[PHP] Test Connection - fsockopen()

[Jason Williard]

I am trying to create a remote status page for my website.  So far, I 
have found the fsockopen() function and used the example code to create 
the following basic script:


While this works when the server is UP, I get the following error when 
it is down along with the 'Down' output:

Warning: fsockopen(): php_hostconnect: connect failed in 
//public_html/status/test.php on line 2

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 in 
//public_html/status/test.php on line 2
Down

Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks,
Jason Williard
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Re: [PHP] mailing labels from databases

[- Edwin -]

Hello,

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 22:48:20 -0700
Dennis Gearon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

...[snip]...

> Is it possible to set postions of characters, lines, tables, etc in
> PDF via:
> pixels
> page percentages
> absolute distances
> using PHP?

  -> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php

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Re: [PHP] Test Connection - fsockopen()

[Tom Rogers]

Hi,

Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 5:04:14 PM, you wrote:
JW> I am trying to create a remote status page for my website.  So far, I 
JW> have found the fsockopen() function and used the example code to create 
JW> the following basic script:

JW>  $fp = fsockopen ("xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
JW> if (!$fp) {
JW>  echo "Down\n";
JW> }
JW> else{
JW>  echo "Up\n";
JW>  fclose ($fp);
JW> }
?>>

JW> While this works when the server is UP, I get the following error when 
JW> it is down along with the 'Down' output:

JW> Warning: fsockopen(): php_hostconnect: connect failed in 
JW> //public_html/status/test.php on line 2

JW> Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 in 
JW> //public_html/status/test.php on line 2
JW> Down

JW> Can anyone help me out here?

JW> Thanks,
JW> Jason Williard


change your call to   @fsockopen() which will tell it to ignore errors

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Re: [PHP] Test Connection - fsockopen()

[- Edwin -]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:04:14 -0700
Jason Williard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am trying to create a remote status page for my website.  So far,
> I have found the fsockopen() function and used the example code to
> create the following basic script:
> 
>  $fp = fsockopen ("xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
> if (!$fp) {
>  echo "Down\n";
> }
> else{
>  echo "Up\n";
>  fclose ($fp);
> }
> ?>
> 
> While this works when the server is UP, I get the following error
> when it is down along with the 'Down' output:
> 
> Warning: fsockopen(): php_hostconnect: connect failed in 
> //public_html/status/test.php on line 2
> 
> Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 in 
> //public_html/status/test.php on line 2
> Down
> 
> Can anyone help me out here?

Not sure what kind of help you're looking for but if you just want to
suppress errors, try this instead:

  $fp = @fsockopen("xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);

Or, adjust error_reporting level: http://www.php.net/error-reporting

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[PHP] php_w32api.dll ... fatal error

[jon]

When trying to run the following script, it returns the following error
"...Fatal error: Call to undefined function: w32api_register_function()...".
Does this w32api extension work?

// Define constants needed, taken from
// Visual Studio/Tools/Winapi/WIN32API.txt
define("MB_OK", 0);

// Load the extension in
dl("php_w32api.dll");

// Register the GetTickCount function from kernel32.dll
w32api_register_function("kernel32.dll",
  "GetTickCount",
 "long");

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Re: [PHP] Destroying session if not being used from past 10 mins.

[Jason Wong]

On Tuesday 21 October 2003 13:55, Binay wrote:

> How can I configure the session to get destroyed, if not being used from
> past 10 mins.

Sessions are destroyed automatically. You set the session life-time in php.ini 
with "session.gc_maxlifetime".

If you want to force the issue, then you'll probably have to check the session 
files yourself (assuming you're using the default session handler), which 
means you'll have to check the filemtime() of each of the session files and 
delete those older than 10 minutes.

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RE: [PHP] Test Connection - fsockopen()

[Jason Williard]

Thank you.  That worked perfectly.

Jason

-Original Message-
From: Tom Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 12:34 AM
To: Jason Williard
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Test Connection - fsockopen()

Hi,

Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 5:04:14 PM, you wrote:
JW> I am trying to create a remote status page for my website.  So far,
I 
JW> have found the fsockopen() function and used the example code to
create 
JW> the following basic script:

JW>  $fp = fsockopen ("xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
JW> if (!$fp) {
JW>  echo "Down\n";
JW> }
JW> else{
JW>  echo "Up\n";
JW>  fclose ($fp);
JW> }
?>>

JW> While this works when the server is UP, I get the following error
when 
JW> it is down along with the 'Down' output:

JW> Warning: fsockopen(): php_hostconnect: connect failed in 
JW> //public_html/status/test.php on line 2

JW> Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 in 
JW> //public_html/status/test.php on line 2
JW> Down

JW> Can anyone help me out here?

JW> Thanks,
JW> Jason Williard


change your call to   @fsockopen() which will tell it to ignore errors

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Re: [PHP] mailing labels from databases

[Marek Kilimajer]

Dennis Gearon wrote:
I'm on digest, please CC me.

Is it possible to set postions of characters, lines, tables, etc in PDF 
via:
   pixels
no

   page percentages
yes

   absolute distances
yes

using PHP?

and www.fpdf.org

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Re: [PHP] Launch Print Dialog Box with PHP?

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So you're to blame for him going after my head.

Well, at least who's doing the crowning :-)

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On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, John Nichel wrote:

> [-^-!-%- wrote:
> > J Holmes,
> >
> > I don't know who, or what, crown you king of this list.
>
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[PHP] run PHP script in clean memory space

[Honza Malik]

Hi,

I want to give administrators of our CMS the possibility to use PHP commands
in HTML templates. Templates are parsed by our PHP script.

The problem is, that I don't want administrators to be able to list our
$GLOBALS (where is database password) or call our functions. Is there the
possibility to run administrator's PHP code (from our PHP) in clean
environment? Other solution?

   Thanks,
 Honza

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[PHP] seems like magic_quotes_gpc is turning itsself on!

[William Bailey]

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Hi All,

I have a strange problem with one of the sites i work on and provide
support for. I the following block of code that checks to see if
magic_quotes_gpc is enabled and if it is it dies with an error message:
if((integer)ini_get('magic_quotes_gpc')!=0){
~debug('Magic Quotes GPC is currently active. Please disable.');
}
The debug functoin just displays a sorry message on the browser and
emails the description and the serialized $GLOBALS variable back to me.
in the php.ini i have the following:

; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data.
magic_quotes_gpc = Off
Now every so often say at most 1 in 100 hits a user will see the sorry
screen and i get a call back email and every time its the same issue
'Magic Quotes GPC is currently active. Please disable.'
Anybody have any ideas on where to look?

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[PHP] The page cannot be displayed error

[Sudheer Palaparambil]

Hi,

 I am calling insert_user.php like this



 This file and the index.php are kept in the same directory. But the 
browser returns

 "The page cannot be displayed error"

 Where should I keep the insert_user.php

 Please help

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Re: [PHP] run PHP script in clean memory space

[Marek Kilimajer]

The only way I can see is exec('php ...');

Honza Malik wrote:
Hi,

I want to give administrators of our CMS the possibility to use PHP commands
in HTML templates. Templates are parsed by our PHP script.
The problem is, that I don't want administrators to be able to list our
$GLOBALS (where is database password) or call our functions. Is there the
possibility to run administrator's PHP code (from our PHP) in clean
environment? Other solution?
   Thanks,
 Honza
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Re: [PHP] The page cannot be displayed error

[Marek Kilimajer]

Try it with another browser and not IE to get a more meaningfull error 
message.

Sudheer Palaparambil wrote:
Hi,

 I am calling insert_user.php like this



 This file and the index.php are kept in the same directory. But the 
browser returns

 "The page cannot be displayed error"

 Where should I keep the insert_user.php

 Please help

Thank you.

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Re: [PHP] [cli] ^D

[Decapode Azur]

> > Is there a way, for a cli script, to detect Ctrl_D or Ctrl_Z ?
[...]
> Take a look at pcntl functions, namely pcntl_signal.
> But this extension is not enabled by default.

Ok thanks a lot.

Will those functions be integrated in the next main release?
This question is just to know if I distribute such a php script,
will allways the users have to recompile PHP to use it?

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Re: [PHP] The page cannot be displayed error

[Sudheer Palaparambil]

Hi,

 I tried Opera, it showed the following error.

