Re: [PHP] Check the byte sequence of a file to tell if it is UTF-8 without the BOM using PHP ?

On 22 May 2011 08:17, Eli Orr (Office) wrote: > Hi Adam, > > I have a prof that the XML advise does not work in real cases I had. > We are using XMLs in our system but when you edit the XML with  a text > editor and put the XML heading of UTF-8 > > > it DOES NOT assure the text inside is encoded

Re: [PHP] Check the byte sequence of a file to tell if it is UTF-8 without the BOM using PHP ?

Hi Adam, I have a prof that the XML advise does not work in real cases I had. We are using XMLs in our system but when you edit the XML with a text editor and put the XML heading of UTF-8 it DOES NOT assure the text inside is encoded in UTF-8 so but maybe (many cases) t other iso-xxx method

Re: [PHP] Closing Session (Revisited)

On Thu, 05 May 2011 08:28:53 -0400, sstap...@mnsi.net (Steve Staples) wrote: >On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 21:41 +1000, Roger Riordan wrote: >> >> I have developed a common engine which I use for several different websites. >> I had been >> using PHP 5.2.? and IE6 (yes; I know!), and had been able to h

Re: [PHP] A Review Request

On 11-05-21 09:26 AM, tedd wrote: At 2:49 PM -0400 5/19/11, Joshua Kehn wrote: On May 19, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Andre Polykanine wrote: Hello Alex, Two (stupid?) questions: 1. Why PHP_SELF is better than SCRIPT_NAME? 2. Why strcmp() is better than just comparing? -- With best regards

Re: [PHP] A Review Request

Yep, and it comes in handy, especially in school, lol, in advanced algorithms and datastructures, I once submitted a project assignment that was 5 lines long, and instead of figuring out anagrams, strcmp was very helpful :) Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4GLTE smartphone - Reply message

[PHP] Defensive Programming

Hi Gang: A word about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_programming Anyone read the classic "CHAOS" by Gleick? The story of Mandelbrot is an interesting one where (as I remember it, I could be wrong) he was hired to do find a "Defensive" solution to telephone equipment failure. That in

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

At 6:29 PM +0100 5/21/11, Stuart Dallas wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Peter Lind <peter.e.l...@gmail.com> wrote: -snip- This was fun... we should do it again sometime! ;) No, this wasn't fun. As I said before, is email is a bad way to communicate. B

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:11 AM, tedd wrote: > Hi gang: > > Okay, so,what's the "best" (i.e., most secure) way for your script to > identify itself *IF* you plan on using that information later, such as the > value in an action attribute in a form? > > For example, I was using: > > $self = basen

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Peter Lind wrote: > On 21 May 2011 18:42, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Peter Lind > wrote: > >> > >> On 21 May 2011 18:26, Stuart Dallas wrote: > >> > >> *snip* > >> > >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_programming > >> > Y

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On May 21, 2011, at 9:11 AM, tedd wrote: Hi gang: Okay, so,what's the "best" (i.e., most secure) way for your script to identify itself *IF* you plan on using that information later, such as the value in an action attribute in a form? For example, I was using: $self = basename($_SERVER[

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Peter Lind wrote: > On 21 May 2011 18:26, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > *snip* > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_programming > > You do things your way and I'll do things my way. Best of luck to you. > > Thank you for your condescending tone. Best of luck t

Re: [PHP] a Debate here - How can you check a if a file is a UTF-8 without the BOM using PHP ?

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Eli Orr (Office) wrote: > > Dear PHP Gurus, > > I have a debate on the following please let me know what is true / false. > > I'am using a PHP function *is_UTF_8_file ($file_name) *that I've found as > part of my PHP 5.3 installation. > This function checks if the

Re: [PHP] Object Query Language optimization

hi, "I often use SQL that is far, far more complex than this." well, this is why my OQL is pretty simple, it does not intend to do any crazy stuff that you can do with SQL (as I can load objects from SQL as well) I had a look at other ORM, and the problem is that some are extremely complicated (D

