DoS attack.

It's also not strictly a DoS since you'd be doing it to yourself
if you ran this code. Of course, if you're silly enough to let
visitors to your website upload and execute arbitrary code then
there are, again, bigger problems (such as possibly comprimising
root access, fetching /etc/passwd and guessing passwords, or 
getting access to other sensitive information on your file 
system).

Unless there's something specifically bad about the Header()
command (you didn't make it clear if this is what you were
talking about), inifinite loops are, in general, bad.

Jason

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RE: [PHP] Banning javascript?

[Jason Murray]

Use strip_tags and only allow basic HTML (basic HTML can be anything
but I'd make it 

RE: [PHP] Returned e-mail (PHP mail function)

[Jason Murray]

Actually, having just checked through a message from Yahoo 
Groups' list server, I think you'll find it's "Return-Path".

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> -----Original Message-
> From: Jason Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:27 PM
> To: 'Martin Towell'; 'Anthony Rodriguez'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Returned e-mail (PHP mail function)
> 
> 
> You can specify a From: field in the extra headers area of 
> the mail() function. Additionally, you can specify the address 
> you want bounces sent to by the same method (I think it's 
> "bounces-to" or something like that).
> 
> J
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> > -Original Message-
> > From: Martin Towell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:24 PM
> > To: 'Anthony Rodriguez'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [PHP] Returned e-mail (PHP mail function)
> > 
> > 
> > I believe the default from address is the user of the process 
> > that sends the
> > email, in this case, the web server.
> > 
> > (your isp's sys admins are going to be "happy" with you if 
> > you have too many
> > bounced emails.)
> > 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Anthony Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:04 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [PHP] Returned e-mail (PHP mail function)
> > 
> > 
> > I just send my ISP the following question:
> > 
> > One of my PHP scripts automatically sends a "Thank You" 
> > e-mail to users who 
> > just registered. I use PHP's mail function.
> > 
> > If, during registration, the user enters the wrong e-mail 
> address the 
> > e-mail would, of course, be returned.
> > 
> > Who is the e-mail returned to? PHP's mail function, as far 
> as I know, 
> > doesn't have a "From" field.
> > 
> > Any comments?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Anthony F. Rodriguez
> > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > 
> > 
> > 
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RE: [PHP] Returned e-mail (PHP mail function)

[Jason Murray]

You can specify a From: field in the extra headers area of 
the mail() function. Additionally, you can specify the address 
you want bounces sent to by the same method (I think it's 
"bounces-to" or something like that).

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> -Original Message-
> From: Martin Towell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:24 PM
> To: 'Anthony Rodriguez'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Returned e-mail (PHP mail function)
> 
> 
> I believe the default from address is the user of the process 
> that sends the
> email, in this case, the web server.
> 
> (your isp's sys admins are going to be "happy" with you if 
> you have too many
> bounced emails.)
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Anthony Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] Returned e-mail (PHP mail function)
> 
> 
> I just send my ISP the following question:
> 
> One of my PHP scripts automatically sends a "Thank You" 
> e-mail to users who 
> just registered. I use PHP's mail function.
> 
> If, during registration, the user enters the wrong e-mail address the 
> e-mail would, of course, be returned.
> 
> Who is the e-mail returned to? PHP's mail function, as far as I know, 
> doesn't have a "From" field.
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Anthony F. Rodriguez
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> 
> 
> 
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[PHP] Strange entries in logfiles?

[Jason Murray]

Hi folks,

I've noticed strange entries like this in Apache's general
error log. Is anyone able to shed any light on what's
going on...?

/export/petert/src/php-4.0.6/ext/standard/php_smart_str.h(69) :  Freeing 
0x0046A0C0 (164 bytes), script=/path/to/script/that/was/run.php
Last leak repeated 5 times

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RE: [PHP] PHP that will help me color code, code; like C++ on a HTML page?

[Jason Murray]

I think this might be what you're looking for:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.highlight-string.php

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> -Original Message-
> From: Michael Zornek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 3:17 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] PHP that will help me color code, code; like C++ on a
> HTML page?
> 
> 
> As you may see from the footer I run a dev site. I'm 
> interested in finding
> some PHP that will help me show color syntax-ed code in html.
> 
> like you could imagine a tutorial about Obj-C .. and code 
> snippets. I'd like
> to have those snippets color coded for Obj-C syntax.
> 
> anyone know if this is possible? or more so, already written?
> 
> ~ Mike
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RE: [PHP] reading excel file

[Jason Murray]

> If it's possible, it probably better to deal with each line 
> by itself, rather than try to load to whole file into memory.

Good point. Shared server admins probably hate me. ;)

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RE: [PHP] reading excel file

[Jason Murray]

> Thanks Jason, that is a pretty good idea.  Any idea how well 
> PHP handles large ammounts of data like that?  There'll be about 
> 25,000 lines in every excel file, and they come in groups of 5 or 6.