 The page cannot be displayed
 The page you are looking for cannot be displayed because the page 
address is incorrect.

 Please try the following:
 If you typed the page address in the Address bar, check that it is 
entered correctly.

 Open the www.etooss.com home page and then look for links to the 
information you want.
 HTTP 405 - Resource not allowed
 Internet Information Services

 Technical Information (for support personnel)
 More information:
 Microsoft Support
Sudheer

From: Marek Kilimajer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Sudheer Palaparambil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] The page cannot be displayed error
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:53:59 +0200
Try it with another browser and not IE to get a more meaningfull error 
message.

Sudheer Palaparambil wrote:
Hi,

 I am calling insert_user.php like this



 This file and the index.php are kept in the same directory. But the 
browser returns

 "The page cannot be displayed error"

 Where should I keep the insert_user.php

 Please help

Thank you.

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Re: [PHP] The page cannot be displayed error

[Marek Kilimajer]

Hi,

Please post your replies to the list. You will have a much higher chance 
to get help. For example I can't help you now because this seems to be 
configuration error with IIS server and I don't know nothing about IIS. 
Search the web for "HTTP 405 - Resource not allowed", this page seems to 
have one possible answer: http://forums.devshed.com/archive/5/2002/4/4/34093

Sudheer Palaparambil wrote:
Hello

  I tried Opera, it showed

The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for cannot be displayed because the page 
address is incorrect.

Please try the following:
If you typed the page address in the Address bar, check that it is 
entered correctly.

Open the www.etooss.com home page and then look for links to the 
information you want.
HTTP 405 - Resource not allowed
Internet Information Services

Technical Information (for support personnel)
More information:
Microsoft Support
Please help

Thank you.

Sudheer




From: Marek Kilimajer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Sudheer Palaparambil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] The page cannot be displayed error
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:53:59 +0200
Try it with another browser and not IE to get a more meaningfull error 
message.

Sudheer Palaparambil wrote:

Hi,

 I am calling insert_user.php like this



 This file and the index.php are kept in the same directory. But the 
browser returns

 "The page cannot be displayed error"

 Where should I keep the insert_user.php

 Please help

Thank you.

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Re: [PHP] The page cannot be displayed error

[Marek Kilimajer]

I am sorry, I did not mean to offend you. Your reply from the list was late.

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Re: [PHP] Launch Print Dialog Box with PHP?

[CPT John W. Holmes]

From: "[-^-!-%-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If you must answer, to satisfy
> you own urges, then a simple NO would suffice.

The answer is No, then. Try not to take things so personally; I'm not here
to "get you"

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Re: [PHP] Read a file, extract and echo some information

[PHP Webmaster]

"Chris W. Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PHP Webmaster 
on Monday, October 20, 2003 4:36 PM said:

> As you can see, the above code will not work as the $title variable
> has not been set yet. So, I need a way of opening up the home.php
> file, extracting the line containing the $title variable and putting
> that information inbetween the  tags.

In that case do it backwards:


index.php:

Welcome to the home page of our website.\n"
."Blah, blah and more blah!\n";

include "footer.php";


?>

header.php:








footer.php:





Hope this helps!!


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The above would work OK, but in the index.php file, where I have:



The required file will be changing all the time, that's why I want to set
the title in the individual pages and get the main page to read that
information.

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Re: [PHP] seems like magic_quotes_gpc is turning itsself on!

[CPT John W. Holmes]

From: "William Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> I have a strange problem with one of the sites i work on and provide
> support for. I the following block of code that checks to see if
> magic_quotes_gpc is enabled and if it is it dies with an error message:
>
> if((integer)ini_get('magic_quotes_gpc')!=0){
> ~debug('Magic Quotes GPC is currently active. Please disable.');
> }
>
> The debug functoin just displays a sorry message on the browser and
> emails the description and the serialized $GLOBALS variable back to me.
>
> in the php.ini i have the following:
>
> ; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data.
> magic_quotes_gpc = Off
>
> Now every so often say at most 1 in 100 hits a user will see the sorry
> screen and i get a call back email and every time its the same issue
> 'Magic Quotes GPC is currently active. Please disable.'

Is it only for certain pages or random ones? Examing $GLOBALS doesn't give
any clues, I presume? Nothing strange in the query string, etc?

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Re: [PHP] The page cannot be displayed error

[CPT John W. Holmes]

From: "Sudheer Palaparambil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   I am calling insert_user.php like this
>
> 
>
>   This file and the index.php are kept in the same directory. But the
> browser returns
>
>   "The page cannot be displayed error"
>
>   Where should I keep the insert_user.php

The files are in the right place. You may not be able to use POST, try GET
for your form method and see if that works.

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Re: [PHP] data type conversion in mysql using php

[CPT John W. Holmes]

From: "Uma Shankari T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Is it possible to update the float value of mysql to varchar field by
> using php ??

mysql_query('ALTER TABLE MyTable CHANGE COLUMN old_column_name
new_column_name VARCHAR(25)');

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RE: [PHP] The page cannot be displayed error

[Fernando Melo]

Is there perhaps a redirect in the insert_user.php? If so, that could be the
problem.

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From: CPT John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 21 October 2003 13:31
To: Sudheer Palaparambil; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] The page cannot be displayed error

From: "Sudheer Palaparambil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   I am calling insert_user.php like this
>
> 
>
>   This file and the index.php are kept in the same directory. But the
> browser returns
>
>   "The page cannot be displayed error"
>
>   Where should I keep the insert_user.php

The files are in the right place. You may not be able to use POST, try GET
for your form method and see if that works.

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[PHP] php code

[Uma Shankari T.]

Hello,

  Actually i have created the field type as varchar..i am need to insert
some decimal values in that varchar field and use that values for
calculation...so it is possible to store the float value eventhough i
specified as varchar ?..and also i can use that values for calculation ??


Regards,
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Re: [PHP] Destroying session if not being used from past 10 mins.

[CPT John W. Holmes]

From: "Binay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> How can I configure the session to get destroyed,
> if not being used from past 10 mins.

If you're using the default session handler, the session files are cleaned
up after not being used for 1440 seconds (by default), and the session is
basically destroyed. You can adjust the session.gc_maxlifetime setting in
php.ini to adjust the time.

This time isn't exact, though. The cleanup process is based upon a
probability that is 1% by default. That means the process has a 1% chance of
being started when there is a request to your site. So the files may be
older than 1440 seconds and just waiting for the garbage collection process
to be initiated.

If you need it to be exactly 10 minutes of inactivity, the best method is to
just store the time of the last request as a session variable and do the
checking yourself upon each request. If the last request was more than 10
minutes ago, then handle it accordingly.

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[PHP] Run PHP process on receipt of file

[Jay Blanchard]

This is more than likely OT, but I am hoping that someone has seen
something like this. I am in of need something that will monitor a
directory for file receipts and execute a PHP script on each file as it
is received. A small daemon of some sort. I am STFW I we 'speak', but
this group knows so much that

A little more in-depth...
We receive several hundred XML files each day that describe groups of
services. I want/need to process each of those XML files in 'real-time'
as they are received. For reasons too numerous to go into I cannot use a
frequently running CRON job for this. Each file comes in via an FTP
process started by the sender, I need to see the file when it is
complete and then process it via the PHP script. So, the daemon would
'see' the completion of the file's arrival and would then call the
appropriate PHP script.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

TVMIA!

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[PHP] [Newbie Guide] For the benefit of new members

[Ma Siva Kumar]

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Those who  do not want to be bothered just filter out the [Newbie Guide] 
mails. Please feel free to add more points and send to the list.
==
1. If you have any queries/problems about PHP try http://www.php.net/manual/en 
first. You can download a copy and use it offline also. 

You can also try http://www.php.net/manual/faq.php to get answers to 
frequently answered questions about PHP (added by Christophe Chisogne).

2. Try http://www.google.com next. Try searching for "php YOUR QUERY" and you 
may be lucky to get an answer within the first 10 results.

3. Glancing through the list archive at 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general , you can find many of the 
common topics discussed repeatedly and can get your answer from those 
discussions. 

