[PHP] Here Document function AWOL
Dear PHPers. I have tried to get the "Here Document" functionality to work, all to no avail. I am writing the following code: $body = EOQ Lots of HTML stuff here Lines and Lines and lines of it. all the way to EOQ; I get a parse error on the first line where I declare the variable. I have tried it in several different ways, such as $body= EOQ But I get parser errors every time. My PHP version is 4.0.2 Anyone know when Here Documents were first implemented in PHP (version number)? Do I need to set GPC or magic-quotes to a certain value at runtime for this to work? I could not find "here document" even MENTIONED on the entire php site. Nor could I find it in the mailing list archives. I did find out about it at the Zend tutorial on strings, and have seen it in a script at px.sklar. Kristofer -- ______ Kristofer Widholm Web Pharmacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 191 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY 11211 718.599.4893 __ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Strange Error Reporting
Anyone know why I get this warning?
Warning: Bad escape sequence: \. in validate.inc.php on line 142
CODE:
Line 142: if (!eregi("index\.php",$PHP_SELF)) {
blah blah blah;
}
I didn't know there was any other escape sequence possible in RegEx!
I have error reporting set to
error_reporting(32+16+8+4+2+1);
and that's pretty picky error reporting. Still, I don't get what's wrong.
K
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[PHP] Re: Text fading with PHP?
Here's what you wrote, 01.03.24: Hi Is it possible to do text fading with PHP. For instance, I want to one line of text fade in, have another line fade in later, and a third line after that. Then all three lines will fade out at the same time and start over with three different lines. Is this possible with php? Thanks Jamie No, due to some browsers waiting for all a complete document object before outputting text. Even with browsers that will parse and display a partial feed, you really can't achieve a smooth effect due to network latency. The best thing to do is to work with JavaScript and CSS. Look into the setTimeout() function in JavaScript and use it to step through different color values for your text using CSS. Or, just use an animated gif. K -- __ Kristofer Widholm Web Pharmacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 191 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY 11211 718.599.4893 __ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Still can't talk to the Oracle
I'm setting up a back end production system for a television show,
and have been given space on a development server with PHP 4 and
Oracle support compiled in (but not the OCI libraries). The Oracle
admin have given me my user name (let's say ora_user), a TNS name
(tns_name), and a password (ora_pass).
So I write code as follows...
if ($conn=ora_logon("ora_user@tns_name","ora_pass")) {
echo "SUCCESS ! Connected to database\n";
} else {
echo "Failed :-( Could not connect to database\n";
echo ora_errorcode($conn).": ".ora_error($conn)."BR";
}
In response to this code, I get the following error:
ORA-12154 "Supplied argument is not a valid Oracle-Connection/Cursor
resource in "
From reading php.net documentation on ora_logon, it seemed that maybe
the ORACLE_HOME environment variable simply hadn't been set.
I had the sys admins set it.
And I still get the error.
Any ideas from an experienced PHP/Oracle developer?
Kristofer
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[PHP] Re: Cookie with Netscape
At 11.08 -0800 01-01-29, Eugene Yi (InfoSpace Inc) poked the keyboard
as follows:
I set up a cookie using the following command and it works fine under IE but
not in Netscape. Am I doing something wrong?
setcookie("mycookie[1]",$domain,"","/","mydomain.com");
Please help me. Thanks much in advance.
Can't promise that this will solve it, but here are a couple pointers:
If $domain is a string, it might help to put the variable within quotes too.
As pointed out previously, you should replace your expiration time
("") with an integer (0).
The domain at the end, according to spec, should start either with
www or with a period (.mydomain.com).
See if that helps.
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Re: [PHP] Editor
At 08.02 + 01-01-30, Philip Olson poked the keyboard as follows: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-generalr=1w=2q=bs=editor mac - bbedit On the Mac there is also a wonderful new editor just ported over from BeOS called Pepper. It's really elegant, and incredibly customizable. It has PHP syntax coloring too. Also, BBEdit only includes PHP syntax coloring in version 6.0 and above. Kristofer -- __ Kristofer Widholm Web Pharmacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 191 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY 11211 718.599.4893 __ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Invoke PHP script from onLoad handler?
