_MarkL_ thanks Im just looking for a good way to pass my messages to the page Im redirecting to via sessions I

en español

SlashLife correct

yeah, so check the data when I use $POST to grab it, rather than enter 'all' if user enters nothing in the field

(A) English, please. (B) we don't deal in php-nuke and such here. look elsewhere.

Does your include file end in "?"?

SlashLife - do you think there could be a space in one of the includes

*clears throat* no php-nuke aqui

yes

Remove that and try again.

((Vystrix_Nexoth((º ok
chao

Yup.

w00h00! got it.. thanks a bunch guys!

Oh. He's on QNet. :

yes, and 4 pawd wolf is here.

Wolf + Fish

I hate fish

Luckily I'm not running around as a cat anymore. ^_^'

Oh, I don't hate cats. I'm not a dog

PHP is nice. my brain got burned every single day

the burn means it's working.

SlashLife -I think it's working now, thanks

GOt a new error!

I wonder if everyone in the process of learning taste this feeling
hehe

np
I like cats.
But I've gotten too old to relate my nick on it. :/

how old?

22 by now.

Pffft... 30 here.

Started switching err... six to eight yearas ago.
Yeah... but you're running around as a "wolf", not as a "cat".
http://trashbin.slashlife.org/hidden/tomo.avi)... you shouldn'T have them in your nick as a boy... :/

I'm a wolf... In human skin

Hey, I can bite, too. :]
I've got a sharp dentition made of closing XML host tags.

/you

You can't imagine how pointy those pointy brackets are. :]

I don't think, that you can bite as hard as I can.

Bah. But my beard is longer than yours!

and I can still bite harder.

Maybe. But my beard will protect me. :]

not in this channel.

I've got teh beard of evil! O_o

under SlashLife's beard, there is no chin. there is only another fist.

This is not Kung Pow - Enter The Fist, but ##php!

How about General Tso?

anybody knows cron with PHP?

Hey. So, I have a question.
I have to build a control panel.
(A simple one, for a client to be able to add pictures and text and stuff).
My client doesn't even know what a DB is.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand?

getting there.
Sorry, I'm a slow typer.

Same as cron with any other language.
!+enter

Don't use the enter key as punctuation. Think in complete thoughts, then type.

yeah

Is there a php webhosting function to get stuff from a db and put into a textbox...

but I have 2 php scripts
one is working fine and dandy
the other one
deosn;t
so where should I start debugging
on the other hand

Sorry...that's just how I normally do it.

I run the php script from command line
it works fine
from web page
ti works fine
from cron

The first person that wants to be kicked from here, please abuse enter.

runs only one time

and stops working after that

I thought it was a song...

was it a permanent ban?

...You came back, haven't you?

well if anyone knows why cron does this please let me know

What I want to do is be able to query information from the database, assign to a variable, and put into a textarea so the admin can edit easily.

Irs321, there are lots of ways of using php webhosting with databases, have a read of the manual

I guess I would use the UPDATE mysql hosting function?

Wow! That's the fastest cure of Returnitis I've ever seen!

what information?

proper way of getting a posted file is $_POST['name']; right?

Like, this guy wants to have a monthly newsletter. So, I want to be able to edit that newsletter if, say, he types it up and hits submit, only to realize that he left out a sentence.

$blah = $_POST['name'];
right?

No. $_FILES

Exactly.

* Techku

Ohhh, nevermind

so $blah = $_FILES['name']; ?

I thought you were just simply referring to POSTED info.
Yeah, that would do it, I think.

!tell Techku about file-upload

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/fileupload.php

anyone commenting on cron problem
or experienced the same problem before?

Nice tut,

hsarumani, how are you scheduling the script?

cron.d

/dev/null

When I do /usr/bin/php5 /var/www/secure.blablabla.net/bla/Sitesurvey.php from commandline it works fine
on the cron it only runs once

IT's the file upload tutorial from PHP with different CSS.

next hour
doesn;t run anymore

You're right.

Next time I will ban.

I was already on that website, so I just did a (find) for upload.

I ban myself, all I was asking a simple question, have fun

\o/

and he typed in a single line this time...

is there a way to code in php webhosting something to block letters with áéíóú etc

What is "something"?

aeiou is ok, àèìòù or áéíóú

anonymouz666, do you want to accept numbers and other chars like !@#?

Okay got the whole filename thing situated.. no error codes until upload error "can't convert tga"

how can i test against $val-1 == other

não quero aceitar acentos
tem como bloquear isso?

I'm not sure what you mean.

!+english

##PHP is an English only channel. If you need support in some other language, please try elsewhere.

anyone if there is a way to check for data on an input stream (php://input) ?

calav3ra, if( $val - 1 == $other )
anonymouz666, there is a ##php-br channel, just in the case you're interested

yepp, garotosopa
hm, not really
doesnt work
it times out with

What about the usual way? What's wrong with that?

http://rafb.net/p/H0RwMl12.html

calav3ra, what's that while for?

what usual way

while ($_POST) -- Wha?

no idea
well

calav3ra, then remove that... *sigh*

i had foreach there

How did you use php://input in the first place?

its an xml post

but foreach doesnt give me the name of the value

DOMDocument--load("php://input")

Which would be special because...?
That'd break.

the post is a dav post

What you pasted is a syntax error.

can i get the name of the post item

you mean the key?

its psudo code... use your imagination

Enlighten me.

$value){ ... }

new DOMDocument()-load("php://input")

Was it that hard? Ever heard about file() or fopen()?

yes but is there check to see if its valid like has_data or something of that nature

hey
anyone have any ajax / ajaxesque php ui libraries they find to be speedy and pretty?

I just told you what to use.
!+ajax

[AJAX] Asynchronous JavaScript And XML, See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX It is NOT a topic of discussion in ##php, try #web.

anyone know what this error means
'cut' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

that's retarded
i refuse to abide by mental incompetence

You're missing 'cut' command?

question stands

I don't see how I would

and the questioneer remains silent.

i am not having this argument with you again ...

interesting.. command prompt says the samething..
what the heck
i'm on a windows system

Has anyone here had problems with glob not reading files with [] in them?
uHas anyone here had problems with glob not reading files with [] in them?/u
buHas anyone here had problems with glob not reading files with [] in them?/u/b

the-erm: Well, that shouldn't happend.