4. If you are stuck with a script and do not understand what is wrong, instead 
of posting the whole script, try doing some research yourself. One useful 
trick is to print the variable/sql query using print or echo command and 
check whether you get what you expected. 

After diagnosing the problem, send the details of your efforts (following 
steps 1, 2 & 3) and ask for help.

5. Provide a clear descriptive subject line. Avoid general subjects like 
"Help!!", "A Question" etc.  Especially avoid blank subjects. 

6. When you want to start a new topic, open a new mail and enter the mailing 
list address [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of replying to an existing 
thread and replacing the subject and body with your message.

7. PHP is a server side scripting language. Whatever processing PHP does takes 
place BEFORE the output reaches the client. Therefore, it is not possible to 
access the users'  computer related information (OS, screen size etc) using 
PHP. You need to go for JavaScript and ask the question in a JavaScript 
list.

8. It's always a good idea to post back to the list once you've solved
your problem. People usually add [SOLVED] to the subject line of their
email when posting solutions. By posting your solution you're helping
the next person with the same question. [contribued by Chris W Parker]

9. Ask smart questions http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
[contributed by Jay Blanchard)

10. One of the repeatedly discussed question in the list is "Best PHP editor". 
Everyone has his/her favourite editor. You can get all the opinions by going 
through the list archives. If you want a list try this link : 
http://phpeditors.linuxbackup.co.uk/ (contributed by Christophe Chisogne).

Hope you have a good time programming with PHP.

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RE: [PHP] php code

[Jay Blanchard]

[snip]
  Actually i have created the field type as varchar..i am need to insert
some decimal values in that varchar field and use that values for
calculation...so it is possible to store the float value eventhough i
specified as varchar ?..and also i can use that values for calculation
??
[/snip]

This is more of a SQL question, but the short answer (with PHP) is yes,
you can use 'values' stored in varchar fields for calculation in PHP.
You may have to retrieve the value from the DB and then cast it to your
liking. See http://www.php.net/settype (it may be set_type, I am working
on less than one cup of coffee this morning thus far.

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[PHP] Allowing specific IP's to bypass security.

[Tristan . Pretty]

Hi all...
I have a form that captures data, before then showing a few download 
links...
However, If the user is in our office, I want to bypass the form...
so at the very top of my page, I've put this...
(details_captured is my variable I use on the form as a hidden field, to 
confirm that the form has been submitted)

if ($REMOTE_ADDR == '111.222.333.444') {
$_SESSION['details_captured'] == FALSE;
$_SESSION['details_captured'] == "yes";
}

reset the session variable:
$_SESSION['details_captured'] == FALSE;

Re-asign it to yes:
$_SESSION['details_captured'] == "yes";

I'm new to sessions, but to me, this should work.. yet it doesn't..?
(Naturally, I've used an easy to read IP for this example)

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Re: [PHP] Allowing specific IP's to bypass security.

[Jon Haworth]

Hi Tris,

> reset the session variable:
> $_SESSION['details_captured'] == FALSE;
>
> Re-asign it to yes:
> $_SESSION['details_captured'] == "yes";

You're using ==, which is the comparison operator - give it a go with just a
single = instead.

Cheers
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[PHP] Re: php_w32api.dll ... fatal error

[DvDmanDT]

One of the notes tells you about how to use it... It is somewhat changed
from what the documentation says...

$api = new win32;

$api->definetype("MEMORYSTATUS {
long dwLength;
long dwMemoryLoad;
long dwTotalPhys;
long dwAvailPhys;
long dwTotalPageFile;
long dwAvailPageFile;
long dwTotalVirtual;
long dwAvailVirtual;
}");
$api->registerfunction("long GlobalMemoryStatus (MEMORYSTATUS &a) From
kernel32.dll");
$api->registerfunction("long memstat_phys (long &a1,long &a2) From
w32apitest.dll");
$api->registerfunction("long memstat_pf (long &a1,long &a2) From
w32apitest.dll");
$api->registerfunction("long cool (MEMORYSTATUS a1) From w32apitest.dll");
$a=$api->InitType("MEMORYSTATUS");
$api->GlobalMemoryStatus($a); // call a w32api function


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> When trying to run the following script, it returns the following error
> "...Fatal error: Call to undefined function:
w32api_register_function()...".
> Does this w32api extension work?
>
> // Define constants needed, taken from
> // Visual Studio/Tools/Winapi/WIN32API.txt
> define("MB_OK", 0);
>
> // Load the extension in
> dl("php_w32api.dll");
>
> // Register the GetTickCount function from kernel32.dll
> w32api_register_function("kernel32.dll",
>   "GetTickCount",
>  "long");

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Re: [PHP] Allowing specific IP's to bypass security.

[Marek Kilimajer]

$_SESSION['details_captured'] = "yes";

single =, and there is no need to "reset" the session variable.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all...
I have a form that captures data, before then showing a few download 
links...
However, If the user is in our office, I want to bypass the form...
so at the very top of my page, I've put this...
(details_captured is my variable I use on the form as a hidden field, to 
confirm that the form has been submitted)

if ($REMOTE_ADDR == '111.222.333.444') {
$_SESSION['details_captured'] == FALSE;
$_SESSION['details_captured'] == "yes";
}
reset the session variable:
$_SESSION['details_captured'] == FALSE;
Re-asign it to yes:
$_SESSION['details_captured'] == "yes";
I'm new to sessions, but to me, this should work.. yet it doesn't..?
(Naturally, I've used an easy to read IP for this example)
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[PHP] ob_get_length() returns uncompressed buffer length (after ob_start('ob_gzhandler'))

[daniel hahler]

Hello PHP,

I found this small demonstration code on the net, that shows it really
good.



Call it with:
wget --header="Accept-Encoding: gzip" --header="Connection: close" -S 
http://localhost/test.php

on php-bugs I found that this is defined as "bogus", as the
compression takes place after all output is collected.

But I did not find an answer, how to correct this.. - using
ob_implicit_flush(); did also not help.


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Re: [PHP] seems like magic_quotes_gpc is turning itsself on!

[William Bailey]

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It can be on any page.

The magic_quotes_gpc check takes place in a settings.php file which is
always the first thing included for every php page for this site. It has
a number of define statements and a few other includes and thats about
it. No database connections or anything else apart from class and
function declarations have taken place.
CPT John W. Holmes wrote:

| From: "William Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
|>I have a strange problem with one of the sites i work on and provide
|>support for. I the following block of code that checks to see if
|>magic_quotes_gpc is enabled and if it is it dies with an error message:
|>
|>if((integer)ini_get('magic_quotes_gpc')!=0){
|>~debug('Magic Quotes GPC is currently active. Please disable.');
|>}
|>
|>The debug functoin just displays a sorry message on the browser and
|>emails the description and the serialized $GLOBALS variable back to me.
|>
|>in the php.ini i have the following:
|>
|>; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data.
|>magic_quotes_gpc = Off
|>
|>Now every so often say at most 1 in 100 hits a user will see the sorry
|>screen and i get a call back email and every time its the same issue
|>'Magic Quotes GPC is currently active. Please disable.'
|
|
| Is it only for certain pages or random ones? Examing $GLOBALS doesn't give
| any clues, I presume? Nothing strange in the query string, etc?
|
| ---John Holmes...
|
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Re: [PHP] Destroying session if not being used from past 10 mins.

[Binay]

Thanks alo...
Is it possible to increase the probability which is by default 1% to 99 %
and make sure that session are destroyed after 10 mins by setting
session.gc_maxlifetime to 600.

Binay
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To: "Binay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Destroying session if not being used from past 10 mins.


> From: "Binay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > How can I configure the session to get destroyed,
> > if not being used from past 10 mins.
>
> If you're using the default session handler, the session files are cleaned
> up after not being used for 1440 seconds (by default), and the session is
> basically destroyed. You can adjust the session.gc_maxlifetime setting in
> php.ini to adjust the time.
>
> This time isn't exact, though. The cleanup process is based upon a
> probability that is 1% by default. That means the process has a 1% chance
of
> being started when there is a request to your site. So the files may be
> older than 1440 seconds and just waiting for the garbage collection
process
> to be initiated.
>
> If you need it to be exactly 10 minutes of inactivity, the best method is
to
> just store the time of the last request as a session variable and do the
> checking yourself upon each request. If the last request was more than 10
> minutes ago, then handle it accordingly.
>
> ---John Holmes...

