RE: [PHP] saving sessions

2011-08-04 Thread Florian Müller
But please do not use cookies to store a password as code! Cookies are human readable with some add-ons Check like this: if someone registers, insert it into a table: Then, if someone wants to log in, use like this: If you want to store something into cookies, use a name which is not

Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread Negin Nickparsa
well,what is the problem with these manuals :) ? google these ones: security exploits that are SQL injection, Cross Site Scripting(xss) and Cross Site Request Forgery many security issues you can find also for your code problems try this site: stackoverflow.com previous times when I had thes

Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread wil prim
lol wow ok thanks, Im very new to coding, started html about 2 months ago, so ty for letting me know the security of the language! is there any place where i can read (other than the php manual), about a tutorial on security?On Aug 04, 2011, at 10:49 PM, Negin Nickparsa wrote:it is better to use t

Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread Jim Lucas
On 8/5/2011 9:49 PM, wil prim wrote: Ok so I have tried to create a sort of messaging system on my website and I have run into some problems storing who the message is from, ill try to take you through step by step what I am trying to do. *step #1 *(messages.php):<--This is where the member w

Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread Negin Nickparsa
it is better to use this one: http://www.php.net/mysql_real_escape_string if you don't use this by inputting just a qoute or this input '--' a hacker can easily hack your syntax in another steps your site will send a message like: error in mysql on this line lob lob .. in this part he will fin

Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread wil prim
I think Ill just use the better secured one, thanks!On Aug 04, 2011, at 10:41 PM, Negin Nickparsa wrote:or if you want to do this risky and none secure thing try this:$query="select * from members where user='"$_POST['user']."'and pass=password('$pas')"; well first you must check errors in mysql t

Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread Negin Nickparsa
well I wonder! with error syntaxes now it is working? or without them?

Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread Negin Nickparsa
or if you want to do this risky and none secure thing try this: $query="select * from members where user='".$_POST['user']."'and pass=password('$pas')"; well first you must check errors in mysql then storing in session also it is better to use: $user=mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['user']); th

Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread wil prim
Woot! Got it! There was a page in between that stored $_SESSION['user']=$user rather than other way around! Thank you! and yea I will secure it!On Aug 04, 2011, at 10:37 PM, David Holmes wrote:Your code is full of security errors .. You should use mysql escape string(google it ) to protect your da

Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread David Holmes
Your code is full of security errors .. You should use mysql escape string(google it ) to protect your database from beiÿng hacked David Holmes twitter @mrstanfan owner of the exclusive StanFan.com Whats Your StanFan? -Original Message- From: wil prim Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 04:49:32 To

Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread Negin Nickparsa
well,sorry change it to password=$pass (better) also check your errors by php yourpage.php it is more better to not stock in errors like this one

Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread Negin Nickparsa
in this line password='$_POST[pass]'"; you have error change it to password='$_POST['pass']'";

Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread Negin Nickparsa
did you set the ?

Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread wil prim
This is the login.php which checks the form on the login page.session_start();include('connect.php');$user=$_POST['user'];$pass=$_POST['pass'];$sql="SELECT * FROM members WHERE username='$_POST[user]' and password='$_POST[pass]'";$result=mysql_query($sql, $con);$count=mysql_num_rows($result);if ($c

Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread Negin Nickparsa
you must check setting your session with this one: if(isset($_SESSION['user'])) { // Identifying the user $user = $_SESSION['user']; // Information for the user. } tell me what you have done in login page?

Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread wil prim
Well my problem is when i click submit, the $_SESSION['user'] ('from' part of the table in my db) is blank, so im guessing the $_SESSION variable didnt pass through. On Aug 04, 2011, at 10:11 PM, Negin Nickparsa wrote:in previous pages you must have a login page and in login page you must store th

Re: [PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread Negin Nickparsa
in previous pages you must have a login page and in login page you must store the username and then in next steps you have username in $_SESSION['user'] now if it is not your problem then what is the problem?

