PHP - String Length

I know the default length of a tiny int is less than an int, but if I put in the same length for both, are they essentially the same type?

I've got an enormous page for a pretty complex process.  I just posted some changes, and it stopped functioning.  Through multiple tests, I determined there was no problem with the code; it was just becomes too large at a certain point.  I've read about changing settings in the php.ini file, but I'm not exactly sure what to change or what to bump it up to to allow for this huge page.  Here are some current settings that I'm guessing control this problem:

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max_execution_time = 30     ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
max_input_time = 60 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
memory_limit = 8M      ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)

; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.
post_max_size = 8M

; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 2M



Does anyone have any insight into what to change or what settings might allow for a larger page?  Not sure which one of these settings controls my problem.  Thanks, as always, for any help.

Is 40 characters long enough for an E-mail field?


Debbie

Hi,

I am trying to make some adjustments to uploadify.php which comes with the latest version of uploadify (3.0 beta), so that it works with a session variable that stores the login username and adds it to the path for uploads.  Here is uploadify.php as it currently looks:

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<?php
session_name("MyLogin");
session_start();

$targetFolder = '/songs/' . $_SESSION['name']; // Relative to the root

if (!empty($_FILES)) {
$tempFile = $_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'];
$targetPath = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $targetFolder;
$targetFile = rtrim($targetPath,'/') .'/'. $_FILES['Filedata']['name'];

// Validate the file type
$fileTypes = array('m4a','mp3','flac','ogg'); // File extensions
$fileParts = pathinfo($_FILES['Filedata']['name']);

if (in_array($fileParts['extension'],$fileTypes)) {
move_uploaded_file($tempFile,$targetFile);
echo '1';
} else {
echo 'Invalid file type.';
}
}

echo $targetFolder;

?>
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echo $targetFolder; at the bottom so that I could make sure that the string returned was correct, and it is, i.e. '/songs/nick'.  For some reason though, uploads are not going to the correct folder, i.e. the username folder, but instead are going to the parent folder 'songs'.  The folder for username exists, with correct permissions, and when I manually enter Code: [Select]
$targetFolder = '/songs/nick';all works fine.  Which strikes me as rather strange.  I have limited experience of using php, but wonder how if the correct string is returned by the session variable, the upload works differently than with the manually entered string.

Any help would be much appreciated.  It's the last issue with a website that was due to go live 2 days ago!

Thanks,

Nick

$file = 'includes/views.txt';
$f = fopen($file, 'w+');
$views = fread($f, filesize($file));
fwrite($f, $views+1);
fclose($f);


The contents of views.txt is:
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1

Why is it returning it needs to be greater than 0?...The file isn't empty.

Hey there, need some help badly.

I'm trying to get the size of the BLOB data in mysql. Did a search and there are like no tutorial on this. Only relevant info was from this page, at the far bottom, it just wrote this (below code). But the writer did not explain how to use it.

SELECT OCTET_LENGTH(content) FROM BloBTest WHERE filename='myimage.png'

I just give it a trial an error, wrote this, but did not work.

$LENGTH = mysql_query("SELECT OCTET_LENGTH(blobdata) FROM thedatabase WHERE id = 'selected_id'");
echo $LENGTH;

Please help....

For PHP 7.4, what is the recommended session length that I should be using to have the best security?

In DEV< in my php.ini file, session.sid_length = 26

According to the comments above that, it sounds like you can go up to 256.

Is it fair to assume that larger is more secure?

Also, if I set it to a larger size like 256, is tehre any risk of breaking things on my (VPS) web server running WHM/cPanel?

Hello everyone,

I've searched these forums for a while now trying to resolve a problem that I have with my sessions timing out before I would like them to, but I've only gotten confused about it.  I've read about changing some settings or adding code in my php.ini file but I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to that.  I'm starting the session simply by having session_start(); at the top of each of my pages.  I'm including a copy of my entire php.ini file here so that you can see what I have already.  Can someone please help me to figure out what I would need to do to make my sessions last at least 8 hours?  Thanks in advance.

