http://www.sagewire.org/Blogs and forums for Java, PHP, MySQL, and more.enhttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Simple-image-gallery-1961476.aspxHello I have been googling for a couple of hours, but still have not found what I need: - really simple PHP-based image gallery software. Ideally, just a single file that I just drop into a directory filled with JPG files - uses eg. GD to generate thumbnails automagically, and saves them into a sub-directory for the next time (I do not want thumbnails to be regenerated every time someone views the pictures) - as an option, supports slideshow - free/open-source Any good recommendati...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Simple-image-gallery-1961476.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSun, 28 Oct 2007 17:51:41 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/About-Resource-ids-1998430.aspxHello, wrote in message and have some questions related to the resource id's. When a new client connects to the server or the server opens a file the Resource id number increases normally, but when the server closes the socket and the file and then a new client connects or file opens, the Resource id still increases without reseting to the previous closed id's. For example: Client connects to the server...accept(); Client fd: Resource id #1 client quits.... fclose/socket_close C...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/About-Resource-ids-1998430.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSun, 28 Oct 2007 17:12:06 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/determine-of-part-of-string-is-uppercase-based-on-1998850.aspx[code]<?php $testcase = 'AKLWC139'; if (ctype_upper($testcase)) { echo "The string $testcase consists of all uppercase letters. \n"; } else { echo "The string $testcase doesn't consist of all uppercase letters.\n"; } ?>[/code] This is some code that will check a string and validate if it consists of all uppercase letters. I am not too familiar with syntax of PHP as I am learning, ... can someone please show me a way to make this, so it dives a li...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/determine-of-part-of-string-is-uppercase-based-on-1998850.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSun, 28 Oct 2007 16:17:11 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/complangphp-1996067.aspxHello I am having trouble making PHP web page that uploads an image file and moves it to a new file name. The problem occurs when the new filename already exists. I am using move_uploaded_file(). The fist time an image file is uploaded and moved to a new file name there is no problem, however if I decide to upload a different image file, when the script tries to move this to the same filename (which is what I want as I want the uploaded file to have a specific name) it does not wo...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/complangphp-1996067.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSun, 28 Oct 2007 15:35:10 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/cannot-pass-query-string-GET-vars-1996301.aspxI'm having a very odd issue, that arose this morning after working fine yesterday... here's a very simple script: 1: [code]<?php 2: $test = $_GET['test']; 3: echo "Hello" . $test . "<p>[/code]"; 4: ?> when called using this URL: http://216.244.107.150/info.php?test=me the code should just output: Hello me but instead the server just hangs, until my browser timesout. If I remove "?test=me" from the URL, the script works just fine (output: "Hello "), but for some r...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/cannot-pass-query-string-GET-vars-1996301.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSun, 28 Oct 2007 15:29:32 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Paginate-from-group-by-1999336.aspxI'm having some difficulty paginating from the $_GET variable, because in this instance the string being passed is of a group by query (one letter). Currently I'm limiting the results using limit, Here's what I currently have and it works just fine at displaying, I just need to add pagination. [code]<?php if( !isset( $_GET['title'] ) ) { print 'No Record was Selected'; } else { $query = mysql_query("SELECT ID,Title FROM table WHERE Title LIKE '" . $_GET['title'] . "%' L...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Paginate-from-group-by-1999336.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSun, 28 Oct 2007 14:11:17 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/filtering-xdebug-ini-keys-1999481.aspxI have created the following function for returning only ini keys that pertain to xdebug. I'm wondering how I might go about doing the same sort of thing with one or more of the various "array_" functions instead (e.g. array_filter). Since I'm working with xdebug (if you can not tell ;) I will respond in kind with trace data comparing the functions. Thanks in advance....George Jempty function ini_get_xdebug() { $ini_all = ini_get_all(); $ini_xdebug = array(); $xdebu...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/filtering-xdebug-ini-keys-1999481.