from:"Jim"

I'm trying to set magic quotes Off as my reading tells me that it's not good 
to have it defaulted to On.

My ISP has this setting (from PHPINFO call):

magic_quotes_gpc on

From reading the php.net manual I found this line

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on

which it says to place in the .htaccess file.

I downloaded that file from my server's public_html folder, edited it to put 
in the above line (which now says Off) and re-uploaded it.  Boom! My 
server no longer works - I get Internal Server Error The server 
encountered an internal error or misconfiguration.

If I re-edit my .htaccess, remove the line and re-upload, everything works 
fine.

So - what am I mis-interpreting about how to accomplish this task? 



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Re: [PHP] php.ini setting


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 http://php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.disabling.php

 Stephen

That tells me nothing new. 



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Re: [PHP] php.ini setting


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Have you tried:
ini_set('magic_quotes_gpc', false);=

I'm trying to set it directly and not have to incl in every script I write. 



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Re: [PHP] php.ini setting

Solved.

Had to have my host provider put a copy of php.ini in my public_html and 
then I made the magic quotes setting change.

Interesting - running a phpinfo command still shows the setting as On 
becuase it returns the server's settigns, NOT my individual folder setting.



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Re: [PHP] using passthru or system() even and passing the $_FILES array

On 9/28/2011 12:07 AM, Anton Heuschen wrote:
 Good day,
 
 I have a question and something that either does not work, or I have not
 gotten it to work the way I want to.
 
 I have a start page, which is a form, that takes 2 text fields and also a
 Attachment field. Then it calls the first page, which is supposed to spawn
 of a call to another page (I want to get the page to open server side see,
 to allow the user to close the window, and the process continues in the
 background) ...so I use either passthru or have now tried system().
 
 The problem is that I can pass my 2 text fields as arguments to the call but
 I have a problem in accessing and using $_FILES now to handle the file
 defined.
 
 I have tried to pass it to a $_SESSION[FILES] , I have even tried to
 serialize the whole array and pass it also as argument and build a array on
 called php page, etc, but it does not seem to do anything, or handle the
 file?
 
 
 As further example, this is on the first page opened from the Form :
 
 = php file 1 calling to file 2 =
 
 session_start();
 $_SESSION[FILES] = $_FILES;
 session_write_close();
 
 $email  =   $_REQUEST['email'];
 $actionDate =   $_REQUEST['actiondate'];
 $files  =   serialize($_FILES);
 $command = '/usr/bin/php -f /var/www/details/Write.php '.$email.'
 '.$actionDate.' '.$files.'  php.log';
 system($command,$return);

At this point I would suggest that you echo $command before trying to execute 
it.

I think you might find that you are trying to pass characters that the cli are
miss interpreting.


 
 
 
 =
 
 then in my called file
 
 
  Write.php =
 
 session_start();
 $FILES = $_SESSION['FILES'];
 
 $files1 = $FILES[coms1_attachfile];
 $filename1 = $files1;
 
 ==

First, since you are calling this from the cli, their is no point in using
session_start().  session_start() has to do with running it in a web server not
from the cli.

Secondly, in file 1 you are using serialize() to package the $_FILES array.  Yet
in file 2 you are not using unserialize() to extract the data from the package.

I would suggest reading here http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php
to get a better understanding of how to access the arguments that you are
passing on the cli.


 
 $filename1 should now be recognized file name from a file provided in the
 first form, and if statement then runs the file to process to read the file,
 it seems here the process either does not get any file (so filename is never
 true) or the file process have no file to work with.

I'm curious as to what your initial HTML form looks like.

 
 
 So I am not really sure how passthru/system works with things like arrays
 and sessions and $_FILES array etc
 

arrays, not via the cli argument list
serialized arrays, sure, but you have to escape any special chars that might
mess things up.
sessions, does not exist
$_FILES, no direct access

Jim

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Re: [PHP] Curl cost

On 9/28/2011 1:28 AM, muad shibani wrote:
 what are the costs of using PHP Curl to show another websites on my site as
 stumbleon do ..
 traffic, memory or what?
 

That isn't how stumbleupon does it.  You might want to take a closer look at the
HTML to see how they do what they do.

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Re: [PHP] Curl cost

On 9/28/2011 9:05 AM, Daniel Brown wrote:
 On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:54, Jim Lucas li...@cmsws.com wrote:

 That isn't how stumbleupon does it.  You might want to take a closer look at 
 the
 HTML to see how they do what they do.
 
 He said stumbleON, actually.  Looks like they simply aggregate
 some of your personal social networking data into a single-sign-on
 dashboard presentation.  Certainly no service I'd use, but I suppose
 for some it has its merits.
 

I saw that, but @ss-umed it was a typo.  My bad.

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Re: [PHP] book quest

On 9/28/2011 3:26 PM, Bastien Koert wrote:
 On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Kirk Bailey kbai...@howlermonkey.net wrote:
 The best book for a beginner? No, don't tell me php.net, I hear that one
 already, and while it is indeed good, I want something in a dead tree
 edition I can canny around and smoke as needed.

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 I had great success with Wrox PHP Programming and PHP Essentials by
 Julie C. Meloni
 
 The latter is dated, but was clearly written.
 

PHP Essentials (first edition) by Julie C. Meloni was the first book about PHP
that I ever bought.  I did not find it very useful.

The second book was Core PHP First Edition by Leon Atkinson.  It was more like
an encyclopedia/dictionary with some decent examples.

Around 2001 I started participating the general mailing list.  I haven't bought
another book on PHP since.  PHP.net manual, the php-general mailing list and the
wonderful members of this list, and Google have provided answers for all the
questions I have ever needed to ask since.

Jim Lucas

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Re: [PHP] What would you like to see in most in a text editor?

2011-09-14 Thread Jim Giner

But why?
Brad Huskins brad.husk...@gmail.com wrote in message 
news:66.b1.08893.200a0...@pb1.pair.com...

 I am aiming to build something that is almost as easy to use as Notepad.




