[suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] Need advice or code
I've made a site with 5 sites in it and has about 6 MySQL/PHP News databases. A while back I tried to use drop-down combo boxes to make a single page that linked all 6 news scripts so I could pick one from the drop-down enter the news and hit submit to add it to the site. The down side is that it didn't work and deactivated the submit button. Is there a way to make a drop-down combo box so that when I pick the item name it loads the said page under the combo box and then lets you submit and pick another one if you need to post to another database. I have 6 scripts that post to each database. Any help, code, or advice would be greatly appreciated. --Death Gauge "How do you gauge your death?!" _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP]Re: Need advice or code
I would do that but my preferences don't include XML. Right now I code in just PHP/MySQL/Javascript/Java/C++/ASM and that is it(of course C++ and ASM don't count as web languages heh). --Death Gauge "How do you gauge your death?!" Maybe try a bit of XmlHTTPRequest and some Javascript. When the first item is selected (and maybe a submit button is pressed) it goes to the XmlHTTPRequest script, gets the data from a php script and echos the output. I'm only a beginner on XmlHTTPRequest, so I can't help you code-wise. Sorry. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] PHP/MySQL/XmlHTTPRequest
Where do I go learn about XmlHTTPRequest? I've done googles and all I've found was stuff about toolkits no tutorials or documents telling how to use it. --Death Gauge "How do you gauge your death?!" _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] RE: [PHP] Re: [suspicious - maybe spam] PHP/MySQL/XmlHTTPRequest
Ok how do I get rid of the annoying "[suspicious - maybe spam]" crap that appears when I post? --Death Gauge "How do you gauge your death?!" Original Message Follows From: Manuel Lemos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Death Gauge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Re: [suspicious - maybe spam] PHP/MySQL/XmlHTTPRequest Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:11:47 -0300 Hello, on 08/30/2005 04:51 PM Death Gauge said the following: Where do I go learn about XmlHTTPRequest? I've done googles and all I've found was stuff about toolkits no tutorials or documents telling how to use it. Here you may find at least 3 solutions to take advantage of XMLHttpRequest AJAX technology from PHP: http://www.phpclasses.org/najax http://www.phpclasses.org/pajax http://www.phpclasses.org/httprequest -- Regards, Manuel Lemos PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ PHP Reviews - Reviews of PHP books and other products http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/ Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] Issues with News sites again...
I tried what people recommended but I am having major issues because
everyone misunderstood about what I was trying to do. My site has a What's
New news poster, which is on every page and just posts two things at a time.
Then a have a comic book site, game site, novel site, animation site, and
movie site and each site has their own News poster page. I need to make a
page where I select Comics books News from a combo box and it loads the
poster for Comics Books below the combo box (with ("comicposter.php"); ?> or the same with the other site. I can't seem to get
it to work properly because when I do include (""); I fill out the stuff
that I want to put in and click submit and nothing the site says it submits
but when I load my main site it displays a blank screen. Any ideas how to
fix this? I don't want to mess with Java/Javascript/XmlHTTPREQUEST or
anything like that. I just want to use HTML/PHP/MySQL nothing majorly
complicated.
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[suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] RE: [PHP] Re: [suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] Issueswith News sites again...
In night college courses right now. I'll supply full code and everything
when I get home in about 2 hours or so. (Had to re-reply cause for some
reason my mail client keeps putting the repliers email in the to box instead
of PHP's mailing list url.
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From: Jasper Bryant-Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] Re: [suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam]
Issueswith News sites again...
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:55:55 +1200
Death Gauge wrote:
I tried what people recommended but I am having major issues because
everyone misunderstood about what I was trying to do. My site has a What's
New news poster, which is on every page and just posts two things at a
time. Then a have a comic book site, game site, novel site, animation site,
and movie site and each site has their own News poster page. I need to make
a page where I select Comics books News from a combo box and it loads the
poster for Comics Books below the combo box (with ("comicposter.php"); ?> or the same with the other site. I can't seem to
get it to work properly because when I do include (""); I fill out the
stuff that I want to put in and click submit and nothing the site says it
submits but when I load my main site it displays a blank screen. Any ideas
how to fix this? I don't want to mess with Java/Javascript/XmlHTTPREQUEST
or anything like that. I just want to use HTML/PHP/MySQL nothing majorly
complicated.
