php-general Digest 3 Sep 2003 00:48:45 -0000 Issue 2274
Topics (messages 161438 through 161504):
Re: can't include 'http...foo.php', but can include 'http...foo.txt'
161438 by: BKDotCom
Backup Database
161439 by: Shaun
161442 by: Viraj Kalinga Abayarathna
161445 by: James Lobley
161468 by: Dan Anderson
Re: Website templating schemes
161440 by: Ronald van Raaphorst
161441 by: Duncan Hill
161453 by: Chris W. Parker
Open-source browser-based POS system?
161443 by: John Almberg
161447 by: Chris Sherwood
161448 by: John Almberg
Restart Apache with PHP???
161444 by: Joe Harman
161446 by: Raditha Dissanayake
161449 by: Dan Anderson
Re: password systems
161450 by: Chris W. Parker
161464 by: Lowell Allen
Re: Copy database from MySQL to MSAccess
161451 by: Dan Anderson
Re: Gripe^2 [was Gripe]
161452 by: Chris W. Parker
Re: Block HTML Control
161454 by: Seth Willits
161455 by: Leif K-Brooks
161475 by: Dan Anderson
Session var read by form C++ CGI prog ?
161456 by: John Bryan
161457 by: Raditha Dissanayake
161458 by: John Bryan
161459 by: Ford, Mike [LSS]
161460 by: John Bryan
161462 by: Raditha Dissanayake
161463 by: Raditha Dissanayake
161465 by: CPT John W. Holmes
161470 by: John Bryan
161472 by: John Bryan
161476 by: CPT John W. Holmes
161492 by: John Bryan
161497 by: Chris Shiflett
161498 by: John Bryan
161499 by: Chris Shiflett
161504 by: Raditha Dissanayake
read / unread system for my forum
161461 by: Daniel Richter
161466 by: Dan Anderson
opening remote tar.gz files
161467 by: John Ryan
161469 by: Jay Blanchard
161471 by: Dan Anderson
161488 by: Curt Zirzow
161489 by: Curt Zirzow
evaluating dynamic variable
161473 by: Steve Goodman
161477 by: Jay Blanchard
161478 by: Matt Matijevich
161479 by: Chris W. Parker
161480 by: Chris W. Parker
161483 by: Steve Goodman
161484 by: CPT John W. Holmes
Re: Including classes inside functions vs outside - scope/global [solved]
161474 by: Verdon vaillancourt
Form variables lost when duplicate records are found !
161481 by: Pushpinder Singh Garcha
161482 by: Matt Matijevich
161485 by: Chris Shiflett
161486 by: CPT John W. Holmes
161487 by: Pushpinder Singh Garcha
161491 by: Matt Matijevich
anyone using sqlite raise your hand
161490 by: andu
how to include() N lines?
161493 by: 457945.gmx.ch
161495 by: Chris W. Parker
161496 by: Matt Matijevich
161500 by: 457945.gmx.ch
161501 by: Chris W. Parker
161502 by: CPT John W. Holmes
Problem with IE parsing of PHP output
161494 by: hecchan
Cookies & Hidden Image
161503 by: Nicole
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (paul13) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
> How do I use the physical location for a page on another machine?
>
> 'http://www.foo.com/usr/local/htdocs/includes/includes.php'
>
> with whatever is the acurate physical location following the .com?
>
> Paul
I sure hope that URL is 404.
When you include a valid external URL you're including what that URL
outputs (should be obvious)? So pull up
'http://www.foo.com/includes.php' in your browser. View the source.
That's what you're including.
surely this is covered here:
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php ?
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Hi,
Is there a facility out there that I can use to automatically backup my
database to my local machine every night using PHP and MySQL?
Thanks for your help
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you can write a PHP script to backup the DB to a SQL file and run that
script using crond at scheduled time or periodiacally as you define in
cron
regards
viraj
Shaun wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a facility out there that I can use to automatically backup my
> database to my local machine every night using PHP and MySQL?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
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Hi Shaun,
DevShed's last weekly newsletter had the following:
Daily Scheduled Backup of MYSQL Databases - Looking for a free tool or
utility to handle scheduled MySQL backups.
http://forums.devshed.com/t74513/s.html
Haven't tried any of the solutions yet, but will be soon!
James
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From: Shaun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 02 September 2003 15:18
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] Backup Database
Hi,
Is there a facility out there that I can use to automatically backup my
database to my local machine every night using PHP and MySQL?
Thanks for your help
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Do some googling. I keep seeing this on the listserv and there has to
be a free/opensource one out there somewhere.
-Dan
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Search google for Smarty (I believe it's www.smarty.php) It's a great way of
separating output from the logic using templates.
Ronald
"Joel Konkle-Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
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> I'm trying to make a PHP-backed website, and I'm trying to decide between
two
> templating schemes:
>
> 1. define 2 php template files: header.php, footer.php. in index.php,
require
> header.php, output content, require footer.php
>
> 2. define a php template file and a local page file. index.php defines
body()
> and crequires template.php. template.php prints the header, calls body()
to
> print the content, and and prints the footer.
>
> I'm currently using the second method, but I've only seen the first used
> elsewhere. Is there a reason that #1 is better than #2 (or is anything
else even
> better than that?)?
>
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> Search google for Smarty (I believe it's www.smarty.php) It's a great way
> of
> separating output from the logic using templates.
