[PHP] php products licensing system

Hi folks I hardly convince my company to have their PHP products open source, now the challenge is to protect their products from being stolen and used illegally so we may Encode only one or two files to keep the use of our products on Certain domain or IP address. Any idea how to accomplish this

[PHP] Many forms in one php file

Hi I want to create a single php file which will be able to display multiple html forms. Like this: Form1 -> Form2 -> Form3. After the user completes and submits Form1, the script will process it and display a different form. etc... I am new to php, I would need some detailed instructions, or

Re: [PHP] Fancy Form processing Ideas

> I am looking for interesting approaches to form submissions and error > checking in the forms. http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] PHP 5 with Apache 2.0

I've been running FreeBSD 5.3, Apache 2.0.53, PHP 5.0.3 with mySQL 4.1.8 without any issues in production. Unless you rely on some spooky extentions, I wouldnt think you should have any problems running - that you ask this question here, tells me you aint running any such spooky things. I'm fac

[PHP] PHP 5 with Apache 2.0

I know this question probably gets asked a lot, but I'm setting up a Web Server shortly and am debating going with PHP 5 on Apache 2.0 or 1.3. In short, is PHP 5, when combined with either Apache 1.3 or 2.0 on Linux or FreeBSD, ready for a production environment? This is, of course, an opinion,

[PHP] Re: PHP book recommendations>

Hello,. on 02/14/2005 02:37 PM Dave Bosky said the following: I'm looking for an easy to read PHP book that will help me learn a solid foundation in PHP. I'm already familiar with the language but want to make sure I'm coding in the most efficient manner. What's a few of the better books out there?

[PHP] Extension Help

I'm trying to write a PHPv4 extension and I am needing some assistance. I wish to have a function exported from my extension return a value which consists of a set of properties and functions much like so: // Gets user record from database store. $MyUser = GetUser(); echo "Your name is: ".$

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP book recommendations>

I've enjoyed Schlossnagle as I have it on my personal library. Also I am finishing to read PHP 5 Power Programming from Prentice Hall and the creators of PHP. If you want to learn coding style and coding good practices check out this book. A cheap place to get books here in the US is bookpool.com

[PHP] base32/62 mcrypted data

I am currently storing mcrypted data as a base64 encoded string. I now need to store the mcrypted data as a base32 or base62 string, because of problems occurring due to the '+', '/', and '=' characters. It seems that there is only the base64_en/decode default function. Does anyone know of a meth

Re: [PHP] Removing non-numbers

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:54:03 -0700, Ben Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK - easy one here, I know. Having troubles removing anything that is not a > number from user input. According to manual, [!] is supposed to mean set of > non-matching optional characters. $var = preg_replace( '/[^\d]/'

[PHP] Removing non-numbers

OK - easy one here, I know. Having troubles removing anything that is not a number from user input. According to manual, [!] is supposed to mean set of non-matching optional characters. Tried $var = ereg_replace("[!0-9]","",$var); and it removes the numbers, but so does $var =

Re: [PHP] User Passwords: checking for unique chars

Alex Gemmell wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:51:42 +0100, Jochem Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alex Gemmell wrote: ... #Contain at least one number if ( !preg_match ('/\\d/', $password) ) return false; Im pretty sure the double backslash is a typo. here are some regexps from a php5 clas

Re: [PHP] Session Vars and Performance

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:03:10 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a multi-page form which I build up and store in session > variables. The data saved includes all an internal list of items on > the form (derived from a database table), all the form field specs > (derived fr

Re: [PHP] sym links

timothy johnson wrote: > I am trying to write a php script that can read a dir which I have > linked into my public_html dir. But I get permission errors, what do I > need to change? Is this an Apache problem, gentoo, or php? It's not a PHP problem. Apache has a directive that allows it to either

[PHP] Session Vars and Performance

I have a multi-page form which I build up and store in session variables. The data saved includes all an internal list of items on the form (derived from a database table), all the form field specs (derived from the internal item list), the data for the fields (from another table), default dat

Re: [PHP] PHP book recommendations>

* Daniel Purdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [snip] > I'm looking for an easy to read PHP book that will help me learn a solid > foundation in PHP. > > I'm already familiar with the language but want to make sure I'm coding > in the most efficient manner. > > What's a few of the better books out there?