Here's what you wrote, 01-01-27: OK, I've gone back through the archives and now understand the situation with client- and server-side. I just wasn't thinking it through. Spawning a window to let PHP query the db and somehow passing returned values back to the parent window is something I could do, I suppose, but it seems that what I and the other zillion people who keep asking the same question need is a way to get to our databases using a client-side technology like Javascript. If it's not an enormous amount of data the user will be working with, and they're just reading it and not inputting new values (a set number of options, etc.), you could just load all the data into JavaScript arrays at the initial load. Whenever a part of any form or window is changed, the displayed data would be changed as well via JavaScript, without the need for any database query. Kristofer -- __ Kristofer Widholm Web Pharmacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 191 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY 11211 718.599.4893 __ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re: Using PHP to do centralized site authentication
I'm trying to do something in PHP4.0.4p1 that in the past I've done in mod_perl, but appears to be more difficult. Basically I have some PHP code that does access checks against a DB to see if that user has access to the requested URL. I'm using mod_layout to call the PHP script so I can wrap static html pages, CGI's, and not just PHP pages. I may be misunderstanding your question, but it seems to me if you use the HTTP_AUTH mechanism built into PHP you can authenticate against a database or whatever you need in PHP before any page output is generated whatsoever. If the user is not authenticated, PHP just generates a standard 302, just as if you were using basic auth under Apache. If you structure your script logic correctly, there should be no output being processed until authentication has been made. My apologies if I've totally misunderstood your situation. Kristofer -- __ Kristofer Widholm Web Pharmacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 191 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY 11211 718.599.4893 __ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] PHP and Oracle resources
Well, I've been given the joyous task of implementing the DaveTV project at CBS via PHP, using Oracle as a database. I've never used Oracle before. Looking at the PHP functions for Oracle, and having heard about it in the past, it seems like quite a different approach than any SQL database I've ever used. I still don't get the whole point of cursor objects, etc. :-) It would all be pretty hilarious if it weren't so real, and with a big fat deadline looming smack for the end of February. To get to the point: Anyone have any good PHP Oracle tutorials, resources, books, etc, to point me to? EVERYTHING I see is MySQL, MySQL, MySQL, and all I get for Oracle are lists of unexplained PHP function calls. Just point me in the right direction. I can walk there myself. Thanks for the help. Kristofer -- __ Kristofer Widholm Web Pharmacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 191 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY 11211 718.599.4893 __ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] Search Engines and PHP
At 13.33 +0100 01-01-23, Sander Pilon poked the keyboard as follows:
If you want to be totally searchengine-safe, do not use variables on the
url, do not rely on cookies and do not rely on POST variables
for the pages
you want to have the searchengine spider.
How the heck do you build a dynamic site without URL variables,
cookies, or POST variables?
Kristofer
One way would be to use the url path.
Http://script.php/these/are/variables/passed/to/php
You fool the searchengine, it thinks 'script.php' is a directory and its
getting a file called 'php', but actually you're calling 'script.php' with
'/these/are/variables/passed/to/php' as parameters.
I'm assuming that the tradeoff is the loss of having your variables
pre-populated in your scripts and that you have to parse the URL for
them. While it's probably easy enough to write my own, does anyone
have -- ready made -- a robust and versatile function for populating
variables from a URL.
My impulse is to go with this:
list($var1,$var2,$var3)=explode("/","$PHP_SELF");
Anyone one have a better idea?
A difference to note, it strikes me, is that using this method, it is
no longer arbitrary in which order the variables are stacked in the
URL. http://domain/script.php/value1/value2/value3 would be a
different page from http://domain/script.php/value3/value1/value2,
whereas using variable declarations in the URL like so
http://domain/script.php?value2=foovalue3=barvalue1=barfly means
you can put them in any order you like.
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[PHP] RE: Authenticating across sites/servers
also contain the users session key, so it knows which user should event- ually be given access. Server A redirects user to Server B, sending the original authorization key along with the user (in a cookie, or session ID) Server B sees user with auth key, checks to see if there is an OK registered in it's database corres- ponding to that auth key. Here we can also add time- sensitive verification, as well as a check to see whether the original auth- orized user's request is still coming from the same IP (subject to proxy server restrictions if user comes from large ISP). I.E. if( auth OK record of auth same IP within last 10 minutes) then give user a page which verifies that the user has the key, that server B has a key, that it corresponds to a recent record of authorization in it's database, that's it's coming from the same IP as the request for auth came from from server A, and then gives the user the data. -- ______ Kristofer Widholm Web Pharmacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 191 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY 11211 718.599.4893 __ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re: [PHP-DEV] cookies and sessions security