That'd be smarty.php.net ... didn't know .php was a tld :)
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Duncan Hill <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Tuesday, September 02, 2003 8:07 AM said:
>> Search google for Smarty (I believe it's www.smarty.php) It's a
>> great way of separating output from the logic using templates.
>
> That'd be smarty.php.net ... didn't know .php was a tld :)
And how about this one? www.microsoft.asp
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Anyone know of an open source, browser-based Point of Sale system?
-- John
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a quick search on google revealed a few things
http://www.google.ca/search?q=browser+based+POS&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=
try that and see if any of those meet your requirements
Chris
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:01 AM
Subject: [PHP] Open-source browser-based POS system?
> Anyone know of an open source, browser-based Point of Sale system?
>
> -- John
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Hi Chris,
Yes, I found a number of systems on Source Forge. I should have made my
question more specific . . . "Anyone have any experience with an open
source, browser-based POS system, and can recommend one or two for a
collectable/hobby store with a large (20,000+) inventory of different
items?"
-- John
Chris Sherwood wrote:
a quick search on google revealed a few things
http://www.google.ca/search?q=browser+based+POS&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=
try that and see if any of those meet your requirements
Chris
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Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:01 AM
Subject: [PHP] Open-source browser-based POS system?
Anyone know of an open source, browser-based Point of Sale system?
-- John
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Hey guys & gals...
Is there a way to restart Apache with a PHP command?
Joe Harman
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hi,
There isn't a specific PHP api for this. But you can execute shell
commands through various mechanisms included exec, backticks etc etc.
All of this is deadly dangerous of course because you need root privileges.
Joe Harman wrote:
Hey guys & gals...
Is there a way to restart Apache with a PHP command?
Joe Harman
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Search the archives. Somebody wanted to restart their server using a
web page, and a clever solution was pointed out. By creating a script
that monitored for a particular file in temp and restarted the server if
it existed it, and cronning it for every minute, they could do it safely
and securely.
-Dan
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 12:19, Joe Harman wrote:
> Hey guys & gals...
>
> Is there a way to restart Apache with a PHP command?
>
>
>
> Joe Harman
>
>
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Dennis Gearon <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Sunday, August 31, 2003 12:36 AM said:
> Anyone have any sources of noun/verb/adjective lists for password
> generation?
Sorry I don't have a resource for you, but passwords shouldn't use
dictionary words in the first place. Have you considered creating random
passwords?
Chris.
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> Anyone have any sources of noun/verb/adjective lists for password
> generation?
Google search for Aspell and Pspell. Here's a link to Aspell info, which has
a link to dictionaries:
<http://aspell.net/>
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> server. So I'm actually never gonna use Access, it's just the database I'm
> using for storage of data.
Well ODBC implies that you are going to have a database program (i.e.
Oracle, SQL Server, Access, whatever) to connect to. At least that's
how I understand it to work. So if you don't have a copy of Access
running you will need to figure out how to export it to Access format,
or a way to export it easily (Excel lets you open up XML spreadsheets,
which are pretty easy to create using PHP. ).
-Dan
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Curt Zirzow <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Friday, August 29, 2003 7:54 PM said:
> Why do people insist on using their work address so we are plagued
> with privacy notices and autorespond's letting us know that he will
> be gone one extra day over the weekend....
Well fortunately for me I don't have a signature nor do I have a
disclaimer added on each email. But I can answer your question anyway. I
use my work email address because I'm not supposed to access any other
email addresses. I mean I can create all the aliases I want for my
account but I can't use a personal email address during work time.
So yeah, that's why.
Chris.
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On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 02:06 AM, Viraj Kalinga Abayarathna
wrote:
Seth,
<?php
if ($thisVar) {
if ($myVar) {
lots;
of;
php;
} else {
// End of PHP content
?>
<lots>
<of>
<html>
<?php
// End of HTML content
}
}
?>
Aaahhhh ok. I was confused with the semi colon and colon used in the
last example. This clears it all up. Thanks.
Seth Willits
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Seth Willits wrote:
Aaahhhh ok. I was confused with the semi colon and colon used in the
last example. This clears it all up. Thanks.
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.alternative-syntax.php
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You do realize that you don't need a semicolon right after <?php tags,
correct?
-Dan
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 04:59, Viraj Kalinga Abayarathna wrote:
> Seth,
> try to mingle PHP and HTML.. that means escape the PHP and jump to HTML
> when
> you want the HTML.. like this...
>
>
> <?php
> if (!$var) {
> ?> <lots>
> <of>
> <html>
> <?php
> ;
> } else {
> ?> <lots>
> <of>
> <html>
> <?php ;
> }
> ?>
>
>
> happy coding
>
> Viraj
>
>
>
> Seth Willits wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to show a big chunk of HTML if a particular variable is true,
> > and if its false I'd like to show a different big chunk of html. Right
> > now the only way I know of doing this is:
> >
> > if ($var) {
> > print '
> > <lots>
> > <of>
> > <html>
> > ';
> > } else {
> > print '
> > <lots>
> > <of>
> > <html>
> > ';
> > }
> >
> > This works, but it destroys the syntax coloring of the html making it
> > all one solid color. I'd love to know if there's a better way OTHER
> > than include()ing different files.
> >
> > Seth Willits
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I need to use something like a session variable to make a variable available to an
existing form-invoked C++ program which takes as input a file being uploaded. Is this
even do-able ?? If so, what am I missing here ???
