Date: 12/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

Are there any benefits to passing variables into a query versus referencing them via global? Ignore coding standards and efficiency in this case.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/602380.html

Date: 12/11/07     Keywords: php, browser, css, html

Hello,

Up till recently, the company I work at has built PHP applications by first writing static HTML pages from scratch and then rigging them up with enough PHP code to satisfy the short-term requirements of the project. This is fine for very small projects, but it just doesn't scale well. Up until I arrived at the company, all HTML/CSS and PHP was written in Dream Weaver, and all applications were built to display properly in Dream Weaver as well as in a browser.

I am trying to adopt the use of PHP MVC frameworks, but I am running into problems with Dream Weaver. Dream Weaver practically expects to be working on a somewhat primitive architecture where the URL structure of a site is directly derived from the directory structure of the files on the filesystem.

Has anyone here successfully configured Dream Weaver to play nicely with Cake, Symfony, or any other frameworks that make heavy use of URL rewriting and dynamically assembled pages?

Thanks

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/602134.html

Date: 12/09/07     Keywords: rss, database

My mail script has gotten rather long and complex, so I'd like to move the code off of each page that requires an email to be sent.
I've thought about using an include, but I want something cleaner. My emails are a standard template, just notification that a change has been made. The only difference is who the email gets sent to.
This is where my novice will show ... what I want is the ability to put just one line on the page something like ...

mail2user($emailaddress) 

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/602053.html

Date: 12/07/07     Keywords: php

Hi, I'm trying to stop iFrames from loading until a user clicks on a link to expand a div.  I want to include 10+ iFrames with custom PubMed search result scripts in them on one page, but that results in an unacceptable load time.  Is there an easy way to stop iFrames from loading their sources automatically?  I'm creating an extensive, integrated ADHD research/news page based mostly on PHP at the request of a clinical psychologist in Minnesota... we would appreciate your help. 

Shawn

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/601788.html

Date: 12/06/07     Keywords: no keywords

How would a RegEx look to parse a string and replace a line like the following.

Original:

• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/601458.html

Date: 12/04/07     Keywords: php, mysql, sql, security

I've been trying to understand, SQL Injection ... and reading this.
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/ProPHPSecurity_excerpt_part3.php3

      $sql = "INSERT INTO table
      (unit1, unit2, unit3, unit4)
        VALUES
      (\"$value1\", \"$value2\", \"$value3\", \"$value4\")
		";
        mysql_query($sql,$conn) or die(" Error 1: ".mysql_error());	

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/601327.html

Date: 12/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

This looks repetitive, anyway to make it better?

$arr_bits is basically a date (exploded at '/' from YYYY/MM/DD/).

      if (!empty ($arr_bits[2])) {
        $this->minTimeStamp = mktime (0, 0, 0, $arr_bits[1], $arr_bits[2], $arr_bits[0]);
        $this->maxTimeStamp = mktime (23, 59, 59, $arr_bits[1], $arr_bits[2], $arr_bits[0]);
      //  If there's no day but there is a month, get the first and last second of the month
      } elseif (!empty ($arr_bits[1])) {
        $this->minTimeStamp = mktime (0, 0, 0, $arr_bits[1], 1, $arr_bits[0]);
        $this->maxTimeStamp = mktime (23, 59, 59, $arr_bits[1], date ('t', $min_timestamp), $arr_bits[0]);
      } elseif (!empty ($arr_bits[0])) {
        $this->minTimeStamp = mktime (0, 0, 0, 1, 1, $arr_bits[0]);
        $this->maxTimeStamp = mktime (23, 59, 59, 12, 31, $arr_bits[0]);
      }

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/600874.html

Date: 11/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

Suppose you have a function called like this:

$obj = new $class();
$obj->$function();

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/600798.html

Date: 11/30/07     Keywords: web

I'm trying to remove any of the below hyperlinks that do not contain "video/" or "print/" in the href attribute. However, I cannot figure out what else to put into the expression so it works.

$text = '

View Winning Marketing Material

View Winning Website

View Winning video

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/600508.html

Date: 11/29/07     Keywords: no keywords

I am having a world of difficulty trying to come up with a RegEx that will remove hyperlinks from text ONLY if a list of safe words aren't found. Example:

Safe word - "news,cars,apples,etc"

- This hyperlink would be removed
- This hyperlink would be ignored

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/600054.html

Date: 11/28/07     Keywords: spam

I have a form that people have been trying to spamalot, so I thought hmm some bad words should never show up in certain places, so if they are there it has to be spam.
Here is what I have:

$bad_words = array('href','http','url');
if (in_array($foo=$_POST["name"], $bad_words, true)){
die ('SPAM not sent');
exit;
}
if (in_array($foo=$_POST["company"], $bad_words, true)){
die ('SPAM not sent');
exit;


but I would get "parse error, unexpected T_BOOLEAN_OR in form on line" that had this:
if (in_array($foo=$_POST["name"], $bad_words, true))||(in_array($foo=$_POST["company"], $bad_words, true)){

and I do not know why (other than its been a long day and cant see strait).
Any hints?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/599664.html

Date: 11/28/07     Keywords: xml, security

I need in Load and Save of XML-documents on disk.
I use DomDocument for work with them.