Here's my php.ini file:
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register_globals = off
allow_url_fopen = off

expose_php = Off
max_input_time = 60
variables_order = "EGPCS"
extension_dir = ./
upload_tmp_dir = /tmp
precision = 12
SMTP = relay-hosting.secureserver.net
url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset="


; Only uncomment zend optimizer lines if your application requires Zend Optimizer support

;[Zend]
;zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
;zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3
;zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3
;zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3/ZendExtensionManager.so
;zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so


; -- Be very careful to not to disable a function which might be needed!
; -- Uncomment the following lines to increase the security of your PHP site.

;disable_functions = "highlight_file,ini_alter,ini_restore,openlog,passthru,
;       phpinfo, exec, system, dl, fsockopen, set_time_limit,
;                     popen, proc_open, proc_nice,shell_exec,show_source,symlink"

Hello all,

I'm trying to change the end of a javascript call based on the end of the url string. The common part of all the url strings is sobi2Id=, I'm trying to do this with strstr but am having no luck. I'm new to php so my syntax knowledge is terrible!

at the moment i've got

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<?php

       $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

     $tag = strstr ($url, 'sobi2Id=');

       echo $tag; 
?>
but this returns an unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'

Can anyone debug this? I may well be being really silly!

Hey there,

Thanks for taking the time to read my thread. My issue is that I can't think of a way to edit a XML file using PHP's XML functionality and then assign the edited contents to a string instead of saving the file. Because my issue is that I have to edit the XML file based upon a string brought from a remote location then give it back to that remote location using a string again, to be exact I am doing it via Linux command line utilizing SSH2.

This is what I managed to complete on my own.


function CheckIVMPConfig($ServerID)
{
global $Panel;

if(is_numeric($ServerID) && $this->IsValidServer($ServerID))
{
// We select the game server that the FTP account was created for.
$Servers = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM control_servers WHERE server_id = '".mysql_real_escape_string($FTPAccount['ftp_server'])."'");
$Server = mysql_fetch_array($Servers);

// Here we select the Box ID that the game server is on.
$Boxs = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM control_machines WHERE machine_id = '".$Server['server_machine']."'");
$Box = mysql_fetch_array($Boxs);

// Now we select the required package for the box.
$Packages = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM control_packages WHERE package_id = '".$Server['server_package']."'");
$Package = mysql_fetch_array($Packages);

// Retrive the file.
$Config = $CProtocol->exec("cat /home/{$Server['server_id']}/{$Package['package_config']}");

$Parse = SimpleXMLElement($Config);

foreach($Parse as $Entry) // loop through our books
{
if($Entry->port != $Server['server_port'])
{
// edit the value
}
else if($Entry->maxplayers > $Server['server_slots'])
{
// edit the value
}
}
}
}

This topic has been moved to PHP Regex.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=326004.0

I have an integer that I'd like to validate to ensure that it is a valid number between 1 and 99999999999999999999(20 digits).

I'm thinking about using the following, but I'm not sure what the max range is on the FILTER_VALIDATE_INT options.

return filter_var($_REQUEST['r'], FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, array("options" => array("min_range"=>1, "max_range"=>99999999999999999999)));

I am trying to figure out a way of filtering certain words from a string using str_replace - However i would like to replace the words with something showing the correct length of the word.

So far I have got:

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<?php

$input = "Oranges, apples, and pears are all types of fruit!";
$words = array("oranges","apples","pears");

function convertType($x) {
$maskWords = array();
$convertChar = "*";
for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($x); $i++) {
array_push($maskWords, $convertChar);
}
$convertString = implode(".", $maskWords);
$stripString = str_replace(".", "", $convertString);
return $stripString;
}

for ($i = 0; $i < count($words); $i++) {
$input = str_ireplace($words[$i], convertType($words[$i]), $input);
}

print $input;

?>
As I am fairly new to PHP I am not sure if this is the most effiicent way of doing this so I was hoping somebody could provide some input for me. For instance is there a function to convert the array into a full-length string without using a delimiter?

Thanks!

im trying to update a GPS table
for example:
UPDATE markers SET lat = '38.40907441955112' AND lng = '14.943452775478363' WHERE ApID = '35911'
i tried with float 20,18 it isnt updatng correctly