The C++ prog used to use the REMOTE_USER env var set by the web server but we are no
longer doing authentication via the webserver itself, so this one does not get set,
and I need to set something myself. The C++ prog would had been grabbing this by
getenv("REMOTE_USER").
I was trying some php to set a session var 'UPATH' but the UPATH variable doesn't seem
to be visible to MyCppProg.exe :
--snip--
<?php
$_SESSION['UPATH'] = 'foobar';
?>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="MyCppProg.exe" method="post">
File to Upload: <input name="file" type="file"> <input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>
--snip--
I am new to php, have been digging around on the web, and not making a lot of headway
quickly enough, so I'm asking.
Thanks,
JB
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Hi,
Had a similar problem when building upload progress bar. Initially i
used cookies but that had a few minor hiccups. What you can do is to
encode your variables into the query string. This is accessible as part
of the env. variables. Since you are familiar with C++ you will get the
hang of PHP very quickly.
oh and btw the correct way to set a cookie is with session_register(),
$_SESSION is used for retrieval.
all the best
John Bryan wrote:
I need to use something like a session variable to make a variable available to an existing form-invoked C++ program which takes as input a file being uploaded. Is this even do-able ?? If so, what am I missing here ???
The C++ prog used to use the REMOTE_USER env var set by the web server but we are no longer doing authentication via the webserver itself, so this one does not get set, and I need to set something myself. The C++ prog would had been grabbing this by getenv("REMOTE_USER").
I was trying some php to set a session var 'UPATH' but the UPATH variable doesn't seem to be visible to MyCppProg.exe :
--snip--
<?php
$_SESSION['UPATH'] = 'foobar';
?>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="MyCppProg.exe" method="post">
File to Upload: <input name="file" type="file"> <input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>
--snip--
I am new to php, have been digging around on the web, and not making a lot of headway quickly enough, so I'm asking.
Thanks,
JB
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Thanks, very much, Raditha.
Do you mean to pass my variable as a cgi parameter ?
If so, the problem is that this file that is being uploaded via the form to the
program MyCppProg.exe gets sent as THE input to the prog, apparently as a cgi-type
parameter through stdin (i.e. cin), so that when I try to pass the value as a cgi
parameter, it gets inserted INTO the file that is being uploaded.
Am I understanding correctly, or did I miss the point ?
Thanks,
JB
On Tuesday, September 02, 2003, at 01:21PM, Raditha Dissanayake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Had a similar problem when building upload progress bar. Initially i
>used cookies but that had a few minor hiccups. What you can do is to
>encode your variables into the query string. This is accessible as part
>of the env. variables. Since you are familiar with C++ you will get the
>hang of PHP very quickly.
>
>oh and btw the correct way to set a cookie is with session_register(),
>$_SESSION is used for retrieval.
>
>John Bryan wrote:
>
>>I need to use something like a session variable to make a variable available to an
>>existing form-invoked C++ program which takes as input a file being uploaded. Is
>>this even do-able ?? If so, what am I missing here ???
>>
>>The C++ prog used to use the REMOTE_USER env var set by the web server but we are no
>>longer doing authentication via the webserver itself, so this one does not get set,
>>and I need to set something myself. The C++ prog would had been grabbing this by
>>getenv("REMOTE_USER").
>>
>>I was trying some php to set a session var 'UPATH' but the UPATH variable doesn't
>>seem to be visible to MyCppProg.exe :
>>
>>--snip--
>>
>><?php
>>$_SESSION['UPATH'] = 'foobar';
>>?>
>>
>><form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="MyCppProg.exe" method="post">
>> File to Upload: <input name="file" type="file"> <input type="submit" value="Send">
>></form>
>>
>>--snip--
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On 02 September 2003 19:22, Raditha Dissanayake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Had a similar problem when building upload progress bar. Initially i
> used cookies but that had a few minor hiccups. What you can do is to
> encode your variables into the query string. This is
> accessible as part
> of the env. variables. Since you are familiar with C++ you
> will get the
> hang of PHP very quickly.
>
> oh and btw the correct way to set a cookie is with
> session_register(),
> $_SESSION is used for retrieval.
Er, nope. If you have a version of PHP with the $_SESSION array, then you use it for
both setting *and* retrieving -- session_register() and friends should *not* be used
in this case. (Indeed, there are circumstances where the combination of
session_register() with $_SESSION gives broken behaviour.)
Cheers!
Mike
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On Tuesday, September 02, 2003, at 01:32PM, Ford, Mike [LSS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 02 September 2003 19:22, Raditha Dissanayake wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Had a similar problem when building upload progress bar. Initially i
>> used cookies but that had a few minor hiccups. What you can do is to
>> encode your variables into the query string. This is
>> accessible as part
>> of the env. variables. Since you are familiar with C++ you
>> will get the
>> hang of PHP very quickly.
>>
>> oh and btw the correct way to set a cookie is with
>> session_register(),
>> $_SESSION is used for retrieval.
>
>Er, nope. If you have a version of PHP with the $_SESSION array, then you use it for
>both setting *and* retrieving -- session_register() and friends should *not* be used
>in this case. (Indeed, there are circumstances where the combination of
>session_register() with $_SESSION gives broken behaviour.)
>
Right. I am running PHP 4.3.3. Win32 version to be specific, on Win2k server, with
Apache 1.3.26. I installed PHP to try and do this trick.
