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I've been looking thru my PHP functions and can't find what I need - is there a function that will tell me what .php file is currently executing? Thanks...

I know that having register_globals=ON is a security risk and we have it OFF. We want to use the GeekLog content manager and it only works with ON. Can someone give us some coding tips on how to mitigate any possible security problems if we turn it on? I know it has to do with a querystring that is same as a variable name being sent in the...

Hi, I'm trying to return the inner XML from a DOM element, but I can't find any methods that allow this. For example, if I have a string: <TEXT>Here is a string with <B>bold</B> text in it</TEXT> then I want to return the enclosed string _including_ the <B> tags: "Here is a string with <B>bold</B> text in it" Using get_content strips out...

I've got a cgi script that allows me to add the output of a php script to an html page using the following line of code. #insert : http://www.url.com/sript.php# What I'm wondering is if someone could write me a couple of lines of code for script.php that would randomly select one line of information from a text file called text.txt. ...

Hi! I have a problem... I did a PHP Script for a counter... and I want the counter to be displayed on an another PHP page... So, I can include it like that: <?

Anyone knows of a good and easy program or script which generates doc file from a phpdoc style comments???? PhpEdit has something like that but I need a standalone one... respect....

I'm lazily looking for a simple app that will let us match up teachers, classes, and instructors, preferably with a php/mysql infrastructure so that it's accessible via the web. If there is a single good repository of free scripts that would be useful as well. Laurel

I am using the script as below, but there is a problem, in Netscape, and Mozilla Firebird, a .php is added to the filename when the user is prompted to save, it's ok in Internet Explorer and Opera though: $filename="/home/myUserName/filename.exe"; header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=filename.exe"); header("Content-Type:...

Hi, I include the following function: <?php function login($members_only) { if (isset($_COOKIE)) { $login = explode("|split|",$_COOKIE); $login = array("username"=>$login,"password"=>$login); }

I don't really know PHP that well. I'm fixing a Perl program that accesses a db after getting form input from a PHP page. If the server-side validation fails I'd like to reload the form with all the user's info still filled in. I could embed the entire page in the Perl program but it seems like there must be a better way to go. Is there a...

Can you use PHP with Tomcat?

I am getting a "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagecreatefromjpeg() in..." error in one of my scripts, and after doing a bit of searching on the 'net I found various messages relating to a failure to have the GD library installed. However, my phpinfo() reports (in the Apache GD section): GD Support enabled GD Version bundled...

I'm developing a web site, which I test first on my PC (http://localhost/...) and then upload to the web site on the internet when ok. I have a little bit of PHP code (in file download.php) which I use to force the Save dialogue when I want the user to download a PDF file. The hyperlink looks like:- ...

Sometimes my mail() function returns FALSE, but there is no error message. Error reporting is set to E_ALL. It seems to be a problem of the bcc: line. I use: $headers .= "Bcc: aaaa@aaa.aa,bbbb@bbb.bb,cccc@ccc.cc\n"; I currently have approx. 30 addresses in the line. Are there any limits?

Hi, anyone knows where I could find a binary distribution of the ClibPDF extension for PHP 4.3.3 and windows XP? I don't have any C or CPP compiler on that pc. thanks for your help fred

How can i check if subdomain exists? DNS or what? And how ? thx

Hi... I'm trying my hardest to understand fully how sessions work and how best to use them. However, all I can find is information that doesn't tell me anything other than that sessions store information between pages, which I knew already. I want to know HOW sessions work! If anybody has any good links to material that explains sessions...

Is it better coding practice to do this: $wibble = (bool)true; $wobble = (int)108; or just this: $wibble = true; $wobble = 108;

Is there a current copy of the PHP manual available with user comments? I can't seem to spot one on the doc page.

Hi, I'm using TikiWiki and was using its file upload feature, trying to upload a 2MB file. I get this error: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1677706 bytes) in /var/html/www/tiki/lib/filegals/filegallib.php on line 30 Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to

Hello I have been trying to wrap my head arouns this, but I can't seem to get it to work the way I want it to. Could someone helpful please tell me how I get this: <function> <name>array_push</name> <examples> <example> <name>A way to do it</name>

Folks, I feel like pulling my hair out - I tried unsuccessfully over the past few days to install ImagMagick but because of version conflicts and missing libraries I had to give up. I originally choose ImageMagick because I've heard so much about it. I then decided to go with the inbuilt GD tools since I'm using PHP 4.3.3 that I compiled...

hi all, Trying to get those cookies to work but they wont... Doing this. Have a page login.php wich tests the user and pass. If they are correct a cookie is set with one variable like this: setcookie ("cookieUser", $user); then the browser is sent with header("Location: spelersPage.php"); to another page. I there try to read the...

I'm not kidding, the only reason yesterday you didn't hear from me was because I wasn't coding, but today I am doing something quick, and yes, as always it failed.. right at the SQL statement: $sql = 'SELECT v.nnet_produkt_varegruppe_navn, ' . ' f.nnet_produkt_farge_navn, ' . ' s.nnet_produkt_storrelse_navn, ' . ' ...

Hi, I have a website in a Linux/Apache shared hosting environment and have been given access to the MySQL server running on the same machine. To access this database from PHP, I have to call mysql_connect(host, user, password) where the password is hardcoded into my PHP source file in clear text. I see two security problems with this: