Re: [PHP] /tmp/directory

2013-07-22 Thread Ken Robinson

At 11:50 AM 7/22/2013, Tedd Sperling wrote:

On Jul 22, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com wrote
 Hi gang:

 I should know this, but I don't.

 Where is the /tmp/ directory?

 You see, I have a client where his host has apparently changed 
the /tmp/ directory permissions such that old php/mysql scripts 
cannot write to the /tmp/ directory anymore -- they did at one time.


 So, how do I fix it?

 Cheers,

 tedd

Let me add -- the PHP version I am working with is 4.3.10.

I know...

tedd


The version of PHP should have nothing to do with this problem.

The /tmp directory should be writable by everyone. If it's not, you 
need to talk to the hosting company support people.


Ken 



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Re: [PHP] Guaranteed Way to Get Error Message Wanted

2013-07-05 Thread Ken Robinson
Check the permissions on the files/directories involved. I get this 
on Linux when the files/directories are too open.


Ken

At 05:38 PM 7/5/2013, Brian Smither wrote:
I have an application running under PHP-5.4.17-TS-VC9 (and .14 as of 
yesterday) with Aprelium's Abyss X1 v2.8 web server in FastCGI mode 
on WinXPSP3.


An earlier version of this application works. The current version 
causes a 500 Internal Server Error. There is no entry in PHP's 
(fully active) error log. I cannot decipher Abyss's logging, so I 
cannot determine if a clue was reported by Abyss or not.


The current version works on a different system (Server 2003, PHP 
5.3.5-TS-VC6 (Apache module), Apache 2.2).


What I would like to have is a method of getting PHP to report in 
some undeniable manner, short of total system failure, what it 
doesn't like about whatever killed it.





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Re: [PHP] scandir doesn't find all files

2013-06-22 Thread Ken Robinson


Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 22, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Daniel Pöllmann poellmann.dan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 I have some files in a directory - some are uploaded via ftp and some other
 are created by a php script.
 
 Scandir just finds the uploaded files, but none of the created files.
 I can't run chown() because the server is part of shared hosting.
 
 I can't find anything about this behavour in the documentation.
 
 Best wishes,
 Daniel

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Re: [PHP] scandir doesn't find all files

2013-06-22 Thread Ken Robinson
Did you try the glob function? http://php.net/glob

Ken

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 22, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Daniel Pöllmann poellmann.dan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 I have some files in a directory - some are uploaded via ftp and some other
 are created by a php script.
 
 Scandir just finds the uploaded files, but none of the created files.
 I can't run chown() because the server is part of shared hosting.
 
 I can't find anything about this behavour in the documentation.
 
 Best wishes,
 Daniel

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Re: [PHP] iterate javascript verification

2013-05-27 Thread Ken Robinson
When you do validation of the form in the same script that shows the 
form, the normal way to do this is


?php
   if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
//
//  validation here
//
}
?

This won't work if you're getting to the page via another form, since 
the $_POST['submit'] is set. There two ways of avoiding this:


1) use hidden fields in each form to indicate which form was submitted
2) use a different name for each form's submit button and use that in 
the above code


Ken


At 12:52 PM 5/27/2013, Tim Dunphy wrote:

Hey guys,

Thanks for the input! This is pretty nice, and DOES work. I like the fact
that the fields have been into an iterative array. It's a very elegant
solution. However the problem with this approach is that if you load the
page directly it works. But if you call the page from the index.php page
you get an initial error on all fields as they are all quite naturally
empty when you first load the page.

Here's the index.php page. All it is is HTML, no php:

html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; xml:lang=en lang=en
head
  meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=utf-8 /
  titleLDAP Request Form/title

body
  centerh3LDAP Request Form/h3
   form name=form_request method=post action=ldap.php
onsubmit=return validateForm()
label for=requestor_emailYour Email Address:/labelbr /
input type=text required id=requestor_email name=requestor_email
/br /br /
label for=num_formsHow Many Forms Do You Need:/labelbr /
input type=text required maxlength=2 size=5 id=num_forms
name=num_forms /br /br /
input type=submit name=submit value=Submit /
  /form/center
/body
/html

And here is ldap.php as was suggested:

body

  ?php

   if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$requestor_email = $_POST['requestor_email'];
$num_forms  = $_POST['num_forms'];
}


echo centerYou will be creating $num_forms accounts
today./centerbr /;
for($counter = 1;$counter=$num_forms;$counter++) {
echo 'centerform name=ldap_accounts method=post
action=sendemail.php onsubmit=return validateForm()';
echo 'br /br /';
echo Enter user: $counterbr /br /;
echo label for=\first_name_.$counter.\First Name:/labelbr
/;
echo input type=\text\ id=\first_name_.$counter.\
name=\first_name_.$counter.\ /br /br /;
echo label for=\last_name_.$counter.\Last Name:/labelbr /;
echo input type=\text\ id=\last_name_.$counter.\
name=\last_name_.$counter.\ /br /br /;
echo label for=\department_.$counter.\Department:/labelbr
/;
echo input type=\text\ id=\department_.$counter.\
name=\department_.$counter.\ /br /br /;
echo label for=\title_.$counter.\Title:/labelbr /;
echo input type=\text\ id=\title_.$counter.\
name=\title_.$counter.\ /br /br /;
echo label for=\email_.$counter.\Email:/labelbr /;
echo input type=\text\ id=\email_.$counter.\
name=\email_.$counter.\ /br /br /;
echo label for=\phone_$counter.\Phone:/labelbr /;
echo input type=\text\ id=\phone_.$counter.\
name=\phone_.$counter.\ /br /br /;
  }

  echo input type=\hidden\ id=\num_forms\ name=\num_forms\
value=\$num_forms\ /br /br /;
  echo input type=\hidden\ id=\requestor_email\
name=\requestor_email\ value=\$requestor_email\ /;
  echo input type=\submit\ name=\submit\ value=\Create Ticket\ /;
  echo /form/center;




   ?


Why this happens when you call the ldap.php page from index.php but not
when you load the page directly beats me. But maybe someone can shed some
light on that?

Thanks!



On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:45 AM, tamouse mailing lists 
tamouse.li...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Ken Robinson kenrb...@rbnsn.com wrote:
  I took your code and modified it to use HTML5 validation (and few other
  changes). You can see the results at
  http://my-testbed.com/test1/form_validation.php
 http://my-testbed.com/test1/form_validation.php
 
  My code follows:
 
?php
$fields =
  array('first_name','last_name','department','title','email','phone');
$num_forms = 1;
$tmp = array();
$errors = array();
 
 
 if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
  $requestor_email = $_POST['requestor_email'];
  $num_forms  = $_POST['num_forms'];
  for ($i = 1;$i = $num_forms; ++$i) {
  foreach ($fields as $fld) {
  if ($_POST[$fld][$i] == '') {
  $errors[] = ucwords(str_replace('_',' ',$fld)) .
 
  for account $i can not be blank;
  }
  }
  }
}
  if (!empty($errors)) {
  $tmp[] = The following fields are in
 error:br;
  $tmp[] = implode(br\n,$errors);
  $tmp[] = br;
  }
  $tmp[] = div style='text-align:center'You will be creating
 $num_forms
  accounts today./divbr;
  $tmp[] = 'div style=text-align:centerform name=ldap_accounts
  method=post action=';
  $tmp[] = 'br /br /';
 
  for($counter = 1;$counter

Re: [PHP] iterate javascript verification

2013-05-24 Thread Ken Robinson
You do realize that you shouldn't rely on Javascript to validate 
values returned in a form?  Also, if you use HTML5, you can use the 
required attribute in the input tag and the browser won't let a 
user submit a form with a required field not filled. Of course, you 
should still validate within your PHP script, in case a user is using 
a browser that doesn't understand HTML5.


At 08:07 PM 5/24/2013, Tim Dunphy wrote:

Hello list,

 I have a php script that creates a variable number of forms based on a
$_POST variable from a preceding page. It then takes the data input into
the form and neatly packages the result into an email sent to an email
address (eventually to be a ticketing system).


Almost everything on the page works great. The only thing I can't seem to
get working is how to verify that the fields in the form are not left empty
using javascript. The syntax I'm using seems like it should work, however
when I leave one or more of the fields empty, the email gets sent anyway
with the missing data.

Here's the app I was hoping someone might be able to suggest a successful
approach:

html
head
titleLDAP Form/title
body
  ?php

   if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$requestor_email = $_POST['requestor_email'];
$num_forms  = $_POST['num_forms'];
}

echo centerYou will be creating $num_forms accounts
today./centerbr /;
for($counter = 1;$counter=$num_forms;$counter++) {
echo 'centerform name=ldap_accounts method=post
action=sendemail.php onsubmit=return validateForm()';
echo 'br /br /';
echo Enter user: $counterbr /;
echo label for=\first_name_.$counter.\First Name:/labelbr
/;
echo input type=\text\ id=\first_name_.$counter.\
name=\first_name_.$counter.\ /br /br /;
echo label for=\last_name_.$counter.\Last Name:/labelbr /;
echo input type=\text\ id=\last_name_.$counter.\
name=\last_name_.$counter.\ /br /br /;
echo label for=\department_.$counter.\Department:/labelbr
/;
echo input type=\text\ id=\department_.$counter.\
name=\department_.$counter.\ /br /br /;
echo label for=\title_.$counter.\Title:/labelbr /;
echo input type=\text\ id=\title_.$counter.\
name=\title_.$counter.\ /br /br /;
echo label for=\email_.$counter.\Email:/labelbr /;
echo input type=\text\ id=\email_.$counter.\
name=\email_.$counter.\ /br /br /;
echo label for=\phone_$counter.\Phone:/labelbr /;
echo input type=\text\ id=\phone_.$counter.\
name=\phone_.$counter.\ /br /br /;
  ?
   script
function validateForm()
 {
   var a=document.forms[ldap_accounts][first_name_].value;
   if (a==null || a==)
   {
alert(User $counter first name must be filled out.);
return false;
   }
var b=document.forms[ldap_accounts][last_name_].value;
if (b==null || b==)
{
alert(User $counter last name must be filled out.);
return false;
}
var c=document.forms[ldap_accounts][department_].value;
if (c==null || c==)
{
alert(User $counter department must be filled out.);
return false;
}
var d=document.forms[ldap_accounts][title_].value;
if (d==null || d==)
{
alert(User $counter title must be filled out.);
return false;
}
var d=document.forms[ldap_accounts][email_].value;
if (d==null || d==)
{
alert(User $counter address must be filled out.);
return false;
}
var d=document.forms[ldap_accounts][phone_].value;
if (d==null || d==)
{
alert(User $counter phone name must be filled out.);
return false;
}
  }
 /script
 ?php
  }

  echo input type=\hidden\ id=\num_forms\ name=\num_forms\
value=\$num_forms\ /br /br /;
  echo input type=\hidden\ id=\requestor_email\
name=\requestor_email\ value=\$requestor_email\ /;
  echo input type=\submit\ name=\submit\ value=\Create Ticket\ /;
  echo /form/center;

   ?
/body
/html

Thanks,
Tim

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Re: [PHP] iterate javascript verification

2013-05-24 Thread Ken Robinson
I took your code and modified it to use HTML5 validation (and few 
other changes). You can see the results at 
http://my-testbed.com/test1/form_validation.phphttp://my-testbed.com/test1/form_validation.php 



My code follows:

  ?php
  $fields = 
array('first_name','last_name','department','title','email','phone');

  $num_forms = 1;
  $tmp = array();
  $errors = array();

   if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$requestor_email = $_POST['requestor_email'];
$num_forms  = $_POST['num_forms'];
for ($i = 1;$i = $num_forms; ++$i) {
foreach ($fields as $fld) {
if ($_POST[$fld][$i] == '') {
$errors[] = ucwords(str_replace('_',' 
',$fld)) .  for account $i can not be blank;

}
}
}
  }
if (!empty($errors)) {
$tmp[] = The following fields are in error:br;
$tmp[] = implode(br\n,$errors);
$tmp[] = br;
}
$tmp[] = div style='text-align:center'You will be creating 
$num_forms accounts today./divbr;
$tmp[] = 'div style=text-align:centerform 
name=ldap_accounts method=post action=';

$tmp[] = 'br /br /';
for($counter = 1;$counter=$num_forms;$counter++) {
$tmp[] = Enter user: $counterbr /;
$tmp[] = label for='first_name_$counter'First Name:/labelbr/;
$tmp[] = input type='text' required 
id='first_name_$counter' name='first_name[$counter]'br /br /;

$tmp[] = label for='last_name_$counter'Last Name:/labelbr /;
$tmp[] = input type='text' required 
id='last_name_$counter' name='last_name[$counter]' /br /br /;

$tmp[] = label for='department_$counter'Department:/labelbr/;
$tmp[] = input type='text' required 
id='department_$counter.' name='department[$counter]' /br /br /;

$tmp[] = label for='title_$counter'Title:/labelbr /;
$tmp[] = input type='text' required id'title_.$counter' 
name='title[$counter]' /br /br /;

$tmp[] = label for='email_.$counter'Email:/labelbr /;
$tmp[] = input type='email' required id='email_.$counter' 
name='email[$counter]' /br /br /;

$tmp[] = label for='phone_$counter'Phone:/labelbr /;
$tmp[] = input type='text' required id='phone_$counter' 
name='phone[$counter]' /br /br /;

  }
  $tmp[] = input type='hidden' id='num_forms' name='num_forms' 
value='$num_forms' /br /br /;
  $tmp[] = input type='hidden' id='requestor_email' 
name='requestor_email' value='$requestor_email' /;

  $tmp[] = input type='submit' name='submit' value='Create Ticket' /;
  $tmp[] = /form/div;

?
!DOCTYPE html
html
head
titleLDAP Form/title
body
?php echo implode(\n,$tmp) . \n; ?
/body
/html

You will notice that I moved the code for the form to above the HTML 
section. I believe that very little PHP should be interspersed with 
the HTML -- it makes for cleaner code. You can use single quotes 
around form attributes so you don't have to escape the double quotes. 
The names in the form are now arrays. This makes your life much 
easier when extracting the values later in PHP.


When you check the page in a HTML5 aware brower, you will see how the 
validation is done.


Ken

At 10:17 PM 5/24/2013, musicdev wrote:

You can validate via JS if required, for example: (JS CODE):

if(element.value.length == 0){
   // handle 0 length value
}

I do agree with Ken that you SHOULD NOT perform JS validation.  It is
preferable to use php or the new HTML5 features.  JS can be turned-off by
the user which will make JS validation impossible.


On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello list,

  I have a php script that creates a variable number of forms based on a
 $_POST variable from a preceding page. It then takes the data input into
 the form and neatly packages the result into an email sent to an email
 address (eventually to be a ticketing system).


 Almost everything on the page works great. The only thing I can't seem to
 get working is how to verify that the fields in the form are not left empty
 using javascript. The syntax I'm using seems like it should work, however
 when I leave one or more of the fields empty, the email gets sent anyway
 with the missing data.

 Here's the app I was hoping someone might be able to suggest a successful
 approach:

 html
 head
 titleLDAP Form/title
 body
   ?php

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
 $requestor_email = $_POST['requestor_email'];
 $num_forms  = $_POST['num_forms'];
 }

 echo centerYou will be creating $num_forms accounts
 today./centerbr /;
 for($counter = 1;$counter=$num_forms;$counter++) {
 echo 'centerform name=ldap_accounts method=post
 action=sendemail.php onsubmit=return validateForm()';
 echo 'br /br /';
 echo Enter user: $counterbr /;
 echo label for=\first_name_.$counter.\First Name:/labelbr
 /;
 echo input type=\text\ id=\first_name_.$counter.\
 name=\first_name_.$counter

Re: [PHP] Symfony?

2013-05-20 Thread Ken Robinson

Drupal 8 is being built using Symfony, which means I have to learn it.

Ken

At 12:44 PM 5/20/2013, Bastien wrote:



Bastien Koert

On 2013-05-20, at 12:40 PM, Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com wrote:

 Hi gang:

 Who uses Symfony?

 Cheers,

 tedd


 _


I do. It's not my preferred framework. It's very powerful, but very 
complex and has a ton of yaml config files for the app. The learning 
curve is steep.


What's the question?

Bastien
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Re: [PHP] Updated PHP breaks processing-intense Procedure

2013-04-25 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
THank all of you for your help. I think I got this thing licked.


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Ken Kixmoeller phph...@comcast.net wrote:

 Thank you very much, Jim ---


 On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Jim Lucas li...@cmsws.com wrote:

 On 04/24/2013 03:24 PM, Ken Kixmoeller wrote:

 Thanks, Jim ---

 Is this different from the max_input_vars discussion above? (from David
 OBrien)


 yes.  For example...

 php.ini:[suhosin]
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.syslog =
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.syslog.**facility =
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.syslog.**priority =
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.sapi =
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.script =
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.phpscript = 0
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.script.**name http://suhosin.log.script.name =
 php.ini:; variables registered in the current scope: SUHOSIN_ERRORCLASS
 and
 php.ini:; SUHOSIN_ERROR. The first one is the alert class and the second
 variable is
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.**phpscript.name http://suhosin.log.phpscript.name=
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.**phpscript.is_safe = Off
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.use-x-**forwarded-for = Off
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.max_**depth = 0
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**include.max_traversal = 0
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**include.whitelist =
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**include.blacklist =
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**func.whitelist =
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**func.blacklist =
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**eval.whitelist =
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**eval.blacklist =
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**disable_eval = Off
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**disable_emodifier = Off
 php.ini:; by default in Suhosin = 0.9.6. Allowing symlink() while
 open_basedir is used
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**allow_symlink = Off
 php.ini:; If you fear that Suhosin breaks your application, you can
 activate Suhosin's
 php.ini:; simulation mode with this flag. When Suhosin runs in simulation
 mode,
 php.ini:;suhosin.simulation = Off
 php.ini:; first. It always uses resource slot 0. If Suhosin got this slot
 assigned APC
 php.ini:; will overwrite the information Suhosin stores in this slot.
 When this flag is
 php.ini:; set Suhosin will request 2 Slots and use the second one. This
 allows working
 php.ini:;suhosin.apc_bug_**workaround = Off
 php.ini:;suhosin.sql.bailout_**on_error = Off
 php.ini:;suhosin.sql.user_**prefix =
 php.ini:;suhosin.sql.user_**postfix =
 php.ini:;suhosin.multiheader = Off
 php.ini:suhosin.mail.protect = 1
 php.ini:; memory_limit to whatever value they want. Suhosin changes this
 fact and
 php.ini:; that Suhosin will disallows scripts setting the memory_limit to
 a value above
 php.ini:;suhosin.memory_limit = 0
 php.ini:suhosin.session.**encrypt = Off
 php.ini:;suhosin.session.**cryptkey =
 php.ini:;suhosin.session.**cryptua = On
 php.ini:;suhosin.session.**cryptdocroot = On
 php.ini:;suhosin.session.**cryptraddr = 0
 php.ini:; session. The difference to suhosin.session.cryptaddr is, that
 the IP is not
 php.ini:;suhosin.session.**checkraddr = 0
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**encrypt = 0
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**cryptkey =
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**cryptua = On
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**cryptdocroot = On
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**cryptraddr = 0
 php.ini:; cookie. The difference to suhosin.cookie.cryptaddr is, that the
 IP is not
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**checkraddr = 0
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**cryptlist =
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**plainlist =
 php.ini:; Defines the reaction of Suhosin on a filter violation.
 php.ini:;suhosin.filter.action =
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.max_**array_depth = 50
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.max_**array_index_length = 64
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.max_**name_length = 64
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.max_**totalname_length = 256
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.max_**value_length = 1
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.max_**vars = 100
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**disallow_nul = 1
 php.ini:;suhosin.get.max_**array_depth = 50
 php.ini:;suhosin.get.max_**array_index_length = 64
 php.ini:;suhosin.get.max_name_**length = 64
 php.ini:;suhosin.get.max_**totalname_length = 256
 php.ini:;suhosin.get.max_**value_length = 512
 php.ini:;suhosin.get.max_vars = 100
 php.ini:;suhosin.get.disallow_**nul = 1
 php.ini:;suhosin.post.max_**array_depth = 50
 php.ini:;suhosin.post.max_**array_index_length = 64
 php.ini:;suhosin.post.max_**name_length = 64
 php.ini:;suhosin.post.max_**totalname_length = 256
 php.ini:suhosin.post.max_**value_length = 2048000
 php.ini:suhosin.post.max_vars = 500
 php.ini:;suhosin.post.**disallow_nul = 1
 php.ini:;suhosin.request.max_**array_depth = 50
 php.ini:;suhosin.request.max_**array_index_length = 64
 php.ini:;suhosin.request.max_**totalname_length = 256
 php.ini:suhosin.request.max_**value_length = 2048000
 php.ini:;suhosin.request.max_**vars = 200
 php.ini:;suhosin.request.max_**varname_length = 64
 php.ini:;suhosin.request.**disallow_nul = 1
 php.ini:;suhosin.upload.max_**uploads = 25
 php.ini:;suhosin.upload.**disallow_elf = 1
 php.ini:;suhosin.upload.**disallow_binary = 0
 php.ini:;suhosin.upload.**remove_binary = 0
 php.ini:;suhosin.upload

[PHP] Updated PHP breaks processing-intense Procedure

2013-04-24 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
Hey - --

I have a huge screen -- to make it simple for the user, it does 100s of
calls to MySQL and has 1,000s (literally) of POST variables.

We have done extensive research and see that upgrading from php 5.1.6-27 to
5.1.6-39 is the thing that caused it to break. All other issues (Apache,
PHP and MySQL configuration and Versions) have been methodically ruled out.


Anybody experience this? Heard of it? Suggest a repair (other than changing
my screen)?

*** Please don't tell me to redesign the screen -- this may come, but now
is an urgent situation.***

Worked fine in prior versions for the last 3 years.

Thanks,

Ken


Re: [PHP] Updated PHP breaks processing-intense Procedure

2013-04-24 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
From the link: The php_register_variable_ex function in php_variables.c in
PHP 5.3.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a request
containing a large number of variables, related to improper handling of
array variables. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect
fix

===

I wondered if it was memory handling, but what is it (I wonder out loud)
that could be improper about my array handling. No error messages are
thrown.

Ken


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:14 PM, David OBrien dgobr...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Ken Kixmoeller phph...@comcast.netwrote:

 Hey - --

 I have a huge screen -- to make it simple for the user, it does 100s of
 calls to MySQL and has 1,000s (literally) of POST variables.

 We have done extensive research and see that upgrading from php 5.1.6-27
 to
 5.1.6-39 is the thing that caused it to break. All other issues (Apache,
 PHP and MySQL configuration and Versions) have been methodically ruled
 out.


 Anybody experience this? Heard of it? Suggest a repair (other than
 changing
 my screen)?

 *** Please don't tell me to redesign the screen -- this may come, but now
 is an urgent situation.***

 Worked fine in prior versions for the last 3 years.

 Thanks,

 Ken


 Looks like they fixed the bug that allowed that to work...
 php-common-5.1.6-32.el5.x86_64http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc5X/x86_64/yum/updates/php-common-5.1.6-32.el5.x86_64.rpm
  [153 KiB] *Changelog* by Joe Orton (2012-02-02): - add security fix for
 CVE-2012-0830 (#786756)
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0830





Re: [PHP] Updated PHP breaks processing-intense Procedure

2013-04-24 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
Thanks so much. Yes, we found that because PHP threw an error that said
that explicitly. A bit of research led us to add a line to php.ini to set
the max_input_vars to a higher level.

At first, that appeared to fix it (on the development machine). The
appearance is wrong; it is still broken. No errors are being thrown. We are
baffled.

Ken


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:23 PM, David OBrien dgobr...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:14 PM, David OBrien dgobr...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Ken Kixmoeller phph...@comcast.netwrote:

 Hey - --

 I have a huge screen -- to make it simple for the user, it does 100s of
 calls to MySQL and has 1,000s (literally) of POST variables.

 We have done extensive research and see that upgrading from php 5.1.6-27
 to
 5.1.6-39 is the thing that caused it to break. All other issues (Apache,
 PHP and MySQL configuration and Versions) have been methodically ruled
 out.


 Anybody experience this? Heard of it? Suggest a repair (other than
 changing
 my screen)?

 *** Please don't tell me to redesign the screen -- this may come, but now
 is an urgent situation.***

 Worked fine in prior versions for the last 3 years.

 Thanks,

 Ken


 Looks like they fixed the bug that allowed that to work...
 php-common-5.1.6-32.el5.x86_64http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc5X/x86_64/yum/updates/php-common-5.1.6-32.el5.x86_64.rpm
  [153 KiB] *Changelog* by Joe Orton (2012-02-02): - add security fix for
 CVE-2012-0830 (#786756)
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0830




 *I looked around google some more and found there is a hard limit of 1000
 post variables in 5.1.6*

 After weeks of using it, a problem was reported about just one function of
 the app that would sometimes return a blank screen. It took me hours of
 debugging (read: echo) to figure out what's going on, digging through some
 old PHP code (fun!): It appeared that only 1000 post variables arrived on
 the server. (Well, 1006 actually, but 2 were added by PHP, and that sounded
 like a PHP-style limitation of 1000.) A quick google lookup revealed that
 PHP introduced a new feature where it would limit the number of post
 variables. For safety reasons.

 The variable is called max_input_vars with a default of 1000. PHP states
 that this feature was introduced in 5.3.9, but I'm running 5.1.6 and the
 limit is enforced.

 Because the server is for production, it was running with on-screen
 warnings turned off. PHP says that it prints a warning and cuts. For me,
 that's a real WTF. A post request should be processed as all-or-nothing.
 It should instead refuse the request completely. But for a technology
 named personal home page the priorities are different.





Re: [PHP] Updated PHP breaks processing-intense Procedure

2013-04-24 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
Thanks, Jim ---

Is this different from the max_input_vars discussion above? (from David
OBrien)

Ken


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Jim Lucas li...@cmsws.com wrote:

 On 04/24/2013 02:40 PM, Ken Kixmoeller wrote:

 Thanks so much. Yes, we found that because PHP threw an error that said
 that explicitly. A bit of research led us to add a line to php.ini to set
 the max_input_vars to a higher level.

 At first, that appeared to fix it (on the development machine). The
 appearance is wrong; it is still broken. No errors are being thrown. We
 are
 baffled.

 Ken


 If you have the Suhosin patch installed, it also introduces other limits
 to GET and POST variable counts within PHP.