[PHP] Sending a message

2011-08-04 Thread wil prim
Ok so I have tried to create a sort of messaging system on my website and I have run into some problems storing who the message is from, ill try to take you through step by step what I am trying to do.step #1 (messages.php): <--This is where the member will view the recent messages that have been p

Re: [PHP] control structure

2011-08-04 Thread Chris Stinemetz
> >        // This part makes no sense they are not logged in and they have a > level of 1 or 2 ? Yes. It might not be the best approach, but I am assigning the user a value: 1, 2, or 3 while they create an account. This will limit what they will be able to post. For example I only want users with

RE: [PHP] control structure

2011-08-04 Thread admin
> -Original Message- > From: Chris Stinemetz [mailto:chrisstinem...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:34 PM > To: PHP General > Subject: [PHP] control structure > > I have a php script with a simple condition. If it is not satisfied I > want to exit the script otherwise I wan

[PHP] You can play with PHP 5.4.0 alpha3 on Windows, EasyPHP 5.4 alpha3 is out!

2011-08-04 Thread EasyPHP
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Re: [PHP] saving sessions

2011-08-04 Thread Midhun Girish
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 7:56 AM, wil prim wrote: > Hello, im new to the whole storing sessions thing and I really dont know > how to ask this question, but here it goes. So on my site when someone logs > in the login.php file checks for a the username and password in the table i > created, then i

[PHP] saving sessions

2011-08-04 Thread wil prim
Hello, im new to the whole storing sessions thing and I really dont know how to ask this question, but here it goes.  So on my site when someone logs in the login.php file checks for a the username and password in the table i created, then if it finds a match it will store a $_SESSION [] variable.

[PHP] memory overflow :/

2011-08-04 Thread Tontonq Tontonq
hi i can't see anything wrong that will cause memory problem but parsing 1gb memory limit doesn't come enough for just parsing a 50 kb file but when i try to parse another file that is 24 kb 24 mb becomes enough memory here is the script http://pastebin.com/H9mG7ucU if you go to rss.php?id=17

Re: [PHP] Re: testing

2011-08-04 Thread Tamara Temple
On Aug 4, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Jim Giner wrote: Because I'm lazy. I LIKE the newsgroup method - all my mail in one place: email, newsgroups together yet separate so that I can read the news postings when I have time, and the email is purely mine. "Tim Streater" wrote in message news:08.87.1

Re: [PHP] Complex (or not so) array data form submission?

2011-08-04 Thread Shawn McKenzie
On 08/04/2011 01:56 PM, Andrew Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Jamie Krasnoo wrote: >> Thanks. I think what I got hung up on was that I was trying this: >> >> name="addresses[][id]" >> name="addresses[][address1]" >> name="addresses[][address2]" >> name="addresses[][city]" >> name

Re: [PHP] Complex (or not so) array data form submission?

2011-08-04 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Jamie Krasnoo wrote: > Thanks. I think what I got hung up on was that I was trying this: > > name="addresses[][id]" > name="addresses[][address1]" > name="addresses[][address2]" > name="addresses[][city]" > name="addresses[][state]" > name="addresses[][zip]" > > Whi

Re: [PHP] Studying mcrypt

2011-08-04 Thread Donovan Brooke
Alex Nikitin wrote: [snip] It's never a good idea to store all your keys in code, True, but in the system I was referring to, only the closed source app knows how to "see" the key in the encrypted templates and there is no way for another to know how to decrypt the encrypted templates to se

Re: [PHP] Form Already Filled Out

2011-08-04 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 17:02 +0100, jean-baptiste verrey wrote: > if you want to force the browser to not be able to have this behaviour you > need the name tag to always change > a quick example would be that > $_SESSION['formRandomName']=time(); > ?> > > > > 2011/8/4 Bálint Horváth > > > Hi

Re: [PHP] Complex (or not so) array data form submission?

