PHP - Help About Log-in Filters That Ping Pong On This Php.

Hello, please can anyone advise a right solution on how to avoid my site acting strangely when one of my AD companies stops to function.
I mean there are downtimes for AD servers as well, and i'm wondering what is the best solution? Can i load ads on my pages separately, so i mean lastly? They are all over my page so i guess i can't do it. Or is it better to ping ad server and wrap these ADS around PHP if functions, which ping these servers?
If you have a solution , which is most effective, please tell me.

how can i output the remote user's ping to my server on my website through php?

Hello,

I need a small php script to ping a domain with custom referrer url

eg: I need a script to ping a website www.abc.com with a custom referrer url ie. xyz.com

so that the website abc.com would think that the traffic is from xyz.com


Anyone have an idea?

--SS

I found a pretty cool function that allows me to ping Pingomatic for new blogs that I have. Great. Now I can automate the process instead of manually going to their website. My problem is actually simple. Sometime Pingomatic is quite busy and is unable to receive the request. I want to be able to check the status of my ping request but I don't know how to get this specific field/variable? from the result.

Here is the ping script:

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$title = "My blog title";

$url = "http://mynewbloglink";

function pingomatic($title,$url,$debug=true) {
    $content='<?xml version="1.0"?>'.
        '<methodCall>'.
        ' <methodName>weblogUpdates.ping</methodName>'.
        '  <params>'.
        '   <param>'.
        '    <value>'.$title.'</value>'.
        '   </param>'.
        '  <param>'.
        '   <value>'.$url.'</value>'.
        '  </param>'.
        ' </params>'.
        '</methodCall>';
 
    $headers="POST / HTTP/1.0\r\n".
    "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)\r\n".
    "Host: rpc.pingomatic.com\r\n".
    "Content-Type: text/xml\r\n".
    "Content-length: ".strlen($content);
 
    if ($debug) nl2br($headers);
 
    $request=$headers."\r\n\r\n".$content;
    $response = "";
    $fs=fsockopen('rpc.pingomatic.com',80, $errno, $errstr);
    if ($fs) {
        fwrite ($fs, $request);
        while (!feof($fs)) $response .= fgets($fs);
        if ($debug) echo "<xmp>".$response."</xmp>";
        fclose ($fs);
        preg_match_all("/<(name|value|boolean|string)>(.*)<\/(name|value|boolean|string)>/U",$response,$ar, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
        for($i=0;$i<count($ar[2]);$i++) $ar[2][$i]= strip_tags($ar[2][$i]);
        return array('status'=> ( $ar[2][1]==1 ? 'ko' : 'ok' ), 'msg'=>$ar[2][3] );
    } else {
        if ($debug) echo "<xmp>".$errstr." (".$errno.")</xmp>";
        return array('status'=>'ko', 'msg'=>$errstr." (".$errno.")");
    }
}

pingomatic($title,$url,$debug=true);


This script works and when Pingomatic 'is available' returns something to the effect of Thanks for pinging, you're blog is being forwarded...etc. etc.

When Pingomatic is too busy I receive the following result:

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HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:23:17 GMT
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=utf-8
Connection: close
Content-Length: 390
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodResponse>
<params>
<param>
<value>
<struct>
<member><name>flerror</name><value><boolean>1</boolean></value></member>
<member><name>message</name><value><string>Pingomatic is a bit overloaded at the moment</string></value></member>
</struct>
</value>
</param>
 </params>
</methodResponse>

What I'm trying to get in a variable is the '<member><name>message' result. In this case it's "Pingomatic is a bit overloaded at the moment". This way I can try to ping the server again later at another time knowing that the ping was not successful.

What I've tried:

I've attempted to see if the 'message' (Pingomatic is a bit overloaded at the moment) is in some of the variables within the original function:

$pingresponse = "<xmp>".$errstr." (".$errno.")</xmp>";
$pingresponse2 = "<xmp>".$response."</xmp>";
$pingresponse3 = array('status'=> ( $ar[2][1]==1 ? 'ko' : 'ok' ), 'msg'=>$ar[2][3] );
echo "Ping Server Response : Debug: ".$debug." Errstr :".$errstr." Errno: ".$errno."Response: ".$response;

But it isn't. My plan was to use strpos to search for the term "Pingomatic is a bit overloaded at the moment" in which I'll be able to know whether or not the ping was successful or not.

Any ideas?

