[PHP] Parse URL parameters

2001-07-04 Thread Andy
How can I parse parameters sent with the URL of an pgp site? Example: I call the site with http://www.server.xyz/sub/site.php?a1=123&a2=312 How can I get the values of a1 and a2? Thanks, folks! Andy. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL P

[PHP] raw POST data

2001-07-04 Thread Xavier Paz
Hi, Is there any way to get the raw POST data sent by the client? I mean the full data, before parsing into PHP variables. I am using PHP 3.0.16 with Apache. Regards, Xavier -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e

[PHP] hotmail, yahoo..why can't me?

2001-07-04 Thread Dhaval Desai
Hi! I wanna do something like in ur mailboxes. if u check ur hotemail or yahoo a/c u can find checkboxes on the left side of each message. U can check the boxes and delete the messages.. I want to delete certain rows that come out of a database. So if I have 20 records coming out of the database

[PHP] How to check the validity of a URL

2001-07-04 Thread José León Serna
Hello: I would like to know if there's any routine to check if a URL is valid, my purpose is have all the links on my web in this form: http://www.myweb.com/checker.php?url=http://www.someurl.com and if http://www.someurl.com is invalid, redirect the user to a friendly page and send me a

RE: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Adrian Ciutureanu
$allowed_path = '/www/sites/mysite/teaching'; $file = realpath($file); if(ereg("^$allowed_path", $file)) { // it's OK } else { // possible attack! } > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 4 iulie 2001 15:29 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP] RE: Protecting from session hijacking

2001-07-04 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Ian Bagley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Indeed, SSL is the only way to properly protect from 'stealing' a > SID, but still, the MD5 solution does tend to protect the integrity > of the query string. Yes, I like the MD5 trick very much. It seems that if using Cookies and POST employing

RE: [PHP] javascript var on a php var...

2001-07-04 Thread Adrian Ciutureanu
window.location = 'http://url?yourVar=' + yourVar; > -Original Message- > From: Romeo Manzur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 5 iulie 2001 07:56 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] javascript var on a php var... > > > hi, I want to know how could I save a javascript variable on a

RE: [PHP] RE: Protecting from session hijacking

2001-07-04 Thread Ian Bagley
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Ostmo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Ian Bagley pressed the little lettered thingies in this order... > > > One thing which would prevent hijacks from simply guessing SIDS > would be to > > add an md5 hash to the end of a url > > [

Re: [PHP] Email verification (was: [PHP] Removing Invalid Users)

2001-07-04 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Steve Werby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Arcady Genkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I understand correctly, vrfy does not wholy depend on that > > functionality to be supported by the server. I think that it simply > > connects to the smtp port of the mail exchanger and emulates an ema

Re: [PHP] Email verification (was: [PHP] Removing Invalid Users)

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Werby
"Matthew Loff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There really isn't any surefire way to verify whether an e-mail exists > or not, except to try to send to it, correct? Bingo. And with catchall accounts and unexpected mail server behavior you may get no response even if an email address is not valid.

Re: [PHP] Email verification (was: [PHP] Removing Invalid Users)

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Werby
"Arcady Genkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I understand correctly, vrfy does not wholy depend on that > functionality to be supported by the server. I think that it simply > connects to the smtp port of the mail exchanger and emulates an email > delivery, aborting halfway. I hadn't used the

[PHP] connect() vs. pconnect()

2001-07-04 Thread Vikram Vaswani
Hi, I need some help with a class that I am writing. class myclass { function query($query) { // connect $connection = mysql_connect($this->hostname, $this->user, $this->pass) or die ("Cannot connect to database"); // run query $ret = mysql_db_quer

Re: [PHP] caching

2001-07-04 Thread Jon Yaggie
It seems still not to work. i have tried all the header options mentioned. adding a query string is out of the option I am using javascript and it dont like that stuff. and my browser still caches everything and drives me nuts. maybe i am putting it in the wrong file? but i really cant ima

[PHP] javascript var on a php var...