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On 21 May 2011 18:42, Stuart Dallas wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Peter Lind wrote: >> >> On 21 May 2011 18:26, Stuart Dallas wrote: >> >> *snip* >> >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_programming >> > You do things your way and I'll do things my way. Best of luck to you. >>

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On 21 May 2011 18:26, Stuart Dallas wrote: *snip* > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_programming > You do things your way and I'll do things my way. Best of luck to you. Thank you for your condescending tone. Best of luck to you too. Regards Peter -- WWW: plphp.dk / plind.dk LinkedIn:

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Peter Lind wrote: > On 21 May 2011 18:05, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Peter Lind > wrote: > >> > >> On 21 May 2011 17:34, Stuart Dallas wrote: > >> > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Peter Lind > >> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> On 21

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On 21 May 2011 18:05, Stuart Dallas wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Peter Lind wrote: >> >> On 21 May 2011 17:34, Stuart Dallas wrote: >> > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Peter Lind >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On 21 May 2011 17:18, Stuart Dallas wrote: >> >> >> >> *snip* >> >> >> >> >>

[PHP] a Debate here - How can you check a if a file is a UTF-8 without the BOM using PHP ?

Dear PHP Gurus, I have a debate on the following please let me know what is true / false. I'am using a PHP function *is_UTF_8_file ($file_name) *that I've found as part of my PHP 5.3 installation. This function checks if the file start with the 3 UTF-8 BOM bytes. However another guy told me

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:53 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Ashley Sheridan > wrote: > > > On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:47 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Ashley Sheridan >

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Peter Lind wrote: > On 21 May 2011 17:34, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Peter Lind > wrote: > >> > >> On 21 May 2011 17:18, Stuart Dallas wrote: > >> > >> *snip* > >> > >> >> Again, this depends upon what your url scheme looks like -

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:53 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Ashley Sheridan > wrote: > > > On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:47 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Ashley Sheridan > > wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:34 +0100, Stua

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On 21 May 2011 17:34, Stuart Dallas wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Peter Lind wrote: >> >> On 21 May 2011 17:18, Stuart Dallas wrote: >> >> *snip* >> >> >> Again, this depends upon what your url scheme looks like - and without >> >> knowing that, there's simple no clue as to whether o

Re: [PHP] Object Query Language optimization

Hi. On Saturday 21 May 2011 at 15:56 jean-baptiste verrey wrote: > I'm writing an Object Query Language [snip] > (queries don't get much more complicated than that, you have multiple > alias.fieldName in the select, then multiple joins) I often use SQL that is far, far more complex than this.

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:47 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Ashley Sheridan > wrote: > > > On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:34 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Peter Lind wrote

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:47 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Ashley Sheridan > wrote: > > > On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:34 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Peter Lind wrote: > > > > > On 21 May 2011 17:18, Stuart Dallas wrote: > >

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:34 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Peter Lind wrote: > > > On 21 May 2011 17:18, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > > > *snip* > > > > >> Again, this depends upon what your url scheme looks

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:34 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Peter Lind wrote: > > > On 21 May 2011 17:18, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > > > *snip* > > > > >> Again, this depends upon what your url scheme looks like - and without > > >> knowing that, there's simple no c

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Peter Lind wrote: > On 21 May 2011 17:18, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > *snip* > > >> Again, this depends upon what your url scheme looks like - and without > >> knowing that, there's simple no clue as to whether or not this is a > >> good solution to the problem (tho

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On 21 May 2011 17:18, Stuart Dallas wrote: *snip* >> Again, this depends upon what your url scheme looks like - and without >> knowing that, there's simple no clue as to whether or not this is a >> good solution to the problem (though it might be a good solution to A >> problem). > > Again, I di

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Peter Lind wrote: > On 21 May 2011 17:01, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Peter Lind > wrote: > >> > >> On 21 May 2011 16:18, Stuart Dallas wrote: > >> > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:11 PM, tedd wrote: > >> > > >> >> Hi gang: > >> >> > >

[PHP] Re: Script ID?