I've rigged up an import script for similar functions before, it
seems to run ok... it really depends on the specs of the server
you're running it on. If you notice slowness, consider raising
the timeout by X seconds per Y lines, then you can judge the
size of the incoming file and change how long PHP gets to run.

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RE: [PHP] reading excel file

[Jason Murray]

> Has anyone ever converted an excel file over to a MySQL database 
> via PHP? I'm currently doing it with perl, and this isn't a very 
> good option for me. The client needs to login to a server via ssh 
> every time they want to put data from their excel file to mysql. 
> I'd like to find some way to do it through a web browser.

If you can get them to save the Excel file as tab-delimited, you
could just read it, explode on \t and assemble your SQL insert
statements.

Failing that, you could continue to use the Perl script but accept
the Excel file as a HTTP upload, and have PHP run the Perl script.

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RE: [PHP] Variable Appended To The End of a URL Is Not Working in SQL Query

[Jason Murray]

I'd say $id is blank, not being passed in, or is equal to a 
nonexistant IDArt.

Maybe you should echo out your SQL and run it manually to see
what's going on.

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> -Original Message-
> From: Dr. Shim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 2:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] Variable Appended To The End of a URL Is Not Working in
> SQL Query
> 
> 
> I have a variable which is appeneded to the end of a URL, like
> 
> http://www.your_web_site.com/your_page/?your_variable=your_value
> 
> This would return "your_value";
> 
> echo $your_variable;
> 
> But this wouldn't work, and returns an error
> 
> $sql = "SELECT * FROM fldField WHERE IDField = " . $id;
> 
> 
> What could possibly be wrong? If you need more info, then 
> tell me. Here's my
> code:
> 
>   $db = @odbc_connect('ReviewDatabase', 'root', '') or exit)("Error
> occured:$php_errormsg");
>  $sql = "SELECT * FROM tblArt WHERE IDArt = $id";
>  $cursor = @odbc_exec($db, $sql) or exit ("Error
> occrued:$php_errormsg");
>  odbc_close($db);
> ?>
> 
> 
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RE: [PHP] New php functions?

[Jason Murray]

> I've got the PHP manual as a series of hyper-linked HTML 
> pages.  Searchig is is very fast.  And, I don't need to wait 
> for download of single page.

Each to their own, each to their own ... :)

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RE: [PHP] New php functions?

[Jason Murray]

> It begs the question, why don't you just download the manual? 
> It's available in a myriad of different formats, one of which 
> must suit you. It may not be bang up-to-date and it may not have 
> the (sometimes) useful user comments but it sure saves you a lot 
> of time and bandwidth.

Heheh ... well, for one, it's not my bandwidth :) And the time it
takes to open a new browser and type www.php.net/date and download
the page is a lot faster than the amount of time it'd take to find
out where the heck I put the downloaded document, then find the
right page / entry / etc... :)

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[PHP] Help! Recent PHP security patch => high server load?

[Jason Murray]

Hi folks,

Just curious to know if anyone has experienced a high server
load since installing the recent security patch to PHP 4.0.6?

Our Production team is reporting that the web servers running
www.melbourneit.com.au are currently running at a load average
of 30+, and this has been the case since the security patch 
was installed.

These servers are Sun 420's running Solaris SunOS 7, 1 Gig 
RAM, Apache 1.3.19, Apache JServ 1.1.2, PHP 4.0.6 + patch so 
you can imagine how we're surprised at the high load on them...

Has anyone else experienced this or similar? 

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RE: [PHP] New php functions?

[Jason Murray]

> I went to php.net wnating info on the date() function.  To my 
> surprise the word date was already in the "search for" field.  

It was probably the last thing you looked for there. I know I
constantly go back to look up Date() placeholders. :)

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RE: [PHP] Any PHP equivalent of Macromedia ColdFusion's location tag?

[Jason Murray]

Or, alter your page's structure so that it writes its output into a 
buffer, and echo/print it at the end of the page. That way you can
do the redirect at any point it's needed within the page logic.

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> -Original Message-
> From: webapprentice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 4:25 PM
> To: Rasmus Lerdorf
> Cc: James; Jason Murray; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Any PHP equivalent of Macromedia ColdFusion's
> location tag?
> 
> 
> Hi Mr. Lerdorf,
> I look forward to you upcoming O'Reilly PHP book. =)
> 
> Yes, a META tag refresh or Javascript control seems to be the 
> only way left.
> Strange that URL redirection is so unusual to implement in 
> PHP compared to
> ASP or Coldfusion (unless they do something klunky under the hood).
> 
> Anyway, I also noticed that when the manual says you cannot 
> output ANYTHING,
> I found out that if I close out all my spaces in the PHP page 
> by tightening
> the php container tags, I will not output anything first.  I 
> forgot that
> even whitespace would be considered a web page and would generate http
> headers (since the PHP processor probably translates whitespace as
> echo/print statements).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --Stephen
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "webapprentice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jason Murray"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Any PHP equivalent of Macromedia 
> ColdFusion's location
> tag?
> 
> 
> > So use a Javascript meta-refresh
> >
> > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, webapprentice wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > Thanks for the reply.  I saw this as well in the mailing 
> list archives,
> but
> > > everyone is saying you cannot output ANYTHING before 
> calling header.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, I'm calling this at the end of a process, 
> so it won't
> work.
> > > It tells me I've already sent out header information.
> > >
> > > I've basically created a single PHP page with a form.  
> When the form is
> > > submitted, it submits to itself.  It checks if the form 
> is submitted,
> and
> > > then goes to mail the contents to someone.  After 
> mailing, I want to go
> to a
> > > Thank You page.  I want to get away from this PHP page, 
> because I don't
> want
> > > a person refreshing the page and causing the PHP page to 
> submit again.
> > >
> > > Thus, is there something else I can do?  Or am I just not 
> seeing this?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Stephen
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > - Original Message -
> > > From: "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "webapprentice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:20 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Any PHP equivalent of Macromedia ColdFusion's
> location
> > > tag?
> > >
> > >
> > > > header("Location: http://www.google.com";);
> > > > replace that url with the page you want it to go to
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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RE: [PHP] Any PHP equivalent of Macromedia ColdFusion's location tag?