Right i have my code below, i also have a drop down box

My drop down menu code
<table class="thinline" width="175">
<tr><td class="topic">Show All Cars From:</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
<select name="lim" class="text">
<option value="X">Everywhere</option>
<option value="England">England</option>
<option value="China">China</option>
<option value="Japan">Japan</option>
<option value="Brazil">Brazil</option>
<option value="South-Africa">South-Africa</option>
<option value="America">America</option><br><input type="submit" value="Show!" class="button" style="margin-top: 4px;">
</td></tr></table>

i want this box's values to update my SQL query so it shows only cars from that location seleteted.

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<?php
require("connections/db.php");
require("connections/require.php");
require("connections/jailed.php");

$submit = strip_tags($_POST['submit']);
$ros = strip_tags($_POST['ros']);

$play = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `players` WHERE `playername` = '$player' LIMIT 1")or die(mysql_error());
$arry = mysql_fetch_array($play);

$cash = $arry['money'];

$qry = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `garage` WHERE `owner` = '$player' ORDER BY `id` DESC")or die(mysql_error());

$num = mysql_numrows($qry);




?>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="connections/style.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="selectall.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="" method="post">
<table class="thinline" width="175">
<tr><td class="topic">Show All Cars From:</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
<select name="lim" class="text">
<option value="X">Everywhere</option>
<option value="England">England</option>
<option value="China">China</option>
<option value="Japan">Japan</option>
<option value="Brazil">Brazil</option>
<option value="South-Africa">South-Africa</option>
<option value="America">America</option><br><input type="submit" value="Show!" class="button" style="margin-top: 4px;">
</td></tr></table>
<br>
<table width="95%" align="center" class="tbl">
<tr><td align="center" class="hdr" colspan="8">.::Garage::.</td></tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" class="sub" width="5%">
<input type="checkbox" name="checkall" onClick="checkUncheckAll(this);">
</td>
<td align="center" class="sub">Type</td>
<td align="center" class="sub">Damage</td>
<td align="center" class="sub">Value</td>
<td align="center" class="sub">Origin</td>
<td align="center" class="sub">Location</td>
<td align="center" class="sub">Repair</td>
<td align="center" class="sub">Sell</td>
</tr>
<? if ($num == 0){ ?>
<tr><td align="center" class="tbl" colspan="8">You don't have any cars.</td></tr>
<? }elseif ($num > 0){
while ($arr = mysql_fetch_array($qry)){
$id = $arr['id'];
$car = $arr['car'];
$dam = $arr['damage'];
$origin = $arr['origin'];
$location = $arr['location'];
$status = $arr['status'];
$value = $arr['value'];

if ($status == 0){
$rep = "<a href=\"?rep=".$id."\">Repair</a>";
}else{
$rep = "Unavailable";
}

if ($status == 0){
$sell = "<a href=\"?sell=".$id."\">Sell</a>";
}else{
$sell = "Unavailable";
}

$car = "<a href=\"".$img."\" target=\"main\">".$car."</a>";
?>
<tr>
<td align="center" class="tbl">
<input type="checkbox" name="radio[]" value="<? print $id; ?>">
</td>
<td align="center" class="tbl"><? print $car; ?></td>
<td align="center" class="tbl"><? print $dam; ?>%</td>
<td align="center" class="tbl"><? print ("$".number_format($value).""); ?></td>
<td align="center" class="tbl"><? print $origin; ?></td>
<td align="center" class="tbl"><? print $location; ?></td>
<td align="center" class="tbl"><? print $rep; ?></td>
<td align="center" class="tbl"><? print $sell; ?></td>
</tr>
<? }} ?>
<tr><td align="center" class="tbl" colspan="8">
<select name="ros">
<option value="sell" Selected>Sell</option>
<option value="rep">Repair</option>
</select>
&nbsp; &nbsp;
<? sub(submit,Submit); ?>
</td></tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

For eg.  I have a page with a query that retrives records from the database and I want to have options of filtering out the shown records by date, time, likes, views..etc; how would I go about doing that?   The way I am thinking is having a html form with those filter inputs and using a relative query based on the filter selection to retrive the results.     What you think? 

Hi there,
I have been creating a website which shows products of the companys (www.theadventurestartshere.org) and I have been trying to make some filters for the products using URL Parameters and recordsheet filters...

Can someone advise me on the easiest way to do this? As I have created a method to do it with, (check website) but it has to be entered manually and I was hoping there is an easier way?