Re: [PHP] sym links

timothy johnson wrote: I am trying to write a php script that can read a dir which I have linked into my public_html dir. But I get permission errors, what do I need to change? Is this an Apache problem, gentoo, or php? its a file permission problem. for some reason apache is not allowed to read th

Re: [PHP] User Passwords: checking for unique chars

Alex Gemmell wrote: Hello! I'm checking user chosen passwords for validity and have created 7 tests. It's not 100% bulletproof but it will do for now. My problem is with the last check "have 6 unique characters". I'm at a loss at how to check for this in a neat one-liner. My brain is starting to

Re: [PHP] User Passwords: checking for unique chars

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:17:53 -0800, Chris W. Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Gemmell >on Monday, February 14, 2005 7:24 AM said: > > > Hello! > > Hi! > > > > > # Code: > > > > Do you also have a label on your computer that says > "Comput

Re: [PHP] Session Vars and Performance

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a multi-page form which I build up and store in session variables. The data saved includes all an internal list of items on the form (derived from a database table), all the form field specs (derived from the internal item list), the data for the fields (from an

Re: [PHP] Re: Delete all files in DIR every 20 days

Tim Burgan wrote: Jason Barnett wrote: Please give the list longer than an hour to respond to your request ;) Thanks for the suggestion.. I've just given the list 6 hours at the moment. Why do you say this? Tim Only because I saw your message listed twice... and there was only 50 minutes in betwee

[PHP] Re: Users logins in Linux machine

Hello, changing the system password requires root privileges, because it needs to modify the /etc/shadow file. Thus either I would put the password change requests into a mysql table or text file and run a cronjob as root which checks e.g. every 15 minutes if there are new pw change requests. If t

[PHP] Session Vars and Performance

I have a multi-page form which I build up and store in session variables. The data saved includes all an internal list of items on the form (derived from a database table), all the form field specs (derived from the internal item list), the data for the fields (from another table), default dat

[PHP] Re: Fancy Form processing Ideas

Hello, on 02/14/2005 12:29 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following: I am looking for interesting approaches to form submissions and error checking in the forms. You may want to try this popular class for generating and validating forms. It provides means to perform common types of validation, but

Re: [PHP] Re: Delete all files in DIR every 20 days

Jason Barnett wrote: Please give the list longer than an hour to respond to your request ;) Thanks for the suggestion.. I've just given the list 6 hours at the moment. Why do you say this? Tim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Accepting a credit card

Richard Miller wrote: > what > are the best practices for a *small* site to accept credit cards? I > have a couple of clients with small sites that would like to accept > credit cards. Supposing PayPal is out of question (because it doesn't > quite look as professional), what sort of payment gat

RE: [PHP] LibMcrypt and Mcrypt and Mhash - OH MY!

I found it! The current ports.tar.gz file is hosed for the three things I can auto load. We had an older OpenBSD box that had a previous version of ports, so I copied that over and it installed with no headaches. Thanks to Jeff for making me stick to ports.. I just had to get a version that work

[PHP] sym links

I am trying to write a php script that can read a dir which I have linked into my public_html dir. But I get permission errors, what do I need to change? Is this an Apache problem, gentoo, or php? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.ph

Re: [PHP] Re: php/mysql url validation methods...

quoth the Jason Barnett: > Darren Kirby wrote: > > The problem is that after playing around with this a bit, it is clear > > that someone can craft a url with an arbitrary $postid that is not in the > > database yet. Now naively, it would seem that the worst someone could do > > is just create arbi

Re: [PHP] User Passwords: checking for unique chars

Chris W. Parker wrote: Alex Gemmell on Monday, February 14, 2005 7:24 AM said: Hello! Hi! Bonjour! # Code: Do you also have a label on your computer that says "Computer"? No, but I do have a label that says "My Computer". Close enough, isn't it?

RE: [PHP] User Passwords: checking for unique chars

Alex Gemmell on Monday, February 14, 2005 7:24 AM said: > Hello! Hi! > > # Code: > Do you also have a label on your computer that says "Computer"? Some questions (because I'm curious): 1. Why would you *not* allow special characters? Wouldn't a

[PHP] Accepting a credit card

We've had a lot of discussion on what not to do -- not storing credit cards in one's own database -- so, I'd like to pose the question: what are the best practices for a *small* site to accept credit cards? I have a couple of clients with small sites that would like to accept credit cards. S

Re: [PHP] Uploading products in database using zip file?

