[PHP] Turning magic quotes on/off.

Hi, I just struggled with quoting in php3 and php4. Traditional old-style raw data would be nice to have but using set_magic_quotes_runtime (false) doesn't help. Should that turn it off anyway? Another thing not documented to me is get_magic_quotes_gpc (). What does t

[PHP] building a search engine ??

I am thinking of building a search engine with the grep command for our site. i have my information in a mysql db, but i am putting it back into text files. reoson being is that maybe the mysql db goes down under hevy load, and then our site would look like a tree with out branches. So i put all t

[PHP] stop a file called foo.bar

stop a file called foo.bar from being downloaded with a web server ? Say you'r web site's name is foobar.net. ..and... Script-kiddy Johny knows that, but also knows that you'r secret file is called foo.bar and it is saved in the root dir. of you'r web site. in a http browser little Johny can s