PHP - Getting The Base Url Of The Installation

Hi All! I'm totally new to website design and do not know much about it. I installed a MYUPB forum on my website, but I got an error concerning timezone in the file upb.initialize.php on line 124. It was to Europe/London so I changed it to Americe/Montreal. (I'm in GMT-5)

After this modification, I get this error when trying to access my forum.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /www/110mb.com/m/k/7/4/j/e/e/p/mk74jeep/htdocs/forum/includes/upb.initialize.php on line 21

I tried to correct for any mistake but could not find any since I do not know much. I need your help please. Here is the file section. BTW, Is line 1 <?php ???

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<?php
function RemoveXSS($val) {
$before_val = $val;

// remove all non-printable characters. CR(0a) and LF(0b) and TAB(9) are allowed
// this prevents some character re-spacing such as <javaA533;script>
// note that you have to handle splits with n, r, and t later since they *are* allowed in some inputs
//echo "COMMA COUNT: ".substr_count($val,'x2C')."<br>";
$val = preg_replace('/([x00-x08x0b-x0cx0e-x19])/', '', $val);
// straight replacements, the user should never need these since they're normal characters
// this prevents like <IMG SRC=@avascript:alert('XSS')>
$search = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';
$search .= 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
$search .= '1234567890!@#$%^&*()';
$search .= '~`";:?+/={}[]-_|'';
for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($search); $i++) {
// ;? matches the ;, which is optional
// 0{0,7} matches any padded zeros, which are optional and go up to 8 chars

// @ @ search for the hex values
$val = preg_replace('/(&#38;#[xX]0{0,8}'.dechex(ord($search[$i])).';?)/i', $search[$i], $val); // with a ;
// @ @ 0{0,7} matches '0' zero to seven times
$val = preg_replace('/(&#65533;{0,8}'.ord($search[$i]).';?)/', $search[$i], $val); // with a ;
}

// now the only remaining whitespace attacks are t, n, and r
Etc etc etc...

Please, let me know what is wrong!

My website location is mk74jeep.110mb.com/forum

I have no problem starting all over again and reinstalling it, if someone feel like helping me step by step with this. This would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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<?php
$myServer = "<remote ip>";
$myUser = "<username>";
$myPass = "<password>";
$myDB = "FAP2"; 
//create an instance of the ADO connection object
$conn = new COM ("ADODB.Connection")
  or die("Cannot start ADO");
 
?>

No error messages reported, but page "dies" at this point.
The ubuntu machine can see the sql machine, but yet this is happening.

For reasons unknown to me I installed this version of MSSQL 2008 R2 yesterday and it came with an attached database for which I was able to add my own database to.  I had to uninstall and reinstall this version because I was having some permissions conflicts....now when I reinstalled the 2008 R2, there is no database attached.  There is no preinstalled db engine.  I do not know how to create this or drop my db into the object explorer because there is no db attached.  I hope this makes sense.      What I am trying to do is set up a test server on my home computer. I saved the actual db from a work computer onto a thumbdrive.  Now, I want to attach it to my home server.  That option is not there to connect now.  Thank you for any help.   

Dear forum wrestlers:            Finally found a good mix of MySQL 5.1.65, win8.1, Apache 2.4.9 ssl-win32,0.9.8-VC9 (from Apachelounge), and php-win32-VC9-x86 (thread safe!).  Openssl seems to be working also.  But somehow lost the headers and trailers on the menus!  Does anyone know what may be wrong?   Thanks always, Yshua

Say I have an installation file, and they type in all their database information & click submit. How would I get that information to open up a file called config.php, and write to the $db_host, $db_pass, $db_user, and $db variables only?

