[PHP] problem with php and mail()

[Marco Strullato]

hi all,
I have a problem sending mails with mail():
when this code runs:
 mail("[EMAIL PROTECTED]","ciao","ciao<[EMAIL PROTECTED],%22ciao%22,%22ciao>",
"From: marco  
anotherexample.com
>");
any email arrives:
qmail tells
@40004332b7d900edffbc delivery 548: deferral:
193.70.193.96_does_not_like_recipient./Remote_host_said:_450_<[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>:_Sender_address_rejected:_Domain_not_found/Giving_up_on_193.70.193.96./<[EMAIL
 
PROTECTED]:_Sender_address_rejected:_Domain_not_found/Giving_up_on_193.70.193.96./>
 It is a misconfiguration of php.ini or qmail and I don't know what to look
for:
 in php.ini I wrote

[mail function]
SMTP = localhost
sendmail_from = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail

(I've tryed to set a cmd line option for sendmail as sendmail -f
[EMAIL PROTECTED] but it does not work...)

and qmail is configured to accept only mails from localdomains.

 I think I have to set default address somewhere.

tnks!!

 marco


ps I've sent this message also in php-install ml but it is not arrived, so I
crosspost it here

RE: [PHP] File complete check (FTP)

[Johannes Tyra]

I don't know the local filezize.
I have only the remote ftp file, uploaded on the server... 

PHP runs on the server, so the uploaded file remote ftp file (from the ftp
user) is the file to check...

> -Original Message-
> From: Jake Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 1:05 AM
> To: Johannes Tyra
> Subject: Re: [PHP] File complete check (FTP)
> 
> The simplest (albeit a dirtier) method is to just compare the filesize
> of the remote file to the local file.
> 
> http://us2.php.net/filesize
> 
> 
> On 9/22/05, Johannes Tyra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > i want to check if a file (jpg image) is completely 
> uploaded on a server.
> > If checked für the to last bytes (ffd9), but these method 
> is not save.
> >
> > Anybody know how it works??
> >
> >
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Re: [PHP] File complete check (FTP)

[Jasper Bryant-Greene]

Johannes Tyra wrote:

I don't know the local filezize.
I have only the remote ftp file, uploaded on the server... 


PHP runs on the server, so the uploaded file remote ftp file (from the ftp
user) is the file to check...


But you can run filesize() on the file before you upload it to the FTP 
server, and then filesize() on it afterwards... both from the server... 
if the two are equal then the file is complete.


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Re: [PHP] Opensource webshop

[Mark Evans]

Are there many in just PHP to?


I can name at least 7 or 8 that I know of :-)

Most are multi-lingual so can work with any language and come with a 
full administration tool.


Regards

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Re: [PHP] Opensource webshop

[Gustav Wiberg]

- Original Message - 
From: "Vince LaMonica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Jasper Bryant-Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Opensource webshop



On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:

} > > There are probably dozens of free open source PHP carts already out
} > > there.  Not to mention the ones written in Perl.
} > >
} > Are there many in just PHP to?
}
} As he said, there are probably dozens. Four of the PHP-based ones are 
listed

} under "e-Commerce" on this website:
}
} http://www.opensourcecms.com/

A few more PHP ones [including the 4 at the above URL]:

http://www.shop-script.com/php-shopping-cart-software-1.html
http://www.zen-cart.com/
http://www.oscommerce.com/
http://www.x-cart.com/articles/x-cart_open_source.html
http://creloaded.com/index.php
http://www.osc2nuke.com/
http://cpcommerce.org/
http://www.cubecart.com/site/home/ [not OSS, but free if (c) is not
modified]
http://siliconsys.com/content/applications/phpcatalog/
http://www.terraserver.de/terraserver.php3
http://www.ecommerceshoppingcartsoftware.org/
http://open.appideas.com/MyCart/
http://cosmicphp.com/freescripts_cosmicshoppingcart.php
http://www.affcommerce.com/
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/oos/
http://www.soft4e.com/loadshop.html
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=83355&release_id=166221
http://scripts.justwilliams.com/amazon/index.htm

And more can be found via google and php.resourceindex.com

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Hi there!

Thanx for the response about opensource-> e-commerce solutions.

Now I think I have a better "picture" of the situation about opensource 
e-commerce... :-)


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Re: [PHP] ftp_site problem

[Al]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

try:

if(ftp_site($conn_id, "SITE chmod 0777 
/public_html/EditPage/cd_ef_W.txt")) echo 'successful';

else 'failed';



it works for me

Crom
- Original Message - From: "Al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:34 PM
Subject: [PHP] ftp_site problem



I can't get ftp_site() to chmod a file.

WS_FTP utility changes them OK.

I can connect and log-in via ftp OK

Then I send

if(ftp_site($conn_id, "chmod 0777 /public_html/EditPage/cd_ef_W.txt")) 
echo 'successful';

else 'failed';

And get "successful" OK

But, the file's permissions don't change.  Have tried "777" as well as 
"0777".


Any suggestions?

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Thanks for the conformation Crom.

It looks a virtual server problem.  I've got my host's tech support working on 
it.

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[PHP] Re: Posting variables from one php script to another

[Al]

Graham Anderson wrote:

I am using GET to send variables from one php script to another php script
How would I POST the same variables ?


This is the php script I am sending GET variables to...
$movieBuilder = 
"./movieBuilder.php?mask=mask.gif&drag=drag.gif&movie=fonovisa.mov";

I am placing $movieBuilder in the "src = " attribute

Is it possible to POST these same  variables to movieBuilder.php ?

The below generates a Quicktime movie:
$xml = <<


EOB;



many thanks


I'd use this.  It's simple and doesn't involve CURL.  Here is a brief outline.

$file_str= base64encode(serialize($_GET));  //$_GET can be any array

Create a temporary file and write your string

fwrite($temp, $file_str);

fetch your data with

$saved_get= unserialize(base64decode(file_get_contents(filename));

Unlink your file when done with it.

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Re: [PHP] Re: Posting variables from one php script to another

[Jasper Bryant-Greene]

Al wrote:
I'd use this.  It's simple and doesn't involve CURL.  Here is a brief 
outline.


$file_str= base64encode(serialize($_GET));  //$_GET can be any array


Any reason why you base64_encode here? fwrite is binary-safe so base64 
encoding your data is slow and a waste of space.



Create a temporary file and write your string

fwrite($temp, $file_str);

fetch your data with

$saved_get= unserialize(base64decode(file_get_contents(filename));

Unlink your file when done with it.


Rather than resort to the slow process of creating, writing, reading and 
deleting a file for every request (not to mention generating a unique ID 
to prevent collisions with simultaneous requests), I'd be more tempted 
to find out exactly why the OP couldn't get it working with GET variables.


Perhaps he could post some more code, as I regularly pass GET variables 
to PHP scripts through  tags and the like with no problems whatsoever.