That should be true in general except I believe that WinZip 8(?) introduced a new compression scheme that unzip or infozip or whatever on un*x systems might not handle yet. It's not backward compatible with older Zip algorithms so even if you're running and older copy of WinZip it won't decompr

[PHP] Form checking

I got trigger happy and deleted the post requesting info on interesting ideas for form checking. To stop the automated link farms from trying to insert their stupid crap into your guestbook/blog/whatever, you may want to experiment with something like: if (strlen($message) / strlen(strip_tags($me

Re: [PHP] MySQL 4.1 upgrade under PHP4

C.F. Scheidecker Antunes wrote: Hello all, Does anyone upgraded from MySQL 4.0 to MySQL 4.1 using PHP 4 code? If so, what are the changes that were required on the code? PHP website says that it is required to install a new MySQL extension. I am doing PHP4 programming under Linux. What do you sugge

Re: [PHP] How do you read one of these parameters?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 11 Feb 2005 Richard Lynch wrote: > >> BAD: http://example.com/dynamic_pdf.php?record_id=1 >> GOOD: http://example.com/dynamic_pdf.php/record_id=1/fool_ie.pdf > > Just curious, how does IE screw up the first one? I can describe the behaviour, pretty simply. In some ve

Re: [PHP] quotemeta() question...

Jason Barnett wrote: > Richard Lynch wrote: >> Steve Kaufman wrote: >> >>>Why does >>> quotemeta("pat:1$WRW") >>>return >>> pat:1 >>>instead of >>> pat:1\$WRW >>> >>>What am I misunderstanding about quotemeta function? >> >> >> You usually would use quotemeta on data comi

Re: [PHP] How can I read the output from a local php file [fopen()]?

Al wrote: > I have a script that needs to read the output, not the file itself, from a > local > php file using its absolute address. > > Normally I'd simply use $handle= fopen(http://www.whatever.com, 'rb') > > However, the webhost [Powweb] just changed their system to use "load > balancing" > ser

Re: [PHP] Uploading products in database using zip file?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One more thing" marketing person use Windows and he will probably use > Winzip. > Is this still ok, or it's better to use some other application? Winzip is fine -- At least I've never hit a valid Winzip-ed file I couldn't un-zip in Linux. You'll need 'unzip' on the serv

RE: [PHP] Fancy Form processing Ideas

[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, February 14, 2005 6:29 AM said: > I am looking for interesting approaches to form submissions and error > checking in the forms. One time, at PHP Summer Camp, I made this one form that, when submitted, would open the CD tray on my server

Re: [PHP] calling php function when submit button is pressed

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone show me how to call a function when submit is pressed or a form is submitted. I am for an alternative to $php_self which refreshes the whole page. I want to run the function which displays the errors on a form and only do a $php_self when the form is filled

Re: [PHP] Question: re: Session-only cookies and Firefox

RGL wrote: > Question: > Has anybody else noticed session-only cookies not disappearing when using > Firefox? Is this a Firefox bug (should they be notified/ or I get latest > Firefox) ? > > Using IE6 I can: > setcookie('sesvar', 'this session only', 0, "", > "www.mypersonaldomain.net"); > This can

Re: [PHP] Advice/opinion requested on page section lineup

Alp wrote: > I would like to be able to alter the lining-up of several sections on a > php > generated webpage. What would be the best/optimal approach in achieving > that? > > As an example "sections" referred to are mostly tables generated via code > on > data obtained from a DB. Should I name th

[PHP] Re: PHP book recommendations>

Jason Barnett wrote: Dave Bosky wrote: I'm looking for an easy to read PHP book that will help me learn a solid foundation in PHP. I'm already familiar with the language but want to make sure I'm coding in the most efficient manner. What's a few of the better books out there? Advanced PHP Program

Re: [PHP] Dynamic PHP links

Eduard Grigoryan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to PHP and I'd appreciate your advice a lot. > I'm trying to use dynamic PHP links instead of plain HTML and I'm gonna > use something like > this: > File "index.php": > story > about > if(isset($content)): > include $content; > else: > include "about.htm

Re: [PHP] User Passwords: checking for unique chars

Wow - good job! That nailed it and in one neat line too! Thanks very much Richard and thanks also to Mike for his help too. I'm really liking these php lists! On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:41:00 -0800 (PST), Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Gemmell wrote: > > I'm checking user chosen p

RE: [PHP] PHP book recommendations>

[snip] I'm looking for an easy to read PHP book that will help me learn a solid foundation in PHP. I'm already familiar with the language but want to make sure I'm coding in the most efficient manner. What's a few of the better books out there? [/snip] [snip jblanchard:] I personally like the O'

Re: [PHP] php/mysql url validation methods...