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Re: [PHP] Destroying session if not being used from past 10 mins.

[CPT John W. Holmes]

From: "Binay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Is it possible to increase the probability which is by default 1% to 99 %
> and make sure that session are destroyed after 10 mins by setting
> session.gc_maxlifetime to 600.

I wouldn't recommend that, but you could. The setting to 600 is fine, but I
wouldn't adjust the probability.

Like I said, if you need a hard and fast 10 minute rule, then keep track of
the time yourself within your session.

$_SESSION['last_access'] = time();

If the session variable doesn't exist or it's been over 10 minutes (600
seconds) since the last access, then make them log in again or whatever.

---John Holmes...

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[PHP] HTTP 405 - Resource not allowed error

[Sudheer Palaparambil]

Hi,



  This file and the index.php are kept in the same directory. But the
  browser returns
 I tried  GET also, but not inserting the data to mysql db.

This is my insert_user.php

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Re: [PHP] HTTP 405 - Resource not allowed error

[David Otton]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:22:26 +0530, you wrote:

>
>
>   This file and the index.php are kept in the same directory. But the
>   browser returns

405 is Method Not Allowed. My first guess would be that your web server
won't allow you to do POSTs to that resource.

If Apache, check httpd.conf or .htaccess within the directory. In any case,
not a PHP problem.

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[PHP] Re: Using two XSLT stylesheets

[rich]

Aha!

I've worked out a (better?) way of doing:
 $keywords);

$library_xml_file = "library.xml";
$search_xsl_file = "simple-search.xsl";
$display_xsl_file = "display-results.xsl";

$library_xml_string = join('', file($library_xml_file));
$search_xsl_string = join('', file($search_xsl_file));
$display_xsl_string = join('', file($display_xsl_file));

$arg_buffer = array("/xml" => $library_xml_string, "/xslt" =>
$search_xsl_string);

$xh = xslt_create();

$results_xml_string = xslt_process($xh, "arg:/xml", "arg:/xslt", NULL,
$arg_buffer, $params);
xslt_free($xh);

$arg_buffer = array("/xml" => $results_xml_string, "/xslt" =>
$display_xsl_string);

$xh = xslt_create();

$results_html_string = xslt_process($xh, "arg:/xml", "arg:/xslt", NULL,
$arg_buffer);
echo $results_html_string;
xslt_free($xh);
?>

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Re: [PHP] cache control with javascript

[Joshua Minnie]

The "it" that you were asking about was the server.  The javascript file is
actually a PHP file that produces the JavaScript that I need.  I only have
one access to a database and a while loop to generate the code.  Here is the
code pieces:

[code]
// already connected to the db
$sql = "SELECT * FROM Customers ORDER BY LastName ASC, FirstName ASC";
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
// generate the javascript
}
[/code]

The customer database can get potentially large so that this file could take
a while to generate.  Currently there are only 300 records but I anticipate
many more.  Does anyone have any recommendations that might speed this up?

Josh

"- Edwin -" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Does anybody know how I can make force a javascript file (written in
> > PHP) to be cached if the user agent allows it?
> >
> > Here is the situation:
> > I am creating a dropdown menu system that contains a customer list,
> > loaded from a database.  This list is written to the javascript file
> > for the menu. The menu can be quite large as the data grows.  What I
> > would like to do, is force it to be cached (unless of course the
> > user agent doesn't allow it) so that it doesn't have to make the
> > call to generate the file each time.
>
> What is the second "it" in the last sentence above? A browser wouldn't
> make the call to "generate" the javascript file each time.
>
> > I have searched through the php.net website and even through the
> > HTTP/1.1 protocols.  I am continuing to look, but have not found a
> > definite answer as to whether or not what I am trying to do is
> > possible.
>
> Just make sure that the javascript is on a separate file (i.e.
> whatever.js) and that it's NOT being generated by your (php) script
> each time. Then, "call" that file from inside your html/php page.

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Re: [PHP] run PHP script in clean memory space

[Eugene Lee]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:48:09AM +0200, Honza Malik wrote:
: 
: I want to give administrators of our CMS the possibility to use PHP commands
: in HTML templates. Templates are parsed by our PHP script.
: 
: The problem is, that I don't want administrators to be able to list our
: $GLOBALS (where is database password) or call our functions. Is there the
: possibility to run administrator's PHP code (from our PHP) in clean
: environment? Other solution?

PHP doesn't really have the concept of a "safe interpreter".  The next
best thing is to take a look at PHP's safe mode stuff and see what you
can tweek:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.php

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[PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Marco Tabini]

Hello Everyone--

I wanted to let you know about a new initiative that php|architect has 
launched: the Searchable PHP Mailing List Archive, which can be found at 
http://phparch.com/mailinglists.

This is a fully searchable archive of the PHP mailing lists with an 
attempt to build proper threading, keyword highlight, automatic quoted 
text indentation and a few other features.

It's still a bit experimental, and some features don't work as best as 
they could. However, it should be fairly functional, and the full-text 
search engine can be helpful if you're looking for fast answers to 
problems that are often asked on the mailing lists. It's there for 
everyone to try, and please feel free to drop me a note if you think 
something doesn't quite work the way it should or if you have ideas 
about possible enhancement. At the present time, one of the things we're 
working on is filtering the messages trough SpamAssassin and allowing 
for the possibility to exclude messages marked as spam from the search 
results.

We built our archive because we found it difficult to find a good search 
resource dedicated only to the PHP mailing lists. I hope it will help 
you, as well.

Cheers,

Marco Tabini
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[PHP] Re: Read a file, extract and echo some information

[rush]

"Php Webmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Anyway, the following code is inside of home.php:
> As you can see, the above code will not work as the $title variable has
not
> been set yet. So, I need a way of opening up the home.php file, extracting
> the line containing the $title variable and putting that information
> inbetween the  tags.

I do not completely get why are you doing things the way you are doing and
what exactly you tra to accomplish, but I guess you could have home-head.php
that defines the varibale, and include that before you use title variable.

But it seems to me that in the longer run you could consider some php
template system to approach such problems.

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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[CPT John W. Holmes]

From: "Marco Tabini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> This is a fully searchable archive of the PHP mailing lists with an
> attempt to build proper threading, keyword highlight, automatic quoted
> text indentation and a few other features.

Everyone go check it out. The thread view and highlighting really make the
search results useful. You can never have to many archives; now if we can
just get people (new people) using them. ;)

Ma Siva Kumar,
Any chance you can add this to the [Newbie Guide] you regularly send out?

Thanks,

---John Holmes...

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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Miles Thompson]

V. nice.
All the more importnat ot NOT HIJAC threads.
Miles
At 10:07 AM 10/21/2003 -0400, Marco Tabini wrote:
Hello Everyone--

I wanted to let you know about a new initiative that php|architect has 
launched: the Searchable PHP Mailing List Archive, which can be found at 
http://phparch.com/mailinglists.

This is a fully searchable archive of the PHP mailing lists with an 
attempt to build proper threading, keyword highlight, automatic quoted 
text indentation and a few other features.

It's still a bit experimental, and some features don't work as best as 
they could. However, it should be fairly functional, and the full-text 
search engine can be helpful if you're looking for fast answers to 
problems that are often asked on the mailing lists. It's there for 
everyone to try, and please feel free to drop me a note if you think 
something doesn't quite work the way it should or if you have ideas about 
possible enhancement. At the present time, one of the things we're working 
on is filtering the messages trough SpamAssassin and allowing for the 
possibility to exclude messages marked as spam from the search results.

We built our archive because we found it difficult to find a good search 
resource dedicated only to the PHP mailing lists. I hope it will help you, 
as well.

Cheers,

Marco Tabini
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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Curt Zirzow]

* Thus wrote Marco Tabini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hello Everyone--
> 
> I wanted to let you know about a new initiative that php|architect has 
> launched: the Searchable PHP Mailing List Archive, which can be found at 
> http://phparch.com/mailinglists.
> 
> This is a fully searchable archive of the PHP mailing lists with an 
> attempt to build proper threading, keyword highlight, automatic quoted 
> text indentation and a few other features.

sweet.  Mabey we could get my graphs attached in there somehow too ;)

> We built our archive because we found it difficult to find a good search 
> resource dedicated only to the PHP mailing lists. I hope it will help 
> you, as well.

