Bonus posted:

You also can't do

php:

<?
$bla = new Something()->method();
?>

and I don't know why the hell PHP doesn't allow that.

Tap posted:

When a variable or function is declared with a single underscore as the first character (i.e. $_foo or $_fake_function()), what exactly does this tell me as a programmer?

fletcher posted:

When I am validating fields submitted from a form I end up with a big if/else like:

php:

<?
if (!aValid) {
    //error information
} else {
    if (!bValid) {
        //error information
    } else {
        if (!cValid) {
            //error information
        } else {
            //db interaction
        }
    }
}?>

There's gotta be a better way than that. What's the right way to do this? Should the fields be validated by the setters of my class?

Jahuran posted:

I figured I could do it in a few ways:

• 1.Store a file on the filesystem per user with their colorpicks in it and load these into a session whenever they return to the website.
  
• 2.Store a file on the filesystem per user and load it everytime a user loads up a page.
  
• 3.Store the colorsettings in a database table and load them into a session when the user returns to the website.
  
• 4.Store the colorsettings in a database table and load them everytime a user loads up a page.
  

Options 1 and 2 create a heavier load in terms of disk i/o.
Options 3 and 4 create more constant database queries (disk i/o and processing)

Options 3 and 4 seem the most viable to me. I'm expecting around 250 concurrent users daily during normal business hours. When people navigate to eachothers pages the colorpicks of the page they are visiting need to be loaded not their own!

So what method would you guys pick? Is there another way of going about this?
Recommendations are very welcome!

Safety Shaun posted:

How do I get the data of say, http://55.55.55.55/image.jpg or http://myimageserver.com/image.jpg into $imagedata?

fletcher posted:

I thought HTTP_REFERER couldn't be trusted?

Mashi posted:

Eh? How is it going to be slower than reading from the disk? Memcached stores information in memory.

blunt posted:

I've been having a problem where the following is throwing out a syntax error and i for the life of me can't find the problem

php:

<?
$check = mysql_query("SELECT 'id', 'fname', 'lname', 'active', 'type' FROM 'users' WHERE 'email' = $email AND 'pass' = $pass") 
    or die(mysql_error());
?>

I've tried just about every variation of ' placement, spaces and anything else i can think of but im sure its stupidly simple

Emo Businessman posted:

I know that I can 'fix' the error by simply passing a $this reference to SubCoolio, but I am curious as to why $this disappears as soon as the function in the include is called. What's happening here?

Safety Shaun posted:

I could transmit the answer back

php:

<?
<input type="button" value="Answer Here">?>

and compare that field to the correcta on submission, but I'm assuming it will start spitting out "wrong answer" messages when the correct answer is clicked if the answer contains certain characters.

Safety Shaun posted:

$q_image = str_replace('\', '/', $q_image);
and
$q_image = str_replace("\", "/", $q_image);
are messing up for me, is there any way I can replace slashes?

Lank posted:

Right now, when I use fopen, fgets and then a little csv parser I wrote, and then add the rows to my sql tables I'm having an issue. On both the echo statements I use for debugging in firefox and in the actual table itself there is a little black diamond with a question mark in it in between every single character.


If I open said csv in notepad, resave it as ANSI encoding and run the exact same process, it works fine.

quote:

I have a csv that's generated from a website that I need to read in to a sql table.

Stephen posted:

I guess if I stored the session ID and the IP address in the database and matched them each time the user browses to a page, it wouldn't be so bad.

Munkeymon posted:

And I guess you could make PHP tell you how may days there are in a year, but I'm going to cross my fingers that nothing changes that for a long time.

KuruMonkey posted:

I don't do a lot with timezones, honestly (its a perk of living in GMT - just make everything Zulu and forget about it)

quote:

But; when I do, I simply...

1-store all times as Zulu
2-manually offset by any required timezone offset using the magic of addition and subtraction, at the point the offset is required (i.e. I brute force it)

Stephen posted:

I've been trying to create a multipart text/html email and for some reason I can't get it to read properly. Here's what I've been doing, following examples of mime types on Google:

code:

$headers = 'From: E-mail <email@myaddress.com>';
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="boundary123"'."\r\n";

$body = "--boundary123\r\n";
$body.= "Content-type: text/plain\r\n";
$body.= "Here's some content";
$body.= "--boundary123";
$body.= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$body.= "<html><Here's some HTML content</html>";
$body.="--boundary123--";

mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers )

The email will show up in my inbox, however it doesn't properly split the boundaries, it just prints them on the page with all the HTML as text.

Can anyone point out what the issue with my code is? Thanks

awdio posted:

I finally figured out what was causing the problem, but I don't know WHY it happens. I had a variable defined with a get:

$catNum=$_GET['catNum'];

If I simply make that variable a number and not the get my other variable from the database gets sent to Flash. Why??

$catNum=3;

Edit: Basically, if I have that variable $catNum defined with the get $_GET['catNum'], $imageSourcesString does not pass to Flash! If I make $catNum equal say, "3", everything works. But I NEED the get for $catNum.