On 5/21/2011 10:11 AM, tedd wrote: Hi gang: Okay, so,what's the "best" (i.e., most secure) way for your script to identify itself *IF* you plan on using that information later, such as the value in an action attribute in a form? For example, I was using: $self = basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAM

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On 21 May 2011 17:01, Stuart Dallas wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Peter Lind wrote: >> >> On 21 May 2011 16:18, Stuart Dallas wrote: >> > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:11 PM, tedd wrote: >> > >> >> Hi gang: >> >> >> >> Okay, so,what's the "best" (i.e., most secure) way for your script t

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Peter Lind wrote: > On 21 May 2011 16:18, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:11 PM, tedd wrote: > > > >> Hi gang: > >> > >> Okay, so,what's the "best" (i.e., most secure) way for your script to > >> identify itself *IF* you plan on using that inf

[PHP] Object Query Language optimization

hi folks, I'm writing an Object Query Language which is pretty simple, you do request such as *SELECT e.*,c.firstName * *FROM employee e * *JOIN contact c ON e* *WHERE e.id=*? (queries don't get much more complicated than that, you have multiple alias.fieldName in the select, then multiple joins)

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On 21 May 2011 16:18, Stuart Dallas wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:11 PM, tedd wrote: > >> Hi gang: >> >> Okay, so,what's the "best" (i.e., most secure) way for your script to >> identify itself *IF* you plan on using that information later, such as the >> value in an action attribute in a fo

RE: [PHP] Script ID?

So sorry Tedd, I was typing away with the rest of that and after hitting send I notice all I sent was the define. define('PAGE_1', 1); I use define because sometimes I want o know what script included another and if that script does not have a defined value I do not allow it to run. Just

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 10:11 -0400, tedd wrote: > Hi gang: > > Okay, so,what's the "best" (i.e., most secure) way for your script to > identify itself *IF* you plan on using that information later, such > as the value in an action attribute in a form? > > For example, I was using: > > $self =

RE: [PHP] Script ID?

I use define('page1, 1); Richard L. Buskirk -Original Message- From: tedd [mailto:t...@sperling.com] Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 10:11 AM To: PHP General Subject: [PHP] Script ID? Hi gang: Okay, so,what's the "best" (i.e., most secure) way for your script to identify itself *IF*

Re: [PHP] Script ID?

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:11 PM, tedd wrote: > Hi gang: > > Okay, so,what's the "best" (i.e., most secure) way for your script to > identify itself *IF* you plan on using that information later, such as the > value in an action attribute in a form? > > For example, I was using: > > $self = basena

[PHP] Script ID?

Hi gang: Okay, so,what's the "best" (i.e., most secure) way for your script to identify itself *IF* you plan on using that information later, such as the value in an action attribute in a form? For example, I was using: $self = basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']); However, that was suscepti

Re: [PHP] A Review Request

At 2:49 PM -0400 5/19/11, Joshua Kehn wrote: On May 19, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Andre Polykanine wrote: Hello Alex, Two (stupid?) questions: 1. Why PHP_SELF is better than SCRIPT_NAME? 2. Why strcmp() is better than just comparing? -- With best regards from Ukraine, Andre Skype: Francophile

[PHP] Re: Date validation

I'm posting here for completeness as I've now rolled my own date validator (code follows my sig). It allows almost all valid 'English' formats except ordinal day values (1st, 3rd, etc.) Because I'm in UK and writing for a UK audience, I've parsed ambiguous dates as d/m/y. Those writing for places w

Re: [PHP] PHPCaptcha / Securimage 2.0.2 - Authentication Bypass - SOS-11-007

Hello Lists, Sorry for my rude words but... there are already too many websites that either don't give us a possibility to get an audio file instead of those damned captcha images; there are lots of others (such as Msn) where the audio is too distorted to be heard. It's not my f

Re: [PHP] PHPCaptcha / Securimage 2.0.2 - Authentication Bypass - SOS-11-007

"Lists" wrote: >Sense of Security - Security Advisory - SOS-11-007 > >Release Date. 20-May-2011 >Last Update.- >Vendor Notification Date. 04-Apr-2011 >Product.Securimage / PHPCaptcha >Platform. PHP >Affected versions.