I always have trouble searching for stuff with theaimsgroup archive
as well. 

> 
> Cheers,

Thanks!!


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RE: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Dan Joseph]

Hi,
 
> > I wanted to let you know about a new initiative that php|architect has 
> > launched: the Searchable PHP Mailing List Archive, which can be 
> found at 
> > http://phparch.com/mailinglists.

3 words... YOU DONE GOOD!

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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Marco Tabini]

I always have trouble searching for stuff with theaimsgroup archive
as well. 
I know what you mean. Google is a good alternative, but they still can't 
tell between the word PHP and the extension PHP, so that the results 
aren't always relevant...

Cheers,

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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[andu]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:07:28 -0400
Marco Tabini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello Everyone--
> 
> I wanted to let you know about a new initiative that php|architect has 
> launched: the Searchable PHP Mailing List Archive, which can be found at 
> http://phparch.com/mailinglists.
> 
> This is a fully searchable archive of the PHP mailing lists with an 
> attempt to build proper threading, keyword highlight, automatic quoted 
> text indentation and a few other features.
> 
> It's still a bit experimental, and some features don't work as best as 
> they could. However, it should be fairly functional, and the full-text 
> search engine can be helpful if you're looking for fast answers to 
> problems that are often asked on the mailing lists. It's there for 
> everyone to try, and please feel free to drop me a note if you think 
> something doesn't quite work the way it should or if you have ideas 
> about possible enhancement. At the present time, one of the things we're 
> working on is filtering the messages trough SpamAssassin and allowing 
> for the possibility to exclude messages marked as spam from the search 
> results.
> 
> We built our archive because we found it difficult to find a good search 
> resource dedicated only to the PHP mailing lists. I hope it will help 
> you, as well.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Marco Tabini
> php|architect

Nice work, if the list admin would add a link to this archive in the footer (or
the header) it would be even useful for new subscribers who don't know of its
existence.
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> 



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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Marco Tabini]

Nice work, if the list admin would add a link to this archive in the footer (or
the header) it would be even useful for new subscribers who don't know of its
existence.
Well, one of my original ideas was to have a process that would monitor 
php.general for new messages and send back an e-mail to the list with 
possible answers based on the message's contents. I'm not sure that 
would be a good idea, though :-)

Cheers,

Marco

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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[andu]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:42:25 -0400
Marco Tabini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > 
> > Nice work, if the list admin would add a link to this archive in the footer
> > (or the header) it would be even useful for new subscribers who don't know of
> > its existence.
> > 
> 
> Well, one of my original ideas was to have a process that would monitor 
> php.general for new messages and send back an e-mail to the list with 
> possible answers based on the message's contents. I'm not sure that 
> would be a good idea, though :-)

I think the idea is splendid (and new, call it DFAQ (dynamic FAQ)) but as a
different service than a mailing list. Challenging?


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Marco
> 
> 
> 



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[PHP] similar_text

[Diana Castillo]

does any one have an example of a function to search a database for similar
names and display them if the user inputs a name that is not found?

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Re: [PHP] similar_text

[Duncan]

Diana Castillo said:
> does any one have an example of a function to search a database for similar
> names and display them if the user inputs a name that is not found?

Define 'similar names'.

Is Nadia similar to Nadine?
Is Nathan similar to Nadine?

How long is a piece of string?

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[PHP] search by keyword

[Redmond Militante]

hi all

i'm trying to add a 'search by keyword' text field to a search page.  the 'search by 
keyword' search field should allow users to enter a comma delimited string containing 
a list of keywords to search the database for.

on the search_results page, what happens is:
-i use explode() to break the comma-delimited string down into array elements, and 
count() to count the number of array elements
-then i use a for loop to cycle through the list of array elements and run a sql query 
to search through a table for any matches to a particular array element.  the for loop 
looks like

//for loop that cycles through elements in an array, and searching through a mys
ql table for matches
for($j=0; $j<$count_elements; $j++)
{$sql.="and columnname like '%keywords[$j]%' or columnname2 like '%keywords[$j]'
 or columnname3 like '%keywords[$j]%'...'";}

i think this is technically working, since it's not giving me any errors, however it 
basically slows down searches to the point of unusability.

i'm not entirely sure if my methodology in this case is the most efficient way to 
accomplish this particular task.  if anyone can give any pointers, i'd appreciate it.

thanks
redmond

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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Marco Tabini]

I think the idea is splendid (and new, call it DFAQ (dynamic FAQ)) but as a
different service than a mailing list. Challenging?
What did you have in mind exactly? How is the FAQ served?

Marco

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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[- Edwin -]

Hi,

On 2003.10.21, at 23:42 Asia/Tokyo, Marco Tabini wrote:

Nice work, if the list admin would add a link to this archive in the 
footer (or
the header) it would be even useful for new subscribers who don't 
know of its
existence.
Well, one of my original ideas was to have a process that would 
monitor php.general for new messages and send back an e-mail to the 
list with possible answers based on the message's contents. I'm not 
sure that would be a good idea, though :-)
Sort of a PHP-AI eh? :) Hmm... I don't think that's a bad idea at all, 
but...

I wonder how you'd deal with new messages/posts/questions which:
1. Real people don't even understand, and
2. Real posters don't even understand what they're asking.
;)

- E -

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Re: [PHP] cache control with javascript

[- Edwin -]

On 2003.10.21, at 22:28 Asia/Tokyo, Joshua Minnie wrote:

The "it" that you were asking about was the server.  The javascript 
file is
actually a PHP file that produces the JavaScript that I need.  I only 
have
one access to a database and a while loop to generate the code.  Here 
is the
code pieces:
...[snipped_code]...

The customer database can get potentially large so that this file 
could take
a while to generate.  Currently there are only 300 records but I 
anticipate
many more.  Does anyone have any recommendations that might speed this 
up?
Hmm... I think you missed the point earlier.

Here's the basic idea. Create/generate a separate file ("whatever.js") 
[1] and make sure that this file is ONLY *updated* when necessary (e.g. 
updated database)[2]. Call this file inside your HTML  tags. [3] 
This way, the "whatever.js" will be "cached" whenever possible.

- E -

[1] Check the file functions in the manual (if you're not familiar with 
it already).
(http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php)
[2] Tip: Have a separate php script that generates the "whatever.js".
Use/run this script ONLY after you made an update to your database.
[3] Something like this:
  

  

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Re: [PHP] similar_text

[David Otton]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:42:17 +0200, you wrote:

>does any one have an example of a function to search a database for similar
>names and display them if the user inputs a name that is not found?

Are you looking for SOUNDEX, perhaps?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=SOUNDEX+algorithm

PHP and MySQL both have soundex functions. There are other "sounds like"
algorithms out there (eg Metaphone).

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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Marco Tabini]

- Edwin - wrote:
Sort of a PHP-AI eh? :) Hmm... I don't think that's a bad idea at all, 
but...

I wonder how you'd deal with new messages/posts/questions which:
1. Real people don't even understand, and
2. Real posters don't even understand what they're asking.
Well, that's, of course, a problem. In the best case scenario, the 
search engine will recognize the patterns and provide meaningful 
suggestions. In the worst case scenario, it won't return anything useful.

Still, it might be worth a try. The system could send only the top ten 
search results. The problem is that the results should be mailed to the 
list so that others could tell whether they satisfy the question, but 
I'm afraid that would become annoying.

The truth, however, is that there is a lot of repetition in the 
questions that are asked here and a simple search through the archives 
would answer many questions directly--keeping the list a bit cleaner and 
easier to follow, IMO.

;)

- E -

PS
Nice work, btw!
Thanks :-)

Cheers,

Marco

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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[andu]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:48:18 -0400
Marco Tabini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > 
> > I think the idea is splendid (and new, call it DFAQ (dynamic FAQ)) but as a
> > different service than a mailing list. Challenging?
> > 
> 
> What did you have in mind exactly? How is the FAQ served?