[Jason Murray]

> Is there any PHP function that works like ColdFusion's location tag?
> After a certain execution, I wish to leave the current PHP 
> page entirely and go to another page.  Is this possible?

That's a HTTP Header, so you want to use the ... Header() command.

A Location header is what does the redirection.

http://url.of.site/path/to/file.html";); ?>

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RE: [PHP] "\n" Seems not to work fine

[Jason Murray]

> I cannot get a breakline or line appart with \n with printf or print,
> I've to use always .
> \n shows only a space.

HTML does not break lines on newlines in the source code. That's
why  is there. 

If you look at the source code, you'll see there is a newline in 
the source. Remember that HTML source code tells the browser how
to render the page.

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RE: [PHP] $PHP_SELF in include files

[Jason Murray]

>  function questions()
> {
[snip]
>  }
> ?>

$PHP_SELF is unknown to the function "questions()".

You'll need to add "global $PHP_SELF" at the top of the function.

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RE: [PHP] A silly question. :P

[Jason Murray]

> I would like to know why you put this character (!) in front of this:

An ! means that the following statement should be false. So:

if (!isset($variable))

means "If $variable is not set"

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RE: [PHP] php, text file, and mysql

[Jason Murray]

> But for storing images and PDFs or other binary data, there's 
> no other way.

Actually, after having some problems with BLOB columns when 
mysqldump'ing and moving the data into a new database, I did
find another way. I borrowed a trick from MIME mail handling,
and base64_encod'ed, then chunk_split'ed the data. This makes
it very text-field friendly.

> Note that many MySQL wizards will recommend that instead of 
> storing binary data in a database, use a filesystem to store 
> the data and then use the database to create a sort of 
> "directory" for quickly locating those files in the filesystem, 

There's a problem with this, it assumes that you only use one
filesystem for your site. In the case of Melbourne IT / INWW,
we have 5 or 6 web servers that load balance. If a user uploads 
data and we copy it to the filesystem, then it's only available
on 1 web server. This is why we put it in the database. :)

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RE: [PHP] Userfriendly

[Jason Murray]

> Does anybody know of a php script that will email the daily 
> userfriendly.org comic?

Why not write one yourself? Most of the file names can be guessed,
today is http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/02mar/uf004027.gif
for example.

By the way...

> Josiah Wallingford
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> Mailing lists:
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> Messenger Services:
> (MSN Instant Messenger = josiahlizzard)
> (ICQ # 150522268)
> (Yahoo Instant Messenger = josiahwallingford)
> (AIM American Online Instant Messenger = JosiahWalling)
> Web Pages:
> www.josiahw.com
> www.pooponwindows.com
> www.mymysql.com
> www.bigbirdlinux.com
> www.sofast.net
> www.darwinduck.com

... could you please use a *slightly* less obnixously long
signature when you post to the list? Signatures aren't
supposed to be over 4 lines (and if we want to know your
AIM/ICQ/MSN/Y! ID's, we'll ask you).

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RE: [PHP] Calling a Variable in a weird Way

[Jason Murray]

> for ($i=1; $i < 12; $i++) {
>   echo state_$i;  // This would print out either Yes No or Maybe.
> }

What you actually want is:

for ($i=1; $i < 12; $i++)   
{
  $mystate = "state_".$i;
  echo $$mystate;  // This would print out either Yes No or Maybe.
}

$$X tells PPH to use the value contained in the variable named $X.

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RE: [PHP] OOP .. I just don't get it.

[Jason Murray]

> As you said:
> 
> > OOP had answer to all of this. Modules that can't be touched, 
> > which exist by themselves. You could really get a module from 
> > somebody else and put it right into your program. 


The problem I have with this is that when I do this, the class
just plain doesn't work (shoddy coding). For example, let's look
at MIME-encoding attachments to emails. I downloaded about 3 or 4 
classes and tried to get them to work (using their own example
code). Bzzt. Nothing, nada, syntax errors and logic errors 
everywhere.