2001-07-04 Thread Romeo Manzur
hi, I want to know how could I save a javascript variable on a php variable??? Thanks... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [PHP] Email verification (was: [PHP] Removing Invalid Users)

2001-07-04 Thread Matthew Loff
I've had the same experience with VRFY... Our copy of sendmail was preconfigured to allow VRFY from localhost only... There really isn't any surefire way to verify whether an e-mail exists or not, except to try to send to it, correct? -Original Message- From: Steve Werby [mailto:[EMAI

Re: [PHP] Email verification (was: [PHP] Removing Invalid Users)

2001-07-04 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Steve Werby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So unfortunately vrfy will only be useful when checking servers that haven't > disabled that command. :-( If I understand correctly, vrfy does not wholy depend on that functionality to be supported by the server. I think that it simply connects to th

Re: [PHP] Email verification (was: [PHP] Removing Invalid Users)

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Werby
> "Steve Werby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Like Tom said, use regex to check the email is of a valid format. A small > > percentage of servers can be contacted to find whether an email address is > > valid, but fewer and fewer are allowing this so it's completely unreliable. "Arcady Genkin"

Re: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Tiger Quimpo
hello all, i just recently looked at this thread, so i don't know what's been discussed before today. i thought i'd point everyone at: http://lwn.net/2001/0704/a/study-in-scarlet.php3 however. just came out yesterday. very relevant. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo [EMAIL PR

Fw: [PHP] mail problem...

2001-07-04 Thread php
I have see my php.ini and i fill with my stmp server in my network but still i can't... which stmp server should i add it. in my network, there are smtp serverbut i not the server note : i have add to php.ini my smtp server is mail.pesat.net.id but still not working... can any one hel

[PHP] Recompile PHP-4.0.6 on MandrakeLinux 8.0

2001-07-04 Thread Roger Johnsen
How do you (re)compile PHP on Mandrake??? I need it to be a module in Apache, but --with-apache gives me the error cannot find httpd.h ( the file is not on the system) PHP works fine the way it sits, but I need mssql support and attempted to upgrade to 4.0.6 with dbx support.. but have no lu

Re: [PHP] Basic fopen() question

2001-07-04 Thread Philip Olson
Normally when I'm looking for a function I start at a given spot, for example, you've found yourself here : http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php >From there, a good place to go is the given section, which in this case is here : http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php Whi

Re: [PHP] Basic fopen() question

2001-07-04 Thread ReDucTor
file() http://php.net/file - Original Message - From: JCampbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:48 AM Subject: [PHP] Basic fopen() question > I had an example of a function to open a file and read its contents into an > array. It worked so tha

RE: [PHP] Best way to put text on image

2001-07-04 Thread Jeff Lewis
Todd, I'm not sure if you can write text to an existing image as I add to a new one but here is the code I use... $updateTime = date("F d, Y - h:ia"); $text = "New Movie Reviews @hyrum.net ".$updateTime; $image = ImageCreate(500, 70); $bg = ImageColorAllocate($image, 255, 255, 255); $blue = Ima

[PHP] Basic fopen() question

2001-07-04 Thread JCampbell
I had an example of a function to open a file and read its contents into an array. It worked so that each line of the file was one element of the array. I can't find my example, nor can I get it to work the way I'd like. Any help? =- Jonathan Campbell ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Mid days haze and I'm

[PHP] Is it me or my server company?

2001-07-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Okay I'm trying to use fopen() to open a file just uploaded via a form. like this: echo "parsing uploaded file . . ."; $path = fopen($form_data, "r"); echo "opeing a path . . ."; $thesize = filesize($form_data); echo "getting size . . ."; $tmpdata = fread($path, $thesize); echo "reading data

Re: [PHP] iterating over /etc/group

2001-07-04 Thread Arcady Genkin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Wed, 04 Jul 2001, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > > Does PHP provide no high-level means of iterating over the UNIX > > /etc/group file, a la getgrent() C function? The task is to figure > > out all groups that a user is in on a system with PHP in _safe mode_ > > (hence,

[PHP] Email verification (was: [PHP] Removing Invalid Users)

2001-07-04 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Steve Werby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Clayton Dukes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I write code that will search the database and check the > > validity > of an email address, and if it's bad, to remove that > > entry from the database? > > Like Tom said, use regex to check the e

Re: [PHP] iterating over /etc/group

2001-07-04 Thread teo
Hi Arcady! On Wed, 04 Jul 2001, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Does PHP provide no high-level means of iterating over the UNIX > /etc/group file, a la getgrent() C function? The task is to figure > out all groups that a user is in on a system with PHP in _safe mode_ > (hence, cannot read from /etc/group

