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Problem is something like this. Some web applications written in php change permissions of some files and directories so I can't remove them if I don't change permissions to write those files and dir's. I can do that by making a php file with code : <?php chmod ("dir-or-file", 0777); ?> and send it to server and point browser to that...

Hi, In many cases, one needs only a single instance of a class in a script. Since PHP5 offers class variables like MyClass::$myVar and even class constants, it seems to me that an instantiation is not needed. Is it therefore okay and good practise to use a class without instantiation? In that case I could regard such a class as a collection...

Hi, I have been using a local installment of Apache web server and PHP on my computer. For some reason it has stopped loading my local web pages when I enter 'http://localhost' into the browser address bar. For IE it displays a page not found and Netscape, it redirects me to Netscape search where it does a search for 'localhost'. I cant...

Can someone please help me install php on apache? I downloaded the latest stable msi installer. Left it with default options unless i specifically needed to change them (e.g. server). Then I went to configue my httpd.conf file, and I realised I don't know where to put the lines of code. Can someone please say where I need to insert: 1)...

i am new to php,i want to write a website contain blog(mutil-user),forum and album. who can tell me some good framework can accelerate developing.and any exist web site implement the fuction i wanted,please tell me some for reference. thanks for all.

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Hi We have a high traffic PHP built website which, for reasons beyond my control, is hosted on a twin processor (Zeus) Windows 2003/IIS6 server. PHP 4.4.1 came preinstalled as a CGI but because of the load we were getting random 'CGI Header' errors. Microsoft have found the problem to be with the processors entering 'race mode' (because of...

There is a domain www.xxxxxxxxx.pl, I would like to enter: www.xxxxxxxxx.pl/adres/ and get www.xxxxxxxxx.pl/adres.php so I put in .htaccess a rule: RewriteRule (.*)/$ /$1.php Everything works ok, but now I decided to make a subdomain "test". I enter: www.test.xxxxxxxxx.pl and my webbrowser connects to www.xxxxxxxxx.pl/test.php what can I...

Hello, I want to take a block of text and add html tags to make hyperlinks where hyperlink strings exist. So, if I have a variable $a = "This is http://www.yahoo.com" I would like to run that through a function such that the value of $a is

Something odd is happening. Scripts on several sites that collect form data, save it to a DB, then redirect the user to another page are slowing to a crawl during the redirect using the header() function. For example: header("Location:member.php"). I tried changing the header() command in a few ways: header("Location:/member.php"),...

Hello php gurus, maybe it sounds crazy, but I'd would like to use php for some system administration, backups, etc, but sometimes user interaction is needed. Till now i have been using windows script host, but more and more I need communication with intranet servers, which works fine with libcurl. Now I'm executing curl.exe for every...

Hi, I was looking at mail injection, http://securephp.damonkohler.com/index.php/Email_Injection And I was wondering if my mail(...) was safe. I ask in a form for 1 Name 2 Email address

Hello, I have written web-scripts in php. I want to know if it is possible to write desktop aplications in php which dont require the web server. If yes, than can we run these applications as executable in windows. Thank You Sagar Arlekar

Hi all This is a mysql question, is it possible to use a mysql query to select all the records from several fields in a table (tbl1) and then create a new table (tbl2) with the same structure and all this data inserted into it?

I'm running SuSE Linux 9.3, fully up to date running # pear install db responds with ... downloading DB-1.7.6.tgz ... Starting to download DB-1.7.6.tgz (124,807 bytes) .............................done: 124,807 bytes requires package `PEAR' >= 1.0b1 DB: Dependencies failed Googling around this ng I found someone with a similar problem...

Hi there, I'm working on a script to work with podcast feeds (RSS) and have found the lasRSS parser to be quite good. http://lastrss.webdot.cz/ I've modified this to work with i-tunes tags (as they have added their own to the RSS vocabulary!) however I still have one set of tags - category - that I am stuck with. an example of these tags...

urlencode turns # into %23 When I sent it thru $_GET, it dissapears, along with anything that comes after it. for example: urlencode turns HOYDM_EXC_#4_NAT into HOYDM_EXC_%234_NAT When I use it in an url

Hi, We are building an internet based application that would allow any one to purchase online (php generated) reports that include a few photographs. What is the best way to serve the images so that the user wouldn't get hold of other images on the webserver? Thanks in advance,

Hi I am looking for some advise here... I am running php on RH9 Using Exim as a MTA which is used as my test enviroment. Problem is that when I send mail through php it is sent from nobody@mydomain.com and the email is converted to plain text which displays all the html.. Is there a configuration setting in my php.ini that must be set...

Any php editors recommended for Windows systems? What about a compiled help metafile (.chm)? I'm looking over http://www.php.net right at the moment through the list of editors. Looking for something with syntax highlights, intellisense (if available). -- Jim Carlock Post replies to the newsgroup, thanks.

I have the following function: function clean_form( &$from_check ) { if(is_array($from_check)){ array_walk(&$from_check,'clean_form'); return; } else { $value = str_replace(array("\r","\n","Content-Type:"),"",$from_check); }

Hi, I have written a simple guestbook in php which writes the contents in a file while using flock. But I have read that this is not always save. So some people suggested to use a database instead. But if I use mysql, then my customers have to pay more for the webspace. Actually, I would prefer to use a simple database like dbm...

Hi, We have found a memory leak on a php server after executing a php/mysql application. The configuration is php 4.3.1 + mysql on windows server 2000 with IIS. Does the memory leak come from the php application itself (ie. a bug on the php developed scripts)? If not, where could be the problem?

Here is a nice problem. I have two scripts, one calling the other with via an include. The script that is included contains a variable, a function and a call to that function. The variable needs to be accessible to the function, so I declare it having a global scope. Then I execute the function, which should echo the value of the variable....

Hi NG, I have my own apache server 2.0.54 running with php 4.3.10. I got a little logical problem here about http requests. I have written a small php script which waits for x seconds. Every second it appends the seconds to a file. I expected a timeout after 300 seconds, becouse apache is configured