Lankiveil posted:

I've got some strings that need to be inserted into the database via an UPDATE command. However, the strings may or may not already be escaped (don't ask). For instance, I might have "don't go not don't" or "don/'t go not don/'t" passed to my module.

Is there any reliable way to make sure that apostrophes have only one slash, and are not double-slashed like in this thread title?

Sylink posted:

How would I test to see if a database query returned no results?

nbv4 posted:

it looks like this: "México", with a "A" with a squiggly line above it and a copyright logo

cLin posted:

gently caress yes it helps. Thanks. With letting any user access their data, aren't they prone to attacks/malicious doings?

SmirkingJack posted:

I was digging through some Kohana code and came across this syntax, which I have never seen before:

php:

<?
($field === TRUE) and $field = $this->any_field;?>

What does this do?

Safety Shaun posted:

php:

<?
$myArray = $_REQUEST["myArray"];
print_r($myArray); //prints the contents fine
//^^^ Array ( ['someVar1'] => text woo ['someVar2'] => text wee ['someVar3'] => text omg ['someVar4'] => ['someVar5'] => ) 
echo "test: alias = " . $myArray['someVar1']. "<br>"; //blank?
?>

What am I doing wrong please? the array is bring passed across from the form on the previous page and print_rd properly but I am having trouble using those array entities.

Filthy Lucre posted:

After spending a few hours trying to get Jack's formmail.php script working and not having any luck, I gave up and wrote my own.

Since I'm pretty new at PHP, I was hoping someone with a little more experience could give my code a quick look over to make sure I'm not doing anything obviously stupid before I put the code on a public web page.

code:

<?php
$to = "me@mydomain.com";
$bcc = "";

function sanitizePOST() {
  $keyWords = array ( "to", "bcc");
  $body = "";
  
  foreach($_POST as $key => $value) {
    $goodText = true;
    for($i=0; $i<count($keyWords); $i++)
	  if ($key == $keyWords[$i]) $goodText = false;
	
    if ($goodText == true) {
	  if (strlen($value) > 0) $body .= $key .": " .$value ."\r\n\r\n";
	  else $body .= $key .": empty\r\n\r\n";
	}else exit;
  }
  return $body;
}

$msgBody = sanitizePOST();
$additionalHeaders 	= "From: Web Form Submittal\r\n";
if (strlen($bcc) > 0) $additionalHeaders .= "BCC: " .$bcc ."\r\n";
mail($to, "Web Form Submittal", $msgBody, $additionalHeaders);

echo "<b>Your submission has been sent. Thank you for your participation.</b><br><br>";
?>

$to and $bcc should be sanitized by the sanitizePOST function, so it shouldn't be able to send email to unauthorized addresses. I hope, anyway.

Agrikk posted:

if ($IsThere=="no")

Agrikk posted:

Getting off topic for a second, what does it matter if I use strings or booleans? Is it a performance issue or something?

quote:

Oh motherfucker. Using booleans instead of strings actually made it all work.

insidius posted:

I already figured out how to use count to get the number of records to match them by type and spit out the results but I cant figure out exactly how to get records ONLY from the last 7 days that are marked completed. I can get completed and narrow it down to type but not to time.

eHacked posted:

Hello friends

I am trying to pass some variables via exec.

Here is my code:

code:

exec("/usr/local/bin/php -q galleryHandling.php --task=50 > log.log &");

from my understanding,

code:

$argv[1];

should contain the passed information, right? It should have "task=50"... right?

Well obviously I'm missing something because no variables seem to be passed!

crabrock posted:

quote:

Anyone have an idea why ? All the other words go through fine.

Hammerite posted:

When I saw that post my immediate reaction was "What? Can you do that?" (You can't, unless my hosting has set some ini setting to disable it)

Yossarko posted:

But I'm trying to chmod some files to 0755 and I get "Operation not permitted".

The owner of the file (well, all files) is my FTP username. PHP script is running as "apache" I think.

I don't want to have to manually chmod files or folders in FTP, rather I want my script, when run, to chmod various directories and files (upload folders, temp folders, log files). Once I put my website online I run this script and it correctly sets the permissions.

How can I get around this ?

Yossarko posted:

Yeah, I know. I understand, but isn't there any way to just give "apache" (www-data in my case) full rights ?

Begby posted:

$secondsInADay = 60 * 60 * 24;

v1nce posted:

The foreach method seems retarded and wastes a lot of memory if $store happens to be very large.

Yossarko posted:

When using mysql_connect, is there any way to connect without having my password in the PHP files in clear text ?

I'd like to maybe MD5 the password, and when mysql_connect'ing tell it to compare it with an MD5'd version of the database password.

epswing posted:

I'm pulling a couple DECIMAL(10,2) values from the db, but I see warning signs everywhere making sure I never compare floats. How does one do anything related to currency in php? Rounding? BC_Math? String comparison? Keeping dollars and cents as separate integers?