 --
 Jim Lucas

 http://www.cmsws.com/
 http://www.cmsws.com/examples/



Re: [PHP] Updated PHP breaks processing-intense Procedure

2013-04-24 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
Thank you very much, Jim ---


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Jim Lucas li...@cmsws.com wrote:

 On 04/24/2013 03:24 PM, Ken Kixmoeller wrote:

 Thanks, Jim ---

 Is this different from the max_input_vars discussion above? (from David
 OBrien)


 yes.  For example...

 php.ini:[suhosin]
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.syslog =
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.syslog.**facility =
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.syslog.**priority =
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.sapi =
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.script =
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.phpscript = 0
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.script.**name http://suhosin.log.script.name =
 php.ini:; variables registered in the current scope: SUHOSIN_ERRORCLASS and
 php.ini:; SUHOSIN_ERROR. The first one is the alert class and the second
 variable is
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.**phpscript.name http://suhosin.log.phpscript.name=
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.**phpscript.is_safe = Off
 php.ini:;suhosin.log.use-x-**forwarded-for = Off
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.max_**depth = 0
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**include.max_traversal = 0
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**include.whitelist =
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**include.blacklist =
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**func.whitelist =
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**func.blacklist =
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**eval.whitelist =
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**eval.blacklist =
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**disable_eval = Off
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**disable_emodifier = Off
 php.ini:; by default in Suhosin = 0.9.6. Allowing symlink() while
 open_basedir is used
 php.ini:;suhosin.executor.**allow_symlink = Off
 php.ini:; If you fear that Suhosin breaks your application, you can
 activate Suhosin's
 php.ini:; simulation mode with this flag. When Suhosin runs in simulation
 mode,
 php.ini:;suhosin.simulation = Off
 php.ini:; first. It always uses resource slot 0. If Suhosin got this slot
 assigned APC
 php.ini:; will overwrite the information Suhosin stores in this slot. When
 this flag is
 php.ini:; set Suhosin will request 2 Slots and use the second one. This
 allows working
 php.ini:;suhosin.apc_bug_**workaround = Off
 php.ini:;suhosin.sql.bailout_**on_error = Off
 php.ini:;suhosin.sql.user_**prefix =
 php.ini:;suhosin.sql.user_**postfix =
 php.ini:;suhosin.multiheader = Off
 php.ini:suhosin.mail.protect = 1
 php.ini:; memory_limit to whatever value they want. Suhosin changes this
 fact and
 php.ini:; that Suhosin will disallows scripts setting the memory_limit to
 a value above
 php.ini:;suhosin.memory_limit = 0
 php.ini:suhosin.session.**encrypt = Off
 php.ini:;suhosin.session.**cryptkey =
 php.ini:;suhosin.session.**cryptua = On
 php.ini:;suhosin.session.**cryptdocroot = On
 php.ini:;suhosin.session.**cryptraddr = 0
 php.ini:; session. The difference to suhosin.session.cryptaddr is, that
 the IP is not
 php.ini:;suhosin.session.**checkraddr = 0
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**encrypt = 0
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**cryptkey =
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**cryptua = On
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**cryptdocroot = On
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**cryptraddr = 0
 php.ini:; cookie. The difference to suhosin.cookie.cryptaddr is, that the
 IP is not
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**checkraddr = 0
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**cryptlist =
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**plainlist =
 php.ini:; Defines the reaction of Suhosin on a filter violation.
 php.ini:;suhosin.filter.action =
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.max_**array_depth = 50
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.max_**array_index_length = 64
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.max_**name_length = 64
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.max_**totalname_length = 256
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.max_**value_length = 1
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.max_**vars = 100
 php.ini:;suhosin.cookie.**disallow_nul = 1
 php.ini:;suhosin.get.max_**array_depth = 50
 php.ini:;suhosin.get.max_**array_index_length = 64
 php.ini:;suhosin.get.max_name_**length = 64
 php.ini:;suhosin.get.max_**totalname_length = 256
 php.ini:;suhosin.get.max_**value_length = 512
 php.ini:;suhosin.get.max_vars = 100
 php.ini:;suhosin.get.disallow_**nul = 1
 php.ini:;suhosin.post.max_**array_depth = 50
 php.ini:;suhosin.post.max_**array_index_length = 64
 php.ini:;suhosin.post.max_**name_length = 64
 php.ini:;suhosin.post.max_**totalname_length = 256
 php.ini:suhosin.post.max_**value_length = 2048000
 php.ini:suhosin.post.max_vars = 500
 php.ini:;suhosin.post.**disallow_nul = 1
 php.ini:;suhosin.request.max_**array_depth = 50
 php.ini:;suhosin.request.max_**array_index_length = 64
 php.ini:;suhosin.request.max_**totalname_length = 256
 php.ini:suhosin.request.max_**value_length = 2048000
 php.ini:;suhosin.request.max_**vars = 200
 php.ini:;suhosin.request.max_**varname_length = 64
 php.ini:;suhosin.request.**disallow_nul = 1
 php.ini:;suhosin.upload.max_**uploads = 25
 php.ini:;suhosin.upload.**disallow_elf = 1
 php.ini:;suhosin.upload.**disallow_binary = 0
 php.ini:;suhosin.upload.**remove_binary = 0
 php.ini:;suhosin.upload.**verification_script =
 php.ini:;suhosin.session.max_**id_length = 128
 php.ini:; Undocumented: Controls if suhosin coredumps when the optional
 suhosin

[PHP] Commands which call exec() or shell_exec() ??

2013-04-09 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
Hi -- -

Strange problem. One of my applications was just moved to a new server. The
new server has php configured to blacklist some functions (using
disable_functions=). One of the banned functions is exec().

The error log is reporting shell_exec() has been disabled for security
reasons  --- but exec() or shell_exec() are not in my code *anywhere*. The
program and line number being reported makes absolutely no sense.

Are there other php commands that really call exec() or shell_exec() ???
Any clues how this could happen? Fixes (other than un-blacklisting the
command, of course)?

Many thanks,

Ken


Re: [PHP] Commands which call exec() or shell_exec() ??

2013-04-09 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
Thanks, Daniel - --

I do use passthru() -- in an entirely different part of the application (a
place where it runs a mysqldump to do a manual backup). Of course, I have
millions of backticks delimiting SQL fields and tables.

The error log is reporting specifically shell_exec(). Would a stray
backtick call that error?


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote:

 On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Ken Kixmoeller phph...@comcast.net
 wrote:
  Hi -- -
 
  Strange problem. One of my applications was just moved to a new server.
 The
  new server has php configured to blacklist some functions (using
  disable_functions=). One of the banned functions is exec().
 
  The error log is reporting shell_exec() has been disabled for security
  reasons  --- but exec() or shell_exec() are not in my code *anywhere*.
 The
  program and line number being reported makes absolutely no sense.
 
  Are there other php commands that really call exec() or shell_exec() ???
  Any clues how this could happen? Fixes (other than un-blacklisting the
  command, of course)?
 
  Many thanks,
 
  Ken

 If you're positive you aren't executing any command line code
 (backticks, passthru(), et cetera), then check to see if arbitrary
 code is somehow being attempted via your scripts.

 --
 /Daniel P. Brown
 Network Infrastructure Manager
 http://www.php.net/



Re: [PHP] Commands which call exec() or shell_exec() ??

2013-04-09 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
Yes -- Thanks Matjen and Daniel ---

There *was* a stray backtick in there. Weird that we haven't run into it
before.

Testing now.


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Matijn Woudt tijn...@gmail.com wrote:




 On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Ken Kixmoeller phph...@comcast.netwrote:

 Hi -- -

 Strange problem. One of my applications was just moved to a new server.
 The
 new server has php configured to blacklist some functions (using
 disable_functions=). One of the banned functions is exec().

 The error log is reporting shell_exec() has been disabled for security
 reasons  --- but exec() or shell_exec() are not in my code *anywhere*.
 The
 program and line number being reported makes absolutely no sense.

 Are there other php commands that really call exec() or shell_exec() ???
 Any clues how this could happen? Fixes (other than un-blacklisting the
 command, of course)?

 Many thanks,

 Ken


 The back tick(`) operator is also used for that same purpose. Maybe that's
 in your code?

 - Matijn




Re: [PHP] Commands which call exec() or shell_exec() ??

2013-04-09 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
Yes --- it worked. Thank you so very much. I had searched the heck out of
this to no avail.

This is why I think developer communities are so great -- always someone
smarter than me (not that it is a high bar s) and willing to help.




On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Ken Kixmoeller phph...@comcast.net wrote:

 Yes -- Thanks Matjen and Daniel ---

 There *was* a stray backtick in there. Weird that we haven't run into it
 before.

 Testing now.


 On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Matijn Woudt tijn...@gmail.com wrote:




 On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Ken Kixmoeller phph...@comcast.netwrote:

 Hi -- -

 Strange problem. One of my applications was just moved to a new server.
 The
 new server has php configured to blacklist some functions (using
 disable_functions=). One of the banned functions is exec().

 The error log is reporting shell_exec() has been disabled for security
 reasons  --- but exec() or shell_exec() are not in my code *anywhere*.
 The
 program and line number being reported makes absolutely no sense.

 Are there other php commands that really call exec() or shell_exec() ???
 Any clues how this could happen? Fixes (other than un-blacklisting the
 command, of course)?

 Many thanks,

 Ken


 The back tick(`) operator is also used for that same purpose. Maybe
 that's in your code?

 - Matijn





Re: [PHP] Commands which call exec() or shell_exec() ??

2013-04-09 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
Yes, but no further need. Problem solved.


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 4:06 PM, El Ale... alexissauc...@gmail.com wrote:

 you probe command system()?



 2013/4/9 Ken Kixmoeller phph...@comcast.net

 Yes --- it worked. Thank you so very much. I had searched the heck out of
 this to no avail.

 This is why I think developer communities are so great -- always someone
 smarter than me (not that it is a high bar s) and willing to help.




 On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Ken Kixmoeller phph...@comcast.net
 wrote:

  Yes -- Thanks Matjen and Daniel ---
 
  There *was* a stray backtick in there. Weird that we haven't run into it
  before.
 
  Testing now.
 
 
  On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Matijn Woudt tijn...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 
 
 
  On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Ken Kixmoeller phph...@comcast.net
 wrote:
 
  Hi -- -
 
  Strange problem. One of my applications was just moved to a new
 server.
  The
  new server has php configured to blacklist some functions (using
  disable_functions=). One of the banned functions is exec().
 
  The error log is reporting shell_exec() has been disabled for
 security
  reasons  --- but exec() or shell_exec() are not in my code
 *anywhere*.
  The
  program and line number being reported makes absolutely no sense.
 
  Are there other php commands that really call exec() or shell_exec()
 ???
  Any clues how this could happen? Fixes (other than un-blacklisting the
  command, of course)?
 
  Many thanks,
 
  Ken
 
 
  The back tick(`) operator is also used for that same purpose. Maybe
  that's in your code?
 
  - Matijn
 
 
 





Re: [PHP] significance of escape character in string in PHP

2013-03-18 Thread Ken Robinson



On 18.03.2013 09:10, Norah Jones wrote:

I am having an string which was have few ' (single quote) and few 
(double quotes) and was not able to insert into the mysql database. I
have replaced them with \' and \ and everything is fine.
Though this are fine now but don't understand the working and I could
have missed few corner cases also. Please suggest the working and 
also

if there is some better way to achieve this.


You should be using either mysql_real_escape_string or 
mysqli_real_escape_string (preferably the later) depending on how you're 
accessing the DB.


Ken

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[PHP] Configuration Issue (Error 310 ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS)

2013-01-09 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
Hey, folks - 

One of my applications is being moved to a new server. Testing it out, I
get the subject error. The error is reported this way in Chrome. In FireFox
it says:

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this
address in a way that will never complete.

I suspect this is a PHP or Apache configuration issue, as neither the
current test server, production server, nor my development server throw
that error.

I have searched for 2 days trying to find references for this. I see a lot
of PHP-driven applications having the same problem (mostly blogs), but no
under the hood fixes.

Anyone experienced this? Ideas?

Many thanks,

Ken


Re: [PHP] date problem

2013-01-03 Thread Ken Robinson

At 04:57 PM 1/3/2013, Marc Fromm wrote:

I am comparing to dates.

define('WSOFFBEGIN','09/16/2012');
$jes = 01/03/2012;

if ( date(m/d/Y, strtotime($jes))  date(m/d/Y, strtotime(WSOFFBEGIN)) )
{
$error =  MUST begin after  . WSOFFBEGIN . \n;
}

I cannot figure out why the $error is being assigned inside the if 
statement, since the statement should be false. 01/03/2012 is not 
less than 09/16/2012.


You shouldn't be comparing the date strings, but the UNIX timestamp values:

define('WSOFFBEGIN','09/16/2012');
$jes = 01/03/2012;

if ( strtotime($jes)  strtotime(WSOFFBEGIN) )
{
$error =  MUST begin after  . WSOFFBEGIN . \n;
}

Ken



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[PHP] Serial Comm problem

2012-12-25 Thread Ken Arck
I'm pretty much a php newbie but have been programming for years in 
other languages


Anyway...

Using /dev/ttyS0. I need to set the serial port to 9600, send one 
command to an embedded processor board, then change the baud rate to 
57600 and wait for a response. My code is working up to (and 
including) sending the command (and is being received correctly and 
acted on by the other device) but hangs up while waiting for the 
device to ACK back.

-
//set ttyS0 speed to 9600 to send  command
 exec('stty -F /dev/ttyS0 9600');

 // first open comport if it exists
 $fp = fopen (/dev/ttyS0, w+);
 if (!$fp) {
 die( Uh-oh. Port not opened.);
 } else {
   }

//send command
  $fw = fwrite($fp, 1*21\r\n);


//set ttyS0 speed to 57600 to for bootloader
   exec('stty -F /dev/ttyS0 57600');

// wait for bootloader to send ^ (does not send CR or LF)

   echo Waiting for Bootloader Active Character.\n ;


   // **Were good to 
here*



  Do {
 $InData = fgets($fp,1);
}
  While ($InData != ^) ;
-

I have also tried both While ($InData !==^) ;  and While ($InData 
 ^) ; for the last line but it always hangs in this loop and 
times out after 30 seconds


The ^ is sent by the remove device with \r\n so I assumed telling 
fgets to look for one character should be enough but apparently it isn't.


Any help would be greatly appreciated

Ken


Re: [PHP] Serial Comm problem

2012-12-25 Thread Ken Arck

At 11:36 AM 12/25/2012, you wrote:

The ^ is sent by the remove device with \r\n so I assumed telling 
fgets to look for one character should be enough but apparently it isn't.


---Sorry but the above is wrong.


The ^ is sent by the remove device WITHOUT \r\n



Ken



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[PHP] Nested loopa

2012-12-25 Thread Ken Arck

So I cannot do nested do loops in php?

?php
$a = 0 ;
$b =  0 ;
do {
   echo $a\n ;
  do {
echo $b\n ;
 $b++
}while($b =10) ;
$a++;
}while($a = 20) ;
?



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Re: [PHP] Strange string stuff -- maybe everything is ending...

2012-12-21 Thread Ken Robinson
A much easier way to do this would be to use a temporary array and 
then explode:


$tmp = array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) // pulling stuff 
from a database

{
$tmp[] = $row['category'];
}

$topic = explode('~',$tmp); // put the delimiter between 
each entry

echo($topic);   // this result is used in an AJAX script


No more worrying about whether the delimiter is the last character.

Ken

At 04:38 PM 12/21/2012, Tedd Sperling wrote:

Hi gang;

I just ran into something I have never had a problem with before.

Here's the code:

--- start of code

$topic = '';
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))  // pulling stuff 
from a database

{
$topic .= $row['category'] . '~';   // adding a 
delimiter between categories

}

$str_length = strlen($topic);
if($topic[$str_length-1] == '~')
{
$topic[$str_length-1] = ''; // remove last ~ delimiter
}

echo($topic);   // this result is used in an AJAX script

--- end of code

Now, when the result is displayed (i.e., echoed) to Javascript 
routines running in Safari and FireFox, everything is OK.


But when the result is displayed on IE, the end of the string 
causes problems with the exact same javascript routine as used above.