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Re: [PHP] Stop PHP execution on client connection closed

2011-09-14 Thread Jim Lucas

On 9/14/2011 1:04 AM, Marco Lanzotti wrote:
 Il 13/09/2011 20:58, Alex Nikitin ha scritto:
 Correction on Marco's post. You can absolutely stop a mysql query
 
 I know I can stop a query, but I don't know how to realize HTTP client
 has closed connection during query execution.
 
 My query count how many records match selected fields in a 50M records
 table.
 Any query field is indexed and innodb uses 20GB of RAM to store data and
 indexes, but some queries take about 30 seconds to run.
 When user changes filters and asks for a new count, the old queries
 continue to run using DB resurces unnecessarily.
 
 Bye,
 Marco

Well, from the sounds of that, you really do not have an easy option.

Here is my suggestion.

In your initial script, you could add a unique value to your SQL statement.

You SQL would be something like...

SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE ... AND (1=1 OR 'unique value');

add 'unique value' to your session data and then, when the person changes the
selected fields and starts to execute another query, first, you could search to
see if an SQL statement is running that has your unique value in it.  if it
cannot find a matching statement, simply execute the SQL query.  If it does find
an SQL statement that matches the unique value, kill it, then issue your SQL
statement.

Read the following to figure out how to find your unique process:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/show-processlist.html

Read the following to find out how to kill your processes:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/kill.html

But, it does seem like it would be possible.

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Re: [PHP] Stop PHP execution on client connection closed

On 9/12/2011 7:40 AM, Marco Lanzotti wrote:
 Hi all, I'm new in the list and I already have a question for you.
 I'm running an heavy query on my DB in a PHP script called by AJAX.
 Because client often abort AJAX connection to ask a new query, I need to
 stop query because DB will be too loaded.
 When AJAX connection is aborted, PHP script doesn't stop until it send
 some output to client, so I need to wait query execution to know client
 aborted connection.
 How can I abort query (or script) when AJAX connection is aborted?
 
 Thank you,
 Marco
 
 

You cannot stop a DB query.

What this means is PHP will not be able to do anything else until the db has
finished its step and handed data back to the processing script.  At that point,
you can check to see if the connection is still active and take appropriate 
action.

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Re: [PHP] Stop PHP execution on client connection closed

On 9/13/2011 11:58 AM, Alex Nikitin wrote:
 On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Jim Lucas li...@cmsws.com wrote:
 
 On 9/12/2011 7:40 AM, Marco Lanzotti wrote:
 Hi all, I'm new in the list and I already have a question for you.
 I'm running an heavy query on my DB in a PHP script called by AJAX.
 Because client often abort AJAX connection to ask a new query, I need to
 stop query because DB will be too loaded.
 When AJAX connection is aborted, PHP script doesn't stop until it send
 some output to client, so I need to wait query execution to know client
 aborted connection.
 How can I abort query (or script) when AJAX connection is aborted?

 Thank you,
 Marco



 You cannot stop a DB query.

 What this means is PHP will not be able to do anything else until the db
 has
 finished its step and handed data back to the processing script.  At that
 point,
 you can check to see if the connection is still active and take appropriate
 action.

 Jim Lucas

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 Correction on Marco's post. You can absolutely stop a mysql query, it is
 done with a large amount of success at Facebook for example, where they have
 very strict query execution rules, e.g. if your query takes too long to run,
 it is killed. However unless you are dealing with enormous data sets, or
 very very slow mysql server, this is not worth the tremendous amount of
 trouble you would have to go through. And if you are dealing with enormous
 data sets or slow servers, it would be far more beneficial to address those
 issue then to implement the query killing thing.
 
 MySQL commands in question are:
 SHOW PROCESSLIST;
 KILL [thread];
 
 You can also hook into if you really wanted to with some C through the API,
 but again, it is far more trouble than most people need, and problems often
 lay else-where (for example inefficient query or bad database design or
 matching on non-indexed cols etc...) A query that ties together 3 tables and
 pulls 80-90k rows @10 columns shouldn't take more than 0.25 sec to execute,
 maybe a second for the whole operation from connect to result, if your mysql
 server is one hop away (i.e. they are on the same switch), the tcp hand
 shake can take up to 100ms, plus you need to get the process list, traverse
 it for your query, and send a kill command. I'm going to guess that the kill
 process will take longer to connect, list, parse and kill, then it will take
 the query to finish and return data...
 
 What is your data set like, what are you trying to accomplish by this other
 than complicating your code?
 
 Also yes, AJAX is your friend (avoid pulling large or any data sets if you
 can), as well as some query and database optimization, and caching ;)
 
 
 
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 doing until it’s too late.  ~Seymour Cray
 

My statement still stands.

 What this means is PHP will not be able to do anything else until the db
 has finished its step and handed data back to the processing script.


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Re: [PHP] What would you like to see in most in a text editor?

On 9/13/2011 5:23 PM, tamouse mailing lists wrote:
 On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote:
 I'm a big fan of editors that work in the terminal.
 
 You'll get my emacs when you pry it out of my cold dead hands.
 

+1

mg too



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Re: [PHP] What would you like to see in most in a text editor?


On 9/13/2011 7:11 PM, Brad Huskins wrote:

Oh geez. Didn't mean to start a flame war...


Quit fanning it then... :)



On 09/13/2011 08:56 PM, James Yerge wrote:

On 09/13/2011 08:40 PM, Jim Lucas wrote:

On 9/13/2011 5:23 PM, tamouse mailing lists wrote:

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Robert
Cummingsrob...@interjinn.com wrote:

I'm a big fan of editors that work in the terminal.

You'll get my emacs when you pry it out of my cold dead hands.


+1

mg too





I'd have to go agree with the exception of s/emacs/vi/ :P






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Re: [PHP] Dreaded Premature end of script headers

2011-08-26 Thread Jim Lucas

On 8/26/2011 4:49 PM, tamouse mailing lists wrote:

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 6:48 PM, tamouse mailing lists
tamouse.li...@gmail.com wrote:

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Geoff Shangge...@quitelikely.com wrote:

I put this into Google and got this:
http://htmlfixit.com/cgi-tutes/tutorial_Common_Web_dev_error_messages_and_what_they_mean.php#premature

Yeah, I saw that too. I do know the mechanism that is happening. I
just can't figure out where the problem is without inserting print
statements.