Is this possible? Thanks!

hello and good day dear Linux-experts,

i want to install a new opensuse linux on a notebook. i want to upgrade is the following:

this one: Akoya P 6512 15" OpenSuse 13.1: AMD Athlon X2 P320, 2,10 GHz, 4 GB 320 GB hdd-drive

what is wanted:
i want to do a total fresh installation
i want to have not tooo much partitions!
i only want to run opensuse 13.2
i want to have some kind of native linux partitions - such as ext 4 - #


what do you suggest - should go with the new default BTRFS file system?!?

well to begin with the beginning: i applied the following commands

a. lsblk

b. fdisk -l


see the results,,,, ;

linux-c5sz:/home/martin # lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465,8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 4G 0 part [SWAP]
├─sda2 8:2 0 102M 0 part
├─sda4 8:4 0 1K 0 part
├─sda5 8:5 0 2G 0 part
├─sda6 8:6 0 4G 0 part
├─sda7 8:7 0 10G 0 part
├─sda8 8:8 0 20G 0 part /
└─sda9 8:9 0 389,6G 0 part /home
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom




and the following fdisk -l

linux-c5sz:/home/martin # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units = Sektoren of 1 * 512 = 512 byte
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xb8fa3ecd

Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sda1 63 8385929 4192933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 8385930 8594774 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 * 8803620 976768064 483982222+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 8803683 12996584 2096451 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 12996648 21382514 4192933+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 21382578 42347339 10482381 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 117821440 159766527 20972544 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 159768576 976766975 408499200 83 Linux
linux-c5sz:/home/martin #




subsequently the questions; which partition logic should i choose.

what is wanted: i want to have not tooo much partitions!
i only want to run opensuse 13.2

note: i want to erase all the existing partition logic /(that is currently existing)
i do this with Gparted.

which partitions should i take?
which file system ?


i am curious to get to know your ideas

 linux-file-structu what needs to be saved while moving the installation   well this is one of the best place to ask  joomla-related question.

today i have no question regarding joomla.

today i want to ask a linux-question: i am preparing a upgrade from opensuse 13.1 to 13.2

and i want to do a fresh installation.

first of all - as a preliminary task i will do a saving of all the files - that are in the home of the current installation

what else shoud i safe - more than the /home/my_name

should i save anyting else ...

http://tldp.org/LDP/...sect_03_01.html

Table 3-2. Subdirectories of the root directory
Directory    Content
/bin    Common programs, shared by the system, the system administrator and the users.
/boot    The startup files and the kernel, vmlinuz. In some recent distributions also grub data. Grub is the GRand Unified Boot loader and is an attempt to get rid of the many different boot-loaders we know today.
/dev    Contains references to all the CPU peripheral hardware, which are represented as files with special properties.
/etc    Most important system configuration files are in /etc, this directory contains data similar to those in the Control Panel in Windows
/home    Home directories of the common users.
/initrd    (on some distributions) Information for booting. Do not remove!
/lib    Library files, includes files for all kinds of programs needed by the system and the users.
/lost+found    Every partition has a lost+found in its upper directory. Files that were saved during failures are here.
/misc    For miscellaneous purposes.
/mnt    Standard mount point for external file systems, e.g. a CD-ROM or a digital camera.
/net    Standard mount point for entire remote file systems
/opt    Typically contains extra and third party software.
/proc    A virtual file system containing information about system resources. More information about the meaning of the files in proc is obtained by entering the command man proc in a terminal window. The file proc.txt discusses the virtual file system in detail.
/root    The administrative user's home directory. Mind the difference between /, the root directory and /root, the home directory of the root user.
/sbin    Programs for use by the system and the system administrator.
/tmp    Temporary space for use by the system, cleaned upon reboot, so don't use this for saving any work!
/usr    Programs, libraries, documentation etc. for all user-related programs.
/var    Storage for all variable files and temporary files created by users, such as log files, the mail queue, the print spooler area, space for temporary storage of files downloaded from the Internet, or to keep an image of a CD before burning it.

well - reagarding the thunderbird and other things more.
note:  i have thunderbird and enigmail up and running.

so i need to save
a. the passwords
b. the mails.


question: is there a need to save more than the home/my_name ?!

love to hear from you

greetings

Hi,   Can you please tell me in witch conditions should be used base tag.   If have a website that base tag it's define in header like:  <base href="http://www.website.com/"> What's the meaning of this ?   Thank you

I've got a monumental problem on my hands...  😂

The website that I've been working on - for years - for my startup business is just about done, but because I have taken so long to code things, my HTML is very outdated, and is *not* mobile friendly.