I dunno, maybe if you provided some code so we could understand what you're
actually doing...
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[suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] RE: [suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] RE: [PHP] Re: [suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam]Issueswit
Sorry had to eat too. Ok here is the source that is giving me problems. I'd dropped a few things from it cause they weren't working either but this gives the just of what I'm trying to do. I'm renaming the poster.php files to more appropriate names but you get the idea of what I'm trying but not getting to work. pselector.php is : "; echo ""; echo ""; echo "News Poster"; echo "What's New Poster"; echo ""; echo ""; ?> --Death Gauge "How do you gauge your death?!" Original Message Follows From: "Death Gauge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] RE: [PHP] Re: [suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam]Issueswith News sites again... Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:40:00 + In night college courses right now. I'll supply full code and everything when I get home in about 2 hours or so. (Had to re-reply cause for some reason my mail client keeps putting the repliers email in the to box instead of PHP's mailing list url. --Death Gauge "How do you gauge your death?!" _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] RE: [PHP] RE: Issues with News sites again...
I'll try that...But why shouldn't I have register_globals on (which my ISP does and every tutorial I've ever read says to do in order to use several different features of PHP:-/). --Death Gauge "How do you gauge your death?!" Original Message Follows From: "Jasper Bryant-Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] RE: Issues with News sites again... Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:21:43 +1200 (NZST) On Wed, September 14, 2005 3:15 pm, Death Gauge said: > Sorry had to eat too. Ok here is the source that is giving me problems. > I'd > dropped a few things from it cause they weren't working either but this > gives the just of what I'm trying to do. I'm renaming the poster.php files > to more appropriate names but you get the idea of what I'm trying but not > getting to work. > > > // Poster (poster.php) >switch($id) Unless you have register_globals on, which you shouldn't, this should be switch($_POST['id']) -- Jasper Bryant-Greene -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] RE: Issues with News sites again...
I would be very worried about the quality of any reply that posts a link that says the opposite of what the person is saying. Nowhere in that link did I see them say that turning on the globals was a security issue. The page said the misuse of the globals was the security risk due to forgetting to initialize variables and then goes on to show examples of the issue risks if the globals aren't properly initialized. The security issues fall on the web designer not the ISP or PHP, ISP and PHP doesn't control if I forget to initialize something in my PHP scripts. The first two paragraphs even state that it is a web designer's problem (not in so many words though). [QUOTE] Perhaps the most controversial change in PHP is when the default value for the PHP directive register_globals went from ON to OFF in PHP 4.2.0. Reliance on this directive was quite common and many people didn't even know it existed and assumed it's just how PHP works. This page will explain how one can write insecure code with this directive but keep in mind that the directive itself isn't insecure but rather it's the misuse of it. When on, register_globals will inject your scripts with all sorts of variables, like request variables from HTML forms. This coupled with the fact that PHP doesn't require variable initialization means writing insecure code is that much easier. It was a difficult decision, but the PHP community decided to disable this directive by default. When on, people use variables yet really don't know for sure where they come from and can only assume. Internal variables that are defined in the script itself get mixed up with request data sent by users and disabling register_globals changes this. [/QUOTE] --Death Gauge "How do you gauge your death?!" Original Message Follows From: Jasper Bryant-Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Re: [suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] RE:[PHP] RE: Issues with News sites again... Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:37:21 +1200 Death Gauge wrote: I'll try that...But why shouldn't I have register_globals on (which my ISP does and every tutorial I've ever read says to do in order to use several different features of PHP:-/). http://php.net/security.globals I would be very worried about the quality of any tutorial that said that (and any ISP that did that by default). -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] Re: [PHP] RE: [suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] RE: Issues with News sites again...