Presumably, you are calling this cron job with some process which runs the
PHP script through a URL on your webserver.

Yes, that is correct. Using curl to launch the script via the web server.

1. Modify the script so that it does actually output something, thereby
making the error go away.

When the script starts, it prints a banner with the script name and
date/time stamp. When it completes, it is supposed to print aggregate
results, time spent. I know it's encountering this problem before it
reaches the end as not all the data gets processed. I can't tell where
it is stopping though. If I put it in debug mode, it prints out a lot
of data from the beginning of the script, and never encounters this
problem.

2. Run the script directly with PHP instead of via your webserver. E.g.:
php -fyourscriptname

The way the script is designed, it depends on some $_SERVER values,
which wouldn't be set if running directly from the shell.

Again, I want to say that this script does NOT fail in dev, test and
stage, only production.

Well, you might have to go about this the long way. I suggest you cut
larger sections of code out until you get a working script. Then start
putting it back together.

Jim Lucas

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Re: [PHP] Problem with inserting numbers...

2011-08-11 Thread Jim Lucas

On 8/10/2011 6:22 PM, Jason Pruim wrote:
 So here I am attempting to generate some numbers to be inserted into a 
 database... eventually they will make up a phone number (Which I've emailed 
 about before and know about the bad ideas with it.. But it's the customer :)) 
 
 Here is the code I am working with:
 
 ?PHP
 function number_pad($number,$n) {
 return str_pad((int) $number,$n,0,STR_PAD_LEFT);
 }
 
 $SQL = SELECT * FROM Test WHERE `areacode` = '907' AND `prefix` = '200' 
 LIMIT 5;
 
 $result = mysql_query($SQL);
 //$num = ;
 //foreach ($result as $key = $value) {
 //echo $key . - . $value . - . number_pad($num, 4) . BR;
 //$num++;
 //}
 
 while ($num != 1) {
 while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
 $padnum = number_pad($num, 4);
 echo $row['areacode'] . - . $row['prefix'] . - . $padnum . BR;
 $num++;
 }
 
 
 }
 
 ?
 
 basically all I'm trying to do is generate the last 4 digits starting at  
 and going up to . for testing purposes I'm just echoing back but will 
 eventually insert the complete number back into the database as a 7 digit 
 string.
 
 The error I'm getting is:
 
 Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in 
 /home/pruimpho/public_html/jason/dev/clients/flewid/Phone/config/phoneareacodes.php
  on line25
 
 which is where the second while starts...
 
 Does anyone know a better way to do this? 
 
 I'm off to finish searching google while waiting for some good news :)
 
 Thanks Everyone!
 
 
 Jason Pruim
 pru...@gmail.com
 
 
 

Jason,

Here is my rendition of what you should do.

?PHP

$SQL = SELECT  areacode, prefix
FROMTest
WHERE   `areacode` = '907'
AND `prefix` = '200';

$result = mysql_query($SQL);

$values = '';

while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result) ) {
  foreach ( range(0, ) AS $n ) {
$values .= $row['areacode'] . '-' . $row['prefix'] . '-' .
   str_pad($n, 4, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
  }
}

echo $values;

?

It will be much faster if you build the complete string in memory then echo out
the built string.

Jim Lucas

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Re: [PHP] Problem with inserting numbers...

2011-08-11 Thread Jim Lucas

On 8/11/2011 9:34 AM, Jason Pruim wrote:
 
 Hey Jim,
 
 Would that still hold true with inserting into a database which is the true 
 end of it? This is going to be a one time thing I'm doing and I'm trying to 
 make it a learning experience as I go since that's what everything should be 
 right?
 

Yes, taking one of your other emails, you would do something like this.

?PHP

$SQL = SELECT  areacode, prefix
FROMTest
WHERE   `areacode` = '907'
AND `prefix` = '200';

$result = mysql_query($SQL);

$values = '';

while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result) ) {
  foreach ( range(0, ) AS $n ) {
$values .=  VALUES ('.
   sprintf('%03d-%03d-%04d', $row['areacode'], $row['prefix'], $n) .
   ');
  }
}
echo 'INSERT INTO Test (fullnumber) ' . $values;

?

You should see...

INSERT INTO Test (fullnumber) VALUES ('907-200-') VALUES ('907-200-0001')
VALUES ('907-200-0001') etc...

What this allows you to do is have one long string generated in memory then
inserted into the DB.  If you have any type of indexes on this table/column then
it would only require one re-indexing of the table for the single INSERT
statement vs 1 re-indexes for 1 separate INSERT statements.

Cuts the DB processing time down a lot.

Also, just so you know, if you place set_time_limit(0); at the top of the
script, it will allow the script to run as long as it needs to.

See: http://php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php

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Re: [PHP] form handling

2011-08-11 Thread Jim Giner

I'm thinking that Chris means that he has a 'page' designed that utilizes 
two form tags for functionally different sets of input fields.  The answer 
Chris is that a page can have many forms and whether or not they trigger the 
same script upon submit or not doesn't matter.  Go ahead!

My sample html:

blah
blah
head
script
/script
style
/style
/head
body
form
inputs
/form
blah
blah
form
inputs
/form
/body
/html

If the two forms call the same script that's fine.  If not, that will work 
too.  Just realize that the inputs from one form will NOT be returned to the 
script when the submit is used from the other form. 



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Re: [PHP] form handling

2011-08-11 Thread Jim Giner


Jim,

This is what I am trying to do. One submit button for both forms going
to the same destination.

The only reason I am doing this is because I can't figure out why my
ajax for my select menus is altering my tinyMCE textarea box.

Ultimately if I can figure out how to control the ajax within the div
container as I showed in a previous email I would be able to just use
one form. any ideas??

Thanks,

Chris


Chris,
By definition, a 'submit' button submits a form.  Not 2 forms.  Each form 
has to have it's own form. It is not feasible to submit two forms - since 
the conversation from your client pc is going to be garbled even if you 
could (JS?) do the second submit.  One transactiion is going to answer your 
client and then the other is going to wipe it out with its respone.