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSun, 28 Oct 2007 13:52:01 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Formatting-date-with-php-from-mysql-table-1998791.aspxHello I have date and time in my mysql table in the form 2007-05-03 00:00:00 which I have dispayed on my webpage using echo $selldatetime I want to know how I can display it in the form 03-05-2007 Thankshttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Formatting-date-with-php-from-mysql-table-1998791.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSun, 28 Oct 2007 13:27:43 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Session-or-browser-problem-1999335.aspxHi all, I have a news website tat is developed on joomla 1.5.Login facility is done thru a login component.On each page,ther s a 'Log In' link that redirects them to a login page.On successful login,user details are set in session as well as cookies and then redirected back to d referring page.The 'Log In' section changes to 'Welcome user',along wid a 'Log Out' link.All this works d same in IE 6 as well as in FF 2.The difference comes durin log out action. In FF,on clickin 'Log Out',...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Session-or-browser-problem-1999335.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSun, 28 Oct 2007 13:09:52 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Is-it-possible-to-pass-variable-to-PHP-script-1998851.aspxHi. Sorry for what is perhaps a neophyte question: is it possible to pass a variable to a PHP script from inside another PHP piece of code? For instance, the file test.php (which of course resides on a webserver that supports PHP) is as such: [some HTML code...] [code]<?php echo("<i>[/code]the variable abc contains " . $_GET['abc'] . "[code]</i>[/code]"); ?> [some more HTML code...] and if I open this file directly i.e. by typing test.php?abc=888 in the URL line of a web browser,...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Is-it-possible-to-pass-variable-to-PHP-script-1998851.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSun, 28 Oct 2007 11:40:38 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Securing-an-Email-script-1998739.aspxI have changed our web site to use a simple PHP script to send a demo request to our sales office. We use Postfix and everything is set up properly and works fine. I have been informed there are some security issues to review. The script looks like: [code]<html>[/code] [code]<head>[/code][code]<title>[/code]PHP Mail Sender[code]</title>[/code][code]</head>[/code] [code]<body>[/code] [code]<?php /* Pre-defined script variables. */ /* $eol = "\r\n"; */ $eol = "\...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Securing-an-Email-script-1998739.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSat, 27 Oct 2007 21:16:19 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Trouble-with-AddType-applicationxhttpdphp-png-1997001.aspxI'm trying to create the forum favorite dynamic sig image, that's realy PHP script. I have had moderate success with .php files but when I change the extension to .png I'm prompted to download the file, rather than it rendering. My understanding is that this isn't supposed to happen, and that by adding an.htaccess file I can force .png files to be compiled/parsed/ whatevered by PHP. In my .htaccess file I have: AddType application/x-httpd-php .png Any advice? I'm using heliohost...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Trouble-with-AddType-applicationxhttpdphp-png-1997001.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSat, 27 Oct 2007 21:14:24 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Need-scroller-that-reads-php-file-1998186.aspxI need a scroller (JAVA) or whatever that can read a php file and display it in the script. Does anyone know of any? I have searched the script sites but did not find anything.http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Need-scroller-that-reads-php-file-1998186.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSat, 27 Oct 2007 19:28:36 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/modrewrite-rules-for-live-site-1998682.aspx* I'm trying to work out some rewrite rules that should do the following: case 1: a request to mysite.com: rewrite http://www.mysite.com/files/sheets.ppt to http://www.mysite.com/sites/default/files/sheets.ppt case 1 - n: a request to othersite.com: rewrite http://www.othersite.com/files/sheets.ppt to http://www.othersite.com/sites/othersite/files/sheets.ppt So, if a request comes in to mysite.com, /files/-urls need to be rewritten do /sites/default/files/sheets/ppt, since mysite ...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/modrewrite-rules-for-live-site-1998682.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSat, 27 Oct 2007 18:25:02 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Does-lower-phpini-replace-an-upper-phpini-in-the-1998320.aspxAs far as I know I can override the php settings for a certain branch of the whole directory tree by putting a additional, new php.ini in this directory. Is this true ? If I assign in this new php.ini only a new value to 1 (!) php variable are then all the other php parameter values taken from the next php.ini when I go towards the root of the directory tree? Or - otherwise - are default built-in values from PHP taken in this case ? Do I have to do something else to activate this new...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Does-lower-phpini-replace-an-upper-phpini-in-the-1998320.