JB
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Oh well, and i thought i knew everything about php :-(
Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote:
On 02 September 2003 19:22, Raditha Dissanayake wrote:
Hi,
Had a similar problem when building upload progress bar. Initially i
used cookies but that had a few minor hiccups. What you can do is to
encode your variables into the query string. This is
accessible as part
of the env. variables. Since you are familiar with C++ you
will get the
hang of PHP very quickly.
oh and btw the correct way to set a cookie is with
session_register(),
$_SESSION is used for retrieval.
Er, nope. If you have a version of PHP with the $_SESSION array, then you use it for both setting *and* retrieving -- session_register() and friends should *not* be used in this case. (Indeed, there are circumstances where the combination of session_register() with $_SESSION gives broken behaviour.)
Cheers!
Mike
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Hello,
If you use <input type='hidden'> yes they will be part of the input
stream. What i suggested was you have
<form method=post action="/cgi-bin/mycgi.exe?qid=123"> then you can
retrieve the query string variable from the env. (at least this works
with perl cgi and i don't see why it shouldn't work with C++ as well).
the only draw back is that you have to process the qstring yourself.
best regards
raditha
John Bryan wrote:
Thanks, very much, Raditha.
Do you mean to pass my variable as a cgi parameter ?
If so, the problem is that this file that is being uploaded via the form to the program MyCppProg.exe gets sent as THE input to the prog, apparently as a cgi-type parameter through stdin (i.e. cin), so that when I try to pass the value as a cgi parameter, it gets inserted INTO the file that is being uploaded.
Am I understanding correctly, or did I miss the point ?
Thanks,
JB
On Tuesday, September 02, 2003, at 01:21PM, Raditha Dissanayake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Had a similar problem when building upload progress bar. Initially i
used cookies but that had a few minor hiccups. What you can do is to
encode your variables into the query string. This is accessible as part
of the env. variables. Since you are familiar with C++ you will get the
hang of PHP very quickly.
oh and btw the correct way to set a cookie is with session_register(),
$_SESSION is used for retrieval.
John Bryan wrote:
I need to use something like a session variable to make a variable available to an existing form-invoked C++ program which takes as input a file being uploaded. Is this even do-able ?? If so, what am I missing here ???
The C++ prog used to use the REMOTE_USER env var set by the web server but we are no longer doing authentication via the webserver itself, so this one does not get set, and I need to set something myself. The C++ prog would had been grabbing this by getenv("REMOTE_USER").
I was trying some php to set a session var 'UPATH' but the UPATH variable doesn't seem to be visible to MyCppProg.exe :
--snip--
<?php
$_SESSION['UPATH'] = 'foobar';
?>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="MyCppProg.exe" method="post">
File to Upload: <input name="file" type="file"> <input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>
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From: "John Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If so, the problem is that this file that is being uploaded
> via the form to the program MyCppProg.exe gets sent
> as THE input to the prog, apparently as a cgi-type
> parameter through stdin (i.e. cin), so that when I try to
> pass the value as a cgi parameter, it gets inserted INTO
> the file that is being uploaded.
Does this file already exist or are you looking to create it? It sounds like
you just need to fopen() the file, tack on your "variable" at the end of the
file (in some format) and then let the C++ program load the file, right?
---John Holmes...
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On Tuesday, September 02, 2003, at 02:04PM, Raditha Dissanayake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hello,
>If you use <input type='hidden'> yes they will be part of the input
>stream. What i suggested was you have
><form method=post action="/cgi-bin/mycgi.exe?qid=123"> then you can
>retrieve the query string variable from the env. (at least this works
>with perl cgi and i don't see why it shouldn't work with C++ as well).
>the only draw back is that you have to process the qstring yourself.
>
Right. That is what I had tried before, using it as a hidden parameter. I will try
passing as part of the explicit call to the prog as you describe.
thanks,
jb
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On Tuesday, September 02, 2003, at 01:55PM, CPT John W. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>From: "John Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> If so, the problem is that this file that is being uploaded
>> via the form to the program MyCppProg.exe gets sent
>> as THE input to the prog, apparently as a cgi-type
>> parameter through stdin (i.e. cin), so that when I try to
>> pass the value as a cgi parameter, it gets inserted INTO
>> the file that is being uploaded.
>
>Does this file already exist or are you looking to create it? It sounds like
>you just need to fopen() the file, tack on your "variable" at the end of the
>file (in some format) and then let the C++ program load the file, right?
>
>---John Holmes...
The file would already exist on the client side. They are uploading the file to be
processed by this program MyCppProg.exe, which is invoked as a form 'action'. This
already works, but depends on the Apache variable REMOTE_USER being set when user logs
in, but we moving to implement a different method for authentication that involves
talking to two different Oracle databases, password rules, etc., so this REMOTE_USER
variable no longer gets set since we are bypassing Apache's authentication here.
So I need to set an 'environment' variable that remains visible to scripts and progs
within the session space, that can then be grabbed by the MyCppProg.exe, for example
with getenv("MyEnvVar"). It used to use getenv("REMOTE_USER").
I'm hoping to not have this variable have to be part of the file that gets uploaded.
thanks,
jb
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From: "John Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The file would already exist on the client side. They are
> uploading the file to be processed by this program
> MyCppProg.exe, which is invoked as a form 'action'.