I don't think you have ot separate your forms becuase they are in separate 
divs.  I could be wrong - never tried it. 




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Re: [PHP] using pg_query in a function not working

2011-08-05 Thread Jim Lucas

On 8/5/2011 12:08 PM, Marc Fromm wrote:
 
 I have to sql statements in functions to use in my code. Even though the echo 
 statements show the sql is valid the sql does not seem to execute and I get 
 the error, PHP Warning:  pg_fetch_object() expects parameter 1 to be 
 resource, boolean given in . . . line 154 . . .
 Line 154: while($val = pg_fetch_object($student))
 

$conn is not in scope

 
 Marc Fromm
 Information Technology Specialist II
 Financial Aid Department
 Western Washington University
 Phone: 360-650-3351
 Fax:   360-788-0251
 


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[PHP] Re: testing


Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote in message 
news:6d.60.30104.5b968...@pb1.pair.com...
 Don't seem to be getting any feeds thru the newsgroup mirror(?).

Something's wrong.  My OE still cannot connect to the news server for this 
list, it continues to show unread messages are available, but it cannot 
download them.  Something has changed.  PLUS - this 'testing' msg of mine 
DOES show up - whassup with that? 



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Re: [PHP] Re: testing

 Aln...@ridersite.org  wrote:



 On 8/2/2011 5:18 PM, Jim Giner wrote:
 Don't seem to be getting any feeds thru the newsgroup mirror(?).



 This newsgroup has been a mess for almost a year now.

 One big problem is that the server only accepts a small number of
 connections,
 for just some mail clients, eg Thunderbird; but works for others.  My
 Thunderbird works flawlessly for numerous other newsgroups.

 I've posted 2 or 3 bug reports, no response!


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 This newsgroup is actually a mailing list.

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

 Oh, I thought news.php.net was a NNTP news server.  And,
 news://news.php.net:119/php.general was a newsgroup on the server.

 My mistake.


Mailing list, newsgroup, either one - something's changed in the last week 
or so to interrupt the smooth (or semi-smooth) functioning of it.  The only 
messages I'm seeing currently are the ones in this single topic.  Why is 
that??? 



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Re: [PHP] Re: testing

Sounds like time for me to move on.
Thanks for the info Dan.

All the talent on this group, and a bug like this (according to posts I've 
read) has been going on for years?

Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote in message 
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On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:39, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com 
wrote:

Actually, we haven't changed anything at all.  It's always been
temperamental, but it's always just been a small additional offering.
As Ash said, this is a mailing list, not a newsgroup.  The fact that
we offer a newsgroup interface at all is by all means eligible for
discontinuation, since only about six people use it in any given year.

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Re: Re: [PHP] Re: testing

Because I'm lazy.  I LIKE the newsgroup method - all my mail in one place: 
email, newsgroups together yet separate so that I can read the news postings 
when I have time, and the email is purely mine.
Tim Streater t...@clothears.org.uk wrote in message 
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On 04 Aug 2011 at 15:48, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote:

 Sounds like time for me to move on.
 Thanks for the info Dan.

Say Jim,

Why don't you pick it up as mail like the rest of us?

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Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread Jim Lucas




On 8/5/2011 9:49 PM, wil prim wrote:

Ok so I have tried to create a sort of messaging system on my website and I have
run into some problems storing who the message is from, ill try to take you
through step by step what I am trying to do.


*step #1 *(messages.php):--This is where the member will view the recent
messages that have been posted
div id='messages'
?php
include 'connect.php';


session_start() should be called before anything else on the page is 
done.  move this to the first line after your opening ?php tag.

session_start();


First... from one of your other emails, you explain that by the time you 
get to this page, your user has already logged in.  But in the next 
line, you are AFAICT setting the $_SESSION['user'] to a null value.  Try 
commenting this line out and see what happens.



$_SESSION['user']=$user;
//store sql queries
$sql=SELECT * FROM entries;


You should change this a little.  I realize their isn't much to go wrong 
with this SQL statement, but you never know...

$result=mysql_query($sql, $con);


$result = mysql_query($sql, $con) OR
  die('SQL ERROR: '. mysql_errno($con) .'br /'. mysql_error($con));


$count=mysql_num_rows($result);
if ($count1){
echo 'There are no messages yet!';
}


I think you are missing an ELSE clause here...


while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
echo 'From: ' .$row['from'];
echo 'br/';
echo 'Subject: ' .$row['subject'];
echo 'br/';
echo 'Message: ' .$row['body'];
echo 'hr/';

}
?
/div

*Step #2* (create_message.php):-- This is where the user creates a new message

h2  Create new message/h2
table border='0' width='100%' cellpadding='3px' style='text-align: top;'
form method='post' action='insert_message.php'
tr width='100%' height='30%' style='margin-top: 0px;'
td  Subject/td
td  input type='text' name='subject' maxlength='30'/td
/tr
tr width='100%' height='30%'
td  Body/td
tdtextarea name='body' style='height: 200px; width: 400px;'/textarea/td
/tr
tr
td colspan='2' align='center'input type='submit' name='new_message'
value='Send!'/  /td
/tr
/form
/table

*Step #3 *(insert_message.php)-- this is where my problem is (trying to insert
$_SESSION['user'] into table ['from'])


This script is riddled with security issues and errors.

?php
include 'connect.php';


Again with the session_start() thing.  Move it to the top.

session_start();


Why do this?  Just use $_SESSION['user'] where you would use $user...

$user=$_SESSION['user'];


This is going to cause a NOTICE error.  Check out isset()

if ($_POST['new_message']){


You including this file for a second time.  Does it need to?

include 'connect.php';


Calling this a second time, just for good measure???  Remove it.

session_start();


Again, you are clearing your $_SESSION['user'] variable.

$_SESSION['user']=$user;


If you are going to assign the values to new variables, I would suggest 
tossing htmlspecialchars() around each one.

$body=$_POST['body'];
$subject=$_POST['subject'];
$date=' ';


Also, before you go using those variables above in your SQL below, you 
should wrap a call to mysql_real_escape_string() around them.

