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PHP Single Sign On (SSO) generating new session id

I am trying to create a single sign on process. The method I have implemented makes use of storing session data in a database. When a new user comes to the website (www.example2.com) a table of authentication is checked. As this is their first visit to the website, there will be no match. The browser is redicted to the authentication ...

Hide header if node body is empty - Drupal php snippet help

Hello! I've made a content type for links, I'm trying to make a link directory. People only have to submit the link, description is voluntary. If no description is entered, I want the header that says "description" to disappear. The description field is the node body. Right now my snippet looks like this <?php if (!empty($node->body)) {...

How to find nearest day of week in php?

Hello! How to find a speciefic nearest day of the week in PHP if initially I have a date string like: 07.05.2010? For example, I want to find the nearest Sunday (or any day of the week). How can I implement this? Thanks ...

How can I restrict access to some PHP pages only from pages within my website ?

Hi - I have in my website a PHP page which retrieves data from my database to be presented in my website. This page is called via AJAX. How can I restrict the access to it only from pages within my website so users who wants to abuse it and get this data not from the website (e.g. posting HTTP request from their server) itself won't be a...

Kohana 3, problem with m2m data adding

Hello I posted this on official forum but with no result. I am getting :Undefined index: enrollment error when trying to save data. My pivot model: class Model_Enrollment extends ORM { protected $_belongs_to = array('page' => array(), 'menugroup' => array()); } Model_Page protected $_has_many = array('te...

Implode error for PHP

Hi Everyone! I have a form where I've got three checkboxes like this: <td>Wireless <input type="checkbox" name="services[]" value="wireless" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Cellular <input type="checkbox" name="services[]" value="cellular" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Security <input type="checkbox" name="services[]" value="Sec...

I want to prevent people from accessing my php pages directly using .htaccess

I have a site that is made up of php pages, but they are served to the user through includes based on what I think they need. if they can guess the name of a php file, they can access those pages. while this is not a security risk at all, i would rather have a way to catch this and redirect them to somewhere else. i really want everythi...

Regex to replace 'li' with 'option' without losing class and id attributes

I am looking for a solution using preg_replace or similar method to change: <li id="id1" class="authorlist" /> <li id="id2" class="authorlist" /> <li id="id3" class="authorlist" /> to <option id="id1" class="authorlist" /> <option id="id2" class="authorlist" /> <option id="id3" class="authorlist" /> I think I have the pattern corre...

Sending an Activation Email when a New User Registers

Hello, The code below is a login system that I am using. It is supposed to allow a new user to register and then send the new user an activation email. It is inserting the new user into the MySQL database, but it is not sending the activation email. Any ideas why it's not sending the activation email? Thanks in advance, John heade...

Can I say if(4 < $a < 44) instead of if(4 < $a && $a < 44)? (php)

Can I use if(4 <= $a <= 44) instead of if(4 <= $a && $a <= 44)? ...

How to make WordPress "Add/Edit Post" form more Tumblr like?

Hi, WordPress requires you give each blog post at least two fields: a title and text body content. I'm wondering how to modify WordPress admin so I can sometimes enter a single field for a blog post, in particular a URL, without WordPress requiring a title (related but not the point of this question: a custom theme would then know how ...

Theme the node-create and node-edit template

I'm using drupal 6. I've managed to make a .tpl file for one content type, that is for images in my image gallery. I did that by adding this code in template.php: function artbasic_theme($existing, $type, $theme, $path) { return array( 'galleryimage_node_form' => array( 'arguments' => array('form' => NULL), 'templa...

Post on a logged in users facebook wall

Hey all, I've created a widget that will essentially unlock a music track, providing you post to either your twitter account, or facebook wall. I've signed up through facebook connect and I am able to successfully post onto my own wall... but the functionality I'm looking for is to be able to take ones username and password and automa...

php vs bash for CLI scripting?

i have never used PHP with CLI, but i have seen scripts run with php code. i was wondering, why should we use bash, when php is so popular and is able to run in CLI. what are the pros and cons with each one? should i use php for all CLI scripting in the future? ...

How can I merge two Doctrine records without null values overwriting existing values?

I have an array of default values that I'd like to merge with a Doctrine record. I tried using Doctrine's merge method but it's overwriting existing values with the merge array, even if the merge array contains null values. I'd like to merge in a way that only null or empty values are replaced with existing default values. ...

Pear dependencies in Ant

What's a good way to include Pear dependencies in ant/ivy. Should I use phing or is there a better way using ant? Thanks, Sriranjan ...

Does HTML5 make Javascript gaming safer (more secure)?

I know that Javascript is an incredibly unsecure way of programming a persistent game, where for instance you are doing battle calculations in an RPG and then award XP through linking to a PHP page when they win that adds XP to a database (since the player could make their own javascript to always win or just look at the PHP page that yo...

Success verification of mail() function PHP

Hi Is it possible to check if the php can get some kind of a ping/flag back from exchange mail server to say "yes, email has been sent off to the intended recipient"? According to the PHP manual, the return of mail() boolean could mean; "It is important to note that just because the mail was accepted for delivery, it does NOT mean the ...

[php] catch .htaccess username and password?

i have a secure login using .htaccess, and i need to know which user accessed the area so that my php index can show him his invoices, but the problem is that how to capture the user name when promoted in .htaccess ...

How to enable core PHP extension in Linux?

I'm trying to understand the process for enabling an a core extension (dom) in php. When I run phpinfo, I see '--disable-dom' in the configure command. Am I supposed to re-install PHP? ...