Just for the record. I'm a professional C++ programmer and I know to initialize variables before I use them. Secondly, I've taken into account what has been said but all I keep seeing is guys saying that not initializing the variables opens up security issues. Which is just agreeing with what the site is basically saying that the only security issues would be introduced by the script creator. Lastly, I addressed this issue with my ISP and they already have security measures in place for anything that could come about from bad PHP scripts. --Death Gauge "How do you gauge your death?!" Original Message Follows From: "Richard Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Jay Blanchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: "'Death Gauge'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] RE: [suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] RE: Issues with News sites again... Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:40:34 -0500 (CDT) On Wed, September 14, 2005 9:46 am, Jay Blanchard wrote: > At the risk of starting another globals holy war, the reply that you > received was a generalization that reflects the potential (< NOTE > THAT) > security risks from having register globals 'on'. The poster was > essentially > correct, misuse of globals opens up a whole can of potential security > issues. I will refer you to several good PHP security resources at > http://www.shiflett.org I was frankly rather pissed when register_globals went "off" *I* do not have any uninitialized variables anywhere in any scripts on any site I ever built. Period. Upon reflection, though... In the unlikely event that I break down and give in to client demands to install some lame-ass bulletin board with all its *other* security holes, it's pretty much guaranteed their crappy PHP code ALSO has a zillion uninitialized variables. Even phpLIB, which sort of morphed into PEAR (???) used to have a bunch of uninitialized member variables. It wouldn't even run on my server since I had E_ALL cranked up. Their first patch for that was to just change my warnings dynamically. Then not change them BACK at the end of their code. Blech. Sure, I'd LIKE to educate every PHP scripter to never use an uninitialized variable. And I'd LOVE to change the default error_reporting in php.ini to E_ALL. But neither of those is likely to happen, and the best band-aid we can muster is register_globals "off" That said, the real culprits, as far as I can tell, are just doing extract($_POST), at which point they might as well have just left register_globals "on" anyway... register_globals "off" is a band-aid. How the PHP community can "fix" this problem for real is not something to be figured out in a 10-minute PHP-General discussion. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[suspicious - maybe spam] [PHP] [suspicious - maybe spam] RE: [PHP] Recommended Reading?
I've never read a book to do PHP or anything else. I simply google and go to site after site reading tutorials and docs then making a sample page with what I've read and learned. --Death Gauge "How do you gauge your death?!" Original Message Follows From: "Alan Lord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Subject: [PHP] Recommended Reading? Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:43:36 +0100 Hi all, Forgive this long diatribe, a bit off-topic I know, but it might stimulate a good discussion... I have built a few small apps in PHP before and, whilst they work, I can't but help feeling that I go about the whole thing the WRONG way... I am not a professional software person (far from it) but I am reasonably competent in most things "technical". I trained in Electronics, build my own PCs and Linux systems from scratch, have used - just for fun - Java, Delphi, Visual Basic, PHP and a little C/C++. I am now wanting to write my own application (using PHP of course) to do something "really useful". And I am looking for some recommendations on reading [books or links] about "how to design" my application and how to think about the design in it's abstract form before I start writing code. Normally I end up writing little bits of code to solve small problems and then sort of kludging them together to do something useful. I would really like to try and go about this one the RIGHT way. Thanks in advance. Al -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] No forums?
Forums and mailinglists like this are about the same. Forums has image content though while mailing lists just have text content. You get the same replies as you would with the other so be happy that they at least have this mailing list and don't just say "Here is PHP and have fun learning it without our help." Side question: Larry Ullman: You wouldn't happen to be the same Mr. Ullman that wrote the PHP&MySQL For Dynamic Web Sites? --Death Gauge "How do you gauge your death?!" _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] PHP5/MySQL5/Apache2 Problems
I've done everything I can think of to make PHP run with MySQL and Apache. I added PHP as a module to Apache2. I then told PHP that the extension_dir="./ext" and then uncommented extenstion=php_mysql.dll But PHP isn't showing anything about MySQL when I restart Apache and now Apache won't start cause it is running into errors with PHP/MySQL. How do I fix this? All help is appreciated. --Death Gauge "How do you gauge your death?!" _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