darren kirby wrote: > On the main page of my website I have written a very simple comments > feature > that allows people to leave a message under my posts, much like a blog. I > have purposely kept this very simple... > > On the main page I have simple text links that someone can click on if > the

Re: [PHP] User Passwords: checking for unique chars

Alex Gemmell wrote: > I'm checking user chosen passwords for validity and have created 7 > tests. It's not 100% bulletproof but it will do for now. My problem > is with the last check "have 6 unique characters". I'm at a loss at > how to check for this in a neat one-liner. if (count(count_chars

[PHP] Appending DOM doc as child in another DOM doc

Is there a way to take an already existing DomDocument object and appending it as a child node within a seperate DomDocument object? Or would I have to pull it apart first and generate new DomNode/DomElement objects using the data then append those DomNode/DomElement objects to the seperate DomDoc

Re: [PHP] Regular expression. What is wrong?

Kostyantyn Shakhov wrote: > I have to check the phone number. I use some regular expression for > this. The phone number can contain only numbers and characters like > +,-,),( and space. The problem is when I use a Perl-style all works as > intended but when I use a Posix-style I've got the Warning

[PHP] who's on-line application - php

I would like to indicate the particulars (from a MySQL database) of all those users that are currently on-line (those whom have successfully signed in). How should I go about achieving this? Does it have something to do with Sessions? I am developing in PHP. Regards Jacques -- PHP General Mail

[PHP] pg_connect requiressl it helps me please

I am needing to have access the PostgreSQL I saw SSL I am using php-gtk for that I saw pg_connect I do not give support for requiressl and ModSSL with that I make to connect using SSL? php-4.3.4

[PHP] Fancy Form processing Ideas

I am looking for interesting approaches to form submissions and error checking in the forms. Thanks, Ross -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] calling php function when submit button is pressed

Can anyone show me how to call a function when submit is pressed or a form is submitted. I am for an alternative to $php_self which refreshes the whole page. I want to run the function which displays the errors on a form and only do a $php_self when the form is filled out correctly. thanks R

RE: [PHP] Delete all files in DIR every 20 days

Hello take a look a the Pear File_Find class require_once 'File/Find.php'; $fs = new File_Find; $data = $fs->maptree('my_dir'); $data[0] contains all directorys $data[1] all files $ok = 0; $err = 0; foreach ($data[1] as $key) { if (unlink($k

RE: [PHP] PHP book recommendations>

[snip] I'm looking for an easy to read PHP book that will help me learn a solid foundation in PHP. I'm already familiar with the language but want to make sure I'm coding in the most efficient manner. What's a few of the better books out there? [/snip] I personally like the O'Reilly books on PHP

Re: [PHP] Delete all files in DIR every 20 days

Tim Burgan wrote: Hello, How can I delete ALL files within a specified directory every 20 days? Does anyone know of any code-snippets that are around at the moment that are able to do this? (And where I can find them?) Thanks Tim Write a script that will delete them, and set the script to run on

[PHP] Re: PHP book recommendations>

Dave Bosky wrote: I'm looking for an easy to read PHP book that will help me learn a solid foundation in PHP. I'm already familiar with the language but want to make sure I'm coding in the most efficient manner. What's a few of the better books out there? HTC Disclaimer: The information contained

[PHP] Re: who's on-line application - php

Jacques wrote: I would like to indicate the particulars (from a MySQL database) of all those users that are currently on-line (those whom have successfully signed in). How should I go about achieving this? Does it have something to do with Sessions? Jacques: the best solutions that I have seen invo

[PHP] Re: Delete all files in DIR every 20 days

Tim Burgan wrote: Hello, How can I delete ALL files within a specified directory every 20 days? Does anyone know of any code-snippets that are around at the moment that are able to do this? (And where I can find them?) Thanks Tim Please give the list longer than an hour to respond to your request ;

Re: [PHP] Delete all files in DIR every 20 days

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 02:12 +1030, Tim Burgan wrote: > Hello, > > How can I delete ALL files within a specified directory every 20 days? > Does anyone know of any code-snippets that are around at the moment that > are able to do this? (And where I can find them?) > > Thanks > > Tim > What oper

Re: [PHP] Delete all files in DIR every 20 days

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:22:42 +1030, Tim Burgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I delete ALL files within a specified directory every 20 days? > Does anyone know of any code-snippets that are around at the moment that > are able to do this? (And where I can find them?) You can put a tmp file i

RE: [PHP] User Passwords: checking for unique chars

From: Alex Gemmell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello! > > I'm checking user chosen passwords for validity and have created 7 > tests. It's not 100% bulletproof but it will do for now. My problem > is with the last check "have 6 unique characters". I'm at a loss at > how to check for this in a

[PHP] Re: calling php function when submit button is pressed

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone show me how to call a function when submit is pressed or a form is submitted. "When submit is pressed"... as in instantly / on the web browser's side? You need Javascript for that; PHP simply won't do that. Or did you mean "when a form gets posted to the server"

[PHP] Re: php/mysql url validation methods...

