On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 06:36:34AM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> You're using a completely stock php.ini file.
>
> Look for short tags. Turn that on.
>
> <?php is long form... most scripts are using short tags.
>
> I don't see why you need the file name in the file itself... just have a
> number there. Much faster on the CPU.
True enough. I could have everything in one file and simply
print the filename and number. I didn't know that I had the
option of using short flags or not. Where do I set that? (I'm
sure there are more places where i have "<?" anf "?>" rather
than "<?php" and "?>"; be nice to _not_ have this cause me grief
again....)
tx,
gary
>
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> Ryan
>
> On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:36 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 06:25:39PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> >> Gary, you missed the put... fput($fp, $file); means you're dropping the
> >> filename INTO the storage file.
> >
> >
> > okay. [maybe]. i think what the script does is create
> > ./countdir/$file ; in this case, ./countdir/index where i create
> > the file named "index\n" and below it the integer count. e.g.:
> >
> > in directory countdir, in file index is:
> >
> > index
> > 60311
> >
> > to track the hits for my homepage. in defense of this crude
> > hack with no error-checking is that i have used the same script
> > in at least three other virtual thought.org websites.
> >
> > i was wrong is saying that the script bombed; it just failed;
> > the reason was that the initial tag had been "<?" rather than
> > "<?php"
> >
> > gary
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mar 24, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 07:11:15PM +0100, Fr?d?ric Perrin wrote:
> >>>> Gary Kline <[email protected]> writes:
> >>>>> Can any of you php hackers tell me why this simple self-hacked
> >>>>> counter bomb?
> >>>>
> >>>> As others said, what does 'this simple counter bomb' means?
> >>>>
> >>>>> $fp = fopen($directory.$file, "r+");
> >>>>> flock($fp, 1);
> >>>>
> >>>> You want an exclusive lock (LOCK_EX, which is 2 is you use some ancient
> >>>> PHP), not a shared lock.
> >>>>
> >>>> When updating the file:
> >>>> > fputs($fp, $count);
> >>>> > fputs($fp, "\n");
> >>>>> fputs($fp, $file);
> >>>>
> >>>> Why do you feel the need to store the filename inside the file itself?
> >>>> You don't seem to need it after.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> $file is passed from the calling php file. index.php is by-hand
> >>> set to
> >>>
> >>> $file='index';
> >>>
> >>> and so on.
> >>>
> >>> Because of my shoulder/typing woes, it was great that I got clued in
> >>> above by Brad's thought that perhaos there were mis-matched "<?"
> >>> and "?>" tags. A simply recursive grepping found out that it some
> >>> places I had "<?" <cr> instead of "<?php"> <cr>. Adding the "php"
> >>> fixed everything.
> >>>
> >>> Finally, you're right; this really, really is ancient php.
> >>> Somthing i found pre-2004 and hacked until it worked. The
> >>> counter is missings lots of features, but I'll fix that pretty
> >>> soon.
> >>>
> >>> thanks to everybody ,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Frédéric Perrin -- http://tar-jx.bz
> >>>>
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