In the end I went back to the book which recommended the classes,
and wrote functions to accept an array of filenames to attach to
the email body using the logic in the book.


Apparently everyone I've sent my function to finds it a lot
easier to integrate and use :)

Maybe the quality of existing freely-available PHP OOP-based 
code just ain't there.

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RE: [PHP] case insenstive

[Jason Murray]

> I need to make this case insensitive. This seems like over kill?
> 
> if((substr($author, 0, 1) == "a") or (substr($author, 0, 1) == "a"))
> {
> }

if((strtolower(substr($author, 0, 1)) == "a")
{
}

:)

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RE: [PHP] convert to lowercase

[Jason Murray]

> What is the code to make a string into lower case?

Could you please check the manual before you ask like this?

It's strToLower().

http://www.php.net/strtolower

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RE: [PHP] using sendtohost on a secure site

[Jason Murray]

> The function sendtohost:
[snip]
> Is great for posting results to a regular http site.  But 
> what I need to do is post to a secure site (https).  

At that point, you'll want to look into using CURL extensions
to PHP.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php

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RE: [PHP] Hyperlinks vs Buttons

[Jason Murray]

> Is there a way to regular hyperlinked text to submit a form?
> 
> For example, rather than having a button that says [Login], I 
> just want underlined text: Login

You can use JavaScript on that link. An onClick event 
which triggers document.formname.submit() would work,
but then you lose backward compatibility (and thus
accessibility) with non-JavaScript browsers.

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[PHP] PHP Developers in Melbourne, Australia

[Jason Murray]

Hi everyone,

If you're located in Melbourne, Australia and are available for contract
or temporary work for 3 to 6 months starting early March, I'd like to 
hear from you. 

Pre-requisites:
 - Working knowledge of a unix / linux environment
 - Firm grasp of PHP concepts and programming (OO unneccessary)
 - Firm grasp of SQL and MySQL use
 - Reasonable grasp of HTTP and networks

Please email me directly - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thanks

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RE: [PHP] Re: problem with mail()/html/outlook

[Jason Murray]

> This had worked without problems..

It sounds like the text encoding could be wrong. Using
some encoding types, = means something else.

Maybe the charset you're using needs to be looked at?

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RE: [PHP] A function that turns special charcters into html codes?

[Jason Murray]

> I'm looking for a function that turns special charcters into 
> html charcter codes (" into ").  Is there one?

Please try the manual before you ask here.

If you'd looked, you'd have found the function:
 
  html_special_chars()

... which you'll note is named extremely closely to the 
wording you used in your question, and thus would have
been very easy to find.

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RE: [PHP] Formatting problem

[Jason Murray]

Your problem is a simple HTML formatting problem - your 
submit button is inside your  but outside a  (it's
after the final ), thus Netscape puts it above the table
entirely.

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> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 10:23 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] Formatting problem
> 
> 
> I feel kinda dumb for posting this but here it is... I am 
> trying to query a
> table then format the results so it looks like the rest of 
> the site and the
> darn delete button to remove db entries keeps showing up at 
> the top.  Here
> is the code... Thanks in advance.
> Jas
>  require '../scripts/db.php';
> $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM cur_inv",$dbh) or die("Could not
> execute query, please try again later");
> echo " name=\"rem_inv\" method=\"post\" action=\"done2.php3\">
> Current
> Inventory";
> $count = -1;
> while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
> $count ++;
> echo "Type Of Car: ";
> printf(mysql_result($result,$count,"car_type"));
> echo " value=\"checkbox\">remove
> \n";
> echo "Model Of Car: ";
> printf(mysql_result($result,$count,"car_model"));
> echo "\n";
> echo "Year Of Car: ";
> printf(mysql_result($result,$count,"car_year"));
> echo "\n";
> echo "Price Of Car: $";
> printf(mysql_result($result,$count,"car_price"));
> echo "\n";
> echo "VIN Of Car: ";
> printf(mysql_result($result,$count,"car_vin"));
> echo " color=\"33\">\n";
> }
> echo " value=\"delete\">";
> ?>
> 
> 
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RE: [PHP] "nullifying" php and html tags?

[Jason Murray]

> Would strip_tags() do?

Easily gotten-around then by not closing your PHP  tags.

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RE: [PHP] "nullifying" php and html tags?

[Jason Murray]

> Hello. I just finished creating a simple input form in
> which the contents of a textarea get written to a file
> which in turn gets read by a particular page. 

This is a Really Bad Idea(tm).

> it seems pretty dangerous to allow a user to enter any 
> amount of php programming at their will.

... and that's why.

> something as simple as a function that strips all <'s
> and >'s would work just as well i would imagine.

You could just read the file from another script with 
file() and output it rather than include()'ing it. That 
way the code is never executed.

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RE: [PHP] Looking for optimal coding

[Jason Murray]

> Any expert programmers out there with the way to chop this 
> even further?

I would suspect that chopping this further would make it
even harder to understand/maintain in the future...