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Fwd: [PHP] Re: session and cookie by javascript

[Alex Andrew Mosqueda]

Thanks.

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From: Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sep 22, 2005 5:29 PM
Subject: [PHP] Re: session and cookie by javascript
To: php-general@lists.php.net

Alex Andrew Mosqueda said the following on 09/22/05 06:28:
> Hi!
> I there a way I can get the cookie data stored by javascript(client side)
in
> php(server side) and vice versa?
> Thanks.


It never hurts to check php.net , plenty of useful
information there...

$_cookie['']

http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/features.cookies.php

- Ben

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[PHP] gettext() troubles

[Denis Gerasimov]

Hello List,

 

I am facing some troubles with gettext.

phpinfo() says that both of gettext and iconv extensions are installed
properly, I can call gettext() function but it never translates my strings
returning the original key every time.

 

Here is the code:

 



 

Below is the output:

 

D:\intranet\wwwroot\lng
messages
UTF-8
string

 

All of the language files are in the following location:
D:\intranet\wwwroot\lng\ru\LC_MESSAGES\

 

D:\intranet\wwwroot\lng\ru\LC_MESSAGES\messages.po

D:\intranet\wwwroot\lng\ru\LC_MESSAGES\messages.mo

 

The files were created with poEdit utility and look fine.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Have a great day,

 

Denis S Gerasimov 
Web Developer
Team Force LLC

Web: www.team-force.org

RU & Int'l:   +7 8362-468693

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[PHP] PHP in a commandline shell?

[Gustav Wiberg]

Hi there!

As I understand you MUST? recompile PHP for use with only commandlineshell 
instead of for example Apache (or any other webserver)


Is that true? Or is there any alternative if you only want to use PHP in 
"shell"-mode for testing...


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Re: [PHP] gettext() troubles

[Aaron Gould]

Denis Gerasimov wrote:




Here's what I use to set my language (to French in this case). It works 
100% of the time for me:


  // Set locale to preferred language
  setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_FR');
  bindtextdomain('messages', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/locale');
  textdomain('messages');

I don't do the "putenv" line that you have, so I'm not sure if it's 
necessary...


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[PHP] Re: gettext() troubles

[Michael Wallner]

Hi Denis Gerasimov, you wrote:

> I am facing some troubles with gettext.
> ...
> putenv("LANG=ru_RU");

Speaking from my experience, you need to use only "ru" there
on Windows...

> setlocale (LC_ALL,"ru");

...but you definitly have to use the Windows abbreviation
for the corresponding locale in the setlocale call.

Have a look at PEARs I18Nv2 module which attempts to solve
this discrepancy.

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Re: [PHP] gettext() troubles

[Jochem Maas]

Aaron Gould wrote:

Denis Gerasimov wrote:







anyone who has worked with locales on different machines/platforms
will probably run into the problem that locales are different and/or
differently named on alot of systems...

for this reason (I believe) set_locale() allows you to pass
an array of locale names as the second arg - the first one found will be used...

e.g. (I use dutch locales alot):

setlocale( LC_ALL,
   array('[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
 'nl_NL',
 'nld_nld',
 'Dutch',
 'Dutch_Netherlands.1252',
 'nl_NL.ISO8859-1',
 'nl') );

maybe that helps a bit.



Here's what I use to set my language (to French in this case). It works 
100% of the time for me:


  // Set locale to preferred language
  setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_FR');
  bindtextdomain('messages', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/locale');
  textdomain('messages');

I don't do the "putenv" line that you have, so I'm not sure if it's 
necessary...


it sometimes is I believe - depends on your setup (e.g. if your using CGI 
version)
- don't hold me to that I could be completely wrong.





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Re: [PHP] Opensource webshop

[John Nichel]

Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:

There are probably dozens of free open source PHP carts already out
there.  Not to mention the ones written in Perl.


Are there many in just PHP to?



As he said, there are probably dozens. Four of the PHP-based ones are 
listed under "e-Commerce" on this website:


http://www.opensourcecms.com/



And the 100+ listed here

http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Shopping_Carts/

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Re: [PHP] PHP in a commandline shell?

[John Nichel]

Gustav Wiberg wrote:

Hi there!

As I understand you MUST? recompile PHP for use with only 
commandlineshell instead of for example Apache (or any other webserver)


Depends on your version of php, and how it was installed.  PHP versions 
4.2.x you had to turn it _on_ when configuring.  4.3.x, you had to turn 
it _off_.  PHP versions older than 4.2.0 there was the CGI API which you 
could use on the command line.


Is that true? Or is there any alternative if you only want to use PHP in 
"shell"-mode for testing...


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Re: [PHP] PHP in a commandline shell?

[Jake Gardner]

That depends on several things, chief among which are:

   What version did you install?
   What options did you supply ./configure?
   **Did you delete your old install?**

The reason for that is because the difference between the CLI and CGI
versions of PHP is the binary which is installed. However, while only
one is installed, both are compiled (assuming you didnt supply certain
configure options  --without-cli . When I
replaced the CGI version with CLI, I just overwrote the existing and
INSTALLED php binary (the CGI one) with the CLI binary in your install
folder. (Assuming you kept the old one)


On 9/23/05, Gustav Wiberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> As I understand you MUST? recompile PHP for use with only commandlineshell
> instead of for example Apache (or any other webserver)
>
> Is that true? Or is there any alternative if you only want to use PHP in
> "shell"-mode for testing...
>
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Re: [PHP] PHP in a commandline shell?

[Gustav Wiberg]

- Original Message - 
From: "Jake Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Gustav Wiberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "PHP General" 
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP in a commandline shell?


That depends on several things, chief among which are:

  What version did you install?
  What options did you supply ./configure?
  **Did you delete your old install?**

The reason for that is because the difference between the CLI and CGI
versions of PHP is the binary which is installed. However, while only
one is installed, both are compiled (assuming you didnt supply certain
configure options  --without-cli . When I
replaced the CGI version with CLI, I just overwrote the existing and
INSTALLED php binary (the CGI one) with the CLI binary in your install
folder. (Assuming you kept the old one)


On 9/23/05, Gustav Wiberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi there!

As I understand you MUST? recompile PHP for use with only commandlineshell
instead of for example Apache (or any other webserver)

Is that true? Or is there any alternative if you only want to use PHP in
"shell"-mode for testing...

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Re: [PHP] PHP in a commandline shell?

[Gustav Wiberg]

- Original Message - 
From: "John Nichel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "PHP General" 
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP in a commandline shell?



Gustav Wiberg wrote:

Hi there!

As I understand you MUST? recompile PHP for use with only 
commandlineshell instead of for example Apache (or any other webserver)


Depends on your version of php, and how it was installed.  PHP versions 
4.2.x you had to turn it _on_ when configuring.  4.3.x, you had to turn it 
_off_.  PHP versions older than 4.2.0 there was the CGI API which you 
could use on the command line.


Is that true? Or is there any alternative if you only want to use PHP in 
"shell"-mode for testing...