Now, I realize that I have altered the string by removing the last 
character and I have not shortened the string to reflect that, but I 
never thought it would cause any problems.


Would someone please enlighten me as to why this would work in 
Safari, FireFox, but not in IE?


Cheers,

tedd

PS:  Also, please don't beg the answer by saying It's IE -- what do 
you expect?


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Re: [PHP] Strange string stuff -- maybe everything is ending...

2012-12-21 Thread Ken Robinson
Can you post the javascript that's causing the problem? And, yes, 
it's IE, what did you expect... :-)


Ken

At 05:10 PM 12/21/2012, Tedd Sperling wrote:

On Dec 21, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Ken Robinson kenrb...@rbnsn.com wrote
 A much easier way to do this would be to use a temporary array 
and then explode:


 $tmp = array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) // pulling stuff 
from a database

{
$tmp[] = $row['category'];
}

$topic = explode('~',$tmp); // put the delimiter 
between each entry

echo($topic);   // this result is used in an AJAX script


 No more worrying about whether the delimiter is the last character.

 Ken

Ken:

Slick -- I like it.

But, the question remains -- if you make the last character in a 
string a '' (or null), then what's the problem with doing that?


Cheers,

tedd

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Re: [PHP] re:Switch - Case Statement Questions

2012-11-16 Thread Ken Robinson

At 07:10 AM 11/16/2012, Omar Muhsin wrote:

Hello,

I was just wondering after writting the code in version 2 here 
below, it turns out in testing that it actually PHP is not 
validating the expressions instead always I get the first case.


1.Using nested if statement {THE INTENDED BEHAVIOR}:
if ($count  14)
$boxes = 3;
elseif($count  7  $count = 14)
$boxes = 2;
else
$boxes = 1;

2. Using Switch {ALWAYS FIRST CASE!!!}

//$boxes = 1;
//switch ($count) {
//case ($count  14):
//$boxes = 3;
//break;
//case ($count  7  $count = 14):
//$boxes = 2;
//break;
//case ($count = 7):
//default :
//$boxes = 1;
//break;
//}


For the switch statement to work, you need to use switch (true)
   $boxes = 1;
   switch (true) {
case ($count  14):
$boxes = 3;
break;
   case ($count  7  $count = 14):
$boxes = 2;
   break;
   case ($count = 7):
default :
   $boxes = 1;
   break;
}

BTW, you don't need the break statement at the end of the last case 
and you don't really need the case ($count = 7) since that 
condition is what remains anyway.


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Re: [PHP] php can't insert data mysql table

2012-09-30 Thread Ken Robinson

At 12:32 AM 10/1/2012, Tim Dunphy wrote:

Hello list,

 I'm trying to learn and get comfortable with HTML forms in PHP. In one
example I am trying to include a file upload in one of the forms. I can
connect to the database but for some reason the MySQL query string is bad.
I've been over this for a while now and I think the problem is with the
form. I was hoping to get the esteemed opinion of the list in where I may
be going wrong.

This code:

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN
  http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd;
html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; xml:lang=en lang=en
head
  meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=utf-8 /
  titleGuitar Wars - Add Your High Score/title
  link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=style.css /
/head
body
  h2Guitar Wars - Add Your High Score/h2

?php
  if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
// Grab the score data from the POST
$name = $_POST['name'];
$score = $_POST['score'];
$screenshot = $_FILES['screenshot']['name'];

if (!empty($name)  !empty($score)) {
  // Connect to the database
  $dbc = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'xxx', 'xxx', 'gwdb')
  or die('Cannot connect to database');

  // Write the data to the database
  $query = INSERT INTO guitarwars VALUES (0, NOW(), '$name', '$score',
'$screenshot');
  mysqli_query($dbc, $query)
 or die('Cannot insert query');

  // Confirm success with the user
  echo 'pThanks for adding your new high score!/p';
  echo 'pstrongName:/strong ' . $name . 'br /';
  echo 'strongScore:/strong ' . $score . '/p';
  echo 'pa href=index.phplt;lt; Back to high scores/a/p';

  // Clear the score data to clear the form
  $name = ;
  $score = ;

  mysqli_close($dbc);
}
else {
  echo 'p class=errorPlease enter all of the information to add
your high score./p';
}
  }
?


[snip]

First -- NEVER post code with your database username/password. Since 
you did, change your db password immediately.


Second, when debugging, if you use the die() function, put out 
something meaningful like

... or die(Problem with the insert query: $querybr . mysqli($dbc));

Once you see the database error, you will probably be able to figure 
out the problem.


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Re: [PHP] Array unset()

2012-09-23 Thread Ken Robinson

At 08:50 PM 9/23/2012, Ron Piggott wrote:

I am wondering if there is a way to remove from 
an array where the value is 0 (“zero”)


Array example:

$total_points_awarded = array(  1 = 17, 3 = 14, 4 = 0, 5 = 1, 6 = 0 );

In this example I would like to remove element # 4 and # 6.

The “key” ( 1,3,4,5,6 ) represents the 
member’s account #.  It is an auto_increment value in a mySQL table

The “value” ( 17,14,0,1,0 ) represents their score.

The application for this is a list of the top 
users.  If someone has 0 points I don’t want to include them.


Any thoughts?  Any help is appreciated.


Look at array_filter()  ... http://php.net/array_filter

?php
$total_points_awarded = array(  1 = 17, 3 = 14, 4 = 0, 5 = 1, 6 = 0 );
print_r(array_filter($total_points_awarded));


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Re: [PHP] Find/count different word in a text

2012-04-25 Thread Ken Robinson

At 12:59 PM 4/25/2012, Karl-Arne Gjersøyen wrote:

Hello again.
I am looking for a way to find and count different word in a text..
I am thinking on save the text as array and iterate through the array.
Then I like to register all different words in the text.
For example. If bread is used more than one time, I will not count it.
After the check were I have found single (one) word of every words, I
count it and tell how many different word that is in the text.

Is this difficult to do? Can you give me a hint for were I shall look
on www.php.net for a solution to fix this problem? What function am I
in need of?


I would use a combination of the functions 
str_word_count and array_count_values.


?php
$str = This is a test of word counting and this 
sentence repeats words a a a a a is is is is;

print_r(array_count_values(str_word_count($str, 1)));
?

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Re: [PHP] http_referer. what's wrong with that?

2012-01-11 Thread Ken Robinson

At 12:27 AM 1/12/2012, Haluk Karamete wrote:

Because I got this

echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

I end up with this

Notice: Undefined index: HTTP_REFERER in
D:\Hosting\5291100\html\blueprint\bp_library.php on line 16
die;

Now, this is of course after the ?php error_reporting (E_ALL); ?  change.

One solution is to dodge it by

echo @$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];


The better way to avoid the error is to do something like

echo (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']))?$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']:'No 
referrer set';


Which checks to see if it's set before echoing the value. If it's not 
set, you get a message saying so.


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Re: [PHP] number_format

2011-12-19 Thread Ken Robinson

Quoting Floyd Resler fres...@adex-intl.com:

In the previous version of PHP we were using, I could pass a string  
to number_format and it would just change it to a 0 without  
complaint.  With 5.3.6 I get an expects double error.  I don't  
suppose there's a way to make it work like it used to???  I'm  
dealing with really old code that wasn't very well structured.


The way I would get around this would be to create a function like this:

function my_number_format($number, $decimals = 0, $dec_point = '.',  
$thousands_sep = ',') {

   $number += 0;  //convert value to a number.
   return number_format($number, $decimals, $dec_point, $thousands_sep);
}

The just do a global replace of number_format with my_number_format.

That should work, although I haven't tested it...

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Re: [PHP] FW: parse error

2011-10-13 Thread Ken Robinson

At 01:26 PM 10/13/2011, Robert Williams wrote:

On 10/13/11 10:06, David Savage dsav...@cytelcom.com wrote:


php -l voip_cdrs.php
PHP Parse error:  parse error, unexpected T_STRING in
/usr/local/cytrex/voip_cdrs.php on line 1050
Errors parsing voip_cdrs.php

 $alias_sql_stmt=SELECT ani FROM ldrates WHERE
ani='$termnum10';// -this is line 1050

Could you please tell me what's wrong with the line 1050 ?   I've been
pulling my hair out (figuratively speaking) trying to understand why the
compiler sees this line as a problem.  Thanks for whatever help you can
give.

My suspicion is that there's is an unmatched curly brace earlier in the
file. With this type of error, you'll generally get a report of a bad line
further down the file--sometimes way down--because the parser can't
recognize until it hits the later point that something is wrong. Try
double-checking that the {Š} blocks prior to line 1050 properly balance,
and you'll probably find there's an extra one, or that one is missing, etc.


It's more likely an unterminated quoted string. 
It looks like PHP is giving up after finding 
unrecognizable stuff after either the first 
double or single quote on that line. If you're 
using an editor that doesn't do syntax high lighting, get one.


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RE: [PHP] FW: parse error

2011-10-13 Thread Ken Robinson

At 02:06 PM 10/13/2011, Steve Staples wrote :

[snip]



It's more likely an unterminated quoted string.
It looks like PHP is giving up after finding unrecognizable stuff 
after either the first double or single quote on that line. If 
you're using an editor that doesn't do syntax high lighting, get one.


Ken

I would suggest that you figure out what is the value of the 
variable your passing into your query  is it possible that the 
value is getting a ' character, in which case it would be crapping 
out the line...


That would only occur when the script is actually executed. It's not 
getting that far yet, since it's dying on a syntax error during the parse.



For now, try adding [addslashes]:
 $termnum10=addslashes(substr($dest, $start_from_which_offset,10));
 $alias_sql_stmt=SELECT ani FROM ldrates WHERE 
ani='$termnum10';// -this is line 1050


No, mysql_real_escape_string 
(http://php.net/mysql_real_escape_string) should be used, not 
addslashes, although there are some people who have suggested that 
even that function is not enough and that only using stored 
procedures is good enough.


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Re: [PHP] Local variable protection

2011-10-12 Thread Ken Robinson

Quoting Benjamin Coddington bcodd...@uvm.edu:

Are there any assurances that function local variables are protected  
from code calling the function?


For example, I would like to provide some cryptographic functions such as

function org_secure_string($string) {
$org_key = a very random key;
return hash($string, $key);
}

function org_reveal_string($hash) {
$org_key = a very random key;
return unhash($hash, $key);
}

I'd like to protect $org_key from any code following or using these  
functions.  I've not yet found a way that it can be revealed, but I  
wonder if anyone here can give me a definitive answer whether or not  
it is possible.


It's called the scope of the variable. See  
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php


Variables defined in a function are only available to the function  
where they are defined.


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Re: [PHP] Help on number matching function

2011-09-16 Thread Ken Robinson

At 08:36 AM 9/16/2011, Dare Williams wrote:
Dear PHP Group, I need a Function of any category in  either PHP or 
MySQL RDBMS customize Function, Class, Methods or anything that 
could help me compare a particular set of number and return their 
matching result. e.g If I have a 5 Digits set of number  and need to 
match it with another set of five  digits and return how many number 
are match and the figures that are match. 1.(62,39,47,25,14) - 
(14,39,62,25,47) - match 5 (all) 2.(55,11,27,62,39) - 
(66,39,12,13,27) - match 2 (27,39) 3.(20,04,56,17,16) - 
(16,01,17,04,79) - match 3 (16,17,04) Any Help will be appreciated. Thank you.


Turn your sets of number into an array and then use the function 
array_intersect, http://php.net/array_intersect


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Re: [PHP] scroll down list -visible, but not possible to choose

2011-08-31 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
You want:

  if($status == $selected) echo selected = ' selected' ;
(I didn't bother with \s)

And BTW, unless the support person is actually sitting on top of the
customer (and I can see situations where that would help), you want it
to say Waiting *for* Customer

Ken

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:30 AM,  rob...@myself.com wrote:
  echo option value=\$status\;
  if($status == $selected) echo ' selected';
  echo $status/option;
  }
  }


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Re: [PHP] PHP within XML?

2011-08-25 Thread Ken Robinson

Quoting Ron Piggott ron.pigg...@actsministries.org:



I am trying to figure out if it is possible to have PHP work within  
an XML document.


The application is tracking RSS subscribers IP addresses within the database.

I have wrote functions so the PHP code required is below is minimal,  
after the XML declaration line.


Prior to posting this question I tried to have the PHP at the very  
start, but that doesn’t work, the declaration line needs to be first.


Right now the PHP is displayed as a comment.


In order for your PHP code to be processed the file should be named  
with a .php extension. Since you're writing XML code, you need to send  
an XML header type first:

?php
header (Content-Type:text/xml);

#load RSS XML function

require_once(rss_subscribers_xml.php);

$ip_address = _ip;
rss_subscriber_update($ip_address);

echo '?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?' . \n;
?
Rest of your XML content.


This should work.

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Re: [PHP] form handling

2011-08-11 Thread Ken Robinson

At 02:25 PM 8/11/2011, Chris Stinemetz wrote:

I have two forms on the same php script. Is it possible to submit both
forms to the same action=processform.php with a single submit
button?


If you want to submit at the same time, why do you have two forms?

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

2011-08-10 Thread Ken Robinson

At 09:22 PM 8/10/2011, 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);

while ($num != 1) {
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
$padnum = number_pad($num, 4);
echo $row['areacode'] . - . $row['prefix'] . - . 
$padnum . BR;

$num++;
}


}

?


Try to avoid putting a database query in a loop. In the query only 
ask for the fields you are going to use, it's faster. Why use your 
own function to pad a string, when there is a built-in function?


Try this code (untested):
?php
$nums = range(0,);
$q = SELECT areacode, prefix FROM Test WHERE `areacode` = '907' AND 
`prefix` = '200' LIMIT 5;

$rs = mysql_query($q);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs)) {
foreach ($nums as $n) {
echo 
sprintf('%03d-%03d-%04d',$row['areacode'],$row['prefix'],$n) br\n;

}
}
?

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Re: [PHP] concatenating

2011-08-10 Thread Ken Robinson

At 12:03 AM 8/11/2011, Chris Stinemetz wrote:

Is it possible to concatenate a string and an element from a
mysql_fetch_assoc array? I haven't had much luck searching google.

Such as concatenating results with ' . $posts_row['store_tptest'] .
' so that if there are no elements returned nothing will be displayed?