$files = glob('dir[with_bracket]/*'); // Nope no files

lessee... Which PHP?
the-erm: You need to escape brackets

5.2.1
odd ...
Ok.
It makes sense though.

Heh, first comment on http://php.net/glob :P

I should have just gone there first ... sorry.

Actually, it doesn't say to escape them, I read it wrong.

you post them answer XD

Ugh, I hate it when sites brake.

"brake"? Dude, you're more drunk than I am

Is anyone aware of an easy method to extract a specific div from a site? I need to grab the contents of one specific div element from wordpress so that I don't get the menus and other stuff, this will be written to a local file and parsed later for output to a palm pilot.

I'm new to PHP and trying to understand a basic concept so i'm hoping someone wouldn't mind explaining it.

Use DOM, if your site is XHTML compliant

Wolfy[drawing]: I'm not drunk, I just can't spell, which I'm very aware of.

OR, just use BeautifulSoup from Python.
Fair enough XD

Wolfy[drawing]: oooh, BeautifulSoup looks to be perfect, thank you.

My question is.. what stops that from being a loop? Doesn't the "form action" call itself?

Welcome

hi
how to convert pdf2img if there is no gs (ghostscript) at the server?

The html isn't executed via PHP.

when the user submits the form, the current filename being used (let's say login.php) will be the script that gets the variables.

Wolfy[drawing]: okay.. lets assume.. (which was my mistake).. that the entire line above IS the php hosting script..

That doesn't change my statement... Your PHP only prints out HTML, but it doesn't do anything with it.

php $a = array("xxx"); function hello() { print("hello"); } .. print("first line that appears on screen"); print("form action=\"{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}\"\n"); ?
okay.. yes.. that may be a better example..

now.. wouldn't that be a loop?

Forms don't post themselves, so there's no infinite loop.

PHP ahd HTML have nothing with one another.

(is there someplace I could paste the entire app which may be more helpful?)

you're not listening to Wolfy[drawing]
pastebin.ca has always worked nicely for me, sometimes it can be slow though.

i'm probably thinking about this from a much more logical thought process than I need too. Lets start by asking why the assumption was that it was a form? That may better clarify why its behaving the way it does..
let me try that.. thanks!

because it says "form action=" which is a form tag; hence assumption made.

okay.. here's the full app.. http://pastebin.ca/568921

Ugh, don't use PHP to echo/print large chunks of HTML like that :o

I feel like back in 98's CGI

its not a live webpage.. so i'm only doing it for theory right now.. I know I should call the script seperately.

You're not listening. PHP and HTML have nothing in common... PHP doesn't execute / post forms in HTML and html hosting can't do nothing to PHP. Whatever you *think* it should happening, you're thiiinking client-side language like JavaScript.

see that $_REQUEST ? When you first run it isset says that $_REQUEST is not set, since no one has submitted a form yet, so it outputs a form instead, when the person clicks submit it submits to the script shown under action="scriptname.php" because you use $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] scriptname.php becomes whatever this script you posted is called.
look at the source for the page that is outputted, and look under the form action=" area, you will see in there the name of the script you have written / copied.

that was actually very helpful..

you could instead of $_SERVER[.... write in there action="somescript.php"
then click submit and it will say 404 not found
because somescript.php (presumably) does not exist.

I just couldn't, logically, understand how it went from "Create the Burger" output to skipping the form action to printing out the list, submitting it and then back to the beginning..

like Wolfy[drawing] said, you have to remember that HTML and php have nothing to do with each other. In this case PHP is simply writing the html to the browser, that's it's only real interaction
I can do the same thing in python, but html still has nothing to do with python.

I am consistently amazed at how you guys do this.. I know i'm not dumb but gosh i'm impressed..

you could just as easily hand code an html page, and have it submit to the script name you're using, of course you can't use $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] then, since that's php.
I don't do this, I'm a noob
I'm essentially echoing what Wolfy[drawing] already said.
Just in a different way perhaps.

no idea? how to convert pdf2img if there is no gs (ghostscript) at the server?

It's simple: HTML by itself doesn't do anything

except tell the browser what a page should look like.

You could rip-open ghos script and write PHP from that, or you could just install GS, which would be simpler, faster and saner.

w3schools.com, go, read. It will help you greatly.

Wolfy[drawing]: I think that's the problem.. combining the HTML and PHP in this fashion makes it more difficult to understand, at least for a noob, what is really going on?

hi guys

start (on the left hand menu) at the top 'Learn HTML' then down to XHTML, then CSS, then you will know how to display a page, after that move on to the "Server Scripting" section under PHP that will give you loads of information to get started with.

no it dooesn't. If tou don't know, what HTML is and what it does, you should go learn that first.

Wolfy[drawing]: I understand HTML.. that's easy.. its when you start getting into forms that I just have a hard time understanding..

html doesnt even tell the browser how something looks like, it defines a document which can be styled by css

Wolfy[drawing] is 100% correct, it's not more difficult you just don't understand what each one does. PHP is SERVER SIDE SCRIPTING, that means it runs on the server and performs tasks for you before outputting HTML which is what a browser uses to understand what is on a page, including forms, buttons, text, etc.
sure, but it does to a certain degree say what is going on the page, I just didn't want to confuse him more, but you're right.

From your question, I can't imagine, how would anyone even be able to produce questioon as yours.

Wolfy[drawing]: please explain..

hehe

Actually, it does. CSS is "modern addition to HTML"

never say you understand something, until you're damn sure that you do, forms ARE html.

does big-endian only apply to the BYTES ?

you can style even xml with css

I understand that basically you generate the form, when you press submit the contents of the form are, correct me if i'm wrong, used to generate an array.

I think you're reading too much into it, this isn't a technical debate, we're trying to avoid confusing the crap out of dogatemycomputer.

i know sorry

that is an HTML function.. correct?

no sir, that is php
the form is html

wHICH PART?

the php outputs the html in this case, but it doesn't have to.

Damn caps :|

although I appreciate corrections, helps me learn too.

the form (the way it looks) is HTML.. the submit buttun dumps the data into an array via a PHP script.. is that better?

ah i think big endian is byte-order not bit-order

Does the form submit itself?

erm, close, the submit button sends the data to a script to be processed, in this case your script is written in php and accepts the variables submitted by the form, that is when it dumps them into an array.