I was hoping to go live with my website in the next month or two, but considering that over half of Internet users are on mobile, it makes me wonder if I should release my rigid, un-responsive website as-is, or take months trying to re-tool things.

That, in itself, will be a monumental task, BUT it also makes me wonder if I will break all of my tens of thousands of lines of PHP and MySQL?

A very loaded question, for sure, but if you were me, what would you do?

What I am really fearful of is FUBAR'ing my PHP code which I have spent thousands of hours testing and am hesitant to even blink at?!

Edited January 3 by SaranacLake

Hi

Hopefully someone can help me. My knowledge of PHP doesnt go any further than looking at identifying areas of code and copy and paste - as basic as you get!

Basically i have a php script installed that produces an RSS feed for me to use with google base. There is a little problem were it does not pull the sale price(known as special)  into googlebase and it will instead show the original price. I have identified what needs to be changed but i dont know the correct syntax.


I somehow need to get something similar to the following IF ELSE into the code below (this is taken from the same php script that shows the special price on the actual rss feed)

foreach ($product_data as $result) {
   $special = $model_catalog_product->getProductSpecial($result['product_id']);
   if ($special) {
      $price = $special;
   } else {
      $price = $result['price'];
   }
   if ($useTax) {
      $price = $currency->format($tax->calculate($price, $result['tax_class_id'], $config->get('config_tax')), $currency->getCode());
   } else {
      $price = $currency->format($price, $currency->getCode());
   }


The code below is were i need the If Else inserted.


<?php foreach ($products as $product) { ?>
   <item>
        <title><?php echo htmlspecialchars($product['name'], ENT_QUOTES, 'utf-8'); ?></title>
        <g:brand><?php echo htmlspecialchars($product['brand'], ENT_QUOTES, 'utf-8'); ?></g:brand>
      <g:condition>new</g:condition>
      <g:product_type><?php echo $taxonomy; ?></g:product_type>
        <description><?php echo htmlspecialchars($product['desc'], ENT_QUOTES, 'utf-8'); ?></description>
        <link><?php echo str_replace('&', '&amp;', $product['href']); ?></link>
        <pubDate><?php echo $product['add_date']; ?></pubDate>
        <!--guid isPermaLink="true"><?php echo $product['href']; ?></guid-->
        <g:id><?php echo (int)$product['id']; ?></g:id>
      <!--g:upc><?php echo sprintf("%012s", $product['id']); ?></g:upc-->
        <g:image_link><?php echo $product['thumb']; ?></g:image_link>
      <!--g:expiration_date>2010-01-01</g:expiration_date-->
      <g:price><?php echo $product['price']; ?></g:price>
      <g:mpn><?php echo htmlspecialchars($product['model'], ENT_QUOTES, 'utf-8'); ?></g:mpn>
      <g:weight><?php echo $product['weight']; ?></g:weight>
      <g:currency><?php echo $config->get('config_currency'); ?></g:currency>
   </item>
<?php } ?>


The <g:price> is what googlebase reads to get the price of the product. The problem seems to be that there is no if else statement here to output the special price if there is one.


Any help would be greatly appreciated, i tired emailing the developer but i have been ignored and as you can see i'm pretty clueless 

My goal was to create a constant that could be included on the pages, that no matter where it was located in the structure, would be able to find the template files, css, images, etc.  using the following code:

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if($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == "localhost"){
    define('SITEURL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
    define('SITEPATH', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
    define('CSS', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/css/');
    define('IMAGES', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/images/');
}
else{
    define('SITEURL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
    define('SITEPATH', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
    define('TEMPLATE', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/incs/template/');
    define('CSS', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/css/');
    define('IMAGES', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/images/');
}

I put the above in a variables.php file that is in the includes folder (named incs) and I call it using the typical include statement.

The problem is that when I use the constant to grab the CSS file, its not working when using:

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<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo CSS . "template.css" ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />

I can view the page source and it has the path right, but I cannot figure out how to get it to actually pull in the css file.  I know the echo command is not correct, at least I dont think it is, but have not been able to figure out any other way.