2011-08-04 Thread Jamie Krasnoo
Thanks. I think what I got hung up on was that I was trying this: name="addresses[][id]" name="addresses[][address1]" name="addresses[][address2]" name="addresses[][city]" name="addresses[][state]" name="addresses[][zip]" Which wouldn't have given the end result I sought, I don't think. Clear cas

Re: [PHP] Complex (or not so) array data form submission?

2011-08-04 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Jamie Krasnoo wrote: > > Hey all, > > I get the basics of submitting a form and organizing the $_POST data within > arrays (name[], name[key], etc). But if I wanted to submit something like > multiple addresses and have it end up organized in array form like this fr

[PHP] Complex (or not so) array data form submission?

2011-08-04 Thread Jamie Krasnoo
Hey all, I get the basics of submitting a form and organizing the $_POST data within arrays (name[], name[key], etc). But if I wanted to submit something like multiple addresses and have it end up organized in array form like this from submission is this possible? $addresses = array( 0 => arr

Re: [PHP] Studying mcrypt

2011-08-04 Thread Alex Nikitin
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Donovan Brooke wrote: > Alex Nikitin wrote: > [snip] > > There is code obfuscation with PHP, and you can compile it into C++ with >> HipHop for php for example... >> > [snip] > > > Of course, obfuscation is never a great security solution. Compiling it > into C++

Re: [PHP] Studying mcrypt

2011-08-04 Thread Donovan Brooke
Alex Nikitin wrote: [snip] There is code obfuscation with PHP, and you can compile it into C++ with HipHop for php for example... [snip] Of course, obfuscation is never a great security solution. Compiling it into C++ is interesting... the question would be if the code could be de-compiled..

Re: [PHP] Studying mcrypt

2011-08-04 Thread Donovan Brooke
Alex Nikitin wrote: [snip] What makes your local system any less vulnerable of a point than your server, of anything, its more vulnerable and failure-prone, so unless i'm not getting something, that seems like a poor design decision (i'm sorry) [snip] In the model I profiled, it is a system de

RE: [PHP] Keyword Constructor

2011-08-04 Thread cont...@global-web-designs.com
hello everyone. thanks for the email re keyword constructor. but what exactly does it do? i.e its function. warmest regards Andreea -Original Message- From: Ren [mailto:lobbyjo...@gmail.com] Sent: 02 August 2011 06:29 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Keyword Constr

Re: [PHP] Form Already Filled Out

2011-08-04 Thread jean-baptiste verrey
if you want to force the browser to not be able to have this behaviour you need the name tag to always change a quick example would be that 2011/8/4 Bálint Horváth > Hi, > Use value="$_POST['user']" or sg like that because: > before send value eq null, after if returned -cause of a fail- the

Re: Re: [PHP] Re: testing

2011-08-04 Thread Jim Giner
Because I'm lazy. I LIKE the newsgroup method - all my mail in one place: email, newsgroups together yet separate so that I can read the news postings when I have time, and the email is purely mine. "Tim Streater" wrote in message news:08.87.13433.b57ba...@pb1.pair.com... On 04 Aug 2011 at 15:

Re: Re: [PHP] Re: testing

2011-08-04 Thread Tim Streater
On 04 Aug 2011 at 15:48, Jim Giner wrote: > Sounds like time for me to move on. > Thanks for the info Dan. Say Jim, Why don't you pick it up as mail like the rest of us? -- Cheers -- Tim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Studying mcrypt

2011-08-04 Thread Alex Nikitin
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Donovan Brooke wrote: > Alex Nikitin wrote: > [snip] > > Also you shouldn't actually encrypt passwords, the proper way to store >> them >> is hashed, so that if someone grabs your database, they dont have your >> passwords, even if they have the "key". >> > > > H