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RE: [PHP] basic user/input form questions... more validation!

[bruce]

chris...

i understood the concept of data being output from an application/function.
my question was directed towards trying to understand if you were meaning
that an app should escape all output from the mysql db?? or, were you
referring to data that would go back to the user via a form?

in other words, which 'output' function are/were you referring to.

-bruce

ps. tried to get to the link... it wouldn't come up for me for some
reason...


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Subject: Re: [PHP] basic user/input form questions... more validation!


bruce wrote:
> but what do you mean by "...escape output!!"

Output is data that you send somewhere else. In other words, if it
leaves your application, it is output.

This is explained a bit further (with some code) near the start of this
talk:

http://brainbulb.com/talks/php-security-audit-howto.pdf

Hope that helps.

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Re: [PHP] PHP in a commandline shell?

[John Nichel]

Gustav Wiberg wrote:


- Original Message - From: "John Nichel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PHP General" 
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP in a commandline shell?



Gustav Wiberg wrote:


Hi there!

As I understand you MUST? recompile PHP for use with only 
commandlineshell instead of for example Apache (or any other webserver)



Depends on your version of php, and how it was installed.  PHP 
versions 4.2.x you had to turn it _on_ when configuring.  4.3.x, you 
had to turn it _off_.  PHP versions older than 4.2.0 there was the CGI 
API which you could use on the command line.



Thanx!


At the command line, do a 'which php'

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[PHP] Subtracting dates w/o database interaction (MySQL)

[Philip Thompson]

Hey all.

I'm needing to find the number of days between two dates without  
using an database functions (DATE_SUB, etc)... only PHP. Is there an  
easy way to accomplish this? I have searched the PHP site, but have  
not been successful in finding anything that will assist me.


Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
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[PHP] selfreferencing script with output

[Sabine]

Hello to all,

I have 2 scripts ( preparing about 1000 mails for pear's mail-queue and 
sending them) which shall be started by the user.

There are
- limitations of the provider  for the duration of the scripts
- no cronjobs

So I had the idea to write a selfreferencing script like that:

$begin= intval($_GET["begin"]);
$allMails = 1000;

//... prepare / send a portion of for example 50 mails

if (($begin+ 50) < $allMails) {
header("Location: script.php?begin=".($begin+ 50));
} else {
   echo "Done!";
}

But I want to show the user some output like a statusbar (eventually 
with pear's Html_Progress) or something like that so he knows the script 
is still working.


Has anybody of you an idea, a tip for me how to do it?
I don't see how I can do it within the construct above.
Is there an alternative to it?

Thanks in advance for your answers
Sabine








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RE: [PHP] Subtracting dates w/o database interaction (MySQL)

[Chris W. Parker]

Philip Thompson 
on Friday, September 23, 2005 9:12 AM said:

> I'm needing to find the number of days between two dates without
> using an database functions (DATE_SUB, etc)... only PHP. Is there an
> easy way to accomplish this? I have searched the PHP site, but have
> not been successful in finding anything that will assist me.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

There might be an easier way but... convert to timestamp, subtract
smaller number from bigger number, figure out how much time has passed.



Chris.

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RE: [PHP] basic user/input form questions... more validation!

[Carl Furst]

You should be careful about column types in mysql especially if you are
doing joins. 

For example:

mysql> create temporary table justsomeresearch(foo varchar(10));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into justsomeresearch values(3);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into justsomeresearch values('3');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from justsomeresearch;
+--+
| foo  |
+--+
| 3|
| 3|
+--+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> create temporary table justmoreresearch(bar varchar(10));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into justmoreresearch values(3);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from justmoreresearch, justsomeresearch where bar = foo;
+--+--+
| bar  | foo  |
+--+--+
| 3| 3|
| 3| 3|
+--+--+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

See this works because both the number version and the 'char' version are
the same.. but let's do something else

mysql> update justsomeresearch set foo = '03' where foo=3;
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 2  Changed: 2  Warnings: 0

mysql> select * from justsomeresearch;
+--+
| foo  |
+--+
| 03   |
| 03   |
+--+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from justmoreresearch, justsomeresearch where bar = foo;
Empty set (0.00 sec)

You see.. because the '03' is not the same as 3 it doesn't join, you would
either have to have both columns as ints or make sure both columns were in
the same format as a char.

Now let's look at int column type

mysql> create temporary table evenmoreresearch(foo int(10));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> create temporary table andmoreresearch(foo int(10));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> create temporary table andmoreresearch(bar int(10));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into evenmoreresearch values(3);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into evenmoreresearch values(03);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into andmoreresearch values(03);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into andmoreresearch values('3');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into andmoreresearch values('03');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from evenmoreresearch, andmoreresearch where bar = foo;
+--+--+
| foo  | bar  |
+--+--+
|3 |3 |
|3 |3 |
|3 |3 |
|3 |3 |
|3 |3 |
|3 |3 |
+--+--+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from evenmoreresearch;
+--+
| foo  |
+--+
|3 |
|3 |
+--+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from andmoreresearch;
+--+
| bar  |
+--+
|3 |
|3 |
|3 |
+--+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

You get some rather curious results. I've even switched the names around and
it comes out with 6 results, exactly the same (or least as exactly as data
to a php script would be). So if you're joining in mysql it's good to insert
your data as ints into integer columns and 'char' or 'strings' when
inserting into varchar, char or text columns (although why you would join
text columns I have no idea). And this was only straight joins.. imagine
what left right or other joins would look like.


Carl Furst
Vote.com
P.O. Box 7
Georgetown, Ct 06829
203-544-8252
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


> -Original Message-
> From: Chris W. Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:42 PM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [PHP] basic user/input form questions... more validation!
> 
> bruce 
> on Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:33 PM said:
> 
> > further investigation seems to imply that 'strings' that are to be
> > inserted into the mysql db should be 'backslashed' for the chars >
> > \x00, \n, \r, \,'," and \x1a.
> 
> That's what escaping is.
> 
> > the mysql_real_escape_string function
> > requires a db connection and the app might not have opened up a
> > connection to the db at this point in the code.. (or i could rewrite
> > the code!!)
> 
> Unless you have warnings print to the screen you should be fine. Or you
> could just suppress the errors on that one function.
> 
> >  numeric data:
> >   -doesn't need quoting, but it shouldn't hurt to quote anyway..
> >(quote all numeric values inserted in the db...)
> > -but wouldn't this require the app to detect numeric vals in
> >  the db, and to convert the 'type'!!)
> 
> No. Why would it? If you quote everything then there's no need to check
> for type.
> 
> > -how does this affect date/float vars...
> 
> I'm not sure. Check the MySQL manual on column types.
> 
> > extracting data from the db:
> >
> >  numeric data
> >   -get the data/val from the db
> >-check the type/convert the db to int/float/date/etc...
> 
> No type conversion is necessary. PHP is a loose typed language.
> 
> >  string data
> >   -get the vals from the db,
> >-strip any slashes that were 

RE: [PHP] basic user/input form questions... more validation!