$sql=INSERT INTO `entries` (
`id` ,
`from` ,
`subject` ,
`body` ,
`date`
)
VALUES (
NULL , '$user', '$subject', '$body', '$date'
);


Refer to my suggestion about about adding the OR die() portion to the 
following command.

if (mysql_query($sql,$con)){
echo 'Inserted!';
echo $user;

}
else
echo 'Not Inserted';

}
?

Hope i dont piss anyone off with such a long message, I just really need help on
this.

Thanks!




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[PHP] testing

2011-08-02 Thread Jim Giner

Don't seem to be getting any feeds thru the newsgroup mirror(?). 



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[PHP] Re: testing

2011-08-02 Thread Jim Giner


Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote in message 
news:6d.60.30104.5b968...@pb1.pair.com...
 Don't seem to be getting any feeds thru the newsgroup mirror(?).

Ok - this showed up in my OE newsgroup, but OE still shows 36 more messages 
in php.general that I haven't/can't seem to retrieve.  Is something wrong 
with the list-to-newgroup interface? 



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Re: [PHP] Re: testing

2011-08-02 Thread Jim Giner

- Original Message - 
From: ad...@buskirkgraphics.com
To: 'Jim Giner' jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com; 
php-general@lists.php.net

Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 6:01 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: testing


I was thinking the same thing I have none myself.



Your response did show up in my newsgroup.  But that's the first since the 
26th. 




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Re: [PHP] I can't execute pf commands

2011-07-29 Thread Jim Lucas

On 7/28/2011 9:09 AM, Bulent Malik wrote:
 Hi
 
 I use php5.3 on freebsd
 
 I also use pf ( packet filter) on it.
 
 I need to execute pfctl in php script.  But I couldn't execute . I don't get
 any errors about that.
 
 Shell commands is allowed in  php.ini My 
 
 My script is below,
 
 
  shell_exec('pfctl -s nat');
 
 exec('pfctl -s nat');
 
 
 If I execute another command like this ; it works
 
 shell_exec('ls -l /var/tmp') ;
 
 What can the problem be ? 

Run the following command from your cli

which pfctl

If the results show, like mine does, that pfctl is in /sbin/pfctl then you will
not be able to run that command.  Your www doesn't have the /sbin/ folders in
its path.

Try this instead.

shell_exec('which pfctl') ;

If you get results, you should be able to execute it.

But, on the flip side, it re-writes /etc/pf.conf  and on my box, its permissions
are -rw---.  So, you can assume that nobody besides root will be able to
write to this file.

Now, if you go the route Shawn talked about, it will work.  Just be sure to
limit the sudoers to only allow the pfctl command and not all allow all commands
on your system.

Jim

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Re: [PHP] Tree menu list in php

2011-07-26 Thread Jim Giner

Jasper Mulder lord_fa...@hotmail.com wrote in message 
news:snt106-w6527d1e82d0a3efe6f76f1f7...@phx.gbl...

 From: alekto.antarct...@gmail.com
 Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:20:58 +0200
 To: php-general@lists.php.net
 Subject: [PHP] Tree menu list in php

 Hi,
 is there a way to create a tree menu list only by using php/html/css?
 I found some, but they are all in JavaScript, do I have to make them by 
 using JavaScript or is there a way in php as well?

If by tree menu you mean to have a menu that interacts with the user and 
shows the branches, ie, sub-menus as the user clicks on items, then you 
can't do it with php obviously.   OTOH - if you just want a menu with 
indents and choices similar to an 'outline' , then sure you can do it with 
php/html/css.  But the JS ones are the sharpest ones.  There's several out 
there for free too! 

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Re: [PHP] Re: PHP frameworks

2011-07-21 Thread Jim Lucas

On 7/21/2011 4:00 PM, Micky Hulse wrote:
 +1 for CI.
 
 If you search the group archives, a little while back I asked about
 micro PHP frameworks and got a ton of good replies.
 
 So folks, how'z about a PHP framework with a built-in admin interface?
 That would be pretty sweet. :)
 

So, what would said admin interface allow you to administrate?

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Re: [PHP] Fwd: ezmlm warning

2011-07-20 Thread Jim Lucas

People, it isn't a problem with your mail server, it is a problem with the
lists.php.net IP address.  It got on another SPAM list.

I had to modify my SPAM filtering to allow it through a few years ago.
Currently it is listed on [1], and [2]

If I had to guess, qmail had an internal error and had to be restart.

1. http://www.mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3a76.75.200.58
2. http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check

On 7/20/2011 2:00 AM, Tamara Temple wrote:
 Um... what's going on here? Why would google mail be bouncing??
 
 
 Begin forwarded message:
 
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 Date: July 20, 2011 1:08:54 AM CDT
 To: tamouse.li...@gmail.com
 Subject: ezmlm warning

 Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the
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 I'm working for my owner, who can be reached
 at php-general-ow...@lists.php.net.


 Messages to you from the php-general mailing list seem to
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 If this message bounces too, I will send you a probe. If the probe bounces,
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 without further notice.


 I've kept a list of which messages from the php-general mailing list have
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 Copies of these messages may be in the archive.
 To retrieve a set of messages 123-145 (a maximum of 100 per request),
 send an empty message to:
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 send an empty message to:
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Re: [PHP] chained select with ajax

2011-07-18 Thread Jim Lucas


On 7/17/2011 11:38 AM, Chris Stinemetz wrote:

Thanks all.

I am trying to create a cascading seletct with 3 menu choices.
For some reason my third select menu is not populating. It doesn't
seem like my ajax is correctly sending $_post values to the final
query in my PHP class I built.
By the time I make it to the final third select menu there are no choices.

Hopefully someone can find something I missed in the following code snippits.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Please excuse the incorrect indentions. For some reason gmail changes it.

Thanks,

Chris


I have made a few assumptions in the following code... with that said

Well, without seeing more of your code, from what I can tell from what 
you provided, you are missing a few statements in your jQuery and you 
are using the wrong variables that jQuery is passing to your PHP.