Re: [PHP] checking if checkbox is checked

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Werby
"Richard Kurth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 5 checkbox's in a form that I what to make sure at least one of > the checkbox is checked. > > > > > > if ( $interest == 'basic' || $interest3 == 'Internet access' || ... $interest2 == 'platinum' ) { echo "At least one was checked."; }

Re: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Werby
"Sascha Schumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Steve Werby wrote: > > > "Jon Haworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, I would have thought this would do it: > > > > > > if (strstr($file, "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/") { > > > show_source($file); > [..] > > Something along t

[PHP] Apache, PHP4 amd mySQL with SuSE 7.2

2001-07-04 Thread Chuck Lalli
I am a newbie attempting to get Apache working with PHP 4 and MySQL on 7.2. All three are installed, Apache is running, it says that the PHP module is installed and I can manually log into mysql. >From http://localhost: Operating system: [ SuSE Linux 7.2 (i386) ] Host: [ linux.local, Kernel:

[PHP] checking if checkbox is checked

2001-07-04 Thread Richard Kurth
I have 5 checkbox's in a form that I what to make sure at least one of the checkbox is checked. I am checking for blank field buy doing this below How can I check for at least one of the above check boxes is checked if ($name == "") { $name_err = " Please enter your

Re: [PHP] Removing Invalid Users

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Werby
"Clayton Dukes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I write code that will search the database and check the validity of > an email address, and if it's bad, to remove that entry from the database? Like Tom said, use regex to check the email is of a valid format. A small percentage of servers c

RE: [PHP] MySQL problem

2001-07-04 Thread Simon Kimber
Sorry!!! I'm stupid! I forgot to mention that the list of causes has to be for a specified accident_report.weekending Cheers Simon > -Original Message- > From: Don Read [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 04 July 2001 23:21 > To: Simon Kimber > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PHP]

[PHP] Best way to put text on image

2001-07-04 Thread Todd Cary
If I have a JPEG image, what is the best way to put text or another image at a certain place using the gd library? Todd -- Todd Cary Ariste Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

RE: [PHP] MySQL problem

2001-07-04 Thread Don Read
On 04-Jul-01 Simon Kimber wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anyone know if this can be done with one query? > > I have to create a chart based on info in two tables that are four tables > apart. > > Here are the relevant tables and just the most relevant fields... > > accident_report > - ID > - weeke

RE: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Brian White
Possibilities for improving security on a sourec displayer. 1) Maybe you could restrict your source shower to only look at particular types of files - maybe the file has to end in ".php" or ".inc" before it is even considered. 2) Given that something that displays the source needs to re

Re: [PHP] Executing UNIX commands with PHP

2001-07-04 Thread Henrik Hansen
"Tim Taubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mh this is bad... > > can i do anything else instead of this ? crypt the password before inserting it into the user account? -- Henrik Hansen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additi

[PHP] MySQL problem

2001-07-04 Thread Simon Kimber
Hi All, Does anyone know if this can be done with one query? I have to create a chart based on info in two tables that are four tables apart. Here are the relevant tables and just the most relevant fields... accident_report - ID - weekending (this is a -MM-DD format date) - (and others)

[PHP] PHP escapes shell commands for me?

2001-07-04 Thread Arcady Genkin
PHP version 4.0.5 under: SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise magic_quotes_gpc = On magic_quotes_runtime = Off It appears that PHP by default escapes arguments of any commands passed to exec() and friends (passthru(), popen()). As a result I am not able to pass an ar

RE: [PHP] Executing UNIX commands with PHP

2001-07-04 Thread Matthew Loff
You could popen() the command, I believe, and do it interactively... -Original Message- From: Tim Taubert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 4:47 PM To: PHP Mailingliste Subject: RE: [PHP] Executing UNIX commands with PHP mh this is bad... can i do anything els

RE: [PHP] Executing UNIX commands with PHP

2001-07-04 Thread Tim Taubert
mh this is bad... can i do anything else instead of this ? - Tim Taubert | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.shogunat.com/rg/ - .o] -Original Message-

Re: [PHP] Executing UNIX commands with PHP

2001-07-04 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Tim Taubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how can i execute a UNIX command like > 'newuser "Tim Taubert" tim password' > ? and am i able to fetch the results of such commands? Since someone else replied to your question, I'll just mention that running such command may be a really bad idea. If