Wolfy[drawing]: no.. submit button is what activates the php script that gathers the data? (I think that's where i'm looking for clarificatin)..

It can, but not necessary. At the "other side" it can be basically anything.

okay.. so.. that's the question that i'm not clear on.. how does the server side PHP know what the client side input is?

do it this way for now, write a PURE HTML page, with a form on it. Make that form action="myscript.php", then take the parts of PHP that use $_REQUEST and put them into a script called myscript.php, you will see that HTML outputs the form, and tells the browser what script is called when the form submit button is clicked, after that PHP takes over.

Wolfy[drawing]: as i am not my own hoster, i can not install the ghostscript on my own

Then ask your host to install it for you.

through POST or GET
POST is sent in the background, whereas GET is sent through the url for instance mydomain.com/myscript.php?myvariable=yayavariable

i know those are methods of moving that data.. but that's what i'm confused about.. exactly how does that data get transferred? for example.. via the URL? or a backend proces that i'm not seeing?

does anyone know of a good way to change the byte order while reading from a stream... i.e. i read 2 bytes from fread() and i need to change it to big-endian

when that is called, the file myscript.php will be passed the GET variable "myvariable" and inside it will contain the value "yayavariable"

http://php.net/faq.html -- Read it.

I just told you, if it's GET it's through the URL, if it's POST it's in the background and you're not aware of it.

ahhhhh.. so that's why i'm gettting screwed up here.. I know i'm weird but the only way I will understand if I can "visually see" how the data is moving from place to place.
Wolfy[drawing]: reading.. brb

your form doesn't use method="post" or method="get" so I don'
don't know which it is (someone else might)
probably POST

i guess unpack()

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP

Wolfy[drawing]: got your second link..

a browser just sends GET /bla HTTP/1.1
localhost
and the server responds with html
its all clear text
in the case of post he SENDS POST /bla
and then the variables

lol.. that's another thing I found confusing.. how would GET be outputting anything

#web, please.

so if method is not specified in the form element, does it default to POST ?

that is also very helpful..

yes

No. GET

"Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML() [function.DOMDocument-loadHTML]: error parsing attribute name in Entity". See my function: http://paste.milk-it.net/375

uh?
i thought post

oh, ok

Wrong'

so which is it? post or get?

well its all in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP
damn

www.w3schools.com

ok get is default sorry

lol.. no worries..

erm, yeah, was just about to say what Wolfy[drawing] said, read from the top that's a GREAT site, extremely helpful.

Wolfy[drawing]: i'll be reading..

If i'm not mistaken it's them who make a lot of the standards, so it's a safe bet if they say it's correct, it is.

Wolfy[drawing]: I really appreciate your help.

If I extend a class in two levels, can I then call the methods of the intermediate class from within the youngest child class?

milk-it: show your html please

parent::methodName seem to only point to the topmost parent...

Nightfly, one second...
Nightfly, http://paste.milk-it.net/376

your attributes have all escaped quotes \"

milk-it: Ummm... Why are quotes escaped?

Wolfy[drawing], It html is of Editor Tiny MCE

so... s/\\"/"/g

Nightfly, Do you know if exist some function to solve this?

hmm I thought my question was straightforward, guess it is harder to answer than I thought...

the forms should be fill-in but the data doesn't need to go anywhere except to the printer.. in a relatively nice layout.. (most of this stuff is done via Word docs right now.. but its a pain to change them because we don't have any central control)..
anyone..

Nightfly, stripslashes

these are internal customers running IE and FF.. unless the user specifically disabled it.. javascript is enabled. Either way we could push a warning that javascrit isn't enabled and here are the basic steps..

yeah

Nightfly, Wolfy[drawing],Thanks man!

was going to recommend preg_replace
lol
str_replace
omg

my function now work!

eh? That's... Gross.

d
does php support object cloneing ?

can anyone recommend how to get a file's size on a remote server without downloading the whole file?
does get_headers help?

sure. $clone = clone($obj)

http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.cloning.php

Hey

yeah Content-Length is what you are looking for
http://snipplr.com/view/29/get-remote-filesize/

I have a database class to begin with. Then a plugin extends the class and adds functionality to it by overriding methods, adding code to them and then uses parent::method() to execute the original class's logic. Now I want to write a class that extends this extended class, but I cannot use the same trick as the code from the intermediate class wouldn't be called (if not duplicated - yuck) if I used parent::method()..
. So how do I work around this?

one question, how can I create a file? I know fopen and so on, but how I add the content?

hmm maybe something like ((IntermediateClass) $this)-method() ? stuff like this works in C++

The manual page for fopen might've given you a hint.

very interesting! I'll try that!

http://php.net/file_put_contents

tell me if it works

Is there a way to get the error message from file_get_contents() ?

http://php.net/fputs

or fwrite or fputs

of course. building test-script aws

anyone?

maybe $php_errormsg
works only with track_errors on

*looks

http://de2.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.phperrormsg
google powah

is there anyway to peak data out of a stream but leave it there untouched .... ?

hmm forget my question - parent:: calls the intermediate class. I blacked out...

lol
good to know

is it easier for software to pull data entries from mysql than php to send it to software? i'm guessing yes

KWhat, you mean like ungetc in C?

short question for one of you cracks here

I'm afraid no

http://rafb.net/p/lXzEXe33.html
if someone wants to take a look, i'll explain it
its a simple loop, but i am unable to produce proper php

any way to fix "Your PHP installation does not support PostgreSQL. You need to recompile PHP using the --with-pgsql configure option." , ive verified, ive ubuntu package php5-pgsql installed.

ok, what i have is this sql result, which is correct

first of all, you're just wasting the SQL query by dispensing of all but the last row.

im with apache2 if that matters.

it reprents the part of ordered pizzas
its a mess atm, i know
what i need is a for each POST loop
which actually checks for 'anr' in post

in fact, ... you're reading everything from the query, and doing that again for every entry in $_POST

anr is teh number of the order
do i need that fetch assoc?
sorry, i am completely lost

second, your "foreach ($_POST as $key)" suggests that you think $key contains a key. it does not. it contains a value.

i can code c++, but not php

but you can do foreach ($_POST as $key=$value)

so i can access the name?

yes, if you do that
this is some seriously messed-up PHP code.

yes, for sure
this fetch is senseless
i guess i just dont need it
because now, i can go though all POST names, right?

guys, is it possible to "call" another page from inside php and read the output of that to parse it ?

because this name is identically to the order-number i need to check against

$contents = file_get_contents("/other.php")

well, you can include/require but ... or do that

works only with allow_url_fopen = on

wait its a little bit more complex :P

if you mean to run a PHP script and capture what it generates, you'd need to use output buffering.

second let me write.

yeah or include and ob_start/ob_get_clean lol

i've got 2 pages (on different servers), caller.php and receiver.php. receiver.php is setup to receive a file trough post and reply "done" or "failed".
i need a way to send a file with post to receiver.php and parse its output ...