[bruce]

which is why it's critical/important to really lay out (architect) your app
and to think about how the app should be handling various data types. this
also goes to thiking about how you name variables in your app.

all of this is really software design 101

-bruce


-Original Message-
From: Carl Furst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 9:48 AM
To: 'Chris W. Parker'; php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP] basic user/input form questions... more validation!


You should be careful about column types in mysql especially if you are
doing joins.

For example:

mysql> create temporary table justsomeresearch(foo varchar(10));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into justsomeresearch values(3);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into justsomeresearch values('3');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from justsomeresearch;
+--+
| foo  |
+--+
| 3|
| 3|
+--+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> create temporary table justmoreresearch(bar varchar(10));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into justmoreresearch values(3);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from justmoreresearch, justsomeresearch where bar = foo;
+--+--+
| bar  | foo  |
+--+--+
| 3| 3|
| 3| 3|
+--+--+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

See this works because both the number version and the 'char' version are
the same.. but let's do something else

mysql> update justsomeresearch set foo = '03' where foo=3;
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 2  Changed: 2  Warnings: 0

mysql> select * from justsomeresearch;
+--+
| foo  |
+--+
| 03   |
| 03   |
+--+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from justmoreresearch, justsomeresearch where bar = foo;
Empty set (0.00 sec)

You see.. because the '03' is not the same as 3 it doesn't join, you would
either have to have both columns as ints or make sure both columns were in
the same format as a char.

Now let's look at int column type

mysql> create temporary table evenmoreresearch(foo int(10));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> create temporary table andmoreresearch(foo int(10));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> create temporary table andmoreresearch(bar int(10));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into evenmoreresearch values(3);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into evenmoreresearch values(03);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into andmoreresearch values(03);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into andmoreresearch values('3');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into andmoreresearch values('03');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from evenmoreresearch, andmoreresearch where bar = foo;
+--+--+
| foo  | bar  |
+--+--+
|3 |3 |
|3 |3 |
|3 |3 |
|3 |3 |
|3 |3 |
|3 |3 |
+--+--+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from evenmoreresearch;
+--+
| foo  |
+--+
|3 |
|3 |
+--+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from andmoreresearch;
+--+
| bar  |
+--+
|3 |
|3 |
|3 |
+--+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

You get some rather curious results. I've even switched the names around and
it comes out with 6 results, exactly the same (or least as exactly as data
to a php script would be). So if you're joining in mysql it's good to insert
your data as ints into integer columns and 'char' or 'strings' when
inserting into varchar, char or text columns (although why you would join
text columns I have no idea). And this was only straight joins.. imagine
what left right or other joins would look like.


Carl Furst
Vote.com
P.O. Box 7
Georgetown, Ct 06829
203-544-8252
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


> -Original Message-
> From: Chris W. Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:42 PM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [PHP] basic user/input form questions... more validation!
>
> bruce 
> on Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:33 PM said:
>
> > further investigation seems to imply that 'strings' that are to be
> > inserted into the mysql db should be 'backslashed' for the chars >
> > \x00, \n, \r, \,'," and \x1a.
>
> That's what escaping is.
>
> > the mysql_real_escape_string function
> > requires a db connection and the app might not have opened up a
> > connection to the db at this point in the code.. (or i could rewrite
> > the code!!)
>
> Unless you have warnings print to the screen you should be fine. Or you
> could just suppress the errors on that one function.
>
> >  numeric data:
> >   -doesn't need quoting, but it shouldn't hurt to quote anyway..
> >(quote all numeric values inserted in the db...)
> > -but wouldn't this require the app to detect numeric vals in
> >  the db, and to convert the 'type'!!)
>
> No. Why would 

Re: [PHP] selfreferencing script with output

[Rory Browne]

On 9/23/05, Sabine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello to all,
>
> I have 2 scripts ( preparing about 1000 mails for pear's mail-queue and
> sending them) which shall be started by the user.
> There are
> - limitations of the provider  for the duration of the scripts
> - no cronjobs
>
> So I had the idea to write a selfreferencing script like that:
>
> $begin= intval($_GET["begin"]);
> $allMails = 1000;
>
> //... prepare / send a portion of for example 50 mails
>
> if (($begin+ 50) < $allMails) {
> header("Location: script.php?begin=".($begin+ 50));
> } else {
>echo "Done!";
> }
>
> But I want to show the user some output like a statusbar (eventually
> with pear's Html_Progress) or something like that so he knows the script
> is still working.

instead of simply headering the location out, you could simply output
a html page, that has a meta tag to replace it.

maybe something like










>
> Has anybody of you an idea, a tip for me how to do it?
> I don't see how I can do it within the construct above.
> Is there an alternative to it?

This doesn't necessarly need to be done using a self-referencing
script. You could have an ajax type system where each script is
accessed sequentially.

>
> Thanks in advance for your answers
> Sabine
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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RE: [PHP] basic user/input form questions... more validation!

[Chris W. Parker]

bruce 
on Friday, September 23, 2005 10:46 AM said:

> which is why it's critical/important to really lay out (architect)
> your app and to think about how the app should be handling various
> data types. this also goes to thiking about how you name variables in
> your app. 
> 
> all of this is really software design 101

Oh whatever, I don't quote everything in my own apps anyway. You just
seem to be so confused about this whole thing* that it'd be easier for
you to just quote everything and escape everything and run everything
through htmlspecialchars().


Chris.

* Not that I'm not completely confused about other subjects myself.

And doesn't anyone know how to trim anymore?

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RE: [PHP] basic user/input form questions... more validation!

[Carl Furst]

That may be true, but the point about php being loosely typed is valid..
Although there are cast functions in php, you can store integers in strings
and vice versa.. and move them around as much as you want... When you
declare a variable it has no type and is not associated with any class per
se, AND you can do most of the things you were talking about like putting
quotes around all your input into the database.

I was just saying that if you want to do joins you need to be more careful
and match your data with the column type so you should quote data going into
a varchar field and not quote numbers going into an int field and vice versa
otherwise your joins are going to get screwed up and that's not something
they teach you in software 101...