RE: [PHP] Executing UNIX commands with PHP

2001-07-04 Thread Tim Taubert
Thanks a lot Henrik! - Tim Taubert | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.shogunat.com/rg/ - .o] -Original Message- .o] From: Henrik Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [PHP] Executing UNIX commands with PHP

2001-07-04 Thread Henrik Hansen
"Tim Taubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > how can i execute a UNIX command like > > 'newuser "Tim Taubert" tim password' $output = system("unix_command"); echo "The result was" . $output; more info at: www.php.net/system -- Henrik Hansen -- PHP General Mailing List (http:/

[PHP] [ANNOUCE] PHPAUCTION 1.0 is out

2001-07-04 Thread Gianluca Baldo
It is (finally!) available at http://www.phpauction.org - Everyone interested in helping with the localization project, translating to other languages than english is welcome! Thanks Gianluca -- ALBASOFTWARE C/ Mallorca 186 - 3º 1ª 08036 Barcelona (Spain) Tel. +34 93454009 - +34 934549324

[PHP] Executing UNIX commands with PHP

2001-07-04 Thread Tim Taubert
Hi all, how can i execute a UNIX command like 'newuser "Tim Taubert" tim password' ? and am i able to fetch the results of such commands? Please help. Tim Taubert - Tim Taubert | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.shogunat.com/

RE: [PHP] writing a query that returns similar numbers

2001-07-04 Thread Matthew Loff
This should work too: $sql = "SELECT rowid FROM numbers WHERE ABS(number - mynumber) <= 10"; -Original Message- From: Chris Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 1:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PHP Mailingliste Subject: Re: [PHP] writing a query that returns

Re: [PHP] split() function

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Edberg
You don't need a character class here (signified by [] brackets); you can use $line = split('&|//', $field); As you can see, this is identical to ReDucTor's solution, except that the brackets are omitted. Character classes only work for single characters, not multiple character strings

Re: [PHP] split() function

2001-07-04 Thread David A Dickson
Thanks that helped, this is what I used: if (ereg("&", $field)) $line = explode("&", $field); else $line = explode("//", $field); On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 05:29:11 ReDucTor wrote: >$line2 = explode("", $field); >for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($line2); $i++){ > if($line2[$i] == "&") > $useand = 1; >

Re: [PHP] split() function

2001-07-04 Thread David A Dickson
Thanks for replying ReDucTor but that didn't work either. I tried $line = explode("[(&|//)]", $field); and $line = explode("[(&|)]", $field); and $line = explode("[(&|\/\/)]", $field); with no success. Any other ideas? On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 04:50:29 ReDucTor wrote: >$line = explode("[(&|//)]

Re: [PHP] Getting Information from a CGI POST

2001-07-04 Thread Don Read
On 03-Jul-01 Brad Hubbard wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 02:51, Don Read wrote: > >> $pstr='FltNum=2972&page=fi&selectDay=July+02'; >> $fp=openpost('dps2.usairways.com', '/cgi-bin/fi', $pstr); >> >> // i'm not so sure about that selectDay, javascript ain't my thing. > > This is implementation dep

[PHP] mssql returnin type date all wrong

2001-07-04 Thread Christian Dechery
In a script I have a query that gets the time of a desired track. It is in SQL Server table with the smalldatetime type, whihc returns me something that looks like '2001-07-04 12:04:12', but PHP is giving me 'Jul 04 2001 12:04AM'. Why does this happen? I want the seconds, where are they??? . [

Re: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Ryan
You guys wouldnt have to worry if you chroot apache and php.. ;] then you cant access anything outside the jail, it works great! Ryan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the l

Re: [PHP] split() function

2001-07-04 Thread ReDucTor
$line = explode("[(&|//)]",$field); should work, or you might have to put but thats not \ so you shouldn't need to comment out the slash... - Original Message - From: David A Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: php-general <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 4:37 AM Subject:

[PHP] split() function

2001-07-04 Thread David A Dickson
I have a comma separated spreadsheet with one field that contains two dates. the dates are formatted as dd/mm/yy and separated by either '&' or '//' ex:3/12/92&28/1/93 or 3/12/92//28/1/93 Problem: I need to split the field at the '&' or '//' separator but if I do split('[&//]', $field); it spli

Re: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Christian Reiniger
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 16:12, ReDucTor wrote: > http://sourceforge.net/source.php?page_url=/source.php look at that... No problem. Have a look at what is done before the show_source () call. That script *is* safe :) > > It is not how secure PHP is, it is how well YOU protect it. > > For exam

Re: [PHP] Troubleshooting syntax ?