Please Note I like to use drop down boxes for the filters but if there is a way to do the checkbox style you see on say Amazon then that would be brilliant...

I use Dreamweaver CS5, and the newest versions of PHP and MySql

Many Thanks,
Paul

I have a property website and I want users to be able to filter the properties, So when they access the page, and click 'detached properties' only detached properties will appear, if the user selects 'semi-detached' then only semi detached properties will appear. I already have a mySQL database set up.

Image attached here to have a better understanding.

Basically I have a property page where I want users to be able to click 'detached' and then only detached properties will appear, if the user click 'semi-detached' then only semi-detched properties will appear. but these properties that I want to appear are just images, then a link to the actually property page with all the details.

You can view the page here to get a better understanding: http://www.mumtazproperties.hostei.com/forsale.html

At the moment all of the properties appear on the page. (and when you select the filters it actually does what I want it too, but through HTML) But I want the information to come from a database and then use PHP code to execute it all.

Help is hugely appreciated, thanks.

Hi all,  I have been reading in almost everywhere that we should not use our own custom login and password validations ( like regex etc.) but instead use the filter_var and filter_input built in functions provided by PHP 5 and above. However even after searching for more than an hour for with different search strings, I have not found even a single example that shows how we may validate for a username/login and password in a login form. Can someone be kind enough to provide a strong secure validations for username and login. Additionally I would also like to clarify if the username and login fields in a Login form be manipulated in any manner to pose a security threat? I mean can a hacker craft a username/login or password in such a manner as to pose an injection or any other threat? Thanks all.

Folks,

I am just trying to learn PHP.  For form input validation which is better - Regexp or PHP Filters?  Or do they have  completely different uses?  Where does preg fit in?

Thank you!
J.S.

Hello everyone,

I have website that uses the php(mail) function to notify users when something happens on their account.  The site was created for a school district so all the users are district employees where their incoming email is subject to pretty strict spam filtering.  I am using headers to indicate to the recipient that the email is coming from support@mysite.com, but I guess the mail servers see past this and recognize that it's coming from a php(mail) function.  Because of this, all of the emails being sent are being blocked by the filter.  I've tried adding all emails coming from an address that ends with "@mysite.com" but this doesn't work.  This is what the addresses look like that the spam filter is actually seeing:
 
elmas156@p3nlhftpg049.shr.prod.phx3.secureserver.net

And I can't just add a single address to the white list because each time an email is sent, the letters and numbers after "@" and before "secureserver.net" are different.  Here's another address that shows up:

elmas156@p3nlhg331.shr.prod.phx3.secureserver.net

here is the code that I'm using to send the emails:
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<?php

$sendto = "$email";
$emailsubject = "Testing Message Report For $cdate.";


$emailmessage = "This is a test email.";

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'From: MySite.com Report <support@mysite.com>' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($sendto, $emailsubject, $emailmessage, $headers);
?>

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do to make every email sent to be recognized by the spam filter as coming from the same email instead of a bunch of random ones?  I hope this is making sense to someone because it was very difficult for me to explain in writing.  Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

I am having a lot of trouble with this code, and I have no clue how to fix it.  Right now, I have a GUI for a fictitious car dealership that has 5 populated drop down menus called Make, Model, Year, Color, and Mileage.  What I want the code to do is read the selections made by the user with the drop down menus once the user hits the submit button and then filter the tables that I have in a mysql database to meets the choice requirements of the user.

The code will bring up the GUI, but once I hit the submit button, I get the following errors

Please if anyone can help me that would be fantastic.  I really have no clue

hello and good day

 

first of all:; i hope youre all right and everything goes well at your site;: 

Worpress-Plugin API - giving back the meta-data according the usage of different filters

I'm currently working on a parser to make a small preview on the newest plugins in wordpress. at the moment i think i work from a URL given  out of the range of these:  https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/browse/popular/ - let us say the first 30 to 40 URL-pages.

I'd like to retrieve only the title of the page and https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-job-manager and https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninja-forms and - let us say the most popular wp-plugins: 

a little chunk of information (a bit of text)

The project: for a list of meta-data of popular wordpress-plugins (cf. https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/browse/popular/ and gathering the first 50 URLs - that are
50 plugins which are of interest! The challenge is: i want to fetch meta-data of all the existing plugins.

What i subsequently want to filter out after the fetch is - those plugins that have the newest timestamp
- that are updated (most) recently. It is all aobut acutality...

