What's the difference whether or not to run PHP in safe mode?
Can you list any specific difference that can be perceived? ...
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pear mail queue report script?
Is there a pear mail queue reporting script that builds pretty charts and graphs from your MQ database? I have MQ set up on a cron job and I want to tie some reporting into my admin console. ...
ibrowser and tinymce: nothing happens when ibrowser icon is clicked
I have installed ibrowser plugin. Do every thing in here and here Addin javascript as below: <script type="text/javascript"> tinyMCE.init({ theme : "advanced", mode : "textareas", plugins : "ibrowser", theme_advanced_buttons3_add : "ibrowser" }); function toggleEditor(id) { if (!tinyMCE.get(id)) tinyMCE.execCommand("mceAddContr...
What can be improved in this PHP code?
This is a custom encryption library. I do not know much about PHP's standard library of functions and was wondering if the following code can be improved in any way. The implementation should yield the same results, the API should remain as it is, but ways to make is more PHP-ish would be greatly appreciated. Code <?php /************...
Serialize checkbox array, also get checkboxes with off-value
Hi, I was wondering if this is possible. The serialize-string will be inserted in a mySQL-database, so it would be fine if all checkboxes would be inserted and not only the ones that is ticked(on). it's possible to make on column in the database for each of the checkboxes, and use this if/else-statement: if(isset($_GET['checkbox'])) {...
Static Website - Converting to Dynamic, need to import information from database on different host
This seems really complicated to ask about so I hope someone can help: We have a long time running static website held with a hosting company that provide PHP, Ruby-on-Rails and Drupal/Joomla support. A little limited I know but we got reasonably decent search engine rankings and didn't want them to drop. We have two much more recently ...
Find out if function has any output with php
Quick one for you guys. Say I have a function that outputs a string: function myString() { echo 'Hello World'; } How would I go about testing to see if the function outputs any data? if(myString() ==''){ echo ''Empty function; } ...
Some menu customisation in Silverstripe
1) i need set different class name for every menu item, based on a menu row (iterating, i need just a number) <% control Menu(1) %> <div class="mainmenu-item-$MenuItemRow"><a href="$Link">$MenuTitle</a></div> <% end_control %> 2) is there a simple way to create an small second menu ? ...
Print results of a SELECT query as preformatted text in PHP?
I'm looking for an easy and quick way to print out the results of a MySQL SELECT query in PHP as preformatted text. What I would like is to be able to pass a query object to a function and get a printout of the recordset like the command line MySQL client does when running SELECT statements. Here is an example of how I want it to look ...
sending +-200 emails using php mail() function in a loop
Note: It is worth noting that the mail() function is not suitable for larger volumes of email in a loop. This function opens and closes an SMTP socket for each email, which is not very efficient. Source: PHP manual What are larger volumes? A 100 or a 1000?? Can I safely make it loop 200 times without much problems? (I ...
Escape hyperlink with exclamation marks in php.ini
I have a config file that takes text warnings like follows: warnings.1 = Please check the date These are presented to the user as HTML. I need to embed a hyperlink like the following: warnings.1 = <a href="http://foo.com/!FOO!/">check with foo</a> I can't for the life of me figure out how to escape this such that parse_ini_file...
Paypal Encrypted Website payments
I am trying to integrate a PayPal Website Payments Standard > Cart Upload payment type into my shopping cart. I integrated Google Checkout a while back and I did not find it overly confusing as I do paypal. I am getting info on how to encrypt it from here: https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_render-content&content_ID=develo...
Detect forged IP address?
How do you detect if the IP address for data received via a web form has come from a spoofed IP address? If detection is possible in PHP, is there a library that will also attempt to find the real IP address? ...
Detect string encoding in php4
How I can detect string encoding without mb_* and iconv functions in php4 ...
Find redundant user functions
I'm profiling an app that has a boat load of functions in many files and I'm trying to isolate functions that don't get called ever. Any ideas before I proceed? ...
PHP Error - Login Script
I am creating a new login script/members directory. I am creating it from scratch without any frameworks (advice on this matter would also be appreciated). The situation: // Look up the username and password in the database $query = "SELECT admin_id, username FROM admin WHERE adminname = '$admin_user' AND password = SHA1('$admin_p...
Drupal clean urls on custom page GET request.
I have a drupal page (content type page) that should accept GET values using clean urls. I put the following code in the page body using the php code input format. <?php $uid = $_GET['uid']; $user = user_load($uid); print $user->name; ?> Now the following link http://www.example.com/mypath/?uid=5 results in user 5's name being ...
Newlines not being interpreted when passed to php via the command line
I have a PHP script that I'm invoking from another shell script that sends an automated email with a message generated from the shell script. Problem is, when I send the message all the newline characters are printed into the message. How do I get them to be interpreted? sendmail.sh: /path/to/phpscript/sendmail.php "Some Message With N...
RSS Reader php (have already read related articles)
Hey there. I've read all the related articles on here and can't find one that is specific to what I am looking for. I am new to RSS and am looking for the following reader if anyone know's the right direction to throw me in: An rss reader that I can put on my page that does NOT require mysql database A fairly light chunk of code that I...
$_POST Returns empty for multiple select box
Ok, I am filling up my multiple select box with options from another select box via javascript like so: function addAction() { var actions = document.getElementById("actions"); var action_list = document.getElementById("actions_list"); var opt = document.createElement("option"); for (var i=0; i<action_list.options.length...