Sure, do something like this:

?php
  echo ($posts_row['store_tptest'] != '')?results 
{$posts_row['stor_tptest']}:'';

?

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Re: [PHP] Re: Serveside Printing w/ PHP

2011-07-12 Thread Ken Robinson

At 02:06 PM 7/12/2011, Marc Guay wrote:

Bonus feature:  The server is running Windows 7.  I suspect the
crickets are going to win this one.


Take a look at http://www.php.net/printer -- this might be what 
you're looking for.


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Re: [PHP] Re: Found this and I thought of you.

2011-06-05 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Jonesy gm...@jonz.net wrote:
 On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 00:34:30 +0100, Richard Quadling wrote:
 http://www.exxcire.com/login.php

 If nothing more than a good bad example.

 ROTFLMAO!!!  Where Experts Exchange
 Sweet Jeezuz!

At least they have a cute 404 page. Gotta count for *something*! g

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Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-30 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Ashley Sheridan
a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote:
 Erm,... Most people who use Windows tend not to change basic settings from 
 their defaults.

Erm, most Winders users have no clue *how* to change them, nor that
there might be some reason to do so.

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[PHP] observer pattern

2011-05-18 Thread Ken Guest
Lo,

so, I'm wondering - how many of you use the observer pattern in php;
and if so, do you implement it 'standalone' or with the spl classes?
Is there any particular advantage to doing it your way; whichever
your way is?

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Re: [PHP] Parsing a simple sql string in php

2011-05-06 Thread Ken Guest
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Ashley Sheridan
a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote:
 Hiya, has anyone had any experience with parsing a string of sql to break it 
 down into its component parts? At the moment I'm using several regex's to 
 parse a string, which works, but I'm sure there's a more elegant solution.

 The general idea is to produce a nice looking page giving details of updated 
 fields and values.

 I'm only concerned with update statements really, and the queries are very 
 simple, operating on one table at a time, with no sub queries or selects.

 Thanks in advance if anyone is able to suggest anything!

I'd suggest at least taking a look at pear's sql parser package -
using it might save you some headaches ;)

http://pear.php.net/package/SQL_Parser


 Thanks
 Ash


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Re: [PHP] Re: Installing on a Mac: include_path issues

2011-05-05 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Richard Quadling rquadl...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 5 May 2011 05:51, David Robley robl...@aapt.net.au wrote:
 Ken Kixmoeller wrote:

 include_path should only contain directories, not filenames. [1]

Thanks. Yes, both of those are directories.

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Re: [PHP] Re: Installing on a Mac: include_path issues

2011-05-05 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:51 PM, David Robley robl...@aapt.net.au wrote:
 php.ini shows the include_path correctly, as:
 If I remember correctly, include and friends have two parts to the error
 message but you've only shown us one. For a guess, is it possible the
 apache process doesn't have permissions for those directories and/or the
 files within them?

Yes, it ia  two-parter. I showed the second. The first is:

Warning: include_once(smm_header.php) [function.include-once]: failed
to open stream: No such file or directory in
/Users/ken/Sites/smm_registration/smmcomputereducation.php on line 1

I am checking out the rights issue --- sounds like a great lead. Thank you.

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Re: [PHP] Re: Installing on a Mac: include_path issues

2011-05-05 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Mike Mackintosh
mike.mackint...@angrystatic.com wrote:
 Run phpinfo() or php -I and see if the PHP.ini file is being loaded.

 php.ini shows the include_path correctly, as:
   
 /Users/ken/Documents/Clients/comped_php:/Users/ken/Documents/Clients/jaguar_php

Oops, that line was supposed to say phpinfo() shows the include_path
correctly. Sorry for the confusion. phpinfo() runs just fine and
shows me what I expected.

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[PHP] Re: iPhone apology - was Re: [PHP] Re: Installing on a Mac: include_path issues

2011-05-05 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Richard Quadling rquadl...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 5 May 2011 15:08, Mike Mackintosh mike.mackint...@angrystatic.com wrote:
 Sent from my iPhone

 Why do all iPhone users apologize for sending mail from their iPhone?

1. Apparently, iphone software top-posts replies. For some people,
that alone constitutes a federal (if not intergalactic) crime.

2. This signature addition seems to have started with the Blackberry.
Some people got upset with concise replies (like fine) thinking them
to be snippy, when they were due to limited typing capabilities.

3. Advertising for Apple.

Ken

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Re: [PHP] Re: Installing on a Mac: include_path issues

2011-05-05 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Mike Mackintosh
mike.mackint...@angrystatic.com wrote:
 What are the permissions on the include directory?
 --

Well, I swear that I had set the permissions to r/w for these
directories, but after I did it (again?), now I get a whole *new* set
of errors which seem to be about connecting to MySQL.

So, pending further investigation, it seems like *this* problem is solved.

Many, many thanks to all who responded.

Ken

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[PHP] Installing on a Mac: include_path issues

2011-05-04 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
Hey, folks -- --

I am switching over my development (I hope) to a Mac. Having some
trouble with the configuration. Rudimentary scripts run fine in the
document_root, but beyond that, my scripts in the include_path are not
found.

The include_path has a couple of directories in which I have my
foundation classes and a clients application classes and other
programs. For various reasons, I put them into my Documents/Clients
folder. When I create to set the path to these files in PHP, they are:

 /Users/ken/Documents/Clients/comped_php
 /Users/ken/Documents/Clients/jaguar_php

PHP doesn't find them, which has me stumped.

php.ini shows the include_path correctly, as:   
  
/Users/ken/Documents/Clients/comped_php:/Users/ken/Documents/Clients/jaguar_php

the document_root, configured in Apache is: /Users/ken/Sites/

The errors show as:
include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening 'smm_header.php' for
inclusion 
(include_path='/Users/ken/Documents/Clients/comped_php:/Users/ken/Documents/Clients/jaguar_php')
in /Users/ken/Sites/smm_registration/smmcomputereducation.php on line
1

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks,

Ken

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Re: [PHP] session variable problem

2011-03-25 Thread Ken Robinson

At 01:09 PM 3/25/2011, markb wrote:

Very rusty with PHP.
We moved our web site to a new hosting service (godaddy).  PHP 
changed from 4x to 5.2.17.

I can no longer change $_SESSION variables after the first use.
First call to form - start session create variables
Second call - can read variables, change existing ones (but they do 
not persist to next call) - cannot create new variable without an error


What's the error you're getting?

Also, do you have a call to session_start() at the beginning of each 
script before any output is sent to the browser?


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Re: [PHP] looking for a newsgroup for JS

2011-03-23 Thread Ken Robinson

At 04:20 PM 3/23/2011, Jim Giner wrote:

Anyone know of a working Javascript newsgroup?  I googled and tried adding
several to my OE newsgroups but couldn't find the servers.


I frequent an on-line PHP forum at phpfreaks.com. There is a 
Javascript section there that seems to be quite active: 
http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?board=6.0


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Re: [PHP] Returning a recordset to a desktop app

2011-03-09 Thread Ken Watkins

On 3/7/2011 7:19 AM, Richard Quadling wrote:
 On 5 March 2011 13:48, Ken Watkins k...@atlanticbb.net wrote:
 On 3/5/2011 4:30 AM, Richard Quadling wrote:
 On 4 March 2011 23:48, Ken Watkins k...@atlanticbb.net wrote:
 Hi All.

 I have a Windows desktop app that I created using Visual Foxpro (a 
 database app).
 I want to write a PHP script that I will call from my desktop app. The 
 script will simply
 query a MySQL database on my web server and return the recordset to the 
 desktop app.

 My question is simply this: What is the preferred method for passing this 
 recordset back
 to the desktop app? I'm assuming that there's no reasonable way to send a 
 recordset back
 without converting it to an array or XML or an object or something? How do 
 I return the
 data in the recordset to the desktop app?

 Thanks for your advice.
 Ken Watkins
 In general terms, the output of a PHP script is going to be text
 (html, xml, csv, etc.) or binary (images).

 Getting a PHP script to communicate natively with FoxPro is not going
 to be trivial task. It MAY be able to be done, but hopefully FoxPro
 has the capability of running a PHP script via the command line ...

 C:\PHP5\php.exe -f script.php -- script_arg1 script_arg2

 PHP can either output the result set (in an appropriate form) directly
 and FoxPro could read it from STDIN (if it has that support) or PHP
 can write the answer to a file and FoxPro can use normal file and
 string functions to read the data.

 If FoxPro has XML support, then use it. It will be much cleaner in the
 long run if the data changes. If not, then a tab separated data file
 (rather than a CSV file). This assumes that your data does not contain
 tabs. If so, choose another separator.

 Richard.
 Richard,

 Foxpro does have XML support, so you answered that part of my question, 
 thanks.
 And it is capable of calling any other executable on the local machine 
 through the
 local OS shell - which seems to be what you are advocating. But I'm not sure 
 how
 I would do that over the internet. I just discussed this issue with Larry, 
 and I assume
 that I would use HTTP? Or is there a way to call a command line script on a 
 remote
 web server without using HTTP?  Sorry if this is a stupid question.

 Thanks for your help!
 Ken
 So, what you need to have is an HTTP Request from within FoxPro.

 http://www.example-code.com/foxpro/http_post_form.asp

 gives an example, but it seems to use a third party ActiveX component.

 If FoxPro can load any locally resident/installed ActiveX component,
 then maybe ...

 http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~ReadUrl

 has better examples.


 So, using something from that to get the data (XML) and then using
 FoxPro's native support for XML and you should be on your way.

 But at this stage, I'd be looking to ask for further help in a FoxPro
 forum as this is really nothing to do with PHP.

 Good luck.

 Richard.
Richard,

Thanks for your comments. I ended up taking the simple approach - I installed 
an ODBC driver for MySQL and let Foxpro query the database directly from a 
remote workstation. I suppose that what I wanted to do originally was to 
introduce PHP into the mix just to have another option, and to gain more 
experience in PHP. Probably not a good idea anyway.

Thanks again for the help.
Ken Watkins

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Re: [PHP] Returning a recordset to a desktop app

2011-03-05 Thread Ken Watkins
Larry,

Yes, the PHP script will reside on my web server along with the MySQL database.
I assumed that I would call the script over HTTP, but I guess that is part of 
my question too.
Foxpro allows you to embed controls in its forms, and one of them is a browser 
control. But
I don't really want to echo anything to the enduser, I just want to capture the 
data behind
the scenes, so to speak. I think I can handle that with the browser control.

If I understand you correctly, when I do an echo statement or a print statement 
(or a return()?),
it will return the data to the desktop app. And the best way to return it is in 
xml. I'll investigate
the methods you mention for converting xml since I'm not familiar with any of 
them.

Thanks!
Ken


On 3/4/2011 6:51 PM, la...@garfieldtech.com wrote:
 Assuming you mean that the PHP script is on a web server somewhere and the 
 desktop app is hitting it over HTTP, it's no different than any other 
 response.  Anything you print will be sent back to the client, in this case 
 your desktop a..  So if you want to send XML back, you'd build a string with 
 your XML (either manually or using the DOM or SimpleXML APIs or a 3rd party 
 like QueryPath or whatever floats your boat) and print it, just as you would 
 HTML.

 Note that you may need to explicitly set headers with header() to make sure 
 the desktop app reads it properly.

 --Larry Garfield

 On 3/4/11 5:48 PM, Ken Watkins wrote:
 Hi All.

 I have a Windows desktop app that I created using Visual Foxpro (a database 
 app).
 I want to write a PHP script that I will call from my desktop app. The 
 script will simply
 query a MySQL database on my web server and return the recordset to the 
 desktop app.

 My question is simply this: What is the preferred method for passing this 
 recordset back
 to the desktop app? I'm assuming that there's no reasonable way to send a 
 recordset back
 without converting it to an array or XML or an object or something? How do I 
 return the
 data in the recordset to the desktop app?

 Thanks for your advice.
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Re: [PHP] Returning a recordset to a desktop app

2011-03-05 Thread Ken Watkins
On 3/5/2011 4:30 AM, Richard Quadling wrote:
 On 4 March 2011 23:48, Ken Watkins k...@atlanticbb.net wrote:
 Hi All.

 I have a Windows desktop app that I created using Visual Foxpro (a database 
 app).
 I want to write a PHP script that I will call from my desktop app. The 
 script will simply
 query a MySQL database on my web server and return the recordset to the 
 desktop app.

 My question is simply this: What is the preferred method for passing this 
 recordset back
 to the desktop app? I'm assuming that there's no reasonable way to send a 
 recordset back
 without converting it to an array or XML or an object or something? How do I 
 return the
 data in the recordset to the desktop app?

 Thanks for your advice.
 Ken Watkins
 In general terms, the output of a PHP script is going to be text
 (html, xml, csv, etc.) or binary (images).

 Getting a PHP script to communicate natively with FoxPro is not going
 to be trivial task. It MAY be able to be done, but hopefully FoxPro
 has the capability of running a PHP script via the command line ...

 C:\PHP5\php.exe -f script.php -- script_arg1 script_arg2

 PHP can either output the result set (in an appropriate form) directly
 and FoxPro could read it from STDIN (if it has that support) or PHP
 can write the answer to a file and FoxPro can use normal file and
 string functions to read the data.

 If FoxPro has XML support, then use it. It will be much cleaner in the
 long run if the data changes. If not, then a tab separated data file
 (rather than a CSV file). This assumes that your data does not contain
 tabs. If so, choose another separator.

 Richard.
Richard,

Foxpro does have XML support, so you answered that part of my question, thanks.
And it is capable of calling any other executable on the local machine through 
the
local OS shell - which seems to be what you are advocating. But I'm not sure how
I would do that over the internet. I just discussed this issue with Larry, and 
I assume
that I would use HTTP? Or is there a way to call a command line script on a 
remote
web server without using HTTP?  Sorry if this is a stupid question.

Thanks for your help!
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[PHP] Returning a recordset to a desktop app

2011-03-04 Thread Ken Watkins
Hi All.

I have a Windows desktop app that I created using Visual Foxpro (a database 
app).
I want to write a PHP script that I will call from my desktop app. The script 
will simply
query a MySQL database on my web server and return the recordset to the desktop 
app.

My question is simply this: What is the preferred method for passing this 
recordset back
to the desktop app? I'm assuming that there's no reasonable way to send a 
recordset back
without converting it to an array or XML or an object or something? How do I 
return the
data in the recordset to the desktop app?