Peace,



Carl Furst
Vote.com
P.O. Box 7
Georgetown, Ct 06829
203-544-8252
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> -Original Message-
> From: bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 1:46 PM
> To: 'Carl Furst'; 'Chris W. Parker'; php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [PHP] basic user/input form questions... more validation!
> 
> which is why it's critical/important to really lay out (architect) your
> app
> and to think about how the app should be handling various data types. this
> also goes to thiking about how you name variables in your app.
> 
> all of this is really software design 101
> 
> -bruce
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Carl Furst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 9:48 AM
> To: 'Chris W. Parker'; php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [PHP] basic user/input form questions... more validation!
> 
> 
> You should be careful about column types in mysql especially if you are
> doing joins.
> 
> For example:
> 
> mysql> create temporary table justsomeresearch(foo varchar(10));
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> insert into justsomeresearch values(3);
> Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> insert into justsomeresearch values('3');
> Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> select * from justsomeresearch;
> +--+
> | foo  |
> +--+
> | 3|
> | 3|
> +--+
> 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> create temporary table justmoreresearch(bar varchar(10));
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> insert into justmoreresearch values(3);
> Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> select * from justmoreresearch, justsomeresearch where bar = foo;
> +--+--+
> | bar  | foo  |
> +--+--+
> | 3| 3|
> | 3| 3|
> +--+--+
> 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> See this works because both the number version and the 'char' version are
> the same.. but let's do something else
> 
> mysql> update justsomeresearch set foo = '03' where foo=3;
> Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.00 sec)
> Rows matched: 2  Changed: 2  Warnings: 0
> 
> mysql> select * from justsomeresearch;
> +--+
> | foo  |
> +--+
> | 03   |
> | 03   |
> +--+
> 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> select * from justmoreresearch, justsomeresearch where bar = foo;
> Empty set (0.00 sec)
> 
> You see.. because the '03' is not the same as 3 it doesn't join, you would
> either have to have both columns as ints or make sure both columns were in
> the same format as a char.
> 
> Now let's look at int column type
> 
> mysql> create temporary table evenmoreresearch(foo int(10));
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> create temporary table andmoreresearch(foo int(10));
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> create temporary table andmoreresearch(bar int(10));
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> insert into evenmoreresearch values(3);
> Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> insert into evenmoreresearch values(03);
> Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> insert into andmoreresearch values(03);
> Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> insert into andmoreresearch values('3');
> Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> insert into andmoreresearch values('03');
> Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> select * from evenmoreresearch, andmoreresearch where bar = foo;
> +--+--+
> | foo  | bar  |
> +--+--+
> |3 |3 |
> |3 |3 |
> |3 |3 |
> |3 |3 |
> |3 |3 |
> |3 |3 |
> +--+--+
> 6 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> select * from evenmoreresearch;
> +--+
> | foo  |
> +--+
> |3 |
> |3 |
> +--+
> 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql> select * from andmoreresearch;
> +--+
> | bar  |
> +--+
> |3 |
> |3 |
> |3 |
> +--+
> 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> You get some rather curious results. I've even switched the names around
> and
> it comes out with 6 results, exactly the same (or least as exactly as data
> to a php script would be). So if you're joining in mysql it's good to
> insert
> your data as ints into integer columns and 'char' or 'strings' when
> inserting into varchar, char o

Re: [PHP] Subtracting dates w/o database interaction (MySQL)

[Gustav Wiberg]

- Original Message - 
From: "Philip Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 6:11 PM
Subject: [PHP] Subtracting dates w/o database interaction (MySQL)



Hey all.

I'm needing to find the number of days between two dates without  using an 
database functions (DATE_SUB, etc)... only PHP. Is there an  easy way to 
accomplish this? I have searched the PHP site, but have  not been 
successful in finding anything that will assist me.


Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
~Philip

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Hi there!

Take a look at 
http://www.varupiraten.se/opensource/doc.php?subject=datefunctions.php#datefunctions.php

I hope this will help you... :-)

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Re: [PHP] PHP in a commandline shell?

[Gustav Wiberg]

- Original Message - 
From: "John Nichel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "PHP General" 
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP in a commandline shell?



Gustav Wiberg wrote:

Hi there!

As I understand you MUST? recompile PHP for use with only 
commandlineshell instead of for example Apache (or any other webserver)


Depends on your version of php, and how it was installed.  PHP versions 
4.2.x you had to turn it _on_ when configuring.  4.3.x, you had to turn it 
_off_.  PHP versions older than 4.2.0 there was the CGI API which you 
could use on the command line.


Is that true? Or is there any alternative if you only want to use PHP in 
"shell"-mode for testing...


/G
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With PHPinfo() I get this result on my local testserver which has Windows XP 
running Apache
Can I then use Shell? What command do I use for waiting for user input? 
Totally novice in this area of PHP...



PHP Version 4.3.10

 System  Windows NT BLACKSHADOW 5.1 build 2600
 Build Date  Dec 14 2004 17:46:48
 Server API  CGI/FastCGI
 Virtual Directory Support  enabled
 Configuration File (php.ini) Path  C:\WINDOWS\php.ini
 PHP API  20020918
 PHP Extension  20020429
 Zend Extension  20021010
 Debug Build  no
 Thread Safety  enabled
 Registered PHP Streams  php, http, ftp, compress.zlib



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Re: [PHP] PHP in a commandline shell?

[John Nichel]

Gustav Wiberg wrote:

With PHPinfo() I get this result on my local testserver which has 
Windows XP running Apache
Can I then use Shell? What command do I use for waiting for user input? 
Totally novice in this area of PHP...



PHP Version 4.3.10

 System  Windows NT BLACKSHADOW 5.1 build 2600
 Build Date  Dec 14 2004 17:46:48
 Server API  CGI/FastCGI
 Virtual Directory Support  enabled
 Configuration File (php.ini) Path  C:\WINDOWS\php.ini
 PHP API  20020918
 PHP Extension  20020429
 Zend Extension  20021010
 Debug Build  no
 Thread Safety  enabled
 Registered PHP Streams  php, http, ftp, compress.zlib


http://us3.php.net/features.commandline

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Re: [PHP] selfreferencing script with output

[Gustav Wiberg]

- Original Message - 
From: "Sabine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "PHP general" 
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 6:14 PM
Subject: [PHP] selfreferencing script with output



Hello to all,

I have 2 scripts ( preparing about 1000 mails for pear's mail-queue and 
sending them) which shall be started by the user.

There are
- limitations of the provider  for the duration of the scripts
- no cronjobs

So I had the idea to write a selfreferencing script like that:

$begin= intval($_GET["begin"]);
$allMails = 1000;

//... prepare / send a portion of for example 50 mails

if (($begin+ 50) < $allMails) {
header("Location: script.php?begin=".($begin+ 50));
} else {
   echo "Done!";
}

But I want to show the user some output like a statusbar (eventually with 
pear's Html_Progress) or something like that so he knows the script is 
still working.


Has anybody of you an idea, a tip for me how to do it?
I don't see how I can do it within the construct above.
Is there an alternative to it?

Thanks in advance for your answers
Sabine



Hi

I don't know if this works, but I think it ought to work:

Set a picture (a line) with width 1, next iteration set the line to width 2, 
next to width 3...


OR set a picture with width % off 

Change picture with dhtml (or if you prefer Javascript and css ;-))

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RE: [PHP] basic user/input form questions... more validation!

[Chris W. Parker]

bruce 
on Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:19 PM said:

> the articles i've seen imply that if you addslashes, you also need to
> stripslashes on the backend...

That's probably because gpc_magic_quotes (I think that's what it's
called) is turned on and doing addslashes will "double" escape
everything leaving you with a \ in the db.