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-job-manager
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninja-forms
https://wordpress.org/plugins/participants-database ....and so on and so forth.

see the source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-job-manager/ we have the following set of meta-data for each wordpress-plugin:
 

Version: 1.9.5.12
installations: 10,000+    
WordPress Version: 5.0 or higher
Tested up to: 5.4 PHP  
Version: 5.6 or higher    
Tags 3 Tags: database member sign-up form volunteer
Last updated: 19 hours ago
plugin-ratings

but as i saw today: there we have a api that can be used for this purpose too: the Wordpress-Plugins-API 

cf: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/plugins_api/


Browse: Home / Reference / Functions / plugins_api()
plugins_api( string $action, array|object $args = array() )
Retrieves plugin installer pages from the WordPress.org Plugins API.

Description #Description
It is possible for a plugin to override the Plugin API result with three filters. Assume this is for plugins, which can extend on the Plugin Info to offer more choices. This is very powerful and must be used with care when overriding the filters. The first filter, ‘plugins_api_args’, is for the args and gives the action as the second parameter. The hook for ‘plugins_api_args’ must ensure that an object is returned. The second filter, ‘plugins_api’, allows a plugin to override the WordPress.org Plugin Installation API entirely. If $action is ‘query_plugins’ or ‘plugin_information’, an object MUST be passed. If $action is ‘hot_tags’ or ‘hot_categories’, an array MUST be passed. Finally, the third filter, ‘plugins_api_result’, makes it possible to filter the response object or array, depending on the $action type.

Supported arguments per action

(object|array|WP_Error) Response object or array on success, WP_Error on failure. See the function reference article for more information on the make-up of possible return values depending on the value of $action.

 

+--------------------+---------------+--------------------+----------+----------------+
|                    |               |                    |          |                |
+--------------------+---------------+--------------------+----------+----------------+
| Argument Name      | query_plugins | plugin_information | hot_tags | hot_categories |
| $slug              | No            | Yes                | No       | No             |
| $per_page          | Yes           | No                 | No       | No             |
| $page              | Yes           | No                 | No       | No             |
| $number            | No            | No                 | Yes      | Yes            |
| $search            | Yes           | No                 | No       | No             |
| $tag               | Yes           | No                 | No       | No             |
| $author            | Yes           | No                 | No       | No             |
| $user              | Yes           | No                 | No       | No             |
| $browse            | Yes           | No                 | No       | No             |
| $locale            | Yes           | Yes                | No       | No             |
| $installed_plugins | Yes           | No                 | No       | No             |
| $is_ssl            | Yes           | Yes                | No       | No             |
| $fields            | Yes           | Yes                | No       | No             |
+--------------------+---------------+--------------------+----------+----------------+

well  - i guess i can use this API for the above mentioned aims too?

look forward to hear from you 

regards dil_Bert

 

cf: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/plugins_api/

see the reference list  :
 

$fields = array(
    'active_installs' => true,           // rounded int
    'added' => true,                     // date
    'author' => true,                    // a href html
    'author_block_count' => true,        // int
    'author_block_rating' => true,       // int
    'author_profile' => true,            // url
    'banners' => true,                   // array( [low], [high] )
    'compatibility' => false,            // empty array?
    'contributors' => true,              // array( array( [profile], [avatar], [display_name] )
    'description' => false,              // string
    'donate_link' => true,               // url
    'download_link' => true,             // url
    'downloaded' => false,               // int
    // 'group' => false,                 // n/a
    'homepage' => true,                  // url
    'icons' => false,                    // array( [1x] url, [2x] url )
    'last_updated' => true,              // datetime
    'name' => true,                      // string
    'num_ratings' => true,               // int
    'rating' => true,                    // int
    'ratings' => true,                   // array( [5..0] )
    'requires' => true,                  // version string
    'requires_php' => true,              // version string
    // 'reviews' => false,               // n/a, part of 'sections'
    'screenshots' => true,               // array( array( [src],  ) )
    'sections' => true,                  // array( [description], [installation], [changelog], [reviews], ...)
    'short_description' => false,        // string
    'slug' => true,                      // string
    'support_threads' => true,           // int
    'support_threads_resolved' => true,  // int
    'tags' => true,                      // array( )
    'tested' => true,                    // version string
    'version' => true,                   // version string
    'versions' => true,                  // array( [version] url )
);

 

what do you say-!?