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSat, 27 Oct 2007 15:02:01 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Best-solution-to-tedious-form-validation-1997750.aspxI have been working on a membership form for a while, and find it very tedious to get an acceptable level of form validation. A web search for solutions revealed some home-brewed solutions, such as these: http://simonwillison.net/2003/Jun/17/theHolyGrail/ http://samuelsjoberg.com/archive/2004/11/form-validation-on-client-and-server Quoting from the first link, this is my idea of what form validation is like from the user's perspective: 1. The form is displayed; you fill it in....http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Best-solution-to-tedious-form-validation-1997750.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSat, 27 Oct 2007 13:10:55 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Dirty-Form-Error-Trapping-1991339.aspxGreetings, I'm an occasional php/mysql dabbler. I have a basic data form with a submit button. Unfortunately, it's still possible for the user to enter data changes and close the window, without clicking the submit button, thus losing the data. Can someone point me to a generic example of some code that will trap and handle this error?http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Dirty-Form-Error-Trapping-1991339.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSat, 27 Oct 2007 12:47:20 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Can-not-login-to-remote-SSH-server-using-ssh2authp-1997914.aspxI'm trying to make use of ssh2_auth_pubkey_file() and login into remote machine. I have read somewhere that in order to make that function work I have to supply it with public key with specific format due to limitation of libssh2. The public key should look like this: [code]<key_type>[/code]{1 space character}[code]<key_data>[/code] Well it still doesn't work even if I change my public key file. Says "Authentication failed for [code]<user_name>[/code] using public key" Can somebody h...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Can-not-login-to-remote-SSH-server-using-ssh2authp-1997914.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSat, 27 Oct 2007 10:09:47 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/resampling-images-1998066.aspxHello, I was wondering if I was missing something simple, an existing function, that allows me to resample image in size (width and height) as well as the file size as well. What I am trying to do is automate importing images and standardize the saved version to a typical dimension and maximum file sie (80Kb). I have found numerous scripts for resample the dimensions of an image but file size seems trickier to find or I'm not looking in the right places. Any pointers, help is gr...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/resampling-images-1998066.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSat, 27 Oct 2007 08:34:48 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Integration-of-differential-equations-in-PHP-1993239.aspxIs there a package of functions to do numerical integration in PHP ?http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Integration-of-differential-equations-in-PHP-1993239.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSat, 27 Oct 2007 08:16:06 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/send-email-to-me-1994217.aspxDear All, I have created a website. in the contact us page I want to send all information (Entered by visitor in text boxex) directly to my e-mail address. to do this I have no idea because I am new to PHP. thanks in advance Devhttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/send-email-to-me-1994217.aspxrss@sagewire.orgSat, 27 Oct 2007 02:14:35 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/comparing-two-XMLobjects-1997997.aspxI'm getting data from an XML file using this method: $name = $xml->user_info->user['name']; $nickname = $xml->user_info->user['nickname']; & $age = $xml->user_info->user['age']; $shoe_size = $xml->user_info->user['show_size']; I want to compare name & nickname, and age & shoe_size, but I can not figure out how, as all 4 are objects. Basically I want to know if age > show_size or name == nickname. How'd I do that? I tried: if ($age > $shoesize) { echo "age is higher";...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/comparing-two-XMLobjects-1997997.aspxrss@sagewire.orgFri, 26 Oct 2007 23:27:39 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Cant-figure-out-ajaxphp-problem-1991064.aspxHere's my issue: I have an instant messenger type feature for my site, its basically an ajax IM feature. I run with a mysql backend on the site, I have a div on my main page that runs a JAVAscript timer to load the php page via ajax every 15 seconds which checks the "pinguser" table to see if the user has any chat requests, then echoes them to a div on the page. what I REALLY want to do is have the ajax page see if there is a ping for the user, and if so, pop up a JAVAscript alert or...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Cant-figure-out-ajaxphp-problem-1991064.aspxrss@sagewire.orgFri, 26 Oct 2007 19:04:12 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/WordPress-question-1992891.aspxhi expert php'ers.....;) is it ok to ask WordPress questions here? I mean if you do not get a response to your quetion in WP forums where else can you go?? I have WP 2.3 installed on my own hosting server.. I'm tying to do something that should be quite simple yet I can not get it to work... I want to do my own form, w/o having to use a plugin.. I tried a contact plugin, but you can not specify what address to send email to, which renders the plugin pretty useless.. in readme f...