No escaping: Hello, I'm...
Result after db insertion: Error, cannot insert

gpc_magic_quotes: Hello, I\'m...
Result after db insertion: Hello, I'm...

gpc_magic_quotes + addslahes: Hello, I\\\'m...
Result after db insertion: Hello, I\'m...

So when you retrieve the data you would indeed have to do stripslashes()
because escapging is being done wrong. With distributed apps it's a good
practice to determine whether or not gpc_magic_quotes is turned on and
then act accordingly. I don't know if mysql_real_escape_string() is
subject to over escaping or not. You'd have to test it.


Hth,
Chris.

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Re: [PHP] Re: Posting variables from one php script to another

[Graham Anderson]

The below method is the way I send variables to the movieBuilder.php  
file [located in the 'src' attribute] with GET Variables

It does work :)

How would I use CURL to POST the same variables to the movieBuilder.php  
file WITHIN the 'src' attribute ?


FYI, I am able to POST to the movieBuilder.php file as the POSTed  
variables are properly echo'd when  I look at the buffer
I would assume it would not be much different than Posting variables to  
a GD script to create a dynamic image






// With GET--Does Work


// Build the XML file
$xml = <<

src="./movieBuilder.php? 
mask=mask.gif&drag=drag.gif&movie=fonovisa.mov"/>

EOB;
}

// output  the QT movie
header('Content-Type: application/x-quicktimeplayer');
header ("Content-Length:".strlen($xml));
echo $xml;



// With POST

// Build the XML file
$xml = <<


EOB;
}

// output the QT movie
header('Content-Type: application/x-quicktimeplayer');
header ("Content-Length:".strlen($xml));
echo $xml;

Function curlme(){
$ch = curl_init ("path2myScript/movieBuilder.php");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,  
"mask=mask.gif&drag=drag.gif&movie=fonovisa.mov");

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$buffer = curl_exec($ch); // execute the post
//echo $buffer;
curl_close ($ch);
}

anyone know how to do this ?
Is it too complicated to be worth it ?
I just want to avoid GET when  possible

many thanks
g





On Sep 23, 2005, at 5:57 AM, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:


Al wrote:
I'd use this.  It's simple and doesn't involve CURL.  Here is a brief  
outline.

$file_str= base64encode(serialize($_GET));  //$_GET can be any array


Any reason why you base64_encode here? fwrite is binary-safe so base64  
encoding your data is slow and a waste of space.



Create a temporary file and write your string
fwrite($temp, $file_str);
fetch your data with
$saved_get= unserialize(base64decode(file_get_contents(filename));
Unlink your file when done with it.


Rather than resort to the slow process of creating, writing, reading  
and deleting a file for every request (not to mention generating a  
unique ID to prevent collisions with simultaneous requests), I'd be  
more tempted to find out exactly why the OP couldn't get it working  
with GET variables.


Perhaps he could post some more code, as I regularly pass GET  
variables to PHP scripts through  tags and the like with no  
problems whatsoever.


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[PHP] how to encrypt a readfile($file) on the fly ?

[Graham Anderson]

is it possible to encypt a file dynamically as it is being readfile'd ?
I want to create a key stored in a db that decrypts the file once it 
reaches the user's computer.
This file is being progressively loaded...loads and plays at the same 
time


something like:

header("ETag: ".md5(time()));
header("Accept-Ranges: bytes");
header ("Content-Length: ".fileSize($file2Encrypt));
header("Content-Type: ".$mime);
readfile_whileEncrypting($file2Encrypt,MCRYPT_3DES));

is there a PHP function out there that can do this ?


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Re: [PHP] Subtracting dates w/o database interaction (MySQL)

[Philip Thompson]

On Sep 23, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Chris W. Parker wrote:


Philip Thompson 
on Friday, September 23, 2005 9:12 AM said:


I'm needing to find the number of days between two dates without
using an database functions (DATE_SUB, etc)... only PHP. Is there an
easy way to accomplish this? I have searched the PHP site, but have
not been successful in finding anything that will assist me.

Any help would be appreciated.



There might be an easier way but... convert to timestamp, subtract
smaller number from bigger number, figure out how much time has  
passed.

Chris.



I actually discovered how to do this right after I made the post. I  
looked at some archives and worked this out.




// today - 9/23/05
$start = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d"), date("Y"));

// the objective day - 3/15/06
$end = mktime(0, 0, 0, 3, 15, 2006);

// subtract today from the objective and divide by 24*60*60 to get days
$difference = ceil(($end - $start) / (86400));



Thanks for your assistance.
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Re: [PHP] Re: Posting variables from one php script to another

[Jasper Bryant-Greene]

Graham Anderson wrote:
The below method is the way I send variables to the movieBuilder.php  
file [located in the 'src' attribute] with GET Variables

It does work :)

How would I use CURL to POST the same variables to the movieBuilder.php  
file WITHIN the 'src' attribute ?


You can't. Browsers make a GET request for the URL listed in the /src/ 
attribute, and there's nothing you can do about that. PHP doesn't have 
anything to do with that /src/ attribute, it just prints it out and the 
browser parses it.


On recent Mozilla browsers you can use XMLHTTPRequest to fetch a 
base64-encoded stream of your data and write it to the src attribute 
within a "data:" URI scheme, but that won't work on IE or many other 
browsers.


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Re: [PHP] PHP in a commandline shell?

[Gustav Wiberg]

- Original Message - 
From: "John Nichel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "PHP General" 
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP in a commandline shell?



Gustav Wiberg wrote:

With PHPinfo() I get this result on my local testserver which has Windows 
XP running Apache
Can I then use Shell? What command do I use for waiting for user input? 
Totally novice in this area of PHP...



PHP Version 4.3.10

 System  Windows NT BLACKSHADOW 5.1 build 2600
 Build Date  Dec 14 2004 17:46:48
 Server API  CGI/FastCGI
 Virtual Directory Support  enabled
 Configuration File (php.ini) Path  C:\WINDOWS\php.ini
 PHP API  20020918
 PHP Extension  20020429
 Zend Extension  20021010
 Debug Build  no
 Thread Safety  enabled
 Registered PHP Streams  php, http, ftp, compress.zlib


http://us3.php.net/features.commandline

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Hi!

Thanx for link. That was helpful!

/G
http://www.varupiraten.se/

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[PHP] Is PHP the language for me???

[Emily McCall]

I am trying to figure out whether php will help me to set up a website which is 
essentially just links to donwloadable material.

I have directories in place and am using flash to auto fill the directory names 
on to an index page, however i cant use this to access the files themselves. So 
I am after a language i can use to read all the file names in the directory and 
display them with a bit of 'niceness' onto a webpage so as they can be used as 
links to the files.

Thanks 

Re: [PHP] Is PHP the language for me???

