[PHP] PHP 5.4.10 and PHP 5.3.20 released!

2012-12-20 Thread Johannes Schlüter
The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.10 and PHP 5.3.20. These releases fix about 15 bugs. Please note that the PHP 5.3 series will enter an end of life cycle and receive only critical fixes as of March 2013. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.

[PHP] Re: form validation

2012-12-20 Thread Jim Giner
On 12/20/2012 10:27 AM, David Mehler wrote: Hello, I just read the Php5 changelog. Legacy features specifically magic quotes were removed, does that mean that any system running php 5.4 or newer does not need to use either addslashes() or stripslashes() when dealing with form input? Thanks. Dav

Re: [PHP] Re: form validation

2012-12-20 Thread Daniel Brown
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Jim Giner wrote: > > If you are using > mysql for a db, then you should already be using mysql_real_escape_string in > place of addslashes. Actually, you should start moving toward MySQLi, as mysql_*() is deprecated. -- Network Infrastructure Manager http:

Re: [PHP] Re: form validation

2012-12-20 Thread Jonathan Sundquist
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Jim Giner wrote: > If you are using mysql for a db, then you should already be using > mysql_real_escape_string in place of addslashes. You should not be using mysql_real_escape_string going forward as it will be deprecated in php 5.5.0. http://php.net/manual/en/

Re: [PHP] Re: form validation

2012-12-20 Thread Jim Giner
On 12/20/2012 10:36 AM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Jim Giner wrote: If you are using mysql for a db, then you should already be using mysql_real_escape_string in place of addslashes. Actually, you should start moving toward MySQLi, as mysql_*() is deprecated.

[PHP] MySQLi

2012-12-20 Thread Stephen
I read about the subject in another thread. Where does PDO fit? That is what I have used for sometime. Am I good? -- Stephen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] MySQLi

2012-12-20 Thread Daniel Brown
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Stephen wrote: > I read about the subject in another thread. > > Where does PDO fit? > > That is what I have used for sometime. Am I good? Right as rain. PDO is a preferred abstraction layer in PHP and isn't going anywhere anytime soon. -- Network Infrast

Re: [PHP] Session ?

2012-12-20 Thread Hakan Can
I've read about passing the session id to a script and using that to opene up the existing session file. Is this something I could do in this case? Or am I SOL? You can pass the session ID and reactivate the session that way, sure. Not pretty, and it does lead to security considerations,