Also, since I do not see you populating the #market SELECT field with 
jQuery, is it safe to assume that you are populating it when you create 
the page?


 script
 $(document).ready(function()
 {
   $(select#type).attr(disabled,disabled);
   $(select#store).attr(disabled,disabled);
   $(select#market).change(function()
   {

remove the following line, it is redundant

 $(select#type).attr(disabled,disabled);
 $(select#type).html(optionplease wait.../option);
 var id = $(select#market option:selected).attr('value');
 $.post(select_type.php, {id:id}, function(data)
 {
   $(select#type).removeAttr(disabled);
   $(select#type).html(data);
 });
   });
   $(select#type).change(function()
   {

remove the following line, it is redundant

 $(select#store).attr(disabled,disabled);
 $(select#store).html(optionplease wait.../option);

 var m_id = $(select#market option:selected).attr('value');
 var t_id = $(select#type option:selected).attr('value');
 $.post(select_store.php,
{market_id:m_id,type_id:t_id},
function(data)
{
  $(select#store).removeAttr(disabled);
  $(select#store).html(data);
});

   });
   $(form#select_form).submit(function()
   {
 var market = $(select#market option:selected).attr('value');
 var type = $(select#type option:selected).attr('value');
 var store = $(select#store option:selected).attr('value');
 if(market0  type0  store0)
 {
   var market = $(select#market option:selected).html();
   var type = $(select#type option:selected).html();
   var store = $(select#store option:selected).html();
   $(#result).html('your choices were: ' + market + ' , ' + type 
+ ' and ' + store);

 } else {
   $(#result).html(you must choose three options!);
 }
 return false;
   });
 });
 /script


 php class for populating select menus

 ?php
 class SelectList
 {
   protected $conn;
   public function __construct()
   {
 $this-DbConnect();
   }

   protected function DbConnect()
   {
 include db_config.php;
 $this-conn = mysql_connect($host,$user,$password)
   OR die(Unable to connect to the database);
 mysql_select_db($db,$this-conn)
 OR die(cannot select the database $db);
 return TRUE;
   }

   public function ShowMarket()
   {
 $sql = SELECT DISTINCT id_markets FROM store_list;
 $res = mysql_query($sql,$this-conn);
 $market = 'option value=0market.../option';
 while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res))
 {

you are using $row['id'] below, but you do not select it above...

   $market .= 'option value=' . $row['id'] . '' .
  $row['id_markets'] . '/option';
 }
 return $market;
   }

   public function ShowType()
   {
 $sql = SELECT DISTINCT store_type FROM store_list;
 $res = mysql_query($sql,$this-conn);
 $type = 'option value=0store type.../option';
 while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res))
 {

you are using $row['id'] below, but you do not select it above...

   $type .= 'option value=' . $row['id'] . '' .
$row['store_type'] . '/option';
 }
 return $type;
   }

   public function ShowStore()
   {
 $sql = SELECT store_name
 FROM   store_list

Are you suppose to be using the same $_POST variable for this select 
statement?


 WHERE  id_markets=$_POST[id]
 ANDstore_type=$_POST[id];

to work with the changes that I made above in the jQuery code, you will 
need to change the previous two lines to the following two lines of code


 WHERE  id_markets=$_POST['market_id']
 ANDstore_type=$_POST['type_id'];

That show fix most of your problems and get you headed down the rod to 
recovery...


 $res = mysql_query($sql,$this-conn);
 $Store = 'option value=0stores.../option';
 while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res))
 {

you are using $row['id'] below, but you do not select it above...

 $Store .= 'option value=' . $row['id'] . '' .
   $row['store_name'] . '/option';
 }

Re: [PHP] is_null() and is_string() reversed when using in switch case statements... [SOLVED]

2011-07-15 Thread Jim Lucas

On 7/14/2011 7:44 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote:
 Ah! Thanks Simon! That is exactly right. Doh! I should have thought of
 that... *smacks head*
 
 Here is the fruit of my labor (and your fix)...
 
 /**
  * Useful for debugging functions to see parameter names, etc.
  * Based upon http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.func-get-args.php#103296
  *
  * function anyfunc($arg1, $arg2, $arg3)
  * {
  *   debug_func(__FUNCTION__, '$arg1, $arg2, $arg3', func_get_args());
  *   //do useful non-debugging stuff
  * }
  *
  * @accesspublic
  * @returnstring
  * @param string $function_name __FUNCTION__ of the root function as
 passed into this function
  * @param string $arg_names the ',,,' encapsulated parameter list of
 the root function
  * @param array $arg_vals the result of func_get_args() from the root
 function passed into this function
  * @param boolean $show_empty_params (FALSE)
  * @authorDaevid Vincent
  * @date  2011-17-14
  * @see   func_get_args(), func_get_arg(), func_num_args()
  */
 function debug_func($function_name, $arg_names, $arg_vals,
 $show_empty_params=FALSE)
 {
 $params = array();
 echo $function_name.'(';
 $arg_names_array = explode(',', $arg_names);
 //var_dump($arg_names, $arg_names_array, $arg_vals );
 foreach($arg_names_array as $k = $parameter_name)
 {
$v = $arg_vals[$k];
//echo k = $parameter_name = $k and v = arg_vals[k] = $vbr\n;
 switch(true)
 {
   case is_string($v): if ($show_empty_params) $v = '.$v.'
 ; break;
   case is_null($v): if ($show_empty_params) $v = '{NULL}';
 break;
   case is_bool($v): $v = ($v) ? '{TRUE}' : '{FALSE}'; break;
   case is_array($v): (count($v)  10) ? $v =
 '['.implode(',',$v).']' : $v = '[ARRAY]'; break;
   case is_object($v): $v = '{CLASS::'.get_class($v).'}';
 break;
   case is_numeric($v): break;
 }
 
 if ($show_empty_params || $v) $params[$k] = trim($parameter_name).':
 '.$v;
 }
 echo implode(', ',$params).)br/\n;
 }
 
 
 

Can you give an example of where this might be useful?

Jim Lucas

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Re: [PHP] PEAR Mail $obj-send()

2011-07-08 Thread Jim Lucas

On 7/8/2011 9:50 AM, Brian Smither wrote:
 A client has:
 PHP 5.3 on Win7x64 running a local web app that needs to send mail. 
 (This app was once hosted on a linux-based hosted space.) Apache 2.2 
 is installed but apparently not being used. I think the IIS service 
 is actually the web server that is engaged.
 
