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Security implications of writing files using PHP

I'm currently trying to create a CMS using PHP, purely in the interest of education. I want the administrators to be able to create content, which will be parsed and saved on the server storage in pure HTML form to avoid the overhead that executing PHP script would incur. Unfortunately, I could only think of a few ways of doing so: Set...

Outlook Marking Email as Junk Email

I know. I sound like a spammer but these emails are completely legitimate email confirmations for people that have signed up for an account on this website we developed. These emails all make it through to various mail providers (gmail, yahoo, aol, hotmail/live) but they always get directed into the Outlook Junk Email folder. I am have t...

Upload Excel or CSV file to MySQL with PHP

I'm looking to allow users to upload an Excel or CSV file to MySQL for a contact management system. Need to be able to allow users to map their columns so that they are imported into the correct column in the table. Anyone know of a good site or tutorial on this? ...

Unable to access session variable on cookie less PHP sessions

I am trying to use PHP session without using cookies. I have enabled session.use_trans_sid and disabled session.use_cookies in my php.ini file. I have also disabled cookies in my firefox browser. Now, when I navigate between pages, I am unable to access the variable in the session object set from a previous page. BTW, I am aware that usi...

A web framework where AJAX was not an after thought

AJAX is a pain in the ass because it essentially means you'll have to write two sets of similarish code: one for browsers with JavaScript enabled and those without. Not only this, but you have to connect JavaScript events to hook into your models and display the results. And if all that weren't bad enough, you need to send an address c...

Help a Beginner with a PHP based Login System

I'm a bit embarrassed to say, but I've run into issue with creating a PHP based login system. I'm using a site template to handle the looks of the the login process, so I will spare you the code. Here is my thought process on how to handle the login: Create a simple login.php file. On there will be a form whose action is set to itself...

How to perform an external request in Kohana 3?

I've always used cURL for this sort of stuff, but this article got me thinking I could request another page easily using the Request object in Kohana 3. $url = 'http://www.example.com'; $update = Request::factory($url); $update->method = 'POST'; $update->post = array( 'key' => 'value' ); $update->ex...

Login to Gmail Inbox using Curl ?

Hello friends, I'm doing a project where user will first save his gmail id and password and after confirmation,I will provide a link for directly login to gmail next time without entering his gmail id and password.. the saved password will passed as a parameters of userid and passwd using CURL I'm doing this using php.. I heard about c...

Unexpected T_ELSE error in PHP

I am working on an example from a php book and am getting an error on line 8 with this code <?php $agent = getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT"); if (preg_match("/MSIE/i", "$agent")); { $result = "You are using Microsoft Internet Explorer"; } else if (preg_match("/Mozilla/i", "$agent")); { $result = "You are using Mozilla firefox"; } else...

How can I hide a $_GET variable to be more secured in PHP?

So far all my sites use mostly $_GET's to get the data for a page. Ex: editad.php?posting_id=131 editaccount.php?user_id=2 -->is there a way to hide or be more secured about what the user can see? I don't want them to be just able to say type "editad.php?posting_id=40" in the URL. I know I can use POSTS, but is there a way for GET...

A beginner's question...How do I use $_POST instead of $_GET? (PHP)

Okay, for all my coding so far I been using GETs and only $_POST on the same script. Ex: profile.php would show all the posts an user made and under each of their post, they can edit their post. The way I been using it is through $_GETs. So.. //this is the link users click to edit their post echo '<td><a href="editad.php?posti...

HTML and PHP simple contact form.

I tried to make a simple contact form via HTML and PHP but the form doesnt seem to submit. it stays on the HTML page and doesnt post to the php form. would love someone to look over the code, thanks in advanced. simple_form.html cdoe <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xh...

How do I create and populate a non-uniformly structured array in PHP?

I am trying to decide on a data structure for an array that has a date for the key and the amount of bandwidth consumed as values. examples Key Consumed Policy October 50 Basic November 75 Basic December 100 Basic Some months, but not all, will have more th...

Convert 2010-04-16 16:30:00 to "Tomorrow Afternoon".

Convert 2010-04-16 16:30:00 to "Tomorrow Afternoon" or convert another date to "this afternoon", "next year", "next week wednesday". You get the picture. Anyone know of a PHP or Javascript library that can do this? ...

PHP: Simple, Validate if string is hex?

I have no clue how to validate this string. I am simply supplying an IV for an encryption, but can find no "is_hex()" or similar function, I can't wrap my head around it! I read on a comment in the php documentation (user contrib. notes) this: if($iv == dechex(hexdec($iv))) { //True } else { //False } But that doesn't seem to work...

code comparison between ORM (doctrine) and SQL?

i've read a lot about ORM but wondering if there are side by side comparison examples between an ORM like doctrine and SQL so that you could see what is more easier to maintain? couldn't find such comparisons in google. ...

How to create array items by specify a key that includes hierachy ?

Given original codes as: foreach($option as $name=>$value) $array[$name] = $value; and $name as button[0][text], button[0][value], button[1][text], spider[0][name], ... The result array would be array('button[0][text]' => 'its text', 'button[0][value]' => 'its value', 'button[1][text]' => 'its text', 'spider[0][nam...

is there an open source social media/network site framework ?

I have an app that is made already, but thought of also bringing in social media/network elements like sharing widget, creating widget, creating certain widget social groups, ability to write their own modified widgets and publish it....etc ...

Third argument in strstr is only valid in PHP 5.3.0

Hello I want to get user from an email address, eg: [email protected] then output must be sajid for this i use below mentioned code $user = strstr($email, '@', true); but an warning occur Warning: Wrong parameter count for strstr() in /var/www/DataTable/dialog.php on line 3 & in php manul it is clearly define that the 3rd argume...

How can i get the source of a 777 - CHMOD php file?

A moderator of a forum i own did so. I still can't belive on it, and i can't understand how he did it. Can someone explain me? He said he used only HTTP GET requests The moderator said that the server (nginx) would normally send the output of the executed php files, but since that the files are 777 adding some parameters to the URL he c...