Thanks for your advice.
Ken Watkins


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Re: [PHP] Help! Made a boo-boo encrypting credit cards

2011-03-01 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Brian Dunning br...@briandunning.com wrote:
 Hey all -

 I'm using mcrypt to store credit cards into MySQL. About 90% of them decrypt 
 fine, but about 10% decrypt as nonsense (b1�\�JEÚU�A��� is a good example). 
 Maybe there is a character that appears in about 10% of my encryptions that's 
 not being encoded properly???

 // Encryption is set up at the top of the script:
 $crypto = mcrypt_module_open('rijndael-256', '', 'ofb', '');
 $iv = mcrypt_create_iv(mcrypt_enc_get_iv_size($crypto), MCRYPT_DEV_RANDOM);
 $ks = mcrypt_enc_get_key_size($crypto);
 $key = substr(md5('my_funky_term'), 0, $ks);

 // When the card number is collected by the form, it's encrypted:
 $cc_number = addslashes($_POST['cc_number']);
 mcrypt_generic_init($crypto, $key, $iv);
 $cc_encrypt = mcrypt_generic($crypto, $cc_number);
 mcrypt_generic_deinit($crypto);

 // This is written to the database:
 $query = update accounts set cc_encrypt='$cc_encrypt', encrypt_iv='$iv', 
 other_fields='$other_stuff' where id='$account_id' limit 1;
 $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

 Both the cc_encrypt and encrypt_iv fields are tinytext, latin1_swedish_ci, 
 MyISAM, MySQL 5.0.91

 In another script, when I retrieve, I first set it up at the top of the 
 script exactly like step #1 above, then retrieve it like this:

 mcrypt_generic_init($crypto, $key, $row['encrypt_iv']);
 $cc_number = trim(mdecrypt_generic($crypto, $row['cc_encrypt']));
 mcrypt_generic_deinit($crypto);

 Most of them are good, a few of them are bad. Can anyone see anything I'm 
 doing wrong or a case I'm not covering? Thanks much.

Just a WAG, but when I first was working with mcrypt, it would append
spaces to the encrypted value. I would have to TRIM() everything for
processing or decryption. BTW, we also elected *not* to store card
numbers, only the last 4 digits.

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Re: [PHP] Code formatter

2011-02-02 Thread Ken Guest
replies inline...

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Hansen, Mike mike.han...@atmel.com wrote:



  -Original Message-
  From: ken.gu...@gmail.com [mailto:ken.gu...@gmail.com] On
  Behalf Of Ken Guest
  Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 3:26 PM
  To: Hansen, Mike
  Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
  Subject: Re: [PHP] Code formatter
 
 
 
  On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Hansen, Mike
  mike.han...@atmel.com wrote:
 
 
I've got an application that I'm fixing up and I'd like
  to run it through a code formatter. Is there something like
  Perl Tidy for PHP? If so, what are you experiences with it.
  No prob running it on the command line. It'd be great if it
  followed the PEAR coding standards.
 
 
 
 
  Have you found http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Beautifier
  yet? ;) http://www.php.net/unsub.php
 
 
  Ken
 

 It mostly works ok. Unfortunately, there's a bug in it that removes blank
 lines.

 I found this one that seems to work: http://beta.phpformatter.com/

 I'd rather have one I can run on the command line, but this will have to
 do.


Just spotted that bug is reported at
http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Beautifier/bugs - it's a shame it's been
logged since 2007 or so with no sign of it getting fixed. :(



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Re: [PHP] Code formatter

2011-01-31 Thread Ken Guest
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Hansen, Mike mike.han...@atmel.com wrote:

 I've got an application that I'm fixing up and I'd like to run it through a
 code formatter. Is there something like Perl Tidy for PHP? If so, what are
 you experiences with it. No prob running it on the command line. It'd be
 great if it followed the PEAR coding standards.


Have you found http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Beautifier  yet?
;)http://www.php.net/unsub.php


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Re: [PHP] Centralizled Authentication

2010-12-02 Thread Ken Guest
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:06 AM, AmirBehzad Eslami
behzad.esl...@gmail.comwrote:

 Dear list,

 We have dozen of applications, mostly written in PHP and Python.
 They're distributed on different servers, but i'm trying to integrate them
 somehow.

 Each application has its own users.
 Is there a way to store all username/passwords into a single datasource
 and give each user, her proper permissions?

 Since i'm just a php-programmer, i *thought* of a MySQL database to
 hold these data, and then use a SOAP-Server to handle the authentication
 across those applications.

 Once a user provides her username/password, a SOAP Request will be
 made to a PHP-Driven Authentication Server, which handles the job to
 check the permissions and user's identity.

 It sounds slow, isn't it? Is there a better solution?
 How do you make authentication across a network of applications?



OAuth comes to mind...


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Re: Re[2]: [PHP] Open Source PHP/ mySQL Project Management

2010-11-12 Thread Ken Guest
With the exception of some work-mandated systems such as fogbugz, I've used
mantis successfully for quite a long time.

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Andre Polykanine an...@oire.org wrote:

 Hello Jonathan,

 I tried to use Mantis, however it didn't send e-mails properly so I
 gave up.
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 - Original message -
 From: Jonathan Tapicer tapi...@gmail.com
 To: Don Wieland d...@dwdataconcepts.com
 Date: Friday, November 12, 2010, 3:00:32 AM
 Subject: [PHP] Open Source PHP/ mySQL Project Management

 Hi,

 I don't know if it meets all of the features you enumerated but Mantis
 (http://www.mantisbt.org/) is very good, and it is PHP+MySQL (or
 Postgres, or MSSQL).

 Jonathan

 On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Don Wieland d...@dwdataconcepts.com
 wrote:
  Hi gang,
 
  I am looking into Project Management apps for my projects. Any
 suggestions:
 
  I am interested in tracking Projects, Milestones, Tickets, Files,
  Discussions, Documents, Time Tracking, etc... Also, would like to have
 the
  system have robust email integration Reminders, Email Ticket echos (where
 a
  user can reply it will post back into the PM system and echo back email
 to
  assigned users - with file attachments)
 
  Suggestions? Thanks!
 
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Re: [PHP] google maps API

2010-08-23 Thread Ken Guest
Please consider using the OpenLayers API instead (  http://openlayers.org/
and http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/ for examples) as it will also allow
end-users to choose a OpenStreetMap layer ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/ )
to be displayed which may render more up-to-date details than are available
elsewhere.

Ken

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:37 AM, David Mehler dave.meh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello,
 Has anyone worked with the google maps API to put a map on their site?
 If so, please contact me offlist i need to get it going.
 Thanks.
 Dave.

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Re: [PHP] Unit testing in PHP

2010-06-17 Thread Ken Guest
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:51 AM, vikash.i...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 What do you use for unit testing in PHP? phpUnit, SimpleTest or any other?


Ages ago, when it was new and shiny I did use SimpleTest. Now I mostly use
phpunit - though where necessary (for example if I'm patching a PEAR package
that uses them) I use phpt tests ( http://qa.php.net/write-test.php ).

If you're starting out on something [new] that doesn't yet have unit tests,
I'd suggest phpunit.

hth

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Re: [PHP] What is app.php?ph=cusid=4?

2010-06-04 Thread Ken Kixmoeller

Michael Calkins wrote:

How is it used for a website then?


Some program is using the ID 4 and the value of cus to bring up 
information you requested on a prior page. Probably to query a database 
for those values.


As Ashley said: it is GET ($_GET) data in a URL -- a way to pass values 
from one page to another using the URL.


Look up $_GET or Predefined Variables in the PHP documentation online.

If that doesn't help, you need to buy the most basic book on web 
programming you can find (and read it).


Ken

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[PHP] Irish PHP User Group meeting tonight

2010-04-28 Thread Ken Guest
Hi.
Just to let any of ye know that might be interested, there's a php.ie
meeting on tonight in Dublin - in the Longstone pub on Townsend Street
starting at eight o'clock.

It's located where the red diamond is on this map:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=53.34595mlon=-6.25559zoom=16layers=B000FTF

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Re: [PHP] Irish PHP User Group meeting tonight

2010-04-28 Thread Ken Guest
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote:
 On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 05:47, Ken Guest k...@linux.ie wrote:
 Hi.
 Just to let any of ye know that might be interested, there's a php.ie
 meeting on tonight in Dublin - in the Longstone pub on Townsend Street
 starting at eight o'clock.

 It's located where the red diamond is on this map:
 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=53.34595mlon=-6.25559zoom=16layers=B000FTF

    Ken,

    Do you want me to add that map link to your event listing on the
 calendar for today on php.net as well?



that would be a handy idea ;-)

Thanks!


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Re: [PHP] Mail Function Using PEAR Issues

2010-04-21 Thread Ken Guest
The PEAR Mail package does not fall back from one mechanism to another
if the first fails.


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Ashley Sheridan
a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote:
 On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 22:17 +0200, Peter Lind wrote:

 On 20 April 2010 20:17, Alice Wei aj...@alumni.iu.edu wrote:
 
  From: peter.e.l...@gmail.com
  Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:15:08 +0200
  Subject: Re: [PHP] Mail Function Using PEAR Issues
  To: aj...@alumni.iu.edu
  CC: php-general@lists.php.net
 
  Most, if not all, mail servers keep log files. You should look for the
  log files to see if the mail server has sent your mail properly or is
  experiencing problems (those may not feed back into PHP).
 
  Regards
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  You know where I can find that? I use Evolution Mail, a mail server? I 
  found
  it through Ubuntu yesterday. Here is the link:
  http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/ It asks me to put in the type of mail
  service I used, it grabbed Google, which is smtp.google.com. I still cannot
  send mail. I start to wonder what is going on.
 
  Alice
 

 Evolution is a mail client, not a mail server. Apart from that, you're
 using the 'mail' (PHPs mail function) as the backend mailer in your
 PEAR script - try using smtp instead and pass the SMTP config data you
 normally use. Have a look at
 http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail.factory.php - the smtp
 part.

 Regards
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Re: [PHP] replying to list (I give up)

2010-04-21 Thread Ken Kixmoeller

Daniel Egeberg wrote:


Then get a better email client if yours doesn't support reply to all
or reply to group. It's hardly the mailing list's fault that your
client doesn't support that.


Nonsense. I have used lists like this for many, many years. PHP lists 
are the only ones I have ever used that behave this way. All the others 
I have used are configured that a simple Reply replies to the list.


Sure, you can always Reply All but then you get multiple replies from 
the same person to the same post. Plus, it is really easy to forget.


In my opinion, it is idiotic.

OTOH, what is important to me is the quality of the information that 
comes in from you incredibly generous people. Thank you to all posters. 
You are the best.


The list behavior is just an irritant, but it pales in comparison to the 
benefit.



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Re: [PHP] Mail Function Using PEAR Issues

2010-04-21 Thread Ken Guest
you have to install the net_smtp package, simply with this command:
$ pear install net_smtp-1.4.2  (which will explicitly install version
1.4.2 of Net_SMTP)

If that doesn't work. for whatever reason, you could download the
package manually from http://pear.php.net/package/Net_SMTP/download
and install it by hand; though for reasons I've outlined in a previous
post to this list I'd suggest you use the pear installer.

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Alice Wei aj...@alumni.iu.edu wrote:

 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:01:03 +0200
 Subject: Re: [PHP] Mail Function Using PEAR Issues
 To: aj...@alumni.iu.edu
 CC: a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk; php-general@lists.php.net

 On 21 April 2010 21:58, Alice Wei aj...@alumni.iu.edu wrote:
  From: peter.e.l...@gmail.com
  Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:51:31 +0200
  Subject: Re: [PHP] Mail Function Using PEAR Issues
  To: aj...@alumni.iu.edu
  CC: a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk; php-general@lists.php.net
 
  On 21 April 2010 18:44, Alice Wei aj...@alumni.iu.edu wrote:
   I have mentioned several posts earlier that I have done nothing about my
   php.ini file. From what you said, since I use U-Verse, am I supposed to
   do
   something as described here:
   http://helpme.att.net/pdf/uverse/uverse_hsi_qsg_english.pdf
  
  
  
   I thought with PEAR, you don't need to do that anymore. Or, am I wrong?
  
 
  Read the PEAR documentation:
  http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail.factory.php
  You can use other backends than just 'mail' - try using the smtp and
  fill in your smtp settings as needed.
 
  Regards
  Peter
 
  I saw something like that on
  http://email.about.com/od/emailprogrammingtips/qt/PHP_Email_SMTP_Authentication.htm,
  and this is probably what you are talking about?
 
   $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
     array ('host' = $host,
       'auth' = true,
       'username' = $username,
       'password' = $password));
 
  Do I still need to install a mail server? I have Evolution Mail on my Linux
  box, and looks like that is a client and not a server.
  Or, can I use any of the mail smtp setup, like Google? Or, do use some
  authentication information from
  http://helpme.att.net/pdf/uverse/uverse_hsi_qsg_english.pdf, since I use
  U-Verse at home?

 Yes, the example you provide is the right direction - you can put in
 the smtp details you use to connect from Evolution to GMail, you don't
 need to setup a separate smtp server on your system.

 Regards
 Peter


 Well, hold it. I have edited my code to hold the information as we have 
 discussed earlier, and this is the error I have now:

 Warning:  include_once(Net/SMTP.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open 
 stream: No such file or directory in /usr/share/php/Mail/smtp.php on line 348



 Warning:  include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening 'Net/SMTP.php' 
 for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in 
 /usr/share/php/Mail/smtp.php on line 348



 Fatal error:  Class 'Net_SMTP' not found in /usr/share/php/Mail/smtp.php on 
 line 349

 I am not sure what this means. If I have installed pear correctly, what else 
 do I have to do here? I can see that I have some significant error messages 
 than not getting anything at all.

 Thanks for your help.

 Alice

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Re: [PHP] Mail Function Using PEAR Issues

2010-04-20 Thread Ken Guest
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:10 AM, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote:
 On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 08:25 -0400, Alice Wei wrote:

 I have not changed any of my SMTP settings since my new installation of
 PHP with Pear. So, I am not sure what the settings are supposed to be.
 Would I need to install anything else even when the Pear Mail package
 has been installed?