2001-07-04 Thread Christian Reiniger
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 16:58, Kurt Lieber wrote: > That domain name doesn't appear to be valid. Perhaps you meant: > > http://validator.w3.org ? Um, yes. Why can't the w3c simply have "w3c" as domain name? *sigh* > http://validator.w3c.org/ -- Christian Reiniger LGDC Webmaster (ht

[PHP] Want to know what people think of my little script(Great for Personal and Pro Use)

2001-07-04 Thread ReDucTor
Hey, First off grab the Developer Timer from http://newbienetwork.net/phpcodems.php?as=viewcode&id=7 thats a great little class, then make a .php file and paste the following in start_timing(); $SecondsToTimeout = 120; $foldertoview = "."; ini_alter(max_execution_time, $SecondsToTimeout);

Re: [PHP] Removing Invalid Users

2001-07-04 Thread Tom Carter
You can check that the *format* of the address is valid by using regular expressions.. look at the regular expression pages on php.net (especially the users comments.. they do exactly that!) As for checking whether it is a real email or not.. you can't test this without actually sending them an e

[PHP] Removing Invalid Users

2001-07-04 Thread Clayton Dukes
Howdy folks, How can I write code that will search the database and check the validity of an email address, and if it's bad, to remove that entry from the database? Here's a dump one of the tables: INSERT INTO users VALUES (1,'','username','[EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','001.gif','Jul 04, 2001','','

Re: [PHP] php3 and php-4.0.5

2001-07-04 Thread Brave Cobra
Depends of course of which server you use. Which one is it? Brave Cobra - Original Message - From: "Ramón Alvarez Rayo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 8:01 PM Subject: [PHP] php3 and php-4.0.5 I had some sites that uses php3 but i did a upgrad

Re: [PHP] writing a query that returns similar numbers

2001-07-04 Thread mike cullerton
select rowid from numbers where number between mynumber-10 and mynumber+10; on 7/4/79 10:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a database with numbers in one of the tables I'd like to ask mysql to > renturn all numbers with say 10 of mynumber > > Sort of like this: > >

[PHP] php3 and php-4.0.5

2001-07-04 Thread Ramón Alvarez Rayo
I had some sites that uses php3 but i did a upgrade to php-4.0.5, after that my web server doesn´t works with files .php3, how can i make to recognize .php3 please i need your help. thanks. Saludos fraternos, *** Ramón Alva

Re: [PHP] Division Problems

2001-07-04 Thread James Mitchell
Found it, I had it returning mbyte not mbytesarrrg - Original Message - From: ReDucTor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 3:43 AM Subject: [PHP] Division Problems Hey, I made this little script, quiet useful on windows and unix machines, but i h

[PHP] Division Problems

2001-07-04 Thread ReDucTor
Hey, I made this little script, quiet useful on windows and unix machines, but i have a problem, division isn't returning a float, it just returns 0, would i need to do something like convert $totalsize into a float? "; $handle = opendir($dir); while (false!==($file = readdir($handle)))

RE: [PHP] Formular problem

2001-07-04 Thread Tim Taubert
Thanks a lot Alex! Tim Taubert - Tim Taubert | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.shogunat.com/rg/ - .o] -Original Message- .o] From: Alex Piaz [mailto

[PHP] Execing a command in safe mode

2001-07-04 Thread Srinivasan Ramakrishnan
Hi, I need to execute a command on my web host's machine. However they have safe mode enabled. PHP Version 4.0.3pl1 runs as a module on Apache. >From php.ini ; Safe Mode safe_mode = On safe_mode_exec_dir = /etc/php4/execdir Will a symlink located in safe_mode_exe

Re: [PHP] writing a query that returns similar numbers

2001-07-04 Thread Chris Anderson
Try the LIKE wording in your statement. That should workI think - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PHP Mailingliste" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 1979 12:48 PM Subject: [PHP] writing a query that returns similar numbers > I have a database with numbe