Also, is there a better way to define the constants to the file locations and have it automatically detect whether its on the test server or production and then be able to reference those locations no matter where it is in the structure?

Hello First of all thanks for your help in advance. I build a members website and can use HTML but seem to be going round in circles with php.
So Ive made a page that allows users to input there details and register this DOES Work and adds the data to a mysql data base. However I would like when they click register it sends them a email to confirm there info and at the same time send myself one so I can check there details. this is the link http://www.asian-travel-club.co.uk/php/files/register.htm
Once this is done I would like to be able to see on a admin page that has a username and password  to allow me to active and deactive there members. I know this would need a button added this is where I get lost. the link to the admin page ive made is http://www.asian-travel-club.co.uk/php/files/admin/ Then once i actived them they will recive an auto activtion email .

I dont seem to be able to see data from the Database on mysql but i can interact with it.
As one you register if you try to log in it say that the username and passwodr is incorrect. I TAKE IT IS BECAUSE THE USER DOES NOT HAVE PERMISSION> how do i do this? Any way if you go to forot password page it allows you to enter data and on submittion it chz the database and then sends you an email with your username and password attached. This is the link to the password recover page.
http://www.asian-travel-club.co.uk/php/files/password_recover.php

this is what is in my config.php

<?php

define('DB_SERVER', ''); // database server/host

define('DB_USER', ''); // database username

define('DB_PASS', ''); // database password

define('DB_NAME', ''); // database name
?>

Please help if you can

i have php code,

<?php

include ("connect.php");
$selecteddate = $_POST['sdate'];
$sql1 = "select date from game1";
$query1 = mysql_query($sql1) or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query1))
{
$rowdate = $row['date'];
// problem here i this while loop only compare my latest last value in
database. i want a code here which search all the data in "date" field.
}
if($selecteddate == $rowdate)
{
echo "Date already Exists";
}

else
{
// form insertion data code here which i have and working fine
}
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I'm trying to figure out how to add "\fs13" to the base64 encoding. For example, the "ad->text" field would look like this   <ad-content type="rtf">ZGZnIGRmZyBkZmcgZGZnIGRmZyBkZmcgZGZnIGRmZyBkZmcgZGZnIGRmZyBkZmcgZGZnIGQ=</ad-content>   The code to generate the above is -- <ad-content type=\"rtf\">".htmlentities(base64_encode($ad->text))."</ad-content>";   I need the encoding to include the "\fs13" in front of the encoded ad-content. The "\fs13" is simply a font size that will tell the system what font size to use.   <ad-content type="rtf">ZGZnIGRmZyBkZmcgZGZnIGRmZyBkZmcgZGZnIGRmZyBkZmcgZGZnIGRmZyBkZmcgZGZnIGQ=</ad-content>   I'm also trying to encode an additional field within the "ad-content type". The present code looks like this:   <ad-content type=\"rtf\">".htmlentities(base64_encode($ad->text))."</ad-content>";   I need to add "($ad->photo_file_name)" to the above, so that the "ad->text" and the "ad->photo_file_name" are within the ad-content type that is being decoded.

Hope that makes sense, appreciate ant help, Thanks!
 

i have just sent the last 4 hours trying to connect to the msql database here is the to sets of code i i'm using

<?php
$db_host = "host";
$db_usernamen = "username";
$db_pass = "password"
$db_name = "database name";

mysql_connect("$db_host","$db_username","$db_pass") or die ("couldnot connect to mysql");
mysql_select_db("db_name") or die ("no database");
?>

this code i'm using to connect to the database

<?php
require "connect_to_mysql.php";

echo "<h1>success in database connection! happy coding</h1>";
?>
and i have used this one as a quick test.

i have up loaded the the two codes to the sever however when i opened the web site to test it all i get is a blank screen. i have looked at a number of codes like this one and i can't see anything wrong with the code. i have uploaded the codes three times just in case the files had been corrupt while uploading have every this has not work

if anyone can help i would be very greatful