You might, depending on if you need to use the Mail_Mime or Mail_Queue
packages also (for sending emails with attachments etc etc or for
sending mails in bulk).
 Also there's some rather nice new functionality in the more recent
versions of Mail and Net_SMTP that enable you to log the ESMTP Id of
mails you have submitted to a mail server (along with the SMTP
greeting sent by that server when you connect to it).

 Alice, I never use the PEAR install from my distro, I always download
 and install PEAR into my working folder. The benefit of doing it this
 way is so that when you move your project to a different server, nothing
 will break and you don't have to change anything.

 Sometimes when I create a new project, I'll just copy the PEAR folder
 from an older project to the new one. The only thing you may have to
 change in your PHP code is the path to the PEAR libs only if you don't
 put them in the same place every time.


When some bug is fixed or dependencies of some of those PEAR packages
change I think you'll find your attitude towards that will change -
there's a pear installer so you don't have to update and track the
dependencies by hand - you do regularly update your packages don't
you? It's smart to do so because at the very least you don't have to
implement work-arounds for bugs that have been fixed in later versions
of those packages - and in the worst-case scenario it means you're not
using versions that have PEAR Security Advisories issued against them.

I believe it's possible to have seperate pear config files per project
so you're not limited to having to use the same versions of packages
across all projects.

If you're using more than a handful of PEAR packages in your project
you might want to write your own meta-package for the project; that
way you don't have to install all those packages individually;
you just do something like $pear install myProject.xml and the pear
installer will download and install whichever pear packages you have
described in your xml file.

Details on doing this are at
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/guide.users.dependencytracking.php

For the record, this is the example script that I submitted to
http://www.web-development-blog.com/archives/php-mail-scripts-using-smtp-transport-a-guide-for-beginners/
for demonstrating how to use the PEAR packages for sending a mail with
a file attached.:

?php
require_once Mail.php;
require_once Mail/mime.php;

$from = Fred Flintstone fli...@example.com“;
$to = “Barney Rubble barn...@example.net“;
$subject = “Mail Subject”;
$message = “this is the text of the mail, sent using PEAR’s Mail packages.”;
$host = “smtp.example.com”;
$port = “25″;
$headers = array (‘From’ = $from, ‘To’ = $to, ‘Subject’ = $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory(’smtp’, array (‘host’ = $host, ‘port’ = $port));
$mime = new Mail_mime();
$mime-setTxtBody($message);
$mime-addAttachment(“/home/ken/logo.png”, ‘image/png’);
$body = $mime-get();
$mail = $smtp-send($to, $mime-headers($headers), $body);

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo($mail-getMessage() . “!\n”);
} else {
echo(“Message successfully sent to $to!\n”);
echo “Queued As (ESMTP Id): “, $smtp-queued_as, “\n”;
echo “Greeting From Mailserver: “, $smtp-greeting, “\n”;
}

?


 Blessings,
 David M.


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Re: [PHP] Array to csv or excel in php

2010-04-19 Thread Ken Guest
For non-simple data I have been using PEAR's File_CSV package. It's
proven itself very useful in
regards to not having to determine in my own code whether something
needs to be quoted etc etc - especially if the output CSV needs to be
wholly RFC 4180 compliant.

The documentation of it is rather minimal - at the moment you are
dependant on the test/example files and the API docs but grokking how
to use it is rather easy.


k.

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Andrew Ballard aball...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Peter Lind peter.e.l...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 19 April 2010 17:00, Andrew Ballard aball...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Manolis Vlachakis
   1. $save=split([|;],$listOfItems);

 and what i want i s after making some changes to the attributes on the 
 array
 above to export them on an csv or excel format
 but directly as a message to the browser ..
 i dont want it to be saved on the server ...

 Often when outputting csv, I usually do something like this:

 ?php

 $fp = fopen('php://output', 'w') or die('Could not open stream');

 foreach ($data as $row) {
    // Assumes that $row will be an array.
    // Manipulate the data in $row if necessary.
    fputcsv($fp, $row);
 }

 ?

 An interesting idea. I'd do:

 echo implode(',', $row);


 If it's very simple data that works, but it doesn't allow for the
 optional enclosure characters that fputcsv() uses in cases where a
 data element includes the column and/or row delimiter characters. I
 had originally written something using an array_map callback that did
 the optional enclosures as needed and then used echo implode() as you
 suggest, but found the solution I posted was shorter and faster. YMMV

 Andrew

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Re: [PHP] PHP backup in Minnesota

2010-03-12 Thread Ken Kixmoeller

Thanks to all! I got who I needed.

Best regards - --  -

Ken

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Re: [PHP] Drawing Images Without Writing To a File

2010-03-11 Thread Ken Sande

Floyd Resler wrote:

I want to draw tabs in a tab bar without having to actually write the images to 
a file.  Is it possible to generate the image and send the data back and make 
the browser think it's loading an image file?  I know this can be done by 
sending the proper headers back for an entire page, but I just want to do 
basically the same thing for just part of the page.

Thanks!
Floyd




I do something similar with my googled webcam :) Then you just use the 
script as the source for your image (i.e. src=img.php?arguments). 
Hopefully this is what you are looking for. (Note, this uses the 
processor pretty heavily when I run 100 images or so).
If you are going to reuse the images for many clients, it may be a 
better alternative to reuse the generated image.


?php

header(Content-type: image/jpeg);
$file = $_GET[src]; //img/south-lawn1.jpg;
$imgfile = img/ . $file;
$fsize = filesize($file);
$string = South Lawn @  . date(Y-m-d H:i:s, filemtime($file));

$im = imagecreatefromjpeg($file);
$color = imagecolorallocate($im, 240, 240, 0);
$px = (imagesx($im) - 9.5 * strlen($string));
$py = (imagesy($im) - 24);
imagestring($im, 5, $px, $py, $string, $color);
imagestring($im, 5, 10, $py, $file, $color);
imagestring($im, 5, 10, $py - 16, round(( $fsize / 1024 ),1) . kB, 
$color);


 imagejpeg($im);
 imagedestroy($im);

?

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73,
Ken Sande/KC8QNI-T

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[PHP] PHP backup in Minnesota

2010-03-11 Thread Ken Kixmoeller

Hey, folks  ---  -

I have a new system going live shortly. Unfortunately, through some 
client delays (and mine, too, I suppose), we are butting up to a 
vacation I have planned.


My client would like to have a *local* resource PHP person, in case, 
well I don't know, the whole system starts randomly launching ICBMs 
toward world capitals or something.


So: anyone interested in being a backstop for me over the rest of this 
month, and a possible replacement in case the client sends a hit-man 
after me, please send me a note off-line.


Some Details:

 -- St. Paul/Minneapolis area

 -- PHP 5.2x

 -- MySQL 5

 -- OOP design, using data objects and an application object

 -- Interesting construction, in that I use a MySQL
table as a screen controller object.

 -- Shopping site, home-built shopping cart. Low volume.

 -- Session-based, no cookies.

 -- Home-built Orbital CC processing module

Ken

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[PHP] Re: PHP backup in Minnesota

2010-03-11 Thread Ken Kixmoeller

Manuel Lemos wrote:

Hello,

You may want to try posting an offer here to increase the chances of

finding somebody.

http://www.phpclasses.org/jobs/

You can also look some of the available people on the map of your region:

http://www.phpclasses.org/professionals/country/us/



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Re: [PHP] PHP backup in Minnesota

2010-03-11 Thread Ken Kixmoeller

Jochem Maas wrote:

Op 3/11/10 10:05 PM, Ken Kixmoeller schreef:

Hey, folks  ---  -


 -- Session-based, no cookies.


sessions are cookie based. unless your passing the
session id around via a URL parameter, which is a no-no.


Ja, bestimmt. I should have said no persistent cookies

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Re: [PHP] Multiple cookies on the same computer

2009-03-31 Thread Ken Watkins
 On 3/27/2009 at 8:10 PM, in message 49cd6b07.6010...@mac.com, Michael A. 
 Peters mpet...@mac.com wrote:
Ken Watkins wrote:
 I have set up a blog site where my family creates posts and they get emailed 
 to members of the family. To keep up with their identities, I created a 
 script for each family member to run (dad.php, mom.php, etc.), and it sets a 
 cookie on each computer and uses sessions so I know who is connecting. It 
 works great unless I want to share a computer between two users.
 
 I thought I had a solution: install both Firefox and IE on the same computer 
 and set two different cookies. But this doesn't seem to work. My question 
 is: Is it possible to set one cookie for IE and another for Firefox so that, 
 depending on which browser is used, I can tell who is connecting to the 
 blog? If this is not possible, is there another easy way to do it?
 
 Thanks for your help.
 
 - Ken Watkins
 

Why not just use session cookies that expire as soon as a session is 
over (browser quits) and use a login?

Hi Michael.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible with as 
few keystrokes (for the user) as possible, but your suggestion may be the best 
way to go.

Thanks!

Ken Watkins 


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Re: [PHP] Multiple cookies on the same computer

2009-03-27 Thread Ken Watkins
 On 3/26/2009 at 11:12 PM, in message 70.12.30978.2144c...@pb1.pair.com, 
 Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote:
Shawn McKenzie wrote:
 Ken Watkins wrote:
 Hi all.

 Newbie here.

 I have set up a blog site where my family creates posts and they get emailed 
 to members of the family. To keep up with their identities, I created a 
 script for each family member to run (dad.php, mom.php, etc.), and it sets a 
 cookie on each computer and uses sessions so I know who is connecting. It 
 works great unless I want to share a computer between two users.

 I thought I had a solution: install both Firefox and IE on the same computer 
 and set two different cookies. But this doesn't seem to work. My question 
 is: Is it possible to set one cookie for IE and another for Firefox so that, 
 depending on which browser is used, I can tell who is connecting to the 
 blog? If this is not possible, is there another easy way to do it?

 Thanks for your help.

 - Ken Watkins


 
 Even if you don't need it secure, have a login.  Dad and mom can login
 with dad or mom with no password if all you need to do is give them
 their own cookie/session.
 
 

Optionally, I just thought that if this was too much for them to
do/remember, they could have their own bookmarks, like Dad - Yoursite
(http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?person=dad) and Mom - Yoursite
(http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?person=mom) and set the
session/cookie or whatever you're doing based on $_GET['person'].

I would still opt for the login though, even if not secure.

-- 
Thanks!
-Shawn
http://www.spidean.com 

 
Hi Shawn -

I was hoping to avoid logging in every time, but that may be the best way.
What I still don't understand is:  I thought that Firefox and IE each had their 
own cookies, and that I could determine the user by which browser they used. In 
other words, Firefox's cookie would be for dad and IE's for mom. But I can't 
figure out how to do that. Do Firefox and IE share cookies?

Thanks.
Ken


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Re: [PHP] Multiple cookies on the same computer

2009-03-27 Thread Ken Watkins
 On 3/26/2009 at 10:24 PM, in message 
 0a88dc6e-0655-4565-b9a7-e21337fc0...@bluerodeo.com, dg 
 dane...@bluerodeo.com wrote:

On Mar 26, 2009, at 7:14 PM, Ken Watkins wrote:

 To keep up with their identities, I created a script for each family  
 member to run (dad.php, mom.php, etc.), and it sets a cookie on each  
 computer and uses sessions so I know who is connecting.

Each family member only uses her/his own page?  Maybe set a unique  
cookie name based on each page?

Hi.

No, they all go to a common page. I may have to take Shawn's suggestion and 
just have them login if I can't figure another way to do it.

Thanks.
Ken




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Re: [PHP] Multiple cookies on the same computer

2009-03-27 Thread Ken Watkins
 On 3/27/2009 at 10:19 AM, in message 6f.57.30978.d60ec...@pb1.pair.com, 
 Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote:
 Optionally, I just thought that if this was too much for them to
 do/remember, they could have their own bookmarks, like Dad - Yoursite
 (http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?person=dad) and Mom - Yoursite
 (http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?person=mom) and set the
 session/cookie or whatever you're doing based on $_GET['person'].
 
 I would still opt for the login though, even if not secure.
 

No, they use their own cookies so if you want to do it that way, use:
$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] and set the cookie based upon the browser.

Another thought I had was if you can add domain aliases,
dad.yoursite.com and mom.yoursite.com, then they will each have
different cookies.
 
Shawn -
 
Yes, domain aliases sound good too. OK, you've given me a couple of good 
suggestions, and one of them should suit me :)
Thanks much.
 
Ken

 


Re: [PHP] Multiple cookies on the same computer

2009-03-27 Thread Ken Watkins
 On 3/27/2009 at 11:15 AM, in message 
 1238166938.3522.5.ca...@localhost.localdomain, Ashley Sheridan 
 a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 09:59 -0400, Ken Watkins wrote:
  On 3/26/2009 at 10:24 PM, in message 
  0a88dc6e-0655-4565-b9a7-e21337fc0...@bluerodeo.com, dg 
  dane...@bluerodeo.com wrote:
 
 On Mar 26, 2009, at 7:14 PM, Ken Watkins wrote:
 
  To keep up with their identities, I created a script for each family  
  member to run (dad.php, mom.php, etc.), and it sets a cookie on each  
  computer and uses sessions so I know who is connecting.
 
 Each family member only uses her/his own page?  Maybe set a unique  
 cookie name based on each page?
 
 Hi.
 
 No, they all go to a common page. I may have to take Shawn's suggestion and 
 just have them login if I can't figure another way to do it.
 
 Thanks.
 Ken
 
 
 
 
You could have a landing page to the site, that consists of image links
(you could use their photo for this?) and each link is in the order of
page.php?person=mum etc. That would require an extra click, but no
typing for a login, and should make the unique person process a bit more
intuitive.


Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk 
 
Hi Ash.
 
Hey, I like it. Clicking beats typing in my book. Thanks!
 
Ken


[PHP] Multiple cookies on the same computer

2009-03-26 Thread Ken Watkins
Hi all.

Newbie here.

I have set up a blog site where my family creates posts and they get emailed to 
members of the family. To keep up with their identities, I created a script for 
each family member to run (dad.php, mom.php, etc.), and it sets a cookie on 
each computer and uses sessions so I know who is connecting. It works great 
unless I want to share a computer between two users.

I thought I had a solution: install both Firefox and IE on the same computer 
and set two different cookies. But this doesn't seem to work. My question is: 
Is it possible to set one cookie for IE and another for Firefox so that, 
depending on which browser is used, I can tell who is connecting to the blog? 
If this is not possible, is there another easy way to do it?