[PHP] Formular problem

2001-07-04 Thread Tim Taubert
hi i have a problem with variables received from a formular.. imagine this is the important part of the form: Cheese Tomatoes Onions and now.. what does the variable $extras look like? is it an array? don't have any imaginations... please help T

RE: [PHP] newbie has include path error & new problem

2001-07-04 Thread Daniel Goldin \(E-mail\)
Mike, I do believe you are right. Here are my apache logs for today, after I attempted to connect to localhost: [Wed Jul 4 09:43:33 2001] [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 80 [Wed Jul 4 09:43:37 2001] [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not b

[PHP] writing a query that returns similar numbers

2001-07-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a database with numbers in one of the tables I'd like to ask mysql to renturn all numbers with say 10 of mynumber Sort of like this: $sql = "SELECT rowid FROM numbers WHERE (mynumer is within 10 of number)"; but I've gotten stuck do I have to do this: $sql = "SELECT rowid FROM numbers

Re: [PHP] RE: Protecting from session hijacking

2001-07-04 Thread Christopher Ostmo
Ian Bagley pressed the little lettered thingies in this order... > One thing which would prevent hijacks from simply guessing SIDS would be to > add an md5 hash to the end of a url > > e.g. > > If a page was:- doit.php?item=4&SID=237478 > > then append the url with the md5 of the url PLUS

Re: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Christopher Ostmo
Delbono pressed the little lettered thingies in this order... > > maybe one could be > > $allowed_path = "/www/sites/mysite/teaching"; > > if (substr($file, 0, str_len($allowed_path)) <> $allowed_path ) > { > die("not allowed!"); > } > else > { > show_source($file); > } > ?> > The only foo

Re: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Phil Driscoll
Surely the lesson here is to NEVER NEVER NEVER write PHP code which accepts a filename of any kind as one of its arguments. Yes, it will make some of your code a bit less versatile and more long winded, but you can bet your bottom dollar that someone can find a crafty way around whatever syntax

Re: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Delbono
Yes, I supposed there could be that eventuality... I supposed or hoped that wasn't a valid path. > /usr/local/apache/htdocs/../../../../etc/passwd as path.. I'm not very practice of paths... actually > On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Steve Werby wrote: > > > "Jon Haworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

[PHP] RE: Protecting from session hijacking

2001-07-04 Thread Ian Bagley
One thing which would prevent hijacks from simply guessing SIDS would be to add an md5 hash to the end of a url e.g. If a page was:- doit.php?item=4&SID=237478 then append the url with the md5 of the url PLUS a secret key generated at the begining of each session:- i.e. add MD5("d

Re: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Sascha Schumann
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Steve Werby wrote: > "Jon Haworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I would have thought this would do it: > > > > if (strstr($file, "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/") { > > show_source($file); [..] > Something along those lines will work. Without some kind of limitations > buil

Re: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Hankley, Chip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to have such a function on your site w/o giving access to ALL > of your documents... On top of everything the other users recommended, you can enable safe mode. It will protect you from sloppy programming. -- Arcady Genkin i=1; while

Re: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Werby
"Jon Haworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I would have thought this would do it: > > if (strstr($file, "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/") { > show_source($file); > } else { > echo "File must be in /usr/local/apache/htdocs!"; > } > > Modify as appropriate. > > Have I missed anything, or will this d

Re: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread james
> $allowed_path = "/www/sites/mysite/teaching"; > > if (substr($file, 0, str_len($allowed_path)) <> $allowed_path ) > { > die("not allowed!"); > } > else > { > show_source($file); > } > ?> I've missed part of the discussion, but if my understanding of the issue is correct (accepting a filename

Re: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Tyrone Mills
I use something that accomplishes the same (displays the source of a file), but doesn't accept the file name as a parameter. The script is also in a directory with a password and is restricted by ip. Not perfect, but alot better. - Original Message - From: "Hankley, Chip" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Christopher Ostmo
Adrian Ciutureanu pressed the little lettered thingies in this order... > Here is something that happend to me: I forgot to tell Apache that .inc > files must be parsed by PHP. All works fine if you include a .inc file, but > if somebody guess .inc file name, he can see the content of that file!