> This already works, but depends on the Apache variable
> REMOTE_USER being set when user logs in, but we
> moving to implement a different method for authentication
> that involves talking to two different Oracle databases,
> password rules, etc., so this REMOTE_USER variable
> no longer gets set since we are bypassing Apache's
> authentication here.
>
> So I need to set an 'environment' variable that remains
> visible to scripts and progs within the session space, that
> can then be grabbed by the MyCppProg.exe, for example
> with getenv("MyEnvVar"). It used to use getenv("REMOTE_USER").
>
> I'm hoping to not have this variable have to be part of the file that gets
uploaded.
Ah, I see now.
If you're using a file upload box and submitting that form directly to your
.exe, then there's probably not much you can do.
In order to do this, I think you'll have to "intercept" the file.
When the user submits the file, it goes to a PHP script that copies it
somewhere. Then see if you can make an exec() call to the system and set the
"REMOTE_USER" variable, somehow. I'm not sure on the syntax/possibility of
that, it would depend upon your OS. Then make another exec() call to your
C++ program and send it the path the the file that was already uploaded.
Capture the output and show it to the user or do whatever you normally do.
---John Holmes...
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On Tuesday, September 02, 2003, at 02:04PM, Raditha Dissanayake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hello,
>If you use <input type='hidden'> yes they will be part of the input
>stream. What i suggested was you have
><form method=post action="/cgi-bin/mycgi.exe?qid=123"> then you can
>retrieve the query string variable from the env. (at least this works
>with perl cgi and i don't see why it shouldn't work with C++ as well).
>the only draw back is that you have to process the qstring yourself.
>
Actually, upon further reading it seems I won't be able to do this.
If I pass parameters in this fashion, the web server will make them available in
QUERY_STRING, but I need to use the GET method.
The form is using the POST method so that the file that is being uploaded and
processed gets handed to the cgi program through stdin.
So looks like I can't have it both ways, i.e. POST and GET, stdin and query string env
var.
Thanks,
JB
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--- John Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So looks like I can't have it both ways, i.e. POST and GET
Yes, you can.
<form action="/blah.php?foo=1" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="bar" value="2">
<input type="submit">
The script blah.php can reference $_GET['foo'] and $_POST['bar']. The values of
these variables will be 1 and 2, respectively.
Please keep in mind that this is a PHP list...
Chris
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On Tuesday, September 02, 2003, at 05:12PM, Chris Shiflett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>--- John Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> So looks like I can't have it both ways, i.e. POST and GET
>
>Yes, you can.
>
><form action="/blah.php?foo=1" method="post">
><input type="hidden" name="bar" value="2">
><input type="submit">
>
>The script blah.php can reference $_GET['foo'] and $_POST['bar']. The values of
>these variables will be 1 and 2, respectively.
>
Thanks, Chris. That's pretty cool. I wish I had time to rewrite this dang cpp prog
in php or something that better lends itself to these things.
>Please keep in mind that this is a PHP list...
>
Will do. Was/am thinking I could use php to set 'session' variable(s) that would also
be visible to an existing cpp prog currently invoked from a form.
j b
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--- John Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Was/am thinking I could use php to set 'session' variable(s) that
> would also be visible to an existing cpp prog currently invoked
> from a form.
I missed most of this thread, since it appeared to be off-topic, but you might
consider changing the action attribute of your form to point to a PHP script
that can call your CGI as needed. It's worth trying anyway, and PHP should
already have the right privileges to execute it.
This PHP script could conveniently access the PHP session (which your CGI could
do also, but with much more hassle) as well as all GET and POST data, and you
could use it as a wrapper to your CGI. This would also make future transitions
easier, if you forsee taking that path.
Hope that helps.
Chris
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Chris is right on both counts. :-)
and this is exactly how i do it in my file upload progress bar.
best regards
raditha
Chris Shiflett wrote:
--- John Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So looks like I can't have it both ways, i.e. POST and GET
Yes, you can.
<form action="/blah.php?foo=1" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="bar" value="2">
<input type="submit">
The script blah.php can reference $_GET['foo'] and $_POST['bar']. The values of
these variables will be 1 and 2, respectively.
Please keep in mind that this is a PHP list...
Chris
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Hi all
i'm coding a little forum an now i want to make a read / unread system for
the new posts and topics.
Can anybody explain to me, how I can do that?
mfg codemonkey
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> i'm coding a little forum an now i want to make a read / unread system for
> the new posts and topics.
> Can anybody explain to me, how I can do that?
I'm not sure what you mean, do you mean let each users mark messages as
read or not read? Well, if you don't mind the space in a mySQL database
you could create a read_bool BIT in the table and for each user
reference it. Of course, if you don't expire forum entries or index the
tables you will be looking at serious performance issues.
-Dan
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is it possible with PHP to download and open a remote tar.gz file?? I read
in the manual that it is, but it never seems to work for me.
I tried opening the file with fopen
fopen("zlib://http://www.site.com/update.tar.gz";, "r");
but it didnt work
Then I tried using the zlib functions but they just returned garbage. I
think it might have something to do with it not being able to handle ".tar"
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[snip]
is it possible with PHP to download and open a remote tar.gz file?? I
read
in the manual that it is, but it never seems to work for me.
I tried opening the file with fopen
fopen("zlib://http://www.site.com/update.tar.gz";, "r");
but it didnt work
Then I tried using the zlib functions but they just returned garbage. I
think it might have something to do with it not being able to handle
".tar"
[/snip]
See http://www.php.net/zlib and try $compFile = gzopen("foo.tar.gz"),
"r");
HTH!
