I want to make sure people can't type the name of a PHP script in the URL and run it. What's the best way of doing this? I could set a variable in the file that will be including this file, and then check that variable in the file being included, but is there an easier way? ...
I just moved to a new hosting company and now whenever a string gets escaped using: mysql_real_escape_string($str); the slashes remain in the database. This is the first time I've ever seen this happen so none of my scripts use stripslashes() anymore. This is on a CentOS 4.5 64bit running php 5.2.6 as fastcgi on a lighttpd 1.4 se...
I run php 5.2.6 as a cgi under lighttpd 1.4 and for some reason it's always running as root. All php-cgi processes in are owned by root and all files written to the file system are owned by root. I've tried setting the user in lighttpd as non privileged, and confirmed, it's running right it's just php that runs as root. How would I s...
Hello, I have a web project where I must import text and images from a user-supplied document, and one of the possible formats is Microsoft Office 2007. There's also a need to generate documents in this format. The server runs CentOS 5.2 and has PHP/Perl/Python installed. I can execute local binaries and shell scripts if I must. We use...
PHP treats all arrays as associative, so there aren't any built in functions. Can anyone recommend a fairly efficient way to check if an array contains only numeric keys? Basically, I want to be able to differentiate between this: $sequentialArray = array('apple', 'orange', 'tomato', 'carrot'); and this: $assocArray = array('fruit1'...
I am trying to take a rather large CSV file and insert it into a MySQL database for referencing in a project. I would like to use the first line of the file to create the table using proper data types and not varchar for each column. The ultimate goal is to automate this process as I have several similar files but the each has different ...
Hello, I've got a "little" problem with Zend Framework Zend_Pdf class. Multibyte characters are stripped from generated pdf files. E.g. when I write aąbcčdeę it becomes abcd with lithuanian letters stripped. I'm not sure if it's particularly Zend_Pdf problem or php in general. Source text is encoded in utf-8, as well as the php source...
I would like to save data in cookies (user name, email address, etc...) but I don't the user to easily read it or modify it. I need to be able able to read the data back. How can I do that with php 5.2+? It would be used for "welcome back bob" kind of feature. It is not a replacement for persistence or session storage. ...
We run a medium-size site that gets a few hundred thousand pageviews a day. Up until last weekend we ran with a load usually below 0.2 on a virtual machine. The OS is Ubuntu. When deploying the latest version of our application, we also did an apt-get dist-upgrade before deploying. After we had deployed we noticed that the load on the C...
I have a PHP script that needs to determine if it's been executed via the command-line or via HTTP, primarily for output-formatting purposes. What's the canonical way of doing this? I had thought it was to inspect SERVER['argc'], but it turns out this is populated, even when using the 'Apache 2.0 Handler' server API. ...
This is a question you can read everywhere on the web with various answers : $ext = end(explode('.', $filename)); $ext = substr(strrchr($filename, '.'), 1); $ext = substr($filename, strrpos($filename, '.') + 1); $ext = preg_replace('/^.*\.([^.]+)$/D', '$1', $filename); $exts = split("[/\\.]", $filename); $n = count($exts)-1; $ext = $ext...
I am using my own db for phpbb3 forum, and I wish to insert some data from the forum into my own tables. Now, I can make my own connection and it runs my query but in trying to use the $db variable(which I think is what you're meant to use??) it gives me an error. I would like someone to show me the bare bones which i insert my query in...
This PHP code... 207 if (getenv(HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR)) { 208 $ip = getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARD_FOR'); 209 $host = gethostbyaddr($ip); 210 } else { 211 $ip = getenv('REMOTE_ADDR'); 212 $host = gethostbyaddr($ip); 213 } Throws this warning... Warning: gethostbyaddr() [function.gethostbyaddr]: Ad...
I'm trying to find something, preferably F/OSS, that can generate a Google Maps overlay from KML and/or KMZ data. We've got an event site we're working on that needed to accommodate ~16,000 place markers last year and will likely have at least that many again this year. Last year, the company that had done the site just fed the KML data...
Do any apps/packages exist that will support writing to OS X's log database from external sources. I'm not too familiar with the specifics of the database, beyond the fact that you can view its contents from the Console app. I'm not even sure if it's just a version of some simple DB like SQLite or if it is some sort of proprietary/intern...
What is the best practice for setting up a LAMP server in terms of linux users and groups? If there are multiple sites hosted on the same server, is it best to have a single user that owns all site source files (and uploads) that is in the same group as apache - or to have a different user for each site (so that each site has its own cr...
Given a credit card number and no additional information, what is the best way in PHP to determine whether or not it is a valid number? Right now I need something that will work with American Express, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa, but it might be helpful if it will also work with other types. ...
Have any bridge libraries been developed for PHP that provide access to the jQuery framework? Ideally it would be nice to have something fairly extensible so that creating jQuery-based content using PHP code would be fairly easy and customizeable. Does such a thing exist yet? ...
I am working on a project that is built on an extended version of the default PDO and PDOStatement classes and as such it uses PDO style named parameters instead of the "?" placeholder for variables. However, the client is now requesting that we look into using a different driver because their version OS X Web Server apparently doesn't...
I'm trying to host a PHP web site that was given to me. I see this warning: Warning: Unknown: Your script possibly relies on a session side-effect which existed until PHP 4.2.3. Please be advised that the session extension does not consider global variables as a source of data, unless register_globals is enabled. You can...