Sypher, sockets?

or curl

so u'd go with a external thingy ?

no its in PHP

curl ?

sockets are like a client/server
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.sockets.php
Sypher, check those out

wow
did not know curl was implemented yay
so with that i can juz send that page the file and parse the output

yup

damn that really helped me out
thanks maddog39 Vystrix_Nexoth and Nightfly

you're welcome

Sypher, np, btw according to php.net, curl has been in PHP since 4.3.x

maddog39, ye i just never know it existed

have been doing a lot of spidering curl saved my @ss

is there a php function to list the names of files in a specific directory?

http://php.net/dir

they use curl to exploit PHP scripts via XSS
lol

does anyone ever google?
like, "php read directory"

hm, Vystrix_Nexoth, can u help me once again?

does anyone know of a good ajax channel?

maddog39, know what?
no curl support.
4.3.10-18, debian package ... damn ...

debian has outdated packages
usually
and i dont remember wat i said

ye unfortunately i've got no shell access (or root) to that server to fix that out

you could download the sources
compile from source code
and install it in your home directory

no access.

and no compiler too afaik
sockets time uh ? ...

no servers come with compilers
i think every linux server distro comes with GCC preinstalled
and Make

does anyone know of a good ajax channel?

nope

dont use that term
#javascript on efnet but they will ban you for saying ajax

would Asynchronous JavaScript and XML be better?

no
htmlhttpreqeust or something

is G6 an FTP program??

XMLHttpRequest
What does the Google say?

google "g6 ftp" and see

G6 Ftp Server. something called gene6

yeah thats an ftp server

say, can anybody help me with this counter http://paste.husk.org/8524 -- i need it to not just write "number" to counter.txt but "number:ip", how do i do that?

Does anyone know why stream_copy_to_stream does not work? After running it both streams appear empty

i've tried stuff like fputs($open, "$line[0]" .":". "$client_ip"); but it still won't do the ip

$str = '+my +string'; in like a one liner?

To prepend a + sign?

yeah basically this is for mysql fulltext search in boolean

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10257820
Basicly to do a one liner, use regex, though it might be better to use a short loop for this.

hmmm yeah faster i guess

?faris

every day I dislike php a little more

Whats the matter?

apparently the nimrods at php in all their infinite wisdom for got a peak function for a stream.
woops

peak?

to look at a stream with out moving the stream pointer
so no i have to write a buffer for the streams
pain in the ass
for example stream_copy_to_stream is fine but it moves the stream pointer so its really a stream_move_to_stream if you are working with the input stream because you can not rewind the input stream....
you can rewind temp and memory but not input
its really cute

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.socket-recv.php
MSG_PEEK
This flag causes the receive operation to return data from the beginning of the receive queue without removing that data from the queue. Thus, a subsequent receive call will return the same data.

its i file stream not a socket stream
php://input

I have a function inside a function, and the one inside can't find the argument for the one above

$this-
$this-var

..?!

php-bot: test

how does that help

Yes, you're online, davey.

that didn't do anything

im not sure how/why you have a function inside a function

it's from RASH

you mean your calling a function for inside a function

I'm modifying it
?!
no

i dont think you can have scope for a function outside itself

aha
found a cool way of doing
it
str_replace(' ', ' +', ' ' . $query);

Anyone know if the timestamp returned by mysql is a unix timestamp?

it is

Thats not the best method due to false poasitives. Like if people add two spaces instead of one between words, or what if you want to include things like -test ? Or what happens to just 'test' a singe word with no preceding space and such?

The last two aren't being considered, ' ' . $query would just make it +..
but yes the first one is kinda a bummer

As I said, a one line solution wouldn't be the best method to do it. Since well, most one liners in this case would be a kludgy method of adding a preceding plus sign and have potentional for false pasitive matches.

whats the easiest to strip everything but numbers and decimals from a string ?

regex
http://www.php.net/preg_match ([^0-9a-zA-Z])
Err

preg_replace('/[^\d.]/', '',

Thanks, I misread that
Use what Qube provided

thanks qube
so $1,000.12 would be 1000.12 right ?

yup

thanks

ok I have a really weird issue here... I recently upgraded my entire system and now I'm noticing some funky php behavior... basically, it seems to be totally ignoring any data that is being passed through a query string
anyone know why it's doing this and how I can fix it?

hmm
it's a problem in web server

Apache? is it missing something?

are u using mod_php?
windows or linux?

linux (just installed Mandriva 2007 Spring edition)... not sure about mod_php

ijwyn, when you say upgraded, from what version of php did you upgrade?

oh, I meant that I upgraded from Mandriva 2006 to Mandriva 2007 Spring, so I have the version of php that was bundled with that (5.2.1)... don't remember what I had in 2006, pretty sure it was php4 though

does you code read the "query string" with $_GET or $HTTP_GET_VARS ?

lemme try

or even $foo

ok, those two give me 'Array'... I also tried with '$QUERY_STRING' which got me nothing, a blank line

ijwyn, yes - but what is your code using that is now empty?

by the way, the query string doesn't come from a form, just clicking on a link

i guess youused to have register_globals on which is no longer on

well, for instance I have links pointing to names, like $first will have the first name of a person and $last the last name, but when I click on the link, the resulting page is supposed to fetch the data corresponding to those names but it's not seeing $first and $last at all
it's coming up empty

register_globals

ok, where/how do I change this?

hmmm

I recommend that you leave it off and fix your code to use $_GET['first'] instead of $first

eh, that sounds like a lot more trouble though, why is it better?

why can't i find a native php ide on linux?????

ijwyn, is safer

try pdt from eclipse project ;]

it would require *a lot* of rewriting though, I have tons of strings all over the place, hmm

globals screw up with other variabless

if ($isadmin) { do powerful stuff....

it's very bad for complex code

then someone magically gets admin with page.php?isadmin=1

i just removed it. it's too slow......
it'd be better to be written in c

well I just tried echo $_GET($first); it came up just as blank

register_globals is safe *if* you are a good coder and know exactly what is going on everywhere.... problem is most people are not good coders

good coders dont do that

so.. maybe Vim

ijwyn, thats not what I said

i need call tips

AqD, well there is that too

doesn't vim just do auto-complete?