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There are a number of possible solutions. If i remember correctly some
compressed file types need the ability to handle them compiled into PHP.
Try different things. Sometimes the easiest way to do things is to FTP
into the remote server and ftp into your server to transfer it.
-Dan
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* Thus wrote Jay Blanchard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> [snip]
> is it possible with PHP to download and open a remote tar.gz file?? I
> read
> in the manual that it is, but it never seems to work for me.
>
> I tried opening the file with fopen
> fopen("zlib://http://www.site.com/update.tar.gz";, "r");
> but it didnt work
>
> Then I tried using the zlib functions but they just returned garbage. I
> think it might have something to do with it not being able to handle
> ".tar"
> [/snip]
>
> See http://www.php.net/zlib and try $compFile = gzopen("foo.tar.gz"),
> "r");
The only problem with this is that he'll result with a tar file.
Curt
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* Thus wrote John Ryan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> is it possible with PHP to download and open a remote tar.gz file?? I read
> in the manual that it is, but it never seems to work for me.
>
> I tried opening the file with fopen
> fopen("zlib://http://www.site.com/update.tar.gz";, "r");
> but it didnt work
>
> Then I tried using the zlib functions but they just returned garbage. I
> think it might have something to do with it not being able to handle ".tar"
What are you trying to do with the file? A tar file can contain
multiple files and have a directory structure.
Curt
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Hi,
I'm having trouble evaluating a dynamic variable. I want to check if the
variable $_POST["resolutions$i"] is an empty string, as you'll see from the
code. However, every way I've tried to check the variable so far (including
empty() and eval()) always returns a null value, even when the variable
should contain a value. I've probably been doing something wrong in my
previous efforts. Can someone recommend a way to reliably evaluate this
variable?
for ($i=1; $i<=$entries; $i++) {
if($_POST["resolutions$i"] !== ''){
do_something();
}
}
Thanks.
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[snip]
I'm having trouble evaluating a dynamic variable. I want to check if the
variable $_POST["resolutions$i"] is an empty string, as you'll see from
the
code. However, every way I've tried to check the variable so far
(including
empty() and eval()) always returns a null value, even when the variable
should contain a value. I've probably been doing something wrong in my
previous efforts. Can someone recommend a way to reliably evaluate this
variable?
for ($i=1; $i<=$entries; $i++) {
if($_POST["resolutions$i"] !== ''){
do_something();
}
}
[/snip]
Well, I tried this
/*
** submit form (res1.php)
*/
<form action="res2.php" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="resolution1">
<input type="text" name="resolution2">
<input type="submit">
</form>
/*
** process (res2.php)
*/
<?php
$entries = count($_POST);
for ($i=1; $i<=$entries; $i++) {
if($_POST["resolutions$i"] !== ''){
print($_POST["resolution$i"]);
}
}
?>
And I had no problems.
HTH!
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this worked for me.
<?
$entries = 20;
for ($i=1; $i<=$entries; $i++) {
if(isset($_POST["resolutions$i"]) && $_POST["resolutions$i"] !==
''){
echo "Hello $i<br />";
}
}
?>
<html>
<body>
<form method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="resolutions1" value="etefgtE" />
<input type="hidden" name="resolutions3" value="etefgtE" />
<input type="hidden" name="resolutions5" value="etefgtE" />
<input type="hidden" name="resolutions6" value="etefgtE" />
<input type="hidden" name="resolutions15" value="etefgtE" />
<input type="hidden" name="resolutions12" value="" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
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Steve Goodman <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Tuesday, September 02, 2003 12:54 PM said:
> Can someone
> recommend a way to reliably evaluate this variable?
1. (not positive on this point so correct me if I'm wrong) you shouldn't
compare with !==. Instead us !=.
2. What does the following do?
for ($i=1; $i<=$entries; $i++)
{
if(empty($_POST["resolutions".$i]))
{
echo "empty!";
}
else
{
echo "not empty!"
}
}
You might also like to try isset() along with empty().
hth,
Chris.
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Chris W. Parker <>
on Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:29 PM said:
> 1. (not positive on this point so correct me if I'm wrong) you
> shouldn't compare with !==. Instead us !=.
Ok, turns out I'm wrong on that. I guess I should go look it up!!
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When I run the code you've attached, with $i iterating up to 3, I get
three 'empty!', even if $resolution1 should be 'not empty!'. It seems
like the $i in $_POST["resolutions".$i] is not getting parsed into a
value, and php is looking for a key resolutions$i.
Whoops, I'm an idiot. Resolution singular, not plural. Thanks for the
help everyone
.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris W. Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 3:29 PM
To: Stephen Goodman; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] evaluating dynamic variable
Steve Goodman <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Tuesday, September 02, 2003 12:54 PM said:
> Can someone
> recommend a way to reliably evaluate this variable?
1. (not positive on this point so correct me if I'm wrong) you shouldn't
compare with !==. Instead us !=.
2. What does the following do?
for ($i=1; $i<=$entries; $i++)
{
if(empty($_POST["resolutions".$i]))
{
echo "empty!";
}
else
{
echo "not empty!"
}
}
You might also like to try isset() along with empty().
hth,
Chris.