Considering the enourmos amount of RTFM-like answers (which BTW should be filtered
out from searches)I came to believe that most issues have already been explored
but lots of questions from new users are more vague or extended for a simple
search engine, so something like what you proposed sounds like it would satisfy
that need except that users would have to subscribe to such a service as opposed
to having dynamically generated answers based on the archive replied automatically
to posts which could be confuzing. As to the protocol it could be either email or
http or both. Not exactly a FAQ but a more extended search engine. 

> 
> 
> Marco
> 
> 
> 



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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[bigdog]

> - Edwin - wrote:
>>
>> Sort of a PHP-AI eh? :) Hmm... I don't think that's a bad idea at all,
>>  but...
>>
>> I wonder how you'd deal with new messages/posts/questions which: 1.
>> Real people don't even understand, and
>> 2. Real posters don't even understand what they're asking.
>>
>
> Well, that's, of course, a problem. In the best case scenario, the
> search engine will recognize the patterns and provide meaningful
> suggestions. In the worst case scenario, it won't return anything
> useful.
>
> Still, it might be worth a try. The system could send only the top ten
> search results. The problem is that the results should be mailed to the
>  list so that others could tell whether they satisfy the question, but
> I'm afraid that would become annoying.
>
> The truth, however, is that there is a lot of repetition in the
> questions that are asked here and a simple search through the archives
> would answer many questions directly--keeping the list a bit cleaner
> and  easier to follow, IMO.

However, the only issue with that is that many users do not search the
archives, faqs, or internet for the answers before posting to the list.
This always seems the case. Many users are unaware of the ethics around
mailing lists.  Sometimes it is a result of the lack of knowledge that a
user has in searching.  And sometimes, even for myself, a lack of will to
search for the answer.

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Re: [PHP] search by keyword

[Larry E . Ullman]

on the search_results page, what happens is:
-i use explode() to break the comma-delimited string down into array 
elements, and count() to count the number of array elements
-then i use a for loop to cycle through the list of array elements and 
run a sql query to search through a table for any matches to a 
particular array element.  the for loop looks like

//for loop that cycles through elements in an array, and searching 
through a mys
ql table for matches
for($j=0; $j<$count_elements; $j++)
{$sql.="and columnname like '%keywords[$j]%' or columnname2 like 
'%keywords[$j]'
 or columnname3 like '%keywords[$j]%'...'";}

i think this is technically working, since it's not giving me any 
errors, however it basically slows down searches to the point of 
unusability.
If you are using MySQL, look into FULL TEXT searches. MySQL 4 also has 
a binary mode which is pretty good. Make sure you've indexed your 
columns as well.
Larry

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RE: [PHP] cache control with javascript

[Joshua Minnie]

That really helped, I didn't think about generating the file that way.  I
have done other things like that, but sometimes it just helps when you get
another set of eyes on the project at hand.  Thanks for the refresher.

Josh

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To: Joshua Minnie
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On 2003.10.21, at 22:28 Asia/Tokyo, Joshua Minnie wrote:

> The "it" that you were asking about was the server.  The javascript
> file is
> actually a PHP file that produces the JavaScript that I need.  I only
> have
> one access to a database and a while loop to generate the code.  Here
> is the
> code pieces:

...[snipped_code]...

> The customer database can get potentially large so that this file
> could take
> a while to generate.  Currently there are only 300 records but I
> anticipate
> many more.  Does anyone have any recommendations that might speed this
> up?

Hmm... I think you missed the point earlier.

Here's the basic idea. Create/generate a separate file ("whatever.js")
[1] and make sure that this file is ONLY *updated* when necessary (e.g.
updated database)[2]. Call this file inside your HTML  tags. [3]
This way, the "whatever.js" will be "cached" whenever possible.

- E -

[1] Check the file functions in the manual (if you're not familiar with
it already).
 (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php)
[2] Tip: Have a separate php script that generates the "whatever.js".
 Use/run this script ONLY after you made an update to your database.
[3] Something like this:
   
 
   

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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[andu]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:52:53 +0900
- Edwin - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 2003.10.21, at 23:42 Asia/Tokyo, Marco Tabini wrote:
> 
> >> Nice work, if the list admin would add a link to this archive in the 
> >> footer (or
> >> the header) it would be even useful for new subscribers who don't 
> >> know of its
> >> existence.
> >
> > Well, one of my original ideas was to have a process that would 
> > monitor php.general for new messages and send back an e-mail to the 
> > list with possible answers based on the message's contents. I'm not 
> > sure that would be a good idea, though :-)
> 
> Sort of a PHP-AI eh? :) Hmm... I don't think that's a bad idea at all, 
> but...
> 
> I wonder how you'd deal with new messages/posts/questions which:
> 1. Real people don't even understand, and
> 2. Real posters don't even understand what they're asking.

I think that's exactly where it's needed. At least some posters would get a chance
to figure out their questions and others to have their annoyed ones justified ;-).

> 
> ;)
> 
> - E -
> 
> PS
> Nice work, btw!
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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Chris Shiflett]

Perhaps Marco can try an "Ask Jeeves" type of Web app. Is that the sort of
thing you are suggesting?

So, as another feature of this mailing list archive, there could be a place
where people can ask a question, and Ask Marco will try to come up with some
suggested posts to read. This would give people even fewer excuses to not check
the archives. :-)

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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Chris Shiflett]

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> However, the only issue with that is that many users do not search the
> archives, faqs, or internet for the answers before posting to the list.
> This always seems the case. Many users are unaware of the ethics around
> mailing lists.

I think many users are also unaware of the archives. A lot of people who ask
questions on this list don't follow it for several days before doing so. They
have a problem, go to http://www.php.net/ hoping to find an answer, and stumble
across this list.

I'm not sure what the welcome message says, but that would be the place for a
newbie guide. This is the only way to be sure that users have at least had this
in front of their eyes at one point, even if they still choose to ignore it.

Chris

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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Marco Tabini]

Chris Shiflett wrote:
Perhaps Marco can try an "Ask Jeeves" type of Web app. Is that the sort of
thing you are suggesting?
So, as another feature of this mailing list archive, there could be a place
where people can ask a question, and Ask Marco will try to come up with some
suggested posts to read. This would give people even fewer excuses to not check
the archives. :-)
Well, to a certain degree our archives already work like this. For example:

http://www.phparch.com/mailinglists/results.php?s=how+do+I+alternate+table+row+colours%3F&g=75

Returns the results for the question "ho do I alternate table row 
colours?", and AFAICS the results returned are quite on target, so we're 
not too far from *that* goal.

The problem is that people don't know/use/want to be bothered with a Web 
interface, and use the mailing lists instead, so this service should IMO 
be somehow connected with the list proper.

Cheers,

Marco

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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[andu]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:16:27 -0700 (PDT)
Chris Shiflett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Perhaps Marco can try an "Ask Jeeves" type of Web app. Is that the sort of
> thing you are suggesting?
> 
> So, as another feature of this mailing list archive, there could be a place
> where people can ask a question, and Ask Marco will try to come up with some
> suggested posts to read. This would give people even fewer excuses to not check
> the archives. :-)

They would do it without knowing  it. Remember, asking a question is an art in
itself and not everyone is an artist ;-).

> 
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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Robert Cummings]

I think this is great but have one bit of hopefully constructive
criticism... the horizontal real estate is too small, or the font is too
large, I find the content wraps terribly :/

Cheers,
Rob.

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 10:07, Marco Tabini wrote:
> Hello Everyone--
> 
> I wanted to let you know about a new initiative that php|architect has 
> launched: the Searchable PHP Mailing List Archive, which can be found at 
> http://phparch.com/mailinglists.
> 
> This is a fully searchable archive of the PHP mailing lists with an 
> attempt to build proper threading, keyword highlight, automatic quoted 
> text indentation and a few other features.
> 
> It's still a bit experimental, and some features don't work as best as 
> they could. However, it should be fairly functional, and the full-text 
> search engine can be helpful if you're looking for fast answers to 
> problems that are often asked on the mailing lists. It's there for 
> everyone to try, and please feel free to drop me a note if you think 
> something doesn't quite work the way it should or if you have ideas 
> about possible enhancement. At the present time, one of the things we're 
> working on is filtering the messages trough SpamAssassin and allowing 
> for the possibility to exclude messages marked as spam from the search 
> results.
> 
> We built our archive because we found it difficult to find a good search 
> resource dedicated only to the PHP mailing lists. I hope it will help 
> you, as well.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Marco Tabini]

Robert Cummings wrote:
I think this is great but have one bit of hopefully constructive
criticism... the horizontal real estate is too small, or the font is too
large, I find the content wraps terribly :/
Cheers,
Rob.
Hi Rob--

True. Alas, it has to fit in our design, so one of the possibilities 
we're experimenting with is using either floating frames for the 
threading, or reducing the font size--the problem with the latter being 
that we *do* want people to be able to read the messages ;-)

Thanks for the suggestion!

