[PHP] session.gc_probability

2001-09-08 Thread Tobias Strauß
The session handling of php seems not to work very well on my computer: if session.gc_probability is set to a value smaler 35, it never executes my gabarage_collection-function. When it is bigger than 35, it's executed every time. I'm using W2K and php 4.02? Does anybody knows the reason for this

[PHP] HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR

2001-09-08 Thread Tobias Strauß
On php.net I found this: When you use REMOTE_ADDR for getting the IP of the current user, sometimes you get the IP of the ISP Cache server. When this happens, the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR is also set, it contains the IP of the user. [...] Note that the X-Forwarded for header might contain multiple ad

Re: [PHP] Homesite & php

2001-09-08 Thread Hugh Danaher
Hi, I'm using homesite 4.5.1 and I've not had the problem you describe. However, since I use a remote server, when I have a php page up, and go to design view, funny things do happen. I just don't go there anymore. Hugh - Original Message - From: Andonny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PR

[PHP] Win 9x and Shell Commands

2001-09-08 Thread ReDucTor
I can't seem to do any system(), exec(), passthru(), etc on my windows system.. I've tried doing "command /c "... Its showing Warning: Unable to fork [command /c net] in c:\phpdev3\www\net.php on line 2 - James "ReDucTor" Mitchell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To un

RE: [PHP] mySQL / PHP Join Question

2001-09-08 Thread Don Read
On 09-Sep-2001 Dana Holt wrote: > > I have a query that uses a LEFT JOIN, but the two tables have some columns > with the same name. How can I tell the columns from each table apart? It > seems that the "joined" table overwrites the values from the other table. > If the column is part of the j

[PHP] Re: preg_replace_callback()

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
A "callback" is when you execute a function, and you provide to it a name of *another* function, which it will call on some data in the middle of its task. It's a very handy way to provide extreme flexibility in functional languages. For example: function my_array_walk($array, $function){ w

Re: [PHP] Re: Seperating a textarea into 3 different variables

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Kurth
Hello Gaylen, I am not sure what worldpay uses as an operating system but this work just perfect. Thanks Saturday, September 08, 2001, 6:09:08 PM, you wrote: Gaylen Fraley> Is this under Windows? If so, it's probably passing \r\n : carriage Gaylen Fraley> return/line feed. Check for both. Ga

Re: [PHP] insert space to a string (newbie)

2001-09-08 Thread Ryan Fischer
You wrote: > I have a simple question... > How can a space inserted to a string after the 3rd char ?? > > washington ->> was hington $str = 'washington'; $str = ereg_replace('^(.{3})(.*)$', '\\1 \\2', $str); -- -Ryan :: ICQ - 595003 :: GigaBoard - http://www.gigaboard.net/ -- PHP Gene

Re: [PHP] insert space to a string (newbie)

2001-09-08 Thread rm
Maybe something like: $word="washington"; $length=strlen($word); $a=substr($word,0,3); $b=substr($word,3,$length-3); $string=$a." ".$b; print $string; you might want to test for the length of $word first to make sure $word has more than 3 characters --- Andras Kende <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

[PHP] insert space to a string (newbie)

2001-09-08 Thread Andras Kende
Hi, I have a simple question... How can a space inserted to a string after the 3rd char ?? washington ->> was hington Thanks :) Andras -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To cont

[PHP] mySQL / PHP Join Question

2001-09-08 Thread Dana Holt
I have a query that uses a LEFT JOIN, but the two tables have some columns with the same name. How can I tell the columns from each table apart? It seems that the "joined" table overwrites the values from the other table. Anyone know? Thanks. -- Dana Holt / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Genera

Re: [PHP] Sterilize user input function

2001-09-08 Thread John Lim
It really depends on what you use the user input for. If you are just storing into a database and splashing it out to a html page later, htmlspecialchars( ) is adequete protection. If this is a filename, then checks for the prefix "http://"; and '..' and quotes in the file name, and a base dire

[PHP] Homesite & php

2001-09-08 Thread Andonny
Hi, Does the new version of homesite still have the same result with php. When I used to change anything in Design View and then went back to Edit View the ?> became ?>. Does this still happen??? Thanks Andonny -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EM

Re: [PHP] Sterilize user input function

2001-09-08 Thread Kevin
I think my question could be restated to: What characters are potentially lethal in user input. I can do the regex. But don't know what to parse out of the strings. would removing \ / . do the trick? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

[PHP] Re: PHP and MySQL

2001-09-08 Thread Pieter Philippaerts
Unfortunately, I can't access these settings. It's not our computer that hosts our website. Regards, Pieter Philippaerts "Richard Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 01e501c138ce$f3008300$6401a8c0@Lynchux100">news:01e501c138ce$f3008300$6401a8c0@Lynchux100... > Options: > Increase the set

[PHP] Re: Seperating a textarea into 3 different variables

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
Use something like this to find out what character is *REALLY* in the stuff coming from worldpay: for($i = 0; $i < strlen($worldpay_address); $i++){ $char = $worldpay_address[$i]; if (($ord = ord($char)) < 32){ echo "$char[$ord]"; } else{ echo $char; } } Anothe

[PHP] Re: cURL support

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
Compare your with theirs and see what cURL differences there are... -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm - Ori

[PHP] Re: php/mysql search. need help

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
There are various "sounds like" modules such as soundex and metaphone and suchlike. These can ameliorate bad spelling. Another option, if you have a limited number of types available, is to give the user a popup menu rather than free-form box to type in. In general, the fewer ways you can provide

[PHP] Re: How to use environment variables in php.ini?