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From: "Stephen Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> When I run the code you've attached, with $i iterating up to 3, I get
> three 'empty!', even if $resolution1 should be 'not empty!'. It seems
> like the $i in $_POST["resolutions".$i] is not getting parsed into a
> value, and php is looking for a key resolutions$i.
>
> Whoops, I'm an idiot. Resolution singular, not plural. Thanks for the
> help everyone
Does that mean you solved it? Remember that PHP is case sensitive, too.
$_POST['Resolution'] is not the same as $_POST['resolution'].
If you're still having trouble, go back to some basic debugging. Do a
print_r($_POST) so you actually know what $_POST contains, to begin with.
---John Holmes...
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Hi Greg,
I've been on a holiday and just got to ttry this last night. Worked like a
charm. Thank You!
Salut, verdon
> Hi Verdon,
>
> Be sure that $connobj is declared as a global variable in the
> mysql_connection.php file. You can do this in two ways:
>
> 1) instead of $connobj = blah, use $GLOBALS['connobj'] = blah 2) global
> $connobj; $connobj = blah
>
> Regards, Greg -- phpDocumentor http://www.phpdoc.org
>
> Verdon Vaillancourt wrote: Hi :)
>
>> Somewhat newbie question...
>>
>> I'm trying to include some open source classes into a project I am working
>> on. The classes build a set of relational select menus from the contents of
>> two tables. I have not trouble using the classes in a simple test page, but
>> am running into problems when I try to use them as part of a function. For
>> instance...
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Hello everyone,
I am making use of a php form to add company details to a MySQL
Database. Before I add the form variables I am checking to see if the
SAME company name exists in the DB. If the same company exists, then a
notification is provided. In between this , the variables that were
entered on the form are LOST. Is there anyway I can store the variables
so that if a duplicate record was found to be present, then the forms
variables are stored and NOT LOST ??
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated ! Thanks in advance
--Pushpinder
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[snip]
then the forms
variables are stored and NOT LOST ??
[/snip]
Have you looked into sessions?
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php
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--- Pushpinder Singh Garcha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am making use of a php form to add company details to a MySQL
> Database. Before I add the form variables I am checking to see if the
> SAME company name exists in the DB. If the same company exists, then a
> notification is provided. In between this , the variables that were
> entered on the form are LOST. Is there anyway I can store the variables
> so that if a duplicate record was found to be present, then the forms
> variables are stored and NOT LOST ??
Of course.
However, I don't understand what you need help with.
> Is there anyway I can store the variables...
There are many ways to store data with PHP. You can use the filesystem, a
database, etc. Are you asking how to store data?
Chris
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From: "Pushpinder Singh Garcha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I am making use of a php form to add company details to a MySQL
> Database. Before I add the form variables I am checking to see if the
> SAME company name exists in the DB. If the same company exists, then a
> notification is provided. In between this , the variables that were
> entered on the form are LOST. Is there anyway I can store the variables
> so that if a duplicate record was found to be present, then the forms
> variables are stored and NOT LOST ??
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated ! Thanks in advance
How do you display the form again when there is a "notification"?
Something as simple as:
<input type="text" name="some_name" value="<? echo
htmlentities($_POST['some_name']); ?>">
will (safely) "remember" POSTed variables when you show the form again.
---John Holmes...
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I am currently using sessions on my site // are you suggesting that I
store all the possible 30 form variables in a temp session array. ??
and destroy it afterwards
Thanks
-Pushpinder
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 04:41 PM, Matt Matijevich wrote:
[snip]
then the forms
variables are stored and NOT LOST ??
[/snip]
Have you looked into sessions?
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php
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The approach of using $_GET variables would just make the URL very very
long, like imagine having to pass close to 33 variables on the form.
The other option wud be to use $_SESSION array to store the form
variables.
Does anyone have nay other suggestion.? Thanks in advance !
/pS
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 05:13 PM, Matt Matijevich wrote:
> [snip]
> when the user comes back to the "add_new.php"
> [/snip]
>
> I would use session vars in this case.
>
> You could also use get variables.
>
> Say the company name is in the database and you have to redirect
back
> to add_new.php, in your header call
> you could say something like:
>
> header("Location:
> add_new.php?field1=$_POST["field1"]&field2=$_POST["field2"]")
>
> but I would just use session vars.
>
>>>> Pushpinder Singh Garcha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/02/03 04:03PM
>>>>
> This is the way it works....
>
> there is a table with "company name" as the primary key.
>
> 1. A logged in User enters details of the company he/she wants to
ad
>
> to to the MySQL DB. This form is embedded in
> "add_new.php" which call add_new_result.php as a POST
method.
>
> 2. if the company name exists in the DB the user is alerted and
and
> asked to choose a different company name.
>
> Now my question is , when the user comes back to the
"add_new.php"
> page he looses all the data that he had entered.
> I hope this makes it clear.
>
> Thanks again
> --pS
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 04:51 PM, Matt Matijevich wrote:
>
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Are people on this list using the sqlite extension with php?
I was unable to subscribe to pear-php or get an answer from its
webmaster (or the developer of the extension) and would like some
feedback on a problem I have.
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hello!
i need to include() only a given amount of lines (the first 10 for example)
instead of a whole file.
does someone know how this has to be done?
thanks a lot for your effort,
best regards
philipp
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Tuesday, September 02, 2003 3:04 PM said:
> i need to include() only a given amount of lines (the first 10 for
> example) instead of a whole file.