[Kirk . Johnson]

"Emily McCall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/23/2005 03:07:39 
PM:

> I am trying to figure out whether php will help me to set up a 
> website which is essentially just links to donwloadable material.

Emily, you certainly came to the right place to get an endorsement of PHP 
;)

Yes. PHP will handle your task nicely, and IMHO, it is the easiest 
language to learn and use for dynamic web programming. Dig in and enjoy!

Kirk 

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Re: [PHP] Re: Posting variables from one php script to another

[Graham Anderson]

thanks
Well, I had to try

As an alternative, if I:

1)  posted variables to a script  with curl
$ch = curl_init ("path2myScript/movieBuilder.php");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 
"mask=mask.gif&drag=drag.gif&movie=fonovisa.mov");

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$buffer = curl_exec($ch); // execute the post
//echo $buffer;
curl_close ($ch);
}

2) write the 'src' attribute as './movieBuilder.php' with no variables 
passed


$xml = <<


EOB;


Would the movieBuilder.php file retain the POST'ed variables ? Or, 
would they be lost in the void.


maybe this approach is silly?


g

On Sep 23, 2005, at 1:25 PM, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:


Graham Anderson wrote:
The below method is the way I send variables to the movieBuilder.php  
file [located in the 'src' attribute] with GET Variables

It does work :)
How would I use CURL to POST the same variables to the 
movieBuilder.php  file WITHIN the 'src' attribute ?


You can't. Browsers make a GET request for the URL listed in the /src/ 
attribute, and there's nothing you can do about that. PHP doesn't have 
anything to do with that /src/ attribute, it just prints it out and 
the browser parses it.


On recent Mozilla browsers you can use XMLHTTPRequest to fetch a 
base64-encoded stream of your data and write it to the src attribute 
within a "data:" URI scheme, but that won't work on IE or many other 
browsers.


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Re: [PHP] Is PHP the language for me???

[Scott Noyes]

> I have directories in place and am using flash to auto fill the directory 
> names on to an index page, however i cant use this to access the files 
> themselves. So I am after a language i can use to read all the file names in 
> the directory and display them with a bit of 'niceness' onto a webpage so as 
> they can be used as links to the files.

PHP is capable of doing that.  I'd start with the dir() function, and
maybe a bit of printf.
http://www.php.net/dir
http://www.php.net/printf

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Re: [PHP] Re: Posting variables from one php script to another

[Jasper Bryant-Greene]

Graham Anderson wrote:

As an alternative, if I:

1)  posted variables to a script  with curl
$ch = curl_init ("path2myScript/movieBuilder.php");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 
"mask=mask.gif&drag=drag.gif&movie=fonovisa.mov");

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$buffer = curl_exec($ch); // execute the post
//echo $buffer;
curl_close ($ch);
}

2) write the 'src' attribute as './movieBuilder.php' with no variables 
passed


$xml = <<


EOB;


Would the movieBuilder.php file retain the POST'ed variables ? Or, would 
they be lost in the void.


maybe this approach is silly?


You could save the variables to a file. But it's silly and slow when you 
could just use GET. Can you explain why you don't want to just send them 
as GET variables in the query string?


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Re: [PHP] Is PHP the language for me???

[Greg Donald]

On 9/23/05, Emily McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to figure out whether php will help me to set up a website
> which is essentially just links to donwloadable material.
>
> I have directories in place and am using flash to auto fill the directory
> names on to an index page, however i cant use this to access the files
> themselves. So I am after a language i can use to read all the file names
> in the directory and display them with a bit of 'niceness' onto a webpage
> so as they can be used as links to the files.


Yeah, PHP can do that.  Toss this in a web directory and pull it up in
a browser.

read() ) )
{
if( $entry != '.'
&& $entry != '..'
&& !is_dir( $entry ) )
{
$files[] = $entry;
}
}

sort( $files );

foreach( $files as $file )
{

echo <<$file
EOF;

}

?>


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Re: [PHP] Is PHP the language for me???

[Ryan A]

On 9/24/2005 12:14:55 AM, Greg Donald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On 9/23/05, Emily McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am trying to figure out whether php will help me to set up a website
> > which is essentially just links to donwloadable material.
> >
> > I have directories in place and am using flash to auto fill the
> directory
> > names on to an index page, however i cant use this to access the files
> > themselves. So I am after a language i can use to read all the file
> names
> > in the directory and display them with a bit of 'niceness' onto a
> webpage
> > so as they can be used as links to the files.
>
>

Yep, PHP can certainly do that, and once you start you wont find a
friendlier place
if you need help...without this list I wouldnt be a programming in PHP
todayokay, maybe I would
but it would be a LOT harder :-)

Cheers,
Ryan

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Re: [PHP] Is PHP the language for me???

[Thorsten Suckow-Homberg]

Yep, PHP can certainly do that, and once you start you wont find a
friendlier place
if you need help...without this list I wouldnt be a programming in PHP
todayokay, maybe I would
but it would be a LOT harder :-)


Sooo... how much did they pay you to make you say this? :P

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[PHP] how to stream a movie file with fread

[Graham Anderson]

I am trying to stream a movie file with 'fread'
this my first step in trying to dynamically encrypt the file as it is 
being streamed from the server


do I need to fread the data in chunks?
If so, how?

$filename ="$path2file";
$file = fopen($filename,'r');
$fileSize = filesize($filename);
$ContentType = " video/quicktime";
header ("Content-type: $ContentType");
header ("Content-length: $fileSize");

while( $filedata_temp = fread($file, $fileSize) )
echo $filedata_temp;

Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted 
(tried to allocate 24113191 bytes) in /fopenTest.php on 
line 27


BTW, I can get readfile to work just fine :)
AFAIK, readfile does not parameters to alter the file contents

many thanks :)

g

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Re: [PHP] Is PHP the language for me???

[Ryan A]

On 9/24/2005 12:46:39 AM, Thorsten Suckow-Homberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Yep, PHP can certainly do that, and once you start you wont find a
> > friendlier place
> > if you need help...without this list I wouldnt be a programming in PHP
> > todayokay, maybe I would
> > but it would be a LOT harder :-)

> Sooo... how much did they pay you to make you say this? :P

Nothing actuallythey pay in kind :-D

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RE: [PHP] how to stream a movie file with fread

[bruce]

if i may...

what exactly are you trying to do. are you simply trying to get a single
movie to stream... are you trying to get a better feel for how/what
streaming is?

-bruce


-Original Message-
From: Graham Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 4:07 PM
To: php
Subject: [PHP] how to stream a movie file with fread


I am trying to stream a movie file with 'fread'
this my first step in trying to dynamically encrypt the file as it is
being streamed from the server

do I need to fread the data in chunks?
If so, how?