 During troubleshooting a wide range of problems, I discovered that 
 the PEAR Mail module needed to be installed. So I installed PEAR 
 (the PEAR Installer) and the Mail module with all dependencies. The 
 PEAR_ENV was added. The system was rebooted.
 
 A test php script instantiates the Mail class and the script proceeds 
 fine until the send() method is called. I get a browser with Waiting 
 for localhost for more than 60 seconds. (I used die(); to trace the 
 script. Instead of 'auth'= true, I used 'auth' = PLAIN as 
 suggested by a user comment on the Mail documentation page.)

Do you have a mail server running on localhost?

If the previous system was linux, then it was probably handing it off to
sendmail.  If you do not have a local MTA then you need to change the params so
it uses a remote mail server.

 
 I believe all the parameters are correct. The actual web app works - 
 except emailing.
 
 I added a firewall rule allowing outbound port 465 just for kicks.
 
 I can double-check for the PHP timeout setting but would PHP timeout 
 in this case (waiting for a socket??)?
 
 Any suggestions?
 
 
 
 
 


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[PHP] Re: Self-whitelisting (WAS: Top Posting)


George Langley george.lang...@shaw.ca wrote in message 
news:841bbd90-9cd4-4df5-9a38-ff61638f7...@shaw.ca...
On 2011-07-05, at 8:52 PM, Jim Giner wrote:

 Huh?  You have a problem with a person having a spam filter that requires
 one valid response to ensure that the mail from an address is from a real
 person ONE TIME ONLY?
--
I know that I do. I monitor our web site's registration system, and will get 
a number of notices from things like Boxbe, stating that they've delayed the 
email with the confirmation link that we send our clients, until we confirm 
receipt of their notice. But, this can be used against you, as they now know 
that your address is valid, and can in turn spam you!
*

But they can't spam me until they do make a response.  And if they are 
actually in-human (!) enough to go to that length (and I suspect that the 
laziness factor of a spammer will reduce that possibility), I can easily 
blacklist them  - which I have only had to do a couple of times in the last 
5-6 years.

Once a week I review my 'box trapper' queue to see what's been held up.  An 
average of 10 emails a day that never get to my inbox is a good thing in my 
book.  Or should I say never get to my 3 inboxes - pc,ipad,phone.
jg 



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Re: [PHP] Re: Re: Top Posting

2011-07-06 Thread Jim Lucas

On 7/5/2011 7:52 PM, Jim Giner wrote:
 And what do you use to cut down on spam in your in-box? 

This is completely off topic, but here it goes...

When I received an email the other day from your mail server, I had created this
crazy ass reply to your automatic request for a reply.  But in turn, just sent
the email with the link showing that your mail server is a source of spam.

To answer your question, I use built in Postfix checks...

Here are my list of options:

reject_invalid_hostname,
reject_non_fqdn_hostname,
reject_non_fqdn_sender,
reject_non_fqdn_recipient,
reject_unknown_sender_domain,
reject_unknown_reverse_client_hostname,
reject_unknown_recipient_domain,
check_recipient_maps,
permit_mynetworks,
permit_sasl_authenticated,
reject_unauth_destination,
check_helo_access hash:/etc/postfix/helo_checks,
reject_invalid_helo_hostname,
reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname,
reject_unknown_helo_hostname,
reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org,
reject_rbl_client psbl.surriel.com,
reject_rbl_client korea.services.net,
permit

With the above settings, I REJECT 99.9% of all SPAM that tries to enter my box.

You are currently listed in my /etc/postfix/helo_checks file as

64.118.87.45REJECT Your mail server is a source of SPAM.  Fix it!


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Re: [PHP] Constants in strings

I LOVE the heredocs tool.  I only learned about it a couple of months ago - 
what a find!  It makes generating my html for my web pages so much 
easier and allows me to include my php vars within the html with much less 
confusion and simplifies the intermixing of html and php vars - no more 
single quote, double quote and dot stuff in an html tag.
Sure you have to put the closing tag in column 1 - a mere blip against the 
pros. 



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Re: [PHP] Re: Re: Top Posting

 You are currently listed in my /etc/postfix/helo_checks file as

 64.118.87.45 REJECT Your mail server is a source of SPAM.  Fix it!

My mail server is my isp's.  It is a shared server and not under my control. 
They are aware that is listed but cannot get to the bottom of why it is 
flagged.
Frankly, I don't know why you are getting mail from me - I'm not sending you 
any.

As for your solution to spam.  What is Postfix?



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Re: [PHP] Re: Re: Top Posting


Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote in message 
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On 6 Jul 2011, at 20:03, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote:
 Frankly, I don't know why you are getting mail from me - I'm not sending 
 you
 any.

FFS and for the last time... THIS IS A MAILING LIST which you access through 
a newsgroup gateway. It is NOT a newsgroup!

-Stuart

Forgive me for not being a know-it-all.  I don't even know what FFS means.

On second thought - I don't need your forgiveness.  Perhaps you should 
utilize a newsgroup instead of getting all these emails in your inbox.  Much 
less mail to sort thru when you don't feel like handling php problems and 
stuff from morons like me. 



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Re: Re: [PHP] Re: Re: Top Posting


Tim Streater t...@clothears.org.uk wrote in message 
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On 06 Jul 2011 at 20:03, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote:
 As for your solution to spam.  What is Postfix?

Rather than rely on heuristics, I wrote a Bayesian filter for my e-mail app. 
Let the spammer, by sending you the mail, indicate what is spam and what is 
not.

--
Cheers  --  Tim

Tim,
Good for you - although I have no idea what you are saying.  :)
I believe the box trapper tool I utilize (from my ISP) is also letting the 
spammer define himself - but it's just a black box to me.
jg 



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[PHP] Re: Installing PHP

Thanks David!  The error log tells me that I have installed a version of PHP 
that is not thread-safe.  My bad - I mis-read the download page and did in 
fact acquire the wrong version.  Am beginning PHP install all over again!