AqD, but up until last year I still had a site in /fi2, so I didn't have a choice

heh

well without the echo it doesn't work either

$_REQUEST ?

What is the best way to change the keys of an array, im currently using 2 flips but im wondering if theres a better way

$_GET['first'] NOT $_GET($first)

nope, $_REQUEST is not doing it either
oh!

JEdit have nice code snippet plugin ;]

i know but its autocomplete doesn't work for me

well that's not working either :-(

try print_r($_GET); print_r($_POST); // ;]

oh duh! my mistake, I wasn't on a page with a $first, heh, this one has an $id field, and yeah it shows in the print_r output that's how I realized my mistake *hangs head shamefully*

ijwyn :

hmmmm

Wolfy[drawing]: if you're still around, thank you so much AGAIN for pointing me to BeautifulSoup, I've never seen it before but damn.. works like a charm. This will solve so many problems I've been having.

ok, it's working now... but man, I hate the thought of having to rewrite everything... I'm wondering if I can work around that with some sort of wrapper, hrmm

so, don't upgrade

doit right - otherwise it will hunt you !

No such file or directory

yeah, I just have to figure out an easy way to fix it...

the $link is something like /var/blahblah/tmp/19945.clip

on a side note, BTW, $_POST brought up an empty array, $_GET was apparently what I needed here
anyway, thanks for the help guys

explode($_GET) - .. - mmm - ...

anyone?

WTF?

not the right thing ?

Take a look at the parameters explode() is taking.

heheheh, that's exactly what I was just thinking :-)

hello everybody, why can't a class instanciate itself from a static function (in the class) please ?

hmm

Sure it can.

or at least, why isn't it running the constructor ?

What exactly is your code?
(And hurry up, I'm about to go to bed)

http://pastebin.ca/569102 SlashLife

Isn't it __construct ?
And a constructor doesn't have a return value.

it goes from line 75 to 76 directly
even with __construct set public

This class does not have a constructor.
No, there is no __construct

oh my bad typo
thnaks SlashLife

*thanks

*waves everyone goodnight*

bye

i use explode all over the place - never for GET and POST though - i am mapping string keys to integer values to access arrays

same thing with __construct

yeah, I use explode() a lot too, but it doesn't seem like it would work for GET though

no my bad

Sounds stupid.
Ever heared of foreach?

if array values were numbered it would be easier, but they're named after the strings in the query, so that makes it more complicated

SlashLife::lifeFactory(array('php'=false, 'bed'=true));

although... I just realized something... this is for working on my own computer, so it probably wouldn't be an issue turning register_globals on, as for the server where the actual site is hosted, well, they're apparently turned on there and but that's not my decision :-o

security issue most probably than compatibility issue

yeah

it seems that arrays are processed much faster using integer keys than string keys - thus i map string keys (nice for knowing what you do) to integers

I'll definitely want to figure this out at some point, but it's too much of a headache right now, lol, I'll think I'll just re-enable the globals for now and think this through some more later... I'll probably figure it out, I just need to get this working again so I can do some updates

I have raw data tables (VarTable) which are displayed in html in different views (HtmlTable) - the amount of records may be 1000 rows * 20 columns
and any row,column value is defined (maybe as NULL)

im trying to ./configure with mysql and i get this error
error: Cannot find MySQL header files under yes.
Note that the MySQL client library is not bundled anymore!
where can i fix this?

install it

install what? php ? mysq?
i have mysql already installed

install the dev package

of php?

of what (???) ... read your error message !

so mysql dev then

yeah, you need the devel package of php
that's where the headers would be
er, mysql devel I mean

will installing the devel pacakge of mysql screw my current setup of mysql at all?

it shouldn't
just make sure you install the same version though, or your php my act funky :-)
*might
(and by that I mean that the versions of the devel package and your mysql install should match)

arg
i found a thread about a guy who made a script doing exactly wht i wanted
and a reply saying wow it's great!!
and now the links dead :/
for the link to his script grr

I hate it when that happens

ah found something even better
that will allow me to add new ftp accounts via ftp raw commands
from php
well the script is on the ftp server
but i can use the command from php by logging into the ftp on php

why does http://paste.husk.org/8525 work and not http://paste.husk.org/8528

can php do secure ftp?

sure - http://php.net/manual/en/ref.ssh2.php

anyone know if the cost of running array_values is? i am using it to iterate over an associative array of objects in php4
*what instead of if

oh
problem..
sftp doesn't support raw commands does it?

should be a copy

michlemken it doesn't copy the object
oh wait let me double check that

its may (!) due to new a new numerically index

ok i don't think it duplicates the object array

bref
sftp doesn't support raw commands does it?