Poor security: log in with a form or basic authentication; set cookie on client with username/password combo (vulnerable to network sniffers, anybody with access to browser's cookie file) Decent security: log in with form or basic authentication; set cookie with session id number and store user information in session database (or session file or in session memory or however your sessions are handled...) (vulnerable to sniffers) Good security: perform auth over a secure connection, set cookie with session id number and store user information (including ip address) in session database (and check ip address for a match before allowing any activity with the session)... (vulnerable to somebody copying a sniffed session id and spoofing the ip address to trick the remote site) Very good: keep the thing on a secure connection all the time, set a session id cookie and keep all user info (possibly including remote ip) in the server's session db... (vulnerable to nothing I can think of at the moment...) There are probably more things you could do I haven't thought of... but this oughta be a decent start ;) --Toby Wow, I never thought of using the remote IP! Thanks for the tip. I am going to use it today for an authentication system I'm building. Kristofer -- __ Kristofer Widholm Web Pharmacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 191 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY 11211 718.599.4893 __ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Re: [PHP-DEV] cookies and sessions security
At 14.54 -0500 01-01-15, Tim Zickus poked the keyboard as follows: Wow, I never thought of using the remote IP! Thanks for the tip. I am going to use it today for an authentication system I'm building. Please note that remote IP is NOT reliable. For clients behind the proxies gateways of large ISP's (AOL is the prime example) you can see the remote address bounce around from number to number, even within the same session, depending on which path the data takes. Ach, oy vey! Then, having looked at AOL's info, it seems to me that perhaps one could build a function or class that could evaluate against a known list of alternate proxies. So, if the request came from 152.163.197, it would recognize that as an AOL proxy and just code the current proxy as "AOL" or something. Each subsequent request (from 152.163.* etc.) would go through the same filter. Obviously, this means that the system could be vulnerable to being compromised by someone working through a large ISP such as AOL, but I think it's unlikely that people with the expertise to sniff cookies and such would be using AOL. And anyway, the system would still be more secure than if I weren't using IP verification at all. Does anyone one know of a class or function that's been already built to do this? Kristofer -- __ Kristofer Widholm Web Pharmacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 191 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY 11211 718.599.4893 __ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re: Searching a MySQL database?
I remember seeing someone post something like this: $sql = " SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE towns LIKE \"$town\" "; so if the search word is not EXACTLY like a row in the database, it may return results to partial words. I think you mean $sql = "SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE towns LIKE \"%$town%\" "; The % is more fuzzy. Look it up in the MySQL manual for more details on %. http://www.mysql.com/doc/ Kristofer -- ______ Kristofer Widholm Web Pharmacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 191 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY 11211 718.599.4893 __ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re-engineering print()
Hi, I'm involved in a conundrum that is a little difficult to explain
with plain English. Perhaps some PHP code will help you understand
what I am attempting:
#Option 1: code I wish worked
$s = include("phpcode.php");
#Option 2: also code I wish worked
$s = sprintf("%s", include('template.php'));
Basically, I'm wondering if there is a way to redirect print and echo
output from PHP to a variable instead of directly to a browser or
file stream. What I'm trying to do is create code that can generate
an HTML page to a variable that I can manipulate and then later store
in a database.
Obviously, the "real" way to do this is to not use print() statements
at all, but simply build a variable as follows:
$output .= "html yadda yadda yadda";
$output .= sprintf("More html and function output %s", function());
until the $output contains the entire file.
The reason I don't want to do this is that it will require rewriting
all my PHP file templates.
Also, I'm simply obsessed with the problem now. I even went as far as
using eval() on the reading of an fopen(template.php) of the PHP
template, but even then I couldn't assign the output to a variable.
Anyone want to kill themselves trying? My head hurts.
Sincerely,
Kristofer
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[PHP] Re-engineering print()
Hi, I'm involved in a conundrum that is a little difficult to explain
with plain English. Perhaps some PHP code will help you understand
what I am attempting:
#Option 1: code I wish worked
$s = include("phpcode.php");
#Option 2: also code I wish worked
$s = sprintf("%s", include('template.php'));
Basically, I'm wondering if there is a way to redirect print and echo
output from PHP to a variable instead of directly to a browser or
file stream. What I'm trying to do is create code that can generate
an HTML page to a variable that I can manipulate and then later store
in a database.
Obviously, the "real" way to do this is to not use print() statements
at all, but simply build a variable as follows:
$output .= "html yadda yadda yadda";
$output .= sprintf("More html and function output %s", function());
until the $output contains the entire file.
The reason I don't want to do this is that it will require rewriting
all my PHP file templates.
Also, I'm simply obsessed with the problem now. I even went as far as
using eval() on the reading of an fopen(template.php) of the PHP
template, but even then I couldn't assign the output to a variable.
Anyone want to kill themselves trying? My head hurts.
Sincerely,
Kristofer
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Re: [PHP] Re-engineering print() - PHP 4 required
Here's what you wrote, 01-01-10:
Try this:
function my_eval($code) {
ob_start();
eval($code);
$retval = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $retval;
}
$str = my_eval("echo 2+2;");
echo $str;
Mr. Lerdorf, Mr. McClahahan, Mr. Butzon et al,
Thank you for your replies. It appears I'm going to have to see about
having my server upgraded to PHP 4 in order to solve the problem, as
PHP 3 does not support ob_*().
If anyone else is paying attention to this thread, please be advised
that ob_ functions require PHP 4.
Thanks to all who have helped.
Sincerely,
Kristofer
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