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/WordPress-question-1992891.aspxrss@sagewire.orgFri, 26 Oct 2007 17:22:06 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/PHP-to-Fax-1986477.aspxSo I know I can fax from my computer so I'm guessing there is a way to get PHP to fax. I have a program that allows for a customer to be emailed or faxed certain information. If PHP can not do this maybe you know whether ASP or asp.net can do it. But basically I just want to click a button and have it fax...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/PHP-to-Fax-1986477.aspxrss@sagewire.orgFri, 26 Oct 2007 16:53:49 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/free-tool-to-encrypt-php-1983532.aspxHi Any free tool I can use to encrypt my php source code? thanks from Peter (cmk128@xxxxxxxxxxx)http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/free-tool-to-encrypt-php-1983532.aspxrss@sagewire.orgFri, 26 Oct 2007 15:45:30 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Is-it-Daylight-Savings-Time-1995827.aspxI found out that I can only set an offset in my session timezone in my ISP's MySQL server, not a timezone. So I am left with the task of setting the offset, which will vary, depending on whether or not DST is in effect. Is there a way of discovering, from a PHP script is we are in DST or standard time ? billhttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Is-it-Daylight-Savings-Time-1995827.aspxrss@sagewire.orgFri, 26 Oct 2007 13:26:02 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Include-Problem-1996911.aspxWhy does thisn't work ? $fileDir = '../folder2/'; $content is an array of php files, file1.php file2.php file3.php etc... $c = count($content); for( $x=0; $x<$c; $x++ ){ include( $fileDir.$content[$x] ); } any ideas'd be appreciated, thanks. Xavhttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Include-Problem-1996911.aspxrss@sagewire.orgFri, 26 Oct 2007 11:18:27 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/php-regular-expression-does-not-match-1993855.aspxHi PHP's regular expression look like does not support .*? syntax. So I cannot match the shortest match. For exmaple: $str="a1b a3b"; $str1=ereg_replace("a.*b", "peter", $str1); will produce "peter", but I want "peter peter", so how to? thanks from Peter (cmk128@xxxxxxxxxxx)http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/php-regular-expression-does-not-match-1993855.aspxrss@sagewire.orgFri, 26 Oct 2007 09:31:35 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/filegetcontents-outputs-nothing-1996065.aspxHi everyone, The output of echo file_get_contents("http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/ RandomWord/RandomWordPlus.aspx"); leaves the browser empty.. no error messages, nothing. Why is this occurring? Thanks Tarashttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/filegetcontents-outputs-nothing-1996065.aspxrss@sagewire.orgFri, 26 Oct 2007 04:59:36 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/copy-of-object-is-reference-in-PHP5-1996302.aspxCan someone please explain the results below We switched to PHP 5 if I make a copy of an object, and then change the variable inside the object the change is reflected in the copy. Either the copy is a reference to the object or the variable inside the object is a static variable, I'm not sure what is going on, but It does not seem like it should be doing that. Is that because of a setting on the server or something ? [code]<?$label=new myObj(); $label->[/code]settext('the text'); ...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/copy-of-object-is-reference-in-PHP5-1996302.aspxrss@sagewire.orgFri, 26 Oct 2007 04:58:20 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/efree-cause-errors-during-resource-deallocation-1983251.aspxI'm developing small extension that deals with resources. If I use emalloc/efree for allocating freeing resource data I get random memory corruption errors. If I replace emalloc/efree with malloc/free, everything works fine. At least there are no errors produced. I'm using PHP 4.4.8/Zend Engine 1.3.0/no any optimiser. -------- myext.c ------ static int le_connections; struct myconn { ... } static void _close_connection(zend_rsrc_list_entry *rsrc TSRMLS_DC) { struct myconn *...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/efree-cause-errors-during-resource-deallocation-1983251.aspxrss@sagewire.orgFri, 26 Oct 2007 03:54:23 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Problem-readingwriting-sockets-1994596.aspxI have been trying to put together an application to change channel on a media streaming server. The server is able to issue IR commands to its attached equipment using LIRC, with commands being issued by a socket connection to TCP/8765. I put together a basic Python app that issued a command, which worked fine. I wanted to create a fairly simple web interface and so set about producing a similar simple PHP application. I have had limited success so far, with the media server rejecti...