Re: [PHP] Re: testing

2011-08-04 Thread Daniel Brown
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:48, Jim Giner wrote: > Sounds like time for me to move on. > Thanks for the info Dan. > > All the talent on this group, and a bug like this (according to posts I've > read) has been going on for years? Yeah, it's always been low-priority. I've started to add a dedic

Re: [PHP] Re: testing

2011-08-04 Thread Jim Giner
Sounds like time for me to move on. Thanks for the info Dan. All the talent on this group, and a bug like this (according to posts I've read) has been going on for years? "Daniel Brown" wrote in message news:CAD9cneMicUmusc9Er7kOmLZKL_r-QORoYcMzGH5hQL=e4er...@mail.gmail.com... On Thu, Aug 4, 2

Re: [PHP] Re: testing

2011-08-04 Thread Daniel Brown
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:39, Jim Giner wrote: > > Mailing list, newsgroup, either one - something's changed in the last week > or so to interrupt the smooth (or semi-smooth) functioning of it.  The only > messages I'm seeing currently are the ones in this single topic.  Why is > that??? Actu

Re: [PHP] Re: testing

2011-08-04 Thread Jim Giner
>> Al wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 8/2/2011 5:18 PM, Jim Giner wrote: Don't seem to be getting any feeds thru the newsgroup mirror(?). >>> >>> This newsgroup has been a mess for almost a year now. >>> >>> One big problem is that the server only accepts a small number of >>> connections,

[PHP] Re: testing

2011-08-04 Thread Jim Giner
""Jim Giner"" wrote in message news:6d.60.30104.5b968...@pb1.pair.com... > Don't seem to be getting any feeds thru the newsgroup mirror(?). > Something's wrong. My OE still cannot connect to the news server for this list, it continues to show unread messages are available, but it cannot downl

Re: [PHP] Studying mcrypt

2011-08-04 Thread Donovan Brooke
Alex Nikitin wrote: [snip] Also you shouldn't actually encrypt passwords, the proper way to store them is hashed, so that if someone grabs your database, they dont have your passwords, even if they have the "key". Hello, since this thread is about "studying mcrypt"... In another language, for

Re: [PHP] Best editor?

2011-08-04 Thread Donovan Brooke
Matty Sarro wrote: Hey everyone, I am a super newbie.. in the spirit of the "super newbie".. :-) http://interrobang.jwgh.org/songs/editors.mp3 -- D Brooke -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] NuSOAP

2011-08-04 Thread Kanishka
NuSOAP Hi, I am learning “SOAP web services” using “NuSOAP” I tried to execute hello world program, but it didn’t work. When I execute the server script It generate the wsdl without giving any warning or error. But when I execute the client it gives following message. ” Warnin

[PHP] When is gettimeofday() or microtime() unavailable?

2011-08-04 Thread Ivo F.A.C. Fokkema
Dear list, I've tried Google, php.net and the list's archives, but I can't find what I'm looking for. Maybe it's obvious, or maybe nobody wonders about this... For years, I've used microtime() to get the current time including the microseconds. However, somebody pointed me at a sentence in the ma

Re: [PHP] Form Already Filled Out

2011-08-04 Thread Bálint Horváth
Hi, Use value="$_POST['user']" or sg like that because: before send value eq null, after if returned -cause of a fail- the inputs remain also set *autocomplete="off"* (at form) and if it doesn't work use js to set null values to input boxes (add a name for ur form...) Another way, use Google: "ja

Re: [PHP] How do I enable $_SERVER['HTTP_X_WAP_PROFILE'] or $_SERVER['HTTP_PROFILE']

2011-08-04 Thread Stuart Dallas
On 3 Aug 2011, at 21:07, Daevid Vincent wrote: > I'm working on a mobile site and from the various searches and reading (and > even code fragments I've inherited for the project), they make reference to: > > $_SERVER['HTTP_X_WAP_PROFILE'] and a fallback $_SERVER['HTTP_PROFILE'] > > However, when