And I’m interesting, what about shared access security?
Does DomDocument do flock() for reading/writing files?

Or will it better if I read and write XML-files by myself and do LoadXML()/SaveXML()?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/599416.html

Date: 11/28/07     Keywords: no keywords

It's been one of those weeks when everything has metaphorically been on fire.

I'm working on a temporary script to resolve a problem from last week and got the chance to write this oh-so-Internet-kiddy influenced code.


function YslashN ( $var )
{
return ( $var == 1 || $var == true ) ? "Yes" : "No" ;
}


Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/599148.html

Date: 11/27/07     Keywords: php, mysql, html, sql, apache

This is an update from this post last week. So far, I've had no luck with it. To recap my config settings:

PHP 5.2
Installed on Windows XP, C:/php
php.ini file copied to c:/windows/system32
doc_root = "E:\public_html"
extension_dir = "C:/php/ext"
extension=php_mysql.dll uncommented

Apache 2.2.4
Installed under C:/Apache
php5 running as a module
document root, E:\public_html

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/598969.html

Date: 11/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

I want to be able for user to add links, images, and flash to a platform I am building (Like MySpace or any other site does) but I want to make sure I clean the code well as I don't want to get hacked. Is there a place with all the RegEx expressions, etc that I could use as a guide to do this?

Thanks guys!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/598779.html

Date: 11/25/07     Keywords: php

Howdy,

I have wrote this script:

    $max = $_SERVER[‘CONTENT_LENGTH’];

    $fp = fopen(“php://input”, “rb”);

        for($i=0; $i<$max; $i++) {
            $ch = fread($fp, 1);
            echo $ch;
            flush();
            ob_flush();
            sleep(1);
        }

    fclose($fp);

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/598419.html

Date: 11/25/07     Keywords: php

I'm making a site with a "preferences" page. The page will have mostly all check boxes.
[x] Email hidden
[x] last name hidden
... and so on.

In a previous post it was suggested that I not store each preference in its own colum but rather each users row gets a colum called preferences.

id userid  pref
1  test1   yynynyyyn
2  test2   nnnnnynyy

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/598121.html

Date: 11/24/07     Keywords: no keywords

Need your help guys!

We have the script that decrypts the file and sends it to the user:

----------------------------------------------------

header("Pragma: cache");
header("Content-type: application/force-download"); 
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary"); 
header("Content-length: ".$this->getSize()); 
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$name."\"");

...

$bytes_number = 1024;

...

while ($bytes_already_read < $file_size) {

  $bytes = fread($file_handle, $bytes_number);

  for ($i=0; $i
But when I start a single download (~400 kb/sec) it freezes the server.
Apache starts eating 100% CPU.

What can you suggest?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/597926.html
	

Date: 11/21/07     Keywords: php, mysql, sql, apache

I have PHP5.2 running under Apache 2.2 on Windows XP, and followed all directions to enable the mySQL library for PHP, but it's not working. Here's what I did:

Uncommented the extension lines for php_mysql.dll in c:php\php.ini
Enabled c:\php into the Windows PATH variable
Copied the mysql library DLL to windows/system32


Here is my phpMyAdmin config against this (Apache's port is 8080, also):

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '127.0.0.1:8080';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysql';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3306';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = false;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'xxxxxx';


Any other pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/597696.html

Date: 11/20/07     Keywords: php, technology, web

Check out the new high-tech solution coming from record labels like BETA Records... did I say high-tech and label in the same sentence? Things are definitely a changing!!

BETA Records, in anticipation of their upcoming release of Version 3 (V3) of their online music social community, has created a technological innovation that could ultimately allow websites to become more dynamic, creative and sophisticated while enabling companies to cut costs and reduce loads on servers needed in large-scale clusters.

Called "BETACache," the new technology resulted from BETA’s PHP developers Rock Mutchler, Paul-Anton van Handel, Jon Bauer, Bernhard Schenkenfelder, and Eric Hollander.

Read more

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/597319.html