Webmaster Forum / PHP / General PHP Topics / July 2008

I wanted to see if absolute or relative URLs had anything at all to do
with the session variable information being lost.  So, I wrote a simple
test program.  It is at www.sheldonlg.com/headertest/index.php. The
results were not what I expected.  BOTH ways lost the session ...

A particular web hosting company decided to install phpsuexec on all
their webservers, citing security considerations.  My question is...
is it really more secure?
Without phpsuexec, if a PHP script is to create new files, public

i am trying to create an xml tag ref to hold link.php?id=1; or
link.php?id=2 and so on.
I want the links for all the fields(id) in the databse so that when i
call them in my html page for google maps i have the whole link.The

For the below query:
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$res = mysql_query("select * from tableOne where clientID='".
$_GET['getClientId']."'") or die(mysql_error());

hello everybody......
plz help me out...
how we can store the acual path of uploading file.i want to store the
path of file in my database...bt i m not getting anyway to implement

I'm looking for a way to prevent access to a web page except from a
particular referring page.
What I am trying to do is prevent access to a download page for anyone
who has not successfully completed an online quiz.

Hopefully this is an easy question for those with more experience.
I have two separate programs that I want to use together on a website
Program A starts first and calls session_start().
Program B is started by the user clicking on a link and it also calls

If ever a newbie wants to know how much he has to learn yet, he only has
to look here<g>!!  ANYway:
PHP 5.2.5; XP Pro SP2+, local Apache Server
My actual question is:  How do I get a POST variable into a session

First off, my skill level is beginner/intermediate.
I know how to use php/mysql to fill in a page with information, but I read
a little about arrays and i think this may be an interesting and easy way
to maintain a small website.

    I'd like to encrypt a customer's organization name to use this as
their password to launch our application, and decrypt it within our
VB5 application.
We will then use this information to print it on every page that the

I am using PHP on the command line. PHP version is 5.2.0-8+etch11
(cli) from Debian Sarge.
Apparently there is no informix extension in the package, so I got the
PHP 5.2.0 source and built it with --disable-all --with-

Hi guys, I've 2 function as:
function a($arg1,$arg2,...,$argn){
echo '....';
}

I have UI in php,
windows bat file that, i want to run  bat file from UI,this file
contains
[code in bat file]

I am looking at some code which process an uploaded file and it has
loops like:
for(;;){     // for([two semicolons){
what is the function of the two semicolons?  loop until break?

Does stream_socket_client use the /etc/hosts file? I'm using Mac OSX
10.5.3 as a development platform and VMware Fusion for VM hosting. I
have a OpenSUSE Linux VM that has an Apache 2 web server with multiple
named virtual hosts. I use the Macs /etc/hosts file to provide DNS