David Robley robl...@aapt.net.au wrote in message 
news:b0.f0.00402.e9df2...@pb1.pair.com...

 If you are having problems starting apache, the first place to look is 
 your
 apache error log.





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[PHP] Re: Installing PHP

Eureka!

The whole problem was my unfamiliarity with the php download page.  To 
others - read the choices there very carefully (which I thought I did!) to 
be sure you get the thread-safe version.

Thanks to all who contributed, but David gets the kudos for telling me to 
check the error logs first. 



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[PHP] Re: Top Posting

outlook doesn't offer an option for that. 



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[PHP] Re: Top Posting

And besides - I'm sure there are PLENTY of people here who despise scrolling 
thru endless repeated paragraphs from a long list of posts just to get the 
the latest contribution to the topic.:)

This newgroup may have its rules, but if bottom-posting was such a wise and 
preferred method, why do millions of business users subscribe to a product 
such as Outlook, that top-posts by default, to conduct their daily business 
via emails flying back and forth with the latest post at the beginning so 
that readers don't have to re-hash old news unless they want to? 



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Re: [PHP] Re: Top Posting

not what he was asking for.
Curtis Maurand cur...@maurand.com wrote in message 
news:4e7755d57a7a032c39e44598f3660ac7.squir...@www.xyonet.com...



 Jim Giner wrote:
 outlook doesn't offer an option for
 that.

 ctrl-END gets you to the bottom of a message.

 



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Re: [PHP] Re: Top Posting

Actually business user do subscribe to use Outlook as their client.  It does 
not come with the OS, it is purchased on a per seat basis by every 
corporation using it in the form of a license.

On the other hand Outlook Express is available as part of the os, or is 
easily obtained for free.  It is not however the preferred 'business' client 
for those stuck on M$ products.

Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote in message 
news:20110705152457.gk21...@quillandmouse.com...

 Business users don't subscribe to the Microsoft
 email client. 



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Re: [PHP] Re: Top Posting


Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote in message
 If you're looking for a sane reason why Microsoft software is popular in 
 the
 business world you're not going to find one. 

No - you missed my statement's point.  Not looking for anything - just 
saying it is what it is.  You won't find me defending M$ software designs - 
I was simply pointing out that the product is setup that way and nobody over 
the years has made any effort (?) to have it altered.  I wonder why. :)

 One final thing... you keep calling this a newsgroup. The PHP mailing 
 lists
 are mailing lists first, and a newsgroup second - that's kinda why they're
 called the PHP mailing lists.

It looks like all the newsgroups I've ever belonged to.  It acts like a 
newsgroup.  And - funny ha ha - its name begins with the word news, not 
mailing.  BTW - what does a mailing list look like?

AND - instead of coming down on people who top post, why not come down on 
the vast majority of people of DON'T post ONLY the pertinent part(s) of the 
past emails in their own response?  Cutting down on the amount of chaff in 
the postings here would certainly eliminate the biggest reluctance to having 
to bottom-post.  To scroll thru 60-100 lines of quoted and re-quoted text 
only to read a two line contribution is tedious and wasteful.

Let the new mantra be - Snip Your Posts!

PS - note the bottom post. 



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Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote in message 
news:CAJgGj58OkZLiakMMo8qmuhg68BamYOi+TLNGyzze=iyppbj...@mail.gmail.com...
 Again, please include the list when replying!


But don't include the poster's email if you're replying to the list!
 



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Re: [PHP] Re: Top Posting

If you resisted sending what amounts to a duplicate email to the posters who 
are 'on' the list, you wouldn't have to deal with spam filters.  Don't 
understand the purpose of a reply all when in essence our replies are to the 
list wherein the topic originated.  Those on the list will surely see any 
and all posts without having another one in their inbox, won't they?
Richard Quadling rquadl...@gmail.com wrote in message 
news:CAKUjMCW9rcqZodVe7dx2R9Rew5bQ5-5xcHgHxMmtzqc_z=a...@mail.gmail.com...

 And Jim, your anti-spam measures are spamming me.

 So, I've blocked your anti-spam as spam.




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Richard Quadling rquadl...@gmail.com wrote in message 
news:CAKUjMCVbhbXO=ngr1lnzo-6fdahdj-r8hc73b-esotfqg+k...@mail.gmail.com...

 But that is what reply-all is about.

 Person A sends an message to List B.

 I reply-all and Person A and List B get replies.

 Hmm.

A new level of complexity!  A person sends to the list, hoping for a 
response, but fails to subscribe to the list? 



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Re: [PHP] Re: Top Posting

2011-07-05 Thread Jim Lucas

On 7/5/2011 9:11 AM, Richard Quadling wrote:
 And Jim, your anti-spam measures are spamming me.
 
 So, I've blocked your anti-spam as spam.

I noticed this the other day and I blocked him as well.

Maybe this is why his mail server IP is listed as a source of spam...

http://www.mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3a64.118.87.45

Jim Lucas

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Re: [PHP] Re: Top Posting

It's certainly not spam - it's a spam filter offered by my ISP and works 
great.  The mail you are getting from it is a query asking you to reply if 
you are real and once you do, you'll never get the request again.

Jim Lucas li...@cmsws.com wrote in message 
news:4e134676.7090...@cmsws.com...
 On 7/5/2011 9:11 AM, Richard Quadling wrote:
 And Jim, your anti-spam measures are spamming me.

 So, I've blocked your anti-spam as spam.

 I noticed this the other day and I blocked him as well.

 Maybe this is why his mail server IP is listed as a source of spam...

 http://www.mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3a64.118.87.45

 Jim Lucas 



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Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote in message 
news:21e916f2-2a1f-4982-bc4d-9a574da92...@email.android.com...
I've seen fake messages do that before as a way of harvesting good live 
email addresses, so I regard all such messages spam now.

oh, well... 



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Re: [PHP] Top Posting

James Moe ji...@sohnen-moe.com wrote in message 
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  I suspect one reason top posting is popular is that responders do not
 have to think about tidying up, just spit out a reply and move on. The
 result is a message that grows in size with every reply containing every
 useless bit since the thread began. It becomes quite a mess.

 - -- 
 James Moe


oh, so true. 



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