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
http://php.net/getenv http://php.net/setenv Why you want to set them in the Environment instead of just regular variables is beyond me. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Vo

[PHP] Re: error with socket

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
Compare PHP versions from your computer and http://php.net/socket -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm - Origi

[PHP] Re: Session variables

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
You'll have to define what you mean by "currently online". Do you mean actually waiting this moment for HTML to finish streaming to their browser? Or do you just mean, in my session files and not timed out yet? Probably the easiest way to do that would be to use http://php.net/session-set-save-

[PHP] Re: query string - count for records with keywords

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
That '4' you see is that this is the FOURTH thing you've asked MySQL to do in this script. You need to use http://php.net/mysql_result or other similar function to get your actual answer. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? L

[PHP] Re: header(Location:...) is redirect: looking for full link

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
Add *ANOTHER* variable in the header("Location:") code that says "&redirect=1" In your page3, do: if($redirect){ $menuID = $foo; } else{ $menuID = $bar; } Where foo comes from the location, but bar comes from page2. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EM

[PHP] Re: creating ZIP file from mySQL content?

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
http://php.net/zlib -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm - Original Message - From: Brack <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[PHP] Re: PHP and MySQL

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
Options: Increase the settings in MySQL that limit how many databases can be open at once. Decrease the number of Apache children running. Basically, as long as you have more Apache children than MySQL connections available, you can get this message. Actually, have a few spare MySQL connections,

[PHP] Re: optimize question

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
You probably won't be able to measure the difference unless you are doing 10,000 print statements... Optimize the things that are slow, not the things that are already fast. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy

[PHP] Re: dates problem

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
Use the MySQL function to_seconds or whatever it is. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm - Original Message --

[PHP] Re: strange register_shutdown_function() and fopen() conflict

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
@fopen(...) or error_log("Unable to fopen: $php_errormsg"); Check your Apache log after this. http://php.net/error_log -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little

[PHP] Re: files

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
There's a Un*x utility for automagically doing this, but it leaves the new file blank, almost for sure... man logrotate Can we safely assume no *other* PHP script is going to be trying to write to this chat file while you're messing with it? If not, you really need to move to a database solution

[PHP] Re: independent PHP4 on shared Apache?

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
You can probably do a CGI install and only put the directives in your .htaccess or inside your httpd.conf VirtualHost block. For the Module, there's no way to Load/Unload for different Hosts. You could do the LoadModule and only have the AddType in *your* Host, but the Module itself would be part

[PHP] Re: Delivering an authenticated pdf

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
http://php.net/readfile http://php.net/header You'll want to send Content-type: application/x-octet-stream if you want to force download, or, errr, whatever a PDF is if you want them to just view it. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help

[PHP] Re: private functions

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
You'll have to use the function to find out if the function is defined. http://php.net/function_exists You may want to mess with method_exists and try to define it as a method rather than a global function, which is what I think you are doing at this point. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address i

[PHP] Re: gd-library

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
You either see GD in all that mess, or it ain't there. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm - Original Message

[PHP] Re: use of mysql_free_result and unset

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
It's done at the end of a function, or at any other time, when the variable is no longer in scope. You really only need this on a large, long-running script or where memory is an issue... For web-sites, that's quite rare. For a shell script, it might make sense. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad

[PHP] Re: output using ClibPDF is blank - RESENT in ASCII

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
take out the header, and see if you have any error messages. I'm also willing to bet that cdpf_open() returns some special values for error -- Your code should check that. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy

[PHP] Re: Module/PHP conflict

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
You'll have to get a new version of php_dbg.dll from PHPEd, I think... -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm - O

[PHP] Re: Netscape & Cookies

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
Try not using "" and 0 for domain and secure. You're using the defaults anyway, I think... I think the "" is the real culprit... -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunte

[PHP] Re: how to use fileatime() if the file name contains empty char?

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
You may need to escape it with "file\\ name" for the shell... Only I woulda thought PHP would take care of that... -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little tim

[PHP] Re: Unresolved Mistery Error in PHP

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Lynch
You probably have differing versions of MySQL compiled into PHP and what you are actually *running* on your computer. Re-compile PHP and be sure to use --with-mysql=/path/to/your/mysql/source That source *MUST* match your running MySQL server. Watch the configure output messages, and be sure you

[PHP] Re: Seperating a textarea into 3 different variables

2001-09-08 Thread Gaylen Fraley
Is this under Windows? If so, it's probably passing \r\n : carriage return/line feed. Check for both. -- Gaylen "Richard Kurth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I have a problem I am trying to set up a credit card form for worldpay > > And in