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RE: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Chris W. Parker]

Marco Tabini 
on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:56 AM said:

> True. Alas, it has to fit in our design, so one of the possibilities
> we're experimenting with is using either floating frames for the
> threading, or reducing the font size--the problem with the latter
> being that we *do* want people to be able to read the messages ;-)

What you definitely need to do is move the threading from the left hand
side to a place that doesn't constrict the width of the message.
Sooo like you've suggested, the frame idea would probably work
great. It could even be a div set to overflow when the content is too
long placed at the top of the email.


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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Marek Kilimajer]

Marco Tabini wrote:
True. Alas, it has to fit in our design, so one of the possibilities 
we're experimenting with is using either floating frames for the 
threading, or reducing the font size--the problem with the latter being 
that we *do* want people to be able to read the messages ;-)

Thanks for the suggestion!

Cheers,

Marco

My suggestion would be to use iframe for the message. It would load much 
faster then.

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RE: [PHP] Read a file, extract and echo some information

[Chris W. Parker]

PHP Webmaster 
on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 4:17 AM said:

> The required file will be changing all the time, that's why I want
> to set the title in the individual pages and get the main page to
> read that information.

in that case let me revise my original code.


ORIGINAL:

>> > 
>> $title = "page title";
>> 
>> 
>> include "header.php";
>> 
>> echo "Welcome to the home page of our website.\n"
>> ."Blah, blah and more blah!\n";
>> 
>> include "footer.php";
>> 
>> ?>

NEW AND IMPROVED:




main.php:

Welcome to the home page of our website.\n";
$output .= "Blah, blah and more blah!\n";

return $output;
}

?>

Instead of assigning everything to a variable and returning it you could
echo ""; everything, OR I think you can turn on output buffering and
then capture the buffer and then return that.


I should also mention that I used to do what you originally presented
when I wrote ASP. It was real easy with ASP because there is a
"function" called Sub. It's not really a function in that it performs a
task, but it was more like defining an include without including an
entire file.

I also ran into a few problems with that method because it prevented me
from designing the infrastructure of the site in the way I wanted to. I
don't remember any specifics about that though. ;)

Chris.

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[subs]

Marco Tabini wrote:
> The problem is that the results should be mailed to the
> list so that others could tell whether they satisfy the question, but
> I'm afraid that would become annoying.

Perhaps a sister list could be setup to receive these messages.  This
would prevent the annoyance while still providing a central location for
those interested to view responses.  A bit of mail server wizardry (if
you'd even call it that) can ensure that messages are delivered to all
those participating in the thread.

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- Edwin - wrote:
>
> Sort of a PHP-AI eh? :) Hmm... I don't think that's a bad idea at all,
> but...
>
> I wonder how you'd deal with new messages/posts/questions which:
> 1. Real people don't even understand, and
> 2. Real posters don't even understand what they're asking.
>

Well, that's, of course, a problem. In the best case scenario, the
search engine will recognize the patterns and provide meaningful
suggestions. In the worst case scenario, it won't return anything useful.

Still, it might be worth a try. The system could send only the top ten
search results. The problem is that the results should be mailed to the
list so that others could tell whether they satisfy the question, but
I'm afraid that would become annoying.

The truth, however, is that there is a lot of repetition in the
questions that are asked here and a simple search through the archives
would answer many questions directly--keeping the list a bit cleaner and
easier to follow, IMO.

> ;)
>
> - E -
>
> PS
> Nice work, btw!

Thanks :-)

Cheers,


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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[bigdog]

> Robert Cummings wrote:
>> I think this is great but have one bit of hopefully constructive
>> criticism... the horizontal real estate is too small, or the font is
>> too large, I find the content wraps terribly :/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rob.
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> Hi Rob--
>
> True. Alas, it has to fit in our design, so one of the possibilities
> we're experimenting with is using either floating frames for the
> threading, or reducing the font size--the problem with the latter being
>  that we *do* want people to be able to read the messages ;-)

the user also has the ability to change the fonts.

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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Marco Tabini]

Interesting thoughts... who would handle the separate list, though?

Marco

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Marco Tabini wrote:

The problem is that the results should be mailed to the
list so that others could tell whether they satisfy the question, but
I'm afraid that would become annoying.


Perhaps a sister list could be setup to receive these messages.  This
would prevent the annoyance while still providing a central location for
those interested to view responses.  A bit of mail server wizardry (if
you'd even call it that) can ensure that messages are delivered to all
those participating in the thread.
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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- Edwin - wrote:

Sort of a PHP-AI eh? :) Hmm... I don't think that's a bad idea at all,
but...
I wonder how you'd deal with new messages/posts/questions which:
1. Real people don't even understand, and
2. Real posters don't even understand what they're asking.


Well, that's, of course, a problem. In the best case scenario, the
search engine will recognize the patterns and provide meaningful
suggestions. In the worst case scenario, it won't return anything useful.
Still, it might be worth a try. The system could send only the top ten
search results. The problem is that the results should be mailed to the
list so that others could tell whether they satisfy the question, but
I'm afraid that would become annoying.
The truth, however, is that there is a lot of repetition in the
questions that are asked here and a simple search through the archives
would answer many questions directly--keeping the list a bit cleaner and
easier to follow, IMO.

;)

- E -

PS
Nice work, btw!


Thanks :-)

Cheers,

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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Chris Shiflett]

--- Marek Kilimajer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My suggestion would be to use iframe for the message. It would load
> much faster then.

How would that make it load much faster? Surely not because it requires an
additional HTTP transaction, increasing the load. I'm curious to know what you
mean.

The thread view needs to be moved, perhaps to that blank spot to the right of
the orange line. That spot probably isn't intended to be blank, since I notice
there are ads and such way down at the bottom, but that's how it renders in
Galeon (Gecko).

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[PHP] Using cookies

[John Taylor-Johnston]

Can someone recommend a good URL on cookies and security issues please?
I can program them, but am told I'm putting others at risk, forcing people to use 
cookies on my site.

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Re: [PHP] date counting/subtracting MySQL and PHP

[Jason Wong]

On Wednesday 22 October 2003 04:32, Paul Nowosielski wrote:

> I need to get mysql or php to subtract the current date from
> $date_posted(time stamp) and return the number of days(the item has been
> posted) as a sum.

Use the MySQL function TO_DAYS(). Not sure what you mean by "as a sum".

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[PHP] Run exe file: Yes it is possible.

[Gabriel Peugnet]

It depends on the server configuration.
Tipicaly, the cgi-bin folder is used tu run scripts AND exe files.
You have to put the exe file in cgi-bin and chek if this folder have
permission tu run it. If not:  give it.
There are some sites that use exe instead of scripts to show pages. It gives
more security but dificulty on manteining the program.

Regards,
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RE: [PHP] Using cookies

[Chris W. Parker]

John Taylor-Johnston 
on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 11:40 AM said:

> Can someone recommend a good URL on cookies and security issues
> please? I can program them, but am told I'm putting others at risk,
> forcing people to use cookies on my site. 

I guess it depends on what you're storing in the cookie. What are you
storing right now? Maybe there's an alternative?


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Re: [PHP] Using cookies

[Curt Zirzow]

* Thus wrote John Taylor-Johnston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Can someone recommend a good URL on cookies and security issues please?
> I can program them, but am told I'm putting others at risk, forcing people to use 
> cookies on my site.
> 

Being online is a risk, or even crossing the street is a risk (I
almost got hit by a car yesterday.)  Any specific type of risk you
have in mind?

googling for 'cookie secuirty' yields some general information.


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Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Marek Kilimajer]

Chris Shiflett wrote:
--- Marek Kilimajer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

My suggestion would be to use iframe for the message. It would load
much faster then.