Darren Kirby wrote: Hello all, On the main page of my website I have written a very simple comments feature that allows people to leave a message under my posts, much like a blog. I have purposely kept this very simple... On the main page I have simple text links that someone can click on if they w

RE: [PHP] Delete all files in DIR every 20 days

> How can I delete ALL files within a specified directory every 20 days? > Does anyone know of any code-snippets that are around at the > moment that are able to do this? (And where I can find them?) > > Thanks > > Tim Sounds more like a job for cron than for PHP - "man crontab" should set you

[PHP] Regular expression. What is wrong?

I have to check the phone number. I use some regular expression for this. The phone number can contain only numbers and characters like +,-,),( and space. The problem is when I use a Perl-style all works as intended but when I use a Posix-style I've got the Warning: ereg(): REG_ERANGE and the resul

[PHP] PHP book recommendations>

I'm looking for an easy to read PHP book that will help me learn a solid foundation in PHP. I'm already familiar with the language but want to make sure I'm coding in the most efficient manner. What's a few of the better books out there? HTC Disclaimer: The information contained in this messa

[PHP] Re: Question: re: Session-only cookies and Firefox

Rgl wrote: Question: Has anybody else noticed session-only cookies not disappearing when using Firefox? Is this a Firefox bug (should they be notified/ or I get latest Firefox) ? They finally released 1.0, and yet you still use 0.8? I use Firefox quite regularly, but I don't experience the problem

RE: [PHP] Delete all files in DIR every 20 days

[snip] How can I delete ALL files within a specified directory every 20 days? Does anyone know of any code-snippets that are around at the moment that are able to do this? (And where I can find them?) [/snip] Create a script that deletes files in the directory and then CRON it. http://www.unixge

Re: [PHP] Server Uptime

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:43:31 -0700, Leif Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're not on a Windows server, *nix might have a file other than > pagefile.sys that you could do the same thing with. Or you can just use uptime. > php -r 'system("uptime");' 07:35:21 up 7 days, 23:10, 5 users,

[PHP] pg_connect requiressl it helps me please

I am needing to have access the PostgreSQL I saw SSL I am using php-gtk for that I saw pg_connect I do not give support for requiressl and ModSSL with that I make to connect using SSL? php-4.3.4

Re: [PHP] Advice/opinion requested on page section lineup

Alp wrote: Thanks Burhan, That's almost what I exactly want to do. The question is "how do I start doing that" which methodlogy, which structure, etc,,, The first step would be to store the weight value in your database (or wherever) and link it to your modules (or content) that you want ordered.

Re: [PHP] Server Uptime

Leif Gregory wrote: Hello Brad, Monday, February 7, 2005, 3:21:26 PM, you wrote: BC> What is the function, or how do you make a script that displays BC> the server's uptime? If you're on Windows you could do this: ** If you're not on a Windows server, *nix might have a file other than

Re: [PHP] MySQL 4.1 upgrade under PHP4

C.F. Scheidecker Antunes wrote: Hello all, Does anyone upgraded from MySQL 4.0 to MySQL 4.1 using PHP 4 code? If so, what are the changes that were required on the code? PHP website says that it is required to install a new MySQL extension. http://www.php.net/mysqli ^<--- Th

[PHP] Delete all files in DIR every 20 days

Hello, How can I delete ALL files within a specified directory every 20 days? Does anyone know of any code-snippets that are around at the moment that are able to do this? (And where I can find them?) Thanks Tim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php

[PHP] Delete all files in DIR every 20 days

Hello, How can I delete ALL files within a specified directory every 20 days? Does anyone know of any code-snippets that are around at the moment that are able to do this? (And where I can find them?) Thanks Tim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.p

[PHP] User Passwords: checking for unique chars

Hello! I'm checking user chosen passwords for validity and have created 7 tests. It's not 100% bulletproof but it will do for now. My problem is with the last check "have 6 unique characters". I'm at a loss at how to check for this in a neat one-liner. My brain is starting to go off on some ho

[PHP] Information

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