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Problem-readingwriting-sockets-1994596.aspxrss@sagewire.orgFri, 26 Oct 2007 03:43:09 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Regex-help-for-email-1984192.aspxHi I need a regex code for parsing this string to an email array "mnp test" [code]<celo@xxxxxxxxxxx>[/code],"test testt" [code]<otur@xxxxxxxxxxx>[/code],sett@xxxxxxxxxxx,test@xxxxxxxxxxx thankshttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Regex-help-for-email-1984192.aspxrss@sagewire.orgThu, 25 Oct 2007 23:56:15 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Using-PHP-to-send-fax-1984846.aspxHi, I'm using PHP 4.4.4 with MySQL 5.0. Does anyone have any experience and/or recommendations about PHP libraries to use that will allow one to send a fax from our servers? The fax'd contain order receipt information from a sale. Thanks, - Davehttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Using-PHP-to-send-fax-1984846.aspxrss@sagewire.orgThu, 25 Oct 2007 21:40:12 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/anyone-know-this-error-msg-1996400.aspx"PHP has encountered an Access Violation at 01C21255" I'm running a very simple script, that fails when I run it, though other seem to be able to use it (see this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.php/browse_thread/thread/4b5602c289865a7d/#) when I run via Firefox, initially I see the above error msg, then I get the Firefox standard "The connection was reset" message.http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/anyone-know-this-error-msg-1996400.aspxrss@sagewire.orgThu, 25 Oct 2007 20:54:37 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/why-is-the-POST-variable-empty-1996066.aspxHi everyone, I'm trying to get the code found at http://www.inventory-management.org/ up and running. So far I have created the database, edited the configuration files to include the database information, renamed the fputcsv function to f_put_csv. I'm trying to log into the page by using the suggested user/pass of admin/test. However, I can see by placing var_dump($_POST) at the top of index.php, that when I submit the form no data is in the $_POST array?! When the action is changed...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/why-is-the-POST-variable-empty-1996066.aspxrss@sagewire.orgThu, 25 Oct 2007 18:48:08 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Seeking-betatesters-for-new-reportingtool-1994709.aspxL.S., I'm in the process of wraping up a 0.9-version of a new reporting-tool I have been developping for the past months. I want to invite 2 or 3 people to beta-test this new, exciting tool! My tool is class-based. (ie: you need to be able to use classes, so if you do not know OOP 1) please learn, you will love it! 2) do not try to test my new tool :-) ) The users I have in mind are PHP-programmers that create online applications. (Not CMS'ses, that won't be of much use.) I'd like m...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Seeking-betatesters-for-new-reportingtool-1994709.aspxrss@sagewire.orgThu, 25 Oct 2007 18:21:13 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/General-Advice-objects-classes-and-coding-style-1994965.aspxI am in the process of transforming a procedural code base into an OO code base. The code lends itself to this refactoring and it is proving an effective exercise. However, I am running into a few irritations. I am using __autoload to load class files corresponding to code names. I have cranked up error reporting, but if for some reason there is a syntax error or whatever in a class, the application crashes with no explanation. The bug hunt takes ages and lots of echoing. Is ...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/General-Advice-objects-classes-and-coding-style-1994965.aspxrss@sagewire.orgThu, 25 Oct 2007 17:53:19 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Screen-Res-Question-1992755.aspxGuys Is there a way to capture via an environment variable the users screen res Stevehttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Screen-Res-Question-1992755.aspxrss@sagewire.orgThu, 25 Oct 2007 17:37:58 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/What-does-xxxxxxxxxxx-do-1994964.aspxI am new to php and google does not allow for searching on the @xxxxxxxxxxx symbol. I have a script with the following line: if (@xxxxxxxxxxx$type_toggle || @xxxxxxxxxxx) { do_query........ What does the @xxxxxxxxxxx do? Can you give me a link so I can read about it. Thanks!http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/What-does-xxxxxxxxxxx-do-1994964.aspxrss@sagewire.orgThu, 25 Oct 2007 15:17:18 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Why-is-include-printing-my-code-instead-of-executi-1994828.aspxHi, I'm using PHP 4.4.4 with Apache 2 on Fedora Linux. I have a page, which contains (roughly) $sub_cat_name_arr = split(",", trim($_REQUEST[PROD_SUB_CATEGORIES_ID_PARAM])); foreach ($sub_cat_name_arr as $sub_cat_name) { /* Processing */ include("add_product_response.inc"); } // foreach header("confirmation.html"); But what is happening is that the contents of "add_product_response.inc" (which only contain PH...