Is there a reason that commands through exec() or system() would just return an empty variable ? Doing simple commands like 'ls -l' gives output, but I'm trying to convert images and it doesn't seem to execute. Safe mode is off.
Is there a reason that commands through exec() or system() would just return an empty variable ? Doing simple commands like 'ls -l' gives output, but I'm trying to convert images and it doesn't seem to execute. Safe mode is off.
bIs there a reason that commands through exec() or system() would just return an empty variable ? Doing simple commands like 'ls -l' gives output, but I'm trying to convert images and it doesn't seem to execute. Safe mode is off./b

anchovies ,

can someone help me simplify http://paste.husk.org/8525 please?

if (!$cookie_ip or $cookie_ip != $ip) { if (!$cookie_ip) setcookie('client_ip', $ip, time()+360000); $line[0]++; fwrite($open, $line[0].":$ip"); }

hello

do flock($open, LOCK_EX); just before the fwrite()

[mewbie q] I'm trying to make a script that iuploads a file

(and flock($open,LOCK_UN); afterwards if you don't plan to close it right away)

I want to upload it to the same dir than the php file

that way, if more than one client tries connecting at the same time, you won't have different PHP instances trying to update the same file at the same time
start here: http://us.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

http://eugeneciurana.com/pastebin/pastebin.php?show=2432
I get this
is there any way to upload to the same dir that the php file?

php.net/move-uploaded-file

also , can thgis be done multiplatform?

use that instead of copy()

awesome Vystrix_Nexoth
nah it's just gonna be one client but damn
that is awesome

I have a script that I forgot to include mysql_close() into and now it tells me "too many connections." Any way to remedy this?
I added mysql_close, BTW
but it still says it.

you connecting with mysql_connect() or _pconnect() ?

mysql_connect

try the other one. might not help, but it's the best I can figure so far.
btry the other one. might not help, but it's the best I can figure so far./b

so basically http://paste.husk.org/8529 then?

mysql_pconnect(): Too many connections in /home/www/server/updates.php on line 3
_

aye

this other guy also tried but what he came up with -- http://paste.husk.org/8528 -- didn't work

hmm.
that one always tries to set the cookie, every time, regardless of whether it's set or not
mine is functionally equivalent to yours, just less redundant

cool
the one that guy did though looks nice though

guys i have a global object or at least i think its global and then another object is calling the global one and one of its functions i get Call to a member function sql_select()

is there any way of merging yours with his?

$this-result = $db-sql_select($sql_select); $db is a global object
what is the problem with this and why is my object not liking the fact its calling a member function of another object

nevermind Vystrix_Nexoth
yours works perfectly

if ($cookie_ip != $ip)
without the second if()
'cause if $cookie_ip isn't set, then it certainly won't equal $ip

only use pconnect for remotely based DB servers or where DB connection is expensive, try upping the number of allowed connections to the DB, chances are you're hitting a moderately set limit in your mysql setup

so like
if ($cookie_ip != $ip) { setcookie('client_ip', $ip, time()+360000); $line[0]++; fwrite($open, $line[0].":$ip"); }

hey i fixed the code
but question

looks good

word
lemme give it a shot

how can I get the dir in wich the current php fileis running
?

Well my database server is remote

can you try going to my site?

'./'

it's not localhost

copy it to "./file.ext"

i can't clear my cookies atm

I meant remote from the webserver not from you

naoshige.probsd.net/mp3

Vystrix_Nexoth that returns me the apache installation dir

username good

it'll go into whatever PHP considers teh "current working directory", which is the directory of whatever PHP script was first called by the page request.

I know.

password in pm

This actually exists on a real webserver

oh. hmm.
I -- oh

you should see 13

check your MySQL setup, and PHP should close the DB connection for you anyway once the script has finished

14 visits since June 13, 2007.

ok, just went.

Back to square one. And seriously, I'm not paying anything for this server so I can't change anything like that.

http://eugeneciurana.com/pastebin/pastebin.php?show=2434

14?

Well it still says that
and this is PHP 4.4.3

click on anything, or is my mere presence enough, as per usual?

damn how come it still says 13

noone can shine a light on object crap? i'm assuming there is an instance of object X and i'm calling $x-function() from within another object that thinks the global one is set-up

mere presence
something ain't working then
old: http://paste.husk.org/8530
new: http://paste.husk.org/8531

ew, that old code uses register_globals
that must be even older than what you showed me in the first place

the old one is the one that works
i hope i didn't show you a different one to begin with?
i apologize if that's the case

or I hope it's older, anyway... wouldn't want to be regressivist like these HTML5 idiots

yeah the admin refuses to turn on register globals in php.ini

anyway

hehe

I don't want to do this.

what's wrong man

But do i have to give my site's URL out to get a remedy for this problem? It's just getting so annoying and I can't seem to fix it!

in the 'new' one, you never opened $open
fopen() before fwrite() :P

*sigh*

let's see Vystrix_Nexoth

I guess I'll have to so you'll know exactly what my problem is.

just show us some code in a pastebin, the URL is of no use really

I didn't want to because of criticism, but ah well. It's a Zelda fansite. T_T http://www.triforcetour.com/index.php?page=index
Well, too late now.
;-;

$open = fopen($file, "w+");
wait not yet
let me put hat in

oops. heh.

now
i guess not
still 13 right?
if ($cookie_ip != $ip) { setcookie('client_ip', $ip, time()+360000); $line[0]++; $open = fopen($file, "w+"); fwrite($open, $line[0].":$ip"); }

hmm. try, as a debugging measure, printing $line[0] after you ++ it.

Gah, I'll just pastebin the f'ing code.

...which the manual says is an alias to fwrite. so nm that.

hm..

http://www.pastebin.ca/569265

i'll just revert to the old one for now i guess

Why does it still say too many connections?

try reloading now please
this is fucked up
i'm off
enjoy the music though Vystrix_Nexoth

maybe you need to set $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

well

er, nm

turned out the old didn't quite work either, so

that cookie prompt I got showed me my IP
strange.

what a mess

Anyone see any problem?
*shot*

i don't need a counter

that music seems to be rap, which isn't my cup of tea, but thanks nonetheless. ^^

hehe

heh, true. they're more for show anyway.

nah it's a lot of other stuff there too
* there's

I'll check them out, then.

and whatever rap's there, it's guaranteed to be unlike any other rap you've heard

Apparently now.

cream of the crop, the shit the radio never ever plays
thanks you all
i'm out

best of luck

*not
Now can anyone see about my code?

you have duplicate queries in there but nothing that would cause your current problem, so I repeat, check your DB setup

.....

Back to square one. And seriously, I'm not paying anything for this server so I can't change anything like that.

well PHP is giving you an error for a reason

Well I can't fix this... maybe just logging into the database will help. o.o'
#1040 - Too many connections

DB setup!