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RE: [PHP] PHP Work in New York

[Jason Murray]

> Well, the projects that are underway to create a open source 
> implementation of the .NET platform as evidence that at least 
> some people in the *nix world have been quite taken with it...

That, and the number of positive mentions its getting on SlashDot
in the last week or so.

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RE: [PHP] PHP Work in New York

[Jason Murray]

> I figure if I'm forced to go M$ I'd much rather use C# that 
> VBScript...

C# actually seems to be getting quite a lot of positive mentions
in the *nix world at the moment.

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RE: [PHP] Mailing text from a text file.

[Jason Murray]

> I have the need to be able to mail out a text file.  whats 
> the best way that I could do this?

Simple answer: mail(). If you're not sure, www.php.net/mail.

More complicated answer:

Are you talking about using a text file as a template for
the email, using a user-uploaded text file as the *contents* 
of the email, or attaching a text file (possibly user-uploaded)
to an email?

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RE: [PHP] Re-Importing .CSV file into Database

[Jason Murray]

> The error message might be useful, but in any case I think 
> you need to enclose the source filename in quotes; also (you 
> better check the docs here) if I remember correctly you need 
> to give the full path to the source file unless it is in the 
> mysql data directory.

That's right, it needs to be quoted AND have the full path
(and be readable to the MySQL server daemon process thingy)

Jason
(feeling very technical today)

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RE: [PHP] PHP Work in New York

[Jason Murray]

Jason L wrote: 
> Of course, I am lucky enough to be working in a place which uses 
> PHP/MySQL for practically everything, and Perl in a few others.  
> And say ASP, and you are liable to get your head shot off.

Same here, everything web-related anyway ... but the head-shot-off
attitude is in place :)

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RE: [PHP] File upload

[Jason Murray]

Hi Balaji,

>   I am trying to upload a file from remote machine.
>   Could you please help out me.

Two things:

> upload.html
> -
> 

This also needs to have a maximum file size specified:

  

> upload.php
> 

In this script, you'll want to copy $file to "/path/to/copy/to/filename".
This doesn't seem to be what you're doing in the script you sent us,
you overwrote $file with a new variable, $path - thus, losing the name
of the temp file PHP copied the uploaded data into.

Take care that you use the appropriate security measures to protect
yourself against exploits here.

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RE: [PHP] this list has been mutated to a lamers paradise

[Jason Murray]

> just wanted to point this out.

And these kinds of emails make it *so* much better, of course.

If the topic doesn't interest you, don't read it. (I don't 
read 90% of the emails I get on the list, I just dump them
into a folder because I don't know anything about the topic,
don't care, or I might be busy at the time). If you think
you've graduated from the Newbie class, pat yourself on the 
back, move on, and quietly unsubscribe yourself.

Don't make fun of the newbies who come here for advice.
They don't know any better, and we were all new to PHP at
one point.

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RE: [PHP] mysql

[Jason Murray]

> I keep getting an error message of :Warning: Supplied 
> argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in 
> /var/www/html/RageProject/StripPlayList.php on line 100
[snip]
> Can someone explain why.. I've been trying to work it out for 2 long.

If there's no result set, it's because the query you executed
did not return any rows.

This could be because:
 - the SQL was incorrect / malformed
 - the query wasn't executed by the server
 - the connection to the server failed

You should use mysql_error() to find out what's going on,
it returns the last error reported by the MySQL server.

I suspect your connection isn't working, as I've never
seen "127.0.0.1" used - normally I just use "localhost"
or "".

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RE: [PHP] Swapping for \n... ?

[Jason Murray]

> Isn't there a function br2nl() and it's relative nl2br() ?? 

There's nl2br, but I don't believe there's one that goes the other way.

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RE: [PHP] Swapping for \n... ?

[Jason Murray]

> I'm processing a form but all the functions I've found on the 
> web only seem to add the  after the \n. I need to remove the 
> \n altogether - anyone know how I can kill the \n and put a  
> in it's place?

Sounds like you want a simple ereg_replace("\n", "", $sourcestring);

Jason

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RE: [PHP] Fwd: PhpSmsSend remote execute commands bug

[Jason Murray]

> I'm think I'm going to start forwarding all the bugtraq 
> alerts for PHP scripts to this list. Any objections?

Yes, if the author of the script isn't on the list it's useless
unless someone wants to patch their script themselves. And if
they're the kind of person who's inclined to do that, they'd
most likely already be watching BugTraq.

There's such a large possibility of crappily-written code out
there, I don't know if its worth the traffic on this list
given that it's usually newbies.

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RE: [PHP] seems easy...

[Jason Murray]

> 1  $limit = "5000";
> 2  if(strlen($text) > $limit)
> 3{
> 4
> 5$text .= "...sorry, text was too long";
> 6}

4$text = substr($text, 0, $limit);
5$text .= " ... (More)";

:)

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RE: [PHP] Getting the last record in a mysql table

[Jason Murray]

> I thought this would be easy but it ain't.  What I want is 
> the id number of the last record in a table. 