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Why-is-include-printing-my-code-instead-of-executi-1994828.aspxrss@sagewire.orgThu, 25 Oct 2007 15:04:18 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/know-when-user-tries-to-access-php-file-1995068.aspxis there a way to detect if a user tries to access a php file? For instance, db.config.php is called in many php pages but should never actually be open directly. Is there a way to know if someone tried to open it directly? Also, I want to learn more about securing php/MySQL pages any good resources I should start with? Thank you, Danielhttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/know-when-user-tries-to-access-php-file-1995068.aspxrss@sagewire.orgThu, 25 Oct 2007 09:35:22 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Optimization-of-mySQL-to-XML-output-1994595.aspxI'm trying to print out a table of mySQL data as XML. However, the performance I'm getting is REALY bad. Adding the header("Content-Type: $mime;charset=$charset"); statement triples the load time of the data for example. Can someone with more php experience then I look this over and tell me that I'm stupid and doing it wrong? define( "DATABASE_SERVER", "localhost" ); define( "DATABASE_USERNAME", "root" ); define( "DATABASE_PASSWORD", "" ); define( "DATABASE_NAME", "mydatabase" ); $m...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Optimization-of-mySQL-to-XML-output-1994595.aspxrss@sagewire.orgThu, 25 Oct 2007 03:14:19 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Question-About-Regular-Expression-1993132.aspxHello guys, I am primarily an asp.net programmer, but lately I have been doing some work with Apache, MySQL and PHP. Anyways, I have a question that I posted in the microsoft asp.net newsgroup. Thus far no one there has been able to answer it. I feel some of you may know the answer, and that's why I'm posting it here... I have a web app with two textboxes. The first textbox allows users to type in various text, html tags and CSS. The second textbox, on post back, will display/markup t...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Question-About-Regular-Expression-1993132.aspxrss@sagewire.orgWed, 24 Oct 2007 21:25:46 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/updaterequery-db-1994457.aspxHello, I have setup a table with 1 row and 2 columns.In the 1st, I have a iframe that displays tons thumbnails of images. In the next I have an image (enlarged). When the user selects a thumbnail it displays the enlarged image in the 2nd column. This work quite nicely. Where I need some help is with the fact that each image has an entry (description in a database table). How can I display the entry when the image is updated. The image gets updated using JAVAscript but the page i...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/updaterequery-db-1994457.aspxrss@sagewire.orgWed, 24 Oct 2007 21:08:40 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/sums-averages-stuff-help-1994594.aspxHey people, I need to do some sistem in PHP and MySQL, I have do it a part but the other is the problem, basically is mathemetical operations, te user register something and after insert some registry and after is needed obtain sums, averages and something similar, does anyone have some code similar for read about?? kisses, Elenahttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/sums-averages-stuff-help-1994594.aspxrss@sagewire.orgWed, 24 Oct 2007 20:05:22 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/How-to-fit-text-to-codeDIVcodecodeSPANcode-of-widt-1994593.aspxI have a [code]<span>[/code] of width X px and height Y px. I want to read the text of an article, which is stored in a mySQL table, and pass to that [code]<span>[/code] only just enough text to fit in it, along with a 'read more' hyperlink which will take the user to the full article. I don't want any overflow scroll bars to show. The font-size is set by external stylesheet in em's. How can I determine how much text is enough? Approaches I have thought of: -just set a semi-arbitra...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/How-to-fit-text-to-codeDIVcodecodeSPANcode-of-widt-1994593.aspxrss@sagewire.orgWed, 24 Oct 2007 17:52:38 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Parameters-in-PHP-1992892.aspxI have down-loaded several php scripts and am working my way through them as part of my learning process. I haven'ticed situations like this: mysql_query("DELETE FROM $table WHERE id=$id",$db); where scripts have been called from another script/page with a parameter - i.e. 'id' is a parameter that isn't defined in the script before the above line is called. They do not work as they are but I can get the parameters by using $_GET['id'] or sometimes $_POST['id']. Is this a res...http://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/Parameters-in-PHP-1992892.aspxrss@sagewire.orgWed, 24 Oct 2007 17:12:26 GMThttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/registerglobals-on-off-think-Im-missing-the-point-1994127.aspxI understand that register_globals was turned off by default as, unless you initialised it, it could be altered by a malicious coder. What I do not understand is how the $_POST['foo'] form is any more secure. Surely Mr Malicious Coder can still just send his own version of $_POST['foo']? Obviously I'm missing something, I just can not figure out what! +mrcakeyhttp://www.sagewire.org/php-programming/registerglobals-on-off-think-Im-missing-the-point-1994127.aspxrss@sagewire.orgWed, 24 Oct 2007 14:45:08 GMT