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database security with php page that spits out XML

Hello, I just created a PHP page that spits outs some data from my database in an XML format. This data is fetched from a flex application I made. I had spent a long time formatting my tables and database information and do not want anyone to be able to simply type www.mysite.com/page_that_spits_out_XML.php and steal my data. However...

Does mod_php honor HEAD requests properly?

The HTTP/1.1 RFC stipulates "The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a message-body in the response." I know Apache honors the RFC but modules don't have to. My question is, does mod_php5 honor this? The reason I ask is because I just came across an article saying that PHP developers should check this ...

Refreshing page after posted vars

So a form is submitted on my site, with form action equal to itself. I want the user to be able to refresh the page without sending the same variables again. I thought unset($_POST); would accomplish this for some reason it doesn't is there another way to accomplish this? ...

Merging Codeignitor with Wordpress

I'm trying to utilize the power of wordpress to set up a blog on my site. I got it to install fine, but when trying to use wordpress's functions in a CI view the functions are undefined. http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/48347/ I am following this. I put the require('blog/wp-blog-header.php') in my index.php file(ci) on the roo...

Automatic Image resizer for WYSIWYG Editor output?

A common issue when building Content Management Systems for end-users using WYSIWYG Editors like CKEditor is that users can upload images within the editor, embed them, and then resize them. After saving the content, the embedded (original) image URLs need to be replaced by their properly resized counterparts. Imagine a 3000 x 3000 phot...

php shuffle() returns one item

Anyone have any idea why shuffle() would only return 1 item? when using: $array2 = shuffle($array1); with the following array($array1): Array ( [0] => 1 [1] => 5 [2] => 6 [3] => 7 [4] => 8 [5] => 10 [6] => 11 [7] => 12 [8] => 13 [9] => 14 ) The output of: print_r($array2); is simply: 1 ...

Help on understanding JS

I have thos piece of code: Math&&Math.random?Math.floor(Math.random()*10000000000000):Date.getTime(); And as far as i know && is logic operator for AND, so im trying to convert this into PHP and this is where i got: intval(floor(time()/10800000)%10+(rand()?floor(rand()*10000000000000):time())) The problem is that i can't understand...

add assigned ordered number to array entry php

Hey guys I have an assigned array from mysql results and I simply want to number them starting at one. Does anyone know how to do this? while ($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){ $out[] = array("ASSIGNED INTEGER", $row['total']); } ...

PHP validation question

How do I check and see if a user enters only numbers and is at least 4 numbers long using PHP? ...

Good Form Security - no CAPTCHA

Is there a good method of form security that does not involve CAPTCHA? CAPTCHA is so annoying, but I need security because I am getting form spam. My form is PHP. ...

Adding up row number and displaying total using COUNT (PHP MySQL)

I'm attempting to run a query that adds up the total number of subjects in a class. A class has many subjects. There is a 'teachersclasses' table between teachers (the user table) and classes. The principles sounds pretty simple but I'm having some trouble in getting my page to display the number of subjects for each class (directly asso...

PHP form validation submit problem

Every time I try to submit the form and I have not entered nothing in the year field I get Incorrect year! how can I still submit the form without having to enter a year. In other words leaving the year field blank and not getting a warning? Here is the PHP code. if(preg_match('/^\d{4,}$/', $_POST['year'])) { $year = mysqli_real_es...

Filter sub-categories like in layered navigation

I created a new template file catalog/category/list.phtml. This is to display all sub categories of the current category. I have layered navigation which is displaying sub-categories as one of the filters, but I want this new template to work with these filters as well. Right now when i click the subcategory filter, it filters all prod...

PHP: upload image max 150x150..

How do i make a limit for the size of the image not SIZE but i mean how big it is.. so max 150x150? $image=$_FILES['image']['name']; if ($image) { $filename = stripslashes($_FILES['image']['name']); $extension = getExtension($filename); $extension = strtolower($extension); if (($extension != "jpg") && ($extension != "jpe...

snippet generation in php

Hi, I have a long chunk of text that came back from a search query. I'd like to display a snippet of the text, not the entire thing, and highlight the search query within the snippet. I realize that decided what part of the text to slice can be complicated, and I was hoping for any ideas on how do to this? Thanks! ...

How to save memory when reading a file in Php ?

I have a 200kb file, what I use in multiple pages, but on each page I need only 1-2 lines of that file so how I can read only these lines what I need if I know the line number? For example if I need only the 10th line, I don`t want to load in memory all the lines, just the 10th line. Sorry for my bad english! ...

Some unclear PHP syntax

I am a PHP beginner and saw on the forum this PHP expression: My PHP version is 5.2.X () $regex = <<<'END' / ( [\x00-\x7F] # single-byte sequences 0xxxxxxx | [\xC0-\xDF][\x80-\xBF] # double-byte sequences 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx | [\xE0-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # triple-byte sequences 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx * 2 | ...

PHP set timeout for script with system call, set_time_limit not working

I have a command-line PHP script that runs a wget request using each member of an array with foreach. This wget request can sometimes take a long time so I want to be able to set a timeout for killing the script if it goes past 15 seconds for example. I have PHP safemode disabled and tried set_time_limit(15) early in the script, however ...

php: session_start() error

I have a file, which starts <?php session_start();?>, and it returns an error Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\xampp2\htdocs\index.php:1) in C:\xampp2\htdocs\index.php on line 3 and now take a look at the moment, i can't anderstand anywa...

Server Error Message: No File Access

Hello. Im having an issues but dont know where to solve it. My template works great in xampp but not on the host server. I get this message: Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disables in the server configuration in homepage/......./twitter.php. The error is on line 64. <?php /* For use in...