I don't own the database server, and I can't change that stuff so I'm stuck!!
OK?

pretty much

My site is in the hole.
CRAP.

not to worry, there can't be that many Zelda fans around?
:P

It should come back
I got this error once in the past...
and it went away in 5 minutes.
O_o
Maybe my server needs to restart itself.

ei cambada reabri o c4ll quem quiser ir pra la esta convidado...canal de informatica em geral

English.

thanks...but i told only imports who can read...i will not span any way. i lie to be over here...
my keybord is borked so..

hi
someone has been ever used php-gtk?

hello
is there anyway to find the server domain in php?

$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
technically that relies on the client to tell the server what its own domain is. but then again, if it supplied something else, then another vhost would have gotten it. :P
on the plus side, it explicitly refers to what the client thinks the server's domain is. quite useful for putting together absolute URLs.

can php send e-mail via smtp servers using SSL!?

yes

what is "SSL!"

?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer

but the exclamation point?

Anyone know what a mysql datetime data type is translated into in PHP? A Unix timestamp?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/datetime.html

A string?

anybody knows if simpletest features fixtures generating please ?

does PHP support something like C's va_start
?

what do you want it to do ?

having a function that can support an arbitrary number of arguments

php functions accept more arguments that explicitely specified, not less
also you might want to check func_get_args()

yeah
well I think I'll have to use an array

(func_get_args does generate an array)

you dont have to, you can use func_get_args/func_get_arg/func_num_args as is_null said

how do you define the "Content-Type: text/html" header that gets send by php?

thanks a bunch, that's exactly what I needed

found it ... but I'm still struggling to get a euro sign to display in utf8-land

anyone help me with online movie buffering/bandwidth questions?

morning!

hi
Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded" this depends by the script that i am running of a php setting?
*or

no, that depends on max execution yime. php.net/set_time_limit.
*time

Wolfy[drawing]: thanks
Wolfy[drawing]: what can happen if i set time limit to 0 ?
no time limit

yes

ok i know this mean no time limit, but there can be some problem if i set no time limit?

30secs are not enough?

seems no

are your doing calculating on astro things?
dbms execution time is not counted

no, it's a script that encrypt / decrypt some data, i only used it, it's not mine

ok
how about memory limit?
enough for it?
8M is enough?

if i set_time_limit to 0, it seems ok, i am on a hosting
i don't have access to php.ini

dob1, what type of applcation is this? if your taking 30 seconds of CPU then it can't scale to more then a few users so you need to get that fixed
how much data are you encrypting?

it's the script from phpmyadmin, the blowfish.php, i use it to encrypt / decrypt a text file, line by line, only this. i am not a php expert, i read some example about it

so is it for personal use or for a webite?

personal use
or better, i use it to store some data about the website
but only me and other person

ok, so then just do the time limit thing ou said, but it may be better to do it with a C app, it will be much faster
*you

ok i will see how to change this procedure
thanks for the help bye

likes that signoff
Wolfy[drawing]: do you have any comments on the use of assignment via $this-foo =& $somearry; ?

yeah, "Client exiting" for teh win!

Hm?

Nah... I meant "thanks for the help bye" click
I have a note from a developer not to do assignment that way. I don't know why, just a snippy "don't do that."
And I'm confused as to he means "don't do assignment this way" or "don't use this method of passing information to/from the class"

IF you really don't need to pass the reference, don't do it. It's a waste of memory.
Ummm... Memory + CPU power.

is even more confused now
I thought one point was to avoid multiple copies of the same variables.

Hello!
http://phpfi.com/242089 ??

!+&

[&] & is the PHP 'Reference' operator. See: http://php.net/references; & is Also the PHP bitwise AND operator. See: http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.bitwise.php

^-- read
You tell us

I can see different strings as result of print_r( $news ) in different iterations
instead of array structure
e.g. numbers, some text - it looks like another column in each iteration

And what is supposed to be $news?

hi, I have apache and php but apache is showing the source code of php pages instead of processing them, how can I fix that?

Wolfy[drawing]: some columns got from database
it should be an array
Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

no, it shouldn't. Unless there is a reason, that you used foreach.
!tell aditsu about at

So foreach isn't good solution for fetching arrays from result?

hi i wanna use a replace function, if it for ex finds the word ps it will look up it in an array and replace it with for ex PHP Site

Do you know what it does and how it works?
You can try array_map

Okay, it returns $val or $key with $val. Maybe it's wrong.
So another way?

Wolfy[drawing]: thanks, what's the difference between AddType and AddHandler?

Use while()
It's not "wrong", if you know what it does.
That's #apache question

Wolfy[drawing]: read. If altering the array, reference is more memory efficient than pass by value. (as soon as a pass by value variable is altered it is copied, in 5.x, while in 4.x it seems to be a copy immediately.)

There you go.

That's why I chose reference in the first place. So I still don't know why this schmoe is telling me not to do that.

fetch ) - which is the best and the fastest and the most optimized?

It depends on what you want. "best" is relative.

Like, profile it?

I want to have current row in $news and do some operations on it

Which translates into...?
You *could* use foreach, if you knew exactly what you're doing... But in your case you probably want while

How can i return the str pos in the array from an array search?

Read the manuals.

$res-setFetchMode(ASSOC); foreach($res as $news) - I think it's OK.

If you say so.
How good does it work?

how to turn a gif to no color?

Emmm... Wha?

Wolfy[drawing] how to turn a gif to color blind?
how to say, like photocopy

you can modify the color scheme

i've found imagecolorset() but have no concept on this thing..
oh, i've found that this is called color transformation
i think there will be some tutorials on this
oh fun, http://www.blizaga.com/tutorial/tutorial.php?id=4

Ajax is the shit.
I just started toying with it tonight

dan__t heh
it's fun but complicated

Well.
Maybe a bit, sure, I'll give you that.

do you know js?

I do not.
I found a good book - learning both at the same time.
Beginning Ajax with PHP, Apress Publishing

hi folks. is it possible to determine the unix timestamp of the first second of the current month?

sure it is
mktime is a good place to start

thanks, I'll look into mktime
ah, that looks fantastic. thanks

Does PDO count number of queries?

your database might
why would you want to do that?

To know how many queries did the script done.

but why do you want to know that?