If you use mysql_num_rows() and decrement it by one, you'll 
have the ID of the row you can use with mysql_result.

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RE: [PHP] Generating a new line in a text file

[Jason Murray]

> : Don't know why it's got everyone else stumped.
> :
> : "\n" is the new line character. Make sure you use it in "" and
> : not in ''.
> :
> : Jason
> 
> Unfortunately, that doesn't work either, it changes the \n that 
> appeared at the end of the new line to a single black block. It 
> does not put the next quote onto a new line. 

Ah, so you're opening the file in something that doesn't understand
newlines and prefers line feeds, then.

In that case you'll want to use \r instead of \n.

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RE: [PHP] Generating a new line in a text file

[Jason Murray]

> It should be fairly simple, but it's got me and everyone else 
> I've asked utterly stumped, all I need to do is place the data 
> from a form on a newline in a text file, I can get the data into 
> the text file, but I can't seem to get it on a new line.

Don't know why it's got everyone else stumped.

"\n" is the new line character. Make sure you use it in "" and
not in ''.

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RE: [PHP] include() and URL's

[Jason Murray]

> The file is running on an NT box and can be accessed fine 
> through IIS. It is only when using the include() statement to 
> this file that problems occur. If I do a local path map to it, 
> it will include fine but when using an URL it gives that error.

Can you retrieve the file from that URL from the command line
on that machine? (try 'wget' or 'curl', or even just 'lynx')

It's possible that while you can see it from your workstation,
the server PHP is installed on cannot.

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RE: [PHP] Computer Science and PHP

[Jason Murray]

> Why PHP is so not popular in the computer science teaching area?

Well, here at RMIT in Melbourne Australia they're teaching all
the first year students PHP...

Jason

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RE: [PHP] "Unable to Jump Row" ?!?

[Jason Murray]

> > Here is the code on line 39
> > 
> > $d = mysql_result($result, $c, "id");
> > 
> > the field "id" is an auto_increment column.
> > $c is an exsisting row in the query, $result.
> >
> > Any help? 
> 
> Yes, it looks like $result doesn't contain anything, so maybe
> your SQL is messed up. 

Oh yes, additionally (this is more for others who may have the
same question, since you seem to have solved yours) the variable
$c may not contain the value you're expecting it to contain.

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RE: [PHP] "Unable to Jump Row" ?!?

[Jason Murray]

> Here is the error...
> 
> Warning: Unable to jump to row 1 on MySQL result index 2 in
> /blahblahblah/patient/display_search_results.php on line 39

This means that the query you executed didn't return enough
rows to count up to ... 1.

> Here is the code on line 39
> 
> $d = mysql_result($result, $c, "id");
> 
> the field "id" is an auto_increment column.
> $c is an exsisting row in the query, $result.
>
> Any help? 

Yes, it looks like $result doesn't contain anything, so maybe
your SQL is messed up. When you execute queries, you should
do:

  if ($result = mysql_query($sql, $mysql_connection))
  {
// It worked, proceed
  }
  else
  {
// It didn't work, die.
echo "MySQL failed: ".mysql_error();
  }

... that will tell you what went wrong.

> Is there a way to tell MySQL to shut the hell up on certain
> pages?

Yes, if you put a @ in front of any function call it will 
supress error messages. However, it's a better idea to fix
the cause of the error messages :)

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RE: [PHP] Apostrophes and text fileds forms

[Jason Murray]

> What is an addSlash ? 
> How can I appy addSlashes ? Can anyone give me an example ? 

Try the manual ... http://www.php.net/addslashes

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RE: [PHP] apostrophe's in PHP & MySQL

[Jason Murray]

> Is there a way around this?  Or is this a limitation of my 
> older versions of PHP and MySQL?

You need to apply addSlashes() to the text fields before entering
them into the database.

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RE: [PHP] IP address from which country

[Jason Murray]

> Thank you Jason ,I will check the Digital Envoy to get more 
> information, have you got the website address of it?

www.google.com ... "digital envoy" ... "I'm feeling lucky" :)

... or just www.digitalenvoy.net.

Search engines are fun :)

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RE: [PHP] IP address from which country

[Jason Murray]

> Thank you Andrew,but in China mainland ,I saw many websites can even tells
> the province information which the user come from and I think in USA the
> State information can also be gotten from the visitor's ip address.BTW,in
> PHP what we can get is just the ip address of the user how can we get the
> host name ?Anything missed here?

A database may exist for IPs in China (I don't know), but outside of China 
it's impossible to tell with much accuracy which country an IP is in. You
could look at Digital Envoy, which was an attempt a couple of years ago
to 'map the internet' and obtain exactly the data you're referring to. The
problem is that as soon as that data is published it's out of date due to
routing changes and network configuration changes.

You can do a reverse lookup on the IP address to get the hostname, but you
can rely on that even less - for example, a hostname ending in aol.com could

be in the USA, Europe, Asia, or Australia these days.