>
> does someone know how this has to be done?
Yes. Remove those first ten lines (assuming they are removable) from the
original file you had them in and then include them in the old file with
include_once().
Then in the file you want to only include the ten lines just include the
smaller file.
Example: (I'm changing your 10 line requirement to 2 lines.)
Original.php:
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
Take out Line 1 and Line 2 and put them in 2lines.php.
2Lines.php:
Line 1
Line 2
Then Original.php becomes this:
include_once "2Lines.php";
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
Then in your other file that you need the 2 lines you can do just this:
NewFile.php:
include_once "2Lines.php";
HTH!
Chris.
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[snip]
i need to include() only a given amount of lines (the first 10 for
example)
instead of a whole file.
[/snip]
I have never tried it, but I think you could open up the file you want
to include, import n lines into a variable, then use the eval function
to turn that variable into php code.
Somebody correct me if I am wrong.
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thanks for your answers! i'm not quite sure if i made my point clear. this
is my problem:
image.php
<?
header("Content-type: image/png");
$image = imagecreate(510, 510);
$color = ImageColorAllocate($image, 0, 0, 0);
include("database.php");
ImagePNG($image, '', 95);
imagedestroy($image);
?>
database.php
<?
imageline($image, 420, 468, 308, 372, $color);
imageline($image, 132, 154, 146, 144, $color);
imageline($image, 420, 318, 440, 180, $color);
imageline($image, 418, 474, 476, 320, $color);
imageline($image, 418, 474, 476, 324, $color);
[...]
?>
instead of including the whole database.php i need to include only a given
number of lines, always starting with the first one.
because database.php contains 10'000+ lines and therefore also the number of
lines to include may be pretty high i don't know if importing the lines into
a variable is a good idea.
any suggestions?
thanks a lot for your effort
philipp
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:28 PM said:
> instead of including the whole database.php i need to include only a
> given number of lines, always starting with the first one.
I don't think you're going to be able to do this in the way that you
want (I've been wrong before).
I think your only option is to somehow rip the lines that you want into
another file before you do the include.
You could try using the the file system to copy only certain lines to
another temporary file and then include that temp file instead of the
whole thing.
Another option would be to tweak the logic so that it's not so bloated.
Chris.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thanks for your answers! i'm not quite sure if i made my point clear. this
is my problem:
image.php
<?
header("Content-type: image/png");
$image = imagecreate(510, 510);
$color = ImageColorAllocate($image, 0, 0, 0);
include("database.php");
ImagePNG($image, '', 95);
imagedestroy($image);
?>
database.php
<?
imageline($image, 420, 468, 308, 372, $color);
imageline($image, 132, 154, 146, 144, $color);
imageline($image, 420, 318, 440, 180, $color);
imageline($image, 418, 474, 476, 320, $color);
imageline($image, 418, 474, 476, 324, $color);
[...]
?>
instead of including the whole database.php i need to include only a given
number of lines, always starting with the first one.
because database.php contains 10'000+ lines and therefore also the number of
lines to include may be pretty high i don't know if importing the lines into
a variable is a good idea.
This really begs the question of WTF you have a 10,000+ line file that
you only need a couple lines from... seems like your logic is screwy.
Anyhow, you have two solutions, each of which have been presented to you
already. Either fopen() the file and read the lines you need, then
eval() them, or copy the lines you need to another file and include that.
Like Chris mentioned, if you must keep your program running this way,
using a filesystem call to copy X lines to a new file may be your
fastest method.
Hate to repeat what's already been said, but those are your options.
Post back with specific questions when/if one of these do not work for you.
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Hi,
I have a class which write a menu, it works fine with Mozilla and Opera
but with IE (6 on XP) got a extrange behaviour.
Links works and submenus are open, but the second time the page is
loaded I can not see the source and if I try to save the file IE says
some files are missed.
The environment:
Apache 2 on Windows XP PHP, 4.3.2 as apache module on Localhost
mod_rewrite send all the request for valid html/php files internally to
index.php
if no session
include javascriptAutoForm_class.php
(send a client side script, post the result and save post in session,
saves too original page requested)
include Menu_class.php
include template.php
(From the session pageRequested menu is built and correct content is
loaded with an include)
The HTML source i can check with opera and Mozilla is correct (all tags
closed and quoted attributes)
If some one can help or point me in the right direction (if needed can
send the full script by mail) would be grand
Thanks
hecchan
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Hi,
I am working on a script that uses cookie to store some info on the client
side. The user will click a link that contains info about where the link
was placed. The script will then store that info so that when the user
returns later and makes a purchase, I can see where they came from.
The problem I am having is this:
The link is a redirect url that first goes to one domain where the cookie is
created by. Then they are taken to the site where products are sold.
Then, after they make a purchase, they are taken to a thank you page that
has a hidden tracker to track that sale.
<img src=http://trackerurl.com/?var=1&var=2&blahbla height=0 width=>
The image loads the script from a different domain (where the cookie was
initialy created by). The problem now is that the script gets a blank
cookie when using the hidden image to load the script.
So does anyone know why this is happening?
I have setCookie('CookieName', $value, $expires);
Then I try to retrieve that cookie again later with $_COOKIE['CookieName']
... but the value stored is not there when the script is called from the
hidden image. HOWEVER, the value is there when the script is called
directly.
Any ideas?
Thanks!!
Nicole
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