$filename ="$path2file";
$file = fopen($filename,'r');
$fileSize = filesize($filename);
$ContentType = " video/quicktime";
header ("Content-type: $ContentType");
header ("Content-length: $fileSize");

while( $filedata_temp = fread($file, $fileSize) )
echo $filedata_temp;

Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted
(tried to allocate 24113191 bytes) in /fopenTest.php on
line 27

BTW, I can get readfile to work just fine :)
AFAIK, readfile does not parameters to alter the file contents

many thanks :)

g

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Re: [PHP] how to stream a movie file with fread

[Philip Hallstrom]

I am trying to stream a movie file with 'fread'
this my first step in trying to dynamically encrypt the file as it is being 
streamed from the server


do I need to fread the data in chunks?
If so, how?

$filename ="$path2file";
$file = fopen($filename,'r');
$fileSize = filesize($filename);
$ContentType = " video/quicktime";
header ("Content-type: $ContentType");
header ("Content-length: $fileSize");

while( $filedata_temp = fread($file, $fileSize) )
echo $filedata_temp;

Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried 
to allocate 24113191 bytes) in /fopenTest.php on line 
27


Not knowing exactly what you're trying to accomplish...

I'm guessing that your $filename file is 24113191 in size and that PHP is 
compiled with a memory limit of 16777216.  And since your assigning the 
results of fread() to a variable, PHP is going to try an allocate that for 
you and is failing.


Couple of points..

Why loop if you are reading the entire file at once?  Which is what 
fread($file, $fileSize) is going to do?


Instead perhaps you want this:

while ( !feof($file) ) {
echo fread($file, 32768);
}

(or some other value for 32768...)

That keeps the memory usage down, but does the same thing...

good luck!

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Re: [PHP] Re: Posting variables from one php script to another

[Al]

Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:

Al wrote:

I'd use this.  It's simple and doesn't involve CURL.  Here is a brief 
outline.


$file_str= base64encode(serialize($_GET));  //$_GET can be any array



Any reason why you base64_encode here? fwrite is binary-safe so base64 
encoding your data is slow and a waste of space.



Create a temporary file and write your string

fwrite($temp, $file_str);

fetch your data with

$saved_get= unserialize(base64decode(file_get_contents(filename));

Unlink your file when done with it.



Rather than resort to the slow process of creating, writing, reading and 
deleting a file for every request (not to mention generating a unique ID 
to prevent collisions with simultaneous requests), I'd be more tempted 
to find out exactly why the OP couldn't get it working with GET variables.


Perhaps he could post some more code, as I regularly pass GET variables 
to PHP scripts through  tags and the like with no problems whatsoever.




Serializing has problems with quotes, backslashs, etc.  base64 makes it 
foolproof.

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Re: [PHP] how to stream a movie file with fread [success] Now, how to do a fast encrypt ?

[Graham Anderson]

Ok, I got it :)


Is there a better way to do a very fast  encryption of a file for a key 
that changes daily ?


The movie is loading and playing at the same time [progressive/rtsp], 
so the encrypt/decrypt needs to be pretty fast

I tried mcrypt but it seemed way to slow
Maybe there is a better encryption method ? Or, are there better 
characters to search/replace ?
Does not have to be ultra secure...just needs to be encryption that 
could last a day or so...as it will change daily.


When I run this, the movie plays, but shows a blank screen and plays no 
audio...which is exactly what I want :)
I want to write a data handler on the user side that connects to a db 
and gets the $find and $replace keys to unlock the movie


many thanks in advance...and yes, I am experimenting


On Sep 23, 2005, at 4:07 PM, Graham Anderson wrote:


I am trying to stream a movie file with 'fread'
this my first step in trying to dynamically encrypt the file as it is 
being streamed from the server


do I need to fread the data in chunks?
If so, how?

$filename ="$path2file";
$file = fopen($filename,'r');
$fileSize = filesize($filename);
$ContentType = " video/quicktime";
header ("Content-type: $ContentType");
header ("Content-length: $fileSize");

while( $filedata_temp = fread($file, $fileSize) )
echo $filedata_temp;

Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted 
(tried to allocate 24113191 bytes) in /fopenTest.php on 
line 27


BTW, I can get readfile to work just fine :)
AFAIK, readfile does not parameters to alter the file contents

many thanks :)

g

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Re: [PHP] Subtracting dates w/o database interaction (MySQL)

[Stephen Leaf]

$date = mysql date field 2005-09-23 for example
$difference =ceil((strtotime($date) - time()) / 86400);

strtotime is far nicer than mktime when you already have a date field ready.

On Friday 23 September 2005 03:10 pm, Philip Thompson wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Chris W. Parker wrote:
> > Philip Thompson 
> >
> > on Friday, September 23, 2005 9:12 AM said:
> >> I'm needing to find the number of days between two dates without
> >> using an database functions (DATE_SUB, etc)... only PHP. Is there an
> >> easy way to accomplish this? I have searched the PHP site, but have
> >> not been successful in finding anything that will assist me.
> >>
> >> Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > There might be an easier way but... convert to timestamp, subtract
> > smaller number from bigger number, figure out how much time has
> > passed.
> > Chris.
>
> I actually discovered how to do this right after I made the post. I
> looked at some archives and worked this out.
>
> 
>
> // today - 9/23/05
> $start = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d"), date("Y"));
>
> // the objective day - 3/15/06
> $end = mktime(0, 0, 0, 3, 15, 2006);
>
> // subtract today from the objective and divide by 24*60*60 to get days
> $difference = ceil(($end - $start) / (86400));
>
> 
>
> Thanks for your assistance.
> ~Philip

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Re: [PHP] Is PHP the language for me???

[Rory Browne]

On 9/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Emily McCall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/23/2005 03:07:39
> PM:
>
> > I am trying to figure out whether php will help me to set up a
> > website which is essentially just links to donwloadable material.
>
> Emily, you certainly came to the right place to get an endorsement of PHP
> ;)

Kirk:
While I agree with you to a certain extent, I think you should have a
little more faith in the professionalism(and honesty) of many of the
subscribers to this list. I've personally(I think), as have many
others, pointed out situations on this list, where another language
would be a better tool for the job than PHP.

This however is not one of those situations. This type of job is what
PHP was made for, and what PHP is extremely suitable for. This is the
type of job, for which I have no problem whatsoever endorsing PHP.

Emily:
I hope this goes some way towards answering your question. I cannot
answer it conclusively because this may be a one off project, and the
rest of your coding may be better suited to a different language. Look
into Perl and Python. I think you should still choose PHP, but would
hope that you do so on its merits, and not because it was the first
one you considered.



>
> Yes. PHP will handle your task nicely, and IMHO, it is the easiest
> language to learn and use for dynamic web programming. Dig in and enjoy!
>
> Kirk
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Re: [PHP] basic user/input form questions... more validation!

[Chris Shiflett]

bruce wrote:

my question was directed towards trying to understand if you were
meaning that an app should escape all output from the mysql db?


If you think about that for a moment, I think you'll see that it doesn't 
make a lot of sense. Data that you get from a remote source is input, 
not output. Data that you send to a remote source is output.


Hope that helps.

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