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RE: [PHP] Webmail with Attach

[Jason Murray]

> I need that that my webmail can send mail with many attach.
> How can I do it?

You could either ask the user how many attachments they want,
and present that number of  fields, or you
can grab the file attachment from the user, store it in a 
uniquely-named temporary directory, get another, and another, 
and store them all in the temp directory until the user says
"right, that's it" at which point you read all the files in
your directory and send them as attachments. 

You've got the code right for sending one attachment, sending
mutliples is just another loop in the email assembly code.

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RE: [PHP] Scripting events with php

[Jason Murray]

> My problem is that I want to use events in my forms but I do not know how
to
> use php as a script for an event.  Say I wanted to do something as simple
as
> (within a form):  'testing, testin 123';?>>
> 
> Essentially, when a click this button in a form it prints out testing.

PHP is a server-side script language. It does not get sent to the browser,
and browsers don't understand how to execute PHP code (for that precise
reason).

You want to do this with JavaScript, not PHP.

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RE: [PHP] phpinfo() question

[Jason Murray]

> When you run phpinfo(), the first line of detail has the OS 
> version.  What variable produces this?

Thats the output from "uname -a" on the command line... at least,
under *nix it is...

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[PHP] RE: User-friendly URI's

[Jason Murray]

> True, but if I remember right, the hit will end up in your 
> error_log not in your access_log.

Ah. Bugger.

But since this would require messing with your Apache config
you could adjust that anyway surely?

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RE: [PHP] User-friendly URI's

[Jason Murray]

> A 404 ErrorDoc would still reply with a 404 code, which could mess up 
> some search engines.

Not true, try this: www.inww.com/ifdbnifoudbvfd

This is actually produced by "ErrorDocument 404 /404.php3" in our Apache
configuration, and 404.php3 is a PHP script that sends the neccessary stuff
to be seen as a 404 to a web browser (thats basically a  tag of "404 
Not Found").

You could just as easily subvert 404.php3 to do redirects or include
other stuff to produce the neccessary pages without sending the 404 bits
(and we do, we recently moved all our PDF files into a database and use
404.php3 to silently redirect to the database-drawn version of the file).

> I was thinking of the .htaccess solution, but I'm not sure if that's 
> possible to force only certain files or perhaps all files in just a 
> certain directory to all be application/x-httpd-php?

I believe you can force a single file. I haven't done it, I'm sure
someone else around here can. :)

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RE: [PHP] Re: how can I add a variable to this sample

[Jason Murray]

> So far nothing seems to work which leads me to believe 
> there's something else wrong.
> 
> Here's what I've tried
> 
> $service_type_insert = $x['926service_type']; //works fine 
> when I hard code
> a value in and returns proper value
> 
> $service_type_insert = $x[$$keyservice_type]; //returns empty 
> even though I know a value is there

Work from this one and try:

$keytoinsert = $$keyservice_type;
$service_type_insert = $x[$keytoinsert];

... I don't think you can reference variables as $$something
inside [] braces.

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RE: [PHP] User-friendly URI's

[Jason Murray]

> "news" would actually be a PHP script, of course. I know how 
> to handle /2002/01/02/keyword as parameters, my question is on 
> making "news" be interpreted through PHP.

Off the top of my head...

You could either use a .htaccess to force Apache to recognise
"news" as a PHP script, or you could use a Custom 404 page to
figure out what the heck the original URL was trying to get at
and silently substitute in the resulting page.

A Custom 404 might be easier, but would have a bit more supporting
infrastructure at the code end for a big site.

Apologies if this is incorrect, I just may not be thinking
too clearly today :)

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RE: [PHP] An idea for a PHP tool

[Jason Murray]

> Like google has it's toolbar, why not have a PHP Manual toolbar? That 
> would be *great*. Just type in the function name and hit "go" and the 
> manual comes up.

You could probably work a bit of javascript magic in a bookmark to
do the same thing.

I've seen bookmarks that pop up a javascript input window and then
use the input in the resulting URL. So, take the manual query via
javascript input and then append it to the www.php.net url.

At least, I *think* I have :)

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RE: [PHP] printf()?

[Jason Murray]

HTML doesn't pay attention to line breaks, thats why you're 
needing a ...

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> -Original Message-
> From: Ray Gaylog [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 3:49 PM
> To: PHP_Mailing_List
> Subject: [PHP] printf()?
> 
> 
> Hi..
> 
> I've been using PHP for just a little while, however I have 
> noticed somthing.
> 
> In the doc's I've noticed you can do this: 
> printf("line1 \n line2 \n");
> 
> Now..this should (like C) print two seperate lines..however 
> It doesn't. To print this on seperate lines I must put a  
> in there.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> I'm using PHP 4.06
> 
> Ray Gaylog
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> 
> 
> 
> 
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RE: [PHP] E-mail Uploaded File

[Jason Murray]

> Is there a short easy mail script that can take an uploaded 
> file from a form and have it e-mailed to me?

http://planetkiller.shadow.net.au/mime-php.txt

This will show you how to send an attachment in an email
without messing around with classes (which I could never
get to work, hence I rolled my own solution).