How would that make it load much faster? Surely not because it requires an
additional HTTP transaction, increasing the load. I'm curious to know what you
mean.
The thread view needs to be moved, perhaps to that blank spot to the right of
the orange line. That spot probably isn't intended to be blank, since I notice
there are ads and such way down at the bottom, but that's how it renders in
Galeon (Gecko).
Chris
Yes, you are right. I forgot that the thread view changes too. However 
DHTML could solve this ;)

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Re: [PHP] Using cookies

[John Taylor-Johnston]

Nothing much. Been receiving flack about forcing people into cookies. Much 
misunderstood info about cookies. I need an URL to pass on for extra reading, as 
rebuttal.

"Chris W. Parker" wrote:

> John Taylor-Johnston 
> on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 11:40 AM said:
>
> > Can someone recommend a good URL on cookies and security issues
> > please? I can program them, but am told I'm putting others at risk,
> > forcing people to use cookies on my site.
>
> I guess it depends on what you're storing in the cookie. What are you
> storing right now? Maybe there's an alternative?
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RE: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

[Jonathan Villa]

Cool, this means that don't have to keep a directory of every post in
this mailing list or the php-db mailing list in order to search through.

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From: Chris Shiflett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 1:00 PM
To: Marek Kilimajer; Marco Tabini
Cc: PHP-General
Subject: Re: [PHP] (ANNOUNCE) New PHP mailing list *searchable* archives

--- Marek Kilimajer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My suggestion would be to use iframe for the message. It would load
> much faster then.

How would that make it load much faster? Surely not because it requires
an
additional HTTP transaction, increasing the load. I'm curious to know
what you
mean.

The thread view needs to be moved, perhaps to that blank spot to the
right of
the orange line. That spot probably isn't intended to be blank, since I
notice
there are ads and such way down at the bottom, but that's how it renders
in
Galeon (Gecko).

Chris

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RE: [PHP] Using cookies

[Joseph Bannon]

It's your site isn't it? -lol

J



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Nothing much. Been receiving flack about forcing people into cookies.
Much misunderstood info about cookies. I need an URL to pass on for
extra reading, as rebuttal.

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Re: [PHP] Using cookies

[Marco Tabini]

We use a standard disclaimer:

2. Use of Cookies
Like many websites, we use cookies to maintain certain information about 
you while you are visiting our website. However, we do not share the 
contents of our cookies with any third party, under any circumstances. 
Should we allow a third party to provide advertisement through our 
website or through our magazine, please be advised that we are not 
responsible for their use of cookies, and that we do not normally have 
access to the information that they store in their cookies.

That has kept our users at bay, but we admittedly cater to a technical 
audience...

Cheers,

Marco

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Re: [PHP] Using cookies

[Chris Shiflett]

--- John Taylor-Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can someone recommend a good URL on cookies and security issues
> please? I can program them, but am told I'm putting others at risk,
> forcing people to use cookies on my site.

I have a free chapter about cookies from HTTP Developer's Handbook on my site,
and it gives some information on security and privacy concerns:

http://shiflett.org/books/http-developers-handbook/chapters/11

Hope that helps.

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RE: [PHP] Session hijacking

[Joseph Bannon]

> i setup my sessions to be transparent, can it still be hacked ?


What is a transparent session?

J.

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RE: [PHP] Session hijacking

[Robert Cummings]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 15:36, Joseph Bannon wrote:
> > i setup my sessions to be transparent, can it still be hacked ?
> 
> 
> What is a transparent session?

I don't know if it's the same for the original poster (whoever that is,
since they were cropped :) For me it's when I bind a session variable to
an object such that the session variable is referenced using $this->foo.
The developer doesn't have to care about the whole session issue.

Cheers,
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[PHP] php framework

[Lai, Kenny]

just wanted a general idea on what kind of PHP framework everyone is using..
i've heard of pear, and interjinn.. is there a preference or distinct
advantage that a particular framework has in comparison to one another?

thanks in advance,
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Re: [PHP] php framework

[Ray Hunter]

> just wanted a general idea on what kind of PHP framework everyone is using..
> i've heard of pear, and interjinn.. is there a preference or distinct
> advantage that a particular framework has in comparison to one another?

Check the archives...this has been touched on numerous times in the past
couple of months...

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[PHP] Re: search by keyword

[zerof]

Why your messages are only posted as attachments?
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Re: [PHP] php framework

[Jordan S. Jones]

Where I work, we use a heavily modified version of Fusebox.  We like it.

Jordan S. Jones

Lai, Kenny wrote:

just wanted a general idea on what kind of PHP framework everyone is using..
i've heard of pear, and interjinn.. is there a preference or distinct
advantage that a particular framework has in comparison to one another?
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Re: [PHP] Using cookies

[Chris Shiflett]

--- Marco Tabini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However, we do not share the contents of our cookies with any third
> party, under any circumstances.

I'm no lawyer, but that seems like a risky statement. There are many
circumstances that can cause the contents of the cookies you set to be
disclosed to third parties. It seems like the definition of "sharing" would
come under scrutiny in these situations, which doesn't seem like much defense
to me.

I suppose you're safe as long as you don't willingly or intentionally share
this information yourself, but browser vulnerabilities (such as those found in
IE 4.0, 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0) can allow anyone to view the contents of any cookie.

I doubt I'm telling you anything you don't know, but maybe I'm saying something
that someone doesn't know. :-)

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RE: [PHP] Session hijacking

[Chris Shiflett]

--- Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What is a transparent session?
> 
> I don't know if it's the same for the original poster (whoever that
> is, since they were cropped :) For me it's when I bind a session
> variable to an object such that the session variable is referenced
> using $this->foo.

I think the original poster might have been referencing the
session.use_trans_sid directive being on. That was my guess anyway.

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Re: [PHP] Using cookies

[Marco Tabini]

Chris Shiflett wrote:
--- Marco Tabini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

However, we do not share the contents of our cookies with any third
party, under any circumstances.


I'm no lawyer, but that seems like a risky statement. There are many
circumstances that can cause the contents of the cookies you set to be
disclosed to third parties. It seems like the definition of "sharing" would
come under scrutiny in these situations, which doesn't seem like much defense
to me.
Well "sharing" implies a will to disclose--so if we unvoluntarily 
disclose information we don't "share" it with anyone.

I suppose you're safe as long as you don't willingly or intentionally share
this information yourself, but browser vulnerabilities (such as those found in
IE 4.0, 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0) can allow anyone to view the contents of any cookie.
But if the browser causes the information to leak, we did not share (or 
disclose) it--the user did, through action or inaction (e.g.: not 
patching his or her browser).

Your bank won't share your money with anybody else, but if you take the 
money out and someone robs you outside the branch, they're not going to 
refund you...

Cheers,

Marco

I doubt I'm telling you anything you don't know, but maybe I'm saying something
that someone doesn't know. :-)
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Re: [PHP] php framework

[Jordan S. Jones]

Modified to be object oriented and support xml/xslt.

Jordan S. Jones wrote:

Where I work, we use a heavily modified version of Fusebox.  We like it.

Jordan S. Jones

Lai, Kenny wrote:

just wanted a general idea on what kind of PHP framework everyone is 
using..
i've heard of pear, and interjinn.. is there a preference or distinct
advantage that a particular framework has in comparison to one another?

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RE: [PHP] Using cookies

[Chris W. Parker]

Marco Tabini 
on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 1:31 PM said:

> But if the browser causes the information to leak, we did not share
> (or disclose) it--the user did, through action or inaction (e.g.: not
> patching his or her browser).
> 
> Your bank won't share your money with anybody else, but if you take
> the money out and someone robs you outside the branch, they're not
> going to refund you...

Actually it's more like the bank storing your money in a safe with glass
walls.

Sure the bank "stored" it, and stored it "securely" (it was behind glass
wasn't it?) but someone could easily break the glass and steal all the
money.

The argument from the customer would be "The company I put my trust in
did not take all the precautions possible to protect me and I think they
misrepresented the security of my data. If they had told me there are
flaws in my browser that could allow the leaking of my information I
would not have signed up in the first place."

Whether or not that's a good reason for a judge to rule on behalf of a
customer is another thing. But I just thought I should try to clarify.



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