Thanks for your help.

- Ken Watkins




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[PHP] Testing HTTPS without certificate

2008-04-23 Thread Ken Kixmoeller

Hi - - -   - --

I have a typical setup -- my development machine, a testing server  
and, of course, the production server. My development machine, of  
course, doesn't have a Secure certificate, yet I need to be able to  
test https pages here, before getting to the testing server.  
(Currently, the testing server doesn't have one either, but that will  
be remedied shortly.)


I know how to test for the existance of HTTPS, and stuff like that.

So: Can one test https on a local machine? Resources, anyone? I have  
Googled my fingers off.


Environment: PHP 5.2.5
Win 2K
IIS 5

- or, if I need to -

Mac OS-X 10.4
Apache? (I haven't set up the Mac as a server)

 - or -

Linux (Ubuntu) with Apache (I am moving this direction and haven't  
yet learned how to run Apache)


Ken

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Re: [PHP] Re: Testing HTTPS without certificate

2008-04-23 Thread Ken Kixmoeller.com


On Apr 23, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Shawn McKenzie wrote:


Ken Kixmoeller wrote:


I know how to test for the existance of HTTPS, and stuff like that.
So: Can one test https on a local machine? Resources, anyone? I  
have Googled my fingers off.


Why not just generate a free self-signed certificate for use on the  
dev server or workstation?




Thanks, Shawn  Mike --

I'll research that. Many thanks...

Ken

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Re: [PHP] Membership Management

2008-04-21 Thread Ken Kixmoeller.com

Jason -- - - -

There are many, many membership management programs out there, though  
I doubt that there are any open source ones. It is a lucrative  
business for many-a-folk.


I have always advised prospective clients to buy, not build, as the  
commercial software choices out there are many and very good. There  
are many tricks and traps to trying to build one from scratch, among  
them building a combined cycle and on-demand billing system.


One place to look is the Society of Non-profit Executives, or improve  
your google search thusly: http://tinyurl.com/4yt5ru


Ken

On Apr 21, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Jason Pruim wrote:

I have a client that wants me to fork a current project into a  
membership management piece of software. Does anyone know of any  
open source projects that I can look at?


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Re: [PHP] module access rights

2008-04-19 Thread Ken Kixmoeller.com


On Apr 19, 2008, at 2:37 AM, Alain Roger wrote:

Hi,

i'm very surprised... i did not get any answer to my previous post.
is it because it is good way to do it or because nobody knows ?
---

Hi,
i face now a little issue regarding how end user can access to some  
modules

of my web portal.

Let imagine we have several modules (let say: mod1, mod 2, mod3)  
and 2 users

(usr1, usr2).
i would like to use a simple way how to established access rights  
for each

user to grant/forbidden access to modules...


Or maybe the answer is as complicated as the question seems simple.

I have my master application object. On __construct, it checks the  
current user's rights from somewhere (a config file or a database,  
for example), and instantiates the application based on the rights  
profile.


Simple answer, but a lot of front-end work to implement.

Ken

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Re: [PHP] module access rights

2008-04-19 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
Right. Thanks for the links. This type of approach is the basis of my  
software architecture.


Ken

(BTW, don't forget to Reply All so your reply goes to the list, too).

On Apr 19, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Tony Marston wrote:
What you are describing is a Role Based Access Control (RBAC)  
system, and it

is not simple. Take a look at
http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/role-based-access-control.html  
and

http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/menuguide/index.html

Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org




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To: PHP General List
Subject: Re: [PHP] module access rights



On Apr 19, 2008, at 2:37 AM, Alain Roger wrote:

Hi,

i'm very surprised... i did not get any answer to my

previous post. is

it because it is good way to do it or because nobody knows ?
---

Hi,
i face now a little issue regarding how end user can access to some
modules
of my web portal.

Let imagine we have several modules (let say: mod1, mod 2, mod3)
and 2 users
(usr1, usr2).
i would like to use a simple way how to established access rights
for each
user to grant/forbidden access to modules...


Or maybe the answer is as complicated as the question seems simple.

I have my master application object. On __construct, it checks the
current user's rights from somewhere (a config file or a database,
for example), and instantiates the application based on the rights
profile.

Simple answer, but a lot of front-end work to implement.

Ken

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Re: [PHP] Re: Generating JavaScript menus on-the-fly

2008-03-10 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
Thank you -- I don't know about those functions -- I'll check them  
out (for general knowledge, too)...


Ken


On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Roberto Mansfield wrote:


If you are building select menus on the fly using javascript, look at
php's json_encode function. It will create a JSON representation of  
your

php data structure. Makes passing data sets to javascript very easy.
Just build your array of allowed options in php, plug the data into  
your
javascript via json_encode() and let javascript build the menu  
options.



Ken Kixmoeller wrote:

Hey - - -- - -- --

I keep a profile of a user's rights and responsibilities in tables.
Since this profile defines what a user can do in the system I am
designing, I'd like to build a JavaScript menu navigation scheme.  
I need

it to be driven programmatically, because the Admin users can add and
remove tasks to the system or to a given user at-will.

I already built a similar thing using CSS-only menus, but it just  
wasn't

aesthetically flexible enough. I am exploring other options, but I am
wondering if any of you have done something similar and have any  
samples

or advice.

Ken


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Re: [PHP] Generating JavaScript menus on-the-fly

2008-03-08 Thread Ken Kixmoeller.com

On Mar 8, 2008, at 9:17 AM, tedd wrote:


At 3:01 PM -0600 3/7/08, Ken Kixmoeller wrote:

Hey - - -- - -- --

I keep a profile of a user's rights and responsibilities in  
tables. Since this profile defines what a user can do in the  
system I am designing, I'd like to build a JavaScript menu  
navigation scheme. I need it to be driven programmatically,  
because the Admin users can add and remove tasks to the system or  
to a given user at-will.


I already built a similar thing using CSS-only menus, but it just  
wasn't aesthetically flexible enough. I am exploring other  
options, but I am wondering if any of you have done something  
similar and have any samples or advice.


I use php and css to do navigation. The css handles client-side and  
php does the server-side.


If you have links that are available for some, but not others and  
want to keep them secure/private, then don't go the javascript  
route -- it's a simple matter to break that.


My advice, figure out what you want to present in php and then have  
php write the css for you.


Hi, tedd --- - - -

Thank you for the advice. I guess I'd better try the CSS route again.  
I think I may do a combination of CSS and the technique I'm using now.


I appreciate the advice you gave on what is breakable, too. Just to  
amplify -- the tasks that are available to a user are in a session  
array. These are created on login (or session init. for a guest user)  
and only those tasks to which the user has access appear in the array  
-- links are not just disabled.


Ken

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[PHP] Generating JavaScript menus on-the-fly

2008-03-07 Thread Ken Kixmoeller

Hey - - -- - -- --

I keep a profile of a user's rights and responsibilities in tables.  
Since this profile defines what a user can do in the system I am  
designing, I'd like to build a JavaScript menu navigation scheme. I  
need it to be driven programmatically, because the Admin users can  
add and remove tasks to the system or to a given user at-will.


I already built a similar thing using CSS-only menus, but it just  
wasn't aesthetically flexible enough. I am exploring other options,  
but I am wondering if any of you have done something similar and have  
any samples or advice.


Ken

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Re: [PHP] Encryption failing

2008-01-17 Thread Ken Kixmoeller -- reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

(forgot to copy the list)

On Jan 16, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:



Is it possible that 4% of the time, you have spaces on the start/end
of the string, which get trimmed before encryption?



In this case, no. In trying to simplify the situation to narrow the  
possibilities of error, I am generating random character strings of  
only alphanumeric (or numeric-only) characters. Each is exactly 16  
characters.





And if rijndael is one of the algorithms which requires a fixed-size
input, that also would be bad to trim it.



No documentation that I was able to find suggests that requirement.





Actually, I'd suggest that the encryption function has no business
trimming the text anyway.



Philosophically I agree with you, but mCrypt has this nasty habit of  
appending bunches of nulls to the decrypted string. So philosophical  
purity gives way to practical application.


Good ideas, as usual. Thank you.

Ken


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Re: [PHP] Encryption failing

2008-01-16 Thread Ken Kixmoeller -- reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]


On Jan 15, 2008, at 10:48 PM, Casey wrote:


It returns the correct value. If you look at the last example, and run
base64_decode on MDAwMzEwMDI0NDA0MTMyOQ==, you will get
0003100244041329.


Oops. Haste makes crappy programming.

Ken

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Re: [PHP] Encryption failing

2008-01-16 Thread Ken Kixmoeller -- reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]


On Jan 16, 2008, at 1:28 AM, Andrés Robinet wrote:


1 - Mike is right about first encrypting and then doing a  
base64_encode (then saving results to DB, cookies, etc). I don't  
know why replacing   to + for decrypting, though.




His other post explains that php didn't seem to like spaces. No  
spaces in the test strings -- I'll check for those when/if I can get  
the core en/decryption working.



2 - Mike is also right about $text = base64_decode($text) which  
should be $text = base64_decode($text_out) I think.




Yup -- that's what i get for trying to do this hastily and late at  
night --



3 - You are trimming the results on return, according to one post  
in the manual notes this will remove null padding on the decrypted  
string. This is desired, most of the time, but if the original  
(cleartext message) string ended in nulls you will get a difference  
and that may be the cause of the errors you are getting.




I understand that, thank you. There are no trailing nulls on the  
original string.


After correcting the my program, I still get the same results, about  
4% wrong:


70: String: 5214006139804600
 -|- Enc: Ϊ%bÇCsšBsìD%Å#z[ä. m…‡¿m§ð
 -|- Dec:àc8 -|- Nope

75: String: 1034702254251899
 -|- Enc: !:Ã2ºÍé×»àe2s? :Ù0LµŒÕ[«
 -|- Dec:à`*' -|- Nope

89: String: 8245007043826594
 -|- Enc: µÆ Íãd-‘Á´E3½yÍ×v‹,ZØWéûqüŽ‚ó
 -|- Dec:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -|- Nope

etc.

Wrong: 23/500


Phooey.

Ken
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Re: [PHP] Encryption failing

2008-01-16 Thread Ken Kixmoeller -- reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Many thanks, Mike --- yours works great... 0 errors.

On Jan 16, 2008, at 9:24 AM, mike wrote:


function data_encrypt($data) {
if(!$data) { return false; }
return base64_encode(mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256,
$GLOBALS['config']['salt'], $data, 'cbc', md5($GLOBALS['config']['
salt'].$GLOBALS['config']['salt'])));
}

function data_decrypt($data) {
if(!$data) { return false; }
return rtrim(mcrypt_decrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256,
$GLOBALS['config']['salt'], base64_decode(str_replace(' ', '+',
$data)), '
cbc', md5($GLOBALS['config']['salt'].$GLOBALS['config']['salt'])));
}


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[PHP] Encryption failing

2008-01-15 Thread Ken Kixmoeller -- reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hey --- - -

I am in the process of upgrading the encryption technology I am using  
from (64 bit) blowfish to (256 bit) rijndael.


The code (and some explanations) is below, but the results are, um,  
unusual, and I can't see what I am doing wrong. For testing, I have a  
program that generates a random 16-character string, encrypts it to a  
variable, and decrypts it. Running it in 500 iteration loops, it  
fails roughly 4% of the time. By fails I mean that the original  
string and the eventual decrypted one don't match.


Anybody able to spot why?

Ken
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function jagencdecr($text,$EorD,$encpass='') {
// parameters:
// - $text = string to be en/decrypted,
// - $EorD = Encrypt or Decrypt
// - $encpass = key phrase
if (empty($text)) {return ;}
$text = trim($text);
$cypher = mcrypt_module_open('rijndael-256', '', 'ecb', '');
// ecb mode produces the above results.
// ofb mode produces 100% errors

$size = mcrypt_enc_get_iv_size($cypher);
$phprand = rand(1000,);
	$iv = mcrypt_create_iv($size,$phprand); // produces the same results  
as below, platform independent

//$iv = mcrypt_create_iv($size,MCRYPT_RAND); // for Windows
//$iv = mcrypt_create_iv($size,MCRYPT_DEV_RAND); // for 'NIX

$ks = mcrypt_enc_get_key_size($cypher);
/* Create key */
$key = substr(md5($encpass), 0, $ks);
mcrypt_generic_init($cypher,$key,$iv);
if ($EorD == D) {
$text_out = mdecrypt_generic($cypher,$text);
} else {
$text_out = mcrypt_generic($cypher,$text);
} // endif ($EorD == D)
mcrypt_generic_deinit($cypher);
mcrypt_module_close($cypher);
return trim($text_out);

}  // endfunc jagencdecr Jaguar Ecnrypt/Decrypt

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Re: [PHP] Encryption failing

2008-01-15 Thread Ken Kixmoeller -- reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]


On Jan 15, 2008, at 7:06 PM, Casey wrote:


Maybe you could echo the results of the failed ones and compare.


I did that at first, thinking that something about these strings  
might cause the problem. But then I realized: I can't blame the  
data. I don't have any control over what users use for passwords, for  
example. this thing is supposed to en/decrypt the strings I gige it,  
so there must be some kind of programming flaw.


FWIW, there was no discernible pattern to the failed strings, at  
least not to me. (Not that it matters.)


Ken

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Re: [PHP] Encryption failing

2008-01-15 Thread Ken Kixmoeller -- reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]


On Jan 15, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Andrés Robinet wrote:


-Original Message-
From: Bastien Koert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:55 AM
To: Ken Kixmoeller -- reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; php-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Encryption failing


are you base64 encoding the resultant encryption string? I have found
that there are problems with certain characters that can result from
the encryption, usually a combination of characters that  
approximate a

null or end of line

bastien From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008  
21:41:45 -

0600 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Encryption
failing   On Jan 15, 2008, at 7:06 PM, Casey wrote:   Maybe  
you
could echo the results of the failed ones and compare.  I did  
that at

first, thinking that something about these strings  might cause the
problem. But then I realized: I can't blame the  data. I don't have
any control over what users use for passwords, for  example. this
thing is supposed to en/decrypt the strings I gige it,  so there  
must

be some kind of programming flaw.  FWIW, there was no discernible
pattern to the failed strings, at  least not to me. (Not that it
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I second that, you should base64 encode values before encrypting  
and base64

decode them after decrypting to be safe.

Rob

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