RE: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Jon Haworth
Yes, I would have thought this would do it: if (strstr($file, "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/") { show_source($file); } else { echo "File must be in /usr/local/apache/htdocs!"; } Modify as appropriate. Have I missed anything, or will this do the trick? Cheers Jon -Original Me

Re: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Delbono
maybe one could be $allowed_path ) { die("not allowed!"); } else { show_source($file); } ?> - Original Message - From: "Hankley, Chip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PHP Mailingliste" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 5:45 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Security of PHP code > O

RE: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Hankley, Chip
OK, I'm pretty new to PHP, and have been reading this thread, and am just a little freaked. If I understand this right, the only way reason we can view the source code of those pages is that the web server on which the page resides essentially has a PHP page somewhere on their site that has some

Re: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Delbono
would be really silly if http://www.php.net/source.php?url=/index.php - Original Message - From: "Tim Taubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PHP Mailingliste" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 5:27 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Security of PHP code > found 2 other servers

RE: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Tim Taubert
found 2 other servers having the same problem... mailed to the webmasters and admins instead of posting it.. now i feel a little bit better :) Tim Taubert - Tim Taubert | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.shogunat.com/rg/ -

RE: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Tim Taubert
mh i know it was the wrong decision. didn't think about it. already said that. feeling guilty now *argh* Tim Taubert - Tim Taubert | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.shogunat.com/rg/ ---

[PHP] Undefined variables

2001-07-04 Thread Uri Even-Chen
To PHP-general group, I have configured PHP to report all errors & warnings ("error_reporting = E_ALL" on php.ini file), but since then I get tons of warning messages for "Undefined variables". For example, referring $HTTP_HOST directly leads a message like "Undefined variable: HTTP_HOST

RE: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread PHPBeginner.com
Just for the respect of the community, Tim, you shouldn't have posted that. Poor them, they are under the risks, of course the things will be probably fixed, but if someone cares he might be already in the machine just for the sake of it. -maxim maletsky -Original Message- From: Tim Tau

RE: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Tim Taubert
oh thanks for the disclaimer ;) forgot it.. richard: didn't think about it.. but should have done it.. first and last time i did it *promised* :) Tim Taubert - Tim Taubert | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.shogunat.com/rg/ -

RE: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Richard Heyes
> you're totally right.. look at this > > *no comment* and not my site... What on earth possesed you to post that url?! Jeez! -- Richard Heyes -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To c

RE: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread PHPBeginner.com
Yup, I believe you - that's not your site. That is what I meant: It is no PHP, it is how you use PHP. DISCLAIMER: No one's fault (except the programmer) that there was THAT BIG security hole on the site. -maxim maletsky -Original Message- From: Tim Taubert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Tim Taubert
mh =) contacted the admin to fix this problem ;) Tim Taubert - Tim Taubert | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.shogunat.com/rg/ - .o] -Original Message---

RE: [PHP] Security of PHP code

2001-07-04 Thread Tim Taubert
you're totally right.. look at this http://www.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/Teaching/Lectures/Sem/2000/Alexander/source.ph p3?url=/etc/passwd *no comment* and not my site... Tim Taubert - Tim Taubert | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.

Re: [PHP] How to prevent people from downloading images

2001-07-04 Thread Todd Cary
At http://www.floatographs.com , I reduce the resolution and put a watermark in the JPEG. Not very clever, but it works. Todd P.S. The site is using PHP and Interbase plus a lot of help from all of you folks!! Many thanks -- Todd Cary Ariste Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General M

[PHP] ereg_replace

2001-07-04 Thread Marc Logemann
Hi, short question: i want to use ereg_replace to replace something with an array-element, this is my code and its not working: ereg_replace("<\\$([0-9])>", "\$parmarray[\\1]", $string); parmarray is of course an array with some elements, Here are the facts: $parmarray = array ("", "value1",

Re: [PHP] Troubleshooting syntax ?

2001-07-04 Thread Kurt Lieber
That domain name doesn't appear to be valid. Perhaps you meant: http://validator.w3.org ? --kurt - Original Message - From: "Christian Reiniger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jack Sasportas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "php" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 3:19 AM Subject: Re: [

RE: [PHP] How to prevent people from downloading images

2001-07-04 Thread John Meyer
On Wed, 04 Jul 2001, ..s.c.o.t.t.. wrote: > there are two answers to this: > > 1) it cannot be done. as long as that image is on the person's > computer screen, it is physically impossible to prevent that > person from saving the image and using it. > (a simple tap of the "print screen" will tak

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