For a statistic - I was displaying it in footer before.

that's a really odd thing to tell the user
"i ran 10 queries, be proud of me"

No interface counts number of queries. Do it yourself.

or just don't bother displaying it, and ask the database to report on it later

Some users can look for CMS which make less queries. What do you think about it? Isn't this stat really needed?

no, nobody cares if it queries the database 10000 times, they care about how quick the responce is
and how good the interface is
where did you get the statistic that users care how many queries are made?

I'd care if my app does 10k queries

I think somebody may care but okay - I won't show it - 1 variable less.

Wolfy[drawing]: would you?

Yes I would

if it was just as quick as another application, and had good user interface, why would you care?

'cause queries exhaust CPU.

Does PDO::query() return false when no rows?
I think no.

RTFM

Wolfy[drawing]: but it's not the number of queries that make them use CPU, it's the type of query, select foo_seq.nextValue is a single query, but not a very processor intense one

It doesn't.

that is to say, it's a crap metric

true. But multiply that with many user, and you get a fitfall.
*pitfall

hello room i don't know if anyone remembers me from yesterday

that was covered under "performs the same" in my assertion...

It doesn't matter if your app makes 100 or 1000 queries; if you are making crap queries, 10 will exhaust your system.

yes

does anyone know of a good simple explenation of eregi() search patterns?
i'm having a hard time understanding how to do the comparisons

"stop using them"

!+ereg

Ereg should be avoided in favour of Perl-compatible regex. PCRE functions support non-greedy matching, assertions, conditional subpatterns, and a number of other features not supported by POSIX-extended regex. Also, the PCRE functions are binary safe and are often a faster alternative.

so is regex another function?

it is always faster to use string functions than regular expression functions.

regex is a langauge for specifying patterns of text/data
all be it a very simple langauge

hi all

in the case where the string functions can do what you want ...

so how do i use it in php?

is it safe hosting php under windows

regex is short for "regular expression"
php.net/pcre

bash-: its not going to kill you, if that's what you mean.

lol

why shouldent it be safe

no that's not what I mean, I mean will be secure?

bash-: It works. Other than that it depends on your server settings.

bash-: that is a dumb question to ask.

because of the lack of priviledge seperation in window's implementation

wait didn't someone say though that i should use string functions instead of regular expression functions?
i'm just validating form data

only if you just want to test for exact substrings

what is my best solution

your best solution is to go and download a form validation class

if you just want to see if a string is not empty, if one string contains another, if one string is equal to another, you don't need the regular expression overhead.

i am now going to toilet for big

Do you know official developers PHP IRC server?

SettlerX this channel?

You can try #php.thinktank or internals mailing list.

how do i print out chars hex values in php?

Some people complain on their blogs that PDO isn't as fast as MySQLi.

dechex() ?

Ummm... Are we talking about mili seconds? Micro seconds? Less?

hey all
$response = $ServiceProxy-{$Verify}AddItem($request); -- i cant reference the variable like this, huh?
how is that supposed to work?

However, they whould improve PDO for MySQL like MySQLi interface

tRy it?

Wolfy[drawing]: i did, i know its not working

*should

Have you actually did a benchmark yourself?

Cannot instantiate non-existent class: db in /home/M/majorst1/www/admin/index.php on line 15"? I changed server today, on the last server everything worked fine, and I am pretty sure the path to the class works fine

i get unexpected T_STRING

FuriousGeorge, $ServiceProxy-Verify-Additem($request)

no, im trying to reference the variable name

you want quotes... something like "{$var}blah"($woof)-something;

nah thats not working either
forget it, ill just throw an if in there

mkay

Tried $response = $ServiceProxy-{$Verify.'AddItem'}($request);

Avoiding that "you cant' refresh after POST" problem for self-submitted forms...
anyone got hot tips :P?

Redirect after processing the form post?

if I redirect, the redirected page can't show the result of the action
say "me.php" submits to "me.php" which redirects to "me.php" after processing (to avoid refresh issues90
the last me.php doesn't know what happened

\. mean the same thing as this: [.]
anyone?

GameGod2, not exactly since [.] still uses the special meaning of .
but \. means dot

i thought that inside [] . and & are literal

nah
what about "&"
was this a special symbol at all?
I don't remember that one

sorry
i meant $

here is what im getting at

See if http://shiflett.org/articles/how-to-avoid-page-has-expired-warnings helps

okay i'm also learning that php comes with default classes

Do I need closeCursor() after fetchAll() method?

[[:alpha:]] for instance
but on some of my code i'm on

hiya, i was wondering, what does HTTP send as a "i've finished" signal? i open a socket and listen for "\n", but last char aint a newline...

i see them doing [[:alpha:]_] for like a username

SettlerX, fetchAll closes it I beliebe

$foo = bar; $bar = "foo"; echo $$foo; //OUTPUT: foo

i thought you must use [[:alpha:]] in it's entirety only

shouldnt something like that work?
echo ${$foo};

dynamic variables are neat

thats what they're called huh. maybe i can google it better

general_failure, when it disconnect

php.net/variable.variables

general_failure, you can do $html = file("http://www.google.com");

matt_s yea, but how do i probe a disconnect?

some are keep-alive

$Verify = Verify; response = $ServiceProcxy-{$Verify}AddItem($request};

i am nto sure

Well $response = $ServiceProxy-{$Verify.'AddItem'}($request); works for me but it might not be what you were after. If all the vars were parsed out ok what would you be expecting to see in your case?

why not use the built in functions though

Connection closed by foreign host.
get this

file() will grab the whole html

because i send headers myself

i would expect ...-VerifyAddItem($request);

_MarkL_, thanks, I'm just looking for a good way to pass my messages to the page I'm redirecting to via sessions I guess. but how do I ensure only that exact page gets those messages and not another page which incicidentally is opening on the same user?

^ that was for you
i tried your first suggestion but i didnt try that one. lemme give it a whirl

That is the same as the first suggestion

general_failure, look into the curl functions

nm, it wasnt you

Ah good, the DOS attack has ended at last ..

matt_s but what i need to get from the response i get is in the last line of the post.. and currently im doing preg_matches after a newline, but it never occurs and then the socket times out instead

newline has nothing to do in hmtl
check the rfc if you want to amke your own
i would use curl()
curl allows you to set your own headers

Sorry, I'm a bit tired and didn't really follow what you just said, care to rephrase it? Not sure what the last part of your question meant.