Jason

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[PHP] Store locator / postcode proximity

[Jason Murray]

Hi folks,

I've seen messages on here in the past about "Store Locator" tools,
where someone enters a postcode and the nearest store to that postcode
is found.

I'm wondering if anyone has any information about how to get the 
proximity data for postcodes in Australia? Or is it safe to assume
that if a postcode is, say, 3107, that 3120 or 3110 (for example) 
are nearby as well as 3108 (so, perhaps, 10 above and 10 below could
be safely assumed to be "nearby"?)

I saw some mention of this a few months ago here from some of the
other Aussies on the list, but I've long since lost the archived
messages.

Could someone please help me a little with this? :)

Thanks

Jason

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RE: [PHP] content disposition and internet exploder

[Jason Murray]

> I am attempting to allow users to download csv files that are created
> dynamically from a database.  In order to do so  I use:
> 
> header( "Content-Disposition: attachment, filename=query.csv");
[snip]
> Has anyone had success in getting IE to use the correct filename when
> downloading dynamically generated files?

I just use:

 Header("Content-disposition: filename=".$filename);

... ie, no "attachment".

Jason

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RE: [PHP] MySQL to Excel with mutiple sheets

[Jason Murray]

> > > Actually, I looked into the possibility of doing that, but it turns
> > > out the Excel 5.0+ file format is -very- complicated... Not just a
> > > standard binary file...
> > >
> > > Check it out:
> > > http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?page=49&s=ALLFILES
> > >
> > > Way beyond my capabilities and patience.  :)
> >
> > Eugh
> >
> > Hrm, well ... it can be done at least. We just need someone 
> > to require it be done :)
> 
> s/require it be done/want to do it

I stand by my original statement. After someone requires PHP to 
output a multi-sheet Excel file, the code to do it will then
be "out there". :)

Jason

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RE: [PHP] MySQL to Excel with mutiple sheets

[Jason Murray]

> Actually, I looked into the possibility of doing that, but it turns out
> the Excel 5.0+ file format is -very- complicated... Not just a standard
> binary file...
> 
> Check it out:
> http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?page=49&s=ALLFILES
> 
> Way beyond my capabilities and patience.  :)

Eugh

Hrm, well ... it can be done at least. We just need someone to require 
it be done :)

J

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RE: [PHP] MySQL to Excel with mutiple sheets

[Jason Murray]

> Can't be done easily with PHP right now...  To get that type of
> functionality, you'd need to write it in Perl using the
> SpreadSheet::WriteExcel module.
> 
> http://homepage.tinet.ie/~jmcnamara/perl/WriteExcel.html

In that case, someone could probably work out how to do it based
on the source of that module... :)

Jason

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RE: [PHP] exporting

[Jason Murray]

> I need something that will do a direct transfer to word or 
> excel or the others.. not something via a cvs method..

Excel loads comma separated (CSV - CVS is something else entirely)
files happily.

Jason

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RE: [PHP] date conversion and calculation problem...

[Jason Murray]

> I have 2 date string like this
> 
> $t1 = "2001-11-12 17:30:10";
> $t2 = "2001-11-12 17:15:32";
> 
> I need to substracts the number of seconds from $t2 from $t1

First, convert them to unix time format:



So:



(apologies for stuff that doesn't work, I've coded this in
the email and not tested it :))

Jason

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RE: [PHP] using mail

[Jason Murray]

Then why didn't you notice that in the additional headers
you can specify the from header?

mail("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "Whee", "Whee! Mail Body",
 "From: Jason Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\n");

Jason

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> -Original Message-
> From: Brandon Orther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:52 AM
> To: PHP User Group
> Subject: RE: [PHP] using mail
> 
> 
> YES I DID READ THE F...in MANUAL
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Kurt Lieber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 2:56 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP] using mail
> 
> Did you RTFM?
> 
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
> 
> Just create a variable and input it as an extra header.
> 
> $from = "from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]\r\n" ;
> 
> mail($to,$subject,$message,$from);
> 
> On Monday 12 November 2001 02:41 pm, you wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am using the mail() function right now to send e-mails.  
> Is there a
> > way I can dynamically change where it says the e-mail is from?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Brandon
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RE: [PHP] Download script - sometime works sometime not

[Jason Murray]

> Its works for file .html or.zip or .tar or .tar.gz
> But it is not for text file..
> Could you recommend how I download text file ?
> What do I have to do in my scripts...?
> 
> I read the manual about HTTP functionsand search through 
> mailing list
> about header functions
> but still no clue..
> Thank you...

If you send a text file, MSIE will probably view it anyway. Netscape
will behave.

Alternative? Send a completely madeup mime type, forcing MSIE to
go into download mode.

Jason

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RE: [PHP] sending email to php script

[Jason Murray]

> > You'll also need to compile php as a standalone, and put as 
> > the first line of your php script
> > 
> > #!/path/to/php -q
> 
> What if we need both version??

There's nothing stopping you running both.

J

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