Re: [PHP] cookie error

2001-09-08 Thread Julie Meloni
Saturday, September 08, 2001, 5:40:46 PM, you wrote: AM> when i submit a form and try to have it post a cookie in the php thing i get AM> this error message: AM> Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output AM> started at /usr/local/www/data/vi2dev/root/layout/functio

[PHP] cookie error

2001-09-08 Thread Aaron Moore
when i submit a form and try to have it post a cookie in the php thing i get this error message: Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/local/www/data/vi2dev/root/layout/functions.php:167) in /usr/local/www/data/vi2dev/root/admin/manager.php on li

[PHP] preg_replace_callback()

2001-09-08 Thread Arash Dejkam
Hi, What is a callback in preg_replace_callback(...) ? how can I use it ? can anybody give me an example ? Thanks, Arash -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administ

[PHP] Seperating a textarea into 3 different variables

2001-09-08 Thread Richard Kurth
I have a problem I am trying to set up a credit card form for worldpay And in the address field that I have to send to them it has to go in a textarea So when you fill this in it would look like this address city state Now this works fine for sending them the data but when the data is sent ba

[PHP] header(Location:...) is redirect: looking for full link

2001-09-08 Thread Chrisy
hi, The long explanation is below the summary. SUMMARY page1.php Header(location:page2.php) page2.php HTML link to page3.php page3.php REFERER=page1.php But in page3 i WANT to see page2.php as REFERER. So i suppose i must change something in page1. But what? XXX

Re: [PHP] Sterilize user input function

2001-09-08 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
For emails I've seen some nice work somewhere in the annoted manual. I think it's in the chapter about regular expressions.. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php You might not only want to kill anything dangerous.. Checking email address is also handy to prevent your database to be fi

Re: [PHP] Mod-function?

2001-09-08 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
It is an operator in PHP: % ie. echo 3 % 2; -Rasmus On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Ville Mattila wrote: > Hi folks, > > I found this kind of formulae which should calculate the distance between two points >on earth: > > tc1=mod(atan2(sin(lon1-lon2)*cos(lat2), >cos(lat1)*sin(lat2)-sin(lat1)*c

[PHP] Mod-function?

2001-09-08 Thread Ville Mattila
Hi folks, I found this kind of formulae which should calculate the distance between two points on earth: tc1=mod(atan2(sin(lon1-lon2)*cos(lat2), cos(lat1)*sin(lat2)-sin(lat1)*cos(lat2)*cos(lon1-lon2)), 2*pi) This is not PHP code, but now I would need the same formulae in PHP. But I

Re: [PHP] Re: a general perl like pares of the query string...

2001-09-08 Thread Aaron Moore
Wow... ok now i get it.. thanks guys Aaron Moore "Michael Kimsal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Aaron, CC Zona wrote before that: > > > If track_vars is on (always true if version >= 4.0.3), then the global vars > $HTTP_GET_VARS['bob'] and $H

Re: [PHP] Re: a general perl like pares of the query string...

2001-09-08 Thread Michael Kimsal
Aaron, CC Zona wrote before that: If track_vars is on (always true if version >= 4.0.3), then the global vars $HTTP_GET_VARS['bob'] and $HTTP_GET_VARS['phil'] are already set. And if register_globals is on, then the global vars $bob and $phil are also already set. --

php-general Digest 8 Sep 2001 18:30:26 -0000 Issue 864

2001-09-08 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 8 Sep 2001 18:30:26 - Issue 864 Topics (messages 66512 through 66538): Re: how to execute a php script thru a cron job 66512 by: Carry Ian Re: run a script for any HTTP request (was: run a script on access to a directory) 66513 by: Enrique Vadillo

[PHP] Sterilize user input function

2001-09-08 Thread Kevin
I am looking for general a function to that would render user input harmless. I would write my own but don't know what to strip from the input that could make it potentially damaging on linux boxes. I need to accept email and phone numbers. Thanks in advance, Kevin -- PHP General Mailing Li

[PHP] query string - count for records with keywords

2001-09-08 Thread sgibbs
I'm trying to get a count of the number of records in a database that have the keyword "cat", for example. Below is the original code; I added the query with count at the bottom of this code but it doesn't seem to be working. I just get a return of "4" which doesn't correspond correctly with the

Re: [PHP] Re: a general perl like pares of the query string...

2001-09-08 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
http://php.net/parse_str On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Aaron Moore wrote: > Well hers teh perl version of the the parser... how do i convert this to php > > $tmp = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}; > @pairs = split(/&/, $tmp); > > foreach $item (@pairs) { > ($key, $content) = split(/=/,$item,2); > $content =~ tr/+/

[PHP] Re: a general perl like pares of the query string...

2001-09-08 Thread Aaron Moore
Well hers teh perl version of the the parser... how do i convert this to php $tmp = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}; @pairs = split(/&/, $tmp); foreach $item (@pairs) { ($key, $content) = split(/=/,$item,2); $content =~ tr/+/ /; $content =~ s/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1))/ge; $fields{$key} = $content; } -

[PHP] Re: Smarty + JavaScript

2001-09-08 Thread John Lim
>From the smarty manual {literal}